Sloth bear facts for kids
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene – Recent
Sloth Bears have long and shaggy black fur, but its fur can also be brown. On its chest it has a white or yellow mark, which is shaped like an Y or V. They have big feet with long claws. The long claws are also the reason for its English name, because the claws look like the claws of a Sloth.
Female Sloth Bears usually have 1-2 babies, sometimes 3. Young Sloth Bears stay with their mother for 2-3 years. In captivity they can live to be 40 years old.
Sloth bear adults can weigh anywhere from 120-130 pounds and measure anywhere form 60-70 inches in length.
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Bay Mills Biological Services conducts beach monitoring the swimming areas at Riverview and Gumshoes beaches through the summer. The water samples are tested for nutrients and E. coli weekly during swimming season. For more information, contact Bay Mills Biological Services at 906-248-8648.
Swimmer’s Itch at Beaches
E. coli is a bacteria often blamed for swimmer’s itch, which is caused by a very different organism. Swimmer’s itch is an unfortunate, yet common infliction that bathers face during the summer swimming season. Swimmer’s itch is an irritating condition caused by a microscopic, parasitic flatworm that results in itchy red bumps on the skin. The flatworms that cause the condition use snails and waterfowl as hosts during their life cycle. Humans get swimmer’s itch when they come in contact with water that is infested with flatworm larvae. The flatworms burrow into the skin causing itchy red bumps that last for about a week. Humans are not the correct host for these flatworms, and they cause no other harm to us other than the irritating itching.
The best way to prevent a swimmer’s itch infection is to vigorously towel dry immediately after swimming. One could also avoid beaches that are frequented by waterfowl or have large numbers of snails. Bay Mills Biological Services Department does weekly beach testing for E. coli bacteria, but it cannot test for swimmer’s itch. E. coli bacteria in this area are often due to bird or other wildlife fecal inputs. The bacteria can cause skin and eye irritation or cause infections in cuts or wounds already present. If the source of bacteria is of human origin, there may be an increased risk due to more harmful strains of E. coli, other bacteria, parasites, or viruses. Unfortunately, there is no test for swimmer’s itch; the only way to know if water is infested is to see the effects of the flatworm on skin.
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Most Common Terms
Stiffness – The stiffness of a tripod defines how resistant the tripod is to motion when subjected to an external torque. If the tripod is subjected to some , the angle that the tripod deviates is given by . More stiffness means a proportional drop in the magnitude of vibrations. Wikipedia
Damping – The damping of a tripod defines how fast vibrations die out. More damping means a proportionally faster die out time. The exact amount of time is dependent on the amount of rotational inertia on the tripod.
Pitch – Pitch is a twist or rotation about the horizontal axis that is perpendicular to the direction the camera is facing. This is also known as the ‘Tilt’ direction. A camera will see a pitch rotation as a shift in the image up or down. Wikipedia
Yaw – Yaw is a twist or rotation about the vertical axis. This corresponds to pushing down on the top of a tripod and twisting. This is also known as the ‘Pan’ direction. The camera will see a yaw rotation as a shift in the image left or right. Wikipedia
Fourier Transform – The Fourier transform
Rotational Inertia – Rotational inertia, also known as angular mass, is the rotational equivalent of normal mass. Rotational inertia has the same relationship with torque () that mass has with force (). Wikipedia
Torque – Torque is the rotational equivalent of force. It is given by . When we talk about stiffness on this site, we are always referring to the rotational form. Thus, it is torque, and not force, that we are interested in.


Architecture, like any type of art is a little bit crazy, but inside that craziness lies a lot of reason that tries to innovate by taking huge leaps forward. Lately I’ve seen a special trend popping in all the blogs inside my daily reading list, it’s the appearance of “Parasitic Architecture” or “Parasitic Facades”.
The idea behind this phenomenon is to find the way to intervene old structures that are protected by the historical preservation organizations (heavily seen on European countries) making these inefficient buildings up to date with today’s environmental and sustainability standards while keeping their essence.
On this article, one particular example is shown where there was a reduction of up to 75% of the initial energy efficiency of the structure by the application of a parasitic substructure on the project. This is really interesting since it will allow to modify existing structures without having to completely demolish them having an overall better use of materials and allowing the possibility of incorporating green elements to the facades, reducing the need for cooling inside the units and increasing the natural cover area of the city finally reducing global warming (plants need the energy of the sun for photosynthesis, so more plants equals less surplus of unused energy in the atmosphere). Also, the possibility of using 3D-Printed recycled elements is also an opportunity of better constructive processes.


A normal lens is elastic at birth. Because of its elastic property, it can be spherically adapted for the accommodation of the lens to focalize at different distances. The lens needs most accommodation for near distances.
Because a child has a very flexible lens, it can see things very close to the eye sharply. The older we get, the more the lens loses its elasticity and accommodation will be reduced. Therefore, we must look at things farther away from the eye, so we can still see sharply. Usually, sometime between the age of 40 and 60, our arms are not long enough to be able to read without glasses. This situation is called presbyopia. This is the time when a normal eye requires reading glasses.


Useful, but barbaric. That’s how San Leandro, CA-based EndoBionics’ CEO Lynn Barr describes balloon angioplasty-the use of a balloon-tipped catheter to open clogged arteries. The procedure itself causes artery-narrowing scarring in about 20 percent of the roughly 600,000 people in the U.S. who undergo it each year. To stop this scarring, mechanical engineer and EndoBionics founder Kirk Seward created a retractable polymer sheath for a steel needle one millimeter long and roughly the diameter of two hairs. After an angioplasty, a surgeon could guide the sheathed needle through an artery in the patient’s leg or neck to the coronary artery. Once the device was in place, a microscale hydraulic system would allow the surgeon to retract the sheath while simultaneously pushing the needle into the artery wall. This way, the device could inject a tiny amount of a blockage-preventing drug directly into the site where scarring and blockage could occur. The technique would deliver the drug much further into the artery walls than other methods being developed for this purpose, Barr says. EndoBionics plans to partner with a yet unnamed medical device company to bring the technology to market in late 2004. Eventually, Barr says, the microneedle could be used to deliver tumor-killing drugs or genes to the brain.


Plastic injection moulding products are used all over the world across multiple sectors. This is because they are versatile, hard-wearing and easy to design to highly accurate specifications. The plastic injection moulding process itself is efficient and effective, offering the capacity for large-scale production, as well as bespoke, one-off projects.
How plastic moulding works
There are various methods of plastic processing available, including injection moulding, extrusion and blow moulding. The plastic injection moulding technique involves pouring melted plastics into a rigid mould, which is shaped to form the required part or component. Polymer pellets are fed into a hopper before being melted so that they can fit the mould. The mould is secured and the plastic left to cool and harden. The final product is then released and quality tested.
Plastic injection moulded products can be made in a huge array of colours, finishes and polymers. The two main types of plastic materials used are polypropylene homopolymer and polypropylene copolymer. Each has different properties and benefits, including chemical and impact resistance, strength and stress crack resistance, high processability and durability. More information can be found here.
Read the full article: adrecoplastics.co.uk


When designing either a new learning environment or reconfiguring an existing one, there are a number of guiding principles that help to ensure our physical environments enhance the learning process. During this session, we will look at how schools are developing inclusive, effective learning environments that meet the needs of all learners. We will explore approaches being used in new builds, retro-fitted spaces, and existing single-cell classrooms.
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It almost sounds too good to be true – but bringing clean power to the world is coming ever-closer.
Nuclear fusion has been a dream of researchers for years.
The world’s nuclear power stations currently use a system called nuclear fission.
This involves splitting the nucleus of an atom into two, creating massive amounts of energy.
The downside is a high amount of dangerous radioactive waste.
Nuclear fusion, however, is similar to how the sun works.
It involves heating two atomic nuclei together so they fuse at high speed and produce a large amount of energy with no radioactive waste.
The problem so far has been that scientists have been unable to harness this energy in a reactor that could be rolled out across the world.
But aerospace giant Lockheed Martin claims to have cracked the mystery.
It says a fusion power plant the size of a shipping container could provide enough electricity for 100,000 homes.
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The Chinese word 其余 means “the rest” or “the remaining”. It is often used to refer to something that is left over after some portion has been taken or used. For example, you might use 其余 to refer to the remaining time in a day after you have finished your work, or to the leftover food on a plate after a meal. 其余 can also be used to mean “other” or “additional”, as in the phrase 其余的人, which means “other people” or “additional individuals”.
Pronoun: the rest, the others
|他已经完成了自己的任务，其余的就交给我们吧||tā yǐjīng wánchéngle zìjǐ de rènwù, qíyú de jiù jiāo gěi wǒmen ba||He has already completed his own task, let us take care of the rest|
|这个方案的细节已经讨论过了，我们需要再考虑其余的问题||zhège fāng’àn de xìjié yǐjīng tǎolùn guòle, wǒmen xūyào zài kǎolǜ qíyú de wèntí||The details of this plan have been discussed, we need to consider the remaining issues|
|他拿走了一些钱，其余的留给了我||tā ná zǒule yīxiē qián, qíyú de liú gěi le wǒ||He took some money and left the rest to me|
|我们可以先处理这个问题，再考虑其余的事情||wǒmen kěyǐ xiān chǔlǐ zhège wèntí, zài kǎolǜ qíyú de shìqíng||We can deal with this issue first and then consider the rest of the matters|
|他们已经解决了一些难题，但是还有其余的问题需要解决||tāmen yǐjīng jiějuéle yīxiē nántí, dànshì hái yǒu qíyú de wèntí xūyào jiějué||They have solved some difficulties, but there are still other problems that need to be solved|


Anne Bradstreet (1612—1672) was a Puritan who emigrated to America in 1630, along with her parents and her husband — whom she had married when she was just sixteen. She was the first American woman to have a book published, and is considered by many to be America's first poet. Woman were not allowed to speak their minds in the colony; however it was Anne’s brother-in-law who took her poems to be published in England as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America in 1650. It is her later poems, however, that caught the attention of admirers in the twentieth century.
Both her father and her husband served as governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and were instrumental in the founding of Harvard University. Anne enjoyed a happy marriage, and became the mother of eight children. She wrote many of her poems while her husband was away dealing with the business of the colony — sometimes even as far away as England. Her poetry expresses both her love for her husband, and her deep faith in God.
In 1956 John Berryman paid tribute to her in his long poem Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. In 1997 a gate was dedicated to her memory at Harvard University.
By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By night when others soundly slept
And hath at once both ease and Rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.
I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
With tears I sought him earnestly.
He bowed his ear down from Above.
In vain I did not seek or cry.
My hungry Soul he filled with Good;
He in his Bottle put my tears,
My smarting wounds washed in his blood,
And banished thence my Doubts and fears.
What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I’ll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Love him to Eternity.
Entry written by D.S. Martin. He is the award-winning author of the poetry collections Poiema (Wipf & Stock) and So The Moon Would Not Be Swallowed (Rubicon Press). They are both available at: www.dsmartin.ca


Vedic Mathematics or 'Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas' was written by His Holiness Jagadguru Sankaracarya Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharaja of Govardhana Matha, Puri. It deals mainly with various Vedic mathematical formulae and their applications for carrying out tedious and cumbersome arithmetical operations, and to a very large extent, executing them mentally. In this field of mental arithmetical operations, the works of the famous mathematicians Trachtenberg and Lester Meyers (High Speed Maths) are elementary compared to that of Jagadguruji.
Some people may find it difficult, at first reading to understand the arithmetical operations although they have been explained very lucidly by Jagadguruji. It is not because the explanations are lacking in any manner but because the methods are totally unconventional. Some people are so deeply rooted in the conventional methods that they, probably subconsciously, reject to see the logic in unconventional methods.
About the Author:
Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja was named as venkatraman in his early days. As he was extraordinary proficient in Sanskrit and oratory, he was awarded the title ‘Saraswati’ by the Madras Sanskrit Association in July 1889.
After winning the highest place in the B.A. Examination, he appeared in the M.A. Examination of the American College of Sciences, Rochester, New York from Bombay Centre in 1904.


Born in Columbus, Gaines and her family then moved to Mobile, AL. In 1879, she married Captain Abner Gaines and moved to “Peachwood,” his family’s plantation and nursery at State Line in Wayne County, Mississippi. She developed skills as a photographer during a cultural and artistic movement known as Pictorialism. Her photographs incorporate the stylistic influence of this period by transforming her subjects into works of art.
In 1900, Marion won an award in portraiture from the American Camera Club in Mobile and subsequently became Mississippi’s first woman photographer to be recognized by inclusion of her work in several publications, including Ladies’ Home Journal. In a 1997 issue of Mississippi Magazine, Gene Fant, Jr. described her as a “pioneering photographer” whose “photographs provide…a glimpse of a talented artist’s vision of her surroundings, as well as the images of the toughness of farm life at Peachwood Nursery.”
Photographs depict floral themes in her community and still lifes of various native plants as well as some exotic horticultural varieties. Her photographs also provide unique glimpses of rural life that existed in southern Mississippi during early years of the past century. The photos include African Americans captured in their daily farm chores as well as uniquely posed photos and portraits which reveal stoical character in their faces. Several of her images also include Native American women. Gaines’s interest in photography lessoned after her husband died in 1905. She moved back to Mobile where she lived until her death in 1942.
Source: Mona Vance, Archivist for Local History, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.


from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A predatory gull-like sea bird (Catharacta skua) of northern regions, having brownish plumage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A large seabird, Stercorarius skua.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. large brown skua of the northern Atlantic
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Capuchin Franciscan Lay Brother (1556-1625)
+ Jon Coştist was born into a pious family in Oltenia, Moldavia (then in the Ottoman Empire).
+ When he was 19 years old, he immigrated to Italy, hoping that the “greatest” Christians could be found there. He became a Capuchin Franciscan friar, known as “Brother Jeremiah” in religious life.
+ In 1585, Jeremiah was assigned to the infirmary of the Friary of St. Ephrem in Naples. He would live here for the rest of his life.
+ Brother Jeremiah was known for his special care for the sick friars and the poor, and his tireless work in begging for alms to care for those unable to provide for themselves.
+ His compassionate spirit is embodied in the five years of care he offered for one mentally ill friar and others suffering from mental illness.
+ Blessed Jeremiah died in Naples, Italy, on March 5, 1625, and was beatified in 1983.
According to long standing tradition, the patron saint of the mentally ill—who were cared for by Blessed Jeremiah—is Saint Dymphna. According to tradition, Dymphna was an Irish princess who was murdered by her father for her faith in Christ. Her major shrine is in Gheel, Belgium, which is also the site of her martyrdom. It is said that this was the city where her father found her as she tried to escape his crazed hatred for her Christin faith. Saint Dymphna is celebrated on May 30.
“Yes, Jesus come. Thank you.”—the final words of Blessed Jeremiah
O God, who called blessed Jeremiah to seek your Kingdom in this world through the pursuit of perfect charity, grant, we pray, through his intercession that we may advance with joyful spirit along the way of love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
(from The Roman Missal: Common of Holy Men and Women—For Religious)
Saint profiles prepared by Brother Silas Henderson, S.D.S.


Critical Analysis essay on Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven”. Five to eight paragraphs with at least five well-constructed sentences. I need at least one scholarly source and use of the textbook.
I don’t really have a thesis in the workshop
Allan Poe, Edgar. “The Raven.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Sarah
Touborg. New York: W. W. Norton Company, Inc., 2019. 1155-1157. Print.
Dr. Richard Hartnett
ENG 102 (W09 W10)
13 February 2022
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In 1852, construction work in Dorchester, MA involved using explosives to break up rock on Meeting House Hill. After the explosion, two broken pieces of an ancient metal vase-like object were recovered from the debris. The bell-shaped vessel has been described as being about 4.5 inches high and 6.5 inches wide as the base curving to only 2.5 inches in diameter at the top. The story of this remarkable find ran in the Boston Transcript, a local paper. Later the story was repeated in the Scientific American (Anonymous, “A Relic of a By-Gone Age,” Scientific American, no. 38, June 5, 1852, p.298.). It was inferred from the locations of the two pieces of this silver-colored object (see right) amongst the debris that this vase had been blasted from the solid puddingstone which makes up the Roxbury Conglomerate approximately fifteen feet under the surface at Meeting House Hill.
The Roxbury Conglomerate, in which the vase was found, is dated by evolutionists to the Ediacaran Period, between 570 and 593 million years ago. Clearly the Dorchester Vase qualifies as an out-of-place artifact! The story of this curious artifact has been repeated in a number of different forums, including p. 46 of the 1985 Reader’s Digest book Mysteries of the Unexplained. Sometimes the object has been described as a pot or a candlestick holder. Creationists have categorized it as an antediluvian artifact.


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In 2003 two Mars Exploration Rovers were launched, Spirit (MER-A) and Opportunity (MER-B), with the aim of exploring the Martian surface and geology.
Spirit was launched on June 10, 2003 at 1:58 PM EST (Pad 17-A) and landed on Mars on January 3, 2004 and Opportunity was launched on July 7, 2003 at 11:18 PM EST (Pad 17-B) and landed on January 24, 2004.
The mission's scientific objective was to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars and was intended to last for an initial period of 90-Martian-days (sols) however they far exceeded this expectation.
On May 1, 2009, during its fifth mission extension, Spirit became stuck in soft soil on Mars and after nearly nine months of attempts to get the rover back on track NASA announced on January 26, 2010 that it was being retasked as a stationary science platform. However Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lost contact with Spirit after last hearing from the rover on March 22, 2010 and continued attempts to regain communications until May 25, 2011 bringing the elapsed mission time to 6 years 2 months 19 days or over 25 times the original planned mission duration.
As of November 2011, Opportunity continued to explore the surface.


Breeding Giant Beetles
Each year we keep a collection of Giant tropical beetles. Some of these we manage to breed from super-sized grubs, the size of sausages. The whole process often takes us two years. We feed the grubs special wood and leaf mould mixes, often with fungi hyphae in. The grub then pupates much like a caterpillar does and comes out as a beetle after five or six months.
Over the years, we have had many of the largest beetles, some of which are absolute characters. Recently, the Trust has had success breeding many of them, such as the colourful Rainbow stag beetle pictured below.


The average surface temperature of the Earth, day or night, is between 57.2 and 61 degrees Fahrenheit. This is relatively moderate compared to other celestial bodies in the Solar System, due to the Earth's position and atmosphere, which retains solar heat.
The habitable nature of the Earth is a result of receiving a moderate amount of solar radiation. Despite this, the temperature range of the planet is from 128.6 below zero to 136.4 degrees. The average surface temperature on Mars is 80 degrees below zero, in large part due to the tenuous atmosphere of the planet. Venus, at the other extreme, has an extremely thick atmosphere with an average surface temperature of more than 750 degrees.


PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The world is gaining weight.
Obesity is skyrocketing in rich and poor nations around the world and it’s affecting both adults and children.
The new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at 195 countries over 25 years and covered nearly 70 million people.
Research finds 2.2 billion adults and children are now overweight or obese – 30 percent of the world’s population.
“There are a number of different chronic diseases that are related to obesity or being overweight. They include diabetes, heart disease, stroke, a number of different cancers associated with being obese or overnight, and also arthritis,” said Dr. Bruce Lee, of the Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins.
Researchers say the finds are startling when it comes to children and young adults. The United States has the highest percentage of obese children in the world.
“All these different things like the use of more screen time, decreased physical activity, changing diets, all of these are general systems problems that are affecting the entire population, so we need to shift the frame work,” said Lee.
Millions of people are dying every year from unhealthy weight, even though they are not considered obese.
Being obese and overweight causes things like heart disease and diabetes.
The researcher showed those weight-related ailments cause an estimated 4 million deaths a year worldwide.
Egypt had the highest rate of obese adults, while Vietnam had the lowest.


Understand Heart Attack
Heart attacks are caused by heart disease, which is the number one cause of death among both men and women in the United States. According to the American Heart Association, every year in the United States roughly 785,000 people will have their first heart attack. And approximately 470,000 who have had a heart attack before will have another one.
You may be someone who is recovering from a heart attack or someone who is concerned about your personal risk for a heart attack. Or you may be a caregiver who is helping a loved one who has heart disease. Regardless of your starting point, the information in this Condition Center can help you better understand what heart attacks are – their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment – and what you will need for recovery and to lead a heart-healthy lifestyle moving forward. You’ll also find questions you can ask your physician about heart attack, what you can do to increase your odds of surviving a heart attack, and what recovery from heart attack will involve.


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Successfully completing the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Any Muslim whose circumstances permit is required to make hajj at least once in a lifetime. In earlier centuries, it was a dangerous and lengthy journey,…
The hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, during Dhu’l Hijjah, the twelfth lunar month in the Islamic calendar, takes place at locations in and around Mecca, including the circumambulation of the Kaaba, the running between Safa and Marwa hills, and…
Leila Aboulela, Sudanese-born author of Minaret, was interviewed by Anita Sethl for the Guardian newspaper in London, June 2005. She discusses the relative importance of national and religious identity.
The Cairo Genizah, mostly discovered late in the nineteenth century but still resurfacing in our own day, is a collection of over 200,000 fragmentary Jewish texts (which may well equal three times that number of folios). Many of these were stored in…


The mammalian inner ear forms from a thickened patch of head ectoderm called the otic placode. The placodal ectoderm invaginates to form a cup whose edges cinch together to establish a fluid-filled sac called the otic vesicle or otocyst. The progenitor cells lining the otocyst lumen will give rise to sensory and non-sensory cells of the inner ear. These formative stages of inner ear development are initiated during the first week of postimplantation embryonic development in the mouse. The inaccessibility of the inner ear in utero has hampered efforts to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms regulating essential developmental processes. An experimental embryological method to misexpress genes in the developing mammalian inner ear is presented. Expression plasmid encoding a gene of interest is microinjected through the uterine wall into the lumen of the otocyst and electroporated into otic epithelial progenitor cells. Downstream analysis of the transfected embryonic or postnatal inner ear is then conducted to gain insight into gene function.


The European Bison, or Wisent is the largest terrestrial animal in Europe and once roamed from southern Britain as far as Russia but became extinct in the wild in 1927 when the last wild bison was shot and killed. Standing at up to 2m tall and almost 3m long the bison is the largest animal at Wildwood. Despite their large size and usual slow movements, bison are surprisingly agile and can jump over a 3m stream from a standing position. An adult male can eat an astonishing 32kg of food every day! Being so large, the Bison are easy to spot in their enclosure, so take a good look around to see this magnificent animal.


Volume 4 Part 1 Article 37
Title: “Open Veiled” or “Hard Gilled” Mushrooms
Authors: C.R. Rasmussen, M.G. Amsen and G. Holmgaard
Open-veiled or hard-gilled mushrooms are a well-known feature in commercial mushroom production in a number of countries. The “disease” syndrome has been described in most books on mushroom growing. This syndrome is more or less identical to what is known as “hârde champignons” in Denmark.
Before a description of the different experiments is given, mention must be made of the pattern of the disease as observed by studying many infested mushrooms in a large number of diseased crops. Observations were primarily made during the 6th experiment (1956) when a very severe attack of hard-gilled mushrooms occurred. 66% of the plots, i. e. trays and shelves, produced hardgilled mushrooms. The disease was observed both in pinheads and in fullgrown mushrooms. It appears that many different names used both in literature and by mushroom growers cover the same disease.Please login to download the PDF for this proceeding.


Arduino Circular Cylon!
This is a quick arduino project that is great for beginners. Enjoy! There is a video on the last step!
Step 1: What you Need
To build this project you will need:
10 LEDs, any color will do.
Some wire, I used a ribbon cable I had
Most importantly, an Arduino
Perhaps some electrical tape
Step 2: Build it!
Start off by arranging your LEDs on the proto board however you choose, I chose to place them in an oval shape.
After that, solder them to the board. After they are soldered, solder all the cathodes (shorter leads, – or the lead that has the flat side) together. Then, solder a wire to each anode (other lead of the LEDs) to a wire.
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In a study funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, researchers have found that the process of layering nanoparticles could be used to provide safe and affordable water filters to the developing world. The process is called “atomic layer deposition” and involves layering nanoparticles onto a metal or a ceramic to create a thin film of cells. The layer can be applied to the particles used in water filtration devices. The metal or ceramic filtration particles would remove large impurities and the film would neutralize bacteria.
Over one billion people on earth don’t have access to safe drinking water. Water issues are the focus of many design for humanity projects and the ability to provide inexpensive water filters is a huge task for outreach organizations. Providing or creating water filters that are antimicrobial can prove to be a costly adventure. If the scientists involved in this study are able to take the next step into usable filtration devices it could mean a huge boost for clean drinking water missions.
“This would be very helpful in the developing world, or in disaster situations — like Haiti — where people do not have access to safe water,” noted lead author of the paper Dr. Roger Narayan of the joint biomedical engineering department of NC State’s College of Engineering and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The thin film of nanoparticles could neutralize bacteria that leads to diseases like trachoma, cholera, trichuriasis and hookworm infection that cause millions of illnesses and deaths each year.
Via Science Daily


Tech terms can be a little tricky and it is normal to get one wrong at times. What is not normal, though, is to not know a term as simple as HTML and consider it a sexually-transmitted disease. Apparently, that’s what 10% respondents on a survey recently did.
The survey was conducted by Vouchercloud.net, a website which provides coupons for purchases of a whole range of items, including tech products. The site says that a significant chunk of its users seek coupons that could help them get tech products at better prices. And it is rather ironic that many of these are unaware of some very basic tech terminology.
In its survey, Vouchercloud asked 2393 men and women above 18 years a whole set of questions. The answers range from hilarious to completely off the mark. 11%, for instance, thought that HTML is an STD. Another 77% had no idea what SEO stands for.
‘Software’ was defined by 15% of the respondents as ‘comfortable clothing.’ (I’m wearing a software?) There were also quite a few guesses pegging software terms to be actually insects and animals. Gigabyte was found to be an insect by 27%, rather than a unit of computer memory that it is. Blu-ray was deemed to be a marine animal by 18% respondents.
Even more hilarious was the participants’ definition of MP3 which, 23% of them decided, was actually the name of a robot from Star Wars. 12% respondents, when asked about USB, stated that it was the short term for a European country. One is almost inclined to send them all to the USB country on account for such brilliant answers.
Courtesy: Digital Trends


Depression is awful disease that affects almost twelve million Americans. Depression can be a crippling disease. It can cause withdrawal, anger, confusion, other diseases, or even death. Suicide caused by depression is the third biggest killer among teenagers. Every forty five minutes a teenager takes his or her life. These are all staggering statistics about a disease that some researchers say may be predisposed.
Picture a person(Wendy). Now all of her life Wendy has been "shy". Then her grandmother dies. After the death of her grandmother Wendy starts withdrawing from everyday life, and considers taking her life. These are common symptoms of depression. Being depressed can happen to anyone. Most people have mild depression after the death of a loved one, or a very traumatic depression. Every one in five people will have a case of depression in their lifetime. Depression isn't just a brief blue mood or a passing sadness that lifts in a few hours or even a few days. People who have depression -- or, in more formal clinical terms, major depressive disorder -- experience at least five of the following symptoms, which must include the first or second, nearly every day, all day, for at least two weeks:
Persistent depressed mood, including feelings of sadness or emptiness
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities or hobbies that were once enjoyed, including sex
Feelings of hopelessness and pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, and helplessness
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Loss of appetite accompanied by weight loss or overeating accompanied by weight gain
Decreased energy, fatigue, and feeling "slowed down"
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, and making decisions
Thoughts of suicide or death (not just fear of dying) or suicide attempts
Persistent physical symptoms, such as headaches, digestive disorders, or chronic pain, that do not respond to medical... Continues...


The International Meteorological Dictionary (released by the World Meteorological Organisation in 1992) defines a tropical cyclone as a synoptic-scale disturbance that is not accompanied by a frontal system, forming above tropical or subtropical waters and presenting organised convective activity as well as cyclonic circulation, more intense in surface than altitude.
Under certain circumstances, when a certain number of favourable conditions occur simultaneously, cloud formations may develop and curl around a centre of rotation, which appears as a whirl, defining a "closed circulation" surface. This atmospheric disturbance composed of clouds arranged in swirling bands is called a tropical cyclone. In the middle of this whirl the atmospheric pressure drops thus creating a depression.
Why is it called a cyclone? The etymological origin of the word comes from the Greek word kuklos which means circle, round. In some regions of the world, the word typhoon is used instead, also from a Greek word: tuphôn, which means whirl.
On pictures taken by weather satellites a cyclone appears as a white patch (high clouds) that is more or less round or circular, with a border of clouds aligned in a spiral drawn to the centre of this zone. Clouds therefore seem to swirl.
If a cyclone forms 3000 or 3500 km from land (such as HUGO in 1989 or LUIS in 1995), it will take 120 or 150 hours, or 5 or 6 days, to arrive. On the other hand, if it forms 500 or 600 km away from an island (for example, MARILYN 95), residents will have no more than 18 to 24 hours to prepare for its arrival. When a cyclone develops suddenly and quickly close to land, it is often too late to warn the population.
The Katrina Cyclone in August 2005.


Definition - What does Buddhist mean?
A Buddhist is someone who adheres to the principles of Buddhism, an Eastern religion with millions of followers worldwide. The estimates of the number of Buddhists vary widely — from 200 million to more than 500 million, or roughly six to 10 percent of the world's population.
There are many traditions within Buddhism, but all focus on some type of path to personal spiritual development.
Yogapedia explains Buddhist
The two schools with the most Buddhists are Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. The latter includes the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.
All Buddhists trace their roots to the original Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, more than 2,500 years ago. Beliefs vary by tradition, but have some common ground. In general, Buddhists:
- Don't believe in a personal god;
- Believe in impermanence;
- Believe life is endless; and
- Strive for enlightenment with the ultimate goal of reaching a state of nirvana.
Meditation is the main practice for Buddhists. It promotes understanding and awareness that moves them along their spiritual path.


During World War II, the Germany military (Wehrmacht) helped fulfill Nazism's racial, political, and territorial ambitions. In all the lands the Germans conquered, but most egregiously in eastern Europe, the Wehrmacht targeted Jews and other supposed racial inferiors, civilian and military alike, for abuse and death.
The policies that the Nazis and the military pursued stood in stark contrast to codes of honorable military conduct and international law. A few individuals acted according to those codes and laws, but the vast majority of German soldiers, and especially senior officers, cooperated with the Nazis, even to the point of committing genocide.
Read about how Nazi perceptions of race influenced war in the east.
Read about how Nazi racial ideology influenced orders issued by the German Armed Forces High Command.
Watch a brief film describing the role played by the German Army during the Holocaust.


Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful:
1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.
2. The author must feel a passionate urge to write it.
3. He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
First-rate fiction lays hands on the reader, to heal him or rough him up or, ideally, to do both.
The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the character can discover what he is really like, forcing the character to choice and action. And theme exists only to make the character stand up and be somebody.
In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Basically, fiction is people. You can’t write fiction about ideas.
Structure is the key to narrative. These are the crucial questions any storyteller must answer: Where does it begin? Where does the beginning start to end and the middle begin? Where does the middle start to end and the end begin?
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.


The posture of most Africans towards Europeans in the mid-20th century cannot be described as cozy or anything synonymous with the image of holding hands in optimism.
This anti-European sentiment colored the politics of the day. Whatever aggression or militarism that characterized individual independence struggles can be traced to that sentiment.
In the same vein, the majority of African independence leaders wanted to look beyond what their colonial masters offered.
The likes of Kwame Nkrumah warned of neocolonialism even before leading Ghana to independence.
However, after independence, the Thrasymachian reality hit. The world, as it is, is tailored according to the values and dispositions of those with the means.
African independence leaders realized they had to tone down the rhetoric and vilification. Even Nkrumah welcomed interests from the Americans as he would from his ideological brethren in the East.
But there were still yet another batch of leaders who felt Africa’s destiny, or maybe the destinies of their countries was inextricably linked to partnerships with former colonizers.
The argument for that opinion animated certain ventures like the CFA franc zone.
As follows are African leaders who, contrary to fears of neocolonialism, chose to model their countries in the light of their colonizers.


A History of Music, Volumes 2-4, is a collection of historical analyses written in the eighteenth century by Charles Burney. These writings detail how an eighteenth century musicologist would interpret and describe history.
One of the more interesting items in the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI) is A History of Music Vols. 2-4 by Charles Burney. This collection was written and self-published by Burney. The RBI acquired these items from Hans Theodore David, a German-American musicologist. This multi-volume anthology provides an analysis of the progression of Western music starting in the Medieval period up to the author’s present time of the late eighteenth century. Volume I was published in 1776, Volume II in 1782, and Volumes III and IV in 1789. The anthology shows what an eighteenth-century musicologist would have thought was relevant to include in an historical text.