perhaps because the types now grown have rather poor foliage on the stems.
Pasture: It is of little value for pasture, as the second growth is poor.
When sown alone, ten to fifteen pounds of good seed should be used to the acre. No advantage in yield is gained by seeding more thickly on dry soils; on the contrary, it is apt to lessen the yield in succeeding years.
Seed: It is ready to cut for seed when the spikelets are of a greenish-straw colour, which stage is reached, under normal conditions, three to four weeks after flowering. It can be cut with a binder, cured like Timothy and threshed in a grain thresher.
Quality of seed: The seed is bright straw-coloured, from a third to half an inch long, awnless or with a short, straight awn at the tip.
WESTERN WHEAT GRASS (Agropyron occidentale Scribn.)
Other Latin name: Agropyron Smithii Rydb.
Other English names: Colorado Blue-stem, Blue-joint, Alkali Grass.
Western Wheat Grass is strongly perennial with a creeping root-stock similar to that of Couch Grass. The plants do not grow in tufts, like Western Rye Grass, but form an open sod with scattered stems and leafy shoots like Couch Grass. The whole plant is bluish green which accounts for the names Blue-stem and Blue-joint. The stems are from one to four feet high and rather stout. The leaves are comparatively long, firm in texture, flat, or in dry localities rolled together. The inflorescence is strongly flattened, broader and denser than that of Western Rye Grass. The spikelets are about twice as long and contain a greater number of flowers—generally about eight. In a spikelet of Western Rye the two lowest glumes are about as long as the whole spikelet, whereas in Western Wheat they are about half as long.
Western Wheat Grass is indigenous to western Canada from Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains. In the United States it extends westward from Michigan and Kansas.


Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, devastating families at an increasing rate worldwide. While it is not clear how the disease begins, it is certain that Alzheimer's affects women and the elderly more often, and that brain tissues are destroyed by the disease. Symptoms involve long-term memory loss, confusion, depression, paranoia and personality changes.
It has been suggested that hormone replacement therapy can put someone at risk for the disease, although this has not yet been proven conclusively. Some drugs have been developed to improve cognitive function, although there is as yet no cure and these drugs often produce uncomfortable side effects such as nausea and diarrhea.
How can natural medicine help with Alzheimer's?
Natural medicine can help prevent and manage Alzheimer's. Acupuncture and TCM can assist in improving brain function, while at the same time dealing with the side effects of the conventional drugs used. Naturopathic medicine and supplements such as zinc are very helpful. Recently, studies show that mental activities such as crossword puzzles can delay the onset of the disease, as can exercise such as yoga. And something gentle such as craniosacral therapy can do wonders for the brain as well.
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease condition in which inflammation happens in the central nervous system, perhaps leading to the battered myelin sheaths. In general, it is a demyelinating disease that possibly blocks or delays the electrical signals flowing across the nerve. For instance, this would result in symptoms like immobility to move, delayed reflex, and also memory.
While researching Japanese macaque encephalomyelitis at the primate center, the scientists observed T-cells that attack the myelin sheath of the CNS. These T-cells were the result of the body’s immune response probably acting on myelin receptor and thus destroying it.
Interestingly, they noticed that the epitopes of T cell targeting myelin in the monkey are identical to humans suffering from MS. Altogether, they find a link to it and are trying to develop an antiviral therapy. They hope that it leverages the immune response and would become eye-opening research that might help MS patients shortly. Also, when we are thorough about the mechanism of the herpes virus, we could probably improvise the vaccine strategies.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Mapping a 100 Years of Revolution
100 Years of Unrest is a Leaflet map plotting the history of social unrest across the world over the last century. The map's focus is on social unrest caused by the fight for human rights, freedom and independence.
100 Years of Unrest shows the locations of major protests, uprisings, rebellions & revolts, civil wars, wars for independence and revolutions across the globe from 1913 until the present day. The map includes a timeline control which enables you to filter the map by date-range.
The data for the map comes from Wikipedia. The map's creators admit that the map is by no means complete. However the map does have enough data to pick up some of the major trends in social unrest over the last 100 years. For example, if you set the timeline to show just the data from 2011, you can clearly see the results of the Arab Spring on the map in north Africa.


An LA Times review of the ancient Vietnam exhibition currently on at the Asia Society Museum in New York.
‘Arts of Ancient Viet Nam’
LA Times, 21 February 2010
The show, which runs through May 2, is remarkable for its scale, scope and beauty. The more than 100 objects, which have never appeared together before in an exhibit (not even in Vietnam), span almost 2,000 years. Because the exhibit spans such a wide period and includes different cultures, it is hard to point to a defining Vietnamese aesthetic. Rather, each of the four cultures on display have borrowed iconography and expressions from different parts of the world.
Organized chronologically, the show begins with two contemporary early cultures, the Dong Son and the Sa Huynh, who lived, respectively, in the north and the central-south part of the country until the 2nd century AD.
Like many cultures that appear to us centuries after their demise, the Sa Huynh are best viewed through their burial objects — in this case, large, upright clay jars that held the dead along with offerings such as weapons and pottery — and objects such as Chinese mirrors found at Sa Huynh sites suggest that the culture was a center for trade and exchange.
The most impressive remnants from the Dong Son culture are the large bronze drums on display, intricately patterned with abstract bands and images of people, which, along with chicken-headed ceramics, reveal a strong Chinese influence.


Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia, and its prevalence increases with aging and the severity of heart disease. AF affects more than 2 million people in the US, and more than 4 million in Europe. It is expected that the age adjusted prevalence in US will excede 10 million people by the year 2050 . In the last decade, we were able to see the light shed by several trials that dealt with AF mechanisms and the appropriate management of AF patients. Clinical studies have focused mainly on the electrophysiological properties of the substrate in the atrial muscle during sinus rhythm and on the atrial electrical responses elicited by premature stimulation method . However, many fundamental aspects of this arrhythmia have been poorly understood until quite recently, and there are several features on the mechanisms of AF that makes it difficult to manage it properly. Increasing awareness of AF as a disease with possible fatal complications rather than as an acceptable alternative to sinus rhythm has led to search for clear arguments to support a certain strategy as a gold standard.
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The Cause Of Fever Is Accompanied By Coughing, Runny Nose And Breathing Sounds In Children Aged 3 Years?
Symptoms of what illness my child initially had a fever, runny nose, cough, breath sounds. Difficult to eat and drink
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I have to confirm beforehand if fever is the main symptom? If so, fever complaints can occur due to various causes. Complaints of fever are also usually followed by various other complaints such as shortness of breath, runny nose, cough, nausea, vomiting, headaches, muscle and joint pain, lack of appetite, etc.
Some causes of fever include:
Bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever Viral infections, such as influenza, dengue fever, COVID-19 Parasitic infections, such as intestinal worms, malaria, giardiasis Anemia Dehydration Allergy Dehydration Heat Exposure Malignancy Autoimmune diseases To distinguish them, certainly a gradual and thorough examination starts from medical interviews, physical examination and growth and development in children, as well as supporting examinations needed such as blood tests, sputum examination, chest X-ray examination, and others.
Related to your question about breathing sound accompanied by coughing, if the intended breath sound is wheezing or wheezing, the child may have asthma, but it should also be further examined to determine the diagnosis. For this reason it is advisable to consult with a pediatrician so that the child can carry out a complete examination, so that the exact cause is known and the treatment can be more precise.
For the time being you can do it
Nutritious and balanced diet Sufficient fluid needs Make sure the child has enough rest Teach children to exercise regularly Avoid children from exposure to cigarettes Avoid children from things that trigger breath sounds So, hopefully this is useful.


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Michael Cinelli, William Warren; Do walkers follow their heads? A test of the gaze-angle strategy for locomotor control. Journal of Vision 2007;7(9):1022. doi: 10.1167/7.9.1022.
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What sensory information is used to walk toward a goal? Three basic steering strategies have been proposed, based on different sensory variables: (1) Optic flow strategy: null the visual angle between the heading specified by optic flow and the visual direction of the goal (Gibson, 1950; Warren, et al, 2001); (2) Egocentric direction strategy: null the angle between the locomotor axis specified by podokinetic information and the egocentric direction of the goal (Rushton, et al, 1998); (3) Centering strategy: fixate the goal and null the angle between the locomotor axis and the direction of gaze, based on proprioception about eye and head position (Wann & Land, 2001; Hollands et al, 2002). Our aim is to dissociate these strategies during goal-directed walking and investigate how they interact, by manipulating the following variables: (a) central or peripheral goal; (b) visual structure or lights off; (c) yaw head perturbation, active head rotation, or no head rotation. We analyze the time series of head orientation and walking direction to determine the effect of these variables on deviations in the path. If paths deviate with a head perturbation, it indicates a contribution of the centering strategy by involuntary head rotation. If the deviation is reduced by a visible goal, it indicates a contribution of the goal's egocentric direction. If the deviation is reduced in a visually structured environment, it indicates a contribution of optic flow. If the deviation is reduced with active head rotations, it indicates an override of the centering strategy. The results suggest an interaction between these three steering strategies.
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Functional Skills are a key component of Apprenticeships in England, sitting alongside GCSE as the requirement for English and mathematics (and ICT for selected frameworks).
Our English Functional Skills qualifications are designed to equip learners with skills such as comparing the ideas and presentation of texts, writing for a specified audience and purpose, and communicating and adapting language. Theyre assessed in three units (Speaking, Listening and Communication; Reading; and Writing) through a choice of paper-based or onscreen, on-demand tests.
Our Maths Functional Skills qualifications are designed to develop the learners ability to represent situations using mathematics, analyse calculations, solve problems and interpret mathematics to explain situations. Theyre assessed in a single, external test (either paper-based or onscreen on demand).
Our ICT Functional Skills qualifications are designed to equip learners with the confidence and ability to use ICT systems and tools, and find, select, develop, present, and communicate information. Theyre assessed by a single, external, paper-based test that’s available on demand and completed at a computer.
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Waste and recycling
An efficient recycling chain and targeted waste management for conscious use of resources
Prevention, recycling and correct disposal of waste
Thanks to our targeted waste management system, we have been able to significantly reduce the volume of waste we produce in recent years and increase the recycling rate at both distribution centres and our own production sites to around 80 per cent. A systematic approach to recycling not only benefits the environment, but also helps to cut costs.
We are working continuously on using less packaging material with a view to also reducing the volume of waste produced by our customers at home. Ultimately, however, only if waste is collected separately can it be disposed of correctly, which is why we collect and recycle all PET returned by customers to our stores – together with plastic bottles, cartridges, batteries and other recyclable materials, as well as the transport packaging used internally, in up to 32 separate types of material.


In this paper, the behaviour of the pipe roof method with different pipe roofs disposition schemes including the pipe roof gate system and L-shaped system is discussed in terms of ground settlement reduction in the condition of underground space construction adjacent to the existing structure by using numerical simulation method. Considering the construction sequences of parallel underground tunnels with rectangular cross sections, the appropriate parameters and ground response characteristics of the corresponding pipe roof methods are evaluated by the ground surface displacement. The results indicated that the construction impacts from new buildings can be reduced by the pipe roof method. However, the theoretical performance of pipe roofs is highly dependent on the spacing between two structures. Generally, the L-shaped system is more effective in case of the distance (D) that is less than or equal to 1/2 width of box culvert (R) under the condition of a new structure constructed nearby the existing building. When two structures are constructed simultaneously, the excavation and the construction of structures influence each other reciprocally. The conclusions could provide a reference for the pipe roof method with the application scenario of adjacent building protection.
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- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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China installed almost three times more wind power than the U.S. last year, continuing its clean-energy investment blitz to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase air quality.
China led new global wind-power installations with 23.3 gigawatts, compared with 8.2 gigawatts in second-place U.S., according to a report published Friday by the Global Wind Energy Council. About 54.6 gigawatts of new turbines were installed globally, raising total capacity to about 487 gigawatts worldwide.
“Chinese electricity demand growth is slackening, and the grid is unable to handle the volume of new wind capacity additions; although we expect the market to pick up again in 2017,” said Steve Sawyer, GWEC secretary general, in the statement. “Wind power continues to grow in double digits, but we can’t expect the industry to set a new record every single year.”
China saw the amount of idled wind power increase 47 percent in 2016 from a year earlier, according to the data from the NEA. About 17 percent of wind turbines in China weren’t generating electricity last year.


The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price.


Floods regularly cause serious damage. But in Germany there are not enough rain measuring stations capable of forecasting the precise time and amount of water that is to be expected. Improved nationwide recording of precipitation could ensure more precise forecasting. The project RainCars at Leibniz Universität Hannover is taking the following approach: it uses cars as mobile measuring stations with windscreen wipers as rain sensors. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the project RainCars for an initial period of two years.
The central idea behind the project: relatively imprecise measurements in many places are better than exact measurements in very few. The position of the cars and the frequency of the wipers are measured and compared with data from permanently installed weather stations. The combination with the precise data makes it possible to establish quickly and precisely what the amount of water is and at what location. The cars also compare data with each other, so that at the end of the measurement process, data which is as precise as possible and evenly distributed will be available.
See on www.uni-hannover.de


These functions provide information about the uniform distribution
on the interval from
dunif gives the
punif gives the distribution function
gives the quantile function and
runif generates random
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vector of quantiles.
vector of probabilities.
number of observations. If
lower and upper limits of the distribution. Must be finite.
logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).
logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X ≤ x], otherwise, P[X > x].
max are not specified they assume the default
The uniform distribution has density
f(x) = 1/(max-min)
for min ≤ x ≤ max.
For the case of u := min == max, the limit case of
X == u is assumed, although there is no density in
that case and
dunif will return
NaN (the error condition).
runif will not generate either of the extreme values unless
max = min or
max-min is small compared to
and in particular not for the default arguments.
dunif gives the density,
punif gives the distribution function,
qunif gives the quantile function, and
runif generates random deviates.
The length of the result is determined by
runif, and is the maximum of the lengths of the
numerical arguments for the other functions.
The numerical arguments other than
n are recycled to the
length of the result. Only the first elements of the logical
arguments are used.
The characteristics of output from pseudo-random number generators
(such as precision and periodicity) vary widely. See
.Random.seed for more information on R's random number
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
RNG about random number generation in R.
Distributions for other standard distributions.
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Forecast for Polar Bear Populations
Scientists document a direct relationship between the extent of sea ice and polar bear survival. Future projected reductions in the extent of annual sea-ice due to global warming may result in the loss of nearly 40% of the Arctic ecosystem’s carrying capacity for polar bears. By mid-century polar bears could disappear from areas that include two thirds of the world's current population. More about climate change can be found in our climate change section.


This is one of the most unique environments in the world. An area so special that it has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve. In the 700 square km park are 81 plants found only on Mt Kenya, as well as a wide variety of Wildlife.
Mt. Kenya is an extinct volcano 17,058 foot that straddles the Equator. Mt Kenya became a national park in 1949 and last erupted in 2003. The elevation range is approximately 3,200m to 5,200m.
Mt. Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa. An ascent proves an irresistible attraction to all hill walkers sooner or later, although the two highest peaks, Nelion (17,022 feet) and Batian (17,058 feet) can only be reached by technical climbing, the third Point Lenana (16,355 feet), can be reached by any fit walker.


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Papel picado, or "cut paper," has been made in Mexico for thousands of years and can even be traced back to the Aztecs! It's made from punching holes or cutting beautiful designs into paper. The paper is often then put onto banners and used as decoration for festivals like Dia de Muertos. The most common designs are flowers, birds, skulls, and the faces of historic figures.
Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15th and ends October 15th. To celebrate, stop by the Children's Area at Belmont anytime during opening hours to try your hand at making your own. Supplies (scissors, tissue paper, crayons) will be available along with instructions and templates. When you're finished, take your finished product home or donate it to the library to be added to our Hispanic Heritage Month Display.
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ERIC Number: ED148144
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1972
Reference Count: 0
Le Discours Oral (Oral Discourse). Melanges Pedagogiques, 1972.
Boulanger, C.; And Others
The contrast between written language and oral language did not really begin to attract attention until second language teaching defined as its goal the acquisition of a communicative tool rather than a literary tool. This focus on communication made necessary the distinction between language used for oral communication and language used for written communication. A problem exists in isolating criteria to define oral language, and the present paper is concerned with the isolation of these criteria. Following an examination of several definitions, a new definition is proposed, and directions for future research are proposed. The new definition of oral communication is based on a distinction between language and discourse, the former referring to a system of conventional signs, and the latter referring to actual language usage. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Language Instruction, Language Research, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics, Research Needs, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Speech Communication, Speech Skills, Structural Analysis, Syntax, Written Language
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Nancy Univ., (France). Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pedagogiques en Langues.
Note: In French; One page of tabulated material will be difficult to read due to small type size


The Mohawk are traditionally the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations Confederacy or the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
About the Tribe
Ska’tne ionkwaio’te ón:wa wenhniserá:te ne sén:ha aioianerénhake ne enióhrhen’ne
Working Together Today to Build a Better Tomorrow
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is the duly elected and recognized government of the Mohawk people. Both New York State and the United States deal exclusively with the Tribal Council Chiefs in a government-to-government relationship.
- Accountable government & professional organization that benefits the community
- Building the path through which community development can be fully realized now and in the future
- Exercising tribal sovereignty and all the tools of government
- Developing its capacity as a service delivery organization
- Engaging in collaborative partnerships that expand its impact
A healthy and prosperous Mohawk environment where every member has the opportunity to succeed at home and in the global community.
- Strengthening Mohawk Culture and Identity
- Advocating Rights
- Sustaining Opportunity
- Pursuing Continuous Improvement
- Being Respectful
- Being Proactive
- Embracing Diversity
- Enhancing the effectiveness of Tribal Government
- Continuing to develop the Tribe as a professional program & service delivery organization
- Planning program and service growth on our own terms
- Supporting a sustainable revenue generation capacity
- Engaging in collaborative community development


Trigonometry. Field of view is 45 degrees = 800 pixels. Half the screen is 22.5 degrees = 400 pixels. By trig, 1000 tan 22.5 = 414.21 metres, which we know is 400 pixels, so each pixel is 1.04 metres in width. If your aspect ratio is correct, the height will be the same.
So: (distanceToPlane * tan(fov / 2)) / (horizontalResolution / 2) = visible width of pixel in metres.
I think your solution works. I realize now that i needed some more information to extimate the LOD geometry to use.
The problem is how to compute the distance in pixels between two points (wherever they are) when projected in the view plane. Suposing the info related to fov and the view plane distance is the same as in post above. How can we solve this ?
Im thinking in calculating the he distances between two extreme points in the bounding box of an object. Then based on the distance between the two in pixels i would choose what LOD geometry to use.
For instance if an object is going to be projected in a rectangular region of 10x10 pixels on the screen i would probably choose a LOD geometry with at most 10 vertices wide and 10 vertices equaly distributed.
Or i would use a flat image. Which probably would be a much better solution if the object is far enough and considering it is only 10x10 pixels. Just what are the known problems on using flats to replace geometry ?


Definition of Microscope, electron
Microscope, electron: A microscope in which an electron beam replaces light to form the image. Electron microscopy (EM) has both pluses (greater magnification and resolution than optical microscopes) and minuses (the observer is not really 'seeing' objects, but rather their electron densities, so artifacts may be present).
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Embolization is an endovascular procedure which enables intentional closing of certain blood vessel using temporary or permanent embolization material. Embolization procedures are performed on arterial blood vessels in case of: aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms, in case of AV communications (congenital or iatrogenic), in case of minor bleeding, as well as in case of certain tumors in order to reduce their preoperative size.
The procedure is performed under local anesthesia by accessing the blood vessel through the arteries of the legs, while the control is performed using X – rays in the angio room, with the injection of iodine contrast agent. Durable devices such as metal spirals and vascular plugs as well as covered stents (stent grafts) are most commonly used. Various chemical agents are also used, which aim at enabling blood coagulation and closing the blood vessel. During embolization, special attention must be paid to avoid the embolization of unwanted vascular structures. At the end of the procedure, manual compression or a special type of artery closure device are used to close the access point.


Originally, Modbus was developed by Modicon and it is managed today by the Modbus-IDA User Organization. The protocol is for an open Master/Slave application where on several physical layers it can be used. The protocol is an application-layer messaging method that is positioned at level 7 of the OSI model.
The client/server communication is provided between devices connected to different types of buses or networks. Modbus -TCP is mostly used on top of Ethernet-TCP/IP. It is an open Industrial Ethernet network that is specified as an RFC Internet standard by the Modbus-IDA User Organization in co-operation with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
For interoperability and conformance, the Modbus devices are certified by the Modbus-IDA User organization to the Modbus specification. TI is not accepted well by the critics but it is highly valued by people who used it. It’s not a new thing to program. It was majorly needed to approve Ethernet-TCP/IP as an additional data transmission technology for the Modbus Protocol, available from 1979.
This version has been adapted to TCP/IP as per the data transmission protocol. Modbus family has been extended by an additional product range which consists now of the classical Modbus-RTU (asynchronous data transmission via RS-232 or RS-485), Modbus-Plus (high-speed communication via a Token Passing Network), and Modbus-TCP (Ethernet-TCP/IP-based Client/server communication). The same application protocol is shared by all these versions where a universal object module is specified for user data and communication services.


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First SEAPLANE to land Passengers at Victoria, B.C.
William Boeing owned a biplane named C-700 which carried the first International "Air-Mail" from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Seattle, Washington, USA on March 3, 1919. The aircraft was piloted by Eddie Hubbard.
See the following for additional information on the plane:
From late 1919, Eddie Hubbard then flew the B-1 mail plane on the same mail route.
Form more information on the B-1 see: http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/history/boeing/b1.html
On the 14th August, 1920, the B-1 carried the first passengers to be landed from an aircraft at the port of Victoria, British Columbia. The immigration officials must have been puzzled about how to record the arrival of the passengers, so used a standard manifest form, slightly amended.
The two American born passengers were tourists from Seattle, Washington and had both visited Canada before. The married/single status had not been entered.
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Muses and editors. Saviors and publishers. The women behind the greatest works of russian literature.

“Behind every good man is a good woman” is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relationship between spouses is even that much more complex. F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence used their marriages for literary inspiration and material, sometime at the expense of their spouses’ sanity. Thomas Carlyle wanted his wife to assist him, but Jane Carlyle became increasingly bitter and resentful in her new role, putting additional strain on their relationship.

In Russian literary marriages, however, the wives of some of the most famous authors of all time did not resent taking a “secondary position,” although to call their position secondary does not do justice to the vital role these women played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history.

From Sophia Tolstoy to Vera Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezdha Mandelstam, Anna Dostevsky, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn, these women ranged from stenographers and typists to editors, researchers, translators, and even publishers. Living under restrictive regimes, many of these women battled censorship and preserved the writers’ illicit archives, often risking their own lives to do so. They established a tradition all their own, unmatched in the West.

Many of these women were the writers’ intellectual companions and made invaluable contributions to the creative process. And their husbands knew it. Leo Tolstoy made no secret of Sofia’s involvement in War and Peace in his letters, and Vladimir Nabokov referred to Vera as his own “single shadow.”
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Some language implementations have hash tables built-in; some provide a hash table as part of a collections library; some use a third-party hash table library. (For example, use either khash or CK_HT for C language k-nucleotide programs.) The hash table algorithm implemented is likely to be different in different libraries.
Please don't implement your own custom "hash table" - it will not be accepted.
The work is to use the built-in or library hash table implementation to accumulate count values - lookup the count for a key and update the count in the hash table. Don't optimize away the work.
Mapping the DNA letters to the bytes 0, 1, 2, 3, and using a hash function that concatenates those two-byte codes is an acceptable (but not a required) optimization.
How to implement
We ask that contributed programs not only give the correct result, but also use the same algorithm to calculate that result.
Each program should:
read line-by-line a redirected FASTA format file from stdin
extract DNA sequence THREE
define a procedure/function to update a hashtable of k-nucleotide keys and count values, for a particular reading-frame — even though we'll combine k-nucleotide counts for all reading-frames (grow the hashtable from a small default size)
use that procedure/function and hashtable to
count all the 1-nucleotide and 2-nucleotide sequences, and write the code and percentage frequency, sorted by descending frequency and then ascending k-nucleotide key
count all the 3- 4- 6- 12- and 18-nucleotide sequences, and write the count and code for the specific sequences GGT GGTA GGTATT GGTATTTTAATT GGTATTTTAATTTATAGT
diff program output for this 10KB input file (generated with the fasta program N = 1000) with this output file to check your program output has the correct format, before you contribute your program.
Generate a larger input file (using one of the fasta programs with command line arguments: 25000000 > input25000000.txt) to check program performance.


At The Food Project we have created a number of activities to teach young people about the food system. Here are some of our most popular curricula. For more games and ways to introduce young people to the global food system please see our book, French Fries and the Food System.
Hunger and Homelessness
Service at hunger relief organizations is an integral part of the youth experience, and we have created a series of workshops to help young people understand the issues and implications around hunger and homelessness. Here are three sets of curricula to introduce the topic. For more information, please see our manuals.
During the summer Seed Crew, we use a series of workshops to introduce youth participants to the principles of sustainable agriculture and the food system. Here is the series that we have developed through the years.


‘Personalisation' is the term used for an approach to personal care and support which treats people as autonomous individuals and responds to their personal needs and wishes.
It may seem obvious that this is the approach that should be used in social care, but when it comes to designing a whole system that provides high quality services which are also cost effective, there are pressures to standardise care and to make assumptions about people who belong to certain groups.
Councillors can play an important role in ensuring that such stereotyping does not happen and that people who use services are treated holistically as individuals, despite financial and system pressures.
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Series on Prevention of Modern Slavery
Modern Slavery is a pervasive and urgent global problem, impacting individuals, mostly from vulnerable populations, communities, businesses and governments. From human trafficking and child marriage to bonded and forced labor, slavery continues to thrive in different forms across the globe. This series will examine the complex issue to better understand sectors with high prevalence rates, the roles of various stakeholders and try to contribute to developing actionable solutions. This series will have:
- A Chapter event on March 22nd that highlighted what we can do to increase our ability to recognize when slavery is taking place.
- A Special Event on July 17th that will convene a small focus group of SID-W institutional members who are working in the field on the issues of trafficking, modern slavery, and abuse to discuss how they deal with the associated safeguarding and duty of care issues.
- An Institutional Member (IM) event that will discuss issues surrounding global supply chain transparency and governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices, and firm policies and practices as efforts to combat modern slavery.
- And more…
We will have workgroup events, chapter events, institutional member events, and joint events with other organizations. Please let us know if you have suggestions for topics or speakers at [email protected]
. And please watch for details as we solidify the programs in this series!


God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
What an opportunity for God (assuming there is a God who had something to do with the Bible) to reveal himself to us all. All that he needed to do is tell us just when the beginning was. Was it a relatively recent event (like a few thousand years ago) or is the universe immensely old (say 13.7 billion years)?
We had no idea, none at all, about the true age of the universe until the last few hundred years. All God had to do was tell us that it was really, really old -- over a million times as old as nearly everyone thought it was. That would have been some impressive evidence for the God of the Bible.
But the Bible's God is a young earth creationist. For although the Bible's begats do not provide a clear creation date (though many believers believe that they do), they do provide a range of possible dates. The universe (if you believe in the Bible) is 5500 to 7500 years old.
So right from the start we know the Bible is wrong. The universe is about 2 million times older than the Bible says that it is.


Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction
Image by Lloyd Arnold via Wikimedia Commons Before he was a big game hunter, before he was a deep-sea fisherman, Ernest Hemingway was a craftsman who would rise very early in the morning and write. His best stories are masterpieces of the modern era, and his prose style is one of the most influential of the 20th century. Hemingway never wrote a treatise on the art of writing fiction. He did, however, leave behind a great many passages in letters, articles and books with opinions and advice on writing. Some of the best of those were assembled in 1984 by Larry W. 1: To get started, write one true sentence. Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer's block. Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. 2: Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next. 5: Don't describe an emotion--make it.


When the World Was Black: The Untold History of the World’s First Civilizations (Volume Two of The Science of Self series) has been published in TWO parts. Why two? Because there are far too many stories that remain untold. We had over 200,000 years of Black history to tell – from the southern tip of Chile to the northernmost isles of Europe – and you can’t do that justice in a 300-page book. So there are two parts, each consisting of 360 pages of groundbreaking history, digging deep into the story of all the world’s original people. Part One covers the Black origins of all the world’s oldest cultures and societies, spanning more than 200,000 years of human history.


A painter painting a staircase in India
A is a tradesman responsible for the painting and decorating of buildings, and is also known as a decorator or house painter. The purpose of painting is to improve the aesthetic of a building and to protect it from damage by water, rust, corrosion, insects and mold.
History of the trade in England
In England, little is known of the trade and its structures before the late 13th century, at which paint guilds began to form, amongst them the Painters Company and the Stainers Company. These two guilds eventually merged with the consent of the Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1502, forming the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. The guild standardised the craft and acted as a protector of the trade secrets. In 1599, the guild asked Parliament for protection, which was eventually granted in a bill of 1606, which granted the trade protection from outside competition such as plasterers.
The Act legislated for a seven-year apprenticeship, and also barred plasterers from painting, unless apprenticed to a painter, with the penalty for such painting being a fine of £5. The Act also enshrined a maximum daily fee of 16 old pence for their labour.A painter painting a room in a house
Enforcement of this Act by the Painter-Stainers Company was sought up until the early 19th century, with master painters gathering irregularly to decide the fees that a journeyman could charge, and also instigating an early version of a job centre in 1769, advertising in the London newspapers a "house of call" system to advertise for journeymen and also for journeymen to advertise for work. The guild's power in setting the fee a journeyman could charge was eventually overturned by law in 1827, and the period after this saw the guild's power diminish, along with that of the other guilds; the guilds were superseded by trade unions, with the Operative United Painters' Union forming sometime around 1831.


The motif Prayer is a part of: Ritual
Faith, speech, words, ritual
Prayers in a religious sense of the word, are adressed to one or more gods, divine or sacred persons in anticipation of help, blessings or a good relationship.
There are prescribed prayers, e.g. the Lord's Prayer and Ave Maria, and there are prayers, which are spontaneous and individual. Both kinds are present in Andersen's tales.
"Come and look at the omen from heaven. Come out and see this marvelous sight," they cried, and everyone hastened to look.
But a little boy and his mother still stayed inside their room. The tallow candle was burning and the mother thought she saw a bit of wood-shaving in the light. The tallow formed a jagged edge around the candle, and then it curled. The mother believed these were signs that her son would soon die. The wood-shaving was circling toward him. This was an old superstition, but she believed it. The little boy lived many more years on earth. Indeed he lived to see the comet return sixty years later.
The boy did not see the wood-shaving in the candle-light, and his thoughts were not about the comet which then, for the first time in his life, shone brightly in the sky. He sat quietly with an earthenware bowl before him. The bowl was filled with soapy water, into which he dipped the head of a clay pipe. Then he put the pipe stem in his mouth, and blew soap bubbles, large and small. They quivered and spun in beautiful colors. They changed from yellow to red, and from red to purple or blue and then they turned bright green, like leaves when the sun shines through them.
The boy's mother said, "May God grant you many more years on earth – as many years as the bubbles you are blowing."


(co-edited, with Nadia Urbinati)
Princeton University Press, 2009.
This volume gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English. These neglected writings remind us why Mazzini was one of the most influential political thinkers of the nineteenth century—and why there is still great benefit to be derived from a careful analysis of what he had to say. Mazzini (1805-1872) is best known today as the inspirational leader of the Italian Risorgimento. But, as this book demonstrates, he also made a vital contribution to the development of modern democratic and liberal internationalist thought.
The writings collected here show how Mazzini developed a sophisticated theory of democratic nation building—one that illustrates why democracy cannot be successfully imposed through military intervention from the outside. He also speculated, much more explicitly than Immanuel Kant, about how popular participation and self-rule within independent nation-states might result in lasting peace among democracies. In short, Mazzini believed that universal aspirations toward human freedom, equality, and international peace could best be realized through independent nation-states with homegrown democratic institutions. He thus envisioned what one might today call a genuine cosmopolitanism of nations.
Table of contents
Review by Paolo Morisi (Political Studies Review)
Review by Daniel Voelsen (Ethics & International Affairs)
Review by Richard Drake (The European Legacy)
Review by Rita Corsetti (Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali)
Review by Gaspare Battistuzzo (Ravenna Journal)
Review by Chenchen Zhang (Plurilogue Journal)
Review by Sebastiano Maffettone (Il Sole24 Ore, in Italian)
Italian edition of the book (by Elliot Edizioni, 2011).


There are more to green peas than most people know. Green peas include varieties with edible pods, such as snow peas. All varieties are sweet and delicious, and boast more protein than most vegetables. It's no wonder green peas are a part of many wonderful vegetable recipes. In this article, we'll talk about growing green peas, selecting and serving green peas, and the health benefits of green peas.
About Green Peas
Peas are hardy, weak-stemmed climbing annual vines. They have leaf-like stipules, leaves with one to three pairs of leaflets, and tendrils for climbing. The flowers are white, streaked, or colored. The fruit is a pod containing 4 to 10 seeds, either smooth or wrinkled depending on the variety.Common Name: Green Peas
Scientific Name: Pisum sativum
Hardiness: Very Hardy (may survive first frost)
In the next section, we'll show you how to grow green peas.
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Gastrointestinal or digestive disorders are a result of the digestive system's inability to break down food, absorb vitamins and minerals and flush out unabsorbed waste. The organs commonly associated with Gastrointestinal disease are mouth, Esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, small and large intestines and the rectum.
Gastrointestinal diseases can stem from a wide range of causes that include low fiber diets, sedentary lifestyle, chronic stress or even genetic predisposition. While most Gastrointestinal cases have short-term effects that are resolved on their own, some cases tend to be more serious and require a visit to a qualified internal medicine specialist.
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg... or the Saran Wrap? In the viral video below, a group of Japanese high school students take an egg, crack it into a clear sterile vessel, cover it in plastic wrap, and then place it into an incubator. After a few days, you begin to see a beating heart developing. Blood vessels spread through the yellow yolk, other body features begin to form, and before you know it you've got a little chick waddling around the lab. Too. Cute. The process is fascinating, though it may deter you from eating eggs for a while.
The technique itself is not new and wasn't developed by the high school students — that credit goes to the authors of a 2014 study in The Journal of Poultry Science. According to the study, the method only has about a 60 percent success rate. But it could still mean a lot for the future conservation of endangered birds (think surrogate eggs). Just don't try this at home, folks!


Young Dick Whittington had a mouse infestation and in order to rid himself of these furry pests he bought what he thought was a kitten. In fact he had bought the lion cub Langdon. Dick only realised his mistake when Langdon began to grow into a very big cat. Langdon had over time become a supreme mouse-catcher, and a rather famous one at that! Dick sent him to help his friend the King of Barbary rid his castle of a vermin infestation. Langdon was so successful that Richard II, who was terribly afraid of mice, came to hear of him. In order to ensure that his own castle remained free of mice, Richard II bought the young lion from Dick for a handsome price.
During the winter of 1381, the Rochester Bridge collapsed and needed to be rebuilt. On the completion of the rebuilding of the bridge in 1391, King Richard II decided to cross Rochester Bridge; this was seen as a great honour. There was a grand royal procession and all the most marvellous animals in the kingdom were paraded alongside Richard as he crossed the bridge. But the whole procession came to a sudden halt when a mouse ran in front of the King! Richard was so terrified that he refused to take another step, until Langdon sprang into action, catching the mouse, saving the King and allowing the procession to complete its crossing.
Out of gratitude for the young lion’s service, the King proclaimed Langdon “Guardian of the Bridge”. Ever since that day, Langdon the Lion and his family have guarded the bridge, allowing travellers to cross the bridge free from fear of mice.


What Happens To Your Body Just Minutes After Drinking A Diet Soda
Published January 16, 2019
Many people who diet think one of the best choices you can make is to opt for diet drinks instead of the full sugar ones. However, new studies show artificial sweeteners are the worst choice you can make. They are terrible for your gut.
Why are they bad for your health? Anytime you have an artificial sweetener, toxins are released which are absorbed by your body. Ben-Gurion University researchers who conducted an experiment had studied six different sweetness to see the effect it had on their health.
The six artificial sweeteners they researched were: Aspartame, Sucralose, Saccharine, Neotame, Advantame, Acesulfame potassium-k
Each of these was mixed with a bacteria that glows when toxins are detected. Each sweetener glowed when the bacteria were added. And the more of the sweetener was added, the brighter the glow became.
When these artificial sweeteners are digested and the toxins are released, it attacks your healthy gut flora. The side effects of this not only that it hurts your digestive system but it also affects metabolism, hormone regulation, and brain function. In addition to this, the study also showed that vital genes were reduced in the stomach when just even one sweetener was found in the gut.
Most people think artificial sweeteners are exclusive to soft drinks, but they can also be found in bakery goods, condiments, and yogurt. If you see an item with the words “reduced” or “sugar-free”, this means they likely have an artificial sweetener in them. Next time you plan to buy something with an artificial sweetener in it, you may want to place it back on the shelf.


We have been hard at work rehearsing our nativity.
In topic we will be creating timelines. We will also be comparing clothing and football strips. From 1953 to today.
In English we are writing up our instructions.
In maths we are going to look at all four operations (multiplication, division, addition and subtraction) with a focus on inverse operations.
In maths we will be looking st the properties of 3D shapes.
In English we will be writing instructions for making gingerbread.
In topic we will be comparing afterschool activities in the 1950s to now.
We have been gathering and interpretating data.
We created a large pictogram of our favourite fruits.
In maths we will be creating and interpreting data from block graphs and pictograms.
In English we will be writing our own traditional tale.
In topic we will be looking at TV shows and past times from 1953
In maths we will be looking at time including quarter past and quarter to.
In English we will be writing our own version of the Gingerbread man.
We are also beginning our topic on 1953.
Last weeks certificates. Well done!


How to write name Bilal in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Bangla
Here is some details about Bilal name. This is baby boy name mainly popular in Muslim religion and its main origin is Arabic. Bilal name meaning is Water, moisture, freshness, river, sea. People also search this as bilal, bilal ahmad, bilal Ahmed, Bilal Meaning, bilal farooq, bilal meaning in urdu, bilall. Bilal is written in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Bangla as بلال, बिलाल, بلال, বিলাল. Other similar names can be Bilaal, Billal, Bilqees, Bilqis.


According to the Secretary General’s definition, the rule of law is a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.
Laying strong legal foundations for transparent, accountable and efficient democratic institutions governed by this principle is crucial for the success of the establishment of lasting and sustainable peace.
An independent, impartial and efficient judiciary is often seen as a crucial guarantee to political stability and security, indispensable to curb abuse of power.
The rule of law and peace building
As underlined in the first Secretary General Report on the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies (2004), in the wake of a conflict, building domestic justice capacities, including strong criminal justice legislative framework, is imperative to address the root causes of the conflict, fight impunity and prevent abuse of power and recurrence of conflict.
Indeed, the United Nations experience in the past decade has demonstrated clearly that consolidating peace in the immediate post-conflict period, as well as its maintenance long term, cannot be achieved unless the population is confident that redress for grievances can be obtained through legitimate structures for the peaceful settlement of disputes and the fair administration of justice.
Despite some progress made by the Congolese government in fighting impunity, heinous crimes against civilians, including rampant sexual violence, often go unpunished. Putting an end to impunity is a daunting task that cannot be achieved unless efficient judicial mechanisms are in place and operational.


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Leslie Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a barony in Aberdeenshire, which is first recorded c.1180 in the form Lesslyn, of obscure origin. Leslie in Fife is said to be named for this place; in some cases the surname may come from there. English: possibly from a double diminutive of the personal name Lece (see Leece), thus Lecelin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Lesnik, Emslie, Lesslie, Helie, Laslie, Leckie, Lennie, Lelli, Jessie


Sammlung Verschiedener Auslandischer und Seltener Vögel
Engravings with original hand-coloring
Mark Catesby (1682-1749) was born and educated in England, and was originally sent to Carolina by the Royal Society in 1722 as a botanist. From there he traveled to Florida and the Bahamas, returning to England in 1726 with a vast store of information on the wildlife he had observed. By the spring of 1729, he had completed the first part of his landmark Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1734-1746), but it was not until 1746 that the work was finally finished. Catesby's publication became the earliest color-plate book on American birds.
Catesby's contemporary George Edwards (1694-1773) was also an ornithologist and bird illustrator, much influenced by the work of his colleague. Edwards is best known as the author of his Natural History of Uncommon Birds (1743-51) and Gleanings of Natural History (1758-1764). The illustrations that graced these works were valued for their landscape backgrounds, which were unusual at the time.
To satisfy the tremendous demand for both these landmark works, Johann Michael Seligmann, a German publisher, issued a nine-volume compilation of the works of Mark Catesby and George Edwards. Seligmann's Sammlung Verschiedener Auslandischer und Seltener Vögel (1749-1776) contained plates based on the images of Catesby and Edwards, adding German and French titles. In bringing these masterworks to a larger audience, Seligmann earned himself a rightful place in natural history circles, and his charming prints, reflecting well on their sources, stand on their own as another respected source for eighteenth-century natural history documentation.


A poem selected by Mary Gillis, English 348:
"Dreams," by Langston Hughes.
Read "Dreams" or listen to Langston Hughes read his poems "Dreams" and "The Dreamkeeper."
Langston Hughes is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels, short stories and plays as well as poetry and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's.
~ Mary Gillis, UW-Eau Claire student, English 348
April is National Poetry Month! UW-Eau Claire students in English 348 (Topics in American Literature) are celebrating National Poetry Month with the McIntyre Library.
Featured poems will be listed here in the order they appear on the blog.
UW-Eau Claire's celebration of National Poetry Month is on Facebook and Twitter!
Questions or comments? Robin Miller will try to help.


Integrated BioChem has developed a biological process that converts organic waste into high value industrial chemicals, overnight, using a process that has worked in nature for millions of years.
The products produced are used in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, lubricants, sealants, paint, paper and adhesives.
Food waste has too much value as a feedstock to be buried in a landfill. A paper from the Journal of Sustainable Development is available here.
If you would like to discuss how this process might be applied to your company’s waste stream, contact us.


What is a Geothermal Heat Pump?
Geothermal energy is heat from the Earth. It’s clean and sustainable. A geothermal heat pump is a central heating and/or cooling system that transfers heat to or from the ground. It uses the earth as a heat source (in the winter) or a heat sink (in the summer). This design takes advantage of the moderate temperatures in the ground to boost efficiency and reduce the operational costs of heating and cooling systems.
How Geothermal Heat Pumps Work
Economics of Geothermal Heat Pumps
Although the purchase and installation cost of a residential geothermal heat pump (GHP) system is often higher than that of other heating and cooling systems, properly sized and installed GHPs deliver more energy per unit consumed than conventional systems. For further savings, GHPs equipped with a device called a “desuperheater” can heat household water. In the summer cooling period, the heat that is taken from the house is used to heat the water for free. In the winter, water heating costs are reduced by about half.
Depending on factors such as climate, soil conditions, the system features you choose, and available financing and incentives, you may recoup your initial investment in two to ten years through lower utility bills.
Evaluating Your Home for a Geothermal Heat Pump
Shallow ground temperatures are relatively constant throughout the United States, so geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) can be effectively used almost anywhere. However, the specific geological, hydrological, and spatial characteristics of your land will help your local system supplier/installer determine the best type of ground loop for your site.


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The forest symbolizes a departure from the rules and restrictions of the society. The forest has an element of secrecy that allows Hester and her lover, Dimmesdale to meet privately. The fact that Hester's house is on the outskirts of town is a metaphor for how she lives in the middle between the repression and expectations of society and the freedom of the forest.
In the Scarlet Letter, the contrast between the town and the forest persists throughout the novel. The town is a symbol for the Puritans' strict rules and restictions, the society that imposes its' judgement on Hester. The forest serves as an opposing symbol: that of the free and wild side of life. Life with no restrictions, standards, or limitations. It is wild, unmoderated, and free. While Hester is tempted by the freedom the woods would offer her from the peircing gaze of the town, she knows in her heart that it is not where she should raise Pearl. The "Black Man", the Devil in the story, lives in the woods and enlists his servants there. It is a place with no restrictions, and therefore dangerous and evil results. The over-imposing town and the tempting but evil forest both hold a part of Hester, and she belongs to neither; this is why she lives on the outskirts of both, venturing into the forest for her secretive talk with Dimmesdale, and into the town for her confrontation with Chillingsworth.
I believe that the forest acted as a safe haven. It was a place that one could be his own self. It was also the place where you could get in touch with how you feel.
I believe that forest symbolizes nutrality. A safe place to interact without the fear of being judged or gosiped about.
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- Coral Reefs
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Can the Gulf of Mexico’s Largest Coral Reef Survive a Massive New Port?
Environmentalists in Mexico have fought the recent relocation of a coral reef to make way for bigger ships in the Port of Veracruz. They worry about the ecosystem impacts of the port expansion and the precedent it sets for uprooting corals.


The study provides an evaluation of the hydrologic applications of a land-line and two satellite data-relay systems operated during 1977-78 in the Southwest Florida Water Management District. These systems were tested to evaluate operational and reliability characteristics. Telephone lines were used to relay data in the land-line system, and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Land satellite (Landsat) were used in the satellite system. The land-line system was tested for 15 months at a streamflow site. Accurate data were obtained 94% of the time during the test period. Data losses were attributed to telephone-line interference, low-battery voltage, and vandalism. The GOES system was tested at a rainfall site for 17 months. During this period, 79% of the transmissions received from the station were relayed by the GOES system to the U.S. Geological Survey computer, resulting in successful processing of 88% of all possible rainfall observations. On the average, seven data transmissions were completed each day. The Landsat system was tested at a rainfall site for about 17 months and for about 8 months at a streamflow site. During these periods of operation, only about 2% of all data observations for the stations were successfully relayed by the Landsat system to the U.S. Geological Survey computer. An average of about three data transmissions was completed each day for each site. (USGS).
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Evaluation of remote hydrologic data-acquisition systems, west-central Florida


In order to survive, plants rely on a variety of environmental factors. The primary ones are climate, soils, and geology which are delineated within these pages. However, there are many other specific ecological factors (termed ecofactors here) that impact plants. Plants are part of complex, non-linear nested systems. What is meant by this? Simply, that plants do not exist as lone entities—they are inextricably tied to other organisms, interactions with these organisms and even human or social systems of value, management and use.


The dream stage of sleep incorporates rapid eye movement and increased activity in the areas of the brain responsible for visual imagery and emotional processing. In recent years, this natural and automatic processing of information has found its way into mainstream psychological therapy for symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
P.T.S.D.’s Devastating Effects
In recent years, the general public has become more aware of the effects of unresolved trauma, particularly since the veterans of the Viet Nam war struggled to readjust to life in American society. Research into valid treatments for survivors of all forms of abuse escalated with recognition that family violence often results in symptoms similar to those experienced by veterans of war.
P.T.S.D. symptoms can include irrational thinking, raging, self-destructive behavior, including all forms of addiction, and dissociative disorders. These problems affect functioning across all areas of the individual’s life and cost society dollars and productivity. Efficient treatment methods are required in order for traumatized individuals to regain their ability to cope with everyday life; untreated Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can devastate families and careers.
So, how do eye movements help people heal from P.T.S.D.?
Francine Shapiro, a psychologist in California, was walking in the park when she noticed that back-and-forth eye movements seemed to decrease negative emotions associated with a specific memory. She tried her theory with other volunteers, and came to the conclusion that the eye movements were an important factor, but most effective when incorporated into a comprehensive therapeutic framework. Fascinated, she conducted research, developed a treatment protocol and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) training program for other therapists. Today, the technique is used around the world, and research continues into this method of trauma treatment.
Decoding Science. One article at a time.


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Название: Mathematical games
Авторы: Lukacs C., Tarjan E.
Players take turns to remove any number of objects from one of n rows. The player who takes the last object wins.
Ans:If a game is played with a finite set of numbers and each move changes only one set and the game terminates, it is equivalent to NIM.
To determine who should win, write the sizes of the piles in binary. Add the columns (no carrying). If the sum of each column is even, the person to play loses. (from Mathematical Carnival)
In the reverse game the player who takes the last counter loses
Ans: The strategy in the reverse game follows the normal game until only one row has more than one counter. Then you take away either all the biggest row or all but one of this row so as to leave an odd number of rows.


We base our analysis on the execution model in Fig. 7. It is composed of a compression-transmission loop, where each chunk of data is first processed by a computation procedure before it is sent out,
In our implementation, send() returns as soon as all the application data has been copied into the kernel buffer. So part of the time used for data transmission will overlap with that of COMPRESS(). Assume is the time of compressing one chunk of data, is the socket buffer copying time for the compressed data, and is the corresponding network transmission time. Let us denote the processing time of all the loops as , then this execution model can be expressed as Fig. 12.
Generally, starts somewhat later than the corresponding , but the
time interval is very difficult to measure. So we simply assume that
and start at the same time. From Fig. 12, can be
expressed by the following formula:
It is easy to see, when computation time is big enough ( ), is not the dominating factor in the total execution time. Consequently, the changes of network bandwidth will not affect application performance. The following section shows the experimental result that confirms this claim.


- to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- to make mournful sounds, as music or the wind.
- to lament or mourn bitterly.
- Jazz. to perform exceptionally well.
- Slang. to express emotion musically or verbally in an exciting, satisfying way.
- to express deep sorrow for; mourn; lament; bewail: to wail the dead; to wail one's fate.
- to express in wailing; cry or say in lamentation: to wail one's grief.
- the act of wailing.
- a wailing cry, as of grief, pain, or despair.
- any similar mournful sound: the wail of an old tune.
Origin of wail
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After weeping over her dead body he sets out in search of a Wailer.Russian Fairy Tales
W. R. S. Ralston
Then follows the story: Luisa, the Wailer, in life was a woman of the people, very beautiful.Legends of the City of Mexico
Thomas A. Janvier
He threatened the wailer with his fist, and the black cowered down, glaring at him with sullen eyes.Adventure
- (intr) to utter a prolonged high-pitched cry, as of grief or misery
- (intr) to make a sound resembling such a crythe wind wailed in the trees
- (tr) to lament, esp with mournful sounds
- a prolonged high-pitched mournful cry or sound
Word Origin and History for wailer
c.1400; see wail (v.).
early 14c., from Old Norse væla "to lament," from væ "woe" (see woe). Of jazz musicians, "to play very well," attested from 1955, American English slang (wailing "excellent" is attested from 1954). Related: Wailed.


Definition of Kamilaroi in English:
noun (plural same)
1A member of a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples of northeastern New South Wales.
- The Kamilaroi had been attacking stock and had killed several stockmen in the area; aggrieved squatters were demanding that government provide ‘protection’.
- The Kamilaroi were nomadic hunters and gatherers with a band-level social organization.
- However, there are thousands of people of mixed descent both within the native populations as well as immigrant populations, who identify themselves as Kamilaroi.
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Relating to the Kamilaroi or their language.
- He was born at Condobolin, NewSouth Wales, of Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi descent.
- Tim Lehâ is 26-years-old, of Kamilaroi and Tongan heritage.
- She may be Kamilaroi woman, and if she's a Kamilaroi woman, well then she needs Kamilaroi spiritual philosophy.
The name in Kamilaroi.
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I think that it is very rare when a name of the national park actually describes what you are going to see in that location. This park is one of those literally named places: here, you will see … arches, and lots of them – there are more than 2000 registered natural sandstone arches. Just think about it – not one, not ten, not even hundred – more than two thousands!
Canyons, slots, gorges, mesas, buttes, arches … and other strangly named rock formations created by millions of years of erosion – all of this without any trouble can be found in the Canyonlands National Park, all in one place. Combined together it creates some of the most outstading landscapes I have ever seen.
Visible within 35 kilometer radius, this small lighthouse in Sydney’s North battles the elements and weather since its’ construction in 1881.
The first light at this location has been registered in 1855, back then a fire was raised in a basket to guide ships through stormy conditions.


What is It?
Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy is an inherited condition that affects the brain, eyes, and muscles. This condition causes muscle weakness and atrophy beginning very early in life. This condition is rarely found outside of Japan.
What Are the Symptoms of Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy?
Symptoms may include:
- Weak cry
- Muscle weakness
- Delay in development
- Cardiac issues
- Swallowing difficulty
- Neurological problems
- Cobblestone lissencephaly
- Delayed myelination in the brain
How Do You Get It?
This disorder is caused by mutations in the fukutin or FKTN gene. The role of the fukutin protein is still unknown. This disorder is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.
How Is It Diagnosed?
This disorder can be diagnosed through a physical examination and medical history, including blood tests, electromyographic studies and muscle biopsy.
Is There a Treatment?
Treatment is symptomatic and can include physical therapy and medications. Genetic counseling would be beneficial for the patient and their family.


You need cultural knowledge and skills.
Dominant culture in US suppresses conversations around race … for numerous reasons, most of them related to the maintenance of the power status quo.
Proximity does not equal awareness… And colorblindness is not a thing. While it’s right to treat children equitably, it’s also important to understand how race shapes lives in a racist system.
We all breathe in the smog of oppression, and the only way to expel it is to read, listen, reflect, ask questions and become better as a result of what we learn. I’m here asking you as educators to help lead the way. By improving equity in schools, by becoming truly inclusive learning communities with an effective anti-racist curriculum, we improve both individual lives and equity and justice in society. I’m here for you and I’m rooting for you. As Lilla Watson said, “… your liberation is bound up with mine.”
All the while listening to Curtis Mayfield, the get cut off. These and more concepts at: https://teachingwhilewhite.org/blog/2019/6/21/a-letter-to-white-teachers-of-my-black-children


Scientific method is a systematic method used to research and answer questions. It involves several steps:
Question -- the springboard for the rest of the experiment. It asks, "What do I want to find out?"
Research -- finding out as much information about the subject as possible, including past scientific experimentation.
Hypothesis -- an "educated guess" of what the results of the experiment will be. The hypothesis is based on experience and prior research.
Variables -- something capable of change. There are three types of variables: controlled, independent, and dependent.
Controlled variables are kept the same for all tests within an experiment. Changes in controlled variables during an experiment may effect the results. This could lead to misinterpretation of the experiment. Controlled variables are capable of change, but controlled. Examples are: inserting the thermometer the same depth into each cup, using the same volume of each sample, using identical cups, or running each test at the same room temperature.
Independent variables are tested and varied within the experiment to see what happens. Examples of independent variable are: soil types and number of minutes.
Dependent variables are results from manipulating the independent variables. An example of a dependent variable is temperature.
Procedure -- the list of materials and step-by-step instructions for the experiment.
Testing -- the actual experimentation phase. Included in the testing is the collection of data.
Results -- a summary of what happened during the experiment.
Conclusion -- a restatement of the original hypothesis, a summation of the results, and a new statement of how the results related to the hypothesis.
Extension -- a way to take the experiment to a new level. Extensions will include questions requiring further research, alternative methods for performing the experiment, other experiments, readings, and resources.


Top: Computers: Programming: Languages: Haskell:
- Repository for information on the lazy functional programming language Haskell: Descriptions, documents, history, news, HaWiki, software (libraries, tools), humor, merchandise, and links.
- Haskell API Search - - Search engine for the Haskell standard libraries (Prelude, List, Array, etc). Search by function name, or type signature. Gives examples and overviews of many functions.
- Why Haskell? - - Why learn Haskell? What is good about the pure functional programming model as exemplified by Haskell? ScienceBlogs LLC; Good Math, Bad Math. (November 26, 2006)


Almadraba (Spanish: "tuna fishing" or "netting fence to catch tuna") is an elaborate and age-old Mediterranean technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna that was introduced by the Moors. It consists of setting nets in a maze that leads to a central pool called "copo". In Sicily, the mazes of nets, and also the places where the nets are set are called tonnara, and the overall method of capturing the fishes is called mattanza (Spanish: "slaughter"). This takes place during spring and the beginning of summer when tuna tend to go into the Mediterranean Sea.
The maze uses just two net lines, called "raveras". One net is connected to the shore and other line is secured in deeper water. Those lines have smaller oblique lines which lead to the central pool. This simple maze works because tuna are not able to see the exit from the central pool, and remain inside. The floor of the central pool is then raised in order to catch the tuna and when that floor is held up, there is little room left for tuna and they are then caught easily and slaughtered.


"Congress of Vienna"
The treaty in the spring of 1814 had accepted Napoleons surrender, but a general meeting of European countries convened to settle broader issues of a postrevolutionary era. While the allies were working on a number of concernsand as a byproduct, raising French anxietiesNapoleon returned to capitalize on this negative reaction. Within three months he was defeated yet again, and this meetingthe Congress of Viennaset a framework more hostile to France than before, which endured to a significant degree until midcentury and beyond.
Source: Cornell 4606.18.J42


Reversing Aging's Terrible Toll on the Mind
Aging lymphatic vessels connecting the brain and the immune system play critical roles in both Alzheimer’s disease and the decline in cognitive ability that comes with time, new research reveals. By improving the function of these vessels, scientists at UVA have dramatically enhanced the ability of older mice to learn and improve their memories. The work may provide doctors an entirely new path to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease, age-related memory loss, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Kipnis’ work gives us the most complete picture yet of the role these vessels play in the brain’s ability to cleanse itself—and highlights their tremendous importance for brain function and healthy aging. This new discovery may offer a way to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s to the point that treatments are unnecessary—to delay it beyond the length of the current human lifespan.
“If we can make old mice learn better, that tells me there is something that can be done,” Kipnis says. “I’m actually very optimistic that one day we could live to a very, very, very old age and not develop Alzheimer’s.”
To read the journal article in NATURE, click here.


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Studies by the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC), an association of state regulators, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of current state regulations in protecting water resources. When the GWPC studied the environmental risk of hydraulic fracturing, they found one complaint in the more than 10,000 coalbed methane wells reviewed – an Alabama well where problems were not related to fracturing according to the EPA. The EPA initiated its own study of environmental risks from coalbed methane hydraulic fracturing and, again, no significant environmental risks as a result of proper hydraulic fracturing were identified.
The key word in the preceding sentence, of course, is proper. Although there is some variability in the details of well construction because of varying geologic, environmental, and operational settings, the basic practices in constructing a reliable well are similar. These practices are the result of operators gaining knowledge based on years of experience and technology development and improvement.


Section 42, Lot 91
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
When the snow finally stopped falling in Toronto on Tuesday, December 12, 1944, a new weather record had been set for the greatest fall of snow in a 24-hour period. More than 52 cm (20.5 in.) of the white stuff clogged city streets and, while traffic was much less due to wartime gas and tire rationing, citizens were nevertheless greatly inconvenienced. The distribution of milk and bread was done through local fire halls, while coal dealers asked their customers to clear a path from the street to the coal chute so that deliveries could be made. If the path wasn’t cleared there would be no coal delivery. It was that simple. Buried here is William Turnbull of Coleridge Avenue in East York Township, one of more than a dozen citizens to succumb to heart attacks while shovelling the heavy snow. The chief coroner issued an appeal to everyone over the age of 30 to stop shovelling and stay at home.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery: An Illustrated Guide
Second Edition Revised and Expanded


There is an entire portion of an aisle in your supermarket devoted to "fruit snacks". If you don't have kids, you might have missed it.
The packages on the shelves feature Sponge Bob, Scooby Doo, and beautiful photos of fruit. My kids leap out of the cart trying to get me to buy them these snacks.
Are packaged fruit snacks a healthy snack food?
The key here is that molded, shaped, colored food indicates that these are candy. Here is an example ingredient list:
Corn Syrup, Sugar, Fruit Juice from Concentrate (Pear, Apple), Gelatin, Sorbitol, Malic Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Sodium Citrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Mineral Oil (Adds a Dietarily Insignificant Amount of Fat), Corn Oil (Adds a Dietarily Insignificant Amount of Fat), Tocopherol Acetate (Vitamin E), Carnauba Wax (Adds a Dietarily Insignificant Amount of Fat), Vitamin A Palmitate, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 6, Yellow 5
Parents desperately want these to be a healthy choice (yep, me too!) but they are just candy masquerading as healthy snack food.
The packaging will say things like "All Natural" and "100% daily allowance of Vitamin C" - but do not be fooled! These fruit snacks are essentially Gummy Bears with added Vitamin C.
AND, you have to think about your kids' teeth. I recently spoke to a pediatric dentist about these snacks. She says that the sugar in these tends to stick to the teeth and cause tooth decay.
Kids are not the most efficient at brushing their teeth, so this type of food (sticky and sweet) can cause many cavities.
My advice is to hand these out at Halloween with the other candy, serve them as a treat, and stick to REAL fruit as a healthy snack.
There are fruit snacks that are comprised of only fruit and fruit juice concentrate. These are better than some, but still are a sticky sweet product. They can't compare to fruit as a healthy snack food.


You can create map searches with the iPad, all it takes is some smart gesturing. Let’s start with a simple rectangle. Once on the Map Search screen, select the rectangle icon, it will then become highlighted.
Tap, hold and drag anywhere on the map to draw the rectangle area. See the animated graphic below or view the gesture on YouTube. To draw a circle, use the same method but select the Circle icon. Next, learn how to draw polygons in flexmls on the iPad.


Holy Days were set apart by the Lord for His people to remember, to remember Him, and to remember His grace and mercy to His people. Have we lost “holy days” today?
Holidays bring our families closer together, build memories, and help enforce historical religious events. We can use historical holidays as reminders of our past. Columbus Day, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day are all good days to remember important events in our American History. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter are important Christian days. The secular world works hard to take God out of Thanksgiving and Christ out of Christmas – let’s work hard to keep Him where He belongs.


I indicated the kind of problems health systems specialists are grappling with. Where does one begin? How does one define universal health coverage, the goal of the global health policy?
Ravi Rannan-Eliya, from the Institute of Health Policy, Sri Lanka, points out that it is not sufficient to define it in terms of nominal or legal coverage – we all know universal coverage is not a reality anyway.
An operational definition of universal health coverage should include both access to health services and risk protection, he told delegates at the symposium, says Ranna-Eliya.
Several published studies show that protection against ‘catastrophic’ expenditures is feasible in low-income settings. Equal service use by the poor is also achievable at low-income settings. What’s needed is political will to implement health reforms.
What financing mechanisms could influence universal health coverage? They broadly fall into four categories – tax-funded integral services where tax payers in a country pay a tax that is used to fund health care for the poor; social health insurance, community health insurance and private or voluntary health insurance.
Two countries that are getting repeated mention at the symposium for the relative success of their national health insurance policies are Ghana and Mexico.
So where does science fit in here? As Julio Frenk, Mexico’s former health minister and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, said, reforms open up new research opportunities, such as how “implementation research” can be put into practice and scaled up; whether and how reforms are actually working; and comparative analyses from different countries.
Research is the core of the new era of global health, says Frenk. “Any time a country tries out an innovation, this is a learning opportunity for the rest of the world.”
T. V. Padma, South Asia Regional Coordinator, SciDev.Net


A free internet encyclopaedia is being set up to classify every living species of animal and plant on Earth.
The Encyclopaedia of Life will create an entry for every one of the current 1.8 million known species, and will add new species as they are discovered. Written descriptions will be backed up by photographs, maps and videos.
A dedicated team working on the project will range from 25 to 35 people.
Initially, species classification will focus on animals, plants and fungi, and information on microbes will be added at a later date. Species that exist only as fossils could also be added in the future.
The project will use existing databases to cut down on the needless replication of information, with entries on birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and plants being drawn from these sources.
The database will be written in English to begin with and other languages will be added later.
Freshly launched 11nm Qualcomm silicon will come with Adreno 612 GPU
Are pinning down the exact rate of expansion of the Hubble constant
RISC OS 5 to form the basis of RISC OS Open after Castle Technology sells to RISC OS Developments
A smartphone maker fiddling its benchmarking scores? That's unusual, isn't it?


|3rd century BC–460s|
Territory of the Xiongnu (green), circa 250 BC
|Capital||Longcheng (龙城/蘢城), near Khoshoo Tsaidam (present-day in Mongolia), was established as the annual meeting place and de facto capital.|
|3rd century BC|
The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴) were nomads who lived north of China from about 3rd century BC to 460s AD. Their lands were very infertile, so they tried to attack China many times. As this was very irritating, the first emperor of China (Qin Shi Huang) built the Great Wall of China around 214 to 206 BC to keep them out. Some Han dynasty emperors tried to stop the wars and make friends with them, but they still tried to attack the Chinese borders.
At first, it was believed that they were related to the Huns, and currently many people still believe this. In old times, nomadic tribes often travelled and lived together, even tribes speaking different languages. Around 60 BC, there was a struggle for power, and the Xiongnu broke up into five smaller tribes.
In 202 AD, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu surrendered to Prime Minister Cao Cao of the Han dynasty.
They are part of the Mongolian people now, or some of them have migrated to China for a better life.
References[change | change source]
- Pines, Yuri (2012). The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy. Princeton University Press. p. 37. ISBN 1-4008-4227-1.
- Man, John (2005). Attila: The Barbarian King who Challenged Rome. Bantam Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-593-05291-4.


In the poem, "Theme for English B", by Langston Hughes, Hughes talks about the African American struggle for equality. This is a common subject for Hughes with many of his poems being about blacks and the injustices they face. The poem starts off with an instructor giving his students a paper to write, and the instructor says to the student,And let that page come out of you-Then, it will be true (Bauknight 564).
The poem then continues as the paper that Hughes is writing. In the paper, he explains everything he feels in his heart, just as his instructor has told him to. His paper illustrates exactly what an African-American man feels, acts, and thinks about in his everyday life. This is the natural struggle that most black men face; to be seen as equals in society.
The point that Hughes tries to get across to his teacher is that he, the black man, likes and does the same things as the white man.
Hughes wonders if his paper will be graded differently because he is black. To illustrate this point, he says,I guess being colored doesn't make me not likethe same things other folks like who are other races.
So will my page be colored that I write (Bauknight 564)The biggest difference in the two has nothing to do with the color of their skin, but how the world views them. Hughes was not asking for sympathy, or for an apology, just understanding. He thinks that even that will be hard, knowing that he and his professor come from two completely different worlds. He explains that with men and black men will always impact each other's lives, but Hughes knows that the white man wants no part of the black man's life. Hughes' only meager wish is to be...


We draw a circle and directing which show the middle of the head and an arrangement of eyes. Further draw two oval eyes, a small nose and an open mouth.
Erase auxiliary lines, having left only a circle. Then we draw up to two eyelashes on each eye, pupils and a patch of light. On the head we draw venochek from florets and we give the form of the head, increasing cheeks and doing from fluffy.
Draw ears and a body.
We draw pads and a tail.
Erase unnecessary lines and to a wish can draw a pendent.
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The gray that has seeped across his hair, the skin folds that now bracket his mouth — like many leaders, President Obama has aged dramatically while in office.
And that visible aging may reflect stress-driven biological wear-and-tear that could shorten a leader’s life, suggests a new study on presidents and prime ministers.
The findings contradict an alternative school of thought, that the elixir of winning and holding power leads to longer life.
From the BMJ press release:
Election to head of government is associated with an increased risk of death compared with runner-up candidates, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
…A team of US researchers set out to test the theory that politicians elected to head of government may experience accelerated aging and premature death due to stress of leadership and political life.
They compared survival of 279 nationally elected leaders from 17 countries with 261 unelected candidates who never served in office, from 1722 to 2015…
After adjusting for life expectancy at time of last election, elected leaders lived 2.7 fewer years and had a 23% increased risk of death than runners-up.
WBUR’s Rachel Paiste spoke with Harvard Medical School’s Anupam Jena, an associate professor of health care policy and senior author on the paper. Their conversation, lightly edited: Continue reading


WILLIAM THARP, Delaware’s 28th governor, was born near Farmington, Delaware, on November 27, 1803. After finishing his education, he took over his family’s large estate, supervising improvements and cultivating new developments. Tharp entered politics in 1844 as an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate. Two years later, he won election and on January 19, 1847, he was sworn into office. During his tenure, the ownership of Pea Patch Island (off Delaware’s coast) was finally resolved, with the state handing over its rights to the U.S. government. His administration advocated for efficiency and economy in the management of its programs and policies. Also, Tharp publicly supported the Mexican War, but personally doubted the validity of the war. Tharp left office on January 21, 1851, and retired from public service. He returned to Milford and continued to manage his family’s extensive farm holdings. Governor William Tharp died on January 9, 1865, and he is buried at the Christ Episcopal Churchyard in Milford, Delaware.