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Describes an Indian girl's experience of the festival of Diwali. Over the five days of the festival, she makes a rangoli pattern, prepares special food, goes visiting, wears new clothes, exchange gifts, and performs at a concert. Suggested level: junior, primary.

A broken beauty queenYears ago, Brianna Taylor dominated the child pageant circuit. Her looks stole the spotlight, her voice commanded the stage. After she is deceived by those she is supposed to trust most, her anger consumes her and her talent. When she allows herself to connect with some girls from school, something begins to stir inside of her. After all this time, can the Sirens help her find her voice again? A bruised ex-girlfriendJayna Madhav's parents never worried that their daughter would lose her head over some guy. There was no way any boy could threaten her academic prowess, her athletic inclination, or her powerful gift for song...but they never counted on a man. When her secret love reveals his shocking secret, Jayna's perfect world falls spectacularly apart. Can the Sirens help her put herself back together again? A bereaved daughterWith her mother for a best friend, there wasn't anything Ariel Yen couldn't handle. Including the eyerolling and under-the-breath muttering that would surely follow her revelation that she intended to become a popstar and not a Nobel Prize winner. But when she loses her mother to cancer, Ariel also loses her way and her connection to music. Will the Sirens be able to help her see how much life she has left to live? A bereft young womanDespite what people think, Kia Daniels is not a teenage mother. Not yet, anyway. With the weight of the world on her shoulders, Kia stifles the voice she was gifted with, for fear of ending up like her drug addicted mother. Focused only on adopting her little brothers upon turning 18, she allows few into the fold. Will the Sirens be able to convince her that her voice could be the key to her freedom? Hear them sing...These girls hide their truths from the world along with singing voices that rival that of Homer's sirens. Can their newfound friendship and the combination of their talents, empower them to defeat their inner demons?

Wonderfully wide-ranging, original, and enjoyable, The Emotional Embodiment of Stars contains twenty-seven award-winning short stories by young writers that are sure to entertain the readers of all ages and genres.

Contemporary Relevance Of Gandhian Economic Thought, Focussing On Rural Industrialization, And Its Suitability As A Panacea For Extant Economic Problems By Critically Analyzing Various Gandhian Approaches Along With His Vision Of Gram Swarajya Forms The Central Theme Of This Work.

IBM® Security Access Manager is a modular, integrated access management appliance that helps secure access to web, mobile, and cloud workloads. It is offered both as a physical appliance and as a virtual appliance image that runs on several popular hypervisors. The integrated appliance form factor enables easier and more flexible deployment and maintenance. This IBM RedpaperTM publication describes the different Security Access Manager Appliance V9.0 deployment patterns and uses hands-on examples to demonstrate how to initially configure systems in those deployments. It also describes various deployment considerations, such as networking, high-availability, performance, disaster recovery, and scalability. All of these deployment patterns are covered within the context of realistic business scenarios. This paper is especially helpful to Security Access Manager architects and deployment specialists.

Scientific Study from the year 2013 in the subject Biology - Micro- and Molecular Biology, grade: A, Nirma University (Institute of Science), course: Microbiology, language: English, abstract: Extracts of Emblica officinalis seeds prepared by Microwave Assisted Extraction (MAE) method were evaluated for their antimicrobial property against planktonic form of certain human/plant pathogenic microbes. Additionally, seed extracts of E. officinalis, Tamarindus indica, Manilkara zapota, Phoenix sylvestris, Syzygium cumini, and selected phytocompounds were tested against multi-drug resistant Streptococcus mutans (a major pathogen associated with human dental caries) in its planktonic as well as biofilm form. Ability of these extracts to eradicate and kill S. mutans biofilm was investigated. E. officinalis extracts exerted bactericidal action against S. mutans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Vibrio cholerae. Acetone extract of S. cumini, and curcumin were able to inhibit S. mutans at appreciably low concentrations of 50 μg/mL and 20 μg/mL respectively. T. indica and S. cumini seed extracts were able to kill ≥ 80% cells of S. mutans in biofilm, in the concentration range of 500-1000 μg/mL. These extracts were able to achieve ≥ 95% killing of S. mutans biofilm at concentrations ranging from 600-2000 μg/mL. Ability of the potent extracts to kill S. mutans biofilm did not seem to be much dependent on eradication of the biofilm. Extraction efficiency was found to have a good correlation with antibacterial activity.