Footnotes for Wonderful Life
1This statement is
supported by a series of satirical cartoons depicting
the evolution of man in the first chapter of Wonderful Life.
2The trilobite is the omnipresent
arthropod of the Paleozoic Era that crawled along the
seabed like a crab and that crudely looked like a butterfly
with its wings replaced by an exoskeleton (a hard outer casing).
3According to Gould, were a Nobel prize
to be initiated in paleontology, then Briggs, Morris and
Whittington would be prime candidates to receive it.
4This use of the
word "radiation" indicates the outset of a great diversity of new life forms.


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Birds by name
Conservation status: Amber
The green woodpecker is the largest of the three woodpeckers that breed in Britain. It has a heavy-looking body, short tail and a strong, long bill. It is green on its upperparts with a paler belly, bright yellow rump and red on the top of its head. The black 'moustache' has a red centre in males. They have an undulating flight and a loud, laughing call.
Wrynecks and woodpeckers (Picidae)
Green woodpeckers spend most of their time feeding on the ground. Look out for them on your garden lawn or in parks - short grass provides good feeding opportunities for them. Like other woodpeckers, these birds breed in holes they peck in dead wood. They can be seen in England, Wales and Scotland, though they're absent from the far north and west and Ireland.
All year round.
Ants, ants, and more ants. They use their strong beak to dig into ant colonies and eat the inhabitants.
* UK breeding is the number of pairs breeding annually. UK wintering is the number of individuals present from October to March. UK passage is the number of individuals passing through on migration in spring and/or autumn.
Please note that the map is only intended as a guide. It shows general distribution rather than detailed, localised populations.
Olivier Grosselet, Xeno-canto


"Those looking for a compact guide to lead users through the complexities of census materials should add this book to their collection. . . . The novice will get help in finding the proper source; the experienced researcher will get a good review and be guided to other works for more complex problems. . . . A worthy supplement to census information in all academic collections." --Choice Comprehensive yet succinct, this highly useable volume explains the ins and outs of using census data for research. It covers the history and current contents of the 1990 census and describes the differences between the 1980 and 1990 censuses. It also shows how researchers can take advantage of new media such as CD-ROM and on-line sources. Aimed at the advanced student or social scientist who is not a technical demographer, this clearly written volume uses a broad array of examples to show how to use census data for areal and individual-level analyses. Specific examples in this book illustrate the choices and constraints researchers face. In addition, the author points out ways to code, clean, and interpret the data and provides the latest information on census geography, the undercount problem, question error rates, data products, and plans for future U.S. censuses. An ideal supplemental text for courses in population and research methods, Using the 1990 U.S. Census for Research will help instructors encourage their students to develop research projects using secondary data. It also provides other researchers with a comprehensive introduction to census data.
History and Current Contents of the Census
Design of the 1990 Census
Procedures and Problems of the 1990 Census
Preparing Data for Analysis


(2) In shaft ore mining, ore and waste are carried in mine cars to the trestle where the
ore is dumped into railcars. The waste pile is nearby. In Figure 2-15 the mine was started as an
open pit, but surface mining was abandoned when the overburden became too thick, and tunnels
or shafts were driven into the face of the pit.
Figure 2-15. Shaft Ore Mining Operation.
(3) Processing of shaft mining end products takes place at distant sites; therefore,
certain transportation is required which can be related for identification purposes, i.e. mine cars
(Figure 2-16) and overhead cableways (Figure 2-17).
Figure 2-16. Shaft Mining Related Transportation.
Figure 2-17. Overhead Bucket Conveyors over Pond.


Kiribati or officially The Republic of Kiribati.
It is located in the tropical central Pacific Ocean, consisting mainly of
approximately 32 islets.
Kiribati does not share land borders.
The Marshall Islands, Samoa, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, and Tonga.
Reason for Naming
This name derives from the main archipelago that forms the nation. It was named the Gilbert Islands after the British explorer Thomas Gilbert. He sighted many of the islands in 1788 while mapping out the Outer Passage route from Port Jackson to Canton
South of Tarawa.
The Kiribati flag was adopted on July 12, 1979.
The Red Rays symbolize the sky.
The seven rays that emerge from the sun symbolize the
16 The Gilbert Islands and Banaba Island.
White Wavy lines symbolize 3 groups of islands
forming the country Gilbert Island, Phoenix Island and
Blue symbolizes the Pacific Ocean.
The people of Kiribati speak an Oceanic language called Gilbertese.
Although English is also an official language, it is not used very often outside the island capital of Tarawa
I-Kiribati is also The main language there.
Christianity is the major religion in Kiribati, having been introduced by missionaries in the 19th century.
The Baha'i Faith religion also exists in Kiribati, along with Jehovah's Witnesses.
Australian Dollar (AUD).
UTC +12 Gilbert Island Time
UTC +13 Phoenix Island Time
UTC +14 Line Islands Time
Due to its location, Kiribati exhibits a maritime climate. Temperatures range between 26-32 °C (79-90 °F) year-round, with the water temperature sitting on a comfortable year-round 28-29 °C (82-84 °F).
Some Facts About Kiribati


Student creative writing may include work in poetry, short stories and drama. Some assignments will reflect student interests and abilities, while others may encourage students to expand their skills and discover new topics. Class activities will include critical evaluation of student work in individual conferences and writing workshops. The course may include work on individual writing projects.
(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)
- ENG 101 with a minimum grade of 2.0 or minimum placement test score of 22 ACT or 108 CPT.
- ENG 102 and college-level reading recommended.
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Explain forms and genres of creative literature, including prose and poetry.
- Analyze the process and techniques of more advanced creative writing.
- Critique various models of professional writing in various genres.
- Lead an advanced workshop of student generated writing.
- Outline the process and procedures of more sophisticated and precise revision of prose and poetry.
- Analyze in greater detail concepts of plot, character, theme, narrative voice and point of view in poetry and prose and possibly other genres.
- Write a varied selection of literary texts.
- Apply revision strategies.
- Summarize the creative writing forms, techniques, and strategies presented in course materials.
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Pattern Recognition (PR) and Machine Learning (ML) are two subfields of Artificial Intelligence that are closely related to each other and that aim at finding regularities in data. This module gives a general introduction to PR & ML, from applications to theoretical aspects in Statistical Learning Theory. After a presentation of the different learning settings, we will address some of the main issues that a learner faces during the training step: the curse of dimensionality, and the overfitting/underfitting phenomena. Then, we will present an overview of supervised learning showing that learning typically boils down to optimizing some convex loss function under regularization constraints. We will study the bias/variance trade-off and the main theoretical conditions for an algorithm to learn well. Lastly, we will focus on Occam’s Razor principle stating that a good model is the simplest one which is consistent with the training data. In this context, we will see how to induce sparse models by making use of mathematical norms.


Front and center during January’s inauguration will be the Seal of the President of the United States. Creating it is the responsibility of the Department of the Army’s Institute of Heraldry, whose nine craftsmen handmake medals, emblems, and military-uniform decorations in a former barracks at Fort Belvoir. With roots dating to World War I, the institute also makes the emblems for new government agencies—most recently for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Creating a presidential seal, which can range in diameter from five to 25 inches, takes two weeks. Most seals are formed with resin molds, then hand-painted, though the seal in this photo, worked on by artist Michael Craghead, is made of carbon fiber specially constructed for the weight requirements of Air Force One. Craghead estimates that in a decade he has painted some 300 seals.
This article appears in the December 2012 issue of The Washingtonian.


WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – A group of Purdue Technology students design a high altitude balloon to shoot a rocket into space.
The group said launching a rocket once it is already miles above ground is a cheaper alternative to the current method. They designed a hydrogen balloon made of thin plastic.
A rocket is attached to the bottom and shoots through the center of the balloon. Since air is much thinner at high altitude, it takes less fuel to propel the rocket.
Group member Dahlon Lyles said the United States Air Force first used rocket balloons in the 1950s, but he hopes their design will get some attention.
“We’ve found recently that even NASA is using this for testing Mars re-entry vehicles. It has a lot of practical uses, and we’re hoping to develop new technologies that can be helpful to the community,” said Lyles
The group won an award for Best Design at the Global Space Balloon Challenge last spring. They have not successfully launched the rocket from the balloon, but Lyles said that is the next step.


Imagine downloading your house online and “printing” it out on a machine. You don’t have to imagine it. London-based Architect Alastair Parvin and his team have created a revolutionary home-building concept: Wikihouse.
Wikihouse makes it possible to download the blueprint designs for homes that meet buyers’ exact needs. The plans can then be fed into a CNC machine and the parts (and tools) needed to assemble the shelter are simply cut out from sheets of plywood.
Update: though we originally published this article in 2013, Wikihouse is still going strong with an updated system coming in 2021.
The practical applications are far-reaching. Not only can you design and download your own home, but Wikihouse could be used in disaster relief scenarios where natural disasters, war, or political turmoil cause the destruction of homes and property and displaces many people.
SCALABLE: This is scalable and modifiable. Anyone can download and use the plans and modify them for your own use under the terms of the license for free. This means you are free to improve upon the design or make your own.
Wikihouse is designed using Sketchup. A free (at the time of this writing) 3D design software application.
This is a truly revolutionary idea, and the concept is proven. It works.
“The purpose of the WikiHouse construction set is that the end structure is ready to be made weathertight using cladding, insulation, damp-proof membranes and windows. WikiHouse is still an experiment in its early stages, and these have not yet been prototyped or developed further. All the information shared on WikiHouse.cc is offered as an open invitation to collaborators and co-developers who are interested in putting open source solutions to these problems in the public domain. If you are working on one of these, or would like to know (or do) more, please get in touch.” http://www.wikihouse.cc/guide
The Commons – http://www.youtube.com/user/Thecommon…


The curriculum for grammar and comprehensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) explicitly calls for greater awareness of English varieties in teacher training. This includes the ability of future teachers to embed different varieties of English into their lessons. Especially for university teaching, however, hardly any suitable materials are currently available.
For this reason, researchers at the Universities of Paderborn, Bielefeld and Münster are developing innovative teaching and learning materials on varieties of English using digital media. The focus of the joint project Authentic Englishes.nrw is on the three areas of competence that are essential for future teachers with regard to the core curriculum in schools and that promote their knowledge of varieties in general: 'Understand', 'Describe' and ‘Teach’.


Does Bible prophecy require that the Dome of the Rock be destroyed?
It is very likely that the Dome of the Rock will still be standing in Jerusalem when the Tribulation Temple is built. One of the biggest obstacles to a Jewish Temple is the unlikelihood that the Muslims would surrender their claim to the area where the Dome of the Rock now stands. Even if by some remote chance the Dome is destroyed, Islamic law requires that all damaged mosques be rebuilt.
According to some leading archaeologists, the Holy of Holies of the First and Second Temples was not located on the spot where the Dome of the Rock now stands. They believe it once stood about 70 yards to the north at a location called the Dome of the Spirits.
Paul's prophecy of the Antichrist sitting in the Temple and claiming to be God proves that there will be a rebuilt Temple: "...so that he [the antichrist] takes his seat in the Temple of God, displaying himself as being God" (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
There is a strong indication that some sort of compromise will be reached between the Arabs and Jews. In Revelation 11, John the Revelator is given a rod and told to measure the Temple of God. He is told not include the outer court because it is given to the Gentiles.
"And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months" (Rev. 11:1-2).


India's foodgrain production for the 2016-17 crop year is estimated at a record 275.7 million tons, a number which is expected to bring cheer to policymakers and bolster claim of efficient rollout of policies for the farm sector.
The government revised its previous figures upward by 2.3 million tons and the new figure is 4% higher than the previous record production achieved in 2013-14. The production in 2016-17 is significantly higher by 24.1 million tons (9.59%) than the output of 2015-16 which was a drought year.
India had recorded its previous best in the year 2013-14 when it produced 265.04 million tons of foodgrain, backed by good and well-distributed Monsoon rainfall. The ministry attributed the all-time record of foodgrain production in 2016-17 to good rainfall in 2016 and various policy initiatives taken by it. Record output has been achieved in all major crops of foodgrain basket like rice (110.15 MT), wheat (98.38 MT) and pulses (22.95 MT). The current crop year (2017-18) may , however, not be as good despite normal Monsoon in many parts of the country .


Badgecraft is a platform that allows you to enrich training paths or teaching modules with the use of Open Badges. Open badges are virtual “badges” inspired by those used by the Boy Scouts, which serve to certify and visually represent the skills acquired by an individual. The use of badges stimulates student participation through the so-called Gamification process, meaning the introduction of gaming elements into teaching. With the use of Badges, students can feel more motivated to complete their tasks for various reasons: 1) to collect all the badges related to a topic; 2) to acquire badges that allow access to further levels/learning experiences; 3) to certify their competence on social media and CVs.
To learn more about the Open Badge ecosystem, the following free E-Learning course is available:


Two new NIMH-funded studies published in the April American Journal of Psychiatry found Clozaril as the most effective antipsychotic drug despite its risky side effects. It’s underprescribed because the potential side effects – including inflammation of the heart and loss of white blood cells – require close monitoring.
In the first study researchers looked at what happens when the first drug a patient tries fails to relieve symptoms. Patients were randomly prescribed a second drug and Clozaril more effective than more commonly used drugs such as Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa.
In the second study researchers looked at how long patients keep taking their medication. They found that half the patients on Clorazil stayed with it for 11 months or more.
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- Heartworms are transmitted by mosquitos and live in the blood of infected animals. Left untreated, heartworm infestations are usually fatal. Indoor pets are also at risk.
- Heartworms are transmitted by mosquitos and are common in Florida. Exposure is year-round and impossible to detect without testing. Indoor pets are also at risk
- Canine symptoms can include a mild persistent cough, reluctance to exercise, fatigue after moderate activity, decreased appetite or weight loss. As heartworm disease progresses, pets may develop heart failure and the appearance of a swollen belly due to excess fluid in the abdomen.
- Feline symptoms can include coughing, asthma-like attacks, periodic vomiting, lack of appetite, or weight loss. Occasionally an affected cat may have difficulty walking, experience fainting or seizures. Unfortunately, the first sign in some cases is sudden collapse of the cat, or sudden death
- Once infected, Cats cannot be treated because the treatment used for dogs is medically harmful to cats. Although the heartworm infestation cannot be removed from the cat, with veterinary care the goal is to stabilize the cat and provide a long term management plan.
- Have your dog tested annually. Protect both dogs and cats by administering Heartworm prevention medication at regularly prescribed intervals.
The Island Hammock Pet Hospital follows prevention and treatment protocols published by the American Heartworm Society. If properly administered, heartworm medications will prevent the onset of heartworms. Heartworm preventative are available in injectable, oral and topical forms, with doses that last from one month to six months. Ask one of our veterinarians for more details.


阅读不管是在学习上还是生活中都是很重要的，那么我们该 的 自己的阅读理解能力呢？下面三种 很重要。
Reading comprehension ability is very important in both study and life, so how can we improve our reading comprehension ability quickly? The following three methods are important.
Read more. The most important and effective way to improve reading ability is to read more books, which can cultivate children’s habit of reading from childhood, even if there are many words he does not know, but after reading through, as long as he can answer questions and understand the contents of the book, children will gradually find the infinite fun in the book.
consult a dictionary. In the process of reading, you should refer to the dictionary more when you encounter unknown words or words and idioms you don’t know clearly. When you look up the dictionary, you learn new words and new words, which increases the accumulation of knowledge. At the same time, you can better understand the content of the article. Children will like reading more. When reading, you should also develop the good habit of looking up dictionaries and dictionaries.
Read the original. Especially when reading famous works or foreign languages, there are a lot of translated works. In order to understand the meaning of the original text and the author’s emotional tendency, we should read the original works. For foreign language learning, we should try our best to read the original text, because the original text is the authentic foreign language, which conforms to the law of language use and grammatical characteristics.


India has built hundreds of mega-dams since independence out of sheer necessity, to feed the hungry millions of the world's largest democracy. It was the foresight of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, which created these dams and today India is self-sufficient in food. Without them, the predictions of several Western economists in the Fifties that millions of Indians would die of starvation and famine by the end of the century would have come true.
This and 29 other dams will bring some 1.8 million hectares of land under irrigation for the first time in the most arid region of western India. Progress, whether in India, Europe or America, invariably entails displacement of people.
I would like to ask Agnes Poiret what alternatives she proposes to feed a population of a billion or more each in India and China in the new millennium. As one who has been intimately involved in water resources development in several developing countries, including India and China, for nearly 40 years, I know that the answer is more projects like the Narmada River Valley and the Three Gorges Dam.
Development projects in some of the poorest countries of the world are now being sacrificed by the World Bank and other international funding agencies at the altar of the environment.
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This group of girls show us that building robots isn’t just for boys.
The Smart-A-Doodles is an all-girl team with a passion for all things STEM; science, technology, engineering and math.
From creating robots made of legos, to tackling problems in space, and now, the team is getting ready to take their winning project to Houston, Texas.
After taking first place at a local robotics competition back in December, their project aims to help astronauts.
Due to the conditions in space, some have problems with their vision.
“Our solution was to make a pressure suit for the astronauts to wear so that they don’t lose their vision and they’re still useful up in (space),” says Margaret Hampton, member of the Smart-A-Doodles.
The team will be competing against kids from all over the world, and you can help the girls by visiting their Facebook to donate.


2012-03-09 "Mother gray whale and calf spotted in S.F. Bay" by Will Kane from ""
A mother gray whale and her calf have made a pit stop in San Francisco Bay as they migrate north.
The two whales probably came into the bay sometime Tuesday and were swimming near Alcatraz Island on Thursday, said Mary Jane Schramm, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which monitors the whales.
"At this time of year, it isn't uncommon to see gray whales in the bay," Schramm said. "They could be here for just a peek, or they could come in and stay for a few days."
The mother whale probably birthed her calf near Baja California and is migrating north as the weather warms, Schramm said.
The pair could have stopped in the bay to take a break from their 6,000-mile swim, or they could be fighting an injury or illness, she said.
Some scientists speculate the whales use bays and inlets as navigational aids as they travel north.
"What we want people to understand is that they need to give the whales, especially the calf, space," Schramm said.
The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing regular broadcasts of the whales' location so boaters can steer clear, said Petty Officer Caleb Critchfield.
Boaters must stay 300 feet from the mother and calf and are not allowed to cut across the path of a whale, Critchfield said. If the calf is separated from its mother, it can die of starvation.
Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will monitor the whales until they swim out of the Golden Gate, Schramm said.
Cbs5: A mother gray whale and its calf are seen in San Francisco Bay from a CBS5 helicopter on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.


The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has produced two introductory presentations – one for adults and one for adolescents and teens – to help explain the dangers of youth e-cigarette use. These presentations serve as an introduction to the topic and are designed for use at such events as parent meetings and youth assemblies. We strongly encourage school districts and other organizations that work with youth to also share with staff, youth and their families evidence-based tobacco prevention programs, such as the Stanford Medicine Tobacco Prevention Toolkit.
These presentations are free, vetted by the Kentucky Department for Public Health and endorsed by Baptist Health Paducah and Kentucky Youth Advocates. If you have questions, please contact Bonnie J. Hackbarth at email@example.com, 502-326-2583.


NASA’s InSight lander has just detected and recorded what scientists believe to be a “Marsquake,” marking the first time a seismological tremor has been recorded on another planet. The faint rumble is equal to roughly a 2.5 magnitude earthquake, and was measured on April 6 – the lander’s 128th Martian day, by InSight’s seismometer, an instrument sensitive enough to measure a seismic wave just one-half the radius of a hydrogen atom. “The high frequency level and broad band is very similar to what we get from a rupture process. So we are very confident that this is a marsquake,” said Philippe Lognonné, a geophysics and planetary science professor at University Paris Diderot in France and lead researcher for InSight’s seismometer.Read more to hear the actual recorded Marsquake and for additonal information.
“The lunar and Martian surfaces are extremely quiet compared with Earth, which experiences constant low-level seismic noise from oceans and weather as well as quakes that occur along subterranean fault lines created by shifting tectonic plates in the planet’s crust. Mars and the moon lack tectonic plates. Their seismic activity is instead driven by a cooling and contracting process that causes stress to build up and become strong enough to rupture the crust,” according to Reuters.


A newly released video starring Paul McCartney, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Stella and Mary McCartney urges people to eat plant-based foods to combat climate change.
Titled One Day a Week, the video is part of a Meatfree Mondays campaign that launched in 2009.
Its release strategically coordinated with this week’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, One Day a Week sheds light on animal agriculture’s absence from climate change discussions.
A campaign spokesperson at Meatfree Mondays explains:
With dire consequences for ourselves and future generations, livestock production results in vast amounts of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. It requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources including land, water and energy, and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.
Eating plant-based one day a week is a huge step in the right direction. To make an even greater impact on climate change, consider going completely vegan.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, carbon dioxide emissions from raising farmed animals make up about 15 percent of global human-induced emissions, with beef and milk production as the leading culprits.
A 2015 report by U.K.-based think tank Chatham House found that by switching to a plant-based diet we could keep the earth from warming above 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels. The report also suggested that governments lead the way.
Simply by eating plant-based, you cut your carbon footprint in half. Keep in mind that a pound of beef requires 13 percent more fossil fuel and 15 times more water to produce than a pound of soy.
It’s clear that switching to a vegan diet is the best action you can take for the planet. But it also protects your health and animals who suffer immensely at factory farms.
Ready to go vegan? Click here to get started!


I’ve just come across this image of the BBC UK mainland map on Twitter.
Someone has taken the map that the BBC use (looks like the weather map) and overlaid it on to a normal map of the UK.
Playing it politically neutral and staying away from the referendum, is the map designed to skew our perspective of the UK and if so why?
I’ve always looked at the map and the perspective and thought that it was designed just to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye, showing the curvature of the globe.
When you actually look at the map when it is laid over a standard UK map you can see there is a problem. The south is fine up to around Watford where it fits pretty much exactly to the standard map, but above that it gets smaller, a lot smaller, so small in-fact that the far north of Scotland ends somewhere around Glasgow.
Scotland is roughly 60% of the size of England yet the map used by the BBC appears to make it look like Scotland is only about 10% or 15% of its actual size.
We all know that maps get adapted, look at the London Underground map for example, but that is designed to be a simple, easy to read representation of the system, the map above is actually making people question the size of a country.
For those of you who haven’t been to Scotland or have any concept of the size of the country, maybe because you use the BBC map, to drive from Broadcasting House in London to the border with Scotland is 327 miles, to drive from the border to Thurso at the top of Scotland is a further 365 miles.
So why is the BBC skewing the map of the UK?
Source of map https://twitter.com/cvalentine2013/status/459601795363651584


Nausea and vomiting are common side effects of chemotherapy but may also be caused by radiotherapy, some medications and cancer itself.
The experience of nausea may cause sensitivity to the scent of food, perfumes and other strong smells. This sensitivity to scent may make it difficult to be around co-workers, or even to travel to and from work. Continued feeling of nausea can be a cause of nutritional deficiency, which can adversely affect health and stamina. There are medications that are helpful in preventing or relieving nausea, but some of these have side effects such as headaches, constipation or sleepiness. These side effects can also pose challenges for work.


To make one of these, you need to start with a toroid, which is a piece of ferrite (Iron) shaped like a doughnut. You will also need wire. I used 0.3mm coated copper wire.
Where can you find a toroid?
You can find them in TV’s, computer monitors, and radios. Another source, and where I found mine, is in a spent CFL or Compact Flourescent Lamp.
I have an Aerogarden brand hydroponic system and the grow bulbs burn up after about 8 months of use. These lamps have some electronics inside that are useful, including the toroid shown in the video below. In the video, I also show how I wound my own toroidal inductor.
How can you make your own toroidal inductor? I show how I made mine in a video…
VIDEO: Handmade Toroidal Inductor
You should take care not to break the tube itself as it has toxic Mercury inside. What should you do with the rest of the toxic scraps from the CFL?
Recycle CFL’s in the United States
The EPA has a list of retailers that will accept your CFL’s for recycling, including: Ace, Home Depot, IKEA, Lowe’s, Orchard’s Supply. See the list of locations at EPA.gov.
Lowes’ website says they have… “installed recycling centers in nearly 1,700 U.S. stores to help customers recycle rechargeable batteries, cell phones, compact fluorescent light bulbs and plastic shopping bags.” [ Source ]
Home Depot, claiming to be the largest retailer of light bulbs in the United States, offers a recycling center in all of their stores for CFLs. [ Home Depot PDF describing their recycling program. ]
Another place to search for recycling centers near you: earth911.com Using this website, I found that Best Buy accepts electronics for recycling, too.
See this handmade toroidal inductor working in a circuit…
Related Post: Joule Thief from Scrap Parts


Treating animals badly and neglecting them, especially those in captivity, can sometimes come back to bite you in horrific ways.
This was an unfortunate lesson a man recently learned while visiting the Wat Luang Phor Lamai Temple in Phetchabun Province, Thailand. At the temple, monks cruelly keep a bear in a small enclosure, which they let members of the public feed. A 36-year-old tourist named Naiphum Promratee had reportedly been trying to give the bear bowls of rice attached to rope. He’s lucky to be alive after what happened next.
According to the head abbot of the temple, some of the animals there were going hungry because they weren’t being fed enough. The temple has apparently been relying on food donations from the public. When Promratee started lowering the rice, the hungry bear pulled him into its enclosure and began brutally mauling him.
His friends and other witnessed tried scaring the bear off by dumping water on it and hitting it with poles, but the animal wouldn’t stop.
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Book DetailAuthor/Editor(s): Charles F. Meyer
Publication Date: June 22, 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Size: 2.88 MB
Book DescriptionAre you looking for a genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail? Introducing English Linguistics accomplishes this goal in two ways.
First, it takes a top-down approach to language, beginning with the largest unit of linguistic structure, the text, and working its way down through successively smaller structures (sentences, words, and finally speech sounds). The advantage of presenting language this way is that students are first given the larger picture - they study language in context - and then see how the smaller pieces of language are a consequence of the larger goals of linguistic communication.
Second, the book does not contain invented examples, as is the case with most comparable texts, but instead takes its sample materials from the major computerized databases of spoken and written English, giving students a more realistic view of language.
Just the textbook for those who prefer a thorough introduction to historical, social, and textual aspects of English before tackling formal linguistics.
--Bill Kretzschmar, University of Georgia


Iodine (I-131) Therapy
Iodine (I-131) therapy, also known as radioactive iodine therapy, uses a form of iodine that sends out radiation to treat thyroid cancer. Radioactive iodine is also called I-131.
Your thyroid gland absorbs nearly all of the iodine in your blood. With iodine therapy, I-131 is taken into your body’s thyroid gland and destroys the thyroid gland and other thyroid cells—including cancer cells—with minimal effect on the rest of your body. It can be used to destroy any thyroid tissue not removed by surgery or to treat thyroid cancer that has spread to other parts of your body.
Radioactive iodine is taken as a capsule or liquid to treat slow-growing, differentiated thyroid cancers, also called papillary and follicular thyroid cancer. It is not used to treat medullary or anaplastic thyroid cancer, as these cancer types do not take up iodine. You may have thyroid scans after this type of radiation to see if there are still cancerous cells present.
Radioactive iodine therapy is most effective if you have high blood levels of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which causes thyroid cells, including thyroid cancer cells, to take up the iodine.
Ask your physician for more information on the precautions or side effects of iodine (I-131) therapy.


A Brief History of
Auschwitz was the name the Germans used for the Polish city of Oswiecim when they occupied it in WWII. The concentration camp was established nearby in June 1940, taking the name of the nearby town. The camp quickly expanded into three main parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz - a group of about 40 sub-camps. In 1942, when the mass exterminations began, the camps (the largest complex of extermination camps in the Reich) became the site of the greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, with the majority of the arrivals being gassed on arrival in the Birkenau gas chambers.
Between 1.1 to 1.6 million people were killed there, about 90% were Jews, plus ...


Ecotourism is a growing tourism industry of nature and culture exploration. Unlike ordinary tourism to maximize profits by entertaining tourists, ecotourism emphasizes on balancing three aspects: sustainable economic growth, nature conservation and public education.
- Sustainable economic growth
In order to maintain the livelihood of local community, empowering its financial status is conductive to sustain the existence of the traditional practice and encourage the local people to protect their culture.
- Nature conservation
Ecotourism derives employment opportunity and economic growth, fiscal incentive could drive stakeholders to treasure and conserve the nature and heritage.
- Public education
As well-managed ecotour is in small-group and leaded by qualified ecotour guide, tourists could commence to understand in depth, then appreciate and decide to conserve the nature or historical heritage.


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VANET or Vehicular Ad hoc Network can be defined as a network technology that is used among vehicles to communicate with each other and with nearest fixed equipment. Routing protocols are used in VANETs to discover the route and store the data in the table. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are formed by applying the ideology of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) - the spontaneous conception of a wireless network for data exchange - to the domain of vehicles. They are a key element of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).


To address devastating environmental crises and to improve human well-being, China has been implementing a number of national policies on payments for ecosystem services. Two of them, the Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and the Grain to Green Program (GTGP), are among the biggest programs in the world because of their ambitious goals, massive scales, huge payments, and potentially enormous impacts. The NFCP conserves natural forests through logging bans and afforestation with incentives to forest enterprises, whereas the GTGP converts cropland on steep slopes to forest and grassland by providing farmers with grain and cash subsidies. Overall ecological effects are beneficial, and socioeconomic effects are mostly positive. Whereas there are time lags in ecological effects, socioeconomic effects are more immediate. Both the NFCP and the GTGP also have global implications because they increase vegetative cover, enhance carbon sequestration, and reduce dust to other countries by controlling soil erosion. The future impacts of these programs may be even bigger. Extended payments for the GTGP have recently been approved by the central government for up to 8 years. The NFCP is likely to follow suit and receive renewed payments. To make these programs more effective, we recommend systematic planning, diversified funding, effective compensation, integrated research, and comprehensive monitoring. Effective implementation of these programs can also provide important experiences and lessons for other ecosystem service payment programs in China and many other parts of the world.


To celebrate October’s Black History Month 2020, we wanted to highlight Walter Tull; a footballing pioneer and local hero who played and lived locally to Scott Bader UK in Northamptonshire.
During 1888, Walter Tull was born in Kent of Barbadian descent. He grew up a talented footballer and went on to become the first black outfield footballer in the English Football League. Walter played for Tottenham Hotspur in London and then moved to play for Northampton Town from 1911 to 1914.
In 1914, Walter enlisted into the British Army at the outbreak of WWI. Similarly to his football career, he excelled and became the first British-born black Infantry Officer in the British army. The National archives state: “Despite army rules which forbade a ‘person of colour’ being commissioned as an officer (a leader of men), Walter was promoted to lieutenant after officer training school at Gailes, Scotland. In 1917. Tull is widely considered the first African-Caribbean mixed heritage man to be commissioned as an infantry officer in the British Army.”
Tragically, Walter was killed in action in France during 1918 at the age of only 29. A monumental, but short lived, life.
To honour Walter and his many exceptional achievements, a statue of him was erected outside Northampton’s Guildhall in 2017. There is also a road named after him and a memorial and Northampton Town FC’s Sixfields stadium.


This chapter shows that deference to precedent and the early crystallization of the basic structure of the disaster narrative did not preclude innovation in what counted as a “disaster.” Instead, it defined the hurdles that a claimant had to overcome in order to be compensated as others had been in the past. In particular, a successful disaster story had to identify an entity or event that was wholly outside the control of the would-be victim, yet which was causally linked to an outcome intimately affecting his material condition. The chapter traces efforts to expand the role of the disaster relief precedent, beginning with its use to authorize the Freedmen's Bureau in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War through measures such as the effort to secure federal aid to education in the 1880, unemployment relief during the Depression of 1893, and federal farm loans during the first decades of the twentieth century.
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The evolution of income distribution in Brazil: different characteristics of the agricultural sector
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- Fabio Veras Soares & Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares & Marcelo Medeiros & Rafael Guerreiro Osório, 2006. "Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: Impacts on Inequality and Poverty," Working Papers 21, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
- Lerman, Robert I & Yitzhaki, Shlomo, 1985. "Income Inequality Effects by Income," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 67(1), pages 151-156, February.
- Marlon Gomes Ney & Rodolfo Hoffmann, 2003. "Desigualdade de renda na agricultura: o efeito da posse da terra," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 4(1), pages 113-152, January-J.
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KeywordsBrazil; per capita household income; occupied persons; agricultural; non-agricultural; income distribution; Labor and Human Capital; D31; J31; J43;
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
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The global response to climate change first focused entirely on mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming and its impacts. As it became clear that climate change was happening already, adaptation emerged as another priority. Small Island Developing States recognized early on that even with adaptation, some severe climate change impacts would be unavoidable– such as sea-level rise that could submerge much of their territory. Out of this recognition grew what some see as a third level of response to climate change: addressing loss and damage.
As a concept, loss and damage is well grounded in climate science. There are clearly limits to what people or natural systems can adapt to: humans cannot live underwater; most crops cannot grow in salty soil; many Arctic species won’t survive without ice. Given the slow pace of mitigation to date, it is almost certain that at least in some contexts, climate change impacts will exceed adaptation limits. The difference – what scientists have called “residual impacts” – is loss and damage.
Yet in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), views on loss and damage differ considerably. The Paris Agreement recognizes “the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage” from climate change, and encourages “cooperation and facilitation
to enhance understanding, action and support” on risk reduction and management. Still, many issues remain unresolved.
This briefing note aims to inform discussions of loss and damage by grounding them in science, and separating scientific questions from political ones. It focuses on four traits that are often associated with loss and damage: that some climate impacts are unavoidable, that the harm may be irreversible and intolerable, and that those impacts are attributable to human-driven climate change.
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Technological aspects strongly characterise the built environment in both material and immaterial dimensions. The architectural heritage (the built environment that has acquired cultural meanings, without prejudice regarding the age and the scale of observation) offers a peculiar point of view for dealing with this issue.This paper outlines the dynamic connections between technology, the whole idea of architectural heritage and the approaches to intervention. A focus is placed on four main theoretical aspects, the effects of which are also significant on the practical field: the distance from contemporaneity; the concept of Time; reliable conservation; sustainability. The technological evolution that has had such an effect on the architectural heritage is briefly outlined, starting from the First Industrial Revolution and concluding with digitalisation, which is now imposing a profound rethinking regarding both technology and heritage. From such considerations, it might be possible to derive a paradigm, to be discussed and shared, aimed at piloting the conservation of the architectural heritage in the forthcoming years.
|Titolo della pubblicazione ospite||Conservation of Architectural Heritage : a Culmination of Selected Research Papers from the Second International Conference on Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH-2), Egypt 2018|
|Numero di pagine||16|
|Stato di pubblicazione||Published - 2019|
|Nome||ADVANCES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION|


A pressure-induced valence transition has attracted much attention in Eu-compounds. Among them, EuRh2Si2, EuNi2Ge2, and EuCo2Ge2 reveal the valence transition around 1, 2, and 3 GPa, respectively. We have succeeded in growing single crystals of EuT2X2 (T: transition metal, X: Si, Ge) and studied electronic properties under pressure. EuRh2Si2 indicates a first-order valence transition between 1 and 2 GPa, with a large and prominent hysteresis in the electrical resistivity. At higher pressures, the first-order valence transition changes to a cross-over regime with an intermediate valence state. Tuning of the valence state with pressure is reflected in a drastic change of the temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity in EuRh2Si2 single crystals. Effect of pressure on the valence states on EuRh2Si2, EuIr2Si2, EuNi2Ge2, and EuCo2Ge2, as well as an isostructural related compound EuGa4, are reviewed.
- High pressure
- Single crystal
- Valence transition
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- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering


Alumina ceramic: A material for reducing equipment wear
This article discusses alumina ceramic, an alumina- based ceramic material that's used as a wear- resistant liner in equipment that handles abrasives. General information about wear and wear-resistant materials is given, and the qualities of alumina ceramic are compared to those of other wear- resistant materials. Design factors to consider when using alumina ceramic for lining handling equipment are also discussed.
Wear affects almost all solid materials. In material handling applications, wear progressively removes material from solid surfaces by relative motion between contacting surfaces or by particle-laden flow streams, as in pneumatic conveying. While wear can shorten the life of almost anything, its effects on handling equipment -- particularly equipment that handles abrasives -- are even more dramatic.


October 6, 2017
Dogs: it’s amazing the tricks they can learn, the companionship they furnish and protection they afford. Now, thanks to training, the Dog Project at Emory University has taught a dog to lie still in an MRI scanner so its brain could be studied.
What was discovered? Activity in their reward center was isolated in an attempt to know how dogs learn human language. After a year of study, Gregory Berns has been unable to determine “When a dog hears a word, is it just an auditory stimulus or does it go deeper to have some sort of meaning?” What he has discovered is that “Dogs are just as...


October 16, 2013
Hands On Cave Walls Were Mostly Female
Anthropologist Dean Snow of Penn State has determined that handprints left on cave walls were mostly female. It had been assumed that they were mostly male since images on the walls typically depict hunting scenes. However, Snow used five different measurements to identify the female prints, first separating out the clearly adult male hands. Then comparing the ratios of the index finger to the ring finger and the index to the pinky to separate the women from the adolescent males. Step one determined that 10% of handprints left on Spanish and French cave walls were adult men. The second step found that only 15% were made my adolescent males, which means 75% were made by women.
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Listener sentence examples. ESL students, professors, & those learning a new language might especially enjoy this webpage. The lines of text below use listener in a sentence, and provide visitors a sentence for listener.
- And sounds were few and far to that wistful listener, for birds did not sing just there. (8)
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- He brought his tea across to my bay window, with that wistful sociability of his, as of a man who cannot always find a listener. (8)
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|Nanotechnology deals with the construction of new materials, devices, and different technological systems with a wide range of potential applications at the atomic and molecular level. Nanomaterials have attracted great attention for numerous applications in chemical, biological, and industrial world because of their fascinating physicochemical properties. Nanomaterials and nanodevices are being produced intentionally, unintentionally, and manufactured or engineered by different methods and released into the environment without any safety test. Nantoxicity has become the subject of concern in nanoscience and nanotechnology because of the increasing toxic effects of nanomaterials on the living organisms. Nanomaterials can move freely as compared to the large-sized particles; therefore, they can be more toxic than bulky materials.
Journal impact factor is an index or a criteria devised by Eugene Garfield to categorize journals based on their citations. Impact factor is considered as a putative marker to indicate the journal quality. But the recent policies being adopted to improve the impact factor is becoming a topic of controversies today. This current scenario questions the reliability of impact factor. The citation index cannot be considered to determine the scientific quality of an article because the technicalities are not considering the scientific quality. Knowing or reading an article is not enough to determine their quality validating the content and approving the findings and revalidating the facts is vital in scientific research. It is highly impossible to do a scholar check in each and every article to detect fraudulent or unsubstantial citations.


Motorists are seven times more likely to be injured or killed in a crash on A-roads than motorways, new research has revealed.
A study by Road Safety Foundation looked at the accident rate on all motorways and A-roads in Britain, and found that serious crashes on motorways cost the country £1.9 billion over the last five years, while damage on A-roads set the UK back a whopping £8.4bn.
The report also showed how different parts of the UK compared, concluding that the east midlands was the most dangerous part of the country.
The risk of death and serious injury in the region is 63 per cent higher than the safer west midlands. This may be because the east midlands includes Britain’s deadliest road, the A537 between Macclesfield and Buxton. Between 2007 and 2011, the road was the cause of 44 serious and fatal crashes.
Pedestrians and cyclists were most at risk, being involved in just over a fifth of fatal and serious crashes on A-roads. 10 per cent of fatal and serious accidents were head-on collisions.
The foundation states that safety will improve and money will be saved if single carriageway roads were converted into dual carriageways.
According to the director of the foundation, Dr. Steve Lawson, improvements in car design will lead to improvements in road safety. He takes better road engineering out of the equation, however, declaring that the specification that authorities set to road managers is too “general” and “weak.”
According to Dr. Lawson, “it muddles factors over which road managers have no control – such as car safety, hospital care and traffic levels – with factors very much under their control, such as roadside safety barriers or junction layouts.”
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Wood turtles have been a part of Vermont's diverse wildlife for the past ten thousand years. These moderately sized turtles with reddish-orange skin and roughly textured shells may live 60 years. But despite their long history, concern for this species is on the rise in the northeast due to the turtles' region-wide decline. Humans are the main cause of this. As more housing and commercial development takes place near streams, rivers and wetlands, turtles loose habitat. The building of roads through turtle corridors creates a dangerous situation for the creatures. In addition, wood turtles have been removed from the wild and kept as pets by individuals unaware that they were seriously impacting the turtle population. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department monitors wood turtle populations by tagging selected turtles with radio transmitters in an effort to learn more about how they adapt to the changing landscape. We venture out into the field with Steve Parren, chief of the department's Nongame and Natural Heritage Program (NNHP) to track tagged wood turtles.


Mechanical Engineering, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, Shiraz, 7194915685, Iran
Chemical Engineering, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, Shiraz, 7194915685, Iran
Due to the importance of copper and its alloys in marine applications, the main objective of this research is to provide a simple, effective and low cost manufacturing approach to fabricate a superhydrophobic riblet copper surface with high drag reduction capability in laminar and turbulent flow regimes. Therefore, the riblets are produced by wire cut technique on the copper substrate and then by using a wet chemical method, a superhydrophobic coating is produced on the riblet surface. A pressure drop measurement system consists; pump, closed channel flow with a fabricated surfaces on the lower wall, connections and pressure drop transmitter is employed to measure the pressure drop in the close channel flow, for Reynolds number from 300 to 2769, in order to evaluate the ability of the fabricated surface to reduce the friction drag. The experimental results revealed that combining the abilities of the riblet and superhydrophobic surfaces increases the surface’s ability to reduce friction drag. In addition, the riblet surface and superhydrophobic riblet surface on average decreased the friction drag by 10.33% and 42.65% correspondingly in water flow ranging from laminar to turbulent flow regime. Finally, according to the experimental results, the drag reduction performance of riblet surface is improved from 18.9% to 56.9% after superhydrophobic coating.


Blog 38 North, a forum run by university researchers examining North Korea, reports that commercial satellite imagery of North Korea indicates workers may be putting final touches on an experimental light water reactor.
"While the reactor seems designed to produce electricity for the civilian economy, it will have a residual capability to produce plutonium that can be used for nuclear weapons," researchers said.
Previous research by the Johns Hopkins team said the North Koreas may be able to produce weapons-grade plutonium "if they decided to do so." Under this scenario, North Korea may have enough material to produce more than two dozen nuclear weapons by 2016.
North Korea sparked international concern when it conducted an underground nuclear test in February.
Johns Hopkins researchers say that a lot depends on whether North Korea has enough reactor fuel. It's not clear to what extent North Korean engineers have mastered some of the technology involved in nuclear research, they say.
"If the start-up period proceeds smoothly, the (light-water reactor) could become fully operational during the first half of 2014," researchers said.
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Genetic analysis has provided hope for the survival of a rhino sub-species that is perilously close to extinction.
When the world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died in March, hope for the continued survival of his kind passed away with him.
However, since his death scientists have stepped up efforts to preserve the northern whites, employing the latest reproductive technologies to bring them back from the brink.
One of the key avenues being pursued is a “hybrid rescue” strategy, creating rhino embryos using sperm collected from northern whites before they died combined with eggs from the far more common southern variety.
Scientists hope that the resulting hybrid rhinos could be used to effectively resurrect this species, but there are concerns about whether they would grow up to be healthy and capable of producing offspring. MORE
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Building off of Kahkewistahaw First Nation Comprehensive Plan, community members re-imagined and reused an abandoned community resource (shower stalls purchased for the Powwow grounds, but never used) to create something needed in the community, a Community Market. The project taught participants that what may appear to be a lack of resources could instead be an opportunity to move forward using local labour, skills and materials, rather than looking outside the community to make a project possible. This project also served to train local people, share knowledge, showcase talents and build new skills. The Community Market is a place where people come together to buy and sell local arts, crafts, baked goods, fruits and vegetables. It creates a lively space that can both accommodate regular market events, and also encourages and support community gatherings.


History of Astronomy (Germany)
Created in January 1995 on behalf of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft, an international society for German-speaking astronomers. Since March 1998 this site has also been maintained on behalf of Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union.
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S. Government)
This site includes news, mission information, images and video, and other information about NASA.
The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
This source provides links to approximately 70 free online books on astronomy topics. The site also offers searching and browsing by title and author.
Planetary Data System (PDS) (NASA)
The Planetary Data System (PDS) provides scientific data from NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements.
Skyview: The Internet's Virtual Telescope (NASA)
Skyview is a user-driven image generator that presents customized images of any portion of the sky from a variety of surveys and in seven wavelengths.


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1. Celebrate Difference: Promoting and Inclusive and Caring Society Through Education
2. Introduction to Inclusive Teaching: Educating All Children Together Well (with contributions by Douglas Fisher)
3. Diverse Students in the Classroom: How Students are Different and the Same
4. Planning Individualized Differentiation: Interventions for Students with Special Needs
5. Provide Support and Collaborate: Getting Help and Building a School Community
6. Partner with Families adn the Community: Building Relationships for Learning
7. Develop and Inclusive School and Classroom: Using Space and Physical Resources to Support All Students
8. Make Environmental Accommodations and Use Assistive Technology: Tools That Extend Human Capacity
and Promote Learning
9. Build a Community for Learning: Promoting Mutual CAre, Support, and Celebration
10. Meet Needs of Students with Challenging Behaviors: Positive Strategies for Difficult Situations
11. Inclusive Academic Instruction, Part I: Planning Inclusive Lessons and Units
12. Inclusive Academic Instruction, Part II: Multilevel and Differentiated Learning Activities
13. Inclusive Academic Instruction, Part III: Applications in Subjects


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These task cards include the following models:
- Pie models
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fractions less than 1 with the same numerators and different denominators. Values of the numerators and the denominators are up to 10.
This pack includes 18 task cards:
Page 1. Compare fractions using different models.
Page 2. Express each model as a fraction. Then compare fractions.
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Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry Anslinger is the United States’ little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing racial and immigrant groups and perhaps best known for his zealous pursuit of harsh drug penalties and his particular animus for marijuana users.
But what made Anslinger who he was, and what cultural trends did he amplify and institutionalize? In her book, Assassin of Youth, Alexandra Chasin looks to answer those questions and explore Anslinger’s social, cultural, and political legacy.
Alexandra Chasin is associate professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School.


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Artistically gifted and socially well connected, Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708) can help us to unravel the complexities of the late Dutch Golden Age, particularly through his vast and varied oeuvre of book illustrations. At a time when the Dutch Republic enjoyed great wealth and colonial expansion while also becoming embroiled in often tense interactions with its European neighbors, de Hooghe was commissioned for all manner of book projects. He provided etchings and decorative frontispieces for scholarly works, such as emblem books, histories, and works of literature, many of which he also authored; he illustrated works of piety, cartography, and festival books; and he published, sometimes anonymously, political satire and commentary. De Hooghe was involved in all aspects of late seventeenth-century life. Though we do not know where he studied, this prolific artist was certainly influenced by the work of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), and in turn he influenced many printmakers and illustrators of the early eighteenth century. Yet despite this influence and his powerful connections with the House of Orange, de Hooghe was largely forgotten until the late nineteenth century, and only in recent generations have scholars fully delved into the large body of his surviving work. This exhibition presents examples of the many genres to which de Hooghe contributed to give an account of his personal artistry and knowledge as well as of the world in which he worked.


Whenever explaining astronomical ideas to a "lay-person", it seems that the most difficult concept to get across is the scale of things in the universe. It's challenging to understand just how vast our universe is, that it takes light over four years to get from our sun to the nearest star, that it would take light 2.5 million years to get from our galaxy to Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy.
And yet, I sometimes feel like even astronomers don't fully comprehend the scale of what we look at through our telescopes. This image is the Astronomy Picture of the Day from yesterday. I'm used to seeing pictures of these nebulosities up close, as taken with large telescopes, but even looking at the night sky through a telescope doesn't really convey how far they extend. I had no idea that these nebulae took up such a large portion of the sky. It's a pity that most of this structure is much too faint to see with the naked eye (especially in a Toronto sky where even the luminous Orion Nebula looks unimpressively faint through a 10" telescope).


(LCLS stands for SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser)
Where does all this data come from?
"With its detectors collecting information on atomic- and molecular-scale phenomena measured in quadrillionths of a second, LCLS stores data at a rate and scale comparable to experiments at the world's most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider in Europe."
How is the data consumed"Some teams choose to store and analyze their data at SLAC, while others transfer data over high-speed scientific computing networks. Larger teams may bring their own data experts to LCLS for experiments.
There is a push to improve the user interface to make LCLS data tools more accessible to scientists, offer more real-time data during experiments, train staff to work more closely with users on learning the data systems and continue to work toward common data standards."


Adal, Adali, Afar, Kereyu, Keriyu
Large and slender body, with long lyre-shaped horns, small hump and moderate dewlap; horns can form almost a complete circle; coat colour is mainly chestnut or ash-grey. They are very similar to the Raya-Azabo cattle in Ethiopia that inhabit the adjacent agricultural highlands to the west and south.
Found in the steppe and semi-desert areas of the large Afar Region, eastern parts of Tigray and Wollo and the southeastern parts of Eritrea including the northern parts of Djibouti. This breed is also spread along the Awash River to part of western Hararghe and eastern Shewa.
The Danakil cattle are true type Sanga cattle that continued to inhabit parts of the centre of dispersal of African Sanga cattle (Ethiopian highlands), but occupy the eastern escarpment and adjoining rangelands of north-eastern Ethiopia, southern Eritrea and Djibouti. Along with the Raya-Azabo and Abigar, the Danakil constitute the only surviving true type Sanga cattle in Ethiopia.


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Fall Restoration BioBlitz at Black Creek
Updated: Jun 5
How does planting trees along rivers affect water quality and biodiversity? That's the question students tried to answer last week at the District's first-ever Restoration BioBlitz, held last week at the Magnan Brothers Dairy in Fairfield, where FCNRCD had previously coordinated a tree planting in a former pasture alongside Black Creek.
In this hands-on field trip, thirty BFA high school students learned how waters in our rivers and streams eventually connect to Lake Champlain and how farmers in Franklin County are helping to improve water quality throughout the watershed, and investigated how tree planting affects the health of the land and the river. Students surveyed tree biodiversity and health, measured water chemistry, and determined aquatic organism biodiversity in the stream. Putting on waders and walking into the water to catch aquatic bugs and other critters was a highlight for many!
A second field trip is planned for the spring so that students can build their understanding of how ecosystems change throughout seasons and over time.
A huge thank you to Molly Magnan, FCNRCD Supervisor and BFA Science Teacher, and Paul Brown, BFA Science Teacher, for their collaboration in bringing this event to life.
This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement (LC 00A00707-0) to NEIWPCC in partnership with the Lake Champlain Basin Program.


Ouchi who was assigned by the Muromachi Shogunate in Muromachi era (1336-1573). He made a lot of efforts to build the reputation of the city. He imitated the city planning of Kyoto, Korea and China and accumulated culture, knowledge. Yamaguchi flourished resulting in great economic growth and rich culture city in the west of Japan.
Francisco Xavier who came at that time, the 31st lord of Suo Yoshitaka allowed Xavier to do missionary works and Christmas service on 9th of December 1552(lunar calendar) which is 24th December 1552. This was recognized as the first Christmas service held in Japan.
In December Yamaguchi city will turn to Christmas town.
We celebrate based upon the friendship bonding between Ouchi Yoshitaka and St. Francis Xavier with Yamaguchi. This started bonding with others towns in Japan following on from Yamaguchi, who were fascinated by Xavier and their town and the linking to families and friends. Yamaguchi is the city of bonding.
We, as Christmas citizens will create a future town where peace and culture will flourish through understanding the origins of the city.
1. Ouchi Yoshitaka X Francis= Xavier
Two different things are joint into the center of the crest of Ouchi. This is symbolic of Ouchi culture. This is the result of a cultural diversity in Yamaguchi City.
Gingko tree colour. This is the city tree of Yamaguchi.
The flag colour of Navarre province in Spain is red.


History of Shri Muktinath (Muktinath Yatra)
The Pagoda style Muktinath Temple is symbol of the religious symbiosis between both Hindus and Buddhists. Hindu believes that lord Vishnu got salvation from curse of Brinda (wife of Jalandhar) here. Therefore He is worshiped as Shri Muktinath. Here in the early 19th century, the Hindus consecrated a Vishnu Temple and named is Muktinath - Lord of Liberation. It is believed that when goddess Sati (Parvati) immolated herself in the yagya made by her father, and The Lord Shiva carried her along with, variously bodily parts of the goddess fell down at various places. Out of all that her forehead temples fell at the place where Muktinath is situated.
It is an ardent wish or a dream if you may say, of every Hindu to get Mukti-Nirvana from this cycle taking births over and over again. It is belief of the Hindus that this world is "MAYA" (an illusion) and the earliest one gets out of it the better and a visit to Muktinath will help them achieve that goal. Since then it called Muktinath. A little away is the Jwala Mai temple which is of a Tibetan style. Inside this temple there are small natural gas jets that produce continuously burning flames. There are three such eternal flames. They are considered to be holy. Against a backdrop of incredible starkness you can sit and stare to the south the snow covered Annapurna range, or to the north the Tibetan plateau.read more


Websites - Overview
Within the span of a few short years the Web has emerged as a dominant global communications medium. It has ushered in tremendous growth in the exchange of information and ideas, provided new ways to interact, and created vast new opportunities.
As a communications medium the Web can serve many purposes. It is unrivaled in its ability to convey all forms of traditional media including text, graphics, audio, and video… true multimedia. It also allows for great content capacity and therefore exceeds the constraints often associated with traditional media such as the size or length of advertisements or the prohibitive production costs of printed materials. It is powerful and yet like all tools, must be well understood and utilized such that the desired outcomes are realized.
A typical project encompasses a number of phases and while each project is unique, there are generally common elements which apply.
Phase 1 – Discovery
Phase 2 – Site Definition
Phase 3 – Architecture and Content
Phase 4 – Design
Phase 5 – Build & Test
Phase 6 – Launch
Phase 7 – Marketing and Promotion
Phase 8 – Evaluation and Maintenance


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Gender: Identity and Social Change
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Primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
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November 28, 2015
The West Nile Virus has now spread to Nevada's *wild horse population.
The state agriculture department confirms one horse has died from the disease.
We know that 30-percent of unvaccinated horses can die from West Nile. Projections for Nevada's wild horse population indicate about 10-percent could be lost to West Nile.
State agriculture department officials have warned once West Nile came to Nevada, the wild horse population would certainly not be immune.
While there is a vaccine, logistically and economically its impossible to innoculate the wild horse population here, the largest in the country at about 30-thousand.


Arabian Nights, 1914
This historical novel is the tales of the Arabian Nights with a twist: a modern day Scheherazade, World War I, and Kaiser Wilhelm II. Zade, a literary descendant of Scheherazade, travels from the neutral kingdom of Ouda to Berlin on the eve of World War I. The mission of this ambitious young woman is to whisper her Tales of a Thousand and One Nights to Kaiser Wilhelm. Most of the book revolves around strategies undertaken to get her close enough to Wilhelm to accomplish this task.
Koch tells the story through a variety of narratives, including endearing dispatches sent by Zade to her king, also her lover. Another voice details background information about the Kaiser and other pertinent characters. Interspersed throughout the book are boxed snippets of historical facts (e.g., the number of Muslims in India and Egypt). Some work to enhance the story; others are irrelevant. The author also addresses religious issues and German tensions, in particular the Jewish enigma. He highlights the dynamics of German/Jewish relationships, and uses important Jews, such as Einstein, to help facilitate the introduction of Zade and Wilhelm and the beginning of World War I.


The Future of Healthcare is Out for Delivery
More than two billion people lack adequate access to essential medical products, often due to challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure. Because of this, over 2.9 million children under age five die every year. And up to 150,000 pregnancy-related deaths could be avoided each year if mothers had reliable access to safe blood.
Zip is a small robot airplane designed for a high level of safety, using many of the same approaches as commercial airliners. It can carry vaccines, medicine, or blood. A fleet of Zips is able to provide for a population of millions. No roads, no problem.
A health worker can place an order by text message. Within minutes, a Zip is prepared and launched into the sky. Racing along at 100 km/h, Zip arrives faster than any other mode of transport, no pilot required. The medical products are then dropped off, landing gently and accurately at the health facility in an open area the size of a few parking spaces.
One delivery, one life saved. It’s that simple.


Filamentous pathogens pose a substantial threat to global food security. One central question in plant pathology is how pathogens cause infection and manage to evade or suppress plant immunity to promote disease. With many technological advances over the past decade, including DNA sequencing technology, an array of new tools has become embedded within the toolbox of next-generation plant pathologists. By employing a multidisciplinary approach plant pathologists can fully leverage these technical advances to answer key questions in plant pathology, aimed at achieving global food security. This review discusses the impact of: cell biology and genetics on progressing our understanding of infection structure formation on the leaf surface; biochemical and molecular analysis to study how pathogens subdue plant immunity and manipulate plant processes through effectors; genomics and DNA sequencing technologies on all areas of plant pathology; and new forms of collaboration on accelerating exploitation of big data. As we embark on the next phase in plant pathology, the integration of systems biology promises to provide a holistic perspective of plant–pathogen interactions from big data and only once we fully appreciate these complexities can we design truly sustainable solutions to preserve our resources.


No More Bad Secrets
by Daisy Copelin
Publication Date: Aug 08, 2018
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Format: Paperback, 38 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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No More Bad Secrets is a kid-to-kid guide on Safe Body Touch. Using a simple, direct and age appropriate approach it teaches children a variety of topics such as: The difference between good and bad secrets, Who to turn to for help if they are keeping a bad secret and the difference between an appropriate and inappropriate touch. Designed for ages 4 and up you can rest assured that concerned Parents, Caretakers and Educators can approach this topic with ease Children would be able to receive guidance that they can understand, practice and put to use.
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(July 7, 1915-November 30, 1998) was an American poet and author born in Birmingham, Alabama. She wrote as Margaret Alexander. Her father Sigismund C. Walker was a Methodist minister and her mother was Marion Dozier Walker. They helped get her started in literature by teaching a lot of philosophy and poetry to her as a child.
In 1935, Walker received her Bachelors of Arts Degree from Northwestern University and in 1936 she began work with the Federal Writer's Project under the Works Progress Administration. In 1942 she received her master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa. In 1965 she returned to that school to earn her Ph.D. She also for a time served as a professor at what is today Jackson State University.
Her literature generally contained African American themes. Among her more popular works were her poem For My People, which won the Yale Award for Young Poets and her 1996 novel Jubilee, which received critical acclaim. In 1988 she sued Alex Haley, claiming his novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family had violated on Jubilee's copyright. The case was dismissed.
Margaret Walker died of cancer in Chicago in 1998.
Poems - 15 in all
I Want to Write
We Have Been Believers
For My People
For Malcolm X
Big John Henry
Love Song for Alex, 1979
THE STRUGGLE STAGGERS US
Long John Nelson And Sweetiepie


On December 6th, women across Canada gathered to mark the eleven-year anniversary of a mass shooting that killed fourteen female engineering students. The person behind the gun on December 6, 1989 at École Polytechnique in Montreal that marked Canada’s worst mass shooting in history, was Marc Lepine, who authorities charge targeted the engineering students solely because of their gender.
According to findings released by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), 64% of women reported feeling somewhat or very worried while waiting for or using public transportation alone after dark; 51% of all Canadian women have been victims of at least one act of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16; and women account for 85% of all reported sexual-assault crimes.
Women’s rights organizations across the globe have organized major campaigns to stop violence against women and raise awareness about the numbers of women assaulted, harassed and murdered everyday simply because of their gender. The Status of Women Canada has organized to urge elected officials to pass tougher laws that will bring to justice perpetrators of gender crimes and sexual assault. December 6th was declared the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women by the Canadian parliament in lieu of the Montreal Massacre.


Synonyms for Fruits:
When it comes to finding the best synonyms for the word “fruits”, there are many ideas to consider. There are many different words that could be used to describe the same type of food, such as produce, edibles, legumes, crops, vegetables, berries, citrus, melons, drupes, pomes, nuts, grains, pods, seeds, and pits. All of these words are used to describe the same type of food, and can be used interchangeably. However, depending on the context of the sentence, some words may be more appropriate than others. For example, if you are discussing the nutritional benefits of fruits, you may want to use the word “produce”, as it is more general and can encompass a wider range of fruits. On the other hand, if you are discussing a specific type of fruit, such as oranges, you may want to use the word “citrus”, as it is more specific and can be used to describe only certain types of fruits. No matter what type of word you are looking for, there are many other words for “fruits” that you can use to accurately convey your message.


Radiation Therapy for Colorectal Tumors
Colon cancer is typically treated with surgery and chemotherapy, however radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) may be an important part of the treatment plan for some patients with advanced disease. Radiotherapy treatments may also be used as palliative care, to ease cancer symptoms.
The Roswell Park Department of Radiation Medicine offers the latest in cutting-edge technology and treatments, some of which are unavailable elsewhere in Western New York. We have a full-time multidisciplinary staff of radiation oncologists, dosimetrists, physicists, radiation therapists and more.
Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. The radiation overwhelms cancer cells with oxidizing molecules that disrupt important cell functions and damage the cancer cells’ DNA so that the cells’ functions are out of balance and they die. Because normal cells are better able to make antioxidants that neutralize the oxidation and detoxify themselves, they are more resistant to the radiation.
Radiation therapy for colorectal cancers may be delivered in different ways, including:
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT): This is the most common method of delivering radiation for treatment of colorectal cancer. Radiation is usually delivered over 25-28 treatments and can be done in several ways, each with their own advantages.
- 3-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy (3D CRT): This is a form of EBRT where a few shaped radiation beams are aimed at the cancer target from different directions.
- Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT): A more precise form of EBRT than 3D CRT, where the radiation dose is given and the field shape is changed continuously as the treatment machine moves, or arcs around the patient. This treatment helps to spare more normal tissue.


The Rukhabad shrine is one of the earliest constructions that remained intact in Samarkand from the epoch of Amir Temur. It was constructed in the 80-s of the 14th century, precisely on the same axis as Amir Temur's burial-vault. A magnificent shady avenue and a road paved with marble slabs used to connect these two constructions. The mausoleum was erected over the tomb of the well-known Samarkand mystic Sheikh Burhaniddin Sagarji. The name of Rukhabad mausoleum - «Abode of Spirit» - reminds the descendants about the sheikh’s image haloing sanctity. Burhaniddin Sagarji was a member of a dervish order and spent his life in pilgrim wanderings. His death overtook him in China. Just before passing away he asked his son to bury him in Samarkand. Amir Temur ordered to immortalize the memory of the esteemed holy sheikh by the construction of a mausoleum. This majestic building in the form of a cube is topped with a hemispherical dome which is based upon a massive octahedron. The mausoleum has three entrances: the northern, the western and the southern entrances. The interior is extremely simple – the walls are covered with alabaster plasterwork with the only glazed tile band running over the two-meter panel. A carved wooden door of the 19th century leads to the sepulchre. In the old days near Rukhabad mausoleum there was a pool, whose smooth water surface reflected the strict outlines of the building, and next to it there was a columned mosque.


This project, which took place throughout the spring of 2014, asked teachers and students around the world to explore the following questions:
- What elements contribute to a happy and healthy society?
- How well do our own local and global communities measure up?
- How can we use data, creativity, and community to make the world a happier place?
Through the Global Happiness Project, students engaged in a virtual conversation about the components of a happy society, and co-designed and implemented a survey to measure these components at the local and global level. Later, students analyzed the results of this survey and used what they learned to inform an advocacy project designed to improve at least one area of happiness at the local or global level.
Learn more via The Global Happiness Project | New Tech Network.


Parents' technology use can negatively impact children
(HealthDay)—Parents' use of digital devices may exacerbate their child's poor behavior, according to a study recently published in Pediatric Research.
Brandon T. McDaniel, Ph.D., from the Illinois State University in Normal, and Jenny S. Radesky, M.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, investigated longitudinal bidirectional associations between parent technology use and child behavior (183 couples with a young child [mean age 3.0 years]). Additionally, the authors sought to understand the association with parental stress. Surveys were conducted at baseline and then at one, three, and six months.
The researchers found that across all time points, greater child externalizing behavior predicted greater technology interference, via greater parenting stress. Further, technology interference often predicted greater externalizing behavior. Associations between child internalizing behavior and technology interference were weaker, with bidirectional associations more consistent for child withdrawal behaviors.
"Our results suggest bidirectional dynamics in which (a) parents, stressed by their child's difficult behavior, may then withdraw from parent-child interactions with technology and (b) this higher technology use during parent-child interactions may influence externalizing and withdrawal behaviors over time," the authors write.
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Firefighting in Civil War Alexandria
|Title:||Firefighting in Civil War Alexandria|
|Date & Time:||Sat May 17, 2014 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM|
|Location:||Friendship Firehouse Museum, 107 S. Alfred St. (Map This)|
When Virginia joined the Confederacy, Union troops occupied Alexandria and it became a center for transportation, supplies and medicine. Most municipal functions were assumed by the U.S. Army under the authority of the military governor. The “We’ve Been Burned: Alexandria Firefighters During the Civil War” walking tour will explore firefighting during the Union occupation. How were volunteer fire companies treated by Federal authorities? Were firefighters allowed out after curfew? What happened to the firehouses and equipment? These questions will be answered as tour participants visit the sites of four of the five fire houses, and learn what happened if there was a fire in the occupied city.
For age 10 and older. Reservations are required, as space is limited. Telephone 703.746.4994, or see www.friendshipfirehouse.net.
|Contact Phone No.:||703.746.4994|
|Fees:||$6 for adults, $4 ages 10-17.|
|Audience:||Anyone may attend|
|Tags:||Living History, Museums, Old & Historic Alexandria, Old Town|
For event details visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/c/7776
Maps produced by the City of Alexandria GIS & Maps division.


The common name of "ghost frogs" may have been coined because of their occurrence in Skeleton Gorge in South Africa.
They are medium-sized frogs with triangular discs on the fingers and toes. The size is 1.4–2.6 in (35–65 mm). The body is flattened with protruding eyes, and the limbs are thin and long. The pupil is vertical, the tongue is disc-shaped, and the upper jaw bears teeth. The frogs swim well, with toes that are nearly fully webbed in some species. Most species have large dark spots on a paler background.
Adults are found in forest or riverine forest. These frogs take a range of insects, arthropods, and snails. They readily eat smaller species of frogs.


The agricultural sector is on the eve of many changes. Introduction of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a growing desire for sustainably produced food and an increasing global demand for food and agricultural commodities are just a few reasons for change. In addition, due to population aging and population decline, also the number of people that are in the agriculture.
A further (and now standard) efficiency improvement by scaling seems this is not the right answer. Large and heavy machinery leading to soil erosion and irreparable damage to the soil, the landscape dramatically. Moreover, the development of even larger, heavier and faster agricultural machinery soon its statutory limits. In short, the time to jointly invest in innovative technologies such as sensor and robot technology, a new generation of agricultural machinery to develop these complex challenges can enter. With this breakthrough technology companies like Grimme, Strautmann and Amazon a competitive advantage sustainable building.
In the AgroBot project there are five models to be developed. These are a scarecrow robot, a weed removal robot, a volunteer potato removal robot, a feed robot and (the most complex) a beet harvesting robot.
The AgroBot project aims to develop basic technologies needed for constructing multiple, agriculture, robotic demonstration models with different application. Designing, constructing and developing this demonstration models will provide insight into the robot and sensor technologies required to achieve the desired functionality of the robot.
For more information please contact:
Rob van Haren
Phone: 0031 (0)620 182 110


The Heritage Key
In his article “The Iceman as a burial” appearing in “Antiquity” 84/2010, the archaeologist Alessandro Vanzetti of Rome’s La Sapienza University and his co‐authors reconstruct the position of the Iceman at his place of discovery on the Tisenjoch pass in South Tyrol, Italy. From this and based on his botanical investigations, he draws the conclusion that the Iceman did not die at the site of the incident: rather he died in the spring within his valley community and only later, in September, was brought up to the Tisenjoch and buried there.
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Current spacecraft antenna design must confront the problem of how to mount and deploy large reflector antennas on spinning platforms. The reflector spins at approximately 10 to 40 rpm to cover the desired scanned area on Earth. One solution - a back-to-back reflector antenna with a reduced moment of inertia - has been proposed by Keyvan Bahadori and Yahya Rahmat-Samii from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).When both back-to-back reflectors are utilized, this configuration vows to reduce the spinning speed by half for a given sampling rate.
The reflector's geometrical patterns are determined so that the rotating system's moment of inertia is reduced. These back-to-back reflectors suffer from a high cross-pol level in the asymmetrical place due to the large feed offset angle. To minimize that cross-pol level, a sub-reflector can be used to satisfy the Mizugutchi condition. Alternatively, a tri-mode matched feed horn can be utilized. See "Back-to-Back Reflector Antennas with Reduced Moment of Inertia for Spacecraft Spinning Platforms," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Oct. 2007, p. 2654.