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XREFs are External reference files: DXF or DWG filetypes which can be imported into ArchiCAD. It facilitates to collaborate with Sturctural Engineers.
A common use for XREFs is to draw elements that are common
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XREFs are External reference files: DXF or DWG filetypes which can be imported into ArchiCAD. It facilitates to collaborate with Sturctural Engineers.
A common use for XREFs is to draw elements that are common to several kinds of drawings within a Project (e.g., the outlines of exterior and interior walls). If you have a file containing this data, you can attach it to other drawings that can use the geometric information contained in the XREF file without the Project file actually having to contain the data. Also, if the source of the data in the external reference (the DWG or DXF) is changed, then these changes can be updated immediately so the latest data is always available.
XREF is available in both ArchiCAD and AutoCAD – both applications can detect circular references.
See also: DWG/import
You can attach the DWG file as Xref with File/External Content/Attach Xref… command or with selecting Attach in Xref Manager dialog. In the appearing dialog browse for the DWG file and set its options.
Xref Name: Specify the name of the DWG file to be attached with browsing for the file or if it is alreday attached, with selecting the file from the pop-up list.
Path: Shows the exact path to the selected file.
Attachment: All levels of nesting can be displayed in the Project file.
Overlay: Nested XREFs from the referenced file will not be visible in the Project.
Insertion point: In the X and Y field, you can enter the exact coordinates of the location of the lower left corner of the enclosing rectangle or of the Drawing origin. Alternatively, you can check the Specify On-Screen box to enter these coordinates by clicking on the Floor Plan.
Scale: Either specify a scale factor in both X and Y directions, or check the Specify On-Screen box to define scale on the screen.
Rotation: You can define an angle by which the whole placed XREF will be rotated around its insertion point, or check the Specify On-Screen box to define rotation manually, on the screen.
Anchor Point: Use these controls to define by which point of the XREF to place the drawing.
Place on Story: Use this drop-down list to choose the story onto which to place the XREF.
Translator: This field displays the currently selected DXF/DWG Translator to be used during the conversion of the attached AutoCAD drawing.
The placed Xref files can be managed in Xref Manager dialog: File/External Content/Xref Manager….
Tips to collaborate with Structural Engineers using Xref files:
Cropped Xrefs – Good to Know
If you open a DWG file containing these kind of XREFs, the following things can happen:
- The clipped xref content is visible, but the file is missing from the xref list in the Xref Manager.
- The xrefed file exists in the list, but the full content (not only the clipped content) is visible in the drawing.
After you attached a drawing as XREF in ArchiCAD, you can set an area of it to display and hide the unnecessary parts. This feature is independent of layer visibility settings.
Xrefing is the same process as block converting, so the following happens:
If you use the DXF-DWG Translator set Open Options > Translate AutoCAD Blocks as 2D Elements or Grouped 2D Elements (for example the default translator), the clipping is maintained, but the xref connection is lost.
If you don’t need the reference anymore, you can Bind the xref, and delete the unnecessary elements.
If you use an other translator with the setting Open Options > Translate AutoCAD Blocks as Library parts, the xref connection remains, and the clipping information is lost. In this case you can use fills with color -1 (background) to hide the unneeded part of the xref.
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The wool and silk tapestry is one of the finest of its kind. © Bodleian Library
Oxford’s Bodleian Library has reunited a series of rare Tudor tapestry maps after acquiring the Sheldon Tapestry Map for Gloucesters
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The wool and silk tapestry is one of the finest of its kind. © Bodleian Library
Oxford’s Bodleian Library has reunited a series of rare Tudor tapestry maps after acquiring the Sheldon Tapestry Map for Gloucestershire at auction.
The wool and silk tapestry, which cost the library more than £100,000, is part of a set of four maps commissioned by Ralph Sheldon for his home at Weston, Warwickshire, dating from the 1590s.
Illustrating the Midlands counties of England the series features Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire. The Bodleian’s new acquisition now rejoins the maps for Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, which were given to the library in 1809.
The maps had not been seen together since being exhibited in the early 20th century. The Warwickshire map is currently part of the Warwickshire Museum’s collection.
“The stunningly beautiful map depicts the late sixteenth-century Gloucestershire landscape with remarkable clarity and precision,” said Nick Millea, Map Librarian at the Bodleian Library.
Detail from the Worcestershire tapestry. © Bodleian Library
“The prospect of displaying such a striking artefact at the Bodleian is tremendously exciting, especially as it will now be housed only 26 miles from where it was created.”
Forming a unique representation of the landscape of the Midland counties when modern cartography was still in its infancy, the four maps are, for their time, technically without parallel in the UK.
Each features its county in the centre with a white background and named in red letters, with surrounding counties depicted in various colours. They retain much of their original colour and show landscape features, rivers and townscapes.
Oxford University’s Bodleian Library is the second largest library in the UK and is home to one of the world’s top ten map libraries and one of the most important centres of cartographic and topographic history in the country.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Middle-school students are expressing their views on the key factors affecting youth violence, with more than 30 percent of them indicating that television, video games, movies and music provoke violence. Gangs, drugs and bullying are
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Middle-school students are expressing their views on the key factors affecting youth violence, with more than 30 percent of them indicating that television, video games, movies and music provoke violence. Gangs, drugs and bullying are also stated as highly instrumental among this age group, according to the National Campaign to Stop Violence.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091214/PH24980 )
The Campaign, active for more than 12 years, analyzed the contents of 10,000 essays submitted by middle school children across the country in 2009 as part of its Do the Write Thing initiative, which encourages young people to write about how violence impacts their lives as a way to address it.
Analysis of the essays determined that 31 percent of the 6(th), 7(th) and 8(th) graders who participated in the project believe that violent entertainment is a significant catalyst for violence among their age group. Gang violence, drugs, and bullying followed at 27 percent, 24 percent and 21 percent, respectively.
Peter Jensen, M.D., is the Chairman of the New York City Do the Write Thing program and Mayo Clinic Co-chair of the Division of Child Psychiatry and Psychology. "The significance of this study is that it is not parents, educators or social scientists decrying violence in the entertainment industry, it is the young people themselves who are speaking out about the negative impact the violent content has on them," said Dr. Jensen. "The National Campaign to Stop Violence -- and all of us involved with youth -- need to heed this call to action."
Television and Video Game Influence
The Parents Television Council reported that during 1998-2006 violence increased in every time slot, with a 45 percent increase during the Family Hour (8:00 p.m.). Nearly half of all episodes contained at least one incidence of violence, with 56 percent being person-to-person violence in the 2005-2006 season. Guns were featured in 63 percent of the scenes, and knives were used in 15 percent.
According to the National Institute on Media and the Family, social scientists identified four factors that link to violence in children:
"Maybe if we cut some of the more violent videogames, kids would be taught that murder and slaughtering of other humans is not the right thing to do," offers Shelbi Parker of Dallas, TX.
Drugs and Alcohol
Student use of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and methamphetamines all decreased from 1999 to 2007 as cited by the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. However, rates of nonmedical use of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medication remain high. In 2006, 2.1 million teens abused prescriptive drugs, as well as OTC cough and cold medications.
Do the Write Thing's El Paso, TX program chair, The Honorable Patricia Macias, said, "The young people in our school system experience violence because of border-related issues tied to drugs." Macias, past president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and presiding judge of the 388(th) Family District Court, adds, "It's particularly helpful when law enforcement engages as part of the prevention process."
The CDC further reports that 25.4 percent of students were offered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property within a 12-month period.
Children are also influenced by drugs and alcohol in the home. Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), estimates that 8.3 million children -- 11.9 percent -- live with at least one parent who had abused or was dependent on alcohol or an illicit drug in the past year.
Gang and Bullying Influence
According to the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey, the most recent study on the subject conducted by the Department of Justice
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•Immunofluorescence is the labeling ofantibodies or antigens with fluorescentdyes.•Immunofluorescent labeled tissuesections are studied using a fluorescencemicroscope.• Fluorescein is a dye
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•Immunofluorescence is the labeling ofantibodies or antigens with fluorescentdyes.•Immunofluorescent labeled tissuesections are studied using a fluorescencemicroscope.• Fluorescein is a dye which emits greenishfluorescence under UV light. It can be taggedto immunoglobulin molecules.
There are two ways of doing IF staining◦ Direct immunofluorescence◦ Indirect immunofluorescence1. Direct immunofluorescence Ag is fixed on the slide Fluorescein labeled Ab‟s are layered over it Slide is washed to remove unattached Ab‟s Examined under UV light in an fluorescentmicroscope The site where the Ab attaches to its specific Ag willshow apple green fluorescence Use: Direct detection of Pathogens or their Ag‟s intissues or in pathological samp
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While it doesn't happen often, even a few reports of flash fires and explosions occurring in hog barns should serve as a reminder that safety is critical whenever liquid manure is being agitated and pumped from a holding pit. And as spring pumping
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While it doesn't happen often, even a few reports of flash fires and explosions occurring in hog barns should serve as a reminder that safety is critical whenever liquid manure is being agitated and pumped from a holding pit. And as spring pumping begins there are many factors to keep in mind.
The slow decomposition of liquid manure in pits creates several gases including methane and hydrogen sulfide, both of which are flammable. The rate of gas release can be drastically increased when the manure is stirred during pumping. This increase is especially true for hydrogen sulfide, which can have a lethal paralyzing effect in addition to being flammable, notes Shawn Shouse, an Iowa State University (ISU) Extension area agricultural engineer.
The Pork Checkoff's Safe Manure Removal Policies fact sheet offers safety protocols and proper ventilation practices that can minimize the risk of flash fires and explosions when agitating and pumping manure. If you experience any foaming in a manure pit, be sure to contact your local Extension Service as well for additional information and management tips.
According to the University of Minnesota Extension in the past few years, foaming in manure pits has become a serious problem. Extreme caution is needed when agitating, pumping or spraying to reduce foam. Following these tips, offered by the Pork Checkoff and ISU, provides sound manure-handling safety tactics.
Although, some foaming may be a typical sight in manure storage facilities, the type of foam currently causing problems for farmers is a persistent, fast-growing substance that has a mucus-like texture. Here are a few tips to consider during this pumping season:
* Review your emergency action plan with all workers, and have emergency contact numbers availa
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Do you understand and practice proper lockout/tagout procedures when performing maintenance on electrical equipment? Whether it's out of complacency or ignorance, there are certainly many electrical workers who don't. Of the 10 most-violated OSHA standards,
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Do you understand and practice proper lockout/tagout procedures when performing maintenance on electrical equipment? Whether it's out of complacency or ignorance, there are certainly many electrical workers who don't. Of the 10 most-violated OSHA standards, based on citations issued from Oct. 1, 2004 through Aug. 30, 2005, lockout/tagout was the fifth most-cited offense.
Want to avoid receiving one of these citations and better protect yourself from shocks and arc flash? To make sure you and your workers are up-to-date on lockout/tagout procedures, it's a good idea to follow a routine set of work practices and general policies.
According to Davenport, Iowa-based Mancomm's American Safety Training division, which provides OSHA compliance products and safety training, lockout/tagout should occur in three phases. Step one is to apply lockout/tagout, which includes notifying workers in the area and labeling tags with names or pictures identifying them with the authorized workers placing them. The second step is to service and repair the equipment. The final step is to return equipment to proper operation, which must be handled by the autho
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Cool dwarf stars are hot targets for exoplanet hunting right now. The discoveries of planets in the habitable zones of the TRAPPIST-1 and LHS 1140 systems, for example, suggest that Earth-sized worlds might circle
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Cool dwarf stars are hot targets for exoplanet hunting right now. The discoveries of planets in the habitable zones of the TRAPPIST-1 and LHS 1140 systems, for example, suggest that Earth-sized worlds might circle billions of red dwarf stars, the most common type of star in our galaxy. But, like our own sun, many of these stars erupt with intense flares. Are red dwarfs really as friendly to life as they appear, or do these flares make the surfaces of any orbiting planets inhospitable?
Christine Pulliam / Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
410-338-4366 / 410-338-4514
[email protected] / [email protected]
Million Concepts, State College, Pennsylvania
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Who doesn't love rosemary; it smells fantastic, tastes delicious, and many people swear by its ability to banish cellulite and even help us live longer lives. And now, new research is showing that rosemary essential oil can improve memory
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Who doesn't love rosemary; it smells fantastic, tastes delicious, and many people swear by its ability to banish cellulite and even help us live longer lives. And now, new research is showing that rosemary essential oil can improve memory in humans, which backs up one of its most important traditional uses with modern science.
Rosemary for a better memory.
A recent study from Northumbria University in
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Even though the Star Trek character “Data” was played by a human, this new android might be more life-like. Watch the video, and I think you’ll agree that it is hard to tell (at first) that this is a robot
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Even though the Star Trek character “Data” was played by a human, this new android might be more life-like. Watch the video, and I think you’ll agree that it is hard to tell (at first) that this is a robot. It’s called Geminoid DK, built by the Intelligent Robotics lab at Osaka University and designed by professor Hiroshi Ish
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IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE -- North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising
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IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE -- North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising near Svalbard, a group of high arctic islands larger than Denmark -- in summer, a land of brown mountains streaked with snow-filled gullies, low clouds that blur distinctions of sky and land, and wide glaciers reaching the ocean in gashes of bright sky blue.
Ashore, this arctic desert is so harsh that natives wisely never settled here -- only men digging coal, trapping arctic fox and polar bear, and hunting whales were foolish enough to come. A forlorn whaling camp remains -- ruined cabins, a few shallow human graves in the permafrost (most washed away) and dozens of massive right whale skulls, still bleeding whale oil into the ground, feeding moss and low, pink flowers. Whalers searched for oil in blubber and bone to light their economy. Now the question arises: Is this last wilderness being changed by another kind of oil?
Stefan is a Swedish member of the crew who has sailed these waters for 24 years, after catching "polar fever" as a youth. When asked about the effects of warming he has witnessed, Stefan, who wanted only his first name to be used, displays a sailor's skepticism. Populations of walrus and polar bear, he believes, have been growing in strength, not declining. Ice conditions show "huge variation from one season to another," making it difficult to discern a pattern. But the local Hopen Island weather station records that the thickness of winter sea ice has shrunk by 16 inches since the 1960s. And "the glaciers," he says, "are retreating everywhere."
This desolate, grand, forgotten sea has suddenly come to the center of world attention for one reason: the pace of climate change is faster than expected. In the last 50 years as much as half of summer sea ice has gone missing. Another few decades could mean that ice disappears entirely. The absence of ice in water has little to do with raising sea levels; it is water stored on land in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets that could overfill the oceans like a brimming bathtub. But since ice acts as a kind of mirror, less ice means less reflected sunlight, which means that the arctic could heat at twice the rate of the rest of the world. And in the last five years, some of Greenland's glaciers have shown accelerated melting as well. (The Antarctic sheet seems more stable because it is more isolated from global weather patterns.)
With this melting from ice sheets and glaciers -- and the natural expansion of warmer water -- the global sea level is rising about 3 millimeters a year, 75 percent more than the average of the last century. By 2100, some climate scientists predict an increase of a little less than half a meter; others predict considerably more. In normal circumstances, a rise in the sea level of a half-meter or meter might be manageable. But during a storm surge, it could be catastrophic in low-lying areas, turning once-in-a-century floods into regular occurrences.
Arctic warming is part of an increasingly compelling case for global warming -- or, more accurately, climate disruption that seems to come from warming. Around the world we see signs large and small: tree lines moving north, the bleaching of coral in tropical waters, changes in growing seasons, the growth in population of destructive pests such as the pine beetle, the drying of southern Africa, the Mediterranean and the U.S. Southwest.
Global climate, of course, has changed before. But climate conditions for the last 10,000 years have been relatively stable, to the great benefit of civilization. Current temperature increases point beyond that band of comfort and don't seem explainable by natural cycles. The one factor dramatically different from the past is the human production of greenhouse gases, particularly the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is higher than at any time in the last 800,000 years.
The challenge of replacing carbon in our economy is massive -- and many incompletely known factors, from ice dynamics to the flow of ocean currents, determine its urgency. Answers will require a politically difficult task: acting with uncertain risk.
But as I stand near the top of the world on a desolate shore with whale skulls and ruins, the crude oil economy appears about as primitive and destructive as the whale oil economy now seems.
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If you open up a classical statistics book, you will see endless amounts of information about hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, p-values, etc. Although those topics are important, I have noticed that some people walk away not having a deep understanding of probability
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If you open up a classical statistics book, you will see endless amounts of information about hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, p-values, etc. Although those topics are important, I have noticed that some people walk away not having a deep understanding of probability distributions (beyond the normal distribution of course). Here are four probability distributions every statistics students should know:
The Gaussian distribution, also known as the normal distribution. It describes the distribution of sum of independent, identically distributed random variables.
The T is said to be normally distributed. The average of this sample:
Is also normally distributed, and this is actually more important because the Gaussian distribution describes the distribution of average.
The Chi Squared distribution describes the distribution of squared sums of independent, identically distributed random variables.
The T will follow a chi-squared distribution. The reason this is important because the variance is a sum of squares, hence the chi-squared distribution is used to describe the distribution of variances.
The student t-distribution describes the ratio of a Gauassian random variable with a Chi-Squared random variable. A t-distribution is basically a Gaussain distribution with fatter tails.
Fisher’s F distribution
The F-distribution describes the distribution of the ratio of two chi-squared variables. The is useful if you want to compare two variances against eachother. It is used heavily in Analysis of Variance (ANVOA).
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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: At the Pulpit (11/15/07)
TITLE: Take It Or Leave It
By Paul Potenza
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Topic: At the Pulpit (11/15/07)
TITLE: Take It Or Leave It
By Paul Potenza
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It was his first recorded time in the pulpit but he wasn't nervous. He knew that the message that he was about to deliver would tear apart the community and would pit tradition with fact, but there wasn't a hint in his body language that showed concern.
His attitude seemed to be "take it or leave it."
I'll tell you what he said but before I do I'd like to take a little trip down memory lane.
Here was a man who had heard many sermons. He was a religious man who attended church regularly. He had heard all kinds of preachers from the time he was a boy and I think that he probably admired a few of them. He asked a lot of questions and gave a lot of answers that were truly remarkable.
What sticks in my mind is a question that I read in a book by Max Lucado today during Bible study. The question was "I wonder what these preachers would have thought if they knew who was listening to their sermons."
And so he stepped to the pulpit and he opened the book and he read the prophecy of Isaiah.
Let's listen in shall we?
He went up to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath Day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it he found the place where it is written: "The spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has annointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
Did you get that? No apologies. No explanations. Just pure fact.
Take it or leave it.
That's what a good sermon does brothers and sisters. It strips away all disputable questions and leaves us with a choice.
Tonight the choice is yours.
Take it or leave it.
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According to Wikipedia:
The Reference Daily Intake or Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in
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According to Wikipedia:
The Reference Daily Intake or Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States (where it was developed, but has since been used in other places).
The RDI is used to determine the Daily Value (DV) of foods, which is printed on nutrition facts labels in the United States and Canada, which is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Health Canada.
The RDI is based on the older Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) from 1968; newer RDAs have since been introduced in the Dietary Reference Intake system, but the RDI is still used for nutrition labelling.
The RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) for Trace Minerals is shown in the following table:
|Mineral||Daily Quantity||Dietary Sources|
|Boron||around 1mg||2 oz of almonds or peanuts, apple-sauce, cooked dried beans and peas, dark green leafy vegetables, dried fruits, nuts, grape juice, 1 mg of boron is found in 1.5 oz of raisins or prunes, 4 oz of red wine|
|Chromium||50 to 200mcg||apples, bananas, brewers yeast, beef, chicken, eggs, green peppers, liver, oysters, spinach and wheat germ|
|Cobalt||No available data||clams, green leafy vegetables, liver, meat, milk and oysters|
|Copper||1.5 to 3 mg||beans, black pepper, cocoa, dark leafy greens, dried fruits i.e. prunes, nuts, offal i.e. kidneys and liver, oysters
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There are many countries that used to be communist but no longer are. Most of them stopped being communist soon after the fall of the Soviet Union. You could start your list of formerly communist countries with countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union
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There are many countries that used to be communist but no longer are. Most of them stopped being communist soon after the fall of the Soviet Union. You could start your list of formerly communist countries with countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union. This list would include:
You could put all of the other former Soviet republics in here. Technically, I suppose, they are not formerly communist countries because they were part of the Soviet Union. But they are countries that are not no
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PPSNE is helping raise awareness in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut for HIV/AIDS epidemic among African Americans.
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) recognizes National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day this Friday, February 7,
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PPSNE is helping raise awareness in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut for HIV/AIDS epidemic among African Americans.
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) recognizes National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day this Friday, February 7, 2014, by underscoring the continued impact of HIV/AIDS on African Americans in Connecticut, Rhode Island and nationwide.
African Americans are among the most harmed by HIV in our country as an estimated 1 in 16 black men and 1 in 32 black women will be diagnosed with HIV infection in their lifetime. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans account for almost half of all HIV infections in the United States.
"National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the African-American community and unite in the fight to increase access to health care for all Americans," said Judy Tabar President & CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. "Many people in Black communities are deeply affected by a lack of access to health care an
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A new study suggests that pregnant women experiencing physical and mental stress are at a higher risk of stillbirth.
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 women in the U.S. 24 hours after a stillbirth or after a delivery.
As reported
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A new study suggests that pregnant women experiencing physical and mental stress are at a higher risk of stillbirth.
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 women in the U.S. 24 hours after a stillbirth or after a delivery.
As reported in MyHealthNewsDaily, the results showed that 75 percent of the women (1,015 women) who delivered experienced a stressful life event in the past year, while 83 percent of women (503 women) had a stillbirth.
One in five women who had a stillbirth and roughly one in ten women who delivered, experienced five or more stressful life events in the past year, MyHealth noted.
However, the study does says that most women who were stressed did not have a stillbirth.
“Stillbirth is the loss of a baby after 20 weeks of pregnancy but before the baby is born,” WebMD explains. “It can happen during the pregnancy or during labor. Stillbirth occurs in about 1 out of 200 pregnancies.”
The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Each of us were born into a gender, typically one gender, but some of us exhibit physical, genetic, or psychological traits of both genders. How do these gender characteristics affect us? Do they limit our freedom of choice? Or does our gender
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Each of us were born into a gender, typically one gender, but some of us exhibit physical, genetic, or psychological traits of both genders. How do these gender characteristics affect us? Do they limit our freedom of choice? Or does our gender offer us unique perspectives unavailable to the other primary gender? Facebook users have recently offered some intriguing photos of transgender people, quite appealing in their new gender role, such as Balian Buschbaum who was born a woman (see more here). If the physical body is altered, how does this affect the mind? Or was the mind itself born to the wrong gender and now it has been returned to its proper state?
One more set of questions, then a few perspectives and maybe even some answers. What about gender-specific groups? What strength is gained by restricting the group one gender and communicating in partial isolation of the other gender?
For the purposes of this article we are going to consider that for the most part humans are divided into two main genders. Clearly this is not true for all people, yet even for those who have traits of both genders, almost all chose to self-identify as either male or female.
Let’s begin with some conversations from the Indigo Society, “a forum for Spirituality, New Age, Lightworkers, and General Topics”. The “new age” perspective from these conversations among Indigos (a unique concept that you can explore with a quiz and more here) offers ideas such as, “The individual must decide when to realize that gender is a concept of a disadvantaged perspective on life. Though we are born onto a role that has been predetermined to receive us in shackles, we are challenged to free ourselves.” Certainly some people feel like their gender has them in chains, such as any woman who has sought to be president of the United States. If we look at the forty year period leading up to the Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote, we certainly see a segment of a gender group seeking to free themselves, and we see this echoed in the 1960’s with burning bras and sexual freedom. Yet even as these groups eschewed the traditional roles and limitations of their gender, they found solace and solidarity by forming women’s groups. Could they have accomplished what they did in gender mixed groups, even with supportive men?
Let’s back up and examine some assumptions, beginning with the differences between male and female. How real are these differences? How much is cultural and how much is physical? How about spiritual? We may need to ask God why She made two genders (and a few in between). The easiest approach might be to allow science to inform us.
The most basic difference is invisible to us, sealed in the nucleus of every cell of our bodies: the 23rd pair of chromosomes that is either XX or XY (or the rare trisomies of XXY or XYY). The differing male Y chromosome is an odd little thing, twisted and truncated like a gnarled old man. It’s considered degenerate (have fun with that one) and it often mutates while in the sperm, making mistakes as it combines with the XX in the female egg that can result in birth defects. The chromosomes themselves don’t make us female or male though; it is what our bodies do with the genes that matter. Specifically one gene on the Y chromosome
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The 14th of June marks two things, one: Flag Day, and two: the birth of the U.S. Army. It was first when it comes to our military powers, becoming a cohesive organization before the navy and coast guard,
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The 14th of June marks two things, one: Flag Day, and two: the birth of the U.S. Army. It was first when it comes to our military powers, becoming a cohesive organization before the navy and coast guard, and obviously, long before the air force. The original Army was more of a ragtag bunch of patriots though, defending our shifting borders from the British during the American Revolutionary War. And once the war was won, they were promptly divided up based on home state, because the concept of having a national standing army was a concept that actually frightened new Americans, having dealt with the British army’s rule for so many centuries.
But come the 19th century the U.S. Army was a force to be reckoned with, and with this cohesion came equally cohesive rules of law, uniforms and rankings. This was the birth of American military pins; insignia that indicated status and feats of heroism. We’re all familiar with the purple star, and other pieces like Sgt. First Class or Four Star General, but there are so many more unique pieces out there. For example, the Army has its own Veterinary Corps., complete with caduceus and entwined “V” insignia. Military pins are an industry in themselves.
And at 238 years old, there are a LOT of military pins out there. Everything from “Regular Army” to “Army Interpreter”, and everything in between. All of these distinctions mean years of hard work, study and application before the title and the pin are bestowed upon their recipients, and are a mark of pride and honor. And with over 1 million active and reserve members of the Army out there today, that’s a lot of honor, praise and military pins to go around.
So while it’s a little bit late, Happy Birthday, Army!
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Why don't we have potato-shaped planets?
more stories from this episode
- Drumming birds lay down a wicked beat to impress the ladies
- Future forest fires will be more frequent, bigger,
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Saturday July 15, 2017
Why don't we have potato-shaped planets?
more stories from this episode
- Drumming birds lay down a wicked beat to impress the ladies
- Future forest fires will be more frequent, bigger, and harder to control
- Brain training apps won't make you smarter
- Scientists scouring southern Canada for Zika-carrying mosquitos
- Toxins from Greenland's melting ice may be cleaned up by bacteria
- Whiskey-sipping artificial tongue has a taste for the good stuff
- Why don't we have potato-shaped planets?
- Full Episode
This week our question comes from Martine Dennis, a listener in Orillia, Ontario. Martine emailed us with a question about the shapes of objects in space.
Are all planets and planetoids spherical? If so, are there stages t becoming spherical? Does dark matter "push" everything into spheres, or are the particles "pulled" together by the force of gravity?
To answer this question we reached Dr. Ray Jayawardhana, a professor of physics and astronomy at York University
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A new study published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology has found some evidence that the statin Simvastatin may impair the ability of immune cells to kill pathogens.
Statins are medications used to lower cholesterol. This is a good thing
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A new study published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology has found some evidence that the statin Simvastatin may impair the ability of immune cells to kill pathogens.
Statins are medications used to lower cholesterol. This is a good thing, since cholesterol is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It is believed that cholesterol plays a roll in atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), a disease which can ultimately lead to blocked arteries, preventing adequate blood flow to the heart and causing a heart attack.
That's the good part.
The bad part; however, is that some statins, like Simvastatin appear to have negative side effects, like an impaired immune response.
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The manager of Collins Import Autos believes the number of cars sold in a day (Q) depends on two factors: (1) the number of hours the dealership is open (H) and (2) the number of salespersons working that day
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The manager of Collins Import Autos believes the number of cars sold in a day (Q) depends on two factors: (1) the number of hours the dealership is open (H) and (2) the number of salespersons working that day (S). After collecting data for two months (53 days), the manager estimates the following log-linear model: Q= aHbSc
a) Explain how to transform this log-linear model into a linear form that can be estimated using multiple regression analysis.
The computer output for the multiple regression analysis is shown below:
Dependent Variable: LNQ R Sqaure F Ratio P-Value on F
Observations: 53 0.5452 29.97 0.0001
Variable Parameter S
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Astronomer or astrophysicist are people whose area of interest is astronomy or Astrophysics.
The modern astronomer.
The progress in technology and wealth has enabled many more types of Astronomers than ever before. Advances in imaging technology have brought about an unprecedented sharing of visual and sub-visual phenomena in the sky, both day and night events. Web proliferation of space derived data has enabled many phenomena to be observed by more astronomers than ever before, especially auroral displays, comet appearances, and occultations. Advances in software to guide telescopes and cameras, and measure the light values accurately, had enabled higher quality images and vast contributions to be made by many more astronomers, than previously. Yet another type of Astronomer can be identified; the website builder and promoter, sharing science and sky images as part of the growth in networking astronomy, in-turn, encouraging the growth by disseminating both result and technique. Even the recent discovery of earth impact craters by so-called 'arm-chair' astronomers, using Google Earth, is a newly enabled valid type of Astronomer. Astronomers are often mathematicians, but more than likely looking through a telescope or camera and recording the image. Observing, measuring, and sharing occultation events is a growing activity, highly important to adding knowledge of and future predictions of sky objects, such as the shape of the moon, asteroids, and planets to a very high accuracy, with a modest investment in equipment.
The division between a professional and an amateur astronomer is more blurred than ever before, with amateur astronomers contributing to many fields of knowledge, often significant, micro-lensing as a planet discovery method for instance. The division is often a perceived gap, inside astronomy there is often no gap.
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
A hydrophobic amino acid which is a constituent of most proteins. It is an essential nutrient in the diet of vertebrates.
- ‘In simple terms, BCAAs are made up
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
A hydrophobic amino acid which is a constituent of most proteins. It is an essential nutrient in the diet of vertebrates.
- ‘In simple terms, BCAAs are made up of three amino acids: leucine, isoleucine and valine.’
- ‘Taking supplemental leucine with other essential amino acids from whey protein may accelerate muscular gains.’
- ‘The amino acids arginine and leucine are noncarbohydrate inducers of insulin.’
- ‘The aspartate can be used as a precursor for the synthesis of other amino acids such as asparagine, threonine, isoleucine, leucine, valine, lysine, and methionine.’
- ‘Key essential amino acids are valine, leucine, isoleucine, tryptophan and methionine.’
Early 19th century: coined in French from Greek leukos ‘white’ + -ine.
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People with rheumatoid arthritis often find relief by eating fish, colorful produce, whole grains and olive oil, according to WebMD. These foods are all part of a typical Mediterranean diet.Continue Reading
Adding fish to the diet of someone suffering
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People with rheumatoid arthritis often find relief by eating fish, colorful produce, whole grains and olive oil, according to WebMD. These foods are all part of a typical Mediterranean diet.Continue Reading
Adding fish to the diet of someone suffering from arthritis helps because the polyunsaturated fats in fish, which include omega-3 fatty acids, suppress cytokines that cause inflammation, explains WebMD. Colorful produce such as blueberries, squash, carrots and tomatoes helps those who suffer from arthritis because they contain a lot of antioxidants. These antioxidants also fight inflammation, which is the main cause of pain in arthritic joints.
Whole grains such as oatmeal, barley and brown rice are also important to add to the diet to reduce discomfort due to arthritis, according to WebMD. These whole grains help to lower the levels of C-reactive protein in the body, one of the main markers of inflammation. In people suffering from arthritis, this protein level rises during flare ups, but whole grains help to combat this. Adding olive oil to the diet is also important for people suffering from arthritis, as it helps the body to stop producing the chemicals that bring on inflammation. When there is no inflammation present, those with arthritis don't have pain.Learn more about Conditions & Diseases
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Nutritional Advice To Have Better
Nutrition is giving your body the items it requires to try to its full potential. There exists a wealth of details about nutrition that can result in a longer life to suit your needs. How could one sift through
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Nutritional Advice To Have Better
Nutrition is giving your body the items it requires to try to its full potential. There exists a wealth of details about nutrition that can result in a longer life to suit your needs. How could one sift through the material and reach the heart in the matter? It is almost always wise to perform the basics. If you’re prepared to take the first step, read on!
It is crucial to consume protein daily. Proteins are instrumental in body building as well as in maintaining healthy skin. Additionally, they aid your system both in energy metabolic process and cell processes. Proteins offer crucial fuel for the defense mechanisms. Good quality choices for protein sources could be lean meat, beans, tofu, and poultry.
Maintaining a normal and properly functioning gastrointestinal system may help boost weight loss and minimize body weight overall. You need to stay hydrated by drinking enough water, and you need a good amount of daily fiber in what you eat as well as the probiotics that are in yogurt.
Ensure that you are receiving an ample amount of the vitamin B12. Older people and vegetarians will not be getting enough from diet alone. Individuals who are considered to be anemic also require B Vitamin-12 to be prevalent in their diet by means of food or supplemental form. One great way to acquire a large dose is by way of your morning meal several brands of nutritional cereals contain the vitamin.
Have you ever sworn off red meat? Use it such as a condiment. Rather than making meat the principle dish, incorporate it into meals according to vegetables and healthy grains. This flavorful method is popular in diverse cultures, including Chinese and Mediterranean foodies.
Incorporate salmon to your diet. Salmon is loaded with omega-3 fats as well as in niacin. Omega-3 has proven to reduce heart problems, cancer, and oppression. Niacin may prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Wild salmon is generally without any toxic chemicals, unlike salmon raised on farms.
Try to eat a varied diet including lean meat, fish, nuts, low-fat dairy foods, whole grains and a variety of different vegetables and fruit. By choosing a number of foods, you can expect to have the nutrients you need.
If you achieve rid of ground beef and eat ground turkey in its place, you are able to realize many health benefits, though some people aren’t too keen on ground turkey’s dryness. If you have this issue, try adding a bit of essential olive oil or onions whenever you cook the floor turkey. You can get excellent flavor with less fat.
Replacing part or all of your all-purpose flour by making use of whole wheat grains flour in baking can certainly help increase nutritional content in baked goods. Whole wheat flour is less processed than white flour, and in addition contains more nutrients and fiber.
As mentioned earlier, you will need good nutrition to promote an extensive life. Sorting out all the available information could be confusing, but knowing the basics is a superb starting point. Apply the information you only read and you should certainly earn some healthy changes..
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Alternative energy projects often require the movement of air or water from a warm place to a cool place for heating, or vice-versa for cooling. A differential temperature controller can be used to automate
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(C) 2008, G. Forrest Cook
Alternative energy projects often require the movement of air or water from a warm place to a cool place for heating, or vice-versa for cooling. A differential temperature controller can be used to automate this process.
This device uses two electronic temperature sensors and some circuitry to detect the difference in temperature between the sensors. When the hot side sensor's temperature rises above the cold side sensor's temperature, the circuit applies power to a circulating device such as a fan or a pump.
The circulating device stays on until the two temperatures are equalized. This device can be used to improve the performance of the Self Powered Solar Box Furnace project, it has also been used to circulate hot water from a solar water collector through a storage tank.
Supply voltage: 12V (nominal). Maximum load current: 10A at 12V. Sensor temperature limits: -40c to +100c Controls: Off-Auto-On switch Indicators: High and Low LEDs
Power to the circuit is switched via half of the On/Off/Auto three way switch (DPDT center-off) and fed to the 78L09 9 volt voltage regulator. The 9 volt regulator powers the LM324 quad op-amp and the 4011 quad NAND gate.
Each of the two LM335A sensors produce a voltage that is proportional to the temperature (in Kelvin). The test points (tp) show the temperature of each sensor. The LM324 amp on the left is wired as a differential amplifier, the output on pin 8 is based on the difference between the two temperatures. The Sensitivity control adjusts the gain of the differential amplifier and the Offset control adjusts the offset between the two temperature sensors. The second half of the On/Off/Auto switch is used to unbalance the differential amplifier when in the On mode, forcing the rest of the circuit to stay in the on mode.
The right two LM324 amp sections are wired as a window comparator. The window comparator outputs feed to the left two sections of the 4011 NAND gate IC, which forms an R-S flip-flop. The window comparator and flip-flop function together to provide a single output that has a hysteresis (dead band) between on and off. If the circuit is on, it tends to stay on and if it is off, it tends to stay off. Note that the sensitivity adjustment affects the effective width of the dead band.
The output of the flip-flop drives the right two 4011 NAND gates, these are wired in parallel and drive the IRLZ44N logic-level input MOSFET. The MOSFET switches the negative side of the load on and off. The 1N4004 diode is used to supress inductive voltage spikes from the pump or fan motor.
When adjusting the circuit, observe both of the LEDs and monitor the voltage on the temperature difference test point (LM324 pin 8). The circuit flip-flops when the test point is above and below 4.5V.
Adjust the sensitivity control to the middle of its range. With both temperature sensors at the same temperature, adjust the offset control until both LEDs come on. Put the temperature sensors on the hot and cold sides of the controlled heating or cooling system and observe the operation. The offset control should then be adjusted so that the circuit doesn't come on until the warm side is significantly warmer than the cold side.
There is an inverse relationship between the circuit's hysteresis (dead band) and the sensitivity control. As you increase the sensitivity by raising the sensitivity control's resistance, the effect of the circuit's hysteresis will shrink. Adjust the sensitivity control for the desired amount of hysteresis.
Connect a 12VDC supply to the power terminals and a fan or water pump to the load terminals. Note that if the fan or pump's negative lead is grounded to its case, the case should be electrically isolated from ground so that the motor does not turn on.
In a heat pumping application, the cold side sensor should be thermally connected to the cold side of the object being heated and the hot side sensor should be thermally connected to the hot side of the heat source.
If the three way switch is on, the fan or pump will always stay on. If the three way switch is off, the circuit will be disabled and the fan or pump will always stay off. If the three ways switch is in the auto position, the fan or pump will go on when the hot side is warmer than the cold side and it will go off when the temperatures equalize.
The Red/Green LED will be Red when the fan or pump is running, green when the fan or pump is stopped, or both Red and Green during the transitional hysteresis state. Another way of saying this is that when the system is warming up, the LED sequence will be Green, Both, Red and when the system is cooling the LED sequence will be Red, Both, Green.
This schematic from the Free Info Society shows a simpler differential temperature controller circuit that runs directly from a PV panel (no battery). The circuit's ability to deal with large motor startup surge currents could be improved i
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Debates, Differences and Divisions: The 25 Issues That Shape American Politics
Debuting it its first edition, this book is organized around the approach that American politics can best be understood by examining the issues that reflect the ideas,
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Debates, Differences and Divisions: The 25 Issues That Shape American Politics
Debuting it its first edition, this book is organized around the approach that American politics can best be understood by examining the issues that reflect the ideas, principles, concerns, fears, morals and hopes of the American people. Debates, Differences and Divisions looks at twenty-five hot button issues affecting American politics and policy today. The author argues that these issues are the heart and soul of the American political system, serving as the basis for the disagreements that drive our political system into action.
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According to a Harris Interactive Survey, conducted for the National Fire Protection Association
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Family at Risk?
- What is a Green
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- Home Health
- Get Help
- Get Involved
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According to a Harris Interactive Survey, conducted for the National Fire Protection Association, while the majority of Americans, 66 percent, have an escape plan in case of a fire, most, 34 percent, have not practiced it.
According to the U.S. Fire Administration, Fires can strike anywhere – in structures, buildings, automobiles, and the outdoors – but fires that affect our homes are often the most tragic and the most preventable.
The National Fire Protection Association offers the following risks:
The U.S. Fire Administration offers the following steps you can take to prevent fire:
Install smoke alarms: Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms provide an early warning of a potentially deadly fire and could reduce the risk of dying from a fire in your home by almost half.
Install residential sprinklers: Smoke alarms can only alert you and your family to a fire in the home – they cannot contain or extinguish a fire; residential sprinkler systems can.
Have an escape plan: Escape plans help you get out of your home quickly. In less than 30 seconds a small flame can get out of control and turn into a major fire.
Have a fire extinguisher: The use of a fire extinguisher in the hands of a trained adult can be a life and property-saving tool.
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Hey Dec 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. This national day of remembrance was declared as a direct response to the Montreal Massacre.
From Canada to reflect on violence against women By Robin Dudge
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Hey Dec 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. This national day of remembrance was declared as a direct response to the Montreal Massacre.
From Canada to reflect on violence against women By Robin Dudgeon:
The national day of remembrance was established back in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada to mark the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. On Dec. 6, 1989 a Montreal man committed a murder-suicide killing 14 young women at l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal on the basis of their gender.
Violence against women and girls continues to be a serious issue in Canada: In 2008, 146 female were murdered in Canada. Forty-five of these women were victims of spousal homicide. On average, 178 females were killed every year between 1994 and 2008; It is estimated that 60% of Canadian women and girls have suffered from physical or psychological violence at some time in their life; Between April 1, 2007 and March 31, 2008, approximately 101,000 women and children were admitted to 569 shelters in Canada; According to the 2004 General Social Survey, Aboriginal women 15 years and older are three and a half times more likely to experience violence than non-Aboriginal women. The Native Women’s Association of Canada has documented evidence that 582 Aboriginal women and girls have gone missing or have been murdered in Canada in the past few decades; and Annual costs of intimate partner violence is calculated at US$1.16 billion in Canada according to UNIFEM in its report :
A dramatization of the event is entitled Polytechnique:
And if you’re looking for some more reading material on Feminist Activism post-polytechnique. Read Reframing the Montreal Massacre: Strategies For Feminist Media Activism by Maureen Bradley. I shall post a link to the pdf below:
The Montreal Massacre and Feminist Media Activism
Also Check out The White Ribbon Campaign to End Violence Against Women, who run a campaign from November 25 (the International Day for the Eradication of Violence Against Women) until December 6, Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. (SO sorry this post is late!) And as part of their campaign, here’s 16 ways to engage men and boys:
1. Think about the kind of man you want to be: kind, responsible, one that shares equally in family life and respects women and girls.
2. Be respectful towards women, girls, and other guys. Sexism and homophobia hurts us all.
3. Ask first. Whether it’s holding hands, kissing, or more, it’s important to communicate and seek consent.
4. Never use coercion, threats, or violence in your relationships with others.
5. Wear a white ribbon and pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women and girls. Visit our website to order ribbons.
6. Teach your students and the youth in your community about gender equality and healthy, equal relationships.
7. Be a good role model and share with the boys and young men around you the importance of respecting women and girls. Visit http://www.itstartswithyou.ca to find out how.
8. Learn about the impact of violence against women in your community. Volunteer with a local shelter or a women’s organization. 9. Challenge and speak out against hurtful language, sexist jokes, and bullying, in your school, community, workplace, or place of worship. 10. Link your website to ours or place a banner for our It Starts With You Campaign on your website or blog and help us spread the word.
11. Accept your role as a man in helping to end violence against women. It affects everyone.
12. Start a White Ribbon Club or Campaign in your school or community. Visit our website to find out how.
13. Order our awareness materials and help educate others in your school, community, or workplace about men’s violence against women and girls.
14. Watch our collection of powerful digital stories to learn about the important connection between masculinity and gender equality.
15. As a community leader, policy maker, funder, or NGO staff member, read our issue brief to learn about the important role that men and boys can play in ending gender-based violence.
16. As a father or a family member, teaching the boys in your life about healthy equal relationships helps you do your part in creating healthy families and strengthening family bonds.
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Book Reviews of Domino by Karen Ellis
CROSS CURRICULAR and MULTI-CULTURAL RESOURCE
60 Traditional Children's Songs, Games, Proverbs, and Culture from the American Virgin Islands
45 minute Live Sound Field Recording
LISTEN and
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Book Reviews of Domino by Karen Ellis
CROSS CURRICULAR and MULTI-CULTURAL RESOURCE
60 Traditional Children's Songs, Games, Proverbs, and Culture from the American Virgin Islands
45 minute Live Sound Field Recording
LISTEN and DOWNLOAD
*Keywords for Cybrarians, Librarians, Media and Technology Specialists
West Indian Culture, Virgin Islands, Caribbean Music, Folksongs, Folklore, Ebonics, ESL, Linguistics, Black History Month Social Studies, American History, Afro American Studies, Juvenile Literature, Popular Culture, Games, Elementary Music Education, Orff Shulwerk, Kodaly, Recreation, Proverbs, Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum, Thematic Reading Curriculum, Technology Sites, Search Tools, Web Site Development Tools
Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1990
"DOMINO teaches the chants, clap patterns and jump - rope songs of the Virgin Islands, with a cassette recorded on playgrounds of St. Croix by author Karen S. Ellis; the syncopated rhythms are irresistible, and some of the lyrics quite salty."
The Orff Echo, Fall 1990, page 44
"All material is clearly presented with precise and easy-to-understand directions for the games and dances. To maintain authenticity, the words of the songs are written in a mixture of standard English and Cruzian, the dialect of St. Croix. A glossary is provided to assist with unfamiliar words and phrases. Especially interesting is the author's account of her use of an Orff Schulwerk-based approach to teach language skills to the children in a small island town. The accompanying cassette tape, available separately, includes nearly all of the items in the book, most of it performed by the children themselves. No one should miss the priceless rendition of "Ding Dong."
The Midwest Book Review, May 26, 1990
An oversized paperback with spiral binging and a 35 minute audio cassette introduce both adult and child listeners to traditional children's songs and proverbs from the American Virgin Islands, providing a unique opportunity to absorb the culture and sounds of an area which has received relatively little attention.
An oversized paperback and 35 minute cassette provides a unique opportunity to absorb the culture and sounds of an area which has received relatively little attention. More than just another ethnic song collection, the tape alone holds merit, the paperback/tape package is recommended above each singly: the book is an essential enhancement to the tape, offering a political and cultural review of the Virgin Islands, teaching advice to teachers who may be considering the tape and workbook for classroom use, and illustrated musical instructions and score sheets for the tape's songs. The small black and white photos of the children at play are particularly intriguing." http://www.execpc.com/~mbr/bookwatch/booklove/#cpb (old link, won't work now)
Come-All-Ye, Vol. II No. 2, Summer 1990 A Review Journal for publications in the fields of Folklore, American Studies, Social History and Popular Culture by Edith Fowke
Edith Fowke wrote: "Karen Ellis spent a number of years in St. Croix, the easternmost of the U.S., Virgin Islands, and immersed herself in the island culture. She taught second grade in a local school and found herself fascinated with their play. She began to record them, and this collection is basically the sone songs and chants she noted. Some 50 different games are grouped under Clap Patterns, Spoken Chants and Songs, Circle Gam4es, Line Dances and Call & Respose. Ms. Ellis tells how whe used each in her teaching. A number of the songs can be heard on the accompanying cassette.
Many of the items are slightly altered versions of familiar rhymes, such as "Dutch Girl", Miss Mary had a Baby", "Solomon Grundy" and "Sally Sally Wat
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Complete Motor guide for Robotics
The Arduino Synthesizer
Mini Metal Lathe
Homemade Woodworking Lathe
Building a CNC router
Drill Press Disc Sander
Making a 28 inch wide Sander/Planer
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Complete Motor guide for Robotics
The Arduino Synthesizer
Mini Metal Lathe
Homemade Woodworking Lathe
Building a CNC router
Drill Press Disc Sander
Making a 28 inch wide Sander/Planer
1.6W Laser Cutter and Engraver
2X72 Belt Grinder
Portable Bench Grinder Using Old Furnace Motor
Make a 30tonne hydraulic press. Squash anything!
The Ultimate Collection of DIY Workshop Tools!
How to Make a Spot Welder - for Cheap!!
I'll try again with your design, thanks!!!!
Geat!!!!!!!!!!!I tried to do a similar project but I left it.
The MicroSlice V1 | A tiny Arduino laser cutter
2W Arduino Laser Engraver/Cutter
2.5D Laser Cut Gears
Homemade Rotary/Flat Engraver
Pocket laser engraver.
Laser engraving machine CNC (Producing Laser Engraving Machine by Using Wasted CD-Drive or Printer)
Intro to Stepper Motors
How To Make a Macro Lens
Make a Simple, Lensless USB Microscope for under $15
Projection Microscope From Broken Projector
More than Microscope DIY
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 480 (2015) reports this DIY Atomic Force Microscope/DIY原子力顯微鏡
Mini Edge Sander - Belt sander Stand
BIG Disk Sander: Build, Use and Tips
Spot Weld Anything (Even Copper)!
CNC FROM SCRAP
CO2 laser that cuts sheet metal
747 Fuselage Meeting Table
"Shadow Box" - Trinket Display Table
How To Make a Cryptex
The Pallet Bible: Finding, Inspecting, and Dismantling Pallets
Creating a DIY Pallet Wood Floor with free wood
DIY: Glass Bottle Cutter
Faraday Rotation (EPIC!)
Convert a Grindstone to Treadle Power
Homemade Sanding Blocks
Beetles in Resin Jewelry!
How to assemble a HHO Generator and why it works
Wall-Mounted Charging Station
The Triptych - A Portable Arduino Workshop
Easy Store Flipboard
Portable Electronics Workstation / workshop
Portable Electronics Workstation
DIY Disk Sander from Corded Drill
SLAYER EXCITERS & TESLA COILS everything you need to know to get started!
How to Make pH Indicator
Scrap Metal Coal Forge
Large Vacuum Former
How to Miter (Cope) a Round Tube by Hand
Simple DIY Magnetic Stirrer
Oil/Fuel Filter Opener
3W 4'x4' Arduino Laser Cutter/Engraver
Small Electronic Experiment Station
Make a 3D Printer using a CNC router - the "Deltabot"
Basic beginners mini 3 axis CNC mill
Drone/ Helicopter Landing Pad (Tripod Mount)
Variable Power Control for Soldering Pencil Iron (cheap & easy)
Coffee Table Made From Pallets
Autonomous / Voice Controlled - 3D Scanning Rig For 3D Printing
Polymer Clay Dragon Scale Necklace
Home made electric glass fusing kiln
ATX Bench Power Supply Enclosure
How to colour steel with HEAT
My First CNC Machine
Building A Low Cost Stirling Engine for Power Generation
DIY: An Ultra portable Torch knife
The Best Oreo Balls
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|HABITAT||Open woodland savanna and plains with little thickets, are the ideal conditions for Cheetah.|
|Although more sociable than Leopards, adult Cheetahs are
They are the fastest quadr
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|HABITAT||Open woodland savanna and plains with little thickets, are the ideal conditions for Cheetah.|
|Although more sociable than Leopards, adult Cheetahs are
They are the fastest quadrupeds, reaching speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour, in short burs
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A recent analysis of natural disasters by RealtyTrac revealed that 13 percent of homes, worth an estimated $1.8 trillion are in counties with a High wildfire risk. Using a natural disaster risk score to calculate overall risk, RealtyTrac
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A recent analysis of natural disasters by RealtyTrac revealed that 13 percent of homes, worth an estimated $1.8 trillion are in counties with a High wildfire risk. Using a natural disaster risk score to calculate overall risk, RealtyTrac analyzed 2,318 counties nationwide. Based on the scoring, each county was determined to be Very High, High, Moderate, Low or Very Low risk. The top five counties categorized as High risk or Very High risk for wildfires with the most housing units were: Suffolk County, New York (883,318), Riverside County, California (587,822), San Bernardino County, California (509,209), Mecklenburg, North Carolina (325,432)and Bergen County, New Jersey (255,025).
See the full report and methodology here: 43 Percent of U.S. Homes with an Estimated Market Value of $6.6 Trillion in Counties with High Natural Disaster Risk.
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Smart DifferencerTM tools
Developers frequently need to determine differences between various versions of text files comprising an application system's source code. Among others, such differences facilitate reviewing, debugging, and testing newly changed source code. Ideally, developers would
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Smart DifferencerTM tools
Developers frequently need to determine differences between various versions of text files comprising an application system's source code. Among others, such differences facilitate reviewing, debugging, and testing newly changed source code. Ideally, developers would like to be told about differences in terms that make sense with respect to the type of source code and its constructs, e.g., "delete statement", "insert expression", "move block", "rename identifier".
Conventional differencing tools (e.g., diff) compute differences based on source lines of text, using line-based models of editing like "insert line", "delete line", or "replace line". These tools are very useful for arbitrary text, but are not cognizant of the structure of the programming language in which source code is written. When used on source code, this often causes the reported differences not to obey the boundaries of the underlying language constructs, e.g. a fragment of a statement or the suffix of one statment and a prefix of another statement may be reported as a change based on accidental organization of these into lines. Worse, simple reformatting or changes in comments will result in lots of apparent changes without any actual semantic impact on the source code. This is conceptually jarring to the developer, who thinks of changes in terms of program structures and abstract editing operations manipulating such structures.
The Smart Differencer
The SD SmartDifferencer shows the differences between two versions of source code in terms of abstract editing operations applied to programming language constructs. The language constructs are discovered by parsing the code using a production language parser (and depending on language, determining scopes and symbol tables). Editing operations include insert, delete, copy, merge, and rename (globally, across a scope, or pointwise). Language constructs include primitives like identifiers, numbers, string literals, etc., as well as compound phrases like declarations, statements, expressions, etc. The editing operations are not bound to source lines but may only affect part of a line. They ignore comments, irrelevant whitespace, and actual formatting of numbers (radix, leading zeros) and string literals (equivalent escape sequences, etc.). Note that whitespace within string literals is considered as relevant and taken into account when determining differences.
By default, the SmartDifferencer produces output intended for consumption by a developer, This output is kept compact by summarizing multiple adjacent edits of the same kind into a single edit. Each of these edits is followed by the actual program fragments involved in the respective edit.
Alternatively or in addition, the SmartDifferencer can produce output intended for consumption by another tool, e.g. by a display tool visually displaying the compared source codes to a developer with the changes being highlighted by different colors depending on the kind of the respective edit. This output includes further details of the edits that are usually not of direct interest to a developer.
Benefits include enhancement of developer productivity both individually and during code reviews by suppressing semantically irrelevant changes like formatting, comments, whitespace, representation of numbers and strings, etc. focusing the developer's attention on changes that are semantically coherent with respect to the language and thus meaningful, and describing differences in terms of edits over the underlying language constructs. Integration of such a differencer into a source code control system will also aid developers.
What about Semantic Differencing?
Everybody wants a semantic differencing tool, that determines if two programs do the same thing, or if not, where they differ. It is a wonderful concept, but impossible to implement fully in practice due to the Halting Problem, which fundamentally says it is impossible to analyze arbitrary computer computer code, let alone compare two blocks to see if they do the same thing.
What can be done is to provide some interesting approximations of semantic differencing, and the Smart Difference does that. First, it uses the language structure to compare code; if the language structures match, they likely do the same thing although it is easy to construct counter examples that fail due to context. The renamed-identifier check is semantic; it is the case that changing the name of an identifier consistently within the identifier scope in most languages has not impact at all by design. The SmartDifferencer tool doesn't quite do this; it verifies that an identifier is renamed consistently with a block but not necessarily a scope. We expect future versions to do this accurately and report such changes. Often, the order of declarations in a file (e.g., members of a Java cla
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A normal lithium level falls between 0.6 millimoles per liter and 1.2 millimoles per liter for people who are taking the drug. This is also known as the therapeutic range, according to Lab Tests Online.Continue
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A normal lithium level falls between 0.6 millimoles per liter and 1.2 millimoles per liter for people who are taking the drug. This is also known as the therapeutic range, according to Lab Tests Online.Continue Reading
The lithium level is monitored when a person is taking lithium in order to make sure that the level remains within an acceptable range. This is called therapeutic drug monitoring. If the person responds to the drug without showing signs of toxicity, then the lithium is likely
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Friday, 9 September 2011
A dental care hygienist is a licensed health specialist who works together with a qualified dentist to educate and treat patients in oral health and well-being. These professional people work in line with the concept that
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Friday, 9 September 2011
A dental care hygienist is a licensed health specialist who works together with a qualified dentist to educate and treat patients in oral health and well-being. These professional people work in line with the concept that before the worst happens, make sure that it doesn't occur by consuming preventive steps early on. These preventive steps involve cleaning the teeth and gums of oral plaque as well as tartar, including possible bacteria that may lead to mouth illnesses. Hygienists in a dental care practice might also take x-rays of the patient's mouth to be able to generate a more informed cure. Additionally they provide fluoride treatment procedures, put on sealants, and advice patients on the proper ways of giving care to your teeth and gums.
Just like in a lot of careers, the dental hygienist earnings is influenced by the work environment and location the person will be working at as well as the years of his working experience on the job. The dental hygienist salary this sort of hygienist will receive offers a stable income source that is always a breath of fresh air for people worried by the continuing state of the economic system (with the still high unemployment percentage).
There are many facilities interested to hire dental hygienists due to the increasing need for authorized oral healthcare professionals. Actually, this job is increasing a lot faster than the average job due to numerous things, primarily among them being the increasing awareness for preventive oral procedures. There are numerous research documents that direct to the link between an effective oral health and general health, main reason why there are a lot of people who are more aware of taking care of their teeth as well as gums.
The law of supply and demand explicitly states that when the demand the supply, selling prices increase. Because of this, the demand for accredited dental specialists like this are greater than the number of accredited hygienists, hence, the higher dental hygienist salary (due to the battle to hire the most effective hygienists).
For comparison, the average yearly dental hygiene salary in the US is $67,860 based on the Occupational Employment and Wages report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated as of May 2009. The 50% median of this medical assistant earnings is $67,340 yearly.
The requirements to be a skilled dental hygienist varies by State, but it characteristically involves having a high school diploma, attaining a certified dental sanitation plan, and passing the National Dental Hygiene Examination Board to get your license.
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Effective Professional Development - Overview
What does effective school based professional development look like? What steps can you take to move toward this model? What resources will help provide strong professional development and assess its impact?
In Session 6, you:
- Integrated
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Effective Professional Development - Overview
What does effective school based professional development look like? What steps can you take to move toward this model? What resources will help provide strong professional development and assess its impact?
In Session 6, you:
- Integrated the skills and knowledge gained during Sessions 1 through 5.
- Shared some of the success and challenges you have faced as coaches, and used a protocol and a structured activity to help you share your successes and solve your challenges.
In Session 7, you will:
- Collaborate with your principals to review time-tested, research-validated attributes of effective school-based professional development (SBPD) and apply what you learn to your school.
- Begin developing an action plan for your school, centered on SBPD.
- Explore professional development resources and use a protocol to help you measure the success of collaboration.
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» Apply School Professional Development Matrix
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Laurent Kabila Facts
Laurent Kabila (born 1939) is the president of the central African nation called Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
Few figures emerge on the world stage as suddenly as Laurent Kabila did in
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Laurent Kabila Facts
Laurent Kabila (born 1939) is the president of the central African nation called Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
Few figures emerge on the world stage as suddenly as Laurent Kabila did in the last months of 1996. It is a measure of the speed with which he made his appearance that there were literally hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles about him in the United States and Britain during the first half of 1997-but almost no pieces whatever for the five years preceding that time. In October of 1996, he entered the limelight as the leader of Zairian forces rising up against the corrupted regime of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Less than six months later, troops under his command took control of the capital, Kinshasa, and Kabila became the leader of the country, now renamed Democratic Republic of Congo. With its location at the center of Africa, its physical size (as large as Western Europe), and its troubled past, Congo occupies a strategic position in Africa, and suddenly leaders all over the world were asking "Who is Laurent Kabila?" The answer to that question lies beneath layers of mystery, and indeed analysts are far from agreement as to who he is or what he intends for his country's future.
Kabila was born in 1939, in Shaba Province, part of the region then called Belgian Congo. This was the same land described memorably by Joseph Conrad in his novel Heart of Darkness (1902), a vast stretch of jungles, rivers, and mountains nearly one million square miles in area. Belgian rule in the Congo became legendary for its cruelty, but by the time Kabila reached maturity, there were few colonial empires left in Africa. One legacy of the Belgians was the French language; therefore when it came time for Kabila to receive a university education, he went to France and studied political philosophy.
Kabila Entered Politics
By the time Kabila returned home, the Congo was in a state of turmoil. It had gained its independence from Belgium in 1960, but that was far from the end of the new nation's troubles; in fact, those had only really begun. By now the old struggle of the European colonial empires was an artifact of history, and the new battle over Africa was the Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviets supported Marxist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, and so did Kabila, who became a pro-Lumumba member of the North Katanga Assembly, a provincial legislature. The United States, on the other hand, supported Lumumba's chief opposition, an army officer named Joseph Dsir Mobutu.
A bloody civil war ensued, and in 1961, Mobutu allegedly had Lumumba killed. Kabila fled to the Ruzizi lowlands, and tried to wage war against the government from there, but was defeated. In 1963, he formed the People's Revolutionary Party, and set up operations on Lake Tanganyika, at the country's eastern edge. Two years later, he was joined by one of the twentieth century's most prominent revolutionary leaders, a man who in 1959 had helped Fidel Castro take power in Cuba, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Guevara kept a diary during the six months of 1965 that he spent in Africa, released in English as Bolivian Diary [of] Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1968). In the volume, he complained bitterly about Kabila's lack of commitment, and his penchant for spending time away from the front, "in the best hotels, issuing communiques and drinking Scotch in the company of beautiful women." Though admitting that Kabila was young (26 years old) and therefore capable of change, Guevara wrote, "for now, I am willing to express serious doubts, which will only be published many years hence, that he will be able to overcome his defects."
By the end of 1965, it became clear that Mobutu was about to win the war, so Guevara left in disgust. In 1966, Mobutu took power and declared himself head of the nation, which he renamed Zaire in 1971. He also gave himself a new name, the abbreviated form of which was Mobutu Sese Seko, which in full meant something like "the rooster who leaves no hens alone." Zaire came under Mobutu's domination, and he made himself one of the world's richest men while keeping his people in extreme poverty.
Kabila Lived in Exile
Kabila's life during the three decades between the mid-1960s and the mid-1990s are somewhat of a mystery. In the early 1970s, his People's Revolutionary Party established a "liberated zone" in Kivu Province, and spent the next 20 years in periodic fighting with the government. Kabila himself went into exile in neighboring Tanzania in 1977, and from there he continued to lead guerrilla attacks against the increasingly repressive and corrupt Mobutu regime. While Mobutu stole both from his people and the Western nations who gave him financial aid, Kabila engaged in some questionable dealings himsel
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2. Calculate the number of particles in-
(i) 8 g of O2 molecules (ii) 2.5 mol of calcium atoms.
3. What is the mass of 2.5 mol of Methane?
4.Find the
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2. Calculate the number of particles in-
(i) 8 g of O2 molecules (ii) 2.5 mol of calcium atoms.
3. What is the mass of 2.5 mol of Methane?
4.Find the mass of one molecule of water.
5.Calculate the number of water molecules and number of oxygen and hydrogen atoms
in a drop of water containing 0.03 mol of water.
6. Calculate the actual mass of one atom of carbon if 12 grams of Carbon contain one mole of Carbon.
7. Calculate mass of Nitrogen (N2) which contains same number of molecules as are present in 4.4 grams of Carbon-di-oxide (CO2).
8.Atomic mass of gold is 197 u. How many moles of gold are present in an ornament containing 88.65 grams of gold?
9. How many moles of SO2 have same mass as 3 moles of oxygen?
10. A glass of water contains 5 mol of water. How many molecules of water arepresent?
11. What is the mass of a formula unit of Na + C l -?
12. How many atoms of Silver are present in a silver wire weighing 5.4 grams?
13. Calculate the ratio of molecules present in 16 g of methane and 16 g of oxygen.
14. Convert into mole. (a) 12 g of oxygen gas (b) 20 g of water (c) 22 g of carbon-dioxide.
15. Determine the number of bromide ion in 0.2 mole of Mg Br2.
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Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (PD) may interfere with people's ability to function effectively on a daily basis. Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech and Language Pathology are health disciplines that help people to prevent problems from occurring and to treat
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Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (PD) may interfere with people's ability to function effectively on a daily basis. Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech and Language Pathology are health disciplines that help people to prevent problems from occurring and to treat difficulties people are having. They can offer you strategies to improve your function or adapt to changes that are imposed by Parkinson's symptoms. Family members can also be involved in learning techniques to make life easier. Typically, a referral by a physician is needed in order to have these services covered by health insurance. It is also necessary to see under what circumstances your health plan provides coverage.
Communication Impairment in PD: Speech and Language Pathology
Speech, language, voice and swallowing disorders are common problems in patient's with moderate to significant PD. Very often the first sign of significant PD is reduced voice power and increased rate of utterance. As the duration of PD increases communication impairment also becomes more complex. Additional communication problems may include poor precision and strength of speech sound pronunciation and reductions in expressive language complexity. Further some patients will experience slowing of mental functioning and memory loss that will also impact language formulation and expression. If these communication impairments become dominant in everyday activities then the patient will begin to withdraw from necessary daily communication activities. Patients may decide to refrain from answering the phone or initiating telephone calls or maintaining conversations. This communication disability can seriously isolate patients and make it difficult for them to function in their families and with caregivers.
The speech and voice communication impairment symptoms in PD are identified by speech-language pathologists as a stereotypic cluster identified as "hypokinetic dysarthria". In general, PD patients will eventually exhibit:
- Weak and diminishing voice power.
- Sudden increased rate of utterance.
- Reduced range of motion of the speech gesture.
- Monotone and monoloud speech intonation.
- Poor initiation in speech utterance.
- Stuttering-like fluency symptoms.
These symptoms of communication impairment can be treated by speech-language pathologists to provide exercises that will allow the patient to reduce the negative effects on overall speech intelligibility. PD patients can improve their communication with treatment, practice and a willingness to work hard to compensate for the neuromuscular impairment in PD.
Swallowing disorders in PD can be significant and should also be evaluated and treated by speech-language pathologists. Because the neuromuscular deficits in PD also affect the muscles of swallowing, patient precautions, x-ray evaluation procedures and treatment may be necessary. Patients may experience difficulty in chewing certain foods sufficiently, choking on liquids or poor passage of food into the esophagus. These swallowing difficulties can also be remedied with exercises and diet recommendations provided by the speech-language pathologist.
Finally, the possible reduction in mental functioning in PD patients has become an increasing concern. These cognitive difficulties include slowing of mental response, short-term memory limitations, slowing word retrieval, time and space disorientation, reductions in expressive language complexity and length, and diminished emotional affect. These problems should also be addressed by the speech-language pathologist in concert with social workers and caregivers.
Evaluating and treating the communication impairment of PD patients while complex, it is rewarding, because improved functioning is possible with speech-voice-language and cognitive rehabilitation.
Contributed by Richard Merson, Ph.D., Speech and Language Pathologist, Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Michigan
Chairman, MPF Professional Advisory Board, Member MPF Board of Directors
Occupational therapists (OT) - Occupational therapy is a health care/rehabilitation profession. OT's work with people of all ages, who are experiencing difficulties with leading independent, productive, and satisfying lives. The goal of an occupational therapist is to assist individuals with performing their activities of daily living. People with Parkinson's Disease may need the help of an occupational therapist for many different reasons. While one person may need help learning various strategies to manage their tremors, another may need help with feeding skills, and yet another may need to learn various coordination exercises to maintain functional use of their hands, and someone else may need a home evaluation so the therapist can make recommendations on equipment needs and home safety, the list is endless. The treatment is individualized to your needs which is based on your goals for therapy as well as the therapists evaluation. If you have lost some independence due to your Parkinson's Disease consult your physician regarding occupational therapy.
Sue Vergilio, O.T.R., St. John Macomb Hospital
Past Member, MPF Professional Advisory Board
Some symptoms of Parkinson's disease may include tremors, rigidity or muscular stiffness, and bradykinesia or slowness of movement. These symptoms can cause you pain, a decrease in range of motion in your joints, neck and back, a change in your posture and difficulty moving.
When you experience these problems, your balance and mobility may be affected. You may have difficulty walking and may even start to fall. If any of these occur, you may benefit from visiting a physical therapist. First you need to see your physician for a referral.
When you see a physical therapist, you will have a thorough evaluation. The P.T. will examine your range of motion, strength, coordination, balance, posture, functional mobility skills and your gait, or ability to walk.
One the evaluation is completed, recommendations may include assistive devices such as a cane or walker and a comprehensive exercise program designed especially for your needs. You will also be instructed on the importance of daily exercise or activity to he
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I know what you’re thinking -“has the cat been sleeping around with many partners unprotected?” Common guys, it’s a cat! And the cat according to a network of independent medical laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya, is infected with FIV –
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I know what you’re thinking -“has the cat been sleeping around with many partners unprotected?” Common guys, it’s a cat! And the cat according to a network of independent medical laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya, is infected with FIV – a virus that is similar to HIV/AIDS in humans.
Reports have it that the blood of the cat was subjected to lab tests after it suffered weight lost and lack of energy. The lab tests results revealed that the pet has Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), which is a virus categorized in the same family with HIV. Don’t panic. Though FIV is a lentivirus similar to HIV, and causes a disease in cats similar to AIDS in humans, it is a highly species-specific virus that infects only felines.
Several studies have failed to show any evidence that FIV can infect or cause disease in humans. Dr. Dhaval Shah, one of the pathologists involved with the aforementioned medical laboratory confirmed this. He said: “humans cannot be infected
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This article from the BBC gives hope that corals can survive rising ocean temperatures. The world's coral reefs are largely ignored by most, but they are as important to the ocean (and the overall health of the planet) as the rainforests
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This article from the BBC gives hope that corals can survive rising ocean temperatures. The world's coral reefs are largely ignored by most, but they are as important to the ocean (and the overall health of the planet) as the rainforests are to land. The diversity of aquatic life (both flora and fauna--in the case of corals, both flora and fauna living symbiotically in one organism) has led many to term coral reefs "the rainforests of the sea."
We will be studying coral bleaching very closely this summer at The Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology to see if another major bleaching event occurs (like last summer). For those of us concerned about reefs (and for those who could care less) this article is very good news.
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Hjemkomst – (Yem-komst: Norwegian for Homecoming)
Moorhead is located in western Minnesota just across the Red River of the North from Fargo, North Dakota. It is not an area that conjures up images
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Hjemkomst – (Yem-komst: Norwegian for Homecoming)
Moorhead is located in western Minnesota just across the Red River of the North from Fargo, North Dakota. It is not an area that conjures up images of ocean going vessels, but the ancestors of many of these landlocked residents came from the seafaring nations of Scandinavia. The Vikings were the kings of the seas from the 8th through the 11th centuries. It is said that Viking explorers discovered the New World nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus. The Vikings’ main vessel for sailing was the long boat. The long boat was well adapted for sailing the seas and navigating shallow rivers thanks to the flexibility of its hull and its shallow draft.
Robert Asp, a guidance counselor at Moorhead Junior High School, first talked of building and sailing a replica of an ancient Viking ship with his brother Bjarne. Bob Asp studied books about Vikings while recovering from a severe fall during the summer of 1971. The dream of sailing a Viking ship to Norway began to take shape. Bjarne Asp studied Norwegian history at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in the summer of 1971. Bjarne provided Bob Asp with books about Vikings. Bob Asp based the design of his ship on the Gokstad burial ship. The Gokstad had been unearthed from a burial mound near Sandefjord, Norway in 1880. The ship was dated with a construction date circa 800 AD.
After one year of planning, Bob Asp was ready to begin work on the ship. Bob searched the countryside for trees. Maynard Gulbranson’s farm, north of East Grand Forks, was the principle source of lumber. Lumber was also donated by family members, friends, and local communities. Bob originally estimated that it would take 15 oak trees to build a Viking ship. The Hjemkomst ultimately required well over 100 trees.
Bob Asp carefully selected the trees used for the ship. White oak trees were selected for their flexibility required in ship construction. The first lumber for the Hjemkomst was milled at Harvey Engen’s sawmill north of Viking, Minnesota, on July 4, 1972. Most of the lumber was 1″-2″ thick and approximately 8″ wide. A total of approximately 11,000 feet of lumber was sawed. The lumber was carefully sorted, piled and left to dry for two years. Hot paraffin wax was brushed on the ends to help prevent twisting and bending of the lumber. Milling was later done in Rollag, Minnesota.
Hawley Ship Yard
It was difficult to find a place large enough to construct a Viking ship. The Asp’s backyard was too small. Many adequate buildings in the Fargo-Moorhead area were being torn down for urban renewal projects. In 1973, Bob Asp heard that the Leslie Welter Potato Warehouse in Hawley, Minnesota was empty. The Hawley City Council purchased the building and le
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Chemicals in Mattresses – Not with Berkeley Ergonomics…
The bedroom is our sanctuary, and we count on our bed to provide a safe place for relaxation, restful sleep, and rejuvenation. Unfortunately, many conventional mattresses harbor chemicals and
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Chemicals in Mattresses – Not with Berkeley Ergonomics…
The bedroom is our sanctuary, and we count on our bed to provide a safe place for relaxation, restful sleep, and rejuvenation. Unfortunately, many conventional mattresses harbor chemicals and allergens that can adversely affect our sleep and health.
Chemical substances, which can remain in the mattress from the manufacturing process or be deliberately added, reduce sleep quality by impairing breathing, and synthetic materials trap moisture in the mattress causing allergens such as molds, mildews, and dust mites to thrive. Adequate oxygen intake is essential to a good night’s sleep.
Most mattresses made in the U.S. are composed of polyester fiberfill, polyurethane, and tempered steel coils. A few are made of visco-elastic “memory” foam.
Many of these mattresses contain chemical residues, which are the by-products of material processing or the use of solvent-based glues, dyes, and fire-retardant treatments during manufacturing.
These chemicals can off-gas over time and cause breathing problems for many people with allergies, asthma, or sleep apnea. Some chemicals found in beds pose serious health risks.
PBDE (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) are sometimes added to polyurethane foams as fire-retardants. PBDE have been linked to numerous health risks, and California has banned their use.
Mattresses and bedding can trigger allergies
As we sleep, the heat and perspiration we produce create the ideal environment for allergens like dust mites, molds, and mildews. Thus, the construction of a mattress should ideally consist of breathable, natural materials that allow air to circulate and moisture to evaporate. Mattresses comprised of synthetic materials trap moisture and become havens for such allergens, contributing to allergic symptoms, poor breathing, and worsening asthma in many people. And according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, dust-mite covers for mattresses did not alleviate symptoms.
Berkeley Ergonomics Mattresses at Scott Jordan Furniture
Our system is designed and built with clean materials to promote deep sleep. Every component we use is tested and rated environmentally safe by Oeko-Tex, an Austrian testing board with stringent environmental standards.
We never use PDBE’s or chemical flame retardant, and we refuse to buy from companies that do. Our stretch cotton cover is quilted to wool for breath ability and reduced humidity. And we offer a full line of natural bedding, including The Oxygen Pillow, stretch cotton mattress pads, and wool-filled comforters that are Oeko-Tex certified.
Please take a look at these links that address the problems associated with harmful chemicals in the home:
Clean New York – A Project of Womens’ Voices for the Earth
The Just Green Partnership – Working for Environmental Justice for New York’s People and Communities
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
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A potent antioxident, anti-inflammatory!
Story at-a-glance -
is a potent antioxidant with anti-inflammatory compounds that may help relieve pain, and stiffness of muscles and joints
- Cinnamon may boost brain function, help with weight loss,
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A potent antioxident, anti-inflammatory!
Story at-a-glance -
is a potent antioxidant with anti-inflammatory compounds that may help relieve pain, and stiffness of muscles and joints
- Cinnamon may boost brain function, help with weight loss,
and helps with blood sugar control
By Dr. Mercola
The warming spice cinnamon has
been valued for its culinary, medicinal, and natural preservative powers since ancient times. First described by Shen Nung, the father of Chinese Medicine, circa 2800 BC, ancient Egyptians used cinnamon as part of the mummification process.
In the first
century CE, Europeans treasured the spice so much that they paid 15 times more for it than silver.1 Cinnamon
is actually the brown bark of the cinnamon tree. It can be found in quill form (the dried “stick” variety) or ground as a fine powder.
Rich in essential oil, cinnamon contains active components including cinnamaldehyde,
cinnamyl acetate, and cinnamyl alcohol, which account for some of its many therapeutic benefits.2
7 Surprising Reasons to Eat More Cinnamon
There’s good reason to use cinnamon for far more than just a dash in your morning coffee or tea. Cinnamon is known to enhance your antioxidant defenses, and it's been found to kill E.
coli and many other bacteria. Its anti-inflammatory compounds help relieve pain and stiffness of muscles and joints due to arthritis.
It also helps prevent urinary tract infections, tooth decay, and gum disease, and helps with blood sugar control.3 Specifically, seven top reasons to add more cinnamon to your diet include:
1. Calm Inflammation
Cinnamon is an anti-inflammatory, in part due to its cinnamaldehyde content.4
According to research published in the journal Molecular Biology, chronic inflammation plays a major role in the development of various neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, brain tumor,
In Asia, where people regularly consume spices, rates of certain neurodegenerative diseases are much lower than in the US.
The study suggests that cinnamon (and other spices like turmeric,
red pepper, black pepper, licorice, clove, ginger, garlic, and coriander) target inflammatory pathways, thereby potentially helping to prevent neurodegenerative
Boost Brain Function
The scent of cinnamon boosts brain function, according to research presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences.
Participants who smelled cinnamon (or chewed
cinnamon-flavored gum) had improved scores on tasks related to attentional processes, virtual recognition memory, working memory, and visual-motor response speed.6
The scent of cinnamon worked better than both peppermint and jasmine at enhancing cognitive function.
3. Support Weight Loss
reduces blood glucose concentration and enhances insulin sensitivity. In obese and healthy-weight individuals, cinnamon is also effective in moderating postprandial glucose response (or the amount of sugar in your blood after a meal).7
By helping to regulate blood sugar spikes, cinnamon may have a favorable impact on hunger and weight gain. Nutritionist Tara Ostrowe,
RD, MS, of Columbia University told The Express Tribune:8
really is the new skinny food. Scientists already credit cinnamon in helping lower blood sugar concentration and improve insulin sensitivity. When less sugar is stored as fat, this translates to more help for your body when it comes to weight loss.”
4. Soothe a Sore Throat or Cough
By soaking cinnamon sticks in water, you create cinnamon water with a water-soluble
fiber called mucilage. This helps to coat and soothe your throat.
Cinnamon also has antibacterial properties that may help certain sore throats, and its warming properties increase blood flow and blood oxygen levels to help fight infection. According
to traditional Chinese medicine, cinnamon is useful for phlegmy coughs.9
5. Anti-Cancer Properties
The cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon appears to suppress colon cancer cells10
and may also be effective against human liver cancer cells.11 As reported by the George Mateljan Foundation:12
“In addition to its unique essential oils, cinnamon is an excellent source of
fiber and the trace mineral manganese while also a very good source of calcium.
The combination of calcium and fiber in cinnamon is important and can be helpful for the prevention of several different conditions.
Both calcium and
fiber can bind to bile salts and help remove them from the body. By removing bile, fiber helps to prevent the damage that certain bile salts can cause to colon cells, thereby reducing the risk of colon cancer.”
6. Relieve Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Children with ADHD who received cinnamon aromatherapy along with rehabilitation had
significantly reduced symptoms.13,14
For starters, cinnamon has been shown to enhance motivation and performance, while decreasing frustration and anxiety while driving,15
which may explain some of its beneficial effects on ADHD symptoms.
In addition, children with ADHD have been shown to be under increased oxidative stress,16
and cinnamon is a powerful antioxidant that may help counteract this.
7. Diabetes Support
Cinnamon is known to help improve glycemi
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A new kind of matter – dubbed a “time crystal” – has been created by two teams of scientists in a feat once considered theoretically impossible, and could lead to quantum computer breakthrough.
Normal crystals, anything from diamonds to snowflakes, have
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A new kind of matter – dubbed a “time crystal” – has been created by two teams of scientists in a feat once considered theoretically impossible, and could lead to quantum computer breakthrough.
Normal crystals, anything from diamonds to snowflakes, have atoms arranged in a repeating three-dimensional lattice.
However the atoms in time crystals – the existence of which was first suggested in 2012 – repeat a pattern across the fourth dimension, time.
This essentially means they should oscillate forever without any external influence.
Before their apparent creation, some researchers had expressed doubt that time crystals could be made as perpetual motion contradicts the laws of physics.
But it is thought to be possible partly because of the strange way matter behaves at the quantum level.
A time crystal seems to be a closed system, so no energy is lost to the outside world. And it also appears to have properties similar to superconductors so electrons can move without any resistance.
This allows the observed motion to continue, theoretically at least, for all time.
The practical applications are thought to be far off, but it is believed the crystals’ unique properties could help make quantum computing a reality.
Prototype quantum computers exist, but need to be heavily shielded from the slightest interference from the outside world. The crystals could help protect the stored information, overcoming one of the greatest obstacles to the widespread use of computers many millions of times faster than the ones used today.
One of the teams, led by researchers at Maryland University, created the first time crystal from electrically charged atoms of the element ytterbium.
They used an electric field to levitate 10 of these atoms above a surface, then repeatedly hit them with a pulse from a laser.
The atoms began to flip in a regular pattern by themselves, but they did so in an odd way. Rather than moving at the same rate as the laser pulses, they flipped at half the pace.
The researchers compared this to hitting a piano key twice, but just getting one note, or squeezing a sponge regularly but seeing it rebound only once every second squeeze.
This, apparently, is the tell-tale sign of a time crystal. The purported breakthrough was revealed in October last year, but the scientific world has been waiting to see the full details in a peer-reviewed journal.
The Maryland team and another led by experts at Harvard University have now published separate papers in Nature, one of the world’s leading journals.
Professor Andrew Potter, of Texas University at Austin, who was part of the Maryland-led team, said: “This opens the door to a whole new world of non-equilibrium phases.
“We’ve taken these theoretical ideas that we’ve been poking around for the last couple of years and actually built it in the laboratory.
“Hopefully, this is just the first example of these, with many more to come.”
However, in a commentary published by Nature, one leading expert in the field suggested more research was needed to prove without doubt that time crystals truly exist.
Professor Chetan Nayak, of University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote that based on our current knowledge it had been natural to see if it was possible to “spontaneously break the time-translational symmetry of the laws of physics”.
But he said it was possible that the unusual flipping motion seen in the purported time crystals might not last forever.
“Both groups present evidence of a time crystal,” Professor Nayak said, “but
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The Residual procedure calculates the global residual vector of a linear system represented by an ELL Matrix and a two Mathematic Vectors.
|call Residual (Residual_MV, A_ELLM, X_MV, B_MV)
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The Residual procedure calculates the global residual vector of a linear system represented by an ELL Matrix and a two Mathematic Vectors.
|call Residual (Residual_MV, A_ELLM, X_MV, B_MV)|
|A_ELLM||An ELL_Matrix object to be multiplied.|
|X_MV||A Mathematic_Vector object to be multiplied. The Structure of the Mathematic_Vector must be the same as the Column_Structure of the ELL_Matrix.|
|B_MV||Mathematic_Vector object to be subtracted from the MatVec. The Structure of the Mathematic_Vector must be the same as the Row_Structure of A_ELLM.|
|Residual_MV||Mathematic_Vector object result of multiplying A_ELLM by X_MV and subtracting B_MV. The resultant Mathematic_Vector will have the same Structure as the Row_Structure of the ELL_Matrix.|
The Residual_ELL_Matrix code listing contains additional documentation.
Michael L. Hall
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The last ten years ultrasonic flow meter is very popular not only in the laboratory but also in many industries such as industrial water treatment, industrial waste water treatment, food and beverage industry and chemical industry. Due to popular demand, Ultrasonic flow meter
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The last ten years ultrasonic flow meter is very popular not only in the laboratory but also in many industries such as industrial water treatment, industrial waste water treatment, food and beverage industry and chemical industry. Due to popular demand, Ultrasonic flow meter effective enough because the price is not too expensive and inexpensive installation costs and maintenance costs can be said to be free maintenance
Another advantage is the use of ultrasonic flow meter accuracy is adequate and flexible. With ultrasonic flow meters, the user can choose from a variety of electronic packages, and also use the device in areas requiring explosion-proof devices. value-added benefits this provides a striking contrast to the turbine or variable-area flow meters, which is less accurate, offers the ability to output less invasive to the process media.
As any engineer knows, ultrasonic flow meters measure the velocity of a liquid through a pipe by using ultrasonic transducers. The results are variable depending on the temperature, density or viscosity of the liquid. Some meters are also able to measure the liquid level and this, with the pipe size, enables the correct calculation of the flow rate and total discharge involved.
The most significant advantage of ultrasonic flow meter
is an ultrasonic flowmeter ability to measure flow without disrupting the flow of both liquid and gas. Noninvasive Measurements were taken from two or more transducers attached to the exterior of the pipe. Shift the frequency of the ultrasonic signal sent through a liquid or gas is measured, then the signal is sent through a cable to the electronics housed in the flow computer.
Other advantages of using ultrasonic flow meters include :
- Improved accuracy
- No pressure drop
- High turn-down ratio
- No moving parts
- Minimum maintenance
- Long-term cost savings
Choosing the type and model of Ultrasonic Flow meter
To determine what type and model of ultrasonic flow meter
that best matches our desires and effective for a particular application is to consider where and how the flow meter will be used. There are three types of ultrasonic flow meter the most preferred and and find that the Hand Held ultrasonic Flow Meter
, portable Ultrasonic flow meter and Open Channel Flow Meter.
These are non-intrusive, clamp-on devices used to measure flow in pipes ranging from 10 mm to 10,000 mm in diameter with incredibly high accuracy. In fact, independently certified meters have achieved accuracy better than 1% of the actual flow. This is a robust range of flow meter
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It has been 100 years since Albert Einstein created the General Theory of Relativity. To celebrate this historic milestone, the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University is embarking on a global project to honor the life and legacy of Albert Einstein and to identify
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It has been 100 years since Albert Einstein created the General Theory of Relativity. To celebrate this historic milestone, the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University is embarking on a global project to honor the life and legacy of Albert Einstein and to identify and inspire the next generation of brilliant minds on the planet.
In The News
“The broad initiative encompasses several projects that celebrate Albert Einstein’s legacy, promote peace and advocate for greater education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (collectively known as “STEM”).”
— The Jerusalem Post
“To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which was originally published in 1916, the Albert Einstein Foundation has created a 3D printed book in the shape of the Nobel Prize’s winner’s recognizable face. ”
The evening celebrated the Einstein Legacy Project's various initiatives, including the world's first 3D-printed book and The Next Einstein competition: an annual search for innovative ideas that best represent Albert Einstein's legacy of discovery, invention and humanitarian ideals.
— Canada News Wire
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posted by Mrs. Jones.
A short-putter throws the shot with an initial speed of 16 m/s at a 32 degree angle to the horizontal.
Question: Calculate the horizontal distance traveled by the shot if it leaves the athletes hand
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posted by Mrs. Jones.
A short-putter throws the shot with an initial speed of 16 m/s at a 32 degree angle to the horizontal.
Question: Calculate the horizontal distance traveled by the shot if it leaves the athletes hand at a height of 2.05 m above the ground?
- 45.8m was not the correct answer and I have worked the problem several times over
At the top point
h=vₒ•t1-g•t1²/2 =16•1.63-9.8•(1.63)²/2 =13,1 m.
L1= vₒ•cos32•t1=16•0.85•1.63=22,12 m.
H=h+hₒ=13,1 + 2.05=15.15 m.
t2=sqrt(2H/g) = sqrt(2•15.15/9.8) =1.76 s.
L2= vₒ•cos32•t2=16•0.85•1.76=23.94 m.
L =L1+L2 = 22.12+23.94 = 46.06 m.
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- "So the boggart sitting in the darkness within has not yet assumed a form. He does not yet know what will frighten the person on the other side of the door. Nobody knows what a boggart looks like when he
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- "So the boggart sitting in the darkness within has not yet assumed a form. He does not yet know what will frighten the person on the other side of the door. Nobody knows what a boggart looks like when he is alone, but when I let him out, he will immediately become whatever each of us most fears."
- —Professor Lupin to his third year class in 1993[src]
A boggart is an amortal shape-shifting non-being that takes on the form of the viewer's worst fear. Because of their shape-shifting ability, no one knows what a boggart looks like when it is alone, as it instantly changes into one's worst fears when one first sees it.
When facing a boggart, it is best to have someone else along, to try to confuse it, since facing more than one person at once would make it indecisive as to what form it must take, usually a mixed-up amalgam of the victims' fears.
Nobody knows what a Boggart looks like if nobody is there to see it, although it continues to exist, usually giving evidence of its presence by rattling, shaking or scratching the object in which it is hiding. Boggarts particularly like confined spaces, but may also be found lurking in woods and around shadowy corners.
- "A Boggart is a shape-shifting creature that will assume the form of whatever most frightens the person who encounters it. "
- —A boggart's basic nature[src]
Like a poltergeist, a boggart is not and never has been truly alive. It is one of the strange non-beings that populate the magical world, for which there is no equivalent in the Muggle realm. Boggarts can be made to disappear, but more boggarts will inevitably arise to take their place. Like poltergeists and the more sinister Dementors, they seem to be generated and sustained by human emotions.
Boggarts sometimes do not have the same strength or magic as what they imitate, for example, a boggart transformed into a Dementor has weaker magic than a real Dementor, according to Lupin, or having a deadly scream as a true Banshee, which would otherwise have slaughtered the entire class. This was partly why he chose to simulate a Dementor attack in Harry's presence to help him perfect the use of the Patronus Charm.
When a witch or wiz
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We will explore the basic concepts of microcontrollers using Arduino, an easy-to- use, open-source microcontroller platform, perfect for anyone who wants to create interactive objects, installations, or instruments.
It combines a simple i/o board with a development
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We will explore the basic concepts of microcontrollers using Arduino, an easy-to- use, open-source microcontroller platform, perfect for anyone who wants to create interactive objects, installations, or instruments.
It combines a simple i/o board with a development environment, based on Processing, and can take input from sensors, control electronic devices and communicate between various electronic hardware and your computer.
A laptop running OS X, Windows, or Linux with a USB port
A basic knowledge of programming and/or electronics is helpful but not necessary.
Things to Bring:
Wire Cutters/ Strippers
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Warning that pregnant women should avoid paracetamol
Pregnant women have been issued a stark warning about using paracetamol while they are expecting, with research suggesting it can reduce the amount of testosterone produced by their unborn sons.
Scientists
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Warning that pregnant women should avoid paracetamol
Pregnant women have been issued a stark warning about using paracetamol while they are expecting, with research suggesting it can reduce the amount of testosterone produced by their unborn sons.
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have advised women that if they take the painkiller they should be strict about sticking to current guidelines. They state as small an amount as possible should be consumed over the shortest period it can be.
The team conducted research on mice and it was discovered that rodents which had three doses of the medication daily for a week had 45 per cent less testosterone than those given a placebo.
The research is important because the hormone is vital for men in the long term. It's made in the testicles and boys who aren't exposed to enough in the womb could have a greater chance of infertility and testicular cancer when they are older.
In the experiment, the mice had human testicular tissue grafted onto them and were then given varying amounts of paracetamol. The amount of testosterone produced by the tissue was then recorded.
It was discovered that using the painkiller for a day had no impact, but taking it for a week did.
"This study adds to existing evidence that prolonged use of paracetamol in pregnancy may increase the risk of reproductive disorders in male babies," Edinburgh University's Dr Rod Mitchell said.
"We would advise that pregnant women should follow current guidance that the painkiller be taken at the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time."
The Royal College of Midwives' head of education, Carmel Lloyd, echoed this, adding that if pregnant women can't control their symptoms by limiting their paracetamol use they should ask their doctor for help.
Dr Martin Ward-Platt of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health explained that there are occasions when women will need the medication. Fever is one of them, as it is helpful in bringing a person's temperature down. Fever is particularly dangerous in expectant mothers as it's been linked to things like heart malformations and spina bifida.
"My message to expectant mothers is clear - avoid over-use of paracetamol but if you do have a fever, or any other sort of pain where you would normally use paracetamol, seek medical advice," Dr Ward-Platt said.
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Echter wel in het Engels
The frog that breaks its own legs and grows claws. The beetle that sprays a jet of boiling fluid at predators. The fish that engulfs its enemy in a thick casing of slime. The ant
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Echter wel in het Engels
The frog that breaks its own legs and grows claws. The beetle that sprays a jet of boiling fluid at predators. The fish that engulfs its enemy in a thick casing of slime. The ant that explodes. These are just a few of the incredibly unusual ways animals have evolved to defend themselves against predators. If you enjoyed learning about the strangest endangered animals on earth, be prepared for even more oddities with this list of strange animal defense mechanisms. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Malaysian exploding ant
(Image via cafeguaguau)
You know Malaysian ants – always exploding all over themselves, ruining the fun. All kidding aside, it’s really true. Malaysian ants internally combust under threat, causing their bodies to explode (they wait until their enemies are close enough to die before detonating). Camponotus saundersi soldier ants have large glands full of poison inside their bodies. When they sense a threat, they contract their abs, causing the glands on either side of their bodies to explode and spray poison.
(Images via reefseekers and alaskaunderseatours)
The sea cucumber can literally take on different body states – from hard to liquid – in order to defend itself. From wikipedia: “Like other echinoderms the cuke has a type of collagen in its skin capable of excreting or absorbing more water effectively changing from a ‘liquid’ to a ’solid.’ They can turn their bodies into mush, climb through small cracks and then solidify into small lumps so that they cannot be extracted.” Even more amazing than effectively scattering yourself into pieces of your collective whole and then reassembling: the ability to turn yourself inside out so that your digestive tract’s toxic juices poison your enemies. Yeah, the sea cucumber can do that, too. Do not mess.
(Images via myfoxmaine and NOAA)
The Pacific Ocean Hagfish has a disgusting way of defending itself. When under attack, it oozes a suffocating slime from its many pores that envelops its predator in a fatal mass of fibrous goo. The hagfish, unfortunately, sometimes falls prey to its own defense mechanism, but normally it twists itself into knots to escape the gelatinous goop.
(Images via New Scientist)
The hairy frog or “horror frog” intentionally breaks its own bones to turn out a wicked set of cat-like claws. Like Wolverwine, only slimy and a lot more terrifying because it’s a freaking frog. Scientists don’t know if the claw is able to retract once it pierces through the skin. According to New Scientist: “Trichobatrachus robustus actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog’s toe pads, probably when it is threatened.” Also, it is apparently hairy. This doesn’t stop Cameroon locals from spearing and roasting hairy frogs as a tasty snack.
(Images via Canterbury)
Oh, there’s nothing like a pulsating jet of foul boiling anal fluid to say “Howdy, neighbor!” Thebombardier beetle may look innocent enough, but it is famous for being able to spray boiling hot and chemically toxic bodily fluids in the direction of any would-be predator. The bombardier beetle doesn’t exactly melt in your mouth (but it will melt you).
(Image via salamandarcandy)
The horned lizard is a seemingly normal looking lizard found in the southwest region of the United States. It doesn’t use its horns to defend itself, as you might expect. Rather, when attacked, it pressures its own sinus cavities until the blood vessels in its eyes burst, and it sprays its attacker with blood from its eyes.
(Image via Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources)
The skunk, or polecat, is actually an attractive little mammal and some people keep them as pets (sans glands, of course). Skunks are omnivores but will turn to trash and carrion when no fresh insects or honeybees, their favorite food, are available. Though their amazing musk can be smelled miles away, their vision is exceptionally weak,
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ADHD: Treating Your Child Without Medication
ADHD is a neurobehavioral development disorder that affects both children and adults. In the U.S. alone, there are approximately 13 million people who suffer from what we commonly call ADHD
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ADHD: Treating Your Child Without Medication
ADHD is a neurobehavioral development disorder that affects both children and adults. In the U.S. alone, there are approximately 13 million people who suffer from what we commonly call ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). ADHD is also prevalent among African-Americans and can have devastating effects long-term. For various reasons, we are often reluctant to accept certain mental health conditions as being a part of our community, and we may naturally reject any form of treatment available, especially medication.
Sure, there have been cases of misdiagnoses within our school systems, especially. However, if your child is experiencing symptoms related to ADHD, it is critical to seek out a licensed health care provider that can test for a potential diagnosis and develop a treatment plan.
Contrary to what many people think, children with ADHD are often gifted. However, if gone untreated, the symptoms of ADHD can lead to a lifetime of underachievement in the most intelligent child. Consistent forgetfulness, a lack of organization and attention, and problems with relationships can be devastating and get worse over time. Children and adults with ADHD will very often suffer from anxiety and depression as a result of consistent criticism and under-performance in school or work.
Therefore, getting treated should not be optional as these symptoms have the potential to make individuals feel alone, ashamed, and doomed for failure throughout their lives. To further complicate things, the untreated effects of these emotional symptoms, along with the ADHD symptoms, can often lead to additional mental disorders and even criminal behaviors.
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From the 12th to the 19th centuries, Japanese society was dominated by the samurai, elite warriors with a fierce code of honor. While wars were almost constant on the islands during this period, it was also a time of great
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From the 12th to the 19th centuries, Japanese society was dominated by the samurai, elite warriors with a fierce code of honor. While wars were almost constant on the islands during this period, it was also a time of great artistic achievement, one that extended to the weapons and equipment of the samurai.
Starting on October 21, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will host the largest collection of samurai artifacts ever assembled in the United States.
Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor 1156-1868 brings together more than 200 masterpieces of traditional Japanese art, including swords, bows, armor, banners, and other equipment selected from public and private Japanese collections. Many of the items are not only beautiful but unusual, such as the rare example of 18th century woman’s armor pictured here. Also included are a series of Japanese sword blades that, despite the name of the exhibition, date as far back as the 5th century. An accompanying exhibition displays some related objects from the Met’s permanent collection that have been recently restored in Japan.
The exhibition includes 34 National Treasures, 64 Important Cultural Properties, and 6 Important Art Objects. The Japanese government has a hierarchy of designations for important objects. The most precious are labeled National Treasures, and this exhibition has three times the number of National Treasures of any previous exhibition outside of Japan. National Treasures can include buildings, objects, even artists. That so many of these one-of-a-kind objects have made it to New York is a major coup for the Met. You’d have to go to Japan to see a finer collection of samurai arms and armor.
The show runs to January 10.
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Garamond is the original typographic naming disaster–a source of ongoing confusion. There are many types called “Garamond”, almost to the point where garamond has emerged as a category among serif text faces. What most of the
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Garamond is the original typographic naming disaster–a source of ongoing confusion. There are many types called “Garamond”, almost to the point where garamond has emerged as a category among serif text faces. What most of the Garamonds have in common is that they are more-or-less accurate revivals either of type cut by Claude Garamond in the late fifteenth century, or of type cut by Jean Jannon in the mid-16th century.
The basic story is this. A French punchcutter of the fifteenth century, Claude Garamond, was held in high esteem. In the early twentieth century the producers of matrices for machine setting were keen to revive or recut historical typefaces, and several versions of typefaces named for Garamond, and supposedly based on his typefaces, were produced: by ATF in 1918, by Lanston Monotype (drawn by Frederic Goudy) in 1921, and by English Monotype in 1922.
It turned out that the original of these types, then believed to be the work of Claude Garamond, were not: they were the work of a different French punchcutter, Jean Jannon. This was discovered and made public by Beatrice Warde in an article for The Fleuron in 1926. But by then the Garamond (or, as Goudy would have it, Garamont) name had stuck.
It is not hard, when the typefaces are seen side-by-side, to identify differences between the various Garamonds, and to perceive (broadly) two different “families”; but the similarities are quite striking too. Generally choice depends on aesthetic preference rather than historical correctness. These are usable typefaces with a slight air of conscious refinement that appeals to some and repels others.
Note that Jan Tschichold’s Sabon, though not called Garamond takes Garamond’s types as its starting point.
ITC Garamond is very much a creature of the 1970s (designed by Tony Stan). It is a type which tends to arouse strong feelings (not usually good ones). But even its supporters accept that this typeface, with its large x-height is a Garamond only in name.
Because of the profusion of garamond-like typefaces and the early confusion around its naming, it is common to see a typeface referred to as a garamond, the way we might categorize a typeface as a blackletter or a script.
In addition to Sabon, MvB Verdigris is another contemporary face that could be called a garamond.
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Bad Faith (French, mauvaise foi) is a social-psychological and philosophical idea conceived by Jean-Paul Sarte where one apparently ignores the possibility of actively choosing one’s commitments. Instead, one becomes a passive pawn for external forces
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Bad Faith (French, mauvaise foi) is a social-psychological and philosophical idea conceived by Jean-Paul Sarte where one apparently ignores the possibility of actively choosing one’s commitments. Instead, one becomes a passive pawn for external forces, or merely avoids making a decision about what to commit to.
An example could, perhaps, be the Nazi guard who arbitrarily executes ordinary people for Adolf Hitler despite inner moral attitudes decrying this behavior.
The idea of bad faith is predicated on the assumption of a “gap of nothingness.”
The “gap of nothingness” concept suggests that human beings are not mere stimulus-response machines (à la behaviorism) but possess the psychological freedom needed to make responsible decisions in response to incoming stimuli. The illustration often given in undergraduate humanities courses, rightly or wrongly, is that animals will eat whenever hungry, whereas human beings usually delay eating until a personally or socially appropriate time.
I think Sartre has a very complex connotation to the term [bad faith]. Sometimes wide, sometimes narrow. Very closely related to the concept of authenticity, he has used the term to show the shackles that man chooses despite the knowledge of freedom, at least deep within. » See in context
More examples of bad faith can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_%28existentialism%29
- Tangent: Bad Faith, part 1 (lancek4.wordpress.com)
- Tangent: Bad Faith, part 2 (lancek4.wordpress.com)
- Shareholder accuses Wausau Paper CEO of ‘bad faith,’ nominates slate to board (jsonline.com)
- Sartre on Bad Faith (psychologytoday.com)
- Paul Krugman: Broccoli and Bad Faith (economistsview.typepad.com)
- The Disease (epages.wordpress.com)
- BLOG: Chinese authorities plan to take action on bad faith utility model and design patent applications (iam-magazine.com)
- Bad Faith Insurance Companies (questadj.wordpress.com)
- ECommerce company Eyemagine found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (tldmagazine.com)
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United Kingdom Red and Blue Class. (Reception classes)
The Foundation Stage Curriculum
The Foundation Stage begins when children enter pre-school provision. This includes Child-minder’s, Nursery, Pre-school and Playgroups. The last year of the Foundation
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United Kingdom Red and Blue Class. (Reception classes)
The Foundation Stage Curriculum
The Foundation Stage begins when children enter pre-school provision. This includes Child-minder’s, Nursery, Pre-school and Playgroups. The last year of the Foundation Stage is often referred to as the Reception year. During their time in Year R we will be laying the foundations for learning and getting your child ready for more formal learning as they enter into Key Stage 1.
The Foundation Stage curriculum consists of seven learning areas;
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Communication and Language
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
Our learning environment is welcoming, attractive, stimulating, fun and exciting and has been carefully planned and organised into clear zones, which incorporate each of the seven areas of learning and development.
- Book corner
- Mark-making area
- Role-play area
- Maths area
- Construction area
- Small world area
- Creative area (which includes: play dough, junk modelling, painting, cutting and sticking)
- Fine motor area
- Puzzle area
- Interest area
- Outside area
In each zone all of the resources and equipment are clearly labelled and accessible to the children with space provided to display models and keep any work in progress. We encourage the children to be independent The resources and provision are regularly replenished and enhanced by staff in order to cater to children’s interests and are also flexible, enabling them to be used in different areas and in different ways. The areas have also been carefully arranged to allow children space for activity, rest and refreshment.
Our outdoor area is just as important as the inside and the children are able to move freely between the two on a daily basis during child initiated learning time. We also encourage children to use this space whatever the weather!
All of the children are taught to handle equipment carefully and to help with tidying up in order to develop a sense of responsibility.
At Milton Park Primary School we believe in providing the children in the reception year with a fun and exciting experience where they are encouraged to talk, discover, create, practise, rehearse, explore, investigate and learn through their play.
We will give them opportunities to work and play with adults and with friends, learn independence, learn indoors and outdoors, make a mess and tidy up! The children are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning by making choices about the areas they play in. This is called Child Initiated Learning.
The Foundation Stage Day.
As soon as the children start school we teach them a number of routines which help encourage them to be independent and take responsibility for their own belongings. (E.g. hanging up their own coats, putting their book bags in the tub and self-registering)
Child Initiated Learning
The children are able to move freely and independently around the base choosing the activity that they want to play in. The adults use this time to interact with the children to develop and extend their learning experiences. This will usually take place during the afternoon sessions. We call this time “Busy Bee time”
Observations and Assessments
During the first six weeks at school your child will be observed and assessed in an informal way using the Development Matters ages and stages. This information will be used to identify where the children are and what their next steps will be. Learning Journals are used to record children’s learning and development, progress and achievement during their foundation year. We collect evidence throughout the year which includes photographs, examples of work and observations. We encourage parents/carers to contribute to their child’s Learning Journals and provide them with slips of paper so that they can record any significant learning moments at home.
Throughout the school day the children will have the opportunity to;
- work as a whole class on the carpet for short periods of time.
- work in small groups on a focused task with an adult.
- work 1:1 with an adult.
- work independently on a task.
- work cooperatively as part of a group.
Every half term we will be introducing a new topic to the children. Here are the topics that we will be learning this year.
|Autumn 1||Magnificent Me|
|Spring 2||Knights, Princesses and Castles|
|Summer 1||If you go down to the woods today ………..|
|Summer 2||We’re all going on a summer holiday.|
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Although they'd become comfortable with the practice format, the ability of play late on the beat as a synchronised ensemble still eluded them. Whenever the 'laid back' call was issued from a well-synchronised 'in the pocket',
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Although they'd become comfortable with the practice format, the ability of play late on the beat as a synchronised ensemble still eluded them. Whenever the 'laid back' call was issued from a well-synchronised 'in the pocket', the unit dissolved quickly into a mish-mash of lates.
I can only put that down to different individual offsets.
Offset: A physiological phenomenon
If a motor signal is issued from the brain to the arms and legs at the same time, the arms will move before the legs will. This is because:
- the signal path lengths are shorter to arms than to legs; and,
- arms have lower mass than legs and so can accelerate more quickly.
α-motorneurones have a nerve conduction velocity range of between 80-120 metres per second. That sounds really quick, but if there is a half-metre difference in signal path length between arms and legs, there would be a lag of at least 4/1,000s of a second (by simple calculation) and that's the best-case scenario. It might not sound like much, but that's the difference between an 'in the pocket' and a'slightly late' attack. In practice, I see offsets in the order of tens of thousands.
So, if two concurrently-timed signals are issued from the brain to the arms and legs, and the arms play the maracas very late on the beat, the legs will step off-time. This is the challenge of playing and dancing late: there has to be near-zero offset.
Near-zero offset can only be achieved by sending impulses to the legs BEFORE impulses to the arms.
A mish-mash of lates
The phenomenon of everyone playing different interpretations of 'late' is unsurprising given the factors stacked against them, different perceptions of beat; signal path lengths; limb masses; and conduction rates.
The efforts where valiant, and occasionally successful. However at the third session of asking it was time to change tack. Instead of going the whole hog, as we did with the push, I started using the cues "slightly late of pocket" and "a little later". My scientific self wrinkled its nose at the arbitrary terms (how late is slightly late?) but the change worked. It got participants to play later synchronously.
We'll have to inch our way to the back of the bus.
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The Aristotelian tragic hero
Transcript of The Aristotelian tragic hero
What makes up a Tragic Hero
Hamlet: his indecisiveness lead to ruin his and his mother's relationship and lead to Ophelia's suicide
Examples of the tragic hero:
Oedipus: his pride made him disobey the god's prophecy and the outcome was the opposite of what he wanted: he became a nuisance to the gods
Odysseus: He was prideful in himself and when he defeated the Cyclops shouted his name which Poseidon heard and cursed him into going through another storm which made it take longer for his journey to be completed
Macbeth: Macbeth's fatal flaw was that he wanted to prophecy to come true so bad he made it happen himself by killing the king which got him into more trouble than he wanted which ended up leading to his death when Macduff killed him.
Aristotle shared his view of what makes a tragic hero in his Poetics. Aristotle suggests that a hero of a tragedy must evoke in the audience a sense of pity or fear, saying, “the change of fortune presented must not be the spectacle of a virtuous man brought from prosperity to adversity."
Romeo: His emotions for Juliet made him go against the his family which lead to the death of him, Juliet, his mother, and many other characters in the story.
"A man can not become a hero until he can see the root of his downfall" -Aristotle
The tragic flaw that ultimately leads to his downfall
Usually due to excessive pride
Peripeteia: a reversal of fortune brought about by the hero's tragic flaw
: best to be single and complex, rather than double; all plots have some suffering, but a complex plot includes reversal recognition
What's in a Tragedy?
action with serious implications
complete and possess magnitude
language sensuously attractive
tragedy relies on enactment
Usually of noble birth
King - Leader of Men
Audience feels pity for the Character
Doomed from the start
Actions result in an increase of self-knowledge
The tragic hero is a man of noble stature. He is not an ordinary man, but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause and principle.
Every tragic hero has a tragic flaw.
Hamlet: Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, and his father was killed. He wakes up and sees a spirit and is determined it's his father. The ghost states that Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, killed his father and it was up to Hamlet to avenge his father's death. Hamlet falls in love with the daughter of the Lord Chamberlain of Claudius's court. Ophelia becomes burdened with stress and drowns in a river.
"Aristotle & the Elements of Tragedy." Ohio University. Ohio University. Web. 23 Sept. 2014.
"The Oedipus Plays." Sparknotes. Sparknotes LLC, n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2014.
"Hamlet." Sparknotes. Sparknotes LLC, n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2014.
"Tragic Flaw." Literary Devices. Literary Devices. Web. 23 Sept. 2014.
“Tragic Hero as Defined by Aristotle.” N.d. PDF File.
"Trag.hero.htm." Trag.hero.htm. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2014.
Romeo and Juliet: A long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet who fall in love, but cannot be together. A secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly for Juliet is to be wed to another. Juliet takes a sleeping potion that makes her appear to be dead for 42 hours in this time Romeo is to be told that she is still alive, however he was not so he illegally purchased a poison so that he could be with Juliet in death. He goes to her tomb and takes the poison. When Juliet awakes she sees this and kills herself with a dagger.
The Odyssey: Odysseus was a hero of the Trojan War. On his way back home, he harms a Cyclopes’ eye, so Poseidon gets angry and makes his trip extremely difficult. He encounters many monsters, and his entire crew dies. He stays with Calypso for 7 out of 10 years. When he returns home, Athena helps him, and there are many suitors in his house. He reunites with his son Telemachus and his dog dies that day. He kills all of the suitors. His wife, Penelope, tests him with his bed to see if it’s really him.
Macbeth: Three witches tell him that he will become thain and king. when he later becomes thain he tells hiss wife about the witches prophecy and she decides they need to kill the king. When they kill the king the kings son runs away and Macbeth becomes king. He later goes back to the three witches and he sees warnings of the Macduff family. Macbeth orders Macbeth and his family to be killed. Macduff had already left and lady Macbeth kills herself. In the end
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Slovakia or Slovenia?
These two countries have been mixed up since their independence. Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia and gained indendence in 1993 when splitting from Czech Republic after democratic elections. Slovenia has declared independence from
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Slovakia or Slovenia?
These two countries have been mixed up since their independence. Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia and gained indendence in 1993 when splitting from Czech Republic after democratic elections. Slovenia has declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Both countries are members of European Union since May 2004.
Official name: Slovak Republic (in native language: Slovenska Republika, or shortly - Slovensko)
Slovakia is a mountaineous Central European inland country, bordering with Czech Republic to the west, Poland to the north, Hungary and Austria to the south and Ukraine to the east.
Capital: Bratislava with population of about 460,000
Official name: Republic of Slovenia (in native language: Republika Slovenija, or shortly - Slovenija)
Area: 20,273 km²
Population: 2 mil.
Slovenia is also situated in Central Europe, but has a bit of the Adriatic coast, bordering with Italy to the West, Austria to the North, Croatia to the south and east and Hungary to the northeast.
Capital: Ljubljana with population of about 280,000
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The Machine Manifesto is an interactive musical performance; a reflection on the relation between human beings and machines. The Machine Manifesto is composed of a series of mechanical musical instruments or automatons, and directed by a conductor of orchestra. These instruments,
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The Machine Manifesto is an interactive musical performance; a reflection on the relation between human beings and machines. The Machine Manifesto is composed of a series of mechanical musical instruments or automatons, and directed by a conductor of orchestra. These instruments, programmed to perform independent tasks, follow by themselves the commands sent by the conductor via image recognitio
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Think of the skills that were used in making the following planter box.
Being able to collaborate is a key skill we are always looking at growing with the children. Collaboration involves a shared responsibility in the outcomes of a project or idea. Everyone plays
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Think of the skills that were used in making the following planter box.
Being able to collaborate is a key skill we are always looking at growing with the children. Collaboration involves a shared responsibility in the outcomes of a project or idea. Everyone plays their part. Collaboration is also where there is (as much as possible) an equal participation and consensus on decision making. Now you may be thinking that this is just like working as a group in a class setting. I would suggest here that not all the individuals in a group would necessarily play an active role and have a shared responsibilty in what is being produced by the group.
So far from the usual active role that we can and do play in our youngsters learning journey such as listening to them read, coaching their soccer team and helping them with their homework to name but a few how many of them would you say involve collaboration? In a future where are youngsters are going to most probably dealing with others in a global setting on collaborative projects a
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Gilgit-Baltistan:The role of Aga Khan III Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah in development of education in Pakistan
Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, the forty-eighth hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
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Gilgit-Baltistan:The role of Aga Khan III Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah in development of education in Pakistan
Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, the forty-eighth hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, was born on 2nd November, 1877 in Karachi.
As an Imam of the Ismaili Muslims (1885-1957), he not only provided spiritual guidance to his followers but also played a pivotal role in the intellectual, social, and economic development of Muslims around the world.
Ismaili Muslims across the world celebrated Golden, Diamond, and Platinum Jubilees of his Imamat in the years 1937, 1946, and 1954 respectively. During these Jubilee celebrations, he was weighed in gold and diamonds and these funds were used for establishing various social welfare institutions which have shown proven successes at national and international levels in many respects.
The Ismaili Imamat has a long tradition of leadership in educational development. Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah also advocated access to quality education for the Muslims in the Subcontinent.
In his speech at the Muslim Educational Conference in 1904 in Bombay he said, “There are some dangers ahead and I venture to draw your attention to some of them which we can now guard against.
It would be the greatest of all our misfortunes if we now mistook instruction for education and the mere power of passing examinations for learning. It is for this reason that the thoughtful welcome the reform of the Universities which the Government of India now contemplates.
It is for this reason that the far-sighted amongst the Muslims of India desire a University where the standard of learning shall be the highest and where with scientific training there shall be that moral education – that indirect but constant reminder of the eternal difference between right and wrong which is the soul of education.”
One of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah’s greatest contribution to the Muslims of the subcontinent was his role in the establishment of Aligarh University through provision of funds, leadership, and guidance. He not only advocated the role of Higher Education but also emphasized on the quality of primary education. In the Inaugural Speech at the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference held on December 4, 1911 in Delhi, India, he said. “While advocating the system of higher education, I must also draw your attention to the absolute necessity of a sound system of primary education. No solid superstructure can stand safely on softer soil. In order to raise our people to their legitimate sphere of power, influence and usefulness, we must have a serviceable and extended system of education for the benefit of the masses.”
A critical review of the history of the Muslim world shows that following the Second World War and subsequent decolonization in the Subcontinent and most of East and Central Africa, Muslims were deeply affected and their socio-economic conditions had deteriorated. In that era Sir Aga Khan’s educational initiatives led to the long term development of the Muslims in these regions. He established schools in various parts of the Subcontinent – the first Aga Khan Schools were set up more than a century ago in 1905 in Mundra, India and in Gwadar, Pakistan.
In the culturally sensitive region of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) where female education was not common, he set up Diamond Jubilee Schools through the Diamond Jubilee Funds and these schools have retained the unique identity of DJ schools till today. Today, there are 179 Aga Khan Schools all across Pakistan including Aga Khan Higher Secondary Schools, which are icons of academic and architectural excellence in the areas that they serve.
Many health institutions were also set up by Sir Aga Khan. All these development initiatives are now being taken forward under the aegis of the Aga Khan Development Network founded by Sir Aga Khan’s grandson and successor, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV.
Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III played a leading role in the Pakistan Movement and helped create political awareness among the Muslims of the sub-continent. He was appointed president of the Muslim League and remained on this post from 1906 to 1913. He was elected as the leaders and spokesperson for the Muslim delegation at the Round Table Conference organized to introduce new reforms for the Indians.
In 1902, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah became a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and he was asked to preside over the Mohammadan Education Conference held in Delhi. In 1911, the Aga Khan took upon himself the task of collecting funds to establish the Aligarh University.
He not only assisted in generating funds but also donated money in cash for scholarships to the most deserving students for foreign studies. Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah passed away on July 11, 1957 and was laid to eternal rest in Aswan, Egypt. In his entire life, he always shouldered the Muslim world to ensu
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The Spanish Tercios, 1536-1704 Paperback
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Part of the Men-at-Arms series
A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes,
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The Spanish Tercios, 1536-1704 Paperback
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Part of the Men-at-Arms series
A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Arguably the first permanent tactical formation seen in Europe since the Roman cohort, the tercio was the forerunner of modern formations such as the battalion and regiment.
The variety of different weapons fielded in the tercio meant the Spanish infantry could re
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Why are doctors saying that up to 90% of children with autism are infected with Lyme disease? The Lyme Induced Autism Foundation held a physician’s Think Tank on January 26-28th in San Diego, CA to discuss this recent finding
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Why are doctors saying that up to 90% of children with autism are infected with Lyme disease? The Lyme Induced Autism Foundation held a physician’s Think Tank on January 26-28th in San Diego, CA to discuss this recent finding.
Corona, CA (PRWeb) -- New reports indicate up to 90% of children with autism are infected with Lyme disease. With autism being diagnosed at a staggering rate of 1 out of every 166 children, parents are questioning this new finding. Doctors and parents alike have been examining the potential causes of autism for years, some of which include thimerosol filled injections, environmental factors and most recently Lyme disease. With more doctors supporting the link between Lyme disease and autism, parents have joined forces to create the Lyme Induced Autism Foundation.
The foundation held a physician’s Think Tank on January 26-28th in San Diego, CA to discuss this recent finding. Co-founder Tami Duncan states, “The Think Tank is an opportunity to bring the Lyme disease specialists and the autism specialists together to create testing and treatment options for our kids." This is a groundbreaking effort that will hopefully analyze this even further to provide some answers to families.
Duncan says, “We are not saying that Lyme disease is the exact cause of autism for every single child. Let me clarify; what we are saying is that Lyme Disease could be an inciting factor that is suppressing the child’s immune system, which would make them more susceptible to heavy metal toxicity, environmental factors, etc. There is a large subset of autistic children in which this is happening. However, most children with Lyme induced Autism cannot begin to heal until this infection is under control. Parents want their children healed of autism."
Where is the proof that Lyme disease is a factor in autism? Currently, several doctors have stepped forward talking about this issue. Dr. Warren Levin of Vienna, VA recently appeared on the online radio show on www.autismone.com hosted by Duncan called “The Lyme-Autism Connection”. He stated that of the 10 children with autism he tested for Lyme disease, 100% of them also came back positive for Lyme disease.
More proof is needed to convince parents and the medical community to take action. The Lyme Induced Autism Foundation has announced its first fundraiser called “Laughter for Healing” at the Improv Comedy Club in Irvine, CA on February 24th, 2007.
Duncan states, “The whole goal of the fundraiser is to raise money for our research program. We would like to fund a study that will test children with autism for Lyme disease to determine what actual percentage of children are infected. Only then will we be able to pull the top researchers and physicians together to come up with some answers. Lyme disease can be fatal, parents are scared, we need to help these kids now.”
For more information on Lyme Induced Autism, please log onto http://www.lymeinducedautism.com/. Interested parties may also purchase tickets or become a sponsor for the “Laughter for Healing” Improv comedy event online.
Autism is a disorder that currently affects 1 out of 166 children. Boys are the majority of those affected. The numbers of autism cases spiked in the mid-late 90’s and continues to remain high. The exact cause of autism is still unknown, however, many theories exist. Most children do improve with some sort of biomedical intervention.
About Lyme disease
Lyme disease is generally caused by a tick bite. Symptoms of Lyme disease include, achy joints, confusion, slurring words or word retrieval problems, brain fog, sensitivity to light and sound. Lyme disease in its late stage can be fatal, causing MS like symptoms and debilitating its victims. Treatment for Lyme disease consists of antibiotic therapy.
About the Lyme Induced Autism Foundation
The foundation was started in September 2006 by parents of children with autism and Lyme disease. Kathy Blanco of Beaverton, OR and Tami Duncan of Corona, CA founded the non-profit organization. The foundation's goals are to educate families and physicians on the link between Lyme and autism, bring physicians together to form a consensus for testing and treatment options and to provide funding for research studies related to autism and Lyme disease.
About the Author
Contact information: Tami Duncan Lyme Induced Autism Foundation 1771 Honors Lane Corona, CA 92883 (951) 817-1173
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The Cowden Support Program
A do-it-yourself Lyme treatment developed by Dr. Lee Cowden, MD
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Introduction: Day and Night Power Strip!: a Light Sensitive Power Outlet
The Day and Night Power Strip is a power outlet capable of switching its output depending on the light it receives on its surface. Its sensors are LDRs which are basically
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Introduction: Day and Night Power Strip!: a Light Sensitive Power Outlet
The Day and Night Power Strip is a power outlet capable of switching its output depending on the light it receives on its surface. Its sensors are LDRs which are basically variable resistors that change resistance depending on the intensity of light it receives, the more intense the light, the lower the resistance.
It can be used outside or anywhere near a window where the light of the sun is visible to control its outputs. There is also a potentiometer to adjust its sensitivity to light. This is very useful if you are tired of turning on and off your stuff during the day!
This could turn your ordinary lamp into an automatic night lamp! Since one of its outlets turns off during the day but turns on at night. Also, the other outlet does the opposite so you could plug in things you want to be on only during the day. The great thing about this is its usefulness because you could plug anything you want to it since it acts just like a power strip but with automated controls!
I got this idea when thinking about the lights I am going to place on our small fish pond. I want it to automatically turn on at night but turn off during the day. I cannot find power strips that can do this so i have to make my own.
This build will take some of your time but it will be worth it. The only skill requirement here is soldering and some knowledge about electronics or at least some understanding about circuit schematics (I did not fully simply the schematic I made since I only made it on the spot while doing this instructable).
You have to be very careful and always check if the connections are properly connected! The first one that i made got fried because i accidentally shorted some wires while building it so i started again. Make sure you reduce the use of wires to make your life easier and reduce the risk of shorting anything inside. It took me a whole day to make it but that includes testing the circuit on a breadboard. But for you guys, this may take just a couple of hours.
Step 1: Prepare!
-The lists only considers the exact number of components used on the circuit as seen above. Be sure you have extra!
-Note that I used 4 LDRs which is still considerable to 1 LDR since they are in parallel and series. I did this so that they would work as if they are a larger LDR to make sure only the ambient light will activate the circuit as much as possible.
-The schematics are updated!
-If you are not very familiar with the components, you could google it to know more about it. The components used here are fairly common.
Power Supply (If you dont want to make your own power supply, you can have those already made, those are the power supply of your switch hub etc. the black ones)
-Transformer (7.5-0-7.5) I only used 7.5 to 0 to have a 9v output (thats 7.5 / 0.707)
-Bridge Rectifier (I bought the ready made one)
-4700uF Capacitor 16v or above!
-x4 LDR (10mm) it doesn't necessarily need to be 10mm, just pick the size you want
-12V Relay, the relay i bought was rated 12V but it runs on 9V just fine
-10K Potentiometer (Used to adjust sensitivity to light)
-x2 NPN Transistors (I used 2N3904)
-x1 PNP Transistor (I used 2N3906)
-x4 1k Resistors (in the circuit i used 1k for all the resistors)
-x2 LED (This is used to indicate which outlet is on, I used blue)
-Universal PCB (At first I did not use any PCB and just connected the components directly. But the problem is the components may short inside the casing, I highly recommend you use a PCB)
-I used an HC981 enclosure (You could use a larger enclosure to make your build easier to make)
-Two power outlets
-#22 gauge wire, i used solid wires (blue) as a jumping wire on the PCB and stranded wires (orange) for the components that are not directly connected on the PCB.
Step 2: Short Explanation About the Circuit
Circuit Flow(Notify me if there is anything wrong!)
1.) Power Supply
The transformer, bridge rectifier and capacitor only acts as a DC supply to the circuit only! Not to the sockets. It supplies approximately 9V since the secondary of the transformer gives 7.5V RMS meaning you should divide 7.5V to 0.707 which gives us 10.6V - (2)(0.
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This is a classic work that everyone should read. The version that I have is copyrighted 2000 but it was first published in 1949. The book is a translation of the last work of Marie-Louise Sjoestedt.
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This is a classic work that everyone should read. The version that I have is copyrighted 2000 but it was first published in 1949. The book is a translation of the last work of Marie-Louise Sjoestedt. Celtic Gods and Heroes was originally written in French and translated to English by Myles Dillon who was considered a Celtic scholar of his time. It is a pretty short piece of work (around 100 pages long without the index and bibliography), but don’t let that fool you. It packs quite a bit of important information.
The book has a preface by Myles Dillon and then an introduction by the author. The first chapter talks about the mythological period, and the following three chapters talk about the gods of the Continental Celts and the Irish. Chapter five is about Samhain and chapters sic and seven are about t
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A blood test may now show how healthy people are aging and can also predict the onset of diseases like Alzheimer's, says a new study.
A set of genes are responsible for promoting healthy aging in 65-year-olds. Researchers at Kings college London
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A blood test may now show how healthy people are aging and can also predict the onset of diseases like Alzheimer's, says a new study.
A set of genes are responsible for promoting healthy aging in 65-year-olds. Researchers at Kings college London said that the test will help doctors decide which middle-aged subjects could be offered preventative therapies before the first symptoms of dementia begin to appear.
It is also the first and practical accurate test to determine the rate at which individuals are aging. The working of the genes can be predicted using a 'healthy age gene score'. The lower the score the more likely disease is present or likely to develop.
"Most people accept that all 60 year olds are not the same, but there has been no reliable test for underlying 'biological age'. Our discovery provides the first robust molecular'signature' of biological age in humans and should be able to transform the way that 'age' is used to make medical decisions," said lead author James Timmons, from King's College London.
"This includes identifying those more likely to be at risk of Alzheimer's, as catching those at 'early' risk is key to evaluating potential treatments. This also provides strong evidence that dementia in humans could be called a type of 'accelerated aging," he added.
The seven-year collaborative study at King's College London, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Duke University in the USA, used a process called RNA-profiling to measure and compare gene expression in thousands of human tissue samples.
They compared tissue samples from 25-year-olds to that of 65-years-olds and identified a pattern of activation in 150 genes which was required to be in place for healthy aging. They found drastic differences in the age scores of people in different age groups particularly between a y
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Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and the River Po
Ferrara is located in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, a few km away from the city of Bologna.
The town developed on a ford over the Po
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Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and the River Po
Ferrara is located in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, a few km away from the city of Bologna.
The town developed on a ford over the Po river and became a center for art and culture, which attracted several artists and intellectuals, especially in the 15th and the 16th centuries. The famous House of Este in Ferrara had been decorated by well known artists like Andrea Mantegna, Jacopo Bellini and Piero della Francesca. Here, the concept of an ideal city became a reality, and can be especially seen in the neighborhoods developed in the 15th century by Biagio Rossetti.
Ferrara has been included in the list of world heritage sites by UNESCO, for its exceptional beauty and its important place in the culture and art of Italy. In 2006, Ferrara has also been made headquarter for the prestigious Italian Hermitage Museum, because of its historical relevance. It is only the fifth city which has been able to have its name linked with this prestigious museum. The Hermitage Italy Foundation was formed based on this union.
The town in all its beauty
Here are some of the best known monuments and landmarks of the city.
The Castel Estense or the House of Este
The House of Este is also known as the Castle of Saint Michele or the Castle Estense and is one of the most important buildings in Ferrara. It is a medieval structure with a moat and is located in the center of the town. The castle is a quadrangular compound formed by several buildings, protected on their four corners by towers.
The architecture of the House of Este
The façade of the castle represents the vision of Girolamo da Carpi, who designed it in the 16th century. The structure is surrounded by a moat and has drawbridges and three entrances. The draw bridges are flanked with brick work ravelins. According to the original design there had to be a fourth entrance, but it was never made to allow enough room for the kitchen rooms.
The building still looks like a medieval fortress, especially at its bottom. Higher than that, the battlements were replaced with balconies which were elegantly made with white stone. Another storey was added and was covered with a skew roof. The towers were then improved and were made graceful with their roof top terraces.
The courtyard of the castle is quite austere, but has been frescoed. There were beautiful portraits of the ancestors of the Este family. Only a few of those frescoes still survive today and have been removed and placed under the castle's portico. The castle is mainly known for its beautiful interiors and its many elegant rooms.
The Gothic Rooms
These are four beautiful living rooms, collectively known as the Gothic Rooms: they have beautiful cross-vaulted ceilings and the first one is the most noteworthy of them all, in name of the beautiful decorations that run all along the vaults. The portrait of Nicola II d'Este has been placed facing the entrance, and the room has been dedicated to him.
At its centre lies a scale model of the castle as it looked in the earlier years of its construction. The remaining three Gothic Rooms have been dedicated to Borso, Leonello and Alberto d'Este.
Beautiful views of the Castello Estense
The Loggia was converted to its current characteristics and its present day size by Alfonso I, and it evokes a strong sense of ancient day court. The walls of the hanging gardens were constructed based on the design of Girolamo da Carpi. Various old documents were found, which have good observations about the gardens and had allowed the recreation of their details, down to the arrangements of their large flowerbeds and the small paths leading up to them. In the original 18th century design, only citrus plants were included.
The chapel inside the castle is known as the Ducal Chapel and is a small, elegant room which has geometric designs and lines. It is believed the room had been commissioned by Duchess Renée of France, who originally did not think of it in a religious light at all. However, the ceiling of the room has paintings of the Four Evangelists, and a white eagle, the symbol of the Este family.
The Renaissance Palaces
Apart from the House of Este, Ferrara is also known for its many Renaissance palaces. Many of these still have terracotta decorations and there are not many towns in Italy to have such a large collection. Those in the northern quarter of the town, the so called Addizione Erculea, since it was added by Ercole I in the 15th century, are particularly noteworthy. Among them, the Palazzo dei Diamanti is certainly the most famous.
Palazzo dei Diamanti
The Diamond palace or the Palazzo dei Diamanti was named so because of the d
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An image recorded on a photographic film or plate produced by the radiation emitted from a specimen, such as a section of tissue, that has been treated or
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An image recorded on a photographic film or plate produced by the radiation emitted from a specimen, such as a section of tissue, that has been treated or injected with a radioactively labeled isotope or that has absorbed or ingested such an isotope. Also called autoradiogram.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A photograph image produced by placing a film in contact with a specimen containing (or treated with) radioactive material; an autoradiogram
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. same as autoradiogram.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as autophotograph.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed
Sorry, no etymologies found.
We had kind of been chasing potential activities and... so I had actually done the experiment several days before but then it takes a few days for the autoradiograph to develop.
Wellcome Images holds a photo of the original autora
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I thought for a long time that I could get by teaching math while deemphasizing vocabulary. Obviously we would discuss the meaning of words, especially the ones that come up frequently. But I thought that if I was able to help students get a
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I thought for a long time that I could get by teaching math while deemphasizing vocabulary. Obviously we would discuss the meaning of words, especially the ones that come up frequently. But I thought that if I was able to help students get a feel for the math, and show kids how to do math, without getting too caught up in what the new vocabulary meant, that would be success.
Part of this was time. Or rather to save time. Spending time helping students really understand vocabulary takes more time, especially if it’s something that is more easily shown/practiced. For example, I feel like one of my struggles with helping students understand domain and range is that I don’t do a good job at really helping them understand the words. In algebra II, if I present a new type of function to them and ask them to find the domain and range, they often struggle until they see a few examples. It’s as if they’re simply replicating the process for each type of function.
At risk of this turning into a domain and range post, let me explain a bit further. When we study quadratic functions I tell students the domain is always “all real numbers”. The student thinks, “Sweet. Whenever I see a question over domain on the quiz, I’ll just write ‘all real numbers’.” When we learn a new family of functions they have no understanding of how to find the domain, beyond “that’s something with the x values, right?”.
It’s not just that topic. In fact, the concept that propelled me to write on this topic was grading a quiz over factoring polynomials and finding zeros in polynomials. Way too many of my students don’t know the difference between factors and zeros and constantly get them confused. My most significant observation was that I find students are trying to get by with the least amount of vocabulary understanding, and I don’t think I’m helping things by demphasizing it.
Since I’m having this realization at this point in the school year, I think the fix going forward will be trying to find and develop small activities to help reinforce vocabulary. Simply emphasizing it more is a start. I’ve also done some activities, like concept maps and “functions back-to-back” which help with vocabulary understanding. Next school year I’d like to take a more systematic approach and deliberately build in vocabulary activities into each unit.
Drop your favorite vocabulary activities in the comments below or send them my way on Twitter. Thanks!
Image Credit: “Words” by Shelly on Flickr
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This week I came upon an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the challenges of producing a new “plus size MRI scanner“. Companies that manufacture imaging equipment such as MRI and CT scanners have been challenged in recent years to produce technology that will adequately image
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This week I came upon an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the challenges of producing a new “plus size MRI scanner“. Companies that manufacture imaging equipment such as MRI and CT scanners have been challenged in recent years to produce technology that will adequately image larger patients. There are several physical limitations beyond the actual size of the scanner in obtaining good images from obese patients including the fact that tissue absorbs x rays and limits the penetration needed to adequately image critical structures. According to Siemen’s chief executive, Americans account for the majority of the extra large imaging market due to increased average patient size. The CDC estimates that nearly 35% of all Americans are considered obese–as compared to 20% only 15 years ago. More than ⅓ of adults and almost 17% of children are considered obese. Some agencies estimate that obesity and obesity related illnesses costs the US healthcare system nearly 150 billion dollars annually. Even with efforts to contain costs, US hospitals will spend 40% more on imaging equipment that will accommodate larger patients. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, the US spends a disproportionate amount of money on healthcare as compared to other industrialized nations. Costs are skyrocketing out of control. It seems to me that the American way of “build it bigger” may not be the most effective strategy when it comes to managing larger patients. Instead we should approach the real issue–prevention and treatment of obesity.
The CDC defines obesity as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. The BMI is calculated by taking the weight in kg and dividing by the height in meters squared. A report released this week jointly by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Trust for America’s Health estimates
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The transition to college is a time of excitement in the life of your son or daughter. University students experience greater autonomy, intellectual stimulation, increased choices, and new explorations and relationships. Most families adjust fairly well. For some families, excitement about
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The transition to college is a time of excitement in the life of your son or daughter. University students experience greater autonomy, intellectual stimulation, increased choices, and new explorations and relationships. Most families adjust fairly well. For some families, excitement about the transition also brings feelings of ambivalence and concern.
Staying informed may help you take proactive steps. Below, please find suggestions to help your child succeed at school. Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offers extensive services for students on campus. CAPS staff members are also available to consult with parents.
What You Can Do to Support Your Child
Stay in Touch
Even though your child may express the need to be independent, he or she still needs to know that you are available to talk about normal events and difficult issues. So discuss with your child a reasonable plan for you to stay in touch on a regular basis whether it is through writing, emails, or over the phone.
Let your child set the priorities for some conversations. Ask open-ended questions and give him or her room to explain him or herself to you.
Set up some time to talk to your child and agree on expectations, e.g., how often you expect to be seeing or speaking with him or her, money matters and so on. Negotiate a realistic plan.
Be Realistic About College Life
College life is quite hectic and most students find their time crammed because of numerous academic and social obligations. Plan in advance so the time that you have becomes meaningful. Take the time to remind your children to take care of themselves physic
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by Maharani Halid and Shirley Yee
Jugra…..was once the center of the Selangor State Kingdom….it was her 2nd capital…Sultan Abdul Samad resided here till his death in 1898
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by Maharani Halid and Shirley Yee
Jugra…..was once the center of the Selangor State Kingdom….it was her 2nd capital…Sultan Abdul Samad resided here till his death in 1898 with his palace, Jugra Palace, built on top of Jugra Hill. It was also where the 5th Sultan, Sultan Sulaiman, had his coronation.
Our journey to Jugra started at 8 am with our coach captain, Pak Man, accompanying 27 museum volunteers and 1 JMM representative. The journey took about an hour’s drive. Since our coach captain was not familiar with the route…our rescuer, Mr Edmund, gave a hand and we managed to reach the first destination in our itinerary, Muzium Insitu Jugra. Insitu is translated as “terletak” in Malay which means to “stay foot” or “on site” or rather “where it begins”.
Upon reaching ou
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Release Date: October 23, 2006
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the aftermath of October's historic snowstorm, Western New Yorkers were painfully reminded of the widespread destruction that snowy weather can bring, which is why new
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Release Date: October 23, 2006
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the aftermath of October's historic snowstorm, Western New Yorkers were painfully reminded of the widespread destruction that snowy weather can bring, which is why new steps are needed to avert winter-weather disasters, according to University at Buffalo professor Ernest Sternberg, who studies disaster preparedness and response.
Despite the experiences of residents of Western New York, "there is not much appreciation by federal agencies that snow events can be very serious emergencies," says Sternberg, Ph.D., professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. "Even in our region, many people have pleasant memories of riding out deep snows next to a cozy fireplace. We do not appreciate that our dependence on electrical grids for heating and keeping our homes dry has made us more vulnerable than we were in the past."
Sternberg gives the example of the 1998 ice storm that isolated the Adirondacks for days and immobilized Montreal, causing about 30 deaths. He points out that ever more people are elderly or live alone, and "manage their daily lives by being connected to technologies and support services, which can be severed in a bad storm."
Buffalo's 1977 snowstorm was the first in history to be declared a national emergency, Sternberg notes. After that historic storm, FEMA was willing to issue federal disaster relief for snowstorms, but after such declarations increased since the late 1990s, FEMA officials "have informally tried to cut back," Sternberg says, on the view that places with winter climate should be able to handle snowstorms. "FEMA may be reluctant to set another precedent with this year's storm," he says.
Among Sternberg's suggestions is that state and local agencies conduct winter storm exercises.
"A big snowstorm can create a logistical mess, and coordinating response across many emergency agencies and municipalities is a complex problem," Sternberg says. "It is something that should be practiced, but I'm not aware of any community that is doing disaster-response exercises for a snowstorm.
"We have disaster-management training for terrorist attacks, flu outbreaks and hazardous material spills. We need to organize similar exercises for snowstorm emergencies."
Sternberg is founding president of Protect New York, a new organization made up of researchers from across the State University of New York who are developing ways to safeguard New York State from terrorism and disasters.
An op-ed Sternberg wrote last year for The Buffalo News described how disastrous a major ice storm in Western New York could be. Sternberg's hypothetical scenario was frighteningly similar to what occurred last week across the region: downed power lines, slick roads with snarled traffic, carbon monoxide poisoning from generators, elderly and sick people in distress.
In Sternberg's scenario, frigid weather caused danger and death not evident in last week's snowstorm. He points out, however, that without advanced planning, escape from frigid conditions -- even when ro
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Say the word “survivalist” and chances are you’ll call to mind images of conspiracy theory-laden, camouflage-clad guys running around in the woods fleeing a phantom invasion or preparing for Armageddon. Add a tinfoil
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Say the word “survivalist” and chances are you’ll call to mind images of conspiracy theory-laden, camouflage-clad guys running around in the woods fleeing a phantom invasion or preparing for Armageddon. Add a tinfoil hat or two, and you have the perfect stereotype of the doomsday prepper.
But what if, stripped of the conspiracies, camouflage, and tinfoil hats, the survivalist set was actually on to something? It turns out they are. Being prepared for an emergency is incredibly important, and preparedness can make a huge difference in how well—or not well—you’re able to survive an emergency.
Here’s a look at what you want to have on hand in case of a severe and disruptive event. No matter what the disaster, being prepared will make sure you and your loved ones are ready to face it and survive.
Before the fertilizer hits the ventilator, you’ll want to have a plan in place. Just like your fire escape plan, you’re going to want to have a general disaster response plan for your family. And, unlike your fire plan, your disaster plan will need to take into account the very real possibility that you might not all be in the same location when a disaster strikes. Having a protocol in place to make sure everyone stays safe and connected during an emergency is paramount. Families with infants, elders, or special needs members will need to take additional steps to ensure everyone is safe, protected, and accounted for. Not sure how to make your plan? Click here for some help.
Once you have a plan, you’ll need a kit. Your disaster kit should include things like a flashlight, battery operated radio, hand sanitizer, first aid kit, can opener, and other items you’ll need for day-to-day survival. The US Department of Homeland Security offers a great resource page for building your kit.
In the event of a severe emergency—like Hurricane Katrina—available food supplies at your local supermarket will be quickly exhausted. Power outages can mean that available food on hand in your freezer and refrigerator will need to be consumed before it spoils. In order to ensure you have enough food on hand, give some thought to storing a variety of foodstuffs with a long shelf life. The federal government has a great list of options to consider, and you can also purchase freeze dried meals and Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) to augment your pantry.
People, it turns out, can go for days without eating. Lack of water, however, can be fatal in very short order. The general rule of thumb for disaster planning is to ensure you have one gallon of clean, potable water on hand per person per day. If you’re building a kit designed to support 72 hours of survival for a family of four, you’d want to ensure you had 12 gallons of water on hand. It’s also a good idea to have a good water filtration system available in case your access to water is disrupted for more than three days.
If your home is not a shelter option during a disaster, be sure you have a plan for where you’ll be sleeping once the sun goes down or the rain starts up. A tent, a pop-up trailer, a neighbor’s home, the local fire hall or elementary school; somewhere that you and your family can find shelter will be essential for your survival, so make sure you have a plan in place if the worst should happen.
Before disaster strikes, be sure to arm yourself with information on how to survive. DHS and the Centers for Disease Control both offer good guides for preparedness and you can find a lot of information on how to build and maintain a kit for your home. During a disaster, make sure you have a battery- or crank-powered radio so you can listen for information and important updates. A police scanner is also a great way to stay abreast of the situation, and many scanner apps are available for smart phone users.
Torpedoes, as the saying goes, hit from the side. While you can never be fully ready when disaster strikes, you can certainly take steps to be prepared.
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For kids who love animals by a kid who loves animals
Friday, I was with my friend, and we found something called a boxelder bug. We were at the Audubon Society for a nighttime hike, and we found these bugs inside
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For kids who love animals by a kid who loves animals
Friday, I was with my friend, and we found something called a boxelder bug. We were at the Audubon Society for a nighttime hike, and we found these bugs inside the research center.
We were very interested in these bugs because they didn’t bite us. We made them our pets for a little bit and then let them go outside. There were tons of dead ones inside, so we thought we’d save the live ones. I think they were inside because they knew winter was coming.
Here are 10 cool facts I learned about boxelder bugs:
1. They are also known as the “Democrat bug,” the “zug” and the “maple bug.”
2. They feed mostly on maple or boxelder trees. (We saw a boxelder tree on the hike!)
3. They can invade houses or other man-made buildings.
4. They hibernate inside of walls in the winter.
5. They are sometimes called “Democrats bugs,” because they swarm during October, which is right before people vote.
6. Adults are 1/2 inch long.
7. Adults also are black with orange or red markings.
8. They cannot or do not bite people.
9. Their poop can stain walls and furniture.
10. They do not reproduce inside homes, only outside.
You can watch them swarming in this video:
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Raffaello Sanzio is the artist who is better known simply as Raphael. He lived from 1483 to 1520 in Italy.
He was buried in the Pantheon because he requested that he should be buried there. Of
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Raffaello Sanzio is the artist who is better known simply as Raphael. He lived from 1483 to 1520 in Italy.
He was buried in the Pantheon because he requested that he should be buried there. Of course, his request was only granted because of his fame and political connections. He was a very famous artist even i
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Interview with David Crystal
A NS is someone who has learned a language (or languages) through the normal processes of child language acquisition. This means having an intuition about such things as nursery rhymes, babytalk, family slang, the regional accent
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Interview with David Crystal
A NS is someone who has learned a language (or languages) through the normal processes of child language acquisition. This means having an intuition about such things as nursery rhymes, babytalk, family slang, the regional accent and dialect of the home community (and nearby communities), language play (of a childlike kind), the rituals of child-related cultural events (such as Christmas carols, Easter, birthday chants…), and so on – as well as the interaction between these early variables in different languages in cases of bilingualism, trilingualism, etc. A NNS lacks all this. Most come to learn a foreign language 'top down', usually beginning with the adult standard dialect and prestige accent of that language, and focusing on the formal and informal varieties felt to be most useful to their communicative needs. Note that this focus on child language acquisition means that there can never be a sharp distinction between NS and NNS. It is possible to begin learning a language at any age, obviously, so that a child beginning to learn English at age 3, 5, 7, 9… will acquire different amounts of NS intuition.
A selectivity has taken place here. The implicit comparison is between the standard variety of language learned by a NNS and the standard variety learned by a NS. Note that both processes are a result of education, for most people. Only a tiny proportion of people have had standard English as a spoken language in childhood (I would put it at around 4 or 5 percent). Most people grow up in a regional setting in which nonstandard grammar (for example) is normal (saying ain't, I were sat here, using double negatives, and so on). They learn standard English (which means, in the first instance, written English) only when they go to school, where they develop a sense of the formal rules required by that variety, and then generalize these to their spoken output. At least, that is the aim. Much of the angst encountered in the media today comes about as a result of a concern that children are not developing a fluent mastery of standard English, in both speech and writing. When this sense of inferiority continues into adult life, it is the basis of the often-heard observation that 'foreigners speak better English than we do'.I view native-like fluency as a NNS who has achieved a command of the phonology, orthography, grammar, lexicon, and discourse that is indistinguishable from that presented by a sociolinguistically comparable NS. This sounds straightforward enough until one starts to spell out the variables. Lexicon size, for example, is a can of worms. There are well over a million words in English. I know less than a tenth of these, and use less than a twentieth in everyday settings. So how fluent does that make me, lexically? A NNS English-using biologist far outstrips my lexical ability in the relevant specialist terminology. Assessment procedures are not brilliant at taking this kind of semantic and stylistic context into account.And sociolinguistically: we must also compare like with like. NSs of what educational level compared with NNSs of what educational level? We know from sociolinguistics that there are many differences in practice between NSs, in terms of age,
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Happy & Healthy Tuesday my friends! Today’s tip is all about vitamins! I know…you are thinking “I don’t NEED to take vitamins, I feel perfectly fine!” Just hear me out…and let me share a bit about why vitamins &
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Happy & Healthy Tuesday my friends! Today’s tip is all about vitamins! I know…you are thinking “I don’t NEED to take vitamins, I feel perfectly fine!” Just hear me out…and let me share a bit about why vitamins & minerals are so crucial to properly functioning bodies.
Vitamins are required by the body for physiological maintenance and growth. To qualify as a vitamin, a substance must not only be an organic compound from a plant or animal; it must be essential to human health. Our bodies can not create vitamins so they must be obtained from the diet or in dietary supplements.
Vitamins must also function with enzymes. Enzymes are responsible for all oxidation processes in the body and contribute to growth, metabolism, cellular reproduction and even digestion.
Did you know that the origination of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) came from the need to establish a requirement for the soldiers in WWII? The recommended levels of these nutrients were designed to prevent deficiency.
Without the proper nourishment our cells will start to function more slowly until proper nourishment is received or the cell actually dies. Vitamin deficiency doesn’t happen overnight and you may not see symptoms for weeks or months. Cells will continue to function but at lower efficiency and will continue to decline or die, which will then effect different tissues and organs.
With the industrialized culture we live in, it is crucial to take a basic multi-vitamin and mineral to give our bodies all the nutrients it needs to function properly. It’s virtually impossible for us to get all the nutrition our bodies need from food alone with; soil & water depletion, food & environmental toxins, shipping & processing, pesticides, lack of calories & even exercise can all cause nutritional deficiencies. According to a 2009 report from the CDC, only 14% of U.S. adults and less than 10% of U.S. teens are eati
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By: G. K. Chesterton
I ON TWO FRIARS
II THE RUNAWAY ABBOT
III THE ARISTOTELIAN REVOLUTION
IV A MEDITATION ON THE MANICHEES
V THE
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By: G. K. Chesterton
I ON TWO FRIARS
II THE RUNAWAY ABBOT
III THE ARISTOTELIAN REVOLUTION
IV A MEDITATION ON THE MANICHEES
V THE REAL LIFE OF ST. THOMAS
VI THE APPROACH TO THOMISM
VII THE PERMANENT PHILOSOPHY
VIII THE SEQUEL TO ST. THOMAS
St. Thomas Aquinas, Chesterton
This book makes no pretence to be anything but a popular sketch of a great historical character who ought to be more popular. Its aim will be achieved, if it leads those who have hardly even heard of St. Thomas Aquinas to read about him in better books. But from this necessary limitation certain consequences follow, which should perhaps be allowed for from the start.
First, it follows that the tale is told very largely to those who are not of the communion of St. Thomas; and who may be interested in him as I might be in Confucius or Mahomet. Yet, on the other hand, the very need of presenting a clean-cut outline involved its cutting into other outlines of thought, among those who may think differently. If I write a sketch of Nelson mainly for foreigners, I may have to explain elaborately many things that all Englishmen know, and possibly cut out, for brevity, many details that many Englishmen would like to know. But, on the other side, it would be difficult to write a very vivid and moving narrative of Nelson, while entirely concealing the fact that he fought with the French. It would be futile to make a sketch of St. Thomas and conceal the fact that he fought with heretics; and yet the fact itself may embarrass the very purpose for which it is employed. I can only express the hope, and indeed the confidence, that those who regard me as the heretic will hardly blame me for expressing my own convictions, and certainly not for expressing my hero’s convictions. There is only one point upon which such a question conc
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The insect world is one of the least well understood groups of animals at Shenandoah National Park. This is not uncommon in many parks where most investigations have focused on larger animals, plants, or organisms that are important to people because they are hunted
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The insect world is one of the least well understood groups of animals at Shenandoah National Park. This is not uncommon in many parks where most investigations have focused on larger animals, plants, or organisms that are important to people because they are hunted, fished, or watched, or are hazardous or pestiferous. Thus we find that invertebrates (including insects) are not well documented in many parks.
Insects are invertebrates (see the page on Other Invertebrates) and are grouped with a large number of other life forms known as arthropods. This group includes spiders (Arachnida), crayfish, fleas, and lice (Crustacea), centipedes (Chilopoda), and millepedes (Diplopoda) as well as insects (Insecta). Insects are differentiated from the others in this group by the presence of three main body parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), a pair of antennae, three pairs of legs, and distinguishing mouthparts.
Insects are extremely important ecologically and to society. Many are a food source for other animals, some are important plant pollinators, and others serve important roles in the reduction and decomposition of organic matter. Insects produce products such as honey, silk, and beeswax.
It is estimated that the number of insects worldwide exceeds the total number of species of all plants and all other animals combined. Nearly one million insects have been described worldwide. Scientists speculate that there are another 20-50 million that hav
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By Evaggelos Vallianatos, TruthOut.orgPosted on April 16, 2009, Printed on April 16, 2009
When I was teaching at Humboldt State University in northern California 20 years ago,
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By Evaggelos Vallianatos, TruthOut.orgPosted on April 16, 2009, Printed on April 16, 2009
When I was teaching at Humboldt State University in northern California 20 years ago, I invited a beekeeper to talk to my students. He said that each time he took his bees to southern California to pollinate other farmers' crops, he would lose a third of his bees to sprays. In 2009, the loss ranges all the way to 60 percent.
Honeybees have been in terrible straits.
A little history explains this tragedy.
For millennia, honeybees lived in symbiotic relationship with societies all over the world.
The Greeks loved them. In the eighth century BCE, the epic poet Hesiod considered them gifts of the gods to just farmers. And in the fourth century of our era, the Greek mathematician Pappos admired their hexagonal cells, crediting them with "geometrical forethought."
However, industrialized agriculture is not friendly to honeybees.
In 1974, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency licensed the nerve gas parathion trapped into nylon bubbles the size of pollen particles.
What makes this microencapsulated formulation more dangerous to bees than the technical material is the very technology of the "time release" microcapsule.
This acutely toxic insecticide, born of chemical warfare, would be on the surface of the flower for several days. The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion.
It is possible that the nectar, which the bee makes into honey, and the pollen, might end up in some food store to be bought and eaten by human beings.
Beekeepers are well aware of what is happening to their bees, including the potential that their honey may not be fit for humans.
Moreover, many beekeepers do not throw away the honey, pollen and wax of colonies destroyed by encapsulated parathion or other poisons. They melt the wax for new combs: And they sell both honey and pollen to the public.
Government "regulators" know about this danger.
An academic expert, Carl Johansen, professor of entomology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, called the microencapsulated methyl parathion "the most destructive bee poisoning insecticide ever developed."
In 1976, the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a report by one of its former employees, S. E. McGregor, a honeybee expert who documented that about a third of what we eat benefits from honeybee pollination. This includes vegetables, oilseeds and domesticated animals eating bee-pollinated hay.
In 2007, the value of food dependent on honeybees was $15 billion in the United States.
McGregor also pointed out that insect-pollinated legumes collect nitrogen from the air, storing it in their roots and enriching the soil. In addition, insect pollination makes the crops more wholesome and abundant. He advised the farmer he should never forget that "no cultural practice will cause fruit or seed to set if its pollination is neglected."
In addition, McGregor blamed the chemical industry for seducing the farmers to its potent toxins. He said:
"[P]esticides are like dope drugs. The more they are used the more powerful the n
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Bonn Urges Russia to Restore Land for Its Ethnic Germans
By JOHN TAGLIABUE,
Published: January 11, 1992
BERLIN, Jan. 10— Germany is pressing Russia for the restoration of an autonomous republic
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Bonn Urges Russia to Restore Land for Its Ethnic Germans
By JOHN TAGLIABUE,
Published: January 11, 1992
BERLIN, Jan. 10— Germany is pressing Russia for the restoration of an autonomous republic for two million ethnic Germans in an apparent effort to forestall any migration to Germany by descendants of people who first came to Russia more than 200 years ago.
German officials said a joint Russian-German commission would meet in Moscow this month, after Bonn demanded that restoration of the republic in the "traditional settlement regions of the Germans" be "brought forward at an accelerated pace."
A strongly worded statement was issued late last month after meetings in Bonn of German officials and representatives of the so-called Volga Germans. It calls on President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia to honor a pledge he gave Chancellor Helmut Kohl, on a visit to Bonn in December, to lay down the republic's boundaries by presidential decree. Germans Debating Options
These developments, whose details were described by German officials in recent days, are unfolding at a time when Germany is debating its foreign policy options toward the old Soviet republics. Moreover, they pressure Mr. Yeltsin at a time of deep economic woes, and threaten to revive anti-German sentiment in Russia.
In the Soviet Union, the 1989 census numbered roughly two million people who claimed German nationality. Under German law, they have an automatic right to citizenship, though fewer than half have mastered the German language.
The idea in Bonn is that restoration of the old Volga republic with guaranteed rights for Germans will deter many of their number from migrating to Germany. The Government's concern is rooted in the case of ethnic Germans from the Transylvania region of Romania, most of whom fled to Germany after the collapse of Communism two years ago.
The statement issued last month, by the Interior Ministry official responsible for the Volga Germans, Horst Waffenschmidt, and Heinrich Groth, the chairman of a Moscow-based organization that represents them, pledges economic aid to rebuild German villages and small businesses to restore traditional German services. Such initiatives, the statement says, will serve "not only the Germans, but also their non-German neighbors." Historical Influence
Of all foreigners, the Germans through history have had the most influence in Russia. From the time of Peter the Great, the Russians have looked to the Germans for technology and organization, and hundreds of thousands of Germans migrated east to serve in the army and economy of the Russian empire.
In a measure of their lingering influence, the ethnic Germans are often referred to as Volga Germans for an autonomous Volga republic that was set up in 1924. More than half its population was descended from German colonists who settled the banks of the Volga near Saratov in the 1760's.
"Mostly they were farmers and craftsmen," said Hans Frick, a historian of the Volga Germans who is a spokesman for the Association of Germans Abroad, an organization channeling aid to them. "The Russians valued their industriousness and reliability."
The republic was abolished by a decree of Stalin in 1941 after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, and roughly 400,000 of the German inhabitants were deported to Siberia.
A Foreign Ministry official in Bonn said agreement to restore the republic was anchored in the treaty of cooperation signed last year by Moscow and Bonn, though he conceded problems existed over the exact boundaries. While the Volga Germans want their old territories back, Mr. Yeltsin is encountering stiff resistance among the Russians who were transplanted there after the deportation of the Germans. Change in Policy
In a sense the developments represent a departure from a repatriation policy that has seen hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans return to Germany from Eastern Europe in recent years.
Still, Bonn appropriated the equivalent of $130 million for 1991 and 1992 to help th
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How it disrupts sleep: You probably already know that when you stay up late under bright lights, you interrupt your body’s natural sleep-wake cycle, because light tricks your brain into remaining in daylight mode. Less well known is that the light
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How it disrupts sleep: You probably already know that when you stay up late under bright lights, you interrupt your body’s natural sleep-wake cycle, because light tricks your brain into remaining in daylight mode. Less well known is that the light from computer screens and iPads shining directly into your eyes at close range is especially troublesome. Why? Part of the problem is that the light from these devices is at the blue end of the spectrum, which scientists believe is particularly disruptive to circadian rhythms. Blue light, although common during the day, doesn’t occur naturally during the evening.
The evidence: Studies have long shown that shift workers and those who work late at night have poorer sleep and higher incidences of certain conditions associated with lack of sleep than those who regularly sleep eight or nine hours at nig
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Temperatures in July and August 2016 were the hottest ever recorded on the planet and much of the U.S. is still struggling with a heat wave. Hundreds of heat-related deaths occur in the U.S. each year, and these
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Temperatures in July and August 2016 were the hottest ever recorded on the planet and much of the U.S. is still struggling with a heat wave. Hundreds of heat-related deaths occur in the U.S. each year, and these rates are on the rise. Awareness of when the body is losing the ability to deal with heat and seeking treatment for heat illness and dehydration are key to reducing heat stroke-related deaths. So it’s extremely important to understand the causes and symptoms of heat illnesses, such as heat stroke, and who’s at risk.
Under normal physiologic conditions, the human body can counteract overheating by sweating and other means. Heat illness occurs when the body is overwhelmed by the heat and can no longer maintain its temperature. Heat stroke is the most dangerous type of heat illness, though heat fatigue, heat cramps and heat exhaustion can also occur. These conditions can have a variety of effects on the body, blood flow and a person’s mental capacity. For example, heat stress with mild to moderate dehydration can result in loss of blood flow to the brain and the inability to stay upright.
Who’s at Risk of Heat Stroke and How to Prevent It
Heat stroke can develop in people of any age or health status, but the sedentary elderly, very young people and individuals with chronic disease such as heart disease have a significantly higher risk of having one. People who take certain medications, drink alcohol, are very overweight or who have poor blood circulation (such as those with diabetes and heart disease) or reduced sweat production due to aging are also at an increased risk. Prolonged, intense exercise in a hot environment without proper hydration can cause a heat stroke during heat waves, even among young and healthy people.
The most effective ways to prevent heat stroke is to ensure that high-risk populations:
- have access to air conditioning or a cool environment with air flow;
- dress comfortably in layers that can be removed as the temperature rises;
- stay hydrated by consuming water, fruits and vegetables (such as watermelon, tomatoes, lettuce, pineapple, cranberries and oranges), herbal tea, etc; and
- understand the signs and symptoms of heat stroke.
People may be developing heat illness if they appear confused or faint, are not sweating or have flushed skin after being exposed to the heat. Any individual experiencing these symptoms should be removed from the heat, offered fluids and examined for the possibility of heat illness or heat stroke.
Robert Carter, III, PhD, MPH, FACSM, is an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the product manager for medical simulation at the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation in Orlando.
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The MIT City Form Research Group recently released a new open-source plugin for ArcGIS 10 to perform advanced spatial analyses on network data such as urban street networks. The tool can give researchers a better understanding of how the spatial layout of cities and their
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The MIT City Form Research Group recently released a new open-source plugin for ArcGIS 10 to perform advanced spatial analyses on network data such as urban street networks. The tool can give researchers a better understanding of how the spatial layout of cities and their social, economic, and environmental processes affect the way people live in it.
The tool measures reach, gravity, betweenness, closeness, and straightness on spatial networks. This means you can assess the number of services or resources within a certain walking distance
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David O. Darling is not NASA. He is, what, an amateur astronomer?
Your insults are getting old.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
lol, let me know when these "storms" involve water
Temperatures on the Lunar surface vary widely on location. Although beyond the first few centimeters of the regolith the temperature is a nearly constant -35 C (at a depth of 1 meter), the surface is influenced widely by the day-night cycle. The average temperature on the surface is about 40-45 C lower than it is just below the surface. In the day, the temperature of the Moon averages 107 C, although it rises as high as 123 C. The night cools the surface to an average of -153 C, or -233 C in the permanently shaded south polar basin. A typical non-polar minimum temperature is -181 C (at the Apollo 15 site). The Lunar temperature increases about 280 C from just before dawn to Lunar noon. Average temperature also changes about 6 C betwen aphelion and perihelion.
The water is in a frozen 100 square kilometer lake 50 feet deep (thick) at the south pole... everyone knows this... don't you guys ever get out and do ANY research yourself?
Originally posted by MrPenny
But never, have I attained this level of'stretch'.....
Originally posted by MrPenny
Nothing in your post was particularly germane to the discussion.
Regardless, thank you for the contribution.
Source | MoonDaily | Watch Out For Flying Moondust
Here on Earth, no one pays much heed to dust or sand blasted out by a rocket launch because "atmospheric drag rapidly slows the lightweight particles so they fall harmlessly to the ground a few meters from the blast," he explains. But on the Moon? "There is no atmosphere to slow tiny particles." Small grit can travel enormous distances at high speeds, scouring everything in its path.
This isn't just theory. In November 1969, the Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM, pronounced "lem") landed about 200 meters from Surveyor 3, a robotic probe that had landed on the Moon in April 1967. The Apollo 12 astronauts walked over to Surveyor 3 to photograph it and to retrieve some pieces for return to Earth. Right away, they noticed that most of S
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Who won the Korean War? After three years of fighting, there was no clear victor in the war between North Korea (and its Communist-backed allies) and South Korea (and its UN allies).
The armistice that was signed at Pan
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Who won the Korean War? After three years of fighting, there was no clear victor in the war between North Korea (and its Communist-backed allies) and South Korea (and its UN allies).
The armistice that was signed at Panmunjom on this date in 1953 brought an uneasy truce and a divided Korea, which still exists today. Because President Truman never asked Congress to officially declare war on North Korea, in America it was called a "police action."
Truce negotiations lasted some two years; by then, the presidential baton had been handed by Truman to Eisenhower, who approved the decision to draw the final battle line at the 38th parallel, marking the boundary between the two Koreas. Years later, on this date in 1995, the Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by US President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
Quote: 'We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Cocaine and the Brain
Whether it is snorted, injected or smoked, cocaine is a stimulant which affect's the body's production of dopamine, the brain chemical governing pleasure and movement.
Effects and Risks
As a short-term
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Cocaine and the Brain
Whether it is snorted, injected or smoked, cocaine is a stimulant which affect's the body's production of dopamine, the brain chemical governing pleasure and movement.
Effects and Risks
As a short-term effect of cocaine ingested is constriction of the blood vessels, an increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature may be experienced along with dilation of pupils. Whereas a user may argue that he feels less tired and more mentally alert, the repeated and long-term use of the drug has devastating effects on the body. In these cases, chest pain, irregular heart rhythms and seizures can ensure. More fatal injuries can include: stroke, heart attack and respiratory failure. The least threatening effects of cocaine ingestion can be anxiety, irritability, restlessness, muscle spasms, auditory and visual hallucinations, loss of sexual desire and paranoid psychosis.
Eventually the user develops a tolerance to the drug and must ingest larger amounts of cocaine to achieve the same 'high'. Chronic cocaine abusers may also experience weight loss as the drug decreases appetite.
Each method of abusing cocaine also comes with its own dangers. The most common, snorting, may result in injury to the membrane lining the nostrils. Recurrent nosebleeds and chronically runny nose as well as a loss of smell and eventual swallowing difficulties may result. Ingesting (by mouth) may lead to gangrene of the small bowel as blood flow to the intestines is greatly reduced. Injections of cocaine carry the highest risk for contracting hepatitis and HIV
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First World War centenary: Battlefields trip day three
PUBLISHED: 09:00 10 February 2015 | UPDATED: 11:51 10 February 2015
After visiting eight cemeteries and memor
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First World War centenary: Battlefields trip day three
PUBLISHED: 09:00 10 February 2015 | UPDATED: 11:51 10 February 2015
After visiting eight cemeteries and memorials, one museum and a commemorative workshop, our tour came to an end.
Yesterday we travelled to three sites before waving goodbye to the battlefields of Belgium and France.
After spending our time previously considering Britain’s attitude to remembrance, we stopped by at the Langemark Cemetery, in Langemark-Poelkapelle.
Here lie more than 44,000 Germans, with 25,000 of them buried in a comrades’ grave. No soldier is buried in his own plot.
The simple granite slabs and crosses are in stark contrast to the magnificence of British memorials such as Thiepval.
As well as considering the reasons behind these differences, the students also learned about the individual stories of some of the soldiers buried there.
More than 3,000 students who volunteered to fight lie in the cemetery.
They were killed in October and November 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres, where they came up against the more experienced British soldiers.
It became known as the Kindermord – the “Massacre of the Innocents at Ypres”.
Also commemorated are 6,313 soldiers who were buried in the original cemetery. The known names are inscribed on the oak panels of the “room of honour”.
With the question of the day centring on whether remembrance is more or less important 100 years on, we participated in an art project.
The Coming World Remember Me scheme sees visitors create their own clay models of a figure with its head bowed, featuring a prominent spine to symbolise the strength people can embody in times of adversity.
Our creations will be among 600,000 displayed in a land art installation in Ypres in 2018. This will recognise the 600,000 people who lost their lives in Belgium during the war,
Our final day included a visit to Tyne Cot Cemetery, in Zonnebeke, which is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials.
The name Tyne Cot, or Tyne Cottage, was given to a barn on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde Road by the Northumberland Fusiliers.
It became the centre of five or six German pillboxes.
Between October 6 1917 and the end of March 1918, 343 graves were made on two sides of one of the pillboxes.
But the cemetery was vastly extended after the Armistice when remains were brought over from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemark and small burial grounds.
It now remembers 11,956 Commonwealth soldiers who were buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot, with 8,369 unidentified.
The memorial also commemorates almost 35,000 men from the UK and New Zealand, who died in the Ypres Salient after August 16 1917 and who do not have known graves.
The young people and their teachers were given time to take in the grand architecture, while some also looked for the graves of soldiers connected to their schools or areas.
Our visit to Tyne Cot ended in a few moments of reflection, befitting the sorrow and message of remembrance emitted by the cemetery.
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Was the walk on the moon one small step for man, or a man?
Neil Armstrong's first words from the moon were heard all over Earth, and Earth heard this:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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Was the walk on the moon one small step for man, or a man?
Neil Armstrong's first words from the moon were heard all over Earth, and Earth heard this:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
But Armstrong said immediately after the 1969 landing that he had been misquoted. He said he actually said, "That's one small step for 'a' man." It's just that people just didn't hear it.
The astronaut acknowledged in a rare interview in 1999 that he didn't hear himself say it either when he listened to the transmission from the July 20, 1969, moon landing.
"The 'a' was intended," Armstrong said. "I thought I said it. I can't hear it when I listen on the radio reception here on Earth, so I'll be happy if you just put it in parentheses."
Although no in the world heard the "'a," some research backs Armstrong.
In 2006, a computer analysis found evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said.
Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, ran a software analysis looking at sound waves and found a wave that would have been the missing "a." It lasted 35 milliseconds, much too quick to be heard. The Smithsonian's space curator, Roger Launius, looked at the evidence and found it convincing.
NASA has also stood by its moon man.
"If Neil Armstrong says there was an 'a,' then as far as we're concerned, there was 'a,'" NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
Armstrong, who died Saturday at age 82, maintained until the end that there was a lost word in his famous words from the moon.
"I thought about it after landing," he said in a 2011 NASA oral history. "And because we had a lot of other things to do, it was not something that I really concentrated on, but just something that was kind of passing around subliminally or in the background. But it, you know, was a pretty simple statement, talking about stepping off something. Why, it wasn't a very complex thing. It was what it was."
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Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814‒69) was secretary of war from 1862 to 1868. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, he completed one year at Kenyon College before being
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Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814‒69) was secretary of war from 1862 to 1868. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, he completed one year at Kenyon College before being forced to leave for financial reasons. He studied law with a local attorney and became a successful lawyer, practicing in Steubenville, Pittsburgh, and eventually Washington, DC, where he served for a time as attorney general in the administration of President James Buchanan. Following the resignation of Lincoln’s first secretary of war, Simon Cameron, Stanton was appointed to the post. He proved to be an administrative genius who cleaned up procurement scandals left over from Cameron and ensured the equipping and provisioning of the vast Union war establishment. Stanton stayed on in his post into the Reconstruction era, but he fell out with President Andrew Johnson over what Stanton saw as the latter’s excessively lenient policies toward the former Confederate states. The image is from an album of mostly Civil War-era portraits by the famous American photographer Matthew Brady (circa 1823‒96) that belonged to Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (1825‒91), a collector of photography as well as a photographer himself. The album was a gift to the emperor from Edward Anthony (1818‒88), another early American photographer who, in partnership with his brother, owned a company that in the 1850s became the leading seller of photographic supplies in the United States. Dom Pedro may have acquired the album during a trip to the United States in 1876 when he, along with President Ulysses S. Grant, opened the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Brady was born in upstate New York, the son of immigrants from Ireland. Best known for his photographs documenting the battles of the American Civil War, he began his career in 1844 when he opened a daguerreotype portrait studio at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Streets in New York City. Over the course of the next several decades, Brady produced portraits of leading American public figures, many of which were published as engravings in magazines and newspapers. In 1858 he opened a branch in Washington, DC. The album, which also contains a small number of non-photographic prints, is part of the Thereza Christina Maria Collection at the National Library of Brazil. The collection is composed of 21,742 photos assembled by Emperor Pedro II throughout his life and donated by him to the national library. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects. It documents the achievements of Brazil and Brazilians in the 19th century and also includes many photographs of Europe, Africa, and North America.
Edward Anthony, New York
Type of Item
1 photographic print of a drawing : carte-de-visite, albumen paper ; 8.6 x 5.5 centimeters
- William B. Skelton, “Stanton, Edwin McMasters,” in American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Last updated: April 11, 2017
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Surviving in the Pacific Ocean, bacterial style
September 4, 2014 § Leave a comment
The oceans harbor “much of Earth’s biological diversity,” points out Mak Saito at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who was the
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Surviving in the Pacific Ocean, bacterial style
September 4, 2014 § Leave a comment
The oceans harbor “much of Earth’s biological diversity,” points out Mak Saito at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who was the first author on the first Science paper. Researchers want to know how the microorganisms, which are the foundation of the marine food web and are essential to the cycling of biologically important elements, survive in oceans. The researchers want to understand how changes in carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen and other elements, caused by natural means or human activity, affect the survival of these critical microorganisms.
But Saito says experiments to analyze the effects of nutrients on marine microorganisms are difficult to do and tend to only give a glimpse of what’s going on. So Saito’s group turned to proteomic technologies because they could use them to quantitatively study the details of the biochemical changes happening in the microorganisms across the Pacific Ocean. The investigators spent a month on a ship, traveling across the Central Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to Samoa, and collecting microbial protein samples from as deep as 1 kilometer from the ocean. The path they traveled cut through the northern regions that were rich in iron to areas near the equator that were plentiful in phosphorus and nitrogen but lacked iron. For each sample, the investigators filtered 300-800 liters of seawater over 4-6 hours through 0.2-micron filters and froze the samples.
When they got back to Woods Hole, they used two different proteomic methods to study how the protein content changed in their samples that they took from the 2,500-mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean. Saito says that previous studies identified many proteins in the oceans and their relative abundances. In contrast, the measurements he and his colleagues carried out are the fir
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Behavioral experiments indicate that infants aged 4 ½ months or older possess an early "number sense" that allows them to detect changes in the number of objects. However, the neural basis of this ability was previously unknown. This week in the
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Behavioral experiments indicate that infants aged 4 ½ months or older possess an early "number sense" that allows them to detect changes in the number of objects. However, the neural basis of this ability was previously unknown. This week in the online journal PLoS Biology, Véronique Izard, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, and Stanislas Dehaene provide brain imaging evidence showing that very young infants are sensitive to both the number and identity of objects, and these pieces of information are processed by distinct neural pathways.
The authors recorded the electrical activity evoked by the brain on the surface of the scalp as 3-months-old infants were watching images of objects. The number or identity of objects occasionally changed. The authors found that the infant brain responds to both changes, but in different brain regions, which map onto the same regions that activate in adults. These results show that very young infants are sensitive to small changes in number, and the brain organization that underlies the perception of object number and identity are established early during development.
Citation: Izard V, Dehaene-Lambertz G, Dehaene S (2008) Distinct cerebral pathways for object identity and number in human infants. PLoS Biol 6(2): e11. doi:10.1371/journal. pbio.0060011
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Champlain's Law program is one of the most focused and practical majors in the country and will give you the foundation of knowledge and skills you need to be a valued legal professional or to prepare you to go on to a top-tier law school
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Champlain's Law program is one of the most focused and practical majors in the country and will give you the foundation of knowledge and skills you need to be a valued legal professional or to prepare you to go on to a top-tier law school.
By the time you complete the academic and internship requirements for your Law degree, you will be able to:
THINK CRITICALLY & ANALYTICALLY
- Interpret and explain the elements of a legal argument or question.
- Analyze the structural connections between the component parts of a legal argument or question to determine which areas of law are relevant.
- Evaluate the credibility, reliability or relevance of legal authority to determine if it applies to the legal issues.
- Synthesize a response based upon interpretation, analysis and evaluation of legal issues and relevant authority.
COMMUNICATE ORALLY & IN WRITING
- Effectively interact both orally and in written correspondence with lawyers, other professionals and laypersons.
- Analyze communication situations in order to make effective communication choices and achieve desired results.
- Make educated choices about language, genre and organization to produce writing that is clear, concise and reflective of the high standards expected within the legal profession.
- Choose appropriate technology tools and use them effectively.
- Survey both print and electronic sources of law to locate applicable and relevant primary and secondary source materials.
- Evaluate and analyze those source materials, and apply them to issues requiring legal analysis.
- Develop an adaptive life-long learning approach to changing technologies that gives proper consideration to the implications associated with their use.
PERFORM LEGAL RESEARCH
- Prepare and carry out a legal research plan.
- Survey both print and electronic sources of law to locate applicable primary and secondary source materials.
- Evaluate and analyze source materials, and apply them to issues requiring legal analysis.
- Properly cite both print and electronic sources of law.
- Draft various legal documents using proper format and appropriate content.
INTERVIEW AND INVESTIGATE
- Locate and prepare documents to obtain information that is commonly maintained by government and private entities.
- Summarize and analyze information contained in such documents and apply it to a given situation.
WORK PROFESSIONALLY & ETHICALLY
- Cite, state, and act in accordance with the rules of professional conduct that govern those working in the legal field.
- Describe the evolving role of non-lawyers in the delivery of legal services and in increasing access to legal services.
- Identify the ethical implications inherent in a particular situation, and evaluate the particular course of action to be taken in the face of countervailing pressures.
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Although the analogy of “aches and pains” is often used to describe growing older, some researchers from Australia wondered how prevalent these issues are in adolescents. Shockingly, what they found is that our children may be in more pain than we realize.
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Although the analogy of “aches and pains” is often used to describe growing older, some researchers from Australia wondered how prevalent these issues are in adolescents. Shockingly, what they found is that our children may be in more pain than we realize.
For the purposes of this study, researchers reviewed a health survey of 404,000 school-aged children between nine and 17 years old. Boys and girls were asked about their experience with headaches, stomach aches, and/or back pain at regular intervals during the course of the previous six months.
The Pain-Filled Results
The results showed that more than half of these youngsters experienced regular headaches (54.1%) with a slightly smaller amount (49.8%) reporting that they had stomach pain. Back pain came in last, but the rate of kids suffering with this type of issue was still high, with 37% of them reporting some sort of pain or discomfort.
What is worse is that a lot of the children had more than one type of pain that they were contending with. For example, 31% had both headaches and stomach aches, 12.1% were dealing with headaches and backaches, and a whopping 35.7% reported experiencing all three types of pain!
The Pain-Free Solution
Chiropractic care can help children and adolescents live a pain-free life by correcting any spinal issues that may be causing them the discomfort that they are obviously feeling at alarmingly high rates. And, the best part is that it doesn’t involve the use of potentially harmful drugs, so it is a completely natural solution without negative side effects.
Making our children pain-free should be our ultimate goal, now that we realize that it is a greater issue than we once thought.
Swain M, et al. An international survey of pain in adolescents. BioMed Public Health 14:447. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-447.
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Feb 10, 2017: Over 21 years to 2014, the richest quintile — top 20 per cent of the population by income? — undergoing caesarean section deliveries in India has gone up from 10
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Feb 10, 2017: Over 21 years to 2014, the richest quintile — top 20 per cent of the population by income? — undergoing caesarean section deliveries in India has gone up from 10 per cent to 30 per cent, raising the country’s average caesarean-section rates from five per cent to 18 per cent over the same period, according to a recent analysis of national health data. The rate of caesarean section among the poor has stayed the same over this period: five per cent.
International researchers presented these facts during the launch of Maternal Health Series 2016, a report released in Mumbai on February 3 by The Lancet, a peer-reviewed global medical journal. The event was part of the Human Rights in Childbirth India Conference.
An independent analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey (1992-93 to 2015-16) and Rapid Survey on Children 2013-14 pegs India’s caesarean-section rate at 18 per cent, higher than the Lancet report’s estimate of 10 per cent.
The caesarean section is a globally recognised maternal health-care indicator: When caesarean section rates rise towards 10 per cent across a population, maternal and newborn deaths decrease; if the rate goes above 10 per cent — as appears to be the case in India — there is no evidence of improvement in maternal or neonatal mortality, according to a 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) statement.
A caesarean section may be necessary when vaginal delivery poses a risk to the mother or baby. However, caesarean sections can cause significant complications, disability or death, particularly in settings that lack the facilities to conduct safe surgeries or treat potential complications, the WHO warned.
State-wise data showed higher caesarean section rates in private facilities than public-health institutions. For instance, the caesarean section rate in private facilities of Tripura is close to 74 per
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