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Difference between Pediatrician and Family Doctor Almost every family has a family doctor that they routinely go to whenever a family member is ill. For families with young children however, a pediatrician is equally important. How do these two health professionals differ and what are their relative advantages and disadvantages? This comparison article explains everything. Pediatricians are medical doctors that specialize in the care and treatment of babies and young children. All pediatricians have gone through the required four years of medical school, but they should have had to go through three years of specialty training in pediatrics as well. Pediatricians will also have had to pass through a rigid qualifying exam in order to be board certified. Family doctors are health professionals that have had to go through the requisite four years of medical school as well, and three additional years of specialty training, but this time in general family health care. In addition, they will have had to undergo 150 hours of further education every three years. Training and Qualifications In addition to the aforementioned educational requirements, pediatricians will have to pass a board exam given by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Much of their additional training focuses on health care for people below 21 years of age. The clinics of these professionals as well as the personnel that staff them will be more focused on the needs of younger patients as well. In addition to the previously educational training, family doctors will have to pass a board exam given by the American Academy Of Family Physicians. These professionals are trained in providing health care to people of all ages. One of the most significant advantages of pediatricians is that they specialize only in children. This means that they are generally more familiar with health issues that children go through, and they are often better able to answer questions regarding the concerns of new parents. As for the family doctor, the most important advantage is that they are familiar with a broader range of illnesses, since they have been trained to care for adults as well as children. In addition, they are more likely to be familiar with all there members of your family, which may be beneficial in cases wherein a specific illness occurs in more than one family member. One of the potential disadvantages with a pediatrician is that he or she is less likely to recognize illnesses that are rooted in family history. The family doctor for his part has the disadvantage of having less experience in pediatrics than pediatricians. This may be an issue for first time parents, and those with specific concerns related to their children. Similarities and Differences - Medical doctors that specialize in the care and treatment of babies and young children - Have gone through the required four years of medical school and three years of specialty training in pediatrics - Have gone through four years of medical school and three additional years of specialty training in general family health care - Have to undergo 150 hours of further education every three years

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What is URI? URI : Uniform Resource Indicator. Used to access or send data in Android. Just like how we access the data stored in the web servers by using URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), Similarly we send or receive data in Android by using URI's Some of the examples for URI's: for telephone numbers we use "tel:<number>" for content stored in databases we use "content:// ...." for emails we use "email: <email>" This is similar to how we access gmail by using "http://gmail.com" Back To Top

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The OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) provides space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal anthropogenic driver of climate change. This mission uses mature technologies to address NASA's highest priority carbon cycle measurement requirement. OCO generates the knowledge needed to improve projections of future atmospheric CO2. The Observatory carries a single instrument that incorporates three classical grating spectrometers. Each spectrometer detects the intensity of radiation within a very specific narrow band at Near Infrared (NIR) wavelengths. The three spectrometers share a common structure, a cryogenic cooler, and an input telescope. The telescope consists of an 11 cm aperture, as well as a primary and a secondary mirror. The relay optics assembly includes a fold mirrors, dichromic beam splitters, band isolation filters and re-imaging mirrors. Each spectrometer consists of a slit, a two-lens collimator, a grating, and a two-lens camera. Each of the three spectrometers has an essentially identical layout. Minor differences among the spectrometers, such as the coatings, the lenses and the gratings, account for the different bandpasses that are characteristic of each channel. The focal ratios of the instrument optics range from f/1.6 to f/1.9. To implement an optically fast, high-spectral-resolution measurement system, the OCO instrument combines refractive and reflective optical techniques. Since the light in the common telescope and relay optics assembly has not yet been separated into the three distinct wavelength bands, these instrument subsystems primarily use reflective optics. On the other hand, the extremely narrow channel bandpasses make potential chromatic aberrations in the spectrometers negligible, which enables the use of refractive optics. To provide the mission with additional flexibility, the Observatory will acquire data in three different measurement modes. In Nadir Mode, the instrument views the ground directly below the spacecraft. In Glint Mode, the instrument tracks near the location where sunlight is directly reflected on the Earth's surface. Glint Mode enhances the instrument's ability to acquire highly accurate measurements, particularly over the ocean. In Target Mode, the instrument views a specified surface target continuously as the satellite passes overhead. Target Mode provides the capability to collect a large number of measurements over sites where alternative ground based and airborne instruments also measure atmospheric CO2. The OCO satellite was lost during launch as the payload fairing did not jettison. The replacement OCO-2 will be based on OCO to the extent possible. OCO-2 will be a dedicated spacecraft that carries a single instrument comprised of three high resolution grating spectrometers. The spacecraft will also be based upon the LeoStar-2 architecture. For OCO-2, also a Taurus-3110 launch vehicle has been selected, but has been dropped since, as NASA demands a recertification after another launch failure. NASA plans to develop and assemble spare materials from the successful development and launch of the OCO-2 in 2014 and host the OCO-3 instrument on the International Space Station or another space-based platform. |Type / Application:||Earth Science| |Contractors:||Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC)| |Equipment:||3 grating spectrometers| |Power:||2 deployable solar arrays, batteries| |Orbit:||708 km × 710 km, 98.21° (#2)| |OCO (ESSP 5)||2009-F01||24.02.2009||Va 576E||F||Taurus-3110| |OCO 2||2014-035A||02.07.2014||Va SLC-2W||Delta-7320-10C|

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How does Robert gray enable the reader to shape the speakers discovery and it’s concequences in “Flames and Dangling wire”?. The impact of a discovery can be far reaching and transformative for an individual and a broader society. As conveyed in Robert Gray’s poem, “Flames and Dangling Wire”, the audience is invited to discover both the grim experiences at a rubbish dump and in turn uncover the frightful vision of carelessness and environmental degradation in our world. From stanza one, we as an audience are presented with an the visual imagery of an ever burning rubbish dump. As a society, we are lead to believe that harsh environmental impacts are out of our reach, due to the far distance between us and the problem. From this oblivious mindset, we are often provoked to ignore the negative connotations, that we as humans are having on our earth, from simply being swept up in a daze of ignorance. From stanza one, we are introduced to see our world through a different perspective. We are placed mid action, in a scene where the protagonist is driving to a rubbish dump from the concrete jungle city. The protagonist is in turn, travelling from the familiar into the unfamiliar over the metaphorical border, which in turn enables him to rediscover and discover aspects of himself and in turn his surroundings. From stanza one, we are presented with an image of the distance between the rubbish dump always burning and the city, “driven like stakes into the earth..behind us”. This portraying that our waste is not in foreign locations, but in turn closer than we ever dare thought, like a predator slowly crawling towards its prey. In stanza 2, we are confronted with visual imagery of “Fog over the hot sun”. Unclear, and unable to see our true source of light, Gray references both our destruction of natural elements in life and in turn the suspension in horror films, where the moon is blanketed by a heap of clouds, to allow the true monsters to come out in the dark of night. In this situation, we are the “shadowy figures”, however we are not only out in the dark but also during the day. Further on in stanza 3 of the 7 line stanza, Gray introduces us to a hellish imagery. “Forking over rubbish on the dampened fires”, we as an audience are immediately engaged, due to the rubbish personifying us as people, being thrown into the fires by our own enemy “The devil”.

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Practicing and sharing a neoaboriginal lifeway—a synthesis of the experience and wisdom accrued over the past seven million years with evidence from contemporary scientific research—to foster awareness, connection, health, and self-reliance. Welcome to the web site of Arthur Haines and the Delta Institute of Natural History, a source for wild food and medicine instruction, primitive living skills mentoring, New England plant taxonomy and nomenclature, and natural history lessons. A major focus of the Delta Institute of Natural History is developing self-reliance that promotes awareness and eco-conscientiousness. This necessitates drawing on technologies that were first perfected many millennia ago, in some cases, prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a species. These technologies, often referred to as primitive skills or ancestral life ways, are the only technologies that have demonstrated they are sustainable. Further, they nourished and healed the body, produced a healthy and vital next generation, and promoted connection to the landscape (rather than distinction from). These outcomes were accomplished through an education system that fostered the development of important human characteristics, beginning with the perfection of nature-based skills, and progressing to thoughtful practices, ceremony, and, ultimately, service beyond self. Connect with the Delta Institute to understand how these skills are effective, timely, and rejuvenative.

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By submitting your personal information, you agree that TechTarget and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content, products and special offers. The NEC supercomputer, comprising 30 NEC SX-6 nodes, will be built in the Met Office's new purpose-built offices in Exeter in two major phases, said Joerg Stadler, NEC spokesman for the European Supercomputer Systems division. The first phase of the installation is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2003, Stadler said. The NEC supercomputer will be capable of doing eight billion calculations per second on a single processor, and will have eight processors per node, or cabinet, with a total of 240 processors, Stadler said. Each node is capable of 64 billion calculations per second, a capacity that can be further increased when the nodes are connected together, Stadler said. "What NEC is building is a very specialised tool with custom-built erector processors for number crunching. It is a totally NEC-designed system, the largest we have built outside of Japan," Stadler added. The Met Office focuses on global weather and weather forecasts, as well as environmental sciences, such as hydrology and oceanography, and looks into the impacts of the weather on the environment, according to its Web site. The NEC supercomputer will replace the Met Office's two specialised supercomputers, both Cray T3Es, and will be six times more powerful than the two Cray computers combined, Stadler said. The computer upgrade will allow the Met Office to use higher-resolution models with improved computational and physical processing, allowing for increased accuracy in both short-term and long-term weather forecasts, the Met Office said. "The computer will gather data from weather stations from all over the world at very high speeds and will quickly be able to predict how the atmosphere will behave. The high-throughput performance of the SX-6 series comes from using the highest speed dynamic RAM (DRAM) available and large-scale integrated circuit (LSI) technology, both of which are state of the art," Stadler said. Last month, NEC's Earth Simulator supercomputer was named by the 17th International Supercomputer Conference in Germany, as the world's fastest supercomputer. The Earth Simulator is capable of 35 teraflops, or 25 million calculations per second and knocked last year's number one, IBM's Asci White (capable of seven teraflops per second), into second place. It was developed with the Japan Marine Science and Technology Federation to make predictions about the future of the earth's climate and crust. "There is no doubt, IBM is clearly our largest competitor in the supercomputer market and though Compaq has been making some powerful systems, it has always been a NEC-IBM battle. But I do admit, IBM has the most supercomputer systems actually out on the market," Stadler said. According to Stadler, what sets NEC and IBM apart is the different philosophies the companies hold about supercomputing. "We use specialised computers whereas IBM uses general purpose computers for supercomputing. As a result, the peak theoretical performance at any one time of an IBM supercomputer is 5% to 10% while for NEC it is 30% to 60%. That means the price performance is better on our machines," Stadler said. The cost of the Met Office supercomputer includes hardware, support on the software side and maintenance. Stadler expects installation will require an on-site hardware crew of three NEC employees, though that has yet to be finalised. When the final upgrade is completed in 2004, the NEC supercomputer will be 12.5 times more powerful than what the Met Office uses now, Stadler said.

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Some cite elevated rates of obesity and rising maternal age, which both increase the C-section risk. Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress. According to new figures, the scale of the obesity crisis in the UK has been underestimated. The ‘obesity Epidemic’ Hits Coachella So do ‘Regis and the Philbins’ and several other made-up bands. This highly successful program reduces both hunger and obesity, and has prevented more than 500,000 babies from dying at birth. He was now nearly sixty, wearied by adversity, and a sufferer from gout and obesity. But bear in mind that obesity and stoutness are not synonymous terms. They were of an eagle-brown colour, and many of them appeared well conditioned, even to obesity. The Polynesian is more subject to obesity than the Melanesian. It is to this period, we suppose, we must refer his testimony to his own obesity in his "Epistle to my Lady Coventry." obesity o·be·si·ty (ō-bē'sĭ-tē) The condition of being obese; increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of fat.

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World Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug Policy Reforms Recommendations Also Include Harm Reduction Measures and Banning Compulsory Treatment Statement from Ethan Nadelmann: U.S. Drug Policy Should Reflect WHO’s Health-Based Recommendations In a report published earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a clear call for broad drug policy reforms, including decriminalization of drug use, harm reduction practices such as syringe exchange and opioid substitution therapy, and a ban on compulsory treatment for people who use drugs. This report by the United Nations’ leading health agency focuses on best practices to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV among key populations. “It’s good to see the WHO come out so strongly for decriminalizing drugs and rejecting compulsory treatment for people who use drugs,’ said Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Its recommendations, grounded as they are in science and public health, drive home the need for fundamental reforms in U.S. drug policies, in particular the growing reliance on drug courts to ‘treat’ people arrested for drug possession.” In a section titled “Good practice recommendations concerning decriminalization”, the WHO report makes the following recommendations: - Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize injection and other use of drugs and, thereby, reduce incarceration. - Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize the use of clean needles and syringes (and that permit NSPs [needle and syringe programmes]) and that legalize OST [opioid substitution therapy] for people who are opioid-dependent. - Countries should ban compulsory treatment for people who use and/or inject drugs. This follows on the heels of a report released in March by a key working group of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) discouraging criminal sanctions for drug use. The recommendations of the working group – which included Nora Volkow, head of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – highlight that “criminal sanctions are not beneficial” in addressing the spectrum of drug use and misuse. In 2016, the United Nations General Assembly will hold a special session on drugs (UNGASS) – an initiative proposed in 2012 by the then-president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon – in order to conduct a comprehensive review of the successes and failures of international drug control policy. Whereas the previous UNGASS in 1998 was dominated by rhetorical calls for a “drug-free world” and concluded with unrealistic goals regarding illicit drug production, the forthcoming UNGASS will undoubtedly be shaped by recommendations such as those in the WHO report. Last year, Uruguay followed on the heels of Colorado and Washington State and became the first country to legally regulate marijuana for recreational purposes. In June, the West Africa Commission on Drugs, initiated by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and chaired by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasango, called for drug decriminalization and for treating drug use as a health issue. This was followed by an announcement by the Jamaican Minister of Justice that the Jamaican Cabinet had approved a proposal to decriminalize the possession of up to two ounces of marijuana and the decriminalization of marijuana use for religious, scientific and medical purposes. And earlier this month, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), agreed to establish a commission to review marijuana policy in the region in order to assess the need for reforms to marijuana laws. The WHO recommendations are consistent with the long-standing policy objectives and mission of the Drug Policy Alliance, as well as with a surprisingly broad and rapidly-emerging coalition of stakeholders who are calling for drug decriminalization, including the American Public Health Association, International Red Cross, Organization of American States, NAACP, Human Rights Watch, National Latino Congreso, and the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Contact: Tony Newman (646) 335-5384 or Hannah Hetzer (917) 701-7060

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According to Chris Goodall in the new edition of ‘How to live a low carbon life’, a typical electric kettle uses a surprising amount of energy – about 150 Kwh/year. That is about 4% of the total electricity consumed in the home.(1) The problem of overfilling “If everybody boiled just the amount of water they needed for just one day, we could save enough energy to light every street lamp in the UK the following night.” Go Make a Difference(2) People often boil about twice as much water as they need and many kettles only boil a minimum of half a litre or more.(5) Kettles which help people use the right amount of water are therefore a step forward. The ECO Kettle, for example, has two compartments and you can release as little as one cup of water from one compartment to the other to be boiled. The Breville Hot Cup and Tefal Quick Cup are ‘hot water dispensers’ which also limit the amount of water that you boil at one time. Increasingly other electric kettles are being marketed as ‘Energy Efficient’ or ‘Energy Saving’ because they have a water level indicator that helps you to boil only a cupful at a time. Most new kettles now have 3kW heating elements rather than 2kW. Although this means that boiling a litre of water will use the same amount of energy, it will be one minute quicker. There is therefore less incentive not to overfill the kettle so as to reduce the boiling time. On the plus side, most electric kettles now have heating elements which are concealed by a stainless steel plate. This means you can put in just what you need rather than having to make sure you’ve covered the element. Another reason why we overfill new kettles is their shape, according to Chris Goodall.(1) The current fashion is for jug kettles to no longer be cylindrical but wider at the bottom which means that the minimum fill is greater. Chris Goodall argues that it’s important to fill your kettle accurately, de-scale it regularly to keep it energy efficient and boil it only once. Kettles with variable temperature settings will also save energy. Herbal teas and fresh coffee are meant to taste better when made with water just below boiling point. Morphy Richards’ Ecolectric and Intelliboil kettles and the ECO3 Kettle all have variable temperature settings. Green Electric Kettles - All the ECO Kettle models and the Tefal Quick Cup are Energy Saving Trust recommended. - ECO3 Kettle and Morphy Richards’ Intelliboil kettles both have variable temperature control and one cup water level indicator. Gas hob kettles According to Chris Goodall, in terms of carbon emissions and expense, the best option is a whistling kettle on a gas hob as the table below shows. The saving is however not a great one: an average household would only save £10 a year and 30kg of CO2.(1) The cost of boiling water ||amount used to boil 1 litre (kWh) ||price per kWh (p) ||cost per litre of boiled water (p) ||CO2 emitted per boiled litre (kg) Pit falls to avoid with gas hob kettles are: - Electric kettles turn themselves off, whilst hob kettles can be left boiling. It is possible to minimise this by getting a whistling kettle to alert you. - Some heat can be wasted up the sides of the kettle if not placed correctly. But this heat won’t be ‘wasted’ in the winter as it will help heat your home. - It is usually much harder to gauge how much you are filling a hob kettle – they don’t seem to come with water level guides. It seems the manufacturers have missed a trick here that their electric competitors have already cottoned on to. Green hob kettles Bodum make a glass kettle called Clara which means you can see how much you are putting in. Recycling and Disposal An electrical item can be recycled if it has a plug, uses batteries, needs charging or has the crossed out wheelie bin logo on it. If you have any small electrical items that fit the bill, find out where your nearest recycling centre is from the Recycle Now website or contact your local council. You can even arrange for your old equipment to be collected which some councils do for free. The WEEE Directive means that retailers and manufacturers have to either pay towards electrical recycling facilities at a council site or offer a service themselves. Ask whether they will take away your old item if you get a new one delivered from them, or whether you can bring it into the shop or send it back to the manufacturer for recycling. There are lots of other ways to dispose of those unused and unwanted electrical items that are tucked away in our drawers and cupboards. Electricals that are in good working order can be donated to selected branches of Cancer Research UK, Oxfam and British Heart Foundation. However, the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK are two of a number of charities that conduct or fund medical test on animals, according to Animal Aid.(7) The Furniture Reuse Network has an interactive map which will find your nearest re-use charity, and many of these will take electrical goods. There is also the option of donating them to someone else through sites such as Freecycle. Did you know? Three out of every four of us have at least one old or unused electrical item in our home which could be recycled to help save precious resources.(8) Many of these items contain plastics and metals that can be recycled to make new products. For example, just one toaster can provide enough steel to make 25 new cans.(8) Supply chain policies A poor showing as per usual for the electrical equipment industry. Manufacture in the Far East is the norm and many of the bigger companies in this report (Siemens, Philips and Panasonic) have been criticised for using subcontractors there that have abused workers’ rights. For example, the following problems were detected at a Philips’ supplier factory in China: - Workers were not always allowed to resign unless the company were able to recruit new employees. - Wages were low and, after deductions for meals and dormitory fees, were often below the stipulated minimum wage. Even 50 hours of monthly overtime was not always enough to bring in enough money to cover daily expenditures. - The factory had a union, but according to interviewed workers it often favoured the management’s interest. - Some workers mentioned compulsory overtime. - Others complained that they sometimes had to stand for an entire 11 hours shift, and as a result of high productivity quotas, found it difficult to get pauses for short rests. - In addition wages were found to be docked even for minor offences. Although none of the top scorers in this report have been name checked in any critical reports, they are likely to be using subcontractors with similar problems. And if they don’t even have a supply chain policy, there is no evidence that this is even a concern for them. None of the top overall scorers had a policy or, in most cases, any mention at all of workers’ rights at supplier companies. Because we find this unacceptable, we have recommended companies lower down in the tables in our Best Buys. Home Retail Group (Argos and Cookworks) and John Lewis just miss getting our best rating for supply chain policy because of their lack of detail about independent auditing. Bialetti did not have a formal supply chain policy but did state that its coffee makers were made in Italy. The failure of the better scoring companies to have adequate supply chain policies means that none of the companies are currently eligible for our Best Buy label. Only ECO Kettle and Philips get our best rating for environmental reporting. Of the rest of the companies, it is the big players and poor overall scorers that do best and get a middle rating – John Lewis, Bosch/Siemens, Procter & Gamble, Home Retail and Panasonic. Animal rights group Uncaged lead a global consumer boycott of Procter & Gamble in protest at their continued use of animals in cruel and deadly toxicity tests for the sake of cosmetics and cleaning products. Rutland Partners, a UK private equity firm, owns the small domestic appliance brands which include Breville, Hinari, Bush and Dirt Devil. It says that its products are manufactured by third party suppliers in the Far East but there was no mention of a supply chain policy for workers’ rights. German companies Bosch and Siemens have a joint venture for domestic appliances. Robert Bosch is owned by a charitable foundation. Siemens constructs all sorts of power plants including nuclear and fossil fuel fired ones. There is a boycott of Siemens for supplying oil company Total with gas turbines in Burma. Japanese company Panasonic supplies meters and monitoring equipment to the nuclear industry. It came 6th out of 18 in Greenpeace’s latest ranking of electronics companies’ policies on toxics, recycling and climate change. It also appears in the Solar Panels report in this issue. Since the introduction of the ECO Kettle, Product Creation Ltd has concentrated on the design of energy saving products for the home. However, their website stated that the company’s ECO Kettle was manufactured in China – “the very best in European design together with the economic benefits of manufacturing in China”. We could not find any mention of safeguarding workers’ rights at supplier companies. The BODUM Group is a 100% family-owned business based in Switzerland. Today, it is owned by the daughter and son of the founder Peter Bodum and produces coffee presses (aka cafetières), teapots and electric kettles. The Italian company Bialetti has production plants in Italy, India, Turkey and Romania. It says its coffee makers are made in Italy where it manufactures the iconic Moka Express stove top espresso maker which was invented in 1933. It has patented a sound system for its Moka and Dama models which warns you when the coffee is ready. Silampos is a Portuguese company which owns the UK Judge and Stellar brands which are all stainless steel and come with a 25 year and lifetime guarantee respectively. La Cafetière is owned by the Welsh Greenfield Group which also owns a company that makes explosion prevention systems for industries such as oil, gas and petrochemicals – hence its Climate Change mark. La Cafetière distributes Bialetti products in the UK. US company Spectrum Brands not only owns Russell Hobbs but also Rayovac and Varta batteries, Remington shavers and several pet food companies. 1. How to live a low carbon life – Chris Goodall (Earthscan 2010) 2. Go make a difference – over 500 daily ways to save the planet (Think Publishing, 2006) 3. How bad are bananas? - the carbon footprint of everything: Mike Berners-Lee (Profile Books 2010) 4. Which? April 2010 5. The Guardian - 7th March 2008 6. Ms Harris’s Book of Green Household Management – Caroline Harris (John Murray, 2009) 7. Health Charities and Animal Testing – Animal Aid website 8. Recycle Now website 9. Burma Campaign Dirty List July 2010 10. Hoovers website May 2009 11. SOMO report - “Philips Electronics. Overview of controversial business practices in 2008”

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Bald Eagle Laying & Hatching Sequences Monday, April 06 2015 @ 07:12 PM EDT Contributed by: davidh Hi All: RE use of words '"synchronized" vs "asynchronized" to define Bald Eagle laying & hatching sequences. I don't think I would ever have chosen these words for defining the laying and hatching sequence of an individual pair of eagles. Bald Eagles generally lay their 2 or 3 eggs 3 days apart. After the mean 36 days of incubation then each egg would hatch 3 days after the previous egg. However, that assumes the female initiated incubation with the laying of the 1st egg. If the female did not initiate incubation until the clutch was finished then the eggs would all have a similar start date for embryonic development and for hatching. This latter example is customary for precocial species like wood ducks or geese whose broods need to all leave the nest together and follow mom. I do not consider that Bald eagles closely "synchronize" their egg laying. Adjacent pairs can be a month apart. On the other hand many eagle pairs precisely repeat, year after year, the same seasonality -- arriving back from migration, laying first egg etc. on the same or near same day. The adjacent pair is more likely to be 2 - 5 weeks different than synchronous with its neighbor. Many raptors have a different strategy. Generally they initiate incubation with the laying of the first egg so the chicks hatch at the same delayed period as they were laid - in eagles about 3 days apart. One of the big debates in biology is why have many species of predators evolved a system that often results in sibling mortality of the later hatched chicks? Starting incubation with the 1st egg insures protection of the 1st egg against predation by passing ravens. An alternative argument, particularly among those species that lay many eggs, is that this is "the species" insurance policy to facilitate large survivability during years of food abundance but gives further assurance during years of low food supply that the oldest chick(s) who are dominant get sufficient food to survive. In the years of low food availability only one or a few of the chicks survive by being the "food bullies" while the smaller last hatching chicks quickly wither and die. In other words the species decision has been it is better to raise 1 or 2 chicks than have everybody die of simultaneous starvation. The eagles have generally evolved a slight modification on the above strategies. While wilderness eagles along the British Columbia coast generally initiate incubation with the 1st egg, we have recently seen our "urbanized eagles" show a slight modification. These urban-suburban eagles seem to have modified their strategy. They sometimes seem to "partially cover the 1st egg" (offering protection from ravens?) yet don't seem to sit so tightly or consistently during the period between the 1st egg and the 2nd to not initiate embryonic development, and giving the 2nd eggs a "more similar incubation period to the 1st". Is this some kind of adaptive behavior to the urban environment where ravens are fewer and where food supply is often more abundant than in wilderness areas? Both elements may well be playing apart. As we saw a couple of years back, our Sidney Ma was away just less than 1 minute (53 seconds!!) when a raven took an egg. Yet, it seems apparent, though not spelled out scientifically, that the urban eagles seem to raise more young per nest than wilderness eagles. Note: I have always applied the terms "synchronous" vs "asynchronous" to how one bird of a group encouraged others nearby to have similar timing to their breeding. Concentrating the breeding cycle to a shorter season has several advantages. For example in flocking geese, a shorter breeding cycle insures more adults are peaking in their breeding cycle to insure fertility, and then the resulting clutches and broods offer a shorter period when they are vulnerable to predators. The predator has fewer days when eggs or chicks are most exposed. The same argument is given for the concentration or synchronous breeding and calving of wildebeest in Africa -- the helpless young are concentrated over a very short period reducing predation. I see our discussion forums have used the terms for slightly different meanings. Certainly various breeding behaviors, like "synchronous calls" between male and female eagles would surely be an activity to stimulate common timing of the pair. They need to be building nests, undertaking effective "copulations", etc. during the narrow time period prior to the egg emerging from the ovary to entering the fallopian tube etc. We know that eagles will copulate from the day of their arriving back on the breeding grounds (Oct. 6 was my earliest observation) from their northern migration to the days they depart after fledging their young (late July). Somewhere in that 10 months of mating is surely a narrower window when fertility is possible -- that mating is not just fun and bonding!

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Tax breaks for businesses are typically provided by government to promote a specific type of behavior, such as moving a plant to a part of the country where jobs are fewer or promoting a particularly good or service over another. Lately, it's been about promoting energy efficiency or being green. Indeed, the U.S. Department of Energy lists a number of tax breaks that the feds will give you for using energy-efficient technology. Also, the Energy Star program points out other tax credits for green technology, including geothermal heat pumps, solar panels, solar water heaters, small wind energy systems, and fuel cells. Moreover, in the strictly business side of things there are tax credits for energy-efficient commercial buildings. [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in the InfoWorld editors' 21-page Cloud Computing Deep Dive PDF special report, featuring an exclusive excerpt from David Linthicum's new book on cloud architecture. | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. ] There are already tax incentives for using some types of computing technology. For instance, Wikibon Energy Labs lets storage vendors verify the energy savings of certain products, making them eligible for utility rebates from PG&E. If we're providing tax credits for energy-efficient technology, then logically those using cloud computing should receive a tax break. This tax break should be pretty big, relatively to the benefit and the current tax breaks provided. Follow me here. What's different here is the huge "green effect" of cloud computing, typically well beyond any of the "traditional" green technology out there, such as hybrid cars and sealed windows. In a recent study (PDF) sponsored by SaaS provider NetSuite, it was clear that cloud computing has an obvious green impact that's easy to account for. Even keeping in mind the bias of the vendor sponsoring the study, the data points seems logical. The report stated that approximately 595 million kWh (kilowatt-hours) per year are saved by using cloud computing, the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of more than 56,000 homes. This results in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by more than 423,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, which is equal to: - CO2 emissions produced by the consumption of more than 48 million gallons of gasoline - CO2 emissions produced by the consumption of approximately 985,000 barrels of oil - The yearly pollution caused by more than 77,000 automobiles That data is consistent with other cloud solutions and perhaps more so when considering the use of infrastructure as a service, which often saves even more energy dollars compared to SaaS. Moreover, this energy savings goes well beyond any benefit from geothermal heat pumps or an office building with tinted windows. In light of the huge and direct benefit, where is the tax break for cloud computing? It will be interesting to see if any federal or state lawmakers pick up on this. A tax break for the use of cloud computing seems logical and only fair to me. However, I won't hold my breath. This story, "Businesses should demand a tax break for cloud computing," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in cloud computing on InfoWorld.com.

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Healthy adults exposed to secondhand smoke appear to be at higher risk of suffering psychological distress and future psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization, according to a major Scottish population study. The study, which tracked more than 8,000 adults over six years found that nonsmokers exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke, as measured by salivary levels of the nicotine breakdown product cotinine, were at a 49% higher adjusted risk of psychological distress (OR 1.49; 95% CI 1.13 to 1.97) compared with nonsmokers who had undetectable salivary levels of cotinine, according to the report published online June 7 in the Archives of General Psychiatry. High exposure to secondhand smoke (a salivary cotinine level of greater than 0.70 μg/L and less than 15.00 μg/L) raised the risk of future hospitalization for psychiatric treatment nearly threefold for nonsmokers exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke (HR 2.84; 95% CI 1.07 to 7.59) and nearly four-fold for smokers (HR 3.74; 95% CI 1.55 to 8.98), after adjustment for multiple variables. In the U.S., an estimated 60% of nonsmokers have some biological evidence of exposure to secondhand smoke. "Even a low level of risk may have a major public health impact," Mark Hamer, PhD, of University College London, and colleagues wrote. Among the entire study cohort, 14.5% of smokers and nonsmokers reported psychological distress. "We found a robust dose-response association between objectively assessed nicotine exposure and psychological distress, which was apparent at low levels of secondhand smoke exposure and was strongest in current smokers," the authors commented. "This association was replicated in prospective analyses that demonstrated an association between secondhand smoke exposure, active smoking, and risk of psychiatric episodes over six years of follow-up." Hamer and colleagues noted that a growing body of research has linked secondhand smoke with adverse effects on physical health, but much of this evidence is based on crude, self-report measures, such as exposure in the workplace or through family members who smoke. "Recent studies using valid objective biochemical markers of secondhand smoke have reported associations with various health outcomes, including markers of inflammation, glucose control, and cardiovascular disease risk," the authors noted. "There is, however, very limited information on the association between objectively assessed secondhand smoke exposure and mental health in humans." Animal data suggest that tobacco may induce negative mood, and some human studies have identified a potential association between smoking and depression. To provide more evidence based on more objective measures, Hamer and colleagues studied 5,560 nonsmoking adults and 2,595 smokers who had participated in the Scottish Health Survey in 1998 or 2003. At the time of enrollment, participants did not have a history of mental illness. Smoke-free legislation was also not in effect in Scotland at that time. Nonsmokers with higher cotinine levels were significantly younger, had lower socioeconomic status, higher BMI, more chronic illness, less physical activity, and higher alcohol consumption than those with undetectable continine levels. The participants initially completed the General Health Questionnaire in 1998 as part of the health survey, which included questions to evaluate psychological distress and mental illness. At that time, participants' exposure to secondhand smoke was assessed using saliva levels of cotinine, the main product formed when nicotine is broken down by the body. In 2003, the participants completed the survey again, which allowed the researchers to evaluate changes in their mental health, including levels of psychological distress and admissions to psychiatric hospitals. "The prospective nature of our study adds considerably to the current evidence base," the authors wrote. "In our analyses, the association between nicotine exposure and risk of psychiatric events persisted despite adjustment for psychological distress at baseline, which was in itself strongly associated with psychiatric admissions." The authors cautioned that although they collected data on psychological distress using the questionnaire, they did not account for cases of psychiatric illness that may have required treatment but not hospitalization. They also noted that they did not collect follow-up measurements of cotinine levels and were thus unable to objectively assess participants' changes in smoking status. The researchers received funding from the National Institute for Health Research and the Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. They reported that they have no financial conflicts of interest. - Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Archives of General PsychiatrySource Reference: Hamer M, et al "Objectively assessed secondhand smoke exposure and mental health in adults" Arch Gen Psychiatry 2010; DOI:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.76

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2012-03-20 Vatican RadioThe International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid "pass laws". Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the United Nations General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. Since then, the apartheid system in South Africa has been dismantled. Racist laws and practices have been abolished in many countries, and an international framework for fighting racism, guided by the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has been drawn up. However still, in all regions of the world, too many individuals, communities and societies suffer from the injustice and stigma that racism brings. Linda Bordoni spoke to South African lawyer Mike Pothier about the significance of this annual observance. First of all, Pothier, who works at the Cape Town-based Catholic Parliamentary Liason Office, explains that the office is a unit of the Southern African Bishops Conference. It was set up in 1997 in order to provide a mechanism of communication between the Church in South Africa and the country's governing bodies. Pothier remembers the terrible events that put Sharpeville on the world map on that March day back in 1960, during which - he says - the apartheid regime perpetrated the single worst massacre of civilians during the apartheid struggle. This led, he continues, to the decision on the part of the liberation movvement to take up an armed struggle against apartheid, and of course it led to a great crackdown by the apartheid government against the liberation movement. And today, in 2012, eighteen years since the beginning of democracy in South Africa, Pothier says that in his work at the Parliamentary Liason Office he still deals with issues that are connected to racial issues. He says there are still deep seated racist attitudes in South Africa and this for example gives rise to criticism of the government based on racial prejudice. And he explains that one aspect of the Church's tasks is to try to educate people in that respect : that people are not competent or incompetent according to their race, but according to education, experience, and so on. From the other direction there are hints of a kind of counter-racism with the the policy of affirmative action - because it makes use of racial categories to qualify people for jobs, positions,admittance to university and so on. Pothier says the Government says this is a way to redress the balance. "We had well over 100 years of institutionalised racism in our legal system and before that more than 200 years of colonial racial discrimination. The Governemnt says that through affirmative action we are trying to undo some of that damage". Pothier says the Church in South Africa broadly supports that policy. But it is also critical when necessary or if it feels it s being exceeded or is being applied in an unjust way. Of course there are ohter areas across the world where there are examples of racial discrimination and racial thinking. Pothier remembers the document issued by the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission back in 1988, in which racism is described as "a wound in humanity's side that mysteriously remains open". He says that is a very good way of describing it, maybe we don't understand why "it mysteriously remains open", but, Pothier says, "if we look in the Middle East we can see examples of it. If we look elsewhere in Africa, in the newest nation South Sudan, as it struggles to get to its feet we find what we can call tribalism or ethnic divides but they are also racially based: people are finding reasons to discriminate against each other, even to the point of killing each other, based on the the characteristics of language, geographical origins, of tribe, etc". In the US recent studies show that how that in the economic downtown African Americans were predominantly, or worst affected". So, in South Africa, Pothier continues, "we have made great strides". But we shouldn't think it was only in the systematised apartheid era that racism existed. It exists in a less systematic, less legalised way all over the world". Regarding the Internation Day Against Racial Discrimination, Pothier says it is a public holiday, and it has been so since 1995. It is known as Sharpeville Day and commemorative events take place all over the country. He says that if the very "acute manifestation of racism that occurred at Sharpeville 52 years ago can help people around the world to see that that kind of massacre of 69 people is the ultimate end of racial thinking and racial government, then hopefully it's a message that will serve some purpose all over the world." Pothier speaks of the new generation of South Africans - the "Born Frees" - the generation born after 1994 - that generation that is now entering its early twenties has not known institutionalised discrimination and it makes a huge difference and one can see how easily young people mix with one another. the situation is much much better, the only question is "why did it take us so long to reallse that?" listen to the interview...

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This prize-winning photo of the remains of Smeaton’s Harbour is by Kevin Bailey (courtesy of The White horse Photography Club – www.whitehorsephotographyclub. An Unfair Name Smeaton’s Harbour is a modern but misleading (and unfair) name for the New Harbour of Rye, an expensive 18th century project which aimed to join the waters of the Rother, Tillingham and Brede into a new channel at what is now known as Winchelsea Beach where the few remains of the outer channel, the east pier and the two pier heads are still visible. The project was an expensive catastrophe. The New Harbour took 63 years to build, was fully operational for perhaps 4 months and was abandoned in November 1787. John Smeaton FRS, known particularly for the construction of Eddystone lighthouse, was brought in as a consultant and reported in 1763, 39 years after work had commenced! Attempts to save Rye as a port The retreat of the sea, and the process of silting up, resulted in the abandonment of Winchelsea as a place of trade by the middle of the 16th century and the serious decline by the end of the century in the usefulness of that of Rye. So rapid was the retreat of the sea that Camber Castle, commanding the entrance to the harbours of both Winchelsea and Rye was abandoned in the 1640’s as it had ceased to serve any useful purpose. Frederico Genebelli, an Italian engineer, put forward a plan in 1593 for a western channel as a solution to the decay of the port of Rye; this channel is shown in this map based on Symonson’s map of 1594. (A copy of Symonson’s map hangs in Rye Town Hall). The corporation saw it as benefiting Winchelsea rather than Rye and refused further dealings with Genebelli. There was a steady polarisation of conflict between town and country interests in the 17th century. The former attributed the decay of the port to the inning of land by developers which hindered or stopped the scouring process of the tides and prevented navigation up the Appledore Channel. In 1698 Commissioners of the Navy and Elder Brethren of Trinity House concluded that Rye’s harbour was almost entirely lost and in no condition to be preserved. The project pre-Smeaton It seems that the country interest prevailed for in 1723 an Act of Parliament provided for the making of a new cut or channel from Winchelsea Channel (the Brede) to the sea. This was the third in a succession of Acts in the 18th century dealing with the Harbour of Rye. For 63 years work on the New Harbour was spasmodically in progress but marked by incompetence, indecision, financial difficulties, rivalry and nepotism. The prime source of information on the project for the New Harbour of Rye are the Minutes of the Harbour Commissioners. Correspondence, reports, accounts and papers have not yet been traced. The Minutes are often garbled and confused. It is by no means clear what the strategy or master plan was. John Smeaton writing in 1763 could only refer to ’what I apprehend to be the original scheme’, namely ’to bring the three rivers that now discharge themselves into the old harbour of Rye, through the new harbour’. The junction of the new cut with the Brede is close to the hair-pin bend on the road leading from the A259 to Winchelsea Beach. The new cut ran parallel to the road from the bend to Winchelsea Beach village centre and behind the present line of bungalows which face the road; the site of the great sluice is behind the Ship Inn a few yards down Willow Lane. In the village, just opposite the area where shops now stand, the cut swung 45 degrees to the left and the outer channel of the New Harbour is readily seen running up to the present sea wall . The remains of the east stone pier, and at low tide the two pier heads or harbour arms, are still visible. (Right and feature photo) It was at this critical stage that the advice of John Smeaton FRS (1724-1792) who had designed and built Eddystone lighthouse, was sought. His professional backing was seen as underpinning the project. Briefly he advised uniting the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede and forcing the three rivers through the new cut to the sea. His plan involved making a new channel for the Rother to the north of the Town, although he accepted that a southern cut would be acceptable. Smeaton was never the resident engineer and his name has come to be associated with a technical and managerial failure, and worse. John Collard has written that orders were succeeded by counter-orders, construction was followed by demolition, dredging by siltation. The Commissioners had opted for the southern route for the Rother. In June 1787 the Commissioners ordered that no vessel was to pass up the old channel towards Rye after 14 July. All trade was then passed through the New Harbour, mostly to the Strand wharf. There were continual problems with keeping the harbour mouth open and free of accumulations of beach; there was evidence that land drainage into the new system was not proving successful. The autumn of 1787 was unusually wet, and all the levels became flooded to an alarming extent. The end of the affair On 6 November 1787 the Harbour Commissioners, who were also Commissioners of the different Levels, recorded their despair and resolved to abandon the New Harbour and to re-open the old. All dams and walls were to be removed, all work suspended and the workmen dismissed. In April 1789 the merchants tradesmen and owners of vessels recorded their sincere thanks to the Commissioners for having restored to them ’the Ancient Harbour of Rye’. If Smeaton’s recommendations had been pursued with professional and managerial competence and energy, would the New Harbour have been successful and would the drainage of the Levels have been adequate? Or would the forces of Nature still have proved too strong? We may surmise, but we can never know. Sources and further reading: Minutes of the Rye Harbour Commissioners: East Sussex Record Office KRA 1 1/1 h 1/2 John Meryon ,Account of the Origin and Formation of the Harbour of Rye: Rye Castle Museum L.A.Vidler, A New History of Rye. 1934 and 1971, pp.104-107 John Collard, A Maritime History of Rye 1978 (Ch.VI) Graham Mayhew, Tudor Rye, 1987 (Ch.7)

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День прав человека Message of UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Human Rights Day UN Women Executive Director urges the world to prioritize the protection of women's human rights Дата: 9 декабря 2013 г. Today on International Human Rights Day, I call on men, women and young people around the world to join forces to protect the rights of women. And I pay tribute to those of you who are women human rights defenders. Twenty years ago, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action emphasized that the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls is a priority for Governments and the United Nations. Important principles were reinforced, including the universality of human rights and the duty of States to uphold them. Since then, an extensive body of legal standards and recommendations on women’s human rights has been developed. And much progress has been made in the adoption of national laws, policies and programmes to promote women's human rights and equality. The international women’s rights treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which is legally binding, has been ratified by 187 nations. Yet discrimination against women continues in law and in practice. Women human rights defenders are harassed and targeted with violence. And women throughout the world remain among the poorest and most marginalized. Today, on the final day of the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women, we are reminded that one in three women worldwide is still subjected to violence. That is nothing short of a global pandemic and a massive human rights violation. I urge you all to match words with action. It is time to match laws, policies and programmes to protect women’s rights with adequate budgets to ensure their implementation. As we count down to 2015 to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we know that greater progress depends on greater progress for women. I call on world leaders to prioritize women’s rights, women’s empowerment and gender equality every day, and in the post-2015 development framework. On this International Human Rights Day, let us take inspiration from the example set by Nelson Mandela. Madiba showed us that none of us are free unless all of us are free. Our hopes for a more just, safe and peaceful world can only be achieved when there is universal respect for the inherent dignity and equal rights of all members of the human family.

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Send the link below via email or IMCopy Present to your audienceStart remote presentation - Invited audience members will follow you as you navigate and present - People invited to a presentation do not need a Prezi account - This link expires 10 minutes after you close the presentation - A maximum of 30 users can follow your presentation - Learn more about this feature in our knowledge base article Do you really want to delete this prezi? Neither you, nor the coeditors you shared it with will be able to recover it again. Make your likes visible on Facebook? Connect your Facebook account to Prezi and let your likes appear on your timeline. You can change this under Settings & Account at any time. Transcript of Digital Citizenship By Alexander Yavornitzky Digital citizenship is the appropriate way to use technology while respecting yourself and others. For example, posting negative comments on a social networking site towards your family, friends, or another party is not being a good digital citizen. When posting comments about others it is best to be respectful. Various Aspects of Digital Citizenship 1. Digital Access Digital access refers to all people having the right and ability, within reason, to use the modern technology that we have in our society. Apple's 4th generation iPod Touch is an example of a device that provides digital access. 2. Digital Commerce Digital commerce is the aspect of digital citizenship that refers to the sale and purchase of digital technology, as well as the sale and purchase of items through digital technology. Internet shopping sites such as ebay.com and Amazon.com offer many goods that can be purchased via ditigal technology. 3. Digital Communication Digital communication refers to the way that modern societies communicate with one another via digital technology. There are many ways that societies communicate with each other through digital technology, such as E-mail, instant messaging, and texting. Yahoo mail is one of the world's most utilized E-mail providers, along with Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail. 4. Digital Literacy Digital literacy refers to being knowledgable about various aspects of digital technology. It is because of digital access that we are concerned about digital citizenship. Our shared access to technology creates the need for digital citizenship, or respecting yourself and others while using technology. Digital literacy is becoming increasingly important in many areas, especially schools. Computer labs such as this are being integrated into schools across the world, and digital literacy will become increasingly important. 5. Digital Etiquette Digital etiquette refers to being considerate and respectful to yourself and others while using digital technology. Social networking sites such as facebook.com often experience problems with digital etiquette, with many users failing to conduct themselves appropriately. It is therefore important to provide education and frequent reminders about this issue. 6. Digital Law 7. Digital Rights and Responsibilities 8. Digital Health and Wellness 9. Digital Security Digital law refers to rules and regulations established by the United States that outline acceptable use of digital technology. Users of digital technology have a responsibility for knowing and adhering to the digital law. Examples of digital law include: Copyright Law - The copyright law was created by the United States government to protect against unauthorized distribution of an author's work by another individual. Violation of the copyright law is the act of acquiring and distributing an author's work without authorization, in most cases for profit. Plagiarism - Plagiarism is the deliberate or unintentional act of stealing another's work and subsequently representing it as one's own. Hacking - Hacking is the intentional act of accessing another's files on a computer without their consent. Hacking can lead to many forms of damage including identity theft. The copyright law is one of the many laws set up by the United States government to protect the rights of all users of digital technology. The copyright logo. Similar to the Bill of Rights introduced to the United States Constitution in the year 1791, digital rights and responsibilities (although not an official document) emphasize the same fundamental message, 'equal rights for all'. Basic digital rights and responsibilities include such well-known principles as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the protection against unreasonable search and seizure. An engraved tablet displaying The Bill of Rights. Digital rights and responsibilities might be considered an evolution of the original Bill of Rights. Digital security refers to the nescessary steps one must take to protect oneself while interacting with digital technology. Ways to protect oneself while using digital technology. Avoid unnecessary disclosure of personal information on any website (e.g., name, phone number, or home address). Never, unless with parental consent and accompaniment, agree to meet with any stranger you interact with online. Always consult with a parent or trusted adult before attempting to do anything with digital technology. Digital health and wellness involves keeping yourself both physically and psychologically healthy while engaged in digital technology. In order to maintain digital health and wellness, one must set limits on the amount of time spent using digital devices and/or tools such as video game consoles or the Internet. Setting limits and exercising good judgement are ways to avoid serious physical and psychological effects such as eye strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, anxiety, depression, and addiction to video games or texting. The twitter logo. Twitter is a popular social networking site in which users can post comments on any subject of their choosing. Apple's 4th Generation iPod Touch A sculpture of the ebay logo. A screenshot of a webpage that can be viewed via Amazon.com. A screenshot of a Yahoo Mail inbox. A screenshot of a Microsoft Hotmail inbox. A screenshot of a Google Gmail inbox. Modern computer labs containing Apple computers. The facebook logo. An Xbox 360 video game console. A a man texting while driving. The Apple logo. How To Be a Good Digital Citizen Get involved with programs and/or work with your local, state, or federal government to try and make technology more accessible to all people. Encourage digital communication as an environmentally conscious alternative to traditional mail. Never visit or purchase items from irreputable sites, and ensure that sites you do purchase goods from have recognized protections in place. Endeavor to learn as much as you can about digital technology, passing along what you learn to others. If using social networking sites such as facebook.com or myspace.com to communicate with others, make sure that you only post nonoffensive and wholesome comments. Be familiar with and adhere to all applicable digital laws. Respect the rights of all users of digital technology. Avoid discriminating against others based on gender, race, age, or other classes. Never, intentionally or otherwise, do anything with digital technology that could harm yourself or others. Ask yourself, "Might my actions lead to an undesirable consequence?" Always protect the privacy of yourself and others when using digital technology. Never give out your own or another person's personal information to anybody you interact with online. If these guidelines are followed you will be a responsible digital citizen, spreading the concept of good digital citizenship through your actions. By being good role models we can make a better technological world for everyone. Sources used to aid in the creation of this educational presentation http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html www.ratical.org/co-globalize/BillOfRights.html Finally, just like all things in life, behavior is not just following the 'law,' but also conducting oneself well and doing the right thing. Digital citizenship entails the same basic principles. Will this post hurt myself or others? Ask yourself, for example... Would I feel comfortable allowing ANYONE to read it? Most importantly... Does this idea reflect my Christian ideals and lifestyle? Ultimately, most posts on the Internet are judgement calls, but can we back-up our judgement by a well-thought out consideration of the issue? Did we use good common sense? Does it support our values? The United States Capitol Building. Acquiring digital literacy involves not only learning technical information, but also learning how to use technology in a responsible manner.

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Corn is great for summer barbecues, but it first has to be protected from crows and others pests before it can be enjoyed. Crows are intelligent birds with sharp beaks and talons, making it possible for them to rip into growing corn stalks, damaging your harvest. Learn how to keep crows away from you corn, whether it’s a seedling or a growing stalk. Protecting Corn Seedlings It’s common for crows to dig up corn before the seeds have a chance to grow. It’s important to start corn bird control when planting. Make sure to plant the corn seed at least one and a half inches below the soil to help prevent this. You can also cover them with a wire plant cage until they grow too tall and crows are unable to rip it out of the ground. Protecting Corn Stalks There are multiple ways to prevent corn stalks, and It’s important to note that more than one bird control method should be taken to keep crows away. There are a variety of scare tactics that can be used to keep crows away. However, since they are intelligent animals, make sure to rotate the location of each scare tactic every five to seven days. Scare tactics include: - Aluminum pans and other shiny objects - Colorful streamers - Fake predators - Noise machines One of the most effective ways to keep crows out of your corn is to use a liquid bird repellent. Liquid bird repellents can safely repel birds away from the area. It’s important to look for a liquid bird repellent that is EPA-registered and safe to use around humans, animals and crops. Protect Corn with Avian Control Bird repellent is an effective way to repel crows and other birds away from corn. Avian Control liquid bird repellent spray is EPA-registered, non-lethal and non-toxic. You can be sure it won’t alter the growth, color or taste of the corn.

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Twister in the UK? People panic over ‘tornado’ spotted above Hartlepool Twister in Hartlepool? Wut— Kez (@KezT8) May 22, 2016 The UK is not commonly associated with tornados, hence the surprise and even alarm at Sunday’s weather system. Casual photo of a twister in Hartlepool pic.twitter.com/4BdRIyUClk— lliam (@LliamCasey99) May 22, 2016 However, BBC Weather was quick to dismiss the scary twister as a “funnel cloud.” A funnel cloud is a sort of pre-tornado. Tornados begin as funnel clouds: when the funnel cloud reaches the ground, it’s considered a tornado. Alternately, if the funnel hits water, it’s considered a waterspout, the Met Office points out. Funnel clouds originate from thunderstorm clouds, when rotating updrafts “lift the air into a vertical position and then rapid rotation starts to develop and a mesocyclone is born,” UK Weather Forecast explains. A number of funnel clouds have been spotted in the UK recently, prompting confusion among residents. It is not a tornado but just look like a funnel cloud with a weak EF0 tornado in Littlehampton, UK pic.twitter.com/RrCXMAUuny— Joint Cyclone Center (@JointCyclone) September 2, 2015 It may come as a surprise to learn that the UK has about 30 tornados per year, which is (when measured by land mass) more than the US. According to UK Weather Forecast, November 23, 1981, saw 105 tornadoes hit the UK in just six hours. Although UK tornados are generally of a smaller scale than those seen in movies like Twister and Sharknado, a 2005 Birmingham tornado caused a lot of damage. Despite this scary footage, it's nothing when compared to the tornados experienced in the US.

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These fall-themed consonant digraph games can be used as a literacy center or as small group games. There are three games in this pack that cover the sh, th, ph, and ch consonant digraphs. With these games students will practice: -sorting real and nonsense sh, th, ph, and ch words -sorting sh, th, ph, and ch words -building sh, th, ph, and ch words There are worksheets that accompany every game to provide a level of student accountability when working in centers or small groups.

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Sisyphus (1548-49) - Titian Sesame Street always strives to provide the highest quality in preschool education. While the characters who live on the street have their own lives and adventures, they must take time out of their day to teach something to the young viewers at home. Usually, through a catchy song or clever parody, children find themselves learning a wide range of subjects without becoming bored in the process. The more creative the inhabitants of the street are, the more memorable the information being passed down. But some concepts are impossible to relate to a younger audience. Poor Grover. He just wants to help children learn their opposites. When he is paired up with Kermit, he has an easier time, relying on the well-educated frog's support and knowledge. But when he is left by himself, he discovers the difficulties of being an educator. His Sisyphean task is to convey the difference between "near" and "far." On paper, this sounds simple. All he has to do is provide an example of each. This is "near." THIS IS "FAR!" An open and shut case. But, alas, this goes right over the head of his audience. Poor poor Grover! He has only practiced this one tactic. It is his only ammunition! He has no choice but to repeat it, hoping that eventually, it will click in the minds of the children. Over and over again. His pleas for comprehension become increasingly desperate. His voice becomes weaker and higher, cracking more often with each subsequent inquiry. "Do you understand?" No, Grover, we do not. Could you show us again? Near. Far. Near. Far. Back and forth. Back and forth. Up the hill. Down the hill. It never ends. His frustration grows and grows. His duty to teach is paramount to his pain and fatigue. Why must he suffer? What wrong-doings has he wrought to incur the wrath of the gods? Surely there must be some mistake. He has done no wrong! And yet, maybe there is no outside force. Perhaps he is doing this of his own volition. Like Sisyphus, he knows that there is no end to the madness, the torture. Yet he continues his pursuit. Why does he not just stop and walk away? Is it because he views the task as greater than himself? In his mind, he knows the last thousand times did not work, but he holds onto hope that...maybe this time. Maybe this time it will sink in. If I just keep pushing and pushing, it will settle in to the right spot and remain in place, permanently. There is no way to find out other than to keep on trying. You may call him stupid. You may think he does not know when to quit. But he is not going to give up that easily. He is determined. He shall persevere or die trying. And after that, he will just keep trying some more. Because, although he may not know the reason behind why it needs to be done, he will continue to do it until he accomplishes his task! For he is Grover, and he does not know the meaning of the word "resignation!" Maybe someone else could teach it to him.

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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 July 3 Explanation: On June 30 Venus and Jupiter were actually far apart, but both appeared close in western skies at dusk. Near the culmination of this year's gorgeous conjunction, the two bright evening planets are captured in the same telescopic field of view in this sharp digital stack of images taken after sunset from Poznań in west-central Poland. In fact, banded gas giant Jupiter was about 910 million kilometers from Poland. That's over 11 times farther than crescent Venus, only 78 million kilometers distant at the time. But since the diameter of giant planet Jupiter is over 11 times larger than Venus both planets show about the same angular size. Of course, 16th century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus would also have enjoyed the simultaneous telescopic view including Jupiter's four Galilean moons and a crescent Venus. Observations of Jupiter's moons and Venus' crescent phase were evidence for the Copernican or heliocentric model of the solar system. Authors & editors: Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply. A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.

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Date: August 1, 1947 Creator: Schaefer, Manfred Description: This paper makes the following assumptions: 1) The flowing gases are assumed to have uniform energy distribution. ("Isoenergetic gas flows," that is valid with the same constants for the the energy equation entire flow.) This is correct, for example, for gas flows issuing from a region of constant pressure, density, temperature, end velocity. This property is not destroyed by compression shocks because of the universal validity of the energy law. 2) The gas behaves adiabatically, not during the compression shock itself but both before and after the shock. However, the adiabatic equation (p/rho(sup kappa) = C) is not valid for the entire gas flow with the same constant C but rather with an appropriate individual constant for each portion of the gas. For steady flows, this means that the constant C of the adiabatic equation is a function of the stream function. Consequently, a gas that has been flowing "isentropically",that is, with the same constant C of the adiabatic equation throughout (for example, in origination from a region of constant density, temperature, and velocity) no longer remains isentropic after a compression shock if the compression shock is not extremely simple (wedge shaped in a two-dimensional flow or cone shaped in ... Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Occupational noise is a widespread risk factor, linking it strongly to critical health hazards, such as hearing loss, psychiatric disorders, increased blood pressure, and harmful biochemical, immune system, and birth-weight effects. Hearing loss results in social isolation, lost productivity, increased injuries, and expenses for workers'compensation and hearing aids. High levels of occupational noise remain a problem in all regions of the world . In the United States, every year more than 30 million workers are exposed to hazardous noise. Noise-related hearing loss has been listed as one of the most prevalent occupational health concerns in the United States for more than 25 years . Thousands of workers every year suffer from preventable hearing loss due to high workplace noise levels. Since 2004, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has reported that nearly 125,000 workers have suffered significant, permanent hearing loss. In 2009 alone, BLS reported more than 21,000 hearing loss cases . The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is committed to ensuring a safe and healthful working environment to all employees and others involved in or affected by its operation. NIOSH is interested in developing personal noise-exposure monitoring system that can immediately alert user when a sound hazard occurs. Current noise measurement procedures and devices, such as noise alert "badges" and personal sound exposure meters (noise dosimeters), cannot effectively alert the user when a noise hazard occurs because they typically do not have a noise hazard indicator located within the user's visual field or do not provide any indicator. To address this problem, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a novel Light-Alarming personal Noise Dosimeter (LAND) system that integrates a wearable noise dosimeter with an innovative light alarming device. Innovations in light alarming device design allow-without any modification to existing personal protective equipment-placing the color-coded lights in worker's field of view to provide real-time warning of dangerous noise condition and exceeded noise dose. Recorded "noise history" can be transferred to personal computers (PC) for later analysis. In Phase I POC will develop a LAND system architecture that provides accurate noise level and noise exposure measurement and effective visual alerts of sound hazard. POC plans to demonstrate the feasibility of the LAND concept by demonstrating a system prototype's ability to accurately measure and effectively alert users of hazardous noise level and exceeded exposure to noise;automatically collect, process, and store measured data, and transfer this data to a PC. Successful demonstration in Phase I of a proof-of-concept system prototype will lead to a commercially useful prototype in Phase II. A low cost LAND provides both noise level/exposure monitoring and real-time user alerting, thus it can be adopted widely to deal with this pervasive problem, preventing hearing loss and other environmental noise-related afflictions while reducing the cost of conducting noise surveys and hearing conservation programs. To help provide a safe and healthful working environment to all employees, the proposed LAND system will visually alert workers of dangerous noise conditions and accumulated noise doses, immediately when a noise hazard occurs. It also enables workers to widely participate in noise surveys and hearing conservation programs. These capabilities will help reduce hearing loss and other occupational noise-related ailments, such as psychiatric disorders, causing biochemical, immune system, birth-weight effects, etc.

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The human body is in many respects like an automobile. Each has its framework. The organs of the body correspond to the machinery of the automobile. Food furnishes the body with material for repairs and fuel for heat and energy. In the car, gasoline is carried in one tank for immediate use, and in another, the emergency tank, for reserve. The fat of the body is comparable to the gasoline in the emergency tank. Man is his own mechanic. He never leaves his machine. He makes all his own repairs. He is his own chauffeur. I do not hesitate to say that he is derelict in his duty. He does not study his task. He has given too little attention to repairs and fuel. He allows sand to clog the gear-box. He is a wonderful mechanism, capable of an immense amount of work. Great accomplishments are his just desert. How few develop their full powers. How few take themselves seriously. Too few know what are the dietetic or fuel requirements of the body. Many load themselves down with excess fat, while others are under nourished. In the repair work of the body, proteins are the chief requirement. Fifty grams daily are needed for this purpose. If all parts of the body were torn down at a proportionate rate, the entire protein content would be used up in 190 days. The body’s supply of sugars and starches is exhausted and replaced daily. In cases of complete fasting, about 1 1/2 pounds are lost in a day, if the person is lying quietly in bed. The human engine is more efficient than any invented by man. It may develop energy or work to the extent of 45 per cent. from the heat value of the fuel consumed. The Deisel oil engine develops 33 per cent energy. The best steam engine develops only 22 per cent.

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by Thomas Neville Bonner, 2nd ed, 335 pp, $42.50, ISBN 0-252-01760-9, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1991. This book presents a chronological history of medicine in Chicago and has separate chapters on schools, societies and publications, the Chicago Medical Society, hospitals, and public health. Any serious student of the history of medicine in Chicago needs six or seven specific books on his or her working shelf. When a new edition of one of these appears, it should be added. However, this book is not a new edition; it is essentially a reprint of the 1957 volume. The only "new" material in the 1991 volume is the nine pages of illustrations, the 25 pages of the chapter "Social and Political Attitudes of Chicago Physicians," and the two-page "A Note on Bibliography." Chapter 12 is an article that originally appeared in 1953 in the widely available Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. "A Note on Bibliography" contains some useful references but does not have many others. Beatty WK. Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City. JAMA. 1991;266(20):2911. doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03470200125053

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Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to Culex pipiens: Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, culex mosquito a subspecies complex of the abundant polytypic species, the brown house mosquito or rainbarrel mosquito of temperate climates, which breeds commonly in standing water, especially in artificial containers, and has a 5- to 6-day cycle under optimal conditions; closely related forms are found in tropical areas. The common house mosquito; it serves as a vector of several illnesses, including Wuchereria bancrofti and West Nile virus. See also: Culex a genus of mosquitoes found throughout the world; cause insect worry and many species transmit various infectious agents, e.g. microfilariae, apicomplexan parasites and viruses, such as those of Japanese encephalitis and equine encephalomyelitis. transmits the virus of fowlpox. Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus a serious pest of poultry and carrier of a number of poultry diseases. transmits western equine encephalomyelitis. transmits Japanese encephalitis virus.

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How many first grade Dolch words can you find in word search puzzle #2? First grade Dolch words included in this puzzle are: just, know, let, live, may, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank and them. I look little....but I PRINT Click the worksheet printer icon that says "Full Page Print" for a high quality printable word search worksheet. |Dolch Worksheets - First Grade Vocabulary Sight Words - Word Search

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I am a fourth grade teacher, and have a young man who is a brittle diabetic, and for his research on the inventive process, he would like to study someone who has invented medical devices that relate to diabetes. Do you have any starting points for us? It could be inventions from the past, or cutting edge technology. Thank you for any help that you can give us. He (and everyone concerned with diabetes), should read Michael Bliss's book about the best invention ever for diabetes: the discovery of insulin. (Interestingly, that's also the title of the book: The Discovery of Insulin. It was published in 1982 by McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The book was made into a TV movie a few years ago, with a different title: "Glory Enough for All.") Among the many other devices of great importance are blood glucose meters and insulin pumps. Suggest to your student that he call the 800 numbers in the latest issues of Diabetes Forecast and COUNTDOWN magazines, and ask the manufacturers if they can help. Original posting 9 Dec 95 Last Updated: Tuesday April 06, 2010 15:08:52 This Internet site provides information of a general nature and is designed for educational purposes only. If you have any concerns about your own health or the health of your child, you should always consult with a physician or other health care professional. This site is published by T-1 Today, Inc. (d/b/a Children with Diabetes), a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, which is responsible for its contents. Our mission is to provide education and support to families living with type 1 diabetes. © Children with Diabetes, Inc. 1995-2016. Comments and Feedback.

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A reader asks if it is possible to generate a Gray code counter/sequence for any non-power-of-2 number (so long as it is an even number)? Do you recall the "How To" article I posted on Gray Codes a while back. Well, a reader has just emailed me with an interesting question. I'm up to my ears in alligators as usual (work-wise) and haven't had a moment free to ponder this, so I thought I'd pass it over to the heros in the field (that would be you). Here is the gist of the problem. Suppose we have a FIFO for which we have a read and a write pointer. As a starting point, assume that the size of the FIFO (the number of words it contains) is a power of 2 – let's say 2^4 = 16 words – which means that our read and write pointers are each going to be 4 bits wide. One way to implement these pointers would be as binary counters. The problem here is that multiple bits may change when transitioning from one value to another. For example, four bits change when when the pointer transitions from 7 to 8 (0111 to 1000 in binary). As an alternative, we can use a Gray Code counter, in which only one bit changes as we transition from one value to another. 1. Binary code versus 4-bit Gray code. Observe that when we reach the final (maximum) Gray code value of 1000, the next "count" will return us to our initial value of 0000, which means that – as we expect – only a single bit changes for this transition also. But now suppose that – instead of having 16 words – we wish our FIFO to contain only 10 words. If we use our original Gray code, the sequence will now be as follows: 0000, 0001, 0011, 0010, 0110, 0111, 0101, 0100, 1100, 1101. The problem is that three bits will change value on the next transition, which will return us to our starting value of 0000 from our current value of 1101. Our friend says that he believes that it is possible to create a Gray code sequence for any non-power-of-2 number (so long as it is an even number), but that he has not been able to track down any methods on how to generate such a sequence. I replied that if anyone knew how to do this, it would be the readers of Programmable Logic DesignLine (hint hint). Questions? Comments? Feel free to email me – Clive "Max" Maxfield – at firstname.lastname@example.org). And, of course, if you haven't already done so, don't forget to Sign Up for our weekly Programmable Logic DesignLine Newsletter.

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A 400-acre, 54 MW plant provides clean energy to more than 14,000 homes in Nevada via Acciona’s Nevada Solar One. Considered to be the third largest solar plant in the world, the plant has over 184,000 large mirrors which track the sun’s rays converting heat into clean energy. Fluid heats up to 735°F which flows through more than 18,240 receiver tubes located on the mirror’s focal line to produce steam. The steam in turns drives a conventional turbine that is connected to a generator to produce electricity. Built on a mission to demonstrate technical and economic stability of sustainable energy, Acciona has successfully met their expectations over the past year. They launched in June of last year. * Produces power during peak demand with near zero CO2 emissions * The first concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built in the United States in more than 17 years * The third largest CSP plant in the world * Has a nominal production capacity of 64 MW with a maximum capacity of 75 MW * Produces enough energy to power more than 14,000 households annually * All of the plant’s electricity production is being sold to Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company under long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs)

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|There is one thing more painful than learning from mistakes (our own or somebody else's): Not learning from them. - Barbara Johnson| |Home Current Situation Enhancement Plan Equipment Financial Plan Bibliography| Free Grant Writing Example - Equipment "A Reform-Based Model Classroom for To realize the benefits of technology we focused on planning for the full range of teaching methods and on change and flexibility, including various teaching methods (lecture, discussion, audio-visual delivery of lecture) and integrating technology into the curriculum via computer-based group instruction and self-paced learning. Each workstation will accommodate one personal computer for every three students; a total of 12 student PC systems and 1 instructor system are being requested. Each PC will be a Pentium 4 running at 1.7 MHz or better with 256 MB of RAM, a zip drive, 32 MB video, sound card and speakers with a R-RW CD-Rom and a 17” viewable SXGA LCD monitor with analog and digital input . To enable easier access to software both in their offices and labs three laptop computers would be supplied to faculty members directly involved in the preparation of teachers. The laptops would also be used to connect this project to inservice projects that these mathematics faculty do for the surrounding townships in the northeast Pennsylvania area. This intended workstation configuration was modeled after an existing classroom at the Pennsylvania State University . The three instructors of the mathematics courses for preservice teachers attended an iQuest technology-training program that was at Penn State and were excited about the technology resources and the instructional methods for which it provided. This configuration was chosen in order to maximize space in the classroom and at the computers themselves. Zip drives will allow students to bring in their own data disks so that they can easily upload their projects and presentations and make copies of classroom demonstrations. Hardcopy printing is essential . One color LaserJet printer should serve the major needs of students using the model classroom/laboratory. Digital Cameras are very useful in helping students to make mathematics connections with the real world. Teachers often send students on a scavenger hunt around campus in search of images of geometric shapes which they will include in a booklet to help them understand their course vocabulary. The Mathematics Department currently has no digital cameras. Display Units ($12,783.00) In redesigning the classroom a white board with two projection screens and two overhead projectors on carts, will be needed. The classroom itself needs to function well in this new environment. The white board will serve both as a screen onto which images may be projected by way of a multimedia projector and as a dry-erase chalkboard. The white board is a great tool for demonstrations. A projection system is needed including two overhead projectors and screens to allow viewing of an overhead calculator concurrently with an overhead transparency that explains the calculator. Chalkboards are standard in every classroom, however, they do not serve a dual purpose as the white board does. In addition, dust from chalkboards can be detrimental to the maintenance of computers and technology equipment. The purpose of the projector is to facilitate the use of literature, newspaper or other documents that are not easily scanned in or found on the web and to allow teachers to provide diverse content to all students in the classroom at the same time, allowing students to have a visual and colorful learning experience. It is an important teaching tool that is essential when covering visual topics like geometry and trigonometry. Two 35” wall-mounted television/computer monitors will be placed in the room to offer students a clearer view of the onscreen work . Usually these monitors will display the same image that is on the student’s PC , but they may be configured to display other information or videos. Participation in iQuest provided the opportunity to note how a program called Mimio, in conjunction with an electronic white board, enable teachers to capture alternative approaches to problem solving clearly. Utilizing special equipment, teachers can use the dry erase markers to write on a specific area of the white board, subsequently the mathematics problem is saved as an animated .gif file that can be transferred to each student’s workstation or placed on the instructor’s web page or Blackboard site. Although mathematics can be a tricky subject to show on the web, this program makes it interactive helping the students to better understand the problem . Some benefits of using an electronic whiteboard include capturing hand-drawn notes on a computer, emailing, printing or exporting notes to html, copying and pasting notes to any application as well as being able to replay and review notes stroke by stroke. We chose the converter program rather than the standard program because it is more efficient and utilizes the white board that is being requested above. To allow presentation of videos in the classroom, a standard videocassette recorder is needed to enhance the instruction in the classroom. Wireless and Internet Communication ($3,200.00) The Internet contains vast amounts of valuable and motivating mathematics resources for K-12 educators and students. The use of a wireless technology gives students exposure to the latest technology while also keeping the workstations streamline. The internet supports project-based learning and provides access to Web-based resources available for the math students. The importance of being able to contact people and places throughout the world and exchange information cannot be overestimated. The Internet provides educators with access to many mathematics resources outside the boundaries of their classrooms and offers opportunities to integrate technology into mathematics lessons. Internet access for all work stations would not only permit students to follow a teacher-led demonstration via Internet, but it would also allow students to pursue individual avenues of research to supplement their learning . A wireless Internet hub is requested as this classroom’s configuration . Instructional Materials and Software($14,325.00 ) Involvement in technology-related training programs and experience in providing instruction to preservice and inservice teachers helped us to carefully designed a technology plan and contributed to the selection of the items requested below. Procuring appropriate technological equipment and resources, including computers, chairs, desks, displays, and cable is number one on our list. Software appropriate to the requirements of the educators using the lab should be obtained in a timely manner and current, user-friendly software that is applicable to the needs of users is essential. Visual learning software tools such as Geosketchpad, Inspiration, PowerPoint, and Tesselmania are some of the programs being considered for purchase. Experiential education is based on the idea that active involvement enhances students' learning. As such, a variety of manipulatives have been acquired through grant programs over the past 10 years. Complete sets of grade-appropriate materials are still needed, however. Current resources will be inventoried and evaluated prior to ordering new materials. Worktables and computer-friendly furniture including ergonomic desks and chairs are requested. This will facilitate the establishment of a setting that will enhance cooperative learning behaviors . Mathematics educators favorably recognize collaborative learning practices, more project-based and less lecture-style teaching. However, our current campus resources are not suitable for conducting such instructional practices. Hexagonal tables will be created with the arrangement of the 12 trapezoidal tables. Two PCs for every six students will be placed at each hexagonal table and two utility tables will be used for the printers. A lockable storage cabinet and storage sets for the manipulatives are requested in order to organize and to secure instructional resources contributing to a better-organized classroom and more efficient delivery of instruction. Equipment on Hand for Project We previously described the status of current equipment in the Mathematics department and explained that the equipment is limited and is being fully utilized. In 2001 we purchased a color scanner and laminating machine that we will continue to use in the model classroom. The color scanner is capable of transforming text, graphics and transparencies into computer readable data enabling enable students to incorporate various media into presentations or projects. The laminating machine protects samples of preservice and inservice teachers’ work. Equipment Housing and Maintenance ($20,000.00) The equipment will be housed in an existing room in Wilson Hall on the campus of The University of XYZ. Initially the equipment will be covered by warranties. When these expire the Mathematics Department is required to enter into a maintenance agreement with the University’s Graphic and Technical Services. This contract is paid from the department’s budget at an approximate cost of $4,000 per year. Contact Us Tell Us About A Broken Link

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Create a cute rat clipart using a simple template as a reference in this easy tutorial accessible to anyone. Drawing a cartoon rat can be a fun experience if you have access to a great design that is easy to reproduce and visually interesting to look at. That's exactly what I am offering in this drawing lesson that even beginners can enjoy. Unlike mice, rats are made with smaller ears and a pointy nose. You also need to create a long and thin tail and add a blue/grey color inside the character to complete your illustration. You can see the final illustration below once all steps are completed. Ready? Let's begin working on this adorable cartoon character now! :) Great! Start by sketching a large rectangle to form the body of the rat. This shape can also be used to illustrate the head. Next, draw two small ears using oval shapes on top of the head. Finally, create the eyes and the pupils using large circular shapes. You can draw a thick outline on all shapes created so far (and also for future ones). Continue working on this fun cartoon rat by adding two feet made from small circles. The arms are done with short straight lines. The nose is done using a small circle and you can also draw two small line on each sides of the nose to complete this part of the cartoon character. It's now time to add more details to create a recognizable rat. First, you can add small patches inside the ears using more oval shapes. Whiskers are done from simple pointed lines. Complete this step by drawing a long curved tail using another pointed line. Great work! Let's add some colors now! The body and the head of the rat clipart can be filled with a grey color (with a little bit of blue in it). The nose and the patches inside the ears can be pink while the eyes are colored in blue. The feet are darker while the tail is almost black. Whiskers are filled with a light grey color. You worked hard and the result is a nice cartoon rat created from basic elements. Below you can see all four steps needed to illustrate this character properly. If you want to, you can also work with another cute cartoon rat made from circles and draw a second animal slightly more complex than this one. Have fun with both characters! :)

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This is an amazing story: "For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school. Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn't figure out the cause of Jessica's abdominal distress. Then one day in January, Terry, 18, figured it out on her own. In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue -- slides her pathologist had said were completely normal -- and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn's disease. "It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem," Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. "There were just no answers anywhere. ... I was always sick." Terry, who graduated from Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish, Washington, this month, is now being treated for Crohn's, says her science teacher, MaryMargaret Welch." This really makes me wonder about her doctors. It's not like Crohns Disease is extremely rare.

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Published on : Oct 04, 2016 Nanosatellites and microsatellites are a relatively recent addition to the global space aviation market, but have become a key asset to the industry thanks to their many benefits. The size of satellites has reduced notably in the past decades due to the progression of computing technology, which enabled the creation of small computing units with as much or more power as the earlier versions, and the development of lightweight materials that could bear as much or more weight as conventional materials. This has resulted in the development of microsatellites, which weigh between 10 kg and 100 kg, and nanosatellites, which weigh between 1 kg to 10 kg. Nanosatellites and Microsatellites: The Pros Due to their small size, nanosatellites and microsatellites are: Cheaper to Construct: Nanosatellites and microsatellites naturally require less building materials than conventional satellites. Since they are often utilized as a cluster rather than as a standalone unit, manufacturing nanosatellites and microsatellites can be done through the use of mass manufacturing techniques, which further reduces the manufacturing costs. Cheaper to Launch: Due to their lower weight, nanosatellites and microsatellites need much less thrust than conventional satellites. This requires exponentially less fuel, significantly lowering the costs of launching them. The use of nanosatellites and microsatellites as a cluster also means individual satellites don’t require separate launches. Even launching an individual nanosatellite or microsatellite can be made much more economical by using the extra space in spacecraft commissioned to launch other, larger satellites. Since the primary mission of the launch vehicle does not concern the small satellite, its developers can enjoy significant economic benefits at the cost of the relatively minor inconvenience of being unable to alter any aspect of the launch schedule. … And the Cons However, despite their benefits, the small size of nanosatellites and microsatellites and their utility as a cluster come at a risk of magnifying the problem of space debris. While the amount of information they provide is much higher as a cluster than as an individual unit, it also increases the risk of a chain reaction in case of a failure. Space debris has already become a mounting concern for the space aviation industry and can be exacerbated to a possibly uncontrollable degree if nanosatellite and microsatellite clusters become the norm. Nevertheless, the advances brought about by nanosatellites and microsatellites in the fields of satellite imaging and communication are likely to drive their demand in the coming years.

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For Exercise 12.75, and using the levels of the assembly method factor as the horizontal axis and “units produced” as the vertical axis, plot and connect the cell means for the cells associated with the “classical music” level of the background music factor. On the same graph, plot and connect the cell means for the cells associated with the “rock music” level of the background music factor. Do the plots indicate the presence of interaction between the factor levels? Explain. Answer to relevant QuestionsEach of 12 undergraduate students has been randomly assigned to one of the 6 cells shown here. The purpose of the study is to test whether factor A (if a shopping bag is being carried) and factor B (mode of dress) have main ...The personnel director for a large firm selects a random sample consisting of 100 clerical employees, then finds out whether they have been with the firm for more than 5 years and how many shares of the company’s stock ...A testing agency is evaluating three different brands of bathroom scales and has selected random samples of each brand. For brand A, a test object was found to weigh 204, 202, 197, 204, and 205 pounds on the five scales ...Item C of the Springdale Shopping Survey, introduced at the end of Chapter 2, describes variables 7–9 for the survey. These variables represent the general attitude respondents have toward each of the three shopping areas, ...According to the Bureau of the Census, 18.1% of the U.S. population lives in the Northeast, 21.9% in the Midwest, 36.7% in the South, and 23.3% in the West. In a random sample of 200 recent calls to a national 800-number ... Post your question

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The plush lowland area is just outside the Bukit Tigapuluh national park on Sumatra. Though not protected, it is an important area for biodiversity and has been used since 2002 as a release point for 100 rehabilitated orang-utans — some orphaned when their mothers were killed by workers on nearby palm oil plantations. Peter Pratje of the Frankfurt Zoological Society said: "It took scientists decades to discover how to reintroduce orang-utans into the wild." He said it could take the company Asia Pulp & Paper "just months to destroy an important part of their new habitat". Asia Pulp & Paper could not be reached for comment. There are about 60,000 orang-utans left in the wild, about 10 per cent on Sumatra. The forests of Bukit Tigapuluh are also home to 100 of the last 400 Sumatran tigers in the wild.Reuse content

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Burma plans to conduct its first census in 31 years, a key step in political reforms that could have a big impact on the country’s marginalized minorities. Burma's minister of immigration and population Khin Yi signed a letter confirming his government's commitment to conduct the nationwide census by 2014. The letter says the first survey in 31 years will adhere to global standards, include "all national races," and give census workers access to all areas of the country. During the signing ceremony in Naypyitaw, U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon said he hopes ongoing ceasefire talks will make the census possible, and will involve minorities and civil society. Dave Mathieson, senior Burma researcher for Human Rights Watch, said an accurate count of the population is a critical part of the government’s political reforms. "Potentially, if you have a census that extends the right to vote to everyone in the country, you are going to have a far more equal and credible election in 2015," said Mathieson. "If you have actually empowered people enough that they can actually cast votes." Burma’s last official census in 1983 failed to count people living in areas where insurgencies were raging. Before that, the last credible census was conducted in 1931, during British rule. Official denial of the stateless Rights groups worry that if not conducted properly, the census could marginalize minorities such as the Rohingya or those living in one of Burma's many conflict areas. The United Nations estimates nearly one-million ethnic Rohingya Muslims live in Rakhine State. Myint Kyaing, Director General of Burma's Department of Population, an office which denies the existence of stateless people, is responsible for conducting the survey. "We have no stateless people in Myanmar and there is no Rohingya in Myanmar as well, because no Bengali people are residing in Myanmar," he said. A key test Analysts say resolving such classification disputes will be a key test of the census’ accuracy and the government’s commitment to reform. For years, economists and academics studying Burma have been forced to use the government's notoriously unreliable data. Professor Sean Turnell of Australia's Maquarie University, editor of Burma Economics Watch, said the census will allow the government to more accurately estimate key economic indicators such as GDP. "Under the previous government there was very little, even in pretense, about having the numbers right," said Turnell. "You know there were certain objectives that the government wanted to achieve and, when pressed, those numbers usually added up to achieving those ends. And so I think the classic example was GDP growth rates, which for decades were in double digits." Those GDP rates, he added, would have made Burma the best performing economy in the world. In the two years leading up to the data-collection period, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will be assisting in surveyor training and drafting survey documents. UNFPA's country representative Mohamed Abdel-Ahad called it an especially steep challenge due to the amount of time elapsed since the last census, but one that is a critical step. "As you know the public does not know enough about the census," he said. "The census has not been taken for 30 years, so those who were born after 1983 in Myanmar do not know and have not gone through the experience of conducting census, and we need to inform them that it is their right to be counted." Abdel-Ahad said workers expect to carry out the census in April, 2014. The United Nations is expected to at least partially cover the estimated $53-million cost.

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Learn something new every day More Info... by email Sweet woodruff or Gallium odoratum is a shade-loving plant native to Eurasia and parts of North Africa. Historically, the plant has been used in a number of medicinal and culinary preparations, although most people today grow sweet woodruff as an ornamental plant. Some garden suppliers carry sweet woodruff, and the plant can also be grown from cuttings and shoots, for gardeners who know someone with a patch of sweet woodruff. You may also see the plant growing in the wild, depending on where you live, since it spreads and volunteers readily, even in areas where it is not native. This plant has a distinctive slightly sweet odor which reminds some people of freshly-cut hay, hence the name. It is also sometimes called “wild baby's breath,” referencing the small clusters of white flowers which resemble those of the cultivated plant known as baby's breath, and it is also known as Master of the Woods or simply woodruff. The plant typically grows very well in USDA zones four through eight, and can sometimes be found outside this range as well. The ideal location for sweet woodruff is a woodland, since woodlands typically have the slightly acidic, well-drained soil which this plant prefers, along with the shade. In the garden, people grow sweet woodruff under large shrubs and trees, and in regions which are shaded by structures, rocks, fences, and other obstacles. The plant often thrives in environments where other plants struggle, thanks to its ability to survive in slightly hostile soil. Sweet woodruff is a sprawling groundcover, developing long stems and whorls of narrow leaves which totally surround the stem. When well-nourished, sweet woodruff can grow to around eight inches (20 centimeters) in height, and it can sprawl out considerably in the garden. In fact, some people regard sweet woodruff as an invasive plant, because once it establishes itself, it can be very difficult to eradicate. This is something to consider when planting sweet woodruff, as the plant can overwhelm other plantings if it is not given enough room to grow. One of sweet woodruff's most famous historical uses was as a flavoring in German May Wine, although the plant has also been used in sedative teas and various other medical preparations. Sweet woodruff can actually be dangerous in high concentrations, and should only be used medicinally under supervision from an experienced herbalist or doctor. Growing woodruff, however, doesn't require an extensive knowledge of herbal medicine, and the plant can make a great green groundcover in shady areas where other plants seem to have difficulty thriving. One of our editors will review your suggestion and make changes if warranted. Note that depending on the number of suggestions we receive, this can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Thank you for helping to improve wiseGEEK!

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English in Use/Glossary |General||Contents • Introduction| |Parts of speech||Articles • Nouns • Verbs • Gerunds and participles • Pronouns • Adjectives • Adverbs • Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections| |Other topics||Orthography • Punctuation • Syntax • Figures of Syntax • Glossary| Absolute — Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government. Abstract — Considered apart from any application to a particular object. Abstract noun — A noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality or other abstract or intangible concept. Active verb — A verb that expresses action as distinct from mere existence or state. Adjective — A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent. Adjunct — A clause in a sentence that amplifies its meaning. Adverb — A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or various other types of words, phrases, and clauses. Adverb of cause — Adverbs of cause are why, wherefore and therefore. Adverb of degree — Adverbs of degree are those which answer to the question, how much? how little? or to the idea of more or less. Adverb of manner — Adverbs of manner are those which answer to the question, how? or, by affirming, denying, or doubting, show how a subject is regarded. Adverb of place — Adverbs of place indicate where something happens. Adverb of time — Adverbs of time are those which answer to the question, when? how long? how soon? or how often? Affirmative — An answer that shows agreement or acceptance. Agreement — Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. Antecedent — A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun. Aorist — A temporal feature of the verb which denotes the speaker's standpoint of the event described by the verb, as from outside of the event and seeing it as a completed whole. Aphaeresis — The loss of letters or sounds from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial. Apocope — The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word. Apposition — A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both having the same syntactic function in the sentence. Appositive — Of or being in apposition. Archaism — The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style. Arrangement — Relative position of words in a sentence. Article — A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). Attribute — A word that qualifies a noun. Auxiliary — A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect. Capital — An uppercase letter. Cardinal adjective — A cardinal number used as an adjective. Case — A category of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, specialized (usually by inflection) to indicate a particular syntactic relation to other words in a sentence. Clause — A word or group of words ordinarily consisting of a subject and a predicate. Collective noun — A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals. Common adjective — A common adjective is any ordinary epithet, or adjective denoting quality or situation: as, good, bad, peaceful, warlike, eastern, western, outer, inner. Common noun — A noun that can be preceded by an indefinite article, and denotes any member, or all members of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city. Comparative degree — Adverbial or adjectival forms modified by more or ending in er, used when comparing two things. Comparison — The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees. Compound — A lexeme that consists of more than one stem; for example laptop, formed from lap and top. Compound adjective — A compound adjective is one that consists of two or more words joined together, either by the hyphen or solidly: as, nut-brown, laughter-loving, four-footed; threefold, lordlike, lovesick. Compound personal — A compound personal pronoun. compound personal pronouns are myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself. Compound relative — Compound relatives are whoever, whosoever, whichever, whichsoever, whatever, whatsoever. Compound sentence — A compound sentence is a sentence which is composed of at least two independent clauses. Conjugation — In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take. Conjunction — A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. Conjunctive adverb — An adverb that connects two clauses. Consonant — A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel. Continuous tense — Expressing an ongoing action or state. Declension — A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive. Defective verb — A verb with an incomplete conjugation; for example, one that can only be conjugated in certain persons and numbers. Definite article — An article that introduces a noun and specifies it as the particular noun that is being considered; in English, the only definite article is the. Diaeresis — A diacritic placed over a vowel letter indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in naïve, Noël, Brontë. Ellipsis — The omission of a grammatically required word or phrase that can be implied. Enallage — The substitution of one grammatical form for another one. Finite verb — A verb that is inflected for person and for tense according to the rules and categories of the languages in which it occurs. First-future tense — The first-future tense is that which expresses what will take place hereafter. Gender — A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common. Gerund — A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently. Government — That power which one word has over another, to cause it to assume some particular modification. Grammar — A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language. Hyperbaton — An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect. Imperative mood — The grammatical mood expressing an order. Indefinite article — A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun is new or unknown. In English it can be a (before a consonant sound) or an (before a vowel sound) in the singular; in the plural an article isn't used at all, or the pronoun some is used instead. Independent clause — A clause that can stand by itself as a grammatically viable simple sentence. Indicative mood — The mood of a verb used in ordinary factual or objective statements. Infinitive — The uninflected form of a verb. In English, this is usually formed with the verb stem preceded by 'to'. Infinitive mood — The infinitive of a verb is its basic form with or without the particle to. Inflection — A change in the form of a word that reflects a change in grammatical function. Interjection — An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion. Interrogative — A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc. Introductory phrase — A phrase or clause that introduces a sentence. Irregular comparison — Comparison of adjectives which cannot be compared regularly. Irregular verb — A verb that does not follow the normal rules for its conjugation. Italic characters — A typeface in which the letters slant to the right. Letter — A symbol in an alphabet. Liquid — An l or r sound. Mimesis — The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art. Mood — A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. Morphology — The forms of word formation. Multiplicative adjective — An adjective which expresses the multiplicity. Mute — A letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation. Neuter verb — A verb that expresses neither action nor passion, but simply being, or a state of being. Nominative — Giving a name; naming; designating; said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. Non-finite verb — A verb form that is not limited by a subject and, more generally, is not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense, aspect, mood, number, gender, and person. Note of exclamation — Punctuation used to denote excitement, surprise or shock; exclamation point. Note of interrogation — The punctuation mark "?", used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question. Noun — A word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. Number — Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection. Numeral — A numeral adjective. Numeral adjective — An adjective that expresses a definite number: as, one, two, three, four, five, six. Object — The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action. Objective — Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb. Ordinal adjective — An ordinal number used as an adjective. Paragoge — The addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, either through natural development or as a grammatical function. Parenthetical phrase — A phrase in the sentence which is not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Parsing — To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically. Participial adjective — A participle used as an adjective, such as drowning in the drowning man and drowned in the drowned man. Participle — A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. Part of speech — The function a word or phrase performs in a sentence or phrase. Passive voice — A grammatical voice in which the subject receives the action of a transitive verb. Past participle — A past participle is usually identical to the verb's past tense form, though in irregular verbs the two usually differ. Past perfect tense — Tense of verb conjugated by adding had before the past participle of a verb. Perfect tense — A tense that expresses action completed at the present time; in English it is formed by using the present tense of have with a past participle. Period — The punctuation mark (“.”) indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation. Person — A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is referring; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns. Personal — Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personification — A figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities. Phrase — A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. Pleonasm — A phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. Plural — A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. Possessive — A pronoun in the possessive case. Potential mood — A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable. Predicate — The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject. Prefix — That which is prefixed; especially one or more letters or syllables added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning; as, pre in prefix, con in conjure. Preposition — A closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word. Propositional phrase — A phrase that has both a preposition and its object or complement; may be used as an adjunct or a modifier. Present participle — The present participle is identical in form to the gerund. Present tense — The form of language used to refer to an event, transaction, or occurrence which is happening now (or at the present time), or an object that currently exists. Preterit — The preterite tense, simple past tense: the grammatical tense that determines the specific initiation or termination of an action in the past. Progressive form — A form of a verb in which its gerund (or present participle) is used with any form of the verb to be. Examples: I am defining. It had been snowing. Pronominal — Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as of a pronoun. Pronominal compound — An adjective herein, therein, wherein. Pronoun — A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. Proper adjective — An adjective derived from a proper noun, such as British derived from Britain. Proper noun — The name of a particular person, place, organization or other individual entity. Prosthesis — The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in nother from other. Quotation — A fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Radical — Of or pertaining to the root of a word. Redundant verb — A verb which has two forms for past tense. Regimen — A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government. Regular comparison — Adjectives are regularly compared, when the comparative degree is expressed by adding er, and the superlative, by adding est to them. Regular verb — A verb which conjugates regularly. In English, a verb which uses an ed suffix to form its past participle. Relation — Reference of word to other words. Relative — A relative pronoun. Relative pronouns are who, which, what, that, whoever, whosoever, whichever, whichsoever, whatever, whatsoever. Remote — Not directly related. Roman characters — A serifed style of typeface. Upright, as opposed to italic. Second-future tense — The second-future tense is that which expresses what will have taken place at some future time mentioned. Semivowel — A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel. A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English. Sentence — A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. Sign — An auxiliary, suffix, etc. that modifies a word. Small letters — The minuscule or small letters (a, b, c, as opposed to the uppercase or capital letters, A, B, C). Subject — The word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same. Subjunctive mood — A verb inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. Superlative degree — The form of an adjective that expresses which of more than two items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending est to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting most before it. Supposition — An assumption, conjecture, speculation or something supposed. Syllepsis — A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity. Synaeresis — The contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel. Syncope — A missing sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or Hawai'i from the root name Hawaiki. Syntax — A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences. Tense — Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. Thing sui generis — In a class of its own; one of a kind. Tmesis — The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word. Understood words — Words that are omitted by ellipsis. Unstressed numeral — A numeral in which one is replaced with indefinite article. Verb — A word that indicates an action, an event, or a state. Verbal — A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. Voice — A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. Vowel — A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

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From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroads of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics. In this lively, entertaining, and endlessly fascinating presentation, you'll hear about the personalities that helped shape the world and learn the answers to questions that have vexed most of us since grade school. Along the way, Davis offers an affectionate ode to the earth: a celebration of the earth, a searching investigation of the destruction of our habitat, and a practical guide to saving our home planet. For anyone who has felt geographically ignorant ever since gas stations stopped handing out free maps, Don't Know Much About® Geography is enormously informative entertainment. The author of the successful Don't Know Much About History returns to correct his countrymen's lack of knowledge about geography, a lack established when Americans aged 18 to 24 scored lowest on a 1988 test of geographic literacy given to young people of all industrialized nations. Davis writes with an entertaining, breezy touch and encompasses such interesting considerations as the origin of the belief in a race of Amazons. Besides essential geographic information, chapters cover the history of geographical studies, an overview of large cities of the past and present, the effect of climate on developing civilizations and astronomy. Helpful lists, ranging from glossaries to current and former names of countries and U.N. membership are included. Davis's eminently readable treatise should help remedy an ignorance that has even been discussed in the U.S. Senate. Author tour. (Oct.)\

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30-day free trial Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. Subtracting a number from itself and Subtracting Zero Copy this to my account E-mail to a friend Find other activities The student will practice two kinds of math facts. list of terms used in these activities. This activity was created by a Quia Web subscriber. Learn more about Quia Create your own activities

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A group of people from CERN is using their spare time to build Cosmic Pi, a cosmic ray detector based on a Raspberry Pi. Their goal is to crowdsource the world’s largest cosmic ray telescope by getting the devices into the hands of people and organisations around the globe, collecting data that will help astrophysicists understand more about these rays, several of which have passed through your body in the time it has taken you to read this paragraph. A video the team made last year explains the idea nicely: Uploaded by Cosmic Pi on 2015-05-07. You can take a look at details of the team’s current Cosmic Pi prototype hardware and software, all available online. The cosmic-ray-detecting part consists of a scintillator, made of a material that absorbs energy from cosmic rays passing through it and then emits some of that energy in the form of photons; an optic fibre to trap these photons and carry them to the edges of the scintillator material; and a silicon photomultiplier at each end of the fibre to convert this light into an electrical signal that can be analysed by the computer. A blog post from the end of last year has more detail about the prototyping process and the current design. On the first week-end of October, we were at CERN´s Ideasquare participating in The Port 2015 hackathon. We gave an overview of the project in our final presentation, available to watch here and below. Our presentation at ThePort15 hackathon. Because atmospheric conditions influence the flux of cosmic rays at the Earth’s surface, the team decided that it would be worthwhile including temperature, pressure and humidity sensors to monitor the weather. They also added a GPS module to allow devices to log their location (allowing altitude, another factor influencing flux, to be recorded too), and an accelerometer and magnetometer to provide additional information about the device’s orientation and position. Currently, an Arduino Due microcontroller reads the sensor data and passes them to the Raspberry Pi, which pre-processes and stores them; the Cosmic Pi team is prototyping a HAT to combine as many components as possible in a single PCB. You can sign up to get notified when Cosmic Pi launches, which the team hope will happen with a Kickstarter campaign later in 2016, and they also intend to publish the design under an open source licence. They’re aiming to keep the cost of the whole package under $500, or about £350. While this is likely to be a bit steep for some individuals, we’d love to see organisations and groups like hackspaces using devices like this to contribute to what could be an amazingly valuable citizen science project. Keep an eye on the Cosmic Pi blog for updates!

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Haleakala National Park, Hawaii November 11, 2010 Ancient geomorphic forces and before-your-eyes weather patterns meet dramatically every day around and atop the volcano Haleakala (House of the Sun). Haleakala is the summit of the Hawaiian island of Maui, standing 10,023 feet (3,055 m) above sea level. Hawaii’s chain of islands formed as the earth’s crust moved over a magma hot spot in the mid-Pacific Ocean. Like all other Hawaiian volcanoes, Haleakala is a shield volcano, built up layer-by-layer from the ocean floor. During a long dormant period, wind, water and even ice eroded the volcanic cones, sometimes creating wide valleys that later filled with lava when Haleakala awoke from its torpor. The coral and apricot mounds shown at right center are cinder cones, each the site of a prior eruption. A serpentine highway climbs to the top of Haleakala affording visitors fabulous views of Haleakala National Park, Maui and the blue Pacific. Trade winds typically carry moisture upward and a skirt of morning mist begins to form at mid-mountain. By afternoon more substantial fogs and clouds can actually drop a little rain, even though the volcano’s top is cloud free. On average, the rain forest above Hana, on the island’s eastern coast, receives up to 400 inches (1,000 cm) of precipitation per year. However, Kihei, only about 15 miles (24 km) away but on the lee side of the island, manages but 10 inches (25 cm). Photo taken on October 18, 2010. Photo Details: Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION; Camera Model: NIKON D60; Focal Length: 18.0mm; Aperture: f/13.0; Exposure Time: 0.010 s (1/100); ISO equiv: 100; Exposure Bias: none; Metering Mode: Matrix; Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto); Flash Fired: No; Color Space: sRGB.

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Jordan Wirfs-Brock/Inside Energy The duck curve has become shorthand for the challenges that utilities face as they add more solar power and other renewables to the grid. It comes to us from California, which has nearly half of the country’s installed solar generating capacity. When the sun goes down, that solar power has to be backed up by other power sources. A curve of how much conventional power – typically from gas-fired power plants – California needs throughout the day is high in the morning before sunrise, low all day long when the sun is shining, and high again at night after the sun sets. It looks like, well, a duck: For more on the duck curve, check out Inside Energy’s illustrated explanation from October of 2014. As California adds more solar, it grows more duck-like. That is, the daytime belly sags more. This leads to some technical challenges, like ramping up gas-fired power plants quickly, and making sure that too much solar power doesn’t overload the grid. Why is FERC talking about it now? The idea of the duck has been around for a long time: California’s utility, CAISO, first published its duck chart in 2013, and researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory modeled similar demand curves back in 2008 (although they didn’t call it a duck). Now, we’re seeing those projections play out in the real world. The FERC presentation included this chart, showing how the duck has deepened from January 2011 to January 2016: Seasonal planning, like the winter preparation discussed at last week’s FERC meeting, must take into account fluctuations in renewable generation, in addition to changes in how much energy people use. Paul Denholm, an analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, points out that, “An important element of operating the power system in the future is being able to accommodate this new interesting shape.” States that have been adding a lot of wind generation, like Colorado, have to adapt to other new shapes – which means developing new strategies to balance power generation. For example, by running wind turbines at less than maximum capacity, grid operators can use the spare capacity as reserve power. “Wind used to be a completely uncontrollable resource,” said Denholm. But now, “wind is actually a schedulable, dispatchable resource.” Many of the lessons learned from living with the duck in California, or living with increasing wind generation in Colorado, can translate to other parts of the country as they add more renewables to the grid.

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On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case. The physical exhibition was on view May 13 – November 13, 2004 This exhibition and its programming were made possible by the generous support of AARP, Anthony and Beatrice Welters, and AmeriChoice, a UnitedHealth Group Company. Look for these “Discover!” labels that will spotlight items of special interest to kids and families!

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Kakadu National Park is located 171 kilometers from the city of Darwin. This park has an area of 19,804 square kilometers. Kakadu National Park is the largest national park in Australia. It is extending from the mountains to the coast. Inside, there is a landscape that consists of slopes, wetlands, cascading waterfalls, abundant bird species as well as the rich history of Aboriginal culture. With an area of almost 20,000 square kilometers, Kakadu National Park has become a natural habitat for a variety of plants and animals endemic and rare in Australia. Some rare endemic plants that can only be found here for example is Eucalyptus koolpinensis. Here, you can find various types of water lily plants are beautiful, like a water lily blue, yellow, and white snow. The national park is also home to endemic species such as the black wallaroos, kangaroo Antilopine, rock-wallaby with short ears, a black neck crane, and much more. Not only that, this area has also been inhabited by a traditional population of Bininj Mungguy for more than 50 thousand years. This makes this park as one of the world heritage sites. Do not forget to enjoy the origin of Aboriginal sculpture, while you’re here. This place became the location of a collection of Aboriginal rock art in the world. Do not forget to see the cracks of stone carved by Dreamtime ancestors at Nourlangie Rock and some examples of the most beautiful X-ray art in the world at Ubirr Rock. Moreover, in Kakadu National Park, you can walk along the East Alligator River in Aboriginal cultural tour or paddling a canoe to the “Twin Falls” waterfall which was very amazing. In Kakadu, each season has a different menu. Different season, panorama presented will also be different. Here you can enjoy the view of the close, in the course of travel bushland, lakes or rivers. Enjoy views of the beautiful lotus flower to prehistoric crocodiles. Believe me, Kakadu National Park is full of treasures waiting for you to explore! The charm and uniqueness of Kakadu as an ancient cultural heritage has been recognized worldwide. Since 1981, this place has been listed as World Heritage. Then in 2011, Koongarra also included within the Kakadu National Park. Extensive areas of the largest National Parks in Australia are expected to protect the value of culture and heritage. So that it can continue to be enjoyed by future generations.

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Scrabble word: RHOMBOID In which Scrabble dictionary does RHOMBOID exist? Definitions of RHOMBOID in dictionaries: - noun - a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths - noun - any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade - adj - shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid - A parallelogram with unequal adjacent sides. - noun - a type of geometric figure There are 8 letters in RHOMBOID: B D H I M O O R Scrabble words that can be created with an extra letter added to RHOMBOID All anagrams that could be made from letters of word RHOMBOID plus a wildcard: RHOMBOID? Scrabble words that can be created with letters from word RHOMBOID 8 letter words 6 letter words 5 letter words 4 letter words 3 letter words 2 letter words Images for RHOMBOID SCRABBLE is the registered trademark of Hasbro and J.W. Spear & Sons Limited. Our scrabble word finder and scrabble cheat word builder is not associated with the Scrabble brand - we merely provide help for players of the official Scrabble game. All intellectual property rights to the game are owned by respective owners in the U.S.A and Canada and the rest of the world. Anagrammer.com is not affiliated with Scrabble. This site is an educational tool and resource for Scrabble & Words With Friends players.

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The long-term effects of alcohol (ethanol) consumption range from cardioprotective health ..... This inverse association was consistent across strata of age, sex, and body mass index." Frequenc... Drinking too much – on a single occasion or over time – can take a serious toll on your health. Here's how alcohol can affect your body: Brain: Alcohol interferes ... The effects of alcohol on a drinker's mind and body are many and can range from ... Alcohol abuse can also lead to alcoholism--diagnosed as alcohol use ... Oct 12, 2015 ... Find out how alcohol affects your body as it travels through your ... Thanks to its job breaking down toxins, your liver bears the brunt of heavy drinking. ... But if you start to overdo it, alcohol can certainly have negative effects. Alcohol effects every part of your body, including your brain, liver, stomach, and more. ... Alcohol consumption leads to slowed reflexes, reduced coordination, ... Dec 14, 2015 ... But why does it feel like the effects of drinking are so much worse post-40? ... Here's what else alcohol is doing to your body post-40. Alcoholism is currently listed as the third leading cause of death in our society. Many ... This stems from the sedative effect of alcohol being removed - the body. “I decided to stop drinking. I lay awake most of that night, and by noon the next day every bone in my body ached. In a blind panic, I nervously poured a glass full Drinking alcohol affects the body in many ways. These effects can lead to physical and mental changes that can put alcohol users and others at risk of injury or ... Experts describe 12 health risks linked to chronic heavy drinking. ... "Alcohol does all kinds of things in the body, and we're not fully aware of all its effects,"

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The waste containers distributed around the city promote selective waste disposal in a way that makes it easy and accessible for everyone. All containers used in Barcelona are user-friendly and made with absolutely safe materials. The containers have been placed so that everyone has a nearby disposal point. In November 2010, Barcelona's waste collection network finally incorporated waste disposal containers for organic matter, the brown ones. This has completed the range of selective waste disposal options, which already includes those for general household waste (grey), glass (green), paper (blue) and plastic packaging, tetra paks and other polycoat cartons, cans (yellow). In addition to containers, various "Punts Verds" (Household Waste and Recycling Centres, permanent or mobile collection facilities in each district) facilitate further separation of waste. Characteristics of Barcelona's waste container network - Close at hand - All residents have waste containers for selective collection within 100 metres of their homes. - The containers are adapted for use by everyone: they are ergonomic and accessible. - User friendly - The containers can be opened in two ways: by hand (lever) or with a foot (pedal), making them easier to use. - They also have a slow closing mechanism, designed so that they can be used with just one hand. - Adapted for the blind - Tactile symbols indicate the container's waste type. These were designed in conjunction with the Spanish National Organisation for the Blind (ONCE). containers for different types of waste Our aim is to encourage selective waste disposal by installing the whole range of waste containers around the entire city: Yellow: plastic packaging, tetra paks and other polycoat cartons, cans This waste is taken to sorting plants where the different materials are separated by means of a combination of visual, mechanical and manual techniques. The various sorted materials are compacted, packaged and distributed to recycling facilities. Tetra paks and other polycoat cartons are used to manufacture paper bags, cardboard and aluminium sheets, chipboard, cardboard for packaging, paper towels, and so on. Steel cans are melted down for use in the vehicle industry. Aluminium cans are used in making bicycles, home appliances, screws, etc. And plastic packaging is made into plastic bags, street furniture, signage, clothing, boxes and other containers for non-food applications (bleach, detergents, etc.) What belongs in the yellow container: plastic packaging (water bottles, plastic bags, yogurt pots, etc.), food and drink cans, tetra paks and other polycoat cartons, metal bottle tops and lids, aluminium foil and plastic wrap, expanded polystyrene trays, etc. What doesn't belong in the yellow container: toys, hoses, pipes and so on, materials such as videotapes, CDs, and hazardous materials packaging (such as for solvents and paints), which must be taken to one of the city's Household Waste and Recycling Centres. Glass collected selectively is taken to recycling plants where it is cleaned and ferrous material removed with a magnet. It is then crushed into powder (glass selected, cleaned and crushed) and used to manufacture glass containers identical to the originals: bottles, jars, light bulbs, etc. What belongs in the green container: glass containers and bottles. What doesn't belong in the green container: Broken glasses, sheet glass, mirrors, pottery, plates, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes, etc., which must be taken to one of the city's Household Waste and Recycling Centres. Blue: paper and cardboard Paper and cardboard are taken to recycling plants where they are made into large bales of shredded paper. These bales are left to soak and strained to filter out the ferrous materials. The resulting pulp is dried, rolled out and stored on spools. These are distributed to paper mills, which use the pulp to make new boxes, wrapping paper, bags for the construction industry, stationery, and even toilet paper. What belongs in the blue container: cardboard packaging and boxes, newspapers, magazines, notebooks without a metal spiral, envelopes, paper bags, writing paper, wrapping paper, etc. What doesn't belong in the blue container: Dirty paper products, such as paper napkins or towels stained with oil, which go in the brown container. Tetra paks and other polycoat cartons and aluminium foil belong in the yellow container. Cardboard pizza boxes for home delivery go in the grey container. Brown: organic waste Organic residues are waste materials of plant and/or animal origin such as food scraps and garden trimmings, which decompose biologically. They make up a third of the waste generated in homes, a highly significant amount. Organic waste and clippings from pruning done around the city are taken to the ecoparcs, where they are turned into either compost or biogas. The better-quality organic waste is used to obtain compost, which can be used as an organic fertilizer in farming and gardening or as a soil structuring agent when restoring degraded areas. The rest is used to generate biogas, a renewable energy source that can generate electricity. What belongs in the brown container: Leftovers of meat, fish, bread, fruit, vegetables, seafood and nuts, eggshells, corks, tea bags, coffee grounds, paper towels and napkins stained with oil, garden waste, etc. What doesn't belong in the brown container: Sweepings, hair, nappies and animal faeces, which go in the grey container. Paper and cardboard, which go in the blue container. Grey: general household waste General household waste refers to all waste unsorted before collection. This waste is taken to the ecoparcs, where various processes are employed to sort out the paper/cardboard, containers, glass and other materials, in order to incorporate them into the recycling process. Non-recyclable waste is dumped in landfills or incinerated. Ideally, these latter options should serve only for waste that cannot be reused or recycled, but the limitations of the existing collection and treatment methods mean that some potentially reusable and recyclable waste cannot be sorted. What belongs in the grey container: Cigarette butts, sanitary towels, nappies, sweepings, cotton, hair, used pens and pencils, animal faeces. What doesn't belong in the grey container: Tea bags, paper towels soiled by cooking oil or food scraps (egg shells or leftovers of shellfish, etc.), which go in the brown container. Pieces of wood, CDs, packaging that contained toxic or hazardous materials, and clothing, which go to the Household Waste and Recycling Centres What is a Household Waste and Recycling Centre (Punt verd)? Household Waste and Recycling Centres are where waste is taken that must not be thrown away in the containers in the street. Using the city's Household Waste and Recycling Centres contributes to the recycling process and helps to preserve the environment. Green point of zone Green point of neighborhood Mobile green point Mobile green school and electric point More and photos available on: ZDROJ: Barcelona pel Medi Ambient

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Once a principal sign of wealth and a primary form of travel, horses in the United States have gone from coveted assets to unnecessary burdens over the course of a single century. In fact, thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, horses are made to suffer outrageous treatment in the 21st century that would likely have spurred violent opposition once upon a time, especially in the Old West. As reported by the Humane Society in a press release, an advisory panel to the BLM has recently recommended euthanasia for tens of thousands of wild horses and burros – as many as 45,000, to be exact – that are currently in government holding facilities. The reason? Because the masterminds at BLM have singular thought patterns when it comes to “managing” the country’s wild herds of horses and burros. Holly Hazard, the senior vice president of Programs & Innovations at the Humane Society, said the government’s BLM bureaucrats are less than creative when it comes to managing the herds. She says it is an “abdication of responsibility” to decide to kill the horses and burros instead of taking proper care of them, as they are a national asset. “The agency would not be in this situation but for their long-term mis-management [sic],” she said, adding that over the past two decades a number of alternatives to the euthanization program have been offered and summarily ignored. In fact, she said, the Humane Society stands ready, as usual, to help BLM implement the alternatives. Euthanasia first, foremost and always For 20 years, the animal rights group said, the government has pursued a round-up and removal policy as its go-to management option for wild horse and burro populations on Western rangelands, but that has led to a fiscally unsustainable Wild Horse and Burro Program. By putting so many resources into rounding up and removing horses and burros from the free range, instead of treating them on the range – with a sterilization program, to control population growth, for example – holding facilities around the country are overflowing. The BLM spent $49 million to maintain animals in off-range facilities in 2015. That constituted nearly half – 46 percent – of the BLM’s annual budget for the wild horse and burro program. Because that is such a large line item expense, it hampered the agency’s ability to properly manage wild horses and burros in their rangeland habitats. Fertility programs that limit population growth have long been an alternative recommendation by the animal rights group. Nowhere is this battle playing out more than in Nevada, which is entering its fifth straight year of drought. There, the BLM is working to round up and kill off herds quickly, because most of the available water is on privately held rather than government land. (The government currently owns nearly 85 percent of land in the state.) Controversial sterilization method stopped There, advocates for the wild horses and burros object to the BLM’s favoring of cattle when it comes to public lands, even though the horses and burros are supposed to be federally protected and free-roaming. They also object to how grazing allocations are decided, according to Return to Freedom, a group that acts as an advocate for wild horses and burros. One of the BLM’s natural obstacles to carrying out more roundups, however, is money: Because it costs so much to round up horses and burros and then feed and keep them, the agency will round up far fewer this year, Return to Freedom noted in a press release. But other groups disagree with some forms of forced sterilization. As reported by ABC News, the BLM has dropped controversial plans for surgical sterilization of about 200 mares at the Wild Horse Corral Facility in Hines, Oregon, after opponents sued the agency in court. BLM was considering three sterilization methods, but the most problematic for horse advocates involved sedating the mares and having a veterinarian go in through the vagina to sever and remove ovaries. * * *

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Click on the image for animation While NASA's Cassini spacecraft was pointed to study Saturn's F ring, it happened to catch a globular star cluster passing through the camera's field of view. This movie is a concatenation of 13 images each taken about three minutes apart that show NGC 5139, or Omega Centauri. Some of the cluster's stars can even be seen through the ring's narrow Keeler Gap near the end of the movie. The cluster was in Ptolemy's star catalogue but was officially discovered by Edmond Halley in 1677 and was recognized as a globular cluster by John Herschel. This view looks toward the northern, unilluminated side of the rings from about 53 degrees above the ring plane. The stars on average were brightened by a factor of 10 relative to Saturn's rings. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 29, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (746,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 57 degrees. Image scale is 7 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

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October 3, 2007 Scientists Amazed at Fish Tag Journey PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - In 2005, a 2.9-inch steelhead left a Washington state hatchery in 2005 with a tiny implanted electronic tag. In April, Maori hunter Dale Whaitiri on Big Moggy Island off Southern New Zealand killed a young sooty shearwater chick, and found the tag. It had traveled 7,700 miles, fascinating scientists an ocean apart who are trying to figure out how it got there.The answer may reveal ecological connections stretching across the Pacific and illuminate the value Northwest salmon carry even thousands of miles away. "It is amazing it made it all that way," said Jen Zamon, a research fisheries biologist with the NOAA Fisheries in Hammond, near Astoria. "It's even more sort of miraculous that someone noticed it." Scientists believe the fish was eaten by an adult sooty shearwater, and have two theories about the tag: - That a shearwater off Oregon ate the young steelhead as it headed to sea, and the electronic tag from the fish lodged in the bird's stomach. There it remained for more than a year, until the bird, in New Zealand, regurgitated its stomach contents to feed its chick. - That the steelhead was inadvertently caught in a fishing net, perhaps near Japan or Russia, cut up on a factory ship or another fishing boat, and its remains and the tag were tossed overboard, to be eaten one of the masses of shearwaters that follow fishing vessels. "We know it went into the ocean, and we know it ended up in New Zealand," said Dave Marvin, who tracks Columbia River PIT tags for the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission in Portland. "But what happened in between is speculation." The tags are known as PIT tags, which is short for passive integrated transponder, and are similar to identification chips implanted in dogs and cats. Each tag carries an individual code that can be read by an electronic scanner. Nearly 2 million fish leave the Columbia system with such tags each year, most heading north and west on a more mundane circuit toward Alaska. Although shearwaters are not well known in Oregon, thousands migrate each year from nesting grounds in New Zealand to forage off the Oregon coast. They flying 40,000 miles a year, and more than 500 miles a day, in figure-eight patterns around the Pacific, according to tracking studies. In New Zealand, the shearwater is known as a muttonbird, or by its native Maori name, titi. The islands where the birds nest in tunnels among the roots of trees are called the Titi Islands. The masses of birds, which are related to the albatross, "carpet the surface of the ocean," said Zamon, who is studying the birds and the salmon they eat. Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

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A text equivalent for the audio track of a video would be similar to the textual transcript of the spoken voices recorded in an audio file. This can be either a synchronized text equivalent (as described in Checkpoint 1.3) - the preferred method, or a simple text file, as shown here: Go long, way out. Submitted for your consideration: the ball has been thrown, and you want to catch it. But how do you know where it will go so you can be there when it comes down? One way is to use this formula. It factors in velocity, acceleration and time to calculate the distance the ball will go. But then, you knew that. Your brain estimates all of these values in the first seconds of the ball's flight to calculate where you have to go to catch the ball. This math equation helps us understand the physical world and how we function in it. Whether you do it on the board or on the field, they both work. So, next time you go out for that long pass, remember: Math is everywhere. Math is everywhere! See QuickTime instructions for the movie clip on which this transcript is based. To Checkpoints for Guideline 1. Next slide: Example for Checkpoint 1.1n

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Three things that make SaniPath special | Source: SaniPath blog, April 21 2016 | The SaniPath team has created an exposure assessment tool to be used in urban low-resource areas with poor sanitation. It stands out as a resource for its accessibility, easy to understand results, and potential to influence policy making. 1. THE SANIPATH TOOL IS EASY TO USE AND UNDERSTAND The tool was designed with the goal that it would be able to be used independently by a variety of organizations interested in improving sanitation. It comes with a detailed manual describing the steps of the data collection and the analyses process than can be understood by anyone with a basic scientific background. Minimum requirements for use of the tool include: - A funding source (ex: local government or international organization) - A lab with the ability to detect E. coli and technicians to carry out the procedures in a sterile environment - A team with experience conducting surveys - A local group to assist with data collection and distribution Read the complete article.

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