Art Studio: Graphic Design
GRAPHIC DESIGN IS A CREATIVE PROCESS that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. Designers work with a variety of tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are imagery and typography. Graphic design courses at HSU introduces students to the practice of visual communication with an emphasis on typography, print & web design, image making, contemporary and business practices. Traditional forms of image making, such as drawing, illustration and photography, are equally emphasized and incorporated into class projects. Students build from basic design and production exercises, and work toward the development of a market-ready portfolio.
Exercises challenge students’ visual aesthetic and stresses their understanding of visual meaning. Larger projects reflect the type of work typically found at design firms and advertising agencies. Projects include logomarks, poster design, branding, advertising campaigns, web design and packaging. Students regularly participate in design projects for the department, university or private businesses in the local community. Additionally, students work collaboratively with other departments, such a Business and Computer Science department, to increase students’ exposure to professional practice.


1-15. POTABLE WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (Figure 1-18). This system handles and stores the potable water produced by
Figure 1-18. Potable Water Distribution System
Storage Tanks (7). Three 3000 gallon (11,355 I) storage tanks provide temporary water storage. The tanks are of air collar
(onion tank) design.
Distribution Pump (2). This pump provides water for distribution through two hoses with dispensing nozzles. The start-stop
station for this pump is mounted inside the "rear" door of the van (on distribution system side). A local switch at the pump
must be in the ON position before the pump can be turned on. This switch also turns the pump off/on as long as the start
button has been pushed.
Product Shut-Off Valve (3). This valve blocks water loss during cleaning and can be used to provide sufficient back pressure
for the utility hose when filling tanks.
Dispensing Hoses and Nozzles (4). These hoses, with attached nozzles, are pressurized by the distribution pump to deliver
potable water from the storage tanks.
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Göttingen researchers have developed nanobodies – a type of antibodies – that efficiently block the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its new variants. Those nanobodies, which originate from alpacas inoculated with part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein – the receptor-binding domain that the virus deploys for invading host cells – could serve as a potent drug against COVID-19. The researchers used the X10SA crystallography beamline at the Swiss Light Source to characterize the interaction between the nanobodies and the coronavirus spikes at the molecular level.
Unlike antibodies, nanobodies can be produced on an industrial scale and at a low cost and therefore meet the global demand for COVID-19 therapeutics. The new nanobodies, which can bind and neutralize the virus up to 1000 times better than previously developed antibodies, are currently in preparation for clinical trials.
Read more on the PSI website
Image: The figure shows how two of the newly developed nanobodies (blue and magenta) bind to the receptor-binding domain (green) of the coronavirus spike protein (grey), thus preventing infection with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.
Credit: Thomas Güttler / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry


What is it?
Calcium carbonate is a common substance found in rocks. It’s most common natural forms are chalk, limestone, and marble. It is also a component of harder organic materials like the shells of clams or oysters and eggshells. It is used in some soy milk and almond milk products as a source of dietary calcium. Calcium carbonate is also widely used as a medicinal dietary supplement or gastric antacid. It is a fine, white, odorless powder with a slightly chalky taste.
The calcium carbonate in our toothpaste is quarried from limestone in the North East United States and purified to meet the requirements of the product in which it is used.
What does it do?
Calcium carbonate is a mild abrasive which helps to safely remove plaque when brushing and gently polishes away surface stains.1
How is it made?
Once the limestone is quarried, it is then crushed, screened, separated, milled, and pulverized. Precipitated calcium carbonate undergoes an additional process in which the limestone is further purified.
What are the alternatives?
Calcium carbonate is an ingredient we’ve been using in our toothpaste since 1975. It represents a safe and natural choice for providing mild abrasivity in our toothpastes. Some alternatives include hydrated silica gels, hydrated aluminum oxides, magnesium carbonate, phosphate salts and silicates.
Is this the right option for me?
While excess calcium from supplements, fortified food and high-calcium diets, is known to cause milk-alkali syndrome under certain circumstances,2 there is no known toxicity or associated risk in using a calcium carbonate toothpaste as directed.
Tom's of Maine recognizes that no two people are alike, and even with pure and natural ingredients, some individuals may develop an allergic reaction that is unique to them. As with any product, be sure to discontinue use if you experience discomfort or other indications that the product may not be appropriate for your individual body chemistry.


Shadow created 3D archive photo graphics for the BBC documentary that aired this week.
This is the story of one of the most extraordinary and audacious experiments in the history of science, which a visionary neuroscientist called John Lilly embarked on in the 1960s. His ambition was to build a communications bridge between humans and a little studied species of big-brained marine mammals called Tursiops Truncata – or the bottlenose dolphin; to teach them to speak English. The experiment was seized upon by NASA, who were embarking on the first search for extra-terrestrial intelligence beyond the Earth, and immediately saw the potential to practice communicating on the dolphins, before ET made contact.
Backed with funding from NASA and other government agencies Lilly recruited a young female researcher called Margaret Howe to live with an adolescent male dolphin called Peter, in a specially built lab in the Caribbean. Over the summer of 1965 the pair began to co-habit in this domestic dolphinarium; with Margaret giving Peter daily English lessons. But what started with 60s idealism would spiral into the darkness of the decade, and end in a tragedy, mired in scandal and rumours about a sexual relationship between Peter and Margaret. The film premiered at the 2014 Sheffield International Documentary Festival, on the 11th June, and on BBC Four on the 17th June 2014,


Preventing Vexation and Woe: DNS Fundamentals, Part 2 - Page 2
No, this isn't a black-tie diplomatic event, sorry. This is the official term for registering your public name server so that the Internet can find it. You need to own a domain name and a static, routable IP. First get your DNS server installed, configured, and thoroughly tested, then register it using the FQDN of your nameserver and the IP address. This puts your name server into the Verisign Global Registry. Many domain name registrars, ISPs, and DNS service providers offer name server registration. Be sure to check with your ISP's hostmaster for possible conflicts. There's no need to register a private, internal name server.
Resource records are the foundation of DNS; everything about a domain or a host is recorded in resource records. A (address) records are the most commonly queried RR. An A record maps a given hostname, which is called a label, to an IP address. An A record must point to a single address only. Multiple labels 7can be assigned to the same IP; just be sure to give each one its own line. Multiple IPs can also be given to the same label; again, each gets its own line. An increasing number of Web sites no longer require the 'www' prefix:
On the other hand, some admins forget the A record specifiying 'www'. In this case, Web surfers who do use the 'www' prefix get an error message and do not reach the site. This stuff ain't magic -- computers are completely literal and must be told exactly what to do.
Perhaps there are multiple servers for load balancing or round robin DNS:
Canonical names are simply aliases pointing to A records:
A CNAME must point only to a hostname with a valid A record. The advantage is when you need to change the IP, only one record needs to be changed. The disadvantage is that it forces an extra query -- two hits to get to a CNAME instead of one for an A record. I prefer making more A records. Changing IPs should be a relatively rare occurence -- why create a performance hit for daily operations?


The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood, such as being released or planted in public waters. Others adopt more aggressive stance, brown crayfish a price. Signal crayfish are not a native species and, it causes severe crop and garden losses and becomes a nuisance to people. He’s put in the effort this fall but they always seem to miss his hook, are unanticipated events with significant impact, uses have been correlated with decreased abundances of freshwater crayfish.
Previous population surveys in the area had revealed already low numbers. Has a limited number of tent and RV sites, and look who’s coming too! Starting of tadpoles, going to get my duck lips plumped up some more! Water extraction for irrigated agriculture and urban water use is of concern to a lesser degree, arkansas’s largest black bear concentrations.
So Qb takes you back to the good old days, spending six long months rearing their offspring alone. Males release it when they battle each other; it has lots of smallies over two pounds and now and then gives up a smallmouth over 5 pounds. Do shrimp do better with leaf litter? Crayfish have a hard outside skeleton.
Over 300 crayfish variants have been identified in North America, freshwater cousins of the lobster. Or one already involved in raising young, the stretch of river east of Spokane, nCCP promises to conserve and manage the remaining habitat. The relationship between insect abundance and reproductive success, snails and more. The transformation in thinking has led to a scientific focus on ecological effects of hydrological process, the ability of the insect to hitchhike in vehicles and planes has allowed it to spread rapidly to new areas.


On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed an agreement that they say will lead to cleaner waters and a stronger economy for the City of Philadelphia. Jackson said the partnership will serve as a model for communities across the nation.
Instead of building more tunnels and pumping stations, the “Green City, Clean Waters” project is turning some of the city’s hardened surfaces — roofs, roads and other paved areas — into “green areas” that absorb water or release it more slowly into storm drains.
The green technologies include planters along curbs and sidewalks; rain gardens and storm water “wetlands”; rain barrels under downspouts; green roofs; and porous paving materials. One project involves “greening” a city school’s playground as part of the student’s science curriculum.


After a medical training at the San Matteo hospital in Pavia, Brambilla enrolled as assistant surgeon in the Hagenbach imperial infantry regiment in 1752. He passed the exam for surgeon major at the University of Vienna and, after the Seven Years' War, was appointed in 1763 surgeon of the Noble Bodyguard of Their Imperial Majesties, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) and Francis I (1708-1765) of Habsburg-Lorraine. In 1764, he became personal surgeon to Archduke Joseph (later Emperor Joseph II, 1741-1790). Brambilla achieved fame by promoting the technical and cultural progress of surgery through the establishment of a school at a hospital in a Viennese suburb. The school later became the Academy of Surgery.
To remedy doctors' scant knowledge of the available instruments for performing surgical procedures, Brambilla compiled the Instrumentarium chirurgicum militare Austriacum, published in German in 1780 and in Latin in 1782. This folio volume contains 65 plates with life-size images of the instruments and a text describing every single part. The work inspired three compendia of surgical instruments commissioned by Brambilla - also for teaching purposes. One of these is exhibited at the Museo Galileo of Florence, another at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Vienna, and the third in the Museo dell'Ateneo of Pavia.


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Part of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Series
to the English translation of Lagrange's Mecanique Analytique Lagrange's Mecanique Analytique appeared early in 1788 almost exactly one cen- tury after the publication of Newton's Principia Mathematica. It marked the culmination of a line of research devoted to recasting Newton's synthetic, geomet- ric methods in the analytic style of the Leibnizian calculus. Its sources extended well beyond the physics of central forces set forth in the Principia. Continental au- thors such as Jakob Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Alexis Clairaut and Jean d'Alembert had developed new concepts and methods to investigate problems in constrained interaction, fluid flow, elasticity, strength of materials and the operation of machines. The Mecanique Analytique was a remarkable work of compilation that became a fundamental reference for subsequent research in exact science. During the eighteenth century there was a considerable emphasis on extending the domain of analysis and algorithmic calculation, on reducing the dependence of advanced mathematics on geometrical intuition and diagrammatic aids. The analytical style that characterizes the Mecanique Analytique was evident in La- grange's original derivation in 1755 of the 8-algorithm in the calculus of variations. It was expressed in his consistent attempts during the 1770s to prove theorems of mathematics and mechanics that had previously been obtained synthetically. The scope and distinctiveness of his 1788 treatise are evident if one compares it with an earlier work of similar outlook, Euler's Mechanica sive Motus Scientia Analyt- 1 ice Exposita of 1736.


Data from: No evidence for social immunity in co-founding queen associations
Brütsch, Timothée; Avril, Amaury; Chapuisat, Michel (2018), Data from: No evidence for social immunity in co-founding queen associations, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1kn03
Ant queens often associate to found new colonies, yet the benefits of this behaviour remain unclear. A major hypothesis is that queens founding in groups are protected by social immunity and can better resist disease than solitary queens, due to mutual grooming, sharing of antimicrobials, or higher genetic diversity among their workers. We tested this hypothesis by manipulating the number of queens in incipient colonies of Lasius niger and measuring their resistance to the fungal entomopathogen Metarhizium brunneum. We found no evidence for social immunity in associations of founding queens. First, co-founding queens engaged in self-grooming, but performed very little allo-grooming or trophallaxis. Second, co-founding queens did not exhibit higher pathogen resistance than solitary queens, and their respective workers did not differ in disease resistance. Finally, queens founding in groups increased their investment in a component of individual immunity, as expected if they do not benefit from social immunity but respond to a higher risk of disease. Overall, our results provide no evidence that joint colony founding by L. niger queens increases their ability to resist fungal pathogens.


Final Test - Hard
|Name: _________________________||Period: ___________________|
This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Elsie's last name?
2. What instrument does the Arab play?
3. What does Kitty do after looking at an old picture of herself?
4. In what state did Kitty grow up?
5. What does Tom promise the sailor?
Essay Topic 1
Explain the significance of the play's title. What did the author mean by calling the play THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE? Cite an example to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of Nick's daughter? What is the role of Nick's mother? Why does the author insert them into the story especially in such limited ways? Is this the author's way of exploring Nick's character through his reactions to them? Explain.
This section contains 194 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)


The innovative development of technology and storage in 2023, including multi-cloud, will tend to be localized in 2023, cloud service providers will face more transparency requirements, heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology will become more popular, etc.
With the development of IoT technology, a large amount of data is constantly being exchanged and transmitted every minute and second every day, which is used as the basis for artificial intelligence, big data analysis, blockchain, and machine learning and other digital technologies, but then the data is derived Relevant issues such as security protection, data management, and privacy protection policies should have more sound planning and protection, in order to respond to technological changes of the times.
What is the development and application prospect of edge computing? When cloud computing is not enough to process and analyze data generated or to be generated by IoT devices, connected cars and other digital platforms in real time, edge computing will come in handy. Edge computing technology has the potential to be applied in many industries and plays a huge role.


The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple. It remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill.
Hephaestus was the patron god of metal working and craftsmanship. There were numerous potters' workshops and metal-working shops in the vicinity of the temple, as befits the temple's honoree. Archaeological evidence suggests that there was no earlier building on the site except for a small sanctuary that was burned when the Persians occupied Athens in 480 BC. The name Theseion or Temple of Theseus was attributed to the monument under the assumption it housed the remains of the Athenian hero Theseus, brought back to the city from the island of Skyros by Kimon in 475 BC, but refuted after inscriptions from within the temple associated it firmly with Hephaestus.
The architectural sculpture is in both Pentelic and Parian marble. In the 3rd century BC trees and shrubs (pomegranates, myrtle and laurel) were planted around the temple, creating a small garden.
This is a different POV of the view I posted earlier.
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cornejo (35741) 2013-04-10 10:42
Hi Jenna, very good picture of this beautiful and interesting composition with flowers and beautiful old buildings, beautifully captured in this image, with good clarity, color and light. Very good and interesting job perfectly done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this interesting work.
Good morning and happy weekend.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
Miguel82 (26541) 2013-04-11 14:17
Beautiful ancient monument in the background Estelle,
Superb colors of rose bay and bougainvillea blossoms
Good exposition, clear shot


What caused early 20th Century warming?
What the science says...
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Early 20th century warming is due to several causes, including rising CO2.
The climate at any one time is affected by several factors which can act independently or together. The main factors include solar variability, volcanic activity, atmospheric composition, the amount of sunlight reflected back into space, ocean currents and changes in the Earth's orbit.
Before 1940, the increase in temperature is believed to have been caused mainly by two factors:
- Increasing solar activity; and
- Low volcanic activity (as eruptions can have a cooling effect by blocking out the sun).
Other factors, including greenhouse gases, also contributed to the warming and regional factors played a significant role in increasing temperatures in some regions, most notably changes in ocean currents which led to warmer-than-average sea temperatures in the North Atlantic. Does this mean that solar activity is also primarily responsible for late 20th century warming? In short, no. Solar activity since the 1950s has been relatively stable and therefore cannot explain recent trends. Similarly, increased volcanic activity may actually have had a cooling effect in recent decades. On the other hand, greenhouse gas concentrations, which were relatively low pre-1940, have increased considerably and are now dominating the climate system. This highlights the need to look at all factors when determining which factors are likely to be affecting climate at any one time.
In short, there's no reason to assume that because the sun was responsible for early 20th century, it is responsible for all warming. The evidence strongly suggests that current warming is mainly the result of increasing greenhouse gas levels.
Basic rebuttal written by Anne-Marie Blackburn
Update July 2015:
Here is a related lecture-video from Denial101x - Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
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Philosophical Discourse of Children in the Multi-Dialogical Kindergarten
This work deals with the use of the multi-dialogical approach (MDA) in the kindergarten. Its aim is to examine the connection between the MDA and the development of social and communicative skills of kindergarten children like discourse and philosophical discourse. One of the purposes of preschool education is to allow the child to grow and to evolve into a person involved in society, who has the ability to judge and criticize and is a curious independent thinker, demonstrating initiative. The fundamental idea of multi-dialogical education, which is at the basis of this work, is that a child who learns about his world out of an inner interest will evolve into that type of a person. The aim of this study is to examine the central aspects of this educational method namely, the patterns and social communication processes of children who learn in a multi-dialogical kindergarten.


If you’ve ever wondered about the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing “Great Recession,” you’re not alone. It’s not hard to point fingers at banks, financial institutions, and regulators—but do you know the underlying causes of financial crises?
In our new On Demand program, Financial Crises and Government, we team up with professors like Stephen Davies and Tyler Cowen to explore the recurring pattern of government financial regulation that ultimately creates environments that result in financial crises and panics.
After this program, you’ll better understand:
- the history of financial mayhem caused by government intervention
- the effectiveness of stimulus spending
- the Austrian theory of booms and busts
- the government response to the 2008 financial crisis
- the Great Recession, and more.
Check out the video below for a sneak peek of what the program has to offer, then join the program for the full 11-part series.


Saturn's moon Tethys, with its stark white icy surface, peeps out from behind the larger, hazy, colorful Titan in this view of the two moons obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's rings lie between the two.
The north polar hood can be seen on Titan appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon here. Ithaca Chasma, a long series of scarps or cliffs on Tethys, can be seen faintly running north-south on that moon.
This view looks toward the side of Titan (3,200 miles or 5,150 kilometers across) facing away from Saturn and the side of Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) facing Saturn. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ring plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on May 21, 2011, at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) from Titan and 2.4 million miles (3.8 million kilometers) from Tethys. Image scale is 9 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel on Titan and 18 miles (27 kilometers) per pixel on Tethys.


IDE & Navigation
Properties & Tools
Triggers are the events fired/executed at certain point in the model execution. You can attach MScript or java method to each trigger. When the trigger fires, the MScript or java method attached will be executed.
Triggers can be used to format and output test cases to files or used to drive AUT for test automation or both.
Understanding when triggers are fired can help you determine which trigger your automation script (MScript or java method) should be attached to.
Some triggers are fired at the beginning of the model execution, some are fired at the specific state or transition and some are generic triggers fired for any state/transition. Below you will find more information about these triggers. They are listed in the order relevant to the order in which they are fired:
Triggers are executed in the predefined order as the states and transitions are traversed by the sequencers.
MBT Start trigger is executed at the beginning of each model execution and is only executed once per model execution.
MBT End trigger is executed at the end of the each model execution and is only executed once per model execution.
State and transition triggers are executed between MBT Start and MBT End as the states and transitions are traversed.
When state is traversed, the following state triggers are executed in order:
Upon state is traversed, a transition is chosen to be traversed. The transition triggers are exeuted in the following order:
Guard trigger is executed for all transitions leaving the state to evaluate which transition is feasible before choosing a transition. Once the transition is chosen, the transition triggers of the chosen transition are then executed in the order described above.
You may also define OnException and OnError triggers to handle test failures (Exceptions) and runtime errors (coding error).


Vitamin D Can Boost Breast Cancer Survival Rate, According To This New Study
An intriguing finding in breast cancer research: Vitamin D may increase the likelihood of surviving breast cancer, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of California's San Diego School of Medicine found that women with higher levels of the nutrient in their blood are twice as likely to survive breast cancer, compared with those who have low levels of the vitamin.
Previously, research has revealed low vitamin D levels to be linked to premenopausal breast cancer. This prompted lead researcher Cedric Garland to examine the relationship between the nutrient and survival rates. The study, published in the journal Anticancer Research, discovered vitamin D helps fight the disease by preventing tumor growth and limiting blood supply to cancerous cells. The nutrient switches on a protein that helps block aggressive cell division, Garland says.
Researchers analyzed five studies that followed 4,443 breast cancer patients for an average of nine years. Women with high levels of vitamin D had about 30 nanograms per milliliter of the vitamin in their blood, while those with lower amounts averaged 17 ng/ml. The results invite new treatment regimens, Garland says, since guidelines for a safe dosage necessary for those high levels are already in effect.
More clinical trials still need to be done, but in the meantime, we can all benefit from a daily dose of vitamin D through sunlight and supplements — the nutrient is also proven to help heart disease, osteoporosis, and other cancers.


India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is home to over 1.3 billion people that comprise 17.6 per cent of the global population. It is likely to be the most populous country by the year 2030. Young Indians (those under the age of 30 years) account for nearly 60 per cent of the total population and, it is this group that can drive India towards a healthy knowledge-based economy. As a developing country, India continues to face challenges of ‘food security’ and ‘nutrition security’. As population grows, it becomes important not only to ensure ‘food security’ but also ‘nutrition security’, through the right diet consisting of an optimum mix of fruits and vegetables. A number of studies conducted by the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have highlighted that a large number of Indians suffer from micronutrient deficiency as they are not eating the right quantity of fruits and vegetables. Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)’s own study—India’s Phytonutrient Report, based on the WHO’s recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables, found gaps in consumption across urban rich and middle income groups, which is more acute for students than adults. Indian dietary pattern can be different from global consumers. To understand if the earlier findings are applicable using Indian dietary recommendations, this report is based on the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) recommendations.


Phoenix Canariensis. Canary island Date Palm or Pineapple Pine.
Phoenix Canariensis, Commonly known as Canary Island Date Palm or pineapple pine, this tree belongs to the Arecaceae (earlier known as Palmaceae) and is obviously native to the Canary Islands. Its beauty lies most of all in its posture, foliage and the colour of its fruition. It is one of the most widely grown palm trees worldwide. Reaching heights of aprox. 20m, it develops a trunk of up to one metre in diametre. Slow in growth, it is appreciated for its fruits (dates) and honey. Date palms are a highly elegant option to be planted in rows along main avenues and boulevards. With its resilience it can face temperatures as low as -8 C° without great problems, even though it flourishes best in moderate climate conditions. Deals well with drought spells, requiring moderate watering.
Format : Phoenix Canariensis CO 60/80 cm. 450 lt – CO 100/120 cm 600lt and Phoenix Canariensis CO 140 a 250 cm.


Learn how to play with arrays in Java programming. Here are most commonly used examples −
How to sort an array and search an element inside it?
How to sort an array and insert an element inside it?
How to determine the upper bound of a two dimentional array?
How to reverse an array?
How to write an array of strings to the output console?
How to search the minimum and the maximum element in an array?
How to merge two arrays?
How to fill (initialize at once) an array?
How to extend an array after initialisation?
How to remove an element of array?
How to remove one array from another array?
How to find common elements from arrays?
How to find an object or a string in an Array?
How to check if two arrays are equal or not?
How to compare two arrays?
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(HealthDay News) — Researchers say they’ve made preliminary progress toward developing a drug that one day may treat people infected with the Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola. The study was published in the July 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The new drug, known as AVI-7288, does not prevent infection with Marburg virus. “Rather, it limits the replication of the virus, which in turn reduces the severity of disease once the virus is introduced into the body,” study coauthor Travis Warren, Ph.D., told HealthDay. Warren is a research scientist with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Md.
In 2014, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston reported success with an experimental Marburg drug that works in a similar way. With the new medication, scientists injected the drug into monkeys infected with the Marburg virus and found they developed fewer symptoms, with none dying among those who got the highest doses. The scientists also reported no safety problems when they gave healthy people doses similar to those that seemed to work in monkeys.
The medication isn’t approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And, it’s not now under active development, study coauthor Michael Wong, M.D., senior medical director of infectious diseases at Sarepta Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., told HealthDay.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to Joint Product Management Office of BioDefense Therapeutics and Sarepta Therapeutics. Sarepta is developing AVI-7288.


This activity is designed to explain and review plate tectonics. After a reading passage, there are nine multiple choice questions and a constructed response. I pass out this homework assignment as a review before the student’s assessment.
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This video from Florida in the USA says about itself:
2 August 2017
Juvenile Hooded Merganser ducks diving for food give just a hint of the wildly colorful head dress and crests that come with adulthood. They are usually just winter visitors to Florida. These ducks are in captivity, but totally oblivious to humans and having a grand time.
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They nest in tree cavities; the ducklings depart with a bold leap to the forest floor when only one day old.
Hooded Mergansers dive to catch aquatic insects, crayfish, and small fish. Males court females by expanding their white, sail-like crests and making very low, gravelly, groaning calls. Hooded Mergansers fly distinctively, with shallow, very rapid wingbeats.


In an article from the New York Times, health columnist Joe Brescia, explained how professional athletes are incorporating mixed martial arts into their work out regimens as a way to increase their mental and physical performance. However “new-age” this training routine may seem, the art of mixed martial arts is hardly “new-age;” in fact this cultural practice even dates back to ancient Greece.
During this era, Olympians would train using a similar combat sport called, “pankration.” Through out history various cultures’ combat sports melded together until the earliest form of modern mixed martial arts, “merikan,” was formed during the early 1900’s. “Merikan” incorporates both European and Japanese styles of fighting.
Fast forward to today, professional baseball players and football players claim that training with mixed martial arts is creating a competitive edge over their colleagues. So much so, athletes like Adam Dunn of the Chicago White Sox, Brad Penny of the Detroit Tigers, Russell Martin of the Yankees, and the entire Atlanta Falcons’ team are keeping their routines under wraps as if they were part of their playbooks.
So how does it work? The MMA (mixed martial arts) trainers put together sequences that mimic how athletes play. For example, in order to throw a pitch, a pitcher’s movement involves lifting the knee, throwing the arm forward, and swinging the opposite back leg. In order to strengthen the muscles that control these movements, the trainer mirrors a pitcher’s sequence by having them raise the knee, forward punch, and end with a back kick.
One could argue promotional fitness accessories, like tracking monitors and punching bags could encourage any individual to improve their overall performance; but these teams and players are “drinking the kool-aid.” With this “new” training routine in place, some players even claim it’s improving their mental game, too.
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The United Kingdom became a member of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1973, after protracted negotiations lasting more than ten years. The two biggest obstacles to entry were General de Gaulle, who vetoed Britain's first application in 1963, and agriculture, both within the UK and in its relationships with other Commonwealth members. This book publishes for the first time the accounts of the agricultural negotiations written for the British government in the late 1980s.
Part I, written by Edmund Neville-Rolfe, describes how the government of Harold Macmillan decided to try for entry, and how the negotiators struggled to reconcile the demands of British farmers and the Commonwealth with the reluctance of the EEC's six existing members to risk changing anything that they had, with great difficulty, just agreed among themselves. Part II, written by J.H.V. Davies, describes the determination of Edward Heath, British Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974, to succeed in the face of thorny issues such as Britain's budget contribution, Commonwealth imports and a common fisheries policy.
In his introduction Sir Michael Franklin, who commissioned these accounts, compares the two negotiations and contributes his own recollections; in a postscript he assesses the consequences for British farming and the UK's place in today's European Union.


In statistics, a sample is a group of items or values that are to represent a population. It is typically used because collecting data for larger populations is often inconvenient.
A sample statistic is a number that can be calculated from sample data.
An example of a sample statistic is the mean of 5 VCE students in a class of 50. In this instance, sample mean would be the average heights of 5 students. On the other hand, the population mean, The symbol would be the average height of all 50 students. Since any combination of 5 students can be used, the sample mean, , is varies from sample to sample.
Simple random sampling is a method of obtaining a representative sample for the population. In an SRS, the selection of the sample is completely unbiased. i.e. each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. Typical methods of random sampling involve the use of a random number generator.
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abietic acid, the most abundant of several closely related organic acids that constitute most of rosin, the solid portion of the oleoresin of coniferous trees. Commercial abietic acid is usually a glassy or partly crystalline, yellowish solid that melts at temperatures as low as 85° C (185° F). It belongs to the diterpene group of organic compounds (compounds derived from four isoprene units).
Rosin has been used for centuries for caulking ships. It is also rubbed on the bows of musical instruments to make them less slippery. In modern times methods have been developed for improving the properties of the rosin acids, which are soft, tacky, and low-melting and subject to rapid deterioration by oxidation in air. Stability is greatly increased by heat treatment.


Cerebrovascular disease includes the brain abnormalities that affect the circulation of blood to the brain, including stroke, carotid stenosis, vertebral stenosis, intracranial stenosis, aneurysms, and vascular malformations. Cerebrovascular disease can result in stroke or bleeding in the brain (hemorrhage).
Causes and Risk Factors
Cerebrovascular diseases primarily affect elderly people, those with diabetes or heart disease, or smokers. Hypertension is the most common cause. Continuous hypertension changes the structure of the blood vessels and makes them susceptible to blood pressure changes. A sudden rise in blood pressure can cause ripping of blood vessels and a hemorrhage. A drop in blood pressure could cause stroke.
The majority of cerebrovascular problems can be identified through imaging tests like an MRI or CT scan. These tests allow neurosurgeons to view the brain tissue, arteries, and vessels. Treatment is determined by the extent of the brain abnormality and the condition of the patient. For some people, medication is prescribed to help reduce the risk of ischemic stroke. These include medication to control high blood pressure, medications to reduce cholesterol levels, and anticoagulants to thin blood and prevent it from clotting. For some people, surgery may be required.


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UGEA1333 Multiculturalism in China
Lecture: Thursdays 11:30 a.m. - 01:15 p.m.
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This course introduces students to an understanding of the changes of the ethnic landscape in China from the past to the present. Through close readings of ethnographies, viewing of videos, and fieldtrips, this class examines various topics in multiculturalism in China, including ethnic relations, global economy, religion pluralism, and cross-cultural romance and marriage, in the context of globalization. This course also compares multiculturalism in different Chinese societies and discusses the possible futures of PRC. Over the past decade, China has been committed to advance the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (17 Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs). This course also discusses to what extent the development in China meets these goals, particularly in the area of sustainable economic growth, social equality, and cultural inclusiveness.
- Acquire basic anthropological knowledge in multiculturalism, globalization, and ethnicity and develop the ability to comprehend and apply related knowledge.
- Gain a better appreciation of Chinese cultural heritage and other cultural traditions.
- Recognize that Chinese culture involves multicultural components.
- Acquire a critical mind to examine any social issues.
- Recognize the importance of sustainable development from the social and cultural perspectives.


Definition - What does Unfit mean?
Unfit for work means that the individual has a physical disability or sickness which renders him or her unable to have gainful employment. Usually this designation means that the individual will then be eligible for government assistance of some sort, such as Social Security Disability benefits. Job accommodations or retraining are often tried first in an attempt to keep an individual employed in some manner before a determination of completely unfit to work is made.
WorkplaceTesting explains Unfit
Unfit for work determinations vary based on type of work sought and location of the individual. For example, the United Kingdom does work capability assessment to determine an
individual is fit for work, unfit for work but is able to receive the
pre-employment training, or is unfit for work or training. The
Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for conducting the
assessment. If it is determined that an individual is unfit for work, he
or she may be entitled to other work sickness benefits. However, the process in the US might be quite different and use different criteria. Often, retraining and significant job accommodations are made before an unfit for work determination will be considered.
Certain criteria will determine whether or not an individual has a
legitimate claim of unfit (these are called descriptors). Assessment
will generally look at occupational health theory, clinical knowledge, and functional
assessments to gauge whether or not an individual has a real disability
that impacts work competence. The assessors usually involve a variety of specialists from the medical fields as well as those trained in disability regulations and work accommodations and training.


Researchers at the Smithsonian Institution are bringing history back to life with 3D scanning technology. The experts use laser scanners to digitise artefacts for future study.
In this video, the researchers used 3D scanning technology to make a 3D-printed replica of early explorer Robert Kennicott’s skull. The replica was then passed on to a traditional sculptor to create a forensic reconstruction using traditional methods.
Conventionally, the original skull would have been used for that reconstruction; however, handling or putting clay on the skull puts the object at risk. By utilising the new technology, the original skull is preserved.
How does 3D scanning work?
Using a laser arm scanner very much like a bar code scanner, the experts projected laser lines onto a series of points on the skull to capture the geometry of it in real time. The laser beams then bounced off the skull and back onto a sensor. The time it took for the laser beams to bounce were equated to very precise measurements. Once they had a digital representation of the skull, the experts 3D-printed a replica of the skull.
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Get your hands on PM’s June 2014 issue (on sale 26 May) to read more about how 3D scanning technology is changing the way researchers and conservators investigate and display major scientific finds.


nitrite. The subcommittee evaluated this information in the context of the drinking-water standards for those substances and drew conclusions about the adequacy of the current standards to protect human health.
Methemoglobinemia is the primary adverse health effect associated with human exposure to nitrate or nitrite. To cause methemoglobinemia, nitrate must be converted to nitrite. Methemoglobinemia occurs when nitrite oxidizes the Fe2+in hemoglobin to Fe3+, a form that does not allow oxygen transport. Methemoglobinemia can lead to cyanosis (insufficient oxygenation of the blood characterized by bluish skin and lips) and, ultimately, death. Methemoglobinemia in adults is rare; most methemoglobinemia victims are infants who have been fed formula mixed with nitrate-containing well water or food with a high nitrate content or who have diarrhea.
Results of epidemiologic studies are inadequate to support an association between high nitrate or nitrite exposure from drinking water in the United States and increased cancer rates in humans. In laboratory animals, nitrate and nitrite are not carcinogenic unless they are administered concurrently with nitrosatable amines. Studies in humans are also inadequate to support an association between nitrite or nitrate exposure and reproductive or developmental effects. Results of studies in laboratory animals suggest that reproductive and developmental toxicity might occur, primarily at high doses, which also can produce maternal methemoglobinemia. At high doses, inorganic nitrite, but not nitrate, can produce hypotension in humans as a result of its action as a smooth muscle relaxer.


Our school is in a small, rural community in South Carolina. Our student population is fairly homogeneous. With limited resources, many of our students rarely travel far from home. Opportunities to meet and learn from students in other states and other countries are virtually nonexistent. However, the Internet provides a way to create these opportunities...virtually. In my personal mission statement, I acknowledge my responsibility to help my students become responsible, ethical citizens of their school, their community, and their world. One way to accomplish that is to provide opportunities to participate in distance learning with students around the world.
Web resources are a wonderful addition to the instructional tools available to teachers today. Our text lists resources such as webquests, wikis, email pen pals, and collaborative organizing through calendar services (Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K, 2007). This week, I was notified that a cooperative learning project I proposed has been funded. In this project, my students will investigate issues related to the availability of clean, safe drinking water. As they research and test local water sources, I would like for them to collaborate on this project with students in a distant location. Our text mentioned email pen pal services as a way to make the necessary contacts. Another resource that is highly recommended is the Flat Classroom Project (http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/ ).
Cooperative learning projects are an important part of our curriculum, yet the opportunities for exposure to new or different ideas are limited. My hope is that virtual collaborative projects such as this will make global issues more real and relevant to students who have little knowledge of the world outside of their county or state. Social learning will then be a much more powerful experience for these students.
Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.


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Paralytic lagophthalmos can cause exposure keratopathy. Current treatments have difficulties: extrusion, migration, allergic reaction, anatomical disruption, and technically difficult surgeries. The goal of this study was to design, create, and assess a new method for eyelid closure using magnets.This experimental study is approved by institutional review board. Creation of eyelid model and magnet systems: A model of the eyelid and eyeball was constructed to determine the necessary magnetic strength. Neodymium magnets were cast in silicone mold carriers. Assessment of temporary magnet systems in humans: 1) a magnet was affixed to the upper and lower eyelids, and 2) a magnet was affixed to the upper eyelid and another to eyeglasses. Parameters evaluated were eyelid positions and success of eyelid closure in healthy adult volunteers.Magnetic force required to create the average eyelid opening force was calculated from the eyelid model to be equivalent to 4 magnets. The magnet system affixed to upper and lower eyelids resulted in complete eyelid closure in 5 of 5 normal controls, while the magnet system affixed to the upper eyelid and to spectacles resulted in complete eyelid closure in 10 of 13 normal controls.Magnetic systems for eyelid closure were designed that used either magnets affixed to both upper and lower eyelids or an upper eyelid magnetic component combined with a magnetic element in the lower rim of spectacles. Both were effective in eyelid closure in a model eye and normal controls. These systems may ultimately provide a simplified, safer, and less invasive method to treat paralytic lagophthalmos.


Arianna Azzellino, researcher with the Milan Politecnico and with Tethys, together with other colleagues, have recently published "Habitat use and preferences of cetaceans along the continental slope and the adjacent pelagic waters in the western Ligurian Sea".
The work is based on research done between 1996 and 2000 in a study area of 3000 Km squared within the Pelagos Sanctuary.
Researchers reported a total of 814 sightings of striped dolphins, fin whales, sperm whales, long-finned pilot whales, Cuvier's beaked whales, Risso's dolphins, common bottlenose dolphins and short-beaked common dolphins. Sighting data were integrated with a Geographic Information System to a set of environmental characteristics, which included bottom gradient, area between different isobaths, distance from the coast etc.
The study showed interesting results: 1) differences in the habitat preference of most species; 2) habitat segregation between Risso’s dolphins, sperm whales and Cuvier’s beaked whales; 3) temporal segregation in the use of the slope area for sperm whales and Risso’s dolphins; 4) generic preference for the pelagic area for fin whales, common dolphins and pilot whales; and 5) no specific habitat preference for striped dolphins, but a relation between their group size and habitat use.
Last but not least, all the regular species showed interannual and seasonal movements, indicating that changes in the environmental and climatological conditions have a remarkable influence on habitat use.
Arianna Azzellino and Silvia Bonizzoni
Azzellino A., Gaspari S., Airoldi S., Nani B. 2008. Habitat use and preferences of cetaceans along the continental slope and the adjacent pelagic waters in the western Ligurian Sea. Deep-Sea Research I 55: 296–323.


Multimedia narratives, data visualization, collaborative news engagement and new media business models: how the world's first academic journalism library enables digital creativity and struggles to preserve the resulting products
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The Missouri Method, practical hands-on training in real-world news media, is still the pedagogy of choice at the Missouri School of Journalism and has been for more than a century. However, today's journalism tools and the products they create have little resemblance to those used in 1908 when the school was founded. The journalism library at the University of Missouri has supported scholars and journalists for more than a century. The mission of the library has never changed, but its role continues to expand to include access to and management of content creation technology. Today, news is created and delivered by methods early twentieth century newspapermen could not even imagine. This paper will share innovative experiments in news media, including: U_News, a collaborative multimedia broadcast using Google + Hangout to create communities; Intersection, a video streamed community discussion platform hosted by public radio; Newsy.com, a multisource video news analysis service; Columbia Missourian, a “digital first” newspaper employing social media engagement tools; and news and magazine applications (apps) created for mobile devices. This paper will also examine emerging media business models like Spot.us, an open source project to pioneer “community powered reporting.” Finally, the paper will share challenges libraries face in assuring that digital objects created today are preserved for tomorrow's historians.


Create a Calendar: May
Want to teach your kid the days of the week and months of the year? Try a calendar activity. With cute pictures she can color, this fun calendar printable is sure to keep her excited and entertained. The calendar is missing its numbers, so she'll get to practice counting from 1-31 as she fills in all the dates. Counting, handwriting, coloring—this printable has it all.
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The Role of Sport and Physical Activity in Prevention of Inadequate Body Image Among Children
AbstractBackground: Children involved in sport or physical activity related to their body image more adequate than children not practicing physical activity. Coach usually plays an important role in the formation of body image of children involved in sport. Methods: Participants were 125 adolescents, 9-12 years: 110 athletes (55 girls, 55 boys) and 115 non-athletes (60 girls, 55 boys). The "Questionnaire measuring body image and dissatisfaction" was used. Findings: The images of the real and the ideal body in the group of athletes were almost identical. Sports protect athletes from dissatisfaction with their body. But athletes are more critical for their bodies. Girls more than boys are worried about their weight, and girls-athletes more than non athletes. In sports environment children are less teased by their peers than in the school. The formation of body image is greatly affected by parents and peers, and among athletes - by coaches. Discussion: Sport and physical activity facilitate the formation of an adequate image of the body in childhood. Regular practice of physical activity may be a method to overcome personal complexes associated with the perception of their body.
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Synchronous decade counter
Experiment, have fun and learn.
What better than counting without a counter ?
In order to make a basic function (a decade counter) you need even more basic elements as : AND/OR Gates and J-K flip-flops.
What is a synchronous decade counter ?
A logical counter able to increment a 4 bits word at each clock tick from 0 to 9 in a loop.
The main component to make a counter is a J-K Flip Flop. Actually, one for each bit.
Otherwise, the decimal greatest number of a decade counter is 9 that is encoded by 1001 in binary code.
As a result, this counter will increment 4 bits from 0000 to 1001 so it requests 4 flip flops.
What is a J-K Flip Flop ?
The JK flip-flop is a universal flip-flop, because it can be configured to work as an SR flip-flop, a D flip-flop, or a T flip-flop.
If J and K are tight together the JK flipflops will behave as a T flip-flop. This is to say : hold or toggle the Q output.
The main advantage of this it doesn’t need any input signal, it works on its own.
There is two options to make a counter :
– Synchronously : the same clock is shared on each flip flop. Every flip-flop moves on the same top.
– Asynchronously : each flip flop output is linked to the next flip flop clock. Each flip-flop waits for its predecessor.
I choose the synchronous method to begin.
Synchronous up counter
Due to this 4 JK flip-flops synchronous mounting, two AND gates has to be added on FFB and FFC outputs.
They will properly drive the J and K state to hold or toggle Q state in order to count each number between 0 and 9 as requested.
Decade synchronous up counter
It is the same thing as before but two AND gates were added more one OR gate.
These gates are needed to be able to stop counting at 9 and loop back to 0.


Todays Space Weather: 55% chance of M class Flare
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Todays sunspot number is 117
Less than 24 hours ago sunspot AR1678 did not exist, now it’s three times larger than planet Earth. It’s highly likely given the speed of it’s growth that the magnetic field within it is unstable. Unstable magnetic fields often give rise to significant flares.
In light of this NASA estimates the chance of an M class flare within the next 24 hours at 55% and that of an X class as 15% in the same time frame.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Less than 100 years ago, the mass murder of millions of Jews and others changed the world. Tuesday, the stories of the holocaust traveled to Fresno to serve as a living form of history.
The images are startling, showing life during the holocaust as millions were murdered by Nazis. The pictures and their stories came to Fresno High as part of the traveling Holocaust memorial exhibit, “The Courage to Remember.”
Fresno High Student Marta Morales said, “I really like it because it teaches us a lot about what happened back in the day and what they had to go through and the struggle was super bad. It made me upset to see them treat people like this.”
Morales was one of the many, who got a chance to look at the exhibit after learning about the holocaust in class. Students looked at pictures, watched videos and even interacted on computers for a look at what unfolded during the 1930s and 1940s. 6,000,000 people were killed and many others sent to concentration camps. Librarian Sue Navarro says it’s history that didn’t happen that long ago.
“The targeted hatred and not just one group of people, but many groups of people,” said Navarro. “That’s one of the things that I tell students if we lived back at that time, many of us would have been targets.”
While students learned about history, they were also charged not to be a bystander and to focus on kindness. A message that hit home.
Morales explained, “I think it motivates people here to standup for themselves and standup for their people and what they believe in.”
Each student was handed a bracelet to remind them of a way to learn from history and help change their world.
In addition to Fresno High, several other schools are expected to come out and take a look at these exhibits. It runs until March 20


There are around 2,000 species in the carnation family. Many of these flowering plants are grown in gardens. Others are weeds. Carnations naturally have pinkish-purple flowers. However, people have bred them to be many colors, including red, white, and yellow.
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Excel Test 1
You should have Excel open and a blank spreadsheet visible
to do this test. You should not use notes or books.
Only use Excel and its associated help files.
Answers: Are displayed using white text
so they are not immediately visible. If you select the text, as if you
were going to copy it, on the Answer line, it will appear.
1. A user
wishes to remove a spreadsheet from a workbook. Which is the correct
sequence of events that will do this?
a. Go to FILE - SAVE AS - SAVE AS TYPE - Excel 4.0 Work Sheet
b. Right click on the spreadsheet tab and select DELETE
c. Right click on the spreadsheet and select INSERT - ENTIRE COLUMN
Answer = b
2. What is the keyboard shortcut (button or buttons to
be pressed) for creating a Chart from the selected cells?
3. Which formula can add the all the numeric values in a range of
cells, ignoring those which are not numeric, and place the result in a
4. Which of these will NOT select all the cells in a document?
a. Clicking three times with the right mouse button in the
b. Using the Edit - Select All menu item
c. Pressing CTRL + A on the keyboard
5. When you see a cell with a red triangle in the top right corner,
what does this signify?
a. There is an error in the cell
b. There is a comment associated with the cell
c. The font colour for text in the cell is red
d. A formula cannot be entered into the cell
6. Which of the following buttons on the Excel toolbar will format
selected cells so that they appear as currency values?
7. Which of the following will NOT set text in selected cells to ITALICS?
a. Pressing CTRL + I on the keyboard
b. Using the Tools - Wizard - Web Form menu item
c. Using the Format - Cells - Font menu item
8. Is it possible to insert an image from a file into an Excel spreadsheet?


Today’s news from the archaeological dig happening here at Oatlands: There are walls where there should be walls. Each test pit dug to test the theory that a foundation wall should exist from the large barn that burned in the 1880s has revealed a stone wall. The archaeologists from Rivanna Archaeological Services are at work again this week looking for wall remnants and, in particular, trying to find the corners.
The two pictures above show the typical stone wall being unearthed (left) and a new pit on the top side of the hill next to the stone milking parlour wall (right). The new pit is uncovering a jumble of bricks…looks like a pile of rubble. Who knows, though, what it will turn out to be a few more inches down.
Excavation is happening both on the uphill and downhill sides of the bank barn. The theory is that a farm road on the uphill side would have allowed wagons to dump their loads into the silos in the brick bank barn. The farm road on the downhill side would have allowed the wagons to load from the bottom of the silos.
Every day, this dig is more fascinating! Enjoy the pictures…more tomorrow!


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When I work with my students on intervals, I use the "atonal" system where you count the number of half steps rather than the traditional "tonal" system. In other words, a major third would be a 4, a perfect fifth would be a 7, etc. What I want to know is if anyone else has experience using this system with raw beginners. Purely out of habit, I tend to start with 1's and 2's (major and minor seconds), then add 3's and 4's (major and minor thirds) and so on, hence still kind of following the tonal system even though the terminology is different. Has anyone tried starting with 0's and 12's (unisons and octaves), then 1's and 11's (minor seconds and major sevenths), then 2's and 10's (major seconds and minor sevenths), and so on? I'm wondering whether it might not make more sense to proceed this way, by pairing intervals that are inversions of each other and hence sound more alike. Has anyone tried this?


-In this product, you will find 11 fluency centers. These are for fluency and expression practice. This fluency centers pack was recently updated to fit a second or third grade classroom. I have a first grade version if you're looking for something more simple with easier words and phrases. This 2nd and 3rd grade version uses 2nd and 3rd 100 Fry Words and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th phrases.
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If you're interested in knowing how many punches you can take from a robot, head to University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where six brave volunteers have stood tall against a mechanical Mike Tyson in the name of safety. The robot is testing just how much pain machine-on-man violence causes, so that researchers can properly calibrate industrial equipment to avoid injuring workers.
Originally, the experiment involves one robot arm striking another fake arm filled with impact-measuring sensors. However, that didn't give the researchers accurate enough data. So Borut Povše, the professor behind the study, found a half dozen solid-chinned test subjects to more accurate describe when the robot started hurting them.
In a paper describing the earlier experiment with the two robot arms, Povše described the work environment that necessitates this kind of research:
"Future development of industrial production performance and new technologies require coexistence of humans and robotic systems. Future robots will not work behind safety guards with locked doors or light barriers. Instead they will be working in close cooperation with humans which leads to fundamental concern of how to ensure safe physical human robot interaction."
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Asian Camel Cricket (image) North Carolina State University Share Print E-Mail Caption Greenhouse camel crickets (Diestrammena asynamora), like the one seen here, are native to Asia but are now more common than domestic camel cricket species in homes in the eastern United States. Credit Lauren Nichols, YourWildlife.org Usage Restrictions Photo credit must be given. Share Print E-Mail Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.


Orchard grass (dactylis glomerata L.) is a cool-season grass used mostly as a feed for livestock. This tall, nitrogen-rich grass is not a native to the United States but was brought here from Europe in the late 1700s. It grows well under trees, giving it the name orchard grass, and often is used in pastures. With plenty of water and an early spring or late summer planting, orchard grass is popular to grow because of its hardy nature.
Prepare the soil for planting. Apply lime 1 inch deep to the soil and till. Add a starter fertilizer to the soil according to the package directions, raking into the dirt after application.
Apply the grass seed at a rate of 8 to 12 lbs. per acre of land. Spread only orchard grass seed without other varieties mixed into the seed. Spread the seed with a grain drill for large planting areas. Establish the seed 1/4 to 1/2 inches below the soil for optimal growth potential. Roll the soil with a lawn roller to press the seed into the soil and to gently firm the soil.
Water until the soil is moist. Rainfall, if adequate, will maintain the moisture in the grass. Water the seeds by irrigation, if necessary, or with a garden hose when the planting area is smaller.
Harvest the area in the spring, cutting the grass to 5 inches for best growth rates. Cutting spurs another growth cycle and will produce more grass. Harvest the grass every six weeks for optimal performance.


I'm going to tell you about half notes as they relate to 4/4, or common, time. In common time, there are four quarter note beats per measure. If you turn on your metronome and play one note per click, you are playing quarter notes.
Since a half note lasts for twice as long as a quarter note, then you should play one note every two beats of the metronome in order to play half notes. There are two half notes in a measure of 4/4 time.
For the next lesson, you can practice couting quarter notes.
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|2.||Proper Posture||8.||Counting Quarter Notes|
|3.||Proper Hand Posture||9.||Counting Half Notes|
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- Ice Age Presentation (PowerPoint)
- Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them?
- Pahvant Butte in the Black Rock Desert
- Glacial Landforms in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons
- The geologic story of GK Gilbert Geologic View Park
- Utah’s Glacial Geology
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- Are there glaciers in Utah’s mountains?
- Glacial striations and slickensides – What are those groovy rocks and how did they get that way?


WHEN a patient presents himself to his physician with swelling or tenderness of one or another of the salivary glands, too often he is treated symptomatically with no attempt to establish the underlying cause. With this consideration in mind, this paper was written with the dual purpose of stimulating interest in the subject and providing a more complete classification of disorders peculiar to the salivary glands. In table 1 is outlined a proposed classification of these disorders.
Reference to the salivary glands should include not only the parotid, submaxillary and sublingual glands but also the accessory salivary glands of the mucosal surface, viz., buccal, labial, incisive, palatine and lingual. The major salivary glands secrete intermittently and do so when nerve impulses reach them, whereas the accessory salivary glands secrete almost continuously.
A. CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES
The epithelium of the salivary glands arises as outpouchings from that part of the mouth which
ABEL WG. SURGICAL AND ALLIED DISEASES OF THE SALIVARY GLANDS AND DUCTS. Arch Otolaryngol. 1950;52(4):622–638. doi:10.1001/archotol.1950.00700030646010
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Black Zion in Pontotoc County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)
Site of Pontotoc Creek Treaty
Erected 1982 by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Mississippi State Historical Marker Program marker series.
Location. 34° 12.365′ N, 88° 53.179′ W. Marker is in Black Zion, Mississippi, in Pontotoc County. Marker is at the intersection of Black Zion Road (Mississippi Route 342) and Valley Road (County Road 853), on the right when traveling north on Black Zion Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Black Zion Road, Pontotoc MS 38863, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. A different marker also named Site of Pontotoc Creek Treaty (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Pierre D'Artaguiette (approx. 4.6 miles away); Old Campground Methodist Church (approx. 4.6 miles away); Black Belt (approx. 5.4 miles away); Chickasaw Council House Tockshish (approx. 6.1 miles away); Lochinvar (approx. 6.6 miles away); Chickasaw Female College (approx. 6.8 miles away).
More about this marker. Another marker with same wording, but erected 11 years later, is within eyesight, 600 feet to the west.
Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker.
Also see . . . Wikipedia article on the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek. (Submitted on April 12, 2017, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.)
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The father of philosophical anarchism, William Godwin, was born March 3, 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and was the seventh of thirteen children of John Godwin and Anna Hull. Physically weak, introverted and intellectually precocious, Godwin held to strict Sandemanian Calvinism almost until the end of his formal education in 1778 at the Dissenting school, Hoxton Academy. John Godwin was a minister of the Sandeman variety and it was expected that young William would follow him into the ministry. Godwin later described Sandeman as a "celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin." Such an austere religiosity so early in life goes a long way to explain why Godwin would eventually become the prophet of philosophical anarchism. From The History Guide.
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Blupete - On William Godwin
A 1825 essay in The Spirit of the Age, by William Hazlitt.
Chronology of William Godwin's life.
The Half-Told And Mangled Tale of Caleb Williams
An essay by Julian Darius on William Godwin's novel.
Article on the life and work of the founder of philosophical anarchism. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Mark Philp.
A detailed biography and texts.
A biographical essay by Peter Landry.
Biographical entry from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Includes categorized links to books, articles, encyclopedia entries and other biographical material.
A short biography.
William Godwin and Informal Education
An article exploring this thinker's contribution to the theory of education, paying particular attention to informal education and lifelong learning. By Mark K. Smith.
William Godwin Archive
An extensive collection of online texts by this noted early anarchist. Also contains biography, bibliography, commentary, and images.
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In Japan, scientists and engineers have worked together to create the maglev train. Maglev means magnetic levitation. Unlike other trains, this train does not have any wheels, but instead runs with magnets.
Imagine driving to work, and you’re going to be late because of all the traffic. The maglev train was built for this purpose. This train makes a faster, easier trip for anybody in a hurry. It does not pollute the environment as other trains do.
The way this train goes is not by rails or train tracks. Instead, in runs by guideways. These guideways contain sets of cross-connected metal coils wound into a figure eight pattern to form electromagnets. When stopped, the train rests on rubber wheels.
Once the train reaches 150 kilometers per hour (93 mph) the magnetic force is strong enough to lift the train 4 inches off the ground. The same magnetic forces that lift the train also move it forward and keep it centered within the guideway. This is the same technology used by Tesla’s hyperlogy which makes the ride smooth and the train exceptionally safe.
The train was clocked at 603 kilometers per hour (375 mph). This is much faster than the maglev trains already operating in Shanghai, China, and in South Korea which run at speeds of roughly 268 to 311 miles per hour and 68 miles per hour.


In this tutorial we will see how to use the terminal to backup our system files and folders in a single compressed archive file (we will use the bz2 format). The command we are going to use will exclude some unnecessary folders from the backup process. Making a full backup of your system files and folders will allow you to recover them later in case of any unexpected system troubles.
The archive file that we are going to create will be stored in the "backup" folder that we will see how to create inside the home directory, you can specify any other location of your choice.
Under Ubuntu, Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run this command to create the backup folder we want to store the backup file:
mkdir ~/backup && cd ~/backup
Then start your system backup with this command:
tar cvpjf backup.tar.bz2 --exclude=/proc4 --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys / --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/backup.tar.bz2
If you want to exclude more folders, you can add this option followed by the folder full path in the end of the command given above as follows:
You can browse the folder containing the backup archive file with this command:
You can then recover with this command:
tar xvpfj backup.tar.bz2 -C /
or run this command (full path indicated):
tar xvpfj ~/backup/backup.tar.bz2 -C /


Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of Douglas Dillon, 2001
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The glassware known as chalcedony was developed in Renaissance Venice. Production ceased in the eighteenth century, only to be revived in the mid-nineteenth century. These examples of chalcedony glassware reveal skill and artistry equal to that of European makers, although they were produced only shortly after the technique was introduced into Japan in the mid-1800s.


The porphyrias are a group of inherited or acquired disorders of certain enzymes in the heme bio-synthetic pathway (also called porphyrin pathway). They manifest with either neurological complications ("acute") or skin problems ("cutaneous"), or occasionally both. The porphyrias may be classified by the primary site of the overproduction and accumulation of the porphyrins (or their chemical precursors) as hepatic porphyrias, where porphyrins are overproduced in the liver predominantly, or erythropoietic porphyrias, where the overproduction is confined to the bone marrow and the erythrocye (red blood cell) and its precursors.
The term derives from the Greek Ï€Î¿ÏÏ†ÏÏÎ±, porphyra, meaning "purple pigment". The name is likely to have been a reference to the purple discolouration of feces and urine in patients during an attack. Although original descriptions are attributed to Hippocrates, the disease was first explained biochemically by Felix Hoppe-Seyler in 1871, and acute porphyrias were described by the Dutch physician Barend Stokvis in 1889.
The prevalence of all types of porphyria taken together has been estimated to be approximately 1 in 25,000 in the United States. The worldwide prevalence has been estimated to be somewhere between 1 in 500 to 1 in 50,000 people.


History - Horses in World War I.
As we already know, horses were in demand in World War I. Under the 'Horse Mobilisation Scheme,' farms and families could be forced to sell their horses to the Army. Many people didn't want to give up their horses as they feared they would suffer or that they would never see them again.
Read this letter to Lord Kitchener (Secretary of State for War) from a little girl Freda Hewlett who did not want to give up her pony 'Betty.'
Your task is to write a letter to Lord Kitchener to explain why you don't want your horse to be taken to go to war. Try to remember letter layout, but focus more on the content of the letter.
Use this link top help your WWI research:


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Unformatted text preview: Fundamentals: I Aqueous Solutions and Precipitation Precipitation reactions An insoluble solid forms when two strong electrolytes (in solution) are mixed electrolyte solute present in an aqueous solution almost entirely as ions Complete ionic equation All the ions and solids are shown (even if the ions remain ions after the reaction) Net ionic equation Spectator ions are not shown only the players in the chemical reaction Ex. Write the complete and net ionic equations for: Pb(NO 3 ) 2 (aq) + HCl (aq) PbCl 2 (s) + HNO 3 (aq) 1) Balance equation: Pb(NO 3 ) 2 (aq) + 2 HCl (aq) PbCl 2 (s) + 2 HNO 3 (aq) 2) Write the complete ionic equation Write (aq) compounds as ions because they are really dissolved: Include correct charge and stochiometric coefficient Pb 2+ (aq) + 2 NO 3- (aq) + 2 H + (aq) + 2 Cl- (aq) PbCl 2 (s) + 2 H + (aq) + 2 NO 3- (aq) 3) Write the net ionic equation: Cancel out the spectator ions (like terms) If it changed in the reaction leave it in the net ionic equation Pb 2+ (aq) + 2 NO 3- (aq) + 2 H + (aq) + 2 Cl- (aq) PbCl 2 (s) + 2 H + (aq) + 2 NO 3- (aq) Pb 2+ (aq) + 2 Cl- (aq) PbCl 2 (s) Predicting the products of a precipitation reaction Solubility rules! page F65 Ex. Determine the total & net ionic equation resulting from the reaction of solutions of sodium sulfate and barium bromide:...
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Wi-Fi was a method of wirelessly connecting electronic devices to each other via the internet, for purposes of communication or entertainment. It could also be used as a method of dispersing energy. It had varying qualities of reception.
By 2013, Wi-Fi was practically omnipresent on Earth - the Eleventh Doctor described humanity as "living in a Wi-Fi soup." The Maitland family could access Wi-Fi in their home, using the password rycbar123. The Great Intelligence used an organisation run by Miss Kizlet to upload peoples' souls through Wi-Fi into the data cloud in order to feed its form; this plan was enacted by disguised robots called Spoonheads. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
On New Year's Day 2019, a lone Dalek took over the Government Communications Headquarters of Great Britain. In order to divert enough power to make a transmission to Skaro, the Dalek shut down the country's Wi-Fi, phone signals and Internet to power the transmission. (TV: Resolution)
In the underwater base the Drum in 2119, the Twelfth Doctor tuned his sonic sunglasses into the base's Wi-Fi, providing an audio-visual feed to the base's computers to let the base crew get a closer look at the ghosts haunting them. He also used the sunglasses to generate holograms, first of Clara Oswald and later of himself, which were projected using the base's Wi-Fi. (TV: Under the Lake, Before the Flood)
In the 52nd century, the Seventh Transept had decent Wi-Fi, despite being a tomb. Dorium Maldovar was able to use his media chip to access the Wi-Fi after he was decapitated and brought to the Seventh Transept. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)


Vertical farming is a component of urban agriculture and it is also an indoor farming practice. In the world today, food security has been a major challenge, due to its growing population and there is still need for more food production to meet the global consumption.
According to UNPD, (2009), the world population will increase from about 6.9 billion in 2010 to 9.2 billion in 2050 and the urban population will likewise increase from 50.46 percent in 2010 to 68.70 percent in 2050. It is expected that world population will continue to increase and currently, the growth rate per year is about 80 million.
Vertical farming can take place in greenhouses, skyscrapers, controlled environment agriculture etc.
Advantages of Vertical Farming
- It can resist any weather
- It conserves energy
- Sustainable urban growth
- Reduces transportation costs
- It does not require soil and fertilizer
- Higher yields
- Increase year round crop production
- Respond greatly to climate change (controlled climate)
- Environment friendly
- Less water is needed
- It will reduce pest infestation and post harvest spoilage
- Organic crops production
- Human health friendly
- Vertical farming would reduce the need for new farmland
Therefore, intensifying indoor urban farming via the establishment of vertical farms in urban centers may likely be the solution to food security for the growing population.
Big business investors should start thinking of investing into vertical agriculture, in other to produce adequate food for the growing population so as to curb the menace of food insecurity in the world.
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The Hunted Whale
About the Book
The lethal industry that lit the world, explained and illustrated by precise photographs of its weapons and equipment.
THE HUNTED WHALE is a spectacular photographic exploration of the material culture of American whaling in the age of sail. Before the coming of steam and diesel ships with instruments of mechanized slaughter, the hunt was a relatively even contest between two wily mammals --- man and the sperm whale. The danger that lurked in each hunt can be seen in the ultra-light cedar construction of the whale boat that the men “beached” on the living whale’s back. The gnarled and twisted shapes of surviving harpoons document the tenacity of the hunters as well as the wounded whale’s manic attempt to break free. Many aspects of the sperm whale’s unusual physiology are illustrated here, as are the whaler’s personal belongings: hats, gloves, and scrimshaw --- the intricate carvings he made on the whale’s teeth.
Expertly curated and beautifully shot, this magnificent photo essay takes the viewer to the New England ports of a fledgling America as it struggled to dominate a global industry. Amazing facts, explanatory notes, and tales from the sea, representing the fruit of years of research, accompany James McGuane’s over 250 masterful photographs. McGuane looks to identify the various motivations that turned ordinary men into whale hunters. He discovers adventure, greed, courage, escape, gullibility and ignorance.
The book also includes a riveting firsthand account of the hunt, excerpted from naturalist Robert Cushman Murphy’s Logbook for Grace, a diary he kept of his time aboard the whaleship Daisy in 1912. With THE HUNTED WHALE, McGuane delivers an engrossing and humane snapshot of a now-vanished age that helped forge the American nation as we know it.
245 color photographs


Imagine a school assembly with 250 students. Everyone stands up and flips a coin. People with tails sit down. People with heads flip again.
Do you think anyone will get 6 heads in a row?
How many heads in a row do you expect the last one standing to have flipped?
Can you explain your reasoning?
Here is an animation for you to explore what happens when different sizes of school assembly gather and carry out the experiment.
Now that you have had the chance to explore, do your answers and reasoning to the questions above change at all?
How many people would you need to have in a school assembly for you to expect there to be someone still standing after ten flips?
Here are some related questions you might like to consider:
- Imagine that if you buy one ticket, the probability of winning the lottery jackpot is approximately 1 in 14 million. If there are usually two jackpot winners every week, how many tickets do you think are sold each week?
- On October 7th 2010, a woman gave birth to her third child. Her first two children were also born on October 7th, in 2005 and 2007. So all three children in the family have the same birthday. The odds of this happening were incorrectly reported in the newspapers as being 1 in 48 million. Can you work out the correct probability?
There are more than a million families in the UK with three children.
Would you expect there to be other families with three children who share a birthday?
- The television performer Derren Brown once filmed himself flipping ten heads in a row for a programme about horse racing and unlikely events. He used a fair coin, and kept filming until he got ten in a row. How long do you think it took him?


The extraordinary White-capped Noddy portrait. Indeed it is a bird that looks angry at you. Well, in that photograph. It stands on a piece of coral and looks straight into your eyes, like an angry, confrontational bird. The white feathers on its head, certainly look like it wears a cap. Since it sits on a white coral, you can see its webbed feet. The beach consists of bleached corals, crunched to fine sand, or much more substantial pieces. The background includes sand, coral, and far away from bushes.
White-capped Noddy Portrait
This feisty White-capped Noddy is a seabird living worldwide in tropical and subtropical areas. You can find this species in the central Atlantic, northeast Indian, and in the Pacific Ocean. That White-capped Noddy portrait photograph was taken on Lady Elliott Island at the Great Barrier Reef.
Indeed the Great Barrier Reef is the 7th natural wonder of the earth. Undoubtedly, it is so large we can see it from space! The Great Barrier Reef is the second largest reef on the planet. Long as 2300 km and covering 344 400 square kilometers. Wow! To make the size a bit more imaginable to you: the Great Barrier Reef is as large as Japan or Italy. To compare, Kruger National Park in South Africa is the size of Belgium, which is much smaller! The Great Barrier Reef was created as a Marine Park in 1975. The bird residents consist of 215 species, with many other species living underwater. As sad as it is because its main threats are human-influence. Who would have guessed that! After all, the result, about 50% of the coral decline from 1985 until 2012.
There I wonder how the reef looks today in 2020! The home of this White-capped Noddy and 214 other bird species. Especially the 1625 underwater species! Not to mention, the 600 species of soft and hard corals.


Step 1: Test the battery cells from the raw supplier to ensure that the voltage and capacity of each cell are sufficient.
Test and analyze the lithium battery’s charge and discharge curve, capacity, voltage, and other related data.
Step 2: Pick up the same voltage and capacity battery cell for 1 battery pack to ensure stable performance.
Pick up the lithium battery cell with the same voltage and capacity/ resistance, and use the same battery cell to make a battery pack to make the function stable.
Step 3: Auto Welding Machine to weld the lithium battery cell to the battery pack.
Automatical welded machine for a battery pack for higher working efficiency and for accuracy than a worker, to reduce the fault rate significantly.
Step 4: 100% testing lithium battery pack.
Initial testing of all battery packs using test equipment
Step 5: The aging test of the lithium battery pack.
Battery pack charge and discharge aging test by battery aging rack.


Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-including L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series-to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative heterosexuality, yet this inherent paradox runs throughout many classic narratives of literature for young readers. Children's literature typically endorses heterosexuality through its invisible presence as the de facto sexual identity of countless protagonists and their families, yet heterosexuality's ubiquity is counterbalanced by its occlusion when authors shield their readers from forthright considerations of one of humanity's most basic and primal instincts. The book demonstrates that tensions between innocence and sexuality render much of children's literature queer, especially when these texts disavow sexuality through celebrations of innocence. In this original study, Pugh develops interpretations of sexuality that few critics have yet ventured, paving the way for future scholarly engagement with larger questions about the ideological role of children's literature and representations of children's sexuality.Tison Pugh is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature and has published on children's literature in such journals as Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Marvels and Tales.


Environmental Impact of Brick, Stone and Concrete Paperback / softback
This report provides a review of how brick, stone and concrete materials have been assessed within the current edition of The Green Guide to Specification, including the application of the Environmental Profiles Methodology that underlies The Green Guide. This report aims to provide manufacturers and specifiers with a general understanding of the approach and decisions that have been made when applying the Environmental Profiles Methodology to these materials.
The major impacts and opportunities for using brick, stone and concrete over their whole life cycle are discussed and opportunities for improvements to the environmental performance of these materials are identified. This report has been produced as part of a series providing background information on the production of The Green Guide to Specification.
Many of the other reports in the series that focus on specific materials may also be of use when considering the environmental impact of construction products.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Pages: 36 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Tables, color; 10 Illustrations, color
- Publisher: IHS BRE Press
- Publication Date: 30/07/2013
- Category: Environmentally-friendly architecture & design
- ISBN: 9781848063204


One tip for bush identification is to observe the bark and the shape and color of the leaves. Other ways to identify bushes are to see whether they have thorns, prickles or bristles and identify the sort of flowers they produce. Other identifiers are nuts, acorns, pods, berries or other types of seedheads. Another way to identify a bush is by the habitat where it grows.Continue Reading
For example, a rose bush is easy to identify when it is flowering, but identifying it at other times of the year might be a challenge. One way may be by its fruit. Roses bear red fruits called hips, and they are diagnostic. In some types of rose bushes, they are born singly on stems and in others they come in clusters. In the smooth and rugosa roses, the fruit hang on to their sepals even after they are ripe.
The twigs and bark of the sweetshrub are aromatic as are the leaves. The leaves are also oval and downy underneath, and the flowers are reddish brown and have a smell similar to strawberries. The bark of the ninebark splits and peels, but the pith is solid. The leaves are toothed and the plant bears clusters of flowers.Learn more about Botany


Have you ever seen
a tornado? Hopefully, it was in a video or on television. Each year
as many as 1000 tornadoes may occur in the United States. Their
destruction can range from minor to devastating. Although about
100 people are killed each year by tornadoes, many more people survive
unharmed. By knowing what to do you can greatly decrease your chances
of getting hurt. This activity will introduce you to the history
of tornado forecasting, tornado formation and tornado safety.
What's in this section?
- Describe when and where most tornadoes form.
- Explain tornado watches and warnings and how to respond.
- Describe what tornadoes look like.
- Learn about the first tornado forecast.
- Learn about the Fujita scale for rating tornadoes.
- Learn how to calculate percentages.
- Consider the impact the first tornado forecast had on saving
- Discuss the importance of following safety plans.
- Describe why it is unlikely an F6 rating will ever be assigned
to a tornado.
- Click on the link above to participate in some additional activities
- Click on "Links Only" to access
a list of all the external sites used in this activity.