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Insulin is a natural protein made by the pancreas that helps the body use sugar. Insulin is injected by all people with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus and by some people with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus to help control blood sugar levels.
Any substance (dietary, supplemental, herbal, and others) that affects blood sugar levels will directly or indirectly affect the amount of insulin required by a person with diabetes. For example, consumption of a high-fiber diet and/or supplementation with nutrients such as chromium, biotin, vitamin E, or herbs such as Gymnema sylvestre will often improve blood sugar control in diabetics. In such cases, the amount of insulin may need to be reduced in order to avoid a hypoglycemic reaction. Anyone taking insulin should consult the prescribing physician before making dietary changes or taking nutrients or herbs that are designed to lower blood sugar levels.
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The number of people affected by sepsis is staggering. The Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) estimates that somewhere between 33% to 50% of all septic patients die because of the disease and that it will claim the lives of more than 6 million young children per year. Indeed, the GSA explains that sepsis kills more people than prostate and breast cancer and HIV/AIDS combined. Despite these statistics there remains little awareness of the disease, much less any major, wide-reaching action to tackle its effects.
To try and rectify this, the GSA together with several global not-for-profit organisations have formed a coalition to launch the very first World Sepsis Day on Thursday 13th September. This unique opportunity aims to highlight sepsis to healthcare workers and the wider public via several local events, and later via the gradual introduction of preventative and therapeutic strategies. Through the use of these measures, the coalition aims to have reduced worldwide sepsis occurrences by 20% by the year 2020.
In support of the day, Editor-in-Chief of Critical Care, Professor Jean-Louis Vincent, has written an editorial describing why this initiative is so important. From the often startling lack of understanding to the strides general society must take in combating the disease, Professor Vincent reiterates the intentions of the day and the importance of carrying the momentum already generated through to the rest of the year.
More information can be found on the World Sepsis Day website.
Surayya Johar – In-house Editor, Critical Care


In his book, Crawford investigates conflicts about and resistance to the status of "hidalgo," conventionally understood as the lowest, most heavily populated rank in the Spanish nobility.
"It is generally accepted that legal privileges were based on status and class in this pre-modern society," said Crawford.
He explains the contentious realities and limitations of such legal privileges, particularly the conventional claim of hidalgo exemption from taxation, and focuses on efforts to claim these privileges as well as opposing efforts to limit and manage them.
"Michael Crawford's insightful monograph offers the most engaging and carefully researched account of the widespread social pressure to reach noble status in late medieval and early modern Spain," says Dr. Teofilo F. Ruiz, a professor of medieval and early European history at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Vividly describing the mechanisms to accomplish such aims, Crawford uses the process of ennoblement, and resistance to it, as a lens through which to explore Spanish society."
Crawford, who has taught at McNeese since 2006, received his bachelor's degree in international studies at the University of Washington and his master's degree and doctorate in history at the University of Arizona. He teaches a wide range of courses in European and world history, particularly in medieval Europe, the Renaissance and Reformation, Spain and Colonial Latin America.


Push back time for youth mental health classes?
According to one expert, teenagers’ biological clocks don’t match the schedule that Quebec society imposes on them.
In the United States, for example, in California, a law provides that no class may begin before 8:30 a.m.
This move, which was implemented in 2019, had bigger consequences than expected.
“Mario Dumont” explains in an interview on the show that the benefits of morning sleep are many for teenagers who can get “better academic results”, have better “physical and mental health”, and even better mood. » Dr. Marie-Hélène Bennestri is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Counseling Psychology at McGill University.
“What is important to understand is that people who are lazy, who are on the phone at night, we often have the impression that they don’t want to go to bed. But they actually, on a biological level, have a change in their clock. So they fall asleep in the evening and wake up in the morning,” explains the expert.
Not only do teenagers need a lot of sleep, but “especially in the morning,” says Ms Bennestri.
So putting them to sleep in the evening is not enough.
“It’s like being told to go to bed at 6, 7 p.m. Even if you have all the good intentions in the world, it can be very difficult to fall asleep. It’s actually linked to their biological clock,” he asserts.
In Quebec, the logistics of school transportation seem to take priority over the well-being of teenagers, Mr. Dumont notes.
“It’s very unfortunate,” Ms. Bennestri admits, however, beyond school transportation, for example, “unions that are not always aware of these benefits,” which could explain the state of affairs.
“It will be in our interest to get everyone together and think and come up with a solution,” says the psychologist.


Objectives: To describe the rates of pediatric antibiotic use across 6 countries on 3 continents.
Study design: Cross-national analysis of 7 pediatric cohorts in 6 countries (Germany, Italy, South Korea, Norway, Spain, and the US) was performed for 2008-2012. Antibiotic dispensings were identified and grouped into subclasses. We calculated the rates of antimicrobial prescriptions per person-year specific to each age group, comparing the rates across different countries.
Results: A total of 74 744 302 person-years from all participating centers were included in this analysis. Infants in South Korea had the highest rate of antimicrobial consumption, with 3.41 prescribed courses per child-year during the first 2 years of life. This compares with 1.6 in Lazio, Italy; 1.4 in Pedianet, Italy; 1.5 in Spain; 1.1 in the US; 1.0 in Germany; and 0.5 courses per child-year in Norway. Of antimicrobial prescriptions written in Norway, 64.8% were for first-line penicillins, compared with 38.2% in Germany, 31.8% in the US, 27.7% in Spain, 25.1% in the Italian Pedianet population, 9.8% in South Korea, and 8% in the Italian Lazio population.
Conclusions: We found substantial differences of up to 7.5-fold in pediatric antimicrobial use across several industrialized countries from Europe, Asia, and North America. These data reinforce the need to develop strategies to decrease the unnecessary use of antimicrobial agents.
Keywords: antibiotics; children; cross-national analysis.
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Exposed Nearby City To Little Radiation
After a tsunami disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in March of 2011, residents of the nearby city of Minamisoma, just 14 miles from the plant, were evacuated.
But within a few months, most returned to their homes. Still, many communities near the plant have remained skeptical and concerned about possible radiation exposure.
To find out how much radiation exposure these people have received, Japanese researchers measured levels of radioactive cesium in nearly 10,000 residents starting six months after the incident.
The researchers' study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that about a third of the residents had detectable levels of radiation.
But only one person appeared to have received a radiation dose higher than the maximum recommended by public health officials (the equivalent of about two mammograms). And levels in children were generally lower than in adults.
Public health researchers are concerned that the bigger public health effects of the Fukushima disaster may be anxiety and trauma among plant workers.
Before the tsunami, workers who wore the blue uniform of the power company TEPCO were held in high esteem. But that changed after damaged reactors released radiation and triggered a massive evacuation.
Another paper in the JAMA finds that discrimination and slurs were a major source of psychological distress for TEPCO employees.
The study of more than 1,700 workers found that hostile treatment after the disaster was a more powerful factor than witnessing an explosion at the plant or even having a near-death experience.
And as NPR's Richard Harris has reported, physicians in Japan don't generally treat mental health issues.
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The Mississippi River is one of the world’s great rivers and one of the most complex ecosystems on the planet. It is also a defining feature of the North American continent and is home to a diverse collection of wildlife and plant life. In this section of our web site one can learn more about the nature of the park and the research we are conducting to protect it through informed policy decisions.
Mississippi River Facts
Did you know the Mississippi River watershed includes 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces? Or that at Lake Itasca, the Mississippi's source, the river is only 20-30 feet wide and can easily be walked across? Find out more interesting river facts and answers to your river-related questions.
We are mostly an urban/suburban park, but we have areas of forest and backwaters where few people visit. In addition, cities are becoming common places to find wildlife. The Mississippi River is also a major flyway so both resident and migratory birds are common. As a result, we have a wide variety of wildlife and much of our wildlife is easily watched.
Areas around rivers often have complex ecosystems and, as a result, are home to a wide variety of plants.
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50 Comprehension Activities is a set of 50 double sided activity cards for teaching reading comprehension. Stories include both fiction and non fiction titles. The front side provides the text and an image of the story. The other side provides questions about the story that are multiplei choice. Contains 50 double sided activity cards and a contents card that can act as a check off list. It also has the correct answers printed for each activity. 4.75" x 7.5".
- Unit of Measure: 1 Set(s)
- Material: Paper
- Grade: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade


Kīngitanga leader Te Puea Hērangi is shown here (centre right) at the opening of the Tūrangawaewae meeting house, Tūrongo, in 1938. On the extreme left of the photo is Apirana Ngata. In the 1920s, when Te Puea decided to build Tūrongo’s companion house, Māhinārangi, intending it to be a hospital for Māori, Ngata helped her gain government money and timber for the building. Ngata's iwi, Ngāti Porou, also contributed over £1,300 toward the cost. Māhinārangi was to be a Māori environment, where rules of tapu were adhered to, while European medical care was provided. Despite the very high Māori death rate, Health Department officials refusing to allow Māhinārangi to be used as a hospital.
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Prophylactic mastectomy surgery, like mastectomy to treat breast cancer, has some risks:
Risks immediately after surgery:
- Prophylactic mastectomy is permanent and irreversible.
- This surgery causes significant loss of sensation in the breast, which can have an impact on sexuality.
- Women who undergo prophylactic mastectomy will no longer have the ability to breastfeed from the affected breast(s).
- After prophylactic mastectomy, some women experience anxiety or depression about body image.
- Although prophylactic mastectomy may reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by about 90%, it doesn’t guarantee that breast cancer will never happen. Breast tissue can sometimes extend to the collarbone and armpit, and it’s not possible for a surgeon to remove every last cell. Breast cancer can develop even in the small amount of tissue that remains.
If you’re at high risk of developing breast cancer, it’s important to discuss all your options for risk reduction with your doctor and loved ones. It’s also important to seek a second opinion about whether or not prophylactic mastectomy is a strategy that works for the whole you — your medical situation and your quality of life.
To learn more about what to expect before, during, and after mastectomy surgery, visit the Breastcancer.org Mastectomy section.


Pen·tel·i·conor Pen·tel·i·kon (pĕn-tĕl′ĭ-kŏn′, pĕn′tĕ-lē-kôn′)
A mountain, about 1,119 m (3,670 ft) high, of east-central Greece northeast of Athens. White marble quarried here was used for many of the buildings of ancient Athens.
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The key difference between human beings and Neanderthals is how we consume and expend energy. It goes a long way toward explaining why we survived to the modern era while our — literal — kissing cousins died out.
That’s one of the interesting takeaways from a long article by Vox’s Brain Resnick exploring the inter-species sex lives of Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.
(Every living person not of exclusively African descent has some Neanderthal ancestry. It appears Neanderthals never made it to Africa.)
Resnick spoke to Bernard Wood, a paleoanthropologist at George Washington University. Here’s the bit of their conversation that stuck out to me:
“They probably needed about another 600 or 700 calories a day more than a modern human” to feed their hardier bodies, [Wood] explains — great in times of plenty but catastrophic in a famine. They were the gas-guzzling pickup truck of the hominids. We were the smart car.
That goes a ways toward explaining why our species of human out-competed Neanderthals, even as we mated with them.
It’s unclear how smart or social Neanderthals were, but we know they never formed the kinds of large, aggressive bands that Homo sapiens did. They were squatter than us, and bulkier, with wide bones and short foreheads. We also know their numbers dwindled, and then they disappeared around 40,000 years ago.
Wood’s suggestion, that Neanderthals were simply not energy-efficient enough to survive periods of scarcity, is compelling. (Still, as he points out later, Neanderthals managed to survive for a million years, far longer than we have so far.)
To be clear: Wood doesn’t claim that this difference in caloric need is the complete explanation for Neanderthals’ demise, but he does conjure an intriguing image — a species that simply requires more resources than the world could always offer.
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Unless you have been living under a rock the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard that the solar eclipse is coming our way on Monday, August 21. And you’ve probably also heard that the path of totality will be passing directly over us.
Not sure what in the world we’re talking about? Here’s what you need to know:
- This is the first coast-to-coast solar eclipse in 99 years. However, the U.S. last saw a total eclipse in 1979.
- Put simply, a total solar eclipse is when the moon completely covers the sun.
- If you are in the path of totality (like we are), you can watch the moon completely cover the disk of the sun, or the point where the eclipse reaches totality.
- The time and duration of totality depends on where you’re located inside the path (for us, totality starts around 2:38 p.m. and will last for approximately 1 minute and 25 seconds).
- Outside the path of totality, viewers will be able to see a partial solar eclipse.
- The only states experiencing totality include Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
- The entire thing will take 1 hour and 33 minutes to get from the West coast to the East coast.
- You should not look directly at the sun during the eclipse without the appropriate eye protection.
- The sky will go completely dark for a few minutes and temperatures will drop.
- Three conditions come into play during an eclipse: the moon is in the “new moon” phase, the moon crosses the exact plane of Earth’s orbit and the moon is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit.
- This is a historic event you won’t want to miss — see what viewing parties are happening nearby.


1. Describe what readers know about Kira after reading Chapter 1.
Kira is a teenage girl who has recently been orphaned. She was born with a deformed leg and is an outcast in her society.
2. Describe the customs surrounding death in Kira's society.
When an adult dies in Kira's village, the person's body is laid in the Field of Leaving. A family member watches over the body for four days to allow the soul safe passage to the afterlife. When an adult dies from an illness, his or her house and possessions are burned, presumably to control the spread of disease.
3. What are Kira's plans now that both her parents are dead?
Despite her tragic circumstances, Kira does not give into despair once she is orphaned. With surprising emotional maturity for a teenager, Kira decides to return home and rebuild her cott. She plans to use the skills her mother taught her to earn a living and establish a place in her society.
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PTSD and Feelings
As I noted earlier, according to the DSM 5, PTSD can develop if you go through a traumatic event, if you witness a traumatic, learning of a traumatic event happening to a close family member or friend, or repeated exposure to traumatic events (ex. first responders).
One symptom category includes negative changes a person’s feelings and emotions, including:
They may have persistent negative emotional states, such as fear, horror, anger, guilt, or shame. This is a change from how they used to be or it is more intense/noticeable.
In addition, there may also be a persistent inability to experience positive emotions such as happiness, satisfaction, or loving feelings. This does not mean that the person can never feel these things, but that it is more difficult and the feelings don’t seem to persist.
As you can imagine, this can have a profound negative impact on social relationships and life satisfaction. That is why another frequent symptom is diminished interest or participation in significant life activities; or feelings of detachment or estrangement from others.
These changes to emotions and social functioning can frequently lead to unhealthy ways of managing the negative or chasing the positive emotions such as substance use/abuse or other high-risk behaviors.
These changes can also lead to a profound sense of isolation from others.
It is important to know that these feeling states can be changed and shifted without the use of drugs and alcohol, and may benefit from psychiatric medications to help manage or ameliorate.
And of course therapy is often a vital and integral part of healing. These symptoms do not have to be crippling nor do they have to last forever, help is out there.


Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety causes people to suffer with unrealistic or excessive anxiety and worry about life circumstances. For example, they may feel panicky about financial matters even though they have a good bank balance and have paid their debts. Or they may be preoccupied constantly about a husband or child who is safe at work or school.
People with this disorder may have stretches of time when they're not consumed by these worries, but they are anxious most of the time. Patients with this disorder often feel "shaky," reporting that they feel "keyed up" or "on edge" and that they sometimes "go blank" because of the tension that they feel. They often suffer also with depression.
It is a relatively common anxiety problem, affecting 3-4% of the population, and turns daily life into a state of worry, anxiety, and fear.
Excessive thinking and dwelling on the "what ifs" characterizes this anxiety disorder. As a result, the person feels there’s no way out of the vicious cycle of anxiety and worry, and then becomes depressed about life and the state of anxiety they find themselves in.
Generalized anxiety usually does not cause people to avoid situations, and there isn’t an element of a "panic attack" involved in the prognosis, either.
It’s the thinking, thinking, thinking, pondering, dwelling, ruminating, ruminating, and inability to shut the mind off that so incapacitates the person. At other times, thoughts seem almost non-existent because the anxious feelings are so dominant.
Feelings of worry, dread, lack of energy, and a loss of interest in life are common. Many times there is no "trigger" or "cause" for these feelings and the person realizes these feelings are irrational. Nevertheless, the feelings are very real. At this point, there is no "energy" or "zest" in life and no desire to want to do much.


El Paso Electric forerunner takes over as supplier for the Southwest
On this day in 1901, the El Paso Electric Railway Company took over as supplier of electricity for much of the Southwest from the Brush Electric Light Company. Brush had been organized in the late 1880s by Mayor Joseph Magoffin and the El Paso City Council at the urging of a group of local citizens. By 1890 El Paso pioneer Zach White had taken over the electrical business and installed generating equipment to enable the use of incandescent lamps in the city. The El Paso Electric Railway Company was originally incorporated in 1901 to provide power solely in the El Paso area. In 1905 the company purchased the International Light and Power Company, and in 1914 acquired the electrical divisions of the El Paso Gas and Electric Company. The name was changed to El Paso Electric in 1925. The company expanded into New Mexico. As it subsequently grew, it extended its services to other communities and added capacity from new generating plants, including nuclear and solar voltaic generators. By the 1990s the company was serving 550,000 customers over an area of 10,000 square miles.


3D printing technology has made a lot of advancements lately, prompting people to create more useful objects. People have always dreamed about being able to select a car online, download a design, and print it in the privacy of their own home. That dream is quickly becoming a reality thanks to developments from Local Motors. Innovative technology has made it possible for the car manufacturer to create the world’s first ever working 3D-printed vehicle.
The idea of a 3D-printed car is not a new one. Before the LM3D Swim, Local Motors built the world’s first ever 3D-printed car, the Strati. Built and printed in Detroit, this electric car was the first step in mass producing printed cars.
Strati changed the way the world thought about 3D-printed vehicles. In 2010, printed cars were created, such as the Urbee, but they weren’t as mechanically involved as the Strati. In the past, car panels and features were printed, then placed on a traditionally-built structure. This meant that important components, such as the battery or motor, were not created using the 3D-printer. The Strati used direct digital manufacturing for the majority of the components.
Building a 3D car isn’t easy. To “print” a Strati, Local Motors had to first create the body using a Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAM) machine. After the body was printed, subtractive manufacturing using a computer numerical control routing machine, or CNC, was used. That still didn’t include all of the features. Additional components were added over the course of several days. Manufacturing took a total of five days, with 44 hours of printing.
Local Motors plans on using this innovative process to further explore car customization and, eventually cut manufacturing costs. While the Strati was a small electric car, the company hopes to appeal to a wider audience by offering several different 3D-printed vehicles. Sport versions of the LM3D Swim, for example, are expected to be produced in the future.


Diabetes and ExerciseRandomized trials have found that lifestyle interventions including ∼150 min/wk (30 minutes a day for 5 days or 21 minutes a day for 7 days), of physical activity combined with diet-induced weight loss, reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 58% in an at-risk population.1
Nine out of every 100 Americans are now diagnosed with diabetes and another 2 of those people don’t know they have diabetes. For most people, the development of type II diabetes can be prevented with an appropriate exercise and diet regimen. Insulin is the main hormone responsible for uptake of glucose into the cells.
Overtime, if we eat too much and don’t exercise, we are consistently flooding our bodies with glucose and activating insulin release. Our cells become less respondent to insulin to let glucose into our cells. One of the fascinating advantages of exercise is that exercise can actually activate the receptors in your liver that need to be present for glucose(sugar) to be taken into the cells and thereby creates another route in addition to insulin.
Some ways in which you can increase exercise in your daily life are washing the dishes by hand, cleaning the house, taking the stairs, walking to nearby stores, leg exercises while you brush your teeth, hand washing your car, gardening, and taking a walking break after every 30-45 minutes of sitting down.


I love trees, they are like the quiet gentle guardians of the world. Most of them have been around a long time, and if they could talk - they would have stories to tell!
There are some pretty amazing trees out there. Some are hundreds of years old, some hundred of feet tall, and wide enough to drive a car through. Trees are an essential part of our ecosystem. They provide shelter and food for many animals and humans. They are the Kings of the plant kingsom. Developing a homeschool study of these amazing giants can be so exciting. Trees are the largest of all living things.Even a blue whale is smaller than the California redwood trees. In your study of trees be sure to include these topics:
the redwood family


Pure maple syrup is made only once a year, during a six-to eight-week period beginning in late winter or early spring. Surprisingly, given its unique flavour, pure maple syrup is made by simply boiling down sap collected from the sugar maple tree.
Sugaring season begins when the days become warmer yet the nights remain below freezing. The temperature fluctuation makes the sap flow within the maple trees, allowing farmers to collect it as it travels from the tree’s roots to its crown.
Through small holes or taps that have been carefully drilled into the lower trunk of the tree, the sap can be collected into hanging pails or drawn out using a pumping system. Either way, collecting sap is completely safe for the maple tree, which can live to be over 200 years old. After the sap has been collected, it is boiled so that its sugar content can be concentrated.
The process of increasing the sugar content of the sap from about 2% to 66% is done at a sugar shack. The sugar shack houses an evaporator, which is basically a gigantic 200-gallon pan, used to reduce or boil down the sap to maple syrup. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of pure maple syrup. Removing this much water requires a great amount of heat and generates clouds of steam. It is for this reason that sugar shacks were traditionally built with a small second roof, called a cupola, which allows the steam to escape as the maple syrup boils.
When the pure maple syrup is ready and its sugar content verified, it is then filtered and packaged in small containers for immediate sale at the farm or local markets, or it is placed in large drums to be sold and packaged later. When night-time temperatures no longer dip below freezing and buds begin to appear on the maple trees, the sugaring season has drawn to a close until the following spring.


Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student : The Teacher's Getting-Started Guide Paperback / softback
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It differentiates between computing, computer science, computational thinking, programming, and coding; while showing how everyday tasks - like reading sheet music, solving a crossword or Sudoku puzzle, knitting, and other activities - are actually examples of computational thinking.
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- Pages: 208 pages
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date: 06/02/2017
- Category: Society & social sciences
- ISBN: 9781506341286
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Is 'overfat' The New Obesity?
( CNN) If you are one of those people that stands on the scale every day or you obsessively plug your numbers into a BMI calculator, researchers want you to know you may be missing something.
BMI, which stands for body mass indicator, is determined based on a person’s height and weight. You’re considered overweight if your BMI is between 25 to 29.9 and you’re obese if your BMI is 30 or above.
Chances are, even if you are not “fat, ” by definition ofthese traditional measurings, you may still be “overfat.” And that’s going to have some seriously negative consequences for your overall health.


Somebody call Jamie Oliver, because US legislators need a quick lesson in nutrition. Earlier this year, the Department of Agriculture introduced new school meal nutrition standards created in the wake of our childhood obesity epidemic. Among the lunch-line changes were new standards limiting the use of potatoes and sodium and increasing the use of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in the cafeteria.
Congress, it seems, doesn't agree with the revised standards. This week, the legislative body put forth its latest spending bill — including budgets for the USDA — that will put tater tots back on school menus and consider pizza containing two tablespoons of tomato paste a vegetable. Yes, the simple presence of tomato paste allows a white flour, fat-laden meal to classify as a veggie. Congress argues that the USDA's recommendations were too expensive to enforce.
What do you think? Should cuts be made elsewhere to ensure that kids receive healthier meals in school? Or is it OK to consider pizza a vegetable?


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The history of the church
Vor Frue Kirke in Aalborgwas originally a part of the Benedictine abbey from around 1100. The only remains are the stone carvings in the west gable.
The present building is from 1878, when the original church was torn down as it was decrepit.
The church inspired by the Romanesque Revival is located in the midst of the old Aalborg, between old buildings.
When the church was built in the beginning of the 1100s, it was called 'Mariakirken' and it was part of the Benedictine abbey in the eastern part of town.
In the western gable of the church, you can see a beautiful granite portal from the original church. This granite portal is considered the oldest work of art in Aalborg.
The tower at Vor Frue Kirke
The tower was maintained but it was faced with the same stone as the church was built of. The same goes for the Scheelske chapel.
The Pentzske chapel was rebuilt and the remains – a beautiful epitaph from 1615 from the third chapel – was placed here.
A huge part of the fixture comes from the original church, except the altar which burned in 1902 and was replaced in 1908. The church has room for about 500 people.


1. Lack Of Service Or Telephone Outages Could Prevent You From Calling 911:
While some cell phones allow you to make an emergency call even if you don’t have service, this isn’t always the case. In addition, it’s impossible to make an emergency call on a landline if the telephone service is down.
2. It’s Easy To Find Yourself In An Area That Doesn’t Have Cell Service:
Many rural areas of the United States don’t have cell phone service. Luckily, if you have a dual mode phone that is capable of generating its own wi-fi hotspot, you’ll be able to access VoIP services no matter where you’re located. So VoIP for collection agencies is nice option.
3. You Can’t Prevent Landline Outages:
Outages on landlines typically occur because of foul weather. Not only can these events not be prevented, but they can’t always be accurately predicted.
Luckily, you can prevent VoIP outages. If your computer has a battery, it will run for a while after the electricity goes out. If your computer is capable of generating a wireless hotspot, you’ll be able to get online to use your VoIP service even while the electricity is out. If you have a generator for your business, you can prevent electrical outages from affecting your VoIP communication at all.


Prescribed Anti-Racism? Historic and Contemporary Challenges to a Global Memory Imperative
This excellent book on Holocaust Memory and Racism challenges the widespread assumption that learning about the Holocaust automatically makes us better people. In fifteen contributions, the authors assembled in this volume look at various national case studies that demonstrate how, from the early post-war period up until today, it has been all too common to strongly oppose Nazism and its racist policies but at the same time keep racism as an unquestioned organizing principle of one’s own society. To approach the universalization of the Holocaust that turned it into the ultimate “symbol of racism and injustice” (p.5) the publication focusses on societies that have not directly been affected by Nazism. Thereby the different chapters discuss issues of prevailing racism as well as anti-racist engagements and take into consideration the value of empathetic connections between victims of the Nazis and victims of Colonialism. A highly recommended read.
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April 29, 1924
THE WORLD, New York, NY, April 29, 1924
* Benwood West Virginia
* Coal Mine explosion disaster
This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "115 DIE AS BLAST ROCKS W. VA. MINE" and "Hope Virtually Abandoned After Eight Bodies Are Taken From Benwood Shaft".
Other news of the day. Usual browning with little margin wear, otherwise good condition. Should be handled with care.
wikipedia notes: Benwood was the location of the tragic 1924 Coal Mine Disaster. At approximately 7:05 AM EST on Monday, April 28, 1924, the coal mine of the Wheeling Steel Corporation's plant located in Benwood exploded, killing all 119 men who were working in the coal mine at the time, the majority of whom were immigrants of Polish, Italian, Greek, Croatian, Slavic, Slovak, Serbian, Hungarian, Austrian, Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian descent.
Category: The 20th Century


Jefferson’s attitude toward Indians was always profound. In his Notes On Virginia he devoted a chapter to a celebration of the Indigenous Culture of America’s original inhabitants. He called were victims of history [but they are only words].
However, we will never know what he truly thought. We only see the results of his decisions that deported massive segments of Indian populations to land west of the Mississippi. I sensed a bit of over-posturing here. But that’s only my opinion.
A nameless scholar on the subject stated in part: …the seeds of extinction of the Native American Culture were sown under Jefferson’s watch.


Riding a bike is fun and practical, but there are a few conventional rules that can make it even more fun and practical, especially when there are pedestrians, motorists, and other bicycle riders nearby. Mostly, it's just common sense:
- Be aware of your surroundings,
- Be comfortable and in control of yourself and your vehicle,
- Be visible and predicable, and
- Follow the usual "rules of the road."
Here are some best practices written-up and illustrated very nicely by Keri Caffrey:
- Have control of your bike.
- Ride on the road.
- Know and follow the rules.
- Integrate in the intersections.
- There's more than one way to turn left.
- Protect your space in the lane.
- Understand the limitations of bike lanes.
- Learn emergency maneuvers.
- Don't escalate harassment.
The League of American Bicyclists (The League), a non-profit membership organization, promotes bicycling and bicycle education throughout the US. The League has developed a nationally recognized educational program called BikeED, and certifies bicycle educators to teach appropriate subject matter to kids and adults in a variety of settings. You can find a class near you here.
BikeED's pedestrian and bicycle safety lessons could easily be incorporated as a required part of elementary schools' curricula. Don't we owe it to our children to teach them how to identify unsafe conditions, and how to be safe while walking or riding bikes in their neighborhoods and elsewhere? Many Americans have taken or will take driver's ed in high school. Don't you think that a new teenage driver who has already learned to look critically at traffic conditions as a bicyclist or pedestrian will be a safer driver than one who hasn't?
If you haven't done it already, consider getting some bicycle education as soon as possible. Even experienced bicyclists routinely find BikeED courses to be eye-openning (I certainly did). Again, to find a local class, go to The League's Online Database.


Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist who according to his biography
discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his honeymoon. The
pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture and also
began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result of was a combination
of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that Charles Hires used to flavor
a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles Hires' version of the root beer
beverage was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial
The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold
and distributed bottled root beer. Charles Hires and his family certainly
contributed greatly to the popularity of modern root beer, however, the origins
of root beer can be traced further back in history.
Root beer has its origins in what is referred to as "small beers." Small
beers are a collection of local beverages (some alcoholic, some not) made
during colonial times in America from a variety of herbs, barks, and roots
that included: birch beer, sarsparilla beer, ginger beer and root beer. Ingredients
in early root beers included allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger,
wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum
chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly ash
bark, sassafras root*, vanilla beans, hops, dog grass, molasses and licorice.
Many of these ingredients are still used in root beer today along with carbonation.
There is no one recipe.
Another famous brand of root beer is A & W Root Beer, now the number
one selling root beer in the world. A & W Root Beer was founded by Roy
Allen, who began marketing root beer in 1919.
*In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned sassafras as a potential
carcinogen, however, a method was found to remove the oil from sassafras.
Only the oil is considered dangerous. Sassafras is one of the main ingredients
in root beer.
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of Soft Drinks


The abandoned asylum, soaked in tragically crazy ghosts, is a staple of the horror genre. And for good reason. These real-life decaying asylums will give you the shivers.
Cane Hill Asylum, Croydon, London, 1883-1990
Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Trenton and Ewing, New Jersey (founded in 1848)
The director of this psychiatric hospital between 1907 and 1930 named Dr. Henry Cotton had a very progressive attitude toward care for his patients. He developed a dangerous theory about mental illness, one that turned his hospital into a house of horrors.
After it was confirmed in 1913 that the spirochaete that causes syphilis can cause the disease's psychiatric symptoms, Cotton began to suspect that all mental illness was caused by bodily infections, and that the only way to cure the patient was to remove the offending infection. In 1917, he began removing his patients' teeth, even in cases where X-Rays showed no evidence of infection. He soon moved on to other body parts: gall bladder, stomachs, ovaries, testicles, tracts of colon, uteruses. Cotton claimed a cure rate of 85%, but in reality, his surgeries had an unconscionably high mortality rate.
(via Dave Scaglione)
The Essex County Hospital Center or the Overbrook Asylum (1896-1975)
The Poveglia Island Asylum or the Island of Madness, Venice, Italy (between 1922 and 1968)
Whittingham Asylum, near Preston, England (1869-1995)
(via Nick Cummins)
Armand Auclerc Weston State Hospital, formerly the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia (1864-1994)
Topeka State Hospital, Topeka, Kansas (1872-1997)
(via Topeka Library)
Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases or Byberry State Hospital, Byberry, Pennsylvania (1907-1987)
Hartwood Mental Hospital, Hartwood, Scotland (1890-1998)
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Kings Park, New York (1885-1996)
H. H. Richardson Complex (formerly the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane), Buffalo, New York (1881-1975)
(via Kingston Lounge)


- This page is about the astronomical phenomena; for the film, see Event Horizon.
An event horizon is an extremely powerful energy field which surrounds certain astronomical phenomena which have high gravitational attractions, such as singularities, wormholes, and cosmic strings. At the event horizon, the escape velocity equals the speed of light, making escape from the gravity well impossible under normal circumstances.
In 2371, the USS Voyager became trapped within the event horizon of a type 4 quantum singularity in the Delta Quadrant. Encountering time-delayed reflections from the interior of the horizon, the Voyager crew initially believed that they had encountered another vessel being pulled into the singularity. Eventually, they were able to locate a breach in the event horizon, which they had created when they initially entered the phenomenon, by saturating it with warp particles. Although the breach had decreased in size since their arrival, they were able to widen it with a dekyon beam and escape. (VOY: "Parallax")


Common questions about the NORM.DIST formula include:
-What does the NORM.DIST formula do?
-What types of parameters does it require?
-How does the formula work?
The NORM.DIST formula can be used appropriately to calculate a probability for a normal distribution. It takes four named parameters: probability, mean, standard deviation, and cumulative boolean.
The most common mistyping of the NORM.DIST formula is typing “=NORMDIST” instead of “=NORM.DIST”. or NRMDIST, or NORMIDSS, or NORMDIS.
Common ways the NORM.DIST formula is used inappropriately include not specifying all four required parameters, inputting values that are not allowed, or incorrectly typing the formula name.
Common pitfalls when using the NORM.DIST formula include not understanding how normal distributions work and/or not understanding the required parameters.
Common mistakes when using the NORM.DIST Formula include not specifying the required parameters correctly, inputting incorrect values, or using discrete parameters instead of continous ones.
Common misconceptions people might have with the NORM.DIST Formula include thinking it is a general probability formula, not understanding the parameters, or not understanding how it works with normal distributions.


Life on the Color Line is a powerful tale of a young man's struggle to reach adulthood, written by Gregory Howard Williams one that emphasizes, by daily grapples with personal turmoil, the absurdity of race as a social invention. Williams describes in heart wrenching detail the privations he and his brother endured when they were forced to remove themselves from a life of White privilege in Virginia to one where survival in Muncie, Indiana meant learning quickly the cold hard facts of being Black in skin that appeared to be White.
This powerful memoir is a testament to the potential love and determination that can be exhibited despite being on the cusp of a nation's racial conflicts and confusions, one that lifts a young person above crushing social limitations and turns oppression into opportunity.
Williams is defiantly a man of two worlds. In one world he had promise and comfort, in the other he lived in deprivation and repression where one had to work in order to just survive. Williams's recollection of his "life on the color line" is a unique testimonial of the life of an individual who has walked in both the shoes of a White man and then those of a Black man. His story provides examples of real life experiences and events that can further the research of social psychologists by offering insight into the understanding of many social psychological theories and concepts, such as modern racism, in-group favoritism and confirmation bias just to name a few.
From beginning to end the reader is bombarded with all kinds of racism and discrimination described in horrific detail by the author. His move from Virginia to Indiana opened a door to endless threats of violence and ridicule directed towards him because of his racial background. For example, Williams encountered a form of racism known as modern racism as a student at Garfield Elementary School. He was up to win an academic achievement prize, yet had no way of actually winning the award...
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3 Ways Your Child Is Telling You They’re Anxious (Without Actually Saying It)
Parents want to support their child, especially when they feel like something might be wrong. However, children often don’t have the words to express their anxiety.
But the problem is, they don’t know the signs of anxiety because their children may not be able to verbalize it. Kids often end up keeping their stress to themselves so symptoms can be missed.
Here are 3 ways your child is telling you they’re anxious (without actually saying it):
1. Irritability Or Anger
The most obvious way to tell a child is anxious is when they seem worried, but anxiety often presents as anger or irritability.
In children and adults alike, anger is an emotion that tends to come out when individuals don’t know how else to express worry.
2. Physical Symptoms
Anxiety can often manifest physically. Continuous worry eventually starts to take a toll on your physical body.
This can result in:
- Stomach aches
3. Trouble Sleeping or Eating
When a child is suffering from anxiety, you may see a change in everyday patterns.
They may eat more or less than usual or stop taking naps. They might also sleep in, or have trouble getting out of bed in the morning.


Video Post #1: Memorizing Linking Verbs
I plan to do lots of these little instructional videos. I just taught a grammar class last week on auxiliary (helping) verbs and thought that a video with my tricks for memorizing them might be easy to do.
Generally, I’m not a big fan of memorization, especially when it comes to grammar. Grammar is all about analyzing words and word groups–figuring out what they are doing in a sentence. Memorizing prepositions, for example, tends to confuse kids because many prepositions are occasionally used as adverbs. If you can figure out what function a word is serving, you are okay, but if you are just relying on a memorized list, you’re likely to miss it.
But the helping verbs are easy to remember (see video), and spotting them just helps kids to not overlook them when identifying verb phrases. Anyway, I hope you like the video. It was actually kind of fun to make.
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The aim is to improve shooting technique. 10 cones can be placed randomly between the 3 point line and the basket. A player starts at one of the cones and shoots for the basket using the one-hand set shot. When the player makes a shot they quickly move to another cone, until shots have been made at all positions.
Basketball Shooting Drills
- Repeat the drill with weaker arm
- Use the jump shot
- When performing the one-hand set shot it is vital that the player keeps their eyes on the target, with feet shoulder width apart, and knees slightly bent. The non-shooting hand should be under the ball and the shooting hand at the back of the ball, with the elbow tucked in. The ball should be held between the ear and shoulder. The next phase would be to extend the legs, back, shoulders, and elbow, then flex the wrist, and fingers forwards and release the ball at the highest point. After release fingers should be pointed at the target, with the palm facing down.
- The jump shot is much the same as the one-hand set shot, except the player has to jump before releasing the ball, to get closer to the basket, or avoid an opposing players block.


Cataracts affect more than 15 million people worldwide and are the leading cause of blindness, especially in regions with a lack of access to qualified surgeons. Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson are leading a study to identify the biological mechanisms that cause cataracts in the hopes that new, nonsurgical treatments may be developed.
Nicholas Delamere, PhD, professor and head of the Department of Physiology, was awarded a $1.6 million grant from the National Eye Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to study the role of two protein ion channels – TRPV1 and TRPV4 – in the development of cataracts.
“Human cataract is frequently associated with failure of the mechanisms controlled by TRPV1 and TRPV4. The hope is that studies like this might pave the way to the development of strategies to prevent or delay age-related eye diseases,” said Delamere.


SpaceX's Starman's course through the universe
Starman, in his bright red Tesla, may be returning to Earth someday. After last week’s launch on the Falcon Heavy rocket, the spacefaring mannequin’s course through the solar system has now been carefully plotted.
Starman and his Tesla are taking a beating in the harsh environment of space. The pair were were shot into space with the launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
"It’ll be out in deep space for millions of millions of years," Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, said.
The exact course has now been plotted.
After starting out from Earth, the Tesla will travel in a big circle around the sun.
First landmark: Mars, this coming June. That's when Starman will come within about 68-million miles of the red planet.
After that he'll head to the asteroid belt, and the car’s farthest distance from the sun: more than 154-million miles.
Then the car and driver sink back toward the inner solar system, endlessly circling the sun on a journey that in 2091 will put them almost on a collision course with Earth, coming within a couple hundred thousand miles of the home planet.
That batteries that run Starman's cameras are now dead.
And so, as the extreme heat and radiation of space take their toll, and as the car and driver dodge asteroids and planets, we can only imagine the outcome.
"It may be discovered by some future alien race, thinking, what were these guys doing? Did they worship this car," Musk said.


On this day in 1928, Disney's Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie was released. It would become the first commercially successful animated cartoon with synchronized sound to attract widespread public notoriety (but not the first ever sound cartoon). The short would also establish November 18 as Mickey Mouse's birthday (according to Disney) even though Steamboat Willie is not the debut of Mickey on the big screen. (Not to confuse matters - but Steamboat is the 3rd Mickey short to ever be produced.)
Written and directed by Walt and Ub Iwerks, the short debuted ahead of the feature Gang War at the Colony Theater in New York City.
In this 7-minute classic, Mickey serves as the pilot of Steamboat Willie under Captain Pete (a longtime Disney villain). He is first seen piloting the steamboat while whistling, suggesting he himself is the captain - to the disgust of Pete who throws Mickey off the bridge and takes over. They soon have to stop for cargo, but almost as soon as they set off again, the as-of-then unnamed Minnie Mouse arrives, too late to board. Mickey manages to pick her up from the river shore, just as she drops her sheet music for the popular folk song "Turkey in the Straw" ... which is eaten by a goat. Mickey and Minnie use the goat's tail as a phonograph, which plays the tune. Mickey also uses various other animals as musical instruments, which disturbs Captain Pete, who puts him back to work. Mickey is reduced to peeling potatoes for the rest of the trip. A parrot attempts to make fun of him, but Mickey uncharacteristically strikes him with a potato, knocking him into the river. The short ends with Mickey laughing at the drowning bird (which is unusual for the fun-loving mouse).
Steamboat Willie has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Click HERE for more November 18 Disney history.


The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure high school students’ perspectives on global awareness and attitudes toward social issues. The research questions that guided this study were: Can acceptable validity and reliability estimates be established for an instrument to be developed to measure high schools students' global awareness, and attitudes towards global social issues? And, to estimate a relationship, if any, between certain demographics of high school students’ in the Miami-Dade County and the two dependent variables namely: perception of global awareness and attitudes toward global social issues. An ex post facto research design was used. The key findings of the study were that reliable and valid estimates can be developed for the instrument. A significant additional finding for the study was those attending public schools (as opposed to private schools) had more positive attitudes towards global social issues. The statistics indicated that these students had taken history, economics, and social studies which was a curricula infused with global perspectives.


For the past 6 years The Wetlands Conservancy (TWC) and Institute for Natural Resources (INR) have been creating tools to support statewide wetland conservation and restoration efforts by collecting historic and current information on the conditions of Oregon’s wetlands. The objective of this work is to support local government, NGO’s and regulatory programs and incentives.
In 2009 (and updated in 2012), we created a priority wetland map and database for the Willamette Valley that identified priority areas for wetland conservation and restoration. State and federal agencies and private landowners involved in wetland regulation and mitigation requested that we do a similar effort for the entire state. For this larger statewide approach we decided to attribute all the wetlands based on a methodology from the Virginia Natural Heritage Program, scoring all wetlands in each Oregon watershed unit (watershed units are typically HUC4 units) according to their conservation status, ecosystem services provided, and both site-specific and landscape-level conditions. Using this information, the tool can then help identify and evaluate the best wetlands in each watershed unit for restoration and mitigation potential.
For more information visit the tool at http://oregonexplorer.info/wetlands/WetlandConservation/NeedsandPriorities.


Ireland is an island located in northwestern Europe consisting of the Republic of Ireland with its capital in Dublin and Northern Ireland with its capital in Belfast. One belongs to the European Union and has Euro as a national currency, while the second belongs to the UK and pound is its currency. The climate is humid from the ocean, with frequent rainfall keeping extensive meadows green throughout the year. English is the dominant language, but the official national language is Irish which originates from Celts.
The Celts of Ireland had developed a remarkable culture, which Saint Patrick also witnessed as he traveled there to spread Christianity. That is why nowadays the Irish still have a close relationship with Celtic culture. The Irish Democratic Army is based in the island, whose primary purpose was the complete independence from Great Britain and equal treatment of Protestants and Catholics, and subsequently the attachment of Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland. The patron saint of Ireland is Saint Patrick, whose memory is celebrated on March 17th. St. Patrick's Day is the most popular celebration amongst many countries than any other national holiday.
Ireland is approximately 4 hours far from Greece.


India is a beautiful country that shares different beliefs and values from other countries, making it unique. It has its own values, traditions and these are evident in the epic poems. These poems contain the values and beliefs that were passed from generation to generation. The famous Mahabharata is one of the epic poems that contain the essence of the Indian cultural heritage. Famous people like Mahatma Gandhi, who fought against injustice, Guru Nanak, who influenced and created a new religion Sikhism, have helped develop the Indian culture. Fairy tales also plays an important role in helping a child grow by developing the sense of its cultural traditions and moral values. The epic poems, famous people and fairy tales are the elements that help make a country unique and in developing cultural understanding of the moral values and traditions.


Did you know . . .
...if you started with a single daylily and you divided it into three plants after one year, and then divided it and each of its divisions into three plants the following year, and kept doing this every year for 7 years, you would end up with 2,187 daylilies? You can do the same thing with Hosta and many other perennials!
While many good quality perennials seem expensive in the garden center, the cost can easily be justified by a patient gardener who divides his or her perennials. Not only does this increase the number of plants in your garden, but it's also good for the plant, encouraging new root growth and better blooms the following season. Propagating your own plants allows you to expand your gardens inexpensively and carry a common theme throughout your landscape.
Tips on Dividing Plants


Diana of Ephesus Statue
8.5 inches tall
The image of Diana of Ephesus is a specialized form of Artemis from late antiquity that includes aspects of Ishtar, Isis, Cybele and Inanna. She is a comprehensive figure of the divine feminine, and was called "Queen of Heaven", "Magna Mater" (Great Mother), Mother of the Animals, and Lady of the Wild Beasts. The many pomegranate-like breasts and the varied wild beasts adorning Diana of Ephesus show her also as an image of Mother Nature herself, fruitful and providing for all living things. Her Temple at Ephesus in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) was so large and well-renowned that it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The early christians particularly detested the Pagan worship of this Goddess, and considered her cult a rival. Paul tried to lead an uprising against the Temple of Ephesus, converting as many of the worshippers as he could. In typical christian fashion the virgin mary assumed many of Diana's traits, from the idea of Diana being a Virgin Goddess to her pose with outstretched palms which is so typical of many mary statues. Diana of Ephesus' Temple was declared to be the final resting place of their "mother of god". The stones of Diana's Temple were eventually torn down by the christians and used in their churches and other buildings.
Sand-colored Gypsumstone statue, 9 inches tall.


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JOURNAL: Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing (2002;29:295–300)
ABSTRACT: Topical application of honey is beneficial in the treatment of wounds and burns.
COMMENTARY: A number of properties inherent to honey might contribute to its ability to fight infection and promote healing.
Its high sugar content allows it to draw infection and fluid from wounds by a process called “osmosis.” Honey prevents bacterial growth through its acidic pH and through the work of an enzyme that produces small amounts of hydrogen peroxide.
Its ability to keep the area around a wound moist and protected promotes fast healing and prevents scarring.
Honeys also contain components from the specific plants used by the bees in their production, and it is speculated that some of these components might further add to the antibacterial and wound-healing effects of certain honeys. The process of pasteurization, used to sterilize commercial honeys, destroys the enzyme involved in the production of hydrogen peroxide, rendering these honeys less antibacterial.
Raw honeys maintain their enzymes, and honeys produced for therapeutic use are sterilized through an irradiation process that does not damage their constituents. There are currently two therapeutic honeys available: Medihoney of Australia and Active Manuka Honey of New Zealand. Both are derived from bees using the flowers of tea trees (Leptospermum spp.) as their


M985X.185.1.1-2 | Hatbox
John Henderson & Co.
1875-1900, 19th century
17 x 79 cm
© McCord Museum
Keywords: Hatbox (1)
Keys to History
In Montreal in the 19th century, one of the most renowned hat and fur shops was the John Henderson Company.
Like other specialized shops during that period, this store sold luxury goods, which complemented the merchandise sold in the department stores. Due to competition, merchants had to rely on their distinctiveness and on the quality of their service to attract and retain customers. They also made great efforts to create tasteful displays in their stores and in the windows where they presented their products.
It was a great advantage, however, for shops that wanted to remain competitive to be located in a strategic area, near their competition. That is why many businesses, including the John Henderson Company, left Notre Dame and St. Jacques Streets at the end of the 19th century to set up shop on St. Catherine Street, which had become THE new commercial artery in Montreal.
The hatbox carries the coat of arms and name of the manufacturer who made the hat: John Henderson Company.
In 1875, like most Montreal fur and hat merchants, the shop of the John Henderson Company was located on Notre Dame Street.
From 1855 to 1889, the shop of the John Henderson Company occupied spacious premises in the elegant Crystal Block building on Notre Dame Street. According to an article in The Transcript, dated April 23, 1855, it was a brand-new commercial building.
For a long time, the most famous milliner in Montreal, John Henderson opened his first store in 1834.


TYPE: Reconnaissance floatplane
ACCOMMODATION: Crew of three
POWER PLANT: One Mitsubishi “Zusei” 11 radial engine, rated at 870 hp
PERFORMANCE: 171 mph
COMMENT: The Kawanishi E7K was a Japanese 1930s three-seat reconnaissance floatplane. It was allocated the reporting name “Alf” by the Allies of WW II.
In 1932 the Imperial Japanese Navy requested the Kawanishi Aircraft Company to produce a replacement for the company’s Kawanishi E5K. The resulting design, designated the Kawanishi E7K1, was an equal span biplane powered by a 620 hp “Hiro Type 91W-12 liquid-cooled inline engine. The first aircraft flew on 6 February 1933 and was handed over to the navy for trials three months later. It was flown in competition with the Aichi AB-6 which was designed to meet the same 7-Shi requirement. The E7K1 was ordered into production as the Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane and entered service in early 1935. It became a popular aircraft, but was hindered by the unreliability of the “Hiro” engine. Later production E7K1s were fitted with a more powerful version of the “Hiro 91”, but this did not improve the reliability. In 1938 Kawanishi developed an improved E7K2 with a Mitsubishi “Zuisei 11” radial engine. It first flew in August 1938 and was ordered by the Navy as the Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane Model 2. The earlier E7K1 was renamed to Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane Model 1.
The type was used extensively by the Japanese Navy from 1938 until the beginning of the Pacific War, when E7K1 were relegated to training duties but the E7K2, despite their obsolescence, remained in first-line service until 1943. The aircraft was initially used for convoy escort, anti-submarine patrol and reconnaissance. Later in the war, the E7K2s were retained in the liaison and training role and as mother aircraft for the MXY4 radio-controlled target plane. Also both versions were used in Kamikaze operations in the closing stages of the war (Ref.: 1, 24).


At a time when record numbers of people report experiencing an increase in depression and/or anxiety, it is more important than ever to create meaningful conversations around mental health issues, including its impact on men.
For many men, societal expectations and stigma can make it more difficult to open up about their mental health. The prevalence of mental health concerns in men is cited as lower than the prevalence in women, and men are less likely to seek treatment for a mental health condition. However, men die by suicide and alcohol-related causes at a higher rate than women and are more likely to misuse drugs compared to women. By creating opportunities to have open conversations about mental health, we can help to break down barriers and encourage others to seek the help they need.
In a virtual community conversation, we heard from a panel of men who shared their experiences dealing with mental health challenges in their own lives, including the impact of stigma, environment and cultural factors.


Blue Cranesbills and creamy Meadowsweet take the place of the earlier flowers in the meadow, along with white stands of Great Northern Bellflower.
In later summer the large meadow areas have to be left before scything. The seeds we want to self-sow need to ripen and fall, and the seeds we don’t want to spread (such as hogweed, nettle, dock) have to be weeded out before the meadow is cut. This is the time when the beauty of the wild garden is not so obvious – it can look like just rough brown grass to the uninitiated. (Great Dixter has a similar situation and had to produce a leaflet called ‘Why our meadows are brown’)
There is still much wildlife to be seen as ever, and delights to be found.


** If there is one thing I must convey here is that if you are unsure of what you are touching or going to consume DO NOT ** get the correct books or do the research before you venture out. As in most cases a very small nibble or portion could/can kill you. **
Description: Cattails are grass like plants with strap-shaped leaves 1 to 5 centimeters wide and growing up to 1.8 meters tall. The male flowers are borne in a dense mass above the female flowers. These last only a short time, leaving the female flowers that develop into the brown
cattail. Pollen from the male flowers is often abundant and bright yellow.
The green hull surrounding the nut contains a resinous irritant poison that will blister the lips and tongue like poison ivy. Heat destroys this poison when roasting the nuts.
Habitat and Distribution: Cattails are found throughout most of the world. Look for them in full sun areas at the margins of lakes, streams, canals, rivers, and brackish water.
Edible Parts: The young tender shoots are edible raw or cooked. The rhizome is often very tough but is a rich source of starch. Pound the rhizome to remove the starch and use as a flour. The pollen is also an exceptional source of starch. When the cattail is immature and still green, you can boil the female portion and eat it like corn on the cob. I prefer the shoots best of all, sauteed in a skillet or wok if you have one
Other Uses: The dried leaves are an excellent source of weaving material you can use to make floats and rafts. The cottony seeds make good pillow stuffing and insulation. The fluff makes excellent tinder. Dried cattails are effective insect repellents when burned. The dried shafts can be used to make arrows or spears from. Bundle them together and let dry on a flat dry surface
(the only photo I have of is from the fall)


Underfill, Potting, and Encapsulation are coating methods which provide superior protection for PCBs for Stress, Vibration & Impact. Potting is a method of immersing the part or assembly in a liquid resin and then curing it. Different from encapsulation, potting retains the shell that is used to contain the thermoset resin while it’s curing. Encapsulation is a method of creating a frame or mold around the object by filling the space between the frame and the object with thermosetting material, curing the resin and then removing the frame. Epoxies are most commonly used, however we offer a variety of materials to meet your requirements.
When Conformal Coating or Potting will not provide the required protection to your electronics consider Low Pressure Encapsulation. This method of encapsulation works well with PCB’s , connectors, switches, sensors , wire harnesses & cables; providing protection from water, moisture, dust, debris, vibration and impact. Polyamide & Polyolefin materials are used in this process. These materials are lighter weight than epoxy and faster than potting.
Encapsulation creates geometric shape that minimizes secondary operation allowing for a simpler assembly process.


Many of the original streetcars and interurbans were projects financed by the power companies. There's a new source of subsidy unlikely to be enthralled by a trolley mania.
Buses are cheaper, and can make use of the road network (that is, when the government is funding expansion of the road network.) But the city bus, and its intercity cousin, are canonical inferior goods.
Light rail is hugely expensive. The federal government can cover 80% of the cost, but it is so deluged with applications that 50% is more typical. On the local level, higher taxes are always a hard sell—and several municipal governments are often involved, which complicates matters. A much-advertised benefit of light rail is that it sparks economic development around stations. At first, though, as is happening in Houston now, householders can delay projects out of fear that their property will fall victim to the bulldozers.
Cost overruns have already caused trouble in Seattle, which had to budget in an extra $1 billion several years ago. The city's financial storm has calmed, and Sound Transit expects to complete a light-rail link to the airport by 2009. Now, though, planners across America must worry about a huge jump in the price of construction materials. Concrete for tunnels, barriers and supports costs around 11% more than last year. Prices of steel, cement and copper wiring have gone up too.
I'm not persuaded, however, that the wireless internet access on the
Can cities get by with buses, which are far cheaper than rail? Sadly, few people want to ride on buses unless they have to. In many American cities they are the transport of the poor, the drunk and the illegal. They are slow and often smelly, and come at unpredictable intervals. And when they stop, they may block traffic.
But petrol prices are having an effect. Buses have seen some astonishing growth, especially in smaller cities, notes William Millar, the president of [the American Public Transit Association].


Definition of positivism
n. - A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable. 2
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Tweens & Technology 3rd Annual Summer camp exceeded expectation. Students ranging from 3rd to 6th grade attended camp.
We had 24 girls and boys attend Tweens & Technology camp for a week-long full day STEM learning experience.
Level 1 began their journey by learning how to develop their own interactive stories by learning Scratch block coding. Our returning students in Level 2 & Level 3 continued to build their knowledge in coding, problem solving and critical thinking.
Level 2 developed video games and animation as our Level 3 took a dive into robotics with Edison robots. They experimented and utilized barcode programming, were challenged with critical thinking, engineering and design thinking.
The annual Tweens & Technology summer camp is designed to engage elementary age girls and boys in STEM. Camp teaches and encourage our youth to collaborate with their peers; help them build an understanding of Intellectual Property as they apply their creativity, learn to code and unlock their potential.
We were honored to host a fantastic group of guest presenters who shared the opportunities a career in STEM will provide. Guest presenters included Raleigh ISSA, NetApp, EPA, Trend Micro, CWNC, Refresher Training, LLC and the Triangle Cultural Art Center.
Our guest presenters engaged our students with hands on activities, such as an engineering challenge, science experiments and 3D printing demonstration. Presenters also shared STEM career opportunities and the importance of being a good digital citizen.
Our 5th annual Tweens & Technology camp is scheduled for July 2019. We invite you to volunteer, serve as a guest presenter or become a sponsor in order to extend this STEM learning experience with all our future tech and business leaders.


North Carolina Climate: A Lifetime of Change
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The only certain things in life are death and taxes,” indicating that change is inevitable. How has the world changed in the last 30 to 40 years? Where would we be without cell phones, DVDs, and the Internet? Ecosystems have also historically changed over time; think logged old growth in the lake states, farming in New England, and fires in the South. What about climate? Has it stayed the same since 1970 or have you noticed drier summers and warmer winters? Greater climate variability is the new norm that will increasingly impact our everyday lives. Whether you live in or travel to the North Carolina mountains, the Piedmont, or the coast, climate change impacts will likely affect your lives in the next 30 years as much as technology has changed your lives during the past 30 years. Join our July Science Café to meet Dr. Steve McNulty, and learn more about the latest research efforts that could influence the way you view how climate change impacts your family.
About our Speaker
Dr. Steve McNulty is a research ecologist and team leader for the USDA Forest Service’s Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, located on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. An internationally recognized expert on climate change issues, Dr. McNulty leads the development of research and tools designed to help land managers better understand and cope with climate change impacts on forest management. His research focuses on continental scale forest hydrology, productivity, resource economics, and wildlife and forest diversity modeling, with emphasis given to interactions and response of forests to global climate change and other environmental stresses. Dr. McNulty has written over 150 scientific papers and given hundreds of presentations on this topic during his 30 years of scientific study.
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Step 10: Use the top arc as a guide to draw the upper jaw. Follow the path of the arc and add a few bumps at the top and a slit at the front for the Indominus rex's nostril. Darken the line between the teeth. This line should stretch far to the right toward the back of the head.
Step 11: Draw the lower jaw by using the arc at the bottom as a guide. Follow the basic path of the arc as you darken the lines and add the lines between the teeth.
Step 12: Draw the skin that attaches the top and bottom jaw as a series of lines. Draw the tongue as a curved line between the open mouth.
Step 13: Draw the rest of the head using the initial shapes as guides. Follow the basic path of the guides as you draw the horn-like bumps on the Indominus rex's head. Add an oval-like shape in front and behind the eye for the indentations of the skull. Add a few small curved lines within the head for the bumpy skin texture. Add the spikes on the head as curved lines that come to a point.
Step 14: Use the line on the left side as a guide to draw the arm that's on this side of the body. Light sketch the shape of the arm as you follow the basic path of the guide line. Darken the lines when you get the structure of the Indominus rex's arm right. Use the small lines as guides to draw the digits and sharp claws. Add a few curved lines on the bottom edge of the arm for the spikes found there.


Definitions of geese
n. - pl. of Goose.
plural of goose 1
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First of all, he explains that evergreens will have problems if you don't water them late enough into the season. He introduces Ken Mayer who compares two types of evergreens. He shows a tree which has lost its coloration and explains that that tree lost water over the winter. Its roots have been frozen and if the roots are frozen the water cannot circulate where it is needed. When the spring comes, the plant will need water and it will not be able to be supplied with it. It then gives tips on how to cope with this.
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The nucleus also includes four neutrons making up its seven nucleons and thus a mass number A = 7 The structure may be indicated by appending the mass number A after the name of the element or by indicating it as a superscript preceding the chemical symbol.Thus Lithium-7 or Since different isotopes of an element all have the same number of protons and electrons, they have the same or similar chemical properties, but they differ in mass due to the different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus and because of this the nucleus may be unstable.The road trip below stops at the Trip Advisor-rated Best City to Visit in every contiguous U. This road trip will more-or-less follow the same path as the major U. landmarks trip, covering a slightly shorter 12,290 mile (19,780 km) route around the U. Some larger states — like California and Texas — may have multiple cities you’d like to visit, so it’s probably worthwhile to stop at other larger cities along the route.You may note that cities from North Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia are missing.In this case the energy released by the reaction in the form of kinetic energy (manifest as heat) and electromagnetic energy (gamma radiation) is millions of times greater.
This complication is why Google Map’s route optimization service only optimizes routes of up 10 waypoints, and the best free route optimization service only optimizes 20 waypoints unless you pay them a lot of money to dedicate some bigger computers to it.
If we’re willing to accept that we don’t need the route between all of the landmarks, then we can turn to smarter techniques such as genetic algorithms to find a solution that’s good enough for our purposes. If you’re able to drive through Canada without issue, then take the direct route through Canada instead.


Luis Walter AlvarezBorn: 1911
Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif.
Radio distance and direction indicator—Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968. He helped design a ground-controlled radar system for aircraft landings and with his son developed the meteorite theory of dinosaur extinction. (1978)Died: 1988
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STE6307 Computer Integrated Manufacturing - 5 ECTS
The course offers students insights of subsystems of a computer integrated manufacturing system; integration of and communication between those subsystems; and modeling, planning and analysis of manufacturing systems. The course provides elementary understanding of logic and digital control systems and automation of manufacturing operations.
Students will acquire basic training in programming.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge about basic metal-working processes.
- Basic knowledge about machine tools and CNC programming.
- Knowledge about industrial robots and manufacturing automation.
- Basic knowledge about dimensional measurements and quality engineering.
- Knowledge about material flow and information flow in the manufacturing industry.
- Be able to plan and carry out simple manufacturing processes based on product drawings.
- Have the skills to operate different types of measurement instruments and be able to conduct basic quality control.
- Understand the relation between product specifications and manufacturing technology.
- Have basic knowledge about technological processes in a manufacturing company.
- Be able to assess the potential for automation in manufacturing companies.
There are 6 obligatory assignments. 4 of the assignments must be approved for access to the written exam.
A 3 hour written exam account for 100% of the grade in the course.
The grading will be done by using a A-F grading scale, where F is a fail.
A re-sit exam will be arranged for this course.


Deep beneath the earth's crust dwells a mysterious empire called Agharta. An entirely self-sufficient world situated in a massive cavern below the earth's outer shell, it possesses its own source of light, as well as abundant water and food. For thousands of years, its millions of inhabitants have evolved, developing technologies far superior to ours. A network of tunnels connect the cities of Agharta to many secret locations on the surface. Located at the very center of the earth, the capital city, Shamballah, is the home to the sovereign leader of this civilization, known as The King Of the World.
The denizens of Agharta are believed to represent the lineage of the Lost World of Atlantis, their ancestors having escaped underground from the destruction brought upon themselves through senseless nuclear conflict.
Some believe that flying saucers are not extraterrestrial, but are actually the aircraft of the Aghartans, who journey to the surface to observe our world with the purpose of preventing the human race from its own willful self-destruction.
Though the name Agharta is said to be of Buddhist origin, legends of the subterranean world are found in many different cultures, notably among the Native Americans of north and south Americas.
see also: The Hollow Earth
by Dr. R. W. Barnard


Russet is a dark brown color with a reddish-orange tinge. As a tertiary color, russet is an equal mix of orange and purple pigments.
The first recorded use of russet as a color name in English was in 1562.
The source of this color is the The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names (1955) used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps.
The name of the color derives from russet, a coarse cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or reddish-brown shade. By the statute of 1363, poor English people were required to wear russet.
Russet, a color of Autumn, is often associated with sorrow or grave seriousness. Anticipating a lifetime of regret, Shakespeare's character Biron says in Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 1: "Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes."
The color is mentioned in a famous quote taken from a letter Oliver Cromwell wrote to Sir William Spring in September 1643: "I had rather have a plain, russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, [than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else]".
^RGB approximations of RYB tertiary colors, using cubic interpolation. The colors displayed here are substantially paler than the true colors a mixture of paints would produce.
^Miskella, William J. (2004) . Practical Color Simplified: A Handbook on Lacquering, Enameling, Coloring and Painting 1928. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 9781417980512. pp. 20–21.


Researchers from a USC-led consortium have discovered 15 “hot spots” in the genome that either speed up brain aging or slow it down — a finding that could provide new drug targets to resist developmental delays, Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain disorders, according to the University of Southern California (USC).
The research appeared online in Nature Neuroscience.
“The big game-changer here is discovering locations on the chromosome that speed up or slow down brain aging in worldwide populations. These can quickly become new drug targets,” said Paul Thompson of USC, a lead author on the study and the co-founder and director of the ENIGMA Consortium. “Through our AI4AD [Artificial Intelligence for Alzheimer’s Disease] initiative we even have a genome-guided drug repurposing program to target these and find new and existing drugs that help us age better.”


Achille-Claude Debussy (22nd August 1862 – 25th March 1918) was a French composer. He was one of the most important figures in music at the turn of the 20th century; his music represents the transition from late-romantic to 20th century classical.
Debussy's most dramatic contribution to music history was his disregard for traditional chord structures and tonality. He is one of the most important exponents of the whole tone scale in classical music history. His compositions flowed without a strict sense of metre or rhythm, and are considered the pioneering works of the Impressionist genre of classical music, named in comparison with the visual arts movement.
Debussy's impact was far reaching. His free use of harmony, which often altogether disregarded the concepts of tertian harmony, has been cited as an influence on the rise of Jazz music later in the 20th century. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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|What are Automotive Transponder Keys?
The biggest change to the automotive industry in recent times has been the introduction of the built in immobilise system on all cars manufactured since 1995 (late ’94 in some cases). This involves placing a microchip in the head of the key, which is a miniature transmitter and receiver. There is an engine management system in the engine compartment that can recognise the signals transmitted from the key. If the correct signals are not detected the engine will not start.
How does the Microchip work? An electronic chip with a permanent memory which contains an ELECTRONIC CODE. The transponder has an antenna with which it can interface with an external electronic control device. Through the antenna the device emits a fixed frequency signal; the transponder receives the signal and then transmits its electronic code, by means of special frequency modulations, to the control device, which is able to process the code. The transponder has no external input of power supply (passive system); it receives the energy necessary to work from the signal emitted by the external control device (inductive coupling between the control device antenna and that of the transponder).
Can we copy all transponders?
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What is a Transponder Key?
TRANSMITTER + RESPONDER = TRANSPONDER
A chip inside the head of the key transmits a signal to the car when the key is inserted in the ignition.


- explicit – meanings on the surface; a little more sophisticated than plot summary but not overly interpretive
- in Singin’ in the Rain: the history of sound, love story
- in Star Wars: training of a Jedi, interactions between robots and humans
- implicit – meanings below the surface, require interpretation and argument
- in Singin’ in the Rain: Hollywood is more glamorized in media than in reality, gender roles, celebrity treatment
- in Star Wars: Obi-Wan as a father figure
- what is our response to the new?
- ideological – what are the values that the movie is suggesting?
- in One False Move: violence
- often a political message
- even films that do not have a narrative can have ideological meaning
Being able to see how these layers of meaning reveal themselves is a highly viable skill.
Film theory – a way of understand certain aspects of films
How does sound create ideological meaning in Wall-E?
- climate change (sound motif: the whistling wind)
- love (music motif: Hello Dolly)
expectations – plot or character driven, the kind of meaning we are looking for
Looking at Persepolis (2007):
- coming of age story (equivalent of roma à clef)
- elements of romance
- a road movie (lots of places)
- the contrast between the realistic/world events and stylized visual presentation gives this the aesthetic beauty
- in comparison to Wall-E, where the world is very stylized
- explicit meanings
- what happens when a young girl tries to be educated
- what happens when a girl tries to become an artist
- immigrant relations
- coming of age
- implicit meanings – some relate to voiceover narration
- finding a voice
- ideological meanings
- ways to approach the movie
- cultural studies


Autodesk Inventor/CAM/CNC Workflow - Part 7: Adding Fasteners and Constraining them to Holes
In this tutorial series we will be exploring how to use Autodesk Inventor
along with CAM software (CAMBAM) to create CNC parts.
In part 7 of the series we will be adding fasteners to the assembly and constraining them to the holes.
We will put a cross dowel and a screw using the "place" command. We select the cross dowel file to put in the cross dowel. We place it somewhere we can see it. Now we use the "mate" constraint and apply that to the hole. We view the different constraints and select the one that will allow us to constrain the cross dowel to the appropriate hole. Now we are able to move and turn the cross dowel. We apply the constraints to both cross dowels using the default "mate" constraint.
Now to put in the screws we will use the "place from content" selection. We are using Cross Recessed Pan Head screw. We make sure it is placed correctly with the head seated. Using 1-1/2" length will give us the correct screw. Now we select it, right click on it, and change the size from #12 to 1/4". You can use different visualization to view the screw in different views. Now we add the 2nd screw using the copy and paste shortcuts on the keyboard and a mate constraint. Use the inside of the screw head and mate it to the back edge.
Next we need to adjust the cross dowel. We are going back to the Excel sheet to create a new parameter called "AdditionalOffsetForScrewandCrossDowel". We set the value to 0.1 inches and save the sheet. Now we go into the part and modify the cross dowel to use the new parameter. After applying the changes we can see a little bit of space between the edge of the hole and the end of the screw so the screw doesn't go into the edge of the hole.
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Vermont’s bumblebee population declines
07/27/09 6:34AM By Steve Zind
(Host) So far, Vermont's honeybees have escaped Colony Collapse Disorder, which has led to the disappearance of hives in other parts of the country.
But the state's bumblebee population hasn't fared as well.
Leif Richardson is an ecologist with the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Richardson says bumblebees used commercially to pollinate greenhouse crops have infected native bees with a European parasite.
Out of a total of 20 bumblebee species in Vermont, two have disappeared because of the parasite.
(Richardson) "If you watch one of these greenhouses, the bees are coming and going quite a bit and they're foraging in the fields around the greenhouse for pollen and nectar and they're bringing that back inside the greenhouse to their colony. When they're outside foraging on the flowers, they are leaving the intestinal parasite, which is in their saliva, on their mouth parts. They leave it behind on a flower and a wild bee picks it up."
(Host) Richardson says there is some good news: another species of Vermont bumblebee that had been affected by the parasite appears to have rebounded.
He says greater regulation of the industry that produces bumblebees for pollination would help control the spread of diseases and parasites.
Richardson says two more species of bumblebees are also in decline in Vermont - although the reasons remain unclear.
(Richardson) "The reasons that have been cited include pesticides, land use changes, changes to agriculture in a broad sense and development, generally; development of fallow lands and borders and hedgerows and all of that into carefully manicured developments where we live and work and so on."
(Host) Richardson says bumblebees forage from many kinds of plants, and property owners can help them by planting native flowering plants and non-native species like clover and vetch.


When Kamehameha unified the islands into a single kingdom, an ideal for Native Hawaiian leadership was born. What was leadership like prior to Kamehameha's rise, and why was his feat a defining moment for the culture? In Alaka‘i, Malcolm Nāea Chun combines traditions of the early chiefs with the well-recorded legacy of Kamehameha to piece together a picture of traditional leadership. Then, bringing this idea forward to the present day, he asks which qualities have been retained and which should be reintroduced.
This book is one of twelve short volumes of the Ka Wana series, which is part of the Pihana Nā Mamo Native Hawaiian Education Program.
|Author(s)||Malcolm Nāea Chun|
|Program||Ka Wana Series|
|Binding Type||Soft Cover|
|Grade Level(s)||9, 10, 11, 12, 13+|
|Audience||Student, Teacher, Trade|