An ongoing archaeological excavation at the Christiansborg Castle at Osu has been described as unique.
In a report by graphic.com.gh, it stated that the uniqueness of the project stems from the fact that all members of the team have personal connections with the site.
Leading the project which is known as the Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, is a United States-based Ghanaian archaeological professor, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann.
The report added that this is the fifth stage of a project to document the artifacts and heritage information about the castle.
In her explanation, she said the current form of history around the place is oral and could be distorted, prompting the need for such an empirical process.
The professor, who traces her ancestry to Governor Carl Gustav Engmann, who lived in the Osu Castle in 1757, expressed joy about the project because of the people involved in it.
She added that “all the team members have a personal connection to the site as their relatives either worked at the castle or lived in its environs.”
The project, which started in 2014, is being funded by the government of France.


Health Status OutcomesLow socio-economic status is a risk factor for many diseases and health problems for persons of all ages. Children in poverty are at higher risk for health problems such as asthma and dental disease.
Children in poverty are also at increased risk of hunger and poor performance in school. An important goal of services to children in poverty is to break the "cycle of poverty" in which children in poverty are raised in conditions that promote poverty in adulthood.
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Official name: Bosnia and
Area: 51,233 km2
Location: Southeastern Europe,
bordering the Adriatic Sea, Croatia and SR Yugoslavia.
Land Boundaries: 1.459 km (932 km with
Croatia; 357 km with Serbia; 240 with Montenegro)
Coast Line: 21 km
Population: 4.354.911 (1991)
Population Density: 85.2 per km2
Religion: Islam 44%, Orthodox 31%,
Catholic 17%, other 8%
Official Languages: Bosnian, Serbian,
Other major cities: Mostar, Tuzla,
Zenica, Banja Luka, Bihac, Bijeljina, Brcko (District)
Climate: Continental. Hot summers and
1 Convertible Mark = 1 DEM
GDP: US$ 3.4 billion
GDP (per capita): US$ 880
coal, iron, bauxite, manganese, copper, chromium, lead, zinc.
woodland - 39%, arable land - 14%, permanent crops - 5%, permanent
pastures - 20%, , other - 22%.
Manufactured products: Textiles,
clothing and footwear, chemical, electrical and machinery, iron, steel
and aluminum and processed food.
Energy: Electricity, coal and coke
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Antique Boxes, Nantucket Baskets, Books
Inventory ID: 476
An Early 19th century English Tavern Tobacco Box, sometimes referred to as an 'Honor Box,' circa 1820.
Made by the English firm of Martineau & Smith, this fine example (in good working order) has its' lid profusely engraved as follows: "One half penny put into this till, a pipe of tobacco you may fill, so when you've filled without delay, just close the lid or sixpence pay. William Brown, Star Inn, Maryport, Cumbria." Complete with a bag of English half pennys from the 19th and early 20th century. Length: 10" Historical note: Introduced into England as early as 1610, this was a primitive form of vending machine by which a customer could deposit a penny to open the lid of the box and, on his honor, take out just enough tobacco to fill his pipe.
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The cold winter months are the time of year when we are all more prone to dry skin thanks to a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.
Of course your natural skin type will play a part in determining just how dry your skin gets but the chilly UK climate also does its bit to contribute to parched, thirsty skin.
Here are 5 causes of dry winter skin:
- Dry air. Although it might feel like it is always raining, on cold days the air can be drier than in the summer.
- Low humidity. Heating lowers the natural moisture levels in the air so there is less to hydrate your skin.
- Wind. If you spend any amount of time out in the whistling winter wind your skin and lips will likely be left feeling chapped and sore.
- Cold. When the temperature drops, moisture levels usually also drop so your skin will struggle to maintain normal hydration.
- Hot baths and showers. You might be tempted to warm up by taking a long, relaxing hot bath or shower but beware as very hot water strips skin of its natural moisture.
As well as the environment, there are many other factors that can also influence your skin to become drier, such as using beauty products that contain ethyl alcohol or eating a poor diet.


It is 5 kilometers from Qingtan Shoal on the north bank in Xiling Gorge. From a cliff half way up the mountain suspended a lump of reddish-brown shale in the east, which is shaped like a bull’s liver, and dark brown rock in the west resembling a horse’s lung. Both are strikingly true to life. Hence the name “Bull’s Liver and Horse’s Lung”.
During World War II, an invading Japanese warship fired at the Horse’s Lung and damaged it. Formerly the Horse Lung had a pine tree growing on it like a soldier guarding the spot, and it serves as a sort of natural navigation aid for the boats cruising by.
For centuries, these weird-shaped rocks have been a scenic sight. In the Guangxu reign (1875-1908) of the Qing Dynasty, however, a British gunboat intruded into this part of China bombarded the Horse Lung, destroying the lower half of it.
The north bank here also highlights a rock in the form of a phoenix whose beak extends towards the shore. During the flood season, this mythical “bird” raises columns of waves with its prolonged beak. The spray flying meters high glistens under the sunshine like so many flowing multi-colored ribbons. Opposite the “Phoenix” is another rock of a bizarre shape lying atop a towering peak. It looks like a warrior riding a stud. Hence the name “Warrior-Horse Rock”. People refer to these two rocks together, calling them “Zhang Xiao Chases the Phoenix”. The legend runs that, in ancient times, a phoenix was pecking away at the wheat crops here. A young warrior, Zhang Xiao, who was chasing the bird arrived on horseback. The bird flew to the other bank to become a green ridge, whereupon Zhang was petrified into a human figure watching the “bird”, from his horse.


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Negative sides of the 20s prosperity
The 1920s was an era of "silver-linings" around clouds of prosperity, a hidden dark cloud of racism loomed for some Canadian groups. Though this time period was known as a decade of prosperity, the Aboriginals, Black Canadians, and the Immigrants were negatively targeted by the society. Laws and policies were passed that carried disadvantages for these minorities.
The Aboriginal people can be defined as a member of any of the peoples that inhabited Canada before the arrival of European settlers (Encarta). The land of Canada has been resided by the Aboriginals for centuries, however, ever…
- Any historical event with-world changing consequences will always have two sides to the story. What most Americans refer to today as the American Revolution is no different
- Did the 1920s really roar? Some call the 1920s "The Roaring 20s". In this essay we will talk about some factors that prove the 1920s was a time of prosperity in Canada.
- Negative sides of the 20s prosperity
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Jun. 20, 2019
To honor the members of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) community, John Ware School celebrated Pride the week of June 3. The students in the school’s Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) came together to plan a variety of activities to educate their peers on LGBT+ history and the importance of creating a safe and inclusive school community.
The mood in the school was noticeably different as staff and students at John Ware School really jumped on board with the idea of inclusivity and support for the LGBT+ community.
Students at the school:
- Sold Milk in honor of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California.
- Gave out free fruit punch and educated students about the importance of being a good ally and what this means.
- Hosted an inclusive Pride Dance.
- Hosted Reading with Royalty (a story time that celebrate inclusion and diversity led by local drag queen and king performers).
- Showed the movie Love, Simon along with rainbow baked goods by our Grade 8 Foods classes.
- Sold Rainbow popcorn.
To maintain a school culture that values, “an inclusive and safe community where we all belong,” the school plans to host more activities in the next school year.


What Is A Refugee?
Refugees are people who flee to escape danger in their native country. They may have been living in the middle of war, or have experienced persecution for their race, religion, social group, or political views.
They often fear for their lives and want to protect their families. They frequently have to leave homes and villages with little warning. Many refugees become separated from friends and family members when they manage to escape.


from the conferences organized by TANGER Ltd. provisional website
An increase in surface absorptivity can be helpful with a number of laser heat treatment processes. Absorptivity can be increased by, for example, absorption coating or surface oxidation. The method of controlled laser oxidation was developed after a series of experiments. A scanning laser system was used to create an oxide layer on steel EN 10083-2: C45 surface. Subsequently, the absorbency and thickness of the formed oxide layer were measured, depending on the irradiation energy emitted into the surface. It has been found that higher the thickness of the oxide layer increases absorption, but the growth is not linear. For the wavelength of 808 nm, there is a local absorption maximum for irradiation energy around 2 J/mm2. The wavelength of 808 nm was taken as a reference because we own a laser for heat treatment emitting at that wavelength. These results have shown that the use of surface oxidation increases the coupling of laser energy to material surface in the order of tens of percent. This advantage can be used to process complex workpieces where individual components need to be processed with different parameters.Keywords: Oxide layer, NIR absorption, IR radiation, surface oxidation, controlled heating
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12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR
Section Information for Spring 2019
This course will discuss ideas and policies concerning peace through world history, with emphasis on recent issues and developments, and with a global focus. The kinds of questions involved include: human nature, is humankind naturally warlike and what’s the evidence from early history? What is the relationship between the major religions and peace, and are there key differences? Why are some regions more peaceful than others? What’s the U.S. take on peace, and should it be revisited? Is war declining, and what are some possible reasons? The course will emphasize discussion, including some student panels, and a paper that combines research and interpretation. Skills development includes writing, oral presentation group work and problem analysis.
Mason Core (All)
Satisfies the general education requirement in global understanding.
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Two-thirds of garbage ends up in landfills and about 31 percent consists of containers and packaging. A modern glass bottle would take 4,000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it's in the landfill. Plastics, which make up 12 percent of municipal solid waste, are mostly made from petroleum.
Additional reduction projects:
- Instead of delivering a newspaper to every guest's room, display them in central areas for those who want a copy.
- Identify the different waste streams you create, which departments are responsible for which streams, and how each should be managed.
- Minimize packaging and other activities that tend to produce a lot of waste materials.
- Try to digitize all invoices, billings and other transactional records.
- Use eco-friendly utensils and plates whenever possible.
- Check if your supplier will take back old lamps and dispose of them responsibly.


A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
When first published in 1949, this title led to outrage and scandal. This work contains the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.
Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power. THE SECOND SEX stands, four decades after its first appearance, as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.


What Makes a Good Model System?
Model biological system philosophy:
We are unlikely to ever know everything about every organism.
Therefore, we should agree on some convenient organism(s) to study in great
depth, so that we can use the experience of the past (in that organism)
to build on in the future. This will lead to a body of knowledge in
that 'model system' that allows us to design appropriate studies of
non-model systems to answer important questions about their biology.
Historical statements of the philosophy:
Criteria for a model biological system:
- Is the organism used easy to rear?
- Is its rearing/operation size convenient?
- Is it inexpensive to operate?
- Does the organism used have short life cycle?
- Is the organism used geneticly manipulable?
- Does it promise economically important results?
- Dose it have an audience of interested people?
- Interactions between criteria.
- Visit the E. coli
- Visit the
Neurospora genome project
-or- visit the
- Fission yeast,
Saccharomyces Genome Database, SGD
- The plant, Arabidopsis, an NIH and NSF approved Model System.
- Plant Pollen Tubes:
- Explore the viruses, virology -or-
A practical use of a virus as a model
- The Lobster Cuticle Composite-Material Model
- The cockroach homepage: BlattaBase
- The fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster
FlyBase at Indiana - or -
The Interactive Fly
- The cellular slime mold, dictyBase
- The Mosquito malaria model. |
Tissue model of infection. |
Dengue early warning system! |
Disease risk. |
- Zebra fish, Brachydanio rerio at ZFIN
- Original NIH Sponsorship
- Surf Clams, Spisula solidissima, as a model system.
- African clawed toad, Xenopus laevis, Xenbase
- nematode, C. elegans
- Visit the Jackson Laboratory, source of mutant
mice, Mus musculus. |
Diet Induced Obesity model.|
- Injury models:
- Non-Human Primate Models... The Macaque:
- A model ecological system,
lynx hare population dynamics
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Course materials include textbooks, multimedia, journal articles and websites. Your campus library provides access to many licensed online resources including research databases, e-books, films and images.
In an effort to provide a more engaging learning experience for students, faculty should strive to use a variety of instructional materials, including instructor-created content (e.g., Panopto videos, PowerPoint slides or Word documents). By including a variety of instructional materials and alternative means to access those materials, instructors meet the needs of diverse learners.
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning tools that exist in the public domain or are released with intellectual property licenses (usually Creative Commons) allowing their free use, continuous improvement and modification by others.
The OER Commons and MERLOT are digital libraries with expansive collections of open course materials free for you to use in your class. Instructors may contribute to these sites to share their own open educational resources.
The Canvas Commons serves as another source for OER materials. The content stored in the Canvas Commons is generated by Canvas users across multiple education institutions using Canvas. Within the Canvas Commons, instructors may locate educational content to import directly into a Canvas course. Instructors may also contribute to the Canvas Commons by sharing their content.
Pressbooks is a professional self-publishing platform for creating open textbooks. It is available to University of Missouri system instructors for creating open online resources quickly and easily.


Mononucelosis better known as Mono or the ‘kissing disease’ is an infection cause by the Epstein- Barr Virus.
This is transmitted through the saliva of those infected by the condition. This common condition causes sore throat, fevers, body aches, fatigue, swollen glands and other symptoms. Treatment for this condition involves, rest, pain medications and drinking plenty of fluids. There are other natural remedies that can be used additionally.


Ethernet is one of the core technology that enables most of our communications and data transfer that we do over the internet possible. Its an inexpensive technology for high performance networking.
When your application (no matter what..can be a web browser, a download client etc etc) initiates a connection to a remote server, the application’s job is to transfer the data/request it wants to send to the network protocol stack.
The job of the protocol stack is to break that data down to smaller chunks and wrap it with required information, to send it through the wire. This information wrapped around the data chunks enables the data to be received by the correct receiver, and reassemble the data chunk in the correct order.


Confucianism I Ching Buddhism
Articles: Traditional Chinese
These are principal texts of Taoism. Taoism,
along with Confucianism and Buddhism was one of the principal religions
of feudal China.
Tao-te Ching J. Legge tr. 66,099
The Tao te Ching is one of the most
widely read sacred texts, due to its simplicity and depth. It appeal is
universal, and has been found relevant by Christians, Hindus, Muslims,
Buddhists, and even Quantum Physicists. Attributed to Lao-tzu, (580-500
B.C.), it may predate him by several centuries. The earliest known
manuscripts of the Tao te Ching date to the third century B.C.
translation is excerpted from Volume 39 of the Sacred Books of the
Volume 39 of the Sacred Books of the
Volume 40 of the Sacred Books of the
is a detailed etext of volume one and two of the Sacred Books of the
East Taoist translations by James Legge. Both of these volumes were
published in 1891. The first volume contains Lao-tzu's Tao te Ching and
the first half of the Writings of Chuang-tzu, including the notes and
introductory material. The second volume completes the Writings of
Chuang-tzu, and includes several other Taoist texts, including the Tai
Shang Tractate. Volume two also includes a detailed index for both
The Canon of Reason and Virtue (Lao-tze's Tao Teh
King) Chinese and English; Translated by D.T. Suzuki & Paul Carus
This is another translation of the Tao te
Ching. This etext includes the complete Chinese text of the Tao te
Ching as embedded graphics.
Taoist Teachings Translated from the Book
of Lieh-Tzü by Lionel Giles .
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure
by Anton Forke
T'ai Shang Kan-Ying P'ien, by Teitaro Suzuki and
Paul Carus. .
Yin Chih Wen, The Tract of the Quiet Way
Teitaro Suzuki and Paul Carus. .
Taoist Texts, by Frederic Henry
Tao, The Great Luminant Essays from the Huai
Nan Tzu, by Evan S. Morgan
Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei By Dwight Goddard and
Henri Borel
Another, very lucid translation of the
Tao te Ching by the author of A


Florida is bracing for a summer invasion of giant mosquitoes whose bite has been compared with "being knifed".
University of Florida scientists say the half-inch insects, called gallinippers, are likely to swarm the Sunshine State after recent tropical storms made it the species' perfect breeding ground.
"I wouldn't be surprised, given the numbers we saw last year," said entomologist Phil Kaufman, a professor at the university's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
At the size of a US 25-cent piece, the notoriously aggressive gallinippers are 20 times the size of a common mosquito.
And with their bigger size also comes a bigger bite.
"The bite really hurts, I can attest to that," Professor Kaufman said.
Gallinippers - whose scientific name is Psorophora ciliate - are not considered an invasive species as they are native to the eastern half of North America.
They have attained almost mythical status in the Deep South, featuring in folk tales and even blues songs that mention their "fearsome bite".
And they are a particularly hearty bug.
Adult females lay their eggs at the edges of streams and ponds, and the eggs can lay dormant for years until the water rises with heavy rains and causes them to hatch.
Last year saw a sharp increase in their numbers after Tropical Storm Debby brought torrential rains to the state, scientists say.
"When we hit the rainy cycle we may see that again," Mr Kaufman said.
On the up side, the insects are not major transmitters of diseases such as malaria, as common mosquitoes are.


Each year, thousands of bills are introduced (11,700 during the 2009-10 legislative term) and every single measure gets printed multiple times.
Since there’s no specific line item for legislative printing, our Ways and Means staff estimates it may cost taxpayers up to $26 million.
It’s time for the Legislature to go paperless so that all bills and reports are posted online to end the wasteful printing of legislation that in many instances goes straight from the documents room directly to the recycle bin.
Lawmakers can easily view these documents on their laptops and mobile devices, and, if necessary, print a copy from their own computer.
Going digital will stop the waste of taxpayer dollars on needless printing, not too mention its positive impact on our environment. With the availability of 2011 technology such as laptops, smart phones and e-reader tablets, there’s no reason why the New York State Legislature should be stuck using the same process that existed 100 years ago.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed similar legislation (by a vote of 399-0) to stop the mandatory printing of congressional bills. Several state legislatures have gone paperless or are experimenting with going digital. They include California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. It’s estimated that Ohio has saved $1.5 million since going digital.
Let’s not limit good legislative ideas but the unnecessary printing of bills. Given New York’s dire fiscal situation, every dollar saved on going paperless should go to reducing the deficit and tax relief, not filling circular files across the Capitol. It’s time to replace birch with binary.


2019 Water, Sanitation, Hygiene National Outcome Routine Mapping Report
Demography indicators showed little change when compared to results from the 2018 NORM survey. The average household size in 2019 was found to be five persons, 17% of households were headed by women. Nearly 9% of the population are children under five years of age, while 14% are adults over 50 years. The findings show that 1 in 10 households have at least one person living with disabilities, while the proportion of the entire population living with disabilities is 6%. This amounts to about 11 million people in Nigeria living with disabilities. At the time of the survey, slightly more than 58% of households lived in core rural areas, while 41% households ranked among the poor to the poorest wealth quintiles. It was observed from the findings that 56% of the rural households, only 8% of the urban households, and at least half of the population in the North Central (48%), North East (63%) and North West (67%) belong to the poor and poorest wealth quintiles. The health status of households showed that about 1 in 10 households (11%) reported suffering from diarrhea in the past six weeks preceding the survey. Among these households, 72% of the household members who suffered diarrhea cases are children under five.
Data source: National Bureau of Statistics


Once I understand this, this will be a tutorial on building a simple SAT
or SMT solver - with inspiration from Pete's class. I can revisit the
Language of Satisfiability]: Are we bad at SAT solvers? Where are we?
How do we bring their power to people? (To me, this problem is a subset of the
"make programming accessible" problem, so it's not noteworthy.)
- Require input problem to be a propositional logic formula in
conjunctive normal form (CNF). This is not a natural way to express most
problems that require SAT
- Computing CNF formulas is often bad and hard so SAT solvers aren't
really at the right "level" for use by the working programmer
- Look up
on google scholar - reveals lots of problems and tradeoffs that
can be made
Why SMT over SAT?
- SMT solvers allow more freedom in the expression of input problems -
support integers, fixed width floats, arrays and potentially other datatypes, as
well as common operations on those types, without requiring a specific normal
- API that allows for the manipulation of the input formula exposed by
the solver, unlike strict
How do they work?
- Directly convert input formula into an equivalent Boolean formula in
- Limited to formulas where every data type has a finite set of values
- Need a SAT solver as a backend, any improvement to SAT translates
directly to an improvement to an SMT solver - so this is just additional tooling
around a SAT solver to make it much easier to use.
- Definition: conflict driven cause learning - the algorithm employed by
most modern SAT solvers.


- An underlying fear of recriminations and punishment despite there never being any threat or intimidation from the higher authorities – it was just an image that the authorities maintained so that the employees would continue working with clockwork precision.
- The traditional hospitality was steeped in the culture of the land. However the expansion outside China and South East Asia brought with it a newer set of learning that had to be imbibed by employees who little understood them. The ceremonies and special nuances associated with the everyday manner of doing things differed drastically from the precise mannerisms and ceremony that was culturally ordained in the Asian areas. While the European and American hospitality did not demand any such ceremonial practices for their everyday functioning there was a modicum of appreciation for the service sector of the Shangri La hospitality as they were opening vistas of service not commonly experienced by the western world. This posed a fresh challenge of how the traditional form of services could be reformed and reframed to cater to the needs of the newer institutions.
- An overall lack of confidence among the Chinese front desk managers to handle any situation on their own without the total involvement of the management or the senior managing authority. When world class expectations were the goal from the local talent then there was a marked need for training inputs to standardize and improve the already available quality and quantity of services being carried out under the banner of the Shangri La hospitality.
These were some of the salient challenges being faced by the Shangri La group while taking up their expansion into the locations outside Asia.


Originally from Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea, Dendrobium smilliae is a hot growing epiphyte found on trunks and tree crooks. It’s a slender looking dendrobium, with grass-like leaves that gracefully develop alternately as the cane grows.
But what’s curious and unique about Dendrobium smilliae is its clusters of pretty pink to while flowers that emerge only on the older, leafless canes. Arranged cylindrically and in large numbers, these clusters resemble a brush, earning this species its nickname, ‘The Bottlebrush Orchid’.
I’ve come across impressive Dendrobium smilliae specimens that are at least three feet tall at shows. A large and multi-‘bottlebrush’ smilliae is always quite a spectacular sight. However, try as a might, I could not grow my smilliae to such monster sizes, let alone come to flower.
Similarly speaking, underpotting my Dendrobium smilliae in a 5 inch pot may be the crux of why I couldn’t bring it to great vigour. Perhaps I need to transplant a tree in my garden to house it, preferably one with a crook.
In any case, if you’re successful with flowering Dendrobium smilliae, then good on you! Just don’t go cleaning bottles with its flowers. It doesn’t work.


One recent example is Hearing Awareness Month, which took place in September. Championed by hearing care provider Hidden Hearing, they offered 20,000 free hearing tests in an attempt to raise awareness of hearing loss and encourage anyone unsure of their hearing ability to seek help. Hearing loss in the UK affects one in six people in some way with varying degrees of impairment, but many can be treated using hearing aids or other medical treatments. The biggest hurdle is getting people to take that first step and to get their hearing tested.
<Other awareness campaigns include World Aids Day – also recognised as Aids Awareness Month< in different countries around the world – where people are encouraged to learn about AIDS and HIV to try to stop the spread of the disease; and Epilepsy Awareness Month< which seeks to help people overcome the challenges created by epilepsy.


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"Surrealism and Architecture"
Following my new studies in History of Art at A Level, I wished to develop my interest in Surrealism and its connections with architecture. Surrealism, to me at this time, relied purely on visual forms so fluid and intangible as if like a mirage. Through this paper I explored its psychological origins and also how its influences within film, painting and sculpture could identify surrealist characteristics within works of architecture: Le Corbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, 1954, Ferdinand Cheval, Le Palais Idéal, 1912, Friedrick Kiesler, The Endless House, 1924-50 [unbuilt], Edward James, Las Pozas, 1962-89.
Extended Project Qualification submission titled 'To what extent does Surrealism affect 20th century architecture and how is this evident?', in part of AQA Baccalaureate.
"Whilst Surrealist architecture hides in the shadow of painting, film and literature, I conclude that the psychological effect that buildings can have on a spectator is used as a great device by the architects that have been mentioned. Although Le Corbusier’s Chapel proves as the strongest example of manipulating feelings of the spectator depicted through the use of light and atmosphere, it is clear that Le Palais Idéal, Las Pozas and The Endless House show elements of using this psychological aspect to enhance the Surrealist experience. The strong aesthetic, oneiric nature of these buildings lifts the spectator into an alternate world, where these buildings come to life, thriving on imagination which is triggered once seen."
Conclusion, 'To what extent does Surrealism affect 20th century architecture and how is this evident?'
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Oregon is a state located in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States of America, whereas Algeria is a country located in North Africa. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between Oregon and Algeria regarding various aspects.
Is Oregon bigger than Algeria?
The total area of Oregon is 98,381 sq mi, and the total area of Algeria is 919,515 sq mi. Oregon is smaller than Algeria by 821,134 sq mi. Oregon is around 9.35 times smaller than Algeria.
Area of Oregon: 98,381 sq mi ( 254,806 km2 )
Area of Algeria: 919,515 sq mi ( 2,381,741 km2 )
According to the United States Census Bureau, the total population of Oregon as of 1st July 2021 was estimated to be around 4,246,155.
Based on the World Bank data, the total population of Algeria as of 2020, was estimated to be around 43,851,043.
Here is some more data comparison between Oregon and Algeria.
The capital city of Oregon is Salem, and the capital city of Algeria is Algiers.
Algeria: Arabic, Berber
ISO 3166 Code
Oregon Time Zone:
UTC – 8 (Pacific Standard Time)
UTC – 7 (Mountain Standard Time)
UTC – 7 (Pacific Daylight Time)
UTC – 6 (Mountain Daylight Time)
Algeria Time Zone:
UTC + 1 (Central European Standard Time)
Coordinates of Oregon:
43° 56′ 0.96″ N, 120° 33′ 29.88″ W
Coordinates of Algeria:
28° 0′ 0″ N, 2° 0′ 0″ E
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It's a big, long word, but it's linked to something very common -- heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States. If you have dyslipidemia --abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels -- like many Americans, you can do something about it.
Research shows that high LDL (bad) cholesterol and low HDL (good) cholesterol increase the risk for heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. Recent research also shows that improving cholesterol levels may not only slow the process of plaque buildup but can -- in some instances -- reverse it.
Lipids are made of:
Cholesterol: A soft, waxy substance found among fats in your bloodstream and in your cells. Your body makes some cholesterol, and the rest comes from animal products you eat such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products.
Triglyceride: A form of fat made in your body. People with high triglyceride levels often have low good cholesterol levels and high bad cholesterol levels.
Source: American Heart Association
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7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday
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Why do our eureka moments arise from quiet contemplation and even sleep?
Research suggests focus allows the brain to cast a broader net and recruit more neurons for the problem at hand. In physics and brain research this is known as phase shifting. For brain purposes, think of phase shifting as the period of time when neurons are released from one task and available for the next. A slightly longer phase shift allows the brain to recruit more available neurons for a new task, dramatically increasing processing power.
Research shows that people who have longer phase shifts demonstrate higher IQs. The effects are both subtle and powerful. A 1 millisecond increase in phase shifting can result in a 20 point increase in IQ.
I'm not aware of research (yet) that directly measures an individual's ability to lengthen phase shifting through mind focusing techniques. But there's a lot of indirect evidence demonstrating that the brain is operating differently and more creatively in a position of calm-- suggesting you can amplify your intellectual effectiveness through focus.
Research seems to be slowly but surely verifying what the ancients have known.


Gaia Vince runs through the reasons:
The denser the city, the more productive, efficient and powerful it becomes. The theoretical physicists, Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West calculated that if the population of a city is doubled, average wages go up by 15%, as do other measures of productivity, like patents per capita. Economic output of a city of 10 million people will be 15-20% higher than that of two cities of 5 million people. Incomes are on average five times higher in urbanised countries with a largely rural population. And at the same time, resource use and carbon emissions plummet by 15% for every doubling in density, because of more efficient use of infrastructure and better use of public transportation.
(By Evol in Farringdon, London, England via Street Art Utopia)


This name derives from the Medieval English 'be', itself deriving from the Olde English 'beo' meaning a bee and was originally given as a nickname to a busy and industrious worker, or an active person. The bee has long been taken as a symbol of industry. The name is first recorded as a surname in the late 12th century as Be and le Boe. The spelling Bee appears in 1379 - 'Alicia Bee' the Poll Tax returns of Yorkshire. Other examples are Richard Bee, a witness at St. Dunstan church, Stepney on January 24th 1589 and Anne Bee who married Thopolis Leigh at Christchurch, Newgate on November 13th 1728.The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Be which was dated 1198 The Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire during the reign of King Richard 1 Richard the Lionheart 1189 - 99 Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Enjoy this name printed onto our colourful scroll, printed in Olde English script. An ideal gift.


By Josefa Beyer
That's me, deep in the weeds.
My reading students, by contrast, are big-picture thinkers and thank goodness, because our world needs their big ideas and solutions. Unfortunately, big-picture talent can make learning to read harder. These bright minds want to gobble up unknown words whole, leading them to say words that are almost right, but don't make sense.
Confound is read as confuse, cheerful as checkers. That's when I say, "You'll have to take this word one bite at a time."
Of course, we Orton-Gillingham instructors do much more than coach kids to slow down and try harder. With every lesson, we grow children's ability to interpret individual sounds and letters accurately and fluently.
With multi-sensory learning, children master spelling and grammar rules, syllable patterns that determine vowel sounds, and syllable division so they can break big words into readable chunks. Our students study English at an almost granular level, because they need to grasp the smallest stuff in order to read and write about the big stuff.


Main article: Sauron in the Second Age
Although Sauron long knew than Men were easier to sway, he long sought to bring the Elves into his service as they had more power So after the War of Wrath Sauron decided that the Valar had forgotten about Middle-earth and he once again turned to evil.
After lying hidden and increasing his power in secret, Sauron put on a fair visage, and calling himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and in S.A. 1200 he befriended the Elvish smiths of Eregion, and counselled them in arts and magic. He never came to Lindon as Elrond and Gil-galad did not trust him and refused to treat with him, although they never realised who he truly was; elsewhere he was gladly received, especially in Eregion where the Elvish smiths learned much from him as their thirst for knowledge was great.
Under Sauron's tutelage the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, under the leadership of Celebrimbor, grandson of Fëanor, became more skilled than anyone else, save for Fëanor himself. In the year 1500, when they reached the very height of their power, the Elves began the forging of the Rings of Power, but Sauron knew all their secrets and in 1600 - ten years after the completion of the Rings of Power - Sauron created The One Ring to control the bearers of the other Rings.
But the Elves were not so easily ensnared, and as soon as Sauron put on the One Ring they and Celebrimbor were aware of him and realised they were betrayed. They hid their Rings from Sauron and did not use them, but Sauron demanded that the other Rings be given to him for they would not have been without him knowledge: the Elves refused and the War of the Elves and Sauron followed.


Cut and Shape Product Parts Using Milling, Turning, and Wire EDM
CNC (computer numerical control) machines are machines guided by CAD data rather than by human beings. Machining is used when parts require tight tolerances and finishes.
Machining processes shape metal by the controlled removal of material. Prismatic machining cuts a 3D shape in one ‘go’. Milling, one of the most commonly used, removes material. Turning is much as it sounds: rotating the part against a machine known as a lathe. Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) uses electrically charged wire to vaporize material rather than cutting it by traditional methods.
Being able to control these processes – and integrate them with CAD software – is critical to efficiency, the precision of your parts, and the quality of your product.
Creo Prismatic and Multi-Surface Milling is a virtual milling ‘specialist’ for prismatic production machining.
Creo Compete Machining Extension gives you the power to drive virtually any type of NC Machine. Now you can also work concurrently with designers to automatically incorporate design changes.
Creo Production Machining also offers seamless compatibility with design, which means that changes are automatically incorporated. The result: improved time-to-production and customer responsiveness.


A 1918 review of the Augener publication of Ireland’s London Pieces suggested some parallels between ‘Chelsea Reach’ and the diatonic sweetness of the barcarolles of Offenbach. Ireland’s music, however, was perceived rather as depicting the psychology of the Londoner’s outlook, with its ‘ever-changing tints and shades of colour’. Even more interesting is the reviewer’s perception of connections between the poetic pictorialness of ‘Chelsea Reach’ and the London watercolours of Yoshio Markino. Markino (1869–1956) was a Japanese artist who moved to London in 1897, where he spent much of the rest of his life. For many years he was based in Chelsea, coincidentally living in the same road as St Luke’s church – Sydney Street. His illustrations of the city, based on many hours of exploring the capital on foot, were published in 1907 in The Colour of London, followed in 1912 by The Charm of London. It would be fascinating to know whether Ireland was aware of these images, and whether Markino’s pictures of Chelsea, two of which are shown below, may have played a part in the creation of the composer’s own dreamy London soundscape.
Two very interesting blogs contain further information on this artist:
http://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/more-markino-water-and-women-2/ Sources: Markino, Yoshio. Yoshio Markino: A Japanese Artist in London. London House: 1990. Monthly Musical Record, 48, 2 April 1918, p. 84.


Children’s spatial thinking: does talk about the spatial world matter?
Article first published online: 4 OCT 2011
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Volume 14, Issue 6, pages 1417–1430, November 2011
How to Cite
Pruden, S. M., Levine, S. C. and Huttenlocher, J. (2011), Children’s spatial thinking: does talk about the spatial world matter?. Developmental Science, 14: 1417–1430. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01088.x
- Issue published online: 20 OCT 2011
- Article first published online: 4 OCT 2011
- Received: 21 June 2010 Accepted: 9 June 2011
In this paper we examine the relations between parent spatial language input, children’s own production of spatial language, and children’s later spatial abilities. Using a longitudinal study design, we coded the use of spatial language (i.e. words describing the spatial features and properties of objects; e.g. big, tall, circle, curvy, edge) from child age 14 to 46 months in a diverse sample of 52 parent–child dyads interacting in their home settings. These same children were given three non-verbal spatial tasks, items from a Spatial Transformation task (Levine et al., 1999), the Block Design subtest from the WPPSI-III (Wechsler, 2002), and items on the Spatial Analogies subtest from Primary Test of Cognitive Skills (Huttenlocher & Levine, 1990) at 54 months of age. We find that parents vary widely in the amount of spatial language they use with their children during everyday interactions. This variability in spatial language input, in turn, predicts the amount of spatial language children produce, controlling for overall parent language input. Furthermore, children who produce more spatial language are more likely to perform better on spatial problem solving tasks at a later age.


BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 27 (UPI) — A spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than a spoonful of blueberries, U.S. researchers say.
Zhimin Xu of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge, La., black rice is one variety of the “Forbidden Rice” in ancient China that was kept by nobles for themselves.
Black rice bran is rich in anthocyanin antioxidants, substances that show promise for fighting heart disease, cancer and other diseases and it may be used by food manufacturers to boost the nutrition of breakfast cereals, beverages, cakes, cookies and other foods, Xu suggests.
“Black rice bran would be a unique and economical material to increase consumption of health promoting antioxidants,” Xu says in a statement.
Xu and colleagues analyzed samples of black rice bran from rice grown in the southern United States and found it possesses higher level of anthocyanins antioxidants, which are water-soluble antioxidants.
Black rice bran may be even healthier than brown rice bran, Xu suggests.
Black rice has deep black color and turns deep purple after cooking. It has a high mineral content and like other rice supplies several amino acids.
The findings were presented at the 240th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston.
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The color of your teeth may be revealing a little more than your oral hygiene habits after a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE revealed that teeth color can be used to detect a person's age, health and illness.
The study was conducted by researchers at Leeds University and Central Lancashire University who digitally changed the spacing and colors of the teeth in the pictures of models and showed them to 150 young men and women.
AdvertisementThe researchers found that the young men and women were attracted the most to models featuring natural white color compared to startling white or yellow colored teeth. "Both sexes are attracted by each other by white teeth always, it contains clues to decide age, health and illness. White teeth also acts as an indicator for finding out genetic disorders, childhood illness and it provides guide to how far she is from the menopause", lead researcher Colin Hendrie said.
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In the larger context of Plains Indian history, the Northern Cheyenne seem to drop from public consciousness following their military defeat in the campaigns of 1876-77 and their subsequent removal to an arid reservation in western Indian Territory. Mari Sandoz somewhat rescued these people from obscurity in her partially fictionalized Cheyenne Autumn (1953), which dramatized their mistreatment on the reservation, their heroic efforts to return to traditional homelands in Montana, and the bloody 1879 breakout from Ft. Robinson, Nebraska. Yet it is on that note of tragedy that their story seems to end, amid the battered bodies of fifty or sixty members of Dull Knife's band.
Thankfully, Orlan Svingen, Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, demonstrates that the Northern Cheyenne did have a future, and that by 1900 their severed factions had been rejoined once again into a fairly unified whole. His study represents an administrative history of tribal relations with the government and is not intended to be an ethnohistorical account of cultural change, continuity or accommodation. Utilizing a wide variety of archival materials, government documents, legal records and standard published materials, Svingen has produced a tightly organized and well-written account of what often seemed to be Byzantine politics at its most convoluted.
Tate, Michael L., "Review of The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1877-1900 by Orlan J. Svingen" (1994). History Faculty Publications. 1.


Glaucoma may continue to progress after the reduction of IOP to targeted levels. Research is providing increasing support for the idea that vascular risk factors may be the cause.
Several population-based studies have suggested that low diastolic perfusion pressure is associated with an increased
incidence of open-angle glaucoma (OAG). Perfusion pressure is defined as the difference between arterial and venous pressure, which, in the eye, by convention equals IOP. Blood pressure and IOP are therefore the principal components of ocular perfusion pressure (perfusion pressure = blood pressure – IOP).
• Choi J, Kim KH, Jeong J, et al. Circadian fluctuation of mean ocular perfusion pressure is a consistent risk factor
for normal-tension glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007;48:104-111.
• Tielsch JM, Katz J, Sommer A, et al. Hypertension, perfusion pressure, and primary open-angle glaucoma. A population-based
assessment. Arch Ophthalmol. 1995;113:216-221.
• Leske MC, Connell AM, Wu SY, et al. Risk factors for open-angle glaucoma. The Barbados Eye Study. Arch Ophthalmol.
• Hulsman CA, Vingerling JR, Hofman A, et al. Blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and open-angle glaucoma: the Rotterdam study.
Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125:805-812.
Perfusion pressure can be affected by IOP and blood pressure, but which is really the most important? In a given patient, it
could be IOP alone, blood pressure alone, or a combination of the two.
For more information on ways to help preserve optic nerve health, go to www.naturaleyecare.com


This is cool — tiny dinoflagellates produce a ripple of sparkling light when something brushes past.
The dinoflagellates are a large group of flagellate protists. Most are marine plankton, but they are also found in fresh water habitats as well. Their populations are distributed depending on temperature, salinity, or depth. About half of all dinoflagellates are photosynthetic, and these make up the largest group of marine eukaryotic algae aside from the diatoms. Being primary producers makes them an important part of the aquatic food chain. Some species, called zooxanthellae, are endosymbionts of marine animals and protozoa, and play an important part in the biology of coral reefs. Other dinoflagellates are colorless predators on other protozoa, and a few forms are parasitic.


These emergency lesson plans for Reception Class numeracy are only to be used by supply teachers who are faced with no planning or easily accessible resources.
Practice counting to 20.
Give students a number and ask them what is 2 more/less than it.
Halving – using objects give students an even number of the items and ask them to share
them out between two.
Investigate which numbers can be halved using items to help.
Doubling – use objects to find out what the double of a number is.
Add and subtract objects from the classroom.
Shape and Space
Have selection of items for the group to describe using terms such as bigger than, smaller
than, biggest, smallest.
Identify coins and discuss shape, colour and size of them.
Draw around coins.
Coin rubbing and labelling.
Use a clock to talk about time – hours, yesterday, today, tomorrow.
Students to make their own clocks.
Students to draw a timeline of their daily activities and label with time and activity.
Use three different colour tiles to create patterns.
Look for patterns in the classroom.
Organise objects into weights – heaviest to lightest.


Cooking is a rather natural use for solar power. We all know how the sun warms things that it strikes, leaving the inside of our cars hot and making us sweat on a sunny day. Many of us have also played with magnifying glasses as kids, using them to light dried leaves and scraps of paper on fire.
That power can be harnessed in a more structured way, making it extremely easy to cook with. Scientists have built solar furnaces which are hot enough to melt iron. While you don’t need anything quite that hot, a simple solar cooker could be a great piece of survival equipment to add to your collection.
There are several different designs of solar cookers you can make, but the most effective uses a Fresnel lens. Fresnel lenses are flat plastic magnifying glasses. If you’ve ever used one of those sheet magnifiers, you’ve used a Fresnel lens.


2015 Okanogan County Fires
Amidst recovery efforts from the 2014 Carlton Complex Wildfire, the people of Okanogan County suffered another devastating blow. The first of the Okanogan County Fires, the Nine Mile Fire in the northern part of the county, was caused by an airplane crash on August 13th in which two people were killed. The following day, the Tunk Block and Limebelt fires erupted after multiple lightning strikes touched ground. The fourth fire, the Twisp River Fire, began as a result of a branch rubbing a wire. It would be another month and a half before the fires were contained.
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Smokejumping is one of the several methods used to protect national forest resources from wildfire. Because of their extreme initial-attack function, smokejumping may be one of the most—if not the most—cost-effective wildland firefighting method employed in the U.S. today.
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Did you know that fires, even really big forest fires that can destroy hundreds of thousands of acres and valuable human structures, can be started by something as small as a spark? Sure we all know lightning strikes start the majority of wild fires, but did you know that this year some major fires have been started by;
a camptrailer blowing a tire on the highway and creating sparks with the wheel rim, a homeowner who was trying to reduce the fire danger by mowing their dry yard created a spark hitting a rock, and an unattended BBQ that somehow turned over and within hours spread to over 1700 acres?


A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. A "hard" or "permanent" magnet is one which stays magnetized for a long time, such as magnets often used on refrigerator doors. Permanent magnets occur naturally in some rock, particularly lodestone, but are now more commonly manufactured. A "soft" or "impermanent" magnet is one which loses its memory of previous magnetizations. "Soft" magnetic materials are often used in electromagnets to enhance (often hundreds or thousands of times) the magnetic field of a wire that carries an electrical current and is wrapped around the magnet; the field of the "soft" magnet increases with the current.Two measures of a material's magnetic properties are its magnetic moment and its magnetization. A material without a permanent magnetic moment can, in the presence of magnetic fields, be attracted (paramagnetic), or repelled (diamagnetic). Liquid oxygen is paramagnetic; graphite is diamagnetic. Paramagnets tend to intensify the magn
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BLUE HILL — Less than 20 years ago, Charles Moore was a cabinetmaker with a business that specialized in refinishing furniture damaged in transit.
Today, many researchers credit the Southern Californian with the discovery of the massive “island” of plastic debris that pollutes the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
How he came to make that find speaks volumes about how the world around us has changed.
A third-generation resident of Long Beach, Moore said he grew up on the shores of Alamedos Bay, and in its water.
“I was basically a marine mammal for part of my life,” Moore said. “I was in the water as much as the average seal and the degradation of the marine environment was something that was perceptible to me.”
Moore remembered digging clams from the flats in front of the house where he grew up, then roasting them for a picnic around a fire built right on the mud, and learning to swim in a nearby tidal lagoon. Today, pollution makes it impossible to contemplate eating clams dug from those once pristine waters, and water quality in the lagoon is dreadful.
“No one would ever dream of teaching swimming there today,” he said during an interview last week at the Marine Environmental Research Institute (MERI). Moore was in Blue Hill for the opening of MERI’s 20th anniversary Ocean Environment Lecture Series.
For more maritime news, pick up a copy of The Ellsworth American.


Can I use full stops, question marks, and exclamation marks to end a sentence?Bang! What was that? I asked. Nobody knew. So I went looking for that noise. I heard it again! I saw my Dad hammering, sawing and measuring the wood. I then knew what that noise was.


Hide A Butterfly ~ Teacher's Guide
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The Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley
The publisher says: "Paper butterflies
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It’s the first day of June, and Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Florida know what that means: hurricanes. The official North Atlantic hurricane season kicks off today and runs through November 30.
Officials at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center are predicting this year’s season will be “near-normal,” with a 70 percent likelihood of 10 to 16 named storms. Named storms are those with sustained winds of 39 miles per hour or higher. Of that total, 4 to 8 could become hurricanes (storms with winds of 74 mph or higher), including 1 to 4 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5 storms with winds of 111 mph or higher).
Two tropical storms have already reached the 39 mph threshold this year, including Alex, a rare January storm, and Bonnie, which made landfall in South Carolina over the weekend.
“A near-normal prediction for this season suggests we could see more hurricane activity than we’ve seen in the last three years, which were below normal,” said Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal hurricane forecaster.
Officials are urging residents to be prepared.
“While seasonal forecasts may vary from year to year — some high, some low — it only takes one storm to significantly disrupt your life,” said FEMA Deputy Administrator Joseph Nimmich. “Preparing for the worst can keep you, your family, and first responders out of harm’s way. Take steps today to be prepared: develop a family communications plan, build an emergency supply kit for your home, and make sure you and your family know your evacuation route. These small steps can help save your life when disaster strikes.”
For more information on how to prepare your family and home for hurricane season, check out the National Hurricane Center’s hurricane preparedness site.


Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, was developed in late 1980. It was originally used to treat borderline personality disorder, but now it is used for treating other mental health disorders. Dialectical behavior therapy is a cognitive-behavioral approach focusing on the psychosocial aspects of treatment. The goal of DBT is to transform negative thinking patterns and destructive behavior into positive outcomes. The effectiveness of DBT can help people diagnosed with eating disorders, anxiety, stress and depression.
Theory behind DBT
People who suffer from mental illnesses like borderline personality disorder often have intense, abnormal reactions to certain emotional situations. These types of situations can be found in romantic relationships, families and friendships. DBT suggests that some individuals’ arousal levels in specific situations can increase faster than the average person’s. They will also experience higher levels of emotional stimulation and take more time to return to standard arousal levels.
What is involved in DBT?
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At the CERTS group, we’ll help your daughter cope with anxiety, depression, ADHD, eating disorders and other issues through DBT-based residential treatment programs. We also combine traditional talk therapy with experiential therapies (equine assisted psychotherapy, art therapy, adventure therapy, music therapy) to achieve a resilient, influential change.


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Built by Lucius Copeland in Pheonix, Arizona (USA) the roots of the first Copeland 3-wheeler can be found in 1881 when Copeland began working on steam engines. One of his steam engines managed to power a Columbia bicycle at 15 mph. As a result Copeland went on to manufacture the Copeland tricycle. Steam powered, this two seater vehicle had an automatic oil-fired vertical boiler that was mounted just in front of the single rear wheel. This transmitted power to the two front wheels which drove the vehicle whilst steering was via the rear single wheel.
In 1884 the Northrup Manufacturing Company was set up to produce the vehicles and to prove their worth, Copeland, along with a director of the company drove a tricycle on a 120 mile round trip to Atlantic City.
Manufacturer of the vehicles ceased in 1891.


Theater of Apocalypse
This course examines themes of apocalypse that are reproduced through contemporary plays, film and other media, primarily (but not exclusively) in the United States. We will analyze different meanings of the term (i.e. the end, catastrophe, renewal and others), and compare interpretations and stagings between two primary currents of thought, the Millenarian and Mayan, in theatre and other performance practices. We include depictions of end of times in various historical and contemporary literature, visual art and media, highlighting some of the pinnacle events that inform cultural (mis)understandings of apocalypse. From close reading to a broader look at the 'unveiling' of apocalypse, this course opens up questions of the nature of time, religion and politics with the stakes of planetary destruction --or is there an alternative in expanding our cultural imagination? Our aim is to become familiar with the terms and debates in the study of 'apocalypse,' and to gain a critical understanding of the historical and political dimensions of both theological and secular versions of ‘apocalypse’ and 'revelation' alongside theater and performance of our time.


“The natural gas “bridge” to sustainability may be shorter than expected.
In its role as a bridge, natural gas seems to have a comfortable future. First, it will replace coal and nuclear “baseload” plants, and then, as renewables grow to supply the bulk of power, it will provide flexibility, filling in the gaps where variable renewables (wind and solar) fall short. By playing these multiple roles, natural gas will long outlive coal and prove useful well into the latter half of the 21st century. It will enjoy a long, slow exit.”
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In contrast with the client-server technology with which the web has made nearly everybody familiar, P2P technology connects the computers that run it together into a virtual network directly.
When a P2P file sharing program is running, whether or not you are actively downloading anything, you may also be also uploading files to other users of the software. In the case of Skype and other P2P internet telephony programs your computer may become part of a virtual telephone network through which calls between other parties are routed.
P2P software is often configured to run automatically when you switch your computer on, and most P2P software gives you little or no control over the extent to which your computer and your internet connection are exploited as part of its virtual network. It is certain that the College's fast internet connection attracts substantial amounts of through traffic to such programs running on computers connected to it; thus use of P2P software will almost inevitably slow your computer and your internet connection down.
To make matters worse, P2P filesharing is inherently insecure and is a common means by which viruses and other forms of malicious software are distributed.
The College prohibits all use of P2P software. It enforces this prohibition rigorously and many students have found themselves in trouble as a consequence. The one exception to this rule is Skype.


Daniel L. McFadden, in full Daniel Little McFadden, (born July 29, 1937, Raleigh, N.C., U.S.), American economist and cowinner (with James J. Heckman) of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual or household behaviour, such as understanding how people choose where to work, where to live, or when to marry.
After studying physics (B.S., 1957) and economics (Ph.D., 1962) at the University of Minnesota, McFadden taught economics at a number of institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley (1963–79), Yale University (1977–78), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978–91). In 1990 he returned to Berkeley and was named the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics. He also served (1991–95, and again from 1996) as the director of the university’s Econometrics Laboratory. The recipient of numerous awards, McFadden was given the American Economic Association John Bates Clark Medal for his contributions to economic knowledge and thought in 1975 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
McFadden’s work combined economic theory, statistical methods, and empirical applications toward the resolution of social problems. In 1974 he developed conditional logit analysis—a method for determining how individuals will choose between finite alternatives in order to maximize their utility. Through the analysis of discrete choice (i.e., the choices made between a finite set of decision alternatives), McFadden’s work helped predict usage rates for public transportation systems, and his statistical methods were applied to studies of labour-force participation, health care, housing (particularly for the elderly), and the environment. That same year, he was awarded Northwestern University’s Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, the highest monetary award for outstanding achievement in the field of economics in the United States.


New research from the University of Colorado's Cancer Center suggests a new approach to treating brain cancer.
The disease is particularly hard to treat because of its location, being able to resist most chemotherapies and radiation surgeries, as well as regrowing elsewhere.
According to the new study, cancer cells use signals to survive, grow, reproduce and migrate. By targeting these signals, the team found that brain cancer cells can be weakened and left more vulnerable to the chemotherapy treatments that were previously ineffective.
Dr Amy Keating, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Nature, said: "I thought, aha, I have this great way to treat this cancer, but needed to check that we weren't going to cause other problems.
"This represents a new targeted therapy, offering a potential new direction that nobody's tried before."
It is hoped that the discovery will lead to new treatments for glioblastoma multiforme, a particularly aggressive brain tumour that is fatal within a single year from diagnosis for most patients.


Environmental ministry calculated the totals by using satellite imagery, which documents areas of deforested land larger than 15.4 acres. An area was considered to be deforested if the primary forest cover had been removed, regardless of what the land was used for.
The results reveal that Amazon is being destroyed at the fastest rate in a decade. Satellite data revealed that over 3000 swore miles of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was lost between August 2017 and July 2018. The amount of rainforest is 10 times the size of New York City.
The total amount of loss equates to a 13.7 percent growth in total deforestation from the previous year and represents roughly 1.185 billion trees, a horrific number.
Brazil’s Environmental Minister, Edson Durte, is blaming illegal loggers, noting that an “upsurge of organized crime that acts in the illegal deforestation of the Amazon”. According to Duarte, the organized crime is also part of other illegal practices including arms trafficking.
In a statement Duarte said, “In addition to intensifying enforcement actions as the federal government has been doing in recent years, we need to broaden the mobilization of all levels of government, society, and the productive sector in the fight against environmental violations and in defense of the sustainable development of the biome.”
On top of that, the problem may only get worse as the recent reelection of Jair Bolsonaro has put him back in office. Bolsonaro is famous for his goals of privatizing the Amazon for the benefit of economic growth.
The combination of growing illegal practices and Bolsonaro has many environmentalists extremely concerned as it could spark an extreme growth in deforestation going forward. The Amazon is one of the most invaluable resources on the planet as well as being the most diverse areas of our planet above the sea. On top of that, the Amazon is one of the largest sink for CO2 as the tropical rainforest converts more CO2 to oxygen than anywhere else in the world.


The Red BallsHistory
The Medici have long been associated with a load of balls. Their family emblem—a number of red balls on a gold shield—is prominently displayed on buildings all over Florence and Tuscany which have Medicean connections or which were financed with Medici money. One outraged contemporary of Cosimo il Vecchio declared that "He has emblazoned even the monks' privies with his balls."
The Medici family crest has long been the object of much historical speculation. The most romantic (and far-fetched) explanation of the origin of the palle is that the balls are actually dents in a shield, inflicted by the fearsome giant Mugello on one of Charlemagne's knights, Averardo (from whom, legend claims, the family were descended). The knight eventually vanquished the giant and, to mark his victory, Charlemagne permitted Averardo to use the image of the battered shield as his coat of arms.
Others say the balls had less exalted origins: that they were pawnbrokers' coins, or medicinal pills (or cupping glasses) that recalled the family's origins as doctors (medici) or apothecaries. Others say they are bezants, Byzantine coins, inspired by the arms of the Arte del Cambio (or the Guild of Moneychangers, the bankers' organization to which the Medici belonged).
Palle, Palle, Palle
In times of danger, Medicean supporters were rallied with cries of Palle! Palle! Palle!, a reference to the balls (palle) on their armorial bearings. Whatever the origin of the Medici family emblem, it is interesting the note that the number of palle depicted in it varied. Originally there were 12; in Cosimo dé Medici's time it was seven; the ceiling of San Lorenzo's Sagrestia Vecchi has eight; Cosimo I's tomb in the Cappelle Medicee has five; and Ferdinando I's coat of arms in the Forte di Belvedere, six.
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Eighteen countries participated Wednesday in an unprecedented tsunami drill, as the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System was tested for the first time.
Sirens wailed along the Indian Ocean beaches and crowds fled inland, as part of a multi-national drill to gauge preparedness for the next time killer waves strike the region.
In the course of 12 hours, bulletins were sent out from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in the U.S. state of Hawaii and relayed by Japan's Meteorological Agency.
Stewart Weinstein was the scientist on duty sending out the bulletins at the warning center in Hawaii.
"What this means for us is that it's really testing our abilities to communicate with these 18 countries," Weinstein explained. "For them, can they receive bulletins in a timely fashion from the Warning Center? But it's also for them to test their internal procedures and their standard operating procedures for how they deal with a tsunami emergency."
Some participating countries, including Indonesia and Sri Lanka, took the exercise down to the community level, conducting limited evacuations of communities.
In other nations, such as India, the drill was limited to table-top exercises for government agencies.
The scenario is meant to replicate the magnitude 9+ earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, which struck in December, 2004. That tsunami affected countries from Australia to South Africa, killing about 200,000 people.
This drill comes just two weeks after another tsunami struck the Samoan islands and Tonga, killing at least 183 people.
The exercise also included seismological stations and ocean sensors linked to analysis centers on shore which are supposed to quickly determine whether a public alert needs to be issued.
When an earthquake triggers a tsunami, the waves can travel as fast as 1,000 kilometers per hour.


RALPH WALDO EMERSON
(Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument April 19, 1836, commemorating the start of the American Revolutionary War 1775)
1. All By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
2. Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
3. Here once the embattled farmers stood,
4. And fired the shot heard round the world.
5. Reader 1 The foe long since in silence slept;
6. Reader 2 Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
7. Reader 3 And Time the ruined bridge has swept
8. Reader 4 Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.
9. All On this green bank, by this soft stream,
10. We set today a votive stone
11. That memory may their deed redeem,
12. When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
13. Reader 5 Spirit, that made those heroes dare
14. To die, and leave their children free,
15. Bid Time and Nature gently spare
16. The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Votive – dedicated in accordance with a vow
Redeem – pay off (a debt)
Sires – ancestors
Shaft – the Concord Monument


A sneeze is a sudden, forceful, involuntary burst of air through the nose and mouth.
Sneezing iscaused by irritation to the mucous membranes of the nose or throat. It can be very bothersome, but is generally not a sign of a serious problem.
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Bridge–the ultimate partnership game–is a game of skill, communication and infinite possibilities. Worldwide, millions of people play it at home. Many also play “duplicate bridge” in clubs and tournaments to enjoy its social and competitive aspects.
Bridge is played using a standard deck of 52 cards dealt equally among four players. The players bid in a coded language to describe their hands to their partners and then play to make their contract. Generally, one suit is determined as “trump,” leading to the expression, “Play your trump card.” Duplicate contract bridge, in which each competitor or team plays identical hands under similar conditions, is the main form of competitive bridge.
ACBL members receive masterpoints for winning and placing in club and tournament games as they strive to advance through the ranks. There are a required number of masterpoints for each of 14 levels, from Rookie (0-5 points) to Grand Life Master (10,000+ points and a National Title).
Bridge traces its origins to the British game of whist, first played in the 16th century. It may be named for the Galata Bridge in Istanbul, which British soldiers crossed during the Crimean War of the 19th century to reach a coffeehouse where they played cards. Contract bridge as we know it today began in the 1920s when Harold Vanderbilt came up with the early scoring system.
The American Contract Bridge League was founded in 1937. Today it is the largest bridge organization in the world, supporting clubs and tournaments in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Bermuda. A not-for-profit organization, the ACBL determines internationally recognized rules of bridge, sanctions clubs and tournament games, and encourages participation at all levels of proficiency and experience.


This video shows you how to draw a cartoon rose. Step by step, this silent clip shows the best way to draw this and then fill it in in color, including the leaves. First you draw a circle and a cross positioned above the centre point of the circle. Then you follow the drawing as it's shown, first outlining the bud and then expanding to the outer petals and finally on to the leaves. It's done in two colors on the video just so you can see the latest section of the outline. Then you color it in appropriately.


Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) is a test that checks the electrical signals of sensation going from the body to the brain. The signals show whether the nerves that connect to your spinal cord are able to send and receive sensory information like pain, temperature, and touch. When ordering electrical tests to diagnose spine problems, your doctor may combine SSEP with an electromyogram (EMG), which is a test of how well the nerve roots leaving your spine are working.Why is it done?
An SSEP indicates whether the spinal cord or nerves are being pinched. It is helpful in determining how much the nerve is being damaged and whether there is a bone spur, herniated disc, or other source of pressure on your spinal cord or nerve roots. An SSEP is used to double check whether the sensory part of the nerve is working correctly.How is it done?
Either an electrode is placed on your skin or a needle is inserted into your nerve or the sensory center of your brain. Measurements of how long it takes an electrical signal to travel through the nerve pathway are recorded. The function of the nerve is determined by the speed of these electrical signals. When the nerve pathway is pinched, the signals are slower than expected.What are the limitations?
An SSEP does not show why you have a problem or what is causing the problem. The test looks primarily at whether sensation is affected by a problem in your spinal cord or nerves. There could be a problem in the nerve somewhere between your brain and the area tested. The problem may not necessarily be in the spine itself.What are the risks?
There are few risks associated with SSEP. There is a small chance of infection anytime a needle is inserted into your body. However, the risk is almost absent in this test.


Saint Thomas à Becket
Introduction Thomas à Becket, Saint,
or Saint Thomas Becket,
1118–70, English martyr, archbishop of Canterbury, b. London. He is called St. Thomas of Canterbury and occasionally St. Thomas of London.
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The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


This member of the Euphorbiaceae
family was given this name by Henri Ernest Baillion in 1887.
It is found on Madagascar, growing in well
drained soil with some water and lots of sun. The caudex can grow to
six centimetres in diameter, the plant to 25 centimetres height. The
flowers are greenish white
Strangely enough, the new name
Euphorbia subapoda is being used instead of the original


Mirabilis Member Years
There shall be initially 410 Mirabilis Members. Mirabilis is latin for miracle. The Mirabilis Members will each be unique in that they will adopt a year in the great American story.
Little known, but important founding father of the United States, Elias Boudinot, born in Philadelphia.
Sensational trial of blacks, slave and free, for conspiring to burn New York City, becomes known as “The Great Negro Plot.” Four whites and seventeen blacks were hanged.
British troops defeat Spanish in Battle of Bloody Marsh, Georgia, in King George’s War.
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson born on this day. He composed the initial Declaration of Independence, served as Vice-President and two terms as President. Architect, horticulturalist, bibliophile, connoisseur, farmer, polymath, Jefferson would define an era.
Birth of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, and one of America’s great correspondents. Mother of President John Quincy Adams.
Twenty-seven year old David Brainerd committed himself to evangelizing the Indians of New England but died only two years into the mission. Jonathan Edwards told his story and it inspired generations of evangelical missionaries in America.
The English-Scottish army defeated the Highland host at Cullodon in Northern Scotland. Many of the highlanders fled to America or were sent into slavery.
Knowles riot in Boston protested impressment into the British Navy.
Naturalization Act in Britain allows Jews to settle in America
The Ohio Company was granted a charter of land around the Forks of the Ohio by King George II. The Forks are at the conjunction of the Ohio, Monongehela, and Allegheny Rivers. The French built Ft. Duquesne, the British Fort Pitt there.


Fourth-grade students at Apex Academy recently participated in a cross-curriculum project, which included connecting all the major subjects: math, reading, science, and social studies. The students were tasked with creating a baked good to share with their class. The scholars picked their favorite dessert, then chose an “outlier,” or an item that lies outside of traditional recipe items.
The outlier items included Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Rice Krispies Treats, marshmallows, apples, or pineapples. The students read a variety of recipes to figure out how to combine their favorite dessert with the outlier, which focused on the reading and math curriculum. They also used fractions and sums to complete the recipe, further sharpening their math skills.
“Overall, the students learned how school topics and real-world application go together,” said Dominique Pugh, fourth-grade teacher at Apex Academy. “I was thrilled to see the students use math in a fun and effective way.”
To include social studies in the lesson, students had to work with their parents and other members of their classroom to build a community. Finally, science was incorporated by using different states of matter, including solid, liquid, and gas, as well as using the scientific method during their baking.
Several students explained what they took away from this unique lesson:
"I learned how to use measurements, which I will need to know in order to cook in the future," said Tyshon Gainer.
"I now know how to use multiple steps to bake cakes or cupcakes," shared Heaven Nwosu.
The lesson concluded with a taste-test of everyone’s creations.


On this day in 1734, Patriot and politician Thomas McKean is born in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
McKean was a delegate of Delaware to the Continental Congress. Thus, he signed the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He was also President of the Continental Congress in 1781. McKean also served President (Governor) of Delaware, Governor of Pennsylvania, and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania.
For all that, perhaps his greatest accomplishment was sharing this redemptive advice as Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, which he did with a condemned man:
“You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world. It behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your conduct, to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer and thereby to avoid those regions of sorrow, those doleful shades where peace and rest can never dwell, where even hope cannot enter. It behooves you to seek the fellowship, advice and prayers of pious and good men, to be persistent at the throne of grace and to learn the way that leadeth to happiness. May you reflecting upon these things and pursuing the will of the great Father of Light and Life, be received into the company and society of angels and archangels and the spirits of just men made perfect and may you be qualified to enter into the joys of heaven, joys unspeakable and full of glory.”
Thomas McKean died in Philadelphia at the age of 83 in the year 1817. That seems fitting, given that the root words of Philadelphia are phileo meaning “to love” and adelphos meaning “brother.”


Timing your Flight
“…I’d like to take a balloon ride around 10 o’clock tomorrow morning…” So begins many a phone call (908) 996-3333 to our balloon office.
Here’s the problem: because of wind speeds, balloons can fly, generally, two times a day. They can fly at sunrise or just before sunset. Those are the two times of day when the wind is the calmest. Why does that matter? Balloons are LTA (lighter than air) craft-they have no power to navigate or steer. A balloon that can carry four passengers, the 105, (105 thousand cubic feet of air volume inside the envelope) has 2 ½ tons of mass to maneuver when packed with air. If it is “windy” it can become too unwieldy and dangerous. “Windy” is over 5-8 miles per hour!
Generally, in our area, the prevailing winds are from the west. In the morning, as the temperature rises, winds increase. In the evening, as the temperature cools, winds decrease. Thus the reasoning behind scheduling flights at sunrise or a couple of hours before sunset. Sunrise and sunset are also beautiful times to fly-who wouldn’t like to try to catch a stunning sunset or a gorgeous sunrise?


Week 8 (26.5.20)
Dear Boys and Girls
I hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sun.
This week we continue to get stronger at our Division equations. You are Division Detectives.
You have 4 days of activities to complete (and a challenge activity that you can do if you want!)
1) Use the link to watch the Maths with Parents video and do some great practical, fun activities!
2) Look at the Power Point and do the sharing and grouping activities Page 1- 11. You will need pasta and paper to practically do the activity which will help your understanding and confidence to grow.
3) Have a go at the worksheet. Remember you do not need to print the pages if you don't have a printer. Use the screen as your textbook and complete the work on your page. You may need an adult to help you set it out.
4) Send your teacher pictures of your great Division work!
Good luck and have a great week!


Relative Clauses 2
Complete each sentence with
of the words given. There may be
more than one
◄ = = = click here before you start!
she can't meet you is that she's leaving today.
I know a man
works at Ryanair; he may be able to help you.
My British cousin,
you met last year, is coming to stay again.
she lent me has been broken.
On the Monday,
was my birthday, we went to New York.
There's the story about the man
wife ran away from home.


There are several components of effective Data Security: Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity, Criticality, Privacy, and Intellectual Property Rights.
Data Confidentiality is the concept of protecting the secrecy of information in storage, transit, or use.
Data Availability is the concept of the concept of having the data accessible by authorized individuals or entities when and where it is needed.
Data Integrity relates to the accuracy and completeness of information. Integrity ensures that information cannot be modified in unexpected ways. Loss of integrity could result from human error or intentional tampering.
Data Criticality is a concept that defines the degree of importance and level of dependency on the data. This degree of importance is defined by data volatility, the impact upon the organization if a system were unavailable, and the protection requirements against software destruction.
Data Privacy includes the right of individuals and organizations to control the collection, storage, and disclosure of their information or information about themselves.
Intellectual Property Rights includes the assignment and protection of patents, copyrights, industrial designs, trade secrets, authorized use, and license agreements.


The ancestors of the tender Panda bear they were not at all so meek and docile, rather they were fierce and with more intimidating faces. Its about prehistoric giant pandawhich has now been found to have inhabited not only China, but also parts of Central Europe, mainly Bulgaria.
In the late 1980s, paleontologist Nikolai Spassov stumbled across fossilized animal teeth in the Bulgarian National Museum of Natural History.
It took more than 40 years to find out that they were from Agriarctos nikolovia close relative of the giant panda that lives in southwestern China today.
“I realized that I was holding in my hands the remains of a new species of fossil panda,” Spassov told Masable.
“The new species from Bulgaria is geologically the last and most evolved European species of panda,” Spassov emphasized. This discovery provides insights into the possible evolutionary paths of pandas and how their population dispersed over time, he added.
Spassov collaborated with his colleague Qigao Jiangzuo from China, and their findings were published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. They named the newly discovered species Agriarctos nikolovi in honor of the curator Ivan Nikolov who originally collected the fossilized teeth.
Despite its fearsome appearance, due to competition with settled carnivores of the time, such as the Saber-Toothed Tiger, it fed on vegetables, but not bamboo, rather thick branches and soft leaves.


[Haskell-cafe] Infinite lists in real world programs
patai_gergely at fastmail.fm
Thu Dec 16 21:33:39 CET 2010
> So in the result of (a >>= f), the first element is taken from the
> first element of applying f to the first element of a; the second
> element is the second element in the result of applying f to the second
> element of a; and so on. Off the top of my head I am not sure what
> this corresponds to in terms of agents or where it would be useful,
> but I'm sure it must correspond to something interesting.
In short, join corresponds to continuously sampling a stream of streams.
In other words, it turns a higher-order stream into a dynamic data-flow
network. That's exactly what the Elerea library  is good for: it
allows you to do this in constant time instead of the quadratic cost of
the pure implementation, but it forces you to traverse streams
sequentially -- fortunately, that's exactly what you want to do most of
the time. There is also a paper behind the library, which might help a
bit in getting a clearer picture  (the paper also has an updated
version in the process of being published).
http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users:
More information about the Haskell-Cafe


Selected text from Naming The Money Catalogue
The idea of a portrait as the likeness of a person, and to some extent a revelation of the inner character, is turned on its head when examining portraits of black servants. Whilst undoubtedly they often do record appearance, this is rarely their primary purpose. Particularly in those paintings where they appear with their master or mistress, the role of the servant is merely to enhance the appearance and character of the other person portrayed. The identity, personality, hopes and aspirations of the servant are at most secondary, more usually, entirely absent. This is no surprise he who pays the piper, calls the tune; but these portraits give us tantalisingly fleeting glimpses of the lives of these imported servants.
That black servants appear in so many portraits demonstrates the prominent role which they played in domestic life. But they remain unknown and in the shadows. Lubaina Himid‘s installation Naming The Money reveals the hidden history of black slaves and servants. It gives forgotten individuals a voice, the unknown supporting characters a name and a history.
Lucy Whetstone Curator Hatton Gallery
Naming The MoneyCatalogue Pierre Mignard Portrait of Louise de KirroualleWilliam Dobson John 1st Baron of Rochdale 1643
ISBN 0-7017-0166-8 Duchess of Plymouth 1682 Naming The Money catalogue.
Naming The Money catalogue.


What are the symptoms?
Everyone feels the
ir anger is justified when they’re actually angry. Equally, we’ve all looked back and realised we may have overreacted. But for some people anger can become a problem that needs to be addressed.
It’s important to realise several things about anger before you start tackling it. First, anger is a normal process that has allowed humans to evolve and adapt. It isn’t a bad thing in itself, but problems occur if it isn’t managed in the right way.
Anger is also a mixture of both emotional and physical changes. A big surge of energy goes through your body as chemicals, such as adrenaline, are released.
Once the cause of the anger is resolved, you may still have to deal with the physical effects –
The other alternative is to suppress the energy until the next time you’re angry. This may mean you release so much pent-
On the other hand, just letting your anger go in an uncontrolled fashion can lead to a move from verbal aggression to physical abuse –
But there is a flip side to anger. Because of the surge of energy it creates, it can be pleasurable. This feeling is reinforced if becoming angry allows the release of feelings of frustration, or if a person’s response to your anger gives you a sense of power.
It’s important to acknowledge and keep an eye on this side of the problem –
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Quick stats of the Grey Rhebok
- Diet: - Herbivore
- Shoulder Height: - 0.75 m
- Weight: - Male - 22 kg
- Weight: - Female - 21 kg
Grey Rhebok are often found grazing in small groups, on rocky hills or slopes and rocky plains in South Africa.
As the name suggests, it has a thick grey coat and white underbelly. It is easily seen by the white underneath its tail, which it holds up as it sprints away. Unlike the mountain reedbuck, the rhebok has straight horns which are parallel.
They are often seen resting during the heat of the day. Being grazers, they only eat grass, but they are not dependant on water to survive, as they get most of their moisture through grazing.
Thanks to its strong leap and speed, the rhebok stays out of reach of any possible predators such as leopards, cheetahs, jackals, caracals and eagles.
Herds are led by one dominant male. This male is highly territorial using a clicking noise as well as aggressive displays indicating his possession over his territory and females. Females have a gestation period of 8-9 months followed by the birth of a single lamb.
Other Names for the Grey Rhebok
- Common Rhebok
Taxonomy of the Grey Rhebok
- Order - Artiodactyla
- Family - Bovidae
- Sub Family - Reduncinae
- Genus - Pelea
- Species - Pelea capreolus


In printed circuit board technology, X-Ray is used for the analysis of BGA components and in the manufacture of multilayer boards.
For the grouting of multilayer boards, X-Ray is used to control the position offset of the different layers. Also the drilling of holes in multilayers is optimized by X-Ray. Any differing geometries of the circuit board images to the geometry of drill hole coordinates are detected. Through change of a correction factor, the optimum reference point for drilling all layers is determinded.
see also Multi-CB - Quality Control: X-Ray