Initiative Description: A 15 week mindfulness and SEL program consisting of 15 lessons (one per week) where children learned about their brain, feelings, thoughts, learned how to be caring and altruistic, practiced perspective taking, optimism and savoring happy experiences, and were cued to practice mindfulness 3 times a day (in the morning, after lunch, and at the end of school) This mindfulness consisted of hearing a resonant sounds, focusing their attention on the sound, and then on one’s breathing and body sensations, and ending back with the same sound without judgment.
Study Results: Improved psychological wellbeing. Increased positive affect and decreased negative affect.
Reference: de Carvalho, J. S., Pinto, A. M., & Maroco, J. (2017). Results of a mindfulness-based social-emotional learning program on portuguese elementary students and teachers: a quasi-experimental study. Mindfulness, 8(2), 337-350. doi:10.1007/s12671-016-0603-z
Level of Evidence: Good


Most of you reading this probably take wireless broadband for granted. After all, the internet has become rather ubiquitous, right? Still, there are a lot of people who live in remote communities who are living with unreliable or no internet. The result? A tech and information gap between urban and rural communities.
78% of people surveyed in rural communities had some form of internet access in 2015. In rural areas, just over 85% reported having internet access. Sure, it doesn’t seem rural communities are lagging too far behind, but these numbers don’t reveal the biggest problems in rural America.
For example, reliable and fast internet access is far more uncommon in rural communities versus urban areas. Just over half of rural residents reported speeds of 25 Mbps broadband quality, which is far less than urban dwellers at 94 percent.
One of the issues facing rural consumers is that their market is often dominated by one internet provider. Without competition, internet providers have less pressure to upgrade their networks to improve speed and reliability.
The disparity is magnified in rural schools. Without the internet, teachers are unable to integrate the rich resources on the internet into their lessons, which leaves them at a disadvantage when compared with urban schools.
In the absence of reliable, broadband internet, residents in these rural communities are somewhat compromised. Imagine, for example, relying on a slow dial-up connection for shopping and entertainment.
How would your life change without internet access? Let us know in the comments below.


Ahoy Matey! You have sailed to the right port! Here is a gem of a product. Two resources packaged together as one: Novel Study Resources and Stone Fox Vocabulary Study.
The Novel Resources can be used with any novel/chapter book for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Nine graphic organizers help students organize their ideas and thoughts for story elements, theme, vocabulary, and summaries. In addition, there are forty discussion/written response questions covering story elements and a variety of fiction genre: realistic fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, mystery, and science fiction. All of these resources can be cut out and glued into journals.
Twenty-three tier 2 vocabulary words from Stone Fox have been selected for word study. Words are introduced via an interactive slideshow. Also included are Word/Definition cards which can be used for a variety of games: “Match/Concentration”, “Pictograph”, and “Charades”. Finally, a set of illustrated word cards can be used for your Word Wall.
• Common Core ELA Standards
• Teaching Tips
• Student Directions
• Text-dependent Questions for each chapter
• Genre Chart
• Plot Development Visual Representations
• Summary Samples
• Graphic Organizer Samples


The map divides Africa into five major regions: "Barbarie" [northern Africa]; "Haute Guinée" [West African coast], "Nigritie" [central Africa], "Abissinie" [Abyssinia and the Red Sea coastal region] and "Pays des Cafres" [South and East Africa, including what is now Somalia]. De l'Isle has divided these regions into smaller areas of dominion. The Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope is labelled "Fort des Hollandois". Marks cities and geographical features particularly in West Africa, Abyssinia, the Congo, along the Zambezi River and in South Africa. Visible are the eastern edge of Brazil, southern Europe, Arabia, the western edge of Asia, Madagascar and the other islands surrounding the continent. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Surrounding the cartouche are illustrations of three elephants, an ostrich, a spear-wielding man on a horse and another man wrestling with a crocodile. "Avec privilege" 4 bar scales on map, given in "Lieües marines de France," "Lieües marines de Espagne," "Lieües communes de Allemagne," and "Iournés communes."


Change agents — leaders in special education– are transforming ways to help older students cope with ASD, attention deficits and related problem behavior that interferes with learning. What does the latest brain research suggest about how we can individualize services, help these students pay closer attention to oral instruction, develop self-regulation skills, complete assignments on time and meet their educational goals? Get insights and practical advice about results-oriented practices for educating middle and high school students who have been diagnosed with these disorders.
Please note: Certificates of attendance and/or continuing education opportunities are not available for on-demand webinars. Any references in the videos only apply to the live webinars attendees.


The energy IMO is more likely stored in the stressed longitudinal magnetic field at the core of the intergalactic filament, but little attention has been paid to such fields. There has been some consideration of the longitudinal field in solar surface flux tubes, but how they could measure such fields entering the Sun at the poles, I don't know. If these events are scaleable over many orders of magnitude, then the Sun in my view is just a smaller scale version of the other flux tube pinches observed, such as the quasar or BH model.A question about this. I have read other EU proponents calim that the energy of the sun comes from electric currents arriving from interstellar space. I thought, that sounds easy to verify, just sent a probe around one of the poles of the sun to detect this massive current.
But, my mental model still does not have the stored flux tube unergy being sufficient to produce the observed energy output of the Sun, which is why I then need to utilise the energy from the vacuum model, producing at the core of Suns or BHs, the hard gamma energies that are responsible for the creation of matter, and as the energy level decreases with distance from the pinch, all the other observed fields and forces and structures.
And on top of that, to really push the limits of credibility of most, is the idea that at the centre of these energetic events may be the theorised magnetic monopole, a spherical longitudinal radiator that is vibrating the Aether out to the limits of the solar system, and in conjunction with the more conventional forces and fields, responsible for the creation of all material manifestations within the Suns sphere of influence. A very high energy, spherical symetry breaking then? The Kibble Mechanism perhaps?


The government has proposed a draft legislation to introduce a Plastic Packaging Tax, which would take effect from April 2022. The aim of the tax is to provide businesses with an economic incentive to start using recycled material when manufacturing plastic packaging. The tax will increase levels of recycling and plastic waste collection by increasing demand for recycled materials, in turn diverting it away from incineration and landfills.
The tax applies to plastic packaging, which is produced or imported into the UK, that contains less than 30% recycled plastic. Plastic packaging is defined as packaging that is predominantly plastic by weight. The tax will not apply if the plastic packaging is at least 30% recycled plastic however, it will apply to imported plastic packaging whether the packaging is filled or unfilled.
The legislation will be introduced to create the Plastic Packaging Tax. The government is publishing a primary draft of the legislation which sets out the key features of these proposed revisions, including:
- Packaging with less than 30% recycled plastic to pay a tax rate of £200 per tonne
- Registration threshold of 10 tonnes of plastic packaging imported into the UK or produced in the UK per year
- Exemption for importers and producers of small quantities of plastic packaging
- Who will be liable to pay tax and need to register with HMRC
- How the tax will be collected
- How the tax will be enforced
- How the tax will be relieved on exports
Who is likely to be affected
- UK producers of plastic packaging
- Importers of plastic packaging
- Producers and importers business customers
- Consumers of goods in plastic packaging within the UK
There is expected to be very little impact on consumers however, there could be minor increases in price if businesses decide to pass on the charge to their customers and increase their prices. This is expected to be a small increase as plastic packaging is usually only a very small amount of the total cost.
For further information visit the government website.


Who has the highest risk of developing diabetes and heart disease? According to a 5-year Scottish study, the results of which were published in a July 2003 issue of Circulation, the patients at greatest risk are those with ?metabolic syndrome? or ?syndrome x.? Individuals have metabolic syndrome if they have just 3 of the following 5 conditions: abdominal obesity, high levels of triglycerides, low levels of ?good? cholesterol, high blood sugar levels, and high blood pressure.
Study participants with 3-condition metabolic syndrome were 3.5 times as likely to develop diabetes, whereas those with 4 or 5 metabolic conditions had a 24.5 times greater risk of developing diabetes, compared with people with none of the features. The study suggested that metabolic syndrome was the first simple way to calculate diabetes risk.


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People have advocated for peace -- as well as participating in the nation's and state's wars -- for centuries. The voices for peace are as varied as a Christian-inspired man in the early 19th century to a young girl in the late 20th century.
George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.


Species: The basic unit of all classification in biology. Examples are the bald eagle, the polar bear, the atala butterfly, and the tawny mole cricket. The word is both singular (a species) and plural (two species). Species are grouped into genera, and genera are grouped into families. The words kind, sort, type, strain and variety are not part of this classification even though newspaper reporters often use them as if they were.


Enhancing Services and Development with UDDI
Overview: What Is UDDI?
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) is a standard originally proposed in September 2000 as the result of a collaborative effort among Microsoft, IBM, and Ariba. The standard proposed to provide a universal method of managing web services (much like DNS manages naming) across the Internet. UDDI is a specification for publishing and locating information about web services, web service providers, bindings, and technical interface definitions using a standard or custom classification scheme. The UDDI registry, like DNS or Active Directory, is a database that stores information using a defined schema. UDDI services are part of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, providing integration with UDDI standards.


Asthma (pronounced as AZ-ma) refers to the long term chronic lung ailment where the airways are clogged with mucus and inflammation. This constricted airway makes it difficult to breathe. The attack is coupled with wheezing (a whistling sound) while breathing and continuous coughing. The worst form of this attack is acute shortness of breath.
The symptoms are as follows:
- Shortness of breath: They find it difficult to breathe as the airways have been blocked and they will feel this often.
- Coughing especially at night: While lying down, the mucus seems to irritate the airways. The cough comes in an attempt to clear up the airways.
- Restlessness during physical activity: Again with the body asking for more oxygen, restlessness during physical activity is observed as there is restlessness.
- Feeling down: Constant fatigue, shortness of breath leads to feeling down and depressed.
If you have asthma, you can make sure you’re never in a spot of bother by following these quick, easy tips and stay prepared always.
- Inhaler at all times. Make sure you keep your inhaler with you at all times. In case of an attack, use it the first thing and calm yourself down.
- Keep away from cities or zones where there is high smoke content in the air.
- Sit down. Sitting during an attack helps you calm yourself down.
- If it gets worse, these are the symptoms: incessant coughing, tightness in the stomach and chest, trouble walking, wheezing and pale and sweaty face.
- It is necessary to get help as soon as possible. You need to follow the emergency instructions in your asthma attack plan.
- After you have settled down, make sure to take your medications as soon as possible.
- Keep a watch over the next few days so as to avoid another flare up. Try to stay calm and composed doing your favorite activities. Check out our tips to stay calm and stress-free.
Do you suffer from asthma? Let us know how you deal with it in the comments section below.


Projectile Points Type Collection Gallery
Middle Archaic (6000-3000 B.C.) Godar spear point or knife. Godar points are found throughout the Midwest and into Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. They are also called Raddatz points. This point type is widely distributed across the landscape from floodplains to the uplands.
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Sun Damage: Common Signs and Treatments
The sun’s rays can feel wonderful on your face, but unfortunately that feeling comes with a price – sun damage. Unprotected skin is vulnerable to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can cause long-term changes to your skin.
Sun damage comes in many forms, but some of the most common types include:
- Dry skin – When exposed to excessive amounts of sun, your skin can slowly lose natural moisture and essential oils. This can cause your skin to appear dry or flaky – resulting in an aged appearance.
- Sunburn – Sunburn is a skin injury that occurs after the skin is exposed to UV radiation. Mild to moderate sunburn results in skin reddening and discomfort, but more severe cases can result in vesicles (fluid-filled bumps) or large blisters.
- Actinic keratosis – When exposed to the sun for a long period of time, small rough patches may develop on your skin. It is possible for actinic keratosis to eventually turn into skin cancer.
- Premature aging – UV damage to your skin can cause structural changes to the collagen beneath your skin, which ultimately results in fine lines and wrinkles.
Repeated unprotected sun exposure can significantly increase your risk of skin cancer. As a general rule, men and women with fair skin and light eyes are at an increased risk. This is due to a lack of melanin in the skin (which shields the skin from UV rays).
Wearing a daily SPF of 30 or greater is the best way to protect your skin from sun damage, but for some of us, the damage has already been done. If you’re unhappy with how sun damage has impacted your appearance, there are a variety of cosmetic treatment options available that can help:


Arrange two cameras in close proximity to a subject. Then press record. Close-Up is both a formal exercise and a video series taking a literal close look at Pittsburgh artists in performance. See more in this series here.
It took conductor and violinist Alejandro Pinzón four months to teach himself the bandoneón, a bellows instrument, like the accordion and the concertina, that is essential to both Argentinian tango and Lithuanian folk music. Originally used for chord-based sacred music, the German instrument—it’s named for its creator, Heinrich Band—migrated to Argentina in the late 1800s where, Pinzón explains, tango musicians adopted it, appreciating the sadness of its tone, as opposed to the brighter sound of the accordion, and because of its portability.
Unlike the accordion, which has a keyboard, the bandoneón sports buttons. These buttons are typically bisonoric, meaning that each one is capable of producing a different sound on opening and closing. Hold down a key and pull the bellows apart, and one note fills the room. Hold down the same key and push, a different note is emitted. With two distinct button arrays on each side of the squeezebox, the musician must therefore navigate four different sets of notes, making the bandoneón particularly challenging.
In the first of a two-part edition of Close-Up, Pinzón plays the tango “A La Gran Muñeca,” a song first performed in Buenos Aires in 1919 as part of a musical revue about a toy store where the dolls have come to life.
Pinzon is preparing for upcoming tours in Mexico and Nevada and will be performing in the Pittsburgh area this fall.


The solum is taken by some to be "true soil" (Plaster 1992, and the Britannica Academic edition), defined by the O, A, E, and B soil horizons. This definition unnecessarily separates the O, A, E, and B horizons from the C horizon which lies below the solum. Plaster (1992) and others (Brittanic Academic edition) not only consider the solum to be the "true soil", they explicitly separate solum from the C horizon which lies below the B. The C horizon of soil has recently been found to be commonly intensely rooted by plants, the home of many millions of microbes per gram of soil, the environment of intense rhizogenic weathering, and an environment significantly affected over time by climate, biota, and geomorphologic process.
The soil is defined to include the O, A, E, B, and C horizons and is often much deeper than the solum. The C horizon is commonly the most voluminous horizon of the soil system.
Solum and SoliumEdit
I just thought I should explain my revert of a good-fath edit in the etymology: solum is not related to sedere, but solium seems to be. My understanding is that they have converged from different origins to very similar final forms. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:25, 19 May 2012 (UTC)


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Complications that arise from diabetes are more prevalent among minorities, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (Jose Luis Pelaez/Getty Images)
Although more and more people are living longer with colorectal cancer, new research has found that black people with the disease aren’t living as long as whites.
In an analysis of more than 14,000 patients with stage 2 and 3 colorectal cancer who had surgery to remove tumors, followed by treatment to prevent recurrence, the 1,218 African-American patients had a lower five-year survival rate than their white counterparts, according to researchers, led by Greg Yothers of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Biostatistical Center in Pittsburgh.
Five years after diagnosis, 72.8 percent of white patients survived cancer, but only 68.2 percent of blacks survived. READ FULL ARTICLE


Located thirty miles north of Charleston, Mulberry Plantation was built circa 1714 by Thomas Broughton, Royal Governor of South Carolina. Named for the mulberry trees grown for silk production there, the estate also produced indigo and rice. Mulberry was purchased in 1915 by Clarence W. Chapman, who selected the English architect Charles Brendon to restore the house and hired Loutrel Briggs in 1930 to design the grounds. The historic character of the house and the site’s natural beauty on an elevated bluff overlooking old rice fields and the Cooper River served as inspiration for Briggs’ design - a series of gardens on three separate levels.
Located on the east side of the house, the gardens begin with a simple boxwood parterre with two brick terraces on either end, enclosed by decorative iron grills which permit unrestricted views of the river. From there, several paths extend down a gentle slope to an informal camellia garden. The lower garden’s central circular lawn is surrounded by flowering shrubs, with decorative ironwork, statuary, and a wall fountain for additional visual interest. Several walks extend from the lower garden to the river and old canal. Brigg’s design also includes a formal motor court consisting of loose gravel within a brick border, enclosed by selectively-placed square brick piers and a clipped pittosporum hedge with native cedars at the corners. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.


Relationship of dot, line and plane
We are constantly exposed to dots when we watch television. The television picture comprises of 40 thousand tiny dots that are used to stabilise the image we watch each day. New Impressionists or pointillist painters used the perceptual concept of retinal infusion. The hues and values produced in these paintings are extraordinary.
The 'bindu', in more universally accepted parlance, is the point. The most rudimentary element of design, it is dimensionless and it openly marks a position in space. Though in itself a visually appealing element, it is too small for sustained aesthetic interest, and is thus almost always seen in combination with other elements, with other points, lines and shapes.
A true colour output is obtained by remixing and separation of the dots of the four basic colours in any picture. Primitive societies also favoured point designs - in textiles and paintings, sculptures and jewellery, and even for decorating the human body with the art of tattoo.
a point in itself may be of little importance, it gains significance
when it participates in a design. The thesaurus offers 11 meanings for
the word 'point', two of which, seem relevant to this discussion. One
is 'an item that goes to make up the whole' and the other is 'a non-curving,
geometrical object unbounded in one, two, three or more dimensions.'
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It’s been about 150 years since the largest known coronal mass ejection (CME)–the ejection of millions of tons of plasma from the sun into space at a speed of 300 kilometers per second. On average, CMEs occur every 100 to 200 years, which means the next big event is inevitable. While it won’t threaten life on earth, it will put every satellite system at risk and threaten the safety of astronauts in space.
As the head of space weather at the European Space Agency, Jussi Luntama discusses the 2018 Lagrange mission that aims to monitor solar activity and more accurately predict the presence and direction of a coming CME. The team working on the ESA Lagrange mission will park a spacecraft at Lagrange points, which are points where the gravitational pull of the sun and earth balance each other out. This will cause the spacecraft to trail the earth’s orbit at a distance of 150 million kilometers for eternity or until intentionally moved, and will allow them to view solar activity from a perspective that’s different from the one they have when looking at the sun from the earth.
Tune in to hear Jussi Luntama discuss a variety of interesting topics, including the relationship between CMEs and periods of high and low solar activity, the effects of CMEs on power grids, and the launch of the Lagrange spacecraft planned to happen between 2023 and early 2025. To learn more, simply type “Where no mission has gone before” into a Google search engine.


Dieting and Salads
Early in the 19th century the most widely published images of the American female form began to change from statuesque to slender. The Gibson Girl, lithe and athletic, exemplified the new perspective on femininity, and by the 1920s the sleek fashions of the flapper era made a narrow silhouette imperative. American women began dieting, a fad that originated in the white middle class but quickly became a mainstay of popular culture and an enduring feature of daily life for millions of people.
Dieting was a specter that particularly haunted lunch at home, a meal that had been associated with women ever since men began spending their workdays too far away to return at noon. Consumption of cottage cheese soared from the 1930s until the 1970s, when yogurt began to edge it aside. But the diet lunch that ruled the 20th century was salad. Beginning in the early 1900s, genteel New York women came to see salad—light and refined fare that was far too insubstantial for a working man—as being entirely appropriate for ladies who lunched. When the age of feminine dieting began, no other meal choice had such a perfect pedigree for the time. Whether or not a woman was following a formal diet plan, if weight loss was on her mind at lunchtime, a salad was probably on her plate.


By default, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is a blank grid, featuring cells outlined in light blue. Use highlighting to delineate lines, which Excel calls rows, within the grid. In a single click, you can highlight an entire line or row, but this can get tedious when you need to highlight multiple lines. For these purposes, Excel has the "multi-click" feature, which means you can take advantage of highlighting multiple rows in the same process it would take to highlight a single one.
Launch Microsoft Excel. To highlight lines in an existing Excel document, click the “File” tab. Click “Open,” browse to the spreadsheet and double-click it. Otherwise, Excel opens a new spreadsheet for you to use.
Click once on the line number, which appears as the first column on the Excel workspace, to highlight.
Press and hold down the “Ctrl” key on the keyboard. Click the second line number. Both rows now appear highlighted, but this will change as soon as you click off them.
Click the small paint bucket icon, which has a yellow line underneath it, in the “Font” section of the Excel ribbon. Choose the color to use to actually highlight the lines. Click the small colored square. Now both lines are actually highlighted, even when you click off them.


KevinMD.com - What Can Be Done For Children With Migraine Headaches?
Dr. Mark Green writes: Yes, kids get migraines too. Close to 60 percent of children are prone to headaches and almost 10 percent of girls and six percent of boys have migraine. Migraines can be seen in children as young as five years old. The reason people have migraines is likely a combination of genetics and environmental triggers. If you have migraine there’s a 50/50 shot that your child will have migraine too.
- Dr. Mark W. Green, Professor, Neurology, Anesthesiology, Director, Center for Headache and Pain Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Learn more: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/06/children-migraine-headaches.html


Animals have been central to humans in their attempts to understand their world and in revealing the secrets of nature. The theme "The Body of Animals" explores the multiplicity of ways and contexts in which historical actors used and studied animals and the essence of animality. It investigates how animals were rendered to signify human socialities, just as much as the natural world, and how humans of the past interacted with animals within their cosmologies. Participants in the various projects within the working group search for the meaning in pragmatic, everyday practices of using, reproducing, and caring for animals and their bodily parts, but also in fearing, avoiding, and moving around them. They ask whether knowing animals must equate the practices of “doing science,” and challenge the prominent frameworks of natural history and the laboratory as an endpoint. In order to the sketch the contours of the human and that of nature, furthermore, the group projects aim to understand what has historically been made to count as an animal, and explore the methodological possibilities for studying animals in history.


Accept is a verb and it, generally, means to take or to receive, such as to take possession or to receive in an approving manner. It can also mean, generally, to agree to or to accede to, such as in accepting terms in regards to a contract, or to accept an apology. There are other less frequently used definitions such as in responding in an affirmative manner, such as in accepting a promotion. The word accept in other contexts can be defined as to reconcile oneself, such as to “accept that one will never be a millionaire”, to regard as true, such as “he accepted my interpretation of the sales figures”, and to admit formally, such as “he was accepted for admission to Harvard University”. In regards to project management terminology, accept can refer to the agreement to take on a particular assignment or a specific role within said assignment.
This term is defined in the 3rd edition of the PMBOK but not in the 4th.


Although historically widely distributed within the Illinois and Mississippi River floodplain, this species is now reduced to only 20 locations. Like many endangered plants, Boltonia decurrens is dependent upon specific environmental conditions. Believe it or not, this plant is successful with periodic disturbance from major floods. Floods open land to full sun and remove silt build-up. Today, the natural flood regime has been altered by dams and levees, and former habitat is now agricultural land. Human activities, such as regular cultivation and heavy herbicide use, are also threats to its survival.


Staghorn ferns are air plants – organisms that grow on the sides of trees instead of in the ground. They have two distinct kinds of leaves: a flat, round kind that grips to the trunk of the host tree and a long, branching kind that resembles deer antlers and earns the plant its name. It’s on these long leaves that you can find spores, the little brown bumps that open and spread the fern’s seed. Keep reading to learn more about how to collect spores from staghorn fern plants.
Gathering Spores on Staghorn Fern
Before you get too excited about propagating staghorn fern spores, it’s important to know that it’s far from the easiest propagation method. Division is much quicker and usually reliable. But if you want to collect spores and are willing to wait at least a year for results, it’s very doable.
Spores on staghorn fern plants develop over the course of the summer. At first, they appear on the undersides of the long, antler-like fronds as green bumps. As the summer wears on, the bumps darken to brown – this is the time to harvest.
The best way to collect spores on staghorn fern is to cut off one of the fronds and place it in a paper bag. The spores should eventually dry out and drop to the bottom of the bag. Alternatively, you can wait until the spores begin to dry on the plant, then scrape them away gently with a knife.
Staghorn Fern Spore Propagation
Once you have the spores, fill a seed tray with peat based potting medium. Press the spores into the top of the medium, making sure not to cover them.
Water your seed tray from the bottom by setting it for a few minutes in a dish of water. When the soil is moist, remove it from the water and let it drain. Cover the tray with plastic and place it in a sunny spot. Keep the soil moist and be patient – it may take 3 to 6 months for the spores to germinate.
Once the plants have a couple true leaves, transplant them into individual pots. It may take up to a year for the plants to establish.


FiReaNGeL writes "Scientists have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. 'In order to study these nanoscale quantum effects, the researchers have focused on the magnetic material cobalt niobate. It consists of linked magnetic atoms, which form chains just like a very thin bar magnet, but only one atom wide.' By artificially introducing more quantum uncertainty, the researchers observed that the chain acts like a nanoscale guitar string. The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture. The observed resonant states in cobalt niobate are a dramatic laboratory illustration of the way in which mathematical theories developed for particle physics may find application in nanoscale science and ultimately in future technology."


A Journey to the Musical Isles
The Performance of Irish Music and Dance Group “Téada”
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As virtuoso Irish fiddler Oisín Mac Diarmada remarked, “Music, dance and language are probably the three strongest elements of cultural inheritance reflecting ‘Irishness.’” He continued, “Irish traditional music is the music of the people and a cultural celebration...


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If you love to kiss your dog, then you may be getting slightly more than just dog drool ... you may be getting some retroviruses, too!
Intriguingly, the scientists discovered a novel group of retroviral material in dogs that is highly similar to endogenous retroviruses seen in humans. They belong to a type of virus known as gammaretroviruses, the most frequent type found in mammals to date.
This specific group of retroviruses seems to have invaded the dog genome relatively recently. This suggests that dogs and humans may have passed these germs to each other due to close interactions during our millennia of history together, a phenomenon known as "lateral transmission." It remains uncertain how such transmission might have occurred — perhaps from wet doggie kisses, for instance.


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Chapter 10 Generalized Linear Models
10.2 The Logistic and Probit Regression Models
10.2.1 Logistic Regression: The Challenger Shuttle O-Ring Data Example
10.2.2 Using the Inverse Link to Get the Predicted Probability
10.2.3 Alternative Logistic Regression Analysis Using 0-1 Data
10.2.4 An Alternative Link: Probit Regression
10.3 Binomial Models for Analysis of Variance and Analysis of Covariance
10.3.1 Logistic ANOVA
10.3.2 The Analysis-of-Variance Model with a Probit Link
10.3.3 Logistic Analysis of Covariance
10.4 Count Data and Overdispersion
10.4.1 An Insect Count Example
10.4.2 Model Checking
10.4.3 Correction for Overdispersion
10.4.4 Fitting a Negative Binomial Model
10.4.5 Using PROC GENMOD to Fit the Negative Binomial ...


Anaphylaxis (say "ann-uh-fuh-LAK-suss") is a severe allergic reaction that affects the entire body (systemic). It can occur within a few seconds or minutes after a person is exposed to a substance (allergen or antigen).
Symptoms and signs of a severe allergic reaction may include:
The sooner symptoms occur after exposure to the substance, the more severe the anaphylactic reaction is likely to be. An anaphylactic reaction may occur with the first exposure to an allergen, with every exposure, or after several exposures. An anaphylactic reaction can be life-threatening and is a medical emergency. Emergency care is always needed for an anaphylactic reaction.
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The Humber estuary is located on the east coast of the United Kingdom and comprises extensive wetland and coastal habitats. Sea level rise is expected to be the most important parameter concerning erosion in the Humber. As a result, the surface area of valuable inter-tidal salt marshes and mud flats is expected to decrease. Additionally, safety for the hinterland will be threatened as the water level in the estuary rises.
Increasing foreshore erosion, with sea level rise, will threaten more of the defences and increase the expenditure needed to keep them in an acceptable condition. In the estuary, human interference is very important. Embankments have fixed the coastline, this influences the response of the estuary to relative sea level rise. The natural landward movement of the coastline is made impossible and this causes erosion of the tidal marshes and foreshores.
The current defence system keeps the hinterland – consisting of people and investments – safe. Foreshore erosion is a threat to the defence system and, therefore, to the safety of the people and investments in the flood plain of the Humber estuary. In addition, another measure, moving the defence line back, can compensate for the expected loss of tidal marshes and flats because of sea level rise (coastal squeeze). A complementary advantage of this measure, when applied in the inner estuary, is the lowering of water levels in the estuary, reducing the risk of flooding.
The current defence system functions properly. However, rising sea levels are causing local foreshore erosion and loss of tidal marshes through coastal squeeze. In the future, due to sea level rise, supplementary measures will be necessary to provide a sufficient standard of protection for the flood plain.


Students who excel at both classroom and standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT aren’t necessarily those who study longest. High-achieving students take charge of their own learning and ask for help when they’re stuck, according to a 2017 study of 414 college students.
Those who asked instructors for help during office hours were more likely to get A’s, but fewer than 1 in 5 students did so, says the study by Elena Bray Speth, an associate professor of biology, and Amanda Sebesta, a doctoral candidate, both at St. Louis University in Missouri.
Students who formed study groups and quizzed each other weekly on material presented in class posted higher grades than those who used other study techniques, says a 2015 study of 144 students.
At home, Mr. Johnson suggests making copies of teachers’ study questions and having students try to answer them as if they were taking a test.
Students who completed a 15-minute online exercise 7 to 10 days before an exam that prompted them to anticipate what would be on the test, name the resources they’d use to study, and explain how and when they’d use them, had average scores one-third of a letter grade higher on the exam compared with students who didn’t do the exercise, according to a 2017 study of 361 college students led by Patricia Chen, a former Stanford University researcher and assistant professor of psychology at the National University of Singapore.
Many teachers in middle and high school try to teach good study habits, but the lessons often don’t stick unless students are highly motivated to try them-for example, when they’re afraid of getting a bad grade in class, or scoring poorly on high-stakes tests such as the ACT or SAT. When her daughter Deja was still young, Christina Kirk began to encourage her to identify major concepts in her notes and use retrieval practice when she studied.


Kidney Cancers Linked to Arsenic in Drinking Water
Elevated intake of arsenic present in drinking water is associated with an increased risk of renal pelvis and ureter cancers, according to a case-control study conducted in northern Chile.
The study compared 122 kidney cancer cases and 640 population-based controls. The cases included 76 renal cell cancers, 24 renal pelvis and ureter transitional cell carcinomas (TCC), and 22 other kidney cancers.
Compared with subjects whose average arsenic intake from drinking water was less than 400 μg/day, those whose average intake was 400-1,000 μg/day and greater than 1,000 μg/day had a significant 5.7-fold and 11-fold increased risk of renal pelvis and ureter cancers, respectively, researchers led by Craig Steinmaus, MD, MPH, reported online in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Elevated arsenic intake was not associated with an increased risk of renal cell cancer.
Dr. Steinmaus' group pointed out that northern Chile is one of the best places in the world to investigate the carcinogenicity of arsenic in part because of high exposures to the heavy metal and the availability of good records on past arsenic water concentrations.
They noted that several factors support the biological plausibility of their findings. First, ingested arsenic is a well-established cause of bladder cancer, most of which also is TCC. Second, the kidney is the primary route of arsenic excretion, so almost all ingested arsenic reaches the kidneys.
“With these new findings,” the authors concluded, “including evidence of a dose-response, we believe there is now sufficient evidence in humans that drinking-water arsenic causes renal pelvis and ureter cancer.”


Lent is the 40 day period leading up to Easter. It is a time of spiritual preparation for the believer through prayer, penitence, alms-giving and self-denial.
- Prayer is our language directed toward God for the purpose of worshipping, requesting guidance/assistance and confessing sin. We mature in our relationship with God when we pray on a regular basis.
- Penitence is repenting of sins. It is the desire to be forgiven for the words, deeds and thoughts that are not in accord with the goodness and righteousness of God. We cannot grow strong in our relationship with God if we have un-confessed sin in our life.
- Alms-giving is the act of giving materially to another as an act of religious virtue. The receiver may be a person in need or an institution that ministers to the needy. Giving is an important part of our spiritual life.
- Self-denial is an abstinence from various worldly pleasures with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals. Self-denial is denying some of the good things of life for a season of time in order to focus upon the spiritual goals of life.
The season of Lent is a time to grow more mature in our relationship with God. Lent moves us toward the events of the cross and the resurrection. We are more receptive to God when we engage in sincere prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial. Lent, 2011, begins on March 9 with Ash Wednesday. It continues through the Saturday before Easter; Easter is the last Sunday of April this year.


Raising awareness about child abuse prevention
During the past fiscal year, 1,349 children in North Dakota were the victims of child abuse or neglect, reports the North Dakota Department of Human Services.
It is known that early childhood experiences can have long-term impacts on children.
Now to raise awareness in communities and with individuals so they can help support strong and stable families, Gov. Doug Burgum has proclaimed April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in North Dakota.
During this month, N.D. Department of Human Services and Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota has joined up with organizations in Minot and communities across the state in sponsoring local events and activities to support families and raise the awareness about prevention.
“We encourage families and community members to enjoy time together and participate in these family-friendly activities in their community,” Dan Halverson, Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota executive director, says about these plans.
N.D. Department of Human Services has noted Minot area families will be able to take part in a family movie and Make and Take Event at Oak Park Theater, where the film “Inside Out” will be featured but details of the event have not been finalized yet.
Bismarck, Bowman, Fargo-Moorhead and Grand Forks are among other communities planning events.
We agree with Dan Halverson and his organization that there are many opportunities this month to learn more about creating positive early childhoods for children in this state. Communities and individuals are encouraged to continue opportunities throughout the year.


Mounted police officers are law enforcement professionals tasked with patrolling a designated area on horseback to provide crowd control and promote public safety. Duties Mounted police officers are most frequently involved with crowd control for events and also monitor populated areas to ensure public welfare. The officer’s horse greatly enhances their physical
Riding instructors teach riding lessons and coach students who wish to compete in various equestrian disciplines. Duties Riding instructors train students by designing skill building exercises for the horse and rider. They critique their students’ form, give advice on proper techniques, and teach general horsemanship skills such as grooming, saddling, and bandaging.
The American Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation (AAEP) has announced that 25 veterinary students will receive Winner’s Circle scholarships to help defray the cost of their fourth year of study. The awards range in value from $1,500 to $5,000 per student and total $104,000 for the group. The Winner’s Circle


The Achumawi language was traditionally spoken along the Pit River from the margins of the northern Sacramento Valley up to its source in Goose Lake. In pre-contact times, there were approximately 3000 speakers of Achumawi and Atsugewi combined (Kroeber 1925). Today, there are less than a dozen speakers (Golla 2011).
Atsugewi and the closely related Atsugewi language constitute the Palaihnihan family, a branch of the hypothesized Hokan language family, which also includes Chimariko, Esselen, Karuk, the Pomoan languages (Central Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Kashaya, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, and Southern Pomo), Salinan, the Shastan languages (Konomihu, New River Shasta, Okwanuchu, and Shasta), Washo, Yana, and the Yuman languages (Cocopa, Kiliwa, Kumeyaay, Maricopa, Mojave, Pai, Paipai, and Quechan).
Selected archival materials at Berkeley
- de Angulo, Jaime and L. S. Freeland. 1930. The Achumawi language. International Journal of American Linguistics 6:77-120.
- Bauman, James. 1980. Introduction to the Pit River language and culture. Anchorage, AK: National Bilingual Materials Development Center, University of Alaska.
- Bauman, James, Ruby Miles, and Ike Leaf. 1979. Pit River teaching dictionary. Anchorage, AK: National Bilingual Materials Development Center, University of Alaska.
- Golla, Victor. 2011. California Indian languages. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Olmstead, D. L. 1966. Achumawi dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press.


Offshore Wind for America
The United States currently relies heavily on fossil fuels to heat our homes, fuel our cars, power our machines and produce electricity, harming our health and our climate.
Across the country, however, America is beginning to embrace the promise of clean, renewable energy. Today, the U.S. gets about 11.5 percent of our electricity from wind, solar and geothermal sources, up from about 0.6 percent two decades ago. America’s abundant renewable energy resources, coupled with energy efficiency measures and technological advances that have made renewable energy cheaper and better than ever, open the possibility of transitioning our entire economy to run on 100 percent renewable energy.
To get there, we must take advantage of a massive and underutilized energy resource just off our coasts: offshore wind.


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School-Age Ideas and Activities for After School Programs.
Haas-Foletta, Karen; Cogley, Michele
This guide describes activities for school-age children in after-school day care programs. These activities may also be used in other settings. An introductory section discusses program philosophy, room arrangement, multicultural curriculum, program scheduling, summer programs and holiday care, field trips and special programs, age grouping, communication between parents and teachers, and conflict resolution. Sections of the guide describe approximately 150 activities that relate to: (1) problem solving in general and social problem solving in particular; (2) rough-and-tumble play; (3) painting; (4) printing; (5) making cards and gifts; (6) making masks, puppets, and gifts; (7) candle making; (8) making three-dimensional artworks; (9) cooking art supplies from recipes; (10) craft projects involving nature; (11) planting and growing plants and vegetables; (12) science experiments; and (13) indoor and outdoor games. A resource list of more than 120 publications is appended. (BC)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Childrens Games, Class Activities, Cooking Instruction, Day Care, Elementary Education, Handicrafts, Horticulture, Painting (Visual Arts), Play, Printing, Problem Solving, Science Projects
School-Age NOTES, P.O. Box 40205, Nashville, TN 37204 ($16.95).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Identifiers: Social Problem Solving


Papayas are helpful in preventing problems such as atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease. When oxidation of bad cholesterol takes place, it sticks to the walls of the blood vessels and forms plaque that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. The presence of the phytonutrients in papayas helps prevent oxidization of the bad cholesterol in the body. Papayas also help in preventing the plaque from sticking to the walls, thereby keeping your heart healthy.
Sesame oil is highly recommended by dental professionals because of a process called oil pulling, which involves putting oil in your mouth and then swishing it around before spitting it out. This process has been directly linked to lower levels of plaque developing in the mouth, and protection against certain toxins that can make us sick.


Communication of the diagnosis of childhood cancer
Communication of the diagnosis in childhood cancer should be the first building block in a continuously communicative process between the medical staff, parents or care givers and the patient. This compassionate conversation, conveying hope, assurance and without medical jargon, should take place in a quiet room with minimal interruptions, It is advised that the teenager patient should be present to actively take part in the discussion about their treatment. News should be conveyed to the young child in the presence of their parents. Clear and accurate information regarding etiology, diagnosis, treatment, goal of treatment and prognosis should be discussed. Creating opportunities for review discussion as well as providing printed or audio visual material will enhance a relationship of trust.
R Uys, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Children's Hospital
communication; diagnosis; childhood cancer
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Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library . It’s a research tool that allows students, educators and scholars to use the text of Shakespeare’s plays to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them—line by line. Users simply click next to any line of text in a play and relevant articles from the JSTOR archive immediately load.


Ashton appeared for a job interview and is asked the following question. Arrange all the distinct substrings of a given string in lexicographical order and concatenate them. Print the character of the concatenated string. It is assured that given value of will be valid i.e. there will be a character. Can you help Ashton out with this?
For example, given the string , its distinct substrings are . Sorted and concatenated, they make the string . If then, the answer is , the character of the 1-indexed concatenated string.
Note We have distinct substrings here, i.e. if string is
aa, it's distinct substrings are
Complete the ashtonString function in the editor below. It should return the character from the concatenated string, 1-based indexing.
ashtonString has the following parameters:
- s: a string
- k: an integer
The first line will contain an integer , the number of test cases.
Each of the subsequent pairs of lines is as follows:
- The first line of each test case contains a string, .
- The second line contains an integer, .
Each character of string
will be an appropriate integer.
Print the character (1-based index) of the concatenation of the ordered distinct substrings of .
1 dbac 3
The substrings when arranged in lexicographic order are as follows
a, ac, b, ba, bac, c, d, db, dba, dbac
On concatenating them, we get
The third character in this string is


EEHV Genomics and Pathogenesis
IEF is continuing its long-term funding of research to understand and combat the devastating cute hemorrhagic disease caused by some strains of Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV). This novel group of mammalian herpesviruses discovered in 1999 has been responsible for the deaths of 20% of all Asian elephant calves born in zoos and elephant housing facilities over the past 25 years. The same virus types have also been confirmed to be present in 86 lethal cases in wild, orphan and camp-reared Asian elephant calves within at least six different Asian elephant range countries over the last ten years and thus represent another of the many difficult to control factors threatening the long-term breeding success and survival of the highly threatened Asian elephant worldwide. This project conducts extensive genetic analyses of virus positive samples from Asian and African elephants and has thus far revealed that these infections are endemic in both host species. Most, if not all, elephants may become latently infected with different types of EEHV in their lifetimes, therefore it is important for this research to not only identify and categorize the strains of EEHV but understand the differences between types and understand why one type (EEHV1A) is far more dangerous to calves than the others. This research has served as the foundation for most EEHV research around the world.


A new, comprehensive, one volume history of Southeast Asia that spans prehistory to the present. Ricklefs brings together colleagues at the National University of Singapore whose expertise covers the entire region, encompassing political, social, economic, religious and cultural history.
Opening with an account of the ethnic groups and initial cultural and social structures of Southeast Asia, the book moves through the early 'classical' states, the arrival of new global religions and the impact of non-indigenous actors. The history of early modern states and their colonial successors is followed by analysis of World War II across the region, Offering a definitive account of decolonisation and early post-colonial nation-building, the text then transports us to modern-day Southeast Asia, exploring its place in a world recovering from the financial crisis.
The distinguished author team provide an authoritative and accessible narrative, drawing upon the latest research and offering detailed guidance on further reading. A landmark contribution to the field, this is an essential text for scholars, students and anyone interested in Southeast Asia.


1.Data that can only take certain values. For example: The number of students in a class. You can't have half a student.
2. Discrete data are vectors or raster data storage systems, which represents objects. A discrete object has known and definable boundaries. It is easy to define precisely where the object begins and where it ends. For example: A lake is a discrete object within the surrounding landscape.
thematic, categorical or discontinuous data
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Author: Laura Saupe


For decades scientists have struggled to explain the origins of gamma-ray bursts, huge blasts of energy that occur daily in far-off galaxies. Now it appears they may have an answer. The results of two studies of recent gamma-ray bursts, published today in the journal Science, indicate that exploding stars called supernovae may spawn some of these blasts.
The teams studied x-ray spectra, which are emitted by the bursts, using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the BeppoSAX satellite. Examinations of these spectra revealed characteristic "fingerprints" indicating that, in each case, as the burst expanded it passed through a dense, iron-rich cloud of gas. That cloud, the researchers say, probably resulted from a supernova explosion. As a star evolves it produces increasingly heavy elements, and by the time it reaches supernova status, the star is producing iron, the heaviest element possible for it to make.
Initial estimates from the spectra data seemed to indicate that the supernova spat out the cloud just before the gamma-ray burst. According to calculations of cloud density, however, the teams estimate a 10-year lag between the supernova explosion and the burst. They thus propose what they have dubbed the "supranova" model, in which a burst results not directly from a supernova explosion but from the delayed collapse of a neutron star created by the supernova. "We cannot rule out other scenarios yet," remarks Filippo Frontera of the University of Ferrara, one of the lead authors, "but this one is the simplest, and the most consistent with our results."


Antibiotic Wisely: Sharing Proven Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use
Approximately 25 million antibiotic prescriptions are dispensed by Canadian pharmacies annually. That’s almost the equivalent of every person in Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia (65% of the country’s population) receiving an antibiotic prescription within one year. In honour of Antimicrobial Awareness Week, November 13th-19th, tune in to Choosing Wisely Talks, Thursday November 2nd, to hear from Dr. Jerome Leis, Physician Lead of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto. During the webinar he will be presenting different interventions proven to be effective in reducing unnecessary antibiotic use across different healthcare settings and the need for coordinated changes in Canadian healthcare to improve appropriateness of antibiotics to combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Did you miss it? Watch the webinar.


The death toll from an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 529 as the deadly virus persists with “moderate intensity,” according to the World Health Organization.
In the 21 days through Feb. 19, 79 new cases were reported from 40 areas within 12 zones, the United Nations body said in an emailed statement. While no new cases were reported from the city of Beni, “trends in the case incidence suggest a high risk of further chains of transmission in affected communities” elsewhere in the northeast of the country, it said.
A total of 848 cases of the virus have been reported, of which 258 were children under the age of 18, the WHO said. So far, 257 victims have survived.
The outbreak is the 10th since the since the virus was discovered in Congo in 1976. It’s also the world’s biggest after one in West Africa in 2014-2016.


As the sense most associated with food and diet, taste not only helps you to enjoy a great meal, it's also vital to keeping you safe. Among other things, a healthy sense of taste helps people immediately recognise foods that they are allergic to and also helps them avoid foods that are stale or may be dangerous to consume. If your sense of taste has begun to deteriorate, don't despair. Awareness of your situation and appropriate action can bring back the pleasure of taste that you are used to enjoying.
See your doctor if your sense of taste has decreased. Through a medical visit, you'll know if your taste buds are being adversely affected by medication, an underlying disorder such as dysgeusia or ageusia, or a degenerative condition like Alzheimer's disease.
Stop any bad habits that directly affect taste. A reduction in smoking can make your taste sense stronger, as can improved brushing and flossing habits. See a dentist regularly to keep your oral health at a high-functioning level.
Make food flavours stronger with herbs and spices. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders suggests that spices and herbs can improve the taste of food when your taste senses are lacking without adding any potential health risks to your body.
Eat more individual foods instead of combining them into one dish. In an article for "American Physician," Dr. Steven M. Bromely cites food colour, temperature, aroma and texture as four characteristics that can be enhanced and are critical to taste disorder treatment. By enjoying different foods individually, you can focus on discovering the unique flavour that each one offers.
Don't add salt or sugar to your diet to offset a loss of taste. This can lead to additional health issues like increased blood pressure or diabetes.
If you add spices or any other new ingredients to your meals, measure according to recipe guidelines rather than to taste.


Your blood works to transport nutritions to your each organs and take aways the waste products. Thereby, it is a good reflection of your health. Among the many chemicals commonly found in your serum are potassium and creatinine, both of which act as waste transporters to your kidneys, in addition to fulfilling other vital functions. Measuring your potassium and creatinine levels can reveal a lot about your current state of health.
High Creatinine Level
Creatinine is a product created from the breakdown of creatine, a chemical
used in the energy transfer process that occurs within muscles. Once creatine
has been used, it degrades into creatinine and is flushed from the muscles into
the bloodstream. Your kidneys measure the potassium and creatinine in your
blood. When these substances reach high levels, they are filtered out of the
blood and excreted through your urine.
High Potassium Level
Potassium is an essential mineral that your body uses to ensure proper
contraction of the heart and other muscles, for acid-base balance and in protein
synthesis. Within the blood, it also helps move nutrients into cells and carries
waste products out.
Both the deposition of creatinine and potassium in blood are the signs of
kidney damage. Thereby, for patients with high creatinine level and high
potassium level are suggested to take further tests of kidney functions.
In addition, a low creatinine and low potassium diet is necessary. There is a
questionnaire which helps you find the personal diet list based on your own
condition. If you have interest, you can get it from email@example.com
Learn about: What Is Going on with Low Potassium Levels And High Creatinine


Most dental problems involving an infected tooth root are solved by a root canal, with studies showing success rates of up to 90 percent for this procedure. But in some cases, additional dental treatment may be needed, such as an apicoectomy, or root end surgery.
What Is an Apicoectomy?
This type of oral surgery procedure is defined as "the removal of the tip of a tooth root," which is done to save the tooth from being pulled out; keeping your teeth intact is the dentist's mission. Typical reasons for an apicoectomy may include re-infection of the root canal site with signs like pain in the tooth, tenderness or swollen gums that occurs after a root canal.
What Happens During an Apicoectomy
Teeth are held in place by tooth roots. The tips of each root, called the apex, serve as an entrance for nerves and blood vessels into the tooth.
During an apicoectomy, the apex is removed, along with the infected tissue, and then sealed with a tooth filling.
Done with a surgical microscope, this procedure is also known as endodontic microsurgery and usually takes between 30 to 90 minutes, depending on the tooth's location and complexity of the root structure.
Though general dentists can do an apicoectomy, most are performed by endodontists, or root canal experts.


The Commerce Clause is an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". Courts and commentators have tended to discuss each of these three areas of commerce as a separate power granted to Congress. It is common to see the Commerce Clause referred to as "the Foreign Commerce Clause", "the Interstate Commerce Clause", and "the Indian Commerce Clause", each of which refers to a different application of the same sentence in the Constitution.
Dispute exists as to the range of powers granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause. As noted below, the clause is often paired with the Necessary and Proper Clause, the combination used to take a broad, expansive perspective of these powers. Many strict constructionists deny that this is the proper application of the Commerce Clause because it refers specifically to "the foreign Powers"


October 16, 2013 (ISN) – With 16 October being World Food Day, the International Rugby Board is doing its bit to focus attention on global hunger and what is being done to alleviate it. Among the objectives of World Food Day are to heighten public awareness of the problem of hunger in the world and strengthen international and national solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger and IRB humanitarian partner. Through its Tackle Hunger partnership with the WFP, the IRB supports World Food Day and calls on the global Rugby family to help in the fight against hunger.
This year, WFP is in the midst of dealing with a huge range of challenges, from operating in war zones and areas affected by famine, to feeding the many hungry in refugee camps and providing children with nutritious and much-needed school meals.
The IRB is proud to play its part in promoting the Tackle Hunger message to the global Rugby community, helping to raise awareness of WFP’s work while drawing attention to the plight of the world’s hungry.
Key facts on hunger:
- 870 million people in the world do not have enough to eat – that’s one in eight
- The number of hungry people has fallen by 130 million since 1990
- Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45 per cent) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year
- One out of six children — roughly 100 million — in developing countries is underweight
- One in four of the world’s children has stunted growth due to a lack of the right food at the right time
- It costs 25 US cents per day to give a child all the nutrients he or she needs to grow up healthy.


Learner's definition of BIG DEAL
something that is very important
The party was a big deal.
The cost didn't seem like much to me, but I know it was a big deal for many people.
So I'm late. What's the big deal? [=why is that important?]
— often used in negative statements
— sometimes used ironically as an interjection to say that something is not important to you
make a big deal (out) of (something)
make (something) into a big deal
to treat (something) as very important or too important
The girl's song was far from perfect, but her parents made a big deal of it, and she was very happy.
Don't make such a big deal (out) of missing the bus: there'll be another one along in a minute.


When we are trying to make a judgement about a population, it is often impractical (or impossible) to observe every member of the population. Imagine trying to survey all 300+ million Americans to understand the likely outcome of the next presidential election! Because of this, much of statistics is collecting data from a representative and random sample. From the data collected from this random sample we can infer things about the greater population.
Much of statistics is based upon using data from a random sample that is representative of the population at large. From that sample mean, we can infer things about the greater population mean. We'll explain.


Illustrations of adults of all 36 species of shieldbug and 10 species of leatherbug currently native or recently colonised in Britain and Ireland.
As well as illustrations of all the adults, last instar nymphs are also included of the most frequently found and common species.
Text includes information on life cycles, recognising both the groups and separating them from similar-looking insect groups. Concise text for each species includes field characters, similar species, colour variants, active season, habitat and general distribution.
A number of the species included here are not illustrated in other available guides on the group.


A shortage of laborers to work in the growing (in size and number) sugar plantations became a challenge. The only answer was imported labor. Starting in the 1850s, labor shortages were eased by bringing in contract workers from Asia, Europe and North America. By 1884, Hawai‘i Island counted more than thirty plantations, many of them in the Hilo area. Immigrants were arriving by the thousands, mostly from Asia. They fulfilled labor contracts and afterward stayed on.
There used to be a Japanese plantation workers camp associated with Wainaku Mill known as Nikai Camp – for most, it was referred to as the Japanese Village. It became an attraction. “A mile and a half from Hilo, above the Wainaku mill, there is to be found, in a green, fern-clad valley with a sparkling stream and a dashing waterfall, a complete Japanese village, with thatched roofs and bamboo walls for its houses.” However, tragedy struck the village … “During Monday afternoon, the 15th (January 15, 1895,) the Japanese camp at Wainaku was completely destroyed by fire.”


An invoice is a
document used in
commerce, particularly in
retail. It is made by a person or company who is
selling something to a
customer (or "
buyer"). The invoice is given to the customer as a request for
payment. It lists the
service provided to the customer, along with the
price being charged for each of them.
Once the customer has paid for the goods or services, they may be given a
receipt. The receipt is the customer's proof that they have paid for the products. A receipt is not the same thing as an invoice.
From the seller's point of view, an invoice is called the sales invoice. From the buyer's point of view, an invoice is called the purchase invoice.


Artificial left hand and forearm, Europe, 1501-1600
Surgical amputations are referred to by Hippocrates. They were for many years a main function of the surgeon. This artificial hand dates from the 1500s. Most limbs were amputated in this era due to war injuries or accidents. It consists of a metal casing. This wrapped around the forearm stump and was secured by metal or leather straps. An internal mechanical structure (now missing) may have allowed the fingers basic movement. The fingers were created as a solid mass. However, they can flex at the largest knuckle joint. French military surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) gained experience as a private surgeon to generals in the French Army during the 1500s. His books on surgery described new operations and treatments. These writings describe artificial substitutes he devised to replace amputated limbs. Some were simple. Others were elaborate highly-mechanised devices that simulated the natural movement and function of the limb.
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The branch of medicine concerned with the preservation and restoration of the muscular and skeletal systems in the body.
Artificial body parts, or materials inserted into tissue for functional, cosmetic, or therapeutic effect. Prostheses can be functional (artificial arms and legs), or cosmetic (artificial eye).
Glossary: artificial hand


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In the story, Adam says his dad's speech was as good as anything the preacher had ever done on "hell-fire and damnation." This refers to the kind of church sermon where a preacher would try to motivate his congregation by threatening them that they were going to hell. This sort of sermon was supposed to appeal to people's emotions to get them to act in a certain way. Adam's dad's speech does that.
He feels his father is as good of a speaker because of the effect of the speech -- it gets the people all fired up and helps make them decide to fight the British.
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
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Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered “highly dangerous”? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world’s first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the inventor who fled an abusive child marriage only to revolutionize textile production in China?
Women have always been able to change the world, even when they didn’t get the credit. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs introduces you to pioneering female scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors—each profile a study in passion, smarts, and stickto-itiveness, complete with portraits by Google doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to present-day women-centric STEM organizations.
I received this book for free from Quirk Books for review consideration. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
First sentence: “Representation is important.”
Where are the women in our history? Why aren’t we taught more about them? I don’t remember being taught a lot about women in school (other than the Suffrage Movement and Rosa Parks), and that’s a damn shame. The history that was taught to everybody were about white males who supposedly conquered, discovered, taught, and invented everything that we know in the world, and that’s totally wrong. We should be focusing on women—scientists, engineers, adventurers, inventors, and mathematicians—who’ve made a huge difference in the world too, and Wonder Women introduces readers to them.
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How are galaxies distributed in space?
Galaxies are clustered into groups. Galaxy groups form larger clusters, and clusters are part of huge superclusters. In between clusters and superclusters are vast cosmic voids.
Our Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy, together with dozens of dwarf galaxies, make up the Local Group. Along with numerous other galaxy groups, the Local Group is part of the Virgo Cluster, which contains almost 2000 galaxies. The Virgo cluster, in turn, forms the core of the Local Supercluster. Superclusters can span up to 900 million light-years. Our Local Supercluster is relatively small, but belongs to a larger region called the Laniakea Supercluster, over 500 million light-years in diameter.
You know the sequence: Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way? Well, it goes on: Local Group, Virgo Cluster, Laniakea Supercluster. This is your complete cosmic address!


Bach1 is a transcriptional repressor which modulates several critical transcriptional responses, such as the expression of the heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) gene in response to oxidative stress. In our recent study, we found that Bach1 possesses a novel role in mitotic chromosome alignment during metaphase. Upon BACH1 depletion in HeLa cells, mitotic chromosomes become unstable. This defect was efficiently rescued by expressing Bach1 fragments that lack the DNA binding domain, indicating that its function in mitosis involves a transcriptionindependent mechanism. The nuclear export signal (NES/CLS) of Bach1 is required for the mitotic function. Bach1 is excluded from the mitotic chromosomes depending on its NES/CLS and the nuclear exporter Crm1. Our findings suggest that Bach1 might mediate the regulation of mitotic chromosomes under conditions of cellular stress.
- Chromosome alignment
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- India records about 7 million burn cases annually
- About 1.4 lakh people die of burns.
- High cost of Burns treatment coupled with functional disability of burn survivors put a heavy
- financial toll on the patient.
- Data has shown that 80% of cases are due to domestic accidents
- This can be prevented if India has an effective burn prevention program in place.
Aim of Awareness : – To reduce the incidence of preventable burn injury by conducting large scale Burns Prevention and Skin Donation awareness Program in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane area.
- To create awareness about the correct First-aid in burns


Wood has been for centuries a favorite construction material for houses because of its unique insulation, warmth, comfort and durability. A wooden house is a house that breathes, since wood absorbs moisture and regulates the indoor environment. Wooden houses are optimal since wood absorbs waves it receives. A wooden house is a peaceful house, reducing the stress of its inhabitants.
The guidelines for construction of wooden houses has not changed much over time, the building process has been the norm for many years. The construction technique is adaptable and versatile. Over the years new wooden items or supplies have been created, and products and standard techniques are more modern and updated. But the basic principle remains the same. Building a wooden house can be easy, inexpensive and quick with a clear advantage over other materials.


Santa Cruz County helps residents prepare for El Niño
Santa Cruz County has a website to help residents prepare for El Niño-related weather events.
El Niño is a warming in sea surface temperatures around the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean.
The warming trend is often associated with wetter winters in Mexico and the Southwest, as well as Central and Southern California.
With predictions for one of the strongest El Niños on record, many residents are asking questions about how to ready their families and properties.
The website provides information on preparing family disaster plans, how to prepare your property (including wells and septic systems), tips for pet and livestock owners and more. It also includes information on what to do during and after an emergency, including how to stay up-to-date on county road closures and where to get information on shelter and food.
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Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region:
The 'Galician potato' Specific Designation covers potatoes grown according to traditional cultivation practices in the region of Galicia. Its compact texture, creaminess and clean, very natural flavour, make it an excellent quality product.
Galician potatoes can be recognised by their oval or rounded shape, without marked deformations and with very superficial eyes. Its skin is very fine, with a smooth appearance and light yellow colour. It is an excellent quality potato maintaining all its qualities of colour, aroma and flavour, even after it is cooked. After cooking it maintains a firm, creamy texture.
- Type of product:
- It may be drunk all year round.
- The production area includes three Galician counties which, by tradition and through careful cultivation, are recognised as genuine producers: Bergantiños (A Coruña), A Limia (Orense) and Villalba (Lugo), which cover a total of 23 municipalities.
- To drink with it:
- It depends on culinary preparation.
- Where to buy:
- Galician potatoes can be bought in most specialised shops and supermarkets in Galicia and in selected ones throughout the rest of Spain.
- Potatoes 'a la importancia'
- The only protected variety is Kennebeck, with a light yellow skin and white flesh, of great culinary and nutritional value.
- Rich in carbohydrates.


This guide supplies information about basic artwork and design resources at the College of Michigan. Most contributors reported that each one of interventions had been useful and rated the group remedy as a positive experience. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and different researchers the flexibility to look and download full digital copies of publications dedicated to art, structure, material tradition, and associated fields.
Referencing articles you have used is necessary – it demonstrates that you’ve researched your topic, it allows others to seek out the article to learn for themselves, and it avoids accusations of plagairism. Encyclopædia Britannica articles are written in a impartial objective tone for a general audience.
Nevertheless, away from the minimize and thrust of these debates, artwork historical past is still being written confidently and with goal, using the instruments which might be out there. Since december 2005 the Union Catalogue contains also articles from E-Journals, they are indexed by ZI inside the scope of the mission of (module ARTicles online).
See D. Summers, Real Areas: World Artwork History and the Rise of Western Modernism (London, 2003), for an influential try to develop another conceptual and semantic framework for art historical past. Please click on any sub-part beneath or if you’re in search of one thing specific, the complete list of Articles is at the backside of this web page.
This article has all the pieces an Artwork scholar needs to know about one level perspective: step-by-step tutorials, lesson plans, movies and free downloadable worksheets. Most fashionable public museums and art teaching programs for children in schools could be traced back to this impulse to have artwork available to everybody.…


|Frankenstein Turns 200! Mary Shelley and the Birth of a Gothic Legend|
Event Type: Adult|
Age Group(s): Adults
Start Time: 11:30 AM
End Time: 1:00 PM
This lecture will first explore the life and career of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from her early days of being reared in a progressive, feminist household to the fateful encounter in Geneva that led to her authoring "Frankenstein"; or, "The Modern Prometheus". It was here, in 1816, that Shelley, along with her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, lodged with the infamous Lord Byron, who challenged his guests to each write a horror story. It was this competition that spawned the creation of "Frankenstein". Secondly, the Gothic genre of literature, to which "Frankenstein" belongs, will be discussed in detail so that readers may fully appreciate the intricacies of this classic novel.
Christopher Proctor is an academic librarian and faculty member at Indiana University Southeast Library. This lecture is a part of the Library's monthly Midday Meet & Mingle series. No registration is required, and refreshments will be served.
Contact: Laura Wilkins
Contact Number: 812-949-3522


When thinking about traveling, our mind evokes images of beautiful beaches, luxurious hotels and relaxing landscapes. In reality, traveling, especially constant traveling, is less glamorous than what we might imagine. The stress of getting to the airport on time, lack of sleep, the cramped conditions on most modern airplanes and the brutal effects of jet lag can turn travelling between places a nightmare for many people.
According to scientific research, the effects of jet lag have long-term negative consequences on travelers’ well-being and physical health. Dehydration due to dry pressurized cabin air, motion sickness, general fatigue and mental stress are among the most common jet lag symptoms.
Some of the best well-known tips to cope with the effects of jetlag are: keeping yourself hydrated, staying active, breathing, meditating and using Synctuition.
In 25 minutes, Synctuition induces you into a meditative stance, which has been proven to lower both the physiological and mental effects of stress and fatigue induced by traveling. The audio journey will take your mind off your immediate surroundings, transporting you away from the stress and helping you cope with the damaging effects of jet lag.


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Four particles in the xy plane have the following masses and coordinates: 1 kg at (4 m, 4 m), 2 kg at (−3 m, 5 m), 3 kg at (5 m, −2 m) and 4 kg at (−2 m, −4 m). Find the total moment of inertia about:
a) the x-axis:
b) the y-axis:
b) the z-axis:
a) Add M*y^2 for the four particles
b) Add M*x^2 for the four particles
c) Add M(x^2 + y^2) for the four particles. (Or just add the first two answers)


The impostor syndrome is not a disease nor a pathology. We are talking more about a psychological state that everyone can go through during their life or professional career. In reality, this is a common problem. According to a study published in the Journal of Behavioral Science and relayed by Forbes: ‘’70% of the world population would doubt at least once in their life about the legitimacy of their success’’.
The impostor syndrome is based on a set of erroneous beliefs that must be questioned in order to try to work on a fairer system of thoughts and above all, more beneficial to well-being. People with impostor syndrome, also known as autodidact syndrome, express a form of unhealthy doubt that essentially involves denying ownership of any personal achievement. We see in coaching, for example, that most coachees who have the impostor syndrome are ultimately people who have (most of the time) grown up in an environment and / or experiences nurturing a lack of self-confidence and self esteem.
Impostor Syndrome is intimately linked to a lack of self-confidence – and sometimes it is an overwhelming pressure we all put on ourselves to be perfect. Just as lack of self-confidence, impostor syndrome often turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy: the belief is so strong (I lack the abilities) that I change my behavior (I sabotage myself) and at the end I realize and experiment this belief myself (I fail, therefore I am an impostor). In short: by dint of believing it, it ends up happening.
There is no miracle method to regain self-confidence: it is a self work that is done over time. Because building self-confidence starts by knowing ourself: knowing who we are, and being aware of who we are not.


For governments to successfully use alternative energy technologies, they must develop and implement guidelines that will www.gwelectricco.com/ help energize investment in them. Budgetary incentives will be key to this procedure, as they may reduce up-front investment obligations and motivate design invention. These coverages can be changed to suit specific national and regional circumstances, thereby providing confidence to traders.
Deploying renewables requires a ordinaire effort via policy makers, businesses, and also other stakeholders. These organizations need to build complicité with each other to make certain effective implementation of guidelines. They must teach and enable the public regarding the benefits and challenges connected with renewable energy. It is imperative to determine a problems of cooperation among all stakeholders, from policymakers to the privately owned sector to environmental groups and NGOs. This kind of collaboration can also in order to highlight the role of renewable energy in future energy devices.
A major good judgment in the enactment of alternative energy policies may be the need for a talented workforce. To encourage purchase in green technologies, countries must develop market infrastructures and learn from their past experiences. They have to also set up enabling legal, administrative, and financial constructions. The government can also play a large role inside the diffusion of renewable energy technologies, by starting research to identify their very own potential.
Renewable energy is a global market that is increasing in a rapid pace. Over the following five years, the reveal of renewables will increase by one-fifth, coming from just 10% to nearly 30% with the global strength demand. Hydropower is the leading replenishable source, accounting for nearly 16% of power development in 2017.


If you totally missed Monday night’s “snow moon,” have no fear -- plenty of people caught it and captured it on camera.
What is a snow moon, and why is it so special? Each month’s full moon has a different name in the Old Farmer’s Almanac, which vaguely claims the names "come from the Algonquin tribes who lived in regions from New England to Lake Superior."
February’s full moon is called the “snow moon,” and frankly, it probably gets a lot of attention because it sounds more poetic than say, March’s “worm moon.” (That said, we personally think January’s “wolf moon” sounds the coolest.)
Here’s what Monday’s snow moon looked like.
If you're feeling serious moon FOMO right now, don't worry. On Tuesday night, Jupiter will rise alongside the moon, so get out there and get planet-gazing.
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There are a number of reasons, not least of which is that punctuation defines the meanings of the words which it punctuates.
Today, I ran in to an old friend, who we will call Erin (because that's her name). She played cello in a funk band I was in, a while back. She's been teaching for a while now, mostly kids. Five year old boys are apparently a challenge. One of them, for example, is convinced that he is a ninja.
"Your violin is not nunchucks," she has to remind him.
She tries to get him to play his music, and he won't. So she says, "How would a Ninja play 'Twinkle'?" She's got his attention now. "Very softly," she says, "and then very loud. Play it like that."
And he does.
So she went off for 3 weeks in the UK. When she got back, her substitute accosted her. "These kids are unteachable!" she said.
"No they're not," Erin told her. "All you have to know is how to play Twinkle like a ninja."
"'Twinkle Like a Ninja'?" I said. "That's the best song title ever."
Unfortunately, I'm now feeling a compulsion to write a song or story with that title.


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Value theory represents one of the more fundamental aspects of economic thinking. In this section, I will explain value theory in terms that relate to the reader. I will also cover various aspects of value theory. In this first article I will explain the fundamentals of value theory — the source and measure of value.
The subjective theory of value holds the view, developed by the Austrian School, that economic value is not an inherent property of a good. Rather, it is determined by the preferences of those who wish to acquire the good.
The theory, held by the Austrian economists and by the Anglo-Saxon followers of the English economist, W. Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) and the American economist, John Bates Clark.(1847-1938), that the value of economic goods is in the minds of individual men and therefore is neither constant nor inherent in the goods themselves; that values of the same good vary, as the judgments of the individuals making the valuations vary, from person to person and from time to time for the same person. Also referred to as "subjective-value theory" and "marginal theory of value."
We will start with the Introduction to Economic Value
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Trace elements, partially because of just how little the plants metabolize, are a little tricky to keep track of. Generally, if you’re using compost or manure or rotating your plants, these elements will never be in short supply. That being said, it’s nice to know what’s out there and what these nutrients do for the plant.
Calcium, Magnesium, and Sulfur. Secondary only refers to the quantity, not the importance of the nutrients. These are just as important as NPK!
Part 1 of 4. Plants want to gobble up everything they can of 3 key macronutrients - Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. Here's what NPK does to plants!
Ever since I've put these peppers in, the majority of the fruit have been quite small. I want to know why!


Serum samples from 97 clinically healthy domestic rabbits were tested for antibodies to Encephalitozoon cuniculi by an indirect ELISA technique. Fifty (52 per cent) of them were seropositive. The samples were taken as part of a routine health screen or before general anaesthesia at 22 veterinary practices in England, Scotland and Wales, and the veterinary surgeons were asked to complete a questionnaire to provide information concerning the animal’s husbandry, diet, vaccination, health status and any preventive medicine routines. None of these factors was found to be associated with the serological status of the rabbits.
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Via the Twitter (8Amber8) I was sent a GREAT link to all kinds of different ways that you can use the document camera, some of these we’ve seen…some are new! I thought I’d share my faves to remind you that the document camara can be SO much more than a place for you to work out problems on the “big screen”, 🙂
- training or initial introduction to any other piece of equipment everyone can use, but can’t gather around to see easily
- Students can draw the background scenery for a play or skit they will perform in class. Move your projector at a 45 degree angle to the white board. Project the drawing onto the white board, angling it behind the actors. The image will naturally distort, but the overall effectiveness is well worth it.
- In math problem-solving use the doc camera to take a photo of a problem and solution (use a kid’s). Put it in your teacher blog and have students individually respond to the query: How might the writer have arrived at this solution?
- More ideas can be found here! I’ve also attached “101 ways to use the document camera” that was presented at the METC conference this past summer.
- Some videos that were found on document cameras/document readers: (yes, youtube is blocked at school…watch these this rainy weekend….in all your free time!