Found in and around The Mount Lofty Ranges, Piccadilly Valley region, Kangaroo Island and some regions of The Fleurieu and considered endangered.
They are a smaller snake only growing to around 50cm in length and mainly a dull dark olive grey colour and even brown. Their bite is considered dangerous to humans and pets and immediate action is required to reduce the chance of injury, even death. In nearly all cases snakes will flee when approached by humans or cats and dogs.
They feed on skinks and frogs and like to live under dense vegetation, logs and rocks and retaining walls.
Pygmy Copperheads are live bearers having up to 10 young around 7cm long.


Everybody hates that feeling when you spend three weeks reading a book, and a month later somebody asks you about it and you can’t remember a damn thing you read. Not only does it make you feel stupid, but it also makes you wonder why the hell you wasted a couple dozen hours of your life on a bunch of words that didn’t stick.
There are better and worse ways to learn. And interestingly, despite all of the babbling that goes on in school when you’re a kid about what you need to learn, not much is said about how to learn effectively.
And when I say “to learn effectively” what I mean is A) to not just accumulate knowledge but B) to be able to apply that knowledge effectively at some point in the future.
By this definition, much of what you did in school was not learning. It was temporary exercises in memorization. By this definition, most of the seminars and courses and books and conferences people spend money on is not learning either.
Something is not truly learned until it changes you in some way, no matter how subtle or simple.
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This particular piece of embroidery has been published in many places, but I wanted my own photo of it, despite the challenges getting photos of anything at this exhibit.
About the embroidery, the display said:
“The deer was a symbol of Christ in the early Church. A piece of silk fabric found in Birka has a deer embroidered in silk thread. Its heart is represented by a triangular white stone. When it was made, the silver would have glimmered white, perhaps recalling the Vite Krist (The White Christ) as Christ was referred to in Scandinavia.”
This display was entitled “The Deer – a symbol of Christ” and included:
- an equal-armed brooch from Uppland
- the embroidery of silver on silk showing a stag turning his head, found at Uppland
- a box-shaped brooch in bronze, silver, and gilded found at Gotland
- a round brooch of silver found at Uppland
- a round brooch of silver found at Sodermanland, Sweden
One of the two round brooches was “decorated with four sculpted deer gathered around either a well or mountain from which four rivers flow. The well may represent the ‘well of life’ and the mountain with four rivers represents Paradise – these were both important symbols of Christian baptism. The deer are looking anxiously behind them, at four animals which look ready to attack.”
The box brooch is described as having simplified versions of the deer and well symbolism, along with Old Norse motifs, and this same symbolism is on the equal-armed brooch, though the deer are more like goats, and there are only two of them.
Read other posts from the Vikings In BC display: Vikings in BC tag


For the exact argument , Mathematica returns an exact result.
For a machine‐number argument (a numerical argument with a decimal point and not too many digits), a machine number is also returned.
The next inputs calculate 100‐digit approximations at and .
It is possible to calculate thousands of digits for the hyperbolic sine function within a second. The next input calculates 10000 digits for and analyzes the frequency of the digit in the resulting decimal number.
Here is a 50‐digit approximation for the hyperbolic sine function at the complex argument .
Mathematica automatically evaluates mathematical functions with machine precision, if the arguments of the function are machine‐number elements. In this case, only six digits after the decimal point are shown in the results. The remaining digits are suppressed, but can be displayed using the function InputForm.
Mathematica knows the symmetry and periodicity of the hyperbolic sine function. Here are some examples.
Mathematica automatically simplifies the composition of the direct and inverse hyperbolic sine functions into its argument.
Mathematica also automatically simplifies the composition of the direct and any of the inverse hyperbolic functions into algebraic functions of the argument.
If the argument has the structure or , and or with integer , the hyperbolic sine function can be automatically transformed into hyperbolic or trigonometric sine or cosine functions.
Sometimes simple arithmetic operations containing the hyperbolic sine function can automatically produce other hyperbolic functions.
The hyperbolic sine function can be treated as a particular case of other more general special functions. For example, can appear automatically from Bessel, Mathieu, Jacobi, hypergeometric, and Meijer functions for appropriate values of their parameters.


April 16, 2018
- Matching the Number of Conductors to the Number of Breaker Poles
Do not split up conductors from the same circuit into individual conductors and use multiple breakers. This problem was found in a healthcare facility. Conductors 13, 15 & 17 are bundled into one 3-phase circuit. If a fault occurred on Conductor #17, the breaker protecting this conductor would trip, but the double pole breaker protecting Conductors 13 & 15 would not trip. This would cause the loss of one phase to the load. This could cause damage to the load.


Monarch Learning Academy believes that all students can and should discover a profound sense of understanding, joy, and accomplishment through The Arts.
We teach that in all cultures throughout history, humans have expressed insights about themselves and the world around them through dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. Our teachers understand that experiences in “the practice of creating” enable learners to understand the arts and to express themselves in ways that do not depend solely on the written or spoken word. Consequently, we educate students to appreciate ideas and emotions conveyed in sound, image, movement, and works, and to speak the languages of The Arts.
Monarch Learning Academy's Philosophy on The Arts is as follows:
- The Arts are essential to the education of all students.
- Students exercise and display multiple intelligences through The Arts.
- Authentic assessment in The Arts is designed to demonstrate what students know and can do; it provides a model of assessing all complex learning.
- Comprehensive and sequential Arts programs encourage students to make multicultural and interdisciplinary connections.
- Sustaining high-quality Arts programs requires partnerships between the school and its community.
In Preschool, visual and textile art education is integrated daily into the classroom curriculum.
Elementary School students participate in a weekly art class whereby they explore varying textures, styles, and media.
Middle School students may choose art as a weekly elective in either semester.
Music and Dance
Our music and dance teacher, Natalie Graham, provides quality, hands-on instruction in music and dance. As we present developmentally appropriate musical and movement experiences, children are encouraged to learn, grow, discover, and create while simultaneously experiencing the joy of music and movement. It is our goal to instill a love and appreciation for music and dance that will continue to enrich students' lives and nourish their souls from now into adulthood.


CDC: Colorectal cancer rate decreases as screening increases
Atlanta – The rate of colorectal cancer could be significantly reduced if more people were screened for the disease, according to a report released July 5 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Colorectal cancer is the second deadliest form of cancer in the United States; however, the rate of adults developing and dying from this disease has decreased as the rate of screening has increased.
The rate of new colorectal cancer cases fell to 45.4 per 100,000 in 2007 from 52.3 per 100,000 in 2003. Nearly 32,000 fewer colorectal cancer deaths occurred in that time period. The rate of colorectal screenings increased to 65 percent in 2010 from 52 percent in 2002. The greatest decline in the cancer rate was seen in states with the highest screening prevalence.
About one-third of individuals between 50 and 75 years old are not up to date on their colorectal cancer screenings, which are recommended for men and women beginning at age 50.


Susan Eaton and Sara Abiola
For more than a decade, public health researchers and doctors have established that people who live in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage are far more likely to experience high levels of damaging stress, suffer from mental health challenges, develop chronic diseases, and die young. The research consensus is clear. But in spite of this knowledge, programs and even most scholarly research continue to focus narrowly on what poor people should do, for example, to improve their diet and exercise regimens. But given the enormous impact of neighborhood conditions on health, research strongly suggests that urging individuals to change their behaviors is only part of the solution. Meanwhile, perhaps because of the challenges it implies, the question of how to move this knowledge into action is still too often evaded.
This brief has two purposes. The first is to translate knowledge from the so-called “social determinants of health” arena into a useable form. The second purpose is to explore how to best use this knowledge to lobby for, and create policy and programming changes on the ground in, communities of concentrated disadvantage. Many community groups, elected leaders, and others have inspired a variety of positive changes, in part by using knowledge and data from the social determinants of health field. At the end of this brief, we offer concrete recommendations, action steps and resources for community advocates, elected leaders, educators, and others working to increase opportunities for people who live in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage.


1. spill - noun
· liquid that is spilled; "clean up the spills"
2. spill - noun
· a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
3. spill - noun
· the act of allowing a fluid to escape
4. spill - noun
· a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
5. spill - verb
· cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water"
6. spill - verb
· flow, run or fall out and become lost; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table"
7. spill - verb
· cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table"
8. spill - verb
· pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee"
9. spill - verb
· reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
10. spill - verb
· reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
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Founder of Amateur Architecture Studio and Head of Architecture at the China Academy of Art, Wang Shu was the first Chinese architect to hold Harvards Graduate School of Design (GSD) Kenzo Tange professorship. The Harvard lecture honors architect Kenzo Tange by bringing distinguished architects from around the globe to the GSD.
Wang Shu’s practice caught the world’s attention with their pavilion for the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006. As a critique of the architectural profession, excessive building and the on-going demolitions caused by the rapid urbanization of China, their installation ‘Tiled Garden’ was constructed of 66,000 recycled tiles salvaged from demolition sites. Their work is embedded in the history and traditions of Chinese culture, referencing everyday building tactics and the Chinese vernacular tradition of building, hence their practice name “amateur architecture”.
Reference: The Harvard GSD


Rambo Tribble writes "John Cryan, a researcher at the University College Cork, explains the relationship between the bacteria in your gut and your brain. 'In a pioneering study, a Japanese research team showed that mice raised without any gut bacteria had an exaggerated physical response to stress, releasing more hormone than mice that had a full complement of bacteria. However, this effect could be reduced in bacteria-free mice by repopulating their gut with Bifidobacterium infantis, one of the major symbiotic bacteria found in the gut. Cryan’s team built on this finding, showing that this effect could be reproduced even in healthy mice.' It seems the flora in your intestines can influence brain development as well as aspects of health and nutrition, which in turn affect such things as hormones and neurotransmitters. 'His team tested the effects of two strains of bacteria, finding that one improved cognition in mice. His team is now embarking on human trials, to see if healthy volunteers can have their cognitive abilities enhanced or modulated by tweaking the gut microbiome.'"


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Eureca (yoo-ree -kă) short for European retrievable carrier. A small reusable robotic space platform developed by the ESA. It was designed to be jettisoned from a space shuttle, propelling itself into the desired low Earth orbit, and to be retrieved on a subsequent shuttle flight some months later. It carried long-term computer-controlled scientific experiments. Small thruster motors controlled its position and solar panels provided power. It was first launched, as Eureca-1, in Aug. 1992, for collection by the shuttle in mid-1993. Its 1-tonne payload consisted mainly of experiments on the growth, under microgravity, of large crystals of proteins, semiconductors, and zeolites. Eureca-1 was reckoned to be a great success, and ESA planned to launch five missions over the subsequent decade, but the plan came to nothing. A Eureca-2 mission was planned for 1995, but ESA ministerial meetings rejected further funding The Eureca craft was put into storage at the Bremen facilities of DASA, the aerospace subsidiary of the international automotive engineering firm DaimlerChrysler for possible use in commercial spaceflights.
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Interesting facts about Mongolia
- Did you know that Mongolia has the oldest National Park in the world. Lying just South of Ulaanbaatar the Bogd Khan National Park dates its origin to 1778.
- Did you know that Mongolia is the largest landlocked country in the world.
- Did you know that Roy Chapman Andrews made the first discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi. His exploits inspired the creation of Indiana Jones.
- Did you know that a 131 foot statue of Chinggis Khan sits just outside Ulaanbaatar and is the world’s tallest statue of a horse.
- Did you know that The Gobi Desert is the largest desert in Asia, and is the fifth largest in the world.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a visa to Mongolia?
For information about Mongolian visas, Mongolian immigration information, or Mongolian registration requirements, please visit the website the Immigration agency of Mongolia.
Who do I contact regarding services for American citizens in Mongolia?
Do I have to pay taxes from my income earned in Mongolia?
Please note that all U.S. citizens or resident aliens must report and pay federal tax on their worldwide income, even if they live abroad. For your convenience, attached is an electronic copy of the Publication 4732 and it is also available on the internet at http://www.irs.gov Persons with specific questions on Federal taxes may write to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Office. 11601 Roosevelt Blvd., Drop Point 820 SW, Philadelphia, PA 19154 for assistance.
State tax forms may be obtained from each state in the United States, or may be downloaded from the internet from the following website: http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/forms.html.
Further information can be found at http://travel.state.gov/


This month's Trends in Genetics has an update on the story of CCR5-delta32, a human mutation present at high frequency in Europeans and Western Asians but rare outside this region. People who are homozygous for this mutation are resistant to infection by HIV. It has been thought that the allele has been under positive selection, that is, that it has improved the survival of people carrying it, long before HIV was around, and might have therefore have conferred resistance to some other epidemic such as plague or smallpox.
The update talks about data that CCR5-delta32 might not have been historically under such strong selection as previously thought. The main new argument is that the mutation has been found in Bronze age bones, which means it has been around for a long time and might not be ramping upward in frequency over time as would be expected for a resistance gene. Secondly, an analysis called linkage disequilibrium, used to show evidence for positive selection, has been repeated with larger data sets and gives more ambiguous results.
Even though the population measurements for this mutation are less certain in humans, the evidence that CCR5 is critical for the timecourse of HIV infection is still very strong, and the mutation might still be an interesting marker for Northern European migrations (i.e. the Vikings).
An open-access discussion of CCR5-delta32 is here . I have blogged about this mutation and some interesting historical hypotheses here .


While consumer culture certainly bloomed in Post War America, it would be false to assume that it did not exist prior to that. The Industrial Revolution brought about mass production which required the creation of mass culture in order to sustain itself ("we must have more profit each year than we did in the prior year", rather than the more sane and rational "we must have a profit"). If you peruse microfiche of the New York Times, Times of London, etc etc from the last half of the 1800's you will see many many early experiments in branding and of course some truly outrageous claims (you think ads are dishonest now? Truth in advertising laws really have made some difference).
Advertising became more organized and "professional" over the decades, and certainly by the turn of the century the consumer culture was in full swing, with five and dimes, more and more factories, pulp literature, and a thriving periodicals industry. The roaring twenties throttled consumer culture up to full speed and drove it right over the cliff into the Great Depression. Consumer culture became a shadow of its' former self until post-war, at which time it came back in full force. The omnipresent ad industry and exponential growth of the phenomenon in the post war era certainly make it seem as though it never existed prior, but consumer culture had already been around for close to 100 years.


Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first World Water Day, an international celebration designed to draw attention to the importance of freshwater resources. However, for a large and growing proportion of the world’s population, every day is a World Water Day. Difficult, complex water challenges including drought, groundwater depletion, pollution, and clean drinking water availability are growing in urgency and seriousness all around the world. Some even argue that we should boycott World Water Day – that our water problems are too serious to try and confine to a single day.
Although it’s true that we must keep water in mind during the other 364 days of the year, World Water Day can be useful. It helps raise awareness and serves as an annual reminder of the water problems we must collectively solve. Plus, picking a single theme – this year’s is cooperation – helps break down a very complex topic into more accessible, comprehensible pieces.
In keeping with the theme of helping make complex issues more approachable and understandable, WRI is marking this year’s World Water Day by launching the first in a new series of videos we’re calling “What’s the Big Idea?” These brief videos will feature WRI staff members explaining some of the complex, global challenges we are working to understand and solve. Our first “What’s the Big Idea?” video explains the concept of water risk and the array of challenges it poses. We also highlight a potential solution: WRI’s Aqueduct mapping tool, which helps companies, investors, governments, and others better understand and manage their water risks.
[youtube I80-UpaCsT8] For the billions of people facing increasingly urgent water risks, we at WRI and throughout the water community will continue to treat every day like World Water Day.


The MinutePhysics series has always been a goldmine of interesting facts and science explainers. But prepare to have your mind blown wide open this time as Henry Reich shows you an alternate way to manually subtract large numbers—by doing addition instead.
It seems a little complicated at first, but that’s because most of us were taught the more traditional way to subtract numbers back in grade school. After watching this video a few times, this method actually seems a little easier. And it makes you wonder if all those math tests you bombed weren’t actually because you weren’t good with numbers.


Alternative learning often puts off many people. They think that this phrase means that students will be sitting in a meadow doing yoga or going to a museum ever day without ever learning in a structured classroom. Rather, alternative learning or teaching methods simply mean that the teacher and school are moving away from traditional teaching methods and are exploring other options. Here are a few suggestions for adding some alternative teaching methods into the classroom without having to shake up the foundation of the entire school.
1. Tactile learning: Think about the students who really need to touch and feel in order to process their learning. Teach math using building blocks. Teach science by bringing in animals or plants.
2. Different assessments: You don’t have to always give a multiple choice test for assessment. Think of having students write a story in English class or act out a play. Let them create a scene in an office where the person sitting behind the reception desk is talking to a character from the book. In history, they could put on a trial or write a treaty. In science they could conduct an experiment. These are great ways to assess student understanding and strengths without pen and paper.
3. Field trips: Take kids on more trips. Get them out of their chairs and into the museums, botanical gardens and other locations in your area where they can learn in a new way.
These are a few suggestions for helping children to blossom and grow without requiring them to sit behind desks all the time and learn with paper and pencils.


Chrysanthemums, commonly know as mums, are America's most popular flower. They are beautiful fall plants that come in the most exciting fall colors, such as gold, orange, purple, violet, white, and shades of red and pink. Although most people think they're annuals and replant them every year, mums are really perennials. Mums are easy to grow and care for. If cared for properly mums will give you years of pleasure. Here's a list of what you should know.
- Planting Select a planting site with at least a half a day of sun. Dig a hole to accommodate the plant and put in organic compost as a fertilizer. Remove the mums from their pot, loosen the soil around the roots and place the plant in the hole. Water thoroughly.
- Watering Keep your mums well watered. They should get at least 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) of water a week.
- Fertilizing Fertilize the plant once a month from spring until August. Any general purpose fertilizer is fine.
- Pinching Pinching induces branching and helps the plant develop into a healthy bush. Whenever a new growth is approximately 6 inches (15 centimeters) high, pinch about 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 centimeters) off. Begin pinching in the spring, and continue pinching until the end of July. You'll have a beautiful healthy plant when it starts blossoming in the fall.
- Winter protection It's important to protect your plant so it survives the winter. Keep the soil moist by putting mulch around the bush before the frost season arrives and removing the mulch in the spring.[sources: Mr. Grow, Brenda's Blumen]


Results of new research published earlier this week show that the risk of blindness from surgery from spinal fusion has decreased by a factor of almost 3 times since the late 1990s. The study, undertaken by researchers from the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and the department of ophthalmology and visual sciences at UIC, is described as the largest on the topic completed to date. Using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the team estimated that, in fusion procedures performed between 1998 and 2012, the incidence of blindness declined by 60%. Senior author Steven Roth, MD, FARVO, commented, “While there are significant complications that can result from spinal-fusion surgery, it seems that blindness…is one that has become far rarer in recent years.” The results were published online in the journal Anesthesiology.
Almost 480,000 spinal fusions are performed in the US annually, a steep increase over the last 20 years. The risk of resultant blindness has been pegged at 1/1000 to 1/10,000, and concern about the potential for this devastating complication has intensified with the increasing frequency of the surgery. The procedure is considered a last-resort option for pain and nerve damage caused by disc degradation that may result from age, obesity, trauma, or sedentary lifestyle. Roth attributed the decline in blindness risk to the increasing use of minimally invasive techniques, and to changes in anesthesia practice setting stricter limits on blood pressure drop during surgery. This latter change may lower the risk for ischemic optic neuropathy.
Read a news story about the study findings here.
The journal abstract may be read here.


Little is known of Yamanoue no Okura (660 – ca. 733), beyond that he was a member of an embassy sent from the Yamato court to T’ang China in 701 and returned home some time later. It has been suggested that his family may have been Korean immigrants to Japan, but it is hard to know for sure. He has only 10 nagauta and 62 tanka in the collection, but did contribute some of the writing in Chinese.
He is still reckoned as being one of the Man’yōshū‘s great poets, however, being unafraid to experiment with the form and introduce elements learned from his time in China. Of all the poets in the anthology, his work shows the strongest Confucian moral influence, espcially in works such as his ‘Dialogue between the Poor and the Destitute‘. He is also admired for the simple humanity of poems such as those mourning the death of his son.
On WakaPoetry.net, the following poems are by Okura:
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If you're looking for the opportunity to write a memoir, Aging Creative’s program, A Feather of a Tale offers a learning environment that will enhance your experience, creatively, and socially.
Questions And Answers
- What’s a memoir? -----Recalling events or memories, in your past, that stand out, that have had a certain significance.
- What’s the difference between documenting a life history (such as My Café) and writing a memoir (A Feather of a Tale)?------Life histories chronicle life’s events while recording all phases of a person’s life. One of its purposes is for handing down to future generations. A memoir focuses on writing about specific events that focus on the writer’s emotions and feelings.
- What's the significance of the title word Feather?-------The word feather and its symbolism are associated with the words: trust, honor, strength, wisdom, power, and freedom. Since the program exercises ask the writer to recall impactful events to write about, these words often represent strong emotions the writer may have experienced in their stories.
- Who would participate in a workshop? ------ Senior Centers, religious organization groups, independent living residents, and community groups
If you have any questions or wish to discuss options that suit your needs please email us at firstname.lastname@example.org or click here.
Writing memoirs can make you laugh, make you cry, and even make you smile but most important, they reaffirm how you got here today. --JMD
We look forward to hearing from you.


- A sing-song mode of communication, halfway between regular speech and singing, especially from the mother to the baby.
- A therapeutic song created by Diamond of a pre-existent text such as a poem and lifting it into song, in a loosely analogous manner to the preceding definition. He has over the years composed thousands of such songs.
Timeline: Diamond began creating lilts in the 1970s, though he did not use the term until the 1990s.
Commentary: Diamond considers lilting the basic form of communication because of its basis in the mother-child relationship.


Engaging Your Community: Varied Opportunities for Deliberation and Dialogue
The materials that we have helped develop to involve instructors in K-12 and higher education reform are flexible and varied, and administrators, educators and others can use them in a variety of contexts. Creating diverse occasions for dialogue is a key to effectively and authentically engaging stakeholders, and is our next core principle for public engagement.
Create multiple, varied opportunities for deliberation and dialogue
People need to go through a variety of stages to come to terms with an issue, decide what approach they are willing to support and figure out how they can make their own contribution.
A strong engagement initiative will be inclusive as well as iterative, giving people multiple and varied opportunities to learn about, talk about, think about and act on the problem at hand. Community conversations, "study circles," online engagement strategies and media partnerships are a few of the possibilities.
This blog post is part of our series on core principles for effective public engagement.
Read earlier principles of public engagement. If you have any questions, just ask, either here, on our Facebook page, via Twitter or email Allison Rizzolo.
We also have many more tools to help foster community and public engagement. These include Choicework discussion guides, deliberative discussion starters for flexible use among diverse participants, and their corresponding videos; reports outlining engagement recommendations and principles; and case studies in community and state engagement.
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This practical challenge invites you to investigate the different
squares you can make on a square geoboard or pegboard.
How many ways can you find of tiling the square patio, using square
tiles of different sizes?
Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?
Here we see pictures
of well-displayed solutions sent in from Rawdon Littlemoor School,
we had 25 pupils' results sent in. Well done!
Many pupils from
Prince Henry's Grammar School sent in their solutions having made
good use of a spreadsheet. Here are two of them:


A comet from another star will swing by our sun Dec. 8.
Known as 2I/Borisov, it is the first comet to ever be seen coming from interstellar space. But despite its alien origins, astronomers say it actually looks pretty familiar.
"Borisov is a comet very like what we have in our own solar system," says Michele Bannister, a planetary astronomer at Queen's University Belfast told NPR's Short Wave. Whatever planetary system it formed in, "it's a lot like our own."


Koalas occur across most forested parts of Victoria where there are suitable eucalypt species and adequate rainfall. Preferred species include Manna Gum Eucalyptus viminalis, Blue Gum Eucalyptus globulus, Yellow Stringybark Eucalyptus muelleriana, and Mountain Grey Gum, Eucalyptus cypellocarpa. Preferences can vary from one region to another.
Although their diet is almost entirely eucalypts, they may be found in other vegetation including pine plantation where they may shelter in bad weather or move through between preferred habitats.
The South Gippsland population of Koalas has been recognised for its genetic diversity and health and therefore is highly valued for the ongoing conservation of the species.
HVP has a Koala Management Plan which sets out a number of initiatives or policies that HVP has in place to help maintain the koala population within Victoria. The management plan is called M.O.R.R.E. koalas.
- Monitoring (biodiversity surveys/ census project)
- Operating standards
- Research (providing funding & in-kind)
- Rehabilitation (supporting rescue & rehabilitation)
- Enhancement (of habitat & connectivity).
HVP has a program to monitor Koala locations and populations.View Details
View our operating Standards for the management of Koalas during forest operations.View Details
HVP actively supports and works with organisations to rescue and rehabilitate Koalas.View Details
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Bitcoin is frequently portrayed as a digital currency, virtual cash, or advanced money in digitalized form – is a kind of virtual cash, which denotes it as not to be real. It resembles an online form of money in which you no cash is required. You can utilize it to purchase items and administrations, yet relatively few shops acknowledge Bitcoin, and a few nations have restricted it according to their suitability and policies.
The physical Bitcoins, which you see in photographs, are just an oddity. Private codes provide them the value to be useless without the codes that are printed inside them. When we talk about bitcoins or the free bitcoin,then each of them is fundamentally a PC document being kept in a ‘computerized wallet’ application on a cell phone, PC, orit depends on the bitcoin owner that where he wants them to keep.
This mechanism of bitcoins makes it conceivable to follow the historical backdrop of Bitcoins. It can prevent the individuals from spending coins that they don’t claim to be theirs or do not own them and achieve them by duplicating or fixing exchanges.There are bunches of things other than cash, which we think significant about just like gold, precious stones, many prestigious metals, and so on. Individuals can send Bitcoins or portions to your advanced wallet. If you don’t pay for that, then for you, they are free bitcoins, and you can send those Bitcoins to others.
Every exchange is recorded in a public rundown,a basic list recording every transaction called the blockchain. Bitcoins are important because individuals are eager to trade them for the sake of genuine products and enterprises, and even for the money, and consumers are even willing to pay them off.


Zionism has become a national ideology of Israel and most of the people residing in Israel believe in Jewish nationalism. They also think that Judaism is also a nationality and they have every right to get back their ancestral land and live there. This claim is justified by the fact that every Chinese have a right to live in China and every European has a right to stay in Europe, in the same way, Jewish people must get back to their ancestral land and they have every right to settle there.
Various school of thoughts on Jewish nationalism:
There are a number of school of thoughts that carry different opinions in this regard. Why Jews came back to Israel and why they are settling there for an unknown time period is a huge debate. The geographical location of Israel is a great complication as Palestinians and Arabs have a great connection to this place. The long-standing Israel-Palestine issue is a major outcome of Zionism. There are many sane and insane voices that are in support of and are against this approach. Many Jews think that Zionism is not what their religion represents and it is a lethal combination of nationalism and Jewish identity that has been misrepresented at several levels. The Israel-Palestine conflict has taken deadly turns in the past and it is still an issue that is a huge concern for the entire world.
Jewish nationalism turning in to international movement:
The quest of Jewish people to return to their biblical kingdoms of David and Solomon began in the 19th century. It was the time when Europe experienced a great surge in nationalism and this played a decisive role in enhancing Jewish nationalism too. Jewish nationalism was turned in to an international movement in 1896 and it was the time when it turned out in a full-fledged movement. This movement inculcated the thing that Jews must have their own homeland and they cannot survive without their own country. This international movement gained immense attention and Jews played a great role in taking this movement to next level.


On 21 May we celebrate the World Fish Migratory Day. This is a global celebration of migratory fish and free-flowing rivers coordinated by the World Fish Migration Foundation.
According to the Living Planet Index, migratory fish have declined on average by 93% from 1970 to 2016 in Europe. Many of the migratory fish, such as European eel (Anguilla anguilla), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and the beluga (Huso huso), were economically important while others are important for recreational anglers. Habitat degradation and change is the main cause of decline affecting more than 60% of the migratory fish populations. River fragmentation is particularly high in Europe where inventories recorded more than 1.2 million barriers 15% of which are now obsolete.
This year’s World Fish Migratory Day is very special for Wetlands International Europe for two reasons: we expect that the European Commission will present its legislative proposal on nature restoration in June including the target of restoring 25,000 kilometres of free-flowing rivers. We hope that this will give a major boost to river restoration in the European Union. However, restoring the declining populations of migratory fish species will require a coordinated approach to river restoration to be effective. Therefore, in collaboration with The World Fish Migration Foundation and the IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, we launch the Trans-European Swimways Network.
Through the Trans-European Swimways Network, we not only want to (re-)connect the habitats of migratory fish species, but we also want to connect people who care about fish across Europe. With the participation of local experts, our swimways programme will identify and map out Europe’s major swimways and feed this information into the planning of river restoration activities.


I think most of you have heard of the electronic multiplying punch which is now one of the standard IBM machines. It performs a multiplication in 17/1000 of a second. Since multiplication is the bottleneck in scientific computing, there is a great effort to develop machines of higher and higher speed. We started with the older type wheel calculators which are still doing most of the scientific work. We have experimental relay calculators which are coming into use. We have the Type 603 Electronic Calculator which is also coming into use. With the 603 the aim was not the make it as fast as possible, because of the importance of recording, etc., but rather to assure reliability and simplicity. Of course, everyone is now looking forward to the day, perhaps not far off, when it will be possible to combine electronic speeds with the machines of the capabilities of the IBM Sequence Calulator. One such attempt at the University of Pennsylvania has resulted in the Eniac, which has 20,000 vacuum tubes. While it is tremendously fast, it is still not a complete calculator ...
Here Eckert is alluding to Watson Lab's own SSEC, which would be unveiled in just four months!
And an IBM 100th anniversary piece on the 603 HERE.
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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution passed the Senate on June 12, 1911, the House of Representatives on May 13, 1912 and the states completed ratification on April 8, 1913. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, transferring Senator selection from each state's legislature to popular election by the people of each state. It also provides a contingency provision enabling a state's governor, if so authorized by his state's legislature, to appoint a Senator in the event of a Senate vacancy until either a special or regular election to elect a new Senator is held.
|1 Text |
|2 Historical background |
|3 Effect |
|4 Direct elections held in the states |
|5 Proposal and ratification |
|6 Calls for repeal |
|6.1 Feingold hearing |
|7 Notes |
|8 References |
|9 External links |
|“ |The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, |” |
| |for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications | |
| |requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. | |
| |When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of each State shall|...


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The swarm began last week, and on June 15 saw a magnitude 4.5 earthquake take place in Yellowstone National Park. “The epicenter of the shock was located in Yellowstone National Park, eight miles north-northeast of the town of West Yellowstone, Montana,” scientists from the University of Utah, which monitors Yellowstone Volcano, said in a statement.
“The earthquake was [reportedly] felt in the towns of West Yellowstone and Gardiner, Montana, in Yellowstone National Park, and elsewhere in the surrounding region.”
This earthquake was the largest to have hit Yellowstone since March 30, 2014, when a magnitude 4.8 earthquake was recorded 18 miles to the east, near the Norris Geyser Basin.
“[The 4.5] earthquake is part of an energetic sequence of earthquakes in the same area that began on June 12,” the statement continued. “This sequence has included approximately thirty earthquakes of magnitude 2 and larger and four earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger, including today's magnitude 4.5 event.”
As of June 19, 464 events had been recorded. Most of these ranged in the magnitude of 0 to 1, with five less than zero, indicating they occurred at depths ranging from about 0 miles to about 9 miles. "This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years, but is fewer than weekly counts during similar earthquakes swarms in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010," scientists said.


Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Point-of-care tests for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) could be an ideal tool for a large-scale HBV screening/treatment program in SSA. Using data from the PROLIFICA (Prevention of Liver Fibrosis and Cancer in Africa) program, we conducted a cross-sectional study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of three point-of-care tests (Determine, Vikia, and Espline) for the detection of HBsAg in the field or a laboratory setting in the Gambia. In the field, we used finger-prick whole blood for the Determine and Vikia tests and dried blood spots for the reference standard test (AxSYM HBsAg enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]). In the laboratory we used serum for the Determine, Espline, and reference test (Architect chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay). Of 773 participants recruited at the community and 227 known chronic HBV carriers (1,000 subjects in total), 293 were positive for HBsAg. The sensitivity and specificity of the Determine test were 88.5% and 100% in the field and 95.3% and 93.3% in the laboratory setting, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity were 90.0% and 99.8% for the Vikia test (in the field) and 93.9% and 94.7% for the Espline test (in the laboratory). There was no evidence that one kit was better than another. Most of the patients with false-negative results (18/19) were classified as inactive chronic carriers. In summary, the three point-of-care tests had acceptable ranges of diagnostic accuracy. These tests may represent accurate, rapid, and inexpensive alternatives to serology testing for the screening of HBV infection at field level in SSA.
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Nurse Carrie Drake administers a vaccine to a patient in November 2010. More than 15,000 cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, were reported in the U.S. last year. This disease is preventable with the DTaP vaccine. Health officials encourage everyone to keep immunizations up to date.


Responsible for instructing others on various subjects either for pleasure or for self-improvement. Teaches students recreational classes that include painting, pottery, cooking, playing musical instruments, or photography.
- Provide instruction on a variety of recreational subjects.
- Conduct courses on academic subjects, including foreign language and literature.
- Encourage voluntary attendance.
- Provide useful skills that can pad resumes.
- Demonstrate methods or techniques for various self-enrichment classes.
- Point out mistakes and offer corrections or suggestions.
- Provide hands-on instruction.
- Instruct students on where and what materials to buy.
- Collect payment for classes.
- Teach financial planning or how to budget.
- Teach classes offered through religious institutions, such as marriage preparation or classes in religion for children.
- Introduce children and youth to activities such as piano or drama.
- Provide one-on-one instruction.
- Work with same students for years to enrich expertise.
- Prepare lessons beforehand.
- Stay current on topics using research methods.
- Keep records of student accounts.


Switzerland is well known for the Alps in the south and south east. North of the Alps, the Swiss Plateau runs along the east-west axis of the country. Most of the population of Switzerland lives on the rolling hills and plains of the plateau. The smaller Jura Mountains are located on the north west side of the plateau. Much of the northern border with Germany follows the Rhine River, though the Rhine enters Switzerland near Schaffhausen.


CINCINNATIUniversity of Cincinnati (UC) physician-scientists believe identifying a genetic fingerprint could help predict which specific therapies will be most effective for patients with gastric cancer.
Syed Ahmad, MD, is leading a national, phase-2 trial to test the effectiveness of combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy given to patients with gastric cancer before surgery. His team will also collect biological samples in an attempt to obtain genetic data that could be used to formulate targeted therapies.
Previous studies have established that either chemotherapy or radiation therapy after surgery can improve patient survival compared with surgery alone. Overall survival rates, however, remain lowwith 20 to 30 percent of American patients surviving more than five years after treatment.
Everyone agrees that without surgery, gastric cancer in not curable, and numerous studies have shown a benefit to follow-up therapy with either chemotherapy or radiation therapy, says Ahmad, assistant professor of surgery at UC and principal investigator of the trial.
The problem is you cant give both radiation therapy and chemotherapy after surgeryits too toxic and patients cant tolerate it, he says. But you can give it before surgery when patients are healthiest.
This trial addresses what Ahmad calls the future of cancer therapy: targeted drug regimens, based on the characteristics of a patients specific tumor.
His goal is to identify a genetic fingerprint that could help predict whether patients will respond to therapy, and then identify drugs to address the specific molecular characteristics of that patients tumor.
Right now treatment is based on the assumption that site-based cancers are all the same, so every patient who has stage-3 gastric cancer will get the same chemotherapy drugs, Ahmad explains. But the reality is that every cancer has a different expression of hormones, growth factors and gen
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The leading gastroenterologists of the country are alarmed by the rising number of deaths due to liver cancers, attributed to Hepatitis, and have decided to start an online data registry detailing the rising number of hepatitis patients
The leading gastroenterologists of the country are concerned about a majority of Indian population that lacks awareness about Hepatitis. As a result, the newly formed Indian National Association for Study of Liver and Current Perspective in Liver Disease has decided to start an online data registry detailing the rising number of hepatitis patients.
75 percent of such people who lack basic awareness of the hepatitis, may it be B or C, cannot be treated at the curable initial stage. The symptoms are not felt initially and, when the virus causes liver cancer, the person is then made aware of the disease.
As reported by PTI
The association will also disseminate information to the regional hospitals and help the health centers located in remote areas of the country get the medicine supply.
Talking about lack of awareness about the deadly disease, the experts said that Hepatitis was 28 times more dangerous than AIDS due to the absence of symptoms, even as the disease spreads gradually in the patient.
Four lakh people die due to liver diseases, a result of hepatitis, in India every year. The states most affected by the disease are Punjab, Haryana, Odisha, Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh among few others, they said.


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A sunburn warning has been issued for Gloucestershire as March ends with a bright spell.
The Met Office says UV levels tomorrow lunchtime, Friday March 29, will be in the 'moderate' category, which means there is a risk of sun damage to unprotected skin.
Despite temperatures only peaking at about 13C tomorrow, the UV index is set at '4' for 12noon, in the middle of the 3-5 range that carries that warning.
The UV Solar Index, which the Met Office uses to forecast the strength of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun runs from 1 to 11.
The UK does not usually exceed level 8, with level 9 and 10 regularly noted in places like the Mediterranean.
Levels 1 and 2 are recorded as low while 3 to 5 is moderate.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency when UV reaches levels 3 to 5 you should stay in shade around midday, where a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses outdoors and apply Factor 30+ sunscreen every two hours, reports North Wales Live .
If too many of the sun's UV rays hit our skin, it can damage the DNA in skin cells which the body attempts to repair - which leads to the redness and pain.
In the UK the forecast is predominantly throughout the summer months, with late June seen as the peak, however this is dependent on weather conditions.
The weather on Gloucestershire is set to stay bright for the rest of the week, with temperatures between 11C and 13C most days.


World Economic Forum: Amid growing concern over the threat of AI-enabled systems to perpetuate discrimination and bias and infringe upon privacy, California has introduced several bills intended to curb negative impacts. Primary among them are bills related to mitigating the negative impacts of specific AI-enabled technologies such as facial recognition systems. On May 14, 2019, San Francisco became the first major US city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies and law enforcement. Two months later, the neighbouring city of Oakland implemented similar restrictions.
These may be city-level laws, but their passing has influenced state and federal legislation. In California,a bill called the Body Camera Accountability Act seeks to prohibit the use of facial recognition in police body cameras, while another would require businesses to publicly disclose their use of facial recognition technology. At the federal level, four pieces of legislation are currently being proposed to limit the use of this technology, especially in law enforcement.
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The Civilization of Ancient Crete
"Professor Willetts presents the first complete picture of the civilization of Ancient Crete - one which gives full weight to its origins as well as to its post-Minoan development. He shows the important influences from the neighbouring regions of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and examines the island's development from the arrival of the Neolithic farmers during the early Bronze Age, through the spectacular Minoan civilization of the Bronze Age, down to the Dorian aristocracy of the Iron Age which ended in the Roman Conquest of the first century B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
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Before you can apply for a medical license, you must pass a three-step test called the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), also known as the board exam.
This test is unusual for two reasons. First, you take each part at a different stage of your medical education. Second, unlike many standardized tests, the USMLE actually assesses your mastery of the material, not how well you take a test. While there are some test-taking strategies that will improve your performance, you won't pass without comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the sciences, as well as an ability to apply that knowledge in a clinical setting.
The USMLE is designed for students of allopathic medicine, who are on the path to an MD. Students of osteopathic medicine can take either the USMLE or a similar test called the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMEX).
The USMLE is divided into three steps:
The Step 2 CS has no numerical score. You earn a "pass" or a "fail" based on your ability to gather data, communicate with the patient and write an effective report.
On all other parts of the test, the number of correct answers you earn is converted into two numerical scores, one on a three–digit scale and the other on a two–digit scale. These are simply two ways of reporting the same result to schools. You must earn a 75 on the two–digit scale to pass.
While your medical school education will give you many of the skills and much of the knowledge necessary to pass the USMLE, you are still likely to log a substantial amount of time reviewing and preparing for each stage of the test.
For more advice on getting into and succeeding in med school, check out Med School Advice.


A study guide is an excellent foundation, especially when you are pursuing knowledge in science. Science is all about facts and provable information. In chemistry, you study a lot of compounds and combinations of information and without the building blocks, you've got nothing to work with. Getting help with those harder concepts and reminding yourself of the easy ones can save your life and make it easier to pass those classes or spark a passion.
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Chapter 1: Earth Systems
After completing this chapter you will understand:
- The principles that define how systems work, including matter and energy transfers, reservoirs and fluxes, residence times, and system types.
- What Earth systems are, including the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
- The carbon and water cycles as examples of Earth systems interactions.
- Why Earth systems and their interactions are important to people.
Use the navigation on the left to explore the resources for this chapter.


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The German cockroach is found throughout the world in association with humans. German cockroaches adulterate food or food products with their feces and defensive secretions, physically transport and often harbor pathogenic organisms, may cause severe allergic responses, and in extremely heavy infestations have been reported to bite humans and feed on food residues on the faces of sleeping humans. In addition, some scientists suggest that German cockroach infestations may cause human psychological stress and that the stigma associated with infestations alters human behavior.
Brown banded cockroaches get their name from the two lighter bands they have across their dark brownish bodies. In addition to the distinctive banding, males have full wings, which reach beyond the tip of their rather pointed abdomens, but females have underdeveloped wings, much shorter than their broad, rounded abdomens. The lighter band markings are much more distinct in nymphs than in adults of either sex
Oriental Cockroaches, Blatta orientalis (L.), are large very dark (almost black, but sometimes dark reddish-brown), shiny cockroaches which live in sewers and similar wet, decaying organic matter. They are sometimes called “water bugs” because they come out of drains, and “black beetle cockroaches” because of their smooth, dark bodies. Males are about 1 inch long, with wings that cover only about 3/4 of their abdomen; females are about 1 1/4 inch long, and have only short stubs of wing pads.
The American cockroach is the largest of the house-infesting cockroach


The year this image (for sale on Ebay) was taken by NASA’s TIROS VII Satellite.
To put things in perspective, 1963 was the year of the “referendum” in Irian Jaya and Sukarno’s “confrontation” with Malaysia. It was of course the year of JFK’s assassination. Beatlemania started in earnest in ’63. Both Cold War superpowers were busy in the space race.
Portugal was already fighting three anti-colonial insurgencies in Africa. Algeria adopted its constitution in 1963.
In Timor, it was Filipe Themudo Barata’s last year in office, a term which he began as the repression of the Rebellion of 1959 was wrapping up. Many of those 68 deported in connection with the Rebellion – none ever having due judicial process – were still in exile in Angola. One VIP Timorese prisoner, Francisco de Araújo, and the four Indonesian prisoners, would be home by 1963.
Themudo Barata was an army man with more vision than most, and in his Timor Contemporâneo (tragically out of print, probably the best resource on post WWII Portuguese Timor), explains how bad infrastructure was on his arrival. The limited but ground-breaking work to build schools that Governor Fontoura launched in the 1930s was destroyed by Allied bombing. Themudo Barata did make strides in widening access to primary and middle school education.
Future FALINTIL leaders were already entering primary school. Tuar Matan Ruak entered in 1963, according to his official biography which is quite worthwhile.
In 1963, Constâncio Pinto and Fernando “La Sama” de Araújo were born: the beginning of a generation which would more likely enter the urban resistance than become FALINTIL.


Does anemia decrease appetite?
My dad was told by doctors a few years ago that he was anemic. Since then, I don't think he has done a great job taking care of it. I've also noticed that as he gets older he seems to want to eat less and less ? and he's getting thinner, too. Could this be the anemia?
Anemia is the most common disorder of the blood, and refers to a decrease in the number of red blood cells below the normal range. Red blood cells are important because they carry oxygen to tissues all over the body, where the oxygen is used to make energy. There are several different forms of anemia, and each form can cause a classic set of symptoms. These forms commonly include those due to iron deficiency, folic acid deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency, and liver disease, to name a few. However, each form of anemia can cause constitutional symptoms such as general weakness, malaise, and depressed appetite. These symptoms can lead to less caloric intake and subsequently to weight loss. For example, I recently took care of a patient with severe Vitamin B12 deficiency who lost 50 pounds over one year. Anemia is generally a very treatable illness, and your father should certainly follow-up with his physician to clarify exactly which type of anemia he is suffering from, and what the cause of it is. He should be sure to tell his physician about his weight loss and decreased appetite, as anemia is not the only cause of these symptoms, and other tests can help determine exactly what is going on.
This answer is for general informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.
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California is the second state after Hawaii to establish a 100% clean energy goal for its electric grid. In late August, the state legislature passed Senate Bill 100 (SB 100) which created a 100% clean electricity standard by 2045 and also altered California’s current renewable portfolio standard (RPS). Previously, California’s RPS mandated 50% of the state’s retail electricity sales come from renewable sources by 2030, but following passage of SB 100, that figure is now modified to 60%.
To achieve the 2045 goal, however, SB 100 takes a broader approach by explicitly instructing California’s energy agencies to “plan for 100% of total retail sales of electricity in California to come from eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources…” Qualifying zero-carbon sources include nuclear as well as natural gas with a carbon-capture system (CCS), so long as the CCS prevents the emission of any greenhouse gases.
Implementing California’s clean energy standard, however, raises questions regarding whether achieving 100% zero-carbon electric grid is feasible even with the inclusion of nuclear and natural gas facilities with CCS technology, particularly for two reasons:
- In 2016, PG&E announced it was closing Diablo Canyon by 2025, a nuclear generating facility in southern California responsible for producing almost 18,000 GWh annually of carbon-free electricity. California regulators voted to shutter Diablo Canyon in January 2018.
- No utility has demonstrated that CCS technology can successfully be scaled up to the levels SB 100 would require.
Under these circumstances, acquiring up to 40% of carbon-free electricity from scarcely available (nuclear) or unproven (CCS) sources of energy will be challenging. That said, California consistently leads the nation in solar energy installations. It is likely that renewable sources of energy will generate more than the 60% mandated by 2030, but it might still not be enough to achieve the state’s carbon-free mandate.


[[Note: It’s been quiet on the blog, but busy in MakerSpace! This post was originally supposed to go up on September 28th… whoops!]]
Our Scarecrow Study wrapped up after we talked about shapes we see in art and everyday life. Even though we used over 9,000 round sequins, we created a different shape and structure from them! Students read I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait, and we took some time to notice all the shapes around us, and what smaller shapes made up larger structures.
This carried over into the start of our Paper study. We used colored paper to make collages, using only our fingers to tear the paper – no scissors! It was challenging but fun to try and rip paper into the exact shapes we wanted. We quickly learned that if you can’t tear the shape you want, you can tear small pieces and glue them into a specific shape on your paper!
Early Childhood classes read Henri’s Scissors by Jeanette Winter, and Lower and Upper Elementary classes read Drawing with Scissors by Jane O’Connor.
Through these books, we learned how Matisse created collages by cutting shapes from painted paper. This inspired us to use scissors for our next set of collages. Matisse is our Artist Study for the Fall gallery show, so you’re seeing our bright, bold collage-inspired paintings when you walk into the school!


The new edition of Garber and Hoel's best-selling TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAY ENGINEERING focuses on giving students insight into all facets of traffic and highway engineering. Students generally come to this course with little knowledge or understanding of the importance of transportation, much less of the extensive career opportunities within the field. Transportation is an extremely broad field, and courses must either cover all transportation modes or focus on specifics. While many topics can be covered with a survey approach, this often lacks sufficient depth and students leave the course without a full understanding of any of the fields. This text focuses exclusively on traffic and highway engineering beginning with a discussion of the pivotal role transportation plays in our society, including employment opportunities, historical impact, and the impact of transportation on our daily lives. This approach gives students a sense of what the field is about as well as an opportunity to consider some of its challenges. Later chapters focus on specific issues facing transportation engineers. The text uses pedagogical tools such as worked problems, diagrams and tables, reference material, and realistic examples to demonstrate how the material is applied.
AUTOR: Garber, Nicholas J. / Hoel, Lester H.
EDITORA: Cengage Learning
EDIÇÃO: 5ª / 2014
DISPONIBILIDADE DO PRODUTO: Sob Encomenda - 40 dias ( Importação )


The Ross Valley School District mathematics program is based on the Common Core Standards for Mathematics and places emphasis on the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice that emphasize mathematical thinking and support procedural fluency.
To that end, our TK-8th-grade teaching staff have agreed upon the following components of a mathematics program:
- Learning is focused on mathematical thinking
- Conceptual understanding is used to build procedural fluency
- Math tasks and activities create a productive struggle for all students
- Classroom activities promote student enjoyment and appreciation of math
- Evaluation of students allows for mistakes and multiple opportunities to show growth
Our teachers went through a rigorous piloting process in order to identify a curriculum that would serve as a tool to support our mathematics program. All of our TK-5th grade teachers now use Bridges in Mathematics, while our 6th-8th grade teachers work with College Preparatory Mathematics. Both of these programs are problem-based curriculums that present rich, multi-layered tasks for students to solve through collaborative endeavor.


T4D focuses on motivating future physicians and dentists in an effort to diversify the healthcare workforce.
Why does Diversity Matter?
The evidence shows:
- Minority physicians are more likely to treat patients of color, indigent patients, and patients that are sicker.
- Minority dentists are more likely than their white peers to practice in racial and ethnic minority communities.
- Increased patient satisfaction.
All levels of students: high school students, undergraduate students, post-baccalaureate students, and recent graduates interested in learning more about the fields of medicine and dentistry are invited to join the Tour for Diversity in Medicine as it circles the nation. Our initial program for College Students includes hosts day-long conferences on selected campuses with the goal of promoting mentoring and professionalism. Our High School Program, for younger high school students, provides insights on the college application process and the importance of community medicine and public health.
Students from the host institutions as well as surrounding areas are invited to take part in our unique opportunities.


Iowa's estimated cancer rate is second in U.S. only to Kentucky
A new report from the Iowa Cancer Registry shows the state is projected to have the second-highest incidence rate of cancer cases in the country this year.
Driving the news: The report, maintained by the University of Iowa, shows that Iowa is second only to Kentucky.
- An estimated 20,800 new invasive cancers will be diagnosed among Iowans in 2023, according to the report.
Why it matters: While it's not clear why Iowa's cancer rates are higher than the majority of the country's, it could be attributed to the state's high alcohol use and sedentary lifestyle, Iowa Cancer Registry Director Dr. Mary Charlton told KCRG.
By the numbers: 2,710 new cases are expected to be diagnosed this year in Polk County.
- Breast cancer is estimated to be the most prevalent cancer diagnosis in 2023, affecting around 2,920 people.
- Around 6,200 Iowans are estimated to die from cancer this year. The most fatal form is expected to be lung cancer.
Between the lines: Around 1973, the Iowa Cancer Registry recorded 10,140 new cancer patients annually. That's doubled now to 20,000, which can be attributed to the state's aging population, as well as improved screening.
- Iowans are also surviving cancer at higher rates, as five-year survival rates grew from 47% in 1973 to 67% today.
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Title: What to do if no fish at waterfront park?
Reflection: The people-oriented design tends to be a public space problem, such as at TKO waterfront park, it allows people fishing but there is no local fish in the river, in fact, the fish is come from some Chinese religious cermonies: people buy fish from supermarket and release them back into wild river for getting good luck by giving them new life. An amateur fishman told us he recognizes the fish at waterfront park was come from supermarket as they all in the same size and same type, and he claimed that he used to see some people release the fish on the boat several times. In short, our reflection is we should see bigger and design our public space from greater perspective instead of focusing on human use only.
Action: Raise the public awareness about the balancing of ecology-oriented design and people-oriented design. Collecting more strange environmental phenomenon in pulic space is one of the possible way to encourage the designers concern more about the design of taking care of organisms from sky to sea instead of human only. For example, design some nests for birds or shelters for fish would be a good idea to improve our public space design. If no fish at waterfront park, beside importing fish into the river, we also need landscape architects to design the local ecology for the sustainable development of our city.
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Published September 16, 2008
The rasping summer sound of grasshoppers chirping in fields and meadows is to be used to help to track climate change.
Grasshoppers, along with bush crickets, have been identified as the ideal insects for a public monitoring system.
There is a now a scheme to record sightings of all 27 native species of grasshoppers and crickets in Britain based on the system that enabled scientists to follow the spread of harlequin ladybirds.
The harlequin, an invasive species that competes with and often eats native ladybirds, arrived from the Continent in 2004 and has spread rapidly.
The public reporting system that was introduced to monitor the ladybird is regarded by researchers as an outstanding success and they now intend to use it to find out how climate change is affecting other insects.


Mainly cell type refers to the differentiation degree to form a cell population whose characteristics are identifiable by using simple microscopy, stains or immunological methods. Examples of cell types would be T8 lymphocytes, peripheral astrocytes or hepatocytes. Cell types can be pathological too, like tumor cells.
Cell state makes references to the current physiological condition of a given cell. A given cell type can be found in different proliferation states, metabolic conditions (i.e: An adipocyte or a hepatocyte will have different metabolic profiles depending on the insulin and glucagon balance), electrophysiological state (The human oocyte rapidly changes its membrane potential once a spermatozoid has entered) or even degree of differentiation (The typical example are B lymphocytes, which can be in a "naïve" state if they haven't found an antigen, or into a mature state. Once they have matured, thay can be subdivided into cells that actively produce antibodies and cells that divide actively).
A cell function usually refers to a process that occurs inside a cell, or to the physiological function that cell type has in the whole organism. Cell functions could be metabolism, signaling, cell division, etc.; while also could be the likes of detoxification (hepatocytes), hormone production (Langerhans cells) or contraction (myocytes).


B2 First: Use of English part 1 (multiple choice cloze)
In this part of the exam, you have to choose one word (from four) to complete each gap in a text. To prepare, it's a good idea to do lots and lots of reading. This is because many of the questions test how vocabulary is used, not just what it means. Here are some of the things you will be tested on:
Grammatical differences in words
You will need to know about the prepositions and verb patterns which are used after certain words. You may also be tested on relative pronouns and other referring words such as 'which' or 'whose'.
You will need to know various English expressions, including collocations (e.g. verb + noun) and phrasal verbs.
Global understanding of the text
Linking expressions - here you need to understand the whole text and how sentences link together.


Well, here it is week 2 and we are off to a less than auspicious start…a cranefly as of this morning. But of course, the weather is also less than stellar, cold wet and drizzly. The insects aren’t the only ones who want to stay sheltered in this weather…everybody wanted to get back into the school as quickly as possible.
Vanessa here! Today Emily and I went out to change the bottle on the Malaise trap that we have set up in front of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO). We have had this trap out all summer and mainly use it for educational purposes, such as teaching school groups about insect trapping methods. The last time we changed the bottle was approximately two weeks ago and we were thrilled to see that the bottle was quite full!
Emily and I were quite curious about what we caught, so we decided to take a sneak peek. Peering into the bottle, we noticed an abundance of a large mosquito-like insect, commonly called a crane fly.
Crane flies come from the family Tipulidae and there are over 4,000 species found worldwide. Although they look like large mosquitoes, crane flies will not bite animals or humans. Crane flies will feed on nectar, or they will not eat at all; most adult crane flies will only mate then die. Because many species of crane flies are quite large and very abundant, they are easily preyed upon by birds, mammals, fishes, and other vertebrates, as well as by spiders and predacious insects.
We are excited to hear about what you caught in your traps!


To avoid fever-reducing medications like acetaminophen or ibuprofen – or when you just don't have any handy – you can try a non-medical approach to lowering your child's fever.
Reducing your child's fever doesn't help to cure the underlying illness or problem. (And a fever can actually help your child's body fight off an infection.) But if a temperature climbs high enough to make your child really uncomfortable or dehydrated, lowering the fever can help.
Here are some methods to try:
Call the doctor right away if your child is younger than 3 months old and has a fever. For a baby 3 to 5 months old, call the doctor if her temperature reaches 101 degrees or higher. Once she's 6 months old, call if her fever reaches 102 degrees or more.
No matter your child's age, call the doctor if she has a fever along with other serious symptoms, like difficulty breathing or purple spots on her skin. These can be a sign of a serious bacterial infection.
To help your child with cold and flu symptoms other than fever, check out our list of 11 safe home remedies for soothing a sick child.
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Archaeologists in Hebei province have unearthed the 1,000-year-old ruins of an ancient building thought to date back to the Jin (960–1276) and Yuan (1271–1368) Dynasties.
After four months of excavation in the city of Huanghua, the ruins of an ancient hearth, fire pits and walls have been uncovered among bricks, tiles and broken porcelain. The findings show that there was heavy human activity around the site, which indicates that the ancient town likely had a prosperous economy, according to Lei Jianhong, head of the provincial archaeological research center in Hebei province.
Haifeng, the town in Huanghua where the ruins are located, is thought to have been a port for trade. The discovery of the ancient ruins may reveal new clues to the town’s past, and provide more evidence for research on the town’s role in the Maritime Silk Road, according to experts.
(This article is published on People’s Daily Online)


Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)
The Mutis-Timau forest complex in Nusa Tengara Timur (NTT), Indonesia, is one of the country’s major remaining forested areas and the source of two key river systems.
In spite of its importance, the area has been exposed to significant deforestation and degradation. A high density of free-roaming cattle, swidden agricultural practices and intensive gathering of firewood (mostly for household fuel consumption) have caused a gradual process of deforestation and prevented regeneration. Although indigenous institutions and customs play a vital role in the management of the forest, land tenure arrangements are ambiguous and this has allowed further encroachment on the forest reserve.
Poor natural resource management has been identified as one of the key factors contributing to the rapidly increasing risk of natural disaster on the Island. The project aimed to identify new opportunities to address degradation of natural resources in Eastern Indonesia.
Working through local partners, KYEEMA contributed to this through activities involving developing an inventory of emissions level and a feasibility study. KYEEMA set up workshops for the partners to reach agreements on budgets and on the issues stakeholders faced. We involved the community in group discussions and feasibility assessments of the forest carbon.
Following this project there is now a deeper understanding of deforestation and forest degradation by local NGOs and local government. There is enhanced community engagement, as they understand the need to better manage the natural resources. The project highlighted the key role the forest plays in the economic and cultural life of communities. The project clearly showed that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is feasible in NTT and that there is political will to invest in REDD.


Louis Lassing from Connecticut obtained a patent on this day for his invention – a slice of fried meat between two pieces of toast. He served this sandwich to customers at his tiny three-seat bar. Despite the serious copyright certificate, it was the reinvention of the wheel – they say that hamburgers, or Hamburg steaks were brought to the U.S. by people from Germany in the early 19th century; that meat sandwiches were invented by teenager Charlie Nagrin and farmer Frank Menches of Ohio in 1885... But even American historians believe that the very first hamburger was eaten in what is now Russia: Scythian nomads fried beef, chopped it up finely to make it easier to chew and put it between two slices of bread so it wouldn't fall apart. So, does it make Russia home not only to elephants, but also to hamburgers?
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Your Easy Guide to Understanding Islam
By : Ahlan
Language : English | Type : Books | Category : New Muslims, Non Muslims
As God is All -Knowing and Changeless, and human nature and needs are basically the same at all times, Islam believes that God's Message is the same for all humanity. Islam represents itself as a universal and perpetual message, preached not only by Prophet Muhammad, but by all the prophets of God before Muhammad, whose true followers were essentially Muslims, that is, they surrendered to God alone.
This booklet gives an overview of the universal message of Islam and its main components.


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Moreno Valley, California
This iReport is part of an assignment:
For those who live in Southern California we all are familiar with the Salton Sea. For those who live in the Imperial Valley area, are very familiar with the smell of the Salton Sea.
The sea is slowly evaporating each year leaving behind a salinity of 4.0 and increasing. It’s more salty than our oceans and the only fish that survive there are tilapia and even those are dying off. The sea is not only home to the tilapia, but it’s also home to over 380 species of birds that migrate during the seasons.
We can’t afford to lose this place that many birds and fish call home. It would be a disaster if that would ever to happen. So what’s being done to save our sea? Lots of talk and no action I’m afraid. Sure there have been plans drawn up to restore the sea, but it would take over 25 years to complete and by that time the sea would be gone.
What can we do? Well, we can bring more attention to this cause and make a difference. If the ALS foundation can raise money by getting celebrities to do the bucket challenge why can’t friends of the Salton Sea. One person who is making a difference is Randy Brown. He has this crazy idea of walking the entire distance of the sea which is 116 miles in 120 degree heat next year. Now that’s dedication!
If you’re interested in supporting this crazy adventure (and you should be) please check out his site and make a donation to the cause. http://www.saltonseawalk.com
We all have to start somewhere!


Imagine a Magic: The Gathering card game for aspiring cybersecurity pros.
That's the idea of a new table-top card game centered around hacking and Internet security will be presented this week in Las Vegas at Black Hat 2012, an annual information security conference, reported Phys.org. The game is called “Control-Alt-Hack” and targets 15- to 30-year-olds with at least some knowledge of computer science.
While the game doesn’t explicitly teach how specific security exploits work, it involves concepts from the world of information-security and it could be used to supplement a high-school or college computer science course, said game creator Yoshi Kohno, a University of Washington associate professor of computer science and engineering.
"Hopefully players will come away thinking differently about computer security," Kohno said.
The game received funding from Intel, the National Science Foundation, and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.
The card game is not yet available for purchase, but will soon be available from the official website.
The public and private sectors are both in need of thousands of more young workers with cybersecurity expertise. Last year, Government Technology reported on a contest called the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a quiz and practicum intended to identify the best and brightest young minds in the field of computer security.
The Control-Alt-Hack game looks to be another effort to cultivate the young work force.


The study of time perception serves as a hallmark of integrative science, mixing linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and attention research to explore the ways people feel the minutes and hours pass. And increasingly, this research is focusing on the role that emotion plays in distorting our sense of time… More
Even though they were sitting in a room with 3 open containers of coffee beans, only 30% of participants said they smelled coffee. … More
Students learn that what they view as “real” is but one version of reality, which can vary radically from the experience of other people.
This field of study, Warren says, converged on the conclusion that complex group movements in humans and animals seem to follow three simple rules. … More
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Research shows that you don’t need to see an actual object to experience the “ventriloquist illusion” and its aftereffect. Simply imagining the object produces the same illusory results. … More


Titan, the super-computer, topped the charts of Top 500 fastest computers, last week. Built by the unbeatable teams of the US Government’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesse, reports to be 10 times better in all aspects compared to its predecessor, Jaguar, from the same lab.
Powered by the amazing combo of CPUs and GPUs, Titan has 18,688 nodes, each having an AMD 16-core Opteron and a NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerator along with 19,000 processing nodes and 710 terabytes of memory. It is also powered by the 640 processors capable of massive 17.5 quadrillion operations per second. Sequoia, the super computer which stole the show in the June of this year, had a capacity of running 16.32 operations per second. Super computers are now incorporating GPUs, which consume less power for more processing when compared with the CPUs. The parallel architecture of the GPUs, allow them to do many calculations at once.
Scientists would use this supercomputer’s computing range for extensive research, enhance the manufacturing industry by widening their range of next generation materials, for nuclear research to closely trace the behavior of neutrons in nuclear reactors, to strategize ways to model combustion of fuels in combustion engines to improve the performance of engines of cars and trucks, to identify the future of air quality.
It is noted that 61 percent of science and engineering projects in the Unites States of America were recently selected for international inspection for access to 1.84 billion core processing hours on Titan and 2.83 billion hours on Energy Department supercomputers.


About the event
How was cultural identity constructed outside America in the 1950s? What was America’s cultural and artistic impact—its politics, policies and modern art—on Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia? Moving beyond a characterization of the relationship simply as one of American hegemony or propaganda, this panel will examine the complex and unexpected ways these cultures informed each other—artistically and culturally—during the cold war.
Participants include Yevgeniy Fiks, artist and author of n the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe (2009); Piotr Piotrowski, Art Historian, author of In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe 1945–1989 (2011), and Julia Sneeringer, Historian, author of the work in progress, From Burlesque to Beatles: Hamburg and the Remaking of West German Popular Culture, 1949–1969.
This event was held in conjuction with the James Gallery exhibition "The Making of Americans." For more information, click here.


“Stand your ground” laws — also called “Shoot First” laws — are drawing greater scrutiny in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old African American in Florida who was allegedly shot while simply walking home from a convenience store. Shoot First laws are versions of “Make My Day” laws that allow people who claim they fear for their life or bodily safety to freely shoot to kill someone who enters their home. Florida’s version confers a shoot-first right on people who are even in public places outside their homes. Many Shoot First laws were enacted starting in 2006 in large part due to the efforts of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive collaboration between corporations and legislators that helps advance corporate agendas in legislatures across the U.S. ALEC composed and circulated Shoot First model legislation (pdf), which they then got into the hands of conservative legislators, helping to greatly advance their spread. ALEC’s “model” Shoot First law (which they dubbed the “Castle Doctrine Act,”) was composed by ALEC’s “Public Safety and Elections” committee. In 2011, the National Rifle Association was the corporate co-chair of this ALEC committee. The NRA is funded by gun manufacturers (pdf). ALEC apparently got the idea for the law from Florida state Rep. Dennis Baxley of Ocala, taking the idea from him and adopting it as their “model legislation” in 2006, after which the laws spread across the nation.


Did you know that every search query you enter is tracked in Google’s databases? You have probably heard of Google Insights before, it is a useful tool for analysing and predicting trends in all sorts of industries. Wonder what else Google uses those statistics for?
Google tracks our searches for disease information and maps them to find trends. For example, if you type in a search for “flu”, or any other search queries related to flu in Google, you will be delivered information pertaining to that query – and the query will also be recorded on Google’s disease monitoring service.
By recording the searches of millions of people, as well as scouring the web for online news reports, blogs and chat room postings, Google has a pretty comprehensive indication of disease levels across the globe. While this may work as a way to gather valuable information about where diseases are occuring, it raises a big question on the privacy issues involved.
I guess if you were bored and wanted to get your town quarantined, you could just grab a few friends to start doing searches for plague symptoms. Just make sure you do it on different computers using different IP addresses, and see how long before anyone from the Centre for Disease Control shows up …
Do you think it is fair or right that Google records this sort of data? And if you don’t -is it motivation enough to stop searching online?
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"Lazarus could not have been protected in the early period of the Jerusalem church's life by telling his story but not naming him. His story was too well known locally not to be easily identifiable as his however it was told. For Lazarus 'protective anonymity' had to take the form of his total absence from the story as it was publicly told. . . . If the raising of Lazarus was not only the remarkable event that John portrays but also such a key event in leading to Jesus' death, its absence from Mark -- and so, presumably, from the pre-Markan passion narrative -- is certainly puzzling. But the difficulty is removed when we recognize that the need for 'protective anonymity' in Lazarus's case would require his complete absence from any public telling of the passion narrative in the early Jerusalem church" - Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans, 2006), 196.The solution, it turns out, is not completely novel. According to William Baird, it was advanced at least as early as the 17th century, by Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), and subsequently adopted by others:
"As to the reason the other evangelists neglected to record the raising of Lazarus, Grotius adopts the hypothesis--popular with later apologetic exegetes--that Matthew, Mark, and Luke wanted to protect Lazarus and his family from the wrath of the high priests (12:10) and, therefore, kept the story secret. Years later, after their Gospels were written and the danger had passed, John was able safely to recount the miraculous event." - William Baird, History of New Testement Research, Vol. 1: From Deism to Tübingen (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), 11.Since Bauckham does not cite Grotius--or anyone else--in this regard, he may have come across the same solution independently. (After all, great minds think alike.) But Bauckham has a monograph on 16th century English apocalyptic thought, and he may have encountered Grotius in this connection.