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Important role of C++ as a base language in order to understand the modern programming languages such as C#, Java, J# etc.
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Important role of C++ as a base language in order to understand the modern programming languages such as C#, Java, J# etc.
All these languages are independent from each other. So if to speak about the importance then C# is important for understanding C++ the same way as C++ is important for understanding C#.
Also see the thread http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/90678/
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At the dawn of the 1960s, Mazda was a little-known Japanese manufacturer of light-duty trucks, with a single urban commuter car (the R-360) to its credit. | Mazda Cosmo Coupe. Photo courtesy Mazda.
At the dawn of the 1960s, Mazda was a little-known Japanese manufacturer of light-duty trucks, with a single urban commuter car (the R-360) to its credit. Like other Japanese automakers of the day, Mazda had great ambitions for its future, and it saw the Felix Wankel-developed rotary engine as the distinction it needed to rise above the rest of its Japanese competition. Just as the rotary engine was seen as bold and futuristic for its promise of performance in a compact, lightweight package, no ordinary car would do to introduce the Mazda name to a global audience. Looking for maximum impact, Mazda debuted its own version of the two-rotor Wankel engine in a futuristic sport coupe that seemed to blend the best of styling from both Europe and Japan. Calling its new car the Cosmo, Mazda forever cemented its reputation as a manufacturer of cars for those eschewing the shortest route between two points in favor of the most entertaining.
In the late 1950s, Felix Wankel’s innovative design for an entirely new internal combustion engine seemed to hold far more promise than the antiquated and inefficient piston engine. The rotary engine was able to produce impressive power from a much smaller and lighter package than traditional piston engines, and held the further advantage of having fewer moving parts to fail. Eventually, rotary engines became known for their smooth running and stratospheric redlines, though these benefits were not without offsetting drawbacks. In February of 1961, Mazda’s parent, Toyo Kogyo, became the fourth licensee of the Wankel engine from the patent holder, German automaker NSU.
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Mazda’s work on the rotary engine began immediately after it had licensed the rights from NSU, and before delivery of the first NSU-branded engine even took place. By July of 1963, the company had completed two prototype 798cc Type 8A engines to begin testing, and for the 1964 Tokyo Motor Show company president Tsuneji Matsuda drove the first Cosmo prototype (now with an improved 982cc 10A engine) onto the show stand.
Still, problems with Mazda’s enhanced rotary engine design persisted. Apex seals, positioned at the tip of each rotor’s three lobes, wore quickly, causing the engine to lose compression (and hence, power) while increasing oil consumption and boosting noxious emissions. To solve this problem, Mazda’s engineers developed apex seals that used both carbon and aluminum in their construction, which proved to be far more durable than the previous hollow cast-iron design. In total, some 80 prototypes were built using the improved apex seal design, and the bulk of these (75 percent) were shippe |
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Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative | ||This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. (January 2009)|
Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as Casualty, Holby City, ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs and Green Wing.
Examples of pejorative language include bagged and tagged for a corpse, a reference to the intake process at a mortuary; cabbage for a heart bypass (coronary artery bypass graft); ATFO for asked to fuck off; bone break need fix for orthopaedic surgery; and donorcycle for motorcycle. Less offensive is the term blue pipes for veins, and champagne tap for a flawless lumbar puncture (this is cause for champagne to be taken in celebration).
Limitations on use
In many countries, facetious or insulting acronyms are now considered unethical and unacceptable, and patients can access their medical records. Medical facilities risk being sued by patients offended by the descriptions. Another reason for the decline is that facetious acronyms could be confused with genuine medical terms and the wrong treatment administered.
In one of his annual reports (related by the BBC), medical slang collector Dr. Adam Fox cited an example where a practitioner had entered “TTFO”, meaning “told to fuck off”, on a patient’s chart. When questioned about the chart entry, the practitioner said that the initials stood for “to take fluids orally.” While this may or may not be true, it indicates the danger of using informal — and frequently insulting — acronyms.
As a result, medical slang tends to be restricted to oral use and to informal notes or E-mails which do not form part of a patient’s formal records. It may also be used among medical staff outside of the hospital. It is not found on patients’ charts and, due to growing awareness of medical slang, often not used in front of patients themselves.
Although online medical slang dictionaries are primarily from English-speaking countries, non-English medical slang has been collected by Fox from elsewhere. Brazilian medical slang includes PIMBA ("Pé Inchado Mulambo Bêbado Atropelado" meaning "swollen-footed, drunk, run-over beggar"), Poliesculhambado (multi-messed-up patient) and Trambiclínica (a "fraudulent clinic" staffed cheaply by medical students).
Annual round-up of medical slang
There is an annual round-up of the usage of medical slang by British physician Dr. Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital, London. Fox has spent five years charting more than 200 examples, regional and national terms and the general decline of medical slang. He believes that doctors have become more respectful of patients, which has contributed to the decline. While its use may be declining in the medical profession, several dictionaries of the slang have been compiled on the internet.
- Adam T. Fox, Michael Fertleman, Pauline Cahill, and Roger D. Palmer (2003). "Medical slang in British hospitals". Ethics and Behaviour 13 (2): 173–189. doi:10.1207/S15327019EB1302_04. PMID 15124632. — Discussion of the "usage, derivation, and psychological, ethical, and legal aspects of slang terminology in medicine" as well as a glossary of common UK medical slang terms
- Adam T. Fox, Pauline Cahill, and Michael Fertleman (2002). "Medical slang" (PDF). British Medical Journal 324 (179): 179S. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7350.S179.
- Paul S. McDonald (2002-08-24). "Slang in clinical practice". British Medical Journal 325 (7361): 444. doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7361.444/a. PMC 1123955. PMID 12193372.
- Peter B. Hukill, A. L. H., and James L. Jackson (May 1961). "The Spoken Language of Medicine: Argot, Slang, Cant". American Speech (American Speech, Vol. 36, No. 2) 36 (2): 145–151. doi:10.2307/453853. JSTOR 453853.
- Renee R. Anspach (December 1988). "Notes on the Sociology of Medical Discourse: The Language of Case Presentation". Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 4) 29 (4): 357–375. doi:10.2307/2136869. JSTOR 2136869.
- Genevieve Noone Parsons, Sara B. Kinsman, Charles L. Bosk, Pamela Sankar, and Peter A. Ubel (August 2001). "Between Two Worlds: Medical Student Perceptions of Humor and Slang in the Hospital Setting". Journal of General Internal Medicine (Springer New York) 16 (8): 544–549. doi:10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016008544.x. PMC 1495252. PMID 11556931.
- Coombs RH, Chopra S, Schenk DR, and Yutan E (April 1993). "Medical slang and its functions". Soc Sci Med. 36 (8): 987–998. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(93)90116-L.
- "Doctor slang is a dying art". BBC News. 2003-08-18.
- National Lampoon. "Slang words that hospitals use, some are funny". totse.com.
- Dragonqueen. "DOCTORS' SLANG, MEDICAL SLANG AND MEDICAL ACRONYMS". — Medical Slang around the world
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This enigmatic babbler, known only from a type-specimen of uncertain provenance, is classified as Data Deficient. Although it has probably declined owing to the recent lowland deforestation in Kalimantan, it is impossible to accurately | This enigmatic babbler, known only from a type-specimen of uncertain provenance, is classified as Data Deficient. Although it has probably declined owing to the recent lowland deforestation in Kalimantan, it is impossible to accurately assess its range or population size. Given the inconspicuous nature of the species and the dearth of fieldwork targeted at rediscovering it, hopes remain high that it might be refound.
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In some ways, neurons act like computers. That is, they receive messages, process those messages, and send out the results as new messages to other cells. In the case of neurons, the message consists of chemicals that interact with the outer surface | In some ways, neurons act like computers. That is, they receive messages, process those messages, and send out the results as new messages to other cells. In the case of neurons, the message consists of chemicals that interact with the outer surface of the cell membrane. This chemical interaction with the cell membrane causes chemical changes within the receiving neuron. Once inside, those chemicals can be processed-broken down or changed into other chemicals. Chemicals can also leave the cell and function as the cell's output.
One name for the constant exchange of chemical messages between neurons is neurotransmission. Neurotransmission involves three basic steps. In this section you'll find an overview of each step.
1. Neurons release neurotransmitters
A resting neuron has a negative charge. That is, there are more negative ions inside the axon than outside the axon. (Ions are molecules with an electric charge.) In contrast, the fluid outside the axon has a positive charge. Because the outside and inside of the axon have different charges, the axon is said to be polarized.
When a neuron is excited or fires, several events take place to create an electrical impulse. Sodium ions, which have a positive charge, enter the axon. This depolarizes the axon-that is, changes the electrical charge inside the axon from negative to positive. This change starts at one end of the axon and continues all the way to the other end. In response to this electrical impulse (called an action potential), the vesicles swarm to the very edge of the axon and release neurotransmitters into the synapse.
After the neurotransmitters are released, potassium ions flow out of the axon. Potassium ions have a positive charge, so their absence restores the negative charge inside the axon. The neuron is again polarized and at rest, waiting to fire another impulse.
2. Neurotransmitters bind to receptors
Neurotransmitters float across the synapse until they hit the dendrites of the next neuron. On each dendrite, neurotransmitters find molecules that are set to receive them. These molecules are called receptors. Neurotransmitters recognize specific receptors and "grab"" on to them, a process called binding. (The neuron that originally released the neurotransmitter is the "sending" neuron; the neuron that binds the neurotransmitter is the "receiving" neuron.)
Each receptor accepts only certain neurotransmitters, much like a lock accepts only a certain key. After binding is done, receptors let go of the neurotransmitters. At that point, several things can happen. Some neurotransmitters are destroyed by enzymes. In other cases, proteins transport neurotransmitters back to the axon from which they originally came, a process called reuptake. Reuptake allows neurotransmitters to use the same neurotransmitters over again-a kind of "recycling."
Binding causes a set of chemical reactions within the receiving neuron. Those reactions start up the same kind of impulse that was fired in the sending neuron. In this way, the original impulse is conducted through the sending neuron-and through the rest of the neurons in a nerve pathway. Eventually, the impulse reaches its final destination, such as a muscle, gland, or organ. The result is a change in the way we think, feel, or behave.
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The chemical reactions inside the receiving neuron are called second messengers. Second messengers pass along the original message from the neurotransmitter. In fact, neurotransmitters are sometimes called first messengers.
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Have you ever heard of cliff diving? It is one of the most amazing extreme sports that you could participate in. In my person opinion, it combines everything that an extreme sport should offer: free falling and water. There is no bigger adrenaline rush | Have you ever heard of cliff diving? It is one of the most amazing extreme sports that you could participate in. In my person opinion, it combines everything that an extreme sport should offer: free falling and water. There is no bigger adrenaline rush than cliff diving, feeling the air fly through your hair whilst you plummet towards the water.
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Hubble has detected the fastest moving hypervelocity star, even faster than the blue stellar torpedoes caught in 2009. This one moves at 1,600,000mph (2.5 million km/h). This is NASA | Hubble has detected the fastest moving hypervelocity star, even faster than the blue stellar torpedoes caught in 2009. This one moves at 1,600,000mph (2.5 million km/h). This is NASA's theory about its origin:
A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered too close to the galaxy's giant black hole, which captured one of the stars and hurled the other two out of the Milky Way. Adding to the stellar game of musical chairs, the two outbound stars merged to form a super-hot, blue star.
Two stars in one, slingshotted from the galactic core by a hungry black hole—I wish we had video of that. It doesn't beat my theory: This thing is running scared shitless from Jean Grey. [Hubble and NASA] |
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Males exposed to a byproduct of the pesticide DDT may have an increased risk of testicular cancer, according to research published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on April 29 | Adapted from the NCI Cancer Bulletin.
Males exposed to a byproduct of the pesticide DDT may have an increased risk of testicular cancer, according to research published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on April 29, 2008. Blood levels of DDE, the main persistent metabolic product of DDT, were higher in a sample of American men with testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) than in other men. This relatively rare cancer is often treatable, especially when detected early.
The U.S. banned DDT in 1973, but the pesticide continues to be used elsewhere. The chemical and its metabolites are stored in fat tissue and can accumulate, for instance, in humans and in fish. "While levels have declined in the population since the 1970s, DDE remains detectable in the majority of Americans," said lead investigator Dr. Katherine A. McGlynn of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. "This study suggests that chemicals that persist in the environment may have effects years after their usage ceases."
A link between pesticides and testicular cancer was proposed decades ago, but testing the hypothesis has been a challenge because the disease is rare. The researchers studied 739 U.S. servicemen with TGCT and 915 healthy men who had provided blood samples to the Department of Defense, on average, 14 years before the current analysis.
The men in the group with the highest blood levels of DDE were 1.7 times more likely to develop TGCT than men with the lowest concentrations. If the risk estimates are correct, then DDT exposure could account for 15 percent of TGCT cases in the study.
DDT belongs to a family of organochlorine pesticides that may disrupt the body's endocrine system. "Because evidence suggests that TGCT is initiated in very early life, it is possible that exposure to these [pesticides] during fetal life or via breast feeding may increase the risk of TGCT in young men," the researchers write. |
Americans today shudder at the concept of ethnic cleansing, but in the 19th century, it was widely considered a noble endeavor, at least where Indians were concerned. The Utes Must Go! by Peter R. Decker chronicles the | Americans today shudder at the concept of ethnic cleansing, but in the 19th century, it was widely considered a noble endeavor, at least where Indians were concerned. The Utes Must Go! by Peter R. Decker chronicles the sorry treatment of that particular tribe. Taking its title from an 1870s Denver Tribune editorial, the book recounts how fear-mongering politicians ousted the Utes, a group of disparate, far-ranging bands, from their traditional territories in Colorado and Utah.
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How Music Drives Exercise
What would your life be like without music? A ride in the car, a dinner at a restaurant, or a workout at the gym may seem a bit drab without a soundtrack. But there’s more to music | How Music Drives Exercise
What would your life be like without music? A ride in the car, a dinner at a restaurant, or a workout at the gym may seem a bit drab without a soundtrack. But there’s more to music than preference. New research is exposing just how music affects our ability to move. Significant physiological changes occur when music is present in our daily lives. Specifically, new research suggests that music can, relatively speaking, improve performance during exercise.
Charles Emery, a clinical psychologist at Ohio State University, recently went beyond music’s effect on the body to explore how the brain is affected by music during exercise. After studying men and women in a cardiac rehabilitation program, he found that the participants scored twice as well on a verbal fluency test when they listened to music than they did without music. His results support scads of research about the power of music. "I've always thought that music had many benefits for people, and increasingly people use music when they exercise, so it seemed like a logical next step in terms of a research project," Emery says.
Tempo as a Motivator
Another Ohio State University study found that subjects climbed stairs faster when music had a faster tempo. The aim of the study was to show the tempo of music would cause an increase in motor activity, which it did. The suggestion is that the body synchronizes with music during physical exercise, similar to how music is used as a cue for dance.
I Heart Music
A study published in Heart found that the tempo of music correlates to changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing. Researchers used different styles of music and varying tempos on musicians and non-musicians. They found that music increased breathing frequency and that the change in breathing was proportional to the tempo of the music. The results carried over to heart rate and blood pressure as well with a positive correlation to increased tempo. Once the music stopped, heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing decreased below where they were before the music started, suggesting a calming or relaxing effect. Musicians showed more sensitivity to tempo changes than did non-musicians.
During exercise music can also take the edge off of the pain of exercise. A study published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise showed that perceived exertion during low and moderate exercise was reduced by 10% when participants listened to music. Furthermore, the ability for music to avert attention and improve mood staved off feelings of fatigue during high intensity. The key to music’s affect was not in alleviating pain, but rather it affected how the brain processed information coming from muscles.
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The side effects of allergy medications keep some people from using them. Natural remedies can be a great alternative, but some are more effective than others. |
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Below this paragraph, all blue text on this page is a clickable live link. Also, when you see the word “Hooter” it is a live link to an additional owl photo and is well worth clicking. (Note: Upon opening many of the owl photo links, you will find that the images may be clicked on to further enlarge them.) All links will open in a seperate window.
The first description of a Barred Owl was published in 1799 by amateur naturalist Benjamin Smith Barton. In Latin, “varia” is a form of the word “varius“, meaning diverse. It has also been known as Northern Barred Owl, Swamp Owl, Striped Owl, Hoot Owl, Eight hooter, Round-headed Owl, Le Chat-huant du Nord (French for “The Hooting Cat of the North”), Wood Owl, and Rain Owl. It is also mistakenly known as a Bard Owl.
Description: The Barred Owl is a medium-sized gray-brown Owl streaked with white horizontal barring on the chest and vertical barring on the belly. They are round-headed with a whitish/brown facial disc with dark brown trim. The eyes are brown, and the beak is yellow and almost covered by feathers. They have a long tail. There is no difference in plumage between males and the larger females.
Size: Length 40-63 cm (16-25 inches) Wingspan 96-125 cm (38-50 inches)
Weight: 500-1050 grams (17.5-37 oz) (average male 617g, average female 779g)
Voice: The Barred Owl is a highly vocal Owl giving a loud and resounding “hoo, hoo, too-HOO; hoo, hoo, too-HOO, ooo” which is often phrased as “Who, cooks, for-you? Who, cooks, for-you, all?” The last syllable drops off noticeably. Like some other Owl species, they will call in the daytime as well as at night. The calls are often heard in a series of eight, then silence, when the Owl listens for a reply from other Owls. Other calls include “hoo-hoo, hoo-WAAAHH” and “hoo-WAAAHHH” used in courtship. Mates will duet, but the male’s voice is deeper and mellower. Many other vocalizations are made which range from a short yelp or bark to a frenzied and raucous monkey-lik |
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BBC News - Children should be allowed to get bored, so they can develop their innate creativity.
"Children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing | BBC News - Children should be allowed to get bored, so they can develop their innate creativity.
"Children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them." It is this sort of thing that stimulates the imagination, she said, while the screen "tends to short circuit that process and the development of creative capacity".
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine found two-year-olds who drank mainly low-fat and skimmed milk were 57 per cent more likely to become overweight by the age of four. But the average weight of children drinking full-fat milk was lower over the same period.
Academics believe this is because higher fat milk makes children feel fuller for longer, and they eat less as a result.
A government survey of parents says one in 50 US schoolchildren has autism - far surpassing an earlier federal estimate for the disorder.Posted by Jill Fallon at March 26, 2013 11:33 AM | Permalink
Health officials say the new number does not mean autism is occurring more often, but instead suggests doctors are diagnosing the condition more frequently - especially in children with milder problems.
For decades, autism referred to children with severe language, intellectual and social impairments and unusual, repetitious behaviors - but the definition has gradually expanded and now includes milder, related conditions.
The new estimate released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would mean at least one million children have autism. |
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The Tower of Refuge sits on Conister Rock (also known as St Mary's Isle) a rocky reef near the entrance to Douglas Harbour in the Isle of | Not sure if this the right place to post this... please move it if it not.
The Tower of Refuge sits on Conister Rock (also known as St Mary's Isle) a rocky reef near the entrance to Douglas Harbour in the Isle of Man. It was the brainchild of Sir William Hillary who had helped establish the first organised and trained lifeboat service in 1824 (later to be known as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution). In 1830, a ship called the St George struck Conister rock during a fierce storm and Hillary (now aged about 60) took command of the Douglas lifeboat in the rescue of the crew. During the rescue he was swept overboard and had to cling to the rock until he could be picked up, along with all the St George's crew and passengers. Following this, Sir William proposed the building of a struct |
Then and Now… Rumford in history and today
Rumford Center began in 1856 as Rumford Chemical Works, producing and shipping baking powder across the nation and around the world. At its height of activity around the turn of the | Then and Now… Rumford in history and today
Rumford Center began in 1856 as Rumford Chemical Works, producing and shipping baking powder across the nation and around the world. At its height of activity around the turn of the century, Rumford Chemical included 300 acres of working farms and communities to sustain the factory workers, and the Village of Rumford was called the “kitchen capital of the world.” Since closing in 1968, 1968, the factory buildings have fallen into disrepair.
Purchased in 2006 by PK Rumford LLC, the old Chemical Works is getting a new life. The remaining factory buildings occupy 8.3 acres and will accommodate apartments, condominiums, office space, retail shops, a restaurant and café on the square. The original 1858 factory building, the only building that will be physically moved during construction, will now host a new generation of business innovators.
Rumford Center will bring new vitality to the historic Rumford neighborhood. More than just another development, Rumford Center will be an economic, historical and cultural engine to revitalize the village.
Designated a National Chemical Historic Landmark in June, 2006, Rumford Center will celebrate its heritage in visual and cultural displays that will lead the way for further sensitive evolution for the town, the city of East Providence, and beyond.
Want to learn more about the history of Rumford Center and its celebrated Baking Powder? Visit the wonderful East Providence Historical Society museum (www.ephist.org), or return to this website in the near future for historic photos and a timeline. |
Scientists must join the global effort to realise human rights, say Leonard Rubenstein and Mona Younis.
Scientific expertise is indispensable to upholding human rights. For example, forensic exhumation of mass graves can reveal evidence of crimes against humanity, | Scientists must join the global effort to realise human rights, say Leonard Rubenstein and Mona Younis.
Scientific expertise is indispensable to upholding human rights. For example, forensic exhumation of mass graves can reveal evidence of crimes against humanity, satellite imagery can show the destruction of communities in remote locations, and DNA evidence can help free wrongfully convicted prisoners.
They suggest that the scientific community can give the much-neglected right to "share in scientific progress and its benefits" better visibility. Scientists must recognise that human rights are not vague aspirations, but specific obligations of government. And they must use their influence as respected members of society to ensure that governments uphold them.
Many scientists believe that such involvement in human rights is too "political", say the authors. But, they add, scientific traditions of impartiality, rigorous analysis and peer review are all compatible with human rights. |
Information About Clap Your Hands
The "Clap Your Hands" song was first written to help children identify their different body parts while they are using them. This is one of the best ways that children are going to be able to learn something | Information About Clap Your Hands
The "Clap Your Hands" song was first written to help children identify their different body parts while they are using them. This is one of the best ways that children are going to be able to learn something because of the more hands on experience that they are going to have. Plus, the children are also going to be learning how to follow instructions which is going to be a very important part of their life. The children will learn how to calm down after they have been playing so they are going to have better self-control because of this game.
The children are going to be exercising while they are singing this nursery rhyme, which is always a great thing for children. This is because they are going to be clapping their hands, patting their knees, and stomping their feet based on one version of the song. In the other version of the song, they are going to be clapping their hands, jumping up and down, and waving their hands to the music. No matter what version of the song that you are listening to at least you know that your child is going to be involved in the song.
Most people believe that this song was written based on the bible verse, Psalm 47:1. It states "O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph". So when your child is singing this song, they are also going to be learning about the Bible. This is always going to be a great thing for your children no matter what age they are. When the child is having fun learning about the Bible, then they are going to want to learn more and more about it everyday when it is fun for them. |
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Qaryout (Arabic: قريوت) is a Palestinian village of nearly 2,500 in the | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Qaryout (Arabic: قريوت) is a Palestinian village of nearly 2,500 in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 28 kilometers (17 mi) southeast of Nablus. Western travelers identified Qaryut with the ancient Coreae.
- The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula, T. & T. Clark, 1886
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In many of the following old fables, characters are replaced by others to "see what we get". Compare Werner von Braun's: "Basic research is what I am doing | Fables, Old and New
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In many of the following old fables, characters are replaced by others to "see what we get". Compare Werner von Braun's: "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."
ONCE a rich man had a daughter. She got kidnapped by trolls and later got away from them. She hid and slept among bushes for a long time, for she did not look too good, she thought.
But as luck would have it, someone brought her some jewels, gold, silver, and then she started to look okay. Aided by her ornaments she rose into power and found and punished the bad ones who had made her feel ashamed of her natural looks. They were to cry!
❖ Unsound ones who strive to deprive the little darling of sound, natural rights, are in for paying later, but can they?
❖ Conceit is as natural to the human mind as a centre is to a circle. (American).
❖ You cannot be too bland if you must talk with a horribly kidnapped Dane.
❖ If we don't have a chair to sit in, maybe some think we're neither smart or pretty or worthy for only that reason.
❖ The best part of anger edges valour.
ONE SOURCE: Dal, 1965:45-7.
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain they had gathered in the summertime. A grasshopper who was at the brink of starving with hunger, passed by and begged for a little food. The ants asked him,
"Why didn't you treasure up food during the summer?"
The grasshopper replied, "I didn't have enough leisure for it. I passed the days in singing."
They said, again, "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."
❖ Beset with difficulties, many stop breathing freely.
❖ The superior one tries to prepare for hard times later on, as he can perceive them in the coming.
TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who told nothing but lies, were travelling together and by chance came to the land of apes. One of the apes there had raised himself to be king, and he commanded them to be seized and brought before him, so that he might know what was said of him among men. At the same time he ordered that all the apes were to be seated in a long row on his right hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for himself, just as was the custom among men. After these preparations he made signs that the two men should be brought before him, and greeted them with this salutation:
"What sort of a king do I seem to be to you, strangers?"
The lying traveller replied,
"You seem to me a most mighty king."
"And what do you think of those you see around me?"
"They appear to be worthy companions of yourself, at least fit to be ambassadors and leaders of armies."
The ape and all his court were gratified with the lie and gave the flatterer a very handsome present. On this the truthful traveller thought to himself, "If such a great a reward is given for a lie, what will I not get in reward if I tell the truth as I am used to do?"
The ape quickly turned to him.
"And how do I and my friends around me seem to you?"
"You are a most excellent ape," he said, "and your companions are excellent apes too."
The king of the apes flew into a rage at hearing these truths and gave him over to the teeth and claws of his companions.
❖ Lowliness of decent, simple people may be lifted up through truths well given and sorted out.
❖ In hard and trying circumstances it could work best to weigh and consider well inside oneself, while at the same time being very modest in expressing oneself.
❖ Watch your words in circumstances you don't know so much of.
A BOY bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He called out to a passing traveller for help, but instead of holding out a helping hand, the man stood by unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his imprudence.
"Mister!" cried the youth, "try to help me now and scold me afterwards."
❖ Counsel without help is at times quite useless.
A BAT fell on the ground and was caught by a weasel. The bat begged to be spared his life. The weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The bat assured him that he was not a bird, but more like a mouse, and thus was set free.
Shortly afterwards the bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another weasel.
"Please, don't eat me," prayed the bat.
The weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The bat assured him, "I'm not really a mouse, as I fly like a bird. I have wings - see?" Thus he escaped a second time.
❖ It should be wise to turn circumstances to good account by smooth talk. At other times no talking helps.
A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed:
"If your owner had found you, and not I, he would have taken you up and set you where you were placed before; but I have found you for no good reason. Someone like me would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world."
❖ Any isolated country cook might also exclaim these and similar things.
A WOLF, meeting a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the l |
By Dr. Brian McDonough, Medical Editor
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It is very important how you approach an overweight teen when you are trying to help them with their weight issues.
First, you should talk about “ | By Dr. Brian McDonough, Medical Editor
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It is very important how you approach an overweight teen when you are trying to help them with their weight issues.
First, you should talk about “healthy eating”, not weight loss. The reason why this is the case is because just focusing on weight loss can increase the risk of eating disorders.
The study from the University of Minnesota looked at over 3500 teens and found when moms talked about healthful eating, there was a significantly lower prevalence of dieting and unhealthy weight control behaviors. Similar results were seen with dads talking to their daughters.
It makes sense but many of us don’t think about it. |
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2011, Issue No. 100
October 25, 2011
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- PURPOSE | from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2011, Issue No. 100
October 25, 2011
Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
- PURPOSE OF 1969 NUCLEAR ALERT REMAINS A MYSTERY
- FRUS LEADS DECLASSIFICATION, BUT SOMETIMES LAGS BEHIND
PURPOSE OF 1969 NUCLEAR ALERT REMAINS A MYSTERY
For two weeks in October 1969, the Nixon Administration secretly placed U.S. nuclear forces on alert. At the time, the move was considered so sensitive that not even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was briefed on its purpose. Still today, no conclusive explanation for the potentially destabilizing alert can be found. Even with full access to the classified record, State Department historians said in a new volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series that they were unable to provide a definitive account of the event.
Previous historical scholarship has inferred from selected declassified documents that the alert was somehow intended to communicate a firm resolve to end the Vietnam War by whatever means necessary. (See "Nixon's Nuclear Ploy" by William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball, National Security Archive, December 23, 2002; and "The Madman Nuclear Alert" by Scott D. Sagan and Jeremi Suri, International Security, Spring 2003.)
But based on the classified record, that interpretation remains unproven and uncertain, according to the gripping new State Department FRUS volume on "National Security Policy."
"The documentary record offers no definitive explanation as to why U.S. forces went on this alert, also known as the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Readiness Test," the editors of the FRUS volume said (Document 59).
"There are two main after-the-fact explanations: first, that nuclear brinkmanship was designed to convince the Soviets that President Nixon was prepared to launch a nuclear attack against North Vietnam in order to convince Moscow to put pressure on Hanoi to negotiate an end to the war in Southeast Asia" along the lines that previous historians have suggested.
The second proposed explanation is "that the President ordered the alert as a signal to deter a possible Soviet nuclear strike against China during the escalating Sino-Soviet border dispute." Consistent with the second interpretation, the FRUS volume provides new documentation of intelligence reports indicating that Soviet leaders were considering a preemptive strike against Chinese nuclear facilities.
Astonishingly, even the most senior U.S. military leaders were kept in the dark by the White House about the nature of the alert-- before, during and after the event.
"It is difficult to measure the success of this operation," wrote JCS Chairman General Earle G. Wheeler to Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird on November 6, 1969, "since... the objectives of the test are unknown."
"It seems prudent if maximum benefit is to be gained from an operation of this type that at least you and I and the senior commanders are informed of the objectives and goals," General Wheeler suggested (Document 92).
In the end, the secret U.S. military alert -- one of only a few such cases involving U.S. nuclear forces -- had little discernable impact. "There has been no reflection of acute concern by the Soviets...," the CIA reported in an October 27, 1969 memorandum included in the FRUS volume (Document 89). "There has been no reflection of the US military alert posture in Soviet or Chinese news media or diplomatic activity."
Of the small White House group that directed the secret 1969 alert, perhaps only Henry Kissinger remains alive and active. He did not mention the alert in his memoirs, the FRUS editors noted, except perhaps in an oblique statement that the United States "raised our profile somewhat to make clear that we were not indifferent" to Soviet threats against Chinese facilities.
FRUS LEADS DECLASSIFICATION, BUT SOMETIMES LAGS BEHIND
At its best, the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series serves as a driver of declassification, propelling it farther and faster than it would otherwise go. But it's not always at its best.
In 1992, Congress enacted a law concerning FRUS that represented one of only a couple of continuing statutory requirements to conduct declassification of official records. (The Atomic Energy Act, which also imposes continuing declassification requirements, is the other statute that comes to mind.) The 1992 law directed the State Department to publish FRUS in such a way as to provide "a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of major United States foreign policy decisions" and to do so "not more than 30 years after the events recorded." This implied an ongoing obligation to declassify historical records in a timely fashion.
The |
Max Beckmann (German, 18841950)
Oil on canvas; 69 x 125 1/2 in. (175.3 x 318.8 cm)
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (187619 | Max Beckmann (German, 18841950)
Oil on canvas; 69 x 125 1/2 in. (175.3 x 318.8 cm)
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (18761967), 1967 (67.187.53a–c)
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild–Kunst, Bonn
Born in Leipzig, Germany, Max Beckmann enrolled at the Weimar Academy of Arts in 1899 and, between 1903 and 1904, traveled to Paris, Geneva, and Florence. Before the age of thirty, he was successful as an artist and financially secure. His paintings of the time, inspired by Impressionism, attracted clients, and he exhibited widely in Europe during the teens and 1920s. Following World War I, his work changed dramatically in reaction to the horrors he had seen. Initially he focused on biblical scenes, but during the 1920s he created more contemporary allegories and painted devastatingly realistic portraits and figure paintings associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) group, with whom he exhibited in 1925 but never formally joined. He saw the world as a tragedy of man's inhumanity to man and saw life as a carnival of human folly. His work remained intense and allegorical throughout his life, but after the mid-1920s his style of painting changed to include Expressionistic brushwork and brighter colors. With the rise to power of the National Socialist regime in Germany, Beckmann and his work came under attack. In 1933, he was dismissed from his teaching position at the Academy in Frankfurt; in 1937, his paintings were included in a Nazi-sponsored exhibition of "degenerate art." Beckmann fled Germany via Amsterdam for the United States, where he died thirteen years later.
This painting is the eighth of ten allegorical triptychs that Max Beckmann made during his last two decades (193250). Their sequence follows the peripatetic course of his life. The first two were painted in Germany (193037), the next five while Beckmann was in exile in the Netherlands (193747), and the last two, both retrospective in nature, while Beckmann lived in America. The triptych illustrated here was first mentioned in the artist's diary on December 2, 1947, and was initially referred to as L'Enfance (childhood). The panels are autobiographical, dwelling on Beckmann's childhood: memories of his schooldays in Germany in the right panel balanced by the dream fantasy on the left. In the central panel, childhood memories and dream world intermingle. On April 22, 1949, Beckmann wrote in his diary of having "cut down" (finished) Beginning with "marvelous success." |
|IDNDR - Informs - Number 03, October - December 1993 (IDNDR-DIRDN, 1993)|
Every country has been encouraged by the UN to establish a National IDNDR Committe, | |IDNDR - Informs - Number 03, October - December 1993 (IDNDR-DIRDN, 1993)|
Every country has been encouraged by the UN to establish a National IDNDR Committe, to undertake the actions needed to reach the IDNDR goals.
* In countries that are vulnerable to disasters. it Is necessary to create National IDNDR Committees that have the character of national prevention and preparedness systems, For these Committees to function well, they: should be interdisciplinary and inter-: institutional, be involved with the identification of national priorities and should formulate and implement mitigation and disaster prevention plans.
* Newly - formed Committees require the training necessary to out their functions and develop autonomy in implementing disaster mitigation.:
* Ministries of Planning Education - and Public Information should participate pat in the Committee. Their involvement to integrating mitigation into the national planning process. achieving an interdisciplinary focus designing plans potentially exposed populations about disaster reduction |
Wikijunior:South America/The Andes
What is the history?
The Andes were formed through a process called plate tectonics. The formation of the Andes began in the Jurassic Period. It was during the Cret | Wikijunior:South America/The Andes
What is the history?
The Andes were formed through a process called plate tectonics. The formation of the Andes began in the Jurassic Period. It was during the Cretaceous Period that the Andes began to take their present form, by the uplifting, faulting and folding of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
What is the Geography?
The Andes form the longest mountain range in the world. The Andes mountain range is the highest mountain range outside Asia. It is more than 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) long. The Andes go through seven South American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia,Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The Andes range has many active volcanoes, including Cotopaxi, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world.
The southern section is rainy and cool, the central Andes are dry. The northern Andes are typically rainy and warm. The climate is known to change drastically. Rainforests exist just miles away from the snow covered peak, Cotopaxi. The mountains have a large effect on the temperatures of nearby areas. |
The purpose of Art Education at MacDuffie is to facilitate the student’s needs to express himself/herself, to help the student develop empathy for others, and ultimately to enhance the student’s life-long after he/she has completed formal education | The purpose of Art Education at MacDuffie is to facilitate the student’s needs to express himself/herself, to help the student develop empathy for others, and ultimately to enhance the student’s life-long after he/she has completed formal education. We teach the skills and knowledge necessary to create and appreciate art. To create all art, visual and performing, the student must develop creative thinking, learn to work in a cooperative fashion, learn how to express creative ideas in verbal and nonverbal ways, and present a finished product. In order to appreciate visual and performing art, the student is exposed to performances and to actual works of art. He/she also studies art history and examines the relationship between art and culture.
MIDDLE SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM
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Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the purpose of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" as explained by Sontag, and explain why Sontag opens her book with this reference.
2. According to Sontag, how | Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the purpose of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" as explained by Sontag, and explain why Sontag opens her book with this reference.
2. According to Sontag, how are photographs of victims a form of rhetoric? What is their purpose or message? How do they function to convey this message?
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Name of ethnic group: La Hu (Xa La Vang, Co Rung, Khu Sung, and Kha Quy).
Population: 6,874 people (Year 1999).
Locality: Muong Te District of Lai | Name of ethnic group: La Hu (Xa La Vang, Co Rung, Khu Sung, and Kha Quy).
Population: 6,874 people (Year 1999).
Locality: Muong Te District of Lai Chau Province.
Customs and habits
The La Hu live in villages built on mountain slopes. These houses are level with the ground and divided by bamboo partitions. The altar for the ancestors and the kitchen are always placed at the bay of the house, which is used for the family sleeping quarters. The right of inheritance is only reserved for sons. Young men and women are free to choose their partners. After the wedding, the groom has to live with his wife's family for several years, but then takes his wife to his family house.
La Hu women usually give birth in their bedroom. Three days later, the baby is given its name. If an unexpected guest comes during this time, he or she is given the honour of naming the newborn. The worship of the ancestors is reserved for the dead parents. Every year the La Hu hold ceremonies to worship the spirits of the earth and to pray for peace. They conjure up the souls of the corn and the rice spirits after the sowing and harvesting duties have been completed.
La Hu language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman Group. There are a dozen "khen" (pan-pipe) dances in La Hu culture. The songs are sung in the Ha Nhi language, but the La Hu have kept their own rhythms. The La Hu have a rich heritage of ancient tales, and they even maintain their own calendar in which the days are defined corresponding to twelve animals, including the tiger, rabbit, dragon, mouse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig, squirrel, snake and buffalo.
Women wear trousers and a long-lap shirt that falls to their ankles. They also wear a short vest during festive days. The collar, chest stripes, and sleeves are either embroidered or sewn with colourful pieces of cloth, silver, tin coins, or red fringes.
The La Hu live on slash-and-burn cultivation and hunting. La Hu men are very skilled at blacksmithing and making rattan chairs, trays, mats. |
Breathing Basics for Singing
Normal breathing involves a shallow inhalation and an even exhalation followed by a pause before it all starts again. But when you sing, breath control means taking your breathing off autopilot. You not only need | Breathing Basics for Singing
Normal breathing involves a shallow inhalation and an even exhalation followed by a pause before it all starts again. But when you sing, breath control means taking your breathing off autopilot. You not only need to inhale quickly and exhale slowly as you sing the phrases of a song, but you also need to maintain proper posture.
Breathing in this manner provides you with the breath control that you need to sing efficiently. However, because controlled breathing doesn't come naturally to you, you need to train your body to breathe for singing. Keep reading to walk through the breathing basics.
Discovering your singing breath
The easiest way to find out how you should breathe for singing is simply by feeling it. Being able to visualize and feel the proper way to breathe helps make the process more natural for you, too.
Inhalation refers to air moving into your body — breathing in. Exhalation is when you exhale or blow out the air. You exhale when you speak or sing.
Inhaling to sing
Singing songs requires getting a full breath quickly — a quick inhalation — because the orchestra can't wait five minutes for you to find the air. So knowing how your body feels when you inhale helps you to get air in your body quickly to sing the next phrase. Use the following exercise to explore your own inhalation. Get a feel for how your body should move when you inhale and exhale.
1. Pretend that air is really heavy as you inhale. Visualize it weighing 50 pounds and let it fall low into your body.
2. Let it fall lower than your belly button. Explore this sensation.
3. Then let the breath fall in faster. Still visualize it being heavy but let it fall quickly into your body.
4. You can also fill your lungs as if you were going to blow up a balloon. You will feel your abdomen and lower back expand.
This sensation of quickly filling your lungs with air is how you properly inhale for singing.
Yawning happens all the time when working on breath control. The body gets confused with the different amount of air coming in, and you yawn. Voice students yawn plenty during lessons and are embarrassed at first. Don't worry — it's okay to yawn when you're working on your breathing.
Exhaling to sing
Singing means that you have to control your exhalation. You want to have a sustained and smooth exhalation. This control helps you to sing those demanding high notes and long slow phrases.
To explore exhalation, blow a feather around the room. If you have a spotless house, you'll have to use an imaginary feather.
1. Try to blow the feather really high up in the air and use a long stream of breath to get it to go up.
2. Try not to collapse your chest as you blow the feather.
3. While chasing the feather with your breath, notice what moves in your body as you exhale. You should feel that your abdomen has slowly returned to normal and that your chest has stayed in the same position the whole time.
4. At the end of the exhalation, you should feel the need to immediately inhale again.
Posturing yourself for breathing
Breathing efficiently when you sing is a combination of great posture and skillful inhaling and exhaling. Remember the importance of good posture; it allows you to get a deep, full breath. If you slouch or you're too rigid, your diaphragm locks and prevents you from getting a correct breath for singing. If your breathing and your posture work together as a team, you can improve your singing.
To sing your best, you want to develop good posture while you breathe. When your body is aligned correctly, taking and using an effi |
In the Second Part of his History, "The Wonders and Miracles of Ireland," the figure that really jumps out at me is the "extraordinary man... if indeed it be right to call him a man," who "had | In the Second Part of his History, "The Wonders and Miracles of Ireland," the figure that really jumps out at me is the "extraordinary man... if indeed it be right to call him a man," who "had all the parts of the human body except the extremities which were those of an ox." Most important, I think, is the fact that he "attended the court of Maurice [fitzGerald] for a long time" in Wicklow and "came to dinner every day and, using his cleft hooves as hands, "placed in his mouth whatever was given to him to eat." Most interesting, too, for me anyway, is the fact of the image of the ox-man on the inside of the fitzGerald castle, while on the outside, the supposed "Irish natives of the place, because the youths of the castle often taunted them with begetting such beings on cows, secretly killed him in the end in envy and malice--a fate he did not deserve." This is interesting because, while the ox-man himself is welcome within the castle--the site of privilege and also of the colonialist imperium--the taunting of the natives is "shouted," so to speak, from within that castle and over its ramparts, and is therefore directed toward those who are seen as not worthy of being invited inside, although their "bestial" progeny is welcome. Further, it is really extraordinary, given the tone of the episodes that follow this one, that the ox-man, for Gerald, is obviously a character to be regarded with some admiration, and even, pity, partly because, by virtue of his hooves which he can gesture and eat with as hands, he marks himself as more human than ox [the ox-man's hands/hooves are especially significant in marking his humanness when we conside that he does not possess speech and can only "low" like a cow]. And yet, following shortly after the story of the ox-man, we have two stories about women who have sex with animals--a goat and a lion, respectively--that Gerald very pointedly frames within the language of moral disgust and disapprobation [the acts are detestable, abominable, etc.], and even goes so far, in the case of the example of goat-woman intercourse, to excuse the goat who, by its very "nature," has to "obey" the more "rational" creature--the woman--who should know better, and because she doesn't, is guilty of abusing the animal.
Although JJC has argued that Gerald's Historia of Ireland does not reflect as "much of the conflicted identifications that would characterize his later writing about Wales" ["In The Borderlands," p. 85], I wonder if the ox-man passage might not serve as a site within the Ireland text that reveals some of Gerald's anxieties about his own hybrid identity, while also demonstrating [as I am trying to hint at in my recent exchanges with Michael O'Rourke] that, whether in the Middle Ages, or our own time, "woman" is the most queer and abject figure of all. JJC would agree, I think, for he as he also writes, although Gerald often draws explicit comparisons between animals and the Irish natives' supposed "animal" nature, the story of his ox-man "does not fit the unremittingly reductive program of representation displayed elsewhere" (p. 89), and while Gerald "evinces little sympathy for the Man Bull of Glendalough [a story that immediately follows the story of the ox-man] or for the Irish themselves," the ox-man is, "despite some initial hesitation on Gerald's part, undeniably human." Finally,
... it is difficult not to see in the monster of Wicklow a figure for a gemina natura: twinned nature, dual race. Murderously rejected by the indigenous population, sustained by a court amused by his spectacular oddness but discerning in his voice only meaningless sound, the Ox Man nurtured at the Marcher's colonial outpost belongs nowhere. In the irresolvable differences that the semibos vir incarnates, in this monstrous body teetering between categories, Gerald reluctantly beheld a vision of his own hopelessly heterogeneous self. For the Irish were not the only gens ex bestiis solum et bestialiter vivens ("people living on beasts only, and living like beasts"), at least when the islands were surveyed by English eyes. [p. 90]
But what of the woman who has sex with a goat, and is even more bestial than the goat because while the goat would merely obey the more rational nature placed above him, the woman purposefully perverts not just her own nature, but also that of the goat, and therefore effects a double-pervers |
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Belly Fat May Not Predict Heart Disease As Once Believed
We’ve been told for years | Let your dentist know if you are taking bisphosphonates for osteoporosis. They can bring on deterioration of the jawbone. More >
Belly Fat May Not Predict Heart Disease As Once Believed
We’ve been told for years that being shaped like an "apple" is not good for the health of our hearts. Earlier research had shown that belly fat, in contrast to more evenly distributed fat, was strongly linked to heart risk — some studies have shown that apple-shaped individuals have three times the risk of heart disease than overweight people whose fat is not carried in the belly. But now a new study questions these findings, and reports that the distribution of fat is not nearly as important as other factors, like blood pressure and cholesterol level.
The new study followed over 220,000 people in 17 different countries for about ten years (their average age was 58 when the study began). Over the ten year follow-up period, approximately 14,000 participants experienced a heart attack or stroke. The researchers found that belly fat, waist circumference, and body mass index (BMI), all had about the same power in predicting heart risk: in other words, belly fat was not linked to any greater likelihood of developing heart disease than other measures of weight.
Cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes history all remained very strong predictors of heart risk. In fact, when these three variables were used to predict one’s overall risk for heart disease, adding belly fat and BMI to the equation did not improve its accuracy in any measurable way. This indicates that when other important risk factors like blood lipids and diabetes history are available, adding weight to the mix does not add much accuracy. However, the researchers make sure to stress the fact that "adiposity" or obesity alone is still a strong predictor of heart risk, and write that their findings "underscore the importance of controlling adiposity to help prevent cardiovascular disease".
Other research has also found that obesity by itself is a major predictor of the risk of dying from heart disease, even when all other factors (like cholesterol and blood pressure) are controlled for. While where you carry the fact may not matter as much as previously thought, carrying around extra weight at all does appear to significantly increase one’s risk for heart att |
I’ve commented before that complete protection is a combination of prevention and detection and that we’ve been far too focused on the prevention side of the equation trying to prevent all malware and infections.
We simply cannot stop all of the bad guys. Period. | I’ve commented before that complete protection is a combination of prevention and detection and that we’ve been far too focused on the prevention side of the equation trying to prevent all malware and infections.
We simply cannot stop all of the bad guys. Period. You will be and already have been breached.
One of the areas of research I’ve looked at over the past several years is how the human body and how the immune system protects us from known and unknown attacks. The goal of this line of research is not to reproduce the immune system with technology. The goal is to take the lessons from how the immune system works and apply these to information security.
One interesting factoid about the functioning of the human immune system is that, reportedly, humans have ten times more bacteria than human cells and again in this story, the claim is 20x! Some are actually quite beneficial to the host environment. Doesn’t this sound like most of our IT infrastructures today where the number of unofficial applications/plugins etc far outnumbers the officially supported ones? These aren’t necessarily bad – in most cases, end-users are best positioned to understand the ways they need to extend their workspace to get their jobs done.
Trying to prevent all unknown [bacteria/viruses in life]/[code/applications/plugins in IT] has never been a workable strategy (think “boy in the plastic bubble”). We can’t do it in real life, why should we expect to achieve this in our own infrastructure?Further, we’ve evolved our immune system to allow us to continue to function in the midst of all of this unknown code – some of which may represent a threat, some that does not.
As human beings, we are continually breached. All of the time. Yet we continue to function quite well in most cases. Why can’t IT?
Does that mean we shouldn’t apply any efforts to prevention? Not at all. I’d say it differently:
Prevent what we should and detect leakage, damage and loss if it occurs.
The rest? Just let it go.
Perhaps this is the better strategy for information security moving forward?
Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Defense-in-Depth, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Reducing Complexity, Virtualization Security |
Cloud: Will It Bring Technological Sunshine for Long?
So what is Cloud? According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can | Cloud: Will It Bring Technological Sunshine for Long?
So what is Cloud? According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” Essentially, Cloud computing allows users to store their data in a “cloud,” somewhere away from their computer. This allows the customer to minimize the costs of hardware, application requirements, maintenance, and professional services. There are several segments of the Cloud software field that are marketed to consumers: software as a service (SAAS), platform as a service (PAAS), and infrastructure as a service (IAAS). SAAS, in particular has been extremely popular with both firms and private individuals and has established itself as the most developed and largest market segment. Cloud SAAS can be delivered to consumers on a varying degree of data privacy: including public (data is accessible to everyone), private (data is protected by a firewall), and hybrid (the combination of the two). Most importantly, Cloud software can theoretically be accessed from any computer with Internet access, enabling the user to stay connected to his or her data at any time at any location. The convenience of Cloud is especially important for large firms and companies that need to supply at times thousand of employees with relevant software.
The significant cost-savings and ease of access benefits make Cloud one of the most promising technological breakthroughs of the past decade, according to Cloud enthusiasts. The growth that could be brought about by companies associated with the Cloud could even potentially revitalize the technology sector itself. This industry, while constantly producing innovation, has staggered in terms of equity value growth over the past decade. The 12-year bear market in technology stock has been dampened even further by the recession and is now facing pressure from the European slow-down. Many companies in the software field in particular have seen their revenues decline which has reflected in their stock price. However, Cloud technology revenues will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6% throughout 2012, and are expected to reach $72.9 billion by 2015.
The reason why Cloud’s success is so significant to the technology world as a whole is that its production and distribution traverse several sectors of the industry. Development and implementation of cloud software includes expertise from firms involved in software, storage and computing power, and platform providers that give site developers tools to build and host applications. There are firms that specialize in each one of the particular tasks, and some do all three. Thus, increased utilization of Cloud software in both the private and the commercial sector means a lot of business growth for multiple sectors of the technology industry. Many companies have already capitalized on that by implementing both vertical and horizontal integration through mergers and acquisitions of relevant companies. This is not an entirely new trend, as M&A activity in the technology sector has been growing over the past few years. In fact, what we have actually seen in 2011 is a fall in software mergers and acquisitions by numbers in as well a simultaneous significant rise in deal value: the average deal value of software firm deals rose 48%. This may indicate an already apparent drive towards consolidation in the software, and particularly cloud sector. While Cloud related M&A has indeed been strong and may be driving much of the software sector activity it may not be relied on for a long time.
So can Cloud sustain the exceptional growth that it has seen over the past years and continue to propel the software industry forward? Not necessarily. Cloud adoption is indeed expected to continue and grow even further, but it is unlikely to ever fully replace the traditional on-premise software. There are several charac |
OSLO, Norway -- The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for promoting peace and human rights in Europe after the devastation of World War II. The bloc was urged to use that unity in its battle with an economic crisis that is causing | OSLO, Norway -- The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for promoting peace and human rights in Europe after the devastation of World War II. The bloc was urged to use that unity in its battle with an economic crisis that is causing suffering for many of its citizens.
About 20 European government leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, attended the ceremony in the capital of Norway, an oil-rich country that has twice rejected joining the European Union.
Not everyone approved of the decision to give the prize to the EU, created 60 years ago as Europe was struggling to recover from a war that killed millions of people.
Three Peace Prize laureates — South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina — have demanded that the prize money of $1.2million not be paid this year. They said the bloc contradicts the values associated with the prize because it relies on military force to ensure security.
Amnesty International said Monday that EU leaders should not “bask in the glow of the prize,” warning that xenophobia and intolerance are on the rise in the continent of 500million people.
Prize committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland handed out the Nobel diplomas and medals to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, EU Council President Herman Aan Rompuy and EU Parliament President Martin Schulz at a ceremony in Oslo’s City Hall attended by heads of state, royalty and international dignitaries.
Jagland said the EU had been instrumental in turning “a continent of war” into one of peace.
“In this process the European Union has figured most prominently,” he told the gathering of several hundred people. |
After achieving an initial qualification in a given field, qualification-holders typically continue to study to earn additional qualifications. The requisite training is offered by high schools and Registered Training Organizations. The national Vocational Education and Training Quality Framework outlines standards for all training | After achieving an initial qualification in a given field, qualification-holders typically continue to study to earn additional qualifications. The requisite training is offered by high schools and Registered Training Organizations. The national Vocational Education and Training Quality Framework outlines standards for all training organizations.
The qualifications system is regulated by the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). The AQF differs from the Vocational Education and Training Quality Framework in that it regulates qualifications rather than standards for the provision of training, and encompasses all of higher education, academic and vocational. Together, these frameworks provide consistency across Vocational Education and Training programs in Australia, so that employers know what credentials mean when they are offered by applicants for jobs, training institutions know what training they need to offer and individuals know what qualifications they have to earn to get the jobs they want.
Australia’s Vocational Education and Training programs also benefit from strong federal and business leadership. The government is currently working to improve the status of Vocational Education and Training programs in order to make both Australia and its individual citizens more competitive. To that end, the government has recently undertaken a six-year, $3 billion project to encourage workers to “up-skill” or “re-skill” by earning formal qualifications. Part of the project includes a comprehensive website for workers and job seekers, directing them to qualifications programs in various skill and job areas. The website also includes education and career guidance for Australians who are interested in gaining qualifications but have not yet selected a field. Other lifelong learning opportunities are available privately or through o |
A Legal and Political Order Based on Freedom and Democracy
A democratic and free nation should reject any form of violence and autocracy and establish itself on a legal and political basis that respects the free will of the majority and the principle of self-determination | A Legal and Political Order Based on Freedom and Democracy
A democratic and free nation should reject any form of violence and autocracy and establish itself on a legal and political basis that respects the free will of the majority and the principle of self-determination. It should protect basic human rights, popular sovereignty, division of power, rule of law, judicial independence, equal status for all political parties, and should have a responsible administrative system.
For this reason, we propose that the government should:
- Maintain human dignity and basic human rights,
- Ensure the principle of sovereignty of the people,
- Set up a sound system for division of power and for checks and balances,
- Strengthen the implementation of party policies,
- Affirm the value of freedom of assembly and recognize the importance of popular political and social movements,
- Protect freedom of the press,
- Ensure that the goal of the rule of law is to pursue and fulfill justice,
- Establish a neutral and responsible administrative system,
- Supervise the nation’s emergency powers. |
The Functional Approach to Character Education (FACE) Anti-bullying Curriculum is a K through 5th grade interactive model for alleviating the conditions that often cause students to intimidate other students, including lack of respect for another's feelings, lack of | The Functional Approach to Character Education (FACE) Anti-bullying Curriculum is a K through 5th grade interactive model for alleviating the conditions that often cause students to intimidate other students, including lack of respect for another's feelings, lack of appreciation for physical/behavioral differences, and poor self-esteem.
Used by over 10,000 students dating back to 2001, this curriculum is now available via e-Book, both by individual grade or as a K through 5th grade package. Each of the 38 lessons includes a theme, classroom activity, discussion ideas, and takeaway points. Initially authored by Dr. Daniel Price, a licensed clinical psychologist, the curriculum has undergone revisions by grade level teachers since 2001, and modified to include acti |
Safe area (television)
Older televisions can display less of the space outside of the safe area than ones made more recently. Flat panel screens, Plasma displays and liquid crystal display (LCD) screens generally can show most of the picture outside | Safe area (television)
Older televisions can display less of the space outside of the safe area than ones made more recently. Flat panel screens, Plasma displays and liquid crystal display (LCD) screens generally can show most of the picture outside the safe areas.
The use of safe areas in television production ensures that the most important parts of the picture are seen by the majority of viewers.
The size of the title-safe area is typically specified in pixels or percent. The NTSC and PAL analog television standards do not specify official overscan amounts, and producers of television programming use their own guidelines.
The title-safe area is, in television broadcasting, a rectangular area which is far enough in from the four edges, such that text or graphics show neatly: with a margin and without distortion. This is applied against a worst case of on-screen location and display type. Typically corners would require more space from the edges, but due to increased quality of the average display this is no longer the concern it used to be, even on CRTs.
If the editor of the content does not take care to ensure that all titles are inside the title-safe area, some titles in the content could have their edges chopped off when viewed in some screens.
Video editing programs that can output video for either television or the Web can take the title-safe area into account. In Apple's consumer-grade NLE software iMovie, the user is advised to uncheck the QT Margins checkbox for content meant for television, and to check it for content meant only for QuickTime on a computer. Final Cut Pro, a professional software package, can show two overlay rectangles in both its Viewer and Canvas; the inner rectangle is the title-safe area and the outer rectangle is the action-safe area.
In the illustration, the green area is referred to as the "title-safe" area (note that these colors are for illustration only and do not appear on the television screens). This area will be seen by all television screens, no matter when they were made, unless the user has modified the settings. The term "title-safe" originated from the fact this is where it is safe to display text such as lower thirds or full-screen graphics listing information such as telephone numbers.
Depending on how a television set is adjusted, viewers can see a larger area than the title-safe area. The action-safe area is a larger rectangle, consisting of the green title-safe area and a rectangle around it shown in yellow. As of 2007[update], most television stations and networks will place information within this area. This area can be considered the "margin" of the television screen in that picture elements are generally kept out of this area to create a buffer around the edge of the screen so elements don't pile up against the edge of the screen. If the station uses a permanent digital on-screen graphic, it is placed just near the corner of the yellow area.
However, the yellow area might be used if the television station wants the information to block against the edge of the screen. For example, many stations place tickers that run horizontally in some of the yellow area.
Action |
The adrenal, or suprarenal, gland is paired with one gland located near the upper portion of each kidney. Each gland is divided into an outer cortex and an inner medulla. The cortex and medulla of the adrenal gland, like | The adrenal, or suprarenal, gland is paired with one gland located near the upper portion of each kidney. Each gland is divided into an outer cortex and an inner medulla. The cortex and medulla of the adrenal gland, like the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary, develop from different embryonic tissues and secrete different hormones. The adrenal cortex is essential to life, but the medulla may be removed with no life-threatening effects.
The hypothalamus of the brain influences both portions of the adrenal gland but by different mechanisms. The adrenal cortex is regulated by negative feedback involving the hypothalamus and adrenocorticotropic hormone; the medulla is regulated by nerve impulses from the hypothalamus.
Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex
The adrenal cortex consists of three different regions, with each region producing a different group or type of hormones. Chemically, all the cortical hormones are steroid.
Mineralocorticoids are secreted by the outermost region of the adrenal cortex. The principal mineralocorticoid is aldosterone, which acts to conserve sodium ions and water in the body. Glucocorticoids are secreted by the middle region of the adrenal cortex. The principal glucocorticoid is cortisol, which increases blood glucose levels.
The third group of steroids secreted by the adrenal cortex is the gonadocorticoids, or sex hormones. These are secreted by the innermost region. Male hormones, androgens, and female hormones, estrogens, are secreted in minimal amounts in both sexes by the adrenal cortex, but their effect is usually masked by the hormones from the testes and ovaries. In females, the masculinization effect of androgen secretion may become evident after menopause, when estrogen levels from the ovaries decrease.
Hormones of the Adrenal Medulla
The adrenal medulla develops from neural tissue and secretes two hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine. These two hormones are secreted in response to stimulation by sympathetic nerve, particularly during stressful situations. A lack of hormones from the adrenal medulla produces no significant effects. Hypersecretion, usually from a tumor, causes prolonged or continual sympathetic responses. |
One expert wasn't surprised by the findings. Poorer people have fewer ways to combat stress, said Glyn Lewis, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the University of Bristol in England.
"For example, if your car breaks down, then a wealth | One expert wasn't surprised by the findings. Poorer people have fewer ways to combat stress, said Glyn Lewis, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at the University of Bristol in England.
"For example, if your car breaks down, then a wealthier person could afford to rent a new car or get their old one mended quickly or will have insurance for this," Lewis said. "It is much less stressful if you have the money to seek out alternatives."
The study authors suggest that wealthier people may have better ways to manage or contain their distress and more people around them who can help. Also, previous research has shown that the cardiovascular systems of richer people recover faster from acute stress, which might contribute less to long-term cardiovascular damage, the authors noted.
However, the study didn't document how stress levels changed over time, and the authors acknowledge that that is a limitation of their study.
Still, Lazzarino said the findings might help researchers refine tools for stress measurement. "Since we know that stress is very bad for your health, one could argue that every person on the planet should do tests to measure his/her own stress and that family doctors should screen all patients they have for stress," he said.
"However, this strategy may not be cost-effective," he added. "We say that if you specifically target low-income people, stress screening may be very useful and cost-effective."
For more about health and stress, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
SOURCES: Antonio Ivan Lazzarino, M.D., clinical research associate, department of epidemiology and public health, University College London, England; G
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May 12, 2005
Hold on tight and don't let go, at least for 30 seconds. Second graders from Venable Elementary did just that today on their brand new climbing wall.
"We never had one before and everybody | May 12, 2005
Hold on tight and don't let go, at least for 30 seconds. Second graders from Venable Elementary did just that today on their brand new climbing wall.
"We never had one before and everybody has been waiting for it," said Morgan, a second grader.
The addition is all thanks to a Nickelodeon 'Let's Just Play' grant the school received earlier this year. Venable was just one of eighty-one schools to get funding for their proposal, a climbing club project.
"We've been waiting for this since January, so we're very excited," said Francesca Zavacky, the Venable Physical Education teacher. In P.E. class, the students paired up, each taking turns spotting and then going up the wall.
"I never got to climb a climbing wall before," Raylaja Waller, a second grader.
"It's really fun and you can climb it, added student Eve Allen.
Not only does the grant allow students at Venable to have fun with the wall, but it also provides a great form of exercise. That's one of the main reasons Zavacky wanted the wall--to help keep students in shape.
"They're going to be improving their upper body strength, core strength, lower body strength. They're going to improve their flexibility as they reach from hold to hold," sa |
Location of Central African Republic
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The Central African Republic (CAR) (French: République centrafricaine, pronounced: [ʁepyb | Location of Central African Republic
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The Central African Republic (CAR) (French: République centrafricaine, pronounced: [ʁepyblik sɑ̃tʁafʁikɛn], or Centrafrique [sɑ̃tʀafʀik]; Sango Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka), is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 240,000 square miles (623,000 km²), and has an estimated population of about 4.4 million as per 2008. Bangui is the capital city.
Most of the CAR consists of Sudano-Guinean savannas but it also includes a Sahelo-Sudanian zone in the north and an equatorial forest zone in the south. Two thirds of the country lies in the basins of the Ubangi River, which flows south into the Congo River, while the remaining third lies in the basin of the Chari River, which flows north into Lake Chad.
Since most of the territory locates in the Ubangi and Shari river basins, France called the colony it carved out in this region Ubangi-Chari, or Oubangui-Chari in French. It became a semi-autonomous territory of the French Community in 1958 and then an independent nation on 13 August 1960. For over three decades after independence, the CAR was ruled by presidents who were |
What the Diet Does
Normally, our bodies run on energy from glucose, which we get from food. We can't store large amounts of glucose, however. We only have about a 24-hour supply. When a child has no food for | What the Diet Does
Normally, our bodies run on energy from glucose, which we get from food. We can't store large amounts of glucose, however. We only have about a 24-hour supply. When a child has no food for 24 hours— which is the way the ketogenic diet may begin (usually in a hospital)— he or she uses up all the stored glucose. With no more glucose to provide energy, the child's body begins to burn stored fat.
The ketogenic diet keeps this process going. It forces the child's body to burn fat around the clock by keeping carbohydrates (sugars) low and making fat products the primary food that the child is getting. In fact, the diet gets most (80 percent) of its calories from fat. The rest come from carbohydrates (sugars) and protein (meat). Each meal has about four times as much fat as protein or carbohydrate. The amounts of food and liquid at each meal have to be carefully worked out and weighed for each person (typically the diet is made up by a nutritionist or dietician with special training).
Doctors don't know precisely why a diet that mimics starvation by burning fat for energy should prevent seizures, but this is being studied. Nor do they know why the same diet works for some children and not for others.
Trying to put a child on the diet without medical guidance puts a child at risk of serious consequences. Every step of the ketogenic diet process must be managed by an experienced treatment team, usually based at a specialized medical center.
Chances of Success
Often, a period of fine-tuning is needed before it's clear whether or not a child is going to respond to the ketogenic diet. Doctors often ask parents to try the diet for at least one month, and even as long as two or three, if it's not working at first. By the end of this time the parent should have a good idea if the ketogenic diet is working, and can make a decision if they wish to continue or not.
A child on the diet, who has had a decrease in seizures, usually continues taking antiseizure medicine, but may be able to take less of it later on. If a child does very well, the doctor may slowly taper the medication with the goal of discontinuing it alt |
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The collection of clothing, textiles, and household items used by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut, from about | You are here:
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The collection of clothing, textiles, and household items used by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut, from about 1650 to 1850 is one of the museum's largest family-based collections. Displayed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, the collection was later donated by John Brenton Copp to the National Museum, where it was exhibited to represent life in colonial times.
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Understand Childhood Cancers and Blood Disorders
Bone tumors account for about five percent of the malignancies in children younger than 16 years old in the United States. They are the sixth most frequent tumor type in all children, but the third most | Understand Childhood Cancers and Blood Disorders
Bone tumors account for about five percent of the malignancies in children younger than 16 years old in the United States. They are the sixth most frequent tumor type in all children, but the third most common type in adolescents since they most commonly present during the second decade of life.
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of bone and is diagnosed in about 400 children younger than 20 years old in the United States every year. Ewing's sarcoma is the second most common primary malignant tumor of bone. Other rare malignant tumors found in bone include: primary lymphoma of bone, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, and metastases of tumors from other sites (e.g. neuroblastoma). Benign tumors of bone include: eosinophilic granuloma and giant cell tumor.
In most patients we do not know why the cancer developed. Some people may have a rare condition that predisposes them to bone cancer. These include previous radiation therapy to a bone for another malignancy, the Li-Fraumeni syndrome, and retinoblastoma, a rare tumor of the eye. There are no known predisposing factors for Ewing's sarcoma.
Osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma most often occur near the knee and present with pain. Sometimes there is a palpable mass if the tumor extends into the surrounding soft tissue. There may be associated fever, fatigue, and weight loss with Ewing's sarcoma. At times, the diagnosis of a malignant bone tumor is made after a fracture occurs in the affected bone and an x-ray shows a mass in addition to the fracture and an abnormal appearance of the bone.
Once a bone tumor is suspected from a regular x-ray, more sophisticated imaging studies, including MRI or CT scan of the affected bone is performed to obtain a more detailed image of the tumor and to plan a biopsy. Since different kinds of tumors originate in bone, a biopsy is essential for making a correct diagnosis. An ideal biopsy is an open biopsy performed by an experienced orthopedic oncologist. These specialists can plan the biopsy site in an area that will be resected later if the diagnosis is a malignant bone tumor.
Treatment for bone tumors depends upon the diagnosis. Benign tumors may require no treatment besides observation. Osteosarcoma treatment involves surgery and chemotherapy such as methotrexate, cisplatinum, and Adriamycin. Ewing's sarcoma is treated with different chemotherapy (ifosfamide, etoposide, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and Adriamycin), and possibly radiation instead of surgery. Surgical removal of the tumor often occurs after a few courses of chemotherapy. The main reason for the delay in surgery is that chemotherapy may shrink the tumor and make removal of the tumor easier. This allows many patients to undergo limb-sparing procedures where the affected limb is not removed and may retain function. Chemotherapy is also important in treating metastatic disease. About 15-20 percent of patients have metastases to other organs (lungs, bone, and bone marrow) at diagnosis. A higher percentage of patients have micrometastatic disease at diagnosis that cannot be detected with CT scans or bone scans. Patients who present with no visible metastases and who undergo chemotherapy in addition to surgery (and/or radiation) have a very good long-term survival.
Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor of childhood. They are a heterogeneous group of disorders which usually present with persistent headache and vomiting but may sometimes develop a number of other symptoms such as eye problems, seizures, growth abnormalities or difficulty walking. An accurate diagnosis is critical to a successful outcome, as some brain tumors are malignant and others are benign. The type of brain tumor is usually identified by the initial tumor location and the microscopic appearance of the tumor tissue.
When a brain tumor is suspected in a child, a pediatric oncologist will review the clinical information with a pediatric neurologist and a neurosurgeon. Brain and spinal cord MRI and CT images are reviewed by a neuroradiologist to accurately assess the extent of the problem and to formulate a plan to deal with the tumor. The neurosurgeon will then either perform a surgical resection, if possible, or a biopsy if the tumor size and location make a complete removal difficult. This surgery should be performed by a neurosurgeon experienced in dealing with pediatric brain tumors and must be followed with specialized postoperative observation and treatment in an intensive care setting. After careful microscopic study of the tumor tissue samples by a neuropathologist, a diagnosis can be established. Additi |
Thomas Green (general)
|Born||June 8, 1814
Amelia County, Virginia
|Died||April 12, 1864
|Buried at||Austin, Texas|
|Allegiance|| Republic | Thomas Green (general)
|Born||June 8, 1814
Amelia County, Virginia
|Died||April 12, 1864
|Buried at||Austin, Texas|
|Allegiance|| Republic of Texas
Confederate States of America
|Service/branch|| Texan Army
Confederate States Army
|Years of service||1861 - 1864 (CSA)|
|Rank|| Major (Texas)
Brigadier General (CSA)
|Unit||First Texas Regiment of Mounted Riflemen (Texas Rangers)|
|Commands held||5th Texas Mounted Rifles|
|Battles/wars||Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto
American Civil War: Battle of Valverde, Battle of Bayou Bourbeux, Red River Campaign (Battle of Pleasant Hill)
Thomas Green (June 8, 1814 – April 12, 1864) was a lawyer, politician, soldier and officer of the Republic of Texas, and rose to the rank of Brigadier General of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Tom Green County, Texas was named after him.
Early life and career
Green was born in Amelia County in Virginia to Nathan and Mary (Field) Green. The family moved to Tennessee in 1817. He attended Jackson College in Tennessee and Princeton College in Kentucky before he received a degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1834. He then studied law with his father, a prominent judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court.
When the Texas Revolution began, Green left Tennessee to join the rebel volunteers. He arrived in Nacogdoches in December 1835, and enlisted in Isaac N. Moreland's company on January 14, 1836. During the April 21 Battle of San Jacinto, Green helped operate the famed "Twin Sisters" cannons, the only artillery present in Sam Houston's army. A few days after the decisive victory, Houston rewarded Green with a commission as a lieutenant. In early May, he was promoted to major and assigned as the aide-de-camp to General Thomas J. Rusk. With hostilities over, Green resigned on May 30 and returned to Tennessee to resume studying law.
In 1837, the legislature of the new Republic of Texas granted large tracts of land to leading veterans of the Revolution, including Thomas Green. After relocating to Fayette County, Green became a county surveyor at La Grange. That same year, fellow San Jacinto veteran William W. Gant nominated Green for the position of engrossing clerk for the Texas House of Representatives. He was subsequently elected and held the office until 1839, when he represented Fayette County in the House of Representatives in the Fourth Texas Congress. After a single term, he chose not to run again, and resumed his clerkship. During the Sixth and Eighth Texas Congresses, he served as secretary of the Senate. From 1841 to 1861, he was clerk of the Texas Supreme Court, in both the republic and the subsequent U.S. state.
Between legislative and court sessions, Green served in military campaigns against the Indians and Mexico. In the fall of 1840, he joined John H. Moore in a foray up the Colorado River against the Comanches. After Rafael Vásquez's invasion of San Antonio in March 1842, Green recrui |
Indian energy crisis July 2012
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India experienced a significant energy crisis on Tuesday 31 July 2012 when three of its regional power grids collapsed. Over half the | Indian energy crisis July 2012
From Greenlivingpedia, a wiki on green living, building and energy
India experienced a significant energy crisis on Tuesday 31 July 2012 when three of its regional power grids collapsed. Over half the country was impacted on leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in what was the world's biggest blackout to date.
- Hundreds of trains stalled across the country
- Traffic lights out, causing widespread traffic jams in New Delhi.
- Electric crematoria stopped operating, some with bodies half burnt
- Emergency workers rushed generators to coal mines to rescue miners trapped underground. |
A language construct is said to be a FirstClass
value in that language when there are no restrictions on how it can be created and used: when the construct can be treated as a value without restrictions.
features can be stored in variables, passed | A language construct is said to be a FirstClass
value in that language when there are no restrictions on how it can be created and used: when the construct can be treated as a value without restrictions.
features can be stored in variables, passed as arguments to functions, created within functions and returned from functions. In dynamically typed languages, a FirstClass
feature can also have its type examined at run-time.
Languages vary as to what is FirstClass
. Some, such as the CeeLanguage
have only basic types (ints, pointers; in particular, arrays are not truly FirstClass
though the array/pointer equivalence lets you fake it in most situations). In ObjectOriented
languages such as CeePlusPlus
, objects are FirstClass
but classes are not, while in SmalltalkLanguage
, for example, all references including references to class objects are FirstClass
. In FunctionalProgramming
, functions are FirstClass
Some authors, such as Raphael A. Finkel in AdvancedProgrammingLanguageDesign
, also define the terms SecondClass
(pg76); different authors have varying definitions of exactly what properties things should have to be considered first, second, or third class, but the terms are typically broadly similar to Finkel's.
| Class of value
Manipulation | First Second Third
Pass value as a parameter | yes yes no
Return value from a procedure | yes no no
Assign value into a variable | yes no no
I think all attempts to define other classes that the FirstClass are bound to fail, because different things that you
can't do depend on the language paradigm. FirstClass depicts something relatively clear-cut in every paradigm: the full-fledged ability to be a
value. -- PanuKalliokoski
- I would say that that critique applies only to SecondClass, not third, and is bound to be "flawed" rather than "fail", but yes, there are problems. Still, it's mildly useful to have at least an antonym for FirstClass. Also I notice that authors often go into more detail when they use this added terminology, which can help in exploring the various issues.
- I'm not so sure about that "flawed" thing. C does not have inexact integers: so are these third-class in C? What significance does the division between second and third class have in languages that do not have procedures, functions or methods? But I agree that FirstClass should have a counterpart; I'd call it non-FirstClass.
I.e. you can do "anything" (treat it in all ways like any other value) with a FirstClass
construct, nothing value-like wi |
Sonnet 130 is a parody of the Dark Lady, who falls too obviously short of fashionable beauty to be extolled in print. The poet, openly contemptuous of his weakness for the woman, expresses his infatuation for her in | Sonnet 130 is a parody of the Dark Lady, who falls too obviously short of fashionable beauty to be extolled in print. The poet, openly contemptuous of his weakness for the woman, expresses his infatuation for her in negative comparisons. For example, comparing her to natural objects, he notes that her eyes are "nothing like the sun," and the colors of her lips and breasts dull when compared to the red of coral and the whiteness of snow.
Whereas conventional love sonnets by other poets make their women into goddesses, in Sonnet 130 the poet is merely amused by his own attempt to deify his dark mistress. Cynically he states, "I grant I never saw a goddess go; / My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground." We learn that her hair is black, but note the derogatory way the poet describes it: "black wires grow on her head." Also, his comment "And in some perfumes is there more delight / Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks" borders on crassness, no matter how satirical he is trying to be. The poet must be very secure in his love for his mistress — and hers for him — for him to be as disparaging as he is, even in jest — a security he did not enjoy with the young man. Although the turn "And yet" in the concluding couplet signals the negation of all the disparaging comments the poet has made about the Dark Lady, the sonnet's last two lines arguably do not erase the horrendous comparisons in the three quatrains.
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Translator's Notes: “Brother, I've seen some”
About Kabir, the facts are few, the legends many. He was born in Benares (now Varanasi) and lived in the fifteenth century, though opinion is | Translator's Notes: “Brother, I've seen some”
About Kabir, the facts are few, the legends many. He was born in Benares (now Varanasi) and lived in the fifteenth century, though opinion is divided whether it was in the first or the second half. From his poems we learn that he was a julaha, or weaver, his family perhaps having recently converted to Islam to escape its low status in the Hindu caste system. In several poems, Kabir speaks out against caste, as he does also, with as much vehemence, against Muslim practices:
If you say you’re a Brahmin
Born of a mother who’s a Brahmin,
Was there a special canal
Through which you were born?
And if you say you’re a Turk
And your mother’s a Turk,
Why weren’t you circumcised
Kabir’s Muslim birth was something not liked by his Hindu followers, who, beginning around 1600, concocted legends to gloss over this uncomfortable fact. In one of them, he was a foundling, born to a Brahmin widow and raised in a Muslim household. Similarly, there are stories about his death. In the best-known one, after he died both Hindus and Muslims laid claim to his body. A quarrel broke out but when they lifted the shroud they saw instead of the corpse a heap of flowers. The two communities divided the flowers and performed Kabir’s last rites, each according to its custom.
Kabir belonged to the popular devotional movement called bhakti, whose focus is on inward love for the One Deity, in opposition to religious orthodoxies and social hierarchies. Kabir called his god Rama or Hari, who is not to be confused with the Hindu god Rama of the Ramayana.
Many of the bhakti poets came from the bottom of the Hindu caste ladder. Among them you find a cobbler, a tailor, a barber, a boatman, a weaver. One, Janabai (see epigraph to “Chewing slowly”), was a maidservant. They wrote in the vernaculars (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati) rather than in Sanskrit, the language of the gods and the preserve of Brahmins. Occasionally, eschewing his abrupt debunking manner, Kabir speaks in riddles. These enigmatic poems (see “Brother I’ve seen some” and “How do you”) are called ulatbamsi or “poems in upside-down language,” in which the intention seems to be to force the reader (or listener) into new ways of thinking and seeing. They each end in a revelation, though exactly what has been revealed is open to question.
The Kabir songs have come down to us in essentially three groups of texts. They are the Bijak or “eastern” tradition, the Rajasthani or “western” tradition, and the Punjabi tradition centered around the Adi Granth, the sacred book of the Sikhs. Kabir may never have traveled outside Benares, b |
Objective: This paper aims to provide an overview on the nocebo effect, focusing on recognition — its phenomenology, at-risk demographic profiles, clinical situations and personality factors, as well as discriminating somatic symptoms in the general population from treatment | Objective: This paper aims to provide an overview on the nocebo effect, focusing on recognition — its phenomenology, at-risk demographic profiles, clinical situations and personality factors, as well as discriminating somatic symptoms in the general population from treatment-related adverse effects. Lastly, the paper addresses available evidence-based strategies for management and minimisation of the nocebo effect.
Method: Data for this paper were identified by searching PubMed using the search terms "nocebo" and “nocebo effect”, augmented by a manual search of the references of the key papers and the related literature.
Results: The nocebo effect refers to non-pharmacodynamic, harmful or undesirable effects occurring after inactive treatment, a phenomenon that also occurs in the context of active therapy. Known drivers include classical conditioning and negative expectations concerning treatment. Recent meta-analyses have reported a considerable prevalence, ranging from 18% in the symptomatic treatment of migraine, to more than 74% in multiple sclerosis. Recognition of the nocebo-driven adverse effects presents a challenge, especially because of its non-specific nature and the similarity to the active medication’s expected profile. Traits such as neuroticism, pessimism and type A personalities may predispose individuals to this phenomenon. Clinical management of the n |
The term “going public” is also called Initial Public Offering (IPO). It refers to the time a company transitions from being privately held to selling its shares to the public for the very first time.
The main reason for going public is usually | The term “going public” is also called Initial Public Offering (IPO). It refers to the time a company transitions from being privately held to selling its shares to the public for the very first time.
The main reason for going public is usually capital growth. By selling shares a company gets to tap a wide pool of stock market investors. This helps it get more capital quickly and easily. The increase in capital then results in the company’s ability to further expand is operation.
It is also beneficial to a company because the increase in capital increases liquidity, which is a big factor when trying to obtain bank loans. This means that going public also increases a company’s ability to have easier access to further capital via loans and investors.
Despite the advantages that going public brings, not all companies opt to do this. Disadvantages include:
1. Control issues. Anytime a company gets a new investor, the present owners’ risk of losing control of their own company increases. Going public means an even greater risk, which is why owners should have a sound anti-takeover measure in place before going through with it.
2. Confidentiality issues. Going public means the need to disclose information to shareholders. Those not comfortable sharing either their financial, operational or technological information will definitely not be happy with full disclosure policy that often comes with going public. |
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Beethoven Brahms Berg Mendelssohn
A Short History of the Clarinet
The clarinet is one of the youngest instruments in the history of music. While its sisters, the oboe and the flute, flourished in the baroque period, the clarinet was taking only the first steps towards that technical and musical development that would later ensure it a glittering career. Rameau and Johann Christian Bach were the first significant composers to include the clarinet in their scores in the middle of the eighteenth century. The instrument was first introduced into orchestras in Vienna in 1767 and Gluck made use of it from 1774.
The subsequent prima donna of the woodwind family has its roots in the Near East, derived from the ancient Egyptian arghúl and the Arabic z??mmarah. The original form of the clarinet was the medieval chalumeau, a primitive cylindrical reed instrument without a bell and with an integrated mouthpiece. The term comes, like schalmei, from the Greek kalamos, a reed. The chalumeau, that is still used in Glucks operas Orfeo and Alceste, has now virtually disappeared and is only found in reconstructions. Nevertheless the lower register of the clarinet shows its respect for the ancestry of the instrument and is known as the chalumeau register.
About 1690, shortly after the birth of J.S.Bach, |
A means of measuring a paper's opacity by backing a paper sample with a black sheet of paper, measuring how much light is reflected back through the sample, then backing the sample with a thick pile of the paper to be tested and measuring how much | A means of measuring a paper's opacity by backing a paper sample with a black sheet of paper, measuring how much light is reflected back through the sample, then backing the sample with a thick pile of the paper to be tested and measuring how much light is reflected off the top of the backing pile and back through the sample. The ratio of these two figures is the paper sample's diffuse opacity. It is believed that the diffuse opacity method is more effective than the contrast ra |
Restaurants don’t have to tell you how many calories are in the foods they serve, but soon they will. By March 2011, chain restaurants will be required by the FDA to post the calorie content of foods they serve.
As you | Restaurants don’t have to tell you how many calories are in the foods they serve, but soon they will. By March 2011, chain restaurants will be required by the FDA to post the calorie content of foods they serve.
As you peruse the menu trying to decide between the bacon cheeseburger and the grilled chicken sandwich, you’ll see the how many calories are in each item. And with this knowledge, you’ll have the power to make healthier choices when dining out.
Restaurants are also required to post a statement that additional nutritional information is available upon request, and to have it for customers in written form. It will be similar to a food label, but will eaters know what the numbers mean?
Knowing the calorie and nutrient content of a food won’t help much without an understanding of how much a person needs daily. Restaurants are also required to include a statement about suggested total daily caloric intake.
To brush up on your knowledge of the nutrition facts label, check out our Guide to the Nutrition Facts Label.
Will knowing the calorie content of menu items help you choose healthier foods when dining out? |
The Majorana equation is a relativistic wave equation similar to the Dirac equation but includes the charge conjugate ψc of a spinor ψ. It is named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, and it is
with the | The Majorana equation is a relativistic wave equation similar to the Dirac equation but includes the charge conjugate ψc of a spinor ψ. It is named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, and it is
with the derivative operator written in Feynman slash notation to include the gamma matrices as well as a summation over the spinor components. In this equation ψc is the charge conjugate of ψ, which can be defined in the Majorana basis as
Equation (1) can alternatively be expressed as
In either case, the quantity m in the equation is called the Majorana mass.
The appearance of both ψ and ψc in the Majorana equation means that the field ψ cannot be coupled to an electromagnetic field without violating charge conservation, so ψ is taken to be neutrally charged. Nonetheless, the quanta of the Majorana equation given here are two particle species, a neutral particle and its neutral antiparticle. The Majorana equation is frequently supplemented by the condition that ψ = ψc (in which case one says that ψ is a Majorana spinor); this results in a single neutral particle. For a Majorana spinor, the Majorana equation is equivalent to the Dirac equation.
Particles corresponding to Majorana spinors are aptly called Majorana particles. Such a particle is its own antiparticle. Thus far, of all the fermions included in the Standard Model, none is described as a Majorana fermion. However, there is the possibility that the neutrino is of a Majorana nature. If so, neutrinoless double-beta decay, as well as a range of lepton-number violating meson and charged lepton decays, are possible. A number of experiments probing if the neutrino is a Majorana particle are currently underway.
- A. Franklin, Are There Really Neutrinos?: An Evidential History (Westview Press, 2004), p. 186 |
March 12, 2013, 1:36 PM — Rock samples analyzed by NASA's Curiosity rover have shown conditions that could have supported ancient life on Mars.
The samples, drilled at a depth of a few centimeters, contained | March 12, 2013, 1:36 PM — Rock samples analyzed by NASA's Curiosity rover have shown conditions that could have supported ancient life on Mars.
The samples, drilled at a depth of a few centimeters, contained sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorous and carbon -- some of the basic ingredients that are needed to support life, scientists at the U.S. space agency said Tuesday.
"We've discovered a completely different planet," said Chris McKay, senior research scientist at NASA Ames.
The work done by Curiosity represents the first time scientists have been able to drill into any planet other than Earth, said McKay. Previously, analysis of Mars was conducted with samples scooped from the surface.
The rover has been drilling in an area that has been named Yellowknife Bay, which is believed to be the end of an ancient river system or intermittently wet lake bed. The samples from the area show evidence of multiple periods of wet conditions, said NASA.
The drilling also revealed something else about the planet.
"It's the first time we found out the planet isn't red but grey," said McKay. Just a few centimeters below the surface, the sample showed no evidence of oxidization and so didn't have the red color that is so identified with Mars.
Curiosity touched down on Mars in August last year. NASA selected the touchdown point -- an area called Gale Crater -- because it believed the area showed evidence of an old network of stream channels and water. The sample was drilled not far from where the rover landed.
"It shows the future of Mars exploration is down," said McKay. "That's where we have to look."
NASA already has plans to send subsequent missions that will penetrate deeper into the planet.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team of scientists looking for gas hydrates off the coast of India has discovered a pair of methane hydrate reservoirs buried in the sediment below the Bay of Bengal, and though the idea of a | CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team of scientists looking for gas hydrates off the coast of India has discovered a pair of methane hydrate reservoirs buried in the sediment below the Bay of Bengal, and though the idea of a new energy source is tantalizing, researchers say the technology does not yet exist to make these reservoirs commercially feasible.
A similar field of gas hydrates was found off the coast of Oregon a few years ago, said Marta Torres, a marine geochemist at Oregon State University and an investigator on the India and Oregon expeditions.
“No one yet knows how to extract methane for energy from such sources,” said Torres, an associate professor in OSU’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. “We’re still learning how much gas hydrate is in the sediment and we need to learn more about how much energy is required to mine it, as well as look at environmental concerns and possible hazards associated with extracting gas from these deposits.”
Since that Oregon cruise, scientists have learned a lot about the processes that form such reservoirs, according to Anne Trehu, a professor of oceanography at OSU, who was the lead scientist on the Oregon expedition.
“We now have a good understanding of how methane is generated and how it moves from deep sediments to the shallow areas where massive hydrate is formed,” Trehu said.
The India research cruise aboard the vessel JOIDES Resolution, funded by the Indian government, began in May and continued for more nearly four months. Project coordinator Timothy Collett, from the U.S. Geological Survey, assembled a team of scientists from various institutions and agencies in the United States to provide the expertise and equipment for the project. OSU, which has been involved in gas hydrate research for nearly a decade, was joined by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the University of Rhode Island and the University of New Hampshire. Some 40 U.S. scientists worked with colleagues from India, Canada and England on the research.
Gas hydrates are crystalline substances that look like packed snow, or ice. They form when water and methane are combined at high pressure and low temperature. Commonly found along the continental margins, they are created from the natural gas that occurs after decomposition of organic material deep within ocean sediments.
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Common Name: creeping juniper
Type: Needled evergreen
Zone: 3 to 9
Height: 0.50 to 0.75 feet
Spread: 8.00 to 10.00 feet
B | Common Name: creeping juniper
Type: Needled evergreen
Zone: 3 to 9
Height: 0.50 to 0.75 feet
Spread: 8.00 to 10.00 feet
Bloom Time: Non-flowering
Sun: Full sun
Suggested Use: Ground Cover
Other: Winter Interest
Tolerate: Deer, Drought, Erosion, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil, Air Pollution
Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Adapts to a wide range of soils, but prefers a dryish, sandy soil. Tolerates hot, relatively dry growing conditions, somewhat poor soils and many city air pollutants. Intolerant of wet soils.
Creeping juniper is a procumbent evergreen shrub that is native to Canada and the northern U. S. wher |
|One Ball Bearings the inner diameter is 40, outer diameter is 62 and the width is 12, this is a popular size that could be used in many applications, Bearings are made of Chrome Steel, bearing has 2 metal shields | |One Ball Bearings the inner diameter is 40, outer diameter is 62 and the width is 12, this is a popular size that could be used in many applications, Bearings are made of Chrome Steel, bearing has 2 metal shields to protect the bearing from dust or any possible contamination, also bearings are pre-lubricated with grease. |
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4-H Veterinary and Animal Science Exploration (V.A
The 4-H Veterinary and Animal Science Exploration (V.A.S.E.) program provides opportunities for youth to develop life-long skills while exploring the science behind the pets and animals in their lives. | 4-H Veterinary and Animal Science Exploration (V.A
The 4-H Veterinary and Animal Science Exploration (V.A.S.E.) program provides opportunities for youth to develop life-long skills while exploring the science behind the pets and animals in their lives. This program, designed for youth in grades 3-5, will give youth the ability to identify different breeds of animals, interpret an animal’s behavior, describe the different roles of animals, recognize the need for specific nutrients in feeds, understand the purpose and function of body systems, make your home safe for pets, and explain what veterinarians do while describing the tools they use.
The two day program will take place at the Oneida County Extension Office in Oriskany on Monday, February 18th from 8:30 a.m. to noon. On Tuesday, February 19th the program will be held in Herkimer County at the Herkimer Veterinary Clinic from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Some transportation for youth may be necessary as tours of two veterinary clinics (Herkimer Veterinary Clinic and New Hartford Animal Hospital) have been organized. Youth will have the opportunity first hand to watch a veterinarian in action!
Cost of the program is $15 for youth enrolled in 4-H and $20 for youth not enrolled in 4-H. To register go to https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/4-HVetScience_230 or call Kristi Cranwell at 736-3394, Ext. 122 or email [email protected].
For more information about Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County and the 4-H youth program visit our website at www.cceoneida.com.
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Jan. 29, 2008 Parkinson's disease and epilepsy strike millions of people each year. They also affect countless dogs, and veterinarians at the University of Missouri are working to find ways to treat these and other neurological diseases in both species | Jan. 29, 2008 Parkinson's disease and epilepsy strike millions of people each year. They also affect countless dogs, and veterinarians at the University of Missouri are working to find ways to treat these and other neurological diseases in both species.
Dennis O'Brien, professor of veterinary medicine and surgery and director of the comparative neurology program in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and a team of researchers are investigating the causes and potential treatments for a number of diseases that can be fatal in both humans and animals.
"These diseases have been recognized in dogs for many years, but now we have the tools to do something about it," said O'Brien, who was recently named as the first Chancellor's Chair of Excellence in Comparative Neurology. "In the past, there was little that we could do other than treat the symptoms. Now, with pets, we can identify the genes responsible and breed away from some of these problems. We also have the human connection to these diseases, and as we learn from research on both species, we can apply it to both humans and animals and everyone will benefit."
Currently, researchers with the comparative neurology program are investigating several diseases that can affect dogs and humans. These diseases include:
- Epilepsy - a common disease characterized by repetitive seizures. It has many different causes, but it is thought to be a hereditary condition in many dogs.
- Parkinson's disease - caused by a loss of a neurotransmitter, dopamine, in nerve cells. Symptoms include tremors, stiff muscles or movement, and difficulty with balancing and walking.
In humans, Parkinson's is a disease of the elderly, while in dogs it is a hereditary disease affecting young dogs.
- Degenerative Myelopathy - a common neurological disease that affects the spinal cords in adult dogs. Typically, the dog will lose function of its rear legs and, eventually, will be paralyzed.
At the same time that researchers are investigating these diseases, O'Brien and his team also are working in the MU Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital, applying their knowledge to help dogs now. For example, the program recently received an underwater treadmill that will help rehabilitate dogs that have suffered spinal or nerve injuries and are temporarily paralyzed.
"Moving in water is great therapy," O'Brien said. "You don’t have to support any body weight, but at the same time, the muscles have to work through some resistance. This helps to exercise the limbs."
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|Ice and snow can be treacherous if walkers don't have the proper footwear for traveling in it.|
Winter is a beautiful time, but for everyone, and particularly seniors it can also be very dangerous time.
Something as simple as a | |Ice and snow can be treacherous if walkers don't have the proper footwear for traveling in it.|
Winter is a beautiful time, but for everyone, and particularly seniors it can also be very dangerous time.
Something as simple as a walk in the snow can lead to injury during the winter. That's why it is a good idea to look closely at some of the activities people normally do during the winter, and analyze how they can be made safer.
For those walks around the neighborhood, light hiking or even for a trip to the store choose a good pair of winter boots to wear.
For warmth and stability on ice and snow look to see if they are well insulated, waterproof, have a thick, non-slip tread sole have wide, low heels and are light in weight.
For those that have to walk with a cane to balance themselves have it fitted to the right height for the person it is meant for. When a cane is held upside down, the end should be at wrist level. Many health care providers can give good advice on what kind of a cane is needed. But the cane must also be adapted for the winter weather. A good way to attain stability is to attach an ice pick at the end of the cane. Cane picks can be slippery on hard surfaces they need to be flipped back when the user goes indoors. Picks are available at many drug and department stores.
If more support is needed on snow and ice, use a walker. Costs for walkers can sometimes be provided through insurance and other avenues of funding.
For those that are concerned about falling outside a hip protector can help. It can help protect the hips against fractures and give added confidence when walking out-of-doors.
Another good idea is to carry a small bag of grit, sand or non-clumping cat litter in a pocket or handbag, to sprinkle when confronted with icy sidewalks or steps.
Facing an icy surface can be an upsetting experience. Body movements can increase a persons stability on an icy surface.
First of all, slow down and think about the next move that needs to be made. Keeping the body as loose as possible, spread the feet to more than a foot apart to provide a base of support. Keep the knees loose and don't lock them up. Even bending them will help. This will keep the body's center of gravity lower to the ground. Make the first step small, placing the entire foot down all at once. Then shift the weight of the body very slowly to the foot that has been placed on the surface and bring the other foot into place to meet it the same way. Always keep a wide base of support. Some people feel that dragging or shuffling the feet is helpful. The main thing to remember is to place the whole foot on the ice at once and keep the base of the body support approximately one foot wide.
Many slipping accidents because of ice and snow happen right at home. Keep entrances and sidewalks clear of ice and snow.
In the dismal days of winter sometimes drivers can be concentrating on so many things they may not see a person walking on or across a roadway.
Help motorists to see the pedestrian by wearing bright colors or by adding reflective material to clothing, particularly if walking is done in the evening or early in the morning.
Heat loss from a persons body can also cause problems for seniors. Prevent it by wearing a warm hat, scarf, and mittens or gloves. The weather will determine how to dress, but layers are good because some can be removed if the day that looks dismal at first turns into a sunny one.
The one cardinal rule of walking in the winter whether it is for exercise or for necessity, is to expect the unexpected. An uncleared sidewalk or icy curb can make a nice walk or a trip to a neighbors a nightmare. Be ready to face it. |
The towns near Boston are filled with turkeys. Not the big, white meat, breasted varieties featured in the local supermarkets, but scrawny, big winged, dark brown varieties that roam up and down the neighborhood, terrorizing small | The towns near Boston are filled with turkeys. Not the big, white meat, breasted varieties featured in the local supermarkets, but scrawny, big winged, dark brown varieties that roam up and down the neighborhood, terrorizing small pets and children. They seemed to have fallen from the sky like a local plague and reproduce as fast as mosquitoes. Is this what the pilgrims ate for their first Thanksgiving? If so, these 21st century varieties are now protected, so no one can go outside, bag one and take it home to roast. But even if this were allowed, it is doubtful that they would be worth eating, as they are mostly bone and feather.
Just about everyone acknowledges that our Thanksgiving feasts of today bear no resemblance to the foods eaten by the pilgrims and Native Americans in Plimouth (old spelling) in 1621. Food historians point out that there were no apples (no apple pie) or potatoes (much fewer marshmallows). Pumpkins were sliced and fried or boiled, not pureed into a pie, and if anything was stuffed into the cavity of a turkey, it was only onions and herbs. Bread was probably made from ground corn, and cranberries were not boiled and sweetened for at least another 50 years. Protein came from wild turkeys, and if they were as lean as the ones roaming around Boston, did not provide much meat. Waterfowl, as well as shellfish, were included in the meal, according to an account of witness Edward Winslow. It is doubtful that the lobster meat was dipped in melted butter, as they had very few cows until 1627, when a subsequent ship brought more livestock to the plantation.
Even though this meal was billed as a feast and indeed, the food was eaten over three days of festivities, if we were to eat such a meal today, we might leave the table hungry. The caloric value of fat-free squash and pumpkin, skinny turkeys, clams, cornmeal, and onions is probably less than the calories in one of our servings of stuffing and sweet potato casserole. To the pilgrims, coming out of a summer of near famine, this meal was indeed a feast and perhaps for the first time in months, they did not feel hungry. But for those of us who rarely leave a meal feeling hungry (unless we are dieting), the first Thanksgiving menu would feel like a partial fast, not feast, day. We are so used to eating more than enough at every meal we would not consider any meal a feast unless it were truly excessive.
This may be the reason why the weeks before Thanksgiving newspapers, magazines, cooking shows, and even radio programs describe recipes whose ingredients are excessively caloric or overwrought with too many ingredients and/or complicated cooking techniques. This would explain why menus for Thanksgiving go on for pages, and we are told to prepare so many different dishes that there is no room on the plate for all the food that is has been made. Indeed, a common question before Thanksgiving is, “What are you going to serve?” When I have replied with a menu that does not differ, except for the turkey, from a normal family get-together, I am looked at as if I am a food miser.
Shouldn’t the pendulum of Thanksgiving feasting start to swing back to the simplicity of that first Thanksgiving? After all, we don’t have to present a feast worthy of a Roman orgy to feel thankful that we have food on the table and shelter in which to partake of it. This is not to say that our turkeys should now resemble those wandering around greater Boston, or that our desserts should be boiled pumpkin rather than pumpkin pie. But if we bring simplicity back to the meal, then, like that first Thanksgiving, being thankful will be the most noteworthy aspect of the day. |
Sir James George Frazer (18541941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
of corn or oats is called the Corn-goat or the Oats-goat. In the Canton St. Gall, Switzerland, the person who cuts | Sir James George Frazer (18541941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
of corn or oats is called the Corn-goat or the Oats-goat. In the Canton St. Gall, Switzerland, the person who cuts the last handful of corn on the field, or drives the last harvest-waggon to the barn, is called the Corn-goat or the Rye-goat, or simply the Goat. In the Canton Thurgau he is called Corn-goat; like a goat he has a bell hung round his neck, is led in triumph, and drenched with liquor. In parts of Styria, also, the man who cuts the last corn is called Corn-goat, Oats-goat, or the like. As a rule, the man who thus gets the name of Corn-goat has to bear it a whole year till the next harvest.
According to one view, the corn-spirit, who has been caught in the form of a goat or otherwise, lives in the farmhouse or barn over winter. Thus, each farm has its own embodiment of the corn-spirit. But, according to another view, the corn-spirit is the genius or deity, not of the corn of one farm only, but of all the corn. Hence when the corn on one farm is all cut, he flees to another where there is still corn left standing. This idea is brought out in a harvest-custom which was formerly observed in Skye. The farmer who first finished reaping sent a man or woman with a sheaf to a neighbouring farmer who had not finished; the latter in his turn, when he had finished, sent on the sheaf to his neighbour who was still reaping; and so the sheaf made the round of the farms till all the corn was cut. The sheaf was called the goabbir bhacagh, that is, the Cripple Goat. The custom appears not to be extinct at the present day, for it was reported from Skye not very many years ago. The corn-spirit was probably thus represented as lame because he had been crippled by the cutting of the corn. Sometimes the old woman who brings home the last sheaf must limp on one foot.
But sometimes the corn-spirit, in the form of a goat, is believed to be slain on the harvest-field by the sickle or scythe. Thus, in the neighbourhood of Bernkastel, on the Moselle, the reapers determine by lot the order in which they shall follow each other. The first is called the fore-reaper, the last the tail-bearer. If a reaper overtakes the man in front he reaps past him, bending round so as to leave the slower reaper in a patch by himself. This patch is called the Goat; and the man for whom the Goat is cut in this way, is laughed and jeered at by his fellows for t |
The IDF's Civil Administration is preventing the Palestinian Authority from laying a water pipe that would alleviate the acute water shortage for more than 600,000 Palestinians in the West Bank.
The reason given for preventing the pipe's construction is that a section of | The IDF's Civil Administration is preventing the Palestinian Authority from laying a water pipe that would alleviate the acute water shortage for more than 600,000 Palestinians in the West Bank.
The reason given for preventing the pipe's construction is that a section of less than two kilometers of it, laid on the margins of Route 50, would disrupt Jewish passenger traffic on the road.
The annual water amount provided to the district is about 20 million cubic meters - some 90 liters per capita per day. A considerable part of the water is lost on the way due to leaks and faulty connections.
The district needs an additional 13 million cubic meters a year for domestic use, apart from farming. From May to October the water to the Palestinians in the area is severely rationed. Some neighborhoods have water for a few hours once a week, others twice a month or less.
Banal functions such as house cleaning and laundry all depend on the water supply. Every day some 400 tankers transfer water from central depots to hospitals, factories, schools and other public facilities in the region.
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We measured the power consumption of computer systems with different graphics cards using a multifunctional panel Zalman ZM-MFC3 which can report how much power a computer (the monitor not included) draws from a wall socket. There were two | We measured the power consumption of computer systems with different graphics cards using a multifunctional panel Zalman ZM-MFC3 which can report how much power a computer (the monitor not included) draws from a wall socket. There were two test modes: 2D (editing documents in Microsoft Word and web surfing) and 3D (the benchmark from Metro 2033: The Last Refuge at 2560x1600 with maximum settings). Here are the results:
The systems with tested graphics cards are almost equal when it comes to power consumption. Comparing the new GeForce GTX 670 with the old GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores, we can see that the new card is 50% faster but needs less power, so the GK104 Kepler GPU is energy efficient indeed. Take note that the power consumption of the system with the overclocked GTX 670 only grows up by 30 watts. Even considering our six-core CPU overclocked to 4.6 GHz, any of these systems can be powered by a 500-550W PSU.
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB has only one downside. It is too expensive. And the high price is largely due to psychological reasons rather than to its hardware properties we’ve studied in this review. Well, the GeForce GTX 670 is ok |
Late in 2006 we posted about a new question on Canada’s blood donor questionnaire and now it turns out that Ireland is following suit. Anyone who has handled monkeys or their bodily fluids will not be able to donate blood.
The reason is the | Late in 2006 we posted about a new question on Canada’s blood donor questionnaire and now it turns out that Ireland is following suit. Anyone who has handled monkeys or their bodily fluids will not be able to donate blood.
The reason is the same: the Simian Foamy virus.
It is noted that while the virus is common among those who handle monkeys, it does not cause any illness. However Dr. William Murphy, Medical National Director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service states:
“But it (prevalence) is quite high and therefore professional monkey handlers have been excluded from donating.”
In addition to this news, the Irish Medical News reported another interesting bit of information. Those dealing with hemochromatosis (who are otherwise healthy and have donated within the past two years) are able to donate once again. With this genetic disease that effects more than 10,000 people in Ireland, the body absorbs and stores too much iron resulting in a necessary treatment of regular phlebotomies. A pilot scheme will open in 2007 for hemochromatosis donors in hopes of eventually screening the entire population. (For the USA, the Food and Drug Administration has always allowed those with hereditary hemochromatosis to donate blood, provided that the blood establishment follow procedures specific to their variance.)
With this in mind, we can hope that there will be improvement in the screening process for Simian Foamy virus so that those who have handled monkeys or their bodily fluids will not be eliminated as donors on that point alone. |
Ginger can best be thought of as a tuber, and throughout history, there have been recorded benefits of ginger that different generations have passed on to the next. Traditionally, you can either eat ginger as a delicacy, use it as | Ginger can best be thought of as a tuber, and throughout history, there have been recorded benefits of ginger that different generations have passed on to the next. Traditionally, you can either eat ginger as a delicacy, use it as a medicine, or take it as a spice. The cultivation of ginger had its roots in South Asia, but since then, it has spread to both the Caribbean as well as the region of East Africa. At times, ordinary ginger can be called root ginger in order to differentiate it from other things that also use the word ginger in their names. Etymologically, the word "ginger" comes from the medieval Latin word "ginginer" and the French word "gingembre." Ginger has many uses for your well being, and this list will educate you on the 3 health benefits of ginger.
1. Protection Against Diarrhea
When you have that funny feeling in your stomach and feel the onset of diarrhea about to occur, you can blame your failure to include enough ginger in your diet. The reason is that certain kinds of compounds found within ginger are an active agent that works against a form of diarrhea. This property of ginger is particularly useful in merely developing countries, where the rate of infant mortality is quite high because of diarrhea. Zingerone, which, interestingly enough is also the organic compound that is accountable for giving ginger its very unique flavor, is thought to be the active ingredient in ginger that fights against diarrhea.
2. Protection Against Nausea
If you have ever felt nauseous in your life, then you know how insecure and discomforted that sensation can make you feel. Ginger has been proven to be efficient at working to treat nausea that was caused by a multitude of things: morning sickness, chemotherapy and even seasickness. Some of the same research also indicates that women enduring nausea while they are pregnant can expect to get relief from ginger. However, nausea brought on by things like post-operative recovery cannot be counted as being sufficiently cured or reversed by taking in some ginger. A somewhat famous study was conducted on the TV show Mythbusters, where ginger was tested on a subject who suffered severe motion sickness. After being placed inside of a moving device, this subject experienced massive motion sickness. After a considerable number of attempted treatments, the subject reported that only ginger along with two of the most popular anti-motion sickness drugs worked for him.
3. Folk Medicine Usage
Ginger has long been used in folk medicine, and in this context, it is said to be a remedy against colds if brewed in a tea. Drinks made from ginger like ginger ale and ginger beer have been recommended for generations as a way of pacifying upset stomach and other stomach conditions. In countries like China, eggs scrambled with sliced ginger is viewed as a home remedy for bouts of coughing. |
Oscillators are devices that are used to generate repetitive signals. They produce output signals without an input signal. There are two major types of electronic oscillators: harmonic oscillators and relaxation oscillators. Harmonic oscillators produce sine wave outputs | Oscillators are devices that are used to generate repetitive signals. They produce output signals without an input signal. There are two major types of electronic oscillators: harmonic oscillators and relaxation oscillators. Harmonic oscillators produce sine wave outputs. Relaxation oscillators produce square wave, rectangular wave, and sawtooth outputs. For both types of devices, an active component (normally, in the feedback loop) determines the frequency of...
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The direct digital oscillators enabled much smaller and smarter oscillators. Also improvement in the materials used for the manufacture enables more stable oscillators with much better thermal characteristics.
General telecommunication technologies and GPS Technologies are popular applications and they define future needs. Trend is to go smaller by keeping same or better performance. |
I. THE HYKSOS CANAANITES (PHOENICIANS) ESTABLISH CITIES IN
THEIR HOMELAND WITH THE HELP OF THE EGYPTIANS.
A. The Hyksos are still | I. THE HYKSOS CANAANITES (PHOENICIANS) ESTABLISH CITIES IN
THEIR HOMELAND WITH THE HELP OF THE EGYPTIANS.
A. The Hyksos are still worshipping a pantheon of gods. Some of their old gods have gained the attributes of similar Egyptian gods. Other gods are completely Egyptian and have been adopted under new names. A Canaanite temple is built to honor the Egyptian/Hyksos god Resheph, a god of war.
II. COASTAL PHOENICIANS EXPLORE THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. (TRIBE OF DAN?) Based upon my study of Mythology, the name Dan would seem to signify a group of people living in Phoenicia around 1200 BC. Considering Phoenicia was under the control of Egypt, one might conclude that Dan represented an Egyptian administrative district.
1199 BC - CANAAN (ISRAEL) GETS A BIG BREAK A. Civil war breaks out in Egypt between rival pharaohs Seti II and Amenmesse. The former Hittite occpiers are still recuperating after war with Egypt. Israel takes advantage of the downtime and begins to flourish. B. According to Mythology and Biblical accounts, the name Dan would appear to signify a group of people living in northern coastal Phoenicia around this time.
PHOENICIAN COASTAL SETTLEMENTS (TRIBE OF DAN) SET SAIL IN SEARCH OF TRADE ROUTES Phoenician Sarcophagus from Cadiz PHOENICIAN TRIBE OF DAN TOUR THE MEDITERRANEAN I. ARGOS AND SOUTHERN GREECE - 1150 BC A. After the Bronze Age collapse, foreign invaders(Phoenicians) establish communites in Greece around the ancient cities of Argos and Thebes. B. The Phoenician alphabet is introduced to Greece and is later transformed into the Greek alphabet. D. Phoenicians founded a site on Thera (Santorini) Herodotus reports that the Phoenicians called the island Callista and lived on it for eight generations. C. Mythological accounts: 1. The son of an Egyptian king named Danaus and the Danaans (tribe of Danaus) refound Argos and go to war with the Trojans. 2. Homer's Iliad mentions the Danaans 138 times. 3. Danaë was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos. 4. Cadmus, a Phoenican prince of Tyre settles in Thebes Greece. He is credited by the ancient Greeks with bringing the Phoenician alphabet to Greece.
II. CADIZ - 1104 BC A. City founded as Gadir by Phoneican explorers which traded with the local city of Tartessos. B. Contained Temple to Phoenician God Melquart (Heracles)
III. LEPTIS MAGNA - 1100 BC A. Founded by Phoenician colonists, Leptis Magna achieves prominance after Carthage becomes an ancient super power.
IV. SARDINIA - 1000 BC A. An important Phoenician anchorage. Eventually, the local Sardinians attacked the Phoenician immigrant community.
V. SICILY - 1000 BC A. Phoenician settlement. Palermo is of Phoenician origin.
Phoenician Sarcophagus from Cadiz * INTERESTING FACT: No archaeological proof of King Solomon or the First Temple has ever been found. Fraudulent artifacts like the "Ivory Pomegranate" were produced by Tel Aviv collector Oded Golan, owner of the James ossuary and the Yoash tablet; Robert Deutsch, an inscriptions expert who teaches at Haifa University; collector Shlomo Cohen, and antiquities dealer Faiz al-Amaleh.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH IN PHOENICIA... I. KING HIRAM BECOMES KING OF TYRE- 980 BC HISTORICAL ACCOUNT: Hiram establishes Tyre as the premiere trading port in Phoenicia and builds a temple to honor Baal(Lord) Melquart (Heracles, Hercules). BIBLICAL ACCOUNT: Hiram sends workmen to King Solomon and helps him build the First Temple. Hiram also blesses the Lord God of Israel which he claims made Heaven and Earth. FREEMASON ACCOUNT: Hiram the Grandmaster provides craftsmen for the Temple of Solomon, including his most skilled craftsman, Hiram Abiff.
RESUME THE MEDITERRANEAN VOYAGE
VI. CARTHAGE - 814 BC A. A Phoenician colony which ruled the Mediterranean for centuries until it's destruction during the third Punic war with Rome. B. Carthage was home to Hannibal (Grace of Baal), the famous military commander. C. The Phoenicians of Carthage worshipped an updated Canaanite Pantheon including Tanit, Baal Hammon and Astarte.
VII. CYPRUS - 800 BC A. Phoenician colonies founded near present day Larnaca.
VIII. MALTA - 800 BC A. A Phoenician colony used as a stopover during trips to Cornwall England. B. The Kni |
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What to Do (and Not Do) to Achieve Successful Clicker Use on Campus
At the University of Colorado 20,000 clickers are in use, in a wide variety of classes | 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
What to Do (and Not Do) to Achieve Successful Clicker Use on Campus
At the University of Colorado 20,000 clickers are in use, in a wide variety of classes. Our studies reveal that certain practices repeatedly lead to success – students and faculty report that clickers enhance their learning, and certain practices repeatedly lead to failure –dissatisfied students and faculty. These practices, both the good and the bad, will be summarized. The most important uses of clickers in the social sciences are less about “correctness,” as in science classes,and more about “meaning” or honest discussion of topics that are difficult for students to discuss in front of their peers. Student’s attitudes about the benefits of clicker use are strongly influenced by the way a faculty member explains the reason for usi |
Proved Oil and Gas Reserves -- Those quantities of crude oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible -- from a given date forward, from known | Proved Oil and Gas Reserves -- Those quantities of crude oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible -- from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, and under existing economic conditions, operating methods and government regulations -- prior to the time at which contracts providing the right to operate expire, unless evidence indicates that renewal is reasonably certain, regardless of whether deterministic or probabilistic methods are used for the estimation. The project to extract the hydrocarbons must have commenced or the operator must be reasonably certain that it will commence the project within a reasonable time. This definition has been abbreviated from the definition of "Proved oil and gas reserves" contained in Rule 4-10(a)(22) of SEC Regulation S-X.
Proved Developed Reserves -- Reserves are categorized as proved developed if they are expected to be recovered from existing wells.
Probable Reserves -- Those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves but more certain to be recovered than possible reserves. This definition has been abbreviated from the applicable definition contained in Rule 4-10(a)(18) of SEC Regulation S-X.
Possible Reserves -- Those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves. This definition has been abbreviated from the applicable definition contained in Rule 4-10(a)(17) of Regulation S-X.Other terms: Barrel – unit of measure for oil and petroleum products, equivalent to 42 U.S. gallons. BOE – barrels of oil equivalent, used to equate natural gas volumes to liquid barrels at a general conversion rate of 6,000 cubic feet of gas per barrel. BOE/d – barrels of oil equivalent per day. Bbl/d – barrels per day of oil or condensate. MMBTU – million British thermal units. Mcf/d – thousand cubic feet of gas per day. MD – total measured depth of a well. Net Pay – cumulative hydrocarbon-bearing formations. NRI, Net Revenue Interest – the percentage of production revenue allocated to the working interest after first deducting proceeds allocated to royalty and overriding interest. Proved, Probable, Possible reserves – are as defined in the SPE/World Petroleum Congress Standard. psi – pounds per square inch. TD – target total depth of a well. TVD –true vertical depth of a well. WI, Working Interest – the interest held in lands by virtue of a lease, operating agreement, fee title or otherwise, under which the owner of the interest is vested with the right to explore for, develop, produce and own oil, gas or other minerals and bears the proportional cost of such operations. Workover / Recompletion – operations on a producing well to restore or increase production. A workover or recompletion may be performed to stimulate the well, remove sand or wax from the wellbore, to mechanically repair the well, or for other reasons.
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How to Automate Tasks with Macros in Excel 2007
You can use macros in Excel 2007 to save time by automating tasks that you perform frequently. A macro is a series of commands grouped together that you can run whenever you | How to Automate Tasks with Macros in Excel 2007
You can use macros in Excel 2007 to save time by automating tasks that you perform frequently. A macro is a series of commands grouped together that you can run whenever you need to perform the task.
Although you can write your own complex macros in the Visual Basic programming language, the easiest method for creating many macros is to use the macro recorder. When you record a macro, Excel stores information about each step you take as you perform a series of commands. You then run the macro to repeat, or play back, the commands.
The macro recorder records every action you complete. Therefore, planning your macro before you begin the recording process is very important so you don’t record unnecessary steps.
Display the Developer tab
The Developer tab provides access to the macro commands, but this tab doesn’t appear by default. To display the Developer tab, follow these steps:
Click the Office button and then click the Excel Options button.
The Excel Options dialog box appears.
From the Popular section, select the Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon check box.
The Developer tab appears in the Ribbon.Display the Developer tab to work with macros in Excel 2007.
Record a macro
Follow these steps to record a macro:
Choose Record Macro in the Code group of the Developer tab.
The Record Macro dialog box appears.
Type a name for the macro in the Macro Name text box.
The first character of the macro name must be a letter, and the name cannot contain spaces or cell references. Macro names are not case-sensitive.
(Optional) Assign a Shortcut Key.
If you select a shortcut key already used in Excel, the macro shortcut key overrides the Excel shortcut key while the workbook that contains the macro is open.
From the Store Macro In drop-down list, select where you want to store the macro:
This Workbook: Save the macro in the current workbook file.
New Workbook: Create macros that you can run in any new workbooks created during the current Excel session.
Personal Macro Workbook: Choose this option if you want the macro to be available whenever you use Excel, regardless of which workbook you're using.
(Optional) Type a description of the macro in the Description text box.Use the Record Macro dialog box to begin creating a macro.
The Record Macro option on the Developer tab changes to Stop Recording.
Perform the actions you want to record.
Excel records your steps exactly — such as (Select cell C3) — but you can also record the steps relative to any current cell — such as (Go up one row and insert a blank line). To do so, click the Relative References button on the Developer tab. You can turn the Relative References feature on and off as needed while recording the macro.
Choose Stop Recording in the Code group of the Developer tab.
The macro recorder stops recording keystrokes, and the macro is complete. |
241 - 187 BC
King of Syria
Antiochus III the Great was king of the Hellenistic Syrian Seleucid, empire from 223 to 187.
Antiochus attempted to recreate the Seleucid empire from Egypt | 241 - 187 BC
King of Syria
Antiochus III the Great was king of the Hellenistic Syrian Seleucid, empire from 223 to 187.
Antiochus attempted to recreate the Seleucid empire from Egypt to India, where he established a system of vassal states.
In 192 BC he invaded
Greece but he was forced to retreat from the western Mediterranean
after a defeat by the Romans. |
For some people, one moon just isn't good enough. The quest to find a second Moon has roped in Jules Verne, the man who discovered Pluto, and a pair of deluded astronomers. But here's the thing: there | For some people, one moon just isn't good enough. The quest to find a second Moon has roped in Jules Verne, the man who discovered Pluto, and a pair of deluded astronomers. But here's the thing: there really is a second moon... sort of.
Frédéric Petit and the Moon of 1846
In 1846, the director of the Toulouse Observatory in southwestern France announced the discovery of a second moon. A 36-year-old astronomer named Frédéric Petit, the director claimed that two astronomers at his observatory and another at Artenac Observatory had spotted the second moon on March 21, 1846. He had calculated the moon orbited Earth every 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 59 seconds, with its distance from Earth varying wildly from 2,220 miles to just 7.1 miles. That last bit was dubious back then, and it's completely ridiculous now — 7.1 miles is roughly how high commercial airliners fly.
Most astronomers simply dismissed these claims entirely, and a quick survey of Petit's career shows there wasn't much point in giving much credence to his extraordinary claims. Petit had had an undistinguished academic career, and his appointment as director of the newly built Toulouse Observatory at just 28 years old was largely dismissed as an act of favoritism by his mentor, the influential astronomer François Arago. If there was one thing Petit excelled at, it was the use of mathematics and calculation to solve astronomical problems.
The issue, it seems, was that Petit didn't care that much about actual data, so certain was he that his calculating prowess could explain all reality. For instance, his 1860 observation of a solar eclipse happened in such poor weather conditions that any other astronomer would have called it a failure. Petit simply made his best guess at the observation data, and then trusted in his mathematical acumen to produce truth. He concluded his career by trying to prove the Pyren |
In the early days of planetary observation, oceans were thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System. Carbonated seas percolated beneath the clouds of Venus. Features on the Moon's surface were given names such as "the Bay of Rain | In the early days of planetary observation, oceans were thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System. Carbonated seas percolated beneath the clouds of Venus. Features on the Moon's surface were given names such as "the Bay of Rainbows” and the "Ocean of Storms."
With the advent of modern telescopes and spacecraft exploration these ancient concepts of planetary seas have, for the most part, evaporated. But they have been replaced by the reality of something even more exotic. For example, although it is still uncertain whether Mars ever had actual oceans, it now seems that a web of waterways did indeed at one time spread across its surface.
The "water" in many places in our Solar System is a poisoned brew mixed with ammonia or methane. Even that found on Jupiter's watery satellite Europa is believed similar to battery acid.
Beyond the Galilean satellites may lie even more "alien oceans." Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan seems to be subject to methane or ethane rainfall. This creates methane pools that, in turn, become vast lakes and, perhaps, seasonal oceans. Titan has other seas in a sense, as large shifting areas of sand covering vast plains have been discovered.
Mars also has these sand seas, and Venus may as well, along with oceans of frozen lava. Do super-chilled concoctions of ammonia, liquid nitrogen, and water percolate beneath the surfaces of Enceladus and Triton? For now we can only guess at the possibilities.
'Alien Seas' serves up part history, part current research, and part theory as it offers a rich buffet of "seas" on other worlds. It is organized by location and by the material of which various oceans consist, with guest authors penning specific chapters.
Each chapter features new original art depicting alien seas, as well as the latest ground-based and spacecraft images. Original diagrams presents details of planetary oceans and related processes.
Contributors: Kevin Baines, Jeffrey Bennett, James Cameron, Michael Carroll, Mona Delitsky, David Grinspoon, Rosaly Lopes, Christopher P. McKay, Karl Mitchell, Robert Pappalardo, Timothy Parker, Jani Radebaugh, John Spencer. |
A whitelist is exactly the opposite of a blacklist. As a noun, whitelist has become a generic term for either an e-mail and/or IP addresses that have proven themselves as trusted sources. Users as well as providers can compile and use these lists to | A whitelist is exactly the opposite of a blacklist. As a noun, whitelist has become a generic term for either an e-mail and/or IP addresses that have proven themselves as trusted sources. Users as well as providers can compile and use these lists to ensure greater Internet safety and reliability. As a verb, it is used to describe the act of adding an e-mail or IP to a list of accepted senders.
Simple and effective, including filters based on both |
Exploring caves in Greece is a unique adventure that offers explorers the opportunity to acquire and to enrich their knowledge with the essentials of geology, paleontology, anthropology, hydrology, topography, physics, biology and archeology. Greek | Exploring caves in Greece is a unique adventure that offers explorers the opportunity to acquire and to enrich their knowledge with the essentials of geology, paleontology, anthropology, hydrology, topography, physics, biology and archeology. Greek caves are among the most beautiful in the world. Visitors are enthralled with the splendors of the geological formations, the subterranean waters, the colors that are out of this world and the sounds of the earth.
Many Greek caves have been explored and quite a few of these have been exploited and are now open to the public. There are still many caves that have not been fully explored, nor exploited. Tours of these caves are carried out but only under certain conditions, and of course with the necessary license.
In addition, the aspiring explorer of a non-exploited cave must realize that sightseeing in a cave is not an endeavor for just anyone, as special knowledge and nimbleness are required, as well as being in good physical condition. Special tools, clothing, gloves and light sources are needed, while at least three people must be in the group that enters the cave. Aspiring explorers must also be aware that caves constitute unique treasures of the land, as well as man’s civilization in quite a few instances. |
History of the hosiery industry
Here, Smith recalls some of the changes occurring in the hosiery industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Technological innovation spurred a bit of a price war, and changes in | History of the hosiery industry
Here, Smith recalls some of the changes occurring in the hosiery industry during the 1960s and 1970s. Technological innovation spurred a bit of a price war, and changes in fashion presented new challenges. As companies met these challenges and established themselves internationally, smaller producers began to drop away.
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Oral History Interview with Robert Sidney Smith, January 25, 1999. Interview I-0081. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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QuercetinThe Anti-Allergy Bioflavonoid
Every spring, summer and fall millions of Americans sneeze, wheeze, drip, and sniffle their way through a world filled with trillions of airborne pollen, | QuercetinThe Anti-Allergy Bioflavonoid
Every spring, summer and fall millions of Americans sneeze, wheeze, drip, and sniffle their way through a world filled with trillions of airborne pollen, dust, and smoke particles. Over-the-counter anti-allergy drugs (antihistamines) tend to leave their users either sleepy or over-stimulated. Fortunately, modern nutritional science now offers a highly effective, natural and nontoxic remedy for allergies: the bioflavonoid quercetin.
Quercetin, a "cousin" of the more well-known bioflavonoid rutin, is one of a thousand or so members of the bioflavonoid family. This is a group of coloring pigments widely found throughout the plant kingdom, where they also provide plants with antioxidant protection against environmental stresses. Natural diets high in vegetables, fruit, sprouts, and whole grains typically provide a total of 1,000 to 2,000 mg. a day of a broad range of flavonoids. Blue-green algae are the usual source of quercetin, but it's also available as a food supplement.
Allergies and asthma are inflammatory conditions usually triggered by air- or food-borne pollens and chemicals called "allergens." After these allergens are absorbed into the blood (through the lungs, skin, or intestines), they cause the B cells (white blood cells) of allergy-sufferers to produce billions of molecules of the allergic antibody IgE. The IgE molecules then travel through the bloodstream until they combine to with mast cells or basophils. Mast cells (which line many blood vessels) and basophils (a type of white blood cell circulating in the bloodstream) are the main storage sites for histamine and serotonin. The IgE allergic antibody then causes the cell membranes of the mast cells/basophils to become "leaky, " allowing their storage load of histamine and serotonin to pour into the surrounding blood and tissues. The IgE-released histamine and serotonin then produce the familiar allergic symptoms of runny, swollen nose; blocked sinuses; itchy eyes; skin blotches; coughing and wheezing; etc.
Quercetin to the rescue! Quercetin has a strong affinity for mast cells and basophils. It tends to stabilize their cell membranes, preventing them from spilling their pro-inflammatory, allergy-symptom-causing load of histamine/serotonin into the surrounding blood and tissue in response to the IgE antibody. And without the release of these potent inflammatory mediators, the familiar misery of allergies simply will not occur, even though you've inhaled the pollen, animal hair, or whatever normally triggers allergy attacks.
Asthma is an allergic inflammation involving the lungs. During an asthma attack (which can be triggered by air- or food-borne pollen, dust, animal hair, chemicals, etc.), the millions of tiny air sacs within the lungs are constricted, seriously impairing breathing and causing a feeling of tightness in the chest. In addition to IgE-released histamine, the primary biochemical cause of the asthmatic symptoms is a group of fatty acid derivatives called leukotrienes (LTs). These asthma-causing LTs are made from arachidonic acid (a key fatty acid constituent of many cell membranes) by the action of two enzymes - phospholipase A2 and lipoxygenase. Quercetin is known to be a powerful inhibitor of both these enzymes. Thus it prevents the formation of asthma-causing LTs, even when the IgE antibody (formed in response to inhaled or swallowed allergens) is present in the lungs to stimulate LT Production and release. Since quercetin suppresses the release and/or production of the two primary inflammatory mediatorshistamine and leukotrienesthat cause the actual symptoms of asthma, its potential benefit in the prevention and treatment of asthma is evident.
Quercetin is a safe, nontoxic substance. A report by I. Hirono et al in Cancer Letters (1981), for example, found no evidence of toxicity or carcinogenicity in rats, even when quercetin made up 10 percent of their total dietary intake.
Unfortunately, quercetin is barely soluble in water, so poor dietary absorption may limit its efficacy. Because of this, Murray, N.D., has suggested that quercetin be taken in combination with bromelain to improve its absorption. Bromelain is a natural, protein-digesting enzyme derived from pineapples. It has been use |
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2006-2011.
Main Level, Reference: R 975.00321 N42N
Vol.4: Myths, Manners, & Memory
Vol | The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2006-2011.
Main Level, Reference: R 975.00321 N42N
Vol.4: Myths, Manners, & Memory
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Encyclopedia of Southern Literature. Mary Ellen Snodgrass, ABC-CLIO, 1997.
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Oxford African American Studies Center [Oxford U. Press]. A comprehensive online collection focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. This collection, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University, includes 7,500 articles from core reference works, over 1,000 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and over 100 maps that have been collected to enhance the reference content. Also included are over 100 charts and tables offering information on demographics, government, politics, business, labor, education and the arts.
Includes indexing and content from the following print resources:
• African American National Biography (much content available, but still under development)
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
• Black Women in America, Second Edition
• Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Electronic collection of several hundred reference books, specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries.
The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. MacKethan, editors.
Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9975 C738C
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Richard Gray and Owen Robinson, editors.
Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Upper Level, Circulating Collection: 810.9975 C738C
Biography in Context [Thomson/Gale]
Biographical entries from a variety of reference books, periodicals, and news sources.
Contemporary Southern Writers, Roger Matuz, ed. St. James Press, 1999.
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, editors, Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Random House Webster's Dictionary of American English. Gerard M. Dalgish, editor.
Random House, 1997.
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The New Oxford American Dictionary 2nd ed.
Oxford University Press, 2006
Oxford English Dictionary. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, eds., Oxford University Press, 2004.
Oxford English Dictionary. John Simpson and Edmund Weiner, eds., Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Oxford Paperback Thesaurus. Maurice Waite, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Isn't it frustrating to get sick when there is so much still to be done? There are a few things that you can do to try to avoid getting sick during these winter months. Whether it is just a common cold or influenza, there are | Isn't it frustrating to get sick when there is so much still to be done? There are a few things that you can do to try to avoid getting sick during these winter months. Whether it is just a common cold or influenza, there are many ways to avoid this. The ways that you can avoid getting sick are washing your hands properly, eating appropriate foods, and receiving the acceptable amounts of exercise and fresh air.
A quick rinse every once in awhile is not enough to assure that you don't get sick. The correct way to wash your hands is in luke warm water, and using soap. It is recommended that you either count to 15 or sing the ABC's. Make sure that you cover all areas including under the fingernails and in between all of your fingers. Focusing on the thumb area is also advised because it is an area that is commonly missed by many. This is how you are supposed to properly wash your hands.
Eating healthy is something that should always be done, but it is much more important during these chilly winter months. If your body doesn't have the correct nutrients your immune system will not be as strong as it potentially could be. Taking vitamins can help, but it is much better for your body to eat the foods with the vitamins in it. Fresh clementines can be extremely beneficial because they hold a lot of vit |
Minnesang was the tradition of lyric and song writing in Germany which flourished in the 12th century and continued into the 14th century. People who wrote and performed Minnesang are known as Minnesingers (Minnesänger | Minnesang was the tradition of lyric and song writing in Germany which flourished in the 12th century and continued into the 14th century. People who wrote and performed Minnesang are known as Minnesingers (Minnesänger). The name derives from the word minne, Middle High German for love which was their main subject, and an individual song was a minnelied. The Minnesänger were similar to the Provençal troubadours and northern French trouvères; they wrote love poetry in the courtly love tradition in Middle High German in the High Middle Ages.
In the absence of reliable biographical information, there has been debate about the social status of the Minnesänger. Some clearly belonged to the higher nobility - the 14th century Codex Manesse includes songs by dukes, counts, kings, and the Emperor Henry VI. Some Minnesänger, as indicated by the title Meister ("master"), were clearly educated commoners, such as Meister Konrad von Würzburg. It is thought that many were ministeriales, that is, members of a class of lower nobility, vassals of the great lords. Broadly speaking, the Minnesänger were writing and performing for their own social class at court, and should be thought of as courtiers rather than "professional" hired musicians. Friedrich von Husen, for example, was part of the entourage of Friedrich Barbarossa, and died on crusade. As a reward for his service, Walther von der Vogelweide was given a fief by the Emperor Frederick II.
The earliest texts date from perhaps 1150, and the earliest named Minnesänger are Der von Kürenberg and Dietmar von Aist, clearly writing in a native German tradition in the third quarter of the 12th century. This is referred to as the Danubian tradition.
From around 1170, German lyric poets came under the influence of the Provençal troubadours and the Northern French trouvères. This is most obvious in the adoption of the strophic form of the canzone, at its most basic a seven-line strophe with the rhyme scheme ab|ab|cxc, and a musical AAB structure, but capable of many variations.
A number of songs from this period match trouvère originals exactly in form, indicating that the German text could have been sung to an originally French tune, which is especially likely where there are significant commonalities of content. Such songs are termed contrafacta. For example, Friedrich von Hausen's "Ich denke underwilen" is regarded as a contrafactum of Guiot de Provins's "Ma joie premeraine".
By around 1190, the German poets began to break free of Franco-Provençal influence. This period is regarded as the period of Classical Minnesang with Albrecht von Johansdorf, Heinrich von Morungen, Reinmar von Hagenau developing new themes and forms, reaching its culmination in Walther von der Vogelweide, regarded both in the Middle Ages and in the present day as the greatest of the Minnesänger.
The later Minnesang, from around 1230, is marked by a partial turning away from the refined ethos of classical minnesang and by increasingly elaborate formal developments. The most notable of these later Minnesänger, Neidhart von Reuental introduces characters from lower social classes and often aims for humorous effects.
Only a small number of Minnelied melodies have survived to the present day, mainly in manuscripts dating from the 15th century or later, which may present the songs in a form other than the original one. Additionally, it is often rather difficult to interpret the musical notation used to write them down. Although the contour of the melody can usually be made out, the rhythm of the song is frequently hard to fathom.
There are a number of recordings of Minnesang using the original melodies, as well as Rock groups such as Ougenweide performing songs with modern instruments.
In the 15th century Minnesang developed into and gave way to the tradition of the Meistersingers. The two traditions are quite different, however (Minnesingers were mainly aristocrats, while Meistersingers usually were commoners).
The standard collections are
There are separate editions of Walther's works, and of a number of the most prolific Minnesänger. There are many published selections with Modern German translation. |
Foods That Relieve Heartburn Symptoms
If heartburn is a burning issue, you probably know the typical fire starters: Pizza and chili; fried, spicy, fatty, creamy foods; and coffee, to name a few.
But some foods | Foods That Relieve Heartburn Symptoms
If heartburn is a burning issue, you probably know the typical fire starters: Pizza and chili; fried, spicy, fatty, creamy foods; and coffee, to name a few.
But some foods can also help provide relief.
A high fiber diet that includes whole grains and vegetables can reduce symptoms. So can bananas, which are natural acid fighters. Mild ginger tea in limited amounts may ease the gas that contributes to heartburn.
For dessert, sour candy may do more than just satisfy a sweet tooth. It increases saliva, which neutralizes stomach acid. Sugarless gum has the same effect. Just stay away from mint flavoring because it relaxes muscles in the esophagus, allowing stomach acid to splash up.
If you get heartburn regularly, talk to your doctor. Proper treatment is important for keeping that slow burn from becoming a full-fledged fire.
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More people are avoiding food that contain gluten, but is gluten really bad for us?
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Tired of hearing what NOT to eat? Sample the foods, snacks and drinks that can help relieve your heartburn symptoms. |
What It Is
In Expedition Dino, players enter Dinosaur Valley to help Tim the dinosaur explorer find bones and excavate a dinosaur. The player to collect the most bones before the dinosaur is revealed wins.
Before playing, you must assemble the | What It Is
In Expedition Dino, players enter Dinosaur Valley to help Tim the dinosaur explorer find bones and excavate a dinosaur. The player to collect the most bones before the dinosaur is revealed wins.
Before playing, you must assemble the dinosaur and rock formation. Place any six boulders in two rows of three on the rock pedestal. Place the dinosaur upright between the rows of boulders. Stack the 18 remaining boulders in three further layers on top. Now the dinosaur is completely embedded inside the "rock".
Players take turns rolling the die to see how many spaces they move Tim. If Tim lands on a hammer space or a hammer and chisel space, it means the player who rolled the die can excavate. To excavate, take the tools and carefully hit the rock somewhere suitable so that one boulder can be loosened and fall down. You have up to three attempts. If you knock down a boulder and the boulder lands with a bone facing up, you collect that boulder. If it doesn't have a bone, you place the boulder on the deposit square (a discard area for the boulders). You don't get to collect any boulders if you make more than one boulder fall, make no boulders fall after your third hit, or hit Tim with a boulder. Those boulders go onto the deposit square.
If Tim lands on a magnifying glass space, that player gets to explore. Take a boulder from the deposit square and roll it as if it were a die. If it shows a bone facing up, you get to take the boulder. If not, return the boulder to the deposit square.
The game ends as soon as the dinosaur falls over. Whoever has the most boulders wins.
Expedition Dino comes with a Dinosaur Valley game board, a wooden figure of dinosaur explorer Tim, a dinosaur, a wooden hammer, a wooden chisel, 24 boulders (in the shape of cubes), a rock pedestal, a wooden green die, and instructions. The game is for two to five players.
Why It’s Fun
Expedition Dino will appeal to kids who have an interest in dinosaurs. Kids will like the 3-D game board and getting to use kid-sized tools based off the ones used by real archaeologists.
Who It’s For
Expedi |
Food waste is one of the biggest expenses in the grocery budget and fresh produce (or not so fresh as the case usually is) tops the list of food that goes in the bin.
And of course, food in the bin means money in the | Food waste is one of the biggest expenses in the grocery budget and fresh produce (or not so fresh as the case usually is) tops the list of food that goes in the bin.
And of course, food in the bin means money in the bin.
While it’s better to store vegetables well so that they don’t go limp (or better yet, pick them straight out of the garden), and then eat them at their freshest, that doesn’t always happen.
The food that is bought and then thrown away uneaten in the greatest proportion is salad; in the UK 45% by
weight of all purchased salad is thrown away (60% by cost) [source].
Save limp vegetables from the bin with this one magic (and frugal) ingredient that will rejuvenate them and give them new life:
Yep, plain old water will crisp up most limp or stodgy vegetables.
Vegetables go limp because of dehydration. Once picked, water constantly evaporates through tiny pores in vegetables and their cells lose their turgidity. The dry environment of the fridge can speed this process up. That’s why keeping vegetables in the crisper can make them last longer – it’s more humid in the crisper.
But if your vegetables are looking a little flaccid, here’s how to revive them:
- Celery – cut the bottom off the celery and place in a glass of water for 30 minutes or until crisp. Depending on how thirsty your celery is, you may need to add more water. Cut celery can be placed in a bowl of water until crisp.
- Carrots – cut a little off the bottom of the carrot and place upright in a glass of water until crisp. For cut carrots, place them in a bowl of water.
- Whole lettuce – if the roots are intact, you can place the whole thing in a bowl of water however, I find it much better to cut the roots off and just place the leaves in the water.
- Salad leaves – place leaves in a bowl of water.
- Potatoes – peel and place in a bowl of water.
- Spinach – either stand in a glass of water or place the leaves |
Use the space below to record your final learning about evolution. How has your learning changed? Compare your current understanding of evolution to your original post. What information do you feel you understand better as a result of our class discussions. What do you still | Use the space below to record your final learning about evolution. How has your learning changed? Compare your current understanding of evolution to your original post. What information do you feel you understand better as a result of our class discussions. What do you still not understand?
Your first step today will be examining your notes - look through the packet to make sure you thoroughly understand the information in the packet.
Next you will want to include your question you had researched for today's class period. What was your question? What did you learn from this question? What resources did you use to answer this?
Think about your learning from our class notes, as well as the videos and audio excerpts you listened to in class. How has your view of evolution changed?
If you are still finding you are not understanding some concepts regarding evolution, this site
is very helpful in regard to providing information regarding this scientific theory. |
A gene may explain why mosquitoes do not develop malaria even though they carry the disease, say US scientists.
The female mosquito spreads malaria
Female mosquitoes become infected with the malaria parasite when they draw blood from humans with malaria.
The insects can then pass | A gene may explain why mosquitoes do not develop malaria even though they carry the disease, say US scientists.
The female mosquito spreads malaria
Female mosquitoes become infected with the malaria parasite when they draw blood from humans with malaria.
The insects can then pass this on to other humans they bite, but do not get sick themselves.
The Johns Hopkins University team believe a gene called SPRN6 enables a mosquito to defend itself - a discovery that could help fight human infection.
Scientist Dr Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena told Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "More research is needed, but we plan to apply this knowledge in the development of new approaches to control the disease."
The scientists hope to develop chemical sprays that would enhance the switching on of the SPRN6 gene in infected mosquitoes.
These mosquitoes would no longer be a real threat to humans when biting them, because they would not transmit the malaria para |
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment.
Maathai | The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
Peace on earth depends on our ability to secure our living environment.
Maathai stands at the front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa.
She has taken a holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights and women's rights in particular. She thinks globally and acts locally.
Maathai stood up courageously against the former oppressive regime in Kenya.
Her unique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to political oppression - nationally and internationally.
She has served as inspiration for many in the fight for democratic rights and has especially encouraged women to better their situation.
Maathai combines science, social commitment and active politics.
More than simply protecting the existing environment, her strategy is to secure and strengthen the very basis for ecologically sustainable development.
She founded the Green Belt Movement where, for nearly 30 years, she has mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees.
Her methods have been adopted by other countries as well.
We are all witness to how deforestation and forest loss have led to desertification in Africa and threatened many other regions of the world - in Europe too.
Protecting forests against desertification is a vital factor in the struggle to strengthen the living environment of our common Earth.
First African woman winner
Through education, family planning, nutrition and the fight against corruption, the Green Belt Movement has paved the way for development at grass-root level.
We believe that Maathai is a strong voice speaking for the best forces in Africa to promote peace and good living conditions on that continent.
Wangari Maathai will be the first woman from Africa to be honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.
She will also be the first African from the vast area between South Africa and Egypt to be awarded the prize.
She represents an example and a source of inspiration for everyone in Africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace. |
Smallest 3D Optical Cavity MadeCategory: Science & Technology
Posted: July 3, 2012 08:06PM
Optical cavities are used in many things including lasers, LEDs, and optical sensors. These | Smallest 3D Optical Cavity MadeCategory: Science & Technology
Posted: July 3, 2012 08:06PM
Optical cavities are used in many things including lasers, LEDs, and optical sensors. These structures are specifically made to create standing light waves, by reflecting the wave back and forth between its sides. Natural optical cavities are limited in their capabilities though, because some light will leak out, but with metamaterials not only can the leakage be reduced, but the entire thing can be taken to subwavelength sizes.
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have built the world's smallest 3D optical cavity using indefinite metamaterials. This class of metamaterials is capable of having light refract backwards, which is impossible with normal materials. It is this property which allowed the researchers to make the cavity much smaller than the wavelength of the light it holds, and potentially much smaller. The physics of the design will actually cause the cavity to leak less as it gets smaller.
The small size and quality the cavity opens up many possibilities from lasers to optical sensors. Smaller cavities have a higher photon density which means there is more light to interact with matter. |
A number of us are concerned about K-12 school costs, and some are concerned about our school costs and the costs of other school systems.
A CATO report “They Spend What?” details the real cost of public schools and indicates to me | A number of us are concerned about K-12 school costs, and some are concerned about our school costs and the costs of other school systems.
A CATO report “They Spend What?” details the real cost of public schools and indicates to me that we are wasting our time using available public figures, to attempt to make any comparisons.
We would all be better employed in finding out what our own school costs truly are.
The CATO report is essentially a study doing just that for three school districts in six metropolitan areas of the U.S. The real costs per district range from 3 percent higher than stated to 151 percent higher than stated.
Perhaps more important, from the standpoint of inter-school or inter-state comparison, the real costs range from 4 percent higher to 89 percent higher than the National Center for Education Statistics figures that are commonly used for school-to-school or state-to-state comparisons.
This gets to the heart of the problem. We have all been spending too much time worrying about who is spending how much?
We should be concentrating on finding out who is learning how much? After we get a system that gives some fairly accurate data on that question, we get to the heart of the matter.
What systems are used to get the better results and what of that is transferable to our schools? In the meantime, our guide for each of our school systems is in bold print on page 3 of the CATO report “Step One for Saving Money: Know How Much You Spend.”
While we are finding out which teaching systems attain the best results, we should simultaneously be continuing work on reducing our present present real school costs. Most of us are already deep in this process from sheer necessity. The money just isn’t there, anymore.
I am sure we will find that good schools and less expensive schools are not mutually exclusive. |
State Standards Are Low and Vary Considerably, New Report Says
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing and reporting education data in the United States and abroad, recently released the findings of a | State Standards Are Low and Vary Considerably, New Report Says
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing and reporting education data in the United States and abroad, recently released the findings of a report, "Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards onto the NAEP Scales," that speak to the difficulty in comparing No Child Left Behind test score results across states.
The report examines the minimum score a student would need on a state reading and math test to be deemed proficient or at grade level and then determines what the equivalent score would be for that level of competency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. NAEP is considered the gold standard of student testing. The amount of variation in the standards the report finds is significant.
Experts have been aware that academic standards can vary drastically from state to state, but what stands out in this report is its mapping exercise used to project state standards onto the scale used by NAEP.
For example, a Missouri eighth-grader would need the equivalent of a 311 on the NAEP math test to be termed proficient, but in Tennessee a student can meet the state's proficiency standard with a 230, a score well below basic level on the national exam.
Critics of NCLB are saying that the law gives states an incentive to set low standards to avoid federal sanctions, and that uniform national standards are needed.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings says that it is too early to conclude that state standards are too low.
The full report is available at nces.ed.gov.
PTA Loses Members to PTOs
The Parent Teacher Association has shrunk significantly since its heyday of 12 million members in the 1950s, to a membership of less than six million today. An increasing number of schools nationwide are opting to have Parent Teacher Organizations, or PTOs, instead.
Although locally both groups have the same goal and function-to raise money to support school activities and engage parents in their children's education- PTOs have become the parent group of choice. The PTA, a national organization with a lobbying arm in Washington, currently represents a mere 24 percent of the nation's schoolparent groups.
"It's the autonomy," said Dennis Craft, superintendent of the Collinsville (Ill.) School District, which recently disbanded its PTA district council but still has PTAs in its schools. "They don't want to be governed by state and national bylaws."
Longer Days in Massachusetts
Ten Massachusetts schools are experimenting with an eight-hour day as part of a $7.5 million state initiative. Originally enacted as an effort both to raise student test scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and incorporate extracurricular activities into the day, the program is now a comprehensive one that features enhanced time for core subjects, physical education and even theater arts.
Experts say that in two or three years the state will have enough data to determine if the longer days have produced adequate academic and health gains. According to Ben Lummis of the Massachusetts 2020 foundation, nine of the 10 schools are using the added time for more exercise. The House and the Senate agree that the pilot program should be doubled next year.
The initiative complements two bills introduced by Rep. Peter Koutoujian (D-Mass.), one to require that students get 120 hours of physical education or active recess a year and the other to ban high-calorie vending machine drinks and regulate cafeteria foods.
Mississippi and Alabama are currently the only states that ban high-calorie drinks from all public school vending machines.
Koutoujian says we are living in a time when the only exercise students get takes place during school physical education classes, and that radical changes are necessary. "With these changes and the longer day, we're looking at a new model for how public schools function," he adds.
California is Leader in Teacher Foreign Language Certification
National Evaluation Systems, a business of Pearson Education, recently developed a new state exam for prospective teachers of the Filipino language as part of the California Subject Examinations for Teachers licensure testing program. The Filipino language exam will be followed by six additional new language tests, making California a leader in teacher certification exam offerings for foreign languages.
The other exams will be available in November 2007 and will include Arabic, Armenian, Cantonese, Farsi, Hmong and Khmer. They join existing tests for French, German, Japanese and others.
AASA Releases DVD on Importance of Public Schools
The American Association of School Administrators recently released "The Public School Speaks," a new DVD that highlights the importance of public education and makes a case for increased financial and public support for our nation's public school system. The DVD serves as a component of AASA's Stand Up for Public Education campaign, a multiyear effort that supports high quality public education.
The DVD features K12 school leaders from around the country, including AASA President and Indianapolis (Ind.) Public Schools Superintendent Eugene G. White. |
Our Community: Federal Agencies
Federal agency representatives make up about 16% of the ASDSO membership. About 14% of dams in the USA are owned or regulated by federal agencies.
Descriptions of federal agencies working in dam safety
The Department | Our Community: Federal Agencies
Federal agency representatives make up about 16% of the ASDSO membership. About 14% of dams in the USA are owned or regulated by federal agencies.
Descriptions of federal agencies working in dam safety
The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency does not own or regulate dams but administers the National Dam Safety Program, which coordinates all federal dam safety programs and assists states in improving their dam safety regulatory programs.
The Department of Homeland Security, Infrastructure Protection leads a coordinated national program to reduce risks to the nation's critical infrastructure, including dams, posed by acts of terrorism.
Federal agencies involved with dam safety, either as owners and/or regulators, include the following:
Together the agencies listed above make up the Interagency Committee on Dam Safety (ICODS), overseen by FEMA as head of the National Dam Safety Program.
Other federal agencies that stay involved with ASDSO and the dam safety community: |
UP TO one-third of all Antarctic sea ice is likely to melt by the end of the century, seriously contributing to dangerous sea level rises, updated scientific modelling on global warming shows.
The evidence will be presented to an international meeting of Antarctic and Arctic | UP TO one-third of all Antarctic sea ice is likely to melt by the end of the century, seriously contributing to dangerous sea level rises, updated scientific modelling on global warming shows.
The evidence will be presented to an international meeting of Antarctic and Arctic scientists in the US tonight, at which US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak.
The modelling is the first release of a landmark study being conducted by the global scientific body the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, made up of the peak scientific bodies from 23 countries including Australia.
The report, Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment, is the result of research undertaken by all 23 nations, the first time such a study has been undertaken. The final report will be released in June.
The early numbers put out by SCAR suggests the collapse of Antarctic sea-ice not only pushes up anticipated sea level rises but will threaten the numbers of native animal species including emperor penguins, humpback whales and several fish species.
The initial release of research also suggests sea temperatures in the Southern Ocean are rising faster than in other oceans, and that ice melts in the Antarctic Peninsula and Western Ice Shelf will be greater and more rapid than expected.
Responding to the release of the executive summary of the SCAR report, the WWF manager for Antarctic and Southern Oceans Initiative, Rob Nicoll, said the evidence was showing how quickly the effects of global warming were showing up in the Antarctic region.
"Ice shelves the size of small countries are crumbling away and the latest evidence from the Antarctic is showing that the effects of global warming there are increasing in magnitude," Mr Nicoll said.
The report shows that the Antarctic Peninsula alone has decreased by 27,000 square kilometres in the past 50 years.
But the SCAR report will show that despite a warming of the Antarctic oceans, there is little expectation of high temperature rises across the Antarctic mainland — which means that limited melting is anticipated around the South Pole.
The new research comes as international negotiations continue in the German city of Bonn towards a global climate change agreement.
Last night a spokeswoman for Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said that, despite the slow progress, Australia believed significant steps could be made towards a global agreement during the talks.
"Australia would like the Bonn negotiations to provide greater clarity on the ambition of parties (countries), prior to the chairs preparing draft negotiating t |
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Caning on a naval training ship is recalled (2 minutes 12 seconds)
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With comments by C. Farrell
Caning on a naval training ship is recalled (2 minutes 12 seconds)
Extract from an interview in a 1994 BBC TV series called Forbidden Britain: Our Secret Past 1900-1960. The speaker, George Kirby from Liverpool, born in 1922, had been an inmate on the boys' training ship Cornwall in the 1930s.
TS Cornwall, moored in the Thames east of London, was, like some other (but not all) training ships, explicitly a reformatory school ship, run on naval lines but not operated by the Navy. These ships took out-of-control lads aged typically 12 to 16 and sought to turn them into disciplined, useful seafarers; at most if not all of them, corporal punishment was routine. In earlier times this would often have been with the birch, but by the 1930s the cane was the more usual instrument.
The speaker recalls that for his caning on TS Cornwall he had to bend over with his head held between the bosun's legs. The punishment was carried out in front of the whole ship's company mustered on the deck. It was applied to the seat of the trousers.
The producers of the TV programme have included some shots from a 1931 Movietone newsreel item about the training ship Arethusa. I have heard that Arethusa was unusual in that, unlike Cornwall and most other training ships, its canings were inflicted on the boys' bare buttocks.
HERE IS THE CLIP:
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The exact date of the fort’s construction is not known. According to Etienne de Lusignan, it was built in 1193 by the founder of the Lusignan dynasty, Guy de Lusignan but the first | The exact date of the fort’s construction is not known. According to Etienne de Lusignan, it was built in 1193 by the founder of the Lusignan dynasty, Guy de Lusignan but the first official reference to the fort dates to 1228, during the involvement of Frederic II of Germany in the affairs of Cyprus. Through the years, the fort suffered the assaults of many invaders, sustaining further damage in the earthquakes of 1567 and 1568. Finally, in 1590, the Ottomans rebuilt the fort in its current form. The original fort was larger than the later one, which incorporates some parts of the former building, such as the two oblong halls of the ground floor. Below the eastern hall there is a basement with cells, which was used as a prison until 1950. Today, the fort houses the Medieval Museum of Cyprus.
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- proper n. A subfamily of the Mon-Khmer languages, that includes Vietnamese and Mường.
- proper n. The Proto-Vietic language, the hypothetical | from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- proper n. A subfamily of the Mon-Khmer languages, that includes Vietnamese and Mường.
- proper n. The Proto-Vietic language, the hypothetical last common ancestor of all Vietic languages.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Vietic language family.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the ancestral Vietic language.
Named after Vietnamese Việt, suffixed with -ic (Wiktionary) |
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