The government shutdown has now reached every continent on the planet. Antarctic research stations have been shuttered into caretaker status, since the United States Antarctic Program—a department of the National Science Foundation—expects to run out of funds about a week from now. The caretaker operations allow operations that protect crew and property to remain active but any other research is put on hold.
"Under caretaker status," read a statement, "the USAP will be staffed at a minimal level to ensure human safety and preserve government property, including the three primary research stations, ships and associated research facilities. All field and research activities not essential to human safety and preservation of property will be suspended."
Lapses in research, especially in geographic locations as remote as Antarctica, can jeopardize decades of research. As one team described to the Associated Press:
A ship had been scheduled to arrive Wednesday with researchers, including those working on a long-term study that has tracked penguins and other creatures since 1990, said Brown University doctoral student Catherine Luria who was working with colleagues now there. That work, coordinated by Hugh Ducklow of Columbia University, relied on statistics and trend that need to be unbroken.
"If we miss a year, we'll never get it back again," said Ducklow, who has tracked a 95 percent drop in Adelie penguin population over the years. "It's pretty devastating for our project."
October, when the southern pole begins to warm up, is normally the beginning of research season on the continent, meaning that government gridlock could not have come at a worse time. In particular, researchers who have been their during the winter seasons are normally coming home around this time, and wrangling a flight out of the McMurdo Research Station is slightly tougher than buying a Delta boarding pass.


The Early Childhood Education (ECE) program will prepare you to teach infants through third grade in a variety of urban and suburban education settings, including public and private early childhood programs.
You will learn educational theories, conduct research projects, participate in field experiences, which require you to observe and participate in teaching activities at multiple elementary schools and childcare centers, and student teach.
- Child and Family
- Child Growth and Development
- Child Health, Safety and Nutrition
- Children's Literature
- Curriculum Development
- Exceptional Child Development and Instruction
- Math and Science Instruction in Early Childhood
- Reading Instruction
- Speech and Language Development
- Teaching Strategies


Fort Augusta/Fort Cornwallis and St. Paul's Church, Augusta, GA
Posted by: TheConaways
N 33° 28.523 W 081° 57.659
17S E 410711 N 3704403
Quick Description: Marker commemorating the location of St. Paul's Church and Fort Augusta/Fort Cornwallis in Augusta, GA
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 7/23/2006 12:53:04 PM
Waymark Code: WMJ1Q
On this site in 1735, James Edward Oglethorpe established Fort Augusta to protect fur traders and others in the area. It stayed under British rule until a attack by the Americans in 1781. See other waymarks and markers in the area for a history.
In 1750, St. Paul's church was built to serve the Fort Augusta and the new city. In 1786, a new church was built as non-denominational, and, in 1818, the Trustees of the Episcopal Church took control of it. In 1916, the church burned down, and the present structure was built.
Check out Washington's Southern Tour and The Mayham Tower for more history of the forts and the church.


Category: Society / April 3, 2013 3:40 PM EDT
The grandson of the British chief pilot Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, who completed the first flight over Mount Everest on Wednesday (April 3) flew over the world's highest peak, 80 years after.
On April 3, 1933, Douglas-Hamilton's and Flight Lieutenant David Fowler MacIntyre's small aircraft circled over Mount Everest with the hopes of producing accurate maps of the area.
"It was to enhance British aviation, it was a scientific flight, they were going to take photographs of the area, decipher the summit to help with the map making, because the area was poorly understood. And other than a few birds and maybe some wild animals, no human beings have been in the area, the maps were inaccurate, so this was really a scientific expedition," Douglas-Hamilton's grandson Charles said.
He added that aviation today has gone through a transformational change.
"I was enjoying a cup of coffee, looking out a window in a pressurised cabin. Comparing to what was being done in 1933, there is a massive, massive difference," Douglas-Hamilton said.
Local media said Douglas Hamilton wanted to retrace the exact route his grandfather took, but flight conditions proved otherwise, adding that he would like to try to fly the original route for the centenary celebrations.
Video Source: Reuters


Many of the Engineering students who has C, C++ in their academic syllabus stick to Windows XP Only. You may be tried to install and run turbo C++ in Windows 7 and Vista but may have failed to do so. You may have thought for a while what happened to your favourite C programming IDE(Integrated Development Environment), Which you used to run on older operating systems like Windows XP or 98 without trouble.
The important reason behind this problem is that your version of windows has just got improved enough or say advanced that it doesn’t support the decade old “Dos”
Windows after 9x(93,95,98 etc) versions are not running of top of dos, they run on a completely different Technology called NT(New Technology), so to provide compatibility with DOS software Microsoft provided these version of windows have a system called NTVDM (NT virtual dos machine), which emulates DOS like environment to run these dos programs but when Windows evolved to Windows Vista and 7 Microsoft removed some capabilities of NTVDM, because of some compatibility issues with Aero graphics and stuff. So now any dos program has no direct access to hardware neither can any dos program Go Full-screen.
Finally here is the best solution to resolve the entire issue. Watch this video to get rid of C language problem in Windows 7, Vista etc.


I often talk about the “civilization gradient:” the distance required to go from high-density urban land all the way to empty, rural space. Depending on when a given area modernized and switched from, say, horses to cars, this distance can vary drastically. In “older” parts of the US, like the east coast, the gradient was largely established by feasible distances for travel by horse. On the west coast, an area largely developed after the advent of the car, this distance is usually much longer. The best exception to this is the Bay Area, where various parks around the “lip” of the Bay’s “bowl” effectively compress the distance.
In today’s photo, the whole array of Bay Area landscape is visible: the forests and trails along the peak, the industrial buildings of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the quasi-sprawl of Berkeley and Emeryville, and the full urban metropolis of San Francisco at the edge of the clouds.


Since approved to conduct an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) test in November, the South Fork Kings GSA has made substantial progress to pilot the high priority project.
Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) is an innovative groundwater management method used in many parts of the United States to inject water for underground storage to be withdrawn later when surface water is limited, especially during periods of drought. The South Fork Kings GSA included ASR in its Groundwater Sustainability Plan as a high priority among the portfolio of projects to bring groundwater supplies into balance and received a grant to test the concept locally.
To date, the South Fork Kings GSA purchased transducers and hired a contractor to modify wells for the test. An aquifer pump test is scheduled for early February to determine key parameters for this project. Lemoore Canal Company has agreed to provide up to 75 acre-feet of water for the pilot test which will consist of three main phases. Water will be injected for a three-month period, stored for two months, and then taken out and used on surrounding fields.
The ASR Pilot Test is funded by the Climate Resilience Grant, a grant that was awarded by the Bay Area Council Foundation in June 2020 to help local communities across California strengthen their resilience to climate change. Read more about how SFKGSA obtained this $200,000 grant here.


The quake measured 6.8 on the magnitude scale and the epicenter was just 20 km away from Kobe and 16km deep. It was the first quake to be certified as being over 7 on the Japanese scale of earthquake intensity (shindo). The shindo scale measures the intensity of shaking across Japan when an earthquake strikes. It is a more useful predictor of damage than magnitude because magnitude only measures the intensity at the source of the earthquake.
The earthquake only lasted about 20 seconds but killed 6,434 people. It toppled expressways, knocked down buildings and started massive fires. Many older homes in the Kobe area had heavy tile roofs to resist typhoons that came crashing down under the stress of the quake.
In the wake of the earthquake the Japanese government was widely criticized for its slow response to help victims. Building codes were also brought into question as many large structures collapsed during the quake. Japan suffers 20% of the world's earthquakes over magnitude 5.


When University of Illinois crop scientist Fred Below began growing tropical maize, the form of corn grown in the tropics, he was looking for novel genes for the utilization of nitrogen fertilizer and was hoping to discover information that could be useful to American corn producers.
Now, however, it appears that maize itself may prove to be the ultimate U.S. biofuels crop.
Early research results show that tropical maize, when grown in the Midwest, requires few crop inputs such as nitrogen fertilizer, chiefly because it does not produce any ears. It also is easier for farmers to integrate into their current operations than some other dedicated energy crops because it can be easily rotated with corn or soybeans, and can be planted, cultivated and harvested with the same equipment U.S. farmers already have. Finally, tropical maize stalks are believed to require less processing than corn grain, corn stover, switchgrass, Miscanthus giganteus and the scores of other plants now being studied for biofuel production.
What it does produce, straight from the field with no processing, is 25 percent or more sugar -- mostly sucrose, fructose and glucose.
"Corn is a short-day plant, so when we grow tropical maize here in the Midwest the long summer days delay flowering, which causes the plant to grow very tall and produce few or no ears," says Below. Without ears, these plants concentrate sugars in their stalks, he adds. Those sugars could have a dramatic affect on Midwestern production of ethanol and other biofuels.
According to Below, "Midwestern-grown tropical maize easily grows 14 or 15 feet tall compared to the 7-1/2 feet height that is average for conventional hybrid corn. It is all in these tall stalks," Below explains. "In our early trials, we are finding that these plants build up to a level of 25 percent or higher of sugar in their stalks.
This differs from conventional corn and other crops being grown for
|Contact: Marilyn Upah Bant|
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


July 28, 2021
Approximately 400km away from earth, orbiting up in the outer space the ISS also known as International Space Station circles the Earth roughly 93 minutes completing about 15 orbits per day.
Above image is of the one the structure of the ISS which is the exterior of Cupola. With the shutters open enable the astronauts on board the view of Earth.
The astronaut up at the International Space station expressing how is it like to view Earth from the Cupola Module window.
It's night when it's illuminated by star light and moon light that they really see the fascinating view of these beautiful twinkly city lights. Representing the human sprawl, which is incredibly beautiful from outer space.
The look of WORLD LIGHT in a living room when switch on.
So the close up view of the WORLD LIGHT dots represents the existence of life in this world.
So WORLD LIGHT is an inspiration and a tribute to the astronaut viewing Earth from all the way up from the International Space station.
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Each week, “It’s not GREek!” will discuss a new word likely to appear on the GRE. We aim not only to give you a new word to memorize, but also to provide you with some background and etymological history to help you remember it. At the end of the post, we will also give you a sentence with a few other new words to add to your flash cards. By following this weekly series, you should be more prepared than ever to tackle the sentence completion, sentence equivalencies, and reading comprehension questions on test day.
This Week’s Word: Tergiversation
Politicians are probably the group most maligned for their tergiversation.
Stop being so wishy-washy! Tergiversation means the evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement, in other words, equivocation. It can also mean to delay answering or to hesitate at length.
Politicians are probably the group most maligned for their tergiversation. Likewise, if your grandfather has been a diehard Republican all his life and suddenly starts voting straight down the Democrat party line, you can chide him for his tergiversation.
Other creatures frequently accused of tergiversation? Tricky foxes, for instance.
A literary figure famous for his tergiversations? How about Hamlet, forever vacillating on whether to be or not to be.
The origins of tergiversation are initially Latin, from tergiversari, which means to turn one’s back or shift. In Latin, tergum means “back” and versare means “to turn.” The two words combine to form the verb tergiversari.


Project B1 - The immersive hearing device
In current hearing device technology, the largest speech communication benefit in adverse listening conditions is typically achieved by directional filters. However, to utilize this benefit, hearing aid users may need to change their natural head motion behavior and loose the sense of immersion in the sound environment.
The aim of this project is to develop an immersive hearing device that provides the large benefit of directional filters without their disruptive influence on user behavior, and to include the user's hearing wish in the signal processing. For this, methods from computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) are combined with an automatic estimation of the hearing wish based on user motion, gaze direction and attention.
Figure 1: Schematic flow chart of the immersive hearing aid. Key to the concept is a combination of acoustic and image analysis (scene analysis block) with an analysis of sensor signals (behavior analysis block) to detect the hearing wish, i.e., the attended source if interest, and to optimally enhance the attended source (signal enhancement block).
Figure 2: A typical evaluation environment


Students share their results from a hands-on chemistry session. Photo: Edward J. Delong
Scientific Creativity: The Legacy of Science Education in Southwest Missouri
The project documents segments of the 1999
Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics
Conference held on the campus of Southwest Missouri State
University. Photographs and interviews with scientists,
educators, parents, and students are included. Students who
attended earlier conferences and were influenced to pursue
science and mathematics are also documented. The history of
the conference, now 25 years old, is documented with newspaper
clippings, personal stories, and promotional material. A
broader focus looks at the history of science education and
the teaching of future scientists in Springfield since the
teachers' college was established in 1905. University and
historical society archives provide background, and interviews
with emeritus science faculty and alumni are included.
Originally submitted by: Christopher S. Bond, Senator.
The Local Legacies project provides a "snapshot" of American Culture as it was expressed in spring of 2000. Consequently, it is not being updated with new or revised information with the exception of "Related Website" links.


An effective way to enjoy an early garden harvest is to start your seeds indoors six to eight weeks before the average last frost date in your area. Since lighting levels indoors are much less than what your plants would receive outdoors, it's necessary to use grow lights. Grow lights will keep your plants from getting "leggy"--that's when they stretch out to reach for more light. Setting up an indoor grow light requires just a few tools and a little time.
Drill two 1/8-inch holes, using a 1/8-inch bit, into a ceiling joist you've found with a stud finder. These must be the same distance apart as the mounting points on your fixture.
Screw in a hanging hook into each hole. Tighten with pliers until sufficiently tight.
Measure the distance from the hook to the top of your plants, using a measuring tape. The bottom of your fixture should be about 12 inches above your plants. This keeps the fixture close enough to be effective, yet far enough away to allow your plants some room to grow. Subtract the sum of the thickness of the light fixture and 12 inches from the distance of the hooks to the plants. Cut two hanging chains at this length, using wire cutters.
Slip a chain over each hanging hook and attach them to the light fixture. Install the bulbs into the light fixture.
Plug the light fixture into an automatic timer. Set the timer to 16 to 18 hours per day on and six to eight hours off.


Scottish scientists developing synthetic human blood have moved a step closer to conducting clinical trials.
Researchers have been given a licence to use stem cells to manufacture blood that could eventually be tested on people.
Synthetic blood would help end supply shortages and prevent infections being passed on through donations.
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh University and Roslin Cells are conducting the work.
The licence, granted by the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), means a manufacturing facility can be set up to work on human cell therapy products.
It will be based at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) and aims to produce blood which would be fit for clinical trials.
Janet Downie, chief operating officer at Roslin Cells, said: "Attaining these licences has been a key goal for the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine and we are delighted to have reached this important milestone."
Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "Scotland has a world-class reputation in regenerative medicine and stem cell research.
"The completion of this state-of-the-art facility will further advance our understanding of the debilitating diseases this field seeks to address and their potential therapies.
"This will allow for both the health and wealth benefits to be realised in Scotland, supporting the life sciences sector in its growth aspirations".
If successful, any future human trials would be the first stage in establishing larger-scale clinical trials, which could lead to the regular use of synthetic blood.
Clinical trails would require a further licence from the MHRA as well as other regulatory agencies.
The SCRM houses 230 researchers at a £54m facility, which is part of the Edinburgh BioQuarter development at Little France.


Research shows that early childhood education is essential for nations to thrive and prosper. One million 0-4 year olds live in Delhi’s slums with almost no access to early childhood centres. We know preschools are important. So why don’t we ensure that every one of our children gets it?
In 2010, out of about 450, 000 children in Delhi who should have taken the Grade 12 exam, only 45% took it: 208, 000 children. This is the city average. If we look at children in the slums, our studies show that less than 15% of them reach Grade 12. A waste of human potential, this.
Last year, 100 of our high school graduates earned Rs. 1 crore. The return on investment is high! They earn in one year what we spent in 12 years on their education! So why are we slow in providing all children with IT, entrepreneurship and vocational training of good quality?
If education is to fulfill its intentions: to develop every individual to their full potential, pro-poor action must be in the agenda of every school. So why aren’t our teachers at the centre of community action for equity and equality?
Children living in slums are often taught by teachers who have had no formal training. There is no formal faculty development available for teachers in low cost schools. How then can our children reap the benefits of education?
Click here to know how Katha is meeting the challenge.


Kinnikinnick is a versatile, low-growing shrub that functions extraordinarily as a groundcover in exposed, sunny, dry areas. In spring, this trailing evergreen shoots off cheery new growth with a lemony-green hue, followed by small white to pink, urn-shaped flowers. By late summer the foliage shifts to a reddish purple and the flowers mature into small red or orange berries that persist into winter. Kinnikinnick is used extensively by insects and wildlife and has been recognized for its medicinal properties by native peoples for thousands of years. It contains the glycoside arbutin, which has antimicrobial properties and acts as a mild diuretic.
- Plant type/canopy layer: evergreen perennial shrub
- Size at maturity: 5-8" tall, 2-5' wide
- Light requirements: full sun
- Moisture requirements: dry to moist soil
- Growth rate/ease: fast growth rate, easy to grow
- Bloom time: April - July
- Wildlife support: adult butterflies/nectar source, bees and other insect pollinators, beneficial insects/pest eating insects, caterpillar host plant/larval food source, hummingbirds (Oregon Flora Project)
- Native habitat/range: Thrives in a wide range of habitats including ocean bluffs, sandy flats, rocky hillsides, mixed woods, and coniferous forests up to 2800 meters across Oregon as well as into CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, east to CO, Canada and northeastern US. Portland Plant List - yes.
- Special features & uses: evergreen, erosion control, groundcover, medicinal, supports hummingbirds
Gardening with Kinnikinnick: Kinnikinnick is ideal for sunny locations with soils that are nutrient-poor, acidic, rocky or sandy and have limited water input. It is extremely tolerant of the elements, including salt and wind and can be used to replace lawns in these tough areas. It will also cascade nicely over ornamental rocks and borders.
Photo Credit 1: "Arctostaphylos uva-ursi" by Jörg Hempel is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo Credit 2: Tara Lemezis


There are several different ADHD treatment approaches. And it's important that in any of the approaches that are used, there's a partnership between the child, the parents, and teachers, and those adults that work with the child, so you can constantly monitor increases or decreases in behavior.
For ADHD treatment, behavior management and medications are most useful. In behavioral protocols it's important to identify the most problematic or the most impairing behaviors for the child, and help design ways to decrease these difficult behaviors and provide reinforcers for when a child is right on track and demonstrating positive behaviors. This has to be a collaboration between parents, teachers and all of the adults in the child's life.
Additionally, sometimes medications are prescribed, stimulant or non-stimulant medications, to help decrease some of the problematic symptoms of ADHD. It's important to remember, whether you're using behavioral therapy or medications, all of the symptoms will not completely disappear. But understanding the treatments and understanding your child in utilizing these medications or behavioral modifications can definitely, impact more positive success for your child and family. So remember, behavioral therapies and medications are some of the most often used treatment strategies for ADHD.


Kokkoh is used as an infant formula broth made from whole grains, seeds and legumes lightly toasted and ground to a powder(in this recipe using brown rice only). It was first brought to Western culture by Sakura Nyoichi, better known as George Ohsawa, as part of the Macrobiotic Diet, based a recipe widely used in traditional Japan and most commonly eaten as a breakfast cereal. From cafemom.
Kokkoh is recommended as both a substitute for mother's milk and a means of weaning infants from it. (In the former case the recipe often calls only for brown rice ground to a fine powder and water.) Besides its soft and easily digestible texture, kokkoh is recommended as such because its mixture has a high and varied protein content; combined, the amino acids in each of the ingredients described at the outset include virtually all those needed for consumption. It is thus especially well suited for the growth needs of a child. When used solely for weaning, it is recommended that kokkoh be introduced at between 8 months and a year of age. It may be used as breast milk substitute as early as five months, but with a larger proportion of water, in order to further dilute the mixture.
Kokkoh is also an important part of the macrobiotic diet, in accordance with the diet's heavy emphasis upon grains. Along with its use as a means of weaning, kokkoh is a common breakfast food among macrobiotic eaters of all ages.


10,000 men were sent from the Catholic Highlands to subdue the areas of Ayr and Lanark. However, nobody stood against them, so instead the men robbed and bullied the people of the whole area, and after two months the government withdrew them. Next James Graham of Claverhouse and his dragoons were sent against the saints. They attacked field-meetings, dyeing the heather with the blood of the worshippers; they shot the peasants in cold blood in the fields, and murdered them at their own doors. On June 1st 1679 there was a field-meeting going on near Loudoun Hill, Avondale, when the watchmen signaled that Graham was coming to attack them. At a Conventicle there would be armed men on horseback circling the meetings, looking out for danger. Beyond them would be another circle of armed men.
The result of this confrontation was the Battle of Drumclog - see this website.


In London on this day in 1775, Benjamin Franklin publishes An Imaginary Speech in defense of American courage.
Franklin's speech was intended to counter an unnamed officer's comments to Parliament that the British need not fear the colonial rebels, because "Americans are unequal to the People of this Country [Britain] in Devotion to Women, and in Courage, and worse than all, they are religious."
Franklin responded to the three-pronged critique with his usual wit and acuity. Noting that the colonial population had increased while the British population had declined, Franklin concluded that American men must therefore be more "effectually devoted to the Fair Sex" than their British brethren.
As for American courage, Franklin relayed a history of the Seven Years' War in which the colonial militia forever saved blundering British regulars from strategic error and cowardice. With poetic flare, Franklin declared, "Indiscriminate Accusations against the Absent are cowardly Calumnies." In truth, the colonial militias were notoriously undisciplined and ineffective at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. New Englanders, unused to taking orders and unfamiliar with the necessary elements of military life, brought illness upon themselves when they refused to build latrines and were sickened by their own sewage. During the American Revolution, Washington repeated many of the same complaints spoken by British officers when he attempted to organize American farmers into an effective army.
With regard to religion, Franklin overcame his own distaste for the devout and reminded his readers that it was zealous Puritans that had rid Britain of the despised King Charles I. Franklin surmised that his critic was a Stuart [i.e. Catholic] sympathizer, and therefore disliked American Protestants, "who inherit from those Ancestors, not only the same Religion, but the same Love of Liberty and Spirit."


The toad symbolizes fertility of Earth, a sacred being in ancient Maya cosmology. During the first Spring rains, cornfields are filled with toads mating and singing. Mayan elders say that when the toads sing, they make the Saints happy and the Saints will send rain. In stories from San Pedro Chenalhó, a toad called Antonia guards the Earthlord’s house or cave – the entrance to Earth.
ANCIENT MAYA COSMOGRAM
The cosmogram depicts a quartered universe moving through time, uniting Earth and Sky. It also charts the path of the Sun, a principal Mayan deity. The cosmogram appears in various versions; in each version viewers look straight down on the world from just above the highest point of the heavens. Five diamond designs mark the four cardinal directions, and the central diamond may stand for the nadir, the lowest point under Earth where Sun passes at midnight on its circle back to the east. Weavers often put dots of brightly colored threads in the cosmogram designs representing stars, which they call the eyes of the universe.
MAYA WEAVING SYMBOL UNIQUE TO CHENALHO, CHIAPAS
The ancient Maya number for men was four and for women three. The contemporary weaving symbol for man has four fingers and toes standing for the four corners of the milpa, the corn and bean field where men have traditionally fulfilled their principle duties – to grow food for their families. The weaving symbol for women has three fingers and toes representing the three stones that hold up the comal – the clay griddle on which women make tortillas. Preparing food for the family continues to be Maya women’s primary responsibility. The woman symbol was lost to weavers in Chenalhó until 1992 when members of Tsobol Antzetik discovered the image of a woman with three fingers and toes amidst other designs on a ceremonial cloth (b’ut corision, sacrificial victim) and brought it back into circulation in their community. The woman design now appears on many items that the women weave.


Marine Animal Encyclopedia
Killer Whale Orcinus orca
With its conspicuous black-and-white markings, the killer whale, or orca, is—despite its name—the largest and most striking member of the dolphin family (Delphinidae).
Apart from its bold patterning, the killer whale's most eye-catching feature is its huge dorsal fin, which is up to 6 ft (1.8 m) high in older males. It has large, paddle-shaped flippers and a massive, barrel-shaped body that tapers toward streamlined jaws, which are armed with interlocking teeth up to 2 in (5 cm) long.
Killer whales are the largest hunters of warm-blooded prey. Their diet includes fish, squid, birds, seals, and other whales. Their hunting strategy is remarkably varied: they deliberately upend ice floes to tip seals into the sea, and they even lunge onto beaches to catch seals lying near the waterline.
Intelligent, vocal, and highly sociable, killer whales live in stable groups (pods), which develop their own cultural characteristics. Despite their ferocity toward prey animals, killer whales are easily tamed in captivity and have never been known to attack humans in the wild.
Killer Whales Travel in Pods and Clans
An average killer whale pod contains 20 animals, which stay together for life, often sharing care of the young. Pods within the same geographical range make up a clan—a regional group that is thought to have a distinctive “dialect” that is passed on from adults to their young.


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fox terrier, breed of dog developed in England to drive foxes from their dens. The two varieties of fox terrier, wirehaired and smooth-haired, are structurally similar but differ in coat texture and in ancestry. The wirehaired, or wire, variety was developed from a rough-coated black-and-tan terrier, the smooth from the beagle, greyhound, bull terrier, and a smooth-coated black-and-tan terrier. At one point the two varieties were crossed, but this practice was discontinued. Both varieties are sturdily built, lively looking dogs with tapered muzzles and folded, V-shaped ears. They stand about 15 inches (38 cm), weigh 16 to 18 pounds (7 to 8 kg), and are predominantly white with black or black-and-tan markings. Fox terriers are noted for having bold, energetic, and spirited natures.
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This calculator converts number of days to number of years, months and days in the month. Of course, when you know start and end dates for an event, you can use precise version How many days are there between two dates? or Days between dates. The historical version..
But this one might be useful when you see or hear questions like this:
- "13000 days in years?"
- "how many years are in 20000 days?"
or sentences like that:
- "I am 10000 days long"
- "the siege was lifted after 872 days after it began" (Siege of Leningrad).
Naturally, you just want to get general sense of time, length of a period in general, and you aren't actually care if it is plus one day or minus one day because of leap year, or because of starting month.
In this case, you can use calculator below. It just adds specified number of days to 1st of January 2017 (first non-leap year after 2016) and then grabs number of years, months and days in the month passed between start and end date. This allows you to make sense from number of days and understand how many years, months and days it takes.


Series 1 - Lesson 3 - Annotation 2
What is substance?
2. Substance is the unformed Mind essence out of which every form is produced. It is also termed Omnipresence because it is the presence of God interpenetrating all creation. It is the Mind essence in which "we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). This substance is of such rarefied nature that it is not tangible to the physical eye of manifest man. However, through the power of thought this Mind essence can be cognized. It can then be formed by man's conscious and subconscious (thinking and feeling) phases of mind, and the resultant manifestations are recognized by the senses. It is through his acceptance in thinking and feeling that man becomes conscious of substance as the living presence of God. This Presence sustains, provides, protects, and is the ever available source of visible supply for all creation, not just for man.
Substance is the "raw material" out of which all things are made. It is the spiritual aggregation of all the ideas (also termed qualities or attributes) of God. Divine Substance is the universal supply of good for all creation. Thus, it is the source of all that is manifest or yet unmanifest.
Preceding Entry: What is prosperity? Explain fully.
Following Entry: What is matter? What is the distinction between substance and matter?


Flashcards in Major and minor forms of extrusive activity Deck (14):
What are the 3 main MINOR extrusive features?
Geysers, hot springs and boiling mud.
What are 2 good examples of MINOR extrusive feature sites?
Yellowstone National Park in the USA.
Various parts of Iceland.
What are geysers and how are they formed?
Water vent discharges the Earth’s surface.
Surface water comes into contact with hot rocks - converted into steam.
Fissure allows a jet of boiling water to explode onto the surface.
E.g. Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park.
How are hot springs formed?
Groundwater is constantly heated by the rocks underneath the surface.
NOT pressurized so are therefore NOT explosive.
E.g. Mammoth Hot Springs.
How is boiling mud formed?
Mud is mixed with heated volcanic water.
Causes it to bubble.
Acid attacks the surface and forms clay.
When do minor extrusive features appear?
When an active volcano is nearing the end of its life.
What are the different types of volcanoes? 6
What is a lava plateaux volcano?
Basaltic - flow great distances.
What is a shield volcano?
3 miles wide.
Low gas content and silica.
E.g. Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Constructive boundaries/hot spots.
What is an acid/dome volcano?
Steep-sided - covered with rock debris.
Formed by repeated eruptions - a layered structure.
High silica and gas pressure.
E.g. Puy Region, France.
What is an ash-cinder volcano?
Formed from ash and volcanic bombs.
Steep and symmetrical sides.
E.g. Paricutin, Mexico.
What are composite/strato volcanoes?
Tall, conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash.
High viscosity - andesitic.
E.g. Mount Etna/Pinatubo.
What are caldera volcanoes?
Formed from HUGE explosions - blows the summit (top) of the cone off, leaving an opening.
May become flooded by the sea.
Lake may form.


Organizing the Web: LiveBinders Unit 1
Readings and Activities
- How Teachers are Using LiveBinders - a binder with four articles and a resource tab
- LiveBinders Blog - keep up on the news and changes at LiveBinders.
- Watch the video about LiveBinders.
Activity 1 - Setting up an account
Activity 2 - Exploring Featured Binders
- Read the articles, watch the video, and set up an account. Fill out thisGoogle Form about those. To check that your work submitted, you can look on this spreadsheet.
- Explore the Featured Binders. Find two of interest to you and add one to your shelf. Make a copy of the other. Fill out this Google Form. To check that your work submitted, you can look on this spreadsheet.


Black holes are temperamental areas of violent activities that scientists are just now beginning to understand. Here's an amazing image captured by astronomers working with NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, revealing a nearby supermassive black hole belching out an impolite blast of X-ray emissions from within the galaxy NGC 5195. This swirling companion galaxy is merging with a larger spiral galaxy NGC 5194, appropriately named “The Whirlpool,” and located in the Messier 51 galaxy system, 26 million light-years from Earth.
“For an analogy, astronomers often refer to black holes as 'eating' stars and gas. Apparently, black holes can also burp after their meal,” explained Eric Schlegel of The University of Texas in San Antonio, who led the study. “Our observation is important because this behavior would likely happen very often in the early universe, altering the evolution of galaxies. It is common for big black holes to expel gas outward, but rare to have such a close, resolved view of these events.”
The results of this study were presented this month at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Kissimmee, Fla., and have been submitted as a formal paper to The Astrophysical Journal.
Have a look and forgive this big black hole its bad table manners.
“We think these arcs represent fossils from two enormous blasts when the black hole expelled material outward into the galaxy,” said co-author Christine Jones of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass. “This activity is likely to have had a big effect on the galactic landscape.”


If you need to send out emails through an e-mail address with your very own domain, you have to make sure that the company will provide you with usage of their SMTP server. The aforementioned is the software system that enables e-mails to be dispatched. SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and it addresses all outgoing email messages from applications, webmail and contact forms. Whenever a message is sent out, the SMTP server confirms with all the DNS servers around the world where the emails for the receiving domain name are handled and as soon as it obtains this data, it will connect into the remote POP/IMAP server to check if the recipient mail box is available. In case it does, the SMTP server transmits the e-mail body and then the receiving server delivers it to the mail box where the recipient can open it and see it. With no SMTP server on your server, you will not be capable to send messages at all.


The Gottuvadhyam also known as the chitravina, is an instrument played in Southern India. It is usually used as a solo instrument in Carnatic sangeet.
Gottuvadhyam has an interesting construction. It resembles the saraswati vina in its general form. It has six main playing strings which pass over the very top of the instrument. It has three thallam (drone) strings at the side, and a series of sympathetic strings which pass under the main strings. The approach to tuning is in some ways similar to the sitar, in other ways it is similar to the saraswati vina, but in many ways it is unique. It is played with a slide in a manner somewhat like a Hawaiian guitar.
The gottuvadyam does not appear to be very old, probably around 100 years old. It was popularised in the south by Sakharam Rao of Tiruvidaimarudur. It was later taken up and further popularised by Narayan Iyengar who was a palace musician of the old state of Mysore.
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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, September 10, 1911: Went to Sunday School this afternoon. I was the only one in my class today. It has happened that way for the past three Sundays. It is simply provoking the way the other girls attend Sunday School.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
I think Grandma attended the McEwensville Baptist Church and that the church closed sometime before 1920. Based on these diary entries it’s easy to understand why the church was shuttered a few years later.
Since Grandma didn’t write much a hundred years ago today, I’m going to tell you about a historic event that occurred in 1911–
On August 21, 1911 the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris. I’ve seen several articles recently about the hundredth anniversary of the robbery. For example, the Los Angeles Times had an article about the theft. The picture was eventually recovered in Florence, Italy in 1913.
I tend to think of McEwensville as a very isolated spot in 1911–and that Grandma would have known nothing of events happening half a world away–but actually she may have known about the robbery.
I was amazed to discover that at least one paper in rural central Pennsylvania, the Milton Evening Standard, was covering the story. The September 9 paper discussed the robbery—and that the U.S. secret service was trying to find it.
Who would have thought that a hundred years ago today people thought that Mona Lisa was in the U.S.?


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Version of the Soyuz proposed with an Ariane 4 or Russian Lox/LH2 upper stage.
In order to achieve a payload double that of the current vehicle, it would seem a high-energy Lox/LH2 upper stage would be needed. Such an improvement was proposed as far back as July 1962 (the Molniya 8K78L) but never developed. The version with the Ariane 4 upper stage would be capable of putting 3900 kg into geosynchronous transfer orbit when launched from Kourou.
Payload: 3,900 kg (8,500 lb) to a GTO, 1 deg.
Status: Study 1997.
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Payload: 3,900 kg (8,500 lb).
R-7 The world's first ICBM became the most often used and most reliable launch vehicle in history. The original core+four strap-on booster missile had a small third stage added to produce the Vostok launch vehicle, with a payload of 5 metric tons. Addition of a larger third stage produced the Voskhod/Soyuz vehicle, with a payload over 6 metric tons. Using this with a fourth stage, the resulting Molniya booster placed communications satellites and early lunar and planetary probes in higher energy trajectories. By the year 2000 over 1,628 had been launched with an unmatched success rate of 97.5% for production models. Improved models providing commercial launch services for international customers entered service in the new millenium, and a new launch pad at Kourou was to be inaugurated in 2011. It appeared that the R-7 could easily still be in service 70 years after its first launch. More...
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(Legenere limosa )
Campanulaceae (bellflower family)
Photo by Dean W. Taylor
Description: Herbaceous annual, stems weakly erect or somewhat reclining on ground with the tips ascending, simple or branched, sometime forming mats, smooth and glabrous. Submersed leaves linear, 3/8 to 1-1/4 (1 to 3 cm) inches long, emergent leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch (1 to 2 cm) long, glabrous. Single flowers in leaf axils on long, slender pedicels. Five white to yellowish petals, sometime absent, united into tubular, 2-lipped flower. Fruit a one celled capsule, 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch (6 to 10 mm) long, opening when mature at apex, with smooth, shiny brown seeds.
Distribution: Within the public lands administered by the Redding Field Office, this species can be found in Tehama County on the east side of the Sacramento Valley, northeast of Red Bluff in grassland/oak woodlands.
Habitat: Growing in moist or wet ground, associated with vernal pools, vernal marshes, lakes, ponds and sloughs at elevations of 0 to 2000 feet (0 to 610 meters).
Flowering Period: May to June
Status: BLM Sensitive, California Native Plant Society List 1B


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100 Years of Popsicles
Mar 24, 2011
Celebrate 100 years of the Popsicle with this sweet track! Invented in 1905 by a then eleven year old, the Popsicle has become a favorite. Discover facts about the history of this sweet treat, along with information about other kid inventors, the science behind frozen confections, the difference between favorite frozen desserts, the nutritional information of popsicles, and much more!


A team of researchers working at the University of Bristol has found a potential new treatment for listeriosis, a deadly form of food poisoning. Their work is reported in Nature Medicine.
The group, led by Professor Jose Vazquez-Boland, has shown that one particular antibiotic -- fosfomycin -- can treat Listeria in the body, despite it being ineffective in laboratory conditions.
Because it was not effective in the laboratory, this drug has never been considered for the treatment of listeriosis, in spite of it reaching the infection sites more effectively than other antibiotics.
Professor Vazquez-Boland said: "Our results illustrate that antibiotic resistance in the laboratory does not always mean that the drug will not work in the infected patient. This work brings some optimism to the highly worrying problem of the increasing resistance to antibiotics."
The Listeria bacteria causes the food-borne disease, listeriosis. It often triggers a brain infection and kills up to 30% of those affected.
To test whether antibiotics are effective, bacteria are taken from patients and tested in the laboratory. These tests measure whether antibiotics can halt the growth of Listeria in laboratory conditions. Such tests are usually a measure of how effective the drug will be in the body.
When tested this way, Listeria had been shown to be resistant to the antibiotic, fosfomycin. As a consequence, this drug has never been considered for the treatment of listeriosis.
Dr Mariela Scortti, lead author on the paper, added: "Our findings warn about the need to revise laboratory methods currently in use to determine the susceptibility or resistance of bacteria to such drugs, so that the tests reflect better what actually happens in the body."
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Waste pickers work, generally in the informal sector, to recover recyclable material from waste and then sell it for recycling. They collect materials from individual homes, offices, and businesses, from the street and waste containers, and from dumpsites. The financial and environmental contributions they make to their local regions typically go uncalculated and underappreciated.
This short video tells the story of waste pickers in Bogota who worked to address their city’s garbage crisis in 2012.
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The word Promotion, originates from the Latin word ‘Promovere’. The meaning is “to move forward” or “to push forward”. The aim of production is sales. Sales and promotion are two different words and sales promotion is the combination of these two words. sales promotion is one among the three pillars of promotional mix. The other two pillars are personal selling and advertising. Sales promotion is the connecting link between personal selling and advertising. DEFINITION:
According to DAVIS, ”Sales promotion represents those marketing efforts that are supplementary in nature ,are conducted for a limited period of time and seek to induce buying”
CHOOSING A PUSH OR PULL STRATEGY OF SALES PROMOTION:
| b)PULL STRATEGY:
| FACTORS INFLUENCING SALES PROMOTION:
2)Nature of product and service.
3)Stages of PLC.
4)Budget for promotion.
TOOLS OR KINDS OF SALES PROMOTION:
Sales Promotion can be divided into three kinds:
1)Consumer sales promotion
2)Dealer sales promotion
3)Sales force promotion
1)CONSUMER SALES PROMOTION:
Activities aimed at reaching the consumer at his home or in his office may be called Consumer sales promotion .It is aimed to inform or educate the consumers and to stimulate the consumers. Success depends on consumers’ co-operation. The following are the various sales promotion schemes used at the consumers’ level: a)SAMPLING: Free samples are given to consumers to increase their interest in the product. Sampling gives a chance to the consumers to compare the product with other substitutes. Samples are given to the doctors by the medical representatives. The samples may be delivered door to door, sent by mail etc....
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Small-scale farmers in Ghana face serious challenges. Because of non-sustainable farming methods, the yields of their cacao crops are increasingly poor. The growing use of agricultural chemicals intended to counter this trend has had little effect. Meagre incomes and the abusive child labour practices they give rise to are just some of the complex problems facing the cacao industry in Ghana, not to mention the struggle to integrate women. Clearing land to create fertile new cacao plots is the primary culprit for Ghana’s alarming deforestation rate, which is one of the highest in the world.
The small-scale farmer cooperative Kuapa Kokoo, which means «the best of the best», is charting a different course, one that does not involve land clearing or exploiting the weak.
Together with Kuapa Kokoo and their project partners, HALBA supports the Sankofa project – a world first – in combining dynamic cacao agroforestry with CO2 offsetting. This combination adheres to the strictest certification standard in the world, the Gold Standard, thus ensuring comprehensive sustainable development. The productivity of the cacao plots is increased by converting monoculture into highly diversified mixed cultivation, which, in turn, increases earning opportunities for farmers. Thanks to the creation of a network for selling by-products harvested from cacao agroforestry plots, such as corn, legumes, manioc and yam, the project also supports food security and the independence of farmers and their families.
Higher incomes for farmers are a step in the right direction in the fight against another big problem in West Africa: child labour. Up to two million children work in the cacao industry alone. HALBA supports the partner cooperative in its commitment to fighting child labour and supporting women. The additional income earned from the higher cacao yields and the sale of by-products from the agroforestry plots gives families new prospects and is often invested in school tuition.


At first glance, a community-led approach might seem less accountable because of its inherent flexibility.
But this approach still involves the development of benchmarks that indicate whether or not the community process is “on track.” Benchmarks might include whether there is inclusive participation in dialogues and decision-making, or collective reflection on the strengths and drawbacks of particular options. If particular benchmarks are not being achieved, the facilitator may invite the community to reflect on why this is occurring and ask what steps could be taken to achieve those benchmarks.
When it comes to measuring whether actions have improved the outcomes for children, the community can internally evaluate the results. Communities themselves frequently conduct internal reviews of collective actions, such as farming: they might gather to review their methods, the quality and abundance of the harvest, and reflect on adjustments to make for the next planting.
Communities can use the same type of internal reviews and reflections in regard to their work on behalf of child protection.
It is also possible for an NGO that has supported the community-led action to conduct an external evaluation (with the community's permission) in order to document the community’s work and accomplishments. Using mixed methods, such an evaluation could compare baseline levels of the community-selected harms to children with those that occurred following, say, two years of the community-led action. The findings would be fed back in a respectful manner to the community, which they could use to guide any needed adjustments in their ongoing action.
How communities implement and measure their actions
A core stage in the community-led approach is to set out clear action steps to address the selected harms to children. The community will also need to monitor and evaluate their actions and make any adjustments needed.


A geovisual analytics exploration of the OpenStreetMap crowd
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It is sometimes easy to forget that massive crowdsourced data products such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (OSM) are the sum of individual human efforts stemming from a variety of personal and institutional interests. We present a geovisual analytics tool called Crowd Lens for OpenStreetMap designed to help professional users of OSM make sense of the characteristics of the “crowd” that constructed OSM in specific places. The tool uses small multiple maps to visualize each contributor’s piece of the crowdsourced whole, and links OSM features with the free-form commit messages supplied by their contributors. Crowd Lens allows sorting and filtering contributors by characteristics such as number of contributions, most common language used, and OSM attribute tags applied. We describe the development and evaluation of Crowd Lens, showing how a multiple-stage user-centered design process (including testing by geospatial technology professionals) helped shape the tool’s interface and capabilities. We also present a case study using Crowd Lens to examine cities in six continents. Our findings should assist institutions deliberating OSM’s fitness for use for different applications. Crowd Lens is also potentially informative for researchers studying Internet participation divides and ways that crowdsourced products can be better comprehended with visual analytics methods.
Quinn, S. D., & MacEachren, A. M. (2017). A geovisual analytics exploration of the OpenStreetMap crowd. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 45(2), 140–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2016.1276479
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Originally Posted by pholy
I believe we are supposed to use <em> and <strong> because they are semantic markup, whereas <i> and <b> are presentational. We are supposed to use css to describe how we want things presented, and only have the structure put into the text. It's a matter of purity, although how you present italics or bold in a text to speech transcription is an obvious case in point.
If text-to-speech readers could interpret <em> and <strong> in a certain way, and not pronounce bold titles or italic chapter numbers in a weird voice, then I guess it makes sense. Yeah... Now that you mention it, I do remember something about semantic markup.


According to Statistics Canada consumer price index, the dollar experienced an average inflation rate of 3.57% per year. Prices in 2015 are 1681.7% higher than prices in 1933.
In other words, CA$100 in the year 1933 is equivalent in purchasing power to CA$1,781.69 in 2015, a difference of CA$1,681.69 over 82 years.
The inflation rate in 2015 was 1.61%.
|Cumulative price change||1681.69%|
|Average inflation rate||3.57%|
|Price difference (CA$100 base)||CA$1,681.69|
|CPI in 1933||7.1|
|CPI in 2015||126.5|
Politics and news often influence economic performance. Here's what was happening at the time:
You may use the following MLA citation for this page: “1933 dollars in 2015 | Canada Inflation Calculator.” FinanceRef Inflation Calculator, Alioth Finance, 17 Feb. 2018, http://www.in2013dollars.com/1933-CAD-in-2015.


Leptospermum scoparium growing shrub or tree of the genus Leptospermum also known as Manuka plant, Leptospermum scoparium perennial evergreen plant also used as ornamental plant and attract Manuka beetle, can grow in temperate, mediterranean or subtropical climate and growing in hardiness zone 8-11.
Leaves color green in linear shape.
Leptospermum scoparium flower
Flower color pink or white in bowl shape with five to full petals.
Leptospermum scoparium for sale – Seeds or Plants to Buy
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Requirements for Leptospermum scoparium growing and care:
Acid soil, well-drained soil
What is the best way to start growing?
Plant / Seed / Vegetative reproduction
Is it necessary to graft or use vegetative reproduction?
Difficulties or problems when growing:
Spring / Summer / Autumn
Pests and diseases:
Autumn / Winter
How to prune:
Just for design
Size of the plant:
2-4m, 80-160 inches, 6-12 feet (as shrub), 5-10m, 15-30 feet (as tree)
Growth speed in optimal condition:
Fast growing / Medium growing
Average amount of water
Light conditions in optimal condition for growing:
Is it possible to grow as houseplant?
Growing is also possible in a planter /flowerpot / containers:
Spring / Summer
General information about the flower:
Pink or white in bowl shape with five petals


Some 2.5 billion people have no access to basic financial products like insurance and credit cards. Fixing that would fix a lot of the world's poverty problems.
Globally, half of adults totaling some 2.5 billion people do not have a formal bank account. This shuts them off from credit and savings opportunities that you may take for granted; it hinders their rise to a better life and squanders the potential to convert hundreds of millions of people from economic drains into economic contributors.
The vast majority of these unbanked are in underdeveloped nations likeKenya, India, Pakistan, and Columbia. More than 50 nations recently set targets for improving access to financial products—and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, now has around 90 member nations supporting a set of common financial inclusion principles known as the Maya Declaration.
This is not just a less-developed world problem. Some 40 million unbanked are in the U.S., and the number of Americans more broadly defined as financially underserved is around 100 million. Activists like John Hope Bryanthave been arguing for decades that financial inclusion is in many ways a civil rights issue on par with the right to vote in 1962. It disproportionately affects minorities, women, youth, poor people, and rural dwellers. In some ways, this issue has been with us since Lincoln established the Freedman’s Savings Bank in 1865 to teach freed slaves about money and how free enterprise works. As Bryant writes:
“Today, particularly in inner city and underserved America, issues around money and the economy are mixed up and interrelated with emotions, self-esteem, identity, and even core issues of human dignity.”


Single stream is leading-edge technology that eliminates the need to separate recyclables by category for collection. The benefits of single stream are increased participation in recycling which means less waste in our waste streams. National statistics show that single-sort recycling systems result in more recycling.
Why? Because it's so much easier for residents, there is no sorting and requires less time.
Instead of separating recyclables by type, simply combine all glass, metal, paper, cardboard, and plastics #1-7 into one recycling container.


Hip Hop is a contemporary and popular dance form using quick, upbeat dance steps. Although it was popularized in the 1980's, it's a contemporary dance that is continually evolving.
Students will love learning these quick dance steps set to music from their favourite pop stars. They'll learn the latest moves within in an upbeat social setting. Kids and teens who enjoy an active, high energy type of dance will find Hip Hop to be a very fun experience. The benefits of hip hop dance are the cardio exercise, mastering new physical movements, and increasing self-confidence.


Teachers as Role Models
When students have teachers of their same race, they say they feel more cared for and more interested in their schoolwork ("If your teacher looks like you, you may do better in school," NPR, Sep. 29). The findings were based on a survey of more than 80,000 public school students in grades four through eight in six different states.
Actually, the findings are not new. Students have always needed role models. Yet I wonder if hiring more teachers of color in schools with a high percentage of students of color will necessarily produce improved outcomes across the board. Students in the upper grades at least are more likely to respond positively to teachers of any color as long as the teachers know their subject matter and present it in an interesting way. In the lower grades, the situation is probably different because students lack the necessary maturity.
Then there's the matter of viewing races as monoliths. I think we assume that all members of a particular race share similar values and attitudes. When busing began in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where I taught for 28 years, those new to my school were mostly black. They differed among themselves as much as students from other races. The black teachers were no more effective in teaching many of these students than the teachers of other color. In fact, the black teachers often had more trouble teaching black students than white teachers did. I think it's time to look beyond race to other factors in determining the probability of success in the classroom.


Print this out poster size (change printer options to 2x2 or 3x3).
Laminate for repeated use.
I am using this to introduce CC 2.G1. Together the children and I will add labels to the poster.
Print out copies on regular paper and hand to children to have them label on their own.
(labels: shape name, number of sides, corners, etc.)
Then give the students geo boards to practice building the planar shapes.
I've been teaching in a public school for 7 years. I was in first grade for two years and this is my 5th year in 2nd. I absolutely LOVE this age and grade! I love creating an engaging and FUN atmosphere in my classroom.


… Morris Dancing
Clouded in mystery, the absolute origins of Morris dancing remain a source of uncertainty. Whilst legend would have you believe it is a remnant of pre-Christian fertility rites, actual records seem to date back no further then the 15th. century.
Quite old enough nevertheless to have declined almost to the point of dying out by the end of the 19th. century. Much of what remains today is down to the work of Victorian folk collectors like Cecil Sharp, who first stumbled on a performance of the Morris in 1899.
Today, Morris dancing can be found all over the world, fostered by organisations such as the Morris Ring, which was formed in 1934 to maintain and promote the Morris tradition.
… Helier Morris
Although the origins of Morris dancing may be lost in the mists of time, those of Helier Morris are not quite so hazy!
The first public performance took place in the summer of 1975, with a few dances from the Cotswold traditions. By Christmas of the same year a Mummers Play had been added and side has counted Longsword and Welsh Border style dancing amongst its repertoire. Helier have been responsible for spawning a separate ceilidh band and were admitted to the Morris Ring in 1990. They remain the only men’s Morris side in the Channel Islands and qualify as the most southerly team in the British Isles.
Now firmly established as part of island life, they perform regularly between May and September, supporting local events and festivals. In addition, they celebrate May Day with a 12 hour, 12 Parish marathon tour, dance on Boxing Day and go wassailing in early January. They have represented the island in England, France and the other Channel Isles.
Helier Morris are always looking to recruit more dancers – and we’d be delighted to hear from you if you’re interested.
The team practices each Monday night from October to April, in order to dance out in the summer months. Please get in touch via the details on the Contact page.


The African sawtail catshark is a small species of catshark found in the western coast of Africa, from Morocco to South Africa. It lives near or at the bottom, at depths of 300 to 500 m. These sharks are long and slim, and have a series of tooth-like scales on its tail, which gives them their “sawtail” name.
African sawtails are about 45 cm long. They eat small bony fishes, crustaceans, and cephalopods. They’re ovoviviparous and females give birth to up to 12 pups each litter. Newborns are about 14 cm long.
Being a small deep water species, these sharks are somewhat protected from fishing pressures. They’re abundant in some regions of Africa and are currently listed as a “Least Concern” species.
Do you have images or videos of African Sawtail Catsharks?
Submit them to firstname.lastname@example.org.


Food and Society in the American City
Course Description: Culinary cultural practices are intricate to the ways in which urban spaces are experienced in everyday life. This course explores the myriad ways food practices transform American cities. The course investigates personal preferences of food that in turn shape social, cultural, and spatial boundaries. Through the conceptual framework of “taste," we will analyze how culinary preferences and practices of different social groups influence urban space. For instance, immigrant cooking and eating practices help define ethnic enclaves. And gourmet food trucks for the middle-class can become tropes for spurring gentrification. Throughout the course students will analyze urban spaces in American cities through aspects of ethnicity, race, and class, (i.e. street food practices to opulent restaurant dining). We will scrutinize culinary practices through critical geographic frameworks. Topics to be considered are: the politics of immigrant street food, the racial coding of farmers markets, food deserts, urban agriculture, and gastronomic gentrification.


Scrabble word: GONIA
In which Scrabble dictionary does GONIA exist?
Definitions of GONIA in dictionaries:
- noun - the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw
- noun - an immature reproductive cell
There are 5 letters in GONIA: A G I N O
Scrabble words that can be created with an extra letter added to GONIA
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word GONIA plus a wildcard: GONIA?
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A phosphoric acid based composite material with core-shell microstructure has been developed to be used as a new electrolyte for fuel cells. A fuel cell based on this electrolyte can operate at room temperature indicating leaching of H3PO4 with liquid water is insignificant at room temperature. This will help to improve the thermal cyclability of phosphoric acid based electrolyte to make it easier for practical use. The conductivity of this H3PO4-based electrolyte is stable at 250 °C with addition of the hydrophilic inorganic compound BPO4 forming a core-shell microstructure which makes it possible to run a PAFC at a temperature above 200 °C. The core-shell microstructure retains after the fuel cell measurements. A power density of 350 mW/cm2 for a H2/O2 fuel cell has been achieved at 200 °C. The increase in operating temperature does not have significant benefit to the performance of a H2/O2 fuel cell. For the first time, a composite electrolyte material for phosphoric acid fuel cells which can operate in a wide range of temperature has been evaluated but certainly further investigation is required. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
|Number of pages||5|
|Journal||Journal of Power Sources|
|Publication status||Published - 15 Oct 2010|
- Composite electrolyte
- Fuel cell
- Intermediate temperature
- Phosphoric acid


People who eat at least seven portions of fruit and vegetables each day appear to have the greatest levels of mental wellbeing, a study has found.
Researchers at the University of Warwick looked at the eating habits of 80,000 people in Britain.
They found that the more daily portions of fruit and vegetables people consumed, the better their mental wellbeing.
Happiness and mental health tended to peak at seven portions per day, according to a report in the journal Social Indicators Research.
Study co-author Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown, from Warwick Medical School, said: 'The statistical power of fruit and vegetables was a surprise. Diet has traditionally been ignored by wellbeing researchers.'
The study suggests that people may want to exceed the government's current guidelines for fruit and vegetable consumption.
At present, people are advised to consume at least five daily portions of different fruit and vegetables, with fresh, frozen, dried, tinned and juiced varieties all counting towards this target.


What is storytime?
Storytime is an early literacy program just for kids. During storytime we read books, sing songs, learn rhymes and fingerplays, and get moving with manipulatives like shakers, scarves, and a parachute. We have storytimes for children from birth to age five at Tacoma Library.
What are the benefits of storytime?
- Gets kids excited about books and reading
- Develops a library habit
- Encourages socialization
- Improves attention span and listening skills
- Creates quality time between caregiver and child
- Introduces new books, authors, songs, and activities to do at home
Check the calendar to find a storytime near you!


April 22, 2011
There are three major types of intellectual property law: Copyright, Patent and Trademark.
The distinction between the three can often be confusing and gray, but in general copyright protects artistic expressions (literature, movies, photos, music, etc.), patents protect ideas and inventions and trademark protects any “mark” associated with a business.
However, trademark is very different from other areas of intellectual property. You don’t run afoul of the law simply by copying the mark itself but, as a tradeoff, trademarks can protect a much wider variety of things that would not fall under any other area of protection.
Yet, at the same time, trademark often overlaps with copyright, especially when dealing with some logos, and there is a great deal of confusion between copyright and trademark in discussions online.
All in all, trademark is a thorny and often misunderstood area of intellectual property law that demands a closer look, especially if you routinely write about companies or use trademarks in your post.
So what do you need to know about trademarks? The basics are below.


Project Discover the Cosmos has financed the production of six "Gaia in one minute' cartoons available on the following website: http://www.gaia.ac.uk/
By following a man and his cat as they learn about space, the cartoons depict in an easy and child-friendly way Gaia's mission to take the first reliable census of the Milky Way.
The Gaia satellite is a European Space Agency (ESA) cornerstone project, aimed at the understanding of how our Milky Way galaxy was formed and how it has evolved into what it is today. Gaia was selected by ESA in 2001 and launched on 19 December 2013. It has been designed to measure with extreme accuracy positions and fluxes of approximately one billion stars on the sky over a period of five to six years. - See more at: http://www.gaia.ac.uk/mission#sthash.cidpzG0n.dpuf


What are Blu-ray discs?
Blu-ray discs (also known as ‘BD’), are a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA).
The Blu-ray format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc by using a blue laser with a shorter wavelength of 405nm (DVDs use a longer 650nm wavelength red laser and CDs are longer still at 780nm). The shorter wavelength of the Blu-ray system allows the laser to focus on smaller spots and so the pits and spiral groove in the discs can be made even smaller and tighter.
Blu-ray discs are exactly the same physical size as DVDs, CDs and HD-DVD discs at 12cm in diameter and 1.2mm in thickness.
The diagram below shows the difference between single and dual layer Blu-ray discs :
The Blu-ray Disc Association is a group of electronics and media manufacturers that include Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson. The Blu-ray format was developed for the recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), in addition to storing large amounts of data.
Blu-ray discs have proved more popular than HD DVD discs as a future replacement for the DVD format.
Below is a diagram illustrating the difference in track pitch between DVDs and Blu-ray discs:


We can fundamentally freely divide the energy or strength, which is available for our personal development, between various goals as we wish. For example one person can use 20% for the capability of increasing his material wealth, 50% for the capability of attaining power over others and the remaining 30% for the capability of increasing his personal standing in society. As long as these goals do not contradict one another then he will be able to develop his capabilities according to the amount of energy devoted to each of them.
The glasses model of subjective perception is automatically used for every random objective by our subconscious for the development of the corresponding capabilities. It is therefore tremendously important that we set clear priorities for our objectives.
From a certain capability level progress is only possible by concentrating on very few goals and finally on just one single goal. We can compare this with the climbing of mountain peaks in the example in the previous section: The starting point for the climb may well be the same for many peaks, but the higher a person gets the sooner he must decide upon one single peak. I cannot be on both peaks at the same moment and if I wish to climb both peaks one after the other I will have to go down again by a certain amount from the first peak.
The necessity of concentrating on a single goal is, by the way, well known in sport. At the level of a normal healthy sportsman it is possible to enjoy the most diverse types of sport without any problem. But if you wish to pursue top-level sports then it is only possible to achieve outstanding performance in just a very few related sporting areas.
In other words: The closer we get to a goal the smaller the number of incompatible goals which can be pursued successfully.


Oak planted on the lawn in front of the White House in Washington by US President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron died. It is reported by the newspaper Le Figaro.
The tree is dead, having suffered due to prolonged phytosanitary quarantine when imported to the United States. Presumably, it could not normally take root in the soil.
According to the publication, the customs and border service of the United States, which is subordinate to the Ministry of agriculture, establishes a quarantine on imports of plants, seeds, and soil to avoid the spread of diseases and invasive species of insects.
Earlier media reported the disappearance of the planted tree.
Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte visited the White House on April 25, 2018. Their visit was timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of relations between the US and France. The presidential couple, along with Donald and Melania Trump, planted an oak tree brought from France in the courtyard of the residence of the American leader. The seedling was taken in the town of Bello, where in June 1918 the battle took place, during which the French and US Marine Corps jointly repelled the German offensive.


Winter break is the perfect time to do a little at-home science. To help you ring in the New Year on a scientific note, we've pulled together our favorite hands-on science projects from 2014. Plus, tune in to Science Friday on January 2, 2014, for more home science ideas.
Before you chuck your Christmas tree, try this at-home experiment that explores combustion using festive fuels such as fir, pine, spruce, and cedar.
Materials: pine tree sprig, matches, foil, cookie sheet, water
Act like an experimental chocolatier and determine how different melting and cooling procedures impact the shine, hardness, and texture of finished chocolate.
Materials: chocolate bar, bowl, spoon, microwave, cookiesheet, water, salt
Learn how insects have inspired engineers to make a robot that walks on the surface of water. Design your own water-walking critter using thin wire, and test its effectiveness: How many paperclips can it hold up using surface tension?
Materials: bowl of water, wire, scissors
Test a few common household ingredients to see which is the most effective emulsifier for making salad dressing—and you can eat your results!
Materials: oil, vinegar, clear cups, mustard, garlic, timer
Add some pizzazz to your favorite clothing and accessories while learning about electrical circuits.
Materials: Wire, tape, a battery, small LED


Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken, no the egg, no the chicken, no the egg. It’s enough to make your head spin right off your neck. We’ve all been through the logic; most of us end up at the same place. As Luna Lovegood, the dreamy yet dotty witch from Harry Potter put it when asked the riddle, “a circle has no beginning.” And indeed, attempting to identify the first case of a circular cause and consequence is an exercise in utter futility. For those who don’t have a pat story involving a divine being who spits out perfectly formed species, it’s a no-win situation.
But that doesn’t stop us from asking. Luckily for people kept awake at night by such quandaries, NPR radio’s Robert Krulwich recently got to the bottom of the dilemma when he, thankfully, stumbled across an answer.
Basically, many, many moons ago there was a chicken-like bird. It was genetically close to a chicken, but wasn’t a full-blown chicken yet. Krulwich calls it a proto-chicken. So proto-hen laid an egg, and proto-rooster fertilized it. But when the genes from ma and pa almost-chicken fused, they combined in a new way, creating a mutation that accidently made the baby different from its parents. Although it would take millennia for the difference to be noticed, that egg was different enough to become the official progenitor of a new species, now known as … the chicken! So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds that weren’t really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer: The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken.
Maybe the question we should be asking is: Which came first, the proto-chicken or the proto-chicken egg?
Robert Krulwich (NPR radio correspondent)


Why Do We Celebrate Veterans Day?
Veterans Day actually began on November 11, 1919 but was called “Armistice Day”. The word “Armistice” means “a suspension of hostilities by agreement between the opponents” and referred, in this case, to the end of World War I. On May 13, 1938 Armistice Day became a legal Federal holiday dedicated to the idea of world peace and also became an occasion to honor the veterans who served in World War I.
On May 26, 1954 President Eisenhower signed a bill declaring that Armistice Day be expanded to honor all U.S. Veterans, not just those from World War I. In November of the same year Congress officially amended that bill by changing the word “Armistice” to “Veterans” and we still honor the service of all U.S. Veterans on Veterans Day each year.
Veterans Day is celebrated each year on November 11th unless that day falls on a weekend. If it’s a Sunday, we celebrate it on the 12th (Monday). If it falls on a Saturday, it can either be held on Saturday or the 10th (the preceding Friday).
While the name of the holiday is often written as “Veteran’s Day” (with an apostrophe), that is not the official spelling which contains no apostrophe. That makes sense if you consider that the holiday is not technically the Veteran’s day. It is a day for all of us to honor and thank Veterans for their service to us. For risking (and giving) their lives for our freedom.
Many countries have a moment of silence at 11:00 AM on November 11th as the Armistice of World War I was signed on November 11th at 11:00 AM (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month)!
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This mixture is attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects and contains both annual and perennial varieties.
It will adapt to a wide range of soil types.
My supplier worked with Cambridge University to get a scientifically based balance of plants.
Sow in situ from the end of April to the beginning of June (depending upon the location), when the soil is sufficiently warm and moist for the seeds to germinate.
The seeds must be lightly covered by soil in order to germinate. It is best to cultivate the soil to prepare a fine deep seedbed. Before sowing, mix the seeds well with sand or vermiculite (3/4 of the overall weight).


Babies born to women who do not consume enough folic acid (sometimes referred to as folate or vitamin B9) are at high risk of developing neural tube defects (i.e., defects in the development of the spinal cord or brain). This is the reason underlying the recommendation that women who are pregnant take a folic acid supplement.
A team of researchers, led by Bermans Iskandar, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has now generated data in rodents suggesting that folic acid might also help promote healing in injured brain and spinal cord.
Specifically, the team was able to uncover a molecular pathway by which folate can promote nerve cell regeneration following injury in rodents.
In an accompanying commentary, Matthias Endres and Golo Kronenberg, at Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, discuss how these data, together with the safety and simplicity of folate supplementation, provide a rationale for testing whether folate supplementation is beneficial for patients with spinal cord and brain trauma.
The research appears in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
- bermans J. Iskandar, Elias Rizk, Brenton Meier, Nithya Hariharan, Teodoro Bottiglieri, Richard H. Finnell, David F. Jarrard, Ruma V. Banerjee, J.h. Pate Skene, Aaron Nelson, Nirav Patel, Carmen Gherasim, Kathleen Simon, Thomas D. Cook and Kirk J. Hogan. Folate regulation of axonal regeneration in the rodent central nervous system through DNA methylation. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2010; DOI: 10.1172/JCI40000
- golo Kronenberg, and Matthias Endres. Neuronal injury: folate to the rescue? Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2010; DOI: 10.1172/JCI40764
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Energize Your Recycling Know-How
This story was originally published by WDIV for "Live in the D."
More people are recycling in Michigan and across the country. Curbside pickup is a great convenience, but are you recycling the correct way? “Live in the D” host Jason Carr spoke with Sara Matthews, with EGLE, about how to recycle something that often brings up a lot of questions: batteries. Matthews explained that Battery Solutions, North America’s largest handler of post-consumer batteries for recycling, also processes alkaline at their location in Wixom, Michigan. Some batteries may release chemicals when they are pressed or cracked, so putting them in a garbage bin isn’t the safest option.
Recycling batteries is the best way to keep the environment safe and, Matthews says, the steel can go back into the steel market place to make new items like a kitchen sinks or even an airplane. If the battery has magnesium, it can be used to make fertilizer.


This call is immediately answered by an active proliferation and steady maturing of the myclocytes in the marrow to form the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes.
The "Marrow men" were marked by the zeal of their service and the effect of their preaching.
It is largely to researches on the bone marrow that we owe our present knowledge of the origin and the classification of the different cellular elements of the blood, both erythrocytes or red corpuscles, and the series of granular leucocytes or white corpuscles.
The healthy bone marrow reacts with remarkable rapidity to the demand for more blood cells which may be required by the organism; its reactions and variations in disease are very striking.
It is the central nervous system, and contains within itself the elements of the brain and spinal marrow of higher forms. The neurochord tapers towards its posterior end, where it is coextensive with the notochord, but ends abruptly in front, some distance behind the tip of the snout.


TASK 2 Writing/SPAG
Practice writing these common exception words in your best cursive handwriting.
Today’s target - E8 I can form and join my letters mostly correctly.
appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath, breathe.
Pyramid words – Practice writing the words you find tricky to spell.
Challenge - Write each word in a sentence in your work book. Remember accurate punctuation.
E 7a I can use capital letters and full stops mostly correctly.


Fun With Letters is bringing your yet another awesome letter craft. We hope you and your kids enjoy them!
We are learning all about the letter V today. We talked with kids and decided to make letter V, because V is for Vase and it has a perfect shape for vase.
Make sure to continue fun learning with the letter V activities we provide at the bottom of the post. They have tons of fun learning!
Supplies needed for letter V craft
- Yellow construction paper
- Some more different color construction paper
- 3 green pipe cleaner
- 3 colorful pom poms
Instructions to make letter V craft
Trace and cut out letter V out of yellow construction paper.
Draw and cut out 3 flowers out of different color papers.
Assemble the pieces and glue them on.
Your vase and letter V craft is done! Now, smell the flowers!
Watch a short video of how our V is for Vase craft was done. It turned out super cute!
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ACTIVITIES TO EXTEND LETTER V LEARNING


For the past decade, a small but growing group of governments and scientists, the majority from the most powerful and most climate-polluting countries in the world, has been pushing for political consideration of geoengineering, the deliberate large-scale technological manipulation of the climate.
Geoengineering is inherently high-risk and its negative effects will likely be unequally distributed. Because of this, geoengineering has often been presented as a “Plan B” to confront the climate crisis. But after the Paris Agreement, which set the ambitious goal of keeping the temperature to well below 2°C and possibly even 1.5°C, the discourse has changed. Now, geoengineering is increasingly being advanced as an “essential” means to reach this goal, through a mix of risky technologies that would take carbon out of the atmosphere to create so-called “negative emissions” or take control of the global thermostat to directly lower the climate’s temperature.
A new briefing paper by ETC Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation in advance of the UNFCCC intersessional meetings in Bonn, May 2017, gives an overview of what geoengineering is and why it is dangerous, as well as up-to-date information on proposed geoengineering technologies and governance.
A crucial read for anyone engaged in the fight against climate change.
(A German version of this briefing in pdf format is also available.)


Our Radiculopathy Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Radiculopathy
Definition of Radiculopathy
Radiculopathy: Any disease of the spinal nerve roots and spinal nerves. Radiculopathy is characterized by pain that seems to radiate from the spine, extending outward to cause symptoms away from the source of the spinal nerve root irritation. Causes of radiculopathy include deformities of the discs between the vertebrae. Patients with diabetes can be affected by a form of radiculopathy that may be caused by inadequate blood supply to the spinal nerve roots. Also known as radiculitis.
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The current point out of financial conditions in a country or region is an effective indicator showing how the country is performing economically. These types of factors will be defined as microeconomic and macroeconomic. They consist of such things as lack of employment rates, inflation rates, and the state in the global economy. A large number of economic indications are released regularly, and Market individuals keep an eye on them to see if they might switch. However , the prevailing conditions usually are always easy to determine.
The definition of economical conditions differs widely, typically refers to the state of an financial system at specific point in time. Some common measures of economic conditions include GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT growth costs, unemployment costs, and current account levels. The indications are also categorized into leading, lagging, and coincident. Economists focus on the leading indicators, mainly because they suggest the state of our economy in general. But in spite of the complexity of indicators, they may be still a good way to get a standard idea of a country’s healthiness.
When major economic conditions, economists check out several different signals. These include GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT growth rates, unemployment rates, budget écart and loss, and current account levels. Depending pensionlitigationdata.com around the situation, these types of indicators entails leading, lagging, or coincident. In fact , those who claim to know the most about finance tend to concentrate on leading symptoms, while using the other folks to forecast future financial conditions. You may use economic circumstances to ascertain whether a country’s economy is certainly healthy or perhaps unhealthy, nonetheless it is best to evaluate the monetary conditions of the area prior to investing.


October 31st, 2011
This Halloween saw a number of takes on slicing. We saw slicing wood, cutting walls, separating bones, and even slicing integer arrays!
Now let’s cut into these 12 games and see what’s inside:
A very challenging spatial puzzle game where you cut up a chunk of wood and use the pieces to make a shape.
Slice ninjas, jump over pumpkins and duck parents in this Halloween themed slicing adventure.
Fun game that will test your reflexes as you slice some squares but not others!
A simple stylish game in which you can cut apart robots!
This game explores the idea that Pac-man can eat through walls and push them!
Slice yourself into two controllable characters to get through each level in this challenging platformer.
A pretty difficult game where you can split apart a skeleton to collect stars and avoid hazards.
An interesting way to explore different materials and the sounds they make.
Slice up a grid-like bush to match a pattern.
Slice up endless waves of zombies.
Sort arrays of numbers by choosing slices.
Slice the dots that match the background color, or suffer the consequences.


The skill of animal stuffing describes the act of making a toy animal stuffed with straw, beans, cotton, and other similar materials. Some stuffed animals are very old - home made cloth dolls stuffed with straw go back to at least the 1830s, perhaps much older. Stuffed animals in the past were frequently produced by stuffing the evacuated skins of hunted animals. However, with modern technology it is now possible to produce them with synthetic materials.
One of the most popular types of stuffed animal is the teddy bear which in these is mostly factory made with synthetic materials, not with real animal skin. Another is the sock monkey. The skill of animal stuffing is quite popular and even commercial ones are being made like the "Ty Beanie Babies which are stuffed with pellets and beans. The skill of stuffing animals date even back to times of the ancient Egyptians.
It is known from tomb paintings in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamian civilizations that stuffed animals existed in those societies for religious purposes, and undoubtedly for human play as well. In medieval Europe, stuffed animals were often used in mystery plays to represent Biblical animals, such as the serpent in the Garden of Eden and the lions in the Book of Daniel. From those periods on the art and skill of animal stuffing rose until it become part of daily life.
During the Industrial Revolution Teddy bears were sold all over Europe. A huge toy industry began which rapidly increased the young populations of Europe. During the nineteenth century, the skill of the stuffed animals as an entertainment product took off, with commercial enterprises being established to produce children's' toys. The art and skill of animal stuffing is still with us and is as popular as it used to be.


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American (a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
American (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
American (n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.


Living Heritage was a grant making and capacity development program aimed at enabling local community development in Southern Europe through the promotion of sustainable culture and heritage initiatives. In Romania, the Living Heritage program was implemented by the Environmental Partnership Foundation (Miercurea-Ciuc) and the Romanian Carpathian Foundation in partnership with the King Baudouin Foundation from Belgium.
The program's aim was the long-term support of local development through community involvement in the identification, conservation and sustainable use of heritage related resources.
The program awarded grants for pilot projects and at the same time encouraged capacity building through trainings and technical assistance for the existing and potential beneficiaries of the grant.
The Living Heritage program helped communities to see traditions and local values not only as heritage of the past but also, more importantly, as a resource for their future development and a factor of change. Communities were encouraged to define on their own the local values they wanted to keep alive.
The program awarded grants to 40 projects with a total value of more than 993,000 RON.
The palette of the successful projects funded by the program was very colorful. Thus the famous Rope Street of Brasov was renovated, the very first mineral water museum of Romania was built in Tuşnad, Dumbrăvioara - a village in Mureş county - was proclaimed the "Village of Storks", and the list could go on and on.


"Current moving through a wire is analogous to a longitudinal wave moving through the electrons of the atoms. The wave speed depends on the speed at which the disturbance in the electric field can be communicated between neighboring atoms, not on the drift velocities of the electrons themselves. If you leave a direct-current light bulb on for a reasonably short time, it is likely that no single electron will enter one end of the filament and leave at the other end."
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In the sea of DNS records, there are a few that you really must learn. The PTR record is one of them. If you want to know why it is so important, you came to the right place.
What is a PTR record?
PTR record is a type of DNS record, also known as pointer record, that serves the purpose of linking an IP address to a domain name. It is a prove, that this exact IP address that somebody is checking really is related to the domain name, and it is not a scam. The PTR record has the purpose of verifying different elements or services, like a mail server.


Family: Thamnophilidae (Antbirds)
Authority: Sclater, 1858
Red List Category
Based on a model of future deforestation in the Amazon basin, and its dependence on primary forest and susceptibility to fragmentation, it is suspected that the population of this species will decline rapidly over the next three generations, and it has therefore been uplisted to Vulnerable.
BirdLife International (2019) Species factsheet: Dysithamnus leucostictus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 08/12/2019. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2019) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 08/12/2019.