• The story begins in 1877 with Sol, a beautiful eighteen-year-old who is contemplating the day's events in her diary.
• Sol's nanny, Xenufla, has taken her to the place where people beseech St. Rita for special requests.
• Xenufla thinks that Sol needs a husband.
• Sol has attracted many young suitors, but she is not interested.
• She doesn't think St. Rita can help her.
• Sol eventually agrees to visit the town of Jocotenango where the saint's statue is enshrined.
• Xenufla gives Sol strict instructions on preparing to visit the statue.
• She must fast and remain silent.
• They leave early the next morning to arrive promptly at noon.
• Sol climbs the mountain and approaches the shrine with trepidation.
• She soon starts to shake and thinks an earthquake is occurring.
• It is Sol who is shaking.
• The statues eyes transform into the dark blue eyes of a handsome young man.
• Sol reports...
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This handbook provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on youth behaviour and the justice system. Leading authorities from sociology, political science, criminology, psychology, law, social work, and communication analyze the connections between children and youth (in their various social situations) and the law, including the making and enforcement of legal and social policies, the role of children's rights, and the operation of the legal system.


Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) uses logic block which is configurable. The term ‘field-programmable’ shows that, that the device is programmable outside the foundry lab where it is manufactured. The internal architecture of an FPGA device consists of three parts, that are configurable logic blocks, the programmable interconnects and input/output blocks. Figure below shows
the architecture of a typical FPGA.
The Input/Output block provides bidirectional access to input/output pins of the FPGA package. The configurable logic block are not complex than the couple of logic gates or a look-up table. The programmable interconnects connect the configurable logic block to configurable logic blocks and also input/output blocks to configurable logic block.
FPGAs devices have higher logic density and larger performance as compared to other programmable logic devices. FPGA devices gives higher complexity equivalent to millions of gates. Further, FPGA has built-in hard-wired processors, large memory, clock management systems and support for many signalling technologies. FPGAs are used in processing and storage, digital signal processing, instrumentation and telecommunications system applications.
Since FPGAs program configuration is volatile, it requires bit RAM for storing the configured program.
Field Programmable Gate Array Quiz


Ming Dynasty Invention
The bristle toothbrush was invented in China during the Ming dynasty. It was thought of in 1498 C.E. and is still being used. It was an important invention of the time period because it was a good way to keep your teeth clean. The invention would take off most of the bacteria that is on your teeth so they stay healthy and do not get cavities. The toothbrushes were made out of stiff, coarse hairs taken from the back of a hog's neck and attached to handles made of bone or bamboo.
The bristle toothbrush was created by Ao Ailong people and first used to clean. It can be used to clean other things like dirt off shoes or dishes. Before the bristle toothbrush was invented, people still used brushes but they did not have the hairs on them on them. Those were not as effective as the ones created by the Chinese. The people before 1498 could also have used their hands to take out chunks of food that were stuck in between their teeth.
The bristle toothbrush has really changed people’s lives in many ways. For example, they had less problems with their teeth. They would live better lives because their teeth would no hurt and bother them. Also, the bristle toothbrush changed peoples lives today. If they had not come up with the idea of making the toothbrush, then we would not have the brushes he have today.


Unlike robotic systems made even partially from organic materials, entirely artificial electronic systems have use cases in both the human body and a variety of other environments, such as tiny crevices in the earth, chemical reactors, and oil pipelines. In order to reach these places, however, these systems must be tiny—the size of red blood cells, which are not more than ten microns in diameter.
Albert Liu is a presidential fellow working in Michael Strano’s lab in the MIT Department of Engineering, and he joins the podcast to discuss their most recent accomplishments: the creation of an entirely artificial robotic system the size of a human red blood cell, and recent publications detailing how these systems can be employed in aerosolizable electronics and soil matrices. He also discusses the most difficult aspects of creating these systems, the insight he’s gained as a graduate student working in this field, the revolutionary potential of these systems in medicine and industry, and the tradeoffs between biological and artificial robotics.
Interested in learning more? Stay current on the latest research by visiting https://srg.mit.edu/, and tune in to hear the full conversation.
Mass producing colloidal electronics (with a video):
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Your risk for pneumococcal diseases is greater when you have diabetes.
Because diabetes can weaken your immune system, leaving you vulnerable to infections and diseases!
Pneumococcal diseases are infections.
They include the following:
These infections occur when bacteria known as “pneumococcus” invade either the bloodstream, lungs, or spinal fluid.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs, the bacteria are inhaled and they grow in a person’s lungs, in some cases, respiratory (breathing) failure can occur!
Meningitis is an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and\or the spinal cord.
Meningitis is caused when a bacterial infection spreads to a person’s brain and\or spinal cord, it can cause hearing loss, brain damage, and\or death!
Bacteremia is an infection of the blood, the bacteria enters the body through a wound or infection and grow in the bloodstream.
Bacteremia can lead to septic shock!
Adults with diabetes are (3) three times more likely to become infected with a pneumococcal disease, pneumonia occurs most often in adults with diabetes.
The more you learn about your risk as a diabetic, the better prepared you can be!
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Active Directory is Microsoft’s directory services solution that provides LDAP and Kerberos services for identification and authentication. Many organizations with Windows computers use Active Directory because it provides these features:
• Security and policy management for Windows computers
• Tight integration with popular application servers such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server
• High availability, with the ability to place multiple replica servers across geographic locations in a multimaster configuration ...


ELLA Guide: Addressing the Urban Challenge in Integral and Inclusive Ways
ELLA is the Evidence and Lessons from Latin America programme
Integrated urban environmental plans developed in different Latin American countries show how to reduce systemic challenges in urban areas. Overcoming multi-dimensional urban issues requires a holistic view that includes channels for popular participation, higher level government support and cross-sector collaboration. However, it does not exclude a deep understanding of specific local necessities: in Brazil, transportation was a priority; in Colombia, disaster risk reduction; and in Argentina, decentralisation of public services. A critical overview of achievements in these urban environmental governance processes is key for South Asian and African cities that will need to accommodate most of the world’s urban growth.
- Good urban governance can limit environmental problems and the risks generated by unplanned and uncontrolled urban growth.
- Urban environmental problems seem to be best addressed within integrated, long-term and locally-focused development plans involving multiple stakeholders.
- Urban development programmes work when they have a strong social and equity dimension and include channels for participatory decision-making.
del Valle, J. ELLA Guide: Addressing the Urban Challenge in Integral and Inclusive Ways. ELLA, Practical Action Consulting, Lima, Peru (2011) 7 pp.


Dating back to the Crusades, this flag symbolized England at least as far back as 1277. On June 24, 1497, John Cabot planted it on the shore of present-day Labrador, making it the first flag to fly over mainland America. After the adoption of the Kings Colors Flag, this flag was still flown on the foremast of English merchant ships, with the Union flag on the main mast (Scottish ships had the St. Andrew flag on the foremast). Hence, this flag flew over the Mayflower when it arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620. This England flag has 2 brass grommets on the left used for hanging. NOTE: The 4”x6” size is fully printed and mounted to a 10” staff with a spear top.


We know that the human skeleton is important and it gives us our structure.
We want to make a skeleton out of clay.
We will get clay and look and look at pictures and models. Then we will finally build it.
We learned all about the different kinds of bones and what they do.
We got the clay built it and made our video.
We don't have any more questions.


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This course will focus on "the American Renaissance," the unusually rich period of literary creativity in the years before the Civil War. Many of the books now popularly regarded as classics of American literature--Moby-Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Walden--were published in quick succession in the 1850s. Writers to be studied include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, and especially Whitman and Melville. Certain leading ideas of the Romantic movement in American literature (about organic art, nature, self-culture, the representative individual, etc.) will be given special emphasis. The course will trace the development of Transcendental idealism in the work of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, and its critique in the fiction of Hawthorne and Melville.
The reading list is substantial, and will include most or all of the following texts: Emerson, Nature and selected essays; Thoreau, Walden; Whitman, Leaves of Grass (especially "Song of Myself"); Hawthorne, selected tales; Melville, Moby-Dick and "The Encantadas"; Poe, selected tales; Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; and Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. We will also read Jon Krakauerís Into the Wild, an account of a late-twentieth century experiment in Transcendentalist idealism that led to a young manís death by starvation in the wilds of Alaska. In addition to the final exam, there will be at least one hour exam, two papers, and various in-class exercises.


View Sample Pages Share Idioms Tales with kids and watch their comprehension skills soar! Each book introduces a dozen must-know idioms—such as green with envy or wet behind the ears—in the context of a funny tale along with fascinating information on the sayings’ derivations. Includes a big teaching guide filled with lessons, reproducibles, and mini-book versions of each story. Great for everyone—especially ESL students! The 8 books include: 1. A Slam Dunk (Sayings About Sports) 2. Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining (Sayings About Weather) 3. Over the Moon (Sayings About Feelings) 4. The Long Arm of the Law (Saying About the Human Body 5. Peas in a Pod (Sayings About Food) 6. The Wild Goose Chase (Sayings About Animals) 7. True Colors (Sayings About Colors) 8. Shaking in My Boots (Sayings About Clothing)
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Краткий видео урок о смешанных условных предложениях (mixed conditionals) в английском языке.
Past to Present (to speak about present results based on imagine past conditions):
- If I had learnt English before, I wouldn’t waste my time now.
Present to Past (to speak about imagined past results based on present conditions):
- If I didn’t believe you, I wouldn’t have started working with you.
Упражнения к этому уроку


In 1936, with Nazi Germany set to host the Summer Olympics, anti-fascist organizers in Barcelona decided to stage a parallel event: the People’s Olympiad. A hotbed of progressive and left-wing politics, the city had lost its Olympics bid to Berlin in 1931, two years before the Nazis came to power.
Inspired by the International Workers’ Olympiad, the socialist games started in 1925, the People’s Olympiad was scheduled for a week before the Berlin games. It would have been massive: 6,000 athletes from 22 nations registered for the alternate games, including the Soviet Union, along with teams representing trade unions, workers’ associations and Jewish exiles from fascism. Seventy members of the Yiddische Arbeit Sport Klub in Paris made the trip to Catalonia.
Along with traditional athletics, the games were slated to include chess, folk dancing, table tennis and dramatics. Gorgeous posters were printed.
However, as imagined in Muriel Rukeyser’s novel Savage Coast, the Spanish Civil War broke out just as thousands of athletes began to arrive, and the People’s Olympiad was cancelled. At least 200 of them stayed behind and joined workers’ militias to fight for Republican Spain against Franco’s nationalist forces.
Barcelona would eventually host the Summer Olympics in 1992, but without the radical undercurrent of its doomed predecessor.


14 May 2009 by Lisa
Yesterday I was able to witness a ceremony to mark the returning of Australian indigenous human remains that had been in our collections since 1948. The remains are being returned as they have strong cultural, spiritual and religious significance to Australian indigenous communities. You can see more photos of the ceremony on our Returning to Australia Flickr set.
Representatives from The Ngarrindjeri (meaning The People) had come over from Australia to perform the ceremony. Seeing them with their fantastically painted faces was a pretty amazing experience in itself. Their presence definitely caused a stir outside the World Museum, with a large crowd gathering to see what was happening! The ceremony began with Mr Major Sumner burning eucalyptus branches, which he carried around the crowd and fanned with a large feather. He then raised three boomarangs into the air and touched them to the ground while speaking in his native dialect. Using the boomerangs he also performed a dance involving hitting them together while singing.
Mr Sumner also spoke to the crowd, saying that he was thinking of his ancestors and that we should also think about ours, whose “spirits are in this land”. He also said how it was fitting that he was taking the remains from this “land by the water” to his land, which was also by the water. The Ngarrindjeri is a group of 18 clans or lakinyeri who speak similar dialects and have family connections around the lower Murray River, western Fleurieu Peninsula and Coorong, South Australia.
This is the first of the remains of three individuals being returned to Australia. The remains will be kept in a keeping place at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra and will be given the culturally-appropriate care needed. Eventually they may be buried if returned to their original communities.
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The concept of “magic” and making things disappear is of great interest to your little one right now. Encourage this enjoyment by playing a magic “hide and seek” game with their favourite toys.
Start by finding a toy small enough to fit into your hand. Let your little one see the toy in your hand, or let them hold and play with it for a few minutes before taking it back. Put both hands behind your back now, and say “where has it gone?”
Bring your hands to the front again and ask him “Which hand is it in?”
Ask a few times using your best confused voice! When he looks puzzled or reaches for your hand, open it to show him the toy saying, “here it is, well done, you found it!”.
When your child starts to catch on to the trick you can vary the game by changing the hand the toy first goes into when behind your back.
Another fun idea is to play the magic cup game. Using a small toy once again, line up nesting cups and hide the toy underneath one, right where your child can see. Then ask them to find it for you. Don’t forget to say “Abracadabra” when the toy vanishes!


Would evolution ever produce a reasonable being?
There is not a single species that is not built on survival of the fittest and the strongest rule. One does not survive by being reasonable.
Species become extinct as evolution unreasonably removes them.
Would a species survive if it allowed females first? Nay, females walking in front on a bush trail would mean that they would encounter the lion or elephant first and then there goes the next generation. In most ‘uncivilised’ communities men walk ahead of the family for that very reason. Even in the ape troops this occurs. Yet it is reasonable to have women as equals.
Is evolution not built on rape? A male lion kills the pride male, kills the cubs, so that the females are forced to submit to him. In most species the females submit to the strongest male in numbers to ensure that futures generations are strong. Is the male with the most testosterone, the most horny, not likely to win the day? We are not reasonable when we kill our male competitors and force ourselves onto females, nay, we are natural evolved males.
Yet in today’s world we pride ourselves as being reasonable creatures able to think logically in a ‘civilised’ manner. Our natural instinct of kill or be killed is suppressed / eradicated, if it ever existed at all.
Today it is reasonable to mingle will all sexual persuasions. Yet homosexuals cannot produce future evolving generations. Evolution is not reasonable with non heterosexuals. Evolution is harsh and demanding. Yet reason says different.
So is it reasonable to think that we are evolving or are we now becoming created?
When did we move from being marauding ape to reasonable man? Evolution could not have created that defining moment as evolution does not create or is evolution a creation?
Sometime in the future man will design and create future generations just as he does the dairy cow today and he will wonder why we ever had the notion that we evolved as there is no reasonable evolution.


The Communist controlled ELAS becomes the strongest resistance movement against Axis occupation of Greece during the Second World War. When in late 1944 the German army pulls out of Greece the Communist take control of most of Greece. Winston Churchill who is determined to prevent a Communist take over of Greece sends British troops to Greece to aid the Greek Government led by George Papandreou, the Communist are ordered to disarm, they refuse and hold a mass demonstration, at which the Athens Police shot 28 dead. ELAS fighters attack Police Station, killing Policemen. Fighting breaks out between ELAS and the British Army. The British Army is forced into a small pocket in central Athens known in the British press as Scobieland after its commander. A biography of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.. . .
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PETITIONED HEALTH CONSULTATION
CHOULIC GRAVEL PIT
(a/k/a BABOQUIVARI DISTRICT)
TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA
On April 27, 1995, the Tohono O'odham Nation requested assistance from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in determining the health effects and exposure levels associated with a contaminated site in the Baboquivari District . Specifically, the petitioner expressed concern that any cattle and wildlife drinking the water in the pools in the contaminated area would cause a public health hazard for anyone consuming the animal products . ATSDR has incorporated responses to comments received during the public review process in this document.
For several months in 1993, a construction company operated a gravel pit and asphalt mixing plant as part of a project to resurface roads with rubberized asphalt. During the course of this project, company personnel disposed asphalt, a white material suspected to be lime, and petroleum products in a wash area known as the Choulic Gravel Pit .
From March to May 1993, the contractor produced large quantities of asphalt on an almost daily basis. The first batch of asphalt produced each day was unusable and would be pushed over into the Choulic Gravel Pit located at the northern bank of an unnamed arroyo (gully). The total amount of asphalt dumped into the pit is estimated to be 17,000 cubic yards . In addition, there are indications that the contractor dumped oil, molten asphalt, or both into trenches which were then covered .
On May 3, 1995, a representative from the Indian Health Service (IHS) conducted a site visit to determine if the site posed an imminent health hazard. During the site visit, the IHS representative determined that an imminent health hazard did not appear to exist. However, as a precaution, he concurred with a recommendation that the site be fenced to prevent livestock from drinking the seasonal surface water .


Comet Encke (2P/Encke)
Comet Encke (2P/Encke) is a periodic comet which graced the skies in November, 2013.
A periodic comet, with the shortest orbital period - it takes 3.3 years to complete a single orbit around the Sun - Encke's comet was discovered in 1786 by French astronomer, Pierre Méchain. However, unlike its counterparts, Encke was named not after its discoverer, but after Johann Franz Encke, a German astronomer who calculated its orbit.
Encke's comet did not get bright enough to be seen by the naked eye. However, observers with binoculars were able to see the comet clearly.
Encke is a Northern Hemisphere comet. People in the Southern Hemisphere were not able to view it.
The best time to view Encke is during pre dawn hours in the month of November.


3D model (JSmol)
|Molar mass||250.29 g·mol−1|
|Melting point||−25 °C (−13 °F; 248 K)|
|Boiling point||184 to 187 °C (363 to 369 °F; 457 to 460 K) at 2 mmHg|
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Cinoxate is an organic compound used as an ingredient in some types of sunscreens. It is an ester formed from methoxycinnamic acid and 2-ethoxyethanol. It is a slightly yellow viscous liquid that is insoluble in water, but miscible with alcohols, esters, and vegetable oils.
- Amiloxate, another methoxycinnamate-based sunscreen
- Octyl methoxycinnamate, another methoxycinnamate-based sunscreen
- Merck Index, 11th Edition, 2312.
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Plant collector. Born in Traquair in the Scottish Borders, the son of a nurseryman, Dickson began his own nursery in Perth before moving to London to work in nurseries at Kensington and Hammersmith. In 1772, he started his own plant and seed shop in Covent Garden and became acquainted with horticulturist William Forsyth (1737 - 1804), whom he supplied with plants. With particularly interests in mosses and other non-flowering plants, Dickson made several plant-hunting expeditions around Scotland, including to the Hebrides. Dickson published a four-volume treatise on cryptogams, Fasciculus Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Britanniae (1785 - 1801), which described 400 species, many of which had not been identified previously in Britain.
He was also friendly with Joseph Banks, who gave Dickson access to his botanical library and employed him to tend the garden of the British Museum. In 1786, his first wife died, Dickson married the sister of explorer Mungo Park (1771 - 1806). He introduced Park to Banks, who sponsored Park's expedition to West Africa in 1795.
Dickson was a founder of the Linnean Society in 1788 and of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1804.
He retired to Croydon, a wealthy man. A genus of tree-ferns is named Dicksonia in his honour.


There exists a deep ecological tradition in Vedic culture by which human settlement, forests and water resources are carefully balanced. To achieve that balance, nature’s welfare and human welfare cannot be separated each other. For this reason Vedic ecology teaches that the earth and the cow are to be loved and cared for as mothers. As such, culture—including the cultivating of land for crops—is an outward expression of spirituality. As a painting expresses the spirit of the artist, , culture expresses the spirit of society. Vedic culture has lasted for many thousands of years and is still visible even today. It’s a way of life that’s lasts forever, is self perpetuating and regenerating.


Why the CDC sodium intake guidelines may be wrong
A new study from the American Journal of Hypertension reveals that the CDC sodium intake guidelines may be wrong and too low for most diets. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends 2,300 mg of sodium per day for adults, but researchers think this number is lower than it should be and is actually hurting people.
How much sodium do you need?
The CDC’s standard of 2,300 mg of sodium per day has been cited for years as the norm, but there are new questions about this amount. Researchers believe this number is too low and needs to be adjusted to fit the dietary needs of adults. After examining more than 200,000 people in 25 studies, the researchers have come to the conclusion that eating more sodium does not harm health.
They found that most people in the United States are already eating more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day. Their numbers range from 2,645 mg and 4,945 mg per day, and researchers feel this is a healthier range than the CDC guidelines. In general, eating too little or too much sodium is dangerous, so it is important to consume enough. They recommend that consumers not exceed 4,945 mg per day because of potential hypertension and cardiovascular risks.
It is time to change the CDC guidelines?
This is not the first study to question the CDC guidelines on sodium intake, but nothing has been changed. The CDC points to evidence that reducing sodium in a diet can lower the risk of high blood pressure, and researchers are not hopeful about seeing new rules appear soon because of the resistance from the CDC.
The new study does not encourage people to add processed foods to their diet or dramatically increase their sodium levels. Instead, it is important to discuss any dietary changes with your medical professionals and carefully consider their advice. Too much sodium in the diet is still dangerous, so finding a balance is crucial. Sodium is an essential part of a diet, but it must be added in the right amounts.


Summary: A boy meets an artist in New York's streets and it sparks the boy's imagination. Vincent Van Gogh opens his eyes. Genre: Fantasy Writing Techniques: drawing, imagination, adjectives Writing Traits: Word choice is used very well in this book by teaching the students the importance of adjectives and describing words which could also teach conventions. Waldman, Neil. The Starry Night. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills, 1999. Print. Vincent Vans, Vans Gogh, Boys Meeting, Central Parks, Neil Waldman, Vincent Van Gogh, Boys Imagine, Pictures Book, Starry Nights
ABC: Letters in the Library by Bonnie Farmer. Library / Aspects of libraries are explored in alphabetical order with delightful drawings.


1. Atomizing sprayer
uses less water when spraying and the residual effect of ambient smoke is shorter.
2. The characteristic of the work is that the spray is not need to use heat. The pesticide used does not produce thermal decomposition. The emulsion, liquid agent and other pesticide can be used. And it usually sprays at dusk or night, which do not affect the field operation during the day.
3. Mist UAV does not pollute crops because it do not use water when spraying. When the operation is done, the operator is outside and will not be contaminated by chemicals. The heat smoke is sprayed with good effect in the evening.
4. The production efficiency is high, especially in the dense growth of crops, which can play a good role in the confined space, and save labor and time. The spraying efficiency is stable, and the spray effect is 30-50 acres per hour. The range is far away, which can reach more than 20 meters.
5. Mist UAV has simple operation with humanized design. You can choose fast and slow gear, and you can use slow gear when you plant seedlings.
The scope of application of the agriculture atomizing drone:
1. Plant Protection Mist UAV is used for afforestation, landscaping, plant nursery, farmland, lawn, sports venues, deinsectization and spray. 2. Used for killing pests in public places such as green belts, rubbish bins, basement, garage, etc.
3. Used for spraying, disinfecting and sterilizing goods, containers and vehicles for entry and exit.
4. Used for disinfection and sterilization of health and epidemic prevention, disease prevention and post-disaster pollution.
5. Used for the plant protection of vegetables,flowers and shed planting and the sterilization, disinfestation and disinfection of large-scale farms such aslivestock.


Education does not stop and start at the classroom door. There are so many factors that influence educational success; with that, many states are adopting a P-20 education system that fosters greater understanding of student achievement and the potential barriers that can hamper their success in school. Big data is really driving this forward.
Here at Data Ladder, we are noticing that these school systems are taking a closer look at big data and are using record linkage tools to make critical assessments and improvements. Analyzing this information is important for greater understanding of educational attainment post high school. Taking the valuable research gathered from these data quality and record linkage tools can help drive innovation and creativity, giving students the opportunity to develop their talents post high school and into college, and significantly change the future of our education systems.
From simple data points such as names and addresses to more detailed information such as attendance, disciplinary issues, and performance on assessment tests, using record linkage software to process and analyze the information can help educators and decision-makers implement necessary initiatives to improve the teaching process. Through linking these disparate data sets, decision-makers can individualize and customize learning for each student, and create plans that improve academic performance, decrease dropout rates, and improve a student’s prospects for a career post high school and college.
Creating a more seamless and integrated education experience is the goal of P-20 initiatives, and is one of Data Ladder’s goals in helping our education industry clients. It is important to ensure these early connections are made between early childhood, elementary and secondary education. Learn more about how Data Ladder’s record linkage tools are helping educators and administrators with their P-20 initiatives and data-driven decision making.


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marc – May 27, 2013:
this saying is sad but true. However, stats show that a home-schooled person; when encountering a bully, can handle it loads better than the conventionally schooled student.
key point, to be aware of are.
-there is a feeling of diminished self importance within the bully, from various probable environmental factors.
-they are functioning from a place of strong insecurity, they project the pain they feel internally onto the outside world in an effort to not feel alone in their pain….especially they possibly attempt to hurt kids that are the “nice” onces. purpose? it is to put a nice kid onto the internally hurt levels of the bullies (life situation). the bully may feel a moment of common grounds with his victim because he has gained emotional equality with someone of a different social standing…..
without self-importance then we all become mindless “Borg”
navigator – August 3, 2014:
I think you nail it Marc, insecurity and projection are key factors in a bully, which derive in a mask.
Not that bad


New York– It is good that you understand why your spouse is stressed but this alone will not help him or her get rid of the situation. Extend an helping hand and it will cement your romantic relationship further, feel researchers.
A team of US researchers studying empathy in relationships found that in the absence of caring, understanding alone does not cut it when stressful situations arise in relationships.
The findings, published in the journal Psychological Science, provide the first evidence that cognitive and affective forms of empathy work together to facilitate responsive behaviour.
“When people were empathically accurate — when they had an accurate understanding of their partner’s thoughts and feelings — they were more responsive only when they also felt more empathic concern, more compassion and motivation to attend to their partner’s needs,” said lead author Lauren Winczewski from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The team argued that responsiveness requires not only accurate understanding but also compassionate motivation.
They tested their theory by asking couples to discuss a previously identified personal or relationship stressor — jealousy, say, or, as in one case, one partner’s extreme fear of flying.
By videotaping the conversations, they were able to gauge empathic accuracy and empathic concern, as well as responsiveness, both in real time and after the interaction had concluded.
The results showed that when a listener’s concern for their partner was high, their accuracy bolstered responsiveness; but when compassion was scant, understanding did little to aid responsiveness.
The findings suggest that empathic accuracy facilitates responsive behaviour only when one is motivated to use that insight for benevolent goals.
“In this way, our study shows that ‘thinking and feeling’ work together to help us be as supportive as possible to those we love,” said co-researcher Nancy Collins. (IANS)


This year, we’ll be experiencing a February 29, a date that only shows up on calendars in years that are divisible by four, such as 2024. February is still the shortest month of the year, even with its extra day, but Leap Day serves an important purpose.
The effects of leap years can vary depending on a country’s calendar, but the Gregorian calendar used by the United States counts a solar year as 365.25 days, slightly off from a calendar year, which is 365 days. Adding in an extra day roughly every four years makes up for the missing quarter-days, and allows us to maintain consistent seasonal years where weather and natural events are predictable.
People whose birthdays happen to fall on a Leap Day are sometimes called “leaplings” or “leapers,” and often celebrate their birthdays on February 28 or March 1 in years that don’t contain their actual date of birth, February 29. (Which day is considered their legal birthday depends on the legal system where they live.)
Sometimes, Leap Years can cause problems with coding when a program incorrectly assumes that a year is or is not a leap year, as seen with bugs here and here. Contact troubleshooting or customer service if you suspect your device is encountering a problem due to Leap Day.
Many countries have traditions or superstitions surrounding Leap Years and Leap Days, but on the whole you are not expected to act any differently on February 29. Expect businesses, schools, and government buildings to operate on normal hours, and traffic to be normal as well.


Wetlands face destruction due to threats such as commercial development, industry, urbanization, agriculture, invasive species, pollution, climate change and dams. It is estimated that approximately half of the world's wetlands have disappeared since 1900. The loss or alteration of wetlands is believed to contribute to global warming.Continue Reading
Wetlands are a type of ecosystem characterized by either a seasonal or permanent saturation of land by water, which can either be fresh, brackish or salt. Aquatic plants and other vegetation specific to wetlands are another defining characteristic, as they are fully adapted to the exclusive hydric soil. Wetlands are useful to the environment due to their ability to purify water, provide stability to shorelines, serve as a home for a variety species and act as a buffer for floods. Examples of wetlands include swamps, bogs, marshes and fens. Climate varies based on location, but wetlands are present on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. Of all ecosystems, it is believed that wetlands face the most environmental degradation.
Around half of the world's human population relies on wetlands for their freshwater needs. Wetlands also serve as a significant source of protein and are often used as fisheries. Conservation efforts within the United States are centered around building artificial wetlands to offset the loss of those from industry and commercial interests.Learn more about Human Impact


Capacitor 3 in Figure 25-41a is a variable capacitor (its capacitance C3 can be varied). Figure 25-41b gives the electric potential V1 across capacitor 1 versus C3. The horizontal scale is set by C3s = 14 μF. Electric potential V1 approaches an asymptote of 10 V as C3 approaches infinity. What are (a) the electric potential V (in V) across the battery, (b)C1, and (c)C2?
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The journal "Nature Conservation Research" is one of the first exactly scientific journals, aimed to show the quality and level of scientific investigations that are carried out in the Protected Areas, studies of biological diversity and also biology and ecology of rare and endangered species.
The main requirements for submitting manuscripts: a manuscript must 1) either be based on studies conducted (exclusively or predominantly) within Protected Area(s), or 2) be devoted (exclusively or predominantly) to rare and/or threatened species; 3) a manuscript must be of interest to an international readership, even if its immediate scope is local.
The journal "Nature Conservation Research" publishes review articles, original articles, short communications, research notes, as well as chronicles, book reviews, anniversaries.
The publication frequency is 4 issues per year. Also, we plan to publish special issues dedicated to certain thematics in the field of the nature conservation.
Biodiversity and conservation of rare and endangered species.
Inventory of living organisms in Protected Areas and other territories.
Study and conservation of objects of non-living nature in Protected Areas.
Long-term monitoring of environment components in relation to threatened/rare species or to Protected Areas.
New concepts, methods and techniques for nature conservation.
Anthropogenic transformation of natural ecosystems and invasive alien species in Protected Areas.
Paleontological studies in Protected Areas.
Ecosystems management for nature conservation.
The legal basis for nature conservation and management.
History and development prospects of reserve management and studies.


Working with Database Objects
The stages of SMO object creation are as follows:
Create an instance of the object.
Set the object properties.
Create instances of the child objects.
Set the child object properties.
Create the object.
When instances of SMO objects are created in an SMO application, they do not exist on the instance of SQL Server until the method is issued. However, it is not necessary to issue a Create method for every individual object. If an object has a set of child objects, only the parent object is required to run the Create method. For example, the definition of a table requires that it contains at least one column to exist. Also, a column cannot exist in isolation without a table. There is a codependent relationship between the table and its columns.
The Alter method lets you make changes to an object. Several changes to an object, such as adding child objects to one of the object's collections or changing a property value, are batched together and run as one. The Alter method reduces network traffic and improves overall performance.
The Drop statement is used to remove an object and all its codependent child objects that were required to create the object initially.


From the inception of golf and from the very first rules of which there were not many ( meagre 13) in 1758 the concept was for players to "Play the ball as it lies. Play the course as you find it. And if you can't do either, do what is fair."
We have probably all seen players do this at some stage; Putting their foot directly behind there ball in long grass (sometimes on fairway/closely mown areas/divots etc). (see photo below)
This is contrary to the above and the way golf should be played so as it is fair for everyone competing
Indeed Rule 13 is devoted to "Playing the Ball as it Lies" previously we concentrated on Water Hazards - however, it must be applied throughout the entire course.
- Play the ball as it lies (note ball at rest moved Rule 18)
A player cannot
- improve their lie, intended stance and or swing, including line of play by pressing the club on the ground, moving, bending or breaking anything growing or fixed (including immovable obstructions and objects defining out of bounds,
- creating or eliminating irregularities of the surface, removing or pressing down sand. loose soil, replaced divots or other turf placed in position or
- removing dew, frost, water
However, no penalty is incurred if the action is done when;
- grounding club lightly when addressing the ball
- fairly taking their stance
- making a stroke or the backward movement of their club and the stroke is made
- creating or eliminating irregularities within the Teeing Ground
- on the putting green by removing sand & loose soil or in repairing damage (not spike marks) (Rule 16-1)
A player is entitled to place his feet firmly in taking his stance, but he must not build a stance. It is common on a number of our bunkers at New Kuta for the ball to remain high up on the slope - as such it is important for players to understand what is considered as building a stance.
A good example as to what is fair and what is not fair is shown in this video (Fairly taking a Stance as opposed to Building a Stance)


In 1919, Children’s book week became a national event. This week (May 2-8) is Children’s Book Week. How are you celebrating? I hope you are reading everyday and celebrating all of the wonderful children’s literature, authors, and illustrators past and present. Even if your city isn’t having a big event, have a special family celebration. Reading with your child is something that will benefit him/her for life.
My 23 month old already loves books and very carefully and thoughtfully makes selections from his shelf. I love to watch him squat down and reach for a book, look at the cover, and either take it out enthusiastically or replace it carefully for another time. Once a selection is made, he backs into my lap and we enjoy reading it one, two, or even three times before he chooses another. This can go on for a very long time. It is apparent to me that he already has an appreciation for his books and has decided favorites. I hope to be able to nurture in him a lifelong love of reading and a critical eye for good literature.
So celebrate Children’s Book Week this week and every week! Spend time reading with your child. Just twenty minutes a day can make all the difference in your child’s life…and you will never be sorry you spent that time cuddling with your child!
“A great nation is a reading nation.”. -Frederic Melcher
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Source:Idaho Department of Fish and Game (2012)
Keywords:Dryocopus pileatus, Picoides dorsalis, Pileated Woodpecker, Three-toed Woodpecker
These GIS shapefiles show 176 intended locations from 44 survey grids for conducting surveys for two woodpecker species: (American) three-toed (Picoides dorsalis) and pileated (Dryocopus pileatus) woodpeckers. Six locations were not surveyed due to time constraints or adverse conditions. Sixteen of the 44 grids were visited/surveyed twice during the survey period, 12 April–17 June 2012, to assess the effects of time on detection probability. The survey sites were selected using a spatially balanced survey design that selects sites randomly but enforces spatial balance across the study area. Seventy percent of the samples were placed in managed forest landscapes with some history of timber harvest and 30% in forests that did not have a history of timber harvest. Woodpeckers were surveyed at each point using a silent listening period of 6 minutes, followed by a 6-minute playback period for three-toed woodpecker and a 6-minute playback period for pileated woodpecker. All woodpeckers seen or heard during all three periods were noted.
ELECTRONIC FILE - Zoology: Birds


The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster was prophesied in 1903 by Gustav Meyrink, a European author, banker and occultist. In his 1903 short story - Petroleum, Petroleum - he actually says it is a prophecy. And he actually mentions the Gulf of Mexico as the location of the disaster. And he says the goal of the oil spill is to destroy the human habitat and human life itself. Petroleum, Petroleum - itself is about an evil chemist who intentionally causes an oil disaster by blowing up oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. This destroys the lives of the people living along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spills into the Gulf for years as the rest of the world bickers about what to do, covering all oceans. This causes seawater to no longer evaporate and it stops raining. This should destroy the rest of humanity. Exactly the intention of the evil chemist, who created the oil spill. Websites and radio shows dedicated to conspiracies and the New World Order are using this 1903 short story to say the Gulf of Mexico oil rig Deepwater Horizon was blown up on purpose and the oil will be allowed to leak into the water for years to come, allowing the New Wold Order to use the disaster to create their one world order. Hereby a link to the English Translation of Gustav Meyrink's Short Story Petroleum Petroleum (1903) in which he foresaw the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Just google - gustav meyrink petroleum, petroleum -.


- CAMS Plus Series B Teacher Guide
CAMS Plus Series B Teacher Guide
Comprehensive Assessment of Mathematics Strategies is designed specifically to provide data for targeted instruction with the STAMS® Plus Series, and can be used to measure your students’ progress in and mastery of 16 fundamental maths strategies.
Each CAMS® Plus teacher guide includes everything a teacher will require to facilitate, administer and grade the assessments presented in the CAMS® Plus student book. The teacher guide features information on how and when to use the pretests, benchmarks and post tests, as well as how to record the appropriate data so it can be used to guide instruction with the STAMS® Plus Series. Reproducible resources include:
- Individual record sheet – track individual student progress in all 16 strategies introduced in the CAMS® Plus student book to determine areas requiring instruction with STAMS® Plus
- Individual performance graph – construct a column graph to easily illustrate the student’s strengths and weaknesses for parents or administrators
- Class record sheet – available for the pretests, benchmarks and post tests, these record sheets are the perfect resource to assess the class as a whole
Most importantly, the CAMS® Plus teacher guide also includes the answer keys for each test in the student book, making assessment even easier.
Each lesson in the 2013 Australian edition of CAMS® Plus and STAMS® Plus has been aligned with corresponding Australian Curriculum content descriptions. A grid listing these content descriptions and the relevant lessons they align to can be found on page 15 of the teacher guide.
|Publish date||2013-11-26 00:00:00|
|Partner Name||Curriculum Associates Inc.|
|Key Learning Area||Mathematics|


|Stemphylium leaf blight|
|An onion leaf showing Stemphylium leaf blight symptoms and a leaf miner scar|
Stemphylium leaf blight (Stemphylium vesicarium) is a plant pathogenic fungus. This disease typically attacks leaf tips, purple blotch lesions, and injured or dying onion leaves and is often identified as purple blotch.
Stemphylium vesicarium may enter purple blotch lesions, causing a black fungal growth. Since this fungus is usually found co-infecting with Alternaria porri, symptoms are identical or at least very similar to purple blotch. However, Stemphylium leaf blight lesions appear to be a darker, more olive-brown to black color than do purple blotch lesions. Lesions are often more numerous on the sides of onion leaves facing the prevailing wind. These lesions grow rapidly, coalesce, and cause severe leaf blighting during periods of prolonged leaf wetness.
Practices used to suppress purple blotch generally reduce losses to Stemphylium leaf blight.
- ↑ a b (2003). Crop Profile for Onions in Georgia "Stemphylium Leaf Blight". National Information System for the Regional IPM Centres. Retrieved: 2010-10-22.
|Chives · Garlic chives · Leek · Onion · Shallot|
|Adverse conditions||Bolting · Bruising · Manganese deficiency|
|Diseases||Aster yellows · Bacterial soft rot · Centre rot · Black mould · Damping off · Downey mildew · Fusarium basal rot · Neck rot · Onion smudge · Onion smut · Onion white rot · Pink root of onion · Purple blotch · Rust · Sour skin · Stemphylium leaf blight · Xanthomonas leaf blight of onion|
|Pests||Cutworm · Leaf miner · Leek moth · Stem and bulb nematode · Thrips · Wireworm|


Why are amino acids so important?
Amino acids are at the basis of all life processes, as they are absolutely essential for every metabolic process. Among their most important tasks are the optimal transport and optimal storage of all nutrients (i.e. water, fat, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and vitamins). The majority of diseases such as obesity, high-cholesterol levels, diabetes, insomnia, erectile dysfunction or arthritis can essentially be traced back to metabolic disturbances. This also applies to hair loss and serious cases of wrinkle formation.


Sixth grade has been described as a major crossroads of a child’s development, both physically and emotionally. At Wesley Prep, we think it is important that our students are in the proper environment during this period of their lives.
Research has shown that sixth graders within elementary schools behave and test better than sixth graders in a middle school environment. Because they are not being influenced by middle school and high school students, these eleven and twelve-year-olds have the chance to “act their age.” They are able to mature and develop into confident young people without the external pressures they may encounter at an older school. Wesley Prep students are given so many opportunities to learn and explore different areas, each student has the chance to figure out what they are passionate about and get to know what is important to them.
Factors favoring Sixth Grade in an Elementary School setting:
- Students are less likely to have discipline problems than their Middle School counterparts.
- Studies have shown that students in Elementary School test higher than those in Middle School.
- Students are not exposed to older teens who may have a negative influence on them.
- Middle Schools are usually larger than Elementary Schools – many parents and teachers believe that sixth graders do better in a smaller, more nurturing setting.
At Wesley Prep, our sixth graders are involved in extracurricular athletics, including flag football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, and track; robotics; a robust art program and musical theater. Our sixth grade program features a departmentalized setting, in which students are moving from one teacher to another throughout the day. These experiences are preparing our students for the multiple transitions they will make during seventh grade. Our sixth graders are encouraged to take on more responsibility and are viewed as the leaders of the school.


Online Dictionary: translate word or phrase from Indonesian to English or vice versa, and also from english to english on-line.
Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: inquisitive(0.01049 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to inquisitive.
English → English (WordNet)
adj 1: showing curiosity; “if someone saw a man climbing a light
post they might get inquisitive”; “raised a
speculative eyebrow” [syn: speculative, questioning,
2: inquiring or appearing to inquire; “an inquiring look”; “the
police are proverbially inquisitive” English → English (gcide)
Inquisitive \In*quis"i*tive\, a. [OE. inquisitif, F.
1. Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do
not concern the inquirer.
A wise man is not inquisitive about things
2. Given to examination, investigation, or research;
A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius. --I.
Syn: Inquiring; prying; curious; meddling; intrusive.
Usage: Inquisitive, Curious, Prying. Curious denotes a
feeling, and inquisitive a habit. We are curious when
we desire to learn something new; we are inquisitive
when we set ourselves to gain it by inquiry or
research. Prying implies inquisitiveness, and is more
commonly used in a bad sense, as indicating a desire
to penetrate into the secrets of others.
[We] curious are to hear,
What happens new. --Milton.
This folio of four pages [a newspaper], happy
Which not even critics criticise; that holds
Inquisitive attention, while I read. --Cowper.
Nor need we with a prying eye survey
The distant skies, to find the Milky Way.
Inquisitive \In*quis"i*tive\, n.
A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research. --Sir


Small Methodist chapel, built in 1849 by the mineworker/evangelist Joseph Fletcher in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Hunloke family who owned most of the parish. Fletcher's own account of the founding of the chapel is in his book 'Food for the Flock', published in 1859. (1, 2)
The Methodist Chapel is built from coursed squared Coal Measures Sandstone with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, and a Welsh slate roof. The north-east elevation has a gable to the street, with central doorway and flanking single-light window, all with steeply pointed arched heads. The Doorway has an ashlar surround, the door is plain planked, with pointed arched overlight. The windows have ashlar surrounds, and diamond-paned cast-iron frames with rectangular margin panes. There is a plain band course at kneeler level, and inscribed tablet on the gable apex which reads 'SALEM INDEPENDENT CHAPEL 1849'. The side elevations each have two pointed arched windows with cast-iron frames. (3)
Unpublished document: County Treasure Recording Form. 10(b).1, photo.
Photograph: Various sources. SMR Slide Collection.
Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England.
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Using distance sampling to quantify Odonata density in tropical rainforests
International Journal of Odonatology, Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 81-88, 2006
Published: 1 April 2006 (Received: 11 May 2005, Accepted: 6 August 2005)
Quantitative data are essential for many aspects of ecological research. Several methods exist to quantify odonate abundance, but complications may arise when abundances in different habitats need to be compared. In this study, I explored a technique that can overcome the variable detectability of odonates in habitats with different visibility. Distance sampling is briefly introduced and the main assumptions are listed. I conducted line transect surveys using distance sampling protocol over several weeks in a rainforest locality in Papua New Guinea to assess the usefulness of distance sampling. The results suggested that estimates of encounter rate and density of odonates are substantially higher when distance sampling is employed. Density in habitats with poor visibility, like the forest interior, is severely underestimated by traditional sampling methods, and this can lead to a misclassification of habitats. Distance sampling is a very useful technique for quantitative odonate sampling, but the sampling effort required for precise estimates is very high. For the rainforest locality in this study at least 15 months of intensive sampling would be required. Further limitations of distance sampling are discussed.
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Decisions, decisions, decisions… Life is full of them. When we get them right, we get done. Life is fruitful and easy. But, when we get them wrong… Well, life can suck. So much so that panicking about making the right choice is not uncommon. Moreover, if a decision has big consequences many people are …
One life skills definition is “a skill that is necessary or desirable for full participation in everyday life”. Or, in other words, home economics. (Who said it’s outdated?!)
This category is about the basic life skills for adults and children that are essential to succeed in life in our digital 21st Century.


When you graph several scientific data points, you may wish to fit a best-fit curve to your points, using software. However, the curve will not match your data points exactly, and when it doesn't, you may wish to calculate the root mean squared error (RMSE), in order to gauge the extent to which your data points vary from your curve. For each data point, the RMSE formula calculates the difference between the actual value of the data point, and the value of the data point on the best-fit curve.
Find the corresponding y-value on your best-fit curve for each value of x corresponding to your original data points.
Subtract the actual value of y from the value of y on your best-fit curve, for each data point that you have. The difference between the actual value of y and the value of y on your best-fit curve is called the residual. Square each residual, then sum your residuals.
Divide the sum of your residuals by the total number of data points that you have, and take the square root of the quotient. This gives the root mean squared error.
About the Author
Tricia Lobo has been writing since 2006. Her biomedical engineering research, "Biocompatible and pH sensitive PLGA encapsulated MnO nanocrystals for molecular and cellular MRI," was accepted in 2010 for publication in the journal "Nanoletters." Lobo earned her Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, with distinction, from Yale in 2010.


With the emergence of Hindu nationalism, the conversion of Indians to Christianity has become a volatile issue, erupting in violence against converts and missionaries. At the height of British colonialism, however, conversion was a path to upward mobility for low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. In this book, Eliza F. Kent takes a fresh look at these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conversion transformed gender roles and expectations. Kent argues that the creation of a new, "respectable" community identity was central to the conversion process for the agricultural laborers and artisans who embraced Protestant Christianity under British rule. At the same time, she shows, this new identity was informed as much by elite Sanskritic customs and ideologies as by Western Christian discourse. Stigmatized by the dominant castes for their ritually polluting occupations and relaxed rules governing kinship and marriage, low-caste converts sought to validate their new higher-status identity in part by the reform of gender relations. These reforms affected ideals of femininity and masculinity in the areas of marriage, domesticity, and dress. By the creation of a "discourse of respectability," says Kent, Tamil Christians hoped to counter the cultural justifications for their social, economic, and sexual exploitation at the hands of high-caste landowners and village elites. Kent's focus on the interactions between Western women missionaries and the Indian Christian women not only adds depth to our understanding of colonial and patriarchal power dynamics, but to the intricacies of conversion itself. Posing an important challenge to normative notions of conversion as a privatized, individual moment in time, Kent's study takes into consideration the ways that public behavior, social status, and the transformation of everyday life inform religious conversion.


Ovarian cancer is cancer in a woman’s ovaries. Ovaries are the two sex glands that hold a woman's eggs.
It can be hard to catch ovarian cancer early because there aren't many clear symptoms. And your doctor may not find anything abnormal during your regular checkup. Once in a while, your doctor might find that one of your ovaries feels larger than it should.
If your doctor suspects you might have ovarian cancer, you'll usually have an:
If the ultrasound looks like you have cancer, your doctor may do:
Doctors treat ovarian cancer with surgery, usually removing the:
Doctors then usually give you chemotherapy to destroy any remaining cancer.
Depending on where the cancer has spread, doctors may use chemotherapy instead of or before surgery.
Unless it's caught early, ovarian cancer often comes back after treatment. Doctors use chemotherapy to treat ovarian cancer that comes back.
Some women have genes that increase the risk of ovarian cancer. These genes are called BRCA1 and BRCA2. They also increase the risk of breast cancer. If you have family members who've had breast or ovarian cancer, you should talk to your doctor about gene testing. If you have one of these genes, having your ovaries removed may help prevent cancer.


You may have outgrown your fascination with the seemingly simple Slinky, but these videos may change your mind. Check out the incredible slow-motion video of a Slinky falling.
Pay close attention to how the bottom of the slinky stays still, until the top catches it. There is actually a very interesting scientific principle behind the cool visual. Read on after the video for more info on why this happens.
This second video addresses the science of why the bottom of the Slinky stays so still.
Did you make your prediction? Here’s the answer:
Simply put, the reason the Slinky stays stationary is because the Slinky’s tension fights against gravity, meaning that the force of gravity and the force of tension, cancel each other out. The bottom of the slinky doesn’t know to fall, until the to catches up to it.


In the afternoon following the figure drawing lesson, we headed to HASS to do some outdoor sketching and to understand the theories of perspective better. Prof demonstrated how he construct a sketch using one-point and two-point perspectives.
For one-point perspectives, there are two pairs of parallel lines, each pair established by joining the lines extended from the vanishing point; for two-point, there is one pair.
By determining the lines of building structures that are parallel, we can leverage on that foundation to draw the basic structures of the building.
Prof told us to always focus on the big picture first: draw out the general structure before filling in the details. Should we rush into the details and the details aren’t drawn accurately, this will subsequently affect all other structures.
Prof also mentioned that in the scenario where the perspective is particularly hard to construct (or if we are simply lazy or bad at perspective drawing), we can make use of space to cover up our weakness by placing smaller structures in front of bigger ones so that the edges of the buildings are obscured.
These are some sketches that I made that day:
I wasn’t overly rigid in my drawing in the sense that I was quite loose with plotting the construction lines. I merely got a general sense of the direction of the line and went ahead to draw it out. I guess judging by the conceptual (focus more on form) vs perceptual (focus more on what you see) distinction that Prof mentioned, I belong to the latter.


First PC Energy Benchmark Released
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It's easy to say you want a green PC--one that consumes less energy and is good (well, better at least) for the environment. But how do you find one? Beyond power meters, there aren't many tools that can accurately gauge the power consumption of today's computers. Fortunately, one group has stepped up to the plate. Ecma International, an industry association dedicated to the standardization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE), has just released standard ECMA-383, a test procedure aimed at measuring the energy consumption, performance, and capabilities of consumer electronics.
According to the group, this standard defines how to evaluate and report energy consumption, performance and capabilities being the vital factors for the energy efficient performance (EEP) of the UUT. Additionally it provides a standardised results reporting format. This Standard requires the user to measure and record a set of energy, power, time, and capability results (using a Benchmark), not a single metric of energy efficiency. This Standard does not set any pass/fail criteria for the UUT. Users of the reported results (regulators, customers etc) may define such criteria.


Brown Wheat Mite, Petrobia latensHosts: Wheat, etc.
Symptoms: Brown wheat mite causes problems in wheat that is already stressed due to lack of moisture. They feed by piercing plant cells in the leaf, which results in "stippling". As injury continues the plants become yellow, then dry out and die. Brown wheat mites feed during the day, and the best time to scout for them is in mid-afternoon. They do not produce webbing and will quickly drop to the soil when disturbed. They are very susceptible to hard, driving rains, but until then they can cause yield loss when present in large numbers They are more common in western Oklahoma and the Panhandle.
Description: This mite is small (about the size of this period.) with a metallic brown to black body and 4 pairs of yellowish legs. The forelegs are distinctly longer that the other three pair. Brown wheat mite eggs come in two forms. One form is a spherical, bright red egg that is usually deposited on soil particles near a host plant. This is the so-called “non-diapause” egg that hatches within a week of being laid. The second type of egg is the “diapause” egg that is white with a ruffled cap that bears 20 to 30 distinct ridges. It is typically deposited at the base of a wheat plant and will not hatch until the following fall.
Life Cycle: Brown wheat mites can complete a life cycle in as little as 10-14 days. Like greenbugs, newly hatched brown wheat mites are all females. They will produce up to 3 generations each year, but have probably already completed at least one by now. Numbers will likely decline if a hard, driving rain occurs. Spring populations begin to decline in mid-late April when females begin to lay “diapause” eggs.
Control: Please contact your local county extension office for current information.
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It cannot be overemphasized that System A had no analogous precursor, and thus that – unlike virtually all succeeding scientific theories – its invention was a radical departure from anything which preceded it. Consequently, we can say almost nothing with confidence about its motivation, which cannot have been directed at the shortcomings of a (non-existent) prevailing theory, nor seemingly at any urgent practical need, since we have still no evidence of how it was employed. Indeed, how little we know of the circumstances of its origin is reflected in the fact that we do not even know for certain its author’s name.
The crucial step – apart from conceiving the desirability and imagining the feasibility of constructing a comprehensive mathematical model of this complex set of variable phenomena – was the separation and successful modeling of the effects of lunar and solar anomaly on the intervals between syzygies. The crux of this development was the initial construction of a model depicting the variations due to lunar anomaly of the intervals between syzygies.
One of the fundamental tools of Babylonian astronomy was the concept of period relation which equated Π phenomena of one sort with Z of another.
In each case the period relation implied that variations associated with the second phenomenon recurred after Π instances of the first phenomenon, and thus that Π phenomena = Z cycles of variation.
* the Substitute King ritual, practiced extensively during the reigns of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal, in which a substitute “king” (and queen) would be appointed to absorb the unfavorable effects of an adverse eclipse, which would be expunged from the kingdom by their subsequent deaths.
Source: John P. Britton. Studies in Babylonian Lunar Theory: Part I. Empirical Elements for Modeling Lunar and Solar Anomalies.
Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 61 (2007) 83–145. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1007/s00407-006-0121-9


It's been two years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered explosions and sank, leading to about 206 million gallons of crude spilling out of the BP well and into the water, marshes and beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. On top of that, around two million gallons of Corexit dispersant were also added, both on the surface of the water and at the wellhead itself. It's all cool now though, right?
Maybe not. To listen to the FDA and the EPA, seafood from the Gulf is safe, and all is well. However, that message is not in tune with what some scientists and fisherman are saying. In some areas it seems, shrimp, crab and fish populations are hugely decreased and what remains show an alarming rate of deformity. Tumors, lack of eyes, and running sores are just some of the visible signs of the impact that the spill is continuing to have on organisms in the region. Officialdom's seeming obliviousness is hardly comforting.
Hit the jump for a video overview of Al Jazeera's in-depth report on the issue, or better yet, read the whole article.
Now, about reducing our need for oil...


Parents often agonise over naming their offspring, with many unwanted suggestions.
For the 11-week-old twin panda babies at the Atlanta zoo, everyone is getting a say.
In accordance with Chinese tradition, the pair known as Lun Lun and Yang Yang in the United States will be named on December 12, their 100th day of life.
The zoo has set up a website for fans around the world to vote on seven sets of names for the adorable newborns.
1. Ba Lun and Shu Lun: Ba Shu are ancient names of the Sichuan area and are still widely used in China, including Sichuan Province and Chongqing. Ba Shu also means “land of abundance.
2. Jiu Jiu and Yuan Yuan: Jiu means “longevity” or “long time.” Yuan means “far distance” or “far away.” Together, they mean “longevity and permanence.”
3. Lun Jia and Jia Lun: The first Jia means “addition.” The second Jia means “good,” “fine” or “praise.” Lun references daughters of Lun Lun.
4. Lun Li and Lun Yu: Lun Li means “ethic” or “ethics.” Lun Yu is Confucian Analects, a collection of sayings of Confucius and one of the pillars of Chinese culture, widely read across centuries.
5. Ya Lun and Xi Lun: Ya means “elegant;” Xi means “happy;” “Lun” references daughters of Lun Lun – “Lun Lun’s elegant and happy daughters.”
6. Ya Lun and Xin Lun: Similar in origin to Ya Lun and Xi Lun, with Xin meaning “fragrant.”
7. Yang Hai and Yang Gui: Yang is a reference to the twins’ father, Yang Yang, and means “ocean.” Hai means “sea.” Gui has many meanings, including “laurel.”
You can vote here


Dr. Thomas Sowell. raises the issue about taxes on the poor. One of the largest taxes on the poor is inflation. In this article, "Taxing the Poor", Dr. Sowell opines on the matter. Here is a excerpt of the article:
"One of the biggest, and one of the oldest, taxes in this latter sense is inflation. Governments have stolen their people's resources this way, not just for centuries, but for thousands of years.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. The Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s had thousands of printing presses turning out vast amounts of money, which the government could then spend to pay for whatever it wanted to pay for."


Edited by John Ishiyama, William J. Miller and Eszter Simon
Chapter 35: Best practices in undergraduate lecturing: how to make large classes work
35. Best practices in undergraduate lecturing: how to make large classes work Kinga Kas and Elizabeth Sheppard LECTURING TO LARGE CLASSES: AN INTRODUCTION Lecturing is certainly one of the oldest forms of university teaching still in use today. As...
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The degrading of natural resources and the continued green house gas emissions in Nigeria are on the increase and of concern to the stakeholders, hence the need for increased information on the organizations’ influence on the environment. The study identifies environmental accounting issues and the effects of these environmental factors on the life of Nigerians. It was discovered that environmentally friendly organizations who voluntary disclose their environmental activities enjoy high level of competitiveness. Environmental accounting motivates organizations to track their green house gas emissions and other environmental elements against reduction or elimination point. It was recommended that companies should adopt acceptable and uniform standards for the purpose of control and measurement of performance, and should design products which generate less waste or emission during their life cycle.


“If I had my druthers, I’d rather be born black, American, female and in the 20th century. And I was. What luck I have,” said Maya Angelou in 2010.
With these words, Angelou spoke with the White House on the cusp of receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor in the United States, an accolade certainly befitting of Angelou.
The author, civil rights activist, poet, educator and mother was a phenomenally bold force of blackness. Angelou, who authored three dozen books and won countless awards (including a National Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize and three Grammy Awards, to name a few), is perhaps best known for her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, though verses from her iconic poem, “Still I Rise,” have become a mantra, an affirmation, for many black Americans. Earlier this year, Angelou even became the subject of documentary, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. Needless to say, Angelou’s influence has gone far beyond what we can put to words.
Angelou died in 2014, and on what would have been the icon’s 89th birthday, girls from the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based nonprofit Black Girl Project and beyond, breathe life into the words of the prolific poet Maya Angelou.
Here they recite “The Black Family Pledge.”


The day begins with a classroom "Morning Meeting." Students gather together for a personal greeting, share thoughts and ideas, and discuss the day’s activities. Language Arts includes reading and discussing stories while incorporating the development and mastery of skills. Small group instruction is woven throughout, utilizing leveled readers and Literature Circles.
Math in third grade is a challenging and exciting experience. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are developed as students explore a variety of topics including place value, fractions, measurement, perimeter, area and geometry. Hands-on learning is encouraged through the use of manipulatives. SMART board technology gives students the added advantage of limitless resources. In addition, students will use math apps on an iPad to further their learning. Multiplication and division are the new challenges of third grade. Mastering times tables is a critical component to becoming proficient in these areas.
Social studies in third grade begins with an exploration of communities. As part of that exploration, students examine citizenship and various branches of government. It culminates with a study of economics. As producers and consumers they will hold a Market Day.
Throughout the year in Science we study 3 major categories. Life Science which include life cycle, evolution and adaptation of plants and animals. Through earth science we involve the Earth’s features, resources and the weather and climate. During the study of earth science we continue to explore the composition and structure of space. While studying physical science we investigate the structure of matter, energy, how heat is transferred and magnetic. We study through hands on experiments and learning. The students will explore and learn from our outside environment through our Outdoor Classroom.
Revised on 11-1-15
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The reasons for the generation of air holes in the weld bead are as follows: (1) Rust, oil, or other impurities on the surface of the welding wire and the groove of the metal being welded. (2) Artificially elongated arcs, the welding area is not fully protected. (3) Improper selection of welding parameters or welding materials. (4) The purity of the shielding gas is insufficient. (5) The gas heater does not work properly.


Paracanoe is much like Canoe Sprint but adapted for athletes with lower-limb and/or spinal injuries (and other disabilities resulting in physical disability with the same or similar outcomes for the athletes). Paracanoe is raced only across the 200m-race distance with both adapted kayaks and canoes.
Paracanoe Athletes are classified into three disability classes with the process of classification beginning at their feet and moving up the athlete’s body with levels of impeded function accumulating points – the number of points determines the athlete’s classification. The classification classes are as follows:
- L1 comprises of athletes with only the use of their arms with no trunk rotation/control or use of their legs.
- L2 comprises of athletes with the use of both their arms and their torso, but no use of their legs.
- L3 comprises of athletes with use of their arms, their torso, and limited use of their legs.


Don’t tinker with the clock to save energy
On 23 March 2011, all clocks in the UK were turned forward by an hour marking the start of Daylight Saving Time (DST). The clocks will be turned back on 30 October 2011. The objective is to save energy by educing the use of artificial light and maximizing the use of daylight over a period of seven months.
While this has been the practice for many years in countries situated in the upper part of the northern hemisphere and the lower part of the southern hemisphere, DST is hardly practised in countries situated closer to the equator.
Several studies have also been conducted in India, over the last three decades, to evaluate various time-based measures for energy conservation. These include introduction of Daylight Saving Time (DST), and shifting Indian Standard Time (IST)—currently GMT + 5½ hours. In 1988, TERI undertook a detailed study for the Government of India’s Advisory Board on Energy to explore these options. The results revealed only nominal savings potential, both in terms of energy and reduction in peak load. However, it was also pointed out that the potential impacts of deploying these options need to be evaluated periodically, because as demand grows, prices change and consumption patterns vary. Therefore, TERI recently undertook a fresh study to re-examine the various issues in greater detail and came to similar conclusions, which are explained in this policy brief. However, knowledge of basic geography as regards the rotation of the earth around the sun and the impact it has on the seasons and on the varying lengths of days and nights is important for a proper understanding of the subject.


Free letter m tracing worksheets! Are you looking for a magnificent way to teach help your kids learn and master alphabet writing?! Well, Kidsactivites is always here to support our beloved kids!
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You can use arrow keys to navigate in the map.
It's dependent on your definition of gender.
You're either XX or XY. Identifying as another sex and changing hormone levels or appearance does not mean you are a different sex.
Gender isn't binary.
Just because males can have female qualities and females can have male qualities, it does not mean there are more than two genders.
The crucial distinction that must be made here is the difference between sex and gender. Sex is a biological term referring to the chromosomal makeup of an individual; gender refers to the characteristics associated with those sexes. It is reasonable to say that there are as many genders as people.
A classification of gender is a classification of a generalised societal role. Generalised societal roles derive from the needs of a society. These needs of a society are demanded by a specific biological function. Rejecting a generalised societal role is rejecting social gender classification.
Being a product of it, gender is as fickle as the mind. We don't yet fully know how the mind works, so it'd be strange to claim with absolute certainty that there are only two genders.
Due to an increased awareness of a sexual and societall role spectrum, we can now increasingly identify ourselves with a title that matches our perons


A Flying Start for Strings: Cello Book 1
A Flying Start for Strings
The A Flying Start for Strings series presents a carefully graded sequence of music for teaching the beginning string player. The books are suitable for teaching individuals or groups of the same instrument. Many tunes in the series for violin, viola and cello are in the same key and can be played together.
Teachers can use this versatile series in a way that suits their own teaching style. There is ample room in all books for the teacher wishing to add more dynamics, slurs, bowing signs, tempos, instructions or explanations. The large easy-to-read notes and clear and simple layout help students concentrate on the notes they are learning. Lively folk and traditional tunes make learning fun and lead to confident playing.
With only one tune on most pages, the young student gains a sense of achievement from turning the pages quickly and moving on.
Book 1 is ideal for getting young beginners off to a flying start. The early part of the book can be used flexibly, accommodating the approach preferred by the teacher and suited to the progress of the student. Learning areas may be introduced separately and combined when ready.
- Reading rhythms
- Using left hand fingers
- Pitch notation
Rhythm exercises are used before any pitch notation. Rhythms may be clapped or played, bowed or plucked, on open strings or using fingering. Left hand fingers may be introduced in the order preferred, using the rhythms to develop finger skill and strength.
Major scales and arpeggios are played starting on an open string. Many short, easy tunes gradually introduce reading and playing with all fingers on each string (fingers 1,3 & 4 for cello)


Holy Land Yerushalayim Menorah (Silver-plated)
This elegant menorah, a candelabrum, is inscribed with the words “Holy Land” in English and “Jerusalem” in Hebrew (Yerushalayim).
A menorah is a candelabrum with seven candles that is displayed in Jewish synagogues.
The original design for the menorah is described with great detail in the Torah, and it was used in rituals in the tabernacle (portable sanctuary) and later the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Size: 5.25” x 4.25”


Though Perl is a wonderful and fun language,
the best language to start with is assembler.
No language gives you so much insight in the inner
workings of a computer. Once you learn assembler the
working and especially restrictions, innerworking, and
other higher level languages are much easier to understand
(for instance things as passing arguments by register or by
stack, stack overflows, size limitions of numbers, hexadecimal
number, optimizations etc). Once that is learned Perl makes
an excelent 2nd language....
Have Fun, Frans.


There are a variety of projects around the Hawaiian islands that needaccurate offshore basemaps. These projects range from;
Marine disposal site studies - Maps generated from the multibeam surveyscan show the location and movement of the dredge material. Specific dumpvolume, area, and cross-section can be calculated using GIS and other software.
Coral reef studies - The USGS has active projects in Mamala Bay, Oahuthat need accurate bathymetric maps to help unravel the fate of sedimentthat has been transported across the reefs and onto the insular slope.
Marine Sanctuary studies - The National Oceanographic and AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) has recently established the Hawaiian Humpback WhaleNational Marine Sanctuary between the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, andOahu. Now accurate bathymetric maps exist for this large area to help understandthe morphology and geologic make-up of the ocean floor.
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This packet contains rubrics for expository essay assignments. The packet contains several variations of my standard expository essay rubric, which makes them of use to classrooms in all subject areas and several grade levels, including post-secondary. The rubric variations can be used in Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Higher Education, and in classrooms which use MLA and APA formatting.
My rubrics are all letter grade rubrics, so there is no need to try assigning points and calculate numerous scores for several categories. While the rubrics have letter grades, I assign plus/minus grades as follows: A+ = 100, A = 95, A- = 92, B+ = 88, B = 85, B- = 82, and so on. Sometimes, however, a student's writing may fall into more than one letter grade category. For instance, the student's paper may be an A in content and organization, but a D or F in formatting and grammar/mechanics. In such a case, I assign the plus/minus grade for each category (e.g. content, organization, formatting, and grammar/mechanics), and I average the grades. I find this to be much easier and faster than using rubrics that require assigning point values for each category and adding them together. Any grading process that saves time and is easy for students to understand is worth trying!
If you are interested in more rubrics, check out my entire writing rubric package in my store! Save money by buying an entire package full of rubrics for any writing assignment, or buy rubrics for certain writing assignments individually (as in this package).


Students can use a robot to measure the hallway accurately. This activity includes programming instructions and a help sheet to assist students with writing a simple program on their graphing calculators. The commands instruct the robot to move forward carrying a calculator until it bumps into something. Students use data displayed on the calculator to determine the distance the robot traveled.
Mission 1: Measure
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This activity is part of the Calculator-Controlled Robots Educator Guide


Agricultural Pollution of Water Bodies
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Citation:The Ohio Journal of Science. v70 n1 (January, 1970), 50-56
Pollution of Ohio's water bodies is of growing public concern; industrial, urban, and rural sources are becoming the subject of critical examination. Rural sources are soil sediment, plant nutrients, animal waste, and pesticides. Pesticides and phosphorus are absorbed rapidly and strongly to soil particles. Therefore reductions in sediment, phosphorus, and pesticide pollution are achieved by soil-erosion-control farming practices. More acres need to be brought under erosion-control practices. Nitrates dissolve in water and are carried by surface flow to streams and lakes, and by percolating water to underground aquifers. Increases in the use of nitrogen fertilizer, in evidence almost everywhere, could result in serious contamination of water bodies, if soil enrichment greatly exceeds the crop demand. Areas where large-scale livestock and poultry production is concentrated are also potential sources of serious pollution. In Ohio, animalwaste pollution problems are being studied at The Ohio State University, and movement of pollutants in surface and subsurface waters on drainage plots near Castalia are being studied by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and on agricultural watersheds by USDA Agricultural Research Service at Coshocton, Ohio.
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Schall, W. O. (1990) Orbital Debris Removal by Laser Radiation. In: Proceedings. 41st Congress of the IAF, 6-12 October 1990, Dresden..
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The use of high-power lasers is suggested for the removal of small orbital debris of up to 10 cm in diameter. Assuming data for a most probable collision orbit and for realistic ejection speeds of debris vapor under laser irradiation, calculations show the feasibility of tre ating a debris object like a laser-propelled rocket. The acceleration of the debris during irradiation allows to change its orbit for a direct reentry into the earth atmosphere. An autonomous orbital vehicle could eventually clear the whole low earth orbital environment from small debris. In a modification of this method a laser could be used on short note to divert the flight path of a piece of debris to avoid a collision.
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The borehole measures water level in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Peak District. Our records date back to 1974
Our enquiries service can help you to access groundwater level data for this well.
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The borehole measures water level in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Peak District.
It is drilled into the Hopedale Limestone Formation, Peak Limestone Group. A north–south trending fault mapped immediately to the east of the site upthrows the Woodale Limestone Formation.
The relatively deep water level in the borehole reflects a regional water level controlled by drainage in the incised valley of the River Dove to the south of the borehole.
Although not noted in the borehole log, the village of Alstonfield had several low yielding shallow wells that may have tapped perched aquifers.
The well consists of a 178 mm diameter borehole to 121.92 metres, the diameter is reduced to 140 mm from 121.92 metres to 137.3 metres.
The well hydrograph shows an open groundwater system very responsive to seasonal recharge, and as might be expected from a limestone aquifer responses to rainfall can be rapid and peaky, responding to individual rainfall episodes through the winter.
Weekly data until 1983, then monthly data.
Contact Andrew McKenzie for further information.


I have said that you need to think of many Deer hunters with hi-powered rifles shooting at you. From every angle those very hi-powered bullets trying to hit you. That is like Gamma Rays in the fallout. Density of your shelter is an absolute must. Just think of all those Deer hunters on your roof shooting down. Hunters out in your yard shooting through the walls for two weeks. You would get killed. That is what you need to protect yourself against. You need DENSITY to stop those bullets.
You can see that your wood and plaster walls would not protect you. Neither the wood and shingles on your roof. Bullets would just come through. Again I say you need DENSITY of shelter material to protect you. DENSITY shielding is the answer for your protection. Bullets would fly through a mattress. Sheetrock or plywood is denser. Hollow cement cinder blocks are denser. Solid Bricks are denser. Packed earth is denser. Concrete is denser. Solid steel or lead is the best. But few people can have a steel and concrete Bank vault shelter.
You need to think in what the scientists call HVT thickness. HVT = Half Values Thickness. That means only ½ of the gamma rays will get through, because the DENSITY has stopped them. The reason for getting into a basement is that the rays only come down, from the fallout on the roof to you. You are below ground level and the soil, dirt, outside has absorbed and stopped the rays, it is DENSE enough that two feet of earth gives protection.
Again realize, IF hunters were shooting, then a two-foot bank of earth would stop their bullets.
Every 3.6 inches of packed earth will cut the gamma rays in half. The HVT (half value thickness) of dirt packed is 3.6 inches. To be protected you need two (2)feet of earth. The diagram below shows this principle. This shows 18 inches of dirt.


Research suggests a new model of chronic disease Genes play an integral function in determining whether someone encounters multiple chronic illnesses, based on new analysis by King’s. Chronic pain, depression and cardiovascular disease are 3 of the most typical factors behind disability, and are growing to be more frequent. Folks are significantly more likely to suffer from several persistent disease also, resulting in higher disability. While age, gender, sociable conditions and way of life are recognized to increase susceptibility to multiple factors behind impairment, the exact reason some people have problems with several chronic illnesses among others don’t is unfamiliar.But she cautioned that because that is an observational research, it isn’t possible to prove that tension causes autoimmune illnesses, only that both are linked. In the scholarly study, Dr Song’s team viewed patients in Sweden identified as having stress disorders such as for example PTSD, acute stress reaction, adjustment disorder and other stress reactions from 1981 to 2013. The research workers likened they with siblings and folks in the overall people not really experiencing a tension disorder.