While solar panels can be installed on most roofs, provided the area is spacious and there is enough access to sunlight, some preliminary knowledge of major roof types for solar installation can make the whole process a lot simpler for you. Some common roof types you’ll find on homes are flat roofs, gable roofs, hipped roofs, cross-gabled roofs and cross-hipped roofs. These roof types are suitable for solar panel installations if they have large surfaces that face the South.
Flat roofs, on the other hand, are found mostly on commercial buildings and can prove to be fertile ground for solar installations. Free-standing frames are used on such roofs, which provide the ideal tilt and orientation for optimizing array performance. Mansard-style roofs with large, flat surfaces are used for solar installations in the same manner. One important point to keep in mind is to avoid installations on roofs that don’t have a south-facing surface. Additionally, if your roof is prone to receiving a lot of shade from its surrounding structures or trees, be careful before proceeding with your installation.
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When installing solar systems, be mindful of the angle of the roof relative to the solar panel and the direction of the roof. If you want your panel to capture enough sunlight, make sure it faces the South as much is possible. While not considering these aspects will not serve as a complete obstruction to your solar power plans, it will definitely play a major role in determining the kinds of installations possible on your roof and their subsequent performance.
The costs of installations also vary with the nature and design of rooftops. If your roof is facing issues or is likely to face issues in the future, consider replacing it before the installation.
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Two deep ice cores from central Greenland, drilled in the 1990s, have played a key role in climate reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere, but the oldest sections of the cores were disturbed in chronology owing to ice folding near the bedrock. Here we present an undisturbed climate record from a North Greenland ice core, which extends back to 123,000 years before the present, within the last interglacial period. The oxygen isotopes in the ice imply that climate was stable during the last interglacial period, with temperatures 5 degreesC warmer than today. We find unexpectedly large temperature differences between our new record from northern Greenland and the undisturbed sections of the cores from central Greenland, suggesting that the extent of ice in the Northern Hemisphere modulated the latitudinal temperature gradients in Greenland. This record shows a slow decline in temperatures that marked the initiation of the last glacial period. Our record reveals a hitherto unrecognized warm period initiated by an abrupt climate warming about 115,000 years ago, before glacial conditions were fully developed. This event does not appear to have an immediate Antarctic counterpart, suggesting that the climate see-saw between the hemispheres (which dominated the last glacial period) was not operating at this time.
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In wind power, the goal is to convert wind force into usable energy. The faster the wind blows, the more energy is available.
But to maximize wind force efficiency, wouldn't it make sense to extract as much wind passing through a given area as possible. With current wind turbine blade designs, only the outer 30% of a blade produces any meaningful torque and the blades are less than 5% of the total disk area?
Indeed the physics of conventional wind turbine design are seriously flawed...
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Facebook has shown over time that they are quite serious in integrating Artificial Intelligence in their operations. They used AI to help blind people use their social network and also incorporate AI into their app Moments in a very interesting way.
Today, Facebook gave a detailed roadmap of what they are planning to do with AI and it shows that they are pretty serious about it.
First, they explained on a technology that we have seen Prisma employ on their mobile phones. Facebook has something called style transfer, which is used to apply an artistic style of painting on each frame of a video. This usually requires the the individual frames to be sent to the data centres for processing and that will make the whole process slow.
Now, Facebook says that they have been able to shrink the AI model 100 times and came up with Caffe2Go.This is a neural learning platform that will be able to process these images and video on the mobile apps. This is reminiscent of what Prisma was able to do with their brilliant app on both iOS and Android where you can apply the neural net powered filters on your photos offline.
This is not the only AI venture Facebook is planning in their future. They will use it on VR, their Aquila program of providing internet connectivity and also will research more into it so that “computers will be able to learn, plan and reason like humans.”
It is ridiculous that we are in a time where we can have deep learning neural networks in our phones which are becoming more powerful every minute. There will be a time when these will be normal and will usher the age of extremely personalized feeds for everyone.


The Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world and covers nearly 70 percent of Brazil. The rainforest produces about 20 percent of the Earth's oxygen and plays a big role in controlling the climate of the entire planet. The Amazon also is home to more species of plants and animals than any other ecosystem on Earth, 30 percent of the world's total.
About one-fifth of the Amazon has disappeared in the past three decades. The causes are many: Logging, both legal and illegal; construction of homes and roads; and agri-business clearing land to plant crops or graze cattle.
The Brazilian government says the situation is getting better and that federal police are cracking down on illegal logging, in particular. But critics say there aren't enough agents on the ground and that more land needs to be put under federal protection.
Government of Brazil: Ministry of the Environment NASA: The Amazon United Nations: State of the world's forests


New Crops News, Spring 1994, vol. 4 no. 1
Pussy willow is a large (8-12' high), multistemmed perennial woody shrub with attractive flowers in early spring. It has been used in landscapes for years, and its branches are often found in floral arrangements during the months of March through May as a signal of the spring season. Popularity of the pussy willow has outstripped supply, and the availability of high quality branches is limited.
Large scale growing of this new crop has been shown to be feasible on marginal wet areas. The crop becomes an economically viable filter strip between agronomic crops and waterways and streams running through farmland. Plants are grown 6' apart in rows with rows 10' apart to facilitate access by equipment. The filter strip approach utilizes three rows of plants occupying a 50-60' wide strip of land parallel to watercourses. The result is an environmentally sound planting on marginal land which absorbs runoff from adjacent agricultural fields and limits contamination of surface watercourses from soil and agricultural chemicals.
Branches are harvested in February when most farmers would have time to devote to this new crop. Shrubs are pruned to within 18" of the ground. The harvested branches are trimmed, graded into appropriate lengths, and tied in bundles of 50 each. Markets are primarily wholesale florists, but limited sales can be made directly to individual retail florists in a grower's area. Results indicate that each plant will produce between 60 to 80 branches per plant each year (about 50,000 shoots per acre). Research efforts are now being directed towards forcing systems for branches and other postharvest techniques to broaden the market window and provide added value in the form of longer shelf life. Decorative branches for the florist trade offer new entrepreneurial opportunities for those with marketing skills who are looking for a niche crop in which most of the work is done during the winter and early spring.


hi, here is a paraphased question i am having trouble with:
A vehicle's mass (including passenger) = 400 kg
after travelling 400 m the car stops accelerating. At this instant, the car's brakes are applied, and in addition, a small parachute opens at the rear to slow the car down.
The retarding force applied by the brakes including friction is 5000 N. The retarding force due to the parachute is 0.5v^2 N where v m/s is the velocity of the car x meters beyond the 400 m mark.
a) if a m/s^2 is the acceleration of the car during the retardation stage, write the equation of motion for the dragster during this stage:
now what i sorta got was this:
.5v^2 + 5000 = 400a
or (1/2)v^2 = 400a - 5000
is this right?
b) By choosing an appropriate derivative form for acceleration, show that the differential equation relating v to x is:
dv/dx = -(10^4 + v^2)/(800v)
Now, im thinking that there is a form for acceleration which goes:
d((1/2)v^2)/dx = a
which looks awfully similar to my (1/2v^2)
but im not too sure where to take it to show that equation.


Cesare Lombroso, born Ezechia Marco Lombroso (November 6, 1835 - October 19, 1909) was a Jewish-Italian criminologist and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established Classical School, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal"' could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage, or atavistic
Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine
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Paper persists as an integral component of active reading and other knowledge-worker tasks because it provides ease of use unmatched by digital alternatives. Paper documents are light to carry, easy to annotate, rapid to navigate, flexible to manipulate, and robust to use in varied environments. Interactions with paper documents create rich webs of annotation, cross reference, and spatial organization. Unfortunately, the resulting webs are confined to the physical world of paper and, as they accumulate, become increasingly difficult to store, search, and access. XLibris [Schilit, et al., 1998] and similar systems address these difficulties by simulating paper with tablet PCs. While this approach is promising, it suffers not only from limitations of current tablet computers (e.g., limited screen space) but also from loss of invaluable paper affordances. In this paper, we describe PapierCraft, a gesture-based command system that allows users to manipulate digital documents using paper printouts as proxies. Using an Anoto [Anoto, 2002] digital pen, users can draw command gestures on paper to tag a paragraph, email a selected area, copy selections to a notepad, or create links to related documents. Upon pen synchronization, PapierCraft executes the commands and presents the results in a digital document viewer. Users can then search the tagged information and navigate the web of annotated digital documents resulting from interactions with the paper proxies. PapierCraft also supports real time interactions across mix-media, for example, letting users copy information from paper to a Tablet PC screen. This paper presents the design and implementation of the PapierCraft system and describes user feedback from initial use.


Counterintuitive Results in Underwater Acoustic Communications
Underwater Acoustics and Ocean Dynamics
Underwater wireless communication using acoustic signals is a difficult problem and progress in finding robust solutions has been disappointing. Methods employed successfully in terrestrial wireless communications have not always transitioned successfully to underwater scenarios. An engineer’s intuition developed in solving the terrestrial problem may actually become a hindrance to solving the underwater problem. In the present work, several seemingly counterintuitive experimental results are examined: communications performance can be better when the range is longer rather than shorter, when the sea surface is rough rather than calm, when the bathymetry is undulating rather than flat. Physics-based explanations for the observed results are developed. A physicist’s intuition, however, also may fail when trying to develop useful models. A seemingly counterintuitive fact is that acoustic paths that undergo incoherent reflection from a rough sea surface can be shown experimentally to be useful for coherent communications. The requirements for a proper physics-based model are sketched.
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Rouseff D. (2016) Counterintuitive Results in Underwater Acoustic Communications. In: Zhou L., Xu W., Cheng Q., Zhao H. (eds) Underwater Acoustics and Ocean Dynamics. Springer, Singapore


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Some people have upper front teeth that stick out and look unsightly. These 'prominent' teeth are more likely to be damaged, but orthodontic treatment can move them back into line. Or the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct both of these problems.
When the teeth don't meet correctly, this can put strain on the muscles of the jaw, causing jaw and joint problems and sometimes headaches. Orthodontic treatment can help you to bite more evenly and reduce the strain. The best time is generally during childhood, but adults can have orthodontic treatment too - and more and more are doing so. Age is less important than having the right number of teeth. In children it may be necessary to wait for enough teeth to come through before starting treatment.


What issue do you care about?
First, ask students what issue(s) they care about. Climate change? Immigration? Healthcare? Criminal justice? You’ll get a wide range of responses.
Then ask: what would they like to see happen to improve the status quo on those issues?
Then, ask how that change happens. It most likely will take an act of the state legislature or U.S. Congress. Help them draw the conclusion that how we elect representatives impacts any issue they care about.
(Day 2’s lesson, Why does gerrymandering matter?, has a rich discussion activity on this.)
Video: Redistricting and gerrymandering basics
Introduce the concept of redistricting and gerrymandering with one of these three short web videos. Then do a 3-2-1 video analysis.
- What are 3 facts you learned from the video?
- What are 2 images that stood out to you?
- Create / Ask 1 question based on the video.
(Want some further tips on using a 3-2-1 activity in your class? Use this website.)
"Gerrymandering, explained" by the Washington Post (2:41 run-time)
"Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election" by TED-Ed (3:52 run-time)
"Gerrymandering: Crash Course" by PBS Digital Studios (7:57 run-time)


The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's map of Europe. For instance, where you would normally expect to see London indicated, the ‘Atlas’ gives you "Hillfort. The 'True Names' of 1500 cities, countries, rivers, oceans and mountain ranges are displayed on this fascinating map, which includes a comprehensive index of derivations.
Etymology is the study of the origin and history of words. For the first time, the Atlas of True Names uses etymology to give us an unusual insight into familiar geographical names - with intriguing results......
Many geographical names are clearly rooted in Man’s observation of his natural environment; the physical location of a settlement: “At the Foot of the Mountain” - Piedmont, the character of an important water course: “The Gentle One” - The Seine or even just the local vegetation: “Under the Oaks” - Potsdam.
Unsurprisingly, countries and landscapes often derive their names from the characteristics of the people who lived there: “Great Land of the Tattooed” - Great Britain, whilst local mythology and regional rulers also frequently leave their legacy: “Isle of the Monster’s Eye” - Peleponnese or “Illustrious Emperor” - Zaragoza.
The Atlas of True Names restores an element of enchantment to the world we all think we know so well. It takes the reader on a journey into the unknown - a unique exploration of uncharted territory in that familiar place we all know as ‘home’.
Take a look at the world through fresh eyes!
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Research published last month proved that orca, or killer, whales have the ability to mimic the complexities of human speech. Josep Call, professor in evolutionary origins of mind at the University of St Andrews, was a co-author of the study. He said: “I think here we have the first evidence that killer whales may be learning sounds by vocal imitation.”
Rocky the ape
Dr Adriano Lameira of Durham University led a team of researchers in 2016 that proved orangutans have the ability to control their vocal range, communicating in a way not dissimilar to humans. The study centred on an ape named Rocky, from Indianapolis zoo, who mimicked the speech of his caretakers in exchange for food.
Koshik the elephant
In 2012, Angela Stoeger-Horwath of the University of Vienna, captured footage of Koshik, a male elephant from Korea, communicating in a distinctly human way. Koshik would place his trunk into his mouth to create a vocal tract that facilitated the expression of pitches and formants similar to that of human speech.
Noc the beluga whale
Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego were taken aback in 1984 when they heard what sounded like people talking inside a whale tank. In fact, the human-like calls were coming from a captive male beluga whale named Noc. A study was subsequently conducted that proved the rhythms recorded from Noc’s wails were close in pattern and tonality to that of human speech.
Alex the parrot
Dr Irene Pepperberg, an animal psychologist from the University of Harvard, conducted a 30-year study of Alex, an African grey parrot. Before the research, it was widely assumed in the scientific community that since birds did not possess a primate brain, they would be incapable of performing complex mental tasks. Although Dr Pepperberg said that Alex wasn’t necessarily able to use language, she showed he could engage in two-way forms of communication and expression with humans.


Radon is a naturally occurring, odorless, colorless, and tasteless radioactive gas. It is produced from the radioactive decay of radium which is found in most soils as well as earthen construction materials.
The effects of long exposure to high radon levels can be detrimental. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after smoking, and the leading cause among non-smokers. The EPA estimates that 1 in 5 Florida homes have elevated radon levels.
Testing is the only way to know if your home has potentially high-risk levels of radon. The map below shows the Zones by County in the State of Florida. Although there are areas of greater risk, homes with elevated levels have been found in all three zones.
Thermal imaging can tell you about your home and how energy efficient it is. These infrared cameras can detect what the human eye cannot. Things such as hidden moisture damage, excessive heat in electrical
components as well as a lack of insulation which can create energy efficiency problems for the home.
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Florida law requires every termite inspector to be an employee of a Certified Pest Control Operator (CPCO) that is a Licensed Pesticide Applicator, and to carry a state issued I.D. card with them during every inspection. Always ask to see it. Also, there is no such thing as a “termite inspector license”. Inspectors must have authorization from the State Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology verifiable by a “JE” identification card, not a license. Beware of home inspectors that offer free termite inspections.


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Brooklyn, New York Directories, 1888-1890
Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City in the county of Kings, was home to thousands of immigrants seeking a new life in America. This database is a transcription of a city directory originally published in 1890. In addition to providing the resident's name, it provides their address and occupational information. It includes the names ...[More]
History of the City of Brooklyn, New York
Published between 1867 and 1870 by subscription, the author states that, "My purpose has been to present to my fellow-citizens of Brooklyn a full and reliable history of the city of their residence, from its early and humble beginnings to its present position as the third city of the American Union." Coverage of the publication begins wi...[More]


Good management of scientific data is a critical issue for the Department. The Biogeographic Data Branch (BDB) performs a leadership, policy and standards setting role for biological and geographic data management activities for the entire Department, its contractors, and partner organizations.
BDB provides GIS support for all CDFW branches. This structure facilitates inter-branch teamwork and GIS workload balancing as changing conditions warrant.
BDB contains biological data development programs that are especially dependent and closely linked with GIS and emerging related technologies. These data development activities include vegetation mapping, rare species tracking, species range mapping, aggregation of existing incongruent data sources and decision support systems.
Biogeographic Data Branch (BDB) Programs
- ACE: Areas of Conservation Emphasis
- Climate Change: Climate Change Vulnerability of Rare Plants
- CWHR: California Wildlife Habitat Relationships
BIOS: Biogeographic Information and Observation System online mapping tool
CNDDB: California Natural Diversity Database
VegCAMP: Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program
GIS: Geographic Information Systems services and support
BDB Staff List (PDF)
In 2007 the State Legislature required the Department of Fish and Game to identify high priority areas for vegetation mapping and to map known wildlife corridors in the state. The following report has been provided to the Legislature.
LAO Supplemental Report of the 2007 Budget Act, Item 3640-301-605 – Wildlife Conservation Board / Dept. of Fish and Game (PDF)


Metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes and obesity could be linked to interrupted sleep or simply not getting enough shut eye.
That is the theory published in a paper in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, which suggests that getting the right amount of sleep is key to improving metabolic health.
Additionally, this should come as great interest to those in the medical profession who are no strangers to long shifts during anti-social hours, which can play havoc with their body clocks.
“These findings open up new strategies for targeted interventions aimed at the epidemic of the metabolic syndrome”
The study suggests tackling interrupted sleep caused by conditions such as sleep apnoea can directly benefit patients’ metabolic health.
But a much more common problem is people just not getting enough sleep, according to the authors.
The research draws a link between disturbing the body’s natural sleeping and waking cycle and poor metabolic health, in addition to higher rates of chronic illness and early mortality.
Reasons for the link have been unclear until recently but recent research is starting to point towards a loss of sleep affecting the body’s ability to metabolise glucose and control food intake, as well as maintain its energy balance.
The researchers, led by Professor Bernd Shultes, from the eSwiss Medical and Surgical Centre in St Gallen, conclude: “These findings open up new
“Ongoing and future studies will show whether interventions to improve sleep duration and quality can prevent or even reverse adverse metabolic traits.
“Meanwhile, on the basis of existing evidence, health care professionals can be safely recommended to motivate their patients to enjoy sufficient sleep at the right time of day.”
- Read the full study paper in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology


Giraffe has new friends – level 3
A baby giraffe who spent 39 days in intensive care has been reintroduced to the herd at San Diego Zoo.
Baby Leroy, who was born on January 8th, suffered from a severe bacterial infection and his chances of recovery were pretty slim. But the Ugandan male giraffe calf is now back on his feet and already playing with his new friends.
“Today at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we just introduced our giraffe herd to one of our newest additions, male calf Leroy. So, Leroy was born on January 8th which makes him about three months old. And in that time, he has spent about one month in critical careat our hospital and now he’s in recovery. So about two months of his life. It’s been a very long road to where we are today, which is, he’s doing great with the rest of our herd.”
The San Diego Safari Park is home to 13 Ugandan giraffes, which are an endangered subspecies.
Difficult words: herd (group of animals of one kind), severe (extreme), calf (baby of a large animal), subspecies (kind of species which is a kind of an animal).
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Hundreds of pages with the names of Holocaust survivors relocated to Displaced Persons Camps in Austria and Germany have now been reprinted and digitized. The extensive lists have never been available together, and the original volumes exist in only a few libraries worldwide. Thanks to a collaboration of the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center in the UMass Amherst Libraries and Schoen Books of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, they are now available on the open web, enabling families of survivors, genealogists and researchers to have access to the vital information they contain.
The volumes were originally published in 1945 by the U. S. Government as a way to help survivors, the Sharit Ha-Platah or “the surviving remnant,” reach family members around the world.
Details may be found in an article in the University of Massachusetts News web site at https://www.umass.edu/news/article/holocaust-survivor-lists-digitized-first-time.


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In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the first section of the novel is preceeded by a re-creation of a children's primer based on the Dick and Jane readers of the mid 1900s. Historically, the readers were used in many schools to teach children how to read. The images portrayed in these books were of a stereotypical white American middle class family. Morrison alludes to the readers as a symbol of what the characters in The Bluest Eye must face in their daily lives. Claudia, the narrator of the first section of the book, says that she hates white baby dolls because everyone seems to love them. This suggests that the characters in the novel battle with stereotypes, racism, and portrayed standards of beauty. The primer passages are repeated and run together to show that the image of the "perfect" American family is going to be challenged in the novel and that stereotypes such as this cause chaos in the lives of those who do not "fit the mold."
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In 1937, the Hindenburg airship exploded while docking at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. The incident resulted in 35 fatalities. This weekend, Discovery will be trying to find out what happened.
They built three replica Hindenburgs and crashed them all. Now, the lead scientist that built the models, Steve Wolf, is here to answer your questions. Fire away!
Earlier this year, Discovery crashed a Boeing 727 on purpose in order to see what would happen to the passengers on board.
The Hindenburg recreation is a little different, since people aren't getting around in large dirigibles anymore, as far as we know. Instead, this test is to find out what exactly happened in the disaster from 75 years ago.
The fact of the matter is that even though people theorize about what exactly happened in the Hindenburg disaster, nobody knows exactly what the cause was. Part of that was because crashing a gigantic dirigible was intricate, expensive, and difficult.
But Discovery's program Curiosity decided to take it on. They enlisted Steve Wolf as the lead investigator and also had him create the replicas. He is here for the next hour, feel free to ask him anything you want about the crash, his findings, and how he went about building awesome replica zeppelins.
UPDATE: Steve had to run, but thanks for all of the questions! Be sure to watch Curiosity this Sunday on Discovery.
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Great Britain Non-Native Species Secretariat.
The Be Plant Wise campaign, launched by Defra and the Scottish Government, is designed to raise awareness among gardeners, pond owners and retailers of the damage caused by invasive aquatic plants and to encourage the public to dispose of these plants correctly. We have developed resources with advice for gardeners and pond owners and are working closely with retailers of aquatic plants to provide information in stores. These pages contain the detailed information you need to Be Plant Wise.
The Invaders of Texas Program is an innovative campaign whereby volunteer "citizen scientists" are trained to detect the arrival and dispersal of invasive species in their own local areas. That information is delivered into a statewide mapping database and to those who can do something about it. The premise is simple. The more trained eyes watching for invasive species, the better our chances of lessening or avoiding damage to our native landscape.


Researchers from UMASS have found that 60 minutes of exercise on a cycle ergometer reduced the neuronal responses in the part of your brain consistent with:
- Reduced pleasure of food,
- Reduced incentive motivation to eat, and
- Reduced anticipation and consumption of food.
In essence, exercise prevents your brain from telling you to eat.
So, how come I know a ton of people who exercise 5 days a week and still can’t manage to drop their extra body-fat?
Because scientific research ≠ real life.
- Scientific research has to be precise.
- Real life is anything but precise. It involves emotions and peer pressure and hormones and tv commercial for stuffed crust pizza and a whole bunch of other stuff designed to make you eat and eat and eat.
So, what can we take from this study?
If you’re feeling hungry and you want to squash that hunger, get up off your butt and go for a brisk 20 minute walk. Odds are, you’ll get those neurons working in your favor and your hunger will fade away.
And even if it doesn’t, the exercise will do your body good anyway.
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Magnetoreception of the light-dependent magnetic compass in birds is suggested to be mediated by a radical-pair mechanism taking place in the avian retina. Biophysical models on magnetic field effects on radical pairs generally assume that the light activating the magnetoreceptor molecules is nondirectional and unpolarized, and that light absorption is isotropic. However, natural skylight enters the avian retina unidirectionally, through the cornea and the lens, and is often partially polarized. In addition, cryptochromes, the putative magnetoreceptor molecules, absorb light anisotropically, i.e., they preferentially absorb light of a specific direction and polarization, implying that the light-dependent magnetic compass is intrinsically polarization sensitive. To test putative interactions between the avian magnetic compass and polarized light, we developed a spatial orientation assay and trained zebra finches to magnetic and/or overhead polarized light cues in a four-arm "plus" maze. The birds did not use overhead polarized light near the zenith for sky compass orientation. Instead, overhead polarized light modulated light-dependent magnetic compass orientation, i.e., how the birds perceive the magnetic field. Birds were well oriented when tested with the polarized light axis aligned parallel to the magnetic field. When the polarized light axis was aligned perpendicular to the magnetic field, the birds became disoriented. These findings are the first behavioral evidence to our knowledge for a direct interaction between polarized light and the light-dependent magnetic compass in an animal. They reveal a fundamentally new property of the radical pair-based magnetoreceptor with key implications for how birds and other animals perceive the Earth's magnetic field.
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Europe @ School
The positive influence of the European Union on modern societies throughout the continent is undeniable. Young Educators is deeply committed to the values of human dignity and human rights, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law. These are core ideals that shape our society and we want them to be recognized, respected and protected.
The best way to ensure that the future generations understand what it means to belong to the European family is through education. Therefore, Young Educators joined JEF Europe, JEF Germany, JEF France, JEF Malta and JEF Macedonia to promote Europe@School.
This program was designed to foster proximity and knowledge to these ideals through interventions in schools, which follows our usual working method of combining formal and non-formal educational approaches. The participating schools will have access to an innovative European-oriented civic education, carried out by the trainers of our youth organisation.
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- a dynasty in China, a.d. 960–1279, characterized by a high level of achievement in painting, ceramics, and philosophy: overthrown by the Mongols.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
- the past participle of sing
- produced by singinga sung syllable
See ring 2
- an imperial dynasty of China (960–1279 ad), notable for its art, literature, and philosophy
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Texas is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America, whereas North Korea is a country in East Asia. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between the U.S. state Texas and the country of North Korea regarding various aspects.
Is Texas bigger than North Korea?
The total area of Texas is 268,596 sq mi, and the total area of North Korea is 46,540 sq mi. Texas is bigger than North Korea by 222,056 sq mi. Texas is around 5.8 times bigger than North Korea.
Area of Texas: 268,596 sq mi ( 695,662 km2 )
Area of North Korea: 46,540 sq mi ( 120,540 km2 )
According to the United States Census Bureau data, the total population of Texas as of 2019 was estimated to be around 29 Million.
Based on the Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data, the current population of North Korea as of 2nd June 2021, is 25,883,033.
Here is some more data comparison between Texas and North Korea.
The capital city of Texas is Austin, and the capital city of North Korea is Pyongyang.
Texas: No official language, but English is the primary spoken language.
North Korea: Korean
UTC − 6 (Central Time Zone)
UTC − 7 (Mountain Time Zone)
UTC − 5 (Central Daylight Time)
UTC − 6 (Mountain Daylight Time)
North Korea Timezone:
UTC + 9 (Korea Standard Time)
Coordinates of Texas:
31° 28′ 32.52″ N, 99° 19′ 52.32″ W
Coordinates of North Korea:
40° 0′ 0″ N, 127° 0′ 0″ E
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Published by Carolrhoda Books
Summary: Sachiko’s family cherishes Grandmother’s bowl, which is always filled with food at dinnertime. As the war drags on, food becomes scarcer; still, the family still gathers and offers thanks for what they have. August 9, 1945, begins like other hot summer days for the family, but an atomic bomb dropped on their city of Nagasaki changes life forever. Sachiko’s youngest sister dies, and slowly over the course of the next several years, her remaining siblings and father sicken and pass away. The family leaves for awhile after the bombing, and when they return, Sachiko’s father miraculously finds Grandmother’s bowl in the rubble. Each year, the remaining family members fill the bowl with ice and watch it melt, remembering the suffering they endured. Finally, Sachiko is the only survivor. She continues to help others remember and work for peace, work that inspired Caren Stetson to write her award-winning book Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story in 2016 and this picture book for younger readers. Includes author’s and illustrator’s notes; photographs; and a list of books for further reading. 40 pages; grades 2-5.
Pros: This beautifully written and illustrated story deserves a place in any curriculum studying peace or the history of World War II. Sachiko’s story makes the abstract concept of war more personal for kids.
Cons: It is a tragic story to be sure, and one that kids may need some guidance to understand and process it.


Argo was the name of the ship made for the expedition of the hero Argonauts, led by Jason and including many other heroes: Herakles (in some versions), Orpheus, the Dioskouroi, the sons of Boreas. They sailed to Colchis on the Black Sea (modern Georgia) and brought back the famous Golden Fleece, an enterprise in which they were helped by the local princess and witch Medea. Various episodes en route are subjects for art - see Talos, Hylas, Amykos, Phineus.
Above left: Detail from Athenian red-figure clay vase, about 425-375 BC. Ruvo, Museo Jatta (1501) 36933. © Museo Jatta, Ruvo Licence Plate 11 UK 1007 117
Above right: 'Jason takes the Fleece'. Detail from Athenian red-figure clay vase, about 470-460 BC. New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art 34.11.7 © Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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cloud chamber, radiation detector, originally developed between 1896 and 1912 by the Scottish physicist C.T.R. Wilson, that has as the detecting medium a supersaturated vapour that condenses to tiny liquid droplets around ions produced by the passage of energetic charged particles, such as alpha particles, beta particles, or protons. In a Wilson cloud chamber, supersaturation is caused by the cooling induced by a sudden expansion of the saturated vapour by the motion of a piston or an elastic membrane, a process that must be repeated with each use.
In a diffusion chamber, a simpler and continuously sensitive cloud chamber, the saturated vapour is cooled to supersaturation as it diffuses into a region kept cold by a coolant such as solid carbon dioxide or liquid helium.
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Pronunciation: (pros'trāt), [key]
—v., -trat•ed, -trat•ing,
1. to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
2. to lay flat, as on the ground.
3. to throw down level with the ground.
4. to overthrow, overcome, or reduce to helplessness.
5. to reduce to physical weakness or exhaustion.
1. lying flat or at full length, as on the ground.
2. lying face down on the ground, as in token of humility, submission, or adoration.
3. overthrown, overcome, or helpless: a country left prostrate by natural disasters.
4. physically weak or exhausted.
6. utterly dejected or depressed; disconsolate.
7. Bot.(of a plant or stem) lying flat on the ground.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.


Mouth cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of cancer in the UK, with more than 6,000 new cases diagnosed every year. In the last decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of people affected by mouth cancer and at Aqua Dental Spa, we are eager to do everything we can to raise awareness of this deadly disease and ensure that any cases are spotted and treated as early as possible.
We offer mouth cancer screening, which enables our dentists to spot early warning signs that may not be visible to the naked eye. The earlier mouth cancer is diagnosed, the better, as early treatment has a much greater chance of success.
About mouth cancer
Mouth cancer is a form of cancer, which affects the soft tissue in the mouth and throat. The main precursors for mouth cancer include the usual suspects smoking, alcohol but also HPV (human papilloma virus) infection. Symptoms of mouth cancer include a persistent sore throat, ulcers than take a long time to heal (longer than 2 weeks), red or white patches in the mouth and abnormal swelling, which may make it more difficult to swallow.
Why is mouth cancer screening so important?
Mouth cancer screening can be the difference between life and death because it picks up the very early signs of changes in the oral tissue. Like many forms of cancer, the quicker mouth cancer is detected, the higher the chance of survival, as cancer can spread throughout the body. Screening enables dentists to detect cancer at an early stage when it is much more treatable.
As well as mouth cancer screening, we also recommend regular dental check-ups, as our dentists also look for signs of mouth cancer as part of your routine dental check.


HIV in homosexuals?
Aug 27, 2001
Why is that gays and lesbians are more likely to get HIV and AIDS than heterosexuals?
Response from Mr. Kull
There are an estimated 36 million people infected with HIV worldwide. Most of those infections occurred through heterosexual contact; some estimates suggest 70% or more infections occur through heterosexual contact. Anywhere from 5-10% of infections worldwide occur through male-male sexual contact. Female-female transmission is extremely rare. In the United States, most cases of transmission occur through male-male sexual contact and injection drug users, with heterosexual transmission on the rise (as seen in the rising cases among women).
It's important to remember that your behavior, and not your identity, is what puts you at risk for infection with HIV.
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- Cardiff, Wales
- United Kingdom
What does Critical Thinking mean to young people?
Will integrating critical thinking into teaching/learning curriculms from kindergarden onwards, give young people the skills that they need to make more informed descisions during their lives?
Learing to think for them selves is bound to make them more reponsible citizens. Critical thinking will make young people feel they are more inclusive in the community and that they can make a difference.
It could impede on their levels of creative output.They are better off learning to live with the consequences of their actions
Young people are just incapable of thinking for themselves and will always need adult guidence. They are better off just accepting how society expects them to behave as citizens, and behave accordingly.
Crtical thinking is just another governing objective which will add more confusion to an already over burdened education system.


Proteins. pH. Electrical charges. And when acids make marinated meat leathery.
Marinating makes meat taste yummier when cooked. Many recipes call for the use of acidic elements such as lime and lemon, as these supposedly help to tenderize the meat.
According to Cook’s Illustrated at Harvard, we should be careful about not making the marinade too acidic. And if we do use an acidic marinade, minimize the time meat is exposed to it.
The simple explanation has to do with pH and electrical charges. Proteins have a coiled structure with a mix of the latter. When there are either more positive or negative charges, the protein molecules repel one another. Space is thus created between the molecules, and fluid fills this space.
When a marinade is too acidic, the acids denature the proteins, and the coiled structure unravels. Typically, this is because the acids’ H+ ions break the hydrogen bonds in the proteins. When proteins denature like this, there may no longer be an excess of positive or negative electrical charges. There may be an equal number of both, and positive and negative charges cancel each other out.
As a result, the protein molecules no longer repel one another but instead draw closer to one another. This squeezes out the fluid that was in between, and the meat becomes less juicy, turning tough and dry like a piece of leather.
The pH at which all this happens is 5.2. It is also called the isoelectric point. That is why Cook’s Illustrated at Harvard prefers marinades with salt, and when it comes to acid, they avoid exposing meat to too much of it or for too long.
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The Library's collection of artworks includes paintings, drawings and prints. We collect works that provide visual information on Victorian history.
There are works by professional and amateur artists, spanning the time period from first white settlement in Victoria to the present day. Works may have been created to document a person, place or event or to express the artist's emotional response to their surroundings.
The Cowen Gallery has a permanent display of works from the collection and includes colonial and modern portraiture as well artists' impressions of events in Victoria’s history. Other works can be viewed in Library exhibition spaces such as the Keith Murdoch Gallery and the Dome Galleries.
Works from the collection are featured in the book The art of the collection, co-published by Miegunyah Press and the State Library of Victoria Press in 2007. Further information on works in the collection can also be found in articles in the La Trobe Journal.
Many of the works have been digitised and can be seen online via the library catalogue.


In a webinar, Dr. Alfred Tatum discussed the need to provide our students with “textual feasts” to build their intellect, and the phrase and concept has stuck with me ever since.
It resonated with me because there’s a very strong tendency, when serving our students who struggle with academic text (such as students learning English, or students with disabilities, or students living in situations with acute and chronic stressors), to provide less frequent opportunities to engage with written texts that are intellectually and linguistically demanding. Because it’s assumed that they can’t handle it.
So students are given lower level texts. Less texts. Less discussion. Less writing about texts. Watered down tasks.
Why do we assume our children are so fragile and so incapable of intellectual delight?
Instead of giving them less, what if we gave them more? What if we hosted a textual and linguistic feast? What if we read aloud above grade-level texts to them, and students read and re-read and discussed grade-level passages with one another, and read a variety of texts at different levels of accessibility to build knowledge and language? What if we scaled across such a multiplicity of texts like this every single day?


Wildlife damage management is the buffer between wild animals and people. This field attempts to enhance human-wildlife relations by resolving conflicts between humans and wildlife and increasing the positive values of wildlife. In 1990, Utah State University realized that its students’ education in this area was lacking and created an academic program in wildlife damage management with the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services. Two years later, USU’s program expanded and became the Jack H. Berryman Institute for Wildlife Damage Management which is part of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the College of Natural Resources. The Berryman Institute has education, research, and extension components. The Berryman Institute currently has 17 faculty members, 29 graduate students, and 11 undergraduates. During its last biennial period, Berryman Institute members organized 12 national symposia, presented 99 papers and seminars at scientific meetings, and published 48 papers. Six courses in wildlife damage management were conducted last year: Principles of Wildlife Damage Management, Techniques in Wildlife Damage Management, Urban Wildlife Management, Wildlife Fertility Control, Predator Ecology and Management, and Directed Readings in Wildlife Damage Management.
Conover, Michael R. and Berryman, Jack
"Utah State University's academic program in wildlife damage management,"
Natural Resources and Environmental Issues: Vol. 7
, Article 38.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/nrei/vol7/iss1/38


The Great Migration
1914-1945; mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North; reasons = jobs, prejudice, crop failures; leads to race riots in the North
A small beetle that feeds on the cotton boll. led to economic reasons for the Great migration.
Robert S. Abbot
The first to give african americans a public forum for addressing civil rights and other issues. He started the first black newspaper, The Chicago Defender.
The Chicago Defender
newspaper that encouraged blacks to migarate to northward to chicago
The Pittsburg Black newspaper that activley encouraged black migration north
red summer of 1919
blacks returning from WWI were confronted by racism in the North and South, 1919, race riots, violence kept northward migration of blacks as a push factor. Also went to France. , a term used to describe violent postwar strikes and racial strife in the us at the end of world war 1
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You must have at least three sources and as many primary sources as you can find.
YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCES!
Save your paper in WORD document as (LastnameHIST221shortpaper1).
The topic for your paper:
Compare and contrast eighteenth-century (1700 to 1799) slavery as it existed in the North and in the South?
Remember explain what details of the institution of slavery, the economics of slavery and the practice of slavery existed for each region of America
Summary: summarize your paper in the last paragraph.
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Allergic reactions can be triggered by foods, medications, insect stings, pollen, or other substances. Although most allergic reactions aren’t serious, severe reactions can be life-threatening and can require immediate medical attention.
Avoid substances that are known to trigger an allergic reaction in the child. Keep an oral antihistamine such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl or Claritin) available. If the child has a severe allergy, be sure that doctor prescribed injectable epinephrine (Twinject or Epipen) is kept with or near the child at all times, and that you, caretakers, and the child (if old enough) know how to use it
Signs and Symptoms:
- Mild skin redness or swelling
- Stuffy, runny nose
- Itchy, watery eyes
- Red bumps (hives) that occur anywhere on the body
- Swelling of the face or mouth
- Difficulty swallowing or speaking
- Wheezing or difficulty breathing
- Abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting
- Dizziness or fainting
What to do:
- Contact a doctor if a child has an allergic reaction that is more than mild or the reaction concerns you.
- If the child has symptoms of a mild reaction, give an oral antihistamine such as Benadryl or Claritin.
- If the child has symptoms of a severe allergic reaction and you have injectable epinephrine, immediately use it as directed and call for emergency help.
Seek emergency medical care if the child:
- Has any symptoms of a severe allergic reaction
- Was exposed to a food or substance that has triggered a severe reaction in the past.
- Was given injectable epinephrine.


For the tube clock, Piet Hein Eek’s starting point was a tube and an extrusion ring. Extrusion moulding is a design technique involving forcing aluminium, or paste for example, through a mould, the extrusion profile is what gives the material its shape. Piet devised a ring like that for the design of the clock face. We could not believe that such a thing did not already exist. It’s such a simple idea. we searched like mad, but it had not yet been done.
Often, a good idea can be surprisingly simple. The simplest solutions have not yet been invented. This clock could have been designed a century ago. It is actually a textbook example of the Dutch mentality: the idea of keeping things normal and down-to Earth.
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Doctors Reveal Racial Bias In Their Body Language When It Comes To Dying Black Patients
A doctor’s body language may reveal racial bias against seriously ill black patients, a new study suggests.
The finding could help explain why dying black patients are much more likely than whites to ask for more extensive life-saving measures and to report worse communication with their doctors, the researchers said.
“Although we found that physicians said the same things to their black and white patients, communication is not just the spoken word. It also involves nonverbal cues, such as eye contact, body positioning and touch,” said senior study author Dr. Amber Barnato.
“Poor nonverbal communication — something the physician may not even be aware he or she is doing — could explain why many black patients perceive discrimination in the health-care setting,” said Barnato, an associate professor of clinical and translational medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
However, the study wasn’t designed to show a cause-and-effect relationship; it was only able to show that communication differences exist.
The study was published in the January issue of The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
The study included 33 hospital-based attending physicians. Black and white actors were asked to portray patients dying from advanced stomach or pancreatic cancer. Their scripts were identical.
The doctors’ scores on nonverbal interactions were 7 percent lower when dealing with black patients than with white patients, according to the researchers.


1. One bowl 2/3 full of uncooked rice grains
2. Ten large pieces of dried fruit
3. A spoon for stirring
Substitute any available material for the rice and dried fruit. For toddlers, substitute safe, non-choking material, and let your child play as long as he or she wishes.
Let your child mix the larger objects into the rice. You shake the bowl until the large objects rise to the top. We start with ten because your child can count them.
A fun exercise that will entertain for ages.
Here are the physics behind it:
WHY DO LARGE THINGS RISE TO THE TOP? Shaking grains of different sizes in a container creates large-scale flow patterns which are responsible for separating the grains by size, new experiments have shown. An important problem in industry has been to determine why, when one shakes a pile of sand, mixed nuts, or other granular material in a container, the larger particles end up on top and the smaller ones wind up on the bottom. New experiments, performed by Sidney R. Nagel (312-702-7190) and his colleagues at the University of Chicago, uncover a previously unsuspected mechanism: the separation is caused by large-scale flow patterns, or "convection," in the grains. The researchers studied the rise of a single large glass bead through a vibrating cylinder filled with smaller beads. They found that the large bead, once it had reached the top of the pile, was unable to follow the convection cycle through a very narrow region of downward motion along the walls of the container. The researchers discovered that container boundaries play an important role in the convective process that leads to separation. (James B. Knight et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 14 June 1993.)


Transportation Leaders Kick Off Safe Roads For All Campaign
Metro customers have lots of choices when it comes to transportation, and many of our passengers combine MetroLink and MetroBus with walking and biking. As more and more people take advantage of different transportation options, it’s important for all of us to share the road and ensure all pedestrians, cyclists and motorists stay safe.
This morning, Metro joined Trailnet, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Great Rivers Greenway and other regional leaders to kick off the “Safe Roads for All” initiative and promote safe and accessible travel for everyone.
As the weather gets warmer, more people will be adding walking and biking to their commutes. That’s why it’s important to stay alert and respect all users of the road. Here are some important safety tips that all transit riders, cyclists, pedestrians and motorists can use to stay safe while traveling around the region:
- Obey all signs and traffic signals.
- Don’t be distracted by talking or texting on your phone, changing the radio station or CD, eating or drinking, applying makeup, or reading while you’re driving.
- Pedestrians should use sidewalks and crosswalks.
- If you are driving, watch for pedestrians and cyclists when you are making turns.
- If you must walk in the street, walk single file, facing traffic and stay close to the edge of the road.
- Don’t cross the street unless you are at an intersection. Many pedestrian injuries are the result of crossing mid-block, without a crosswalk or light, where drivers aren’t expecting you.
- Bicyclists and pedestrians need to light up at night. Wear light colors and reflective strips, or carry a flashlight.
- Don’t run to catch the bus or MetroLink.
- When you get off the MetroBus vehicle, don’t step out into traffic in front of the bus. You may not see a car driving next to the bus.
Have fun, be safe this summer and remember — we all need to share the road!


It is feasible that the major title of the record Tongue, Hairy is not the name you got.
Hirsute tongue is an unusual, benign problem that is likewise referred to as black hirsute tongue or lingua nigra. It is defined by uncommon prolongation and also dark or blackish brown staining or “discoloration” of the thread-like altitudes (filiform papillae) that cover the majority of the tongue’s surface area (dorsum linguae). Such modifications usually start at the back (back) area of the top of the tongue and also expand towards the front (former) of the tongue’s surface area however never ever entail the undersurface.
The particular underlying source of hirsute tongue is unidentified. Feasible inclining aspects might consider inadequate dental health as well as over growing of pigment-producing germs or fungis in the mouth, therapy that incorporates specific antibiotic medicines, smoking cigarettes, eating tobacco, and/or mouth wash usage.


On March 10, 1854, the largest crowd that had ever assembled here met to protest the capture of Joshua Glover, a fugitive slave who had lived and worke in Racine for two years. A committee of 100 then took a boat to Milwaukee where Glover had been jailed. They aided in his rescue and subsequent journey on the Underground Railroad. He eventually escaped by ship to Canada, where he lived in freedom until his death, June 8, 1888.
This marker commemorates Glover and the citizens of Racine who, at their peril, aided one of their own out of the bondage of slavery.
Dedicated June 7, 2003


This course combines the principles of Physics and computer Electronics to provide students with a practical understanding of computer hardware and systems. Students will learn about electronic circuits, digital systems, computer Architecture, and the application of physics in computer electronics.. Depending on the institution, this course can be covered with different depths and focuses.
Knowing the careers in Accounting helps you align your education with your career goals. It’s important to study a field that has strong job prospects. Moreover, the careers associated with Accounting can help you determine if these careers would be fulfilling and suitable to your lifestyle and personal interests.
It’s important to note that each career prospect mentioned may require specific skills and additional training, certifications, or degrees beyond the foundational course. While there are numerous job prospects, we have only mentioned a few on this page. You can use the internet to search for more
Physics And Computer Electronic Career Prospects:
- Computer Hardware Engineer
- Electronics Engineer
- Circuit Designer
- Systems Engineer
- Technical Sales Representative
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Water softening systems reduce the hardness of water by replacing the hardness minerals – calcium and magnesium ions which can be regenerated with sodium salt or potassium salt. Hard water creates unsightly scale on water fixtures; coats water heating elements causing power loss and increased electricity consumption; wastes soap by reducing its lathering ability, and it leaves a residue on your skin and hair.
Water softeners are specific ion exchangers that are designed to remove ions, mainly positively charged calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+) ions. A water softener collects hardness minerals within its conditioning tank and from time to time flushes them away. Softeners are also able to remove up to 5 ppm (mg/L) of clear water (dissolved) iron.
The water enters the house and passes through a bed of small plastic resin beads. The resin beads are covered with salt ions. As the water flows past the salt ions, they are exchanged with the calcium and magnesium ions. Eventually, the resin beads contain nothing but calcium and magnesium and no longer soften the water. Then it is time to regenerate the resin beads.
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If you forget everything else we’ve talked about this month regarding colorectal cancer, please remember this one number:
As in, 50 percent. As in, take the number of colorectal cancers that occur in the United States each year — about 143,500 — and cut it in half.
That’s how many cases we could prevent, just by making healthier everyday choices.
- Move more, every day, in every way.
- Eat more fiber-rich foods like vegetables, whole grains, fruits and beans — and make less room for red meat.
- While you’re at it, skip cold cuts, bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats.
- The more you follow this advice, the easier it’ll be for you to lose the excess body fat that, we now know, makes colorectal cancer more likely.
Fifty percent. One in two.
That’s nearly 72,000 lives that could be spared this debilitating and too-frequently deadly cancer.
All of us at AICR dearly hope you follow the National Cancer Institute’s advice on screening for colorectal cancer. Catching the disease in its early stages can and does save lives.
But we also hope you emerge from National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month with a new awareness that preventing this disease takes place outside of your doctor’s office. It happens every day, hundreds of times, with every small, unremarkable but vitally important choice you make about what to eat and how to live.


It’s hardly realistic to expect beginner photographers to lug around thick how-to manuals when they are out and about taking pictures. However, that doesn’t mean newbie shutterbugs shouldn’t take time to read at least a few guides to learn basic photo techniques. Many first-time shooters think all that is needed to become a stellar photographer is a camera and a few good subjects, but there’s more to photography than just that. While practice makes perfect, by consulting a photo guidebook, you will be better able to decipher which points you need to fine tune.
Guidebooks highlight the basic rules of photography, such as:
The rule of thirds: In this basic principle photographers are taught to divide an image into thirds both horizontally and vertically. Some newer cameras come with a built-in grid feature; however, if your camera doesn’t have one, then imagine your viewfinder broken into nine equal parts. The goal is to place the most important parts of your subject where the lines intersect on your imaginary grid.
Composition: This technique is mastered by practicing as much as possible. A well composed shot incorporates fresh angles and new perspectives. Learning how to compose a shot properly takes time and experimentation. Don’t be afraid to contort your body to capture a unique angle. So, instead of shooting static shots from eye-level, consider squatting down, climbing a rock or a tree to switch your perspective and snap a boldly composed shot.
Depth of field: Most beginners are too busy focusing on composition and lighting to learn about manipulating the depth of field in shots. Most auto modes will make the needed adjustments. However, once you become more comfortable with your shooting skills you will want to manually adjust the depth of field. Newbies should simply remember that the larger the aperture, the shallower the depth of field. By adjusting the aperture, you can bring attention to a specific part of your photo, such as a flower petal or an insect sitting on a flower.


"compound formed by the union of carbonic acid with a base," 1794, from French carbonate "salt of carbonic acid" (Lavoisier), from Modern Latin carbonatem "a carbonated (substance)," from Latin carbo (see carbon).
1805, "to form into a carbonate," from carbonate (n.) by influence of French carbonater "transform into a carbonate." Meaning "to impregnate with carbonic acid gas (i.e. carbon dioxide)" is from 1850s. Related: Carbonated; carbonating.


In the next task, you will be presented with a set of words to classify into groups. This task requires that you classify items as quickly as you can while making as few mistakes as possible. Going too slow or making too many mistakes will result in an uninterpretable score. This part of the study will take about 5 minutes. The following is a list of category labels and the items that belong to each of those categories.
Keep in mind:
Keep your index fingers on the 'e' and 'i' keys to enable rapid response.
Two labels at the top will tell you which words go with each key.
Each word has a correct classification. Most of these are easy.
The test gives no results if you go slow -- Please try to go as fast as possible.
Expect to make a few mistakes because of going fast. That's OK.
For best results, avoid distractions and stay focused.


clue in the story that hints at a possible event or happening
struggle between two opposing forces can be external or internal
individual vs. nature, society, technology, individual, or supernatural
where and when a story takes place
the feeling or emotion the author would like the reader to experience as the story is read
process the author uses to develop character in the story usually by their actions, words, appearances etc.
a good reader can define unfamiliar words while they are reading
Point of View
refers to the perspective of the person telling the story
refers to one event or thing causing something else to happen
genre of literature that has been made up
genre of literature that is based on facts
word with a meaning similar to a given word
word with a meaning opposite of given word
the most exciting point or turning point in the story
method of arranging details in writing to its text structure. Chronological (time order), cause and effect, description, compare/contrast
stating the main idea of the story in several sentences
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Earth-like planet that supports life could be circling Sun's nearest neighbour
"I think the planets are there, and it's worth a try to have a look," said Professor Gregory Laughlin, one of the scientists from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Most of the more than 200 planets already discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun have been huge gas giants, similar to Jupiter.
Confirming the presence of small, Earth-like rocky planets around one of the Alpha Centauri stars will not be easy. Prof Laughlin said it would probably require five years of observation using a dedicated telescope.


What is this service?
Disagreement resolution is an early intervention mechanism, and the means by which parties may informally resolve disputes before they scale up into greater, more formal difficulties.
Disagreement resolution arrangements concern
- Performance of duties
- SEN provision
- Disagreements over health and social care provision
- Disagreements between health commissioners and local authorities
It is also particularly valuable where communication and co-operation between the parties is generally good. The process is principally telephone-based.
Who is it for?
Parents, young people, LEA’s, education providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s), health and social care providers.
Please note that this activity is available in case of inter-agency disputes.
The age-range of 0-25 concerns the children or young people at the centre of the process.
Outcomes for service users
- Specific areas of disputes clarified and summarised by a trained mediator.
- Parties remain empowered to agree a way forward.
- Early resolution of disputes.


ouncil of Europe is the oldest continent’s organisation which was shaped as a political project in the wake of the Second World War, with the aim of bringing peace and prosperity to a continent that had been long torn apart by wars and atrocities. It is like a huge network of shared values, values of peace, human rights, democracy and rule of law. For over 60 years, the Council of Europe has operated as a real search engine for ideas and initiatives for the whole continent.
The main organs of the Council of Europe are:
- The Committee of Ministers is the decision-making body. It is made up of the States’ 47 Foreign Affairs Ministers or their permanent representatives.
- The Parliamentary Assembly is a consultative body, which brings together representatives of the national parliaments speaking on behalf of all the European who elected them.
- The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is also a consultative body, which brings together representatives elected in their country at the level of regions and municipalities.
- The Human Rights Commissionner operates as an independent body. The Commissionner investigates the state of human rights in Europe, country by country, ensuring the the Council of Europe’s instruments are well respected.


Frankly, this is a question I hadn’t ever given much thought about it – until I ran across an article that raised the question, and then answered it. Now, making a quick jump to say that the phrase likely comes from “of clock” or “of the clock” isn’t too much of a stretch. But why would that even be of a concern? Where else would you be telling the time from?
And it’s that question that sheds the light. The phrase “o’ clock” is actually a holdover from when clocks weren’t all that prevalent, and all manner of methods to tell time were used. So, in order to distinguish that you were telling time by a mechanical clock of some sort, rather than, say, a sundial, you’d say the time was “of the clock”. This, then, got shortened down to o’ clock, and even had a brief period where it was even shorter. For a while in the 16th and 17th centuries, the “o” was omitted, meaning you’d say the time was “6 clock”, for instance. Then again, we can easily omit the word clock these days, and people know what you’re saying.
If you’d like a more in-depth look at this topic, as well as why the “o” got added back in to the phrase, check out this article from Today I Found Out. This is actually a really great resource, and you can get all sorts of information emailed to you daily (not necessarily of the horological variety). So, if you’re the curious sort, you may find this to be an interesting resource.


Students in Year 3 – 6 receive one hour of Italian instruction from a specialist teacher per week. In 2020 the Language (Italian) Program is being delivered to Year 3,4 and 5 students as a learning area to be reported on against the WA Curriculum and Assessment Outline. Year 6 will be reported on the WA Curriculum and Assessment Outline in 2021.
Learning Italian not only allows students to communicate in another language, but also strengthens their understanding of language conventions and the process of communication. It shines a cultural spotlight upon Italy and, in doing so, assists in developing learners’ understandings of their own culture, values and identity. Through learning a language, children have an appreciation of diversity and difference, gaining a worldview of experiences and perspectives.
Students are given opportunities to communicate both orally and in written form. In order to capture the students’ interest, the topics are familiar and student-centred. For example, the students learn about family, hobbies and school. The outcome of the program is ultimately for students to acquire communication skills in the Italian language. It also develops an intercultural competence, as students begin to understand the roles language and culture play in communication.
Students can continue learning Italian at Willetton Senior High School.


The increasing presence of technology in the workplace has changed the way we present information and conduct trainings, both in person and virtually. In this course, students hone their presentation and training skills by assessing their audience, purpose, and desired learning outcomes. Students practice using appropriate and memorable visual aids in order to maximize the audience and/or participant engagement. Students employ communication strategies and training techniques to improve participants’ receptivity and retention of information and ideas. Whether presenting or training in person or virtually, students will gain the skills and confidence needed for effective communication across varied delivery methods.


Badgastein, also called Gastein, town in the Gastein Valley of west-central Austria, on the Gasteiner Ache (river). Its radioactive thermal springs have been visited since the 13th century, and royal and other eminent patrons brought it world renown in the 19th century. Now one of Austria’s most important spas and health resorts, it is also known as an international winter-sports centre and is the site of two magnificent waterfalls with drops of 207 feet (63 metres) and 280 feet (85 metres). The town was the site of the Convention of Gastein, under which (1865) Austria gained control of Holstein and Prussia began administering Schleswig. Pop. (2001) 5,838.
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The National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education at the CU College of Nursing has released Stepping Stones to Caring for Our Children, 3rd Edition (SS3). SS3 presents 138 essential standards intended to reduce morbidity in child care and early education settings. These standards, selected through a rigorous process, are a subset of 686 standards in the parent document, Caring for Our Children: National Health and Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs, Third Edition (CFOC3). These resources were produced by the NRC in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MMCHB).
Health care professionals can use SS3 to:
- assist families in assuring healthy and safe out-of-home care for their children;
- provide consultation for caregivers/teachers by using the standards as guidance on what makes a healthy, safe and age-appropriate environment; and
- develop guidance materials to share with both caregivers/teachers and parents/guardians.
A sampling of standards included in SS3 include:
- Safe sleep
- Handling and feeding of human milk
- Introduction of solid foods to infants
- Monitoring children's development
- Unimmunized children
- Infectious disease outbreak control
- Testing for lead
- Availability of drinking water
- Child passenger safety
SS3 is accessible through the NRC's website found here. The interactive parent document (CFOC3) is available online here.
The National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education is located at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, College of Nursing, Aurora, Colo.
Learn more about the NRC by reading "Providing Resources to Care for Our Children."


Let's get serious about trees
When we get outdoors, trees form a large part of the beautiful scenery that we enjoy. The budding green of spring, fiery red of autumn and spindly silhouettes of winter all take a huge amount of care and attention from our ranger team.
Shugborough has 900 acres of parkland full of a wide variety of trees from all over the world. In order to make sure our trees stay with us for the future, and to ensure you are not bumped on the head by the odd falling branch, our highly skilled rangers carry out yearly tree inspections. Our rangers are skilled enough to instantly spot diseases and problems with our trees. You may be lucky enough to spot them inspecting with their probes, mallets and binoculars.
Most of these important inspections are carried out in the autumn months of September and October, as by this time trees are starting to lose their leaves. This means we can see the canopy to really check the tree’s health. See if you can catch one of these falling leaves and tick off number 33 on your 50 things to do before you’re 11¾.
This is also the time of year that you can spot some fabulous fungi. The change in temperature and increase in rainfall prompts them to produce bulbous fruiting bodies. Not only are fungi great to look at with their bulging bodies, they can tell us a lot about the health of a tree. Species such as the Ganoderma Genus is one of the few key species which commonly affect our trees.


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The First Things First Manifesto
Written in 1963 and published in 1964 by Ken Garland along with 20 other designers, photographers and students, the manifesto was a reaction to the staunch society of 1960s Britain and called for a return to a humanist aspect of design. It lashed out against the fast-paced and often trivial productions of mainstream advertising, calling them trivial and time-consuming. It's solution was to focus efforts of design on education and public service tasks that promoted the betterment of society.
The influence of the manifesto was quick to reach a wide audience and was picked up by The Guardian, which led to a TV appearance by Garland on a BBC news program and its subsequent publication in a variety of journals, magazines and newspapers. It was revisited and republished by a group of new authors in the year 2000 and labeled as the First Things First Manifesto 2000.
Ken Garland's challenge to designers shifted the way that the design community approached many aspects of their profession.


In the previous post about regular expressions we explained how to express a variable number of characters at certain position in our regex. And how to write a regex that would allow us to capture words inside a context (specific characters before and after the word). But we’ve seen that context is considered part of the matching by the regex engine and we need to avoid that. Let’s see how to solve that issue.
In the first post about regular expressions we’ve explained how it is possible to write a regex matching specific characters (or character group/type) at certain position. In a way that makes it very easy to write a regex that finds an x followed by a white space, followed by a y. But what if we need to find an a followed by four to six decimal digits, followed by a b.
Not kidding! Developers fear the regex. And yeah, I get it. They look ugly. But they are powerful. And it is way more hard to read them than to write them. Which is not ideal. But at least you can benefit from writing a regex here and there. Probably document them in-code with a meaningful comment for your future self and you’ll be fine. Learning to write some basic, simple yet powerful regex is not impossible and I’m writing this post to prove that.
The following code defines, tests and illustrates the use of utf8len() function. Which is a small piece of code for counting characters in UTF-8 (multibyte) string. Compile this example with GCC by running: $ gcc utf8len.c -lrt -o utf8len The RT library is used for the high precision clock only, you don’t need to link it if you are using the function itself into your own code. This utf8len() function provides a portable (and small footprint) way of counting UTF-8 charactes in standard C or C++.


Phenylketonuria or PKU is an autosomal recessive condition resulting from one of a number of mutations in the gene encoding the amino acid converting enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheOH). PheOH requires the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4). All newborns are tested for PKU at birth. Untreated PKU will lead to permanent neurological damage.
Consider the likely biochemical reaction catalyzed by PheOH and then identify ALL of the following statements which are NOT true concerning untreated individuals testing positive for PKU.
Select ALL that apply.


Made By: Rebecca Dray
Tone and Word Choice
The author of “Tornado at Talladega” wants you to know that after a tornado it can be peaceful with the beautiful outcomes. At the same the author wants you to know that the thought that your family and friends could have died during the storm is unsettling. The author of “Sleeping in the Forest” wants you to realize that the Earth makes many different noises. Some noises you can’t hear unless you stop and listen to hear them.
Form and Structure
Some poems talk about how nature can be destructive and beautiful. “Tornado at Talladega” and “Sleeping in the Forest” and two poems that show how nature can be both destructive and beautiful. They tell this through their personification.


One of the few studies of kind, this book provides a historical overview of the African heritage in Indiafrom medieval to modern time. It focusses on the African dispersal in the Deccan region covering modern Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, the Coromandel Coast and western coastal India. Beginning with their inception into the Deccan as slaves or mercenaries in local armies, we see how the Habshis integrated and were assimilated into Indian society. Some rose to the ranks of nobility and held high office in the Bahmani Kingdom, under the Nizam Shahis (1498-1634), the Adil Shahis (1500-1650), the Qutb Shahis of Golkonda (1512-1687) and the Asif Jahis (1724-1948) the most notable being Malik Ambar. Unlike most immigrant minorities, the Africans made a significant contribution to the social, political and cultural history of the Deccan.Shanti Sadiq Ali is a former Executive Secretary of the Indian Council for Africa and Member of the Indian delegation to the thirty-ninth session of the U.N. General Assembly. Since 1980 she has also been Member of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in which she served as Rapporteur and Vice-Chairman. Till recently, she was Founder President, African Studies Society of India and Editior of its journal Africa. Her publications, include India and Africa throughout the Ages; and India and the East Africa Littoral, Hinterland and India Ocean Island States; and Gandhi and South Africa.


MILieU is a set of 53 cards available as a paid-for PDF download, each with a topic or question for discussion printed on it, some with suggested activities to research further. They are designed to get students thinking, discussing and researching lots of different issues in society such as environmental sustainability, politics, sociology, moral judgement, enterprise, common sense, financial literacy, the law and more.
They can be used in many ways, for example you could split the class into two teams. A student chooses a card at random, the two teams discuss the topic, followed by an open discussion between the teams. They could be used in tutor group/form time or in formal lesson time, or as a ‘filler’ activity to liven up lessons.
Crime, Democracy, Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Energy, Gender, Health & sanitation, Homes and Homelessness, Legal systems, Participation, Peace, conflict & security, Sustainability, Transport, Waste
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By Bethany Bell
BBC News, Vienna
A UN report has called for tougher controls over sensitive parts of the world's civilian nuclear fuel cycle in order to stop weapons proliferation.
Enriched nuclear fuel from civilian plants can be used in weapons
The report commissioned by UN atomic agency head, Mohamed ElBaradei, says multi-lateral groups should take responsibility for making nuclear fuel.
Talks are due in May to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
International concerns over the nuclear programmes in Iran and North Korea have highlighted loopholes in the treaty.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty allows countries to make nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes through enriching uranium or separating plutonium.
But these technologies also have the potential to be used to make nuclear weapons.
Now, a group of international experts commissioned by the IAEA's head has recommended that sensitive parts of the fuel cycle should be brought under multi-lateral controls.
These include uranium enrichment, fuel reprocessing and the disposal and storage of spent fuel.
The report will be sent to the review conference of the Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York in May.
However, a number of countries are suspicious of any attempt to make them relinquish control over their nuclear fuel cycles.


Summer weather also brings with it summer heat waves, heat alerts and risks associated with high temperatures. Health officials offer a number of tips on how to beat the heat.
1. Drinking lots of fluids is key to avoiding dehydration. Drink lots of cool water even before you feel thirsty.
2. Find some place air conditioned to hang out, like a shopping centre, library, community centre, swimming facility or grocery store. Many cities offer cooling centres during periods of extreme heat.
3. Be on guard for symptoms of heat-related illnesses which include heatstroke, heat exhaustion, heat rash and heat cramps. Symptoms may range from dizziness or fainting, nausea or vomiting, headache, rapid breathing and heartbeat or extreme thirst. If those symptoms develop, find a cool environment and try to drink two or three glasses of cool water.
Someone who has a high body temperature and is either unconscious, confused or has stopped sweating may be suffering from heatstroke and 911 should be called immediately. While waiting for help, the person needs to be cooled down right away.
4. Avoid sun exposure by shading yourself by wearing a wide-brimmed breathable hat or using an umbrella. Wear loose-fitting, light-coloured clothing made from breathable fabric. Also, the shade from trees can be as much as 5°C cooler than the surrounding area.
5. People are warned to not use a fan in a closed room without windows or doors open to the outside. Fans do not cool air, just move it around and cool you down by evaporating your sweat. Also, don't use a fan to blow extremely hot air on yourself. This can cause heat exhaustion to happen faster. Use your fan in or next to a window.
6. Remember, the inside temperature of a vehicle can climb to more than 50 C when the outside temperature is 23 C. So never leave people or pets inside a parked vehicle during high temperatures.
7. Avoid intense or moderately intense physical activity especially during 11 am to 4 pm.


NH officials: 2 more Legionnaires' cases reported
Aug. 31, 2018
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — Public health authorities in New Hampshire say two more people have been confirmed as having contracted Legionnaires' disease, bringing the total to 14.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health Services reported previously that there was one death. All 14 likely acquired Legionella at the end of July or beginning of August in a localized area of Hampton.
Another update is expected on Tuesday.
Legionnaire's disease is a bacterial pneumonia spread by inhaling droplets of water contaminated with the bacteria.
New Hampshire averages about 32 cases of Legionnaires' disease each year. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 6,100 cases in 2016.