Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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How to make a mini rainforest in a bottle
Equipment that you will need:
A clear, clean, plastic bottle; some soil/compost; any leafy plant; a pair of sharp scissors; some pebbles, stones or shells and some moss.
Method:
Firstly, get your plastic bottle and cut it with you scissors- about 4 inches from the bottom.
Next, tip your pebbles/stones/shells in as this will help with the drainage.
Following this, tip some moss on top of the pebbles/stones/shells so that the soil doesn’t sink into them.
After this, pour your soil into the bottle making sure that it doesn’t heap up.
Finally make a little hole for your plant and put it in.
You can put a plastic animal toy to top it off which you can buy on amazon for about £5.Make sure you water it about every 2 days and keep it in sufficient sunlight.
Now watch your rainforest grow and flourish.
Healthy Eating
Many people all across the world struggle to eat healthily. Here is a picture of how much of what you should be having.
A healthy and balanced diet includes 5 portions of fruit/vegetables a day; 2 portions of fish per week; meat the size of your hand; some dairy products and some carbohydrates.
You should also have 2000 calories a day = girl or 2500 calories = boy, here is how much salt you should have a day:
- 1 to 3 years – 2g salt a day (0.8g sodium)
- 4 to 6 years – 3g salt a day (1.2g sodium)
- 7 to 10 years – 5g salt a day (2g sodium)
- 11 years and over – 6g salt a day (2.4g sodium)
Here is how much sugar you should have a day:.
Men shouldn’t have more than 9 teaspoons daily, while women shouldn’t have more than 6 teaspoons. This amounts to a max of 37.5 grams of sugar or 150 calories from sugar for men, and 25 grams of sugar or 100 calories from sugar for women.
Thanks for reading, I hope it helps 🙂
Trump Trump Trump
WHITEHOUSE
All about Trump
There are various opinions on Donald Trump. Is he going to get impeached? Is he not? Here are a few answers: 1.
Democrats told President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Thursday that he openly and dangerously abused his powers to gain political advantage.
House impeachment managers laid out the evidence for the first of two articles of impeachment against the US leader in the second day of arguments, methodically dismantling Republican claims that Trump did nothing wrong in soliciting electoral help from Ukraine last year.
As the 100 senators sat as jurors, the prosecutors played old videos in which two of the president’s closest defenders said that abuse of power is a clear impeachable offense, puncturing a key White House argument that the US constitution requires a specific crime to remove a president.
“President Trump used the powers of his office to solicit a foreign nation to interfere in our elections for his own personal benefit,” House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler, one of the impeachment managers, told the chamber.
“Since President George Washington took office in 1789, no president has abused his power in this way,” Nadler said.
“The president has repeatedly, flagrantly, violated his oath… The president’s conduct is wrong. It is illegal. And it is dangerous.”
Democrats were planning to spend Thursday’s trial session arguing their case on the first impeachment charge, and take on the second — obstruction of Congress — on Friday.
That will be the prosecution’s final day before Trump’s defense takes the Senate podium from Saturday to Tuesday.
Democrats are hoping to break Republican unity and vote with them to remove the president — an uphill battle given the Republicans’ 53-47 majority in the Senate and Trump’s ability to keep his party in line.
They are also hoping that, ten months before national elections, the nationally televised hearings will sway voters dubious of impeachment that Trump is unworthy of reelection.
After reports that many republicans were absent from much of Wednesday’s session, House Chaplain Barry Black opened the hearing Thursday with a invocation call to listen.
“Lord, help them remember that listening is often more than hearing,” he said. “It can be an empathetic attentiveness that builds bridges and unity.”
At the White House, Trump unleashed a barrage of tweets attacking the process as “loaded with lies and misrepresentations.”
He attacked Adam Schiff, the chief House prosecutor who led the opening arguments Tuesday, in starkly personal terms, calling him “Shifty Schiff,” and retweeted criticism of the California lawmaker made by White House supporters to Fox News.
Nadler, a longtime adversary of the New York real estate tycoon, challenged a key tenet of the president’s legal defense: that neither of the charges against him, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, constituted a criminal charge matching the US Constitution’s stipulation for “high crimes and misdemeanors” for impeachment.
He reached deep into English law for the origins of the phrase, as defining “offenses against the nation itself.”
And he cited the writings of the men who authored the US constitution in the 1780s, the “framers” much hallowed in US history.
“The framers were not naive. They knew that power corrupts,” Nadler said.
“Simply stated, impeachment is the constitution’s final answer to a president who mistakes himself for a king.”
Underscoring the point, he taunted Republicans by playing late 1990s videos of Trump’s most steadfast Senate defender, Lindsey Graham, and a member of his legal team, storied criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, both saying that abuse of power was indeed an impeachable charge.
Following Nadler, another impeachment manager, Sylvia Garcia, methodically detailed how Trump’s using the pressure of aid to get dirt from Ukraine on his potential 2020 reelection rival Joe Biden was done for purely political reasons, She insisted there was no evidence backing Trump’s claims that he was legitimately probing corruption.
She played videos of Trump officials, including the head of the FBI, dismissing his claim that Ukraine helped Democrats in the 2016 election.
“Where did this theory come from? You guessed it: the Russians,” Garcia said in the nationally televised hearing.
“What is so dangerous is that President Trump is helping them perpetuate this — our own president is helping our adversary attack our processes.”
And, in a surprise, Garcia picked through the connections that former vice president Biden and his son Hunter had with Ukraine — the son had served on the board of a leading Ukrainian energy firm — to demonstrate there were no grounds for any allegations of corruption against them.
Thanks for Reading 🙂
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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