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<urn:uuid:5579e9d4-6e68-4bcf-87a3-ff20ed6954c4>_0 | Creator: Gust, Iris Description: The brochure promotes urban transportation policy to increase the use of renewable energy to 100%. Seen globally, transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet fossil fuels are becoming scarce, will become increasingly expensive and will eventually stop being via... |
<urn:uuid:eeed63e4-ccb3-480f-bd77-7d8de8b6555e>_0 | Date: August 2010 Creator: Allen, Evette L. Description: Family communication has the potential to affect a variety of youth behavioral outcomes including adolescent sexual risk behavior. Within chapter 1, I present past literature on adolescent sexual risk behaviors, family communication patterns, and the gaps associa... |
<urn:uuid:288bae5d-f267-40ac-bd2c-195909577617>_0 | Children of substance abusers: Observations and their mothers' reports of childrearing practices The widespread use of drugs includes women who are mothers and of childbearing age. A review of the literature shows that women who are substance abusers suffer from depression, low self-esteem, have poor health and nutriti... |
<urn:uuid:288bae5d-f267-40ac-bd2c-195909577617>_1 | Observation, and the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (Home-SF). Generally, greater parental control and less expression of affection were adhered to as values by the participants of the study. Correlations as a function of drug usage and demographic variables suggested that the participan... |
<urn:uuid:e56ea051-5aef-4db5-9c59-b878ee08ff32>_0 | This study presents the results from a survey issued to speech-language pathologists in the state of Kentucky regarding their perspectives on referral and assessment of bilingual speakers whose primary language is not English. The study was conducted to determine methods for decreasing the over-identification of biling... |
<urn:uuid:fae983e5-45da-44d4-86c0-5ccc7cb210d8>_0 | Born in 1940, Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan ecologist and environmental activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, causing the media to depict her as a latter-day Johnny Appleseed who has planted millions of trees in Africa. (The Green Belt Movement has been responsible for the planting of more than 10 million... |
<urn:uuid:fae983e5-45da-44d4-86c0-5ccc7cb210d8>_1 | conferences such as the Earth Summit, making an imprint on the global quest for sustainable development.... Selfless and steadfast, Ms. Maathai has been a champion of the environment, of women, of Africa, and of anyone concerned about our future security.” “Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that, be... |
<urn:uuid:fae983e5-45da-44d4-86c0-5ccc7cb210d8>_2 | She was a member of the Commission on Global Governance (CGG), founded in 1992 at the suggestion of former West German Chancellor and socialist Willy Brandt. Maathai worked on the CGG alongside Maurice Strong, Jimmy Carter, and Robert McNamara. The group’s manifesto, “Our Global Neighborhood,” calls for a dramatic reor... |
<urn:uuid:6aba2b8d-0f86-4d64-b8af-a03c21e98c63>_0 | In some people, macular degeneration advances so slowly that it has little effect on their vision. But in others, the disease progresses faster and may lead to vision loss. Sometimes only one eye is affected, while the other eye remains free of problems for many years. People with dry macular degeneration in one eye of... |
<urn:uuid:d30effea-1f5f-4ff1-874d-1ea41dc97c53>_0 | Now he’s alerted me to a new study and related lecture on what he and his co-authors are calling “peak farmland” — an impending stabilization of the amount of land required for food as humanity’s growth spurt plays out. While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and... |
<urn:uuid:d30effea-1f5f-4ff1-874d-1ea41dc97c53>_1 | other players, including those of us who can choose what to eat and how many children to have: [T]he main actors are parents changing population, workers changing affluence, consumers changing the diet (more or less calories, more or less meat) and also the portion of crops entering the food supply (corn can fuel peopl... |
<urn:uuid:d30effea-1f5f-4ff1-874d-1ea41dc97c53>_2 | and cotton, which require hectares? Will the average human continue to grow taller and thus require more calories? Will norms of beauty accept obesity and thus high average calories per capita? Will a global population with a median age of 40 eat less than one with a median age of 28? Will radical innovations in food p... |
<urn:uuid:d30effea-1f5f-4ff1-874d-1ea41dc97c53>_3 | is great, do you see the need for maintaining a focus on particular “hot spots,” to use a term familiar in environmental circles? So far, I don’t see lots of evidence that conservation campaigners (you are one on ocean resources) have found a way to accept this kind of good news and/or incorporate it in their prescript... |
<urn:uuid:42e960c1-33b4-4f11-8d2f-5ec7df76d856>_0 | Although uncommon, an entirely different group of factors plays a role when an athlete suffers a stroke. Head and neck trauma are often factors in stroke during athletic competitions. Direct head trauma can result in leakage from blood vessels, depriving large regions of the brain of necessary nutrients. Violent forwar... |
<urn:uuid:81426048-4862-4bb7-9a74-922f76b4cc47>_0 | There are many ways to effectively teach a dog. Not so long ago, most of the accepted methods for training were forceful or aversive. Unfortunately, some of these methods still are in use among the abusive and uneducated. One of the pioneers of gentle training techniques was Barbara Woodhouse. This English dog trainer ... |
<urn:uuid:81426048-4862-4bb7-9a74-922f76b4cc47>_1 | when positive reinforcement works so well? Why should your dog trust you if he knows that you are likely to hit him when he is unfocused or confused? That’s like your supervisor yelling at you when you have problems with a difficult task. Stress won’t help you concentrate or focus better. Abusive treatment of dogs in t... |
<urn:uuid:5c0c1ba8-b765-4c27-8bb8-2a3fc0a82934>_0 | A 2012 survey conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention found 52.5 percent of dogs and 58.3 percent of cats to be overweight or obese by their veterinarian. This translates to nearly 80 million dogs and cats in America with a weight problem. Dr. George Banta, chair of the Veterinary Technology department ... |
<urn:uuid:5c0c1ba8-b765-4c27-8bb8-2a3fc0a82934>_1 | each pet. The more active they are, the more calories they will burn in a day.” Metabolism rates vary in animals the same way they do in people. Metabolism is the body process in which food is broken down for energy; another factor that affects the amount of food a pet needs. Wagner advises owners to keep an eye on bod... |
<urn:uuid:802d6d3f-73ff-4476-973b-a3c618ed8f7a>_0 | On this day in 1951, more than six years after the end of World War II in Europe, President Harry S. Truman signed a proclamation officially ending U.S. hostilities with Germany. The official end to the war came nine years, 10 months and 13 days after Congress had declared war on Nazi Germany. The lawmakers had respond... |
<urn:uuid:06a1d3e1-b436-41ec-b891-5dc64a3f53ac>_0 | Survey data is a snapshot of a population, a moment captured in numbers, like vital signs: height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, etc. People build trend lines and watch for changes, shifting strategies as they make educated guesses about what’s going on. What’s holding steady? What’s spiking? What’s on the decli... |
<urn:uuid:06a1d3e1-b436-41ec-b891-5dc64a3f53ac>_1 | online reviews of drugs and medical treatments dropped (and I don’t know why — do you have a theory? Please post a comment.) Related: why aren’t health care review sites catching on? Pew Internet has tracked a boom in consumer reviews of other services and products — why not health care? What to keep an eye on? One of ... |
<urn:uuid:e36683d3-ded6-4e38-af4d-7bc73d1ec7e3>_0 | Fewer rare sea turtles will die on the swordfish industry's longlines in Hawaii under an agreement between environmental groups and the government. The agreement settles a lawsuit challenging the federal government's plans that would have dramatically increase the number of turtles that could be killed. The Turtle Isla... |
<urn:uuid:e36683d3-ded6-4e38-af4d-7bc73d1ec7e3>_1 | environmental studies and decides whether or not to classify the loggerhead as endangered, rather than its current, less-protective status of threatened. For leatherback turtles, the bycatch limit remains at 16 per year. In 2010, eight Pacific leatherbacks and seven loggerheads were caught in the longline fishery, acco... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_0 | Volume 4 Number 2 ©The Author(s) 2002 The Continuity Framework: A Tool for Building Home, School, and Community Partnerships AbstractWe will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating gro... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_1 | gaps, differences in professional training, and funding limitations. Communities face a host of problems that threaten the health and well-being of their children and families. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate care/education, and poor health care are just a few of the difficult issues that communities must confront. W... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_2 | and monitoring of services for children (Kagan, 1992; Hoffman, 1991). The goal of most of these collaboration initiatives is to improve child outcomes, recognizing that many of the child's needs are closely linked to needs of the family and the community. Challenges to Collaboration Community collaboratives/partnership... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_3 | children and families served; - build in ownership at all levels; - establish communication and decision-making processes that are open and allow conflict to be addressed constructively; - institutionalize changes through established policies, procedures, and program mandates; - provide adequate time for partners to me... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_4 | Linkages (U.S. Department of Education, 1995), a document designed with two key purposes in mind: first, an emphasis on the need for children and families to receive comprehensive and responsive services, reflected in the eight elements of continuity outlined in the Framework (see Figure 1). Taken together, the element... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_5 | help participants develop a greater understanding and appreciation for continuity. - The second session, Developing a Continuity Team, highlights the importance of broad representation and shared leadership among partnership members. - The third session, Planning for Continuity, emphasizes the need for a comprehensive ... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_6 | materials to address those problems, and where they are today. Specifically, the evaluation will explore: - To what extent is the information contained in the Framework and Trainer's Guide relevant and useful to community partnerships? - What is the perceived impact of the training and Framework on partnership activiti... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_7 | university faculty. A majority (89%) of the respondents indicated that they are actively involved in a community partnership. Final Follow-up with Select Reviewer Sites. Of the original 215 organizations/individuals who reviewed the Framework materials, 80 indicated an interest in conducting the training in its entiret... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_8 | or more), while the remaining three indicated that they were in the planning stages of building a collaborative partnership. Sponsors of the partnerships included Smart Start (2); Head Start, family resource centers (2); Success by 6; a public school system; and a county task force. Across the eight sites, a total of 1... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_9 | were asked to comment on their satisfaction with the training and the overall usefulness of the training materials. This information, along with information gathered from the review sites, was used to revise the Trainer's Guide. In the six months following the training, partnership activities were studied to determine ... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_10 | (4.49)| |Training materials were easy to understand and follow.||92.5% (4.46)| |Information is relevant to my work.||89.3% (4.41)| |I would be comfortable using the materials.||83.3% (4.29)| |*Note: According to the scale, 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. Mean scores are presented in parentheses.| A series... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_11 | transparencies, 68 were located for follow-up interviews (85%). For the remaining 12, attempts to contact the site were unsuccessful; either the person requesting the transparencies was no longer there, or the materials were never received. Interviews revealed that 23 of the respondents had conducted training using the... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_12 | rated the training as "very useful" or "useful," and all said they would recommend the training to others. Particular aspects of the training that respondents liked included: - professional quality, clarity of materials, and sequencing of content of the Framework; - handouts, activities, and overheads; - content and th... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_13 | believe that I have a better understanding of continuity and why it is important.||3.41||.65| |I believe that this training will have an impact on increasing awareness of new skills and knowledge for our team.||3.31||63| Objective 2: To strengthen and support collaborative groups in their efforts to works as partners |... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_14 | and make recommendations for improving existing services. Another partnership used the materials to provide training to other agencies and organizations not directly involved with the partnership. The remaining two partnerships used the Framework as a resource for improving transition practices with their communities. ... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_15 | greater understanding of the Framework as a tool. Stokes County Partnership for Children, King, NC An ongoing goal of the Stokes County Partnership for Children is to create a system that encourages service providers to work together and promotes continuity for children and their families. Members of the partnership be... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_16 | liaisons were asked to talk about their reasons for participating in the field-test process. At least three of the liaisons cited low levels of collaboration across agencies and indicated that partnership meetings were used primarily as a time for sharing information. Others saw the training as an opportunity to invite... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_17 | a variety of agencies and backgrounds, which can be a major impediment when a community must begin to work together and coordinate its efforts. The case studies in the sidebars highlight the work of four collaborative partnerships that took part in the field study. These case studies discuss some of the problems they e... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_18 | and built into the inservice training schedule of the elementary school. In addition to staff and faculty from the elementary school, representatives from other agencies and organizations participated, including the health department, the Idaho Department of Disabilities, news media, schools, early childhood education,... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_19 | partnerships. A common experience in the maturation of partnerships is that they are prone to lose initial momentum, often stagnating into "easy" roles such as simple information sharing. A serendipitous discovery of this study is that such partnerships evidenced rejuvenation of their efforts after participating in the... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_20 | takes place slowly. Participants reported that the training had had some impact on their community but felt that the greatest impact was yet to come. Bringing everyone to the table is not enough. True collaboration that produces continuity in services for children takes place over a long period of time, as agencies tha... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_21 | to be a true "working group," they would need to broaden the meeting agendas and formalize the collaborative relationships. Using the Framework materials as an assessment tool, members worked through each element identifying the gaps in services and generating ideas for possible programs and procedures to address those... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_22 | needed to determine what other kinds of training or technical assistance might be useful to these partnerships as they work to build capacity and expand or grow new programs. Bronfenbrenner, Urie. (1979). The ecology of human development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Bruner, Charles; Kunesh, Linda; & Knuth,... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_23 | active.[2002, October 22]. ED 443 164. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. (1993). NCREL's policy briefs: Integrating community services for young children and their families. Oak Brook, IL: Author. Available: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/go/93-3toc.htm [2002, October 22]. U.S. Department ... |
<urn:uuid:5796c026-a8b2-4a00-ac9d-d935eecfa46f>_24 | an interest in improving the quality and continuity of early childhood transitions for both children and families. SERVE Regional Educational Laboratory 1203 Governor's Square Blvd., Suite 400 Tallahassee, FL 32301 Timothy Speth is a research associate at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). He received h... |
<urn:uuid:a8163fc2-135e-4fbf-970e-578b5b41f020>_0 | How hot is it where you are? Tell your stories at CNN's iReport. (CNN) -- For many Americans, this summer has been miserably hot. Heat advisories and warnings have been issued from coast to coast, with high temperatures often reaching into the triple digits, and July went into the record books as the hottest month ever... |
<urn:uuid:a8163fc2-135e-4fbf-970e-578b5b41f020>_1 | out at 159 degrees in 2005. Other notable annual highs came from Queensland, Australia (156 degrees in 2003) and China's Turpan Basin (152 degrees in 2008). It's important to stress that surface temperatures are naturally higher than the air temperatures measured by weather stations. Air temperatures have to be measure... |
<urn:uuid:25dbfda6-18d6-4e04-9bf5-fe7dcc73d69b>_0 | Using the Moon as a High-Fidelity Analogue Environment to Study Biological and Behavioural Effects of Long-Duration Space Exploration Goswami, Nandu and Roma, Peter G. and De Boever, Patrick and Clément, Gilles and Hargens, Alan R. and Loeppky, Jack A. and Evans, Joyce M. and Stein, T. Peter and Blaber, Andrew P. and V... |
<urn:uuid:25dbfda6-18d6-4e04-9bf5-fe7dcc73d69b>_1 | magnetic field, which prevents high exposures due to solar particle events and reduces exposures to galactic cosmic radiation. On Moon the ICE environments are strengthened, radiations of all energies are present capable of inducing performance degradation, as well as reduced gravity and lunar dust. The interaction of ... |
<urn:uuid:45c61dcf-839e-455f-8328-f268b0b88767>_0 | In this section we will describe some basis of hardware involved in Nano. Block Diagram Power Supply Jz4720 support 3 different boot sources. The boot sequence is controlled by boot_sel pin values [1:0]. The configuration of BOOT_SEL1 and BOOT_SEL1 [1:0] is showed as below: |0||0||Boot from external ROM at CS4| |0||1||... |
<urn:uuid:45c61dcf-839e-455f-8328-f268b0b88767>_1 | be connected to a single host controller. Serial and JTAG The NAND in the Ben NanoNote: - Has pages that are 4096 bytes in length - Has blocks that are 128 pages in length - Has 4096 blocks of storage in total - 4096 × 128 × 4096 = 2147483648 bytes ( 2 GB) root@ben:/# cat /proc/mtd dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 004000... |
<urn:uuid:45c61dcf-839e-455f-8328-f268b0b88767>_2 | 07 sdram data 3 - 08 sdram data 4 - 09 sdram data 5 - 10 sdram data 6 - 11 sdram data 7 - 12 sdram data 8 - 13 sdram data 9 - 15 sdram data 10 - 17 sdram data 11 - 22 sdram data 12 - 26 sdram data 13 - 28 sdram data 14 - 30 sdram data 15 Port B - 00 sdram address 0 - 01 sdram address 1 - 02 sdram address 2 - 03 sdram a... |
<urn:uuid:45c61dcf-839e-455f-8328-f268b0b88767>_3 | in 5 - 23 Keyboard in 6 (i2c?) - 24 Keyboard in 7 (i2c?) - 25 uart transmit - 26 Keyboard in 8 (uart receive) - 27 Buzzer, controlled with pwm4. Piezo-electric buzzer; not related to soundcard output. - 28 USB detect - 29 power button Test Points Under Battery This page is to describe all test pins under battery label.... |
<urn:uuid:45c61dcf-839e-455f-8328-f268b0b88767>_4 | CON2 FPC connector, GPC0(out) of jz4720, Please see LCD. - TP 40, LCD1, pin 15 of CON2 FPC connector, GPC1(out) of jz4720, Please see LCD. - TP 41, LCD2, pin 14 of CON2 FPC connector, GPC2(out) of jz4720, Please see LCD. - TP 42, LCD3, pin 13 of CON2 FPC connector, GPC3(out) of jz4720, Please see LCD. - TP 43, LCD4, pi... |
<urn:uuid:b98380f2-eaad-43d8-ae14-b78b1fa71c30>_0 | |This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia. (December 2008)| |— Department —| |• President of the General Council||Augustin Bonrepaux (PS)| |• Total||4,890 km2 (1,890 sq mi)| |• Density||30/km2 ( 79/sq mi)| |Time zone||CET (UTC+1)| |• Summer (DST)||CEST (UT... |
<urn:uuid:b98380f2-eaad-43d8-ae14-b78b1fa71c30>_1 | iron ore. The growth of iron based industries were a feature of the period, with the establishment in 1817 of a steel manufacturing plant at Pamiers which has been a principal driver of the local economy ever since. Other representative examples of the iron based industry that developed in Ariège during the nineteenth ... |
<urn:uuid:b98380f2-eaad-43d8-ae14-b78b1fa71c30>_2 | Pyrenees mountain range forms a fantastic backdrop to the entire Ariège Department, rising some 10,000 feet (3000m) in the Montcalm Massif, along the border with Andorra and Spain. The highest peaks are clearly visible visible from Toulouse in the Haute Garonne. It is one of the least populated and most unspoiled regio... |
<urn:uuid:b98380f2-eaad-43d8-ae14-b78b1fa71c30>_3 | with the frontal ridges that meet air flow from the southwest (giving rise to the Foehn effect). Snow cover is common over 1,000 metres, lasting several months above 1,500 to 2,000 metres. Some periglacial areas exist over 2,500 m but the only true glacier in Ariège is that of Mont Valier, near Castillon-en-Couserans. ... |
<urn:uuid:b98380f2-eaad-43d8-ae14-b78b1fa71c30>_4 | department’s Economic Development Agency (ARIEGE EXPANSION) is at Verniolle. The department has established three ‘business incubators’ to support enterprise in Ariège. The department has two parliamentary constituencies and twenty-two cantons. Broadly speaking, Ariège has been firmly held by the Socialist Party since ... |
<urn:uuid:b98380f2-eaad-43d8-ae14-b78b1fa71c30>_5 | composer, born at Pamiers - Jacques Fournier (1285–1342), bishop of Pamiers then of Mirepoix, pope under the name Benedict XII from 1336 to 1342 (Avignon), born at Canté near Saverdun - Claude Piquemal (born in 1939), athlete and sprinter, Olympic medalist, born at Siguer - Marie Laforêt, born Maïténa Marie Brigitte Do... |
<urn:uuid:4dcad241-2b6b-4970-9112-c67a47a29a2c>_0 | A bullock cart or ox cart is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen (draught cattle). It is a means of transportation used since ancient times in many parts of the world. They are still used today where modern vehicles are too expensive or the infrastructure does not favor them. Used especially for carryi... |
<urn:uuid:ffdd6a00-bdf3-423d-9051-43a88190c162>_0 | Topography of Flores |Location||South East Asia| |Archipelago||Lesser Sunda Islands| |Area||13,540 km2 (5,228 sq mi)| |Highest elevation||2,370 m (7,780 ft)| |Highest point||Poco Mandasawu| |Province||East Nusa Tenggara| |Largest city||Maumere (pop. 70,000)| |Population||1,831,000 (as of 2010)| |Density||135 /km2 (350 ... |
<urn:uuid:ffdd6a00-bdf3-423d-9051-43a88190c162>_1 | used Portuguese as the language for worship, Malay as the language of trade and a mixed dialect as mother tongue. This was observed by William Dampier, a British Brigadier visiting the Island in 1699: - These [the Topasses] have no Forts, but depend on their Alliance with the Natives: And indeed they are already so mix... |
<urn:uuid:ffdd6a00-bdf3-423d-9051-43a88190c162>_2 | East Timor is more populated. It is the island with the 9th most Indonesians. Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, it is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor. |Manggarai Regency||Ruteng||1958||UU 69/1958||1,545.97||292,037| |Sikka Regenc... |
<urn:uuid:ffdd6a00-bdf3-423d-9051-43a88190c162>_3 | Ngada, Nagekeo, and Ende there is what is variously called the Central Flores Dialect Chain or the Central Flores Linkage. Within this area there are slight linguistic differences in almost every village. At least six separate languages are identifiable. These are from west to east: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio and Pal... |
<urn:uuid:ffdd6a00-bdf3-423d-9051-43a88190c162>_4 | sharks inhabit the waters around Labuanbajo. In addition to tourism, the main economic activities on Flores are agriculture, fishing and seaweed production. The primary food crops being grown on Flores are rice, maize, sweet potato and cassava, while the main cash crops are coffee, coconut, candle nut and cashew. Flore... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_0 | German destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim |Career (Nazi Germany)| |Name:||Z11 Bernd von Arnim| |Namesake:||Bernd von Arnim| |Ordered:||9 January 1935| |Laid down:||26 April 1935| |Launched:||8 July 1936| |Completed:||6 December 1938| |Fate:||Scuttled, 13 April 1940| |General characteristics as built| |Class & type:||Type 19... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_1 | meters (390 ft 5 in) and was 114 meters (374 ft 0 in) long at the waterline. The ship had a beam of 11.3 meters (37 ft 1 in), and a maximum draft of 4.23 meters (13 ft 11 in). She displaced 2,171 long tons (2,206 t) at standard load and 3,190 long tons (3,240 t) at deep load. The Wagner geared steam turbines were desig... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_2 | The ship was ordered on 4 August 1934 and laid down at Germania, Kiel on 26 March 1935 as yard number G537. She was launched on 8 July 1936 and completed on 6 July 1938. When World War II began in September 1939, Bernd von Arnim was initially deployed in the Baltic to operate against the Polish Navy and to enforce a bl... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_3 | von Arnim was spotted by the British destroyer Glowworm in a storm on the morning of 8 April and the ship turned away to the north-west at full speed after laying a smoke screen. The German ship was suffering damage from the heavy seas at 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) and was forced to reduce speed to 27 knots (50 km/h; 3... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_4 | were the first to refuel from the single tanker that had made it safely to Narvik and later moved to the Ballangenfjord, a southern arm of the Ofotfjord, closer to the entrance. Shortly before dawn on 10 April, the five destroyers of the British 2nd Destroyer Flotilla surprised the five German destroyers in Narvik harb... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_5 | behind by HMS Hotspur when the latter ship lost steering control. Hotspur was able to disengage, but Hunter capsized shortly afterward. The three remaining British ships were able to escape from the Germans under the cover of a smoke screen. Von Arnim had been hit by five British shells, which had knocked out one boile... |
<urn:uuid:504f9d3a-3560-48e7-bc01-eb8716f7ea38>_6 | Whitley, p. 215 - Whitley, pp. 71–72 - Whitley, p. 204 - Koop and Schmolke, p. 91 - Rohwer, pp. 2–3, 5, 7 - Rohwer, p. 9 - Whitley, p. 89 - Hervieux, p. 112 - Whitley, pp. 89–90 - Whitley, p. 96 - Haarr, pp. 91–93 - Haarr, p. 323 - Haarr, pp. 327 - Haarr, p. 334 - Whitley, p. 99 - Harr, pp. 339–43 - Haarr, pp. 344–47 -... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_0 | A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween |Also called||All Hallows' Eve All Saints' Eve |Observed by||Western Christians & many non-Christians around the world| |Celebrations||Trick-or-treating/guising, costume parties, making jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, divination, apple bobbing, visiting haunted at... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_1 | origin of the word Halloween is Christian, the holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_2 | place set at the table for them. Lewis Spence described it as a "feast of the dead" and "festival of the fairies". However, harmful spirits and fairies were also thought to be active at Samhain. People took steps to allay or ward-off these harmful spirits/fairies, which is thought to have influenced today's Halloween c... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_3 | trapped the Devil in a pumpkin and paraded him around town. Eventually, Jack let the Devil out and the Devil put a curse on Jack and forever made him a spirit in hell. On Halloween, Jack is released to terrorize the country all night. To protect themselves, the Irish would place a pumpkin with a face outside to scare J... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_4 | been linked to All Saints/All Souls by Prince Sorie Conteh, who wrote: "It was traditionally believed that the souls of the departed wandered the earth until All Saints' Day, and All Hallows' Eve provided one last chance for the dead to gain vengeance on their enemies before moving to the next world. In order to avoid ... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_5 | that it was brought to North America in earnest. Confined to the immigrant communities during the mid-19th century, it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and by the first decade of the 20th century it was being celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial and religious backgrounds. Developme... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_6 | Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In Scotland and Ireland, guising – children disguised in costume going fr... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_7 | the term "trick or treat" appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta, Canada: Hallowe'en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun. No real damage was done except to the temper of some who had to hunt for wagon wheels, gates, wagons, barrels, etc., much of which decorated the front street. The youthful tormentors were... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_8 | mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States. Halloween costume parties generally fall on or around October 31, often on the Friday or Saturday before Halloween. "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF" is a fundraising program to support UNICEF, a... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_9 | activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face. Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. A traditional Scottish form of divining one's future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one's shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first l... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_10 | before Halloween, while new horror films are often released theatrically before Halloween to take advantage of the atmosphere. Haunted attractions Haunted attractions are entertainment venues designed to thrill and scare patrons. Most attractions are seasonal Halloween businesses. Origins of these paid scare venues are... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_11 | children's Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering. Virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children's candy. One custom that persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays, the purchase) of a barmbrack (Irish: báirín breac), ... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_12 | follow, as well as a visit to the graveyard or cemetery, where flowers and candles are often placed in preparation for All Hallows' Day. Christian attitudes towards Halloween are diverse. In the Anglican Church, some dioceses have chosen to emphasize the Christian traditions associated with All Hallow's Eve. Some of th... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_13 | the ways of the Celtic ancestors actually being a valuable life lesson and a part of many of their parishioners' heritage. In the Roman Catholic Church, Halloween's Christian connection is sometimes cited, and Halloween celebrations are common in Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and in Ireland. Some ... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_14 | Ireland, traditional Halloween customs include children dressing up in costume going "guising", holding parties, while other practices in Ireland include lighting bonfires, and having firework displays. Mass transatlantic immigration in the 19th century popularized Halloween in North America, and celebration in the Uni... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_15 | All Saints' Day, November 1. Use this simple prayer service in conjunction with Halloween festivities to mark the Christian roots of this festival." - The Paulist Liturgy Planning Guide. Paulist Press. 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2011. "Rather than compete, liturgy planners would do well to consider ways of including ch... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_16 | "Halloween and the Day of the Dead share a common origin in the Christian commemoration of the dead on All Saints' and All Souls' Day. But both are thought to embody strong pre-Christian beliefs. In the case of Halloween, the Celtic celebration of Samhain is critical to its pagan legacy, a claim that has been foregroun... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_17 | 31 October 2011. - Monaghan, Patricia. The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Infobase Publishing, 2004. p.407 - Frazer, Sir James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Forgotten Books, 2008. pp.663–664 - Monaghan, p.41 - O'Halpin, Andy. Ireland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford Uni... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_18 | Party Night, pp. 49–50. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 0-19-516896-8. - Rogers, Nicholas (2002). Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, p. 74. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 0-19-516896-8. - The Oxford companion to American food and drink p.269. Oxford University Press, 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2011 - ... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_19 | Ruth Edna. "Hallowe'en in America". - Theo. E. Wright, "A Halloween Story," St. Nicholas, October 1915, p. 1144. Mae McGuire Telford, "What Shall We Do Halloween?" Ladies Home Journal, October 1920, p. 135. - "'Trick or Treat' Is Demand," Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta), November 4, 1927, p. 5, dateline Blackie, Alberta, ... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_20 | Archived from the original on 4 June 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2009. - Apple dookers make record attempt, BBC News, 2 October 2008 - McNeill, F. Marian (1961, 1990) The Silver Bough, Vol. 3. William MacLellan, Glasgow ISBN 0-948474-04-1 pp.11–46 - "Vintage Halloween Cards". Vintage Holiday Crafts. Retrieved 28 October... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_21 | Hallows' Eve falls on 31st October each year, and is the day before All Hallows' Day, also known as All Saints' Day in the Christian calendar. The Church traditionally held a vigil on All Hallows' Eve when worshippers would prepare themselves with prayers and fasting prior to the feast day itself." - Dr. Andrew James H... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_22 | numbers involved each year from a Cathedral in India to a convent in New Zealand; from Churches in the USA and Europe to Africa; in Schools, churches, homes and church halls all ages have got involved. Although it began in the Catholic Church it has been taken up be other Christians who while keeping it's essentials ha... |
<urn:uuid:fd8c3c6b-1566-43f8-9082-9fdb5d41b578>_23 | and they celebrate Halloween in a different way. It is time to remember your dead and visit the cemetery and graves of your loved ones." - "Bishop Challenges Supermarkets to Lighten up Halloween". The Church of England. Retrieved 28 October 2009. "Christianity needs to make clear its positive message for young people. ... |
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