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12 So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned— 13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed. 15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! 16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification. 17 For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
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28 The evil about which you ask me has been sown, but its reaping has not yet come. 29 Until the crop of evil has been reaped as well as sown, until the ground where it was sown has vanished, there will be no room for the field which has been sown with the good. 30 A grain of the evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the first; how much godlessness has it produced already! 31 How much more will it produce before the harvest! 32 Reckon this up: if one grain of evil seed has produced so great a crop of godlessness, how vast a harvest will there be when good seeds beyond number have been sown! 33 ‘I asked, ‘But when? How long have we to wait? Why are our lives so short and so miserable?’ 34 He replied, ‘Do not be in a greater hurry than the Most High himself. You are in a hurry for yourself alone; the Most High for many.
Notes and References
"... The apocalyptic book 4 Ezra, often called 2 Esdras, or the Apocalypse of Ezra, is a writing of Jewish origin stemming from the period after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The book is designed as a profound aid for Jews to cope with the reality of Roman emperors persecuting the pious. In that context, the history of Israel is retold, especially stressing human inability to fathom the ways of God. This inability is then connected with the concept of evil. Sin is not seen as an act of a freely operating human, but as the inevitable outcome of the sowing of the bad seed. Later in the Book of 4 Ezra a desperate question is raised ... It is remarkable to see that Eve is never mentioned in 4 Ezra. The ideas of the author of IV Ezra are not remote to those of St. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans ... The rest of the Epistle to the Romans makes clear that Paul construes human wrongdoing as original or inherited sin. Here, and elsewhere, Adam is seen by Paul as responsible for the sinful condition of mankind ..."
Becking, Bob "Signs from the Garden: Some Remarks on the Relationship between Eve and Adam in Genesis 2–3" in Eidevall, Göran (ed.) Enigmas and Images: Studies in Honor of Tryggve N. D. Mettinger (pp. 22-36) Eisenbrauns, 2011
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FROM Sahba Ferdowsi
House Calls in the Digital Age Feeling sick? What if you could order up a doctor the same way you order a pizza or an Uber ride? No schlepping to an office or emergency room, no long lines. Instead, with just a few taps of your touchscreen, a doctor shows up at your door. That’s the concept behind a growing number of house call mobile apps. A new one rolls out in Los Angeles and Orange counties this week.
Why is Trump so behind on filling staff jobs, establishing concrete policies? Yesterday Donald Trump signed a “decision memo” to revamp the air traffic control system. But there was little legislative detail in the plan. There’s not much to other splashy announcements from the White House, including tax cuts and the arms deal with Saudi Arabia. And hundreds of positions are unfilled in federal agencies.
Securing Public Spaces, Super Wealthy Asians Vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons, as seen in the London Bridge attack over the weekend and in New York’s Times Square last month. The Compton-based company Calpipe is designing security bollards to help make public spaces safer. And novelist Kevin Kwan satirizes the “crazy rich” Asian jet set and their luxurious tastes in his latest book, “Rich People Problems.”
Trump says goodbye Paris Accord: What does it mean for U.S. and the planet? President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the landmark international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump was to renegotiate a new deal, but will that happen?

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Health Services will be offering influenza vaccine to eligible students each fall, while supplies last. Influenza virus is spread by coughing, sneezing, or nasal secretions. Receiving influenza vaccine can significantly reduce the chance of becoming seriously ill with influenza. It takes up to two (2) weeks for protection after vaccination.
Why should students get a Flu Shot? It is important to get influenza vaccine each year if you want to reduce your risk of illness. Influenza vaccine is recommended for people who can spread illness to others at risk (e.g., household contacts, caregivers, medical personnel in contact with others at risk), people who provide essential community services, people who live in dormitories or other crowded conditions, and persons who want to reduce the likelihood of becoming ill or spreading influenza to others.
Vaccine is not recommended for persons who are severely allergic to eggs or who have had an adverse reaction to influenza vaccine.
Flu shots are available right now (October 2016) and on a walk in basis to any NIU student.
What is the cost? Students with Student Health Insurance have the cost of the flu shot covered 100% by their insurance.
Those without Student Health Insurance are welcome to come to Student Health Services for their flu shot. These students will be charged $32 and can pay via cash, check, credit/debit card, or Bursar. These students may wish to file a claim with their insurance company to potentially get reimbursed for the flu shot.

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EU inflation numbers likely to be highlight today
US dollar remains under a bit of pressure against other majors as Fed officials seem to push back on the idea of a 50bps rate rise, Bullard Harker and Dudley all speaking against such a move for now. GBPUSD up to 1.3540 and EURUSD to 1.1285. The prospect of higher rates in the US seems to be offset by a mildly hawkish BoE and market thinking that even the ECB could turn a little more hawkish. Stock markets meanwhile have had a decent start to February, helped by some decent earnings from Google owner Alphabet and chip maker AMD.
RBAs Lowe was still more dovish than market expects, making it clear the end of QE does not mean an immediate interest rate rise is on the cards and is not certain inflation is sustainably within target range. Their commitment is still to full employment. This hasn’t stopped AUD taking a step higher, with AUDUSD at 0.7140 and AUDNZD 1.0755.
Putin has spoken out about the Ukraine crisis, blaming US and NATO for fuelling tensions in the region as they are not giving in to his demands. Putin has said EU will have a gas problem next year but made it clear Hungary would not face any similar issues. UK PM Johnson was in Ukraine yesterday and issued a joint statement with the Ukraine leader saying a Russian invasion would be a huge mistake with grave humanitarian costs.
EU inflation numbers this morning will have our attention, not much in the way of data this afternoon but for CAD watchers focus will be on comments from BoC Gov Macklem later in the day.
We will be releasing the results of the our currency purchase programs in the coming days. If I focus on the dollar purchase program, the most popular, it has really excelled over the past few months. While GBPUSD has been down in the doldrums, the program has consistently given participants a purchase rate well above spot. I do always stress, this is not designed as an outperformance model, instead it offers a low risk, smooth average rate over a period of time with limited MtoM swings and as such limited balance sheet impact.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I firmly believe that most firms would benefit if the program were utilised for a percentage of their currency requirements. I’ll be sending the results around soon but do feel free to contact me should you have any questions in the meantime.
- 10.00 EU CPI
- 13.15 US ADP employment
- 13.30 CAD building permits
- 15.00 BoCs Gravelle speaks
- 20.00 BoCs Macklem speaks
- 22.00 AUS commonwealth bank services PMI
- 00.30 AUS trade balance, building permits

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Rhode Island School of Design’s Senior Show 2020 Now On View
Graduating seniors now living in various locations around the world came together virtually for what may be their final collective project: the RISD Senior Show 2020. Featuring the work of more than 300 students in 16 undergraduate majors, the exhibition offers a sense of some of the issues and inspirations on graduating students’ minds this year.
In developing their final projects, many graduating students focused on identity, exploring their cultural roots and often questioning accepted global narratives. Apparel Design major Kyra Buenviaje 20 AP, for example, created a recycled denim collection called Juana that “represents the spirit of the hard worker and dreamer in every Filipino… and evokes the deep love I have for the country I so proudly come from.”
Glass major Jorge Palacios 20 GL uses his creative practice to investigate his Mexican roots as well as “the meanings and interactions between land, displacement, ghosts/hauntings, science fiction, embodied memory, decolonization, indigeneity and diaspora.”
Painter Julieta Beltran Lazo 20 PT describes herself as “an artist who revises and reimagines history. Through making—embroidering, painting, drawing and writing—I examine my relationship to the celebrations and grievances that accompany Mexico’s recent history… challenging the heroic narratives and nationalist perspective through which official history is told.”
Other artists and designers are inspired by science and the natural world. Animator and augmented reality artist Meredith Binnette 20 FAV, for example, is interested in merging the worlds of art, technology, science and philosophy “using generative and procedural techniques to emulate organically grown forms in a digital space.”
Ceramist Jasper Isaac Johns 20 CR pushes the still life genre with botanical motifs he first encountered as a child visiting Nichols Arboretum in his hometown of Ann Arbor, MI. “Subtle glazes on bowed, undulating and kaleidoscopic forms evoke the intangibility of music and simulate a watery depth,” he writes.
The stark, otherworldly Death Valley National Park, which straddles California and Nevada, inspired textiles artist Kelly Hughes 20 TX to create Death Valley Monolith (Jacquard weaving, wool, cotton, monofilament), while sculptor Palmer Smith 20 SC—whose carved onyx calcite Sea Specimen flawlessly mimics nature—developed his creative process to recreate fleeting moments in time and “reshape something as ephemeral as getting to the top of a mountain.”
See more work by other graduates of the Class of 2020 at RISD Senior Show 2020.
Media Contacts: Christina Allan

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Vivo T1 5G price on launch, specifications and much more- know it all here
If you were waiting for Vivo T1 5G launch, then know that the latest phone has been rolled out today. Check out Vivo T1 5G price in India.
Vivo India hosted a launch event for its new smartphone Vivo T1 5G. Vivo T1 5G price on launch in India is Rs. 15,990. The launch event was hosted live on YouTube and had Indian VJ and actor Varun Sood as one of the presenters. From Vivo's side, Pankaj Gandhi, director, online business, Vivo India and Avnish Kumar, product manager Vivo India joined the launch event. During the event, Vivo T1 5G specifications, price as well as the pain-points it was trying to solve were discussed. At the end of the event, the product manager also took questions from users on the problem they faced in their existing smartphones and how Vivo T1 5G was solving them. Check out the main highlights and all the details about the smartphone below.
Vivo India presented a cool-looking stage for the event with the words ‘Get. Set. Turbo.' written on the back. Turbo was the set theme for the event and it was used at various points to highlight the performance, looks and design of the smartphone. The smartphone has some dedicated features for gamers and photography enthusiasts. Also, as some rumors already predicted, Vivo T1 5G will be a sub-Rs. 20,000 smartphone. Check out its specifications and exact price below.
Vivo T1 5G specifications
Vivo T1 5G claims to be the company's slimmest phone with a thickness of 8.25mm. The smartphone weighs 187 grams making it quite lightweight. Under the hood, it was announced that the smartphone will be equipped with the Snapdragon 695 processor which has a 6 nanometer chipset. It has a maximum clock speed of 2.2 GHz. Kumar revealed that Vivo T1 5G has an AnTuTu score of 4,00,000. For the unaware, AnTuTu is a software benchmarking tool commonly used to benchmark phones and other devices. Vivo India claims that the processor will improve the smartphone's CPU performance by 15% and GPU performance by 30% which will ensure a smooth user experience and viewing experience.
Vivo, in the launch event claimed that the smartphone is capable of running 25 different apps in the background without slowing down the smartphone, thanks to its ‘Turbo' processor.
Vivo T1 5G will be available in three RAM variants of 4GB, 6GB and 8GB. In addition the smartphone will support 4GB of virtual RAM to extend its RAM limit. It will only be available in a single internal storage variant of 128GB.
Vivo T1 5G sports a 6.58-inch FHD+ display with 120Hz refresh rate. The smartphone packs a 5,000 mAh battery and comes with 18W fast charge support. It also has a 5 layer liquid cooling technology to support higher end gaming.
Vivo T1 5G has a triple rear camera setup with a 50MP primary lens, a 2MP super macro lens and a 2MP Bokeh camera. It has various modes like Super Night Mode, Multi-Style Portrait, and Rear Camera Eye Autofocus. The front has a 16MP selfie camera with an AI face beauty mode.
Vivo T1 5G is available in two vibrant colors of Starlight Black and Rainbow Fantasy on Vivo India e-store, Flipkart and across other retail stores.
Vivo T1 5G price
Vivo T1 5G will be a sub-Rs. 20,000 smartphone. Its 4GB + 128GB variant is priced at Rs. 15,990. The 6GB + 128GB variant will be available at Rs. 16,990 and the 8GB + 128GB variant can be purchased for Rs. 19,990. Vivo India will also have an introductory offer where you can buy the phone with a no-cost EMI option. Also, HDFC bank card users will get an additional Rs. 1,000 discount on the smartphone.
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Posted by Middy on March 15, 2013
It is St. Patty’s Day weekend, so go out, wear green and wake up someplace you regret. We start off with the much talked about triple J mix from Madeon that features 39 songs in 30 minutes including the live mix of “The City” this week’s episode of the drop that features a guest mix from Felguk. Next up is this week’s episode of The Drop that features a guest mix from Felguk. Norin & Rad get you ready for Miami with their hour long mix with a mix of tracks from Anjunabeats Volume 10 and other favorites of theirs. Adrien Mezsi provides us with his Mezsed Up podcast that starts out with the brand new DubVision remix of “I Could Be The One” from Nicky Romero & Avicii and has a guest mix from Digital Lab, who is hot on the heals of the release of “Hit It“. After the jump we have mixes from N3AKO, Michael Woods, The Disco Fries, Arty and Gabriel & Dresden.
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Photo: Chromeo at 12:00 12/31/2012 | Credit: Drew Levin
Being from Colorado I went into SnowGlobe Music Festival in South Lake Tahoe, CA a bit cocky thinking it would be impossible for me to get cold but the first day proved me wrong. Despite being bundled up in huge down jackets, the entire crowd was amped and ready to rage. We got a late start to the first day and walked-in mid set with the crowd in full force already with Minnesota throwing down. With constant top-notch releases from Minnesota all year I was really excited to see him live and he didn’t disappoint. Next up was the first night headliner, Wiz Khalifa. I was following Wiz’s Tweet’s and Instagram’s and he was not ready for the cold but he didn’t let it hold him back. The crowd exploded as he opened with Black and Yellow and he kept the energy the entire time playing all his big hits. The stage set-up was incredible and watching Wiz live surrounded by massive pine trees and snow coming down was surreal. Wiz ended earlier than the schedule indicated and we rushed to the shuttles because we had to make it back for the after party. The after party that night was what I was most excited for because Seven Lions was the headliner. Kill Paris was slotted to play before Seven Lions but unfortunatly he got stuck in Indiana and wasn’t able to make it. The set up in the hotel was one of the most awkward setups I’ve ever seen, it felt like high school prom gone EDM but that wasn’t going to hold us back. Seven Lions was without a doubt the best performance of the night and he will soon be at all major festivals. One of my favorite songs ever is his Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love Remix and he dropped a great version of it and I guarantee anyone who didn’t know who he was before the show was googling him immediately after. He exceeded my expectations and make sure to add him to your “MUST SEE” list.
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Posted by Spice on October 9, 2012
Madeon’s The City EP dropped yesterday, bringing us original and extended mixes of the titular track, a live version of “Icarus,” and some very fresh DnB remixes to boot. If you never once thought that Madeon’s distinctive brand of nu-disco would lend itself well to drum n’ bass — well, you’re not alone. I approached these remixes (specifically, Netsky’s remix of “Finale” and Fred V & Grafix’s remix of “Icarus”) with a fair degree of skepticism and found myself utterly blown away. Netsky achieves the impossible (in my humble opinion) and actually improves upon “Finale,” finding a way to milk even more drama out a track that’s already chock full of adrenaline. I always found the original unsatisfyingly brief, so I really appreciate the way Netsky draws out each build and adds new color by way of some wonderfully different chord progressions. Exeter duo Fred V & Grafix likewise breathe new life into an old favorite; they dexterously manipulate the tempo of the now-familiar “Icarus” and layer in fast, choppy breakbeats, which (perhaps surprisingly) have the effect of magnifying the punchy, bright synths we all know and love. In all, this is a tight and very savvy release from our favorite little Frenchman who continues to prove that he’s got this game on lock.
Beatport: Madeon – The City EP
Posted by Spice on October 9, 2012
Over the past three years, Ellie Goulding has achieved an extraordinary level of fame and recognition, even as she has maintained a foothold outside of the full-bore pop mainstream. Sure, it’s basically impossible to listen top 40 radio these days without hearing the synthy intro to the belatedly popular “Lights,” but there remains something sufficiently quirky and offbeat about Ellie — her distinctively elfin timber, perhaps, or her often dark arrangements, or her affinity for unlikely (but uncanny) melodies, or the fact that she’s the undisputed remix darling of the underground. In other words, she’s managed to steer clear of Carly Rae territory, even as she has built an increasingly high profile for herself.
In Halcyon, the British songstress may be playing for the now-considerable audience who will purchase her material by default, but it is clear that the album is first and foremost the fulfillment of an intensely personal and specific vision. Accordingly, there are moments of sheer, sparkling brilliance — and also a few misfires. The overall vibe is haunting, gothic, and at times ragged, ranging from heavy and driving to delicate and stripped down, but never do we lose sight of the looming emotional matter that served as Ellie’s inspiration. And this is where the album falters — certain tracks simply begin to feel roundabout or redundant, especially as we move through the ballad-heavy second half, where Halcyon starts to seem like a synthed-up 21 with slightly less lyrical depth.
But when Ellie shines, she truly shines. The jangly (if rather abstruse) “Anything Could Happen,” released well in advance of the album, is a fresh and unlikely anthem. “My Blood” is a bona fide showstopper — Ellie’s birdlike voice is simultaneously fragile and powerful, undergirded by a thumping bassline and carrying us through a terrifically stratospheric chorus that will give just about any music fan chills. The dubsteppy “Figure 8,” produced by recent OWSLA signees MONSTA, exists at the catchiest possible intersection of electronic music and pop. The ethereal and slightly more upbeat “Atlantis” is beautifully (and eerily) arranged. And Calvin Harris brings his user-friendly dance cred to “I Need Your Love,” coming soon to every single fratty bar near you. In all, Ellie may have moved in a more self consciously artistic direction on Halcyon, but her ability to weave catchy, interesting melodies with lush electronic arrangements is as on display as ever.
Note: Bonus track “Stay Awake,” produced by Madeon, is only available on physical editions purchased at Tesco in the UK. Check it out here.
iTunes: Ellie Goulding – Halcyon
Posted by Middy on October 4, 2012
After doing a roundup for August, we are back to give you the best EDM videos from September. We start off with the video for Madeon’s “The City” that involves an intense chalk fight between two sides in an abandoned factory area. This video must have been a blast to be in and really needs to be recreated in real life. It emulated the colorful twists of Madeon’s nu-disco sound. We continue after the jump with more from Lazy Rich & Chris Lake, David Guetta, Deadmau5, Thomas Gold & more.
Posted by Middy on August 27, 2012
To add even more to this loaded music monday, Madeon decides to drop his new single “The City” that he has been teasing with a release in the US for that past few days. It was premiered this past weekend by Annie Mac on BBC Radio One after an official preview a few days before. He is fresh on the heels of his 18th birthday and his massively successful single “Finale” that may be his best effort to date. “The City” brings us back to his french disco roots, where “Finale” had a bit of an edgeier sound with some elements of DNB. Zak Waters provides vocals on the song that Madeon has said is the favorite track he has done, which says something considering the quality in his discography with “Icarus” “Finale” and the plethora of quality remixes. While I do not think this is as good as “Icarus” or “Finale”, “The City” is still a very good track and we can only expect more great things from this young prodigy. News on worldwide release tomorrow and on Beatport shortly.
Posted by Spice on August 24, 2012
It has recently come to my attention that a number of important videos have dropped this month and we’ve done virtually nothing to acknowledge them. Well, it ends tonight. First up we’ve got one of the coolest and most innovative things I think I’ve ever seen — the video for Mat Zo’s “The Sky” — which gives you an insane, beautiful, jaw-dropping, stomach-clenching, how-the-hell-did-they-even-get-this-footage look into BASE jumping. This video is mind blowing from start to finish, and the fact that all of the gorgeously filmed madness is set to Mat Zo’s equally gorgeous showstopper of a track makes the entire situation that much better. If you do one thing on Fresh New Tracks tonight, watch this video. It’s absolutely incredible and you won’t regret it.
Moving on: see what Madeon, Zedd, Skrillex, and the rest of the gang have been up to after the jump… READ ON >>


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Do you know what it feels like to be let down by first world problems? I know I do. If I was promised a ski trip, I was let down to learn that there wasn’t enough accumulation. When I was told my braces would finally get removed on a certain day, I was let down to learn my teeth needed more straightening. And when I was told that there was a new Tales title being created, I was let down upon learning it would never be released outside of Japan. A true Tales fan knows the struggles of being let down. So when Tales of Hearts R was announced for the United States in a video by creator Hideo Baba himself, you can imagine my surprise when I learned people were upset. While I was shouting from the rooftops with joy, a vocal minority began to gripe about the fact that the game would be released without English voice acting. If you’re one of them reading this review, then shame on you. Clearly, you aren’t a true Tales fan. People like you can’t even be called fairweather fans. If you are part of this minority that would boycott or belittle Tales of Hearts R, then you don’t know our (first world) struggles. Indeed, the roaches like you are what causes us to miss out on fantastic games from Japan because the characters speaking the dialogue are speaking something other than English.
Tales of Hearts R is a Vita remake of Tales of Hearts originally on the DS. The “R” in the title refers to a re-imagining and is a fully equipped overhaul from the original. Thus, people will immediately notice that the first difference from the DS to the Vita is the look. Hearts R is a gorgeous game on a system that utilizes graphical abilities properly. With stunning 3D characters and environments, a good amount of animated movies and impressive effects, everyone will agree that Hearts R is great to look at. I will cover the voice acting later, but I want to mention that this game has some of the best music in the series. Tales games usually lack in the music department, but Hearts R exceeds expectations.
In fact, many things about Hearts R surprise me. The story is one that alters from humorous to tragic and back again. It does it in an effective way thanks to a solid translation. Hearts R takes place in a world where monsters known as Xerom consume people’s Spiria. Spiria refers to crystalline structures that represent people’s emotions. To combat the Xerom, people developed weapons called Soma. Kor Meteor has just received his Soma from his grandfather. After a day of training, Kor meets Kohaku and Hisui Hearts, siblings on the lam from a witch named Incarose. This chance encounter will lead Kor and a bunch of friends on a journey to stop the Xerom and fulfill an ancient prophecy. Like I said, the story is great. While Tales titles are more focused on character development and interaction than central plots, Hearts R has both. Kor, Kohaku, and the rest of the crew are a creative, colorful and memorable bunch.
However, I feel the need to point out certain things in the story that have been a point of complaint by the above mentioned vocal minority. In Japan, Kor is known as Shing. While there is meaning behind the name change, the fact that the game is entirely voiced in Japanese might sound a bit off at first. Trust me, it’s not bad. In fact, you will likely forget about it after a couple of hours of game time. Another thing to point out is that the script translation doesn’t always match the voiced dialogue. Since I know some Japanese, hearing the inconsistencies does, once again, sound somewhat off. Just like the name change, you will get used to it. This is a great story and boycotting it because of the language would be a mistake.
But, your biggest loss in ignoring Hearts R would be not being able to participate in the battles. Before that, I should mention that Hearts R plays like a traditional RPG with towns, a world map, treasures, shops and people to chat with. There are lots of things to do in Hearts R when you’re not saving the world from Xerom. Cooking, a Tales staple, is just as helpful as ever and you can find new recipes from the Wonder Chef and from shops.
Once you enter a dungeon or the world map, there is a chance that a battle might happen. One flaw is that battles are random. This is a real shame, because they had choice encounters since Symphonia. Hearts R should have been given this same benefit. Battles play out in typical Tales fashion. You can use basic attacks, Artes and spells to create high numbered combos that juggle foes. Similar to the remake of Tales of Destiny, Hearts R lets you fight (and remain) in the air with the right combination of Artes. The amount of possibilities thanks to a huge variety of Artes are endless. The fun doesn’t stop there, though. Hearts R has features that separate it from other entries in the series. You can perform counterattacks when enemies flash red with proper button timing. Also, you can knock foes into the air and warp to them to create high powered combos that open up more possibilities such as finishing moves and team attacks. And of course, you have access to powerful Mystic Artes that have all of the style the series is known for. Combat never gets old and with multiple difficulties, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
One thing worth mentioning is that there is also someone for everyone to enjoy. By this I mean all of the characters who join Kor are fun to use. Some are more accessible than others, but if you ever get tired of playing with one character, you can find a new character to use to keep the combat fresh. Switch to Kunzite and combo enemies into aerial oblivion. Switch to Ines to drown foes in watery ax attacks that pack a punch. Characters earn points upon a successful level up that get distributed to learn new Artes, skills and stat boosts. I have nothing bad to say about combat, other than entering it is random.
Finishing Tales of Hearts R will take about 40 hours. Bonus content, the GRADE shop and a variety of trophies will make the time last about 60 hours. As a true fan of the Tales series, I used to have a tendency to go back and forth between which of the games held my number one spot. Having played Tales of Hearts R, I can now say that I have found a permanent favorite. In fact, the only bad thing I have to say about Tales of Hearts R is that it got tainted by the venom of the whiners around the web. Instead of being thankful, they pitched a fit. Unacceptable, my dear readers.
Overall, 9/10: I highly recommend this game for all Vita owners and, no matter what you do, stay away from people that complain about the lack of dubbing.

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I’m an A level music student who has always wanted to play the harp. The only reason I put it off was because it is so hard to find harps around where I live (My parents are not musicians either so they can’t tell the difference between a lyre and a harp 🙂 as well as it seemed to be an instrument that wasn’t very versatile.
As I’ve grown older and started on different instruments my desire to learn the harp keeps increasing. However, as you all know harps are not cheap.
So to get to the point I’ve found two harps that I like I’m just a bit uncertain.
The first one is the Fireside Cardboard Harp Kit, it costs $139.99 (with added shipping for me) and has a really nice sound, plus I can afford to add levers on later on. However there doesn’t seem to be much info on cardboard harps out there so I can’t really tell if there good or not.
The second one is the Harpsicle, Costing more at $399.99 but it does have a lovely tone. As well as a reliable brand. Biggest downside is the lack of being able to place levers on afterwards. I did look at the Sharpsticle ext but thats starting to go over my range at $560.99
So I ask for your knowledge and wisdom in this matter 🙂


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One might question the casual use of Howard’s ‘Garden City’ in this policy, as it is definitely not one of the followers of his planning masterpiece. Rather, the ‘Garden City’ Programme in Taipei is a new type of urban farming that puts hundreds of small edible gardens into densely built-up areas for providing horticultural therapy, recreational opportunities, environmental education, and broad environmental benefits through engaging citizens in food cultivation. This practice has gained increasing popularity in the Global North within the narrative of nature-based solutions for cities, which reintroduces greenspaces and associated functions into built environments, with the aspiration of leading to a socially and ecologically more sustainable city. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, urban farming has seemed to become an even more critical practice for cities experiencing lockdown, as food supply chains are upended and a piece of edible garden close-by residents could enhance both food security and mental health.
田園城市計畫這個看似隨性的政策名稱或許會受到質疑，畢竟它並不是霍華德『田園城市』這部都市規劃巨作的奉行者。台北市的田園城市政策其實是一種新型態的都市農耕，它在高密度發展的建成區中設置了數百個小型的可食園圃，透過讓居民參與食物耕種的方式來提供園藝治療、休閒遊憩、環境教育以及廣泛的環境效益。都市園圃深受已開發國家的歡迎並將之視為城市中『以自然為基礎的解決方案 (nature-based solutions)』之一，透過在建成環境中引入綠地以及連帶的功能來達成對於社會與生態永續城市的嚮往。在新冠肺炎爆發的此時，都市農耕對於正經歷封城的城市來說似乎越發重要，畢竟食物的供給鏈受到延宕，而在居家附近能擁有一小片可食的園圃，不但有助於提升食物安全，同時對於身心健康也有正向的助益。
The Taipei Garden City programme was officially launched in 2015 after a long incubation period of practices in local societies, which eventually formed a ‘Farming Urbanism Network’ and proposed a White Paper that were accepted by current mayor – Ko Wen-je. Since then, 733 garden city sites have been established across Taipei City, covering 19.75 hectares and involving in 54,013 citizens (as of Feb 2020). This includes four main types of gardens:
- Happy gardens (30%): the use of disused public lands for engaging local communities to plant vegetables and to maintain the site;
- Green roofs (11%): the use of rooftop of public buildings for engaging surrounding communities to plant vegetables and to maintain the site;
- School gardens (45%): the use of grounds and rooftops of schools (from primary to senior high schools) to engage teachers and students in environmental education;
- Allotment gardens (14%): larger privately-owned lands that are designated as agriculture zones and were created long before the Garden City programme and are mostly located in the urban outskirts.
Apart from allotment gardens, most of the first three types of gardens were newly established in the most populated districts of the city, where population density is often above 20,000 per km2. Amongst them, finding lands for establishing a ground-level ‘happy garden’ is particularly challenging. As these activities often make use of lands owned by the public sector and are temporarily available, it subsequently reduces the need to alter land use zones and building codes and save budget for land acquisition. Allocating doorstep gardens within urban communities, however, requires enormous efforts to negotiate and coordinate between public and private sectors. Innovative approaches are also developing to gain more spaces for public gardening. For example, the garden at Dexing Park, which is right next to SOGO department store, was donated by Shihlin Electric as part of its corporate social responsibility activities.
The existence of a champion in the city government, who is in charge of coordinating nearly 15 sectors, has set a good foundation for cross-sectoral collaboration and allows relevant issues and policies to be integrated and considered in the programme, such as elderly care, youth entrepreneurship, low carbon communities, food sanitation, horticulture therapy, and environmental education. The strong and proactive local communities, including community universities, wardens, and planning and design consultants, also enable the programme to gain important knowledge and technique support on the ground.
Several edible greenspaces are now flourishing in the city, from the most valuable commercial lands, residential areas, rooftops of community centres, hospitals, social houses, and business buildings, to hundreds of schools. And now the Taipei Garden City programme is moving toward the second phase, where its future direction is still being shaped by the interactive process with bottom-up and top-down dynamic to conquer emerging challenges.
Wan-Yu Shih’s research into the Taipei Garden City initiative is supported by the JPI Urban Europe-Belmont Forum-funded IFWEN project, on which she is a Co-Principal Investigator funded by Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan under grant number MOST 107-2621-M-130 -001 -MY3.

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An appreciable percentage of Trump’s voters voted for him because he vowed to keep us out of stupid Middle Eastern wars. War with Iran would be among the stupidest. From Will Lloyd at spectator.us:
He would become yet another politician who believes American greatness lies in policing the world.
Here’s a vexing question for Republicans. Does Donald Trump know why he won the presidency in 2016? As the chances of war with Iran – war by design or war by miscalculation – appear to increase, this question grows ever more pressing.
In 2016, Trump ran on such an anti-interventionist platform that you half expected to wake up and find that he’d received all-important endorsements from Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis and the ghost of Susan Sontag. This was Trump at his best. He launched an astonishing broadside against the Bush family in South Carolina:
‘We should’ve never been in Iraq. We’ve destabilised the Middle East… they lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there weren’t none and they knew there were none: There were no weapons of mass destruction.’
Here was the more statesmanlike version given during his acceptance speech at the RNC:
‘After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.’
Comments like these surely freaked out thousands of lobbyists and planners who’ve grown fat from America’s endless wars. But they proved wildly popular with voters in key states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
A study by Boston University’s Douglas Kriner and the University of Minnesota’s Francis Shen shows how important this non-interventionist stance was to Trump’s victory in 2016. The study, called ‘Battlefield Casualties and Ballot Box Defeat: Did the Bush-Obama wars cost Clinton the White House?’, notes that the domestic effects of the continuous wars of the last 15 years have been unequally distributed.


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A beach is a much loved place for many of us, where we can relax, watch the waves, get a nice tan, unwind with a nice book and a cool drink or simply just lying down or getting into the water. If most of us are not privileged enough to stay by the beach or own a beach house, we can definitely ensure to recreate a bit of the feeling of being at the beach, back at home.
Beach decor might not imply that you need to have a sand room in the house, though it would not be a bad idea. Subtle elements can be added to the decor of the house to remind you of beaches and fun times.
Beach themed decor ideas for the house
Shells are synonymous with beaches and adding them to the decor goes perfectly with the theme. A great design tip is to buy hermit crab shells that are available online and then place them in a frame with a plain white background. To add a pop of colour, the margins of the frame can be in pastel shades of blue on an otherwise white backdrop.
You could also opt for oyster shells for sale to be used for the frames along with different types of shells. These frames could adorn the living room or even the dining area.
Colours of the beach
The colour that comes to mind is the blue shades of the sea that stand out against the white sand. So, for a sea or beach themed décor, try to keep the colour palette as neutral and veering towards stark white as far as possible. You could add a little colour in niches and certain areas to draw attention. The colour choice must preferably be turquoise or a similar shade of blue, reminding one about the sea, and it is appealing to the eye as well.
Another great beach themed decor tip is to have a few but prominent accessories that remind you of the sea and the coast. It could be large oars of a boat or a detailed model of a yacht. It could even be a single large starfish shell or blue lamps or tea lights. Even, a rug in sand colour or a jute rug can be added as long as it goes with rest of the decor.
To add elements of colour, the outdoor patio can be made to look like beach sit out with reclining chairs, colourful rugs to look like beach towels or clothes and a canopy umbrella to recreate the image.
There are a number of ideas that can be incorporated but it’s best to make subtle changes instead of going overboard.


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Royal College of GPs backs decriminalisation of abortion
Author: Caroline White
The Royal College of GPs' (RCGP) UK Council has voted in favour of a motion supporting the decriminalisation of abortion, saying that the procedure should be governed by medical regulatory frameworks, not the criminal justice system.
The decision was based on a poll of members and consultation with 21 local Faculty boards carried out late last year by ComRes. A total of 4,429 members from across the UK responded to the survey, the results of which were weighted to reflect RCGP membership by grade.
They were asked whether the RCGP should have a position on the decriminalisation of abortion and what position they thought this should be.
Nearly two-thirds (62%) said that the RCGP should support the decriminalisation of abortion; one in five (19%) said that the RCGP should oppose decriminalisation; and around one in seven (15%) said that the RCGP should adopt a neutral position. Just 4% abstained.
None of the responding College Faculties said that the RCGP should oppose decriminalisation: 11 supported the motion: two said that the College should be neutral; and eight abstained.
The College did not ask members about the term limits on, or the morality of, abortion.
The College will now work with partners across the health sector, including the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health, the Royal College of Midwives and others, to call for the decriminalisation of abortion across the UK.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "This is an incredibly sensitive topic, but it's essential that we engage in debate and hear what our members have to say on all issues facing modern healthcare.
"It speaks to the strength of feeling of our members that we had such a good response rate to our consultation. The quality of the feedback has been hugely valuable in helping us form an official position on the decriminalisation of abortion.
"Ultimately, this is about providing non-judgemental care to our patients so that women who face the difficult decision to proceed with an abortion are not disadvantaged by the legal system."
Clare Murphy, director of external affairs at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, added: “We are delighted that the RCGP has voted in support of the decriminalisation of abortion across the UK. Abortion does not belong in the criminal law, and it is simply appalling that today women can still face prosecution and prison for ending a pregnancy under laws dating back more than 150 years. The situation for women in Northern Ireland is dire and decriminalisation of abortion is now a matter of urgency. Yet even elsewhere in the UK, where the 1967 Abortion Act applies, the criminal law surrounding abortion still puts needless barriers in the way of women accessing the care they need, threatening their health and wellbeing.”
She continued: “Decriminalisation does not mean deregulation, but it does mean abortion services could be delivered in accordance with the same robust laws and frameworks that govern all other healthcare procedures, with women’s needs centre-stage.
“There is strong parliamentary support for decriminalisation across the UK and we look forward to women finally being able to access an abortion service fit for the 21st century, from Belfast to Brighton.”


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I score it a 10-9 round for Spectral Voice. They both brought the heat though and scored big blows...I'm impressed. Wish they had a couple tracks each yo. I'll have to peep some more of their shit. Sic artwork.


NIOT working on project to study the ocean floor
KOCHI: National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in the city is actively working on a project to develop manned submersibles to study the ocean floor, M. A. Atmanand, Director of NIOT, has said.
In his keynote address at the symposium on ocean electronics organised by the Department of Electronics at Cochin University of Science and Technology here on Wednesday, he said that the project is being funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Explaining about the other projects carried out by NIOT, Dr. Atmanand said that it will soon extend the low temperature thermal desalination programme, which was implemented at Kavaratti in Lakshadweep islands, to three other islands including Minicoy, Agatti and Andrott. The project helps in generating freshwater from sea water.
Such plants are viable mainly in areas where freshwater storage through other sources is difficult, he said.
Pointing out that NIOT has launched a series of data buoys to measure parameters required for weather that could be ultimately used for weather forecasting models, Dr. Atmanand said scientists have developed bottom pressure recorder in the sub-duction zone, near the Andamans, which measures the sea level due to displacement of sea bed and transmits the same through buoys to NIOT and INCOIS, its sister institution in Hyderabad.
This forms the input to the model that decides if there is a concern for occurrence of tsunami, he said.
Describing that various other parameters like tided data for Indian Ocean rim countries do form input to this tsunami warning system, Dr. Atmanand said that the warning would be issued to all the coastal areas that could get affected. The complete system is automated and does not require any human intervention, he said.
Stating that NIOT has taken up a programme by using the remotely operated vehicle to validate the ground truth at various locations in the Krishna-Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal to assess the amount of gas hydrate available, Dr. Atmanand said that the discovery of gas hydrates is worth mentioning. Gas hydrates are solid methane available at a depth of about 50 to 100 metre below sea bed, he said.
S. Anantha Narayanan, Director of Naval Physical Oceanographic Laboratory, James S. Collins, vice president of IEEE-OES, and P. R. S. Pillai, Chairman of the organising committee of the event, spoke.
Experts presented various papers on topics related to ocean electronics on the occasion.


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This Rudraksha Rosary can be worn to get rid of problems like blood pressure, mood swings.
Rudraksha has healing powers. It heals the wearer mentally & physically. The bigger beads of this rosary make it look more attractive. It is made of 5 faced Rudrakshas. By wearing it while sitting in Puja the mind remains focused in meditation.

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I've really loved the last couple of crafts using the pretty corn kernels, and am still thinking of a use for the millions of kernels I have left. Here are some pictures of other crafts for thought starters.
How about a wreath? I found this blog from Peach and Pearl, with lots of wreaths using natural elements. Something like the nut wreath in corn would look nice.
Or why not make a table top decor item by glueing them to a styrofoam cone (with other embellishments of course)?
Lining the bottom of a glass candle container with kernels instead of pebbles would be pretty, too.
Got any ideas? Please share, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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By Paola Totaro
LONDON: United Nations officials have suggested that computer hackers who pilfered thousands of emails and files from a British university were probably paid to undermine the Copenhagen summit.
Speaking on the eve of the Copenhagen talks, officials confirmed the files appeared to have been uploaded first onto a website from a computer in Russia, suggesting that the culprits were not amateur climate sceptics but professionals paid to do the job.
The emails first appeared on a website run by climate sceptics on November 17.
Jean Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, conceded their publication had undermined the panel's efforts for the summit.
''If you look at that mass of emails, a lot of work was done not only to download the data … it's a carefully made selection of emails and documents that's not random at all. This is 13 years of data, and it's not a job of amateurs.''


Labour MP Mary Creagh warns about 'violence and intimidation' in politics after revealing her office was BRICKED
- Wakefield MP's staff found the brick and a broken window this morning
- Creagh said her constituency team had been 'distressed' by the incident
- West Yorkshire Police are now investigating the allegations
Mary Creagh's constituency office in Wakefield was bricked prompting the MP to warn about 'violence and intimidation'
Police have launched an investigation after a brick was thrown through the window of the office of Wakefield MP Mary Creagh.
The Labour MP took to Twitter to condemn the attack, which she said had left staff 'distressed'.
West Yorkshire Police said they were called to the office, on Cheapside in Wakefield, following the incident.
A force spokesman said the building was empty at the time the brick was thrown.
Revealing the attack on her constituency office, Ms Creagh said: 'On Monday morning, a member of my staff discovered that a brick had been put through the window of the office that I share with the regional Labour Party.
'This incident has now been reported to the police, who have reassured me that they are doing everything that they can to track down the individual responsible and bring them to justice.
'My staff and the staff of the Labour Party deserve a safe environment to work in.
'There is no excuse for this sort of mindless violence in a free and tolerant society.'
The police spokesman said: 'Police were called to an address on Cheapside in Wakefield at 12.50pm today, following reports that a brick had been thrown through a window.
'The building was unoccupied at the time.
'Inquiries are ongoing to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.'
A Yorkshire and Humber Labour Party spokesperson said: 'A brick was thrown through a ground floor window of the office building shared by the regional Labour Party and Mary Creagh MP on Friday night.
'The incident was caught on CCTV and the police are investigating.'
Wakefield MP Ms Creagh revealed her staff had been left 'distressed' by the overnight incident, which is being investigated by West Yorkshire Police
Ms Creagh is the second Labour MP known to have suffered a brick attack this year.
Angela Eagle, the former shadow business secretary, suffered a brick through her office window in July hours after she launched a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
Merseyside Police investigated the allegation incident of criminal damage.
Mr Corbyn condemned the 'extremely concerning' violence and revealed he had received death threats himself as he pleaded with the party's opposing factions to 'treat each other with respect'.
Vandals smashed a window of Ms Eagle's constituency office at Sherlock House on Manor Road in Wallasey in the Wirral.
Anyone with information on the Wakefield incident is asked to contact police on 101, quoting 725 of September 12.
Angela Eagle, the former shadow business secretary, suffered a brick through her office window in July hours after she launched a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership
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News From The Farm
The Bellis Family have farmed land in Holt since the 1860s. Today we have a Market Gardening Farm growing a wide selection of fruit and vegetables for you to buy in the Farm Shop. This fresh produce is wonderful as it can go from field to shop in a matter of minutes and with zero food miles.
In the summer months we open some of the fields for Pick Your Own. Robert Sturrock our Farm Manager works hard through out the year to provide our customers with quality produce.
Most of December is devoted to getting the extra stock sorted for the Christmas demand. We have plenty of our homegrown cabbages at the moment but this will change as soon as we have any significant frosts. We continue to grade more potatoes and onions and have plenty in storage to last the winter.
The autumn harvesting is nearly all completed, so we are settling into the winter routine of grading potatoes and onions out of the store to ensure a good supply for the Farm Shop over the winter months.
Our potatoes and onions are a little slow to come through due to the recent wet weather. Once they are dried and safely in store they will hopefully keep us going through the Winter.

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Lorde has announced an international tour behind Melodrama, her new album out June 16. Starter September 26th in Manchester, UK @ O2 APOLLO and ends on November 26th in Melbourne, AU
As previously announced Liam Gallagher, participated in the Ariana-Grande-led One Love Manchester benefit concert this past weekend, performing a solo set and then collaborating with Coldplay on a version of “Live Forever.” Following Liam’s public shaming of his brother, it came out that Noel Gallagher had quietly decided to donate all royalties from Oasis’ song “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (which Coldplay and Ariana Grande covered at the benefit show) to the Manchester Fund, which supports the families of victims of the bombing at Grande’s Manchester concert last month.
If you got the New York Times on On Tuesday, Lisa Loeb helped construct that days crossword puzzle. As part of the 75th anniversary of the publication’s crossword section, celebrity guests have periodically been collaborating with puzzlemakers on the day’s puzzle, and Loeb is the latest to do so. It was, of course, music themed.
Fans of the 1975 should get excited: Frontman Matty Healy has confirmed a debut record for Drive Like I Do, a “separate entity” from the 1975. He also confirmed that the 1975’s new album, Music For Cars, is still in the works, but the debut Drive Like I Do record is set for release “during spring time in the coming few years.”
Long-running indie-folk outfit Iron & Wine have announced a sixth studio album, Beast Epic, and shared a peaceful first single, “Call It Dreaming.” Beast Epic arrives August 25 from Sub Pop.
Democratic U.S. Senators Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada have written an open letter to the organizers of South by Southwest, asking them to consider moving the festival from its longtime Austin home to someplace outside of Texas. The reason is the state’s newly passed Senate Bill 4, signed by Governor Greg Abbott last month, which enlists local law enforcement agents to enforce federal immigration law and penalizes those departments and officials that don’t comply. SXSW has commented by stating they oppose SB4 and will not leave Austin.
Right now, U2 are touring behind the 30th anniversary of the Joshua Tree. This week, the band has extended the tour to add dates in North America and South America. Continues on September 3rd in Detroit, MI end on October 19th in Sao Paulo, Brazil


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Is the nucleus a solid body? Is it an elementary building block of nature?! Although it is very small, a nucleus consists of something even smaller.
The only way to do experiments with such small objects as atoms and nuclei, is to collide them with each other and watch what happens. Perhaps you think that this is a barbaric way, like colliding a Mercedes and Toyota in order to learn what is under their bonnets. But with microscopic particles nothing else can be done.
In the early 1920s Rutherford and other physicists made many experiments, changing one element into another by striking them with energetic helium nuclei. They noticed that all the time hydrogen nuclei were emitted in the process. It was apparent that the hydrogen nucleus played a fundamental role in nuclear structure and was a constituent part of all other nuclei. By the late 1920's physicists were regularly referring to hydrogen nucleus as proton. The term proton seems to have been coined by Rutherford, and first appears in print in 1920.
Thus it was established that atomic nuclei consist of protons. The number of protons in a nucleus is such that makes up its positive charge. This number, therefore, coincides with the atomic number of the element in the Mendeleev's Periodic table.
This sounded nice and logical, but serious questions remained. Indeed, how can positively charged protons stay together in a nucleus? Repelling each other by electric force, they should fly away in different directions. Who keeps them together?
Furthermore, the proton mass is not enough to account for the nuclear masses. For example, if the protons were the only particles in the nucleus, then a helium nucleus (atomic number 2) would have two protons and therefore only twice the mass of hydrogen. However, it actually is four times heavier than hydrogen. This suggests that it must be something else inside nuclei in addition to protons.
These additional particles that kind of glue the protons and make up the nuclear mass, apparently, are electrically neutral. They were therefore called neutrons. Rutherford predicted the existence of the neutron in 1920. Twelve years later, in 1932, his assistant James Chadwick found it and measured its mass, which turned out to be almost the same but slightly larger than that of the proton.
Thus, in the early 1930s it was finally proved that atomic nucleus consists of two types of particles, the protons and neutrons. The protons are positively charged while the neutrons are electrically neutral. The proton charge is exactly equal but opposite to that of the electron. The masses of proton and neutron are almost the same, approximately 1836 and 1839 electron masses, respectively.
Apart from the electric charge, the proton and neutron have almost the same properties. This is why there is a common name for them: nucleon. Both the proton and neutron are nucleons, like a man and a woman are both humans. In physics literature, the proton is denoted by letter and the neutron by . Sometimes, when the difference between them is unimportant, it is used the letter meaning nucleon (in the same sense as using the word person instead of man or woman).
Chemical properties of an element are determined by the charge of its atomic nucleus, i.e. by the number of protons. This number is called the atomic number and is denoted by letter . The mass of an atom depends on how many nucleons its nucleus contains. The number of nucleons, i.e. total number of protons and neutrons, is called the atomic mass number and is denoted by letter .
Standard nuclear notation shows the chemical symbol, the mass number and the atomic number of the isotope.
For example, the iron nucleus (26-th place in the Mendeleev's periodic table of the elements) with 26 protons and 30 neutrons is denoted as , where the total nuclear charge is and the mass number . The number of neutrons is simply the difference (here, it is used the same letter , as for nucleon, but this should not cause any confusion). Chemical symbol is inseparably linked with . This is why the lower index is sometimes omitted and you may encounter the simplified notation like .
If we add or remove a few neutrons from a nucleus, the chemical properties of the atom remain the same because its charge is the same. This means that such atom should remain in the same place of the Periodic table. In Greek, same place reads (isos topos). The nuclei, having the same number of protons, but different number of neutrons, are called therefore isotopes.
Different isotopes of a given element have the same atomic number , but different mass numbers since they have different numbers of neutrons . Chemical properties of different isotopes of an element are identical, but they will often have great differences in nuclear stability. For stable isotopes of the light elements, the number of neutrons will be almost equal to the number of protons, but for heavier elements, the number of neutrons is always greater than and the neutron excess tends to grow when increases. This is because neutrons are kind of glue that keeps repelling protons together. The greater the repelling charge, the more glue you need.

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Lack of paths on new estates forces people into their cars
Too many housing estates are being built without footpaths or green space, leading to fears that residents are being pushed into “car dependency”.
An analysis of residential developments in England found that large numbers of homes had been “built around the car”, fuelling congestion levels in nearby towns and cities.
On some estates as much as 40 per cent of land was “taken up by the needs of the car”, with a focus on roads, parking spaces, driveways and garages.
Researchers said that too many developments were “practically devoid of greenery” while others had no dedicated footpaths or cycle lanes.
The research, based on an analysis of 20 new estates across England, also found that they were often built on out-of-town sites with no access


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Sixty-five people, accused of instigating the July 2021 civil unrest, appeared in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban pm Tuesday.
The case of 65 people accused of instigating the July 2021 civil unrest has been moved to 8 April for a pre-trial conference.
The group of former president Jacob Zuma supporters, barring two, made their first appearance in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Tuesday, after the matter was moved from the Durban Magistrate’s Court in November.
Accused number 14, Ntombizonke Msalela, reported ill and a stayed arrest warrant was issued against her, while accused number 59, Samukelisiwe Gumede, missed court proceedings for unknown reasons.
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Cancelled: Organ Artist Recital Featuring Hans-Ola Ericsson
Due to concerns surrounding COVID-19 and international travel advisories, Mr. Ericsson will not be performing at The Saint Paul Seminary on Sunday, March 15. All other 20th Anniversary Organ events are still scheduled as planned. Thank you for understanding.
Hans-Ola Ericsson is a Swedish performer, recording artist, composer, professor of organ and church music, and university organist at McGill University in Montreal.
Noack Organ 20th Anniversary Events in 2019-2020
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Organ Artist Recital Featuring Christina Rakich
Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, 3:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital on the Organ and Harpsichord
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Lessons & Carols for Advent
Sunday, December 8, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
Faculty Chamber Music Concert
Saturday, February 8, 2019
Bach Birthday Bash
Saturday, March 21, 2020, 9:00 a.m.
Solemn Vespers for Easter
Sunday, April 19, 2020, 4:00 p.m.
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This article specifically looks at the state of the wedding sector, but could be applied to many other activities suffering as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions.
The finances of wedding venues have suffered terribly since April 2020. Very few were able to open in 2020, except for a few weeks in late summer. Many in the sector had to put in hours of work re-scheduling weddings, only to have to re-schedule them again in 2021. Understandably, some couples asked for the return of their deposits, putting further cashflow strains on the business.
The wedding sector contributes over £14 billion to the UK economy each year. Caterers, wine merchants, florists and others have all seen a collapse in their businesses, as well as the venues themselves. Like many in the wider hospitality sector, income has completely dried up.
To some diversified businesses this is a marginal problem, but to others, corporate events and weddings are major contributors to farm and estate finances. Not surprisingly, in a number of cases banks are beginning to look seriously at the level of lending.
Yet these are often sound businesses. They simply have a temporary cashflow problem. There is massive pent-up demand in the wedding sector. All the income deferred for 2020 has been rolled over into 2021, in addition to the weddings already booked for 2021.
Income for 2021, provided constraints are lifted, may result in it being one of the most successful years ever for wedding venues, with 2022 also likely to perform well as many couples planning to marry in 2021 have chosen to defer a year. Certainly, the outlook for the next 18 months is very positive.
The Budget announced a Restart Grant up to £18,000 for the hospitality sector in England and no doubt the devolved governments will develop similar schemes.
Extended VAT deferral arrangements are also now available, but you need to apply by 19 March to obtain an 11 month staggered payment of VAT still outstanding from before 30 June 2020.
Finally, marketing could be important for events that may be allowed in the short-term using the venue’s facilities, such as pop-up restaurants, food home deliveries etc. Above all, regular communication with the business’s bankers will be critical. Not simply reports, but accurate cashflow forecasts and explanations for fluctuations.
Survival for the next three or four months is the overriding concern for venues, before it seems probable that Covid-19 restrictions will be lifted. Cash has been, and will continue to be, the problem.
The end is in sight but the next few months may be the most difficult for many – and that is not something that applies simply to the wedding sector.
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Colorcon, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Controlled Atmosphere Packaging Specialist Airnov Healthcare Packaging
HARLEYSVILLE, Pa., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorcon, Inc., a global leader in pharmaceutical film coatings and specialty excipients, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of Airnov Healthcare Packaging, Inc. from Arsenal Capital Partners.
Airnov provides critical healthcare industries with high-quality, controlled atmosphere packaging, to protect their products from moisture and oxygen; this includes customizable, high-quality drop-in products (canisters and packets), integrated desiccant systems and specially designed plastic bottles containing oxygen barrier materials. The business has manufacturing facilities in the USA, France, China and India and employs around 700 people. This aligns well with Colorcon's portfolio and its purpose to improve health and wellness through convenience, compliance and safety.
"Airnov's capabilities are a strong complement to Colorcon's existing portfolio" said Simon Tasker, CEO of Colorcon. "Our partnership expands our platform of stability and moisture management solutions from core to coatings to in-package offerings."
Matthias Brommer, President and Managing Director, Airnov says "We are excited about the opportunity to further accelerate the growth of Airnov by leveraging Colorcon's global supply and service infrastructure."
Simon Tasker adds "This acquisition reflects Colorcon's goal to invest in innovative solutions that help developers of health and wellness products increase speed to market, improve quality and enhance their competitiveness."
Colorcon is a world leader in the development, supply and technical support of specialty ingredients, formulated film coating systems, modified release technologies, and functional excipients for the pharmaceutical, nutritional and animal healthcare industries. Our best-in-class products and technologies are complemented by our extensive application data and value-added services to support all phases of solid oral dose design, development and manufacture. Our focus on market issues and technology has earned Colorcon an international reputation as an innovative design and development partner. That reputation is based on superior product quality, unparalleled technical support, extensive regulatory assistance and reliable supply from multiple locations. Colorcon has 11 manufacturing facilities, 25 technical service laboratories globally and more than 1400 employees exclusively dedicated to its customer base.
For more information, visit www.colorcon.com
Airnov Healthcare Packaging offers products used to protect pharmaceutical products from moisture and oxygen. This includes customizable, high-quality drop-in products (canisters and packets), Integrated Desiccant Systems and specially designed plastic bottles containing oxygen barrier materials. The business has manufacturing facilities in the USA, France, China and India and employs around 700 employees.
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Bobbing around the rather intense world of pop eletronica you will find the far more chilled out Malpas. Another brilliant band who can call Birmingham home, Malpas is the brainchild of producer Andy Savours and songwriter Ali Forbes who have come together to create a swirling sweet sound that faultlessly brings together folk and electronica to create the aptly named, 'Folktronica'.
This September these Brummie chaps are heading to The Victoria for their single launch show. You may have already heard 'Charlemagne' the first offering from their new EP, Promise, which has been a big hit with critics and fans alike. Malpas aim to combine the poetic skill of songwriting and story telling through music with bold sounds of electronica, making them hard to pigeon hole, but amazing to listen to.This is a big night for the boys from Birmingham, for only £5 this gig will be as much a celebration as it will be a demonstration of Malpas' scintillating synthesized song writing.
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Following Costa Rica's deserved win over Uruguay, what will England have found out about their upcoming opponents?
Without Luis Suarez, who must be a long way from fitness if he was not used in an emergency such as this defeat, the 2010 semi-finalists look an ordinary side, well past their best. They lacked guile in midfield and threat in attack while at the back Fernando Muslera remains unconvincing and it is not hard to see why Diego Lugano could not get a place in a poor West Brom team last season. The back four appeared vulnerable in the air, the midfield pedestrian. As the game wore on even their organisation disappeared along with, less surprisingly, their discipline. Losing Maxi Pereira for the England game following his dismissal will be a blow.
Joel Campbell looked as if he is the best centre-forward on Arsenal’s books (he was at Olympiakos last season because he cannot get a work permit, a problem which should be resolved next season if the judging panel see a video of this game). He was a threat from distance and close up and will need to be closely watched. Behind him Costa Rica defended deep and wide. Uruguay needed a penalty to make a breakthrough, though they had already caused Costa Rica problems in the air at set-plays, the route by which the penalty was won. Besides Campbell the goalkeeper, Keylor Navas, impressed. He has come off a good season in La Liga (with Levante) and will not be easy to beat.
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Nina Lewis, Worcestershire Poet Laureate, is celebrating the new year in style by putting together a list of your – yes, it’s all down to you! – favourite poems, ever!
The completed list will appear in the next issue of Nina’s online publication, Contour, and you have a good few weeks still to think this over because the deadline isn’t until February 5th.
So, got a poem that you always come back to? Know a verse that doesn’t get enough attention? Pop over to Nina’s PL website by clicking here, where you can find all the information you need on how to get involved.


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CLEARWATER, Fla. – Jimmy Rollins was presented yesterday with a monster-size bat from Max Bat in honor of winning the MVP. The bat’s 85 inches long and weighs 45 pounds. As he picked it up, outfielder Shane Victorino yelled: “Take that against Johan. That’s for Johan’s changeup.”
Rollins laughed and held up the bat as if to bunt against Johan Santana. Yes, the Mets and Phillies are never far from each other’s thoughts.
“You just don’t want to lose to them,” Rollins said with passion in his voice. “The season counts, every game counts, but it seems the season doesn’t start until you play them. Now you’ve played the Mets, let’s get going.”
The Mets’ home opener is April 8 against the Phillies, starting a stretch of six games in 13 days between the teams. Bring it on, Rollins said, knowing his Phillies are the team to beat in the East no matter what Carlos Beltran says.
“That’s going to be a lot of fun,” Rollins said. “The reason I said what I said last year was really for this team. And I was talking about the NL East, not just the Mets. Once the Mets got hold of it and responded to it the way they did, the pressure wasn’t on us, it was on them, to prove us wrong.”
And the Mets caved under that pressure.
“They took it personally,” Rollins added, “and it got legs, once New York gets hold of it, it could go. But it helped me personally as the season went on, knowing I was going to be under the microscope, and then at the end of the season, I earned me some [MVP] votes.”
Rollins and his teammates want to ratchet up the rivalry. Who knows if there will be a brawl? But you can be sure that, beginning that opening series, the Phillies will be looking to continue where they left off, beating the Mets eight straight and getting in their heads in the process.
“To win the division the way we did was a lot of fun,” slugger Ryan Howard said.
Rollins chuckled over the fact Beltran is now stealing his material, accusing Beltran of plagiarism.
“He’s stealing mine; I stole Hillary’s,” Rollins said with a laugh, showing he is politically in tune as well. “We know what we have to do this year. Last year is behind us. No one is reflecting on that. Now we just want to be better.”
Rollins said his team could win 100 games. That hasn’t happened in Philadelphia since 1977.
The Phils are counting on new acquisitions such as closer Brad Lidge. However, Lidge had to leave practice yesterday with an injury to his right knee and is to be re-evaluated today.
“A lot of players want to be part of a rivalry like this,” Howard said. “You want to go out there and beat that team, and the competition makes everything better – the pitching, the games. You want to go out there and have good competition, that’s what the fans want to see. They want to see a good game that comes down to the last at-bat.
“Basically, it’s both teams making each other better.”
This is not Red Sox-Yankees. That’s like saying the grouper sandwich at Hooters is as good as the grouper at Frenchy’s, But it is beginning to become a real-deal rivalry.
Reasoned Rollins, “There are more than those two teams in baseball.”
Offered lefty Cole Hamels, “It’s fun to see the Mets-Phillies rivalry on ESPN. We want to be on more games on Fox.”
These teams are rivals because they are better teams. The Mets and Phils have finished with winning records only seven times in the same seasons. Only three times have they finished 1-2, and before last season’s historic collapse by the Mets, the two teams never really were within reach – in 1986 the Phils finished second, 21½ games behind and in 2006 they finished 12 games back of the Mets.
“How do you make up a 12-game lead?” Rollins asked. “By winning by one. That’s what we did.”
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Eagle Riches slot game can be found at casinos offering Red Tiger software. Red Tiger is a relatively new software developer in the online gaming market, having only been in operation since 2014. Red Tiger focus primarily on slots games but do offer a few table games, albeit a very limited range of them. In compliance with UK gaming legislation, Red Tiger publish the RTP/House Edge information for their slots games within their pay tables. As such, we can say that the House Edge for Eagle Riches is 4.32%.
Eagle Riches is a 5 reel slot that is 3 symbols high. The game uses paylines, with 25 in total, playing from left to right.
The Eagle Riches slot has a western theme, expect this time there are no cowboys, just the vast expanse of America’s empty deserts. This it the realm of the eagle. It soars high above the plains, casting its shadow as it does so.
Free Spins – The Free Spins symbol is the “Skull”. Three of them anywhere on the reels at once will trigger the Free Spins. “Skull” symbols only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5.
Eagle’s Shadow – This is a random feature that plays out quite similarly to a mystery symbol feature. When it triggers an eagle will swoop over the reels and leave gold symbols across the reels that will all reveal the same symbol when the spin around, increasing your chances of landing a winning combination.
Free Spins – If you trigger the Free Spins then you will be awarded 10 Free Spins. During the feature there is more of a chance that the Eagle’s Shadow feature will trigger, with a chance that it could activate more than once on a single spin. Landing a “Skull” symbol during the feature will grant an additional spin.
Eagle Riches is a stunning looking slot. There really isn’t much, in terms of the aesthetic, for me to criticise. However, in terms of the features that are on offer this slot is a bit of a disappointment. The first major sin is no Wild symbol, something that you almost never see anymore. You do get Free Spins and you get one random feature, but I really would have liked to have seen a bit more. The house edge is also disappointing, sitting substantially higher than I would want it to be.


Local food used to be the only food in rural central Idaho. People living in isolated mountain valleys grew and shared most of what they ate. When paved roads and trucks arrived to stock grocery store shelves, residents shopped more and farmed less.
Jessica McAllese and Jeremey Shreve are (re)creating local food networks in Salmon, Idaho. The couple settled in the Lemhi County town in 2013 with a border collie named Nora, a tractor named Fergie, and years of experience farming in Pocatello.
Salmon has been fertile ground for Shreve and McAllese’s Swift River Farm. Other small farmers, a local foods group, and a farmers market are reviving small scale production and distribution systems.
Ranchers started the Lemhi Regional Land Trust to protect local landscapes and rural lifestyles. The trust found a way to help McAllese and Shreve buy land to expand their farm and build a home together.
I told the Swift River Farm story in the Summer issue of Edible Idaho.


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Gaels swimming finishes fifth at the Campbell Divisional Championships
Queen’s swimmers only collected 633.5 points against stiff competition in Guelph this past weekend, finishing behind the McMaster Marauders, the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, the Guelph Gryphons and the Laurentian Lakers. The women’s team placed fifth and the men finished at fourth.
Gaels swimmer Julian Chang picked up the only Tricolour medal of the day in the men’s 50-metre freestyle. On the women’s side, Margo Bacher finished seventh in the women’s 100-metre breaststroke. The Gaels head to Brock University next Saturday for their final meet of 2009.
Women’s volleyball matchup with Royal Military College postponed
The women’s volleyball team’s match with the Royal Military College Paladins at home last Friday was postponed indefinitely because an undetermined number of Paladin players had suspected cases of the H1N1 virus. According to the OUA’s H1N1 policy, if the flu virus poses a threat the game is to be rescheduled. Queen’s next game is at Bartlett Gym tonight against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.
Women’s basketball picks up back-to-back wins
The women’s basketball team played the Waterloo Warriors last Friday and the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks the following day. On Friday, the Gaels scored a 59-51 victory over the Warriors. Katie Guthrie scored 12 points and added 10 rebounds. On Saturday, the Gaels showed their strength once again as they trampled the Golden Hawks 71-59. Post Erin Skippon led the Gaels tallying 22 points, nine rebounds and five steals.
The 3-2 Gaels’ next game is against the Windsor Lancers tonight in Windsor.
Toronto trip ends with two victories
Victories against the York Lions and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) Ridgebacks over the weekend move the men’s hockey team to a 5-4-1 record.
Forwards Joey Derochie, Clinton McCullough and Jeffrey Johnstone found the back of the net early in their victory over York University on Friday night before the Lions evened the score heading into the third. The Gaels came back in the final period with Derochie’s second goal of the night and a late shorthanded goal from defenseman Ben Munroe to finish the game with a 5-3 win.
Queen’s battled back for a 4-3 shootout win against UOIT on Saturday after falling behind twice. Derochie scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season to send Queen’s to a shootout. Goaltender Mackenzie Ball turned away all three Ridgeback shooters after Derochie scored on the Gaels’ first attempt. Forwards Jon Lawrance and Johnstone provided the first two goals.
The men’s hockey team will face the Windsor Lancers in a two-game mini-series this weekend at the Memorial Centre. The first game is tonight at 7:30 p.m. and the second is tomorrow at 2 p.m.
A win and a loss for women’s hockey
The women’s hockey team split their home games this weekend with a 4-1 loss to the York Lions on Friday night but battled back with an exciting 6-5 overtime win against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday.
At the Memorial Centre on Friday night, Queen’s could not be faulted for any lack of effort. The Gaels took 48 shots on the Lions’ goaltender but only found the back of the net once with a first period goal by forward Jess Cone. Against the Varsity Blues, the Gaels fell behind 5-1 midway through the second period. Rookie goalie Mel Dodd-Moher replaced Karissa Savage after she allowed four goals in the opening half of the second period.
Queen’s found their momentum with goals from forwards Becky Conroy and Kristin Smith, cutting the University of Toronto’s lead to two. Further goals from forwards Kelsey Thomson and Morgan McHaffie in the third period pushed Queen’s into overtime where Thomson scored her second of the night with 32 seconds left.
The Gaels face off against the Windsor Lancers and the Western Mustangs this weekend on the road.
Men’s basketball picks up first win in final seconds
It took a tightly contested road match with the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks to bring the men’s basketball team its first win of the new season. With less than a minute left in the game, the teams stood at a 63-63 deadlock. Queen’s forward Bernard Burgesson hit a foul shot with 13.6 seconds left on the clock to give the Gaels a 64-63 win. Forward Mitch Leger lead the Gaels in scoring with 21 points, six rebounds and four steals. The 1-3 Gaels play in Windsor against the Lancers tonight.
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It appears that Tyga dodged a legal bullet just to face another one.
Just days after it was reported that the Compton rapper reached a settlement with a past landlord, another man is looking to receive what Tyga owes him and now he’s recruited legal representation.
TMZ reports that this latest legal debacle comes from Jason Arasheben, a well-known celebrity jeweler based in Beverly Hills.
Arasheben has even hired Danny Abir and Boris Treyzon, the same lawyers Tyga’s old landlord used, to help in getting him the $200,000 he’s reportedly owed by the West Coast wordsmith.
The $200,000 owed stems from two pieces, a diamond watch and Cuban link chain, that Tyga received in 2013 and allegedly didn’t dish out any cash for. According to a tweet the rapper sent in 2013, the pieces from Arasheben were gifted to him.
In 2014, a judge ruled that Tyga had to pay more than $200,000 to Arasheben for the items, but the debt apparently remains unpaid.
The jeweler has attempted to collect the debt on his own, but is now taking this new route, likely due to the success of Tyga’s former landlord.
Earlier this month, an arrest warrant was recalled after an unknown settlement was reached between Tyga and his ex-landlord, Gholamreza Rezai.