Even though nations around the world have signed treaties and passed legislation guaranteeing the right to basic education for the children of refugees and asylum seekers, the majority of these children in many countries remain uneducated.
Carol Anne Spreen, assistant professor in the Social Foundations program, has focused her recent research on this issue, primarily concentrating in the country of South Africa.
“South Africa has passed legislation guaranteeing the right to basic education of refugees and asylum seekers,” she says. “Yet, our preliminary research found that a significant number of refugee and asylum-seekers’ households in the Johannesburg area were not sending their children to school, and the vast majority were not aware of their education rights. We also learned of serious violations and barriers preventing the attainment of the right to education of migrants in schools and communities around the country.”
Working with the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg, Spreen hopes her work will help both migrants and the public at large become more aware of education rights and hold schools and the state responsible for education rights violations.
Spreen has become an advocate for international education rights, working with the Right to Education Project in the UK, and on the United Nation’s Human Rights Working Group.
“As a socially engaged researcher, I have had a strong commitment to social justice and challenging inequality by advocating for rights in education,” Spreen says.
Her advocacy extends locally as well. Last fall, she worked with the U.Va. Law School and the Women’s Center to host a workshop on the Right to Education for Refugees in Virginia.
Read about other initiatives Carol Anne is involved in:


Description: Quickly and easily, thanks to Dora's magic grow dust! Kids add the dust and water, of course, to a seed they want to grow.
Dora's growing a garden. Want to help? She has everything you need: Soil, seeds, pots, water, and magic growing dust! First pick a seed (corn? sunflowers? watermelon?), then add water and growing dust to see it appear before your eyes! This game has six modes.
Parent Tip: Encourage an understanding of gardening. Ask: "Why do we add water?" "What shape is a watermelon seed?"
edward2005 uploaded this game into the Action Games category on the 28th February 2019


Image: King Tut Virtual Picture
CNN has a brief article in which it reports the results of an autopsy performed on King Tut’s mummified remains. Below is an excerpt taken from the article:
(CNN) — King Tutankhamun’s golden, mummified remains tell only a partial story of an ancient Egyptian boy king who died under mysterious circumstances.
But a new “virtual autopsy” of King Tut’s body, shown in an upcoming BBC One documentary, has given historians a clearer picture of the young man’s life — and death.
Scientists used CT scans to recreate the first life-size image of Tutankhamun, one of the last rulers of the 18th Dynasty. King Tut ruled from 1333 B.C. until about 1323 B.C. Historians put his age at death at about 19.
Research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010 showed that King Tut may have died of malaria, possibly after suffering an infection in his broken leg. As seen in the new virtual autopsy photo, Tutankhamun’s left foot was also severely deformed; the inward angle suggests that he had a clubfoot. Researchers believe the boy king had Kohler disease, a rare bone disorder.
More than 100 walking sticks were found in Tut’s tomb; historians originally thought they represented his power, but it’s more likely Tut used them to get around.
You can read the article in its entirety by visiting CNN online.
You can also read the results of the original research: “Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun’s Family,” The Journal of the American Medical Association. The article is available free online.
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Baby feeding and nutrition
Your baby will grow rapidly in their first year of life, so mealtimes will take a lot of time out of your day! Our articles offer helpful tips and advice from breastfeeding, weaning to family meals.
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Breastfeeding is best for babies and provides many benefits. It is important that, in preparation for and during breastfeeding, you eat a varied, balanced diet. Combined breast and bottle feeding in the first weeks of life may reduce the supply of your own breastmilk, and reversing the decision not to breastfeed is difficult. The social and financial implications of using an infant formula should be considered. Improper use of an infant formula or inappropriate foods or feeding methods may present a health hazard. If you use an infant formula, you should follow manufacturer’s instructions for use carefully – failure to follow the instructions may make your baby ill. Always consult your doctor, midwife or health visitor for advice about feeding your baby.


Bridges are counted among the most spectacular works of art and hold a special place in the history of engineering. They are the answer to a central challenge in the history of mankind — mastering the land with a view to connecting people. Over vertiginous cliffs, steep gorges, rivers with devastating torrents.
Bridges continue to fascinate because they symbolize the human genius in overcoming the obstacles of nature. Throughout the centuries, the necessity of developing means of transport coupled with the ambition of establishing new world records has been a driving force of progress, forcing the pioneers to break new ground.
Three bridges, three eras, three records of civil engineering. The Pont du Gard, the viaduct of Garabit and the viaduct of Millau.


Friday, 21 February 2014
How to use Fill Handle in Excel 2010
Excel provides auto fill options that will automatically continue a series of data based on an established pattern. The fill handle is a small black square in the lower-right corner of the selected cell. To use fill handle do the following:
1. Hover the cursor over the lower-right corner of the cell until it turns into [+].
2. Click and drag the handle from cells that contain data to the cells you want to fill with new data.
The diagram below shows an example:
Excel automatically completes the series as far as you take the fill handle.
You can choose how the selection is filled by using the auto fill options as shown above.


- ISBN: 9780134491387 | 0134491386
- Cover: Loose-leaf
- Copyright: 10/1/2018
NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value; this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Before purchasing, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN.
For courses in music fundamentals.
Fundamentals of Music: Rudiments, Musicianship, and Composition , 7th Edition, familiarizes readers with the notation and performance of Western music through creative composition projects, listening exercises intended to develop aural skills, and the analysis of musical examples from a broad range of styles and genres. It gives readers the opportunity to practice new vocabulary, as well as their performance and analytic skills, in the context of complete compositions.
The 7th Edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded, yet maintains the intent of its original author, Earl Henry. It incorporates a broader range of musical examples and styles, along with revised and expanded aural skills methods and exercises. So, whether readers are preparing for a career in music, or simply want to develop their appreciation for this musical language, they will learn the terms, symbols, practices, and conventions that make Western music sound the way it does.


US warship sailed to 75° North
In post-Cold War times, the US military has mainly operated at such high latitudes with aircraft or submarines. 75° in the Norwegian Sea is north of Bear Island and the northeastern coast of Greenland.
The Navy’s Arctic Service Ribbon was awarded to «USS Roosevelt» on July 28, the U.S. 6th Fleet informs.
The 6th fleet sails Europe and Africa but has this spring and summer had a high-profile on Arctic waters, including first voyages into the Barents Sea since the late 1980s.
“Maritime operations by USS Roosevelt are the most visible and persistent demonstrations of the Navy’s commitment to Arctic security,” said Ryan R. Kendall, commanding officer aboard Roosevelt.
“Today my crew has operated above the 66th parallel for twenty-eight days and counting, and I am thrilled to award them the Navy Arctic Service Ribbon. This ribbon symbolizes Roosevelt’s exceptional maritime operations in the high north and a sustained U.S. naval presence in Arctic waters.”
This is the second voyage the vessel has inside the Arctic Circle as it in May was one of several US Navy ships to sail into the Barents Sea. Earlier in June, «USS Roosvelt» participated in NATO’s exercise, Dynamic Mongoose 2020 taking place in the North-Atlantic and waters further north off northern Norway.
The American missile destroyer also trained together with the Norwegian corvette «KNM Gnist» outside Troms in mid-July.


Formation and Coalescence of Cosmological Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Supermassive Star Collapse
August 19, 2013
Abstract: The overwhelming observational evidence for supermassive black holes in the early Universe at high redshifts z>7 produces a serious problem: how could these black holes have formed? The two most promising pathways (hierarchical galaxy mergers and accretion onto collapsed Population III stars) have been ruled out by a number of recent studies. A possible alternative pathway for supermassive black hole formation at high redshifts is the collapse of a supermassive star that may have formed in the direct collapse of a primordial gas cloud. We self-consistently simulate the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars from the onset of collapse using three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamics with fully dynamical spacetime evolution. We show that seed perturbations in the progenitor can lead to the formation of a system of two high-spin supermassive black holes, which inspiral and merge under the emission of powerful gravitational radiation. The gravitational-wave signals could be observed at redshifts z>10 with the DECIGO or Big Bang Observer gravitational-wave observatories, assuming supermassive stars in the mass range 10^4-10^6 M_ odot. The potential detection of such signals may inform cosmology about the formation process of supermassive black holes at high redshifts.


Clean-up work costing £5m to rid a beach of "historical pollution" - including mining pipes, cables and machinery - will start later this year.
The items have been exposed as waves wash away parts of cliffs at Lynemouth at an ex-colliery landfill site.
Northumberland County Council has allocated the money to stop waste deposits from washing into the sea.
In 2020 the authority said tests on beach samples had revealed some waste could be harmful to humans.
Planning and regulatory consents have also been received to allow the project to go ahead.
It had been hoped the clean-up work would be carried out sooner but the authority said weather and environmental constraints had affected the start date.
The council said preparatory work would start on the beach in autumn, with the main work starting next year.
It will see contaminated areas of the beach excavated and removed before the dunes are reformed with a mix of earth and sand.
Northumberland Council cabinet member John Riddle said: "While we would like to have started earlier, many factors were outside our control.
"The new timeline also enables us to finalise details and funding arrangements with the Coal Authority over the works needed on their land to the north of the Lyneburn so we can do this as a single 'integrated' scheme, securing best value and delivering the best outcomes for the local environment and the communities in this part of Northumberland."
Before the work starts, council teams will continue to remove material from the beach found in weekly inspections.
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Cambridge Histories Online
Publication of the Cambridge Histories began in 1960 and today there are over 250 volumes. Authored by distinguished scholars, they are an excellent place to begin research. They offer a contextualized overview – respecting history as evolution and continuity across time – suggesting how one event or thing is related to another. They give the BIG picture. They are a natural complement to such resources as Gale Virtual Reference (a huge collection of scholarly encyclopedias) and Blackwell Reference (a large collection of scholarly handbooks and dictionaries). Entries conclude with bibliographies.
In Cambridge Histories Online, topical multi-volume sets may be searched individually, within topical groupings (for instance, American history, British history, economic history, general history, history of science, music, religious studies, and philosophy) or you may search across the entire collection. Multi-volume sets cover such topics as: the history of the book, Latin America, ancient history, India, modern history, Europe, modern Britain, Africa, American literature, China, Iran, Islam, Japan, Judaism, law in America, the United States, the Bible, native peoples of the Americas, medieval history, Egypt, 18th century philosophy, food, and Greek and Roman warfare.
Search the catalog, many are available in print.


Hyderabad: A forest fire in Amarabad Tiger Reserve, which destroyed 10 acres of forest land in the Domalapenta Forest Range on Tuesday, has once again raised the issue of a long-standing issue which is a challenge for the forest department.
As per the numbers put out by the Forest Survey of India, Telangana recorded 364 forest fires in the last seven days.
Forest Department officials said the information sent by MODIS on NASA satellites is sometimes double-counted because of data recorded several times. Wild life data shows that the Amarabad Tiger Reserve Circle has recorded 58 fires in the past one month, while the Kaval Tiger Reserve Circle at Mancherial recorded 115 fires before the summer set.
To control wildlife in summer, the Forest Department adopted preventive measures with the help of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAMPA) provided by the Union Government. In Amarabad Tiger Reserve, officials of the forest department said that 5 crores is used only for forest protection. “Expenditure from CAMPA fund for forest areas in Nagarkurnool is around 15 crores. For laying fire lines, the expenditure on digging the peripheral trenches reaches Rs 5 crore. The department also uses the funds for the procure of fire fighting equipment”,said Kista Goud, district forest officer, Nagarkurnool.


Fundamentals Of Design How To Think Like A Designer | 730 MB
Most of us know great design when we see it. If you've ever held an iPhone, seen the inside of a Tesla S or walked through a building designed by Frank Gehry, then you know how important design is. The emotion it brings out of us as we interact with great design is indescribable.
What You'll Learn
Intro to Design. The subtle differences between design and aesthetics.
The Power of Grids. Grids create order out of chaos. You'll learn how to build the structure that lives underneath your design.
Establishing Visual Heiarchy. 5 ways to establish visual hierarchy: color, space, alignment, implicit, and explicit.
Choose and Combine Typefaces. You'll identify different fonts, then adjust their size and kearning.
Personality and Context in Color. You'll choose an appropriate palette based on understanding of color theory
What You'll Make
You may or may not want to be a designer, but learning to think like one is crucial.


In accordance with the railway load transfer model, the parts that are laid at certain intervals perpendicular to the rails, which transmit the forces acting on the rail to the ballast layer by meeting and spreading on a wider surface, detecting and protecting the opening of the road and keeping the road on its axis against side effects, are called sleepers.
Railway sleepers used in railway systems, axle weight, speed, technological developments in towing and towing vehicles and so on. the progress in the elements and the materials used in the production of traverse were in parallel with the problems of adaptation to these advances and the cost considerations.
Traverses used in rail systems are divided into four:
- Wooden sleepers,
- Iron sleepers,
- Reinforced concrete sleepers,
- Plastic sleepers.
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Print the document and cut out a set of cards for each group of 2-4 students.
Students should sort each figure into piles depending on how the triangles can be proven to be congruent.
Check students answers by referencing the letter in the top corner of each card.
Answer Key is included!
Great as a demonstration of learning after triangle congruence postulates and theorems are introduced or as a warm-up activity.


Two Pre-Modern Etymologists: The Connections between Johann Georg Wachter (1663–1757) and Johan Ihre (1707–1780)
Source InformationNovember 2010, Volume53(Issue2) Page127To137
In 1737 the German philologist Johann Georg Wachter (1663–1757) published an etymological dictionary of the German language, Glossarium Germanicum . This book had a great influence on the most prominent Swedish philologist of the eighteenth century, Johann Ihre (1707–1780), professor at Uppsala University. In 1769 Ihre published, along the same lines as Wachter's work, a Swedish etymological dictionary. The present article aims at tracing Wachter's influence on Ihre, and is partly based on manuscript evidence.


Visual arts and design student Daniël de Bruin has created a mechanical 3D printer that uses no computers or motors. The printer functions by using a 15-kilogram weight that must be reset again and again to push out clay, and a guiding wire is bent to provide the basic shape of whatever is being made.
more and more products are being fashioned by means of automated processes. not only are these processes more efficient and therefore cheaper, they also ensure that every item meets the same criteria and does not deviate from the norm. however deviations are usually the most interesting. as with humankind and the rest of nature, true beauty lies in its diversity.
images via Daniël de Bruin


Due to its key role in ‘cultural evolution’, our, arguably uniquely human, capacity to learn from others the accumulated wisdom of previous generations – social learning has been suggested to hold a key to understanding the peculiarities of human life. However, social learning research has typically been confined to the academic fields of ecology and economics; only recently has this become the focus of psychological enquiry.
This module will provide an in-depth understanding of cutting-edge developments concerning the psychological and neural mechanisms that underpin social learning. Throughout the 10 lectures we will critically evaluate whether social learning mechanisms are uniquely social, or, whether social learning ‘piggybacks’ on domain-general mechanisms. We will also explore what happens when social learning goes awry.
- Essay (50%)
- Examination (50%)


Variety of Forms
The forms of Lararium varied greatly. Rich homes might have a huge affair of carved marble which looked rather like a temple in miniature. In other homes the Lararium might only be a simple wooden cabinet or wall shelf. Big or small, the important thing about a Lararium is that it should be permanent rather than something to be put away when the rites are not being held.
A lararium, properly speaking, is a shrine for theLares. During the Republic there does not seem to have been any statues used to represent the Lares, since they were considered more as ancestors. The death masks of ancestors were stored in boxes, hung on a wall near the entrance of the house, and it might possibly be that lararium meant something like a foyer where these were kept. Today it would be comparable to having photographs of your ancestors at your lararium. Beginning in the fourth century BCE certain patrician families assumed divine heritages and thus may have begun to include images of a Lar familiaris such as Venus, but these would still have been regarded there as an ancestor.
Tools used at the lararium
- Acerra Container for incense.
- Salinum Container for salt.
- Gutus Container for milk or wine.
- Patera Offering dish.
- Incense An offering to the gods.
- Turibulum Incense burner.
- Lucerna Sacred lamp.


The ancient Greeks are in many important ways the founders of the modern world. It is true that their culture thrived thousands of years ago, but the ideas, building designs and governments that they founded anciently still exist in the Western World today. From sports to democracy, the Ancient Greeks will continue to influence the lives of billions of people for centuries to come.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
First news of the Declaration of Independence appeared on July 5, 1776, in Philadelphia''s Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote, a newspaper printed in German. George Washington didn''t hear about it until July 9th.


What are the fundamental forces that drive human behavior? A group of evolutionary thinkers offer an answer by revising one of psychology’s most familiar images.
Abraham Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs is one of the iconic images of psychology. The simple diagram, first introduced in the 1940s, spells out the underlying motivations that drive our day-to-day behavior and points the way to a more meaningful life. It is elegant, approachable and uplifting.
But is it also out of date?
That’s the argument of a team of evolutionary psychologists led by Douglas Kenrick of Arizona State University. In the latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, they propose a revised pyramid, one informed by recent research defining our deep biological drives.
Their new formulation is intellectually stimulating, but emotionally deflating. “Self-actualization,” the noble-sounding top layer of Maslow’s hierarchy, in their model has not only been dethroned, it has been relegated to footnote status. It has been replaced at the top with a more mundane motivation Maslow didn’t even mention: “Parenting.”
The new pyramid is based on the premise that our strongest and most fundamental impulse, which shapes our day-to-day desires on an unconscious level, is to survive long enough to pass our genes to the next generation. According to this school of thought, backed by considerable — though not irrefutable — evidence, all our achievements are linked in one way or another to the urge to reproduce.
In other words, aside from our powerful brains, we’re pretty much like every other living creature.


From: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007
This video uses three-dimensional modeling of a gullied crater in the Centauri Montes region of Mars and simulates a flight over that landscape. One gully inside the crater has a deposit of light-toned material that was not present in 1999 but appeared by 2004, as determined from before-and-after images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. The deposit is several hundred meters or yards long.
The imagery and stereo information for this video come from images taken on Dec. 12, 2006, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and the Context Camera (CTX) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The HiRISE image is catalogued as PSP_001714_1415 .
The location of this crater is at about 38 degrees south latitude, 97 degrees east longitude.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp., Boulder, Colo. The Context Camera was provided and is operated by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Arizona/MSSS/USGS
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Okay, so I'm fairly new to c++ programming. For practice, I wanted to create a program to store my data (like passwords and such) but I'm not sure how to go about making that data secure..
Obviously the program itself will prompt the user for a password at the start. If I store the data in a text file, then someone could easily just open it and read it. If I store the information in variables, how will I add new information while the program runs, rather than editing the source code?
I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and assume this is a very dumb question so thanks in advance for your patience ;)
Well security is a pretty advanced topic, but there are some things you can do to get some light, simple security.
For instance, instead of storing a password in a file, store a hash of the password in the file. Then when the user enters in a password, your application will hash that password, then check to see if the hash matches the one stored in the file. This way a user cannot just open the file to read the password.
The problem with that is that a dedicated abuser could read your hash from the file, then generate a password that matches the same hash.
I read the OP's post as he was making a program to store passwords of other programs. Since you generally aren't in control of the behavior of the other programs, hashing the passwords makes them useless. (Since you can't enter the hash...)
Originally Posted by bithub
If this is the case, you would just store the passwords, and encrypt the file containing them. The encryption key is the 'master' password, or some derivative thereof.


#41 Effect of Light intensity on the rate of Photosynthesis
Plants need light energy to make the chemical energy needed to create carbohydrates. Increasing the light intensity will boost the speed of photosynthesis. However, at high light intensities the rate becomes constant.
- Place a pond weed Elodea upside in a test tube containing water.
- Place the tube in a beaker of fresh water at 25°C. This helps to maintain a constant temperature around the pond weed.
- Place excess sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) in the water to give a constant saturated solution of CO2.
- Place the lamp (the only light source) at distance from the plant.
- Count the number of oxygen bubbles given off by the plant in 1 minute period. This is the rate of photosynthesis at that particular light intensity.
- The gas should be checked to prove that it is indeed oxygen - relights a glowing splint.
- Repeat at different light intensities by moving the lamp to different distances.
- Graph the results placing light intensity on the x-axis.
- Light energy absorbed by chlorophyll is converted to ATP and H+
- At very low light levels the plant will be respiring only not photosynthesising.
- As the light intensity increases, the rate of photosynthesis increases. However, the rate will not increase beyond a certain level of light intensity.
- At high light intensities the rate becomes constant, even with further increases in light intensity, there are no increases in the rate.
- The plant is unable to harvest the light at these high intensities and the chlorophyll system can be damaged by very intense light levels.


You can make the right nutritional choices if you know enough about nutrition. You can’t make wise decisions if you don’t know what you are doing. This article will give you that information so that you can be as healthy as you can be.
It is very simple to add ingredients that have a better nutritional value into regular foods. If your children dislike nutritious food, this works well. However, you can do it for yourself too. You can sneak beans into baked goods, or grate vegetables to mix into sauces. The people eating the food you have prepared will still enjoy their meals and snacks, but they will also be eating healthier.
Eat a rainbow of colors in food. Fruits and vegetables that are bright in color tend to be low calorie and nutrient rich. Each meal you eat should have about one fruit and veggie. Whenever possible, eat the skin or pulp of fruits and vegetables since that is where most of the nutrients are stored.
Experts agree that you need to reduce the amount of processed flour and grains in your diet. Many of the benefits of grain are lost when husks and hulls are thrown away. Many products add items like wheat germ to try to return the nutrients to the end product, but does this really make sense? Of course not.
Add more salmon to your diet. Salmon is rich in omega-3 fats and also in niacin. Omega-3 fatty acids have been proven to lower the risk of lots of different diseases. Wild salmon is a better option than farmed salmon, which may contain toxic substances.
You should eliminate sugar from your daily diet and substitute artificial sweeteners. Too much sugar can lead to many health issues, including serious heart problems. A sweetener like Stevia or Splenda makes a great substitute when used in cooking or added directly to food. You won’t miss the sugar at all.
Being informed is always the best way to make the right decisions. Do yourself a favor. Use the advice found in this article. No one can make positive changes in your life but you. The choice is yours to make.


Downslope movement of rock, soil, or artificial fill under the influences of gravity.
Landslide Hazards Program [ More info] Research program designed to improve understanding of the causes of ground failure so that the hazards associated with landslides can be mitigated or avoided.
Landslide events [ More info] Current, regularly updated reports of landslides nationwide
Landslide Hazards in the Seattle, Washington, Area [ More info] Explains how and why landslides occur in this area, and what can be done to forecast and mitigate them.
Landslide hazards: Frequently Asked Questions [ More info] Answers to common questions about landslides and the hazards they pose.
Landslide types and processes [ More info] An introductory primer giving basic scientific facts about landslides--the types of landslides, how they are initiated, and how they can begin to be managed as a hazard.
Landslide: did you see it? [ More info] Report your experience of seeing a landslide including location.
Landslides learning & education [ More info] A wide variety of explanatory and educational resources about landslides and their relationship with earthquakes and storms, and preparedness. Includes glossary and photos.
Landslides research [ More info] Description of research projects in progress to make accurate landslide hazard maps and forecasts of landslide occurrences.
Costly landslide events in the United States: map layer description file [ More info] GIS data set from the USGS National Landslides Hazards Program showing major landslide events in the United States and Puerto Rico with metadata. Map layer can be downloaded in shapefile format or SDTS format.
Field reconnaissance report of landslides triggered by the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake [ More info] Preliminary aerial helicopter reconnaissance of areas affected by landslides and ground inspections at some accessible landslide sites.
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If your child enjoys reading, this can help them to become confident at spelling. At Acorn we are keen to encourage our children to use our 4 step approach to learning spellings.
All children should have a copy of this glued into their homework books. It is particularly important for children who have a difficulty with spelling to follow this approach as only by using a multi-sensory approach like this will they be enabled to overcome their difficulties. They need this extra practice to enable the learning of spellings to be retained in both the short-term and long-term memory.
Spelling lists used in Acorn are available for download here.
Click on the SWST list number you require.


The name verification is guided by RFC 2818 Section 3.1, more specifically on wildcards:
Matching is performed using the matching rules specified by
[RFC2459]. If more than one identity of a given type is present in
the certificate (e.g., more than one dNSName name, a match in any one
of the set is considered acceptable.) Names may contain the wildcard
character * which is considered to match any single domain name
component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com matches foo.a.com but
not bar.foo.a.com. f*.com matches foo.com but not bar.com.
Here the "domain name components" a separated by the dots, and do not include them.
This is also clarified in RFC 6125 (which also discourages the use of wildcard certificates, but that's a different problem).
Instead of putting your host name in the Common Name RDN of the Subject DN, you could have two Subject Alternative Name entries in the same certificate: one for
*.example.com and one for
example.com. The CN is only meant to be a fallback solution anyway:
If a subjectAltName extension of type dNSName is present, that MUST
be used as the identity. Otherwise, the (most specific) Common Name
field in the Subject field of the certificate MUST be used. Although
the use of the Common Name is existing practice, it is deprecated and
Certification Authorities are encouraged to use the dNSName instead.


First, it is helpful to distinguish between the International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act 1993 (IPKCA) and Hague Abduction Convention.
The IPKCA is a United States federal law signed as Public Law 103-322 by President Bill Clinton on September 2, 1993. The IPCKA makes it a federal crime to remove a child from the U.S.A. or to keep a child who is a citizen of the U.S.A. in another crime with the intent to obstruct custodial rights. 18 U.S.C. § 1204.
The Hague Abduction Convention, on the other hand, is international law. It applies to parents and children who originate from a country that is a party to the Hague Convention. Specifically, twenty-three countries drafted the treaty on child abduction in 1976 at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. United States State Department, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Possible Solutions - Using ...
Discusses international law from the standpoint of child kidnapping policies.


Teaching American History Program
The rural district in western Massachusetts works with a consortium of six nearby districts. The partners are the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association and the Franklin County Collaborative for Professional Development. 225 teachers, teacher trainers, and district coordinators will participate in seminars on major American history topics, as well as in small group training at school sites. They will examine and analyze primary documents and will integrate these documents and other historical materials into their classroom instruction.


In football, the intended goal of FC Barcelona is to be the best football team in the world. So they recruit and nurture the most talented players they can find, train them hard together and instill a hunger for victory in order to achieve that goal.
When you make your presentation in the board room or on the stage at an industry conference, even if you are not the Lionel Messi of Public Speaking, like Barcelona, you want to be clear about your message and your intended goals too.
How does this translate for you?
An intention is something that you plan to do or achieve.
A message is a short communication.
Your message is what you want your audience to take away when you stop talking. Your audience needs to realize that the message is a representation of your intended goal.
If your intention is to win the Champion's League, your message is to win each game, one by one, culminating in the Final.
If your intention is to win the war, your message is that you are invincible.
Message and intention must work hand in hand to influence your audience. One must support and lead to the completion of the other.
A speech that conveys only a message, but no intended goal, will have a much lesser impact on your audience than a speech whose intended goal is clear.
If you miss that goal, you might not qualify for the Champions League of public speaking.


A GIANT finger-like cloud of antimatter more than 3000 light years long is pointing out from the centre of our Galaxy. The cloud contains positrons, the antimatter counterpart of electrons, but its origin is uncertain. It may be a high-speed "jet" stabbing out from an enormous black hole that may lurk at the heart of the Galaxy. Alternatively, it could be the debris of a rash of supernova explosions in the same region.
A team led by William Purcell of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, discovered the finger while observing the regions close to the centre of the Galaxy with NASA's orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The observatory's instruments did not observe the positrons directly. Instead they detected the gamma rays that are produced when a positron slows down enough to combine with an interstellar electron, causing the particles to annihilate each other.
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The Question and Answer section for Shakespeare’s Sonnets is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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I think this is the general deffinition:
This Sonnet structure is commonly called the English sonnet or the Shakespearean sonnet, to distinguish it from the Italian Petrarchan sonnet formwhich has two parts: a rhyming octave (abbaabba) and a...
From the text:
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.


Document Confirms British were Plotting to Invade Germany Before Germany Invaded Poland
An early version of the ‘King’s Speech’ reveals Britain was preparing to declare war on Germany before Hitler invaded Poland.
George VI’s address to the nation, depicted in the 2010 movie starring Colin Firth as the stammering monarch, had been written at least nine days beforehand.
The three-page document that has come to light is entitled ‘Draft King’s Speech’ and is dated August 25, 1939.
The document, which was written on August 25, 1939 – seven days before Germany’s invasion of Poland – has come to light after 74 years.
The typed document, the second draft of the speech, was retained by civil servant Harold Vale Rhodes, who had previously written a first attempt.
In a pencilled note in the left-hand margin, Mr Rhodes criticised the length of some of the sentences in the second draft and hinted that his should be used.
It would appear his advice was followed – the final speech read to the nation and the Commonwealth by the King on September 3 contained shorter, more concise sentences.
Although the tone remained the same, some of the content was significantly different. For instance, it did not mention Germany or Hitler by name but merely ‘our enemies’.
The early draft accused Germany of being a bully that wanted to dominate the world by brute force and stressed that ‘we are fighting for the principles of freedom and justice’.
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The condition of the peasantry in Oudh was miserable. The governing classes had no sympathy for the subjects who suffered terribly under their tyranny. The officials took delight in plundering the peasants. Although the condition of Oudh was not satisfactory, Sleeman was opposed to its annexation.
In 1851 Dalhousie himself journeyed on the borders of Oudh and heard the use of heavy cannon for the purpose of collecting revenues by the servants of the king. In spite of that, Dalhousie hesitated to take action. In 1854, Sleeman was replaced by Outram as Resident. The new Resident reported that the administration of the country was an orgy of massacre and corruption set to music.
The recommendation of Dalhousie was that while Wajid Ali Shah, the ruler of Oudh, be allowed to retain his title, the entire administration of the country be taken over by the English Company. On account of the loyalty of the king, Dalhousie did not recommend his forcible abduction and annexation of his territory. The members of the Executive were divided.
In January 1856, Dalhousie got the orders of the Court of Directors with regard to the future of Oudh. He was to offer to the king a kind of Vatican sovereignty, the title of the king, adequate funds and full jurisdiction. Outram was sent back to Lucknow and a brigade followed him. The king refused to accept the new position and was deposed. He was sent to Calcutta (Kolkata) and he died in 1857.
Sleeman believed that the annexation of Oudh was a political blunder. The English used their giant's strength and had injured their reputation in the eyes of the Indians. During the Revolt of 1857, the sepoys of Oudh had brought about havoc and had added to the difficulties of the British. It is said that the forced abduction of Wajid Ali Shah and annexation of Oudh were offences against good faith and public conscience.
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Parents' Mental Health
When a parent becomes mentally unwell, it can be difficult for them to explain to their child what is happening and for the child to make sense of their parent's behaviour. Parents and children or young people often feel isolated and unsupported when the parent is unwell, which can increase distress and anxiety across the family. It is important that mental health and social services support both the parent and their child. This resource explores the impact of parents’ ill health on children and how parents and children can be protected and supported.


Open up those peepers and get a full shot of robot. Scientists are working on tiny machines that can be directed through the eyes to treat conditions like macular degeneration.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries' MSR05 robot experiments with drugs and bathes in hydrogen peroxide gas.
This modified assembly robot has been put to work in the lab, where it's handling dangerous materials to keep people out of harm's way.
New aquatic microrobot out of China can walk and turn freely on the surface of water by mimicking insects that can do the same.
Harvard University's robotics lab designs an origami-inspired method for stamping out large numbers of pop-up flying microrobots.
Though it weighs more than 1,100 water striders, this little bot can leap 5.5 inches in the air while skimming the water's surface.
This week, a robot swam around in our eyes, we took a tour of a creepily cool Tron-style home, and Tiny Wings kept flying high.
The UBOT is a smarter--but needier--vacuum bot
The robot, which weighs about three-hundredths of an ounce, is manipulated by magnetic fields and has the potential for use in clean rooms or hazardous environments.
A group of South Korean researchers from the Nano/Micro System Laboratory at Seoul National University has created a miniature robot powered by living heart tissue.


Introduction to African-American Literature
This course will explore the flow of African American literature from its origins to the present. Our non-linear journey (circling from the 21st century to the 18th century) will pivot on: cultural movements (such as the 1920s and 30s Harlem Renaissance and the 1960s and 70s Black Arts Movement); tensions between black radicalism and black “respectability”; the rise of black feminist literary traditions; and the styles, themes, and forms that connect and separate African American literature from a larger tradition of American literature. We will read a wide range of novels, drama, short stories, and poetry. The assigned reading may include poetry by Claudia Rankine, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks, novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler, drama by Amiri Baraka, Lynn Nottage, and August Wilson, and short stories by James Baldwin and Alice Walker.


In a very recent review published in September 2020 in Molecules, Tronina et al. provided insight into the unusual hop phytoestrogens and showed numerous health benefits associated with their wide spectrum of biological activities including estrogenic, anticancer, neuropreventive, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, which were intensively studied. They offered potential applications of these compounds such as, as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Tronina T, Popłoński J, Bartmańska A. Flavonoids as Phytoestrogenic Components of Hops and Beer. Molecules. 2020;25(18):4201. Published 2020 Sep 14. doi:10.3390/molecules25184201 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570471/


Some articles on tick, marks, tick marks:
... representing triangles (and other geometric figures), "tick" marks along the sides are used to denote sides of equal lengths – the equilateral triangle has tick marks ... The scalene has single, double, and triple tick marks, indicating that no sides are equal ...
Famous quotes containing the words marks and/or tick:
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of style. But while stylederiving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tabletssuggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. Taste: The Story of an Idea, Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)
“Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)


East Asian cuisine includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, and Taiwanese food. Considering this is the most.
Pages in category "East Asian cuisine". The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
Rice was first cultivated in China in Neolithic times and still forms the foundation of most East Asian cuisines. Rice and wheat noodles are also popular.
Some of the most popular East Asian food regions are from China, Korea and Japan. While rice is a staple ingredient for each, spices, meat.
Here's a list of the top ten meals in Southeast Asia. And Southeast Asian cuisine brings the flavor in spades. . I've not yet been to South East Asia outside of Vietnam and Malaysian Borneo, so mine is limited somewhat.


A channel is an independent hardware component that co-ordinate all I/O to a set of controllers. Computer systems that use I/O channel have special hardware components that handle all I/O operations.
Channels use separate, independent and low cost processors for its functioning which are called Channel Processors.
Channel processors are simple, but contains sufficient memory to handle all I/O tasks. When I/O transfer is complete or an error is detected, the channel controller communicates with the CPU using an interrupt, and informs CPU about the error or the task completion.
Each channel supports one or more controllers or devices. Channel programs contain list of commands to the channel itself and for various connected controllers or devices. Once the operating system has prepared a list of I/O commands, it executes a single I/O machine instruction to initiate the channel program, the channel then assumes control of the I/O operations until they are completed.
The I/O processor in the IBM 370 computer is called a Channel. A computer system configuration includes a number of channels which are connected to one or more I/O devices.
Following are the different categories of I/O channels:
The Multiplexer channel can be connected to a number of slow and medium speed devices. It is capable of operating number of I/O devices simultaneously.
This channel can handle only one I/O operation at a time and is used to control one high speed device at a time.
It combines the features of both multiplexer and selector channels.
The CPU directly can communicate with the channels through control lines. Following diagram shows the word format of channel operation.
The computer system may have number of channels and each is assigned an address. Each channel may be connected to several devices and each device is assigned an address.


This should include what a world would look like in which all rational beings followed the maxim and why you could not achieve the purpose or end of the maxim in such a world. Kant thinks that we are not really in freedom if we are only looking for pleasure or desire and avoiding pains. By meeting our instinctive needs and become slaves of our desires and impulse. 2. Explain why following this maxim (i. e. taking recreational drugs) would interfere with your fulfilling imperfect duties to yourself and to other people.
Imperfect duties are laxer duties, which means you will be free to choose what you want to do to promote yourself. We choose to exercise to get health but we can accord our ability to set the exercise schedule. Taking recreational drugs to maximize our pleasure cant provide us any promotion to neither to ourselves nor to the society besides getting high temporary. It is a process do not need you do anything to yourself or to society except taking drugs. And if everyone are addict to bring by drugs their life will get worse because they find that they can get pleasure so easily.
And finally people may stop doing anything to get pleasure because they already have. 3. Explain why following this maxim fails to treat yourself with respect. Kant believe that human beings rational ability make us different and distinguish with animals. 4. Explain why following this maxim would likely lead you to fail to treat other people with respect. As usual, papers are to be typed, standard font, double-spaced and run @1,000 wds. (@4 pp. ). Do not present an introduction. Answer each question separately and number your answers appropriately.


Why Use a Specialist for Your Procedure?
All dentists, including your general dentist, received training in endodontic treatment in dental school. General dentists can perform endodontic procedures along with other dental procedures, but often they refer patients needing endodontic treatment to endodontists.
Endodontists are dentists with at least two additional years of advanced education in root canal techniques and procedures. Because they limit their practices to endodontic cases, they have concentrated experience in endodontic treatment. In addition to treating routine cases, they are experts in performing complicated procedures, such as surgery, and in treating difficult cases, such as teeth with narrow, blocked, or unusually positioned canals. Endodontists are also experienced at finding the cause of oral and facial pain that has been difficult to diagnose.


The Hidden Benefits of Exercise
Most people exercise to lose weight and get in better shape. For teenagers, however, evidence suggests there's considerably more to regular exercise than weight control. In fact, a recent survey has found that teenagers who make a habit out of exercise and physical activity are more likely to adapt other positive habits, while avoiding negative ones.
In the survey, researchers asked nearly 12,000 middle- and high-school students to report how often they had participated in various activities in the previous week, including playing sports, using local recreation centers, skating or skateboarding, bicycling, watching television, and playing video games.
The students also provided information about their grades, self-esteem, and other behaviors.
Compared to teenagers whose primary activities were watching TV and playing video games, teenagers who exercised five or more times per week were:
- less likely to have sex, including unprotected sex;
- less likely to smoke cigarettes;
- less likely to drink alcohol or to drive while drunk;
- less likely to use illegal drugs other than marijuana;
- less likely to miss time away from school;
- less likely to have low self-esteem;
- more likely to wear a seat belt while driving;
- more likely to get 'A' grades in math and science;
- more likely to get a good night's sleep; and
- more likely to do household chores and to have summer jobs outside the home.
As this survey shows, there are definite benefits to regular exercise that can't be measured on a scale. So, what are you waiting for? Turn off that TV, tell your children to put down the video game, and get them moving! It's in their best interest. Talk to your chiropractor for more information on appropriate exercise guidelines for your family.
Newton MC, Gordon-Larsen P. Physical activity and sedentary behavior patterns are associated with selected adolescent risk behaviors. Pediatrics, April 2006;117(4):1281-1290.


The progressive and phrasal verbs: Evidence of colloquialization in nineteenth-century English?
The present study, which is based on the CONCE corpus, considers two linguistic features that are characteristic of spoken rather than written production: the progressive and phrasal verbs. The frequency development of these features in nineteenth-century English is examined in relation to contemporaneous changes in British society. The results show that the most informal genres in the corpus, comedies and private letters, exhibit increasing frequencies, while the formal genre of scientific writing displays stability. These results are shown to be partly similar to those reached in studies of late twentieth-century English, where the progressive and phrasal verbs increase in frequency in some written genres but not others. In previous research, this development has been taken to be part of an ongoing colloquialization of genre norms, which has in turn been linked to the democratization of discourse in post-1945 Western society. The present study demonstrates that related developments can be identified in nineteenth-century Britain, which implies that the concept of colloquialization may explain some of the stability and change attested in the data.


I'm a birdwatcher, but now seriously into dragonflies and a bit into butterflies, though it is frustrating how many of the former (damselflies) are very small and striped blue and black and how many of the latter in Britain are basically brown and orange.
Birds are residents or migrants. Migrants can be passing through or coming to stay. Their arrival and leaving dates are affected by the weather, but for example, by the late April the first clear night with winds from the south should bring some Whitethroats and although the odd bird may arrive very early, in Southern England you listen for the first Cuckoo around 20th April. However, typically you get a few of any species, then some more, with the main arrival two or three weeks after the first pathfinders.
Butterflies and dragonflies also work to a timetable, but it can be much stricter. A few are migrants or vagrants, but for most, when they appear, they've just emerged from chrysalis (butterfly) or straight from the larva (dragonflies). I'm describing the situation in temperate climes, of course: near the equator dragonfly slecies can be around all year.
Two weeks ago as I walked Essex and Suffolk footpaths, suddenly there were lots of Gatekeeper butterflies, small, quite brightly-patterned red-orange and brown butterflies often found in numbers around bramble bushes. Yesterday, suddenly around marshes, there were lots of restless, red, small dragonflies called Common Darters. If I'd picked the right two days, I'd have drawn a blank on the first and seen numbers the next. The Common Darters will be around in declining numbers into late October or even November.
I love the seasons.


Friday, 22 April 2011
Australian skull proof of convergent evolution
A fossil of a snail-eating marsupial has teeth that resemble a lizard's, providing a striking snapshot of convergent evolution.
Malleodectes, a small ferret-like marsupial that lived 10 to 17 million years ago, had a distinctive hammer-shaped tooth on each side of its upper jaw, said Rick Arena, lead author and palaeontologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
These findings, published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, are an example of convergent evolution, which occurs when two unrelated species have similar physical features.
"It's a striking example of evolutionary convergence, and the first example of a marsupial with teeth that resemble a lizard's," said Arena, who discovered the jawbones in the famous Riversleigh World Heritage fossil field in Queensland.


contribution by Cayley...elliptic functions. He formalized the theory of matrices. Among Cayley’s most important papers were his series of 10 “Memoirs on Quantics” (1854–78). A quantic, known today as an algebraic form, is a polynomial with the same total degree for each term; for example, every term in the following polynomial has a total degree of...
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Calm and Clear
"Wheel of Analytic Meditation" guides the student step by step from initial observation of the marks of existence compoundedness, impermanence, frustration, and emptiness to a penetrating insight into the causes of suffering, while refining concentration and observation into powerful tools for deepening meditation. "Instructions on the Middle Way" progresses to deeper levels of understanding until "unquestionable experience dawns."
Lama Mipham's Calm and Clear, two texts on Shamata and Vipasyana meditation, introduces his students to these practices.
Tarthang Tulku added introductions clarifying the major topics: how to meditate on impermanence, the nature of suffering, qualities that relieve obscurations, and the path to enlightenment.
Translated by Tarthang Tulku.
Includes Tibetan text.
Adopted for courses at eighteen universities.
Demonstrates clearly how to combine study and practice.


According to JonathanEdward's sermon, what keeps sinners out of the fiery pit of hell?
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Edwards, in an attempt to shock and scare his audience into returning to the church, tells his listening congregation that they could die at any moment. He illustrates their imminent death by comparing them to spiders hanging on to a thin web being dangled over the fiery pit of hell. At any moment, he warns, the web could break and the spider (sinner) would fall into hell with no help of salvation. However, the reason the audience has not met this tragic fate is because of God. He decided when people will die and he knows when people live, so his audience should take this opportunity to repent and ask for forgiveness, so that if they do die tonight, they will be right with God.
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Byrd, William (English composer)
William Byrd, 1543–1623, English composer, organist at Lincoln Cathedral and, jointly with Tallis, at the Chapel Royal. Although Roman Catholic, he composed anthems and services for the English Church in addition to his great Roman masses and Latin motets. He was esteemed by his contemporaries and was favored by Queen Elizabeth I, who, in 1575, granted to Byrd and Tallis a patent for the exclusive printing and selling of music. Byrd also composed instrumental music.
See biography by K. McCarthy (2013); studies by E. H. Fellowes (2d ed. 1948), O. W. Neighbor (1978), and J. Kerman (1981).


Europe’s Refugee Problem, Then and Now
In July 1938, representatives from 32 countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, meeting in Évian-les-Bains, France, refused to accept Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany. At a time when Europe is increasingly turning its back on migrants, it is vital to recall this history.
NEW YORK – Earlier this spring, I drove to a beautiful spot on the southern bank of Lake Geneva. My destination was the Hotel Royale in Évian-les-Bains. It was there, in July 1938, that 32 nations met for a shameful discussion that has been virtually airbrushed from our memory.
Convened by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the massive refugee crisis triggered by Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism, the Évian conference was a catastrophe. And its disastrous outcome needs to be recalled in the light of Europe’s current migration crisis.
The Évian conference was supposed to address the plight of hundreds of thousands of German and Austrian Jews who were desperate for refuge. Roosevelt believed that only a collective solution could meet the challenge. Hitler, too, hoped that other countries would accept them.


SOAR (Satellite for Orbital Aerodynamics Research) will travel to the International Space Station before being deployed to an extremely low Earth orbit to begin its demonstrator mission. The 3U CubeSat will feature fins made from a variety of different materials that are expected to interact with the atmosphere in different ways in an orbit under 450km above the Earth’s surface.
Operating this low will not only avoid problems with space debris that exists at higher altitudes, it will also benefit the satellite’s Earth observation capabilities and reduce communications latency. In addition, at SOAR’s end-of-mission, it will be easier to de-orbit the CubeSat from this low orbit, further minimising the chances of adding to the space debris problem. The mission is part of the wider €5.7m DISCOVERER project being led by Manchester University.
“The satellite represents the culmination of a huge amount of technology development over many years,” said Dr Peter Roberts, the scientific coordinator for DISCOVERER.
“We’re breaking new ground with a satellite designed specifically to explore aerodynamic effects in very low Earth orbits, whilst simultaneously measuring atmospheric parameters such as density and composition.”
SOAR features a set of fins that are coated with four different materials for testing and can be individually rotated to different angles. The fins will be folded and stowed against the spacecraft body for launch then deployed once the satellite is in orbit. These steerable fins will also be used as control surfaces to demonstrate novel aerodynamic control manoeuvres.
The DISCOVERER project is also developing atmosphere breathing electric propulsion prototypes that aim to utilise the residual atmosphere in low orbits as a propellant. This has the potential to keep the satellites in orbit indefinitely despite the drag acting upon them, but also allows them to re-enter quickly and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere when they reach the end of their mission.


Interpreting children's best interests: needs, attachment and decision-making
Summary Many decisions in the child welfare arena revolve around the concept of ‘children’s best interests’, but determining what they actually consist of is contestable and subject to conflicting criteria. This article describes the content of ‘children’s best interests’ discourses used by social workers and parents as part of decision-making rationales. Findings This study found that the construction of children’s ‘best interests’ was underpinned by concepts related to children’s needs. Needs were framed as emotional needs best met by family relationships, and theorised primarily using attachment theory. This resulted in decisions that tended to favour stability over change, as children’s distress on separation, indiscriminate affection, and difficult behaviours were interpreted as evidence of attachment problems that should lead to decisions to retain stable caregiving arrangements. The use of attachment theory was not straightforward, and illustrates the uneasy juxtapositions of conflicting discourses impacting on child welfare decision-making, particularly the influence of policy orientation. Applications These conflicts highlight the contested child welfare domain, and the contextualised interpretations required of attachment theories in decision-making contexts in order to make sound decisions for specific children. Implications for practice and education are discussed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
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Keywords: Attachment theory; best interests; child abuse; judgement; decision making; social constructionism; child and family welfare; child protection
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Battle of Nagashino
|Battle of Nagashino|
|Part of the Sengoku period|
General launching his troops to attack the castle of Nagashino in 1575, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
|Takeda forces||Combined forces of Oda and Tokugawa|
|Commanders and leaders|
|Takeda Katsuyori, Anayama Nobukimi, Takeda Nobukado, Takeda Nobutoyo||Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Okudaira Sadamasa|
|Casualties and losses|
|Between 3,000 and 10,000 dead, incl. 54 samurai leaders
The Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い Nagashino no Tatakai ) was an armed conflict in 1575. The battle took place near Nagashino Castle (長篠城) on the plain of Shitaragahara (設楽原) in the Mikawa province (三河) of Japan.
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Nobunaga's use of firearms to defeat Takeda's cavalry is considered as a turning point in Japanese warfare. His tactical innovation was the wooden stockades and rotating volleys of fire which led to a decisive victory at Nagashino.
Popular culture[change | edit source]
References[change | edit source]
- Turnbull, Stephen R. (2000). Nagashino 1575: Slaughter at the Barricades, p. 34.
- Turnbull, 32-33.
Other websites[change | edit source]
- Battle of Nagashino animated battle map by Jonathan Webb


Every youngster has that one cuddly stuffed animal they simply can't bear to part from. Whether it's a darling little doll or a traditional teddy, kids sure do love their toy companions. However, these seemingly harmless beloved toys are actually major health risks.
In a recent study performed by Dettol, a UK company that manufactures antibacterial cleaning products, microbiologists swab-tested children's used teddy bears—and the results are absolutely shocking. A frightening 80% of the toys were contaminated with staphylococcus spp, a pathogen that can actually cause food poisoning when ingested. And even scarier —as many as 25% of the stuffed animals contained coliforms, suggesting the possible presence of harmful organisms that can cause dangerous diseases. Another test in the same study suggested that 1 in 4 teddy bears even contain traces of fecal matter.
How does fecal matter end up on a toy that a child rarely lets go of? That could be just the problem. The alarming study revealed that up to 90% of children have dropped their toys on the floor at some point, and dirt and germs from the ground can easily cling to a teddy's soft fur. And we all know that when a child plays with a certain toy so frequently, it's bound to get quite filthy.
The study also discovered that 3 out of 4 bears aren't washed after a child has been ill, and 1 in 5 teddy bears have never been washed at all. It's no wonder why having these toys around is a major health risk for your child!
But there's good news. Luckily, it's easy to decontaminate your child's teddy bear by simply popping it in for a quick cycle in the washing machine. Dr. Lisa Ackerley, a hygiene expert, advises that all parents routinely wash their child's favorite toy in low temperature water by using an anti-bacterial laundry cleanser, which will kill 99.9% of all of the harmful germs hidden in the cuddly toy's fur. The stuffed animals should be washed separately from regular laundry and air dried to prevent any damage to fur, shape or small parts.


In this unit, your pupils will work as physicists and engineers, conducting experiments to investigate phenomena, principles and concepts involved in physical science and technology. Working in teams of two, they’ll complete a series of lessons that use hands-on experiments to explore gear ratios, friction and gravity. The unit concludes with an open-ended challenge, which provides an opportunity for your pupils to apply their newly acquired skills and knowledge in creative ways.
Build a Geared Vehicle to investigate the impact of using different gear trains.
Build a Tilting Platform to experimentally determine the coefficient of friction for different objects.
Build a Drop Tower to experimentally determine the gravitational constant.


Back pain or worse can be called a spinal cord disorder that will cause various other diseases. Spinal nerve disorders can occur because of collisions due to an accident or the fall of someone from a place that is quite high. If this happens, surely someone needs proper handling. One treatment that can be done is chiropractic treatment. Southside Jacksonville Chiropractor is one of the chiropractic therapies you can count on DOT physical.
Spinal nerve disorders can even cause the presence of several other diseases, such as paralysis or a disturbance in a person’s motor system. In fact, the symptoms of loss of sensory ability and motion control that occur due to spinal cord injury are also divided into 2 categories. Anything?
1. Tetraplegia or Quadriplegia
In this stage, paralysis occurs in both arms and both legs. In addition to causing paralysis of the body, injury to the spinal cord can also cause sufferers to experience difficulty breathing. In fact, it requires breathing apparatus. This happens because paralysis can also affect the muscles in the chest.
Entering this stage, paralysis can also occur in the lower half of the body. Usually, paralysis at this stage will occur in both stalks. In addition to these symptoms, actually, everyone shows symptoms that are different when experiencing a spinal cord injury. Symptoms that appear usually depend on the location of the injury and the severity of the condition that occurs in the body.
For this reason, disorders that occur in the spinal cord cannot be left alone because it will cause various other diseases. This certainly requires you to get the right treatment. You can go to the doctor to get the right medical treatment or you can choose chiropractic that is handled by the right and professional chiropractor. You will certainly get good results if you do it in the right person.


Cricklade, town (parish), administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England. Cricklade lies at the head of navigation of the upper Thames, at the point where the river intersected Ermine Street, a Roman road linking Silchester and Cirencester.
A Roman fort was established there as a reconnaissance centre in 69 ce. Cricklade was created a borough by the Saxon king Alfred the Great in 871, and by the early 10th century it was sufficiently important to have a mint. Henry II granted the area a charter in 1155, and Henry III (reigned 1216–72) founded a hospital and granted a weekly market ... (100 of 176 words)


Metal injection molding is a molding method in which a plasticized mixture of metal powder and its binder is injected into a mold. It is to first mix the selected powder with the binder, and then granulate the mixture and then inject the required shape. The polymer imparts its viscous flow characteristics to the mixture, and contributes to the uniformity of forming, cavity filling and powder filling. After forming, the binder is removed, and the degreased body is sintered. Some sintered products may need to be further densified, heat treated or machined. The sintered product not only has the same complex shape and high precision as the product obtained by the plastic injection molding method, but also has physical, chemical and mechanical properties close to the forging. This process technology is suitable for mass production of small, precise, three-dimensionally complex metal parts and components with special performance requirements.
◇It can produce small metal parts with complex shapes (0.1-500g) like plastic products;
◇Each part of the workpiece has uniform organization, high dimensional accuracy, and high relative density (≥95%);
◇Good surface finish;
◇The product quality is stable, the production efficiency is high, and it is easy to realize large-scale and large-scale production.
MIM technology is suitable for materials
Iron-based alloy steel, stainless steel, nickel-based alloy, tungsten alloy, cemented carbide, titanium alloy, magnetic material, Kovar alloy, fine ceramics, etc.


NEW YORK (WABC) -- The CDC has tips for parents to help protect their children from exposure to lead.
No lead level in children has been identified as safe, and even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to affect IQ, ability to pay attention, and academic achievement. Effects of lead exposure cannot be corrected.
Lead exposure is entirely preventable, and the CDC says the key is stopping children from coming into contact with lead and treating children who have been poisoned by lead. Children can be given a blood test to measure to level of lead in their blood.
Here are some things you can do to make their homes more lead safe:
--Common home renovation activities like sanding, cutting and demolition can create hazardous lead dust and chips by disturbing lead-based paint. These can be harmful to adults and children.
--If you see paint chips or dust in windowsills or on floors because of peeling paint, clean these areas regularly with a wet mop.
--Wipe your feet on mats before entering the home, especially if you work in occupations where lead is used. Removing your shoes when you are entering the home is a good practice to control lead.
--Remove recalled toys and toy jewelry from children
--Talk to your local health department about testing paint and dust in your home for lead if you live in a home built before 1978.
For more information, visit CDC.gov/nceh/lead/tips.
CDC tips to protect your family against lead exposure
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The designs and motifs of Ming jades are rich in variety. In addition to animal and plant motifs, icons of rich, happiness, longevity are often applied. Deeply influenced by the painting arts, the painting style motifs are used in jade carving.
Jade carvings in the Qing Dynasty have developed as one of the high peaks in the Chinese jade carving history. Due to the fact that Emperor Qinglong himself is a connoisseur of jade carvings, jades carvings in the reign of Qinglong are both rich in quantity and high workmanship in quality.The proportions of the jade are meeting the requirement of aesthetics. The lines are correctly and nicely sketched. Straight lines and curving lines are skillfully constructed and elaborated curved. Some ancient jades have been re-carved or added scripts by the order of Emperor Qinglong. Sample Qing jades are as follows(click the image to browse):


Welcome to Sopaan Foundation
AGRICULTURE is the dominant sector of Indian economy, which determines the growth and sustainability. About 65 per cent of the population still relies on agriculture for employment and livelihood. India is the first in the world in the production of milk, pulses, jute and jute-like fibres; second in rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruits and cotton production; and is a lea ding producer of spices and plantation crops as well as livestock, fisheries and poultry.
In the past few years, Indian agriculture has done remarkably well in terms of output growth. The 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12) witnessed an average annual growth of 3.6 per cent in the gross domestic product (GDP) from agriculture and allied sector.
The growth target for agriculture in the 12th Five Year Plan is estimated to be 4 per cent. Indian agriculture is benefitting huge from rising external demand and the sector's wider participation in the global economy. The strength, opportunities and weakness at village level needs to be further debated and solutions are introduced in selected segments in collaboration with villagers, Government institutions and Industry for improvement in quality of life. In order to create awareness of available technologies, programmes, government schemes and opportunity at village level, Sopaan Foundation for Development has been established as trust vide registration 1312/2012-13 New Delhi 110 075 to meet the fallowing objectives:
- Creation of awareness regarding various welfare and development schemes of Government and facilitation to prospective beneficiaries.
- Facilitation in procurement of critical inputs for small and marginal farmers.
- To extend reach of medical services in backward areas.
- To create and facilitate non-formal education for school drop-outs.
- Facilitation to various development processes by mobilizing stakeholders.


RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 'Forbes has thought about variability, being effect of conditions' (12.1844) CUL-DAR45.58 (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by John van Wyhe 11.2010. RN1
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Forbes has thought about variability, being effect of conditions: he thinks a critical genus (i.e a variable one) is at all times & places variable.
Remark that all creatures most useful to man the most variable — (& not effect of domestication & he objected with oysters to my view of their use depending on capacity to undergo much change. (but the Bee is good case of very slight cariability. of most useful animal.).
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Flare Guns were single-shot brass guns carried by assault teams, sentries, and pilots. The combustion of different chemical ingredients with a fuel source like magnesium would be fired into the air, where the small cartridge would burn out in a set color.
During an assault, soldiers would shoot up a flare to signal their commanders that they had successfully reached an objective or infiltrated a trench. Flares were used by pilots to point out strong points and valuable targets for their artillery. They were also used by sentries when spotting movement during the night. Once brightly illuminated, men sneaking through the battlefield suddenly became big targets.


Author(s) : Benlisoy Foti (15/4/2008)Translation : Tsokanis Anna
For citation: Benlisoy Foti, "Hasköy",Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, ConstantinopleURL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=11484>
The area that nowadays covers Hasköy has been known to be populated since at least the 6th century. During the Ottoman period it was populated by Orthodox Christians, Armenians and, mainly, Jews. After World War II, Orthodox population is radically diminished.
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A University of Delaware student will travel to Haiti this year to survey how the health care system there responded to the devastating earthquake in January.
A University of Delaware student will return to Haiti this year to retrace the steps of people who fled Port-au-Prince after the earthquake in January. From WHYY’s health and science desk Kerry Grens reports the visits are part of research on disaster response:
In January Jennifer Santos traveled to border towns in the Dominican Republic that saw a surge of Haitians seeking food, water and medical help. Santos said she was struck by the complex relationship that developed between make-shift medical centers and those that were already established.
Santos will return twice this fall to survey how the groups have adapted to one another in the shared response to the earthquake. Part of the visits will retrace the steps victims took from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to Jimani in the Dominican Republic.
Santos: I basically want to see what is it the people were going through, the route they were taking from Port-au-Prince to Jimani and see if health organizations have emerged along that route because it’s basically a population displacement process.
Santos says the border towns are fascinating because of the traditional animosity between Haitians and Dominicans.
Santos: We’re talking about a region that has very tense political dynamics with Haitians trying to cross the border. But at the same time you also saw people that were interested and very committed to helping the people coming in to receive health services.
Santos received a grant from the University of Delaware to travel to Haiti and the Dominican.


Korean Language/Writing System
Unlike what most people might believe, Korean is not as hard as it seems. Courteously, Korean has a simple alphabet, 14 basic consonants and 10 basic vowels, which can be learned swiftly.
As seen in Korean pronunciation, the language has a sound for each letter.
- ㅁ - 'm'
- ㅏ - 'a' as in ah (the sound your doctor asks you to make)
- ㅗ - 'o' as in oats
However, there is more to Korean than that. It's really quite interesting, and makes this language unique. Let's say you wanted to now write 'mam' (would sound like mom) in Korean. It's not "ㅁㅏㅁ," It would be "맘." Korean, in a way, stacks letters to create a character.
There are three basic methods as follow. Two letters must be included to form a character; letters by themselves have no real meaning.
Vertical (Way 1)Edit
If the vowel in the character is ㅓ, ㅏ, ㅣ, ㅕ, ㅑ, ㅐ, or ㅔ. As you can see all these vowels are vertical.
Horizontal (Way 2)Edit
If the vowel in the character is ㅗ, ㅜ, ㅠ, ㅛ, or ㅡ. All these vowels are horizontal.
W (Way 3)Edit
This method is only used when there is a "w" sound added to the character. For example, the character '원' is stacked in this manner: position 1 'ᄋ', position 2 'ᅮ', position 3 'ㅓ', and position 4 'ㄴ' (see diagram).


The robot dog is not to be trifled with.
The robot dog, which was developed US scientists to follow soldiers into battle like a pack mule and carry their gear over rough terrain, can now throw a cinder block (and who knows what else) with a fifth appendage where its head should be. See video below.
The mechanical canine, a.k.a. BigDog, is being developed by Boston Dynamics through funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
As The Inquisitrhas previously reported, the voice-activated mechanical hounds (and apparently two of them have been completed) are officially called Legged Squad Support Systems. The modern military fighter can be forced to carry more than 100 pounds of gear, resulting in fatigue and degraded performance. Decreasing the weight load of a dismounted solider was a major focus of the defense research and development which went into creating the Legged Squad Support Systems. According to DARPA, physical overburden is one of the top five science and technology challenges facing the Army today, and the robot dog and carry upwards of 300 pounds of gear.
According to PCWorld, BigDog can handle big challenges:
“The four-legged robot can run, climb terrain including a muddy trail and slopes up to 35 degrees, and walk over rubble and through snow and water. BigDog has also traversed 12.8 miles non-stop without refueling, a world record for legged vehicles.”
NBC News reports that the robot dog can “walk up to 3 miles per hour over rocky terrain and transition to a 5-mile-per-hour jog on a flat surface.”
But this new capability would allow the robot dog to take on additional functions, PCWorld explains, such as “someday [it] be used in search and rescue operations, or for clearing debris in dangerous or unstable situations.”
Are you impressed with the way the robotic BigDog can toss a hunk of concrete with ease? Can you visualize any offensive military functions for the robot dog?


IT SEEMED a brilliant idea in 1870: stock rivers and lakes with every angler's dream fish - rainbow trout. A few decades on, the fish were being reared in vast hatcheries, and dumped from trucks and even aircraft across the US. In 1962, an entire river system was flooded with the poison rotenone to kill the native fish and clear the way for rainbow trout.
In California, the stocking trucks sounded a siren telling anglers to rush to the river banks and hook the new arrivals. Today alarm bells are ringing as ecologists begin to notice that competition, hybridisation and disease are devastating the native freshwater fauna.
It is an enthralling and sometimes appalling story, charting the origins of an ecological disaster fuelled by political game-playing, fantasies of virility and the enduring delusion that for any problem there will always be a technological fix.
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Ghana, previously known as the Gold Coast, has supplied Europe with timber in log form (mostly mahogany) as far back as 1833. The practice continued until 1945, when pit-sawing was introduced in Ghana and the country began exporting manufactured lumber. In the 1950s and 60s, exports of sawn lumber had grown significantly and began to include veneer sheets and plywood.
It is estimated that there are 400,000 hectares of land currently available within Ghana’s degraded forest reserves that can be converted to commercial forest plantations. In addition, there exist a large number of exhausted cocoa farms and degraded areas outside reserve areas that are also suitable for plantation development. Ghana’s wood processors are currently seeking ventures with international partners in order to upgrade current plant and equipment, improve management practices, and increase the range of products offered.
Opportunities for investment exist in the following product areas: Finished and semi-finished furniture and components; Mouldings and machined wood; Floor and deck blanks, strips and blocks; Door, window, and cabinet frames and panels; Dowels and tool handles; Peeled and sliced veneers; Kiln dried rough or machined lumber.


It's a trend that I like to see, but I wonder how they get around without a car. If you like in an urban area with good public transportation it's easy but that's not always the case in the US. There was no way I (or my parents) could afford to buy me a car when I was in high school so I mostly got around with friends who had a car or I hitchhiked.
Now I can afford a car but I prefer public transportation or riding a bike, but I also live in a city with one of the best and cheapest public transportation systems in the world. There seems to be more to the trend than just the bad economy. do social media tools really minimize the need for seeing people in person?
Driving is becoming so last century. Since the end of World War II, getting a driver's license has been a rite of passage for teens, but that's less and less the case. The share of people in their teens, 20s and 30s with driver's licenses has dropped significantly over the past three decades, not only the United States, but also in some other wealthy nations with a high proportion of Internet users, transportation researchers have found.
One possible explanation: Virtual contact through the Internet and other electronic means is reducing the need for face-to-face visits among young people, researchers say.
From 1983 to 2008, the share of 16- to 39-year-olds with driver's licenses declined markedly, with the greatest decreases among drivers in their late teens and early 20s, according to a study at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in Ann Arbor. About 69 percent of 17-year-olds had a driver's license in 1983. By 2008, that had dropped to 50 percent. Among Americans ages 20 to 24 in 1983, nearly 92 percent had driver's licenses. Twenty-five years later, it was 82 percent.


Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III- Space
- Recently, astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) have found out the reasons behind intense star formation in some dwarf galaxies.
- Hydrogen in these dwarf galaxies is found to be irregular and sometimes not moving in well-defined orbits (non-symmetric hydrogen distribution).
- Some Hydrogen around these galaxies is also detected in forms of isolated clouds, plumes, and tails
- Scientists used the Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT) near Nainital (Uttarakhand) and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Maharashtra.
Do you know?
- Dwarf galaxies are the most abundant type of galaxy in the universe but are difficult to detect due to their low luminosity, low mass and small size.


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Our lesson pathway has been developed into stages that can be easily recognisable and are child friendly. We never base our stages on age and have been developed on swimming ability.
This is normally our entry group and often the first time that children enter the pool without their parent. We have Water Buddies in the pool to help with this transition and to focus on building their confidence.
By this level we are introducing all four strokes and basic breathing techniques. We focus on distance swimming with swimmers being capable of 10m & 15m and children becoming less reliant on buoyancy aids.
We introduce more technical stroke work at this level. Our swimmers may still need light support from buoyancy aids which will all help to improve their stroke ability and confidence. We work toward distance swimming of up to 25m
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Our Shark swimmers are normally swimming in lanes down the length of the pool. We normally 4 lanes to work through.
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patulin Mycotoxin found in juice from fruits infected with one of a variety of moulds (Penicillium expansum, Aspergillus clavatus, A. terreus, and Byssochlamys nivea). Removed by fermentation and also pasteurization.
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Alan Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He was a brilliant computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.
During the Second World War, Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic. In doing so he played a central role, helping the Allies win the war.
One of Turing’s most famous quotes states:
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of, who do the things no one can imagine.


November 3, 2015 — With constant development in information technologies, people often worry about getting too much information instead of getting too little. The ability to sum up information into a simple but clear story is very important. People often say, “A picture is worth a thousand words”. By using SuperGIS Desktop, users can easily integrate various data into one convincing and attractive map.
We take the recent outbreak of Dengue fever in Tainan city as an example. The infection cases in October were first collected day by day. By comparing the distribution of cases between 1st October and 15th Oct, we could then quickly realize that the cases of Dengue fever were mainly located in areas with higher population density. As time passed, the new infection cases per day also declined.
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Infection cases in village level (15th Oct.)
The map above was made using open data offered by the Tainan City Government. Earlier this week on 29th October, Supergeo already held a Webinar with several applications that showed users how to integrate GIS and open data for benefiting lives.
The record of this webinar has been published on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEJ0y_bosRQ
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Cheiridopsis namaquensis, previously known as C. cigarettifera, forms small mats sometimes dying from the centre as in the photo. Leaf colour that is pale greyish-blue here may be green after rain. Tiny translucent spots are sometimes visible on fresh leaf surfaces. An opposing pair of similar succulent leaves grow from the gap between the previous or older pair. The leaf pair faces in a direction at right angles to the predecessor pair as seen from above. Consecutive pairs do not necessarily appear similar in shape or size.
What each leaf pair does for its successor, is to leave their shared outer skin as a protective covering for the newcomers to live through their coming hot, arid season. Remnants of these old papery leaf sheaths can still be seen here, but the spring flowering season is over. These leaves can be seen to have already started shrivelling into dry tissue, from which two fresh leaf tips will appear when the rain comes.
The earlier specific name of cigarettifera was conferred on account of the old leaf sheaths resembling cigarette holders. The flowers are pale yellow, a whorl of narrow petals around the stamen cluster, about 4 cm in diameter. The seed capsule that follows has about 10 locules (Smith, et al, 1998).


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import random class Solution(object): def __init__(self, nums): """ :type nums: List[int] :type size: int """ self.origin = list(nums) self.curr = list(nums) self.size = len(nums) def reset(self): """ Resets the array to its original configuration and return it. :rtype: List[int] """ self.curr = list(self.origin) return self.curr def shuffle(self): """ Returns a random shuffling of the array. :rtype: List[int] """ for i in range(self.size): pos = random.randint(0, i) # swap i and pos self.curr[i], self.curr[pos] = self.curr[pos], self.curr[i] return self.curr # Your Solution object will be instantiated and called as such: # obj = Solution(nums) # param_1 = obj.reset() # param_2 = obj.shuffle()
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