From microbots that scrape plaque from arteries to personal assistant robots that help care for patients, medical robots are transforming the face of healthcare.
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CosmoBot, pictured above, is part of a phenomenon called robotic therapy. Doctors use CosmoBot to enhance the therapy of developmentally disabled children between 5 and 12 years old. Using the robot can make therapy more interesting for children and allows for better success when achieving long-term therapy goals.
The company designed CosmoBot to collect data on a child's performance. This allows therapists to evaluate how successful the therapy is. Similar to CosmoBot are robots mirroring stuffed animals, also used for therapeutic purposes. For example, PARO, which resembles a stuffed toy baby seal, allows patients to have the experience of animal therapy without the problems associated with live animals. AIST, a leading Japanese industrial automation pioneer, developed the PARO robot, which is designed to "express different moods" depending on the patient's interaction with it, and it can learn how to respond to a certain name when called it a number of times.
InformationWeek Elite 100Our data shows these innovators using digital technology in two key areas: providing better products and cutting costs. Almost half of them expect to introduce a new IT-led product this year, and 46% are using technology to make business processes more efficient.
The UC Infrastructure TrapWorries about subpar networks tanking unified communications programs could be valid: Thirty-one percent of respondents have rolled capabilities out to less than 10% of users vs. 21% delivering UC to 76% or more. Is low uptake a result of strained infrastructures delivering poor performance?
Join us for a roundup of the top stories on InformationWeek.com for the week of December 14, 2014. Be here for the show and for the incredible Friday Afternoon Conversation that runs beside the program.


British scientists are warning of another possible side effect of climate change: a surge of dangerous volcanic eruptions.
Researchers say the melting of polar ice sheets from global warming and the resulting stress placed on the earth's crust from rising sea levels will increase eruptions in the years to come.
University College London climate expert Dr Bill McGuire says there could also be an increase in undersea earthquakes and tsunamis.
"There is already evidence for earthquakes in Alaska being triggered by unloading by ice," he said.
"Also evidence of this volcano Pavlof in Alaska erupting in the winter when sea levels rise slightly due to weather conditions, just 30 centimetres."
"So, if we see one to two metres of sea level rise this century, accompanied by mass wasting of the glaciers in the polar region, so we can expect a response by the crust within the next few decades."


Preparation and Why Such a Fine Paste?
To obtain the best flavour, texture and heat of sawa Wasabi the rhizome must be ground into a fine paste. In Japan the traditional method for grating Wasabi uses a sharkskin grater or “oroshi”. If a sharkskin grater is not available, ceramic or stainless steel surfaces can be used. The important component of the grater is the teeth or nubs. Smaller teeth produce a finer paste that increases the unique heat and flavour of fresh Wasabi. Grating Wasabi releases volatile compounds, called isothiocyanates that gradually dissipate with exposure to the air. These compounds are not found in Wasabi until after the cells of the plant are broken up and turned into a paste. The finer the paste the more chemical reactions take place. Using a Wasabi grater and keeping the rhizome perpendicular to the grating surface minimizes exposure to the air. In this way, the volatile compounds are allowed to develop with minimal dissipation. This combination of natural volatiles, consistency and texture distinguish fresh wasabi from the imitation products of powdered and paste horseradish, which have been mixed with Chinese mustard and green food colouring.


As the spacecrafts advanced in our solar system, the story they where telling us,
I followed that mission the best I could do over 20 years ago.
But there was a sparse coverage in the media, but I was reading many scientific magasines
about the mission.
Today with the Internet, and that wealth of information we can capture it is great
to follow the science and exploration in space.
And not to forget a forum where we can share and discuss our opinions and experience.
Thank you Mark Carey and Richard FMR !
As you said ups : "Truly hard to believe they are still producing such solid science decades after being launched."
Yes, it was really a big engineering craft and effort to make a such spacecraft.
After some Goooooogling I found this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
Voyager 1 was originally planned as Mariner 11 of the Mariner program.
From the outset, it was designed to take advantage of the then-new technique of gravity assist.
By fortuitous chance, the development of interplanetary probes coincided with an alignment of the planets
called the Grand Tour. The Grand Tour was a linked series of gravity assists that, with only the minimal fuel
needed for course corrections, would enable a single probe to visit all four of the
solar system's gas giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The identical Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes were designed with the
Grand Tour in mind, and their launches were timed to enable the Grand Tour if desired.
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|Owner||Government of Georgia|
|Built||2nd century BC|
Khertvisi fortress (Georgian: ხერთვისის ციხე) is one of the oldest fortresses in Georgia and was functional throughout the Georgian feudal period. It is situated in Southern Georgia, in Meskheti region. The fortress was first built in the 2nd century BC. The church was built in 985, and the present walls were built in 1354. As the legend says, Khertvisi was destroyed by Alexander the Great.
Middle Ages and later use
In the 10th-11th centuries it was the center of Meskheti region. During the 12th century it became a town. In the 13th century Mongols destroyed it and until the 15th century it lost its power. In the 15th century it was owned by Meskheti landlords from Jakeli family. In the 16th century the southern region of Georgia was invaded by Turks. During next 300 years they have owned Khertvisi too.
At the end of the 19th century Georgian and Russian army returned the lost territories and Khertvisi became the military base for Russian and Georgian troops. Khertvisi fortress is situated on the high rocky hill in the narrow canyon at the confluence of the Mtkvari and Paravani Rivers.
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- Dogs are less likely to use deadly force appropriately than responsible people. Depending on their training, they may hurt a person who shouldn’t be bitten or fail to go after a genuine intruder.
- Dogs are more likely to get hurt by intruders than are residents using firearms for self-defense. Dogs just aren’t as well armed as humans and have to get close to fight.
- The dog shown above are working breeds. Most companion dogs are ornamental and at even more disadvantage before intruders. A fight between a 180lb criminal with weapon, and a 30lb or smaller animal doesn’t favor the dog.
- Dogs do excel at providing early warning to their owners.
Next time somebody says: “You don’t need a gun for home defense. Just get a dog.”, ask them why they insist on sending their pets into harm’s way instead of being the responsible adult in the relationship and taking care of problems with appropriate tools in hand.


At Hoo St Werburgh Primary School our curriculum aims to promote:
- Successful learners, who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
- Confident individuals who are able to lead safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
- Responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society
- Our motto: Courage Confidence Respect Belonging.
The school aims to provide learning experiences and to create a life long love of learning and achievement. This means designing and delivering a curriculum within a real and relevant context for learning through which young people can recognise for themselves the importance of learning to their lives, both now and in the future.
We want pupils to learn to take an active engagement with and responsibility for their own learning, increasing the impact and potential for future development.
- Deliver the National Curriculum
- Give learners a sense of autonomy, including the chance to think critically, make decisions, take responsibility and manage risks.
- Encourage children to develop positive relationships where they choose not to bully or discriminate and actively provide British values
- Offer opportunities for co-operation, collaboration and to develop economic skills.
- Develop basic skills of ICT, of computing, reading, writing and maths.
- Broaden horizons and raise aspirations, offering contexts that challenge learners.
- Provide as many real and relevant learning experiences, connecting learning at school to the world beyond the classroom.
- Link areas of learning with personal learning and thinking skills wherever possible. These include children being: independent enquirers, creative thinkers, reflective learners, team workers, self managers and effective participants.
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Joy Harjo, internationally recognized poet and screen writer, spoke to a large crowd at GCSC on March 6 in honor of national Women’s History Month.
Harjo, whose writing is illuminated by her Native American heritage (Muscogee, Creek and Cherokee), is a multi-faceted poet, musician and artist. Her presentation, a juxtaposition of poetry, autobiography and music, opened several pockets of her life experience: glimpses of a little girl forbidden to play a musical instrument; a young, unmarried mother struggling financially while trying to complete college; an artist learning to trust her voice; a grandmother with deep reverence of the woman her daughter has become.
Using Native oral traditions, Ms. Harjo’s poems weave stories we want to lean in closer to hear; they sing ballads woven from tribal memory; they create murals of personal and universal significance. Many of us did not know, for instance, that the development of our most celebrated musical traditions, blues and jazz, was greatly influenced by Native music. Nor were we aware that in many Native tribes power was shared equally between men and women, that there were medicine women as well as men. Mutual respect and shared power are not only contemporary ideals but, as Ms. Harjo believes, as necessary today as they were in the past.
Beyond the subtleties of art and history, Harjo wants young people to understand that self-knowledge is fundamental to living a good life. It is not possible, she argues, to remain true to oneself, to live authentically without really knowing who we are. That is why, in her words, “All parts of the story are important.”
The stories of indigenous people, of women and people of color, of the poor, indeed of people whose stories were seldom, if ever, printed are all important parts of the story. After all it is our own story, our American narrative, our lived history.


Remote Sensing of the Environment
Increasing size and abundance of lianas relative to trees are pervasive changes in Neotropical forests that may lead to reduced forest carbon stocks. Yet the liana growth form is chronically understudied in large-scale tropical forest censuses, resulting in few data on the scale, cause, and impact of increasing lianas. Satellite and airborne remote sensing provide potential tools to map and monitor lianas at much larger spatial and rapid temporal scales than are possible with plot-based forest censuses. We combined high-resolution airborne imaging spectroscopy and a ground-based tree canopy census to investigate whether tree canopies supporting lianas could be discriminated from tree canopies with no liana coverage. Using support vector machine algorithms, we achieved accuracies of nearly 90% in discriminating the presence–absence of lianas, and low error (15.7% RMSE) when predicting liana percent canopy cover. When applied to the full image of the study site, our model had a 4.1% false-positive error rate as validated against an independent plot-level dataset of liana canopy cover. Using the derived liana cover classification map, we show that 6.1%–10.2% of the 1823 ha study site has high-to-severe (50–100%) liana canopy cover. Given that levels of liana infestation are increasing in Neotropical forests and can result in high tree mortality, the extent of high-to-severe liana canopy cover across the landscape may have broad implications for ecosystem function and forest carbon storage. The ability to accurately map landscape-scale liana infestation is crucial to quantifying their effects on forest function and uncovering the mechanisms underlying their increase.
Marvin, David C.; Asner, Gregory P.; and Schnitzer, Stefan A., "Liana canopy cover mapped throughout a tropical forest with high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy" (2016). Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications. 717.
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In a review of three new books on the history of English, Michael Skapinker talks about why spelling is so damn hard in this baggy monstrosity of a language:
“Why is English spelling such a tangle? It all started when Latin-speaking missionaries arrived in Britain in the 6th century without enough letters in their alphabet. They had 23. (They didn’t have ‘j’, ‘u’ or ‘w’.) Yet the Germanic Anglo-Saxon languages had at least 37 phonemes, or distinctive sounds. The Romans didn’t have a letter, for example, for the Anglo-Saxon sound we spell ‘th’. The problem continues. Most English-speakers today have, depending on their accents, 40 phonemes, which we have to render using 26 letters. So, we use stratagems such as doubling vowels to elongate them, as in ‘feet’ and ‘fool’.
With the Norman invasion in 1066, spelling became more complicated still; French and Latin words rushed into the language. As the centuries went by, scribes found ways of reflecting the sounds people used with the letters that they had. They lengthened vowels by adding a final ‘e’, so that we could tell ‘hope’ from “hop”.
From the late 1300s, scribes used the letter combination ‘gh’ in words such as ‘night’, to represent the back-of-the-mouth noise people then used. Why did it remain even after the sound died out? Because by the end of the 15th century, William Caxton had introduced printing to England, and the printers decided to keep it.”
If you had to choose a global language based on ease of use and a general lack of exceptions to major rules, English would be one of the last choices. Alas, due to world history, people like me get to make a living trying to untangle this glorious linguistic mess.
Also, “Skapinker” is a pretty great name.


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1.1 This test method presents the procedures used for determining the quality of prefabricated bituminous geomembrane (PBGM) bonded seams subjected to a shear test. It describes a destructive quality control test used to determine the integrity of PBGM seams.
1.2 This test procedure is intended for PBGM only.
1.3 The type of thermal field seaming technique used to construct PBGM seams include the following.
1.3.1 Torch-on—This technique melts two PBGM surfaces to be seamed by running a flame from a propane torch between them. Pressure is applied on the top or bottom, or both PBGM, forcing together both surfaces to form a continuous bond.
1.3.2 Hot Air—This technique introduces high-temperature air or gas between two PBGM surfaces to facilitate melting. Pressure is applied on the top or bottom, or both PBGM, forcing together both surfaces to form a continuous bond.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
|Nederlandse titel||Standard Test Method for Determining the Tensile Shear Strength of Pre-Fabricated Bituminous Geomembrane Seams|
|Engelse titel||Standard Test Method for Determining the Tensile Shear Strength of Pre-Fabricated Bituminous Geomembrane Seams|


Hang on for a lesson in solar dynamics – Earth is experiencing a solar sector boundary crossing. Let me explain….
The sun produces wind (currently 410.9 Km/second) that blasts across the cosmos. Just like Earth, our Sun has a magnetic field – known as the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Whipped into a spiral rotation, wind driven IMF rotates in one direction. It divides into spiral sections pointing to and away from the sun along the ecliptic plane ( a direct line between Earth and the Sun). The edge of this swirling mass has a surface separating polarities of planetary and solar magnetism called the heliosphere current sheet.
Earth’s magnetic field points north at the magnetopause (the point of contact between our magnetosphere and the IMF). If the IMF happens to point south at contact (scientific term, southward Bz) the two fields link causing partial cancellation of Earth’s magnetic field – in other words, opening a temporary door for solar energy to enter our atmosphere. Welcome solar sector boundary crossing – a phenomenon born of high solar wind and coronal mass ejections (CME’s – aka solar flares).
It takes 3 or 4 days for magnetism to sort itself out – in the meantime, and barring the occasional high frequency radio disruption, wonky GPS and cell phones, peppered with sudden power grid failure events – we’re treated to kick ass auroras.


During his lifetime, Bruce Lee accomplished many physical feats, including his "one inch punch," two-finger push ups and his ability to break six inch wooden boards with a single strike. His combined speed, strength and stamina made him arguably the most famous martial artist of all time.Continue Reading
Bruce Lee appeared in more than 20 films. Lee's physical abilities made him a cultural icon and one of the most influential martial artists of his time. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, his career was celebrated both in America and abroad, even long after his untimely death at the age of 32.
His physical feats were a big part of his fame. Lee could do push ups using only his thumbs, chin ups using only one arm, and he could perform the "Dragon Flag", a bench lift using only his shoulder blades for balance. He could use his hands and fingers to crush or mark steel and wooden objects.
Lee's speed was legendary. He could throw and then catch single grains of rice using only chopsticks. When performing martial art moves on film, he was so quick that it was necessary to record him at a slower speed to fully capture each of the scenes.Learn more about Sports & Active Lifestyle


- Title: Spreading ridges geomorphic feature layer
The spreading ridge geomorphic feature layer represents the spatial extent of the spreading ridges of the worlds oceans based on interpretation of the SRTM30 plus v7 global bathymetry model. The layer is one of the 25 layers that make up the global seafloor geomorphic features map (Harris et.al. 2014). Mid-ocean spreading ridges are “the linked major mid-oceanic mountain systems of global extent” (IHO, 2008). Spreading ridges are distinguished from other ridges in this study (see definition of ridges below). They were mapped by hand based on their appearance as ridge-like features that coincide with the youngest ocean crust as mapped by Müller et al. (1997) in their “EarthByte” digital age grid of the ocean floor. Spreading ridges that were not visible in the SRTM30_PLUS bathymetry (100 m contours) were not included in our interpretation, but there is otherwise no size limitation on spreading ridges.
- Publication Date: March 3, 2014, midnight
- Type: Vector Data
- Keywords: seafloor, geomorphic features, habitats Oceans
- Category: Oceans
- Regions: Global
- Owner: miles
- Point of Contact: miles
- Restrictions: The global seafloor geomorphic feature map is available for download from bluehabitats.org
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Cereal is the single largest subsector of Ethiopia’s agriculture. It dominates in terms of its share in rural employment, agricultural land use, and calorie intake, as well as its contribution to national income. The subsector accounts for roughly 60 percent of rural employment, about 73 percent of total cultivated land, more than 40 percent of a typical household’s food expenditure, and more than 60 percent of total calorie intake. The contribution of cereals to the national income is also large. According to available estimates, cereals’ contribution to agricultural value-added is 65 percent, which translates to about 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).


As marchers took to the streets of Boston in late April to demand justice for Freddie Gray, some of them began to sing: “We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome some day …”
It wasn’t a surprising choice. “We Shall Overcome” is a staple for civil-rights protests—and for that matter, for any kind of social-justice movement. The Library of Congress calls it “the most powerful song of the 20th century.” So it was a surprise to learn that not only is the identity of the person who made it into that anthem known, but he died only on May 2. Full story.
David A. Graham (The Atlantic) / May 9, 2015


Fr.: trompe d'éléphant
An elongated structure of → interstellar dust and gas which absorbs the radiation from background stars in an → H II region. These structures are the denser remnants of → molecular clouds from which → massive stars are formed. Elephant trunks are eventually dissipated by the action of the → ionizing radiation and → stellar wind of the associated massive stars. A remarkable example of these structures is displayed by the → HST image of the → Eagle Nebula as → pillars of obscuring matter protruding from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud. Some → Bok globules may represent the remaining densest fragments of elephant trunks.
M.E. elephant, from O.Fr. olifant, from L. elephantus, from Gk. elephas "elephant, ivory," probably from a non-I.E. language, likely via Phoenician; trunk, from M.E. trunke, O.Fr. tronc, from L. truncus "stem, trunk, stump."
Xortum "the proboscis of an elephant," loanword from Ar. xartum; fil, pil "elephant," from Mid.Pers. pil "elephant;" O.Pers. piru- "ivory."


Melons are low in calories, with just 64 calories in a 1-cup serving of honeydew balls and fewer calories in cantaloupe, casaba or watermelon balls. At the same time, melons are high in essential vitamins and minerals. They contain almost no fat or saturated fat, making them an excellent choice for snacks or a side dish.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant vitamin that plays an important role in the growth and maintenance of all tissues in your body. It functions in wound healing and repair of cartilage, bones and teeth. Adults should receive 90 mg per day of vitamin C. A 1-cup serving of cantaloupe provides 65 mg of vitamin C. One cup of casaba melon provides 37 mg of vitamin C, and honeydew provides 30 mg.
Vitamin A is important for healthy teeth, skin, bone and mucous membranes. It helps the vision system by promoting retinal health. Insufficient vitamin A may lead to poor functioning of the immune system. Cantaloupe is high in vitamin A, with more than 25 percent of the recommended daily amount in a 1-cup serving.
Potassium is an important mineral in the maintenance of heart health. Consuming adequate amounts of potassium in your diet may lower blood pressure and reduce the impact of high-sodium foods. Adults should receive 4700 mg of potassium per day. Cantaloupe is high in potassium, with 473 mg in a 1-cup serving. Honeydew contains 403 mg per serving, and other melons have lower levels.
The red color in watermelon is lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that may help prevent cell damage. Lycopene consumption has been linked to reduced rates of certain cancers and a reduced risk of heart attack. A 1 1/2-cup of raw watermelon contains approximately 9 to 13 mg of lycopene. Watermelon contains about 40 percent more lycopene than a serving of raw tomatoes.


A team of researchers from London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University College London’s Institute of Child Health has come up with the findings of their investigation on the effectiveness of stem cell therapies for facial reconstruction.
Great Ormond Street has had a proven record in facial reconstruction, particularly when it comes to treating children with a malformed or missing ear, a condition that is commonly referred to as microtia. This type of reconstruction surgery involves taking the cartilage from the ribs of the patient and crafting scaffold for an ear, which is later implanted beneath the skin.
Despite of appalling success of this surgery, researchers thought that the treatment can be improved by bringing stem cells into the entire process. The cells can be treated with certain chemicals that encourage their transformation into cartilage cells before they are inserted into the patient’s body.
As of now, the researchers have successfully created cartilage on scaffold with the help of stem cells, but more safety testing is needed before the procedure is tested on patients.
The findings of the study have been published in the journal Nanomedicine.
Article Source: Medical News Today
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Eames, C. & Barker, M. (2011). Understanding student learning in environmental education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 27(1), 186-191.
Permanent Research Commons link: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/5775
This paper seeks to provide a perspective on environmental education in Aotearoa New Zealand. To contextualise this perspective, it illustrates how environmental, socio-cultural and political imperatives have shaped the development of environmental education in this land. These imperatives illuminate the natural history of the country, the connectedness within the worldviews of the indigenous Maori people, the pioneering views of some enlightened European settlers, and tensions between development and conservation. We connect this context with an overview of research in Aotearoa New Zealand into one aspect of environmental education - student learning in schools. Examples from recent research in this area are provided to show how these approaches are contributing to the Aotearoa New Zealand-ness of environmental education.
Australian Association for Environmental Education


Orange Revolution in the Ukraine: a series of protests and political events occur in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which is claimed to be marred by electoral fraud.
Kiev is the focal point of the movement’s campaign of civil resistance, with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily.
Throughout the demonstrations, Ukraine’s emerging Internet usage is an integral part of the orange revolutionary process. It is one of the first examples of an Internet-organised mass protest.
The nationwide protests succeed when the results of the vote are annulled, and a revote is ordered. Under intense scrutiny by domestic and international observers, the second run-off is declared to be “fair and free”. The final results show a clear victory for opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who receives about 52% of the vote, compared to president Viktor Yanukovych’s 44% who is supported by Russia.
Yushchenko is declared the official winner and with his inauguration on 23 January 2005 in Kiev, the Orange Revolution ends.
In the following years, the Orange Revolution has a negative connotation among pro-government circles in Belarus and Russia.


As President Obama noted in a speech last week, the biggest change that National Geographic has had to make to its atlases since the fall of the Soviet Union has been the change in the Arctic Ocean. Climate change has caused a dramatic reduction in the amount of ice covering the region over a relatively short period of time. Accordingly, National Geographic has had to keep making adjustments in each new edition of its atlas.
Just watch this gif to see how the depiction of the Arctic Ocean has changed in these atlases from 1999 to 2014:
The retreat of the ice is moving at the alarming pace of 12 percent per decade, according to National Geographic, and it even appears to be speeding up in recent years. The acceleration is caused by a certain feedback loop: ice becomes thinner, so more water is absorbed by the ocean, warming the water and melting more ice. As the ice melts further, it will eventually cause ocean levels to rise around the world. Island nations such as Tuvalu have been particularly concerned about their survival over the next several decades.
You can read thousands of words about the effects of climate change, but it won’t have the same effect as viewing a single map (or even better, a gif of several maps to show the change over time). Watching the Arctic icecap vanish is a shocking sight, and very disheartening for those struggling to slow down and reverse the trends of climate change. Nearly all scientists agree that warming temperatures and increasingly erratic weather patterns have potentially catastrophic consequences for the earth as a whole. Let’s hope it’s not too late to prevent the worst of it.
Source: National Geographic


Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Dry Erase Close Reading Task Cards (Informational Text)
Close reading practice has just become a literacy center activity too! I was looking for a way to reinforce close reading at center time. That was the inspiration for developing these task cards. A detailed answer key is also included that shows the details that students should identify in each paragraph. Plus the answer key provides the explanation that students should have written on the blank lines of the task cards too. To use these task cards:
1. Students highlight details directly in the passage
2. Self-check or hand to the teacher
3. Wipe the task cards
4. And, put each task card aside for reuse by another student.
The cards are differentiated too! This makes it so much easier for students that read at different ability levels to review close reading with text that best fits their needs.Click Here To Access Them


The human body consists of countless cells. These cells, jointly form organs, also assists in the functioning of the human body. It's similar to a series. They're dependent on each other. Our own body is the only advantage we maintain, and caring for this is our prime responsibility. You can find the best kidney specialists in San Antonio & South Texas for your treatment.
Every organ has its own significance, and among these crucial organs is Kidney. Majorly we all know our kidneys assist in treating blood and deliver the filtered blood back into the center. The Kidney also aids in the maintenance of fluid balance in our own body, and some other kidney problems such as kidney disease or severe kidney disorder end in total renal failure.
An acute and frequent infection in the bladder interrupts the Kidney. This illness is an inflammation in the bladder called cystitis. The germs can travel from the bladder to both the kidneys which may easily lead to an infection in the uterus.
Diseases in kidneys are related to urinary tract infections. If something is stopping your urinary tract to allow the urine flow ahead, it is going to lead to kidney ailments. Some of the reasons are as follows-
- Circumstances that forbid the entire cleansing of the bladder.
- Kidney stones may also block the way of their urinary tract.
- Additionally, a scenario like vesicoureteral reflux can lead to kidney ailments. In this kind of circumstance, our urine flows back into our kidneys from the bladder.
These are a few significant reasons that lead to kidney ailments in people.
Acute Kidney Failure
Still, another kidney issue that we will study here is a severe kidney disorder. Our Kidney gets rid of the waste from our own body with no break. Occasionally our kidneys become unable to clean out the extra fluids, salts, and waste in the bloodstream unexpectedly. It's reportedly a scenario of severe kidney failure, and it normally occurs in just two days or not. The status of AKD is obviously quite serious and had to be treated promptly.


At Northfield, we love Maths! Our children enjoy a wide range of activities in their Maths lessons, and we use the concrete, pictoral, abstract approach to learning. Every child has access to concrete resources in order to deepen their understanding. We believe fluency in times tables and calculation is also important.
Each week the children practise their tables and try to move up a level on the challenge. Children are encouraged to practise at home, alongside their Maths homework. it is our aim that by the end of Year 4 all children will know their times tables to 12 x 12 by heart.


Summer arrives tomorrow in the northern hemisphere, as the Sun stands farthest north for the entire year. It’s also the longest day day of the year with 14 hours of daylight in the U.S.
One of the most intriguing star systems in the galaxy may be about to get a lot more interesting.
NASA has reported that a shockwave from a massive solar flare will hit Earth on Friday, possibly knocking out communications and causing disruptions to satellites.
Every now and then, the sports world gives us something that is truly hard to believe. A throw made by Oakland A’s outfielder Yoenis Cespedes during Tuesday night’s game has many people shaking their heads.
The Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft passed an important milestone back in March: It made its 100th close pass by Titan, the planet’s largest moon. Stardate has the details on how this was achieved.
There’s no doubt that Mars was once much warmer and wetter than it is today — a fairly comfortable home for life. Stardate looks at the evidence of life in a rock on the red planet.
The Beehive, M44, is one of the brightest star clusters in the sky with about 1,000 stars, but this StarDate segment explains that it’s evaporating before our eyes.
Livermore, one of six cities an element is named after, will celebrate the first anniversary of Livermorium Day on May 30.
The hours between midnight and dawn tonight offer skywatchers both promise and potential. StarDate promises a beautiful encounter between the moon and the “morning star”.
High-fidelity simulation models displayed at NASA Ames show a temperature map of the Untied States in the year 2100.


INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Healthy spaces, healthy people
We spend 90% of our days indoors. We breath. We touch. We smell. We see. But we rarely understand how our environment is impacting how we feel.
Research by Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment have shown that just one environmental factor, air quality, can have a significant impact on cognitive performance:
"61% higher [cognitive scores] in green building conditions [better ventilation, fewer toxins]" Link to study here.
Because our environments impact our learning, working and living, RoundhouseOne has developed quick-to-deploy sensors to easily and accurately understand our environments. We measure:
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Dosing livestock drinking water
The most common form of water dosing used with livestock is proportional dosing. Because water flows vary during the day, the doser has to vary its output proportionately so that the correct amount of product is always being added. A water flow sensor is placed in the water pipeline so that the doser can operate correctly.
In some cases where there is a constant flow of water from a water pump, it may be possible to use an AutoDose system where the Select doser is programmed to give a specific pumped output. In this case, no water flow sensor is needed.
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Stunning Images Of The Solar System From The Cassini Spacecraft
Since that day the space probe has traveled more than 3.8 billion miles and sent back more than 300,000 images. Cassini is still going strong with plans to keep on keepin' on until 2017.
During its travels, Cassini has swung around Venus twice, checked out Earth from space, and slipped by Jupiter on its way to Saturn, where the probe will end its trip in 2017.
For the past eight years Cassini has been exploring Saturn, its rings, and several of its moons.
From its observations, NASA has discovered some of Saturn's moons contain ice, organic particles, and lakes full of hydrocarbons. The probe has even sent back images of these amazing landscapes.
In November 2016, Cassini will begin a series of orbits that will get it ever closer to Saturn, and by Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini will enter Saturn's atmosphere, sending back the closest images of Saturn ever taken before the pressure and temperature of the gas giant's atmosphere destroys the probe.


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The Mars Surveyor Program was put in place by NASA as a long-term program of exploration of Mars, with the focus to bring back to Earth a sample of the Martian terrain in 2005. This program will help scientists understand the complete environment of Mars. The program will study
- the climate of Mars:
- the water cycle
- the carbon cycle
- the atmosphere
- movement of particles
- condensation of water
- temperature fluctuations
- the composition of the surface and atmosphere
Five spacecraft in all may be sent to Mars between 1996 and 2005. Those spacecraft include the Mars Global Surveyor, and the Mars Climate Orbiter and Polar Lander. After all the information is gathered, scientists may know more about the evolution of Mars and its potential to harbor life.
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D. The Novel (The Prisoner of Zenda) (9 Marks)
7) A- Answer the following questions:
1- Where was the real King locked up?
2- Why did Rassendyll have to be careful while talking with Flavia?
3- What did Rassendyll and Sapt do when they discovered that the real
King had disappeared?
4- How did Johann's weak character help Rassendyll?
B- Read the following quotation and then answer the questions:
'That's not normal. No one goes into the building without the
permission of Rupert or Michael.'
1- Who said this to whom?
2- What wasn't normal at the Castle of Zenda?
3- Why wasn't anyone allowed into the building?
C- Find the mistake in each sentence and correct it:
1- Rassendyll was pleased as Rupert had escaped.
2- Sapt believed that Rassendyll wanted to be King forever.


Last name: Shilton
This ancient name was originally locational and was first recorded as a place name in 1044 and later in the 1086 Domesday Book. The original spelling was "Scelftone" which translates as "the Farm by the Race Course" from Olde English "Tun" (a farm) and Norse- Viking "Skeid" (a race course). Later spellings were Selton (1169) and "Shilftun", the latter referring to the Berkshire Village in 1242. The surname is spelt Shilton, Chilton, Shefton, Shieldon and Shiliton but all have the same origins, Ann Shelton being recorded in 1591 at Deerhurst whilst Sabera Shilton was baptised at Nympesfield on 20th September 1795. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Isabel Shilton. which was dated 1591, who married John Hemming at Westbury on Severn. during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, known as Good Queen Bess, 1558 - 1603. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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The Scout Method is a way of reaching the Educational Goals of Scouting and is used as a tool for Scout leaders in planning and evaluating activities. The Finnish Scout Method is based on the Scout Methods of WAGGGS and WOSM. It consists of eight methodological areas which together contribute to a balanced, personal development of each Scout and the fullfillment of the aims of Scouting.
Commitment to the Values of Scouting
The Scout Promise and Law reflect the values of Scouting. By acknowledging them, scouts commit themselves to these values.
Scout symbolism includes objects and activities within Scouting that have a commonly understood meaning. The symbols link children and young people to their own group, the local group, and the world wide Scout movement.
In Scouting, every individual is entrusted with tasks of appropriate degrees of difficulty. The program, properly adapted to each age group, promotes the growth and development of the children and young people.
Scouting activities take place in small groups of people of the same age in which responsibility is shared and decisions are made together. By acting in these small groups, children and young people learn to function as members of a group.
Learning by Doing
Learning by Doing is the natural way of children and young people to learn new skills. In Scouting, learning takes place through acting and experiencing.
Scouting brings together children, young people, and adults. The adults support the growth and participation of the children and young people, and provide possibilities to influence.
A Good Deed a Day
In Scouting, children and young people learn to take responsibility for themselves and for others. Actions aiming at the wellbeing of others serve communities by creating a sense of togetherness.
Activities in Nature
In Scouting, children and young people spend time and do activities in nature. The nature provides a powerful surrounding for working and learning experiences.


During the past five years, the rate of teenage girls becoming pregnant has declined substantially in all but two states. You guessed it: West Virginia is one of them (the other is North Dakota).
Our state’s rate of births to females 15-19 years of age is 44.8 per 1,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That is the ninth highest among the states – and, again, it hasn’t gotten much better. The rate is about the same as it was five years ago.
For both babies and mothers, pregnancy at an early age is risky in many ways. Because of their young age, few of these young mothers understand the responsibility they will soon be facing. Oftentimes these young mothers-to-be cannot afford good prenatal care which can cause health issues for the child. And, because many teen mothers often are forced to leave school to care for their babies, these moms will be on taxpayer-funded government subsistence for years to come.
And, unfortunately, this cycle of poverty – for both the mother and the child – likely will continue for years.
Clearly, West Virginia needs to do more about the problem. For all our sakes, it is one that needs a solution.


For Wednesday, make sure to read all the selections below from Langston Hughes:
* The Negro Speaks of Rivers
* I, Too
* The Weary Blues
* Mother to Son
* Elevator Boy
* Red Silk Stockings
* Ruby Brown
* Eldery Race Leaders
* Dream Variation
* Goodbye, Christ
* Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria
As you read, consider some of the following ideas:
* How does Hughes' style compare with Cullen's? Would Cullen agree with his approach?
* How do these poems seem to illustrate Hughes' ideas of the "racial mountain" in his essay? Additionally, how do they offer the "perspective" on his race and historical moment that Richard Wright demanded of Harlem Renaissance writers?
* How does Hughes use dialect or the slang of everyday speech to color his poetry? Why is this important to him, even though many mainstream readers/critics might reject it as ‘uncivilized’? How does this language help us read/hear the poem itself? (you might consider that Hughes was influenced by blues and jazz and wanted his poems to sound like this music).
* In poems like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Aunt Sue’s Stories,” and “Negro,” Hughes uses history or historical events as a metaphor. How does this work? How does history help us ‘see’ who he is—and who his people are? Consider how, in a poem like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” the poet could have “bathed in the Euprhates…raised the pyramids above [the Nile]…and “heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans” (4).
* In traditional literature/poetry, “white” is a positive color and “black” a negative color. How does Hughes play with this tradition in his poetry, and how does “black” become a very different metaphor in many of these poems?
* Which poems share similar themes and even inspiration with Cullen's? How might we consider one or more of these poems a revision or a response to Cullen?


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Ocellated icefish live deep underwater in the cold oceans surrounding the Poles. They have clear blood. If you remember your childhood biology classes, you should remember that this kind of makes no sense. After all, blood is red because of hemoglobin — the iron-rich protein that carries oxygen around in your blood stream. No hemoglobin, no oxygen. No oxygen, dead fishies. Right? Popular Science explains how ocellated icefish get around this little conundrum.


is an attractive plant, with bright green, smooth-edged leaves and unbranched stalks topped by a single flower, consisting of five pure white petals prominently fringed along the sides, and with a thin, dark, branched vein running lengthwise. There are five green sepals underneath, visible from above between the petals, and also five stamens pointing outwards in between which are five shorter staminodes (infertile stamens) topped by small, green to yellow-brown glands, all centered on a protruding green pistil. One plant can produce many dozen flowers.
Leaves are mostly basal; they are quite thick, rounded in shape and usually folded up along the axis. After flowering, the pistil expands to form the green, ten-chambered fruit. The species inhabits moist places in mountains, especially along streams, canyons and lakeshores.


Brachytherapy is differentiated by the rate of irradiation dose delivered to the tumor known as high-dose rate (HDR) and low-dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy. Theoretically, there is a great difference between these two methods. Most of our knowledge is centered around LDR brachytherapy. It has been problematic to convert this knowledge to HDR brachytherapy. For this conversion, mathematical models have been developed, which still are not adequately tested for head/neck cancer. The indications for HDR brachytherapy are therefore fewer than for LDR brachytherapy.
Low-dose rate brachytherapy (LDR)
This is done by inserting radioactive rods/threads surgically into the patient. The rods remain for extended time intervals.
High-dose rate brachytherapy (HDR)
This is perfomed by moving a point-shaped radiation source through previously inserted plastic catheters (remote afterloading). The treatment is fractionated (one or two per day). Remote afterloading was introduced to reduce radiation exposure to technicians.


Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action is a series of twelve videos, which can be viewed online on this page or purchased as four DVD volumes. For a list and description of the titles, click here.
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Still water, hidden depths: the deposition of Bronze Age metalwork in the English Fenland
Yates, D. and Bradley, R. (2010) Still water, hidden depths: the deposition of Bronze Age metalwork in the English Fenland. Antiquity, 84 (324). pp. 405-415. ISSN 0003-598X
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Official URL: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/084/ant0840405.htm
Finds of metalwork always raise the question of why they were deposited: a smith's collection, a concealed hoard or a votive offering? Findspots in water suggest offerings, since they would be awkward to retrieve. But understanding the context of deposition means knowing the prehistoric environment. The Fenland area of England has many Bronze Age sites, and deposits of metalwork and a well-mapped ancient environment too. Putting all three together the authors begin to assemble a grammar of deposition: swords and rapiers in rivers, some mixed collections placed in still water and others on once-dry land with burnt mounds.


Correct spelling, explanation: initial comes from the Latin word inire, which used to mean go in. Later, the word changed into initium and initialis, which meant beginning. When it comes to the English language initial appeared in it in the 16th century. Today, initial functions as an adjective and as a noun.
Definition of initial:
1. adjective – refers to the beginning of something or to the first stage;
The initial process of registration is a little bit complicated, but I will help you.
2. noun – the first letter of your name;
She’s a popular novelist, but no one knows her real name because she always uses only her initial.
Phrases with initial:
A few popular phrases with initial are as follows: initial position, initial result, and initial phase.
The initial position is crucial for a soldier so it needs to be practiced in a real-life context.
The initial result is quite promising, but we need to carry out a few more tests before we start celebrating.
The initial phase of your training is just a warm-up with some stretching exercises.
Incorrect spelling, explanation: the word initial is short but difficult in terms of spelling as it has three -i letters. Users of English often forget about the second -i letter, which results in
intial. This form is incorrect and initial is the only right spelling.
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Each year, disasters such as house fires, car accidents, tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes impact hundreds of thousands of children. Child victims can suffer disproportionately and the physical and psychological damage sustained can far outweigh the same effects in adults, often requiring years of therapy. Sadly, emergency planners to date have largely failed to adequately recognize and accommodate the particular requirements of children in times of disaster. Identify Needs Highlighting the infrastructure that supports children in a safe and secure community, Managing Children in Disasters begins by identifying the special needs of children, including physical security, emotional stability, family unity, and ongoing education. It looks at how hazard mitigation actions can reduce the long- term impact of a disaster on this infrastructure, and outlines the many steps that can be taken by parents, emergency managers, school officials, and child care providers to prepare for a future incident. Target Resources The book reviews what agencies and organizations can do to ensure that children are protected and families remain intact. It examines evacuation plans and processes, emergency shelters, and the recovery and rebuilding process. The final chapter provides a list of resources in emergency planning, psychosocial recovery, training and education courses, technical assistance, and other organizations. It includes examples of existing programs, reports, sample plans, and guides written for children. Offering guidance for the family and community, this book discusses the types of efforts that can be undertaken in all phases of emergency management including preparation, immediate response, and recovery.


We commemorate Kristallnacht with vigils every year. But nobody remembers what happened the very next day, which was much more fateful. Hat tip EPJ.
Jews around the world and in Israel – stay armed, stay safe.
GUN CONTROL LAW PASSED BY THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT ONE DAY AFTER KRISTALLNACHT
REGULATIONS AGAINST JEWS’ POSSESSION OF WEAPONS
11 November 1938
With a basis in §31 of the Weapons Law of 18 March 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p.265), Article III of the Law on the Reunification of Austria with Germany of 13 March 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 237), and §9 of the Führer and Chancellor’s decree on the administration of the Sudeten-German districts of 1 October 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p 1331) are the following ordered:§1
Jews (§5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.
Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew’s possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation.
The Minister of the Interior may make exceptions to the Prohibition in §1 for Jews who are foreign nationals. He can entrust other authorities with this power.
Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions of §1 will be punished with imprisonment and a fine. In especially severe cases of deliberate violations, the punishment is imprisonment in a penitentiary for up to five years.
For the implementation of this regulation, the Minister of the Interior waives the necessary legal and administrative provisions.
This regulation is valid in the state of Austria and in the Sudeten-German districts.
Berlin, 11 November 1938
Minister of the Interior


UNPAID LABOR® is a term used to describe the slave’s contribution to America
The Unpaid Labor Contribution Project promotes a message. The message is that the
first 12 generations of African Americans were vital to the birth, growth and survival
of the United States. By contribution we mean the collective effort of 12.5 million
people. They worked as Unpaid Laborers for 250 years to form the foundation of our
country. This is a documented conclusion. This is what 66 prominent PhD
historians say. These historians were educated, and they teach at America’s finest
colleges and universities.
All Americans are invited to join the national movement to promote A New Approach to Race
Abolish the false thinking of racial inferiority and superiority. That way of thinking was created to justify racial slavery. It remains in place today.
The movement’s symbol is a single black stripe in the American flag. The symbol says how important the Contribution was and is to America.
We honor the flag and do not seek to change it. We acknowledge the horrors of slavery, but we do not focus on them. The project does not vilify the Founding Fathers. We do not take a position on social or political issues such as reparations, police brutality, and mass incarceration to name a few. The message of Unpaid Labor Contribution is designed to be unique. It is designed to be non-confrontational, unifying, and proactive. It is also designed to offer a new way to think about race in America.


1690s, from gold (adj.) + fish (n.). The fish were introduced into England from China, where they are native. A type of carp, they are naturally a dull olive color; the rich colors (also red, black, silver) are obtained by selective breeding. Goldfish bowl, figurative of a situation of no privacy, was in use by 1935.


It is prescribed that the Altar of Repose be in the church and other than the one where Mass is celebrated. In the Mass on Maundy Thursday two hosts are consecrated; after the consumption of the first, the second Host is placed in a Monstrance which ais vessel used by Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and Anglo-Catholic Churches to display the consecreated Eucharistic Host. This remains on the corporal in the centre of the Altar until the end of Mass, when it is carried in solemn procession to the altar of repose, there to remain in the Monstrance. The Maundy Thursday service concludes with the stripping of all altars except the Altar of Repose.
Catholic piety has made Maundy Thursday a day of exceptional devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and the repository is the centre of the love and aspirations of the faithful.
After the Good Friday service, the Blessed Sacrament (remaining available as viaticum for the dying) is stored elsewhere, such as in a locked cabinet in the sacristy, with a lamp or candle burning before it. (The Altar of Repose is used no more that season, and is stripped, with no decorations being used for any altar until it is time to prepare for the Easter Vigil.)To see other Altars of Repose, check out the TexAnglican's blog.


The sample rate of an audio signal refers to how often an analog waveform is sampled each second. The higher the sample rate, the closer the match to the original analog wave.
In audio theory, the upper limit of frequencies that can be adequately represented by a given sample rate is called the Nyquist frequency. Human hearing is typically limited to sounds of frequency 22kHz or less. To represent this Nyquist frequency, the sample rate must be at least double this. So a frequency of 44.1 kHz–he sample rate used in traditional compact disc mastering–is considered sufficient to faithfully reproduce everything a human can hear.
However, since higher frequency sounds can interact with the listening environment to produce lower frequency sounds, there is a trend to higher sample rates for more faithful sounds reproduction and processing. Common sample rates for audio production are 96kHz and 192kHz.
bit depth – see analog v. digital
broadcast safe refers to a video signal that conforms to a given regional broadcast specification. It sets specific voltage levels for the blacks and whites of a video image, as well as the colors that can be accurately represented in the broadcast signal. Different specifications exist for different regions and formats. Broadcast safe specifications include standards for both audio and video formatting.
Color grading and non-linear editing software include waveforms and vectorscopes to analyze an image for broadcast safe compliance, as well as tools to adjust or clamp images in violation of the standards.


Three types of communication styles are passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. We all use these at different times, but if you are always passive or aggressive, you may find that you get better results by learning how to become assertive instead.
In passive communication, you may withhold your opinions, feelings, and wants. You may feel uncomfortable speaking your mind, especially when you are among supervisors or people you see as important. This type of communication style can make you feel as though you have no control over a situation.
In aggressive communication, you honestly state your opinions, feelings, and wants, but at the expense of others. You can be seen as intimidating, demanding, or rude. This type of communication style offends others, and their negative reaction to you can lead to stress.
In assertive communication, you state your opinions, feelings, and wants openly, but in a respectful, considerate, tactful way. In most instances, an assertive style works better than a passive or aggressive style.
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- The fabric lasts longer - The fabric is more absorbent - No bleaching or Harsh chemical have been used AT ALL.
The conventional cultivation of cotton leads to massive environmental and health problems. Around the world, more toxic insecticides are used on cotton than on any other crop. A sustainable alternative is the certified organic cultivation.
So serious are the negative impacts of chemical-intensive agricultural production, that momentum for change has grown considerably in recent years. The trend toward more environmentally friendly production methods is supported by a variety of interests including farmers wanting to escape the chemical treadmill, enlightened companies under pressure of increased environmental regulation and competition, and informed consumers calling for greater social and environmental accountability.
Organic cotton is produced in organic agricultural systems that produce food and fibre according to clearly established standards. Organic agriculture prohibits the use of toxic and persistent chemical pesticides and fertilizers, as well as genetically modified organisms. It seeks to build biologically diverse agricultural systems, replenish and maintain soil fertility, and promote a healthy environment.


- sea (n.)
- Old English sæ "sheet of water, sea, lake, pool," from Proto-Germanic *saiwaz (cf. Old Saxon seo, Old Frisian se, Middle Dutch see, Swedish sjö), of unknown origin, outside connections "wholly doubtful" [Buck]. Meaning "large quantity" (of anything) is from c.1200. Meaning "dark area of the moon's surface" is attested from 1660s (see mare (n.2)).
Germanic languages also use the general Indo-European word (represented by English mere (n.)), but have no firm distinction between "sea" and "lake," either by size, by inland or open, or by salt vs. fresh. This may reflect the Baltic geography where the languages are thought to have originated. The two words are used more or less interchangeably in Germanic, and exist in opposite senses (e.g. Gothic saiws "lake," marei "sea;" but Dutch zee "sea," meer "lake"). Cf. also Old Norse sær "sea," but Danish sø, usually "lake" but "sea" in phrases. German See is "sea" (fem.) or "lake" (masc.). The single Old English word sæ glosses Latin mare, aequor, pontus, pelagus, and marmor.
Phrase sea change "transformation" is attested from 1610, first in Shakespeare ("The Tempest," I.ii). Sea anemone is from 1742; sea legs is from 1712; sea level from 1806; sea urchin from 1590s. At sea in the figurative sense of "perplexed" is attested from 1768, from literal sense of "out of sight of land" (c.1300).


BINGE EATING DISORDER
When speaking of eating disorders, one usually refers to anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. There are, however, quite a few people that fulfill several diagnostic criteria for either anorexia or bulimia and yet cannot be readily diagnosed as having either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nevosa. They can be said to suffer from an atypical eating disorder or an eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). One prominent example of such an atypical eating disorder is binge eating disorder. Like bulimia and some anorexia patients, patients with binge eating disorder regularly experience eating binges during which they will eat objectively large amounts of food. Unlike bulimia patients, patients with binge eating disorder do not show compensatory behaviour. As a result, they are more likely to gain weight and thus binge eating disorder is particularly prevalent among obese people. Obese persons with binge eating disorder are more likely to suffer from comorbid depression than obese persons who do not binge. Binge eating disorder can be treated effectively with cognitive behavioural therapy. What causes eating binges and what is the relation between symptoms of depression and binge eating are important questions in our current research.


National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is observed in October 2017. Breast Cancer Awareness Month,is an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.
A variety of events around the world are organized in October, including walks and runs, and the pink illumination of landmark buildings. In the United States, the National Football League promotes breast cancer awareness by incorporating pink on and off the field, and comic strip artists use pink on one day in October
Breast cancer is a type of cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas, while those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas. (With material from: Wikipedia)
Where is the event?
When is the event?
Sunday, the 1st of October 2017 to Tuesday, the 31st of October 2017


The Just 10 Challenge is about making a small commitment with a huge payoff. Losing just 10 pounds can lower your blood pressure, reduce your risk for a stroke, ward off dementia, lower your risk for uterine and breast cancer, and lower your cholesterol up to 10%. Change the health of America, 10 pounds at a time.
Cut Out Soda
The average American consumes 53 gallons of soda (and 49 pounds of sugar) per year. It's making the nation sick and fat. Soda is full of caffeine and high fructose corn syrup. Both regular AND diet soda lead to weight gain. Additionally, soda increases your risk of diabetes, bone weakening and tooth decay. Start by swapping out just one can of soda for water each day to help you lose 10 pounds.


Many orthopedic deformities are common in children. The most well-known are deformites that impact life for children such as cleft lip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and hand deformities such as clubhand and syndactly. These disease while easily treated through surgery, casting, and therapy in the modern world were not always so simple and easy to treat. All have been studied by many doctors and therapists in order to find therapies that provided the most competent care possible for children. According the Iowa Orthopaedic Journal, Clubfoot was treated by the Indians around 1000 BC and Hippocrates in the 400s CE using methods similar to the non-surgical methods used today although the treatments were not used later(Dobbs, Morcuende, Gurnett,Ponseti).
Accoding Orthopeadics, Clubhand was identified in the 1700s although the first effective treatments were not until the 1950s(Fitzgerald, Kaufer, Malkani 935).
Accoridng to Perko M., Cleft lip was frist treated by surgery in China in the 300s BC but the surgery was not more successful until anesthatics were more successful allowing the painful surgery to be performed easily(par, 1). Other deformities had treatment progressions in similar patterns.


chinquapin (chĭngˈkəpĭn) [key] [Algonquian], name for certain American species of the chestnut genus of the family Fagaceae (beech family) and for a related species, the golden chinquapin ( Castanopsis chrysophylla ), an evergreen of the Pacific states. The common chinquapin is Castanea pumila, native to the E United States. Its wood and fruit are used like those of the chestnut. The bush chinquapin ( C. alnifolia ) has a more southern range. Chinquapin is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Fagales, family Fagaceae.
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Definition of getter
n. - One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
The word "getter" uses 6 letters: E E G R T T.
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transforms The Studio Museum in Harlem’s galleries into an active photography studio. Over the course of two weeks, Museum staff will work in view of the public to create high-quality digital photographs of some of the largest works in the Museum’s permanent collection of nearly two thousand works of art. This project is the culmination of a year-long initiative, generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), to fully digitize and make accessible this unparalleled collection. By capturing images of artworks that have rarely been exhibited or photographed, Photo Studio
allows artists, curators, scholars, and the public the opportunity to learn about the Studio Museum’s significant collection first-hand.
Maintaining the Museum’s commitment to the preservation, accessibility, and study of work by artists of African descent, Photo Studio
also allows for a rare behind-the-scenes look into the work that occurs at a museum. Staff and visitors alike will have the opportunity to reflect on the depth and breadth of the Museum’s collection. Visitors will have the chance to see art handlers installing work in a variety of media, with rarely seen, large-scale, or technically complex artworks periodically on view in the main gallery.
Throughout the two weeks, Museum staff and educators will be on hand in the galleries to answer any questions about works on view. Please note that photography and video of this exhibition are prohibited.Photo Studio
is made possible in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional support provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Council.


Applications of DNA analysis have been extended to forensic investigations and consequently a profusion of questions have arisen with regard to the collection of samples and methodological standards, the reliability and interpretation of results, and regulation of testing in general. The use of extremely small crime samples as a source of DNA for forensic investigation only began in South Africa in 1995 and was both accepted and challenged in court in the same year. Section 37 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1977 makes specific provision for the taking of the necessary steps in order to ascertain whether the body of an arrested person has 'any mark, characteristic or distinguishing feature or shows any condition or appearance'. In South Africa, the Biology Unit of the Police Forensic Science Laboratory is the primary laboratory specialising in DNA testing for prosecution purposes. The Laboratory for Tissue Immunology at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town also tests DNA evidence in criminal cases on request.


Source: Psychotherapist, Lee Wai Tong
Whenever something happens, children will use different excuses to shirk their responsibility toward others. Parents may then scold the child for this, but this may make the child avoid taking responsibility. Faced with this situation, what can parents do?
First of all, when parents ask children, “Why didn’t you finish the work?” or “Why don’t you understand?” Parents want their children to take responsibility. But at this time, the child will want to shirk the responsibility and give it to someone else, but at the end of the day, the parents actually want the child to take responsibility. You should know that responsibility starts with the child having the time to make decisions because having the time is called having a sense of autonomy. If children can have a sense of autonomy, they will be more likely to be responsible.
For example, if he does not know how to do his homework and is asked why he does not understand, he will say that the teacher did not teach him, the teacher did not teach him well, or that the other students were noisy. At that moment, if parents continue to say that he is not concentrating in class, they will only make the child throw the responsibility further away. So at this point, we need to know how to do better since we are facing difficulties and then work with the child to figure out how to do it.
The child will feel responsible for doing a good job, so naturally he will put the responsibility back on himself and let himself do it. And when children can do things on their own, they will be more willing to take responsibility. This is why I always say that the most important thing for parents is not to be accountable because accountability only teaches children to unload their responsibilities, while we can help our children take responsibility and accomplish things together. This is the most important lesson we often teach our children about responsibility.


1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Alhazen
ALHAZEN (Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Alhasan), Arabian mathematician of the 11th century, was born at Basra and died at Cairo in 1038. He is to be distinguished from another Alhazen who translated Ptolemy’s Almagest in the 10th century. Having boasted that he could construct a machine for regulating the inundations of the Nile, he was summoned to Egypt by the caliph Hakim; but, aware of the impracticability of his scheme, and fearing the caliph’s anger, he feigned madness until Hakim’s death in 1021. Alhazen was, nevertheless, a diligent and successful student, being the first great discoverer in optics after the time of Ptolemy. According to Giovanni Battista della Porta, he first explained the apparent increase of heavenly bodies near the horizon, although Bacon gives the credit of this discovery to Ptolemy. He taught, previous to the Polish physicist Witelo, that vision does not result from the emission of rays from the eye, and wrote also on the refraction of light, especially on atmospheric refraction, showing, e.g. the cause of morning and evening twilight. He solved the problem of finding the point in a convex mirror at which a ray coming from one given point shall be reflected to another given point. His treatise on optics was translated into Latin by Witelo (1270), and afterwards published by F. Risner in 1572, with the title Opticae thesaurus Alhazeni libri VII., cum ejusdem libro de crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus. This work enjoyed a great reputation during the middle ages. Works on geometrical subjects were found in the Bibliothéque nationale de Paris in 1834 by E. A. Sédillot; other manuscripts are preserved in the Bodleian library at Oxford and in the library of Leiden.
See Casiri, Bibl. Arab. Hisp. Escur.; J. E. Montucla, Histoire des mathématiques (1758); and E. A. Sédillot, Matériaux pour l’histoire des sciences mathématiques.


School Safety: By the Numbers
Published in November 2017, this resource draws from NIJ's Summary of School Safety Statistics report developed as a part of the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative. Included is data on school crime rates, shootings and other violence, school security measures, and more, with trends over time provided.
The National Institute of Justice’s CrimeSolutions.gov provides ratings of programs and practices, including programs that relate to school safety, to help determine what works, what doesn’t, and what’s promising.
With funding from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges created the NRC-SJP to serve as a one-stop-shop for jurisdictions seeking training and technical assistance to support implementation and sustainability of multidisciplinary initiatives to achieve positive school discipline reforms and reduce the school to juvenile justice pathway.
Developed by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center and available to vetted criminal justice professionals and school administrators, the SchoolSafe app provides for a means to conduct a physical assessment of a school campus (inside and out) to address potential trouble spots.


Nestle Boycott (1011P20)
Status: Lapsed | Zone: Sustainability
Passed: 17/05/2011 |
This policy was discussed at the following meetings:
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 1.5 million infants die around the world every year because they are not breastfed. Where water is unsafe a bottle-fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die as a result of diarrhoea than a breastfed child.
- Nestle is a company which continues to flout the World Health Assembly marketing code on breast milk substitutes despite this death and suffering.
- 73 other student unions are part of the boycott.
- The boycott is active in many in many different organisations and unions across 20 countries and is working on many levels: Nestle continues to find it difficult to recruit British graduates into their company.
- That Nestle acts in a highly unethical manner in many other areas, including the price of labour for their chocolate and coffee production and in the harvesting of palm oil.
- That we should join the boycott of Nestle by not stocking their products in any union outlets.
- We do have consumer choice and you could choose to buy your Kit Kat elsewhere, but the positive thing about the boycott is that it sends a clear signal to Nestle © that as students we care about what they are doing. It is a statement that couldn't be reproduced just by informing individual student's shopping habits.
- That Nestle has behaved in an unethical manner with regards to formula milk and other issues, and that they should change their practices.
- To make information available at union outlets advertising this and stating why it has been done.
Sorry, there are no Mandates for this policy


Rumblings from developing countries over rumors of a separate agreement between the U.S., Denmark, and Britain that would allow developed countries to pollute more relative to developing countries, is causing tremors in the Cop 15 Climate Summit spirit of cooperation.
Many of the expected climate change impacts such as rising sea level will disproportionately impact poorer countries with less economic resources than rich countries. Did we really think we could discuss, argue, and come to agreement on a world-community plan to mitigate environmental and economic impacts without addressing the age-old problem of have’s versus have not’s?
Philanthropist, George Soros, addressed this gap and called for the IMF to fund climate change adaptations in developing countries by investing $100B in developing countries for green energy projects and adaptations necessary to adapt to climate impacts in those countries. Money will come from the funds set aside for financial recovery in world-wide economies. Soros addressed the 192-country summit.
Soros is responding to the possibility that the talks will break down due to The Group of 77 (bloc of developing countries) which contends that developed nations like the U.S., who have contributed the lion’s share of CO2 emissions over the last 150 years of industrialization, should make substantive commitments for reduced emissions and assistance to developing countries. Soros called upon the political will of the people to assure Congress will not delay to support his plan and significant commitments from the U.S. to the rest of the world community to reduce emissions.


3D Printers:Fact or Fiction [VIDEO]
The age of modern technology is here and it changes every day so rapidly it’s hard to keep up with it all. The newest buzz is 3D Printers, where you can take an object, modify it to your specifications, and print an exact duplicate. Sounds like something straight out of a science fiction movie…think again?According to a company called Z Corporation and recently seen on the National Geographic Channel, the company claims that 3D printers offer product developers the ability to print parts and assemblies made of several materials with different mechanical and physical properties in a single build process. Advanced 3D printing technologies yield models that can serve as product prototypes.
By now your imagination must be going wild as to all the possibilities that this could bring our way.
If you could scan and copy something and make an exact duplicate of it, what would it be?


(from: The Treaties of Peace 1919-1923, Vol. II, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, 1924.)
The Lausanne Treaty was signed on 24 July 1923 by the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, and the "Serbo-Croat-Slovene" State on one part and Turkey on the other.
(Compiled by Lt.-Col. Lawrence Martin, Geographer of the Institute of Politics)
The text of the Treaty and the maps have been copied with permission from the World War I Archive (specifically: Treaties).


At the national level, 2011 has become a very active tornado season. While the reports are preliminary, the number of tornadoes this year stands at 1189. And we are only five months into the year. At least 483 people have died this year, compared to 45 in 2010 and 21 in 2009.
I’ve been asked by several people if there are any trends in the tornado records for Illinois. If we look at the number of stronger tornadoes since 1950 in Illinois, we see a lot of year to year variability. However there is no significant trend over time – either up or down (Figure 1). Stronger tornadoes are identified here as F-1 to F-5 events from 1950 to 2006 (using the Fujita Scale), and EF-1 to EF-5 events from 2007 to 2010 (using the Enhanced Fujita Scale). By definition, these stronger tornadoes cause at least a moderate amount of damage. See the Storm Prediction Center for a discussion on the original Fujita and Enhanced Fujita (EF) scales.
What we have seen is a dramatic increase in the number of F-0 (EF-0) tornadoes from 1950 to 2010 (Figure 2). These are the weakest of all tornado events and typically cause little if any damage. These events were overlooked in the early tornado records. The upward trend is the result of better radar systems, better spotter networks, and increased awareness and interest by the public. These factors combined have allowed for a better documentation of the weaker events over time.
If we combine both data sets together, we see the apparent upward trend caused by the increasingly accurate accounting of F-0 (EF-0) tornadoes (Figure 3). As a result, the number of observed tornadoes in Illinois has increased over time, but without an indication of any underlying climate change.In my opinion, the tornado record since 1995 (shaded in yellow) provides the most accurate picture of tornado activity in Illinois. From that part of the record we see that the average number of tornadoes per year in Illinois is now 63.


Why are vibrations monitored? What are the types and sources of construction vibration? How are vibrations reported?
Reasons for Monitoring Construction Vibration
Avoid excessive vibrations that can lead to property damage, litigation, project delays, and increased costs
Inform construction engineers of excessive vibrations so they can take mitigating actions
Provide documentation for regulatory agencies
Help resolve damage claims
Sources of Construction Vibration
- Impact pile driving
- Dynamic compaction
- Pneumatic tamping
- Vibratory Compaction
- Vibratory Pile Driving
- Excavation Machinery
- Pavement Milling & Rubblizing
Reporting Construction Vibration
- Ground vibration propagates in waves.
- The wavefronts cause particle motion.
- Vibration monitors measure the velocity and frequency of particle motion.
- Velocity is reported in inches per second. Higher velocities are more damaging.
- Frequency is reported in Hz. Lower frequencies are more damaging.
Vibration Limit Chart
- The limit chart plots particle velocity against frequency.
- Points falling above the limit line are considered potentially damaging.
- Points falling below the limit line are considered non-damaging.
- The limit chart was developed for transient vibrations (blasting). Limits for continuous vibrations are typically 2 to 5 times more restrictive.
Histogram & Waveform Event Reports
- The histogram report, useful to demonstrate that the site is actively monitored, shows the peak particle velocity measured during successive time periods.
- The waveform event report shows a single event, typically triggered by a limit exceedance.


There are two key ways you can help your child develop language. One is to read to them a lot. The other is to talk to them.
A day in the life of you
At bedtime, tell them the story of what happened in their day. The skills of sequencing, prediction, retelling and remembering events are all developed through this activity.
What, who and how?
Take turns asking each other a question. Try to ask open-ended questions that require more than a yes or no answer.
Odd one out
This can be played in several ways. If focusing on rhyme, you could give your child three or four words in which one doesn’t rhyme, like cat, mat and dog and ask them which one ends in a different way or sounds different. You can also do this with synonyms such as happy, glad and angry - which one doesn’t belong? This is a good way to extend vocabulary and explain new or rarely-used words.


PROPELLER is an acronym for "Periodically Rotated Overlapping ParallEL Lines with Enhanced Reconstruction." This method acquires data in a unique way that allows one to track the motion of the patient during the MRI scan. The motion can then be removed.
"While PROPELLER technology continues to be refined, GE has already incorporated the novel method into new medical equipment," said Jim Pipe, senior staff scientist in the MRI Department at Barrow. "We believe that PROPELLER technology will help drive the future of MRI."
There are two major applications for this method. The first is motion-insensitive imaging. For the first time, high-quality MRI scans can be collected on many segments of the population who cannot hold still (children, Parkinson's patients, etc.). This is leading the technology to a point where patient motion, which may be the biggest obstacle to good images, is no longer a factor.
The second application for PROPELLER is stroke imaging. The technology used to detect and characterize strokes, called "Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI)," is extremely sensitive to even minute motion in a patient. Prior to PROPELLER, DWI images suffered in quality because the methods used to reduce this motion sensitivity also reduced image quality. With PROPELLER DWI, small strokes are much easier to detect, grade and follow during treatment.
COMPAMED.de; Source: St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center


The seasonal incidence of nematode infestations in pigs raised under semi-intensive conditions was determined by the monthly slaughter of 2-4 tracer pigs exposed to infestation in an earthern floored pen for periods of 1 or 2 months. Although worm burdens were generally small, Ascarops strongylina appeared to be more prevalent from November to March than during the other months of the year. Once Ascaris suum became established in the pen nearly all the pigs became infested. The number of worms never exceeded 88, however, and no seasonal incidence pattern could be determined. Trichuris suis favoured the warmer months from November to March, the smallest numbers being recovered during September and October. One pig only harboured Trichostrongylus colubriformis and 3 had Oesophagostomum dentatum.
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You won’t find a photograph of the Cincinnati skyline without the iconic John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge. The bridge that connects Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky officially opened on January 1, 1867. At the time, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world (1,057 feet). When the bridge opened, horse and buggy were charged 15 cents to cross, three horse and carriage were charged a quarter, and pedestrians had a toll of a whopping, one penny. For those of you not familiar with the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge may recognize the resemblance with New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge. This is due to the fact that John A. Roebling designed the bridges in Cincinnati and New York City. Roebling’s Cincinnati bridge was considered a prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge which was constructed 16 years later.
For all you movie buffs, Cincinnati’s Roebling Suspension Bridge was also portrayed in the Academy Award winning film, Rainman.


Can You Tell the Difference?
Students will use the White Mountain National Forest quarter to learn about the similarities and differences between national parks and national forests.
Read the January Coin of the Month to learn about national forests. Using White Mountain National Forest as an example, discuss exceptional features of this national forest. Have the students research various national forests and national parks using available online and classroom resources. Invite the students to work in groups and use a graphic organizer to show their findings. Have the students create a visual display highlighting special features that national forests and national parks bring to the people of the United States.
Make a Connection
Do you know that we have a collection of lesson plans based on the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program for educators and students to enjoy? Lesson plans for grades K through 12 are available online for free. Be sure to use this program to explore the rich history of our national sites with your students.
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For one man, the first sign came when he mixed up words while ordering lunch in a restaurant. For a little girl, it began with a loss of balance and changes in hearing.
The most common malignant primary brain tumor is called glioblastoma multiforme. These tumors are often aggressive and infiltrate surrounding brain tissue.
A Phase I clinical trial, funded by the American Cancer Society and launched through Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Center for Imm
One week before my brother was set to study business in Singapore this summer, Dr. Metchler delivered his alarming news.
When my brother was diagnosed with cancer, my family’s priorities were clear: his health came first. But eventually, we also had to return to work.
When my brother was diagnosed with brain cancer, it changed all of our lives, in ways big and small. The texture of reality shifted as anxiety and uncertainty set in. All of our future plans were placed on hold.
It’s become a running joke in our family: “Hey, give us a break. We don’t know what we’re doing. After all, this is our first brain tumor!”
Earlier this month, a British study published in The Lancet revealed that computed tomography (CT) scans can raise the risk of brain cancer and leukemia in children later in life.
May is National Brain Tumor Awareness Month. To help you begin to understand this complex group of tumors, we have compiled some of the key facts, statistics and information below.
A recent study in Cancer, a journal published by the American Cancer Society (ACS), reported a correlation between certain types of dental X-rays and a common, benign brain tumor called