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Permaculture is an ecological design system. It is an approach to finding solutions for sustainability in all our undertakings – a way of looking at such questions as “How do I build an ecologically sound home?”, “How do I decrease my own ecological footprint?”, “How do I direct my money to do good work that restores communities and local economy?”, “How do I grow my own food and create life-affirming conditions for other living things, instead of relying on commercial food supply and all its vices?” – to name a few. Permaculture teaches us how to design natural homes, how to create abundant gardens, plant food forests, how to include backyard animals, how to build biodiversity to protect wildlife, regenerate degraded landscapes and ecosystems, harvest rainwater, develop ethical economies and communities, and much more. As an ecological design system, permaculture focuses on the interconnections between things more than individual parts.

This bomb is far better than any of the simple bombs on this website and all the equipment can be bought in a supermarket. So, have fun!

Step 1 Gathering equipment
First, you will need to get all the things that you are going use. These things will be: an aerosol can, tin foil and sparklers.

Tip
I have tested many types of aerosol cans, but Black and Gold's Air Freshener stands out from the others, by far! It creates a more impressive explosion. You can buy it from almost any supermarket and it is very cheap, ranging from $1-$2. I also recommend that you buy at least 30 sparklers, because the more sparklers you use, the more chance of the bomb being successful.
Step 2 Organizing the equipment
To start, you will need to crush up at least 30 sparklers, but make sure you leave at least one sparkler spare for the fuse. Also, lay out about 50 centimeters (~20 inches) of aluminum foil.

Step 3 Beginning the assembly
Lay out your 50-centimeter piece of foil and find the center of it. Once you have done this, place the aerosol can in the middle and your sparkler dust (which you crushed up earlier) around the aerosol can, making sure that the sparkler dust is spread evenly around the aerosol can. Also, make sure that the sparkler dust is not under the can, otherwise you will have a dud.

Step 4 Preparing the fuse
This is the easiest step. You simply bend the bare wire part of the sparkler upwards.

Step 5 Finishing it off
Place the fuse in the sparkler dust and up against the aerosol can and wrap it all up in the sheet of foil, leaving the end of the fuse clear so that you can light it.

Warning
REMEMBER SAFETY: If you are going to try this, I recommend that you stand a minimum of 100 meters away. From my experience, this bomb will take roughly one minuite to detonate, but this will vary on the length of you fuse and how finely you crushed the sparkler dust. (The finer the sparkler dust is, the faster it will burn. For a bomb like this, you will want the sparkler dust to be in the biggest pieces possible, so that it will burn longer and produce more heat.)

In the 11th century, the Seljuk Turks took over much of the Middle East, occupying Persia during the 1040s, Armenia in the 1060s, and Jerusalem in 1070. In 1071, the Turkish army defeated the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert and captured the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV (r. 1068–71). The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland. Although the Byzantines regrouped and recovered somewhat, they never fully regained Asia Minor and were often on the defensive. The Turks also had difficulties, losing control of Jerusalem to the Fatimids of Egypt and suffering from a series of internal civil wars.[206] The Byzantines also faced a revived Bulgaria, which in the late 12th and 13th centuries spread throughout the Balkans.[207]

The crusades were intended to seize Jerusalem from Muslim control. The First Crusade was proclaimed by Pope Urban II (pope 1088–99) at the Council of Clermont in 1095 in response to a request from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) for aid against further Muslim advances. Urban promised indulgence to anyone who took part. Tens of thousands of people from all levels of society mobilised across Europe and captured Jerusalem in 1099.[208] One feature of the crusades was the pogroms against local Jews that often took place as the crusaders left their countries for the East. These were especially brutal during the First Crusade,[77] when the Jewish communities in Cologne, Mainz, and Worms were destroyed, and other communities in cities between the rivers Seine and Rhine suffered destruction.[209] Another outgrowth of the crusades was the foundation of a new type of monastic order, the military orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, which fused monastic life with military service.[210]

The crusaders consolidated their conquests into crusader states. During the 12th and 13th centuries, there were a series of conflicts between those states and the surrounding Islamic states. Appeals from those states to the papacy led to further crusades,[208] such as the Third Crusade, called to try to regain Jerusalem, which had been captured by Saladin (d. 1193) in 1187.[211][Y] In 1203, the Fourth Crusade was diverted from the Holy Land to Constantinople, and captured the city in 1204, setting up a Latin Empire of Constantinople[213] and greatly weakening the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines recaptured the city in 1261, but never regained their former strength.[214] By 1291 all the crusader states had been captured or forced from the mainland, although a titular Kingdom of Jerusalem survived on the island of Cyprus for several years afterwards.

The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past. The name comes from the paradox's common description as a person who travels to the past and kills their own grandfather, preventing the existence of their father or mother and therefore their own existence.[1] Any inconsistency in past events may be regarded as a grandfather paradox.

The cyberpunk genre emerged in the early 1980s; combining cybernetics and punk,[49] the term was coined by author Bruce Bethke for his 1980 short story Cyberpunk.[50] The time frame is usually near-future and the settings are often dystopian in nature and characterized by misery. Common themes in cyberpunk include advances in information technology and especially the Internet, visually abstracted as cyberspace, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics and post-democratic societal control where corporations have more influence than governments. Nihilism, post-modernism, and film noir techniques are common elements, and the protagonists may be disaffected or reluctant anti-heroes. Noteworthy authors in this genre are William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, and Pat Cadigan. James O'Ehley has called the 1982 film Blade Runner a definitive example of the cyberpunk visual style.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
 David Viscott

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
 Loretta Young

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
 Mother Teresa

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
 Ann Landers

Business-as-usual is changing. The conventional wisdom that capitalism comes at great cost to society is being challenged. Instead, we’ve observed that the most innovative companies are using those same market drivers – the ones that have until now been a cause of such criticism and skepticism –as drivers for positive change in the world.

Fortune’s new “Change the World” list contributes to this trend. As Fortune Editor Alan Murray explains, “It is meant to shine a spotlight on companies that have made significant progress addressing major social problems as a core part of their business strategy.” We at FSG and the Shared Value Initiative lent our expertise to help collect and vet nominations for the list.

This is the first list of its kind in which companies are recognized – and competitively ranked – on business innovations that positively impact pressing social and environmental issues. The presence of such a list in the pages of Fortune is news itself as when we first wrote about shared value in 2011, companies creating shared value were more the exception than the rule. The Fortune “Change the World” List shows us that the concept of aligning business opportunity and social impact is moving into the mainstream.

On the “Change the World” list, you’ll find familiar companies that we’ve highlighted in the past as well as a few surprises – but to be clear, this is not a “good company” ranking. Murray puts it best: “We recognize these are large global companies with complex operations that may be ameliorating one great global problem even as they contribute to another.”

But one thing the “Change the World” companies all have in common is that they recognize the business value in addressing societal needs. In their quest for profits, they are driving innovations that improve health outcomes, make progress on climate change, provide better access to education, and create new economic opportunities for those in poverty. They realize that business can – and must – compete to change the world.

The actual Siege of Kobanî approximately coincided with the American-led intervention in Syria getting serious by starting bombardments on Syrian territory. With the world fearing another massacre in Kobanî, the Americans started to give close air support to the YPG. While most observers expected ISIL to quickly crush the Kurds, the YPG put up a surprising and determined resistance. For months the western media covered a long and fanatical battle between an organization that had just committed genocide (ISIL) and an officially democratic organization (YPG) that employed female fighters and was isolated by Turkey. It was a fight that seemed epic and symbolic of a struggle between good and evil. While it lasted, the YPG was immune to criticism, and when it was over in March 2015 the U.S. and YPG had fought on the same side for half a year.

The title track, Mandylion once again changes the pace of the album and showcases a more ambient as well as fully instrumental sound. The track makes use of a deep sounding flute and synth alongside some sublime vocal parts and plenty of sparkly sounding chimes all to the beat of what sounds like bongo or djembe. This track shows clear influence from bands such as Dead Can Dance.

The next track Sand and mercury keeps the Dead Can Dance vibe going before bursting into a doomy guitar and synth combo. The second half of the song slows down the pace leading to some honest and heartbreaking lines from Anneke and a fitting harmonised guitar outro topped with a reflective Simone de Beauvoir quote read by a .J.R.R. Tolkien – Very touching indeed.