The Mongol AND Ming. Mongol Origins. Nomadic horse people N. China Grasslands Raised horses, tended sheep Felt tents: Yerts, Ger Language: Altaic (Rel. To Turkic, Manchurian) Could not marry between tribes and clans. Organization. Families-->Clans-->Tribes-->
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The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
In addition, Hongwu worked to eliminate Mongol influences and revive traditional Chinese values and practices, like Confucian principles.
1405 – the voyages by Zheng He - to promote trade & collect tribute.
Beginning of Isolation
Ming Foreign Relations
The policy to end the voyages was part of a move in Ming China toward isolation from the outside world.
Reasons for Decline


Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths of muscle.
They’re firm, compact tumours made up of smooth muscle cells and fibrous connective tissue. They may be found inside the uterus, within its wall, on its outer surface, or attached to it by a stem-like structure.
Uterine Fibroids range in size from undetectable to the eye to masses that can cause the uterus to become enlarged. They can be slow growing, quick or remain the same size. Some may go through growth spurts and some may shrink on their own. You can have one fibroid or many.
Uterine Fibroids are not correlated to an increased risk of uterine cancer and rarely develop into cancer (sarcoma).


The story of world Christianity’s recent pilgrimage is dramatic and historically unprecedented. The “center of gravity” of Christianity’s presence in the world rested comfortably in Europe for centuries. In 1500, 95 percent of all Christians were in that region, and four centuries later, in 1910, 80 percent of all Christians were in Europe or North America.
But then, world Christianity began the most dramatic geographical shift in its history, moving rapidly toward the global South, and then also toward the East. By 1980, for the first time in 1,000 years, more Christians were found in the global South than the North. Growth in Africa was and remains incredible, with one of our four Christians now an African, and moving toward 40 percent of world Christianity by 2025. Asia’s Christian population, now at 350 million, will grow to 460 million by that same time. Even today, it’s estimated that more Christians worship on any given Sunday in churches in China than in the U.S.


Welcome! This libguide has been created to provide teachers quick access to thousands of resources focusing on American History and Literature. This libguide was originally created to assist Mrs. A. Stiles in finding valuable (and new to her) resources for her classes.
I focused on her needs and wants. There are gaps in the historical eras - but we both hope to be able to fill some of those holes as time passes. Please utilize the add a link feature found on most of the pages when you find valuable links.
All sources within the libguide are found on the Bibliography tab.
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Conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain says Environment Canada, which has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for all of Halton and Peel regions.
A Watch means a thunderstorm is possible; a warning means one is imminent.
A few thunderstorms are expected to affect portions of the above regions this afternoon and early evening. These thunderstorms will be quite isolated. However, any storms that do develop could be severe.
Strong wind gusts can toss loose objects, damage weak buildings, break branches off trees and overturn large vehicles. Remember, severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes. Be prepared for severe weather. Take cover immediately, if threatening weather approaches. In Canada, lightning kills up to 10 people every year. Remember, when thunder roars, go indoors.
Emergency Management Ontario recommends that you take cover immediately, if threatening weather approaches.
Environment Canada meteorologists will update alerts as required, so stay tuned to your local media or Weatheradio. Email reports of severe weather to firstname.lastname@example.org or tweet with the hashtag #ONStorm.


The City of Brussels adopted the new Local Agenda 21. The 2010 version will strengthen and broaden the 2008 actions on sustainable development on the territory of the City.
The City adopted its first Local Agenda 21 in 2008. The program translates concrete actions of the Agenda 21 to the local level. The Agenda 21 is an international declaration with 2,500 recommendations on sustainable development for the planet in the 21st century. The local version allows the recommendations to suit the terrain and its inhabitants.
Climate change, acid rain, the ozone layer, over-fishing, polluted rivers… the list of environmental problems can seem daunting – and then when solutions appear, it seems there’s another problem just waiting to pop up behind it! What seems to be needed is a concerted effort to reform the foundations of our cities and towns into more sustainable entities that work in harmony with our planet: Fortunately, this is just what several grassroots environmental movements are trying to do. Between the Transition Towns, the Sustainable Neighborhoods, and Agenda 21, cities all over the world (and all over Belgium!) are taking concrete steps to become more sustainable and to cut off environmental problems before they even start.
If you've been wondering which fish you can still buy with good conscience, without depleting the ocean from endangered species and knowing that your fish was caught in a sustainable way without harming other sea animals, then this small step is for you. An excellent ressource is www.goedevis.nl - that is, if you know what the fish is called in Dutch!


Scientists from Monash University, Melbourne have shown that infants born prematurely have lower blood pressure during sleep in the first six months of life, compared to healthy, full-term infants.
Scientists at the Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research, Monash Institute of Medical Research, believe this may be one reason premature infants are at an increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Chief Investigator, Associate Professor Rosemary Horne, said that previous studies have shown that prematurely-born babies are at a significantly increased risk of SIDS; approximately 20 percent of all SIDS cases occur in preterm babies, though preterm babies comprise only 8-10 percent of infants born.
"It has been hypothesised that the underlying mechanism of SIDS involves a fall in blood pressure during sleep combined with a failure of the baby to arouse from sleep which would normally restore blood pressure," Associate Professor Horne said.
"Our study has now provided evidence as to why preterm babies are at a higher risk for SIDS."
The study monitored the blood pressure of 25 preterm and 20 full-term infants at two to four weeks; two to three months and five to six months. Blood pressure was lower during sleep in the preterm infant group at all ages studied, but was lowest in the two to three month age group, when the risk of SIDS is highest.
"Our recommendation is that additional research needs to be undertaken to determine whether preterm infants also have impaired cardiovascular control, as this may also contribute to the higher rate of SIDS in preterm infants, particularly when sleeping face down/on the stomach," said Associate Professor Horne.
"Parents of both term and preterm infants should follow the advice of SIDS and Kids for infant safe sleeping practices and always sleep their infant on his/her back, keep their baby away from cigarette smoke and ensure that the baby's head cannot be covered by bedding," she said.
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In these times of self-isolation and social distancing, nothing is better than a pot of home made stew. Except, my mother’s home made stew with my […]Read more
English is the main language of business and commerce. Schools, colleges and universities have always recognised this, and test students’ English communication skills throughout their academic life.
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With the most powerful computers ever known , you’d think that modern codebreakers would have utterly smashed our forefathers’ puny ciphers. Well…no. There are quite a number of antique documents that remain mysterious, despite cryptologists’ best efforts. Code breaking still relies on good guesses and flashes of insight more than brute force.
Since the late 1800s, biologists have used petri dishes primarily to grow cells. In the medical field, they are used to identify bacterial infections, such as tuberculosis. Conventional use of a petri dish requires that the cells being cultured be placed in an incubator to grow. As the sample grows, it is removed—often numerous times—from the incubator to be studied under a microscope.
Combat drones - aka remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) - are now seen by US combat commanders as one of their most valuable - if not the most valuable - military asset in the inventory. It is certainly seen as a very important element of the current Administration’s counter-terrorism policy.
Want a sandwich? Yeah, me too. PR2 has learned how to fetch sandwiches, which is great and all, but thanks to a technique called semantic search, it can now bring you a sandwich when it’s not even sure where the sandwich is.
MIT researchers just officially unveiled a device that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The device builds upon a breakthrough hydrogen producing technology developed in 2008, and they are calling it an “artificial leaf” because of it capacity to create chemical fuels directly from sunlight. The cell is also made from common materials like silicon, cobalt and nickel, which means that the “leaf” could potentially be mass-produced.


Animal Species:Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus lived in lakes, probably in herds, around 80 million years ago.
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus had:
- a forward-pointing unicorn-like crest on its head which probably helped it to attract mates;
- resonators in the tubular cavities inside its crest enabling it to produce distinctive mating calls;
- a large tail and paddle-like forelegs to assist with swimming.
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus lived in lakes.
Tsintaosaurus was named after the city of Tsingtao in Shandong Province, where the fossil was found. The species name spinorhinus refers to the spine-like crest on its head.
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinos was a duck-bill dinosaur or hadrosaur. It is an ornithopod that belonged to the family Hadrosauridae known from the Late Cretaceous in North and South America, Europe and Asia.


Black Students Less Likely to Get Mental Health CareAugust 17, 2016 |
by Ershad Kaleebullah
A startling new study claims that black and Hispanic children and young adults are half as likely as white students to receive treatment for mental health problems. This study raises racism concerns because the racial and ethnic disparity exists despite the fact that both minorities have a similar rate of mental problems as that of white students.
The study, led by Dr. Lyndonna Marrast, who was with the Harvard Medical School when the research was initiated for the International Journal of Health Services, is based on data collected from children under 18 and young adults in the age group of 18 to 34. The research study covered all the 50 states in the U.S. between the years 2006 and 2012.


NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND—Astronomers have found the most distant object ever in our solar system, three times farther away than Pluto. The dwarf planet, which has been designated V774104, is between 500 and 1000 kilometers across. It will take another year before scientists pin down its orbit, but it could end up joining an emerging class of extreme solar system objects whose strange orbits point to the hypothetical influence of rogue planets or nearby stars.
“We can’t explain these objects’ orbits from what we know about the solar system,” says Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., who announced the discovery here today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. V774104 currently sits 15.4 billion kilometers from the sun, or 103 astronomical units (AU) away. One AU is the distance between Earth and the sun.


Happy Mousey Monday to our Cache and Cookies readers!! September is here which means that Autumn, better known as Fall, is fast approaching!
Fall marks the transition from Summer into Winter. In North America, Fall is considered to begin with the September equinox. An equinox occurs twice a year when the plane of the Earth’s equator passes the center of the Sun.
Discovery Education Streaming offers a fun Skill Builder that teaches students under grades K-5 about the seasons.
Discovery Education Streaming also has a 35 minute full video titled, Holiday Story Fun for Kids: Fall Holiday Stories. The video explores the holidays and celebrations typically occurring during Fall.
We are proud to bring you these resources from Discovery Education Streaming into your classrooms! Please feel free to reach out to us with any comments or feedback @DESupportStars! Have a great rest of the week Mousey Monday readers!


A proportional relationship is when the growth pattern is multiplied by a scale factor.
We'll be exploring how a relationship can be expressed in a situation. For example, Malia buys bird 1 lb. of bird seed for $3. If she buys 2 lbs., she would spend $6. Since she is charged the same amount per pound, and there is no initial fee, this is a proportional relationship.
You can write each point as a fraction in simplest terms and if they are all equal, then it's a proportion. Ex. because they all simplify to .
You can tell if a graph is proportional because it is 1) linear (a line) and 2) goes through the origin (0, 0).
The relationship between the quantities can be written in the form of y = kx. k is the constant of proportionality. The constant of proportionality is the same as the scale factor.
For equations, the equation is in the form of y = kx. k is the constant of proportionality. The instructor mentioned that if it is a one-step equation it's proportional. NOTE: y = x + k, which is a one-step equation, is NOT proportional. Only one step equations in the form y = kx are proportional.
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Jewish American Heritage Month
On April 20, 2006, President George W. Bush proclaimed that May would be Jewish American Heritage Month. The announcement was the crowning achievement in an effort by the Jewish Museum of Florida and South Florida Jewish community leaders that resulted in resolutions introduced by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania urging the president to proclaim a month that would recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture. The resolutions passed unanimously, first in the House of Representatives in December 2005 and later in the Senate in February 2006.
According to Library of Congress hosted website, JewishHeritageMonth.gov, May was chosen as the month of Jewish American Heritage Month because of the successful 350th Anniversary Celebration of Jews in America.
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Between 1951 and 1960, Dali created 101 watercolor drawings to interpret the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy, a poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). These works have been reproduced using a wood engraving technique. With this technique, wood engravers carved 3500 blocks for the prints that make up the book. 100 woodblocks were published as a French edition by two different editors with a total of 4765 books, an Italian edition of 3188, and later in 1974 as a German edition with a stated size of 1000. Each volume has a title page, a table of contents, and justification page contained in a cardboard slip case with matching inner boards. Each woodblock from the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy is part of a Canto or book chapter which is about 8 pages in length. Here are selected works from the first part of Dali’s Divine Comedy – Inferno.
Salvador Dali – Spain (1904 – 1989)


Would be a great poster resource for any young adult to see as a simple reminder in any classroom or common area.
Helping Teens Manage Big Emotions
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW
Research indicates that emotional regulation is one of the most important skills we can teach our children. Teens who lack an effective way of managing distressing emotions may choose maladaptive ways of coping, such as avoidance or numbing through addictions. Managing difficult or complex feelings requires a capacity for self-reflection. The quality of interiority – an awareness of and interest in our inner, psychic landscape – is essential for self-reflection….
Check out the rest of Lisa’s article from PsychCentral @ Big Picture Parenting
Originally poster found on Pinterest @ https://pin.it/4mgcwjuqubc3j7


Perry Gate Memorial rededicated
April 5, 2012: The Perry Memorial Gateway located at the Lapeyrouse cemetery was rededicated on April 4, 2012 by Ambassador Beatrice W. Welters.
The Gate was named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, one of the most celebrated American naval heroes. Several cities and counties across the United States are named after Commodore Perry. He also lends his name to the U.S. Navy‘s Oliver Perry Class Frigate because of his courageous battle which also earned him the title ‘Hero of Lake Erie’.
Perry was later dispatched on a diplomatic mission to South America where he met with the newly-formed government of Simon Bolivar. Unfortunately he contracted yellow fever, dying en route to Port of Spain on his thirty-fourth birthday. He was buried at the Lapeyrouse cemetery.
In 1925 Consul Henry D. Baker set out to mark the piece of shared history. When he could not locate the original burial site he instead worked with City of Port of Spain to mark the place Commodore Perry entered Lapeyrouse Cemetery with the ornamental gateway.
He arranged for the gateway to be built in the United States and transported here at his own expense.
He felt it would be a long-standing memorial to the deep bonds of brotherhood between the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago.
Ambassador Welters and other embassy officers learnt of the gate’s existence through local historian and journalist Louis Homer and American historian Brad Coleman. Working with the Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the Port of Spain City Corporation, as well as members of the USNS Grapple, the gate was restored and rededicated.
Elements of the rededication ceremony included the symbolic key handing over from Ambassador Welters to Port of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing, wreaths being laid and a military parade.
See Ambassador’s full remarks at http://photos.state.gov/libraries/port-of-spain/19452/public/remarksofusambassadoratperrygaterededication.pdf
See more photos at http://trinidad.usembassy.gov/perrygate.html


PSY 330 Week 5 DQ1 Triadic Theory
Select a mental illness that you are interested in learning more about. Provide a brief overview of this mental illness. Discuss how Triadic Theory would likely describe the cause of this illness. What would a therapist, employing this approach in his or her practice, suggest as a possible treatment for this disorder? Do you think that this theory is more appropriate for the diagnosis and treatment of some disorders, more than others?
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words and utilize at least one peer-reviewed source that was published within the last five years, cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Respond substantively to two peers who selected a different mental illness than you. Do you agree or disagree with their possible treatment plan? Does their plan successfully incorporate Triadic Theory? What two suggestions would you make to improve each plan?
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The four bears mounted here include the Alaskan Brown bear, the Grizzly bear, the Black bear, and the Polar bear. The Black bear is the only bear that currently inhabits California. It eats grasses, insects, honey, rodents, and birds’ eggs.
The Alaskan brown and Grizzly bears are closely related. They eat honey, rodents, larger mammals, roots, and salmon. Unlike popular belief, these bears do not hibernate, and can be easily awakened in the winter.
The Polar bear lives in the Arctic, and eats seals, walrus, fish, birds, and stranded whales. Unlike other bears, they spend most of their time swimming, rather than walking on land.


Celebrating What’s Already True About Your Children
The Quaker emphasis on Truth creates a wonderful jumping off point for conversations with children about special capacities they have (spiritual gifts) and ways those gifts help them to engage with others in ways that are loving and true and help others to be their best selves. Affirmations convey the tone for our Quaker parenting as positive and building on the good already within our children. All gifts, capacities, and abilities are important to create a whole family or community. (See Romans 12:4)
Invite children to make a sticker or draw a picture.
Tell them these are Quaker Affirmation Stickers/pictures that say something that is true about them. Emphasize that they get to choose what that is. Remember, children are fully spiritual beings!
Show them some options: I am Kind; I can Listen; I am a Helper; I am Grateful; I Share Toys & Turns; I Love the Earth.
Parents or caregivers can help support making a choice or two, if needed. Invite the children to decorate stickers with small rubber stamps to make it their own or invite them to draw a picture with their Affirmation highlighting their special gift. A great companion storybook is Jack’s Talent by Maryann Cocca-Leffler.
A Friendly New Year’s Party — Good anytime of the year!
Use the affirmations to celebrate the New Year on a positive note! Raise up what is already true about F/friends and family, saving a litany of resolutions and promises to try harder for another time.
Follow up the Affirmations with “A Bowl of Good Wishes.” Have each family member or F/friend write a wish or hope for someone else. Fold them up and put them in a festive bowl. Settle into a little silence and pass the bowl around, each person drawing out one wish and reading it to the group. Finish the evening with a Game Night for All Ages.
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A�pod is a fused case that surrounds multiple seeds. For example, the dehiscent fruit of a leguminous plant such as the pea. Fruit of the same species is considered a different variety if it has a different pod type. Typically a fruit develops from a gynoecium composed of fused carpels, which, upon fertilization, grow to become a silique that contains the developing seeds. After seed maturation, dehiscence takes place, and valves detach from the central septum freeing the seeds.


Teach the different sounds and spellings of the 44 sounds in the English Language with this tactile set of plastic object pieces.
Each tub has items representing a particular sound, helping children see real life examples of how different spellings can create the same sound. Covers initial sounds, long and short vowels and split digraphs.
The tubs can be accessed in a structured format, introducing only the relevant sounds that are being taught, making them suitable for whole class phonics teaching. They can also be used for assessment and revision of sounds in a fun and informal way. There is a label on each tub so all items can be replaced into the correct container.
- 44 tubs each containing between 3 and 6 mini plastic versions of real items. Items include giraffe (g), fish (sh), flamingo (ng), cake (a_e), light bulb (igh), cloud (ou)
- Pack size: 44
- Brand: TTS
- Age Range: Suitable for age 3 years and up


1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data A plane flies at 400 km/h [south 30 degrees east]. The wind is blowing from the east at 100 km/h. Find the resulting speed of the plane. 2. Relevant equations Not sure 3. The attempt at a solution I've drawn a diagram similar to this: |\ | \ | \ |30\ | \ | \ 400 km/h | \ |_____\ 100km/h I thought this was just a simple question of finding the left side of the triangle, but I don't seem to get the answer. Any hints is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


Definition of solar-friendly treeCategorized under "General"
Definition as written by darylmitchell:
A deciduous tree that has moderately dense foliage during the summer, loses its leaves early in the fall, and a thin branch density. These trees are beneficial for energy conservation by shading structures in summer, while allowing the maximum amount of sunlight through their bare branches in winter for heating. Trees such as ash, Kentucky coffeetree and sugar maple are considered solar-friendly.
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Adventist Education standards There is a folder for each subject taught in grades 9-12. Reference only version: IM/SD 373 Se82.
Circle.Adventist.org Links to SDA standards and other sites
Washington State K-12 Learning Standards You may view, print, or download the standards for each subject area.
Textbooks for grades 9-12;
Government IM/TB 320's
Languages IM/TB 400's
Sciences and Mathematics IM/TB 500's
Essential Living Skills IM/TB 600's
Fine Arts IM/TB 700's
Literature IM/TB 800's
History and Geography IM/TB 900's
High School Level Literature:
Writing Reading Workshop for grades 9-12
Children's Literature - A picture book may be used with high school students to introduce a topic or start a discussion. Some students may benefit from reading about a topic at an easier reading level. The combination of visual images with the text can enhance memory of concepts. Elements of writing and various genres are easily explored in these shorter works. Art students can explore different styles.
Internet site with browser based games for various subjects: Games for Change


Recent studies using otolith microstructure analysis have suggested that the duration of the juvenile stage in anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) is shorter than previously suspected, which suggests that the ages being entered into the traditional age-based stock assessment are incorrect. However, the interpretation of young pelagic fish otoliths remains problematic. To clarify the age interpretation of larval and juvenile E. ringens, newly hatched larvae were reared in a quasi-natural environment for periods of up to 103 days. The sagittal otoliths were subsequently examined and measured by international otolith experts in a double-blind workshop study. The young anchovy could be aged both accurately and precisely using otolith microstructure, after measures were taken to correct for unresolvable increments formed immediately after hatch. The presence of a fast-growth transition zone characterised by either considerable splitting or subdaily increments or both was confirmed. This study confirms the hypothesis of rapid growth and young age through the juvenile stage for anchoveta, suggesting that a critical appraisal of the annual age determinations used as the basis for anchoveta stock assessment is warranted. The otolith interpretation principles outlined in this study may apply broadly across many small pelagic fish species.
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The 3D printing industry is currently entering a pretty interesting stage. Ordinary printers went from being loud and slow to being quiet, fast and precise, but they never really included the one feature we all wished they would have had, and that was a feature that would allow us to erase or delete what we printed. On the other hand, 3D printers might have this feature as standard. A new 3D printer was recently announced, and it’s said to sport an impressive undo feature.
The team behind this incredible new 3D printer, including students at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, have been able to create a superior 3D printer that has the ability to erase and correct printing errors in a way that printers haven’t been able to do before. Not only does it have this innovative feature, but it is also the fastest 3D printer to date, according to the team.
The whole process is quite impressive, and it is a whole new take on how 3D printing works. The new 3D printer injects liquid resin into a gel tank, which traps the resin in its liquid form until it comes into contact with UV light. The resin then hardens and becomes the finalized 3D print. It’s while the resin is trapped in the gel that the erase process is possible. If you as a creator discover that something is not right with your model, you could easily erase and correct the error by basically pressing undo or adjusting the model on the screen.
This new 3D printer is also much faster than an ordinary 3D printer. The team behind this printer printed a wireframe cube on both their new 3D printer and an ordinary one and discovered that while the ordinary 3D printer takes about an hour to print the wireframe cube, their new 3D printer only took 30 seconds to print the same cube. With technology progressing this fast, we will soon see movie-like 3D printers entering our homes. Watch out, this printer is going to set the bar for future 3D printer features. You can be sure of it.
Innovative New 3D Printer Can Erase Printing Errors


The Negative Rates Club
After years of quantitative easing and negative interest rates, it is becoming clear that these policies work as expected only in debtor economies, but have little effect in creditor economies. The reason is simple: creditors lose when rates go negative, and debtors gain.
BRUSSELS – For the better part of a decade, central banks have been making only limited headway in curbing powerful global deflationary forces. Since 2008, the US Federal Reserve has maintained zero interest rates, while pursuing multiple waves of unprecedented balance-sheet expansion through large-scale bond purchases. The Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank have followed suit, each with its own version of so-called “quantitative easing” (QE). Yet inflation has not picked up appreciably anywhere.
Despite their shared struggles with deflationary pressures, these countries’ monetary policies – and economic performance – are now diverging. Whereas the United States and the United Kingdom are now growing strongly enough to exit their expansionary policies and raise interest rates, the eurozone and Japan are doubling down on QE, pushing policy long-term interest rates further into negative territory. What explains this difference?
The short answer is debt. The US and the UK have been running current-account deficits for decades, and are thus debtors, while the eurozone and Japan have been running external surpluses, making them creditors. Because negative rates benefit debtors and harm creditors, introducing them after the global economic crisis spurred a recovery in the US and the UK, but had little effect in the eurozone and Japan.


Division sums up to 100, level 2Division
Practice division up to 100, level 2
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Time per question:
Practice division sums up to 100 here, level 2. Set how much time you want to have to do the sum and how many sums you want to practice in a row. You can also indicate whether you want multiple choice answers for the sums or not. Learn division up to 100, level 2 on this website, good luck. Some example sums are: 72 / 9 = 8 49 / 7 = 7 By lowering the number of seconds for each exercise, it becomes more difficult to give the right answer. This way you can slowly increase the difficulty level. The division sums up to 100, second level are part of third-grade arithmetic. By completing the sums with a timer, it will help you practice for a timed test. You can also choose longer series of sums to do more exercises in a row.


Children’s mindset is strongly based on the education. For those children who do not have exposure to proper education, it is the society that shapes the mindset. This is a serious and crucial area as this lies as the foundation for the rest of the life. In this study, the literature has clearly shown that the mindsets tend to change with age and has revealed certain factors that the cognitive mind is dependent upon (Ricci, 2013). In addition to it, research methodologies have also been used to analyse the variables based on which the mindsets of children have changed over a period of time. These variables are used to further identify the mindsets of different population. Based on the variables set for the analysis, there are two types of beliefs – fixed and growth. Fixed beliefs exhibit lower motivation and performance. On the other hand, growth beliefs exhibit higher motivation and performance. There are two conditions set to the participants in the study.
The mindset scale has been set to analyse the results from the participants who have participated in the study. For a specific math puzzle that differed in their toughness levels, the participants were analysed for their choice of problem. One puzzle was tough and the other was easier. The age of participants is between 9 and 15 years. There were certain variations in the sampling already evolved. However, the participants were exposed to the same scenario throughout to determine the factors they make use of to take a decision. The decision was then categorized in the form of a table and the factors included – strong growth, growth with some fixed ideas, fixed with some growth ideas and strong fixed. It is quite evident from their answers that elder people were inclined to personal beliefs that indirectly motivated to the decisions made by them. On the other hand, younger ones were not inclined to anything in particular and took free decisions (Ricci, 2013).


I thought I would add a few more interesting facts about meteoroids. One cool fact is the speed at which they travel. Some of them enter the Earth’s atmosphere at a rate of 130,000 miles per hour.
Also, we can actually throw a meteoroid off course by exploding a nuclear device somewhere near it. The radiation pulse caused from the explosion pushed the meteoroid off of its course. This process is called an x-ray slap.
Meteoroids also contain the oldest known rocks in our whole solar system. They contain pre-solar grains, which are actually minerals that formed around other stars billions of years before our solar system was born.


Childhood trauma is a psychological response to adversity or a highly stressful event experienced in a person’s childhood that has health effects that extend into adulthood. Childhood trauma can manifest itself within adulthood in a plethora of ways.
Examples of Traumatic Events Experienced in Childhood
These events may be isolated or ongoing. A child can also develop trauma upon witnessing a traumatic event happen to someone else. As previously mentioned, not everyone develops a trauma response to these types of events.
Symptoms of Childhood Trauma
Childhood adversity can have a long-lasting negative impact on a person’s quality of life, especially when it comes to a person’s mental health. Children who are exposed to trauma may also develop a heightened stress response that can hinder a person’s ability to regulate their emotions, cause sleep difficulties, lower immune function, and can inhibit a variety of physical illnesses into adulthood. Some examples of the negative symptoms that stem from childhood trauma include the following:


EPA estimated that hazardous waste combustors annually emit approximately 12,650 tons of hazardous air pollutants (metals, total chlorine, organics, and dioxin/furans) and particulate matter. Depending on the number of facilities demonstrating compliance with health-based compliance alternatives standards for total chlorine, the total reduction of HAP and particulate matter for existing sources was estimated to be between approximately 2,260 and 3,380 tons per year.
EPA found that this rule will also protect human health and the environment by reducing particulate matter in conjunction with the air toxic reductions. EPA estimated that particulate matter reductions could be as high as 2,140 tons per year.
For more information, visit the hazardous waste combustion web page.


(b Feodosiya [now Kaffa], July 29, 1817; d Feodosiya, June 2, 1900).
Russian painter of Armenian descent. The son of an Armenian merchant, throughout his life he kept his links with the ancient traditions of Armenian Christian culture. He studied at the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, in 1833–7 under Maksim Vorob’yov (1787–1855), a prominent Russian landscape painter of the Romantic period. From 1845 Ayvazovsky worked predominantly in Feodosiya, an ancient city in the Eastern Crimea. He travelled widely in Russia and Europe, the Near East, Africa and America. Ayvazovsky’s first significant paintings testify to his attentive assimilation of the canons of Romantic seascape painting, going back to Claude Lorrain, as well as the influence of Vorob’yov and the late works of Sil’vestr Shchedrin. In Ayvazovsky’s early works the accurate rendering of views is combined with a classicist rationality of composition, as in View of the Seashore in the Environs of St Petersburg (1835; Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.)
A purely Romantic view of the world and exaltation in the face of the boundless, eternally changing sea find mature expression in the works of the 1840s, when Ayvazovsky gained renown throughout Europe. A number of foreign academies made him an honorary member, and J. M. W. Turner wrote an enthusiastic ode in honour of one of his pictures. The best-known work of this period is the ...


What does Wasim mean?
Wasim [wasim] as a boys' name is of Arabic origin, and the meaning of Wasim is "distinguished looking".
(male) Wasimmo, Wesim, ..
(female) Wasimma, Wasimme, ..
How popular is Wasim?
Wasim is an uncommonly occurring given name for males but a somewhat prominent last name for both adults and children (#137816 out of 150436, Top 92%). (2000 U.S. Census)
Displayed below is the baby name history of Wasim for boys. Wasim has not been listed in the Top 2000 thus far. (2015 Birth Statistics)
Wasim is pronounced similarly to Acim, Asim, Azim and Isam. Other suggested similar names are Basim, Fahim, Haim, Hakim, Halim, Hashim, Hayim, Jakim, Karim, Kasim, Kassim, Maksim, Maxim▲, Nadim, Naim, Qasim, Rahim, Salim, Wahib, Wain, Walid, Wim and Yakim. Like Wasim, these names are not commonly used.See names in meaning and etymology.


That war and its aftermath were so important that several postings are justified as is a certain amount of personal reminiscing.
A year or so before the war my class was taken to see the Masada exhibition in the Royal Festival Hall. The major excavations had been completed and the stupendous exhibition travelled to various places and everywhere the history of the fortress whose defendants committed suicide rather than surrender to the besieging Romans captured many people’s imagination.
When, in the spring of 1967 the tension around Israel started to build up, it seemed like Masada was with us again. A small country was surrounded by much bigger enemies who were determined to destroy it. Not just defeat it in war or take over some territory but to destroy it.
This was most clearly expressed by the then Foreign Minister, Anwar Sadat, who spoke of sweeping every Israeli man, woman and child into the sea. Recently uncovered documents show plans that the Egyptians and the Jordanians had for the massacre of Jews in captured Israeli cities. This is not surprising if one looks at the history of various places such as Nablus, which is not quite as straightforward as some of those writing about it would like to make it out.
A longish piece on the subject is here.


Choosing the right medications can help ease your symptoms.
Many medications can be used to help control asthma. The most commonly prescribed include:
Controlling inhalers are used every day on a regular schedule. Their purpose is to decrease the amount of inflammation in your lower airways, making you less likely to have asthma symptoms.
Rescue inhalers used for quick relief from increased asthma symptoms. They are normally only used when your chest is tight or you are wheezing, rather than on a regularly scheduled basis.
These medications help block leukotrienes, molecules that constrict your airways and contribute to the development of asthma symptoms. The main leukotriene modifier used in the Unites States today is Singulair.
There are two main classes of antihistamines: first generation (sedating) and second generation (non-sedating). Benadryl is a classic example of the first generation antihistamines, which work very well and are inexpensive in generic form. Most people taking first generation antihistamines report a feeling of sleepiness. Second generation non-sedating medications currently available in the United States include are Allegra, Claritin and Zyrtec.
These pills don't directly treat allergies or asthma, but they do treat the swelling of sinuses that develop from allergies.


The Organization of a Foreign Language Distance Learning in Quarantine During the Postmodern Era. Postmodern Openings
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The article addresses organization of distance learn-ing of foreign languages in quarantine during the postmodern era. It is noted that organization of distance learning in the ed-ucational process is very important. It was clarified that dis-tance learning is based on synchronous and asynchronous modes. The essence of the concepts of “distance learning”, “asynchronous learning”, “synchronous learning”, “quaran-tine” is explained. Articles of domestic and foreign teachers and scientists analysing the broached subject were reviewed. The article highlights advantages and disadvantages of distance learning. It has been studied that for students studiing foreign languages remotely, an interesting form of learning is watching TV shows and movies. The digital programs and the essence of their advantages are also given. The researchers’ view on the effectiveness of multimedia presentations, trainings, games is given. It is also found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is hard forparents to work on the platforms unlike children. The platforms for synchronous and asynchronous learning are separated. It is noted that teachers with primary school stu-dents use visual forms of learning to interest children and to present new material in a clear and accessible way. During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual communication is found prevaling in postmodern society. It is noted that a foreign lan-guage can be learned through a Facebook group. It is investi-gated that learning foreign languages requires special attention to development of communication skills. The problems that arose in teachers during the organization of distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic are studied.


Common Telerin is the primordial tongue of the Teleri or Lindar clan of the Elves.
It descended from Primitive Quendian, the original language of all Quendi, or Elves, but split off Common Eldarin early, at some time during the Great Journey.
One major Telerin change was that where Primitive Quendian used 'KW', Telerin had evolved it into 'P'. Another significant change was the simplification of palatal 'J' into the vowel 'I'.
Its descendants are the language of the Teleri of Valinor Telerin, as well as Sindarin, and the various Nandorin languages.
The language of the Teleri of Valinor was influenced by and in turn influenced Quenya, and these languages remained very closely related and mutually intelligible.


In 1899, Frank Bannister formed Morgantown Glass Works near the successful Seneca Glass Company in Morgantown, West Virginia. The first glassware products made by the company were clear, hand-blown glass tableware. The Morgantown Glass Works achieved almost immediate success, and within two years the company employed more than 600 people, with offices and salesrooms around the country. Morgantown Glass Works changed its name to Economy Tumbler Company in 1903, and in the early 1910s began making colored glassware in addition to its clear products. Recognizing that the Economy Tumbler Company didn’t fully reflect the scope of its product lines, the company changed its name once again in 1923, to the Economy Glass Company. It was around this time that the company began to produce its “Continental” line of products, which would become very popular. Another name change occurred in 1929, as the company reinstated its original Morgantown Glass Works name.
Like many companies, the Morgantown Glass Works struggled to stay afloat during the Great Depression, and eventually shut down operations in 1937. However, the factory was soon brought back to life as the Morgantown Glassware Guild in 1939. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, this new, employee-owned company produced a great variety of glassware for passenger ships, hotels, bars, and other businesses. The company also continued to manufacture glassware for individual consumers, including tableware and decorative art glass.In 1961, Morgantown’s gained national recognition when first lady Jackie Kennedy chose a simple Morgantown glassware pattern as the official crystal service for the White House. After receiving this recognition, Morgantown marketed this pattern as "President’s House" stemware. In 1965, the Morgantown Glassware Guild was bought by Fostoria. Under this new ownership, the factory remained open until 1971, when its doors closed for good. Morgantown glassware products are now highly sought by collectors.


Junior high students are full of life and energy, and are open to trying new things and getting their hands dirty. It is a time of exploration, new experiences, and socialization. For this reason, students are given the opportunity to explore 6-8 elective experiences over these two years. In one block, students select one or more of the following fine arts electives: art, drama, or band. These electives allow students to appreciate the gifts of others, and develop their own aesthetic awareness and creative expression. Skills are developed to not only share their work with others, but to concretely express joy and delight and struggles as image-bearers in a broken world. In a second block, students select one or more of the following applied skills electives: woodworking, textiles, foods, video-editing, outdoor education, or desktop publishing. These electives allow students to understand the blessing, power, and place of technology, and to develop an appreciation for media and the use of materials to create beauty and serve others.


In the central mountains of the Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, Southeast Asia lives over 40,000 horticulturalists, bearing a gift economy. The Semai, an Orang Asli Society is known for their strong non-violent way of living. This bilateral descent culture, looks at the man and woman as being “equals”. Their main economic activities include hunting and farming; as their economic organization consists of small camps on high mountain slopes, cultivating wet rice. In this research paper I should further your knowledge of this unique and proud culture as I explain how the Semai live, and raise their children. I will analyze the impact that this cultures primary mode of subsistence has on their beliefs, gender relations, and economic organization. As you continue to read, you will get a better understanding of this special culture and their unique place in the history of the world.
The Semai's direct source of revenue has evolved into a diverse system of shifting cultivation, hunting trading forest goods, and arboriculture. The Semai main economic activities include hunting and farming. These societies live in small, isolated camps at a high altitude on mountain slopes. They live in villages that are built with wood, weaved balls, or bamboo with thatched roofs using palm leaves. Inside the Semai houses are no visible bedrooms, and the children usually sleep in the main hall. The only form of “separation” for the rooms is a wooden beaded curtain that hangs in the parent’s chambers. There are no locks to prevent unwanted entry; instead the curtains are drawn down to prevent entry.
The Semai subsist on the cultivation on mountain rice, maize, and millet. However some of the Semai people, who are relatively adapted to the Malay society, live even lower down the mountains, cultivating wet rice as well as mountain rice. When rice becomes scarce the Semai use roasted or boiled...


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Army Spc. Joseph Darby
This Ethics Hero designation is obvious.
Darby made the principled and courageous decision to report the abuse of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison his own 372nd Military Police Company. He slipped an anonymous note under the door of his commander’s office, and in so doing was the catalyst for a crucial re-evaluation and reaffirmation of American ethical values. He also prevented untold numbers of Iraqi prisoners from experiencing humiliation and pain.
Far too much has been made in the media of the similarities between the upbringing and background of Joseph Darby and Lynndie England, the young woman who has become the face of American abuse and torture. Ethical values and courage know no class distinction, and the paths to ethical awareness or ethical blindness are too serpentine to track. The undeniable fact is that any of Darby’s comrades could have done as he did, but did not. He alone among them asked the right question. According to his mother, as quoted by ABC News, he saw the abuse and asked himself, ‘What if that was my mom, my grandmother, my brother or my wife?’ ”
Exactly. And having arrived at the obvious answer, Darby did not talk himself out of taking action by using any number of rationalizations at his disposal: “This isn’t my business” ”It’s not my place” ”Don’t get involved” ”They’re only the enemy” ”The Iraqis would do the same to us if they could” and a dozen more.
Oklahoma’s ethically-challenged Senator
Imhofe, in response to a radio commentator’s question about his opinion
of all the damning photos that have come to light in the wake of Joseph
Darby’s actions, responded, “We obviously have to do something about all
those cameras.” This, in all its stained and filthy glory, is the response
of an unethical man when confronted with wrongdoing. Joseph Darby’s response,
in contrast, is that of an Ethics Hero.


If you thank your parents for your intelligence or blame them for your stupidity, you might be right—but not because of the way they raised you. In fact, a new study provides the most compelling evidence yet that intelligence is affected by a single gene.
The research, carried out at UCLA and published in Nature Genetics, studied fMRI brain scans and DNA samples of over 20,000 people. Thanks to the massive pool of volunteers, the researchers were able to identify a single gene that has a significant, measurable—but admittedly small—impact upon intelligence.
They found that variations on a gene called HMGA2 can alter IQ by 1.29 points. The variation in the gene is just a single different molecule in its string of DNA. Despite the small difference, it's an amazing discovery to establish that such a small chemical variation can have an effect on human intelligence.
In fact, as well as raising IQ score by 1.29 points, the same gene variation also increases the overall volume of the brain by 0.58 per cent of average brain size—that's equivalent to about two extra teaspoons of brain power.
It's worth noting that the effect is small, and required a huge population of participants to identify. That means that it doesn't have a huge impact on the way we judge each other's intelligence—but it does for the first time demonstrate that single genetic differences have a role to play in determining our cognitive abilities. [Nature Genetics via New Scientist]
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Traffic fatalities for 2009 are projected to reach the lowest level since 1954, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced today, March 11.
According to early projections, the fatality rate per number of miles traveled reached the lowest level ever recorded.
“This is exciting news, but there are still far too many people dying in traffic accidents,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Drivers need to keep their hands on the steering wheel and their focus on the road in order to stay safe.”
The projected fatality data for 2009 places the highway death count at 33,963, down 8.9 percent from 37,261 deaths reported in 2008. The fatality rate for 2009 declined to the lowest on record, to 1.16 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, down from 1.25 fatalities per 100 million VMT in 2008.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributes the decline in 2009 to a combination of factors that include increased seat belt use and high visibility campaigns like Click It or Ticket and “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest,” which helps enforce state laws to prevent drunk driving and distracted driving. In addition, the decline is also the result of safer roads, safer vehicles and motorists driving less.
To view the preliminary fatality statistics click here.


In my last post before the London International Antiquarian Book Fair next week, I want to share a rather delightful Victorian children’s game, which using rebuses (see my earlier post for something similar from the eighteenth century) and fractions to help teach the cities of the world:
The cards are grouped in pairs: one is headed ‘Capital of x’, with a rebus beneath to help the child work out the answer. For example, the clues for ‘Capital of England’ are: ‘Two thirds of a [picture of a LOG]’, ‘Half an [picture of a HAND]’, ‘Two Fifths of an [picture of an ONION]’. The ‘Capital of America’ is ‘Four Elevenths of a [picture of a WASHERWOMAN]’, ‘Three Fourths of a [picture of a RING]’, ‘Half a [picture of a TONGUE]’. The card with the correct answer is then placed below to form a completed picture illustrative of the city.
The cities featured are: London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Bergen, Warsaw, Moscow, Washington, Quebec, Cairo, Teheran, Suez, Calcutta, Kandy (Sri Lanka), Pekin, Edo (Japan), and Ava (Burma), and the whole is preserved in its original box:
We all look forward to some ‘capital fun’ at Olympia next week!


The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of the gradually lengthening nights and shortening days. How cultures interpret this is varied, since it is sometimes said to astronomically mark either the beginning or middle of a hemisphere's winter. Though the winter solstice lasts an instant, the term is also colloquially used to refer to the full 24-hour period of the day on which it occurs.
The word solstice derives from Latin sol, meaning 'sun', and sistere, 'to stand still'.
Saint Thomas' Day is also celebrated on 21 December. Saint Thomas is commemorated on this day because he was the last one of the apostles to become convinced of Jesus' resurrection - in other words, he was the one who for the longest time remained in the 'night of unbelief and doubt.' He is also supposedly to have died on this day c. AD72, near Chennai in India.


Description - Kant and the Power of Imagination by Jane Kneller
In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of imaginative freedom and the relation between imaginative free play and human social and moral development, showing various ways in which his aesthetics of disinterested reflection produce moral interests. She situates these aspects of his aesthetic theory within the context of German aesthetics of the eighteenth century, arguing that Kant's contribution is a bridge between early theories of aesthetic moral education and the early Romanticism of the last decade of that century. In so doing, her book brings the two most important German philosophers of Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kant and Novalis, into dialogue. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both Kant studies and German philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Jane Kneller is Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University. She is editor and translator of Novalis: Fichte Studies (2003) in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series.


Specimens of Bushman Folklore, by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd, , at sacred-texts.com
They roll the feather brushes, binding the ostrich feathers (the body feathers) upon the "Driedoorn" stick. They become numerous; and they (the Bushmen) pound red stones, they paint, the feather brush sticks. And they make ready the (dried) skin of a springbok's chest; they thread little thongs
[1. I used to see my grandfather (Tsatsi) roll the feather brushes.
2. The red stones here meant, are ||ka; not tto. At the "Philadelphia Exhibition," in November, 1875, Dia!kwain recognized red hæmatite as ||ka.
3. Paint them red.
4. Thongs (they) are. The "children of thongs" (they) are. The Korannas call them !Ya.]
into (it); and they put away the feather brushes. They put away the feather brushes; they dig ||kuain, they roast (the stem of) the ||kuain, they lay the feather brushes over the ||kuain's smoke, while the ||kuain's smoke ascends into the feather brushes.
First, they dig [with a stick pointed with horn], making a little hole; they put live coals into it. And they put ||kuain upon the live coals, while they wish that the ||kuain may smoke quietly, and not flame up; for the ||kuain would set the feather brushes on fire, if the fire were to flame up, if they (the stems) flamed up, when roasted.
They (the Bushmen) put the springbok skin over (the fire); they put a stone upon the place where the feather brush sticks are for they intend that the smoke should only go out through the ostrich feathers.
[1. Its stem is that which the people call ||kuain, because it does not a little smell. Therefore, the people smoke the feather brushes with it. The people call the stem of the !Ywa-kau, which is in the earth, ||kuain.
2. Men dig with sticks which have no stones (upon them); they are those with which men dig.
3. They turn the skin, into which the feather brushes have been put, upside down, over the hole into which the live embers and the ||kuain were put.]


GPS Challenge ticks all the boxes for creating a state of flow with players.
On Wikipedia the flow state is described as:
“In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. ”
It gives 2 advantages to be able to create the flow state in connection with teambuilding.
- The activity is perceived positivly with a feeling of full involvement, energized focus and enjoyment.
- The behavior reflects the participants true behavior with no underlying steer which makes it easier to identify learning points for both the individuals and the team.
State of flow in GPS Challenge
Owen Schaffer, an american Positive Psycologist researcher. He has adapted Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory to make human-computer interfaces and designs more engaging, usable, and enjoyable. Through his work he has listed below requirements for initiating the state of flow in human computer interactions.
- Knowing what to do
- Knowing how to do it
- Knowing how well you are doing
- Knowing where to go (if navigation is involved)
- High perceived challenges
- High perceived skills
- Freedom from distractions
GPS Challenge “ticks all the boxes”.


Habits Full Everyone forms habits as they grow older because of reasons such as enjoyment, satisfaction and self-worthiness. Such habits can be acquired through associative learning wherein a person associates good feelings or gaining a reward when doing something. It can also be picked up through cognitive learning wherein a person develops habits based from the information s/he gains. Personally, I have the habit of painting whenever I am bored or lonely. As child, I was encouraged to work on my coloring books and I was often praised by my parents when my work was beautiful. Whenever I received awards because of my coloring tasks, my parents often brought me to my favorite restaurant for my favorite foods. It felt good to feel special so as I was growing up, I learned to paint because I wanted to have the same special treatment my parents showed me because of my good coloring jobs.In addition, I also have the habit of listening to music even when I am painting or doing home works. I have learned from a teacher that music relaxes a person and even brings out more of his/her creativity. With such knowledge, listening to music became a part of my routine.


(b. 1483, Busto Arsizio, d. 1548, Milano)
Virtues of the Monument to Gaston de Foix: Charity1515-22
Marble, height 66 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
In addition to the effigy of Gaston de Foix in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, a large number of fragments of the monument survive. Three statuettes of Virtues in the Victoria and Albert Museum also formed part of the monument.
The picture represents Charity, one of the Virtues (Charity, Truth, Fortitude) in London. The statue representing Charity shows her wearing a classical robe and a veil over her head. She holds a child in her left arm, and her right breast is bare. The child is looking outwards at his left hand, while his right hand is holding onto the veil of the woman. It is unusual to represent Charity with only one child, because of its similarity to the Virgin and Child.


A homonym is also called a homophone and a homograph.
2. A word identical with another in spelling and pronunciation, but differing from it in origin and meaning: Two examples of homonyms which are spelled the same are butter, the food, and butter, one who butts.
3. The same name or word used to denote different things: The words bare, bear and bye, bye; buy, buy are examples of homonyms, as indicated in the cartoons below.
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.
Whenever Laura is stumped about a definition for a confusing-word group, she checks the online dictionary because it is precise and clear; for example, homonym and homophone refer to words that have similar definitions, but the term homophone is more precise.
Two other words are homograph and heteronym which include spellings that may be the same; however, the definitions are very different.


‘Unprecedented’ Floods in Australia Force Hundreds to Evacuate
After weeks of unrelenting heat and bushfires across the continent, torrential rain and flooding in northern Australia have forced hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes in what weather officials describe as an “unprecedented” event.
Since Jan. 26, there has been close to two feet of rain on average in the Townsville region, a coastal city in the state of Queensland, and up to twice that at some weather stations, eclipsing records set in 1998 during a flood known as the “Night of Noah.”
“In seven days, we’ve received our annual total rainfall,” said Jenny Hill, the mayor of Townsville. “We’ve never seen weather like this.”
Ms. Hill said that about 18,000 residents had lost power and that hundreds of others had evacuated, including some who left their suburb on a garbage truck. Elsewhere, two police officers were stuck clinging to treesfor half an hour after their car was washed away by floodwaters, while residents reported snakes and crocodiles roaming the streets.
The floods follow weeks of unrelenting heat across Australia, which caused mass animal die-offs, raging bushfires, and prolonged and severe drought. The back-to-back events have stretched the capacity of Australia’s emergency services to respond, said Martin Rice, the acting chief executive of the Climate Council, an Australian research group.
He said that while it was difficult to attribute any one extreme weather event to climate change, warming air temperatures had increased the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, “causing more frequent and intense rainfall in northern Australia.”


My name is Anne Louise Oaklander, M.D., Ph.D. I'm an Associate Professor of Neurology here at Mass General, long one of the leaders in the field of pain management. Surgical anesthesia was first developed at Mass General in the 1840s and opened the door for modern surgery.
More recently, the research group that I direct has made good progress in understanding why some people are left with chronic pain after various injuries that don't seem to affect other people. We showed, for instance, that post-herpetic neuralgia after shingles develops only in patients with the most severe degrees of nerve damage. We and other groups are looking now into ways to lessen this nerve damage and reduce the number of cases of post-herpetic neuralgia. We also have recent publications on complex regional pain syndrome or chronic pain after nerve injury. Our group has shown that this mysterious syndrome is associated with nerve damage to the pain fibers.
Dr. Clifford Woolf directs the basic science pain research at Mass General. He has decades of important research advances. In 2007, he published an exciting new paper in Nature. By combining two existing medications -- one of them lidocaine, which is commonly used for local anesthesia -- he was able to block the muscle-paralyzing effects of lidocaine, and in rats, able to block pain sensations without impeding the rats from walking around normally. If this is able to be developed for use in human patients, it would provide a substantial advance in local anesthesia, a procedure that's used every day in every hospital around the world.


Despite widespread community- and school-based initiatives to encourage healthy habits at a young age, a recent study indicated that Childhood Obesity is on the rise in the US. From kindergarten through fifth grade, or about ages 6 to 11, two nationally representative groups of kids were studied in the study, which was published on Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. Studying for the first group took place between 1998 and 2004 and for the second group between 2010 and 2016.
Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of global health and epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, said, “Once you get on that train towards high weight gain, it’s extremely hard to turn it around.” Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham: The World Health Organization defines obesity as an individual’s excessive fat buildup that puts their health at danger.
According to the Mayo Clinic, obesity is a significant underlying risk factor for a wide range of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, several malignancies, and severe instances of COVID-19. Dr. Jennifer Woo Baidal, director of the Pediatric Obesity Initiative at Columbia University in New York City, stated that “without intervention, we will continue to see increasing prevalence and severity of obesity for children at a younger age, which has really negative consequences down the line, not just for these children but also for their future offspring.” She wasn’t a part of the investigation.


Symbols - What does heaven look like
The crook and flail depicted in Ancient Egyptian wall art are both symbolic and practical – literal. The flail was actually used in obtaining spiritual experience and was a sort of badge of office for a hierophant – in essence the person had attained the status of someone who could induce spiritual experiences in other people.
But it had the added symbolism in that it could be viewed as the spine with the opened crown chakra.
The following Wikipedia definition is taking the literal meaning at its most naïve.
"The flail is depicted alongside the “crook” as symbols of office for the crowned Egyptian Pharaoh. The flail symbolises the Pharaoh's role as provider of food for his people and the crook symbolises his role as the shepherd of his people. Both crook and flail also serve to link the Pharaoh with Osiris. Depictions of Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the embalming, also include the flail as attribute".
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Malaspina (măləspēˈnə) [key], glacier, c.1,500 sq mi (3,890 sq km), SE Alaska, between Yakutat Bay and Icy Bay and flowing into the Gulf of Alaska. The glacier was named for Alejandro Malaspina, the Italian navigator who explored this region for Spain in 1791.
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Standards for A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned…With Interest
National Standards in Economics
Name: Decision Making
- Students will understand that: Effective decision making requires comparing the additional costs of alternatives with the additional benefits. Many choices involve doing a little more or a little less of something: few choices "are all or nothing" decisions.
- Students will be able to use this knowledge to: Make effective decisions as consumers, producers, savers, investors, and citizens.
National Standards in Financial Literacy
- Students will understand that: A budget is a plan for allocating a person’s spendable income to necessary and desired goods and services. When there is sufficient money in their budget, people may decide to give money to others, save, or invest to achieve future goals. People can often improve their financial wellbeing by making well-informed spending decisions, which includes critical evaluation of price, quality, product information, and method of payment. Individual spending decisions may be influenced by financial constraints, personal preferences, unique needs, peers, and advertising.


This third, revised edition comprises the whole of the original volume and is enhanced by the addition of a new preface and afterward which seek to reply to criticisms of the authors argument about the origins of the Falashas, and include some new thinking on the subject. Drawing on tradition and legend to reinforce his argument, the author again traces the source of the community to the Jewish settlements which existed in ancient Egypt (particularly at Elephantine on the Nile) and in the ancient Meroitic Kingdom, in present day Sudan known in the Bible as Cush.
The story told in this book is remarkable, heroic and stimulating and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of the horn of Africa.
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Incidence Rates Table
Provide a table of incidence statistics for use in assessing the burden and risk for a major cancer site for the US overall and for states with cancer registries whose data have met the criteria required for inclusion in the US Cancer Statistics. The 95% Confidence Intervals for the rates provide a measure of how certain or uncertain the point estimate is and can be used to generally assess how different one rate is from another.
Cancer statistics require careful interpretation. See the information page about interpret rankings for insight into interpreting cancer statistics particularly if you are a new user of cancer statistics.
The Quick Reference Guide provides an introduction to the interactive features of this table.
- Incidence data are provided by the National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.
- Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
- Rates are calculated using SEER*Stat.


Examples of network topologies are:
Star – In a star topology all computers must be connected to a central hub or switch. The connected computers or devices can normally be attached or detached without causing detriment to any other devices on the network. If there are any defects with a device or its connection to the network it will have no effect on the other devices. However, if the central hub or switch becomes faulty, the whole network can be temporarily disabled.
Bus – (from the Latin meaning route) is generally used for large general purpose networks although many newer configurations use the star or variations of it. All devices in a bus topology are connected to one main backbone medium such as a coaxial cable. The signal that traverses the bus normally takes a direct route along the medium to its destination, but the data it carries will have to be analysed by every connected device on the network in an effort to check whether the data is intended for that particular device. This type of configuration can be liable to collisions of data, resulting in slower network speeds.


The scent of apple blossoms, to our way of thinking, is the smell of spring, and much like robins, herald the beginning of a new season of life. Can you name the parts of an apple blossom? You probably learned this once in biology class, but here’s a refresher.
Apple blossoms contain pistils. The pistil is the female part of the flower and contains three parts: the stigma, style, and ovule. The ovule contains the seeds. The pollen, produced by the anthers atop the stalk of the stamen (male part of the flower), must be transferred from one variety of apple to the stigma found in the blossom of another apple variety if we are to have any apples at all.
Thankfully, our beloved honeybees know what to do. The scent produced by apple blossoms is irresistible to honeybees and other pollinators like our native bees. Once they arrive in this forest of blossoms, they begin to harvest nectar (from which apple blossom honey is made) and pick up sticky grains of pollen with their hairy legs. They then flit about from blossom to blossom. As they do, they drop off some of that precious pollen onto the stigma of another blossom, and Voila!!!!, we have pollination and a new apple begins to grow!


Public health guru Dr. David Katz is spreading his health message that we, as a society, need to curb the obesity epidemic. According to well-documented research presented by Dr. Katz, if we don't stop the obesity epidemic, an estimated 42 percent of all Americans will be obese in 18 years. One-third will be diabetic. Our kids will die at a younger age than their parents, and the healthcare system will be bankrupt.
By preventing obesity, we can see stunning benefits.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is working hard to change the obesogenic environment in New York City. The naysayers may be complaining he is taking away a person's right to choose, but he's not taking away soda. NYC is just not enabling that bad choice.
In our modern world, we are victims of our own success. We have engineered out the lifestyle that kept our parents and grandparents fit and strong, including riding bikes to work, walking to school, and hanging laundry outside to dry. We have engineered in processed foods that come in huge portions and taste yummy. No surprise less than 2 percent of Americans eat the recommend number of fruits and vegetables.
How can we motivate people to take better care of themselves? We need to focus on the personal benefits—longer life, less pain and more fun.
The good news is obesity is strongly linked to behaviors we can control, including the foods we choose to chew and the amount of exercise we get. Granted, other factors also have an impact, including gut microbiota, sleep deprivation, and genetics—and genes can be changed with positive food choices. So if we will be able to have more fun, let's do it!


Species Detail - Bullate Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster rehderi) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "The Flora of County Waterford".
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Cotoneaster bullatus var. macrophyllus
19 April (recorded in 2000)
18 November (recorded in 2008)
Paul R Green, The Flora of County Waterford, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Bullate Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster rehderi), accessed 21 April 2021, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/23/Species/30853>


Ohio spiderwort is an edible prairie plant, important to pollinators, that can grow in harsh conditions.
Minnesota is tough place to live! It’s even tougher for plants. Long cold winters are the hallmark of our state, but most people are unaware that the middle strip of Minnesota is a sand plain – characterized by brutal winds and dry beach-like soil. This is our home.
We grow a wide variety of plants under these conditions. Some are edible, some nitrogen fixing, some food for animals, and some are soil stabilizers. All are survivors!
Ohio Spiderwort (tradescantia ohiensis) is one of our favorites. It arrives early in the spring with grass-like foliage. The flowers are bright blue – unlike anything else in the early prairie. The flowers bleed when wet and stain your fingers a deep indigo. When picking the flowers (or gathering the seeds,) the plant has a tendency to ooze a gooey sap similar to spider webbing. This can be avoided by not breaking the leaves/stems.
The plants grow for many weeks, but their flowers are more fleeting. By the end of summer, they leave no trace. They grow well by seed, attract pollinators, and are edible.Best of all – they thrive in poor conditions. Sand or clay – baked in the hot sun, the ohio spiderwort champions through. They are a beautiful addition to the prairie but can also grow in landscaped lawns. Here they offer a pop of color in spring and a lot of interest to the overall landscape.
The leaves, stems and flowers are all edible – tasty but sometimes a little mucilaginous. The stems are the real prize; similar to asparagus.
Because we are actively working to increase our population, we are not currently selling ohio spiderwort seed, but do sell a variety of other hardy native plant seeds in our store.
This article is part of our Native Plant Series and features one pollinator friendly, drought tolerant US native plant hardy to at least zone 4.
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KUOPIO, Finland, May 29 (UPI) -- Those who are cynical, defined as people who believe others are mainly motivated by selfish concerns, may have a higher risk of dementia.
The study, published in the journal Neurology, found after factoring in for other dementia risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, people with high levels of cynical distrust were three times more likely to develop dementia than people with low levels of cynicism.
Study author Anna-Maija Tolppanen of the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, said the study involved 1,449 people with an average age of 71, who were given tests for dementia and a questionnaire to measure their level of cynicism. The cynicism tests made participants rate their degree of agreement with statements such as: "I think most people would lie to get ahead," "It is safer to trust nobody," and "Most people will use somewhat unfair reasons to gain profit."
"These results add to the evidence that people's view on life and personality may have an impact on their health," Tolppanen said in a statement.
"Understanding how a personality trait like cynicism affects risk for dementia might provide us with important insights on how to reduce risks for dementia."
A total of 622 people completed two tests for dementia -- one at the beginning of the study and another eight years later on average. Forty-six people were diagnosed with dementia.


U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3091
The western yellow-billed cuckoo, once common along the streams and rivers of the American West, is now a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Most of the remaining breeding pairs are found in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Research to understand the cuckoos' habitat needs by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Northern Arizona University scientists has shown that cuckoos in Arizona prefer breeding habitat dominated by native tree species, especially cottonwood-willow habitat bordered by mesquite bosque habitat. This research also revealed that the size of habitat patches matters—breeding cuckoos were found only in large, continuous areas of riparian habitat. These findings and the development of spatially explicit habitat models by USGS scientists will help resource managers conserve and manage riparian habitats needed to ensure the survival of the western yellow-billed cuckoo.
This report is presented in Portable Document Format (PDF); the latest version of Adobe Reader or similar software is required to view it. Download the latest version of Adobe Reader, free of charge.
Matthew J. Johnson, 2009, Understanding the habitat needs of the declining western yellow-billed cuckoo: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3091, 2 p.


Published May 1, 2008 | May 2008 issue
This spring about 1,100 fewer bison roam Yellowstone National Park than did so last fall. Over the winter, state livestock managers and hunters drastically culled the herd in an attempt to prevent the spread of brucellosis, a contagious disease that can cause cattle to abort. A record number of bison were shot or captured for slaughter as they left the park in search of food, provoking an outcry among environmental groups.
Montana livestock owners view free-ranging bison as a threat to their livelihoods. Cattle that contract brucellosis must be destroyed, and if Montana loses its disease-free status, every cow shipped from the state would have to be tested—a financial burden for ranchers. Brucellosis has been eradicated nationwide except for pockets of infection among bison and elk in the Yellowstone area.
The slaughter has prompted ranchers and state and federal officials to renew efforts to devise a nonlethal solution to the problem of wandering bison. A $2.8 million, as-yet-unfunded management plan would remove cattle from an adjacent ranch, allowing bison to migrate in the winter to graze on public land. Federal agriculture officials favor vaccinating the Yellowstone bison against brucellosis, but such a vaccine hasn't been approved.


Scientists have seen significant progress in developing software that can perform human activities like seeing, listening and thinking. A New York Times article recently highlighted advances in this type of cutting edge technology, called “deep learning.”
Deep learning uses artificial intelligence to create things like speech recognition technology, and machines that can drive cars and work in factories. It is available today in programs like Apple’s Siri virtual personal assistant, which uses voice recognition software and Google’s Street View, which uses machine vision to identify specific addresses.
But what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks or just “neural nets” for their resemblance to the neural connections in the brain.
“There has been a number of stunning new results with deep-learning methods,” said Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at New York University who did pioneering research in handwriting recognition at Bell Laboratories. “The kind of jump we are seeing in the accuracy of these systems is very rare indeed.”
The accuracy of the deep learning systems are coming to the point of outperforming humans in certain recognition tests.
Last year, for example, a program created by scientists at the Swiss A. I. Lab at the University of Lugano won a pattern recognition contest by outperforming both competing software systems and a human expert in identifying images in a database of German traffic signs.
The winning program accurately identified 99.46 percent of the images in a set of 50,000; the top score in a group of 32 human participants was 99.22 percent, and the average for the humans was 98.84 percent.


Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
Student learning outcomes describe the knowledge and skills we expect students to gain by the time they complete a course of study at Carolina.
Academic departments often address Program Outcomes in their assessment plans in addition to student learning outcomes. These outcomes may describe strategic goals for the department, such as graduation rates, diversity, faculty hires to enhance the curriculum, or improvements identified through the external Program Review process. Graduation and job placement rates, the number of presentations and publications by students, or examination of the program by external reviewers are examples of appropriate measures.
The means of assessment should emphasize direct examination of student work such as papers, tests, and presentations. These measures should provide evidence that students’ knowledge or abilities have increased since they began their course of study.
Indirect assessments such as exit interviews; job placement rates; and students’ professional publications, presentations, and awards; or surveys of alumni may also be used as supplemental measures. These types of assessments are useful in understanding how students believe they have benefited from their educational experience and how they have applied it. They can be helpful in informing decisions related to changes in instruction or the curriculum, but they don’t provide direct evidence of what students have learned. Indirect assessments should gather information specific to the intended learning or program outcomes — for example, graduating student surveys should include questions related to the major and not just satisfaction with the college experience in general.


Recently, several new drugs have been developed to treat hepatitis C, a serious viral infection that can cause severe liver damage if allowed to run unchecked. But these new drugs are incredibly expensive, and are unaffordable for many people who need them. Until drugs for hepatitis C (and other high-cost drugs) are priced at affordable levels, many people will be left unable to benefit from modern advances in drug therapy.
If you are a baby boomer, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you be tested for infection with the hepatitis C virus. The virus can live in the liver for decades, often causing silent damage that leads to liver failure or liver cancer. But wide-scale testing has proved to be a hard sell. One reason is that treatments to eliminate HCV infection have required weekly injections of one drug and oral doses of others. Treatment could take up to a year. Typical side effects of the injected drug required to clear the virus, called peginterferon, include depression, anxiety, irritability, anemia, and fatigue. Two drug studies published today in The New England Journal of Medicine mark the latest advance in making treatment for HCV easier and more effective. Researchers report that combining several oral antivirals—drugs taken in pill form, not as injections—clear the virus from the liver in more than 95% of people in just 12 weeks. One big obstacle is cost—oral therapy tops $80,000.
In an effort to stem the smoldering epidemic of hepatitis C, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing today that all Baby Boomers—anyone born between 1945 and 1965—have a one-time test for hepatitis C. This widespread but often silent disease can lead to liver damage, and even death.


One of the greatest hazards associated with nitrogen and other inert gases, such as argon, carbon dioxide and helium, is asphyxiation. In other words, they displace and dilute oxygen and can suffocate people.
Most asphyxiation incidents occur because workers enter vessels or confined spaces connected to an inert gas supply before checking the oxygen concentration in the air.
Before even starting work, your employees must be informed about potential risks and trained in safety-aware procedures, including appropriate practices for entering confined spaces. The right work permits are also essential. To help you get your staff up to speed, we teamed up with the European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) to develop dedicated training material.
We also developed a campaign against asphyxiation flyer in collaboration with EIGA.


Tolerance and equality are widespread norms in the official policy of many European countries. The educational system is an arena which even more than others is meant to foster equal opportunities by giving individuals the opportunity to strive for social mobility through their educational performance. Despite this, young people from ethnic minority back-grounds experience different forms of stigmatization in school and higher education, ranging from feeling marked as different to experiencing more explicit racism. This article analyses young people’s coping strategies in order to combat or avoid such stigmatization. We will analyse the possible reasons why young people choose a particular strategy in a given situation, how successful that choice is, and changes in their choice of strategies over time. We will discuss how earlier experiences of support, encouragement and respect (or the lack thereof) inform the extent to which young peo-ple choose more approaching than avoiding strategies as a response to perceived ethnic stigmatisation in the educa-tional setting. The empirical basis of the article is a sample of 50 biographical interviews with young people of ethnic minority backgrounds living in Norway.
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What does it do?
Gets the position of a specific text within another text
=FIND(find_text, within_text, [start_num])
What it means:
=FIND(text to be searched, the source text, [starting position of the source text])
If you want to check where a specific text is located in the source text, it is very easy to search for the position using the FIND Formula!
You need to take note that the FIND Formula is case-sensitive when searching for your text! And it always matches the first occurrence. We will see in our examples below!
I explain how you can do this below:
STEP 1: We need to enter the FIND function in a blank cell:
STEP 2: The FIND arguments:
What is the text to be searched for?
Select the cell containing the text to be searched for. In our first example, we want to search for ‘x’ in the word ‘Excel’:
What is your source text?
Select the cell source text. So let’s select ‘Excel’ as our source text:
Where do you want to start searching in your source text?
You can leave this blank, it will default to 1 which means it will start looking from the first character of your source text. In our case, let us put in 1 to start searching from there:
=FIND(D9, C9, 1)
Apply the same formula to the rest of the cells by dragging the lower right corner downwards.
You can see that the matching is case sensitive! And if it’s unable to find your text, it will return #VALUE.
How to Use the FIND Formula in Excel


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The setting of the story is in a supermarket called the A&P. Updike focuses on emphasizing the importance of making the right choices you make and the consequences that follow. In places like A&P where you must make a decision on which good out of hundreds to purchase, decisions have to be made. For every good decision you make, you will reap the benefits that might even have greater utility but for every bad decision you must pay its price. Sammy, the main protagonist in the story is portrayed as an immature and reckless teengaer and makes crucial decisions without considering the consequences. When he quits his job at the store he fails to examine the aftermath of such decision and doesn't see the significance of being patient and tolerating hardship when you need to.
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While most of the theories begin with the origin of life or existence in physical dimension, the Vedanta deals with the concept of origin of consciousness.
For something or being to be conscious of its existence or its surrounding, it has to have limitation or existence of others/ surroundings to become aware of. An existence without the other can not experience awareness or consciousness.
Thus Vedanta says that in order to experience Itself Brahma or the Ultimate Existence initiated the creation of Universe or Brahmand. The process of creation was initiated with the beginning of consciousness which could help It to experience and perceive the other.


Herbs, perennial, from corms. Stems simple or branched. Leaves 1-9; blade lanceolate to linear, plane or margins and/or midribs variously raised and thickened (then H- or X-shaped in cross section), or evidently terete, midribs and margins much thickened, grooved; grooves 4, narrow, longitudinal. Inflorescences spicate, partly to fully secund or with flowers weakly distichous; bracts green, sometimes flushed grayish purple, unequal, outer usually exceeding inner, acute or inner forked or notched apically. Flowers somewhat fragrant, zygomorphic [actinomorphic]; tepals basally connate into tube, variously colored, usually with contrasting markings comprising nectar guide on outer tepals, usually unequal, dorsal tepal largest, arched to hooded over stamens, outer 3 tepals narrower; perianth tube obliquely funnel-shaped to cylindric; stamens usually unilateral; anthers usually parallel; style usually arching over stamens, dividing into 3 filiform branches, these distally expanded. Capsules usually slightly inflated, oblong to ellipsoid or globose [rarely nearly cylindric], softly cartilaginous. Seeds usually many, broadly winged; rarely few, wingless, globose or angular; seed coat light to dark brown. x = 15. Hybrid strains of Gladiolus are widely cultivated, and some wild species are grown outdoors in areas with mild winters. The common, large-flowered hybrids are the product of crossing between four or five species, followed by selection. Named variously G. gandavensis L. van Houtte, G. lemoinei Baker, and G. hortulanus L. H. Bailey, these plants are occasionally found in and near gardens and cemeteries and are easily recognized by their large, brightly colored flowers with the inner tepals 60-70 mm long and the outer tepals about 50 mm long. They reproduce mainly vegetatively and persist for some years where winters are mild; they show no evidence of spreading into native vegetation.


When should you use an exclamation mark?
Honestly, you won’t use a lot of exclamation marks in academic writing. The exclamation mark is kind of the equivalent of yelling, and most academic writing situations don’t call for much yelling, though you may feel like yelling about some of your assignments.
However, exclamation marks do serve an important function by adding emphasis to commands or other phrases, and you may find yourself needing the exclamation mark when you write dialog for certain narrative assignments.
You can certainly see the difference between a sentence punctuated with a period and one punctuated with an exclamation mark.
Zombies are coming.
Zombies are coming!
In most cases, you should be careful with exclamation marks and make sure the situation calls for them. They are generally considered pretty informal, and a particularly famous writer had this to say about them:
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby