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De hazelworm (Anguis fragilis) is een pootloze hagedis uit de familie hazelwormen (Anguidae).

De hazelworm heeft een grote verspreiding binnen Europa en is daar een van de meest voorkomende reptielen. Ook in België en Nederland komt deze hagedis voor. De hazelworm is een bodembewoner die een verborgen leven leidt tussen de bladeren en takken in de strooisellaag. Hij eet kleine ongewervelden, voornamelijk regenwormen en naaktslakken.

De hazelworm is doorgaans bruin van kleur en kan een lengte van ongeveer 45 centimeter bereiken. Jongere dieren zijn lichter van kleur en hebben donkere lengtestrepen, oudere exemplaren zijn soms gevlekt. Net als andere soorten uit de familie hazelwormen lijkt de hazelworm oppervlakkig meer op een slang dan op een typische hagedis. Het lichaam draagt geen poten en is langwerpig en cilindrisch van vorm. Door de gewoonte vaak de tong uit te steken wordt de gelijkenis met een slang nog eens versterkt. Belangrijke verschillen tussen een hazelworm en een slang zijn de relatief stijve voortbeweging, de tong die niet sterk gevorkt is, en de beweegbare oogleden van de hazelworm. Net als andere Europese hagedissen is de hazelworm volkomen ongevaarlijk en bovendien erg schuw: bij verstoring vlucht het dier snel weg.

De hazelworm is eierlevendbarend, de jongen komen in een dun vliesje ter wereld maar gaan direct hun eigen weg. De hagedis kan in vergelijking met andere reptielen erg oud worden maar heeft ook veel vijanden. Dieren die op de hazelworm jagen zijn onder andere vogels, zoogdieren en andere reptielen.

Naamgeving en taxonomie

De Nederlandstalige naam hazelworm verwijst vermoedelijk naar de hazelbruine kleur van het dier. Het voorvoegsel hazel- is een oudere naam van de hazelaar die in meerdere samenstellingen voorkomt: hazelhoen, hazelmuis, hazelwortel en hazelaarde (humeuze rode kleigrond). Van Lier suggereerde dat het mogelijk erop terug te voeren was dat ze vaak onder hazelaars gevonden werden. De twijfel die hij hierover verwoordde is bij latere auteurs niet meer terug te vinden.
Het achtervoegsel -worm in 'Hazelworm' en het synoniem hartsworm stuitte onder vroeg-negentiende-eeuwse geleerden op bezwaren omdat gedacht werd dat het dier tot de slangen behoorde. Zij gaven daarom de voorkeur aan de naam blindslang (vanwege de kleine ogen).

De wetenschappelijke naam van de hazelworm, Anguis fragilis, werd in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. Linnaeus vermeldde daarbij dat Ulisse Aldrovandi de soort in 1640 noemde als "Caecilia vulgaris", en verwees verder naar zijn eigen Fauna svecica van 1746, waar referenties naar zes andere auteurs te vinden zijn, die de soort eerder beschreven of een naam gaven. De soort heeft een vrij groot verspreidingsgebied in Europa, en is als gevolg daarvan nog door enkele andere auteurs opnieuw benoemd: Anguis orvet , 1789 en Anguis gamma , 1825 zijn daar voorbeelden van. In vergelijking met andere algemeen voorkomende reptielen zijn er weinig synoniemen en is de literatuur zeer eenduidig over de naam van de hazelworm. Enkele taxa die in het verleden wel als ondersoorten van de hazelworm werden beschouwd, hebben tegenwoordig de status van soort. Het gaat om Anguis cephallonica , 1894, van de Peloponnesos, Anguis colchica (, 1840), uit het oosten van Europa en aangrenzend Azië, Anguis graeca , 1881, uit Albanië en Griekenland, en Anguis veronensis , 1818, uit Italië en het aangrenzend deel van Frankrijk.

De wetenschappelijke naam Anguis fragilis betekent vrij vertaald breekbare slang (uit het Latijn: fragilis, broos).

De hazelworm behoort tot de familie van de hazelwormen of pootloze hagedissen (Anguidae), een familie die ongeveer tachtig soorten telt. De meeste vertegenwoordigers komen voor in Noord-, Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Een aantal soorten komt voor in Azië en naast de soorten van het geslacht Anguis komt slechts een andere soort voor in Europa.

Hazelwormen zijn bodembewonend. Net als slangen, die afstammen van een oude groep van hagedissen, hebben ze een langwerpig lichaam en bewegen ze zich voort op de buik. Dit is te danken aan de terrestrische en deels gravende levenswijze waardoor de poten nutteloos werden en verloren zijn gegaan. Hazelwormen en slangen vormen een voorbeeld van convergente evolutie.

Uiterlijke kenmerken

De hazelworm heeft een langwerpig lichaam en een bruine kleur, poten ontbreken en daarom wordt de hagedis vaak verward met een slang.

Kop
Anders dan bij veel hagedissen is de kop nauwelijks te onderscheiden van het lichaam. De ogen zijn relatief klein, maar vallen duidelijk op doordat ze een geelrode tot dieprode kleur hebben; de bek is duidelijk hagedisachtig. De hazelworm gebruikt de tong om geuren op te pikken die vervolgens worden uitgelezen door het orgaan van Jacobson, een vomeronasaal orgaan in het gehemelte van de bek. Dit zogenaamde tongelen doet denken aan slangen, maar er zijn ook veel hagedissen die op een dergelijke manier de lucht 'proeven'. De hazelworm heeft in tegenstelling tot slangen geen opening aan de voorzijde van de bek en moet telkens als de tong wordt uitgestoken de bek een stukje openen. De tong is niet zo sterk gevorkt als bij slangen maar heeft een verbreed uiteinde dat voorzien is van een duidelijke inkeping.

De hazelworm heeft relatief grote en lange tanden die echter moeilijk te zien zijn bij een levend exemplaar. Het gebit is gericht op het eten van slakken en wormen; zie ook in de paragraaf over voedsel. Een bijzonderheid is de aanwezigheid van een externe gehooropening bij hazelwormen in het oostelijke deel van het verspreidingsgebied die bij exemplaren in het westen ontbreekt.

Lichaam
De hazelworm wordt ongeveer 35 tot 45 centimeter lang; soms wordt een lengte van 50 cm bereikt. Meer dan de helft tot twee derde van het lichaam bestaat uit de relatief lange staart. De grens tussen het lichaam en de staart is aan de bovenzijde moeilijk te zien maar is aan de onderzijde juist makkelijk te bepalen aan de hand van de positie van de cloacale opening. De staartpunt van de hazelworm is opvallend stomp. De hazelworm heeft een glanzend lichaam, door de relatief kleine schubben. Vooral de juvenielen glanzen sterk; de volwassen dieren doen enigszins metaalachtig aan. Onder de schubben zijn kleine beenplaatjes of osteodermen aanwezig die ter bescherming dienen en de hagedis een enigszins stijf voorkomen geven.

De hazelworm heeft meestal een bruine kleur die vergelijkbaar is met de schil van de hazelnoot; de buikzijde is bij volwassen exemplaren lichter. De bovenzijde is bruin tot grijs met op de rug meestal enkele dunne donkere strepen van de nek tot de staart, meestal duidelijker zichtbaar bij de vrouwtjes, en soms bestaand uit rijen zeer kleine vlekjes. De flanken zijn bij de vrouwtjes vaak donkerder. Binnen het enorme verspreidingsgebied zijn de kleuren variabel; sommige exemplaren zijn roestbruin, geel of zelfs zwart. In de paartijd krijgen vooral de mannetjes blauwe vlekken op de rug maar ook bij vrouwtjes kan dit voorkomen. Het belangrijkste verschil tussen mannetjes en vrouwtjes zijn de donkere flankstrepen van de vrouwtjes, die bij mannetjes ontbreken. Daarnaast hebben de mannetjes een bredere en grotere kop. Mannetjes zijn ook variabeler van kleur en kunnen roodbruin, koperbruin of grijs zijn.

Juvenielen
De juvenielen hebben een afwijkende kleur, maar zijn verder miniatuurversies van de volwassen dieren. Ze zijn ongeveer zeven tot tien centimeter lang en doen denken aan een regenworm. Na twee jaar zijn ze meer dan twintig centimeter lang. Juveniele dieren zijn helder geelbruin tot zilverachtig gekleurd en hebben een donkere vlek achter de kop die in een donkere dorsale streep doorloopt tot de staartpunt. De flanken van jonge exemplaren zijn zeer donkerbruin, de buik is zwart. Na enkele jaren krijgen ze dezelfde kleuren als de volwassen dieren, waarbij de zwarte buik steeds lichter wordt en de goudgele rug donkerder.

Onderscheid met andere soorten

De hazelworm is voornamelijk moeilijk te onderscheiden van de andere soorten uit het geslacht Anguis. Die werden lange tijd beschouwd als ondersoorten van de hazelworm. Deze soorten zijn genetisch verschillend genoeg om ze als zodanig te onderscheiden. De soorten zijn uiterlijk echter nauwelijks uit elkaar te houden. Ze hebben echter allemaal een kleiner verspreidingsgebied dan de hazelworm.

De hazelworm vertoont daarnaast uiterlijk sterke overeenkomsten met de scheltopusik (Pseudopus apodus), de enige andere soort uit de familie hazelwormen die in Europa voorkomt. De scheltopusik kan echter tot 1,4 meter lang worden en is daarnaast duidelijk te herkennen aan de schubben die als ringvormige banden over het lichaam liggen. In Europa lijken ook sommige skinken van enige afstand op de hazelworm, zoals de hazelskink (Chalcides chalcides). Deze soort heeft echter vier zeer kleine pootjes die van dichtbij goed te zien zijn.

Omdat de hazelworm op een slang lijkt, worden hazelwormen met zekere regelmaat dood getrapt door mensen die vrezen met een gevaarlijke slang te maken te hebben. Toch zijn er enkele kenmerken die ook vanaf een veilige afstand laten zien dat het om een onschuldige hagedis gaat. Het belangrijkste verschil is de bek die geen opening aan de voorzijde heeft, slangen kunnen hierdoor met een gesloten bek hun tong uitsteken. De hazelworm echter moet steeds zijn bek openen wat duidelijk te zien is. Een ander verschil met slangen is de aanwezigheid van oogleden, die bij slangen altijd ontbreken. De kop van slangen is daarnaast vaak driehoekig van vorm en anders dan bij de hazelworm duidelijk afgetekend van het lichaam. Slangen zijn daarnaast veel leniger dan de hazelworm, zeker de West-Europese soorten. Een ander duidelijk onderscheid, dat echter alleen waarneembaar is als de dieren op de rug gedraaid worden, zijn de buikschubben. Slangen hebben altijd een enkele rij brede, stugge schubben aan de buikzijde, bij de hazelworm (en alle andere hagedissen) heeft de buikzijde meerdere rijen schubben. Buiten Europa komen ook wormslangen (Typhlopidae) voor die niet altijd de voornoemde typische slangenkenmerken hebben maar juist meer op hazelwormen lijken.

Verspreiding en habitat

De hazelworm komt voor in delen van westelijk, zuidelijk en centraal- Europa, uitgezonderd Ierland en noordelijk Scandinavië. Van de hazelworm waren tot 2010 verschillende ondersoorten bekend die voorkwamen in andere landen, zoals Rusland, Tunesië en Iran. Omdat deze ondersoorten tegenwoordig als aparte soorten worden beschouwd, komt de hazelworm de facto niet meer voor in deze landen.

Op de verspreidingskaart rechts zijn slechts de landen waar de soort voorkomt ingekleurd, en niet het exacte verspreidingsgebied. Grotere eilanden zijn niet ingekleurd als de hagedis er ontbreekt. In Rusland komt de soort op twee geïsoleerde plaatsen voor. De hazelworm komt binnen Europa voor in de volgende landen: Albanië, Andorra, Azerbeidzjan, België, Bosnië, Bulgarije, Duitsland, Estland, Frankrijk, Georgië, Griekenland, Hongarije, Kroatië, Italië, Liechtenstein, Moldavië, Montenegro, Nederland, Noord-Macedonië, Noorwegen, Oekraïne, Oostenrijk, Polen, Portugal, Roemenië, Rusland (alleen de enclave Oblast Kaliningrad en uiterst zuidelijk Dagestan), Servië, Slovenië, Spanje, Tsjechië, Turkije, Zweden en Zwitserland.

De hazelworm legt geen eieren maar draagt de embryo's met zich mee tot de jongen volledig zijn ontwikkeld. Hierdoor is de hagedis minder afhankelijk van zonnewarmte wat betreft de embryonale ontwikkeling, wat een groot voordeel is ten opzichte van veel andere reptielen. De hazelworm kan zich hierdoor ook handhaven in hooggelegen gebieden. In Zwitserland is de hagedis aangetroffen op een hoogte van 2000 meter, in Oostenrijk tot 2400 meter hoogte. Ook in de bergstreken van de Balkan komt de hazelworm voor, op een hoogte van 1500 tot 1800 meter.

Nederland en België
In Nederland is de hazelworm vrij zeldzaam maar niet bedreigd. Het voorkomen is vooral geconcentreerd op de voormalig Pleistocene hoge zandgronden in midden en zuid Nederland, maar populaties zijn aanwezig in alle provincies behalve in Zeeland en Flevoland. De Limitische Heide in Het Gooi is het meest westelijke natuurlijke verspreidingsgebied. Ten westen daarvan bestaan op meerdere plaatsen, zoals in de Kennemerduinen,  populaties die, soms zeer lang geleden, oorspronkelijk zijn uitgezet. Op de Waddeneilanden ontbreekt de soort. De hagedis is vrij algemeen op de Veluwe, de Utrechtse Heuvelrug en in Drenthe. De Veluwe herbergt de grootste populatie van Nederland. In Limburg, langs het Maasdal en in de Zuid-Limburgse heuvellanden, is de soort ook in grote aantallen te vinden. In Friesland, Groningen, Noord-Brabant en oostelijk Nederland komt ze schaars of verspreid voor.

Bij een monitoring in 2016 werden van de hagedis — sinds de dieren periodiek worden gemonitord — meer exemplaren dan ooit aangetroffen.

In België is de soort vrij algemeen en komt in alle provincies van het land voor. In Vlaanderen is het een algemeen verspreide soort die waarschijnlijk meer voorkomt dan gedacht wordt, wat te maken heeft met de verborgen levenswijze.

Habitat
De habitat bestaat uit vochtige, begroeide omgevingen met een strooisellaag waarin het dier kan schuilen en jagen. De hazelworm is voornamelijk te vinden in bossen op open plekken, bosranden en houtwallen. Ook in door de mens aangepaste omgevingen kan de hazelworm zich handhaven, zoals houtwallen, kalkgraslanden, (spoor)wegbermen, kerkhoven en zelfs in tuinen, parken en volkstuintjes kan de hagedis worden aangetroffen. In meer agrarisch georiënteerde landschappen is de hagedis te vinden in de overgangen van het landschap en hoekjes van het terrein die niet omgeploegd worden door landbouwwerktuigen. Een belangrijke voorwaarde die gesteld wordt is de aanwezigheid van schuilplaatsen, zoals houtstapels of dichte bodemvegetatie.

De hazelworm wordt ook wel gevonden in mierenhopen, die gebruikt worden als schuilplaats. Vooral de jonge hazelwormen spenderen een groot deel van hun tijd in mierenhopen. Ze hebben niets te vrezen van de mieren door de gepantserde huid en de kleine ogen. Bovendien profiteren ze van de felle bescherming van het nest tegen gezamenlijke vijanden zoals de spitsmuis.

Levenswijze

De hazelworm is een overwegend schemeractieve soort die maar zelden overdag wordt aangetroffen, soms wordt een zonnebad genomen maar nooit in de felle zon. Tijdens het nemen van een zonnebad schuilt de hazelworm vaak tussen de bladeren en is zo moeilijk te zien. Overdag verstopt de hagedis zich onder stenen, tussen de bladeren of in holle boomstronken. Vaak worden deze door de zon beschenen zodat de schuilplaats relatief warm is. Na regenval op warme dagen kan de hazelworm overdag worden gevonden, omdat zijn favoriete prooien, slakken en wormen, dan massaal tevoorschijn komen. De vrouwtjes zonnen vaak in mei om de ontwikkeling van de jongen te versnellen en zijn dan soms in een kluwen met meerdere exemplaren waar te nemen. Op warme dagen verplaatsen ze zich ook wel overdag door het bos.

Vanwege het ontbreken van pootjes moet de hazelworm zich op de buik voortbewegen, hierdoor is het dier niet zo snel als de meeste hagedissen die plotseling kunnen wegschieten. Opgewarmde exemplaren echter kunnen zich snel door het struikgewas bewegen en de hazelworm kan klimmen maar blijft meestal op de bodem. Soms graaft de hagedis zich in, ook zijn exemplaren aangetroffen die het lichaam hebben ingegraven terwijl de kop boven de grond uitsteekt. De enigszins stijve tred wordt veroorzaakt door de aanwezigheid van kleine beenplaatjes onder de schubben, die voor bepantsering zorgen maar de hagedis in zijn voortbeweging beperken. De hazelworm kan indien noodzakelijk zwemmen, maar doet dit niet uit eigen beweging.

De hazelworm trekt zich aan het eind van de zomer terug in een winterkwartier voor de winterslaap. De winterslaap vindt plaats in wat meer verscholen plekken, zoals holen onder de grond. Ook holen van andere dieren zoals konijnenholen worden wel gebruikt en composthopen zijn tevens zeer geschikt omdat deze wat warmer zijn door broei. De hazelworm kan hier in groten getale worden aangetroffen, waarbij de dieren vaak in een kluwen liggen. Er zijn schuilplaatsen bekend waarin zich vijf tot meer dan dertig exemplaren bevonden. Van dergelijke schuilplaatsen maken ook andere reptielen gebruik, zo zijn ze zelfs bij adders aangetroffen.

Voortplanting en ontwikkeling

De voortplantingstijd van de hazelworm begint in de lente, als de dieren zijn ontwaakt uit hun winterslaap. De mannetjes verlaten het winterkwartier rond maart, iets eerder dan de juvenielen en de vrouwtjes die rond april tevoorschijn komen. De mannetjes kunnen dan agressief tegenover elkaar zijn en proberen concurrenten met de bek te pakken en weg te slingeren. Oudere mannetjes dragen vaak de littekens van dergelijke confrontaties.

In tegenstelling tot de mannetjes zijn de vrouwtjes niet ieder jaar betrokken bij de voortplanting en ze worden dus niet ieder jaar zwanger. Dit heeft onder andere met de weersomstandigheden te maken. In Nederland wordt slechts 30 procent van de vrouwtjes zwanger in droge jaren, maar in natte jaren kan dit oplopen tot 90 procent.

Als een koppeltje elkaar gevonden heeft vindt de paring plaats, waarbij het mannetje zoals alle hagedissen gebruikmaakt van zijn hemipenis. Dit is een gevorkte penis, omdat de staart in de weg zit bij de paring kan het mannetje zowel links als rechts contact maken. Bij de paring ankert het mannetje zich aan het vrouwtje door haar in de kop of nek te bijten en zich tegen haar lichaam te brengen, de paring kan tot tien uur duren. Een vrouwtje kan met meerdere mannetjes paren gedurende de voortplantingstijd, maar haar eitjes worden pas rond juni bevrucht. Om de ontwikkeling van haar embryo's te bespoedigen neemt een zwanger vrouwtje vaker een zonnebad.

De hazelworm is ovovivipaar ofwel eierlevendbarend. De eitjes ontwikkelen zich volledig in het lichaam van de moeder en de jongen komen levend ter wereld, meestal rond juli en augustus. De dracht van de hazelworm duurt ongeveer drie maanden. Per worp komen zo'n 3 tot 26 jongen ter wereld, gemiddeld 8. De juvenielen zijn dan zo'n zeven tot tien centimeter lang. Ze bevinden zich bij de geboorte nog wel in een dun vliesje, maar komen direct uit. Dit is een aanpassing op het relatief koele klimaat waarin de hazelworm leeft; het is in delen van het verspreidingsgebied te koud om eitjes op de bodem af te zetten, ook de levendbarende hagedis kent een dergelijke strategie. Ook bij deze hagedis is slechts sprake van een dun vliesje waarin de jongen ter wereld komen wat ze direct na de geboorte verlaten.

De hazelworm lijkt zich verder te hebben ontwikkeld dan zijn van poten voorziene verwant omdat het vliesje tienmaal dunner is. Sommige zuidelijke populaties van de levendbarende hagedis zijn ook nog eierleggend.

Het duurt ongeveer drie tot vier jaar voor een mannetje volwassen is, bij de vrouwtjes duurt dit iets langer; vier tot vijf jaar. Na ongeveer zes tot acht jaar is de hazelworm uitgegroeid maar blijft gedurende het gehele leven vervellen en wordt steeds iets langer. De hazelworm kan relatief oud worden, de meeste exemplaren bereiken zo'n tien tot twaalf jaar in het wild. Van in gevangenschap gehouden exemplaren is bekend dat een leeftijd van meer dan dertig jaar kan worden bereikt. Het record komt eveneens van een in gevangenschap gehouden exemplaar uit de dierentuin van Kopenhagen. Dit dier leefde van 1892 tot 1946 en werd dus minstens 54 jaar oud. In de natuur wordt de hazelworm nooit zo oud door onder andere natuurlijk verval, zoals predatie, ziekte, voedseltekort en blootstelling aan parasieten.

Voedsel
De hazelworm is carnivoor en eet voornamelijk kleine ongewervelden. In tegenstelling tot de meeste hagedissen wordt niet snel toegehapt maar de prooi wordt eerst nauwkeurig onderzocht en geproefd door veelvuldig de tong uit te steken.

Omdat de hazelworm meestal niet zo snel is, vangt hij ook wat langzamere prooien als (naakt)slakken, regenwormen, spinnen en insecten en de larven. Het grootste deel van het menu bestaat uit weke dieren als regenwormen en naaktslakken. Ook huisjesslakken worden gegeten, deze worden eerst uit hun huisje getrokken. Het gebit van de hazelworm is aangepast op zachte prooien; de tanden zijn scherp en naar achteren gekromd zodat gladde, slijmerige prooien stevig worden verankerd. Na het eten van een slijmerige prooi veegt de hagedis zijn bek langs het substraat om van het slijm af te komen.

Uit waarnemingen blijkt dat soms twee hazelwormen dezelfde prooi grijpen waarbij de dieren om hun as draaien, zodat de prooi in tweeën wordt gescheurd. Net als andere hagedissen zijn hazelwormen kannibalistisch; als ze de kans krijgen eten ze kleinere soortgenoten op en ook andere hagedissen worden bij uitzondering gegeten, zoals de levendbarende hagedis (Zootoca vivipara).

Vanwege het dieet dat voor een aanzienlijk deel uit slakken bestaat wordt de hazelworm gezien als een nuttig dier in tuinen. Waarschijnlijk eet de hazelworm ook de invasieve platworm Arthurdendyus triangulatus die in Groot-Brittannië als een plaag wordt beschouwd.

Vijanden en verdediging

De belangrijkste vijand van de hazelworm is de mens, aangezien veel mensen bang zijn voor alle slangachtige dieren. Jaarlijks worden vele exemplaren onterecht gedood. De hazelworm is echter volkomen onschuldig en bovendien een nuttige soort vanwege de vele slakken die worden gegeten. Natuurlijke vijanden van de hazelworm zijn verschillende vogels, voornamelijk roofvogels.

Er zijn veel vogels die graag hazelwormen eten, zoals roofvogels als de bosuil, de buizerd, de havik, de ransuil, de sperwer en de torenvalk. Sommige roofvogels kunnen, als andere prooien minder voorkomen, volledig overschakelen op reptielen zoals de hazelworm. De hagedis wordt ook belaagd door omnivore en aasetende vogels, zoals kippen, eksters, fazanten en kraaien. Verschillende zoogdieren eten de hagedis, zoals de huiskat, de vos, verschillende ratten, marters en de das. Ook de egel, een insecteneter, vreet de hazelworm aan indien de kans zich voordoet. Een andere belangrijke vijand is de gladde slang, die eveneens in België en Nederland voorkomt. Deze slang heeft voor een belangrijk deel andere reptielen als slangen en hagedissen op het menu staan.

De juveniele hazelwormen zijn door hun geringe lengte veel kwetsbaarder dan volwassen exemplaren. Ze vallen soms ten prooi aan grote kikkers en zelfs van loopkevers is beschreven dat ze weleens jonge hazelwormen pakken.

Als de hazelworm wordt opgepakt kan het dier de staart afwerpen, wat caudale autotomie wordt genoemd. De afgeworpen staart blijft een tijdje kronkelen en trekt de aandacht van de vijand waardoor de hazelworm kan ontsnappen. De staart laat altijd los bij een speciale zwakkere wervel, waarna de staartspieren samenknijpen om het bloedverlies te beperken. De staart groeit later weer aan maar wordt nooit zo lang als de oorspronkelijke staart.

Als een exemplaar wordt opgepakt, zal het zijn darminhoud over de belager heen laten lopen als afweerreactie. De hazelworm kan van zich af bijten ter verdediging maar de beet is weinig krachtig.

De hazelworm en de mens
Over de ecologie van de hazelworm is nog veel onbekend maar de hagedis wordt over het algemeen als een nuttig dier beschouwd vanwege het menu dat voornamelijk bestaat uit slakken. Tevens is de hazelworm onschuldig voor mens en dier; de huiskat is zelfs een van de belangrijkste niet-natuurlijke vijanden. Ten slotte vormt de hazelworm zelf een bron van voedsel voor verschillende dieren, zie onder de paragraaf over vijanden.

Bedreiging en bescherming
De hazelworm is in grote delen van zijn verspreidingsgebied niet zeldzaam maar gaat in veel gebieden in aantal en verspreiding achteruit. De belangrijkste oorzaken zijn het verdwijnen of veranderen van het landschap op zowel grote als kleine schaal. Het verdwijnen van bijvoorbeeld natuurlijke houtstapels en composthopen heeft een negatieve invloed omdat dit de favoriete schuilplaatsen en winterkwartieren zijn. Daarnaast vormt de aanwezigheid van fazanten, kippen, huisdieren en andere door de mens geïntroduceerde dieren een aanzienlijke bedreiging. Omdat de hazelworm in de regel honkvast is en niet zo snel, verspreidt de soort zich relatief langzaam.

De stichting Reptielen Amfibieën Vissen Onderzoek Nederland (RAVON) doet onderzoek naar het voorkomen van de soort binnen Nederland. In 2005 werd een verhoogd aantal hazelwormen waargenomen, maar in 2006 bleek het aantal gestabiliseerd. Over het algemeen is volgens RAVON sprake van een matige toename van de hagedis in Nederland. De hazelworm is in Nederland en België een beschermde diersoort, die niet mag worden gevangen, in gevangenschap gehouden of gedood.

Een probleem bij het in kaart brengen van de verspreiding van de hazelworm is de verborgen levenswijze; hazelwormen laten zich zelden zien. De hazelworm is door de gewoonte onder voorwerpen te schuilen toch goed te monitoren door de zogenaamde plaatjesmethode. Hierbij wordt een donker gekleurde plaat op de bodem gelegd die regelmatig wordt bezocht. Hazelwormen worden aangetrokken door de warmte die een dergelijke donkere plaat vasthoudt en zo de bodem verwarmt.

Veel hazelwormen worden gedood door het verkeer. Bij de bescherming van de hazelworm kan gebruik worden gemaakt van afschermende systemen om de dieren binnen het territorium te houden. Dit is te vergelijken met de schermen die bij padden worden gebruikt om de dieren te belemmeren om verkeerswegen over te steken.

In de folklore
De hazelworm speelt een rol in de volksoverlevering wat waarschijnlijk de Nederlandse naam verklaart. Isidoor Teirlinck tekende het volgende verhaal op in zijn Flora Magica uit 1930. De hazelworm zou onder de hazelaar wonen en op feestdagen een kroon dragen. Indien de hagedis gevangen werd kon men zich onzichtbaar maken, werd onkwetsbaar en was verlost van boze geesten. Daarnaast zouden de begraven ribben en huid de akkers beschermen tegen vraat en hagel. Voor het vangen van de hazelworm bezoekt men een met maretak begroeide hazelaar van minstens 35 jaar oud, waarvan de blaadjes gaten bevatten die door de hazelworm zouden zijn aangebracht. Na het noemen van een spreuk moest men de hagedis nog uitgraven en bestrooien met bijvoet waarna het dier weerloos werd en niet meer zou kunnen vluchten.

De hazelworm werd volgens het volksgeloof beschouwd als een slang waarvan de ogen door God uitgestoken zouden zijn met het puntige uiteinde van de mattenbies (Schoenoplectus lacustris), waardoor men deze niet als tandenstoker mag gebruiken.

Externe links
 Waarneming.nl – Verspreidingskaart Nederland
 Soortenbank – Hazelworm
 Ravon – Herkenningskaart vervellingshuiden Nederlandse reptielen
 Nederlands Soortenregister – Hazelworm

Bronvermelding

Hazelwormen
Dier uit het Palearctisch gebied
IUCN-status niet bedreigd

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Samsung's 2023: Time for a Refresh?
Tim December 28, 2022 @timotato 63
Samsung is a machine, constantly putting out new products to better serve this world's ever diverse population. The company literally has a phone in every market for every possible category of buyer. They have those durable phones with military grade hardware, they have the uber expensive foldables, high-end flagships, and the largest mid-range lineup of devices with no possibility of remembering all of their names. While this is clearly working for them, as they have completely taken over the Android ecosystem as the #1 OEM for some time now, I wouldn't mind seeing a bit of a refresh for the US market. Allow me to explain.
When I talk about a refresh, I'm only talking about the devices that get heavily marketed here in the US. We're a US-based site after all. That means I'm referring to the Galaxy Z line, Galaxy S line, and Galaxy Watch models.
For each of these lines, we don't even have to see leaks or renders to know what to expect for any calendar year, which makes the whole thing feel kinda boring. For example, I can assure you that Samsung will launch the Galaxy S23, S23+, S23 Ultra, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, and two models of the Galaxy Watch 6 in 2023. As for hardware differentiators, all of the phones will have their cameras dotted out on the backside like the Galaxy S22 Ultra had this year (header image). Past that, everything will be the same size. This is just my guess, but it's already been reported to be possible back in September.
And that's the state of Android hardware right now. The main difference when going phone to phone and OEM to OEM is the backside. With every device going with big screens, there's no room to differentiate on the frontside, so companies are spending big in their design department to make sure the back of phones look great. Some are doing better (Google) than others (OnePlus). That's a subjective statement there, no worries if you don't agree.
Back to Samsung and what I'd like to see, it doesn't really come down to a change in hardware or software or anything like that, but maybe instead I simply want to feel surprised by something. I'm not saying I want leakers to stop. I want Samsung to change up something, whether that be in the lineup of these devices or something more major. Here's an example. I want a Galaxy S22 Ultra, at least in terms of specs, but in a Galaxy S22 sized body. Give me a really good small phone. These smaller phones are always getting the specs shaft. Apple does a pretty good job at ensuring that when you buy a iPhone "Pro," whether it be the big one or small one, you're getting a very similar experience. Not everyone wants the freakin' monster phone. That's what I want in 2023 — two Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra models, one large and one small. Is it doable? For 2023, probably not.
It's likely too late for Samsung to surprise anybody in 2023, but 2024 could be a year where we see something drastic happen in response to a reported not-good-as-expected year of sales in 2022. These companies are constantly adjusting their strategies and lineups to fit the market, so in the words of KG, "Anything is possible!"
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worked without you? Only if your business can work without you, will it have any great capital or sale value.
delivered its product or service consistently time and time again to the customer?
had employees that did it the same way every time, the best way?
If we're going to learn from the small businesses that successfully do this, let's take a look at the most successful small business in the world, McDonalds.
Even if you don't like what McDonalds sell, there's no denying it's a hugely successful business.
You know when you go you're going to get the same consistent burger every time, with the same customer experience every time. That's why people go there. They give the customer exactly what they are expecting every time, there is no disappointment and so the customers return.
If you went to a printer and got a great print job done the first time but the next time there were a few mistakes, you'd be far less inclined to return again. How come it was perfect one time and not the other? That doesn't happen at McDonalds. What's more, they manage to do it at thousands of their restaurants all over the world.
The burgers are great tasting burgers (well according to some!) made the same way every time. They've found their best formula and they use it consistently, only changing it when they find an even better formula. And that is true for every part of the McDonalds experience from the food, to the greeting, to the cleanliness, to the kid's packs. Everything works and is done the same way until they find a better way to do it.
It doesn't matter who does a task, they always follow a system, so that it's then done the same way every time and the customer gets the same experience every time they go back.
When one person leaves and another joins it still gets done exactly the same way.
Although McDonalds sell a low cost product, it is an extremely high quality business which customers value and have great loyalty to.
Well here's a very important factor.
The owners don't work IN the business flipping burgers.
McDonalds has the entrepreneurs with the vision to move the business forward, the managers who manage the units and the technicians who work in the units and they all work together in harmony.
And they're able to do that because they have an organisational strategy, a management strategy and a system for everything they do. McDonalds is the ultimate systemised business that runs just like clockwork.
McDonalds operate under what's known as a Business Format Franchise.
This is the type of franchise operated throughout the world by many other businesses and it's no surprise that franchises are far more likely to succeed than any other start up business.
When a McDonalds franchise is taken, the franchisee gets far more than a brand name. They are given a whole way of doing things that have been proven to work. In fact, it's only once they've learnt how to do things this way that they get the keys to the door.
Now the point of this isn't to promote franchising (although it may well be a good route for you), but to learn from the SYSTEM.
McDonalds make everything inside their business happen consistently. Now if that happened inside just your one business unit, without you working in it, wouldn't your business be a great place to go to work? In fact you could even not work if you so chose.
And the main reason why that happened for McDonalds?
It's because when Ray Croc took the McDonald brothers burger business in 1954 and set about figuring out how he could make it work, he set about working ON the business and not IN the business. The business became the product to him, not the burgers and so it was the business he worked on.
So as you've probably worked out the key is to work ON, not IN the business.
If you're a one-man business, not wanting to grow, this perhaps isn't true to the same extent, although there are still good lessons to learn about ensuring you deliver consistency to your customers.
A one-man operation may not really have a business; they have a job, possibly a well paid one, with customers as their boss. This doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the one-man operation. The world is reliant on many one-man operations, it's just that some of these principles apply less to them.
But for every other small business that wants to develop, you'll only do so if you get to work on your business and stop working in it.
To get your thought processes going, imagine that you're going to make another 1000 businesses just like yours. What would you have to do to achieve this?
You would have to completely systemise your business.
An analogy that can help with the understanding of working on, rather than in your business, is a game of monopoly. If you are the hat in the game, you are simply a piece in the game and you don't make the decisions, you can't influence the game at all.
However, by being a player in the game and being able to see the whole board, you can start to put strategies into place that will have far more of an influence. As a player you're working on the game rather than being in it.
It's exactly the same for your business, you can have far more effect by working on it.
Before we get carried away, a word of warning.
Some small businesses have tried to systemise their business and got so carried away with it that they spent all their time doing just that and failed almost before they got going.
On the other hand, some people believe The E-Myth by Michael Gerber (on which the above is based) sets a standard that most people cannot hope to meet.
Common sense is the operative word and The E-Myth is a must read book for every entrepreneur.
Give consistency to everyone – your customers, suppliers, and employees.
Be operated by people with the lowest possible skill level. This enables you to find staff when you need them at the lowest possible price. You don't want systems that can be operated by only high quality people, because when that person leaves you will have trouble getting a replacement.
Sure, you say McDonalds is not like your business. So let's take a far more complicated business such as a firm of solicitors.
If a firm of solicitors was to employ only the brightest legal brains it would be extremely difficult to consistently offer their level of legal knowledge, as it becomes very difficult to find a replacement should they leave or become ill. But, if they develop services that could be provided by anyone with an average legal brain, they would be able to grow and leverage the business far more.
Even if you just focus on the most critical things you do in your business and systemise these, your business will be far better for it.
In conclusion then, what are we saying?
Really it's that what you need is a systems dependent business rather than a people dependent business. The systems run the business and the people run the systems.
You can't do without people, but the more you systemise, the less dependent you become on particular people.
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dc.identifier.citation Kim, J. and Walck, J. and Hidayati, S. and Merritt, D. and Dixon, K. 2009. Germinability of seeds stored in capsules on plants of two myrtaceous shrubs: Differences among age cohorts and between species. Australian Journal of Botany. 57 (6): pp. 495-501.
Canopy-stored seed banks are a common trait among members of several plant families in sclerophyllous woodlands of Australia and South Africa, with their fruits usually opening in response to damage or fire. Unknown is whether the degree of dormancy and of germination differs among age cohorts in seeds stored on the mother plant. We examined the extent and speed of germination from two intensely serotinous myrtaceous species, Callistemon glaucus and Calothamnus quadrifidus, for seed held in capsules for up to 9 years. Germination of both species differed significantly among age cohorts (P>0.0001). However, no consistent increase in germination over a range of temperatures with storage was found, suggesting that no after-ripening occurred and that seeds were non-dormant at maturity. Differences among cohorts may be due to pre-conditioning. Significant (P=0.0214) differences occurred between the small-seeded Callistemon and the large-seeded Calothamnus. Germination was (1) optimum at <20°C for Callistemon but at <20°C for Calothamnus, (2) 912 days earlier for Callistemon than for Calothamnus, and (3) higher in light than in darkness for Callistemon but equal in both light conditions for Calothamnus. While germination of the species differed in important features, we would expect synchronous germination of all age cohorts to occur following fire and the onset of regular rainfall. © 2009 CSIRO.


What's a tear trough deformity? How do you fix it?
Blog » What's a tear trough deformity? How do you fix it?
It's not unusual for patients with tear trough deformities to request plastic surgical consultation. When this situation arises, a variety of treatment options exist to treat this condition. These include surgical procedures that release the arcus marginalis and the use of injectable hyaluronic acid fillers that minimize tear trough deformities.
It's extremely important to individualize the treatment of tear troughs. For this reason, the specific procedure chosen will depend upon the patient's anatomic findings and aesthetic goals.
It's important to realize that lower eyelid filler injections are very effective for treating tear trough deformities, but don't represent a permanent solution to this problem. For this reason, when patients want a permanent solution, other options need to be considered.
Procedures that offer a more permanent solution include fat grafting, tear trough implants and procedures that re-position fat pads. The exact procedure chosen will depend upon the patient's physical findings and aesthetic goals.


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Saints take bragging rights
Published 10:39 pm Saturday, December 10, 2011
By Robert Hudson
The Selma Times-Journal
The Selma Saints were able to hold off a late comeback attempt, as they defeated the rival Southside Panthers 58-49 on the road Saturday.
Selma head basketball coach Woodie Jackson said the Saints (6-4) played hard and were able to carry over the momentum from Friday's win over Keith High School.
"We played hard, played kind of smart and consistent all night," Jackson said. "We had lots of hustle. We played well last night and carried that over to tonight."
The Saints would enter the fourth quarter with a 46-37 lead, having been in control since early in the second quarter, but the Panthers (5-5) would try to claw their way back in the game, as Devonte Brown scored under the basket to make it 46-39 with 6:52 left to play.
The Panthers would force a turnover on the next possession, as Mario Oliver picked the pocket of Selma's Darion Alexander and passed to Jeffery Mack who finished the fast break with a layup to make the score 46-41 with 6:27 left.
But the Saints would answer back, as Kerry Mitchell would score down low to extend Selma's lead to 48-41 with 5:56 left.
After the Panthers couldn't score on their next possession, the Saints would continue their run as Tavarius Murry would hit a runner in the lane to put Selma up 50-41 with 5:17 left.
After a pair of trips to the line by both teams and baskets by Mitchell and Mack, the Saints would hold a 54-44 lead, when Mario Oliver would score on a fast break layup after another steal to make the score 54-46 with 3:15 left.
Devonte Richardson would hit a three to put the Panthers within five at 54-49, but the Saints would eat up the clock on their next possession and cap it of with a score under the basket by Quinterrius Rogers to put the game out of reach.
Cedric Brown, head coach of the Panthers, said his team still has a lot to learn after a tough home loss.
"When they made that run, they kind of kept it up," Brown said. "We kind of matched them basket for basket. No disrespect to Selma, Selma's a good team, but we have to grow as a team. Southside has to grow as a team."
Alexander led the Saints with 14 points and 3 rebounds, while Mitchell added 10 points and 11 rebounds for Selma.
Mack led the Panthers with 12 points, while Oliver added 11 points and Sammarkus Jones added 10 points for the Panthers.
The Panthers will begin area play on Monday, Dec. 12 when they travel to Jemison.
The Saints will travel to Hayneville on Tuesday, Dec. 13 to play Central Hayneville.
Fortner defends picks title
By Robert Hudson The Selma Times-Journal After weeks of competing against others and picking the winners of the year's... read more


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2 Chainz ft. 50 Cent – "Riot (remix)"
Young Buck finally speaks on 2018 encounter with transgender woman, admitting he did go there for sex, but he was catfished, having never spoken to the person he was in the video with, and admitted that controversy sent him into a "dark place" [VIDEO]
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Dr. Dre reportedly suffered from brain aneurysm and is allegedly in ICU at Cedar's Sinai Medical Center
50 Cent ft. NLE Choppa and Rileyy Lanez – "Part of the Game" [VIDEO]
2 Chainz has been the collaboration king for a year. Usually, 2 Chainz adds a verse to someone's song and they decide to use it for the official remix. The same tactics 2 Chainz has used to build his buzz were famously used by 50 Cent, along with mastering the art of the beef. Years after his platinum success, 50 Cent finds himself returning to the mixtape scene to rebuild his career and he takes 2 Chainz' hit, "Riot," and adds a verse to the song.
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But once the tornado warnings subsided the cerulean skies peaked out once again, I decided it was time to do a bit more than laze by the pool listening to Undisclosed or reading Outlander. I threw on my sunnies, slipped on my sandals and headed to the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in the heart of West Palm Beach.
The exhibition was a bit smaller than I expected, but featured some truly fantastic work by local photographers. They don't normally allow photos, but made a special exception for me with the request that I not take direct pictures of any specific photos.
For being a small space, it is set up fantastically with plenty of benches where you can sit to really take in the photos.
It's bright, airy, and the photographs are arranged in a very organized and tidy fashion. I know that sounds weird, but I do find it distracting when I got to an exhibition and the work is displayed like it would be behind your grandma's couch. I think one of the most important things about an exhibition is that it tells the viewer where to look and gives them every opportunity to view the work without distraction.
The Palm Beach Photographic Centre does a very good job of telling you where to look, leading you through the exhibition, but still giving you the freedom to wander and pause, or breeze right through.
It's really just a very large room with partition walls set up, but you could easily spend an hour or more in there.
There is no lack of beautiful things to photograph here in Palm Beach and the residents have certainly taken advantage of it.
Palm Beach does a lot to foster and support local artists, which leads me to another thing I've been keen to share with you all. The fantastic murals you can find all around the arts district of West Palm Beach.
All painted by local artists, many of the murals are colorful, cartoony explosions that bring a little life to empty lots and otherwise blank walls.
Or random fences at coffee shops! It brings a lot of life to the area and keeps it from feeling like a stucco maze.
But, the holy grail of West Palm murals is at Wine Scene. I've walked past the courtyard multiple times and have always been interested in checking it out, but it's most often packed with people and I wanted to be able to snap some pics.
Even though they were closed, the owners very kindly let me spend some time in the courtyard, which has large scale murals covering pretty much every inch of the surrounding walls.
You can't say Florida artists are afraid of color!
While the murals at Wine Scene are all pop-inspired, they're incredibly diverse and it's a bit like spinning around in comic book where every page is done by a different artist (I'm 99% certain that's not already the case with comics, but please feel free to correct me).
I'm not sure what this one's title is, but I like to call this one "Dapper Steampunk".
Another mural by my amazingly talented friend, Amanda Valdes! She has a bunch of murals all over town and every time I see one I'm like Buddy The Elf being told Santa is coming.
"AMANDA!!!!!!!!!!! I know her! I know her!" with a ridiculously huge smile on my face.
And if you spin around again, you've got a very grouchy-looking melting gorilla.
And I don't know what this is, but I like it!
I have been very impressed with the availability of art in West Palm, in particular the work of local artists. The city and the community have done an amazing job incorporating art into the landscape and making it a part of daily life here.
You don't have to have a membership at a museum, or dress up to go to a gallery opening to be part of the arts scene here, you just have to be willing to walk around or sit down and have a glass of wine with friends.
And who doesn't want to drink wine surrounded by art?


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Personal Narrative : My Father And Mother
The year was 1970. My father and mother, Liam and Elizabeth Taylor, had just purchased their first home, a duplex in town. It was red brick and had large steps going up to a porch shaded by large oak trees. My parents painted it green inside and fixed it up immediately. My grandpa Levi, Elizabeth's father, hated the paint so much that he bought them all new paint in the green color he thought was more appropriate and even though my parents disagreed, it was changed after pressure from my grandpa. The small duplex had a tiny living room when you first strolled in, and to the right was a very small kitchen. It was so small only a card table could fit in there. Past the living room in the hall were two bedrooms on either side of the hallway, and one little bathroom. Grandpa Levi was the one who put down the large down payment on the home, helping my parents to qualify for the rest.
My parents were thrilled, because now, my mother would be a full-time housewife. She had always dreamed of being a mother and taking care of her own babies instead of working. Just after they moved in my parents were filled with excitement because I was born, their first daughter. They named me Elsie. My father worked for his father, my grandpa Wesley at Taylor and sons. He started the business years before so that his sons could have an income when older. The business specialized in river rafting and boating adventures in lakes and the ocean. Liam was a popular guide
Character Analysis Of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
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Henry Ford Sparknotes
Within a year their shares dropped to fifty percent and continued to plummet. Henry refused to entertain the idea of a new automobile because he thought that the Model T, was the perfect car ever built. He was obsessively committed to his vision of a perfect Model T car, now the same thing making him successful was now making him vulnerable. Every man in Ford except for Henry believed that a new automobile was needed including his own son. Even though Edsel despised conflict and tension with his father, he became convinced that times had changed and Ford needed to release a new model.…
Male Bonding: My Father's Changed By Elmer Loffather
He married Ida and they raised two sons, Myron and Lyle. By the late 1960s, Elmer and Ida, advanced in years and their nest empty, continued to reside on the farm. They hadn't modernized their farmhouse and lived in much the same fashion as they had decades earlier. Wishing to ease the hardship of advanced years with a convenient inside bathroom, Myron and Lyle hired my father to remodel their parents' house. Elmer, not particularly pleased with the arrangements, voiced his dissatisfaction by declaring, "It's unsanitary going to the bathroom in the house!" When my father came home, clearly amused, he shared with us Elmer's reaction to the indoor bathroom.…
Personal Narrative: The Life Of Dr. Standfield
I remember packing and it taking forever, plus my bones was cold. My dad had already turned the heat off because he said he did not want a last bill from the light company. The funny thing about it, they sent him one anyways. Of course driving down from Michigan to Georgia in the middle of January with a carload of just our entire house wasn't that pleasant either. Then finally pulling up to a old raggedy house and my dad happily says, "Ready to start a new life kiddo, we are here!" The memories I had in that place was not that memorable but I do remember one thing; my dad loved that house.…
Example Of Social Conflict In America In The 1960's
Elizabeth looks panicked because she has never had to take care of her children on her own. She has always had help from Aibileen. Mae Mobley tells Aibileen that "You my real mama, Aibi." Most young children who live with house cleaners spent more time with them then with their own mothers. Skeeters house cleaner had a great impact on her growing up. She taught her that she would do something big with her life while her mother only bugged her about finding a decent husband to take care of her.…
Argumentative Essay About My Grandmother
During this period, he worked hard to assure them a happy life .In the begging, he built a very big house; then, he did his best and opened a business which he passed down to his mother many years ago. He dedicated his being to his mother by scarifying many years of his life.at the end when he decided to get married, she didn't feel like he has done everything because as she was thinking, getting married will systematically lead to having children who will replace her own. Anyway, he got married and had the first baby, my older sister. Then, another one came in. after a year, his brother got married, too which made it fun because my sister had someone to pay with.…
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"Yes and no, taking care of my son was my main objective, but I could of done better if I stayed in school." Her parents weren't really mad about the pregnancy, but my grandma told my mom if she dropped out then she had to start working full time. My mom's first job was at ACE Hardware off 7 highway and worked there for about six years. I remember it being like a little family there. Mom liked the job and was moving through the ranks pretty fast. After my mom and dad parted ways she met a new man a few years later and we moved to Belton to go live with him.…
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It was after After two years of living with her in-laws. A few months before, Mrs. Raeburn found out she was pregnant. They were going to welcome their very first born to the world and the idea of having to do so while living with her in-laws frightened her. She remembered how hastily they had put together their savings. They had enough for a down payment on a little two bedroom house.…
Consequences In Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin In The Sun
But right now, her family has been staying and renting in the appartment for decades. Her dream of having a house is motivated only by her wish to make living conditions better for her family. It only happen when the insurance money from her husband comes in, which is about $10,000. Mama had down payment the house of $3000 but the rest she gave it to Walter. Mama says " But loved, child you should know all the dreams I had about buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back (pg 45)".…


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India and the Turmoil in the Middle East
Tanveer Jafri
The World Bank estimates that India ranks second in the world in the number of children suffering from malnutrition, after Bagladesh.
Many countries of the Middle East are currently rocked by the people's protests demanding regime change and political reforms. The awakened public now wants the autocrats, dictators and despots to step down. The rulers of Egypt and Tunisia timely left the thrones in exchange for their lives. But the strange Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi has refused to step down until his last breath. For fulfilling this ambition, he is even ready to destroy the nation. And this is the reason that even in the last moments of his rule, Gaddafi has appealed to his numbered supporters to attack the protesters and crush them like "cockroaches." One can imagine if Gaddafi can do such things at a time when his days are numbered, what he could have done with the opponents and dissidents when he used to rule the roost in Libya.
However, this call of aggression by Gaddafi has little effect on people, though some of them became victims of the violence unleashed by his police, army and hired mercenaries. But since Gaddafi has now crossed all limits of morality, his supporters are gradually dumping him. Libya's home minister has left Gaddafi. Many other ministers are following suit. A major part of the army is also against Gaddafi. Near a dozen Libyan ambassadors and diplomats have resigned in protest against Gaddafi. Indifference of the state, widespread public outcry and Gaddafi's stubbornness to remain stuck to the chair have created the environment of a potential civil war in Libya. If any large-scale violence breaks out in such circumstances, only Gaddafi would be responsible for that. The international community is deeply concerned by the turmoil in Libya. Moreover, the prices of crude oil have skyrocketed due to the ongoing disturbance in the Middle East.
The spate of people's demands for regime change is presently limited only to the Muslim populous countries. This wave of change is being looked at in different perspectives. In some countries the majority Shia community is demanding removal of a minority Sunni dictator. In other countries people are fed up by the inefficient and corrupt despots, at some places trying to dethrone the monarchs and establish democracy. It can be said that people in every country of the Middle East have their share of problems. A misconception promoted for centuries has been that democracy is incompatible with Islam and that the followers of Islam love only monarchy or dictatorship. This revolution has shut the mouths of such fundamentalists. This revolution has proved that by and large the Muslim society is not only democratic but also nonviolent.
Amidst this people's revolution in the Middle East, many political analysts are guessing whether such a situation can arise in India. The reason behind this thinking is that even after 64 years of freedom, India is struggling with the problems of poverty, hunger, unemployment, illiteracy, corruption and scams. Maoism or Naxalism is deepening its roots very fast. For this, too, poverty, hunger, unemployment, ignorance and injustice are responsible. There is no doubt that the common man in India is unhappy with the prevailing administrative system. Every minute a debt-ridden farmer commits suicide. More than half of our children are malnourished. Officers of the elite Civil Service, Indian Administrative Service, are either shot dead or burnt alive by the mafias, or kidnapped by the Maoists. In the name of corruption, opposition parties are not letting the Parliament function. Inflation is at an all-time high.
People are losing faith in political parties, leaders and the system. Common people can be heard saying that the laws are only for poor while the rich and influential easily manage to escape the law. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself has admitted this fact. The former President APJ Abdul Kalam expressed the concern that, instead of a smile, there is sadness on the faces of the people. For these reasons, analysts are worried about a potential outburst by the Indian people, influenced by the change in the Middle East. Notwithstanding that India is the world's largest democracy, people are worried about the future of their families and children, just as their Middle Eastern counterparts.
The people of India are divided into hundreds of political parties, ideologies, classes and regions. The Indian Army is constituted on similar lines. Our politicians repeatedly pat their own backs by telling the world that we are the world's biggest and the most successful ideal democracy. But they should not be indifferent to the reality that people have a threshold for everything. An awakened society cannot tolerate for long the fear, poverty, hunger and uncertainty about the future of their children. If India wants to maintain the tag of being the world's largest democracy, it will have to deal with the basic needs and problems of the people as soon as possible. Otherwise, the winds of change start blowing anywhere anytime.


Learn about ways to improve the performance of the Autodiscover process in your application.
There are a lot of reasons to like Autodiscover. Configuring your application to connect to Exchange with no user intervention is great! If you're reading this article, you probably already know all the reasons to use and love Autodiscover, so we won't list them here. Instead, we're going to talk about a potential downside: performance.
Defining the Autodiscover endpoint candidate pool — For applications running on domain-joined computers, this can involve SCP lookups, which involves communicating with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
Trying each candidate — This requires an HTTP request/response to each candidate endpoint.
Trying other alternatives — When the candidates in your Autodiscover endpoint candidate pool don't produce results, you can do an unauthenticated GET request (HTTP request/response) and a DNS lookup.
On the surface this might not seem like much. However, imagine a scenario where the Autodiscover endpoint candidate pool is more than one or two URLs, and you don't find a working one until the last URL in your pool. The delay can become a bit more noticeable. So, what can you do?
When SCP objects are present and configured well, they can speed up the Autodiscover process. In other situations, however, they can slow it down. If SCP isn't used in your environment, skip the entire SCP lookup portion of the Autodiscover process to save time.
The EWS Managed API makes this easy: just set the ExchangeService.EnableScpLookup property to false before calling the ExchangeService.AutodiscoverUrl method. If you're using the AutodiscoverService class, set the AutodiscoverService.EnableScpLookup property to false before calling any of its methods.
Autodiscover isn't designed to be used frequently use by applications. The intent behind Autodiscover is for an application to use it to discover configuration information, and then cache that information for a period of time. If you aren't caching configuration information, consider adding caching to your application to reduce the number of times you use Autodiscover.
Even if you are already caching, evaluate how long you cache configuration information. The standard is to refresh Autodiscover information every 24 hours, but you might be able to extend that time. You should test with your target environments and come up with a "time-to-live" for your configuration that works for you.
If you're using the AutodiscoverService class in the EWS Managed API, or the GetUserSettings operation (SOAP) operation via SOAP, you have direct control over what settings are returned in the response. Although you can request quite a few settings, chances are that your application only needs a handful of them. Every setting that you request requires more processing on the server, which means more time waiting for a response. Evaluate the settings you are requesting, and eliminate any that you don't need.
If you're using the ExchangeService.AutodiscoverUrl method in the EWS Managed API, you cannot change the settings you request. However, this method is already fairly efficient; it only requests the ExternalEwsUrl and InternalEwsUrl settings from the UserSettingName enumeration.
If you're using the POX Autodiscover service, you cannot request specific properties.


Direct Relief announced on Monday a commitment of up to $5 million in cash grants to assist health facilities in Puerto Rico as they continue to address ongoing health needs following Hurricane Maria.
Today's commitment follows more than 126 shipments of emergency medical aid, totaling $29.7 million, from Direct Relief to health centers, clinics, hospitals, and medical teams throughout Puerto Rico.
Direct Relief is coordinating its response in Puerto Rico with the Asociación de Salud Primaria de Puerto Rico, National Association of Community Health Centers, National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, as well as local public health officials.
Concurrent to its work in Puerto Rico, Direct Relief continues to support hurricane-affected communities throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean.
In the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Direct Relief has provided more than $39 million in medical aid to health facilities throughout Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, St. Marten, Turks and Caicos, and the United States.


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Thin-Film Solar Cells Generate as Much Energy as Traditional Ones
Scientists from Hasselt University, imec, VITO and international partners within the PERCISTAND consortium have become the first to achieve an energy efficiency of 25 percent with a thin-film solar cell. This means that this wafer-thin solar cell generates as much energy as a traditional silicon solar cell. 'In addition, our solar cells are thin and flexible, making them ideal for integration into buildings and roofs,' says Prof. Bart Vermang (Hasselt Unicersity/imec/EnergyVille). 'With these thin-film solar cells, we are truly competitive with the traditional solar panel sector for the first time.'
'Pioneering': that's how Bart Vermang, coordinator within the PERCISTAND consortium, describes the development of thin-film solar cells. The consortium, which partly consists of the collaborations within EnergyVille and Solliance, has succeeded in achieving a record energy efficiency with thin film solar cells. 'We've achieved an energy efficiency of 25 percent for the first time, which is just as much energy as a traditional solar cell can generate on a day-to-day basis. And we haven't yet reached the upper limit of our thin-film solar cells.' For further information see the IDTechEx report on Energy Harvesting Microwatt to Megawatt 2019-2029.
'We use two types of materials to achieve this record efficiency, which we lay on top of each other,' says Bart Vermang. 'A traditional solar panel consists of a single layer, usually of silicon. For these solar cells, we use two different materials that reinforce each other. Our consortium is a collaboration of what we can safely call the best thin-film solar cell research groups in the world. Some of the partners are working on the bottom cell, while others are working on the top cell. In recent weeks we've combined the best bottom and top cells, which is how we have already achieved this high efficiency level of 25 percent. Our ambition now is to generate an energy efficiency of 30 percent within the next three years.'
Thin-film competitive with traditional market
'We will really be able to compete with traditional solar panels with this,' says Bart Vermang. 'Our solar cells are made from wafer-thin, flexible material, so that you can develop solar panels in all colours and sizes that you can integrate into the façades or roofs of homes.' And because the solar cells are so thin, less material is needed to make solar panels. 'This will make these solar panels even cheaper than the traditional ones,' says Bart Vermang. 'Within this project we're also working with economists to analyse the cost of these solar cells. In this way we hope to have a business model ready by the end of the project with which businesses wishing to produce these solar cells can get started.'
When will members of the public be able to purchase thin-film solar panels? 'For the moment we managed to get these efficiency results in solars cells of approximately 1cm². I imagine that the panels will be available on the market within eight years. There are still a number of obstacles to overcome. For example, we can already lay the top cells on the bottom cells and generate energy, but a cost-efficient way still needs to be found to combine the two layers in a module. Our engineers at Hasselt University and imec within EnergyVille, are currently working on this. And we'll definitely get there,' concludes Bart Vermang.
The PERCISTAND research project has been awarded 5 million euros of funding from the European Horizon 2020 programme. The consortium consists of twelve international partners: Hasselt University, imec, VITO, TNO, Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Empa Switzerland, National Centre for Scientific Research - Institute PV France (CNRS-IPVF), Solar Switzerland, NICE Solar Energy, Australian National University, National Renewable Energy Laboratory USA.
Source and top image: imec
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The Parents' Guide to UWS
Studying at university is an exciting, enriching and rewarding experience, offering a wealth of opportunities for personal development and growth.
As a parent or guardian, you are likely to play an important part in your child's decision to go to university, as well a key supporting role during their studies. This can range from financial assistance to emotional support.
The information below is intended to help you support your child in making one of the biggest decisions of their life.
With such a wide range of exciting, stimulating and career-relevant courses available at UWS, deciding which is right for your child can be a significant undertaking.
They might choose to continue studying a subject that are familiar with, or take an entirely new subject.
It is crucial that your child choses a subject they are passionate about and that will continue to interest them over a three or four year period of study.
It is, of course, also important that the course aligns to your child's intended career path, if they have one in mind.
You can find out about the study options available at UWS using our course search below.
Find your course of interest from our career-focused undergraduate, postgraduate (taught) and post-experience options.
Visit UWS
We hold open days and information sessions throughout the year that are aimed at students considering studying at UWS. You and your child can see what it's like to live and study at UWS, and find out more about the degree courses we offer.
This can help you reach a decision about whether UWS is the right choice for your child.
Find out more about our open days
If your son or daughter decides that attending UWS is the right option for them, they'll need to submit an application.
Most applications for undergraduate study are made through the University and College Admissions Service (UCAS) website, and it is likely that your son or daughter will complete much of this application at school.
If you live outside the UK, or if your son or daughter is applying for postgraduate study, this is normally done through our online application system.
Applying to study at university is a competitive process and it's important that prospective students submit the strongest possible application to help them to stand out from the crowd.
However they apply, and whatever the level of study, your child will need to complete a personal statement to tell us about:
Themselves, their interests and goals
Their interest in the course(s) they've chosen
Their career aspirations
Any volunteering, work experience or paid employment
Alongside their academic qualifications, the personal statement is one of the most elements of the application things that we will use to make a decision on whether your son or daughter is offered study at UWS so it is important that this is as detailed as possible.
To help you to understand what to expect from our application processes, we've developed step-by-step guides.
How to apply to study at UWS.
Undergraduate Application Guide
A step-by-step guide to applying for an undergraduate degree at University of the West of Scotland.
Postgraduate Application Guide
A step-by-step guide to applying for a postgraduate taught degree at University of the West of Scotland.
Part-Time Study Application Guide
A step-by-step guide to applying for part-time study at University of the West of Scotland.
If your son or daughter doesn't get the grades they expected to get into their first-choice or back-up degree course, they can still attend university through clearing.
Clearing is a process used by universities to offer unfilled places on degree courses.
Clearing typically takes place immediately after exam results are issued so it's important to assess your options and move quickly.
Each year, we post available course vacancies on our dedicated clearing website in addition to UCAS's clearing service.
The Exam Results Helpline – 0808 100 8000 – offers impartial, expert advice to help your son or daughter to apply through clearing.
Attending university is an investment in your son or daughter's future. Once they have a confirmed place on a degree course, it's important to work out how much study is likely to cost, and what financial support is available.
The country in which your son or daughter is ordinarily resident will determine how much they'll have to pay in tuition fees.
Tuition fees can be paid upfront, or your son or daughter can apply for a tuition fee loan to cover the costs of their academic study.
Find out more about tuition fees
The costs of living in our campus locations are generally lower than attending university in major cities, such as Glasgow or Edinburgh.
Your son or daughter can also take out a loan to support their living costs during their time at university. The amount your son or daughter will be able to borrow depends on a number of factors, including your household income.
UWS also administer a range of discretionary and childcare funds designed to support students who are experiencing financial difficulty or struggling to meet the costs of childcare.
Find out more about financial support for students
Staying in University-managed accommodation is a great way for your son or daughter to meet new people, make friends and gain some independence. All with the reassurance that our Residence Life team are onsite for help and support.
A variety of self-catered accommodation is available at our campuses in Ayr, Dumfries, Lanarkshire and Paisley in the form of shared flats or studios
Students attending the UWS London Campus generally find their own accommodation, either in the form of a private let or privately managed residence.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ACCOMMODATION AT UWS
Student support and wellbeing
At UWS, we are committed to ensuring that every student gets the most out of their university experience, regardless of their personal circumstances or background.
That's why we offer a wide range of support services to ensure that all students fulfil their potential, achieve their goals and enjoy their time at UWS.
Our commitment to our students was recognised with the UWS student services team being named as 'Student Support Team of the Year' in the 2017 Herald Higher Education Awards.
Our campus-based student services teams provide:
Careers and employability guidance
Funding and money advice
If you would like to find out more about your child's future at UWS, you can contact us:
Email: ask@uws.ac.uk
Additionally, the UCAS website has a dedicated section for parents with information to help you support your son or daughter throughout the UCAS application cycle.


For further information and pricing, please contact our RACV Golf Shop directly on 03 5345 9628 or email Golf_Goldfields@racv.com.au.
Challenge yourself on one of the best forest courses in Victoria. Designed to take advantage of the natural beauty, the course offers a fun round for the novice golfer but can reward the experienced golfer with its mixture of well placed bunkers, sloping fairways and lagoons. If you would like a quicker round or just for something different, we offer a full Par 3 course as well.
Here at RACV Goldfields Resort we recognise that playing Golf is part of your leisure time and as such our attitude to dress code is fairly relaxed. While traditional Golf attire is very welcome, if you prefer to play in something more comfortable or relaxed you are very welcome. A few exceptions; covered feet at all times; no singlets or bare torsos and no baggy tracksuit pants!
RACV Goldfields Resort has a wide range of Season Passes available for golfers of all abilities and ages. Ours Season Passes offer access to the course as well as to membership at the Creswick Golf Club, which is based at the Resort. The Pass also offers limited use of the reciprocal RACV golf courses at Torquay, Cape Schanck and Royal Pines.
The Golf Shop is on the lower ground floor and includes a cafe.
RACV Goldfields Resort is the perfect place to practise as well as play golf. With its practice fairway, putting green and warm-up nets, you can perfect your skills before hitting the course.
All golfers can enjoy the first-class facilities on offer, with a lounge for relaxing after a round of golf as well as a spike bar and change rooms available. And why not enjoy a lunch from our first-class menu of contemporary fare.
Enjoy 18 holes for two people at RACV Goldfields Resort. Normally $142, members and non-members pay just $65.
Whether you want a round of golf with friends and family on the weekend, or you're looking for competitions to test your skill, RACV Golf Membership will meet your needs.
Every one of RACV's 2.1 million members can access discounts at popular attractions and events in Victoria and beyond.


TJ's frozen aisles have got you covered.
Anyone who knows me knows that I love Trader Joe's. The staff is super friendly, the store is fun, and the prices are cheap. Best of all, Trader Joe's store brand is the holy grail. TJ's is full of kinds of awesome snacks, drinks and meals all under their own brand name. Although all the aisles at Trader Joe's are filled with a zillion great choices, their frozen aisles are especially abundant. If you're feeling lazy about making dinner, are having guests over or you just feel like stocking up, rejoice: here's a reliable and researched customer approved list of the 41 best frozen foods at Trader Joe's.
For when you have a craving that only potstickers or dumplings will fix, I give you TJ's pork gyoza. Make them as an appetizer for friends OR for you to eat all yourself. You can steam, pan-fry, bake or make them in the microwave.
Easy for dinner and inexpensive too, Mandarin Orange Chicken has been an extremely popular Trader Joe's product for a loooong time. TJ fans literally swear by this stuff, so if you haven't tried it, it's time you do.
Now vegan Indian food lovers can rejoice too. TJ's vegan Tikka Masala has all the Indian flavor without any meat. Skip searching a restaurant menu for options, and save money in the process.
Satisfy any cheesy cravings with any variety of Trader Joe's frozen mac and cheese. One box, and you'll be making the switch from your average microwaveable mac and cheese to the TJ's brand faster than it takes to heat up.
Bring the flavors of the Mid-East easily to your kitchen. If you've never tried a kofta, they're basically a Middle Eastern style meatball. Paired with masala sauce, they're the perfect oer d'oeuvre or addition to a meal.
If you haven't tried mochi yet, you need to. They are a traditional Japanese food made with rice and sugar. It may sound like a weird combo at first, but trust me, the Japanese know what they're doing. TJ's has them in various fun flavors, including pumpkin pie and green tea.
As you'll see in the remainder of this article, TJ's is not short on Indian style cuisine. Next up in that realm is their naan, which is oven-baked flatbread that is found in several Asian cuisines (including Indian). Pair with some of the Indian dishes already listed and you've got yourself a full spread.
To all my vegetarians out there, you may at this point be tired of the common black bean burgers or other veggie you probably live off of. Enter TJ's Thai sweet chili veggie burgers. They're the perfect mix of sweet and spicy and will easily become your new fave.
Prosciutto and arugula are an amazing pizza topping combo that you can now experience easily in the convenience of your kitchen. Paired with burrata, and you really can't go wrong. Pick up a box when you want a step up from your average frozen pizza.
You can't go wrong with an easy enchilada. Popular among vegetarians and meat-lovers alike, these black bean and corn enchiladas are an easy way to get your fix of Mexican style food.
Drooooool. These mac and cheese bites are everything and more. Definitely something you want in your freezer at all times. Trust me on this.
Well, if you were looking for one, here's the perfect excuse to host a super cute ~rustic~ dinner party. No matter what the occasion is, this apple tart is sure to be a hit and is likely to fool almost anyone into thinking it's homemade.
TJ's has truly outdone itself with this one. This drool worthy-box contains the perfect combination of a classic dessert and arguably Trader Joe's most popular item. That being said, a little PSA: if you haven't tried cookie butter, it needs to be the very next thing you do.
If you want to feel like you're in Paris when you're really just in your dorm or apartment, these will do the trick. Have your own little fête with all the fun flavors of macarons TJ's offers.
I've been craving poutine since I first tried it over spring break in Montreal. It's basically the Canadian version of cheese fries, complete with gravy and yummy cheese curds. The TJ's rendition should tie you over until their next trip to Canada.
Just when you thought Trader Joe's couldn't get any better. Just like the amazingness that is TJ's Cookie Butter Cheesecake, but in bite-size form! I strongly advise you to pick up more than one box.
Trader Joe's really does come in handy for when you're low on funds but still want your fix of different cuisines. When you can't make it to Chinatown, pick up a box of these (and maybe invest in some of those nifty dumpling spoons).
How can you resist warm croissants without having to leave the house? These almond croissants (along with the highly-recommend chocolate) will have your kitchen feeling like a cute little bakery in no time.
Happily host brunch at your place with this snazzy and easily prepared broccoli-cheddar quiche. Paired with bottomless mimosas courtesy of your kitchen, your friends and your wallet will thank you.
Just found out your roommate invited people over to watch whatever game or award show is on later? Warm up a bowl of TJ's spinach and artichoke dip, pour out a bag of pita chips and watch people snack away. Hosting crisis averted.
TJ's BBQ chicken pizza is another yummy alternative to ordering pizza and spending money you probably won't have until your next paycheck. Two types of cheese, red onions, chicken and BBQ sauce? Score.
They're not called Gone Bananas for nothing. You'll go bananas for sure for TJ's Gone Bananas. Perfectly sliced frozen pieces of banana covered in chocolate are the anytime snack you never knew you needed.
These chili lime chicken burgers scream summertime. Grab a few friends, throw some of these on the grill, crack open a few cold beers and you've got yourself the start of classic summer night.
What are Sundays for if not trying to forget all the unnecessary carbs and sugar you consumed over weekend? In attempt to balance things out, whip up this tasty superfood combo of quinoa, kale and carrots. Who knows, maybe next you'll go to the gym like you told yourself you would.
Authentic, handmade tamales right outta the freezer? Sounds too good to be true, but TJ's tamales are the next best thing to getting some fresh. The chicken and green chile variety have the perfect amount of kick and are sure to satisfy any spicy craving.
Recreate some memories from your semester abroad in London by popping one of these steak and ale pies into your oven. Stick with the theme and maybe pair it with a pint to make it doubly British. You'll feel like you're back in a pub in no time.
A fancy name for an equally fancy frozen flatbread. Serve this to dinner guests in little slices over glasses of wine, and soon you'll feel like the French version of Ina Garten.
Although TJ's typically has a nice selection of frozen fruit, these figs are especially something to treasure. Figs are not very common in the U.S. (at least on the east coast), and if anything, all you can ever find are puny ones. Fellow fig lovers, pick up a bag of these (organic!) whole green figs and rejoice.
More easy-to-make Indian style food? You got it. These little veggie fritters are the perfect snack or addition to a meal. With all the Indian style food TJ's has to offer, you're never far from a make-shift Indian feast.
Yet another hard to find fruit that Trader Joe's has blessed us with in frozen form. Enjoy all the sweetness apricots have to offer anytime you want with a bag (or two) of these.
You know what's even better than churros? Mini churros. Bite sized and sweet, you'll probably find yourself buying another bagful sooner than you thought you would.
If you're trying to squeeze more veggies into your diet, pick up a couple bags of organic riced cauliflower and discover the beauty of this under appreciated vegetable. You'll thank me later.
These are a major win for my gluten free friends. Enjoy a childhood favorite without fear with these gluten free breaded chicken nuggets. Pair with ketchup and a glass chocolate milk if you really wanna feel nostalgic.
All the key lime goodness you could ever want without any fuss. TJ's key lime pie is so good, you'll forget it came from a box. Perfect for enjoying on your own (no shame) or for any last minute get-togethers.
All and any falafel lovers I know have a go-to place to get their fix (or a family member that makes them homemade). Well, if you have neither, or even if you have both, these are ideal for any spontaneous Middle Eastern cravings.
Truly, the frozen aisles of Trader Joe's can take you around the world in a few short pushes of your shopping cart. These tasty mini chicken tamalitos will having you booking a flight to Peru to discover what other yumminess the country has to offer.
TJ's turkey corn dogs are great because you can easily satisfy any corn dog craving (am I the only one that gets those?) without taking a trip to a baseball stadium or amusement park. Pair with mustard and ketchup, and you're set.
Anyone who celebrates Christmas has likely seen the large and colorful Italian panettone cake boxes around the holidays. Celebrate the holiday season any day of the year with Trader Joe's innovative panettone French toast.
More mini food? You bet. These mini chicken samosas are not to be missed. Plus, given their size, you can eat and whole box and trick your mind into thinking it's okay.
Although your average pasta dinner is already pretty easy to make, take it a step further with TJ's organic (bonus) pesto tortellini. So good you'll forget the pesto isn't homemade.
Ah, good ol' pigs in a blanket (but better). Bake a bunch and impress any guests into thinking you're the master of oer d'oeuvres. The key is to casually mention that the little "beef franks" are wrapped in puff pastry and dusted with parmesan. Fancy schmancy.


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Sun 5th Apr 2020
at Royal Hippodrome Theatre, Eastbourne
Join Ballet Theatre UK in one of the greatest ballets of all time, Giselle.
A tragically romantic tale of a young girl who falls deeply in love however she would soon be deceived for he was betrothed to another. Through despair and desperation the young girl kills herself as she could not live without him.
The Queen of the Wilis, along with the ghosts of young girls who die before their wedding nights, condemns the lover to dance to his death. He can only be saved by the intervention of the spirit of Giselle and the break of dawn which force the Wilis to flee.
First performed in 1841, Giselle has never lost its popularity with audiences, considered to be one of the jewels in the crown of the romantic repertoire.
Featuring a full Corps de Ballet of 24 international dancers along with the critically acclaimed Principal Dancers, Ballet Theatre UK present this haunting classic in its full glory set to the stunning music by Adolphe Adam.
Ballet Theatre UK
Join Ballet Theatre UK on their 11th year of touring the UK bringing both old and new classical productions to a wider audience. This Season includes The Wizard of Oz, Giselle and Sense and Sensibility. 'Glittering costumes, expressive dancers... a pleasure to witness a production of this calibre' (Dance Europe Magazine) 'A ballet company of great achievement... A pleasure to witness a production of this calibre' (The Dancing Times) 'Critics Choice - Top Five companies touring the UK' (The Independent).
See 31 tour dates featuring Ballet Theatre UK
> Eastbourne Theatre
> Royal Hippodrome Theatre
Royal Hippodrome Theatre
108-112 Seaside Road
BN21 3PF
royalhippodrome.com