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This will summon a Earth, Water, Lunar, Solar, Fire, Air, Light, or Dark fairy.
I do NOT own this spell. I found this on YouTube.
Before I tell you the spell, I will tell you each fairy’s personality.
Earth fairies are rather serious and will help you get the job done quickly.
Water fairies are lively and mysterious. Rain can signal they are near.
Lunar fairies could be summoned best at night when any moon is present. They are also shy and keep to themselves.
Solar fairies may be summoned the best during the day. They tend to light up an area when they are summoned.
Fire fairies are angry, but also have a soft side. They can light the way like the Solar fairies. The fire and solar fairies are close.
Air fairies are easy going and kind hearted. They’ll do anything for you.
Light fairies represent good deeds and will always be ready to help.
After you say the spell, listen carefully. If you hear a small beating of wings, you’ve summoned your fairy!
You can name you fairy to better the bond.
If you used the 2 leafs and sugar, then wrap a small hand full of sugar in a leaf and leave it as a tribute to your fairy. Use another leaf and add something little you like. This is going to be a peace offering to the fairy and bond you both closer.

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text: For the second consecutive year, revenue and earnings remained stagnant for 2017 at VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S. Signs of a slight improvement in the economy are encouraging, as well as VIKING’s gain in market share. Two of the largest customer segments, the cargo ship market and offshore industry, remain in turmoil and continue to impact the top and bottom lines.

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I am currently re-ordering this site , to turn it into a more user-friendly Jupiter/Uranus research archive, in preparation for when the study I have been running since Spring 2010 comes to its conclusion – in Spring 2011 as the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle in Aries gets into its fiery stride!
“This is a study of real-life astrology”, as Ken Gillman says in his foreword. Observation of what actually takes place on Earth when particular planetary alignments occur in the Heavens is of critical importance in determining whether astrologers’ theories about what should happen are borne out empirically. Our tradition has depended on the validation provided by actual observation of planetary effects since those Chaldean priests “…six thousand years ago, when the human mind was still half asleep…were standing on watchtowers, scanning the stars…”.
This book continues that ancient tradition by presenting a comprehensive study of the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus which took place in February 1997 at 5 degrees 55’Aquarius.
Jupiter and Uranus meet every fourteen years. When they do, revolution and innovation join forces with restless exploration and the quest for knowledge.The result is always exciting, educational and unpredictable. Or is it ? Anne Whitaker, never one to take anything at its face value, decided late in 1996 that she would observe the effects of this approaching planetary event and investigate whether it lived up to its reputation according to the textbooks.
Her method was straightforward. Watch world events around the time of the conjunction, and during the rest of 1997 which continued to be dominated by Jupiter-Uranus energy. Find some volunteers with the 5 degrees 55’ Aquarius Hot Spot highlighted by a planet, Angle or Moon’s Node in their natal horoscope. Collect their stories during the year of the conjunction’s operation, and see whether the same core“Jupiter-Uranus effect” could be detected in all their different lives.
The first version of her research was published in “Considerations”magazine (USA) during 1999-2000, and was well received by its world-wide readership. But Anne continued her work on the conjunction, setting it in its historical and mythological context for a seminar she gave at the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London in June 2000. Right through to the end of 2001, she did more research exploring the impact of Neptune’s transit of the 5 degrees 55’ Aquarius Hot Spot, again from both a collective and an individual point of view.
Nine of the original seventeen volunteers stayed with the study throughout. Their disrupted, exciting, turbulent life stories form the core of this vivid exploration of the interface between planetary activity and human life, during a period in which the startling announcement of the birth of Dolly the Sheep in February 1997 indicated that advances in cloning and genetic engineering were taking us on a voyage never before undertaken by humanity.
This highly original book, written in a pacy and accessible style, will be of particular interest to research-minded students. It will also appeal to astrologers looking for specific evidence that the personal and collective lives of humankind respond in the same core way to the great music of the spheres, played throughout space and time by the planets in their cycles.
followers of this site will be aware that Anne is continuing her research into Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions, via recording the life stories of ten volunteers from around the world whose horoscopes are “plugged in” to the 2010/11 conjunction in Pisces and Aries. However, the book “Jupiter Meets Uranus” remains a useful reference tool for anyone interested in how planetary energies play out in both world affairs and the ‘ordinary’ lives of you and me.
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The British Bakery - wtf?!!
St Petersburg is famous for its White Nights in June. This is when the sun hardly ever sets, reaching a climax around 21st June when the sun almost never sets at all.
This made our stay in St Petersburg particularly memorable for us as this was like nothing we'd ever experienced before.
The view across St Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect at midnight!
The British Bakery – wtf?!!
This is a popular chain in St Petersburg. For Sebastien this was just wrong another interesting observation about Russia…”why isn't it a French Bakery?” he kept saying over and over in a strong French accent).
Naturally, alongside so many attractive and popular monuments, you will find a huge industry dedicated to the tourist market.
As first timers to the Russian language, our attempts to read Pestopah (and many other words) amused locals a lot.
Actually it’s pronounced, “Restoran”, and is a favourite establishment of these two greedy boys!
Everywhere they go, regardless of age, they never fail to bring a smile to our face.
This applies more to the wilderness in Russia in deep Siberia such as in Olkhon island on Lake Baikal.
For more inspiration, read our article – is Russia safe for gay travellers.
I have been to Petropavlovsk and St. Petersburg, Two extreme cities in Russia. East end and West end.
Would love to see more of it. Russia is just a fascinating country.
Chinese tourists are everywhere these days. I mean they are EVERYWHERE !!!
Japanese economy has been so flat for the last 20 years. Few of them still can be seen but compare to their population (130 Mil), it is quite a small number nowadays.
Some European still assume any Asian tourist in Western countries would be Japanese?
I was more fascinated with the boys than the monkey and the racoon. hehehe.
Were you guys openly gay in Russia or more cautious?
Ha ha ha 🙂 We were actually very careful in Russia because it was the first stop in our travels in Asia and after what we’d seen in the press, we were quite scared. But what do you mean openly gay? We didn’t pack the rainbow flat in our backpacks?
Like holding hands in public. Or being out when locals ask if you have a girlfriend or a wife.
I get ask all the time.
Oh I see – we were tactful in Russia. At worst people thought we were brothers and we played up to this.

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The bill to preserve U.S. Coast Guard pay in the event of a government shutdown has cleared the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, putting it on a path to a full House vote.
During the partial government shutdown, 42,000 members of the U.S. Coast Guard did not receive pay between December 31 and January 25, marking the first time in history that American servicemembers have not been paid because of a lapse in appropriations. Unlike other federal employees affected by the shutdown, active-duty coastguardsmen had no choice but to keep working: as members of the military, they could not legally quit. They were reimbursed with back pay after appropriations resumed, but during the shutdown they were forced to rely on the generosity of their neighbors, families and friends and the support of civil society groups.
Members of the other branches of the military were not affected, as they fall under the Department of Defense, which had already been funded prior to the partial shutdown. “Tens of thousands of American servicemembers went without pay during the shutdown simply because of departmental jurisdiction – that’s a disgrace and it can never happen again,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Maloney cosponsored a bill to eliminate this disparity, called the Pay Our Coast Guard Parity Act, which has now made it out of committee. “This legislation would guarantee that Coast Guard personnel will receive pay for their work just like the brave personnel who protect our country in any other branch of the armed services," Maloney said.

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It gives you a safe place to keep your money and stops it getting lost or stolen.
It also helps you to keep track of how much money you have - ideal if you are saving up for something over a long period of time.
Most bank and building society accounts will pay you interest, where you earn a small amount of extra money for every £ you put into your account. It may not be much to start with, but even small amounts grow over time.
There are lots of different accounts on offer so it is a good idea to find out about the sorts of accounts you could open. You can do this by picking up leaflets in local branches or searching on the internet. Most bank and building society accounts for young people offer a cash card which allows you to take your money out at a bank or cash machine.
If you are under 16 it is usual for a parent/carer to open the account for you. Once you are 16 or over, you can open something called a 'current account' to manage your own money.

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As Hurricane Ophelia bears down on Ireland, two questions will be in most people’s mind. One, “have I enough drink in the house to last the day?”, and Two, “how should I dress if I do need to wander down to Lidl?”. Well, never fear! Geek Ireland has valiantly pored through that most accurate of sources, the internet, for inspiration for how to gird your loins if you do have to step out into the wet and windy world. From a list of those who have endured zombies, aliens, and nuclear war, we have whittled down a list of seven lucky stylish stalwarts. Without further ado, here’s our list of the best Dressed Survivors of the Apocalypse.
Totally not on this list just because of that awesome picture of the GPO with a robot bird on top of it, Aloy is an explorer unafraid of the technology that might have brought about the fall of mankind, cause records from that (future) era are sketchy at best. Blending tribal style and modern boho chic, Aloy looks like someone who hasn’t just survived the apocalypse, but who comes from a culture that is rebuilding, yet as an outcast she has her own style too. She dresses for function, but with a touch of colour and style in there that brings out her curious personality and highlights that she is not one to simply limit herself to ‘survivor’.
Wardrobe suggestions: Moccasins for the win.
The Road Warrior, “Mad” Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson / Tom Hardy) was a Main Force Patrol officer, driving a supercharged black Interceptor prototype called the Pursuit Special. With such a macho car he needed a macho outfit, and what better than patrol leathers? I mean, full leathers inside a car, rather than on a bike, in Outback heat? Uh…well, it’s a dry heat, right? Still, Max has largely worn the same gear through four movies, set decades apart (the timeline’s a bit wonky). Max proves that leather lasts, if you treat it right, though strapped to the font of a warboy battle wagon might not be the best way to maintain its lustre.
Wardrobe suggestions: You can’t go wrong with a good leather jacket and shoes; the leather trousers are optional.
Another archer, Katniss (Acadamy award winner Jennifer Lawrence) is the winner of the 74th Hunger Games, a participant in the abortive 75th Hunger Games and Quarter Quell, and then the icon of the rebellion, the Mockingjay. For someone who comes from the humble mining backwater that is District 12, she quickly dumps her combats and dirty rain mac for some haute couture when she reaches the Capital, including a dress that literally catches fire. Sure, when she’s the Mockingjay she adopts cool black leather armour, but you can be practical or stylish, rarely both. In the end, Katniss was out hunting before she became a revolutionary, so she’s a born survivor.
Wardrobe suggestions: You may think your raincoat and hiking boots are as ugly as sin but you’ll be thankful for them when you’re dry later on.
The mascot of the Vault-Tec corporation in the game series, no his name is not Pip-Boy or Fallout Boy (sigh). There to represent an iconic representation of almost all stats and later on, achievements, Vault Boy’s retro chic also gives the spinoff game Fallout Shelter it’s cartoony charm. According to the Fallout WIki, the Vault-Tec jumpsuit is leather, with the numbers made of polyester and the belt and other components are aluminium, though I always assumed they were spandex. Regardless, when you have hundreds of survivors in one place, sometimes a simple uniform is kind of important.
Wardrobe suggestions: Onsies may look silly, but they do keep you warm and hopefully all your organs in.
Following the gendercide that wiped out everything with a Y chromosome on planet Earth bar escape artist Yorick Brown and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand, Agent 355 is entrusted to finding out the cause of the apocalypse. A no-nonsense woman who works for the secretive spy agency The Culper Ring (which was founded by George Washington, truefact), Agent 355 has a secret that’s hiding in plain sight – wool. A knitter in her spare time and one to rock a tactical turtleneck (Thank you Archer), Agent 355 clearly knows wool has antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, insulates even when wet, and keeps you cool in summer and warm in winter.
Wardrobe suggestions: Wear a jumper.
Whether she’s Asuka Langley Sohryu in the original series or Asuka Shikinami Langley the Rebuild movies, Asuka puts the POW in POWst aPOWcalypse. For a world like Evangelion, which is set between catastrophic events that have a tendency to wipe out half of life on Earth each time, Langley manages to own a whole lot of chic attire. Her Germano-American disdain for Japanese wardrobe sizes not withstanding, her best outfit is her Eva, a giant robot made from recycled angel parts and whose OS is her mother’s soul (cause, anime). Sometimes, the only way to survive the apocalypse is to charge at it head on, in a skintight red plugsuit.
Wardrobe suggestions: Own a giant robot, ideally one with it’s own power supply.
Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) looks like he’s been through the wars but without looking like he’s about to collapse from scurvy. Bringing Dadbod to the Apocalypse, there’s a simple functionality to his gear, from the fleece-lined collar leather jacket, to the police issue gun-belt not weighed down with a million pouches. Even his Colt Python, a bit of a beast, represents a certain pragmatism, old and reliable and the standard issue of the Georgia State Patrol.
Wardrobe suggestions: Don’t get bogged down with accessories, and work with what you have to hand.
Staying in? Why not check out our Hurricane Ophelia Movie Watch List.

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I don’t always accept guest posts but whenever I come across an important topic which I think many people can benefit from, I do not hesitate to give it space on my blog. This time, I have a guest post from Heidi Hayes about Egg Donation. Do you know that 1 out of every 8 female silently struggles with infertility, and most don’t know the options available to help them conceive?
Have you ever wanted to do something amazing?
Like give a priceless gift to those in need, or help save a life?
What about helping to create one?
If you’re young, fit, and healthy, donating your eggs to help women struggling with infertility might be the most rewarding thing you’ll ever do.
But how do you know if you’re a good candidate? What does the process feel like, and what steps must you take to make it happen?
If you’re interested in helping a loving couple conceive, check out the answers to these frequently asked questions about egg donation below.
How do I know if my eggs are viable?
If you’re thinking about becoming an egg donor, you’ll undergo an extensive screening process first.
Because the doctors need to ensure you’re in good health and your eggs are viable for donation. This information is helpful to know when planning your own future family.
Medical staff will ask about your medical history and the genetic conditions carried by you or your immediate family, and determine whether egg donation is medically safe for you. Not every woman is fit to be a candidate, and the diagnostic tests will determine your suitability.
Will donating my eggs hurt?
While egg donation has relatively little physical toll on your body, you’ll need to be able to self-administer hormone medications by injection. Also, there’s a chance you may feel emotionally fragile after donating some of your eggs.
Becoming a donor is not a decision you should take lightly. Whether you’re looking for some extra funds to pay your student debt, or you want to help a family member or friend, you should never feel pressured into saying yes.
If you have a jam-packed schedule, you may need to consider waiting for a more convenient time. If you decide to become a donor, you’ll need to have flexible availability for visiting the clinic.
From the initial screening to the day your eggs are retrieved, the whole process generally takes about three months. You’ll need to visit the clinic several times and may need to make daily trips to the doctor.
Donor screening tests can consist of blood work, drug screening, a physical evaluation, a review of your medical history, and questionnaires to determine your level of education and professional history.
Not only are these tests essential to establishing your viability as a candidate, but your responses will be included in your profile to potential parents.
What qualities make a good donor candidate?
Generally speaking, a good donor candidate is a woman at her most fertile stage in life, which is between the ages of 21 and 33.
You should be a non-smoker and non-user of drugs. You must not have any sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV and chlamydia. Additionally, you must be in good emotional and physical health.
What are a donor’s legal rights?
To become an egg donor, you are asked to sign a legally binding consent form to protect both parties involved. The contract is to ensure you have no responsibility for any child born from your eggs, but also that you have no claim over the child.
Therefore, it’s essential you go into the process with your eyes wide open. It can be an emotional journey if you’re not fully prepared.
Egg donation is a major decision – it’s important you feel comfortable with every aspect involved. You should feel confident in your choice to donate and never feel forced into donating by anyone.
While you’ll receive plenty of support throughout the process, it is perfectly normal for many donors to feel nervous, apprehensive, and a little sad during their donation cycle.
Make sure you conduct as much research as possible and walk into the clinic well informed about the long and short-term effects.
What can I gain from the experience?
Beyond the financial compensation for your time and effort, you’ll be given the opportunity to help a couple start their dream family. As many as one in eight couples struggle with infertility and try several rounds of IVF with no results, or sign up for lengthy and complicated adoption processes, only to be disappointed.
Your decision to become an egg donor is the most important act of kindness in the world to them. You’ll be helping to create a life and making the dream of building a family come true, while experiencing the personal rewards of altruism in the process.
Heidi Hayes is the Executive Vice President of Donor Egg Bank, a California Cryobank Company. She has more than 20 years of healthcare experience and has worked extensively in the field of reproductive endocrinology. Having been unsuccessful at traditional IUI and IVF treatments, Heidi personally understands the struggles of infertility. After many years of trying to conceive, she ultimately built her family through adoption and donor egg treatment. She always believed that if she didn’t give up, her ultimate goal of becoming a parent would someday become a reality.
Honestly didn’t know too much about egg donation. But do appreciate you sharing the in and outs here with us today.

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Nautilus is one of eight series of Patek Philippe, it is the earliest sports model Patek Philippe designed.
Nautilus series was created in the 1970s, inspired by porthole, using the submarine Nautilus’s name, to pay tribute to the never-ending exploring and challenging spirit. In 1976, Patek Philippe published their first Nautilus model Ref. 3700.
Today I will bring you guys a review of replica Patek Philippe Nautilus, the watch is from BP factory. Actually, there are already other two factories manufacturing Nautilus replica, one is V6, the other is MK. Although MK factory modified the movement plates to the outlook of Cal.324, its movement is not as stable as BP’s Miyota 9015. Now, many buyers who own Patek Philippe Nautilus replica had admitted that the one from BP factory is the best, the grade belongs to A+++. Not only the movement from BP factory is more stable, the price is also much cheaper.
Genuine is 40mm in case diameter, BP version is 40.2mm and 9.7mm thick.
BP Nautilus weighs about 131g.
BP Nautilus uses genuine Miyota 9015 movement, while genuine watch uses Cal. 324C.
The blue color on dial is very close to genuine although you will find the color difference when compared with a genuine carefully. By the way, a replica can not be manufactured to have the completely same dial color as original, unless you have the authentic color formulation.
The stainless steel bracelet of BP Nautilus is superior. Each link is polished well and connects compactly, the gap between bracelet links is relatively larger on Nautilus made by MK or V6, the bracelet polishing also does not look that well on them.
The crystal case back completely shows the beautiful movement. BP engraves Patek Philippe Logo on golden rotor, the shock absorber is almost the same as genuine. The axis of auto rotor is fixed by one steel screw.
Patek Philippe Nautilus has always been the hot model in replica watch market, with continuous development, the factory accumulated a lot of experience and made several updates to make this replica Nautilus more high end.
When holding the replica on hand, its weight is suitable, feel the case by hand, it does not have metal burrs and won’t scratch your wrist. The edge of each bracelet link is polished delicate. Blue dial is very beautiful, under sun light, it will reflect the depth change of the dial. The Nautilus replica made by BP opened a precedent for the outlook imitation, to all replicas, it is a big breakthrough and the best among three Nautilus versions.
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Please email me I need to talk to you about this BP Nautilus. Very excited about it.
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Can I get price and how to place an order? Also delivery time please.
I am interested in this BP Nautilus. Can you please send QC pics?
I want to buy one now. Do you also have the one with Anthrazit dial instead of blue. Please send me an e-mail with purchasing price and how to purchase the watch.
Hi, I want to buy one now. Do you also have the one with Anthrazit dial also. Please send me an e-mail with purchasing price and how and where to purchase the watch.
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Hi, I am interested in this watch. do you still have this model or has a new version come out already?
Is there any chance that you could help me with purchasing information regarding the PP Nautilus Jumbo Blue watch with Miyota 9015 movement.

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[Source: blastr] The challenges faced by people who long to go into space should make for gripping drama, but there’s surprisingly little fiction about astronauts-to-be, and most depictions of astronauts’ training home in on the real-life space pioneers of Apollo and other NASA missions. Even away from the Big Two comic book publishers, many titles mostly focus on extraordinary characters with extraordinary abilities, but there are stories that are just as compelling and more grounded in the real world.
In contrast, Japanese manga has had two recent titles which focus on wannabe astronauts. One is Space Brothers, a series by Chūya Koyama that’s still running in Japan. The other is Twin Spica, a completed manga by Kou Yaginuma. Both are magnificent, but here’s why Twin Spica is an absolute must-read.
Twin Spica is about a group of teenagers who wish to become the first astronauts in Japan’s burgeoning space program. What keeps this story from turning into Space Camp 90210 is the stakes. These young astronaut wannabes are riding on the coattails of tragedy. Sometime in the near future, Japan launches its first manned rocket into space. Dubbed “The Lion” -- because the spewing exhaust fumes resemble a lion’s mane -- this landmark event is soon marred by a horrific accident. One of the Lion’s rocket boosters explodes and the rocket crashes, killing all the astronauts on board, as well as many of the spectators who had gathered to watch the launch.
After many more setbacks in the space program, the Japanese government creates a vocational high school to train young people in the space sciences. It’s as if the US responded to the Challenger and Columbia tragedies by opening up the space program to any teen who could pass the entrance exam. It’s an act of desperation, but also an act of hope. The country needs people trained for spaceflight, and it needs a lot of them very quickly. The government is literally placing the future of Japanese spaceflight in the hands of its teenagers.
Let’s face it: A lot of Japanese manga and anime don’t portray female characters very well. In some stories, the female characters are just part of the support team for the male protagonist. The girls cheer the boys on from the sidelines while the guys are out there doing what needs to be done. Twin Spica takes this trope and switches things up. Now, it’s the young woman (Asumi Kamogawa) who gets to fight against the odds for something she believes in, while male characters give her all the support they can.
More importantly, it’s one of those rare Japanese manga that doesn’t seek to sexualize its female characters. An unfortunately large number of titles make it a point to offer what’s called “fanservice,” panels within the manga which are only meant to titillate and have no real bearing on the story or the character. There is nothing that even comes close to that in Twin Spica, so it’s easier for manga newbies to get into the story without becoming too distracted or frustrated by the art.
The odds are stacked against Asumi. Her mother died from injuries sustained during the Lion accident, and her father, an engineer on the Lion project, lost his job and his credibility after the tragedy and swore off anything to do with space. Despite all this, Asumi still develops a love of the stars and a love of space exploration. She can rattle off favorite constellations as easily as favorite foods. She knows the history of NASA inside and out and has a special fondness for scrappy Russian cosmonauts. Small for her age, she barely passes the academy’s physical exam. And yet, she clings to her dreams because it’s all she’s ever wanted to do since she was a child. Her passion is infectious and inspiring, influencing those around her in unexpected ways. When others wish to give up, she’s the one who keeps them looking forward. And looking up. She’s not the best, and she’s not the brightest, but wow does she have heart.
She’s like the Rudy of astronauts. No, even better. Rudy is the Asumi of college football.
The bulk of Twin Spica is set in 2024, not too far off into the future, but closer now than it was when the manga was first published in 2001. Even though the story is set 20+ years into the future, the manga carries a distinct air of nostalgia. The settings, from small seashore towns to high school classrooms, feel oddly familiar. It definitely calls back to the awe of childhood and staring up into an infinite sea of stars, dreaming about the infinite and undiscovered worlds in the sky.
In general, the artwork gives a storybook feel, mirroring the young age in which Asumi cemented her goal of becoming an astronaut. In first grade, she answers the “what do you want to be when you grow up” question very simply: she wants to be a rocket driver and be closer to the stars. And Asumi never forgets about her child self’s enthusiasm for space. In fact, it bolsters her goal and gives her an edge over her more cynical schoolmates.
There’s actually very few depictions of the advanced technology these kids must be learning about in order to go to space, which gives those brief flashes of the future so much more impact when they do appear. It reminds us that humanity has always wished to explore the unknown, no matter if it’s the past, present, or future. That drive will always be with us.
Asumi isn’t completely alone in achieving her dreams. Although her family’s personal tragedies and her strange obsession with space earn her few friends as a child, she can still count on one person to be there: Mr. Lion Depicted as a young man who wears a lion mascot head. His clothes are exactly what astronauts wear during launch: gray coveralls, large gloves, and bulky boots, Mr. Lion is much more than just an imaginary friend. He appears soon after the Lion accident, comforting Asumi after her mother’s death and gently encouraging her interest in space.
As the story begins with a tragedy, Twin Spica doesn’t let up on the feels. Each of Asumi’s classmates has their own reasons for being at the academy, and they’re mired in tragedy as well. From missed opportunities to familial strife, these kids’ families are broken in some way, and perhaps that’s the reason why their goals are so huge. There is also one character who is struggling with illness, and she hopes to find a cure in orbit, in zero G.
Asumi herself has never really known her mother, who was in a coma for a year after the initial Lion explosion before succumbing to her injuries. In one flashback scene to Asumi’s childhood, her first grade class is tasked with drawing their moms for Mother’s Day. Asumi draws a figure with bandages wrapped around her face, since her only memories of her mother are after the accident. She’s mocked by her classmates for having a monster for a mom. Asumi learns from a young age that she is not like other people, that she has to work harder in order to get to the same level as her peers, and at first she’s frustrated by it. But eventually she learns that everyone has to get through tragedy, and she shouldn’t be wallowing in self-pity.
The best sci-fi stories emphasize characters over setting, and Twin Spica is the epitome of this. Every character in the story, from Asumi, to her classmates, to Mr. Lion all have a love of space and a dream to travel there. Mr. Lion, the ghost with unfinished business on Earth, places all of his dashed hopes and dreams into supporting and encouraging Asumi, so that she might have the adventure he will never have. Even Asumi’s father softens his stance on the industry where he once failed, supporting his daughter’s dream of reaching the stars. The hope of an entire nation that’s reeling from tragedy is ultimately placed on the shoulders of a single young woman, and that’s a powerful message for all of us. We have to believe in the dreams of the young, because they will carry the future.


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Aftershave Lotion from Taylor of Old Bond Street, in five classic fragrances, is a luxury gentleman's after-shave formulated to put the perfect finish on any shave. Each contains essential oils, herbal aromatics, alcohol, and fragrance in a 100ml / 3.3 fl. oz. bottle.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time once again to play theinternet's favorite weekend laugh-a-thon ....Match the State With the Dumbass Law !!! This is one of the most popular features we do here on Dumbass News, and today ought to be a doozy because the full moon is upon us and we all know that when the moon is full, dumbasses come out like ants at a family reunion picnic. Brace yourselves...here we go!
Virginia - It's against the law to flip a coin in any eating joint to determine who buys the coffee.
DN - I personally have no problem with this. It's more fun to flip the waitress to see who pays for coffee.
Washington - A woman who sits in man's lap on a train or bus is obligated to put a pillow between herself and the man, or face a jail term of six months.
DN - And if she doesn't put a pillow between herself and the man, she faces nine months of morning sickness and weird cravings. Dumbasses.
West Virginia - In Nicholas County, it is verboten that a minister tell jokes or funny stories from the pulpit during the service.
DN - That's cool with me. I can get straight to my nap that much quicker.
Wisconsin - In order too make cheese in America's Dairyland, you must have a Cheese Maker's License. In order to make Limberger cheese, you must have a Master Cheese Maker's License.
DN - If you nmake Limberger cheese, you'll need a helluva lot more than permit. A good divorce lawyer comes to mind. Juat sayin'.
Wyoming - It's illegal for a woman to stand within five feet of a bar while drinking.
DN - This is a great idea. If a drinking woman falls while standing more than five feet from the bar, she is less likely to spill other people's drinks.
That's it. We have covered dumbass laws in all fifty states of the Union and there have been some real winners. If you'd like to review the other nine posts dealing with dumbass laws, search the archives by using the search box on the home page. And don't fret, I'll be on the lookout for more dumbass laws from all over the world because one can never get enough dumbass.

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Morgan and I both followed each other on social media for a quite some time and at a wedding I shot last spring, she walked up to me and introduced herself and Aaron. After that, Morgan and I met for dinner at a Mexican restaurant and I swear we could have talked all night.
These two are seriously the sweetest couple. As Aaron pointed out, about 7 months ago (that number slightly shocked me, who can believe 2016 is already moving so quickly...am I right?) we shot their engagement portraits down in John's Creek...a.k.a. God's Country. If you live near Blacksburg, you must drive out there at least once...the valley, the mountains, the fresh air. You won't be sorry. I loved getting to spend time with just the two of them for the engagements and then with their friends and family on the wedding day.
Morgan and Aaron took a few moments before their ceremony began at Auburn Baptist Church to pray together. And what a sweet moment it was. Hidden from the guest and hidden from each other, but holding hands and praying. After their ceremony the guest traveled to the Little River Bluegrass Barn to celebrate in a beautiful old barn with a silo on one end and huge stained glass window on the other.
Their guest were able to enjoy not one but TWO cookie bars, an ice cream bar (complete with every topping you could think of) and a popcorn and pretzel bar. Let me tell you, it was the sweetest of dessert tables.
A huge thank you to Lindsey Rickards for second shooting.


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For many years, the Country Club Kordon used to offer one-day recreation and picnic services. As time went on, things began to change. The first chalets were built, by demands of our customers, to provide round-the-clock services. Today, the upper Kordon offers a hotel complex to its visitors: five new chalets and a lakeside restaurant.
The chalets vary in size and resemble classic Alpine houses with sloping gable roofs. Each of them was built according to its own architectural plan, employs its own style, internal layout and décor. Structural elements of houses are all made of natural wood and stone. The panoramic windows allow an unobstructed view of the enchanted forest and lake.
It is very quiet at the upper Kordon surrounded by the forest. The hotel grounds are distant from the picnic area. Nobody and nothing will disturb your peace here.

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"Learning everything I have about chords and hymns has helped me use piano for the benefit of others. Thanks, Abigail!" ~Angela P.
"Thank you so much for your encouragement and patience as I work toward learning to play the piano. Your friendship is truly a blessing." ~Sandy Z.
"You are helping me great. I love game day!!" ~Chandler D.
"[My daughter] is progressing well because you make it so fun, and [she] truly enjoys playing! We love the friendship that has developed between you both, and your continuing example as a godly role model for all our children!" ~Stephanie S.
"Miss Abigail Johnson--not only is she a great piano teacher, she's a great Godly influence and friend for all her students." ~Hannah B.
"I just told my family...that I have the sweetest piano teacher ever! Thank you so much for your kind words, and your sweet heart. I am really enjoying my lessons." ~Lynne B.
Artwork by piano student A.G. P.
"I like my teacher because she gets as excited as I get when I am scheduled to do something special for piano. I also like that she is happy to make things easier on any songs I want to learn." ~Sarah S.
"I really enjoyed piano lessons. It was a lot of fun. Abigail really helps me if I don't really understand something or if something is too hard! She can turn a song from I thought was really really hard and couldn't figure out to, 'Wow, that's so easy!' Thank you Abigail for being my piano teacher!" ~Emma P.
"We all talked on the ride home about how attentive you are to the specific needs of each of your students, and what a positive experience you make it! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!" ~Stephanie S.


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Arriving in early 2018 are some more virgin California mustangs and other surprises. Feel free to contact us for more personalized info and pictures. You can reserve these high end collectors cars now, while supplies last. Everything went so quick in 2017 so allow me to educate you. These cars are not going to be around forever. They are only going up in value. Listen up. Take this helpful information, pay your brain bill this month and reserve the best, rust free California cars from us NOW.
Due to our ongoing strong growth RS is proud to unveil our new Ford diesel and car hauler. This allows us to continue to meet our customer needs. Moreso, this vehicle gives us the ability to buy and deliver your classic car more efficiently to the ports in California. End result, with reducing our turn around times for buying and delivery, our costs just have gone down. So this means your costs have just gone down! Pictured is my brother Roger who is now our full time car hauler operator and buyer in California. He has over 35 years experience in the auto industry and has worked in various branches for Ford and Chevrolet. He is a car enthusiast and has lived and breathed muscle cars for over 50 years. Roger is dedicated to buying the absolute best classics available for you as well as transporting your classic vehicles in the most safe and professional manner.
Several more barn finds recently found and soon to be arriving in 2018. Keep posted and you will see them unveiled before your eyes.

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These days technology is often the last thing I'd recommend schools bother with when trying to engage students. There's plenty else we can invest time in before technology will achieve even a fraction of what it can in an engaged school. And now a set of action research reports in the UK is showing the path many schools might wish to take.
I'm working with several primary (elementary) and secondary (high) schools at the moment in England, Australia and the States. All of them face the same daily and long-term strategic challenge: students have never been so disengaged. Many have seen technology as a principal hook to reverse this disengagement, which is why they get in touch with us, but quickly on my initial visits to schools I'm keen to point out the other steps that we need to get through before technology will add what it could do. Otherwise, I'm just a tools salesman, selling tools that the owners don't know how to harness.
The journey is a complex one, and one that, in my opinion for what it's worth, most of the 'big' eduction commentators in North America still fail to recognise. I've complained numerous times before about the fetichisation of 'tools' and 'edtech' by those who work with and in schools where other elements of the teaching and learning process clearly deserve fetichisation first.
A unique and undervalued research project based in the UK, with partners in the US (including High Tech High), is discovering, analysing and sharing those elements through its regular pamphlets, blog and, above all, grounded practice across nearly 50 schools.
It's our job to help scale this ambition to other schools around the world.
The irony, for commentators like Alfie Kohn, is that invariably, “when interest appears, achievement usually follows” (2000, p. 128).
It is almost as though we have accepted the inevitability of learning as a cold shower: you’re not expected to enjoy it, but it will do you good.
We have recently seen a large number of students becoming disengaged achievers, performing well academically, keeping out of trouble, but rejecting further and higher education.
If we have greater aspirations for students—beyond compliance and toward a commitment to lifelong learning—then the conventional concept of engagement is inadequate.
Students are absorbed in their activity: anyone witnessing a young person playing, say, on-line role playing games will know what this looks like. It is rare, however, to see such depth of absorption in school-based work. Munns and colleagues (2006) at the University of Western Sydney (2006) have quantified the difference as being in-task, not just on-task. Other indicators of high absorption would be students wishing to continue beyond the end of a lesson, or not even noticing the lesson had ended—what Csikszentmihalyi (1990) has described as being in ‘‘flow’’.
Picture of engaged gamer from Mr Toledano.
Does anyone want to join me in Canada May 17 & 18 for INPlay, Toronto? You can register now for one of Interactive Ontario's showpiece events, on whose advisory board I sit (well, mostly I Skype, actually). It's unique in bringing together such a blend of transmedia, video game producers, financiers, marketers on the one hand, and researchers, educators and policy people on the other.
The programme is superb, with keynotes from Amy Friedman on Play, Warren Buckleitner on why some highly marketed games failed so miserably, Russ McLeod on How to Build a Movement for connected youth, Alan Gershenfeld's Leveling up from Player to Designer: Empowering Youth through Media Creation and a sneak behind the scenes of Gever "Tinkering School" Tulley's journey to turn his one week summer school of student-led learning into a full school, the journey to Brightworks.
When Newton discovered gravity it wasn't because he was told by a teacher or even because he had the skill to look it up in Wikipedia. It was because he was provoked, deeply, and had the design skills to create a beautiful equation. Gever Tulley and Ewan McIntosh help delegates experience first hand, the durable learning that comes from deep provocation. Explore how curriculum can be turned on its head, how new skills can be learned best, how content can be explored through the same models of discovery that genuine scientists, creatives and leaders harness every day.
I think I'll be blogging like crazy for two days, and catching up with some great friends, old and new. If you want to join the fun and mental stimulation, with the social stimulation to back it up, register before April 14th to get the early bird rate.
Learning Without Frontiers - Disruption, Innovation and Learning, this January 9-11, just before monster education show BETT, is a must-attend to kick off your education technology year, and the last of 2000 tickets for the event are on sale now.
And if you buy your Premium Pass before November 30th you will get an iPad thrown in to your ticket pass, a ticket to the March "Evening With Sir Ken Robinson" event and a seat at the Learning Without Frontiers Awards. Get in now before they get snapped up!
I'll be at the event, capturing as much as possible on the blog and my YouTube channel.
Tom Chatfield, author, Fun Inc.
Take a look at video from previous events to see the world class speakers on offer, and grab your Premium Pass ticket and free iPad before November 30th. Other cheaper tickets are also available at the moment.
Tom Chatfield's seven key video game takeaways are incredibly useful for those redesigning curricula (or their classroom practice) who want to tap into the power of video games. My colleague Derek is always at pains to point out that "good teachers use good tools at the right time", but I still meet folk who miss that, and still feel that a lesson without games-based learning can't be as exciting as those with it. Tom notes in particular the potential in using gamer progress bars as indicators of academic and personal progress. He cites the University of Indiana as one of the cutting edge institutions working in this way.
That said, though, I'm sure when even I was at primary school we had a class chart that we filled with shiny stars every time we progressed in our learning or worked particularly well. Was my Year 1 teacher Mrs O'Hare inventing game mechanics in 1982 without knowing it?
Much in the same way as we can learn from how social networks operate in order to. say, make our own virtual learning environments work better, without the need to feel we need to harness Facebook for learning, I'd say that there are seven gems in this talk that show how we can harness games mechanics for learning from tomorrow morning, without feeling the need to learn the practicalities of bringing in Xboxes, PlayStations and Wiis to the classroom. One thing - to get what these mechanics are, it still helps if you've experienced them first hand by actually, erm, playing a game. Something for your Christmas holiday homework, perhaps?
Imagine being able to interact with content on the screen, with a game or experience, without needing any console control at all. That's what Kinect does (formerly project Natal for XBox 360), and it's about to dramatically change the way things are made in games, as well as experienced.
The video above shows the well-trodden animals-pets genre in a new light, but the technology brings a whole new console-control-less angle to sports and dance games. No more dance mats or flying Wiimotes!
Milo, in production by Peter Molyneux's Lionhead, will be unveiled at TED in a couple of weeks, where Peter's company seek to give users a sense of wonder like they've never had before - a computer game-experience where your computer game can hear you and talk back. It's what Jesse Schell saw as part of the final picture in his Gamepocalypse.
In the space of two days at GameHorizon we've gone from about to happen to happening in two weeks. That's a pace of change.
Jesse Schell sees games reaching out to real life and real life is reaching into games. He imagines a world, and sees increasing evidence of, the gamespocolypse: where every part of your life is part of playing a game, from brushing your teeth to eating your Cheerios. Some people think this sounds horrible, others like Jesse think it's going to come anyway, so we might as well learn how to do it as well as possible.
View more presentations from Jesse Schell.
Networks - let's say, erm, Facebook - propagate material that is helpful, funny, controversial or just amazing. Material that is poor quality, that is viral in a bad way, bombard us every day. Our Facebook immune systems are getting stronger, repelling good content as well as bad, since it's easier to turn off all notifications from games or from my Wall on the basis of a few bad experiences, rather than to filter for the good stuff.
For developers, this means the spammy ways of sharing your games and ideas have to change.
Retail gaming is bringing huge potential in partnerships between Farmville-maker Zynga and 7-Eleven grocery stores. By choosing which Farmville-themed cup you'll have for your milkshake you are actually playing Farmville.
TV Commercial time has, since 1950 to 2010, gone from 13% to 36% of the television schedule. Its encroachment into the games space is inevitable. When we think about how the best brands have used other media, we see how it can work for both brand and individual: Harley Davidson and Tattoos.
Everything is becoming more and more beautiful, and this trend towards beauty effects every aspect of life and especially digital media. Coming up with functional just doesn't work any more.
Television is evolving. Fast. 3D isn't new (in 1849 the stereoscopic lens came into existence), yet we don't see 3D photography, 3D signage or 3D books everywhere. Are we really going to see this take off in such a ubiquitous fashion? That said, by Christmas 2010 1 in 5 televisions in the UK will be internet-enabled. What does that mean for digital media?
Games are adapting to take on me as the player rather than the avatar the graphic artist came up with. That's personalisation. Not just letting my type my username in before I play.
Is playing Foursquare and taking twenty minutes to enter any building fun? Will it really become an engaging game?
Take a look at OnLive - but ask yourself how the servers will be paid for? Cloud computing reduces the cost of storage and servers to 'near zero' if you read Chris Anderson, but it's less 'near zero' if you're paying the bill.
Chris Swain notes that film only became the core of modern culture when they started to speak. It's when games start to listen that they become the core of our media experiences. When the method of control is above the neck, rather than below it, the medium will be elevated beyond the power of film, of any other medium for that matter. Schell imagines how this might change our morning drive from a routine of listening to the radio, to speaking to our games, taking games (safely) into new arenas and locations, with different groups of people.
When so much gaming takes place in so little time that we actually devote to entertainment, the nooks and crannies elsewhere in our packed lives become the new places to play - eating, drinking, working (we've already got that with mobile games) and how about sleep?
Portable screens easily fall prey to the Hype Curve. From the peak of inflated expectations, to the trough of disillusionment to the slope of enlightenment and into the plateau of productivity. Take a look at the iPad - where does it stand today? The slope of enlightenment? It must be when people are paying £500 to find out what it does!
Bringing in more data from more real-time places becomes a fresh way to make games that change every second.


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Operator Theory: Advances and Applications (2019), to appear.
Functional analysis and operator theory for quantum physics. The Pavel Exner anniversary volume.
Spectral Problems and Related Topics, November 2009, Moscow, Russia.
Modern problems of Analysis and teaching of Mathematics, May 2010, Moscow, Russia.
Analytic and Algebraic Methods in Physics X, June 2012, Prague, Czech Republic.
International Congress on Mathematical Physics, August 2012, Aalborg, Danmark (poster).
"QMath12: Mathematical Results in Quantum Mechanics", September 2013, Berlin, Germany.
10. Meeting of Mathematical Physicists, June 2014, Prague, Czech Republic.
"Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics" (OTAMP 2014), July 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.
"International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications" (IWOTA 2014), July 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Workshop "Waveguides: asymptotic methods and numerical analysis", May 2015, Naples, Italy.
Workshop on Geometry, Lie Groups, and Number Theory, June 2015, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
The French-German workshop "Asymptotic analysis and spectral theory" (Aspect'15), October 2015, Orsay, France.
"Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics" (OTAMP 2016), July 2016, St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Chaos, and what it can reveal - A conference on the occasion of Petr Seba's 60th birthday", May 2017, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
"Schrödinger Operators and Boundary Value Problems, April 2017, Graz, Austria.
"Differential operators on graphs and waveguides", February 2019, Graz, Austria.

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Bath Translation Service. Translation in Bath, Maine.
Are you searching for a trusted language company offering technical translation services in Bath, Maine or anywhere else in the USA? Do you need to translate instruction manuals, product specifications, corporate presentations, certificates of incorporation, newsletters, patents, automotive service manuals from English into several languages? Do you want a certified/notarized translation of your diploma, your marriage license or your court and penal records delivered to your postal address in Bath, Maine? Are you planning to translate your company website to Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese or other languages in order to make your Bath business visible for millions of potential internet users/clients?
Although our translation services company is not based in Bath, Maine, our presence in Europe (Spain) and the United States (Dearborn, Michigan), our quality and customer-oriented management team, and our 24x7 customer service, will make you feel as if you were working with a translation company in Bath.
We can certainly help you with sworn, official, medical, pharmaceutical, scientific, financial, marketing, tourism, patent and web page translations. Tell us which language service you require in Bath - language interpreters (consecutive, simultaneous, over-the-phone) or translators (web pages, documents, manuals, a presentation, a report, a patent, official documents, etc) - and we will give you a quote without obligation.
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Technical Translation Service in Bath, Maine. Translation of catalogues, leaftlets, brochures, booklets, user manuals, books, academic essays, newsletters, user guides, press releases, etc.
Pharmaceutical & Medical Translation Service in Bath, Maine. Medical reports, articles to be published in medical magazines, etc.
Videogame & Software localization Service in Bath.
Language Interpreters in Bath. Consecutive, Simultaneous (Conference), over-the-phone interpreting system.

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Our Favorite! Starting green, these unique yellow-maturing tomatillo have an interesting purple blush on some fruits. Most will burst through their papery tan husks when ripe. Used in salsa, green sauce, chilli sauce, or fresh roasted. Tomatillos keep extremely well (for several weeks) in the fridge and freeze easily. An established patch often re-seeds in the garden.
Seeds need to be started indoors 6-7 weeks before last frost. Sow 1/4" deep in a light soil mix; harden off & plant out 24 - 48" apart, in not too rich a soil, after all danger of frost is over. Tomatoes benefit from staking.

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Caught a ride into Lake Isabella with trail angel Root Beer Sue, who is supporting her hiker husband, Eeyore. Picked up resupply, cleaned up, charged up a zillion devices–phone, battery chargers, inReach–and made a plan to get back to the trail 35 miles east the next morning. Kevin had started hiking where Cheryl did and was going to let his thru-hiking son catch up to him in Kennedy Meadows. We caught a $1 Kern County bus to Onyx at 6:10 am. Uh huh, me, I did that. Because it was Thursday, the bus didn’t go all the way back to the trail, so we hitched. Kevin had made a very nice cardboard sign, “PCT HIKERS TO TRAIL.” I barely had time to pet the very first living kitty I’d seen since beginning this hike, when a woman screeched to a halt in the middle of the highway. My age, Beth was so excited to give us a ride that she was literally shaking with joy. Her husband always picked up hikers but we were her first. When she let us out, Kevin went up the trail but I had to backtrack 0.7 miles to restart hiking where I’d left off. Later in Kennedy Meadows, I confessed to Kevin that I gave him a trail name in the hiker registers–Hitch Bait. He likes it.
On this stretch I drank spring water contaminated with traces of uranium, spring water dripping from a broken off, rusty pipe dripping into the usual rotting concrete tank next to the derelict Fox Mill (looks like a gold stamp mill), clear water from a trickle of a algae covered creek and water from a completely empty BLM campground with a single faucet approximately a 1000 miles from the trail ( any of you tracking me now know one of the reasons I seem to wander way off from time to time).
Fox Mill spring area, I camped amongst the artifacts, how sweet is that?
Rusty metal objects, love ’em, but see the obsidian flakes mixed in too?
I made it to Kennedy Meadows where I was greeted by friends Noreen from Yosemite, Jim and Tom from LA, Tom’s daughters Colleen and Maggie, and Maggie’s beau Bryson. We camped and they fed me and Jim brought my new tent, Big Agnes Copper Spur 1, and Noreen gave me food and beer, and at night Maggie and Colleen sang the most beautiful tunes as I lay in my tent, and they fed me some more. I hung out at the Kennedy Meadows General Store with lots of hikers who tend to take a day or two off to prepare for the big passes of the Sierra. Bear canisters, mini crampons, warm layers and even more calories are all shipped to this hiker friendly launch pad for the real mountains.
There were rumors and panic amongst some of the hikers. “Blue Moon and Scarecrow are hitching to Reno, and hiking north from Soda Springs. They’ll flip back when the snow is gone.” Umm, really? “Someone died on Forrester Pass.” “Wow, who? A hiker? A climber?” “We don’t know. But we’re getting a ride to Mammoth. We’ll flip back when the snow is gone.” Lots of hikers just hit the trail to get away from the tension, as others walked in, to be pulled into the rumors and speculation. No internet, no authority to set it straight. A few hitched the hour to Lone Pine to try to get facts. One of these, Bender, an AT hiker and someone I’ve known here awhile, I met in Lone Pine as he headed back on trail to tackle the biggest pass, Forrester, and maybe Mt Whitney, after getting good information about weather and snowpack.
Anyway, I said goodbye to my trail angels–thanks again guys!–and headed into the Sierra, at last! I made my first big goal, I thrived and survived the first 702 miles and am back home in, more or less, the Range of Light. Granite, water, altitude, trees, mountains for hundreds of miles. I told Dan, if I die up here, no body retrieval, roll me in a crack and save the kids from having to read “Lonesome Dove” followed by scattering my ashes along the John Muir Trail. Heh heh, seriously.


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Find some local flavor on your Enchanting Travels tours! Festivals are the magic masala to spice up your Enchanting trip. Unearth vibrant traditions, food, arts and religious rites. Here are just some of our favorite festivals to discover for the rest of the year and into 2013.
What: Discover the Festival of Lights where good is victorious over evil. Diwali, is a major Indian festival that is very significant across Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism and is celebrated with fireworks and lamps, particularly within North India’s Delhi and in Rajasthan. On your Enchanting Travels tours to India, experience Diwali melas (fairs) that boast performances by jugglers, acrobats, snake charmers and fortune tellers.
Enchanting Travels Top Tip: Enjoy the fair rides, puppet shows or elephant and camel rides and the traditional practice of henna painting for women.
What: Imagine the scene as the warm hue of thousands of mulberry-paper lanterns float into the night sky or in lotus-shaped receptacles along the river. The purpose of this festival was traditionally to give reverence to water spirits but has evolved into a night that embraces the graceful beauty of the Thai people and culture. Colorful floats parade down street to soulful chanting on this full moon night celebration.
Enchanting Travels Top Tip: The best spot to witness celebrations is Ping River in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.
What: Prior to the Spanish colonizing South America, the ancient indigenous Uro people celebrated their gods with ancient rituals. This pagan folk event has fused with the Catholic faith and grown in the last 2,000 years. Witness 10,000 dancers in action with feathers and spears on your Enchanting Travels tours and discover the traditional woven textiles of the country. Read more about the top ten things to do in Bolivia.
Enchanting Travels Top Tip: Add this festival to your bucket list as this is one not to miss. UNESCO agrees, naming it one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity!
What: The Catholic religious festival during Easter in South America provides many rituals and processions, commencing on Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday) and finishing on the Pascua or Domingo de Resurrección (Easter Sunday). Religious or not, all guests are welcomed and part of the celebrations of street parades and sharing “huevos de Pascua” (chocolate eggs).
Enchanting Travels Top Tip: Most communities reenact the Passion Play in full costume which is a must-see!
What: A 72 hour celebration of Independence, the festival focuses around the island’s rich traditions and family, summed up as Kueto Siriwala – “don’t forget your roots, regardless of how far away from home you are.” Ibo Island is lively with women singing and a traditional snake-like dance “Nyoka” is performed. On Enchanting Travels tours to Mozambique, you have the opportunity to interact with local people and discover the culture. The air is scented with sweet coconut milk and fresh seafood and tropical fruits are abundant.
Enchanting Travels Top Tip: Highlights of the festival are watching a game of soccer alongside hundreds of local supporters and the midnight “fogueira” or bonfire lighting.
Design your trip around one of these and many more festivals. We are happy to make suggestions for you!


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This lecture covers a lot of ground- from very basic to quite advanced. It begins by attempting to define the Semantic Web and explain its basic principles, which leads to a discussion of Linked Data and the principles which underpin it. The RDF data model is briefly described before moving on to how vocabularies are designed and reasoned over using RDF Schema and OWL.
Knows the subject-predicate-object component structure of a triple.
Understands that URIs and literals denote things in the world ("resources") real, imagined, or conceptual.
Understands that owl:equivalentProperty and owl:equivalentClass may be used when equivalencies between properties or between classes are exact.
Understands the role of formally declared domains and ranges for inferencing.
Uses RDF Schema to express semantic relationships within a vocabulary.

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Our sky chart shows the waning gibbous moon and the Pleiades star cluster for around mid-evening at North American mid-northern latitudes. However, no matter where you live worldwide, tonight’s moon will shine near the Pleiades cluster, so let the moon guide your eye to this cluster of stars tonight.
At mid-northern latitudes in Europe or Asia, the gap between the moon and Pleaides will be greater than in North America, and the Pleiades will reside more to the lower left of the moon this evening. As seen from the southern hemisphere, the Pleaides star cluster will sit either more directly below the moon or to the moon’s lower right, and they’ll rise later after dark. After they rise, however, the Pleiades will chase the moon westward across the sky for the rest of the night.
Tonight’s lunar glare might make it difficult to see the Pleiades. If you have binoculars, use them to view this gorgeous cluster. Its brightest stars form a unique dipper-shape pattern that makes the Pleiades – or Seven Sisters – instantly recognizable to the unaided eye or in binoculars. Once you see this starlit dipper of stars, you will see why this cluster is one of the most beloved sights in all the heavens.
The Pleaides cluster returns to the same place in the sky about 4 minutes earlier every night, but the moon rises an average 50 minutes later each evening. Several days from now, check out the beautiful Pleiades cluster in a moon-free sky!