He applied the “Page 99 Test” to Dance of the Furies and reported the following:
In the British comedy Blackadder Goes Forth, Private Baldrick pronounces to his fellow soldiers “I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.” While Blackadder is obviously not meant as serious history, the line does reveal two basic truths about 1914. First, like Baldrick, few Europeans had hatreds for people in other countries strong enough to lead them to war. Second, most of them had no idea how the assassination of a little-known nobleman had put them in trenches to fight a war with no end in sight.Learn more about Dance of the Furies at the Harvard University Press website.
Page 99 of Dance of the Furies speaks to how the people of Europe responded to the events of the tragic summer of 1914. They did not go to war for the archduke or to avenge some distant slight to their national honor. Page 99 relates three strikingly similar anecdotes from three nations in the last days of peace. An English mother, in a journal to explain the war to her infant son, wrote that “if we fight, it is because we shall have been dragged in.” French food writer Claire de Pratz spoke with two fishermen who told her that although they did not want war, it was now obvious to them that the Germans did and so they saw no choice but to fight. The Berliner Tageblatt editorialized that “We didn’t want a war and we have done everything in our power to prevent it.” The responses were the same across the continent: few wanted war, but all were determined to resist what they saw as foreign aggression.
I hope that Dance of the Furies will help us to see the people of 1914 as they were, not as sepia-toned figures too simple or too stupid to see what they were unleashing. Their experiences tell us a great deal not only about their age, but ours. If we understand them, perhaps we can understand that the poor old ostrich didn’t die for nothing after all.


The Kronbergs Family:
A Journey from Latvia to America.
The Kronbergs family was displaced during the Soviet invasion and occupation of Latvia in 1940. After a short term in a Displacement Camp in Nuremburg, Germany, they came to America and were placed with a family in North Carolina that was unable or unwilling to provide for small children. After staying at another Displacement Camp here in North Carolina, they came to live with Sen. Ralph H. Scott, Sr. and his family.
Exhibition Dates: April 30, 2014 – November 2, 2014
See our YouTube video of the exhibit: The Kronbergs, A Journey from Latvia to America


Land use regulations in Massachusetts are ever-evolving, and different municipalities have significantly different requirements and restrictions. To avoid time-consuming pitfalls and oversights that could affect the success of your development project, it is important to work with an attorney who is familiar with each jurisdiction’s codes and practices.
For many projects, environmental restrictions are one area of particular concern, as these regulations often change and are enforced by local, state and federal authorities. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a new ruling meant to clarify which kinds of wetlands and other water resources are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act. However, some states governments have taken issue with the rule.
Sixteen states, not including Massachusetts, are suing the EPA, saying that the new definition of federally protected waters is too broad and poses a threat to landowners’ property rights.
The Clean Water Act gives the federal government jurisdictional authority to exact pollution controls over navigable “waters of the United States,” but the lawsuits filed by the states claim that the new definition of navigable waters doesn’t take into account a number of factors, including duration of water flow.
For example, a lawsuit filed in Texas claims the new definition of protected waters would give the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over “dry ponds, ephemeral streams, intermittent channels and even ditches.”
A recent article in Reuters has more on the EPA’s reasoning for the new ruling.
Whether you’re purchasing, developing or selling a property, cover your legal bases on the local, state and federal levels. You need someone on your side who knows environmental law and stays abreast of its frequent changes.
To learn more, please see Seder & Chandler LLP’s environmental law overview.


In this study, land-cover change in the capital Conakry of Guinea was simulated using the integrated Cellular Automata and Markov model (CA-Markov) in the Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). Historical land-cover change information was derived from 1986, 2000 and 2016 Landsat data. Using the land-cover change maps of 1986 and 2000, the land-cover change map for 2016 was simulated based on the Markov model in IDRISSI software (Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA). The simulated result was compared with the 2016 land-cover map for validation using the Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC). The ROC result showed a very strong agreement between the two maps. From this result, the land-cover change map for 2025 was simulated using CA-Markov model. The result has indicated that the proportion of the urban area was 49% in 2016, and it is expected to increase to 52% by 2025, while vegetation will decrease from 35% in 2016 to 32% in 2025. This study suggests that the rapid land-cover change has been led by both rapid population growth and extreme poverty in rural areas, which will result in migration into Conakry. The results of this study will provide bases for assessing the sustainability and the management of the urban area and for taking actions to mitigate the degradation of the urban environment.
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which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited


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The Columbian Exchange takes place.
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Bartolomeu Dias sails around the southern tip of Africa.
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Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas.
Vasco da Gama arrives in India after sailing around the southern tip of Africa.
Amerigo Vespucci reaches the mouth of the Amazon River in South America.
Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world.
Plymouth Colony is established
James Cook lands in Australia.
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Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early
Why is it important to find health problems early?
Often, the earlier a disease is diagnosed, the more likely it is that it can be cured or successfully managed. When you treat a disease early, you may be able to prevent or delay problems from the disease. Treating the disease early may also make the disease easier to live with.
How do you find health problems early?
Your doctor may suggest:
What health problems should you be tested for?
You and your doctor can use recommendations made by expert panels of health professionals to help you decide what screening tests you need. These panels develop screening recommendations based on:
Sometimes different expert panels make different recommendations. In these situations, talk with your doctor to decide which guidelines best meet your health needs.
See which screening tests you may need:
How do you decide when to get a screening test?
When and how often you get screening tests may depend on your age, your gender, your health status, your risk factors, and the cost of testing. Your doctor may suggest screening tests based on expert guidelines. In some cases, testing is done as part of a routine checkup.
When you are thinking about getting a screening test, talk with your doctor. Find out about the disease, what the test is like, how the test may help you or hurt you, and how much the test costs.
Ask your doctor about the limits of the test and treatment. For example:
Also think about what you would do if a test shows that you have the disease. For example, if you are going to be tested for osteoporosis, are you willing to take medicine or make lifestyle changes if the test shows that you have it?
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There are a number of ways that we can walk in the footsteps of Jesus today. We can help in a soup kitchen, visit someone in prison, or help resettle a refugee family. We can contact legislators, work for peace, or support a local community organization that empowers low-income people to address issues that impact them. These examples illustrate two distinct yet complementary ways to put Catholic social teaching into practice: charity and justice. These two types of responses have been called the two “feet” of Christian service. We need both feet—charity and justice—to walk the walk in the footsteps of Jesus.
Catholic social teaching calls us to both charity and justice. Charity meets the immediate needs of persons and families; but charity alone does not change social structures that attack human dignity, oppress people, and contribute to poverty. Pursuing social justice helps us change oppressive social structures; but we cannot ignore the urgent needs of persons while we work for social change.
Charity and justice are incomplete without each other; they are two sides of the same coin. Charity calls forth a generous response from individuals; justice requires concerted communal action to transform institutional policies, societal laws, or unjust social situations. With our emphasis on individualism, we Americans tend to emphasize charity over justice. The challenge for Catholics is to appreciate the demands of both charity and justice.
Please also see Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus.


Before the invention of a mechanical cigarette roller or manufactured cigarettes, smokers were left with the only option of rolling a cigarette by hand. Today there are many ways of obtaining a cigarette. You can purchase a manufactured cigarette specially packaged in a box of 20 from a store, or you can roll your own with the help of one of many little devices. These devices can be purchased or made from three simple objects found around the home.
- Skill level:
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Things you need
- Cigarette paper
Cut out a 2-by-3 inch piece of card stock paper.
Apply a line of glue down the length of a pencil.
Attach the three-inch side of the paper to the pencil. Press firmly, and smooth it with your finger.
Wrap the paper around the pencil, and glue it in place. Wait for the glue to dry.
Place the pencil on a flat surface with the pencil on top of the paper. The pencil should be in front of you, and the paper should be stretched out in front of it.
Place a line of tobacco along the edge of the pencil on the paper. Push the tobacco next to the pencil.
Pick up the pencil and place it on the other side of the tobacco. The tobacco should be in front of you and the pencil should be in front of it.
Pick up the roller and place your two thumbs on top of the pencil. Your two pointer and middle fingers should be placed below the pencil.
Push the pencil away from you, which will cause it to roll the paper and the tobacco. Stop rolling when you get to the edge of the paper.
Hold the roller with one hand and place the cigarette paper between the pencil and the paper of the roller. Place the sticky side of the cigarette paper out and up. This should be the last part of the paper that goes inside the roller.
Roll the pencil until the paper has wrapped around the tobacco and sealed shut. Open the roller, and remove the cigarette.
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HEPA Air Filters
What does HEPA stand for?
HEPA filter means “High Efficiency Particulate Air “– filter. It was first developed in the forties to be used when the atomic bomb was being assembled, it became more common after that and continued to be known with the same name.
Working of HEPA air filters?
HEPA filters are made of a dense fabric of crisscrossing fibers that trap particles in the air.It is capable of trapping those particles by 3 different mechanisms – interception,impaction,and diffusion - and not only by acting as a sieve.
What is the benefit of HEPA filters?
They can reach 99% filtering, they are used to filter air used to ventilate places where a high quality of air cleanness is desired, like in industrial plants for delicate material, in medical and biological industry etc. and in HOMES, especially homes of allergy sufferers, where these filters help the allergic people by removing pollen, mold spores, and dust mite droppings.
Problems with HEPA filters:
HEPA filters in vacuum cleaners:
Many vacuum cleaners are fitted with a filter that purifies the air coming out of the vacuum cleaner’s bag. This is especially useful for asthmatic people and allergy sufferers.
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The large mammal group typically includes horned animals, antlered animals, bears, and large members of the wild cat or wild dog families.
Horned or antlered animals have these key characteristics.
- Horns are hollow and are not shed. Wild sheep and goats have horns.
- Antlers are solid bone and are shed annually. Members of the deer family have antlers and rub their antlers on trees.
- Horned and antlered animals are cloven-hoofed (their hooves have two parts).
- Horned and antlered animals are ruminants (they chew cud). A ruminant digests its food in two steps. First they eat food and regurgitate it (cud), and then they eat it a second time. They have a hard upper pad that they use to mash their food.
Characteristics of Mammals
- Mammals are warm-blooded animals with hair. Young are nourished with milk from the mother.
- Mammals can be carnivorous (meat-eating), herbivorous (plant-eating), or omnivorous (meat- and plant-eating).
- Mammals seek to regulate their temperature. Mammals in cold climates must keep warm, and mammals in hot climates must keep cool.
- Small mammals live shorter lives than large mammals, in general.
- Mammals vary in social behavior—some species live in groups, and other species are solitary except when mating or raising offspring.


A librarian that serves specific schools, departments, and programs to support the teaching, learning and research needs of faculty and students in these units. Liaison librarians are also known as subject librarians.
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
The LCSH is an index of subject headings, maintained by the United States Library of Congress, for use in bibliographic records. These Subject Headings function like subject terms and help you locate information on a specific topic.
A scholarly paper which includes current knowledge on a particular topic. Literature reviews, or "lit reviews" use secondary sources and do not report new or original experimental work.
In a library, a loan is the act of lending (or letting people borrow) our materials for a certain period of time. The typical loan period for an undergraduate to borrow a book is 45 days: http://ulib.iupui.edu/services/loan_periods.


Meet Your Beekeeper
This is Ali
He has spent his entire life around bees. His passion for beekeeping has been passed down from generation to generation in a largely traditional, tribal society. His roots in beekeeping did not begin with the booming market demands for Yemeni honey. It was born from his familial lineage in the trade that has bred a loyalty towards maintaining traditional beekeeping practices. This is why we love him and his honey so much!
Ali continues to use the traditional method of beekeeping which consists of a thin hive box, from a hollowed-out log. Beekeepers that hold onto these ancient practices are very particular about the quality of honey produced.
When the honeycombs are full, Ali cuts them off with a knife and leaves some in the hive to sustain the bees through the drier months.
“Producing this type of honey takes patience and time. We are beekeepers because this honey is sacred to us and we know with certainty there is real healing in it. Our work can help many people and has helped my family. It provides us with a livelihood but also our health, especially during these difficult times of war and drought in Yemen.”
Herbal remedies and alternative medicine are deeply embedded in Yemeni culture, with the use of honey mixtures topping the list. These are some honey related traditions practised in Yemen:
- Melted butter with honey is given to mothers right after childbirth
- Honey and eggs given to brides and grooms as they are known for fertility and strength
- Honey with myrrh (gum taken from myrrh tree) is used for constipation
- Honey with asafoetida helps with menstruation


- 3 Day Training
- Using a holistic, healing and strength based approach to preventing and responding to family violence
- Introductory family violence training for people / organisations working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
- Using healing and culturally strong approaches
- Understanding the impacts of history and trauma for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Recognising the prevalence, nature and impacts of family violence in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community
- Building skills and strategies to address family violence in the community.
- Supervision support and debriefing for workers in the family violence sector
Putting it into practice:
- Adopting strength-based work practices that support interactions with children, young people and their families affected by family violence
- Effective culturally sensitive engagement strategies and integrated approaches when supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience family violence
- Identifying and responding to client specific needs (safety planning, intervention strategies and using appropriate referrals)
- Programs, activities and tools for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people affected by family violence
This workshop is designed for:
- Anyone interested in the family violence prevention field
- Those interested in gaining skills knowledge and understanding of family violence prevention and child safety with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Professionals from Child protection, Family Support, Family violence programs, women’s and men’s services, youth work, community development and community services
* No prerequisites, however this workshop complements our TYBE training.
Contact SNAICC to discuss how to host or connect to local training opportunities.


The Burden of Visual Truth. The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality
The Burden of Visual Truth The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality
Julianne H. Newton The University of Oregon
Photojournalism, at the beginning of the 21st century, finds itself at the proverbial crossroads: Will image-making technologies and public cynicism lead to its demise, or will journalists rise to the challenge by practicing a new, more credible form of visual journalism? From the time of its invention in the early 19th century, photography enjoyed the unparalleled credibility assumed through a mechanistic perception of a neutral, “mirror of nature” camera. By the beginning of the 20th century, photographs were being used as irrefutable evidence of the veracity of their manifest content, a position supported by empiricism, modernism, and the scientific method. Additionally, journalism's deliberate move toward objectivity in mid-20th-century media culture underscored the value of photographic evidence. By the 1960s, photojournalism was flourishing—the 35-mm camera had made the physical challenges of picture taking easier, printing advances had made publication of photographs a simpler matter, and news publications had begun to realize the informational ...


The great thing about this graph is that it shows not only working satellites—but also ones out of commission, as well as how much significant space junk each country has created. Looking at the data, you can kind of guess at which countries are the equivalent of a slob throwing burger wrappers out the car window.
The U.S. obviously contributes a lot of space junk, but we also send far more satellites into orbit. So we have about 1,000 working and broken satellites in space; we produced about 3,300 pieces of space junk. But China? They've launched less than 70 into orbit while producing 2,000 bit of debris, which sounds like they're just firing stuff into orbit and crossing their fingers.
The recent history of Russia, in the meantime, is likewise visible. They've got 1,300 broken satellites up there, but only 86 are still functioning, which could be considered both a sign of the collapse of the U.S.S.R.'s space program and the heavily low-tech, oil-based reality of their modern economy.
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From December 2002 to June 2003, 14 cultures of Salmonella enterica serotype Babelsberg and 6 cultures of serotype Enteritidis, isolated in France from internationally adopted children, were identified at the French National Reference Center for Salmonella. All serotype Babelsberg isolates were related, as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and all serotype Enteritidis strains displayed the same phage type. All serotype Enteritidis and seven serotype Babelsberg isolates produced an SHV-12-like extended-spectrum beta-lactamase as determined by sequencing of PCR products and by isoelectrofocusing. Some serotype Enteritidis isolates exhibited additional antimicrobial resistance (aminoglycosides, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, sulfonamides, and trimethoprim). Our investigation indicated that these Salmonella isolates were certainly acquired in the same orphanage in Bamako, Mali, before the children were adopted by French families. An inappropriate use of ceftriaxone was probably the cause of the emergence of such strains. There is an urgent need to determine the origin of the contamination and to introduce adequate antibiotic protocols into this orphanage to prevent further transmission and dissemination. Screening for infections and follow-up, adapted to the origin of the internationally adopted children, should be recommended.
Auteur : Weill FX, Demartin M, Tande D, Espie E, Rakotoarivony I, Grimont PA
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2004, vol. 42, n°. 6, p. 2432-7


Salomon Gessner, (born April 1, 1730, Zürich—died March 2, 1788, Zürich), Swiss writer, translator, painter, and etcher, known throughout Europe for literary works of pastoral themes and rococo style.
Gessner was a town councillor and a forestry superintendent who also ran an important publishing house, from which he published his books with his own excellent etchings. His pastoral prose Idyllen (1756–72) and his epic poem Der Tod Abels (1758; “The Death of Abel”) were his most renowned works, making him the most successful and typical representative of a literary rococo movement. His pastorals were translated into 20 languages, including Welsh, Latin, and Hebrew. The English translation ran through many editions and was admired by the Romantic writers Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and Wordsworth. Gessner also translated some of the English poet Alexander Pope’s “Pastorals” and two tales of the French writer Denis Diderot. The final collection of his works was published at Zürich in 1841.


Fun fact: Copernicus was a monetary theorist. Yes, the astronomer extraordinaire who worked out a theory of the revolution of celestial spheres also turned his attention back down to earth to consider currency reforms in his native Poland. At the time (early 16th Century), Poland had three different types of currency. All were made of precious metals, but were subject to frequent debasement, since the state could alter their value by decree.
Copernicus explained that Gresham's law was at work. When multiple coins are in circulation, those with cheaper metallic content relative to their value will be used for payment, while those with more expensive metallic content will be melted down for their metal and disappear from circulation. In short, "bad money drives out good." Copernicus also was an early developer of the quantity theory of money, that prices vary directly with the size of the money supply. He thought that the government needed to stop minting so many coins if they wanted to solve the inflation problem. He published his monetary ideas in Monetae cudendae ratio in 1526.
Copernicus focused on coins whose value derived from their metallic content. Today, of course, our paper currency does not get its value based on the value of the paper itself; it is not commodity currency, but fiat currency. What about the trillion dollar platinum coin we keep hearing about in the debt ceiling discussions? It would not get its value from its metallic content either. The government does not actually have a trillion dollars worth of the commodity platinum to mint into a coin. The coin would just use a small amount of platinum, and have its value by fiat. It is just as if the President were allowed to print a trillion dollars of paper money, which he's not. (That's why the platinum coin scenario is called a loophole.)


This module explores how Science Shops can effectively plan, implement and evaluate communication activities, including the communication of projects and their results.
Proposed duration: 3hr 30
Knowledge. After this module, participants will:
- Be familiar with the principles of effective communication for Science Shops.
- Know how to set objectives for an effective communication strategy, targeting audiences and crafting effective messages.
- Have an overview of communication planning and evaluation activities.
Skills and attitudes. After this module, participants will:
- Be able to map different channels to communicate messages.
- Gain skills about how to monitor and evaluate a communications strategy.
- Develop a strategic mindset to plan effective communications.
Training Info containing the session outline, interactive exercises and background information to support trainers delivering the training.
PowerPoint presentation (to support the delivery of the training).
Handout 1. Additional sources on communication and awareness building.
Handout 2. Communication monitoring tool.


Lustre bowl and cover
Spain, probably Manises
Tin-glazed earthenware, with decoration painted into and lustre over the glaze
Museum no. 7659&A-1862
By 1400, Manises, near Valencia, was the main centre for the production of lustre ceramics. Its export markets included the Middle East, where the lustre technique had originally begun.
Manises lustre wares were also popular in Italy. In 1407 an Italian merchant ordered 199 pieces, including 'three large bowls, their covers painted inside and out', a description that would fit this piece.


answer two questions about music in around 400 to 500 words.
please include one source or above.
the questions are in following description:
Rock music has a greatly expanded during the 1970’s, in terms of musical style and fashion and the styles were directly influenced by artists from the 1960s.
1. Choose an artist from the first half of the 70’s and describe how their music was an expansion and development of the “hippie aesthetic.” (Include at least one song example supports your analysis.) And, explain any other significant contributions the group made to rock music.
2.Then, choose a starkly different artist from the second half of the decade and contrast their musical style with the first artist. In conclude, describe how both groups were influenced by artists and styles from the 60’s.


The bridges are the important part of Chinese gardens. That’s because the water,for example, streams, lakes, ponds, are the important part of Chinese gardens, too : )
Some of the bridges in these gardens are of stone, and some of them are of wood,including straight, winding and arched bridges.
The straight bridge, usually level with the riverbank or with the
river to make the visitors feel as if they are surrounded by water.
The winding bridge has low balustrades.
The arch bridges can be divided into the single-arch and the multi-arch varieties.
The bridges in these gardens may be not cover a large area, but fit in well with the streams and lakes to yield a uniformed effect.


1807 Commemorated is a research tool for those involved in the presentation and commemoration of painful pasts.
The results of the three phases of the project will be relayed through a series of conferences and workshops. These events organised for museum practitioners and academics will enable the dissemination of results and the generation of practical solutions to the representation of abolitionism, enslavement and traumatic histories to the public.
The literature concerning the wider topics of memory, museum and heritage studies as well as the commemoration of 1807 is immense and at times complex. To counter this, an accurate and substantial list of relevant material is supplied and reviewed here. A glossary containing terms which are used throughout this website is also given to facilitate easy comprehension of the subject matter.
A list of relevant links to organisations involved in the commemoration of 1807 is presented to enable the apprehension of how different groups have responded to remembering the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.


Snow fleas live underneath and on top of the snow. They will sometimes be found in tremendous numbers
When people listen to the winter message on my answering machine and hear me say that I am out chasing snow fleas, they are skeptical often suspecting that I am suffering from cabin fever. There is in fact an insect called a snow flea. It is not a flea at all but belongs to a very primitive group called springtails. The 2 pictures above were taken at one of our customers properties in February of 2004.
Snow fleas are so named, not because they bite, but because they have an apparatus called a furcula which allows them to jump or ‘spring’ through the air. These insects are able to live underneath and on top of the snow. In the late winter and early spring, you will sometimes find them in tremendous numbers on the surface of the snow or around the edges of ponds and puddles. They feed on decaying vegetation, fungi, pollen, algae, lichens and other similar materials.
Springtails are very small ranging from 1-3mm in length. They are often dark in colour but can range from pinks to greens. Some experts believe that these are the most abundant of all insects on earth with forest floor litter able to hold up to 50,000 per cubic foot. They are found throughout the world including the Arctic and high Himalayas. Specimens that have been found trapped in amber from 45 million years ago are similar to those still present today.
Springtails will occasionally invade homes in search of moisture. Because of their small size, they can enter under door thresholds, through screens, cracks and other small openings. They can be found in areas such as the bottoms of sliding glass doors where condensation builds or in damp basements and crawl spaces. They do not do any damage or bite. Usually reducing moisture sources and dampness will help eliminate them. Use a vacuum to reduce numbers. Outside, keep litter, mulch, debris, wood piles etc. away from the foundation.


Pieris canidia canidia
|Common Name:||Cabbage White|
|Extant in countries:||•Singapore|
A slow flyer, this particulars species seems to be confined to Singapore as it was not found in neighbouring Peninsula Malaysia or Thailand until recently. Some theory suggest that it has been accidentally introduced from Hong Kong / China as its food plants include certain vegetables. The butterfly has been sighted across the causeway in Johor, indicating that it might have migrated across the Johor Straits.
Habitat & Habits
To be detailed.
In places like Hong Kong, Pieris canidia is usually found near vegetable fields where it's caterpillar feed on family Cruciferae like Chinese Cabbage or Cabbage.
Refer to the ButterflyCircle's blog article - Life History of the Cabbage White.
Butterfly of the Month - December 2008


By Malcolm Thick. During periods of famine in the late 16th c. the English began the shift from a grain-dependent diet to one that included more vegetables. This was the impetus for the development of market gardens around London, where the Neat House gardens provided Londoners with fresh produce for over 200 years. Author Thick provides a general history of market gardening, as well as a detailed history of the Neat House gardens, including specific crops grown, gardening practices & techniques, gardeners’ earnings & standard of living. 175 pages. Softcover. Import.


Preparing a color atlas requires authors with 2 exceptional qualities. First, the authors must have clinical expertise that spans the field in depth and width. Second, the authors must have a long-standing love of documentation via photography. Both qualities are reflected well in A Color Atlas of Pediatric Allergy.
This book includes a collection of patients' photographs, mostly gathered by the authors and partly borrowed. The high-quality photographs are richly supplemented by excellent photomicrographs of pathological specimens frequently encountered in clinical practice; superb illustrations, diagrams, roentgenograms, and tables are included. The legends are clear and descriptive, and the tabulated information is well organized. The text provides concise information on topics common to pediatric allergy and on selected related subjects.
The topics covered include the following: allergy mechanisms; allergy evaluation; asthma differential diagnosis and management; otolaryngological and eye allergies; cutaneous allergies and related disorders; and specific allergies to foods, drugs, and


Best big data software platform & analytics tools
Big Data is the widely used technology that deals with systematically extracting the information from the large and complex, structured and unstructured data which are difficult to solve using normal data processing software. Big data include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualisation, querying, updating, information privacy and data sources.
Big data is generally associated with three main V’s- volume, variety and velocity. When there are large structured and data, we are primarily concerned with observing and tracking those data. Thus, Big data includes data with sizes which are greater to be handled by using normal software.
This analysis of data can be useful in the development of medicine, science, technology and so on. Scientists, business executives, analyst, practitioners of medicine, advertising companies, and governments alike regularly meet difficulties with large data-sets in areas including Internet searches, urban informatics, and business informatics. However, there is a big misconception between Big data and Business Intelligence (BI).
Big data uses mathematical optimisation, statistics and concept of non-linear system identification to conclude laws (correlations, regressions and non-linear relationship effects) from large sets of data which contain low information to reveal relationship or to predict the behaviour and outcomes.
Business Intelligence (BI) uses mathematical tools and descriptive statistics with data of high information to measure and calculate outcomes, detect trends and forecast the future of the organisation.


Robots could be picking fruit and doing other tasks in tomorrow's kiwifruit and apple orchards.
Scientists from Auckland and Waikato Universities as well as Plant and Food Research, and the Robotics Plus company, are collaborating on a four-year project to develop multi-purpose technology for orchards.
Research leader Bruce MacDonald, a robotics specialist at Auckland University, says it will expand on a kiwifruit harvesting prototype which Alistair Scarfe of Robotics Plus devised as a PhD project.
"He's developed a very nice prototype that is able to go through an orchard and pick some kiwifruit, that uses a vision system to identify the kiwifruit and then picks them and puts them through a system where the fruit can be collected and it drives its way round the orchard.
"What we're going to do is extend that, so it can work under all the different kinds of conditions that can happen in an orchard ... so that the robot can navigate round a whole lot of different kinds of orchards and avoid obstacles and always find its way down the right path and so on."
Associate professor MacDonald says the orchard robot will be designed to do pollination and spraying work, as well as harvesting, using a $7.6 million grant from the Government's latest science funding round.
(Original article courtesy of http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/rural/255553/robots-planned-for-orchard-work)


This article examines the effect of abortion legalization on fertility rates in the United States.
Fertility rates were compared over time betweeN states that varied in the timing of abortion legalization.
States legalizing abortion experienced a 4% decline in fertility retative to states where the legal status of abortion was unchanged.
The relative reductions in births to teens, women more than 35 years of age, non-White women, and unmarried women were considerably larger.
If women did not travel between states to obtain an abortion, the estimated impact of abortion legalization on birth rates would be about 11%. Conclusions.
A complete recrimibalization of abortion nationwide could result in 440 000 additional births per year.
A reversal of the Roe v Wade decision leaving abortion legal in some states would substantially limit first this Impact because of the extent of travel between states.
Mots-clés Pascal : Etats Unis, Amérique du Nord, Amérique, Législation, Avortement provoqué, Taux, Politique sanitaire, Fertilité, Natalité, Contrôle naissance, Historique, Homme, Femelle
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : United States, North America, America, Legislation, Induced abortion, Rate, Health policy, Fertility, Natality, Birth control, Case history, Human, Female
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Gannon, Robert. The Lightning Stalker. Popular Science. Vol. 242, No.
2. February, 1993.
Abstract: This article spends a day with a photographer who specializes
in lightning photography. The article provides excellent background information
on lightning patterns and how lightning forms. Lightning is defined as,
"an avalanche of electrons rushing suddenly from one spot to another,
so fast and in such quantity they cause the air to glow." The article
also provides a list of lightning facts, which includes safety precautions.


With annual average rainfall as high as 2700 mm (on average 2200 mm), the Black Forest National Park has one of the highest rates of precipitation in Germany outside of the Alps. It even exceeds the significantly higher-lying southern Black Forest. The reason for this is the Saverne Gap lying to the west. It significantly reduces the rain-shadow effect of the Vosges Mountains meaning that moist air from the Atlantic can practically reach the northern Black Forest without hindrance. Rainfall distribution is relatively uniform throughout the year with maximum rainfall occurring in July. A large part of the precipitation falls as snow an it can cover the ground from mid November onwards. Drifting snow can be common on high ground due to frequent severe storms.
The average annual air temperature in the upland areas is around 5°C, whereas in January the average is -3°C and in July it is close to 13°C. The vegetation period is therefore relatively short. The 10°C mark is exceeded only from June to September. The National Park is often covered with a blanket of fog – 180 days per year according to the statistics. In autumn and winter, however, so-called temperature inversions often occur, meaning that it can be significantly warmer in the upland areas than in the surrounding valleys.


In the tradition of Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book Leviathan:
- Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war - situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto "the war of all against all" - could only be averted by strong central government. He thus denied any right of rebellion toward the social contract, which would be later added by John Locke and conserved by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. However, Hobbes did discuss the possible dissolution of the State. As the social contract was made to institute a state that would provide for the "peace and defense" of the people, the contract would become void if the government no longer protected its citizens. In such a case, man would automatically return to a state of nature until the creation of a new social contract.
I would like to draw up a new social contract based upon the values and admonitions written in the Urantia Book. I would like to present it to the global populace, and allow every region a chance to ratify it in the manner of the US Constitution, with the intent to supersede, or empower, the United Nations.
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Protect Your Loved Ones
When you or your family members are around someone who smokes, you are all inhaling harmful chemicals that can cause smoking-related illnesses and diseases. The only way to protect yourself and your loved ones is to completely avoid secondhand smoke.
What you can do:
If you or someone you know smokes, call Quitline Iowa at 1-800-QUIT-NOW for free access to a Quit Coach to help you quit tobacco use.
Make your home and vehicle 100% smoke free. Air filters, ventilation systems and cracked windows do not entirely eliminate secondhand smoke.
Teach your children to stay away from secondhand smoke.
If you live in multi-unit housing, choose one with a smoke free policy. Smoke can travel through ventilation systems, doors, windows and cracks in the walls. Ventilation systems and air filters cannot completely eliminate secondhand smoke.


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Thermodynamics... one of the most subtle branches of science, and often counter-intuitive. But not as bad in that respect as aerodynamics.
You might think that a liquid with a low boiling point- preferably just above ambient temperature- would be ideal for use in a heat engine. Less thermal energy would be required to boil it and produce a vapour under pressure that could drive some kind of motor. However, you would be wrong. It has been known since Frenchman Sadi Carnot published his famous book in 1824 that the efficiency of any thermodynamic cycle, no matter what the working fluid used, increases as the temperature difference between the temperature at which heat is put in (as in the boiler of a steam engine) and the temperature at which it is taken out (as in a condenser) is increased.
Where Th is the input temperature and Tc the heat output temperature. (Absolute temperatures, in degrees Kelvin)
The Carnot efficiency is a maximum limit. In practice efficiency is always lower.
This is sometimes called Carnot's Law: see here for much more info. (External site)


A percentage is a quantity or amount reckoned as part of a whole, expressed in hundredths. In other words, percentage is the rate or proportion per hundred. For example, 75% of a quantity means 75 parts in every 100, or equivalently 3/4 of the total.
Related category ARITHMETIC
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Administering Medications to Patients -- Calculating Dosages in the Clinical Setting
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students use Excel to calculate correct medication dosages. Students are first asked to think conceptually about dosage administration and then presented with a case study in which they have to determine the quantity and frequency of the dosage based on a medication order. Students also create an xy scatter plot to examine the relationship of metric units, specifically grams and milligrams.
- Gain experience in using ratios and proportions.
- Use equations and graphical interpretation to examine the relationship of units within the metric system.
- be more comfortable thinking in terms of, and working with, the metric system.
- complete simple, yet extremely important, calculations to determine correct medication dosages.
Context for Use
Description and Teaching Materials
The module is a PowerPoint presentation with embedded spreadsheets. If the embedded spreadsheets are not visible, save the PowerPoint file to disk and open it from there.
This PowerPoint file is the student version of the module. An instructor version is available by request. The instructor version includes the completed spreadsheet. Send your request to Len Vacher (firstname.lastname@example.org) by filling out and submitting the Instructor Module Request Form.


When adding integers, use a number line to help you think through problems.It will be really helpful
For example: 2 + 6
Start at 2 and move 6 units to the right.
Since you stopped at 8, the answer is 8
Notice that you would get the same answer if you start at 6 and move 2 units to the right.
Find -2 + 8:
Start at 2 and move 8 units to the right.
Since you end up at 6, the answer is 6.
Find 4 + -7
Start at 4.
Here the number you are adding to 4 is a negative number(-7), so you have to move 7 units to the left.
After you do that, you will end up at -3, so the answer is -3
Find -2 + -6
Start at -2
Once again, the number you are adding is a negative number(-6), so you will move 6 units to the left.
You will end up at -8, so the answer is -8
-1 + 8 = 7 ( Start at -1 and move 8 units to the right).
4 + -4 = 0 ( Start at 4 and move 4 units to the left).
7 + -9 = -2 ( Start at 7 and move 9 units to the left).
-5 + 3 = -2 ( Start at -5 and move 3 units to the right)
Other related topics related to integers are modeling integers with chips , integers and inductive reasoning ,and consecutive integers
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Every city wants to be an active, healthy place where everyone can play sports and move around freely. But creating the active city is a challenge. Although we know about the importance of it since the 1950’s, we are facing a global pandemic of physical inactivity. Globally, around 31% of adults aged 15 and over were insufficiently active in 2008. It is not the lack of knowledge that is the problem. We clearly need a different way of thinking and doing in order to solve this challenge and create the city that activates everyone.
The reasons for why people don’t move are myriad, multifactorial, and complex. Looking for the one solution to solve it just won’t do it. But we do have ways to move forward. By using an integral, systems approach that focuses on populations and the complex interactions among the correlates of physical inactivity, rather than solely a behavioural science approach focusing on individuals.
Creating the active city is a constant process, in which city planning, intersectional knowledge and program development, listening to new voices in participation, training, advocacy & leadership all play its role. It is a collaborative process in which the energy emerges from creating new connections. By involving sports experts, designers, health professionals, urban planners, psychologists, sociologists, and most importantly, active and inactive citizens from the start.
The way we move in our cities has a direct impact on our own well-being and the well-being of our fellow citizens. Moving around we get to know our bodies, boost our creativity, discover new perspectives, get to know new people. Our work-out is to say goodbye to old-fashioned concepts on competition, excluding planning principles, and focus on the already active. Together we must move away from practices that make urbanization a reason for increasing physical inactivity and create truly thriving active cities, that leave nobody behind.
Read more on what we have to offer on our new Active City page.


Today the Moon is passing across the field of view of AIA on board SDO. AIA sees this as a partial obscuration of the disk of the Sun. If you look at an AIA image near 15:00 UTC (March 04, 2011) you can clearly see that a big round object – our Moon – is blocking a portion of the solar disk, and some off disk-emission.
If you zoom in to the image, you can see that the edge is not perfectly circular. Those are mountains and valleys on the Moon seen in silhouette.
This partial eclipse of the Sun as seen by SDO was expected, since we know the orbits of SDO, AIA, the Sun and the Moon. You can find out more about the eclipses SDO will see (and has seen) by checking out the SDO operations calendar.
As well as being stunning displays of orbital mechanics, partial eclipses of the Sun by the Moon are also very useful in helping us understand the data we are taking with AIA. If you look closely at where the disk of the Moon meets the Sun, you can see a little bit of color is in the dark disk of the Moon. Since we know that the Moon does not emit radiation (and it is not transparent!), the light causing that little bit of color must have come from the Sun. The only way that light could appear to have come from the Moon is due to slight imperfections in the telescope. By measuring how much light leaks from the bits of the image where the Sun is, over to the bits of the image where the Moon is, we can characterize the imperfections in the telescope. And once we have done that, we can use that to improve the images by enhancing the image to take out the effects of the telescope imperfections.


Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease
Areas of frequent movement in the spine, such as the cervical (neck) and lumbar areas, are prone to disc degeneration later in life. When the process of degeneration due to aging occurs more rapidly or earlier in life than usual, the degeneration is classified as degenerative disc disease. The desiccation or dehydration of the disc can reduce the size and flexibility of the disc, causing pain and nerve pressure. Disc degeneration in the neck is referred to as cervical degenerative disc disease.
Pain caused by degenerative cervical discs is typically most prevalent when the patient is upright and moving the head. Often, reclining and relaxing the neck offers relief from this pain. cervical degenerative disc disease can also be characterized by other symptoms, such as reduced movement, tingling, numbness, or burning in the neck. These sensations may even extend into the patient’s arms and hands. Headaches may also occur as a result of cervical degenerative disc disease.
Diagnostic imaging can be a key tool in the diagnosis of cervical degenerative disc disease. X-ray, MRI, or discography/CT scans can help a doctor diagnose disc degeneration in a patient. Nerve blocks, cervical facet radiofrequency neurotomy or epidurals may be used to help determine pain levels associated with the cervical disc. Once diagnosed, a pain management doctor can develop a treatment plan that suits the patient’s needs. The physicians at Segura Neuroscience & Pain Treatment offer treatment for patients suffering from cervical degenerative disc disease.


Helping People Be More Creative
This week you learned about the importance of helping people be more creative.
Write a 2 page paper on “Tools for Helping People Be More Creative”.
Address the following “Tools” in your paper:
- Facilitating brainstorming
- Promoting lateral thinking
- Enabling immersion
- Allowing pauses
- Nurturing creative intuition
- Provide an example of a “tool” that assisted you in being more creative and how that helped me organizational goals.
Include a title page and 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia). The other reference must be from the Grantham University online library. Please adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), (6th ed. 2nd printing) when writing and submitting assignments and papers.
Creativity can be defined as an act of coming up with new ideas or even possibilities. Creativity is very significant as it helps in motivating learners and improving people`s self-esteem. Creative people are thus able to straighten out their problems, come up with new ideas and they can also effectively work with others. It is therefore very important to help people become creative as it can be used in many different fields (Schawlow, 1997). There are different tools that can be used to help people become…


In this project students will learn about wind energy as a renewable source of electricity and power. They will discuss advantages and challenges in using wind energy. Students will make their own anemometer to measure wind speed and carry out a weather survey to find the windiest places.They will take part in wind turbine design with tinkercad.
In this project students will design and build a model of Smart Greenhouse, an automated cold greenhouse capable of self-management, monitoring the data detected by the plants through sensors and able to remotely control the environment of cultivation. When necessary, students will intervene through an app on the levels of temperature, humidity, quantity of water and brightness.
Within the scope of the Sustainable Development Goals, the students' concern is how can they help to achieve these goals? In this context came the idea of organizing a fundraising event for UNICEF.
For this event, students will have the opportunity to explore mathematics and finance content, as well as develop digital skills, solidarity, creativity and critical and computational thinking.
In these activities students will have the opportunity to explore content related to healthy eating and risks associated with eating foods rich in Salt and Sugar. The aim is for students to reflect on their daily diet and develop proposals for improvement for the various meals and, at the same time, to share them with the school community in order to instill necessary changes.
In this multi subject project students will research the usage of energy around the world and in their own country. Students innovate smart solutions to save electricity and design smart spaces in which these solutions will be implemented.
Students design and build a prototype of a 21st Century Walking frame. In groups, they research on some specific problem of the elderly and design a practical solution to be attached to a walking frame.


|Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster)|
The Yellow-bellied Elaenia is distributed from Mexico to south-east Brazil. It is found in a variety of habitats such as woodland, scrub and savannahs but is absent from heavily forested areas.
It does not seem particularly yellow bellied but it usually has its crest erect and often parted in the middle to show a white crown patch. It has two conspicuous whitish wing bars and yellow-white edgings to the wing feathers. Below, the throat is pale grey, the breast a dirty olive and the belly pale yellow.


The Women Who Shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
5 Dec 2018 - 70 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt was instrumental in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But she was not alone. Discover who are the women who shaped the major instrument for the defense of Human Rights.
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You have a pitcher that holds 39.3 oz of lemonade. If each glass holds 8.8 oz, how many glasses can you completely fill?
divide 39.3 and 8.8
however, the question requires the glasses to completely be filled and so with these types of questions, you must round down to four glasses of lemonade.
This problem can be modeled by the equation
Because each glass must be "completely fill"ed, the partial glass (
To solve this problem, you want to divide your
In our case, the dividend would be
You would move both decimal points the same number of spaces, so if you had
Now that our divisor is a whole number, we can divide. Our new problem is
So, we would be able to fill up
If you want more help on long division or have a question about the content below, either message me or try using www.mathisfun.com/long_division.html


- An example of discretion is the ability of a juror to determine a verdict.
- An example of discretion is not talking about politics at family dinners.
Discretion is defined as the right of someone to make choices or the quality of someone who is careful about what they do or say.
- the freedom or authority to make decisions and choices; power to judge or act
- the quality of being discreet, or careful about what one does and says; prudence
- Archaic the action or power of discerning; judgment
Origin of discretionMiddle English discrecioun from Old French discrecion from Classical Latin discretio, separation (in LL, discernment) from discretus: see discreet
at one's discretion
as one wishes
- The quality of being discreet; circumspection: “the almost unknown young man who lived in the upper room … coming and going with discretion” ( Doris Lessing )
- Freedom to act or judge on one's own: All the decisions were left to our discretion.
- Archaic The ability or power to discern what is responsible or socially appropriate: “She had even condescended to advise him to marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion” ( Jane Austen )
(usually uncountable, plural discretions)
OriginSee also: discrétion
From Old French discrecion, from Late Latin discretio
discretion - Legal Definition
The freedom of choice and of action of a judge, prosecutor, or other public official, within the defined scope of his or her responsibilities. For example, in a criminal matter a judge may have wide discretion to release the defendant on recognizance or to demand bail in any amount, based on the judge’s view of the defendant as a flight risk.


Accelerated Reader, a supplemental reading program that features independent-reading practice and assessment on computers, had an insignificant impact on reading fluency, mixed results on comprehension, and some positive effects on general reading achievement, according to a review by the What Works Clearinghouse.
Of the 62 studies of the commercial reading program screened by the federal clearinghouse, just two met its standard for evidence of effectiveness.
The review included an analysis of research on Accelerated Reader Best Classroom Practices, which recommends instructional principles, such as a 30- to 60-minute reading block, and analysis of students’ quiz grades.
Reading fluency and comprehension was measured for 3rd graders using standardized literacy assessments. Combined results for K-3 students showed significant improvements in general reading achievement over time.
A version of this article appeared in the October 22, 2008 edition of Education Week


Recurrent climatic shocks and humanitarian aid : impacts on livelihood outcomes in Malawi
Between 2014 and 2016 unprecedented and consecutive climatic shocks ravaged Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. The largest ever emergency relief operation in the country’s history ensued. The pathways and extent to which the humanitarian response protected livelihoods remain under researched. This paper uses a unique data set that combines longitudinal household survey data with GIS-based measures of weather shocks and climate conditions and longitudinal administrative data on the World Food Programme’s aid distribution. The paper aims to understand the drivers of humanitarian aid and evaluate the impact of aid and weather shocks on outcomes related to household production and consumption in Malawi. The analysis shows that droughts and floods had consistent negative impacts on a range of welfare outcomes, particularly for households that were subject to sequential shocks. Aid receipt is demonstrated to attenuate such impacts, again particularly for households that experienced the shocks consecutively. Households living in areas subject to a weather shock and with higher World Food Programme aid distribution were more likely to receive food aid, partially explaining the success of aid in mitigating the impacts of shocks. However, there is significant scope for improving the criteria for targeting humanitarian aid beneficiaries.


New Zealand has good wind resources, and large wind farms continue to be developed throughout our country. Could you be harvesting the power of the wind on your property too?
A wind turbine converts wind flow firstly into rotational energy and then into electricity. Power yields from a turbine are very site specific and often the site needs to be monitored for a period of time before yield predictions can be made. As a consequence, only select areas are suitable for wind power as the single source of energy production. Is installing home wind power technology the right option for you?
Wind turbines require:
- consistent wind i.e. high average wind speeds >5m/s
- placement in free flowing air – no obstructions upwind eg. trees, buildings, etc
- regular maintenance to keep the mechanical parts working well
- resource consents if the tower structure is above limits
Alternative Power Sources:


Over the past four years, Americans spent an estimated 60 billion dollars on a a drug class to get rid of acid reflux! Does this sound like we are suffering from a problem of epic proportions?
Half the world's population carries a bacterium called H.pylori that is responsible for ulcers, cancer, and more. Antibiotics are increasingly ineffective. Should you worry?
Acid reflux is an extremely common health problem, affecting as many as 50 percent of Americans. Other terms used for this condition are gastroesophageal-reflux disease or peptic-ulcer disease.
Get the low down from HoneyColony Hive Advisor JJ Virgin on acid and how it affects your gut.
The mind-numbingly complex mixture of different carbon-rich materials in humic acid supplements might hold the key to repairing health at the cellular level.
A popular drug used to relieve heartburn could contribute to cardiovascular disease and other serious health problems.


Character encoding cross-origin XSS attack
Security researcher Masato Kinugawa discovered that if a web page is missing character set encoding information it can inherit character encodings across navigations into another domain from an earlier site. Only same-origin inheritance is allowed according to the HTML5 specification. This issue allows an attacker to add content that will be interpreted one way on the victim site, but which may then behave differently, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering, when forced into an unexpected character set. Web site authors should always explicitly declare a character encoding to avoid similar issues.


[K12OSN] OT: history
David H. Barr
dhbarr at gozelle.com
Thu Feb 14 22:11:46 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Peter Hartmann
<peter at hartmanncomputer.com> wrote:
> How did they compile the first complier? (cue: chicken-or-the-egg
> jokes) I'm curious.
Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper and her team developed the first
compiler, in assembly language, to convert symbolic math code into
machine code. It was called A-O, ~1949. (
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html ) AFAICT
NELIAC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NELIAC ) was the first
bootstrappable compiler ~10 years later.
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Children with autism have behavioural problems, hyperactivity, their sitting tolerance is affected, speech deficits and repetitive behavioural issues. All these problems affect their learning, understanding, perception and comprehension. Not all children with autism have mental retardation or learning disability but many a times their autistic traits hinder learning.
Hence it is very important that to cater to their special needs they undergo special education. Children over the age of three receive assistance through school-based programs. As with early intervention, special education services are tailored to your child’s individual needs. Children with autism spectrum disorders are often placed with other developmentally-delayed kids in small groups where they can receive more individual attention and specialized instruction. However, depending on their abilities, they may also spend at least part of the school day in a regular classroom. The goal is to place kids in the least restrictive environment possible where they are still able to learn.
Firstly the child needs to be evaluated and based on this assessment; an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) will be created. An IEP outlines the educational goals for your child for the school year. Additionally, it describes the special services or aids the school will provide your child in order to meet those goals.
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”


The Atlantic Ocean was during the second World War one of the most important, if not the most crucial battleground. The great Allied convoys transporting millions of tons of vital war material supplies across the Atlantic to England and the North Sea to the Russian ports. The story of the Battle of the Atlantic was not only written by the German U-boats and their opponents, the convoys. The big battleships "Bismarck", "Hood", "Scharnhorst", "Gneisenau", "Rodney," "King George V" and "Tirpitz" Leave this eventful chapter in military history. Aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, corvettes, and numerous smaller patrol vessels - they all had a considerable share in the outcome of the battle. The aircraft was during the course of the war the dominant and decisive instrument of modern naval warfare. This documentary shows inter alia previously unpublished private footage of former U-boat driver.
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Apparent Magnitude13.1 - Understand the astronomical magnitude scale and how apparent magnitude relates to the brightness of stars as viewed from Earth
Hipparchus, a Greek astronomer, devised a method of measuring the brightness of stars.
A bright star would be said to have an apparent magnitude of 1. A faint star has an apparent magnitude of 6.
There are a few important changes to this system since the invention of the telescope and space telescope. The ancient Greeks had access to neither. We can now see much fainter stars with binoculars, telescopes and even the Hubble Space Telescope.
A few stars, planets and of course our own Sun have been recategorised so they appear brighter than 1. Sirius appears at -1, Venus at -4, a full Moon at -9 and the Sun at -29.
Each difference in brightness represents an increase or decrease of 2.512. For the exam we can abbreviate this to 2.5.
So a star at magnitude 3 is 2.5 times brighter than a star at magnitude 4.
The same star would be 15.6 times brighter than a star at apparent magnitude 6. This is because there is a three times magnitude difference which is 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 = 15.6.
The difference between a star at magnitude 1 and one at 6 is 2.5 5 (to the power of 5) which is 100 (2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5).
In calculations apparent magnitude is represented by m.
Summary of scale of Magnitudes
|Difference in Magnitude||Brightness Ratio|
Mix & Match
|−3||Jupiter (max.), Mars (max.)|
|0||Vega, Saturn (max.)|
|6||Typical limit of naked eye|
|10||Typical limit of 7×50 binoculars|
|13||3C 273 quasar|
|Limit of 4.5–6 in (11–15 cm) telescopes|
|Limit of 8–10 in (20–25 cm) telescopes|
|27||Visible light limit of 8m telescopes|
|32||Visible light limit of HST|


The Department of Health and Environment lab has confirmed the state's first case of monkeypox.
The case involves a woman who was bitten earlier this month by a prairie dog while she was visiting someone in Missouri.
Samples taken from the woman were sent to federal labs in Atlanta for further tests.
The woman fell ill last week was hospitalized. She's expected to be released soon from a Leavenworth hospital.
Officials are contacting people who may have been in contact with the woman so they can consider taking the smallpox vaccination.
Monkeypox is a rare disease usually found in Africa. It's spread to humans mainly through contact with sick prairie dogs or Gambian giant rats.


Though it may seem on the surface that we simply take an artistic approach to learning, prioritise drama, singing or learning to play beautiful instruments, it is so much more. Underlying all of it is the inner world of the child, growing and finding their own methods of expression and connection.
To listen deeply to others, to respond to our world, to revel in our imagination, to create beautiful things, to wrestle with challenging instruments, all are formative experiences. These experiences enable children and teenagers to know who they are, to develop an awareness of who they want to be in the world, and what they can contribute to society.
Quite simply, Waldorf education provides each individual with a pathway to self-knowledge, to empathy, and to active participation in the world around them.
Of course, none of this would be possible without practitioners who take the task of the teacher incredibly seriously. Our responsibility as kaiako is to work with the developing individuality of each student and with each class as a whole. We simply cannot take on this task alone. Dear whānau, you are also essential to the well-being of each class community and the school as a whole.


Global positioning systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become common tools for Extension professionals. These systems vary in terms of accuracy and cost. GPS ranges from recreational-quality to survey-quality, with intermediate levels in between. As the user moves from recreational-quality to survey-quality, both accuracy and cost increase. We compare a recreational GPS unit (Garmin) and importing data into Google Earth software and an intermediate survey-grade GPS unit (Trimble Juno) and importing data into ArcMap GIS software. These represent two of the most common GIS choices available to natural resource professionals. Cost effectiveness will depend on accuracy requirements.
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I’ve heard of iridology and know it’s a holistic therapy – but that’s it. How can it be used to help horses?
By Your Horse
Horse Answers editor Kate Large replies:Iridology can be described as the study of the iris of the eye. Practitioners believe the body is mapped out across the iris, and can be used to indicate overall health. Marks, lines, spots and discolouration in the eye would indicate a problem in the corresponding area of the body. Iridologists use a magnifying glass and torch to examine a horse’s eye.
Ellen Collinson is a well-known equine iridologist, who works throughout the UK, and runs diploma courses to train new practitioners. "Iridology is non-invasive and can pick up genetic and inherited problems before traditional medicine," she explains. "It can also tell you when an organ is under stress long before it manifests into an illness."
For more information she can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org or call 0845 2603 602.


Federated States of Micronesia, is a country located at Micronesia, it has an area of 700 Km2, so it is one of the smallest countries in the world.
Federated States of Micronesia, with a population of 105,544 people, it is one of the least populous country in the world 151 people per km2.
The capital is Palikir and its currency is United States dollars
Federated States of Micronesia is holding the 191 position by nominal GDP. Its national debt in 2015 was 73 millions of euros81 millions of dollars, ( 25.75% debt-to-GDP ratio) and its public debt per capita is 716€ euros per inhabitant794$ dollars per inhabitant.
In terms of the human development index (HDI) of Federated States of Micronesia, which is the index used by the United Nations to measure the progress of a country, was 0.627 points in 2017, leaving it in 131th place in the table of 189 countries published.
If the reason to visit Federated States of Micronesia are business, you must know it's in the 160th of the Doing Business ranking , which provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms.
In the tables at the bottom of the page, you can see more information about the economy and demography of Federated States of Micronesia, if you want to see information about other countries click here


Over the last decade, embedded technology has advanced and evolved, almost beyond recognition. Where devices once stood alone and offered point functionality, today they are highly connected, extensible platforms.
Starting in 2000, Linux entered into this changing embedded design landscape. The choice to deploy the already-popular server and desktop Linux OS was a response to changing needs in embedded development. At the same time, it further accelerated the growth of intelligent, software-centric connected devices. A mere market share blip, almost a curiosity in 2000, embedded Linux grew to boast a full third of 32 and 64-bit designs by 2005 (VDC), and continues to grow in reach and robustness today.
Industries and Markets
Every type of embedded application is looking to Linux and open source software. The thousands of on-going Linux design-wins range from networking to telephony to consumer electronics, from medical systems to instrumentation and industrial control, and even into aerospace & defense and transportation.
Why embedded Linux?
Reasons can be as varied as the types of applications that build on the open source OS. Technical motivations include robust MMU-based memory management, excellent throughput, world-class security, and integrated high performance networking that underlies a large portion of the internet. There are also practical motivations, beginning with the Linux open source community development model, as well as the ability to leverage a world of embedded and enterprise software, tools, and services from a range of suppliers. This offers maximum flexibility and vendor independence.
Business motivations include lower cost of acquisition, reduced impact on bills-of-material, and the ability to hire and contract expertise in the widely deployed Linux platform.


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As the holidays approach, state health officials urge Coloradans to protect themselves and their families by getting a flu vaccination.
“Anyone who hasn’t yet gotten a flu vaccination should do so now to allow their body time to build immunity before holiday celebrations begin,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, medical advisor for the immunization section at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “The influenza virus can spread easily from person to person during holiday get-togethers.”
Last year, more than 1,500 people in Colorado were hospitalized with influenza. The single best way to protect against the flu is by getting vaccinated. It takes about two weeks after getting the vaccination for the body to build the antibodies needed to protect against the flu.
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Tap into the power of metaphors to boost your creativity
I once heard that Ridley Scott pitched his idea for his movie “Alien” as “Jaws in space” (confirmed here). How brilliant is that?! With that simple 3-word metaphor, the director was able to convey his novel idea for a movie so precisely that it baffles the mind!
A metaphor is a soft thinking technique connecting two different universes of meaning. Examples: Food chain, flow of time, fiscal watchdog. The key to metaphorical thinking is similarity. The human mind tends to look for similarities.
Excessive logical thinking can stifle the creative process, so use metaphors as a way of thinking differently about something. Invent and look for metaphors in your thinking. They are also potent tools as they make you and your audience look at things a different way.
Imaging within another sensory or conceptual frame can help. For example, in the visual images of spring which inspired Vivaldi’s “La Primavera”, one can clearly re-imagine then while listening to that piece of music.
When thinking of a problem and its solution, it helps to expose the mind with many related concepts. The hope is that the juxtaposition of 2 or more of those concepts will create a eureka moment that will lead to a solution. It’s not always a perfect fit but by stretching and examining the parts of the connection, you can start discovering new facets of the imperfect metaphor to lead you to the perfect solution.
Flex your metaphorical thinking muscles
Coming up with metaphors might come naturally for some of us as our brains tend to think metaphorically in the first place. However, it’s sometime difficult to force their creation. It’s more like “they come to you” and not “you go to them”. That’s where English majors have an edge. That said, you can become good at it with some practice.
Here are some interesting resources on how to create and make use of metaphors.
Do you like metaphors? Share your favorite one(s) in the comments section below this post.


Botany, the science of plants. Botany is one of the major branches of biology, the science of living things. Other major branches are zoology, the science of animals, and microbiology, the science of microscopic organisms.There are more than two hundred thousand plant species throughout the world.
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Publisher:Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
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This Sanskrit Grammar is on a somewhat different plan from those already in use. It presents the facts of the language primarily as they show themselves in use in literature and only secondarily as they are laid down by the native grammarians. It also includes in the presentation the forms and constructions of the older language as exhibited in the Vedas the Brahmanas the Epics and the Puranas. The author has cast all statements classifications, etc; into a form consistent with the teachings of linguistic science. With the practical needs of the students of the language in mind different sizes of type have been used to make the work very useful to the reader whose object is to acquire a knowledge of the classical Sanskrit. A Historical treatment of the facts of the language has also been made.


Characteristics of an Orthocenter
Date: 11/12/1999 at 03:08:00 From: Diego Carbonetti Subject: Uses of an orthocenter I need to know some characteristics of the orthocenter of a triangle, other than the fact that it lies on the Euler line. Thank you for your time.
Date: 11/12/1999 at 09:56:22 From: Doctor Floor Subject: Re: Uses of an orthocenter Hi, Diego, Thanks for your question. Here are some nice properties of the orthocenter H of triangle ABC: 1. Pick three points out of the four points A, B, C, and H. The fourth point is the orthocenter of the first three. For this reason the four points are called an orthocentric system. One of the famous orthocentric systems is formed by the incenter and the three excenters. 2. Reflect H about the sidelines of ABC. The three reflections lie on the circumcircle of ABC. 3. There are four triangles you can make out of the four points A, B, C, and H. All four triangles have congruent circumcircles. 4. Let A' be the foot of the altitude AH. And let B' and C' be constructed likewise. A'B'C' is called the orthic triangle of ABC. When ABC is acute, then the incenter of A'B'C' is H; when it is obtuse, then the incenter of A'B'C' is the vertex of the obtuse angle. If you need more help, just write us back. Best regards, - Doctor Floor, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan, Astronomer
Rob Gonsalves (1959-) is a Canadian painter of magic realism with a unique perspective and style.
During his childhood, Gonsalves developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By the age of twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he learned perspective techniques and he began to create his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings.
You can see influences of Dali and Escher, realistic and surrealistic, yet a style that is all his own.
Rob Gonsalves’ work differs from the “surrealistic” category because the images are deliberately planned and result from conscious thought. His work is an attempt to represent our desire to believe in the impossible.
His ideas are largely generated by the external world and involve recognizable human activities, using carefully planned illusionist devices. A touch of magic, perhaps.
It is like he takes what we know, and turns the canvas just enough to make us wonder exactly what it is we are looking at.
Maybe the term “Magic Realism” describes his work accurately. But then again, why label anything so magical?
His fantastic work can be found all across the Internet such as http://www.paragonfineart.com/artists/rob-gonsalves.html and Rob Gonsalves.


A pinnacle (from Latinpinnaculum, a little feather, pinna, compare panache) is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on at the corners of and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire. It was mainly used in Gothic architecture.
In mathematics, especially in set theory, a setA is a subset of a set B, or equivalently B is a superset of A, if A is "contained" inside B, that is, all elements of A are also elements of B. A and B may coincide. The relationship of one set being a subset of another is called inclusion or sometimes containment.
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Stage 1: Filing a Statement of Intent to Negotiate a Treaty
To be accepted into the treaty process, a First Nation's governing body must submit a Statement of Intent that meets the Commission's criteria for Stage 1.
The definition of First Nation is set out in s. 1.1 of the B.C. Treaty Commission Agreement. A First Nation is:
an aboriginal governing body, however organized and established by aboriginal people within their traditional territory in British Columbia, which has been mandated by its constituents to enter into treaty negotiations on their behalf with Canada and British Columbia
As recommended by the British Columbia Claims Task Force, treaty negotiations are conducted on a government to government basis. Implicit in the definition of First Nation is a requirement that its organization be appropriate to the task of negotiating and implementing a treaty of the kind contemplated by the Task Force Report. There should be elements of "nationhood" such as;
- a shared sense of identity, language, laws and customs among the aboriginal people,
- historical exercise of control over a distinct traditional territory that is not wholly shared or disputed,
- a degree of historical existence as a governing body, and
- reasonably sizeable body of aboriginal people able to sustain the effective negotiation and implementation of a treaty.
This is the definition of First Nation that the Commission will apply for the purposes of treaty negotiations, and the definition that is generally applied throughout this document.


According to Writer's Almanac:
September 29 was the likely birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, "whose life was a series of misfortunes. As a young man, he fought in a war against the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, and he became a war hero, receiving special recognition from the king. But on the way home from the war, he was captured by pirates, held for ransom for five years, and chained to a wall for months at a time. He finally made it back to Spain, where nobody even remembered the battle he had fought in.
In 1595, he was charged with embezzlement, even though he was probably one of the only honest employees working for the government at the time. Having escaped five years of captivity in Africa, Cervantes now found himself imprisoned in his own country for a crime he didn't commit.
And it was in prison that Cervantes first got the idea for his masterpiece, Don Quixote..."
Being imprisoned twice while he did not do anything wrong, Miguel de Cervantes wrote this famous quote from Don Quixote:
"Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honor, life may and should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can fall to the lot of man."
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History and description. Unlike many others, the Vienna Central Cemetery is not one that has evolved slowly. The decision to establish a new, big cemetery for Vienna came in 1863 when it became clear that – due to industrialization – the city's population would eventually increase to such an extent that the existing communal cemeteries would prove to be insufficient.
- 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres)
- over 330,000 graves
- Simmering, Vienna, Austria
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A term applied to two types of soft, translucent stone that are similar in appearance but different in composition. The first, known variously as calcite alabaster, Egyptian alabaster, or onyx marble, is a form of calcium carbonate. It was much used by the ancient Egyptians, particularly for small items, including vases and boxes, but also for larger objects such as sarcophagi. Subsequently it has been used in various types of carving (generally small-scale), sometimes to exploit beautiful colours streaking the stone (caused by the presence of iron or other minerals). The second type, sometimes distinguished as gypsum alabaster or true alabaster, is a form of gypsum (calcium sulphate). It was extensively used in sculpture in the later Middle Ages. In addition to being easily cut and polished, it has the advantage that it can be painted and gilded without any priming. Its most notable use was in small altarpieces, which from about 1350 to 1550 were made in great numbers in England, many of them for export—they were sent mainly to France but also as far afield as Iceland and Russia. The best collection of such altarpieces is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and other fine examples are in the Castle Museum at Nottingham, a town that was famed for its ‘alabastermen’ (the industry was mainly based in the Midlands, the chief quarries being in Derbyshire and Staffordshire). The production of religious images was ended by the Reformation, but alabaster continued to be used for tomb sculpture until the 18th century. Some modern sculptors, for example Henry Moore, have used alabaster for small works.


The Prehistory of Zazen, by Guy Massat, zen monk disciple of Maître Deshimaru
At the entrance of the cathedral in Reims, sculpted on the pediment of the main door, one can see a character cross-legged bent down by the weight of a Christian who crushes his back. In the basement of Notre-Dame in Paris, one discovered a large stone on which the name "Cernunos" was engraved. It is kept in the museum of Cluny. The reason is, like most of the churches in France, that Notre-Dame has been built on the area of a Gallic temple.
On a Gallic coin of the Remes, Gallic population of Belgium (coin of the Catalauni), discovered in the proximity of Reims and coming from the 2nd or 5th century A.C., one can see a woman sitting in zazen posture holding a necklace in one hand and a tress in the other (Museum of the coins). Her posture strangely recalls the character of the bucket of Gundestrup, in Denmark, from the 1st century who holds also a necklace in one hand and a snake in the other. In France we can see in the museum in Saint Germain en Laye the beautiful posture of the "sitting god" (so called), discovered in Bouray near La Ferte-Alais.
One find also the small statue in brass so called from Autun, coming from Curgy (Saone et Loire), representing a character so-called in "Buddhist posture" embraced by two snakes with a ram head.
In the museum Borrely in Marseille one can see characters, however mutilated, which recalls perfectly the zazen posture, although both legs are not tully crossed. They are coming from the excavations of La Roquepertuse and are dated from the 5th century A.C. But the statue of a naked woman, discovered in Etaules, Quarre les Tombes (Yonne), from the 5th century B.C., has the legs perfectly crossed in zazen (when the author of this article showed her to Master Deshimaru few days before his death, he cried out: "Now I know why I came to France to teach zazen!").
Statues of the "seated God" found in the excavations of Roquepertuse, Fifth century BC., Archaeological Museum of Marseille.


According to the Centers for Disease Control, new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) shows:
- 30.4% of US adults (about 66.9 million people) have hypertension.
- 53.5% have uncontrolled hypertension (about 35.8 million people).
- 39.4% with uncontrolled hypertension (about 14.1 million) are unaware that they have hypertension.
- 89.4% with uncontrolled hypertension have a “usual source of health care and insurance, representing a missed opportunity for hypertension control.”
The CDC authors conclude: “The findings in this report can be used to target populations and refine interventions to improve hypertension control. Improved hypertension control will require an expanded effort from patients, health-care providers, and health-care systems.”


Why do this problem?
It is possible to solve this problem
by trial and improvement but most children (and adults) find this frustrating and lengthy. The value of the problem lies in realising that it is worth doing some logical thinking to reduce the possibilities to a manageable number.
Offer the question and give the children some time to 'get into' it. If they haven't thought of it, you could suggest scraps of paper with the numbers $1-12$ which can be rearranged easily, rather than recording and rubbing out each time. You may see some other ways of recording which you can share with the class too.
Bring the children together and ask how they have started the problem. What can they learn from listening to each other's ideas? Some children will tease out the discrepancy between adding up all the numbers to $12$ ($78$) and adding four lots of $25$ together. Others may focus on the number of odds and evens needed for any one side (one or three) and use that as their starting point. Ask
the children if they think there are lots of different solutions and confirm that there are so that everyone feels it is worth continuing even after someone else has found an answer!
Allow plenty of time for investigating and encourage the children to write their solutions and display them somewhere for everyone else to see them. I wonder how many different ones there are ...?
What have we got to find out?
What do we know?
What shall we try first?
Children who find one solution quickly could be encouraged to find another one by rearranging some of the numbers in their own solution, rather than beginning afresh. In doing so they are beginning to generalise, an important mathematical skill. If you ask the children to record each solution on a separate piece of paper, then by moving and rearranging them they can see there are 'families' of
Children who find this difficult could be given the grid with the corners filled in so that they start at a different place but end up with a complete solution, as everyone else.