LONDON, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Humans and Neanderthals mated in Europe and Asia thousands of years ago to give rise to a legacy of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, a study published on Wednesday confirmed.
Previous theory on the link between the species had claimed that modern Europeans and Asians are related to Neanderthals because they originated from a similar sub-population in Africa.
However, scientists at Edinburgh University and Wageningen University have shown that, the genetic similarity between Neanderthals and modern human populations outside of Africa must have arisen after they began interbreeding in Europe and Asia.
In their new study published in the journal Genetics, they developed a new method to compare the competing theories on the relationship between humans and Neanderthals. They divided the genetic code of each species into a series of short blocks, which allowed them to calculate the statistical likelihood of each scenario.
They have confirmed the origins of the biological ties that exist between humans and the ancient species, which are believed to have died out around 30,000 years ago.
Earlier studies have shown that the two groups emerged at different times, and that Neanderthals left the African continent 200,000 years before humans did.
"Although there has been mounting evidence for genetic exchange between modern humans and Neanderthals in Eurasia from a number of recent genetic studies, it has been difficult to rule out ancestral structure in Africa," Dr. Konrad Lohse of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences said. "We hope our study settles this issue."


New Cities with New Rules
This talk was the first in a series of public discussions of an idea that Romer has been working on for two years.
His economic theory of history explains phenomena such as the constant improvement of the human standard of living by looking primarily at just two forms of innovative ideas: technology and rules.
Technologies rearrange materials with ingenious recipes and formulas. More people create more technologies, which in turn generates more people. In recent decades technology has enabled the “demographic transition” which lowers birthrates and raises income per person even higher as population levels off…
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 Of the shrines, the winged shrine1 is to be placed among fabulous stories. The second is said to have been the workmanship of Trophonius and Agamedes, but the present shrine2 was built by the Amphictyons. A tomb of Neoptolemus is shown in the sacred enclosure. It was built according to the injunction of an oracle. Neoptolemus was killed by Machæreus, a Delphian, when, as the fable goes, he was seeking redress from the god for the murder of his father, but, probably, he was preparing to pillage the temple. Branchus, who presided over the temple at Didyma, is said to have been a descendant of Machæreus.
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Alfred Nobel is a scientist from sweden who invented the dynamite. he lived between 1833 and 1896. He died in San Remo in Italy. During the time he died he had three houses. one in france, italy and sweden. He lived in Karlskoga in Sweden. The only reason that the nobel prize is given out in Sweden is that he had his white russian horses in his stable in Karlskoga.


Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal, infant and child mortality rates in the world. To assess objectively the progress made in the health sector toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the Afghan National Development Strategy objectives, the Ministry of Public Health implemented a modified Demographic and Health Survey to measure maternal mortality and other causes of death in Afghanistan. The study provides national and regional data based on a nationally representative sample of 24,000 households. The study provides the first national baseline of maternal mortality in Afghanistan. Support from UNICEF, UNFPA, and WHO complements the project.


Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan launched an ambitious project last September that aims to make the world disease free within their children's lifetime. Biohub, a $3-billion investment project of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has been working towards this goal.
In a recent Facebook post, Zuckerberg shared a photo of the initiative's science team, and commented on some of the group's goals:
The initiative's science board consists of experts from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF, with Rockefeller neuroscientist Dr. Cori Bargmann taking the lead.
Eradicating all known diseases will take a tremendous amount of research – research that the Biohub partnership has been taking a lead on. It might seem overly ambitious, but the team thinks it is possible considering all of the achievements over the last 100 years.
As Zuckerberg points out in the post:
"Life expectancy has increased by 1/4 year for each year in the past century. If we just continue that progress, average life expectancy will be about 100 by the end of this century – meaning we'll have cured many of the diseases that prevent us from reaching that age today."
Apart from the Infectious Disease Initiative, Biohub is also focused on the Cell Atlas project, a million dollar effort that aims to map all the cells in the human body. Because many of the diseases that plague humans begin at the cellular level, mapping these cells would make it possible to see what happens when disease strikes.
As the company's website states, "these battles must be won, and here at Biohub, we are fighting back."


The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) stores oil in large underground salt caverns. This oil has compositional and thermal gradients induced by geothermal heating from both the bottom surface and side walls. Temperature layering has been recorded in SPR oil caverns, which is hypothesized to be predominantly due to double-diffusive layering that occurs when a stable compositional gradient is heated from below. Initial results of a laboratory experimental program aimed at studying dynamics of such double-diffusive layers in the context of SPR are described in this paper. Of particular interest are the thickness of convecting layers, layer evolution (migration/merging) and conditions for the formation/non-formation of double-diffusive layers.
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Cormorants and shags (Phalacrocoracidae)
Where to see them
During the breeding season at their large Scottish colonies on Orkney, Shetland, the Inner Hebrides and the Firth of Forth. Elsewhere they can be seen commonly around the coasts of Wales and South West England (especially Devon and Cornwall).
When to see them
All year round
What they eat
Fish and occasionally crustacea and molluscs.
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Does Irving's story show that the desire for wealth was becoming greater than the desire to do the right thing based on religion?
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This story focuses largely on a theme of greed and its negative effects. Tom Walker is known throughout the Charles Bay for his greed, and it is this greed that leads him to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for money. Tom's plight is meant to warn readers not to let greed blind them, for, as is the case in "The Devil and Tom Walker," it can have disastrous consequences. Tom's choices in this story are reflections of his valuing material wealth and financial prosperity over the wellbeing of others. He is more concerned with the loss of his valuable property than he is with the murder of his wife by Old Scratch. He shows no sympathy for those who come to him seeking loans, and instead bleeds them dry. In author Irving's eyes, Tom's values clearly lie in the wrong place, and in the end he is punished for it. You can find this and more at the GradeSaver link below:


Plumber Patrick is here to help your students practice the Uppercase Letter P! Kids learn how to form the letter, they practice tracing and writing. Students learn the occupation that starts with this letter.
Included is the Uppercase Letter P version of the printed letter. Letters are based on Zaner-Bloser handwriting style. This handwriting worksheet has 1/2 inch horizontal ruling and is suitable for second-grade students.


Social and economic disadvantages experienced in early childhood can limit children’s opportunities for health throughout life. These health disadvantages may then be passed across generations. In addition, research shows that early exposure to toxic stress—traumatic experiences such as neglect, abuse, or homelessness—can rewire a child’s brain, with serious health consequences extending into adulthood. Intervening in early childhood can break the vicious cycle of social and health disadvantage into adulthood and across generations.
This fact sheet reviews key elements of successful early childhood programs, estimated savings to society, and known risks of failing to invest in early childhood development.


Based on the beloved comic strip called "Peanuts" by Charles Schultz, A Boy Named Charlie Brown focuses on the comic strip's main character, Charlie Brown. Charlie is an average boy that does not seem to have much luck when it comes to winning anything. His little league loses every game they play, he has trouble flying a kite, and he is getting tired of it. He wonders what it is like to win at something.
One day, they held a spelling bee in his class, and he summons the courage to participate in it. He wins his class spelling bee and moves on to the school-wide one despite a few naysayers that were mocking him. With the help of his beagle, Snoopy, and his best friend, Linus, Charlie wins the school spelling bee, which qualifies him for the national one held in Manhattan. He heads to the national contest with the trusty, beloved blanket that Linus gave him and hopes of winning the national spelling bee.


Today, the US Energy Information Administration announced that California had passed a key milestone, becoming the first state to produce five percent of its annual electricity using utility-scale solar power. This number represents more than a doubling from the 2013 level, when 1.9 percent of the state's power came from utility-scale solar, and means that California produces more electricity from this approach than all of the remaining states combined.
The growth in California was largely fueled by the opening of two 550MW capacity photovoltaic plants, along with two large solar-thermal plants. In total, the state added nearly two GigaWatts of capacity last year alone. The growth is driven in part by a renewable energy standard that will see the state generate 33 percent of its electricity from non-hydro renewables by 2020; it was at 22 percent in 2014.
Other states with renewable standards—Nevada, Arizona, New Jersey, and North Carolina—rounded out the top five. Both Nevada and Arizona obtained 2.8 percent of their electricity from solar; all other states were at one percent or less.
Unfortunately for California, the growth in non-hydro renewables only served to offset the loss of hydroelectric power caused by the state's continuing drought. In fact, total renewable generation (including hydro) has been stable for the last three years after dropping from 2011 levels, solely due to the loss of hydroelectric generation.
As the EIA's figures do not include small solar installations, however, there's a chance that solar has more than offset the loss of hydro. The state doesn't break out residential numbers separately, so it's difficult to tell.
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Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so cowboys from the Lone Star State would love to have you believe.
When it comes to trees, though, California not only has the biggest trees in the world, but the oldest and tallest, too. The Coastal Redwoods of the state’s northwestern rainforest, the Giant Sequoias of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Ancient Bristlecone Pines of Eastern California; each of these hold one of those “World Record” titles.
Though these trees, and the beautiful places that surround them, are often the focus of conversation when the subjects of the Golden State and dendrology cross, they are not the only majestic flora the state has to offer. If one were interested in tree identification, bird watching or simply camping within the bows of shady beauty, they might be hard pressed to find more diversity than this edge of western civilization provides.
We intend to show you the brightest and best of natural California this time around. We’ll skip the southern coast, the cities, the central valleys. Quite honestly, if one were attempting to compare smoggy, bustling Los Angeles or even historic, progressive San Francisco with even one grove of any of these trees, it would be hard for me to imagine the type of person who would prefer the glow of city lights to the awe of standing in these ancients, these giants’ wake. Here’s to hoping you agree.


Mr. G's Computer Basics Unit
Use the information in the Computer Basics Unit PDF and the movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" to answer the questions below.
Microsoft was founded by _______
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak and Steve Ballmer
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
What was the Altair 8800 missing that Microsoft had to offer?
A spreadsheet program
A Virus Checker
An Operating System
What does DOS stand for?
Disk Operating System
Dual Operating System
Dynamic Operations System
None of the above
How much did Microsoft pay for their first operating system
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Reptiles & Amphibians in Mote Park
Despite being so close to the town centre, most British reptile and amphibian species call Mote Park their home.
The lake forms an important breeding ground for the Common Toad, and tiny toadlets can be found crossing the lake’s circular path during the summer evenings.
The grasslands, bathed in the hot summer sun, are a great place to catch sight of our reptiles.
Slow Worms are the most common species, and play an important role in eating the slugs and snails in the park.


Look around your child’s school and you likely won’t see a lot of male teachers, especially in elementary and middle schools. But research shows many kids would benefit from men in the classroom.
The number of men signed up to study education at the University of Utah this fall is about the same low number as it has been historically. A study by MenTeach — an organization whose mission is to increase the number of males working with young children — estimates only about 16 to 18 percent of elementary and middle school teachers nationwide are male. In Utah, state data from 2008-2009 showed just 11 percent of elementary teachers were male.
The director of the Urban Institute for Teacher Education at the University of Utah, Mary Burbank, said as the emphasis in public education shifts from nurturing and development to assessment, more men may enter the field.
“Men and women are equally equipped to respond to that work, but those factors may impact who is going into teaching due to the perception of what the work involves,” she said.
Burbank said many boys and girls would benefit from a male role model, or from the differences in communication and teaching style a man could bring to the classroom.
“Perhaps those specific communication styles that are more inherent for some men, would really resonate with some young boys and young girls in classrooms,” she said.
Reasons for fewer male teachers include the perception that teaching doesn’t pay enough.
“Increasingly, the pay for teaching is commensurate with other professions. But whether that’s beginning to be a draw for men is still an area of question,” Burbank said.
Some also think that it’s a woman’s job. And some men simply desire to do something else.


2014 marks the 600th anniversary of the start of the Council of Constance. The Council was a major event in church politics which made Constance the center of European politics and a meeting place of European cultures in the years 1414-1418. Baden-Württemberg commemorates the anniversary of the world event of the late Middle Ages with a Great State Exhibition. The organizational responsibility was assigned to the Badische Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.
The Exhibition can be viewed from 27 April to 21 September 2014 in the actual building in which events took place in Constance. The Conclave moved into the Merchants Guildhall in 1417 with the intention of not leaving until the church could be united by the successful election of a single Pope. We are in the thick of the historical events in the building now called the Council House, which is a landmark of the city.


What is PHP ? what is MYSQL ? Well PHP is a hypertext preprocessor!!!
mmm, what does it mean ?
Welcome everybody to this PHP series where we will be learning a lot about what PHP is, If you have no idea what PHP is and you just either you’re being forced to learn it for a job or you want to learn it or you accidentally I’m going to explain what this is .
So PHP is a programming language it’s what’s known as a server-side just like Java or C or C++, C# etc.. , So mainly PHP is used to develop websites it can be used to create a shell programs through shell applications through the command line but we’re not going to be getting into that so we’re going to be developing websites with PHP.


Paul Daniel Marriott
Guide to Historic Roads
In 2008, the Fitch Foundation awarded a Fitch Mid-Career Research grant to Paul Daniel Marriott to research and write a new guide to assist state and tribal historic preservation offices, as well as local governments and historic road advocates, with the historical background, strategies and tools to better identify and preserve our nation’s historic rooad. The Preservation Office Guide to Historic Roads: Clarifying Preservation Goals for State Historic Preservation Offices, Establishing Preservation Expectations for State Transportation Departments is available online at: www.historicroads.org.
Henry Hudson Drive, Palisades Interstate Park, New Jersey Almost immediately after the New Jersey Palisades were protected from devastating quarrying operations by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission in 1900, discussions were underway to develop a great scenic “driveway” along the Hudson River. The Henry Hudson Drive, a segment of a proposed great scenic drive from New York to Albany (that included Storm King Highway, 1914), opened to great acclaim in 1921. (Credit: Dan Marriott)


The Body; Health , Should/ Shouldn`t
To provide clarification and practice of should/shouldn`t in the context of health problems
To provide practice of Health; Body in the context of illness
Procedure (45-59 minutes)
Ask: When was the last time you were ill? Where did you hurt? Make ss to name part of their bodies. Ss look at the picture and match words and body parts.
Ask: What do you do when you`ve got a cold? Do you go to work/ school, stay at home and rest or go to the doctor/ take some medicine? What do you do when you are ill? 2B Ss look at the words in the box and match them with photos of people. 2C Ss look at health problems in ex.2B & write them in the correct place in the table. Ss read & write missing words & phrases about health and then listen & check.
Ss read article about cold cures and answer questions. 5A/B Ss look at the sentences, underline the correct one to complete the rules and then compete the table.
Use should + Infinitive to give advice : You should take a medicine. & to recommend : You should see that film.
6A Ss look at health problems words and choose advice from the list with should/shouldn`t .
Ss look at the pictures and find what`s wrong with the people. Ss listen and find correct advice for the health problems. Ss listen and number the pictures Ss listen and find each person`s health problems
Pair-work What do you take for that? Ss ask and answer questions about health. pair work Name the illness Ss take cards and name the illness, then give some advice using should/shouldn`t


Field Guide to the Littoral Forest Trees of South East Madagascar
Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The forests around Tolagnaro, on Madagascar’s southeastern coast, are incredibly rich, with over three hundred endemic tree species. Based on ten years of surveys by leading botanists from the Rio Tinto environmental team, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this illustrated field guide includes short descriptions and photographs useful for field identification. Available in both English and French editions, the book covers all known tree species and is an invaluable tool for conservationists.


This is a reference for the Java classes in packages java.applet, java.awt and java.beans. Unlike other similar works it does not order the class descriptions by package, but instead orders them alphabetically by class name. This is helpful, especially when you are unsure in which package a class is defined.
Each class description presents the API in a style based on that provided by javadoc, but made more suitable for a printed text and supplemented by additional notes and examples. The supplementary material is generally of a very high standard, and contains a lot of useful information. Many of the code examples can also be downloaded over the Web, which will save a lot of re-typing.
Unfortunately, a large number of the AWT classes documented here have been superseded by the now released JFC (Swing) components. I doubt that anyone serious about UI development using Java is now using the AWT components for new work. This means that about a half of this book is now redundant, or at least only of interest for more specialised applications, which is a shame given its quality.
In summary, it cannot be generally recommended; only for those who need to understand the 1.1 AWT in depth.


Welcome to online modules for Advancing the Story, Fourth Edition, by Debora H. Wenger and Deborah Potter.
- Skill-building tutorials, under Exercises, reinforce important concepts and create opportunities for students to practice their journalism skills. Tutorials include honing data-driven storytelling skills, writing focus statements, developing a blog or portfolio, and creating a newscast lineup.
- Carefully selected multimedia resources, under Explore, feature relevant interviews, tips for success from those in the field, important research findings, and other content for use in independent or classroom-based explorations of key topics.
- Examples of high-quality work produced by other journalists, under Discover, allow students to learn from the best and review sample online projects, slide shows, TV news stories, and print articles.


Immigrants to Canada Database
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announced the launch of an online database, Immigrants to Canada.
The database contains Canadian immigration records held at LAC, many of which relate to immigrants from the British Isles arriving in Quebec and Ontario; also included are references to settlers in other provinces. Through this new database, researchers can access references to lists of immigrants and other types of records created before 1865, such as declarations of aliens and names of some Irish orphans.
The database can be viewed here:


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The limbic cortex is that part of the cerebral cortex of the brain thought to play a role in emotion. It includes the temporal pole, insula, cingulate gyrus, retrosplenial cortex, parahippocampal gyrus and perirhinal cortex, as well as the caudal orbital and medial prefrontal regions.
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LIDAR system, which stands for “Light Detection and Ranging”, means that it sends out a light signal and waits for the signal to return. “LiDAR” is basically a remote sensing method that uses laser or light for measuring. In the mapping industry, although complex objects or areas cannot be measured, it is very much involved in classical construction stages.
How does LiDAR work?
This technology uses light to detect objects to create a digital point cloud. Installation of this technology is usually equipped with an airplane, drone, or helicopter. It is transmits laser beams that are repeatedly pulsed, or shot, in various directions in a given environment. Once these lasers meet a surface and return to the sensor, data points are logged. These points combine with GPS data as well as (IMU) or inertial measurement to generate a point cloud. After that, a number of products can be produced by professionals including 3D models that can be rendered to reflect the scanned environment. The takeaway, it uses light for remote sensing.


How many syllables are in abecedary? 5 syllables
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Klasing K. 2007. Nutrition and immunity: vitamins and minerals. In Ward A, Hunt A, Maslanka M, Eds. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Zoo and Wildlife Nutrition, AZA Nutrition Advisory Group, Knoxville, TN.
Infectious diseases impinge on animal health and welfare. Appropriate nutrition may aid in minimizing the incidence of infectious diseases by optimizing immunity. Formulating diets that optimize immunity requires knowing the specific cellular mechanisms by which nutrients affect immunity, and how these mechanisms pertain to specific nutrients and pathogens. Understanding the nuances of nutrition and immunity is important because higher dietary levels of some nutrients is not always better and a nutritionist can do harm to immunity and animal health by over fortification.Klasing – Nutrition and Immunity.pdf     847 KB


Agency Fee means the normal charges imposed by the Agency on an applicant or a project occupant to compensate the Agency for the Agency's participation in a project. The term "Agency fee" shall include not only the Agency's normal Administrative fee, but also may include (1) reimbursement of the Agency's expenses, (2) rent imposed by the Agency for use of the property of the Agency, and (3) other similar charges imposed by the Agency.
Agency Fee means the normal charges imposed by the Agency to an Applicant or a Project occupant to compensate the Agency for the Agency’s participation in the Project. The term “Agency Fee” shall include not only the Agency’s normal Administrative Fee, but also may include:
Examples of Agency Fee in a sentence
The Agency Fee is calculated as the Agreed Percentage from the aggregate gross Goods Price earned by the Partner from the Orders placed through the Bolt Food Platform during a particular reference period.
More Definitions of Agency Fee
Agency Fee means the fee payable by the Partner to Bolt per every event of sale of the Partner’s Goods through the Bolt Food Platform for the provision of agency services to the Partner. Agreed Percentage is the percentage agreed in the Special Terms that serves as the basis for the calculation of the Agency Fee.
Agency Fee means the agency fee agreed to by Borrower and Administrative Agent pursuant to the Fee Letter.
Agency Fee means the fees that the Borrower shall pay to the Agent in consideration of the Agent Services, as separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Agent.


edited by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Susan A. Gelman
What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general problem-solving device that approaches all questions in much the same way. Chomsky's theory of language, which revolutionised linguistics, challenged this claim, contending that children are primed to acquire some skills, like language, in a manner largely independent of their ability to solve other sorts of apparently similar mental problems. In recent years researchers in anthropology, psychology, linguistic and neuroscience have examined whether other mental skills are similarly independent. Many have concluded that much of human thought is 'domain-specific'. Thus, the mind is better viewed as a collection of cognitive abilities specialised to handle specific tasks than a general problem solver. This volume introduces a general audience to a domain-specificity perspective, by compiling a collection of essays exploring how several of these cognitive abilities are organised.


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Ignacy Oziewicz (Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ ɔˈʑevit͡ʂ]; pseudonyms: Czesław, Czesławski, Netta, Jenczewski; 1887 – 1966) was a Polish military general. During the First World War, he served in the Russian Tsarist army in various NCO and officers' posts. In 1919, he joined the Polish Army.
During the September Campaign he commanded the 29th Infantry Division. After its defeat, he was interned in Lithuania. Later, he managed to escape from a camp and returned to Poland where he joined the underground movement.
Honours and awards
- Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross
- Cross of Valour, 4 times
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Gold Cross of Merit
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N.P.K 3-5-10 + Trace Elements
Planting Depth: As a general rule (unless otherwise instructed) plant bulbs at a Depth about 2 times the size of the bulb. For example a Tulip bulb 3-4cm across should be planted 6-8cm deep. Bulbs are best planted in bold groups.
Bulb Food – How much to use:
Larger Bulbs – Daffodils, Tulips, Hyacinths, Liliums and Dahlias allow one handful (100grams) per 3 – 5 bulbs.
Medium Bulbs – Freesia, Crocus, Allium, Iris, Gladioli and Begonias etc, allow one handful per 8 – 10 bulbs.
Small Bulbs – Anemone, Ranunculus, Muscari and Sparaxia etc, allow one handful per 15 – 20 bulbs.
Remember to mix bulb Food in the soil at planting depth before placing the bulbs. An extra top dressing before flowering is beneficial.
Bulbs are heavy feeders and love their specially prepared food.


When It is not possible to construct the tabular content by using HTML
 tag for any reason then they are called as custom tables. On the similar lines, when we cannot use the HTML
 tag then it is obvious that descendants of the HTML table cannot be used. When I say descendants then what does it mean with respect to the HTML
 tag. The descendants of HTML
 tag could be ,
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, <tfooter>,
 and so on.. in other words, authors cannot use all the mentioned descendants unless HTML
 tag is being used to construct the tabular content. Each descendant conveys some or other semantical information to the assistive technology users. Let me talk more about <t> descendant.  tag conveys the semantical information to the assistive technology users that it is a cell. Unfortunately, custom tables are constructed with
 and  tags. Divs and spans do not convey the any semantical information to the assistive technology users and this is a problem.
In order to address this problem, aria 1.1 introduced table and cell roles. To provide the semantics to the custom table, author must provide Table role to the entire container. Similarly, to provide the cell semantics in the custom table, author must provide cell role. Cell role is related to gridcell and It is equivalent of HTML . All the context that I made about the tables is related to the static tables but not related to interactive tables. To be very clear and precise, cell role must be used only for static tables that are having table role.
- Authors MUST ensure elements with role cell are contained in, or owned by, an element with the role row.

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Britannica Web sites
Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
- Woody Guthrie - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1912-67). The most famous of the more than 1,000 songs he wrote is ’This Land Is Your Land’, a composition taken up as an anthem by the civil rights and anti-Vietnam movements of the 1960s. By the time of his early death, Woody Guthrie had become the most legendary of modern American folksingers. His son Arlo and associates such as Pete Seeger have helped keep his music and memory alive.


The Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, a program of Milwaukee Jewish Federation, held a weeklong workshop for Wisconsin educators from July 12-16.
“Navigating the Holocaust: Your Compass to Holocaust Education,” reached educators from nearly 40 Wisconsin school districts, said HERC Executive Director Samantha Abramson.
The week of virtual programming included experts and guest speakers, and participants were shown HERC’s Holocaust Education Map, a digital toolkit for educators with more than 100 lesson plans.
Speakers included fiction author and educator Dr. Danny M. Cohen, who discussed engaging students with Holocaust education. Historian, curator and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dr. Rebecca Erbelding led a talk showcasing the virtual exhibition, “Americans and the Holocaust,” which explored what Americans knew and how they responded to the Holocaust as it happened.
The workshop covered Wisconsin’s new Holocaust education mandate and the resources available to support educators; best practices for teaching about the Holocaust; specific content related to the Holocaust; and other topics.


Rembrandt's Religious Etchings
Rembrandt, one of the greatest interpreters of biblical stories, turned to the Bible as a source of inspiration for his etchings throughout his career, but particularly during the 1650s. He depicted not only scenes from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha but also stories found in the New Testament, particularly those centered on the life of Christ. He always demonstrated a remarkable empathy for the human dimension of these accounts, whatever their theological implications. Whether portraying Old Testament patriarchs such as Abraham at moments of spiritual crisis, the Holy Family at rest in a simple dwelling, or Christ preaching, Rembrandt transformed the written word into vividly compelling pictorial language. He made at least two print series, one devoted to the childhood of Christ and one with scenes from Christs life and resurrection, both of which are on view in this room.
A master printmaker, Rembrandt exploited the etching medium to its fullest, finding within it unprecedented opportunities to express both the natural and spiritual qualities of light in his biblical scenes. He often reprinted his plates in new states as he amended his compositions, frequently by adding drypoint to enhance the velvety textures of materials or the deep darks of shaded areas. Rembrandt experimented with the inking and wiping of his copper plates to create tonal effects that would shape the dramatic character of his scenes. For the same reason, he also experimented with different types of papers; in some, the ink penetrated the paper deeply, while in others, it lies largely diffused over the surface.


The images in these pages can be used to give an indication of the detail and size of image a child with a given visual acuity should be able to see.
It is tiring and frustrating to work with images that are only just visible so we advise that children work with images that are at least twice their visual acuity.
You may have Visual Acuity measures for the right eye and left eye separately (monocular) or together (binocular). Generally it is the eye with the best acuity (smallest number at the bottom of the fraction if written in Snellen convention) or the binocular acuity that should be used to decide on suitable image sizes.
To find out what size of image should be seen easily at different distances click on the visual acuity below which matches or approximates to the one you have been given. Picture and letter images are available. Choose the image that is most appropriate for the individual.
For each acuity level several pages of images are presented. The text at the top of the page details whether these images are the minimum size that is likely to be seen or a size that should be easily seen.
Please click on the Snellen/logMAR numbers below to obtain Picture and Letter images:
If you have been given a visual acuity measurement that has a number other than 6 on top of the fraction, click here for information on how to convert this measure.
If you have been given a visual acuity measurement in a different format e.g. 1.0 logMAR or 30 cycles per degree (cpd) click here for information on converting acuities into Snellen fractions.
A variety of picture and letter images are available at each acuity level. The picture images are larger in overall size than the letter images. This is because it is the width of the elements within the picture or letter, rather than the overall size which is important in defining the acuity.


In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications of opera’s founding myth—the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus’s attempt to revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Grover-Friedlander examines instances in which opera portrays an existence beyond death, a revival of the dead, or a simultaneous presence of life and death. These portrayals—in operas by Puccini and other composers and performances by Maria Callas-are made possible, she argues, by the unique treatment of voice in the operas in question: the occurrence of a breach in which singing itself takes on an afterlife in the face of the singer’s death. This may arise from the multiplication of singing voices inhabiting the same body, from disembodied singing, from the merging of singing voices, from the disconnection of voice and character. The instances developed in the book take on added significance as they describe a reconfiguration of operatic singing itself.Singing reigns over text, musical language, and dramatic characterization. The notion of the afterlife of singing reveals the singularity of the voice in opera, and how much it differs categorically from any other elaboration of the voice. Grover-Friedlander’s examples reflect on the meanings of the operatic voice as well as on our sense of its resonating, unending, and haunting presence.Traditionally, opera kills its protagonists, but Grover-Friedlander argues that opera at times also represents the ways that the voice, singing, or song acquire their own forms of aliveness and indestructibility. Operatic Afterlives shows the ultimate power that opera grants to singing: the reversal of death.


The first games to open to the entire African continent occurred a full forty years after they were first intended. Pierre de Coubertin, had proposed the first African Games be held in Algiers, Algeria in 1925. The games were never organized. Four years later, Alexandria, Egypt had almost completed preparations for the African Games of 1929 when the colonial powers stepped in to cancel the games, weeks before they were to begin. The colonizers felt the games might serve to unite Africa, and help them break free from their colonial status. The idea of a continental games languished for a time until regional games in West Africa the early sixties paved the way for the first continental games to be held in July 1965.
Foreshadowing what was to become accepted protocol at major international games, and reflecting the continents relative political instability, the Congo-Brazzaville Army was on high alert throughout the games for "malcontents" and "counter-revolutionaries". All highways in and out of Brazzaville were patrolled by armored vehicles and all cars within the city, except for games participants and journalists, were stopped and inspected at major checkpoints.
2500 athletes from 29 nations marched in to the stadium. Avery Brundage, the IOC president attended the games as the IOC's chief observer.
The games success was due in a large part to the emerging African stars, such as Wilson Kiprugut Chuma (silver medalist in the Tokyo 800 meters), Mohammed Gammoudi (silver medalist Tokyo, 10,000 meters), and Kip Keino, Naftali Temu and Mamo Wolde, who would all win medals three years later at the Mexico City Olympic Games.
Men competed in ten sports, women just two; athletics and basketball.
The top medal winning nation was the United Arab Republic, at one time a political union of Egypt and Syria.*
|1965 All-Africa Games Medal Count|
In addition, Senegal won both relay races for men (4x100 metres and 4x400 metres).
| Côte d'Ivoire|


has succeeded in drilling down through over two miles of ice to reach lake Vostok - a large lake under the Antarctic Ice.
Scientists can now begin a search for new life forms. If
life is found in the lake's icy darkness, it may provide the best
answer yet to whether life can exist in the extreme conditions on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa.
Although this is very exciting scientifically there has been concern about possible contamination of samples and pollution of the lake from the anti-freeze and other chemicals used to keep the bore hole open and the drilling machinery working.


Cigar smokers are twice as likely as nonsmokers to get cancer of the mouth, throat and lungs, researchers reported Thursday in the latest warning about the dangers of one of the hottest trends of the '90s.
The smokers also run about 1 1/2 times the risk of all smoking-related cancers together and are more likely to develop heart disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.The study, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, was conducted by Dr. Carlos Iribarren, an epidemiologist at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, Calif., who examined the medical records of 1,546 regular cigar smokers and 16,228 nonsmokers from 1971 through 1995.
Most of the cigar smokers smoked fewer than five a day.
The study expanded on one described by The Associated Press last year, when Iribarren presented data about 225 cigar smokers to the American Heart Association.
The risks aren't as high as they are for cigarette smokers because cigar smokers don't usually inhale the smoke and hold it in their lungs.
Cigarette smokers have about three times as high a risk of coronary heart disease as nonsmokers, 10 times the risk of lung cancer and 20 to 25 times the risk of cardiac lung disease, Iribarren said.
"But our study shows conclusively that there are very serious health consequences associated with chronic cigar use," he said.
Surgeon General David Satcher, who has been trying to get the Federal Trade Commission to require warning labels on cigars like those on cigarettes, said: "Cigar smoking seems to have become a fad. The implication is that people don't think its dangerous. This is more very solid evidence of the dangers of cigar smoking."


Human Movement Science & Functional Anatomy of the:
by Brent Brookbush MS, PES, CES, CSCS, ACSM H/FS
Psoas Image – Gray’s Anatomy 20th Edition via Bartleby.com
- Origin: Ventral surfaces of the transverse processes of all lumbar vertebrae, sides of the bodies and corresponding intervertebral disks of the last thoracic and all lumbar vertebrae, and the membranous arches that extend over the sides of the bodies of the lumbar vertebra (11) Occasionally reference is made to a psoas minor with and origin on the vertebral body of T12 and fusing with the psoas major approximately the level of the femoral head. The psoas minor is not present in everyone.
- Insertion: Lesser trochanter of the femur
- The psoas is bordered posteriorly by the deepest layer of the thoracolumbar fascia and quadratus lumborum, enveloped by fascia arising from the deep layers of the thoracolumbar fascia, and abutting the peritoneum anterioly. The superiorly the fibers of the psoas extend past the diaphragm and invest in the arcuate ligament and inferiorly they pass just anterior the pubic ramus, posterior to the inguinal ligament and lateral to the fascial structure known as the iliopectineal arch.
- Palpating the psoas major is a skilled palpation. With your partner lying supine, flex their hip and knee into hook-lying (crunch) position. Place your leg under their leg so they can completely relax. With finger pads over finger pads palpate an inch or so medial to the ASIS (between naval and ilium). Allow your fingers to slowly depress in the direction of the lumbar spine (slight medial inclination) as they exhale. Make small gentle hook like motions to help overlying


Because the Chesapeake Bay was one of the biggest inland bays in the early US, it has a long history of being served by Lightships.
These early Aids to Navigation were also known by several other names in the early 1800s such as Light Boats, Floating Lights and Light Vessels.
The following are all 17 of the designated Light Stations in the Chesapeake Bay that had a Light Boat or Light Ship assigned to them at any point in time.
These are the officially designated Light Stations by the federal government and were served by federally funded light boats, light vessels or light ships during the years indicated. More information on each station will be posted as developed.
This list is taken from the USCG Historians Web Site.
Bowlers Rock, 1835-1868 LS-C, LV-28 (photo needed w/name)
Bush Bluff, 1891-1914 LV-46, LS-97 (photo needed of 46 w/name)
Cape Charles, 1888-1926 (then Chesapeake) LV-46, LV-49, LS-101
Chesapeake, 1927-1965 LV-80, LV-72, (photos needed) LS-116
Choptank River, 1870-1871 LV-25 (photo needed w/name)
Craney Island, 1820-1859 LS-C (photo needed)
Hoopers Straight, 1827-1867 LV-25 (photo needed)
Janes/James Island, 1853-1867 LV-? (photo needed w/name)
Lower Cedar Point, 1825-1867 LS-DD, LV-24 (photos needed)
Smith Point, 1821-1897 LS-B, LV-23, LV-46 (photos needed)
Tail of the Horseshoe, 1900-1922 LV-71, LV-46 (photo needed of 71
Thirty Five Foot Channel, 1908-1919 LV-45
Upper Cedar Point, 1821-1867 LS-LL, LS-EE, LS-SS, LV-21
Willoughbys Spit, 1820-1872 LS-C, LS-Q, LV-21, LV-23 (photos needed w/name)
Windmill Point , 1834-1869 LS-U, LV-21 (photos needed w/name)
Winter Quarter Shoal, 1874-1960 LV-24, LV-2, LV-37, LV-45, LS-91, LS-107 (photos needed)
Wolf Trap, 1821-1893 LS- S, LS-T, LV-22, LV-46 (photos needed w/name)
York Spit, 1855-1870 LS-T, LV-22, LV-24 (photos needed w/name)


In Memory of the First Technical Writer – 1920 to 2011
Joseph Chapline, 91, died peacefully Monday, August 8, 2011 – the first noted technical writer. In 1949, he wrote the user’s manual for the BINAC computer, making him an innovator in the field, paving the way for new writers looking for work.
Before that time, there wasn’t a great need for technical writers because there weren’t technologies available for people to use. Chapline helped to develop the Binac and Eniac systems, which meant he needed user manuals to help those who wanted to use them too. After creating a large manual on the Eniac system, he realized the value of passing on his knowledge of the process.
At the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Chapline began to offer classes in technical writing, teaching over 200 in his time at the school.
The Story Takes a Strange Turn
While Chapline started the revolution that is technical writing, he didn’t stay in the profession for long. In 1953, he returned to his love of music and was hired as the organist and choirmaster for the Unitarian Church of Germantown in Philadelphia. There, he continued to develop his mastery of music and helped to teach organists.
Perhaps this story has something to tell us about the possibilities of technical writing, maybe not. Perhaps the brain that’s suited to music is also suited to creating complicated documents. After all, isn’t a musical score an assemblage of notes in the right order so that anyone can play them, just as a user manual is a compilation of instructions so anyone can use them?
Chapline knew the answer, and thankfully he passed it on.


We have been hearing more about sugar lately. In the 80s, scientists and doctors recommended to cut down our fat intake in order to avoid heart disease. Consequently, this led to an increase in the consumption of sugar and carbs. Nowadays, scientists are starting to realize that they may have made a mistake and that sugar is the actual culprit behind the epidemic of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis and several other chronic issues.
Refined sugar is empty calorie. There is no nutrients in it, it is just 100% sugar. As a consequence, the body recognizes and processes sugar as it is a toxin. It depletes the tissues from calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc and a variety of other minerals. This leads to the issues mentioned in the first paragraph.
Sugar may or may not include refined table sugar, grains like wheat, corn, rice, etc. and fruits in some cases. How strict you have to be about sugar depends on the severity of your conditions and how long what you have been struggling with them.
After saying this, there is some options out there to sweeten our foods. Stevia is the best sweetener. Then we have coconut sugar, dates, and honey. These are highly rich in vitamins and minerals which help the body in processing and assimilating these sweeteners. The negative impact on the body is greatly reduced.
If you have any comments, please feel free to contact me.
yours in health,


Electrodialysis is an electromembrane process, during which ions are transported through a semipermeable membrane under the influence of an electric field. Electrodialysis has several advantages compared with other methods of liquid purification.
The degree of extraction of pure water reaches 90-95%.
Another significant advantage of electrodialysis is the fact that the membranes of this apparatus are resistant to the action of active chlorine of higher concentrations than the baromembrane desalination plants, which is important in certain industrial processes.
The electrodialysis method is effectively used for:
desalination of sea water in obtaining drinking or technical water
Desalting of liquids containing radioactive elements
desalting sewage of galvanic production
extraction and concentration of valuable inorganic components from wastewater
demineralization of whey
demineralization of raw glycerin
alkali hydrolysis reductions
extraction and return to production of acids and alkalis from sewage after the restoration of ion-exchange resins
removal of tartrates from wine materials, and juices stabilization of pH
purification of pharmaceutical substances
desalting solutions containing organic substances
production of mud solutions for gas and oil wells


George Berkeley (1685–1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was one of the three great British empiricist philosophers. Born near Thomastown, Ireland, he was educated at Kilkenny College and attended Trinity College in Dublin, where he remained as a tutor and lecturer after the competion of his Master's degree in 1707. In 1734, he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. He is best known for his doctrine of immaterialism, the idea that reality has no material existence outside of the mind. Berkeley's major works include An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
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The theoretical approach involves generalizations, and as there are few if any true generalizations in the social sciences, this means generalizations which are approximations of some kind. The difficulties, and attractions, of this approach can best be seen in a classic example provided in the most influential exposition of this approach, Hans Zetterberg’s Theory and Verification in Sociology (1965: 23). The construction of the theory begins with two studies: a social psychology experiment and a study of student voting at Bennington College. In the experiment, students in different groups were given a task of writing a story connecting pictures. Some groups were told that they were "model groups," while other groups were not told this. Those who were told that they were model groups were more likely to agree in the writing of the story (Newcomb, 1943). In the study of student voting, it was found that the students who were voted to represent the college in an intercollegiate meeting were likely to be more affected by the liberal values of their teachers and fellow students than those not selected (Back, 1951).
The theorist seeks some more general formula relating the determinants, i.e. elected by popular vote and told they were a model group, and the outcomes, i.e. being more affected by predominant liberal values and agreeing more in the writing of the story. To generalize the determinants, Zetterberg suggests the following: they received more favorable evaluations. For the outcomes, he suggests: their ideas converged more with other group members. This yields a theoretical formula: “The more favorable evaluations rank and file members receive in a group, the more their ideas converge with those of other group members” (Zetterberg, 1965: 24).
Question: Rethink the Bennington study, but this time come up with a more abstract generalization that fits the findings. Would one be able to find confirmation for this generalization in a different setting as well? Give some possible examples.


|Typical Values||Typical values per 40g***||-|
|(of which sugars)||14.8 g||-|
|(of which saturates)||3.9 g||-|
|(of which beta glucan)||1.4 g||-|
|**Equivalent as Salt||0.3 g||-|
Calories : 730.16 kcal per 100g
Sugar : 37.00 g per 100g
Salt : 0 g per 100g
Fat : 21.50 g per 100g
|Source||link to source of data|
The Estimated Average Requirement for Energy (a prescribed amount to maintain a healthy body weight) for a female age: 25-34 is 2175 kcal 1 (p.83-85)
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) recommends that the maximum proportion of energy from all sugars (intrinsic and added) is: 5% and a strong recommendation of an absolute maximum of 10%
The energy value of a gram of Sugar is 3.8 kcal.1 (p.93)
W.H.O. Recommended maximum sugar intake for age: 25-34 and sex:female is
5% x 2175 / 3.8 = 28.6g of Sugar per day
7.2 cubes .
and the Absolute maximum is 57.2g of Sugar per day.
Nb. The W.H.O2 recommendations for maximum sugar intake are considerably lower than those of the NHS3.


Did you know today is National Beer Day?
According to a recent survey, 69% of Americans drink 2 or more bottles of beer per week. That’s over 100 beers per person per year!
To conduct the National Today Beer Day Survey, the researchers asked 1,100 American adults about their feelings on beer.
Almost half (45%) of Americans report drinking beer. One in 3 Americans prefer imported beer, while the majority (67%) usually opt for domestic.
So WHY is today National Beer Day? On April 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the major first step toward ending Prohibition and signed a law allowing people to brew and distribute beer in the United States. Upon signing the legislation, FDR famously stated, “I think this would be a good time for a beer.” For the first time in 13 years, beer drinkers celebrated and were happy to be able to purchase beer again. On that same day, 1.5 million barrels of beer were consumed, inspiring the holiday celebrated today.
For all you beer lovers out there – remember, always drink responsibly and never drink and drive. So, take a toast with us by celebrating National Beer Day today, Cheers!


Eighth grade students will be discussing and discovering the Pythagorean Theorem. Students will view a video of a real world situation that involves right triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem. They will work collaboratively to discover the theorem and formula to solve Pythagorean Theorem problems.
Author: Mark Jankowski
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The gorilla (Gorilla) is a mammal. It is a primate native to Africa. The gorilla is the next-closest living relative to humans, after the chimpanzee and bonobo. There are two species (eastern and western) and four or five subspecies. They are ground-dwelling, plant-eating mammals, that live in the forests of Africa from the highlands to the lowlands.
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The exposed ground once beneath the historic Ebenezer Hills House, which the Albany County Airport Authority recently moved 200 feet from the runway, has proven to be an informative source of history.
Since the house was moved on Tuesday, Aug. 5, archaeologists from Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc., have been hard at work, digging up plant species, bones and other artifacts previous owners and dwellers of the home had left behind in the 220 years it had rested on that site.
According to Corey McQuinn, project director for Hartgen, the archaeologists have been hard at work, not looking for anything in particular, but as part of a yearlong study that was required to be done on the house once it moved, as it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The study is called a Phase 3 Archaeological Data Retrieval, McQuinn said, and focuses primarily on the area surrounding the house, and the soil underneath where the house had sat.
The fieldwork is all done and gone, but throughout the year we have to do a little bit of research on what we found, he said.
McQuinn said the archaeologists first separate the botanical elements, such as plant life, from other artifacts. Then, each artifact is analyzed so that archaeologists can gain a sense of what people were doing at the site, and what their lifestyles were like.
For example, he said, archaeologists at Hartgen knew that the Ebenezer Hills House was formerly a tavern. A complete study into the artifacts will hopefully provide a glimpse into what type of people frequented the tavern, what accommodations the tavern keeper made and what type of image the tavern keeper wanted his tavern to portray, McQuinn said.
McQuinn said another element of interest to archaeologists is the home's unique location, close to an area that was formerly in proximity to many turnpikes that traders and farmers passed through.


When questions started to stir around the topics of community gardens and food banks, Urban Expressions went to task developing a more efficient and low maintenance way of producing food for the communities at large. As project manager Scott Roth started to research the it became clear that aquaponics would be the way to produce food year round in a seasonal climate as Pennsylvania.
What is aquaponics exactly? It is a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic animals supplies nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the water.
The plan is to start with a micro unit and increase the volume of vegetable and eventually fish production. In the year of 2015 the object is to have multiple medium sized aquaponic systems. The purpose is to create a growing pattern that can then be produced at a larger scale within a greenhouse environment for year round growing.
Churches and other public organizations have land readily available to place these systems down. Also aquaponic systems can be maintained within a warehouse or other indoor settings. Once fully operational fish and vegetables will be farmed and passed onto local food pantries. In time there will also be a program for education distribution for others to grow their own food and cut costs being spent on growing vegetables and protein.
Currently Scott is having some of his Teens Teaching Teens students working together to create the model and execute on the final production. If you would like more information on this project please contact Scott Roth via email: email@example.com


How do DCAL and DataCAD work together?
As .html in the previous section, DCAL macros are compiled and linked into code that can be understood by DataCAD. All your DCAL macros will be written in a text format (the source code) that you as the programmer will come to understand. However, DataCAD doesn't understand the source code that you write. In order for this source code to be understood by DataCAD you must translate it into the instructions that DataCAD will be more familiar with.
First, you write out your source code in a text editor. The source code will consist of plain text files.
Next, you compile and link any optional modules to create the compiled macro.
This compiled macro can be understood by DataCAD. Simply go into the Toolbox menu in DataCAD and find the location where your newly compiled macro is stored and select it. If all is well your new macro should run.
Now if you were to open up and look at the code that DataCAD understands (the DCX file), you would not see much that made sense to you. This is due to the compilation process. When you compile the macro, it eliminates all the unnecessary info from your source code then converts the source into binary code that can quickly be processed by the program.


Attain - definition, pronunciation, transcription
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level (syn: hit, reach)
- find unexpectedly (syn: discover, strike)
- reach a destination, either real or abstract (syn: gain, hit, make, reach)
She refused to let the injury keep her from attaining her goal of being in the Olympics.
This kind of tree can attain a height of 20 feet within just a few years.
The car can attain a top speed of 200 mph.
The heroic marshal, however, attained the opposite shore.
Sir Lidian had attained his sixteenth year.
He has attained to years of discretion.
More women are attaining positions of power.
Share prices attained a high of $3.27.
After a year she had attained her ideal weight.
This target should be attainable.
How can we attain to such wealth?
But for all their influence, D.C. lobbyists have failed to attain one elusive goal: public respect.
a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution
present participle: attaining
past tense: attained
past participle: attained


Irish: [ˈʃɔːnʸ] or [ˈʃeːnʸ] or [ˈʃeɪn]
|Region of origin||Irish cognate of John (Hebrew origin)|
|Variant form(s)||Seaghán, Seón, Shaun, Shawn|
|Look up Seán in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|
Seán (Ulster dialect spelling Séan) is an Irish language name. It is Irish borrowing of the Norman French Jehan (see Jean). Anglicisations of the name include Sean, Shane, Shayne, Shaine, Shan, Shon, Shaun, and Shawn. The name Shane comes from the Ulster pronunciation of the name, whereas the names Shaun, Shawn, or Sean come from the way it is pronounced in Munster, Leinster, and Connacht.
The name originated in the Irish language. It is an adaption of the Anglo-Norman name Johan/John. In 1066, the Norman duke, William the Conqueror conquered England, where the Norman French name Jehan / Johan (pronounced [dʒɛˈan]) came to be pronounced Jean, and spelled John. The Norman from the Welsh Marches, with the Norman King of England's mandate invaded parts of Leinster and Munster in the 1170s. The Irish nobility in these areas were replaced by Norman nobles, some of whom bore the Norman French name Johan or the Anglicised name John. The Irish adapted the name to their own pronunciation and spelling, producing the name Seán. Sean is commonly pronounced Shawn (Seán), but in the northern parts of Ireland (owing to a northern dialect), it is pronounced "Shan", "Shen" or "Shayn" (Séan, with the accent on the e instead of the a), thus leading to the variant Shane.
In other languages
- English: Sean, Shane, Shaun, Shawn.


The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1000-1250
Value half unit
Prof. Peregrine Horden
Taught through weekly lectures and weekly follow-up seminars
2-hour exam (70%), best one of two coursework essays (30%)
This course explores a crucial stage in the development of European power structures. The central Middle Ages (c.1000–1250) witnessed an expansion of the frontiers of Latin Christendom in almost every direction, but most dramatically in the Middle East with the Crusades. The period saw an increase, at every level, in the powers of secular and ecclesiastical authorities, whether establishing a centralized bureaucracy or ‘reforming’ the Church. It also saw the development of novel forms of power, in the household, in ‘feudal’ lordship and in cities. The approach of the course is firmly comparative, and the geographical scope is very wide: from the British Isles to the Crusader States, and the Byzantine world, and from Spain to Scandinavia. Building on the overview of key developments and historiographical debates in the lectures, the seminars will be devoted to reading and discussing primary sources in translation for each of the course’s ten topics.


“Fire Protection Sprinkler System” means an integrated system of underground and overhead piping designed in
accordance with fire protection engineering standards. This installation includes a water supply, such as a gravity
tank, fire pump, reservoir or pressure tank and/or connection by underground piping to a water supply. The portion
of the sprinkler system above ground is a network of specially sized, or hydraulically designed, piping installed in
a building, structure or area, generally overhead, and to which sprinklers are connected in a systematic pattern. The
system include a controlling valve and a device for actuating an alarm when the system is in operation. The system is
usually activated by heat from a fire and discharges water over the fire area.
Fire Protection Sprinkler License -
Rule 18.01.49 sets standards
and ensures the competency of sprinkler companies who work in Idaho.


Child Solvent Abuse Is Often Overlooked
Economic hard times see a rise in inhalent abuse, which causes long-term damage and sudden deaths.
Solvent abuse as a worldwide epidemic may have slipped largely under the radar. While practices like "glue-sniffing" or "huffing" are often overshadowed by other drug stories, they're a widespread method of getting high—particularly in economically depressed areas of the world. Millions inhale volatile chemical solvents such as those found in paint thinner, tire glue, nail polish, hairspray and Wite-Out. In small doses, these solvents create a euphoric high; in higher concentrations, they can cause hallucinations, slurred speech, unconsciousness and even death. Solvents appeal to a very specific audience; male users outnumber females five to one, and some estimates say that 15% of the world's teenage boys have experimented with solvents. In Ireland, as many as 22% of 15 to 16-year-olds are solvent abusers, and in the UK, butane—the country’s most commonly misused solvent—caused 52% of solvent-related deaths in 2000. The ready availability of solvents endears them to kids—children in many areas of the developing world can buy a small tube of inner tube repair glue for the equivalent of 10 cents. But children's bodies and brains are particularly susceptible to long-term damage. As if that weren’t bad enough, a large number of first-time users end up dying—in 2006, 40% of solvent abuse deaths were attributed to first-time experimentation. Despite the relatively low profile of glue-sniffing in the US, 2.1 million Americans aged 12 or older abused inhalants in 2009, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.


The osmotic pressure may be defined as the excess pressure which must be applied to a solution in order to prevent flow of solvent into the solution through the semi permeable membrane.
Osmotic pressure is represented by p
pV = nRT
p = CRT
C = Concentration of the solution in moles per litre
T = Temperature in K
R or S = 0.0821 l atm deg–1 mole–1
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While in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I jumped at the opportunity to check out a gathering of petroglyphs surrounded by a modern residential subdivision. Believe it or not, one had only to walk into the protected area (behind people’s backyard fences!) to see them.
Etched onto dark-colored (sometimes black) volcanic boulders that resembled a collection of piles a giant might have created, the etchings stand out against the darkness of the rocks and remain where they were originally drawn, shining in the sun for all to see. It was easy to speculate on the artists who created them and how they must have lived many years ago.
I spotted a figure that had to be a representation of a rabbit, and another rock showing birds and a coiled snake, very likely confirming that rattlers existed there, too, as well as a grouping of people’s faces, perhaps suggesting a gathering to share the bounty of the gardens of the Pueblo peoples who inhabited the area then and now. What I don’t know are which Pueblo members created these etchings on the rocks. Within the boundaries of New Mexico can be found the artifacts of nearly twenty different Pueblo peoples, each with their own language, though their way of life was similar enough to other American Indians that they sometimes met with more well-known tribes (such as the Zuni, Navaho, and Hopi) in large groups.


For persisting Java objects in a file, use java.io.ObjectOutputStream
writes primitive data types or Java objects. Persistent storage can be accomplished by using a file for the stream. Only serializable objects can be persisted:
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("C:\\sample.txt"));
oos.writeObject(new String("Hello my dear friends"));
The above code writes a string object first and then a primitive integer. Later still, it writes another Java object, Integer
. All this data is written onto the file C:\sample.txt
To read Integer back, use ObjectInputStream:
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("C:\\sample.txt"));
System.out.println("First : object : " + ois.readObject() );
System.out.println("Second : int : " + ois.readInt );
System.out.println("Third : Integer : " + ois.readObject() );
Now, you can assign the read values to variables for processing.
One thing to keep in mind is that the order in which the objects will be read back is the same order in which they were written.


The University of Chicago has released a study which found that children who understand how shapes fit together to create a recognizable image (spatial knowledge) tend to have an easier time when it comes to identifying numbers and solving math problems down the road.
The research team conducted two experiments. First, the researchers administered a test to a diverse group of first and second grade students to see how well they could identify numbers on a line with 0 at the beginning and 1,000 at the end. The researchers also tested the students on their spatial knowledge by asking them to choose the correct piece that would create a square. They found that students with the strongest spatial knowledge were also strong at identifying numbers on the number line. In the second experiment, researchers watched footage of students who had been filmed from ages five to eight having some basic interactions with their parents or caretakers. The students were tested on spatial knowledge at five and a half years old, number line knowledge at around six years old, and calculation skills at eight years old. The results of the second experiment were consistent with the first, meaning that children with better spatial skills did well when it came to the number line and calculation skills.
On the results of the study, Elizabeth Gunderson, lead author of the study and a University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar stated “Improving children’s spatial skills may have positive impacts on their future success in science, technology, engineering or mathematics disciplines, not only by improving spatial thinking but also by enhancing the numerical skills that are critical for achievement in all STEM fields.”
Read the full article here.


Carlos Moreno <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote: >Chip Eastham wrote: (*edited and corrected*) >> >> One can set aside the theory of primes and give a direct >> proof by induction, based on 1 + 2 = 3. From this clearly >> 3 does not divide 2 = 2^1, so that's the basis step. >> Suppose 3 does not divide 2^k (the induction hypothesis). >> >> Then from 3 - 2 = 1, we multiply both sides by 2^k: >> >> k k k >> 3 2 - 2 2 = 2
i.e. 3 | 3 C & 2 C -> 3|C (= 3C-2C), above C = 2^k
This is a very special case of Euclid's Lemma as I show below.
> Niiiiiceeee!!!! > > It's always refreshing seeing some "unconventional thinking" > that puts aside the obvious ("the obvious" in this case being > the fundamental theorem of arithmetic) to come up with a simple, > nice, refreshing proof like the above.
But, in fact, this proof is an obvious specialization of the key Euclid's Lemma employed to prove the FTA = unique factorization:
LEMMA (Euclid) (a,b)=1 & a|bc -> a|c
PROOF Recall (a,b)=1 -> ja+kb = 1 for some integers j,k
Therefore it follows that a|(ja+kb)c = c [via a|ja, a|bc ] QED
For a,b = 3,2: 3|2c -> 3|( 3 -2)c = c [here j=1, k=-1 ]
k k+1 k k-1 For c = 2 : 3|2 -> 3|2 (-> 3|2 ->...-> 3|1 -><- )
The inference a|bc -> a|(a,b)c is ubiquitous in divisor theory
of the rational integers (or any PID), e.g. see my prior posts .
Note, however, for a fixed prime p (such as p = 3 above), one may directly prove the prime divisor property: p|ab -> p|b or p|c by a brute force case analysis of the the finitely many choices for a, b (mod p). For p=3 it amounts to (+-1)(+-1) != 0 (mod 3).


Thirty one years ago, in 1987, a funding announcement from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) called for communities across the
United States to consider the creation of school-based health centers.
From all of the applications that were submitted to RWJF, twenty-six
communities were awarded funding to place an integrated primary care and
mental health center on middle or high school campuses. In Louisiana,
two communities were on that list--Baton Rouge (2 sites) and New Orleans
The idea was simple: overcome the barrier of transportation and parents missing work--bring providers to the one place that children and youth in the US have to be--school! If health centers were placed in schools, would parents allow their children to use the primary care and mental health services that were being offered? What would be the impact of placing services directly into the school--both in terms of health and education?
What started as a small program-of-work exploded onto the scenes of both healthcare and education across the Unites States--the initial funding by RWJF became the genesis of a new "disruptive innovation" as the initial sites showed remarkable impact on both health and education outcomes. Many states, including Louisiana, began to use state funding to open more centers. In Louisiana, carry-over Maternal and Child Health (MCH) funds were used to expand the initial three RWJF sites to other parishes around the state where health; communities and school systems were seeking ways to put a health center in their area.
In 1995, the
advocates and providers in the states were calling for a national
organization to be formed so that cross-training, advocacy skills,
quality services, and common themes could be fleshed out--learning from
one another and forming best practices. The National Assembly on
School-Based Health Care was born at a conference in Washington, DC in
June of that year. From these meager beginnings, a new model in health
care was born.


conditional variables（下列内容摘自FreeBSD Device Drivers）：
Condition variables synchronize the execution of two or more threads based upon the value of an object. In contrast, locks synchronize threads by controlling their access to objects.
Condition variables are used in conjunction with locks to “block” threads until a condition is true. It works like this: A thread first acquires the foo lock. Then it examines the condition. If the condition is false, it sleeps on the bar condition variable. While asleep on bar , threads relinquish foo . A thread that causes the condition to be true wakes up the threads sleeping on bar . Threads woken up in this manner reacquire foo before proceeding.
lock的规则（下列内容摘自FreeBSD Kernel Developer’s Manual）：
The lock argument is a pointer to either mutex(9), rwlock(9), or sx(9) lock. A mutex(9) argument must be initialized with MTX_DEF and not MTX_SPIN. A thread must hold lock before calling cvwait(), cvwaitsig(), cvwaitunlock(), cvtimedwait(), or cvtimedwaitsig(). When a thread waits on a condition, lock is atomically released before the thread is blocked, then reacquired before the function call returns. In addition, the thread will fully drop the Giant mutex (even if recursed) while the it is suspended and will reacquire the Giant mutex before the function returns. The cvwaitunlock() function does not reacquire the lock before returning. Note that the Giant mutex may be specified as lock. However, Giant may not be used as lock for the cvwaitunlock() function. All waiters must pass the same lock in con- junction with cvp.


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If it was a result of quality problems, we call it abnormal fluctuations. Such situations are often wall switch products or process is in a State of non-controlled or unstable state. Statistical control chart's main role is to: identify quality index value of fluctuation is normal or abnormal, judging process or procedure is under control or non-control v-State.
When wall switch products for production engineering, non-controlled state, then trace the cause and taking measures to eliminate exceptions, wall switch products or in the course of control state, so that the wall switch and the quality of products is guaranteed.


Most poisonings are accidental and occur in children under five years of age. Throughout the school year, MORE HEALTH provides students vital information about poison identification, poison proofing the home, and response to poison emergencies through poison prevention lessons in our Tampa Bay communities.
During the summer months, however, kids head from the classroom to the great outdoors. During this time of year, it is imperative that families are at heightened awareness for exposure to poisons. Sharing meals outdoors, playing in the backyard, exploring new environments, and hiking into unknown territory may present opportunities for children to come into contact with toxins.
Poison Control offers the following tips to ensure a safe summer with your loved ones:
- Be sure your picnic and cookout food is safe to eat. Wash your hands before handling food. Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold; refrigerate left-overs within two hours, or an hour if it’s hot outside. Separate raw meats from other foods. Use a clean platter for food you take off the grill.
- When using lighter fluid for the grill, be sure that it is stored out of reach of children.
- If illuminating the area with tiki torches or other lights utilizing lamp oil, be sure the oil is stored out of reach of children.
- Alcoholic beverages should be stored in an area where children cannot access them.
- Insect repellent is important in keeping ticks and mosquitoes off skin, but more is not necessarily better. Follow label instructions carefully: apply to skin or clothing as directed, re-apply only as often as the label states, and wash the repellant off when coming indoors.
- Be able to recognize and avoid poison ivy.
Remember to seek Poison Help at 1-800-222-1222 and place this number on or near every telephone, and store it in your mobile telephone.


Location: Crop Production Systems ResearchTitle: Web-based irrigation scheduler) Author
|Fisher, Daniel - Ken|
Submitted to: Water Quality Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/22/2010
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Currently, few web-based irrigation scheduling tools are available for the humid growing environments of the Mid-South. Common irrigation scheduling systems rely on soil or weather data to estimate crop water use, and are more commonly calibrated for dry growing environments. Increasing use of water in the Mid-South has led to depletion of water levels in aquifers, with few guidelines in place for farmers as to when and how much to irrigate. A web-based irrigation scheduler is being developed that will allow producers and crop consultants to track crop water use and develop an irrigation schedule for crop production. The web-based system will import information from national soil and weather databases into a central server. Farmers will select fields, and input irrigation system specifications, rainfall and irrigation applications. The scheduler will calculate crop water use from weather data, and indicate when soil available moisture is depleted, requiring an irrigation. The irrigation scheduling system will give farmers important tools for improving their crop production system, while conserving precious water resources. By integrating nationally available databases, farmers will be able to quickly import a wide range of information for their farms. By linking with national weather databases, the system has the potential to predict potential future rainfall, reducing potential excessive irrigation of crops. The irrigation scheduler will be most useful to farmers and crop consultants. Scientists and extension personnel will also find the scheduler useful for crop management, education, and demonstrations.


Definition: Hydrofoils, or fins, are used to push against the water to create a normal force to provide thrust, propelling the animal through water. The reduction of fin cross-sectional area helps to minimize drag, and therefore increase efficiency. Regardless of size of the animal, at any particular speed, maximum possible lift is proportional to (wing area) x (speed)2. Dolphins and whales have large, horizontal caudal hydrofoils, while many fish and sharks have vertical caudal hydrofoils.
Definition: Component found in mineralized skeletal tissue, (a specialized form of biogenic tissue in which the extracellular matrix is mineralized, and which functions in mechanical and structural support.)


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Discussion page for Directory:Pacific KVAR Energy Solutions
The KVAR/KEC system reduces the amount of power drawn from the utility by eliminating otherwise lost electricity (reactive power) created by inductive loads at any given facility. The KVAR Energy Controller unit stores and releases this reactive power thus eliminating this wasted energy.
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The Arkansas Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on disability (AR Stat. Ann. Sec. 16-123-101 et seq.). “Disability” is defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity (AR Stat. Ann. Sec. 16-123-102). Employers are also prohibited from retaliating against employees who file discrimination complaints (AR Stat. Ann. Sec. 16-123-108). The law applies to employers with nine or more employees.
Excluded from the definition of disability are:
• Compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania
• Current use of illegal drugs or psychoactive-substance-use disorders resulting from illegal use of drugs
Federal law compared. The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has a broader definition of "disability" than state law. The ADA's definition includes having a record of a disability and being regarded as having an impairment. The ADA covers employers with 15 or more employees.


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(pen name of Rudolf Ditzen). Born July 21, 1893, in Greifswald; died Feb. 5, 1947, in Berlin. German writer.
Fallada followed a number of occupations before becoming a professional writer in 1932. He exposed the government’s treacherous policies toward the peasants, as well as the mores of the cheap popular press, in his novel Peasants, Bigwigs, and Bombs (1931). The novel Little Man, What Now? (1932; translated into Russian as What Now?, 1934) deals with the tragedy of petty bureaucrats oppressed by the threat of unemployment and poverty. Fallada attributed the moral degradation of the “little man” to the amorality of the bourgeois system, for example, in The World Outside (1934). He exposed the myth of the “harmless” German burgher in Man Strives Upward (1943, published 1953).
Fallada was persecuted under fascism. Antibourgeois and an-timilitarist themes appeared in his epic novels Wolf Among Wolves (1937; Russian translation, 1957) and Iron Gustav (1938; Russian translation, 1969). In the postwar years, Fallada served as burgomaster of Feldberg, in the Soviet occupation zone. He took part in the Kulturbund. The most significant of Fallada’s realistic works was his novel Every Man Dies Alone (1947; Russian translation, 1948), which depicts life in Hitlerite Germany and the antifascist struggle of a working-class family in Berlin.
WORKSDer junge Goedeschal. Berlin, 1920.
Damals bei uns daheim. Stuttgart, 1943.
Heute bei uns zu Haus. Stuttgart-Berlin, 1943.
Der Alpdruck. Berlin, 1947.
Der Trinker. Berlin, 1950.
REFERENCESFradkin, I. Literatura novoi Germanii, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1961.
Suchkov, B. Liki vremeni, vol. 1, Moscow, 1976.
Istoriia nemetskoi literatury, vol. 5. Moscow, 1976.
Manthey, J. Hans Fallada in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. [Reinbek bei Hamburg] 1963.


Lesson 9.7 Conditionals & Local Variables
From Hannah Lee
Python is unlike other languages in that it does not have a traditional notion of scope. You can create a variable inside of conditional, but still access that same variable outside of the conditional. As we see in this video, this has important ramifications for testing your code.


Metals and gases are discharged by volcanoes. Gases, such as SO2 and HCl, react readily with the volcanic rock below the surface. To learn how deposits, which may be economic to mine, have accumulated in now-extinct volcanoes, we need to understand how these chemical processes work.
Dr Dick Henley, Dr Penny King and colleagues at the Australian National University (ANU) have combined high temperature experiments with microanalysis in the AMMRF (now Microscopy Australia). They identified how highly reactive volcanic gas interacts directly with minerals inside volcanoes. To analyse blocks of rock ejected from extreme fire fountain eruptions they used multi-modal microscopy:
The results reveal a complex natural process of melting, remelting and reactions with gases. These materials have been mapped on a scale and at a resolution not previously achieved.
The map of an ejected volcanic rock from Stromboli, Italy, shows the progressive loss of positively charged ions to leave skeletons of original minerals and a residue of aluminium and silicon oxides trapped inside glass. Tiny spheres of copper–iron sulphide are also scattered through the glass. X-ray microtomography showed the number and distribution of these spheres.
Sulphide globules are very uncommon at Stromboli. Their abundance in these particular rocks is thought to be due to calcium and magnesium ions diffusing to the surface of the glass and reacting with the surrounding gases. The sulphide globules form at the same time as sulphur-rich gas dissolves into the melt.
November 27, 2016


Chapter 3—Basic Flight Maneuvers
Table of Contents
The Four Fundamentals
Effects and Use of the Controls
Feel of the Airplane
Integrated Flight Instruction
Climbs and Climbing Turns
Best Rate of Climb
Best Angle of Climb
Descents and Descending Turns
Partial Power Descent
Descent at Minimum Safe Airspeed
Pitch and Power
DESCENTS AND DESCENDING TURNS
When an airplane enters a descent, it changes its flight- path from level to an inclined plane. It is important that the pilot know the power settings and pitch attitudes that will produce the following conditions of descent.
PARTIAL POWER DESCENT
The normal method of losing altitude is to descend with partial power. This is often termed “cruise” or “enroute” descent. The airspeed and power setting recommended by the airplane manufacturer for prolonged descent should be used. The target descent rate should be 400 – 500 f.p.m. The airspeed may vary from cruise airspeed to that used on the downwind leg of the landing pattern. But the wide range of possible airspeeds should not be interpreted to permit erratic pitch changes. The desired airspeed, pitch attitude, and power combination should be preselected and kept constant.
DESCENT AT MINIMUM SAFE AIRSPEED
A minimum safe airspeed descent is a nose-high, power assisted descent condition principally used for clearing obstacles during a landing approach to a short runway. The airspeed used for this descent condition is recommended by the airplane manufacturer and normally is no greater than 1.3 VSO. Some characteristics of the minimum safe airspeed descent are a steeper than normal descent angle, and the excessive power that may be required to produce acceleration at low airspeed should “mushing” and/or an excessive rate of descent be allowed to develop.


The DuPont Challenge Essay Submission Due January 31: Don't Miss the Deadline or Your Chance to Win
The deadline for submissions for the 2014 DuPont Challenge is fast approaching. Middle and high school students (grades 7-12) from the from the United States, Canada, and U.S. territories are encouraged to submit a 700-1,000-word essay that provides innovative ideas on the world's most pressing challenges, or demonstrates the application of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to our daily lives.
This year, the Challenge encourages students to consider how science and innovation can be used to meet the needs of the 21st century for food, energy, and protection. Students should address one of the four following categories in their essay:
Together, we can feed the world.
Together, we can build a secure energy future.
Together, we can protect people and the environment.
Together, we can be innovative anywhere.
Students and sponsoring teacher prizes include savings bonds, teaching grants, exciting trips, and much more. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014. For more information, including official rules, entry forms, and details on awards, please visit the Challenge website.


In the Wake
Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11
The Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, and an enormous wave of water swept through towns in the Tōhoku (Northeast) region, destroying virtually everything in its path and irrevocably damaging the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This triple disaster was of such epic proportions that it became a defining moment for Japan. A number of photographers felt compelled to record not only the events’ physical effects on the land, but also to interpret the overarching significance of the tragedy through art. This exhibition is the first in the US or Japan to explore the photographic response to these events. Divided into two sections—the first focused on the earthquake and tsunami and the second on the Fukushima disaster—the exhibition includes the work of 17 photographers, some of whom are among Japan’s most celebrated artists (such as Naoya Hatakeyama and Nobuyoshi Araki) and others who are emerging talents. Taken as a whole, their work explores the way art provides a powerful language for reflecting on tragic events and contributing to human recovery.
Above: Lieko Shiga, Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 46, 2011, from the series Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 2011. Photograph, digital print. © Lieko Shiga.
Presented with generous support from Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.
Additional support from the Ishibashi Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, Brian J. Knez, and the Barbara Jane Anderson Fund.
Supporting sponsorship from Shiseido Co., Ltd.


This scoping study outlines various options for methodologies that can underpin indicator(s) on the risk of (single/mixtures of) chemicals on various types of ecosystems, habitats and species. The aim of the indicator is to provide a sufficient and indicative level of information to contribute to risk governance. It can inform governmental institutions, non-governmental organizations and the general public on to what extent terrestrial ecosystems, habitats, or species, are put at risk by the occurrence of chemicals in the environment, as a consequence of human activities (e.g., farming). The report highlights the data required for the development of such an indicator and their availability through a review of existing databases. A case study illustrates the applicability of the indicator and the need for further development.
|Publisher||European Environment Agency|
|Number of pages||117|
|Publication status||Published - 6 Dec 2022|
|Name||ETC HE Report|