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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Angel, Chapter 3

Chloe/Dean, Sam
Smallville, season 8 (AU), Supernatural, season 4
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: These characters belong to the CW and DC Comics, not to us.

Sam Winchester hadn't been designed for the back seat of cars.

Chloe stole a glance at the big guy crammed into the back of the Impala. With his high cheekbones, strong nose, and unruly mop of dark brown hair, Dean's younger brother reminded her quite a bit of her best friend, Clark Kent. But while Clark was built wide and massive, Sam was long and lanky and lean.

She wasn't exactly clear on what Sam had been doing while Dean stopped by the grocery. But when they'd picked Sam up at a gas station on the outskirts of town, she thought she'd seen a glimpse of a dark-haired girl, who'd almost instantly disappeared behind the old cinderblock building. Dean had seen her too, and had disapproved, judging from the hard set of his jaw.

But he hadn't said anything about the girl, as if she were a taboo subject between the brothers. Instead he'd just leaned his head out the window and spoken curtly.

"Get in, Sammy. We got us a job."

Sam was looking at her now, his dark eyes alive with curiosity. There was an alert intelligence in his gaze, and more than a hint of suspicion. "So, Chloe," he said, raising his voice to be heard over the AC/DC that blasted from the speakers. "You get a lot of ghosts in this area?"

"Not that I've ever heard of," she admitted. "Most of the weird stuff that happens around here is due to the green rocks."

Dean fired off a curious look in her direction. "The green rocks?"

"The meteorites," she clarified. "Maybe you saw the sign?"

"Smallville, Meteor Capital of the World," Dean quoted, rolling his eyes. She thought with amusement of how much his eyes would have rolled at Smallville's previous town slogan: Creamed Corn Capital of the World.

"Right," she agreed. "See, Smallville's been hit by two meteor showers--"

"Which in and of itself is pretty damn strange," Sam broke in.

Chloe ignored the comment. It was strange, but she happened to know the reason, and didn't intend to disclose it to the Winchesters. It wasn't her secret to give away. "True. Anyway, the meteorites are scattered all over the place, and they cause people to... change."

Dean squinted suspiciously. His eyes were on the flat, straight road as they barreled toward Metropolis, but she could tell his attention was focused almost entirely on her words. "Change how?"

"It causes mutations," she clarified. "Of all sorts. I've come across shapeshifters, people who can become invisible, people who can create fire with a thought, healers..."

Dean glanced away from the road and frowned at her. "So what happens when these people change, exactly?"

She looked away from him. As it happened, she was one of "these people." But she was one of the lucky ones, thankfully.

"About seventy-five percent of them turn psychotic," she said softly. "And begin killing people."

Dean gave a long, low whistle. "Holy crap. Sounds like you have your hands full around here, even without ghosts and demons."

"Yeah," she agreed. "And plenty of them make their way to Metropolis, believe me. They keep me busy investigating and writing stories, and I moonlight on the side, helping some friends catch the worst ones. But now it looks like we've got ghosts to deal with, too."

She'd been looking for an excuse to hire the Winchester brothers for six months now, ever since she'd become aware of their existence. They obviously worked hard at not leaving a paper trail, but in her endless researches, she'd noticed some strange things going on in various small towns, and she'd begun following up on anything peculiar that she spotted on the internet.

She'd read about two guys, a tall, dark-haired one and a shorter, light-haired one, who turned up repeatedly in these small towns, claiming to be FBI agents or insurance adjusters or whatever. And slowly, very slowly, she'd been able to put the pieces together, and figure out exactly who they were, and what they were doing.

At first she'd thought they were con artists of some sort-- a conclusion supported by the fact that they were wanted in several jurisdictions, and by the fact that they seemed to survive by credit card fraud-- but after months of reading about them, she'd finally figured out that wasn't the case.

Sam and Dean Winchester were the good guys.

One of the lessons she'd learned as a reporter was that researching via the internet could only take you so far. At some point, you needed to step away from the computer and do hands-on research.

She'd decided she needed to get her hands on the Winchester brothers. So to speak.

It had taken a while, but finally something had arisen locally that she could justify calling on them for help. Not just locally, but in her own workplace.

It had taken a complex and subtle set of maneuvers on her part to ensure that they "happened" to drive through Smallville this week. But here they were. And she intended to make good use of them. Both to solve the Daily Planet problem, and to satisfy her own curiosity.

She glanced at Dean's rough-hewn profile, and smiled a little.

She had a feeling this was going to be a very interesting experience.

More to come...

Anonymous said...

I'm loving this story and like where it's going! Please post more soon, looking forward to more!

Katie said...

Amazing as always Elly

Kimmy said...

Chloe and her keen intelligence, I wonder what she'll make of what Sam's been up to once she puts it together. :) And I wouldn't call Sam lean. Not as built as Clark but definitely not average.

blackheart_me said...

I love that Chloe was looking for an excuse to hire the Winchester brothers. That naughty girl, her! HAHA. I can't wait to see how this hunt is going to go and I wonder if Chloe and Sam will connect also, friendly wise, with their computer abilities. I can't wait for more!

Alicia said...

More! more! more! please. This is such a wonderful read Elly. Thank you so much and I am so glad I came looking for something to lift up my spirits (your Chlark fics always do the job) because of this amazing Chlean fic. Can't wait to read more.

Dana0715 said...

Love this chapter too and eagerly waiting for more!!

Dwanna said...

More please! What an awesome story! I'm looking forward to reading more. Can't wait too!

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It's another night that I lie here waiting for my blood sugar to come down from being high, I can't sleep with high blood sugar...too thirsty. I caught an 18.3; corrected and laid back down. I looked across at my sister and she's sleeping...I'm not. I reckon if I worked out how much sleep I get compared to her it would work out to about minus one million. My eyes are open but I can't see anything, just the silhouettes of the objects in my room and the dim screen of my blood sugar meter, as the high blood sugar reading slowly fades away until the screen turns to black. I just rolled up the blinds to let the moon in, it's almost as though the light makes me feel less alone, it breaks up the darkness. These are the nights I take the opportunity to reflect, mainly on type one diabetes and the struggles it has presented me with over the past five years; I like to be positive but sometimes I just need to let things out, I need the chance to let my deepest feelings out about this disease. Negative thoughts just clog up the system, so why not let them out?

I have fired a needle into my finger over 9,000 times. 9,000+ times blood has been drawn from my finger tips, and over 9,000 times a reading has come up on the screen of my blood sugar meter. Sometimes it is fine and other times it is not. One moment my blood sugar could be perfect and the next moment I could have very high blood sugar. It is a constant balancing act that you are not guaranteed to succeed in. There are no guarantees in a life with this disease and it is hard. I can tell you that for a fact. I am sixteen years old and my body no longer has the ability to keep me alive due to the failure of the insulin producing beta cells in my pancreas after my immune system turned on them...I am now doing that for myself with the help and support of my parents, family and friends. The fact that I take my insulin and prick my finger and take glucose tablets when I have to is the reason that I am still here after almost five years and that is my reality. I shouldn't need to do all of this, I shouldn't have to wear an insulin pump, I shouldn't know the carbohydrate content of many food items off by heart, I shouldn't need to endure high blood sugars because my body can no longer stop that from happening, I shouldn't need to do my best to avoid a low blood sugar because I am taking a medicine that is my lifeline but too much of it could kill me.

I have been in diabetic ketoacidosis four times in five years. That is four times in my life that I have been very close to falling into a coma, that is four times in my life that my blood has turned acidic, four times that my parents have had to drive me to A&E, four times that I have sat in the bathroom sobbing because the acidic state that was raging on in my blood made me feel that awful. And there isn't really any way to "sugar-coat" a situation like that because DKA is what it is. It is a moment when you realise just how much your body relies on the insulin that sits in the fridge, because anything that results in a few hours without it could kill you. Because I am insulin-dependant, every single breath that I breathe, every morning that I open my eyes depends on it and nothing but a cure can change that.

I count it as a blessing that I have not experienced a severe hypo (low blood sugar) which has resulted in loss of consciousness before. However I have had a low blood sugar in which in that moment, I was close to it. It rendered me unable to even test my blood sugar on my own, my hands were trembling so much and my vision was getting so impaired that I gave up trying and just lay there calling for my parents. They had to feed me pure sugar, something that most parents are totally against, but if it meant their child's consciousness depended on it, then I'm sure that a few minutes extra brushing that night would be a thought far from their minds. My blood sugar rose quickly and I was ok again and thankfully dinner was almost ready. But just like that I went from doing my homework, to lying on the sofa close to passing out. Like I said, it's a balancing act that you're never guaranteed to get right. Tonight I have caught a high blood sugar, but some nights I have caught a low blood sugar. Now "I won't go there", because we all know the fear that lies in the back of our minds in regards to night time low blood sugar; but let me just say, that living with type one diabetes means that sometimes just closing your eyes and falling asleep at night can be one of the scariest things in the world.

Being a type one diabetic is something that I never expected would come about in my life. For eleven, almost twelve years I lived a life that didn't know type one diabetes, but is a distant memory to me now and my life is very different from what it used to be. However looking back on the past five years has made me remember that despite type one diabetes I still have a life. Yes, it has taken up a huge proportion of my life but it is not all my life. I always say this, but it is true and I have to remember that being a type one diabetic is not all that I am; although it has helped to shape me more as a person. However that "shaping" has come from struggle and I do not like that; but I have realised that in order to let type one diabetes have that positive affect on you as a person while it tries to make all the negative ones, you need to have the right attitude to the disease. But it's hard to find it. And I can tell you that this attitude that I have developed towards it did not occur overnight, I didn't just wake up the next morning after being diagnosed and try embrace what I had just been diagnosed with,it took me time and even now I struggle to find positivity in what diabetes puts me through. I mean after all, it's not easy to embrace a life-long chronic disease that could be potentially life-threatening and poses about a gazillion health risks...

I have spent many nights staring at the ceiling just wanting to cry, some days I want to cry and scream and shake my fist, I want to question type one diabetes, I want to question why I was given this disease. Because some days it just feels so unfair. Yes, it could be worse, and in comparison to what other people have to go through I know that I haven't been dealt the worst cards in the world thank goodness, but type one diabetes is what it is. It can still threaten my life, it still requires a life of needles and finger pricking, it still evokes many different emotions, it still causes worry and fear and stress, not just for me but for those that I love too. It still makes me fear even going to sleep at night  Some days I just have no words for it all. I try to stay positive about it and be strong but some days it just kicks my butt and there is no denying it. And sometimes no matter just how hard that I try to be strong and I try to be positive, those feelings seem to be a world away at times. But miraculously in some of the moments that I have just felt so beaten down by type one diabetes I have still managed to smile.

At times I don't want the responsibility, I do not want the responsibility for my own life, but I know that I have to. I have to do it because if I don't then I would't get very far! It just seems wrong. It seems wrong that my body can't keep me alive by itself any more. It's just crazy to think about it. But to take responsibility means to accept it, and that is what I did the very first day I was diagnosed and I still do. I accepted it. I have accepted the life that I had just been so abruptly thrown into. Despite all of the struggles it has put me through and despite all of the negative emotions diabetes has evoked and despite all of the needles and the hospital admissions and the hospital appointments; I am living my life to the fullest despite type one diabetes, but it's just that sometimes you just need to have a good little rant. Tonight I just felt like I needed a moment to rant about this relentless disease that I live with 24/7. Because after all, I am awake at 1:30am dealing with a high blood sugar that I shouldn't even have to be dealing with, but like I said, I do it because I have to.

I can't just "take a break" from my ever-changing blood sugars, I can't get into bed at night without making sure that my blood sugar is okay, I can't leave the house without my diabetic supplies, I can't just start eating my food when it comes to breakfast lunch and dinner...that requires a lot of maths; working out carbohydrates, insulin dosages, correction doses etc. I can't fall asleep without glucose tablets by my bedside, I can't go on holiday without packing a bag full of supplies, I can't even go for a walk without packing a bag full of supplies.

But what I CAN do is learn not to focus on what I can't do.

Because actually, there is one big CAN and that is that I can take what diabetes has put me through and use it to raise awareness and use it to help make me a better and a stronger person. I can take something positive away from the challenge that is type one diabetes. But there is also one more can't, and this is one which I probably should focus on.  I cannot let type one diabetes break my spirits. I cannot let it win. There are many times when I have let it, I have felt so discouraged that I have let the negative aspect of this disease come over me but  I just can't let it do that, because to let it win would mean that I gave up, and that's not an option.

Ah, a life with type one diabetes is just so crazy but it's alright because I've got this, and with the love and support of my parents and family and friends then I know I can fights diabetes.

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CONCERT DATE: April 27, 1975 (2:30 pm). Lakeland, FL.

The King Is Here
by Jeff Kline
Lake Ledger
April 28, 1975

They started arriving around 12 noon. A heterogeneous conglomerate of people: young, old, middle-aged male: female dressed elegantly and simply; some covering everything, other covering not so much.

They had a common goal, however, this plethora of humanity. For today, a 40-year old, slightly overweight man was going to spend an hour singing to them all.

The man was Elvis Presley. "The King" as some call him. A super-superstar singer and entertainer; a man who has become a legend in his own time and an institution in American music history.

The crowd was very orderly, very calm. The doors opened on schedule at 1pm. and the crowd, which eventually number more than 8,100 filled there way into the Lakeland Civic Center arena.

Though Elvis is best know for his pop style music, the crowd was composed of relatively few teenagers. It appeared the majority of the people were middle-aged who came to see the man they screamed and fainted over in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Some came a good distance to see their idol. One woman from Vero Beach said folks back home were envious and offered to buy her tickets, an offer she refused.

Some, like Charlotte Gavin of Lakeland, had waited a long time to see Elvis. "This is the first time I've ever seen him". Mrs. Gavin, who is 84 said, proving that it is never to late.

Scalpers were few and far between and for the most part seemed to be having a bad business day. Vendors selling Presley picture programs for $2 and $3, or Presley buttons for $1 or posters for $2, along with the souvenir hawkers inside who offered Elvis scarves and eight track tapes for $5, seemed to be doing better business.

At exactly 2:30pm, the lights dimmed and the 12 piece orchestra started playing. Leading off the evening was the vocal group "Voices" who sang a couple of songs. Next came comedian Jackie Kahane, who for the most part received only polite laughter for his efforts.

Things picked up when "The Sweet Inspiration" performed. But still, the audience wanted Elvis.

An intermission that seemed to last a lifetime finally passed. Then the lights dimmed, the orchestra played the theme song from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." The drummer started pounding an insistent rhythm, a spotlight focused on the rear of the stage, and Elvis slowly climbed the steps and walked out greeted by a chorus of screams and cheers from the crowd. Grabbing his guitar, he started wailing out a song, punctuating the words with pelvis thrusts, each of which brought screams from his female admirers.

Shedding the guitar, he began taking scarves from an assistant, wearing them for a few seconds, maybe wiping his brow before giving them to some lucking woman, even an occasion bending to kiss the lucky lady; an act that brought more females to the edge of the stage hoping for some of the same.

Presley looked overweight, as well as a little tired, as he worked his way through a program of old and new songs. The concert settled down, became almost passive. Apparently aware of this, Presley performed a combination of "Dixie" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" a combination that brought many to their feet at its conclusion.

Another song or two and then it was over. "God bless you and take it easy." Presley said as he prepared to leave the stage.

Fans left their seats and went to the stage happy to capture a scarf or get a kiss, or maybe just thankful for the opportunity to be near their idol.

But, "This King" finally had to leave the stage. The audience filed out only to be greeted by hawkers again, this time selling "Elvis Jewelry." and trying to entice customers by mentioning they could, "take Elvis home with you", by buying some jewelry.

"I'll take Elvis" one woman replied to a vendor's plea to purchase a necklace.

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Each message in chat is prefixed with a single letter, signifying the channel it is coming from. For example T means Town and L means Local.

Chatting in Town World - Town ChannelEdit

The Town chat channel can only be used in the Town world. It allows you talk with anyone in Town. If you are having a conversation with someone close to you, it is courteous to use local instead (/chat local).

Chatting in Other Worlds - Local ChannelEdit

In the other worlds, such as Wilderness and Nether, chat is limited to the local channel. This means you can only chat with people that are within 100 blocks of you. You can still private message with anyone in the server regardless of their location.

Supporters ChannelEdit

Supporters have access to their own private channel. This channel can be accessed from anywhere on the server and is not restricted to a local area.

Chat Commands and UsageEdit

/chat Channel Sets your active channel, all future messages you send will be directed to this channel Example: /chat town Example (shortcut): /c t' '/chat who Tells you who will hear any messages you send (to your active channel).

Ignoring Annoying PlayersEdit

It is possible to ignore a player so you will no longer see messages from them. This also means they will not be able to private message you and you also wont see join/leave messages from them.

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Ferrari's Montezemolo scolds Alonso with public rebuke

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July 29, 2013 « Ferrari confirms Allison's arrival | Australia's first F1 driver dies aged 93 »
Luca di Montezemolo has reminded Fernando Alonso that the team comes first © Sutton Images

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has issued a public scolding of Fernando Alonso following comments made by the Spaniard at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Although Ferrari did not make reference to the exact comment that angered the its boss, Alonso was quoted in the Italian press saying he would like a faster car for his birthday on July 29 while he told English journalists that Ferrari had produced new parts at recent races that were not working.

In an article on its website, Ferrari said Montezemolo felt that "there is a need to close ranks, without giving in to rash outbursts that, while understandable in the immediate aftermath of a bad result, are no use to anyone."

It added: "That was a reference to the latest comments from Fernando Alonso, which did not go down well with Montezemolo, nor with anyone in the team. So, when Montezemolo called the Spaniard this morning to wish him a happy birthday, he also tweaked his ear."

The article went on to directly quote part of what Montezemolo said to Alonso.

"All the great champions who have driven for Ferrari have always been asked to put the interests of the team above their own," the Ferrari president told his driver. "This is the moment to stay calm, avoid polemics and show humility and determination in making one's own contribution, standing alongside the team and its people both at the track and outside it."

The rebuke is the first public schism between team and driver since Alonso joined in 2010, and comes after stories emerged over the weekend that his manager may have approached Red Bull about its vacant race seat in 2014. Alonso now lies 39 points adrift of Sebastian Vettel in the drivers' championship and said on Sunday said that his team needed to get on top of its issues at the next few races after recent upgrades failed to improve the car.

"At Silverstone we did a step backwards with the performance of the car," he said. "For the Nurburging we came back to some old parts on the car and the behaviour was much more normal, and then at the Young Driver Test we had the confirmation that we needed to go back to some parts we used previously.

"Now we understand the car, we understand the problems.We know that we produced a car that was not working and in a way it is normal to have this deficit now because the car we are driving is with the very old parts.

"Over the summer we need to make the step forward that we thought we should make at Silverstone. We need these couple of tenths that did not appear to come immediately for Spa and Monza to have the same performance with the cars we are fighting for the world championship."


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Ever since the dawn of smartphones, humankind has yearned to accomplish one thing: walk around and look at the screen without actually holding the darn thing.

There have been many attempts to accomplish this valiant goal – ramen phone holders, an inflatable bath pillow holder, and RocketNews24’s own DIY clothes-hanger holder.

But all of those pale in comparison to the ultimate smartphone accessory: the swan-head phone holder that extends out of your crotch.

Watch this thing of beauty in action here or scroll down for the highlights.

▼ That’s the look of satisfaction only having a goose head
coming out of your crotch area can really give you.

▼ Just imagine the possibilities! You could accessorize by wearing
cat ears with your goose at a maid cafe dinner…

▼ …or take it to work for the ultimate water cooler conversation topic.

▼ Just be careful not to get it caught in the elevator. Yeowch!

▼ Unless, of course, that was your plan all along to get attention.

Here’s how netizens reacted online to this ingenious invention:

“This is exactly what I need to ensure that my social anxiety will lessen in public.”

“If this becomes the next big thing, I’m going to jump out a window.”

“This invention actually seems super good for your spine and neck. Finally can use a phone comfortably while looking straight ahead.”

“Too bad you can’t actually buy this. It was just created as an April Fool’s Joke.”

Unfortunately that netizen is correct. The video was created by the Japanese company Animax last year as a funny way to advertise their anime streaming service. So if you want a swan crotch-phone-holder of your own, you’re going to have to get quacking on building your own.

But if that’s too much work and you’re looking for an easier way to look ridiculous in public, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

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Exclusive Outdoor Wedding Ceremony at “Potapovo” Farm in Moscow Region

Chamber style and great service

To deliver you the most of comfort and privacy the Farm will be at your full exclusive disposal from your arrival to your departure. Our team will be at your full exclusive disposal all over your stay.

We are happy to offer you:

  • Event Hall “Carriage hall” (from 30 to 200 pers.);
  • Open-air ground “Сйккшйпу Yard” can accommodate a pavilion (up to 200 pers.)
  • Main Guest House: lunch and degustation halls (up to 30 pers.)

On top of the above:

  • swimming pool, sauna and Russian bath;
  • billiard: Russian and American;
  • cinema hall, children playroom and playfield;
  • parking, paved yard, walking paths and alleys, ponds located at the great well-conditioned territory of 20 Ha.

Moreover you will have the chance to use all outdoor sports facilities. Horse riding on Argentine polo pony or polo game supervised by trainers will help you to keep the brightest souvenirs of the wedding ceremony held at the Farm.

Exclusive Interiors

Cozy and spacey Alpine farms style guest rooms can accommodate up to 37 guests. The rooms are equipped with all comfort items for pleasant stay (plasma TV, mini-bar, WI-FI, air-conditioning, king-size bed and other equipment). Romantic bedroom with white baldachin will definitely offer pleasant relax hours after wedding rush to just married.

Welcome cocktail for your guests precedes the gala dinner. Depending on your preferences we will be glad to offer you farm’s products menu, seasonal fruits and vegetables, wide range of wines, cocktails and of course Champaign.

Entries, village sandwiches, pickles and sweets, small stuffed puffs, meat on small brochettes. Everything is possible!

We can install tables and chairs in the yard on the green in front of the central entry near the pond to offer you the chance to admire the nature in the shadow of parasols or wide-branching trees.

Arrival of Just Married Couple

The arrival of groom and bride to the wedding event is one of the most long-expected and intriguing moments of the celebration.

“Potapovo” Farm offers you an opportunity to make romantic journey on an open coach decorated with natural floors. In winter you can enjoy a journey on a beautiful sled covered with atlas and velvet.

Our retro car is able to excite your guests. The splendid arrival of the car will definitely contribute to the wedding ceremony. Your appearance in front of guests will highlight refined and unique style of the event.

The field gala ceremony at the farm can be held outdoor on the large green surrounded by the forest and horse riding paths. We suggest running the chamber and romantic ceremony and exchange of pinky swears near the cool and clean pond.

The beauty of rural scenery and the flavors of wild flowers will shape unique romantic atmosphere. Love confession under sun shine and birds songs will remain all over the life.

Horse Polo

Noblesse of Horse Polo

Потапово Поло“Potapovo” Polo Farm offers the unique opportunity in Moscow Region to watch the demonstrative polo match during the wedding ceremony. You will remember it all over your life. Attending horse polo is the most elegant and unusual entertainment you can imagine. The polo game will sweep you and your guests. Polo is the most spectacular and noble sport very wide spread among aristocrats and attracts as usual the attention of royalties.

Unique Gala Menu

For the gala dinner we offer dishes of pork, lamb, beef, rabbit and bird bred at the farm and prepared according to traditional technologies with no food additives and preservatives.

The main courses prepared on your request in Russian stove on birch and pine wood can become the real flavor of the evening.

For any farmer dish our sommelier will offer the right beverages to complete meat, wild fowl, fish and cheese.

Refined tables servicing with French porcelain, forged candleholders, embroidered tablecloths and napkins will add to the event the needed gala and warm and cozy atmosphere.

Second Day

Second Day of the Wedding

It’s a great idea to bring all the guests in the park for the lunch, outdoor or in the lunch hall.

After a hearty lunch the guests will be able to relax freely in the swimming pool, Russian bath, billiard play or just walk somewhere in the farm.

Additional Services

“Potapovo” farm offers you support in selecting music theme and flower decors. We will take care of sweet gifts for your guests, wedding cake, accessories and wedding photo shoot decor and other multiple small things to make your event magic, unique and unforgettable.

Gifts for “Potapovo” Farm Guests

Small souvenirs on your wedding will offer your guests a piece of the celebration. The souvenirs will become lovely surprises for your guests in the room or before the departure.

Homemade jam (strawberry, raspberry, apple, pear, pumpkin with orange, wine berry) by “Potapovo” Farm.

Wedding Photo Shoot at the Farm

On the territory of the farm you will find a lot of unique scenic corners to make great precious pictures. An impressive set of accessories owned by the farm will be at your disposal such as horses, Argentine polo pony, polo accessories. All the above creates bucolic style atmosphere that will make your pictures full of poetic charm.

Flower Decor

Venue for the wedding ceremony, coach, lunch hall, cocktail tables, ceremonial staircase can be decorated with refined flower compositions village romanticism style.

Стойки для подачи коктейля, обеденные столы и стойки для приема десерта могут быть украшены элегантными букетами

Wedding Cake

- this is one of the ways to make your event miraculous and memorable. At the culminating point of the event our masters will make their best to amaze you and your guests with wonderful cooking masterpiece.

Wedding Accessories

In order to make your wedding ceremony very well thought in every detail “Potapovo” Farm offers you handmade wedding accessories collection: small vintage pillow for rings, natural flower confetti, garlands, table signs and many other things.

Background Music

Live music during cocktail party or gala dinner will establish a special mood all over the evening. Depending on your music preferences we will support you in selecting musicians, jazz bands, wind bands and chamber orchestra.

Fees for wedding ceremonies at “Potapovo” Farm

Summer season

(from 01.05 to 31.10)

Winter season

(from 01.11 to 30.04)

Exclusive rent of the Carriage hall

250 000 Rub. 200 000 Rub.

Bedroom “Mezhev” for just married

(flowers, fruits, Champaign)

free free
Wedding dinner from 3 700 Rub./pers. from 3 700 Rub./pers.
Wedding cocktail from 500 Rub./pers. from 500 Rub./pers.

Rent of the green for wedding ceremony

20 000 Rub. 20 000 Rub.

Demo polo game

(depending on weather conditions)

Special agreement Special agreement

“Potapovo” Farm takes care of wedding ceremony if the order amount for services is over 500 000 Rub.

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На Ферме в Потапово Вы можете устроить незабываемую свадьбу. А так же провести деловую встречу, семинар или семейное торжество.

Address, phones

  • Address: 143116, Moscow region, Ruzsky rayon, Potapovo 61/1
  • Tel: +7(926) 523-37-20
  • Fax: +7(495) 721-25-21
  • Email: fermapotapovo@gmail.com
  • GPS: N55° 49' 636"  E36° 02' 131"
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Thursday, 30 July 2015

Student Blogging: Travel, Tourism, Migration

Finally, I feel like getting down to blogging again. In this post, I'd like to continue sharing some ideas about a blogging project I did with my students. There have been several posts about it, so this time I'll write about the task my students particularly enjoyed.

The topic we were working on was related to travel, tourism and migration. In order to practice vocabulary in different ways, I offered them to do role play situations on travel and tourism and to do the blog task on migration issues. Prior to desinging this course, I managed to find some great resources to help my students learn more about this topic and explore the usage of vocabulary related to it. One of such resources is the interactive activity developed by the Tenement Museum. By doing this activity, students can learn more about immigrants to the USA in the early XX century and their everyday lives. They can take on a personality of an immigrant and explore the harsh realities of their journey and daily struggles. In this quest, they are accompanied by video stories of Victoria, an immigrant girl, who shows them all ins and outs of immigrant life in New York a century ago.

As my students were completing this quest, they had to accomplish the following task:

In this activity, you will get acquainted with the realities faced by immigrants in the USA around a century ago. As you enter the site, press "i" for instructions.

You will have to choose an immigrant character for yourself and follow further steps.  A girl called Victoria will be your guide in this adventure. After you have completed all the stages of this game you will be offered to send Victoria a postcard. This is the base for your blogpost (you don't have to do the task on the game site; you should write a letter in your blog):

Write a letter (200-250 words, 20-25 active words and expressions) to Victoria describing your imagined experience based on the choices you made throughout the game (mention as many details as possible) and your imagination. Make sure you include some facts from Victoria's stories too. Also, paste an image of your immigrant passport and any other pictures you  consider relevant.

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What are the official rules for playing Ultimate?

How to Play the Game of Ultimate

The flow of the game is simple. Offensive team members move the disc closer to their opponents' end zone by passing it from one player to another.

The disc can be thrown in any direction, but once a player catches it, she must come to a stop as quickly as possible and only move her pivot foot until she throws the disc. However, she may throw the disc in the few steps it takes her to come to a complete stop.

Players have to pass the disc to a teammate quickly. Once a player catches the disc, she must pass it within a 10-second window called a stall. A defender called a marker must stand within three meters of the thrower and count off each second, conducting a stall count. If no marker can get into this position (or if she forgets to count the stall), the player with the disc is allowed to hold it longer than 10 seconds, until a proper stall is counted.

Of course, every sport has a few rare, exceptional, crowd-pleasing plays, and Ultimate is no different. Like baseball's grand slam and golf's hole-in-one, Ultimate has a play called "the world's greatest," or "the greatest" for short. The greatest occurs when a player jumps from in bounds to catch a disc that is flying out of bounds and throws it back to a teammate before any part of her body or the disc itself touches the ground. It's as exciting as it sounds and is one more reason Ultimate has become so popular and continues to attract new fans and players.


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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Kardashian has become a dad to a daughter – the Express newspaper

Now Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna welcomed their little daughter.

According to TMZ, was born the child by caesarean and the couple have already decided the name.

the Daughter should be named Dream.

Now is realitystjärnorna Rob Kardashian, 29, and Blac Chyna, 28, parents.

In the morning, local time, was born the little girl at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to TMZ.

She must have weighed about 3.3 kilograms when she saw the light of day after a planned cesarean section.

Blac Chyna, arrived to the hospital in good time and prepared in a luxurious suite. Her mother-in-law Kris Jenner, 60, should have arrived to the hospital in connection to the birth with his new love, Corey Gamble, 35.

Whether or not the father Rob Kardashian was on-hand is not clear. The couple has recently had a tough time, and a month ago, they should have chosen to gone their separate ways.

He teaches no matter what do not miss out on his daughter’s first seconds of life. The birth should have been followed by a tv-team for the couple’s joint reality series “Rob & Chyna”.

READ MORE: the Family’s concern for Rob Kardashian

the Couple shall, according to the data, having already agreed on what their daughter should be named; namely, Dream Renee Kardashian.

The first to officially comment on the Kardashian family’s new addition was rob’s sister Khloe.

My new niece is absolutely irresistible! I am so grateful that I could be with and witness this miracle happen! Praise God!, she says, according to TMZ.

READ MORE: Kardashian releases nude pictures in new book

It was at the end of the year which it started is rumored that Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna were a couple. It wasn’t long before the news was confirmed, and as the icing on the cake, asked Rob to Blac in april with a ring that should have cost about 325 000 sek.

almost A month later announced the pregnancy.

Blac Chyna have a 3-year-old son along with the exet Tyga same Tyga that has a relationship with rob’s little sister Kylie Jenner for the past two years.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

New remix online!

My friends of Bombay Show Pig have a nice little project going. They have a minisite where they release a new remix of their "Baby, it's a face" EP every week. You all know that 3 is the magic number, so it's no surprise this little unicorn here has got something to do with it.

Look out for a tune called Top of Mind and make sure you download it.

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George Washington: Thanksgiving Proclamation

Thanksgiving Dinner Topics Before the mad rush to shop for Christmas on Black Friday, let us pause to give thanks to God–not the government– for our daily bread. Many of our ancestors came to America for liberty. If it weren’t … Continue reading →

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There has been limited field research in the literature on international marketing and international business in the examination of the relative successes by firms in implementing global marketing strategies through their overseas subsidiaries in competition with one another abroad. The focus of this paper on this neglected area has been the conduct of primary research with American and Japanese firms to examine the internationalization of their marketing strategies through their subsidiaries to enhance their competiveness in an overseas market, the UK. The research programme implemented in both the US and Japan with senior company personnel involved with the international marketing function was to examine their marketing perceptions and attitudes with reference to the UK market. The subsequent analyses sought to isolate their evaluations of the various components of their international marketing strategies and their supporting managerial structures.

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Hening P, Hayu and Hanifah, Riza (2011) PROJECT PEMBUATAN MEDIA INTERNAL FISCOMM ( FISIP COMMUNITY ). Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences .

Internal media of internal communication media within an organization or company. Internal media published for purposes of internal organization, especially public organizations. The goal for the internal public are informed about policies and activities implemented company. So the vision and mission can be conveyed best through internal media. Thus, internal media publishing is a communication activities to meet the interests of the two parties, organizations or corporate interests and the interests of public internal. The title of the internal media Fisip Undip is "FIScomm" which stands for Community Fisip which could have a meaning that is, a container or means consisting of a large family Fisip Undip that serves as a medium aspiration, input, opinions, information, entertainment, and certainly also related policies Fisip Undip, as well as information that is instructive and informative, fresh and up to date. Internal media FIScomm is an internal media published every three months. Powered by a design that is not monotonous, colourfull, design and artwork, namely the combination of the abstract artwork and photo illustration. The content of our magazine is 40% under the theme of the organization, 20% and 40% non-organization of entertainment. The content of our magazine are: Cover, non-commercial advertising, editorial notes, content (content), image branding, technology, education, reviews, top news, inspiring, information, culinary, fashion, inboxmail, articles, travel. In making the internal medium, the writer served as editor as well as reporters. An editor assigned to conduct the process of editing (editing), an opinion editorial, proposing and writing news / photos to be loaded, giving direction to all the editorial team of the news that will be loaded on every issue, directing and fostering reporter in search of news and catch up news sources , determine the appropriateness of a news, photos, and design for a publishing house, planning the content for each issue, develop, nurture, build a lobby with news sources. While the task is to find a reporter and news sources are assigned to interview the editor, write the interview. Internal media FIScomm still far from perfection, so we desperately need the criticism and constructive suggestions from readers.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Egypt Thursday, continuing Washington’s warming of relations with Cairo during the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

Mattis met with Egyptian Defense Minister Sedki Sobhy and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, whose White House visit earlier this month was the first by an Egyptian leader since former U.S. President Barack Obama hosted Hosni Mubarak in 2009.

Political upheaval in 2011 ousted Mubarak and started years of turmoil that brought the authoritarian former general Sissi to power.

Middle East expert James Gelvin, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, told VOA much of the Trump administration’s policy is aimed at being anti-Obama.

“In other words, [Trump] looks at what Obama did and says, ‘I’m going to do something very, very different,’” Gelvin said.

After meeting with Egyptian officials, Mattis laid a wreath at Cairo’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, before departing for Israel – his third stop on the Middle East tour that began in Saudi Arabia.

Tough on terror

While in Egypt, Mattis was expected to push the country, which is struggling with political, financial and security issues, to remain tough on counter-terrorism amid a threat in the Sinai Peninsula and even in some urban areas, as shown in the deadly Palm Sunday attacks on Coptic churches in Alexandria and Tanta claimed by Islamic State militants.

“It seems that this threat is growing. The first thing is, get your own house in order, Egypt,” Brian Katulis, a senior fellow for national security at the Center for American Progress, told VOA.

Katulis said Mattis and others in the Trump administration should lean on allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to make sure partner efforts on the ground in Iraq, Syria, Yemen or Libya do not “simply fragment these countries” and instead connect to “actually isolating terrorist and extremist groups [while] also consolidating power in these countries.”

In Libya, the U.S. has thus far supported the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord while providing airstrikes to help Libyans push Islamic State out of the country. Egypt also has bombed Islamic State targets in Libya but has instead backed Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar.

Libya on agenda

One U.S. official told VOA he hopes Libya will be a topic Mattis discusses in Cairo Thursday, adding that the “most important thing in Libya is that Libyans do not allow ISIS to regain a foothold there.”

Egypt’s support of Haftar is a “bigger problem” that could cause Libya to further unravel, Katulis said, but added that the issue needs to be mediated by someone outside the Pentagon rather than Mattis.

“It needs somebody who is thinking of the broader strategy in Libya and the Middle East, and a worry that I have here is that I don’t see that person yet inside of the Trump administration,” he told VOA.

Russian influence

Furthermore, reports of Russian military members setting up on a base in western Egypt have been disputed by Egyptian officials. U.S. officials have said a Russian deployment there could be a bid to help bolster Haftar in Libya.

One U.S. official told VOA Wednesday the U.S. is not concerned about Russian influence in Egypt.

“We will explain to the Egyptians, as we have to other Arab countries in the region, that getting too close to Russia is not in their best interest,” the official said.

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Friday, June 12, 2009

skate deck

Here is a photo of my deck when I thought it was done. I took it to school with me and ended up working on it over my lunch period. I think it is much more resolved now.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

I'm Sorry, Cora Campbell

“Oh my god, can you believe that’s the Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game? She sounds like a teenager!” I said as I listened to Commissioner Cora Campbell during a radio interview not long after her confirmation in 2011.  She was 31, pretty, and I assumed had gotten the job as a result of more of the oh-so-common insider Alaska political shenanigans.

Fast forward to 2014. I was working as part of the team putting together the 2nd Alaska Women’s Summit and we wanted to include Commissioner Campbell. We decided to ask her to be on a panel that felt a little crazy. The panel was called “Redefining Like a Girl” and began with a viewing of the short video put together last year by the Girl Scouts and Always (watch it and be prepared to get weepy and hopeful).

The panel included Iditarod hero Deedee Jonrowe, Olympic skier Holly Brooks, Special Olympic Athlete Ayesha Abdul-Jilil, and Commissioner Cora Campbell.  When I pitched the panel to the Commissioner’s staff, I described the panel as a discussion of the way these woman had dealt with stereotypes, as athletes, and in the Commissioner’s case, possibly as an outdoors-woman? It felt like a stretch, but somehow I felt like the panel would actually be an interesting place for the Commissioner.

What resulted was a surprising conversation, especially between Deedee Jonrowe and Commissioner Campbell (you can watch the panel discussion here). These two whip-smart, driven, and articulate women had each spent their careers battling the same kinds of stereotypes, and both seemed to feel that the directions of their lives had been altered as a direct response to those battles. Each of them had been underestimated, looked down on, patronized, and each of them had come out swinging for the fences. They each spoke about being a woman in a culture that has a systematic and sometimes subtle way of telling women that they’re not good enough.

And as I listened to the panel, I realized that I had done the same thing to Cora Campbell. I had made assumptions about her intelligence and experience based off of the fact that she was a pretty, young woman. I consider myself a feminist, and a pretty well-informed one at that, and I had made all those same negative assumptions about Cora Campbell. I was part of the problem.

I was shocked. Like most young professional women, I’ve been there. I’ve had both men and women say things to me that they would never say to a man in my position, make assumptions about my intelligence, my ambition, and my capabilities. AND I HAD DONE THE SAME THING TO ANOTHER WOMAN. And the worst part? I’m sure it wasn’t the one and only time. These kinds of societal expectations are so insidious, so “natural” that they feel like it’s just the way world works.

I’ve mentioned a couple of times now that I thought Cora Campbell was pretty. I think that has something to do with the way I responded to her. I recently worked in an office full of intelligent, ambitious, savvy women, who all also happened to be gorgeous and fashionable. Over, and over again I watched these women being taken for granted, talked down to, and underestimated by both men and women. Yes, sometimes you can use the fact that you’re being underestimated to your advantage (hello, sneak attacks!), but it still feels shitty. And frustrating. And infuriating. And even when I would try and empathize with whoever it was that was making these assumptions (usually older men, although not always), I couldn’t help but hope that I was witnessing a dying breed.

This morning I read Hana Schank’s piece in Aeon “Why Don’t More Women Play Chess” and was reminded again of how this issue is not just about changing societal stereotypes, it’s about being more aware, being more thoughtful, really looking at how we teach and how we talk to all people, not just young women. It’s about checking every assumption we make and allowing the people around us to grow in whatever way they’re capable of.

It's a tall order. But they say the first step is admitting you have a problem, right?

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Thank You, David Shayt

I didn’t care what internship I got, just as long as I got one there. The National Museum of American History’s website listed the likely projects that each intern would be working on and the required experience for each position. I applied to every single internship that I even vaguely qualified for.

I was 19, a displaced Alaskan girl finishing up my first year at the hippiest of hippy liberal arts schools, Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. I had declared myself a History major immediately and was shocked to find myself one of maybe four in the school. I had some wild dream that I was going to teach high-school history in rural villages on the West Coast of Alaska.

It was 2002 and I wound up with an internship doing “object processing” for the one year anniversary exhibit of 9/11.

“Four people applied, but I thought that since you were from Alaska, you might be able to help more with some of these posters I collected,” David explained when I arrived for my first day. I thought this was doubtful, but he seemed pleased enough that I could find Kotzebue on a map without assistance.

With the eyebrows and voice of Eugene Levy, David’s lilting monologues on the history of Crayola’s color names and the functionality of silly putty were mesmerizing. He was fascinated and fascinating. The project David had brought me to work on, doing back-ground research and file building for four items collected at Ground Zero took me about three weeks. For the next three months I was directed along the path of the David Shayt School of Museum Studies, loaned out to anyone who would have me.

It was clear within those first few weeks that my internship was not like any of the other internships at the museum. Looking back, I’m certain David didn’t need an intern, but rather delighted in sharing his own passion and wonder. He told me how he had always loved the Museum of American History. He started out at 18 in the basement in the print-shop, back when all the materials for the museum were printed on actual printing presses. He did a stint in the Marine Corps, went to college, but then he returned to the museum. He wanted to be a curator, but he didn’t have a Ph.D., so instead he became an expert in all the things the museum didn’t have an expert in: bell casting, ivory carving, silly putty, crayons, coffin making, lunch boxes, wood-working tools, yo-yos, and on, and on, slowly building the curator position he had always wanted.

He showed me Foucault’s Pendulum, tragically stored in a wooden box. He let me touch Indiana Jones’ hat. He sent me to spend three weeks writing tiny catalog numbers on Julia Childs’ kitchen utensils. He sent me to the Library of Congress to do photographic research, which then turned into my excuse to get a LOC library card, granting me access into the holy of holies, the Jefferson Reading Room. He told me about Washington’s scandalous nipple. He took me into the bowels of the museum to see the old steam generators that used to pump life into the various industrial machines on display when the museum had been called the Museum of History and Technology.

He was in charge of making sure the bell in the tower of “The Castle” was in working order, so even though the entirety of the rooftops along the mall had strictly become off-limits in the post-9/11 world, we were allowed. We would go up and eat our sandwiches in the blessed breeze, looking down on the broad expanse of green grass and white marble.

I came out of his care confused, questioning, dreaming, in awe, and no longer a history major.

I ran into him six years later, surprisingly, in Juneau. He had come up for a museum conference that my boyfriend’s band was playing. I had crashed the party. I recognized him from across the room with his signature satchel bag and his smooth stride. He told me how enchanted he was by Juneau’s “gentle sparkling streams.”

I think about David several times a year.

A few years ago I tried googling him to see if I could find an address to send a letter to him, to check in, to thank him for a strange and wonderful summer, but instead I found an obituary. So I wrote a letter to his wife, sent to what appeared to be her work address, trying to let her know that her husband had touched my life in a way that I couldn’t explain. How sorry I was for her family.

How sorry I was that I had never told him.


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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

More Breathing Squats

HUGE morning in the gym today. Warmed up to a 2X Max back squat, yes, read warmup. Hit a new max of 155# for 2 and 160# for 1. I so have a huge 1RM PR in my legs. Last PR was 150# for 1x so big gains here.

Second part was more breathing squats.  20 resps of 75% of your max.  Last time I worked at 115# and made the jump to 125#.  Holy focus and concentration here. That load was heavy, but I did it and was so proud. it felt great.

Felt totally weird and wired all morning. It was so strange. Wasn't sure if it was the adrenaline or the protein shake i ate for breakfast. We'll see how tomorrow goes.

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Viewpoint: State, feds should pay greater share of special education

No one disputes that children with special needs in school districts should have special services.

Who should pay for those services is an issue that demands your attention, because the Minnesota Legislature wants to freeze dollars they pay to help fund salaries and some special equipment for special education.

This is important for people to understand, because school districts by law must provide the services, even though they don’t have enough federal and state aid to pay for them.

The result is school districts are subsidizing special education services from their general operating funds. To make up that loss in the general fund, school districts either must cut expenses for all students or increase the property tax levy.

In other words, to avoid increasing taxes at the state level, the Republican majorities are kicking the mandated expense to the local school districts already struggling with money problems.

Those subsidies are called cross subsidies, and for districts, particularly growing ones, those subsidies are substantial.

For example, in Elk River, the subsidy last year taken from the general fund was $8 million and with the freeze, it is projected to go up another $1 million in 2012 and $1.75 million in 2013.

Another example is Anoka-Hennepin, where $28 million was taken from the general fund in 2009 to make up the shortfall to fund special education services. With the proposed freeze and a projected growth of 2 percent, that subsidy could go up $4.5 million more next school year and $6.75 million more the following year.

Why is this happening?

When the federal government passed the law requiring an individual education plan for each special needs child, it expected to pay 40 percent of that cost. Looking to years 2012 and 2013, it’s projected by the State Department of Education that the federal share of the excess special education costs will be 14 percent for each of the next two years, not the goal of 40 percent.

The state of Minnesota was to make up the difference, but has frozen its annual contribution, which will result in a shortfall for school districts to pick up of $200 million in 2011–12 and $230 million in 2012–13. By freezing special education funding for the next two years, property taxpayers will be picking up the shortfall. Legislators know the public won’t blame them for short-changing special education funding. Local school boards will be blamed because they have no choice but to raise property taxes for this expensive but necessary education and services for special needs children.

It is time for the federal and state governments to pay a greater share of these costs rather than leaving it up to the local property taxpayers. — Don Heinzman, ECM Publishers

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Chapter 1: Three approaches

In this chapter we briefly discuss three approaches to measuring well-being, single-measure approaches, objective approaches and subjective account approaches. It particularly argues the case for subjective accounts. At the end of the chapter there is a short exercise using life satisfaction data to whet your analysis appetite for the following chapters.

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Title: The three-dimensional combination of absolute and relative coordinates derived from satellite and terrestrial methods.
Author: Sutisna, S.
Awarding Body: University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Title: Chinese culture and the nature of supervisory experience : a study of the impact of Chinese ideology on the organizational experience of supervisors in Singapore.
Author: Lim, Gin Swee Christopher.
Awarding Body: Brunel University
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Title: On ferroelectric polymer transducers and imaging arrays.
Author: Chen, Qing-Xin.
Awarding Body: University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology,
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Title: The dynamics of perfect steering bogie vehicles and its improvement with a reconfigurable mechanism.
Author: Li, Wei.
Awarding Body: Loughborough University of Technology
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Title: A study of some aspects of the pathogenesis of colorectal neoplasia.
Author: Moorehead, Robert John.
Awarding Body: Queen's University of Belfast
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Date of Award: 1986
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Title: Predicting protein-protein interactions from sequence and structure data
Author: Frusher, Marie J.
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There are two Moons that appear over the World, though popular tradition (and some histories) indicate there was once a third but that it was destroyed ages ago. With typical Ethsharitic creativity in naming, the moons are called the greater moon and the lesser moon, or sometimes referred to by their colors; orange and pink, respectively.

The lesser moon runs through its cycle in about fifteen hours while the greater moon takes 30 days, and was the basis for the Ethsharitic month. One further thing to note is that because the lesser moon has an orbit of less than the day of The World, its orbit is unstable and it will in some millions of years either break up or impact The World.

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