British Nannies and the Great War : How Norland's Regiment of Nannies Coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War Hardback
by Louise Heren
In 1912, Norland children's nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base's commanding officer.
Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War, leaving behind her adored German royal charges and all her personal possessions.
Due to their prestige as the creme-de-la-creme of Edwardian children's nurses to Europe's royal and wealthy families, Kate was one among many Norland nannies who witnessed the early days of the War on the Continent with all its tumult and fear.
Some fled for home; others managed to stay for a while. And yet others gave up their privileged way of life to undertake war work as nurses in Flanders and refugee camps.
The stories in this book are the nannies' eye-witness accounts described in their correspondence with their beloved Norland Institute. These previously unpublished letters recount a version of women's Great War history that has remained untold until now.
British Nannies and the Great War is the true story of a group of Edwardian, highly trained and opinionated women in the First World War.For the first time in a century, the Norland nannies' unique stories of escape from enemy territory, their experiences at home and the Front during the War, and their thoughts on how the conflict changed their role in post-Edwardian Britain are told in their own words.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 224 pages, 20 illustrations
- Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Publication Date: 02/02/2016
- Category: British & Irish history
- ISBN: 9781473827530


Clubroot canola disease continues to spread within Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba with new fields and areas confirmed each year. The latest maps are posted in the clubroot chapter of the Canola Encyclopedia.
Alberta: A survey of 620 canola (Brassica napus) and four mustard (Brassica juncea) crops in Alberta identified 66 new records of clubroot. All positive identifications occurred on canola, with 39 crops mildly infected, 24 moderately infected and three crops severely infected. An additional 313 cases of clubroot were found during inspections by county and municipal personnel, for a grand total of 379 confirmed infestations recorded in 2020. These included the first reports of clubroot in the Municipal District of Smoky River and in the counties of Grande Prairie and Wheatland.
Saskatchewan: Visible clubroot symptoms have been confirmed in 75 commercial canola fields since 2017, which is an increase of 24 fields over the past year. The number of fields with the clubroot pathogen detected but with no visible symptoms increased by 18 over the past year. Saskatchewan update and map.
Manitoba: The 2020 canola disease survey detected one symptomatic field in the Rural Municipality (RM) of Pembina, while individual agronomist and producer reports added at least three other fields in the RMs of Roblin and Alexander. Roblin and Alexander were added to the map of those with symptomatic fields. Positive clubroot symptoms are now present in 10 RMs, with a total of 44 fields confirmed since symptomatic fields records began in 2013. Manitoba clubroot map.


In this week’s lesson we learn about how Jesus was trying to teach His disciples to put others first – not themselves. Jesus didn’t just tell them, He showed them!
Jesus’ disciples where eager to be close to Him because they thought He was going to be a king on earth, but Jesus told them, the greatest people are those who put others first.
This week’s craft is a pot luck scene your children can use to act out who should go first.
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A TOKYO zoo said it will work on improving the living conditions for its 69-year-old elephant Hanako (花子).
Animal activists had started a ‘Help Hanako’ campaign that sought to improve the elephant’s situation or move it to a Thai sanctuary.
They said Hanako has been too lonely living on her own in Inokashira Park Zoo (井之頭公園動物園) for over six decades.
But Animal welfare expert Carol Buckley, who was invited to the zoo by the campaign, found the zoo had “done a lot of good”.
She said Hanako was among the healthiest elephants, for her age, she has ever seen. Their usual lifespan is about 70 years.
The zoo has earlier said moving Hanako would be too stressful.
Instead of moving her, Buckley recommended infrared heaters and rubber mats to make her small concrete pen more livable.
She suggested playing music and adding more toys. Tires and a tube are Hanako’s favourite toys now.
She said renovating or enlarging Hanako’s pen would require noisy construction that might put stress on the animal.
Buckley noted animal activists need to be educated, regardless of their good intentions. “You think she should be put on a plane or a boat and go to Thailand? What are you thinking?” she said.
(This article is published on Junior Standard on 4 March 2016)
The heartbreaking tale of Hanako the elephant
Arguments for and against zoos


Iowa State University has developed their own humanoid robot to perform procedural learning. Though the robot lacks a lower body and is therefore unable to move around on its own, it has two (rather large) Barrett Whole Arm Manipulators for arms, and a custom-designed head with stereo vision capable of simple emotional expression. Its three-fingered hands are flexible enough to perform a variety of grasping motions, using fingers 1 and 3 as opposable thumbs when necessary.
The philosophy behind the research is to teach the robot the properties of its surroundings similar to the way a child or animal learns during early development, through direct experience. The robot has already learned to identify objects from the sounds they make when being touched, pushed, held, and shaken.
The robot used a pair of scissors to cut the ceremonial ribbon for the opening of Iowa State University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering building, where the robot makes its home in the Developmental Robotics Lab. Izaak Moody, an undergraduate in the College of Art and Design, is responsible for designing the robot’s friendly head, and has created some nice rendered animations showing the robot’s emotional range. The previously posted robot Archie from the Universities of Manitoba and Vienna could learn a lot from this. Videos and media after the break.
Iowa State University


Beta-glucans▲ are a family of polysaccharides, of which substances made up of many individual sugar molecules linked together. It is naturally found in the cell walls of baker’s yeast, certain fungi, cereal grains such as oats and barley, mushrooms and even some algae.1
Different foods include different types of Beta-glucan▲. The type of Beta-glucan▲ better known for its ability to enhance the immune system is the beta-glucan▲ derived from yeast. This type of beta-glucan▲ has been present for thousands of years in the diet of humans, including children, as part of leavened bread products2. Because of its ability to help support natural body’s defenses, Yeast Beta-Glucan may complement other nutrients to promote immunity.
You can find more information about Wellmune Beta-Glucan▲ at www.wellmune.com
2Stier, H., Ebbeskotte, V., & Gruenwald, J. (2014). Immune-modulatory effects of dietary Yeast Beta-1,3/1,6-D-glucan. Nutrition Journal, 13, 38. http://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-13-38


According to PatentlyApple, a series of Apple patent applications published by the US Patent & Trademark Office today, has revealed the company’s work on advancing its Retina Display through the use of Quantum Dots, that will eventually sharpen colors to yet “the next degree of outstanding quality”. Quantum dots or QDs are basically very small nanocrystals that can display quantum mechanical properties, meaning they’re capable of efficiently conveying color and improving accuracy.
Apple’s patents describe the technology through the framework of red, blue, and green color wavelengths. The filings explain that a Retina Display without quantum dots can match color vibrancy and accuracy on blue, but falls short on green and red. Quantum dots, however, follow the RGB wavelength, potentially creating improved color accuracy.
One of the patents discusses the use of optical coatings to eliminate light emitting diode (LED) hotspots, and more particularly, to the placement of an optical coating near an LED or a quantum dot sheet to normalize the intensity of light emanating from a backlight.
“Apple notes that placing the quantum dots in the liquid crystal layer, can be problematic due to the fact that the liquid crystal display layer requires the light to be polarized in order to control the brightness of color, and quantum dots produce isotropic un-polarized light.
The liquid crystal layer can be replaced by a MEMS shutter control layer, which does not require polarized light to control the brightness of color. By replacing the liquid crystal layer with a MEMS shutter control layer, quantum dots can be placed outside of the backlight architecture. This can allow the backlight to maintain a simpler architecture, while at the same time utilizing quantum dots to produce a display with a superior color gamut.”
As always, we can never be certain whether any of these technologies will eventually make their way to Apple products.


African-American poet, author and activist, Maya Angelou, has died at the age of 86.
One of America's leading literary voices, she made her name with the 1969 memoir 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'.
It was the first of seven volumes of autobiography that traced her life from a childhood of abuse and oppression in the Deep South in the 1930s.
Her family said: "She lived as a teacher, activist, artist and human being. She was a warrior for equality, tolerance and peace."
In a statement on Facebook, they said she passed away quietly at home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at 08:00 EST (12:00 GMT).
"Her family is extremely grateful that her ascension was not belaboured by a loss of acuity or comprehension," they said.
"The family is extremely appreciative of the time we had with her and we know that she is looking down upon us with love."
Meanwhile, US President, Barack Obama has led the tributes to Maya Angelou, describing the poet, author and activist as "one of the brightest lights of our time.


We often stress the importance of hydration. While drinking water is important eating fruit and vegetables can contribute a large amount of water to your diet. Watermelon was a favourite of Shelli’s. Cold watermelon smoothies with a touch of mint were her favourite especially when she had bad mouth ulcers. We would freeze the watermelon and then blend when required.
Watermelon one of the most hydrating foods you can eat with 92% water content and quite low in calories, approximately 46 calories per cup. Over half of that cup, 154-gram serving, is water content. It also has important nutrients, including vitamin C, vitamin A and magnesium and some fibre.
Watermelon is now commonly used it salads, drinks or just a refreshening snack. Eating smaller, frequent meals or snacks can be better than facing a large meal.
#water #hydration #nutritionalbenefits #watercontent #cancer #cancerpatient #kitforcancer #TheKitFoundation


Any of a group of RNA viruses similar to the myxoviruses but larger and hemolytic, including those causing mumps, measles, distemper, rinderpest, and various respiratory infections (parainfluenza).
More example sentences
- Respiratory syncytial virus is a paramyxovirus of the genus pneumovirus.
- The scientists working on the cause of SARS have already focused their attention on a coronavirus after an initial suspicion that a paramyxovirus might be the cause.
- Measles is caused by a paramyxovirus and usually affects children.
Definition of paramyxovirus in:
- The British & World English dictionary


LAWRENCE — An award-winning scholar of modern Germany, the United States and West Africa will deliver a lecture at the University of Kansas examining how the American Civil War was also an international revolution against slavery.
Andrew Zimmerman, professor of history at George Washington University, will speak about "Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Mississippi Valley: Conjure, Communism and the U.S. Civil War" from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, in the Malott Room of the Kansas Union.
Zimmerman, who is also a current fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, is the author of "Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany," "Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire," and "The Globalization of the New South.”
His research focuses on the Civil War as both a national war for the survival of the United States and an international revolution against slavery.
Highlighting the role of African-American conjure — the North American counterpart of Haitian Vodou, Jamaican Obeah and other Afro-Atlantic religions — and German-American communism in the struggle against slavery in the United States, this lecture follows the Union Army down the Mississippi River Valley to its victory over the Confederacy.
It was through the war-by-emancipation strategy developed by these international revolutionaries that the Union defeated the Confederacy, Zimmerman said. Yet as part of his argument in his scholarship is that Union elites also fought to suppress the very revolutionary energies on which their victory depended, for these energies also threatened hierarchies of race and property that they held dear.
The event, sponsored by the KU Department of History, is free and open to the public.


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Publisher: Random House Struik
Cape Town, South Africa 2007
ISBN 9781770072404 / ISBN 978-1-77007-240-4
Softcover, 15x24 cm, 184 pages, throughout illustrations and photos
Tree identification is generally perceived as difficult, all the more so in a botanically diverse region such as southern Africa, where about 2100 species occur naturally, not to mention several hundred more that have been introduced from elsewhere in the world. How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa provides the background knowledge essential for tree identification.
The guide promotes an approach that will equip readers to use any field guide to trees with greater ease and more confidence. Starting with the basics of plant form, it systematically uncovers the structure of trees to enable a clear understanding of what to look for when trying to identify an unknown tree. The tree guide is divided into two parts:
Part One, well-supported with colour illustrations and photographs, describes the various parts of a tree and their significance for identification.
Part Two features a key to 43 tree groups based on easy-to-observe stem and leaf features. As a first step towards identification, the group-recognition approach has proved to be more helpful to the layperson than the often-used formal botanical families.
An icon is used to depict the principal characters of a group, thus making it easier for the beginner to record and conceptualize tree diversity. Group accounts present explanatory notes on group characters and tips on species identification. A selection of tree species is described and illustrated, and a list of all the southern African plant families represented in each group is supplied.
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Ronald Cohen, a leading urological pathologist and professor at the University of Western Australia, sees about 80 cases of testicular cancer a year.
He is concerned about the under-investigation of the second testicle, and says the likelihood of cancer arising in it is underestimated.
“People talk of 5 per cent risk of bilateral disease, but I think it is higher, although it may occur years later. We see it not uncommonly."
Cohen says a simple sperm test can indicate a risk of early cancerous changes and the need for a biopsy. The condition can be cured with low-dose radiation.
While radiation will wipe out all sperm production, he says it will preserve the man’s ability to produce his own hormones.
This will save him from lifetime hormone administration and the complications that can arise, particularly in the prostate, from unopposed and continuous testosterone replacement therapy, should he lose the second testicle.
Peter Grimison, a medical oncologist from Sydney University, puts the risk of contralateral testicular cancer at 3 to 4 per cent, and says neither ultrasound nor sperm analysis has been shown to improve outcomes.
“The most important method of detecting contralateral disease in patients with previous testicular cancer, and detecting testicular cancer for the first time, is for all men to examine their testicles once a month, and to see their doctor urgently if they notice a lump, swelling or pain."
The Australian Financial Review


Which statement about galactosemia is true?
- Disease effects are limited to the eye.
- Cataracts are inevitably progressive.
- It can result from a defect in galactokinase or galactose-1-P uridyl transferase.
- It can lead to an accumulation of galactose in the lens, forming a snowflake cataract.
Galactosemia is an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism affecting the conversion of galactose to glucose caused by a defect in galactokinase, UDPgalactose-4-epimerase, or galactose-1-P uridyl transferase (most common). Excess galactose accumulation in body tissues with subsequent conversion to galactitol leads to the classic oil-droplet cataract, liver dysfunction, and mental deficiency within the first few weeks of life. If left untreated, it is fatal. Three-quarters of patients develop cataracts because the nucleus and deep cortex become increasingly opacified. In some cases, early cataract formation can be reversed with dietary intervention.


cartilage element development,
cartilage organ development,
||The process whose specific outcome is the progression of a cartilage element over time, from its formation to the mature structure. Cartilage elements are skeletal elements that consist of connective tissue dominated by extracellular matrix containing collagen type II and large amounts of proteoglycan, particularly chondroitin sulfate.
||GO: Biological Process [GO:0051216]


More than 23 million people in the United States have diabetes. If you're one of them, it's easy to understand why you'd want to know how diabetes affects your oral health. You might be surprised to learn that if your blood glucose levels are poorly controlled, you are more likely to develop serious gum disease (periodontitis) and lose more teeth than people who don't have diabetes. In turn, periodontitis may cause your blood sugar to rise, making your diabetes harder to control.
What puts people with diabetes at higher risk for gum disease? The less controlled your blood sugar level, the more impaired your white blood cells become. These guys are the main defense against bacterial infections that occur in your mouth. With less of them fighting infections, there's more chance serious dental problems will occur. The good news is a dentist can keep an eye on your oral health and help keep gum disease at bay.
The Diabetes-Gum Disease Connection
Gum disease is an infection of the gums -- the tissues that support your teeth. The first stage of gum disease is called gingivitis, and warning signs include red, tender gums and seriously bad breath (halitosis). As the disease progresses into periodontitis, it becomes much more severe, with receding gums, pus and tooth loss.
The catch is that gum disease is often painless. You may not know you have it until you have some serious damage. Be on the lookout for these warning signs:
- Bleeding gums when you brush or floss
- Red, swollen or tender gums
- Receding gums
- Pus between the teeth and gums
- Persistent bad breath
- Loose permanent teeth
- Changes in the way your teeth fit together when you bite
- Changes in the fit of partial dentures or a dental bridge


What is Mesothelioma?
Mesothelioma is a very rare cancer that in a nutshell will develop in the mesothelium. The mesothelium is the protective lining that cover's a good portion of your body's internal organs. There is no standarized screening for this form of cancer, but there are ways for doctors to screen for it, which is done if you or your physician suspect that you may have mesothelioma.
- asbestos and glass particles being inhaled over time
- inhaling fine dust and fibers over time
- living near an asbestos mine
- shortness of breath
- chest pain
- weight loss
- fluid in the lungs and coughing
What is asbestos?
Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral, it was used for decades in buildings as a fireproof material. The reason why it's so fireproof is due to the material naturally being fibrous which gives it a natural flame retardant property. It's also good at making buildings more sound proof and a great electrical insulator.
The problem with asbestos is when it becomes airborne, the tiny fibers at the microscopic level resemble tiny hooks. These fibers can get caught in the lunch when inhaled and can lead to respiratory conditions such as mesothelioma.
Types and Stages
Stage I - right or left pleura, lung, or diaphragm
Stage II - spread from pleura to nearby lymph nodes near the lungs
Stage III - in chest wall, esophagus, ribs and muscles
Stage IV - fully spread to lymph nodes in the chest
Treatment involves everything from chemotherapy to radiation to surgery. The type and level of treatment is dependent on the severity and stage of cancer in one's body.
There are also a lot of legal issues that can arise from people who have mesothelioma, this is due to the fact that this form of cancer is mostly attributed to environmental issues. Such as a construction worker removing asbestos, or somebody living near a mine that puts pollutants in the air that can cause this cancer to appear in people living nearby.


Thermal imaging for corrosion detectionJun 5, 2014
Dylan Bailey, a marine surveyor in St. Augustine and Jacksonville, Fla., shows us an example of using a thermal imaging camera to check for chainplate corrosion.
He writes in his blog: "In April I surveyed a Sea Tiger Ketch. The main mast chainplates were glassed in. I used Thermal Imaging to inspect the chainplates, along with visual inspection. Signs of corrosion were sighted weeping from around the bolt on one of the chainplates. Thermal Imagining helped determine the extent of the corrosion and moisture."
Seeing under the skin of a boat with a thermal imaging unit is a useful tool for making sure that structural elements like chainplates are sound.


553 tenths could be used to describe time, distance, money, and many other things.|
553 tenths means that if you divide something into ten equal parts, 553 tenths is 553 of those parts that you just divided up.
We converted 553 tenths into different things below to explain further:
553 tenths as a Fraction
Since 553 tenths is 553 over ten, 553 tenths as a Fraction is
553 tenths as a Decimal
If you divide 553 by ten you get 553 tenths as a decimal which is 55.30.
553 tenths as a Percent
To get 553 tenths as a Percent, you multiply the decimal with 100 to get the answer of 5530 percent.
553 tenths of a dollar
First we divide a dollar into ten parts where each part is 10 cents. Then we multiply 10 cents with 553 and
get 5530 cents or 55 dollars and 30 cents.


Gestational Diabetes - What Happens
Most women find out they have
gestational diabetes after being tested between the
24th and 28th weeks of their pregnancy. After you know you have gestational
diabetes, you will need to make certain changes in the way you eat and how
often you exercise to help keep your blood sugar level within a
target range. As you get farther
along in your pregnancy, your body will continue to make more and more
hormones. This can make it harder and harder to control your blood sugar. If it
is not possible to control your blood sugar with food and exercise, you may
also need to
take diabetes medicine or give yourself shots of insulin.
- Diabetes: Giving Yourself an Insulin Shot
Most women who have gestational
diabetes give birth to healthy babies. If you are able to keep your blood sugar
level within a target range, your chances of having problems during pregnancy or
birth are the same as if you didn't have gestational diabetes.
Sometimes a mother or her baby has problems because of high blood sugar.
These problems include:
- High blood pressure in the mother caused by
- A baby that grows too large. If a developing baby (fetus) receives too much
sugar, the sugar can turn into fat, causing the baby to grow larger than
normal. A large baby can be injured during vaginal birth and may need to be
delivered surgically (C-section).
- After the baby is born, the baby's blood
sugar level may drop too low, and he or she may need to be given extra sugar.
can also develop other treatable problems after birth, including low blood
calcium levels, high
bilirubin levels, and too many red blood cells.
Most of the time, gestational diabetes goes away after a
baby is born. But if you have had gestational diabetes, you have a greater
chance of having it in a future pregnancy and of developing
type 2 diabetes.


Most bats echolocate at a frequency unheard by the human ear, however, some desert species emit echolocation calls within the range of human hearing.
Spotted bats (Euderma maculatum) are an elusive and widely-distributed species throughout the semi-arid deserts of North America. Sometimes called the “Oreo cookie bat,” they sport large, pink ears and spotted fur. Spotted bats roost high among sheer cliffs, but their clicking calls can be heard while they hunt for owlet moths in the canyons of Central Oregon.
The first spotted bat was “officially” documented in Oregon in 1979 when researchers in the Alvord Desert accidentally captured one in a mist net left open overnight. Only four more spotted bat records were reported in the state over the next 24 years, and the idea that spotted bats were extremely rare, or possibly even extirpated, took hold. In 2005, however, listening surveys combined with mist-netting surveys of Central Oregon revealed that spotted bats may be more abundant in the region than previously recognized.
Biologists still have limited understanding of spotted bat distribution and seasonal patterns in Oregon. What we do know is that their calls are most commonly heard near the canyons and cliffs of eastern Oregon’s High Desert.
Pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) are another of Oregon's high desert bat species. They have a wide range, spanning from Canada to Mexico. While pallid bats typically produce inaudible, high-frequency echolocation calls, this behavior changes while rearing pups. When in the vicinity of summertime maternity roosts, pallid bats will lower the frequencies of their calls to within the range of human hearing.
Serendipitously, both the spotted bat and pallid bat are found in similar arid cliffs and canyons habitats such that both species can be effectively surveyed simultaneously.


You may want to let them try and work out how long it will take you to travel somewhere when you get in the car, by telling them what speed you'll be traveling and how far away your destination is.
Treat math as part of their daily lives _ Math has practical uses and kids must understand this early on. If they get an allowance they will need to count their money and if they spend any they'll need to get the right change and understand how much is left over. They are growing and they will love this fact. Let them fill out their own height chart. When they are helping you in the kitchen, let them help you measure the flour to bake cookies. They can also figure out how many slices of pizza each person can get or how many batteries must be used out of the pack. to power their toys. These are just a few simple ideas.


I would like through your paper to tell the general public about the disease of Epilepsy.
It is so scaring and very few know about its causes for example. Epilepsy is a general term that refers to a tendency to have recurrent seizures. There are various types of seizures. People with diagnosed epilepsy often have only one type of seizure, although some experience more than one type. The term "epilepsy" can be used interchangeably with "seizure disorder." Epilepsy is not contagious and poses no risk to others. A seizure occurs when abnormal electrical activity in the brain causes an involuntary change in body movement or function, sensation, awareness, or behaviour. A seizure can last from a few seconds to a few minutes. There are more than 20 different types of seizures. These types can be broadly classified into two groups: 1) primary generalized seizures and 2) partial seizures.
Symptoms experienced by a person during a seizure depend on where in the brain the disturbance in electrical activity occurs. A person having a tonic-chronic seizure may cry out, lose consciousness, and fall to the ground, and have rigidity and muscle jerks. A person having a complex partial seizure may appear confused or dazed and will not be able to respond to questions or direction. Some people, however, have seizures that are not noticeable to others. Sometimes, the only clue that a person is having an absence seizure is rapid blinking or a few seconds of staring into space.


For today’s beginning of class writing assignment, we will focus on time. Before coming into class, you should have read your article and thought about its contents. You will have 30 minutes from the beginning of class to complete and post your memo as a comment to this post. Use the following example as a guide for your memo:
TO: Professor Ellis FROM: Your Name DATE: Today's Date SUBJECT: Brief Summary of an Article About X (replace X with the main topic) One sentence describing the purpose of this memo (e.g., I wanted to bring your attention to this article about X--again, replace X with the topic). Two-three sentences summarizing the main point of the article. These sentences should be all in your own words. No quotes and no paraphrasing. APA citation for your article. Look at the example, "Article in a Magazine" on this page.


GLAIR (from Fr. glaire, probably from Lat. clarus, clear, bright), the white of an egg, and hence a term used for a preparation made of this and used, in bookbinding and in gilding, to retain the gold and as a varnish. The adjective " glairy " is used of substances having the viscous and transparent consistency of the white ol an egg.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)


As a river flows around rocks and logs, still spaces form in the fluid flow. Over at TACC, Aaron Dubrow writes that researchers are exploring the phase space of these fluid deformations using supercomputers. Through a better understanding of microfluidics, clinicians may someday be able to separate white blood cells from other cells in a blood sample, increase mixing in industrial applications, and more quickly perform lab-on-a-chip-type operations, like DNA sequencing and chemical detection.
The equations used to determine the fluid flows are fairly straightforward, but the number of configurations needed to solve the problem required them to use the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Ranger, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), served the national open science community for five years and was replaced by Stampede (the sixth most powerful supercomputer in the world) in January 2013. Using several thousand processors concurrently, the researchers ran more than a 1,000 different problems, each representing a combination of different speeds, thicknesses, heights or offsets.
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Controlled Intake Area Dredging for Fine Sediment Removal To Improve Water Quality in the Indian River Lagoon
Grisanti, Hannah Christine
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This study is an investigation of hydraulic dredging specifically designed to remove muck and other fine sediments from local water systems in Brevard County, Florida. The goal of the project is to improve water quality in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) and create positive environmental impacts. Dredging is an excavation activity that takes place underwater in shallow seas or freshwater environments to remove material from the bottom surface. Typically, dredging techniques are implemented to keep waterways such as canals, inlets, and harbors navigable for boats and barges. Dredging is also commonly used to move sand from offshore sources to beaches where sand has been depleted due to erosion. Environmental dredging refers to the removal of contaminated sediments from selected locations. It involves precision dredging techniques designed to reduce the resuspension of fine sediment particles. Many of the environmental dredging techniques currently available are focused on procedural/managerial methods for controlling resuspension of sediments and reducing the number of residuals, undisturbed and generated, found at post-dredging locations. Whereas, less efforts have been made in the mechanical design of the suction dredge head itself. The suction dredge head discussed in this thesis is designed for fine sediment and muck removal. It consists of a variable intake area that can be adjusted to increase or decrease the intake velocity. By doing so, the dredge head removes the finer sediment pollutants while leaving behind coarser material such as sand, shells, and pebbles. It is anticipated that removing muck will create a significant reduction of toxic algal blooms in the Lagoon’s waters and aid in restoring the natural ecosystem.


Superviolence is defined as the illegitimate use of nuclear, chemical, or biological mass destruction devices by domestic agents for attack or threat against U.S. civil society. Political extremism, sever mental imbalance, and criminal gain are examined as possible motivations. Since the nuclear industry constitutes the primary source of fissionable material for fabricating an illicit weapon, its policies, practices, and diversion safequards program are investigated. The threat process is analyzed in five phases: idea conception, group formation, weapon fabrication, application (attack or threat), and consequences. The steps of each phase are described for various weapons, with emphasis on the human factors, skills and resources involved. Potential failure modes are identified, and assessed as more severe in the nuclear than in the chemical or biological case. The important distinctions between direct attack, coercive threat, and sham are analyzed in detail. Actual nuclear superviolence is held to be an extremely unlikely phenomenon due to its dependence on the coalescence of specialized motives, high commitment, inhibition of restraints, technical skills, and significant resources in a risky, failure-prone process of inapparent utility. Chemical or biological superviolence is deemed more practicable, with the latter having an anit-personnel potential greater than the nuclear case. Provisions for controlling and responding to superviolent incidents are examined.
Superviolence: The Civil Threat of Mass Destruction Weapons, 1972 [448 Pages, 18.5MB]


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This is a midi-version of Gravity Wave, a piece I composed for the “Pique Collective,” a Baltimore based ensemble that performs New Music.
Pique Collective consists of flute, guitar, cello, piano, and percussion. With regard to Gravity Wave, the flute and cello both are to be doubled electronically. These doubled parts are included in the score.
The piece’s rhythmic intent is manifest, with a steady quarter note pulse throughout. With few exceptions, the piece is in 6/8 meter. The most noticeable exception is the first section, which consists of alternating measures of 5/8 and 6/8.
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In 1664, Isaac Newton was the first to become aware of gravity. Called “the Law of Universal Gravitation,” it is the force that draws objects toward each other. However, Newton was unable to determine what this force was.
Albert Einstein had many ideas about gravity and space. He predicted that when two bodies, such as planets or stars, orbit each other – they would cause ripples in space. These would spread out like ripples when a stone in tossed into a pond.
Gravity waves are invisible but fast, traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second).
They were observed for the very first time in 2015, using the combined Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatories in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana.


Adding Pothos to improve aquarium water quality is something many people do. It’s very easy and anyone can do it. Buy Pothos here from Amazon.
Looking at some of the more elaborate aquascapes you may see a bunch of leaves swirling their way out of the aquarium and down the side of the tank. This could be Pothos, or also known as Devil’s Ivy.
What is Pothos?
Pothos is a vine, also known as Golden Pothos. It is a plant often used in terrariums, and vivariums as it’s emergent. The plant can grow in either soil or water, providing they receive the right nutrients. Luckily a fish tank is very good at providing the right conditions to grow Pothos in water.
Aswell as looking good, having Pothos in the aquarium helps to improve water quality, by removing Nitrates from the water. This is the reason so many people us it. Many people who don’t use plants in their aquarium will still dangle a bit of this in to help with the water quality, as it doesn’t require any maintenance.
Pothos is an extremely hardy plant and it’s very hard to kill. It survives under low light conditions very well, so under high lighting, it can grow extremely quick. Pothos is often used in various types of Vivariums also.
How to add it to your aquarium
When you receive your Pothos plant you want to gently remove all the dirt from the roots and then place it in the aquarium, with the roots submerged in the water. The roots will grow long in the water, taking in all those nutrients from the tank, and with the leaves out of the water, will eventually grow out into a long vine out of the tank.
I have a whole bunch of this is both tanks. It’s aesthetically pleasing having it twirl around the edge of the tank or down the side. The roots also look very good, and natural. Again, adding Pothos to improve aquarium water quality is very easy to do, and it will help to remove nitrates. Buy pothos here from Amazon
I also made a YouTube video on the subject.


Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Recovery from addiction necessarily takes great effort. If changing a behavior happens without effort, then that behavior is probably not so habitually imbedded into our emotional defense system that it can be considered an addiction. It takes time and effort to create addictions. Especially when we are addicted to substances that are not accepted into the mainstream of life, we have, no doubt, traveled a hard road of escape, denial, dishonesty, poor self-care, and often a host of other seemingly anti-social behaviors before we find ourselves tethered to emotional and physiological bonds that seem impenetrable and unchangeable. Even more subtle, less obviously damaging addictions have taken time to establish themselves. So, the path away from addiction and toward healthier patterns will take great effort and may often be thwarted by seeming failures and deep feelings of hopelessness and futility. These stumbles, in fact, are an important part of the recovery process. They stand as emotional hurdles that teach us about how mired we may be within the confines of our own dysfunctional patterns. But as we move through each of these hurdles, we also learn about our strengths, will to live, and ability to change and grow. Within each ‘failure’ lies an opportunity to learn about our own fortitude and commitment. So, we must not give up—ever.


The worker bees are sexually underdeveloped females smaller than the queen but capable of laying small numbers of eggs under some conditions. Worker bees that lay eggs are called laying workers. Their eggs, usually placed in worker cells, develop into undersized but functional drones.
Worker-bee larvae hatch from the eggs in 3 days, are fed royal jelly for 2 1/2 days, and then their diet is changed to include pollen and honey for 2 1/2 days. They are sealed in their cells for 12 days, during which period they spin a cocoon and transform from the larvae to the pupae, emerging as adult bees 20 days after the eggs were laid.
The difference in the cell and food environment causes the worker bees to require 5 days longer to develop than the queen, yet their life expectancy is only 5 weeks during the summer and a few months during the winter. Any worker larva under 24 to 48 hours old can be developed into a queen under the proper colony conditions that insures the nurse bees will construct a queen cell and feed royal jelly lavishly to the developing larva. The rearing of queens for market is a highly specialized field of beekeeping.
The worker bees differ markedly from the queen in many respects other than function, length of life, and behavior. Structurally they have a longer tongue for gathering nectar, modified mandibles (jaws) especially designed for comb building, special glands for secreting royal jelly, enzymes for the conversion of nectar into honey, and glands that function in communication; highly specialized leg structures for gathering and carrying pollen, four pairs of wax glands on the underside of their abdomen for the secretion of wax, and a straight barbed sting for the defense of the colony. The queen's sting is curved and smooth and is used only to destroy rival queens.
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Forests, Fields, and the Falls
This site illustrates the ways in which the late 19th-century history of Minnesota is tied to the rise of and connection between four industries: lumbering, sawmilling, farming, and flour milling. The site uses a comic book-like format (large picture panels with minimal text), and incorporates the diaries and personal recollections of four Minnesotans who participated as lumbermen, sawyers, farmers, or flour millers. The colorful format attracts attention and the short presentations are appropriate for younger viewers (elementary, middle, and even high school students). The site relies primarily on Flash to present the stories, but viewers can also read and view the stories in HTML.
Each segment provides links to outside resources (about 40 in all) for additional information. Explanatory links define terms that might be unfamiliar to visitors, suggest topics for discussion, and offer additional supporting materials (for example, the site links internally to approximately 50 period photographs and diary entries). Teachers may find useful the nine suggestions for classroom activities, such as analyzing photographic evidence or examining the perspective of one of the storytellers.


'Four Leaf Clover'; European waterclover (USA); sushni in parts of India; aalaik keerai in Tamil.
M. quadrifolia is found naturally in central and southern Europe, Caucasia, western Siberia, Afghanistan, sw India, China, and Japan. It is considered a weed in some parts of the United States, where it has been well established in the northeast for over 100 years.
Aquatic fern bearing 4 parted leaf resembling '4-leaf clover' (Trifolium). Leaves floating in deep water or erect in shallow water or on land. Leaflets obdeltoid, to 3/4" long, glaucous, petioles to 8" long; Sporocarp (ferns) ellipsoid, to 3/16" long, dark brown, on stalks to 3/4" long, attached to base of petioles.
In some places it has been used as food for more than 3000 years. The plant is anti-inflammatory, diuretic, depurative, febrifuge and refrigerant. It is also used to treat snakebite and applied to abscesses etc.
The plant prefers light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist or wet soil and can grow in water.
Marsilea quadrifolia can be grown as a potted plant, either just with soil kept wet, or semi-submerged, with fronds emergent from the water, or fully submerged, with the fronds floating on the surface of the water.
In the aquarium, water clover is grown fully submerged, usually in the foreground where it spreads by means of runners. It normally seems to be unfussy as to light and water conditions, and doesn't need a rich substrate.
Marsileas are very easy to germinate from their sporocarps. However, the sporocarps must be abraded, cracked, or have an edge sliced off before submerging them in water so that the water can penetrate to swell the tissues, and germination is infrared-light dependent. Full sunlight is fine for this purpose.
- Rataj Dr. Karel and Horeman T J, Aquarium Plants, TFH Publications (1977)


as Lords of the Manor.
was a land set apart, a land of mystique and quaint customs, more strongly related to
. It was not until the 10th century that they submitted to the Saxon rule of England. Since then, their influence has moved east into
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Winslett research.Another 139 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1510 and 1600 are included under the topic Early Winslett History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
of this family name include: Winslade, Wynslade, Winslate, Wynslate, Wynstall, Winslatt, Winslaid and many more.


This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.
Objective: This book takes place in Africa the late 1800's. The author does a good job establishing this time frame and describing the character's lives during that time period. The objective of this lesson is to learn about that time period and how it differs from today.
1) 1. For class discussion: What year does When the Lion Feeds start? What is the environment? Where does the story take place...
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Lettuce is an annual plant of the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is very often grown as a leaf vegetable, but sometimes for its stem and seeds. Lettuce is most often used for salads, although it is also seen in other kinds of food, such as soups, sandwiches and wraps; it can also be grilled. One variety, the woju , or asparagus lettuce is grown for its stems, which are either raw or cooked. In addition to its main use as a leafy green, it has also gathered religious and medicinal significance over centuries of human consumption. Europe and North America is the main market for lettuce, but by the late 20th century the consumption of lettuce had spread throughout the world. World production of lettuce and chicory for calendar year 2013 was 24.9 million tonnes, over half of which came from China.
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Histology processing of a miniscule biopsy is a real challenge for surgical pathology. Some biopsies are so small that they are bordering cytology but these specimens have all histology organ/tissue features. For example, vocal cord biopsies often are like films of tissue.
Obviously, these specimens are very difficult for embedding and microtome cutting. The first trim takes the valuable material.
Application of many layers of dye, preferably Hematoxyline, on the specimen could be used to artificially enhance the size of the miniscule biopsy. The dye crystallizes on the surface coating the specimen. This crystal shield protects the main fragment while trimming. Hematoxyline over staining is not a problem for following slide staining.
This method was successfully tasted in many occasions. It is especially useful in brain biopsies with scarce material when a single almost invisible fragment solely represent diagnostically valuable structures.


2 Powerpoints and 5 word documents.
Word documents: 46 keywords associated with the Senior Infant reader “Ella Goes to the Airport”, Cloze passage, 2 unjumble the sentence worksheet, one worksheet with very basic questions about the story
Powerpoint: 9 slide Powerpoint with pictures of objects in story (e.g. shorts, swimsuit etc.) so children can spell them/sound them out and 24 slide Powerpoint with main keywords from the story.


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Imagine the ‘wow' factor for pupils (and adults) to be seated beneath an historic telescope and to discover ‘How the telescopes have been used', ‘What we can learn from them today' and ‘How the astronomers would have worked here' when it was The Royal Observatory.
Your group will be led by a member of our team as you visit two domes housing historic telescopes. The tour includes reference to the history of the site, the copper clad domes and the logistics of operating these huge telescopes.
Principles of refraction and reflection will be shown by simple demonstrations and the tour normally incorporates a visit to 2 domes: 1 housing a refractor telescope and 1 a reflector.
It is hoped this experience will help to foster an understanding of telescopes and stimulate an interest in astronomy.
A tour costs an additional £1 per pupil, lasts approximately 40 minutes and dialogue is led by the level of the group. Minimum charge £20.
KS3 / KS4 pupils, and groups with a particular interest in physics / engineering / astronomy can book a tour to incorporate additional telescope domes and areas, depending on time and availability.


Recorded in number of dialectal spellings including Oubridge, Owbridge, and Owbrick, this is an English surname. It is locational and derives from the village name of Oughtibridge, a place in the former West Riding of Yorkshire, near the city of Sheffield. The derivation is from an Old English pre 7th century personal name "Uhtred", with "brycg", which is unlikely to have described a bridge as such, but probably referred to a raised causeway above the surrounding marshland. Oughtibridge was first recorded in the Yorkshire Charters of the year 1161 as "Uhtinabrigga". During the Middle Ages, when it became more common for people to migrate from their birthplace, generally to seek work elsewhere, the custom evolved of adopting the village name as a means of identification, thus resulting in a wide dispersal of the name. Amongst the early recordings is the marriage of John Owbrick and Dorothie Harrison at Scarborough Parish Church, on November 13th 1662, and the christening of John Oubridge on February 6th 1797, the chuurch of St. John and St. Martin, Beverley, East Yorkshire. The first recorded spelling of the family name is possibly that of Jervase Oubrigge who married Anne Rayly at Cherry Burton, Yorkshire, on May 3rd 1650, during the "reign" of Oliver Cromwell, 1649 - 1658. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Freedom from Chemical Dependency (FCD) representative visits School to talk with students about substance abuse
FCD specialist and School of the Nations’ guest, Mr. Eduardo Torres, held educational debates with students and parents and gave workshops on drug use, depression, and anxiety. From October 30 through November 1, Mr. Torres discussed many facets of alcohol and drug use, as well as social, cultural, and personal questions related to drug consumption and addiction.
Mr. Torres shared data and discussed the physiological and psychological effects of drugs use. Different from prior years, Mr. Torres spoke of depression and anxiety as well. Students in Grades 5-12 listened to firsthand experiences and received practical information to help them weigh the risks and consider the results of the choices they make.
Freedom from Chemical Dependency (FCD) is a global nonprofit substance abuse prevention organization that promotes health education to schools and universities. For years, FCD has worked worldwide to provide students and the adults who care for them the knowledge, understanding, and skills they need to make healthy choices about alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
Our Middle School Guidance Counselor, Ms. Teresa Heloísa believes it is important to educate young people about the risks and realities of substance use. “FCD helps students and their families deal with the social aspects of drug use and helps students consider the outcomes of their choices. We want our students to become responsible, healthy adults.”
Besides working with students, Mr. Eduardo Torres shared with parents some warning signs and other information they should be aware of at home. He also discussed how parents can bring the subject of drug and alcohol use up with their children.This is the third year our School receives a specialist to promote awareness of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use.


Through electronic tagging, tissue sampling and photo identification, a lot can be discovered of the behaviours of Ocean Giants. Whale sharks can dive up to a mile deep, and routinely swim over 6000 miles each year. Giant manta rays can also travel long distances. Whale sharks need approximately 25 years to mature, and routinely live for 100 years. There is still only very limited knowledge of their reproductive habits, but manta rays are known to have annual ovulating cycles, but have the slowest reproductive rate of all elasmobranch species.


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EES is starting the week strong! On Monday Ms. Dather’s class practiced identifying measurement units while sorting everyday objects into categories. Meanwhile Ms. Graham’s Kindergarten class was working hard on the number 6! Ms. Isom’s 5th grade literacy class used Frayer’s model to expand their vocabularies while starting the novel Wonder. Ms. Langley’s 5th graders were studying various states of matter, documenting what they found using their KLEWS chart. In 1st grade enrichment Ms. Barnhart’s students read a story on growth, diversity, and problem-solving. EES Teachers are doing Whatever It Takes for our students!


Recent calls for "engagement" have land-grant institutions searching for ways to develop "two-way" partnerships between universities and communities for broad civic purposes. The renewal of a powerful but little understood tradition of educational organizing in Cooperative Extension work can help place Extension on the front lines of this important work. In this article, the author traces and discusses the roots of the tradition of educational organizing, shedding light on one of the most inspiring forgotten chapters of cooperative Extension history.
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Peters, S. J. (2002). Rousing the People on the Land: The Roots of the Educational Organizing Tradition in Extension Work. The Journal of Extension, 40(3), Article 4. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/joe/vol40/iss3/4


Question: We are placing an 8-inch thick concrete parking lot with the joints at 18 feet apart. I thought we needed some expansion joints to account for the thermal expansion when the concrete gets hot in the summer. The engineer, though, insists expansion joints aren’t necessary. Why not?
Answer: The reason expansion joints aren’t needed is simply that drying shrinkage of the concrete after placement is greater than any anticipated thermal expansion. Start by reading Scott Tarr’s article on concrete shrinkage. You’ll note that he says even low-shrinkage concrete shrinks about 0.05%. So with the joints 18 feet apart, the slab will shrink 0.05% x 18 feet x 12 inches/foot = 0.12 inches. Thermal expansion of concrete is about 5.5 x 10-6/° F. Say you placed the slab at 70° F and it heats up to 150° F in the summer. That’s an 80° F temperature change. So the expansion would be 80 x 5.5 x 10-6 x 18 feet = 0.095 inches. And the sawed joints will at least 1/8-inch (0.125 inch) wide which provides an extra measure of safety. So even under these severe conditions, the expansion is less than the shrinkage so no expansion joint is needed.


Vinnie Takes a Bow - AlphaPets Author:Richard Max Kolding (Illustrator), Ruth Lerner Perle In this story, Vinnie the Vocal Vulture is so busy talking that he hardly ever listens. A series of mishaps that almost prevents him from playing in the AlphaPet orchestra finally makes Vinnie realize the importance of paying attention to what others have to say. — In addition to enjoying this story with your child you can use it to teach a gentl... more »e lesson about the importance of listening and the consequences of talking too much. You may want to discuss the role of cooperation and communication in any kind of group effort, such as participating in a team sport or playing in an orchestra.
You can also use this story to introduce the letter V. As you read about Vinnie the Vocal Vulture, ask your child to listen for all the V words and point to the objects that begin with V. When you've finished reading the story, your child will enjoy doing the activity at the end of the book.« less


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Activities submitted from teachers during Expedition 10:
Mary Cook, a teacher from Southside Middle School in Batesville, Arkansas sent in these lesson sheets that she gave to her 8th grade students. Thank you Mary!
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The Sanctuary of the Madonna of Val di Prata is located near the town along the road that leads to Arcidosso and the mountain, with a panoramic view that opens onto Montelaterone and Amiata. Mentioned in a document written by Pope Innocent III in 1198, the first year of his pontificate, the church of Val di Prata is referred to again in 1218 by Pope Honorius III in a letter addressed to the bishop of Chiusi, who boasted rights over this district, and again in 1228. From existing documents, however, it can be deduced that even before the year 1000, a church dedicated to the Virgin existed on this site. The church of Val di Prata houses the venerated fifteenth-century image of the Madonna and Child called the Consolation, which is said to have been found miraculously by a shepherdess. In 1864, Pope Pius IX granted a plenary indulgence in perpetuity to those who confessed and communicated in Val di Prata on 4th, 5th and 6th June each year, the anniversary of the coronation of the Sacred Image by the Sacred Chapter of St Peter in Rome in 1747. The plan of the sanctuary is rectangular with a terminal scarsella, its facade being like a hut, animated by corner pilasters with an entablature and an architraved portal. Adorning the sides of the church there are two stucco decorated altars: one dedicated to St Anthony and one to the Madonna del Carmine, with two dedicatory epigraphs marking their realization in 1691 and 1692 respectively. Over the altars hangs a canvas by Giuseppe Nicola Nasini depicting the Madonna “del Carmine” with St Teresa of Avila, St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Philip Neri and St Helena.


Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo wasn’t the only humiliating face-off in his illustrious career; in the summer of 1807 he faced a rather different opponent, a horde of rampaging fluffy bunnies.
To put this epic battle in context, Napoleon had just signed the Treaties of Tilsit, thereby ending the War of the Fourth Coalition, and the perfect way to celebrate, he decided, was with a rabbit hunt. His chief of staff Alexandre Berthier set about collecting the bunnies needed for such a celebration, while also inviting a selection of the most prominent men in the military. He wanted to impress so he revealed hundreds (and some sources even say thousands) of bunnies caged and eager to flee as soon as they were released – or so he thought.
Once the rabbits were released from their cages they did the exact opposite of what all the men expected – instead of running away in terror they all bounded straight toward Napoleon. Nervous laughter quickly transformed into horror as this fluffle of beasts began to climb up the French emperor’s legs. Napoleon’s men attempted to beat them off with sticks but the swarm was, quite literally, impossible to shake off.
Although most likely reluctant to admit it, Berthier was to blame – instead of trapping wild hares he had purchased tame rabbits, they were used to seeing humans so they were expecting Napoleon to feed them their dinner rather than shoot them. Eventually Napoleon did manage to escape the fluffy plague, but only by fleeing to his coach, the bunnies in hot pursuit apparently “divided into two wings”, some even made it into the carriage.


by Thornton Wilder
Our Town Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
The play is an allegory of life structured over three days. Wilder begins the play at the crack of dawn, when the town is waking up, and concludes the play with the dead in the cemetery. The repeti...
Wilder calls for no scenery at the opening of the play, making the Stage Manager carry on a few basic chairs and tables. When Doc Gibbs walks onstage from a doctor’s call, he mimes his doctor...


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Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-designated U.S. Regional Training and Medical Consultation Center. The goal of the center is to develop and deliver training for medical and public health professionals in tuberculosis prevention and control, as well as provide medical consultation for complex medical cases involving tuberculosis.
Mayo has a long history of providing quality health care for tuberculosis (TB) and mycobacterial diseases, and developing education and training. The Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis helps support the goal of eliminating TB in the United States — and worldwide.
With guidance from the CDC, and in coordinated partnership with other regional centers and national entities, Mayo Clinic will provide high-quality and expert assistance for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB, along with world-class education and training programs and products that meet the broad and unique needs of health care providers and public health staff in its regional purview.


Almonds, brown rice, whole wheat, dried beans and peanuts are all relatively good sources of plant sterols. Other reliable sources of plant sterols include lentils, walnuts, pecans, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds.Continue Reading
Plant sterols are substances that occur naturally in many grains, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds. However, fruits and vegetables only contain trace amounts, levels that are too low to positively affect cholesterol levels. A person would need to eat approximately 100 pounds of fruits and vegetables daily to get the total daily intake of two grams needed for plant sterols to lower cholesterol, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Because of this, sterols are added to many foods, such as margarine spreads, orange juice, cereals, granola and snack bars. Plant sterols are also found in some cooking oils, salad dressings, milk, yogurt and juices.
Plant sterols work in the digestive tract by preventing cholesterol from being absorbed into the bloodstream. Instead, the cholesterol is eliminated from the body with waste. More than 140 clinical studies have shown that plant sterols can help lower LDL cholesterol levels by up to 14 percent. However, the American Heart Association does not recommend sterol-fortified foods for everyone. Instead, it suggests that only people who need to lower their cholesterol or who have had a heart attack should use them.Learn more about Nutritional Content


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According to the results of a study conducted in Italy and published in the Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, selected patients with glottic cancer recurrence after radiation therapy can be safely and effectively treated with endoscopic carbon dioxide laser surgery.
The glottis is the middle part of the larynx where the vocal cords are located. Early-stage glottic cancer may be treated with radiation therapy or surgery.
Recurrent glottic cancer refers to glottic cancer that has returned following treatment. When glottic cancer recurs locally (in the area of the initial cancer) after radiation therapy, treatment of the recurrence often involves surgery.
Endoscopic laser surgery is a minimally invasive technique in which a scope is passed through the mouth and into the throat, and a laser is used to remove the cancer.
To assess endoscope laser treatment of glottic cancer recurrence, researchers in Italy conducted a study among 37 patients whose initial glottic cancer had been treated with radiation therapy. The study was restricted to patients with recurrences that were confined to the vocal cords or who had less than 5 mm of extension into the supraglottis or subglottis.
The researchers conclude that for selected patients with glottic cancer recurrence after radiation therapy, endoscopic laser surgery is safe and effective and allows for laryngeal preservation in a high proportion of cases. The researchers note, however, that women may have a high risk of laryngeal stenosis with the procedure.
Reference: Ansarin M, Planicka M, Rotundo S et al. Endoscopic carbon dioxide laser surgery for glottic cancer recurrence after radiotherapy. Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery. 2007;133:1193-1197.
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[Pool] Pool server monitoring 12ms offset
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Tue Jun 8 17:44:23 UTC 2010
On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Malayter wrote:
> Or it could just be "the Internet". Asymmetric routes are the norm
> when crossing ISP boundaries, not the exception. Everyone does "hot
> potato" routing, and dumps packets onto their peer and upstream
> networks at the nearest exit point from their own network.
> For example, when a packet travels from my hosting provider in Dallas,
> it jumps from the hosting provider to Level 3 to XO in the Dallas
> metro area, and then XO transports it to Chicago over their network.
> But a packet travelling from my Chicago office starts on XO, and is
> dumped to Level 3's chicago peering point, and then travels to Dallas
> via Level 3's network.
"hot potato" is a nice term, although RFC-2328 uses a fancier phrase, "Open Shortest Path First". :-) Although, in point of fact, OSPF is mostly used internally on large networks (within a single AS), and BGP is used for communication between different internetworks.
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Where is the camera tool in Revit?
Click View tab -> Create panel -> 3D View drop-down -> Camera.
How do you put a camera in perspective view?
To create a Physical camera from a view:
- Activate a Perspective viewport.
- If necessary, adjust the viewport using Pan, Zoom, and Orbit, or the ViewCube, until you have a view you like.
- Leaving the viewport active, on the Views menu choose Create Physical Camera From View, or press Ctrl+C .
How do I change the camera view in Revit?
Modify the Camera Position in a 3D View
- Open the 3D view.
- In the Project Browser, right-click the 3D view name, and select Show Camera. …
- In the Project Browser, double-click the view in which you want to modify the camera position (for example, the plan view or the elevation view).
- Drag the camera to move it.
How do I change the field of view in Revit?
With this tool active, click and hold the left mouse button and move the cursor up to increase the focal length and zoom in. Click and hold the left mouse button and move the cursor down to decrease the focal length and zoom out.
What creates a perspective view of your project in Revit?
The Perspective option controls whether a 3D view displays as perspective instead of orthographic. Open a plan, section, or elevation view. Click View tab Create panel 3D View drop-down Camera. … Click in the drawing area to place the camera.
How do you make a camera view?
Create Standard Camera From View
- Activate a Perspective viewport. > Views menu > Create Standard Camera From View.
- Activate a Perspective viewport. > Create menu > Cameras > Create Standard Camera From View.


(Germany 17 Nov 1876 – 20 Apr 1964)
Maler (Anton Raederscheidt)
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August Sander is best known for his monumental project ‘People of the Twentieth Century’ which aimed to document the German society in which he lived.
During the early 1920s Sander became involved with the Cologne Progressive group, conceiving of a major portrait project intended to objectively reflect contemporary society. This he envisaged would comprise of some 45 folios, each divided into seven categories, with twelve photographs per folio. His first folio began with the category of The Farmer. The diverse range of individuals he documented were photographed and presented as ‘archetypes’ of their profession or social position; collectively they provide a dignified and individuated glimpse of humanity.
Sander published a preview of this series, entitled ‘Face of the Age’, in 1929. It was enthusiastically received at the time, but was later condemned by the Nazis who objected to the social diversity it presented.
Under the increasing threat of persecution Sander turned the focus of his work to nature and landscape photography throughout the 1930s and 40s.
The painter Anton Raederscheidt studied in Cologne and Dusseldorf and from 1914 was associated with the avant-garde. Married to the artist Marta Hegemann, another of Sander’s subjects, they came into contact with the photographer as part of the Cologne progressives group whom Sander documented in the 1920s. Raederscheidt is photographed early in the morning on Bismarkstrasse in Cologne looking very much like a figure from one of his own paintings. Raederscheidt fled Germany in the mid 1930s, survived the war and eventually returned to Cologne where he died in 1970.
- gelatin silver photograph
- 27.0 x 19.7 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Alistair McAlpine Photography Fund 2007
- Accession number
- © August Sander/Bildkunst. Licensed by Viscopy, Australia


Canadian (born in Germany), 1911–2005
Two Girls Asleep Under Their Caribou Skins During the Famine at Padlei, NWT, 1950
silver gelatin print on paper
40.6 x 50.8 cm Image: 47.6 x 33 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, funds administered through The Winnipeg Foundation
In 1947 a trip to the Arctic stirred Richard Harrington’s desire to see more of the Canadian North. He made five additional trips over the next decade, travelling by dogsled, all the while documenting the Inuit’s vanishing way of life. His most notable trip was in 1950 when he travelled to Arviat on the west coast of Hudson Bay and then headed inland to visit the remote camps of the Padlei Inuit. He discovered that the people were starving because of a change in caribou migration routes. When he returned to Churchill, he helped raise awareness of the problem. This work is from this excursion. It pictures sisters Agartook, 18, and Keenalik, 9, whose family was subsisting on only a quarter of their regular diet.


Black oak (Quercus velutina)
Height 35' to 75' with a diameter of 9" to 30"; clear trunk for 20' or more on large trees; crown wide and irregularly shaped.
On young trees, smooth and dark brown; thick and black on older trees with deep furrowed and rough broken ridges; inner bark bright yellow and bitter because of tannic acid.
Simple, alternate on stem, length 5" to 10"; lobed halfway to midrib with seven to nine triangular, bristle-pointed lobes; crimson in spring, silvery when half grown, brown in autumn; when mature, thick dark green and shiny on upper surface and pale on lower surface; covered more or less with down; conspicuous rusty brown hairs in forks of veins.
Light brown nut (acorn) matures in the second season; length 1/2" to 1"; shape somewhat round; one-half to three-fourths of nut is enclosed in thin, dark brown, scaly cup; kernel is yellow and extremely bitter.
Found in southeastern Minnesota on dry ridges; moderately shade intolerant, moderately fast growing.


Direct Static Code Injection
ASDR Table of Contents
Last revision: 09/11/2008
Direct Static Code Injection attack consists on injecting code directly onto the resource used by application while processing a user request. This is normally performed by tampering libraries and template files which are created based on user input without proper data sanitization. Upon a user request to the modified resource, the actions defined on it will be executed at server side in the context of web server process.
Server Side Includes is considered a type of direct static code injection. It should not be confused with other types of code injection, like XSS (“Cross-site scripting” or “HTML injection”) where the code is executed on client side.
This is a simple example of exploitation of CGISCRIPT.NET csSearch 2.3 vulnerability, published on Bugtraq ID: 4368.
By requesting the following URL to the server, it’s possible to execute commands defined on ‘’’’setup’’’ variable.
For the classical example, it can be used the following command to remove all files from “/” folder: csSearch.cgi?command=savesetup&setup=`rm%20-rf%20/`
Note that the above command must be encoded in order to be accepted.
This example exploits a vulnerability on Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9 (CVE-2003-0395), which allows an attacker to execute random php code. This happens because some user variables, like IP address and User-Agent, are stored in a file that is used by admin_iplog.php page to show user statistics. When an administrator browses this page, the previously injected code by a malicious request is executed. The following example stores a malicious PHP code that will deface index.html page when administrator browses admin_iplog.php.
GET /board/index.php HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: <? system( "echo \'hacked\' > ../index.html" ); ?>
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Two Russian astronomers recently discovered a previously unknown comet. The discovery was made using CCD images, and scientists believe the comet may become very bright late next year. The comet is expected to be bright because it will pass extremely close to the sun and then pass “somewhat” close to the earth.
The comet is officially known as C/2012 S1 (ISON), and it will be better viewed by people in the northern hemisphere. The astronomers who discovered the comet are Artyom Novichonok and Vitaly Nevski. The duo discovered the comet when viewing CCD images taken on September 21 using a 0.4-meter telescope that is part of the Scientific Optical Network (ISON) located in Kislovodsk, Russia.
Right now, the comet is said to be very dim at about 10,000 times fainter than the faintest star visible to the unaided eye. However, scientists expect the comet will brighten dramatically as it gets closer to the sun. The comet is expected to pass 1.16 million miles from the sun on November 28, 2013.
There’s a chance that the comet will become bright enough when it passes near the Sun to be visible during the day. Once the comet makes its orbit around the sun it could even be visible in the morning and evening skies. The comet will pass 40,000,000 miles from Earth and could possibly remain visible to the unaided eye through January of 2014.
[via PC Mag]


In 1849, 11-year-old John Muir emigrated from Scotland to America. Here, he rose from farmer and sawmill worker to become a noted authority on the botany, glaciers, and forestry of the nation's wilderness. Best known for his long association with the Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Muir also explored the southern states, Alaska, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert. His studies took him around the world and generated volumes of poetic, evocative writings.As America expanded relentlessly westward, Muir witnessed the plunder and exploitation of the land and became a driving force in efforts to protect the natural world. A modest and private man, married and father of two daughters, his conservationist views forced himinto battle with powerful political and industrial interests. He influenced four U.S. presidents to sponsor legislation that protected forests and established or expanded America's national parks.More
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Designed by Robert Matheson, the Temperate Palmhouse at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a masterpiece of Victorian architecture and engineering, with its slender cast-iron columns, curved glass roof and richly decorated arches. When it opened in 1858 the Palmhouse was the tallest structure of its kind in the UK and provided visitors with their first, and perhaps only, encounter with plants from distant places.
In 2002 it was decided that the Palmhouse needed to be comprehensively restored and adapted in order to offer improved physical and intellectual access for all, and in doing so create an exciting new entrance to the glasshouse complex at the Garden. Simpson & Brown's design for these wide-ranging improvements was driven first and foremost by the needs of the plants; those trees which could not be moved exerted a defining influence on detailed proposals. This proved to be a great challenge for everyone involved in the project but the end result shows how a tired and overcrowded structure can be successfully resurrected into a beautiful but functional space which pays tribute to the history of the building, reinforces the work of the Garden as a whole, and recognises the enduring importance of temperate flora to mankind.
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While many areas around the country have begun to reopen and lift stay-at-home orders put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you should still take precautions to protect your health and that of your family. The CDC recommends that you continue following basic guidelines like washing your hands (thoroughly!), not touching your face, and staying home if you don’t feel well.
One guideline, however, can create challenges for people with hearing loss: the recommendation (or requirement, in some areas) to wear a face covering in public settings. This can be difficult for those with hearing loss for several reasons.
First, if you use hearing aids, the elastic bands of the face mask may interfere with your hearing devices and could tug on them while you are wearing the face mask. You may also find that removing your face mask also pulls out your hearing aids.
Second, it’s more difficult to understand someone who is wearing a face mask. This is especially true if you have hearing loss and have learned to rely on lip-reading or facial cues to aid in your understanding. The face mask can also muffle and distort speech.
Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to make it easier to effectively communicate while still wearing a face mask to protect yourself and others.
How to wear a face mask with hearing aids:
How to communicate with someone with hearing loss while wearing a face mask:
These simple tips can go a long way in helping a person with hearing loss better communicate with those wearing face masks. Whether you have hearing loss or you know someone who does, be patient with yourself and others as we all strive to protect ourselves and navigate our new normal.
For more information about how to use a face mask with hearing aids, or how to more effectively communicate while wearing a face covering, we welcome you to contact our hearing practice today. We look forward to serving you!


(also horn poppy)
- A Eurasian poppy with grayish-green lobed leaves, large flowers, and a long curved seed capsule.
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Genus Glaucium, family Papaveraceae: several species, in particular the yellow horned poppy (G. flavum), which has become naturalized in the US, especially along the coast from Massachusetts to Virginia
- Its odd common name of horned poppy refers to its almost foot-long curved seed pods that arch as they ripen.
- My last stars of the fall garden are the horned poppies, Glaucium flavum and Glaucium grandiflorum.
- You may also find yellow horned poppies, crocuses and orchids, depending on the terrain.
Más definiciones de horned poppyDefinición de horned poppy en:
- el diccionario Inglés británico e internacional


When should parents start encouraging early speech?
Host: When should parents starts encouraging early speech? Rene Hackney: Parents should start to encouraging early speech as young as the baby seems to be attending to them, talking to the baby throughout the day. When the baby smiles, the parent smiles, when the baby laughs, the parent laughs, that was typical exchange. Even young, young babies, the four-month olds, start to realize while I am having an impact on the world. Somewhere in there, they start to realize, my vocalizations cause an impact on others and so, the ideas is to really attend and listen to those speech sounds early and have conversations with babies even when they don t have a lot of language. It s good when children are really young, also to sing songs that have repetitions that you are singing them everyday or singing songs with a lot of movements, things like Paddycake and The Wheel on The Bus. The more movements that are given with the sounds, the children start to pick it up a bit earlier.


Baer begins by introducing several early manifestations of the golem legend, including texts from the third and fourth centuries and from the medieval period; Prague's golem legend, which is attributed to the Maharal, Rabbi Judah Loew; the history of the Josefov, the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the site of the golem legend; and versions of the legend by Yudl Rosenberg and Chayim Bloch, which informed and influenced modern intertexts. In the chapters that follow, Baer traces the golem first in pre-Holocaust Austrian and German literature and film and later in post-Holocaust American literature and popular culture, arguing that the golem has been deployed very differently in these two contexts. Where prewar German and Austrian contexts used the golem as a signifier of Jewish otherness to underscore growing anti-Semitic cultural feelings, post-Holocaust American texts use the golem to depict the historical tragedy of the Holocaust and to imagine alternatives to it. In this section, Baer explores traditional retellings by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel, the considerable legacy of the golem in comics, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and, finally, "Golems to the Rescue" in twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of film and literature, including those by Cynthia Ozick, Thane Rosenbaum, and Daniel Handler.
By placing the Holocaust at the center of her discussion, Baer illustrates how the golem works as a self-conscious intertextual character who affirms the value of imagination and story in Jewish tradition. Students and teachers of Jewish literature and cultural history, film studies, and graphic novels will appreciate Baer's pioneering and thought-provoking volume.
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BIG HILL, TX (LIMESTONE COUNTY)
BIG HILL, TEXAS (Limestone County). Big Hill (Bighill), on Farm Road 2489 seven miles west of Thornton in western Limestone County, was named for an elevation used by the Indians as a lookout point. Settlement began there in the 1880s with the opening of the blacklands for farming. Big Hill Methodist Church, which served as the focus of the community for many years, was organized in 1879. A post office was opened in 1894 with Bailey A. Garrett as postmaster, and in 1896 a Big Hill school district was organized. The town's population reached a peak of about 100 in 1915 but began to decline by the 1920s as business grew in nearby Groesbeck. The Big Hill post office was closed in 1924, and by 1949 the population had declined to twenty. After World War II the church disbanded, and the school was consolidated with that of Groesbeck. By 1985 only the abandoned church and cemetery were left to mark the site of the town. In 2000 the population was reported as nine.
Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone, and Leon Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893). Ray A. Walter, A History of Limestone County (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1959).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Ray A. Walter, "BIG HILL, TX (LIMESTONE COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrb30), accessed May 06, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


Like many europeans, I struggle with imperial units. Even if you get the general feeling of one, say the inch, it does not really help as the others are all over the place, relatively speaking. And then I realised it kind of makes sense, if you use the furlong as basis.
The key is to understand that five furlongs is roughly one kilometre (1005.84 meters), as by definition one mile is eight furlongs, a mile is roughly 1⅗ kilometre (1600 meters as opposed to 1609.34 meters). From there a furlong is roughly 200 meters (220 yards) or 110 fathoms or 660 feet. A yard is roughly one meter and a foot is roughly ⅓ of a meter. This approach has two advantages: it works in my head, and it relies on imperial units people in the US typically don’t use, so the misery can be shared.


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For millions of years New Zealand has been isolated and unique birds, animals and plants have developed here. Best known are our flightless birds such as the Kiwi. Because there were no ground based enemies for ancient birds many lost there ability to fly with the passage of time.
Lizards, frogs, and bats are the only indigenous land animals in New Zealand. Dogs (kiri) and rats were introduced by the Maori, and red and fallow deer, trout, salmon, Australian opossum, rabbits, and domestic animals have been introduced over the last 150 years by European settlers. There are now strict regulations with very heavy penalties against the importing of plants, fruit and animals unless approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to protect the New Zealand environment.
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. . . that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've un- derstood all your life, but in a new way. Various transforms have been widely used in diverse applications of science, engineering and technology. New transforms are emerging to solve many problems, which may have been left unsolved in the past, or newly created by modern science or technologies. Various meth- ods have been continuously reported to improve the implementation of these transforms. Early developments of fast algorithms for discrete transforms have significantly stimulated the advance of digital signal processing technologies. More than 40 years after fast Fourier transform algorithms became known, several discrete transforms, including the discrete Hart- ley transform and discrete cosine transform, were proposed and widely used for numerous applications. Although they all are related to the discrete Fourier transform, different fast algorithms and their implementations have to be separately developed to minimize compu- tational complexity and implementation costs. In spite of the tremendous increase in the speed of computers or processors, the demands for higher processing throughout seemingly never ends. Fast algorithms have become more important than ever for modern applications to become a reality. Many new algorithms recently reported in the literature have led to important improvements upon a number of issues, which will be addressed in this book. Some discrete transforms are not suitable for signals that have time-varying frequency components. Although several approaches are available for such applications, various inher- ent problems still remain unsolved.
Transforms and Fast Algorithms for Signal Analysis and Representations
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Bertrand Russell was a world renowned philosopher, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. During World War I his activities as a pacifist resulted in his being fined and in 1916, dismissed from his lectureship and imprisoned for six months in 1918. While in prison he wrote the Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy and started reading for his work The Analysis of Mind.
In 1954 he made his famous ‘Man's Peril’ broadcast on the BBC, condemning the Bikini H-bomb tests. This led to the Russell-Einstein statement of protest by Nobel scientists, to the Pugwash Conferences of scientists from both East and West.
In 1958 he became president of the newly launched Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from which he resigned in 1960 and formed the more militant Committee of 100 which he went on to lead in campaigns of civil disobedience in protest at Britain's atomic weapons. He led mass sit-ins in 1961 that brought him a two-month prison sentence, which was reduced to seven days on health grounds.


Sentence: In the Kennedy-Nixon debates, radio listeners famously thought Nixon fared better, while those who watched on TV in 1960 were struck by Kennedy’s handsome appearance and put off by Nixon’s pallid complexion and an ill-chosen gray suit that blended into the background. (Source: money.cnn.com)
Meaning: Pale; Lacking vigor or intensity
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Species Act May Chill Seattle's Growth
August 25, 1998
It would be ironic if Seattle -- one of the most environmentally conscious cities in the U.S. -- were the first big U.S. city confronted with the stringent requirements of the Endangered Species Act. But that might happen if the National Marine Fisheries Service puts the local Chinook salmon, which has been in decline, on the endangered species list.
- Although no one knows just how expensive it would be to comply with ESA regulations in the case of the salmon, a U.S. Forest Service economist has estimated that saving owl habitats cost each U.S. family about the price of a pizza.
- A threatened or endangered listing would cover an area 70 miles in any direction from Seattle -- a region with a population of about 3 million and about 60 percent of the state's employment, personal income and gross product.
- ESA-related costs can reach into the billions, even in sparsely populated areas.
- New regulations -- which would affect the cost and availability of new homes in the area -- could be felt as early as next year, just as Seattle's economy is expected to cool.
Timber industry sources estimate that saving habitat for owls -- through designated "owl circles" where logging is banned -- has cost 22,500 timber and paper mill jobs in five Western states. Rules and regulations to save the salmon would, among other things, jack up the price of new single-family homes, the average price of which is already in excess of $300,000 in the area.
Source: Jim Christie, "Species Act May Chill Seattle's Growth," Investor's Business Daily, August 25, 1998.
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/vulndb/Cross-site Request Forgery
CSRF is an attack which forces an end-user to execute unwanted actions on a web application with which he is currently authenticated. Applications susceptible of this attack have no way to distinguish legit requests from forged ones.
A CSRF vulnerability allows attackers to perform silent requests on behalf of the user to alter any stored user information or perform sensitive actions on behalf of the user. For example, a CSRF vulnerability may be used to change the user’s access credentials.
Urls and Forms that perform important operations must be protected by random tokens (hidden nonce values). These tokens must be checked for validity at the server before the request is processed.
CSRF is a vulnerability inherited by the fact that protocols used by the Web were not designed with security in mind. In the case of Web Application, CSRF would not exist if HTTP was able to maintain the state of the connection between the client and the server, a mechanism known as stateful connection.


At CIS, Elementary school includes Kindergarten to Grade 5. The goal of the CIS elementary program is to provide students with a sound foundation for future learning in middle school and beyond. In Lower Primary School (K-2), our program emphasizes the development of strong foundational English and Math literacy skills as well as fine and gross motor skills, among other more specific objectives described in our curriculum which is based on the American Common Core Standards.
Overall, the elementary program focuses on inspiring a joy of learning by empowering the child as an active learner and critical thinker. Our teachers seek to accomplish this through ongoing implementation of our Learning Principles. To achieve these goals we have developed strong grade level teaching teams and a schedule that encourages collaboration with common planning and instructional time.
Additionally, teachers work collaboratively across the whole school to provide a smooth transition process from the Early Childhood Program to Kindergarten, from one elementary grade level to the next, and from Grade 5 to Middle School. The homeroom teacher is the key contact for parents and provides the primary means of communication between the home and the school.
The ultimate goal of the program is to prepare students to be responsible, productive citizens in a rapidly changing world. We do this by working to intentionally embed CIS’ Community Principles of Kindness, Partnership, Good Intent and Sustainability into our lesson and school-wide approaches to social-emotional learning.
Dr. Martin Thomas
Elementary School Principal


The Symbolism of Colors represent many different items of sacred significance. The meaning of the different colors are highly significant and are detailed as follows:
White symbolizes Purity, virginity, innocence and virtue. It also symbolises holiness and is the Christian color for all high Holy Days of the Church Year, especially the seasons of Christmas and Easter
Yellow colors symbolize renewal, hope, light and purity. Yellow is the Christian color for the season of Easter when used with white. When taken as an off-white color symbolizes degradation or cowardice
Orange colors symbolize courage, endurance and strength representing fire and flame
Green colors symbolize nature, fertility, hope and bountifulness. Green symbolizes freedom from bondage. Green is the Christian color for the season of Epiphany
Red colors symbolize the Holy Spirit and is the color of Pentecost. Red also represents fire and is associated with power and importance. Crimson red also symbolizes the presence of God and the blood of martyrs. It is the Christian liturgical color for Pentecost and represents atonement and humility
Black colors symbolize death, fear and ignorance and was also used to indicate authority and power. The color black is associated with Good Friday.
Brown colors symbolize the earth, poverty and humility and closely associated with monastic life
Blue colors symbolize heavenly grace. The Virgin Mary is often depicted wearing blue clothing. Blue also represents hope, good health and the state of servitude
Purple colors are always associated with Royalty, Purple togas were worn by the powerful Roman Emperors. The symbolic meaning of the color purple was for penitence and mourning and is the liturgical color for the seasons of Lent and Advent.
Also see Dream Interpretation Colors