Detecting objects in images and videos is a difficult task that has challenged the field of computer vision. Most of the algorithms for object detection are sensitive to background clutter and occlusion, and cannot localize the edge of the object. An object's shape is typically the most discriminative cue for its recognition by humans. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a model‐based object detection method which uses only shape‐fragment features.
The object shape model is learned from a small set of training images and all object models are composed of shape fragments. The model of the object is in multi‐scales.
The major contributions of this paper are the application of learned shape fragments‐based model for object detection in complex environment and a novel two‐stage object detection framework.
The results presented in this paper are competitive with other state‐of‐the‐art object detection methods.
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Roseate Spoonbill Reflections taken on the Bayou, Houston, Texas. During their breeding period their legs and plumage turn dark pink with a hint of yellow. During their non breeding period they are a dull pink and their legs are grey. The transformation is amazing.
The Roseate Spoonbill, a large wading bird with pink plumage and a distinctive spatulate bill, is one of the most striking birds found in North America.
Breeding in the United States is restricted to coastal Texas, southwestern Louisiana, and southern Florida. Their breeding range extends south from Florida through the Greater Antilles to Argentina and Chile. They inhabit marshes, swamps, ponds, and rivers within their range, feeding in both fresh and saltwater wetlands. Highly gregarious, Roseate Spoonbills breed and travel in flocks.
Most spoonbills do not breed until they enter their third year. Courtship displays include ritualized exchanges of
nest material, dancing and bill clapping. Copulation occurs at the nest si...


Jnana is a Sanskrit word that means knowledge, particularly of the spiritual kind. It is used in many different Indian traditions. Jnana isn’t knowledge in the usual cognitive sense, but refers to knowledge embedded in the experience of the true nature of reality. It isn’t something that can be understood with the intellect because it is free of all concepts and dualistic thought processes.
Tibetan Buddhism has ten stages of jnana through which the practitioner progresses, arriving finally at enlightenment and nirvana. In Vipassana, there are many levels or ‘knowledges’ that are worked through over a period of years. And in Hinduism it is the realisation that your true Self, or Atman, is one with Brahman. Real knowledge is that which takes you to your true Self, while false knowledge is that which diverts or distracts you, and knocks you off your path.
A Jnani is someone who is liberated or enlightened: one who knows. But as Sri Ramana Maharshi said:
“There are no jnanis, only jnana.”
Shunryu Suzuki said the same thing from a Zen perspective:
“There are strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.”


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Class: Colonialism and Our Missing History
October 3 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Do you remember learning about the exploration of the New World in your American history classes? Bold explorers sailing into the unknown, planting the flag and claiming the newly discovered lands for their home country. Brave settlers crossing the ocean and making a home for themselves in the new land. Pioneers crossing the prairie in covered wagons to settle newly opened lands in the west.
But, something is missing from this picture. This continent was not empty. The history of this continent is very different when told by the indigenous peoples who already lived here. It’s time to upend some of our long held perceptions and look at how it came to pass that taking over an inhabited continent and enslaving and removing its peoples was perceived by the majority culture as acceptable. Join us.


Monday, December 17, 2007
Are You SAD
Symptoms of winter-onset seasonal affective disorder according to the Mayo Clinic include:
* Loss of energy
* Social withdrawal
* Loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed
* Appetite changes, especially a craving for foods high in carbohydrates
* Weight gain
* Difficulty concentrating and processing information
Should You Seek Medical Help
If your sleep patterns and appetite have changed, if you feel hopeless or have thoughts about suicide or if you rely too much on alcohol to ease the mood, you should see your doctor.
Treatment for SAD
* Take medications as directed and attend therapy appointments as scheduled.
* Expose yourself to as much light as possible. Open blinds. Get outdoors.
* Engage in physical exercise, which can help relieve stress and anxiety, both of which can increase SAD symptoms.
* Be nice to yourself. Get enough rest, eat a balanced diet and take time to relax. Avoid alcohol or non-prescribed drugs.
* Learn how to better manage stress.
* Socialize. Stay connected with people instead of withdrawing.
* Take a winter vacation in a sunny location.


Worldview Sensitivity Training
The goal of this training is to increase awareness of the factors that shape relationships. Our worldview or perspective of the world molds our actions and behaviors. By understanding our worldview, we enhance our capacity to effectively communicate, resolve conflict and act from a place of empathic care and concern. The way we relate to others is predicated on our values and beliefs, which are shaped by our ideas about the world inherited from our experiences. In this training, participants will explore the nature of their perspective and how it informs their actions. They will learn the value of being sensitive to differences in worldviews and how it can mitigate unnecessary conflict and stress. They will also explore how to shape their worldview in order to maximize empathy and compassionate concern.
- An understanding of the factors that shape world views.
- Increased ability to identify factors that shape their worldview.
- Increased sensitivity to the multiplicity of worldviews.
- Increased capacity for empathic care and concern.
This training is suitable for any organizational entity interested in optimizing human interactions in order to effectively run its operation. These include, educational institutions, businesses, non-profits etc.
To make a reservation for this training please email here.


International Women’s Day and the Right to Health
“International Women’s Day is an outstanding opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women, past and present. It is also a day to reflect on what has not yet been delivered for women. Every day, 1500 women die while giving birth to a new life. Every year, over a quarter of a million women die from a cancer that can be prevented by vaccines. Most of these women live in the poorest countries of the world.” Learn more.


Date: 08/30/97 at 00:50:08 From: windows Subject: Integer sequence Show that if 19 distinct integers are chosen from the sequence 1,4,7,10,13,16,19..........,97,100, there must be two of them whose sum is 104.
Date: 09/03/97 at 10:47:03 From: Doctor Rob Subject: Re: Integer sequence List all the pairs that add up to 104: 4,100 7,97 10,94 ... 46,58 49,55 There are 16 pairs. The numbers 1 and 52 are not included. If you choose 19 numbers, at least 17 must be chosen from the 16 pairs, ... I hope this helps. -Doctor Rob, The Math Forum Check out our web site! http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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'Eldridge' clan mapping
At some distant place in time in every genealogy the surname becomes irrelevant. The only way to go further back is to use DNA testing. We have to rely on Clans and Tribes, genetically related groups of individuals, to get an understanding of our history.
Pride in your historic nationality is wonderful and can tell you much about your family, but we are all descendants of nomads. As nomads we belong to ancient cultures just as much as we belong to any one nationality. To know what culture you are you need to know where your tribe was and when.
When I had my DNA tested I learned that I was part of haplogroup G with origins in the Caucasus Mountains going back about 22,000 years. I also learned that I had no close matches in the last few centuries. That left me with very little to work with. So, I put on my analyst hat and developed a technique for plotting the migration path of my tribe at different periods in history. I needed to answer how my people got from the Caucasus to a little village outside of Naples, Italy.
I knew I had hit on something after my first mapping exercise.
'Maglio' clan mapping
The individuals that I plotted lined up along the Rhine River and down the Apennines (with a few stragglers in Wales). Successive maps, each going back further in time, showed a pattern along the Danube and around the Black Sea back to the Caucasus Mountains. I now have my migration answers and a plausible correlation to the Etruscan metalworking culture.
I have been using my technique to help my clients get a deeper understanding of their history and their culture. For all of you with the surname Eldridge, Eldredge, Aldrich and variation, I have posted a sample report on my website - "The Genetic Genealogy of Eldridge"
I'd love to hear about other successes mapping genetic data across time.


Maori New Year
Matariki is the Māori name for a cluster of stars which is visible in our night sky at a specific time of the year. In 2019, from 25 to 28 June, Matariki will re-appear in the dawn sky – signalling the start of the Māori New Year.
It is a time to celebrate new life, to remember those who’ve passed and to plan for the future. And it’s a time to spend with whānau and friends – to enjoy kai (food), waiata (song), tākaro (games) and haka. – Te Wānanga o Aoteoroa
Ideas for Workplaces:
To recognise this event…
- Swap our you commonly used words within your wāhi mahi (workplace) with the maori translations. Use these in hui (meetings), imera (emails) and even label things around the tari (office).
- Put the call out to anyone in your workplace who has Maori tupuna (ancestory) to share their tuku iho (traditions) around Matariki and perhaps their pepeha (introductory speech about their background).
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Welcome to our resources page!
Here you will find a range of posters, handouts, and more to support the inclusion of children with disabilities and developmental challenges.
We provide a range of stories that help children with disabilities or developmental challenges learn more about early childhood education and care settings. Each story comes with audio so that children can listen to the story. We have also provided these same stories without pictures so they can be customised with personal images or photos that are relevant to the child or children you will read it with.
We have provided a range of resources for facilitating the inclusion of children with disabilities and developmental challenges. We provide resources to help children learn how to manage their emotions and problem solve. You can access a home schedule to help your child see what comes next when getting ready for childcare or kindergarten. We also have posters celebrating the strengths of children. Finally, we also provide a strengths and abilities communication checklist to facilitate communication between educators and parents.
Research consistently identifies good sleep as essential for wellbeing. Sleep schedules can help children become familiar with bedtime routines and can reduce bedtime resistance. You can access an example of a sleep schedule below, with a template that enables you to add photos from your child's own environment.


Daily prevalence of SL1-3 over time in Bihar province, India. The proportion of NP-AFP children positive for SL1 (A), 2 (B), and 3 (C) are shown by day of stool collection (solid lines). Triangles at the bottom of the panels show when SIAs were done, with the colors indicating vaccine used (tOPV containing OPV1, 2, and 3 in black, and bOPV containing OPV1 and 3 in green). OPV detection rates pulse very rapidly and briefly after SIAs. Between campaigns, detection rates are sporadic and of low prevalence, compatible with detecting SL from routine immunization that is continually being administered to children less then 1 year of age. NP-AFP = non-polio acute flaccid paralysis. OPV = oral poliovirus vaccine. SIA = supplementary immunization activity. SL = Sabin-like poliovirus.


The Great Ice Barrier is the edge of the ice shelf
that extends for hundreds of miles. It is where the glaciers that
flow from the Antarctic land mass, leave and begin to float on the sea
providing a cliff of ice with only very rare places where a landing
is possible. These ice-cliffs prevented many of the early explorers
of Antarctica from making landfall causing them to sail for days until
a place could be found where a small boats crew could get ashore.
Painting by Dr. E.A. Wilson -
In: "Scott's Last Expedition", 1913.
Robert Falcon Scott, Terra
Nova Expedition 1910 - 1913
Picture courtesy NOAA


The Long/Short Stitch is a swift way of filling in open areas with embroidery. Use it to create grasses like the orange field above or to make gradations of color. Combine it with Satin Stitches that are used in tight spaces.
Here’s how to make the Long/Short Stitch:
Make a stitch from A to B measuring about 1/4’’ in the fabric. This is a Long Stitch. Come up at C just above and even with A. Insert the needle at D about 1/8’’ to the right of C or half the distance to B. Draw the thread through the fabric to make a Short Stitch.
Continue making a row of stitches alternating between long (1/4’’) and short (1/8’’) stitches. End on a point D or short stitch. Begin the next row by bringing the needle and thread up at E about 1/4’’ to the right of D (a short stitch). Insert the needle at D and draw the thread through the fabric. Continue along this row making stitches that measure 1/4’’ long. Stitch only into the short stitches of the previous row (skip the long stitches of the previous row).
Stitches will interlock, fill in the notches between stitches, and create a new row of long and short stitches. Repeat the steps above to fit the shape you’re filling. Stitch the last row of a shape with short stitches to fill in open notches along the row.


Computer hardware industry is comprised of organizations which are mainly engaged in drawing up of the plans, creation and production of the computer parts, and also bringing together of systems. Tangible computer part manufacturing industries are a large scale business centre all over the world. Without this industry computer technology cannot survive.
Success of the computing devices of desktop computers, laptops/notebooks, palmtops and various other gadgets associated with computers are dependent on the computer hardware industry. An analysis on the computer hardware industry means presentation of the reports on the share of market that the industry covers, its dimension and subdivisions, analysis on the crucial factors, the competitions being faced, improvements, and the information about all the companies with special impact on those who are leading in the market, what are the secrets behind that.
These analyses contain the comparison with the prospects of other manufacturing industries also. The reports for computer hardware industry include servers, workstations or personal computers or mainframes or peripherals or workstations. An analysis on the industry may be on the global market or country wise analysis or based on a region.
A good computer hardware industry analysis report should contain the forecasts of the market at least for five years. This report should also contain the future prospects of the industry, what problems can arise, modernization and improvements, and the growth potentials that are possible. It usually states the annual turnover of the companies, and the forces like economical or political or social factors those are driving the market trends. There are various learned and experienced analysts in this field doing this job perfectly for many years and have been judging the industry closely.
These reports come as important resource to all who are involved with the industry and also the avid computer users.


COASTAL heaths are at their best in late summer with their displays of purple flowers and honeyed scents of heather-blossom.
Yet this habitat, only found in the extreme west of Europe, is fast disappearing - around 90% has been lost over the past 100 years.
Cadw'r Lliw yn Ll£n is a recently-launched project designed to breathe life and colour back into the heathlands of the Ll£n Peninsula.
This three-year initiative includes the heather-capped hills and headlands that run from Moel-y-Gest near Porthmadog, west to Bardsey Island and up to Nant Gwrtheyrn.
Lliw yn Ll£n's project officer Arwel Jones has recently completed scrub-clearance work on Mynydd Tir y Cwmwd, between Llanbedrog and Abersoch - one of the largest remaining heathlands in Ll£n.
He said: "Even though these places appear wild, they have developed over many centuries of controlled burning and grazing. As a result of this traditional management, lowland heath was widespread on the Ll£n a hundred years ago, but now there is very little left, and this is degrading because of neglect.
"The long-term goal is to reintroduce grazing animals, but there's a lot of work to do before this happens. We have to make the site stock-proof, remove as much of the scrub as possible and then negotiate grazing agreements with farmers."
* Cadw'r Lliw yn Ll£n is a £500,000 Objective 1 European project. Details: www.lliwynllyn.org or Arwel Jones, 01758 613999.


In this Nov. 28, 1999 file photo, Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit.
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and move to the back of a Montgomery Ala. bus. That symbolically huge act of defiance by a physically small woman was pivotal moment in the movement against segregation.
Today, a granite statue will be unveiled at the Washington National Cathedral in honor of the civil rights icon. The new carving will be located in a section of the cathedral devoted to human rights. It honors those who struggled for social justice and equality.
The event includes an evening of prayer and song.


Verb : बदलना, अनुकूल बनाना, अनुकूल करना, अनुकूल बनना, के लिए रूपान्तरित करना, उपयोगी या योग्य बनाना, एक समान करना, कोई दृढ़ धारणा करना, के अनुरूप बनाना, के लिऐ रूपांतरित करना, रूपान्तरित करना, सामंजस्य स्थापित करना, मेल बिठाना
Example Sentences :
It is hard to adapt this story for children.
She must adapt herself to the present circumstances.
You must adapt yourself to your circumstances.
We must adapt ourselves to the changed circumstances.
When you go to a new country, you must adapt yourself to new manners and customs.
They accept the fact that they are not young anymore and adapt their lifestyle accordingly.
He tried to adapt his conduct to his new environment.
You have to adapt to circumstances.
He is quick to adapt to new circumstances.
They adapt it to Japanese tastes.
Some plants cannot adapt themselves to the cold.
You will soon adapt yourself to this new life.
It is generally hard to adapt to living in a foreign culture.
We must adapt our plan to these new circumstances.
You must adapt to a variety of conditions.
The young adapt to change easily.
The human brain can adapt to new situations.
She found it was difficult to adapt herself to her new surroundings.
Youth adapt to things more quickly than the elderly.
Young animals adapt quickly to a new environment.
He could not adapt his way of life to the company.
It is difficult to adapt oneself to sudden changes of temperature.
Children quickly adapt themselves to their new life.
Can you adapt yourself to the new job?
Why don’t you adapt your way of life to circumstances?


Kitchen Threats: Avoiding Foodborne Illness
4. Uncooked Eggs
If you enjoy eating eggs with runny yolks or snitching a bit of raw batter when you’re making cookies, you’re not alone. But the USDA recommends avoiding raw or undercooked eggs (especially for young children and the elderly) because of the possibility of food borne illness, like Salmonella. If you can’t keep your hands (or your kids’ hands) out of the cookie batter or you’re working with a recipe that calls for raw or undercooked eggs, consider pasteurized-in-the-shell eggs. They’re no different than regular eggs except they’ve been heat-treated to kill any harmful bacteria—making them safe to consume raw or partially cooked. Look for them in large supermarkets near other in-the-carton eggs.
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This condition is a bony enlargement on the back of the heel that can aggravate the retrocalcaneal bursa, a fluid-filled sac located on the back of the heel between the Achilles tendon and the calcaneus. The bursa can become inflamed and swollen, a condition called bursitis. Haglund’s deformity most commonly affects young women.
Haglund’s deformity commonly develops as a result of wearing shoes with rigid backs, such as pumps, which put pressure on the back of the heel.
Bony Bump Forms
Over time, this pressure can cause a bony bump to form on the calcaneus, and this bump digs into the surrounding soft tissue. The irritated bursa swells, and other tissues, including the Achilles tendon, may swell and thicken.
Increased Susceptibility People who have certain anatomical structures, such as a prominent bump underneath the Achilles tendon, high arches, a tight Achilles tendon, or other factors have an increased susceptibility to this condition.
Symptoms include pain and a callus at the back of the heel. If bursitis develops, a large, swollen bump may form on the back of the heel.
Treatment options include wearing shoes with no backs or soft backs, heel pads or other orthotic devices, heel sleeves, ice, anti-inflammatory medications and physical therapy. In some cases, a cast or boot may be needed. In severe cases, surgery may be needed to remove the bony bump or alter the shape of the calcaneus.


One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this Autobiography - are among the crowning achievements of the age. Here he describes the pressures placed on him by his childhood, the mental breakdown he suffered as a young man, his struggle to understand a world of feelings and emotions far removed from his father's strict didacticism, and the later development of his own radical beliefs. A moving account of an extraordinary life, this great autobiography reveals a man of deep integrity, constantly searching for truth.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.


Rare, Protected, or Endangered Species
Some species are protected from hunting because their numbers are small and they produce no surplus to harvest. Animals that are labeled "rare," "threatened," or "endangered" are all fully protected by law.
You are looking at a preview of what’s in the timed Today's Hunter in Idaho Course. Feel free to look around, but you’ll need to register to begin progress toward getting your Hunter Education Certificate.


Kit Sheffield led a ferns workshop last Sunday (yes, it’s been a busy week). We looked at a lot of ferns, some plants that don’t look like ferns but are, and of course some plants that aren’t ferns. We started at the Visitor Center, followed the river trail as far as Gladys Island and Carper’s Pond, then looped back via the Nature Center.
Some new ferns for me were Lowland Fragile Fern (Cystopteris protrusa) (left) and Broad Beech Fern (Phegopteris hexagonopera) (very handsome).
A few fern ID tips:
- The first thing to look for is growth pattern: does this fern grow in a clump, or singly?
- Look at the bottom pair of leaflets, for instance to distinguish Lady Fern from Hay-scented Fern. This is also useful for applying my “opposite Onoclea” rule.
- Look for hairs in the axils (armpits) of Cinnamon Fern.
Something that didn’t look like a fern for centuries, but is now considered to be one, based on fossil evidence: Scouringrush (Equisetum hyemale). Unfortunately for the quality of the image, the growth tips of this specimen have been deer-browsed.
One more fern, Rock Polypody (Polypodium virginianum). Cute name, cute fern!
And a not-a-fern: Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are in flower.


Botswana Chobe River
With a good tourist infrastructure, friendly people and over 500 regularly occurring species, Botswana offers many opportunities for the birdwatcher. It also contains the Okavango delta, one of the jewels of Africa and home to an amazing variety of wildlife. Birdwatching however, can start in and around the capital, Gaborone.
Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name upon independence in 1966. Following a long period of political stability and capital investment, it has one of the most successful economies in Africa and one of the world’s highest growth rates. It also has one of the highest known rates of HIV/AIDS infection, as well as a progressive and comprehensive programme for dealing with the disease.
The purpose of this document is to provide a summary of Botswana and its birds for birders interested in the country and potentially planning a visit. The information has been put together from a number of sources and it is intended to add new information as it becomes available. As such, readers are welcome to submit contributions by e-mail to email@example.com. You should note that the names of birds used in this document are those of the African Bird Club Checklist.


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- Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a stable adduct of glucose on the beta-chain of hemoglobin (N-[1-deoxyfructosyl]hemoglobin).
- Formed by a largely irreversible reaction, post-translationally and non-enzymatically, when hemoglobin circulating in a red blood cell is exposed to ambient glucose
- Alternate terms: "A1c" (preferred for use in communication with patients), "glycated hemoglobin" (the most accurate term), glycosylated hemoglobin.
- Expressed most often as the percent of hemoglobin that is glycated (alternatively, as mmol glycated hemoglobin per mole total hemoglobin).
- The single best test to monitor overall blood glucose control in diabetes
- Reflects the average blood glucose over about 3 months previously, although somewhat disproportionately weighted to recent blood glucose levels
- A strong indicator of risk for long-term diabetic complications, especially retinopathy, neuropathy and nephropathy (DCCT).
- Also an indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, although glucose control is less strong of a risk factor for CVD than lipids, blood pressure and smoking
- Recently, HbA1c > 6.5% is recommended as a criterion for diagnosing diabetes.
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In last week’s Washington Post, Roger K. Lewis, an architect and professor at the University of Maryland, wrote an intriguing column suggesting that it’s time for a big rethink of the concept of zoning, which he says is a relic of the early 20th century:
Zoning conventions are no longer conventional. Land-use regulation is still needed, but zoning increasingly has become a conceptually inappropriate term, an obsolete characterization of how we plan and shape growth.
Zoning laws were first conceived at the outset of the industrial era. At the time, the economy was dominated by factories churning out noxious byproducts of all kinds, from sludge to foul fumes to loud noises. The original zoning laws sought to segregate homes from businesses that might be nuisances — a legacy that American cities and towns are still living with:
Traditional zoning first took hold in the early 20th century with a clearly logical intent, as the word implies: to establish and keep apart discretely delineated areas of land use within counties and municipalities. Single-purpose zones ensured separation of incompatible uses such as dwellings and factories.
But that’s not what “zoning” is all about anymore. Lewis’s example — Washington, D.C. — is examining and revising all kinds of long-standing regulations, from minimum parking requirements to its famous height restrictions. These reforms seek to change cities in a way that’s completely distinct from segregating uses. The intent of reducing parking requirements, for instance, is to make places more walkable and reduce housing costs.
Since the way we design and regulate cities is changing so quickly, Lewis suggests that maybe it’s time we had a new word too:
Dropping the word ‘zoning’ necessitates using an alternative vocabulary. It’s time to talk less about zoning restrictions and limits and more about visionary plans, urban design goals and architectural aspirations.


- William’s Windmill
In this TED Talk, young Malawian William Kamkwamba describes how he built a windmill to power his family’s home aged 14, during a time of poverty and famine. The windmill produced electricity and was built from spare parts and scrap.
This moving tale of an invention that changed a young boy’s life is a powerful testament to the benefits of education, access to knowledge and self-belief. -TED


In terms of rank rottenness, Dunwich would vie with the fictional Dunny-on-the-Wold as the most rotten borough in the British Parliament. By the time of the Reform Act 1832, the bulk of the constituency was underwater, leaving only a tiny village of “44 houses and half a church”
It was a very different Dunwich that received its entitlement to two representatives in Parliament in 1298, and even this was a shrunken, storm-tossed survivor of its medieval glory. At its peak, Dunwich had six parish churches, religious houses for the Grey and Black Friars, a hospital, a shipbuilding yard and port complex and a yearly payment to the Crown of £120 13s 4d and 24,000 herrings.
It was, in short, one of the most important cities, ports and trading centres in England. It was one of the country’s 10 largest cities and arguably the capital of East Anglia. But the angry storm surges of the North Sea could destroy as easily as they brought prosperity. The watery threat had been signalled in the Doomsday Book, which recorded that the town had lost half of its fields to the sea.
But it was a huge, three day long storm in 1286 that signalled the end for Dunwich’s prosperity. The raging sea swept away a large chunk of the town and, most catastrophically, destroyed Dunwich’s natural harbour. Recovery attempts were started - a prize as rich as Dunwich was not easily abandoned, but these were defeated in an even greater storm of 1328. Dunwich would now begin a long and irreversible journey to decline and destruction.


This site explores feelings and the role they play in the development of the skills needed to have happy, healthy lives free of self-defeating behavior, including substance abuse.
The concept of self-image is important because the way a person sees him or herself determines how they will behave. Self-image is especially significant as it relates to alcohol use because alcohol is frequently used by the individual to help them feel better about themselves. It is important that a person is made aware at an early age of their own innate self worth and that mood-altering chemicals are not needed to make them feel better about themselves.
Feelings, the way they are expressed, play a significant roles in the development of self-image. Sometimes young people make decisions that some feelings are more acceptable than others and consequently form a poor self-image if they experience any of these unacceptable feelings. Then result of this is that the young person either denies the feelings and consequently never learns to express them properly, or continues to experience them and feel badly about themselves. In either case, the self-image forms is a poor one. In cases where the individual has never learned the appropriate expression of their feelings, alcohol is frequently used to aid in this expression.
In order to develop a positive self-image, the identification and appropriate expression of feelings is necessary.


Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering
60 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last revised: 23 Nov 2010
Date Written: October 24, 2010
Using novel quantitative historical data on 2,483 British privateering cruises, we show that state-licensed commerce raiding by merchants was not only a popular and potentially flourishing business, but also effective in harming enemy trade during the long eighteenth century (1688-1815). Why, then, did privateering merchants gradually turn away from the enterprise, despite their success? We provide systematic evidence that the expansion of overseas trade and ensuing decline in the revenues of commerce raiding facilitated the decline of British privateering and the transition to a full public provision of sea power by the Royal Navy by the end of the Napoleonic War.
Keywords: Privateering, Navy, Trade, Britain, Public Good, National Defense
JEL Classification: N73, N43, N13, K42, H56, B15, D23
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Examine the character of Lady Macbeth, offering an evaluation of her progression towards madness.
Macbeth is a play full of magic, mystery, murder and an overriding theme of ambition. Lady Macbeth is most likely Shakespeare's greatest and most fascinating female character, and is most susceptible to theses themes. During the play we can clearly define two different natures of Lady Macbeth. We first see her at the start of the play as a power hungry, brutally violent person vying for the throne as Queen of Scotland. Further in the play we find that she has turned into a disgraced, guiltful woman who commits suicide to get away from the pains of her actions. Thus becoming what she herself despised so much, an insecure weakling.
When Lady Macbeth first comes into the play in Act I scene V she is already presented as person lusting for the throne when she is presented with a letter from Macbeth telling her about his plans to kill the King for the throne.
This is when Lady Macbeths', first personality is shown, being very vicious and savage. She thinks little of the plan to kill King Duncan this giving the audience a sense that she has no morals or principles which encapsulate the makings of a normal human being. Knowing of the dangers which will come to hand she calls out ' Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/ And fill me from the crown to the toe top full/ of driest cruelty, make thick my blood' this showing us that she wants the cold blooded aspects of a ruthless man so that she can kill the King with nor remorse or second thought. We see more of this ruthless behaviour by Lady Macbeth when, while...


Some good friends of the cause we represent fear agitation. They say: “Do not agitate—do not make a noise; work.” They add, “Agitation is destructive or at best negative—what is wanted is positive constructive work.”
Such honest critics mistake the function of agitation. A toothache is agitation. Is a toothache a good thing? No. Is it therefore useless? No. It is supremely useful, for it tells the body of decay, dyspepsia and death. Without it the body would suffer unknowingly. It would think: All is well, when lo! danger lurks.
The same is true of the Social Body. Agitation is a necessary evil to tell of the ills of the Suffering. Without it many a nation has been lulled to false security and preened itself with virtues it did not possess.
The function of this Association is to tell this nation the crying evil of race prejudice. It is a hard duty but a necessary one—a divine one. It is Pain; Pain is not good but Pain is necessary. Pain does not aggravate disease—Disease causes Pain. Agitation does not mean Aggravation—Aggravation calls for Agitation in order that Remedy may be found.


Solar Cell Converts CO2 into Useful Acid
PRINCETON, N.J., July 3, 2014 — Researchers at Princeton University have found a way to convert carbon dioxide into a potential fuel with record efficiency.
The study, lead by chemistry professor Dr. Andrew Bocarsly, involved converting CO2
and water into formic acid using an integrated silicon PV electrolyzer system inside an electrochemical cell. By stacking three electrochemical cells together, the thermionic energy conversion efficiency using AM 1.5 sunlight was 1.8%, the highest achieved in any solar CO2
reduction scheme to date, according to the researchers.
The process could be used to generate formate salt, which is used to melt ice on airport runways and is less corrosive to planes and safer for the environment than chloride salts.
Bocarsly collaborated with researchers at Liquid Light Inc. of Monmouth Junction, N.J.; the energy company Public Service Enterprise Group provided a solar panel.
The research was published in the Journal of CO2 Utilization
For more information, visit www.princeton.edu


Description and life cycle
The buffalo treehopper adult is green, 3∕8 inch long, triangle-shaped when viewed from above and hump-backed when viewed from the side. The nymphs are spiny. Females lay eggs from July until October in the bark of the upper sides of small branches of apple, pear, cherry, prune, and quince trees. A row of slits is cut along the branch, and six to twelve eggs are laid in each slit. The slits heal and gradually enlarge, giving the branch a rough and scabby appearance.
Damage to young trees
Young trees may be significantly damaged by heavy infestations because severe scarring can stunt and weaken limbs. In May or June the overwintered eggs hatch and the nymphs move to nearby grasses and weeds. Weedy orchards or those near weedy fields are most often affected.
Monitoring and management
Young trees should be checked for the presence of scarring in autumn or winter. Severely scarred branches should be pruned out. Controlling weeds should reduce alternate feeding sites. Since the egg-laying period lasts several months, insecticide spray timing is difficult. Insecticides should be used only if economic damage is occurring to young trees beyond the control ability of winter pruning.


Garden Patterns & Mosaics
Pattern and texture is one of the most important design elements in any good landscape. In paved surfaces, on fences and walls, and in garden ornaments and accents, pattern and texture creates visual interest and adds a feeling of depth and dimension in the landscape. Depending on the type of design and the nature of the materials used, a pattern can be soothing and restful, or dramatic and eye-catching.
This book is a comprehensive do-it-yourself guide to the use of pattern and mosaic in the garden. It includes more than 20 stylish projects, making use of a variety of materials, from traditional polished stone to broken glass. A variety of pathway and paving projects are included, but readers will also learn how to create mosaic treatments on planters, furniture and other garden accents. Garden Patterns & Mosaics includes an opening introduction to the principles of using pattern in garden design, and a summary of the tools and techniques required.


Going Green to Save Green: Economic Benefits of Green Infrastructure Practices
Banking on Green
“Whether it arrived years ago and called itself low-impact development or appeared more recently under the name green infrastructure, chances are that, almost anywhere you are in the US, you’ve encountered it,” comments Janice Kaspersen, Editor of Stormwater Magazine in an editorial published online.
“More and more cities are adding green infrastructure to their arsenals as a way to supplement the traditional grey infrastructure of gutters and pipes and storm sewers—infiltrating, reusing, or otherwise diverting runoff to extend the capacity of the existing systems and delay or avoid upgrading and replacing them.”
“A newly released report helps quantify the money many of these cities are saving, and points out other benefits of GI as well.”
TO LEARN MORE:
American Rivers’ series of new reports highlights the economic benefits of green infrastructure strategies to better manage polluted runoff. These practices, from rain gardens to green roofs, work by capturing rainwater where it falls. By reducing the polluted runoff that flows into rivers and streams, green infrastructure practices play a critical role in protecting clean rivers.To download a copy of the report, click here.


Department of PsychologyBack
Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour.
Psychologists around the world are trying to answer questions like these:
- How does memory work?
- How can we explain and treat mental disorders?
- How do we understand our own social status?
- How does mental ability change across the lifespan, from infancy to old age?
- How do we understand and use language?
- What are emotions?
- What makes different groups of people dislike each other?
Students studying with the Department of Psychology can look forward to learning about the scientific method, and how to apply it to understand what people do, and why they do it. They will learn about the basic research that has been conducted into individual, interpersonal, and intergroup behaviour. And they will learn how this basic knowledge is applied to understanding real-world problems, including treating mental disorders, allowing effective industrial and organisational behaviour, and maximising learning in educational environments.
Our Major students can also choose elective courses from the Humanities and Social Sciences Department , which is a great way to extend one's knowledge of other approaches to understanding human behaviour; they can also choose courses from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.


Halitosis or more widely known as Bad breath is the embarrassing smelly odor coming from your mouth or breath. You might have problems with bad breath and not have any success in finding the cause of the problem. So you may like to know that there can be a few things that can contribute to bad breath.
Keep a log of the foods you eat. If your bad breath is not being caused by a problem in your mouth, it could be the things you eat.
- Also known as Halitosis
- Bad breath can be caused by the foods you eat and improper oral hygiene.
- Untreated gum disease may be the cause of Persistent bad breath
- Poorly fitting dentures and/or other devices can also cause bad breath if not cleaned properly.
- Yeast infections of the mouth, Cavities, Dry mouth, Illnesses
- Good oral hygiene can prevent bad breath
- See your dentist on a regular basis
- Stop smoking or using smokeless tobacco
- Drink lots of water
Bad breath may be caused by the foods you eat.
Odors in your breath may be caused by bacteria in your mouth. Plaque can build up and bacteria can continue to grow if left untreated. The bacteria can give off the odor that may cause your bad breath. Ongoing bad breath may the symptom of a bigger problem. Gum disease can also lead to the growth of bacteria. The bacteria under your gums could be contributing to the cause of your bad breath. An improperly fitting denture or device may cause bad breath if bacteria can get trapped in a pocket or crack.
The best thing to do to prevent bad breath is good oral hygiene. Visit your dentist on a regular basis for routine cleanings, and brush and floss regularly. This will reduce the amount of bacteria in your mouth. We also suggest bringing your appliances such as night guards, retainers, dentures, and partials with you to your routine checkups twice a year to have them cleaned professionally.
**Another good tip is to brush your tongue with a tongue cleaner which can sometimes be found on your toothbrush!!!


Everyone will have an experience of playing in an enormous sand box or on a beach in their childhood. Such a “sand play,” in which anyone from children to adults can easily enjoy with deep concentration, is the origin of sand sculptures, and many sand sculptors have been successful around the world. Sand sculpturing is the art, you just carve a mass of sand hardened with water. Since the material is sand, there is always a danger of collapse from the start of creation through completion. Though it is a wonderful art work, it is prone to collapse and is temporal. The frailty produces the beauty of sand sculpture. Sand sculptors are challenged by sand, which is easily collapses. Sand sculptures which come into existence like this, continue to surprise and greatly excite many people.
Sand sculpturing is the art just carved on a mass of sand hardened with water. Big sculptures exhibited in “The Sand Museum” need the construction of a pyramid-shaped wooden formwork to harden the sand, but anyone can make a small one rather easily. Let’s do it together!


In today's early childhood programs, there is a growing emphasis on skill-building. Families can become willing partners in providing developmentally appropriate math and science experiences at home. Here are ways to partner with families:
- Through your regular school communication channels-family letters, newsletters, online messages-share information about the math and science activities you are doing in the classroom.
- If family members work in a job related to math and science, ask them to come for a visit to talk about their work.
- Send home directions for making Oobleck, or other cooking activities, so that families can try them out with children.
- Encourage parents to take children on "Shape Hunting Walks." These can be easily done on the way to the supermarket or playground.
- Suggest that letting children help with chores-such as sorting laundry, pairing socks, putting groceries into sets, and sorting silverware-is a great way to reinforce math skills.
- If possible, arrange a school and family trip to a local children's science or discovery museum.
- Encourage families to visit their local science resources-children's museums, aquariums, parks, science museums, and botanical gardens.
- Give parents some ideas for "bathtub science"-providing measuring cups, funnels, and tubes as bathtub toys. They can also provide a variety of sink and float objects-a small rock, a plastic spoon, and other small and large plastic objects.
- Invite family members into the classroom to participate in activities where extra adults would be helpful.


As a society, we are addicted to refined sugar which leads to many health problems. Sugar is toxic to the body! In his article, Chris Kresser has put together a great resource for information on the dangers of refined sugar.
Why Sugar is Toxic to the Body?
- Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, lung, gallbladder and stomach.
- Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.
- Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract, including an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
- Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.
- Sugar can cause food allergies.
- Sugar contributes to weight gain and obesity
What’s in sugar?
White table sugar (sucrose) is composed of two sugars: glucose and fructose. Glucose is an important nutrient in our bodies and is healthy, as long as it’s consumed in moderation.
Fructose is found primarily in fruits and vegetables, and sweeteners like sugar and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Naturally occurring fructose is not an essential nutrient, like glucose, but when consumed in the form of whole foods it is easily handled by the body.
Refined sugar is particularly problematic because it tends to promote unintentional overeating. Studies have shown that people that consume a lot of refined sugar do not tend to compensate by reducing calories elsewhere in the diet. This doesn’t happen with fruit or other whole foods that contain glucose or fructose. When people add fruit to their diet, they reduce their calorie intake elsewhere to compensate.
I guess that pretty much summarizes why you should avoid refined sugar. Trust me, I know it’s not an easy habit to kick, but it is definitely possible.


Endocrine disrupting compounds
Endocrine disruptors are exogenous substances that alter function(s) of the endocrine system and consequently cause adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or (sub)populations .
Endocrine systems are found in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animal species. The endocrine system is made up of glands which secrete hormones to body fluids, and receptor cells which detect and react to the hormones. The hormones act as chemical messengers. Hormones bind to cells that contain matching receptors in or on their surfaces, much like a key would fit into a lock.
Disruption of the endocrine system can occur in various ways. Some chemicals mimic a natural hormone, fooling the body into over-responding to the stimulus, or responding at inappropriate times. Other endocrine disruptors block the receptor site on a cell. Still others directly stimulate or inhibit the endocrine system and cause overproduction or underproduction of hormones. The substances that show these effects are known as Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) or Hormone Disrupting Chemicals (HDCs).
The most conspicuous EDCs are those that affect reproduction. EDCs have been demonstrated to markedly affect animal populations in the coastal environment.
- International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) http://www.who.int/ipcs/en/


During the reigns of three successive kings named Augustus in the 18th century, the city of Dresden became a haven for culture and Baroque architecture. Buildings such as the Japanese Palace, the Pillnitz Castle, and the Taschenbergpalais gave the city one of the most distinctive skylines in Europe and earned it the nickname “The Jewel Box.” Despite the World War II bombing by British and American forces that destroyed many historic structures, the city has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to resume its place as a center of German culture. Now, a few days before the anniversary of those bombings, the Kimbell opens its new exhibition, The Lure of Dresden: Bellotto at the Court of Saxony.
Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew and student of Canaletto, was an Italian cityscape painter who emulated his uncle’s shatteringly clear landscapes of Venice. Bellotto moved to Dresden in 1747 at the request of King Augustus III and captured the city in its pomp, possibly using a camera obscura to help him render Dresden’s architectural splendors in such fine detail. More than just pieces of art, these are historical documents that have guided the urban planners of Dresden as they have worked to restore and rebuild their city. These treasures have been kept in this city on the Elbe River, but thanks to a generous loan, you can see them here.
The Lure of Dresden: Bellotto at the Court of Saxony runs Sun thru Apr 28 at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, FW. Tickets are $14-18. Call 817-332-845


This course examines the range and diversity of male social roles assumed by boys, adolescent males, and adult men within U.S. families, communities, and society. As a nation of immigrants, political and religious refugees, and descendants of African slaves, nativity and cultural origins of families residing in the United States often influence and potentially clash with historical and evolving American ideals and notions about normative male social roles within an evolving multi-racial and multi-cultural society. With respect to male social roles in families residing in the United States, particular attention is given to how race and/or ethnicity, citizenship and generational status, residence duration and stability, social class status, and cultural expectations affect the assumption and performance of expected male social roles.
Definitions of family and an overview of family structures are initially examined, followed by a developmental examination on male social roles within families and how boyhood, adolescent and adult male social roles are affected by family structure, socio-economic status, historical and cultural family origins, citizenship status, and individual/family engagement with the broader society. The succeeding component of the course examines male social roles within neighborhood and community contexts and how boyhood, adolescent and adult male social roles external to the family are influenced by engagement within these contexts. The final component of the course examines civic engagement and societal male social roles assumed by boys, and adolescent and adult males.


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The cavitating propeller wake is investigated in detail using PIV and shadow graph techniques to figure out the trace ability of bubble type of tracers, naturally generated by the decrease of the static pressure in a cavitation tunnel. Experiments are conducted in the conditions of the cavitating propeller wake containing strong vortices. The flow behaviors of bubble tracers are compared with those of normal solid particles. The bubbles grown from the nuclei melted in the cavitation tunnel could not influence on the additional buoyancy, producing good trace ability in the uniform flow. The comparison between bubbles and solids shows some discrepancies in the area around the tip vortex core of cavitating propeller wake. The slip velocity, indicating the difference of moving velocities between bubble and solid, induces rather high difference in the vorticity values of it. The results of comparison in terms of vorticity values showed good agreement in the region of mild ReS (Reynolds number based on the slip velocity), however, disagreement at high ReS over 1000. The large slip velocity and high ReS provided a velocity difference, especially in the high velocity gradient region. The slipstream region gives a range of 15 <ReS < 75; however, ReS is about 1000 at a high velocity gradient region of a tip vortex. The fitted vorticity reduction rate would give a reference for the prediction in a real flow when bubble tracers are utilized in PIV measurements of a vortical flow. The vorticity reduction rates are obtained according to the bubble size which is considered to affect the slip effect in the high velocity gradient region
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VLSI Design of a 16-bit Pipelined RISC Processor
- Tannu Chhabra, Md Tauheed Khan
- International Journal of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering ico_openaccess
- in 2012
- Cited Count
- DOAJ CORE
- Engineering > Computer Science
- RISC processor, Pipelining, VLSI, FPGA, Computer Architecture, Real-time embedded systems, System on Chip (SoC), Electronic computers. Computer science, QA75.5-76.95, Instruments and machines, QA71-90, Mathematics, QA1-939, Science, DOAJ:Computer Science, DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
In this paper we have described the design of a 16-bit pipelined RISC processor for applications in real-time embedded systems. The processor executes most of the instructions in single machine cycle making it ideal for use in high speed systems. The processor has been designed to be implemented on an FPGA using VHDL such that one can reconfigure it according to specific requirements of the target applications. The processor is powerful enough to be used as a stand-alone processing element and is generic enough to be used in multi-processor System on Chip.
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The UN Security Council has approved a resolution that demands warring governments and factions act to halt violence against women, calling rape a war crime and a component of genocide.
Sexual violence in war is nothing new. Accounts of women being raped by conquering armies as “spoils of war” go back centuries. But the resolution says rape is not just a by-product of war, but a military tactic. In recent times, the Balkan wars of the 1990s alerted the world to the use of rape as a weapon of conflict.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council that violence against women had reached “unspeakable and pandemic proportions” in some places recovering from conflict.
The resolution was welcomed as a “historic achievement” by Human Rights Watch, which said the world body had all too often ignored the problem.
These days, the problem is worst in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Major General Patrick Cammaert told the meeting he witnessed the impact of rape as a UN peacekeeping commander in eastern Congo. He described such violence as a “particularly potent tool of war”, as it dehumanizes its victims. “It has probably become more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in an armed conflict”, he said.
It’s not just warring factions that are accused of rape. UN peacekeepers themselves have been accused of sexual offenses in several countries. The resolution calls for more vigilance in stopping and preventing such abuses.
Its practical impact, however, remains unclear. Ban is expected to report back on its implementation in a year.
(Cross-posted at The F Word on 20 June 2008)
©2008 Helen G


Bananas are good for you because they are an excellent source of potassium; one medium-sized banana has 422 milligrams of potassium, which is 12 percent of the USDA recommended daily requirement, according to Health. Bananas are also rich in fiber, with three 3 grams per serving, and they provide nearly 20 percent of the daily recommended requirement for vitamins B6 and C.Continue Reading
In addition, bananas may play a part in weight loss since they are a good source of resistant starch that is used slowly by the body, making them a natural suppressant of the appetite and metabolic booster. Resistant starches like bananas encourage the liver to start burning fat. Slightly green bananas are the richest source of resistant starch, with more than twice the amount of resistant starch than ripe bananas.
The high potassium content in bananas may be helpful in regulating blood pressure since potassium helps move salt out of the body, according to Health. In the body, potassium helps the kidneys to let go of excess fluid and sodium.
Bananas are also a good source of prebiotics, which are carbohydrates that the body cannot digest. Prebiotics help to maintain a healthy gut because they supply food for probiotics and help good bacteria in the gut to grow. Other sources of prebiotics are garlic, onions, asparagus and raisins.Learn more about Nutritional Content


Searching Open Reading Frames (ORF) in DNA sequences - ORF Finder
Open reading frames (ORF) are regions on DNA which are translated into protein. They are in between start and stop codons and they are usually long.
The Python script below searches for ORFs in six frames and returns the longest one. It doesn’t consider start codon as a delimiter and only splits the sequence by stop codons. So the ORF can start with any codon but ends with a stop codon (TAG, TGA, TAA). Six frames are the sequence itself and its reverse complement, and each has three frames obtained by shifting one nucleotide right twice.
There are also local and online tools that perform the same task. My suggestions are:


Czech resistance fighters attacked Reinhard Heydrich, acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, in an ambush near Prague in May 1942. Heydrich died of his wounds on June 4, 1942. In retaliation for the attack, the Germans destroyed the village of Lidice on June 10, 1942. The Germans shot all the men in the village and deported most of the women and children to camps in Germany. This footage shows destroyed homes and German officials inspecting the remains of the village.
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First level - Suggested Activity
Background Notes for Teachers
This series of activities will help young people understand that in large, charitable organisations such as RZSS, a huge number of people with different skills, abilities and training are needed to ensure the smooth running and continued success of the organisation.
They will be able to understand and describe some of the jobs that people do, both at Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park and appreciate the diversity of opportunities available.
After finding out about some of the careers available at RZSS, pupils will be able to reflect on the information and then discuss and write about the job they would like to do when they leave school, college or university.


It's been 100 years since the founding of NASA's predecessor — the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA.
While NACA, which was formed in 1915, doesn't have the same recognition that NASA does for, say, landing on the moon or launching Space Shuttles, the organization helped lay the groundwork for U.S. accomplishments in aeronautics and space exploration. During and after World War II, the NACA helped develop vital innovations like retractable landing gear and jet engine compressors, according to a NASA press release.
NACA's 7,500 employees and $300 million in assets transitioned to NASA on Oct. 1, 1958. Eventually, one former NACA employee — Neil Armstrong — was the first human to set foot on the moon.


It's an easy visual reference that shows whether your dinner plate is a healthy one: The brighter, more vibrantly colored the foods, the better they are for you -- especially when it comes to vegetables.
While it's true that vibrant vegetables like kale contain greater levels of vitamin K and other nutrients than their paler counterparts, like iceberg lettuce, it isn't a hard-and-fast rule [source: Erway]. Many pigment-challenged vegetables get a bad rap. The truth is, some phytochemicals that make vibrant vegetables good for you are also present in pale or white vegetables because some phytochemicals are colorless [source: Produce for Better Health Foundation].
Celery, for example, is so well known for its soft and soothing color that it's a popular moniker for interior paint colors and decorator fabrics. But don't assume this understated veggie is a weakling when it comes to nutrition. Celery is a nutritional powerhouse packed with vitamins, calcium, and phthalides that can lower blood pressure. Cabbage is another example of a pale vegetable that can hold its own against bell peppers and green beans. Cabbage is high in vitamin C and has been connected to a lower cancer risk. So have onions, which are rich in compounds that help prevent heart disease. And cauliflower, despite its lack of color, has lots of isothiocyanates, indoles and vitamin C to help fight cancer [source: Nutrition and You].


Malostranské náměstí: Cathedral of Saint Nicholas
The monumental cathedral of Saint Nicholas was begun in the late 1670s as the centrepiece of the recatholicization of Bohemia following the Thirty Years’ War. In 1702 the great Prague architect Kryštof Dientzenhofer took over the project, finishing the nave and west end in 1711. His son Kilián Ignác was responsible for the vault and landmark dome as well as the extravagant interior, while the tower was finished in 1752 by Kilián’s son-in-law Anselmo Lurago.
The church, which dominates Prague’s Malá Strana (Lesser Quarter), has long been considered one of the world’s greatest examples of baroque design. The interior is decorated with stunning trompe-l’oeil frescoes by the Vienna-born Jan Lukáš Kracker.


Grigorenko and Sternberg (1997) administered 199 gifted senior high school students with TSQ (Thinking Style Questionnaire) and Triarchical Aptitude Test, and found Legislative and Judicial styles were found effective in predicting the performance of analytic tasks and that the correspondence between teachers' and students' thinking styles facilitates learning. The study intends to explore teachers' and students' thinking styles and their interaction. The main purposes of the study are to Explore teachers 'background factors, teachers' thinking styles, and their relationships with instructional activities. Explore instructional activities, students' thinking styles, learning satisfaction and their relationships with academic achievement. Explore the similarity between teachers and students thinking styles, and its relationships with learning satisfaction and academic achievement. Subjects of the study include 256 teachers of 33 primary schools in Taiwan. 425 grade fifth- and six-grade senior primary school students. Instruments on teachers include Thinking Style Questionnaire for Teachers, TSQT and Instructional Behaviours Self Inventory. Instruments on students include Thinking Style Questionnaire, and Learning Perception Satisfaction CheckList. Statistical methods used in this study include Pearson's Product Moment Correlation, one-way ANOVA, one-way MANOVA, and Canonical Correlation. In summary, the results of the study basically supported Sternberg's Mental Self-Government theory (1988,1990,1997), and further research deserves exploring in a future study.


If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, an award-winning scholar-activist makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement.
This bold and necessary book points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Sally Nuamah calls “feminist schools,” deliberately designed to provide girls with achievement-oriented identities. And she shows how these schools would help all students, regardless of their gender.
Educated women raise healthier families, build stronger communities, and generate economic opportunities for themselves and their children. Yet millions of disadvantaged girls never make it to school—and too many others drop out or fail. Upending decades of advice and billions of dollars in aid, Nuamah argues that this happens because so many challenges girls confront—from sexual abuse to unequal access to materials and opportunities—go unaddressed. But it isn’t enough just to go to school. What you learn there has to prepare you for the world where you’ll put that knowledge to work.
A compelling and inspiring scholar who has founded a nonprofit to test her ideas, Nuamah reveals that developing resilience is not a gender-neutral undertaking. Preaching grit doesn’t help girls; it actively harms them. Drawing on her deep immersion in classrooms in the United States, Ghana, and South Africa, Nuamah calls for a new approach: creating feminist schools that will actively teach girls how and when to challenge society’s norms, and allow them to carve out their own paths to success.


Since its creation in 1994, the Los Palos Golf in Tenerife has believed that it is necessary to go together with good environmental actions.
Aware from the beginning of safeguarding the environment in which it is located, a series of environmentally responsible measures have been implemented.
Golf Los Palos has compiled the actions undertaken in the facilities giving an idea of the effort made to achieve the objectives that at the time were set out in the policy and action plan to obtain the Biosphere Golf certificate.
- We use products with environmental guarantee
- Reduction of light pollution with the use of energy-saving lamps and lights that do not focus on the sky
- We purify our water and irrigate with recycled water
- We save water and energy
- We take measures to protect native and foreign fauna
- We integrate our native flora
- We apply a policy of socio-cultural integration
- We contribute to greater environmental education
Golf enthusiasts, usually nature lovers, will be able to learn about the course and its relationship with the natural environment by looking at the information panels (each one is presented in colour) how it preserves and shelters varieties of wildlife.
A good environmental communication is not such if it is not accompanied by attractive information and supports. There are some things you can do:
Set out in the policy and action plan for obtaining the Biosphere Golf certificate.
- Respect the signs of the birds’ refuge
- Plants must not be uprooted or trampled
- Recycle waste in appropriate containers
- Reuse instead of throwing away
- Reduce the use of packaging


Beginning with a few thousand Turks who came over as "guest workers " in the 1960s, Germany's Muslim community has grown to more than 2 million encompassing a host of different nationalities today. There is not one major German city where the spires of a mosque can't be seen reaching out among the housetops. Headscarves on the street have become as familiar as the sausage stand on the corner.
As their numbers grow, so does their desire to assert their presence. For the most part, Germany's politicians have treated Islam's growing influence with gloved hands. But the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their roots in a small mosque in Hamburg threw the community into sharper focus. Muslims responded by becoming more vocal and demonstrative in asserting their religious rights, sparking already simmering debates on the place the headscarf holds in German society and whether Muslim parents have the right to bend school rules.
DW-WORLD looks at some of the issues confronting German society as Muslim influence grows.


Woodbury, New York
9 ft. 3/4 in. x 17 ft. 3 in. (panel)
Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, John B. Dunn, William B. Codling and Edwin N. Rowley, 1910 (10.183)
The Hewlett Room came to the Metropolitan Museum from a house built for a member of the John Hewlett family in Woodbury, New York, in the middle of the eighteenth century. One of the only surviving photographs of the house shows a five-bay, one-and-a-half-story building perched atop a high basement. The 1911 Museum Bulletin announcing the acquisition of the woodwork from the house described its plan as having four rooms on the principal floor and no center hall. The lack of a center hall made the plan of this house more like that of the pre-Georgian Hart House. However, the decoration of the house's parlor participated fully in the Georgian aesthetic.
Hidden beneath smooth plaster walls, the structure of the house no longer served as a decorative element. Instead, the decoration consists of applied moldings based on classical profiles. The molded chair rail, cornice, and door and window surrounds are the result of woodworking planes drawn over boards to create pleasingly curved surfaces. They reflect the skills and toolbox of the cabinetmaker as much as the housewright.
The artistry of the craftsman is most evident in the room's fireplace wall. This fully paneled wall draws together a variety of classical elements from one of the many popular English pattern books of the period. Though the wall is not symmetrical, the rhythmic application of Doric fluted pilasters gives the overall composition a sense of order and proportion. A provincial interpretation of these classical devices, the two small pilasters above the fireplace appear to rest on thin air. The China cupboard to the left of the fireplace is set within a decorative Palladian arch. A smaller arch beneath the cupboard is framed by two additional fluted pilasters. Inside the cupboard, a Rococo shell forms the base of the cove, its ridges radiating outward.


As the state rushes to vaccinate its residents against the coronavirus, one population group continues to lag.
State data shows that just about 30% of those ages 16 to 19 have gotten at least one shot.
In San Diego that number is even lower, only 4% of teens 16-19 have been vaccinated, according to county data.
“It’s okay to be afraid, it's not okay to not look at the data and the scientific research that we have,” said Ilan Shapiro, MD, Medical Director for Health Education and Wellness. “You’ll be protected with the vaccine and that's the best way that we can ensure your family and friends are safe.”
Getting more young people vaccinated is critical for our state's effort to control the virus.
“If the virus continues to mutate, a lot of the people who are already vaccinated, we just don't know if the virus will mutate so fast that the vaccines will stop working,” said Shapiro.
He adds that teens are less likely to suffer from severe COVID-19 symptoms or die from the virus, but if unvaccinated, they will continue to spread the virus to those who are at greater risk.
“We have been seeing in the past few weeks that actually 25% of all the new cases are actually related to pediatric patients and that's a record,” said Shapiro.
In an effort to get more teens vaccinated, San Diego Unified School District is organizing clinics at schools for kids 16 and older and their families.
“I'm glad that the schools are giving the vaccines to kids because the kids are the ones that are the ones who are more out and they should be the ones who are safer,” said an SDUSD parent.


Targeted Drug Delivery
Using an in-vitro model which reconstructs a human eye, research into the reaction between eye and biomaterial, such as a contact lens, no only will reduce the need for animal testing and expensive clinical trials, it will eventually lead to better drug delivery systems and therapies for glaucoma and cataract patients.
Sports engineering research
Professor John McPhee's team studies the dynamics and controls of human interaction with mechatronic systems. Their goals are to improve athletic performance and safety through a deeper understanding of biomechanics, mechatronic training devices and equipment.
Revolutionizing water treatment
Many hazardous contaminants in water cannot be removed by conventional technologies like filtration, chlorination and ultraviolet radiation. Professor Frank Gu explains how his team can remove pollutants using nanotechnology and titanium dioxide, and lead the creation of next generation water treatment.
Professor Sujeet Chaudhuri, Co-Director, Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems explains how the world-class facility at Waterloo is designed to completely absorb reflections of sound and electromagnetic waves. The research will advance wireless technologies in smartphones, cars, healthcare and much more.
Susan Tighe's research is focused on sustainable pavement, and designing infrastructure with a long, efficient life, reducing the need for later maintenance. Waterloo Engineering's laboratory facilities allow Susan and her research group to test their pavement designs under extreme conditions, something that they couldn't do anywhere else in Canada.


Creative Writing class recently read “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Tupac Shakur.
"Did you hear about the rose that grew
From a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s law is wrong it
Learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
It learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
When no one else ever cared."
As part of this cross-curricular assignment, students were asked to write their own poem and choose a flower as a metaphor for overcoming adversity.
Here is a sample of the finished product!


These two words are often used interchangeably, and there is some confusion about their exact meanings, probably because forcemeat, which is finely chopped and usually made of spiced meat or poultry, is often an ingredient in stuffings. Both are used to fill meat, poultry and vegetables and have been used for centuries, especially to make roast meat go farther and to add flavor and moistness.
The staple ingredients for stuffings are breadcrumbs, which add bulk, and egg, which binds the stuffing mixture together. This can be confusing for cooks because it is natural to think that breadcrumbs will make stuffings stodgy, and that the egg will make it creamy because it visibly loosens the mixture when added to it. But, in fact, a high proportion of breadcrumbs will give a soft and tender stuffing, while using too much egg makes a stuffing stodgy once it has been cooked and the egg has set.
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George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.
Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest aviator in the US Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.
He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives, among other positions. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be the vice presidential nominee, and the two were subsequently elected. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.


A form of stately and elaborate lyric poetry, an ode is usually marked by exaltation of its subject. In ancient Greece, where the ode originated, it was sung and accompanied by dance. These odes followed a rigid pattern of meter and structure and often were written to celebrate a special occasion, such as the Olympic Games. Modern odes usually do not follow the formal structures of ancient odes.
The Greek poet Alcman, of the 7th century bc, originated the strophic arrangement of the ode, which is a rhythmic system composed of two or more lines repeated as a unit. Another Greek poet, Stesichorus (7th–6th century bc), invented the triadic, or three-part, structure—strophic lines followed by antistrophic lines in the same meter, concluding with a summary line, called an epode, in a different meter. Odes that follow this pattern are known as Pindaric odes, after the 5th-century Greek poet Pindar. Choral odes were also an integral part of Greek drama.
During the 1st century bc the Roman lyric poet Horace popularized carmina (songs), written in stanzas of two or four lines of polished Greek meters. Poems that follow this structure are known as Horatian odes. Both Pindaric and Horatian ode forms were revived during the Renaissance and continue to influence lyric poetry.
English Romantic poets of the 19th century, such as William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote irregular odes in which stanza length and meter do not exactly conform to either the Pindaric or Horatian form. Examples include Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale (1820), Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind (1820), and Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807), an11-stanza poem with some Pindaric elements.
In pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, the ode flourished in the form of the qasidah. Two great collections date from the 8th and 9th centuries.


I'd like my preschooler to have better table manners. Where do I start?
Begin with the idea that mealtimes are pleasant and that good behavior makes them more fun for everyone. Talk with your preschooler about the importance of good manners, and encourage him to think of himself as a polite person. Set realistic expectations, then gently reinforce them until they become habit.
What can I teach him at this age?
Your child isn't ready for the finer points of well-mannered dining (such as which fork to use for the cake), but he's old enough to start learning and even perform the basics — depending, of course, on whether he's just turned 2 or is approaching kindergarten age.
Some behaviors to teach and encourage at this age:
- Hand washing before coming to the table
- No toys at the table
- No throwing or grabbing food
- No banging utensils
- No spitting food out
- No yelling or running around the room while others are eating
- Saying "please" and "thank you"
- Using utensils instead of fingers when appropriate
- Asking to be excused at the end of the meal (a nice touch is to teach him to thank the person who prepared the meal)
- Clearing dishes from the table to the sink or counter (if the path is clear and the dishes are replaceable)
Some older preschoolers (those who enjoy learning to act "grown up") can handle a few more details. Your child might like to know how to put his napkin in his lap and use it to wipe his mouth, to take small bites, and to chew with his mouth closed. He can learn not to slurp his beverage (by leaving some in the bottom of the glass), to wait until everyone is served before starting to eat, and to comment nicely on the foods he likes (but not on those that are "yucky"). Mealtime is a great opportunity for him to polish his communication skills, too, so be sure to include him in discussions.


I've found GRIN and PLANTS to be useful databases (those links both go to H. glabra). Both databases provide links to other databases, and in the case of GRIN, references to dead-tree publications.
By starting there and following links, I end up at efloras (another useful database that links out to yet more). Here, I see:
Roadsides, dry or rocky, sandy places; 0-1200 m
Both efloras and PLANTS have maps showing the US distribution, and both mention worldwide distribution. One link to a European database yields a page that says:
Distribution: Al Au Be Br Bu Co Cz Da Ge Gr He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu Po Rm Rs(B,C,W,K,E) ?Sa Si Su Tu [Fe No Rs(N)]
Most of Europe except the extreme north
Based on this information, you can at least make a guess about the climate and soil. Some of the primary sources cited in these databases may give you some of the community information you are looking for. You will probably need to go to a university library to find some of those publications.
Beware that garden plants may be so completely bred and domesticated that finding a "native community" doesn't make sense. You might instead have to look at wild ancestors of a given plant.
I just added a note to this question about scientific research on companion planting and it occurs to me that it may be relevant here as well. You may be able to glean information about native plant communities by researching permaculture "guilds", which are groups of plants assembled by permaculture practitioners that work well together. Guilds aren't necessarily copied from natural plant communities, but they are often inspired by plants that work well together in nature. This would be an alternate starting point on your paper chase, providing a different viewpoint on how things fit together.


The most direct ancestor of today's familiar noughts & crosses is a more advanced game called "nine holes". Unlike noughts & crosses, nine holes cannot be played as a pencil and paper game, but requires pieces that can be moved around. This makes it a true board game. The board is usually, literally, nine holes cut in three rows of three, each hole big enough to take a pebble or other small piece. The rules of the game are as follows:
1. Nine holes is played by two players on a board of 3 rows of 3 spaces. The board starts empty, and each player has in his hand 3 pieces of his own colour, black or white.
2. Black beginning, each player in his turn places a piece from his hand into an empty place. This continues until all pieces have been placed, or until one player has formed a horizontal or vertical row of three. A player forming such a row has won the game.
3. If all pieces have been placed without forming a row of three, then each player in turn (beginning with black again) takes one of his pieces from the board and places it in another empty space. As before, a player forming such a row wins the game.
4. Note that in this game, diagonal rows do not count for anything.
The game is clearly related to three men's morris, though the pattern is easier to mark out, and movement is more free in this game. The board has been found carved into the cloisters of many monastic churches, and its play was recorded as recently as 1699.


Personal Area Network:- The communication network established for the purpose of connecting computer devices of personal use is known as the personal area network PAN.When a network is established by connecting phone lines to personal digital devices or PDAs (personal digital assistants), this communication is known as PAN (Personal Area Network).
How does PAN works:- The basic purpose of establishing PAN (Personal Area Network) is provide a communication channel to the individuals, who want to carry their own digital devices .however at the same they want to stay in contact with the network. PAN (Personal Area Network) networks often cover an area of 30 feet. Personal computer devices may include palm tops mobile phones, potable media players, play stations and net books. These devices help a person to browse internet while traveling, to write notes and to send instant messages. These personal digital devices assist a person to develop networks and communicate via intranet, internet or even extranet. There are many wireless technologies which are helpful in developing wireless personal area network. Personal area networks (PAN) are developed either using cables or wireless technologies.Wireless PAN (Personal Area Network) is connected to the wired PAN (Personal Area Network) system either using firewire or USB.
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Despite all the data provided by researchers, it seems that a spacecraft mission to Europa would be necessary to determine whether the moon’s ocean can “sustain a flow of electrons which might provide the energy to power life”.
NASA scientists have managed to obtain more evidence that the frozen oceans of one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, may actually harbour life, Universe Today reports.
According to the media outlet, the new research was presented at the annual Goldschmidt Conference this year, and is primarily based on the data supplied by Galileo mission which reached Jupiter back in 1995.
In their work, which is yet to undergo a peer review, M. Melwani Daswani and S. D. Vance from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory postulate that Europe’s oceans formed endogenously, via “breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or radioactive decay”.
As Daswani explained, while originally “it was thought” that the ocean in question “could still be rather sulfuric”, their “simulations, coupled with data from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing chloride on Europa’s surface, suggests that the water most likely became chloride rich”.
However, Steve Mojzsis, Professor of Geology at the University of Colorado, who wasn’t involved in the research, pointed out that it remains to be seen whether an ocean like the one on Europa can “sustain a flow of electrons which might provide the energy to power life”, and as the media outlet notes, such question can only be answered by sending a spacecraft there.


Pharmacological Levels of Zinc in Nursery Diets – A Review
University of Nebraska 1995 Swine Day Report. Zinc plays significant roles in pig nutrition and health. A zinc deficiency is manifested by skin lesions known as parakeratosis; poor feed intake; slow growth; diarrhea; and atrophy of the thymus, a gland important in immunological competence. Zinc ions may interact with E. coli by inhibiting the ability of E. coli to respire and therefore reducing its activity. In addition, recent University of Nebraska research indicates that zinc ions cause the organism responsible for swine dysentery (S. hyodysenteriae) to produce less toxin. On the other hand, too much zinc in the feed will cause growth depression, arthritis, and ultimately death.


‘Adventures in the Cloud World’ – aimed at children aged 6 to 12 – follows Bella and Nini’s adventures to Cloud World as they seek to better understand the internet after their Wi-Fi turns off at home. In Cloud World, they meet JB, a programmable machine that processes information, who explains how data centers work and asks for their help in the server room to find loose connections.
The creativity of ‘Adventures in the Cloud World’ is a lovely way to speak to young children, about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and the endless possibilities. The book has been written to help young children better understand the world they live in by having a better grasp of the science behind technology, as well as highlighting how data centers are foundational to so much of the technology they interact with every day.
‘Adventures in the Cloud World’ is now available in six different languages and aims to build children’s curiosity around connectivity in a creative and accessible way. It demonstrates the importance of data centers and encourages children – especially young girls – to pursue STEM subjects in their education, potentially leading to careers in the associated industries. The release of the book coincides with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.


by Kate Messner, illustrated by Greg Ruth
Scholastic Press, 2017
The story is of a boy who rides with his Vietnam vet grandfather on the 30th Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, done on Memorial Day each year. The story captures the importance the ride is for the grandfather who rides to honor friends lost. Riding in on a motorcycle, they arrive at a campground and meet up with others. In the morning, a long motorcycle convoy arrives at The Wall, where names are touched and prayers are said. The story is written in perfect rhyme and emphasizes the importance of Memorial Day and honoring those who fought for our freedom. The illustrations tell many other stories, featuring other soldiers, family members at the wall as well as a star-lit sky signifying the vastness of the lives lost and honor earned. A fresh story about the importance of the holiday.


The cornerstone is laid for a presidential residence in the newly designated capital city of Washington. In 1800, President John Adams became the first president to reside in the executive mansion, which soon became known as the "White House" because its white-gray Virginia freestone contrasted strikingly with the red brick of nearby buildings. The city of Washington was created to replace Philadelphia as the nation's capital because of its geographical position in the center of the existing new republic. The states of Maryland and Virginia ceded land around the Potomac River to form the District of Columbia, and work began on Washington in 1791. French architect Charles L'Enfant designed the area's radical layout, full of dozens of circles, crisscross avenues, and plentiful parks. In 1792, work began on the neoclassical White House building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue under the guidance of Irish American architect James Hoban, whose design was influenced by Leinster House in Dublin and by a building sketch in James Gibbs' Book of Architecture. President George Washington chose the site.


ECON 375: Women and Work in USA History
Women and Work in USA History Crosslisted as HIST 375, WMNS 375
Transformation of women's role in the USA economy from colonial times to the present and the effects of class, race, and changing perceptions of women's role in society. Role of women in household manufacture, the early factory system, the trade union movement, the Great Depression, the home front of WWII, and the economic emergence of women in the postwar economy.
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3 Comments on Sheet 5Be careful working with infinite dimensional vector spaces:a lot of the results in the course only apply to finite dimensional vector spacesE.g. (3.2.3) – see proofE.g. (2.4.2) – the definition of a basis is given in terms ofan infinite independent set is an infinite set in which every finite subset is independent.which implies there is no finite maximal set, so no finite basis.
4 Warm-up Questions Q1: Q3 Find a basis for the column space of A. Find a basis for the row space of A.Find B, C such that A = BC.Q3
5 Overview of Sheet 6 Q2: similar to Q1 Q4: Q5: (i) consider , use result from Q3(iii) uses result from Q3 alsoQ5:(i) use standard matrix results, don’t try to write out the whole matrix.(ii) & (iii) start by doing the calculations, which should give you some idea where to go.


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In the late 1850s, Lady Clementina Hawarden began to take photographs.
Two British ladies are remembered for their early contributions to artistic photography.
Anna Atkins, a botanist, was also introduced to photography by Fox Talbot, who explained his "photogenic drawing" technique to her as well as his camera-based calotype process.
After learning about the cyanotype process from its inventor, John Herschel, she was able to produce cyanotype photograms of dried algae.
In the United States, women first photographed as amateurs, several producing fine work which they were able to exhibit at key exhibitions.
They not only produced portraits of celebrities and Native Americans but also took landscapes, especially from the beginning of the 20th century.
Women were however involved in photography from the start.


Warm weather brings bugs—and the pathogens they carry. West Nile virus (blue circles), transmitted by mosquitoes, has spread from only three U.S. states in 2000 to 48 states in 2012, and human cases have climbed from 21 to 5,674. Lyme disease was concentrated in the Northeast in 2000, but cases of the bacterial infection have also picked up across the country (orange). The total U.S. number has fallen from a peak of 29,959 in 2009, however, in part because people have gotten into the habit of checking themselves and their pets for ticks.
Those illnesses can cause fever and other serious symptoms. But another, more deadly mosquito-borne disease, dengue, has recently begun to rise in the U.S. (green). In 2013 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded three cases of the virus in Texas and 20 cases in Florida. Puerto Rico, which is not listed, is a hotspot: 8,148 people there tested positive last year.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE
For more on dengue fever in the U.S., see ScientificAmerican.com/may2014/graphic-science