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that brings cortisol. They focus more than most mentorships – on spreading serotonin chemicals. Serotonin and other neurotransmitters for well being support mindguides’ learning and leading skills. Do you see similar approaches in typical mentor programs? 9. Social media offers more integrated views on mindguiding topi... |
to crave in the kind of opposing views presented by radio stations such as NPR in the US or CBC in Canada. Suggested Brainpowered tool: Mindguides invite personal stories to respectfully create curiosity for multiple sides of issues. Mentors, in contrast, often tend to hear only what they already believe, until they ap... |
10. Mindguiding improves the brain’s hardwiring. Each time a person interacts with others and with new insights that interest, they strengthen their capabilities to interact with additional new ideas and with different approaches. Suggested Brainpowered tool: Repeat or do one key nugget learned. Lack of doing or applyi... |
act on what they learn, they rewire brain cell connectors and reshape mental ability. Ready to reshape learning abilities stored in your brain? You’ve likely noticed that – in each brainpowered tool above, diversity and rawboned talent become mental assets for more than what mentoring views as minions’ benefit. In mind... |
Educator Resources for Treefrog Treasure Treefrog Treasure is a platformer game that allows students to practice math concepts as they explore different worlds as a frog character. When certain obstacles are reached, students must properly identify a target symbol, whole |
number, or fraction on a number line to collect gems and complete the level. Hints are provided to help students reach the correct answer when mistakes are made. The game is a great differentiation tools, as it automatically adjusts to |
students’ performance to provide appropriate levels of mathematical complexity. For teacher resources, visit Space Science Institute In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 2-5, students will use BrainPOP resources and an online math game to explore fractions and |
match and/or compare fractional amounts. Common Core State Standard Alignment: CCSS.Math.Cont.3.NF.A.2a Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram by defining the interval from 0 to 1 as the whole and partitioning it into b equal parts. Recognize that |
each part has size 1/b and that the endpoint of the part based at 0 locates the number 1/b on the number line. CCSS.Math.Cont.3.NF.A.2b Represent a fraction a/b on a number line diagram by marking off a lengths 1/b from |
Children with low muscle tone often have delayed motor skills, muscle weakness, and / or coordination and balance problems. (Essentially the muscles lack stamina. The muscles don't have the energy to keep working at a normal level.) Children diagnosed with hypotonia can have varying degrees of severity of muscle weakne... |
the same muscles working for any length of time and they will tire faster than a normal child's muscles. Muscle tone also comprises a second feature, which is the speed of the muscles' responses. The speed is slower in those with hypotonia. Due to the slower speed of the muscle response a child with hypotonia may have ... |
Hypotonia can occur in every muscle, so any movement that requires muscle activity and strength is likely to be impaired. Muscles are tied to every physical endeavor, from eating, to talking, our facial gestures, getting dressed, sitting, and walking. Our Physical Therapists provide an individualized evaluation and tre... |
in conjunction with our Occupational Therapist on Fine Motor/Upper Body Coordination and with our Speech and Language Therapist on delayed speech, Articulation, Oral Motor or any other Feeding/Swallowing Issues that a child my have. |
What is cancer of breasts? Breast cancer is the most prevailing forms of cancer these days that is found within the American women more than anything else and it’s the third most found cancer types all over the world which is why it’s such a threat and dangerous condition for almost every female who lives on the planet... |
always a risk for a woman to induce breast cancer symptoms and outcomes readily even if there isn’t any genetic factor involved within and there are many consequences which are relatable. The rate of breast cancer is increasing with every passing day and you should know that this is a condition very serious and somethi... |
about. See what causes breast cancer, most important breast cancer facts explained here. Breast cancer facts and risk factors Breast cancer factors included which enhance and additionally increase the results and outcomes of the ailment and diet being one of them is quite helpful and useful. You must know that there ar... |
routine which could prevent or even affect the formation of cancerous cells and cause breast cancer. Breast cancer is a cancer type of the glands that are found within the female breasts known as the mammary glands. Any form of lymphatic or infectious drainage could readily block and cause adverse effects of the gland ... |
diagnose breast cancer? Breast cancer initially develops like all kinds of cancers do. The division and multiplication of abnormal and haphazard cells causes the condition to develop in the first place which then acquires the lymphatic tissue and organs. The body starts taking care of the problem right away but there i... |
involved and anticipated and after that everything is simply out of time and order. Breast cancer when spread to different organs and lymph nodes is really serious and it is most likely that it could spread easily within minutes fractions of days. There are many things producing the cancer in the first place. Genetics ... |
many females whose mothers, grandmothers or aunts have gone through the problem suffer through it. It could also be the result of smoking, alcoholism and exposure to radiation for a considerable time span could also be the cause. You should know that using artificial products such as deodorants of insignificant types c... |
cancer too. Breast cancer prevention methods Here is a few breast cancer prevention facts explained. Doctors still don’t know what causes breast cancer, however information about what increasing breast cancer health risks is available now. It includes foods, diets, list of diseases which can lead to breast cancer, etc.... |
right in your home. Also yearly mammogram for females after 20 years is very important. Here is few ways of breast cancer treatment, it includes chemotherapy, hormone therapy and radiotherapy. At initial stages it more easy to treat breast cancer, it why early diagnosis of breast cancer is very important. Hope that bre... |
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Surface area is a two-dimensional property of a three-dimensional figure. Cones are similar to pyramids, except they have a circular base instead of a polygonal base. Therefore, the surface area of a cone is equal to the sum of the circular base area and the lateral surface area, calculated by |
multiplying half of the circumference by the slant height. Related topics include pyramid and cylinder surface area. If you want to calculate the surface area of a cone, you only need to know 2 dimensions. The first is the slant height l and the second is the radius. So what |
we're going to do, we're going to separate this into two pieces the first is the base which is a circle with radius r and the second is this slant height l. So if I cut, if I took a scissors and cut the cone part and I fended out |
it would look like a sector. Well what I could do here is I could rearrange this sector into a parallelogram. So again if I cut this into really tiny pieces then I'll be able to organize it into a parallelogram where I would be able to calculate its area. |
And the way that we'll calculate its area, is first by saying well what are these lines that are going out? Well those lines are going to be your l, your slant height and this side right here is going to be half of your circumference and half of a |
circumference is pi times r because the whole circumference is 2 pi r. So this down here is pi times r, so if our height l and our base is pi times r then the area of this is equal to pi times r times l. So the surface area |
of a cone which I'm going to write over here is equal to the base pi r squared plus this lateral area which is found using your slant height. So that's going be pi times r times l, so you only need to know 2 dimensions the radius and the |
Pacific's brawn drain is world rugby's gain Back then ... the 1961 Fijian team in Australia. Photo: Australian Rugby Union Archives Some call it modern-day blackbirding. Australia stopped using Pacific islanders in sugar fields 95 years ago but they are back, on the playing fields this time carrying the hopes |
and dreams of four of the six nations competing in this weekend's Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. One fifth of all World Cup players are of Pacific island background, from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Pacific islanders are playing for the Wallabies (seven), All Blacks (eight), England and Wales (one each). The |
United States field seven, Japan three. What caused such a brawn drain? The rise of the islanders is a happy confluence of supply and demand: In Australia, the private school systems that once served as player humidicribs have let the side down with sport taking a backseat to academic success; |
New Zealand has been swamped by Polynesian immigration and they have forced their way into national teams by talent and sheer numbers; the globalisation of rugby has suddenly made Pacific islanders bigger, stronger and faster than almost any other peoples, the men of the match. Robert Dewey, assistant professor of |
history at DePauw University in Indiana, has made a study of rugby in the Pacific. He says the sport is segregated and played outside formal coaching structures , developing an exciting style of ''our own game'' that revitalised rugby across the world. Rugby, he says, was appropriated as a ''national |
game'' among Tongans, Samoans and indigenous Fijians. ''Early rugby played an important role in expressions of village pride and masculinity, partly because so many of the traditional institutions into manhood had disappeared,'' he says. ''In more recent times, cast in the role of perpetual underdog, the successes and ... |
provided by island teams on the pitch went a long way to popularising rugby at home, beyond the elite groups which had initially played the game … It became the national game as well as a catalyst for regional connections.'' Rugby was borne into the Pacific by God and Queen |
Victoria. Marist Brothers took the game to Samoa, while in Fiji, colonial administrators established a ''Native Union'' in 1913 that continued until World War II when local teams started to outnumber colonial sides and they ran out of grounds. In Tonga, locals returning from Newington College in Stanmore introduced the |
code but acceptance was boosted when royal patronage arrived thanks to the interest of Prince Tugi and then his son, subsequently King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV. Pacific islanders proved so talented on the rugby field that there are some who believe this might be the reason they were put on Earth. |
If African DNA travelled across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and the US to produce the world's best sprinters and boxers, some football tragics believe it is not too big a stretch to believe the Polynesian DNA must have started out of south-east Asia three millennia ago to embrace its |
manifest destiny - rugby. Yet, the powerful nations of the Pacific resisted Polynesian domination, even after rugby union embraced professionalism and abandoned amateur status in 1995. Professor Dewey says the truth is that the island nations are too small and too poor to be treated as equals. ''Lacking television reve... |
and significant sponsorship, barred from the executive decision-making, excluded from the repeated expansion of what became the Super 14 competition … increasingly in debt and on the wrong end of lopsided score lines against the game's top teams, Pacific rugby's administrators faced a bleak set of circumstances.'' He s... |
administrators were nearly unanimous in allowing players to seek their fortunes overseas, even if it meant donning Wallaby or All Blacks jerseys. They flooded the ranks of rugby league and even started showing up in US gridiron teams. Over the years the likes of Lote Tuqiri, Joe Rokocoko, Sione Lauaki, |
Sitiveni Sivivatu, Chris Masoe, Jerry Collins and Willie Ofahengaue left their island homes. Tonight, Samoan-born centre Manu Tuilagi takes the field for England against France. His brother Alesana represented Samoa until they were knocked out but usually plays for Leicester Tigers in England. How long before an Island... |
Elpidio QuirinoArticle Free Pass Elpidio Quirino, (born Nov. 16, 1890, Vigan, Phil.—died Feb. 28, 1956, Novaliches), political leader and second president of the independent Republic of the Philippines. After obtaining a law degree from the University of the Philippines, near Manila, in 1915, Quirino practiced law unti... |
a member of the Philippine House of Representatives in 1919–25 and a senator in 1925–31. In 1934 he was a member of the Philippine independence mission to Washington, D.C., headed by Manuel Quezon, which secured the passage in Congress of the Tydings–McDuffie Act, setting the date for Philippine independence as |
July 4, 1946. He was also elected to the convention that drafted a constitution for the new Philippine Commonwealth. Subsequently he served as secretary of finance and secretary of the interior in the Commonwealth government. After World War II, Quirino served as secretary of state and vice president under the |
first president of the independent Philippines, Manuel Roxas. When Roxas died on April 15, 1948, Quirino succeeded to the presidency. The following year, he was elected president for a four-year term on the Liberal Party ticket, defeating the Nacionalista candidate. President Quirino’s administration faced a serious th... |
of the Communist-led Hukbalahap (Huk) movement. Though the Huks originally had been an anti-Japanese guerrilla army in Luzon, the Communists steadily gained control over the leadership, and, when Quirino’s negotiations with Huk commander Luis Taruc broke down in 1948, Taruc openly declared himself a Communist and calle... |
of the government. By 1950 the Huks had gained control over a considerable portion of Luzon, and Quirino appointed the able Ramon Magsaysay as secretary of national defense to suppress the insurrection. Quirino’s six years as president were marked by notable postwar reconstruction, general economic gains, and increased... |
from the United States. Basic social problems, however, particularly in the rural areas, remained unsolved; Quirino’s administration was tainted by widespread graft and corruption. The 1949 elections, which he had won, were among the most dishonest in the country’s history. Magsaysay, who had been largely successful in... |
of the Huk insurgents, broke with Quirino on the issue of corruption, campaigning for clean elections and defeating Quirino as the Nacionalista candidate in the presidential election of 1953. Subsequently, Quirino retired to private life. What made you want to look up "Elpidio Quirino"? Please share what surprised you ... |
Simply begin typing or use the editing tools above to add to this article. Once you are finished and click submit, your modifications will be sent to our editors for review. course through Hamburg ...the southeast of the old city, the Elbe divides itself into two branches, the Norderelbe and the Süderelbe, but these br... |
city, to form the Unterelbe, which flows into the North Sea some 65 miles downstream from Hamburg. Two other rivers flow into the Elbe at Hamburg—the Alster from the north and the Bille from the east. hydrology of Elbe River The estuary proper of the Elbe (Unterelbe) extends from Hamburg to Cuxhaven, a distance of abou... |
to two miles, but much of it is occupied by mud flats and sandbanks. The main channel is buoyed and dredged. At high tide the channel has a depth of some 53 feet (16 metres). The south or left bank is low and marshy and the river has sandbanks; the right bank is... What made you want to look up "Unterelbe River"? Pleas... |
William IIIArticle Free Pass King of England An invitation, signed by a representative selection of James’s opponents, was dispatched on July 10 (Old Style), and on November 5 (November 15, New Style) William and his army landed at Brixham on Tor Bay in Devon and proceeded almost unopposed to London. |
James fled to France, and the so-called Convention Parliament, summoned in January 1689, declared that James had abdicated and offered the vacant throne, with an accompanying Declaration of Right, to William and Mary. They were proclaimed in February and crowned on April 21. The crown of Scotland was offered to |
them in the same month. The revolution in England had been accomplished almost without bloodshed, but in Scotland and Ireland there was armed resistance. This collapsed in Scotland in 1689, but the country remained troubled and unsettled throughout William’s reign. In 1692 Alexander MacDonald of Glen Coe and some of |
his clansmen were murdered in cold blood for tardiness in taking the oath of allegiance to William. William ordered an inquiry but took no further action until in 1695 the Scottish Parliament demanded a public investigation. He then showed culpable leniency to the offenders, merely dismissing from his secretaryship Sir |
John Dalrymple, on whom responsibility for the massacre was finally placed. In Ireland war formally broke out in 1689, when James landed there with French support. But the successful defense of Londonderry and of Enniskillen, and William’s own victory at the Battle of the Boyne on July 1, 1690, ensured |
the reconquest of Ireland and freed him to turn his attention to the European continent. Here, after a series of minor attacks on the empire, Louis XIV had invaded the Palatinate in 1688. The Dutch and the emperor concluded the Treaty of Vienna (May 1689) and declared war on Louis; |
over the next 18 months William’s rare diplomatic skill brought into the alliance Brandenburg, Hanover, Saxony, Bavaria, Savoy, and Spain, as well as England, which became its linchpin. From 1691 William spent much time campaigning on the continent with varying degrees of success; but by 1696 a number of factors |
made both sides anxious for peace, and the Treaties of Rijswijk were signed in 1697. The question, vital for a European balance of power, of who was to succeed the childless king Charles II of Spain remained unsettled, however, and William had good cause to fear that the peace would |
be no more than a truce. The English Parliament, on the contrary, was convinced that it would be lasting, insisted on cutting down the size of the army, and resolutely turned its back on foreign affairs. William, in the hope of averting a new war, entered into two Spanish Partition |
treaties (1698–99) with Louis—measures that involved him in serious frictions with Parliament. But when the Spanish king died on Nov. 1, 1700, Louis, ignoring his agreements, accepted the crown of Spain for his grandson and soon showed that he had not relinquished his plans for French aggrandizement. William, though ha... |
by English apathy, set himself to rebuilding the Grand Alliance and to preparing his two countries for the now inevitable conflict. In September 1701 the exiled James II died, and Louis XIV proclaimed his son king of England, contrary to his agreement in one of the Rijswijk treaties, and thus |
roused the English to an enthusiasm for war. William did not live to see this war declared. His health had long been declining, and in March 1702 he died. His plans for a European settlement were largely carried out by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). His ideal, which he had |
pursued doggedly for 30 years, was an international order in which no single power was able to tyrannize the rest. What made you want to look up "William III"? Please share what surprised you most... |
Antônio de Castro AlvesArticle Free Pass Antônio de Castro Alves, (born March 14, 1847, Muritiba, Braz.—died July 6, 1871, Salvador), Romantic poet whose sympathy for the Brazilian abolitionist cause won him the name “poet of the slaves.” While still a student Castro Alves produced a play that brought him to the attent... |
de Assis, Brazilian literary leaders. Having studied for the law, he soon became a dominant figure among the Condoreira (Condor) school of poets, likened, for their dedication to lofty causes and for their preference for elevated style, to the highest flying birds in the Americas. His romantic image was heightened by h... |
in a hunting accident. He lived and wrote at fever pitch while the wound worsened and eventually led to amputation of his foot. Tuberculosis set in, and he died at 24. Espumas flutuantes (1870; “Floating Foam”) contains some of his finest love lyrics. A cachoeira de Paulo Afonso (1876; “The Paulo Afonso Falls”), a frag... |
story of a slave girl who is raped by her master’s son. This and Castro Alves’ other abolitionist poems were collected in a posthumous book, Os escravos (1883; “The Slaves”). What made you want to look up "Antonio de Castro Alves"? Please share what surprised you most... |
On the bicentennial of the War of 1812, What So Proudly We Hailed looks at this formative yet misunderstood period in American history through the lens of 21st century America. This provocative book asks, among other questions: What did America |
learn—and what did it not learn—from the experience? How did it help shape a nation? With Congress divided along party lines, the U.S. government went to war without adequately preparing either the means to finance the conflict or the capabilities |
needed to achieve its aims. Like the United States two hundred years ago, the executive branch still suffers from in-fighting. The military invades a foreign nation, expecting to be treated as liberators. The entire endeavor winds down to a seemingly |
inconclusive ending. Sound familiar? By 2003, America was waging two wars at once, at vast expense. Neither was financed by tax increases, but instead with borrowed money—much like in 1812, when the “Republican” party’s reluctance to use the government’s taxing |
power led to expanded debt and inadequate funding for the war effort. In What So Proudly We Hailed, the contributors look at how Partisan animosity in 1812 surpassed today’s rancor, teaching us the danger of hyperpartisanship as well as the |
less obvious tendency of the party system to adapt and realign: The Federalist-Republican competition that dominated early U.S. politics dissipated in the war’s aftermath. We take today’s partisan divide as a given, but in time that too is likely to |
pass. - Pulitzer-winning historian Alan Taylor (The Civil War of 1812) examines the war’s sectional tensions and the implications for American nationalism. - Historian Peter J. Kastor discusses how 1812–15 affected state-federal relations. - Author Stephen Budiansky (Perilous Fight) explores |
the military legacy. - Pietro Nivola assesses the keen partisan rivalry of the early 1800s and what it can tell us about today’s strife. - Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh of Brookings investigate constitutional frictions, particularly regarding presidential power and |
How many times have you typed a wrong internet address into your web browser? It must have happened to you at least once. Maybe instead of “Facebook” you typed “Fcebook” |
while rushing to access your Facebook profile? You’d think that such an honest mistake doesn’t cost you anything. After all, you do no harm. But with all the cybercriminals out |
there looking for new opportunities to make some easy money, mistyping the name of a popular website might cost you your internet security. If you mistype the address of a |
website into your browser, you could end up on a malicious website. Once landed, you might get tricked into downloading malicious software to your computer or handing over personal information, |
such as credit card details. Cybercriminals set up these fake websites, hoping to “capitalize” on your mistakes. What is typosquatting? The fraudulent web practice mentioned above is called “typosquatting”. It |
is a form of cybersquatting, an illegal web practice also known as “domain” or “URL squatting”. The US and other countries even have a law against it. In the US |
it’s called “the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act”. Cybersquatting basically refers to the action of registering, trafficking in, or using the name of an existing website to profit from the goodwill |
of a trademark that belongs to someone else. Sometimes, the ill-intended third-parties behind this kind of fraud – cybersquatters – register misspelled versions of popular trademarked names that coincide with |
advertisements; in this case, typosquatters are not putting at risk your internet security, but they are taking advantage of your good faith. Their real victims are the companies whose names |
are used as bait. - Trick you into downloading spyware or other type of malware to your computer. If you don’t have proper antivirus protection, they might breach your internet |
security. For example, once you get on the respective site, a pop-up window might warn you that your computer is infected and urge you to download an antivirus program they |
provide. If you fall for the scam, what you actually download is malware. - Get hold of your personal information – usernames, passwords, credit card details, as part of a |
phishing scam. The site you land on might offer you fake discounts or giveways, in exchange for your personal details. - Direct you to adult, dating sites, or other sites |
you had no intention of visiting. How to avoid typosquatting dangers: - Be very careful with what you type in to your web browser. Always type in the correct names |
of the sites you want to visit and make sure your kids do the same. You don’t want them ending up on dating sites or downloading some form of malware |
that can compromise your entire family’s internet security. - When you’re not sure of the correct spelling of the website name, do not type it in the browser address bar |
directly. Use a trusted search engine instead, like Google, Bing and Yahoo!, to get a thorough list of search results. In this case, it’s best you have an effective Safe |
Browsing tool, like the one in BullGuard Internet Security 12, to flag out phishing, virus-infected and other types of malicious websites. - Get a genuine and comprehensive internet security suite |
to protect you from phishing attempts, viruses, spyware and other types of malware. BullGuard’s internet security software comes with a dual antivirus engine that spots known and yet unknown malware, |
This is an introductory level presentation exploring the various definitions of the term "environmental sustainability" and the connection between climate change and human population growth and its impact on the viability of the earth's systems. To explore the various perspectives |
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