Hello, dear artists and lovers of cars. Here we show you how to draw an Opel Astra OPC step by step. Opel Astra is a compact car developed and manufactured by the German company Adam Opel AG since 1991. Astra (from Latin – “star”) is the continuation of the line of models Opel Kadett, started back in 1962.
So, all our drawing lessons about cars start with the basic contours. Let’s do this in this drawing lesson on how to draw an Opel Astra. Using streamlined lines sketch out the body of the car.
In the front part of Opel Astra drawing sketch out the bumper, radiator grill and headlights which are a bit like the headlights of the Subaru Impreza
In the previous two steps we used very light lines, but from this step we will use clearer lines. In this way draw the headlights, grille and logo in the center of the grille.
Right under the radiator grille draw the bumper on which the radiator grille, registration plate and fog lights are located. In the same step draw out the hood.
Now we need to add details to the top of the Opel Astra drawing. So draw out the lines of the windows, side mirror and the small spoiler.
In our example, we draw a two-door variation of the Opel Astra, but you can draw a sedan or a four-door hatchback. On the door draw the handle and move to the next step.
Using smooth and clear lines draw large wheels and wheel arches. If you made a mistake, just erase the failed line and draw it again.
The last step remains, in which we will draw Opel Astra rims. Here we drew a rather complex form of rims, but you can make a simpler design, as for example in the lesson about a Cadillac Escalade.
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About this book
This book focuses on the application of nanotechnology to deliver drugs and biological agents by the mucosal routes of administration i.e. nasal, pulmonary, buccal, and oral routes.It provides an overview of nanotechnology in drug delivery with a description of different types of nanoparticles, methods of preparation and characterization, and functionalization for site-specific drug delivery. Mucosal Delivery of Drugs and Biologics in Nanoparticles emphasize the use of nanoparticles in treating various cancers and infectious diseases. It broadens the use of nanoparticles by including biologics, including vaccines and immunotherapies, apart from drugs. It acknowledges the concerns around the potential toxicity of nanoparticles to the host; few chapters will discuss the biodistribution of these nanoparticles when mucosal routes of administration are employed. Further, the interaction of nanoparticles with the host’s immune cells is discussed. Moreover,it reviews the regulatory aspects of nanotechnology in product development, especially when delivered by the mucosal route of administration. Lastly, discusses the challenges and opportunities to manufacture nanoparticles on an industrial scale. This book will be the first of its kind to focus on the design, development and delivery of nanoparticles when administered by different mucosal routes.
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American scientists have developed a pain reliever AT-121, which is stronger than morphine, does not cause addiction and dangerous side effects. This publication reports Science Alert.
The researchers hope that the drug will help to reduce the number of deaths caused by dependence on pain relieving drugs and their overdoses. In 2012 in the U.S. alone, due to the use of opioid analgesics has died more than 16 thousand people.
The new compound acts on the Μ-opioid receptors (MOR) and nociceptin receptors — protein molecules in the neurons of the brain. MOORE are targets for traditional painkillers, the receptors in nociceptin involved in the development of addiction and dependence.
Trial involving rhesus monkeys showed that AT-121 exerted analgesic effects like morphine at concentrations a hundred times lower than usual. Moreover, the drug was able to reduce the level of dependence the animals from oxycodone is a semisynthetic opioid. High-dose AT-121 did not cause respiratory depression, and disturbances in the cardiovascular system.
Scientists hope the findings are confirmed in further tests that will be carried out with the participation of the people.
Video, photo All from Russia.


Nasa finds new evidence of Mars ground-water
Nasa has found new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars.
In a paper published in the online edition of Nature Geoscience, scientists wrote about the results of their analysis of spectrometer data taken from McLaughlin Crater taken by Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The crater is about 92 kilometres in diameter and 2.25km deep.
The layered rocks of the crater contain carbonate and clay minerals that form in the presence of water. Because McLaughlin lacks large inflow channels, and what small channels it has end at a level that could have been the surface of a lake, it indicates that the lake was fed from ground-water.
"Taken together, the observations in McLaughlin Crater provide the best evidence for carbonate forming within a lake environment instead of being washed into a crater from outside," said Joseph Michalski, lead author of the paper.
"This new report and others are continuing to reveal a more complex Mars than previously appreciated, with at least some areas more likely to reveal signs of ancient life than others," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
You can read the full story on Nasa’s website.


As president of the community council of Vereda MedellÍn, a farming settlement three miles south of Puerto AsÍs on the Putumayo River, NarvaÍs himself had cultivated 25 acres of coca and profited nicely. Local processing labs, operated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), bought NarvaÍs's coca and profited nicely, as well.
In turn, these labs sold the drugs to international cartels to help finance their long-running civil war.
Officials estimate that 402,000 acres of coca plants are under cultivation in Colombia, one of the world's most fruitful coca-producing regions. Each year, about 330 tons of Colombian cocaine, with a street value of about $8,600 per pound, illegally find a way to American drug abusers, according to U.S. officials; another 220 tons go to Europe.
Colombian and U.S. officials are working cooperatively in a costly program to curb cocaine production in Colombia, hoping to reduce cocaine exports to the United States and cripple FARC's economic power. The Bush administration has named a new regional program the Andean Initiative, ...1
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Voices of Water: Jim Siscoe
“From the time I was old enough to stand in a creek I was fascinated by running water, quite frankly,” says Jim Siscoe, manager of the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company (MVIC) in Cortez, Colorado. MVIC owns about $1.5 billion dollars worth of water rights in the area that revolve around the McPhee Dam on the Dolores River, a tributary of the Colorado River.
While Siscoe is a scientist by training he is a rancher at heart; he and his wife, Loretta, have just begun an organic cattle operation that has 40 head of Black Angus cattle.
One of the hottest topics in this area revolves around the endangered fish species that used to - and could once again - call the Dolores River home. These include the endangered pikeminnow and razorback sucker that are locally extirpated.
To restore their populations, conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy want to restore flow downstream of the McPhee Dam and Reservoir, something that MVIC also wants to accomplish but in a way that honors their existing water rights in the region.
As Siscoe explains, Colorado’s “use it or lose it” water law work like this: “It’s like somebody walks into your savings account and says: you haven’t used your money so we’re going to take it.” This means that if they want to give their water to nature, they might lose their water right over it.
Opposition to putting water downstream for nature among local farmers and residents is strong. Some fear that if they restore flow to the river their own land will return to the scrubby sagebrush desert it was before the irrigation system was installed.
For Siscoe the solution is simple. MVIC should work with the environmentalists or risk losing some of their water rights entirely: “The downstream environment is going to change the realities and you can work with them or against them.”


Tuvalu faced continuing threats in 2008 from rising sea levels, which were beginning to contaminate its freshwater aquifers, and from surges and unusually high tides (often called king tides), which were causing accelerated coastal degradation. The country had earlier asked Australia and New Zealand to consider taking in Tuvaluans when the low-lying islands eventually become uninhabitable, and talks with both countries continued. Some 100 Tuvaluans had settled successfully in nearby Niue, and there was dialogue on the possibility of settling more Tuvaluan refugees in Niue, which had a declining population.
In April Tuvalu became the 11th signatory to ratify the Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement. A new twice-weekly air service from Funafuti to Fiji opened the possibility of expanding tourism, but Tuvalu was likely to derive more income from seasonal workers who worked as temporary labour in horticulture and viticulture industries in New Zealand. Although Tuvalu was not included in the parallel Australian scheme to commence later in the year, Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd met in July and agreed to work toward a Pacific Partnership that would provide a better-coordinated approach to Tuvalu’s short-term development. In August Tuvalu sent a team of three to the Beijing Olympics, a weightlifter and two track and field athletes, including the country’s first woman Olympian.


Before Boston, there was a Massachusetts settlement called Gorges Colony. It was slightly south of Boston and really never developed into anything more than a small, failed village. In fact, it was placed right on top of the remains of the Wessagusset Colony, which was also a failed attempt at colonizing the region. Sure, Miles Standish had a memorable, and small, battle with the local natives there, but there seemed to be little reason to attempt another colony in the same spot. Nonetheless, Robert Gorges did.
It all began back in 1614, when the founder of Jamestown, Captain John Smith, visited Massachusetts and decided to promote it to other Europeans. This led to further visits, the Plymouth Colony and Gorges Colony on what was left of the Wessagusset Colony just a few years later. Robert Gorges came from Weymouth, Dorset to colonize this piece of land in Massachusetts in 1623. He became Governor General of New England around the same time and abandoned his colony within a few months of founding it.
Only one lasting thing came of Robert Gorges' attempted colony in Massachusetts. He named it Weymouth after the British town from whence he came. The colony he attempted to start may not have lasted, but the name did.


The Kingdom of Thailand has a rich and unique history dating back to the early 1200s. Centuries of rule by absolute monarchies, invasions by the Burmese Kingdom, endeavours to fend off European colonialism and internal revolutions demanding greater freedom have all amalgamated to offer the country of Thailand, formerly known as Siam, an eclectic foundation on which modern Thai society has been built.
For four centuries Thailand was ruled by the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The capital city of Ayutthaya was described to be one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world during the 17th century, gradually turning into a thriving international trade emporium. After the Ayutthaya Kingdom was overthrown by Burmese forces, Thailand came to be ruled by the Thon Buri Kingdom, but it was the reign of the Chakri Kings that moulded modernist ideals in Thai society. Over their decades-long rule the Chakri kings propagated aspects of western culture, appointing western advisors, mandating education for all, and modernising notions of acceptable dress code.
Thailand also came to be the only South East Asian country to not have been colonised by European powers. The rulers of Thailand were able to leverage Thailand’s location and its importance as a trade hub in negotiating terms that would keep Thailand sovereign. Increased interaction with the world started to influence Thai society and in 1932, after centuries of absolute monarchical rule, an internal revolution lead by western educated college students succeeded in changing Thailand into a constitutional monarchy. This paved the way for democracy but didn’t take away any of the respect or reverence that kings in Thailand have historically received, and this way of life has continued in Thailand to this day.
To get a more detailed understanding of Thailand’s history follow the link below:


One of the best methods for learning English is watching films. ABA English bases English language learning on short films about real life in Europe and the United States produced exclusively for the American and British Academy. It is a quick and fun way of learning English effortlessly.
The ABA Film is the starting point for the unit and contains the communicative functions and grammatical structures which you will learn in the other sections, where you will study the dialogue between the characters in the short film in detail, you will be capable of using all the expressions and including them in your spoken and written English.
All the recordings were done with native actors; the scenes occur in both Europe and the United States in order to give a more realistic context.
You will meet over 300 British and American characters!


The logarithmic spiral is plotted with the origin in red. It can be expressed in polar coordinates as or parametrically as:[more]
Each small black point represents the spiral's point for a different angle . Specifically, 80 black points are plotted for each completed round (). The big black point represents the "initial point" corresponding to . The big blue point highlights the point for the specific angle selected with the control.
Select "fixed axes" to restrict the range of in the plot to . Without "fixed axes", the same spiral can be seen resized; the unit line segment along the axis shows the scale.[less]
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: March 7 2011


The calculator below can compute very large numbers. Acceptable formats include: integers, decimal, or the E-notation form of scientific notation, i.e. 23E18, 3.5e19, etc.
Most scientific and graphing calculators can only display possibly up to 10 decimal places of accuracy. While this is enough in most instances of everyday use, it can be fairly limiting for applications where higher standards of accuracy are necessary. Hence the existence of big number calculators such as the one above, that can provide far higher levels of accuracy. Big numbers are more likely to be used in fields such as cosmology, astronomy, mathematics, cryptography, and statistical mechanics.
Some big numbers that people are exposed to in everyday life include the number of bits on a computer’s hard disk, the number of cells and neuronal connections in the body, Avogadro’s constant, the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe, and combinatorial processes.
In some cases, the numbers worked with are so large that special notations such as Knuth’s up-arrow notation, the Conway chained arrow notation, and Steinhaus-Moser notation were conceived. Nevertheless, there are certainly scientific uses for big number calculators today, and even if a person may not have any need to use one, it can certainly be entertaining to satiate one’s curiosity of what 10,000 factorial looks like on a screen.


Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a specially organized system that provides personnel, facilities and equipment for the effective and coordinated delivery of emergency medical services within a geographical area. An effective EMS system involves many different agencies and organizations working together seamlessly to provide rapid emergency medical care to patients and ensure that the right patient gets to the right hospital at the right time.
In Mississippi, the emergency medical services system is extraordinary in that member services and personnel not only provide the highest standards of pre-hospital care for the citizens and visitors of Mississippi, but ensure that patients are delivered to the right hospital at the right time.
The Bureau of Emergency Medical Services organizes, regulates and maintains a statewide program to improve emergency medical care. Further, it coordinates agency resources in "all hazard" planning and response to disasters. This includes both incidents involving weapons of mass destruction as well as natural disasters, from hurricanes on the coast to ice storms in the Delta.
The Bureau works with its sister Bureaus in the Office of Emergency Planning and Response to implement and coordinate the agency's Emergency Response Plans and Emergency Response Team with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS), the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and other agencies for all disasters including weapons of mass destruction and bioterrorism.


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Hawaii has become the first State in the U.S. to ban the distribution of plastic bags inside grocery stores.
Many stores around the world now charge people for the reusable bags when checking out at the counter, an attempt to refuse the use of the environmental damage caused by plastic bags, but Hawaii has become the first place to pass actual legislation at a County level.
The problem with most plastic bags is that they aren’t biodegradable, taking years and years to break down and causing all sorts of damage to wildlife on the way.
This is another small step in the right direction towards phasing out the use of plastic bags in our grocery stores.


The Crown Week 10: Day 1
Optional: Read 1 Samuel 28-30
Read: 1 Samuel 30:11-31
Following the victory of David and his men over the Amalekites, how do the ‘evil men and troublemakers’ want to divide the plunder? What do you make of their attitude? Do you sympathise with their reaction towards the men too weak to join the fight?
As David responds to these men, we see him begin to act as king, deciding that all will have an equal share in the plunder, instating an ongoing statute and ordinance for Israel from that time on.
What reason does David give for equally sharing the plunder? To whom does David credit their victory? What impact does that have on his attitude towards what they have acquired?
Earlier in Samuel when the people asked for a king, Samuel warned them that a king would take from the people. Here we see David being open-handed. Ultimately we see open-handed generosity in the kingship of Jesus, whose ministry revealed he was particularly concerned for the weak, and who went so far as to lay down his own life for us.
Are there times when you are tempted to look on the weak as David’s men do, with a lack of generosity? How would viewing your resources as David does, help you to be open-handed with what God has given you?
We are spiritually poor, and come to Christ empty handed. How is the generosity of Jesus a comfort when we consider our own neediness? What sin do you need to bring to the cross?
Praise God that Jesus never lacks generosity, but has willingly given us all that is his, including his righteousness. Bring before God sin for which you need forgiveness.
Pray for the physically and spiritually needy in Perth. Ask that God would grant you and others generosity with the resources he has given you.


2Vessels•Femoral A becomes the Popliteal A•Around the knee there are 4 arteries:– Sup & Inf, Lat & Med Genicular A.•Popliteal A. gives off Ant Tibial A.– Penetrates the Interosseous Membrane•Then Post Tibial gives off Fibular A.Veins• Deep– Ant and Post Tibial V.•Join to become Popliteal V• Superficial– Saphenous V runs medially•Joins Femoral inferior to triangle– Small Saphenous V runs dorsally•Joins Popliteal above knee
3Innervation•Sciatic courses posteriorly•Sup to Knee it splits into Tibial & Fibular•Fibular N– Wraps laterally around fibula and splits– Superficial (l) & Deep Fibular nn•Saphenous N (fr. Femoral N)– Wraps medially around tibia to medial maleollusInnervation - 2• Posteriorly– Tibial N•Courses along post aspect of Tibia to foot•Gives off many local nerves•Continues to foot medially•Gives rise to Sural N (S) & Plantar nn–Supplies skin on post & lat leg, lat foot• Anteriorly– Sup & Deep Fibular nn continue to foot•Lateral and Medial respectively
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It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria -- or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song -- not to mention birdsongs, frog thrums and mating calls of all manner of vertebrates -- was likely laid down hundreds of millions of years ago with the hums and grunts of the homely piscine.
By mapping the developing brain cells in newly hatched midshipman fish larvae and comparing them to other species, Andrew H. Bass, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, with colleagues Edwin Gilland of Howard University and Robert Baker of New York University, found that the neural network behind sound production in vertebrates can be traced back through evolutionary time to an era long before the first animals ventured onto dry land.
Bass spoke to the media at a press conference, July 17. The research is published in the July 18 issue of the journal Science.


400 years dispatched with one stroke or many, as we now realise, “enlightenment,” commenced with this hitherto unrecognised and unknown to many, Nostradamus of the written word.
George Herbert’s most famous poems
George Herbert (1593-1633) published none of his poetry during his lifetime, instead sending his poetic works to a friend shortly before his death, with the instruction that if his friend thought the poems worth publishing, he should do so. Thankfully, they were published, in The Temple in 1633, a few months after Herbert’s death. The following poems are what we consider the ten greatest George Herbert poems (although other readers will doubtless have their own top ten list). Click on the title of each poem to read it, and discover more information about the poem.
‘Jordan (I)’. A poem calling for plain speech in poetry, rather than clichés or needlessly obscure and convoluted metaphors. This may strike us as somewhat odd given Herbert’s fondness for elaborate conceits and analogies elsewhere in his poetry, but Herbert’s main objection appears to be to lazy poetic…
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There are a total of 107 foreign language students in a high school where they offer only Spanish, French, and German. 42 take Spanish.
46 take French.
45 take German.
8 take Spanish and French but not German.
8 take Spanish and German but no French.
6 take French and German but not Spanish.
24 students are taking at least two languages.
What is the probability that a student randomly selected from those taking exactly one language takes French in this semester?
Best done with a Venn diagram.
overlap three circles called S F and G
place x in the middle for S F and G
fill in the rest of the entries
e.g. the number taking only Spanish = 42 - 8 - 8 - x
only German = 45 - 8 - 6 - x = 31 - x
only French = 46 - 8 - 6 - x = 32 - x
we can find x ....
26-x +8+8+6+x+32-x+31-x = 107
-2x = -4
x = 2
so those taking only French = 32-2= 30
prob of stated event = 30/107
Let's do 100+90+4. You are thinking now this is impossible but no you can sum this the answer of this you are thinking that is 194 so yes cause just you need to put the one of the hundred place, the nine of the tens place and the four of the ones place
just sing ou your communities property of multiplication with different thousanda hunts and ones


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The Temple of Heaven, is a complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies. It has been regarded as a Taoist temple, The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is a magnificent circular building, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests. The building is completely wooden, with no nails. The Summer Palace is mainly dominated by Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometers, three quarters of which is water. Longevity Hill is about 60 meters (200 feet) high and houses many buildings positioned in sequence. The front hill is rich in the splendid halls and pavilions, while the back hill, in sharp contrast, is quiet with natural beauty The central Kunming Lake covering 2.2 square kilometers was entirely man made and the excavated soil was used to build Longevity Hill. In the Summer Palace, one finds a variety of palaces, gardens, and other classical-style architectural structures. In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design". The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire against intrusions . Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC. While some portions north of Beijing portrayed in this video and near tourist centers have been preserved and even extensively renovated, in many locations the Wall is in disrepair. The Great Wall is a World Heritage Site.
|Beijing Highlights part 2|
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Bromide is the reduced form of bromine. It is an ion. It exists when another element, such as sodium, gives away electrons to bromine, turning it into bromide. The aluminium turns into an aluminum ion, and both ions bond to form sodium bromide, a chemical compound. Bromides are normally colorless and nontoxic.
Bromide can also refer to an overused saying or idiom, such as "quick as a mouse" and "big as an elephant". In writing it is recommended to use fresh expressions and not over used ones.


Washington, Mar 6 : Researchers at University of Leicester have made advancement in the fight against TB by isolating two proteins from the bacterium that can be a potential target to avoid its resurgence.
They claim to have isolated the molecular 'weapons' of the bacterium and are now conducting further studies to gauge ways to make the bacterium ineffective.
The two proteins, ESAT-6 and CFP-10 are believed to thrive the bacterium in white blood cells.
"One of the most important of these molecular weapons is known as the ESAT-6/CFP-10 complex. These are two proteins that bind together to become a functional unit, and it is thought that they may be needed to allow the bacteria to thrive inside white blood cells, as happens during the initial infection," said Dr. Mark Carr, from the Department of Biochemistry.
"Removal of the genes for this complex from the TB genome renders the bacteria unable to cause disease, exposing how important this particular weapon is to the bacteria, he added.
The researchers are conducting further researches to identify the exact components of the human white blood cells that this complex is targeting. hat would provide greater understanding of the activity of these molecular weapons of TB.


A lot of current work is focused on developing sensors that detect diseases and tiny capsules that take medicines to where they're needed most in the body.
But it could be a long time before we see the benefits. All new medicines have to go through long trials to make sure they're safe. So you'll have to wait years for most nano-sized healthcare to reach doctors' surgeries and hospitals.
|Future medicines may be able to home in on specific locations in your body.|


WASHINGTON — A new health concern is rising across the country. Respiratory Syncytial Virus, also known as RSV.
The Mayo Clinic says most children will be infected with RSV by the age of 2.
A DC Hospital Association spokesperson told WUSA9 that D.C. hospitals are experiencing an increase in RSV hospitalizations. They say as of Oc. 18, there were three pediatric ICU beds available in the District. They also claim of the 342 inpatient pediatric beds, 321 of those beds were occupied as of Tuesday night.
According to data from the CDC, there has been a steep incline in detected cases. On Aug. 20, 1,241 cases were reported. By Oct. 8, that number had jumped to 4,424 cases.
Some of the symptoms of RSV include fever, coughing, wheezing, change or loss of appetite and fatigue.
"If they're noticing that there's sucking in in the skin between the child's ribs or underneath the ribs that's usually a sign that there's difficulty breathing," said Pediatric Infectious Diseases Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse with the Mayo Clinic. "Obviously, if your child looks blue around their mouth or lips or fingernails -- that's a really serious sign and you should seek medical care right away."
Some health experts speculate that the pandemic is partially to blame for the uptick in cases.
"Now they're all together, they've taken their masks off," said Dr. William Schaffner from Vanderbilt University. "Most of them haven't yet experienced RSV as a child. So you have a lot of susceptible children".
To reduce risk, doctors recommend you wash your hands frequently. They also recommend washing your children's toys and keeping countertops and doorknobs clean.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus causes infections in the lungs and respiratory tract. And it's common in children.


Definition of somniferous
a. - Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. 2
The word "somniferous" uses 11 letters: E F I M N O O R S S U.
No direct anagrams for somniferous found in this word list.
Adding one letter to somniferous does not form any other word in this word list.Words within somniferous not shown as it has more than seven letters.
All words formed from somniferous by changing one letter
Browse words starting with somniferous by next letter


Fujian (福建) is a province on the southeast coast of China and one of the most important regions in the world for tea production. It has a particular reputation for the high-quality artisan teas that it produces, as well as the development of different styles of tea and methods of tea production. A tremendous variety of types of tea originate from here.
The province is mostly mountainous and, as the saying goes, is "Eight parts mountain, one part water, and one part farmland" (八山一水一分田). Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east.
Fujian has a subtropical climate, with some rainfall year-round, but with a drier winter and wetter summer. An overwhelming majority of the province is mountainous, however Fujian is also the most heavily forested province in China.
Fujian is particularly important in relation to oolong teas, as many styles of oolong originated there. The two major oolong regions of Fujian are Anxi county in the south, and the Wuyi mountains or Wuyishan (武夷山), in Northern Fujian. Wuyi is the origin of a number of other oolongs, including Da Hong Pao, Rou Gui, and many others.
White tea also originated in Fujian, and the majority of the world's white tea is still produced here, in the North-East in Fuding and Zhenghe counties.
Wuyi is somewhat important in the history of black tea (otherwise known as red tea in Chinese), including Bohea, the black tea famous for its involvement in the Boston Tea Party. Wuyi borders Jiangxi province, and is near Wuyuan county in that province, another key area in tea production.
- Forestry in Fujian Province, State Forestry Administration, Peoples Republic of China, Jan. 21, 2010.


A biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude and terrain factors. A biome is composed of the climax vegetation and all associated sub climax, or degraded, vegetation, fauna and soils, but can often be identified by the climax vegetation type. | Source: Wikipedia
Global Biomes and Climate
- Use the link above to collect the information necessary to complete this table – to show the different climates and vegetations found in each of the globes major biomes.
Describe the climate (temperature and rainfall)
Is there any difference between the seasons?
Describe the typical vegetation found in the biome
|Temperate deciduous forest|
Why are the biomes located where they are
Levels of solar radiation
- Why does the Equator receive more solar radiation than the Poles?
- How does the level of solar radiation arriving upon different parts of the earth's surface affect the biome located there?
- What is a rain shadow and how does it affect the biomes in that area?
- How does the 'North Atlantic Drift' keep Western Europe warmer than it should be?
- What is the Thermohaline Circulation / Ocean Conveyor Belt / Global Conveyor Belt / Meridional Overturning Circulation?
- The image above shows the Furtwangler Glacier on Mt Kilimanjaro. The location of the glacier is very close to the equator. Explain why there is a glacier at such a warm latitude.
- How does the presence of atmospheric cells explain the location of deserts and tropical rainforests?


Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), a former mutual-defense alliance of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Great Britain. The United States was an associate member. The objective of the alliance was to prevent the spread of Communism and of Soviet influence in the Middle East. In the event of aggression against any of the Middle Eastern members of the alliance, the United States was pledged to take such appropriate action as would be mutually agreed upon. The members engaged in many cooperative nonmilitary projects.
CENTO was formed in 1955 at Baghdad, Iraq, as the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), and was commonly also referred to as the Baghdad Pact. When Iraq, one of the original members, withdrew in 1959 the alliance was reorganized under the new name. With the withdrawal of Pakistan and Iran in 1979, CENTO collapsed.


of the Straits of Mackinac
Dr. Charles E. Feltner
and Jeri Baron Feltner
Historic Mackinac and her shipwrecks presented in an interesting,
informative and entertaining fashion - includes stories of 41 discovered
shipwrecks and 43 undiscovered shipwrecks with detailed facts and
maps - and sketches of the history of the Straits, Islands, Lighthouses,
Shipwreck Statistics, Bottomland Preserve - also provides Sources,
Bibliography, Glossary of Nautical Terms and an Index. Scuba divers,
historians and anyone interested in Great Lakes maritime history
will enjoy this book.
by Mike Fornes
History of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw, decommissioned in 2006.
Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by Robert J. Hemming
Immortalized in song by Canadian balladeer Gordon
Lightfoot and still argued over by Great Lakes experts, the fate
of the Edmond Fitzgerald and its crew has attracted more widespread
attention than any of the other thousands of shipwrecks recorded
on the Great Lakes. A fascinating and marvelous book regarding
the Edmiund Fitzgerald.


Political Thinkers and the Drink Question
Mark Whitaker shows how the 'Drink Question' was of central importance for both of England's most original and influential political thinkers of the 19th century - John Stuart Mill and TH Green.
For both of them it raised the question of how far the state could be justified in interfering in the lives of individuals. The debate had started in the letters page of the Times in 1856, in a high-level exchange between the Tory MP Lord Stanley and Samuel Pope, Secretary of the temperance movement the UK Alliance. The latter argued that his rights as a citizen were "invaded" by the behaviour of heavy drinkers; the former that no Englishman would agree to be "coerced for his own benefit".
Mill picked up the topic in his essay On Liberty, published in 1859. Mill was mid-Victorian England's most influential public intellectual, and his books were best-sellers even though his ideas were radical. He insisted that "drunkenness is not a fit subject for legislative purposes", and feared that the weight of public opinion would crush individualism.
TH Green was an academic philosopher at Oxford, and was deeply involved in the temperance movement during the 1870s. He believed that individual freedom lay in pursuing the common good and that mass drunkenness made this impossible in England. He thought that "moderate drinkers" had to sacrifice their pleasure for the sake of society as a whole.
Actors read extracts from their work.
Producer: Mark Whitaker
A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4.


Mars One is a a private, Netherlands-based push to realize a human colony on the red planet by 2025.
In an email statement to Popular Science Thursday, Mars One announced plans to build a simulated colony here on Earth to vet astronauts and make sure they can withstand the cramped and isolated conditions colonists will have to endure before awarding them their one-way ticket.
They are currently in the process of courting financial sponsors and construction companies, and while the simulated Martian digs won’t actually boast extraterrestrial life-support right off the bat, the company intends to retrofit the technology to the structure down the line.
More than 200,00 people applied for the chance to be among the first colonists. Mars One has already narrowed the pool to just over a thousand candidates, and intends ultimately to send a cadre of 24-40 colonists to the planet.
According to Popular Science, “spaceflight contractors Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. are already working with Mars One to develop a robotic lander and a data-link satellite for an unmanned, exploratory mission to Mars in 2018.”
Mars One has said in the past that they intend to televise the colonization as a means of funding.
So who’s ready for Big Brother: Martian Edition? That will be reality television worth watching.


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Publication Date: 2003
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The Effects of the "Horizons" Reading Program and Prior Phonological Awareness Training on the Reading Skills of First Graders.
Tobin, Kevin G.
Journal of Direct Instruction, v3 n1 p1-16 Win 2003
Evaluates the effectiveness of the "Horizons Fast Track A-B" program on first-grade students' decoding skills and oral reading fluency. Notes that two classes used "Horizons Fast Track" and two classes used a Silver, Burdett, and Ginn (SBG) curriculum. Finds that classes that received "Horizons" instruction outperformed classes with SBG curriculum. (PM)
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It's easy for boys and girls to get in touch with nature through fun weather activities for kids. And by simply watching clouds, kids can learn the many different elements of weather.
Using practical knowledge and a little imagination, it's no telling what the clouds in the sky will reveal.
Learn how to enjoy different weather activities on the following pages.
Learn how to forecast the weather by identifying clouds.
See how to shape your child's imagination by showing them how to spot cloudy capers.
Cloudy days mean more than just a rainy forecast. Learn how identifying clouds can reveal elements of the weather on the next page.


The presentation below outlines a range of official statistics available from Scottish Government and the results from the 2011 Census in Scotland and was part of the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers Conference in October 2015.
We focused on the Scottish results published through the Census Data Explorer, and used a number of case studies to illustrate how the data can be used to answer specific questions, making links where possible to curricular frameworks for Geography and Numeracy Across Learning.
The session ended with a discussion on potential use of Census data within Geography National Qualifications.
In the afternoon we took part in the 'Hot Spots' forum where groups of teachers took part in 10 minute discussion on a range of resources.
The following are the resources we shared at the event:
- Presentation slides
- Census Data Explorer worksheet
- Parliamentary profiles for Scotland
- Datashine Scotland
- Scotland’s Population 2014 Infographic report
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation training material and data
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2012 - Background Data
- SIMD Training Materials for exercises


Strip counts as a means of determining densities and habitat utilization patterns in lake fishes
Synopsis: The strip count method of determining fish densities was investigated for a small lake in a series of inshore sites that differed in their physical and biological characteristics and in the communities of fishes present. Overall total numbers of fish, number of species, ratio of commonest to total species, and 2nd commonest to total species, were investigated. Counts were made during time of the feeding peaks. Repeatability of the method was tested by series of five traverses at 10-minute intervals and was good both for total numbers of fish and ratio of commonest species to total fish. However, it varied with the habitat type, being excellent for small semi-isolated weedy sites, good for gravel-bottom sites, but only fair in open sandy bays where the strip was laid in the middle of an extensive area of homogeneous habitat. Series of comparative counts made (a) between morning and afternoon on the same day and, (b) between successive mornings, to determine how constant populations were between these time intervals, proved to be within the same general range but were significantly different by the Mann Whitney U test at the ? = 0.05 level. In small lakes the strip count method proves to have considerable potential in the study of habitat specializations, taxocene structures, and relative abundances.
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The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces - in terms of architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins), urban design, (towns and villages), and agricultural use, principally for the cultivation of vines - of its evolution since prehistoric times.
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Have you ever met a raccoon before?
The raccoons are carnivore mammals, part of the procyonid family and natives of North America.
Their genre includes seven species, the most widespread of which is the “Procyon lotor”. This animal is of medium size and has a stocky body of 60-100 cm long. The 20-40 cm of them belong to the tail.
The Raccoons’ body is covered with a long and thick brown fur. They also have a bushy tail and short legs, with five fingers each.
They are very good swimmers, able climbers and live mostly in smalls herds in dense forests. Their food consists mainly of rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, birds and eggs.


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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Dedicated birdwatchers (also known as birders) are familiar with Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds. Young readers can learn all about him in For The Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy Thomas. This 40-page picturebook chronicles how Roger's first love was observing birds and how he experimented with different forms of capturing their images, by photography and painting.
Here's a sample: "Roger knew that watching a bird in the field meant you had just a second or two to remember its shape, color, and size before it flew out of sight. So Roger painted only the memorable bits....Simple outlines against a light background showed a bird's shape, and Roger added arrows to point out the most important field markings that distinguished one bird from another."
The color illustrations done by Laura Jacques enhance this book.
Roger's own collection of illustrations are housed at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, New York. I saw them a few years ago and they are worth a visit.
Here's an activity for birdwatching grandparents and their grandchildren.
While grandparents are watching birds through binoculars, their grandchildren can draw birds using Roger's tips: 1. outline the bird's shape.
2. Show distinctive features of the bird through the use of arrows or other marks.


How can I help my constipated baby?
My baby is constipated. What can I do to help him?Question:
To properly answer this question, I would need your answers to more questions. How old is your baby? Is he breastfed? How do you define constipation?
The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition defines constipation as “a delay or difficulty in defecation, present for two or more weeks, sufficient to cause significant distress to the patient.” While often suspected by parents, constipation is seldom a problem for babies who are not yet on solid foods. Constipation is particularly rare for exclusively breastfed babies.
As with all issues regarding your baby’s health, consult his caregiver with your concerns.
For babies around three to four months of age, the usual recommendation is to offer extra drinks of plain water. If the baby continues to have uncomfortably hard stools, then fruit juice (apple, prune or pear) diluted with an equal amount of water is suggested once or twice a day.
For older babies who have started solid foods, try:
- Adding more water to the baby’s diet
- Decreasing constipating foods (rice cereal, bananas).
Do not use rectal stimulation, glycerin suppositories or any other treatment without your baby’s caregiver’s advice. Overriding your baby’s natural bowel rhythms can create further problems.
For more information, please read What's the best Way to Cure Constipation in a Child?.Answer:


Mexico compensates indigenous men for forced sterilizations
State authorities in Guerrero, Mexico, have agreed to pay 490,000 pesos (US$48,000) in compensation to 14 indigenous men coerced into having vasectomies. The men will each be paid 35,000 pesos (US$3,400) and given water storage tanks and cement to build homes, said state health secretary Luis Barrera Rios. The men agreed to the deal, despite initial demands of 200,000 pesos (US$19,000) each.
The men, represented by the Tlachinollan Center for Human Rights, say that state health workers showed up in the village of El Camalote in 1998 and demanded that men with more than four children have vasectomies. The plaintiffs said they were promised a clinic, medicine, clothes, scholarships for their children and new homes for submitting to the procedure—while those who refused were threatened with removal from government aid programs. The claims were investigated by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH).
The government earlier refused to pay compensation, saying the men signed consent forms and denying that they had been offered any benefits. After an investigation, the CNDH called on the Guerrero government to compensate the men, finding that health officials made no effort to counsel them on the implications of vasectomies or on alternative birth control methods. (AP, June 26)
Government investigations have noted the existence of a "genocide plan" in Guerrero during the guerilla insurgency there in the late '60s and '70s—even as such abuses as coercive sterilization re-emerged there in the '90s, along with new waves of peasant unrest.


The Bible Is Serious about Humor
"Does the Bible have any humor in it?"
The overall plot of the Bible is a U-shaped comic plot. The action begins with a perfect world inhabited by perfect people. It descends into the misery of fallen history and ends with a new world of total happiness and the conquest of evil.
Driscoll also highlights examples of situational comedy (e.g., the story of Jacob and Laban in Genesis 27-29), scatological humor (e.g., Ezekiel 4:12), sarcasm (e.g., Job 38), name calling (e.g., Proverbs 6:6-9; 19:13). The coup de grâce for Driscoll's (or any theological) argument is, of course, Jesus. He used humorous exaggeration (e.g., the log vs. the speck in the eye, the camel through the eye of the needle), ridicule (e.g., how religious people pray, fast and tithe) and some were offended (Matthew 15:12).
So why should we be humorous. Driscoll concludes by saying because:*
Jesus did it.*
Humor defeats religion.*
People take themselves too seriously, and God too lightly.*
Some things are a joke and if you treat them seriously it gives them credence you don't want to give them.*
Just because they are laughing doesn't mean they aren't grieving (Proverbs 14:13).*
It makes us spiritually strong (Nehemiah 8:10).*
It heightens all our other passions.*
It is missiological (1 Corinthians 9:19-23).
Are there any limits then to humor? Driscoll says there are, such as:*
Don't mock God.*
Don't mock everyone.*
Don't mock all the time
Keep looking for the line.* Laugh at yourself.*
Know who to mock.*
Know when to mock.
In general, laughing at ourselves or helping someone laugh at themselves is actually doing them a spiritual service because it nurtures our humility and punctures our arrogance. At the same time it is not always appropriate. But those are exceptions to the rule: Be funny.


In math, a helix is a curve in three dimensions. It looks a bit like a spiral. Each helix has a line called its axis. The helix has a constant angle to this line. Helices are often seen in nature and the sciences.
The staircase in the Vatican Museums. This shows a helix.


Historical development of mass media institutions and the role of media in society. Particular attention to news, government regulation, effects, economics, emerging technologies, and audience dynamics.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: Media and Culture by Campbell, Martin, and Fabos. Twelfth Edition or Eleventh Edition Update or Eleventh Edition.
The ISBN number for the book is 978-1-319-10285-2.
EBook available at http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/product/mediaculture-eleventhedition-campbell
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Examine the history and development of print and telecommunications media, and relate them to the publics they serve.
- Describe how the attributes of media contribute to the communication of information, and explore their political and economic contexts.


Allain, Théophile T.
- Charles Vincent
Allain was born on October 1, 1846, on a plantation in the Parish of West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A wealthy white man, Sosthene Allain, owned the plantation. Like some other slaveholders, he made one of his slaves, “a pretty brown woman,” his mistress. They had a son, Théophile, who bore the improbable nickname of Soulouque, after the self-proclaimed black dictator of Haiti, Faustin Élie Soulouque. Théophile accompanied his father on trips to the North and to Europe. In 1856 Sosthene Allain sent for his son to join him in France, where he witnessed the christening of the prince imperial at Notre Dame. They journeyed also to Spain and England. Returning to the United States in 1859, young Allain entered school under a Professor Abadie in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1868 he was enrolled in a private school in New Brunswick New Jersey He owned ...
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.


I just finished another paper, a huge one, one where I don’t feel comfortable with the writing, or the research. Hooray right? Anyway, it got me thinking how important a quality research question was.
In class, we often talk about think and thin questions. How do we get a question that answers facts and stimulates thinking? I was watching a library lesson today where they were going over their questions, and the students really wanted to get to the research. They were rushing through the questions (and many of them didn’t make sense). So I wondered how often I did that in my life, wanted to find a question to answer a quick problem, and not address a deeper underlying issue. I feel like the paper got away from me because I was trying to write a paper, not wonder about a problem.
So how do we take the time to question? What does that involve? How do we know if it’s good?
This unit for us is about leadership, we need to think deeply about how leaders in our community influence change, and we are first looking at what are the qualities of a leader and who these people really are. Is who we are important for change? Can anyone create change? We’re hoping to take a different approach this year. Instead of looking at governments and government systems, who are the people that disrupt what is happening? How did the find the questions to start those disruptions? How do they know something is wrong? What can we do to think about the problems in our community? How do we question what we’re living?
Hopefully it works.


The Center for Early Childhood Education is pleased to announce the release of Encouraging Physical Activity in Preschoolers, an educational video that discusses the importance of physical activity for children's development. Dr. Darren Robert, Professor of Health and Physical Education at Eastern Connecticut State University, offers several ways to incorporate physical activity into the preschool daily routine. Two teachers describe their efforts to physically engage preschoolers through yoga, dramatic play, and active book-reading, and to involve parents in encouraging physical activity at home.
The video is the 7th in the e-clips series of educational videos for early childhood professionals. Each e-clip features an expert describing how early childhood professionals can use the latest research to enhance children's learning, and includes video footage from preschool classrooms at Eastern's Child and Family Development Resource Center. Supplementing each e-clip are suggested readings, additional on-line resources, and discussion questions to support conversations within instructional teams, in staff meetings, or in college-level courses.
To read more about the e-clips project and to view the videos and supplemental materials, go to: http://www.easternct.edu/cece/e-clips_main.html.


In response to foreclosure risk during the Great Depression, the US Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was founded in 1930 to map city-level perceived lending risk for home mortgage refinancing. In these “residential security” maps, black and other minority neighborhoods were often designated as higher risk neighborhoods. As minority homeownership was considered to threaten property values, these maps were used to maintain racial segregation.
Notably, homeowners in class D (“high risk”) areas were systematically denied mortgage bailouts. Residential security maps were effectively used for “redlining” - the widespread illegal practice of denying home loans based on race - and therefore were instrumental as to institutionalize the practice.
Home ownership tends to have long-lasting effects over many generations. This interactive map illustrates the historical socioeconomic development of the neighborhoods categorized by the HOLC in 147 American cities between 1930s and 2016.
This site currently only (really) works in Chrome and on a computer. Safari and Firefox support are on the way!


If at this point you are thinking "wow, PEAR::DB is fantastic!" then you have got another big surprise coming in the form of SQLite. SQLite is a fully functional relational database system that, for one reason or another, is only now making it into the limelight. The key advantage to SQLite, as opposed to MySQL or PostgreSQL, and indeed the reason why it is being covered here is because it does not use the traditional client/server database architecture.
MySQL, for example, has a MySQL server running on a machine somewhere, and a client (in the form of PHP in our examples), connects to that server to perform queries. SQLite, on the other hand, works on local files, with no database server required - when you run queries using SQLite, they are translated into operations on the local files.
From PHP 5 onwards, SQLite is bundled and enabled by default, which means that everyone, everywhere will have it by default. If you are writing an application that needs a data store, you need no longer worry whether they have Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server installed, or indeed whether they have any database server installed. Prior to PHP 5, getting around this problem required developers to create their own database-like file structure using complicated, hand-written functions - those days are long gone now, thankfully, but hopefully you can see how critical SQLite is!
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This lesson plan is great for introducing letters while addressing Common Core standards in Reading Literature, Reading Fluency, and writing. I teach students to recognize that the letters appear in a certain order throughout the story. I also guide the students to noticing that there are 2 kinds of letters, capital and lowercase. I use this story to help students start noticing that letters make up words and words are separated by spaces. I emphasize drawing using detail at this point at the beginning of the year before I ask students to start labeling and writing sentences to support their illustrations.


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The Monarch butterfly, a national symbol, is now on the endangered species list. Every year, what has been known as the "miracle migration" of the Western Monarch Butterfly was signaled with its arrival and magnificent blazes of orange against the autumn sky. Flying from as far north as Canada to find a winter home in the eight to ten last remaining Monarch habitats in California and Mexico, the Monarch mates at the end of winter, before starting the journey back north in the spring.
The fragile ecosystem of the butterfly's winter home has been disrupted over recent years by logging and deforestation due to the drive for increased coastal development. The subsequent effect of global warming has led to early butterfly desiccation and death. The milkweed where the female Monarch lays her eggs during the winter is seen as a weed and killed with herbicides.
To help support the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation, visit the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation.
Les Papillons is an elegant collection of two beautiful eyeshades: Papillon Bleu and Papillon Violet. Gorgeous hand-designed, artisan compacts use innovative Italian technology to present four colors within each compact—two principal shades and two overlay detail shades.
Chantecaille's Les Papillons collection seeks to help protect the Monarch Butterfly's winter habitat by donating 5% of all sales to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation, established in 1997 by scientists and educators seeking to replace and revive the winter butterfly habitats.


What You Need To Know about puppy vaccination
A puppy’s immune system is still maturing. While a puppy is nursing, the mother’s milk contains powerful antibodies that protect the pup from disease.
But in the time between adulthood and after a puppy is weaned off mother’s milk, it’s your responsibility to make sure your puppy gets the protection and care they need to have a healthy, long life.
While some vaccines are required by all dogs, others are more specific to your dog’s lifestyle and the area in which you live.
When should my puppy be vaccinated?
When puppies are born their immune system is not yet mature. They receive immune protection from their mother by drinking her milk. The mother produces colostrum, which contains antibodies that are needed for their initial immunity until their own bodies can take over.
According to the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), puppies should be vaccinated every two to four weeks between the ages of 6 and 16 weeks with the final puppy vaccines given no earlier than 16 weeks of age. All puppies should receive the core vaccines of canine distemper, adeno virus 2, canine parvo virus, parainfluenza virus, and rabies virus.
It’s best to get your puppy examined by a veterinarian as soon as possible.
During the examination, your veterinarian will look at your dog’s medical and vaccination history. If the breeder or shelter has recently vaccinated your puppy and your veterinarian is confident that it was done properly, a schedule for follow-up vaccinations will be made based on your pup’s particular needs.


Thursday, March 6, 2008
VICTORIAN MEN AND THE TEAPOT STANCE
The "teapot" stance was a basic posture, for men. The actor would stand, one foot slightly forward, one arm forming the handle, and the other arm gesturing widely (see my earlier posts) to communicate emotions and attitudes. Placing one's feet slightly apart helped him move his body backward and forward gracefully. The practice dated far back, even to Elizabethans. You can see Laurence Olivier imitate a teapot in the film Henry V, where he emulated Shakespearean practice.
The pictures above show popular actor Charles Fechter as Hamlet, two unnamed actors (adult and child) and Fechter's friend Charles Dickens, a gifted amateur actor and novelist who dramatized his novels in public readings.
The teapot posture is a dynamic one. Placing one foot slightly forward was a social posture understood outside of drama, taken when one was introduced to another person, approached for conversation, or prepared to recite or discourse. Young boys learned this in classes with the dancing master and the elocutionist. The hand on hip tells us that a reserve of emotion and information is ready to be expressed. In non-dramatic life, this signals an awareness of a mutuality of communication and a readiness to give as well as take. On the stage, we can detect players dominant in plot or dialogue.
The self-awareness and self-confidence of this pose marked it as masculine and privileged. Women and lower classes carried themselves quite differently.


In the following sentences, the italicized noun phrases (or adpositional phrases) are arguments:
- Tasaku bought a ticket on Friday.
- Please give my regards to your husband.
- On the boat the passengers rely on the captain.
Arguments are typically contrasted with adjuncts, i.e. noun phrases or adpositional phrases that are not syntactically required, but serve to modify the clause or another constituent.
Argument also refers to
- an argument of a function (in mathematical logic)


Study girls have embraced a value at the core of The Study by putting an added emphasis on being polite and courteous. At Spencer House the value of Politeness was given the tag line of ‘Please May’ as a timely reminder for the month of May. These opening words have served as a polite reminder to girls, especially when asking for permission from adults and also when talking to one another in a polite manner. At Wilberforce House, the girls have been trying particularly hard to be courteous and polite at meal times, both to the adults who help them and the friends they sit with.
In assembly, girls were reminded to be respectful and considerate of others in and out of school. Politeness continues to be evident in girls’ attitude and behaviour. Spencer House girls designed posters to illustrate how best they could show politeness, with posters highlighting good manners.
In addition, some girls made Recipes for Good Manners; these included such fine ingredients as:
500g of love
700g of good manners
300g of opening the door for an adult
100g of respect
900g of saying good morning and afternoon
1kg of please and thank you
1kg of smiles
By Sara Samad 4G


Body Composition Analysis
What is Body Composition?
Your body is made up of water, fat, protein, carbohydrate and various vitamins and minerals. If you have too much fat — especially if a lot of it is at your waist — you’re at higher risk for such health problems as high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and diabetes. That increases your risk for heart disease and stroke.
At Aoife Miskella Nutrition, Gorey, we use a professional Tanita Body Composition Analysis Scales. This gives us a much clearer picture of your health status, compared to measuring weight alone. It gives us valuable information on the distribution of fat, muscle and water in the body.
The Body Composition Analyser provide readings for:
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Fat % and Fat Mass
- Total Body Water (Hydration levels)
- Muscle Mass
- Basal Metabolic Rate
- Metabolic Age
- Bone Mass
- Visceral Fat
This is particularly useful in weight management as the information is provided on a receipt-like print out allowing you to measure your progress over time. Measuring body weight alone does not allow changes in body mass attributable to muscle gain to be assessed. By assessing body composition you can get a more accurate picture of the body’s response to your new lifestyle allowing you to stay motivated and continue on your path to improved health.


Tyrannosaurus rex, or T. rex, comes from Greek and Latin words meaning "tyrant lizard king." It was a large, fierce, and carnivorous dinosaur that lived in North America 85 to 65 million years ago. The T. rex could eat up to pounds of meat and bones in one bite!
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The oldest stories of lions date back to some 32,000 years ago, they are represented in cave paintings in the south of france. More Morden, well about 620 and 560 BC. Aesop, the greek slave and story-teller wrote a fable, The Lion and the Mouse, the lion learns that mercy brings its reward, that there is no being so small that it cannot help a greater. You guessed it, the mouse saves the day. The lion being king of the heap threatens to eat the mouse, but the mouse begs not to be eaten, stating that he is an unworthy prey and would bring the lion no honour. The lion does not eat the mouse and is later rewarded for his mercy when he is caught in a trap set by hunters. The mouse notices the lions plight and gnaws through the traps ropes setting the lion free.
Another popular story is the greek myth about Heracles and the Nemean lion. Heracles famously killed the Nemean lion bare handed. It was the first of his “twelve Labours” which were set by King Eurystheus. Heracles discovered that the lions pelt had protective property when the his arrow bounced harmlessly off the creature’s thigh. So he blocked one of the two entrances to the beast’s cave, strode in the other one and battled the creature bare handed. He killed the lion but lost a finger in the process. the hero Heracles is often represented wearing the lionskin.
You can see this painting in progress in my earlier post. I wanted to capture the king like status of the lion so the kind of art deco shape was a good starting point, also the perspective of looking across the grassy plain to mt kilimanjaro helps. Big mane as well. Lots of use of Quinacridone gold in this watercolour, it’s got to be one of my favourite colours.
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Year 5 had a brilliant day out on the lake. They learnt about appropriate clothing before finding out how to rig and de-rig their boats. They were then challenged to remember all this by paddling out around a buoy returning each time to add an extra piece of equipment to rig their boat. It was amazing to see the progress they made in such a short space of time. All the children persevered, even when they found it really challenging, until all the boats were successfully ready for sailing. Luckily, the wind picked up a bit and Year 5 spent the afternoon sailing, exploring how to steer and getting quite wet. What was the most important thing you learnt, Year 5?


Rhizome scale of Lepirosurs clathratus © Li Wang
Lepisorus clathratus has the following synonyms:
Lepisorus clathratus is a polypod fern which belongs to the Polypodiaceae family and the Lepisorus genus. The genus Lepisorus is a taxonomically difficult genus due to the morphological similarity of its species. In addition, the systematic position of Lepisorus was not clear until Ching (1933) raised it to generic rank based on morphological distinctness.
Recent phylogenetic analyses recovered Lepisporus clathratus as a distinct lineage within the genus Lepisorus. It is still not clear if the lineage comprises a single species Lepisorus clathratus, or several closely related and morphological highly similar species.
The phylogenetic studies also confirmed that Lepisorus clathratus includes individuals with regular dehiscent sporangia and individuals with indehiscent sporangia - previously, the latter were treated as the segregate genus Platygyria.
The leaves are:
The leaves have veins that are visible on both surfaces, but not prominent.
The rhizome is:
The sori are:
Paraphyses cover the young sori. They are irregular or even ovate-lanceolate and usually fall off when sori are mature.
Plant structures that open at maturity.
Grows on another plant or structure, but does not derive nutrition from it.
Plant structures, such as fruits that do not open at maturity.
Having a shape between oval and lance-like.
Erect sterile filaments occurring amongst reproductive organs in plants.
A segregate genus is created when a genus is split off, from another genus.
Clusters of sporangia.
Spore producing structures.
Occurs when the demand for water exceeds the available amount during a certain period.


Researchers at Utrecht University have developed a widely applicable method to obtain insight into the interactions between proteins and chromatin at the atomic level. This is the complex of DNA and proteins in the cell that regulates everything pertaining to DNA, both during the development of the cell and over the course of its life. The method is new in that it also provides insight into the effects of the interaction on the local motions of the protein and the chromatin. “We still don’t know much about how this fundamental layer of biology works, because it is such a complex system”, according to Utrecht University research leader Dr. Hugo van Ingen. The method was published in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie.
Site‐Specific Studies of Nucleosome Interactions by Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy
Dr. ShengQi Xiang, Ulric B. le Paige, Velten Horn, Dr. Klaartje Houben, Prof. Dr. Marc Baldus, Dr. Hugo van Ingen
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 4571, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201713158


Stop Frankentrees From Invading Southern Forests
A silent threat is facing the forests of the American South. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering allowing genetically modified eucalyptus trees for commercial planting in the forests of Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.
Help prevent these Frankentrees from taking over -- protect the heritage and the future of our forests.
Genetically modified, cold-tolerant eucalyptus plantations would create “green deserts” because these foreign-adapted trees don’t support our native plants and animals. In fact, eucalyptus trees are harmful to native wildlife -- and they’ve already become invasive in California and Florida.
Eucalyptus trees suck up more water than the forests that evolved here, which threatens creeks and rivers and the endangered freshwater species that live in them. Eucalyptus also produce a sticky gum that can asphyxiate songbirds and glue their beaks shut. Naturally toxic, the species hurts beneficial insects that birds depend on for food. Adding insult to injury, eucalyptus trees are explosively flammable and known to increase the risk of forest fires. Converting native forests into eucalyptus plantations for pulp and biofuel will worsen drought and speed climate change.
Please take action now and tell the feds to ban genetically engineered trees and reject the request to deregulate genetically modified eucalyptus.
Take action here: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY...
Syndicated 2013-04-17 19:44:00 (Updated 2013-04-17 19:44:56) from proclus


|Sudan Table of Contents
The definition and boundaries of ethnic groups depend on how people perceive themselves and others. Language, cultural characteristics, and common ancestry may be used as markers of ethnic identity or difference, but they do not always define groups of people. Thus, the people called Atuot and the much larger group called Nuer spoke essentially the same language, shared many cultural characteristics, and acknowledged a common ancestry, but each group defined itself and the other as different. Identifying ethnic groups in Sudan was made more complicated by the multifaceted character of internal divisions among Arabic-speaking Muslims, the largest population that might be considered a single ethnic group.
The distinction between Sudan's Muslim and non-Muslim people has been of considerable importance in the country's history and provides a preliminary ordering of the ethnic groups. It does not, however, correspond in any simple way to distinctions based on linguistic, cultural, or racial criteria nor to social or political solidarity. Ethnic group names commonly used in Sudan and by foreign analysts are not always used by the people themselves. That is particularly true for non-Arabs known by names coined by Arabs or by the British, who based the names on terms used by Arabs or others not of the group itself. Thus, the Dinka and the Nuer, the largest groups in southern Sudan, call themselves, respectively, Jieng and Naath.
Source: U.S. Library of Congress


Movies and novels form people’s impressions of Indians. Although it has been said that Indians have disappeared from the historical arena of the United States, the opposite is true. Since the 1950s, the American Indian population has increased by about 60%. There are now about 1.5 million Indians, many of whom play an important role in American life. So let us know about North American Indians.galvanized steel tubing suppliers
Portraying about Indians
Actually Hollywood and television did not fabricate these Indians yet because some of these films based on a historical period. However, Those facts concerned only certain tribes of the Indians and were limited to a century.
Before Spain took over New Mexico. Horses are not known to Americans. But by the middle of the eighteenth century, there were many horses on the Great Plains. Then, one by one, the tribes began to contact the horses. Those tribes are: Cheyenne tribe, Blackfoot tribe and Arrapahoes tribe; Comanche tribe, Hmandan tribe and Crow tribe, and so on. Not only in the United States, but all over the world, the plains Indians captured the imagination of millions of people. But they are only parts of tribes among hundreds of tribes. And their way of life, the reliance on horses, took shape long after Europeans began to colonize North America.


A drug carrier that uses the ‘energy molecule’ inside a cancer cell to trigger release of drugs at the tumour site is reported to be successful in treating cancer in mice. These findings, published in Nature Communications this week, may provide another strategy for treating cancer.
Nanoparticles can deliver drugs to tumours but improvements in selectively targeting tumour cells are required. Cancer cells often have high levels of ATP that provides energy for metabolism and this could be exploited for treatment. Zhen Gu and colleagues describe a nanoparticle carrier that relies on high levels of ATP to trigger the release of the chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin. In the presence of ATP the carrier can undergo a change in shape resulting in the release of the drug. They find that this approach enhanced doxorubicin-induced cancer cell death in the laboratory in cultured cells and in mice. These findings may result in new strategies for delivering chemotherapeutics to cancer cells.


Read Luke 23
Key Verse: Luke 23: 12 “That very day Pilate and Herod became friends…”
In this chapter and the latter half of the previous chapter, we read of the crucifixion. Some have called this the “Passion” narrative. In 22:47-53 we see Jesus arrested (even while His disciples were eager to use those newly purchased swords–“Lord, should we strike with our swords?” v.49b). Then, in vss. 54-62, we read of Peter’s denial that he was a follower of Jesus. After this, Jesus is taken before Pilate and Herod, and then led to Golgotha. He dies and is buried. The story is over; or so His enemies thought.
What happened next must wait for Luke’s concluding chapter. But there is something in this chapter which is very rarely commented on. It’s a reference to two old enemies becoming friends.
We don’t really have any information on why Herod and Pilate were enemies. Maybe it was due to a clash of authority. Both men were accountable to Rome, but Herod, as Tetrarch, had a bit more autonomy than Pilate, as the Governor. Perhaps Herod resented that his autonomy could be challenged or ignored by Pilate from time to time: he could “go over Herod’s head” at will. And Pilate might have shared a common disgust for the paranoid Herod and flaunted it. But this is speculation.
For whatever reason, they were enemies, and Jesus made them friends. Isn’t that ironic? Their new view of one another sprang, not from being new men, but from trying to deal with “that Man”. They were both fascinated with and flummoxed by Jesus. Herod grew tired of his game with Jesus and had him ridiculed and mocked. Pilate had Him crucified. Neither knew exactly why. “And it wasn’t all bad–after all, it pleased the people and we’ve become friends!”
Jesus became a friend too: with sinners.


Depending on the infection you have, treating an infection may prevent it from being passed on to your newborn.
For some infections, especially viral infections like CMV and parvovirus B19 (fifth disease), no medication exists to treat the infection. In these cases, your doctor may want to see you more often to monitor you and your developing baby. If your developing baby appears to be ill, there are special diagnostic and treatment options available. Your healthcare provider will discuss these options with you and their potential benefits and risks.
Some infections, like herpes and HIV, can spread to your baby during a vaginal delivery. In some cases, your doctor may recommend a cesarean section instead of a vaginal delivery. It may reduce the chances of transmitting the infection to your newborn.
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
- Review Date: 06/2016 -
- Update Date: 05/20/2015 -


Type 1s and 5s are both logical and rational. They are both thinking types, but there are strong differences in their thinking. Type 1s, although they are thinkers, the primarily use their gut or instincts to make decisions and to take action. They also are concerned with seeking justice and morality. On the other hand, Type 5s are more into thinking for the sake of thinking. They are less concerned with taking action. They are more interested in seeking knowledge.
Generally, Type 1s also tend to be more outspoken. They are certain about their ideals and do not mind speaking out for them. Type 5s are more introspective and less certain about ideals. They are more likely to ponder ideals rather than speak out about them.
Another difference between the two types is that Type 1s are usually bothered by unexpected changes. Type 5s are a little more accepting of changes and unexpected plans.
Finally, 1s tend to see the world from idealistic standards. They have strong ideals about the way things should be. Type 5s, however, are more curious and open. They tend to constantly investigate and question ideals and standards.


from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adv. In an ordinate manner; regular; orderly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. In an ordinate manner; orderly.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Regularly; according to an established order; in order.
- In mathematics, as or so as to form an ordinate.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
And they live full ordinately, and so soberly in meat and drink, that they live right long.
And when they be thus apparelled, they go two and two together, full ordinately, before the emperor, without speech of any word, save only inclining to him.
(Irenaeus, cxix.), "in the Valentinian acceptation of the word, to mean an emanation from the divine substance, subsisting co-ordinately and co-eternally with the Deity, the Pleroma still remaining one."
Hope trusts ordinately, and presumption inordinately.
Thus these foolish people departed, some one way and some another; and the king and his lords and all his company right ordinately entered into London with great joy.
The earl of Alençon came to the battle right ordinately and fought with the Englishmen, and the earl of Flanders also on his part.
Husbandry which Mayster Groshede somtyme Bysshop of Lyncoln made, and translated it out of Frensshe into Englyshe, whiche techeth all maner of men to governe theyr londes, tenementes, and demesnes ordinately. '
On the other hand, if one be ordinately intent on the knowledge of sensible things by reason of the necessity of sustaining nature, or for the sake of the study of intelligible truth, this studiousness about the knowledge of sensible things is virtuous.
These were strenuous occupations for a boy of nine and a girl of thirteen, but, though we were not in - ordinately good children, we never complained; we found them very satisfactory substitutes for more normal bucolic joys.
If it is a matter of provincial legislation let us get solid public opinion to force the province to act co-ordinately and unitedly.


I read on the site " http://www.javatpoint.com/java-oops-concepts" that polymorphism has two ways
- overriding (virtual function (dynamic binding))
- overloading (static binding)
however orcale.doc also give the reference of virtual functions which means overriding a method is called polymorphism my question here is that:
- What if we are overrirding a method but not using the existing functionality of method ? will it still be called polymorphism?
- Secondly when we are simply implementing the interface and extending the functionality of base class, what do we call it ?
- Where do Overloading stands ? is it in polymorphism or not ?


Could MOOCs be an idea ahead of our time?
Initiatives such as edX’s MicroMasters, born out of the MOOCs, show successful programs for specialized graduate programs.
(One of the latest cases relates to Questrom School of Business, which has elaborated on the benefits of using MicroMasters as valued credentials for employees on its new Digital Innovation Degree program).
As Dr. Joshua Kim states on his Inside Higher Education column, “MOOCs have acted as living laboratories to develop new capabilities and expertise”.
- “What might MOOCs look like in 2025 or 2030? Can we imagine a world where open online learning has displaced those parts of postsecondary education that can effectively be pushed to scale? Would students be better served if the bundle that included foundational learning was broken apart, pushing introductory courses to online and mobile adaptive learning platforms?”
- “What MOOCs may eventually enable us to do is to diffuse the benefits of the seminar – as well as the gifts of a classic liberal arts education – to students beyond a privileged few.”
- “Let MOOCs take care of education as job training, leaving professors to focus on the work of teaching students how to learn.”


10) When Montag flees, he hears an announcement that war has been proclaimed. Simultaneously, Montag has begun his own war. He is committed to his cause, murdered the enemy, and is on the run to survive. As society battles against itself, Montag battles against society. Throughout the book, whispers of war grow in frequency along with the strengthening of Montag's internal turmoil and disillusion. Thus, it is only fitting that the two conflicts come to a head at the same time. The book's dramatic peak occurs in this section, as Montag's house is destroyed, his marriage ends, he kills his boss, runs for his life, finds safety, and watches as the city is destroyed.
11) Montag's entire demeanor changes at this point. He realizes the need to be careful, to act with forethought, and to think of others as well as himself. This is where we see the "individual" become a part of something bigger than himself.


Your Study Environment
Check out the new Revision Tips Forum on www.advancinglearning.co.uk. Ask questions or share advice on revision at all levels...
Whatever type of work you're doing, you must have the right environment if you are to do it well. There are many types of distractions that you should avoid at all costs. Check out the list below:
What To Avoid
- Other people. They're bound to start chatting or start doing something that'll distract you from your work!
- A television. Watching Neighbours while trying to revise hasn't proved to be the best revision technique!
- A radio. Background music can be beneficial, but having a radio on with a DJ shouting at you every 5 minutes might distract you somewhat.
- A comfy bed! Not so much of a distraction, but lying down while you attempt to study will most likely result in you falling asleep!
What You Should Have Around You
- Necessary instruments. Pen, pencil, paper etc... pretty obvious, but important to have it all ready for when you start your revision.
- Text books. Relevant books for the subject or a dictionary for subject where you are reading lengthy texts which may include words you don't understand.
- A desk and chair. As stated before, you can't study successfully on your bed, or even your floor. Sitting at a desk helps you concentrate and you'll get more out of your revision that way.


From Beyond Nuclear International
Citizen scientists are uncovering risks that governments would rather cover up
November 20, 2019
By Cindy Folkers
When reactors exploded and melted down at the Fukushima nuclear power complex in March 2011, they launched radioactivity from their ruined cores into the unprotected environment. Some of this toxic radioactivity was in the form of hot particles (radioactive microparticles) that congealed and became airborne by attaching to dusts and traveling great distances.
However, the Fukushima disaster is only the most recent example of atomic power and nuclear weapons sites creating and spreading these microparticles. Prior occurrences include various U.S. weapons sites and the ruined Chernobyl reactor. While government and industry cover up this hazard, community volunteer citizen science efforts – collaborations between scientists and community volunteers – are tracking the problem to raise awareness of its tremendous danger in Japan and across the globe.
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster began, one highly radioactive specimen, a particle small enough to inhale or ingest, was found in a private home where it should not have been, hundreds of miles from its source, in a vacuum cleaner bag containing simple house dust.


Posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on September 16, 1998 at 23:18:31:
In Reply to: In the tradition of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755 - 1835) posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on September 16, 1998 at 22:25:09:
"These [territorial] courts then, are not Constitutional courts, in which the judicial power conferred by the Constitution on
the general government can be deposited. They are incapable of receiving it. They are legislative courts, created in virtue
of the general rights of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations, respecting the
territory belonging to the United States. The jurisdiction with which they are invested, is not a part of that judicial power
which is defined in the 3d article of the Constitution, but is conferred by Congress, in the execution of those general
powers which that body possesses over the territories of the United States. Although admiralty jurisdiction can be
exercised in the States in those courts only which are established in pursuance of the 3d article of the Constitution, the
same limitation does not extend to the territories. In legislating for them, Congress exercises the combined powers of the
general and of the State government."
American Insurance Co. vs. 356 Bales of Cotton, 1 Pet. 511 (1828)
Paul Mitchell comments:
C.J. John Marshall leaves no doubt about the
constitutional authority for the USDC.
It is Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2,
a/k/a the Territory Clause.
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
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|seedhead of Fullers' Teasel,
Dipsacaceae, or teasel family, was a family in the order Dipsacales. It contained 350 species of perennial or biennial herbs and shrubs. (Perennial means that a plant lives for two or more years. Biennial means that a plant takes two years to grow fully.) The family contained eleven (11) genera. It is in the family Caprifoliaceae now.
- Dipsacus (teasel)
- Succisa (devil's bit)
- Morina -- also placed in its own family, Morinaceae.
Dipsacaceae Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


The ‘Divided and Shared History’ unites Germany and Korea in a special way. The two countries were both front-line states in the Cold War – and are at the same time both marked by a history of division. The manifold migration routes between Korea and Germany were characterized by complex inter-relationships and trans-border, frontier-extending activities, which are here for the first time studied against the backdrop of the Cold War. Koreans went as guest workers from South Korea to West Germany (FRG), and as students and orphans from North Korea to East Germany (GDR); East Germans went to North Korea in the overall framework of ‘developmental aid solidarity’; South Koreans in West Germany went in turn to North Korea, and North Koreans in East Germany fled to West Germany. Running through the entire exhibition is the theme of mobility in, despite, or precisely because of the Cold War. The exhibition highlights the diverse facets of German-Korean migration history. To this end, the works of contemporary artists are brought together and are displayed in conjunction with historical material.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue (German/English).


From PBS NewsHour, this lesson explores the meaning of sacrifice through a variety of video excerpts about issues facing veterans today including lack of medical care, family issues and more. Appropriate for middle and high school.
The Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress collects first-hand accounts in audio and video as well as artifacts from America’s military history. You can view or hear testimony of veterans from many American wars. One collection shares stories of veterans describing life in the military after it was desegregated while another shares stories from photos taken during the Vietnam War. Students can also be a vital part of the project conducting interviews to add to the collection following its guidelines.


Speed, racing, training, training, flight, control line, radio control room – which only the definitions used to describe the purpose and characteristics of a particular flying models, not come up with designers and pilots! And when I decided to design another microplane, first of all think about what definition to give to this new aircraft. It is known as an aircraft name, so it will fly.
RC model airplane motor
First of all, I set a goal to use to create models of accessible materials, based on the weightless and at the same time are quite affordable foam technology which has long been worked by the modelers. Then I thought about the purpose of the aircraft, defining the term “walking”, that is, possible, quite slow and easily managed. And finally, as the power plant chose the motor that’s in contrast to the internal combustion engine does not cause the Modeler to unnecessary trouble in the operation of the model. The result was that “a pleasure craft foam RC model airplane motor”.
RC model airplane, which I propose to make to our readers is a high-wing monoplane, characterized by ease of piloting, good stability and excellent landing characteristics.
As mentioned above – the main structural material in the manufacture of the model is foam – or rather, foam ceiling panel thickness 3 and 6 mm, which was fabricated most of the parts of the model – including frames and planking of the fuselage, horizontal tail and wing and the elevators and ailerons.


In the inlet from the Weichselbrunner pond into the Bodenwöhrer Hammersee there were found striking readings of cyanobacteria.The pond is part of a big protected landscape and no sampling and no treatment is allowed. So the best choice was to treat the Hammersee directly. Therefore ultrasonic treatment was used. With the help of bbe fluorometer the results could be measured and had shown that the methode works very well.
In 2013 up to 190 micrograms per liter of blue-green algae concentration has been found. After the start of ultrasound treatment in 2017, the lake has recovered significantly. "The peak load of blue-green algae was already in 2016 as low as 53 micrograms per liter." In July 2017, even no blue-green algae could be measured in the short term; an interim algal bloom at that time was due to non-toxic green algae.
A detailed measurement program is linked to the treatment, which continuously provides lots of important results, for example visibility depth, oxygen content, composition of the plankton, possible sources, water temperature and of course, algae concentration. Most of the investigations are carried out by the municipality with a newly procured AlgaeTorch. The ease of use also allowed the involvement of mayors and other "non scientific staff" directly in the measuring program.


Encouragement of Knowledge Sharing Regarding Malaria
I worked with individuals in Sanambele, Mali, in order to determine if they were interested in sharing their knowledge of malaria prevention with neighboring villages. Malaria is the number one cause of death for children under the age of five in Sub-Saharan Africa. The class I worked with has had success in eliminating malaria in the village of Sanambele, which has been nearly malaria free since 2009. Now, the biggest threat to that status is the potential for malaria to be reintroduced to Sanambele from the surrounding villages. The course uses a methodology that places aims to reduce the colonizing effects that are present in nearly every “international aid” organization. The “holistic method”, as it is called, aims to have the community direct all work that is done. This is so that the presuppositions of researchers do not place a burden on the desires of the community. For my part, I talked often with several individuals who live in and around Sanambele through email and Skype. I also spent countless hours studying relevant literature in order to see if other institutions have had success with similar methods of international cooperation.