My Life, My Way

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Modern polyurethane flooring offers lovely floor finish for home and commercial kitchens. This image from the Brick Wall Tavern in Fairfield CT.

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A simple cheeseboard with homemade bacon jam. (Recipe in comments!)

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That looks #delicious!

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Laguna Beach SoCal 🌊

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Tiny meow

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Blooms in the Baltic

Every summer, phytoplankton – microscopic plant-like organisms – spread across the North Atlantic, with blooms spanning hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles. Nutrient-rich, cooler waters tend to promote more growth among marine plants and phytoplankton than is found in tropical waters. Blooms this summer off Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense.

On July 18, 2018, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired a natural-color image of a swirling green phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Finland, a section of the Baltic Sea. Note how the phytoplankton trace the edges of a vortex; it is possible that this ocean eddy is pumping up nutrients from the depths.

Though it is impossible to know the phytoplankton type without sampling the water, three decades of satellite observations suggest that these green blooms are likely to be cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), an ancient type of marine bacteria that capture and store solar energy through photosynthesis (like plants).

In recent years, the proliferation of algae blooms in the Baltic Sea has led to the regular appearance of “dead zones” in the basin. Phytoplankton and cyanobacteria consume the abundant nutrients in the Baltic ¬and deplete the oxygen. According to researchers from Finland’s University of Turku, the dead zone this year is estimated to span about 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 square miles).

Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/2uLK4aZ

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Blog update

First and foremost, there’s a new Resources page. It contains direct links to 8 PDF textbooks, links to free online dictionaries, verb conjugators, radios, hundreds of audiobooks, links to online newspapers, and more. Below are the textbooks that are available for download.

Italian for Dummies

Colloquial Italian (with audio)

Ciao!

Teach Yourself Italian (with audio)

Teach Yourself - Italian conversation (with audio)

Teach Yourself - Beginner’s Italian (with audio)

Easy Italian Step-by-step

Routledge Intensive Italian course

At the bottom of the Resources page, the Navigate my blog section is organised so that you can quickly find and read the information or posts that you’re looking for. These include the Mood and tenses masterpost, How to guess the gender of nouns, Essere or Stare?, and more.

Besides these very important improvements, I’ve also decided to choose a new look for my blog. My new theme is called Linear, and is available in the Theme Garden for free. But since I did not.. quite like it the way it was, I decided to change its code a little bit and make it more like I wanted it to be.

Along with my theme, however, I’ve also changed some of the pages on my blog, namely the About the author, Support me, and Ask away pages. You’ll also notice (or maybe not) that I’ve added a new Ko-fi link to my description (which I’ve also changed), in hopes to raise a little money to support me & my work.

And now that we’re at it, if you have any question or request, my inbox is open! Thanks to all for being so wonderful.

TL;DR: I changed my whole blog. Go look at it!

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