Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools-at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected-this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms. The case is made through critical examination of the ongoing culture wars between the humanities and the sciences, recent research in cognitive literary studies demonstrating the power of narrative reading, and an analysis of educational trends that have marginalized literature teaching in the U.S., including standards-based and scripted curricula. The book is distinctive in presenting both a synthesis of arguments for literary study in the middle and high school and sample lesson plans from practicing teachers exemplifying how literature can positively influence adolescents' intellectual, emotional, and social selves.
Janet Alsup is Professor of English Education, Purdue University, USA.
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December milk production in UK hits 25-year high
The latest Defra figures put UK milk production at 1,234m litres for the month, the highest December for at least 25 years.
AHDB’s current estimates put GB production at 1,049m litres, which is the second highest production in the same period, only beaten by a record high in 1995.
The difference between the UK production setting a 25-year record but GB not quite following lies in Northern Ireland, where annual production has increased by around 60% in that time.
Milk production is likely to have been aided by relatively mild weather this December. With an average temperature of 5.8°C, it was the 9th warmest December on Met Office records (1910-2018).
The relative warmth was particularly evident in Wales and parts of the South, compared to the average December temperatures in those regions.
This mild weather continued into mid-January, allowing for some early grass growth.
There were a few reports of cows going out to graze and silage being cut.
Regional conditions will vary, but this could help to alleviate the tight forage situation that resulted from the summer drought. However, some regions are still concerned about the lack of rainfall this year, and whether this may have a knock-on impact on early spring grass growth. ■


Why are some diamonds yellow?
The first image that comes to mind when we think of diamonds is a stone that is white and sparkling. This should not be surprising; not only are these the most common type of diamond used in jewelry, this is also the sign of a chemically and structurally pure diamond. However, things are sometimes made even more beautiful by their flaws. The inclusion of other minerals such as nitrogen in the structure of the diamond can lead to diamonds that are green, blue, yellow, or red.
Famous fancy yellow diamonds
There have been several fancy yellow diamonds of great size, color, and cut. One of these is the 128.54 carat Tiffany Yellow Diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1878. Another fancy yellow diamond with an interesting past is the 43.51 carat Golden Eye Diamond. This diamond was believed to have been discovered in South Africa, but its origins are unclear. In 2007 the diamond was seized by the US government as a result of the money laundering charges brought against the diamond’s owner.
How do I pawn or sell my fancy yellow diamonds in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area?
We would recommend seeking expert advice when considering to sell or take loans on fancy yellow diamonds within the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area. Though ordinary white diamonds are graded on the basis of cut, color, carat and clarity, this is not the case with colored diamonds.
White diamonds are graded on their color on a scale from A-Z, with A being the whitest. Diamonds with a color more intense than Z are what are known as “fancy colored diamonds.” Whereas white diamonds are more valuable if they are closer to A, with fancy colored diamonds, the more intense the color, the better. The weight of the stone and the quality of the cut can make a difference in the value of the diamond. However, unlike with white diamonds, inconsistencies in the color of the diamonds or unusually colored inclusion in the stone can often be regarded as an asset.


Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s day. While the celebration may have originated on the Emerald Isle, the party has been embraced and thoroughly Americanized. Little is actually known about this person. What is accepted is that he was born a Roman citizen in Briton sometime in the 4th century. He was captured and taken to Ireland where he was enslaved as a shepherd for about 6 years. During this time he developed a strong spirituality. He wrote, “My spirit was moved so that in a single day I would say as many as a hundred prayers.” He reported that God told him that he would return to his homeland, which he eventually did. After that very little is known.
There is a story that says that many years later, he heard in a vision the voice of Ireland asking him to return to them. (The story is strangely reminiscent of the voice that Paul heard asking him to come to Macedonia, (Acts 16:9.)) As the story goes, Patrick did return to Ireland. Upon his return he was met with resistance from the Druids. His new faith in God was apparently seen as a frontal assault on their religious hegemony in Ireland. That is the background for what has become known as Patrick’s Lorica, or Breastplate. One source explains:
“Saint Patrick and his companion missionaries were to travel to the court of King Laoghhaire. Along the way, waiting in ambush, were druid or druid henchmen who intended to attack and kill Saint Patrick and all his followers.
As Patrick and his companions walked, they chanted the Lorica. When they passed the would-be attackers, they appeared as a doe and twenty fawns.”
Whether you believe that this actually took place isn‘t important. What is important is that this humble man dedicated his life to his God first, then to his enemy. He trusted in Yahweh as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I blogged awhile ago on the lorica. Here is a link to that post.


On the occasion of the World Book and Copyright Day
23 April 2001
Through the observance of World Book and Copyright Day, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) promotes reading and publishing, as well as the need to protect intellectual property through copyright. The Day also commemorates the work of three great writers: Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, all of whom passed away on this date, 23 April, in 1616.
Books have always been the most universal way of transmitting and preserving knowledge. But because of the frequently high cost of printing and publishing, books are not always accessible to all readers. Today's electronic revolution has not yet replaced the need for well-supplied public libraries and other similar sources to enable readers and students to access needed material.
Whether writing science or fiction, a writer's work is an expression of his or her creative abilities as well as his/her knowledge. Copyright is recognition that the work of a writer is unique and valuable to all. And this Day provides an occasion to acknowledge that both intellectual and artistic property has the right to be protected.
It is also a way to help foster through books the expression of our cultural and intellectual diversity, thus ensuring that our reading experience continues to be rewarding.


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geosynchronous orbit(jee-oh-sink -rŏ-nŭs) An Earth orbit made by an artificial satellite (moving west to east) that has a period of 24 hours, equal to the Earth's period of rotation on its axis. If the orbit is inclined to the equatorial plane the satellite will appear from Earth to trace out a figure-of-eight, once per day, between latitudes corresponding to the angle of orbital inclination to the equator. If the 24-hour orbit lies in the equatorial plane, and is circular, the satellite will appear from Earth to be almost stationary; the orbit and orbiting body are then termed geostationary. A geostationary orbit has an altitude of 36 000 km.
A geosynchronous or geostationary orbit is very difficult to achieve, requiring a very high orbital velocity. Satellites in such orbits are used for communications and navigation and also for certain types of Earth observations. Most communications satellites are now geostationary, with groups of three or more, spaced around the orbit, giving global coverage.


When someone is badly injured and left in a coma, there’s very little that their loved ones can do. They worry, they wait and they wonder if their family member or friend will ever wake up again. Up until recently, doctors couldn’t do much better.
It isn’t easy to tell the difference between a patient who is in a vegetative state and one who is minimally conscious, but the patient with minimal consciousness has a chance of recovery. Knowing the difference not only helps doctors decide on treatment plans, but it can also help family members make decisions about life support and other medical care with less doubt and heartache.
Doctors who hazard a guess about a patient’s condition end up being wrong about 40% of the time, which isn’t particularly comforting to anyone.
Recently doctors and families have gained a new tool that can help, and it’s surprisingly simple. According to researchers , a simple “sniff test” that exposes the comatose patient to strong smells and measures their breathing in response can accurately show that patient’s likelihood of regaining consciousness. The study indicated that 100% of the patients who reacted to scent improved, and 91% of those patients were still alive three years later. By comparison, 63% of those who failed the sniff test had died by the three-year mark.
If your loved one suffered a catastrophic injury that included brain damage, no amount of money can ever make things right again. Compensation can, however, help you provide for your loved one’s medical care and other needs and help stabilize your family financially.


My dog loves running in the yard, but I worry in the summer. What signs should I look for that he may be getting overheated, and what should I do if he exhibits them?
Early signs of heat stroke include panting, bright pink gums, strong pulses, vomiting, diarrhea or depression. Playing outside in the summer, even in the shade and with access to water, puts dogs at risk for developing heat stroke. Owners must regulate their pups' exposure to heat in the spring (before they have acclimated to the higher temperatures) and summer. Limit the duration of active playing and play at cooler times of the day, such as early morning and evening. When you are done, give your pet access to fresh water, a fan and a cool surface to lie on (such as a tile floor).
If you suspect your dog has overheated, remove your pet from the heat and take a rectal temperature. Call your veterinarian if it is above 103.5 degrees or the pet is showing signs of heat stroke. To help cool your pet on the way to the emergency room, saturate his or her fur with room temperature, not cold, water and point a fan in your pet's direction. As heat stroke progresses, respiratory distress, small red spots or bruises may appear on the skin, gums may take on a pale color, bloody diarrhea or bloody vomit may develop, collapses, seizures and comas may develop, and the body temperature may drop below normal, often preceding death.
Never leave your pet in a car, even with the windows open! Dogs and cats do not have sweat glands and can cool themselves only by panting and through the pads of their feet. Also keep in mind that most breeds also have a fur coat (some very thick) and that breeds with short noses (bulldogs, for example) have a harder time cooling themselves.
This week's expert is Dr. Tanya Tag, chief of staff at the PET+E.R.. Submit your questions to email@example.com.


Bullying within Early Learning Classroom: Why it Happens and How to Manage It, with Carolyn Hadcock
Bullying is a serious societal concern. Early Childhood Educators need to be proactive in their approach when they encounter a child who has been bullied, as well as assisting the child who is the bully. During this webinar you will examine why bullying happens, the characteristics of the child who is a bully, and the reasons why certain children are the targets of the bullies. You will also explore many different, interesting action plans to manage and prevent bullying. Join me in discovering how you can be the catalyst for changing behaviours that can encourage children to act cooperatively.
Date: May 30 2023; 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Location: via Webinar
Cost: $25 - 55
Please register via the ECCDC Events Calendar.


Easy English w/ games and activities 2
5 revision Activity Books to review and consolidate grammar and
vocabulary learned over the Primary School year.
• Topic-based, fun activities involving listening, doing, creating.
• Topics common to most Primary School course materials.
• Carefully graded progression over the five volumes.
• Suitable for classroom as well as self-study use.
• Pupil’s Audio CD with each volume.
• Removable insert of audio transcripts and answer keys.


An aquatic invasive species (AIS) can either live in freshwater or marine environments. The majority of the species of concern to Manitoba, such as Zebra and Quagga mussels, Spiny Waterflea, Rusty Crayfish and Asian Carp are freshwater species. Manitoba currently has 15 aquatic invasive species.
Zebra Mussels in Manitoba
Zebra Mussels were confirmed in Lake Winnipeg in the fall of 2013 and the Red River and Cedar Lake 2015.
Zebra Mussels are small (1 – 3 cm), clam-like aquatic animals that are a significant environmental and economic concern to Manitoba. Adult Zebra Mussels have a shell and can strongly attach to water-based conveyances such as watercraft, trailers, water-based aircraft, ORVs and other water-related equipment. They can survive out of water for 7 to 30 days depending on temperature and humidity.
Once Zebra Mussels become established they cannot be eradicated, so it is extremely important to stop their spread.
Whiteshell Cottagers should ensure that they are taking measures to protect the lakes in provincial parks.
To Stop the Spread of Zebra Mussels
CLEAN + DRAIN + DRY your watercraft, trailer and all water-related equipment and DISPOSE of any unwanted bait in the trash.
Read more on the Conservation and Water Stewardship Website @ http://www.gov.mb.ca/waterstewardship/stopais/index.html


New information is available for those who rely on technology. You may want to be careful the next time you share a USB drive and put it into your computer.
Not even the savviest techs can crack this issue.
They're calling it the "largest technology vulnerability released since Y2K."
Milman said many people are so quick to pop the USB drive into just about any computer. But, by doing that, you're actually exposing it to numerous viruses.
And the problem is, they don't know how to fix it.
While this little USB drive can hold a lot of memory, it also could be causing some damage to your computer. That's why tech experts are saying to keep it only for personal use.
Sharing a USB drive is probably one of the worst things you can do, according to Milman, because you're passing the virus around, causing a ripple effect.
"When you plug them in, they can be an imposter for a keyboard," he said. "So, when you go and plug this into your computer -- possibly without you even knowing it -- that will download bad software from your computer."
It can also record all of your keystrokes - a true scare factor. When you log into your bank, it can get your bank information. When you log into Facebook, it can get your Facebook information. When you log into Outlook, it can download your contacts.
That's why Milman said it's key to not pass around the problem. Because all sharing it will do is cause an outbreak in the world of technology.


A new research paper finds that attractive young adults enjoy a pay advantage over their less attractive peers, and that advantage starts building as early as high school.
"There may be this kind of snowballing effect across time," said Rachel Gordon, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and one of the study's co-authors.
The researchers found that, starting as early as high school, more attractive people were rated as more intelligent and more promising. They also got higher grades and were more likely to graduate from college than their peers.
Gordon said those early successes and confidence boosters may create a self-fulfilling prophecy in which the attractive high school students end up being more successful in adulthood.
That boost can have long-term consequences on how much money you earn. Past research has shown that that both women and men enjoy a wage bonus for having above-average looks, and can suffer a wage penalty if they have below-average looks. That's along with other economic advantages prettier people enjoy.
Gordon said the new research shows that the origins of that advantage may start well before adulthood. That could raise awareness about what high school teachers and administrators can do to mitigate the effects of what they dub "lookism," and help less attractive students feel more included and confident.
Image: Attractive girl, via Shutterstock


On this day in 1888, the famous Van Gogh cut off part of his left ear. On his self-portraits, it appears that he is missing part of his right ear, because these were actually made with the help of a mirror.
On this day Vincent Van Gogh cut off a part of his left ear. At that time, he was living in the so-called Yellow House in the city of Arles in southern France. Another famous painter, Paul Gaugin, came to visit him. The two of them worked and lived together in the Yellow House, where Gaugin painted a portrait of Van Gogh called “The Painter of Sunflowers”. On Christmas Eve 1888, Van Gogh’s mental health rapidly deteriorated, so that he threw a glass of absinthe into Gaugin’s face and attacked him with a razor. Gaugin managed to fend him off, but Van Gogh then cut off the lower part of his own left ear and took it to his favorite prostitute, Rachel, asking her to keep it safe.
There are some theories that Vincent cut off his ear in imitation of the Spanish matadors’ tradition to give a part of the killed bull’s ear to their chosen one. More recent theories even claim that it was Gaugin who cut off Van Gogh’s ear, using a sword (he was a skilled fencer). On his self-portraits, it appears that Van Gogh is missing part of his right ear, because these were actually made with the help of a mirror.


Welcome to our "Being safe online" page!
In these challenging times, young people are connecting online even more than usual. That can be great, however it can also present new challenges. To develop safe online habits and enjoy a positive online experience, we encourage you to take the Be Safe Online course. Also, remember that online meetings (chat or video) among Scouts should always be organised by a Scout leader and with the supervision of a parent or guardian.
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Follow the 5 steps from the S.M.A.R.T model to stay safe online at all times!
Become a champion of online safety thanks to the following online trainings. You will be able to learn more about Online Safety and how to become proactive towards a safer world online
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Reporting Content on Social Media
You can help make social media a safer space for everyone! If you see content that is inappropriate, do you part by reporting it. This can include violent, sexual, discriminatory, threatening or abusive posts, comments or messages. Click here to learn how you can report content and/or block people on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Snapchat.


A Berlin museum, which has yielded up what may be a "lost Gospel" of the teachings of Jesus Christ, said on Thursday it could be holding other theological treasures without knowing it.
"We have literally millions of fragments that we are just sitting on," said William Brashear, director of what is reputed to be the world's largest collection of papyrus documents, housed at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.
"We have an open-door policy for researchers and we invite anyone to look at documents they think might interest them. . . . We are often blind to what we have until a researcher comes along and tells us."
The known Gospels, forming the first four books of the New Testament, are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas who happened upon the manuscript at the museum, said this week he was confident the text was an authentic early account of conversations between Christ and his disciples.
If Mirecki is right, the rare finding could shed light on the origins of Christianity. The document has been translated by Mirecki and Charles Hedrick, a religious studies professor at Southwest Missouri State University in the United States.


China has successfully launched the Chang'e-3 probe slated to put a lander and rover on the moon. The pair are equipped with seven scientific instruments for observing outer space and gathering data about the lunar surface. The launch took place today at 5:30PM UTC using a Long March 3B rocket at the LC2 Launch Complex at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China.
The Long March 3B is China's most powerful space launch rocket, named for the 1998 announcement of the nation's "Long March to the Moon". Chang'e-3 is part of China's official 2004-initiated Project Chang'e, which was named after a goddess who flew to the moon. Before today, Project Chang'e has concluded two successful lunar orbital launches: one in 2010, the other in 2007. Today marks the first time it has embarked on a mission to land a rover on the surface.
The Chang'e-3 lander is equipped with a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), the standard non-solar, Plutonium-238-fueled (nuclear) power supply choice for space exploration.
The rover -- named "Yutu" or "Jade Rabbit" -- is solar-powered. Yutu will travel on six independently-powered wheels using a suspension system similar to NASA's MER rovers and Curiosity, according to NASA Spaceflight. It will explore a 3-square-kilometer area around the lander in the Sinus Iridum ("Bay of Rainbows") crater.
The mission will put an ultraviolet telescope on the moon to observe galaxies and other space objects. The rover will deliver images and video to Earth in real time. It will dig into the soil and take samples. It also carries a radar unit, alpha particle X-ray spectrometer and infrared spectrometer to examine the lunar soil below the surface to a depth of 30 meters.
Landing is expected to occur Dec. 14.
SOURCE: NASA Spaceflight


|Intel LaGrande Technology Explained|
LaGrande Technology provide the following features:
- Protected Execution: Software can be run in an isolated mode were no other software can have access to its code and data. This technique is also known as Domain Separation.
- Sealed Storage: Data is stored encrypted and can only be decrypted by the same environment that stored it.
- Protected Input: Protects input devices (mouse and keyboard) from being sniffed or have their data changed by malicious software. LaGrande Technology does this by encrypting the commands sent through keyboard and mouse, so only software that has the correct encryption key can have access to these commands.
- Protected Graphics: Creates a secure path between applications running under protected execution to the video memory located on the video card, so no other software can see or change what is being written on the display.
- Attestation: A hardware-base attestation that LaGrande Technology protected environment is in place. This is provided by a module called TPM (Trusted Platform Module). Among other things, TPM provides a Random Number Generator (RNG) and also stores the encryption keys used by LaGrande Technology.
- Protected Launch: Controls the launch of the operating system in a protected execution environment.
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Figure 2: A PC with LaGrande Technology.
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Figure 3: How LaGrande Technology solves PC vulnerabilities.
Let’s now talk a little bit more about some of these features.
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Epilepsy is an ongoing liability to seizures.
Seizures are caused by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain. About 1 in 100 people have a seizure at some point in their life, sometimes triggered by a fever or head injury, but only about 1 in 200 go on to have further seizures and it is only when a person has had more than one seizure that a diagnosis of epilepsy is made.
Seizures can be generalised or partial seizures depending on whether the abnormal electrical discharge affect the whole of the brain or just one part of the brain. Some patients may experience a warning or 'aura' before a partial seizure such as an abnormal smell or taste.
During a generalised seizure a person will be unconscious and may become rigid, convulse, bite their tongue and be incontinent of urine. During a partial seizure people may stare blankly ahead or may fidget with their hands or smack their lips.
At Circle, we can diagnose epilepsy and assist you to manage the seizures. It is first important to find out if there is a cause for the seizures. This may involve a brain scan (MRI) and an electroencephalogram (EEG).
Treatment is usually recommended when there have been two or more seizures without any obvious triggering factors such as a fever. Treatment is usually anti-convulsant medication taken as tablets, there are many different drugs available and the doctor will discuss with the patient which one may suit you best. Sometimes two or more drugs will be necessary to gain full control of the seizures.
Rarely, if the brain scan has shown a definite abnormality, surgery can be used to remove the cause of the epilepsy. Good treatment is important because seizures can be dangerous. A person with epilepsy cannot legally drive until they have been seizure free for 12 months.


Since the introduction in the 1970s of green lettering on white background text signs indicating EXIT, Emergency Exit and similar directions, exit sign legends in the UK have changed format several times to make them more easily understandable by anyone, including non-English speakers.
The substitution of words by pictograms, the reversal of colours with white characters on a green background also serve to make the signs more easily recognisable from a greater viewing distance.
The original text only signs were superseded in 1990 with the introduction of UK standard BS 5499. This incorporated pictograms and text in a format which is still acceptable today as it meets the requirements of the 1995 European Signs Directive.
This Directive included a legend format without text, which was introduced into the UK in 1995 as the standard legend style to be supplied with new emergency lighting products.
From 2012 new BS ISO 7010 format pictogram signs will become legally acceptable and it is expected to become the preferred format to meet the requirements of the Signs Directive.
Certain organisations employ additional explanatory symbols or text in their signs. Such an example includes UK hospitals which generally require the use of signs in the Hospital Technical Memorandum (HTM) format.


- Imitation Leather: 1080 pages
- Publisher: The Bible Society of the South Pacific (2011)
- Language: Niuean
- ISBN-10: 9822176368
- ISBN-13: 978-9822176360 / 9789822176360
The Old and New Testaments in Niue / Niuean (Niuean: ko e vagahau Niu) is a Polynesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian languages. It is most closely related to Tongan and slightly more distantly to other Polynesian languages such as Mori, Smoan, and Hawaiian. Together, Tongan and Niuean form the Tongic subgroup of the Polynesian languages. Niuean also has a number of influences from Samoan and Eastern Polynesian languages. // Niuean was spoken by 1600 people on Niue Island (97.4% of the inhabitants) in 1991, as well as by speakers in the Cook Islands, New Zealand, and Tonga, for a total of around 8,000 speakers. There are thus more speakers of Niuean outside the island itself than on the island. Most inhabitants of Niue are bilingual in English. In the early 1990s 70% of the speakers of Niuean lived in New Zealand. // Niue is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,400 kilometres northeast of New Zealand within the triangle formed by Tonga to the west, Samoa to the north, and the Cook Islands to the east.


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An agate is a unit of typographical measure. It is approximately 5 1/2 points (1/14 inch or 1.814 mm). It can refer to either the height of a line of type, or to a font that is 5.5 points. An Agate font is commonly used to display statistical data or legal notices in newspapers. It is considered to be the smallest point size that can be printed on newsprint and remain legible.
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- adj. Occurring or situated within the uterus.
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- adj. Within the uterus or womb.
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- Lying, existing, or occurring within the uterus.
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- adj. within the womb
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A handover is a process in telecommunications and mobile communications in which a connected cellular call or a data session is transferred from one cell site (base station) to another without disconnecting the session. Cellular services are based on mobility and handover, allowing the user to be moved from one cell site range to another or to be switched to the nearest cell site for better performance.
Handovers are a core element in planning and deploying cellular networks. It allows users to create data sessions or connect phone calls on the move. This process keeps the calls and data sessions connected even if a user moves from one cell site to another.
There are two types of handovers:


A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South
44 Pages Posted: 27 Aug 2011
Date Written: August 25, 2011
According to the culture of honor hypothesis, the high prevalence of homicides in the US South originates from the settlement of the region by herders from the fringes of Britain. This paper confirms that Scot or Scots-Irish settlements are associated with higher homicide today, but only in the South. The effect is confined to white offenders and more pronounced where herding was more prevalent and institutional quality lower. Results indicate that other white settlers adopted the Scots-Irish culture. The interpretation is that the culture of honor persisted in the South as an adaptive behavior to economic vulnerability and weak institutions. Evidence also suggests that the Scots-Irish culture of honor continues to adapt: it is slowly depreciating over time. A positive effect of the culture of honor is to deter violent crime against women.
Keywords: Cultural Persistence, Homicide, Institutions, Migration, Scots-Irish, US South
JEL Classification: K42, N31, O15, Z13
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation


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Land cover in the area of PT Sawit Sukses Sejahtera before being converted into oil palm plantations around the year 2009 is generally open areas, shrub and degraded forest. Changes in land cover has been started since 1982 are due to the large fire in 1997 and then repeated the forest ecosystem degradation continued after the reform due to illegal logging and encroachment. Results of field observations indicate that the level of a wild life species richness is relatively low to very low and generally concentrate in areas with relatively good cover. These are as are generally secondary forest or plantation and the land is still owned by the general public. The concession area is an area containing wild life species richness is relatively low when compared to natural forest ecosystems. Then this area is also a habitat for the types of wild life that has been able to adapt to the conditions of this degraded. This region is habitat for 59 species of birds comprising 35 species belonging to 23 families, 16 species of mammals belonging to13 families and 8 species of reptiles belonging to 5 families. Then based on the results of data analysis with rare wild life/protected among the 59 species there that fall into the kind of rare/protected and included three local endangered due to habitat fragmentation and poaching.
Keywords: Ecosystem, Fragmentation, Land cover, Landscape and Species richness of wildlife.
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Analysis of the ground vibration generated by debris flows and other torrential processes at the Rebaixader monitoring site (Central Pyrenees, Spain)
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Monitoring of debris flows using ground vibration sensors has increased in the last two decades. However, the correct interpretation of the signals still presents ambiguity. In the Rebaixader monitoring site (Central Pyrenees, Spain) two different ground vibration stations are installed. At the first station the ground velocity signal is transformed into an impulses-per-second signal (low frequency, 1 Hz). The analysis of the data recorded at this station show that the shape of the impulses signal is one of the key parameters to describe the evolution of the event. At the second station the ground velocity signal is directly recorded at high frequency (250 Hz). The results achieved at this station show that the differences in time series and spectral analysis are helpful to describe the temporal evolution of the events. In addition, some general outcomes were obtained: the attenuation of the signal with the distance has been identified as linear to exponential; and the assembly of the geophones to the terrain has an important effect on the amplification of the signal. All these results highlight that the definition of ground vibration thresholds for debris-flow detection or warning purposes is a difficult task; and that influence of site-specific conditions is notable.
CitationAbanco, C.; Hurlimann, M.; Moya, J. Analysis of the ground vibration generated by debris flows and other torrential processes at the Rebaixader monitoring site (Central Pyrenees, Spain). "Natural hazards and earth system sciences", 01 Gener 2014, vol. 14, núm. 4, p. 929-943.


WHAT IS MUN?
Model United Nations (also Model UN or MUN) is a conference similar to the United Nations in which students participate as delegates to various UN Committees. Participants research and formulate political positions based on the actual policies of the countries they represent.The committees usually consist of the six committees of the General Assembly (or some subset of them), but may also include the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Economic and Financial Committee. The participants range from middle school students to graduate school students. Model United Nations involves researching, public, teamwork, and leadership skills.As of 2012, there are about 400 MUN conferences worldwide.
Every year, Toros Science High School students attend MUN conferences with the assistance of responsible teachers and they have the chance to have motivational experiences by pretending being a world leader solving the world’s most important problems.
This term our scheduled MUN attendance programme consists ,
BHMUN 2016 ( Bilkent High School)
MUNDP 2017 ( Koç University )


： (Millennium History, Kiln, Cizhou Porcelain)
The Cizhou kiln is a famous folk kiln in northern China, and it was named after Cizhou, a prefecture now called Ci County, Handan in southern Hebei. The Cizhou kiln has a long history. It started in the late Northern Dynasties with the appearance of celadon kilns, and subsequently, the folk kilns in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, Cizhou kilns began to produce a wide range of decorative porcelains, using different techniques. The porcelain industry reached its peak in the Jin Dynasty, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it used the method of contradiction with black and white, which was so popular at that time that many kilns in the country imitated its style. The Ming and Qing Dynasties continued to use this technique, but in the late Qing Dynasty, the Cizhou kiln introduced the blue and white colored decorative technique, and began to produce numerous porcelains with many glaze colors: white, black, yellow, brown, and green as well as a blended glaze. The culture of the Cizhou kiln has lasted for a thousand years, and still exists. In Handan, there are still a number of master craftsmen that inherited the ancient Cizhou craft and are trying to make it flourish. Their works not only perpetuate the traditional charm of the Cizhou kiln, but also incorporate modern elements, and are therefore precious art treasures with high artistic value.
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"We Shall Have to Make the Best of It:" The Conversion of Dennis Sciama
The cosmologist Dennis W. Sciama (1926-1999) was a long-standing advocate of the steady state model of the universe. This theory, originally proposed in 1948 by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle, suggested that the universe was eternal, and unchanging on the largest scales. Contrary to the popular image of a scientist as a dispassionate, unbiased investigator of nature, Sciama fervently hoped the steady state model to be correct. In addition, and also pace the stereotypical image of a scientist, Sciama was motivated significantly by extrascientific or aesthetic factors in his adoption of the model. Finally, Sciama, in a stark contrast to the naïve falsificationism usually presented as a virtue of the scientific method, went through a several-year period of attempting to save the model from hostile data.
However, Sciama abandoned the model in 1966 due to increasingly reliable data relating to the distribution of quasars. Thus the Sciama case also stands as a counterexample to irrationalist criticisms of science, according to which scientists can and will always find ways to hold on to their pet theories until they die, regardless of contradictory data. Sciamas conversion also sheds light on the iterative process that goes on as scientists localize and attempt to repair faults in their theories.
Advisor:Richard Burian; Richard F. Hirsh; Steven C. Weiss; Barbara J. Reeves; Joseph C. Pitt
School:Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
School Location:USA - Virginia
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:science and technology studies
Date of Publication:10/14/2005


Daedalus, Vol. 138, No. 4, pp. 45
Paul L. Joskow and John E. Parsons, Daedalus, Vol. 138, No. 4, pp. 45-59, 2009
In the last several years we have seen what appears to be revived global interest in continuing operation of existing nuclear power plants and constructing a new generation of plants. A recent International Atomic Energy Agency report indicates that 24 countries with nuclear power plants are considering policies either to accommodate or encourage investments in new nuclear power plants, and that 20 countries without nuclear power today are considering supporting the use of nuclear power to meet future electricity needs. It projects as much as a 100 percent increase in nuclear generating capacity by 2030. This renewed interest appears to reflect a variety of considerations, including a shift toward sources of electricity that do not produce CO2; the search for lower-cost sources of electricity, stimulated by dramatic increases in fossil fuel prices prior to the current global economic contraction; and (often poorly defined) energy security concerns associated with fossil fuels, especially natural gas. The potential revival of nuclear power faces a number of risks and challenges that make the anticipated "renaissance" of nuclear power in the United States and other countries quite uncertain. The economics of maintaining the existing fleet of nuclear power plants, investment in new nuclear power plants, and the economic impacts of constraints on CO2 emissions, not to mention considerations of safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and spent-fuel reprocessing: all impact the feasibility of a nuclear power renaissance.


Luther’s Works: The American Edition, published by Concordia and Fortress Press between 1955 and 1986, comprises fifty-five volumes. These are a selection representing only about a third of Luther’s works in the Latin and German of the standard Weimar Edition, not including the German Bible.
To achieve an adequate understanding of Luther’s supreme importance in the field of theology, examining his biographies is not enough; the student of Luther must delve into his writings to observe this human being as a scholar, as a teacher, as a mighty and intrepid writer, as a humble Christian, and as a theologian who never toadies or cringes.
The Lectures on Genesis, which were delivered in Latin, reveal an amazing familiarity with what may be called the genius of the language. Just as Luther was a master of his native German, so he acquired an all-embracing command of Latin. The editors of this series successfully permit the clarity, force, and pungency of Luther’s language to radiate just as it does in Latin.
Among the topics covered in this volume (Genesis 38—44) are: Judah and Tamar, whom many interpreters of Scripture neglect; Joseph, whom Potiphar had brought from the Ishmaelites and had brought down to Egypt, his interaction with Potiphar’s wife, his imprisonment, and the interpretation of his dreams; and the provisions against the famine that had been foretold.


There are so many ways to demonstrate good citizenship. We are all a part of many communities starting with our family, schools, community and the world. Guiding ourselves and our children to be inspired to help others and make the world a better place is a worthy goal.
Citizenship means: I take care of where I live, work and play!
Citizenship means being a caring, helpful and responsible member of one’s community.
There will be more discussions on this site of this word to help everyone discuss it with their own children and to look at it more deeply with themselves in the coming month. Check back with us or you may join our community for even more information.


The Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor provides the longest running continuous dataset of moderate spatial resolution remote sensing imagery, dating back to its launch in March 1984. Historically, the radiometric calibration procedure for this imagery used the instrument's response to the Internal Calibrator (IC) on a scene-by-scene basis to determine the gain and offset of each detector. Due to observed degradations in the IC, a new procedure was implemented for U.S.-processed data in May 2003. This new calibration procedure is based on a lifetime radiometric calibration model for the instrument's reflective bands (1-5 and 7) and is derived, in part, from the IC response without the related degradation effects and is tied to the cross calibration with the Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus. Reflective-band absolute radiometric accuracy of the instrument tends to be on the order of 7% to 10%, based on a variety of calibration methods.


When you think of big urban parks, which ones typically come to mind? NYC's Central Park? Vancouver's Stanley Park? Well Mexico City's El Parque Ecologico Lago de Texcoco (Texcoco Lake Ecological Park) makes these classic examples of urban naturalization look like scant patches of grass.
The enormous environmental engineering project, recently unveiled by Mexican architect Iñaki Echeverria, will eventually occupy a region of the Mexico City valley originally covered by Lake Texcoco, and will take up an area of more than 35,000 acres. As a point of reference, Central and Golden Gate Parks cover areas of 843 and 1017 acres, respectively.
Echeverria's plan is loaded with environmentally-conscious design elements including lake, wetland, meadow, and forest habitats; renewable energy installations; community gardens; and wastewater treatment facilities.


San Antonio resident & Holocaust survivor Anna Rado, continues to share her story to local students 2 or 3 times a week.
It will feature speakers, live music and performances to honour the day 68 years before when the camp in Poland was liberated by allied troops. The Lord Mayor will light a candle to commemorate all those who have been affected by the Holocaust and also more recent genocides .
There will also be a candle-lit commemoration of the 1190 massacre at Clifford's Tower in York on the same day. A guest choir from Moriah Jewish Day School in London will perform at the commemoration joined by pupils of Burnholme Community College.
It is in memory of the darkest chapter in the history of York’s Jewish community. On March 16th 1190 a wave of anti-Semitic riots culminated in the massacre of an estimated 150 Jews – the entire Jewish community of York – who had taken refuge in the royal castle where Clifford’s Tower now stands.


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The normal function of the gallbladder is to store bile produced by the liver and to aid in the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum (the first portion of the small intestine).
Gallstones compose a solid formation of cholesterol and bile salts.
However, it should be noted that not all patients will recover almost instantaneously as my daughter did--the typical patient may need up to a week to recover before returning to normal activities.
Alternative treatments for gallstones include: Each of these alternative treatments leave the gallbladder in place.
When I was diagnosed with gallstones at 26, I was told that the typical gallstone patient was fair, fat, and forty.However, research shows that approximately 80 to 90 percent of all gallstones are cholesterol gallstones which form when the liver begins secreting bile that is abnormally saturated with cholesterol.The excess cholesterol crystallizes and then forms stones which are stored in the gallbladder or the cystic duct.Coffee drinking has been associated with a decreased risk of symptomatic gallstones, according to research conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the June 9, 1999, issue of the .The study found that men (over 46,000 men were studied) who drank two or three cups of coffee a day had a 40 percent lower risk of developing gallstones, while men who drank 4 or more cups of coffee a day decreased their risk by 45 percent.


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Take That, BofA!
Today begins a long weekend of actions nationwide against corporations that do not pay their fair share in taxes. In San Mateo, California, protesters brought their beef to the front door of Bank of America. Ironically, the San Mateo branch is named in honor of a man who did good deeds. In 1904, A. P. Giannini, a resident of San Mateo, founded the Bank of Italy. It was a bank for the working man rather than the wealthy, proudly offering saving accounts and loans to immigrants that other banks refused to do business with. His business grew, and the Bank of Italy became the Bank of America with branch offices all over California and across the country.
The downtown San Mateo Bank of America branch is called the A.P. Giannini branch in his honor. Today protesters demanding that B of A pay its fair share of taxes asked, "What would A.P. Giannini think of his bank today?"
Demonstrators stood in front of the bank on El Camino and lined 3rd Ave and across the street. Due to construction on El Camino, they had a captive audience...cars were stalled in traffic in front of the line of protesters for minutes at a time, affording the demonstrators the opportunity to hand out fliers.
"Billionaires for Big Banks" (also known as Billionaires for Wealthcare) posed in front of the bank's tiled mural. The mural says "Bank of the Little Fellow", and indeed the original Bank of Italy that became Bank of America was known as such. In 1904, A. P. Giannini, a resident of San Mateo, founded his bank as a financial institution for the working man rather than the wealthy. He proudly offered saving accounts and loans to immigrants that other banks refused to do business with.
Participating in today's action were members of the Raging Grannies, San Mateo Peace Action, the Coffee Party, and Common Cause. The protest was spearheaded by Take Back Democracy of San Mateo. Nearly 50 people turned out for this Day-Before-Tax-Day event.


Migration of Thomas Hooper (ca. 1734-1816), in 1784
Thomas Hooper, Loyalist, emigrated from New Jersey in 1784, settling in Bedeque, Prince County, Prince Edward Island.
Migration of Marcus Palmer, Loyalist (1767-1822), in 1783
Loyalists William Lawrence and Mary Palmer with her son Marcus emigrated from New York in 1783. They landed with the Spring Fleet at Saint John, settling further up the St. John River in what became Central Hampstead.
Migration of Richard Robins (?-1784), in 1783
Richard Robins, Loyalist, emigrated as a widower, in 1783. The following year he sent for his son, John, and daughter, Isabel.
Migration of Jacomiah Seaman Sr. (?-c1808), in 1783
Jacomiah Seaman and Margaret Bodee emigrated from Dutchess County, New York, with the Loyalists in June 1783, probably landing at Amherst, Nova Scotia (alternatively at Halifax). They settled in Fanningsborough, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
Migration of Capt. Ebenezer Slocum, Loyalist (1750-1827), in 1783
Loyalists Capt. Ebenezer Slocum and Esther Corey emigrated from Rhode Island in May 1783, on the ship Union. They landed with the Spring Fleet at Saint John, settling further up the St. John River in what became Central Hampstead.


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a champion of Civil Rights. He marched and spoke in cities all across America, fighting to get African Americans equal treatment under the law. Dr. King is an American hero, and an icon that we can all be proud of. And while we should remember Dr. King first and foremost as a fighter for racial equality, we should also remember that he had powerful feelings about the positive impact of organized labor in America. Dr. King strongly believed in the value of unions. He was a great ally for hard-working men and women everywhere.


Plastic Bags Garbage or Special Recycling Drop-Off Soft plastics, known as film plastics, should be placed in your garbage can, or can be brought to a film plastic recycling drop-off location. Find your closest drop-off location. Retailers in California are prohibited from using single-use plastic checkout bags in their stores. WIth this ban, California communities are protecting local streams, rivers and lakes from plastic bag litter. Paper bags are available instead of plastic ones, and customers will be charged 10¢ per paper checkout bag. Customers are encouraged to bring along reusable bags. Learn more about the ‘Bring It Truckee’ campaign. Keep Separate From Hard Plastics Many plastic bags are labeled #2 or #4, but they are too thin to recycle with hard plastics and will get caught in the processing machinery. Find out how to dispose of plastic bags. Must Be Clean and Dry Only plastic bags that are clean and dry can be recycled. Empty your bag and wash out any sticky residues. Paper receipts, food traces or other materials can contaminate the recycling process. Ways to Reduce Reusable Bags Bring along a reusable tote to save plastic on your next trip to the grocery store. Some grocery stores will offer a small cash rebate when you bring in bags. Did You Know? The Impact of Plastic Pollution More than one million plastic bags are used per minute worldwide, and on a daily basis, over 10 metric tons of plastic from Los Angeles enter into the Pacific Ocean each day. Ninety percent of trash floating in the ocean is from plastic that will take between five hundred and one thousand years to degrade. In the meantime, one million birds and 100,000 marine animals are killed each year because of plastic floating in the ocean. Plastic Bags Become Composite Lumber Check out this fun video from Vancouver, Washington about how plastic bags and films are recycled into products like composite lumber, which is often used to make decks.


The reinforced concrete superstructure is crowned by a curved glulaminated timber structural frame.
Firstly, the timber frame consists, in the lower portion of the building, of a series of glulam arches with varying radii of curvature, forming a “torus”. This frame is characterised by the irregular shape of the arches, all of which are different, and by the fact that these long-span arches have short varying distances between centres and converge on each other.
In the area of the “torus”, the frame supports a weathertight roofcovering and an over-roof constructed with metal cassettes.
Secondly, in the upper section, the timber frame consists of glulaminated timber spines, which wrap around the concrete tower.
And in the “Tower” zone, the framework supports a glazed fascia.
Photo credit : ©Emilie photographie le monde


An online driving training programme may reduce an already low incident rate of car crashes in New Zealand, according to a research group.
Robert Isler, head of the University of Waikato’s road safety research group, serves as the founder of the e-Drive project. The initiative allows learning motorists to have a higher understanding of road hazards.
Most of the country’s beginner drivers no longer pose as threats when they are behind the wheel, as car collisions in the last 10 years fell by more than 70 per cent. With the use of the e-Drive program, that number could even go lower, according to Isler.
The online tool lets the users have a simulated experience of driving a car from a front-seat angle. The interactive and digital environment helps in making them more perceptive of road hazards. An advantage of the project involves better eye movements among drivers since motorists need to recognise safety risks as quickly as possible.
The program will help in teaching new drivers to practise safe driving, especially since car sales in New Zealand reached a record number in May.
The Motor Industry Association said that there were 13,132 new vehicle registrations in May. Passenger vehicle sales rose 11.8 per cent year over year, while commercial sales increased 29 per cent in the same comparable period.
The data does not include sales of used cars from dealers like Auckland Motors in Auckland, Wellington and other cities. Some buyers of the new vehicles may not be first-time drivers, yet the record number of car sales in May still places an important focus on road safety.
As online technology becomes more common, the use of digital tools may be a viable solution to enhance road safety. Do you consider online driving lessons to be a reliable measure for gauging a driver’s knowledge of safe driving habits?


Yet another body is warning of links between cellphone use and deadly brain cancer.
The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) today announced it would classify radio frequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans, based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use. Glioma made up 2/3ds of the new cases of brain cancer identified worldwide in 2008, the WHO/IARC said.
With some 5 billion cellphone subscriptions in use worldwide however, the question is, will the decision change anyone’s behavior?
On one hand, it could lead to an increase in use of hands-free devices that keep the RF antenna away from the user, as recommended by IARC. That would mean a corresponding increase in business for electronics manufacturers.
On the other hand, most users are likely to consider this warning with the same mock seriousness they give to sunscreen. It is highly unlikely that the emerging markets, few of which have built out landline infrastructure, will reverse course and spend the billions (or more) needed to offer an alternative to cellphones.


This study investigated the effect of using games
instead of classroom-lectures on learning in a microbiology course
and assessed the learning outcomes and the retention of knowledge,
as well as analyzed students' perceptions of their learning.
Materials and Methods: The study was performed on 19 first
year students of the Ankara University, Vocational School of
Health, Division of Medical Laboratory Techniques. The students
were randomly divided into two groups. The control group was
given a lecture, and the study group was asked to construct either
a gram-positive or a gram-negative bacterium by using stationary
items and colored images of bacteria. Each group was evaluated
by pre-, post- and retention-tests. The retention test was given
two months later. Additionally, students filled a questionnaire.
Kruskal Wallis H, Mann-Whitney U, and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks
tests were used for statistical analyses.
Results: The groups did not differ in terms of the means of
post-test, and retention test scores, although both groups' scores
significantly improved after the lesson. When the questionnaires
were compared, the study group gave significantly higher scores
on topics about the effect of teaching method on learning and the
Conclusion: As the gaming approach was regarded as more
motivating, positively reinforcing and dynamic, well-constructed
educational games can be used in small groups to enrich


Know Your Bonds
- Surety Bonds: A bond provided by an approved Harris County bond company such as North Main Bail Bond Co.
- Online Bail Bonds: A bond secured online instead of in person.
- Cash Bonds: The full amount of the bail, posted by the defendant in cash, cashier’s check, or money order.
- Federal Bail Bonds: A bond for someone who is set to appear in federal court.
- Collateral Bonds: A bond that uses collateral in place of cash. The defendant or his or her family member will put up property or other valuables. The collateral will be seized if the defendant does not appear in court.
- Unsecured Bonds: A bond that is not backed up by property or other collateral.
- Immigration Bonds: A bond for someone who has been detained by federal immigration authorities.
- Property Bonds: A bond secured with property instead of cash.


I study nucleation, but mainly via modelling on a computer. The guy below, Harley Morenstein, took a more personal approach. Incidentally, if you are bored of the Vine looping just click on it.
Drinks like Diet Coke, lemonade etc, are carbonated, i.e., have carbon dioxide pumped into them under pressure to make them fizzy. If you carefully take the top off and are gentle with then (as opposed to giving them a shake) most of the carbon dioxide remains in the drink. This means that the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in the water is actually above the solubility of carbon dioxide in water (at atmospheric pressure), and so this carbon dioxide wants out (technically speaking it is thermodynamically ‘downhill’ for the carbon dioxide to leave the water and go into the atmosphere).
The carbon dioxide comes out as bubbles and if the drink is not shaken these bubbles can find it hard to start to form. This initial step when a tiny bubble starts to form is called nucleation. If nucleation is not possible then this traps the carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke or whatever the drink is.
Until something comes along to make nucleation easier, like Mentos. Mentos are an American sweet, and for reasons nobody really understands, carbon dioxide bubbles nucleate like crazy on the surface of Mentos. So when the guy in the Mentos suit drops into the Diet Coke tub, bubbles of carbon dioxide nucleate like crazy, and you saw the result above.


Developing a course training application in which need to convert displayed text to audio.
These are some of the basic operations. You can also change voice, volume, rate and other parameters. You can also save the spoken audio stream directly into a “wave” file.
To convert text to speech the SpeechSynthesizer class is used. So let us learn step-by-step how to convert text to speech.
Properties of SpeechSynthesizer class
- Rate: Used to specify speech rate.
- State: Used to check the current state of the SpeechSynthesizer class, whether it is paused, resume or a speaking state.
- Voice: Gets the current voice information.
- Volume: Sets the volume.
Using Speech in ASP (Text To Speech) programming language: ASP ASP🔥12 Views


The element lead has the electron configuration [Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s2 6p2. This formula says that lead has all the electrons of xenon as well as the electrons listed after [Xe].
The 6s and 6p electrons are in the outermost shell, and are therefore the valence electrons. By convention, they are written last in noble gas configuration. When finding an atom from its noble gas configuration, start at the noble gas listed, then add the electrons listed. Alternatively, it may be easier to look at the listed subshells and determine which one is incomplete. If a subshell is incomplete, then that atom must be in that part of the periodic table. For example, lead has only two electrons in the 6p subshell, rather than the six that 6p can hold. Therefore, the atom with this configuration must be in the p block of the sixth period of the periodic table, which does indeed hold lead.


According to Mahayana tradition there are infinite Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and deities. They represent various aspects of the absolute Buddha-nature, such as compassion, wisdom, power, and emptiness. The Medicine Buddha embodies the healing aspect.
The Medicine Buddha is the highest possible model of a healer. Among the 12 vows the Medicine Buddha is said to have taken is that of curing just by the invocation of his name or the thought of Him. He was worshiped as the dispenser of spiritual medicine that could cure spiritual, psychological, and physical disease.
But this Buddha is not worshiped simply for healing powers alone; he is the form of the Buddha-nature that we aspire to realize in ourselves. Through the practice of meditation on the Medicine Buddha, one can generate enormous healing power for self and for the healing of others.
As Mahayana Buddhism spread throughout the Far East, it took with it Ayurveda, the sacred medical system of India meaning the”science of long life,” and the worship of the Medicine Buddha. The spread of Mahayana to China, Japan, and the kingdoms of Southeast Asia had a benevolent effect on public health. Hospitals, leper wards, and dispensaries were established in the larger monasteries, and were supported by income from “compassion fields.”
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the union of religion and medicine in Buddhism than the fact that the greatest of the Mahayana philosopher-saints were also great physicians, who wrote important medical works. According to the Tibetans, all medical knowledge has a sacred origin and is ascribed to the wisdom of the Buddhas. Source:


Mrs. Embretson, January 9
Week at a glance...
Writing: I introduced how to make a story book and we started a list of "What Good Writing Looks Like". The story books are simply 4 pieces of paper stapled together. The children create a cover and then write and illustrate a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end. The stories can be real or imaginary. The writing chart, when finished :), will be a checklist they will use to edit and revise their writing. It will include: spaces between words, capital letters at the beginning of sentences, punctuation at the end of sentences, and neatness.
Math: Most of the week was spent learning about shapes and sorting objects by various attributes such as size, shape, and color. The children spent time exploring how they can put shapes together to make new shapes.
Social Studies/Science/Health: Tuesday was National Bird Day and our Let's Find Out magazine taught us about birds in winter and how they stay cozy. On Friday, we made pinecone bird feeders with our 3rd grade buddies.
Snack Helpers, Jan. 11-15
Our class attendance this week: 93.62%
PTO meeting, Monday, January 11, 5:30
No School, Monday, January 18
Box Top contest ends near the end of February. Keep those Box Tops coming!


Reports of Lyme Disease cases in the United States have increased over the last 2 decades. Lyme Disease is the most prevalent tick borne disease of humans in the US. In infected people, Lyme disease invades tissues of the body. The pathogen itself is not present in blood, making it difficult to detect. Tests for Lyme Disease markers have improved and better diagnosis may be one reason behind the “expansion”. However, studies of both tick abundance and disease incidence suggests that the tick vector, Ixodes scapularis, is expanding its geographical range and increase in Lyme cases is correlated with geographic expansion of the tick into new areas.
In the upper Midwest, Lyme has historically been prevalent in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A multi year study* has documented an expansion of both the tick and Lyme Disease in Michigan. In many regions, conditions are ripe for large tick populations due to a increase in wild rodent hosts of the ticks. Those who visit the woods this summer should consider the use of a tick repellent. With Lyme disease, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
*Paul M. Lantos Jean Tsao Lise E. Nigrovic Paul G. Auwaerter Vance G. Fowler Felicia Ruffin Erik Foster & Graham Hickling. Geographic Expansion of Lyme Disease in Michigan, 2000–2014. Open Forum Infect Dis (2017) 4 (1): ofw269.


A. Warm-Up: Response Page….How does the length of the food tube compare to a person’s height?
B. Enzyme Lab… Today we experimented to determine which has more of the enzyme catalase..liver or potato. So, what did you find out?
If you did not finish..here is some Data you can use. How does your compare?
Cubed Liver: diameter – 16.5 cm, reaction time 211 sec, rate: 4
Observations: It was fizzy, warm, and the liver floated.
Cubed potato: diameter – 13.5 cm, reaction time 360sec, rate: 3
Observations: It fizzed, floated, but was not warm.
Mashed liver: diameter – 17 cm, reaction time 97sec, rate 5
Observations: It was warm, very bubbly, and explosive.
Mashed potato: diameter – 17cm, reaction time 360 sec, rate 3
Observations: It was slightly warm, floated, and bubbled.


Verbs according to function 4
Verbs according to meaning 7
Verbs according to form 3
Verbs according to conjugation 6
For purposes of conjugation Dutch verbs can be divided into regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs follow a certain pattern in the way they are conjugated, whereas irregular verbs do not follow a pattern at all. The group of regular verbs is the largest, and this group can be divided further into weak verbs and strong verbs. The conjugation of a new verb (e.g. a verb borrowed from English) normally follows the rules of weak verbs.
Revision exercises: verbs 1
There is a small group of so-called copular verbs (or copulas). They only occur in sentences which describe a property of the subject (so-called nominal predicates), for example:
Nederland is een klein land.
The Netherlands is a small country.
Here Nederland is the subject of the sentence and een klein land describes a property of the subject (Nederland).
The group of copular verbs is very small. Apart from zijn, the two most common ones are worden (to become) and blijven (to stay):
Esther wordt dierenarts.
Esther is becoming a vet.
We blijven thuis.
We are staying at home.
The other, less common, copular verbs are:
- blijken (to appear)
- lijken (to seem)
- schijnen (to seem)
- heten (to be called)
- dunken (to be of an opinion)
- voorkomen (to seem; not that this is a separable verb: the stress is on the first syllable: vóórkomen; not to be confused with voorkómen (to prevent) which is not separable)
Het nieuws bleek nog aan bijna niemand bekend.
The news appeared to be known to hardly anybody yet.
Die hond lijkt heel agressief.
That dog seems very aggressive.
De nieuwe buren schijnen aardig.
The new neighbours seem nice.
Zij wil van nu af aan Marloes heten.
From now on, she wants to be called Marloes.
Zijn gezicht komt bekend voor.
His face seems familiar.
Dunken is an archaic word and is found in fixed expressions of the format: me dunkt dat … (it seems to me that …; cf. archaic English: Methinks … ).


Homework assignments are a fundamental part of our courses
The only way to learn mathematics is by doing mathematics! Homework assignments are a fundamental part of a mathematics course. Homework is also seen as a welcome challenge and an opportunity for further learning. Homework given prior to a lesson can aid in understanding later during class. Homework also provides opportunities for reinforcement of the material learned in class.
Homework has the potential to be an extremely valuable part of students’ learning experience. We always create highly effective homework assignments and provide students and parents with the powerful tools necessary for the process to be as successful as possible. In addition, we also keep homework as fun and as stimulating as possible for the students. The weekly homework problem sets consist of three types of problems:
(1) A fast/mental calculation problem set: this will help students establish excellent basic calculation skills and fast problem-solving ability making all areas of math easier and quicker.
(2) A comprehensive problem set: this set consists of 25 questions at the AMC 8/MathCounts level taken from the licensed AMC Database. The set covers the following areas: Counting, Number Theory, Logic Reasoning, Probability, Statistics, Algebra, and Geometry.
(3) An especially designed problem set: this focuses on the topic presented in an immediately previous lesson, and provides students with the needed review and reinforcement about material learned in class.
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Last year’s historic drought in the southwest gained a lot of attention for its dramatic impact on people, livestock and wildlife. This year’s drought, however, is worse in many ways and likely to be much more expensive to both agriculture and to consumers.
According to the National Drought Mitigation Center, 72 percent of the continental United States is classified as “abnormally dry” or worse. By comparison, at the end of the third week in June last year just 32 percent of the continental United States was classified as “abnormally dry” or worse.
Some meteorologists are already comparing this year to the drought of 1988, which was estimated to cost American agriculture $78 billion.
Last year’s drought had a big impact on the U.S. cattle industry and strained the financial resources of many ranchers. This year’s drought, however, will hit consumers much harder due to the impact it has already had on corn and soybean production. Last week USDA rated 63 percent of the U.S. corn crop as good or better. This week that figure had dropped to 56 percent and agronomists say the crop is deteriorating rapidly.
Grain markets have reacted accordingly. Weather fears have pushed the price of corn up nearly 30 percent over the past two weeks, with $1.50 added to new crop corn in just the past few days. Cattlemen know higher grain prices will pressure feeder cattle prices, and make feedyard profits even harder to achieve. Cattle feeders are already losing an average of $140 to $200 per head.
Weather forecasters believe conditions are in place for prolonged hot and dry weather for much of the Midwest. As a result, crop forecasters are adjusting their estimates for this year’s harvest, and smaller corn and soybean yields mean higher prices for many food items for American consumers.


Properties of rotation dynamics?
- oldprofLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
The cool thing about angular dynamics is that each property has its counterpart in linear dynamics. So if you know the liner stuff, like F = MA or KE = 1/2 MV^2, you can quickly write down the angular analogs. In fact, let's do that.
F = MA becomes torque = I alpha; where I = kMR^2 is the moment of inertia and alpha = A/R is the angular acceleration. k is a constant that depends on the shape and distribution of mass; you have to look it up most of the time.
Look at torque = I alpha = kMR^2 * A/R = kMA R = kF R. And there you are. Torque is the twisting force F = MA when applied to a radius of rotation R. In other words torque is just F = MA with a twist...ar, ar, ar.
and KE = 1/2 MV^2 becomes 1/2 IW^2; where I is the same I as before and W = V/R is the angular speed in radians/second. V is the tangential speed, which is a linear speed.
Now angular kinetic energy is KEa = 1/2 IW^2 = 1/2 kMR^2 W^2 = 1/2 kMV^2 = k KE And we see once again that the angular dynamics can be written in terms of the linear dynamics.
So, bottom line...substitute I for M and W for V and you'll have the angular dynamic analog to the linear property.


I Spy Word Recognition
- This word game can help develop your child's shape and color recognition skills.
- As you drive or walk along, say "I spy with my little eye something that is orange," or "... something that is square."
- Your child will have fun guessing what it is you see.
- Take turns guessing what the other sees.
More on: Activities for Preschoolers
Copyright © 1998 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Preschooler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.
To order this book visit Meadowbrook Press.


Queralt Castle, built in the 10th century right on the border, retains its majestic profile. The castle saw the birth of one of the area’s most influential dynasties: the Queralt family, counts of Santa Coloma.
The most noteworthy features of this 10th castle built on rock are the walls of the Romanesque church of Sant Llorenç, integrated within the fortification.
The Contrast Tower, dating back to at least the 13th century, is a perfect example of a tower designed as a standalone construction, with a cylindrical form and entrance on the first floor.
The most noteworthy remaining features of this castle today are the cylindrical tower and the adjoining Romanesque church, with a peculiar pebble wall. It played an important role in the repopulation of Anoia and overlooked an area rich in natural resources.
This imposing fortress is enclosed by a wall of large ashlars and crowned by a building with towers. It boasts a superb view of the surrounding area.
Argençola Castle was built at the turn of the 11th century for the purpose of protecting the area against frequent raids by the Moors. Only the circular tower and two other rooms remain visible today, the rest of the castle’s structures having been reduced to archaeological remain.
The castle dates back to the 11th century. Some sections of its perimeter walls and the church of Romanesque origin have been preserved. In the 17th century a large rectangular-shaped house known as Casa dels Móra was built over part of the complex.
An 11th century castle that was extended in later periods. Its most noteworthy feature is a great hall with a barrel-vaulted roof.
The most noteworthy feature of this castle dating from the 12th century is the albarrana tower that overlooks the royal way as it passes between the Òdena basin and the Penedès area.
This small 10th century castle built on rock enjoyed an impressive view of the surrounding area. The remains of various structures are visible.


The moth Macroglossum stellatarum can learn the color and sometimes the odor of a rewarding food
We present data from 20 different experiments with different combinations of blue and yellow
artificial flowers and the two odors, honeysuckle and lavender.
Three computational models were tested in the same experimental situations as the real
moths and their predictions were compared with the experimental data.
Rescorla–Wagner model nor a learning model with independent learning for each stimulus component
were able to explain the experimental data.
We present the new hawkmoth learning model, which
assumes that the moth learns a template for the sensory attributes of the rewarding stimulus.
model produces behavior that closely matches that of the real moth in all 20 experiments.
Balkenius A, Kelber A, Balkenius C (2008) How Do Hawkmoths Learn Multimodal Stimuli? A Comparison of Three Models Adaptive Behavior 16:349-360


Although three tribes have endorsed it, marriage equality is still a divisive issue in many Native American communities. The Miami Herald reports:
With more Native Americans making similar demands, the Suquamish tribe is one of three that have signed off on marriage by same-sex couples, laws that apply only on their land. Legal analysts predict that more tribes will follow, giving new rights to what many Native Americans call “two-spirit” individuals, who carry both a feminine and masculine spirit. Still, the issue is far from settled in Indian country.
The tribes are subject to some of the same divisions that mark American society as a whole:
“God created woman for man, and when you try to rewrite creation you can expect judgment to fall on your people,” tribal elder Doug Emery said. He ran for the tribal council and lost in Monday’s primary, but he hopes there’s enough turnover on the council to scrap the law after the June general election.
But it wasn’t always this way:
Scholars note that before their introduction to Christianity, many tribes accepted their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender members as “two spirits,” even giving them added respect because they were thought to have special powers. Consequently, they say, same-sex marriage is easier for many tribal members to accept, though it still kicks up plenty of controversy.
Of the 566 recognized tribes in the US, only 3 currently recognize marriage equality.


In 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey began conducting scientific assessments of coastal vulnerability to potential future sea- and lake-level changes in 22 National Park Service sea- and lakeshore units. Coastal park units chosen for the assessment included a variety of geological and physical settings along the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Alaska, Caribbean, and Great Lakes shorelines. This research is motivated by the need to understand and anticipate coastal changes caused by accelerating sea-level rise, as well as lake-level changes caused by climate change, over the next century. The goal of these assessments is to provide information that can be used to make long-term (decade to century) management decisions. Here we analyze the results of coastal vulnerability assessments for several coastal national park units.
Index-based assessments quantify the likelihood that physical changes may occur based on analysis of the following variables: tidal range, ice cover, wave height, coastal slope, historical shoreline change rate, geomorphology, and historical rate of relative sea- or lake-level change. This approach seeks to combine a coastal system's susceptibility to change with its natural ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions, and it provides a measure of the system's potential vulnerability to the effects of sea- or lake-level change. Assessments for 22 park units are combined to evaluate relationships among the variables used to derive the index. Results indicate that Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico parks have the highest vulnerability rankings relative to other park regions. A principal component analysis reveals that 99% of the index variability can be explained by four variables: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, water-level change rate, and mean significant wave height. Tidal range, ice cover, and historical shoreline change are not as important when the index is evaluated at large spatial scales (thousands of kilometers).


Learner's definition of CORRESPOND
to be similar or equal to something
In some countries, the role of president corresponds to that of prime minister.
the joints on a horse that correspond to the human knees
to have a direct relationship to or with something
see also corresponding
Each number corresponds to a location on the map.
His statements do not correspond to/with the facts. [=do not match the facts]
We'll revise the schedule to correspond with the school calendar.
to write to someone or to each other
— often + with


It's the blue wisp near the bottom that's the remnant of a tremendous recent supernova explosion. The large pink structure looming to the upper right is part of N76, a large star forming region in our neighboring Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) galaxy. The supernova remnant wisp, with full coordinate name 1E0102.2-7219 and frequently abbreviated as E0102, also lies in the SMC, about 50 light years away from N76. The above image is a composite of several images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. E0102 is of research interest because we see it as it appeared only 2,000 years after its explosion. Examination of E0102 therefore gives clues about how an enigmatic supernova works and what materials it dispersed into the surrounding interstellar medium.


Lesson 1: Memorize our Five Salmon
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust’s Greenway Education Program has created this series of educational videos for youth and their families to learn about Pacific Northwest salmon. Each video spotlights a life stage of Pacific Northwest salmon and invites you to perform an activity at home. Throughout the series, you’ll learn more about the salmon life cycle stages, their habitat needs, threat to their survival, and what you can do to protect them. Welcome to the series!
First, download the Activity Sheet.
Let’s memorize the names of our five Pacific Northwest salmon using a simple trick with just your fingers:


004 - Biodiversity and Change
Explain (AO2) the concept and importance of biodiversity in tropical rainforests.
Examine (AO3) the causes and consequences of reduced biodiversity in this biome.
- Why are rainforests important?
- What are the problems that rainforest face?
- How is the biodiversity of rainforest threatened?
- Describe the possible solutions to the destruction of the rainforest.
You will be given the geofiles below to help you answer the questions above.
Activity Two - Review
- Using your 'Course Companion' page 71 make notes on the destruction of rainforests in Borneo.
Activity Three - Essay
"Destroying rainforests for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal " (Edward O. Wilson) Discuss (15 marks)
This will be timed in-class essay the first lesson after the break.


New Pathogen Discovery: Digital Transcriptome Subtraction
Digital transcriptome subtraction or DTS was developed by Feng et al. to discover new viral agents associated with human cancers. Work on this approach was begun over a decade ago, prior to the release of the full human genome. It has only become a practical approach to new virus discovery with the generation of curated and highly-verified human genomic sequence databases and development of low-cost, high-throughput sequencing. This technique subtractsknown human sequences from expression library data sets in silico, leaving candidate nonhuman sequences for further examination. Complementary DNA (cDNA) is created from RNA extracted from fresh tumor tissues through reverse transcription and then this library is exhaustively sequenced to generate a HiFi transcriptomedatabase of the tumor. Precise discrimination between human and non-human cDNA sequences is then performed and known human sequences that align to GenBank human reference sequences are then computationally subtracted. Careful screening and selection of high quality sequences prior to computational subtraction is required to increase chances of getting a true candidate. The non-matching non-human sequences that remain are candidate pathogen cDNAs. This smaller candidate database can then be explored using low-stringency alignment to virus databases or by experimental extension to identify novel viral sequences.
For more information about DTS for Short-Tag Sequences and High Throughput Sequenses check out our DTS Tools page.


Heritage cuts across all the other themes. There are natural and cultural heritage places on the land, including inland waters, and in the oceans. Natural heritage includes aspects of biodiversity if they are valued by humans for their contribution to our sense of identity and place, rather than for their intrinsic value or their physical contributions to human life and ecological services. Cultural heritage includes the built environment of human settlements.
Human pressures on all aspects of the wider environment can also impact on heritage. However, because heritage is, by definition, valued by humans, pressures on heritage may also arise from not knowing about it or understanding it, not protecting it by legislation and active protection programs, or not having the skills and resources to conserve it. The issues in this theme are structured to examine these pressures and the resulting condition of Australian heritage.
Knowledge of heritage
Condition and Integrity of heritage
Responses to conserve heritage
Expertise and skills for managing heritage
Community awareness of heritage
Links to another web site
Links to data in the DRS
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A balanced composition has masses that are distributed across the image. Most nude compositions are simple, having just one mass. (Visual mass is the magnitude to which a form or shape attracts the viewer’s eye.) The relative sizes and placement of various masses within a composition are what
determine if it is balanced.
Imagine your image as being balanced on a pivot point, like a seesaw, and ask yourself which side is
heavier. If both sides are equally weighted, you have balance. An image does not need to be symmetrical to be balanced, nor do the elements need to be spaced equally from the center. A sense of balance is somewhat will vary from person to person. But, it is not difficult to reach consensus on the balance of most compositions.
Three Kinds of Balance Summarized
- Formal balance: Symmetrical photographs work best when the balance of the symmetry of the subject itself is the strongest, most interesting factor about it. (See image #1)
- Informal balance: The most common kind of balance; the composition is balanced between left and right halves by elements of equal visual weight.
- Radical balance: The line of equilibrium is far from the center. (Image #2)


Leaf rust – a fungus that’s one of the world’s deadliest coffee diseases – has resulted in over $1 billion in damages to Latin American coffee farms, as of 2014. Central America is perhaps the region hit hardest by la roya, which wiped out almost half of its coffee production after an epidemic during the 2012-2013 season.
When la roya hit Colombia in 2008, authorities were ready with disease-resistant plants they’d been working on for decades to combat higher temperatures, more moisture and new waves of pests. But despite the scientific advances in creating new coffee hybrids, convincing farmers to switch over to the new varieties proved difficult and farmers had to come up with other ways to evade the fungus, which soon hit Colombian farms and reduced coffee production by 31 percent, on average, between 2008 and 2011 as compared with 2007 levels.
Around the world, many pointed to climate change as exacerbating la roya’s spread in Colombia.
But a new study published last month by researchers at the University of Exeter in the U.K. has ruled out climate change as having a hand in the 2008 epidemic of coffee leaf rust (CLR). From the paper:
“While CLR infection risk was elevated in 2008–2011 in coffee-growing regions of Colombia, we found no compelling evidence for a large increase in predicted infection risk over the period in which the CLR outbreak is reported to have been most severe, and no long-term trend in risk from 1990 to 2015. Therefore, we conclude that while weather conditions in 2008–2011 may have slightly increased the predicted risk of CLR infection, long-term climate change is unlikely to have increased disease risk.”


Researchers can’t say how much cooling these floating particles cause
U.S. Geological Survey and Oddur Sigurðsson/Iceland Meteorological Office
Airborne particles from natural sources add more uncertainty to global climate simulations than scientists previously realized. The finding could complicate scientists’ attempts to predict climate change.
Although scientists agree climate is warming, they cannot predict exactly how much temperatures will rise in a given time period. Among the main factors forcing researchers to hedge their forecasts are small floating particles called aerosols, which form either naturally or from human activity such as fossil fuel burning. Aerosols are thought to cool the planet by reflecting radiation from the sun and by seeding clouds (SN: 10/5/13, p. 26). Clouds tend to reflect solar radiation, but scientists are still struggling to understand precisely how strong aerosols’ cooling effect is.
In the new study, atmospheric scientist Ken Carslaw of England’s University of Leeds and colleagues analyzed variables related to the amount and size of aerosols in the atmosphere and how they affect the rate at which clouds form. The researchers wanted to determine how much uncertainty each factor adds to predictions of temperature change. Emission rates of natural aerosols, produced mainly by volcanic eruptions and oceanic phytoplankton, accounted for nearly half the analysis’s variance, which is a measure of uncertainty, the team reports in the Nov. 7 Nature. The researchers urge scientists to find more accurate ways to represent natural aerosols in their simulations; however, they also say researchers may never fully understand how these particles affect climate.
K.S. Carslaw et al. Large contribution of natural aerosols to uncertainty in indirect forcing. Nature. Vol. 503, November 7, 2013, p. 67. doi: 10.1038/nature12674.


A Young Earth Pocket Guide
This pocket guide examines the age of the earth from a biblical and scientific perspective. It presents exciting geological information rarely noted in public schools, and will equip you with answers that are solidly based on the authority of Bible.
Is the earth billions of years old or just thousands? Are radiometric methods of dating rocks and fossils reliable? What evidences support a young age for the earth? Where did the idea of “millions of years” come from? How old is the earth?
Most secular scientists believe the earth to be billions of years old. They most often use radiometric dating methods to support this assertion. But, do they have a rock-solid case? Discover the primary reasons why their belief in billions of years cannot be correct. This Pocket Guide to A Young Earth examines the age of the earth from a biblical and scientific perspective. It reveals geological information not often presented in public schools and secular colleges, and will equip you with answers that are based on the authority of God’s Word.


Agro-forest frontiers are diverse and highly dynamic. Multiple uses entail multiple stakeholders whose resource management decisions drive ecosystem processes. In tropical areas, cattle ranching is an important driver of land use change. Mechanistic understanding of ecosystem processes under such conditions can shed light on future supply of ecosystem services.
The research will focus on key soil-based ecosystem services such as carbon storage and nutrient retention and provision because they underpin supply of provisioning ecosystem services (i.e. grass and forage production). Ecosystem processes support the abovementioned ecosystem services, and in this study we will investigate decomposition and nutrient retention and provisioning.
We will look at how human interventions and resulting vegetation cover have influenced soil abiotic conditions as well as soil biota (microbial –bacteria and fungi- communities composition and activity), which will affect ecosystem processes. Ecological conditions alone do not suffice to understand processes, hence livestock management practices will also be considered in this assessment.
Due to the complex association and feedback between aboveground and belowground ecosystem components, the project will be carried out in close collaboration with companion PhD project that will investigate other ecosystem services.
This research is part of the FOREFRONT program, which takes a social-ecological approach to improving relationships between people and the environment, because social and ecological systems are dynamically linked through the multiple ecosystem services they co-produce. FOREFRONT “Nature’s benefits in agro-forest frontiers: linking actor strategies, functional biodiversity and ecosystem services” is a multi-annual and multi-site research program with partners in Mexico, Brazil and the Netherlands.


Let A, B, and C be complex numbers which represent the vertices of a triangle in the complex plane. Using these complex numbers and their complex conjugates write an expression which represents the point B reflected about the line AC. Use X' to denote the complex conjugate of the complex number X.
In the equation following "Likewise" -
"C - A" should be "F - D".
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on 2006-04-27 16:08:45


E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
A scheme entertained by Arthur Thistlewood and his fellow-conspirators to overthrow the Government by assassinating the Cabinet Ministers. So called from Cato Street, where their meetings were held. (1820.)
The other names of these conspirators are Brunt, Davidson, Harrison, Ings, Monument, Tidd, and Wilson. All eight were sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1820, by warrant of the Secretary of State.


Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Tsuchinoko, which translates to "Hammerspawn", is a strange snake from Japanese folklore that is concidered very real. Tsuchinoko is the common name for it in Western Japan but in Easter Japan it is known as the Bachi Hebi.
Described as being between 30 and 80 centimeters in length, similar in appearance to a snake, but with a central girth that is much wider than its head or tail, and as having fangs and venom. Some sightings even mention that it can jump about a meter in length.
According to legend it can speak in human tongues, likes alcohol and bites it's tail to roll downhill much like the Hoop Snake. But they are said to be solitary and peaceful creatures.
Drawings of the Tsuchinoko dating back to the Jomon Period have been discovered in Gifu and Nagano. An encyclopedia from the Edo Period contains a description of the Tsuchinoko under the name Yatsui Hebi. In 1989 the town of Mikata, Hyogo Prefecture offered a reward of 330 square meters of land to anybody who could capture a Tsuchinoko and, in 2001, it put a large black snake on display under the claim that the creature was a Tsuchinoko but sadly it was not.
Except Hokkaido and the southern Japanese islands the Tsuchinoko is found all over Japan. Some theories say it's just a misidentified snake but in the 1970's it was made legal to own Blue Tongued Skinks so many scientists think that those creatures are what people are seeing, basically escaped pets. The only problem I have with that theory is that skinks have four legs and no one reports legs on the Tsuchinoko.
Perhaps it is an undiscovered species of snake, people are finding undiscovered reptiles all the time, so it seems resonable to me to assume that Japan, as inhabitated as it is, still has some surprises left to find in the natural areas.