What is a dap file and how do I open a dap file?
Pages of websites associated to Microsoft Access databases are called Access data Access page files. These files are stored in the DAP format and are affixed with the .dap extension. Classified as Web files, the content of these DAP files may include forms or multimedia materials that can be used by viewers of the Web page to enter details, which may in turn be generated as reports. These reports are then stored in the associated Microsoft Access databases for distribution to other users. Users who can access the content of these reports and materials are given privileges by the administrators of those Web pages with embedded DAP functionalities. Microsoft developed the DAP format, and users of Microsoft Windows-based systems can install and use the Microsoft Access 2010 software to create, open and edit the content of these DAP files. Data found in supported spreadsheet files or content encoded in plain text formats can also be used to create these DAP files.
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The book begins with a discussion of the ancient roots of Sinat Hinam, the concept of baseless or groundless hatred, that relates to the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. The Zionists “drew vital lessons from Jewish antiquity,” among them the story of the Zealots and Masada. The author argues that the story of the Altalena, when Jews turned guns on each other, has its echoes in the Biblical and classical past.
The bulk of the book is taken up by the third chapter, which details the history of the purchase of the Altalena and its long circuitous route to France, where it picked up weapons and people, and thence to Israel. The book then details the well-known story of the battle that erupted when the boat arrived, after Israeli leader David Ben-Gurion declared, “a political coup is being deliberately aimed against the army.” The event traumatized the early state; one poet wrote “of brothers in arms we dreamt, but encountered the cannon blast.”
The author combines both primary and secondary sources in this well written book, one of the only English language accounts devoted to this incident. He also provides a chapter analyzing the ramifications of the event. Bibliography, index, photographs.


The eye is an important sense organ. It is made up of 3 coats. The outer coat is the cornea and sclera. The middle coat is the uveal tract and the inner coat is the retina. The uveal tract consists of 3 parts. The iris is the visible part of the uvea and gives color to the eye (blue, black, brown). The ciliary body is the middle layer of the uvea which manufactures the fluid inside the eye. The choroid is the posterior layer of the uvea which is rich in blood vessels.
What is Uveitis?
Inflammation or swelling in any of the part of the uveal tract is called uveitis. Depending on the location of inflammation, it is called anterior uveitis (iris and ciliary body is involved), intermediate uveitis (ciliary body and the vitreous is involved), posterior uveitis (choroids and retina involved), panuveitisd (all layers of the uveal tract are involved).


There are an estimated 12 billion light bulbs on the planet.
Of this 12 billion the United States represents one third of the world's market
In 2010 Incandescent lighting accounted for 45% of lightbulbs in use. While LED bulbs accounted for less than 2%.
Incandescent light bulbs operate at an efficiency level of less than 3%. With most energy being converted to heat. While Compact Fluorescent bulbs operate around 80% efficiency and LED bulbs push up to 90% energy efficiency.
The energy efficiency lost by the use of incandscent bulbs adds up over time. For the consumer and for the planet.
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This week we have loved getting the dictionaries out and learning about alphabetical order. We have ordered fruit in alphabetical order and learnt that you need to look at the second or third letter if the fruit both begin with the same letter. We have used the dictionaries to look up the meanings of words and to find new exciting words for our alliteration poems.
Maths has been all about measuring this week. We started with weighing classroom objects on the balance scales using non-standard units (cubes). We tackled some tricky time problems in maths working out what the time would be one hour earlier or later. We then moved onto capacity and had great fun comparing the capacity of containers. We then learnt to record our results.
We have been rehearsing our play in drama and starting to learn our songs in music.


A new report from Rice University’s Shell Center for Sustainability includes a few suggestions for the future of Galveston: step all development back from the beach in anticipation of continuing erosion; use a map of the island’s cataloged geohazards to guide where development should go; or permanently abandon the west end of the island entirely. That third recommendation comes with 2 possible natural enforcement mechanisms: a projected future hurricane headed for the western tip of the island, or a combination of sea-level rise and continuing retreat of the shoreline. All 3 scenarios encourage concentrating residents and visitors in the “higher, thicker, wider” East End. A collaboration between earth scientists and the School of Architecture chock-full of charts and diagrams, the Atlas of Sustainable Strategies for Galveston Island includes a series of large-scale design proposals cooked up by Rice architecture students.
- Atlas of Sustainable Strategies for Galveston Island [Lulu]
- A more sustainable Galveston [Rice News]
- Galveston Island gets tough advice from Rice study [Houston Chronicle]


Major League Baseball has inducted 310 people into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, dating back to the Hall’s first class of inductees in 1936. The members of the Hall of Fame (HOF) include iconic American figures, such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, familiar even to non-baseball fans. Additionally the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an online collection of over 410,000 items. More than 10,000 of those items have the “Object Type: baseball cards.” Of those 10,313 records, 6,680 of them have an image as a part of their online collection record. What this project aims to do is to connect those images, often artistic renderings of baseball’s earliest stars, with the official player statistics for the 310 people in the Hall of Fame, essentially filling in the “back of the baseball card” for these items that fill an interesting niche in the area between sport, art and Americana.


New study found that rosacea is associated with a two-fold increased risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD).
The Skin Condition
Rosacea is a common skin condition that causes redness and red bumps on the face. It happens most often in adults ages 30 to 60 and it will get worse over time if it is not treated. The condition is treated with antibiotics. Famous sufferers include Bill Clinton, Cameron Diaz, Prince Charles and others.
Researchers of the University of Copenhagen published the study on 21.02.2016 in the journal JAMA NEUROLOGY. The study included 5.4 million Danish adults between 1997 and 2011. One group included all adults who developed rosacea. The control group included adults who never developed rosacea. The researchers investigated which group had a higher risk to develop Parkinson’s disease
The people in the “rosacea group” had a 2-fold increased risk to develop Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s was diagnosed 2.4 years earlier in the “rosacea group”.
Treating rosacea with antibiotics decreased the risk of developing Parkinson’s.
Future research is needed to understand the link between the skin condition and Parkinson’s disease. However, patients and physicians should be aware of the link as it may lead to an earlier diagnosis. Moreover the possible “neuroprotective effect” of antibiotic rosacea treatment needs further attention.


Donald Trump; Donald Trump Jr. (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci/Carolyn Kaster)
Was it legal for Ronald Reagan to pardon George Steinbrenner? Was it legal for Richard Nixon to pardon Jimmy Hoffa? Was it legal for Bill Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst? Yes, yes and yes.
Yet presidential pardon power is vast, but not limitless. As the Department of Justice makes crystal clear, the presidential pardon power does not extend to crimes that violate the laws of any of the fifty states.
According to the US Constitution, “The president… shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” Like so much of the Constitution, the framers were sparing in the language that courts must now interpret.
One of the few Supreme Court cases on pardons is Burdick v. United States. In Burdick, the court considered the case of an editor of the New York Tribune newspaper (Burdick) who would not name his source for a story about fraud at the city’s US Custom House. In 1914, Burdick was offered a pardon by President Woodrow Wilson. He refused to accept the pardon and was …read more
Source:: Salon – Politics


Believe it or not, food doesn’t come from the refrigerator or even the kitchen. It doesn’t even come from the grocery store or the farmer. All food—whether meat, grain, vegetable or fruit—owes its existence to seeds. Seeds are the backbone of human existence, providing us with the fundamental necessities needed for life: food, clothing, medicine, and shelter.
To protect the quality of these important, yet often forgotten, natural resources and to promote a robust U.S. seed market (current value of over $7.3 billion), Congress enacted a program over a century ago that would later evolve into what is now known as the Federal Seed Act. The act, administered by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) in Gastonia, NC, is a law that protects American businesses, farmers, and the general public from misrepresentation when buying seed.


Bless Me, Ultima
The Journey to Independence 10th Grade
Although innocence may seem at times like a desirable state, a lack of innocence most often pertains to intelligence and maturity. In Rudolfo Anaya’s novel, Bless Me, Ultima, the main character, Antonio Maréz, loses his innocence through experiences of the world’s harsh reality, which force him to cope with his beliefs despite his young age. Through early encounters with death, conflicts with faith, and problems with his family and friends, Antonio matures rapidly by dealing with injustice and conflict.
As only a young child, Antonio is quickly stripped of his outlook on the world when he witnesses the deaths of Lupito and Narciso. When Lupito is killed by the angry town mob, Antonio is introduced to the presence of injustice and violence. He quickly understands that the death was an act of suicide on Lupito’s part when “he was shooting to draw [the mob’s] fire” (Anaya, 22). Antonio must deal with the fact that, for some, death maybe an easier route than living life. He thought before that life was easygoing and rational, but the mob mentality that dominates Lupito’s fate shows him that oftentimes there is no voice of reason among men. He quickly starts to question the ways of humans as they seem to be crueler than he expected....
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What is Blit and Flip?
Blip is Block Image Transfer and Flip is just flip :p
This two words refers to how to show data from back buffer to front buffer . Blit let you transfer data from back buffer to front buffer but flip operation is more simple (it flips the buffer).
However Flipping more complicated to setup but obviously faster, just remember to make your buffer has same format and resolution as front buffer.
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An unbranched, elongated inflorescence with pedicellate flowers maturing from the bottom upward i.e., flowers attached to the main stem by short stalks.
Bent back on itself.
Translocating wild or cultivated individuals to sites where the taxon has been known to occur in the past, but from which it has disappeared.
The outer structure of a pod in which the valves have dehisced (persists after the opening of the fruit).
Area dominated by rush-like plants (collectively known as restiads) of the family Restionaceae. Includes Chatham Island and North Island Sporodanthus and oioi (Apodasmia similis).
With underground creeping stems.
Relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater.
Refers to plants found growing near the edges of streams, rivers or other waterways.
A strip of land next to streams, rivers, and lakes where there is a transition from terrestrial (land vegetation) to aquatic (water) vegetation. Also known as “berm”.
Pertaining to rivers, streams and such like flowing water systems.
A short, erect, underground stem.
A dense radiating cluster of leaves.
Having small wrinkles.
A trailing stem that roots at the nodes.
A group of distinctive wetland plants. They have solid stems (grasses have hollow stems), true rushes Juncus sp. have rounded leaves.
Any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi.


Tree Swallows may supplement their insect diet with berries, such as fruit from bayberry and myrica shrubs. During the breeding season, when they need extra calcium to produce eggs, the swallows may search through backyard compost piles for pieces of eggshells to eat.
If you live in their breeding range, there’s a good chance you can attract Tree Swallows to your yard by putting up a nest box. Make sure you put it up well before breeding season. Attach a guard to keep predators from raiding eggs and young. Find out more about nest boxes on our Attract Birds pages. You'll find plans for building a nest box of the appropriate size on our All About Birdhouses site.
Find This Bird
Tree Swallows are easy to find in much of North America from spring through fall. Head to open fields or marshes adjacent to bodies of freshwater. Scan the air for flying birds, look along utility wires and shrubs for perched birds. Also check any nest boxes you happen to see; in summer Tree Swallows spend lots of time sitting on or flying around them. Tree Swallows are vocal; listen for their sweet, chirping calls as they wheel around overhead in pursuit of insects. In the winter you can find Tree Swallows in the extreme southeastern and southwestern United States as well as south of the border.
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Kronborg Castle is situated on the sea in Helsingor or Elsinore (Helsingør) and in clear weather you can get a clear view of Sweden across the sound. The castle is one of northern Europe's most important Renaissance castles and is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
The Castle was built between 1574- 85 during the reign of King Frederik II to keep and eye on and collect taxes from ships sailing through the narrow sound between Denmark and Sweden. This so-called Øresund-tax was for a long period an important income for Denmark.
The Castle burned down in 1629 but was rebuilt again in 1638. Kronborg contains the 62m-long Knight's Hall - one of the longest halls in Europe - and the famous statue of Holger Danske. Legend says that if Denmark is ever threatened, the stone figure will turn into flesh and blood and rise in defence of the kingdom.
Shakespeare's Hamlet is set in Kronborg Castle.
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State education leaders say schools with high poverty rates 'can' have excellent students.
A study released today Wednesday found 'strong leadership' is key to breaking the cycle of lower grades... and the accompanying stereotypes.
Mandie Trimble of member station WOSU reports.
"We didn't know we were in poverty. We had no clue. Everybody around us was like us."
Columbus' Eastmoor Academy principal Alesia Gillison recalls her childhood.
"We didn't know we weren't supposed to achieve. We just did it because that was the expectation."
Gillison says she sets the same expectation for her students. Eastmoor tenth and eleventh graders scored in the 80th and 90th percentiles on state math and reading tests.
Eastmoor is one of nine Ohio schools studied by Public Agenda, an education research organization. Each school's poverty rate exceeded 50 percent, but they were among the highest performing schools in the state.
Gillison says the study proves poor children can excel with the right leaders and teachers.
"Once you start getting those successes, once you see this happening, then teachers mind frames will change. But if we keep saying poverty, and we keep labeling, then teachers will say well they're never going to do this."
Interim Ohio Education Superintendent Michael Sawyers calls for the replacement of poor-performing principals even though it might be unpopular.
"The reality is we've been part of the problem. We have to step up to the plate and say, 'you know what? We have to take some responsibility here as educators.'"
Cuts in state pensions might open up jobs as teachers and administrators opt to retire now.
Richard Stoff with Ohio Business Roundtable, which helped sponsor the study, called the potential retirements an opportunity to get a "new breed" of leaders in the profession.
State education officials plan to distribute the study to all schools.


Copper Round Bar is one of the most used components made of copper. The round bars are used in condensers and electric applications due to the high thermal conductivity and electric conductivity. Copper materials also don’t corrode easily where the other materials could. For example, the marine and seawater industry use copper because it is very much resistance against chloride ion corrosion cracking. Though the material is anticorrosive, it is not as strong as the other steel material. So the material has to be used in conjunction with others when used in structural applications. The use of copper round bar is very common in electrical systems and to produce Copper Bolts. Copper is very much cost efficient in conducting electricity compared to other electrically conductive alloys.
There are different grades of copper. The grades are derived by the addition of alloyed material. The addition brings about the difference in the mechanical properties. There are not only round bars, but other shaped bars as well. The copper hexagon bar is such another shape of copper bars. Due to the near 100% electric conductivity, pure copper grades are used in electrical systems. The pure copper grades are commercially pure. Meaning, they are about 99.99% copper but contain other elements in smaller quantities. One of the pure grades is the c110. The c110 round bar price could be gained from different suppliers. The copper material price varies base on the market availability, transportation, supply and demand. In addition to that, the availability of substitute materials could also affect the copper price.


Polo is a game that requires the act of riding a horse and the perfect coordination of your body. Although it is not an Olympic sport still due to its wide popularity, the game is professionally played in many countries. This tutorial will teach you the basics of playing Polo. Though the "how to play" section is not comprehensive but it is sufficient enough to understand the necessary points about Polo.
This tutorial is aimed at giving an overall knowledge to a person about how to become a professional in Polo. It contains step-by-step illustrations and guidance to help beginners learn the fundamentals of Polo.
If you have the passion and eagerness to learn this game, then this tutorial will be highly beneficial for you.


If you live in the Pacific Northwest, a scary lightning strike isn’t very likely.
But there was one recently in Seattle’s Arboretum that could be a case study in a text book.
“The lightning bolt went right down the moist center of the tree, blew the tree out and so it just spread apart,” Mass said.
He says in this case, the lightning hit just right and heated up the moisture at the core of the tree, causing steam to form and blast it into pieces.
“Pieces of that tree were sent off as projectiles, hundreds of feet away,” and embedded themselves deeply into the ground because of the force of the blow.
“It was amazingly dangerous,” Mass said.
“And there’s been explosive trees around here before; this is not the first incident. But it’s probably the most dramatic I’ve ever seen,” he said.
He says he’s never seen anything like it, at least not in nature.
“It looked like one of those onions you get at Safeco Field,” he said.
In this week’s episode Mass explains why lightning strikes are relatively rare here, why the recent one near the Arboretum visitor center was so forceful and how to position yourself on the off chance that you do get caught in a lightning strike.


A new study from the University of Sheffield has found that 82% of people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome also have insufficient levels of vitamin D.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
IBS is a disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that affects nearly 15% of the western population. Although the cause of the condition still remains unknown, we are aware of diet and stress as factors.
Study leader Dr Bernard Corfe said: 'Our data provides a potential new insight into the condition and importantly a new way to manage it. It was clear from our findings that many people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome should have their vitamin D levels tested. The data suggests that they may benefit from supplementation with vitamin D.
‘There was an association between the Vitamin D status and the sufferer’s perceived quality of life. This is measured by the extent to which they reported impact on IBS on life. ‘As a result of this exploratory study, we’re now able to design and justify a larger and more definitive trial.’
The sun is our main source of generating vitamin D. During the winter months it is almost impossible for our bodies to produce enough of this essential vitamin. Consequently, we can get some vitamin D from our diet. Using a supplement, however, to boost vitamin D levels during the winter is a good idea. Pharma Nord's Vitamin D3 supplements contain the same vitamin D as produced in the body, making it easily absorbed. Dissolved in organic olive oil and encapsulated into easy-to-swallow pearls of soft gelatine.
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Supercomputer Serves as Weapon in AIDS FightBy M.L. Baker | Posted 2006-06-05 Email Print
Scientists at Stony Brook University have used a supercomputer to probe HIV's weak spots in an effort to provide more effective drugs.
Researchers at Stony Brook University's Center for Structural Biology wanted to understand how an essential HIV protein switched between two known conformations.
They used computer simulation to model the transition and identified a new conformation that helps explain HIV's vulnerability to a class of drugs known as protease inhibitors.
The research at the university, based in Stony Brook, N.Y., could eventually lead to more effective forms of AIDS drugs.
Small molecule drugs, typically taken as pills, tend to work by gumming up cellular machinery, usually proteins. This happens because both proteins and drug molecules have specific shapes. Such drugs are identified by finding molecules that fit into crevices or cavities in the protein.
Drug researchers often make crystals of proteins to examine the shape of these crevices and design drug molecules that fit the protein more snugly.
But in the case of HIV protease, crystal structures were little help. In the crystallized forms, the cavities and crevices in the protein were very small, too small to let drug molecules in.
Stony Brook's Carlos Simmerling used a supercomputer to model how HIV protease switched between two shapes, and saw a new conformation where the cavities open wider.
The work reveals how drugs like Kaletra and Viracept fit into the protein and stop it from working.
An "open" conformation of HIV protease was expected, but had not previously been described in detail.
Computer modelling is routinely used in drug design, but certain simulations are often not attempted. Simmerling said that access to Silicon Graphics' Altix through the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) made him go ahead with the project.
Read the full story on eWEEK.com: Supercomputer Serves as Weapon in AIDS Fight


Punjab is a state in northwest India. The Indian state borders the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, Chandigarh to the southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest. The total area of the state is 50,362 square kilometres (19,445 square miles). The population is 24,289,296 (2000). Punjab’s capital is Chandigarh, which is administered separately as a Union Territory since it is also the capital of neighbouring Haryana. Other major cities of Punjab include Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala. The state is the location of one of the world’s first and oldest civilizations, the Indus Valley Civilization, India’s first civilization.
The Indian Punjab historically forms a part of the larger Punjab region, which includes some parts of Afghanistan, Pakistani province of Punjab and the North West Frontier Province, the Indian states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, parts of J&K and Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Indian Punjab was trifurcated in the year 1966 leading to the formation of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Agriculture is the largest industry in Punjab. Others major industries include the manufacture of scientific instruments, electrical goods, financial services, machine tools, textiles, sewing machines, sports goods, starch, tourism, fertilizers, bicycles, garments, and the processing of pine oil and sugar. Punjab is considered to have the best infrastructure in India , this includes road, rail, air and river transport links that are extensive throughout the region.
Minerals reported to occur in the state are quartz and silica sand in Hoshiyarpur district; and quartzite in Hoshiyarpur and Ropar districts. Besides sulphur is recovered as by-product in the fertilizer plants.


Did you know that August is National Psoriasis Awareness Month?
Psoriasis affects approximately 7.5 MILLION Americans and the trigger can be as simple as stress!
Psoriasis is a chronic, noncontagious, genetic autoimmune disease that appears on the skin in red, scaly patches that itch, crack and bleed. It is the most common autoimmune disease in the country.
What many don’t know is that up to 30% of people with psoriasis develop psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory type of arthritis that causes pain and swelling of the joints and tendons. Psoriasis is more than meets the eye.
Genetics and the immune system play a major role in the disease. In people with psoriasis, the immune system sends out faulty signals that speed up the growth of skin cells.
To develop psoriasis, a person must have a combination of the genes that cause psoriasis and be exposed to external “triggers.” Triggers include stress; injury to the skin, such as a tattoo or a scrape; smoking; and certain infections.
There is no cure for psoriasis, but many treatment options are available. Treatment is individualized for each person and depends on the severity of the disease, the type of psoriasis and how the person reacts to certain treatments.
Learn more about psoriasis, its associated health risks, treatment options and ways to effectively manage the disease at http://www.psoriasis.org/. Think you are suffering from Psoriasis? Call us, Germain Dermatology, for the best dermatological treatment in Charleston~ 843-881-4440.Marguerite Germain


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Understanding and engaging with neurodiversity
This module is 'Understanding and engaging with neurodiversity' and supports the professional practice 'Using Inclusive practices'.
- The aim of this module is to support teachers to explore an element of using inclusive practices in the classroom by examining the concept of diversity and inclusion, with a shift away from the medical to the social model of inclusion and the implications that this can have for learners in the classroom.
Below, you will see the self-access resource for you to complete either on your own or with colleagues.
About these resources
The British Council Teaching for Success online conference ran between 5-9 October 2016 with over 60 talks from speakers around the world. The conference focused on key issues relating to Continuous Professional Development for teachers, linked to the British Council’s 12 professional practices.
Following the conference, 10 of the talks were selected and turned into teacher training modules for both face-to-face instruction and self-access learning.
Face-to-face resources for trainers
At the bottom of the page you can download the following teacher educator resources for face-to-face teacher development workshops:
- An overview of all ten training resources in the series for face-to-face use
- An overview of all ten training resources in the series for online self-access use
- Trainer notes
- PDF presentation to use with participants in your training room


Murals, Monuments, Orchards And Ancient Villages: Exploring Jerusalem’s Hidden Corners
Israel’s capital is renowned for its historical sites, but the city has much to offer travelers willing to go the extra mile.
World-renowned Armenian artist Marie Balian spent months preparing an original mural as a gift for the people of Jerusalem. Six meters tall and four meters wide, her fabulous artwork contains close to 1,000 colored tiles.
Balian’s unique method involved sketching in charcoal on the tiles, designing and painting them and then burning them in the oven. Afterwards, each was fit into the whole picture.
The mural offers a view of heaven and earth separated by a palm tree, and features a peacock, a deer eating leaves from a lemon tree, a cypress waving in the wind and fish jumping out of the water. No people appear in the mural, which gives off a wonderful aura of serenity.
Balian’s masterpieces are exhibited all over the world — from the Eretz Israel Museum of Tel Aviv to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. But when she proudly presented her creation to Jerusalem’s mayor, Balian probably expected it to be shown in a major municipal spot. Instead, it ended up on a whitewashed exterior wall along a run-down, nondescript downtown street (Koresh Street) that few people bother to visit.
Tel Aviv is flush with out-of-the-way or remarkable spots, but so is Jerusalem. In fact, while Balian’s mural is one of the Holy City’s most splendid features, it belongs to dozens of off-the-beaten-path highlights that Israelis call pinot or “corners”.


Programming with Python
Learn one of the most in-demand programming languages the fun way.
Python is one of the most widely used programming languages, and it is an excellent first language for new programmers. It can be used for everything from video games to data visualization to machine learning.
一点不卡视频观看一区_一点都不卡的中文视频_中文字幕一本到无线_2017中文字字幕一本Right from the start, this course will show you how to use Python to create intricate drawings, coded messages and beautiful data plots. And along the way, you'll learn core programming concepts such as variables, control flow, and simulation.


Lesson 1: Web Mastering Concepts
Posted by Nguyen Huong on Tháng Chín 27, 2008
Activity 1.1 Internet Fundamentals
Adapted from original information developed for the ESC Region IV Technology Applications Certification Program
A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
The Internet has its origins in the late 1960’s, when the U.S. Department of Defense developed a network of military computers called the ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network). Quickly realizing the usefulness of such a network, researchers at colleges and universities began using ARPANET to share data. In the 1980s, the military portion of the early Internet became a separate network called the MILNET. Meanwhile, the National Science Foundation began overseeing the remaining nonmilitary portions, which it called the NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network). Soon, thousands of other government, academic, and business computer networks began connecting to the NSFNET. Eventually, traffic grew to such a large amount that NSFNET slipped off to become a separate system again, thus leaving the Internet in commercial hands.
To learn more about the history of the Internet, go to Learn the Net.com and read: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/01birth.htm


In this alphabet letter X learning exercise, students practice recognizing that the 2 pictures and words on the learning exercise begin with the letter X. Students fill in the 2 blanks with an X and then color the pictures.
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The FDK series photoelectric smoke detectors detect combustion products (smoke) generated by a fire, and transmit an alarm signal to the fire alarm control panel. The photoelectric smoke detector can detect a fire in an earlier stage than a heat detector. Generally, this detector is installed in the spaces such as basements, ordinary floors, corridors, staircases, elevator shafts.
OPERATING PRINCIPLE AND FUNCTION
The photoelectric smoke detector is composed of a light source, light sensing element, Light shielding element and detecting chamber. The light source (a light-emitting diode) emits light at intervals of about 3.5 seconds, which does not reach the light sensing element (photo diode) under normal conditions because of the light shielding mold. If smoke enters the detecting light reaching the light sensing element varies with smoke density and if it exceeds the chamber, the light from the light source is scattered by smoke particles and reaches the light sensing element. The light reaching the light sensing element varies with smoke density and if it exceeds the predetermined level, the detector operates and automatically holds its operation. The detector then transmits the alarm signal to the fire alarm panel and the response lamp of the detector turns on.


This chapter shows how to use the Fast Light User-Interface Designer ("FLUID") to create your GUIs.
The Fast Light User Interface Designer, or FLUID, is a graphical editor that is used to produce FLTK source code.
FLUID edits and saves its state in .fl files. These files are text, and you can (with care) edit them in a text editor, perhaps to get some special effects.
FLUID can "compile" the .fl file into a .cxx and a .h file. The .cxx file defines all the objects from the .fl file and the .h file declares all the global ones.
A simple program can be made by putting all your code (including a main() function) into the .fl file and thus making the .cxx file a single source file to compile. Most programs are more complex than this, so you write other .cxx files that call the FLUID functions. These .cxx files must #include the .h file or they can #include the .cxx file so it still appears to be a single source file.
Normally the FLUID file defines one or more functions or classes which output C++ code. Each function defines a one or more FLTK windows, and all the widgets that go inside those windows.
Widgets created by FLUID are either "named", "complex named" or "unnamed". A named widget has a legal C++ variable identifier as its name (i.e. only alphanumeric and underscore). In this case FLUID defines a global variable or class member that will point at the widget after the function defining it is called. A complex named object has punctuation such as '.' or '->' or any other symbols in its name. In this case FLUID assigns a pointer to the widget to the name, but does not attempt to declare it. This can be used to get the widgets into structures. An unnamed widget has a blank name and no pointer is stored.
Widgets may either call a named callback function that you write in another source file, or you can supply a small piece of C++ source and FLUID will write a private callback function into the .cxx file.


Primary Childhood Immunisation Programme
The objective of the Primary Childhood Immunisation Programme is to achieve a national uptake level of 95%, which is the rate required to provide population immunity and to protect children, and the population generally, from the potentially serious diseases concerned. Ireland’s recommended immunisation programme is based on the guidelines of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Since 2011 Ireland has achieved the 95% uptake level recommended by WHO for childhood immunisation for the main constituent of the primary childhood immunisation programme, the 6 in 1 vaccination. Reports for quarter two of 2013 indicate a national year-to-date uptake rate of 95.2%.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a target to achieve measles and congenital rubella syndrome elimination by 2015. Ireland is committed to this target


This is one part in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Arboretum’s “40 Plants You (Probably) Have Never Heard of – But Will Love,” 40 can’t-fail, easy-care, low-water plants well adapted to our region but hard to find.
White-striped century plant
Agave americana “Mediopicta Alba”
Size: Up to 3 feet to 4 feet tall by 5 feet wide at maturity
Bloom season: Yellow-green stalks of flowers that appear after 10 years or so
Exposure: Full sun
Pruning needs: None
Water needs: Very low water; once established, water once a month.
Snapshot: A smaller and more manageable version of the familiar century plant, this American agave features beautiful white-striped leaves. The variegated leaves curve in a very sculptural way and are delightful planted in combination with finer textured plants, such as native grasses and perennials. Like other agave, these century plants produce lots of “pups” that your friends will want; those pups are offshoots that will produce new plants. Although its nickname comes from the myth of one bloom per 100 years, this century plant will produce a 10-foot bloom stalk after a decade. Keep away from high-traffic areas or paths because those leaf edges have sharp spines.
For more on “40 Plants,” click on arboretum.ucdavis.edu.


History | The Civil War in American Culture
A369 | 14099 | S. Bennett
Above class open to undergraduates and EDUC MAs only.
Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, Americans have been
horrified and fascinated by the conflict. The war radically changed
the lives of people in the United States—more than 600,000 people
died, the institution of slavery was abolished, and warring states
had to learn to function as a unified country. Beginning immediately
after the war, various groups used the memory of the Civil War for
their own purposes. From emancipated slaves to the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, from courthouse monuments to Gone with the Wind,
from the Lost Cause to “good ol’ boys,” people have debated what the
Civil War meant in the past and what it means today.
This course will explore the causes and issues of the American Civil
War, the experience of war for soldiers and those at home, and the
continuing relevance and changing meanings of the war in American
society. How do stories about the past influence how people think
about their own lives and their place in society? Why do symbols and
images of the Civil War continue to evoke an emotional response?
Course content will consider issues of race, citizenship, and
regional identity. Although topics will include some military
history, the course will focus primarily on the cultural, social,
and political ramifications of events.


CASE in Action: A Better Way to Connect Academic Standards and Competencies through Digital Delivery
Event Date: Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Learning standards or competencies guide instructors to focus learning on critical thinking, problem-solving, and mastery of digital age skills. Strong academic standards help ensure that students receive coherent preparation aligned with the demands of the real world.
States and higher education institutions often publish their standards in static pdf files. This presents challenges for technology vendors who must ingest the standards into their platforms, applications, and tools. It also presents risks for educators concerned that their learning standards may be interpreted by a third party.
This is why IMS Global Learning Consortium members have developed a framework for publishing learning standards and competencies in a digital, machine-readable format. This new technical standard is called Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange™ (CASE™). In this webinar, hear why Georgia Department of Education published their learning standards in the CASE format and how this is impacting teaching and learning in districts across the state. You’ll also learn ways to easily and quickly convert static, digital documents containing learning standards into the CASE format using open-source tools.
Panelists: Ray Baranoski, Senior Software Developer, SAFARI Montage; Brandon Dorman, Senior Manager, OpenEd Content, ACT; James Gambrell, Research Scientist, ACT; Greg Nadeau, Manager, Public Consulting Group; Dr. Keith Osburn, Associate Superintendent for Virtual Learning, Georgia Department of Education; Pepper Williams, Director of Education and Research, SchoolCity
Moderator: Jill Hobson, IMS Global Institutional Program Manager
If you have questions about CASE, please contact Jill Hobson at email@example.com.


We believe that data – especially data gathered by central and local government – is a common good and should be easily accessible to all. However, this isn't always the case.
A lack of access to good information on land is a key barrier to the development of common good land projects and to communities making informed decisions about the land around them. We developed Land Explorer as a user-friendly mapping platform to help people easily visualise public open data about land.
This made us aware of the lack of digital infrastructure for those working for social change more generally, and we have recently established Digital Commons in collaboration with the Solidarity Economy Association. Digital Commons will develop Land Explorer and other software solutions for the social sector, and work to advocate for better data standards so that 'open data' is truly accessible and useful.
We’re a small organisation with big ambitions! We are grateful for all support people feel able to offer us.
Check our FAQ section where we clarify how we can help with. You can always get in touch if you’re still not sure something here.


The Indian tiger population suffered great losses in the last 100 years. Tigers were killed for the bizarre perception that their body parts could help people have sex. This caused a major population collapse for tigers.
Now it looks like the tigers are making a come back!
The number of tigers in India has seen a sharp rise to 2,226 tigers from 1,411 seven years ago, the environment ministry has said.
“India is now home to 70 per cent of the world’s tigers,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday.
Karnataka has the most number of tigers at 406. Uttarakhand has 340 tigers, Tamil Nadu has 229, Madhya Pradesh has 208, Maharashtra has 190 and the Sundarbans in Bengal has 76 tigers.


You have built an above-ground pool and you want to know how much water it will hold. The pool structure is built out of stacks of cubes aligned on a grid. layout gives an overhead view showing the height of the cubes in each position of the grid. Here is an example pool:
This pool can hold a total of 15 units of water: 5 units on each of the 3 middle grid locations. After that, any water added to the middle would flow out over the walls (the grid locations of height 6), and any water added to the walls or corners would flow out onto the surrounding ground. When it can, water will always flow to areas of lower height, and no water will "stand" on surfaces such as the pool walls shown here. Water cannot flow through diagonals, so it won't leak out of the middle via the corners. The ground surrounding the pool is at height 0 and can absorb an infinite amount of water. Return the total number of water units that can be held by the pool.


Chemical Pumps Information
Chemical pumps are designed to move and withstand chemicals and chemical slurries. They are designed and constructed to handle substances with varying levels of viscosity, corrosiveness, and abrasiveness. Some of these pumps are also metering pumps, which provide flow measurement and control for applications which require precise volumes of chemicals.
The first step in selecting a chemical pump is determining the most suitable type of pump for the application. Nearly all types of pumps can be designed as chemical pumps, so there are many to distinguish between. For a complete overview of different pump types and classifications, visit the Pump Types page on Engineering360.
The next step to sourcing a chemical pump is determining the performance specifications required. The primary specifications to consider include:
- Operating temperature
A complete guide to pump specifications and performance can be found at Engineering360's Pump Flow page.
The base material of a chemical pump is important to consider, as it affects the type of media that can be handled effectively. System fluids may be abrasive, acidic, caustic, tacky, very hot, very cold, or otherwise hazardous. Base materials such as cast iron, plastic, and stainless steel possess different advantages for handling these various characteristics.
- Plastics and thermoplastics may be the least expensive base materials, and provide excellent corrosion resistance from acids and various chemicals.
- Stainless steel alloys provide protection against chemical and rust corrosion, and have higher pressure ratings than most plastics.
- Cast iron provides excellent strength and abrasion resistance, with high pressure ratings.
More information on materials and other pumps features can be found on Engineering360's Pump Features page.
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From My Assignment Booklet
Program: Community Based Environmental Education and Awareness
Job Title: Environmental Educator & Community Development Agent
Your Primary Duties:
Working with Water and Forests Department counterparts and community partners, Volunteers' major duties and responsibilities include: promotion of environmental education (EE) outreach programs sponsored by the Water and Forests Department,the Ministry of National Education and other national and international organizations; coordination of community participation in environmental research and stewardship programs; and conducting environmental education programming for learners of both genders and all ages.
Specific Duties May Include:
- Designing and co-facilitating formal and informal EE lessons and activities designated for different audiences including elementary and secondary school students.
- Co-planning and facilitating EE training workshops for school teachers and Water and Forests Department technicians.
- Co-planning and facilitating project development and management workshops and training sessions for community partner organizations.
Opportunities for secondary projects include, but are not limited to:
- gender and development related activities, HIV/AIDS awareness and education, information technology education, and youth development initiatives.


Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
A synonymous alteration of to pommel.
- To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
- Rain pummeled the roof.
- The boxer pummeled his opponent.
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
- The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly


A single-instance application starts and checks whether it is the first instance or a subsequent instance of the application:
- If it is the first instance, it starts as usual.
- If it is a subsequent instance, then the single-instance application is already running. The subsequent instance passes its parameters to the existing single-instance application.
For example consider this scenario:
Your application is running. You have some files that are associated with it. When you open one of those files the application will not be launched again, but the running instance will be used to open the file.
In order for your application to be capable of running in Single Instance Mode, in the main class of your java application add a method with one of the following signatures:
static void secondaryMain( String args )
static int secondaryMain( String args )
This method will be called if you choose to instantiate the application again.
The second method should be used when you want your application to provide a return code when running in single instance mode. The application's return code is given by the return value of this method.


One of the only other times we had seen a Swainson’s Warbler was when we saw a flash of our lifer bird in the leaf litter under the azalea bushes. That little magician disappeared for good – never to be found again, no matter how hard we looked, even if it meant ruining a family portrait session in the park.
Upon looking at this bird, most people would wonder what the big fuss is all about. It’s just an LBJ (Little Brown Job), right? Well, as stated on the Swainson’s Warbler’s entry on Cornel Lab’s “All About Birds” page:
One of the most secretive and least observed of all North American birds, the Swainson's Warbler is a skulking bird of the southern canebrakes and rhododendron thickets. If it weren't for its loud, ringing song, the presence of the species in many areas would go completely undetected.
So this was an incredibly successful scout outing! Unfortunately, when we brought the couple to this very spot a couple of weeks later, there was no Swainson’s Warbler. No singing. No tree-hopping. Not even silent skulking. Nada. I felt bad for them, but also felt grateful that we had been able to find this magnificent yet understated bird with the experience that we had.


Hammerhead sharks feed on sardines, herring and mackerel. In the past it was thought that they killed prey by hitting it with their heads. Now we know that the unusual head shape allows improved vision. Just like the hammerhead shark from Schleich? Wild Life, the eyes are located on the outside left and right of their head and give the predator a 360 degree view. The snout allows them to sense electromagnetic signals of their prey. Dimensions 6.1 x 2.63 x 2.24 inch (W x D x H) 3+
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UNESCO Castles of Bellinzona
With its castles, walls, towers, battlements and gates, this impressive fortress is a source of wonder and amazement.
In earlier times, the medieval castles of Castelgrande, Castello Montebello and Castello Sasso Corbaro protected the city they now adorn. Only remnants now remain of the fortress walls that once surrounded Bellinzona. Bellinzona was a very important line of defence for the ancient Romans, and the first written reference dates back to 590.
Castelgrande, also known as Castello di San Michele or Burg Uri, is the oldest of these 13th century castles. Two towers, Torre Nera (28 metres) and Torre Bianca (27 metres) dominate Bellinzona's Old Town. The Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Art are located in the Castelgrande.
Castello Montebello, also known as Schwyz or San Martino, and the castle with the highest elevation, Sasso Corbaro – once known as Unterwalden or Santa Barbara, are among the best preserved medieval castles in Switzerland and are Unesco World Cultural Heritage sites.


Ruined Castle, 27 April 2018: It is fall break at Macquarie University. Some students choose to rest or study for exams, others have chosen to spend a week wading through the ferns in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in search of the remains of a 19th century shale mining village. Under the direction of Bec Parkes of Lantern Heritage and Shawn Ross of Macquarie University, the team of seven history and archaeology students have been getting up at 6 am to hike down the Golden Staircase and conduct archaeological survey. Once on site, students break up into teams of two and systematically scrutinize the ground looking for modifications on boulders, patterns in collapsed stones, scatters of glass and ceramics that indicate the location of miners’ huts. Dozens of such features are hiding under the dense canopy mere meters of the Ruined Castle treck. Upon discovery students record the location digitally, using Android tablets to capture coordinates from external GPS, and describing feature characteristics, such as materials, dimensions, finds and interpretations. All features are photographed and sketched, keeping all records integrated on the tablet. A flag is left on the ground for the official project photographer. In five days of work, students progress from knowing the word ‘survey’ to recognising and digitally recording over 250 historical features. Negotiating rugged terrain, and climbing the equivalent of 73 flights of stairs each day has been not only a fantastic way to spend the holidays, but a meaningful undertaking that generated an analysis-ready dataset that illustrates the history of industrial settlement in the Blue Mountains.


The children in Year 2 have been finding out about the works of William Morris a British textile designer and printer born in 1834. As part of our learning about William Morris and the art of printing, Year 2 tried a printing method using circular pizza bases and felt tip pens.
The children were excited to create their own designs using some of the ideas of William Morris which mimic prints from the environment. They practiced drawing their own designs and then were each given a pencil and ¼ of a circular pizza base to recreate their design on.
They used felt tip pens to colour their designs.
The final step was to spray their designs with water and to carefully print them.
Well done Year 2!


Emerging Technologies in an Unequal World
Edited by Susan Cozzens and Dhanaraj Thakur
A Mozambican man is in the doctor's office and has just been diagnosed with diabetes. Insulin treatment holds his best chance of staying alive. The government health service in Mozambique provides no-cost access to recombinant insulin - a sophisticated medicine produced through genetic engineering. But the doctor sends this patient home with a different therapeutic regime. The man lives with the rest of his family in one of Maputo's barrios, in a tiny house with limited access to clean water, no electricity, and no clock. Testing for blood sugar levels, storing and injecting insulin with a syringe - all these require a level of literacy and household infrastructure that he and his family do not have. Insulin kills if its routine is not maintained. The doctor makes the judgment that a simpler treatment will be more successful in the long run with this patient. The next patient in his office, a Maputo professional, receives her insulin free under the public program. Global inequality is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Gaps are growing within countries as well as globally. The distribution of new wealth is by and large following traditional lines of privilege and power and thus exacerbating differences by gender, race, ethnicity, and religion, even within countries where average income is rising fast.
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1.1 This guide provides procedural information for measuring pavement surface deflections, directly under, or at locations radially outward (offset) from a known static, steady-state, or impulse load. Deflections are measured with sensors that monitor the vertical movement of a pavement surface due to the load. This guide describes procedures for the deflection measurement using various deflection testing devices and provides the general information that should be obtained regardless of the type of testing device used.
1.2 This guide is applicable for deflection measurements performed on flexible asphalt concrete (AC), rigid portland cement concrete (PCC), or composite (AC/PCC) pavements. Rigid pavements may be plain, jointed, jointed reinforced, or continuously reinforced concrete.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. Inch-pound units given in parentheses are for information purposes only.
1.4 This standard may involve hazardous materials, operations, and equipment. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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AS POLICE and dope smokers know, there are two types of cannabis. Cannabis sativa sativa is mainly used to make hemp, while the indica subspecies is prized for its tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, which produces the "high". But now Australian researchers have discovered a third type of cannabis, called rasta.
Simon Gilmore of the Canberra Institute of Technology catagorised 196 sample plants according to the DNA in their mitochondria and chloroplasts. The samples included plants grown for drugs and hemp as well as wild varieties from Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica.
The results showed three distinct "races" of cannabis. In central Asia the THC-rich indica predominated, while in western Europe sativa was more common. In India, south-east Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica the rasta variant predominated. It looks similar to the sativa subspecies, but generally contains higher levels of THC.
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Easily create your own lapbook with this PDF download, do-it-yourself format!
This handy resource features an assembly guide diagram with pictures of the completed project as well as instruction guides for both parents and students. This PDF contains a color graphic version as well as a version with black & white graphics.
The Lapbook Assembly Guide provides instructions and diagrams on assembling the lapbook, and where to glue each booklet. The Student Instruction Guide is written directly to the student and provides information on what should be written inside each booklet and what folder it should be glued to. The included booklet templates includes all of the booklet templates; they can be printed on colors thought to improve retention of information presented.


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QUIETING SUN: The slow decay of sunspot 960 continues, and it now poses no threat for strong solar flares or radiation storms. Spacewalking astronauts have nothing to fear from the quieting sun.
TWO SPACESHIPS: "After a day of playing cat and mouse, Atlantis has finally docked with the International Space Station," says Frank Ryan Jr. who photographed the pair flying over Shannon, Ireland, last night:
Rivaling Venus in brightness, Atlantis and the ISS are easy to see through backyard telescopes. (The trick is knowing when to look.) Ryan captured his image using a 5-inch Meade ETX-125 telescope and a digital webcam. "I stacked 30 good frames and processed them in Registax. The results really surprised me!"
more images: from Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands; from David Campbell of Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK; from Rudolf Dobesberger of Neuzeug Austria
BLUE PLANETS: Winds of 30 to 40 mph were swirling around DeSoto, Kansas, last week when photographer Doug Zubenel "stepped outside to enjoy the windy black night. Immediately, I noticed a blue corona around Venus," he says: image.
Next, he turned his telescope toward Jupiter, and it was blue, too:
"Three of Jupiter's largest moons are lined up next to Jupiter at the 8 o'clock postion," notes Zubenel.
Why was everything blue? Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley measured the diameter of the corona and concluded that "it was caused by dust particles about 38 micron (1.5/1000") across. Coronas are mostly created by diffraction around the rims of small particles. It hardly matters whether the particles are water drops, pollen, stratospheric dust or in this case dust raised by local high winds."
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Kew Palace is Britain's smallest royal palace, and stands in the Royal Botanic Gardens, South-West London. Built in 1631 as a merchant's house, it later became the home of George III and a place for the 'mad' king to recuperate. The grounds are a centre for botanical study shaped among others by 'Capabitility Brown'.
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The traditional learning model is no longer the most effective method for educating this tech-savvy generation. Mobile devices like the iPad are what get today’s students engaged and interested. Studies show by as early as 2018 digital instruction could very well replace traditional printed methods. Technology in the classroom is changing the face of education as we speak.
iPads are at the forefront of this classroom technology revolution. Since their release in 2010, Apple’s iPads have swept the nation and are now extending their proliferation into classrooms all over the United States. iPads in education provide so many benefits and ways to enhance education and augment new learning opportunities. The infographic below showcases some really interesting stats and survey results on the use of iPads in education.


Arctic sea ice, coral reefs, the San Francisco Bay, Yellowstone, the Everglades and the Hawaiian islands are among the top 10 ecosystems needing the most protection in order to save threatened and endangered species from climate change, says a new report by conservationists.
"Climate change is no longer a distant threat on the horizon," said Leda Huta, executive director of the Endangered Species Coalition, a U.S. network of hundreds of conservation, scientific, religious, and other groups. "If we are serious about saving endangered species from global warming, then these are the places to start."
The coalition's report, "It's Getting Hot Out There," cites data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that estimate 20% to 30% of the world's species will face increased risk of extinction if global temperatures rise at least 3 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels.
Seven additional ecosystems were nominated that contain important habitat for imperiled species. They include: Glacier National Park, Jemez Mountains, Sagebrush steppe, U.S. West Coast, The Maine Woods, The Grasslands of the Great Plains and the Southern Rocky Mountains.
Wendy Koch has been a reporter and editor at USA TODAY since 1998, covering politics and social issues. She's begun a quest to build the most eco-friendly home her budget allows. She'll share her experience and give you tips for greening your home. More about Wendy


This question has not rendered any respons at all in the forum for Astronomy & Cosmology. Maybe it is more relevant in this forum? My question is: Would not a change of the speed of light (or rather; the speed that not light or gravity or any other fenomena can exceed), change the speed of all chemical reactions also? Would it not change every aspect of the universe? And would not that universal change "even out" the change of the speed of light so that we will never be able to notice it? If eg an increased speed of light also makes clocks tick faster (or makes the space expand a bit?), then we may still measure the speed of light to be 299 792 458 m/. In other words, do we not chase our own tail here?


Diploma In Telecommunications
Telecommunication is the transmission of information, over significant distances, to communicate. In earlier days, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, or sent by loud whistles, for example. In the modern age of electricity and electronics, telecommunications now also includes the use of electrical devices such as telegraphs, telephones, and teletypes, the use of radio and microwave communications, as well as fiber optics and their associated electronics, plus the use of the orbiting satellites and the Internet.
Telecommunication Engineers deal with systems, satellite, T.V. Radar, Navigation etc.. As the systems are fairly new, there are bugs to work out, but also has tremendous opportunities to improve the network.
Diploma In Telecommunications course content of this programme includes a thorough grounding in basic sciences and engineering topics, communication and control systems, computers, micro electronics, radar and television engineering and microwave communication.
Entry level employment with companies which use public and private telecommunications systems, or which sell goods or services in support of telecommunications operations. The explosive growth of telecommunications has created a great demand for specialists in that field. To be specific these engineers finds employment in Broadcasting Sector, Electronics and Mars communication sector, With Government and manufacturing sector.


Sun Gold Tomato
Plant Sun Gold tomato, and you'll be savoring fruits with explosively sweet flavor. This treat of a tomato is one of the garden's sweetest. Children will eat them like candy. Sun Gold ripens in long clusters of 10 to 15 fruits. The sweet flavor is ready about a week before full coloring. Wait to pick fruits at their deepest hue and you'll experience a richly sweet, fruity flavor. Eat fruits as a healthy snack, add to green salads, or mix into fruit salad.
Plants bear fruit well into fall and also make a great fall-planted crop in warm regions. If space is tight, try Sun Gold in containers--at least 24 inches in diameter to fit the big plant. You won't be disappointed. Plants definitely need staking or tall cages; gardeners report this tomato to grow as tall as 10 feet. The indeterminate vines are resistant to many diseases: verticillium wilt (V), fusarium (F), and tobacco mosaic virus (TMV).
- Light: Full sun
- Fruit size: 1 ounce
- Matures: 55 to 65 days
- Plant spacing: 36 inches apart
- Plant size: Up to 10 feet tall
- Plant type: Indeterminate


Product: Don't Know Much About the Presidents
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Books for Kids
Age: toddler, preschool, kindergarten, elementary
Don't Know Much About the Presidents by Kenneth C.
Davis, Pedro Martin (Illustrator)
Did George Washington really chop down the cherry tree?
How was James Madison a father if he didn't have any children?
Where in the White House did William Howard Taft get stuck?
HAIL TO THE CHIEF! The commander in chief is the leader of our nation
the president of the United States. Here's your chance to learn about
the presidents' inaugurations and important political achievements, as
well as their nicknames, hobbies and even what kind of foods they did
(and did not) eat. Discover how life in the White House has changed,
and the diverse ways the First Ladies helped America.
Best-selling author Kenneth C. Davis packs fan facts and coot quotes
into his signature question-and-answer format. Detailed timelines make
it easy to follow the major landmarks in American history. Presidential
portraits and humorous illustrations make the design very inviting.
Who knows? After you learn so much about the presidents, maybe you'll
want to run for office someday, too!


That will depend on what you are considering melting.
Some examples are:
0 C since it is based on the freezing and boiling point of water. 100 C is boiling. However Ice can be colder than the freezing temperature of water so it might be below 0 C
Zero degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit
Since water freezes at 0 degrees then ice must also melt at 0 degrees Celsius
At 273 kelvin.
Rubidium's melting point in celsius is 39.48 degrees.
The melting point of iodine is 113.5 degrees Celsius The melting point of iodine is 113.5 degrees Celsius
At 1 atmosphere pressure, ice melts to liquid water at 0Â° Celsius.
The melting point of water is zero degrees Celsius.
The melting point of chlorine is -100.95 degrees Celsius. The boiling point is -34.55 degrees Celsius.
the melting point of ice is not dependent on its mass, it has a fixed melting point, hundred degree Celsius. The melting point of water (ice) should be zero degrees Celsius or any thing higher, Yes ice would melt a one hundred degrees Celsius but it would also boil at that temperature.
(0) degrees Celsius
Of ice, zero degrees.
0.1 degrees Celsius
0 Degrees Celsius
No, it's the melting point.
Salt decreases the ice melting point from 0 Celsius to about -8 Celsius.
The melting point of ice is 0 degrees celsius which is 32 degrees F.
0 degrees Celsius is both the freezing point of water and the melting point of ice.
i think you mean what is the melting point of ice as water cant melt. the melting point of ice at sea level is 100 degres celsius
Celsius is a measure of temperature not a substance, and therefore it has no melting point. What is the melting point of what material in Celsius? [You haven't named the substance you want the melting point of/for]
130 degrees Fahrenheit 54 degrees Celsius


Attitude, Stereotyping, Advocators, Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer
Cofer asserts that to end stereotyping
the transformation has to occur at a more individual level (Cohen, Samuel S.56) In The Myth of the Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer highlights the need for individuals to shun stereotyping since it raises misplaced conceptions that breed animosity. Stereotyping raises much speculation and assumptions that have no basis. The ideal society is the one where people hold each other based on personality rather than generalizations and assumptions (Todd 44). Relationships and bonds ought to lay their foundation on personal identities rather than on stereotyped assertions. Hence, people should change their misconceptions and prejudices into true positive curiosity devoid of assumptions.
Sometimes stereotyping happens unconsciously. Advocators of stereotyping give this common excuse. Human beings make assumptions about everything. Nevertheless, this is no justification since rationality implores people to think differently. Therefore, before adopting existing notions individuals should try to understand what motivates an individual group of people to behave in a particular way (Todd 44).
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GAURI GILL AT INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND HEFORSHE ARTS
MARCH 8, 2017
A collaboration between International Center of Photography and UN Women's HeForShe Arts Week
HeForShe is a solidarity movement created by UN Women, which provides a targeted platform to enable men and boys to work towards the achievement of gender equality. Timed to coincide with International Women's Day, HeForShe Arts Week is celebrated annually and globally from March 8th to March 15th, offering an opportunity for arts and cultural institutions worldwide to support the advancement of gender equality.
Balika Mela is the result of an expansive project by Gauri Gill, in which Gill documented female children and adolescents attending a Balika Mela - a fair for girls - organized in 2003 and 2010 by the NGO Urmul Setu Sansthan in the town of Lunkaransar in rural Rajasthan. Between twelve and twenty years old, the girls represented a broad spectrum of communities, castes and denominations. Gill set up a makeshift photo-stall for the girls, to have their portraits taken in black and white, allowing them to choose how and with whom they were photographed. Seven years later, Gill returned to attend another Balika Mela, which included an exhibition of the earlier photographs. Upon request, Gill created another series of portraits, this time in color. These self-conscious, yet playful, portraits denote a collaboration between Gill and her subjects, in which the girls are afforded the agency and freedom to portray themselves, as they are, or as they see themselves, or through new selves invented for the camera.
IN COLLABORATION WITH NATURE MORTE


Vietnam issued a truly vast variety of cash coins over a 1000 year period that rival those issued in China. The Historical Cash Coins of Vietnam is the definitive reference on the official cash coins issued from 960 AD to the early 20th century and includes many seldom seen rare coins as well as most known varieties. The book provides clear color images of the author’s own coins from what is perhaps the strongest collection in its category. The coins are presented against a historical background that relates them to historically relevant people, places, and events, including coins issued by rebels and competing political factions.
Written while living in Asia, the author presents the more accurate Asian view of Vietnamese numismatics based on earlier works from Vietnam, Japan, and China while correcting misconceptions that have propagated from early Western works. The book is popular in Vietnam, China, and Japan, where collectors can navigate the book using multi-language tables, indexes, headers, and a three language dictionary of important terms.
In spite of its depth, the book makes an easy introduction to the subject of ancient Asian coins with background information on casting, coin legends, the Chinese language, and the calligraphic styles used on coins. Also of interest to new collectors, are several detailed studies of current forgeries of Vietnamese can Chinese coins.
For more information including where to buy the book see The Historical Cash Coins of Vietnam
Printing: Full color on flexible clay paper
Publication Year: 2004
Size: 7.4 ×10.4


St. Piama of Egypt
Commemorated on March 3
St. Piama lived in asceticism in her mother’s home not far from Alexandria. She only ate food at the end of the day. After prayer, she spun flax.
St. Piama was granted the gift of insight. The people of a nearby village who were blinded with greed planned to destroy the small village where St. Piama lived in order to divert water to their own fields when the Nile overflowed its banks. St. Piama realized their wickedness and reported it to the village elders. The elders fell on their knees before Piama, and asked that she go to the neighboring village to stop them from their evil deeds.
St. Piama did not go to meet the villagers, as she shunned contact with people. She spent all night in prayer. The next morning, the people of the neighboring village armed themselves and set off to destroy St. Piama’s village. They suddenly froze in their tracks and were not able to proceed. The Lord revealed to them that the prayers of St. Piama were holding them back. The villagers immediately repented of their sins. They sent messengers to the village with a request for peace and said, “Thanks be to God, Who through the prayers of the maiden Piama has delivered us.”
The saint peacefully fell asleep in the Lord in the year 337.
By permission of the Orthodox Church in America (www.oca.org)


This worksheet helps with the very necessary skill of reading and comprehending employment ads. Included is a list of common abbreviations found in ads and what they stand for. Introduce this to the class first and explain vocabulary as necessary. Then give students the worksheet with two employment ads. Students read and answer multiple choice questions to test their comprehension.


- Year Published: 1846
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Bronte, A., Bronte, C., and Bronte, E. (1846). Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London, England: Aylott and Jones.
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 8.0
- Word Count: 78
Brontë, E. (1846). Love and Friendship. Poems of Emily Brontë (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved December 04, 2016, from
Brontë, Emily. "Love and Friendship." Poems of Emily Brontë. Lit2Go Edition. 1846. Web. <>. December 04, 2016.
Emily Brontë, "Love and Friendship," Poems of Emily Brontë, Lit2Go Edition, (1846), accessed December 04, 2016,.
Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again,
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That, when December blights thy brow,
He still may leave thy garland green.


The World Health Organization (WHO) has on Monday, January 25, declared that the mosquito-borne Zika virus
, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile.
Unlike Lassa fever
, an acute viral haemorrhagic disease – the host, a rodent known as the “multimammate rat” of the genus Mastomys – which is currently ripping apart the shores of Nigeria, and has sent a sizeable number of Nigerians to early grave, the mosquito-borne Zika disease – currently found in Brazil – has raged in South America and other regions for several months.
Zika virus set to spread across Americas, WHO saysThe WHO said the disease affects the growth of the foetus, leading to microcephaly or stunted brain growth. One case of microcephaly linked to Zika virus has been established in Hawaii.
WHO also announced last Friday that Brazil has reported 3,893 suspected cases of microcephaly, over 30 times more than in any year since 2010 and equivalent to 1-2 percent of all newborns in the state of Pernambuco, one of the worst-hit areas.
The Zika outbreak is coming hard on the heels of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and the Lassa fever
in Nigeria, demonstrating once again how little-understood diseases can rapidly emerge as global threats.
“We’ve got no drugs and we’ve got no vaccines. It’s a case of deja vu because that’s exactly what we were saying with Ebola,” said Trudie Lang, a professor of global health at the University of Oxford. “It’s really important to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible.”
WHO further anticipates that Zika might become a worldwide issue with the 2016 summer Olympic Games coming up in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Zika fever was first discovered in Uganda in the 1940s and has since become endemic in parts of Africa.
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Print the worksheet about looking after pets and complete the exercises to help you practise your English!
Why did the frog say 'meow'?
Do you have a pet? Watch the video to find out about Mia's guinea pigs.
Print a set of mythical creatures flashcards, or print some for you to colour in and write the words!
Practise animal words and noises with this song about Old MacDonald's farm.
Have you got a pet? If so, tell us all about it. If not, would you like to have a pet? Which animals do you think make the best pets?
Why do reindeer wear fur coats?
Play a word game to learn and practise reptiles and amphibians vocabulary.
What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo?
The Good family wants to adopt an animal to take home from the animal shelter. Which animal will they choose? Watch and find out!
Listen to a song about a lemur and what is happening to her home.
This traditional story is about wanting what your friends have. Will the crocodile get the monkey's heart? Watch and find out!
Watch Sam and Pam's first adventure story with Ben, Tess and Sid the dog. Can you hear the sounds 's', 'a', 't', 'p', 'i', 'n', 'm' and 'd'?
Listen to a song about animals living by the river. Sing along and do the actions too!
This traditional story is about how a rabbit tricks a tiger. Will the rabbit escape? Watch and find out!
This traditional story is about being friends with people who are different from you. Will the ugly duckling find a friend? Watch and find out!
Sam and Pam discover lots of animals at the zoo with Ben, Tess, Mum and Dad. Can you hear the sounds 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z' and 'qu'?
Did you know that animal poo can be really useful? Watch this video to find out what a zoo in the UK does with it!
Listen to this traditional rhyme about five little pigs.
Listen to the tongue twister and practise saying it. How fast can you say it?
Who invented underground tunnels?
Practise animal words with a song about going to the zoo.
English courses for children aged 6-17


Electrostatics test explains how you can recognize and detect the effects of electrostatic charges on your own balance. more
Recognize and detect the effects of electrostatic charges on your balance
Electrostatics test explains how you can recognize and detect the effects of electrostatic charges on your own balance and presents solutions on how you can ensure your results are free from the influences of electrostatic charges.
Even if your balance settles, you need to be sure electrostatic charges aren't influencing your results.
Did you know that your samples and containers can become electrostatically charged just through normal handling? The most common ways that charging occurs is through picking up and putting down containers, handling sample containers, movement of the sample inside the container, and in the actual dosing of the sample. The resulting net charge on the sample and/or its container sets up an electric field between the container and the balance. The forces due to the electric field act upon the weighing pan which the balance interprets as mass, and can cause substantial error in the indicated weight value (0.1 g on an analytical balance is not uncommon).
As the charge dissipates, the force decreases and the balance reading will change accordingly. This is observed as a drifting weight value and the balance does not stabilize. However, if the charge dissipates slowly, the balance may be able to stabilize. There is a high risk that there may be errors in your weighing results of which you are not aware.


During the latter part of the nineteenth century, Ramsay saturated himself in the Turkish culture for a period of twelve years. Impressions of Turkey During Twelve Years' Wanderings gives a glimpse into the people and place of Turkey from one who was more than a passer-by of the country. "When you have had a wide enough experience," states Ramsay, "you can strike an average among your facts; but even then you can no longer feel that delightful confidence which sweeps you on from fact to fact and carries the reader with you." He found that his first impressions of the country, cultivated over months, produced obvious-seeming ideas of who the Turks were and how to "fix" any problems that their culture produced. However, when months turned into years, he came to the realization that life is never that simple. A unique and engaging look at turn-of-the-century Turkey.
- Title: Impressions of Turkey During Twelve Years' Wanderings
- Author: William Mitchell Ramsay
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication Date: 1897
- Pages: 317
About William Mitchell Ramsay
William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His education took place at Oxford, the University of Aberdeen, and Gottingen, and he later went on to become Professor of Humanity at University of Aberdeen, as well as the first ever Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford. Perhaps most well-known for his archaeological endeavors, he traveled extensively throughout Asia Minor, studying the missionary journeys of Paul and conducting archaeological research, writing numerous books on the findings and adventures of his studies, including St. Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen. His original intent in his studies was to disprove Christianity through archaeology, but through his research he realized that the Bible was accurate and converted to Christianity.


This worksheet, called 'Weather Worksheet: Billy, Maria and the Thunderstorm', was kindly presented by National Weather Service and can also be downloaded from their website. This is a 13-page document, each page is supplied with imagery, - telling the story about Billy and Maria - who were lucky to get home just before the thunderstorm began and learned from their parents how to stay safe. The worksheet is a good source of the topic-related vocabulary and thunderstorm forming process description. Students are welcome to brainstorm on their own safety ideas, in addition to those basic ones provided with the worksheet. The worksheet is complimented by some facts about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service and National Severe Storms Laboratory, as well as the organizations' missions and responsibilities. The last page of the worksheet is 'Billy and Maria' series index of titles.


Sustaining soil functions in agro-ecosystems
This special issue of the journal Agronomy aims to demonstrate judicious farming systems, where environmentally-sound practices are utilized, simultaneously maintaining soil functions, supporting environmental quality, and sustaining agricultural productivity. In many agricultural lands, the clearing of natural vegetation, as well as a range of farming practices, have threatened soil functions, altogether resulting in the degradation of soil quality and geo-ecosystem functioning. Yet, a large part of these detrimental effects, on-farm and off-farm, can be avoided, and the utilization of conservation or integrated management practices could considerably alleviate the environmental footprint of agriculture. One article (PDF) discusses the impacts of fertilization type on soil microbial biomass and nutrient availability in two agroecological zones of Ghana. Soil quality improvement were observed under inorganic fertilization in both agroecologies in contrast to significant soil deterioration under sole organic residue application in one zone. The present results suggest the need to raise the current fertilizer application rates in order to enhance optimum soil productivity. Another article (PDF) looks at the effect of organic and inorganic fertilizers on the yield of two contrasting soybean varieties and residual nutrient effects on a subsequent finger millet crop. This study showed that planting of finger millet after a soybean precursor crop even without fertilizer application could give better yield and economic benefits as it saves 70–85% of chemical fertilizer costs compared to the farmers’ practice.


This term our topic will be 'Once Upon a Time'. We will be learning about nursery rhymes and fairy tales. In Literacy, we will be learning to write our name, link sounds to letters and form letters. In Numeracy, we will be learning to count to ten, order numbers and recognise shapes. We will also be learning about our senses, the signs of Autumn and cooking with fruit and vegetables.


Processing in the Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide Cluster Tool
This page provides additional details on processing in the Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide (CIGS) cluster tool.
The wet-chemistry deposition tool will deposit buffer layers—most commonly CdS—for CIGS solar cells. This technique has been used to make record-efficiency CIGS devices, largely because in the solution, cadmium diffuses into the surface of the CIGS layer, forming an n-type buried homojunction.
In the conventional CIGS solar cell deposition process, this wet process requires a vacuum break and exposure to ambient humidity. But in this wet-chemistry deposition tool, bath deposition and transfer to and from the ultra-high vacuum will be performed completely in a controlled inert atmosphere, which preserves pristine surfaces never before possible in CIGS device processing. A CdS radiofrequency sputtering chamber for a dry window-layer deposition process complements this tool.
This deposition tool can also be used with alternative buffer layers, such as ZnS and InS. Combining this feature with its capabilities for in-situ monitoring, this tool greatly enhances current industry capabilities to research the performance and properties of CdS replacements. This chamber will also help researchers to investigate techniques to minimize the chemical bath's essential waste.
- Depositing window layers—namely, CdS and CdS replacements and other window materials such as ZnS and InS
- Can heat substrate from room temperature to 85°C (independent of solution)
- Can deposit layers as thin as 500 Å (0.05 µm)
- In-situ real-time thickness monitoring that is based on reflection
- Controlled ambient, inert atmosphere at atmospheric pressure
- Little waste (<500 mL) per deposition
For more information, contact Ingrid Repins.


Eastern Ringed Xenica
Family - NYMPHALIDAE
subfamily - SATYRINAE
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
© David Fischer
are 3 currently recognised Geitoneura
species - acantha,
klugii and minyas,
all of which are endemic to Australia. The three species all have
similar Heteronympha-like patterns on
the upper surface but are easily distinguished from
Heteronympha and from each other by
differences on the undersides.
occurs in southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South
This species inhabits grassy
clearings and glades at elevations between about 200-1500m.
The egg is smooth, globular and cream in colour. It is laid in
groups on the blades of grasses such as
Microlaena, Poa and
Themeda ( Poaceae ). The larva is
bright green with a pair of pale subdorsal stripes, a dark green
mid-dorsal line, and a brown head with prominent knobby head horns.
The pupa is brown with dark markings. It is suspended by the
cremaster from a stem.
The adults rarely visit flowers
and are more commonly observed at rest in the ground or among grasses.


Latin Name: hedera helix Alternative Name: common ivy, gort, hedera Forms Available: leaf, twig
Ivy – Hedera helix – A Druid Sacred Herb. An ancient plant, believed by the Greeks to treat intoxication, its toxic leaves are used as a poultice to soothe neuralgia, rheumatism, and sciatica, and in a tincture for toothache and whooping cough. They reduce fevers, expel worms and in a compress, reduce cellulite. They contain saponins and in solution, darken hair, blacken silk and taffeta. Ivy leaves kill some amoebas, fungi and mollusks.
Tender ivy twigs are simmered in salves to heal sunburn; follow the standard instruction for salves. The leaves are used as a douche for vaginal infections. Externally, ivy is used in poultices to heal nerves, sinews, ulcers, enlarged glands, boils and abscesses.
Other Uses: Connected with the Winter Solstice when it is used for decorating. Ivy provides protection when growing on or near a house. Ivy is equated with fidelity and is woven into marriage wreaths. Use in charms to bind luck, love, and fidelity to your person.


In the previous chapter, we learned how to find the shortest path with obstacles in the virtual world. In this chapter, we will discuss the techniques for creating buildings and environments. We will discuss different common problems when putting buildings in the isometric world and the solutions to resolve them. We will also learn how large virtual worlds are divided into small parts and also extend our previous map editor to support buildings.
We will learn the following in this chapter:


100 Cash 1851 - 1868 (AD)
This Chinese brass coin was found by metal detectors scouring abandoned Victorian mining fields. It was brought by one of the thousands of Chinese migrants who flocked to the goldfields during the 1850s.
After the British and Irish, the Chinese community became the largest in Victoria. In 1855 the Victorian government passed Australia's first immigration act, restricting Chinese migration.
Chinese characters Hsien-feng T'ung-pao around hole
Mint name in Manderin charecters to left and right of hole; denomination above and below
Plain (edge) Chinese characters Hsien-feng T'ung-pao around hole (obverse) Mint name in Manderin charecters to left and right of hole; denomination above and below (reverse)
Type of item
Exhibition Collection Management
5 mm (Length), 47 mm (Width)
Width = diameter
Round square hole


Antibiotic use in poultry leads to resistance in humans
US researchers studying Virginiamycin use in poultry have determined that the
use of antibiotics as growth promotors increases the risk of human antibiotic
Virginiamycin is a streptogramin antibiotic that has long been used as a
growth promoter in US livestock, but is banned in Europe.
Dr Edward Belongia and colleagues, of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, examined poultry
exposure to the drug as a risk factor for antibiotic resistance to Enterococcus faecium, a gut bacterium that's increasingly
becoming the cause of hospital infections.
The researchers' study suggests that the use of virginiamycin in poultry
leads to humans carrying more E. faecium that is resistant
to streptogramin, the antibiotic used to treat it.
The scientists isolated E. faecium in stool samples from 105 newly
hospitalised patients and 65 healthy vegetarians, as well as in 77 samples of
conventional retail poultry and 23 antibiotic-free poultry meat samples.
The report says that there are few options for treating E. facium
infections that are resistant to streptogramin, with quinupristin-dalfopristin
being one of few drugs that remain effective.
"With few new antimicrobials under development, a high priority should be
placed on assessing the human health impact of continued streptogramin use in
food animals and on developing evidence-based policies to prevent the emergence
of streptogramin-resistant infections in hospitals,â€ the report says.
study is available online in the November 1 issue of The Journal
of Infectious Diseases.
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Potholes are created due to moisture saturating the base material through medium to large cracks in the surface of the pavement. When the base material becomes wet and vehicles continually drive across it, the compression forces the water back up through the cracks, carrying with it some base material. Over time, the remaining base material breaks down, first noticed as small potholes appearing on the surface of the parking facility. If left unrepaired the small potholes will grow larger very quickly. The larger the pothole, the greater the cost to repair it.
Most damage to parking facilities begins with cracks in the pavement that are left unsealed.


The German Colonial Society has the following aims:
1. To turn the national effort towards German colonization and to spread awareness of its necessity to ever wider social circles;
2. to promote the practical resolution of colonial questions;
3. to encourage and support German-national colonizing projects;
4. to work towards a suitable solution of questions related to German emigration;
5. to maintain and strengthen the economic and intellectual connection of Germans abroad with the Fatherland;
6. to provide a focal point for all movements acting separately throughout our Fatherland but pursuing these same goals.
Source: “Satzungen der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft” [“Bylaws of the German Colonial Society”], in Zentrales Staatsarchiv I [Central State Archive I], Potsdam (now Bundesarchiv Berlin [Federal Archive, Berlin]), Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft [German Colonial Society], no. 255, Bl. 90.
Original German text reprinted in Edgar Hartwig, “Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (DKG) 1887-1936” [“German Colonial Society 1887-1936”] in Lexikon zur Parteiengeschichte 1789-1945. Die bürgerlichen und kleinbürgerlichen Parteien und Verbände in Deutschland [Lexicon of Party History 1789-1945. Middle- and Lower-Class Parties and Associations in Germany], ed. Dieter Fricke et al., 4 vols., vol. 1. Leipzig, 1983-1986, pp. 724-48, here 726.
Translation: Erwin Fink