Four classes of sophomore English explore the concepts of disguised changes in behavior after they read The Lord of the Flies, William Golding's classic dystopian novel. These students, part of the Manchester High School Medical Careers Academy, applied the medical knowledge they've gained in Patricia Gibbon's classes to see into characters and understand the psychology of their actions. The result: colorful masks that demonstrate on the outside what is happening on the inside of characters and their society.
Submitted by Patricia Gibbons and Deborah Weinberg, Manchester High School
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The Argentinean Jesuits Collection consists of eleven documents from early nineteenth century Buenos Aires, during the period of the return of the Society of Jesus and the South American liberation from Spain. The collection covers a variety of topics relating to the Society of Jesus in Buenos Aires. The first two documents from 1800 to 1802, relate to the Capuchin fathers in Buenos Aires. Several of the documents in the collection are petitions to the governing body of Buenos Aires, the Cabildo and the Soberano Congreso, asking for the return of the order. Two documents discuss Jesuit finances, including transportation costs for members from Europe to the Americas. The only letter in the collection discusses the Society's authority to ban distribution of immoral books.
A document addresses the need for independence of the United Provinces.
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1819
Collection-level Access Restrictions
Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.
In 1773, the Society of Jesus was banned by Pope Clement XIV. When it was reinstated in August 1814 by Pius VII's "Solicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum," supporters of the old order had to petition their governments for the return of the Jesuits to their areas. From 1810 to 1817, Argentina was in the process of gaining its independence from Spain. The provisional government was the United Provinces of South America. Petitions to reinstate the Jesuit order were addressed to the Soberano Congreso of the United Provinces, which was based in Buenos Aires.


Stretching is one way to relieve a charley horse cramp in the calf. Other ways to relieve a charley horse include massaging the cramp, applying hot or cold packs, and taking a bath with Epsom salt, according to WebMD.
Charley horses can happen for a variety of reasons, such as through overexertion of the muscle after a strenuous workout or by not stretching the muscle effectively before a workout, advises WebMD. Other causes include dehydration, vitamin and mineral deficiency, and side effects of certain drugs. Stretching before beginning an exercise, increasing the daily regimen of vitamins and minerals, and drinking more water throughout the day prevent the development of charley horses.


Beginning in 2020, Puerto Rico will hold its Democratic presidential primary vote on the last Sunday of March, not in June as it has in the past. Outgoing Governor Ricardo Rossello signed this into law hours before stepping down as governor.
There is no mystery about the goal for this change. Once Puerto Rico is early in the primaries, Rossello said, “Candidates will be forced to pay attention to our needs.”
With a large field of Democratic presidential candidates, voters will be eager to promote their candidates and to cut the weaker ones from the herd. With a March primary, Puerto Rico will have a hand in the process. By June, the candidates will have been winnowed down to a much smaller field.
Puerto Rico has primary votes
Puerto Rico has no Electors in the Electoral College, and so cannot vote in presidential elections. However, Puerto Rico does vote in presidential primaries. These are the votes in which members of each party choose their candidates.
The Republican primary is normally held in February, and that will not change.
With both primaries early in the election year, Puerto Rico will be more likely to gain national attention during the campaign.
Thus far, a handful of candidates have made a clear statement of their positions on statehood for Puerto Rico. A few more have stood up for Puerto Rico in terms of disaster funding or the debt crisis. One, Julian Castro, mentioned Puerto Rico in the Democratic Debates this summer.
Rossello has challenged Democratic 2020 candidates to commit themselves to statehood for Puerto Rico, with no wiggle room. Most have stated that they support the right of Puerto Rico to self-determination. Without recognizing the statehood votes in 2012 and 2017, which represent self-determination for the territory, these claims are hollow.


creativity; group awareness; creating structure
30 minutes; anywhere; drawing material required
Goal of the Game:
putting a drawing and text together
How to Play:
The players are given strips of paper and split into groups of 4 or 5. Everyone draws a character or landscape on the strip of paper without letting the other players see what they draw. Once everyone has finished, they should give it to the player on their right. After looking at the drawing they fold the strip of paper to hide the drawing and on the back they should write down what the drawing represents. Everyone then gives it to their neighbour who reads the written description without looking at the drawing, folds the strip over again, and makes a drawing of the written description on the back of the twice folded strip of paper. When all of the players have made a drawing and written a description, the strips should be unfolded so the player can look at and talk about the results, and compare the second drawing with the original.
Once the game above has been played, the participants can make more elaborate comic strips which tell a story. Once everyone has drawn a picture and handed it to the player on his right, they write down what the drawing is and also add a new idea before giving the strip to the person on his right. Everyone then makes a drawing of this expanded version of the original drawing. Instead of an imaginary theme, the players can choose a real story that they have to put together in steps.
If a class project is chosen as a story to represent the players, the students can visualise where they are in setting up the project, or resume it if it has already been completed. The comic strips can be used as the basis for an exhibition open to the public.
Interest of the Game:
finding a balance between personal and collective creativity; thinking about how ideas are transmitted; preparing a presentation open to the public.
Act - Communicate
© 2004 - UNESCO


Researchers representing Cambridge and University of Glasgow and National health service in the UK, found that the most desirable time for conception of children is the period from January to March. In favor of such statements, says the study, which was attended by about 800 thousand children.
According to scientists, conceived from January to March, the children more often suffer from dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity disorder or experiencing other learning difficulties. This kind of problem was detected in 8.9 percent of children conceived in the beginning of the year, compared with 7.6 percent among those who were conceived from July to September.
According to the researchers, their results can be explained by the fact that mothers who have conceived a child in the winter or in early spring, can get enough vitamin D during the first trimester of pregnancy. Experts have expressed the hope that in this case, the month of conception does not play a role in if the expectant mother carefully follows the doctor’s advice and taking vitamin D during a period when it may not be enough.
Earlier, another group of specialists representing the University of Bergen in Norway, came to the conclusion that children born in the period from November to January (that is, in all probability, conceived in the period from February to April), some more often than others are prone to asthma due to weak lungs. And in another study conducted by researchers from the University of Southampton, it has been suggested that children born in autumn or winter, the Allergy appears more likely than those born in spring or summer.


The skill, ability, or wisdom to avoid conflict and choose what is right and what is good or beneficial to humanity.
Be cordial. When you approach, communicate, talk to or listen to an individual you do not like, use good judgment and discipline yourself to use reason vs emotion. Be sensitive to the feelings of children. Your tone of voice will make or break them. Be nice. Your judgment may dictate that the individual you are conversing or dealing with is totally disagreeable, offensive, vile and revolting yet you need to rise above all that negative emotion and use reason to be gracious, hospitable, warm and friendly. Diplomacy requires prudence. Be attentive and listen more to what others are saying or just simply talking about. Always speak the truth, but avoid excessive deliberations, otherwise folly will be your company. You can't be diplomatic without being prudent. Being prudent however, does not imply that one has to be submissive to the bully or evil.


X-Men: First Class, a film about individuals with genetic mutations, has become this year's summer blockbuster. While the thought of genetic mutations isn't far fetched, the idea of switching them on to benefit ourselves still seems to be the stuff of movies. However, that hasn't stopped scientists from thinking about it and investigating further.
A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers began studying excess hair growth and the genes behind it issue.
Researchers in China discovered that the mutation, known congenital hypertrichosis syndrome
(CGH), in a Chinese family. Males with this disorder have hair covering their entire face including their eyelids and their upper body, while females have thick patches of hair on their bodies. These findings were confirmed when they found the same mutation in a Mexican family dealing with CGH.
According to Pragna Patel, professor in the Keck School, of the University of Southern California, "When the Mexican family was examined, a piece of chromosome 4 was found to be inserted into the same part of the X chromosome, thus confirming that these extremely rare events caused the disorder."
Identifying genes has long been a goal for scientist because there is the chance that down the line these genes can be activated to produce different results in humans. The benefits of this would mean that you wouldn't have to have your scalp injected with pig bladder
, deal with hair transplants like famous Footballer Wayne Rooney
, or go through chemical/pills to try and help hair growth
"If in fact the inserted sequences turn on a gene that can trigger hair growth, it may hold promise for treating baldness or hirsutism (excessive hair growth) in the future, especially if we could engineer ways to achieve this with drugs or other means," says Dr. Patel.


June 26, 2016 -
"PILLARS OF THE EARLY CHURCH"
The two most prominent figures in the history of the Christian religion during the first decades were the Apostles Peter and Paul. The Church has always honored them together, their special feast day a highlight of the summer.
It is the Acts of the Apostles, that wonderful book of the Bible that paints a graphic picture of life in the earliest Church that tells the story of these defenders of the Faith. The first 9 chapters tell of Peter and Jerusalem, the center of the Church. The next chapters focus on Paul and the City of Antioch, which became a prominent place. Indeed, Peter founded the Church there and became its first Bishop.
St. Peter is usually depicted as the leader among our Lord’s twelve apostles. He is the one who preached a powerful sermon on Pentecost Day, resulting in thousands embracing faith in Christ. His confession of the Lord as “the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” is the doctrine that forms the foundation of Christianity.
St. Paul is the great missionary of the earliest Church. Following his amazing conversion from a persecutor to an apostle. Paul spent his years travelling throughout the then known world, establishing parishes and preaching the Gospel. He wrote many epistles – letters to the churches he was imprisoned, he was shipwrecked, he was beaten and starved and starved and suffered greatly for his Master.
The two great pillars of the Church are said to have been martyred in the year 67. During their ministries, they fueled the fires of our early Christian Faith.


Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the psychodynamic approach with respect to its contribution to leadership and its application to real-life situations. Do you think that the weaknesses outweigh the strengths? Why or why not? Support your response with a rationale and examples. Using at least two examples, explain how leaders can use the psychodynamic approach to improve their leadership style.
Your analysis paper should be in the form of a Word document about 5-6 pages long and should follow the current edition of APA style guidelines.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Integrated two to three peer-reviewed journal articles to help evaluate the appropriateness and the shortcomings of using teams in his or her case situation


This picture shows some of the features of the stratosphere, which extends from about 10 to 50 km (6
to 31 miles) above our planet. The troposphere is the atmospheric layer below it, while the mesosphere is above. Earth's "sunscreen", the ozone layer, lies within the stratosphere. Clouds are mostly absent from the dry stratosphere; colorful Polar Stratospheric Clouds are the lone exception. Temperatures increase with height throughout the stratosphere.
Original artwork by Windows to the Universe staff (Randy Russell).


Find Materials For An Opera Paper
Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.
- Why does the man visit the professor?
- A. To get the professor’s approval for his paper topic.
- B. To ask for source material for his paper.
- C. To ask the professor’s opinion about a particular production of a Shakespeare play.
- D. To get help finding articles about a play.
- What is the subject of the man’s paper?
- A. The influence of film on theater.
- B. The transient nature of theater.
- C. Modern interpretations of a play by Shakespeare.
- D. A comparison of different film versions of Shakespeare s plays.
- What do the speakers say about Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Nights Dream?
[CHOOSE 2 ANSWERS]
- A. It influenced subsequent productions.
- B. It was performed only a few times.
- C. Written accounts of it are difficult to find.
- D. Film versions of it probably do not exist.
- What point does the professor make when she mentions that some students are writing about nineteenth- century productions of Shakespeare’s plays?
- A. Other students paper topics are even more difficult than the man’s topic.
- B. The man should refer to some nineteenth-century productions in his paper.
- C. Students should focus their research on film adaptations of the plays.
- D. Theater students often face the same problem the man is facing.
- Why does the professor say this: 🎧
- A. To point out that the topic of the student’s paper has been covered before.
- B. To convince the student to write about the production.
- C. To persuade the student to change the topic of his paper.
- D. To see if the student agrees with her opinion about the production.
答案：B C AD D B


The New International Encyclopædia/Shirley, Anthony
SHIRLEY (SHERLEY), Sir Anthony (1565-c.1635) . An English navigator. He was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford. In 1591 he accompanied the Earl of Essex on his expedition to Normandy, and was knighted by Henry IV. Queen Elizabeth, angered at his acceptance of this honor without her consent, had him imprisoned until he gave up the order of St. Michael that had been conferred upon him. In 1596 he led a buccaneering expedition to the West Indies and South America. An account of this cruise was published by Hakluyt in Voyages and Discoveries (1598). In 1599 he sailed to Persia, where he was hospitably received by Shah Abbas the Great, who made him ambassador to the Christian courts of Europe. Thoroughly discredited at home, he passed his last years in Madrid, a pensioner of the King of Spain. He died in poverty some time after 1635. In 1613 he published Travels Into Persia, a dull and tedious book. Sir Anthony had two brothers, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas, who were also adventurers. The three brothers were made the subject of Travailes of Three English Brothers (1607), a play written by John Day in collaboration. Consult The Sherley Brothers (Roxburghe Club, 1848).


According to my speed model, the growth rate of consumption is approximately double the growth rate of population. That is, if the population increases by 1% per year, then the amount of mass consumed will increase by 2% per year. This is perhaps the most important practical constraint on the future, since we must locate and be able to distribute enough resources to produce the new members of the population and for them to consume.
Without fundamental changes to the ways we acquire and distribute resources, I project that the population is unlikely to grow beyond about eight billion people. If we do make such changes, our daily consumption must be able to grow by about a billion pounds per year for each percentage point of annual population growth (or half that for each percentage point of total annual consumption growth).
Since the biosphere is too stressed to provide more resources and services (we are currently consuming the biosphere itself to make up the difference between what we use and what it can give us), we must pay for our growth by effectively “eating rocks” on this planet, in space, or both. While mining already provides most of the materials and energy we use, we will need to begin converting what we mine into food and water (desalinating the oceans and piping water inland could work for a long while, though the side effects on climate will be a problem). We will also have to embrace our role as exterminators on a grand scale, converting mass (living and not) into human biomass and artifacts as fast as we can.
If we go into space, the Moon is the best immediate target for mining. It falls within the required transit time, but there are huge technical challenges involved in moving a billion pounds daily between there and here (never mind safety: this is the equivalent of a 300 foot-wide asteroid).


The United Nation's cultural agency UNESCO has told RFI of an urgent need to preserve the Tomb of Askia in northern Mali before the rainy season starts in June.
The heritage-listed mud pyramid in Gao dates back to the 15th century. It was built by Askia Mohamed, the Emperor of the Songhai empire, after he returned from Mecca and made Islam the empire's official religion.
Lazare Eloundou Assomo, UNESCO's representative in Mali, said the tomb was an "impressive testimony of this cultural tradition where a pyramid could be built only with mud [but looks] so monumental."
UNESCO has just finished an assessment of the damage done to the 17-metre tall structure during the Islamist insurgency in northern Mali.
Unlike in Timbuktu where ancient tombs were specifically targeted by jihadists for being "unIslamic", local heritage in Gao went largely untouched.
Until the insurgency, local residents cared for the Tomb by adding layers of plaster to it every year after the rainy season.
But when the Gao was taken over by jihadists in May 2011, this tradition was interrupted as residents turned their attention to basic survival.
Eloundou says the state of the tomb is "worrying".
"It's very fragile because some of the pillars supporting the roof of the prayer room are really in a bad state of degradation, so if good conservation work is not done before the rainy season, I think it could lead to a very difficult situation," he explains.
He adds major conservation work is require to make the structure waterproof so that it can survive the next rainy season.
"We will be working with local masons who have been maintaining the site, [with support] by the technical assistance of international experts and Malian experts who are specialists in mud architecture."
The tomb was placed on the world heritage list in 2004.


Biopesticides are biologically-derived agents, that are usually applied in a manner similar to chemical pesticides, but achieve pest management in an environmentally-friendly way. Among the most promising biopesticides, is the bacterial insecticide; Spinosad and Emamectin benzoate. Therefore, in the present study, fourth instar larvae of S. littoralis were allowed to feed on leaves previously dipped with 1, 10, 50 and 100 ppm of spinosad and 0.5, 1, 2 and 10 ppm of emamectin benzoate for 72 hrs and then were used to screen alterations in protein profiles and DNA by using SDS- PAGE and RAPD-PCR, respectively. Results of SDS-PAGE analysis revealed that the protein profiles of S. littoralis changed after larval treatment with spinosad and emamectin benzoate and new proteins were observed in treated larvae. RAPD technique was used to detect genetic differences between control and fourth instar larvae of S. littoralis which treated with spinosad and emamectin benzoate.
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We have a box of cubes, triangular prisms, cones, cuboids,
cylinders and tetrahedrons. Which of the buildings would fall down
if we tried to make them?
Is there a best way to stack cans? What do different supermarkets
do? How high can you safely stack the cans?
How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take
to make these skeleton shapes?
If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?
Can you make a 3x3 cube with these shapes made from small cubes?
How can you put five cereal packets together to make different
shapes if you must put them face-to-face?
Make a cube out of straws and have a go at this practical
We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3
cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue
cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?
Which of the following cubes can be made from these nets?
The image in this problem is part of a piece of equipment found in the playground of a school. How would you describe it to someone over the phone?


DID YOU KNOW?
Once primarily seen as a behavioral and environmental problem, obesity is now viewed as a complex disorder and a major health risk factor linked to diabetes, increased cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke, cancer, hypertension, and early death. Source: American Heart Association Overweight & Obesity – 2013 Statistical Fact Sheet
It is not a character defect, or simply lack of will power. It’s a medical condition that affects almost 20 million Americans, and it’s the greatest health care problem in the United States today. People with obesity are at a greater risk for conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and heart problems. Excess weight impacts your health, your self-esteem, and your relationships.
Diet and exercise are ineffective in severe obesity. Chances are good you’ve been down that road before. You’ve done “yo-yo” dieting which only hurts your body and increases your feelings of hopelessness. Each diet failure makes you feel like a failure.


So apparently a double asteroid flew by Earth about two weeks ago. Did you hear about it? I sure didn’t.
“On May 25th, 2019, a strange, double-asteroid (1999 KW4) flew past Earth at a distance and speed that is likely to make a lot of people nervous.” (link)
They call it a fly-by but it was 5.2 million km (or 3.23 million miles) away from Earth. Close enough, I’d say.
Thank goodness we have the people over at the IAWN or the
INTERNATIONAL ASTEROID WARNING NETWORK
“The IAWN (pronounced ‘eyewahn’) is an organization of asteroid observers, orbit computers, physical property specialists, radar astronomers, and other scientists and communication experts that study asteroids, specifically near-Earth objects or NEOs. The IAWN is a United Nations-sanctioned organization.” (link)
IAWNs observing campaigns are needed for short-timescales, that is to say – if an asteroid is coming, we need observational data on it pronto.
I’m happy to know that people, organizations, and countries are watching for asteroids.
As a matter of fact, I think I’ll look into getting an inexpensive telescope for myself. Just to keep an extra eye on the sky.


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Learn some basic New Zealand Sign Language
NZSL is one of three official languages in New Zealand and is the language of New Zealand’s Deaf community.
Fingerspelling is an essential part of NZSL, and learning the alphabet is easy - it can be mastered in around ten to twenty minutes.
Introduce yourself in NZSL
To introduce yourself, follow along with the first three signs: "Hello" "My" "Name" and then fingerspell your own name.
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About Lip Reading
Lipreading is a difficult skill to learn. Even people who are good at it have to guess a lot of what is being said. This is because only about 30% of lip patterns are recognisable.
Context is very important. Make sure the person lipreading you has understood the topic you’re talking about - as lipreading can lead to many possible 'readings,’ as you’ll see in the humorous video from BadLipReading.com.
Watch Bad Lipreading video: Stranger Things.


TRAN QUOC PAGODA (North Vietnam): The oldest pagoda in Hanoi, a striking symbol of the Vietnamese Buddhism
Being one of the most spiritual pagodas in Vietnam, Tran Quoc Pagoda is a renowned attraction for its deep cultural and Buddhist values. Coming to Tran Quoc Pagoda, the oldest pagoda in Hanoi (over 1500 years old), you will enjoy a delightful and antiquated picturesqueness in the center of the crowded and fast-pacing city.
Built in the sixth century during the reign of King Ly Nam De, the pagoda was first named Khai Quoc, which means “founding the country”. Since then it has undergone a move, refurbishment and numerous name changes, but it remains a serene place to visit.
It was first constructed on the other side of the dyke road, by the river, but was moved in the 17th century to its current location on West Lake. Clearly the builders recognised what a prime piece of real estate Duong Thanh Nien was and that the lakeside location would add to the beauty to the pagoda.
The Buddhist pagoda is accessed via a short causeway lined with palm trees. The causeway leading to the temple gives a sense of drama as you approach, suggesting something of value lies ahead. The large entrance gate is one of the most recent additions, built in 1815, and through that to the left is a tall tower visible from the street. Entrance is free to the temple, but donations are encouraged.
The tower stands 15 metres high and has 11 tiers, each designed to represent the petals of a lotus flower. Each level has six arch windows containing a statue of Amitabha and on top of the tower sits a lotus flower made from precious stone—but you can’t get a good view of that from 15 metres below.
Brick-built shrines of all shapes and sizes surround the tower, most with incense wafting out from small windows or altars, and some with Chinese writing on the side; we can’t tell you the meaning of these texts, but they are pretty.


Appropriate Tech Projects for Anyone and Everyone
Appropriate Technology is technology that’s environmentally sound, socially just, and economically sustainable. There are AT projects around the world built with local, easily-procured materials and labor. Many are projects anyone can learn to build at home.
We’ve partnered with our sister site–sustainability wiki Appropedia–to bring you our project pages. Take a look, bring ‘em home and build your own, and contribute your improvements back to Appropedia!
CCAT’s Greatest Hits
A few of our projects have become visitor favorites for their sheer coolness factor:
- Pedal-powered LCD television and DVD player: the upgraded version of our most popular attraction.
- CCAT Wash-n-Flush: a toilet with a conscience! It has an integrated sink that diverts your handwashing water for the flush.
- Rainwater Catchment System: we collect rainwater from our rooftop and store it to water our edible garden when it’s dry.


Diabetics and trypanophobics around the world can unite with a new scientific discovery that eliminates the pain of having an injection. Scientists in India and Japan have invented a micro-needle that is 15 x smaller than conventional needles. It has diameter of 60 microns, compared to 900 microns for regular hypodermic devices. The new needle mimics the way a female mosquito sucks blood. [Male mosquitos don’t suck blood, but live off nectar; the female uses the protein in blood to produce eggs]. The female flexes and relaxes certain muscles in its proboscis to create suction that draws blood into its mouthparts.
The new biocompatible microneedle, designed by Suman Chakraborty of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and Kazuyoshi Tsuchiya of Tokai University in Kanagawa is based on the same principle.
In this case, the sucking action is provided by a microelectromechanical pump, which works using a piezoelectric actuator attached to the needle.
Made of titanium, the new invention is long enough to reach 3 mm deep into human skin, which is the depth needed to reach superficial capillaries. It could be used to draw blood, inject drugs, and as a glucose-level monitor for diabetics.


For example, a geologist may examine a cutting where the rocks appear as shown in Figure 1.
(Creationists do not agree with these ages of millions of years because of the assumptions they are based on.) Because of his interest in the volcanic dyke, he collects a sample, being careful to select rock that looks fresh and unaltered.On his return, he sends his sample to the laboratory for dating, and after a few weeks receives the lab report.Let us imagine that the date reported by the lab was 150.7 ± 2.8 million years.Our geologist would be very happy with this result.Would he have concluded that the fossil date for the sediments was wrong? Would he have thought that the radiometric dating method was flawed? Instead of questioning the method, he would say that the radiometric date was not recording the time that the rock solidified.
He may suggest that the rock contained crystals (called xenocrysts) that formed long before the rock solidified and that these crystals gave an older date.In fact, he would have been equally happy with any date a bit less than 200 million years or a bit more than 30 million years.They would all have fitted nicely into the field relationships that he had observed and his interpretation of them.He may suggest that some other very old material had contaminated the lava as it passed through the earth.Or he may suggest that the result was due to a characteristic of the lava—that the dyke had inherited an old ‘age’. 200.4 ± 3.2 million years) implies that the calculated date of 200.4 million years is accurate to plus or minus 3.2 million years.It relates only to the accuracy of the measuring equipment in the laboratory.


A Minnesota hog producer challenges some popular misconceptions about the price of food.
Judy Hanson raises corn and beans, and finishes hogs on her family farm in St. Peter, Minn. She also maintains a blog on the Internet. Hanson told her readers that after reviewing her costs and payments, higher corn prices raised the cost of her hog production by about 6 cents per pound.
Hanson says the relationship between corn and food prices is not as tight as it once was. “In fact, history tells us, the prices of corn and the price of retail meat have been decoupled,” she notes. “Looking at the years 2001-2005 shows a couple of years when the price of corn went down and the price of beef and pork went up.”
“Even though we are paying more for corn today, it has little effect on the price of meat to the consumer,” she says.You can read more on her blog at: http://judydhanson.blogspot.com


Chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon, rosé, pinot noir, Port, Sherry, and Champagne: Each of these is a different type of wine with its own distinct sensorial characteristics. In this course, you will continue on your winemaking journey by determining the workflow and steps needed to produce these wine types. Although not an exhaustive dive into winemaking, you will be introduced to a foundation from which to start.
You will then design basic wine production plans for table, fortified, and sparkling wines as you consider what it means to be a wine professional. With this newfound knowledge, you will be set up for a more nuanced and clear path ahead in the wine industry and beyond.
- Evaluating Wines


The Palmer Raids 1919
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer used undercover informants and warrantless wiretaps authorized by the Espionage and Sedition Acts to identify thousands of suspected anti-Government radicals. His special assistant, J. Edgar Hoover, coordinated raids in over 30 American cities on the night of November 7, 1919. The Union of Russian Workers, a group that sought to band workers together to fight against capitalism, was a primary target of the Palmer Raids. The attack on their headquarters in New York City was described by a reporter as “one of the most brutal raids ever witnessed in the city.” Men, women, and children were beaten and bloodied by police. Hundreds were taken into custody and eventually deported.


Cardiac stress that’s caused by a heart attack or high blood pressure will frequently lead to pathological heart growth and eventually lead to heart failure. Researchers have discovered that two micro-scale RNA molecules, microRNA miR-212 and miR-132 play a role in this detrimental development in mice. When these molecules were inhibited, the mice were protected against pathological heart growth and failure. Researchers hope to adapt these findings and develop therapeutic approaches that would work in humans.
The scientists published their findings in the journal Nature Communications. Other symptoms, like respiratory distress and fatigue can accompany heart failure. High blood pressure of valvular heart defects will lead to cardiac hypertrophy, which in turn, once it has developed in a patient, will lead to heart failure since the heart muscles enlarge to boost pumping performance. The microRNAs are more prevalent in cardiac muscle cells of mice suffering from cardiac hypertrophy.
In order to determine the role of these microRNAs, researchers bred genetically modified mice that had an abnormally large number of these molecules in their heart muscle cells. The mice developed cardiac hypertrophy and lived for only three to six months whereas healthy mice had a lifespan of several years. They also switched off the microRNAs in other mice, which in turn had smaller hearts than healthy mice, but this didn’t affect their lifespans.
Scientists then subjected these mice to stress by narrowing the aorta to determine if they would develop cardiac hypertrophy, but they didn’t. This is basically a molecular approach to treat pathological heart growth and failure in mice.
[via Nature Communications]


Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Southern Wetland Flora
Field Office Guide to Plant Species
Andropogon virginicus L.
- Family: Grass (Poaceae)
- Flowering: August-November
- Field Marks: Broom-sedge has a sessile spikelet shorter than the adjacent stalk. The
curve gracefully, and the flowering spikes are not as thick as in Andropogon glomeratus.
- Habitat:Moist to dry soils in old fields, pastures, prairies, glades.
- Habit: Tufted perennial grass with short rhizomes.
- Stems: Upright, branched, usually smooth, up to 4 feet tall.
- Leaves: Elongated, narrow, up to 1 1/2 feet long, up to 1/6 inch wide, rough to the touch
above, smooth below; sheaths densely hairy.
- Flowers: Borne in paired spikelets; one member of the pair sessile and with both stamens and
pistils, the other reduced to a stalk; spikelets many in curved racemes; branches of the racernes
with long, silky hairs.
- Sepals: 0.
- Petals: 0.
- Stamens: 1-3.
- Pistils: Ovary superior.
- Notes: This species, unpalatable when mature to grazing livestock, forms conspicuous orange-brown tufts in pastures.
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Closed-Angle Glaucoma: Medicines to AvoidSkip to the navigation
If you have narrow drainage angles or you have long-term (chronic) closed-angle glaucoma , you may need to avoid medicines that widen (dilate) the pupil, the dark spot in the center of the eye. Having wide pupils when you have these other problems may cause acute closed-angle glaucoma. This is a dangerous condition that requires medical care right away to prevent lasting damage to your eye.
Some examples of prescription and over-the-counter medicines that may dilate the pupils are:
- Antihistamines and decongestants
- Asthma medicines
- Motion sickness medicines
- Some medicines used to treat depression (tricyclic antidepressants)
Talk with your eye specialist about medicines that you should not take.
Other Works Consulted
- American Academy of Ophthalmology (2010). Primary Angle Closure (Preferred Practice Pattern). San Francisco: American Academy of Ophthalmology. Also available online: http://aao.org/ppp.
Primary Medical Reviewer Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical Reviewer Christopher J. Rudnisky, MD, MPH, FRCSC - Ophthalmology
Current as ofSeptember 9, 2014
Current as of: September 9, 2014
Author: Healthwise Staff


Background: Punjab has been reported to be having high degree of water pollution due to heavy metals from untreated industrial effluent discharge and high pesticides consumption in agriculture. Present study ascertained the association of heavy metal and pesticide exposure on reproductive and child health outcomes in Punjab, India.
Methods: A cross sectional community based survey was conducted in which 1904 women in reproductive age group and 1762 children below 12 years age from 35 villages in Punjab were interviewed for systemic and general health morbidities. Medical doctors conducted clinical examination and review of records where relevant. Out of 35 study villages, 25 served as target (exposed) and 10 as non-target (less-exposed or reference). Effluent, ground and surface water, fodder, vegetables and milk (bovine and human) samples were tested for chemical composition, heavy metals and pesticides.
Results: Spontaneous abortion (20.6 per 1000 live births) and premature births (6.7 per 1000 live births) were significantly higher in area affected by heavy metal and pesticide pollution (p<0.05). Children in target area reported higher delayed milestones, language delay, blue line in gums, mottling of teeth and gastrointestinal morbidities (p<0.05). Mercury was found in more than permissible limits (MPL) in 84.4% samples from target area. Heptachlor, Chlorpyriphos and β-endosulphan were found to be more than MPL in 23.9%, 21.7% and 19.6% ground water samples respectively.
Conclusion: Although no direct association could be established in this study, heavy metal and pesticide exposure may be potential risk factors for the adverse reproductive and child health outcome.
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By spacecraft standards, Voyager 2 is an endurance athlete. On 28 June, the longest operating space probe celebrated having spent 12,000 days – almost 33 years – in space. But it's not the only spacecraft to have set a record for extreme achievement. New Scientist chronicles the missions that have pushed the envelope
Image 1 of 6
Longest lived: Voyager 2
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2
probes were launched in reverse order, so Voyager 2 is actually older. It rocketed into space on 20 August 1977, 16 days before its twin, and went on to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
It continues to send back measurements of the solar wind
as it coasts out of the solar system towards interstellar space.
Its radioactive power source should keep it alive until around 2025, by which point it will be 48 years old.
(Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech)


You can find a free blood pressure chart online, which can be incredibly useful in tracking your overall health and well-being. Blood pressure is a set of numbers that tell doctors how much pressure is in your arteries while the heart is beating and while it is resting.
Pressure is necessary, because it pushes the blood throughout your body. Yet, if there is, a complication that keeps the artery from dilating enough, this could lead to significant complications.
Doctors have adjusted the blood pressure chart to provide an even closer examination of where things stand. The old, and still most commonly used chart, provides for three levels of hypertension (high blood pressure.) The first is pre-hypertension, followed by stage 1 hypertension and stage-2 hypertension. Now, there is more distinction in the range.
The new stages range from a mild stage 1 to a very severe stage 4 level. Any level of high blood pressure needs monitoring and action taken, to help break down and protect your long-term health.
The range for high systolic blood pressure is as follows. This is the number listed first in the reading. It represents the amount of pressure in the arteries during heartbeats:
At 180 and above, you are at a high risk for the development of cardio vascular disease and may exhibit signs of stress, bloating and a red coloring.
Diastolic blood pressure ranges provide information on the amount of pressure in the arteries during periods of rest, when the heart is not beating. This is the second number in a blood pressure reading:
The good news is that you can track your own blood pressure using this chart. Here you can download a printable blood pressure chart to keep track of the changes in your blood pressure.
Do note that your blood pressure may be higher and lower, naturally, throughout the day. These changes are normal, though a consistently high blood pressure reading is not.
Since your diagnosis, how are you handling it and whats your treatment?
Do rave about your health.


Neoclassical sculptors often drew upon mythology, ancient history, the Bible, and classical and contemporary literature for their subject matter. The statues of Harvard-educated William Wetmore Story exemplify this inclination, and Cleopatra, his most famous work, was only one of dozens of subjects such as Medea, Delilah, Electra, and Saul that were produced in his studio. "Cleopatra" is highly representative of Story's oeuvre: most of his statues are single figures in the round, often seated deep in thought meditating on deeds of cataclysmic significance; here Cleopatra contemplates her suicide. The sculptor was renowned for the archaeological exactitude of the props and costumes of his figures. The attention paid to historical accuracy is matched by the virtuosity of the carving.


In recent years several high profile celebrities and politicians have used derogatory and inflammatory terms to describe refugees and migrants. As the opinions of young people are influenced by the media, their family and their peers, we decided to celebrate Refugee Week to counter this negative images.
In the run-up to Refugee Week teachers were asked to drop in references to global education (and the odd disaster) and we came together at the end of the week to compare experiences.
Not every school will choose to follow this approach but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a place for learning about the lives of others in other countries. In the few weeks we had to prepare we:
- Looked at the availability of drinking water and how some people have to carry it for miles back to their homes.
- Looked at famine and why some charities give out sachets of peanut butter
- Researched the speed of earthquakes & tsunamis. Could you outrun one?
Oxfam has produced an excellent science specific resource which is available to download from here. More general guidance for all subjects (including a useful progression of knowledge and opportunities) can be downloaded from this page. You can find out more about Refugee week here (including more resources) ready for next June.
The photo shows students carrying water around the school (they struggled to carry it more than half a mile, even taking turns!)


Master storyteller Lise Lunge Larsen brings to life the ancient stories behind the enduring words the Greeks have given us, illustrated in full color.
Did you know that museums were initially temples built to worship the nine muses? That Janus was the god of doorways and hallways, and after him we have named janitors? Where did these words—and other words, such as chaos, genius, nemesis, panic, and echo, come from? From the ancient stories of the Greeks—stories that rang so true and wise that the names of the characters have survived for centuries as words we use every day. This rich collection of myths is perfect for the classroom or as a gift book.
"A treat for myth lovers and language lovers alike, this smart and well-executed compilation should provide readers with a deeper understanding of the ways in which language evolves and of the surprising symbolism behind certain words."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The colorful artwork and brief chapters make this volume ideal for classroom sharing. Use this unique offering to launch a discussion about the elemental power of story and its influence on modern-day language."--School Library Journal
"Sure to attract language arts teachers who want students to master word origins, this work will also hold strong appeal for teens who will be attracted by the combination of clever text and exceptional illustrations."--VOYA
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At St Andrew’s C.E. Primary School, we aim to promote healthy, independent and responsible members of society. We encourage all pupils to play a role in contributing to school life and the wider community through the school POP (Pupil Opinion Party) and MOP (Mini Opinion Party) groups, fundraising events, supporting nominated charities and involvement in community activities.
We teach PSHE (Personal, Social, Health Education) in a variety of ways as a discrete subject, via assemblies and through other subjects such as RE, History, Geography, Literacy, Maths, Computing and Science as well as through outdoor educational visits, community work and activities.
The overarching aim for PSHE is to provide pupils with:
- Accurate and relevant knowledge
- Opportunities to turn that knowledge in to personal understanding
- Opportunities to explore, clarify and if necessary challenge their own and others’ values, attitudes, beliefs, rights and responsibilities.
- The skills and strategies they need in order to live healthy, safe fulfilling responsible and balanced lives.
Our PSHE curriculum follows guidelines as recommended by the PSHE Association:
- Health and well being
- Living in the wider world
Problem Solving in PSHE!
- I can discuss and consider different opinions and my own to solve problems.
- I can use effective communication skills to work as a valuable member of a team to problem solve.
- I can identify what is right or wrong in situations.
- I can work to a budget and explain reasons for purchases (Enterprise).
- I can investigate different scenarios and come up with reasons to support my ideas.


June is an abundant month on the veg plot, with a wide range of fruits and vegetables ready for harvesting. Follow our guide to sowing seeds throughout the year to avoid gluts, and discover ways to preserve your harvests should you have too much of one thing at a time.
Discover five crops to harvest in June, below.
The year’s first peas, such as sugar snap peas, should be ready to harvest, and it’s these first pickings that usually yield the sweetest and tastiest crop. Eat them as soon as you can, as sugar quickly turns to starch, resulting in a loss of flavour.
Broad beans sown in autumn or under cover in early spring, should be ready to harvest by June. Pick pods at the base of the plant first, using a gentle twisting motion to prevent injury to the plant stem.
New potatoes should be ready to dig up from the middle of the month, including both first early and second early cultivars. Bear in mind that these first spuds will be smaller than later harvests, so it’s worth leaving some in the ground to dig up later.
Underripe gooseberries are ready to harvest in June, which are perfect for making tarts, sauces and jams. Pick about half the fruits on the plant, leaving the remainder to ripen further, ready for July pickings.
June is the traditional month for picking strawberries, although it’s now possible to harvest strawberries all summer long. Serve them with cream or eat them fresh off the plant.


Message on the International Day of the Girl Сhild
This year, we mark the International Day of the Girl against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, and resurgent movements for social justice.
As we strengthen the response to the pandemic and plan for a strong recovery, we have an opportunity to create a better, fairer, more equal world for girls everywhere. The best way to achieve this is by following the leadership of girls themselves.
This year’s theme, “My Voice: Our Equal Future” calls on us to amplify the voices of adolescent girls, and put their needs at the forefront of laws, policies and practices in every country and community around the world.
The gaps between girls and boys remain unacceptably wide. Adolescent girls are locked out of opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), not for lack of talent or ambition — but because they are girls. Globally, the percentage of women among graduates in these subjects is below 15 percent in over two-thirds of countries.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Generation Equality is our global campaign and call to commit to working with and for girls, everywhere. We must support girls by giving them access to the tools they need to shape their own destinies. That includes the technological skills, connectivity and safety they need to thrive in a digital world.
We can all draw inspiration from the adolescent girls who are taking the lead and shaping better lives for themselves — and for others. Teenage girls are the new leaders of our time, creating global movements for change. They’re ready for the challenge.
On this International Day of the Girl, let’s stand together with them and for them.
Let’s nourish their talents, amplify their voices and work together for a better, more equal future for us all.


Learning the times tables is a vital tool when multiplying numbers. By the end of Year 2 children are often fluent in their times tables up to 10. When they enter into KS2 in Year 3 they will also be taught some higher times tables in their Maths and Numeracy lessons. By the end of KS2 they will be familiar with all of the times tables from one to twelve. This quiz will test their knowledge of the 4 times table.
Learning the 4 times table is all about multiplying numbers by 4. One way of learning your times tables is to practise them over and over again until you know them by heart, this will help you in later life when you will have to multiply numbers more often than you think!
Test how well you know your 4 times table by playing the following quiz.


America’s Most Literate Cities, 2014
This study attempts to capture one critical index of our nation’s social health—the literacy of its major cities (population of 250,000 and above). The study ranks cities based on research data for six key indicators of their citizens' use of literacy: booksellers, educational attainment, Internet resources, library resources, newspaper circulation, and periodical publishing resources. The information is compared against population rates in each city to develop a per capita profile of the city's literacy. Because of the number and complexity of the variables, the variety of ways in which the resource data are gathered and presented, and the variability in the timeliness of the data, the ranking is necessarily an interpretation.
|4.||St. Paul, MN.|
|8.||San Francisco, Calif.|
|10||St. Louis, Mo.|


This study is being conducted by Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston (but you can live anywhere in the United States and participate).
HealthCare Journey is posting this study because it applies to so many of our readers who have asked about the chances of their family members getting MS if they have MS (or vice versa).
Featured Project Genes and Environment in Multiple Sclerosis (GEMS)
The Genes and Environment in Multiple Sclerosis (GEMS) Research Study is dedicated to identifying genetic, environmental and immune factors that may increase a person’s risk of developing MS.
This research study will ultimately enroll 5000 subjects who are at risk of developing MS. This increased risk is correlated with having a first degree relative (parent, sibling, or child) with MS or with having taken certain Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (TNFa) agents. Obtaining information about who is at risk for MS will be beneficial in the future in identifying effective ways to screen orprevent this disease.
Here is a Q&A for the study: Q&A
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Toy Islamic computer for children 3 years to 13 years.
Excellent learning for your children: Arabic alphabetic
Each key when pressed plays different Quranic verses, Quranic surahs.
Or Prayer and children learn as they play and repeat after even the listening to it is a pleasure and the blessing from God.
Let your children familiarize with the Quran at early age.
Kids can easily learn the following:
1. Daily Masnoon Dua’s (Prayers/Invocations):
a. Du'a for a journey
b. Du'a before going to sleep
c. Du'a while leaving home
d. Du'a while returning home
e. Du'a to recite at the end of a gathering/meeting
f. Du'a before eating
g. Du'a after eating
h. Du'a before going to the toilet
i. Du'a after coming out of the toilet
j. Du'a after Azaan
k. Du'a to recite at Iftar (Ramadhan or any fast)
a. Surah Al Faatihah
b. Aayatul Kursie
c. Surah Al 'Asr
d. Surah Al Kaafiroon
e. Surah Al Ikhlaas
f. Surah Al Falaq
g. Surah Al Naas
3. ARABIC alphabets with PERFECT PRONUNCIATIONs
All Arabic letters "Alif to Ya"
4. Important Kalimaat:
a. Kalimah Tawheed (Kalimah Tayyibah)
b. Kalimah Shahaadah
c. Salaat 'Alan Nabi (Durood Shareef)
d. Talbiyyat of HAJJ
An Easy playful way to learn and memorize Quranic Surahs.
Extremely Portable Laptop with a handle to carry.
Each button on the laptop plays a different Surah or Dua' and all Arabic Alphabets.
The screen also has Makka mukarama Picture which lights up on pressing any key.
However, this is not like
a full size laptop screen.
More than 50 touch buttons (each button plays a different Surah or Dua’ or Arabic Letter)
Excellent gift for kids!
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As Lois Hall outlines in her history of the Pohangina Valley, large areas of open grassland such as those found in Canterbury and eastern Hawkes Bay had been quickly settled in the 1840s and 1850s, mainly by more wealthy settlers. But by the latter part of the nineteenth century, the government turned its focus to the provision of land for the settlement of those of lesser means and the descendants of the original settlers who sought to own their own farms. Attention turned to regions that were still forested and undeveloped, such as the Manawatu and western Hawkes Bay.
A government announcement published in the Wellington Independent Newspaper in 1871 states that pioneer emigrants from Scandinavia were to be “settled on some of the waste land of the Colony—Manawatu for instance”. Legislation was also passed to enable aspiring farmers with little capital to convert bush sections to farmland.
In 1886, the Wellington-Manawatu railway, running between Wellington and Longburn, Manawatu, was opened. This facilitated the milling and clearing of the thickly forested “hinterlands” of the Manawatu.
These policies and the improved access provided by the new railway were clearly effective: between 1878 and 1908, grassland increased from 5% to more than 50% of Manawatu County .
Photo: Longburn Railway Station, 1888-9. Used with permission from Alexander Turnbull Library, ref PA1-f-239-54. Above: In this view across the square in 1878, the swamp forest which covered all but Papaioea, the natural clearing in the forest when the area was surveyed by Europeans, is still visible. Within a few years this bush will have largely disappeared. From Manawatu Memory Online, Palmerston North City Library


Maximal and Near-Maximal Shift Register Sequences: Efficient Event Counters and Easy Discrete Logarithms
Issue No. 05 - May (1994 vol. 43)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.280803

A linear feedback shift register, or LFSR, can implement an event counter by shifting whenever an event occurs. A single two-input exclusive-OR gate is often the only additional hardware necessary to allow a shift register to generate, by successive shifts, all of its possible nonzero values. The counting application requires that the number of shifts be recoverable from the LFSR contents so that further processing and analysis may be done. Recovering this number from the shift register value corresponds to a problem from number theory and cryptography known as the discrete logarithm. For some sizes of shift register, the maximal-length LFSR implementation requires more than a single gate, and for some, the discrete logarithm calculation is hard. The paper proposes for such size the use of certain one-gate LFSR's whose sequence lengths are nearly maximal, and which support easy discrete logarithms. These LFSR's have a concise mathematical characterization, and are quite common. The paper concludes by describing an application of these ideas in a computer hardware monitor, and by presenting a table that describes efficient LFSR's of size up to 64 bits.

binary sequences; shift registers; shift register sequences; linear feedback shift register; LFSR; event counter; discrete logarithms; LFSR contents; shift register; number theory; cryptography; discrete logarithm; sequence lengths; cyclic group; counter; hardware monitor; primitive polynomial; reducible polynomial; trinomial.
D.W. Clark, Lih-Jyh Weng, "Maximal and Near-Maximal Shift Register Sequences: Efficient Event Counters and Easy Discrete Logarithms", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 43, no. , pp. 560-568, May 1994, doi:10.1109/12.280803


Yards of Helpfulness Project for Kids
Try this yards of helpfulness project for kids and help good feelings grow by cleaning up a neighbor's yard.
What You'll Need:
- Lawn mower
- Weed trimmer
- Work gloves
- Trash bags
- Ice water
Is your neighbor disabled? Overworked? Sick? Ask if you can help by taking care of some of the yard work. Once they say it's okay, why not mow the lawn? Rake the leaves? Pull those ugly weeds?
Not good with yard tools? Volunteer to babysit your neighbor's children as they do the difficult work. Offer to wash their dishes to free up a little extra time. Do what you can to grow some neighborly smiles and prove you care.
Don't forget to bring a big bottle of ice water with you when you volunteer; yard clean-up can be hot and thirsty work.
Continue reading to find out about our star story project next in nature projects for kids.
For more fun nature crafts and projects, try:


Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To become “sleepy” or internally decayed, as a pear which ripens after being picked.
- n. A soft spot in a fruit; an early stage of decay.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.
- v. To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit.
- French blettir. (Wiktionary)
“The blet would slow down but may stil be supersonic thus making a sound.”
“The people of Virar-Mira Road blet believe that conducting surveys and useless studies like "Most Influencial Person"; "Most Sexiest Person" is useless and stupidity.”
“We finally get out when the elevator makes it to the ground floor, and everyone's out of the building, and after the fire department responds and checks the place, we are told that a blet or something broke in the elevator we were on, and that is what called emergency services.”
“No, not baby Stens, it is my Open-arse Orchard - it will be worth waiting for them to mature and blet.”
“Fmnc apud Dou - blet.p. 655. yenientet in iUaflrada”
“Now, before the fanboys and haters get all riled up, keep in mind, the guy who draws the strip, T. Lewis, does so on his T.blet PC (last we heard,”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blet’.
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...
States of being are listed on oofy.
My fancies, my cudgels.
A selection of words appearing in Mrs Byrne's dictionary of unusual, obscure, and preposterous words (1994 edition).
Looking for tweets for blet.


nativism, in anthropology, social movement that proclaims the return to power of the natives of a colonized area and the resurgence of native culture, along with the decline of the colonizers. The term has also been used to refer to a widespread attitude in a society of a rejection of alien persons or culture. Nativism occurs within almost all areas of nonindustrial culture known to anthropologists. One of the earliest careful studies of nativism was that of James Mooney (1896), who studied the Ghost Dance among Native Americans of the W United States. In 1943, Ralph Linton published a brief paper on nativistic movements that served to establish the phenomenon as a special topic in anthropological studies of culture change.
See A. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1972) and J. Higham, Strangers in the Land (1988).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


According to a recent research focused on finding the cause of fibromyalgia, the pain doesn’t come from the brain, as it was thought. This is a crucial discovery which puts an end to the mystery about fibromyalgia. Around millions of people worldwide suffer from this condition which is usually treated with painkillers.
In the past, this was considered to be a psychological disorder; however, scientists have now revealed that the pain originates from the blood vessels in the hands. This discovery is very important because it may open up a path for new treatments and a possible cure. The team of scientists focused on the skin of a patient’s hand. The patient had a lack of sensory nerve fibers which resulted in reduced pain response.
They found a large number of nerve fibers known as arterioles-venule referrals in the skin sample. Previously, it was thought that these fibers regulate the blood flow and that they had no influence on pain.
According to Dr. Frank L. Rice, a neuroscientist, in the past, it was thought that these nerve endings had a role in the regulation of blood flow. But, the research pointed out that they can also contribute to the conscious sense of touch. Dr. Rice goes on to explain that poorly managed blood flow could be the reason for discomfort, muscle pain, and fatigue. Probably, this is a consequence of lactic acid accumulation and low levels of inflammation in fibromyalgia patients. This can cause hyperactivity in the brain.
The usual therapy for this condition is consisted of narcotic analgesics, anticonvulsants, and antidepressants, accompanied with advice like sleeping more and regular workout. Nonetheless, since the reason for this condition has been recently discovered, this may mean a more appropriate treatment and even a cure for the condition. All in all, this study is pivotal because it offers a new insight into fibromyalgia and its treatment.


A University of North Carolina study warns against the use of THC or CBD by women who are in the early stages of pregnancy.
The study, which was published this week, tested the use of both synthetic and natural cannabinoids on mice. The results found that one-time exposure to cannabinoids early in a pregnancy can cause growth issues in a developing embryo.
UNC said that this was the first time a study of this kind has been performed on mammals.
Researchers said that they found the effects of CBD and THC are potentially very similar to what is seen in fetal alcohol syndrome. The researchers added that cannabinoid use disrupted signaling between molecules and cells that control growth and development. Researchers believe the results on mouse fetuses would be similar to human fetuses.
“The development of the embryo in this time period is very similar across all vertebrates,” said Scott Parnell, a member of the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. “In this study we also test a synthetic cannabinoid in zebrafish that yielded similar growth deformations as the natural CBs. Having the same results across animal models reinforces our findings.”
The researchers administered enough CBD that is considered a therapeutic range for humans. The THC concentration was of similar levels to smoking marijuana.
“It is concerning how little we know about the use of marijuana, its CBs, and products like CBD oil during pregnancy,” Parnell said. “We know that there is no safe period to drink alcohol during a pregnancy, and I think this research shows the same is likely true of marijuana use.”
To read more on the study, click here .


Today we will show you how to draw the front view of a Cartoon Shark. It might look difficult to draw, but it is actually quite easy…we will break the shark’s shape down to easier shapes for you to recognize and then draw. Learn how to draw this Cartoon Shark with the following simple step to step tutorial.
How to Draw a Cartoon Shark with Easy Step by Step Drawing Tutorial
Start off by drawing an oval and then draw two guidelines through the center.
Then draw an oval for each eye … then draw an upside down letter U for the nose.
Draw a big capital ‘V’ shape over the eyes for the brows.
Draw a curved line for his smile and an oval for each nostril. Draw a circle for each pupil.
Draw a curved line for bottom of the snout and draw the bottom of the mouth.
Draw curves for the ends of the mouth. Then draw zig-zags that look like letter ‘M’ shapes.
To finish off, just draw letter ‘V’ shapes for each fin.
I hope that this tutorial helped you to draw the front view of a Cartoon Shark and that you had a lot of fun 🙂
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Help me with Frankenstein assignment
- Why didn’t Mary Shelley begin with Frankenstein’s life?
- Why you think Mary Shelley begins her novel with Walton’s letters?
- Who was Victor accused of murdering?
- Is Walton a reliable narrator in Frankenstein?
- What is the reader supposed to think of the Monster?


Vision & Core Principles
History is important. Anti-racism requires a clear understanding of historical racism and white supremacy. It is crucial to see this history not as separate, but as a foundational element of American history.
RACISM is the NORM. Racism and white supremacy exist today and all members of this society are active participants in it. No exceptions. Owning this truth, and recognizing the presence of racism in ways that may be easy to overlook is crucial.
Anti-racism is our RESPONSIBILITY. The work of anti-racism, based in the knowledge of our past and the recognition of our present, requires intentional, deliberate action. We must challenge, check, and change our equity systems and structures for equity everyday, and this requires a life-long commitment. It is the work to actively engage in dismantling systems of racism and white supremacy.


German greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2012
Germany saw increased emissions in greenhouse gases last year due to more coal and gas usage while the country seeks to develop its renewable energy sources, officials said Monday.
Germany, which has committed to phase out nuclear power, emitted the equivalent of around 931 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2012, or 14 million tonnes more than a year earlier, the federal environment agency said.
"Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany increased slightly in 2012 by 1.6 percent," it said in a written statement.
"More coal was burned to generate electricity and more gas was used to heat homes, due to the weather," it added.
"The development of renewable energies abated the emissions' increase however."
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany embarked on an ambitious "energy revolution", deciding to phase out its nuclear power plants by the end of 2022 and bolster renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind power.
But concerns have mounted that this would entail a sharp rise in electricity prices amid difficulties in building a network able to transmit energy from the North Sea coast to the energy-hungry south of the country.
The agency's president Jochen Flasbarth said fears that the nuclear exit would spark far greater greenhouse gas emissions had not happened "because, above all, the further development of renewable energies has countered it".
"However, the trend of again converting more coal into electricity worries me," he added in the statement.
Germany said that despite the slight increase in emissions in 2012, it had more than met the targets agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, with its greenhouse gas emissions having fallen by 25.5 percent compared to 1990.
(c) 2013 AFP


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Root Canal Procedure
Also known as endodontic therapy, a root canal procedure is designed to save a tooth from extraction when its inner portion has experienced damage due to infection or decay. The root canal treatment process consists of taking out the harmful living material that is present inside the tooth and then replacing it with medicated fillings to encourage healing. This allows us to retain the original structure of the tooth, while also restoring its function and appearance.
Root Canal Infection
A tooth develops a root canal infection when decay spreads to its inner pulp or when a bacterial infection develops inside the tooth or at its root tip. There are many symptoms of a root canal infection, including:
- Severe, agonizing toothache
- Sensitivity to hot and cold foods and drinks
- Swollen and tender gums
- Abscess on the gums
When providing root canal treatment for a patient, we start by placing a small rubber sheet around the damaged tooth. This prevents the infection from spreading during the procedure, while also keeping the tooth dry. Next, special dental tools are used to access the tooth’s inner portion so that any infected pulp, damaged nerve tissue and visible decay can be removed. The inner area of the tooth is then thoroughly cleaned and sealed with a filling substance. To finish the procedure, a dental crown is applied over the surface of the tooth in order to prevent any fractures from occurring.


Sonically-Enhanced Microbubble Flotation Column
72427S03-I Industry discards approximately one-tenth of mined coal. Also, nearly one-third of the phosphates mined in Florida, one-fifth of the tungsten mined in the world, and one-half of the tin mined in Bolivia are discarded as unrecoverable fine material. Large amounts of energy are invested in grinding these minerals, much of which is lost as uneconomical mining byproducts that are eventually impounded, representing a misuse of valuable natural resources. This project will develop a novel froth flotation technology that should be well-suited for the efficient separation and recovery of fine particles less than 5 microns in size, and result in lower energy use. Phase I entails the design, fabrication and testing of an advanced, sonically-enhanced, column flotation technology. The technology will be evaluated using coal and copper minerals. Direct comparisons of its performance will be made against state-of-the-art froth flotation technology. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by awardee: Froth flotation is the most widely used unit process in the minerals processing industry with over three billion tons of mined ores and coal being floated annually. Also, flotation is used extensively for the beneficiation of coal ¿ virtually all new coal preparation plants incorporate flotation into their basic flow sheet. Non-mining applications include wastewater treatment, removal of oil from oil-water mixtures, de-inking of newsprint paper, sewage treatment, water purification, and soil washing, as well as a few other niche processes related to chemicals, plastics recycling, and food processing.
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Cell size of Antarctic phytoplankton as a biogeochemical condition
TypeJournal article; Peer reviewed
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Two contrasting high nutrient/low chlorophyll regions having different conditions that control phytoplankton production, and separated by an area of blooming, are found during summer in the vicinity of the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica). Low chlorophyll conditions occur either in Fe-rich, deeply mixed and high salinity Weddell Sea shelf waters, or the Fe-poor, shoaled and low salinity Drake Passage Antarctic Circumpolar Current waters, while phytoplankton blooms are located between in mid salinity water. Contrasting phytoplankton communities were found to populate these different biogeochemical provinces. In data from six field seasons (1999–2007), nanoplankton (2–20 μm) were found to be dominant in the phytoplankton populations from light-controlled coastal waters, including blooms, with most chlorophyll found in the 2–5 μm size class. In contrast, the adjacent and presumably Fe-controlled Drake Passage waters were dominated by the microplankton (>20 μm) size class. The asymmetrical distribution of phytoplankton size classes across the salinity gradient, when analysed independently of total chlorophyll concentration, supports the hypothesis that the different food web grazing dynamics are dependent upon biogeochemical provinces.


Early 16th century; earliest use found in William Tyndale (1494–1536), translator of the Bible and religious reformer. From post-classical Latin philautia Greek self-love, self-conceit from ancient Greek loving oneself
Born 1494 Gloucestershire, England
Died 6 October 1536, Duchy of Brabant, Seventeen Provinces
How and Why
The Greeks recognized two forms. In its negative form philautia is the selfishness that wants pleasure, fame, and wealth beyond what one needs. Narcissus, who falls in love with his own reflection, exemplifies this kind of self-love. In its positive form philautia refers to a proper pride or self-love.


Project Ideas / topics described in this section are purely software based; they might have a hardware component but major operation of the projects are via software. Software programming languges includes (but not limited to) C#, VisualBasic 6.0 or .Net, HTML, CSS, Javscript, PHP and MYSQL.
This project is a computer network based software that allows hotel / restaurant customers place orders for drinks and foods from their tables remotely. Customers interact with the client version of the software while the server version is controlled by the hotel / restaurant staff. Any order placed on the client systems is displayed to the staff on the server computer.
This project makes it possible for students to pay their fees through their cell phones. It is a client-server application that allows communication with a remote server via SMS. Students need send a message string format via SMS to a designated phone number linked to a MODEM attached to the remote server. The remote server reads the this message and confirms the payment if the content of the message is valid.
This project is a computer based software project unifying all modern office communication functions in one application using windows sockets. The project offers Chat, Intercom, Mail and Notification Alerts.
Not solely applicable to a cyber cafe environment, this project aims at giving network administrators the ability of giving a timed computer access to other users on a network. Every user has a unique username and password that grants him /her access to the network for a specific time duration.


Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
You must have a strong
grasp of basic math concepts if you want to be able to function in the real world. Addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division are the basics that are necessary for all kinds of math.
the links below to get step by step notes on how to do basic math. Once you have read the notes, click on the Basic Math Practice and Math Games to practice what you have learned.
In order to get points for this assignment, you must complete one Basic Math Practice and play one of the Math Games from one of the sites listed.
the link to the Math flashcards to practice those basic skills if you
feel you need it.


is the angular displacement from the vertical axis of the suspension of a steered wheel in a Mustang, measured in the longitudinal direction. It is the angle between the pivot line (in a Mustang - an imaginary line that runs through the center of the upper ball joint to the center of the lower ball joint) and vertical. Mustang racers sometimes adjust caster angle to optimize their Mustang's handling characteristics in particular driving situations.
is the angle made by the steering wheel of your Mustang; specifically, it is the angle between the vertical axis of the wheel and the vertical axis of the Mustang when viewed from the front or rear. It is used in the design of steering and suspension. If the top of the wheel is farther out than the bottom (that is, away from the axle), it is called positive camber; if the bottom of the wheel is farther out than the top, it is called negative camber.


The Seneca Indian Nation is using only indigenous plants and trees in its public landscaping.
The western New York tribe is believed to be the first to formalize a practice that tribes throughout the country are embracing as a way to preserve Native American culture and the environment.
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From now on, only native species will be planted outside tribal schools, office buildings and casinos on Seneca land.
That means instead of Austrian pines and Norway maples, there will be more balsam firs and white ash trees. Wild bee balm, cinnamon fern and other medicinal plants will take the place of non-native flowers and shrubbery.
Seneca President Barry Snyder says the policy is an offshoot of efforts to reduce diabetes by encouraging diets of locally grown fruits and vegetables.


Waipahu Plantation strike
The Waipahu Plantation strike of 1906 was one of the earliest collective labor actions in the face of state intervention and sugar industry bosses. Its success demonstrated the value of collective action and laid the foundation for “blood unionism,” labor unions based on ethnic identity.
Between 1850 and 1920, more than 300,000 Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Korean laborers were brought to Hawaii as contract laborers to raise “king sugar” for low wages on American plantations run by companies such as the Oahu Sugar Company. When the company was founded in 1897, its 943 fieldworkers earned an average of $12.50 a month. By 1900, there were more than 60,000 Japanese in the islands, the largest single ethnic group, composing about 40 percent of the population. Nevertheless, almost all supervisory positions were held by whites. In 1900, the Organic Act established Hawaii as a territory of the United States, at the same time abolishing the contract labor system, though workers sometimes had to resort to violent confrontations or strikes to win this new right. In response, in 1901, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association agreed to fix wages at an artificially low level and continued to utilize loopholes to continue certain provisions of the old labor contracts. After years of heightened tensions, in 1906, 1,700 Japanese laborers struck against the Waipahu Plantation, demanding higher wages. Fortyseven armed policemen were called in to intimidate the strikers. Despite the show of force, the Japanese laborers stood firm, eventually winning concessions.


May 14, 1997
Riding the Rock Island Through Kansas
Today's Reading:"Riding the Rock Island Through Kansas" by Dave Etter from SELECTED POEMS, published by Spoon River Poetry Press.
At North Cape, Norway, today is the first day of the year with around-the-clock-sunshine; the sun won't dip below the horizon until July 30th.
It's the anniversary of the day in 1948 when Israel declared its independence when the British mandate ended.
It's the 53rd birthday of film-maker George Lucas, (AMERICAN GRAFFITI; STAR WARS [trilogy]; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) born in Modesto, California, 1944.
It's the birthday of novelist Richard P. Brickner, who after being paralyzed in a car accident, went on to write his first novel (THE BROKEN YEAR) based on his experience. He was born in New York City in 1933
Drummer Arthur James " Zutty" Singleton, one of the earliest drummers to use wire brushes along with sticks, was born on this day in Bunkie, Louisiana, 1988.
" The Stars and Stripes Forever," by John Philip Sousa, was first performed one hundred years ago today in Philadelphia.
It's the birthday of jazz clarinetist and soprano saxophone player Sidney Bechet, born in New Orleans, 1897.
English physician Edward Jenner gave the first successful smallpox vaccination on this day in 1796.
Painter Thomas Gainsborough ("Blue Boy") was born on this day in Sudbury, England, in 1727.
It's the birthday of Margaret of Valois, Queen Margot, born outside Paris in 1533. At 19 she married a Protestant, Henry, King of Navarre, in an attempt to make peace between Catholic and Protestant France, but less than a week later the massacre of Protestants began on St. Bartholomew's Day.
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How Cognitive Biases Can Affect the Performance of Eco-Labeling Schemes
Individuals exhibit systematic cognitive biases which make their behavior 'deviant' when compared to the benchmark of perfectly rational individuals. The person's tendency to make errors in judgment based on cognitive factors, are thought to be based upon heuristics and lead to decisions that are sub-optimal. Ignoring cognitive biases can affect diverse dimensions of eco-labeling policies and lead to flawed prescriptions. We review several cognitive biases that affect eco-labeling related behaviors and show how taking them into account allows a better understanding of eco-labeling schemes and informs policy makers in order to design and implement more effective eco-labeling policies.
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Reads a pulse (either HIGH or LOW) on a pin. For example, if value is HIGH, pulseIn() waits for the pin to go HIGH, starts timing, then waits for the pin to go LOW and stops timing. Returns the length of the pulse in microseconds or 0 if no complete pulse was received within the timeout.
The timing of this function has been determined empirically and will probably show errors in shorter pulses. Works on pulses from 10 microseconds to 3 minutes in length. Please also note that if the pin is already high when the function is called, it will wait for the pin to go LOW and then HIGH before it starts counting. This routine can be used only if interrupts are activated. Furthermore the highest resolution is obtained with short intervals.
pulseIn(pin, value, timeout)
pin: the number of the pin on which you want to read the pulse. (int)
timeout (optional): the number of microseconds to wait for the pulse to be completed: the function returns 0 if no complete pulse was received within the timeout. Default is one second (unsigned long).
the length of the pulse (in microseconds) or 0 if no pulse is completed before the timeout (unsigned long)
int pin = 7;
unsigned long duration;
duration = pulseIn(pin, HIGH);
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We all know that too much exposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer, but not enough sunlight can cause Vitamin D deficiency and weak bones.
What about sun exposure through a window?
The sun emits UVA, UVB, and UVC rays. Most UVC rays are filtered out by the earth’s atmosphere. Windows filter out about 97% of UVB rays, but do not filter out all UVA rays. So you can still tan through a window! Sitting next to a window is like wearing SPF 30 sunscreen, as many rays do get filtered out, but you can still get tan with long enough exposure.
One interesting study found that 74% of patients with skin cancer had tumors on their left sides, which is the window side of cars in North America! Modern cars now have a plastic layer bonded between two layers of glass, and block out all UVB and 80% of UVA rays, making sunburn less likely.
What about vitamin D? Vitamin D is produced in our skin by UVB rays. But glass windows block this out. That means that you would get little, if any, Vitamin D from sitting by a window.


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How did the laws intended to increase access , help to eliminate the challenges faced by disenfranchised groups and open doors for educational opportunities.
Did these laws create additional issues that needed to be solved. If so how?
One major court decision to research along these lines is Lau vs Nichols:


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Government surveillance… privacy attacks… cyber theft. All things you can live without right? Yet, we’re all still using antiquated routers that don’t protect us properly. Did you know that your router takes in every action you make online whether it’s ordering cleaning supplies or logging in to your bank account? So how do you protect you, your family and friends from cyber attacks? Introducing, Aleia – a next-generation router utilizing blockchain technology to protect your sensitive information and give you complete control and customization over your wifi and hot spots.
It tracks your internet activity and breaks down your history into chunks called blocks. Each block consists of your history over a specified period of time and can then start to be verified by millions of data points inside of the network. Every action you take is encrypted by a set of keys that are linked to your account, one private and one public. These encryption keys set up a sort of two-step verification for every action you take while using your wi-fi. Once the block is verified by the network, it becomes part of the linked chain of previous blocks and can no longer be changed or replicated within its structure.
Designers: Daniel Perry, Jorien Hopkins & Ranon Pritchard


Yale Cancer Center scientists, together with colleagues at the Denver Police Crime Lab and the University of Colorado, have found evidence that a human metastatic tumor can arise when a leukocyte (white blood cell) and a cancer cell fuse to form a genetic hybrid. Their study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, may answer the question of how cancer cells travel from the primary tumor's site of origin to distant organs and tissues of the body—the deadly process of metastasis.
Such a theory was first proposed as an explanation for metastasis more than a century ago. But until now, the theory was unproven in human cancer because genomic differences between cells from the same patient cannot be distinguished. To get around this problem, the researchers analyzed genomic DNA in the secondary malignancies of a patient who had a melanoma brain metastasis and had received a bone marrow transplant from his brother.
They found signature genes from both the patient and donor together in the tumor cells, providing the first evidence that leukocytes (in this case from the donor) can fuse with cancer cells and initiate a tumor.
"Our results provide the first proof in humans of a theory, proposed in 1911 by a German pathologist, that metastasis can occur when a leukocyte and cancer cell fuse and form a genetic hybrid," said corresponding author John Pawelek, research faculty in the dermatology department of Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine. "This could open the way to new therapy targets, but much work needs to be done to determine how fusion occurs, the frequency of such hybrids in human cancers, and the potential role of hybrids in metastasis," he added.
Explore further: Six2 homeoprotein allows breast cancer cells to detach and metastasize


Water quality is the focal point of the project. The main rivers are the Our and Sauer. Regular water analysis controls nutrient loads and nutrient inflow.
The Our has its source in Belgium and flows along the border of Germany and Luxembourg to its outlet into the Sauer near Wallendorf.
The Sauer also originates in Belgiumand marks the border between Belgium and Luxembourg up to the outlet of the Syrbach.
Both rivers are designated as lower mountain rivers; the project is carried out in the upper reaches of both rivers.
Once a week, water samples are taken in the Our (Kalbermillen) and Sauer (Moulin de Bigonville) and the following parameters are determined:
- Temperature - °C
- Conductivity - µS/cm
- Oxygen content - % and mg/L,
- Turbidity - NTU
- Orthophosphate - PO4 in mg/L
- Nitrite - NO2 in mg/L
- Ammonium - NH4 in mg/L
- Nitrate - NO3 in mg/L
Once a month or during incidents, additional parameters are examined:
- CSB - mg/L
- Chloride - mg/L
- Calcium - mg/L
The following bodies of water lie within the project area:
Our with side streams
Reibach, Nivelsbach, Schelsbach, Jansschlederbach, Feierbach, Hengeschterbach, Stroumbach, Kenzelbach, Ruederbach, Etschenterbach, Traesbach, Fallbach, Ettebach, Holzbach, Huschterbach, Gemünder-Akeschterbach, Stolzemburg-Akeschterbach, Klangbach
Sauer with side streams
Froumichtbach, Syrbach, Schwärzerbach
The results allow to detect high deposition regions. Thus, it should be easier to detect the source of inflows.
At the same time, the physical and chemical analysis in combination with meteorological and limnimetrical data allows to detect the interrelation between fertilizing periods, rain and run-off.
With the acquisition of the inventory, the ultimate cause can be fixed. Later in the project, changes to the water quality will hopefully be observed due to good management.


Space-Saving Bed Designs – A Tribute To Sarah Goode
The cabinet bed was patented by Sarah E. Goode in 1885. She was a freed slave who lived in Chicago, Illinois, and noticed that many of the apartments in her area did not have enough space to accommodate a bed. She was the first African American to receive a United States patent. Her design included a desk with storage compartments that folded out into a bed.
Here are a few more space-saving bed designs, as a tribute to Sarah E. Goode’s original.
This bed, like Goode’s, folds up to resemble a piece of furniture.
Like Goode’s, this design utilizes the bed frame for additional storage.
Loft beds are great for taking advantage of the space beneath a bed for storage, or for a variety of other uses.
This design uses the space above the bed, rather than beneath it, for a variety of uses as well!
This design forgets about above or beneath, and simply places the bed INTO the wall, a great way to save space!
And this design places beds on top of beds AND into the wall – Sarah E. Goode would probably be impressed!
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may 1, 1898 - Battle of Manila Bay
To begin waging war on Spain, the US attacked the Philippines, then a Spanish colony. In a decisive victory, George Dewey defeats the weak Spanish resistance.
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