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Due to a childhood accident, Lesquereux suffered from progressive hearing loss that eventually led to total deafness. Despite the fact he lacked formal training in botany, he became a celebrated figure in the field of paleobotany. Until
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Due to a childhood accident, Lesquereux suffered from progressive hearing loss that eventually led to total deafness. Despite the fact he lacked formal training in botany, he became a celebrated figure in the field of paleobotany. Until 1827 he took classes at the academy at Neuchâtel, and subsequently worked as a tutor of French language in Eisenach. Afterwards he returned to Switzerland as a schoolteacher, and later principal in the town of Locle. Within three years his hearing had deteriorated to the point he had to give up his teaching job.
As a young man he took many excursions in order to collect mosses in the Jura Mountains, eventually leading to investigations of peat bogs. His pioneer research and analysis on the origin, composition and development of peat resulted in a close friendship with famed scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Soon afterwards, Lesquereux was commissioned by the Prussian government to perform scientific studies of peat bogs throughout Europe.
In 1847 Lesquereux followed Agassiz to the United States, subsequently traveling to Columbus, Ohio, where he performed bryological research with William Starling Sullivant (1803-1873). With Sullivant, he published two editions of a treatise called Musci Exsiccati Americani (1856, 1865). Another significant work on American bryology of his was a two volume summary of mosses found in the eastern United States titled Icones Muscorum (1864).
Based on his past studies of European peat bogs, Lesquereux developed theories on the origin of coal formations. As a consultant for state geological surveys in several U.S. states, he performed pioneer investigations of Paleozoic flora. From these paleobotanical studies, his best work was a study of carboniferous flora of Pennsylvania, titled "Description of the Coal Flora of the Carboniferous Formation in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States" (1879–84). a three-volume publication that became a standard for U.S. carboniferous flora.
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The classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the Native American
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The classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the Native American during the second half... read more
It is axiomatic that history is written by the winners, but for this searing and visceral account, Dee Brown devoted a lifetime of study to the American Indians: the defeated, the massacred, the exiled. From the first displacement of the Navahos and the Apaches as California was settled, to... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
It is axiomatic that history is written by the winners, but for this searing and visceral account, Dee Brown devoted a lifetime of study to the American Indians: the defeated, the massacred, the exiled. From the first displacement of the Navahos and the Apaches as California was settled, to the final slaughter of Sioux prisoners at Wounded Knee, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. It took only thirty years, between 1860 and 1890, for the ‘opening’ of the American West to destroy the culture and civilization of the American Indian. Dee Brown charts that destruction through a series of wars, battles and retreats: Little Big Horn, the Powder River, Red River Country and the Black Hills. The Names of the chiefs like Geronimo, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull still reverberate, but their compelling stories were rarely recounted in their own words or written with a sympathetic pen.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS...xi
1. "THEIR MANNERS ARE DECOROUS AND PRAISEWORTHY"
2. THE LONG WALK OF THE NAVAHOS
3. LITTLE CROW'S WAR
4. WAR COMES TO THE CHEYENNES
5. POWDER RIVER INVASION
6. RED CLOUD'S WAR
7. "THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEAD INDIAN"
8. THE RISE AND FALL OF DONEHOGAWA
9. COCHISE AND THE APACHE GUERRILLAS
10. THE ORDEAL OF CAPTAIN JACK
11. THE WAR TO SAVE THE BUFFALO
12. THE WAR FOR THE BLACK HILLS
13. THE FLIGHT OF THE NEZ PERCES
14. CHEYENNE EXODUS
15. STANDING BEAR BECOMES A PERSON
16. "THE UTES MUST GO!"
17. THE LAST OF THE APACHE CHIEFS
18. DANCE OF THE GHOSTS
19. WOUNDED KNEE
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This group activity will encourage you to share calculation
strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice?
How could you sort the cards?
How would you
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This group activity will encourage you to share calculation
strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most
Can you each work out the number on your card? What do you notice?
How could you sort the cards?
How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?
What can you say about the angles on opposite vertices of any
cyclic quadrilateral? Working on the building blocks will give you
insights that may help you to explain what is special about them.
A cinema has 100 seats. Show how it is possible to sell exactly 100
tickets and take exactly £100 if the prices are £10 for
adults, 50p for pensioners and 10p for children.
Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the 'back of
the queue' and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. What
properties do your answers always have?
Marcus, Kathryn, Philippa and Ellie all used fantastic proportional
reasoning as they worked on this problem.
Go to last month's problems to see more solutions.
Members of the NRICH team are beginning to write blogs and this very short article is designed to put the reasoning behind this move in context.
NRICH website full of rich tasks and guidance. We want teachers to
use what we have to offer having a real sense of what we mean by
rich tasks and what that might imply about classroom practice.
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Making Warfare Acceptable: Nonlethal Strategies
Bowers, Stephen R., Mielnik, Pamela A., The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies
The authors examine the prospects for developing new technologically advanced weaponry which will render
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Making Warfare Acceptable: Nonlethal Strategies
Bowers, Stephen R., Mielnik, Pamela A., The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies
The authors examine the prospects for developing new technologically advanced weaponry which will render opponents incapable of effective military action, thus reducing the need for high casualties in combat.
Key Words: Psychological warfare, chemical and biological warfare, electronic warfare, information warfare,
The effort to make war palatable has been one of our most determined undertakings for at least a century. The Hague Conferences and the Washington Naval Conference are among the most notable early attempts to control the conduct of hostilities. With the d
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The environmental science education team is excited to announce the new Prairies & Potholes field guide to selected native species commonly found in Minnesota prairie and wetland ecosystems. Illustrations and descriptive text help novice naturalists identify representative grasses,
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The environmental science education team is excited to announce the new Prairies & Potholes field guide to selected native species commonly found in Minnesota prairie and wetland ecosystems. Illustrations and descriptive text help novice naturalists identify representative grasses, soils, woody plants, seasonal flowers, mammals, insects, aquatic and upland birds, wetland plants, fish, reptiles and amphibians.
The field guide provides an excellent introduction to the prairie biome for Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, teachers, youth, nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts. Orders can be made through the Extension Store for $4.95 per copy.
Extension Program Leader
Food Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
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Researchers at several institutions in the United States and Sweden have found that a mutation in the gene for superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), known to cause ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 1 percent to 3
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Researchers at several institutions in the United States and Sweden have found that a mutation in the gene for superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), known to cause ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 1 percent to 3 percent of human cases, also can cause an ALS-like disease in dogs.
These dogs are the first spontaneously occurring animal model of ALS discovered, the researchers say in their paper, published online Feb. 2 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The investigators, coordinated by Gary Johnson and Joan Coates at the University of Missouri in Columbia, analyzed DNA samples from 38 Pembroke Welsh corgi dogs with an ALS-like disease and 17 related, clinically normal dogs and found a mutation in the SOD1 gene that was significantly associated with the illness.
Unlike most human cases, however, this SOD1-related disease is recessive, not dominant, meaning an animal must have a mutation in both its two SOD1 genes in order to show symptoms. Humans generally only need one SOD1 mutation to show disease symptoms.
The investigators went on to identify a similar disease caused by the same SOD1 mutation in boxers, Rhodesian ridgebacks, German shepherds and Chesapeake Bay retrievers.
The dogs showed clinical signs of degenerating upper (brain) and lower (spinal cord) motor nerve cells (motor neurons), as in human ALS. When the dogs' spinal cords were examined microscopically, they revealed loss of nerve fibers and SOD1-containing clumps in their nerve cells, which are also seen in ALS patients.
Dogs may be better predictors of human responses to experimental ALS treatments than mice, because they're closer in size to humans than rodents are, their nervous systems are more similar to humans in structure and complexity, and they're unlikely to possess the very high levels of mutated SOD1 protein found in some mice but not in humans with the disease.
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Athens area health officials hope they won't see any cases of SARS, the new disease that's spread around the world in recent weeks. But just in case, they've gotten ready.
''We're hoping it never even shows up here
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Athens area health officials hope they won't see any cases of SARS, the new disease that's spread around the world in recent weeks. But just in case, they've gotten ready.
''We're hoping it never even shows up here, but we're ready and waiting,'' said Lynn Beckmann, infectious disease program coordinator for the Northeast Health District.
SARS, for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, has sickened more than 2,600 people and killed more than 100 worldwide. Cases have been seen across the globe, including Canada and the United States, but most have been in Asian countries since the syndrome spread from its apparent place of origin in a rural Chinese province.
Through Monday, there had been about 150 cases in the United States, including two in the Atlanta area. There have been no SARS deaths in the U.S.
U.S. officials hope timely preventive measures will prevent the disease from spreading in this country as it has elsewhere, but because so much about the disease is still uncertain, no one is sure.
''I think people don't really know if it's something that can build up and flare, or just go away,'' Beckmann said.
Beckmann has been working with schools, hospitals and health care providers in the 10 area counties served by the Northeast Health District, making sure they know what the disease looks like, as well as the procedures to follow if they see a possible SARS patient.
The health district is also emphasizing a simple piece of advice for the public in connection with the disease: wash your hands, because contact with a contaminated surface could play a part in spreading the disease, as it does with so many other diseases.
Officials suspect that SARS is caused by a virus related to the common cold virus, and believe the main way it is transmitted from person to person requires close contact, such as droplets sprayed in a cough or sneeze.
But health officials have not been able to rule out other modes of transmission, such as touching a contaminated surface. Officials have also not ruled out the possibility of airborne transmission, raising the possibility that it could spread without close contact, for example from one passenger to others on an airliner.
Clinicians here will look for two things to tip them off to a possible SARS case - a set of flu-like symptoms that include a high fever and respiratory complaints, and recent travel to China or other Asian countries dealing with SARS, said Cathi Nix, Athens Regional Medical Center's infection control manager.
Almost all the U.S. cases have been in people who recently traveled to China.
''More than anything, I think the travel history is going to be the key to this thing,'' said Brandon Hicks, an attending emergency room physician at St. Mary's Hospital. SARS symptoms can look similar to other respiratory diseases that confront doctors, such as tuberculosis and flu.
Athens Regional developed a protocol for SARS, as soon as word came out from Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in late March that the first cases had appeared in the United States, Nix said.
Health officials believe that the first contact with a SARS patient would likely come through a hospital emergency room.
Such a patient would be immediately given a breathing mask, then taken to a special ''negative air pressure'' room which does not allow unfiltered air to escape from it, Nix said. Both Athens hospitals have such rooms.
Patients with SARS will be isolated, but that may not mean a hospital stay - some have been simply sent home to stay for 10 da
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I was in whole foods this evening and found a great leaflet about pollinators and how we can help them. There's a great organization pollinators with a purpose, on reading I am amazed to find out that 1/3
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I was in whole foods this evening and found a great leaflet about pollinators and how we can help them. There's a great organization pollinators with a purpose, on reading I am amazed to find out that 1/3 of America's food supply depends on bee's. Foods and beverages produced with the help of pollinators include: apples, blueberries, chocolate, coffee, melons, peaches, potatoes, pumpkins, vanilla, almonds, and tequila.
In the United States, pollination by honey bees, native bees, and other insects produces $40 billion worth of products annually - from pollinators with a purpose site.
Here's a link to a PBS documentary The Silence of Bee's
So what can we do?
Here are some tips:
1. Plant a bee garden - lavender, lemon balm, clover, poppy, mint, sunflowers and thyme
2. Plant native plants to attract native pollinators and help local agriculture
3. colorful gardens attract different pollinators
4. Don't pick the flowers
5. Teach kids to love butterflies and bee's and the importance of them
6. avoid using pesticides
Just some food for thought, I am going to keep buying flowers for the bee's and butterflies, have a buddleia lavender, thyme and others they seem to like ;-)
Did you know this was such an issue and do you ever consider pollinators when planting your gardens?
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The U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers flight decks are some of the most chaotic and deadly real estate in the world. Teeming with scores of high-performance aircraft, wheeled vehicles and up to a thousand sailors generating up to several hundred
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The U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers flight decks are some of the most chaotic and deadly real estate in the world. Teeming with scores of high-performance aircraft, wheeled vehicles and up to a thousand sailors generating up to several hundred sorties per day, flight decks “are fraught with danger,” the Naval Safety Center warned in a 2003 publication. “You can get blown down by prop wash, blown over-board by jet exhaust, run over by taxiing aircraft or sucked up and spit out by a turning engine.”
Archived posts with tag ‘X-47B’
The U.S. Navy is beginning the planning process for its next-generation carrier air wing. New fighters, drones, radar planes and resupply aircraft are in testing or concept development. The result, sometime after 2030, could be an even more powerful naval air force.
The Navy’s X-47B killer drone is about to get a lot more lethal. Nine months after the 38-foot long, bat-shaped flying robot took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California for its very first flight, the Navy has announced it will add an aerial refueling capability to at least one of the two X-47 prototypes sometime in 2014.
Offiziere.ch: Air Power’s Robotic Future: An Interview with Northrop Grumman’s Carl Johnson
The future of aerial warfare was on dramatic display on Feb. 4 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. At around 2:00 PM local time, a 38-foot-long, bat-shaped, jet-powered robotic aircraft lifted off from the runway and climbed to 5,000 feet. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle orbited the airfield for 30 minutes before descending to a flawless, autonomous landing.
Pilotless warplanes are proliferating across the Pacific. This poses a big problem for U.S. defense planners, according to one retired U.S. Air Force general.
Squeezed between rising costs and declining budgets, the U.S. Navy is considering cutting or abandoning the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in favor of accelerated development of aircraft carrier-launched, armed drones. But it’s unclear how much confidence the Navy has in such robotic aircraft’s combat capabilities.
It was an event a century in the making. At 2:09 PM Pacific Standard Time on Feb. 4, the first full-scale prototype of Northrop Grumman’s X-47B carrier-capable drone fighter took off on from Edwards Air Force Base in California for its inaugural test flight. “Taking off under hazy skies, the X-47B climbed to an altitude of 5,000 feet, flew several racetrack-type patterns, and landed safely at 2:38 PM PST,” Northrop announced in a press release. “The flight provided test data to verify and validate system software for guidance and navigation, and the aerodynamic control of the tailless design.”
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Supports study of mechanics throughout an undergraduate course
Integrates statics and dynamics in a single volume
Develops theory of 2D and 3D dynamics of particles and rigid bodies
Students of engineering mechanics require a treatment embracing principles
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Supports study of mechanics throughout an undergraduate course
Integrates statics and dynamics in a single volume
Develops theory of 2D and 3D dynamics of particles and rigid bodies
Students of engineering mechanics require a treatment embracing principles, practice an problem solving. Each are covered in this text in a way which students will find particularly helpful. Every chapter gives a thorough description of the basic theory, and a large selection of worked examples are explained in an understandable, tutorial style. Graded problems for solution, with answers, are also provided.
Integrating statistics and dynamics within a single volume, the book will support the study of engineering mechanics throughout an undergraduate course. The theory of two- and three-dimensional dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, leading to Euler's equations, is developed. The vibration of one- and two-degree-of-freedom systems and an introduction to automatic control, now including frequency response methods, are covered. This edition has also been extended to develop continuum mechanics, drawing together solid and fluid mechanics to illustrate the distinctions between Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates.
First year undergraduates from all engineering disciplines and physics. Second and third year mechanical engineering students
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The topic of optical free-space communications evolved as early as the development of the laser in the 1960s. After the invention of optical fiber its application was mainly expected in space, where it shows its main advantages such as low weigh and small
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The topic of optical free-space communications evolved as early as the development of the laser in the 1960s. After the invention of optical fiber its application was mainly expected in space, where it shows its main advantages such as low weigh and small size terminal, large bandwidth and low power consumption.
The Institute´s work in optical free-space communications was initiated during the initial phases of the early satellite network projects Iridium and Globalstar. The focus was on space transmission with the best possible efficiencies. The Institute has set a world record in sensitivity with 20 photons per bit for un-coded coherent modulation in 1990. It contributed to the development of the DLR laser communications t
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THE WAR WAS NOT kind to Dresden: the bombers of the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Force rained destruction on the Saxon capital, reducing much of the city to piles of rubble, and killing thousands upon thousands of innocent
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THE WAR WAS NOT kind to Dresden: the bombers of the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Force rained destruction on the Saxon capital, reducing much of the city to piles of rubble, and killing thousands upon thousands of innocent women and children in the process. One of the few buildings to survive the cataclysmic and morally reprehensible bombing campaign was the old garrison, which after the war was turned into a military museum.
Poland, whose unprovoked invasion by the Nazis sparked the Second World War, is exacting a curious revenge on neighbouring Germany, however. Daniel Libeskind, the controversial Polish starchitect, is building a monstrous addition to the Dresden Military History Museum that may not be a crime against humanity, but is undoubtedly a crime against architecture.
Libeskind’s addition to the museum takes the form of a jarring triangle, pointing in the direction from which the British and American bombers came to attack the city. “It is something like a lantern, a signal, a beacon that evokes the city itself,” Libeskind told the press. “It creates a question mark about the continuity of history and what it means. It gives people a point of reflection.”
Libeskind’s addition does not in fact include any significant increase in functioning exhibition space or working areas. It is more of a middle finger to the city.
“I cannot decide whether Libeskind has been brilliant or utterly appalling,” writes Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph. “I suspect he is the latter, though the mock-ups on his website of how the finished product will look are rather incredible: and there is a poetic justice about taking the only undamaged building from that night and allowing it to share in the proceeds of destruction in this way.”
The estimated cost of the project is €48,000,000, funded by the Federal Republic of Germany, which has chosen this institution to be the official military history museum of the country.
Up to this point, Dresden had become known for its commendable progress in rebuilding the historic structures destroyed during the war and left as rubble during the Communist period. The completion of the Frauenkirche (above, the Lutheran church of Our Lady) has been particularly applauded. But Libeskind attacks this progress, claiming that “sentimentality is not a foundation on which you can build a new city.” One is tempted to point out that Dresden is not a new city, having its origins in the late twelfth century, in a region that had been settled by the Linear Pottery tribes around 7500 B.C., but one suspects anything more than five minutes old is of little interest to Mr. Libeskind.
Rebuilding is not a policy of forgetting or ignoring the past but trying to recover it and safeguard it for future generations. While the Libeskinds of this world have no concept of relating to the past other than insulting it or erasing it, I hope cities the world over will, like Dresden, pursue a policy of coming to terms with the past instead.
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RFC 1597 provides for a group of Internet Networks that will never be assigned. The private addresses will also not be routable through the Internet, preventing communication with networks on other subnets. The implementation of the Private IP address scope makes it
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RFC 1597 provides for a group of Internet Networks that will never be assigned. The private addresses will also not be routable through the Internet, preventing communication with networks on other subnets. The implementation of the Private IP address scope makes it the proper choice for use on company Intranets and for home/SOHO networks. These IP addresses have been specifically selected to use when it isn’t necessary or desired for computers on the Internet to connect to IPv4 based deviced on your network.
With use of a proxy server, firewall, or router, users and devices with non-routable IP addresses are allowed to access the Internet through a single IP address provided by their service provider. The devices achieve this through the process of Network Address Translation (NAT), allowing the nonroutable addresses to communicate with Internet-based, routable, Public IP addresses.
Reserved IP addresses for Private Networks are the following:
10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255
A complete and current list of all IP Address Allocations can be found at the Internet A
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Montaña de la Cinta, though only a low volcano, is one of the most important mountains of Lanzarote in the Islas Canarias. It is the home mountain of the village of Yaiza, above which it stands like
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Montaña de la Cinta, though only a low volcano, is one of the most important mountains of Lanzarote in the Islas Canarias. It is the home mountain of the village of Yaiza, above which it stands like a big broad sentinel. Its big time in history came, when Don Andres Lorenzo Curbelo, the parish priest of Yaiza, climbed it on September 1st 1730 to witness the first eruptions of what became one of the longest running volcanic ooutbreak in history: the Tmanfaya eruption.
Don Andres was the first eyewitness of a volcanic eruption to record his experiences. He kept a diary from the fateful day of Sept 1st until he had to leave the island about a year later. In his diary he describes how - step by step and blow by blow - the volcanoes of the Montañas del Fuego erupted and buried village after village beneath their lavas and cinder. On the Lanzarote Page I translated the first part of the diary. Here the famous first words might suffice:
”Today, on the first of September 1730, between 9 and 10 pm., the earth tore open near Timanfaya, two leagues from here.”
Montaña de la Cinta itself is much older than the Montañas del Fuego. It belongs to the mountain range Los Ajaches in the south of the island. This mountain range was one of the first - besides Risco de Famara in the north - to surface above the sea when Lanzarote came into being 16 million years ago. Consequently not much can be seen of the mountain's volcanic origin anymore. Together with Montaña El Cabo (396m) and Montaña del Medio (404m), Montana de la Cinta (439m) forms a trio of extinct volcanoes, perfectly aligned on one of the fault lines along which volcanism occurs on Lanzarote. The mountain itself is flat-topped but the final part of the ascent is extremely steep, making it one of the most "difficult" mountains on the island.
Don Andres Lorenzo Curbelo did right to climb it in order to observe the Timanfaya eruptions. Located south of the plain which is filled by the huge lava fields which were created by these eruptions, Montaña de la Cinta, together with Montaña de Guardilama to its north is one of the best lookout spots above the Montañas del Fuego. The southern view is blocked by Atalaya de Femes, the highest mountain of Los Ajaches. Thus, only parts of the neighbouring island Fuerteventura can be seen.
Summit Panorama: Las Montañas del Fuego
Though there are ferries from the Spanish mainland to the Canary Islands, they take more than 24h for the trip. Therefore most visitors therefore go by plane. Every travel agency in Europe offers flights, hotel rooms, apartments, rental cars etc. so that reaching the Canaries is rather a matter of money than opportunity. During the summer season flight fares can be reasonable but during the Easter and Christmas holidays you have to be prepared for additional fees of 500€ per person.
Lanzarote has its own airport between the capital Arrecife and one of the main tourist centres, Puerto del Carmen. There are public bus lines but – like on all the islands – they don't run too regularly. If you plan to stay on your own, better take a rental car right at the airport.
The best trailhead for Montaña de la Cinta is the village centre of Yaiza in the south-west of the mountain. The best itinerary (not the shortest but most impressive one) is as follows (the shortest one is simply to follow LZ2 from Arrecife to Yaiza):
- From Arrecife follow LZ20 through San Bartolomé.
- At the Monumento del Campesino turn onto LZ30 west.
- Drive through Masdache and ignore all intersections until you reach a roundabout.
- Take the first exit which takes you onto LZ2.
- After about 1 km you'll reach another ((huge!) roundabout. Take the second exit, which will take you into Yaiza. Park your car near the church.
Red TapeMontaña de de la Cinta is located inside the Monumento Natural de los Ajaches which has been established to protect the barren mountain region Los Ajaches in the south of Lanzarote. Within the boundary of the natural monument the construction of new buildings is prohibited while the old ones can still be maintained. Also, part of the region is used for farming,, especially close to the villages and the whole range is used for sheep and goat grazing.
Montaña de de la Cinta is made up from very brittle rock and scree. Please stay on the trails, especially on the last very steepp section, directly underneath the summit.
For holiday homes, hotels or apartments either consult your nearest travel office, or – search for lodgings on Google. There are several sites on the web, dedicated to rent privately owned houses or apartments. Prices are generally a bit less expensive than for tour operators but you don't have as much security.
Weather ConditionsLanzarote, is usually swept by fierce north-western trade winds. Though they deposit their humidity on almost all of the other Canary Islands, Lanzarote is simply too low to form a decent obstacl
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In a landmark initiative with far-reaching potential, Wal-Mart Stores announced yesterday that it wants to improve the energy efficiency from the vast network of suppliers that fill the shelves of the world's largest retailer. As competitors have seen before, what Wal-Mart demands
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In a landmark initiative with far-reaching potential, Wal-Mart Stores announced yesterday that it wants to improve the energy efficiency from the vast network of suppliers that fill the shelves of the world's largest retailer. As competitors have seen before, what Wal-Mart demands (typically, lower prices) Wal-Mart gets. So this move has the potential to reduce energy use around the world.
Working with the non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project, Wal-Mart will first measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain, from procurement to manufacturing and distribution. Then, working with the suppliers of DVDs, toothpaste, soap, milk, beer, vacuum cleaners and soda, Wal-Mart plans to find innovative ways to save energy, before extending those successful programs to other suppliers.
This is an important first step toward reaching our goal of removing non-renewable energy from the products Wal-Mart sells, John Fleming, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer of Wal-Mart Stores Division, said in a statement made available to the press. This is an opportunity to spur innovation and efficiency throughout our supply chain that will not only help protect the environment but save people money at the same time.
Paul Dickinson, chief executive of The Carbon Disclosure Project, which is meeting this week in New York as part of the Clinton Global Initiative, called it a "significant milestone in corporate action to mitigate climate change." Wal-Mart has been making waves in the green world for several years now. Its initiative to improve energy efficiency at its stores and in its transportation fleet, and to reduce packaging on many products has not only saved energy and resources, but money. By some estimates, Wal-Mart could save $3.4 billion just on reduced packaging.
Wal-Mart -- a vilified figure in the environmental community for years because of its destructive power over once-thriving downtowns in small towns, and because of its contribution to sprawl -- is now using its tremendous muscle in the market to spur green innovation. It also shows that businesses can make money by going green -- a key message that many industries are increasingly hearing loud and clear. Sometimes, because Wal-Mart tells them to.
Enter your city or zip code to get your local temperature and air quality and find local green food and recycling resources near you.
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For purposes of this report, community is defined as any group of people who share geographic space, interests, goals, or history. A community offers a diversity of potential targets for prevention and is often conceived of as an encompassing, proximal,
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For purposes of this report, community is defined as any group of people who share geographic space, interests, goals, or history. A community offers a diversity of potential targets for prevention and is often conceived of as an encompassing, proximal, and comprehensive structure that provides opportunities and resources that shape people’s lifestyle (McIntyre and Ellaway, 2000). A community also offers the potential for pooling resources and for collaboration among community-based organizations, some of which are affiliates of state and national organizations that can channel resources to them in support of local initiatives and the evaluation of their innovations (Kreuter et al., 2000).
A distinction can be made between community-based prevention and community-placed prevention, or community interventions versus interventions in communities (Green and Kreuter, 2005), although both take a population-based approach. Community-based activity involves members of the affected community in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and strategies (Cargo and Mercer, 2008). An example of this type of prevention effort is community-based participatory research, in which academic researchers—who are usually in control of the decisions on the research question, design, methods, and interpretation of results—invite or concede at least an equal partner role to community members in formulating, conducting, and interpreting the research. It is important to note that rarely are all members of a community involved and that for those who are, the level of involvement can vary tremendously.
Community-placed activities, on the other hand, are developed without the participation of members of the affected community at important stages of the project. While the program may be centrally planned, effort is expended to generate community support. An example of the community-placed approach is the YMCA diabetes prevention program that is being implemented in partnership with YMCAs across the country, some with more tailoring to the localities than others (Ritchie et al., 2010).
Although there are distinct differences between these two approaches to prevention, for purposes of this report key domains for valuing (discussed in Chapter 3) are common to both approaches. Therefore, the term “community-based prevention” is used to encompass both community-placed and community-based prevention programs, policies, and strategies.
Over the past 50 years public health practice and research have contributed to developing and analyzing the characteristics that distinguish community-based prevention from other forms of action. Community-based prevention interventions focus on population health and, in addition,
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Physical Science: Session 2
Linsey Newton; Hudson, MA
"The most satisfying thing about teaching is really seeing a light bulb go off in a kid’s head, really seeing them get that 'ah ha' feeling, like 'I
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Physical Science: Session 2
Linsey Newton; Hudson, MA
"The most satisfying thing about teaching is really seeing a light bulb go off in a kid’s head, really seeing them get that 'ah ha' feeling, like 'I’ve got it. I understand. Thank you so much. I’ve been confused, but I really get it now.' And it’s very rewarding to see that."
School at a Glance:
Joseph L. Mulready School,
- Grades: K-5
- Enrollment: 283
- Students per teacher: 18
1% African American
- Percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch: 16% versus a state average of 29%
Linsey Newton teaches third grade at the Joseph L. Mulready School in Hudson, Massachusetts. Located in rural Middlesex County, about 40 miles west of Boston, the Mulready School consists of grades 1 to 5, and “respect and responsibility” are the core values that the school embraces in its mission statement.
The Hudson Public Schools are currently involved in an ambitious systemic, multi-year effort to improve science and mathematics education, the goal of which is to “provide hands-on, inquiry-oriented, and problem-based instruction that encourages mathematical and scientific fluency.”
Linsey says that her science background was enhanced considerably upon coming to this school system: “Dr. Arthur Camins, the elementary math and science director in Hudson, has been a huge influence on me. And the FOSS curriculum has really opened my eyes to see how children can look at science as [more than] factual information fed to them by their teacher, and really explore and learn science through their own experiences and from what they see in the classroom.”
According to Dr. Camins, “In Hudson, we have three overarching goals for science education. One is developing content knowledge. We want students to develop experiences with how the natural world works and an understanding of it. The second is we want them to learn how to conduct experiments to develop the skills and habits of mind to know how to find out answers to their own questions. And the third is to be able to learn to build explanations, to use their engagement with doing science, engagement with materials, and the kinds of thinking that we encourage to be able to develop explanations based on the evidence that they see before them. In that sense, Linsey’s Water Vapor lesson is a good example of that.”
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Albert Gore, Ignoble Laureate
In 1867, Swedish chemist and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel made a remarkable discovery: By combining highly explosive nitroglycerin with an inert absorbent such as diatomaceous clay,
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Albert Gore, Ignoble Laureate
In 1867, Swedish chemist and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel made a remarkable discovery: By combining highly explosive nitroglycerin with an inert absorbent such as diatomaceous clay, he could stabilize the volatile chemical, making it far safer to handle and transport. He thus patented “dynamite,” and made a fortune from its production around the world.
Nobel was subject to much condemnation for the military application of his inventions and consequently, as stipulated in his 1896 will, he set aside the equivalent of more than $100 million in trust to establish annual awards for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and, of course, the “Peace Prize” – for “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” (An award for economics was instituted in 1969.)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, consists of five members who are elected by the Norwegian parliament. For almost a century, the Nobel Committee has bestowed its award upon leaders who were notable for their contributions to world peace – recipients such as Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Lech Walesa.
The Committee, however, has been under the thumb of the Norwegian Labor Party for more than a decade, and the results have been telling. A number of recent prize-winners pale in comparison to previous laureates, and their achievements, such as they are, can hardly be said to embody the stated purpose of the award.
In 1994, for example, the Committee conferred the Peace Prize upon Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.” Arafat, of course, was less a peacemaker than a terrorist, and his treachery did more to undermine Middle East peace than any regional leader other than Saddam Hussein. Palestinians would counter that Peres and Rabin were also terrorists, but not one single Jew under their watch walked into a crowded market or onto a bus with the express purpose of detonating a bomb and killing as many non-combatant men, women and children as possible.
In 2001, the Committee awarded the Peace Prize to the United Nations and its General Secretary Kofi Annan, “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.” And yet terrorism and genocide flourished under Annan's watch.
The following year, the award went to Jimmy Carter, “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter's feeble leadership undermined U.S. strength at home, helped give rise to Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East, and damaged democracies around the world – and he's still at it today.
Clearly, the Peace Prize loses its luster when awarded in accordance with contemporaneous political agendas rather than Nobel's stated criteria. Perhaps no award other than Arafat's, however, has damaged the standing of the Peace Prize more than the Committee's 2007 award to Albert Arnold Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Committee praised Gore, noting, “His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”
For his part, Gore said, “I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.”
To the contrary, the “climate crisis” is a colossal “political issue” that Gore has gussied up as “a moral and spiritual challenge.” (That's why we tagged Gore “the populist pope of eco-theology” after the release of his “Inconvenient Truth”.)
It is notable that Gore's Nobel Prize was not for scientific achievement, but then Gore's pseudo-science declarations and political motives have been thoroughly debunked in, among many places, my comprehensive essay, “Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame.”
However, it is most notable that Gore has accomplished exactly nothing in terms of “fraternity between nations,” or “the abolition or reduction of standing armies” or “the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
This year, to its eternal shame, the Nobel Committee passed over a long list of more deserving nominees, a sample of whom were listed in a Wall Street Journal editorial: Burmese monks challenging their authoritarian government; Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders; Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam jailed for his support of pro-democracy groups; chess champion Garry Kasparov and the several h
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A mother with her three teenage daughters sat in my office the other day. Two of the girls were there for sick visits. The third sister was just along for the ride. When I walked into the room, all three girls had their heads buried
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A mother with her three teenage daughters sat in my office the other day. Two of the girls were there for sick visits. The third sister was just along for the ride. When I walked into the room, all three girls had their heads buried in their cell phones, thumbs pumping furiously, texting away. No one even looked up.
The mom and I started to chat about the symptoms the sick girls were exhibiting. But the mother was either distracted by the clicking or felt the girls were being rude, and she soon made the two sick teens turn their phones off.
The pair grudgingly obeyed, sticking the devices in their purses, but not before whining, “Why doesn’t she have to stop?” “Because she’s not the one with the doctor’s visit,” Mom replied. “But she’s the one who’s texting us!” the girls protested in unison.
I was speechless. Here were three sisters in a room together communicating with their thumbs. That encounter really hammered home to me just how plugged in we have all become. We are suffused daily in a multitude of digital communication options.
According to a recent Pew research study, one in three teens sends or receives over 100 text messages a day. It’s not that texting is inherently bad. Like many other forms of communication, it has the potential to keep us connected. But Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other suggests that while constant texting may give the appearance of increased connectedness, these technologies may actually be keeping us isolated from each other. She argues that “Facebooking” is not socializing. “Thumbs up or thumbs down on a web site is not a conversation.”
Texting can also be dangerous. Texting while driving can be so deadly that it is banned in many states. When I’m at the gym, I cringe watching folks text while walking down stairs or running on treadmills. They look like accidents waiting to happen, like that poor woman whose YouTube video went viral when she fell into a fountain texting while she walked at a mall.
Children should be taught to turn off their cell phone when engaged in any activity that requires their full attention: school, homework, babysitting. Children also need to understand that some forms of texting—like sexting (sending nude or inappropriate photos in a text message) or cyber-bullying (sending mean, taunting or embarrassing text messages)—can have disciplinary consequences at school and even legal ramifications.
Another new issue being raised about texting is its effect on teens’ sleep. We are learning more and more about teens who bring their cell phones into their bedrooms and text long into the night.
Technology is developing at a rate that may be faster than our ability to monitor it and ensure its safe use. Parents should have frank conversations with their children about the dangers of texting and driving and the negative emotional and sometimes legal consequences of sexting and cyberbullying. Parents should review their children’s text logs to see who is texting them, when and how often. Limits can be placed on the number of texts sent and received as well as the hours texting is allowed. And parents can certainly confiscate phones after a reasonable hour, if necessary.
We need to be good role models for our children as well. While many parents take their kids’ cell phones away from them during our office visits so we can have face-to-face conversations, I have just as many parents who themselves text during our visits. We have to be careful what kind of example we set. My heart breaks whenever I see a mom or dad texting in the bleachers of their kid’s big game instead of watching their child play. If we are disengaged from our children, can it be long before they’ll disengage from us?
Kids texting photo available from Shutterstock
Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, MD. (2012). Texting, Sexting… What’s Next?. Psych Central. Retrieved on December 5, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/texting
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|Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: Easy-to-Make Nanosensors
by Kevin Bullis
Tiny electronics-based detectors could provide simple tests
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Joined: 16 Mar 2004
|Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: Easy-to-Make Nanosensors
by Kevin Bullis
Tiny electronics-based detectors could provide simple tests for cancer or bioterror agents.
One of the most compelling promises of nanotechnology are tiny detectors that could instantly screen for hundreds of toxins or pathogens. Bundled into small handheld devices, these sensors could provide fast alerts of bioterror attacks. They could also be used to quickly and precisely detect early signs of cancer, before the disease turns deadly.
Now researchers at Yale University have developed ultrasensitive nanoscale sensors that are easy to manufacture. The
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A hotly debated issue amongst Muslims all around the world is the problem of the equality of women in Islam. The Qur'an is quite clear about protecting the rights of women, as also is the example of the prophet Muhammad. In fact, for
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A hotly debated issue amongst Muslims all around the world is the problem of the equality of women in Islam. The Qur'an is quite clear about protecting the rights of women, as also is the example of the prophet Muhammad. In fact, for the first centuries of the history of Islam, women enjoyed a privileged place in comparison to the rest of the world, equal to men in almost every aspect of life. It is ironic that the rights of women in Islam have followed a pronounced backwards development, contrary to the situation in the rest of the world. Due to the medieval practices of men motivated by the very impulses that Islam sought to stop, women were marginalized once again in many aspects. Women in the last decades have been fighting all over the world to regain the very rights they once had thanks to the birth of Islam, and a modern battlefield of this fight between the sexes is happening right inside of mosques all a
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WARMER AND DRIER THAN AVERAGE ACROSS U.S.,
Oct. 13, 2005 — The United States experienced its fourth warmest September on record, while global land surface temperatures were the warmest on record for the
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WARMER AND DRIER THAN AVERAGE ACROSS U.S.,
Oct. 13, 2005 — The United States experienced its fourth warmest September on record, while global land surface temperatures were the warmest on record for the month, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Also, three East Coast states had their driest September on record, while the month was the eleventh driest for the nation overall. (Click NOAA image for larger view of September 2005 temperature rankings by state. Please credit “NOAA.”)
July-September average temperatures also were the fourth warmest on record, indicative of an unusually warm late summer and early fall across the country. All 48 contiguous states ranked above average for the last three months, with six states (Florida, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont) setting new statewide average temperature records for July-September. Overall, the Northeast region had its warmest July-September period in at least 111 years.
Temperatures across Alaska also were above average during July-September, with respective statewide temperatures of 2.3 degrees F (1.3 degrees C) and 2.2 degrees F (1.2 degrees C) above the 1971-2000 mean, ranking 12th for September and second warmest for July-September since 1918.
At the end of September, moderate-to-extreme drought (as defined by a widely-used measure of drought—the Palmer Drought Index) affected 18 percent of U.S., an increase of almost 6 percent from August 2005. The U.S. wildfire season through September 30 is approximately double the 10-year average acreage burned. More than 8 million acres have burned so far in 2005, approaching the record annual acreage burned, which occurred in 2000.
So far, tropical cyclone activity for the 2005 Atlantic season has been well above average with 20 named storms, 11 of which became hurricanes and five were classified as major. The hurricane season officially ends on November 30. There has been only one other season with 20 or more named tropical systems, which was 1933 with 21.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources.
Relevant Web Sites
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited
disease of your heart muscle, where the muscle wall of your heart
It is a genetic condition caused by a change
or mutation in one or more genes and is
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited
disease of your heart muscle, where the muscle wall of your heart
It is a genetic condition caused by a change
or mutation in one or more genes and is passed on through families.
Each child of someone with HCM has a 50 per cent chance of
inheriting the condition.
About 1 in 500 of the UK population has the
condition, although most people who have it have few symptoms.
How does it affect my heart?
If you have HCM, the muscular wall of your heart - the myocardium
- becomes thickened, making the heart muscle stiff.
This thickening makes it harder for your heart
to pump blood out of your heart and around your body.
How thick your muscle is, and how much of your
muscle is affected, varies from one person to another. The left ventricle (one of your heart's four
chambers) is almost always affected, and in some people the muscle
of the right ventricle also thickens.
What are the symptoms?
Common symptoms include:
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Light headedness and
You may find that you never
have any serious problems related to your condition, and with
treatment, your symptoms should be controlled. However some people
may find that their symptoms worsen or become harder to control in
The area of heart muscle that
is affected by HCM and the amount of stiffening that occurs will
determine how the symptoms affect you.
For some people, a number of
other conditions can develop as a result of having HCM. These may
How is HCM diagnosed?
The most common tests for cardiomyopathy are an ECG, which records the electrical activity of
your heart, and an echocardiogram which
show the pumping action of your heart.
Your doctor may also arrange for you to have an exercise test, angiogram or MRI
How is HCM treated?
At present there is no cure for HCM, but
treatments are available to help control your symptoms and prevent
complications. Your treatment will depend on how your heart is
affected and what symptoms you have.
You may need:
- Medicines – to help control your
blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms or other symptoms you may
- A Pacemaker – to control your heart
- An ICD – if you are at risk of
having a life threatening abnormal heart rhythm.
How will HCM affect me?
Research has shown that, with proper treatment
and follow-up, most people with the condition live a normal
However, because there is a very small risk of getting a
life-threatening abnormal heart rhythm,
a small number of people with HCM are at risk of sudden cardiac death. It’s important to discuss
this risk with your doctor, who may offer medication or advise that
you need to have an ICD fitted if you
are at an increased risk.
You may have to make some small changes to
your lifestyle, such as avoiding competitive sports, but you should
be able to continue to work and drive a car for example
However, you will not be able to drive an HGV
or commercial passenger vehicle and you may have to reconsider
manual jobs which involve strenuous activity.
Your donations help support the work of
BHF Professor Hugh Watkins
, who has led the way in finding the
genetic mutations that cause HCM, meaning that more people with the
condition can be screened and diagnosed.
For more information
BHF Genetic Information Service on 0300 456
8383 to speak to one of our specialist nurses for
information about inherited heart conditions and how they can
affect you and your family.
For more information and advice about living
with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,
download or order our booklet.
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|YOU HAVE THE POWER
Students MUST understand
that they have the POWER to make a POSITIVE
difference. It's all about the choices they
Every person who is
a bystander, needs to make a committment
to
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|YOU HAVE THE POWER
Students MUST understand
that they have the POWER to make a POSITIVE
difference. It's all about the choices they
Every person who is
a bystander, needs to make a committment
to never stand by and just laugh. Your group
has the most POWER to STOP BULLYING.
feel free to email to contribute links or
resources to this website. It is only the
for Children - Creators of the Second
Step Program - here are some additional
supports and resources for administrators with
suggestions for successful rollout in your schools.
Also, quite a few tips
for teachers on refreshing their program and
making the most of this program.
Website - National Technical
Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions
and Supports (PBIS)
Behaviour Supports - Developed by the Institute
on Violence and Destructive Behavior at the University
of Oregon, the Effective Behavior Support (EBS)
is a schoolwide behavioral support program. EBS
was designed to prevent disruptive behavior by all
students, including those that exhibit chronic behavior
- An article for background information
behavior support: A systems approach to proactive
schoolwide management Focus on Exceptional Children,
Feb 1999, by Lewis, Timothy J, Sugai, George.
Character - If you work with kids, and you need
to implement character education tomorrow, and you
want some immediate help,
this is where to start. But if your character education
program is cruising, and you just want some additional
ideas and materials, this is also where to start.
This content-rich website is loaded with free resources
to help you do the job!
This Web site offers training opportunities, publications,
research and advocacy to support children and youth
in conflict. The underpinning of the Reclaiming
Youth Network is the Circle
of Courage philosophy, a model
of youth empowerment based on a Native American
approach toward life.
Activities for Building Student Character, School
- Education World - In an already packed school
day, finding time for character education can be
a challenge. Most of these 25 activity ideas can
be worked seamlessly into the school day to build
student character and to develop a sense of community
in your school.
Heroes Project - Giraffe Heroes are people who
stick their necks out for the common good.
The nonprofit Giraffe Heroes Project tells their
stories on podiums, in materials for schools and
in the media. Giraffe Heroes are models for the
rest of us. Follow the link to read several stories
of people taking risks to make a better world.
Central - (SPS Developed) This
site was created to provide teachers with an online
resource for studying the hero theme. Resources
are divided by grade level but you may find something
of interest in another section that may work in
other grade levels when modified. You are encouraged
to to browse other sections.
for Humanity - Our mission is to empower people
and to make a difference in our world. Our commitment
is to deliver avenues for humanitarian outreach
and to inspire leadership in the hearts of millions.
Wise Choices - Student handout from PROJECT
WISDOM - A great additional to any classroom bulletin
board or each choice could be highlighted in a monthly
to Give - Discover more than 1,200 teacher-created,
standards-based lessons and resources with connections
to service-learning, character education and civic
- Children helping children!
Annie Wignall, who created the Care
Bags Foundation, an organization that distributes
games, toothbrushes, books, and more to kids during
Richest People In America - Rich because they
GIVE!. The people on the list reflect the best about
the joy of giving back to others by using their
time, talents, and resources to make a difference
in the world.
Acts of Kindness - This site has so many valuable
resources and ideas for inspiration! Free downloads
of Bookmarks and Kindness Calendars, Pass It On
cards, certificates and posters (see INSPIRATION).
They also have endless teacher resources for various
grade levels and topics. Kindness Week, Teacher's
Guide, and a Video Bibliography are only the beginning
of the resources you will find here.
and Resources - Character
and Citizenship Education in Alberta Schools
- School culture assessment tools, resources for
parents, service learning and more.
The Canadian Centre for Positive Youth Development
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Once Thought Extinct, The Pinocchio Lizard Sticks His Nose Out
by Douglas Main
Pinocchio anoles (Anolis proboscis) were thought to be extinct for 50 years, but have been rediscovered in
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Once Thought Extinct, The Pinocchio Lizard Sticks His Nose Out
by Douglas Main
Pinocchio anoles (Anolis proboscis) were thought to be extinct for 50 years, but have been rediscovered in the cloud forests of Ecuador.
After searching for the long-nosed animal for three years, a team of photographers and researchers found the lizard recently in a stretch of pristine cloud forest in the northwest part of the country, said Alejandro Arteaga, a co-founder of the educational and ecotourism company Tropical Herping, which conducted the search for the lizard.
The animal was first discovered in 1953, Arteaga said. But wasn’t seen between the 1960s and 2005, when an ornithologist saw one crossing a road in the same remote area in northwest Ecuador. This is only the third time scientists have spotted it since 2005, Arteaga added…
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ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia
The Israelites “borrowed” from the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, Revised Version, “asked”), in accordance with a divine command (3:22; 11:2).
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ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia
The Israelites “borrowed” from the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, Revised Version, “asked”), in accordance with a divine command (3:22; 11:2). But the word (sha'al) so rendered there means simply (and always) to “request” or “demand.” The Hebrew had another word which is properly translated “borrow” in Deut. 28:12; Ps. 37:21. It was well known that the parting was final. The Egyptians were so anxious to get the Israelites away out of their land that “they let them have what they asked” (Ex. 12:36, Revised Version), or literally “made them to ask,” urged them to take whatever they desired and depart.
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From Flow Measurement
Many industries require equipment that meets specific design and construction
criteria to ensure “sanitary” conditions. Here, “sanitary” does not refer to waste
treatment applications but to highly “clean” conditions. The most
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From Flow Measurement
Many industries require equipment that meets specific design and construction
criteria to ensure “sanitary” conditions. Here, “sanitary” does not refer to waste
treatment applications but to highly “clean” conditions. The most common usage
of sanitary flowmeters is in industries where bacteria growth and product contamination
are a critical concern, such as in the production of food, dairy, and pharmaceutical
products. Although this is the prime consideration in selecting a sanitarytype
flowmeter, applications in a variety of non-food industries also require sanitary
design flowmeters for reasons other than prevention of bacterial growth or
Design requirements and specifications for sanitary flowmeters originated in
the dairy industry. The handling and packaging of a perishable product such as
fluid milk required components that did not compound the problem of product
spoilage and bacterial growth. Equipment of all types, including flowmeters, had
to be designed to ensure that milk residue did not become trapped or be caught
and left to spoil. These pockets of spoiled product could harbor areas of harmful
bacterial growth and later contaminate fresh product. Flowmeters were designed
to eliminate cracks, crevices, and dead ends where residue could collect or pockets
of bacteria could form. In addition, flowmeters had to...
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WHO and UNICEF convene First Global Consultation on Child and Adolescent Health and Development
WHO: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland,Director General, World Health OrganizationMs Carol Bellamy,Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund
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WHO and UNICEF convene First Global Consultation on Child and Adolescent Health and Development
WHO: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland,Director General, World Health OrganizationMs Carol Bellamy,Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund WHAT: First Global Consultation on Child and Adolescent Health and Development,A Healthy Start in Life WHEN: 12 & 13 March 2002Press Briefing on Tuesday, 12 March from 10:30 – 11:15 am WHERE: Foresta Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden WHY: Every year almost 11 million children and 1.5 million adolescents die from preventable Causes. The Consultation will reach a consensus on priorities and on how to move forward on scaling up interventions that are known to work.
The world now has the knowledge and the technology to treat and prevent deadly diseases, conditions and injuries. We have the science; we need the political will and the resources.
The Consultation is linked to the UN Special Session on Children in May 2002, where world leaders will re-affirm their commitment to building a world fit for children.
A new edition of Facts for Life, a compendium of vital knowledge that almost everyone can act on to give children the best possible start to life, with over 15 million copies in 215 languages currently in use in some 200 countries will also be released.
For Press Accreditation please contact: Kicki Andreasson at CONGREX, Tel: +46 8 459 6600, Fax: +46 8 661 9125, e-mail: [email protected]
Journalists are invited to attend the sessions as observers. The informal press briefing will allow for one-on-one interviews with Heads of UN agencies, high level government officials from around the world, and experts on child and adolescent health and development.
More information on the Consultation is available at the following web site: http://www.who.int/consultation-child-adolescent The media can also download high resolution photographs from the web site press centre.
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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials brought 22 Nazi officials to court in 1945-46. The defendants are seen on the right side of the photo.
Photo credit: USHMM
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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials brought 22 Nazi officials to court in 1945-46. The defendants are seen on the right side of the photo.
Photo credit: USHMM Photo Archives
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology,
College of Education, University of South Florida © 1997-2013.
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With the Christmas holidays approaching and the cold nights by the fire, I was going through my DVD library at home and it got me thinking about the importance and usefulness of films in education. I do use films in my lessons as I find the footage
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With the Christmas holidays approaching and the cold nights by the fire, I was going through my DVD library at home and it got me thinking about the importance and usefulness of films in education. I do use films in my lessons as I find the footage and content can convey a message that can help a students understanding.
I have always been using documentaries and footage from DVDs and videos in my lessons but I had not realised what films could offer. It got my mind racing on different aspects of films that could be shown to pupils within different subject areas. I soon realised that films could enhance and develop a pupils learning and encourage them to be life long learners.
Films can enhance a lesson and excite a young mind with their powerful and thought-provoking subject matter. My good friend from my Southampton University days, Dr. Pietari Kaapa of the University of Helsinki, has stated that, ‘cinema as both a popular form of entertainment and a means of artistic and political expression, is a crucial area of classroom teaching. The pedagogical potential of film provides an immediate and invigorating addition to established lesson plans, while the history of the medium and its contextual socio-cultural relevance function as sources of study in their own right.’
As a Geography Teacher I have used a wide variety of different films to help show and back up key terminology or sometimes complex geographical features. The world today has created a generation of young people with very active minds. The days of a teacher in a classroom talking for 50 minutes are long gone and would not generate much enthusiasm from today’s young learners. Interaction and variety is what is needed to engage learners and film is one medium that can grip a young person’s attention. Film can enthuse and generate much debate and help a learner.
Pupils are requested to use and take part in different types of media within their learning from the National Curriculum. Films like music should be encouraged to be used within the classroom. My good friend and former flatmate, Nick Hargreaves, of Radipole Primary School in Weymouth, Dorset, believes that ‘films are a really valid text as much as books. With the National Curriculum we have to look at various types of media within a child’s learning and film is one way.’
‘Films are not always easy to understand and it does take time sometimes for a young learner to fully understand the complexities of a film like the music changing in relation to the mood of the film.’ As we are aware there are three types of learners; visual, auditory and kinesthetic. A film is one medium that incorporates all three learning styles and can hold the attention and pass on knowledge and understanding to all three main learning styles. Nick Hargreaves says ‘film takes into account how a learner learns…it attracts the three main types of learners and engages all of them in one sitting. It reaches out to all target levels especially boys’.
I remember reading Great Expectations at school and found watching the David Lean adaption a much-needed guiding hand when it came to revising for the GCSE. A film may not always be true or correct, but in the right hands, us as teachers, we can filter out the bad and use the great pieces of film there is out there waiting to be used. I would really like to know what films you use in the classroom – do you have a ‘Top Ten Movie List’? Please send in your comments via the comment box below or by twitter @tiddtalk – I look forward to reading your choices!
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Johnny Appleseed (person)
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|Sorry, but apples suitable for eating have been around since the Roman Empire. In Pliny's time, apples and pears were not only eaten for dessert, but were
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Johnny Appleseed (person)
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|Sorry, but apples suitable for eating have been around since the Roman Empire. In Pliny's time, apples and pears were not only eaten for dessert, but were commonly preserved in honey.
Grafting was already a highly developed art in those days. Pliny claimed that "This part of life has long since reached its summit; everything has been tried". The Romans had discovered or developed 25 different varieties of apple. Cider is actually a much more recent development, probably originating in Biscay around the 10th or 11th Century. (There is some evidence that the ancient Egyptians made cider, and the Romans were aware of this, but did not make or drink cider themselves.)
The true innovation of the "modern apple" varieties that began to be produced in the Twentieth Century is a much-increased yield per tree and a more predictable growing season, not increased sweetness. Modern varieties also tend to look better than the antique apples, which says nothing about their flavour.
In American history, edible apples were apparently unknown to the Native Americans, and were a European contribution. But edible varieties were certainly common from the first days of European settlement in America. The first "modern" variety of apple, the McIntosh Red, was discovered around 1810 (possibly as early as 1796) by John McIntosh.
None of this goes to say that Johnny Appleseed didn't like some hard cider. Most people did in his time. He may or may not have - historically, hard cider has usually been considered a healthy and sin-free drink, so I'm not sure Chapman's taboo on alcohol included hard cider. But whether he did or not, that wasn't the purpose of his plantings. Let's not try to revise the history of agriculture just to make a highly dubious point.
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Ventilate: what for?
Ventilation through windows: an obsolete and expensive habit
In the past opening windows was an appropriate means of ensuring good indoor air quality in occupied spaces. However now that energy efficiency has taken a much greater level of importance
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Ventilate: what for?
Ventilation through windows: an obsolete and expensive habit
In the past opening windows was an appropriate means of ensuring good indoor air quality in occupied spaces. However now that energy efficiency has taken a much greater level of importance, this function is best served through the installation of an automatic ventilation system. Indeed, the quest for energy performance is clearly no longer compatible with simply opening and closing windows. It is almost impossible for the inhabitant to judge the correct level of ventilation required, the optimum point of entry of air into the dwelling, or its duration. With ventilation provided by open windows, the amount of air renewal is either too low (with windows open for too brief a period of time, or in a limited number of rooms), or too high (which causes severe heat loss, especially in winter). For example, when the outside temperature is 5°c and the inside temperature is 21°c, the opening of a window for 10 minutes can account for a heat loss equivalent to 10KW/h of electricity. An average loss of £1.25!
Opening a window for 10 minutes in winter = £1.25*
Therefore, a suitable and automatic ventilation system is the only way to guarantee indoor air quality and energy efficiency, by greatly limiting heat loss and removing the need to ventilate through the windows, particularly during the heating season.
* Based on the average domestic electricity price of 12.5p per KW/h, with an internal temperature of 21°C and with ‘normal’ weather conditions.
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State and Local Climate and Energy Program
Developing a Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Schools and Universities
Resources for Conducting a GHG Inventory of State Government Operations:
What is a Greenhouse Gas Inventory?
A greenhouse gas inventory is an accounting
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State and Local Climate and Energy Program
Developing a Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Schools and Universities
Resources for Conducting a GHG Inventory of State Government Operations:
What is a Greenhouse Gas Inventory?
A greenhouse gas inventory is an accounting of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted to or removed from the atmosphere over a period of time. Policy makers use inventories to track emission trends, develop mitigation strategies and policies, and assess progress. An inventory is usually the first step taken by entities that want to reduce their GHG emissions. An inventory can help state governments:
- Identify the sectors, sources, and activities within their state that are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions
- Understand emission trends
- Quantify the benefits of activities that reduce emissions
- Establish a basis for developing an action plan
- Track progress in reducing emissions
- Set goals and targets for future reductions
- Engage residents and businesses in GHG reduction opportunities
Steps to Conducting a GHG Inventory
|Set boundaries||Define an inventory's physical, organizational, and operational boundaries.|
|Define scope||Decide which emissions source and/or activity categories and subcategories should be included in the inventory as well as which specific greenhouse gases. The scope and detail of will drive the level of effort required.|
|Choose quantification approach||Depending on the data available and the purposes of the inventory, choose to take a top-down, bottom-up, or hybrid approach to data collection.|
|Set a baseline||When choosing a baseline year to provide a benchmark to compare progress going forward, consider whether (1) data for that year are available, (2) the chosen year is representative, and (3) the baseline is coordinated to the extent possible with baseline years used in other inventories.|
|Engage stakeholders||Bring stakeholders into the inventory development process early on to provide valuable input on establishing a baseline; help build public acceptance of policies to address climate change; and provide data, information on data resources, and personnel resources or outreach assistance.|
|Consider certification||Consider a third-party review and certification of the methods and underlying data in an inventory to assure that the inventory is high quality and that it is complete, consistent, and transparent. Certification may be required for participation in some greenhouse gas registries.|
EPA's Webcast Training Series: Greenhouse Gas Inventory 101 for Local, Regional, and State Governments is available in three installments. Recordings and transcripts can be downloaded below.
Creating an Inventory
Topics include understanding the purpose and scope of a GHG inventory, inventories vs. registries, setting a boundary, setting a baseline, quantification approaches, certification and reporting protocols, comparability, and level of effort.
- Recording (Windows Media file) (1:28, 10.1M, Get Media Player )
Transcript (PDF) (19 pp, 61K) | Presentation (PDF) (27 pp, 432K)
Translating Inventory Results into Action
Topics include describing the various uses of GHG inventories, including benchmarking, tracking emissions and progress over time, setting emission reduction goals, policy options for meeting goals, evaluating policy options, and processes for setting goals and policies.
- Recording (Windows Media file) (1:16, 8.6M, Get Media Player )
Transcript (PDF) (19 pp, 67K) | Presentation (PDF) (30 pp, 389K)
State Inventory Tool (SIT) Training Session
Topics include background information on the development of the SIT modules and a live demonstration of the CO2 from Fossil Fuel Combustion Module, Natural Gas and Oil Module, Synthesis Module, and Projection Tool.
- Recording (Windows Media file) (1:16, 11.8M, Get Media Player )
Transcript (PDF) (18 pp, 51K) | Presentation (PDF) (28 pp, 690K)
EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Through EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more per year of GHGs are required to annually report their GHG emissions to EPA. Well over half of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are accounted for in this facility level data set, including nearly complete coverage of major emitting sectors such as power plants and refineries. This "bottom up" data can be used to supplement or complement a top-down inventory developed using the State Inventory and Projection Tool. For more information about accessing the data and how it may be used in state inventories, please see the materials from our March 2012 webcast.
Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)
eGRID contains a comprehensive inventory of environmental attributes of electric power systems including air emissions data for nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and mercury. The data are organized in a series of Microsoft Excel files that state governments can use to find data on emissions from electricity generation within their state and/or emissions associated with electricity within their state.
Energy CO2 Emissions by State
These tables present state carbon dioxide (CO2) emission inventories from fossil fuel combustion from 1990 through 2010, organized by end-use sector (commercial, industrial, residential, transportation, and electric power), in million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2). EPA developed these state-level CO2 estimates using (1) fuel consumption data from the DOE/EIA State Energy Data 2010 Consumption tables and (2) emission factors from the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990-2010.
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager is a Web-based r
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Poet and musician Robert Mirabal was raised by his mother and grandparents at Taos Pueblo in a world suffused with Pueblo agriculture and tradition. Corn––Corn Mothers, Corn Songs and the Corn Dance––formed the center of their lives
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Poet and musician Robert Mirabal was raised by his mother and grandparents at Taos Pueblo in a world suffused with Pueblo agriculture and tradition. Corn––Corn Mothers, Corn Songs and the Corn Dance––formed the center of their lives and was at the root of everything they did.
When the two-time Grammy winner slowed his touring schedule a few years ago, he decided to spend summers in a simple canvas tent north of the pueblo, committing himself to ancient farming methods and living off the land.
As Mirabal spent warm nights listening to the wind in his cornfields, he had a revelation. Without corn, his people would be extinct. And without the Pueblo Revolt leader Po’pay, Puebloan people never would have kept their corn traditions alive. But the corn is still here, sustaining the people and maintaining an integral role in ceremonies and daily life. Maybe, Mirabal thought, Po’pay has been here all along, too.
“In Pueblo culture, we believe there are certain people who don’t actually die,” Mirabal says. “They just kind of evolve into something else.”
Mirabal began imagining where Po’pay might have been and what he may have done and seen in the years since he led the Pueblo Revolt of Aug. 10, 1680. In the highly coordinated revolt, Pueblo people killed hundreds of Spanish colonists and drove the rest from New Mexico. The Puebloans defended their independence from harsh Spanish rule for the next 12 years. When the Spanish eventually returned, the Pueblo people were granted land and legal rights they didn’t have before.
With the help of co-writers Nelson Zink and Stephen Parks, Mirabal has written a one-man show about the Pueblo leader who’s equally hated and revered.
Po’pay Speaks opens Aug. 16 at The Lodge at Santa Fe. In the performance (which includes some musical interludes), Po’pay has been living for the past 331 years in a cornfield north of Taos, analyzing life, traveling the world and spending time with the likes of Wovoka the Paiute prophet, Jim Morrison, Kit Carson, Georgia O’Keeffe and Mabel Dodge Luhan.
“He’s been to Vietnam. He’s just kinda been around,” Mirabal says. Lumenscapes Illumination Media of Santa Fe helps Mirabal achieve different moods to convey Po’pay’s voyages through time and space.
The focus of the performance is not the bloody revolt, but what has happened since––and the lessons Po’pay wants to pass on. It’s also about Mirabal’s notion that Po’pay resides in everyone.
“I wanted to create someone who you could see on the Santa Fe Plaza or at the pueblos on feast days,” Mirabal says. “Po’pay’s revolution was carried
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The U.S. wind industry isn’t winding down anytime soon – this month, the industry hit a historic milestone: U.S. wind turbines can now produce 50 gigawatts of electricity.
American wind energy now powers the equivalent of nearly
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The U.S. wind industry isn’t winding down anytime soon – this month, the industry hit a historic milestone: U.S. wind turbines can now produce 50 gigawatts of electricity.
American wind energy now powers the equivalent of nearly 13 million American homes. According to the American Wind Energy Association, the benefits of generating 50 GW of clean wind energy include:
Burning Less Coal
Wind energy can now generate the same amount of electricity as 44 coal-fired power plants. For reference, just one coal plant emits roughly 3,700,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Reducing CO2 Emissions
The offset CO2 emissions from U.S. wind is equivalent to taking 14 million gasoline-powered cars off the road.
Switching to wind power means saving water. Compared with thermal electric generation, wind power conserves 30 billion gallons of water a year.
Double or Nothing
Every few years, the industry doubles its growth. In 2003, the industry reached the electric generating capacity of 5 GW. In 2006, its capacity increased to 10 GW. By 2008, i
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If our lifestyle is good lifelong smile is ours..if we are active throughout the day our mood will be always good..
Everyone knows that the exercising is good for health..there are different types of exercising.it may be aerobics,sw
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If our lifestyle is good lifelong smile is ours..if we are active throughout the day our mood will be always good..
Everyone knows that the exercising is good for health..there are different types of exercising.it may be aerobics,swimming,yoga,dancing,jim,walking,cycling..etc.its all depends on us.
so,then what are benefits of exercising..
- Exercising reduces fat contained in our body.
- Exercising kills unnecessary calories from our body.
- if our body weight is proper,then body shape will also be proper.
2.fight against diseases
- Exercising avoids heart problems,blood pressure, diabetes.
- its better to do exercise than taking tablets throughout the life.
3.it changes our mood
- Exercising also keeps our mood proper within the stressfull life.
- Exercising reduces the tiredness.
- Exercising gives energy to the body muscles.
- Blood circulates throughout the body,so oxygen will be supplied to all the tissues in large amount.
- Exercising helps the respiratory system to work properly.
- Exercising also gives energy to body to fight against diseases.
- Exercising gives good sleep to body.
- so that good sleep keeps the body active throughout the day.[image credit]
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Warner Glenn rides with his granddaughter Mackenzie; their family has been in ranching in the Malpai region for six generations.
Rancher and professional mountain lion hunter Warner Glenn often works closely with wildlife biologists.
A coalition of ranchers
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Warner Glenn rides with his granddaughter Mackenzie; their family has been in ranching in the Malpai region for six generations.
Rancher and professional mountain lion hunter Warner Glenn often works closely with wildlife biologists.
A coalition of ranchers and conservationists are finding new ways to make cattle ranching compatible with environmental preservation. As NPR's John Burnett reports, the plan pits preservation and financial incentives against development and unrestrained land-use.
Cattle ranchers in the Malpai Borderlands Group receive cash and tax breaks in exchange for keeping their lands out of the hands of developers. They also agree to manage their cattle in ways less likely to damage fragile desert landscapes.
The Malpai Group, which began in 1993, protects 800,000 acres while also sustaining working cattle ranches. And an increasing number of experts think the Malpai model is an idea that could work elsewhere.
The group's lands straddle the line between Arizona and New Mexico, just above the Mexican border near the intersection of the great Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts. The name malpai is border-Spanish for "mal-pais," or badlands.
The Malpai Group came up with a twist on the standard conservation easement. In its "grass-banking" plan, a rancher needing grazing areas gets to rest his land and place his cows on grass-rich pastures at nearby Gray Ranch, owned by a non-profit foundation.
While some ranchers in the area aren't part of the plan, its members say they're trying to find ways to stay in business on arid, remote land. The Malpai Borderland Group is testing the idea that people devoted to preserving a wide-open West should play a central role in its survival.
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In March 1893 Senator John Morgan was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to a commission representing American interests before the Bering Sea Tribunal, then meeting in Paris. While there, Morgan renewed a former acquaintance with artist Carl Gutherz. Guther
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In March 1893 Senator John Morgan was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to a commission representing American interests before the Bering Sea Tribunal, then meeting in Paris. While there, Morgan renewed a former acquaintance with artist Carl Gutherz. Gutherz was eager to paint a portrait of Senator Morgan, who resisted giving up the time for sittings. Eventually, Morgan agreed to six sittings, saying that he “would waste no more valuable time on it.”
Gutherz completed the portrait that May. The painting hung in Senator Morgan’s Washington, D.C., residence, and it remained in the family’s possession until offered to the Senate by the senator’s daughter, Cornelia Morgan. Seeking an appropria
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Nathan Bedford Forrest Joins the Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest is always a popular subject in Confederate heritage, but that’s never been more true than it is today. He’s frequently featured in the secular trinity of Confederate heroes, alongside Lee
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Nathan Bedford Forrest Joins the Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest is always a popular subject in Confederate heritage, but that’s never been more true than it is today. He’s frequently featured in the secular trinity of Confederate heroes, alongside Lee and Jackson. And like those two – and only those two – Forrest has achieved the modern apotheosis of Confederate fame, having his own page of t-shirts at Dixie Outfitters.
But Forrest’s defenders often hold the line at one claim, that he was a prominent figure in the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan. Even as they struggle to rationalize the Klan of that period as a necessary counter against the supposed excesses of the Union League and other northern influences, they usually deny any involvement of Forrest in the Klan’s organizing or activities, except for the odd claim that Forrest, despite having no authority or connection to the group, successfully ordered them to stand down in 1869.
So did Forrest really join the Ku Klux Klan? Yes, he did. Was he really Grand Wizard of the group? Yes, he was. How do we know this? Because the old klansmen who were there tell us so.
Forrest’s order to disband the group is something that Forrest’s supporters generally agree upon — they’ll credit him with stopping the Klan’s violence, though never supporting it, or being involved with it — but that order makes little sense when coupled with the assertion that the former general had no other connection to the group. Why would such an order come from Forrest, exa
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In February's Beef Cattle Comment, Cornell University Extension Beef Specialist Mike Baker, Beef Extension Specialist, shared some good news for cow-calf producers concerned over the high-cost of grain concentrates. Ohio State University researchers studied the impact of three ration sources
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In February's Beef Cattle Comment, Cornell University Extension Beef Specialist Mike Baker, Beef Extension Specialist, shared some good news for cow-calf producers concerned over the high-cost of grain concentrates. Ohio State University researchers studied the impact of three ration sources to cows in their last trimester before spring calving.
Three cow groups were 1) full fed hay, or 2) 4.4 pounds of hay plus 8.5 pounds of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) and 2.2 pounds of protein/mineral supplement or 3) 4.8 pounds of hay, 10 pounds of dry shelled corn plus 2.2 pounds of supplement.
Steer calves from the cows were weaned at about six months of age, backgrounded on stockpiled fescue for 28 days, then placed on a common high-energy diet. They were harvested when bakfat registered at 0.5 inches via ultrasound.
Birth weights of calves born to cows on the all-hay diet were smaller than the others. Weaning weights of calves from corn supplemented cows was greater than calves from hay-fed cows, while those from DDGS fed cows were intermediate.
Milk production was measured using the weigh-suckle-weigh procedure and found not to be different between t
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If NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center were to write a holiday letter, there would be no shortage of highlights to share. Gathered here are just a few of the shining moments from the Goddard 'household' in 201
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If NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center were to write a holiday letter, there would be no shortage of highlights to share. Gathered here are just a few of the shining moments from the Goddard 'household' in 2012.
The first Earth-observing satellite designed to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables launched shortly before 6 a.m. ET on Oct. 28. NPP will provide scientists with data to extend more than 30 key long-term datasets.
NASA is planning an Oct. 28 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. NPP will provide scientists with data to extend more than 30 key long-term datasets.
Earth Science Week: 2011's theme is 'Our Ever-Changing Earth.' NASA offers a variety of multimedia products and educational activities designed to improve understanding of the natural processes that shape our planet.
NASA will hold a news briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP), scheduled to launch on Oct. 27 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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Abraham Lincoln (18091865). Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas 1897.
plank upon which every Whig would stand, and by which he would regulate his future conduct. When the Democratic party assembled at the same place one
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Abraham Lincoln (18091865). Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas 1897.
plank upon which every Whig would stand, and by which he would regulate his future conduct. When the Democratic party assembled at the same place one month after, to nominate General Pierce, we adopted the same platform so far as those Compromise measures were concerned, agreeing that we would stand by those glorious measures as a cardinal article in the Democratic faith. Thus you see that in 1852 all the old Whigs and all the old Democrats stood on a common plank so far as this slavery question was concerned, differing on other questions.
Now, let me ask, how is it that since that time so many of you Whigs have wandered from the true path marked out by Clay and carried out broad and wide by the great Webster? How is it that so many old-line Democrats have abandoned the old faith of their party, and joined with Abolitionism and Freesoilism to overturn the platform of the old Democrats, and the platform of the old Whigs? You cannot deny that since 1854 there has been a great revolution on this one question. How has it been brought about? I answer, that no sooner was the sod grown green over the grave of the immortal Clay, no sooner was the rose planted on the tomb of the god-like Webster, than many of the leaders of the Whig party, such as Seward of New York, and his followers, led off and attempted to Abolitionize the Whig party, and transfer all your old Whigs, bound hand and foot, into the Abolition camp. Seizing hold of the temporary excitement produced in this country by the introduction of the Nebraska bill, the disappointed politicians in the Democratic party united with the disappointed politicians in the Whig party, and endeavored to form a new party, composed of all the Abolitionists; of Abolitionized Democrats and Abolitionized Whigs, banded together in an Abolition platform.
And who led that crusade against National principles in this State? I answer, Abraham Lincoln on behalf of the Whigs, and Lyman Trumbull on behalf of the Democrats, formed a scheme by which they would Abolitionize the two great parties in this State, on condition that Lincoln should be sent to the United States Senate in place of General Shields, and that Trumbull should go to Congress from the Belleville District until I would be accommodating enough either to die or resign for his benefit, and then he was to go to the Senate in my place. You all remember
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Heat and Temperature Study Guide for McGraw-Hill's Firefighter Exams (page 2)
Heat and temperature are two distinct, but closely related, concepts. Heat is a measure of the quantity of energy contained in a substance. It is
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Heat and Temperature Study Guide for McGraw-Hill's Firefighter Exams (page 2)
Heat and temperature are two distinct, but closely related, concepts. Heat is a measure of the quantity of energy contained in a substance. It is the total amount of molecular vibration (energy) in a material. Temperature, on the other hand, is the average energy of its molecules. Temperature is a measure of how fast molecules are moving within a substance. It is an indicator of the level at which the heat energy exists.
Heat is measured in several ways, discussed briefly below.
British Thermal Unit
A British thermal unit (BTU) is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of 1 lb of water (measured at 60°F at sea level) by 1° F. Common materials that burn store a standard amount of heat energy per pound. This information is valuable to firefighters when they are calculating the amount of water required during fire extinguishing operations and to fire protection engineers when they are designing and installing fire extinguishment systems and equipment.
One BTU is equal to 252 calories (metric heat unit), 3.96 large calories (kilogram calorie), or 1,055 joules (mechanical heat unit). Below is a list of some common combustibles and their equated latent heat of combustion:
A calorie is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water (measured at 15 degrees Celsius [°C] at sea level) by 1° C. One calorie is equivalent to 4.184 joules.
The joule is the heat energy unit in the International System of Units (SI). It is the amount of heat energy provided by 1 watt flowing for 1 second.
Temperature units can be used to compare the difference in heat energy levels between two materials. Temperature is measured by monitoring how much an object expands from its size at a given starting point (the freezing point of water, for example) and defining a unit of measurement (1 degree). All temperatures are then multiples of that defined unit of measurement.
The Fahrenheit (F) degree is named for the German scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer at the beginning of the eighteenth century. There are 180 increment degrees between the temperature of melting ice (32 degrees) and the boiling of water (212 degrees) on the Fahrenheit temperature scale. 1°F is equal to 5/9 degrees Celsius.
To convert (approximately) a temperature on the Fahrenheit scale to the Celsius or Centigrade scale, you first subtract 32 degrees from the Fahrenheit temperature and then multiply by 5/9.
For example, if a person's body temperature is 98.6°F, its temperature in Celsius is
The Celsius (C) degree is a metric unit of temperature measurement. It is named for the Swedish professor Anders Celsius, who invented the Centigrade temperature scale in the 1720s using the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees. This unit is approved by the SI.
To convert (approximately) normal body temperature on the Centigrade scale to the Fahrenheit scale, first multiply the Celsius temperature by 1.8, or 9/5, and then add 32.
The Rankine (R) degree is a traditional unit of absolute temperature. The temperature units for Rankine and Fahrenheit are equal (1 degree Rankine represents the same temperature difference as 1 degree Fahrenheit), but the zero points differ. The zero point on the Rankine scale is set at absolute zero, which is –457.6 degrees, the hypothetical point at which all molecular movement ceases. The unit is named for British physicist and engineer William Rankine (1820–1872).
To convert degree units from the Rankine scale to the Fahrenheit scale and the Fahrenheit scale to the Rankine scale use the following formulas:
F = R – 457 and R = F + 457
The Kelvin degree (K) is equal to the Celsius degree, but the Kelvin scale has its zero point set at absolute zero, which is –273.1. This unit is approved by the SI. The Kelvin degree is named for British inventor and scientist William Thompson, who was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1866 and named Baron Kelvin of Largs in 1892.
To convert degree units from the Kelvin scale to the Centigrade scale and the Centigrade scale to the Kelvin scale, use the following formulas:
C = K – 273 and K = C + 273
Heat can be transferred to other materials through conduction, convection, radiation, and direct flame contact.
Conduction is the transfer of heat energy through a medium (usually a solid). Heat causes molecules within the material to move at a faster rate and transmit their energy to neighboring molecules. The heat of conduction can also be transferred from one material to another via direct contact in the same fashion as internal molecular movement. The amount of heat transferred and rate of travel is dependent on the thermal conductivity of the material. Dense materials (metals) are good conductors of heat energy. Fibrous materials (wood, paper, cloth) and air are poor conductors. In a fire situation, heat can be conducted via steel columns and girders to abutting wood floor joists causing them to smolder and eventually ignite.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will begin to vaccinate 8.5 million children against polio this month after 45 cases of the disease were reported, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
In 2004-200
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will begin to vaccinate 8.5 million children against polio this month after 45 cases of the disease were reported, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
In 2004-2006 an outbreak of polio spread from north Sudan causing 1,200 cases worldwide, sparking a $150 million emergency response.
Sudan was polio free until 2004 and is considered a high risk for spreading the virus internationally as it borders nine countries, according to the WHO.
"(We have) 40 cases in south Sudan and five reported in February and March in south Sudan," acting WHO representative Salah Haithami told Reuters.
He said the outbreak was under control and that U.N. agencies and the government would begin to vaccinations on Oct. 27.
Polio is a virus that attacks the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis in one in 200 cases, of which 5-10 percent die as breathing muscles fail. It affects mainly children under the age of 5.
International efforts to combat polio has cut cases by 99 percent in 10 years -- a drop of more than 350,000 cases in 1998 to about 1,600 in 2008.
Mass immunisation campaigns in the 20th century almost completely eradicated the virus.
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Sep. 13, 2013 Prior to the use of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination, hundreds of those infected with the measles would die yearly, tens of thousands would be hospitalized and around 1,000 cases would result in
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Sep. 13, 2013 Prior to the use of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination, hundreds of those infected with the measles would die yearly, tens of thousands would be hospitalized and around 1,000 cases would result in chronic disability. Decades later, after believing that endemic transmission of this highly contagious illness was eradicated in the United States in 2000, cases are on the rise again, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It is heartbreaking to watch something happen that is completely preventable,” said David Kimberlin, M.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham professor of pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics’ liaison to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
“This would not be happening if people trusted us and got their measles vaccinations,” said Kimberlin, who sees patients at Children's of Alabama. “Someone eventually will die from measles, leaving many asking why it couldn't have been prevented, but it can be.”
Kimberlin said measles cases are making it into the United States through international travelers, but it is finding fertile ground in communities because of the percentage of people in those communities who are not vaccinated against measles.
The CDC reports 159 cases between Jan. 1 and Aug. 24, 2013, with 82 percent of the cases in unvaccinated persons, and 9 percent with unknown vaccination status. Ninety-nine percent of the cases were import-related.
“It is like tossing a lit match on dry grass,” Kimberlin said. “The message to take home from this is quite simple: get vaccinated against all vaccine-preventable diseases and be protected from them, or do not get vaccinated and run the very-real risk of getting those diseases and possibly dying.”
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Northern California Coastal & Inland Valleys
Patrol for Budworms
Budworms take all the fun out of growing two of the Bay area's favorite blooming plants. Both petunias and geraniums are susceptible to
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Northern California Coastal & Inland Valleys
Patrol for Budworms
Budworms take all the fun out of growing two of the Bay area's favorite blooming plants. Both petunias and geraniums are susceptible to the ravages of tobacco budworms. In order to enjoy their abundant blooms, start your vigil now against these caterpillars. Check buds and flowers for small holes. At the first sign of damage, handpick caterpillars or use an insecticide containing spinosad. Unlike with many other caterpillars, Bt is not an effective control. Caterpillars need to consume Bt for it to be effective and they just don't consume much as they feed inside the buds.
Fertilize Tuberous Begonias
The secret to growing magnificent tuberous begonias is the big fertilizer switch. Use 22-14-14 to get the plants up and growing. The high amount of nitrogen produces lush, green foliage. The moment you see buds forming, switch to 15-30-15 or 0-10-10. This will help produce an abundance of those incredible flowers. Tend your plants in the morning hours to avoid spreading powdery mildew. Also keep in mind that tuberous begonias don't need nearly as much water as people believe. A thorough soaking once a week will suffice, depending on the type of soil they are planted in.
Look Closely for Tomato Hornworms
Tomato hornworms look like aliens from another planet! The creepy, eye-like markings along both sides of the creature give you the eerie feeling of being watched when you encounter them on your plants. Their green color makes these 4- to 6-inch-long caterpillars very difficult to spot on tomato plants. Look for chewed leaves and black droppings and you are apt to find a tomato hornworm not too far away. Handpick or if caterpillars are small, spray with the natural insecticide Bt.
Fuchsias bloom on new wood. If you keep the branch tips pinched back, the plant will produce two new stems for every one you pinch off. That means twice as many flowers! Remove the last two sets of leaves after the blooms have faded from each stem. Fuchsias are heavy feeders, so pour on the fertilizer and keep the soil moist
Prune Rhododendrons and Azaleas
This is the ideal time to prune and shape rhododendrons and azaleas before they begin to set their buds for next spring. Cut rangy plants back to bare wood if necessary. Fertilize the plants with a high-acid fertilizer after pruning to encourage maximum blooming.
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What are the contrasts between the deaths of Brutus and Cassius in Julius Caesar?
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There are some obvious similarities between the deaths of Brutus and Cassius. Both die on the field
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Better Students Ask More Questions.
What are the contrasts between the deaths of Brutus and Cassius in Julius Caesar?
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There are some obvious similarities between the deaths of Brutus and Cassius. Both die on the field of battle, having been forced into retreat, and both regard death as vastly preferable to being taken alive by the enemy. Their manner of death is also similar as they ask a subordinate to help end their lives by the sword. And both invoke Caesar at the moment of death.
However, there are also important differences. One is the state of mind in which each man meets his demise. Although both are in retreat by the end, Brutus does earlier score significant success against Octavian’s forces while Cassius is beaten back by Antony. Cassius’s own failures incline him to believe the worst, so that he fatally misinterprets events, thinking that his friend Titinius has been captured when in reality he has met up with friends. He determines to die there and then, and asks his slave Pindarus to kill him. Titinius arrives back on the scene only when it is too late.
Cassius, then, dies in a fog of uncertainty and in a mood of deep pessimism, if not quite despair, and with no-one but his slave by his side. Brutus, by contrast, goes to his death surrounded by friends:
My heart doth joy that yet in all my life
I found no man but he was true to me. (V.v.34-35)
While Cassius laments that ‘My sight was ever thick’ (V.iii.21) – an observation that can be taken figuratively as well as literally - Brutus still confidently believes in his own clear vision for Rome. He also is confident that he will gain even greater prestige by his death:
I shall have glory by this losing day
More than Octavius and Mark Antony
By this vile conquest shall attain unto. (V.v.36-38)
This is in stark contrast to Cassius:
O coward that I am, to live so long,
To see my best friend ta’en before my face! (V.iii.33-34)
The reaction to the deaths by the victors, Octavius and Antony, also shows a contrast. Antony states unequivocally that Brutus was the only noble one among the conspirators, while the others acted only from ‘envy’ (V.v.68-69). We saw earlier in the play that Cassius did indeed act from jealousy of Caesar while Brutus was motivated by his political idealism.
Brutus, then, dies as he has lived, still preoccupied with thoughts of glory and honour, still believing that his actions were entirely right. However, he also shows signs of the moral dilemma that he agonised over throughout the play, declaring that he is happier to kill himself than he ever was to kill Caesar:
Caesar, now be still;
I killed not thee with half so good a will. (V.v.50-51)
Cassius, in his death, seems to gain in stature; although he himself doesn’t seem aware of it he dies in quite a noble and dignified manner. At the end, he appears a wholly different character from the devious, calculating malcontent of the play’s opening scenes.
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Has the U.S. ever minted a mill coin?
Dimes, nickels, and pennies I've seen--but how about a mill? They get plugged on Green Stamps and box tops a lot. Are they extinct?
No
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Has the U.S. ever minted a mill coin?
Dimes, nickels, and pennies I've seen--but how about a mill? They get plugged on Green Stamps and box tops a lot. Are they extinct?
No mills have ever been minted. Defined by the 1786 law that established U.S. coinage as "the lowest money of accompt, of which 1,000 shall be equal to the federal dollar, or money unit," the mill has been the bastard child of the system since its beginning. Even in those pre-inflation days, the smallest coint ever issued was the half-cent. At one time, some states issued "mill tokens" that were used in collecting sales taxes, which, in 1935, prompted Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau to ask Congress for a license to make a coin to replace the states' homemade substitutes. Unfortunately, they thought he was kidding.
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University, NYC-A team from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University has received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop the first international digital registry to provide unique identification of solid earth samples.
"The Solid Earth
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University, NYC-A team from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University has received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop the first international digital registry to provide unique identification of solid earth samples.
"The Solid Earth Sample Registry (SESAR) will address the urgent need for unique sample identifiers so that sample-based data can be shared and preserved," says project leader Kerstin Lehnert. "The study of solid earth samples is key to our knowledge of Earth's dynamical systems and evolution. Inconsistent or redundant naming of samples has hampered the ability of the whole field to share and integrate data. SESAR will be a big step forward in the development of a geoscience cyberinfrastructure."
Under the new system, each sample will obtain a globally unique serial number, the International Geo Sample Number IGSN, when it is registered in the system. Sample registration will include submission of information about the sample such as collection location, collection time and collector/owner. The system will solve a longstanding, major problem in the geosciences in which samples lose their "identity" as their names get changed as aliquots are passed from one investigator to another. It will facilitate sharing of data, linking of databases, and cooperation among investigators at different institutions. Other relational databases have been established recently that provide a vehicle for linking disparate data, but none has been able to overcome the problem of confused sample names.
The SESAR system will be ready for use by the end of 2004, according to Lehnert. Updates on its development will be available at www.geosamples.org.
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions
that your wife will ask for free.
-- Joey Adams
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Black Hole Sun: Germany Spends €100 Billion in Solar Subsidies
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Step aside Solyndra. Germany is the true leader when it comes to solar boondoggles. Over the past decade, Germany has spent
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Black Hole Sun: Germany Spends €100 Billion in Solar Subsidies
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Step aside Solyndra. Germany is the true leader when it comes to solar boondoggles. Over the past decade, Germany has spent over €100 billion subsidizing solar energy. In 2011 alone, these subsidies topped €8 billion ($10.2 billion). Yet solar is still a niche industry in Germany, generating only 3 percent of its electricity. That's about the size of two nuclear power plants.
The main source for these subsidies have been feed-in tariffs (FiT). One blogger vividly described FiT:
Imagine if the government forced supermarkets to buy bread from plain white bread bakeries, ordered them to pay these bakeries a fixed price that’s 5 times higher than normal for 20 years, and forced them to buy up all the white bread these bakeries could produce, whether needed or not...that's exactly what Germany is doing with electricity.
First used in the early 1990's, FiT became a lavish subsidy after the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was enacted in 2000. Basically, FiT mandate utilities to buy renewable energy at a higher cost, with the tariff benefiting the owner of the renewable energy project. As a sweetener, these tariffs are locked in for 20-year contracts. Because of this, the German think tank RWI estimates that the contracts for solar installations just in 2011 will top €18 billion over the next two decades.
Technically, utilities are supposed to bear the higher costs, not the ratepayer. But as RWI elaborates:
While utilities are legally obliged to accept and remunerate the feed-in of green electricity, it is ultimately the industrial and private consumers who have to bear the cost through increased electricity prices.
Unsurprisingly, Germany has the second-highest electricity prices in Europe. (Denmark, another heavy green energy subsidizer, is first.) Currently, this green energy surcharge is 3.59 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. Each year, this surcharge adds up to €200 more in electric bills.
To justify these higher rates, proponents claim that FiT for solar are essential to thwart global warming and incentivize clean energy innovation. But even by the logic of reducing carbon emissions, heavily subsidizing solar is a poor choice:
To avoid a ton of CO2 emissions, one can spend €5 on insulating the roof of an old building, invest €20 in a new gas-fired power plant or sink about €500 into a new solar energy system.
Meanwhile, using renewable energy avoided 120 million tons of carbon in 2010. But solar energy represents just 7.6 percent of these avoided emissions, even though solar took more than half of all renewable energy subsidies.
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October 17, 1933
Books of The Times
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
By Joseph Roth. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop.
oseph Radetzky, a veteran of Marengo, Wagram
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October 17, 1933
Books of The Times
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
By Joseph Roth. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop.
oseph Radetzky, a veteran of Marengo, Wagram and other smoky battles of the Napoleonic wars, was one of the military glories of the now defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived to be over 90 and died in harness. For years he fought the red-tape artists who taught that military science, like the Rock of Ages, never changed. The measure of his success, as chief of staff and Field Marshal, may be found in the fact that during his lifetime Austria occasionally won a fight. After his death came the evil days; Austria was beaten by Louis Napoleon, by Bismarck, and, finally, in the World War. Francis Joseph, fated to rule the Austro-Hungarian Empire for some three-quarters of a century, was not born under a military star; he went forth to battle and he always- well, almost always- fell.
But the Radetzky March played on. It is one of the devices by which Joseph Roth manages to bind together his study of the disintegration of an empire, "Radetzky March." Through the novel the two-four military time keeps its beat, but at the close the feet of the marchers are lagging, and many are out of step. Francis Joseph himself is dead; and the wind sown by Gavril Princip, who murdered the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Francis Joseph's throne, is about to blow down the flimsy structure of the monarchy. And soon the Radetzky March will be relegated to the lumber room of non-vital history.
All for the Emperor.
"Radetzky March" is an example of the way a good sociological novel should be written. Great events are present only as they are reflected in the lives of the characters- in this case the lives of the three Trottas, all of whom served the Emperor in one way or another. Joseph Trotta, a Slovene, son of a long line of south European peasants, happened to save the young Francis Joseph's life at Solferino by stopping a bullet aimed at his Majesty's head. For his services Joseph Trotta was made a baron, promoted to the rank of Captain, and rewarded more concretely by a dispensation from the imperial purse. His son, Franz, became a minister of the civil service, but Carl Joseph, the grandson of the "hero of Solferino," found himself committed by the growing family legend to the cavalry.
All three Trottas are very limited people. Joseph was unimaginative enough to resign from the service when he discovered that the story of his exploit at Solferino had been dressed up for patriotic consumption in the Austrian school books. Franz lives his official's life by rote, receiving the mail at precisely the same hour of a morning, never questioning his duty to God and to King, always thrilling to order at the overture to the Radetzky March. Carl Joseph himself, although faith is wearing thin on the eve of the World War, is still bound to his Majesty, who, indeed, saves him for Auld Lang Syne from the consequences of a debt incurred through dissipation. Nothing much happens throughout the 400 pages of the novel; life just dozes on. The officers do the usual things; they drill, drink a little or much, visit Fran Resi's establishment (or others like it), play roulette, and generally mark time waiting for the war which must come. Carl Joseph doesn't like the army, but has no will power to achieve a career in mufti.
But "Radetzky March" is not a slumbering novel. Just as the Russians can make great literature about the act of getting out of bed in the morning, so can Joseph Roth vitalize these pages about a vast calm before the storm of 1914. He makes spiritual paralysis exciting. Carl Joseph is held in thrall by two symbols. The Radetzky March binds him to the military life. And the portrait of the aging Emperor, his cold blue eyes staring out at his thousands of mixed subjects- Slovenes, Croats, Magyars, Germans, Bohemians, Italians, Poles and Ukrainians- seems to demand the loyalty expended by the first important Trotta, the hero of Solferino.
Where the Picture Hangs.
This portrait, as the book proceeds, seems to be all that holds the empire together. We meet with it in blowsy spirit shops, in fleshy gambling establishments, in cafes in Vienna or in the far marches on the Russian frontier, and in still more shady places. One of the most indicative passages in the book concerns Carl Joseph's rescue of the Emperor's picture from Frau Resi's establishment; to such petty heroism is the Trotta line degraded. But the Emperor's aged visage will not prevail. There is an uneasy feeling abroad in the
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Closing the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Mixing in the Southern Oceans
OCCI Project Funded: 2002
The meridional overturning circulation refers to the flow of dense and bottom water away from their
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Closing the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Mixing in the Southern Oceans
OCCI Project Funded: 2002
The meridional overturning circulation refers to the flow of dense and bottom water away from their high-latitude sources and the compensating return flow of less dense upper-ocean water. Production of dense water in the northern Atlantic results in a prominent high salinity, relatively cold water mass, the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), that penetrates southward into the South Atlantic. NADW can be traced circumpolarly around the Southern Ocean and into the subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. Diapycnal fluxes of mass, heat, salt and other properties close the NADW circulation by upwelling across isopycnals somewhere in the southern oceans (Southern Ocean and subtropical South Atlantic, South Pacific and Indian Oceans). The diapycnal fluxes are therefore a key element of the NADW overturning circulation. This proposal will determine deep mixing rates in the Southern Ocean and adjacent subtropical Ocean basins using recent hydrographic data. The deep mixing estimates will elucidate the circulation route of NADW in the southern oceans and conversion of deep water to intermediate water which closes the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Originally published: January 1, 2002
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It is possible there will be up to a billion Painted Lady butterflies flying in Britain in coming days.
Conservationists say there may be opportunities to see butterflies in greater numbers than for years. Even if the weather is not sunny and warm throughout
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It is possible there will be up to a billion Painted Lady butterflies flying in Britain in coming days.
Conservationists say there may be opportunities to see butterflies in greater numbers than for years. Even if the weather is not sunny and warm throughout the UK, millions of butterflies should emerge in the areas that are experiencing good weather.
However, they are warning this one-off phenomenon masks an underlying decline in British butterfly numbers.
The message comes as Britain gets set to celebrate its annual Save Our Butterflies Week, which takes place between 25 July and 2 August. The 14,000 members of the charity
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WASHINGTON, DC, October 23, 2007 (ENS) - President George W. Bush outlined several conservation measures his administration is taking to benefit birds while speaking Saturday at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland.
He directed that a new
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WASHINGTON, DC, October 23, 2007 (ENS) - President George W. Bush outlined several conservation measures his administration is taking to benefit birds while speaking Saturday at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland.
He directed that a new State of the Birds report be written, said the U.S. would participate more in an international effort to conserve albatrrosses and petrals, and offered new cooperation with Mexico to protect birds that migrate between the two neighbors.
Many species of birds live part of their lives here in the United States and part in Mexico, the president said. "So we have a strategy to work with Mexico to enhance bird habitats in their country. I've talked about this issue with President [Felipe] Calderon. He shares my concern about making sure there's critical habitat available for our migratory birds."
The Secretaries of State, Interior and Commerce are working with their counterparts in the Mexican government, and nongovernmental organizations are working to undertake important habitat projects in Mexico, said Bush.
"One of the things we have done is we've identified five priority habitats in Mexico. We listened to the experts who pointed us to five important areas and we have provided $4 million to support conservation initiatives there," the president said. He did not immediately identify the priority habitats.
Bush said he has directed federal agencies to "increase U.S. participation" in an international effort to protect coastal and marine migratory birds such as albatrosses and petrels.
The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve albatrosses and petrels. It urges member nations to minimize seabird bycatch by fishermen, protect the birds' nesting and foraging areas, and confront other threats that jeopardize species listed under the agreement.
Bird advocates had hoped that the president would announce that the United States would become a signatory to this agreement, but he did not.
Nineteen out of 22 species of albatrosses are viewed as threatened due to mortality form longline fishing, lead poisoning, loss of nesting habitat, and predation of eggs and chicks by introduced animals.
"Many bird species are in decline and will require collaboration between governments, conservation groups and private landowners to restore the habitats on which they depend," Bush said.
"We appreciate that President Bush and the First Lady understand the value of birds and the need to boost conservation efforts," said George Fenwick, president of American Bird Conservancy at the event. "Birds don't recognize boundaries - geographic or political."
Two-thirds of the bird species that breed in or migrate through the U.S. have declining populations, said Fenwick. Habitat loss and poor habitat management threaten these species, and without improved effort they will continue to decline.
The cerulean warbler, a brilliant blue songbird which breeds in the eastern forests of North America and winters in South America, is a species the American Bird Conservancy is working hard to conserve, but cerulean warblers have declined by 80 percent in the last 40 years.
"Like the proverbial canary in the coalmine, the decline of so many bird species is an indicator of the many environmental challenges society now faces," said Fenwick. "But, as the recovery of the American Bald Eagle has proven, we can reverse population declines with concerted effort, cooperation, and a can-do spirit."
President Bush said he has asked Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne "to focus on the status of five more species over the next five
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The design of the next generation of high-speed computers may have its roots, in the form of algorithms, in a gathering of world-class mathematicians earlier this month at Brown University.
More than 50 of the nation’s top mathematicians from industry
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The design of the next generation of high-speed computers may have its roots, in the form of algorithms, in a gathering of world-class mathematicians earlier this month at Brown University.
More than 50 of the nation’s top mathematicians from industry, academia and national-research laboratories gathered at Brown from Jan. 9-13 to wrestle with potential solutions to the future design and economics of the next generation of ultra-exascale, super computers.
The discussions took place at the headquarters of Brown University’s new Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), in a remodeled space formerly occupied by a law firm that school officials expect to become a magnet for attracting creative, undergraduate talent in information technology to the university.
The preferred common language used for the discussions were algorithms, complex equations used to solve the challenges of the future architecture and speed of super computers. Such algorithms could be found sprouting up on the numerous white boards that dominate the wall space of the math-research center.
The conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, was entitled “Synchronization-Reducing and Communication-Reducing Algorithms and Programming Models for Large-scale Simulations.”
The conference’s challenge, explained ICERM Director Jill Pipher, was “to develop computers 1,000 times more powerful than the ones we have today, as measured in number of calculations that you can do per second,” while at the same time minimizing power consumption. The government’s deadline is 2018, and meeting it, Pipher continued, will require that a new series of algorithms be created. “These challenges are, at heart, mathematical,” she said.
More than an intellectual problem, the algorithmic challenges of exascale computing involve an economics equation based in physics: the costs and the trade-offs in energy use, the speed of computations and the distance needed to transmit memory.
At stake, according to Jan S. Hesthaven, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown and deputy director at ICERM, is the distinct economic advantage of super-computing. “If you have it, and you know how to use it, it gives you an economic advantage for discovery and innovation.”
In designing the next generation of computational architecture, Hesthaven continued, power consumption is a big problem. “If you were to take what we have now, and scale it up, make it bigger, it simply wouldn’t work,” he said. “The amount of energy that it would take would be hundreds of millions of dollars; it would be too expensive.” The only way to do it, Hesthaven continued, is to think about it in a “radically different way that pushes mathematicians – that’s what we’re here for.”
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AUGUSTA, Maine — State health officials report back-to-back increases in confirmed or probable cases of Lyme disease in 2007 and 2008.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said there were more than 900 cases of
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AUGUSTA, Maine — State health officials report back-to-back increases in confirmed or probable cases of Lyme disease in 2007 and 2008.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said there were more than 900 cases of the tick-borne illness in humans last year, an increase of 72 percent. CDC also told Maine Public Broadcasting that in 2007, there was a 57 increase.
Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria that is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected deer tick, also known as black-legged tick. Biting ticks are particularly prevalent this time of year as they search wooded areas
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Abatis, abattis, or abbattis is a term in field fortification for an obstacle formed (in the modern era) of the branches of trees
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Abatis, abattis, or abbattis is a term in field fortification for an obstacle formed (in the modern era) of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the sharpened tops directed outwards, towards the enemy. The trees are usually interlaced or tied with wire. Abatis are used alone or in combination with wire entanglements and other obstacles.
There is evidence it was used as early as the Roman Imperial period, and as recently as the American Civil War. Abatis is rarely seen nowadays, having been largely replaced by wire obstacles. However, it may be used as a replacement or supplement when barbed wire is in short supply. A form of giant abatis, using whole trees instead of branches, can be used as an improvised anti-tank obstacle.
A classic use of an abatis was found at the Battle of the Chateauguay, 26 October 1813, when approximately 1,300 Canadian voltigeurs, under the command of Charles-Michel de Salaberry, defeated an American corps of approximately 4,000 men. Another striking example was its use by Alexander Macomb in the stunning victory at the Battle of Plattsburgh.
An important weakness of abatis, in contrast to barbed wire, is that it can be destroyed by fire. Also, if laced together with rope instead of wire, the rope can be very quickly destroyed by such fires, after which the abatis can be quickly pulled apart by grappling hooks thrown from a safe distance.
An important advantage is that an improvised abatis can be quickly formed in forested areas. This can be done by simply cutting down a row of trees so that they fall with their tops toward the enemy. An alternative is to place explosives so as to blow the trees down.
Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training. Current training instructs engineers or other constructors of such obstacles to fell trees, leaving a 1 or 2 yard stump, in such a manner as the trees fall interlocked pointing at a 45-degree angle towards the direction of approach of the enemy. Furthermore, it is recommended that the trees remain connected to the stumps and the length of roadway covered be at least 80 yards. US military maps record an abatis by use of an inverted "V" with a short line extending from it to the right.
Abatis improvised by Japanese troops during World War II
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Anonymous (1911). "Abatis". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
- Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier includes large and authentic reproduction of abatis used in the U.S. Civil War.
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Methane emissions drop at natural-gas sites
- Ohio State’s pricey research fails to generate much income
- Deaths of 11 more whales bodes ill for rest of pod
- Geology takes center stage in new park in Lewis
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Methane emissions drop at natural-gas sites
- Ohio State’s pricey research fails to generate much income
- Deaths of 11 more whales bodes ill for rest of pod
- Geology takes center stage in new park in Lewis Center
- Arctic thaw, bad weather linked?
- Egg-less cookies, mayo? Food-science startup tests 1,500 plants
- Crocs, gators get tricky with prey
- Biology | Humans caught in flawed species-removal experiment
WASHINGTON — Emissions of methane from natural-gas well sites across the United States have fallen in a key part of the drilling process, despite the boom in natural gas development, according to a study published yesterday.
The rise in natural-gas production through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has stoked concerns about leakage and venting of methane into the atmosphere. Far more carbon dioxide is emitted than methane, but methane is 72 times as potent as carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that air pollution is being dramatically reduced as energy companies deploy technology to comply with federal environmental regulations. The energy industry often has decried federal efforts to oversee natural-gas development, arguing that state-level regulation is adequate.
“The study says that the EPA’s efforts aren’t overregulation and that, in fact, they’re effective,” said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.
Reaction from industry officials was unsurprising.
“We welcome the finding that overall methane emissions from the production of natural gas are lower than the most recent EPA estimates,” said Erica Bowman, vice president of research for America’s Natural Gas Alliance.
The reductions were noted during the well-completion phase of drilling, which involves preparing for production by cleaning out the sand and liquids injected into the well during the drilling phase. Although well-completion work emitted less methane than EPA estimates, the study found that other phases of production showed higher levels of methane leakage from valves and other equipment at well sites.
Some environmental groups dismissed the study because energy companies co-sponsored it. “This industry-sponsored ‘study’ is more spin than science,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “The Environmental Defense Fund is running interference for the industry, and the result will be more drilling and fracking around the world.”
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There is a great deal of discussion in North Carolina, and throughout the country, about the Common Core State Standards. Some are asking if these are the appropriate standards for our nation's educational system. Others ask if they will provide our students with the
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There is a great deal of discussion in North Carolina, and throughout the country, about the Common Core State Standards. Some are asking if these are the appropriate standards for our nation's educational system. Others ask if they will provide our students with the needed skills to effectively compete in global markets. And there are those who wonder if these standards include too much testing.
These would be legitimate questions if they were being asked by people who had done their homework and made at least some effort to understand what these standards involve and what they are designed to accomplish. Unfortunately, most people are criticizing something they simply don't understand; which is not an uncommon trait among human beings. It is, however, a dangerous trait in the minds of the wrong people.
The most recent Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitude Toward the Public Schools shows that the American people know little about the origination of the Common Core State Standards and just as little about its contents. The poll shows that just over one third of Americans have ever heard of the Common Core and fewer than half with children in public schools know anything about it. Why then, is this issue so controversial?
The Common Core State Standards were not developed haphazardly. As a matter of fact, discussions on this topic began in 2009 and they were not initiated by the federal government. They came from a partnership between the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. More importantly, the idea was to level the playing field in a country where students in one state could be far behind their peers in other states.
The Common Core State Standards are long overdue and we need to accept the fact that if we want our students to compete globally then we need to raise academic standards across the country. We also need to overcome our fear of accountability and acknowledge the fact that it is critical to the success of our students. And yes, testing is part of accountability. All of us are tested in one way or another, and we need to stop using test anxiety or poor test taking skills as an excuse for our failures. The bottom line is simple - testing is part of life. There is no better place to learn this than in school.
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On November 11, 1998, at 1120 Pacific standard time, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, N801DE, operated by Delta Air Lines as a 14 CFR Part 121 scheduled passenger flight, experienced a tail
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On November 11, 1998, at 1120 Pacific standard time, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, N801DE, operated by Delta Air Lines as a 14 CFR Part 121 scheduled passenger flight, experienced a tail strike while landing at Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon. The flight was landing on runway 10R after arriving from Cincinnati, Ohio. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and an instrument flight plan had been filed. There were no injuries to the 11 crew members or 113 passengers, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage to the belly skin and stringers. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
The flight crew stated that they were unaware the aircraft had experienced a tail strike until maintenance personnel at the arrival gate advised them that there was damage to the number 3 VHF antenna and the skin aft of the antenna mount. After the passengers were deplaned normally through the jetway, the damage was further evaluated, and it was determined that the aircraft would need to be ferried to Atlanta for permanent repair.
During the investigation, it was determined that the weight existing in the Flight Management System (FMS) during the approach and landing sequence was in error approximately 100,000 pounds. As confirmed by a review of the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) readout, the FMS weight was about 292,000 pounds, when in fact the actual
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Be a dignitarian
We can overcome rankism and build a world that honors the dignity of every person.
The homeless person in the park; the elderly in nursing homes; students, teachers, principals; Christians, Jews, Muslims; taxi drivers
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Be a dignitarian
We can overcome rankism and build a world that honors the dignity of every person.
The homeless person in the park; the elderly in nursing homes; students, teachers, principals; Christians, Jews, Muslims; taxi drivers, store clerks, waiters, police officers; prisoners and guards; immigrants; doctors, patients, nurses; the poor, the wealthy, the middle class; big nations, small nations, people without a homeland: All of us want to be treated with dignity.
Fundamentally, dignity is about respect and value. It means treating yourself and others with respect just because you’re alive. It’s recognizing that you and everyone else have a right to be here, and that you belong. It means honoring who you are and what you have to offer. It means creating a culture in which it is safe for everyone to contribute their own gifts and talents.
Dignity is an inner drive so insistent that it can move people to shocking acts of revenge when the attempt to achieve it is thwarted; a human value so critical to happiness and well-being that people sometimes value it more than life itself.
Yet this craving for dignity is so commonly overlooked that most of us accept undignified treatment as “just the way it is.” As victims, we may wince inwardly, but we bite our tongues (“Who am I to protest?” “What good will it do?”). As perpetrators, we excuse our behavior (“I’m the boss, aren’t I?” “He deserved it.” “I’m just evening the score.”). Or we ignore our nagging conscience, failing to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we are violating another’s dignity.
Every day, we witness dignity scorned in our personal relationships, families, businesses, schools, healthcare facilities, religious institutions, and governmental bodies. Routinely, we fail to accord dignity to those we perceive to be the weaker among us. Yet experiencing indignity at the hands of others is not limited to those at the bottom of the hierarchy. Anywhere and everywhere dignity is transgressed by others, with surprising regularity: A supervisor harasses an employee. A child taunts a classmate. A sports team hazes new members. A customer speaks rudely to a waitress. A teacher gives preferential treatment to a friend’s child. An adult verbally abuses a child. An administrator fires a whistle-blower. A government official secretly circumvents the law. A prison guard torments an inmate. A dictator steals from the national treasury. A superpower pressures a smaller nation.
From intimate relationships to global relations, indignity is commonplace.
If, every day, so many of us are not treated with the health-giving, life-affirming dignity we crave, then why are we so shocked when an employee “goes postal,” a teenager goes on a violent rampage, a mild-mannered woman explodes in anger at a seemingly small provocation, or global tensions escalate into international crises? Why do we habitually fail to recognize, beneath the violent outbursts, the powerful impulse to lash out when a fundamental birthright has been denied: the right to be treated with dignity?
Of course, acts of revenge are never justified. But we ignore at great cost to ourselves and society the fundamental urge to be treated with dignity. The consequences of a society where dignity is regularly violated are evident in widespread social problems such as high rates of school dropout, prison incarceration, violent crime, depression, suicide, divorce, and despair; in the business world in reduced creativity, lower productivity, or disloyalty to the organization.
Yet if the consequences of dignity violation are all around us, so too are signs of progress toward a world in which everyone’s dignity is honored. Worldwide, we see dignity-denying dictatorships transforming into democracies. In democratic elections, we see growing voter enthusiasm for candidates who offer a vision of dignity for all. If we look carefully, we can see in terrorist assaults the craving to be treated with dignity; and the spate of school shootings in recent years has led adults to counteract the devastating effects of bullying among children through school-sponsored anti-bullying programs. As overwhelming as the problem of indignity may seem, historically, humans have grown more tolerant and respectful as a species than we once were. Equal rights protections for people of different genders, skin colors, physical abilities, and sexual orientations are just some examples of progress toward greater dignity for all.
The time is ripe for dignity. We can lead the way.
The root of all ‘isms’
Humans have been violating others’ dignity for millennia. We have raped and pillaged, trafficked in slaver
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IF a place like Antarctica was discovered on another planet, scientists from Earth undoubtedly would send hardy robot spacecraft to explore such an intriguing but desolate frozen world.
To operate in such a harsh environment, the robot explorer would not only have to be
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IF a place like Antarctica was discovered on another planet, scientists from Earth undoubtedly would send hardy robot spacecraft to explore such an intriguing but desolate frozen world.
To operate in such a harsh environment, the robot explorer would not only have to be rugged, but also smart enough to fend for itself without immediate human direction if it ran into the unexpected.
Naturally, the place to test such robots would be Antarctica itself. And scientists and engineers from many disciplines have begun thinking about new ways to bring robots and Antarctica together. Under the proposals, Antarctica would serve simultaneously as the subject of robotic exploration and as a place to test robot technology that could operate on the Moon and beyond.
Plans are under way for using robots to gather meteorites that cluster in certain areas because of glacial flows. And researchers are discussing using robot probes to penetrate and explore a vast, ice-covered Antarctic lake as a prelude to a possible mission to an ice-covered moon of Jupiter that may have a subsurface ocean.
Antarctica is no stranger to robots. Its dry valleys served as a model for instruments sent to the cold, windy plains of Mars on Viking spacecraft in the 1970's. And in 1993, an eight-legged walking robot named Dante made an abortive attempt to creep into the crater of Mount Erebus, the continent's only active volcano. Dante was thwarted after going only 21 feet into the crater when a communication line broke.
''We need more experience operating robots remotely and we can use Antarctica as an analog or substitute for the lunar surface,'' said David B. Lavery, manager of the Telerobotics Research Program in the Space Science Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is sponsoring the meteorite search project.
Since 1969, researchers from the United States and Japan have collected more than 16,000 meteorites in areas near the Allan Hills and the Yamato Mountains. This cache of meteorites has included scores of pieces blasted away from the Moon by impacts with asteroids and about a dozen samples that are believed to have originated on Mars.
Last August, NASA scientists announced that a potato-size rock found in Antarctica in 1984, designated Allan Hills 84001, originated on Mars and carried chemical and possible fossil evidence of primitive microscopic life.
The major problem in looking for these valuable samples is that Antarctica's inhospitable weather gives human searchers only six to eight weeks a year to search for them each summer, and occasional blizzards or logistical problems often cut into this time, researchers say.
This provides an opportunity for ''meteorobot,'' the meteorite collector to be built by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh under a $5 million grant recently awarded by the space agency.
Dr. William L. Whittaker, the principal researcher on the project, said finding meteorites ''is a profoundly difficult task for a machine,'' but one that would push the technology forward in order to master more complex extraterrestrial duties in the future. ''Robots will be the exploration agents to other worlds and lots of basic training has to go on right here on Earth,'' Dr. Whittaker said.
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The NAACP’s decision to condemn “racist” elements within the tea-party movement is about as surprising as the U.N. Human Rights Council voting to condemn Israel. Still, there’s a difference. The U.N. Human Rights Council never
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The NAACP’s decision to condemn “racist” elements within the tea-party movement is about as surprising as the U.N. Human Rights Council voting to condemn Israel. Still, there’s a difference. The U.N. Human Rights Council never had any moral authority to lose. The NAACP did.
The NAACP was formed on the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, in 1909, in a small New York apartment. “The Call” proclaimed the organization’s mission:
If Mr. Lincoln could revisit this country in the flesh, he would be disheartened and discouraged. He would learn that on January 1, 1909, Georgia had rounded out a new confederacy by disfranchising the Negro, after the manner of all the other Southern States.... Added to this, the spread of lawless attacks upon the Negro, North, South and West — even in the Springfield made famous by Lincoln — often accompanied by revolting brutalities, sparing neither sex nor age nor youth, could but shock the author of the sentiment that “government of the people, by the people, for the people; should not perish from the earth.”
The NAACP’s role in fighting racism was a noble one. The organization was the moving force behind anti-lynching laws. Thurgood Marshall, of the Legal Defense Fund, argued and won the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marking a new legal era in the United States.
But the glory days are long gone. In recent decades, the NAACP has transformed itself into just another liberal advocacy group, absurdly dragging “racial justice” into nearly every public-policy argument. In 1994, the NAACP filed suit against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority claiming that a proposed fare increase would discriminate against minorities. That same year, an NAACP spokesman suggested that raising the retirement age for Social Security could “exacerbate racial divisions” because blacks tend to have shorter life expectancies. When Ohio passed a law requiring high-school students to pass a 9th-grade-level exam in order to get a high-school diploma (yes, sad), the NAACP sued. Julian Bond, the organization’s chairman, described the Reagan administration as “crazed locusts” waging “an assault on the rule of law.”
If the NAACP were to make its case on honest grounds — that it likes and believes in big-government liberalism — that would be inoffensive. But the NAACP frames its policy preferences in the language of fighting racism and bigotry, and accordingly engages in serial slanders.
In 2000, the NAACP ran scurrilous, highly inflammatory radio and television ads against George W. Bush, suggesting that he tolerated the horribly brutal lynching of James Byrd in Texas. The rationale, if you can call it that, was that Bush declin
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Aok – areas of knowing mathematicsPresentation Transcript
AOK – Areas of Knowing Mathematics This should be watched and discussed after race and intelligence. Links to language Sapir/wharf, aborigines not having any numbers to create reality and therefore
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Aok – areas of knowing mathematicsPresentation Transcript
AOK – Areas of Knowing Mathematics This should be watched and discussed after race and intelligence. Links to language Sapir/wharf, aborigines not having any numbers to create reality and therefore not having mental tools for IQ tests), aesthetics, science, culture
Quotes ‘Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe’ John Pilkington ‘Math – the most logical of the sciences – shows u
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If the most basic of human needs are food and water, it is no surprise that history has been profoundly shaped by the food we choose to eat. Different foods have caused empires to rise and fall, and helped spur intellectual and social revolutions.
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If the most basic of human needs are food and water, it is no surprise that history has been profoundly shaped by the food we choose to eat. Different foods have caused empires to rise and fall, and helped spur intellectual and social revolutions.
At 7:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, October 22 join Newbury College Professor of History Dan Breen for the third in a four-part free lecture and discussion series telling the stories of common foods, and exploring how they in turn have shaped our own stories. In this session Berkshire County Cheese will be discussed. Find out how a simple dairy product became a way to celebrate the idea of religious freedom for Berkshire County farmers.
The series started on October 1st with The Story of Chocolate. and on October 8th it was followed by a fascinating story of extinction, survival and The Popular Banana.
The series will conclude on Tuesday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. with a lecture and discussion about Potatoes - From Peru to Sligo. In the final session, find out how one of the world's most nutritious crops has always been associated with prevailing conditions of wealth and power.
Dr. Breen teaches history at Newbury College and legal studies at Brandeis University and presents engaging programs on history, government and legal topics at libraries around Massachusetts.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Thomas Crane Public Library.
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Growing Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage
NAIROBI, May 22 2013 (IPS) – Amid warnings that Kenya’s agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that ag
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Growing Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage
NAIROBI, May 22 2013 (IPS) – Amid warnings that Kenya’s agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that agrobiodiversity should be considered as a vital tool to combat this.
“In order to feed the nation, the country must explore agrobiodiversity, specifically (the growing of) vegetables and fruits, which have been neglected in favour of maize,” Mary Abukutsa-Onyango, a professor of horticulture at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, told IPS.
As climate change continues to wreak havoc on rainfall patterns, resulting in intermittent prolonged dry spells across this East African nation, vegetables present the best alternative to maize because they do not require large amounts of water.[related_articles]
The 2012/2013 Kenya country brief by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stated that the “October to December ‘short-rains’ season performed poorly … (and) a series of dry spells also caused poor germination … leading to wilting and drying out of crops.”
According to the United States Agency for International Development Kenya, this nation is “classified among the most water scarce countries in the world.” And government statistics indicate that 13 million Kenyans lack access to improved water supply.
“In Kenya, and by extension Africa, desertification and water scarcity are a major threat to agriculture and to pastoralist communities. Strategies such as irrigation, water harvesting and conservation, and tree planting must be revamped,” Nashon Tado, of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Horn of Africa and Yemen office, told IPS.
The Ministry of Agriculture says that at least 70 percent of Kenya’s agricultural production comes from smallholder farmers who farm on two to five acres of land. Of Kenya’s 42 million people, eight million households are involved in agriculture, with five million depending directly on it for their livelihoods.
But Kenya’s Food Security Outlook 2013, released on May 15 by the U.N. World Food Programme, confirmed that embracing other crops besides maize was improving food security here.
“Improved availability of green vegetables, green maize and legumes from early June through July is expected to diversify diets and sustain food consumption,” the report stated.
It makes sense that Kenyans should explore biodiversity. Kenya has ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity, the globally negotiated agreement committed to sustainable use of biodiversity. Consequently, agrobiodiversity is being touted as a solution to the biting water stresses facing Kenya.
“This year’s International Biodiversity Day’s theme is Water and Biodiversity and is very significant as the country tries to find innovative techniques and strategies to maximise water usage,” Naomi Chepkorir, an agricultural extension officer at the Ministry of Agriculture, in Kenya’s bread basket, Rift Valley province, told IPS.
Indigenous vegetables and fruits are easy to manage, can withstand high and unpredictable temperatures, and are known to have high nutritional value and contain high concentrates of micronutrients, including iron.
“Take the spider plant and African nightshade, which are found in parts of Western and Nyanza provinces, as well as across East Africa. They are known to be nutritious, medicinal and are very rich in iron, calcium, magnesium, anti-oxidants and fibre,” Abukutsa-Onyango said.
The spider plant is known to have high levels of beta-carotene, calcium, protein, magnesium, iron and vitamin C. The plant is also high in antioxidants, which may help prevent diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
Chepkorir said that generally vegetables have a shorter life cycle compared to other crops. They grow in a few weeks and require very little irrigation, hence allowing smallholder farmers to reap the benefits of their harvest earlier than they would if they planted a crop like maize – which takes up to three to four months to mature.
Abukutsa-Onyango agreed, adding that indigenous vegetables are able to adapt to climate change because they mature faster. She gave the example of the spider plant and the variety of amaranth that is indigenous to Africa, which can be harvested within three weeks of planting. She added that the slenderleaf ice plant could also withstand water deficit conditions.
Abukutsa-Onyango added that growing a diversity of indigenous vegetables and fruits “would not only address food security, but also nutrition and health security.
“People should eat a balanced diet, and currently Kenyans are consuming inadequate amounts of vegetables and fruits leading to an upsurge of diet-related diseases,” she said.
Good nutrition and healthy diets are important aspects in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The eight ambitious goals, adopted by all U.N. member states in 2000, aim to curb poverty, disease and gender inequality.
According to the MDG Report 2010 “nutrition has long been seriously overlooked and underemphasised by d
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Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most famous Indians ever to have walked the planet. His campaigns of passive resistance and civil disobedience proved to be a great success; through his work, the less privileged people of the world have gained a higher
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Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most famous Indians ever to have walked the planet. His campaigns of passive resistance and civil disobedience proved to be a great success; through his work, the less privileged people of the world have gained a higher quality of life.
After successfully studying law at University College, London, Gandhi returned to India. He tried in vain to set up a law firm in Bombay in 1891, but soon found work as a legal advisor in Durban, South Africa.
It must have been quite a culture shock for the young man on arriving in that country. Apartheid was thriving, so anybody who was not white was treated as inferior, second class citizens. Gandhi decided to do something about this problem though, and began his method of passive resistance and non-cooperation, drawing on the likes of Tolstoy and Jesus as his inspirations. It was by no means an easy ride. He regularly endured terms of imprisonment, and was harshly beaten several times. Twenty years of this type of campaigning paid off, when in 1914 the South African government made several concessions to the Indian people living there.
After the First World War, Gandhi decided to concentrate on improving life in his native India. His ideology was well received and he soon had a healthy following that regularly practised passive resistance. The British government didn’t like the campaigning and deemed it to be revolutionary. Consequently, British troops massacred many innocent Indians at a demonstration in 1920.
This caused Gandhi to instigate a policy of non-cooperation towards the Brits. Indians began removing their children from government run schools and masses of people began squatting in the streets to protest. Even when faced with physical punishments, such as being beaten with a truncheon, they would refuse to move.
In retaliation Britain imprisoned Gandhi, but he was soon released. In 1924, he was forced to call an end to the campaign of non-cooperation due to rising levels of violence from India towards Britain. Ironically, the opposite of what he preached was starting to take place. Six years later he began another campaign against the payment of tax, and many of his followers joined him on a demonstration march to the sea. In 1934, he formally resigned from politics, having been imprisoned several more times. When imprisoned, Gandhi would begin fasting in protest. The British hated this, because they knew that if he died whilst being wrongly imprisoned the repercussions from the Indian people would be catastrophic.
In 1947 India gained independence, something that Gandhi had worked towards for a long time. He was against partition though, wishing that those of Moslem and Hindu faith could live peacefully side-by-side. He was also very critical of the caste system, whereby some Indians of high social standing were deemed ‘untouchable’. Tragically, a crazed Hindu assassinated Gandhi in 1949.
If he had wanted, Gandhi could have lived a very comfortable life as a lawyer. Instead he devoted it to prayer, fasting and meditation. He wore basic clothes and lived off fruit, vegetables and milk. He gave up his personal comfort to bring well-being to millions of others.
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Sociolinguistic development: when the social differences merge into the social networks
A lot of sociolinguistic studies have shown that the speakers’ linguistic
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Laboratoire LIDILEM, France Laboratoire LIDILEM, France
Sociolinguistic development: when the social differences merge into the social networks
A lot of sociolinguistic studies have shown that the speakers’ linguistic uses were socially stratified according to macro factors such as social background, gender, etc. This tendency has been established for adults from the first sociolinguistic studies (Labov, 1972; Trudgill, 1974) and more recently in children (Roberts, 1997; Chevrot, Beaud & Varga, 2000). Other studies have been interested in micro factors such as the social network, the status, and the density and multiplexity of the relationships within the peer groups (Milroy, 1980). The latter have taken into account interpersonal relationships whereas the former have considered more global categories.
The aim of our paper is to observe how macro and micro approaches can complement one another as far as sociolinguistic development is concerned. First, we will focus on the children’s sociolinguistic uses between two to six years old. Second, we will look at the stylistic variation awareness in preadolescents.
We conducted a tran
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One of the main goals of diabetes management is to maintain blood glucose at a healthy level. Now, a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that peer mentoring can help people with diabetes lower their A1C — a marker of
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One of the main goals of diabetes management is to maintain blood glucose at a healthy level. Now, a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that peer mentoring can help people with diabetes lower their A1C — a marker of blood glucose control — by up to a full point. Each percentage point decrease in A1C lowers the risk of long-term diabetes complications by 37%.
Diabetes is more common and often more severe in African Americans. To determine if people in this population could lower their A1C levels by talking regularly with others who had successfully controlled their blood glucose levels, researchers recruited 118 African Americans at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center who hadn’t been successful at lowering their A1C. The participants were assigned to one of three groups: usual care, financial incentive, or peer mentoring.
Those in the usual care group were provided with specific goals for A1C. Participants in the financial incentive group were given $100 for lowering their A1C by one point (for example, from 7.9% to 6.9%) and $200 for lowering their A1C by two points or for hitting an A1C level of 6.5% or lower. Those in the peer-mentoring group were connected with someone with diabetes who had onc
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The concept is similar to the Peace Table. Some Peace Tables use a rock, others use a baton, or something else. This type of conflict resolution is common in Montessori method schools. A stone with the word Peace written on it
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The concept is similar to the Peace Table. Some Peace Tables use a rock, others use a baton, or something else. This type of conflict resolution is common in Montessori method schools. A stone with the word Peace written on it is common.
It is said that education is the best weapon for peace on earth. We teach children to problem solve, practice peaceful conflict resolution, and to express themselves appropriately. We instill respect for mankind and our mother earth. Every classroom is set up with a peace table where children are welcomed to explore alone or to discuss a particular incident with a classmate. http://www.aycma.com/extra_curricular.asp
Song for teaching use of the Peace Table for conflict resolution.
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Pioneer romance took curious twist
By 11/09/2000 00:00:00
Ellis County Press
EDITOR'S NOTE - The Ellis County Press continues with background for the upcoming documentary of the Hatfield-McC
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Pioneer romance took curious twist
By 11/09/2000 00:00:00
Ellis County Press
EDITOR'S NOTE - The Ellis County Press continues with background for the upcoming documentary of the Hatfield-McCoy feud:
Resuming the captivating oral history connected to the memory quilt of Aunt Sally Cameron, we are told young Seeb McLaughlin took up land and settled in the remote back country of old Virginia; However, Seeb found life anywhere would be incomplete without his beloved Mary.
Because of a shortage of women in the back lands, lonely frontiersmen like Seeb often sought a wife among the Indians. Bartering for a wife was a common practice. Others courted an Indian girl, then eloped. Kidnapping was not unusual.
Marriage was desirable, but many had to wait for a proper ceremony. 'He planted his crops before he built' was once a quaint country expression for having children before a preacher happened by.
Most early settlers on the mountainous American frontier were doubtlessly people of hospitality and generosity, yet many had a tendency to shoot at strangers if they wandered too close. Obviously, it was safer to assume all intruders were up to no good. Frontier people had their own way of saying 'Let me alone!'
Today, we might find it difficult to grasp the necessity of this practice, but it was a time and place requiring vigilance. When you lived in such isolation you provided your own defense. It soon became a well advised custom for visitors to 'HELLO THE HOUSE' from a safe distance.
It was about this time settlers in South Carolina established a committee using the formal name of 'Regulators.' The original objective was to dispense frontier justice to horse thieves and the like. The Regulators soon took hold in North Carolina to resist official extortion. This movement became an actual political movement in the Eighteenth Century and spread readily along the frontier. This concept prevailed for many generations.
While many modern readers may consider early vigilante movements as unrestrained forms of imperfect justice, organizations like the Regulators were welcomed by numerous inhabitants of the lawless frontier.
Because our story is so very old and distant, Mary's family name is unknown, yet this is not uncommon when you search a lengthy family history. We do know that while Seeb waited and hoped, unknown to him Mary and her family arrived in Virginia.
But shortly, we are told, bad fortune struck the immigrant family when Mary's father died, leaving his wife and children practically destitute. Compounding their problems, her mother fell into severe illness after his passing. Mary, as the oldest child, took on the responsibility of caring for the younger children and her ailing mother.
But during this period of recurring misfortune, Mary received an offer of marriage from a wealthy planter, a widower with several children. It is conceivable Mary and her mother gave the matter serious consideration before answering.
On one hand, Mary viewed the planter as a vain, cunning man who lived by greed. On the other hand, if she married the planter it would put a quick end to family hardship. Meanwhile, it is likely Mary fondly recalled her childhood love of Seeb McLaughlin, remembering him as a robust youth given to laughter and song.
Virginia basically settled 150 years before Kentucky. Kentucky, once an extension of Virginia, was inaccessible because of the mountain barriers, and for a time its settlement was also forbidden by law.
Poor farming practices by Virginia planters wore out the land quickly, and that made it necessary to open new land and keep moving west. The land was plowed to a depth of four to six inches year after year until a hard crust formed beneath the surface, causing a shallow 'tilth' and putting an end to its value for growing crops. Each year plantations gradually moved further and further toward the western ridges.
Virginia also had a wealth of timber and the demand for lumber in England was strong. In time, many of the back land settlers
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Skip to comments.How Big Deficits Became the Norm
Posted on 12/18/2012 3:50:32 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Big budget deficits haven't always been with us.
From the end of the Eisenhower years
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Skip to comments.How Big Deficits Became the Norm
Posted on 12/18/2012 3:50:32 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Big budget deficits haven't always been with us.
From the end of the Eisenhower years through the Carter presidency, the deficit averaged a modest 1.4% of the nation's economic output. The budget was nearly balanced in seven of the 20 years from 1960 to 1979. And, as Bill Clinton reminds at every opportunity, the U.S. government was in surplus for four years at the end of his presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com...
Abandoning the gold standard was one of the first steps down a bad path.
Clinton didn't have to budget for the Cold War which ended before he took office, was the beneficiary of the tax revenue generated by the jobs created by the tech boom, and punted the WOT and its expense to the next administration.
And yet in spite of this which included the trillion dollar hit we took on 9/11, the deficit was 165 billion and shrinking when, um, what changed in January, 2007?
“And, as Bill Clinton reminds at every opportunity, the U.S. government was in surplus for four years at the end of his presidency.”
If there was a surplus, then why did we have to borrow money throughout those four years?
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Wed, Aug 10, 2011
Pre-Algebra, Square Roots
In this video we will learn about square roots. We will learn that the square of a number is that number times itself. We will also see its relationship to
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Wed, Aug 10, 2011
Pre-Algebra, Square Roots
In this video we will learn about square roots. We will learn that the square of a number is that number times itself. We will also see its relationship to real numbers.
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Of the four basic tissue types (epithelium, connective tissue, muscle and nervous tissue), connective tissue is the most diverse. Connective tissue can be found all over the body. Connective tissue cells are capable of reproducing
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Of the four basic tissue types (epithelium, connective tissue, muscle and nervous tissue), connective tissue is the most diverse. Connective tissue can be found all over the body. Connective tissue cells are capable of reproducing, however not as fast as epithelial cells. Embryologically, connective tissue develops from mesenchyme.
Connective tissues connects and holds tissues and organs to one another, forms a framework, provides support, stores fat, transports things, protects, and aids in tissue repair.
Connective tissue consists of cells and extracellular fibers in a ground substance and tissue fluid. The cells within connective are not tightly packed together. On a histology slide, it can be seen that there is generally abundant extracellular space in connective tissue.
Within connective tissue, the cells and fibers are scattered wit
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Our first Oreo encounter was our participation in the annual Oreo Project at ProjectsByJen. <--VERY cool site to check out.
We experimented on those cookies as if they were a completely foreign object. We made estimations and predictions,
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Our first Oreo encounter was our participation in the annual Oreo Project at ProjectsByJen. <--VERY cool site to check out.
We experimented on those cookies as if they were a completely foreign object. We made estimations and predictions, logged, weighed, measured, rolled, stacked and sculpted them.
It was torturous, but no Oreos that hit the floor or were handled by sticky kid fingers were eaten (at least not that I'm aware of, but I did see a few corner-of-the-mouth-crumbs that made me suspicious.)
And just when you thought it was safe to bust out the Chip's Ahoy, we moved on to this crazy awesome science activity: recreating the phases of the moon with Oreos! We used some of the projects we already made as a reference, and then carefully twisted the Oreo apart and used plastic spoons and knives to scrape off the correct amount of creme filling to show each phase of the moon. Then we placed them in order around the edges of a paper plate and labeled each phase. Seriously sweet science fun!
If you are studying the moon, you might like this FREE Anticipation Guide to gauge your students' prior knowledge and track understanding.
Although I did go through a bit of Oreo withdrawal after the moon phase activity, I found solace in the candy corn that started to appear for some other purely educational purposes soon after.
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2010 160 pages (H805) The book begins with the story of two swarms, one natural and one artificial. This comparison between what the bees do when left to themselves, and what ‘is done to them’ by the beekeeper, runs through the whole book. Later sections expand on the differences, pointing out the impact or sustainability of the two different approaches. Heaf makes use of an academic matrix to introduce agricultural and environmental ethics into his argument, fitting the fundamental attitudes of beekeepers into four types of relationship between beekeeper and nature – that of dominator, steward, partner or participant. Readers of
The Beekeeper’s Quarterly
will be familiar with this matrix, which first appeared in a series of articles by Heaf in 2008. Sustainability is environmental, economic, social and – vitally – bee-friendly. He then goes on to discuss the three primary needs of a bee colony: shelter, seclusion and sustenance. Two chapters on disease and making increase answer to modern concerns. Finally, two chapters on the People’s Hive of Abbe Warré describe in detail Heaf’s own use of the hive, and tips on management. This is very much a beekeeper’s guide: it assumes a good working knowledge of conventional frame hive management processes. Heaf’s own choice is for the People’s Hive – a vertical top-bar hive – being simpler to build and manage than conventional frame hives. Simplicity is often an indicator of sustainability, at least for the beekeeper, and a distinct advantage for the bee in that it reduces opportunities for interference with the natural workings of the colony. Heaf backs up his call for more ‘natural’ conditions in the brood nest with extensive research into the literature of beekeeping, acknowledging the bee colony as a superorganism, and principally as a warmth organism.The works of Jürgen Tautz, Ingemar Fries, and Tom Seeley are frequently quoted, as are Steiner’s theories and the practices of biodynamic beekeepers. We are asked to work with the bees’ intentions, and with practices which accord with the nature of the bee. Intensification, regular opening of the hive, stress from lack of forage diversity or poor management, and pesticides are all practices which create conditions for disease. The book’s underlying theme is that problems with colony losses are nature’s response to inappropriate beekeeping. The bibliography is extensive, and Heaf is a knowledgeable and thoughtful beekeeper who has adapted his practices in light of his own reading. His comments on minimising disturbance to retain thermal structure may come as no surprise, but his assertion that most colonies cope with American foulbrood, and all colonies need exposure to disease in order to co-adapt successfully, will be much more contentious. Similarly his call for locally adapted bees is heard frequently these days, but his suggestion that queen rearing short circuits natural selection will dismay many. Local bees, adapted to local climate and forage, must also have queens raised and chosen by the bees and not the beekeeper: even a dark bee ‘assembled’ from different strains in a different habitat could be as bad as importing other races. At times the discussion comes to
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A hard-working native bee can sometimes top the pollination prowess of the domesticated honey beeeven when badly outnumbered. "In our experiments using outdoor enclosures," says ARS entomologist Vincent J. Tepedino, "sun
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A hard-working native bee can sometimes top the pollination prowess of the domesticated honey beeeven when badly outnumbered. "In our experiments using outdoor enclosures," says ARS entomologist Vincent J. Tepedino, "sunflower leafcutting bees spread out evenly among sunflowers instead of visiting just the plants nearest their nesting boxes."
Tepedino has affectionately nicknamed the bees "megapugs," short for Megachile pugnata. They're native to southern Canada and most of the United States except the lower Mississippi Valley and Gul
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Any photos not otherwise credited are from the personal collection of Frank Passic, Albion Historian.
Morning Star, April 21, 2002, pg. 13
This past winter Michigan History magazine published a special issue dedicated exclusively about
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Any photos not otherwise credited are from the personal collection of Frank Passic, Albion Historian.
Morning Star, April 21, 2002, pg. 13
This past winter Michigan History magazine published a special issue dedicated exclusively about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In it was an article about Daniel and Lucena Brockway who settled on the Keweenaw (“rabbit ear”) peninsula in 1843. Geographically, Brockway mountain at Copper Harbor is named after Daniel. The article also mentions Daniel’s oldest brother Rev. William H. Brockway (1813-1891) who worked with Methodist Indian missions in the UP in the 1830s and 1840s. Rev. Brockway moved to Albion and served as the official agent for Albion College for many years. William erected several buildings in downtown Albion and the land where the Albion College athletic field sits today as well as Victory Park was once part of his property holdings here. The article notes that Daniel lived here in Albion briefly during 1855-56 due to health reasons of his wife.
There is another “Albion connection” however with the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. That’s because there is another Albion! It is located just south of Calumet and west of Laurium. The origins of this Albion is of course connected to the copper mining industry there. The Albion Mining Company operated a mine in the UP Albion in the late 19th century, and a small community named Albion Location subsequently sprang up. Perhaps the name “Albion” might have been chosen because of the connection of the Brockways to our Albion. Although the mine was closed, the community remained and appeared “on the maps” through the 1960s as Albion. Sometime in the 1950s before zip codes were invented, one of my neighbors purchased some furniture which was shipped from the factory by mistake to the UP Albion instead of our Albion before the error was discovered.
From 1902 until 1932 there was an electric interurban line operated by the Houghton County Traction Company. Albion served as a junction transfer station for people going three different directions. The “Albion Streetcar Station” was built in 1902, and it was surrounded by a triangle of tracks. It was operated by August Buralli, who made and sold ice cream (Peninsula brand), and sold confectionery and tobaccos from the site. Behind it was the Albion schoolhouse which burned in the late 1920s.
After the streetcar line folded, the Albion Station building became a neighborhood grocery/candy store from 1932 to 1978. In 1978 it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dana and another couple and turned into an old bottle shop. It was expanded into a museum in 1979 and into a glass blowing shop in 1982. It still operates today. When planning your summer vacation this year, why not visit “the other Albion” as part of your itinerary? The address: Albion Station Old Bottle Shop and Lake Superior Glass Works, 98 Rockland St., Calumet, MI 49913. (906) 337-1263. Hours are 9 to 4 daily. Today, Mr. Dana serves as the sole proprietor and glass blower. He is also president of the Coppertown USA preservation group that operates a mining museum in Calumet, and was an officer of the Keweenaw County Historical Society for many years.
Here is where the irony begins. Mr. Dana attended our Albion College from 1961 to 1963 and played football for the Albion College Britons! He wrote me that Morley Fraser and Fritz Shurmur were his coaches back then. Furthermore, Mr. Dana purchased a house in the Albion-Calumet area and in the attic he found Albion College memorabilia from the early 1920s, showing that a family member from some previous owner had attended Albion College and belonged to the same fraternity that he had! Found were copies of the Albion College Pleiad from 1920 and 1921, a 1920 picture of the ATO Christmas party, and a 1920-21 student handbook. Living in the UP had its advantages. The December 22, 1920 Pleiad stated: “Upper peninsula students will be allowed two extra days vacation in order that they may get the ferry which crosses Mackinaw Straits twice a week.”
From our Historical Notebook this week courtesy of Hank Konkle we present a photograph the Albion Station Bottle Shop in Albion, Michigan, Upper Peninsula, and an old map of the area showing the location of “the other Albion.”
Albion Station Bottle Shop
All text copyright, 2013 © all rights reserved Frank Passic
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There is increasing demand for customizable applications. As applications became more complex, customization with simple parameters became impossible: users now want to make configuration decisions at execution time; users also want to write macros and scripts to increase productivity [1, 2,
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There is increasing demand for customizable applications. As applications became more complex, customization with simple parameters became impossible: users now want to make configuration decisions at execution time; users also want to write macros and scripts to increase productivity [1, 2, 3, 4]. In response to these needs, there is an important trend nowadays to split complex systems in two parts: kernel and configuration. The kernel implements the basic classes and objects of the system, and is usually written in a compiled, statically typed language, like C or Modula-2. The configuration part, usually written in an interpreted, flexible language, connects these classes and objects to give the final shape to the application.
Configuration languages come in several flavors, ranging from simple languages for selecting preferences, usually implemented as parameter lists in command lines or as variable-value pairs read from configuration files (e.g., MS-Windows'.ini files, X11 resource files) to embedded languages, for extending applications with user defined functions based on primitives provided by the applications. Embedded languages can be quite powerful, being sometimes simplified variants of mainstream programming languages such as Lisp and C. Such configuration languages are also called extension languages, since they allow the extension of the basic kernel semantics with new, user defined capabilities.
What makes extension languages different from stand alone languages is that they only work embedded
in a host client, called the host program. Moreover, the host program can usually provide
domain-specific extensions to customize the embedded language for its own purposes, typically by providing
higher level abstractions. For this, an embedded language has both a syntax for its own programs
and an application program interface (API) for communicating with hosts. Unlike simpler configuration
languages, which are used to supply parameter values and sequences of actions to hosts, there is a
two-way communication between embedded languages and host programs.
It is important to note that the requirements on extension languages are different from those on general purpose programming languages. The main requirements for extension languages are:
ffl extension languages need good data description facilities, since they are frequently used as configuration languages;
ffl extension languages should have a clear and simple syntax, because their main users are not professional programmers;
ffl extension languages should be small, and have a small implementation. Otherwise, the costs of adding the library to an application may be too high;
ffl extension languages are not for writing big pieces of software, with hundreds of thousands lines. Therefore, mechanisms for supporting programming-in-the large, like static type checking, information hiding, and exception handling, are not essential;
ffl finally, extension languages should also be extensible. Unlike conventional languages, extension languages are used in a very high abstraction level, adequate for interfacing with users in quite diverse domains.
This paper describes Lua, an extensible procedural language with powerful data description facilities, designed to be used as a general purpose extension language. Lua arose as the fusion of two descriptive languages, designed for the configuration of two specific applications: one for scientific data entry, the other for visualizing lithology profiles obtained from geological probes. When users began to demand increasingly more power in these languages, it became clear that real programming facilities were needed. Instead of upgrading and maintaining two different languages in parallel, the solution adopted was to design a single language that could be used not only for these two applications, but for any other application. Therefore, Lua incorporates facilities common to most procedural programming languages | control structures (whiles, if s, etc), assignments, subroutines, and infix operators | but abstracts out facilities specific to any particular domain. In this way, Lua can be used as a complete language or as a language framework.
Lua satisfies the requirements listed above quite well. Its syntax and control structures are quite simple, Pascal-like. Lua is small; the whole library is around six thousand lines of ANSI C, of which
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Most of what we know about Mark comes directly from the New Testament. He is usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12:12. (When Peter escaped from prison, he went to the home of Mark's mother.)
Paul and Barnab
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Most of what we know about Mark comes directly from the New Testament. He is usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12:12. (When Peter escaped from prison, he went to the home of Mark's mother.)
Paul and Barnabas took him along on the first missionary journey, but for some reason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem. It is evident, from Paul's refusal to let Mark accompany him on the second journey despite Barnabas's insistence, that Mark had displeased Paul. Because Paul later asks Mark to visit him in prison, we may assume the trouble did not last long.
The oldest and the shortest of the four Gospels, the Gospel of Mark emphasizes Jesus' rejection by humanity while being God's triumphant envoy. Probably written for Gentile converts in Rome—after the death of Peter and Paul sometime between A.D. 60 and 70—Mark's Gospel is the gradual manifestation of a "scandal": a crucified Messiah.
Evidently a friend of Mark (Peter called him "my son"), Peter is only one of the Gospel sources, others being the Church in Jerusalem (Jewish roots) and the Church at Antioch (largely Gentile).
Like one other Gospel writer, Luke, Mark was not one of the 12 apostles. We cannot be certain whether he knew Jesus personally. Some scholars feel that the evangelist is speaking of himself when describing the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane: "Now a young man followed him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body. They seized him, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked" (Mark 14:51-52).
Others hold Mark to be the first bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Venice, famous for the Piazza San Marco, claims Mark as its patron saint; the large basilica there is believed to contain his remains.
A winged lion is Mark's symbol. The lion derives from Mark's description of John the Baptist as a "voice of one crying out in the desert" (Mark 1:3), which artists compared to a roaring lion. The wings come from the application of Ezekiel's vision of four winged creatures (Ezekiel, chapter one) to the evangelists.
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easy measurement of Systolic and
Diastolic Blood Pressures
gives accurate and consistent blood pressure readings that
conform to values obtained by standard mercury sphygmomanometers.
Blood pressure measurement is extremely
simple using BIP
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easy measurement of Systolic and
Diastolic Blood Pressures
gives accurate and consistent blood pressure readings that
conform to values obtained by standard mercury sphygmomanometers.
Blood pressure measurement is extremely
simple using BIPITONE. No stethoscope is required and human errors
in auscultation is eliminated. The method used is an electronic adaption
of RIVA-ROCCI principle. Special cuff with multiple sensors cover
a wide pick-up area to determine the blood pressure easily.
BIPITONE is useful to doctors as well as for hypertensive patients
to keep a regular check of their blood pressure at home.
of Operation Wrap the velcro cuff on the arm; and inflate
bladder as usual. Press B.P. ON switch and gradually deflate cuff pressure
at rate of 2 to3 mm/Hg. When the Systolic pressure is reached, the electronic
beeper and the red LED flashes on the B.P.meter will start. As cuff pressure
is further reduced, the beeps/flashes will stop to indicate the Diastolic
Specifications Measurement Method
: Electronic adaption of
RIVA ROCCI principle Blood Pressure Indication : Systolic - Flashing LED
and beeper starts; Diastolic - Flashing LED and beeper stops. Measurement
Range: 20 to 300 mm/Hg; Sensor System
: Multiple HIR Electrosteth transducers in cuff. Electronic
Circuitry : Solid- State intergrated circuitry. Power
Source : One 9 - Volt Alkaline battery : Duracell MN1604 - 6LR61
; or equivalent. Alternatively, 220 or 110 volts/50 Hz mains supply
using optional battery eliminator ;
4 x 3 x 1 ½ inches / 500 gms.
of Biomedical/Medical Electronic Instruments & Scientific Pumps for
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Their transmitters may reach only a few miles, but community radio stations are enabling isolated communities across Africa to voice their own concerns. On air, ordinary citizens discuss issues that are central to them, such as gender relations and combatting HIV/AIDS.
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Their transmitters may reach only a few miles, but community radio stations are enabling isolated communities across Africa to voice their own concerns. On air, ordinary citizens discuss issues that are central to them, such as gender relations and combatting HIV/AIDS. They share farming tips and income generation ideas and explore ways to improve education.
“Development work at times can be like sleepwalking in fog,” Ms. Denise Gray-Felder, president of the Communication for Social Change Consortium, told Africa Renewal. “You know you’re not where you are supposed to be, and you can sense motion … but it is unclear exactly where you’re headed. A frequently missing ‘guidepost’ in development work is local voice. Community radios provide profound new opportunities for more inclusive sustainable development.” Her organization is an international nonprofit group that helps poor and marginalized communities use communications to improve their lives.
Millions in Africa remain voiceless, despite a multitude of new information outlets. Most media remain largely state controlled. But the tide of democracy sweeping the continent has seen governments loosening their g
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. In everyday usage the term is taken to encompass a wide range of ceramics, including earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The places where such
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. In everyday usage the term is taken to encompass a wide range of ceramics, including earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The places where such wares are made are called potteries.
Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln to induce reactions that lead to permanent changes, including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape. There are wide regional variations in the properties of clays used by potters and this often helps to produce wares that are unique in character to a locality. It is common for clays and other minerals to be mixed to produce clay bodies suited to specific purposes; for example, a clay body that remains slightly porous after firing is often used for making earthenware or terra cotta flower-pots.
Methods of shaping
The potter's most basic tools are the hands, but many additional tools have been developed over the long history of pottery manufacture, including the potter's wheel and turntable, shaping tools (paddles, anvils, ribs), rolling tools (roulettes, slab rollers, rolling pins), cutting/piercing tools (knives, fluting tools, wires) and finishing tools (burnishing stones, rasps, chamois).
Pottery can be shaped by a range of methods that include:
Handwork or handbuilding. This is the earliest and the most individualized and direct forming method. Wares can be constructed by hand from coils of clay, from flat slabs of clay, from solid balls of clay — or some combination of these. Parts of hand-built vessels are often joined together with the aid of slurry or slip, a runny mixture of clay and water. Handbuilding is slower and more gradual than wheel-throwing, but it offers
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Helping Unravel Causes of Ice Age Extinctions
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2011) — Did climate change or humans cause the extinctions of the large-bodied Ice Age mammals (commonly called megafauna) such
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Helping Unravel Causes of Ice Age Extinctions
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2011) — Did climate change or humans cause the extinctions of the large-bodied Ice Age mammals (commonly called megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth? Scientists have for years debated the reasons behind the Ice Age mass extinctions, which caused the loss of a third of the large mammals in Eurasia and two thirds of the large mammals in North America.
Now, an interdisciplinary team from more than 40 universities around the world led by Professor Eske Willerslev and his group from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, has tried to answer the contentious question in one of the biggest studies of its kind ever.
The study by the team, which includes two Texas A&M University professors, is published online in the journal Nature and reveals dramatically different responses of Ice Age species to climate change and human impact. Using ancient DNA, species distribution models and the human fossil record, the findings indicate that neither climate nor humans alone can account for the Ice Age mass extinctions.
"Our findings put a final end to the single-cause theories of these extinctions," says Willserslev. "Our data suggest care should be taken in making generalizations regarding past and present species extinctions; the relative impacts of climate change and human encroachment on species extinctions really depend on which species we're looking at."
The study reports that climate alone caused extinctions of woolly rhinoceros and musk ox in Eurasia, but a combination of climate and humans played a part in the loss of bison in Siberia and wild horse. While the reindeer remain relatively unaffected by any of these factors, the reasons causes of the extinction of the mammoth remain unresolved.
Article continues: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102161253.htm
Image credit: Michael Long/NHMPL
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Naomi Eisenberger, a leading social neuroscience researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wanted to understand what goes on in the brain when people feel rejected by others. She designed an experiment in which volunteers played a computer game
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Naomi Eisenberger, a leading social neuroscience researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wanted to understand what goes on in the brain when people feel rejected by others. She designed an experiment in which volunteers played a computer game called Cyberball while having their brains scanned by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine. Cyberball hearkens back to the nastiness of the school playground. “People thought they were playing a ball-tossing game over the Internet with two other people,” Eisenberger explains. “They could see an avatar that represented themselves, and avatars [ostensibly] for two other people. Then, about halfway through this game of catch among the three of them, the subjects stopped receiving the ball and the two other supposed players threw the ball only to each other.” Even after they learned that no other human players were involved, the game players spoke of feeling angry, snubbed, or judged, as if the other avatars excluded them because they didn’t like something about them.
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This reaction could be traced directly to the brain’s responses. “When people felt excluded,” says Eisenberger, “we saw activity in the dorsal portion of the anterior cingulate cortex — the neural region involved in the distressing component of pain, or what is sometimes referred to as the ‘suffering’ component of pain. Those people who felt the most rejected had the highest levels of activity in this region.” In other words, the feeling of being excluded provoked the same sort of reaction in the brain that physical pain might cause. (See Exhibit 1.)
Eisenberger’s fellow researcher Matthew Lieberman, also of UCLA, hypothesizes that human beings evolved this link between social connection and physical discomfort within the brain “because, to a mammal, being socially connected to caregivers is necessary for survival.” This study and many others now emerging have made one thing clear: The human brain is a social organ. Its physiological and neurological reactions are directly and profoundly shaped by social interaction. Indeed, as Lieberman puts it, “Most proce
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“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
When Albert Einstein imagined himself chasing a beam of light, he was able to conclude
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“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
When Albert Einstein imagined himself chasing a beam of light, he was able to conclude that the speed of time is relative to how fast one object is moving compared to another.
I’m not a physics guy, so hopefully I got that close to right.
When it comes to things like knowledge or wisdom, there are many ways to explore them. There’s science, philosophy, and religion. But what all of these approaches have in common is storytelling. And, more importantly, creative storytelling.
Stories are Thought Experiments
Stories are thought experiments, whether we intend them to be or not. They help us use our imaginations to create worlds that we can explore and use to ask questions about ourselves.
Here are a few simple examples:
- Plato’s Cave Allegory: In Plato’s The Republic, Socrates explores the nature of human enlightenment through the allegory of the cave. He imagines prisoners that have been confined to a cave since birth and forced to look straight at the back of that cave. All of their lives they see only shadows and mistake those shadows as reality. He then imagines a prisoner being set free. He explores how that prisoner would discover the truth and how that truth would be accepted by the prisoner’s fellow captives if he was confined to the cave again.
- Flatland: In Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical novella, English schoolmaster Edwin A. Abbott explores a two-dimensional world and how its inhabitants would experience three dimensional space. This is an exploration of human perception and its possible limitations.
- Blind Men and the Elephant Parable: The parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant has crossed through many different faiths and tells a story of a how blind men, when grasping different parts of an elephant, describe the elephant in different ways. For instance, those who grasped the ear, described the elephant as like a carpet. This parable explores how humans, grasping different parts of truth, often mistake it as the whole. Only through being open to each others’ points of view can they begin to understand the whole truth better.
The Thought Experiments are About Us
What do these stories have in common?
They use the mind’s imagination to ask questions and explore possible answers. This, in my opinion, is one of the most important uses of storytelling.
Fantasy and Science fiction do this better than any other genre, because they allow us to break free of “real life” and the rules that accompany it. These genres make it possible for us to change the rules in whatever way we wish.
In hisseries, George R. R. Martin changes the “rules” of the seasons, making them unpredictable. He adds magic, dragons, white walkers, and a giant wall.
He doesn’t change the people, though. They are the same. They are still us. Why?
Because that’s what he’s exploring – Us. He’s putting us in fantastic situations and exploring how we would behave.
Frank Herbert’s Dune explores humanity in a similar way. It places humans in a futuristic setting where large worms create a powerful spice that allows us to fold space. By using this spice, one of the main characters is able to experience the past, present and future all at once.
In both of these examples, the authors have created complex worlds with their own fantastic elements, and then set humans loose so that we can learn about who we are as a species.
Origin Stories and Continuity
There are two phenomena in popular culture that demonstrate the importance of stories as a means of exploration.
The first is the popularity origin stories. We are fascinated by origin stories because we seek to explore causality. We want to understand how events transpired to create characters and situations that we are familiar with.
The second is the outrage that occurs when a franchise messes with continuity. It disrupts our exploration, creating a sensation that is worse than nails on a chalk board. It’s also cheating!
First of all, I sincerely thank you for reading this. I’d like to ask you one more favor, however.
If you have the time, please answer the following questions in the comments section below:
- What questions do your favorite stories ask, and how do they attempt to answer them (if at all)?
- What kinds of questions do you ask when you write stories, and how do you attempt to answer them (if at all)?
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Summary: JOURNAL OF E 11, VOL. 1, NO. 1, AUGUST 2009 1
Community Seismic Network
Daniel Obenshain, K. Mani Chandy, Rishi Chandy
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Summary: JOURNAL OF E 11, VOL. 1, NO. 1, AUGUST 2009 1
Community Seismic Network
Daniel Obenshain, K. Mani Chandy, Rishi Chandy, Rob Clayton, Andreas Krause, Michael Olson,
Daniel Rosenberg, and Annie Tang
Abstract--Geologists have long sought an early warning system
for earthquakes since it is the best way to save lives and prevent
property damage. Currently, the seismic network in the Los
Angeles area is too sparse to provide any early warning. We
propose a distributed system using MEMS sensors attached to
volunteers' computers in homes and schools across the Los
Angeles area. This system will have the advantage of a faster
response time and a denser network than the existing system.
Index Terms--distributed computing, seismic network.
EARTHQUAKES are devastating natural disasters. They
are of particular concern to the people of the Los Angeles
area as the San Andreas Fault and other faults lie nearby.
ShakeOut, a scenario constructed by the United States Geo-
logical Survey, conservatively estimates that a 7.8 or higher
magnitude earthquake in this area would result in a death toll
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In Egypt in the New Kingdom impressive rock temples were hewed from cliffsides, the finest being the great temple of Abu-Simbel constructed by Ramses II. In the developed structural temples of Egypt a doorway, flanked by monumental towers or
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In Egypt in the New Kingdom impressive rock temples were hewed from cliffsides, the finest being the great temple of Abu-Simbel constructed by Ramses II. In the developed structural temples of Egypt a doorway, flanked by monumental towers or pylons, led to an unroofed open court, generally surrounded on three sides by a colonnaded passage. Beyond the court lay the majestic hypostyle hall and a variety of chambers preceding and surrounding the holy of holies. From the temple entrance to this innermost sanctuary the various units diminished progressively in size and height, while the direct outside light was also reduced. The typical temple later accumulated additional pylons, courts, and rooms, the entire group being enclosed by a massive wall. Only monarchs and priests had access to the chambers beyond the hypostyle hall. The New Kingdom was the most active period of temple construction, although the grandest temple, that of Amon at Al Karnak, was begun much earlier.
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European researchers have found 30 previously hidden supermassive black holes anchoring faraway galaxies, which suggests there at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as thought.
Supermassive black holes hold as much matter as millions or billions of
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European researchers have found 30 previously hidden supermassive black holes anchoring faraway galaxies, which suggests there at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as thought.
Supermassive black holes hold as much matter as millions or billions of suns. The newfound black holes were long sought but went unnoticed because they lurk behind veils of dust and are so faraway that even the galaxies they anchor are difficult to examine in any detail.
"This discovery means that surveys of powerful supermassive black holes have so far underestimated their numbers by at least a factor of two, and possibly by up to a factor of five," said study leader Paolo Padovani from Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility and the European Southern Observatory in Munich, Germany.
They were found using the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO), a database of observations from various telescopes. Making the detections required analyzing views from three telescopes: the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory; and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The black holes were all in "active" galaxies, meaning they were actively consuming large quantities of galactic matter. Our Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole but the setup is not currently active. In an active galaxy, a swirling disk of gas and dust, known as a torus, surrounds and largely obscures the central black hole.
The torus looks something like a donut. Inside it is a thinner disk of material, called an accretion disk, that spirals in toward the black hole and is accelerated to a significant fraction of light-speed.
Black holes cannot actually be seen, because they trap all matter and light that enters them. But if an active galaxy is viewed from above, the hole in the middle of the torus allows a good view of the accretion disk, allowing astronomers to infer the presence of the black hole.
The new study looked at galaxies that were edge-on, but deduced the black holes by studying emissions in various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The observations in the AVO database were originally made as part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), which has taken two patches of deep sky and made them the best studied in multiple wavelengths.
"These discoveries highlight the kind of scientific impact that Virtual Observatory technologies and standards will have on astronomy world-wide", said Peter Quinn, director of the AVO.
The findings will be detailed in a future issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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狗 (gǒu) and 犬 (quǎn) both mean "dog" and both seem relatively common, but is there any difference between them? When should I use one and when should I use the other?
Huang
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狗 (gǒu) and 犬 (quǎn) both mean "dog" and both seem relatively common, but is there any difference between them? When should I use one and when should I use the other?
Huang's answer is great, some addition information here.
犬 usually can be used to say categories of dogs.
狗 usually can be used to refer a specific dog or dogs.
Both of them refer to the same thing, "dog". “狗” is used much more in oral speaking, and “犬” is a formal word that you would see in books.
For the words expressed in a classic(formal) way, you won't see "狗" but "犬".
When a man becomes an Immortal(God), even his pets like chickens and dogs go to the heaven. An analogy that when someone becomes powerful, his fellows would get somehow powerful too. We use it in a critical and negative way.
It's a word you will use to refer to your son in a humble way.In few cases, you will hear this word nowadays.You would say"犬子今年20岁"(my son is 20 years old this year), to show your respect to the listener.(of course, this expression is old-fashioned)
When you hunt in the field, you would take advantage of a hawk(falcon) or a dog(hound) to chase the games for you, so this word is an analogy to say "hired thugs", somone that implements your order [to commit crimes].We use it in a negative way too.
Usually,you will see it in the newspaper or the bulletins and announcements from the government.
狗 is a vulgar(I mean, not classic,not formal) word(in chinese culture, dog is not a good thing), so you will see it more in ordinary life, in oral speaking.
Note: There are few idioms with "狗" instead of "犬".For example, “狗尾续貂", but this word came from a popular oral proverb in its times, so this doesn't violate the viewpoint that “犬" is used formally.
When would you use "狗" or "犬"? Well, these words are fixed, so you have to memorize them.It's good to enlarge your vocabulary to avoid misuse. In most cases, you would use "狗".
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Japan shows no sign of relenting in a campaign to whitewash its wartime atrocities by direct and indirect means. Now the rightwing government in Tokyo wants to list as UNESCO World Heritage sites a shipyard and other facilities where Koreans were forced into
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Japan shows no sign of relenting in a campaign to whitewash its wartime atrocities by direct and indirect means. Now the rightwing government in Tokyo wants to list as UNESCO World Heritage sites a shipyard and other facilities where Koreans were forced into slave labor during World War II.
The Japanese government has decided to seek the registration of altogether 28 industrial facilities as UNESCO World Industrial Heritage sites in 2015, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
Among the sites is a steel mill in Fukuoka, a shipyard in Nagasaki, as well as other factories still in operation and a defunct coal mine in Hashima. Japan claims the sites are worthy of inclusion because they spurred Meiji Japan’s spectacular industrial development from 1868 to 1912.
But scores of Koreans were forced to labor there in World War II without pay. Around 4,700 Koreans were forced to work at the Nagasaki shipyard during World War II, and most of them lost their lives when the atomic bomb fell there in 1945. The Hashima mine employed around 800 Korean slave laborers from 1944 to 1945, and 122 died there.
Japanese news reports about the decision made no mention of the slave labor issue, and it is unclear what Tokyo will tell UNESCO.
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Mechanics - Punctuation - Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate the plural of letters, numbers, signs, and words referred to as words. The letter, number, sign, or word is italicized but the apostrophe
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Mechanics - Punctuation - Apostrophes
Use an apostrophe to indicate the plural of letters, numbers, signs, and words referred to as words. The letter, number, sign, or word is italicized but the apostrophe and "s" ('s) is not.
Examples: y's, 7's, &'s, and's
Instructions: Supply the apostrophes in the following sentences.
1. Your fs look like bs when you write.
2. Your speech had too many uhs in it.
3. Your 3s
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Joan (1328-1385) (DNB00)
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Joan (1328-1385) (DNB00)
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JOAN (1328-1385), the `Fair Maid of Kent,´ wife of Edward, prince of Wales, `the Black Prine´ [q.v.], and mother of Richard II, born in 1328, was probably the younger daughter and third child of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent [q.v.], sixth son of Edward I, who was beheaded 19 March 1330, and Margaret Wake. When hardly two years old she, and not her elder sister Margaret, is said to have acted as godmother to a brother John, a posthumous child, b. 7 April 1330 (Notes and Queries, 7th ser. v. 149, 238). In October 1330 the young Queen Philippa, according to Froissart (ii. 243), took charge of her. She grew up to be `en son temps la plus belle de tout la roiaulme d'Engleterre et la plus amoureuse´ (ib.) Froissart calls her `cette jeune damoiselle de Kent,´ but she does not seem to be called the `Fair Maid of Kent´ in any contemporary authority. Her beauty and fascinating manner early took captive both the youthful William de Montacute, second earl of Salisbury [q.v.], and his steward of the household, Sir Thomas Holland [q.v.] Holland forestalled his rival by a contract and cohabitation. But he was called away to the wars in France before a marriage had been solemnised. Salisbury took advantage of his absence to enter into a contract of marriage with Joan. Holland on returning to England petitioned Pope Clement VI to restore his rights over her. The case was referred by the holy see to the investigation of Cardinal Adhemar, and after both sides had been heard, Clement, on 13 Nov. 1349, gave judgment for Holland (Islip Register, in Lambeth Library, f. 180; cf. Dugdale, Baronage, i. 648; and Fœdera, iii, 626, Recorded.) The chroniclers, ignorant of the precontract, represent Joan as divorced from Salisbury for infidelity with Holland (Walsingham, i. 196; Knighton, col. 2620; Murimuth, cont. p. 114, ed. Hall; Capgrave, Chron. p. 221; so too M. Wallon, Richard II, i. 400). Selden rashly identified her with the
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Three years ago he presented us with tools to subdue AIDS. Since then, deaths in the U.S. have plummeted but much of the Third World is being decimated by the disease. To the world's most famous AIDS RESEARCHER
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Three years ago he presented us with tools to subdue AIDS. Since then, deaths in the U.S. have plummeted but much of the Third World is being decimated by the disease. To the world's most famous AIDS RESEARCHER, this new reality must be viewed with hope.
April 29, 1999
By TED GIDEONSE
Before the 1996 International AIDS Conference, in Vancouver, few outside the HIV‑research community had any idea who Dr. David Ho was. But at the conference, Ho made an announcement that made him the most famous AIDS scientist in the world. He explained how, by using a "cocktail" of AZT and several new drugs called protease inhibitors in the early stages of infection, doctors could reduce HIV in the body to undetectable levels. Patients on the drugs had already made remarkable recoveries. The news was met with nearly unchecked enthusiasm. Six months later, Ho, the CEO of New York's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, was named Time's Man of the Year.
Four years after this combination drug therapy became available (and three years since Ho's announcement), HIV‑related deaths in the United States have dropped dramatically: The leading cause of death in 1995 for those age twenty‑five to forty‑four, HIV plummeted to fifth in 1997. Today, AIDS hospices across the country are actually closing down because there aren't enough patients to fill them. But for millions of people worldwide, the situation is still desperate. The combination therapy can cost up to $6o,ooo a year; the vast majority of those infected with AIDS reside in Third World countries, where treatment is often unavailable; and for a growing minority, the new drugs either don't work at all, have stopped working or have side effects that are becoming too great to bear. All of this was reported last summer at the gloomy International AIDS Conference in Geneva.
Despite the recent bad news, Ho is energetic and upbeat. He is forty‑six, surprisingly young for what he's accomplished. He looks even younger, hardly someone you'd expect to have a seventeen‑year‑old son who's heading off to MIT in the fall.
After rushing across town from a four‑hour seminar he was teaching at New York's Rockefeller University, Ho is collected and utterly calm as he speaks about the horrible deaths caused by AIDS, the greatest public‑health crisis of the century: Nearly 14 million people have died from AIDS worldwide; more than 30 million are infected.
Should we be optimistic that AIDS might one day be just another treatable chronic disease, like diabetes?
The numbers really tell us. In the United States and Europe, AIDS‑related deaths are down by eighty percent from three or four years ago. It's also clear that in‑patient stays have dropped dramatically for people with the disease and that even hospital spending on AIDS has decreased substantially.
It's not completely optimistic. The therapies are not helping everybody. But there will be more drugs in the future, not fewer. And some of those new drugs are going to have better profiles, fewer side effects, easier administration. Those are things that really limit the effectiveness of our therapy today: The side effects and complex regimens really decrease patient adherence, which is key to successful control of the virus.
Is a cure still considered possible?
Many groups are still going for the home run, to see if HIV infection can be cured by purging the body of the virus with a few years of combination therapy, but that goal does not seem all that achievable in the short term. I think we're maybe a bit closer to achieving a state where the virus could be controlled by the immune system without drugs. And that, to borrow a term from cancer therapy, would be remission: You haven't cured the cancer completely, but you're off chemotherapy and there's no relapse, no symptoms, nothing. And those people who have lived a long time with HIV without developing the symptoms of AIDS ‑ long‑term nonprogressors- are telling us that this is probably doable; we just need to figure out how.
You were the champion of combination therapy. Now it's clear that the AIDS cocktail, as it has been called, isn't the cure‑all it was once hoped to be. For some, it fails to deliver, and for others, the benefits wear off after a few years.
We have to think about what's meant by failure. In the old days, it meant that you would develop pneumonia; you'd be in the hospital; you were going to die. That's failure. These days the definition of failure is, you have detectable virus. And that is very different. Even among combination‑therapy patients in whom the virus is still detectable, the death rate is six to ten percent. And there is no question that the failure rate will go up, because people can't stick to and tolerate these complicated regimens. Failure rates will rise, but it’s not the same type or failure that we saw back in the Eighties.
How much do you worry that the current treatment might enable HIV to evolve into a super‑virus even more dangerous than the current incarnation?
This is of some concern, of course. Most treatment failures
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Municipal council (Sweden)
A municipal council (Swedish: Kommunfullmäktige) is the decision-making body governing each of the 290 municipalities of Sweden. Though the Swedish Local Government Act (Swedish: Kommun
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Municipal council (Sweden)
A municipal council (Swedish: Kommunfullmäktige) is the decision-making body governing each of the 290 municipalities of Sweden. Though the Swedish Local Government Act (Swedish: Kommunallagen) uses the term "municipal assembly" in an English translation of the Act, "municipal council" and even "city council" are used as well, even in official contexts in English by several of Sweden's largest municipalities, including Stockholm, Malmö, and Gothenburg.
This system of administrative division was established with the municipal reform of 1971. Prior to this reform, municipal governance in Sweden was conducted by either a kommunalfullmäktige (municipal council in rural areas) or a stadsfullmäktige (city council in urban areas).
The number of members in each assembly can range from 31 to 101, depending on the population of the municipality in question. Members of the assemblies are chosen to serve for four-year terms through elections using a party-list proportional representation system. These municipal elections are held on the second Sunday of September, the same day as Swedish parliamentary elections.
The term kommunfullmäktige is also used by Swedish-speakers in Finland, where it corresponds to the kunnanvaltuusto with the same meaning.
- Swedish Local Government Act, Chapter 3, Section 1
- Stockholms Stad: "Organisation" (English)
- Malmö stad: "The City Council" (English)
- City of Göteborg: "The City Council" (English)
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Discussed in detail at the below mentioned link
Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behavior but
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Discussed in detail at the below mentioned link
Some modern anthropologists hold that biological evolution has shaped not only human morphology but also human behavior. The role those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is not of dictating the details of human behavior but one of imposing constraints—ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that “come naturally” in archetypal situations in any culture. Our “frailties”—emotions and motives such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy, lust, love—may be a very mixed assortment, but they share at least one immediate quality: we are, as we say, “in the grip” of them. And thus they give us our sense of constraints.
Unhappily, some of those frailties—our need for ever-increasing security among them—are presently maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay of cultural detail, they, too, are said to be biological in direction, and therefore as natural to us as are our appendixes. We would need to comprehend thoroughly their adaptive origins in order to understand how badly they guide us now. And we might then begin to resist their pressure.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to present
(A) a position on the foundations of human behavior and on what those foundations imply
(B) a theory outlining the parallel development of human morphology and of human behavior
(C) a diagnostic test for separating biologically determined behavior patterns from culture-specific detail
(D) a practical method for resisting the pressures of biologically determined drives
(E) an overview of those human emotions and motives that impose constraints on human behavior
2. Which of the following most probably provides an appropriate analogy from human morphology for the “details” versus “constraints” distinction made in the passage in relation to human behavior?
(A) The ability of most people to see all the colors of the visible spectrum as against most people’s inability to name any but the primary colors
(B) The ability of even the least fortunate people to show compassion as against people’s inability to mask their feelings completely
(C) The ability of some people to dive to great depths as against most people’s inability to swim long distances
(D) The psychological profile of those people who are able to delay gratification as against people’s inability to control their lives completely
(E) The greater lung capacity of mountain peoples that helps them live in oxygen-poor air as against people’s inability to fly without special apparatus
3. It can be inferred that in his discussion of maladaptive frailties the author assumes that
(A) evolution does not favor the emergence of adaptive characteristics over the emergence of maladaptive ones
(B) any structure or behavior not positively adaptive is regarded as transitory in evolutionary theory
(C) maladaptive characteristics, once fixed, make the emergence of other maladaptive characteristics more likely
(D) the designation of a characteristic as being maladaptive must always remain highly tentative
(E) changes in the total human environment can outpace evolutionary change
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What is right to consumer protection?marketing management
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Consumers have the right to protect themselves from goods and services which have bad quality,defects and unhealthy conditions.These rights include the
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Consumers have the right to protect themselves from goods and services which have bad quality,defects and unhealthy conditions.These rights include the right to have quality product at reasonable price,prevention of price mis setting,taking compensation to damages,ability to ask product specifications & qualities,ability to take a legal action at the court etc.These rights are secured through consumer act and related legislation.today consumer protection is a main topic at the market place.
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PBS NewsHour reports that more than 210,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico every day after the Deepwater Horizon ruptured in 2010. A lot of this oil made it to the shores of many beaches surrounding the
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PBS NewsHour reports that more than 210,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico every day after the Deepwater Horizon ruptured in 2010. A lot of this oil made it to the shores of many beaches surrounding the gulf. National Geographic reported that despite massive cleanup efforts, tar balls and oil patties were still being found two feet deep off the coast of Florida by a team from the University of South Florida. Oil and sand pollution affects humans, mammals, soil and marine life for many years.
The research done by the team from USF suggested that even after an oil spill cleanup, the effects of the oil spill can harm beach-goers and wildlife because oil-filled sand can remain below clean sand. Buried oil remains much longer than surface oil because of the natural breakdown of the oil deposits.
For example, as of the publication date the subsurface oil still remains in the sand from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989. Each time a storm occurs along the beaches, new oil patties or tar balls surface and a new oil cleanup is required along the beaches.
The effects of oil spills and sand pollution on humans still requires more study. Experts from National Geographic state that oil can cause skin rashes, eye irritation and skin poisoning. Inhaling the evaporating oil from the oil found under the sand can cause headaches, nausea and even dizziness. None of these symptoms seem to have prolonged effects, but, again, more study is required to determine whether major oil spills present long-term health hazards to humans.
The research done by USF shows many problems with the wildlife surrounding the sands where oil pollution has occurred. Seabirds eat sand-dwelling bloodworms and other sand organisms. Sea turtles bury their eggs in underground sand nests. Both these creatures can be harmed and have their reproduction limited because of the oil and sand pollution. Many experts say that oil-coated birds are better off dead, according to an article in National Geographic. A German expert stated that 99 percent of the rehabilitated birds will die because of the massive exposure to oil.
The marine ecosystem evolves, but oil and sand pollution affects this ecosystem beyond what any scientist can detect. It is known that many fish, micro-organisms, underwater plant life and other parts of the marine ecosystem die because of the oil pollution. The extent of the damage is still being studied by many universities and scientists, but a dramatic loss of marine life makes the recovery of this ecosystem take longer, creating other problems.
Any time there is an oil spill which creates sand pollution, the economy of the affected area suffers. The area's economic repercussions spread out to other parts of the country that depend on a coastal economy such as seafood restaurants and distributors. A lot of people vacation at coastal communities and when the beaches or waters of that community are polluted, the tourism industry takes a major downturn in that area. Until a proper cleanup is performed, polluted areas of the country will suffer economically.
- Mongabay: Oil Sands Pollution in Canada; Jeremy Hance; December 7, 2009
- Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois: Oil Sand Pollution
- Landviser: Electrical Geophysical Methods to Evaluate Soil Pollution from Gas and Oil Mining
- National Geographic: Oil Found in Gulf Beach Sand, Even After Cleanups; Christine Dell'Amore; July 2010
- American University: Oil Production and Environmental Damage
- PBS Newshour: How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico?; Chris Amico; May 9, 2010
- Photo Credit John Foxx/Stockbyte/Getty Images
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We report that small particles with diameters of 1–27 μm have moved in the evanescent fields produced by a laser beam. The evanescent field in the experiment was produced in the near field of the surface of a high
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We report that small particles with diameters of 1–27 μm have moved in the evanescent fields produced by a laser beam. The evanescent field in the experiment was produced in the near field of the surface of a high-refractive-index sapphire prism illuminated by a 1.06-μm YAG laser beam with an incident angle larger than the critical angle. Both polystyrene latex spheres and glass spheres bounced and ran along the surface of the prism when the laser beam was on. The maximum running speed obtained was approximately 20 μm/s. A micrograph of the running particles is shown with plots of the measured velocity versus the incident angle of the laser beam. Applications of this phenomenon are also discussed.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
Original Manuscript: March 2, 1992
Published: June 1, 1992
Satoshi Kawata and Tadao Sugiura, "Movement of micrometer-sized particles in the evanescent field of a laser beam," Opt. Lett. 17, 772-774 (1992)
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Amazon Extinctions to Slow With Land Management, Scientist Says
The extinction of dozens of Amazon species may be prevented in the next three decades by protecting more forests and reusing cleared land, according to an article in today’s issue of Science.
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Amazon Extinctions to Slow With Land Management, Scientist Says
The extinction of dozens of Amazon species may be prevented in the next three decades by protecting more forests and reusing cleared land, according to an article in today’s issue of Science.
About 1 percent of the region’s tree-dwelling animals were driven to extinction as of 2008 and that figure may rise dramatically as deforestation spreads in Brazil, Robert Ewers, a senior lecturer at Imperial College in London and the article’s lead author, said in an interview.
Ewers evaluated the region by dividing it blocks of 2,500 square kilometers (965 square miles), and found that at the current rate of deforestation, an average of nine species in each block will be gone by 2050 and 16 more will be too close to extinction to be saved. That may be slowed with improved land- management policies, he said.
“Development has to happen, but development doesn’t have to happen everywhere equally,” Ewers said. “What we can do is maybe try and push to use land better. Instead of clearing land, using it, and then abandoning it, maybe we can keep using that same land.”
Extinction of a species often trails deforestation by years, or even decades, he said. The study focused on the extinction of vertebrate species, animals with backbones.
“In the south and the east of the Amazon we’ve already lost a lot of species,” Ewers said. “Given the decisions that are being made in Brazil, this is a really important time. You start to see that the decisions you make today result in different futures.”
President Dilma Rousseff on June 25 signed a law that reduces the size of three national parks, three national forests and one federally protected area to allow for building dams and reservoir runoff.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at [email protected]
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