Infants (K – 2)
Infants (K – 2)
Explore and Discover
Beginning school is an enormous adventure for students and parents alike. It is important that those early years are built on a Christian foundation.
Foundations for lifelong learning
Our infants program builds upon young children’s natural curiosity and innate love of learning. By stimulating their curiosity and imagination, children begin to build solid foundations for lifelong learning. They discover and explore the wondrous and wonderful world God has created. Children begin to see their community and others in their classroom as part of God’s family, learning to be kind, generous-hearted and forgiving in their friendships as they grow together.
Supporting numeracy and literacy is of critical importance to laying a strong learning foundation. For this reason we cap class size at 24 (our average class size is around 20 students). Classes frequently include teacher’s aides and parent helpers. We aim to give as much one-to-one contact between teachers and students.
Learning support and extension
All our programs are built out of respect for and understanding of students different rates of development. They will be supported and extended where necessary.
In addition to the normal program, students also have access to specialist music lessons and also begin learning French.
Excursions and camps
A variety of camps and excursions support our students learning.
Museum of Fire
Calmsley Hill Farm
Aussie Bush Sleepover
Long Neck Lagoon
Find out more about what makes Nepean Christian School different.
Experience what Nepean Christian School has to offer from Kindergarten to Year 12. Meet our principal, Cameron Nunn, for a school tour.


Your IQ, which stands for Intelligence Quotient, is a scientific assessment of your intelligence derived from standardized tests that measure problem solving abilities, spatial imagery, memory, general knowledge, and other factors. While there are limits based on native intelligence levels, recent studies have shown that it's possible to increase your intelligence. We'll show you some ways to make this happen.
Making Brainpower Fun
Take risks with your brain. Have you become a Scrabble master, able toss out 40-point words even when your rack looks like EEIOAUC? Fine, congratulations. Now go become a Sudoku master. When you reach that goal, move on. Become a Go master, or chess expert.Once you become good at a particular skill, your brain stops working as hard. It doesn't expend the resources, or trigger that dopamine rush that helps make you smarter. Feel free to continue to wallop the competition in Scrabble, but keep finding new "brain games" to explore.
Play video games. Games can be a great way to stimulate the brain. Try to play a game that is out of your usual range of choices. It will help you think differently. Especially look for games that provide you with problems to solve or force you to think quickly. Scientific studies have shown that playing the popular game Tetris leads to more efficient brain activity; as players become more proficient at the game, their brains show a reduced consumption of glucose (the body's main fuel). The conclusions of this study point out that glucose consumption is reduced when learning has taken place; the effort required decreases. 4
Work on challenging your brain in new ways. Try cryptology, for example. This is when a message is written in codes and you try to figure it out. It's challenging for some, but after a while may even become enjoyable. Do logic and lateral thinking puzzles. These help you explore new areas, and solve problems in different ways.Practice crosswords and sudoku. These activities...


The famous Liberty Bell was originally called the “Old State House Bell.”
When most people think of the Liberty Bell, they expect to see that iconic crack in it. Everyone wants a photo including the distinctive characteristic. It wouldn’t be the Liberty Bell without it.
Most of us don’t realize that these bells were actually quite fragile. That seems surprising in a bell that weighs 2,000 lbs.
A fragile 2,000 pound Liberty Bell provides an interesting analogy.
Liberty is indeed a fragile thing.
It must be carefully guarded.
Special Exhibit: Independence & The Great War, 1917–1919
During World War I, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell became beacons of liberty for the city, the nation, and the world. See photos of rallies where people gathered to invoke the “Spirit of 1776,” where soldiers enlisted in the Armed Services, and where foreign dignitaries and people from all walks of life found inspiration.
The National Park Service’s special exhibit details:
• Exhibit continues until February 28, 2018
• Open 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Admission Free
• Location: Liberty Bell Center, 6th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA
• Wheelchair Accessible
• Visitors must pass through security screening to visit the center.
• Website: https://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/libertybellcenter.htm
Why was the Liberty Bell originally called the “Old State House Bell?” Tell me in the comments below.
Until next time . . . Travel Light,
© 2018 SuZan Klassen


Pollution is a harmful by-product of industrial buildings and residential housing. The longer a building is in place, the more pollution it releases into the environment.
Citizens who live or work in buildings situated around pollution will have lower environmental happiness. Whether they're directly exposed to pollution or not, Environmentalists will get angry if they live on a heavily polluted island. Finally, the EU appreciates environmentalism and the level of pollution on the island will affect relations with them.
The amount of pollution that buildings cause can be reduced by issuing edicts; residential pollution can be reduced using an anti-litter ordinance while industrial pollution can be reduced by setting pollution standards. Pollution that's already been released into the environment can be cleaned up by hiring garbagemen in garbage dumps and water treatment plants.


Deputy Head Michael Tidd has written this comprehensive guide to the new National Curriculum just for parents.
Highlighting the key changes for all subjects from Years 1 - 6 this handy guide is available in full colour for sharing digitally with parents, or in black and white divided by year group - perfect for parents evenings and book bags.
Go to our 'free stuff' area to download your free copy
, Computing and ICT
, English and Literacy
, Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
, Intervention and SEN
, More able
, Reading and Ebooks
, Revision and Practice
, Science and Technology


Thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes will be flying near Miami to test a new way to suppress insect populations that carry Zika and other viruses.
According to a statement from the Kentucky-based company MosquitoMate, the first mosquitoes will be released in the city of South Miami. The test is in collaboration with the Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control and Habitat Management Division.
MosquitoMate infects male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with the naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria. Any offspring produced when the lab-bred mosquitoes mate with wild female mosquitoes won't survive to adulthood.
Male mosquitoes don't bite, and Wolbachia isn't harmful to humans.
A similar trial began near Key West last spring. Hurricane Irma's landfall in the Florida Keys interrupted the final weeks of monitoring for that trial. The results are still pending.


Dubois REC has partnered with local libraries to allow members to "check out" a Kill-A-Watt meter to use in their home.
The Kill-A-Watt is a simple household energy reader used to measure how much electricity your appliances and electronic gadgets consume—...even when they’re not turned on. Just plug the meter into an outlet, then plug your appliance into it to see how much energy it is using. Knowing how much energy is being used will help you make more informed decisions about how you use electricity, and ultimately, help you start saving it.
Ask your local librarian for details about the program.


Graphic by John Herne
Warm fronts not as nice as they sound
By Chad Palmer, USATODAY.com
The term "warm front" sounds like something you'd like to have coming your way on a cold winter's day.
Think again. A warm front is the boundary between warm and cool, or cold, air when the warm air is replacing the cold air. That sounds like what you want. However, warm fronts often bring days of inclement weather.
Warm fronts often form to the east of low pressure centers, where southerly winds push warm air northward.
As the warm air advances northward it rides over the cold air ahead of it, which is heavier. As the warm air rises the water vapor in it condenses into clouds that can produce rain, snow, sleet or freezing rain, often all four. (Related: Storms that bring rain, ice, and snow)
The warm front symbol on a weather map marks the warm-cold boundary at the earth's surface. The circles on the red line point in the direction the warm air is moving. As you move into the cold air the warm-cold boundary is overhead. The boundary, along with clouds and precipitation, can stretch hundreds of miles over the cold air. This is why a slow-moving warm front can mean hours, if not days, of cloudy, wet weather before the warm air finally arrives.
Since warm air is lighter and less dense than cold air, the cold air ahead of a warm front at the surface must retreat before warm air can move in. Sometimes, cold air is very stubborn and hard to move, which slows the warm front down and can lead to several days of wet weather. This happens often during winter along the East Coast as cold air banks up against the Appalachian Mountains. It is commonly referred to as cold air damming.


Melbourne: Challenging current models of brain ageing, researchers have found that some areas of the brain may remain youthful even in older age.
Pic for representational purpose
When it comes to spatial attention skills, older people can do just as good as the younger ones, the findings showed.
Spatial attention is critical for many aspects of life - from driving to walking, to picking up and using objects.
"Our studies have found that older and younger adults perform in a similar way on a range of visual and non-visual tasks that measure spatial attention," said Joanna Brooks, a research fellow at Australian National University.
For the study, researchers compared the ability of 60 older and younger people to respond to visual and non-visual stimuli in order to measure their spatial attention skills.
"Both younger (aged 18-38 years) and older (55-95 years) adults had the same responses for spatial attention tasks involving touch, sight or sound,” Brooks added.
The research suggests that certain types of cognitive systems in the right cerebral hemisphere - like spatial attention - are 'encapsulated' and may be protected from ageing, she noted.
"Our results challenge current models of cognitive ageing because they show that the right side of the brain remains dominant for spatial processing throughout the entire adult lifespan," Brooks added.


We have collabortaed with the children of Grasmere Primary School to create this pavement in a small park on Albion Road, Stoke Newington. The image illustrates the story of the 2 giants who the Romans encountered when they first landed in Britain, or Albion as they called it. One of the giants was called Gog Magog and they were said to be descendents of a greek princess called alba who had been banished by her father in a rudderless boat that had drifted to this island. The giants were an agressive race and had fought with each other until only two remained. When the Romans landed they threw them both off the cliffs and into the sea.
The children designed and made all the border mosaics, which show a variety of images including giants, aliens, national flags and even a door into an imaginary place.


The foreigners who are destroying the Wild Atlantic Way
It was a Dutch explorer, Philipp von Siebold, who first introduced the problem that would cost Europe hundreds of millions of euro. He returned to the Netherlands with his samples from the slopes of a Japanese volcano in 1847 and then posted a cutting to Kew Gardens in 1850. The rest is geography.
Gertrude Jekyll helped bring the foreigner to Ireland. She collaborated with Edwin Lutyens and designed the gardens at Lambay Island for Lord Revelstoke (founder of Baring's Bank). In a 1900 edition of 'Home and Garden' she extolled the plant's utility: "We ought not forget the quick growing ways of the great Japan knotweeds growing fast and tall".
This week, Kerry County Councillor Michael Gleeson described the weed as an unmanageable monster that is the country's biggest environmental threat. Citizens are spreading the problem by hedge-cutting and disposing of the weed in local dumps. You could be prosecuted if you do this, as fragments can continue to propagate.


Submarine crews could be breathing much healthier air thanks to miniscule devices based on 62 year-old technology. Currently, carbon dioxide is removed from the air in submarines through a reaction with chemicals such as calcium hydroxide. Chemical engineers from England’s University of Bath are collaborating with mechanical engineers from Duke University in the US, to develop a chemical-free filtration system. It utilizes seawater and tiny folded wire mesh rings known as Dixon rings.
It has been known for a long time that sea water absorbs CO2. The researchers, however, are faced with designing a system that could fit within the close confines of a submarine, or other undersea habitat. That’s where the Dixon rings come in. Only 3mm across, the rings’ mesh construction provides extra surface area for the absorption of CO2.
The system consists of a column packed with Dixon rings. Seawater and “used” air are pumped through the column (and rings) in counter-current directions. This chaotic interaction results in the air being scrubbed of its CO2, which is then discharged into the sea.
According to the Bath scientists, not only will this technology do away with the need for chemicals, but it will also allow crews to stay undersea for longer periods.
The study is funded by a three-year £380,000 (US$563,109) grant from the US Office of Naval Research.


High relative humidity at the surface of wall allows mold to grow. Winter mold growth is caused by building surfaces being at the dew point of the air in the home. This is like a can of cold pop sweating. Two choices, reduce the indoor humidity (dew point) or raise the wall surface temperature. Increasing the fresh air ventilation reduces the indoor dew point when it's cold outside (below 50^F).
The wall surface is warmed by keeping mirrows, couches and dressers away from exterior walls, raising the indoor temperature, or improving the insulation. If this is summer problem, reduce the indoor humidity below 50% and don't cool the home below 75^F. This usually requires a dehumidifier. Do a web search for "ventilating dehumidifier".


Great for Literacy Centers and Student Collaboration. What could be more fun than some dice and a good book?
Students pick a partner and a book to read together, roll a die, answer the numbered activity with discussion and record it on the reading log.
Read and Roll directions:
Choose a partner and a chapter book
Read 2 pages with your partner
After reading 2 pages, each person rolls a die and completes the task for which they rolled.
Record activity on Read and Roll log
Repeat #2 – 4
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Canine distemper virus, or CDV, is a virus that attacks the digestive system, the respiratory system and degeneration of the nervous system. Though it mostly affects dogs, it can be found in wild animals like raccoons. It is an airborne virus, but is also present in any and every excretion from an infected animal. Recently 22 big cats were diagnosed with CDV at In-Sync Exotics.
It is thought that they caught the virus from some wild raccoons that live in the woods along side the sanctuary, which most likely perched in the trees above their enclosure and urinated or defecated into the play areas. Some are asking why the animals were not vaccinated but many vets actually recommend against vaccinating big cats against the virus.
In-Sync is home to over 60 big cats including lions, cougars, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs, ocelots, servals, bobcats and lynx. It was started by Vicky Keahey 22 years ago, who was a vet tech that took in a cougar kitten abandoned at her vets office. She kept taking in big cats in need and now runs the sanctuary from her yard. The cats kept there are treated better than at most zoos and receive love and excellent care every single day.
The staff and volunteers at In-Sync are working above and beyond to give their cats vitamins and antibiotics to help them stay well enough to fight off the virus, but there is only so much money available to a non-profit. This is not the kind of website where I ask you to give money, ever, but this place is very dear to my heart and I owe them a lot. I dropped off ten gallons of bleach and a lot of ground turkey and calf liver over the weekend (different meats to help get the cats to take their medicine). If you want to help the cats of In-Sync you can donate online here, or find out more about what supplies they need dropped off here.


Studying multiplication following counting, addition, as well as subtraction is perfect. Kids understand arithmetic through a all-natural progression. This progress of discovering arithmetic is usually the pursuing: counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, lastly division. This assertion leads to the issue why find out arithmetic within this sequence? Moreover, why learn multiplication after counting, addition, and subtraction before department?
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RISE: Equality vs. Equity
Module from RISE, a PCA trusted resource, reviewing the definitions of equality and equity.
RISE: Visualizing Equality vs. Equity
Activity from PCA trusted resource RISE to understand how equality and equity can be used to achieve fairness
Now seven months in, we’ve learned a few things about the pandemic’s wider impact on youth & HS sports.
Coaches can get involved in leadership in a different way by talking about character-building and identity.
Activity from PCA trusted resource RISE to examine how athletes use sports as an agent social change.
10 Policies for LGBTQI+ Inclusion For Your Organization
Want to make our athletic department or YSO more inclusive? Check out these policies every team should have.
Brad Stevens: The Key To Unlocking Potential
Stevens: "sometimes people get put in a box of what they can’t do instead of focusing on what they can do."
When Players Know You Care, They Work Harder And Are Easier To Work With
Christian Lavers on how important it is that players know that a coach sees them as more than an X or O.
Coaches Have The Platform To Impact Hundreds Of Kids Every Season
Jack Clark talks about the impact a coach can have on players and the responsibility it entails.
How Coaches Can Balance Discipline And Fun
This Award-winning coach talks about balancing being assertive while also letting her players let loose.
How Coaches Can Model An Attitude Of Gratitude To Keep Kids Humble
Award-Winning Coach Breeze McDonald talks about using her attitude to help her players overcome obstacles.
How Sports Can Teach Life Lessons To Troubled Teens
Structure, discipline, and teamwork are lessons Thomas teaches to help his athletes for life after prison.
The Humility Of Steve Kerr And Stephen Curry Sets A Great Example
Stephen Curry and PCA National Advisory Board Member Steve Kerr's humility impacts the youth in the game.


"Our attack does not succeed."
Translation:Serangan kami tidak berhasil.
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Indonesian language, like any other Austronesian-languages, has two distinct ways to say "we", i.e. the inclusive "we" and the exclusive "we", Indonesian has two distinct words for those and they are "kami (exclusive we)" and kita (inclusive we). Inclusive we means "I, you, and another (others)", whilst exclusive we means "another (others) and I, but not including you".


Why temperature calibration is so important in retorts?
The Temperature Indicating Device (TID), as designated by the US FDA in its Code of Federal Regulations CFR Title 21 Part 113 “Thermally Processed Low-Acid Foods Packaged in Hermetically Sealed Containers”, is a key element of the sterilization retorts and hence a key element at any canning plant. It is a master device which must ensure thermal process treatment temperature accuracy in the sterilization retort so as to ensure all produced food product is safe for consumption. How about that?.
Up till not so long ago, CFR 21 Part 113 had determined the Mercury-In-Glass (MIG) was the only instrument to be trusted as the master retort temperature indicating device. The food industry had disputed the use of mercury in food plants for obvious poisoning risk. For some years now, electronic devices are accepted, as long as they meet all accuracy, reliability and independency requirements.
The text reads as follows now:
“Each temperature-indicating device and each reference device that is maintained by the processor shall be tested for accuracy against a reference device for which the accuracy is traceable to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), or other national metrology institute, standard reference device by appropriate standard procedures, upon installation and at least once a year thereafter, or more frequently if necessary, to ensure accuracy during processing. Each temperature-indicating device and each reference device that is maintained by the processor shall have a tag, seal, or other means of identity.” Not a subject to be taken lightly…
All Surdry retorts are factory fitted with battery operated digital thermometers, specifically qualified to meet the CFR 21 Part 113. Manufacturer’s qualification and accuracy certificates are supplied as part of the documentation delivered with each Surdry unit.
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As you probably are already aware, cerumen (more commonly referred to as "ear wax") is a normal physiologic substance within the ear canal, and is actually necessary for a healthy and well functioning ear. It is only made in the outer 1/3 of the ear canal where there are both apocrine (modified sweat glands), and sebaceous glands. They secrete both liquid and fatty substances (fatty chains) that mix with the shedding keratinizing squamous epithelium to make cerumen. Since cerumen is only made in the outer third of the ear canal, physiologically it does not cause any problems with hearing, rather it actually has some antibiotic properties, and helps prevent foreign bodies from going deeper into the ear and damaging the tympanic membrane (ear drum). Thus it is only when the wax is pushed deeper into the ear canal that it causes problems. This is the reason that ENT physicians are constantly recommending to their patients NOT to use Q-tips to clean their ears. More often than not, some of the wax is pushed deeper into the ear canal and this can eventually build up on the tympanic membrane and cause pain, and hearing problems
. There is likely nothing that you are doing that is making you produce more cerumen then the average person (if you even are). Some people just produce more than others. Different ENT physicians may suggest different maintenance therapies (such as a drop of mineral oil every other day or so) to help prevent the drying of the ear wax, and thereby helping it come out normally easier. I would recommend that if you are not already being followed by an ENT, that you make an appointment and have your ears checked out, and get their opinion on your situation. Best of luck.


The result of this was effectively the creation of an elite unit that was to see action in some of the worst of the fighting during the Mexican American War.
Well disciplined the 4th were to become one of the most highly trained Regiments of the Mexican Army. The soldiers of the 4th could be deployed effectively as troops of the line or working ahead of the main force in the traditional Light Infantry role of skirmishers.
Such was the elite status of the Regiment that General Santa Anna would himself design their uniform.
Being an elite Regiment ensured that they were deployed at nearly every major engagement of the war. Their finest moment would come at the battle of Churubusco; when alongside the men of the 1st and 3rd Light Infantry, the 11th (Toluca) Premanente Regiment and the Irishmen of the Batallón de San Patricio, under the capable General Brigadier Francisco Perez, their stubborn defense of the Tete du Pont adjacent to the Convent building inflicted severe losses upon the attacking American forces.
Gringo 40’s miniature wargame figure captures a man of the 4th, in typical dynamic skirmisher fashion. running at the crouch seeking cover from where to inflict lead and death upon the enemy.
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Problem 6-27 Computing and recording units- of- production depreciation
Brees Corporation purchased a delivery van for $ 35,500 in 2010. The firm's financial condition immediately prior to the purchase is shown in the following horizontal statements model.
Cash + Van - acct depreciation = common stock + Retained Earnings
$50,000 + NA - NA = 50,000 + NA
The van was expected to have a useful life of 150,000 miles and a salvage value of $ 5,500. Actual mileage was as follows.
a. Compute the depreciation for each of the three years, assuming the use of units- of- production depreciation.
b. Assume that Brees earns $ 21,000 of cash revenue during 2010. Record the purchase of the van and the recognition of the revenue and the depreciation expense for the first year in a financial statements model like the preceding one.
c. Assume that Brees sold the van at the end of the third year for $ 4,000. Calculate the amount of gain or lose from the sale.
a. In units of production, depreciation = Units X depreciation per unit
Depreciation per unit = (Cost - salvage value)/total expected units over the life
In this question
depreciation per mile = (35,500-5,500)/150,000 miles = $0.2 per mile
Depreciation in 2010 = 50,000 miles X 0.2 = $10,000
Depreciation in 2011 = ...
The solution computes and records unit-of-production depreciation.


Bringing Harmony Home®
Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for children ages birth through kindergarten and the adults who love them®. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.
Why Music Together?
Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. By emphasizing actual music experiences rather than concepts about music, Music Together introduces children to the pleasures of making music instead of passively receiving it from CDs or TV.
Music & Movement For Families
Central to the Music Together approach is that young children learn best from the powerful role model of parents/caregivers who are actively making music. The program brings families together by providing a rich musical environment in the classroom and by facilitating family participation in spontaneous musical activity at home within the context of daily life.
A Music Together Class is:
Specialized programs and pricing available for pre-schools & libraries. Please call.
Infants 8 months and under are FREE with a registered sibling.
Interest-free Payment Plans and Scholarships are also available. Please call for info.
"Is my child too young for Music Together classes?" Read the answer to this and other questions at our:


More than six million workers are worried machines could take their jobs over the next decade.
According a report which urges trade unions and the government to provide more support for those whose roles could be at risk, the rise of the machine economy could have a big impact.
Yvette Cooper, the Labour chair of the House of Commons home affairs elect committee, has launched a commission for the Fabian society and the Communtiy trade union.
More than 1,000 people were polled aross the country with the commission finding than over 37% - which equates to 10 million workers - are concerned aout the impact technology will have on their jobs over the next 10 years, as reported by The Guardian.
However, not many of these people believe that either the trade unions or government have been making adequate preparations for the future.
While less than 10% thought the government was doing enough to combat the issue, ony 16% believed their workplace trade union was taking the right steps to make sure technology will help rather than hinder.
Yvette said: "It's vital that action is taken now to make sure technology creates new better jobs and that all workers benefit from new technology.
"We have to make sure that automation and the digital revolution don't widen inequality and that everyone gets the help and support they need to get on ... We need to ensure that automation is an opportunity and not a threat for British workers."


The word “Catholicos” means “The General Head”. It can be considered as equivalent to “Universal Bishop”. There were only three ranks of priesthood in the early Church: Episcopos (Bishop), Priest, and Deacon. By the end of the 3rd century certain bishops of certain important cities in the Roman empire gained pre-eminence over other bishops and they came to be known as Metropolitans. The Ecumenical councils of the 4th century recognized the supreme authority of these Metropolitans. By the 5th century, the Bishops in major cities like Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch etc. gained control over the churches in the surrounding cities. Gradually they became the heads of each independent regional church and were called Patriarch which means common father. The same rank in the Churches outside the Roman Empire was called Catholicos. There were three ancient Catholicates in the Church before the 5th century. They were the Catholicate of the East, the Catholicate of Armenia and the Catholicate of Georgia. None of these ranks and titles are the monopoly of any church. Any Apostolic and national church has the authority to declare and call its head, Catholicos, Pope, or Patriarch*.
St.Thomas established the church in India and is recognized as its first Head or Catholicos.
Click here to know more about our current Catholicos H.H. Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II


Additive Manufacturing of Glass Components - Exploring the Potential of Glass Connections by Fused Deposition Modeling
Glass is an indispensable material in the building industry. The combination of transparency, strength and durability makes it to an unparalleled and desirable material. The technology additive manufacturing (AM) has a potential in the building industry, based on a relatively small amount of repetitions of particular building components and the tendency of applying technology innovations for buildings. Therefore, there is an interest for additive manufacturing with glass. This paper presents and summarizes the results of the preliminary research regarding additive manufacturing of glass components for joining methods for flat glass structures. Different types of glass (borosilicate glass, quartz glass and soda lime silicate glass) are discussed. Experimental investigations of joints are intended to illustrate the performance and potential of AM glass components in case of structural use. Load bearing tests were carried out to quantify the strength and load bearing capacity level of an AM structural component. The thermal residual stresses were examined by photo-elastic tests with polarized lights and scattered light method. The investigations show in principle that load transfer via fused glass joints is possible. The performed research activity is a first step towards the Additive Manufacturing of glass structures on flat glass.


The Blackbird or Habu was simply one of the greatest aircraft ever built. It flew higher and faster than any other aircraft of its time or since.
The SR-71 served with the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1998. A total of 32 aircraft were built; 12 were lost in accidents, but none lost to enemy action. Since 1976, it has held the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, a record previously held by the YF-12. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many innovative design concepts for both aircraft.
Developed as an advanced, long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft, The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12 aircraft.
Built by Lockheed’s Skunk Works division, both the SR-71 and its predecessor the YF-12 were shrouded in secrecy, much of the technology developed for these aircraft still is highly classified.
During reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to allow it to outrace threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outfly the missile.
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A corn is a form of callus, a protective layer of dead skin cells formed due to repeated friction of toes rubbing together or against the shoe. The build-up of skin can put pressure on a nerve causing sharp pain. Corns can develop on the top or between toes.
- Shoes, socks, or stockings that fit too tightly around the toes.
- Pressure on the toes from high-heeled shoes.
- Shoes that are too loose can also cause corns due to the friction of the foot sliding within the shoe.
- Deformed and crooked toes.
- Do not wear too loose or too tight shoes. Wear well-padded shoes with open toes or a deep toe box. If necessary, stretch the shoes in the area where the corn or callus is located.
- Wear thick but not tight socks to absorb pressure.
- Apply petroleum jelly or lanolin hand cream to corns or calluses to soften them.
- Use doughnut-shaped pads that fit over a corn and decrease pressure and friction, they are available at most drug stores.
- Place cotton, lamb’s wool, or mole skin between the toes to cushion any corns in these areas.
- To remove a corn or callus, soak it in very warm water for five minutes or more to soften the hardened tissue, then gently sand it with a pumice stone. Several treatments may be needed.
- Do not trim corns or calluses with a razor blade or other sharp tool, because your risk causing infection or a deep cut, leading to excessive bleeding.
- There are a number of over-the-counter pads, plasters, and medications for removing corns and calluses. However, you should be careful when using these treatments. They commonly contain salicylic acid, which may cause irritations, burns, or infections that are more serious than the corn or callus. The following patients should not use these treatments: diabetics, patients with reduced feeling in the feet due to blood circulation problems or neurological diseases, or elderly, who do not have the flexibility or eyesight to use them properly.


- adv. 最；非常，极其；最多；几乎
- adj. 大部分的，多数的；最多的
- n. 大部分，大多数
- n. (Most)人名；(德、俄、法、芬、捷、英)莫斯特
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- most: [OE] Like more, most comes ultimately from prehistoric Germanic *maiz. Addition of the superlative suffix produced *maistaz, which passed into Old English as mǣst. This subsequently evolved to most in Middle English under the influence of more.
=> magnitude, master, more
- most (adj.)
- Old English mast "greatest number, amount, extent," earlier mæst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz (cognates: Old Saxon mest, Old Frisian mast, Old Norse mestr, Dutch meest, German meist, Gothic maists "most"), superlative form of Proto-Germanic *maiz, root of Old English ma, mara (see more). Used in Old English as superlative of micel "great, large" (see mickle). Vowel influenced by more. Original sense of "greatest" survives in phrase for the most part (c. 1400). Slang meaning "the best, extremely good" is attested from 1953. Also used as an adverb in Old English. Phrase make the most of (something) is by 1520s. Related: Mostly. Double superlative mostest is 1885, from U.S. Southern and Black English.
- 1. The most pleasurable experience of the evening was the wonderful fireworks display.
- 2. Early American weathervanes were most often cut from flat wooden boards.
- 3. Most of the wine was unfit for human consumption.
- 4. Mark was condemned to do most of the work.
- 5. I think I've got one of the most stressful jobs there is.
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First rule of functional breathing, the nose is for breathing and the mouth is for eating.
Blood is oxygenated 10-15% more when breathing through the nose. When breathing through the nose Nitrogen Oxide(NO) flows with the inhaled air into the lungs, here it makes the blood vessels in the aveoli expand. This allows a greater volume of blood to pass through so that more oxygen is received throughout the cells in body.
NO is also the active ingredient in nitroglycerin which is used as a heart medicine. It causes the blood vessels of the heart to relax and expand. Blood flow is increased and blood pressure is lowered.
NO also has a strong antibacterial effect. It can kill both bacteria and viruses.
NO is not limited to improving oxygenation of the blood, it also spares the immune system of excess work and strengthens it.
Breathing lightly through your nose deeply into your diaphragm increases your Nitric Oxide production and is a critical advantage in your overall health because it allows oxygen, blood, and nutrients to reach every part of your body effectively and efficiently.
Utilizing Breath Control techniques to harness the advantages of this simple yet highly sophisticated gas provide major benefits for athletic or business performance or day-to-day overall physical and mental health.
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RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. – In a stunning and almost unbelievable turn of events on Mars, the NASA rover Soujourner has stumbled upon perhaps the most incredible find in human history. A colored fossil was discovered shortly before the Martian sunrise on day 8 of the Jet Propulsion Lab Mars Pathfinder Mission.
The fossil, now dubbed Stogey, has a phosphorous blue glow and is absolutely enormous. NASA scientists have stated that the fossil vaguely resembles a life-sized version of the famed SOL Beanie. The SOL Beanie has become world-renowned in the past year for it’s incredible warmth, and overall total coolness.
Stogey will be probed by Soujourner’s APX utility and reports of it’s contents will be made available online sometime tomorrow.


“Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if any who have been bitten look at it, they will live.” NB 21:8
The cross has almost always been important symbol for Christians. Although controversial at first, because it seemed to focus so much on the violence done to Jesus, the cross soon became the most prominent way for Christians to announce themselves. Not simply a reminder of Christ's gruesome death, the cross is also a invitation to celebrate Jesus' triumph over death, and our assurance that death is not the end of Christian journey.
Displaying the cross publicly or personally should never be a condemnation of others, especially Jews, but a reminder to ourselves and others, that God came among us as human person who not only announced God's love for us in its fullness, but also handed himself over to death as a symbol of his total identification with us at every stage of our journey.
Although we might at times be too casual about it, signing ourselves with the cross is a powerful reminder of Jesus triumph of over sin and death and sign that Jesus, "Having disarmed the powers and authorities, ...made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." (Col 2:15)
Today, make the sign of the cross as you wake and ask for the grace to accept whatever the day brings.
What does the Cross mean to you?


1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. A Maypole. See Maypole. A barbers pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 yards, or a square measure equal to 30 square yards; a rod; a perch.
3. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth’s axis; as, the north pole.
4. (Science: geometry) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ec
liptic; the pole of a given meridian.
5. (Science: physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.


Definition and explanation
At the end of any financial period there are certain goods in every manufacturing concern that have been partially processed so that they cannot be called raw material anymore. But at the same time they are not fully processed and cannot be called finished goods either.
Such goods are called Work in Process or unfinished goods. If the production cycle of a factory is relatively short, the value of work in progress at the end of the year may be small and can be safely ignored when prepared the Manufacturing Statement.
However, certain large-scale factories have considerably long production cycles and at any given moment the value of their work in progress adds up to a large amount. This should then be properly accounted for in the Manufacturing Statement.
It is important to note that the issue of recognizing work in progress arises twice in a financial year: at the beginning and end of it. There is generally no question of purchase or sale of work in process.


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Название: Microbiology Handbook: Meat Products
Автор: Fernandes R.
Animal flesh consumed as food is labelled 'meat'; it refers mainly to skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to organs. As it has a high water and protein content, and contains other water-soluble constituents, it makes a suitable medium for growth of microorganisms. The animal itself, environment, and processing condition all have a bearing on the diversity of microflora of these products. Being a highly perishable commodity, preservation plays a key role in extension of shelf life. The various preservation methods used, such as chilling, freezing, cooking, curing, drying and packaging, have lead to an increased choice of meat products available on the market. "Microbiology Handbook (Meat Products)" provides readers with an easy-to-use reference to microorganisms found in various categories of meat products, including chilled and frozen meats, cooked meats, dried meats, cured meats, fermented meats and eggs. This second edition brings the 1996 version up-to-date on current information with regard to initial microflora; sources of contamination; effects of processing on the survival and growth of microorganisms; spoilage; and hazards identified with the consumption of these products.


With headlines about tough copyright rulings fresh in their minds, educators across the nation might hesitate when it comes to using copyrighted material in their lessons or sharing copyrighted works with students.
But according to the American Library Association (ALA), educators should not worry about using such material to boost student knowledge if it falls under the scope of fair use.
The original and intended purpose of copyright law is to promote learning and the dissemination of knowledge, said Carrie Russell, director of the library association’s Program on Public Access to Information. “The copyright law was just as important to them as the post office,” she said, adding that the founding fathers wanted to ensure that the new democracy was well-functioning and that people had access to valuable information.
U.S. copyright law includes five exclusive rights: reproduction, distribution, derivative works, public performance, and public display. Creators of copyrighted works have a limited monopoly on those works, meaning they are the only ones able to profit from or sell their works, for a particular period of time under certain conditions. Currently, the “time limit” on copyright is defined as a lifetime plus 70 years.
One important part of copyright law is idea versus expression, Russell said. A person can’t obtain protection of an idea unless that idea is expressed in an original way.
(Next page: How to determine fair use)


WC&P is proud to offer this comprehensive glossary to our readers and website visitors. This living document is intended to serve as an easy-to-use reference source for information on the POU/POE water treatment industry.
Any suggestions or input that would further enhance or expand the glossary are strongly encouraged.
We would like to formally thank and credit such organizations as WQA, AWWA, WEF, Lenntech and other web glossary sources for providing some of the basis and background of this compendium.
Destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer that shields the earth from ultraviolet radiation harmful to biological life. This destruction of ozone is caused by the breakdown of certain chlorine and/or-bromine containing compounds (chlorofluorocarbons or


Flashcards in Digestion Deck (23)
Name the type of reaction used to digest large biological molecules.
Name the products made when starch is digested.
Maltose -> (alpha) glucose
Name the products made when lipids are digested.
Fatty acids and monoglycerides
Name the products made when proteins are digested.
Name the enzyme used to hydrolyse starch.
Name the enzyme used to hydrolyse maltose.
Name the monosaccharides produced when sucrose is hydrolysed.
Glucose and fructose
Name the products of lactose hydrolysis.
Glucose and galactose
Where is amylase made in the body?
Salivary glands and pancreas.
Where are disaccharidases found?
On the membranes of the epithelium cells lining the ileum.
Name the enzyme responsible for the hydrolysis of lipid.
Where is lipase made?
Name three different types of protease.
Where are endopeptiadases made?
Where are exopeptidases made?
Name the type of bond broken by amylase enzymes.
Name the type of bond broken by lipase enzymes.
Name the type of bond broken by protease enzymes
Where are dipeptidases found?
On the membrane of the epithelium lining the small intestine
Where is bile made?
Where is bile stored?
Explain how bile increases the rate of lipid digestion.
Increases the surface area of lipid for lipase to act on.
Breaks lipid globules up into smaller globules.


- Ferdinand J. de Hen
Stopped flute ensemble of the Amba and Yira peoples of the border region of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The individual pipes are made from a plant locally known as lumaluma. The stopped lower ends of the pipes are decorated with tufts of animal hair or tassels of raffia, and Amba pipes are sometimes covered with plaited raffia. The instruments are played by men and boys, for various social and ceremonial occasions. Players dance in a circle around an ensemble of drums; participation is usually restricted to members of the same extended family or warrior group. Mbuti Pygmies in the same area also play similar pipes.
Formerly the term was applied to raft panpipes of the Amba and Yira. First reported in 1907, the instrument has now apparently disappeared. The embouchure was deeply cupped and the raft strengthened by three cross-bars.M. Trowell and K. Wachsmann: Tribal Crafts of Uganda...


Part of the Art & Ideas series
Romanticism was a way of feeling rather than a style in art.
In the period c.1775-1830 - against the background of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars - European artists, poets and composers initiated their own rebellion against the dominant political, religious and social ethos of the day.
Their quest was for personal expression and individual liberation and, in the process, the Romantics transformed the idea of art, seeing it as an instrument of social and psychological change.
In this comprehensive volume, David Blayney Brown takes a thematic approach to Romanticism, relating it to the concurrent, more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and the Gothic Revival, and discussing its relationship with the political and social developments of the era.
He not only looks at how artists as diverse as Goya, Delacroix, Friedrich and Turner responded to landscapes or depicted historical events, but also examines artists such as David and Ingres who are not usually considered Romantics.
As a result, the reader is given a clear understanding of a complex movement that produced some of the greatest European art, literature and music.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 448 pages, 200 colour and 50 b&w illustrations, glossary, map, index
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 17/07/2001
- Category: Art & design styles: Romanticism
- ISBN: 9780714834436


Skin Tags (cont.)
IN THIS ARTICLE
Skin Tags Causes
Skin tags are believed to develop due to friction between adjacent areas of skin or between clothing and skin. Common sites for skin tags include the following:
Because of the increased skin-to-skin contact and friction, skin tags are more common in overweight orobese people. Although skin tags can sometimes be seen in children, they tend to increase with age and are most common in middle-aged and older individuals.
Studies have suggested an inherited susceptibility to the development of skin tags. In people with Crohn's disease, skin tags around the anal opening (perianal skin tags) are common. The hormonal changes of pregnancy can also stimulate the growth of skin tags, particularly during the second trimester of pregnancy.
Skin tags are not cancers. Reports of skin cancers arising in skin tags are extremely rare.
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With new relief models and the touch and sound atlas, the City of Paris has made a big step forward to an accessible public transport system for visually impaired.
Background & Objectives
The public transport network of Paris consisting of metro lines, buses and trams is one of the largest systems in the world. With the new relief models and the touch and sound atlas the city has made a big step forward to an accessible public transport system for visually impaired. After a design and production process of two years IVM (Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement) puts public transport into relief and large print. A similar service exists in Mannheim (Germany).
The first result was a touch and sound atlas of the Ile-de-France Region’s public transport networks. It includes relief and large-print maps of the regional metro, railway and tram lines; the main bus lines in Paris; and bus services to the forty regional centres around Paris.>Recorded information, which describes the routes and provides tourist information on the areas around the main stations, are available on CD.
As a second result touch-based orientation relief models were installed in three metro stations. With both projects, Paris was the first big city worldwide to provide a system that enabled visually impaired persons to enjoy the mobility and access that everyone else takes for granted to Paris’s great cultural sites.
These systems, including hundreds of lines, thousands of stations, and relief and large-print maps, make route planning easier and help people visualise the areas they are intending to visit.
Link for further information:
Institut pour la ville en mouvement


Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative STEM (science, technology,engineering and math) education curricular programs used in schools. As a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, PLTW exists to prepare students for the global economy through its world-class curriculum, high-quality professional development, and an engaged network of educators, students, universities, and professionals. PLTW’s comprehensive curriculum has been designed by PLTW teachers, university educators, engineering and biomedical professionals, and school administrators to promote critical thinking, creativity, innovation, and real-world problem solving skills in students. The hands-on, project-based program engages students on multiple levels, exposes them to areas of study that they typically do not pursue, and provides them with a foundation and proven path to college and career success.
Gateway To Technology
Gateway To Technology (GTT) is intended for grades six through eight and is offered as independent, nine-week units that explore aerospace, energy, the environment, modeling, robotics, technology and other STEM-related topics. The activities-oriented curriculum challenges and engages the natural curiosity of students. GTT units, taught in conjunction with a rigorous academic curriculum, are designed to spark an interest in STEM subjects and prepare students for further study in high school. GTT is a natural lead in to PLTW’s Pathway To Engineering and Biomedical Sciences Programs.


The planned conversion of a generating unit at Drax power station in Yorkshire, to burn biomass, is now pending the outcome of an ‘in-depth’ investigation by the European Commission. This investigation will look into the proposed support package to see whether it is in line with state aid rules.
Potential unfair advantage
The commission said it: “fully supports member state efforts to increase the use of renewable energy and pursue EU energy and climate objectives. At the same time, EU state aid rules ensure that the cost of such support for consumers does not give certain operators an unfair advantage over competitors.”
A Drax spokesman said: “We welcome this announcement as the next step towards the full conversion of our third generating unit from coal to sustainable biomass. A positive outcome will result in half our power station running on biomass.”
Economic performance concerns
The carbon footprint is reduced by 86% by burning wood pellets rather than coal, according to figures audited by PwC. However the Commission’s concerns are primarily around the plant’s potential economic performance. This might have been underestimated, which could lead to excess compensation through the support arrangements. Another concern centres on whether the amount of wood pellets required by the project might itself effect competition in the biomass market.
With an approximate annual surplus of 50m tonnes in the softwood forests in the south-east of the US alone, Drax insiders are confident their maximum annual demand for biomass (2.4m tonnes) will not have a significant effect on its price.


Users of the internet search engine are being greeted with a bar code in place of the usual Google logo, exactly 57 years after United States inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver were granted a patent.
It follows recent Google doodles in honour of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and Mahatma Gandhi, the father of modern India.
Woodland and Silver, who met while students at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, originally devised a system that would encode data in concentric circles.
The lines of varying width were developed later, partly inspired by Morse code.
According to a Washington Post report, the doodle bar code appears to have been created by encrypting the word ‘Google’ using Code 128, a standard symbology.
The original patent was filed by Woodland and Silver in 1949 and granted on 7 October 1952.
However, bar codes were not used commercially until retailers in the National Association of Food Chains (NAFC) agreed on the familiar Universal Product Code designs that are still seen on billions of worldwide items today.
The first supermarket scanner that could read UPC bar codes was installed at March’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio, in June 1974. The first product to bear the bar code was a packet of Wrigley’s chewing gum.


Welcome to the 5th of our 5 part series on tips on how to cultivate gratitude in the classroom and at home.
Gratitude Activity Series – Activity No. 5
The Appreciation Chair activity is perfect for the classroom and at home.
Here is how it works.
Choose a chair and name it the “Appreciation Chair”. All students or family members take it in turns of sitting in the chair. Then family members or fellow students say positive things about the person, such as:
- why you appreciate them
- highlight acts of kindness the person has displayed recently
- express gratitude towards that person
- and any other positives you can give them
The Appreciation Chair activity has a 2 way positive affect.
- It makes the person in the chair feel amazing and it will encourage them to continue to perform acts of kindness, serve others, etc.
- The person delivering the praise feels great about making the person in the chair feel amazing.
Ways To Coordinate The Appreciation Chair Activity
- Choose 1 student a day until every student has had a turn (pull names out of a hat)
- All at once in small groups with 1 student in the chair at a time (groups of 4-5)
- A variation could be to do in pairs for a quick brain break
- Allocate the week, family appreciation week and spread the event across the week with one person in the chair per night
- Allocate the night, family appreciate night and all family members have a turn in the chair all in the same night
- As a family come up with your own way of conducting the Appreciation Chair activity
These are just a few ideas for teachers and families on how to facilitate the Appreciation Chair activity.
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Our key research areas
We fund, develop and facilitate innovate research collaborations between low- and middle-income and high-income countries in the fight against chronic diseases.
What are NCDs?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, are not passed from person to person and are of long duration and generally of slow progression. The five main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (e.g. heart attacks and stroke), certain cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma), type 2 diabetes, and mental disorders.
Find out more about NCDs with our fact sheet.
Focus on implementation research
GACD funded research aims to contribute to the area of implementation science and address the significant knowledge gap between interventions that research has shown to be effective, and their delivery to communities and translation into practice. Learn more about implementation science here.


One of the joys of having a child is that you are forced to appreciate moments. To stick your head above the busyness of the daily grind and be present…even if just for a moment.
For me, it seems that many of these moments occur during periods of discovery. Times when the little inner scientist inside my kids comes out and leads them to a discovery, to something they hadn’t noticed, done, or considered before. For example:
- A couple weeks ago, my son discovered that, with just a little support from his daddy, he could pluck out on the piano the melody to the new song he learned at school.
- Last week, my son discovered that if he sat down on the large pile of snow and pushed his way to the ground, eventually the snow would compact to form a snow-slide.
- This morning, my daughter discovered that, if she folds the placement in a U-shape and stands it on it’s side, it won’t fall over.
One commonality between these examples is that they involved PLAY. These little bursts of discovery were a direct result of fearless creativity and exploration. They serve as a reminder to me that I should not only notice and appreciate being present, but should also remember to stick my head above the computer every once in a while and allow myself to explore, experience, and create.
Then see what child-like discoveries of my own emerge.


Speeding up your pendulum clock requires adjustments to the pendulum. The method of adjustment varies depending upon the type of clock you need to adjust. Most pendulum clocks are accurate time keepers. Adjust the speed when first taking possession of a clock, if the clock is not level, and to adjust for changes caused by weather.
Speeding up Your Pendulum Clock
Hold the pendulum in place with your hand. Kensington Clock warns that you must hold the pendulum still to avoid damage to the suspension ring. While holding the pendulum, turn the small nut beneath the bob. Turn the regulating nut a full turn to raise the bob. A full turn will speed up the clock by 30 seconds in 24 hours.
Speed up a mantle pendulum clock. Verify that the clock is level. Kensington Clock describes how to speed up your mantle pendulum clock. Turn the arbor or wheel on the face of the clock about a half-turn toward the F (fast) position. Set the clock to the accurate time and wind fully. If you notice the clock needs more adjustment, turn the arbor in the necessary direction and reset.
Adjust the speed on a pendulum wall clock. According to Kensington Clock, adjust a the nut on a rod just under the pendulum bob. Turn the nut to the right (clockwise) to speed up your clock. Completely wind the clock and move the pendulum to begin swinging.


Posted on June 26, 2008
News hot off the press, the UK is considering making access to the polls easier to increase participation and update the antiquated practice of having elections traditionally on a Thursday. The UK government is considering having voting on the weekend in order to tempt more people to the polls and in an attempt to be more inclusive. Though this does not accommodate the needs of people who work on the weekends, there also remain concerns around about this idea not being a panacea as it could as raise religious objections in relation to days of religious worship. Also this proposal is reported to cost between £38m and £58m additionally. However the Liberal Democrats suggest that this is a relatively minor electoral problem in comparison to the bigger picture, which is fixing the electoral system from first past the post arguably a more systemic problem for the Liberal Democrats as the third party in the UK. The UK government is proposing to run a consultation on this proposal and a citizen's summit later this year.
FairVote supports early voting in order to give more citizens and opportunity to participate and have also proposed an Election Day holiday to promote the importance of American democracy. For interesting and insightful information on why Americans go to the polls on Tuesday, and why this practice should be changed to reflect the needs of a modern society be sure to check out Why Tuesday?


What is Communities That Care?
Communities That Care (CTC) is an "operating system" that takes communities through a well-defined and structured process, made up of five phases, to prevent adolescent problem behaviors and promote positive youth development.
- EPIS CTC Resources
Tools and resources we have compiled for you!
- Center for Communities That Care Resources
The Center for Communities That Care is part of the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington.
- Getting Started with CTC Plus
Get started with CTC and access tools and resources from the University of Washington.
CTC Development and History
The Communities That Care (CTC) model was originally developed by Drs. David Hawkins and Richard Catalano of the University of Washington which includes the Social Development Research Group (SDRG) and the Center for Communities That Care (CTC) . It was based on the aggregate review of decades of etiological research aimed at identifying specific factors that were associated with either promoting or preventing adolescent problem behaviors (delinquency, substance use, violence, school failure, and teen pregnancy and high-risk sexual behavior).
Looking across many large studies, Hawkins and Catalano developed a matrix of risk factors and their associated problem behaviors. This was the beginning of the application of a risk-focused public health approach to prevention and positive youth development.
Since 1994, the PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) has supported CTC. Over 125 communities have been trained in the model. Research studies both in Pennsylvania and nationally have demonstrated CTC is effectively creating population-level public health improvement, reducing delinquency and youth drug use, and improving academic achievement for youth in these communities.


The word periodontal means "around the tooth". Periodontal disease attacks the gums and the bone that support the teeth. Plaque is a sticky film of food debris, bacteria, and saliva. If plaque is not removed, it turns into calculus (tartar). When plaque and calculus are not removed, they begin to destroy the gums and bone. Periodontal disease is characterized by red, swollen, and bleeding gums.


Do You Have an Eating Disorder?
Due to an increase in public awareness, ANOREXIA NERVOSA
(key symptoms: refusal to maintain a minimally healthy body weight, intense fear
of gaining weight, and a significant disturbance in the perception of the shape or size
of ones body) and BULIMIA NERVOSA (key symptoms: binge eating- eating what the
individual considers to be too much food in a way that feels out of control- followed by
inappropriate compensatory behaviors (e.g. self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise)
are becoming more and more openly acknowledged.
The following questionnaire will tell you whether or not you think you behave in a way
that indicates that you have tendencies toward anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
Answer the questions below honestly. Respond as you are now, not the way you
used to be or the way you would like to be. For an accurate score, do not leave
any questions blank (unless instructed to do so).


Autism Linked to Disproportionate Gene Inheritance
By Chelsea E. Toledo, M.A. and Sharmila Banerjee-Basu, Ph.D. on June 30, 2017
Background: Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is highly heritable. For instance, children who have a sibling with an ASD diagnosis are far more likely to be diagnosed with the disorder themselves than children whose siblings don’t have ASD. While that trend and other findings have pointed to genetic risk factors contributing to ASD, it is not yet clear how the inheritance and expression of genes leads to the disorder.
What’s New: On May 15, 2017, the journal Nature Genetics published a study exploring genetic architecture underlying ASD. In this study, the authors analyzed data from 6,454 families with at least one child with a diagnosis of ASD. The team of scientists calculated common polygenic risk for ASD, educational attainment, and schizophrenia for all genotyped family members. They found that polygenic risk—variations in multiple genes associated with the condition—was significantly over-transmitted to affected children but not to unaffected siblings. Moreover, the common polygenic variants contributed to ASD risk even in children with damaging autism-associated genetic change that is not present in either parent.
Why it’s important: This study suggests that autism risk is additive. Both common and rare variants comprise the genetic architecture in ASD. Children with ASD also over-inherited genetic variants related to schizophrenia and educational attainment indicating their positive association.
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White, Henry, 1850–1927, American diplomat, b. Baltimore. He studied abroad and traveled widely. White—often called the first career diplomat in the United States—entered the foreign service as secretary (1883–84) of the U.S. legation in Vienna. He served (1884–93) with the U.S. embassy at London, and in 1896 President McKinley appointed him secretary of the embassy. He later was ambassador at Rome (1905–7) and at Paris (1907–9); as head of the U.S. delegation to the Algeciras Conference (1906), White helped in the settlement of the Moroccan Crisis between Germany and France. He was sent (1910) as a special emissary to Chile and in 1918 was appointed a commissioner to the Paris Peace Conference by President Wilson.
See biography by A. Nevins (1930).
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The D-15 test is a so called arrangement test. This type of color blindness tests are based on a set of colored plates or discs which have to be arranged in the correct order. Colorblind people will have difficulties to arrange the given colors and make mistakes. Based on this mistakes and the resulting confusion vector, the type of your color blindness and as well its severity can be calculated.
This pictures shows my personal test result. The 16 squares, which have to be arranged in the test, are shown in a circle—which would be the correct sequence. The thick line shows the order I’ve chosen and in this case P-15-1-14-2-3-13-12-4-5-11-10-6-7-9-8.
According to the scoring technique of Vingrys and King-Smith this results in a confusion angle of 1.2 degrees and a confusion index of 3.70.
Or in other words I am suffering from a strong protan color vision deficiency, which corresponds with the diagnosis of my eye specialist.
What the D-15 color arrangement test can do:
- Differentiate between protan, deutan and tritan color vision deficiencies.
- Calculate an approximate severity of your color blindness.
… and what this color blindness test can not do:
- Detect some weak forms of color vision deficiency.
- Differentiate between dichromacies and anomalous trichromacies.
Go ahead and check out the online D-15 Farnsworth test and learn some more details about your color vision abilities—or maybe disabilities.


An essay towards a history of the principal comets that have appeared since the year 1742 : including a particular detail of the return of the famous comet of 1682 in 1759, according to the calculation and prediction of Dr. Halley ... to which is prefixed A letter upon comets ... by the late M. de Maupertuis ..
by Burney, Charles, 1726-1814; Maupertuis, 1698-1759. Lettre sur la comète. English. 1770
Publication date 1770
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 1698-1759
They was commissioned by Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet 1706-1749 to discover as much as he could about the comet of 1742.
The book is his life story and then his letter to the madam.
Suggest and discuss books to read (all languages welcome!)
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1Take notes on your handout Parts of Speech ReviewTake notes on your handout
2Nouns Nouns : Persons, places, things or ideas. Example: girls, school building, blanket, and thoughtsProper nouns: Must be capitalized, naming very specific persons, places, things or ideas.Example: Maya Angelou, Boston, Verizon, etc.
3Adjectives Adjectives: Describe nouns. They also answer one of 3 questions: How many? Which one? What kind?Example: colorful skateboard, fascinating teacher, creative presentation
4VERBS Verbs: Describe actions. There are 3 different kinds Action Verbs: running, pass, catchLinking verbs connect ideas: any form of “to be” (am, is, are)Adverbs: Describe verbs, adverbs or adjectives. For example: She ran quickly. He is extremely intelligent.
5Pronouns and Prepositions Pronouns: Replace nounsExample: him, her, it, etc.Prepositions: shows relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentenceExample: over, under, through, around, beside
6Conjunctions and Interjections Conjunctions: join words or groups of wordsExample: and, or, for, nor, butInterjections: exclamatory word that shows emotionExample: Ouch! Hey!


The myth of Danae and the shower of gold appears on several vases dating back to the 5th century BC. See for example this krater:
and this calyx:
To dispel any doubt regarding which myth is portrayed on these vases, notice how in the second picture the female character is labelled "Danae". Also, the back of the same calyx depicts another scene from the same myth, namely the making of the wooden chest in which Danae and the newborn Perseus are thrown into the sea by Akrisios (also named on the vase).
According to Timothy Gantz (Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, p. 302) both scenes appear often in 5th century vases, "with Danae frequently holding up her skirts to catch the rain".


This Article proposes a new form of originalism — Counterpublic Originalism — as a method to better incorporate excluded communities into the narratives of constitutional history. Looking at a broad range of originalists, from conservative (McGinnis & Rappaport, Calabresi & Rickerts) to progressive (Amar, Balkin), I find that each wrongly assumes some version of a single “public” at the time of ratification, a “public” comprised of the very elites who were benefiting from the exclusionary practices. Focusing on the Reconstruction period, I argue that there was no definitive “public” but instead a series of partial publics, some (white men) who were legally and socially privileged and dominant, and others (feminists, African-Americans) who operated as dissenting communities that developed their own normative discourse and challenged dominant views and interests. I then argue that these dissenting communities, or counterpublics, provide important sources of public discourse and activity that spoke to precisely the questions and ideas raised in constitutional amendments, and particularly in the Reconstruction Amendments. In the process I also challenge the Supreme Court’s and scholarly treatment of African-American materials on the meaning of the Second Amendment during Reconstruction.Ht: Legal Theory Blog
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Fox on Counterpublic Originalism
James W. Fox, Jr., Stetson University College of Law, has posted Counterpublic Originalism and the Exclusionary Critique, which is forthcoming in the Alabama Law Review 67 (2016).


Spray-freezing and freeze drying – Freeze Granulation
PowderPro AB develop, manufacture, market and sell equipment and know-how for Freeze Granulation, spray freezing and subsequent freeze drying (lyophilization or cryodesiccation). Freeze Granulation was developed in late 1980s at Swedish Ceramic Institute in Göteborg and it is also a development of Spray Freeze Drying (SFD) and Spray Freezing into Liquid (SFL).
Spray cooling or rather called spray freezing is the first step in the freeze granulation process where a suspension is atomized, sprayed with a nozzle, into a chamber with liquid nitrogen. The small droplets are then rapidly frozen with a minimum of ice crystal growth. The frozen material (granules) are then transferred to a freeze dryer where the ice is removed by sublimation, i e never go through a liquid state that ensure homogeneity preservation.
Below you can see an illustration of the Freeze Granulation process.


A Great 20th-Century Novelist
Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist who in 1988 won the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a man of contradictions. Well-versed in Western culture, he has never visited Western Europe or America. The most famous modern Arab novelist, on whom more has been written than on any other Arab writer, he is a man about whom relatively little is known. Although his works are deeply rooted in the milieu of Cairo’s lower and middle classes, in his writing he has conspicuously avoided the use of the language these classes speak. And perhaps the most amazing contradiction is this: while Mahfouz is the most popular writer in the Arab world, his political views differ radically from those held by the majority of Arab intellectuals.
Naguib Mahfouz was born on December 11, 1911, the youngest of seven children in a middle-class Muslim family which lived in a quarter of Cairo called Gamaliyya, part of the old section of the city whose roots go back to the 10th century. This traditional neighborhood, with its mosques, minarets, and bazaars, the most famous of which is the Khan al-Khalili, figures prominently in many of Mahfouz’s works. In fact, Cairo, both old and new, is the locale of almost all of his novels and stories. For Mahfouz, Cairo is the universe.
About the Author


It may seem that being assertive has little to do with how stressed we may be feeling, but in fact if we are feeling out of control or not having enough input in decisions being made about our life, we can become very stressed about those situations. This could be happening with friend, teachers, family or at work.
Now every age group is going to have different levels of responsibility or even ability to make choices for themselves. But if you are a teen or older, standing up for yourself in positive ways and expressing your feelings, needs and opinions is very freeing for your soul. Being assertive about expressing yourself is a right that you have, but also one that comes with the responsibility to understand the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness.
When difficult situations come up are you willing to speak up? You may ask yourself if you are being embarrassed, bullied, lied to, or having a conflict, will you share your thoughts and feelings honestly with the other person or group? Do you know how to do so effectively and without coming off as aggressive?
Engaging others when you are calm, explaining your feelings and specific behaviors that are effecting you and how you feel is the beginning steps. The use of “I” messages along with how you would like to resolve the issue is a good way of beginning the conversation, along with asking for their willingness to change their behavior or help come up with another solution.
Holding your feelings and thoughts in for a long period of time, can only build the pressure on yourself and make you feel like you will burst. Finding a way to discuss the issues at hand in a calm manner will make you feel better about yourself and the situation and reduce the stress that you are feeling.


- Please use the map at the front of the room to find your way to your new seat.
- Once you are at your seat, please take out your homework from last night and have it ready to be picked up.
- Please write the following in your agenda: Enjoy the evening.
- Please leave your agenda and your homework out.
Today, we will be writing based on the prompt below. I have included some guiding questions to help you add elaborations and details to your writing.
Writing Situation: Language is all around us and shapes the way we feel, understand and communicate.
Directions for Writing: Keeping in mind the effects of language, write to explain your feelings on cursing. Describe it, why people do it and your feelings on whether or not they should.
- Why do people curse?
- What constitutes cursing?
- What role do entertainment and the media play in whether or not someone curses?
- Is there a certain age where it is appropriate?
- How do you think society views cursing now vs. in the past?
- How might society’s views on cursing change in the future?
To Get Out
•Save your file with your last name in the file named 1-26-06 in your class’ folder.
•Log off of your computer.
•Clean up your area.
•Wait for Mr. Chase to dismiss you.


Lots of locales in the United States have good reason to celebrate or commemorate the month of March.
It was March 2 of 1836 when Texas declared its independence from Mexico in the midst of the standoff at The Alamo. Sadly, on March 6, 1836, Santa Anna and his 3,000 Mexican soldiers, after 13 days of fighting, beat 182 Texans at the Alamo. Another massacre befell Texans on March 27, 1836—Palm Sunday. At least 342 were executed by Santa Anna firing squads at Goliad. This incident joined the Alamo as a rallying cry for Texas independence. A year later, on March 3, 1837, President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognized the Republic of Texas. Eight years later, on March 1, 1845, President Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
Nebraska became the 37th state on March 1, 1867.
On March 2, 1861, we got Dakota and Nevada territories, on decree from Washington. (They were created out of parts of Nebraska and Utah territories.) The same day in 1890, it was Oklahoma’s turn to become a territory.
Minnesota Territory was born on March 3, 1849. The same day in 1863, Idaho Territory was created by Congress—over 20,000 miners were already in its gold fields.
On March 10, 1848, the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico and expanding America’s holdings in the southwest, including what is now Arizona. It’s always been a cantankerous place, for on March 16,1861, Arizona voted to leave the Union and join the Confederacy. That same day, Sam Houston resigned his governorship over Texas’ secession from the union. Both would eventually return: Arizona came back into the union when President Lincoln named it a territory on its own, and Texas was the last confederate state readmitted to the union, on March 30, 1870.
On March 23, 1858, Kansas gained statehood (by a vote of 35 to 25 in the U.S. Senate.)


From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
- Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner and consider archiving the URLs behind the links you provide. See also related web sources.
- Major League Baseball homepage
- The Baseball Almanac - large database of baseball facts and history
- Ken Burns' Baseball at PBS - Information on Ken Burns' award winning documentary Baseball
- Major League Baseball Official Rules - also includes early versions of the rules and an historical timeline of changes to the rules.
- 2009 NCAA rules of baseball - PDF file
- MLB and high school baseball rules compared - high school game is governed by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSA)


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loadingSpanish American War (1898)
The Spanish-American War was a military conflict between Spain and the United States that began in April 1898. Hostilities halted in August of that year, and the Treaty of Paris was signed in December. The war began after the American demand for Spain peacefully resolving the Cuban fight for independence was rejected, though strong expansionist sentiment in the United States may have motivated the government to target Spain's remaining overseas territories: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam and the Caroline Islands. Riots in Havana by pro-Spanish "Voluntarios" gave the United States a reason to send in the warship USS Maine to indicate high national interest. Tension among the American people was raised because of the explosion of the USS Maine, and "yellow journalism" that accused Spain of extensive atrocities, agitating American public opinion. The war ended after decisive naval victories for the United States in the Philippines and Cuba. Learn about the history and how to research Spanish-American war veterans with these genealogy and military resources for the Spanish-American War.
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The mathematical purpose of this lesson is to understand how a linear model is used to describe the relationship between two numerical variables, and to use a line of best fit to make predictions. The work of this lesson connects to previous work because students investigated patterns of association in bivariate data in eighth grade and in a previous lesson. The work of this lesson connects to upcoming work because students will use technology to fit a line of best fit to data and will formally assess the strength of a linear relationship.
When students articulate things they notice and things they wonder about a scatter plot and the accompanying linear model, students have an opportunity to attend to precision in the language they use to describe what they see (MP6). Students reason abstractly by making sense of slope and intercept in context (MP2).
One of the activities in this lesson works best when each student has access to devices that can run Desmos, because students benefit from estimating the line of best fit in a dynamic way.
- Fit a linear model to a scatter plot of data and informally judge its goodness of fit.
- Interpret (orally and in writing) the rate of change and vertical intercept for a linear model in everyday language.
- Predict (extrapolate) and estimate (interpolate) values not given in the data set by using an equation representing the linear model.
- Let’s explore relationships between two numerical variables.
Devices are required for the digital version of the activity—Orange You Glad We’re Boxing Fruit. The digital version is recommended for all classes over the paper and pencil version.
- I can describe the rate of change and $y$-intercept for a linear model in everyday language.
- I can draw a linear model that fits the data well and use the linear model to estimate values I want to find.
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The Lebbeck mealybug (Nipaecoccus viridis) has been reported in Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties since it’s first occurrence in Palm Beach in 2009. This species has been found on over forty host plants in Florida, including citrus. In June of 2019 an infestation was found on citrus in Highlands County that was characterized by thick white wax on branches and premature fruit drop. In the past, infestation of citrus by N. viridis in South Africa has caused as much as 50% crop loss. In Jordan this pest caused such severe damage that groves were burned to stop the spread of the Lebbeck mealybug. N. viridis has also been reported on many other plants besides citrus, including cotton, ornamentals , and tropical plants.
N. viridis is a small mealybug that ranges in color from black to purple to blue-green. It produces thick, sticky, white or yellow wax. This pest turns black when in 70% ethanol which may be useful for field diagnostics.


Each October, families from all over South Carolina visit the South Carolina State Fair. Celebrating 150 years, the fair has food, rides, exhibits, and entertainment. The animal exhibits have always been some of the more popular attractions.
Some animals and livestock may carry germs and diseases that can be harmful. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), here are some tips to help prevent the spread of disease while visiting the livestock exhibits.
- Wash Your Hands.
- Find a handwashing station and wash your hands right after touching animals or anything in the areas where they live, roam, or eat.
- Wash your hands after leaving animal areas, even if you didn’t touch the animals.
- Running soap and water is best, but if not available, make sure that the sanitizer contains at least 60 percent alcohol and wash your hands with soap and running water as soon as you can.
- Keep food and animals separate.
- Do not eat or drink around animals.
- Keep food and drinks away from animal areas.
- Do not share your food with them, even if you think the food is part of their diet.
- Do not consume raw products. Raw (unpasteurized) products made or sold at animal exhibits may include: milk, cheese, cider, or juice.
- Always keep a watchful eye on children around animals.
- Children 5 years or younger should not have contact with reptiles, amphibians, or live poultry because these animals are more likely to make them sick.
- Do not let children sit or play on the ground in animal areas.
- Leave items such as strollers, pacifiers, cups, and toys outside animal areas.
Even healthy animals can carry germs that might make visitors sick. Every year, many people get sick after visiting an animal exhibit. People have reported E.coli, cryptosporidium, and salmonella infections. Those at greatest risk of becoming ill are children 5 years and younger, people with weakened immune systems, and adults over 65 years.


Bagong is Punakawan figure. Bagong is one of the local wisdom that comes from Indonesia. Bagong have various characteristics sublime. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of Bagong. Characteristics of Bagong can be referred to a counselor to develop the characteristics of an effective counselor. The identification results show the characteristics of an effective counselor based Bagong figure are (1) genuine; (2) has a sense of humor; (3) the wise in responding to the phenomenon; (4) simple and patient in serving the counselee; (5) honesty; (6) have the view that every individual has a deficiency; (7) has the ability to see a difference value; and (8) gives the freedom to counselee for decision making.


A fascinating animated GIF shows what might be the future for for 3D printing.
The short GIF sequence shows several scenarios involving future (and perhaps even present-day) scenarios involving virtual reality, such as playing chess on a virtual board, while no board actually exists.
The part we’re interested in demonstrates a possible 3D printer workflow. A person uses virtual reality to quickly design a vase, shaping the contours with her fingers and placing a pre-made flower on it. Then by placing the virtual creation inside a handy 3D printer, the print operation begins and produces a vase matching the design.
We don’t believe this functionality is available today, but we suspect it could be built as most of the pieces are not new technology.
Would you design objects and send them to your 3D printer in this way?


Do As We Do, Not As You Think: The Effect of Group Influence on Individual Choices in a Virtual Environment
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world application that enables users to create virtual representations of themselves and interact with other users. SL is increasingly being used to study important psychological questions. The current project sought to replicate within SL Asch’s (1951) classic finding of group influence, in which participants often respond in accordance with choices expressed by other members of a group, regardless of the accuracy of those choices. Participants were given a series of perceptual judgment trials, in which they chose one of three stimulus alternatives that matched the length of a target stimulus. Participants were tested either alone or with three other confederate avatars whose choices were predetermined by the experimenter. On two of the trials, confederate avatars unanimously chose incorrectly before the actual participant made their choice. Results showed that on these trials participants were significantly more likely to choose in accord with the confederate’s choices, relative to participants tested as single avatars. The results generally support earlier research on group influence and extend these findings to a virtual world environment.
Key words: virtual worlds, avatars, social influence, Second Life
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
The full website for the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research can be found at: http://jvwresearch.org


About St. Paul AME
The word African means that the church was organized by people of African descent and heritage. It does not mean that the church was founded in Africa, or that it was for persons of African descent only. The church’s roots are of the family of Methodist churches. Methodism provides an orderly system of rules and regulations and places emphasis on a plain and simple gospel. Episcopal refers to the form of government under which the church operates. The chief executive and administrative officers of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination are the Bishops of the church.
Methodist in terms of its basic doctrine and order of worship. The split from the main branch of the Methodist Church was not a result of doctrinal differences but rather the result of a time of slavery, oppression and the dehumanization of people of African descent and many of these un-Christian practices were brought into the church, forcing Richard Allen and a group of fellow worshippers of color to form a splinter denomination of the Methodist Church.
- Make available God’s biblical principles,
- Spread Christ’s liberating gospel, and
- Provide continuing programs which will enhance the entire social development of all people.
Our Motto & Vision
God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our Family


The director of bio-renewable programs at Iowa State University says Iowa is positioned to benefit from the transformation of the nation’s energy economy far beyond the potential of “bio-fuels.”
Robert Brown says Iowa not only benefits from renewable fuels that are made from Iowa-grown grains, but there are loads of other products that have traditionally been made with petroleum that are now being made with ethanol and other “bio-based” materials.
“I do believe that bio-based products will take a bigger percentage of the total consumer product market than they currently do, however it’s always going to be the case that we’re using a lot more renewable fuels than the bio-based plastics,” Brown says. “That’s simply because we have a lot of automobiles to feed.”
Steve Devlin, an industrial specialist with the Center for Industrial Research at Iowa State University, says at least 80 bio-based products are being made in Iowa, things like soap and fabric. “The petroleum industry makes money because they squeeze every little thing out of that barrel of oil that they can,” Devlin says. “They’ve developed, you know, not just fuels but also chemicals and plastics and all kinds of different products and I think that’s the model that we’re moving towards with the bio-industry as well.”
Devlin says in some ways, it’s a return to traditions of long ago as wood was the bio-based product of the past. It was used to build shelter, burned to provide heat, carved into bowls for food, even fashioned into musical instruments.


2 FIRST Open your lab notebook to the very first page. On the top line write, Table of ContentsCount “front and back of paper” leaving 6 pages blank.On the seventh page start numbering the pages on the front and back from number 1 and stop when you have numbered to page 25.
3 Now we will Begin the entry for our first lab. Return to the table of contents.On the second line under the table of contents:Write number 1Then write: Build a Structure Lab.
4 NEXT Turn to page number 1. On the top of page number one: Write the name of the lab. “Build a Structure Lab.”
5 In your groupYou will need to decide on your hypothesis. (A question about the lab.)Write your predictions: How many sheets of paper do you think it will take to build a structure that will hold a 200 gram weight. (You cannot sit your weight on folded newspapers. You must build a structure that will hold the weight.
6 Finally…. You will design your structure. The design must be on paper. First: Design your structure on a piece of white paper.Next: Build your structure and see if it holds the weight.If it does not, write under your design what happened and why it did not hold the weight.Then, redesign your structure and try again!!!If your structure did not support the weight, repeat the procedure four times or until your structure supports the weight.If you have not succeeded after four attempts, write what you think went wrong. Be sure to include this information in your conclusion.If you are successful, write why you were successful. Be sure to include this information in your conclusion.