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ALTERNATIVE SANCTIONS FOR JUVENILES
Next to the traditional fines and imprisonment sentences (see the special modifications for young adults p. 231), juvenile law covers a wide range of reactions and sanctions (with or without intervention) in the Juvenile Court Act.
Beyond the sanctions in the JGG, it has to be noted that Austrian juvenile criminal law offers special rules in cases of delayed maturity and moderate misdemeanours committed by juveniles under the age of 16.
Next to the minimum age of criminal responsibility—near to the age of 14 years—§ 4 excludes punishment when the juvenile offender, due to certain circumstances, was not capable of distinguishing right and wrong, or of acting accordingly. This so-called “delayed maturity”, which must be demonstrated by an unusual level of development retardation, must be examined in relation to the single criminal act. It may be caused, e.g. by social or psychological defects, child neglect, or by illness. As a rule, such cases are settled with the help of experts.
There is another reason for non-punishment for juveniles under 16. There is immunity for members of this privileged group for any moderate misdemeanour. If the juvenile who has committed a misdemeanour without serious fault does not show special reasons which speak for the enforcement of juvenile penal law to prevent the offender from committing further acts, immunity is granted; the threshold of serious guilt (schweres Verschulden) is reached when, in a specific case, the guilt and unlawfulness of the act concerned surmounts the typical. In all such cases, the public prosecutor must drop the charge.
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The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has popped up here a few times with some very dexterous robots, but apparently they're pretty tough too, like taking a beating from a baseball bat tough. In the video below, the DLR Hand Arm System receives a "stress test," and impressively enough, the arm functions as well afterwards as it did before receiving a blow.
What prevented the arm from being destroyed by the impact are the very same components that allow it to act like a human arm. This is thanks to a mix of 52 actuators and synthetic tendons made from a material called Dyneemathan (it's stronger than Kevlar!), making it hardy as we expect a robot to be.
But rigidity is only half of the equation. The joints and actuators are designed so they can absorb and dissipate energy, too.
Markus Grebenstein, the Hand Arm System's lead designer explained to IEEE Spectrum, "robustness is essential if we want to deploy service robots in the real world, where collisions are likely to happen. Even small shocks can damage conventional robots, which rely on motors coupled to joints in mechanically stiff configurations."
IEEE Spectrum has the full mechanical breakdown if you like to get down with the nitty gritty technicalities of robotic joint designs.


18th March 2019
One of the oldest human inventions, Pottery is the process of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials. It is one of the finest forms of art and holds a position in India’s cultural history. At AMIS, students and staff have always been encouraged to enjoy the experience of pottery.
Children got the opportunity to make beautiful lamps, vases and other items in this session. They were very excited and happy to see how their fingers could mould clay into such beautiful shapes. The feel of the clay was another advantage for the development of their tactile sense, as they do not get to do that very often in their urban lifestyle. Children kept rubbing their hands with clay over and over. Some were really curious to know the mechanism of the potter’s wheel. The sight of the beautiful items created by them heightened their joy beyond measure.


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Applications are built from a dynamic executable and one or more shared object dependencies. The entire loadable contents of the dynamic executable and the shared objects are mapped into the virtual address space of that process at runtime. Each process starts by referencing a single copy of the dynamic executable and the shared objects in memory.
Relocations within the dynamic objects are processed to bind symbolic references to their appropriate definitions. This results in the calculation of true virtual addresses that could not be derived at the time the objects were generated by the link-editor. These relocations usually result in updates to entries within the process's data segments.
The memory management scheme underlying the dynamic linking of objects shares memory among processes at the granularity of a page. Memory pages can be shared between processes as long as the pages are not modified at runtime. If a process writes to a page of an object when writing a data item, or relocating a reference to a shared object, a private copy of that page is generated. This private copy has no effect on other users of the object. However, this page has lost any benefit of sharing between other processes. Text pages that become modified in this manner are referred to as impure.
The segments of a dynamic object that are mapped into memory fall into two basic categories; the text segment, which is read-only, and the data segment, which is read-write. See Analyzing Files With elfdump on how to obtain this information from an ELF file. An overriding goal when developing a dynamic object is to maximize the text segment and minimize the data segment. This partitioning optimizes the amount of code sharing while reducing the amount of processing needed to initialize and use the dynamic object. The following sections present mechanisms that can help achieve this goal.


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Company Q is a local grocery store found in a major metropolitan area. The company recently made a decision to shut two of its stores down. They reported that the reason they shut down the stores was because of dwindling profits, however, it was also indicated that the location of these stores were in a high crime rate area. Apparently, this was not a factor to why they decided to shut down their stores. It is understandable that as a business, to survive you must make money. If the company was not making any money from these stores then it would be advisable that they close their doors.
The decision that the company made may be considered rash and unsound. Given that the company may have other competitors, it was not mention that the reason they were shutting down was because there was another store competing for their business in that area. The issue of not making any profits may not be contributed to location. It could mean that the reason they are not making any money is because they are not catering to the customers in those location. The store may not be providing what is needed or wanted in those areas. Company Q must realize that the business will not succeed by selling just products; they must consider social responsibility and consider the community or human factor when selling products. Company Q should consider reaching out to the community in those areas and ask what the community needs. Company Q should re-emphasize that they are a “local” grocery store and work on rebuilding the small grocery chain.
After years of requests from customers, Company Q began offering a very limited supply of health conscience and organic products. These products are all high in margin. Company Q’s response to these requests shows that the company is listening to their customers. This is a positive step to building and maintaining the relationship. However, selling only a limited amount and selling these high margin products may not...
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Partners of the Heart raises issues that resonate today. Two people from vastly different backgrounds, who most likely would not have met socially, join forces and do something historically significant. Neither could have accomplished it alone. The lessons of the story are bittersweet and complicated by the strictures of its times, when segregation and economic limitations created barriers to advancement and to the development of relationships.
These issues are still debated today in schools, workplaces, and among friends. Access an activity-packed resource guide, created with classrooms and community organizations in mind.
The Partners resource guide is available in PDF format or as a Microsoft Word document. Either format allows you to view and print the guide.


Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 - 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
Medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine
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Irrigation pumps at ‘Buddah Lakes’ near Narromine in 1969. These pumps were among the first draw water from the Macquarie for cotton. Buddah was a prestigious grazing station that diversified into high capital intensive agriculture from the 1960s. The family patriarch is thought to have died from an illness caused by contact with pesticides.
Source: Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University: McKillop and Sons Pty Ltd, Z376, CD ROM, ‘Buddah Lake pumps 1969’.
Empty water storage cell near Bourke in 2007. When the Darling reaches a certain height irrigators pump from the river and carry water through channels to these cells. This one is 2.4 by 1.2 kilometres. The sky is brown with a dust storm.
In the summer of 1991 the Darling River set a dubious record: the world’s longest toxic blue-green algae bloom. To Eric Rolls this ‘flaring green ribbon’ was a distress signal. Politicians, landholders, environmental managers and members of the public began using health metaphors to describe the state of the rivers. They were sick, they were dying, and they needed to be nursed back to health. The nineties, however, saw bitter conflict between upstream and downstream water communities, between irrigators and pastoralists. Reform was contested and occurred in the smallest of steps – the rivers suffered the ‘slow violence’ of grinding ecological change.
The distinctive corduroy furrows of cotton fields.


One of our most crucial and valuable senses is ‘vision’. Eyes are made up of several parts and all of them are equally important for vision. When light enters into the eye, it is directed in the right amount towards the eye lens. The complex anatomy of the eye converts this incoming light into electrical energy.
Generally, tuberculosis is known to affect the pulmonary system, but in some cases, it can also affect other organs (extra-pulmonary) like eyes.
How common is tuberculosis? The magnitude of the problem.
These are actual questions from patients in the Uvea Clinic of Neoretina.
CAN TB AFFECT THE EYE?
The term “Ocular Tuberculosis” is defined as an extra-pulmonary form of the disease that includes any infection in
Uveitis is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness. The problem is rampant in developing countries like India. It becomes important for the patients and their relatives to know what Uveitis is and what they can really do about it.


Digital watermarking is an approach to manage multimedia digital information like images, as a data carrier to enclose copyright information, which might be either visible or invisible. If any copyright dispute arise, the ownership of the copyright can be verified from the information in the data carrier. Generally, digital watermarking system consists of two stages, namely watermark embedding and extracting. Likewise, the quality of the watermark system is evaluated based on the concealment, robustness, security and watermark capacity.
With regards to the robustness of watermark resisting attack, the digital watermarking approach is divided into three category such as robust, fragile and semi-fragile. Among these types, robust watermarks is widely used against image processing operations and apt for copyright and ownership verification. Fragile watermarks are responsive to modifications while suitable for authentication and integrity.
From the perspective of the various fields of hidden watermark, there are two types, spatial domain watermarks and transform domain watermarks. Between these types, the spatial domain watermarking algorithm directly modifies the original signal to hide the watermark information and though hiding watermark and the extraction process is simple here, the robustness is not as great as transform domain watermark.


Archaeologists in Croatia uncovered the fossilized remains of a Roman chariot buried with two horses as part of a funeral ceremony.
The fossilized remains of a Roman chariot buried with 2 horses as part of a burial ritual have recently been uncovered in Croatia. A large burial chamber for an ‘extremely wealthy family’ was discovered where the carriage with what seems to be two horses had been placed.
The findings were made at the Jankovacka Dubrava site close to the village of Stari Jankovci, near the city of Vinkovci, in eastern Croatia by archaeologists from the City Museum Vinkovci and Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb.The horses’ and chariot’s corpses being buried together appears to be an example of a tradition reserved for exceedingly rich households.
According to curator Boris Kratofil, “the custom is associated with extremely wealthy families who have played a prominent role in the administrative, social, and economic life of the province of Pannonia,” burial under tumuli (an ancient burial mound) was an extraordinary ritual in the Roman era in the souther Pannonian Basin.
Experts believe the bones date from the third century AD, while they are attempting to determine their exact age in order to gain a better understanding of the family whose members were buried here 1,800 years ago.
“After this follows a protracted process of restoration and conservation of the artifacts, as well as a full investigation of the findings,” said Marko Dizdar, head of the Institute of Archaeology. We’ll learn a bit more about the family whose members were buried in this region 1,800 years ago in a few years.”
“We’re more interested in the horses themselves, whether they were bred here or came from other regions of the empire,” he said, “since it would tell us more about the family’s prominence and fortune.” This will be accomplished via collaboration with both local and European institutions.”


Step 4: Wind the new transformer secondaries
tip: draw tally marks on your table to keep track of the number of windings.
How does a transformer work?
The primary winding is an electromagnet connected to alternating current.
The humming magnetic field of the primary induces a current to flow in the secondary winding. If both windings have the same number of turns, the output voltage is the same as the input.
(minus a smidgin due to eddy currents, resistance, etc.)
If the secondary has more turns than the input, its output voltage is higher. That's the type of transformer you started out with.
OUTPUT VOLTAGE = INPUT VOLTAGE * (NUMBER OF SECONDARY TURNS) / (NUMBER OF PRIMARY TURNS)
Our primary has 100 turns and gets connected to 100 volts AC. We're winding 20 turns on the secondary, so we'll get about 20 volts out.
The available POWER STAYS THE SAME regardless of what the output VOLTAGE is.
POWER (WATTS) = AMPS * VOLTS
If the primary is made take 1000 watts (100 volts * 10 amps) out of the wall, we'll be able to take 1000 watts out of the secondary. With 1/5 of the windings, we can draw 50 amps out of the secondary.
That's the cartoon version with play numbers anyway.
Over here in our shed full of reality we've got two of these beasts in series and plan to short the outputs through a welding rod like Jennifer Beals.
Let's just say we're going to pull a whole lot of amps, which is why we need to wind our secondary with such thick wire.
The copper conductor in ten-guage wire happens to be 1/10" (0.1") in diameter.
Here's a table of conductor diameter, guage, and current rating.


Man mostly resort to his sense of sight for the exploration of the world.
However, several scientific studies claim that the human specie, especially during childhood, could rely on a much wider sensory heritage.
We could be more similar to other animal species than we usually think!
The workshop focuses on the senses, perceptions and movement peculiarities of several animals. It provides some tools that don’t replicate zoomorphic shapes but, amplifying specific perceptive and motion abilities, allow to draw near the attitudes of other species.
Through a process of identification rather than mere look imitation, children can experience otherness firsthand.


From “Placebo Effects in Medicine,” by Ted Kaptchuk and Franklin Miller:
So what have we learned about placebo effects to date, and what does our current understanding say about medicine?
First, though placebos may provide relief, they rarely cure […] Second, placebo effects are not just about dummy pills: the effects of symbols and clinician interactions can dramatically enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals. […] Third, the psychosocial factors that promote therapeutic placebo effects also have the potential to cause adverse consequences, known as nocebo effects. […]
Placebo effects are often considered unworthy and illegitimate. They are thought to be unscientific and caused by bias and prejudice. This attitude obscures a core truth of medicine: medicine’s goal is to heal, which can include cure, control of disease, and symptom relief or provision of comfort. […]
Medicine has used placebos as a methodologic tool to challenge, debunk, and discard ineffective and harmful treatments. But placebo effects are another story; they are not bogus. With proper controls for spontaneous remission and regression to the mean, placebo studies use placebos to elucidate and quantify the clinical, psychological, and biologic effects of immersion in a clinical environment.


Fires Across Southeast Asia
April 17, 2013
The dry season has taken hold in southeast Asia, as this March 30, 2005, true-color Aqua MODIS image of dense smoke and scores of fires illustrates. Fires are set throughout the day, therefore more tend to be detected in Aqua imagery, which is acquired in an overpass later than the Terra MODIS instrument. Smoke also accumulates over the course of the day, settling into the valleys where the wind doesn't carry it away over the landscape. In 2005, severe drought dried the vegetation throughout Southeast Asia, making the region more prone to fire. The effect of the widespread fires on air quality is clearly visible in this image. The heavy grey smoke settles in the valleys of northern Laos and Thailand, and blankets sections of Myanmar and Vietnam.
Topics: Disaster Accident, Environment, Earth, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Terra, Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Aqua, Southeast Asia


A group of collaborative researchers, led by Andrew McKenzie’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, have identified new processes that lead to the development of a novel cell (the nuocyte) implicated in allergies.
Nuocytes play a critical role in immune responses to parasitic worm infection. However, they also initiate the early generation of immune responses that can lead to asthma or other allergic conditions.
The team used multicolour flow cytometry, in vitro cell culture and in vivo models to find out more about the lineage of nuocytes and the signals that induce their development.
They found that nuocytes arise in the bone marrow and differentiate from common lymphoid progenitors – meaning that they are distinct, previously unknown members of the lymphoid lineage. Nuocytes also require the interleukin 7, interleukin 33, Notch and RAR-related orphan receptor αlpha (RORα) signalling pathways for their development. The transcription factor RORα was also identified as being critical for both the generation of nuocytes and allergic-like inflammation.
Asthma alone affects 5.4 million people in the UK and costs the NHS £1 billion a year. The team’s work in increasing understanding of the processes and cells involved in causing allergic inflammation provides a critical first step in developing new strategies to treat allergic diseases.
The research team included collaborators from the Institute of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institut Suisse de Recherche Expérimentale sur le Cancer.
The research was supported by the Medical Research Council, Centocor (Johnson & Johnson), the American Asthma Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, the National Children’s Research Centre and the American Asthma Foundation.


Bylaw: Article I, Section H, Item 6
“Practice will be defined as follows: An activity organized and/or directed by an identified member of the coaching staff of that sport in which appropriate equipment is used or instruction and/or evaluation of the athlete takes place.”
The definition of practice has two components: an activity organized or directed by a coach; and involving equipment or evaluation in that sport.
The bylaw itself does not articulate the entire spectrum of events that could occur that would be incorporated in what is considered “organized” or “directed,” and how they should be treated. For those activities that possibly implicate the practice definition but are not entirely obvious, we rely on the standard Webster definition of the particular words used and past interpretations.
Organize: to arrange and plan; to create an administrative structure; to arrange by systematic planning and united effort
Direct: to regulate the activities or course; to carry out the organizing and supervising of; to determine the course of
Coaches are allowed to give guidance relating to drills or conditioning as requested by players as long as it is voluntary and they are not held accountable to the activity. This is not considered a practice and should not count towards the 24-week season. A coach can provide this type of informal guidance, as long as the coach is not leading, directing, or organizing, regardless of the coaching staff being present.
If the students’ participation was completely voluntary and participation was unstructured (meaning could occur or not occur, could happen at any point rather than at a set point, did not require any organization or participation by anyone else), this event would not be organized or directed by the coaching staff and would not be considered a practice under NAIA rules.
Article I, Section H, Item 1: Frequency of Play
Article I, Section H, Item 5: 24-Week Season
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About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the brain and the spinal cord. It affects the insulating layers that wrap the nerve cells (the myelin sheath), and, as a consequence, disrupts nerve signals within the brain.
Symptoms vary greatly between individuals, depending on which areas of the brain are affected, and include problems with vision, sensation, memory and movement.
Around 2.5M people worldwide have MS.
MS is often described as an inflammatory problem that results in damage to the myelin sheath. However, the disease mechanisms are far more complex and multifaceted; both inflammation and neurodegeneration (nerve cell death) occur, together with scarring (sclerosis) and activation of tissue repair systems. Due to this complexity, the pattern of MS activity varies between individuals, either following a steady course of deterioration (progressive forms) or being characterised by acute deteriorations that are called relapses, which are interspersed with periods of recovery (relapsing-remitting forms). Most patients with relapsing-remitting disease convert to slowly progressive symptoms later in life. The chance of relapses in MS can now be reduced by using anti-inflammatory treatments. However, progressive symptoms are due to degeneration of the underlying nerves, which have lost their myelin sheaths, and there are no treatments available to slow, stop or reverse their progress.


Wolverine: Road to protection
After over a decade of battling for the recognition of these rare creatures as endangered, wolverines may finally get the protections they require.
- January 2015-Cascades wolverine population growing, expanding southward
- August 2014-Federal Agency Ignores Best Available Science In Decision Not To List Wolverine
- Dec 2013-Wolverine USFWS protection plan period reopened
- June 2013-Eleven wolverines are documented in Washington state
- May 2013-US Fish and Wildlife Service finishes extends public comment period on wolverine ESA listing
- April 2012-Conservation Northwest’s remote camera monitoring program records Peg, the first wolverine documented south of Highway 2 in more than 20 years.
- 2011-With the help of volunteers we begin our wildlife monitoring project, hoping to spot wolverines and other little-seen animals
- 2011-USFWS promises to determine whether wolverines deserve full protection by 2013, bumping wolverines to the top of a 250 candidate list
- 2010-USFWS determines wolverines warrant protection, but proposal does not come until February of 2013
- 2008-USFWS denies wolverine listing for a second time, sending us back to court to challenge the finding. Case results in settlement by which the Service agrees to reconsider its finding
- 2006-Federal judge overturns USFWS refusal to consider new protections for wolverines, following challenges made to the refusal by us and other groups.
- 2005-Federal researchers begin studying Washington’s wolverines
- 2003-Fish and Wildlife Service issues a preliminary negative finding on listing petition for wolverines.
- 2000-Campaign to protect wolverines begins with a petition to the USFWS requesting a listing of wolverines under the ESA.
- Early 1900s-Wolverines lost from much of their historical range following years of heavy trapping and indiscriminate poison-baiting aimed at other carnivores


Ranger in the Classroom
This program is designed to help teachers in schools near the Tule Lake Unit provide more information about the history of the Tule Lake Unit by inviting a ranger to speak to the class. The topics that rangers cover in their classroom presentations depend on the teacher's requests, but primarily focuses on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, and the Civilian Conservation Corps. When making your request, please let us know what topic(s) you would like us to cover and how much background knowledge your students have the subject.
To request a ranger in the classroom presentation please e-mail or call the education coordinator at 530-667-8119.
Did You Know?
Tule Lake was never dark. 223 light posts spaced 50 feet apart surrounded the buildings and were lit 24/7. Daily water consumption at Tule Lake was over 1 million gallons per day.


Physiological and evolutionary origin of the eukaryotic microtubule system – Alliegro Lab
All eukaryotic cells (cells with nuclei, such as human and plant cells) have a skeletal system made of microtubules. This microtubule-based “cytoskeleton” requires an organizing center to function effectively. In animal cells, the microtubule organizing center, or MTOC, is the centrosome. The centrosome and the structures that arise from it are essential for normal cell division. They are also essential for the formation and function of tiny hair-like structures on the cell surface known as cilia. An almost uncountable number of human maladies are directly or indirectly related to the cytoskeleton, abnormal cell division, and malfunctioning cilia. Moreover, since the microtubule-based cytoskeleton is a signature structure of all eukaryotic cells, its evolutionary history holds clues to the origins of all animals and plants.
The Alliegro lab is interested in the genesis of the centrosome and related structures during the living cell cycle, as well as their original development in eukaryotic cells approximately two billion years ago. To this end, the laboratory has isolated a unique group of nucleic acids (RNAs) from centrosomes and uses them to study both aspects of centrosome genesis, the physiological and the evolutionary. In the former case, these RNAs have been used to discover a link between the centrosome and a poorly understood subcompartment of the nucleus known as the nucleolinus. The Alliegros have shown that the nucleolinus gives rise to centrosomal precursors (see microscopic image, below) and is essential for formation of the cell division apparatus. From the evolutionary standpoint, the laboratory is providing evidence that these RNAs (and by inference, MTOCs) have origins that stretch back further than the beginnings of the eukaryotic cell line and perhaps originated with prokaryotic cells (such as bacteria) or viruses.


Both 过得 and 过得去 are common in China, but 过得 and 过得去 can have different meanings.
过得: 生活得(怎么样), how one's life lives; For example, 你过得怎么样？：How are you getting along? or how is your life (you live)?
过得去: to get through or get by; It has literal and metaphorical meaning. The literal meaning is to physically get through and metaphorically, it means to get through a difficult situation. For example, 我过得去 could simple mean 'I can get it through'. 我生活还过得去： 'Things in my life are able to get through.' It implies that your life is okay or not too bad.


Sustainable development offers a vision that includes short and long-term goals, local and global actions related to social, economic and environmental issues which are inseparable and interdependent components of human evolution.
We are working to develop deprived and poor local societies / economies in combination with the environmentally responsible use of all resources: natural, social, human and financial to ensure that meeting next generations’ needs will not be at risk.
We implement projects that focus on reducing environmental pollution, awareness raising on climate change, promoting the use of alternative energy sources and green economy, promoting the alternative use of land through organic farming, developing agro-tourism and generating income for the less privileged. Through the implementation of our projects, we strive to develop the appropriate economic, social and environmental conditions that will lead these regions to growth, either through the expansion of an action or by creating opportunities for new actions. Our projects also offer new employment opportunities in the areas we intervene, which by itself, contributes to their economic growth.
We seek to contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable development goals and to transform our world based on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.


Cattle Feed Clarification
January 1, 2004
Referring to a point made in a August 2003 article on vegetarian foods (page 23), which touched on conversion rates of grain to meat, Joe Regenstein, a professor of food science at Cornell University, notes that cattle are not moved to a feedlot until their weight hits more than 600lbs. Until that time, they are primarily grass-fed, not grain fed. In some countries, the animal is slaughtered after ingesting only grass. “So an explicit statement that it takes 7 lbs. of grain to produce 1 lb. of beef is quite misleading,” he writes. Thanks to Joe for clearing this up.


Gracilinanus microtarsus (J. A. Wagner, 1842), called the Brazilian gracile opossum, is a small didelphid that is 1 of 6 species in the genus Gracilinanus. It is a sexually dimorphic, solitary marsupial that has a highly seasonal reproductive pattern. It inhabits Atlantic rain forests and semideciduous forests interspersed in the highly seasonal cerrado (savanna-like vegetation) in southeastern and southern Brazil. It prefers locations associated with low canopy cover and it also occurs in habitats altered by anthropogenic events. The species is classified as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
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Tanabata is a Japanese tradition wherein people write their wishes on tanzaku papers colorful, small strips of papers and hang them on bamboo branches. People also decorate bamboo branches with various kinds of paper decorations and place them outside their houses.
It’s said that tanabata’s origin dates back to more than 2,000 years ago with an old Chinese tale. Once there was a weaver princess named Orihime and a cow herder prince named Hikoboshi living in space. After they got together, they were playing all the time and forgot about their jobs. The king was angry at them and separated them on opposite sides of the Amanogawa River Milky Way. The king allowed them to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar. Tanabata literally means the night of the seventh, and it’s also known as the star festival. It’s believed that Orihime and Hikoboshi can’t see each other if the day is rainy, so people pray for good weather and also make wishes for themselves.
Depending on regions, it’s celebrated on July 7 or August 7, which is around the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, in Japan. Many cities and towns hold Tanabata festivals and set colorful displays along the main streets. It’s fun to walk through the long streamers on the street. In some regions, people light lanterns and float them on the river, or float bamboo leaves on the river.


With this amendment to ROSES-2006, NASA establishes a new program element in Appendix E.5 entitled "History of the Scientific Exploration of Earth and Space." The primary objective of the History of the Scientific Exploration of Earth and Space (HSEES) program element is to engage, inform, and inspire diverse public audiences by sharing historical knowledge about NASA's scientific exploration of the Earth and space and by communicating NASA's unique contributions to the advancement of Earth and space science during the past 50 years. An essential component of communicating to the public is accurate, complete, well-written histories about the scientific exploration of space.
The HSEES program element solicits proposals to produce accurate, complete, interpretive, and readable histories of major activities in NASA's scientific exploration of Earth and space as supported by the Science Mission Directorate and its predecessor organizations since the establishment of NASA. This program element is broadly defined to include cooperative international activities in which these NASA organizations played a significant role. Notices of Intent to propose are due December 15, 2006, and proposals are due February 15, 2007. On or about October 26, 2006, Amendment No. 19 to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2006" (NNH06ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ (select "Solicitations" then "Open Solicitations" then "NNH06ZDA001N").
Questions may be addressed to Dr. T. Jens Feeley, Management and Policy Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546-0001; Telephone: (202) 358-1714; Email: email@example.com.
[Source: NAI Newsletter]
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Coronary CT Angio (CCTA)
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a heart imaging test that helps determine if plaque buildup has narrowed the coronary arteries, the blood vessels that supply the heart.
What is a Coronary CT Angio (CCTA)?
Coronary CT angiography is the use of computed tomography angiography to assess the coronary arteries of the heart. This is a non-invasive test which tells the percentage of narrowing of the coronary artery and calcification of plaque. In order to fix those blockages will require routine coronary angiography.
How does CCTA work?
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) uses an injection of iodine-containing contrast material and CT scanning to examine the arteries that supply blood to the heart and determine whether they have been narrowed. The images generated during a CT scan can be reformatted to create three-dimensional (3D) images that may be viewed on a monitor, printed on film or by a 3D printer, or transferred to electronic media.
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The Center for Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Interventions (CACVI) is led by Dr. Khorsandi and Dr. Lala, who have over thirty years of practice with over 15,000 successful vascular and cardiac procedures performed. Our physicians are determined to provide each patient with unparalleled expertise and compassionate care as they work diligently to improve your health.


Americans will pay an average of 20% of their income in federal taxes this year.
Nearly everyone hates paying taxes, but you may be kind of fuzzy on how much in total you ship off to Uncle Sam.
For example, you might know that you’re in the 25% tax bracket, but that doesn’t mean you hand over 25% of your pay—that’s a marginal rate that applies only to part of your income. You also have to subtract out deductions and credits, and then add in taxes that aren’t part of the income tax, like for Social Security. Fortunately, the Tax Policy Center has been doing the heavy lifting of keeping track of all this, and it’s just put out some new numbers.
On Monday, the nonpartisan research group released information on the 2015 tax year based on an update of the model they use to calculate what people pay. According to the Center’s data, Americans will pay an average of 19.8% of their income in taxes to the federal government. That number doesn’t include state taxes or city taxes (we’ve got those in NYC.)
As you can see, most of your tax dollars come from income tax and payroll tax, with a little bit going to corporate tax. Why is an individual paying a tax that’s reserved for businesses? Well, Mitt Romney wasn’t totally wrong when he said corporations are people—at least for the purposes of tax policy. In the end, a corporate tax has to make a flesh-and-blood person somewhere less wealthy than they’d otherwise be. The center’s model takes into account the fact that even non-CEOs indirectly pay some corporate tax, partly in reduced wages but mostly through lower returns to investors and business owners. (Not surprisingly, people in higher brackets effectively pay more in corporate tax.)
While the average tax burden is 19.8% of your salary, most people actually pay less because that number is skewed by high earners. So the Tax Policy Center also breaks out the average federal tax burden by income bracket, so you can see how much of your income you’ll likely be shelling out this year.


Chemistry as Music
This video was created for an exhibition at Technical Museum Zagreb.
Exhibition name is Countless Faces of Periodic Table of Elements. Video shows how chemical elements and formulas would sound if played as music.
In the year 1865 The young English chemist John Newlands arranged chemical elements, in the table, so that each element could join one tone of musical scale. His classification is called the Law of Octaves.
This was a challenging project because not only did I have to animate, but compose music as well. I was given chemical formulas and John Newlands Law of Octaves witch shows what element corresponds to what note. For basic concept I used Garage Band, and Logic PRO for final composition. After intense research on the subject, the look of the video presented itself. Somewhere between Monty Pythons animation and science presentation.
This is an animatic video for a longer version. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough time to make it, but maybe in the future it will see the light of day.


The Leishmania parasite is an intracellular pathogen of the immune system targeting macrophages and dendritic cells. The disease Leishmaniasis affects the populations of 88 counties worldwide with symptoms ranging from disfiguring cutaneous and muco-cutaneous lesions that can cause widespread destruction of mucous membranes to visceral disease affecting the haemopoetic organs.
The species of the L. donovani complex are found in different geographical regions. L. donovani is the primary cause of visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent and East Africa, L. infantum in the the Mediterranean region and L. chagasi in the New World. While the last two species are genetically identical, all three species are very similar. L. infantum was chosen as the second Leishmania species to sequence after L. major because it is part of the L. donovani complex and is an adaptable species for experimentation. For more information on visceral Leishmaniasis we recommend the WHO website
Published Genome Data
A whole genome shotgun, to ~5x coverage, of L. infantum clone JPCM5 (MCAN/ES/98/LLM-877) was generated. This was completed in October 2003. This project is a collaboration with Professor Debbie Smith (University of York) and Professor Jeremy Mottram (University of Glasgow).
Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease.
Nature genetics 2007;39;7;839-47
Data Use Statement
This sequencing centre plans on publishing the completed and annotated sequences in a peer-reviewed journal as soon as possible. Permission of the principal investigator should be obtained before publishing analyses of the sequence/open reading frames/genes on a chromosome or genome scale. See our data sharing policy.
Please address all sequencing enquiries to: email@example.com


President Roosevelt asked for 6 additional Supreme Court justices. However, his ‘packing plan’ was defeated. In 1937, Roosevelt believed that the last remaining barrier to his New Deal was the Supreme Court. Indeed, the Court, comprised of pre-Roosevelt appointees, was not entirely supportive of Roosevelt’s New Deal reform measures. To prevent further backsliding, Roosevelt proposed to reorganize the Supreme Court; his plan would have enabled him to add a new justice for every sitting justice over 70 years of age. The reorganization bill was roundly criticized as a blatant violation of the separation of powers and the rule of law. Roosevelt’s bill ultimately proved unsuccessful in Congress. It was voted down. But, in a larger …
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Three great building activities areas … build the longest bridge … build the tallest tower … or just build whatever you want.
Woodlawn Lower School
Learning at Woodlawn School is rooted in project-based learning. This means that students learn and apply content knowledge and skills by creating projects designed to develop their understanding of the world around them. They work collaboratively to create something that demonstrates their new understandings to a real audience, and each project culminates in a formal presentation. Through project work, sources of information are not limited to traditional textbooks. Instead, students examine information from “expert” adults, field experiences, primary source documents, nonfiction books, and Internet resources. Technology (e.g. iPad use) is an integral part of our project work. Keeping in line with our methodology, technology is integrated into the classroom rather than provided as a discrete subject area in a computer lab environment.
In addition to meeting our academic standards, students leaving our Lower School program are equipped with the skills necessary to be successful in Middle School. Lower School students have the ability to:
- act responsibly and respectfully
- demonstrate integrity
- solve problems and think critically
- organize and analyze information
- cooperate with groups of peers
- recognize and respect each other's points of view


A thousand years of history
Founded during the reign of William the Conqueror, Corfe Castle was a royal fortress for 500 years.
In 1635 it became the property of the Bankes family and in 1982 it passed into the ownership of the National Trust.
Get a taste of life in a castle
Whether you’re young or old, our castle tours offer a great way to bring the castle ruins to life.
An expert guide will place this dramatic ruined castle in its geographical and historical context.
For schools and colleges
Key Stage 1
- Discover what life was like in a castle
- Homes now and then
Key Stages 2 & 3
- Past events, people and changes
- Corfe Castle: A thousand years of history
- Links to medieval realms
Higher education and adult learning
- Architectural stonework conservation (HND, undergraduate, masters)
- Guided walks looking at the historic landscape of Purbeck, the stone industry and farming (adult learning)


It is similar to Senecio tamoides and is known by the same common name. It can be distinguished by the soft leaves which are much paler on the under surface, broadly triangular in outline with very irregular lobes and dentations along the margins, giving the leaves a wrinkled and torn appearence. There are normally leaf-like false stipules present at the base of the petioles. The leaves of S. tamoides are more smooth and slightly leathery and more regularly dentate. No false stipules are present.Senecio deltoideus is a species of more open terrain, such as bracken and ericoid scrub or bush clumps in montane grassland, where it often forms masses on the ground and on lower scrub. S. tamoides is a typical constituent of the evergreen forest edge, where it acts more as a climbing species.


Five Prevention Tips for Esophageal Cancer
1. Lose weight – Obesity leads to increased hiatus hernia and acid reflux which are responsible for the increasing rates of esophageal cancer. Talk with your doctor and develop a plan to lose weight by changing your eating habits and exercising regularly.
2. Don’t lie down right after eating – For those with acid reflux, the valve between the esophagus and the stomach doesn’t function properly, allowing the contents of the stomach to back up into the esophagus. Lying down can make your reflux problem worse, leading to nighttime heartburn. Eat early enough (2-3 hours) to give your stomach time to empty prior to going to bed.
3. Sleep with your head elevated – Lying down can exacerbate reflux disease. If you have reflux, consider taking action to make sure that your head and torso are elevated on a gradual incline while you sleep. Stomach acid, like water, does not roll uphill. You can raise one end of your bed so that your head is elevated as compared with your feet or you can use new products like the Gravity1st™ Elevated Sleep Systems mattress that allows you to sleep at a comfortable, yet Doctor recommended incline.
4. Take an antacid if necessary – If you are still having reflux issues, you can temporarily try to neutralize stomach acid before it backs up into the esophagus with over the counter antacids.
5. Talk to your doctor – If you have a long history of severe heartburn or acid indigestion, talk to your doctor about Barrett’s esophagus, which increases your risk of developing cancer. Even if your acid reflux symptoms are controlled, you still could be at risk. The only way to diagnose Barrett’s is with an endoscopy and biopsy. See www.ECAN.org for more information on Esophageal Cancer.
April is Esophageal Cancer Awareness month. Please help spread the word.


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Explain the divisions within Latin American colonial society. In your writing, use...
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Latin American colonial society was very hierarchical. A person's birth status did a great deal to determine what place in society he or she could possibly hold.
Of the groups you mention, mulattoes were at the bottom. These were people whose ancestry was part European and part African. These people were generally a bit lower than mestizos who were part European and part Indian. However, this could vary.
All mixed-blood groups were lower than the pure white groups. But even the whites were divided. The lower group was the creoles. These were people of European descent who were born in the colonies. They were seen as inferior to the peninsulares, who were Europeans who were born in Europe and came over to the colonies. The highest offices and statuses were reserved for the peninsulares. This was a major reason for the eventual creole-led rebellions that brought independence to Latin America.
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As light travels through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths just pass through straight away whilst some of the red, orange and yellow light, is affected by the air. Much of the shorter wavelength light, like the blue wavelength, is absorbed by the gas molecules, which is then radiated in different directions. It scattered all around the sky and so the blue colour seemed to occupy much of the sky.
Saturday, 29 January 2011
WHY THE SKY IS BLUE?
The sky is blue especially during bright days due to Rayleigh scattering. This scattering is the elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation including light, by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. It can happen notably when light travels through gases or air. Rayleigh scattering of sunlight results in diffuse sky radiation, which is primarily the reason why the sky is blue and the sun look yellow.


Fourth graders at A.W. Becker studying the geography of New York, created their own map representations of the state last week. Students included New York’s major cities, bodies of water and geographical features in their maps. They also contained a map key or legend as well as a compass rose to demonstrate what they had learned about maps in their Social Studies class.
Mrs. Agostinoni’s, Mrs. Baumgras’s, Mrs. Conway’s and Conti’s, and Mrs. Tutay’s class all participated in the project.


I was privileged to witness a mother-child connection during a time of distress. The child, Evie*, about 3 years old, was wailing because her mother had taken a beloved toy to hold while Evie put her coat on. Mother bent down, said she could see that Evie had some big feelings, and asked if she could use her words to name that feeling. Evie quieted. Mother asked if she was feeling worried that maybe she would not get her toy back. Evie nodded. Mother stated, I will give you your toy back; does that help the worry get smaller? Evie responded, “Yes!” Mother helped Evie put her coat on, gave the toy back, and picked her up. Evie smiled and snuggled with her mother.
This is a wonderful example of providing support and teaching emotional coping skills to a young child. What happened during this exchange?
• The child’s distress was recognized and acknowledged.
• A feelings vocabulary was being supported by naming the feeling of worry.
• The child experienced that mother was able to remain calm and handle the child’s big feelings, which was soothing to the child.
• An action plan was developed that related to resolving the feeling of worry.
• Mother and child were able to close the incident with affection.
What had the potential to be an example of disconnection (criticism or dismissal by mother, escalating distress by child) was transformed into an experience of attunement.
*Names and identifying information changed.


An optical method was developed to measure the two-dimensional (2D) surface curvatures of electronic packages by employing four laser beams. Each laser beam measures the slopes of the surface at the incident point along two perpendicular directions. By combining four pairs of slopes, the 2D surface curvatures of the package can be calculated. The surface warpage of an underfilled flip-chip package during thermal cycling was measured by this method and the result was verified by finite element analysis (FEA). Both experimental and FEA results show that the surface warpage is almost a linear function of temperature between 25°C and 150°C for the measured package.
An Optical Method for Measuring the Two-Dimensional Surface Curvatures of Electronic Packages During Thermal Cycling
Contributed by the Electrical and Electronic Packaging Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGING. Manuscript received by the EEPD September 10, 1999; revised manuscript received March 21, 2000. Associate Editor: R. Schmidt.
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Distance learning: These digital interactive books are hosted on the Boom Learning℠ Site. Each story is read aloud, includes 8 pages, and student will drag and drop to match the correct picture on each page.
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These interactive/adapted books are designed to help your students become more comfortable readers and more fluent speakers.
The sentences on the bottom all follow the same format of "I feel ___", "I eat ___", "I like ___", etc. Using carrier phrases like this help students get used to speaking in longer sentences and once you have them speaking in sentences while reading, you can encourage that even more in everyday activities!
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New Delhi, June 30: Improved packaging of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) could reduce infant mortality rates in developing countries like India.
Simple changes in packaging can lead to significant increase in the willingness of caregivers to provide ORS to their children.
Infant dehydration due to diarrhea results in 600,000 deaths annually in the developing world due to inappropriate or no treatment. ORS is a key medicine to combat diarrhea.
Caregivers indicated that current ORS packaging designs had inappropriately large sachets, lacking clear usage details and were visually unappealing.
"Every additional sachet of ORS sold because of improved aesthetic appeal has the potential to save the life of a child with diarrhea.
Making simple changes to the packaging of an existing product is an easily implementable strategy that could begin immediately.
The majority of ORS sachets on the market are packaged to make a liter of solution. A primary concern of the rural caregivers interviewed was the inconvenience and wastage created through sourcing a liter of clean water to make a solution that needed to be consumed within a 24-hour time period.
Reducing the sachet size to make a smaller volume will reduce this potential for waste, reduce the cost per sachet and increase product appeal.


The Ashtagrama Iyers are a group of Vadama Iyers
or South Indian Brahmins with their roots in the Ashtagrama villages situated in the Kolar
district of Karnataka
The Ancient history of this sect is not clearly known but it is believed thatin the early 16th century a few of the Iyers from the North Arcot and the Tanjavur
districts of Tamil Nadu migrated to the Ashtagrama group of villages, at the request of the existing government, as learned Priests, Vedic Scholars and Agriculturists. They soon transformed it from a once poor community, into a well-educated and prosperous one.
Ashtagrama (literally,'eight villages') consists of several villages which are located in the Valley of the Palar River
, which flows through the Kolar district into Tamil Nadu. The 10 villages on the North side of the river are Cholagunte, Doddiganahalli, Devarayasamudra, Gangigunte, Honnagaanahalli, Kothamangala, Minijenahalli, Thattangunte, Vijalapura and Yelagundanahalli. The remainder of the villages, Aralakunte, Chamarahalli, Gangapura, Hunkunda and Shillangeri are on the southern side of the river. Though the Iyers form the majority of the population all these villages show communal diversity.Main business of Ashtagram Iyers is hotel business, many of them scattered across southern karnataka and established their hotels.Major population of Ashtagram Iyers stay in Kolar, Bangalore and USA.
Customs and beliefs
Most of the customs of the Ashtagrama Iyers remain the same as... Read More


One of the hallmarks of science is questions. Even the abstract instructions for this ESA meeting indicate that the talk "should address some question." Not necessarily answer it -- just address it.
Conversations between scientists and reporters about environmental sciences often involve the reporter asking the expert questions such as: How fast will it get warmer? Is the drought over? What effect will losing Species A have on the ecosystem? Members of the media look for certainty from scientific experts, but instead are often given answers like, "More research is needed." "We don't know, because this species is understudied." Or "Our best guess is ... ."
It appears that the so-called experts don't know anything -- so then what's the point of asking them? In fact, in the political arena, the other side offers certainty: The amount of CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere is minuscule, the Earth has had warmer climates in the past, and we're still here. Besides, it will be good for agriculture because plants need carbon dioxide to grow; Rainfall has been normal for the past four months; Extinction is a natural process.
The problem for the reporter on deadline is -- who you gonna call? And who will sound more credible to your editor and your readers?
This talk will discuss how experts who are all-too-aware of the amount they don't know can better communicate what they do indeed know, error bars and all, to the media, and thereby the public.


Definition of steam railroad
1 : a railroad for steam locomotives
2 : a railroad required to make reports in accordance with a uniform system of accounts for railroad companies prescribed by the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
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HISTORY OF HOMEWORK
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, December 19, 1999
Mid-19th century: Most students leave school after sixth grade. High school homework is demanding but uncontroversial.
1900-1913: Ladies' Home Journal takes up a crusade against homework, enlisting doctors and parents who say it damages children's health.
1899-1915: Various school districts around the country, including San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, pass anti-homework regulations.
1901: California legislature passes law abolishing homework in grades K-8, and limiting it in high school.
1948: National survey shows that median amount of time spent on homework by high school students is three to four hours per week.
1940's-1960's: Educational debate shifts from abolishing homework to reforming homework and making it more creative and individualized.
1949-1955: Progressive education
movement comes under attack, charged with being anti-intellectual and insufficiently rigorous. Pro-homework movement forms.
1957: Launch of Sputnik gives pro-homework movement a boost, setting off concerns that American students aren't keeping up with Russian counterparts.
1983: "A Nation At Risk" denounces "rising tide of mediocrity" in American schools. Three years later, the U.S. Department of Education publishes pamphlet called "What Works" and concludes that homework does.
1990s: Overwhelming consensus in favor of homework: among both educators and general public. Many districts have policies requiring homework. Survey shows level of high school homework hasn't increased, but amount given to kids in elementary school has gone up dramatically.


Do you know the many health benefits of aerobic exercises. There are so many aerobic types to choose from, so there's no way you can't find one for your taste and have fum while doing aerobics.
Health benefits of aerobic exercises
There are two kinds of aerobic exercises and they both have in common one major thing: air. Aerobics means, in fact, "in the presence of oxygen".
This major life-supporting element is brought to us into different ways: low-impact (swimming, walking, cycling, rowing) and high-impact aerobics (jogging, skipping, jumping jacks, stair climbing).
As an extra to all these activities, people can now practice more fun exercises, like aerobic dancing, kickboxing, water aerobics and Zumba (a combination of regular aerobics and Latin dance).
No matter what kind of aerobics you decide to practice, this healthy way of moving has its well defined health benefits. So what are they?
Your fitness level changes during aerobics, thus it burns calories.
Let's put it in another way: you burn more calories compared to a sedentary person even during sleep. Your heart will feel excellent, you will move faster, you'll get less tired and your body will be in a great shape. Also, aerobics increase the basic metabolic rate.
Having a fast metabolism is simply great - the more lean muscle mass you have, the faster your metabolism, and the faster is the process of burning fat.
Aerobics change entirely your life style, if you are really serious
It raises your fitness level, it decreases your body mass index and blood pressure, and it calms you by relieving anxiety and tension. Your lipid profile will be improved, and so it will be your blood pressure. You'll be proud of your flexibility and you'll look better than ever!


What force values go in the blanks on the horizontal scale?
The figure (attached as an image) shows an acceleration-versus-force graph for a 600 g object.
The Attempt at a Solution
I was thinking from F=ma that:
a) F=5X600 = 3000N
b) F=10X600 = 6000N
But my answer is definitely not being accepted by the computer so i must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?
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See attached file for full problem description.
1. Find dy for each of the following functions.
d) y=square root 5x - square root x/5
2. a) Find the slope of the tangent to the curve y=4x^3-3x^2+1 at the point where x=-1.
b) Find the equation of the tangent to the curve y=2x-x2 that is perpendicular to the line x+4y-8=0.
3. If f(x)=320, find the derivative of f(x). Clearly give reason(s) for the answer.
4. Given f(x)=x3-1/2x^2+1. Find the value of x where dy =4.
The solution shows how to apply basic rules to calculate the derivatives of functions and equation of tangent line in detail.


The team had to make sure all the robots and lights were in place and the synchronicity of all the elements was intact.
The means involved in achieving this synchronicity are characteristic of the various stages in human evolution.
1580s, "quality of being synchronous," from Modern Latin synchronismus, from Greek synchronismos, from synchronos (see synchronous). Meaning "recurring at the same successive instants of time" is from 1854.
synchronism syn·chro·nism (sĭng'krə-nĭz'əm, sĭn'-)
Coincidence in time; simultaneousness. Also called synchronia.


During her fieldwork, Freya van Kersteren was followed by a film crew who has managed to capture some unique footage of her activities in Bale Mountains National Park, the largest remaining afro-alpine habitat in the world. At the start of this movie, Freya states that there is a lot of pressure of the land here in Ethiopia, with almost 20.000 people permanently living in the park.
At the time that the film crew visited Freya, there is an actual rabies outbreak amongst the wolves. Freya explains how she believes that this outbreak originates from the domestic dogs. The dogs are there to guard people’s houses, and when the wolves come to close to people’s houses the dogs chase them away, and that is how they can infect the wolves through their bites. The elegant long-legged creatures, Africa’s most endangered canids, are seriously threatened in their existence with rabies as one of their main enemies.
Freya carries her work out at least 4200 metres above sea level, and the footage clearly shows that her daily task to follow the wolves is not an easy one in this rugged area of thin air. In fact, her work required extraordinary willpower and stamina, and Freya proved us that she has it all. She managed to live with the wolves for 9 months per year, for several years and succeeded in collecting valuable fecal samples that have now enabled us to have unique new knowledge about the reproduction of this animal. The footage you can view here will give you an insight into what the work really entailed.


The objective of the "Underground Railroad and its Connection to the Ohio Valley" program is to educate the general public with the emphasis on youth. Our program, which is taken to the public, includes the use of hands on materials contained in the "Traveling Trunk." We are committed to increasing public knowledge of the Underground Railroad, the lives of countless freedom seekers that fought and struggled in order to escape slavery in the south by crossing the Ohio River particularly in the area of Wheeling, Virginia, and the abolitionists who were relentless in their condemnation of slavery.
Visitor Information: Currently open to public.
Location: 206 High Street, P.O. Box 47, Flushing, 43977
National Park Unit: No
Ownership: Underground Railroad Museum Fdn, Inc.
Location Type: Program


Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko
Published by Wendy Lamb Books in 2015.
Middle grade students will love this historical fiction story! Flash back to 1900’s San Francisco where there may be a plague outbreak. Lizzie realizes that their cook hid his son in her house to keep him safe, but now Jing, the cook is stuck because they quarentined Chinatown. Lizzie works to connect Jing and his son, but it’s difficult when you are an 11 year old girl. And it also turns out that there may be more to this plague than meets the eye.
This story has a great pace, great characters, and allows the reader to think about gender boundries and racial boundries.
“Just remember there’s a price to pay for secrets. Trust is what holds us together, Lizzie. Secrets tear us apart.” (p. 168)
“How can you decide one life is more valuable than another?” (p. 227)


Reactor Water Chemistry
Without references, DESCRIBE the effects of radiation on reactor water and methods of
treatment for the products.
DESCRIBE the process of radiolytic decomposition and recombination of water.
DESCRIBE the process of radiolytic decomposition and recombination of nitric acid and
STATE the advantage of maintaining excess hydrogen in reactor water.
STATE the three sources of radioactivity in reactor water and each ones decay product.
STATE the following for reactor water chemistry.
Nine parameters controlled
Reason for controlling each parameter
Method of controlling each parameter
STATE the possible effects of abnormal chemistry on core conditions.


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A trisomy is when there are three copies of a chromosome. Normally in humans there is only two copies of any given chromosome. The most notable condition is Trisomy 21 syndrome which is better known as Down Syndrome, a form of developmental genetic disorder.
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S-RNase-based self-incompatibility (SI) occurs in the Solanaceae, Rosaceae and Plantaginaceae, with S-RNases determining the specificity of pollen rejection in the pistil and S-locus F-box proteins fulfilling this function in pollen. McClure et al. introduce the genetics of SI and briefly describe the characteristics of S-RNases and pollen F-box proteins. Two alternative mechanisms have been proposed whereby compatibility is explained either as a result of degradation of non-self S-RNase or by its compartmentalization so that it does not have access to the pollen tube cytoplasm. These models are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but each makes different predictions about whether pollen compatibility or incompatibility is the default.


Quarter Note Strumming
The videos below are to be used as a training device to assist you in making smooth chord changes. The goal is to play through each of the 5 chord progressions without error and by knowing the chord names by memory.
- Each chord receives 8 strums. We are not worried about doing fancy strumming patterns yet - Right now we want to separate our focus and only concentrate on the hand that is making the chord shapes. Once we get smooth at making the chords with our fretting hand, then we will add strumming patterns later.
- Count each strum in your head 1-8. I also count the number of strums in the videos, but sometimes I don't say every number, this is where you need to continue counting.
- If you are unable to change every chord, then just play every OTHER chord until you are able to start changing chords more frequently.
Chord Progression 1
Chord Progression 2
Chord Progression 3
Chord Progression 4
Chord Progression 5
A More Difficult Challenge
Below are the chords used in this video. Each chord is only strummed 4x on this one, so please make sure that you write down and prepare for each chord you are going to play. Start out by playing every other chord.
G / C / Am / D / G / Em / C / D / Am / C


In the beginning, Pyrex was marketed as a luxury item and sales were strong. But in the mid-twenties Pyrex sales stagnated. To find out why, Corning Glass Works began a partnership in 1925 with J. Walter Thompson, a major advertising and marketing agency.
J. Walter Thompson conducted an in-depth investigation with dealers and consumers in southern New England, eastern New York, and southern Ohio. Based on the results, J. Walter Thompson drew a couple of conclusions. First, it appeared that Pyrex advertising was reaching people; the reason for stagnating sales wasn’t lack of advertising. Second, the survey showed that people found Pyrex too expensive—a luxury item more suitable as a gift rather than used for everyday cooking. J. Walter Thompson recommended cuts to the Pyrex line of 39 pieces to lower manufacturing costs. The second recommendation made was about the marketing of Pyrex. They also suggested that marketing a set of everyday dishes could lead to stronger sales. The result: a kitchen set of everyday Pyrex for $5.15 sold through department stores, helping the public see Pyrex as more than just a luxury product.
These changes helped to stop the declining sales of Pyrex, but the product line did not see much growth in sales. J. Walter Thompson again brought up steep manufacturing costs passed on to the consumer through high prices. Corning worked on bringing down costs and by 1933 all production of Pyrex was fully automated, reducing the price of products by half. J. Walter Thompson also suggested that glass would always be novelty unless it could be used on top of the stove as well as in the oven. Corning began working on a top-of-the-stove product and by 1936 had developed Flameware.


Layers are how collected data is organized in Touch GIS. Think of layers as folders that hold groups of collected or imported point, line, or polygon features. Touch GIS offers many features for organizing and managing your data layers.
Access a project's layers by tapping the 'Layers' button in the lower left corner of the screen.
Layer Visibility Toggle layer visibility on/off by tapping the switch on the layers folder icon. Swithing visibility to off means all features and sublayers will not be displayed on the base map.
Edit Name To edit a layer's name simply tap on a layer's name in the upper tool bar.
Reorder Layers To reorder layers, tap the 'Edit' button in the upper right corner of the layer panel. You'll see drag bars appear. Tap and drag on these bars to move layers up or down in the hierarchy.
Delete Layers To delete layers, tap the 'Edit' button in the upper right corner of the layer panel. You'll see red delete buttons appear next to each layer. Tap the delete button on the layer you want to delete, then confirm your decision.
Add Layer This feature allows you to create a new sublayer inside the current layer you're viewing.
Number of Features in Layer This displays the number of features housed inside a sublayer.
Share Layers To access sharing option for a layer (or entire project if you're viewing the master layer) simply tap Share in the options bar at the bottom of the layers panel.
Import Layers To import data to your layers, simply tap Import button in the options bar at the bottom of the layers panel.
Move A Layer Use this feature to move a layer inside or out of another layer.
Layer Opacity Set the opacity of a layer and all it's sublayers.
Lock Layer This feature locks a layer, meaning it is visible on the base map but features in that layer are not selectable.


MASSACRES AND DEPORTATIONS
Aug 31, 1921.
LONDON, August 29.
The Constantinople correspondent of
"the Times" says disquieting news
comes from the interior of Anatolia.
There is no doubt that the Nationalist
authorities have revived the policy of
the Committee of Union and Progress
of massacring or deporting Greeks and
Many Greeks from the Black Sea
littoral have been killed, and one con-
voy of deportees which started 900
strong, has reached Sivas with only
200 left. Some 5000 Turkish Arme-
nians, including women and children,
have been deported. Many were mas-
sacred or died on the march.
The Nationalists care little for Eur-
opean or American opinion, but they
profess to respect the opinion of Mos-
lems in India. The correspondent
writes: "Is it too much to ask the
responsible leaders of Indian Moslems
to use their influence at Angora to
prevent a repetion of the horrors of
1915 and 1916. No prominent In-
dian's voice has yet denounced the
Turkish tyranny over Christians."


The Age of Dinosaurs
During the Mesozoic Era, from 228 million to 65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the earth. In 1822, British physician Gideon Mantell discovered the first dinosaur fossil—a jawbone. In the more than 190 years since Dr. Mantell’s find, a large number of dinosaur fossils have been unearthed all over the world. Through research, identification and restoration work, paleontologists now have a clearer picture of dinosaur anatomy and muscle structure, and can build reconstructions to relive the age of dinosaurs.
In August of 2004, renovations to the Dinosaur Gallery were completed. The most obvious addition is an animated Tyrannosaurus rex model measuring four meters in height and seven meters in length. There is also a pair of animated models of Velociraptors which demonstrate how these predators took down their prey. Other exhibits of interest include the bones of an Ankylosaurus, fossilized specimens of an Oviraptor group that was buried together, and Tyrannosaurus rex skull and skeleton. On the 2nd floor are more exhibits including those that answer the question, “What are dinosaurs?” Archaeopteryx is also introduced. Don’t forget to look up to see ancient flying reptiles gliding overhead.


Some residents in the Upper Midwest were surprised to be shaken by an earthquake last night.
The United States Geological Survey reported that the earthquake, which had an estimated magnitude of 4.3, was centered near Virgil, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago, at a depth of about three miles. There were no immediate reports of aftershocks... Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the agency, said that the tremor was only the second notable earthquake in more than 30 years to rattle the area. Even though the quake was relatively small, it was felt by residents as far away as southern Wisconsin...
One of the best sources for information on earthquakes is the U. S. Geological Survey; the map above shows that earthquakes are common along the Pacific coast, but in just the past week they have also been recorded near the New Madrid fault and in New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and the Rockies. A comparable map of world earthquakes is available at the same link.
News link. USGS link.


Each question in this quiz is timed.
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Which of the following is considered a primary lymphoid organ:
Neutrophils recognize their target through :
MHC-restricted antigen presentation
Pattern recognition receptors
A low molecular weight substance can't induce immune response unless conjugated to carrier molecules is called
The cell wall of Gram negative bacteria is formed of all the following layers except :
Which of these bacteria are naturally occurring with defective cell wall:
None of the above


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Nov 13, 2013
From staff reports
With more than 200 million drivers on U.S. roads, you have to figure that not everyone understands or plays by the same rules of the road. But with more than 10 million motor vehicle crashes per year, improving road safety is critically important.
Deborah McAvoy, associate professor of civil engineering in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology, will deliver her Science Café discussion, "Roadway Design for Dummies," at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20 in the Baker University Center Front Room.
During the talk, she will turn the Front Room into a test driver laboratory, complete with video displays and tests of the reaction times of drivers.
"Different drivers have different needs and we need to know how to better accommodate those needs," McAvoy said.
McAvoy added that when some people see a "stop" sign in the distance they slow down in preparation, while others do not react to the sign until the last minute. Through research and testing, she comes up with alternative roadway designs that will accommodate a wider variety of drivers and their perceptions.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Science Cafés and Cafe' Conversations are venues for students interested in informally sharing their interests during a conversational exchange with faculty, staff and the community in a friendly setting.


NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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- aminoglycoside antibiotic
- listen (uh-MEE-noh-GLY-koh-side AN-tee-by-AH-tik)
- A substance that works against many types of bacteria and includes streptomycin, gentamicin, and neomycin. An aminoglycoside antibiotic is used to treat bacterial infections.


educating our children and young people, and families and
friends supply the informal portions of their educations.
Both of these portions of a child's education are of equal
importance. They both contribute greatly to a child's
learning experience. They affect the way a child thinks
and communicates with society.
"Formal education is the hierarchically
structured, chronologically graded 'education system',
running from primary school through the university and
including, in addition to general academic studies, a
variety of specialized programs and institutions for
full-time technical and professional training."(Smith)
Formal education contributes greatly to a child's
development because this is how the child will learn the
sciences and arts. It helps people acquire the skills they
need for such everyday activities as reading a newspaper or
managing their money. It also gives them the specialized
training they may need to prepare for a job or career.
People must meet certain educational requirements and get a license or certificate before they can practice accounting, law, or medicine.
"Informal education is a truly lifelong process
whereby every individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experience and the educative influences and resources in his or her environment - from family and neighbors, from work and play, from the market place, the library and the mass media."(Smith) Informal education contributes greatly to a child's development because this is were he/she will learn all the other things about life that they wouldn't learn at school. This has more influence on how the child will learn to interact with others. Informal education is an essential part of a child's education; this is how the child will become "street smart". "Street smart" means that the child will obtain the knowledge and skills to survive by...


EXTRACTION METHODS OF NATURAL ESSENTIAL OILS. Essential oils are used in a wide variety of consumer goods such as detergents, soaps,.
Chapter 1. An Overview of Extraction Techniques for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. .. 1.3.6 Modern (Non-traditional) Methods of Extraction of Essential Oils .
PDF Worldwide there is a wide variety of plants and spices that have different uses. Essential oil extraction can be made by traditional or emergent methods;
Describe secondary metabolite extraction methods. â€¢ Extract essential oils from biomass using steam distillation equipment. Pre-Lab. Background. Secondary .
The conventional extraction techniques and their intensifications are sum- marized. Keywords Essential oils Â· Extraction techniques Â· Optimization Â· Innovation.
composition, extraction methods, bioactivities, and their applications, particularly with the. . method for plant essential oil extraction (Reverchon and Senatore.


A4) Gains and Losses in Living Biomass and Deadwood
This action aims at describing best practices and/or proposing alternative emission factors for living biomass and deadwood in cropland and grassland, including:
Characterisation of typical management cycles of permanent crops for use in annual estimation of gains and losses in permanent crops and grassland (i.e. net and/or gross growth rates, average crop productions, losses from pruning, losses from wildfires, etc.).
Characterization of typical biomass stocks per type of crop/management system for use in estimating carbon losses in land-use conversions associated with conversions from permanent crops or grasslands to other land uses.
Characterisation of gains and losses in deadwood, including characterisation of how losses in living biomass are treated and processed by farmers (e.g. composting, field burning, left to decay, collected for biomass burning, etc.)


Discuss the supernatural elements in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
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This literary ballad clearly contains many fantastical elements that are obviously supernatural. Important to note is the way that Coleridge in this poem creates a spirit that embodies Nature itself, called the Polar Spirit, that pursues the ship and rains down suffering and punishment on the vessel because of the thoughtless act of the Mariner in killing the albatross. However, arguably these supernatural elements are used as a way of presenting the torments that guilt can inflict on the human soul and the terrible expiation necessary for those who sin against nature in such a shocking fashion.
Of course, the pain and guilt experienced by the Mariner are a product of the pain and guilt of Coleridge himself, as suffered through his opium addiction, and so we are left to wonder if the fantastical elements that feature so strongly in this poem are dreamt up out of the opium-fevered imagination of its author. Either way, the supernatural elements show the force of The Polar Spirit, representing Nature, and the danger of taking Nature for granted.
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Prevention of Croup
Because most cases of croup develop from a cold or flu virus, one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk for croup is to teach children to wash their hands frequently throughout the day. Hand washing can help prevent the spread of cold and flu viruses that can lead to croup.
Teach children the proper technique for hand washing:
- Use soap and warm water.
- Rub hands together for 1520 seconds (about the time it takes to say the alphabet or sing "Happy Birthday").
- Make sure to wash the backs of hands, wrists, between fingers, and under fingernails.
- Rinse and dry the hands with a clean towel.
Help children get in the habit of washing their hands before eating, after going to the bathroom, after sneezing or coughing into their hands, and after playing outside or with pets.
Other ways to prevent the spread of viruses that can lead to croup include avoiding contact with other children and adults who are sick and eliminating the child's exposure to smoke, dust, and other respiratory irritants and allergens.
Vaccination also can reduce a child's risk for developing croup. These vaccines (immunizations) include the following:
- Diphtheria (part of DTaP, DT, and Td vaccines)
- Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib vaccine)
- Measles (part of MMR, MR, and measles vaccines)
Speak with your child's physician if you have any questions about these vaccines.


This Open eBook allows you to copy and paste text and certain images into a word processing program. You can also enable the Typewriter function and type directly onto the page. Learn more!
The activities in this book move students from the ability to read words to the ability to manipulate words into concrete, meaningful, and readable sentences. Includes full-color word cards, sentence-building mats, and reproducible activities to extend student earning.
Please note: In the eBook version of this title, cards and mats are not on card stock.
Build-a-Sentence introduces students to the fundamental concept that words go together to make sentences. The interactive, hands-on activities in this book are designed to move students from the ability to read sight words and decodable words to the ability to manipulate words into concrete, meaningful, and readable sentences.
These ready-to-use full-color cards and mats make it easy to get your sentence-building center up and running today! This resource also includes a variety of ideas for multiple ways to use the materials and reproducible activities to extend children's learning. Get children excited about reading and writing sentences with the ideas and activities in Build-a-Sentence.
Scaffold your students' learning with all three books in this series! Begin with the concept that letters make words, transition to words make sentences, and finish with sentences make stories!


April 7, 2006
Outbound for the Frontier, New Horizons Crosses the Orbit of Mars
New Horizons' trailblazing journey to the solar system's outermost frontier took it past the orbit of Mars today at 6 a.m. EDT (1000 UTC), 78 days after the spacecraft launched.
At the time, because of Mars' position in its orbit, New Horizons was actually closer to Earth than to Mars — just 93.5 million kilometers (58.1 million miles) from home, compared to 299 million kilometers (186 million miles) from the red planet. Speeding away from the Sun at 21 kilometers (about 13 miles) per second, the spacecraft crossed Mars' path some 243 million kilometers (151 million miles) from the Sun — close to the farthest point in Mars' elliptical 687-day orbit.
New Horizons reaches its next planetary milestone on February 28, 2007, when it makes its closest approach to Jupiter. Unlike the distant Mars passing today, the Jupiter encounter will be at close range, allowing New Horizons to make important scientific observations and to test procedures for its Pluto encounter in 2015. Additionally, New Horizons will use Jupiter's powerful gravity to boost its speed and adjust its course toward Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.The green line denotes New Horizons' actual travel distance from Earth, 260 million kilometers (161.6 million miles) since launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Jan 19, 2006.


AP United States History
18 February 2014
New Deal DBQ
Emerging from the “roaring twenties” came one of the hardest times known to Americans, the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, president Franklin D. Roosevelt used many revolutionary tactics to alleviate the American economy. Although Roosevelt did not end the Great Depression, he provided public service jobs, the movement for social security, and the implementation of a “blanket code” for the rights of workers. These tactics revolutionized the role of the federal government. Roosevelts “New Deal” is what reformed America's worst problem, unemployment. The New Deal modernized the American government and introduced the idea of the government caring for the citizens. As seen in the Unemployment of nonfarm workers by percentage and number (Doc J) funded projects like city beautification helped lower the percentage of people 8unemployed. In 1935, Roosevelt's administration created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which brought America closer to ending the horrifying unemployment problem. The government was now stronger and had a bond with the public necessary for any government as seen in “The New Deal in Review” editorial in The New Republic, May 20, 1940 (Doc H). The New Deal strengthened the government by creating reform boards like the NRA. Emerging from this, was a boost of confidence from the public that the government was trying to help them. From this confidence came the concept of social security.
He also established a social security in 1935. After implementing the Social Security
Act, social security became insurance for the elderly and the unemployed and supplied them a monthly payment. It was similarly advertised like Print and Photograph Division, Library of Congress, 1935 (Doc E). Social security was another attempt of the government to aid the ...
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Independence is the ability to do things for ourselves and think for ourselves.
Your child becomes independent through his own activity. What should you let
your child do? By being included in simple daily activities, he begins to understand
routines, his role in the family, and his own abilities. When you offer choices at the
right times and only lend a hand when he needs help, you are saying to him,
"I know you can do this by yourself." He gains skills, confidence, and an
"I can do it" attitude, which he will take with him throughout his life.


OverviewThe pericardium is a thin double-layered sac which encloses the heart. Fluid is contained within the layers and lubricates the constantly rubbing surfaces.
Review Date 2/22/2018
Updated by: Michael A. Chen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


Hawaii has ban most sunscreens in an effort to help protest the region’s dying coral reefs.
The ban, which is the first in the world, will halt the sale of creams containing oxybenzone or octinoxate except to those with a prescription.
Only those with a medically prescribed sunscreen containing the chemicals will be allowed to obtain the product.
Some 70 per cent of sunscreens sold in the US are thought to contain oxybenzone and 8 per cent use octinoxate.
Sunscreen makers opposed the Hawaiian bill, as did some dermatologists, who worry about sunburns and skin cancer.
Studies have shown that oxybenzone and octinoxate, which filter ultraviolet radiation and are commonly found in cream-based sunscreens, cause bleaching in coral reefs. By changing the DNA in coral cells, the chemicals cause the cells to starve and die, according to the research.
“This bill is a small first step worldwide to really caring about our corals and our reefs in a way that no one else anywhere in the world has done,” said the Governor.
“We are blessed in Hawaii to be home of some of the most beautiful natural resources on the planet, but our natural environment is fragile, and our own interaction with the Earth can have everlasting impacts,” Ige said.
The ban -which impacts more than 3,500 of the most popular sunscreen products- goes into effect on January 1, 2021.


Stative inferential is used for state of affairs described by nominal predicates (names, adjectives, bor, yo'q, kerak, etc.),
and expresses that the knowledge of the fact is inferred from evidence,
be it sensorial perception, logical deduction or direct report from a trusted source.
That knowledge is most often presented as new information, sometimes unexpected, for the speaker himself.
The temporal distinction between a past and a present state of affairs is not marked grammatically,
the tense must be decided from the context.
The knowledge might be inferred from sensorial perception:
Anor juda shirin ekan.
The pomegranate is really sweet. (I did not expect it to be so sweet)
The knowledge might be inferred from logical deduction:
Qo'lidagi tangalarni sanab ko'rdi, yigirma tanga ekan.
He counted the money he had in his hand, that amounted to 20 tanga.
The knowledge might be obtained from a direct report from a trusted source:
Doktor aytdi, men sog' ekanman.
The doctor said that I am in a good health.
Kechirasiz, necha pul ekan?
Excuse me, which price did they say finally?
The state of affairs may have occurred in the past:
Siz kecha yo'q ekansiz.
(It seems) that you weren't there last night.
Do'konga kirdim, sut yo'q ekan.
I went into the shop, there wasn't any milk left.


The Abingdon Road Station was on the Great Western Railway. This view shows a locomotive hauling a horse-driven carriage (without the horse) on a wagon. This was the way in which the gentry would travel in the early years of the railways. On the right horses can be seen being stabled and in the centre a toll house is visible.
© NRM / Pictorial Collection / Science & Society Picture Library


epidemics from space
A highly controversial suggestion, by Fred Hoyle
and Chandra Wickramasinghe, that
viruses carried by comets,
and released from their tails, are the cause of mass outbreaks of influenza
and other viral diseases on Earth.1 Although the great majority
of scientists are dismissive of this idea, it was lent some credence by
the detection, in 1987, of a polymeric form of the organic molecule formaldehyde
in the dust from Halley's Comet by
the Giotto probe. Christopher Chyba
and Carl Sagan of Cornell University commented
at the time that the observations "strongly suggest the presence of complex
organic grains or organic-coated grains". There remains, however, an immense
gulf between the growing recognition that some types of basic organic chemical
synthesis do take place in space and acceptance of the idea that the evolution
of primitive life-forms takes place on cosmic
dust grains as proposed by Hoyle and Wickramasinghe.
- Hoyle, Fred, and Wickramasinghe, Chandra. Viruses From Space.
Cardiff: University College Cardiff Press (1986).
life in space