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|Part of a series on| Part of Jewish history |Part of a series on| Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. A person who holds such positions is called an "antisemite". While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"), and that has been its normal use since then. For the purposes of a 2005 U.S. governmental report, antisemitism was considered "hatred toward Jews—individually and as a group—that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and/or ethnicity." Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire Jewish communities. Although the term did not come into commo

Malaysia's Piercing Praxis Everyone in the country joins in Tai Pusam With fish hooks embedded in their backs and spears piercing their cheeks, hundreds of thousands of Malaysian Hindus marched toward a prehistoric cave today in an annual ritual of penance. The festival known as Tai Pusam was brought to Malaysia in the 19th century by Indian immigrants who came to work on rubber estates and in government offices. In Malaysia, the pilgrimage drew one million people today--devotees and camera- snapping onlookers alike--to a temple at the Batu Caves just north of the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Near the foothills of the temple, a penitent carried a 100-pound kavadi up the 272 steps to the top. The kavadi, a metal frame cocooning the penitent's body, is attached with hundreds of thin hooks and steel shafts. An estimated 9,000 people carried it at the festival. A stream of trance-induced devotees followed the path up the temple steps today to pay homage to their deity, Lord Muruga. Their foreheads, tongues and cheeks we

LONG BEACH, Calif. The rocket equation has always had one frustrating yet inevitable consequence: For every pound of payload headed for, say, the lunar surface, NASA needs hundreds more pounds of hardware and propellant during low Earth orbitand many times that on the launchpad. For example, NASA's planned Ares V vehicle (a modern-day replacement for the Saturn V that delivered our first visitors to the moon over 30 years ago) will weigh more than 3500 tons prior to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., but land just 18 tons of weight on the moononly two tons of which aren't the lander itself. Because each post-shuttle era launch will cost billions of dollars, NASA is crunching the numbers on how to get more lunar payload "bang" for its transport vehicle "buck." Boeing proposed what might be the ultimate problem solver at the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Space 2007 conference here last week: a low Earth orbit gas station, or propellant depot, to refill the lunar-injection vehicle tank

Mongan, Deirdre (2007) Alcohol consumption in Ireland. Drugnet Ireland, Issue 24, Winter 2007 . pp. 2-3. The recently published report, Alcohol consumption in Ireland 1986–2006,1 written by Dr Anne Hope for the Health Service Executive – Alcohol Implementation Group, explains how alcohol consumption in Ireland is measured and describes trends in consumption since 1986. Alcohol consumption is measured by dividing the total alcohol sales figures provided by the Revenue Commissioners by the population figures provided by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The Revenue Commissioners compile annual alcohol sales figures based on the volume of each alcoholic beverage type (beer, spirits, wine and cider) released from bonded warehousing on payment of excise duty. The figures for beer and spirits are given in litres of pure alcohol. Figures for wine and cider are given by total volume, and the pure alcohol content is calculated based on an ABV (alcohol by volume) rate of 12.5% in the case of wine and 4.5% in the cas

Civil Rights Law The freedom of speech, press, and assembly, the right to vote, the freedom from involuntary servitude, and the right to equality in public places are among the most basic human dignities afforded Americans by our constitution. Temple's comprehensive civil rights curriculum addresses complex constitutional law issues at the forefront of both legal discourse and social conversation. The faculty's scholarly expertise in subjects such as free exercise of religion, equality of race, gender and sexual orientation, and freedom of speech is informed by their participation as attorneys in civil rights cases and their activism in community organizations. Temple's civil rights law curriculum draws critical current issues and controversies into a range of courses unparalleled for their scope and depth of subject matter. Perhaps the most commonly appreciated area of law, criminal law involves prosecution by the government for an act that has been classified as a crime. Temple's criminal law curriculum pro

The country celebrated the 204th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth this week. Lincoln has been much in the news lately, with the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation last month and with the widespread popularity of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated movie named after the 16th president. Additionally, controversy now swirls around the inaccuracy of the votes cast by Connecticut’s congressional delegation in the movie — a fact that prompted Congressman Joe Courtney to write a protest letter to director Steven Spielberg. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the fall of 1862 following the Battle of Antietam. Its issuance did exact a political price in the Congressional elections of 1862, as it cost his party 28 seats in the House of Representatives. This loss of Republican influence in the House would make passage of the 13th Amendment there very difficult, as Steven Spielberg's movie Lincoln dramatizes so well. Passage of the 13th Amendment in the Senate, however, was much easier. I

- About Us - News & Events - Virtual Museum - Educational Resources - Histories & Narratives - Websites & Bibliography - Giving Opportunities Grazyna Chrostowska was born on October 21, 1921, in Lublin, Poland. Following the German occupation, she distributed the illegal newsletter "Poland Lives." She was arrested for her underground activities on May 8, 1941, and transferred to Ravensbrück on September 12 of that year, On April 18, 1942, she and eleven other young Polish women were shot by a Nazi firing squad. During her time in Ravensbrück she wrote poems, some of which were aired on the London BBC with other news about the camp in 1943. Chrostowska's poetry has been translated and is available online*

Gray Bat: Myotis grisescens Genus/Species: Myotis grisescens Common Name: Gray bat Federal Status: Endangered FL Status: Federally-designated Endangered FNAI Ranks: G3/S1 (Globally: Rare/State: Critically Imperiled) IUCN Status: NT (Near Threatened) The gray bat can reach a body length of 3.5 inches (8.9 centimeters), a wingspan of 9-11 inches (22.9-27.9 centimeters) and a forearm length of 1.8 inches (4.6 centimeters). Although typically gray, the fur can turn to a reddish-brown color during the summer (Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2001, USFWS Species Profile, n.d.). Gray bats also have a calcar (spur of cartilage) on their foot, which is used for stability during flight. The diet of the gray bat primarily consists of insects, including moths and beetles. Bats are nocturnal hunters, typically remaining inactive throughout the day and flying at night to hunt. During extended periods of inactivity, bats go into a state of reduced activity called torpor. During torpor, they decrease their heart rate and body

The Future of Nature in Art The forms of nature are, in their own ways, works of art. For centuries, artists have mimicked natural phenomenon, such as the roughness of tree bark, and the vibrant colours of fruit, in oil paintings and even sculpture. Now, most artists are using new tools to attempt to control these forms, and in doing so, re-create the natural form. Artist Ken To, for example, uses metal wiring to create detailed and realistically sized bonsai trees. The easing twists of the metal perfectly mimic the tree bark, that ever so slightly curves up and outwards, creating branches. Even more extreme, artist Natalie Jeremijenko uses L-systems, which are algorithms created in order to mimic the cell growth of a tree. With the L-system technology, you could have your very own forest growing on your computers’ desktop! She has even created a whole art project called ONETREES, and she calls her virtual trees ‘e-trees’, or ‘electronic trees’. Not only that, the e-trees themselves can be manipulated to grow

Even with a whole month passing since our last session the children were able to talk with confidence about the things in the wood we needed to be mindful of to keep ourselves safe. Right from the start the children were mindful of walking around the fire circle and stuck to this for the majority of the session despite there being no fire or hot kettle today. As there was a lot of new growth in the woods, the Last Session Review was supplanted somewhat by an impromptu forage walk where the children were shown different plants, some of which were edible, others protected and others invasive. The children were interested and smelled the leaves. Had the forage site not been on a main dog walk, they would have tried some of them. All of the children had heard the Three Little Pigs story and were familiar with the role of the wolf as “big and bad”. By using the Alternative Three Little Pig story, which tells the tale from the wolfs perspective, it was possible to engage the children in a shelter building narrative

The Fact of Creation-2 A pictorial reconstruction of Confuciusornis (above) The theory of evolution claims that birds evolved from small theropod dinosaurs-in other words, from reptiles. The fact is, however, that anatomical comparisons between birds and reptiles refute this claim, as does the fossil record. The fossil pictured belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Confuciusornis, the first specimen of which was discovered in China in 1995. Confuciusornis bears a close resemblance to present-day birds and has demolished the scenario of avian evolution. A present-day specimen of hornbeam leaf Hornbeams of some 30 to 40 different species occur across much of the North Temperate regions, with the greatest number of species in East Asia, particularly China. A few species occur in Europe and North America. Fossil findings reveal that hornbeams alive today and those that lived tens of millions of years ago were no different. Hornbeams challenge Darwinist claims and proclaim Creation as an obvious fact.. A

Guess the Month Go through old magazines from the past year, or to your local library (this is fun research though) to search through old news articles. Find many events that took place in the past year. Make a list of these events, and have your guests guess which month the event took place in. For example- "During what month did the King of Pop die"? Whoever guesses the most right wins a prize. Charades of the Past Go through magazines and newspapers to pick out events from the past year. Use these events as "titles" to act out for Charades or "Win, Lose or Draw". For tons of fun, make each of your guests team up in two’s and act out whichever past year’s event that they have randomly drawn. Guess Whose Resolution Make each of your guests write down 5 resolutions, each on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a hat at a time and read it out loud. Everyone has to write down who they think made each resolution. At the end of the readings, the person who guessed the most correctly wins a prize.

Frontiers in History Ideas from the National Archives for NHD 2001 Resources at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library The U-2 Spy Plane Incident At the height of the "cold war," as critics of the Eisenhower administration complained about the growing "missile gap," the United States secretly gathered data on Soviet missile capabilities through photographs obtained from U-2 reconnaissance plane overflights of the Soviet Union. In May 1960, plans were finalized for a crucial Paris summit conference between western nations and leaders of the Soviet Union with disarmament to be the main focus. Hopes for a successful summit were dashed when on May 1, May Day, an American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet air space. On the first day of the Paris summit, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stormed out after delivering a condemnation of U.S. spy activities. Manuscript materials, photographs, and a listing of relevant collections on this topic are available through the Eisenho

It's a bird, it's a plane, no ... it's the space station The International Space Station about 354 kilometres above Earth. Photo: NASA You get sales alerts, Twitter alerts, sports alerts and Facebook alerts. Now you can also get an alert when the International Space Station is visible overhead thanks to NASA's new web app Spot the Station. The International Space Station's orbit 200 miles (322 kilometres) above Earth makes it visible to more than 90 per cent of the Earth's population, NASA said. The trick is knowing when to look for it. NASA's Johnson Space Centre already calculates the sighting information several times a week for more than 4600 locations worldwide. With its new web app, it shares that information with the space-obsessed public. As long as you know where to look, the International Space Station is pretty easy to see, NASA said. It is the third- brightest object in the sky after the sun and the moon, and it looks like a fast moving point of light about the size and brightness of the planet Ven

Save the planet. That’s the message Arizona State University professor Nicole Darnall delivered recently to a roomful of savvy planet huggers at the Women’s Wellness Forum. The daylong event drew about 240 women to listen to speakers on an array of topics. Darnall offered a gripping presentation that started with global disaster, but ended with a reassuringly doable list of steps individuals can take to solve the seemingly overwhelming problems. She also offered some startling insights. For instance, when it comes to warming the planet through the release of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases, what’s worse fuming cars or munching cows? The cow, dude. Definitely the cow. “Livestock generates more greenhouse gases than all the planes, trains and automobiles on the planet,” said Darnall. In part, that’s because the methane from, well, the other end of cows, has 21 times the greenhouse gas warming effect as carbon dioxide. And don’t hold your breath (yet): The United Nations Food and Agricultur

Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 22.djvu/169 ture malefactors after they had been condemned to death, but the king responded by sending Gordon on 11 Sept. a reprieve till the second Friday of November. Gordon about this time made an ineffectual effort to escape. On 3 Nov. Charles extended the reprieve for a month, and a fortnight later again wrote ordering Gordon to be examined by torture. This command was immediately obeyed, but Gordon on being brought to the council chamber, 23 Nov., either ‘through fear or distraction, roared out like a bull, and cried and struck about him so that the hangman and his man durst scarce lay hands on him,’ and at last fell down in a swoon. On recovering he named several of the royalists as among the plotters, as some thought from madness or out of design. The Earl of Aberdeen, then chancellor, however, befriended him, and he was remitted to the care of the physicians. For greater quietness they sent him to the castle of Edinburgh. On 13 Dec. his case was again befo

Power over Ethernet, a.k.a. PoE or 802.3af, and its new big sibling Power over Ethernet Plus, a.k.a. PoE+ or 802.3at, are forms of “inline power.” Inline power refers to providing power, either AC or DC, over the same cable that the data signals are travelling. An example of inline power you may be more familiar is USB-powered devices — devices that can be powered through a USB port, like mice, keyboards, small disk drives, reading lights, and that also to do battery recharging on headsets, smartphones, and other devices. (This requires the USB port being supplied with enough power. On some notebooks, not all the USB ports also provide power; similarly, on some desktops, USB ports in the back will also provide power but not the front ones.) Another example which might not be obvious to people who grew up using mostly cell phones is the non-wireless home table- top telephones and wall phones, which not only didn’t need batteries or AC adapters, but kept working when the neighborhood power went out because they

VOICE is an abbreviation for: Find a translation for VOICE in other languages: Select another language: What does VOICE mean? - the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, esp. of human beings in speaking, singing, etc. Use the citation below to add this abbreviation to your bibliography: VOICE also stands for: - Value Of Implementing Consumer Empowerment - Vanquish Our Invisible Common Enemy - Victim Offender Information Caller Emissary - Victims Of Incest Can Emerge - Vienna Oxford International Corpus Of English ... and 14 more »

An essential part in the life of an electrician is performing load calculations. Determining what size conductors and overcurrent protective devices to install is something most electricians do on a daily basis. Specifications for calculating branch-circuit, feeder and service loads are in Article 220 of the National Electrical Code (NEC). This article is divided into five parts. Part I covered general requirements for calculation methods (Electrical Contractor, March 2006). Branch-circuit load calculation methods are covered in Part II. Calculation methods for feeders and services are covered in Parts III and IV. Part V provides calculation methods for farms. This month’s column is the second part in a series dedicated to clarifying the load calculation requirements stipulated in Article 220. Sections 220.3 and 220.5 are included in the general specifications in Article 220. New to the 2005 edition of the NEC is 220.3 and Table 220.3. Other articles contain load-calculation requirements in specialized appli-

Military Times remembers the Battle of Turnham Green, the strategically significant English Civil War confrontation, which celebrates its anniversary this weekend. 11th November is traditionally associated with the Day of Armistice 1918, when the Great War finally ended, after five gruelling years of turmoil and suffering. When considering the huge-death toll and global devastation of ‘the war to end all wars’, there is no denying the magnitude of the day, or its place in history. The 13th November, however, marks a decidedly more understated, yet still significant, military engagement closer to home, which may well have altered the course of British history. Almost 370 years ago, in 1642, Charles I’s Royalist force of up to 13,000 men met a 24,000-strong Parliamentary army, led by the Earl of Essex at Turnham Green, in what is now West London (and the home of Military Times) – one of the largest gatherings of opposing forces ever assembled on English soil. In fact very little fighting actually took place; th

|Central coordinates||18o 23.00' East 46o 35.00' North| |IBA criteria||C1, C6| |Altitude||95 - 198m| |Year of IBA assessment||2002| Ornithological information An important breeding site for herons (Ardeidae) and other waterbirds, and a feeding area for raptors. Breeding species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Haliaeetus albicilla, Crex crex (no data). Site description A system of fish-ponds and adjacent marshes in the valley of the River Koppány, 10 km to the south-east of the town of Tamási. The fish-ponds are overgrown with beds of Phragmites and Typha, whilst the adjacent marshlands are dominated by sedge Carex. Human activities include cattle-grazing and reed-harvesting (`Other' land-use, below). |Species||Season||Period||Population estimate||Quality of estimate||IBA Criteria||IUCN Category| |Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca||breeding||1997-2000||50-60 breeding pairs||-||C1, C6||Near Threatened| |Protected area||Designation||Area (ha)||Relationship with IBA||Overlap with IBA (h

|Distribution in Indonesia| P. agris (Schreber, 1799) The Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. Together with the Sumatran orangutan, it belongs to the only genus of great apes native to Asia. Like the other great apes, orangutans are highly intelligent, displaying advanced tool use and distinct cultural patterns in the wild. Orangutans share approximately 97% of their DNA with humans. The Bornean orangutan is an endangered species, with deforestation, palm oil plantations and hunting posing a serious threat to its continued existence. The Bornean orangutan and the Sumatran orangutan diverged about 400,000 years ago, with a continued low level of gene flow between them since then. The two orangutan species were considered merely subspecies until 1996; they were elevated to species following sequencing of their mitochondrial DNA. - Northwest Bornean orangutan P. p. pygmaeus – Sarawak (Malaysia) & northern West Kalimantan (Indonesia) - Central Bornean orang

The relationship between power output and body weight is everything in the sport of cycling. This relationship, known as the power-to-weight ratio, is the single best predictor of a cyclist’s race performance capacity. Power produced by the cyclist’s body moves the bike forward. The weight of the cyclist’s body resists forward movement. So the more a cyclist can increase his power output at any given weight and the more he can reduce his body weight without sacrificing power output, the better he can perform on the bike.

HIV/AIDS - deaths: fewer than 1,000 (2009 est.) Definition: This entry gives an estimate of the number of adults and children who died of AIDS during a given calendar year. Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of February 21, 2013See Also © 2013 IndexMundi. All rights reserved.

People With Low Self-Esteem Show More Signs of Prejudice When people are feeling badly about themselves, they’re more likely to show bias against people who are different. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines how that works. “This is one of the oldest accounts of why people stereotype and have prejudice: It makes us feel better about ourselves,” says Jeffrey Sherman of the University of California, Davis, who wrote the study with Thomas Allen. “When we feel bad about ourselves, we can denigrate other people, and that makes us feel better about ourselves.” Sherman and Allen used the Implicit Association Test (IAT)—a task designed to assess people’s automatic reactions to words and/or images—to investigate this claim. In order to reveal people’s implicit prejudice, participants are asked to watch a computer monitor while a series of positive words, negative words, and pictures of black or white faces appear. In the first part of the tes

Zoekopdracht: subjects: "Health and Nutrition" |Titel||Human African trypanosomiasis in a rural community, Democratic Republic of Congo| |Auteurs||P. Lutumba, E. Makieya, A. Shaw, F. Meheus, M. Boelaert| |Tijdschrift||Emerging Infectious Diseases| |Organisatie||KIT - Royal Tropical Institute| |Onderwerp||Health and Nutrition| |Trefwoorden||health, disease prevention and control| |Regio's||Africa, Africa South of Sahara, Central Africa| |Land||Democratic Republic of the Congo| |Samenvatting||According to the World Health Organization, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) (sleeping sickness) caused the loss of ≈1.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2002. This article describes the effect of HAT during 2000–2002 in Buma, a rural community near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Retrospective questionnaire surveys were used to estimate HAT-related household costs and DALYs. The HAT outbreak in Buma involved 57 patients and affected 47 (21%) households. The cost to each household was equi

Anti-personnel mines and armed Antipersonnel (AP) mines maim and kill civilians and combatants indiscriminately, even long after hostilities have ended. The injuries they cause, such as the loss of limbs, are particularly horrific, disable survivors for life, and require expensive and long-term assistance. In addition to their human costs, AP mines prevent communities from having safe access to land, water and infrastructure. Humanitarian relief, economic development and post-conflict reconstruction efforts are also severely hampered in mine- affected areas. Armed non-State actors (NSAs) are involved in the AP mine problem in several ways. Due to their low cost and easy availability, AP mines have become a weapon of choice for many NSAs worldwide. conducted by Geneva Call identified at least 40 NSAs that used AP mines - including victim-activated IEDs - between 2003 and 2005. As argued in the 2008 “[u]se of antipersonnel mines by NSAGs [non-State armed groups] has declined modestly in recent years. However, NS

Before identifying the causes of the problem and possible solutions, we must recongize that schools as we know them today are a very new invention of human society. And yet, there are those who want you to believe that the institution is sacrosanct; that the current structure exists for good reasons. The fact is that the American educational system remains the biggest social experiment in human history, but that this juggernaut has no captain or navigator. I believe that the problems of the American educational system are many, but are mostly rooted in these issues: - Lack of equitable funding -- How can we ever hope to overcome classism, racism, poverty, and other societal ills when some schools get $20,000/year to spend per student and others get $2,000/year per student? - A time structure that is out of sync with society -- At a time when most couples must both work to survive financially, it is madness to send children to empty homes in mid-afternoon and for one-quarter of the year. - Lack of student focu

Worrying about water (and fighting over it, and creatively diverting it) is a way of life in the arid American West. However, according to reports out this week, the ever-precarious water level is nearing a breaking point where the states of the West might have to put emergency plans into place. Lake Mead, the giant reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas Nevada, is fast approaching its all-time low level of 1,083 feet set more than half a century ago. Should the level dip below 1,075, things will get serious. That will set in motion a temporary distribution plan approved in 2007 by the seven states with claims to the river and by the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and water deliveries to Arizona and Nevada would be reduced. This could mean more dry lawns, shorter showers and fallow fields in those states, although conservation efforts might help them adjust to the cutbacks. California, which has first call on the Colorado River flows in the lower basin, would not be affected. [The New York Times] T

Volcano Map Legend The sizes of symbols scale with earthquake magnitude, and their color with either the age of the earthquake or its depth, as shown in the legend below, and selected in the Control Panel. Clicking on an earthquake symbol shows its basic information and a link to a page with more details about the individual earthquake. Volcano Map Panel Using the tools in this panel you can control the earthquakes shown on the map. The minimum magnitude to plot is selected by the slider. The "Time" and "Depth" determines whether earthquake age or depth are used to color the symbol. - 1) To begin, click the "Draw" button - 2) Click a point on the map, this will be the left side of the cross-section. - 3)Click a second point on the map, this will be the right side of the cross-section. - 4) Drag square on line to include events to plot. - 5) Select plot type and depth constraint if any. - 6) Click "Plot" Events on map |Mag||Time (Local)||Depth (Km)| Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano that started to grow about h

What if Aesop's fables were actually inspired by real events? There is more and more evidence that animals have an innate sense of cooperation, empathy and justice. How do these findings change the way we see our human morality? We talk to Marc Bekoff, ethologist, and Jessica Pierce, philosopher, about their book Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals. - Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder; co-author of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals - Jessica Pierce, Associate Faculty at the University of Colorado - Boulder; co-author of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals

| GEO World| | River Jordan nearly running dry| | Updated at: 1029 PST, Monday, May 03, 2010| AMMAN: The River Jordan is in danger of disappearing altogether under pressure from huge water diversion programs, an environmental group has warned. More than 90% of the water is being diverted by Israel, Jordan and Syria, Friends of the Earth Middle East say. The group have called on the governments in the region to take immediate action to save the river. The river is also heavily polluted and now contains 20% untreated sewage, the organisation says. The river is already running dry in some areas and Friends of the Earth estimate that it could dry out completely within two years. The pollution in the Jordan flows into the Dead Sea, which itself is under threat and has shrunk by 30% in the last 50 years. Environmentalists want governments the United Nations to protect the river - a holy site for Christians, Jews and Muslims - by placing it on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Seizures: Types, Symptoms, and Treatment A seizure or convulsion happens suddenly. There's rarely any signal. Nor can the person about to have a seizure say, “Watch out! Here comes a seizure!” The person hasn't a clue that a seizure is about to occur—unless he or she has had them in the past. Symptoms can be dramatic and scary to behold (which is usually what's called a grand mal seizure), or they can be so mild that the few seconds of lost consciousness goes by without anyone being aware of it (which is called an absence or a petit mal seizure). Seizures Come in Many Sizes and Shapes There are more than 20 types of seizures, which are distinguished by determining where the electrical signaling in the brain misfired and how far the “brainstorm” spreads. If the misfiring occurs in the area of the brain that governs the movement of a particular limb, only that limb will jerk spasmodically. If the misfiring occurs in the area of the brain that controls vision or hearing, a person might suffer from hallucinations

As food prices rise and the economy continues to falter, finding nutritious, affordable foods is a challenge. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has published a free booklet “Good Food on a Tight Budget” to help American families put healthy food on the table. You can download this free recipe and grocery shopping guide, which lists the 100 best foods that are good for you, economical, simple to prepare and good for the planet. Using the Good Food guide will help families eat healthy while staying within a budget. “Putting good food on your family’s table on a $5-or-$6-dollar-a-day budget is tough, but it’s possible,” said co-author Dawn Undurraga, EWG nutritionist and registered dietitian. “When shoppers fill their grocery carts with the foods on EWG’s lists, they’ll be doing something good for their health and the environment, meanwhile lowering their grocery bills and exposures to the worst chemicals.” To create the “Good Food on a Tight Budget” guide, EWG assessed nearly 1,200 foods and hand-picked the

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680) Drawing in red chalk, background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso) 14 5/16 x 9 5/8 in. (36.4 x 24.5 cm) Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower right of recto: G. L. Bernini; at upper center of verso: Lorenzo Bernini Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1973 (1973.265) This rough and hasty sketch effectively depicts the sea deity Triton as he rises from the sea and raises the huge shell to his lips. The moment depicted could be that described by Ovid in the Metamorphoses when, after the great flood, Neptune summoned Triton from the depths to sound his horn and make the waters retreat. The sketch corresponds closely to the finished fountain in Piazza Barberini in Rome, where water gushes forth from the conch shell and spills down into the shell-shaped basin in which the Triton sits, raised aloft by intertwined dolphins.

The Physics Factbook™ Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students An educational, Fair Use website topic index | author index | special index The purpose of this analysis is to determine the evolution of gravity in the Mario video game series as video game hardware increases. Gravity is force which is responsible for keeping us on the ground. It is also the force that prohibits us from jumping 50 feet in the air. However, in Mario's world, gravity does not quite work that way. Mario is able to jump 5 times his height and fall with accelerations that would be deadly to humans. We will find Mario's acceleration due to gravity by using the formula s = s0 + v0t + ½ at2 where s is the distance he falls, s0 is his initial distance, which is 0, v0 is his initial vertical velocity, which is also 0, a is his acceleration due to gravity, and t is the time it takes for him to fall. When we solve this formula for a, we get a = 2s / t2 First, you must find the time it took Mario to fall from the edge of the ledge to

The transportation sector is responsible for an enormous amount of pollution, from fuel extraction and processing to greenhouse gas emissions and smog. Thankfully, old and new technologies alike can help us clean up our footprint as we get from here to there. Here are three options to consider. 1. Cargo Bike A cool trend in green transportation is the use of cargo bikes (sometimes called pedicabs), mainly in cities. The idea is that pedal power transports people or bins of cargo (see photo above) — meaning goods can be delivered and people can get around without the use of fuel. Some companies that operate locally are even delivering their goods with bike power. You can create your own cargo bike by hooking a small cart to the back of your bicycle. You can take your recycling to the recycling center or take trips to the store or farmers market and transport your goods home without relying on a vehicle. To learn much more about this trend, see Cargo Bikes and Pedicabs. 2. Commuter Bicycle To make your daily co

Brazil is Germany's most important partner in South America, so maintaining cooperative relations between the two countries is a special priority. During the science year, Germany and Brazil will break new ground in their scientific cooperation, particularly in promising fields of the natural sciences and technology. The areas of sustainability research, environmental research and technology, production technology, biotechnology, renewable energy and energy efficiency have already been chosen as the top priorities on the joint agenda. The Brazilian side has also expressed a strong interest in strengthening cooperation in the areas of space research, nanotechnology, engineering and science communication. The two countries plan to intensify their relations primarily through new bilateral projects and an increased number of student and researcher exchanges. This will strengthen the international competitiveness of both Brazil and Germany and enhance the potential of both research locations. A large number of sci

order of magnitude noun pl. orders of magnitude - An estimate of size or magnitude expressed as a power of ten: Earth's mass is of the order of magnitude of 1022 tons; that of the sun is 1027 tons. - A range of values between a designated lower value and an upper value ten times as large: The masses of Earth and the sun differ by five orders of magnitude. Learn more about order of magnitude

By Understanding And Applying The Different Business Ratios, Financial Ratios & Ratio Analysis You Are In Control Of Your Business Business Ratios & Financial Ratios Business Ratios are mathematical relationships between various balance sheet and income statement items. Ratio analysis, which relates balance sheet and income statement items to one another, permits the charting of a firms history and the evaluation of its present position. What one ratio will not indicate, another may. Also, a relation vaguely suggested by one ratio may be corroborated by another For these reasons, it is often useful to calculate a number of different ratios; however, in doing the analysis, use only those ratios that are meaningful for the particular company being analyzed. Four Types of Ratios Liquidity Ratios - measure firm's ability to meet current obligations - Current Ratio- CA / CL, should be >1:1 Even if the current ratio appears adequate, a cash shortage could occur if large current liabilities come due before receivabl

Most patients are placed in a splint or walking boot based on the injury pattern. Ankle sprains are most frequently treated without surgery. Initial rehabilitation consists of rest, ice, compression (elastic wrap) and protected weight bearing. For mild sprains, patients should discontinue the use of crutches as soon as they can tolerate full weight on the ankle. Physical therapy consists of range of motion, exercises with isometrics and proprioceptive retraining. Bracing or taping are used when patients need to immediately return to their sport. For mild sprains taping and bracing can be discontinued three to four weeks upon returning to their sport. For more involved sprains, bracing or taping programs and supervised rehabilitation programs are continued for six months. A year after the injury, occasional intermittent pain is present in up to 40 percent of patients. Surgery is not usually necessary for ankle sprains, but can be recommended for patients with excessive hyper- mobility of the ankle joint. Ankle

Search Course Communities: Course Topic(s): Ordinary Differential Equations | Graphic Methods Four different applets for graphing solutions to systems of equation. Includes two variations on 2d systems, one 3d system applet, and an applet addressing bifurcation (both saddle-node and Hopf) Help files are available. Some, but not all, applets have theory pages that explain what you are seeing. To rate this resource on a 1-5 scheme, click on the appropriate icosahedron: Creator(s): Markus Unterweger Contributor(s): Markus Unterweger and Alexander Ostermann This resource was cataloged by Andrew BennettPublisher: University of Innsbruck This review was published on June 28, 2011 Be the first to start a discussion about this resource.

Children and youth with disabilities. Children and youth from ages 3 through 21, inclusive, who require special education and related services because they have disabilities as defined in section 602(3) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Section 602(3) defines "a child with a disability" as one with mental retardation, hearing impairments (including deafness), speech or language impairments, visual impairments (including blindness), serious emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairments, autism, traumatic brain injury, other health impairments, or specific learning disabilities who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services. The term children and youth with disabilities may also include, at a state's discretion, individuals aged 3 through 9 who (1) are experiencing developmental delays, as defined by the State and as measured by appropriate instruments and procedures, in one or more of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development, communication develop

|Looking east from the YMCA tower in Jerusalem in 1933. What is in the picture?| Prominent in the foreground is the King David Hotel. In the background are the Mount of Olives and Mount Scopus. The two large synagogues were blown up in 1948 after the Old City and Jewish Quarter fell to the Jordanian Legion. |Enlargement of the three domes: Hurva, Tiferet| Yisrael and al Aqsa |The two synagogues with the Hurva on the right| (Library of Congress collection, 1900) The two synagogues were prominently featured in the other pictures taken around 1900. |The two synagogues, with Tiferet Yisrael on | In 1949, the city of Jerusalem was riven by an armistice lines with barbed wires, walls, and border crossings. It remained split until 1967 when the city was reunited in the "Six-Day War." Click on the photos to enlarge. Click on the captions to see the originals. The same view today |Google Earth view today of the area in the 1933 American Colony picture| Subscribe online by visiting www.israeldailypicture.com and enter

Paul Revere's Ride "Paul Revere's Ride" (1860) is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It was later retitled "The Landlord's Tale" in the collection Tales of a Wayside Inn. The poem is spoken by the landlord of the Wayside Inn and tells a partly fictionalized story of Paul Revere. In the poem, Revere tells a friend to prepare signal lanterns in the Old North Church to inform him if the British will attack by land or sea. He would await the signal across the river in Charlestown and be ready to spread the alarm throughout Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The unnamed friend climbs up the steeple and soon sets up two signal lanterns, informing Revere that the British are coming by sea. Revere rides his horse through Medford, Lexington, and Concord to warn the patriots. Composition and publication history L

1960 - RomeThe Paralympics are inspired by Dr Ludwig Guttmann's Stoke Mandeville Games Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German-born neurologist, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organised physical activities for the disabled and is credited as the man who founded the Paralympic Games. As director of the National Spinal Injuries Centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Guttmann was convinced that sport was an excellent method of therapy for those with a physical disability as sport helps to build physical strength and self-respect. Guttmann decided to create a competitive sporting environment for those with a physical disability to participate in and on July 29th 1948, he organised a sports competition for British World War II veteran patients with spinal cord injuries. The start of these Stoke Mandeville Games was organised to coincide with the opening of the London 1948 Summer Olympics. The Games were held again at the same location in 1952 and this time Dutch veterans took part alongside the British

int WidthInInches(int feet); // Initialize variables by calling functions. int feet = WidthInFeet(); int wd = WidthInInches(feet); // Display results. std::cout << "Width in inches = " << wd; std::cout << "Enter width in feet: "; std::cin >> feet; int WidthInInches(int feet) return feet * 12; I'm a new to C++ and I understand that it reads up to down. However, I don't understand how the last part could return a number and then that number is returned to the out line in the main function. Can someone please explain this?

"Whither You Go I Shall Go": Merchant and Whaling Wives Sea travel was a rough and desolate life for the men of the crew. For the wife of a sea captain, it was even more confining and socially isolated. Wives were not free to roam the ship or associate with the crew. Much of the time they were expected to remain below decks in the cabin. Their work on the ship's behalf included helping with navigation, making sails, and assisting their husbands with keeping the logbook and accounts. And, of course, they bore and raised children. A few of these women left a rich record of their voyages in journals, letters, or diaries. For many others whose words have been lost, objects gathered from their travels help us to fill in the picture of what life on board must have been like. Mary Patten: A Heroine of the Seas Mary Patten was newly married and barely out of her teens when she set out with her husband, Joshua, on the clipper ship Neptune's Car, bound for California. During the voyage, Joshua taught Mary navigation, m

Paperback: £12.99 / $18.95 2011, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 112pp ISBN: 978-1-84905-186-6, BIC 2: JKSG Losing the ability to communicate can be a frustrating and difficult experience for people with dementia, their families and carers. As the disease progresses, the person with dementia may find it increasingly difficult to express themselves clearly, and to understand what others say. Written with both family and professional carers in mind, this book clearly explains what happens to communication as dementia progresses, how this may affect an individual's memory, language and senses, and how carers might need to adapt their approach as a result. Advocating a person-centred approach to dementia care, the author describes methods of verbal and non-verbal communication, techniques for communicating with people who can not speak or move easily, and strategies for communicating more effectively in specific day-to-day situations, including at mealtimes, whilst helping the person with dementia to bathe or dres

NIST 'Catch and Release' Program Could Improve Nanoparticle Safety Assessment From NIST Tech Beat: June 7, 2011 Contact: Chad Boutin Depending on whom you ask, nanoparticles are, potentially, either one of the most promising or the most perilous creations of science. These tiny objects can deliver drugs efficiently and enhance the properties of many materials, but what if they also are hazardous to your health in some way? Now, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found* a way to manipulate nanoparticles so that questions like this can be answered. The team has developed a method of attracting and capturing metal-based nanoparticles on a surface and releasing them at the desired moment. The method, which uses a mild electric current to influence the particles' behavior, could allow scientists to expose cell cultures to nanoparticles so that any lurking hazards they might cause to living cells can be assessed effectively. The method also has the advantage of collecting t

The world’s water situation is dire. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.5 billion people do not have access to clean water—that’s almost one in four people. Four million people die of water-related diseases each year. Diarrhea is the second largest cause of child mortality in the world and kills up to 1,600 people a day. As a result of unsafe water, diarrhea and upper respiratory infections kill 3.5 million children under the age of 5. World Water Day is in less than two weeks, and this issue focuses on the challenges of providing clean water and quality healthcare to those who need it most. WHO estimates that out-of-pocket, point-of-care expenditures account for more than 70% of healthcare spending in India. This can continue the cycle of poverty. Read more about Arogya Parivar, a rural healthcare business catering to the bottom of the pyramid. This is one initiative aiming to solve that problem. Currently, the program reaches 50 million rural Indians with plans to expand to 350 million in

Definitions of incendiary n. - Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property. 2 n. - A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. 2 a. - Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime. 2 a. - Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. 2 The word "incendiary" uses 10 letters: A C D E I I N N R Y. No direct anagrams for incendiary found in this word list. Words formed by adding one letter before or after incendiary (in bold), or to acdeiinnry in any order: t - tyrannicide All words formed from incendiary by changing one letter Browse words starting with incendiary by next letter

Verifying the Solution to an Inequality ... by Substituting? by Checking Boundaries? Date: 04/28/2010 at 22:02:02 From: J.C. Subject: I'm confused with inequalities. 4 - 2/3b < 3 - 1/3b verify? O.K. I am totally confused. I have to solve this inequality, show my work, and then verify it: 4 - (2/3)b < 3 - (1/3)b I think I somewhat understand how to solve it ... but I have no idea how to verify it. Here's what I did: 4 - (2/3)b < 3 - (1/3)b Multiplied the fractions (2/3)b and (1/3)b by their lowest common denominator (3) below 3(2/3b) = (6/3)b Simplified 6/3b = 2b 3(1/3b) = (3/3)b Simplified = 3(1/3b) = 1b 4 - 2b < 3 - 1b Substituted those simplified fractions 2b + 1b < 3 - 4 Transposed, by switching the sides of the expression 1b and the quantity 4, and then changing their signs 3b < -1 3b / 3 < -1 / 3 Divided both sides by 3 b < -1/3 Normally with equations, to verify the answer I just replace the variable with what I found out the variable to be. For example, if I had to solve for x in some equation, and fou

From Esther to AIPAC "In certain contexts, memory can be subversive; in others, memory can shield the status quo. When individuals and communities become vested with memory as a form of identity and specialness, then other suffering threatens to displace the centrality of our experience. Instead of a bridge of solidarity to others who are suffering in the present, suffering in the past can become a badge of honour, protecting us from the challenges that are before us. Then our witness, originally powerful, opening questions about God and power, becomes diluted, can be seen as fake, contrived, even wilfully so. An industry grows up around you, honours you, and at the same time uses your witness for other reasons. In the end a confusion results, externally and internally, until the witness himself can no longer differentiate between the world of interpretation he helped articulate and the world that now speaks in his name. Is this what happened to Wiesel, or is Finkelstein’s more acerbic analysis accurate?" Jew

Reading with the family - Posted by Adele Walsh | - Saturday 27 October 2012, 12:45 AM (EST) Top tips for parents from the Centre for Youth Literature As parents, most of us fondly remember nursery rhymes and sharing picture books. But what happens once your child grows up and gets too big for bedtime stories? We know that some children's interest and enjoyment in reading declines once reading programs are instituted and competition for attention increases. So what is the solution? Here are some practical ideas to help your child read for pleasure as they get older. Think about the key pillars of reading time: - the story - the reflection - the experience. These aspects don't change as your child develops, only the way you go about it. Be open to reading different forms of story, from books, comics and graphic novels to newspapers and games. Ensure the title taps into your child's interests - rather than choosing books based on your child's age or gender, make choices based on their hobbies. Think about which

Mexico is a nation with a very strong Catholic identity, yet for over 70 years during the 20th century the Catholic Church was actually outlawed: not allowed to own property, run schools, convents or monasteries, have more than a certain number of priests (and no foreign priests), nor defend itself publicly or in the courts. It was hardly allowed to exist. According to historian Jim Tuck, “This was not separation of church and state: it was complete subordination of church to state”. Following 1940, enforcement of these restrictions gradually lessened, but it was not until 1992 that the Church was restored as a legal entity in Mexico. During the period of the strictest enforcement of these draconian laws beginning with the rule of President Calles in the late 1920s, Mexicans were often imprisoned for wearing religious items, saying “Adios” in public (which literally means “with God”), or even questioning the laws. Public worship was a crime punishable by hanging or firing squad. (In fact, this week – May 21 –

March 16, 2011 New monitoring system uses Google Earth to protect endangered archeological sites The platform, dubbed the Global Heritage Network (GHN - ghn.globalheritagefund.org), relies on high resolution satellite imagery and detailed maps of 500 key archeological and cultural heritage sites in developing countries around the world. Threats are reported by people in the field, including local communities, researchers, authorities, and volunteers. Umma, Iraq – Massive Looting of Sumerian Cities 2003-2010. Outlined and cross-hatched area is Total Area Looted as of 2010 since the Iraq war began in March, 2003. (DigitalGlobe and GHF) "With major threats such as the armed conflict endangering nearby Preah Vihear Temple on the contested Thai-Cambodian border, an early warning system for heritage sites is clearly needed to focus national and world attention and generate rapid responses to loss and destruction of global heritage." GHN uses scientific mapping from Esri and satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe to po

Cancer Support Community would like to thank Dr. Avery for all of his time and efforts on the wonderful educational programs he's presented for our participants over the years and send Dr Avery and his wife Carol best wishes on their upcoming move out of state! Vitamin D in Health and Disease Robert Avery MD, FACP Good habits are essential to good health, don’t smoke, exercise, and follow a good diet full of fruits and vegetables while limiting animal fat and red meat. Supplemental vitamins have not been found to prevent any diseases and the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society both recommend against taking supplemental anti-oxidant vitamins. They recommend a good diet, but what about vitamin D? What is vitamin D? It is not a vitamin at all but a secosteroid hormone that is essential for bone health and for the prevention of many other diseases. Only certain foods contain vitamin D, these include fatty fish and supplemented dairy products. The best source of vitamin D is the SUN. The sun

14th Army (Soviet Union) |Size||three to six divisions| |Part of||Northern Front, Karelian Front| |Engagements||Winter War, Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation| |Valerian A. Frolov| The 14th Army (Ist formation) was formed in October 1939 in the Leningrad Military District. It participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, during which its 52nd and 104th Rifle Divisions fought in the Battle of Petsamo. From 24 June 1941 the Army included - 42nd Rifle Corps (Ist Formation 22 June 1941, disbanded 14 October 1941; was used to reinforce the Kandalksha operational group) - 14th Rifle Division - 52nd Rifle Division - 1st Tank Division - 23rd Murmansk Fortified Region - 1st Mixed Air Division (disbanded February 1942) - 258th Fighter Aviation Division was formed from the Air Forces of the 14th Army in 1942 - a number of artillery and other units The Army was initially subordinated to the Northern Front and conducted defensive operations on the Murmansk, Kandalaksha and Ukhtinsk directions against the German-Finnish Operation Silver

Motion Characteristics for Circular Motion Improve your problem- solving skills with problems, answers and solutions from The Calculator Pad.Flickr Physics Visit The Physics Classroom's Flickr Galleries and enjoy a visual overview of the topic of circular motion. The Uniform Circular Motion activity from the Shockwave Studios is an excellent accompaniment for this reading.The Laboratory Looking for a lab that coordinates with this page? Try the Making the Turn Lab from The Laboratory.Curriculum Corner Learning requires action. Give your students this sense-making activity from The Curriculum Corner. Speed and Velocity Any moving object can be described using the kinematic concepts discussed in Unit 1 of The Physics Classroom. The motion of a moving object can be explained using either Newton's Laws (Unit 2 of The Physics Classroom) and vector principles (Unit 3 of The Physics Classroom) or by means of the Work-Energy Theorem (Unit 5 of The Physics Classroom). The same concepts and principles used to describe a

Click on reflection page to download. - your teaching becomes more like research - learning along side the children - attention is given to those areas that might otherwise be overlooked - the social and emotional climate of the classroom is addressed daily - teaching becomes more responsive to the children's current learning needs - you will develop an more observant eye in the classroom - To make your own journal - print out how many pages as you will need till the end of the school year. - Hole punch the pages and put them into a notebook. - Use this notebook to keep your thoughts and feelings about how your year is going. I keep mine at home as it can be very personal and I would not want just anyone reading what I write. This way I am free to express feelings of doubt and celebration! I do have a stack at school just in case I am feeling the need to capture my thoughts right after school.

Henricia pumila Eernisse et al., 2010 Common name(s): Dwarf mottled henricia; mottled henricia |Synonyms: Cribrella laeviuscula var. crassa?, Henricia leviuscula variety F| |Henricia pumila from Sares Head, ray length 18 mm; diameter of central disk 5 mm.| |(Photo by: Dave Cowles, August 2010 )| The specific epithet pumila means dwarf. This species probably corresponds to at least some of the individuals described by Fisher (1911) as H. leviuscula variety F. How to Distinguish from Similar Species: Most other Henricia do not have a mottled aboral side, broadcast spawn their eggs rather than brood them, have longer rays and a ratio between ray (R) length to inter-ray disk radius (r) of more than 5. Geographical Range: The type specimen is from San Juan Island, WA. This is the only small, brooding Henricia in the Puget Sound area. Full range probably from Sitka, Alaska to upwelling areas in Baja California, but does not appear to inhabit southern California south of Point Conception. Biology/Natural History: Th

Although it looks a lot like a house cat, this feline is actually an elusive Bolivian species called the oncilla. This photo, which just won BBC Wildlife’s camera-trap photo competition, was taken in Madidi National Park and was the first documentation of the cat’s presence here. Capturing it on film brings the park’s confirmed cat species to six. What’s the News: After tracking baby gray catbirds with miniature radio transmitters, biologists found that cats were by far the #1 bird killer: 47 percent of the birds died at the paws of pet and feral felines (out of 80 percent that were killed by predators in general). This echoes some biologists’ view that cats are a destructive, human-assisted invasive species: “Cats are way up there in terms of threats to birds — they are a formidable force in driving out native species,” said one of the authors of the study. What’s the Context: Not So Fast: While cats were the biggest threat to birds in this study, the lead author notes that the biggest culprit for bird death

The archaeological site of Asine, a city mentioned by Homer, includes the acropolis, built upon a triangular rocky hill by the sea, the surrounding area and the hill of "Barbouna" to the west. Excavations have brought to light a settlement inhabited during the Early and Middle Helladic, the Mycenaean, the Geometric and the Archaic periods, the corresponding cemeteries as well as an important mycenaean necropolis on the "Barbouna". The walls of the acropolis with the large bastion date from the Hellenistic period (3rd century B.C.). The acropolis was reconstructed during the Byzantine times. Excavations of both the acropolis and the Mycenaean cemetery of ancient Asine were carried out by the Swedish Archaeological Mission in 1922-1930. Work was resumed from 1970 onwards by the Greek Archaeological Service and the Swedish Archaeological Institute.

With rising coyote-human conflicts and even a young Canadian woman killed by coyotes in the last year, researchers are taking a closer look at the predator. The Eastern coyote is of even more interest as they are not native to the area and tend to be larger than their Western counterparts. The biologist, Diana Prince, has been tagging coyotes with GPS trackers, watching their activity and determining where and why coyotes come into human territory. “Why were we seeing more coyotes? People were the reason,” she says. And she is now working to educate those people and get them to stop feeding coyotes, eliminate the food source that attracted them and even shoot them or trap them if they become a problem. “Keeping the fear of humans in coyotes is the way to ensure they stay in their own space.” While it’s been a tough sell for some nature lovers that enjoyed seeing coyotes in their yards, Prince tells them it’s better for the coyotes in the end too. The story of the demise of one pack Prince tracked is evidence.

Hurler syndrome is a rare, inherited disease of metabolism in which a person cannot break down long chains of sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (formerly called mucopolysaccharides). Hurler syndrome belongs to a group of diseases called mucopolysaccharidoses, or MPS. Alpha-L-iduronate deficiency; Mucopolysaccharidosis type I; MPS I H Causes, incidence, and risk factors Persons with Hurler syndrome do not make a substance called lysosomal alpha-L-iduronidase. This substance, called an enzyme, helps break down long chains of sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (formerly called mucopolysaccharides). These molecules are found throughout the body, often in mucus and in fluid around the joints. Without the enzyme, glycosaminoglycans build up and damage organs, including the heart. Symptoms can range from mild to severe. Hurler syndrome is inherited, which means that your parents must pass the disease on to you. Both parents need to pass down the faulty gene in order for you to develop Hurler syndrome.

(CNN) -- Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic. Barry Smit, a professor at the University of Guelph, Canada, has spent five years leading research projects into how melting ice and changes in wildlife habits are impacting the lives and livelihoods of far northern communities. Among his most striking findings was that increasing difficulty in hunting for traditional food was leading to much more junk food in the Inuit diet. "People looking at the health of the Inuit have demonstrated that the traditional diet, which is almost exclusively raw meat, is in fact very healthy for them," Smit said. "But because of the new difficulties hunting, people are adapting their diets to what's available in the stores. "The stores only have food that's easy to transport and doesn't perish, so there are no vegetables. The young people are increasingly eating highly processed junk food, so we are seeing more tee

Become a fan of h2g2 There are currently 57 Offices of the Inspector General (OIG) in various Executive departments and agencies of the US Federal government. The OIGs were established by the Inspector General Act of 1978 to investigate waste, fraud and abuse. They investigate both criminal and civil matters. 28 OIGs have special agents, who are law enforcement officers who carry weapons and have the power of arrest. The scope of most OIGs is generally fairly narrow, and is limited to fraud investigation and executive protection for the head of their parent organisation. However, that responsibility can reach further than one might expect - for instance, the Department of Agriculture OIG investigates welfare fraud and employs 217 agents. Some OIGs simply fulfil their traditional role, while another agency in that department performs the primary law enforcement role. In the United States Postal Service, the OIG investigates fraud against the service, while the US Postal Inspection Service investigates crimes t

Mental Mondays: Adjust For The Wind The general rule for dealing with breezes is to add or subtract one club for each 10 mph of wind. The trick is knowing just how fast the wind is blowing. The Beaufort Wind speed scale can give you an idea of wind speed: Wind Speed: Indicators 4 - 7 mph :Win felt on exposed skin. Leaves rustle, vanes begin to move. 8 - 12 mph :Leaves and small twigs constantly moving, light flags extended. 13 - 17 mph :Dust and loose paper raised. Small branches begin to move. 18 - 24 mph: Branches of a moderate size move. Small trees in leaf begin to sway. 25 - 30 mph: Large branches in motion. Whistling heard in overhead wires. Umbrella use becomes difficult. Empty plastic garbage cans tip over 31 - 38 mph: Whole trees in motion. Effort needed to walk against the wind. Anything Faster: You shouldn’t be on the course. So, with twigs and small branches moving, add one club. If larger branches are swaying add two. It’s important to notice not only how things are on the ground, but also what’s

Follow Us on Facebook Get updates from FaveCrafts.com posted directly to your News Feed. Contour Line Drawings Convert to Warhol Like Prints By: Carol Hebert for Sargent Art We are adding the craft to your Craft Projects. The project was added to your Craft Projects. Target Grade: 9-12 Goal (Terminal Objective): The student will successfully print a patterned composition appropriated from a blind contour line drawing with this lesson from Sargent Art. Two portions of drawing will be transferred to and etched into a printing plate made from insulation sheathing. Objective: The student will use compositional concepts to appropriate two areas of a contour drawing to etch lines into a printing plate. The student will learn printmaking skills and terminology. Student will demonstrate knowledge of line quality, value, color, balance, emphasis, contrast, and pattern. Student will demonstrate knowledge of relief printing. Purpose: Students will discover pattern as a major concept in art history and become aware of pa

New York, NY, December 13, 2010—Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) relied on her diary to escape stifling work as a schoolteacher; Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) confided his loneliness and self- doubt; John Steinbeck (1902-1968) struggled to compose The Grapes of Wrath, and Bob Dylan (b. 1941) sketched his way through a concert tour. For centuries, people have turned to private journals to document their days, sort out creative problems, help them through crises, comfort them in solitude or pain, or preserve their stories for the future. As more and more diarists turn away from the traditional notebook and seek a broader audience through web journals, blogs, and social media, a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum explores how and why we document our everyday lives. Drawn from the Morgan's own extraordinary holdings, The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives is on view from January 21 through May 22, 2011. With over seventy items on view, the exhibition raises questions about this pervasive practice: wha

Set with the challenge of humanizing his race for white readers, James Weldon Johnson realized that it was not enough to create a hero who was shrewd, intelligent, and valiant. His hero also had to be a conceited ass. The anonymous narrator of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man has never encountered a skill or trade that he cannot instantly master. As a 12-year-old he discovers, after several piano lessons, that he is not merely an “infant prodigy,” but “a true artist.” Later, thanks to this “natural talent,” he becomes “a remarkable player of rag-time,” “indeed…the best rag-time player in New York”—a distinction that would place him ahead of Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. Language comes to him as easily as music. After spending a year at a cigar factory, he can speak Spanish “like a native”—“In fact, it was my pride that I spoke better Spanish than many of the Cuban workmen.” In Paris, after “an astonishingly short time,” he acquires “a more than ordinary command of French”; a few months in Berlin

The NNSA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) surpassed a critical milestone in its efforts to meet one of modern science's greatest challenges: achieving fusion ignition and energy gain in a laboratory setting. NIF's 192 lasers fired in perfect unison, delivering a record 1.875 million joules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to the facility's target chamber center. This historic laser shot involved a shaped pulse of energy 23 billionths of a second long that generated 411 trillion watts (TW) of peak power (1,000 times more than the United States uses at any instant in time). The ultraviolet energy produced by NIF (after conversion from the original infrared laser pulse to the final ultraviolet light) was 2.03 MJ before passing through diagnostic instruments and other optics on the way to the target chamber. As a result, NIF is now the world's first 2 MJ ultraviolet laser, generating nearly 100 times more energy than any other laser in operation. To read more about the March 15 record-breaking shot see: https://

In epistemology, rationalism is the view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification." More formally, rationalism is defined as a methodology or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive." Rationalists believe reality has an intrinsically logical structure. Because of this, rationalists argue that certain truths exist that the intellect can directly grasp. That is to say, rationalists assert that certain rational principles exist in logic, mathematics, ethics, and metaphysics that are so fundamentally true that denying them causes one to fall into contradiction. Rationalists have such a high confidence in reason that proof and physical evidence are unnecessary to ascertain truth – in other words, "there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience." Because of this belief, empiricism is one of rationalisms grea

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. ----Ralph Waldo Emerson, Worship PART I. PEACE PART II. THE JUST PEACE Part III. IMPLEMENTATION PART IV. CONCLUSION - Chapter 2: What is Peace? - 2.1. Introduction - 2.2. Peace as a Social Contract: - The Conflict Principle - The Cooperation Principle - The Gap Principle - The Helix Principle - The Second and Fourth Master Principles - 2.3. The Nature of a Social Contract: - Status Quo - Non-Status Quo - Theoretical Dimensions - In Sum - 2.4. Conceptual Levels and Dimensions of Peace: - Conceptual Levels - A Threshold - Social Levels - Crosscutting Levels) - Conceptual Dimensions - The Metalevel - Empirical Concept - Abstract Concept - 2.5. Qualities of Peace: - 2.6. Advantages of this Conceptualization PART II. THE JUST PEACE - Chapter 3: Alternative Concepts of Peace - 3.1. Introduction - 3.2. Concepts and Underlying Principles - 3.3. As a State of Nonconflict, Nonviolence, or Nonwar: - As an Absence of . . . - Historical and Contemporar

North Africa: Women at forefront of legal reform Women in North Africa have made tremendous progress in promoting and upholding their rights. Women in this region—commonly known as the Maghreb—are at the forefront of the Arab world in terms of individual rights and gender equality, and constitute models for other Arab women to follow. A number of lessons may be drawn from the inspiring experience of women in North Africa, especially in Morocco and Tunisia. Access to justice has been greatly facilitated by the new Family Courts in Morocco as necessitated by the Moroccan Family Code of 2004. When women marry, they are now able to retain ownership of their property thanks to Article 49 of the code, which allows for a separate contract on property alongside the marriage contract. This is in accordance with Islamic law, in which women may remain the sole owners of their property and have no legal obligation to share it with their husbands. In addition, mothers married to foreign nationals in Morocco and Tunisia ca

Smash and stare Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter was due to end its nearly two-year mission by smashing into the moon on 10 June. The impact site will be studied for how radiation and micrometeoroids affect newly exposed lunar soil. It will be like "watching a wound heal", says Peter Schultz of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Does TB form spores? The bug that causes tuberculosis can lurk undetected in the lungs for decades, making TB hard to treat. Now a team at Uppsala University in Sweden has found that close relatives of the TB bug form tough, dormant spores like other types of bacteria such as anthrax (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904104106). If TB also forms spores, the discovery may yield badly needed treatments. A close relative of the parasite that causes malaria has been found in two pet chimpanzees in ... To continue reading this article, subscribe to receive access to all of newscientist.com, including 20 years of archive content.

The Chronicle this week published a news analysis questioning whether the current nonstop talk over innovation in higher ed is creating a system for those who can least afford a traditional education but need it the most. The piece generated plenty of reaction in the comments, which I’d group into two opposing camps: - Face-to-face education is the established and verified mode of instruction, and any other way depersonalizes education, is uncontrolled, and most of all, is ineffective. - Using technology to supplement and, in some cases, replace face-to- face instruction helps personalize learning for students, focuses classroom time on what they haven’t already mastered, and most important, meets students where and how they learn today. As a result, traditional brick-and-mortar colleges are doomed. As usual with almost any policy debate these days, very few commenters were trying to forge a middle ground, which is desperately needed in an age of rising costs, declining public subsidies, and new ways of delive

(Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, (pronounced "H-V- A-C" is an acronym that stands for "heating, ventilation, and air conditioning". HVAC is sometimes referred to as "climate control" and is particularly important in the design of medium to large industrial and office buildings such as sky scrapers and in marine environments such as aquariums, where humidity and temperature must all be closely regulated whilst maintaining safe and healthy conditions within. In certain regions (e.g., UK) the term "Building Services" is also used, but may also include plumbing and electrical systems. Refrigeration is sometimes added to the field's abbreviation as HVAC&R or HVACR, or ventilation is dropped as HACR (such as the designation of HACR-rated circuit breakers). Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning is based on the basic principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, and to inventions and discoveries made by Sadi Carnot, and many others. The invention of the components of HVAC systems go

The Haftarah of Mattot – the first Chapter of Jeremiah – introduces the prophetic mission of Jeremiah, the prophet who foretold the destruction of the First Jewish Commonwealth and subsequently comforted and sustained his defeated nation. Like other prophets before him, Jeremiah felt he was inadequate to his assigned task. But God would accept no excuses, declaring (Jeremiah 1:5), “Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you; and before you emerged from the womb, I sanctified you; a prophet to the nations I have appointed you.” These words of God to Jeremiah raise two fundamental questions: 1) Does a person become a prophet only if God chooses him, or can he attain prophetic vision by his own efforts, through intensive study and self-improvement? 2) What happened to free will? Can’t Jeremiah, or any prophet, choose not to be a prophet? On the first of these questions, Maimonides (Rambam, 1135-1204) opines that prophecy is impossible without training, and it is only through intensive study and self-perfection

Becker's muscular dystrophy Becker's muscular dystrophy is an inherited disorder that involves slowly worsening muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis. Benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy; Becker's dystrophy Becker's muscular dystrophy is very similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, except that it gets worse at a much slower rate. The disorder is inherited. Women rarely develop symptoms. Men will develop symptoms if they inherit the defective gene. Becker's muscular dystrophy occurs in approximately 3 - 6 out of every 100,000 males. Because this is an inherited disorder, risks include having a family history of Becker's muscular dystrophy. Symptoms usually appear in men at about age 12, but may sometimes begin later. Symptoms may include: - Cognitive problems (these do not get worse over time) - Loss of balance and coordination - Muscle weakness in the arms, neck, and other areas (not as severe as in the lower body) - Muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis that slowly worsens, causing - Problems br

EU pushes for global climate change European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dima gestures during a press conference on climate change at European Union headquarters in Brussels. TEXT OF STORY KAI RYSSDAL: Former Vice President Al Gore was on Capitol Hill today. Climate change was the topic du jour. Gore pressed lawmakers to act quickly on global warming legislation, and he said the U.S. has to take "decisive action" at home if it's going to take a leadership role abroad on the subject. Specifically he was talking about a new international climate treaty said to be debated in Copenhagen, Denmark, later this year. But according to the European Union, a new global climate deal needs more than just U.S. leadership. From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, Sam Eaton reports. SAM EATON: Today the European Union floated a plan for reaching global agreement at December's UN climate talks. With the U.S. now on board, the EU has turned its attention to the next major obstacle -- getting developing nations like

First used in Pompeii, but really took off in Europe during the Renaissance. The Italian school of faux painting was loose and artistic, while the French, was formal and realistist. True marblizing should be so good that people frequently are unable to distinguish the real from the false. The techniques were perfected by the 17th century and have been used in all style of construction, well into the 20th century. The art of Marbling reached its apogee between 1845 and 1870. Some of the best examples are found in Buckingham Palace,where the pillars in the Emperors Room, were done to perfection and imitate marble. Most visitors are amazed when told they are faux. It is a process of layering tinted transparent glaze over a base coat, to create a marble like look. The glaze is manipulated while still wet, to form patterns and textures. Feathers were often used to paint the veins. About three houses ago, I visited the Missouri Governors Mansion in Jefferson City, Mo. The Double parlor was seperated by 4 floor to c

Complex Neuronal Communication Behind Jump Execution When danger looms, locusts on the ground leap and fly away. The timing and precision of that leap starts with the complex coding of visual information within a single neuron. In the current edition of the journal Neuron, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Utah uncovered three distinct features in the communication process of a sensory neuron that control distinct motor aspects of escape behavior ““ firing rate threshold, peak firing time and spike count. "This process has been studied for years but it is only now that we have been able to record firing rates of neurons in freely moving animals," said Dr. Fabrizio Gabbiani, associate professor of neuroscience at BCM. "When movement happens naturally, its relation to neuronal firing is interpreted more easily and accurately." Jump muscles in the leg Researchers at the University of Utah created a microchip used along with a digital telemetry system that allowed Haleh Fotowat, a gr

19 March 2004. Ozone protects us from solar radiation, sterilizes, and even cleans our clothes. It’s also a summer hazard in areas where its levels in surface air rise beyond safe levels. And here is a new environmental concern to ponder, if admittedly a far-fetched one at this point: If Jeffrey Kelly and colleagues are correct, ozone may precipitate formation of the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Why do amyloid peptides misfold in some people but not in others? This question is at the heart of explaining late-onset AD from a protein misfolding perspective. In this week’s PNAS online, Kelly, at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, and colleagues put forth the hypothesis that ozone can convert relatively inert lipids—cholesterol, in particular—to highly reactive aldehydes. These aldehydes can then covalently modify amino acid side chains, turning hydrophilic soluble peptides into hydrophobic insoluble ones. To find out if this theory could have any physiological significance, Kelly t

- Historic Sites A Yankee Among The War Lords First of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945 October 1970 | Volume 21, Issue 6 Tuchun’s “rabble” in any clash, but he predicted they would not be able to operate beyond Hsuchow for lack of rolling stock. They had brought none across the Yangtze, moving supplies by cart and pack animal, but as soon as they could use the railroad they would roll north with no likelihood of firm resistance. Chang Tsung-chang’s army had no fight in it, except for the Russians. “In my opinion a determined southern attack will mean Chang’s collapse.”Although deficient in armament compared to the northerners, the southern army was capable of beating the At the legation U.S. Minister J. V. A. MacMurray welcomed the first authentic information on the situation. He listened to Stilwell and read his report with “great admiration” for his “intrepid personal qualities.” General Castner gave his commendation for “the highest type of efficiency, military inte

Stalking is a crime that encompasses a variety of behaviors that may occur on or off campus or in cyberspace. Stalkers use different behaviors to establish and/or maintain contact with victims, to intimidate, and ultimately to try to control the person who is the target of their behavior. Stalkers may be current or former partners, classmates, coworkers, friends, or strangers, and most victims report that they know the stalker. Stalking may include, but is not limited to, the following types of behaviors: - repeatedly visiting or "dropping by" uninvited; - sending anonymous letters or other types of mailings such as e-mail; - making persistent phone calls with or without leaving a message; - giving unwanted gifts; - following the victim while walking, driving or taking the campus bus, to class, or in other settings; - watching and/or spying on the victim; - writing threatening comments or graffiti where the victim will see it; - showing up wherever the victim is, tracking the victim's schedule. If You Believe

Country of Origin: Italy 3-D Test: 5.1cm (2 in.) This Apollo 13 commemorative medal was designed by the Italian sculptor, Constantino Affer. The high relief on the medal's face and the absence of much content on the reverse highlight the artist's intention to make this piece of medallic art work as a miniature sculpture. The Apollo 13 mission in April 1970 was intended to be the third to land humans on the Moon. James Lovell, Jr., Fred Haise, Jr., and John Swigert, Jr. were the astronauts. Over 200,000 miles from the Earth equipment malfunctions forced the cancellation of the mission, but the astronauts were able to return safely. Space medal collector Thomas Becker donated this art medal to the Museum in 1972. Gift of Thomas Becker

Sights & Attractions - Art, Culture & Heritage - » Landmarks and Memorials - » Museums - » Historical Houses - » Historical Sites & Monuments - » Art & Craft Centres - » Art Galleries - » World War II Sites - » Royal Palace - » Archaeological - Educational places - Nature & Wildlife - Places of Worship - Recreational & Entertainment - Royal Project, Research and Development - Spas & Wellness - Suburban Living - Wineries & Breweries Samut PrakanOperating day: DailyOperating time: 08.00 - 18.00 Category : Museums Attraction Details : This three-headed elephant, Airavata was born of Khun Lek Viriyapant's ideas and imagination. It was inspired by his wish to preserve his collection of antiques as a contribution to Thai cultural heritage. Many of these were priceless objects of art they were also held as sacred objects for people of ancient cultures. According to ancient traditions they were believed to bring blessing and prosperity to the land and its people, and therefore must not be lost to outsiders. It had be

I have serious issues with the fat recommendations on this site. They are based on conventional wisdom and official government recommendations. They are not supported by the latest research. Make lower fat and healthier fat choices The following guidelines are wrong in my opinion: Lower fat food are less calorie dense Fat is more satisfying than the same calories in Carbs. Low fat foods usually have more processed carbs. Dietary fat is more likely to convert to body fat than carbohydrates or protein This ignores the hormonal effect of insulin Less tendency to over eat It's true that fat and carbs together are a calorie bomb that encourages over eating but fat and protein together in the absence of significant carbs is satisfying and does not promote over eating. Too much saturated fat may increase blood cholesterol or LDL Saturated fats raise good HDLs and large LDLs. Both are protective (or at least correlated with good health). There is no proven link between high LDLs or high total cholesterol with heart d

Individual differences | Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology | Synonyms (in ancient Greek syn 'συν' = plus and onoma 'όνομα' = name) are different words with similar or identical meanings and are interchangable. Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. (Synonym and antonym are antonyms.) In the figurative sense, two words are often said to be synonymous if they have the same connotation: - "a widespread impression that … Hollywood was synonymous with immorality" (Doris Kearns Goodwin) More examples of English synonyms: - baby and infant (noun) - student and pupil (noun) - pretty and attractive (adjective) - sick and ill (adjective) - interesting and fascinating (adjective) - quickly and speedily (adverb) Note that the synonyms are defined with respect to certain senses of words; for instance, pupil as the "aperture in the iris of the eye" is not synonymous with student. Similarly, expired as "having lost validity" (as in groce

kidney | colon | small intestine | erector spinae | psoas major | quadratus lumborum | oblique muscles | rectus abdominus | Module Name: a_vm1640 Module Title: Abdomen-Visible Human Image Info: Transverse section through the abdomen Created by: Lynn Bry Last modified: Feb 2nd, 1997 introduction=This transverse sectiion lies approximately 5cm above the umbilicus (belly button). Note the posterior location of the kidneys, and their encasement in the perirenal fat. Segments of small intestine and colon may also be seen. Small bowel can be distinguished from the colon by it's narrower bore, and smaller lumen. This particular section cuts through the ascending colon, seen on the right, the transverse colon, located in the middle, and the descending colon shown posteriorly on the left side of the body. Click on 'colon' in the key points listed below to have these features outlined in the image. Muscles of interest include the psoas major and quadratus lumborum muscles, the erector spinae muscles of the back, and th

Prunus x cistenais an oval shapedtree with purple foliage which is actually a large shrub and it is grown in full to part sun. Prunus x cistena, the Purple leaf sand cherry is a cross between Prunus pumila and Prunus cerasifera ’Atropurpurea’. The tree makes the garden or the place extremely exotic and beautiful for its purple spattering impact. Prunus x cistena also produces small candied fruits that attract many birds on it. Prunus x cistena is also grown in many nurseries for its drought resistant nature. The leaves of this phenomenal tree are reddish-purple, 2″ long, and elliptical in shape. In fall, they will turn a bronze-green. The flowers of Prunus x cistena are pink or white, and appear in April. Purple Leaf Sand Cherry – Prunus x cistena ( Image: Mike Mylenbusch ) Although Prunus x cistena the Purple leaf sand cherry can bear the harsh climatic conditions yet it need some care and pruning after the blooming of flowers in the Spring season. The good cultivators prefer the well drained soil to grow Pr

Is climate change causing the arctic food chain to unravel? By Sharon Oosthoek © Thomas Mangelsen / Minden Pictures Remi Foubert-Allen wanted to see killer whales for as long as he could remember. But he was completely unprepared when they swam past his boat in Hudson Bay near his hometown of Churchill, Manitoba. “I can’t believe I’m looking at orcas!” he shouted over the noise of his outboard motor. “Oh man, my dad is going to be so jealous.” Foubert-Allen—a zodiac driver with Sea North Tours—is understandably astonished. Killer whales in Hudson Bay were unheard of until recently. European explorers who wrote of their adventures in the area beginning in the early 1600s made no mention of the whales before 1900. But between the turn of the last century and 1960, explorers and Inuit hunters living along the bay began reporting the odd sighting—just a handful really. Since then, there has been a small but steady increase, leading to a peak of 40 sightings in the last five years. Steve Ferguson, a biologist with

Another collaborative effort by the team that created The Poet King of Tezcoco: A Great Leader of Ancient Mexico (2007) chronicles the life of a controversial figure in pre-colonial Mesoamerica. The indigenous woman who would serve as Hernán Cortés’ interpreter and companion was born in the early 1500s as Malinali and later christened Marina. She is now called La Malinche. Besides serving as translator to the Spaniard, she also gave him advice on native customs, religious beliefs and the ways of the Aztec. While Marina’s decision to help the Spanish in their often brutal quest for supremacy has led to many negative associations, others see her as the mother of all Mexicans, as she and Cortés had the first recorded mestizo. Although many of the details surrounding the specifics of Marina’s life were unrecorded, Serrano strengthens the narrative with quotations by her contemporaries and provides a balanced look at the life of a complicated, oft-maligned woman. Headers provide structure as events sometimes shift

Renewable technologies are considered as clean sources of energy and optimal use of these resources minimize environmental impacts, produce minimum secondary wastes and are sustainable based on current and future economic and social societal needs. Sun is the source of all energies. The primary forms of solar energy are heat and light. Sunlight and heat are transformed and absorbed by the environment in a multitude of ways. Some of these transformations result in renewable energy flows such as biomass and wind energy. Renewable energy technologies provide an excellent opportunity for mitigation of greenhouse gas emission and reducing global warming through substituting conventional energy sources. In this article a review has been done on scope of CO2 mitigation through solar cooker, water heater, dryer, biofuel, improved cookstoves and by hydrogen.

The Eltham Copper Butterfly, Paralucia pyrodiscus lucida, has aroused considerable attention for a number of reasons. These include its rediscovery after it was believed to be extinct, its main populations occurring in small bushland patches in the middle of suburbia and its complex interaction with a plant and an ant. Eltham Copper Butterfly Photographer: Alan Yen / Source: Museum Victoria The Eltham Copper Butterfly is a small, attractive butterfly that flies in summer. It belongs to the family Lycaenidae and like many other species of lycaenids, it has a close association with a group of ants; in this case, ants from a genus called Notoncus. The butterfly larvae live within the underground nests of Notoncus, and emerge at night to feed on their food plant, Sweet Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa). The ants protect the Eltham Copper larvae while they feed, and in return it is thought that the ants feed upon secretions from the butterfly larvae. As the Eltham Copper Butterfly larvae feed only upon Sweet Bursaria, t

VENUS IN VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET This image of Venus is comprised of visible and ultraviolet light data detected by instruments on board the Venus Express spacecraft during its first orbit around the planet on 19 April 2006. In the illuminated region (blue colour) it is possible to see interesting stripe-like structures in the planet’s atmosphere. These may be due to the presence of dust and aerosols in the atmosphere, but their true nature is still unexplained. Credit: ESA / VIRTIS / INAF-IASF / Obs.de Paris-LESIA.

A good example I have seen of accelerated learning of a skill or mastery of a skill in a short amount of time can be seen here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/01/08/the-first-time- online-enjoy-while-you-can/ While I can not say that I am at the level of Timothy Ferriss I do think there are a few things anyone can do to get the most out of developing any skill, whether it be learning an instrument, martial art, or even a language. Meditation can be a very useful aid for accelerated learning and developing any kind of skill. The most effective form I have seen is using holosync and/or Like I mentioned before relaxation and concentration are important part of learning a skill, especially at an accelerated rate. Its often said that "practice makes perfect" but "perfect practice makes perfect" is a much better motto to live by, focusing on problem areas and working through them in an intelligent manner will reap better rewards and benefits then just idle repetition and practice. Sometimes it is benefici

Holiday blues or having a joyous time of the year is a choice in most cases. About 5% suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), it is a type of depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter. This affects more people as they get further away from the equator. There are other reasons some people suffer depression or anxiety during the holidays and two common reasons are because of a traumatic event or being less fortunate in their youth. I have the opportunity to be able to use both of these excuses to be depressed during the holidays. So if we use these three reasons to justify our being depressed there are ways to overcome them, even for Seasonal Affective Disorder SAD. Whatever reasons we have for being sad there are ways to reduce or eliminate the blues that work year round. The first three tips of coping from the Mayo clinic are (shortened for space constraints): - Acknowledge your feelings. If someone close to you has recently died or you can’t be with lov