About this title: From Ebola to Swine Flu and SARS to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, this handbook covers 50 of the world's most significant plagues, pandemics and infectious diseases. "Pandemics" is a concise and intelligent look at the most deadly viral and bacterial diseases and includes expert opinion on likely future outbreaks, the method of contagion and photos and diagrams to help identify symptoms. Most importantly, it answers the question: how anxious should you be?
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.


Some bacteria are not only useful, but are essential to life. Organic fertilizers are broken down by bacteria into materials that can be used by plants. Decomposed vegetable and animal matter is thus transformed into nutrients that are absorbed through the roots of other plants. Many species of soil bacteria fix nitrogen; that is, they convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates, compounds that are readily absorbed by plants. Some of these bacteria live in colonies in the roots of legumes, such as peas, clover, and alfalfa.
Various commercial processes depend on bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria that ferment certain substances are used in the production of vinegar and some drugs, and in the aging process of cheeses. Some bacteria produce waste products that are useful to humans. One such waste product is lactic acid, which is produced by intestinal bacteria and promotes digestion in humans. It is grown commercially and is added to certain foods such as yogurt.
Bacteria are also used to chemically break down the tough, woody tissues of flax, jute, hemp, and coconut. Modern methods of sewage disposal often make use of bacteria to decompose organic wastes. In a process known as bioremediation, bacteria are added to water or soil to convert toxic pollutants, such as pesticides and oil, into harmless substances. Through genetic engineering, bacteria have been developed for bioremediation and also to produce drugs and other chemicals.


Weiss Family History
Weiss Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with white hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from Middle High German wiz ‘white’, German weiss. German: variant of Weis. German: habitational name from any of various places named Weis(s) or Weissen. German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with wig ‘battle’ or widu ‘wood’ as the first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963
Today, April 9, 2013, is the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions. Although much has changed since those days, wage disparities still exist – in some surprising areas. From Politifact.com:
For computer programmers, for instance, women earn 95 cents for every dollar a man earns. For cashiers it’s 92 cents. For cooks and customer service representatives, it’s 95 cents. Other occupations have more unequal ratios. Women who are personal financial advisers, for instance, earn just 58 cents of what men in that job earn. (The statistics come from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a think tank focusing on women’s issues.)
To commemorate Equal Pay Day, today, April 9th, a group of Louisiana women legislators are wearing red to signify Louisiana women are still ‘in the red’ when it comes to wages.


Adults are charged with providing educational environments that are safe, supportive, and focused on the intellectual and social/emotional development of children. In order to meet this charge and decrease the rate of student removal of students from their schools and communities, adults must have the appropriate awareness, tools, and skills. They must be equipped with knowledge that enables them to address the unique challenges of youth in the 21st century. This is the knowledge offered in Positive Behavior Facilitation (PBF). PBF is a thirty-six (36) hour research and evidence-based curriculum. PBF presents the necessary skills, techniques, and strategies for supporting children in the demonstration of positive behavior. The curriculum teaches that we must consider a comprehensive view of understanding and intervening in behavior rather than exclusively managing behavior on the surface.
Program Descriptors Include:
Academic Improvement, Adult Education, Alternative Education, Attendance/Truancy, Behavior Management/Discipline, Bullying/Violence, Charter School, Early Childhood Education, Professional Development, Students with Disabilities
Starting Date: 2001
Students Served Per Year: 500+
Last Verified: 2009


Shah Ibrahim Tomb
: Narnaul, Haryana
: Sher Shah Suri
: Ibrahim Suri
Sher Shah Suri (1538-46 A.D) had his tomb built in honour of his able grandfather, Ibrahim Khan, who served as an officer of the Lodhis at Narnaul. The monument was constructed under the supervision of Sheikh Ahmed Niyazi. There are two small graves along with. the grave of Ibrahim Khan inside the building. The tomb is a perfect example of the square tomb of the Pathan style characterised by its massive outlines, exquisite details, and pleasing interplay of colours. The creation, of a high terrace, double Storey simulation, bold archs, low domes, beautiful kiosks on curved pillars, selender turrets (guidastas), and elegant merions, give it. balanced strength and dexterity. The use of deep red, grey and white stone encaustic tile-work, painted ceiling with excellent brush work and subtle lapidary give it a richness which is unique among such buildings in Haryana1.
The entrance built after the pattern of Hindu temples, shows beautiful carvings executed with a well-balanced colour scheme. The dome is balanced by four octagonal cupolas, placed at all the four corners of the terrace. The main dome is surmounted by a low dome, which rests on an octagonal drum, the corners of which are provided with small turrets.
How To Get There
Air: The nearest airport is at Delhi.
Rail: The nearest rail junction is at Narnaul.
Road: Narnaul has a bus stand of its own.


Ectocarpus siliculosus, female gamete surrounded by male gametes.
This view is still maintained by those who differentiate two acts of fertilization within the embryo-sac, and regard that of the egg by the first male-cell, as the true or generative fertilization, and that of the polar nuclei by the second male gamete as a vegetative fertilization which gives a stimulus to development in correlation with the other.
Usually, however, only one of the fusing cells is a zoogamete, the other gamete being a much larger resting cell.
In such a case the zoogamete is male, is called an antherozoid or spermatozoid, and arises in an antheridium; the larger gamete is an oosphere and arises in an oogonium.
From a comparison of those Euchlorophyceae which have been most closely investigated, it appears probable that sexual reproductive cells have in the course of evolution arisen as the result of specialization among asexual reproductive cells, and that in turn oogamous reproduction has arisen as the result of differentiation of the two conjugating cells into the smaller male gamete and the larger male gamete.
In Sirogonium there is cell-division in the parent-cell prior to conjugation; and as two segments are cut off in the case of the active gamete, and only one in the case of the passive gamete, there is a corresponding difference of size, marking another step in the sexual differentiation.


Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) occurs when the jaw bone is exposed and begins to starve from a lack of blood. The bone is not heal and painful. ONJ is associated with cancer treatments (including radiation), infection, steroid use, or potent antiresorptive therapies that help prevent the loss of bone mass. Examples of potent antiresorptive therapies include bisphosphonates such as alendronate (Fosamax); risedronate (Actonel and Atelvia); ibandronate (Boniva); and denosumab (Prolia).
Below is a photo from a case presentation by JCDA Oasis on Aug 6,2014. This 64-year-old patient Received intravenous zoledronic acid (ZA) 4 mg monthly for approximately two years
before the implant treatment.
My diagnosis is the same with most of the Doctors : Bisphosphonate induced ONJ.
The passible treatment is shock wave + PRF.


Moore, C. T., and W. L. Kendall. 2004. Costs of detection bias in index-based population monitoring. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27(1):287-296.
Managers of wildlife populations commonly rely on indirect, count-based measures of the population in making decisions regarding conservation, harvest, or control. The main appeal in the use of such counts is their low material expense compared to methods that directly measure the population. However, their correct use rests on the rarely-tested but often-assumed premise that they proportionately reflect population size, i.e., that they constitute a population index. This study investigates forest management for the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) and the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) at the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge in central Georgia, U.S.A. Optimal decision policies for a joint species objective were derived for two alternative models of Wood Thrush population dynamics. Policies were simulated under scenarios of unbiasedness, consistent negative bias, and habitat-dependent negative bias in observed Wood Thrush densities. Differences in simulation outcomes between biased and unbiased detection scenarios indicated the expected loss in resource objectives (here, forest habitat and birds) through decision-making based on biased population counts. Given the models and objective function used in our analysis, expected losses were as great as 11%, a degree of loss perhaps not trivial for applications such as endangered species management. Our analysis demonstrates that costs of uncertainty about the relationship between the population and its observation can be measured in units of the resource, costs which may offset apparent savings achieved by collecting uncorrected population counts.


Distinct operator in SQL Query
DISTINCT is used for fetch the distinct value of specific column in Oracle table.
Select distinct columnname, columnname from tablename;
I want to see distinct dept no in employee tables.
Select distinct deptno from employee;
You can pass two column to fetch distinct value of two columns:
select distinct first_name,last_name from employee;
Count the distinct number:
Count the distinct department from employee tables
select count(distinct deptno) from employees;


Heat stroke and hot car safety are major concerns in south Texas, especially this time of year. The pets are not yet acclimated to the higher temperatures we are experiencing and when combined with high humidity, this can cause an emergent illness called heat stroke.
Heatstroke is an important and surprisingly common problem here in south Texas. You may be surprised to know your pets are at highest risk of developing heatstroke in the early summer. This is an emergency that can cause permanent damage to the intestines, liver, and kidneys resulting in organ failure. When the body overheats, some of the cells die causing death of liver cells, shedding of the lining of the intestines, and release of toxins. This stress on the kidneys causes kidney failure without veterinary intervention.
Signs of heatstroke include collapse, severe panting, seizures, and elevated temperature. If you suspect heatstroke, you can take your pet’s temperature rectally. If their temperature exceeds 105.0 degrees, they should be seen by a veterinarian immediately.
DO NOT COVER YOUR PET IN ICE IF YOU SUSPECT HEATSTROKE. Pouring cool water or rubbing alcohol on your pet is best for them until you get to the veterinarian. Most pets with heatstroke are hospitalized on IV fluids and antibiotics for several days until the kidney and liver damage can be assessed with blood values. Heat stroke is an emergency that should not wait overnight or through the weekend. If you suspect heat stroke in your pet, he or she needs immediate emergency care.
Many people are often concerned with hot car pet safety in our area.
Hot Car Safety:
It is not safe to leave your pet in the car even for 10 minutes in the hot south Texas summers! Here are some comparison temperatures even if the windows are cracked. Contact the local authorities for directions on what to do if you find a pet that is in distress locked in a hot care.
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Seodaemun Prison History Hall is a special museum located at Seodaemun Independence Park. It was built near the end of the Joseon Dynasty (~1910), and was where Japanese soldiers tortured and later executed Korean Independence Movement followers. Seodaemun Prison History Hall was built in remembrance of Seodaemun Prison, and to salute the Korean patriots. There you’ll find seven jail cells, a historical exhibition hall, an execution room, watchtowers and a basement jail cell.


Of all the things to build memorials for, one would think the Irish Potato Famine--which killed roughly a million people in the mid-19th century--would be fairly uncontroversial. Not so, at least, for William McGurn, who complains in The Wall Street Journal of the "outbreak of monuments" that do nothing but reinforce Irish "victimhood" at precisely the time when Irish-Americans are finally thriving. Aside from finding the $5 million New York City famine memorial ugly, he thinks it's a major step down from the Times Square statues of Irish Americans George M Cohan (Broadway entertainer of the song "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Over There") and Father Francis Duffy, army chaplain. These strong, affirmative examples are more to his taste, whereas "today ... we burnish grievances that our great-great-great-great-grandparents could be forgiven for having." He wonders if it's "the result of an education system whose histories emphasize ethnic, racial and religious victimhood." His conclusion:
When our ancestors were poor and newly arrived on these shores, they didn't build monuments to their woes. With their pennies, they raised up St. Patrick's Cathedral and countless other churches. With their priests and nuns, they built a parochial school system that ushered millions of Irish into the American Dream—and today is often the only hope an inner-city black or Latino child has for doing the same. And their legacy of courage and sacrifice remains visible in, say, the prominence of Irish names among the 9/11 firemen who charged up the stairs of the Twin Towers when everyone else was running down.
These are America's true monuments to the Irish. They also represent the other, more hopeful side of the famine story. On this St. Patrick's Day, surely that's something to celebrate.


Significant progress has been made in this field of study since the
discovery of radioactivity and its properties. One application is
carbon-14 dating. Recalling that all biologic organisms contain a
given concentration of carbon-14, we can use this information to help
solve questions about when the organism died. It works like this..when
an organism dies it has a specific ratio by mass of carbon-14 to
carbon-12 incorporated in the cells of it's body. (The same ratio as in
the atmosphere.) At the moment of death, no new carbon-14 containing
molecules are metabolized, therefore the ratio is at a maximum. After
death, the carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio begins to decrease because
carbon-14 is decaying away at a constant and predictable rate.
Remembering that the half-life of carbon-14 is 5700 years, then after
5700 years half as much carbon-14 remains within the organism.
Example : If an organism such as a tree contained 1 gram of carbon-14
while it was living, then after 5700 years it would contain half that
amount, or 0.5 grams of carbon-14.
This method of dating using carbon-14 is only good for organisms or
artifacts that are biological by nature and on the order of tens of
thousands or years old.
What isotope would be increasing due to the decay of carbon-14?
Could this method of dating be used to estimate the age of petroleum
What human activities could alter the carbon-14/carbon-12 ratio?


So the new school year has already started, you’re just getting used to waking up early again, and you’re getting used to the change- Wait, CHANGE?
Yes, change. You’re in a new grade, maybe even in a new school. Some (or all) of your old friends are gone, and you’ve got new people in your life. Here’s a bit of advice on dealing with change:
-accept it and get used to it. Well, if you’re going to have to live with it every single day, you might as well get used to it. And it’s not all that bad, which brings us to our next point.
-focus on the positive. This is SUPER important! You can choose to see the good or the bad when things happen, so why not see the good more?
-see the good, be happier. Yep! It’s a funny thing, but if you always talk about the good, more good things will happen to you and more people will want to be your friend!
-be friendly and kind. Ah yes, friends! Someone said “There are no strangers, only friends not yet met” and this is true of the new people in your life. They can be your friends!
-be kind and friendly. See what I did there? If you see other people who look sad all the time, maybe you can be their friend! Maybe they don’t see the change as a good thing, yet.
-you can make a difference. Yes, because you are important! If you’re happy and positive, other people will be happier and more positive just by looking at you. Smiles are contagious!
Accept the change, be positive about it, be nice to other people, and smile!
Good luck with the academic year ahead!
Andre Ivan Toupet
Instructor of minds, bringer of knowledge


Computer Scientists are the designers of the software that runs on any computer based intelligent system. Computer scientists have revolutionized modern society and they are the creators of the software that has driven telecommunication industries and virtually all computer based machinery in our offices and homes. As a result of this revolution, professionals in computer science are essential in diverse new areas, including financial institutions, computer networks, Internet based industries, health industries, medical research laboratories and other areas where information manipulation is important.
Computer Scientists work with Engineers and it is a vibrant field. They are needed in virtually all industries.
The profession continue to evolve at an astonishing speed. As new technologies are introduced, old ones become obsolete in a short space of time. The discipline is evolving rapidly and more computer scientists are needed constantly.
Math 70 Elementary Algebra (0 cr). Review of arithmetic, algebraic expressions, Linear equations, monomial fractions, graphing lines, polynomials, verbal problems.
Math 80 Fundamentals of Algebra and Geometry (0 cr.). Linear equations and graphs, functions, the point-slope equation, linear in qualities, polynomial functions, rational expressions, radicals, quadratic equations, sequences, series, and the binomial theorem. Prereq. Math70
Math 90 Intermediate Algebra and Trigonometry (0 cr.). Rational expressions, rational exponents and radicals, conic sections and systems of equations, binomial theorem, introduction to trigonometry. Prereq. Math 80
Math 100 Pre-Calculus (0cr) Intervals, inequalities, introduction to functions, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions and formulas Prereq. Math 90
Please Click Here for the Course Syllabus


Hawthorne’s description of the Custom House emphasizes the nearby dilapidated wharves and decayed wooden warehouses crumbling to ruin and his office “cobwebbed and dingy with old paint.” Hawthorne offers us an almost gothic Custom House, a fitting element in the introduction to a romance novel.
The Custom House is, in fact, an airy, handsome structure, flooded with light. This is characteristic of Federal period buildings. Hawthorne does recognize these qualities when he describes the building as “a spacious edifice of brick” and mentions the lofty height of the ceiling in his office. —Jan Arabas
—The U.S. Custom House in Salem: Introduction (Hawthorne In Salem)
Hawthrone’s The Scarlet Letter begins with a description of this building, where in an upper room the narrator tells us he found the historical documents that formed the basis of the tale of Hester Prynne.
I never envisioned this structure as nearly this solid. Imposing and boxy, yes, but still charming.
Because I teach this novel early in the course, I tell my students to skip the Custom House introduction, and begin with the first chapter. The pace of The Scarlet Letter is so different from modern fare that I find the students have enough trouble adjusting to it. Asking them to identify and appreciate the self-mocking humor of the Customs House introduction, where the narrator enacts in words the idleness and uselessness of the “work” done by the customs house officials, is just a bit too much to do right away. (We go back and pick up the introduction after we’ve finished the novel.)


On Pentecost Sunday we recall the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus' disciples and rejoice in the Spirit's continuing comfort, guidance, and intercession for us.
Since the crowd at Pentecost were devout Jews resettled in Jerusalem, Aaron Kuecker assumes they shared a language. Hearing Christ's spirit-filled disciples speak to them in their birth-languages was the subversion of shared language and culture as a necessary basis for common identity.
Bill Shiell explains how Peter reinterpreted the feast of Pentecost and the marvelous events as fulfilling Joel's prophecy for old and young, male and female, and slaves. Alicia Myers reminds us the disciples and their churches were imperfect and unfinished by the inclusive standards established that day.
Brandon Dahm draws attention to "the ordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit - the ones that grace the Messiah: wisdom, knowledge, understanding, counsel, piety, courage, and fear of the Lord - for they are part of something equally marvelous: our being drawn into friendship with God." Exploring the mysterious role of the Spirit in praying for us, whether we are aware of it or not, Timothy Wiarda writes, "God knows our hearts and is intimately acquainted with our groaning. And that should cause us to love and praise him."
Heidi Hornik compares how four artists over ten centuries portrayed the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Carmen Butcher explores the importance of the Spirit in Hildegard of Bingen's thought as expressed in her prose, poetry, and illuminations.
The study guides and lesson plans integrate Bible study, prayer, and worship to explore the central roles of the Holy Spirit in motivating and guiding our discipleship. The guides can be used in a series or individually. You may download and reproduce them for personal or group use.


This map created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the propagation, or spread, of energy across the Pacific from the massive earthquake off Chile.
National Tsunami Warning CenterThe image is updated when the DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) system reports back more precise information.
Tom Worthington, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at The Australian National University, says the Pacific Tsunami Warning System worked as designed by quickly detecting and warning of the earthquake.
However, problems remain at the local level in getting the warning to residents and in providing them with useful information on what action to take.
“Fortunately, in this case it appears the tsunami was small and the warning was received in time. However, there has been some damage due to the direct effect of the earthquake,” Worthington says.
Dr Behzad Fatahi, Senior Lecturer of Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney, said the earthquake was shallow at 20.1 km below the surface.
The last major earthquake in Chile was the 2010 Chile earthquake with the magnitude of 8.8, which was the sixth largest earthquake ever to be recorded by seismographs.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reports that tsunami waves about two metres high were recorded in Iquique and Pasagua.
In Arica, 140 km NW of the epicenter, a 1.3 meter high wave was reported.
Coastal areas of Chile and neighboring Peru have been evacuated.
This article originally appeared at Business Insider Australia. Copyright 2014.


Prompt removal of ticks decreases the chances of getting Lyme disease. The proper and easiest method is to grasp the tick with fine tweezers, as near the skin as you can, and gently pull it straight out. Be careful not to squeeze the tick when removing it which could result in more bacteria being injected. Do not try to remove the tick with your fingers or attempt to remove with lighted cigarettes, matches, nail polish, or vaseline.
Once removed save the tick for identification. Accurate identification becomes very important if you or your animals develop disease symptoms. Proof of tick bite and the kind of tick doing the biting is especially important to document in areas where Lyme disease is not considered prevalent and doctor suspicion is low.
In most areas, ticks can be submitted for identification through local or state health department offices. Many physicians and veterinarians will also submit ticks. Put the tick in a tightly closed container with a small amount of alcohol (rubbing alcohol will do). Mark it with your name, address and phone number, date collected, host collected from (animal or man) and recent travel history.


This book provides a comprehensive grammatical and lexicographical review
of all types of late Samaritan Hebrew in all their literary manifestations
from the twelfth century to the present. Much of it is devoted to
description of Hybrid Samaritan Hebrew (HSH), which since the 13th is used
as the main written language of the Samaritan community. The whole
research is based on study of a wide range of texts. All available
liturgical material was computer-recorded and then analyzed. A vast array
of chronicles, colophons and deeds of sale copied from manuscripts were
also computerized. Included as well are unpublished manuscripts of prayers.
Audio recordings and phonetic transcriptions were made of dozens of
Samaritan prayers and piyyutim, and served as a database for the
phonological and the morphological analysis of the language.


February is National Children’s Dental Health Month – and dentists from across the country took part in a one day program to make sure underprivileged kids have healthy smiles.
The Give Kids a Smile program, now in its seventh year reaches kids ages 3-12 nationwide from New Jersey to New Mexico to Alaska. Overall more than 12,000 dentists and 30,000 volunteers joined the effort this year to treat almost a half million children.
In Wisconsin this year, more than 350 dentists will volunteer, seeing 5,500 uninsured kids statewide this month. In Central Illinois, twenty-eight dentists provided services from teeth cleanings to extractions and stainless steel crowns for free — an estimated value of $46,000 worth of donated work.
In North Carolina, two dozen area dentists work alongside about 100 support staff, as well as clowns and balloon animals to treat 150 kids during the eight-hour clinic. One parent, who is retired from the military and doesn’t have dental insurance said, “Financially, it was just tremendous.”
Children were bused in from schools around Kansas City to the free dental clinic last week at the University of Missouri. The kids were identified through routine health screenings at school. Nearly all the work done on the children was performed by dental hygiene students
Give Kids A Smile is an annual centerpiece to National Children’s Dental Health Month and is observed every year on the first Friday in February.
(Compiled with quotes from KMBC, WEAU and Reflector.com)


Every week I will demonstrate an example of poor English where a different word is used from the one intended. Sometimes this creates a grammatically incorrect sentence. Unfortunately, the mistake is usually so pervasive that we all do it and such errors are usually made by those who should know better – journalists working for national or global media outlets such as newspapers and television.
Practice / Practise
This is yet another one where I didn’t know there was a difference – or I assumed the difference was really only in an American vs British spelling. That’s not the case though. If anything, it is a British-English convention that grammar-monster says is slowly being adopted by the colonies.
Practice is a noun and practise is a verb – so the former describes an actual thing and the latter describes an action. “A man works at a Dental Practice where he practises dentistry.”
The grammar monster link I provided above has an interesting trick to remember which is which too:
Try using the word preparation (or lessons) instead of practice. If the sentence still makes sense, then practice is almost certainly correct.
(This trick works because practice is a noun, just like the words preparation and lessons.)


Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
What do these two triangles have in common? How are they related?
A very mathematical light - what can you see?
Cut a square of paper into three pieces as shown. Now,can you use
the 3 pieces to make a large triangle, a parallelogram and the
This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns
with two different types of triangle. You could even try
Prove that a triangle with sides of length 5, 5 and 6 has the same area as a triangle with sides of length 5, 5 and 8. Find other pairs of non-congruent isosceles triangles which have equal areas.
Jennifer Piggott and Charlie Gilderdale describe a free interactive
circular geoboard environment that can lead learners to pose


Also called ‘Gean’, ‘Mazzard’ or ‘Sweet Cherry’, this tree has a high domed crown and the bark is purplish-grey, smooth and shiny with horizontal peeling in papery strips. The leaves are fairly large and are ovate and pointed, with serrated margins. They are a dull, dark green with 2-5 red glands at the base. It flowers in April and May before the leaves open, and the whole tree is covered in an abundance of large white sprays. The cherries ripen to dark red by August, and are bitter/sweet to the taste, but birds have better access and strip them clean off the tree very quickly. The tree can grow up to 30m (98ft) tall.
It grows in woodland margins and clearings, and it is often planted as an ornamental in parks and gardens. A fairly common and widespread native tree, except in northern Scotland and Western Ireland.
The timber of the Wild Cherry is hard and strong and a rich red in colour, and is used to make quality furniture and veneers. It is also used in wood-turning.
At the base of each leaf on the stalk are tiny red glands which may look like plant galls, but are in fact extrafloral nectaries. These foliar nectaries attract predatory insects who will eat the nectar and plant-eating insects which maybe a threat to the tree. In essence these insects act as the tree’s protectors. Ants are commonly attracted to the sugary secretions of these glands, and these help keep away egg-laying insects as well as larvae which may eat the foliage.


New York based year 1 teacher Hailey Glynn speaks to us about teaching literacy in early years classrooms. She shares lots of tips, particularly sight word games that you can use in your classroom.
Hailey recently wrote a Children's book called 'When Virona the Corona came to town'.
So many absolute gems in this episode for all teachers, particularly early years & beginner teachers.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Virona-Corona-Came-Town/dp/B088VSTSY3
Hailey's TPT page: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Growing-With-Glynn
Hailey's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growing_with_glynn/
Hailey's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXPsFOjI368QihDYdzzI1AQ/?guided_help_flow=5


Description: Learn how to level activities for all skill levels in your classroom! Look at how skills like print awareness, alphabet knowledge, oral language, vocabulary enrichment, phonological awareness, fluency, and comprehension can be enhanced using music, movement, laughter, and participation.
Literacy happens when children work with rhyme and rhythm.
Oral language builds a larger vocabulary.
Music helps with the storage and retrieval of learned information
Movement helps children remember
Participation invites us to learn more quickly and for a long time
You will make things to take back to your classrooms to use now and pep up your centers, while meeting State standards. These activities are easy to learn, quick to do, and inexpensive.


Captain Robert Scott was a loser: the second person to reach the South Pole. In Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, Sir Ranulph Fiennes draws a picture of a smart, ambitious young British naval officer trying to succeed.
Scott wasn't necessarily the kind of man you would think of as an explorer. When chance threw opportunity his way, he approached it with the methodical precision he showed in every other aspect of his life. Scott emerges as a discoverer more along the lines of Lewis and Clark than Christopher Columbus, a role that was taken up by his rival and nemesis, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Meticulously researched and detailed, Race to the Pole tells the story of Scott's two journeys into the frozen unknown. The first, from 1902 to 1904, was man's initial scientific foray to the southernmost continent; indeed, it was this voyage that determined that Antarctica was a continent. Fiennes makes it clear that the mission's success was due in large part to Scott's leadership and organization; just surviving temperatures of 30 degrees below zero is achievement enough, much less exploring one's surroundings. Scott's party ultimately ventured some 470 miles north of the pole, and returned to England to great acclaim with a wealth of scientific information. His second journey, while even more successful in knowledge gained, ended tragically for Scott and the four men who accompanied him on his final push for the pole. Ill weather and circumstance killed Scott and his party, who were driven on in part by the subterfuge of Amundsen, when they were only 12 miles from salvation. Years later, some of the surviving crew were bitter about their leader, but using their own diaries and contemporaneous writings, Fiennes makes it clear that this was bitterness brought on by age and regret.
As an experienced Antarctic explorer himself, Fiennes is uniquely qualified to counter modern researchers' criticism of Scott and to give a balanced portrait of this long-ignored hero.


Thesis summary writing is probably the easiest task that should be done after a thesis is already completed. The difficulties in making a thesis summary can lie only in the determination of the primarily important information.
So, in order to make an excellent summary of your thesis, do the following:
- Write down all keywords of your project. They will serve you as a foundation. Since you will have to talk about your research done in general, you will have to include all the most important words (key terms) into your theses summary. Thus, the readers will easily get an idea of what your paper is about;
- Draw a scheme in which the most essential information will be stated. A summary of a thesis should be presented in clearly formulated sentences, but its basis can be built up by means of an outline. Do not use drafts and primary papers. They will only confuse you. Your thesis summary should be made of a new vision of your completed project. So, try to look at it from a new angle in order to make a summary for your thesis;
- Compose the text of your thesis summary. It is the most difficult task in creating a summary of a thesis. You need to think over each sentence of your theses summary very carefully, since you are preparing a trademark for your project. Make sure that there are no repetitions or tautology and other shortcomings. Try to include 150-300 the most essential words into your thesis summary.
Actually, a thesis summary is similar to an abstract thesis. So, you may use information on a thesis abstract for making your summary of a thesis.
Following the information given will help you create an excellent summary for a Literature, Business studies, Psychology or Finance thesis.


number of Flickr users recognized this device, and one fellow even said he’d tried one out!
The thought-provoking image above was just one of the photographs added to our Mystery Photos album in the Library of Congress Flickr account, with the most recent batch all focused on some kind of contraption.
The amount of information located for the photo below by our diligent Flickr watchers was astounding, and all backed up with citations, photographs and other sources. We learned about both the man and the scientific gadget depicted, and the photo went from being wholly unidentified to having this detailed caption: [Charles Greeley Abbot, astrophysicist and Secretary of the Smithsonian, with his device: a silver-disc pyrheliometer which measures direct beam solar irradiance]. See the comments to this photo in Flickr.
dental X-ray machine to determine if a golf ball’s core is centered. The collaborative research by Flickr users included: websites, digitized periodicals and newspapers, other Harris & Ewing photos and even an online auction site. And of course, the starting point was careful study of the photograph and a bit of educated guesswork to get the ball rolling, so to speak!
- See all 45 photos in the Mystery Photos set in Flickr, which include our first batch of mystery images as well as the latest ones.
- Revisit the Picture This post introducing the “What’s this Gadget?” set, which included a few mysteries of its own!
- Explore all of the solved mysteries in the Mystery Photos, and see if you have anything to add!
- Try your hand at the remaining mysteries under “What’s this Gadget?” and “What’s the Story?”
- Use the tools in the Researcher’s Toolbox on the Prints and Photographs Division website to learn how to interpret and identify photographs.


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"she is in the same school as me" may be colloquially accepted, but should be avoided in formal writing."She goes to the same school as I do" and "She is in the same school as I am"are grammatically correct and are preferred, to my humble opinion.More grammar-related subject matter is available here: http://gedeasy.com/ged-online-language-classes/
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Summary: A fascinating new account of art in Greece from c. 800 to 323 bc.
Archaic and Classical Greek Art is a revolutionary introduction to the images and sculptures of Ancient Greece from the Geometric period to the early Hellenistic. By carefully examining the context in which sculptures and paintings were produced, author Robin Osborne shows how artists responded to the challenges they faced in the formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state, produci ...show moreng the rich diversity of forms apparent in Greek art. Artistic developments of the period combined the influences of the symbolism and imagery of eastern Mediterranean art with the explorations of humanity embodied in the narratives of Greek poetry, while drawings and sculptures referred so intimately to the human form as to lead both ancient and modern theorists to talk in terms of the 'mimetic' role of art. Ranging widely over the fields of sculpture, vase painting, and the minor arts, and offering a wide selection of unusual images alongside the familiar masterpieces, this work discusses the changing forms of art, and how art was used to define mens relationships with other men, women, slaves, society, nature, and the gods. ...show less
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This course is designed to introduce learners to the basic process of conducting a hazard and vulnerability assessment for their community. This course examines the fundamental concepts of hazard identification and vulnerability assessment in determine public health risk for emergency planning purposes.
- List the hazards which may impact your community
- Identify specific areas of community vulnerability to specific hazards
- Describe the process of using hazards identification and vulnerability assessment to determine risk for emergency planning purposes
- Discuss how models are used in the performance of a hazard and vulnerability assessment


Who: North and South Vietnam
What: The war was about the south and USA government. It was a Cold War. It started in November 1, 1955-April 30, 1975. Some major events are that the leader Ho Chi Minh declared all out war. The USA was helping the other side of the war. It was a 20 year war. Also no one won and it was the first war that USA lost.
Why: because USA was helping the other side.


Communicating In Gloves
There seems to be a smartphone app for everything these days, and it seems we can now add interpreting sign language to the list. Bioengineers have designed a glove that transmits what someone is saying with their hands to a smartphone, which then vocalizes the words.
The incredible invention works via electrical signals from finger movements, which are picked up by a circuit board. Wirelessly, these signals then travel over to the smartphone, where the app reads them out in real-time.
Keeping Everyone Connected
If this new creation hits the market, it could prove revolutionary for helping deaf people to connect with those around them. The glove means that others don’t need to know sign language; they simply need a smartphone. Given that there are an estimated three billion smartphone users around the world, meeting that criteria won’t be difficult.
Although understanding sign language won’t be necessary to communicate with those wearing the glove, the device could, however, still be educational. The more that people interact with those using it, the likelier they are to start connecting words to specific movements.
It’s Not There Yet
While this glove could have a significant impact on the world, we won’t be seeing it in stores just yet. A lot more work is required before it can launch commercially, including increased vocabulary and quicker translation. The app currently translates roughly one word a second, which isn’t quite fast enough for a proper conversation.
In a time when we feel separated from others, it’s nice to know that scientists are working on ways to bring us all together again.


Çatalhöyük is a prehistoric site located in central Turkey that dates back to the beginning of the seventh millennium B.C. Çatalhöyük is made of two different mounds— the Neolithic East Mound has been recently dated close to the 7100 B.C., while the Chalcolithic West Mound includes settlements from the early 5600 B.C. circa.
In 2015 a joint effort between UC Merced, Stanford University, and Corinth brought Çatalhöyük back to life. The digital simulation of Shrine 10 sequence visualizes building variation of three Neolithic houses—specifically, Mellaart’s Shrine 10.VII, Shrine 10.VIB, and Shrine 10.VIA, that were rebuilt multiple times in the same place (History houses).


Elon Musk has big plans for Mars.
The Space Explorations (SpaceX) founder revealed more of his vision for a future colony on the Red Planet in an appearance at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Nov.16 and in an interview with Space.com contributor Rob Coppinger. The colony, which Musk says he would like to be a public-private joint venture (far from alien territory for Musk’s SpaceX) would have up to 80,000 inhabitants. The first group of adventurers would include fewer than 10 people, with each paying $500,000 for the ride on a reusable rocket fueled by liquid oxygen and methane.
The first colonists would land with equipment to begin generating crops, leveraging the nitrogen and carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere as well as subsurface ice. According to Musk, the venture would require approximately $36 billion in funding.
This isn’t the first time Musk has mentioned plans for Mars. In September, during an interview with “CBS This Morning,” Musk said that two years ago he found “the calculations worked out,” leading him to believe that colonizing Mars would be possible. Musk went on to say that he believed it would be possible to terraform Mars, which he then called a “fixer-upper of a planet.”
In an August interview with ABC’s Nightline, shortly after NASA’s rover Curiosity landed on Mars, Musk said that he sought to put a human being on Mars in “12 to 15 years.”
“I’m confident at this point,” the South African entrepreneur said at the time, “it can be done.”
For now, SpaceX is shuttling cargo to and from the international space station, the first private company to do so. Spacex has yet, however, to shuttle a human being into outer space and back.
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Mercury is the least known of the terrestrial planets. Until the recent departure of the "Messenger"Mission" (due to arrive in about 6 years) only one flyby mission (Mariner 10) provided any detailed imagery.
The fairly good quality images returned indicate Mercury is more like the Moon than the other planets, but with some interesting differences. Mercury seems to show geomorphic features that can be attributed to "weathering" and "erosion" by the outflow of solar radiation. In addition, many Mercury surface features appear similar to those of the lunar surface except that they appear to be older. The comparison raises intresting questions regarding lunar history.


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On a regional level, climate change has serious impacts on the environmental, societal and economic worlds. Hand-in-hand with this will be an inevitable shift in forest site conditions in the next decades with serious implications for sustainable forest management. Climate Change and Temperate Forests discusses regionalized climate change impacts, forest yields, forest diseases, biodiversity, water resources and how to best preserve the multitude of forest goods and services.
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According to Survivor Corps, Russia has dropped cluster bombs on civilian areas in the neighboring country of Georgia, killing at least 11 civilians and wounding dozens more. According to Survivor Corps:
On August 7, 2008, Russia began an armed offensive against Georgia over South Ossetia, a region long recognized as part of Georgia but home to an ethnic minority with close ties to Russia.
Russia’s Use of Cluster Munitions is the first known use of the weapon since 2006, when they were used during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The extremely high number of civilian deaths attributed to cluster munitions in that conflict initiated an international movement to ban cluster munitions, called the Oslo Process.
Cluster munitions are large weapons which are deployed from the air and from the ground and release dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions. Submunitions released by air-dropped cluster bombs are most often called “bomblets,” while those delivered from the ground by artillery or rockets are usually referred to as “grenades.”
Why should we care? Why should we be concerned about cluster bombs? The problems with cluster bombs are many:
Air-dropped or ground-launched, they cause two major humanitarian problems and risks to civilians. First, their widespread dispersal means they cannot distinguish between military targets and civilians so the humanitarian impact can be extreme, especially when the weapon is used in or near populated areas.
Many submunitions fail to detonate on impact and become de facto antipersonnel mines killing and maiming people long after the conflict has ended. These duds are more lethal than antipersonnel mines; incidents involving submunition duds are much more likely to cause death than injury.
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SHEFFIELD, England, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Stem cells have been used to restore hearing in animals for the first time, a huge step toward treating deafness in humans, British researchers say.
Scientists at the University of Sheffield said hearing partially improved in gerbils when nerves in the ear which pass sounds into the brain were rebuilt using stem cells, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Achieving the same amount of improvement in people could lift hearing levels from being unable to hear traffic to hearing a conversation, they said, although they caution treating humans with stem cells remains a distant prospect.
In some people, profound hearing loss occurs when nerve cells that should pick up electrical signal produced in the ear are damaged.
The goal of the University of Sheffield researcher was to replace those nerve cells, called spiral ganglion neurons, in gerbils with new ones created with stem cells.
The researchers detected the improvement in the animals' hearing by measuring brainwaves.
On average, 45 percent of their hearing range was restored by the end of the study, researchers said.


Experts believe they may have found a way to prevent high risk babies from developing type 1 diabetes.
The idea is to train infants’ immune systems by giving them powdered insulin to offer life-long protection.
Insulin is the hormone that controls blood sugar, which goes awry in diabetes.
Pregnant women visiting maternity clinics in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire are being asked to sign up to the trial.
Parents that take part will be asked to give their children insulin powder daily from the age of about six months until they are three years old.
They will have visits from the research team to monitor the child’s health.
Half of the study participants will be given the real insulin while half will get a placebo powder containing no drug.
Neither the researchers nor participants will know which they received until after the trial so as not to bias the results.
Type 1 diabetes
It is thought about one in every 100 babies has genes that put them at increased risk of developing type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes.
Experts say a heel prick blood test that is routinely done on newborns to spot other conditions could also detect these genes.
The researchers, from Oxford University, want to screen 30,000 babies in this way to find eligible ones for their trial.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44777939


About one in 150 people will develop severe illness. Those symptoms include high fever, headaches, neck stiffness, stupor, disoriented, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. Meanwhile, up to 20 percent of people who get sick have much milder symptoms. They include fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting, rash or swollen lymph glands. And here's the important fact to prevent panic. Approximately 80 percent of people who are infected, say four out of every five, will not show any symptoms at all.


Also the following facts are found in the elements of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
1) Two times its base length compared with its height forms a great approximation of number π: 22/7 (Theorems 2 and 4), 2) It forms the golden ratio with Kepler Triangle with all of its sides (Theorem 5 and Image 38), 3) In the King’s Chamber the fact holds that any non-negative integer divisible by 3 can be divided into the legs of right triangle (Key-triangle) with ratio 1 : 2, and when comparing the sum of the shorter leg and the hypotenuse against the longer leg, the result is always the golden ratio (Theorem A and Lemma a), 4) The height of the King’s Chamber forms a great approximation of number √5 (Table 2 and Image 5), and 5) The Pyramid itself matches perfectly with the dimension of the Earth, the Moon and the Sun (Theorem 6 and Image 39).
Modern-day science argues that all of these statements are simply a coincidence and not deliberate. Can we afford this kind of narrow thinking?
- House of Truth | Totuuden talo (2016). Finnish website. URL: http://houseoftruth.education/fi/opetus/kurssit-ja-luennot/pyha-geometria/pii-ja-kultainen-leikkaus-gizan-suuren-pyramidin-kuninkaan-kammiossa
- Totuudentalo, Iisakki (former Isa Av'ain). Mona Lisa - Image of God. Createspace, 2016. House of Truth. URL: http://houseoftruth.education/en/teaching/mona-lisa


A comprehensive understanding of a client’s presenting problems depends on the use of multiple types of assessment models. Each model gathers different information based on theoretical perspective and intent. An assessment that focuses on one area alone not only misses vital information that may be helpful in planning an intervention, but may encourage a biased evaluation that could potentially lead you to an inappropriate intervention. When gathering and reviewing a client’s history, sometimes it is easier to focus on the problems and not the positive attributes of the client. In social work, the use of a strengths perspective requires that a client’s strengths, assets, and resources must be identified and utilized. Further, using an empowerment approach in conjunction with a strengths perspective guides the practitioner to work with the client to identify shared goals. You will be asked to consider these approaches and critically analyze the multidisciplinary team’s response to the program case study of Paula Cortez.
For this Assignment, review the program case study of the Cortez family.
In a 2- to 4-page paper, complete a comprehensive assessment of Paula Cortez, utilizing two of the assessment models provided in Chapter 5 of the course text.


Global warming is causing widespread glacier retreat, with small glaciers disappearing. We investigate changes in glaciers over the western Lenglongling mountains, located in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Glacier extent over the western Lenglongling mountains is estimated by comparing digitized glacier outlines obtained from aerial photographs and satellite imagery. These results suggest that all 179 glaciers in the western Lenglongling mountains shrunk between 1972 and 2007. The total area loss was ~24.4 km2, accounting for ~28.3% (0.81% a-1) of the glacierized area in 1972. The average area retreat rates differ over different time intervals: they are approximately 0.68, 0.90, 0.77 and 0.56 km2 a-1 over the periods 1972-95,1995-99,1999-2002 and 2002-07, respectively. Based on analysis of meteorological data, glacier shrinkage in the study area can probably be attributed to the increase in air temperature. Furthermore, the smaller glaciers display a higher shrinkage rate than larger glaciers, and glaciers on southwest-facing slopes appear to retreat faster than those on northeast- facing slopes.


1. locate and evaluate five web sites related to your curriculum project.
2. For each web site, answer
the following questions:
Identify the name of the internet site.
What is the web address (uRL) of this internet site?
What "Rating" have you assigned this web site? Why?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of this web site?
Is the information on this site based upon theory/research?
How can this site be used by the family life educator?
3. Attach a copy of the home page for each site visited.
4. Approximate length: one to one and a half pages per site
5. To assign a rating to each site, Use the evaluation guidelines at:


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In Act II, scene i, Brutus is found pacing in the garden, troubled by his thoughts of Caesar and the possible ramifications of Caesar's reign, once crowned. It is while Brutus is pacing that Lucius brings Brutus several letters written by contemporaries of Brutus, all urging Brutus to act against Caesar, and to act quickly. These letters, left by Cinna according to the wishes of Cassius, prompt Brutus into agreement with the other conspirators, and Brutus ends up as the leader of the band of plotters. These letters provide the impetuous to finally drive Brutus to action, and to joining the conspirators.
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Kevlar is a type of synthetic fiber that is used in the manufacture of tires and other rubber products. It is designed for high-stress applications and has superior resistance to heat and wear. The strength of Kevlar is far greater than any other reinforcing material. Kevlar has also been used for bulletproof vests and in the aerospace industries. Like anything else, it can become damaged and dirty over time. Cleaning Kevlar may be necessary to get it looking brand new once again.
Lay clean towels on a flat surface and set the Kevlar on top. Space out the materials so that nothing is overlapping and the towels are underneath everything.
Wipe down the Kevlar with a clean rag. Dampen the rag and pour a little dish soap on it. The goal is to remove any visible dirt and debris from the surface of the Kevlar. Scrub the entire area and get up what you can. Dry off the Kevlar with another clean rag, making sure to get inside all of the crevices.
Pour an oxygen bleach, such as OxiClean, onto a clean rag and scrub the surface of the Kevlar. This should remove any remaining dirt, grease and debris from the surface. Flip the Kevlar over and clean all the sides. Continue until the surface is completely clean.
Wipe down the area with a damp rag to remove any oxygen bleach residue. Soak up the water with a clean, dry rag until there is no moisture remaining.


Today, we talk about oblique aerial imagery. What are oblique images? When should you shoot oblique images?
Our caller is wondering about the difference between obliques and orbits. We also point out the difference between nadir and oblique imagery. Do weather conditions affect the quality of your mapping data? Drone U members can learn more about this topic in our Intermediate Mapping class. Thanks to Cord for the question. Fly Safe!
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Over the previous couple of decades, software program engineering, and web development have grown exponentially by way of popularity. A computer programming language is a language used to put in writing pc applications , which includes a computer performing some kind of computation 5 or algorithm and presumably management exterior gadgets such as printers , disk drives , robots , 6 and so forth. For example, PostScript programs are incessantly created by one other program to manage a computer printer or show.
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Lying between machine languages and excessive-stage languages are languages known as meeting languages Meeting languages are similar to machine languages, however they are much simpler to program in as a result of they permit a programmer to substitute names for numbers.
The earliest computers had been often programmed without the help of a programming language, by writing packages in absolute machine language The applications, in decimal or binary kind, have been read in from punched playing cards or magnetic tape or toggled in on switches on the front panel of the pc.
Statically typed languages might be either manifestly typed or kind-inferred In the first case, the programmer must explicitly write types at certain textual positions (for example, at variable declarations ). In the second case, the compiler infers the varieties of expressions and declarations primarily based on context.…


Location: Invasive Plant Research Laboratory
Project Number: 6032-22000-011-58
Start Date: Oct 22, 2013
End Date: May 06, 2014
The methods will follow standard protocols that include foreign surveys for adapted herbivores from Southeast Asia and risk assessment studies of these species to determine their safety in preparation for approval to release from state and federal regulatory agencies. Molecular taxonomy will be undertaken to help identify the origin of the USA populations of the weed. Molecular techniques will also be used to supplement laboratory research to separate closely related species if they occur and to compare the insects found in different locations in Southeast Asia. Field surveys will include monitoring of non-target plant species growing with Rhodomyrtus in the field for any evidence of activity by targeted insects. Because of the relatively widespread occurrence of the plant in Southeast Asia, surveys will cover a range of climatic and site variables. Experienced local botanists and entomologists will be consulted wherever appropriate and identified specimens will be lodged in local collections. Evidence of parasitism of prospective agents will be investigated and this will supplement information on any seasonal variations of herbivore populations observed during regular surveys. Identification of specimens will rely on local specialists as well as group experts in the USA, particularly at the USDA/ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), Beltsville, Maryland.


Because doing physics in space can produce some rarely-seen results, NASA astronaut Don Pettit conducted Space Balloonacy experiments, documented on video while aboard the International Space Station in 2011 and 2012. In this Science Off the Sphere video, he’s popping balloons in microgravity. Space Balloonacy!
So here’s the test — think about what you think will happen in this scenario. Will the water stay exactly where it was pre-pop, or will it move? If you think it will move, why would it move?
There are Science Off the Sphere videos galore at PhysicsCentral.com.
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This listening resource is based on an animated video clip on the site 1jour1actu.com. It is designed to give AS/A-level students practice with authentic listening on the topic of the resistance during the Second World War. It would make a good introduction to teaching the novel, Un sac de billes, by Joseph Joffo. The questions include vocabulary work, comprehension questions and a summary task. Answers are provided.


Bonds payable are less costly than common stock because the bonds issued by a corporation contain a formal contract to pay the investor a fixed amount of interest every six months and to pay the face or principal amount when the bonds mature. The contract to pay these cash amounts to the investors makes bonds a less risky investment than common stock. Less risk for the investor means the investor will earn a smaller return—and the corporation will have a smaller cost. Some bonds might also provide collateral and some bonds might require that a sinking fund be established to set aside money to pay the bondholders when the bonds come due. These features will further reduce the investor's risk and should further reduce the corporation's cost.
Another reason why bonds are less costly than common stock is that the interest paid by the corporation will be deductible on the corporation's income tax return. If a corporation's combined federal and state income tax rate is 35%, then $100,000 of interest expense will save the corporation $35,000 of income taxes. This means that a corporation's ultimate or net cost of a 10% bond is only 6.5%.


Snow realized this presented a natural experiment, which he wrote about in an 1855 paper: “No fewer than three hundred thousand people of both sexes, of every age and occupation, and of every rank and station, from gentle folks down to the very poor, were divided into two groups without their choice, and, in most cases, without their knowledge.” He is effectively describing randomization, a practice crucial to modern epidemiology, but not widely during Snow’s era. He was just clever enough to realize that he could look back at where cholera occurred the last time it came to London, in 1849, and then wait for the disease to strike again. Prior to the change in water supply, people contracted cholera at roughly similar rates no matter where they got their drinks. If fewer people who sourced their water from the Lambeth Company got sick the second time around, that would suggest it was something in the water that made them ill.
That’s exactly what happened.
Cholera - Outbreak - August - Snow - Data
Another cholera outbreak began in August 1854, and Snow immediately began collecting data. His results showed that folks getting their water from Southwark and Vauxhall, which sourced water from within the city, had a death rate of 315 per 10,000 households. Those with the cleaner Lambeth Company water died at a rate of just 37. The rest of London...


What do you think of when you hear invasive species? Some folks see in their minds garlic mustard and buckthorn choking their woods. Others conjure up images of lakes clogged with Eurasian milfoil. Still others may imagine gypsy moths or emerald ash borers attacking their trees. All these threats and more face landowners and those who spend time in the outdoors.
As a landowner, invasive plants tend to present the most common issues for land management. Some problems have been around for many years, like honeysuckle while others like Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) and Lesser calandine (Ranunculus ficaria) are just beginning to show up on the landscape.
Regardless of the threat, prevention is the best strategy for protecting your land. The Wisconsin DNR recommends, “Be careful of materials brought onto your land, especially soil, mulch, compost and plants. They may come with unseen roots, seeds or invasive earthworms.”
Some folks are really deep into controlling invasive species. Each year the Wisconsin Invasive Species Council recognizes individuals and groups that make significant contributions to finding and getting rid of these problems. The Invader Crusader Awards honor professionals, volunteers and organizations that have made a difference across our state. Find out who is making a difference.
To learn more about invasive species in Wisconsin and what you can do to protect your land, keep up regularly with our blog posts, make the Conservation Digest website for conservation management information and check out this article in the Prioritizing Invasive Plants in the current issue of the WDNR Natural Heritage niche magazine.


Benefits and Revenue from the Industry
The oil and natural gas industry does more than meet the energy needs of society. It creates opportunity. It generates employment, boosts local businesses, drives crucial research and development, and promotes education and training, while generating and maintaining sustainable infrastructure.
- More than 5,500 people are directly employed in Atlantic Canada’s offshore oil and natural gas industry (as of year end 2017).
- Cumulative expenditures by the producing sector in Atlantic Canada from 1996 to 2016 total more than $63 billion.
- Cumulative royalties paid to the governments of NL and NS from 1996-2016 total $22 billion.
- The industry supports more than 600 supply and service companies.
Offshore operators pay royalties and taxes to the provincial government in the province in which they operate. These payments directly support provincial government programs, and contribute to crucial services and infrastructure such as transportation, education and health care.
In addition, oil and natural gas activity leads to economic benefits for other industries, such as (but not limited to) construction and retail. Several years ago a study was conducted to better understand the socio-economic benefits of oil and natural gas industry activity in Newfoundland and Labrador. That study found that industry activity resulted in major socio-economic benefits, including significant increases to personal income and labour income, new housing starts in the province, and significant indirect and induced employment.
Oil and natural gas companies also make major investments in research and development, education and training in Atlantic Canada. These investments have helped Atlantic Canada develop an expertise in developments in arctic and harsh environments as well as environment, health and safety in cold-water environments.


Our method is based on the Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the IBO, which stipulates an interdisciplinary and research-based approach to teaching. This approach is supplemented by practical experience and learning through play, in accordance with the Berlin education program.
Our approach is based on the fact that children absorb knowledge more readily when they have a tangible outcome of their experiments with learning, are active, and are integrated into the learning process. This active research is of course supervised by trained educators in order to ensure that the theory behind the practical experience is communicated in an age and situation-appropriate manner.
Ongoing teacher training, planning relevant trips and partnerships, equipping classrooms with resources for the relevant projects, and integrating offline and online media to supplement project work, are all ways to guarantee that meaningful learning takes place.
We draw on the immersion concept when it comes to teaching our languages of instruction, German and English. Each class is taught by native speakers of German and English, who use only their native language to communicate with the students. With this method, the students learn the language through direct immersion and are well-prepared for language demands of the Primary School.


Definitions for join forces
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collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together(verb)
work together on a common enterprise of project
"The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group"
The numerical value of join forces in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
The numerical value of join forces in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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If we join forces and get active in markets such as Asia or Africa, we can all benefit from our combined strength.
This clearly proves that all countries, both developed and developing ones, recognize that they need to join forces to prevent the climate crisis.
It's about collaboration, to make the good research and innovations available to the masses, scientists, industry leaders, foundations and the public have to join forces.
In recent times, in the face of incursions again and again by strong foes, the Chinese people have never yielded, continuing to join forces, taking up positions as those in front fall, tenaciously struggling, swearing to fight to the end.
We decided to join forces early on to make optimum use of our strengths in wind farm design, offshore project management, financing and technology, we have substantial offshore expertise in the North Sea (and) ... managing large projects.
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Liatris mucronata blooms between August and December. It grows about two and a half feet tall in prairie or open woodlands. It will tolerate sandy or gravely clay or limestone soils, and it is found throughout Texas.
Normally, Asteraceae flowers have central disk flowers and ray flowers arranged about the perimeter of the disk. The petals of the ray flowers are the colorful, distinctive portions of the flowers in the sunflower family.
Narrowleaf Gayfeather is different from its sunflower-like cousins because it produces no ray flowers and only 3-6 disk flowers per flower head. Furthermore, Gayfeather produces its distinctive purple flower heads in a cluster or spike at the end of a long stem.
In addition, the flower heads mature at the top of the spike before the lower ones. This can be seen in the closeup of the flower spike above. Notice near the top of the spike, you can see withered flowers projecting from the green stem that joins the compound flower to the spike. You can also see a single floret with four petals open near the top, right of center. The long pink tube extending from the center is the top of the pistil, the female portion of the floret.
The flower spike of Gayfeather is reminiscent of the feather plumes used to decorate hats once upon a time; hence the name, Gayfeather. Personally, I think they look like a bottle brush. Their hot pink florets, tall flower spike, and narrow straight edged leaves are the characters that distinguish these plants from other wildflowers. They appear late in the year when everything else has gone brown and add vibrant color to an otherwise dull landscape.


Social policy issues often present themselves initially as something which doesn’t seem fair but, before embarking on work to make changes, it is important to establish that the policy, law, or practice in question
- affects a substantial number of people,
- has a disproportionate effect on a small group of people, particularly where they belong to a minority or oppressed group.
In addition, the likelihood of a campaign’s success will depend largely on applying the best approach to the problem and ensuring that it is something successfully achieved as a result of campaigning.
Types of social policy action
- bringing issues to the attention of policymakers in government, local authorities, ombudsmen, public bodies, trade bodies, financial institutions and regulators
- responding to consultation documents
- lobbying MPs or presenting an e-petition for a House of Commons debate
- publicising the issue in the national or local media or social media to gather momentum, evidence or support for a campaign
- provide evidence and/or support to an existing campaign


How essential is the setting to the short story, "The Storm"?
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Kate Chopin's setting of the area around New Orleans, Louisiana, is an area rich in French and Spanish heritage, and Calixta, an Acadian, possesses the strong passions that match the turbulent weather of her environment. In fact, the storm that rises in the sky is a metaphor for the rising passions of the two main characters, Calixta and Monsieur Alcee, two people who have met each other previously. Although their encounter was charged with passion, the gentleman Alcee was forbidden by his honor to "prevail" upon her innocence at that time.
Now, however, caught in the violent storm alone after two years, the violence of their passions--heretofore unrealised--explodes in a maelstrom fo emotion,
They did not heed the crashing torrents, and the roar of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber....The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
And, just as the tempest subsides, Calixta and Alcee are both refreshed as is nature by the rains. Clearly, the passions of the two lovers parallels the turbulent energy of the storm, that rises and ebbs. Indeed, the setting of the tropical environment of Louisiana with its cyclones and tempests is essential for the moments of violent emotions and renewed passions ignited in the lovers.
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G is for Garden. Also, g is for garden.
We have been working on lowercase letter recognition lately. This weeks letter was “G”. To go along with “G” we talked about gardening. Seeds, plants and growing things. To connect the letter, the sound and theme together we made “G” gardens.
- Brown Paper
- Glue Stick
- Elmer’s glue
1. Draw a upper and lower case G in block lettering on brown construction.
2. Cover each letter with glue using a glue stick.
3. Press soil onto glue in both upper and lower case G’s.
4. Place dots of school glue sporadically over the dirt.
5. Place seeds on glue dots to simulate planting seeds in a garden.
We talked about “g” words that had to do with gardening, adding the words to the page around the letters as we said them, using both upper case and lower case g’s. This was a great way to talk about seeds and how different seeds grow into different plants. We used bell pepper seeds, pole bean and snap pea seeds, carrot seeds and a few other left over seeds from previous years gardens.
This was a great activity that the girls enjoyed and it made “G” and “g” very memorable for the girls.
Books we used with our garden theme:


History of the King James Bible
An exciting documentary that unfolds the fascinating "untold" history of the Bible, revealing critical information often overlooked in modern histories. Enter into a world of saints and martyrs battling against spies, assassins and wolves in sheep's clothing.
Throughout the Middle Ages, the Papal Inquisition forbade biblical translation, threatening imprisonment and death to those who disobeyed. Learn the stories of valiant warriors of the faith, such as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, the ancient Waldenses, Albigenses and others who hazarded their lives for the sake of sharing the Gospel light with a world drowning in darkness.
Once the common people were able to read the Bible, the world was turned upside down through the Protestant Reformation. The Reformers subdued whole kingdoms by preaching the grace of God, and exposing the unbiblical doctrines of Rome. In response, the Vatican would launch a Counter Reformation to destroy the work of the Reformers, including the bibles they produced.
Produced by Chris Pinto of Adullam Films - A Christian Film Ministry
Read along while you listen. Click the KJV Online Link above to open a new page
William Tyndale Movie
A Lamp in the Dark
John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, reformer, seminary professor at Oxford. Wycliffe's followers were known as Lollards.


Video editing lets you explore your creative side in many different ways, but for beginners and outsiders alike, it is an element in the process of filmmaking that is often misunderstood.
Even with its creative potential, there are certain cuts every editor should be familiar with.
Standard, L and J cuts are the basics cut in video editing. Jump and montage are used less often, but they are very effective in showing the change in time, place or persons.
Some cuts like cutaways are very useful in covering problems in your original footage, and serve often as a filler.
- J-cuts and L-cuts tie scenes together by moving some audio from one shot into the other.
- Cutaways are used to the viewer understand the characters’ environment or just cover up errors in footage.
- Cutting on action requires sufficient shot coverage to work with.
“Whether you’re editing on Premiere, Final Cut Pro X, Resolve, or Avid, editing is littered with important decisions that will benefit your story in significant ways or become a huge detriment.”


Located in Skåne , the southern tip of Sweden, 26 km across the sea (Öresund) from Copenhagen, Malmö is Sweden's third largest city. Malmo was chartered as a city during the 13th century, at which time the region belonged to Denmark. In 1658 it passed to Sweden. Originally, Malmö's harbor was poor, and the city served mainly as a herring market until 1775, when the port facilities were improved. After 1800, Malmö began to develop as an industrial city.
Malmö also features many attractions dating back to the Middle Ages. Throughout Skåne there are more than 200 castles and manor houses, many of them open to tourists, and the many inns offer the province´s delectable cuisine.
On the whole Malmö is interesting when it comes to architecture. In the culture quarters of S:t Gertrud one finds the oldest half-timbered house in Malmö, "Thottska huset" built in 1558, and many other historically interesting buildings. The S:t Petri church from the 13th century in Baltic Gothic style has a retable that is one of the largest ones in Europe.


Today the Virginia Historical Society’s exhibition, An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia, opens to the general public and will run through to the end of the year. I am hoping to make the drive to Richmond to check it out at some point very soon.
An American Turning Point is not a top-down study of battles and generals. Instead, the exhibition engages visitors in the experiences of a representative group of individuals and situations to promote an understanding of the wartime experiences of Virginians, and those who served in Virginia, during the war. The stories of the men, women, and children who struggled to survive Virginia’s Civil War can be are found in the fabric of every uniform, the blade of every sword, the handle of every tool, the imagery of every drawing, the words of every letter, and the notes of every song.
The exhibit also reflects much broader changes since the Civil War Centennial surrounding how Americans have come to remember their Civil War. I see this exhibit as a crucial link between the work that historians have done over the past few decades and a general public that has shown strong signs of interest in this crucial moment in American history. Why Did the Civil War Happen? is the subject of the introductory video for the VHS exhibit. Enjoy.


Spiritual Chords, as one of its aims, makes deliberate and careful effort to be a guardian and protector of global health and well being, particularly for those who have no access to such facilities in rural and disadvantaged areas.
In alignment with the WHO Constitution Spiritual Chords believes that the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being. So generating conditions in which everyone can be as healthy as possible is pivotal to Spiritual Chords efforts in this regard. Such conditions range from ensuring availability of health services, healthy and safe working conditions, adequate housing and nutritious food. It also includes access to timely, acceptable, and affordable health care of appropriate quality.
In so doing Spiritual Chords hopes to achieve various outcomes like
reducing infant mortality and ensure the healthy development of the child;
improving environmental hygiene;
creating facilities that give people a chance to prevent, treat and control diseases
creating conditions to ensure access to health care for all.
As such Spiritual Chords global health initiatives include access to safe, clean water, adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, nutrition and housing, healthy occupational and environmental conditions, and access to health-related education and information.
Careful consideration is given to making available functioning public health care facilities, goods and services, as well as programmes that are accessible to everyone.
All health facilities, goods and services must be respectful of medical ethics and culturally appropriate as well as sensitive to gender and life-cycle requirements and medication and essential drugs must be of good quality


At the time the Númenóreans returned to Middle-earth in the Second Age, the River Gwathló followed a course through a densely forested landscape. The woodlands along its banks became the chief source of timber for Númenor, and as such the Elvish river-name Gwathló (meaning 'shaded river from the fen') was translated into the Adûnaic language of Númenor as Agathurush. The logging operations of the Númenóreans ultimately resulted in the lands north and south of the river becoming a wide treeless expanse.
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The objective of this course is to build upon the Signals and Systems fundamentals provided in 18-290 to prepare the students for Digital Communications and Digital Signal Processing courses. This course will introduce students to the important concept of signals with randomness, in particular to the representation of noise and processing to suppress noise and to extract information. The topics to be covered in this course include:
In addition, there will be four lab projects --- the main goal is to illustrate the role of noise in signals and methods to filter out the noise and/or extract information from noisy signals. The labs will be MATLAB-based and will take advantage of the MATLAB toolboxes and demos. Each project will be a 3-week project and students will be expected to turn in working MATLAB code as well as a report that summarizes their experiments, results and conclusions. Some initial project topics are the following, even though this list is expected to evolve.


Multiple studies have been conducted in the last decade to compile more research on the effects of music on the brain. One study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD in 2008 found that the brains of musicians interrupt music and language similarly.
The study recruited jazz piano players aged 25 to 26 to spend 10 minutes in an MRI machine while improvising a piece of music with other musicians in the room outside of the MRI in a process called “trading fours.” Each exchange of music involves the musicians responding. The piano players were given a plastic keyboard to play inside the MRI machine. A mirror was placed inside the machine so the player could view their finger placement on the keys.
Analyzing the results of the MRI scans, researchers found- while improvising – the areas of the musicians’ brains linked to syntax and language processing were activated. These areas are called “the inferior frontal gyrus” and “the posterior superior temporal gyrus” became deactivated during the improvisation sessions.
These findings suggest that the regions of the brain that process syntax are not limited to spoken word language.
“We’ve shown in this study that there is a fundamental difference between how meaning is processed by the brain for music and language,” says Dr. Charles Limb, senior study author and a fellow musician. “Specifically, it’s syntactic and not semantic processing that is key to this type of musical communication. Meanwhile, conventional notions of semantics may not apply to musical processing by the brain.”
Similar studies have found that music has various effects on the brains of non-musicians as well. A 2013 study used MRI to scan the brains of participants as they listened to different genres of music. The study found that music is processed as a “special kind of language, one that works on our emotions rather than our reason”, and that each genre produced different reactions in the brain.


to woody plants include trees, shrubs and bushes.Trees have a well-developed main trunk covered with wood.At a considerable distance from the surface of the branches of the stem is formed krona, which allows the tree to capture light effectively.We are the main trunk of dormant buds, which can be formed from the trunks in the event of major damage.The life expectancy of some trees can reach a thousand years, and its height - one hundred meters.
distinctive feature of shrubs - the presence of several woody stems.In the first years of life there is still a main trunk, but when activated dormant buds.Lifespan shrub rarely reaches a hundred years, averaging around 15. shrubs main axis almost not expressed, it is replaced by lateral axes.The result is a set of bra
nching skeletal axes.During the life of the plant, these axes are constantly replaced.The height of shrubs reach a maximum of half a meter, life expectancy - 10 years.
poludrevesnyh Among the plants can be distinguished shrubs and shrubs.Its characteristics are close to those woody plants, but a large part of the shoot is grass, and then dies.The result is a woody skeleton which acquires new shoots.Poludrevesnye grow mainly in arid areas.
herbs are ground and water.To include terrestrial and polycarpic monocarpic grass.Polycarpic perennial grasses, in their bodies, or the stem roots have specialized kidneys.From these buds the formation of new shoots, life of not less than one year.Polycarpic grass can bloom repeatedly, unlike monocarpic.Monocarpic are perennial, but after flowering and fruiting die.They lack the ability to renewal.
By Water grasses are amphibians, floating and underwater grass.Amphibians are able to form and ground, and the aqueous form.They often have a mix of land and water bodies.They can exist comfortably in marshland and transfer brief drought.Floating and underwater grasses grow only in water.They attach to the bottom, positioned freely in the interior or on the surface of water.


The World Trade Organisation (2 Parts)
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organisation dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters and importers conduct their business. The top most decision-making body of the WTO is the Ministerial Conference. which has to meet at least every two years. It brings together all members of the WTO, all of which are countries or customs unions. The Ministerial Conference can take decisions on all matters under any of the multillateral trade agreements. The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Hong Kong, China, 13-18 December 2005. In general, Ministerial Conferences are the WTO's highest decision-making body, providing political direction for the organisation. This book is covering all the Ministerial Conferences since initiation of WTO. In the first volume of book it has 5 chapters: WTO AN Introduction, Benefit of WTO System, WTO Policies. Multi-lateral Trading System and WTO Members and their Trade Policies. In the second volume we have covered all the Ministerial Conferences; Seattle, Singapore, 9-13 December 1996, Geneva, 18-20 May 1998, November 30-December 3, 1999, Doha, 9-13 November 2001, Cancun, 10-14 September 2003, Hong Kong, 13-18 December 2005.
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We have been learning a lot about electricity and the role it has to play in our lives.
For this week, we'd like you to have a go at the worksheet on circuits. The answer sheet is also part of the .pdf so be careful not to look at that before you have a go at the sheet! If you have circuit resources at home, that's great, but if you don't, you'll have to try and remember what we did in school a few weeks ago when we built our circuits.
When you've finished that, we'd like you to read through the powerpoint about 'insulators and conductors' of electricity. Perhaps you can do some online or book-based research to answer the following questions into your home learning books:
OL: I know the difference between an insulator and a conductor and can give examples of these
- I have read through the powerpoint
- I have jotted notes
- I have researched using key words e.g. insulators and conductors year 4/insulators and conductors KS2
1. How does electricity flow around a circuit?
2. What is a 'conductor'?
3. What is an 'insulator'?
4. What materials make good conductors?
5. What materials are insulators?
6. What materials, found in your house, could you use as a conductor? An insulator?


The late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who practiced falconry from a young age, was a tremendous proponent of the sport of falconry and supported its conservation. He embodied the values of falconry, and practise the sport often. He launched many initiatives to promote the sport, including a falcon release programme and the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital, which has become the largest falcon hospital in the world.
Training involves teaching the falcon to swoop down and attack a feathered training decoy that is tied to a string and controlled by the trainer. As the bird swoops to catch the decoy, the trainer pulls it away. Done time and again, the bird learns to make repeated attempts until it catches its target.
When the bird is ready for live practice, pigeons are used to complete the training.
Both the training process and the sport of hunting requires patience and an understanding of the falconer’s bird. This builds a unique bond and special language between falcon and falconer, and helps teach the important values associated with the sport.
Falconers use special handmade equipment, including a leather hood to cover the head and eyes of the falcon when it is not flying. A wooden stand used as a perch for the bird is comprised of a wide flat top attached to stick that can easily be stuck into sand.
A leather forearm guard is worn by the falconer as a perch for the bird between hunting and training flights.
Today, an essential piece of equipment is the GPS beacon attached to the bird’s leg. This is important, not only because of the bond between falconer and bird, but also because these birds can be quite valuable, with certain birds worth more than AED 73,500 (US$ 20,000)
Celebrating the Sport
The sport of falconry is celebrated across the UAE, with falconry demonstrations having a major role in UAE National Day celebrations and other holidays and heritage events. Falconry also is reflected in literature and music, with the sport and the bird celebrated in poetry, song and stories.


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