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Thomas Davis reacted the way many people do in the face of tragedy – he didn’t believe it. He had good reason: The attack took place in Norway of all places, a country where the police don’t carry guns, the maximum sentence for murder is 21 years and the cushy prisons look like Ikea stores.
In Norway, criminals don’t explode bombs or shoot kids.
”Nothing ever happens there,” Davis, 38, said. “This politician maybe stole a little money from somebody. Nothing ever happens. And we’re following it on the Internet, and we see there’s a shooting going on.”
Davis, and his wife Vigdis Vatshaug, both of Norway, spent last Friday calling family members back home and scouring through Norwegian newspapers on the Web trying to gather what happened. The couple moved to Costa Rica in 2007, where they opened a sportfishing and kayaking lodge on the Gulf of Nicoya called Bahía Rica. Ninety percent of their guests are Norwegians. The hosts enjoy cooking homemade Scandinavian breads and cakes and traditional lamb recipes. A group from Norway checked out of the Bahía Rica cabins Thursday, a day before the unfathomable act occurred.
On July 22, a 32-year-old Norwegian man named Anders Behring Breivik allegedly set off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed eight. Afterwards, the suspect entered a Labor Party youth camp on an island covered in dense pine trees, called Utoya. He dressed in a police officer’s uniform and carried an assault rifle and a handgun.
The massacre left at least 68 dead. Many of the victims were children between the ages of 11 and 19. Breivik, a Christian nationalist, voiced extreme right-wing views and anti-Muslim views in the liberal European country. He sent out a 1,500-word rambling manifesto before his rampage started.
A Norwegian expat delivered a bouquet of flowers to Costa Rica’s honorary Norway consulate in Los Yoses, in downtown San José. Approximately 100 Norwegians live in Costa Rica, General Consul Arnoldo André said.
In addition, a couple dozen children from Norway come here as part of a cultural exchange program. They live with Costa Rican families throughout the country for one year, André said.
The alleged shooter grew up in a wealthy suburb in west Oslo, near where Davis lived. Davis’ grandmother, who lives 15 kilometers from downtown Oslo, heard the bomb blast. A friend sent Davis a Facebook message saying he watched the walls of their house shudder, unaware of the source.
Davis and Vatshaug plan to visit Norway in August or September. They expect to encounter a new environment in a country considered one of the safest in the world.
“It just won’t be the same to go to a place where you most likely will see security at the airport beefed up and you’ll have armed police on the street,” Jones said. “We’re just not used to it.”


Medical Finger Pulse Oximeter, as the name implies, refers to an instrument for measuring blood oxygen. Hypoxic patients should use Medical Finger Pulse Oximeter for a long time to detect blood oxygen content, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of danger. If hypoxia occurs, oxygen supplement immediately, greatly Reduce the chance of disease onset.
Principle of Medical Finger Pulse Oximeter:
Medical Finger Pulse Oximeter uses Lambert Beer's law to establish an empirical formula for data processing based on the absorption spectrum characteristics of reduced hemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin in the red and near-red light regions. Using photoelectric blood oxygen detection technology combined with volume pulse plethysmography technology, two beams of light with different wavelengths (red light at 660nm and near infrared light at 940nm) are used to illuminate the nail tip of the human body through a pincer finger sensor, and the measurement signal is acquired by the photosensitive element. After the obtained information is processed by the electronic circuit and the microprocessor, the measured results are displayed by two groups of LEDs.
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microprocessor, memory (EPROM and RAM), two digital-to-analog converters that control the LED, a device that filters and amplifies the signal received by the photodiode, and an analog-to-digital converter that digitizes the received signal to provide to the microprocessor . The LED and photodiode are placed in a small probe that comes in contact with the patient's fingertip or earlobe. Medical Finger Pulse Oximeter also generally includes small liquid crystal displays.


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Frustrated I was having an epic game. Said I could not continuesly chase pieces. I wasn't I was going for the flag and it wouldn't allow me to move forward on many occasions. I had to move another piece and it cost me the game. Thier have been other games where the touch response causes pieces to go in a direction you didn't swipe. Also lost due to game freeze. Please fix and I will give 5 stars
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Search in and Waiting screens Seems there is are issues when transitioning from ads to Searching for opponent and Waiting for opponent screens. I hope new ad arrangements are causing this issue. Your ad revenue will reduce if we can't play your ap. I want to play Stratego with others on this great platform.
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Good game But you need to add a report button to the menus because I've been cursed out by player in the chat while playing with my 5 year old cousin. The user name of the person is "john is a legend"
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Nebraska focused on Big 12, not Big Ten
IRVING — Nebraska coach Bo Pelini made a disclaimer before taking questions during Monday’s Big 12 Conference football media days.
“I will not be taking any questions in regards to any Big Ten issues,” he said. “We’re excited about being in the Big 12 this year.”
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The Certificate in English Literature
January - 2024
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat.
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp.
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Earth has not any thing to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
The wife of a rich man fell sick, and as she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect you, and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you. Thereupon she closed her eyes and departed. Every day the maiden went out to her mother’s grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good. When winter came the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and by the time the spring sun had drawn it off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman had brought with her into the house two daughters, who were beautiful and fair of face, but vile and black of heart. Now began a bad time for the poor step-child. Is the stupid goose to sit in the parlor with us, they said. He who wants to eat bread must earn it. Out with the kitchen-wench. They took her pretty clothes away from her, put an old grey bedgown on her, and gave her wooden shoes. Just look at the proud princess, how decked out she is, they cried, and laughed, and led her into the kitchen. There she had to do hard work from morning till night, get up before daybreak, carry water, light fires, cook and wash. Besides this, the sisters did her every imaginable injury – they mocked her and emptied her peas and lentils into the ashes, so that she was forced to sit and pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked till she was weary she had no bed to go to, but had to sleep by the hearth in the cinders. And as on that account she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her cinderella.
It happened that the father was once going to the fair, and he asked his two step-daughters what he should bring back for them. Beautiful dresses, said one, pearls and jewels, said the second. And you, cinderella, said he, what will you have. Father break off for me the first branch which knocks against your hat on your way home. So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls and jewels for his two step-daughters, and on his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat. Then he broke off the branch and took it with him. When he reached home he gave his step-daughters the things which they had wished for, and to cinderella he gave the branch from the hazel-bush. Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother’s grave and planted the branch on it, and wept so much that the tears fell down on it and watered it. And it grew and became a handsome tree. Thrice a day cinderella went and sat beneath it, and wept and prayed, and a little white bird always came on the tree, and if cinderella expressed a wish, the bird threw down to her what she had wished for.
It happened, however, that the king gave orders for a festival which was to last three days, and to which all the beautiful young girls in the country were invited, in order that his son might choose himself a bride. When the two step-sisters heard that they too were to appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella and said,
comb our hair for us, brush our shoes and fasten our buckles, for we are going to the wedding at the king’s palace. Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go with them to the dance, and begged her step-mother to allow her to do so. You go, cinderella, said she, covered in dust and dirt as you are, and would go to the festival. You have no clothes and shoes, and yet would dance. As, however, cinderella went on asking, the step-mother said at last, I have emptied a dish of lentils into the ashes for you, if you have picked them out again in two hours, you shall go with us. The maiden went through the back-door into the garden, and called, you tame pigeons, you turtle-doves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to pick
the good into the pot,
the bad into the crop.
Then two white pigeons came in by the kitchen window, and afterwards the turtle-doves, and at last all the birds beneath the sky, came whirring and crowding in, and alighted amongst the ashes. And the pigeons nodded with their heads and began pick, pick, pick, pick, and the rest began also pick, pick, pick, pick, and gathered all the good grains into the dish. Hardly had one hour passed before they had finished, and all flew out again. Then the girl took the dish to her step-mother, and was glad, and believed that now she would be allowed to go with them to the festival. But the step-mother said, no, cinderella, you have no clothes and you can not dance. You would only be laughed at. And as cinderella wept at this, the step-mother said, if you can pick two dishes of lentils out of the ashes for me in one hour, you shall go with us. And she thought to herself, that she most certainly cannot do again. When the step-mother had emptied the two dishes of lentils amongst the ashes, the maiden went through the back-door into the garden and cried, you tame pigeons, you turtle-doves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to pick
the good into the pot,
the bad into the crop.
Then two white pigeons came in by the kitchen-window, and afterwards the turtle-doves, and at length all the birds beneath the sky, came whirring and crowding in, and alighted amongst the ashes. And the doves nodded with their heads and began pick, pick, pick, pick, and the others began also pick, pick, pick, pick, and gathered all the good seeds into the dishes, and before half an hour was over they had already finished, and all flew out again. Then the maiden was delighted, and believed that she might now go with them to the wedding. But the step-mother said, all
this will not help. You cannot go with us, for you have no clothes and can not dance. We should be ashamed of you. On this she turned her back on cinderella, and hurried away with her two proud daughters. As no one was now at home, cinderella went to her mother’s grave beneath the hazel-tree, and cried –
shiver and quiver, little tree,
silver and gold throw down over me.
Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk and silver. She put on the dress with all speed, and went to the wedding. Her step-sisters and the step-mother however did not know her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress. They never once thought of cinderella, and believed that she was sitting at home in the dirt, picking lentils out of the ashes. The prince approached her, took her by the hand and danced with her. He would dance with no other maiden, and never let loose of her hand, and if any one else came to invite her, he said, this is my partner.
She danced till it was evening, and then she wanted to go home. But the king’s son said, I will go with you and bear you company, for he wished to see to whom the beautiful maiden belonged. She escaped from him, however, and sprang into the pigeon-house. The king’s son waited until her father came, and then he told him that the unknown maiden had leapt into the pigeon-house. The old man thought, can it be cinderella. And they had to bring him an axe and a pickaxe that he might hew the pigeon-house to pieces, but no one was inside it. And when they got home cinderella lay in her dirty clothes among the ashes, and a dim little oil-lamp was burning on the mantle-piece, for cinderella had jumped quickly down from the back of the pigeon-house and had run to the little hazel-tree, and there she had taken off her beautiful clothes and laid them on the grave, and the bird had taken them away again, and then she had seated herself in the kitchen amongst the ashes in her grey gown. Next day when the festival began afresh, and her parents and the step-sisters had gone once more, cinderella went to the hazel-tree and said –
shiver and quiver, my little tree,
silver and gold throw down over me.
Then the bird threw down a much more beautiful dress than on the preceding day. And when cinderella appeared at the wedding in this dress, every one was astonished at her beauty. The king’s son had waited until she came, and instantly took her by the hand and danced with no one but her. When others came and invited her, he said, this is
my partner. When evening came she wished to leave, and the king’s son followed her and wanted to see into which house she went. But she sprang away from him, and into the garden behind the house. Therein stood a beautiful tall tree on which hung the most magnificent pears. She clambered so nimbly between the branches like a squirrel that the king’s son did not know where she was gone. He waited until her father came, and said to him, the unknown maiden has escaped from me, and I believe she has climbed up the pear-tree. The father thought, can it be cinderella. And had an axe brought and cut the tree down, but no one was on it. And when they got into the kitchen, cinderella lay there among the ashes, as usual, for she had jumped down on the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress to the bird on the little hazel-tree, and put on her grey gown.
On the third day, when the parents and sisters had gone away, cinderella went once more to her mother’s grave and said to the little tree –
shiver and quiver, my little tree,
silver and gold throw down over me.
And now the bird threw down to her a dress which was more splendid and magnificent than any she had yet had, and the slippers were golden. And when she went to the festival in the dress, no one knew how to speak for astonishment. The king’s son danced with her only, and if any one invited her to dance, he said this is my partner.
When evening came, cinderella wished to leave, and the king’s son was anxious to go with her, but she escaped from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The king’s son, however, had employed a ruse, and had caused the whole staircase to be smeared with pitch, and there, when she ran down, had the maiden’s left slipper remained stuck. The king’s son picked it up, and it was small and dainty, and all golden. Next morning, he went with it to the father, and said to him, no one shall be my wife but she whose foot this golden slipper fits. Then were the two sisters glad, for they had pretty feet. The eldest went with the shoe into her room and wanted to try it on, and her mother stood by. But she could not get her big toe into it, and the shoe was too small for her. Then her mother gave her a knife and said, cut the toe off, when you are queen you will have no more need to go on foot. The maiden cut the toe off, forced the foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the king’s son. Then he took her on his his horse as his bride and rode away with her. They were obliged, however, to pass the grave, and there, on the hazel-tree, sat the two pigeons and cried –
turn and peep, turn and peep,
there’s blood within the shoe,
the shoe it is too small for her,
the true bride waits for you.
Then he looked at her foot and saw how the blood was trickling from it. He turned his horse round and took the false bride home again, and said she was not the true one, and that the other sister was to put the shoe on. Then this one went into her chamber and got her toes safely into the shoe, but her heel was too large. So her mother gave her a knife and said, cut a bit off your heel, when you are queen you will have no more need to go on foot. The maiden cut a bit off her heel, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the king’s son. He took her on his horse as his bride, and rode away with her, but when they passed by the hazel-tree, the two pigeons sat on it and cried –
turn and peep, turn and peep,
there’s blood within the shoe,
the shoe it is too small for her,
the true bride waits for you.
He looked down at her foot and saw how the blood was running out of her shoe, and how it had stained her white stocking quite red. Then he turned his horse and took the false bride home again. This also is not the right one, said he, have you no other daughter. No, said the man, there is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride. The king’s son said he was to send her up to him, but the mother answered, oh, no, she is much too dirty, she cannot show herself. But he absolutely insisted on it, and cinderella had to be called. She first washed her hands and face clean, and then went and bowed down before the king’s son, who gave her the golden shoe. Then she seated herself on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper, which fitted like a glove. And when she rose up and the king’s son looked at her face he recognized the beautiful maiden who had danced with him and cried, that is the true bride. The step-mother and the two sisters were horrified and became pale with rage, he, however, took cinderella on his horse and rode away with her. As they passed by the hazel-tree, the two white doves cried –
turn and peep, turn and peep,
no blood is in the shoe,
the shoe is not too small for her,
the true bride rides with you,
and when they had cried that, the two came flying down and placed themselves on cinderella’s shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there. When the wedding with the king’s son was to be celebrated, the two false sisters came and wanted to get into favor with cinderella and share her good fortune. When the betrothed couple went to church, the elder was at the right side and the younger at the left, and the pigeons pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards as they came back the elder was at the left, and the younger at the right, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye from each. And thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness all their days.
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but most of all by her
grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of
red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else. So she was always called little redcap.
One day her mother said to her, come, little red-cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to
your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are
going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your
grandmother will get nothing. And when you go into her room, don’t forget to say, good-morning, and don’t peep
into every corner before you do it.
I will take great care, said little red-cap to her mother, and
gave her hand on it.
The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as little red-cap entered the wood,
a wolf met her. Red-cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.
“Good-day, little red-cap,” said he.
“Thank you kindly, wolf.”
“Whither away so early, little red-cap?”
“To my grandmother’s.”
“What have you got in your apron?”
“Cake and wine. Yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick
grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.”
“Where does your grandmother live, little red-cap?”
“A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees
are just below. You surely must know it,” replied little red-cap.
The wolf thought to himself, what a tender young creature. What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better to eat
than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both. So he walked for a short time by the side of little
red-cap, and then he said, “see little red-cap, how pretty the flowers are about here. Why do you not look round. I
believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you were
going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.”
Little red-cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and
pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay. That would please
her too. It is so early in the day that I shall still get there in good time. And so she ran from the path into the
wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther
on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.
Meanwhile the wolf ran straight to the grandmother’s house and knocked at the door.
“Who is there?”
“Little red-cap,” replied the wolf. “She is bringing cake and wine. Open the door.”
“Lift the latch,” called out the grandmother, “I am too weak, and cannot get up.”
The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother’s
bed, and devoured her. Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed and drew the
Little red-cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she
could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.
She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had such a
strange feeling that she said to herself, oh dear, how uneasy I feel to-day, and at other times I like being with
grandmother so much. She called out, “good morning,” but received no answer. So she went to the bed and drew
back the curtains. There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.
“Oh, grandmother,” she said, “what big ears you have.”
“The better to hear you with, my child,” was the reply.
“But, grandmother, what big eyes you have,” she said.
“The better to see you with,” my dear.
“But, grandmother, what large hands you have.”
“The better to hug you with.”
“Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have.”
“The better to eat you with.”
And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up red-cap.
When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud.
The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, how the old woman is snoring. I must just see
if she wants anything.
So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. Do I find you here,
you old sinner, said he. I have long sought you. Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that
the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair
of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the
little red-cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, ah, how frightened I
have been. How dark it was inside the wolf. And after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but
scarcely able to breathe. Red-cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf’s belly,
and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.
Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it. The grandmother
ate the cake and drank the wine which red-cap had brought, and revived, but red-cap thought to herself, as long as
I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.
It is also related that once when red-cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to her,
and tried to entice her from the path. Red-cap, however, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way,
and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said good-morning to her, but with such a
wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up.
Well, said the grandmother, we will shut the door, that he may not come in. Soon afterwards the wolf knocked,
and cried, open the door, grandmother, I am little red-cap, and am bringing you some cakes. But they did not
speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof,
intending to wait until red-cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the
darkness. But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts. In front of the house was a great stone trough, so
she said to the child, take the pail, red-cap. I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled
them to the trough. Red-cap carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages reached
the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his
footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned. But
red-cap went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to harm her again.
TRUE! –nervous –very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The
disease had sharpened my senses –not destroyed –not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I
heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and
observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never
given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture –a
pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees –very
gradually –I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should
have seen how wisely I proceeded –with what caution –with what foresight –with what dissimulation I went to
work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about
midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it –oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening
sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my
head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly –very, very slowly, so
that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far
that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my
head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously –cautiously (for the hinges creaked) —
I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights –every
night just at midnight –but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not
the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the
chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed
the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at
twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.
Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch’s minute hand moves more
quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers –of my sagacity. I could
scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not
even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he
moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled. Now you may think that I drew back –but no. His room was as black as
pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he
could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.
I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old
man sprang up in bed, crying out –“Who’s there?”
I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear
him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; –just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the
death watches in the wall.
Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief
–oh, no! –it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew
the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom,
deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt,
and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise,
when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy
them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself –“It is nothing but the wind in the chimney –it is
only a mouse crossing the floor,” or “It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.” Yes, he had been
trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in
approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the
mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel –although he neither saw nor heard –to
feel the presence of my head within the room.
When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little –a very,
very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it –you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily –until, at length a
simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye.
It was open –wide, wide open –and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness –all a dull
blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old
man’s face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? –now, I say, there
came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound
well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the
soldier into courage.
But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed. I held the lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I
could maintain the ray upon the eve. Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and
quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man’s terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say,
louder every moment! –do you mark me well I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead
hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to
uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder,
louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me –the sound would be heard by a
neighbour! The old man’s hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He
shrieked once –once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then
smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This,
however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I
removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and
held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eve would trouble me no more.
If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the
concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the
corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then
replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye –not even his –could have detected any thing
wrong. There was nothing to wash out –no stain of any kind –no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for
that. A tub had caught all –ha! ha!
When I had made an end of these labors, it was four o’clock –still dark as midnight. As the bell sounded the hour,
there came a knocking at the street door. I went down to open it with a light heart, –for what had I now to fear?
There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had
been heard by a neighbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged
at the police office, and they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises.
I smiled, –for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The
old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search –search
well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of
my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in
the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the
corpse of the victim.
The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I
answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone.
My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted. The ringing became more
distinct: –It continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued
and gained definiteness –until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears.
No doubt I now grew very pale; –but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased –and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound –much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath –and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly –more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why would they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men –but the noise steadily increased. Oh God! what could I do? I foamed –I raved –I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder –louder –louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! –no, no! They heard! –they suspected! — they knew! –they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now –again! –hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –tear up the planks! here, here! –It is the beating of his hideous heart!”

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Perspective - Journal of Psychology and Cognition (2022) Volume 7, Issue 4
Adequacy of positive psychology mediation in patients with coronary heart illness.
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Corresponding Author:
- Harold Carl
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Received: 28-Mar-2022, Manuscript No. AAJPC-22-60685; Editor assigned: 02-Apr-2022, PreQC No. AAJPC-22-60685(PQ); Reviewed: 16-Apr-2022, QC No. AAJPC-22-60685; Revised: 21-Apr-2022, Manuscript No. AAJPC-22-60685(R); Published: 28-Apr-2022, DOI:10.35841/AAJPC-7.4.116
Citation: Carl H. Adequacy of positive psychology mediation in patients with coronary heart illness. 2022;7(4):116.
AbstractPositive mental well-being, such as good faith, have been distinguished as positive wellbeing resources since they are tentatively related with the seven measurements of cardiovascular wellbeing (CVH) and made strides results related to cardiovascular illness (CVD). Associations between mental well-being and cardiovascular conditions may be intervened through natural, behavioural, and psychosocial pathways. Individual-level mediations, such as mindfulness-based programs and positive mental mediations have appeared guarantee for adjusting mental wellbeing.
Positive psychological well-being, Cardiovascular disease, Health behaviours, Cardiovascular health.
Positive mental well-being and its particular components, such as positive thinking, foresee prevalent levels of cardiovascular wellbeing (CVH) measurements and less cardiac occasions, likely through behavioral, natural, and psychosocial pathways. Person-, bunch-, and organization-level approaches to advance mental well-being have appeared guarantee and may well be connected more broadly to communities and society. Affiliations between unfavourable mental components, such as misery, and cardiovascular illness (CVD) are well-established. Be that as it may, collecting prove recommends that positive mental well-being (in the future, mental well-being)-which incorporates positive considerations and sentiments such as reason in life, good faith, and happiness-has its claim autonomous affiliations with lower chance of CVD and may advance cardiovascular wellbeing. The areas of preventive cardiology and positive brain research have both set yearning objectives that go past basically decreasing chance of malady to incorporate expanding sound life span, progressing quality of life, protecting great mental wellbeing and cognitive work, and accomplishing wellbeing care investment funds.
Mental well-being has been characterized in different ways and includes the positive contemplations and sentiments that people utilize to assess their lives favourably. Two particular hypothetical points of view have educated characterizations of mental well-being: the eudemonic approach characterizes well-being concurring to one’s capacity to distinguish significant life pursuits and endeavouring to attain one’s best; the hedonic approach characterizes well-being concurring to seeking after and accomplishing delight and joy .
Examinations of mental components in connection to CVH have differently considered the 7 CVH components separately or in different combinations as a composite score of “favourable” or “ideal” CVH. In these ponders, mental trouble was related with destitute CVH, but none were imminent in plan, making the directionality of the affiliations hazy. In differentiate, whereas still constrained in number, a few beginning considers within the U.S. and Europe utilizing both cross-sectional and planned plans have proposed that mental well-being advances CVH. Various audits and meta-analyses have assessed the part of misery, uneasiness, outrage, posttraumatic stretch clutter , and persistent push in connection to the advancement of CVD. Mental well-being may impact CVH over the life expectancy by means of three conceivable pathways: 1) coordinate impacts on neurobiological forms, 2) circuitous impacts through wellbeing behaviours, and 3) advancement of other psychosocial assets known to secure wellbeing or buffer cardio toxic impacts of unpleasant encounters. For each pathway, impacts of mental wellbeing may decrease the probability of deteriorative forms (e.g., cigarette smoking, aggravation) and/or increment the probability of helpful forms .
Having tall levels of mental well-being may moreover offer assistance buffer against destructive impacts of stretch. For case, positive thinking can modify preparing and translation of day by day stressors so they are experienced as less debilitating. Prove from both exploratory and observational ponders underpins this theory. For illustration, more prominent mental well-being shows up to moderate such shapes of stretch as reviewing encounters of pity and outrage and stressors stemming from lower financial status. Early life environment is imperative to the improvement of mental working. Early life misfortune, counting introduction to unfavorable parental properties (e.g., destitute mental wellbeing), moo financial position, and antagonistic family structure (e.g., single parenthood, parental liquor addiction), predicts destitute mental wellbeing in childhood, youth, and adulthood .
Need of secure or supporting connections in childhood can influence auxiliary and utilitarian improvement of the brain in ways that increment the probability of creating maladaptive propensities and less strong connections . Less ponders have considered how early social situations can build up directions of mental well-being, in spite of the fact that a few vital variables have been recognized counting child rearing hones (warmth, being sustaining) and ease of communication with guardians, as well as enjoying school and having other strong connections . Other outside components that advance mental well-being in youth incorporate positive and highquality peer connections and solid social systems, seeing school as a strong environment, and living in neighborhoods with tall social capital. Positive mental intercessions in at-risk populaces (e.g., patients with hypertension or diabetes) have driven to change in mental well-being and regularly, but not continuously, changes in medicine adherence or other selfcare behaviours [4,5].
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- Celano CM, Albanese AM, Millstein RA et al .Optimizing a positive psychology intervention to promote health behaviors following an acute coronary syndrome: The Positive Emotions after Acute Coronary Events-III (PEACE-III) randomized factorial trial. Psychosom Med. 2018;80(6):526-34.
- Redwine LS, Henry BL, Pung MA et al. Pilot randomized study of a gratitude journaling intervention on heart rate variability and inflammatory biomarkers in patients with stage B heart failure. Psychosom Med. 2016;78:667-76.
- Cohn MA, Pietrucha ME. An online positive affect skills intervention reduces depression in adults with type 2 diabetes. J Posit Psychol. 2014;9:523-34.
- Dickens C. Negative illness perceptions are associated with new-onset depression following myocardial infarction. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2008;30(5):414-20.

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Aaron Rodgers was 20 of 30 for 209 yards and 2 touchdowns and the Green Bay Packers beat the Houston Texans 21 to 13 at a snowy Lambeau Field.
Jordy Nelson caught 8 passes for 118 yards and 1 touchdown.
Randall Cobb cought the other touchdown for the Pack.
Next week the Packers have the late afternoon game – they host the Seattle Seahawks.
Kick off is at 4:30,
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Tonight on WWE 205 Live, Humberto Carrillo answers his cousin’s challenge and will face Angel Garza in singles competition. Plus, Oney Lorcan brings his NXT tag team partner Danny Burch to the Cruiserweight division to team up against Drew Gulak and Tony Nese.
Despite putting forth a valiant effort in the Triple Threat Match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship at WWE Clash of Champions, Humberto Carrillo was unable to take the title from Drew Gulak. Humberto’s cousin, Angel Garza, did not take kindly to the loss and claimed that Carrillo had dishonored their family by not capturing the championship.
Garza took to social media to share his criticism of Carrillo and challenged him to a match to prove he is the family’s top competitor.
Last week on WWE 205 Live, Tony Nese capitalized on an assist from WWE Cruiserweight Champion Drew Gulak to pick up a victory against Oney Lorcan. The Boston Brawler was building significant momentum during the hard-fought battle, but Lorcan’s onslaught was derailed by Gulak, who grabbed his leg and gave Nese the opening to roll up Oney for the win.
From that moment, the rage-fueled Bostonian has been dead-set on getting retribution against Gulak. Lorcan took to Twitter – as only he can – and announced that because Nese needed his friend to beat Lorcan last week, The Boston Brawler was bringing his friend to help him take care of Nese and Gulak – his tag team partner Danny Burch! Despite Lorcan's loss to Lio Rush on WWE NXT, which saw The Man of the Hour become the No. 1 Contender to the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, Lorcan remains focused on a fight with Gulak.
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The Middlesex-London Health Unit says a London, Ontario youth has been hospitalized with a “severe respiratory illness” believed to be linked to vaping, according to the CBC.
The age of the youth has not been released, as the Health Unit says the gender, hometown, or age says it will remain undisclosed.
The news comes only hours after the Ontario health minister ordered that hospitals release reports of severe lung disease related to vaping.
Canadian law prohibits the sale of vaping products to those under the age of 18, and Health Canada is currently exploring ways to reduce the visibility of vaping ads to youths.
Across the southern border, U.S. President Donald Trump told media that he is concerned with the nation’s obsession with vaping, especially among “innocent children.”
That gesture came in response to seven deaths linked to vaping in the U.S., with another 450 cases across 33 states being investigated by health officials.
“We have a problem in our country, it’s a new problem … and it’s called vaping,” Trump said. “Especially vaping as it pertains to innocent children.”
Back in Canada, Health Canada has ordered healthcare professionals to ask patients about their use of vapes if they have trouble breathing, or if they report any shortness of breath, which could indicate any vape-related pulmonary disease.

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Description: This bulletin describes methods for harvesting and thrashing a seed crop of sweet clover. Topics discussed include the problem of shattering and seed loss, necessary machinery and equipment, crop yields, straw production.
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The classic American-style rimfire rifle, this gorgeous 457 has a 20” barrel with no sights and is meant to be topped with a scope. Its American style beech stock has a high, flat comb and a classic checkering pattern. Like all of CZ 457s, it has an 11mm dovetail milled into the top of its receiver for attaching scope ringmounts.
Included in this package:
• 22 LR CZ 457 American Beech 20"
• Minox ZL3 Plex 4-12x40 Scope
• 3/8 1" Medium rings
If we were to pick one thing that CZs previous rimfire platforms were lacking, it was an American-style push-to-fire safety — something Hunter’s Education instructors and 4-H shooting coaches have begged CZ to incorporate for years. Though that was the most obvious change, CZ also took the opportunity to tweak a load of small things at the same time. In addition to the receiver-mounted, push-to-fire safety, CZ chopped almost an inch of length from the action and slab-sided it to reduce its footprint and weight.
The stamped bottom metal of the 455 is gone, swapped for a classy two-piece interlocking system. To make scope fitment easier, we ditched the 90° bolt rotation in favor of 60°, allowing for larger ocular bell diameters with lower ring heights. To top it all off, the 457 now features a trigger adjustable for weight, creep and over-travel.
With the exact same swappable barrel system as the 455 and the same reliable polymer magazine system, the 457 is without a doubt the best rimfire platform we've ever fielded.
• Cailbre: .22 LR
• Action Type: Bolt-action
• Barrel: Cold hammer forged
• Barrel Length: 20"
• Rate Of Twist: 1:16" (22LR)
• Magazine Type: Detachable box
• Magazine Capacity: 5 rounds
• Trigger: Adjustable
• Safety: Two-position, Push-To-Fire
• Stock: American Beech
• Sights: None, Integrated 11mm Dovetail
• Weight: 6.17 lb
• Threaded 1/2x20
The Minox ZL3 Series is sure to impress. Described by Minox as "powerful and reliable," the ZL3 series are no nonsense riflescopes that will consistently preform whether it be in the tree stand or at the bench rest. Whether your looking to hunt or to sport shoot, these scopes feature all the qualities you would expect from a fine German scope at a great price! ZL3 scopes come in four models which are all waterproof and nitrogen purged to ensure clarity and reliability in almost any environment. All models of the ZL3 feature a 1" lightweight anodised aluminum tube which provides supreme protection for the high grade German optics inside. These scopes also feature a second focal plane PLEX or BDC reticle with precise .25 MOA windage and elevation adjustments.
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Popovich (Gregory Popovich) is a street performer on the odd sideroads of Las Vegas, competing with the likes of Space Mime and the Samurai Elvises. Beyond his talents as a first-class entertainer, he also has a big heart, caring for a large number of stray dogs and cats at his junkyard abode. Unfortunately, his kindness to animals isn’t appreciated by his neighbor, who rats him out to the city as operating a shelter without the necessary permits or paperwork.
Filing the paperwork and acquiring the right certifications costs money, however, and Popovich isn’t really financially sound. Still, with the possibility of losing his animal friends if he can’t raise the money, Popovich strikes out into the mean streets of Las Vegas, looking for a job, some money and more than a little bit of luck.
Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West is a charming film with its heart on its sleeve, hearkening back to more classical cinematic tastes. The first ten minutes of the film work like a silent film, as Popovich performs and goes about his daily routine of taking care of himself and his animal compatriots.
The narrative itself reminds you of something you might see on The Little Rascals, only here Popovich is trying to save his animals and not, say, his clubhouse. The humor can slapstick and broad, and even elements of danger and drama are wrapped in unique whimsy. I was as much thinking of The Three Stooges as I was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, even while acknowledging the modern aesthetic of the filmmakers. All that said, the film maintains a subtlety that these comparisons might not suggest; it’s an odd gentleness of heart and charm.
Overall, Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West is a wonderfully fun experience. Not necessarily for the cynical, as the film benefits from those who are open to its more whimsical nature, but it is entertaining regardless of what you think of the narrative. Popovich is just that talented a performer, and his routines are just that enjoyable to watch. Between this and Thor at the Bus Stop, filmmakers Mike and Jerry Thompson continue to impress.
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Being raised in noble family distinguished by wide cultural interests, Dmitriy Ivanovich early showed his talent in literature: when he was a boy, he translated a playful French comedy by J.F.P. de Saint-Foix Sylph (1782), Reconciled Enemies (1787) by Bruet de Loirelle, the stories of J. Cazot The precocious Lord (1789), etc.
Dmitriy Ivanovich studied at the Blagorodny boarding school of Moscow University and during that time was a member of a friendly society of lovers of literature. Graduating the boarding school he gained a rank of lifeguard sergeant of Preobrazhenskiy regiment (1785), rittmeister of Horse-Grenadier military Order Regiment (1795); later he served in the 1st Kanonirsky, 2nd Fusilerny, and other Regiments. In 1797 he was ranked as a major. In 1800 he retired with the rank of colonel and engaged himself entirely with the literature and academic activities; in 1805-1807 the leader of the nobility Uglich in Yaroslav Governorate.
The diverse interests of Dmitriy Ivanovich manifested in the writing of his Dictionary of mathematical and military sciences (1808) – one of the first reference and encyclopedic publications in Russia. He also translated from French and german lots of plays, mostly comedies (the action of some of them took place in Russia), that had success at Moscow and Petersburg scenes. His translations of Deforge, A. Pigot-Lebrun, A.V. Iffland, and others were partially collected in Taliya (1810-1812). His poems, mainly fables, were published in almost all volumes of Works of Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. In recent years of life, he was interested in history.


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NEW YORK – (Staff Report from Official News Release) – The NHL and Fanatics announced a new agreement that expands the scope of Fanatics’ relationship with the professional hockey league. Fanatics will become the official manufacturer of a broad range of NHL apparel and headwear, including replica jerseys, along with merchandise for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The deal begins with the 2017-18 NHL season.
Fanatics will operate on-site retail stores and point-of-sale stations at numerous NHL marquee events, while powering the NHL’s auction web site and extend its relationship as the ecommerce operator for the League, which began in 2005.
“Our new long-term business partnership with Fanatics is a reflection of the growth and evolution of the consumer products and e-commerce business,” said NHL Executive Vice President and Chief Branding Officer Brian Jennings. “After a rigorous process, Fanatics emerged as an optimal choice given their commitments to expanding their already best-in-class capabilities in the e-commerce space, including building a sales and distribution infrastructure in Canada, and to produce lines of replica jerseys and apparel products that will excite NHL fans and drive sales for NHL retail partners.”
The agreement expands the relationship between the two sports industry giants, while also leveraging Fanatics’ innovative mobile, merchandising and production capabilities. With technology, mobile and social media all contributing to a surge in the speed at which fans consume the latest gear, the agreement will allow fans to have access to a broad assortment of products.

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James Harrison may be retired but that doesn't mean he still can't have a big workout every once in a while.
On Friday, he was filmed pushing over 40 plates that weighed 1,890 pounds. He was able to push them about five yards before he had enough.
Here's the video:
Harrison has always been known as someone who has crazy workouts, but this is something else.
The fact that he was able to do this at the age of 44 is unbelievable and goes to show just how strong he is.
Harrison has been retired for four years after he played in the NFL for 15 years. He spent 14 of them with the Pittsburgh Steelers and one season with the Cincinnati Bengals.
He also played in five games for the New England Patriots during the 2017 season after he was cut by the Steelers.
For his career, he finished with 793 total tackles (573 solo), 84.5 sacks, 34 forced fumbles, eight fumble recoveries, and eight interceptions.


School Board Meeting Recordings
Meeting Highlights: December 16, 2021
The Board accepted a generous $25,000 donation from Mr. and Mrs. John Feehan to support the equipment needs of the track and field and cross country teams.
Positive feedback was exchanged between a representative of the Educational Support Professionals Association and the Board of Directors regarding their recently adopted contract. Ms. Smith, speaking on behalf of the Association, acknowledged the Board and Administration for the respect and earnestness demonstrated during their contract negotiations. Board members thanked the Association for their thorough preparation and prioritization, which helped to streamline their discussions.
There was a detailed presentation from Dr. Lentz regarding the Health and Safety Plan during which he provided District-specific and localized COVID-19 data, reviewed the most recent guidance from health and education agencies, and explained the goals and additional considerations of the Health and Safety Plan Committee. The Committee posed January 19 as a target date for a transition to mask optional, pending that certain pandemic-related conditions were met. However, they requested additional time to determine the protocols for contact tracing that would accompany such a change.
After a lengthy and thorough discussion, the Board determined that while a path to a mask optional scenario should be explored, the current status and trends of the pandemic do not support the transition at this time. They requested the Health and Safety Committee develop benchmark data for such a transition and that the procedures for that scenario be fully vetted. They agreed to reconvene in January for further conversation.
Recent Meeting Recordings
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The opening goal in the match against Manchester City helped Mohamed Salah overcome the legendary Michael Owen to go down in Premier League history with an impressive record.
The confrontation between Manchester City and Liverpool at Etihad Stadium marks the return of the Premier League in the 2022/23 season after a break to make way for the national team. With the home field advantage and a series of sublime performances, it is not surprising that The Citizens are active participants and constantly create pressure on Alisson Becker’s goal.
However, coach Jurgen Klopp’s teachers and students did not show any hesitation. The Merseyside Red Devils still showed their bravery and proved themselves to be the quintessence of the Etihad Stadium team with a rebound that made The Citizens unable to react.
In the 16th minute, starting from a quick counter-attack, Mohamed Salah took advantage of the sharpness of a real goalscoring machine to hit a one-touch finish, helping Liverpool to take the lead very early.
Mo Salah scored the opening goal for Liverpool. Photo: Getty Images
The goal against Ederson helped the Egyptian star go down in Premier League history when he surpassed the achievement of the legendary Michael Owen to become the player with the most goals away from home, with a total of 56 goals. guests at the tournament in the land of fog.
Not only that, this goal also marks an impressive milestone for Mo Salah. In this season, Liverpool have had 4 encounters with Manchester City, and in all 4 times, the Egyptian striker made the opponent’s keeper go into the net to pick up the ball. More broadly, this is the 11th time the striker born in 1992 tore the net of The Citizens after a total of 19 previous meetings.
Numbers do not lie, and it is proving the truth that Mohamed Salah is the most formidable opponent for Pep Guardiola in particular and Manchester United in general.
Mo Salah is the quintessential that makes Man City afraid. Photo: Getty Images
However, the goal of the Egyptian star did not help Liverpool maintain the advantage for too long, because when the clock struck 27 minutes, Julian Alvarez showed his grace to score and bring the game back to the starting line, before Kevin de Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan put The Citiznes ahead in the second half.


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Casting: 5W, 3M (This is an ensemble piece with doubling and can accommodate larger casts)
Running Time: 1 hour 45 (2 Acts with intermission)
Synopsis: Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone, tells the fictionalized story of Molly Malone, a brash Dublin fishmonger who struggles against the societal conditions of 17th century Ireland and England and her counterpart, Lois, a sassy young girl experiencing life on the streets of contemporary Chicago. The two stories are woven together by the figure of Old Molly, a spirit guide who spans the centuries seemingly unable to leave her past behind or change her future. The story of young Molly begins with the Cromwell invasions that widow her on her wedding night. From there she goes to London and starts out in a workhouse. It soon becomes apparent, however, that her independent spirit doesn’t fit the mold and when her relationship with the boss’s nephew deteriorates, Molly finds herself out on the streets. After a brief stint as an actress, the theatres are closed for the plague, and homeless once more, Molly eventually ends up in Bedlam. Meanwhile, Lois, in and out of a shelter in Chicago, gets involved with Brad, a small time porn director. Like Molly, Lois is not too good at bending to fit the shape of the world, and when she rebels against Brad she ends up in way over her head and is arrested. Both women have lost touch with the ability to communicate and are struggling to find a way to exist between the extremes of societal compliance and flat out rebellion. Once young Molly dies, it is up to the spirit figure of Old Molly to help Lois learn to “reach out and be reached,” and thus find a new hope not only for Lois, but also for herself.
- Pinter Review Prize for Drama: Silver Medal
- Produced at Venue 9, San Francisco, for Women On The Way
- Nominated American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award
- Finalist KC/ACTF
- University Production: University of Anchorage Alaska
- Winner Yukon Pacific Playwright Award and Last Frontier Theatre Conference Audience Choice Award
- Staged Reading: Last Frontier Theatre Conference.
What They’re Saying:
“A seamless fantasia that is always compelling and often funny” “Stratford sets up and enormous challenge for herself and succeeds beautifully” – San Francisco Examiner.
“Somewhere in between brilliant and amazing,” “Award-winning Between shines” “fresh and thought-provoking” – Anchorage Daily News
“An emotional, fire-breaathing thrill ride” “a wonderful work of theatre” – Art Matters, Anchorage
“A sprawling tale, part Fielding, part Dickens [Somewhere In Between] is a story that moves through all the ages of Woman” – San Francisco Weekly
“Against a canvas of war, persecution, violence and sex, it’s a defiant tale of love, friendship, integrity and acceptance” – The Irish Herald
Arwen Anderson and Michaela Greeley as the two Mollies, Venue 9, San Francisco

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Topic 11: Animal physiology
This is an introduction to the HL animal physiology topic. It lists understandings and skills expected for Topic 11 including antibody production by lymphocytes, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, muscle fibres, actin and myosin, osmoregulation, kidney nephrons, oogenesis, spermatogenesis, pregnancy and birth. Helpful for revision.
Detailed revision notes, activities and questions can be found for each of the sub-topic pages:
- 11.1 Antibody production and vaccination
- 11.2 Movement
- 11.3 The kidney and osmoregulation
- 11.4 Sexual reproduction
11.1 Antibody production and vaccination
Cells & pathogens
- The surface of cells of an organism has unique molecules.
- Pathogens can be species-specific or can cross species barriers.
Antibody production involves the following:
- B lymphocytes are activated by T lymphocytes in mammals.
- Activated B lymphocytes multiply to form clones of plasma cells and memory cells (giving immunity).
- Plasma cells secrete antibodies which aid the destruction of pathogens.
- Other white blood cells release histamine in response to allergens which causes allergic symptoms.
Vaccination and monoclonal antibodies
- Vaccines contain antigens that trigger an immune response without causing the disease.
- Fusion of a tumour cell with an antibody-producing plasma cell creates a hybridoma cell.
- Monoclonal antibodies are produced by hybridoma cells
- Monoclonal antibodies to HCG are used in pregnancy test kits.
Skills & applications
- Smallpox was the first infectious disease of humans to have been eradicated by vaccination.
- Human vaccines are often produced using the immune responses of other animals
- Blood group antigens on the surface of red blood cells stimulate antibody production in a different blood group.
- Skills to analyse epidemiological data related to vaccination programmes.
Skeletons and muscles
- Bones and exoskeletons (e.g. insect legs) provide anchorage for muscles and act as levers.
- Synovial joints allow certain movements but not others.
- Muscles work in antagonistic pairs.
- Skeletal muscle fibres are multinucleate and contain
- specialised endoplasmic reticulum
- many myofibrils
- made up of contractile sarcomeres.
- The sliding of actin and myosin filaments causes contraction.
- Contraction requires ATP hydrolysis and cross bridge formation
- Calcium ions and the proteins tropomyosin and troponin control muscle contractions.
Skills & applications
- Know how to annotate a diagram of the human elbow. Include cartilage, synovial fluid, joint capsule, named bones and named antagonistic muscles.
- The ability to draw labelled diagrams of the structure of a sarcomere, including Z lines, actin filaments, myosin filaments with heads, and the resultant light and dark bands.
- The ability to find the state of contraction of muscle fibres in electron micrographs,
- Experience of measurement of the length of sarcomeres using calibration of the eyepiece scale of the microscope
11.3 The Kidney and osmoregulation
Control of water balances in different animals
- Some animals are osmoconformers - their cells have solute concentration equal to their environment (eg. marine invertebrates)
- Vertebrates and insects are osmoregulators. (so are some single cells, eg.Amoeba)
- Insects have malpighian tubules but vertebrates have kidneys to carry out osmoregulation and remove nitrogenous wastes.
- The type of nitrogenous waste in animals is correlated with evolutionary history and habitat.
Kidney structure & function
- The differences in composition of blood in the renal artery & the renal vein.
- Ultrafiltration helped by the ultrastructure of the glomerulus and Bowman’s capsule.
- Selective reabsorption of useful substances by active transport in the proximal convoluted tubule.
- The loop of Henle maintains hypertonic conditions in the medulla.
- ADH controls reabsorption of water in the collecting duct.
- The length of the loop of Henle is positively correlated with the need for water conservation in animals.
Skills & applications
- To be able to draw and label a diagram of the human kidney.
- To be able to annotate diagrams of the nephron. Including glomerulus, Bowman’s capsule, proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, distal convoluted tubule; and the collecting duct
- To have considered the consequences of dehydration and overhydration.
- To know about treatment of kidney failure by hemodialysis or kidney transplant.
- To know about urinary test for Blood cells, glucose, proteins and drugs.
11.4 Sexual Reproduction
- Similarities in spermatogenesis and oogenesis include mitosis, cell growth, two divisions of meiosis and differentiation.
- Students need to be able to annotate diagrams of seminiferous tubule and ovary to showing these details.
- Differences between the processes in spermatogenesis and oogenesis are the different numbers of gametes produced and the different amounts of cytoplasm in these gametes.
- Annotation of diagrams of mature sperm and egg to indicate functions.
- Fertilization in animals can be internal or external.
- Fertilization involves the acrosome reaction, fusion of the plasma membrane of the egg and sperm and the cortical reaction. (mechanisms that prevent polyspermy)
Early growth of the embryo
- Implantation of the blastocyst in the endometrium is essential for the continuation of pregnancy.
- HCG stimulates the ovary to secrete progesterone during early pregnancy.
- The placenta facilitates the exchange of materials between the mother and fetus.
- Estrogen and progesterone are secreted by the placenta once it has formed.
- Birth is mediated by positive feedback involving estrogen and oxytocin.
Skills & applications
- To make comparisons of gestation periods and animal size & to find the place of the average human (38-week) pregnancy on a graph showing the correlation between animal size and the development of the young at birth in mammals.
- To annotate diagrams of stages of gametogenesis in seminiferous tubule and an ovary.
- Ability to annotate diagrams with the function of the parts of mature sperm and egg.
Antibody production & vaccination 11.1 HL
This topic covers the role of antigens in challenging the immune system leading to antibody production. Knowledge of B-lymphocytes, T-lymphocytes, memory cells and plasma cells and vaccination as a method of promoting immunity.
Movement 11.2 HL
This topic covers the basic structure of joints and the role of bones and exoskeletons in movement before looking in detail at the structure of sarcomeres in skeletal muscles and the processes of the sliding filament theory.
Kidney and osmoregulation 11.3 HL
This topic looks at the interesting comcept of water balance in organisms. Insects control water balance using small Malphigian tubules unlike mammals and other vertebrates who have a kidney.
Sexual reproduction 11.4 HL
Sexual reproduction in this HL topic begins with spermatogenesis and oogenesis where gametes are made. This is followed by the process of fertilisation, the acrosome reaction and the cortical reaction. The development and implantation of a blastocyst.