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Looking for Strategies and Activities? Click Here! Information Gap Activities Teachers are often searching for activities to make their classroom more interactive; language teachers in particular are also looking for activities that promote target language use. Info Gap activities are excellent activities as they force the students to ask each other questions; these activities help make the language classroom experience more meaningful and authentic. This section will explain in more detail what Info Gap activities are and why they are useful; it will also give some examples of Info Gap activities for any language classroom. An Info Gap activity takes place between students, not between a student and a teacher, though a teacher can certainly demonstrate the activity. The two students will be asking each other questions to which they don’t know the answer; these questions are called referential questions. The goal of the activity is for the students to discover certain information, whether about the other pers

Meeting of rabbis held Aug. 20 and 21, 1844, at the town of Paks, Hungary. The discussions in the Hungarian Parliament concerning the emancipation of the Jews produced in Hungary, as elsewhere in Europe, a demand for the reform of both dogma and ritual, in order that Jews might be drawn more closely toward their Christian fellow citizens. One of the principal demands was the establishment of a rabbinical seminary. To anticipate such an attempt, Paul (Feiwel) Horwitz, rabbi of Papa, planned a rabbinical conference which should establish a hierarchical constitution for the Hungarian congregations. Horwitz, who had mastered the Hungarian language thoroughly—a very rare thing among Orthodox rabbis in those days—wished to protect Orthodox Judaism against changes that might be decreed by the government or that might be introduced by individual congregations desirous of gaining the good-will of the government. He therefore addressed himself first to the Orthodox authorities, without neglecting the liberal partizans.

In the summer of 1966 the Beach Boys and the Beatles topped the popular music charts, the nowclassic television show Star Trek first aired, and a young physician-scientist by the name of George Lipkin filed for an National Cancer Institute grant to study melanoma. He held the belief that melanoma could actually be a reversible disease. This was considered quite a radical idea at that time and Dr. Lipkin had never received his own grant before. Nevertheless, the grant was awarded and a lifelong pursuit was underway. This work became the foundation of Biomega Laboratories, Inc. (“Biomega”), a company devoted to development of a substance that might just make that original idea a reality. Not a lot was known at that time about the biological characteristics that distinguished cancer from normal cells. Dr. Lipkin began by transfecting hamster melanoma cells (melanoma is malignancy in thepigment producing cells of the skin) with DNA or RNA from blue nevi. Blue nevi are heavily pigmented, benign cells that most peo

Some Suggestions that May Help You: Herpes simplex virus, or HSV, is an extremely common viral infection. There are two herpes simplex viruses: Type I is more often associated with the common cold sore in and around the mouth. Type II is associated with genital herpes transmitted by sexual contact, producing sores in the cervical and vaginal area and on the penis. - Flu- like symptoms, including swollen glands, headache, muscle aches, or fever. - Red and sensitive skin - Small red bumps, which may develop into blisters or painful sores. - Small, thin-wall blisters filled with clear liquid. These blisters rupture, leaving shallow, painful sores which gradually form a scab and heal, usually in a 2 or 3 week period. - Pain when urinating. - Swollen lymph nodes in groin area. Symptoms of herpes usually develop within 1 to 2 days after contact with the virus, although some people develop symptoms several months later. Although there is not yet a cure for herpes, appropriate treatment is effective in helping to cont

SSL shorts for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a public key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with "https" instead of "http". Another protocol for transmitting data securely over the World Wide Web is Secure HTTP (S-HTTP). Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely. SSL and S-HTTP, therefore, can be seen as complementary rather than competing technologies. Both protocols have been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard. Digital certificates encrypt data using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, the indu

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition - n. A game played with a pile of straws or thin sticks, with the players attempting in turn to remove a single stick without disturbing the others. - n. One of the straws or sticks used in this game. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A figure or effigy of a man made of straw; hence, a man without any substance or means; a dependent. Also jack of straw. - n. One of a set of straws or strips of ivory, wood, bone, or the like, used in a children's game. The jack straws are thrown confusedly together on a table, and are to be gathered up singly by the hand, sometimes with the aid of a hooked Instrument, without joggling or disturbing the rest of the pile. - n. plural The game thus played. - n. [capitalized] In English history, a name assumed by rick-burners and destroyers of machines during the early years of the nineteenth century. - n. The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea, also called winnell-straw, from the straw used in making its nest. Se

Primary Documents - President Friedrich Ebert's Address to the German Assembly, 7 February 1919 Following the German revolution in November 1918 - which saw the forced abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II - a fresh constitution was drawn up and a new assembly established; the latter first met on 6 February 1919. Reproduced below is new President Friedrich Ebert's opening address to the assembly on 7 February 1919. Click here to read an extract from a follow-up address by President Ebert four days later. Click here to read British journalist George Saunders' summary of the compilation of the new constitution and its implications. Click here to read former military leader Erich Ludendorff's condemnation of the new government, in which he first expounded his widely aired belief that the army had been effectively 'stabbed in the back' by subversive political forces rather than beaten in the field. President Ebert's Address to the Opening Session of the German Assembly, 7 February 1919 The Imperial Government welcomes

This is for Lesemann who wanted some information about the woman who participated in the Am. Revolutionary War. One important role that women played, but is often left out is their role as "campfollower." In armies before 1800, women "camp followers" played a crucial role doing all the supply work for the army. In other words, the women "on ration" (they were paid by the army) had to find food, clothing, medicine, other supplies the soldiers needed from the towns where the army was staying. In the modern army, 90% of the men in the army are doing this kind of supply work. Generals like Washington knew that the army with the greatest number of women campfollowers would win the war. Washington was handicapped: the Congress did not give him enough money to hire women as campfollowers. General Burgoine on the British side had something like 7000 women in his army and Washington had only 2000 or 3000. Needless to say, Burgoine felt overwhelmingly self-confidant. The women campfollowers were not all tramps. Only a

Sugar-free drinks which have had low-calorie sweeteners added to them could help in obesity treatment, according to a new study. Undertaken by staff at the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, found that the drinks increased dietary restraint, which is one of the key factors that help people when they are trying to lose or maintain weight. Dr Drewnowski, director at the facility, which was founded in 2002 which was founded in 2002 to combat health issues such as obesity, pointed out that it was important that people realised that it would need to be used in addition to other "tools" such as exercise and portion control. "Low-calorie sweeteners and reduced-calorie products are not magic bullets, which means using these products will not result in automatic weight loss," he said. The researchers involved in the study also recommended reducing fat intake and consuming fat- and sugar-modified foods as aids to maintaining weight loss. The Center for Public Health Nutrition was founde

It all started with the flu. In 2008, we found that the activity of certain search terms are good indicators of actual flu activity. Based on this finding, we launched Google Flu Trends to provide timely estimates of flu activity in 28 countries. Since then, we’ve seen a number of other researchers—including our very own—use search activity data to estimate other real world activities. However, tools that provide access to search data, such as Google Trends or Google Insights for Search, weren’t designed with this type of research in mind. Those systems allow you to enter a search term and see the trend; but researchers told us they want to enter the trend of some real world activity and see which search terms best match that trend. In other words, they wanted a system that was like Google Trends but in reverse. This is now possible with Google Correlate, which we’re launching today on Google Labs. Using Correlate, you can upload your own data series and see a list of search terms whose popularity best corres

Everybody knows the most famous vacation destination in Europe. But Rimini, or better ancient Ariminum, is also a city of art with over 22 centuries of history. Rimini is a Roman city and certainly not just any old city, but one of the most important of ancient Rome. The official date of its founding is 268 BC when the Senate of Rome sent 6000 colonists to establish a new settlement there which took the name of the river Marecchia (Ariminus). In the beginning it was a strategic settlement. Then (90 BC) it became a “municipium”, and finally a blossoming city of the Roman empire, with a grand forum (piazza Tre Martiri), two central streets - the cardo maximus (via Garibaldi and IV Novembre) and the decumanus maximus (corso d’Augusto) – and triumphal monuments: the Tiberus Bridge and Augustus’s Arch. And let’s not forget a rarity: the Surgeon’s Domus, a unique medical clinic from the ancient Roman world, miraculously still intact in 2011 AD. Among the great works decided upon by the Senate of Rome, there are the

Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming - Upper Tidewater Region The extensive tidal swamp, brackish marsh, and tidal flat habitats of the Upper Tidewater Region could undergo major shifts due to global warming. If sea level rises 27.2 inches this century, the region would face: - 30 percent decline in tidal swamp - 85 percent decline in the area of brackish marsh - 76 percent decline in tidal flats - Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge, home to many species of migratory waterfowl, largely disappears. At the same time, that amount of sea-level rise is projected to cause a 33 percent expansion of freshwater swamp area, which includes both forested and scrub-shrub habitat, with notable expansion into the undeveloped dry land along Mobjack Bay. Overall, the area of undeveloped dry land across this site declines by 17 percent, or 45,611 acres. For more in-depth information about how the Chesapeake Bay is being impacted by global warming, check out the following reports: Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Habitats of the

I remember sitting in high school history class, learning about our founding fathers and being in awe of what they were able to accomplish. I also remember thinking, “What did women do?” There were so few profiles and I was curious to know more. Thus began my quest to find female heroes—in and out of history books. That was over forty years ago, since then I have “met” many inspiring women—Rachel Carson, Francis Moore Lappé, Jill Ker Conway just to mention a few. Then, several years ago, I was introduced to a remarkable woman from my community. This month, Women's History Month, is a particularly appropriate time to take a look at this local woman's significant and ongoing contribution. Allow me to introduce you to Marion Stoddart. In the 1960s, Marion spearheaded the environmental clean-up of the dying Nashua River. The short form of Marion’s story focuses on the tasks she directed to save one of the world’s most polluted waterways. The larger picture unfolds to reveal a woman who overcame gender roles of th

Video Clips of Augmented Reality System in Operation The links below are to files showing the Augmented Reality system in operation. These are in MPEG format acquired at a frame rate of 15 frames/second. One note about the videos available here. Our method relies on tracking features in the scene and using those features to create an affine coordinate system in which the virtual objects are represented. These clips are from two implementations of the system. One used the corners of two black rectangles as the tracked feature points. The second implementation used green colored markers. If there are green markers in the image you are looking at the operation of the second implementation. There still are high-contrast rectangular areas in the images but those were not used as - Overall view 1 (640 kbytes), Overall view 2 (954 kbytes) - This shows the overall view of the augmented reality system. There is the frame with the two black rectangles that is used to define the affine reference frame. The monitor shows

Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 April 2012 13:12 On April 10, 1912 the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England for New York City. Four days in to crossing the North Atlantic, with 2,228 passengers and crew on board, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 12,415 feet to the ocean floor. This year marks the 100th anniversary for the maiden (and last) voyage of the glorious vessel. The tragic event, with only 710 survivors, has spawned countless fiction, nonfiction and even parody retellings. Here are a few new titles, for all ages, available from your hometown libraries on this amazing vessel and tale. The Band that Played On: the Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down With the Titanic by Steve Turner Call Number: 910.452 TU Adult Nonfiction Collection The movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. They often tell the same story about the "unsinkable" Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. But never before has "that glorious band"-the group of eight

HedgehogsBy Craig Sernotti Hedgehogs have only become part of the pet trade within the last 20 years or so. Fascinating, curious, and downright adorable, this exotic small animal makes a great pet for the right person. Hedgehogs are nocturnal and so are active at night; however, some species are active during the day. They are naturally shy and nervous because they are hunted as prey in the wild. Males should be kept singly—if you want to keep a pair, stick with females only. Depending on the species, if taken care of properly, hedgehogs can live for up to ten years in captivity. Hedgehogs are considered an exotic pet, so keeping one may not be legal in your state. Check with your local government to see if you are allowed to keep one before purchasing this animal. What About Those Quills?Hedgehogs are covered with spines, not quills—a porcupine has quills. The quills serve as a defense mechanism—if a hedgehog feels threatened, he will roll up into a ball. What animal would want to eat a ball of prickly spine

Science Fair Project Encyclopedia It was most celebrated when it was the capital of the Mughal sovereigns (1526 to 1658). Many splendid buildings of that time are still there to be seen, among them the fortress built by Akbar, within the walls of which are the palace of Shah Jahan and the Pearl Mosque. Still more noted is the Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan as a tomb for himself and his wife. The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details

<microbiology> One of the two major classes of prokaryotic organism (the other being the Cyanobacteria). Bacteria are small (linear dimensions of around 1 m), noncompartmentalised, with circular DNA and ribosomes of 70S. Protein synthesis differs from that of eukaryotes and many antibacterial antibiotics interfere with protein synthesis, but do not affect the infected host. Recently bacteria have been subdivided into Eubacteria and Archaebacteria, although some would consider the Archaebacteria to be a third kingdom, distinct from both Eubacteria and Eukaryotes. The Eubacteria can be further subdivided on the basis of their staining using Gram stain. Since the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative depends upon a fundamental difference in cell wall structure it is therefore more soundly based than classification on gross morphology alone (into cocci, bacilli, etc.). (02 Jan 1998) |Bookmark with:||word visualiser||Go and visit our forums|

Last Updated: 8:46 AM, December 27, 2009 Posted: 3:24 AM, December 27, 2009 When Dave Hackenberg jerked the lids off his hives one bright November morning in Florida in 2006 and found them empty, the stunned commercial beekeeper never thought that four years later his bees and millions more across the United State would still be mysteriously missing. Yet the man credited with discovering colony collapse disorder, a strange phenomenon in which workers bees suddenly desert the hive — that has wiped out more than a third of all honeybees in the US — says this winter could be the worst yet. “It’s got bad real fast,” he said last week. “We had around 3,000 hives at the end of the summer, but they started shrinking early, so when we came to truck them to Florida there was only 2,000 of them left.” Pennsylvanian- based Hackenberg, whose family-run apiaries provide pollination services for farmers all over the country, moves his hives to warmer climes before Thanksgiving each year to get them strong and healthy for th

Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family Description ADULT Looks pale buffy orange overall, darkest on back and wings. In summer plumage, close inspection reveals intricate dark marbling on back and upper wings and subtle barring on underparts. Bill is mostly pink with a dark tip. Legs are dark and relatively long. In winter, plumage looks paler overall and less colorful, with much less intense barring on underparts; pink on bill is more extensive. JUVENILE Similar to winter adult. Dimensions Length: 18" (46 cm) Habitat Fairly common, breeding in wet grassland and marshes, mostly in the northern Great Plains. Winters on coasts, mainly south of our region, but reasonable numbers remain on Gulf coast (mainly Texas) and Atlantic coast (mainly Florida to North Carolina); favors mudflats, estuaries, and sandy beaches. Common during migration along suitable areas of coastline. Observation Tips Easiest to see in spring and fall on coasts. Range Southeast, California, Texas, Northwest, Florida, Alas

Single-car drivers commuting in fossil-fuel burning cars, smog, pollution, crime -- what other urban scourges can you think of? Half of the world's population currently lives in urban areas; yet these urban areas make up only 2 percent of the world's land and spend three-quarters of the world's resources [source: MIT]. That's a lot of people in a very small space consuming a great deal. Between now and the year 2050, urban growth will only continue to rise: 89 million homes and 190 billion square feet (about 17.5 billion square meters) of retail and other nonresidential space will be built in the United States alone [source: National Resources Defense Council]. And in conjunction with that density, pollution is soaring. London, for instance, released about 45 million tons (about 41 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere last year [source: IEEE]. By greening cities and neighborhoods around the world, we have the opportunity to make a positive impact on global warming. How

MIT professor’s book digs into the eclectic, textually linked reading choices of people in medieval London. Was it coincidence? An era dubbed "the time of silence" -- the years between 1642 and 1660 in England when Puritan rulers shuttered theaters -- was also a period of intense interest in experimental science. Three years ago, MIT students began to take an in-depth look at this period during a drama, science and performance seminar taught by professors Janet Sonenberg and Diana Henderson. Research and other material developed by students have served as the basis for an unusual play, premiering Nov. 12 in London, that examines themes of science, philosophy, creativity and family relations. The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes," written by Adriano Shaplin and directed by Elizabeth Freestone, will run through Dec. 6 at Wilton's Music Hall in what Sonenberg characterizes as a "wild and daring enterprise" that overturns preconceived notion of what a "science play" is all a

What’s social work all about? Social work is about people. People we see every day and people we may never ordinarily come into contact with. Social workers work to form relationships with these people. They recognise their problems and assist them in trying to find ways to overcome any difficulties. As a social worker, you’ll have a positive impact on the lives of others, as well as your own. You’ll find that two days are rarely the same, and every decision you make will affect the individual, their local community and their society’s well being. Social work as a career There are excellent career opportunities within the profession, and it’s a job that really can be ‘for life’. Being a social worker involves great mental challenges and emotional rewards. As for the financial rewards, starting salaries can range from £19,000 to £26,000, with many chances to develop, diversify and specialise as your career progresses.

William West / AFP - Getty Images Melbourne Zoo's newest primate baby, a three week-old Colobus monkey, is held in the arms of her mother Clover, in Melbourne on June 29, 2011. Keepers have not been able to determine the sex of the newborn monkey which is pure white and won't display any black markings until it's several months old. Black and White Colobus Monkeys, native to Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya, have seen their populations suffer from the fur trade during colonial times, but now the greatest threats to their survival are the loss of their habitat and the bushmeat trade, the large-scale hunting to supply meat to towns and cities. See more great animal pictures in our Animal Tracks slideshow.

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an illness that weakens the body's immune system. The immune systems of people with AIDS are not able to fight off certain infections and cancers. More Living With HIV/AIDS Improved medications have helped many people with HIV live longer, but treating older adults with HIV presents some unique challenges. Discusses the possibility of pregnancy when one or both of the prospective parents is HIV- positive. Dementia is a brain disorder characterized by a general loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of memory, judgment, and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality. Discusses the best condoms for preventing the transmission of HIV and tips on using condoms effectively. Discusses choosing accurate HIV home test kits and the pros and cons of home testing.

A dice rolling program is only as good as the worst of: - the random number return to die-sides algorithm - the pseudo-random seed generator Most are close enough to be better than dice. Since computers can not generate truly random numbers, no die roller is truly random. The pseudorandom numbers, however can be sufficiently random enough to be more random than real dice. A recent study found that most commercial d6 are biased significantly. The study had some flaws, but generally showed a bias for low numbers on most commercially produced d6's. (In one company's run, almost to the point of 1's being 2/7 of 1d6 rolls!) No individual batch tested showed a truly even distribution. Some technical details... There are two methods of random number return used in programming: - A fractional return on a float or double-float (double). EG: 0.348826495 - A whole number return on an int or double-int (long). eg: 25565 given a fractional, the norm is to multiply the sides by the returned fraction, giving a fractional nu

Clean CANAL Water is the proposal entry by Margot Krasojevic for the Competition Amsterdam footbridge 2012. Water management is still the most important function of Amsterdam canals. Without them, the city would drown. Circulating the water is also vital for sanitary reasons. In the days when windmills had to do the job, the stench of the water could become unbearable in periods with little wind or rain. Three times a week, 14 of the 16 existing waterlocks around the city close up, so clean water can be pumped in from the big lake IJsselmeer. The current that is created pushes the dirty canal water out through the open locks on the other side of the city. Specialized cleaning boats with big scoops and nets patrol frequently clean surface debris. Since 2005, all the houseboats in the city are connected to the sewer system. The cleaner water has attracted 20 different species of fish and crab that live a healthy life below the surface. Water birds like herons, ducks, coots, gulls and cormorants also feed and li

DARDANELLES or CHANAK-KALESSI: Name of the two cities situated opposite each other on the shores of the strait at the entrance to the Sea of Marmora. The European city is inhabited byMohammedans exclusively; the Asiatic city contains Mohammedans, Greeks, Armenians, Europeans, and Jews The Jewish community dates from the year 1510 according to local traditions which report that the Portuguese rabbi Jacob Ben-Ḥabib, the author of "'En Ya'aḳob," after emigrating from Portugal, established himself at Salonica, and afterward led a colony of twenty Jewish families from Gallipoli to Dardanelles. The old epitaphs in the cemetery of the city are illegible. The community is not mentioned until the middle of the seventeenth century, when the false Messiah Shabbethai Ẓebi was imprisoned by Sultan Mohammed IV. in the castle of Abydos in the vicinity of the Dardanelles. The Jewish population of this city, as well as of all the places along the Sea of Marmora, made a pilgrimage to the pseudo-Messiah (1664). Dardanelles is t

Below you can watch the interview of introduction done a few days ago with my wonderful friend Greta in Argentina. I loved talking to Greta, but I think that in the self-consciousness of being video-interviewed, I missed sharing some ideas about what I hope to discuss in my brief 30 minute presentation! In any case, here are 10 points I hope to address in next week's interactive discussion in Elluminate. I hope you will join me! - Positive emotions "broaden and build" our capacity to think. For more information, check out one of my favorite researchers, Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, author of Positivity. - We can teach our students the value of positive thought patterns and how to control the downhill slide that happens when stress or anger short circuit our thinking. - Routines and classroom rituals can be mindfully designed to elicit more positive experiences which make school a place kids want to go. - Celebrating mistakes, through modeling and discussion, can go a long way in reducing fear and encouraging stud

Species Description: Prairie dogs occur only in North America. They are rodents within the squirrel family and include five species-- the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), the white-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys leucurus), the Gunnison prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni), the Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens), and the Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus) (Pizzimenti 1975). The Utah and Mexican prairie dogs are currently listed under the Endangered Species Act as threatened (49 FR 22339) and endangered (35 FR 8495) respectively. Generally, the black-tailed prairie dog occurs east of the other four species in more mesic habitat. Prairie dogs are small, stout ground squirrels. The total length of an adult black- tailed prairie dog is approximately 14-17 inches. The weight of an individual ranges from 1 to 3 pounds. Individual appearances within the species vary in mixed colors of brown, black, gray, and white. The black-tipped tail is characteristic (Hoogland 1995). Black-tailed prairie dogs are di

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) No Advisories - program content screened and verified. Scientists at Silent Spring Institute have found that flame retardants in common household products like upholstered furniture, textiles, and electronics migrate into household dust, and from there, into our bodies. The Chicago Tribune has reported that the average American is born with the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the world. The chemicals are linked to cancer, changes in DNA, hormone disruption, lowered IQ, decreased fertility, and hyperactivity. Such links are denied by the chemical industry, which has lobbied for years to get these chemicals into consumer products, backed by the tobacco industry, which promoted the flame retardants to avoid making cigarettes without accelerants. The Silent Spring study was published on November 28th in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. With Ruthann Rudel, senior scientist of environmental toxicology and director of re

Stephanie Ludi and Tom Reichlmayr, software engineering professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology , are working to increase the participation of people with visual impairments in computing fields. The ImagineIT summer workshop, funded by Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) of the National Science Foundation , is designed for middle and high school students (in grades 7 through 12) who have visual impairments and would like to learn more about computing through hands-on experiences. Participants learn about the wide variety of career fields within computing and explore how computing is applied in the real world. The ImagineIT workshop is divided into three main modules: Robotics, Networking & Computer Hardware, and Game Design. - In the Robotics module, students learn about computer programming and design through Lego Mindstorms. Student teams use screen readers and magnification software, alongside accessible design manipulatives, to solve a problem involving searching using touch

The European flag consists of 12 golden stars in a circle on a blue background. The stars symbolise the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmony among the peoples of Europe. The number of stars has nothing to do with the number of member countries, though the circle is a symbol of unity. History of the European flag The history of the flag goes back to 1955. The Council of Europe - defending human rights and promoting European culture – adopted the present design for its own use. Over the following years the Council of Europe encouraged the emerging European institutions to adopt the flag as well. In 1983, the European Parliament adopted the flag. In 1985, it was adopted by all EU leaders as the official emblem of the European Union (called the European Communities at the time). All European institutions now use an emblem of their own.

Video games are an exciting and interdisciplinary field of study. Depending on your focus, your research may cover a variety of disciplines. If you are interested in game development, you may focus on Computer Science resources. If you are looking at video games in their cultural context you might use Communication or English resources. If you are looking at gaming as a teaching tool you might look at Education resources. Finding Video Games @ your library To find video games in the catalog, you can search for ‘video games’ and then refine the search using the option ‘computer file’

Do you have a Enter your contact details to get access to a guide that identifies common sleep disorders and shows how to get a restful night's sleep. * Denotes a required field Sleep and Health for You and Your Family - What’s the link between unhealthy sleep and diabetes? - New Study Finds Late Night Electronics Increase Insomnia in Children and Teens - Understanding FMCSA Guidelines for Sleep Apnea - FusionSleep’s Dr. Durmer Discusses the Dangers of Sleep Disorders on Healthy Explosion BlogTalkRadio - Care Manager Talks Sleep Apnea Care on Extreme Truckers Show Fusion Health Newsroom Sleep4Safety is powered by FusionHealth Trouble sleeping and daytime sleepiness may indicate poor sleep hygiene and/or an underlying sleep disorder. To maximize the restorative powers of sleep and to make falling asleep easier, good sleep habits help immensely. The following suggestions can help both people with sleep disorders and their families: - Wake at the same time every day, regardless of when you go to sleep. - Maintai

It looks like the radical environmental left may have to find a new favorite dirty four letter word. Scientists at Ohio State University have announced the discovery of a new process that takes the energy from coal without burning it – "and removes virtually all of the pollution." The technology, known as Coal- Direct Chemical Looping (CCDL), captures more than 99 percent of coal's carbon dioxide emissions based on laboratory research. The team of scientists led by Liang-Shih Fan, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Coal Research Laboratory at Ohio State University, has been working on this and other clean coal technologies for 15 years with funding by the Department of Energy. Almost as amazing as the discovery itself, Prof. Fan's research project has survived three different Presidential Administrations with vastly different energy policies. Carbon-dioxide has long been targeted by global warming alarmists. According to the EPA, coal-fired power plants produced about one-third of the

|From the Library of Congress G3764.B6S3 1775 .D4| This was just a teeny skirmish during the American Revolution, but I love it because the marsh and the island where it happened belonged to some of my ancestors, and some of the people involved are right out of my family tree. As I tell the tale of the Battle of Noddle’s Island (sometimes known as the Battle of Chelsea Creek, or the Battle of Hog Island), I’ll point out the family ties. Noddle’s Island is now where Boston’s Logan airport sits. The land around it has been filled in, and it is no longer an island. One of the first settlers to live here was Samuel Maverick, and in the 1630s his house was located near Maverick Square in East Boston, today. There is a “Maverick Station” on the blue line of the T (the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway) in this part of East Boston. Samuel Maverick (b. about 1602) is the brother to my 10 x Great Grandfather, Moses Maverick (1611- 1686). Chelsea Creek, Rumney Marsh and Pullen Point, all land nea

Archaeologists in Israel said they've discovered a footprint from the sandal of a Roman soldier during an excavation of the ancient city of Hippos. The print, made by a hobnailed sandal called a caliga that was worn by Roman soldiers, was found in a wall that surrounded the city by Arthur Segal from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa in conjunction with archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn. "This rare footprint, which is complete and well preserved, hints at who built the walls, how and when," said Michael Eisenberg of the Zinman Institute. The ancient city of Hippos overlooking the Sea of Galilee was destroyed by an earthquake in the year 749. Excavations this year have uncovered the city's colonnaded street, a marble-paneled bathhouse, a glass bottle with an embossed face and part of a marble statue. Copyright 2007 by United Press International Explore further: King Richard III found in 'untidy lozenge-shaped grave'

Introduction to International Development International development is a profession unlike any other. Although modern international development has more than half a century of history, the practice of development is constantly evolving and the industry is currently in the midst of major changes that have the potential to improve the lives of billions of people. Development professionals are working in every country in the world to address issues including human rights, health, economic growth, environment conservation and many others. As a profession, few career choices can match international development for the sheer range of the industry, challenge of the work or relevancy to the world’s population. In recent years the need for coordinated and comprehensive sustainable development has been center-stage in world politics due to increasing awareness of both the issues and the consequences. Development champions including academics such as Jeffrey Sachs, businesspeople like Bill Gates, politicians and celebri

Aikido is a non-violent martial art. For many people outside Aikido, it is a new and surprising idea that physical practice with opponents is important in training yourself to receive opponents peacefully. Aikido techniques go along with the flow of the attack to control the attacker, ideally protecting the attacker from harm and ending the confrontation as peacefully as possible. In Aikido, we repeatedly make the mental and physical adjustments necessary to replace fight-or-flight aggression and fear with calmness, inner strength and compassion. Through training, we gradually overcome the human body's aggressive reflexes. Training makes a peaceful reaction our default response in times of stress, conflict, or attack. "Peace is relatively easy to reach when there's no pressure. But people are facing more pressure today than ever, whether that takes the form of financial strain, emotional stress or something else. Aikido can help us adjust ourselves to harmonize with the world around us, including the pressure

What are tachyons? Tachyons are hypothetical particles that can only travel faster than the speed of light. As you probably know, objects with a real number for mass can never travel at the speed of light because of Einstein's theory of relativity. As a consequence of this theory, as a objects velocity increases its mass increases. As is it can be seen by the following formula mass=rest_mass*1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2). At the speed of light the mass becomes infinite. So, it would take an infinite amount of energy for a massive particle to reach the speed of light. These objects are sometimes called tardyons. Photons can travel at the speed of light because they have no mass and their energy is E=planck's constant * nu(frequency of the photon). In order for something to travel at the speed of light it would have to have an imaginary number for its mass. An imaginary number is a number that is a multiple of the square root of a negative number. As a particle travels faster than the speed of light the denominator of mass

Ped Med: The many faces of autism SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Although all show some degree of difficulty in socializing, communicating and imagining, like snowflakes, no two cases of autism are exactly alike, researchers say. Their newfound recognition of the condition's diverse complexity and multi- faceted nature carries over to the research field, where the seekers of causes and cures are starting to look for ways to subdivide the disorder and crack its armor of secrecy piece by piece. "The analogy that I find most helpful is to childhood leukemia," said Dr. Judith Miles, professor of pediatrics, Thompson Endowed Chair of Child Health and Pathology and director of the Medical Genetics Division at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "When I went to medical school, we thought it was one disorder, and only 5 percent of kids survived. Over the past 25 years, we realized it's a class of disorders. By separating the different types and learning how to treat each appropriately, we were able to make progress

deltoideus muscleArticle Free Pass deltoideus muscle, large, triangular muscle that covers the shoulder and serves mainly to raise the arm laterally. The deltoid, as it is commonly known, originates on the outer front third of the clavicle (collarbone) and the lower margin of the spine of the scapula (shoulder blade). Its fibres unite to form a thick tendon that inserts at the deltoid tuberosity, a rough spot above the middle of the outer surface of the humerus (upper arm bone). What made you want to look up "deltoideus muscle"? Please share what surprised you most...

Greenhouse Effect Could Extend Habitable Zone Planets near their suns reap the benefits of light and heat, while those further away must endure colder temperatures. But the new research indicates that planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could contain liquid at their surface even out to fifteen times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. With a hydrogen atmosphere, the greenhouse effect these planets could experience would be sufficient to allow for liquid water on their surfaces, despite their distant orbits. The area around a star in which water can be liquid rather than ice is known as the habitable zone. Sometimes called the "Goldilocks zone," it's just right - not too hot (so the water doesn't evaporate) and not too cold (so it won’t freeze). Typically, the distance calculated takes into account a rocky body having an atmosphere made up of water and carbon dioxide, the same greenhouse gases found on Earth. "This is the kind of planet we know is habitable," explains Raymond Pierrehumbert of the Un

If two lines are intersected by a transversal, then alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles, and corresponding angles are congruent. The converse of the theorem is true as well. If two corresponding angles are congruent, then the two lines cut by the transversal must be parallel. Similarly, if two alternate interior or alternate exterior angles are congruent, the lines are parallel. So the question is, if we have two lines that might be parallel and they're intersected by a transversal, can we do the converse of the parallel lines theorem? Which says, if we have alternate interior angles or alternate exterior angles, or corresponding angles that are congruent, is that enough to say that these two lines are parallel? And as we read right here, yes it is. If two lines and a transversal form alternate interior angles, notice I abbreviated it, so if these alternate interior angles are congruent, that is enough to say that these two lines must be parallel. If you have alternate exterior angles. That i

The seeds of green energy - expanding the contribution of plant oils as biofuels Plant oils represent one of the most energy rich sources of renewable fuels available in Nature. Most of these oils occur in the form of triacylglycerols (TAGs) that can be transformed into biodiesel by conversion of their acyl chains into fatty acid methyl esters. In 2009, 14 billion litres of biodiesel were produced worldwide from plant oils (largely in the EU). This compares with 70 billion litres of ethanol (largely from Brazil and the USA). Both of these fuels now depend on land and crops (e.g. oil seeds, palm trees, maize and sugar cane) that are also used for foods. To meet growing demand and avoid competition with food, major expansion of biofuel production and development of new sources of biofuel are required. In this article, we outline how plants synthesize oils and describe some ways in which supplies of oils from plants could be increased to provide a larger contribution to renewable energy supplies. Ohlrogge JB & C

© Duane A. Cline 1999 Click here to return to the Main Page of The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony:1620 Upper Level Compact Study of the Mayflower Compact THIS DOCUMENT STANDS AS A CORNERSTONE OF OUR GREAT AMERICAN FORM OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT Upper Level Compact Study of the Mayflower Compact THIS DOCUMENT STANDS AS A CORNERSTONE OF OUR GREAT AMERICAN FORM OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT The Virginia Company of London had given the Pilgrims the first Pierce patent, granting them permission to settle in the Virginia's. The Mayflower, carrying the patent, set out from Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Arriving on the bleak New England coast in the middle of winter, this sturdy little band of idealists faced a combination of hardships and difficulties almost unparalleled in history. Winter was coming on and the land off which Mayflower anchored looked desolate and dreary. Weakened by a stormy voyage of more than two months, lack of proper food, medical supplies and all the ordinary necessities of civilization, the

Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology | Reliability does not imply validity. That is, a reliable measure is measuring something consistently, but not necessarily what it is supposed to be measuring. For example, while there are many reliable tests of specific abilities, not all of them would be valid for predicting, say, job performance. In terms of accuracy and precision, reliability is precision, while validity is accuracy. Reliability may be estimated through a variety of methods that fall into two types: single-administration and multiple- administration. Multiple-administration methods require that two assessments are administered. - Test-retest reliability, is estimated as the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient between two administrations of the same measure. This is sometimes known as the coefficient of stability - Alternate forms reliability is estimated by the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient of two different forms

National Institutes of Health on National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness DayDate: March 13, 2009 Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Author: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) HIV/AIDS has left no segment of American society untouched. On the third annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we highlight the impact of this scourge on American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians, and we intensify our commitment to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in these multifaceted communities. Lack of access to basic health care services, stigma associated with homosexuality and HIV/AIDS, barriers to effective mental health care, and high rates of substance abuse, sexually transmitted infections and poverty all increase the risk of HIV/AIDS in native communities and create obstacles to HIV prevention and treatment. Consequently, as a proportion of their population, more American Indians and Alaska Natives became infected with HIV than whites in 2006. American Indians and Alaska Natives

Grab your telescope. The asteroid known as Toutatis will make its closest approach to Earth tonight. From Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, the 3-mile long asteroid will be about 18 times the distance of the moon from the Earth. And if you miss it Tuesday night, don't worry. The asteroid should be visible if you have the right conditions, the right telescope and a good star chart -- through the end of the week. Even at its closest approach you won't be able to see Toutatis with the naked eye. You'll need a small telescope. Of course, even if you find it, it will still appear as a small point of light moving across the night sky. To see what this asteroid really looks like, you'd need something really, really big, such as the Goldstone Radar, which looks like a whopping satellite dish 230 feet across. Scientists who work at the Goldstone facility near Barstow have been tracking Toutatis since Dec. 4 and posting images of the asteroid on the Internet. The images are a little fuzzy, but they give you a sense o

Page 2 of 5 The workings of a repayment loan or annuity are actually easier to understand if we first consider the closely related situation of a regular saving plan. In this case a regular sum S (a payment denoted PMT in Excel's terminolgy) is deposited each period and the total sum accumulated attracts interest at I% (Rate in Excel) at the end of each period. It is a convention that the money is deposited at the end of each period and money that you pay out is negative. Thus after the first period the balance is simply the first regular payment: After the second period the amount is the first regular payment plus the interest it has earned: =S*(1+I) + S After the third period the amount is: =[S*(1+I)+S]*(1+I) + S and so on. You can see that as each period passes the amount already on deposit is increased by being multiplied by (1+I) and has S added to it. To work out the Future Value of the savings plan after n periods you could simply construct a spreadsheet that calculates the repeated multiplication by (

Sea Level Rise Won't Be a "Hollywood Cataclysm" for National Geographic News |September 4, 2008| Sea levels will rise a bit higher—but not catastrophically high—in the coming century, according to a new study. The oceans will likely rise between 2.5 and 6.5 feet (0.8 and 2 meters) by 2100, researchers say. This is not as high as the predictions from some scientists, who have warned that sea levels may rise as much as 16 feet (5 meters) by 2100. Just because the amount of sea-level rise predicted in the new study is "not a Hollywood cataclysm, it doesn't mean it's not important," said study leader Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado in Boulder.>> "A Real Outlier" As greenhouse gases heat up the planet, the polar regions and high elevations are warming the fastest. (Learn how the greenhouse effect works.) That has caused glaciers, ice caps, and the vast ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to melt and break apart. (See photos of Greenland's ice sheets crumbling.) In the new study, Pfeffer and colleagues

Oral supplements containing extracts from green tea may help protect against sunburn and the longer-term effects of UV damage, says a new study from the UK. Skin levels of green tea catechin compounds increased following oral supplementation for 12 weeks, and these increased levels were associated with significantly lower levels of inflammatory markers when skin was exposed to UV radiation, according to findings published in the British Journal of Nutrition . “Our data provide the first evidence that green tea catechins can be taken up into the skin following oral intake in human subjects and indicate their complex skin incorporation pattern,” wrote researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Bradford, and Leeds. “Significant reduction was found in the cutaneous UVR erythema dose–response, with greatest effect at higher doses, and this reduced inflammation may be attributable to the associated significant abrogation of UVR up-regulation of the potent pro-inflammatory 12-LOX metabolite, 12-HETE.” The stud

The arracacha (Arracacia xanthorriza) is a garden root vegetable originally from the Andes, somewhat intermediate between the carrot and celery. Its starchy taproot is a popular food item in South America, especially in Brazil where it is a major commercial crop. The name arracacha (or racacha) was borrowed into Spanish from Quechua, and is used in the Andean region. The plant is also called apio criollo ("Creole celery") in Venezuela, zanahoria blanca ("white carrot") in Ecuador, virraca in Peru, and mandioquinha ("little cassava") or batata-baroa in Brazil. It is sometimes called white carrot in English, but that name properly belongs to white varieties of the common carrot. The boiled root has about the same uses as boiled potatoes, including side dishes, purées, dumplings and gnocchi, pastries, etc., with the advantage of its flavor and (depending on the variety) its intense color. In the Andes region it is made into fried chips, biscuits, and coarse flour. Because it is highly digestible (due to the smal

History of Welland - Summary of 3 Books written by W.H. Lewis The City of Welland is located on the Welland Ship Canal, almost midway between Lakes Ontario and Erie. It is served by the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo; Norfolk and Western; Canadian National and Consolidated Rail Corporation Railroads. It also has an excellent dockage facility of the Welland Canal. With existing transportation facilities, together with availability of electrical power, Welland is a manufacturing centre of note with large iron and steel, textile, rubber and electrical equipment industries. With miles of paved streets, fine business section, parks and well-organized education facilities, including the Niagara College of Applied Arts & Technology, its advantages for the visitor are numerous and attractive. The City of Welland is the outgrowth of a settlement which commenced about the year 1788, when a scattering of farms between what we now know as Quaker Road and South Pelham Street, along the Welland River came to be. Near Welland'

Jan 30, 2008 Determining sound direction I've been playing a bit more with datalogging (check out the fantastic tips from Brian in the forums) and I've always wanted a robot that could come to me when I called it. The sound sensor is great for 'detecting' sound but no good for deciding where the sound came from. One way to figure out where the sound is coming from is to use 2 sound sensors. So I built myself a little NXT head that had 2 sound sensors and a bit of foam in between. "Sure it's pretty" I hear you say, but whats that foam in between the ears for? Well I figure that if I had 2 ears, with some sort of dampening material in between, the ears would hear the same sound source, but at different volume levels. ie. If I clapped my hands very loudly on the left hand side, then the left 'ear' would hear a certain volume and the right 'ear' would also register a sound, but at a much quieter level. So I set up my head and start writing sound readings from both the left and right ears to a text file as fast as

|William Loney RN - Background| |Home-Loney-Background-The Naval Surgeon| The Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong Hong Kong was first occupied by British forces in early 1841. In April of that year the Navy erected matshed buildings - including store sheds and a naval hospital - on the site that later became the Wellington Barracks, but these were soon destroyed by the typhoon of 22 July. Minden, a third rate sailing ship, was then taken into use as a hospital ship for Navy personnel. The island proved to be very unhealthy, and between May and October 1843, fever killed 24 % of the troops and 10 % of the civilians there. In about 1846 Minden was replaced by Alligator, a sixth rate frigate which had participated in the first Opium War, and in 1857 by Melville, another third rate, which had been Rear-Admiral George Elliot's flagship during the early part of the war. In 1850 the medical staff consisted of a Surgeon and two Assistant Surgeons. In 1856 a Deputy Medical Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets was first appoi

By Jessica, Networx With school kicking into high gear, it’s important to make sure students of all ages are on top of their games. A good night’s sleep and regular exercise are vital for keeping the mind focused and alert, but diet plays an important role, too. If you or your kids are heading into the classroom every day -- or if you just want to perform better at work or in general -- incorporate these eight kid-friendly foods into your daily diet rotation: Omega-3 fatty acids are important for healthy brain function and memory. If you’ve ever read anything about nutrition, you know that salmon is a great source, but good luck trying to get your kid to eat salmon for lunch. Walnuts are also chock-full of omega-3s, and they come with a lot less nose-wrinkling and complaints. The studies are in -- breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Studies have shown that students who eat before hitting the classroom consistently perform better than those who don’t. And there’s no better morning superstar

Aug. 30, 2007 NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment. Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto. "The Voyager mission is a legend in the annals of space exploration. It opened our eyes to the scientific richness of the outer solar system, and it has pioneered the deepest exploration of the sun's domain ever conducted," said Alan Stern, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. "It's a testament to Voyager's designers, builders and operators that both spacecraft continue to deliver important findings more than 25 years after their primary mission to Jupiter and Saturn concluded." During their first dozen years of flight, the Voyagers made detailed explorations of Jupiter, Saturn, and their moons

MOBILE, Alabama -- It’s high summer, and a creeping wave of lubbers is marching across the land eating everything in sight. Present in seemingly uncountable numbers, the annual appearance of swarms of giant grasshopper relatives in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and along the edges of the Causeway each August brings to mind biblical accounts of locust plagues. Hatching out in March or early April, millions of lubbers gorge themselves for months on spring’s fresh greenery. By the heat of the summer, they have grown exponentially, from the size of a grain of rice to monsters nearly 4 inches long. Around Mobile, lubbers tend to be a glossy black, with distinctive red or yellow piping running along the legs, head, and abdomen. In a neat trick of nature, the adults are believed to focus their diets on certain plants that render their plump bodies poisonous to predators. “You wonder why are they black if they are sitting on green vegetation all the time,” said John McCreadie, a University of South Alabama entomologist, di

Cities and organizations in the US state of Maryland have found an original and ecologically sound method to cut the weeds from their parks and gardens: Bring in the goats. Brian Knox, owner of Eco-Goats, a business based in Davidsonville, Maryland, said the hungry animals graze on dense vegetation and munch unwanted weeds and invasive plants while also leaving fertilizer behind for the grasses that people want. "There is poison ivy and all kinds of stuff that you know people don't want to go in there for, and the goats don't seem to mind that much," he said. Eco- Goats, which has been in business for three years, often brings dozens of goats to the site that a customer hopes to clear, then puts up electric fences and allows the goats to graze for days. One group of 30 goats can clear 100 square meters of brush per day, according to Eco-Goats. Because the animals are agile and good climbers, they can often get to hard-to-reach vegetation. When the work is finished, the goats have left behind their droppings wh

The DNA Learning Center has had a strong web presence since the early days of the World Wide Web in 1993. We now maintain 21 sites with content and tools to enhance science education for a broad audience. Follow the "learn more..." links to explore the development of each site. Go directly to the site by clicking the screen shots or the web address. With private and federal foundation support, we continually develop educational, content- based Internet sites for audiences from middle school to adults. Learn About SMA, developed with support from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, is a resource for SMA patients, families and researchers, including stories of living with SMA and the science behind emerging therapies. A flexible "e-book" that can be viewed as a website, an app, or a printable PDF. The interactive e-book tells the story of the development of maize, from domestication, hybrid vigor, genome sequencing, and transposons, to genetic modification and biofortification of modern maize. Discover the c

Scope and Content of Collection Title: Denton Ranch Collection (Jacume, Baja California Norte, Mexico), Date (inclusive): 1864 - 1993 1.00 linear feet (2 archives boxes, 6 oversize folders) Abstract: Title documents and correspondence related to the ownership of the Denton Ranch, also known as Rancho Jacume, located on the international border in Baja California Norte, Mexico near La Rumerosa. The collection forms the documentation for the Denton Family's claim for compensation for the expropriation of the ranch in 1939 during the Cardenas administration. The collection is divided into three series: 1) TITLE DOCUMENTS, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, and 3) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS. University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library. La Jolla, California 92093-0175 Collection number: MSS 0115 Language of Material: Collection materials in English Collection is open for research. Denton Ranch Collection (Jacume, Baja California Norte, Mexico), MSS 0115. Mandeville Special Collections

St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, the saint's religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. - St. Patrick and the First St. Patrick's Day Parade - Growth of St. Patrick's Day Celebrations - St. Patrick's Day, No Irish Need Apply and the "Green Machine" - The Chicago River on St. Patrick's Day - St. Patrick's Day Around the World St. Patrick and the First St. Patrick's Day Parade Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at t

(Potential stem cell cure…) A team of Australian scientists is advancing towards a cure for conditions including HIV and diabetes using stem cells. Professor Alan Trounson, a world- renowned Australian stem cell expert and head of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, says their work towards HIV cure is about to progress to human trials. He said if the trials were successful further research would be needed to modify the technology so it could be affordably used where it is needed most, in Africa. "I want the HIV work to go globally because it shouldn't be restricted to patients in Western (countries)," the Herald Sun quoted Prof Trounson, the former director of Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories in Melbourne, as saying. "We're going to have to modify some of that further research to get it into a suitable treatment that we can use in Africa. I'm very hopeful that the industry will do that. We have to try and make these as available to people as possible," he stated. Prof Trounson said t

Where God once lived December 6, 1992 will always be engraved in the memories of Muslims and Hindus residing all across the globe especially in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The day marks the demolition of Babri Masjid which was built in 1598 on a site which is considered sacred for many Hindus. The communal riots that followed the demolition claimed over 2,000 lives of people from both religions. The resonance of the demolition was felt across borders, both in Pakistan and Bangladesh, where many Hindus suffered the wrath of angry Muslims seeking revenge for the blasphemous act. Dozens of Hindu temples were desecrated, whereas hundreds of Hindus living in Pakistan and Bangladesh faced retaliatory acts of violence in almost all the major cities of both countries The unfortunate incident raises many questions such as how are the people, who attack temples or churches, considered better than the people who demolish mosques? How is the desecration of one holy site justified whilst the other is not? Shouldn’t de

In a novel study, researchers claim to have identified a gene linked to human kidney aging. Kidneys age at different rates, such that some people show little or no effects of kidney aging whereas others show rapid functional decline. Determining genetic factors associated with different rates of kidney aging can help researchers understand the molecular mechanisms underlying human aging process. Lead researcher Dr. Stuart Kim used genome-wide transcriptional profiling to determine that 630 genes change expression with age in kidney tissue. They further found that 101 of these age-regulated genes contain DNA variations among individuals that associate with gene expression level. gene that encodes an extracellular matrix protein (MMP20) was revealed to be significantly associated with kidney aging, providing the first gene association with kidney aging. The researchers suggest that more aging genes are discovered and confirmed, the particular genetic variants belonging to a person could one day be combined to b

Like all liberal arts, dance teaches life skills that will benefit the student later in life, regardless of the vocation selected. Dance teaches self-discipline, respect, dedication and determination. Plato once wrote, "to sing and dance well is to be well educated." He considered the uneducated man achoreutos or danceless; the educated one, kechoreukos, endowed with dance. It is our mission to endow our students with dance. W. Robert Sherry Director of Dance DAN 170 Ballet I: Introduces fundamental concepts and historical background. Presents positions and barre exercises to build correct alignment, flexibility, strength, coordination, and ballet vocabulary. DAN 175 Tap:Introduces fundamental concepts and historical background. Covers basic time steps, waltz clog, triplets, shim- sham, buffalo, cramp roll, and soft-shoe, along with tap vocabulary. DAN 177 Jazz I: Introduces fundamental concepts and historical background. Works in studio on body placement and alignment through highly-structured classical jazz

In this article, Margaret Deuter, a managing editor in the ELT dictionaries department at Oxford University Press, looks at why proper use of dictionaries is so important to English language learners. It’s not the stuff of spy novels, editing dictionaries. But some teachers act as if we were producing some subversive material that should be handled with extreme care. It’s depressing for those of us who work to make dictionaries useful resources for learners to go to conferences and hear teacher trainers telling their audiences that dictionaries should be kept out of the classroom. Or to read in a coursebook multiple strategies for getting students to guess the meanings of words and only as a last resort to look them up in a dictionary. We all know that using a dictionary badly can lead to hilarious results – well, not so funny if as a student you get a really bad mark because of it; but funny, for example, to visitors at this hotel where in the restaurant, “regional and international courts are offered to win

Monday, June 22, 2009 HAT South Telescope Network one step closer Less than a month after the opening of the SkyMapper Telescope a new telescope building has appeared at Siding Spring Observatory. HAT-South is a network of six identical, fully automated wide field telescopes, which are planned to be located at three sites (Chile: Las Campanas, Australia: Siding Springs, and Namibia: HESS site) in the Southern hemisphere. The primary purpose of the telescope network is to detect and characterize a large number of extra-solar planets transiting nearby bright stars, and to explore their diversity. Each site will host two "TH4" units. These TH4 units consist of four 0.18m Takahashi astrographs fitted with Apogee 4Kx4K CCDs. Each TH4 unit monitors 64 square degrees of sky at a time, so each site will be capable of monitoring 128 square degrees of sky. Operation of HAT-South is a collaboration among the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA), Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and the Australian N

Print friendly version Charles Bonnet syndrome Other Names for this Disease See Disclaimer regarding information on this site. Some links on this page may take you to organizations outside of the National Institutes of Health. Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) refers to the presence of visual hallucinations in individuals with visual acuity loss without having psychosis or dementia. The condition is likely caused by the brain continuing to interpret images, even in their absence. Underlying conditions of vision loss associated with Charles Bonnet syndrome are diverse (including conditions such as macular degeneration and stroke) and may affect the eye, optic nerve, or brain. Hallucinations often resolve if the underlying vision deficit is corrected and can also remit in some individuals with static or progressive vision loss. Treatment is individualized. - Victoria S Pelak. Visual release hallucinations (Charles Bonnet syndrome). UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate; 2012. - Bou Khalil R, Richa S. [Psychiatric, psycho

cittaanurakkho wrote:Any mentioned of aurora in the Pali text or elsewhere? Could be the radiant deva? Russian scholar of Mahabharata Boris Smirnov brought up a hypothesis that the apsara's "play of rainbows", described in Mahabharata as happening near Meru, is actually aurora. There are descriptions of mount Meru's efflugence in Mahabharata: There is a glowing mountain called Meru, which is bathed in its own radiance. Fine beyond all other mountains, it subdues the sun's own light with its dazzling golden peaks. Indeed, it is like a wondrous golden ornament. Popular with gods and Gandharvas, it is immeasurable and can be approached only by those who are abundantly righteous. Awesome beasts of prey frequent that great mountain, and heavenly herbs illumine it. Standing tall, it spreads up and over the vault of heaven. Unattainable by most, lying beyond even their imagination, this mountain, rich in rivers and forests, resounds with the songs of the most charming varieties of birds. Scaling its bright and gem-s

Ancient Near East, Greek, and Roman Art Spanning a period of roughly 3,800 years, the collections of Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art at the Cleveland Museum of Art are held in very high esteem nationally and internationally. Although the collections are modest in overall numbers, they are typified by singular works of rare quality. Sasanian silver is a clear strength in the Ancient Near Eastern collection, along with major masterpieces of large stone sculpture, and one of the very finest "stargazer" figures to have survived. In the Greek and Roman area, the collections feature exquisite small and large- scale bronzes, such as the world-famous Apollo Sauroktonos figure attributed to Praxiteles, several outstanding painted vases from the Archaic, Classical, and late Classical periods, and excellent smaller objects crafted of precious materials. Additional great masterworks include an Assyrian relief of the winged guardian figure in the gallery devoted to Asia Minor and the Fertile Crescent, the Minoan

Typhoon Megi continues to intensify and is expected to be a significant threat to the northern Philippine province of Luzon by late this weekend. Americares is making preparations to bring relief. Typhoon Megi is currently the only tropical cyclone anywhere on earth but it could be one of the strongest of the year to affect land. While it is very likely that the storm will go well beyond the threshold of Super Typhoon status with winds in excess of 100 kts, the specific track seems to be a little problematic and that could mean all the difference for the Philippines. By 18 UTC (Z) October 17, 2010 the typhoon is expected to have sustained winds of 135 kts with gusts to 165 kts. Roughly, that would be just shy of the North Atlantic Category 5 classification. Environmental conditions are such that intensification from the 18 UTC (Z) October 15, 2010 95 kt level to the loftier, stronger classification is likely. Megi is the name of a catfish in South Korea and is related to the feeling of getting wet, according

- Tuck a note into their lunchbox or book bag. Write a sweet thought or a short joke to make them smile. - Give them a big hug for no particular reason at all. - When you part in the morning, tell them that you will be praying for them today. - Put a small treat on their bed for them to find when they get home in the afternoon - Smile at them often. - Make eye contact and truly listen when your child is telling you something. - When they have completed a task well, praise them. - While they are close by, relate to someone else something good that your child has done. - If you see them struggling with a task, offer your help. - Watch for an area in their character where you see growth and spend a few minutes communicating to them how proud you are of how they're maturing. - Willingly do something they ask you to do - stop working and play a game, help them find a lost item, etc. - Allow them to help you with a project you're working on that they're interested in - cooking, cleaning, scrapbooking, or other chor

Measles immune globulin measles immune globulin A sterile solution of globulin's derived from the blood plasma of normal adult human donors; it is prepared from immune serum globulin that complies with the measles antibody reference standard; a passive immunizing agent. Synonym: measles immunoglobulin. Results from our forum ... altered with human genes to trick a patient's immune system into accepting it as its own flesh ... The problem occurs in reverse as well. Measles, for example, a serious but manageable disease ... (azathioprine), Atgam (lymphocyte immune globulin), Prograf (tarolimus), and Orthoclone (muromonab-CD3). ... See entire post

||This map shows where industrial centers were developing in Europe in the mid-1800s. It also shows varying degrees of urbanization. Notice that Britain, which industrialized first, already has at least 20 percent of its population living in cities of 100,000 or more. The regions on the continent with between 6 and 10 percent of the population in such large cities are also the regions that experienced greater industrial development. Industrialization and urbanization went hand in hand.

When the last oil well runs dry Just as certain as death and taxes is the knowledge that we shall one day be forced to learn to live without oil. Exactly when that day will dawn nobody knows, but people in middle age today can probably expect to be here for it. Long before it arrives we shall have had to commit ourselves to one or more of several possible energy futures. And the momentous decisions we take in the next few years will determine whether our heirs thank or curse us for the energy choices we bequeath to them. There will always be some oil somewhere, but it may soon cost too much to extract and burn it. It may be too technically difficult, too expensive compared with other fuels, or too polluting. An article in Scientific American in March 1998 by Dr Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere concluded: "The world is not running out of oil - at least not yet. "What our society does face, and soon, is the end of the abundant and cheap oil on which all industrial nations depend." They suggested there were per

In general, it is the parents' job to monitor what their child eats, while the child is in the best position to decide how much to eat. Normally, healthy and active children's bodies do a good job of "asking" for just the right amount of food, although their minds may lead them astray when choosing which foods to eat. You can easily overestimate the amount of food your child actually needs, especially during the younger years of middle childhood. Youngsters of this age do not need adult-sized servings of food. However, if you are unaware of this, you might place almost as much food on your child's plate as on your own. As a result, your child must choose between being criticized for leaving food on his plate, or for overeating and running the risk of obesity. Weighing your children occasionally is one way for you to monitor your youngsters' nutrition. There is rarely a reason for you to count calories for your children, since most youngsters control their intake quite well. As the middle years progress, child

Data centres have always been secure, tightly controlled facilities, but 9/11 brought about changes that pushed security and physical protections to even higher levels. Data centres today, particularly those serving as colocation facilities, are more likely to have multiple points of security that may include physical barriers such as crash-resistant fences and high-tech defenses such as biometric identification systems. It's less likely today that backup and recovery data centres will be built near one another. And new data centres are more likely to be built outside of urban areas. "Data centre designers have always been mindful of security concerns," said Tad Davies, an executive vice-president at Bick Group, an IT services provider whose work includes data centre design. "What 9/11 caused us to do is think broader and on a massive scale." Davies said he knows of one company that relocated its data centre to a site that was within a four-hour drive of its backup data centres. The reason: It wanted to be ce

Welcome to onestopclil With over 900 fantastic CLIL materials, onestopclil is your resource bank for content and language teaching. Choose from a wealth of resources for Young Learners and Secondary, including exciting experiments, interactive animations, a vibrant image bank and lots more. Why not check out Keith Kelly's latest CLIL Picks and What's new this month to get a real taste for the hundreds of great resources we have to offer here on onestopclil? Keith's CLIL Picks Is it an animal, plant or mineral? Pupils match the puzzle pieces, fill in a chart and complete sentences to identify the materials used to make everyday objects. Teacher’s notes include ideas for an additional group activity and post-lesson projects. CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of i

Research Article at the Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy. Their website is hosted by the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. |Title:||An experimental study for scale prevention in boiler by use of ultrasonic waves| |Authors:||Heo, Pil Woo; Lee, Yang Lae; Lim, Eui Su; Koh, Kwang Sik| |Affiliation:||AA(Korea Inst. of Machinery and Mater., Taejon), AB(Korea Inst. of Machinery and Mater., Taejon), AC(Korea Inst. of Machinery and Mater., Taejon), AD(Kyungpook Natl. Univ.)| |Publication:||The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 112, iss. no. 5, p. 2441-2441 (ASAJ Homepage)| |NASA/STI Keywords:||CHEMICAL REACTIONS, HEAT TRANSFER, METAL IONS, SURFACE REACTIONS, THERMAL RESISTANCE, ULTRASONIC RADIATION| |Comment:||NASA/STI Accession number: 20020082568| I

The Internet is a social medium made up of communities, cliques, and groups. While this is usually positive, sometimes people engage intimidation or harassment. This section explores the myths and realities of cyberbullying and offers tips for adults to help young people who are involved in it. For most youth, the Internet is all about socializing, and while most of these social interactions are positive, increasing numbers of kids are using the technology to intimidate and harass others – a phenomenon known as cyberbullying. It’s important to note that there is no single profile of a child who bullies. While some fit the traditional image of someone who is generally aggressive and has poor impulse control, others may be very sensitive to social nuances and are able to use that understanding against their targets. Cyberbullying is everyone's business and the best response is a pro-active or preventative one. From the outset, we can reduce the risks associated with Internet use if we engage in an open discussi

What is a critical care specialist? A critical care specialist is a medical doctor who specializes in critical care or intensive care medicine and treats patients who need urgent care on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Critical care doctors work in the ICU (intensive care unit) in hospitals.What kind of background does a critical care specialist have? A critical care physician attends medical school plus a 2-6 year residency in internal medicine to receive training. They must pass a board certification exam for critical care medicine, and typically complete at least two years of fellowship training in critical care. During training, these physicians learn a wide variety of techniques they will need in an urgent medical emergency, during surgery, or postsurgery. Critical care physicians especially need a keen ability to think on their feet and make quick decisions. Some of the techniques a critical care physician learns during fellowship training include ultrasound, airway management, cardiac life support a

James Vary, IITAP, (515) 294-3555 Skip Derra, News Service, (515) 294-4917 NOBEL LAUREATE TO TALK ABOUT OZONE DEPLETION AND SMOG AMES, Iowa -- Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland, a well-know authority on atmospheric chemistry and one of the first scientists to warn the public about the environmental dangers of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), will give a talk on Feb. 15, at 8 p.m., in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. The topic of Rowland's talk will be "Two Atmospheric Problems: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, and Smog at Earth's Surface" The talk is part of a University Lecture Series on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. Rowland, along with Mario Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Paul Crutzen, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of Earth's ozone layer. Rowland's work focused on the effects CFCs have on the ozone

6. Built-in Exceptions Exceptions should be class objects. The exceptions are defined in the module exceptions. This module never needs to be imported explicitly: the exceptions are provided in the built-in namespace as well as the For class exceptions, in a try statement with an except clause that mentions a particular class, that clause also handles any exception classes derived from that class (but not exception classes from which it is derived). Two exception classes that are not related via subclassing are never equivalent, even if they have the same name. The built-in exceptions listed below can be generated by the interpreter or built-in functions. Except where mentioned, they have an “associated value” indicating the detailed cause of the error. This may be a string or a tuple containing several items of information (e.g., an error code and a string explaining the code). The associated value is the second argument to the raise statement. If the exception class is derived from the standard root class B

(HealthDay News) -- Nosebleeds are common during childhood, especially during the preschool years. Though they can be scary, they usually aren't caused by a serious problem. The American Academy of Pediatrics says common causes of nosebleeds include: - Allergies or a cold, which can lead to nasal swelling or irritation. - Trauma to the nose, from blowing too hard, picking or putting an object in the nose. - Exposure to a very dry environment or harsh fumes. - An abnormal anatomical structure of the nose. - An abnormal growth inside the nose. - A blood- clotting problem. - Taking medication that dries out the nasal passages. Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

Get answers to your Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma questions. Lymphoma - Hodgkin's; Hodgkin's lymphoma; Hodgkins disease; HD Treatment options depend on: Certain factors may determine whether more intensive treatment is required. For example, the presence of B symptoms and “bulky” (large mass) tumors are treated usually indicates a more aggressive treatment approach. Chemotherapy, radiation, or both (chemoradiation) are the main treatments for Hodgkinâ ' s disease. Stem cell transplantation may be recommended for patients whose cancer has recurred. Hodgkinâ ' s disease is staged (I through IV) to determine to how far the cancer has spread. Staging is the primary method for determining both treatment options and prognosis. Stage I. Disease is limited to a single node region (I) or has involved one neighboring area or a single nearby organ. Stage II. Disease is limited to two or more lymph nodes on the same side of (above or below) the diaphragm or extends locally from the lymph node into a nearby organ. Stage III.

History of Piedmont College In 1897, opening a college in the wilderness of northeast Georgia must have seemed to some like a prescription for failure. The area was accessible by few roads - mostly crude dirt strips paved with sapling trees. A narrow- gauge railroad did make a waterstop in the frontier town of Demorest, but it was laden with passengers and freight bound for points further north. For a youthful band of entrepreneurs trying to forge a community of businesses, factories and schools in Demorest, however, a college was just what they needed. Under the direction of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Charles C. Spence, they obtained a charter from the State of Georgia, organized a board of trustees, bought books, hired a faculty, and secured space for classes and dormitories. On the first Wednesday of September 1897, amid much fanfare and ceremony, the opening exercises for the J.S. Green Collegiate Institute were held in downtown Demorest, and the entire student body, from first grade to college juniors

Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of his famed masterpiece "Mona Lisa," claims a private Swiss art foundation dedicated solely to the alternate painting, which it unveiled Thursday. But an expert on da Vinci in Britain says there is evidence that the Renaissance master may not have been behind the picture presented as the "Earlier Mona Lisa" but known more commonly as the "Isleworth Mona Lisa." The Mona Lisa Foundation, based in Zurich, offers a wealth of documentation to support its argument that the painting it represents is a predecessor -- from the master's own hand -- to the world's most famous portrait hanging in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Martin Kemp, professor emeritus at Oxford University, who has examined the arguments, says the "reliable primary evidence provides no basis for thinking that there was 'an earlier' portrait of Lisa del Giocondo." In addition to a 320-page art book titled "Mona Lisa: Leonardo's Earlier Version," the foundation's website makes its case using visual widgets o

Public Health History Nasty, brutish and short. That's how life was before the development of public health. Poor sanitation, unregulated food processing, lack of control of mosquitoes, inadequate prenatal care, and other poor health conditions led to unnecessary illnesses and deaths. In the year before Florida's state health department was created in 1889, about 40 percent of the population fled Jacksonville due to a yellow fever epidemic which sickened a third of those who stayed and killed over 400. Similar epidemics of cholera and yellow fever struck the state almost annually, one of which almost wiped out the population of St. Joseph in 1841. In most cases, limited medical care was available for the sick and weaker people died, but not before infecting many others. Many survivors were carriers, continuing to pass the diseases to others as a result of poor sanitary practices. Control of infectious diseases was the major reason for establishment of public health services and remains a major focus today. Th

In an attempt to assess the link between bee health and diversity of pollen they encounter, honeybee hives from as many as 10 National Trust sites were studied. The study found that the bees from farmlands had a noticeably narrower range of pollens than both urban and untouched "natural" settings. Hives from Kensington Palace in London showed evidence of eucalyptus and elderberry, while suburban sites such as those around the University of Worcester - where the researchers who carried out the study work - showed a rich mix including lily, blackberry, rowan trees, and oilseed rape. However, at more rural National Trust sites near farmland in Yorkshire and Somerset, the hives were overwhelmingly dominated by oilseed rape pollen.Matthew Oates of the National Trust said that although the results were no great surprise, they were "a very useful piece of information in terms of being able to quantify the problem that bees are up against in intensive agriculture systems." "What is clear is that there is a far greate

"We shall either nobly save, or meanly lose, the last great hope of mankind." The Gettysburg Address "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." Delivered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. "At nightfall on November 18, 1863, a special train drew into the small station at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and President Abraham Lincoln and his party alighted. They were greeted by Judge David Wills, chairman of a committee supervising the dedication of a cemetery nearby, in which the bodies of most of the six thousand men killed in the Civil War battle fought there the preceding July might rest. Few could have dreamed that the President's brief address the following day would be remembered as long as the battle itself." Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing wheth

You know that the amount of reading your child does will have a direct and positive impact on his reading fluency, but finding appropriate material for the budding reader is often a hit-and- miss endeavor. Some beginning readers are painfully dry with insipid illustrations, not what a child dubious about the rewards of reading should have to encounter. But Innovative Kids has pulled together a series with you and your child in mind. Each set includes ten captivatingly-illustrated stories designed to tickle the funny bone of every child. Each zany story builds on the other as your child progresses from short-vowel and simple consonant sounds to long-vowel sounds and sight words. As your child completes each book, he receives a comical sticker to place on the inside cover; kids love that. You get a parent's guide that offers helpful hints on how to use the books, including exceptional enrichment ideas to use at the completion of each book. What a fantastic way to further reinforce necessary reading skills and bu

Published: August 28, 2010 Headed by Juan Carballo, the remaining Spaniards left Cebu for bohol. There the survivors burned the Conception off the coast of Bohol, because there were not enough men to navigate her. On the two remaining ships-the Victoria and the Trinidad-they cruised through the Visayas and the Sulu Sea. They reached Palawan and there found plenty of fresh foods provisions. From Palawan, they proceeded south to Borneo where they captured a native warboat. From Brunei, where they were well received by Sultan Siripada, they continued their voyage. At last, on November 9 1951, with the help of a native pilot, the survivors reached Tidore, an island in the Moluccas in present day Indonesia. There they gathered a rich cargo of spices and resumed their voyage home. The commanders of the two ships agreed toseparate. The Victoria, piloted by Sebastian del Cano, was to sail back to Spainby way of the cape of Good Hope; the Trinidad under the command of Gomez de Espinosa, was to cross the Pacific Ocean

To play or not to play? For kids with bleeding disorders, that is the question—at camp, at school, at home, anywhere. Most sports and other physical activities have some level of risk. The severity and type of bleeding disorder vary, so what may be unsafe for one person might be a perfect match for another. (However, contact sports, such as football and hockey, are not recommended for people with bleeding disorders.) There’s no one- size-fits-all answer. However, there is a new workbook that will help you make an informed decision. My Game Plan is a five-page booklet with questions that help kids—and adults—evaluate their physical abilities and any limitations placed on them by their hemophilia or other bleeding disorder. For example, it asks you to list your problem joints and to note any pain you may have. Then, you are asked to describe the benefits and risks of the activity you want to play. “Rather than telling you what sports are safe and what aren’t, it’s a tool that will help guide a discussion,” says

The Eureka is a side-wheel paddle steamboat, built in 1890, which is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California. Originally named the Ukiah to commemorate the railway's recent extension into the City of Ukiah, the boat was built by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company at their Tiburon yard. The ship originally carried commuters between San Francisco and Tiburon during the day and hauled railroad freight cars at night. As automobiles became more common, motorists wanted to "drive across the bay". Since there were no bridges on San Francisco Bay at the time, the Ukiah was able to meet this demand via a refitted lower deck designed to handle vehicles. The deck above was expanded for passengers. The Eureka has been designated a National Historic Landmark. [Wikipedia] |Overall length||299.5 feet| |Extreme Width||78 feet| San Francisco Maritime Park

According to current estimates on world population growth, agricultural productivity will have to increase by 56 percent by 2030. Can organics help answer this need? That question was a topic of great interest at a May conference of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. Organic agriculture is an environmentally friendly choice, conference presenters said, for reasons including more efficient use of local natural resources and less reliance on fossil fuels (organic farmers don't use petroleum-derived fertilizers or pesticides). Research by the Rodale Institute and others also show that organic soils retain 20 percent to 40 percent more water, so they require less irrigation and produce better yields than conventional crops during times of drought and climate change. On the social front, organic agriculture—which requires 30 percent more labor per hectare, or 2.5 acres—offers employment opportunities and contributes to rural development. Health benefits are another important contributio

UGA graduate student wins Singularity University scholarship to grow food indoors April 30, 2012Print Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia doctoral student Erico Rolim de Mattos envisions a world where exploding human populations, global climate change and land overdevelopment has rendered mankind incapable of producing enough food to sustain humanity. This scenario is a very real possibility, and it has captured the minds of specialists from organizations like NASA and the United Nations. Mattos has an idea that may help solve the problem, and it recently won him a $30,000 scholarship to an intensive 10-week graduate studies program at Singularity University, a Silicon Valley ideas incubator that seeks to solve the planet's most pressing challenges using advanced technologies. He proposes the use of LED lights and advanced computer monitoring systems to provide artificial light in structures known as vertical farms. These immense greenhouse-like buildings are dedicated to the production of indoor food crops.

Cancer of the renal pelvis or ureter is cancer that forms in the kidney's pelvis or the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder. Transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis or ureter Causes, incidence, and risk factors Cancer can grow in the urine collection system, but is uncommon. As a group, renal pelvis and ureter cancers account for about 5% of all cancers of the kidney and upper urinary tract. They affect men more often than women and are more common in people older than 65. Tumors of the renal pelvis and ureter are usually transitional cell cancers. Approximately 10% are squamous cell carcinomas. The causes of this cancer are not completely known. Long-term (chronic) irritation of the kidney from harmful substances removed in the urine may be a factor. This irritation may be caused by: These tests may reveal a tumor or show that the cancer has spread from the kidneys. The goal of treatment is to eliminate the cancer. Surgery to remove all or part of the kidney (nephrectomy) is usually r