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03c Captivity of Jeanne d’Arc: 18 June 1430 to 25 December 1430
Region: Picardy, Nord Pas-de-Calais, and Haute-Normandy
A French Battlefields “Virtual
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03c Captivity of Jeanne d’Arc: 18 June 1430 to 25 December 1430
Region: Picardy, Nord Pas-de-Calais, and Haute-Normandy
A French Battlefields “Virtual Battlefield Tour” [This battlefield is not included in Fields of War.]
Summary: After her capture at the gates of Compiègne by Count Jean II of Luxembourg, Jeanne d’Arc was held captive at several locations while negotiations for the payment of a ransom took place. Eventually the Duke of Bedford purchased her from Count Jean and she was released into English custody.
This Virtual Battlefields Tour traces Jeanne’s route as she was moved towards English held territory along the Channel coast, then as the English moved her to Rouen, their capital in France.
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Pre-clinical trials could begin next year for what could turn out to be the future for contraceptives. A new form of birth control, 21st century style, will arrive in the form of a small chip that could be implanted
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Pre-clinical trials could begin next year for what could turn out to be the future for contraceptives. A new form of birth control, 21st century style, will arrive in the form of a small chip that could be implanted under the skin of a woman and which would offer hormonal birth control for as long as 16 years.
[Image Source: MicroChips]
Many people would perhaps jump at the chance to have long-term birth control that is effective and safe and which they don’t have to even think about. MicroCHIPS from Massachusetts could be offering this in the near future by way of a very small chip that can be implanted under the skin and which can be completely forgotten about.
The small micro-chip is 20 x 20 x 7mm and it would offer birth control for up to 16 years. Each day the chip would deliver 30mg of Levonorgestrel, a medicine that is used in many hormonal contraceptives along with emergency contraception. The micro-chip can also be used as a remote control to effectively turn the birth control on and off. If the women decides she wants to start a family and has had the chip implanted, she can turn it off and then turn it back on after the baby is born.
This new technology advancement goes way beyond just being a contraceptive. The chip holds a reservoir and this contains the hormone and protects it. Any drug could in fact be used in the reservoir and be released when needed or it could be pre-programmed to release on a set schedule.
“These arrays are designed for compatibility with pre-programmed microprocessors, wireless telemetry, or sensor feedback loops to provide active control,” according to the MicroCHIPS web page. “Individual device reservoirs can be opened on demand or on a predetermined schedule to precisely control drug release or sensor activation.”
To get the chip to disperse the hormone, the reservoir has a very small current which comes from a battery in the chip. This passes through the hermetic titanium and platinum seal, melting a dose of the drug to be delivered into the body.
The chips have been tested during a human clinical trial in which they delivered osteoporosis medication to women who were post-menopausal. The tests were undertaken over a period of one month and showed durability along with no adverse reactions. The small chip was implanted under the skin of women after a local anaesthetic, with the whole procedure taking less than 30 minutes.
While there are still some things that the team behind the chip still have to work out, for instance making sure that wireless data is secure by encryption, the con
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- Take the Liver Disease Quiz
- Hepatitis Slideshow Pictures
- Take the Alcohol Quiz
- Patient Comments: TIPS Procedure - Experience
- Patient Comments: TIPS Procedure - Complications
What is TIPS (transjugular
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- Take the Liver Disease Quiz
- Hepatitis Slideshow Pictures
- Take the Alcohol Quiz
- Patient Comments: TIPS Procedure - Experience
- Patient Comments: TIPS Procedure - Complications
What is TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt)?
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt or (TIPS) is a shunt (tube) placed between the portal vein which carries blood from the intestines and intraabdominal organs to the liver and the hepatic vein which carries blood from the liver back to the vena cava and the heart.
What is TIPS used for?
It is used primarily (but not exclusively) in patients with cirrhosis in which the scar tissue within the liver causes partial blockage of flow of blood passing through the liver from the portal vein to the hepatic vein. The blockage increases the pressure in the portal vein, which is called portal hypertension. As a result of the increase in pressure, portal blood flows preferentially or shunts through the branches of the portal vein to veins coming from abdominal organs that normally drain toward the portal vein. These organs connect with veins that do not empty into the portal vein and thus bypass the liver. Thus, much of the flow of blood bypasses the liver. If these veins going to the other organs enlarge, they are referred to as variceal veins or varices. Unfortunately, one of the places varices form is in the stomach and lower esophagus, and these varices have a tendency to bleed massively, frequently causing death from exsanguination. By providing an artificial path for blood traveling from the intestines, through, the liver, and back to the heart, the shunt placed during the TIPS procedure reduces the pressure in the portal vein, significantly decreasing the likelihood of varices bleeding.
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***CHECK OUT MY Math Word Wall Companion
for fun NO PREP activities to use with these word walls!***
Looking for a quick and easy way to prep your math corner? Look no further! This 135 pack is filled with math word
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***CHECK OUT MY Math Word Wall Companion
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The pack includes 23 themed word walls.
The following word walls are included:
Reading/Writing and Representing Numbers
Counting and Comparing Quantities
Non-Numerical and Numerical Patterns
Locating Objects in Space and in a Plane
Representing Numbers (2)
Skip Counting and Counting from a Given Number
Describing Plane Figures and Describing Solids
Addition and Subtraction
Estimating and Measuring Time
Using a Table and Graph
Addition and Subtraction Facts
Finding a Missing Term in an Equation
Representing and Decomposing Numbers
Developing Processes for Written Computation
Estimating and Measuring Dimensions
Even and Odd Numbers
Locating an Object in a Plane (2)
Probability and Chance
Developing Processes for Written Computation (2)
Multiplication and Division
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This is the perfect companion pack for my
Math Centers Bundle
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The first rainbow flag made its debut at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 1978. Designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker, the original flag was hand-dyed and consisted of eight symbolic colors: Hot Pink (sexuality), Red (
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The first rainbow flag made its debut at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 1978. Designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker, the original flag was hand-dyed and consisted of eight symbolic colors: Hot Pink (sexuality), Red (life), Orange (healing), Yellow (sunlight), Green (nature), Turqoise (magic/art), Blue (serenity/harmony) and violet (spirit). Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Did you know that the Mafia owned the Stonewall Inn when the famous riots took place in 1969? Or that there were originally eight stripes on the Rainbow Flag, not just the current six?
While you might consider yourself a veteran Pride partier, there are plenty of interesting tidbits surrounding the Pride movement that you might not know.
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Scientists have discovered what may be the largest marine crocodile that ever lived, a monstrous predator as long as a bus that crunched up and ate sea turtles with blunt, bullet-shaped teeth.
The new species, named Machimosaurus rex, grew
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Scientists have discovered what may be the largest marine crocodile that ever lived, a monstrous predator as long as a bus that crunched up and ate sea turtles with blunt, bullet-shaped teeth.
The new species, named Machimosaurus rex, grew to be about 10 metres long and hunted in the shallow seas of what is now Tunisia around 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, report scientists in a new paper published in the journal Cretaceous Research.
Its powerful jaws were equipped with teeth shaped like "armour-piercing bullets," said Tetsuto Miyashita, a PhD candidate in paleontology at the University of Alberta who co-authored the study. "Those are built for crushing the bones rather than [to] slice through or pierce through flesh."
Those teeth were likely the perfect tool for crunching through the shells of turtles that were common in the tropical waters where it lived.
Last of its kind
Not only was the crocodile the largest of its kind, but it was also the last of its kind. Machimosaurus rex belonged to a lineage of sea-dwelling crocodiles, most of them no longer than three metres, thought to have gone extinct about 20 million years earlier.
Modern saltwater crocodiles are not part of the same lineage.
While Machimosaurus rex is the largest saltwater crocodile ever discovered, a freshwater crocodile that lived around the same time in the same region may have been larger, Miyashita said.
The researchers don't know exactly how long Machimosaurus rex was, because so far they have only been able to collect its skull.
Study leader Federico Fanti, an assistant professor at the University of Bologna in Italy, was conducting field research in the desert about 50 kilometres south of Tatouine, Tunisia, in 2014 when a member of his team spotted the tip of the croc's snout sticking out from the rock. They soon realized the animal's entire body was attached, but it was so large that they only had time to excavate the skull before returning to other obligations, such as teaching.
Fanti wanted to go back to excavate the rest of the body with a team of trained paleontologists, so he called up Miyashita. The two had met in Drumheller, Alta., in 2004 when they were both students working with Canadian paleontologist Philip Currie at the Royal Tyrell Museum. Miyashita was a high school student on exchange from Japan, while Fanti had been finishing his undergraduate degree and entering grad school.
Fanti send Miyashita pictures of the crocodile's skull.
"I thought, 'It's a nice specimen,'" Miyashita recalled. Then he looked more closely. "I realized that what looked to me like a toothpick was actuall
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|Water into Wine Craft
cardboard,scissors,markers,or crayons,pattern of a wine jar.
Draw the wine jar pattern onto a piece of cardboard. Have the children cut it out. Next cut a window into the front
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|Water into Wine Craft
cardboard,scissors,markers,or crayons,pattern of a wine jar.
Draw the wine jar pattern onto a piece of cardboard. Have the children cut it out. Next cut a window into the front of the jar. Cut a strip of cardboard the same width as the window,and about one inch longer than the size of the jar. Cut two slits near the top of the jar and two slits near the bottom of the jar. Have the children colour the top half of the cardboard strip blue, the bottom half of the strip red. Slide the strip into the slots and slide the cardboard strip up to make the water turn into the red wine. To save time. (You might want to have the parts of the wine jar all ready for the children to colour and put together.)
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Hemoabdomen, or hemoperitoneum, is an accumulation of blood in the abdominal cavity. The condition is a common reason for emergency presentation of pets to the veterinary hospital. While hemoabdomen does occur in cats,
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Hemoabdomen, or hemoperitoneum, is an accumulation of blood in the abdominal cavity. The condition is a common reason for emergency presentation of pets to the veterinary hospital. While hemoabdomen does occur in cats, it is a more commonly seen condition in dogs. Any age or breed of dog or cat may be afflicted with this condition.
Hemoabdomen may result from traumatic or non-traumatic causes. Traumatic hemoabdomen may result from blunt force, such as automobile trauma or falling from a height; or from penetrating trauma, such as attack by another animal or a gunshot or knife wound. Non-traumatic causes of hemoabdomen include gastric dilatation and volvulus (GDV/bloat, with subsequent tearing of the short gastric vessels), liver lobe or splenic torsion, and coagulopathies (clotting disorders). However, the most common cause of non-traumatic hemoabdomen is a bleeding intraabdominal mass.
Patients with hemoabdomen are often presented to their veterinarians because of signs secondary to blood loss. Patients suffering from traumatic hemoabdomen may also be presented due to other signs of trauma. Owners’ reasons for bringing their pets to the veterinarian may include vague signs, such as lethargy, anorexia, or vomiting. More commonly, owners will complain of an episode of weakness or collapse, and sometimes intermittent bouts of weakness or collapse (if there is intermittent bleeding). Some owners will notice that their pets have a distended abdomen or pale mucous membranes. Occasionally, acute death is noted without any preliminary sign of illness.
Physical examination findings are often indicative of some degree of shock (decreased perfusion to the body’s tissues) secondary to blood loss, and are variable depending on the stage of shock. Mucous membranes are generally pale, heart rate is elevated, and pulse quality is variable but may be weak. A distended abdomen may be noted, and occasionally an intraabdominal mass may be palpable. Other injuries may be found in cases of trauma.
If the veterinary team is suspicious that a patient is bleeding, they will likely want to perform tests to further determine the underlying cause. Initial diagnostics performed may include electrocardiogram (ECG), blood pressure measurement, blood work, and imaging tests. Findings are often variable depending on the degree of bleeding. Generally, though, these tests will confirm the presence of anemia (low red blood cell concentration) due to blood loss, and imaging studies (x-rays and/or ultrasound) will confirm the presence of fluid in the abdomen. In some cases, an underlying reason for the fluid, such as a mass, may be visualized with abdominal ultrasound. A sample of the fluid may be obtained to confirm that the fluid is, in fact, blood. The veterinarian may take x-rays of the chest to check for any abnormalities, including signs of trauma if the animal is injured or evidence of tumor spread (metastasis) to the chest in non-traumatic cases (as an intraabdominal mass is the most common cause of bleeding in these cases). Finally, coagulation testing may be performed, if available, to rule-out a clotting disorder due to rodenticide (rat bait) ingestion or other diseases.
While diagnostics are being performed to determine the cause of the pet’s disease, the veterinary team will providecare in attempt to stabilize the pet. This will usually require placement of one or more intravenous catheters for administration of fluids, pain medications, and other drugs. Many of these patients will also require a blood transfusion at some point during their care in order to replace the blood that has been lost. It is important to mention any previous medical history or concurrent disease to the veterinary team, as well as any medications that your pet takes, as this may affect the treatments that are provided. It is especially important to let the staff know if your pet has had a previous blood transfusion, as this will limit the types of blood products that your pet can receive safely and will mandate special testing of your pet’s blood prior to administration of a transfusion.
If a pet experiences bleeding into the abdomen secondary to trauma, surgery may or may not be required. Bleeding secondary to blunt trauma may stop on its own and may be successfully treated without surgery; if the bleeding is severe or will not stop on its own, surgery may be required. Patients with non-traumatic hemoabdomen will usually require surgery to definitively determine the cause of bleeding and get the bleeding stopped. If a clotting disorder is ruled out by laboratory testing, nearly all other causes of non-traumatic hemoabdomen require surgery to fix. As has been mentioned previously, the most common cause of bleeding in these cases is a tumor that has ruptured. Prior to surgery, the veterinary team will do their best to gather information on the underlying c
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Decision : CONF 203 VII.A.1.9/6
SOC: Everglades National Park (United States of America)
VII.9 Everglades National Park (United States of America)
The Committee recalled that the site was
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Decision : CONF 203 VII.A.1.9/6
SOC: Everglades National Park (United States of America)
VII.9 Everglades National Park (United States of America)
The Committee recalled that the site was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1993 due to an increasing number of threats since the date of its inscription on the World Heritage List in 1979 and that Federal State and local governments, as well as private foundations, had joined forces in providing significant financial support for the management of the site and its long-term restoration.
The World Heritage Centre presented a monitoring report, received from the State Party in November 1995, indicating that the rehabilitation of the Everglades ecosystem (restoration of water regime) would take 17 years at a cost of US$ 2 billion. The Committee commended the State Party for the actions taken to redress the situation.
The Committee, however, concluded that the site remains seriously threatened and decided that it be retained on theList of World Heritage in Danger.
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Teff, tef, or t'ef is a grain which is also known by the pleasing name lovegrass and the less poetic annual bunch grass; it is thought to have been domesticated in North Africa in prehistoric times. Now grown
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Teff, tef, or t'ef is a grain which is also known by the pleasing name lovegrass and the less poetic annual bunch grass; it is thought to have been domesticated in North Africa in prehistoric times. Now grown in small quantities in various parts of the world for food and animal fodder, teff remains a staple in North Africa. You're most likely to have eaten it in the spongy sourdough bread injera, which is often made from teff flour. Teff is a hardy plant that grows well in conditions ranging from water logged to drought-dry, but because it is labour intensive to harvest, it is expensive to buy in its native lands. Thus poorer people must make their injera from other grains, though they are said to produce a bitter bread. Injera made from teff is considered to be the most delicious.
The word teff may derive from the Amharic word teffa, "lost," perhaps because of the small size of the grain and how easy it is to lose if dropped. It is the smallest commonly eaten grain
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NASA Artificial Intelligence Could Help Astronauts Work More Efficiently in Space
In the vast blackness of space, where Earth appears to be just a small dot, artificial intelligence someday will help astronauts and robots make swift decisions and plan quickly, without
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NASA Artificial Intelligence Could Help Astronauts Work More Efficiently in Space
In the vast blackness of space, where Earth appears to be just a small dot, artificial intelligence someday will help astronauts and robots make swift decisions and plan quickly, without much assistance from home.
Even at the speed of light, about 186,000 miles per second, radio messages take at least 11 minutes to reach Mars (depending on its varying distance from Earth.) Because of time delays like this, human and robotic crews exploring deep space must depend less on help radioed from colleagues on Earth. Far away in space, astronauts will not only have to craft complex plans in 10 minutes or less, but they may need to make difficult, split-second decisions on their own.
According to NASA scientists, this vision of the future also includes potential cost reductions, since there would be less need for large teams on Earth to make detailed daily plans for deep space missions.
NASA is developing ever more potent artificial intelligence planning software to make distant missions more practical. In the near term, NASA scientists are creating software to reduce Mars teams' daily planning time and costs for missions that are about to begin. For example, in comparison with the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions, scientists hope to reduce planning time by a factor of 10 for missions in the near future. Increasingly streamlined, resource-saving approaches like this will play an important role as early as the Phoenix mission to the red planet's North Pole region, scheduled for launch in 2007.
Phoenix's 2008 landing zone is located in an ice-rich region. The lander's robotic arm will dig into the arctic terrain in search of clues to the ge
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Historians generally rank the elections of 1824, 1876, and 2000 as the most controversial elections in American history. In the 1824 election, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote in a four-way race, but lost
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Historians generally rank the elections of 1824, 1876, and 2000 as the most controversial elections in American history. In the 1824 election, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote in a four-way race, but lost the presidency to John Quincy Adams after the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. Jackson supporters maintained there was a “corrupt bargain” between Adams and the fourth-place finisher, Speaker of the House Henry Clay. There were claims that Adams’s appointment of Clay to the post of secretary of state—a position then viewed as a stepping-stone to the presidency—was part of a deal struck in return for Clay persuading his House supporters to select Adams over Jackson. The 1876 election, conducted in the tense decade following the Civil War (1861–1965), also failed to determine a winner in the electoral college. Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but ultimately lost to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in a vote of a Republican-majority election commission. Like the 2000 election, Florida also played a key role in the election of 1876, as one of the hotly contested states. The election of 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush has unquestionably been the most disputed election of modern times—raising issues of balloting problems, including high rates of spoiled, unmarked, or uncounted ballots in Florida and other states; the vote-counting and certification process; the legal validity of absentee ballots; and the legal parameters of vote counts, an issue that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, some have drawn parallels to the election of 1876, claiming that Bush “stole” Florida, much like Hayes “stole” the southern states more than 120 years ago.
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Arrange the following steps of muscle fiber contraction in the correct sequence.
1. The muscle impulse reaches the sarcoplasmic reticulum and calcium is released.
2. Thin filaments are pulled over the thick filaments.
3. Calcium floods
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Arrange the following steps of muscle fiber contraction in the correct sequence.
1. The muscle impulse reaches the sarcoplasmic reticulum and calcium is released.
2. Thin filaments are pulled over the thick filaments.
3. Calcium floods the sarcoplasm and binds to troponin molecules leaving active sites.
4. The impulse arrives at the synapse and travels through the transverse tubules.
5. The muscle fiber shortens and contracts.
6. Myosin heads bind to exposed active sites on actin, forming cross-bridges.
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Our Chain Saws ]
History of Chain
Felling trees with one and two man saws supplemented with axes was the tree
cutting technology used until the 19th century. Steam, electric and internal
combustion engines were all
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Our Chain Saws ]
History of Chain
Felling trees with one and two man saws supplemented with axes was the tree
cutting technology used until the 19th century. Steam, electric and internal
combustion engines were all adapted to a variety of tools to make woodcutting
easier and more efficient.
The tools evolved and by the 1930's a saw that we
would recognize as a chain saw
was developed in Germany. Chain saws
evolved from two man units to lighter weight, one-man operable units. Die cast
aluminum and magnesium components further reduced weight and more powerful
direct drive engines speeded cutting in conjunction with development of the
"chipper" type chain still in use today.
The Solo Story
In late 1940's and early 1950's Solo became a leader in small engine
products for tilling, spraying, pumping and sawing. Innovative lightweight,
direct drive power saws with single and twin cylinder engines led the industry.
Today Solo produces a complete family of chain
saws ranging from small homeowner, do it yourselfer models, through a
full mid-size line up ideal individuals with bigger jobs like cutting firewood,
lot clearing or orchard work. Professional saws in the line meet every need from
trimming fruit trees, arborist work, to thinning operations and on up to felling
Solo makes a saw that's right for you.
How to choose a chain saw? Among
the consideration are:
All Solo chain saws are equipped
with safety devices, which meet the American National Standards Institute…ANSI
B 175 Standard. Emissions are carefully controlled meeting both state and
Reduces kickback chain, chain brakes, chain catchers, vibration isolation, large
mufflers, fully adjustable oilers and ergonomically product design are things to
look for when choosing a saw.
Ease of starting is enhanced with electronic ignition systems that automatically
Retard and advance spark. Compression releases on model 636, 645 and 650 make
cranking easier by releasing compression during the starting phase.
Power to weight and fuel consumption ratios on Solo chain
saws is excellent. Starting with weight under ten pounds supplying 2 hp
and on up 7 hp for large professional sa
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One of my favorite lines in the Wizard of Oz goes like this: “As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead.” It has a measure of decisiveness
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One of my favorite lines in the Wizard of Oz goes like this: “As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead.” It has a measure of decisiveness and finality. If someone is dead, we’d like assurances that they’re really and truly dead.
In order to determine the relative deadness of a person, there are two different criteria that may be used. There’s the always popular clinically dead, the medical term for when the heart stops pumping and the lungs stop breathing. Then there’s brain dead, based on neurological criteria, that allows for a beating heart and working lungs (many times artificially maintained by a ventilator or respirator), but a nonfunctioning brain. Brain death determination looks at cessation of cerebral and brainstem functions and demonstration that the changes are irreversible.
Some definitions of death include all three markers, meaning death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity (including the brain stem) and breathing.
And that makes me think of zombies.
Unfortunately, most definitions of zombies include some reference to the supernatural or witchcraft. The Centers for Disease Control Preparedness 101 Zombie Apocalypse home page states: “Although its meaning has changed slightly over the years, it refers to a human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead.” New theories support the notion that zombies are merely humans infected with a parasite that spreads through saliva. No matter what definition is chosen, a zombie is a human form that has lost the ability to reason and is no longer reliant on a heartbeat or breathing to survive. He or she retains the ability to move, but their movements are slow and awkward (unless one believes in zoombies). Zombies have brain function, and that is the trait that causes most of us to fear the Zombocalypse. Luckily their brain function is very limited. Enough for them to stagger around. Enough for them to capture people. Enough to remember that brains are their choice of food. Mobility, lack of brain function, and a hunger for brains is a terrifying combination.
But traditionally zombies are not considered alive or undead. They are categorized as dead, and though they fit the criteria because of their lack of breathing and circulation, what about their brain function?
Dr. Steven C. Schlozman, an assistant profession of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, postulates that zombies suffer from Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome or ANSD. He contends that zombie brains have some function, as well as dysfunction, in their cerebellar and basal ganglia. He likens the amount of brain function in zombies to that of a crocodile. Their unpleasant behaviors, including their insatiable appetites, derive from the lack of activity in the parts of the brain that modulate behavior. But does this make them dead?
Since, at this point in time, medical technology has not created a need for zombie organ donation, devising new definitions of dead are not at the forefront of medical science. If, in the future, a method to safely use zombie organs is developed, I have no doubt that a new definition will arise and it will include the presence of limited brain function in the absence of respiration and circulation. The process will follow the same path to definition and acceptable use that occurred when human organ transplantation became viable. Prior to the need of organs, one definition of death, absence of heart beat and breathing, sufficed. After organ transplantation, a new definition of death, brain death, arose. When the need for zombie organs is great enough, medical science will become interested in ensuring that the answer to the question, are zombies dead or alive, will become “really most sincerely dead.”
Interested in reading more about zombies? Check out:
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main branches: optical, electron and scanning probe microscopy. (+ less used X-ray microscopy)
Optical and electron microscopy involves the diffraction, reflection, or refraction of radiation incident upon the subject of study, and the subsequent collection of this scattered
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main branches: optical, electron and scanning probe microscopy. (+ less used X-ray microscopy)
Optical and electron microscopy involves the diffraction, reflection, or refraction of radiation incident upon the subject of study, and the subsequent collection of this scattered radiation in order to build up an image.
Scanning probe microscopy involves the interaction of a scanning probe with the surface or object of interest.
Optical or light microscopy involves passing visible light transmitted through or reflected from the sample through a single or multiple lenses to allow a magnified view of the sample.
The resulting image can be detected directly by the eye, imaged on a photographic plate or captured digitally.
The single lens with its attachments, or the system of lenses and imaging equipment, along with the appropriate lighting equipment, sample stage and support, makes up the basic light microscope.
Watch this three YouTube videos
Optical microscopy - limitations
OM can only image dark or strongly refracting objects effectively.
Out of focus light from points outside the focal plane reduces image clarity. Compound optical microscopes are limited in their ability to resolve fine details by the properties of light and the refractive materials used to manufacture lenses. A lens magnifies by bending light. Optical microscopes are restricted in their ability to resolve features by a phenomenon called diffraction which, based on the numerical aperture AN of the optical system and the wavelengths of light used (λ), sets a definite limit (d) to the optical resolution. Assuming that optical aberrations are negligible, the resolution (d) is given by:
In case of λ = 550 nm (green light), with air as medium, the highest practical AN is 0.95, with oil, up to 1.5.
Due to diffraction, even the best optical microscope is limited to a resolution of around 0.2 micrometres.
Optical microscopy - types
- Optical microscopy techniques
- Bright field optical microscopy
- Oblique illumination
- Dark field optical microscopy
- Phase contrast optical microscopy
- Differential interference contrast microscopy
- Fluorescence microscopy
- Confocal laser scanning microscopy
- Deconvolution microscopy
- Near-field Scanning OM
Definition and types
developed in the 1930s that use electron beams instead of light.
because of the much lower wavelength of the electron beam than of light, resolution is far higher.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is principally quite similar to the compound light microscope, by sending an electron beam through a very thin slice of the specimen. The resolution limit (in 2005) is around 0.05 nanometer.
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) visualizes details on the surfaces of cells and particles a
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Here’s why something as basic as a battery both thrills and terrifies the U.S. utility industry.
At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (
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Here’s why something as basic as a battery both thrills and terrifies the U.S. utility industry.
At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest.
Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more affordable, while ending reliance on oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At first blush, the push toward more electric cars looks to be positive for utilities struggling with stagnant sales from energy conservation and slow economic growth.
Yet Musk’s so-called gigafactory may soon become an existential threat to the 100-year-old utility business model. The facility will also churn out stationary battery packs that can be paired with rooftop solar panels to store power. Already, a second company led by Musk, SolarCity Corp. (SCTY), is packaging solar panels and batteries to power California homes and companies including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
While the headline is true, it’s unfortunate.
Shouldn’t we instead be thinking how amazing it could be if regular people could generate their own electricity, saving thousands of dollars a year?
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Your brain is the control center of everything that takes place in your body. Emotions, feelings, memories – it is all connected to the brain. The neuron connections and impulse transmissions make our thoughts as well. They way you think affects your whole
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Your brain is the control center of everything that takes place in your body. Emotions, feelings, memories – it is all connected to the brain. The neuron connections and impulse transmissions make our thoughts as well. They way you think affects your whole being.
If you wake up with the thought that today is going to be a bad day then the chance that it will be is really high. It will change your expectation of the day activities, it will send vibrations to the people around you, caused by your own feelings and emotions. It all happens on a subconscious level. Even though you hope it will be a good day, if you are convinced in your mind that it is not, then you make it bad by yourself.
Thinking positively is not easy especially if many unpleasant memories are at hand. It is hard to keep being optimistic if you have years of bad experiences. But have you ever thought that maybe you caused it? Yes, you have had bad experiences, but did you try to keep on your normal life afterwards? Or did you keep on repeating it in your mind, expecting more and more bad memories, refusing for anything good to happen to you? It is really easy to go down that road and extremely hard to overcome it. Most of the times you need help and support of the people around you. But it is you and only you who can change it. You cannot hope for something and be convinced that the complete opposite will happen. Start gradually changing that and even if there is no result – wait for it. It will take time. You need to take out any bad thoughts out of your mind – let your brain be stress free. Let your brain do its job in a normal condition and not overwhelmed by the bad memories. Read more
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Do you have old clothes just laying around your home, wasting away and taking up space? Do you just throw them in the garbage when you’ve had enough? Well You should probably stop doing that, as throwing your old clothes away is harming our
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Do you have old clothes just laying around your home, wasting away and taking up space? Do you just throw them in the garbage when you’ve had enough? Well You should probably stop doing that, as throwing your old clothes away is harming our environment. How does it harm the environment, you ask? Well let’s start by the amount of toxic emissions that are let out as these old clothes decompose, which include methane, carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases (toxic pollutants we don’t need in our breathing air).
On a higher note, you can help change this, by donating your old clothes to local charities, such as Carter’s House or any other clothing bank in your area. Not only are you helping clean up your community, but you’re also giving back in a huge way!
So back to those pile of clothes sitting in your closet, what to do with them? If they’re still in somewhat good condition, donate them, reuse them or re-purpose them to the fullest extent possible. Putting back into your community not only fosters good connections, but you provide someone else with a chance to feel good about themselves. As a clothing bank, we specialize in children’s clothing, by providing school uniforms and some everyday wear for families that are homeless, and who have low incomes. Your old clothes that you’re not wearing, can give someone else a chance at being successful in life.
As well you could possibly be providing jobs within your community, and serve them as being a helpful resource for those in need.
With growing landfills, of decomposing clothes, you can help eliminate this effect by reusing, re-purposing and donating your clothes. Just think if every household did this, our landfills would decrease the amount of harmful toxins in the air. The thought of doing this alone can be overwhelming, but there are local nonprofit organizations that can help you take that load off!
According to Huff Post the U.S alone, “recycled some 2.3 million tons of textile waste. That brought a reduction in greenhouse gases equivalent to taking 1.2 million cars off the road for an entire year.”
How is that for an impact? Remember, not only are you positively making an impact on the environment, but you’re also propelling your community in a positive direction.
Let’s stay connected!
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In today’s episode we get deeper into rhythm changes and start working on a couple of concepts that will start you into the world of improvising over this important form.
In this episode we will be concentrating on the “A” sections of the rhythm
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In today’s episode we get deeper into rhythm changes and start working on a couple of concepts that will start you into the world of improvising over this important form.
In this episode we will be concentrating on the “A” sections of the rhythm changes progression. We’ll save the bridge for the next episode. We will start with an exercise that explores a simple linear concept over the chord changes that will start you on getting familiar with each and every chord.
We then move into a more vertical exercise that will point out the important chord tones in each bar. These first two exercises will start to familiarize you with the sound of this progression and get your fingers and brain working in the right direction to eventually master these chords.
We finish up the episode by learning three different turnarounds over the iii-VI-ii-V progression. This is not only important to rhythm changes, but in many chord progressions you will see on a regular basis in the jazz tradition. We move from easy to more difficult in these exercises.
By the end of this episode, you should be aware of the work you have to do to sound good over the A sections on rhythm changes. Remember to go slowly and carefully to get the full benefit out of these exercises! Have fun!
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Supernovas explode with a bright burst of radiation, giving off as much energy in a few days as our sun will give off in its entire lifetime.
Are There Different Types?
Yes! Scientists
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Photo: Ken_Lord (Flickr)
Supernovas explode with a bright burst of radiation, giving off as much energy in a few days as our sun will give off in its entire lifetime.
Are There Different Types?
Yes! Scientists have categorized supernovas into two types.
Type I supernovas develop from dying white dwarf stars. These dwarf stars suck in material from a neighboring star until they reach a critical mass where runaway nuclear fusion begins. The fusion continues until they explode.
Type II supernovas are born from large, old stars. These stars expand until nuclear fusion stops, then collapse into themselves, creating a bright neutron star or blackhole at their center.
Scientists don’t yet have a category for the six new supernovas they’ve discovered.
You see, Type I supernovas contain no hydrogen in their blasts, while type II explosions do. These strange objects contain no hydrogen, so you’d think they were Type I. But unlike other type I supernovas, they produce more ultraviolet light than expected and are ten times brighter. They also maintain their brightness for a lot longer than usual, months instead of days.
What Do Scientists Think Is Happening?
One explanation is that debris from Type I exploding white dwarf stars might run into clouds of hydrogen-poor material left behind when the star was younger.
The supernova is brighter than normal because this shell of material heats up. Or, it could be that a hydrogen-poor Type II collapsing star gives birth to a highly magnetized neutron star. The magnetic field could supply the energy needed to keep the brightness high for several months.
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Definition of Japanese millet
: a coarse annual grass (Echinochloa frumentacea) cultivated especially in Asia for its edible seeds
First Known Use of japanese millet
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up Japanese
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Definition of Japanese millet
: a coarse annual grass (Echinochloa frumentacea) cultivated especially in Asia for its edible seeds
First Known Use of japanese millet
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up Japanese millet? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
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In recognition of November as Diabetes Awareness Month, State Senator Jose M. Serrano (D- Bronx/Manhattan) today encouraged New Yorkers to learn the risk factors and early symptoms associated with a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans, though
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In recognition of November as Diabetes Awareness Month, State Senator Jose M. Serrano (D- Bronx/Manhattan) today encouraged New Yorkers to learn the risk factors and early symptoms associated with a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans, though authorities estimate that about one in three cases goes undiagnosed.
"Given the condition’s enormous impact, we should probably make every month diabetes awareness month," said Senator Serrano. "I want New York City residents to understand just how devastating an undiagnosed and untreated case of diabetes can become."
Consider these facts from the American Diabetes Association:
Nearly 21 million children and adults in the United States are living with diabetes.
More than six million of them, or roughly a third, don't know they have the disease.
Diabetes is the fifth-deadliest disease in the United States.
Compared to the general population, African-Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes: 3.2 million or 13.3% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
If the current trend continues, one out of two minorities born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime.
Some types of diabetes can be delayed or prevented by simple lifestyle changes.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin, a
hormone that converts sugar and other food into energy. The cause of diabetes is not thoroughly understood, although genetics and environmental factors such as obesity and lack of exercise appear to play roles.
"With such a silent, pervasive illness, it’s better to catch it early on rather than let it reek havoc unknowingly," Senator Serrano said. "Awareness and education are key elements in the fight against diabetes. Healthy eating and increased physical activity can delay – or possibly prevent – diabetes and its complications."
Everyone with diabetes is at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause
of vision loss in adults, experts say. However, early detection of diabetes and timely treatment can significantly reduce the risk of blindness.
In honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, Eyecare America, a public service program of the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, encourages people age 65 and older to take advantage of its Diabetes Eyecare Program, a year-round program that offers eye exams and up to one year of care at no out-of-pocket cost to qualified patients. For more information or a referral to one of 7,200 volunteer ophthalmologists, call the toll-free hotline at 1-800-272-3937.
"November is a month to reflect on the all the implications of this serious disease, which may spur many of us into action," Senator Serrano concluded. "We all know someone with diabetes– a family member, neighbor or friend. I encourage all my constituents to face diabetes head-on by getting informed and making healthy lifestyle choices."
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An echocardiogram is a sonogram of the heart produced by measuring the reflection of ultrasound. That’s why it is sometimes called a cardiac veterinary ultrasound. The process uses standard ultrasound methods to produce images of the heart in two dimensions.
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An echocardiogram is a sonogram of the heart produced by measuring the reflection of ultrasound. That’s why it is sometimes called a cardiac veterinary ultrasound. The process uses standard ultrasound methods to produce images of the heart in two dimensions.
Echocardiography can be used to produce an accurate understanding of the speed of blood passing through cardiac tissue. That enables the doctors at Milwaukee Emergency Center for Animals to assess the function of cardiac valves, and to detect any unusual passage of blood or signal between the left and right sides of the heart.
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Jíbaro Indians
Jíbaro (Spanish orthography) "forest man", i.e. native.
An important tribal group of Ecuador, comprising a great number of small subtribes speaking a
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Jíbaro Indians
Jíbaro (Spanish orthography) "forest man", i.e. native.
An important tribal group of Ecuador, comprising a great number of small subtribes speaking a common language with dialectic variants, and together constituting a distinct linguistic stock, holding the extensive forests between the Santiago and Pastaza rivers and southward to the Amazon. Owing to similarity of name - also written Xebaro, Zibaro - they have been frequently confounded with their eastern neighbours, the Zaparo, and the confusion is increased by the fact that in earlier times the name Jíbaro was often loosely used to designate any of the wild Indians of eastern Ecuador. More than any other tribe of the upper Amazon region, the Jíbaro are notable for their determined and successful resistance to all efforts at conquest or Christianization, and notwithstanding more than three centuries of more or less intimate Spanish contact they still retain their primitive manners to a remarkable degree. They have no villages, the houses of each small community being scattered about in the forest within easy communicating distance, and always close to a stream. The houses are communal, from fifty to eighty feet in length, with a door at each end, one exclusively for the men and the other for the women. Near the women's door are the fire-places for cooking, one for each family, while outside the men's door is the tunduli, or great wooden drum, made from a hollow log, the sound of which can be heard for a distance of ten miles through the forest, and by means of which, according to a well-understood code, the Jíbaro can signal to his farthest acquaintance.
War is their normal condition, the favourite weapons being the lance, the javelin with throwing stick, the blow-gun with poisoned arrows, and the shield for defence. The heads of enemies are smoked by an ingenious process which in a measure preserves the features. The women are expert potters. The Jíbaro are agricultural, cultivating corn, beans, bananas, yuca, and cotton. Besides dogs, parrots, and monkeys, they have chickens and hogs, which were introduced among them by the whites. They use no salt, but like many other tribes of the Amazon and Orinoco are addicted to eating a certain saltpetrous clay. Their favourite drink is chicha, a mild intoxicant fermented from the yuca, banana or some other native plant. They wear a cotton dress below the waist, flowing hair, paint, feather ornaments, ear pendants, and - among women - labrets. They are robust and comparatively handsome, although not tall. They are very fond of music, visiting, and ceremonial dances. Polygamy exists, as also, according to some travellers, the curious custom of the couvade. The dead are usually laid away in small shelter structures in the woods or in hollow tree-trunks placed in the house where the death occurs, the house being then abandoned. There is apparently no tribal organization or chiefly authority, the only bond among families being their habitual attendance at common festivals. In each family group one man has the duty of reciting a long historical and didactic discourse each morning while the women are preparing breakfast. Very little is known of their religious or mythologic beliefs, but witchcraft flourishes, and almost every death is attributed to this cause.
Sheltered by their forests, the Jíbaro successfully withstood the efforts of the Peruvian Incas to subjugate them. The first Spanish entrance into their country was made by Vergara in 1541, and in 1559, under order from Governor Salinas, five towns were established in the Jíbaro country, first and chief of which was Logrono. Under enforced labour in the mines, and other oppressions, at the hands of their Spanish taskmasters, the Indians rapidly withered away or saved themselves by retreating deeper into the forests. In 1599 a fresh tribute goaded the Jíbaro into rebellion, and under the leadership of Anirula a force estimated by many at 20,000 warriors stormed Logrono in a night attack, killing every inhabitant to the number of 12,000, excepting the young women, and burning the city to the ground. The governor was killed by pouring molten gold down his throat "in order that he might have his fill of gold". The inhabitants of the other towns took refuge in Sevilla del Oro, which was next attacked, but resisted so stoutly that the Indians finally retired after having killed nearly 14,000 of the besieged. The young women were carried off as wives to the
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Flying Freudian Fun: A Look At Ethical Decision Making
There are not many more apt examples of ethics gone awry than William Golding's Lord of the Flies.. Ninth graders focus the ethics of decision making with the examples provided
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Flying Freudian Fun: A Look At Ethical Decision Making
There are not many more apt examples of ethics gone awry than William Golding's Lord of the Flies.. Ninth graders focus the ethics of decision making with the examples provided in the plot. They focus on the concept of the psyche and how it is seen in the story with a graphic organizer for keeping information together.
- Requires support and scaffolding, as activities are offered as options rather than assignments
- Requires background knowledge on Freud's Model of the Human Psyche beyond the graphic organizer included in the resource
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The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max Müller,, at sacred-texts.com
1. There lived once upon a time Gânasruti Pautrâyana (the great-grandson of
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The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max Müller,, at sacred-texts.com
1. There lived once upon a time Gânasruti Pautrâyana (the great-grandson of Ganasruta), who was a pious giver, bestowing much wealth upon the
people, and always keeping open house. He built places of refuge everywhere, wishing that people should everywhere eat of his food.
2. Once in the night some Hamsas (flamingoes) flew over his house, and one flamingo said to another: 'Hey, Bhallâksha, Bhallâksha (short-sighted friend). The light (glory) of Gânasruti Pautrâyana has spread like the sky. Do not go near, that it may not burn thee.'
3. The other answered him: 'How can you speak of him, being what he is (a râganya, noble), as if he were like Raikva with the car 1?'
4. The first replied: 'How is it with this Raikva with the car of whom thou speakest?'
The other answered: 'As (in a game of dice) all the lower casts 2 belong to him who has conquered with the Krita cast, so whatever good deeds other people perform, belong to that Raikva. He who knows what he knows, he is thus spoken of by me.'
5. Gânasruti Pautrâyana overheard this conversation, and as soon as he had risen in the morning, he said to his. door-keeper (kshattri): 'Friend, dost thou speak of (me, as if I were) Raikva with the car?'
He replied: 'How is it with this Raikva, with the car?'
6. The king said: 'As (in a game of dice), all the lower casts belong to him who has conquered with the Krita cast, so whatever good deeds other people perform, belong to that Raikva. He who knows what he knows, he is thus spoken of by me.'
7. The door-keeper went to look for Raikva, but returned saying, 'I found him not.' Then the king said: 'Alas! where a Brâhmana should be searched for (in the solitude of the forest), there go for him.'
8. The door-keeper came to a man who was lying beneath a car and scratching his sores 1. He addressed him, and said: 'Sir, are you Raikva with the car? '
He answered: 'Here I am.'
Then the door-keeper returned, and said: 'I have found him.'
55:2 Vâyu (air) and Prâna (breath) had before been represented as feet of Brahman, as the second pair. Now they are represented as Brahman, and as to be meditated on as such. This is the teaching of Raikva. The language of this chapter is very obscure, and I am not satisfied with the translation.
56:1 Sayugvan is explained as possessed of a car with yoked horses or oxen. Could it have meant originally, 'yoke-fellow, equal,' as in Rig-veda X, 130, 4? Anquetil renders it by'semper cum se ipso camelum solutum habens.'
56:2 Instead of adhareyâh, we must read adhare 'yâh.
57:1 It is curious that in a hymn of the Atharva-veda (V, 22, 5, 8) takman, apparently a disease of the skin, is relegated to the Mahâvrishas, where Raikva dwelt. Roth, Zur Literatur des Veda, p. 36.
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Why would we want to separate church and state? Isn’t religion a positive force in society? Doesn’t it foster ethical behavior and encourage charity? Just think of all the church-run soup kitchens or the moral leadership provided by the Rev. Martin Luther
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Why would we want to separate church and state? Isn’t religion a positive force in society? Doesn’t it foster ethical behavior and encourage charity? Just think of all the church-run soup kitchens or the moral leadership provided by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
So why would the framers build a wall separating church and state? Why not unite the two and combine their power for good?
Of course, the Constitution never explicitly says that there must be a wall separating church and state. But the First Amendment does say that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” In a landmark 1947 decision, the Supreme Court explained that this clause was “intended to erect ‛a wall of separation between church and State’” and that this wall “must be kept high and impregnable.”
What were the framers thinking? Were they opposed to religion?
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“I hate a barnacle, as no man ever did before.”
-Charles Darwin, in an 1852 letter to William Darwin Fox
If you’ve ever been to the beach, chances are you’ve seen a barnacle. Probably hundreds of
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“I hate a barnacle, as no man ever did before.”
-Charles Darwin, in an 1852 letter to William Darwin Fox
If you’ve ever been to the beach, chances are you’ve seen a barnacle. Probably hundreds of them, in fact, just sitting out at low tide, peppering the environs with grayish-white encrustations. They’re everywhere, studding the rocks and driftwood and even the shells of other creatures. Perhaps, while clambering across the beach, you’ve cut your hand or foot on a barnacle’s calcareous housing, or watched in a tide pool as aggregations of them rhythmically beat the water for food. They are quite literally a fixture of the seashore—being sessile invertebrates, they are glued to the spot—and their steadfastness gives rise to some interesting adaptions.
Barnacles are crustaceans, distant kin to crabs, shrimp and lobsters. Being arthropods, they have bodies split into segments—head, thorax, abdomen—but none of this is visible on an adult, intact barnacle. Most of its anatomy is held within a ring of calcium-carbonate plates, roughly conical, that protect the animal from predators, the pounding surf, and the desiccating nature of the sun. This is the part of a barnacle you’re most likely to see: its outer aegis, homologous to the shells of crabs and other crustaceans. Inside this cone is a tiny creature perched, rather improbably, on its head. Its back is to the bottom of the cone, and its limbs are pointed upward. What corresponds to the forehead of the barnacle is cemented to the substrate. Its six limbs, called cirri, are long and feathered and are used to sieve plankton from the water, bringing it down to the mouth to be eaten. As an infraclass, the 1,220 species of barnacles worldwide are known as Cirripedia, Latin for “curl-footed”.
The Pacific Northwest is home to twenty-nine of those species, including what is arguably the weirdest-looking of them all: the gooseneck barnacle (Pollicepes polymerus), a grotesque creature that really, um, sticks its neck out there in its zest for life. If you’re thinking, “Hey, that thing really does look like a goose’s head, hanging off a rock,” then you might forgive the Welsh monk Giraldus Cambrensis’s error in judgment, made in 1188 in his natural history treatise Topographia Hiberniae, when he deduced that the barnacles were, in fact, baby geese. Over in Wales, there is another species of gooseneck barnacle, Lepas anserifera, which attaches to driftwood and other flotsam. Cambrensis saw a physical similarity between these barnacles and a local goose species, Branta leucopsis—a bit of a stretch, this was—and claimed that, since the goose had never been seen to nest in Europe, and since the barnacles were always found on branches as from a tree, the two were simply different forms of the same plant-like organism. (Keep in mind that this was long before bird migration had been figured out.) For a while people believed him, took his assertion that the geese were “neither flesh, nor born of flesh” to heart, and even went so far to deem B. leucopsis fit to eat on religious holidays when the consumption of meat was forbidden.
Back to our goosenecks in the Pacific Northwest, letting it all hang out in the intertidal churn. The “neck” is more accurately known as a peduncle, and it acts as a holdfast, anchoring the creature to rocks, logs, boat hulls, etc. It also contains the animal’s sexual organs. (Things get a little juicy here—ready yourself.) Almost all barnacles are hermaphroditic: individuals generally possess all the hardware needed for sexual reproduction, and could theoretically fertilize themselves in a pinch. Remember that a barnacle is rooted in place, limited in its ability to shop around for a suitable partner. In the sessile dating life of barnacles, where everybody’s similarly equipped and stuck at home, mating essentially consists of flailing your penis around until you find a receptive mantle, then depositing some sperm in the hope that it takes. This roughly circular area of penetrative potential is known, in scientific parlance, as the “penis range”. It is often remarked that the barnacle has Animalia’s longest penis relative to body size, and the rumors are true: most species boast members two to three times their body length, and one species, Anthrobalanus of Chile, packs a penis eight times longer. (In 1853 Charles Darwin, expressing his admiration of the Anthrobalanus phallus, wrote to a friend, “The probosciformed penis is wonderfully developed…when fully extended it must equal between eight and nine times the entire length of the animal!”) P. polymerus apparently got the short shrift, its meager penis only slightly longer than its 18-millimeter body.
Nevertheless, the gooseneck barnacle manages to make do with what it was given. A recent Canadian study published in
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According to the Congressional Research Service, there are many agencies that offer food assistance to the needy in this country, citizens, non-citizens, and illegals.
The U.S.
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According to the Congressional Research Service, there are many agencies that offer food assistance to the needy in this country, citizens, non-citizens, and illegals.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (USDA-FNS) offers many programs recently reauthorized by the 2014 farm bill called the Agricultural Act of 2014:
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
- Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
- Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition program
USDA-FNS also provides programs that were not included in the farm bill:
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
- Child Nutrition Programs such as School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
- Summer Food Service program (SFSP)
- Special Milk program
- Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living (HHS-ACL) offers nutrition programs which are administered by the Administration on Aging (AOA) and authorized by the 1965 Older Americans Act (OAA):
- Congregate Nutrition Program
- Home Delivered Nutrition Program
- Grants to Native Americans such as Supportive and Nutrition Services
- Nutrition Services Incentive Program (NSIP)
Randy Alison Aussenberg and Kirsten J. Colello, the writers of the CRS report 42353 dated February 4, 2015, opine that “Some of these programs, such as the National School Lunch Program, have deep roots dating to the Depression era.” Since “hunger” is a concept that is difficult to measure, they say, the terms “food security” and “food insecurity” are used instead to “describe the ability to access adequate food.” How does one describe “adequate food” when the nation seems to be obese by some statistics and the incidence of Type II diabetes is on the rise?
Apparently, the terms “food security” and “food insecurity” can be “objectively measured” and refer to the “economic and access-related reasons associated with an individual’s ability to purchase or otherwise obtain enough to eat.” This is also interesting since people have varied genetic metabolic rates, nutritional needs, and appetites.
In 2006 a National Research Council panel looked at USDA’s measurements of food “adequacy” and concluded that “hunger is an individual-level physiological condition that is not feasible to measure through a household survey.” People cannot assess “gradations” of hunger, these are non-economic and individual behaviors. People miss meals due to illness, are too busy to eat, or not hungry. (Did we pay good money to come up with this conclusion?) As a result of the panel’s findings, USDA now measures “low food security” and “very low food security.” (National Research Council, Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 23-51)
To be more “precise,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (USDA-ERS) asked if a household “was able to purchase or otherwise acquire enough to eat in 2013 (“food security”)” or unable to purchase or acquire enough to eat (“food insecurity”). Asking for someone’s opinion is a judgment call, it is not precise. The definition of “enough to eat” would vary widely.
ERS came up with four stages of food security. The parameters seem very subjective ways to “measure” objectively and precisely the need to eat which cannot be scientifically quantified.
- High food security (“no problems or anxiety about consistently accessing adequate food”)
- Marginal food security (“problems and anxiety at times about accessing adequate food but the quality, variety, and quantity of food intake were not substantially reduced”)
- Low food security (“reduced quality, variety, and desirability of their diets, but the quantity of food intake and normal eating patterns were not substantially disrupted”)
- Very low food security (“eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake reduced because the household lacked money and other resources for food”)
The people found in the high and marginal food security levels are “food secure.” The people found in the low and very low food security levels are “food insecure.”
Considering U.S. households, 14.3 percent were “food insecure” in 2013, with 5.6 percent of those having “very low food security,” and 85.7 percent were “food secure.” Households with children were 19.5 percent “food insecure.” Households with senior citizens were 8.7 percent “food insecure.” Of the total surveyed, 62 percent had participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP), WIC, or National School Lunch programs. The rate of food insecurity rose from 11.1 percent in 2007 to 14.6 percent in 2008 and stayed in the range of 14.3-14.9 percent ever since. www.fas.org/sgp/misc/R42353.pdf
The 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO) enumerated 70 domestic programs that pertain to food and nutrition. The CRS report discusses 17 food programs. Programs vary by target population (pregnant women, children, older adults), by eligibility requirements, and by types of help provided (c
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What is Heparin?
Heparin is widely used as an injectable anticoagulant. It can also be used to form an inner anticoagulant surface on various experimental and medical devices such as test tubes and renal dialysis
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What is Heparin?
Heparin is widely used as an injectable anticoagulant. It can also be used to form an inner anticoagulant surface on various experimental and medical devices such as test tubes and renal dialysis machines. Pharmaceutical grade heparin is derived from mucosal tissues of slaughtered meat animals, such as pig intestine or cow lung.
What are the dangers associated with Heparin?
In March 2008, major recalls of heparin were announced by the FDA due to contamination of the raw heparin stock imported from China. The FDA admitted that it had violated its own policies by failing to inspect the American pharmaceutical firm Scientific Protein’s plant in China before approving the drug for sale.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was quoted as stating that at least 81 deaths were believed linked to a raw heparin ingredient imported from the People’s Republic of China, and that they had also received 785 reports of serious injuries associated with the drug’s use.
Problems with the contaminated heparin included:
- Difficulty breathing
- Excessive sweating
- Rapidly falling blood pressure that led to life-threatening shock
The New York Times reported the contaminant has been identified as an “over-sulphated” derivative of chondroitin sulfate, a popular shellfish derived supplement often used for arthritis. It was estimated the heparin was cut from anywhere from 2-60 percent with a counterfeit substance due to cost effectiveness, and a shortage of suitable pigs in China.
The FDA has stated it does not have the funds nor bear the responsibility to inspect on a regular basis overseas manufacturers of active pharmaceutical ingredients such as heparin.
What can I do?
If you or a loved one suffered death or serious injury as a result of contaminated heparin use, you have specific legal rights. For a free legal consultation, please contact us today.
common misspellings: heprin
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一茶 1803年 41歳
ni ken mae hoshi na kaketari kusa no ame
vegetables hung to dry
at two houses...
thatch dripping rain
by Issa, 1803
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一茶 1803年 41歳
ni ken mae hoshi na kaketari kusa no ame
vegetables hung to dry
at two houses...
thatch dripping rain
by Issa, 1803
In the same year Issa writes another version of this haiku, ending with "little houses" (ko ie kana). Literally, the vegetables are hung "in front of two houses" (ni ken mae). In this haiku I assume that kusa no ame ("grass's rain") refers to rain dripping from the thatched roofs, as it seems to in a later poem (1814): sasa no ya ya hiina no kao e kusa no ame thatched house-- on the doll's face dripping rain
at two houses= at two houses before his friend.
dry vegetable=used for winter food.
thatch dripping rain= spring rain that makes grass grow..
Issa has come at the near of his friend. Even winter remains but spring
surely has come.
kibun wa haru tomo no ie tikashi
in the mood of spring
soon at friend’s house.
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By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Icy chasms on one of Saturn's most humble moons, hidden amid its glorious rings, have overtaken the sands of Mars and the stratosphere of Venus as the most intriguing potential hiding place
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By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Icy chasms on one of Saturn's most humble moons, hidden amid its glorious rings, have overtaken the sands of Mars and the stratosphere of Venus as the most intriguing potential hiding place for alien life in our solar system.
Enceladus, a shining ball of ice hugging Saturn's rings, was first caught in the act of spewing a watery geyser from its south pole two years ago by the international Cassini mission. Water, life's most crucial ingredient, was blasting 270 miles into space, actually hitting the orbiting spacecraft, from cracks on the frozen moon dubbed "tiger stripes."
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Astronomers and astrobiologists, who are always looking for signs of life far from Earth, were caught by surprise — and they remain so, unable to explain how such a small celestial body (only 318 miles wide at its equator ) can pump out so much water.
"Nobody has figured it out," says Andrew Dombard of Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. "Enceladus has jumped to the top of astrobiologists' list for a mission."
And as for the big question — Does life exist there? — the answer is the same: Who knows?
The most recent Cassini flyby of Enceladus, a distant one at 55,000 miles, was on June 28. Each such visit has heightened the interest of planetary scientists, who have erupted with their own flurry of theories, including two reports published in the journal Nature in May.
"Probably with 20/20 hindsight, we can say we expected something from Enceladus," says Cassini scientist Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He notes that since the Voyager missions flew past Saturn in the early 1980s, the moon has been known as the brightest object in the solar system because of its coating of fresh ice.
But the eruption of the geyser from the moon's south pole rather than from the equator, which is subject to the strongest gravitational pull from Saturn, and the curious tiger-stripe vents, cracks about 80 miles long, were "a big surprise," Lunine says. "These are very exotic kinds of features."
Every eight seconds, the geyser spotted in a flyby of
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Q: What health problems do PCBs cause?
Health problems caused by PCBs are as follows according to the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"):
- Cancer - Data strongly suggests that PCBs are probable human carcinogens
- Immune effects -
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Q: What health problems do PCBs cause?
Health problems caused by PCBs are as follows according to the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"):
- Cancer - Data strongly suggests that PCBs are probable human carcinogens
- Immune effects - Probable issues including decrease in size of the thymus gland, reductions in the response of the immune system following a challenge with red blood cells, a decreased resistance to Epstein-Barr virus and other infections, susceptibility to pneumonia and viral infections.
- Reproductive effects - Potentially serious effects on the reproductive system such as a reduction in birth weight, reduction in conception rates, reduction in gestational age, reduction of live birth rates, and a reduction in sperm count.
- Neurological effects - Potential issues such as deficits in neurological development, including visual recognition, short-term memory and learning. These effects can present themselves due to exposure of ones self to PCBs or may present itself through the birth of a child by a person who was previously exposed to PCBs.
- Endocrine effects - Potential decrease in thyroid hormone levels
- Other possible effects - Possible elevation in blood pressure, serum triglyceride, and serum cholesterol
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The eight-island archipelago of Iles des Saintes, often referred to as Les Saintes, dots the waters off the southern coast of Guadeloupe. The islands are Terre-de-Haut, Terre-de-Bas
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The eight-island archipelago of Iles des Saintes, often referred to as Les Saintes, dots the waters off the southern coast of Guadeloupe. The islands are Terre-de-Haut, Terre-de-Bas, Ilet à Cabrit, Grand Ilet, La Redonde, La Coche, Le Pâté, and Les Augustins. Columbus discovered them on November 4, 1493, and christened them Los Santos (Les Saintes in French) for All Saints' Day.
Only Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas are inhabited, with a combined population of little more than 3,000. Many of the Saintois are fair-haired, blue-eyed descendants of Breton and Norman sailors. Unless they are in the tourism industry, they tend to be taciturn and standoffish. Fishing is still their main source of incom
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Achilles paratenonitis is inflammation of the covering of the
Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel bone. It can cause
scarring that restricts the motion of the Achilles tendon
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Achilles paratenonitis is inflammation of the covering of the
Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel bone. It can cause
scarring that restricts the motion of the Achilles tendon.
Achilles paratenonitis is caused by overuse or repeated movements
and poorly fitted shoes. It is frequently seen in marathon runners. Symptoms
include tenderness, pain, and swelling in the Achilles area. Symptoms are
usually worse during activity.
Treatment consists of rest, pain relief, stretching exercises, and
changes in sports techniques and footwear to reduce stress on the
Achilles paratenonitis is also known as Achilles peritendinitis,
tenosynovitis, or tenovaginitis.
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- Its Diversity Statement explains that GLSEN is opposed to “heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia” and “other forms of oppression” in the public schools.
- Translated into practical action, this means
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- Its Diversity Statement explains that GLSEN is opposed to “heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia” and “other forms of oppression” in the public schools.
- Translated into practical action, this means that GLSEN uses curricula, books and other campus-wide programs and initiatives to familiarize students with the idea that homosexual, bisexual and transgender behavior (including cross-dressing and sex changes) are normal and worthy of being embraced.
- Through its National Board of Directors, GLSEN has connections to some of America’s most deep-pocketed corporations and lobby groups, including the National Education Association (NEA), Wells Fargo & Co., Target, 20th Century Fox and more.
- Companies listed as financial sponsors of GLSEN include The Walt Disney Company, HBO, NBA, Delta, McDonalds, DreamWorks, and Goldman Sachs.
The Founder, Kevin Jennings
GLSEN is the brainchild of its founder, Kevin Jennings, who lead the organization for about 17 years. To understand GLSEN’s mission and driving principles, it helps to review the vision and goals of its creator.
- As the Executive Director of GLSEN, Jennings wrote the foreword to a book called Queering Elementary Education.Chapter titles include, “Locating a Place for Gay and Lesbian Themes in Elementary …” and “‘It’s Okay to be Gay’: Interrupting Straight Thinking in the English Classroom.”
- “I’ll admit that, in a world populated by the likes of Jesse Helms and Gary Bauer and Pat Buchanan, we can’t blame our schools for all of the prejudice we see visited upon queer people,” Jennings wrote in the foreword. “Children learn prejudice from many sources— their families, the media, religious institutions—the list could go on. But the fact remains that schools are the place where children spend most of their time than anywhere else between the ages of five and eighteen…”
- Clearly, Jennings wanted to use GLSEN to get messages into the public schools that would counter what he considered to be “homophobic” messages children received from families and churches.
- In fact, early in his career with GLSEN, Jennings publicly stated his intent to use the word “safety” as a “calling card” to further the organization’s goals in schools. (Hard copy of “Together, For a Change: Lessons from the Organizing of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network” by Kevin Jennings.)
- Jennings’ original mission is still reflected in GLSEN’s recommended materials today. For instance, guides that GLSEN publishes for educators and students make it clear it that it wants homosexual and transgender themes to be “fully integrated into curricula across a variety of subject areas and grade levels” (GLSEN’s Jump Start Guide-Part 1; “Ten Things Educators Can Do”).
- For excerpts from materials GLSEN has promoted to educators, see Concerning Classroom Materials.
Record of Intolerance
- Jennings also demonstrated intolerance toward conservative, faith-based viewpoints. Just to list a couple of examples
- Jennings’ book Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School Students states that “Some historians trace the development of homophobia in the West from the time when Christianity was adopted by the Romans. … “Whether homophobia began in the late Roman Empire because of the introduction of Christianity, or became widespread in the late Middle Ages for political reasons, one thing remains clear: Biblical scriptures were used to justify persecution of those who loved members of their own sex.”
- In a Huffington Post guest column, Jennings openly mocked one of the nation’s largest Christian student groups—Young Life.
GLSEN appears to be carrying on the traditions of its founder.
- A GLSEN manual for students encourages them to “end oppression” and then defines “community oppression” with this example: “A lesbian attends a house of worship that preaches homosexuality is a sin.” (GLSEN Jump Start Guide-Part 5, Page 10).
- This is frightening: An organization gaining increasing access to thousands of public schools and funded by major corporations–and that has been endorsed by federal government officials—defines “oppression” as a sermon that doesn’t align with a homosexual-activist interpretation of the Bible.
- GLSEN honors its most stalwart supporters during its annual “Respect Awards.” In 2009, GLSEN gave a Respect Award to David Bohnett, a technology entrepreneur. Here are excerpts from Bohnett’s speech made–ironically–upon receiving the GLSEN “respect” award:
- “… It is the evangelical and fundamentalist groups that teach homosexuality is a sin, who stand in the way of fairness and equality.”
- “It’s time to combat, head on, the religious organizations that are funding the opposition to marriage equality and safe-school legislation.”
- “Among those who actively work against us, are the leaders of the Catholic, Mormon and evangelical churches who seek to deny us ou
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All teachers have the language they teach as their mothertongue. They have degrees and qualifications to teach languages and are used to work with different kind of students.
We support you step by step in your progression, being sure that you are making
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All teachers have the language they teach as their mothertongue. They have degrees and qualifications to teach languages and are used to work with different kind of students.
We support you step by step in your progression, being sure that you are making the progress that you expect. Our teachers are dedicated to your learning.
We adapt our lessons to your personality and
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Emotional and physical preparation for an emergency
An important part of your preparation for an emergency or disaster is to be emotionally and physically prepared.
In an emergency you'll need to consider how you might think, feel and react in a frightening situation such
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Emotional and physical preparation for an emergency
An important part of your preparation for an emergency or disaster is to be emotionally and physically prepared.
In an emergency you'll need to consider how you might think, feel and react in a frightening situation such as:
- the sky turning black from bushfire smoke
- the power off for hours, even days
- a family member gone missing
- flash flooding cutting off access to your home
- not being able to contact anyone.
Having an understanding of your likely psychological response in an emergency situation can help you feel more emotionally and mentally in control and be better able to cope. You can prepare by:
- anticipating your emotional reactions to an emergency situation
- identifying your body changes relating to anxiety and any frightening thoughts that are adding to your fear
- managing your fears by using controlled breathing and keeping thoughts positive
- regularly practising your emergency plan.
You'll need to consider if you are physically capable of coping in different types of emergencies that may require putting out spot fires during a bushfire, enduring intense heat or cold, lifting and moving heavy items such as sandbags and furniture, and being agile enough to climb ladders.
You should plan to leave early if you:
- have doubts about your ability to manage emotionally or physically
- are dependent on others, due to a health, mental or physical disability.
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It turns out that the zanj sun squirrel (Heliosciurus undulatus) is a small rodent only found in sub-Saharan Africa and specifically in the subtropical and wet tropical coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania. Its diet is largely
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It turns out that the zanj sun squirrel (Heliosciurus undulatus) is a small rodent only found in sub-Saharan Africa and specifically in the subtropical and wet tropical coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania. Its diet is largely fruit and seeds and some leaves and with insects in some seasons. No-one seems to know much more about them except that they make nests in tree hollows and chatter loudly. While there is very little data available about how many there are and so it is hard to assess how threatened they are, the clearing of their habitat has to be of concern.
There has been speculation that they may be involved in the spread of diseases to humans but, given how little is known about them, it's hard to know how accurate this speculation is.
While smaller animals like the sun squirrels don't have the appeal of the bigger and more spectacular species they are still a vital part of the ecosystem in which they live and we ignore them at our peril.
The best photos I could find of these elusive animals were these and the best of what little information about them was available I found here.
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All over the world there is mounting concern among educators and parents that kids are not showing enough interest in reading for pleasure, both in and out of school. In many cases they’re not able to achieve the expected standard of reading by age 11
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All over the world there is mounting concern among educators and parents that kids are not showing enough interest in reading for pleasure, both in and out of school. In many cases they’re not able to achieve the expected standard of reading by age 11, or even older.
British author and Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen who is also a respected children’s-literature advocate and a radio host, recently lambasted the UK education authorities for the way literature is being taught to primary-school children in the UK.
Addressing a literary conference in London, he said it was “absurd and pathetic” that reading assignments in schools now consist of two paragraphs of a story followed by comprehension questions. He said he became incensed when his daughter brought home a worksheet from school which comprised of just a short extract of the Greek classic “Perseus and the Gorgon,” followed by twenty comprehension questions.
“That was the homework; that’s what they did on myths that term. How crazy and absurd and poverty-stricken and pathetic is that? It had nothing to do with the story,” he said. He complained that in many schools, students are not reading whole books. “They are reading torn-up books that they call worksheets — a little extract which then asks children questions about facts on the worksheet,” he added.
Schools in the US have faced similar criticisms as teachers come under increasing pressure to address literacy problems in the country’s middle and high schools.
Now a group of poets, authors and illustrators in Britain have joined in calling on teachers and education officials in the UK to encourage children to read whole books instead of excerpts, and declared their opposition to SAT tests which perpetuate the practice. In a statement issued Tuesday (April 27) the group calling itself ‘Authors Against SATs’ said:
“We are poets, authors and illustrators opposed to the SAT tests. Our campaign was founded in 1993. We believe that children’s understanding, empathy, imagination and creativity are developed best by reading whole books, not by doing comprehension exercises on short excerpts and not from ticking boxes or giving one word answers. It is our view that reading for pleasure is being squeezed by the relentless pressure of testing and we are particularly concerned that the SATs and the preparation for them are creating an atmosphere of anxiety around the reading of literature. Resources now being channeled into testing could and should be redirected towards libraries, the training of librarians and book provision.”
The statement was endorsed by some 96 writers and illustrators. What’s more, their dissatisfaction with SATs is shared by none other than the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT). Both the NAHT and the NUT have announced plans to boycott next month’s SATs tests for primary school pupils in England.
Both unions have deemed the national curriculum tests (SATS) damaging to children’s education. Following a successful ballot of members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), executives from both unions decided to boycott this year’s tests.
The unions say that in their current form, the tests disrupt the learning process for children in year six, and are “misused to compile meaningless league tables which only serve to “humiliate and demean children, their teachers and their communities”.
Authors Against SATs have raised an intriguing issue worthy of debate. They said they believe that in British schools, “reading for pleasure is being squeezed by the relentless pressure of testing,” adding that they are “particularly concerned that the SATs and the preparation for them are creating an atmosphere of anxiety around the reading of literature.”
The thought that kids are getting turned off books in their formative years (whether through non-user-friendly curriculums or other societal factors) is one that writers the world over would do well to ponder – and not just authors of children’s books. I say this not just because it has major implications for their future earning potential, but also because statistical and anecdotal evidence compiled in both the developed and developing world make it hard to dismiss growing concerns about poor literacy standards among adolescents and teens as mere presumptions. For example, consider the following: (information source: http://www.readfaster.com/education_stats.asp
44% of American 4th grade students cannot read fluently, even when they read grade-level stories aloud under supportive testing conditions. (National Assessment of Educational Progress).
In a class of 20 students, few if any teachers can find even 5 min
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Swiss company Climeworks recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO2 for supply and sale to a customer. The Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant features patented technology that filters carbon dioxide from ambient air, and will supply
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Swiss company Climeworks recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO2 for supply and sale to a customer. The Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant features patented technology that filters carbon dioxide from ambient air, and will supply 900 tonnes of CO2 annually to a nearby greenhouse to help grow vegetables.
Founded by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks developed its technology to capture atmospheric carbon with a filter, using mainly low-grade heat as an energy source. The DAC plant has been installed on the roof of a waste recovery facility in Hinwil, near Zürich – operated by the municipal administration union KEZO – where the waste heat is used to power the DAC plant.
During the Climeworks capture process, CO2 is chemically deposited on the filter surface. Once the filter is saturated, the CO2 is then isolated at a temperature of about 100 °C. The pure captured CO2 gas can then be sold to customers in key markets, including commercial agriculture, food and beverage industries, the energy sector, and the automotive industry.
At the plant in Hinwil, Climeworks provides a continuous supply of CO2 through an underground pipeline to a greenhouse 400m away, operated by Gebrüder Meier Primanatura AG, to promote the growth of vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers. By securing this supply agreement, Climeworks has ensured the Hinwil operation is the world’s first direct air capture plant with a commercial customer – an important step for the future of negative emissions technologies.
The Hinwil plant will operate as a three-year demonstration project in cooperation with the partners Gebrüder Meier and KEZO, and with a contribution towards non-amortisable costs by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
Negative emissions to meet the two-degree target
“Highly scalable negative emission technologies are crucial if we are to stay below the two-degree target of the international community,” says Christoph Gebald. “The DAC-technology provides distinct advantages to achieve this aim and is perfectly suitable to be combined with underground storage. We’re working hard to reach the goal of filtering one per cent of global CO2 emissions by 2025. To achieve this, we estimate around 250,000 DAC plants like the one in Hinwil are necessary.”
Raw material for beverages, fuel and materials
The CO2 captured by Climeworks can be used to carbonate beverages or produce climate-neutral fuels and other materials. Capturing CO2 locally for industrial uses en
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(the strength of the Lord).
Son of Joash, and eighth king of Judah, reigned B.C. 837-809. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 25, on the murder of his father, and punished
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(the strength of the Lord).
Son of Joash, and eighth king of Judah, reigned B.C. 837-809. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 25, on the murder of his father, and punished the murderers. In order to restore his kingdom to the greatness of Jehoshaphat's days, he made war on the Edomites, defeated them in the Valley of Salt, south of the Dead Sea, and took their capital, Selah or Petra, to which he gave the name of Jokteel, i.e. "God-subdued." Flushed with his success, he challenged Joash king of Israel to battle, but was completely defeated, and himself was taken prisoner and conveyed by Joash to Jerusalem, which opened its gates to the conqueror, and you can find more about that here on st-takla.org on other commentaries and dictionary entries.Amaziah lived 15 years after the death of Joash; and in the 29th year of his reign was murdered by conspirators at Lachish, whither he had retired from Jerusalem for safety. (2 Chronicles 25:27)
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SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex.
The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish
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SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex.
The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish from the skin cells of two adults of the same gender.
The researchers admitted that the development raised serious ethical issues, but said it would help people who had become infertile through disease and had also prompted interest from gay people.
The breakthrough, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was achieved at Cambridge University in a project with Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.
The scientists used stem cell lines from embryos as well as from the skin of five different adults. Researchers have…
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Enzymes are complex proteins that cause a specific chemical change in all parts of the body. For example, they can help break down the foods we eat so the body can use them. Blood clotting is another example of enzymes at work.
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Enzymes are complex proteins that cause a specific chemical change in all parts of the body. For example, they can help break down the foods we eat so the body can use them. Blood clotting is another example of enzymes at work.
Enzymes are needed for all body functions. They are found in every organ and cell in the body, including in the:
- Intestinal fluids
- Mouth (saliva)
- Stomach (gastric juice)
Review Date 1/31/2015
Updated by: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
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Do you worry a lot?
Is it hard for you to switch off, relax or sleep?
Do you often feel nervous or fearful?
These are the classic symptoms of anxiety – we have all felt anxious before and it is a natural feeling in certain
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Do you worry a lot?
Is it hard for you to switch off, relax or sleep?
Do you often feel nervous or fearful?
These are the classic symptoms of anxiety – we have all felt anxious before and it is a natural feeling in certain situations. However, there are different levels of anxiety, and if it becomes severe, then it can have a massive impact on your quality of life.
It can affect your:
Heart – your heart may race or you may have palpitations
Breathing – your breathing may become shallow or you could hyperventilate
Muscles – your muscles may feel tense, fatigued and shaky
Head – you could feel dizzy or feel a band of tension around your head
Bladder – you may need to use the toilet more often
You may also feel nauseous and have a dry mouth, experience tingling in your hands and feet, have an overwhelming sense of fear, have a tightness around your chest and perspire more or have hot flushes.
If these symptoms are familiar, or you feel like anxiety is controlling you, then perhaps it’s time to talk to a professional. You don’t have to avoid situations or people, simply because you think you won’t be able to cope. There are successful techniques that we can use to help you regain your confidence, deal with your anxieties and reclaim control of your life.
Get in touch today to see just how Life 4 Living Therapy can help you.
Anxiety can feel unique to each individual and the severity experienced will vary from one person to the next. This is because anxiety in its various guises – social anxiety, phobias, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and panic attacks, all come from being in a state of heightened awareness. Our mind, which is designed to look for problems or danger, retrieves information from our environment through our senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touch) and this information is processed incredibly quickly to create the desired response.
Survival is the primary job of our br
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Yesterday was St Bartholomew’s Day and 440 years since the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, where between 5,000 and 30,000 French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) were
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Yesterday was St Bartholomew’s Day and 440 years since the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, where between 5,000 and 30,000 French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) were murdered, both in targeted political assassinations and general mob brutality.
Wikipedia tells us that the massacre,
Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de Medici, the mother of King Charles IX… took place six days after the wedding of the king’s sister Marguerite to the Protestant royal, Henry III of Navarre, … for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris.
The massacre began on 23 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of St Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Colginy, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside.
The massacre was the usual compound of religious fanaticism, political intrigue and a bad harvest. It was also truly horrific as people were dragged from their beds at dawn and the marriage festivities turned into orgies of slaughter.
It was the worst massacre in a century of religious violence between Protestants and Catholics.
If being part of the Body of Christ means we share each others joys and burdens, then in a way, we also share each others sins.
And if we believe the Gospel, then the same violence which lead these Catholics to slaughter Protestants one August is the same violence that is in our hearts, whether we are Catholic, Protestant or something else entirely. It’s the same attitude that says, “because you are different, you are Other, because you are Other, you are both less than human; because you are less than human, you are disposable but because you are more than animal, you are dangerous. You are wicked. You are monstrous. You are Other.”
“You have heard it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother of sister will be subject to judgment.
Me and the Catholic Church are on our honeymoon at the moment. I think She’s pretty awesome and I can’t stop talking about Her. And I think that sometimes I have veered into contempt for my ex: Protestantism. Well, not contempt as such but just doing a little sneering and feeling a little superior.
Like I’m better than them.
I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do.
I don’t know whether it has come across in what I have written. I suspect it has a bit.
Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
But I want nothing to do with it. I love my Protestant brothers and sisters.
Therefore I ask Blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the angels and saints, and you my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
And so in reparation (such a Catholic thing but we’ll deal with that later!), I give you…
10 Things I Love About Protestants
1. I love that Protestants aren’t afraid to try new things, stretch new boundaries and make a general nuisance of themselves for the sake of Christ.
2. I love that Protestants who say they are Christians (at least in Sydney) probably do love Christ and seek to follow Him in their daily life. When a Catholic says they’re Catholic, all I can really be sure of is that they don’t not-believe in God enough to call themselves an Atheist.
3. I love that Protestants will straight-up ask, “how are things with you and the Lord?”
4. I love that Protestants know, love and treasure the Bible. So much that I can have whole conversations with Protestant which consist solely of bible references…
“Hey sister, are you Hebrewing 10:25 tonight?”
“Sure am! I know I need to get into/sit under/get fed by the Word. You?”
“Yeah but I’m on tuba again. Romans 7:15. Plus, I need a lift…
“Well 1 Corinthians 16:5! And we can go together.”
“Oh, 2 Corinthians 9:15!”
[Above conversation may not have actually transpired.]
5. I love that Protestants are serious about sin and want to grow in holiness.
6. I love that Protestants have given the world Amazing Grace, the Salvos, Charles Spurgeon, freedom of religion, Martin Luther King Jr., Charismatics, John Stott, John Donne, the abolition of slavery, the Book of Common Prayer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Purtians, the ecumenical movement, World Vision, gospel music, Tim Keller, Quakers, and not just one Wesley, but two!
7. I love that Protestants are some of my closest, dearest and most splendidest friends.
8. I love that Protestants have the best church suppers. (Based on my representative sample of about four churches…)
9. I love that Protestants encourage you to fearlessly follow where God
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Faith Has Its Reasons
by R.C. Sproul
Christians from every theological tradition have for centuries confessed their faith by reciting the Apostles’ Creed. Elsewhere I have taught on the actual content of this creed, but
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Faith Has Its Reasons
by R.C. Sproul
Christians from every theological tradition have for centuries confessed their faith by reciting the Apostles’ Creed. Elsewhere I have taught on the actual content of this creed, but if there is one aspect of this confession that we often fail to reflect on, it is the creed’s opening words: I believe.
Here I want to consider faith in relation to what are often seen as its opposites—reason and sense perception. Epistemology is the division of philosophy that seeks to answer one question: How do we know what we know, or how do we know what is true? Reason, sense perception, or some combination of the two have been among the most common answers to this basic question.
Our minds function according to certain categories of rationality. We try to think in a logically coherent manner. Our judgments and deductions are not always correct and legitimate, but our minds always look for logical, intelligible patterns. Some people say that we find true knowledge exclusively within the mind. These “rationalists” stress the mind and reason as the sources of true knowledge.
The mind processes information that we acquire with our five senses. Our minds act on what we see, hear, feel, smell, and taste. Perception is the experience of being in touch with the external world, and “empiricists” emphasize sense perception as the true basis for knowledge.
The scientific method combines sense perception and reason. In scientific experiments we gather facts with our senses. Our minds then draw conclusions, reasoning through what our five senses discover. Some want to oppose this way of learning to faith, but I don’t find in Scripture the idea that faith is irrational or anti-sense perception. According to God’s Word, reason and sense perception form the foundation of knowledge. Faith rests on this foundation but takes us beyond it.
We live in the most anti-intellectual age of history, and even many Christians believe we can compartmentalize faith as a way of knowing completely separate from sense perception and reason. Yet as Augustine told us centuries ago, how could we receive knowledge from God if it were not accessible to the human mind? Could we say that “Jesus is Lord” without some understanding of what the term Lord means, what the verb is indicates, and who the name Jesus refers to? We can’t believe the gospel without our minds understanding it to a degree.
Christianity also features a book—the Bible—that is designed for our understanding. Why would God give us a written document if faith bypasses reason entirely? Moreover, sense perception is key to the biblical story. Luke wrote down those things to which he had eyewitness testimony (Luke 1:1–4). Peter said the Apostles didn’t proclaim clever myths but what they saw with their eyes and heard with their ears (2 Peter 1:16). The biblical writers tell us about actual events in history that they experienced. Christianity isn’t ahistorical. God reveals Himself with reference to history: He is “the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob” (Ex. 3:16).
Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses. It’s not virtuous to take a “leap of faith” if that means we plunge into irrationality. The Bible never calls us to leap into the darkness but to leap out of the darkness into the light.
The New Testament defines faith as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen (Heb. 11:1). This doesn’t mean faith is against what we see. We are called to trust Him whom we haven’t seen—God—but He hasn’t remained wholly invisible. We have seen the Lord’s handiwork in this world, which Calvin called “a magnificent theater of natural revelation.” One day we’ll see Him directly in the beatific vision of His glory, but until then, He has not left Himself without a witness in creation.
Revelation is the third category of knowledge. Christianity is a revealed religion. The Christian God is not mute. When we talk about faith as the evidence of things not seen, we’re talking about believing the Lord who has spoken. Not just believing in God but believing God. Believing God for things we cannot see now is the essence of faith, but it’s not an irrational or unscientific faith. God makes it very rational for me to believe He’s there. He’s shown Himself in the created order. He’s broken into time and space. Jesus came in the flesh, was seen, and rose from the dead in history. The Apostles testify to these events in Scripture, recording those things they witnessed with their senses.
It’s not irrational to believe in the One who vindicated Himself as the incarnation of truth. This is not blind faith but faith that embraces testimony. The real opposites of faith are not reason and sense perception but credulity and superstition. Credulity, or naive believism, believes something that has no basis in reality. Superstition believes in magical things that have nothing to do with Scripture.
We find superstition and credulity thr
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PTRC | Plant Patents
Protections are legislated in the Plant Patent Act (PPA), enacted in 1930, and administered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Protection lasts for
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PTRC | Plant Patents
Protections are legislated in the Plant Patent Act (PPA), enacted in 1930, and administered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Protection lasts for 20 years and gives inventors the right to prevent others from reproducing, selling, or using the plant.
- Covers distinct and new varieties of asexually reproduced plants (other than tuber propagated plants or plants found in an uncultivated state).
- The plant must be distinct from other plants, which usually means it has one or more characteristics that distinguish it from other plants. Characteristics range from habit, method and ease of reproduction, color of flowers, stems, leaves, flavor, etc.
- One important component of the patent application is that the description of the plant must as complete as reasonably possible; to aid in this, pictures are usually included as part of the application and the final patent.
- Protection is limited to a plant in its "ordinary meaning", which includes the following:
- A living plant organism which expresses a set of characteristics determined by its single, genetic makeup or genotype, which can be duplicated through asexual reproduction, but which can not otherwise be "made" or "manufactured."
- Sports, mutants, hybrids, and transformed plants are comprehended; sports or mutants may be spontaneous or induced. Hybrids may be natural, from a planned breeding program, or somatic in source. While natural plant mutants might have naturally occurred, they must have been discovered in a cultivated area.
- Algae and macro fungi are regarded as plants, but bacteria are not.
(The above information comes from the USPTO webiste, What is a plant patent?)
Applying for a Plant Patent
- See the USPTO's pages for details about submitting an application for a plant patent.
- Illustrations of the plant are required, including color illustrations if color is one of the distinguishing features of the plant.
- Unlike utility patents which allow more then one aspect of a plant to be patented, only one patent is allowed for a plant patent as it applies to the entire plant.
Searching for Plant Patents
- Plant patents always begin with the letters PP, followed by up to 5 numbers.
- Browse the PLT Class for plant patents.
- Plant patents are classified first by type of plant (e.g., rose or conifer) and then by characteristics such as habit (shrub or climber for rose) and may be further subclassified (by color for a type of rose).
- If you know the patent number you can enter that into the USPTO's patent number search screen or Google Patents Advanced Sear
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The philosophy of organic production is to provide conditions that meet the health needs and natural behavior of the animal. Thus, organic livestock are given access to the outdoors, fresh air, water, sunshine, grass and pasture, and are fed 100 percent
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The philosophy of organic production is to provide conditions that meet the health needs and natural behavior of the animal. Thus, organic livestock are given access to the outdoors, fresh air, water, sunshine, grass and pasture, and are fed 100 percent organic feed. Any shelter provided must be designed to allow the animal comfort and the opportunity to exercise. Organic practices prohibit feeding animal parts of any kind to ruminants that, by nature, eat a vegetarian diet. Thus, no animal byproducts of any sort are incorporated in organic feed at any time.
National organic standards require oversight of production and handling systems. For instance, production and handling operations must undergo onsite inspections and have farm or operating plans in place in order to be certified organic. The standards also specify feed requirements, including what is and is not allowed.
For instance, in organic production, livestock cannot be fed plastic pellets for roughage, or formulas containing urea or manure. They cannot be given antibiotics or growth hormones. All of these are allowable practices in conventional agriculture. For an animal to be raised for organic beef, its mother must have been fed organic feed for at least the last third of gestation.
To read specific organic livestock requirements, including feed, health care practices, and living conditions, see: www.ams.usda.gov/nop/NOP/standards/prodhandreg.html.
In processing operations that handle both organic and non-organic meat products, processors must segregate their handling of organic and non-organic meat. There also are specified cleaning agents that are allowed and prohibited in such operations.
Organic certification, by a U.S. Department of Agriculture-approved agent, is required for the farm and the processing and handling facilities prior to delivery to retail outlets.
Because farmers and handlers must keep extensive records as par
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KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLUEM AND MINERALS
Faculty of Science, P-Year Math Program
Q1) Solve each of the following equations :
, by completing square
Q2 ) Solve each of the following inequalities :
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KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLUEM AND MINERALS
Faculty of Science, P-Year Math Program
Q1) Solve each of the following equations :
, by completing square
Q2 ) Solve each of the following inequalities :
Q3) If the negative solution of satisfies the equation
Find the value of A.
Q4) Find the set of all real values of k for which the equation has
exactly one real solution.
Q5) If the product of the solutions to is 2, then find the value
of k.
Q6) If the sum of the roots of a quadratic equation is and the product of the
roots is -10, the find this quadratic equation.
Q7) Find all values of k such that the equation has no real solution.
Q8) If one solution of the equation is 3 find the other solution.
Q9) If the discriminate of the equation is 29 where, Find b.
Q10) Write each of the following in the standard form then find its conjugate :
Q11) TRUE or FALSE
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The HARTLEY Surname - Place Names
hartleyfamilyorguk believes that the surname HARTLEY comes from the Anglo-Saxon HEORT-LEA and is derived from Germanic Mother Earth Goddess HERTHA, Goddess of Hunting
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The HARTLEY Surname - Place Names
hartleyfamilyorguk believes that the surname HARTLEY comes from the Anglo-Saxon HEORT-LEA and is derived from Germanic Mother Earth Goddess HERTHA, Goddess of Hunting [see HARTLEY Name Page]
earliest known recording of the Place Name HARTLEY is in THE DOMESDAY BOOK
The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, the Norman King who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees [the border with Scotland at the time].
HARTLEY was called in Domesday ERCLEI and in the Textus Roffensis HERDEI.
The Saxon 'E' was pronounced as our 'A' and the sound of the 'C' against 'L' is not unlike that of 'T' and 'L' so maybe the name should have been written 'ARTLEI' not 'ERCLEI'? In the case of Hartley, near Cranbrook, the Norman scribe wrote 'ARCLEI', a half-way compromise?
So 'ERCLEI' or 'ARCLEI' is likely the Norman version of the Saxon 'HEORTLEA', named after the Mother Earth Goddess, HERTHA.
some places it looks like the name changed over time to: HERCLEGA, then
HURTLEGH, HERTELE, HERTELEGH, HERTLEYE [13thC] HURTLEYE [14thC] HERTELEY [16thC]
... eventually HARTLEY.
In other places, HEORUTLEA HERETSLEY HERTELEIGH HERTLEGH HERTLEY HERTLEGE HERKELEYE HERCLEYE HERDIE HARLEI HERLEI [11thC] HEORTLEA HERTELEY HARELEY HERTLIGH [13thC] HURTLEGHE HERTLE [14thC] HERTILEE HERTELE HARTELEY
Berkshire Index Hartley... http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/berkshire.html
The parish of Shinfield is situated on the left bank of the River Loddon between Stratfield Mortimer and Earley, and consists of a central ridge of high land sloping eastwards to the Loddon and westwards towards the Kennet valley. Within Shinfield are Hartley Dummer [and Hartley Court], Hartley Amys, Hartley Pellitot, Hartley Battle and Hartley Regis
Hampshire Index Hartley Mauditt Hartley Wespall... http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/hampshire.html
Wintney is a large parish situated 2 miles north from Winchfield. In the
immediate vicinity of Hazeley Heath, which is partly within Hartley Wintney,
gravel-pits are found. The village of Hartley Row lies on the main road
from Bagshot to Basingstoke. After leaving the village this road leads on past
Hartley Grange. At the time of the Domesday Survey HARTLEY WINTNEY was
probably included in the great royal manor of Odiham, and it is not mentioned
by name until the 12th century, when a priory was founded here.
Hartley Wespall is a parish and small village on the River Loddon situated 6 miles north-east from Basingstoke, separated from the river by a large stretch of common land called Hartley Wood Common. The water-mill called Hartley Mill probably marks the site of the mill which existed in 1086. Hartley House, in the extreme north of the parish, was formerly the rectory house.
Kent Index Hartley, Kent... http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/kent.html
There are two Hartleys in Kent, one near Cranbrook, just up from Hastings, and the other near Longfield, Gravesend. The first has the longest recorded history of the two, first mentioned in the year 843 as the Saxon village of HEORTATLEAG [HEORTLEA, named after the Mother Earth Goddess HERTHA] while the other is not found until the Domesday Book, in which it appears as ERCLEI. The name comes from Old English HEOROT, a Hart or Stag Deer, here combined with LEAH field, clearing, where the Mother Earth Goddess HERTHA was worshipped.
early Saxon times the western portion of Kent was divided into two lathes or
lands, taking their names from Elesford and Sudton. And these again were sub-divided
into hundreds. For 600 years of Saxon rule the first village of HEORTLEA came
into the lathe of Sudtone and the hundred of Axton.
second Hartley contains about twelve hundred acres, part of which is
a large wood, called Hartley Wood, containing one hundred and fifty acres,
at the northern boundary of it; the soil of it is chalky, light, and much covered
with flints. The church stands on the hill, round which there is no village,
though here, and at Hartley Green
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A horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) Horseshoe crabs are one of the oldest classes of space arthropods, and are often referred to as "living fossils",
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From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
A horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) Horseshoe crabs are one of the oldest classes of space arthropods, and are often referred to as "living fossils", as they have not changed much in the last 350 to 400 million years, and indeed why should they?
edit What is a Horseshoe Crab?
The horseshoe crab is one of four survivors of a once proud lineage that once was a dominant force in the universe. Originating from within the Horseshoe Nebula, some scientists might say they came to earth quite a few millions of years ago (let's say 200), possibly in a Volkswagen Scirocco, and now refuse to go home.
Horseshoe crabs can live for as long as 200-250 years. They migrate into nice sandy beaches in late spring, with the males arriving first to take advantage of the cheeper hotel deals. The females then arrive and make nests at a depth of 15-20 m in the sand using only the most delicate spider mandibles. In these nests, females lay up to 200,000 eggs which are then with some effort and a copy of crab monthly fertilized by the male. The larvae hatch and then for a laugh swim about for about five to seven days. After swimming for this amount of time they become over-tired and sink. As young horseshoe crabs grow, they move to deeper waters, where they will form gangs and carry out petty crimes until They reach sexual maturity. Most will find jobs in investment banking or carry out light clerical duties.
Sometimes Horseshoe crab is accidentily called the Horses Hoe which is...RIGHT!
edit Are they Dangerous?
Although they may resemble the cuddly face huggers from the film Aliens they have
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- Having an infant with sleep problems doubles mother's risk of depression symptoms
- Specialists have developed a repertoire of bedtime routines designed to help
- Pediatricians generally don't recommend leaving babies alone to cry themselves to sleep
An infant who cries through
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- Having an infant with sleep problems doubles mother's risk of depression symptoms
- Specialists have developed a repertoire of bedtime routines designed to help
- Pediatricians generally don't recommend leaving babies alone to cry themselves to sleep
An infant who cries through the night -- or even a fraction of the night -- can have a big impact on a household. Parents who repeatedly wake up to soothe and cradle their baby may find themselves sleep-deprived, stressed-out, and even depressed.
This is especially true for mothers, who tend to be the primary nighttime caregivers. Having an infant with sleep problems roughly doubles a mother's risk of experiencing depression symptoms, by some estimates.
"If the infant or child doesn't sleep, the parent doesn't sleep, and this can have an impact on the parent's mental well-being, as well as productivity in the workplace," says Dr. Patricia Ritch, a pediatric neurologist and sleep specialist at Scott & White Healthcare, in Temple, Texas.
Growing awareness of the fallout from infant sleep problems has spurred specialists to develop a repertoire of bedtime routines designed to help babies -- and by extension, their parents -- sleep better.
Nowadays, pediatricians generally don't recommend leaving babies alone to cry themselves to sleep (a technique known as "extinction"). Preferred strategies include "controlled comforting," in which parents gradually reduce the amount of time they stay in the room with a crying baby, and "camping out," which involves sitting or sleeping in the room without picking the baby up.
These methods have produced promising results. A landmark 2007 study from Australia, for instance, found that controlled comforting and camping out reduced the odds of infant sleep problems by 50% and maternal depression by 60%, compared to a control group.
The study followed children only until age 2, however. And some pediatricians have expressed concern that hands-off strategies like controlled comforting may harm children over the long term, by disrupting brain development, mother-child bonding, or the child's mental health, says Dr. Tarig Ali-Dinar, a pediatric pulmonologist who researches breathing-related sleep disorders at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
A follow-up to the 2007 study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, may help quiet some of those concerns. The same research team tracked the mental health, behavior, and stress levels of 326 children from the original study up to age 6, and found no differences between the groups who did and did not follow the bedtime routines.
Nor did the researchers turn up any differences in the quality of the children's relationships with their parents or the mother's depression levels, suggesting that the routines have little lasting effect, good or bad, beyond infancy and early toddlerhood.
"The findings were very pleasing, in that at least we can put to rest what had been discussed in the past about an adverse impact on infant development, mother-child relationship, and maternal depression," says Ali-Dinar, who was not involved in the study.
For infants, in fact, having a depressed mother could conceivably pose greater long-term risks than having a mother who uses hands-off sleep techniques.
A second study appearing in the same issue of Pediatrics highlights just one of the long-term concerns associated with depression in mothers. In that study, infants whose mothers were depressed had higher odds of being in the 10th percentile or less for height at ages 4 and 5, even after various health and socioeconomic factors were taken into account.
Possible explanations for the children's short stature include "poor parenting behaviors," malnutrition stemming from haphazard meals, and chronic stress, the authors suggest.
The two studies are unrelated, and it doesn't necessarily follow that mothers who address their baby's sleep problems -- and therefore their own sleep deprivation -- end up raising healthier kids because they themselves are happier and better rested.
"That link is too early to make," Ritch says.
So what should you do if your baby is having trouble sleeping? Dr. Dennis Rosen, a pediatric sleep disorder specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, says there is no wrong or right way to help children fall asleep.
"Children, and especially infants and toddlers, will get all the sleep they need, whether by falling asleep in a high chair while eating corn flakes or napping in the car," Rosen says. "The question is how it affects the parents."
The extinction method, also known as the "cry-it-out" method, can be stressful for babies and parents alike, Rosen says, but there are a number of other strategies parents can choose from -- including the two used in the Australian study.
Controlled comforting is designed to slowly acclimate an infant to being left alone at night. Typically, a parent puts the baby to bed and stays in the room while the child is still at least partially awake. Then he or she goes away for a predetermined amount of time -- a few minutes, say -- and returns after successively longer intervals until the baby is asleep.
Similarly, camping out gradually withdraws a parent's physical presence. To start, the parent stays in
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Study shows clear benefits of a 1. healthy meals 2. exercise 3. maintaining normal weight, and 4. not smoking.
In the study, 6200 men, age 44-88 were followed for almost 8
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Study shows clear benefits of a 1. healthy meals 2. exercise 3. maintaining normal weight, and 4. not smoking.
In the study, 6200 men, age 44-88 were followed for almost 8 years. Those 4 things reduced chance of death 80%.
First time lifestyle is linked to preventing heart disease.
A large, multi-center study led by Johns Hopkins researchers has found a significant link between lifestyle factors and heart health, adding even more evidence in support of regular exercise, eating a Mediterranean-style meals, keeping a normal weight and, most importantly, not smoking.
The researchers found that adopting those four lifestyle behaviors protected against coronary heart disease as well as the early buildup of calcium deposits in heart arteries, and reduced the chance of death from all causes by 80 percent over an eight-year period. Results of the study, “Low-Risk Lifestyle, Coronary Calcium, Cardiovascular Events, and Mortality: Results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis,” are described in an online article posted June 3, 2013 by the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to find a protective association between low-risk lifestyle factors and early signs of vascular disease, coronary heart disease and death, in a single longitudinal evalua
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LemurFaceID: a face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs
- David Crouse†,
- Rachel L. Jacobs†Email author,
- Zach Richardson,
- Scott Klum,
- Anil JainEmail author
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LemurFaceID: a face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs
- David Crouse†,
- Rachel L. Jacobs†Email author,
- Zach Richardson,
- Scott Klum,
- Anil JainEmail author,
- Andrea L. Baden and
- Stacey R. Tecot
BMC ZoologyBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted20172:2
© The Author(s) 2017
Received: 8 August 2016
Accepted: 29 December 2016
Published: 17 February 2017
Long-term research of known individuals is critical for understanding the demographic and evolutionary processes that influence natural populations. Current methods for individual identification of many animals include capture and tagging techniques and/or researcher knowledge of natural variation in individual phenotypes. These methods can be costly, time-consuming, and may be impractical for larger-scale, population-level studies. Accordingly, for many animal lineages, long-term research projects are often limited to only a few taxa. Lemurs, a mammalian lineage endemic to Madagascar, are no exception. Long-term data needed to address evolutionary questions are lacking for many species. This is, at least in part, due to difficulties collecting consistent data on known individuals over long periods of time. Here, we present a new method for individual identification of lemurs (LemurFaceID). LemurFaceID is a computer-assisted facial recognition system that can be used to identify individual lemurs based on photographs.
LemurFaceID was developed using patch-wise Multiscale Local Binary Pattern features and modified facial image normalization techniques to reduce the effects of facial hair and variation in ambient lighting on identification. We trained and tested our system using images from wild red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) collected in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Across 100 trials, with different partitions of training and test sets, we demonstrate that the LemurFaceID can achieve 98.7% ± 1.81% accuracy (using 2-query image fusion) in correctly identifying individual lemurs.
Our results suggest that human facial recognition techniques can be modified for identification of individual lemurs based on variation in facial patterns. LemurFaceID was able to identify individual lemurs based on photographs of wild individuals with a relatively high degree of accuracy. This technology would remove many limitations of traditional methods for individual identification. Once optimized, our system can facilitate long-term research of known individuals by providing a rapid, cost-effective, and accurate method for individual identification.
KeywordsAnimal biometrics Conservation Eulemur rubriventer Linear discriminant analysis Mammal Multiscale local binary pattern Pelage Photograph Primate
Most research on the behavior and ecology of wild animal populations requires that study subjects are individually recognizable. Individual identification is necessary to ensure unbiased data collection and to account for individual variation in the variables of interest. For short-term studies, researchers may rely on unique methods for identification based on conspicuous natural variation among individuals at the time of data collection, such as differences in body size and shape or the presence of injuries and scars. These methods may or may not allow for identification of individuals at later dates in time. To address many evolutionary questions, however, it is necessary to collect data on known individuals over long periods of time. Indeed, longitudinal studies are essential for characterizing life history parameters, trait heritability, and fitness effects (reviewed in ). Consequently, they are invaluable for identifying the demographic and evolutionary processes influencing wild animal populations.
Unfortunately, longitudinal monitoring can be challenging, particularly for long-lived species. One of the primary challenges researchers face is establishing methods for individual identification that allow multiple researchers to collect consistent and accurate demographic and behavioral data over long periods of time (in some cases several decades). Current methods for individual identification often involve either capturing and tagging animals with unique identifiers, such as combinations of colored collars and/or tags [2, 3, 4, 5], or taking advantage of natural variation in populations (e.g., scars, skin and pelage patterns) and relying on researchers’ knowledge of individual differences [6, 7, 8, 9]. The former method (or a combination of the two methods) has been used in some of the best established long-term field studies, such as the St. Kilda Soay Sheep and Isle of Rum Red Deer Projects [2, 3], as well as the Wytham Tit and Galápagos Finch Projects [4, 5]. Because they have long-term (multi-generation) data on known individuals, these projects have contributed substantially to the field of evolutionary biology by documenting how and why populations change over time (e.g., [10, 11, 12, 13]).
Similar methods involving capturing and collaring have been used in many longitudinal studies of wild primates, such as owl monkeys, titi monkeys, colobines, and in particular, many Malagasy lemurs [17, 18, 19, 20]. Through the long-term monitoring of individuals, many of these studies have provided important data on longevity, lifetime reproductive success, and dispersal patterns [15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23].
Despite its utility for man
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Tithing in the Ante-Nicene period will take about six posts to cover it all.
Four extant writings from the second century are important for the history of tithing. Clement of Rome (pictured left) (c.a
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Tithing in the Ante-Nicene period will take about six posts to cover it all.
Four extant writings from the second century are important for the history of tithing. Clement of Rome (pictured left) (c.a. 100 A.D.) urged Christians to give their offerings systematically, thus following God’s laws. Clement makes no direct mention of tithing. The only evidence deduced to conclude that Clement is inferring tithing is his use of “laws.” However, his discussion on Christian offerings are more than likely dependent upon Paul’s epistles (e.g. 1 Cor 16). There is not adequate evidence to support the supposition that Clement advocated tithing.
The Didache (c.a. 100 A.D.), also called The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, contains numerous references to giving. In 1:5–6, the text discusses the sharing of resources among Christians. The only possible allusion to tithing could be the statement that giving should be done “according to the commandment.” However, since 1:6 says, “Let your charitable gift sweat in your hands until you know to whom you are giving it,” it appears that the Mosaic law of tithing is not the referent since responsibility is placed within the giver as to the worthiness of the recipient. The Didache exhorts Christians to be givers rather than takers (1:5; 4:5–8; 5:2; 15:4). It contains one statement similar to statements in Acts 2 and 4 about communalism (4:8). The text includes teaching similar to 1 Corinthians 9:14, that ministers of the gospel have a right to live from the gospel (11:6, 12; 13:1–2). 13:3–7 discusses how Christians are to give first fruits, stating that prophets are Christians’ high priest. However, it does not equate first fruits with a portion that is the (Divine) right of ministers of the gospel: “If, however, you have no prophet [minister of the gospel], give [the first fruits] to the poor” (13:4). Finally, 13:7 says to take the first fruits of “money and clothing and whatever [else] you own as you think best and give them according to the commandment.” A problem occurs when the text says both to give “as you think best” and to give “according to the commandment.” Some have said this is a contradiction. However, the phrase “as you think best” refers to the items that are considered liable to first fruits and “according to the commandment” probably refers to the instructions just given.
Justin Martyr (pictured left) (100–165 A.D.) provided an early, detailed, account of church services. He says that Christians met on Sundays and read the writings of the Apostles and prophets. After an exhortation to do good and pray, the love feast took place. They took the offering at the end of the service and those who were wealthy were free to give as they saw fit. The church used this offering to help the poor, widows, and others in need. There were two parts to the offering: (1) the first consisted of food: the congregation consumed part of the offering at the love feast and part of the offering was taken to those who were absent. The remainder of the offering was for the poor. After this meal, they partook of the Lord’s Supper. Finally, they took a second offering that included both money and food. This offering was for the clergy and the poor. Justin’s description of the offering neglects to mention tithing. Furthermore, his emphasis on personal responsibility in giving and that giving was mainly dependent upon the rich argues strongly against Justin advocating tithing. All of Justin’s explicit references to tithing were either incidental or quotes from Scriptures containing the word.
Resources and References:
Clement of Rome, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians 40 (ANF 1:16).
Powers, “Historical Study of the Tithe,” 15; see also Babbs, Law of the Tithe, 108.
Justin Martyr, First Apology of Justin 67 (ANF 1:185–86).
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew 17, 19, 112, 33 (ANF 1:202, 204, 211, 255).
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Experts believe an object found near Gold Beach is a chunk of beeswax from a Spanish trading vessel that sank off the coast of what is now Oregon more than 300 years ago.
GOLD BEACH — It was the luminescent glow
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Experts believe an object found near Gold Beach is a chunk of beeswax from a Spanish trading vessel that sank off the coast of what is now Oregon more than 300 years ago.
GOLD BEACH — It was the luminescent glow that caught Loretta LeGuee's attention.
"The sun was shining through it — it kind of looked like a huge egg," said the Gold Beach resident who has been combing the local beach each morning for years.
The oval-shaped amber object resting on the storm-tossed log early that December morning was no egg.
Experts believe it's a chunk of beeswax from a Spanish trading vessel that sank off the coast of what is now Oregon more than 300 years ago.
"From the picture they sent me, that's what it looks like to me — it's definitely beeswax," said Scott Williams of Olympia, Wash., assistant state archaeologist for Washington.
Williams would know: He's the leader of the "Beeswax Wreck Project," an effort by a nonprofit group of volunteers whose mission it is to solve the mystery of why blocks of beeswax have been popping up along the Oregon Coast for centuries.
They suspect the beeswax is either from the Santo Christo de Burgos, which sank in 1693, or the San Francisco Xavier, which disappeared in 1705. In both were tons of beeswax from the Philippines bound for Mexico via the Manilla-Acapulco trade route, Williams explained. There is historic evidence one of the ships wrecked in Nehalem Bay, creating the beeswax bounty, according to the team that hopes to conduct archaeological research at the site.
"Where she (LeGuee) found it would be unusual, being so far south," Williams said, noting the ocean currents off Oregon flow north, not south. "But we know the Indians were trading it prehistorically up and down the coast."
LeGuee, 52, and her dog, an energetic German shepherd named Norman, found the beeswax along the beach just south of Gold Beach in early December. She often takes her two children to school in the morning then goes for a short walk on the beach with Norman. Her husband, Rory, is a local minister and a substitute teacher.
Since a ferocious storm had just blown through the region, Loretta LeGuee, a 1973 graduate of Medford Senior High School, kept a sharp eye out that day. After all, she had found fishing floats and agates in the past after a storm.
"And we had just had high winds — real bad weather," she said.
Sure enough. There was the beeswax weighing some 10 pounds.
After showing it to her husband, she took it to Gold Beach High School so science teacher Nancy Treneman could examine it.
"I have walked the Oregon beaches for 48 years and I have never seen anything like this," said Treneman, a veteran teacher who has taught everything from chemistry to physical science.
"Loretta has found the coolest find," she said, noting her students are fascinated by the discovery.
"It's things like this that make it so interesting to live here," Treneman added. "Two years ago it was a dead whale. This year, it's the beeswax."
"Yeah, when I took the kids on a drive down past Pistol River the other day, we were talking about the dead whale," LeGuee said. "One of the kids said, 'Remember mom, one of the kids got up on top of it and fell in.' "
With that, both LeGuee and Treneman fill the science room with laughter.
As a marine biologist, Treneman can rattle off the Latin names of the barnacles and mussel shells embedded in one side of the wax.
"This looks to me like a worm tube," she said of a formation left by one long-dead sea creature. "They are all species that live on our coast. All of these are near-shore species."
But she was at wit's end about just what the chunk was until she spotted a January article in Science magazine. It told about Oregon's mysterious "beeswax wreck" near Nehalem.
"I knew this was what we had," said Treneman who then contacted Williams about the find.
Beeswax was a hot trade item back when the two Spanish vessels sank, Williams explained. It was much preferred for candles over foul-smelling tallow (rendered animal fat).
"The Catholic church required the use of beeswax," he said. "There were no native honeybees in the New World. The churches in Mexico had to get wax from someplace and the large Asian honeybees produced a lot of beeswax."
There are numerous records dating back to the early 1800s of Indians trading cakes of beeswax to Europeans coming into the Pacific Northwest, he said.
"As soon as the Northwest fur trades came into the country, the Indians were trying to trade beeswax to them," he said. "The Indians told them it was from a shipwreck."
The San Francisco Xavier was carrying some 75 tons of beeswax, representing at least 500 cakes, according to shipping records. Because a massive tsunami in January of 1700 would have sent earlier ship remains farther inland, a researcher on the team believes the Nehalem Bay beeswax is likely from the 1705 shipwreck.
Over the years, Williams has talked to nearly a dozen pe
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The essays in this third volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" aim to give the modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which drama exists. By presenting different aspects of the drama of the period, a wider perspective is gained. What
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The essays in this third volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" aim to give the modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which drama exists. By presenting different aspects of the drama of the period, a wider perspective is gained. What distinguishes drama from other forms of literature? In answering this question Glynne Wickham looks at the essential context of stage and staging, from the beginnings of English drama to the Jacobean playhouse. Brian Morris's survey of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama provides an incisive overview and background to the chapters on the great dramatists of the period. Written by leading scholars in their field, these essays explore the work of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and the tragedies of Webster, Tourneur and Middleton, each within its own individual context. The concluding chapter by John Bernard gives an account of drama from the Restoration until 1710. Published in ten volumes, "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned, from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
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How Do Rivers Flow over Bedrock?
A study questions whether the hydraulics of rivers that lack loose sediments along their bottoms can be accurately depicted by standard equations for flow over sediment.
Several centuries of scientific inquiry into the factors that control a
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How Do Rivers Flow over Bedrock?
A study questions whether the hydraulics of rivers that lack loose sediments along their bottoms can be accurately depicted by standard equations for flow over sediment.
Several centuries of scientific inquiry into the factors that control a river’s velocity and depth have focused almost exclusively on alluvial rivers, whose channels host loose sediment. To date, few field data exist on the hydraulics of bedrock rivers, rivers that lack loose sediment at their bottoms.
For these rivers, not much is known about the resistance of their channels to flow. Most landscape evolution models consequently use standard assumptions about alluvial rivers to estimate the erosive force exerted on a rock bed.
To evaluate whether these suppositions are appropriate, Ferguson et al. measured how water velocity, depth, and flow resistance varied with discharge along short (24- to 28-meter) stretches of a bedrock channel on Trout Beck, a small river in northern England’s Pennine Hills. Of the five evaluated stretches, one bed consisted of bare limestone, one was filled entirely with alluvium, and the other three were partially (20%–70%) covered with sediment varying from fine to coarse in size.
The team found systematic differences in flow resistance between the five reaches, with the highest values observed in the partially covered stretches hosting the most coarse and extensive sediment cover. In each of the four alluvial stretches, the researchers observed a rapid increase in velocity and a strong decrease in standard resistance parameters with increasing discharge. Although the bare limestone channel followed the same trend from low to medium discharges, it experienced greater resistance at higher discharges due to the roughness of the channel’s irregular rock walls.
To test the general applicability of these findings, the authors advocate collecting additional measurements in larger bedrock channels and in those whose floors vary in roughness. If these results are consistent, the team argues that current assumptions about flow resistance in incision and landscape evolution models will need to be reevaluated, because many of them assume constant flow resistance parameters.
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Living cells are capable of performing complex computations on the environmental signals they encounter.
These computations can be continuous, or analogue, in nature — the way eyes adjust to gradual changes in the light levels. They can also be digital, involving simple on or
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Living cells are capable of performing complex computations on the environmental signals they encounter.
These computations can be continuous, or analogue, in nature — the way eyes adjust to gradual changes in the light levels. They can also be digital, involving simple on or off processes, such as a cell’s initiation of its own death.
Synthetic biological systems, in contrast, have tended to focus on either analogue or digital processing, limiting the range of applications for which they can be used.
But now a team of researchers at MIT has developed a technique to integrate both analogue and digital computation in living cells, allowing them to form gene circuits capable of carrying out complex processing operations.
The synthetic circuits, presented in a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, are capable of measuring the level of an analogue input, such as a particular chemical relevant to a disease, and deciding whether the level is in the right range to turn on an output, such as a drug that treats the disease.
In this way they act like electronic devices known as comparators, which take analogue input signals and convert them into a digital output, according to Timothy Lu, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of biological engineering, and head of the Synthetic Biology Group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, who led the research alongside former microbiology PhD student Jacob Rubens.
“Most of the work in synthetic biology has focused on the digital approach, because [digital systems] are much easier to program,” Lu says.
However, since digital systems are based on a simple binary output such as 0 or 1, performing complex computational operations requires the use of a large number of parts, which is difficult to achieve in synthetic biological systems.
“Digital is basically a way of computing in which you get intelligence out of very simple parts, because each part only does a very simple thing, but when you put them all together you get something that is very smart,” Lu says. “But that requires you to be able to put many of these parts together, and the challenge in biology, at least currently, is that you can’t assemble billions of transistors like you can on a piece of silicon,” he says.
The mixed signal device the researchers have developed is based on multiple elements. A threshold module consists of a sensor that detects analogue levels of a particular chemical.
This threshold module controls the expression of the second component, a recombinase gene, which can in turn switch on or off a segment of DNA by inverting it, thereby converting it into a digital output.
If the concentration of the chemical reaches a certain level, the threshold module expresses the recombinase gene, causing it to flip the DNA segment. This DNA segment itself contains a gene or gene-regulatory element that then alters the expression of a desired output.
“So this is how we take an analogue input, such as a concentration of a chemical, and convert it into a 0 or 1 signal,” Lu says. “And once that is done, and you have a piece of DNA that can be flipped upside down, then you can put together any of those pieces of DNA to perform digital computing,” he says.
The team has already built an analogue-to-digital converter circuit that implements ternary logic, a device that will only switch on in response to either a high or low concentration range of an input, and which is capable of producing two different outputs.
In the future, the circuit could be used to detect glucose levels in the blood and respond in one of three ways depending on the concentration, he says.
“If the glucose level was too high you might want your cells to produce insulin, if the glucose was too low you might want them to make glucagon, and if it was in the middle you wouldn’t want them to do anything,” he says.
Similar analogue-to-digital converter circuits could also be used to detect a variety of chemicals, simply by changing the sensor, Lu says.
The researchers are investigating the idea of using analogue-to-digital converters to detect levels of inflammation in the gut caused by inflammatory bowel disease, for example, and releasing different amounts of a drug in response.
Immune cells used in cancer treatment could also be engineered to detect different environmental inputs, such as oxygen or tumor lysis levels, and vary their therapeutic activity in response.
Other research groups are also interested in using the devices for environmental applications, such as engineering cells that detect concentrations of water pollutants, Lu says.
Ahmad Khalil, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, who was not involved in the work, says the researchers have expanded the repertoire of computation in cells.
“Developing these foundational tools and computational primitives is important as researchers try to build additional layers of sophistication for precisely controlling how cells interact with their environment,” Khalil says.
The research team recently created a spinout company, called Synlogic, which is now attempting to use simple versions of the circuits to engineer probiotic bacteria that can treat diseases in the gut.
The company hopes to begin clinical trials of these bacteria-based treatments within the next 12 months.
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|From Adam Close's Will in Mercer County, Pennsylvania 1865|
When I found James' death date, I became confused. James did fight in the Civil War and was killed on May 8th, 1864, about
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|From Adam Close's Will in Mercer County, Pennsylvania 1865|
When I found James' death date, I became confused. James did fight in the Civil War and was killed on May 8th, 1864, about 9 months before Adam wrote his will. Why didn't Adam know his son had been killed? And did Adam learn of his son's death before he died nine months after writing his will?
Just a few days ago, I got more insight into this family. I was surprised to find that Adam's widow, Catharine, had applied for a pension for her son's service. But, after reading through forty-four pages, I understood why. I guess it was somewhat unusual, but a dependent father or mother could also apply for a pension. And, from this file, it appears that James' parents had been dependent on him.
Adam Close suffered from Phthesis Pulmonalis, also known as consumption, for at least five years and possibly for fifteen or more years. Now known as tuberculosis (TB), this bacterial infection can attack any organ in the body though it most commonly is found in the lungs. It was also called "consumption" because it basically consumed a body causing a severe weight loss. Besides weight loss, patients often suffered from weakness, fever, and night sweats. When TB attacked lungs, patients would suffer from coughing, chest pain, and coughing up blood. [From CDC site.]
Although this disease was contagious, at this time people thought it was hereditary. Many people with a TB infection don't suffer from the affects of it but can still spread the disease.
For the last three years of his life, Adam was confined to his "room and bed." One affidavit states that Adam "was so reduced by the disease that he was a charge and care to his wife and family instead of a support for them..." It goes on to say that Adam refused prescriptions that an elderly doctor gave him which left James "soley and entirely" in support of his family... by his labor with all the necessaries of life for a period of five years previous to [James'] death.
James took on the responsibility of caring for his parents. By the age of 16, he worked as a farmer and gave his parents all o
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Ramadan is derived from ramdaa‘ which means “sun-baked,” perhaps a reference to the pangs of fasting.
Anas (r) said that when the month of Ramadan came the Prophet (s) said: “Glory
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Ramadan is derived from ramdaa‘ which means “sun-baked,” perhaps a reference to the pangs of fasting.
Anas (r) said that when the month of Ramadan came the Prophet (s) said: “Glory to Allah! What are you facing now! What is coming ahead!” `Umar ibn al-Khattab (r) said: “My father’s life for you, and my mother’s! O Prophet of Allah, what is it? Did you receive revelation, or is an enemy coming?” He replied: “No, but the month of Ramadan has come, in which Allah forgives all the people of this Community.” He also said: “If Allah’s servants knew what Ramadan was, they would have wished it lasted for the whole year.”
The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur’an is a time of tremendous blessings and the gate of repentance and return to Allah.
The Prophet (s) also said: “The month of Ramadan has come to you, a blessed month for the duration of which Allah has prescribed fasting for you. In it the gates of the heaven are open and the gates of Gehenna are shut.” Another version adds: “And devils are put in chains.”
The Prophet (s) named fasting “the poor-tax of the body” (zakat al-jasad) and he named it “a shield” (al-siyamu junnah) and also “half of restraint” (al-sabru nisfu al-sawm), and he named restraint “pure light” (al-sabru diya’). When asked who were the wanderers in the verse:
التَّائِبُونَ الْعَابِدُونَ الْحَامِدُونَ السَّائِحُونَ الرَّاكِعُونَ السَّاجِدونَ الآمِرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّاهُونَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَالْحَافِظُونَ لِحُدُودِ اللّهِ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Those that turn to Allah in repentance;
that serve Him, and praise Him;
that wander in devotion to His cause (al-sa’ihun);
that bow down and prostrate themselves in prayer;
that enjoin good and forbid evil;
and observe the limits set by Allah –
these do rejoice!
So proclaim the glad tidings to the believers. (9:112)
The Prophet (s) said: “The wanderers in the cause of Allah (al-sa’ihun) are those who fast” (hum al-sa’imun). Thus a true dervish fasts, and many of the great shaykhs said that the path consists in hunger. The Prophet (s) also said: “There is no conceit in fasting.”
The month of Ramadan is a tremendous witness on the Day of the judgment, and the Prophet (s) said: “I declare myself clear of them whose detractor is Ramadan.” It brings immense rewards as he said: “Those who fast the month of Ramadan believing (in Allah and his Messenger) and seeking a reward, all their past sins are forgiven.” Another version adds: “and pray (the voluntary night-prayer) in it” and in the end: “he comes out of his sins as on the day his mother gave birth to him.”
According to the Companion `Ubadah ibn al-Samit the Prophet (s) used to say upon entering this month:
Allahumma sallimnee li ramadana wa sallim ramadana
wa sallimhu minnee mutaqabbilan.
“O Allah, greet and save me for Ramadan; greet and save Ramadan;
greet and save Ramadan on my behalf, and grant me its acceptance.”
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Farmers with physical disabilities are often a little too self-reliant to ask for help or don't know where to find it. But help is out there, and a new program can link them to it.
AgrAbility in Georgia is
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Farmers with physical disabilities are often a little too self-reliant to ask for help or don't know where to find it. But help is out there, and a new program can link them to it.
AgrAbility in Georgia is a program designed to aid farmers who have physical injuries, disabilities or illnesses that hinder their work day. It gets them back farming or makes it a little more comfortable, says Glen Rains, the program director and an engineer with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
The program is a partnership between the CAES and the Institute on Human Development and Disability in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
“We'd like for farming to stay a vocation for people as much as possible,” says Rains. “This program is one way of keeping farmers farming who don't want to be rehabilitated into another job. We want to help them do it.”
The program is a service that links someone in Georgia to a chain of Cooperative Extension educators, disability experts, rural living professionals, and volunteers across the state and the country, Rains says.
Anyone who works or wants to work in agriculture and has a physical, cognitive or illness-related disability is eligible. This includes many things like amputations, arthritis, cancer, heart problems, diabetes or mental illness.
With loads of bureaucracy and red tape, finding help “can be a really drawn-out process for some,” Rains says.
AgrAbility is geared to cut through the hassle, he adds.
Working through UGA Extension county offices, experts with AgrAbility identify clients or are contacted by them. The expert then visits the client and assesses the needs.
The process includes “explaining to the client all the resources that are available and will work for their needs,” Rains says.
AgrAbility is not set up to give direct payments to help farmers. But it can “hook them up with the right people who can,” he says.
The Georgia program is in its second year of four funded by a $150,000 annual grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service.
“We know that some farmers are reluctant to ask for help, and getting them open to the idea of receiving it is a challenge,” Rains says. “But this is paid for by their taxes. Everyone is pitching in.”
The program has handled many referrals in Georgia, he says. It's directly helping six farmers, mostly in north Georgia.
But the program is expanding, he says.
A workshop called “Duct Tape, Velcro and Beyond: Quick Solutions for Farm Families
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Visual communication via diagrams, sketches, charts, photographs, video, and animation is fundamental to the process of exploring concepts and disseminating information. The most-effective visualizations capitalize on the human facility for processing visual information, thereby improving comprehension, memory,
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Visual communication via diagrams, sketches, charts, photographs, video, and animation is fundamental to the process of exploring concepts and disseminating information. The most-effective visualizations capitalize on the human facility for processing visual information, thereby improving comprehension, memory, and inference. Such visualizations help analysts quickly find patterns lurking within large data sets and help audiences quickly understand complex ideas.
Over the past two decades a number of books10,15,18,23 have collected examples of effective visual displays. One thing is evident from inspecting them: the best are carefully crafted by skilled human designers. Yet even with the aid of computers, hand-designing effective visualizations is time-consuming and requires considerable effort. Moreover, the rate at which people worldwide generate new data is growing exponentially year to year. Gantz et al.5 estimated we collectively produced 161 exabytes of new information in 2006, and the compound growth rate between 2007 and 2011 would be 60% annually. We are thus expected to produce 1,800 exabytes of information in 2011, 10 times more than the amount we
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Let’s face it, reading mysteries requires many of the strategies struggling readers lack: ability to hold a number of details in the reader’s head, to discern the relevant from the red herring, to draw inferences about the solution to the mystery
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Let’s face it, reading mysteries requires many of the strategies struggling readers lack: ability to hold a number of details in the reader’s head, to discern the relevant from the red herring, to draw inferences about the solution to the mystery, and more. But that’s why they make ideal teaching tools for struggling readers. We can model our own thinking as we make sense of a mystery passage, then provide students with the opportunity to practice with an accessible text. That’s where HIP books can help. Our BATS Mystery books for junior (Grades 4-7) readers are carefully structured to provide supports just when readers need them, so that struggling readers can build the strategies they need in order to move on to more complex reading. (And they’re on sale, just for the month of March!)
Are Mysteries too Hard for Struggling Readers?
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Dictionary Of Hindu Religion | Sketches
1057-1135 AD = 78 years
[February 5th is Shree Raamanujaachaarya's disappearance day. The following is a transcription of Srila Bhaktivedaant
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Dictionary Of Hindu Religion | Sketches
1057-1135 AD = 78 years
[February 5th is Shree Raamanujaachaarya's disappearance day. The following is a transcription of Srila Bhaktivedaant Narayana Gosvami Maharaja's informal Darshan, given in Hawaii in 2007, at which time Srila Maharaja discussed his glories. That informal Darshan took place with only the few devotees in his traveling party, so we especially thank his personal cook, Madhuvrat Daas Brahmchaaree, for sending us the sound-file. Srila Narayana Maharaja’s talk was brief, and therefore we have included excerpts from his lecture given in Mathuraa in 2000, in green color in brackets, to fill out the history:]
[Shree Raamaanujaachaarya is an incarnation of Lakshman (Lord Raam’s younger brother), and he accepted the Shree Sampradaaya. Srila Bhaktisiddhaant Saraswatee Thaakur Prabhupaad took many teachings from him, such as the duties of the Sanyaasee, the duties of the disciple, and the etiquette of the Vaishnav. He utilized one-hundred and eight teachings. His teachings have been published in Bhagvat Patrikaa and Gaudiyaa Patrikaa (Hindi and Bangaalee Magazines).]
Bhagavaan Saves His Life
Later, when Raamaanuj was massaging Yaadavaachaarya, he told him - "The explanation you have given for "Kapyasam" is wrong. "Kapi" can be understood to mean "that which takes water from everywhere". Now who takes water? The Sun. The word "asam" also means "to blossom", so the word "kapi-asam" can be understood as "that which blossoms under the Sun", or, in other words, "the lotus flower". Thus, we can understand the verse to mean that the Lord’s eyes are as beautiful as the lotus flower.”
[Shree Raamaanujaachaarya took birth in a simple family. His mother and father were not very wealthy, but they were of a high Braahman caste and they were very learned. Raamaanuj was an outstanding boy from his childhood. While under the guidance of a Maayaavaadee Guru named Yaadavaachaarya, he was very careful in his studies. One day, when his Guru was giving an impersonal explanation of a verse that contained the word Kapyasan, he compared the lotus-eyes of the Lord to the hind part of a monkey which is reddish near its tail. Hearing this from his Guru Dev’s mouth, Raamaanuj began to cry in great pain. He felt grief in his heart that his Guru Dev had used such a bad analogy for describing the lotus-like eyes of the Lord. After collecting himself, he very politely asked if he could say something about the verse. Yaadavaachaarya assented, and Raamaanuj very nicely gave many explanations according to Sanskrit grammar. He said that the term Kapyasam actually means one who brings water, and that is the Sun. The lotus blossoms by the potency of the Sun, and therefore the Lord’s eyes are compared to the lotus, not the monkey.]
Raamaanuj’s teacher became astonished, thinking, “If this boy is so knowledgeable at such a young age, what will he do when he is grown up? If he remains alive, this Maayaavaad teaching will be finished.” His teacher then planned to murder him.
[When Yaadavaachaarya heard this, he thought, “This boy is dangerous. He is very expert and is giving such nice explanations. In the future he might uproot all the impersonal teachings from the Vedas, and so I must kill him.”]
Thinking to trick Raamaanuj, Yaadavaachaarya told him that he was going to travel with all his students to do some preaching, and that Raamaanuj should also accompany them. Raamaanuj was a very sincere and innocent boy, so he didn’t understand his teacher’s intentions.
Then, when they were all in a very deep forest, they decided that this would be the time to murder him. Govind, his cousin, told him of their plan, and urged him to quickly flee from there. Ther
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Scheduling a Meeting
Outlook enables you to plan the time and date of a meeting, identify the subject and location of the meeting, invite others to attend the meeting, and identify resources that will be needed for the meeting. You use the
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Scheduling a Meeting
Outlook enables you to plan the time and date of a meeting, identify the subject and location of the meeting, invite others to attend the meeting, and identify resources that will be needed for the meeting. You use the Calendar folder to plan and schedule meetings.
In Outlook, a meeting is an appointment to which you invite people and plan for the inclusion of certain resources.
Any equipment you use in your meeting, such as a computer, a slide projector, or even the room itself.
To plan a meeting, follow these steps:
Click the icon for the Calendar on the Navigation pane. Then, in the Month pane, select the date on which you want to hold the meeting. To open a new meeting, select Actions and select Plan a Meeting. The Plan a Meeting dialog box appears (see Figure 13.1).
Figure 13.1. Choose the date and time of your meeting as well as the attendees.
To enter the names of the attendees, click in the All Attendees list where it reads Click Here to Add a Name. You can type a name into the box and then press Enter. Continue adding new names as necessary. Names that you type into the list do not have to coincide with records in your Contacts list, but if you include new names, Outlook will not have an e-mail address for those particular attendees when invitations are sent for the meeting.
Another way (and perhaps a better way) to invite attendees to your meeting is to click the Add Others button, and then Add from Address Book. This allows you to choose the attendees from your Contacts list or other address book. This opens the Select Attendees and Resources dialog box, as shown in Figure 13.2.
Figure 13.2. Attendees of the meeting and resources that will be needed can be added using the Attendees and Resources dialog box.
You can add attendees and any resources needed for the meeting in this dialog box (select an attendee and then click the Required button). When you have finished adding attendees and resources, click OK.
A Word About Adding Resources
The Select Attendees and Resources dialog box enables you to add attendees and resources to a meeting. Because you probably don't list resources, such as overhead projectors, in your Contacts folder, you will have to type the resource names for the meeting as detailed in step 1 of this section (placing them in the Attendees list). In the case of resources, click the e-mail icon that appears to the left of the resource and select Don't Send Meeting to This Attendee. This keeps Outlook from trying to e-mail the resource. You can also use this option if you have listed attendees for the meeting who are not contained in your Contacts list.
To set a date for the meeting, open the Meeting Start Time drop-down list and select the date from the calendar, or just type the date into the text box. The ending date (in the Meeting End Time drop-down list) automatically shows the same date you set in the Meeting Start Time date box; you can change the End Time date if you want.
To set a start time for the meeting, do one of the following:
Open the Meeting Start Time drop-down list and select the time.
Type a time into the text box.
Drag the green bar in the Time Block pane to set the start time.
To set an end time for the meeting, do one of the following:
Open the Meeting End Time drop-down list and select the end time.
Type a time into the text box.
Drag the red bar in the Time Block pane of the dialog box to change the ending time of the meeting.
After you select the date and time for the meeting, notice that the time grid to the right of each attendee's name shows the currently scheduled appointments that they have on the day of the meeting. The times blocked out in each attendee's grid are based on appointments and meetings in their Outlook Calendar. Outlook is able to check your corporate network and check attendee availability by using their calendars. If you have a conflict between your meeting time and an attendee's appointment, you can adjust the time of your meeting and avoid availability conflicts.
Check the Availability of Internet Colleagues
On a corporate network that uses Exchange Server, it's easy for Outlook to check other people's calendars to see whether they have a conflict with a meeting that you are planning. If you aren't using Outlook in an Exchange Server environment, you can also avoid scheduling conflicts by having people you invite use Internet e-mail to subscribe to Microsoft's Office Free/Busy Service. Outlook then periodically publishes a person's schedule to the service. All users who have subscribed can check the availability of participants using the service. The first time you schedule a meeting where other attendees' calendars cannot be accessed, a dialog box will open so that you can join the Free/Busy service. For more information about this service, go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/ on the Web.
When you finish planning the meeting, click the Make Meeting button. The Meeting dialog box appears, allowing you to refine the meeting details. Details on using this dialog box are described in the next section.
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MILAN, Italy, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A study by researchers at Italy's University of Milan and Facebook said they have determined all Facebook users are connected by 4.74 degrees of separation.
The researchers said they built
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MILAN, Italy, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A study by researchers at Italy's University of Milan and Facebook said they have determined all Facebook users are connected by 4.74 degrees of separation.
The researchers said they built on an idea by social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who posited anyone on the planet could be connected to anyone else through their acquaintances using no more than six degrees, ABC News reported Wednesday.
The scientists said they used the hypothesis, which inspired the popular "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" trivia game as well as the play and film versions of "Six Degrees of Separation," and applied it to Facebook, discovering users could be connected to other users anywhere in the world by an average 4.74 degrees.
"While 99.6 percent of all pairs of users are co
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Active and Cooperative Learning Using Web-Based Simulations
The author discusses the advantages of using computers and the World Wide Web in classroom simulation exercises. Using networked computers permits a richer simulation design, allows more complicated decisions by the students, and facilitates reporting
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Active and Cooperative Learning Using Web-Based Simulations
The author discusses the advantages of using computers and the World Wide Web in classroom simulation exercises. Using networked computers permits a richer simulation design, allows more complicated decisions by the students, and facilitates reporting results for later discussion. The Web is an ideal technology for such simulations because computers already have Web-capable browsers, with which students are familiar, and information on creating Web sites is readily available. The author discusses these points in the context of a sample simulation that teaches basic economic principles of trade, investment, and public goods in the context of American economic history.
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Unit 3 is about digital imaging. A it is fun unit where students get a chance to work on some graphic design.
Unit 3 Brief
You are working for a film company called ‘New Moon productions’ (NMP).
You will
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Unit 3 is about digital imaging. A it is fun unit where students get a chance to work on some graphic design.
Unit 3 Brief
You are working for a film company called ‘New Moon productions’ (NMP).
You will be working on creating various graphics for NMP for this unit.
NMP is a fairly new film company and having secured contracts for a few big films due for release in the near future, are looking to create have the graphics and media department in the office create some eye catching graphics to help strengthen the brand of the company.
Over the course of the unit, You will need to create:
- a logo for NMP,
- A business card,
- A map of where the company is situated and
- A DVD cover for the latest Superman blockbuster that the company is working on, ‘Man of Steel’.
You will need to create these using an appropriate graphics editor.
In order to complete the above tasks you must first carry out some research into different kinds of graphics and plan the designs for each of the required graphics by sketching them first.
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Find more Stevanson relatives and grow your tree by exploring billions of historical records. Taken every decade since 1790, the U.S. Federal Census can tell you a lot about your family. For example, from 1930 to
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Find more Stevanson relatives and grow your tree by exploring billions of historical records. Taken every decade since 1790, the U.S. Federal Census can tell you a lot about your family. For example, from 1930 to 1940 there were 89 more people named Stevanson in the United States — and some of them are likely related to you.
What if you had a window into the history of your family? With historical records, you do. From home life to career, records help bring your relatives' experiences into focus. There were 48 people named Stevanson in the 1930 U.S. Census. In 1940, there were 185% more people named Stevanson in the United States. What was life like for them?
In 1940, 137 people named Stevanson were living in the United States. In a snapshot:
As Stevanson families continued to grow, they left more tracks on the map:
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In conversations about “marriage equality”, we are told that there is no difference between children raised by same-sex parents and opposite-sex parents. Is that accurate? Serveral studies have produced conflicting results on the impact of children, because they use entirely
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In conversations about “marriage equality”, we are told that there is no difference between children raised by same-sex parents and opposite-sex parents. Is that accurate? Serveral studies have produced conflicting results on the impact of children, because they use entirely different criteria to measure what it means to “do well” as a child. Let’s break down what we do know…
- Studies which look at the wellbeing of children raised by same-sex couples often use subjective indicators of child wellbeing.
- Many studies have been based on small numbers of self-selected participants, limiting their reliability.
- We do not have sufficient data to definitively know the effects of same-sex parenting on children. But children are too important to be experimented with.
- What we do know is that when children grow up without a mother or a father, their long-term wellbeing is harmed.
Let’s listen to what the (now adult) children of same-sex couples have to say:
Click here for an interview on Australia’s Lateline with Katy Faust on the impact of same-sex marriage on children. Katy Faust is one of the speakers in this video who was raised by lesbian parents.
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On Friday, February 24, two dozen WVU Tech students spent the day sharing their work with lawmakers at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol Complex in Charleston.
The event drew in more than 100 projects and
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On Friday, February 24, two dozen WVU Tech students spent the day sharing their work with lawmakers at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol Complex in Charleston.
The event drew in more than 100 projects and 160 students from colleges and universities throughout the state.
Sam Jarrell, a senior mechanical engineering major from St. Albans, West Virginia, said his team wanted to tackle something that could make a difference in the state. In the wake of last year’s flooding, they decided to work on a project that could help mitigate damage from such events in the future.
“I think it's really important for us to address issues that are in our state. We want people to see that students are working on those issues and we're able to do it because we have support,” he said.
So the team designed a portable, modular, interlocking flood barrier that’s quick and easy to set up, easy to clean and can withstand flood waters of up to three feet. Designed to be installed in ten-foot sections, the barrier is scalable, too.
“We looked at problems people had with existing products. Their biggest issues were cost, portability and time in advance of knowing when to use the product. We took all of those issues into account and came up with our model,” said Jarrell. “Hopefully, it can save equipment, property and maybe even lives.”
Jaymee Hannan is a mechanical engineering major from Lewisville, Tennessee. She was on hand to share her work on an automotive hydrogen generator. It’s essentially a small device users would install in their vehicles that uses electrolysis to produce hydrogen. That hydrogen is then diverted into the fuel mixture in the hope of boosting fuel efficiency in older engines.
“My hypothesis is that the hydrogen is actually working to clean the engine and that increases efficiency because there's less buildup. It's designed for an older car. We wanted to help people who have older cars and want to increase their fuel efficiency, but who can’t afford to buy a new car,” she said.
Hannan and her team are in the process of putting together their first prototype. She said she’s happy to test the build on her own car, which has racked up 250,000 miles.
Casey H
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Transform Matrix As Basis Vectors
If we have a 3x3 matrix T of the form:
Then when we multiply a vector (x,y,z) by this matrix T, x gives us more or less of (a,b,c),
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Transform Matrix As Basis Vectors
If we have a 3x3 matrix T of the form:
Then when we multiply a vector (x,y,z) by this matrix T, x gives us more or less of (a,b,c), y of (d,e,f) and z of (g,h,i). In other words, you can think of x, y, and z being orders for premade "amounts" of 3 vectors. In the old coordinate system, x gave us one unit of the 'x' axis, y one unit of the 'y' axis, and z one unit of the 'z' axis. So we can see (a,b,c) as the old coordinate system's "x" axis expressed in the new coordinate system, etc.
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This "change of basis" is essentially an arbitrary rotation about the origin - we are taking our model and changing where its axes are. Use the data with the old axes and you have the model rotated. So far everything we have done is with vectors, but you can think of a point cloud as a series of vectors from the origin to the data points.
A lot of math for computer programmers is just learning what the mathematicians are talking about - math has a lot of vocabulary to describe ideas. Sometimes the words are harder than the ideas.
Our rotation matrix above is a set of orthonormal basis vectors. (We call the matrix an orthogonal matrix.) What does that mean? It means two things:
- Each basis vector is normal - that is, its length is 1.
- Each basis vector is orthogonal to all other basis vectors - that is, any
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Wreath Laying Ceremony
Each year on December 1st, World AIDS Day, the Office of Health Policy and AIDS Funding (OHP) hosts a Wreath Laying Ceremony in Washington Square Park at the site of the HIV
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Wreath Laying Ceremony
Each year on December 1st, World AIDS Day, the Office of Health Policy and AIDS Funding (OHP) hosts a Wreath Laying Ceremony in Washington Square Park at the site of the HIV/AIDS monument, an area with the highest LGBT population. The purpose of the ceremony is to recognize those who are living with HIV and pay respect to those who have passed as a result of AIDS-related complications.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s, more than 1.2 million people have been diagnosed with AIDS, and 1 in 8
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In the world of alternative power generation, Bloom Energy is golden. It certainly has figured out how to get some the public's green.
Time magazine declared the Silicon Valley company's fuel cell technology, called Bloom Boxes, to be one of the top
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In the world of alternative power generation, Bloom Energy is golden. It certainly has figured out how to get some the public's green.
Time magazine declared the Silicon Valley company's fuel cell technology, called Bloom Boxes, to be one of the top inventions of 2010.
"Their invention? A little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard," CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl said in a glowing "60 Minutes" segment last February.
"The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop, and cell phones supplanted land lines," Stahl said. "It has a lot of smart people believing and buzzing."
Perhaps Bloom Boxes will provide clean, reliable power while reducing our carbon footprint. That'd be marvelous. If it comes to pass, Bloom Energy might want to thank Californians for their generosity.
In 2009, as Bloom's scientists honed the technology, Bloom's lobbyists shaped legislation at the Capitol and a key decision at the California Public Utilities Commission.
By the end of 2010, the commission had granted Bloom payments and commitments totaling $210 million to subsidize its fuel cell technology, PUC officials said.
Bloom was so effective that some legislators worried there would be no money left for other companies that might have innovative technology. Earlier this month, Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey issued an order suspending the program.
In many ways, Bloom is a feel-good and hopeful story. It's also a story about how Bloom has navigated the system and tapped into other people's money.
To read the complete column, visit www.sacbee.com.
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Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a former monarchy in Europe. It is now part of modern Germany. The Grand Duchy of Baden (German: Großherzogtum Baden)
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Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a former monarchy in Europe. It is now part of modern Germany. The Grand Duchy of Baden (German: Großherzogtum Baden) was a historical state in the southwest of Germany, on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918, the capitol was the city of Karlsruhe.
Originally the grand ducal family were entitled to the style of Highness. The heir to the throne was usually known as the Hereditary Prince with the higher style of Royal Highness.
The state was abolished in 1918 after the German Revolution where several monarchies ended.
List of Grand Dukes 1806–1918[change | change source]
- Charles Frederick 1806–1811
- Charles 1811–1818
- Louis I 1818–1830
- Leopold 1830–1852
- Louis II 1852–1856
- Frederick I 1856–1907
- Frederick II 1907–1918
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There's more than snow flying in the South Dakota Missouri River Valley. Winter sunrises shed light on a symbol of America that's hard to find anywhere else.
“You can go to Alaska and pay a lot of money to see eagles or
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There's more than snow flying in the South Dakota Missouri River Valley. Winter sunrises shed light on a symbol of America that's hard to find anywhere else.
“You can go to Alaska and pay a lot of money to see eagles or you can come to Yankton or many other dams along the Missouri in South Dakota and see eagles too,” Birder Roger Dietrich said.
Bald Eagles feed over the open waters of the Missouri near Gavins Point dam this time of year.
“I can remember a time 20 to 30 years ago where one eagle came and perched on a cottonwood tree outside of town. And half the town went out to look at it,” Bernie Hunhoff said.
These days they're so common, the counting is left only to Birders who track the eagles’ every move. Numbers keep growing. This year they number at least 75 perched in trees along the Missouri River.
“And there have been more. A few years ago a couple of ladies counted just from the bridges and the dam they counted 100 eagles,” Dietrich said.
Dietrich documents all area bird species. His photo album shows his best work including the Bald Eagle, which is now so comfortable in the area, it is now nesting there.
“If you see a huge stick nest in a tree, that's six, eight, ten foot across and three, four foot deep good chance that's an Eagle's nest,” Dietrich said.
“Sometimes you'll see two eagles fighting over a fish in the air and usually the fish ends up falling in the water,” Hunhoff said.
Efforts to preserve the eagle are increasing numbers everywhere. The population's gone from just a few hundred in the 1960s to thousands today, taking the national bird off the endangered species list.
But a peek at the bald eagle is still a majestic sight especially when it's in your own backyard.
“The Missouri River Valley, there's no better place,” Hunhoff said.
Birders estimate there are more than 200 bird species in the Missouri River Valley. Golden Eagles are also found in the state west of Yankton, but say a few have been spotted in the area too.
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Q Why teach handwriting?
A Students are expected to copy assignments from the board, take notes and write test answers - legibly. Because students are graded on written output, not on what they might know, difficulty in any of these areas impacts achievement
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Q Why teach handwriting?
A Students are expected to copy assignments from the board, take notes and write test answers - legibly. Because students are graded on written output, not on what they might know, difficulty in any of these areas impacts achievement. Furthermore, because handwriting is visible, students compare the quality of their handwriting to that of their peers. Students with strong academic potential but poor handwriting frequently perceive themselves as low achievers.
Q Is handwriting important given the widespread use of computers and keyboards?
A Yes. Legible handwriting is still required in the classroom and is expected by teachers. Furthermore, as students learn handwriting, they are building other developmental skills such as sequential memory and fine motor ability. These fundamental skills assist students in other essential academic areas such as math.
Q Has scientific research uncovered better methods by which handwriting should be taught?
A Yes. Traditionally, handwriting has been taught as an art, but research now allows us to teach handwriting based on scientific research. Handwriting is a basic motor skill, like riding a bike or walking, but advances in motor skill learning have not been incorporated into the process of teaching handwriting. To become proficient at a motor skill, a student must acquire muscle memory.
Q What is muscle memory and why is it so important?
A Muscle memory allows an action to be automatic and mechanical - it does not require active thinking. Research shows that if a student has to think about how to write a letter, his or her ability to spell or write an answer is hindered. When proper handwriting becomes a muscle memory, a student is free to devote all active thinking to the ideas that he or she is trying to express. Forming the letters requires no thought; it just "happens." Muscle memory is developed through a two-step process: motor pattern mastery and pattern repetition.
Q How is a motor pattern mastered?
A To master a motor pattern (such as " how to write the letter p"), a student must have a visual image of the pattern and knowledge of the sequential steps by which the pattern is formed. When learning the motor pattern, a student needs individualized supervision and immediate feedback to ensure that he or she has correctly visualized and sequenced the pattern.
Q What is pattern repetition?
A Through repetition, the reproduction of a motor pattern evolves - from intense, careful, purposeful practice to an easily reproduced, automatic written pattern. Repetition of the pattern leads to muscle memory, which means that active thinking is no longer required to produce the pattern. In the context of handwriting, this means that rather than dedicating a portion of active thinking to the question of "how to write the letter p," a student can focus entirely on the question of "how to spell the word apple" and rely on his or her muscle memory to express the thought in writing.
Q Has this research been incorporated into Write-On Handwriting's handwriting system?
A Yes. Write-On Handwriting's software applications are the firs
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This week we are fully in autumn. It’s no longer a transitional time from summer, it isn’t a hint of changes to come, it is full on autumn. We’ve had beautiful days, most a mix of wet and sunny, fog
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This week we are fully in autumn. It’s no longer a transitional time from summer, it isn’t a hint of changes to come, it is full on autumn. We’ve had beautiful days, most a mix of wet and sunny, fog in the early mornings, and big gusts of wind. We left the house this morning in long sleeves and sneakers, and watched as the stroller wheels picked up wet leaves from the ground as they turned. We passed through piles of wet gold, drifts of soggy brown, and a beautiful bush that dropped leaves of every shade, bright green, scarlet, yellow, and orange, sometimes all on the same leaf. Our walks are halting because there are so many treasures to collect, the acorns look different on every block, and mama has to take deep breaths to keep up with the very slow pace.
Young children love to interact in a concrete way with the amazing changes going on all around them and the sensory experience of each season. They love picking up and touching and collecting, bringing home the bits of the outdoors to put inside so that their home reflects the season as well. They thrive on anticipation for special days coming up ahead, a chance to plan for and create and participate in family traditions, festivals, and holidays. A seasonal rhythm keeps things interesting, it provides some lively exclamation points against the steady hum of daily rhythms.
What are seasonal rhythms?
daily and weekly rhythms that reflect, respond to, and embrace the current season
the festival calendar for the year
family traditions that you build up for each season, holiday, or festival
What can you do to enjoy the seasons with young children?
Take lots of walks outside.
Visit the same places frequently throughout the year.
Take time outside to notice, touch, explore, collect, display.
Allow your projects, songs, cooking, stories, adventures to reflect the season.
Create family traditions in each season.
Mark each season with at least one festival (even something very simple) that you do every year.
First Steps to a Seasonal Rhythm
1. Take a sheet of paper and divide into four sections. For each season, write down your favorite things about the season, favorite qualities, activities, or memories. Also write down any family traditions, festivals, or holidays for each season and anything you would love to do with your children. Refer to this sheet when you plan your rhythm or homeschooling term.
2. Each time the seasons begin to shift take time to consider your daily and weekly rhythms. What is supporting your family and what needs adjusting? How can your rhythm best reflect the upcoming season?
3. Spend time outside with your child every day, just noticing, being there, and allowing your child to develop a relationship with the natural world. Let your child collect special treasures outdoors and bring them home for the nature table or toy basket.
4. Over time you can build up a repertoire of stories, fingerplays, and songs for each season. My favorite resources for seasonal inspiration include this blog of course, Rhythm of the Home online magazine, The Rhythm of Family book, the Wynstones books, the Seasons of Joy guides, and my own Lavender’s Blue Kindergarten curriculum.
5. Each season build up family traditions that are truly meaningful to you. You can absolutely be a Waldorf-inspired homeschooler without celebrating the traditional Waldorf festivals - the most important thing is to celebrate festivals that are exciting, connecting, nourishing, and meaningful for your own family!
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Medicines to keep on hand when you have a Pet Pig
Here is a first aid and medicine kit that you can put together
for your pig so you will be ready to instantly deal with any
problem that may arise.
Accidents
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Medicines to keep on hand when you have a Pet Pig
Here is a first aid and medicine kit that you can put together
for your pig so you will be ready to instantly deal with any
problem that may arise.
Accidents happen, and with pigs sometimes they aren't so
accidental. Your pig will get bumps, scrapes and even cuts,
particularly if it lives, as it should, with another pig. It is
important to take care of these small injuries as soon as they
occur, if an infection is allowed to develop it can cause serious
harm - even a small injury can lead to a large infection.
* First, you will need a bag or box dedicated to the medical
supplies for your pig. Think of a place to keep it where it will
not get wet or contaminated, and keep it close to your pig's pen
for quick and convenient access. Tape to the inside of the
medicine kit lid some emergency numbers such as the veterinarian
and poison control for animals.
* You should then get a spray bottle,
* distilled water,
* Hydrogen peroxide,
* sterile compression pads,
* and Gatorade.
A spray bottle is handy to have around for when your pig will not
let you near the injury that is causing him pain. You can put
hydrogen peroxide in the spray bottle to disinfect cuts. You can
put spectomycin and some water in the bottle for an antibiotic
treatment (Ask the vet how to mix).
Your antihistamine should be something like Benadryl or Zyrtec.
Any animal that has difficulty breathing because of the shape of
its snout or muzzle can have allergies develop and cause big
trouble. To get your pig to take an antihistamine, you take a
pill, crush it up and put it between two slices of bread with
mayonnaise, or make a paste with water and smear it in the pig's
mouth. The common human dosage is probably fine for your pig if
it is relatively the same weight as you are. Most pigs will eat
with no problem a pleasant tasting chewable Benadryl for
Aspirin is handy to have in your medicine kit when you pig is
injured, especially if your pig hurts a hoof or leg. This is a
painful condition. Be cautious to not give too much aspirin to
your pig as it can cause stomach problems, ulcers of the stomach
and liver damage. Most veterinarians these days prescribe an acid
reducer like Ranitidine or Prilosec to take along with any pain
medicine to avoid upsetting the stomach or the stomach lining,
but that is for painful conditions like arthritis or joint issues
that will make your pig need to take pain medicine for extended
periods of time.
SMZ is a very common and widely used antibiotic that you can find
on any farm. The pills are easy to crush into powder and easy to
feed to an animal. SMZ will cure a wide range of ailments.
Amoxicillin and Tetracycline are also common antibiotics and can
be used for pigs. At the first sign of infection you should dose
your piggy after calling the vet for proper dosage instructions.
Another antibiotic is called Doxycyclene and can be taken once
daily, which is good for the finicky pig that will not take its
Any pill can probably be snuck into many foods that you pig likes
to eat, especially if it is a crushed tablet. If you pig likes
applesauce then crush the tablet into the applesauce and give the
applesauce to the pig like it is a treat. If you pig will not
take medicine at all you can crush the tablet, mix with water and
put into a needless syringe to be squirted directly into its
mouth. There are specially made syringes for this purpose.
There are a myriad of ways to sneak a pill into food stuff that
you piggy will like. You can make any number of sandwiches with
any sauce and mix the crushed tablet into the sauce. You can mix
the pill into some sugar cookie dough or cottage cheese or
stuffing! You can mix it into any type of drink like Gatorade or
Egg Nog! You can also put into peach halves or canned apple
slices. You can even put it into vegetarian hot dogs and feed it
to you piggy (ideal for capsules!). Most pigs love human food,
although it should be given to them only on special and rare
occasions, so the treat of human food will probably make your pig
take its medicine with no problem.
Never Ever give Pork products to a pig. You can inadvertently
spread disease by doing this. You should thoroughly cook any pork
you ingest and never give it to your pig.
Good luck and keep you pig healthy. If any problems occur that
you can not handle yourself or if your pig appears to not get
better quickly, or gets worse, you should contact your
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Referred to as X-Axis and X Axis; An imaginary line passing left-to-right through the center of the plan view. The left-right direction on the diagram sheet is when it is held in the position to read the text. This imaginary
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Referred to as X-Axis and X Axis; An imaginary line passing left-to-right through the center of the plan view. The left-right direction on the diagram sheet is when it is held in the position to read the text. This imaginary line is used for referance point in both 2D and 3D drawings/drafting.
Found on http://www.quadrasol.co.uk/glossary.php
Usually, the axis in the plane of the laminate use
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Cal Poly engineering students hosted middle schoolers for the bi-annual Building an Engineer Day on May 16. Run by the Cal Poly chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the event is a way to get young students interested in
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Cal Poly engineering students hosted middle schoolers for the bi-annual Building an Engineer Day on May 16. Run by the Cal Poly chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the event is a way to get young students interested in pursuing engineering careers. During the day, SWE members taught students engineering principles through activities that included rocket competitions, programming simple robots, and building working stethoscopes and hydraulic arms.
Gina Fahnestock, middle school outreach chair for SWE, sees the event as a way to encourage young students to experience a different side of math and science.
“Normally at their age, they’ve heard of engineering but aren’t really sure what it is,” she said. “This event is a chance for the middle schoolers to talk to students, instead of teachers, and have those everyday role models to look up to.”
Rebecca Kandell, vice president of community outreach for SWE, believes the event provides just as many opportunities for growth to current engineering majors as it does to the budding pre-collegiate engineers.
“Cal Poly students get to impart the knowledge they’ve learned in class and share their passion for engineering,” Kandell said.
SWE hosts a variety of events throughout the school year designed to introduce students of every age to science and math. These include Girl Scout Day, Fourth Grade Day, and Society of Women Engineers Expressing Engineering to Youngsters (SWE-EETY) for high school students. In addition to these events, the society offers ongoing elementary school tutoring in science and math.
By involving themselves in inspiring others, the women of SWE renew their passion for their own studies. “The kids’ curiosity to learn inspired me and restored my faith in engineering,” Fahnestock said. “Our classes are challenging, but every time I do this event, I get to see how much they love engineering. It touches my heart.”
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Let’s be honest, the word white often makes white people uncomfortable. Many of us who are white, when asked to describe ourselves do not say our race in our personal descriptions. A typical white person’s description of their self will likely include their
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Let’s be honest, the word white often makes white people uncomfortable. Many of us who are white, when asked to describe ourselves do not say our race in our personal descriptions. A typical white person’s description of their self will likely include their gender, their ethnicity, and their looks. For example my description would sound something like this, “I am male, of Italian and German descent, 5’ 8” and bald.” Notice how race is not often mentioned.
The reason many white people don’t often think in terms of our own race is privilege. It is privilege that makes it so we don’t have to think about our race every single minute of every single day.
In 1989 a professor named Peggy McIntosh wrote a paper titled White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. In this document she lists many privileges that white people have been taught to ignore and just accept as normal without even thinking twice about them.
Here are a few I selected from her list that are incredibly relevant for today:
- I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
- If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
- I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
- I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.
- I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.
- If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
- I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
Her list goes on. She wrote this piece 25 years ago and all of the items on her list still ring true today. In light of the events over the past few years in Ferguson with Mike Brown, Sanford with Trayvon Martin, Cleveland with Tamir Rice, Brevard Country Florida with Jordan Davis, Beaver Creek Ohio with John Crawford and New York City with Eric Garner I added a few more to the White Privilege list:
- I (as a white person) can wear a hood, buy skittles, and walk down the street in the evening without fear of harassment from police or “neighborhood watch”.
- I can listen to loud music in my car without being told to turn it down.
- But if for some reason I was to be told turn my music down I could be assured in knowing that no one would shoot at me because of it.
- My son could play with a toy gun in the park (even though I hate toy guns) and I know no one would call the cops on him.
- My son could play with a toy gun in the park and if a police officer saw him playing with a toy gun he would not shoot and kill my son in under two seconds.
- I could rest assured knowing that if ever my son was ever shot someone would attempt to perform CPR on him.
- I know I could walk into a Wal-Mart pick up a BB gun since they are sold there and walk around the store and not be shot.
- I can choose not to speak up when black people are being murdered by police and racist “Stand Your Ground” laws in this country and go about living my daily life, like America really is the land of equal opportunity.
It is this last privilege that I really want to focus on. We white people have the privilege to live in a bubble. We can choose to live in areas that are all or nearly all white.
We can share stories of that one time when we were in a “dangerous” (i.e. black area) of a city and how we made sure to lock the car doors and not get out of the car and then afterward joke about that “scary” situation back in the safety of our suburb, rural area, or safe (white) part of the city that we live in.
Beverly Tatum a scholar on race compares racism to breathing smog. “Sometimes it (racism) is so thick it is visible, other times it is less apparent, but always, day in and day out, we are breathing it (racism) in.”
Whether we accept it or not, racism is very much alive and going on at all times around us. By not choosing to actively resist and fight back against it we are actually promoting racism and prolonging its very existence.
Lisa Delpt an
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At the request of the U.S. Bureau of land Management, 83,100 acres of the Antelope Wilderness Study Area (NV-4)60-231/241) was studied. In this report the studied area is called the '
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At the request of the U.S. Bureau of land Management, 83,100 acres of the Antelope Wilderness Study Area (NV-4)60-231/241) was studied. In this report the studied area is called the 'wilderness study area', or simply the'study area.' No identified mineral or energy resources occur within the study area. The southern part of the area has moderate mineral resource potential for undiscovered gold and silver
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What's Hiding in the Numbers?: 15
A batty bat is hiding in the number spaces on this preschool worksheet. Kids color all the spaces with a 15 to reveal the hidden bat. This math and coloring worksheet helps kids recognize
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What's Hiding in the Numbers?: 15
A batty bat is hiding in the number spaces on this preschool worksheet. Kids color all the spaces with a 15 to reveal the hidden bat. This math and coloring worksheet helps kids recognize and name whole numbers. Kids also exercise fine motor skills as they carefully color in the spaces, and counting skills as they count the number of 15s.
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When you look at any car, one of the the first thing you’ll notice is its color. Many will admire the glossiness or extreme depth of the paint, but most never think about the environmental impact of the painting process. Mazda developed a
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When you look at any car, one of the the first thing you’ll notice is its color. Many will admire the glossiness or extreme depth of the paint, but most never think about the environmental impact of the painting process. Mazda developed a new painting process that not only enhances the quality of the paint but also reduces its impact on the environment.
“Aqua-Tech reduces the amount of energy we use to paint cars, first and foremost,” said Teresa Spafford, design manager for Colors, Materials and F
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Thoughts of the African savannah conjure up images of majestic lions, lying on sun-drenched plains, finding shade beneath the willowy branches of tall, slender trees. Life in the savannah is much richer than just that, though,
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Thoughts of the African savannah conjure up images of majestic lions, lying on sun-drenched plains, finding shade beneath the willowy branches of tall, slender trees. Life in the savannah is much richer than just that, though, and plant life is certainly no exception. There are a wide variety of trees, shrubs and grasses that share the African savannah.
The gum acacia, or acacia senegal, is the tree that most people associate with the savannah. It can grow up to 20 meters tall, and have long, thorned branches that spread far out from the top of the tree. Leaves are a gray-green, and the tree also bears yellow or cream-colored flowers. The shade tree is well adapted to long periods without rain.
During the dry season, the trunk of the tree excretes a gummy substance that gives the tree its other name, the gum arabic. This gum is used in a number of different products, including pharmaceuticals, dyes, waxes and paints. The medicinal benefits of the tree have been known for a long time; those native to the area have used the gum as an herbal remedy for ailments such as burns, coughs, colds and sore throats, and even dysentery.
Like the acacia senegal, the whistling thorn is also a member of the acacia family. These trees are often stunted in growth, and do not reach the heights that their relations do. Characteristic of the acacia family, they have long thorns that can grow up to 3 inches in length.
Usually acacias are a valuable food source for the animals of the savannah, but not the whistling thorn. The thorns of other acacias are no deterrent, and it's not the thorns of these shrubs that are, either. The whistling thorn gets its name from the bulbous base to the thorns. Ants pierce holes in the thorns and hollow them out for living quarters; a mouthful of ants is more than enough to keep these trees safe from grazing animals. Once the thorns are hollow, they produce a whistling sound that gives the tree its name.
Elephant grass originated in Africa, and from there has taken root in places as far away as Florida and in as many as 25 different countries. The distinctive grasses grow in clumps, and can reach heights of between 10 and 13 feet. They grow along water, and in developed areas have been known to cause problems with drainage, interfering with sump pumps and flood control.
Its deep root system makes it quite resilient, able to tolerate extreme changes in temperature as well as long periods of drought. The leaves and stems of the plant can be killed by cold weather, but the root systems will live. The edges of the leaves are sharp, and the grass clumps also form tufted plumes at the tops that are yellow or purple.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Oct. 24)
Jamaica’s tiny Jewish community will soon celebrate its 350th anniversary — one year late. Some 150 to 200 Jews live on the Caribbean island of 3 million.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Oct. 24)
Jamaica’s tiny Jewish community will soon celebrate its 350th anniversary — one year late. Some 150 to 200 Jews live on the Caribbean island of 3 million. Mostly intermarried and interracial, the community has had no rabbi for 25 years and no kosher butcher for 50. But on Nov. 9, it will mark 350 years in Jamaica and the opening of the Jamaican Jewish Heritage Center.
The event will be held in the elegant, 100-year-old Sha’are Shalom synagogue on Duke Street in Kingston. Governor General Kenneth Hall and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller are expected to attend.
The community will dedicate the center, which will be housed in a renovated building next door to the synagogue that has been used for kiddush after Shabbat services. As a multi-purpose building, the center will still hold some religions ceremonies and community gatherings.
The center will house a permanent exhibition of Jamaican Jewish history, cases of Jamaican Judaica, archives, a reference department, theater and offices for the synagogue and community, most of whose members are in business.
Thousands of American Jews who visit the resorts of Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Port Antonio rarely meet a Jamaican Jew, since nearly all of them live in Kingston, about a four-hour drive from the white beaches of the third-largest island in the Caribbean.
Jamaica played a part in founding and supporting the American Jewish community. A shipload of Jews on their way from Recife, Brazil to Holland in 1654 was waylaid by Spanish frigates. Taken to Jamaica, the Jews were held for violating
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The meaning of resonate
If you were to look up the word resonate in the dictionary you’d find a definition that says something like ‘to be resonant; resound, to produce resonance…’ Naturally then the question becomes, What does reson
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The meaning of resonate
If you were to look up the word resonate in the dictionary you’d find a definition that says something like ‘to be resonant; resound, to produce resonance…’ Naturally then the question becomes, What does resonant and resound mean?
These words have to do with sound, echoing a sound and intensifying it. We were taught in Junior High that sounds are made by vibrations. So, take your vocal chords as an example. When we speak or sing, these little things are vibrating and depending on the intensity of the vibration and the length of those little hummers, the sound is either high or low, loud or quiet. God also gave us hollow parts in our bodies. As long as you don’t have allergies or hay fever, your sinus cavities are hollow places in your head (some people seem to have more of these hollow places…know what I mean?) where those vibrations bounce around and get louder…your sinus’ resonate. Another example is a guitar. Take your basic electric guitar. If you pluck the strings they’ll vibrate and you’ll be able to hear the sound, it’s just not very loud. So, if you don’t have that bad boy plugged into an amp, you can play like Jimi Hendrix and no one is going listen because they won’t be able to hear you. Now, if you take an acoustic guitar you’ll find that it has a big ole’ hollow body. The strings pass over a hole and when you strum the strings, those same vibrations get transferred from the strings to the soundboard (the face of a guitar with the hole in it) and the whole body of the guitar all starts to vibrate. All this vibration is amplified down inside the body of the guitar and WHAM…out comes some smokin’ tunes. The body of the guitar vibrates and acts as a resonating chamber.
Why we're called Resonate
You see, the point is that the hollow body of the guitar doesn’t create sound. It just sits there. The strings create the sound and the body of the guitar allows those vibrations to resonate and amplify and echo and some great sounds can be produced. The same is to be true of us. Jesus Christ acts as the strings. We’re to be the hollow body of the guitar. We’re to resonate the music that HE is playing, after all, we don’t make the sound. He makes the sound and as it gets down inside of us and fills us so we can then echo the sound and allow it to amplify so that the world around us can hear the message of the true life that Jesus Christ offers us.
An interesting aspect of guitar construction is that all different kinds of woods, inlays and designs are used in making guitars. I remember several years ago seeing several amazing Martin inlay guitars on display. One had a dragon inlayed on it and was totally awesome…so was the price tag! Some guitars use light wood, others dark, some have a plastic back and wood top, some have one big round hole and others have smaller fancy f-shaped sound holes. But all guitars, whether made of maple or koa from Hawaii, can be tuned and play beautiful music. There will be a difference in the ‘voice’, a different tone and texture of sound, but all will produce the music. So too at Resonate. We each are different and we encourage differences, but when tuned to Christ we will all make the same music that Christ is playing in and through us.
Making it personal
I could go on and on with this illustration to demonstrate what we are about here at Resonate. After all, the strings are the most important part of a guitar, as Christ is the most important part of our lives. The body of the guitar must be properly aligned to the strings so that the vibrations enter the body of the guitar and so to, we must be properly aligned with Christ in order to make any sound at all. As the strings are stretched across the body of the guitar and up to the neck, tremendous strain is put on the body of the guitar and the same is true of us. Living for Christ and becoming an effective resonating chamber for His music puts demands on us, but without the tension there is no music. If the guitar body is stuffed with things that don’t belong there, the music dies and the same is true for us. When we allow anything at all but Christ to fill us, the beautiful message of God’s magnificent beauty and satisfying goodness is lost in our lives.
So there you have it…Resonate. We invite you to come, learn to resonate and see what God can do when we resonate HIM to the world around us.
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April 5, 2012
Robosquirrel To Study Animal’s Encounters With Rattlesnakes
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Researchers in California have developed robotic squirrels that are being deployed in rattlesnake country in order to
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April 5, 2012
Robosquirrel To Study Animal’s Encounters With Rattlesnakes
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Researchers in California have developed robotic squirrels that are being deployed in rattlesnake country in order to learn more about the serpents' behavior and how the two species interact with one-another.According to Matthew Knight of CNN, the robots, which were built by a team of experts working out of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), are able to replicate two moves typically displayed by their real-life counterparts when they come face-to-face with their primary predators: their tails heat up, and they make a flagging movement with them.
The mechanical rodents were sent to San Jose, where Daily Mail reporter Rob Waugh said they will be tasked with getting bit by one of the rattlesnakes in the hopes that the project will help provide insight as to exactly why a squirrel's tail does heat up when confronted with these reptilian aggressors.
The UC Davis researchers explained further in a Tuesday press release that the heating-up of the tail can be detected by the snake's infrared vision, which the scientists believe could be acting as a signal to the snakes. Since naturally it is impossible to separate the flagging movement from the heating of the tail, the research team developed the robotic squirrel in order to control each of the responses individually.
The experiment began under the tutelage of the late psychology professor and animal behavior expert Donald Owings, who passed away last year. Using the robosquirrel, form
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Can you help? Help me solve this problem:
Two drivers decided to have a cross-country race. Driver A would go 100 mph, but driver B could only go 50 mph, so he was given a 100 mile head start.
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Can you help? Help me solve this problem:
Two drivers decided to have a cross-country race. Driver A would go 100 mph, but driver B could only go 50 mph, so he was given a 100 mile head start. While A went that 100 miles, B had gone 50 miles. When A went that 50 miles, B had gone 25 miles. When A went that 25 miles, B had gone 12 ˝ miles. Carry on like this and A would never pass B.
I know this is wrong, because in less than 3 hours A would have passed B; but,where is the error in my first calculation?
Please email me your explanation to this problem to put my mind at rest.
Thank you –Henry at [email protected]
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Exercise has a negative connotation so let’s think positive and call it activity, which is so much more pleasant. Incorporating even small amounts of activity into your life can have big rewards for your overall well-being. It is recommended that the average
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Exercise has a negative connotation so let’s think positive and call it activity, which is so much more pleasant. Incorporating even small amounts of activity into your life can have big rewards for your overall well-being. It is recommended that the average adult incorporates 30 minutes of activity at least 5 days every week, but the activity doesn’t have to be all at the same time. Doing five minutes of activity (like taking the stairs or the furthest parking spot) six times a day is as effective as setting aside a 30 minute block of time for activity. Let’s review some of the many benefits of activity.
- Activity is typically fun. When was the last time that you did something fun habitually for yourself daily? Not just on a weekend or when you have time, but daily setting aside time for what you want to do. It was most likely when you were a kid. By taking time daily to do an activity you like you are putting your fun first, even if it is for just 10-15 minutes.
- Activity helps improve your sleep. Many people don’t get the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep per night on working days and 8-9 hours of sleep on non-working days. Doing daily activity helps you sleep better so at least for the time you are setting aside to sleep it will be more restful sleep.
- Activity boosts energy. A lot of people complain that their energy level is low so they reach for sugary snacks or highly caffeinated drinks. These provide a short-term energy boost with a huge slump. By participating in daily activity you can experience an energy boost that is long lasting without reaching for the sugary snacks or caffeine-filled drinks.
- Regular activity improves overall mood. Who doesn’t love an emotional pick-me-up? Activity, strategically placed during work hours, can improve your mood. Try climbing the stairs or going for a brisk walk outside. When you return to your work you will be fresh and ready for the next task.
- Weight control is difficult. Activity can help to control weight. As I have said so many times in other blogs, it is difficult to try and only use activity as a means to lose weight, but controlling weight is one of the greatest advantages of regular activity.
- Activity is a great way in which to combat health conditions and diseases. Activity can have a positive effect against heart disease, blood pressure problems, cholesterol issues and diabetes (sugar) issues. In addition, by keeping activity one can help to minimize arthritis and help prevent falls which happen more frequently to older people.
Exercise is a bad word to some people. Think more positive and find the activity or activities that you enjoy. Activity may be walking, jogging, running, golfing, dancing, biking, kayaking, stair stepping, yoga, Zumba, lifting weights or other strength training, cleaning house, washing your car or anything else that you enjoy and gets you moving. Try it; you’ll enjoy the benefits!
By: Molly McBrayer, Clinical Manager, Roper St. Francis Bariatric and Metabolic Services
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Answered By: Wendy Hardenberg Last Updated: Jan 19, 2017 Views: 10
Figuring out which sources are valid and appropriate to cite is a long learning process that involves gradually becoming familiar with what's out there and
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Answered By: Wendy Hardenberg Last Updated: Jan 19, 2017 Views: 10
Figuring out which sources are valid and appropriate to cite is a long learning process that involves gradually becoming familiar with what's out there and what it means. However, even if you're still at the beginning of that process, there are some things you can do.
1) Really use the following evaluation questions:
Who created it? Do they know what they’re talking about?
What does the author’s point of view or bias seem to be?
Who published it? Might they have a bias?
When was it published? How important is currency in your research?
Does the author provide references or a bibliography so you can check on their sources?
What do you know about this source? What can you figure out? If someone else backed up their argument with this source, would you accept what they said or scoff?
2) Ask someone who knows more than you! At a university, there are tons of people who have been evaluating sources for years and years. They've gotten quite good at it. If you've found a source you'd like to use for a paper, but you're not sure about it, ask your instructor or a librarian—we're all happy to help!
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I commented on several blogs and the one thing that really stood out is the challenge level of games and how important it is to have enough difficulty but not to keep players engaged. I shared a short video with others, which was an interview about the
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I commented on several blogs and the one thing that really stood out is the challenge level of games and how important it is to have enough difficulty but not to keep players engaged. I shared a short video with others, which was an interview about the importance of having that challenge in games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM-Z20MTkcY. I did a lot of research on the topic this week and learned a lot about the elements of serious games.
I found that I could learn from others about how they are or plan to incorporate serious games in their classrooms. I would like to find a way to incorporate serious games in my classroom and as I mentioned to another student, this semester is the perfect semester for me to learn about serious games because I will be going back into the classroom in the fall.
I shared several of the resources that I found in my blog. I was amazed at how many articles, videos, and other resources there were out there about serious games. I cited these resources in my previous blog for others to look at and use. I continue to learn a lot in this course and love to share what I am learning with others.
Week 2 Blog
After doing a lot of reading, research, and collaboration this week, I have determined that the following are components that need to be included in a serious game:
- A character or identity that can be used in the game. This character allows the player to interact with the environment. Often times you are able to build an avatar or character that represents yourself in some way. “These c
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Hydrogen atoms can be stored using elements like palladium, platinum, etc. This process is called adsorption. It leads to the formation of the metal hydride.
Using methods such as imaging with a scanning tunneling microscope of pall
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Hydrogen atoms can be stored using elements like palladium, platinum, etc. This process is called adsorption. It leads to the formation of the metal hydride.
Using methods such as imaging with a scanning tunneling microscope of palladium which has adsorbed hydrogen, scientists believe the adsorption is due to the hydrogen atoms accommodating themselves in vacant spaces between the metal atoms. Adsorption allows the storage of a large volume of hydrogen using a very small volume of the metal. For example, in the case of palladium, 1 cm^3 of the metal can store up to 900 cm^3 of hydrogen.
This property makes adsorption a very attractive method to store hydrogen for its use in fuel cells and for other purposes, without having to liquefy it under very high pressures and very low temperatures.
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The Discovery of Ancient Temples nearby the place where Julius Caesar was killed
8th Jan 2016
During the period of Italian unification in the early 19th century, many areas of Rome were completely reconstructed or renovated. In
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The Discovery of Ancient Temples nearby the place where Julius Caesar was killed
8th Jan 2016
During the period of Italian unification in the early 19th century, many areas of Rome were completely reconstructed or renovated. In 1927, demolition and reconstruction was set to begin in the ancient area of Campo Marzio, specifically the area of Torre Argentina, which was named after Argentoratum, a Roman military outpost located in modern-day Stasbourg.
During the demolition process, workers discovered two large arms and a head made from marble (which were eventually figured to be part of a statue of the Roman goddess of luck, Fortuna) and all work was stopped. Archaeologists were then given task of carefully excavating the area, eventually unearthing one of the most significant sites in all of Roman history.
What the archaeologists uncovered was a large square, or largo, containing the ruins of 4 Roman temples and the remains of Pompey’s Theatre. The temples were likely restored after the fire of 80 AD, however some date as far back as the 4th century BC. Pompey incorporated the location of the ancient temples during the construction of Pompey’s Theatre, declaring it the “Area Sacra” or “Sacred Area” and making it a large shrine to his personal deity.
The remains of Pompey’s Theatre are perhaps the most interesting discovery as it is believed to be the site of the assassination of Julius Caesar. The Curia of Pompey, a large meeting area within the Theatre, is believed to be the location of Caesar’s grim fate. Although the precise location of Caesar’s death is likely beneath Via di Torre Argentina, thus unreachable, in 2012 archaeologists did discover a large monument within the largo, about 10 feet wide and 6 feet high. This monument is thought to have been commissioned by Caesar’s adopted son, Augustus, as a memorial of his father’s death.
Today, Largo di Torre Argentina is also referred to as the “Cat Sanctuary” as it has become a shelter of sorts for stray cats in area. Visitors will often stop to photograph the felines wandering through the beautiful ruins, while perhaps unknowingly standing above the same area where one of the most significant assassinations in the history of humanity occurred.
~by Michele D’Elia~
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Students Work on Safer Weed Control Device06.01.2005 | Engineering, StudentsThree University of Dayton engineering students have been working on a kinder, gentler weed whacker as an alternative to herbicides, which can harm pets and
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Students Work on Safer Weed Control Device06.01.2005 | Engineering, StudentsThree University of Dayton engineering students have been working on a kinder, gentler weed whacker as an alternative to herbicides, which can harm pets and children, and organic versions that take longer to work and are less effective.
Bridget Hamblin, Fred Schulkers and Joe Swinko worked with Oregon-based thermal weed control specialist Sunburst Inc. on a hairdryer of sorts to whack weeds.
The device produces concentrated doses of pr
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From a Creighton Student's Perspective
February 1, 2011
Junior, Theology Major
The readings for today can be viewed as a spiritual wake-up call. They ask us to refocus and ensure we are living a life
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From a Creighton Student's Perspective
February 1, 2011
Junior, Theology Major
The readings for today can be viewed as a spiritual wake-up call. They ask us to refocus and ensure we are living a life of faith. We often find ourselves pulled in countless directions and sometimes forget our common vocation to become righteous servants of God. Therefore, the readings remind us we must continually place faith in God and trust his guidance in our daily lives.
The first reading shows us we must maintain trust and faith in God in times of trial and persecution. During these difficult times, we might feel as though God has forgotten us and there is no point for having faith. However, the reading tells us we must “persevere in running the race that lies before us” (Hebrews 12:1). In order to help us on this journey, God sent Jesus to the world as an example of how one can give his or her whole life to God. Through the example of Jesus, God shows that we are not alone when we encounter challenges or struggles to our faith. Jesus experienced great suffering in his life devoted to serving God, and the reading reveals that Christ will continue to be present in the suffering we face each day. As we continue to try to live out our faith, we must realize Christ will ever be with us, even in instances of intense hardship. Therefore, we are called “to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:2) while we persevere on the path to become true disciples of God.
The Gospel carries on the theme of the importance of faith by providing two great examples of people placing great trust in the power of Jesus. First, there is the woman who has been afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. Twelve years is a long time to have a painful disease, and this part always struck me when I read the Gospel. It would be understandable for the woman to have given up. She could have just accepted the fact she was always going to have the disease and would never get better. Therefore, when the woman trusts that she could be healed just by touching Christ's cloak, she shows a form of complete faith in the saving power of Christ. Even though she probably has had no previous experience with Jesus, she is still able to believe that Christ will be able to help her, and Jesus responds to her great faith by completely healing her.
After we see the saving power of faith through the hemorrhaging woman, the Gospel presents another seemingly hopeless situation with the death of Jairus’ daughter. While others think the situation is a lost cause, Jairus does not lose faith and pleads for Jesus to help him. Jesus again responds to this act of faith by raising his daughter to life. The readings reveal that faith is a needed part for experiencing God in our lives. Faith helps us remember that God will forever be with us, no matter how dire the situation. Therefore, we should strive to live out Jesus’ proclamation in the Gospel when he says, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.” (Mark 5:46).
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