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Unicode defines thousands of characters. Some “characters” are
surprising, and others are obvious. When I look at the Unicode
standard and consider the lengthy debates that occur when
deciding upon whether a character should be included, I can
imagine the discussion and rationalization that occurs. Deciding
on including a character can be difficult. One of the more
difficult concepts for me to appreciate is the difference
between light and dark (or black and white) characters. A real
example will help me explain this. Consider the “smiley face”
characters U+263A and U+263B: ☺ and ☻. These characters are
named WHITE SMILING FACE and BLACK SMILING FACE respectively.
These are not the only characters that have white and black
options. Dozens of others exist. There are even white and black
options for BLACK TELEPHONE and WHITE TELEPHONE. Of course, once
these characters go into the standard, they should stay. One
shouldn’t remove existing characters. However, a serious
question does arise when considering WHITE a
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Published: Oct. 17, 2006 Updated: Apr. 20, 2010 Two-and-a-half-
year-old Nina was bright-eyed and bouncy, full of laughter and
hugs -- when you could get her attention. She often seemed to be
ignoring her parents when they spoke to her, and when she did
respond, many of her words were slurred. Concerned, her parents
arranged for a hearing test -- and learned that Nina had
moderate hearing loss in both ears. Outfitted with a hearing
aid, and provided with speech therapy, she is just beginning to
regain some of the ground she lost during the first years of
life when important language skills are being learned. "Hearing
impairment is the largest congenital disability, affecting about
six out of every 1,000 infants," says Duke pediatric audiologist
Ann Mabie. "For a very long time, people thought you couldn't
test infants' hearing, and would just wait until children were
two or three years old. But by the time you wait for children
not to talk, a window of opportunity has shut." In fact, those
tiny, shell-like ear
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During the first 36 months of your child’s life, her brain is
growing, growing, growing as she soaks up everything around her
and figures out how to think, react, and solve important
problems like How do I get that toy over there? and How do I
stand up… crawl… walk… run? Activities like reading to your
child, listening to music, building with blocks together,
playing games with her, and letting her explore her
surroundings, all encourage brain development. But those aren’t
the only ways you can help your toddler’s brain blossom; feeding
her right is important, too. Foods that contain antioxidants,
choline, omega-3 fatty acids, and complex carbohydrates are all
particularly helpful in boosting brain health. Of course, a
steady diet of brain food isn’t a guarantee that your child will
grow up to achieve a perfect score on the SATs and earn a full
scholarship to the college of her choice. But making sure your
toddler gets plenty of these key nutrients is a smart start.
Brain Food for Kids: Antioxidants What they
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Standards operating procedure Will testing push leave children
behind or move them ahead? By Greg Botelho (CNN) – Statistics
show that the typical American high school senior can find the
Mississippi River on a map but doesn't know the significance of
the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and isn't aware that Canada is the
United States' top trading partner. To supporters of more
standardized testing of American students, the statistics show
that the typical American student needs to do better and know
more. Yet opponents of the standardization push sweeping the
nation's schools said they worry that the move toward increased
assessment testing ignores the growing diversity among American
students. There is no such thing, they say, as a 'typical'
American student. "There are so many differences among kids --
the whole idea of public education is managing those
differences," said Mark Townsend, president of the Colorado PTA.
"Kids are individuals, and teaching is not one size fits all."
Federal and state legislatures h
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What you Need Superconductors are very bizarre materials at room
temperature they behave like a normal metal or ceramic,
electrically or in any other way, when they are cooled below
their critical temperature(Tc) their resistance entirely
disappears to zero. Possibly the most beautiful and accessable
result of this is magnetic levitation. What is going on? If you
more a conductor towards a magnet you change the amount of
magnetic flux in the conductor so you induce a circulating
current in a conductor. This current produces a magnetic field
which acts against the movement, just like in the magnet
dropping down a pipe experiment. If the conductor has no
resistance (its a superconductor) the current will never die
away, so the superconductor will repel the magnet and levitate.
If the superconductor was perfect it would always be repelled by
a magnet, however high temperature superconductors, which work
at 77K (-196°C) or higher will allow magnetic flux into them if
they are cooled in the flux or if you apply a
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This molecular memory transistor, which can be as small as one
nanometer, stores and disseminates information at high speed —
and it's ready to be produced at existing high-tech fabrication
facilities. Major companies in the memory industry have already
expressed interest in the technology, says Mentovich, who was
awarded first prize for his work at May's European conference in
the session on Novel Materials Approaches for Microelectronics
of the Materials Research Society. As many as 15 years ago,
technology experts realized that the problem with shrinking
electronics would be the physical size of the hardware needed to
make them run. The idea of a sophisticated transistor, which
could do the job of both the transistor and the capacitor, was a
technological dream — until now. In order to tackle this
technology gap, Mentovich was inspired by the work of Israel
Prize winner Prof. Avraham Nitzan of TAU's Department of
Chemistry, who proved that, due to its special structure, a
molecule can store both an electri
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Naupactus; view from the fortress. |Population statistics (as of
2011)| |- Area:||159.9 km2 (62 sq mi)| |- Density:||124 /km2
(320 /sq mi)| |Time zone:||EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)| |Elevation (min-
max):||0–3 m (0–10 ft)| |Postal code:||303 xx| Naupactus or
Nafpaktos (Greek: Ναύπακτος, formerly Έπαχτος; Latin: Naupactus;
Italian: Lepanto; Turkish: İnebahtı), is a town and a former
municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece. Since
the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the
municipality Nafpaktia, of which it is the seat and a municipal
unit. It is the third largest town of Aetolia-Acarnania, after
Agrinio and Missolonghi. Naupactus is situated on a bay on the
north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, 3 km (2 mi) west of the
mouth of the river Mornos. The harbour is accessible only to the
smallest craft. It is 9 km (6 mi) northeast of Antirrio, 18 km
(11 mi) northeast of Patras, 35 km (22 mi)east of Missolonghi
and 45 km (28 mi) southeast of Agrinio. The Greek National Road
48/E65 (Antirrio - Naupac
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| Good to know| Subdivision consists of splitting a piece of
land into two or more separate plots, with a view to building on
or selling the newly created plots. Requesting a subdivision
permit is the first stage of any building project. Next,
planning permission must be obtained before any building work
can be started. Before agreeing to the subdivision of a piece of
land, the planning office will check whether the planned
buildings comply with the applicable planning regulations. For
example, subdividing a piece of land with a view to building a
15-storey apartment block will require a feasibility study, a
local survey, etc. Subdivision permits are granted subject to
conditions, which may include certain work that will have to be
paid for by the applicant, such as building or resurfacing
roads, creating public green spaces or installing utilities
(water, electricity, etc.). When a piece of land is put up for
sale, it is important for potential buyers to know whether a
subdivision permit has already been iss
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The Hudson River Estuary, a stretch of the Hudson River from
Troy, N.Y. to its mouth in New York Harbor, has begun a new
stage of its life say geologists at Columbia University's
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Queens College in Flushing,
N.Y. Researchers at both institutions have found that, aside
from a few very specific locations, the estuary may have largely
stopped filling in with new sediment. "The Hudson has gone
through many stages of evolution," said Cecilia M. G. McHugh,
the lead scientist on the study being published in an upcoming
issue of the journal Geology. "Now it's entering a new phase."
Some new deposits are being laid down as a result of annual rise
in sea level, McHugh continued, but on the whole, the river is
at equilibrium. Every year the Hudson tributaries to the north
discharge sand and silt into the river. The sand is trapped
around islands and shoals near Kingston, while the silt washes
down into the Hudson River Estuary, filling areas where scouring
or dredging has occurred. Mo
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The olive baboon lives in groups of 15–150, made up of a few
males, many females, and their young. Each baboon has a social
ranking somewhere in the group, depending on its dominance.
Newborns have black natal coats and bright pink skin. Females
are the primary caregivers of infants but males also play a
role. The species is the most widely ranging of all baboons; it
is found in 25 countries throughout Africa, extending from Mali
eastward to Ethiopia and Tanzania. Isolated populations are also
found in some mountainous regions of the Sahara.It inhabits
savannahs, steppes, and forests. Seen at Nairobi National Park
The first photo shows a male and female patrolling the grounds
at the entrance to the park; next is a male with some scavenged
food and last one of the baboons in its resting spot for the
night.
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run-parts runs a number of scripts or programs found in a single
directory directory. Filenames should consist entirely of upper
and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens.
Subdirectories of directory and files with other names will be
silently ignored. Scripts must follow the #!/bin/interpretername
convention in order to be executed. They will not automatically
be executed by /bin/sh. The files found will be run in the
lexical sort order of the filenames. print the names of the
scripts which would be run, but don't actually run them. print
the name of each script to stderr before running. similiar to
--verbose, but only prints the name of scripts which produce
output. The script's name is printed to whichever of stdout or
stderr the script first produces output on. Sets the umask to
umask before running the scripts. umask should be specified in
octal. By default the umask is set to 022. Pass argument to the
scripts. Use --arg once for each argument you want passed.
Specifies that this is the en
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ECOLOGICALLY-SOUND PEST, WATER AND SOIL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
FOR NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS CROPPING SYSTEMS Location:
Agricultural Systems Research Unit Title: Spatial and Temporal
Variations of Soil Penetration Resistance across Rows of
Sugarbeet under Two Tillage Systems Submitted to: Meeting
Abstract Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance
Date: March 4, 2010 Publication Date: April 23, 2010 Citation:
Jabro, J.D., Stevens, W.B., Evans, R.G., Iversen, W.M. 2010.
Spatial and Temporal Variations of Soil Penetration Resistance
across Rows of Sugarbeet under Two Tillage Systems. In:
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-1206. 2010 EGU
General Assembly, May 2-5, Vienna, Austria. Cd-Rom. Soil
compaction has detrimental effects on soil quality and root
growth. Soil compaction due to cultural operations is an
acknowledged problem by growers in the northern Great Plains,
USA. A field study was conducted near Sidney, MT, USA in 2007 to
evaluate spatial and temporal variations of penetration res
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Time and time again, I hear people ask, "Aren't they too young
to be dancing?" The truth is, as long as you find age
appropriate dance classes, no. The ability to start dancing
develops in children before they can even form words! (Click
here to see a fun example.) Dance is a primal part of human
experience across all cultures and time periods that unites us
all no matter our age. The benefits it has on early childhood
development is definitely worth understanding. Physical
development is one of the most obvious benefits dance classes
have for children. They are learning a great range of motion,
body awareness, balance, muscle strength, coordination, and
endurance. Movement patterns require the child to use their
entire body to reach a level of fitness that is unparalleled by
other activities. Through dance classes, kids begin to
understand that the possibilities of movement are endless and
fun to explore. In dance classes, children have the opportunity
to learn in a comfortable social setting. They must take
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The stone castle at Sudeley was mainly built in 1441 by Ralph
Boteler, who had the castle confiscated by Edward IV. The King
gave it to his brother, who later became Richard III. When Henry
VII became king, the castle became his property, and he gave it
to his uncle, Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. By the time Henry
VIII succeeded, the castle was a property of the crown once
again. Henry visited the castle in 1535 with his second queen,
Anne Boleyn, but the castle had been unattended for sometime at
that point. One contemporary historian said of Sudeley, "[it's]
going to ruine, more's the pittie". When Henry VIII died in
1547, his son, Edward VI gave it to Thomas Seymour, the boy-
king's uncle. Seymour was made Lord of Sudeley and married Henry
VIII's widow, Katherine Parr. During this time, a renewal of
Sudeley began. Seymour had a new suite added to the castle for
Katherine's private use, but only one room he had constructed
remains today. Seymour and his new wife moved to the castle,
bringing with them ladie
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Infectious endocarditis is an infection of the lining of the
heart chambers and heart valves that is caused by bacteria,
fungi, or other infectious substances. Endocarditis - infectious
Causes, incidence, and risk factors Endocarditis is usually a
result of a blood infection. Bacteria or other infectious
substance can enter the bloodstream during certain medical
procedures, including dental procedures, and travel to the
heart, where it can settle on damaged heart valves. The bacteria
can grow and may form infected clots that break off and travel
to the brain, lungs, kidneys, or spleen. Most people who develop
infectious endocarditis have underlying heart disease or valve
problems. However, an organism commonly found in the mouth,
Streptococcus viridans, is responsible for about 50% of all
bacterial endocarditis cases. This is why dental procedures
increase your chances for developing this condition. Such
procedures are especially risky for children with congenital
heart conditions. As a result, it is common p
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February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention
Month Did you know that in a recent national survey, 1 in 10
teens reported being hit or physically hurt on purpose by a
boyfriend or girlfriend at least once in the 12 months prior to
the survey? And nearly half of all teens in relationships say
they know friends who have been verbally abused. Before violence
starts, a teen may experience controlling behavior and demands.
One partner may tell another what to wear and who to hang out
with. Over time, the unhealthy behavior may become violent.
That's why adults need to talk to teens now about the importance
of developing healthy, respectful relationships. Dating violence
can have a negative effect on health throughout life. Victims of
teen dating violence are more likely to do poorly in school, and
report binge drinking, suicide attempts, physical fighting, and
current sexual activity. Teens who perpetrate dating violence
may also carry these patterns of violence into future
relationships. CDC's
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Category:Northern Sami nouns This category contains Northern
Sami nouns: Northern Sami words that indicate people, beings,
things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas. -
Category:Northern Sami proper nouns: Northern Sami nouns that
indicate individual entities, such as names of persons, places
or organizations. This category has the following 2
subcategories, out of 2 total. Pages in category "Northern Sami
nouns" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 441
total.(previous 200) (next 200)
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About Central Asian Suzanis Suzani comes from the Persian word
for "needle," and the word refers to embroidered hangings or
fabric coverings, generally a meter and a half wide (4-5') but
sometimes much more. The birthplace of suzanis is in what is now
Uzbekistan, the area along the Silk Roads that interconnected
the cultures of Europe, Turkey and China with the Muslim world.
Islam came to this area in the eighth century, and over time
splendid cities arose there: among them Bukhara, Samarkand,
Shakhrisabz and Khiva. Central Asia has always been a land of
textiles. The lives of nomads and settled peoples alike have
always been hard, and the landscape is often bleak, but women
have long decorated every object they could, prayer rugs,
saddlecloths, cradle covers, mirror cases, yurt bands, tent
flaps, salt bags and gift wraps with weaving, embroidery and
applique in wool, silk, cotton or felt. As children, nomad and
village girls alike began putting together dowries to show the
community their skill and industrio
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In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of
Munich while studying under Johannes Thiele. In 1904 he
completed his habilitation, then continued to teach at the
university and starting in 1907 was a consultant for Boehringer-
Ingelheim. In 1914 he became associate professor for special
topics in organic chemistry, and director of the Organic
Division of the State Laboratory in Munich. From 1917 to 1918
Wieland worked in the service of the (KWI) Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Physical Chemistry and Elektrochemistry in Dahlem
then led by Fritz Haber as an alternative to regular military
service. There he was involved in weapons resarch for instance
finding new synthetic routes for mustard gas. He is also
credited with the first synthesis of Adamsite. From 1913 to
1921, he was Professor at the Technical University of Munich. He
then moved to the University of Freiburg as successor of Ludwig
Gattermann (he also assumed responsibility for Gattermanns
infamous cookbook). In Freiburg he started working o
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Sep. 8, 2009 The path to poor hand sanitation is paved with good
intentions, according to researchers from Kansas State and North
Carolina State universities. As college campuses prepare for an
expected increase in H1N1 flu this fall, the researchers said
students' actions will speak louder than words. "Many students
say they routinely wash their hands," said Douglas Powell, an
associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University.
"But even in an outbreak situation, many students simply don't."
In February 2006, Powell and two colleagues -- Ben Chapman, an
assistant professor at North Carolina State University, and
research assistant Brae Surgeoner -- observed hand sanitation
behavior during an outbreak. What was thought to have been
norovirus sickened nearly 340 students at the University of
Guelph in Canada. Hand sanitation stations and informational
posters were stationed at the entrance to a residence hall
cafeteria, where the potential for cross-contamination was high.
The researchers observed t
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2010 Celebration & Events Celebrating Black History Month &
African American Women Jarena Lee a leading female preacher in
the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was also an ardent
abolitionist and was a member of the American Antislavery
Society. In 1833 she published her experiences as a traveling
preacher in Religious Experience and Journal. Read more about
Mrs. Lee here. Photo: "Mrs. Jarena Lee. Preacher of the A.M.E.
Church. Age 60 years on the 11th day of the 2nd month 1844.
Philad 1844." Claudette Colvin was only fifteen in 1955 when she
was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
Her actions predated Rosa Parks by 9 months. Read an article
about Ms. Colvin here. Constance Baker-Motley one of the lawyers
involved in the case Brown v. Board of Education was a member of
the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund at the time. Brown v. Board of
Education was a landmark case helped launch the end of school
segregation. Baker-Motley went on to other important civil
rights cases and then onto a pol
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For years the music industry has seen P2P technology as the
single biggest threat, claiming that file-sharers are
responsible for billions of dollars in losses. However, P2P
technology is also part of the music industry’s future. One of
the major revelations in the music business, the streaming
service Spotify, is actually one of the largest file-sharing
networks on the Internet. When Spotify launched their first beta
in the fall of 2008, we branded it “an alternative to music
piracy.” Having the option to stream millions of tracks
supported by an occasional ad, or free of ads for a small
monthly fee, Spotify appeared to be serious competitor to music
piracy. In the two years that followed Spotify rapidly won the
hearts and minds of many music fans. Currently limited to a few
European countries only, the service has already amassed more
than 10 million users and over a million paid subscribers. A
true success story, which has been recognized by the music
industry on various occasions. What’s often overlooked
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The prototype vehicle has been unveiled ahead of the COP15 UN
Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen. The hybrid vehicle
is powered by a high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane
(HT-PEM) fuel cell operating on a reformed methanol/water mix.
The vehicle is claimed to offer a range of 500 km (310 miles),
and takes only two minutes to refuel. This could happen at a
regular gas station, and result in 70% lower CO2 emissions than
a gasoline-driven vehicle. The Serenergy HT-PEM fuel cell system
operates at 160°C, rather than the 80°C of a conventional PEM
fuel cell. This means that it is much more resistant to carbon
monoxide, which even at very low levels poisons a conventional
PEM fuel cell. It is also more resistant to hydrogen sulfide (up
to 10 ppm), and so maintains its performance even while it can
still be made out of conventional materials. HT-PEM fuel cells
are based on the use of polybenzimidazole (PBI) membranes doped
with phosphoric acid for proton conduction. It is this membrane
construction
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About the Course:This free online course is perfect for beginner
developers as well as for those who want a broad overview of the
art of programming with Borland Delphi. Developers will learn
how to design, develop and test application using Borland
Delphi. The chapters will cover the fundamental elements of
creating Windows applications using Delphi, including the
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the Object Pascal
language. Developers will get up to speed quickly through real
world, practical examples. Prerequisites:Readers should have at
least a working knowledge of the Windows operating system. No
previous programming experience is required. Recommended
reading: Delphi history from (Turbo) Pascal to Delphi 2005.
Concise descriptions of Delphi versions and its history, along
with a brief list of features and notes. Find out how Delphi
evolved from Pascal to a RAD tool that can help you deliver
high-performance, scalable applications ranging from desktop and
database solutions to mobile and distr
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Georgia folklife includes a wide range of community-shared,
informally learned traditions, from the African American
Although Georgia folklife belongs to a larger regional heritage,
certain traditions have been emphasized in, or shaped by
historical forces peculiar to, the state. These include
Georgia's role in commercializing southern folk music, the
importance of folk pottery, and the creation of the Sacred Harp
shape-note singing tradition. Early study of Georgia folklife
was spotty, but since the 1970s public awareness has been
heightened by a growing number of publications, festivals, and
exhibits. The historical folk culture of Georgia's frontier era
was shaped by five foundation groups: Native American, British,
African, Irish, and German. Blending of traditions from these
groups mainly occurred farther east, in the Carolinas and
Virginia. The resulting frontier folklife—which carried the
value system, provided the survival skills, and supported the
quality of life for early Georgians—included communit
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A trust is a legal arrangement where management of property is
separated from the benefit of that property. This is created
when someone (the settlor), entrusts property into a trust
(managed by trustee) for the benefit of another (the
beneficiary). Trust administration refers to the management of
assets within the trust. The trustee is responsible for trust
administration, and holds the duty of fiduciary. The trustee
must protect the assets of the trust, and ensure they are used
according to the trust setup. The duties of trust administration
will vary according to the nature of the trust.
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What are feature flags? Features flags (aka feature bits,
feature toggles) are a very useful technique for managing latent
functionality within your application. You expose switches in
your application which configure whether certain behavior is
enabled or disabled. Typically your would use this pattern for
functionality which is under active development and is not
‘fully baked’. There are various classes of behavior which you
might expose toggles for. Common use cases include hiding user-
facing features which are still in development, or switching
whether your code uses a new version of a third-party service.
This allows you to do branch-by-abstraction and therefore avoid
long-lived feature branches which can often be the source of
considerable pain to a development team. For a more in-depth
discussion on this pattern, Martin Fowler has a nice writeup. My
former colleague Erik Sowa also has a nice presentation
describing how we applied ‘feature bits’ at a previous company I
worked in. Derek Hammer has a real
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Hospitalist resources and more. There was an article written in
April about a study on a new alternative medicine from Boswellia
serrata extract (BSE) that’s shown to be effective in
osteoarthritis patients. Boswellia was compared with Valdecoxib,
a COX-2 inhibitor. Both treatments were shown to be effective,
but the effects did not persist in Valdecoxib patients after
their drug therapy ended. They did, however, in BSE patients.
Side effects of BSE have yet to be extensively tested in humans,
but studies have shown that, unlike NSAIDs, BSE does not result
in gastrointestinal irritation or ulceration.Elizabeth
HenryNatural Standard Research
Collaborationwww.naturalstandard.com An Oldie, But A
GoodieAlmost on a daily basis, one may read about a new
medication being developed or approved for the benefit of
patients. At times, these announcements may praise the
innovation and novelty of such new drugs that are available to
all in need of it.But it’s possible the one super drug is not
new and really is a super dr
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The Spice Mix Super Computer was a part of the Abandon Normal
Devices in Manchester, England this weekend. The AND festival
commissioned the Center for Genomic Gastronomy to create a new
work inside a traveling caravan and this is what we made: The
Centre for Genomic Gastronomy had deigned a exciting new
culinary commission, the Spice Mix Super-Computer! The Spice Mix
Super-Computer is a massive mobile food machine, which allows
users to create, print and taste a unique blend of spices from
millions of possible combinations. First, plug into the bespoke
Olfactory Synthesizer to combine and compare smells from our
database of international spices. Then, choose your favorite
spices and watch the computer process and interpret your
selection. After the food-printing is complete, take your
customized container of spice to the BetaTaster™ food counter
and share your recipe and experience, and take home your spice
mix to share with others. Spices as Social Media Spices are one
of the oldest forms of long distance c
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1. Unexpected Discovery Baleen whales, like this right whale
mother and calf, communicate using low-frequency acoustic
signals. Underwater noise from large ships overlaps
communication sounds used by whales, and these noise levels have
significantly increased, leading to concerns about effects on
whales. This study shows that reduced ship traffic in the Bay of
Fundy after September 11, 2001, resulted in a significant
decrease in underwater noise. Reduced noise was associated with
decreased levels of faecal stress hormones in right whales.
(Here’s how the researchers get those faecal samples.) This is
the first evidence that exposure to ship noise is associated
with chronic stress in whales, and has implications for baleen
whales in heavy ship traffic areas.
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There is a climate splash in Nature this week, including a cover
showing a tera-tonne weight, presumably meant to be made of
carbon (could it be graphite?), dangling by a thread over the
planet, and containing two new articles (Allen et al and
Meinshausen et al), a “News & Views” piece written by two of us,
and a couple commentaries urging us to “prepare to adapt to at
least 4° C” and to think about what the worst case scenario (at
1000 ppm CO2) might look like. At the heart of it are the two
papers which calculate the odds of exceeding a predefined
threshold of 2°C as a function of CO2 emissions. Both find that
the most directly relevant quantity is the total amount of CO2
ultimately released, rather than a target atmospheric CO2
concentration or emission rate. This is an extremely useful
result, giving us a clear statement of how our policy goals
should be framed. We have a total emission quota; if we keep
going now, we will have to cut back more quickly later. There is
uncertainty in the climate sensitivit
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This 3 part problem deals with functions from the set P of cell
phones in use in the US to the set of natural Numbers N. a)
Write one interesting function f:P N that is injective. Define
the function by giving a rule for it, i.e., (f(x)=...) b) write
a function f:P N that is not injective. Again, give a rule c)
Explain why there is no function from P to N that is surjective
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So far, the scorecard for missions to Mars reads attempts 40,
successes 14. Well over 60 percent of Earth missions to Mars
have failed, ever since the pioneering efforts of the former
Soviet Union in the 1960s and including Britain's high-profile
Beagle 2 space probe. As Nasa's latest mission to Mars heads
closer to the Red Planet, the head of Nasa's Mars Exploration
Program, Doug McCuistion, acknowledged Tuesday that many things
could still go wrong before its scheduled August 6 landing date.
The one thing that worries him most is if the spacecraft's heat
shield will detach as planned when the US Mars Science
Laboratory mission sets down a large, mobile laboratory on Mars,
the rover Curiosity. "If you look at the scorecard, Earth is
doing less than 50 percent; less than 50 percent of Earth's
missions to Mars have been successful," McCuistion, a former US
fighter pilot, said at the Farnborough Airshow south of London.
In the seven minutes before its planned touchdown, the US
spacecraft has a number of tasks i
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Makes grants to address the most serious social and
environmental problems facing society, where risk capital,
responsibly invested, may make a difference over time. An
independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to
promote the progress of science. King Saud University seeks to
become a leader in educational and technological innovation,
scientific discovery and creativity through fostering an
atmosphere of intellectual inspiration and partnership for the
prosperity of society. The O'Donnell Foundation is devoted to
building model programs to enhance the quality of education.
|Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy
affect a reaction rate? Vary temperature, barrier height, and
potential energies. Record concentrations and time in order to
extract rate coefficients. Do temperature dependent studies to
extract Arrhenius parameters. This simulation is best used with
teacher guidance because it presents an analogy of chemical
reactions.| Vezi mai jos. - Energie termică Studii de caz -
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After weeks of E. Coli illnesses that have taken 35 lives in
Germany, left 3,255 ill and 812 with kidney failure, it has been
determined that bean and seed sprouts are the source of the E.
Coli bacteria. Previously it was thought that the illnesses
could be originating from cucumbers, tomatoes or lettuce. It
could well have been that eating the salad ingredients in
combination with sprouts led to the confusion of which foods
were actually to blame. Now it has been found that rarer forms
of E. Coli are being detected in the United States. Recently,
federal officials stated that national monitoring of foodborne
illnesses revealed that a growing number of illnesses last year
from a group of rare E. Coli bacteria related to the highly
dangerous strain that has been sweeping across Germany. It seems
that the most common form of E. Coli affecting U.S. citizens,
O157:H7, was not the predominant strain in the year 2010. Those
rarer strains recently found in Germany accounted for more
illnesses during this time period
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By Chelsea Gunther Patrick Robinson, an adjunct faculty member
and Cofrin Center for Biodiversity affiliate, is working on a
project examining the effects of climate change, both socially
and ecologically. He is working on this project along with other
researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University
of Wisconsin-Extension, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Oxford Laboratory in Maryland.
So what is NERRS? It is the National Estuarine Research Reserve
System. This system contains 28 diversely located reserves.
These reserves are being exposed to several human-related
(anthropogenic) and climate-related stressors. The goal of this
project is to understand how climate change impacts coastal
areas and categorize each reserve based on the results of the
anthropogenic and climate impacts. The team plans to present the
project results in the fall of 2012. Whose idea was it? NOAA’s
Climate Program Office is developing a partnership with the
Office of Ocean and Coas
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Your letters: The Sumatran tiger crisis Paper Edition | Page: 8
With just shy of 600 Sumatran tigers left in the world, they are
a species on the critically endangered list that face more
threats than any other tiger species. They face conflict with
humans as the demand for their skin and other parts rises and
their habitat is being cut down at its highest rate. Sumatran
tigers require large amounts of forest cover for their territory
since they are not social animals. As Sumatra provides 87
percent of the palm oil produced in Indonesia the deforestation
caused by the expansion of plantations causes a threat to their
habitat and challenges their survival. Sumatra lost nearly 13
million hectares of forest between 1985 and 2009 due to its
conversion to agriculture and commercial plantations, as well as
the encroachment of unsustainable logging operations and road
construction. In 2008, the island had 12.8 million hectares of
forest remaining that only covered 29 percent of the land area,
and this is where 87 pe
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By Kelley Lynch and Heidi Good BENENA, Mali, 18 August 2011 - At
a public meeting in the village of Benena, in Mali’s Segou
Region, a gathering of women collectively shot their hands up in
the air when asked why girls’ education in their community had
been neglected in the past. Florence Koné, wearing a dress made
of colorful fabric to commemorate International Women’s Day,
stood up with a rush of enthusiasm. “You want to know why
previously we didn’t educate our girls?” she exclaimed. “I’ll
tell you. We were afraid they might get in trouble - maybe they
would get pregnant, maybe they would leave school.” |VIDEO:
UNICEF correspondent Bob Coen reports on the benefits of child-
friendly schools for girls in Mali. Watch in RealPlayer| As soon
as she sat down, Tangara Hawa Dembelé posited an alternative
answer to the question. “It’s because they were useful at home,”
she said. “Having them there allowed a mother to have a little
rest.” A greater understanding When UNICEF and its partners
started working in the vil
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They don't just warn us about disease, they're worried about
global warming too (which can lead to disease), and they're
trying to communicate this concern to us. 18 of the world's
professional medical organizations say that the recent failure
to reach a UN climate agreement will lead to a "global health
catastrophe" and urge physicians to "take a lead" on the climate
issue. In BBC News, Richard Black quotes an article in the
medical journal the Lancet as saying, "Effects of climate change
on health will put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people
at increased risk." Scientists of all kinds have good reason to
worry: In the September 16 edition of the New York Times, Andrew
C. Revkin reports that oceans are warmer today than they have
been in almost 130 years, since records on this first started to
be compiled, probably as a result of global warming and the
current El Nino. To learn more, click here and here. Art credit:
Dreamstime.com NOTE: This news story, previously published on
our old site, will ha
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This chapter is based on pp. 441-474 of Origin of the Life
(Volume Two of our three-volume Evolution Disproved Series). Not
included in this chapter are at least 87 statements by
scientists. You will find them, plus much more, on our website:
evolutionfacts.com. Evolution is based on change from one
species to another. In chapters 9 and 10, Natural Selection and
Mutations, we have found that there is no mechanism by which it
can occur; and in chapter 12, Fossils and Strata, we will learn
that there is no past evidence of such change. The fact that all
plant and animal true species are distinct types is a crux in
the entire controversy. So we will here devote a full chapter to
speciation. This material will help fill out the picture of what
we are learning in other chapters. DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF THE
SPECIES—The battle over evolutionary theory finds its center in
the species. This is where *Charles Darwin attempted to fight
it, but without success. Even though he called his first book by
that name, he never
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Books and Videorecordings about the Erie Canal The Erie Canal
has been featured in many works of fiction and non-fiction. This
selected bibliography is only a brief sampling. If the works
listed are available on the web or have a related web page, that
fact is noted in the description. - Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The
Erie Canal ; illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh. (Random House,
c1953) 182 p. (Landmark books) -- The author's retelling of
stories of the methods of construction and early operation of
the canal, told to him by his grandfather who "had a hand in
it." - Anderson, Patricia. The Course of Empire : the Erie Canal
and the New York landscape, 1825-1875. (Memorial Art Gallery of
the University of Rochester, c1984) 87 p. -- The catalogue of an
exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, June 16-August 12, 1984.
- Andrist, Ralph K. The Erie Canal ; by the editors of American
Heritage ; consultant, Carter Goodrich. (Mahwah, NJ : Troll
Associates, c1964) 153 p. (American Heritage junior library) --
A heavily illustr
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Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP is the Chair of the Department
of Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of
Vanderbilt Medical School, and completed her residency in
Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at
Indiana University. Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board
certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a
consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in
Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the
Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San
Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT
Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
Enterococci are a group of gram-negative, round-shaped bacteria
that commonly live in the gut, although they can cause infection
anywhere in the body. They are resistant to several antibiotics,
but in the past, physicians could rely on the drug vancomycin to
effectively treat entero
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Whether you like a good story, social history, computers, or are
just nostalgic about Joe Lyons' "caffs", A Computer Called LEO
is an appealing tale, illustrated with black and white photos,
about the advent of the first computer. Georgina Ferry conjures
up the image of some 300 female accounts clerks, clacking away
continuously on their Burroughs mechanical calculators checking
bills against takings for the 250 or so J Lyons & Co high street
teashops in the 1930s. The manager of the accounting operation
in pre-war times was a bright young man called John Simmons.
According to Ferry, as Simmons surveyed the room "all he saw was
a waste of human intelligence" and he began to dream of the day
when machines would be invented capable of doing all this work
automatically. Within 10 years he made the first stage in that
dream a reality by persuading the board of Lyons that their
company must become the first in the world to build its own
electronic digital computer. A Computer Called LEO is the
wonderful story of t
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While children starting school this week will learn the metric
system, many Britons remain attached to imperial weights and
measures. Will the UK ever give them up? By Chris Summers BBC
News Online A generation of children is being taught to give
their weight in kilograms, to measure their height in
centimetres and to think of their drinks in litres. "Can I have
a 113grammer, fries and half a litre of Coke?" But even the
youngest school starters attending class for the first time this
week are likely to find a country which still uses imperial
measures when they finally end their education. Britons raised
to use the old standard will continue to give distances in
miles, to talk about 18 yard boxes when chatting about football
and furlongs when discussing horse racing. Britain first laid
plans to go metric in 1965, but will it ever go the full nine
yards (8.23 metres)? Beer and cider Many of the UK's traders are
already required by law to use metric units, but imperial
measurements can also be displayed. Come
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Les noms des biens figurent dans la langue dans laquelle les
Etats parties les ont soumis. Between 1700 BCE and 1100 BCE, an
integrated architectural complex consisting of three or four
earthen mounds, a series of six vast concentric semi-elliptical
earthen ridges (ranging in diameter from 600 to 1200 meters), a
large flat plaza defined by the innermost ridge (14 hectares or
35 acres in size), and several borrow areas, was constructed at
this site on a bayou (a marshy tributary) not far from the west
bank of the Mississippi River. The ridges are believed to have
served as living areas. Three mounds, one of which is the second
largest earthen structure in North America, are outside the
ridged enclosure; two are inside it. The vast earthen
architecture of this site was constructed by a foraging society
of hunter- gatherers, not a settled agricultural people, which
makes it all the more remarkable a site. It is still not
understood how and why such a society could so totally transform
this landscape. It may well
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|IDNDR - Informs - Number 13, 1998 (IDNDR-DIRDN, 1998)| Disaster
prevention begins with timely and accurate information. When
there is clarity in the perception of risk, we tend to minimize
the possible consequences event. By means of sounds, images, and
the printed word, the mass media report on what is going on in
the world, but they can do much more. They can explain the
significance of events; they can serve as guides through an
uncertain terrain, an teachers in a world where a high penalty
must be paid for ignorance. If providing information means
conveying the most complete available knowledge of an event, in
this case natural phenomena, reporters and media outlets should
not give in to sensationalism, which essentially means
communicating only the most alarming information, not the most
illuminating. They should explain what is going on in the
clearest and simplest manner, and provide the data and
background the public needs to respond effectively to an
emergency. When disasters strike, information div
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Summary: How to define usability? How, when, and where to
improve it? Why should you care? Overview defines key usabilty
concepts and answers basic questions. This is the article to
give to your boss or anyone else who doesn't have much time, but
needs to know the basic usability facts. What — Definition of
Usability Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how
easy user interfaces are to use. The word "usability" also
refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design
process. Usability is defined by 5 quality components: -
Learnability: How easy is it for users to accomplish basic tasks
the first time they encounter the design? - Efficiency: Once
users have learned the design, how quickly can they perform
tasks? - Memorability: When users return to the design after a
period of not using it, how easily can they reestablish
proficiency? - Errors: How many errors do users make, how severe
are these errors, and how easily can they recover from the
errors? - Satisfaction: How pleasant is it to u
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Acne is a combined term that is used to describe a number of
skin conditions, like blackheads, blemishes, lumps, and
whiteheads. Teenagers and adults can have acne. Stress, hormonal
activity, bacteria, steroids, and overactive glands can cause
acne. When we think of acne, the picture that comes to our minds
is that of an adolescent, who is physically changing from a
child into an adult. However, acne is not restricted to
juveniles only. Both adult and juvenile acne are infections
generated by the same bacteria.
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Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic kidney disease occurs when damage
to the kidneys causes reduced kidney function. Kidney disease
has usually been present for many years and may slowly get worse
over time. Chronic kidney disease can be mild, moderate, or
severe. eMedicineHealth Medical Reference from Healthwise To
learn more visit Healthwise.org © 1995-2012 Healthwise,
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and the Healthwise logo are trademarks of Healthwise,
Incorporated. Find out what women really need. Most Popular
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Nature in Balance: The Butterflies of Costa Rica Greeks believed
butterflies represented the human soul, and for the Chinese and
Japanese, butterflies represent the presence of loved ones.
These mystical creatures with their delicate wings are insects
and one of the many species that inhabitat Costa Rica. Hecale
Longwing, Owl Butterfly, Florida White, Ruby-spotted Swallowtail
and Blue Morpho are among the many varieties of butterflies
found throughout the country’s many microclimates and habitats.
From egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult the transformation
butterflies undergo in one lifetime from an ugly caterpillar to
a magnificent creature of nature is a complete. Butterflies
signify the miracle of metamorphosis. They are highly sensitive
so a strong population reflects a healthy and balanced
environment. They remind us of the miracle of nature’s life
cycle and the transformation possible in our own lives or world.
Butterfly watching ranks among one of people’s favorite past
time activities. There are
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The British Science Festival is committed to reducing the effect
that it has on the local and global environment. We have drawn
up a list of ways we will endeavour to achieve this. 1.
Registration and accreditation - Electronic event registration -
Lanyards made from recycled materials. Asking participants to
return them after the event - Use recycled paper and vegetable-
based inks for badges. 2. Venue selection & service provision -
Where possible, choose venues that employ energy- and water-
efficient equipment and practices, and schedule heating,
ventilating and air conditioning resources around event
requirements - Eliminate disposable containers, plates, bowls,
cups and cutlery. 3. Food and beverages - Request organic,
locally produced food and beverages to cut transportation
emissions. - Donate leftover food to local charities - Ensure
that any seafood served is harvested responsibly - Insist on
biodegradable food packaging from caterers. - Provide guests
with information about accommodation with environ
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World's rarest whale seen for the first time A whale that is
almost unknown to science has been seen for the first time after
two individuals -- a mother and her male calf -- were stranded
and died on a New Zealand beach. A report in the November 6th
issue of Current Biology offers the first complete description
of the spade-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii), a
species previously known only from a few bones. The discovery is
the first evidence that this whale is still with us and serves
as a reminder of just how little we still know about life in the
ocean, the researchers say. The findings also highlight the
importance of DNA typing and reference collections for the
identification of rare species. "This is the first time this
species -- a whale over five meters in length -- has ever been
seen as a complete specimen, and we were lucky enough to find
two of them," says Rochelle Constantine of the University of
Auckland. "Up until now, all we have known about the spade-
toothed beaked whale was from th
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About bone infection The management of infection of bone
(osteomyelitis) is challenging. The use of antibiotics has
virtually eliminated infection as a major medical problem in the
21st century, but it remains a significant problem in bone due
to the poor blood supply in normal bone, and the virtually non-
existent blood supply of injured bone, since antibiotics can
only penetrate where there is a blood supply. If there is metal
in the area, this can act as a reservoir of infection and is a
particular problem. Treatment of bone infection In the absence
of fracture, infection can be treated by removal of infected
bone (debridement) followed by reconstruction by plastic surgery
if there is sufficient bone remaining. If a whole segment of
bone is involved, it may need removal, and new bone creating by
the use of the Ilizarov technique. In the case of infected
fractures, the primary treatment often involves removal of any
metalwork; the fracture site has to be stabilised by another
method until healed, which usual
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Definition of recompense : 1. An equivalent returned for
anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital;
suitable return. 2. To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as
something earned or deserved. 3. To give recompense; to make
amends or requital. 4. To render an equivalent to, for service,
loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. 5. To
return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone
for; to pay for. pay off, gratuity, premium, allowance,
recoupment, honorarium, contribution, furbish up, mend, fix,
pay, fee, reparation, resort, consideration, stipend, spend,
indemnify, bushel, reward, finance, renovate, even off, invest
in, down payment, reprisal, doctor, remediate, settlement,
quittance, wages, damages, counterbalance, overcompensate, make
up, remuneration, advance, repair, requital, satisfaction, fund,
restore, payback, recreate, touch on, animate, indemnification,
indemnity, reanimate, repay, quicken, disburse, revive, deposit,
requite, restitution, vivify, salary, pay
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The Iditarod National Historic Trail: Historic Overview & New
Insights for its Centennial Year updated by Robert E. King1
Today’s Iditarod Trail, a symbol of frontier travel and once an
important artery of Alaska’s winter commerce, served a string of
mining camps, trading posts, and other settlements founded
between 1880 and 1920, during Alaska’s Gold Rush Era. Alaska’s
gold rushes were an extension of the American mining frontier
that dates from colonial America and moved west to California
with the gold discovery there in 1848. In each new territory,
gold strikes had caused a surge in population, the establishment
of a territorial government, and the development of a
transportation system linking the goldfields with the rest of
the nation. Alaska, too, followed through these same general
stages. With the increase in gold production particularly in the
later 1890s and early 1900s, the non-Native population boomed
from 430 people in 1880 to some 36,400 in 1910. In 1912,
President Taft signed the act creating
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In many of the places where we work, fire can be a conservation
threat, a natural and even necessary ecological process, and an
irreplaceable, life-sustaining tool for rural communities. Where
the fire-related needs of ecosystems and people are at odds, The
Nature Conservancy has found that it is possible to reconcile
these needs through a framework called Integrated Fire
Management. Although Integrated Fire Management is not a new
term, IFM — as it is defined by the Conservancy (see definition
below) — is a scale-able framework that works in places with
fire-dependent ecosystems as well as places with fire-sensitive
ecosystems. Its effectiveness is not dependent on a country’s
development status. The Nature Conservancy uses this framework
to address fire-related conservation threats at global,
national, regional and local scales. The first step of
Integrated Fire Management includes identifying potential
environmental, social and economic benefits and consequences of
fire. When used at a local scale, this in
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NOTE: AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES TWO-THIRDS
APPROVAL IN EACH CHAMBER OF CONGRESS, AND RATIFICATION BY THREE-
FOURTHS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURES WITHIN SEVEN YEARS OF THE DATE
THE AMENDMENT WAS SUBMITTED. Legislation-Joint Resolution -
Cloture Not Invoked April 23, 1996(Key vote) Title: Term Limits
bill Vote Smart's Synopsis: Vote to invoke cloture on a joint
resolution proposing a constitutional amendment limiting
Congressional terms to six full terms for House members, and two
full terms for Senators. Limits House members to 6 full terms.
Limits Senators to 2 full terms. Declares any member of the
House serving more than 1 year of a term to which another person
was elected eligible for only 5 more terms. Declares any Senator
serving more than 3 years of a term to which another person was
elected eligible for only 1 more term. Exempts time served in
Congress before ratification. NOTE: INVOKING CLOTURE REQUIRES A
3/5 MAJORITY OF THE SENATE. IT IS NOT A VOTE ON THE PASSAGE OF
THE PIECE OF LEGISLATI
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- Clancy, Gunilla, 1968-, et al. Comparing the sustainability of
using a non-renewable oil based material in an absorbent hygiene
product with that of using a renewable wood based material Ingår
i: Poster presentation at the Eforwood conference 'Shape your
sustainability tools - and let your tools shape you', 23-24
September 2009, Uppsala, Sweden. ; s. 2-3 Konferensbidrag
(övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract - The WooDi project – the Wood
based Diaper, is a research collaboration between industry and
university. The goal of the project is to make a new diaper that
is more sustainable than today’s product, by replacing non-
renewable North Sea oil based materials in the diaper with a
renewable material based on wood from the Nordic countries. This
calls for a way to compare the sustainability associated with
using the different raw materials. Comparisons of the
implications of using crude oil and biomass resources have so
far mainly been made for fuels used in transportation. The
available literature assessing the us
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Basic Use To make a new number, a simple initialization
suffices: var foo = 0; // or whatever number you want foo = 1;
//foo = 1 foo += 2; //foo = 3 (the two gets added on) foo -= 2;
//foo = 1 (the two gets removed) Number literals define the
number value. In particular: They appear as a set of digits of
varying length. Negative literal numbers have a minus sign
before the set of digits. Floating point literal numbers contain
one decimal point, and may optionally use the E notation with
the character e. An integer literal may be prepended with "0",
to indicate that a number is in base-8. (8 and 9 are not octal
digits, and if found, cause the integer to be read in the normal
base-10). An integer literal may also be found with "0x", to
indicate a hexadecimal number. The Math Object Unlike strings,
arrays, and dates, the numbers aren't objects. The Math object
provides numeric functions and constants as methods and
properties. The methods and properties of the Math object are
referenced using the dot operator in
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Black Box Explains...RS-232. Product Data Sheets
(pdf)...Enhanced Parallel Port Cables RS-232, also known as
RS-232C and TIA/EIA-232-E, is a group of electrical, functional,
and mechanical specifications for serial interfaces between
computers, terminals, and peripherals. The RS-232 standard was
developed by... more/see it nowthe Electrical Industries
Association (EIA), and defines requirements for connecting data
communications equipment (DCE)—modems, converters, etc.—and data
terminal equipment (DTE)—computers, controllers, etc.) devices.
RS-232 transmits data at speeds up to 115 Kbps and over
distances up to 50 feet (15.2 m). The standard, which is
functionally equivalent to ITU V.24/V.28, specifies the workings
of the interface, circuitry, and connector pinning. Both sync
and async binary data transmission fall under RS-232. Although
RS-232 is sometimes still used to transmit data from PCs to
peripheral devices, the most common uses today are for network
console ports and for industrial devices. Even thou
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This reliable and cost-effective approach offers a number of
advantages for operations that really want to go "green."Power
disturbances pose a colossal problem for all businesses. The
Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that such
disturbances cost U.S. industry as much as $188 billion per year
in lost data, material and productivity. Efforts to minimize
these losses have taken on their own monumental proportions.
According to industry analysts at the Darnell Group, annual
spending on backup-power systems exceeds $5 billion worldwide.
Traditional backup-power solutions include uninterruptible power
systems (UPSs) with valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries
to provide energy during short-term power disturbances, diesel
generators (gensets) for longer-term outages and control
electronics to bridge the two. Therein lies a real challenge for
businesses that are seriously concerned about matters of
sustainability: It's all those batteries. The lead-acid
batteries that provide ride-through, or
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Search Health Information Thrombophlebitis is swelling
(inflammation) of a vein caused by a blood clot . Causes,
incidence, and risk factors: The following increase your chances
for thrombophlebitis: - Being hospitalized for a major surgery
or with a major illness - Disorders that make you more likely to
develop blood clots - Sitting for a long period of time (such as
on a long airplane trip) There are two main types of
thrombophlebitis: The following symptoms are often associated
with thrombophlebitis: - Inflammation (swelling) in the part of
the body affected - Pain in the part of the body affected Skin
redness (not always present) - Warmth and tenderness over the
vein Signs and tests: The health care provider can usually
diagnose the condition based on how the affected area looks. You
may need to have your pulse , blood pressure , temperature, skin
condition, and circulation frequently checked to make sure you
don't have complications. If the cause cannot be easily
identified, one or more of the following
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by Choe Sang-Hun from the New York Times Seoul, South Korea. In
August 1996, the Venerable Pomnyun, a Buddhist monk from South
Korea, was cruising down the Yalu River between China and North
Korea when he saw a boy squatting alone at the North Korean edge
of the water. The boy was in rags, his gaunt face covered in
dirt. Pomnyun shouted to him, but the boy did not respond.
Pomnyun’s Chinese companion explained that North Korean children
were instructed never to beg from foreigners. And when Pomnyun
asked if the boat could be steered closer to the child to bring
help, he was reminded that they could not enter North Korean
territory. “Never before had I realized the meaning of a border
so painfully until that day,” said Pomnyun, 59. “Never before
had I felt so acutely that Korea is a divided nation.” The
encounter led him to establish one of the first relief campaigns
for North Korean refugees and to take on an unlikely role for a
Buddhist monk. Today, rather than leading a secluded life of
quiet contemplation,
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DIAGRAM: What you need to know to plan your safe room May 22,
2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDTA safe room is a reinforced, usually
concrete, room designed to withstand debris picked up by extreme
weather conditions. Although the price for one can easily go
above $8,000, Missouri is a high-risk area, so FEMA recommends
that residents invest in one. Here are safe rooms set into three
different types of homes. A safe room should be stocked with an
emergency kit, which should have nonperishable foods, bedding, a
first aid kit, a flashlight, a battery powered radio, batteries,
extra clothes and several gallons of water. RELATED STORIES:
Joplin tornado anniversary highlights need for 'safe rooms'
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Don't Be So Negative Investors betting on inflation are doing
strange things to the bond market. On Monday, the U.S. Treasury
sold $10 billion in government bonds to investors who, if
current conditions prevail, have agreed to lose money. For the
first time ever, the Treasury sold debt with a negative yield.
Does that mean that the investors are paying the Treasury to
hold their money? And if so, why would they do that? The answer
to the first question is no—they aren't paying Treasury for
anything but the bonds, though they could lose money on the
deal. And the answer to the second is that they're betting that
inflation will rise. To explain, let's run through some bond
basics. The negative yield resulted from the bond's specific
cocktail of interest payments (its coupon), price (what
investors paid for it at auction), and its expected return on
investment (its yield, a function of the coupon and price, and
inversely related to the price). In a bond auction, the Treasury
takes investors' cash, borrowing doll
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The Cincinnati Children's researchers discovered that blocking a
particular protein in mice protects the heart from injury due to
loss of blood flow during a heart attack. Moreover, drugs
already exist that block this protein cyclophilin D but they
have never been used in actual patient care, partially because
data didn't exist until now to prove they would work, according
to Jeff Molkentin, Ph.D., a researcher at Cincinnati Children's
and the study's senior author. Cyclophilin D resides within the
mitochondria of a cell. The mitochondria are the power plants of
a cell and are responsible for the majority of energy
production. When mitochondria do not function properly, such as
when tissue is deprived of oxygen, cells begin to die through a
process involving rupture of the mitochondria. When cyclophilin
D is deleted from the mitochondria, however, a cell's ability to
die is blocked, according to Dr. Molkentin. "When a person comes
to a hospital and it's realized that he or she is having a heart
attack or stro
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Approach the derivative from a different and more real-lifey
direction. There are two ways to think about speed while
driving. The first way is to look at the speedometer, which
shows how fast the vehicle going at that moment. The other way
is to take the number of miles driven and divide by how long the
drive took. The first way tells the "instantaneous" speed—the
speed at that instant. The second way gives average speed over
the whole trip. Although looking at the speedometer may seem
like the best way to figure out speed, in order to relate this
driving stuff properly to derivatives we need to talk about
average speed first.
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The following are steps to guide you in the career research
process. Step 1: FOCUS The first step is to understand who you
are, what skills you possess, how your personality fits with
potential careers, and what you value in a potential career.
This is the process of self-assessment – take the online FOCUS
Career Assessment system and meet with a Career Coach to discuss
the results. Step 2: Explore Careers There are a number of ways
to begin exploring careers – each is a useful tool to help you
figure out a potential career path. The idea here again is to
develop a mental database of what types of career paths are
available to you, and to discern whether those careers are right
for you. Occupational Outlook Handbook The Occupational Outlook
Handbook is a great resource for learning about careers. This
website allows you to enter a career type and will provide basic
information about that career including: - Nature of the Work –
a general overview of what this career type is all about -
Working Conditions – wh
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The Constitution and Libya I appreciate the opportunity to guest
blog on the Constitution and the Libya intervention. In a post
at Slate, Jack Goldsmith says that the Constitution’s original
meaning in this area is “indeterminate.” I respectfully
disagree: I think congressional approval is clearly required. In
this post I’ll set out my basic argument, and in the next one
I’ll consider leading counterarguments. Every major figure from
the founding era who commented on the matter said that the
Constitution gave Congress the exclusive power to commit the
nation to hostilities. Notably, this included not only people
with reservations about presidential power, such as James
Madison and Thomas Jefferson, but also strong advocates of the
President’s prerogatives, such as George Washington and
Alexander Hamilton. As President, Washington on several
occasions said that he could not undertake offensive military
actions without Congress’ approval. Hamilton is especially
significant, because his views on the need for a s
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After last week’s NASA public relations fizzle, when their lunar
probe didn’t appear to produce any visible signs of a much
touted plume rising into space, it seems they have been
partially vindicated. According to the agency’s news
announcement on Friday, the trailing LCROSS probe did in fact
snap photos of the resulting impact explosion by its booster
rocket when it hit the moon. The crash created a crater about
one-fifth the size of a football field inside the shadowy bottom
of a 98 km wide crater near the south pole last week. Mission
scientists are not yet ready to say what the plume was made of
but space buffs are hoping that it was filled with water. Read
more on the incoming results on LCROSS mission’s website.
Editor’s note: Take a peek at my latest Weather Network – Night
Sky show video on the left-side bar or on the Videos page. Also
check out the new scrolling Sky Calendar on the left-sidebar
that gives a brief heads-up on the major astronomical events for
the coming weeks. With plenty of notice,
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THE CIVILIAN ECONOMY The Lean Years By the time Pearl Harbor was
attack, civilian claims upon the war economy had been severely
reduced. The national store of capital equipment employed in
purposes other than those directly concerned with the war was
diminishing through under-maintenance and lack of replacement.1
The civilian standard of living had fallen considerably. After
1941 there was no scope for further dramatic reductions in the
civilian share of the national output. Although it was still
necessary further to constrict civilian demands whenever
possible, it was no less necessary to make sure that the
standard of living and the maintenance of capital equipment did
not fall below the minimum compatible with efficiency and high
morale. There was of course no simple definition of this
minimum; policy was necessarily built up by a long-continuing
series of particular decisions. As regards capital equipment,
every application for a licence for machinery or building could
be judged on its merits. It was much
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United States Department of State, U.S. Department of State
Country Report on Human Rights Practices 1996 - Antigua and
Barbuda, 30 January 1997, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aa1b8.html [accessed 23 May
2013] This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible
for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views
expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not
necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its
Member States. Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1997 Antigua and Barbuda is a
multiparty, parliamentary democracy and a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations. A Prime Minister, a cabinet and a
bicameral legislative assembly compose the Government. A
Governor General, appointed by the British monarch, is the
titular head of state, with largely ceremonial powers. Prime
Minister Lester B. Bird's Antigua Labor Party (ALP) has
controlled the Government and Parliament since 1976. During the
last elections in M
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Imagine how much electricity is required to sustain a
supermarket with numerous rows of refrigerators and hundreds of
lamps that light up the huge space. Statistics show that big
supermarket chains use around ten times the energy of a normal
household. Now a new concept developed by researchers at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg,
Germany, gives the opportunity to supermarket operators to cut
energy use by as much as 25%. The idea was developed in
collaboration with property developers, manufacturers and the
research team. As stated by Nicolas Réhault, Group Leader at
ISE, the aim is to reduce energy consumption by focusing on the
cooling systems. In order to maintain the quality of various
foods, the temperature of freezer-systems should be maintained
at -25 degrees Celsius, for fish and meat, or 4 degrees for
cheese and sausages. The practical method that is generally
adopted, is the use of plug-in freezers, which keep the required
temperatures, while heating up the store at
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Pediatric Disclosure Materials: Booklet 1—How to Keep Healthy
How to Keep Healthy is the first in a series of four booklets
designed to help adults facilitate health-related discussions
with children and adolescents. It was written to be used with
children from 2 to 6 years of age, an age when children may ask
many questions about why they go to the clinic or why they have
to take medicines. The booklets are available for download in
color and in black-and-white. Accompanying cue cards offer
guidance for health care providers to use in introducing these
booklets to caregivers. The other booklets in this series
include:
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Click on any phrase to play the video at that point.Close The
global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest
in something that's actually one of the oldest questions in
economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith. And that
is, why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies
and institutions can display radically different savings
behavior? Now, many brilliant economists have spent their entire
lives working on this question, and as a field we've made a
tremendous amount of headway and we understand a lot about this.
What I'm here to talk with you about today is an intriguing new
hypothesis and some surprisingly powerful new findings that I've
been working on about the link between the structure of the
language you speak and how you find yourself with the propensity
to save. Let me tell you a little bit about savings rates, a
little bit about language, and then I'll draw that connection.
Let's start by thinking about the member countries of the OECD,
or the Organization of Ec
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Mar. 26, 2012 Nearly one in five people suffers from the
insidious and often devastating problem of chronic pain. That
the problem persists, and is growing, is striking given the many
breakthroughs in understanding the basic biology of pain over
the past two decades. A major challenge for treating chronic
pain is to understand why certain people develop pain while
others, with apparently similar disorders or injuries, do not.
An equally important challenge is to develop individualized
therapies that will be effective in specific patient
populations. Research published online in Nature Medicine points
to solutions to both challenges. A research team led by Prof.
Jeffrey Mogil of McGill University in Montreal and Prof. Michael
Salter of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated
with the University of Toronto, has identified a major gene
affecting chronic pain sensitivity. The findings also suggest a
new approach to individualizing treatment of chronic pain. The
gene that the researchers identified e
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What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying (or online bullying) is
using modern communication technology to deliberately and
repeatedly harrass, humiliate, embarrass, torment, threaten,
pick on or intimidate someone. Cyberbullying happens in lots of
different ways – by mobile phone, text messages, email, or
through social networking sites such as Facebook. Examples of
cyberbullying include sending anonymous threatening emails,
spreading rumours on the school e-bulletin board to break up
friendships, or setting up an unkind or unpleasant fake social
networking account using real photos and contact details.
Effects of cyberbullying Cyberbullying can leave teenagers with
low self-esteem, less interest in school and a deep sense of
loneliness. Some feel they have no safe place, because the
bullying can happen anywhere there’s internet or mobile access.
It can also happen at any time of the day or night. Nearly one
quarter (23%) of children who use mobile phones have reported
receiving a threatening or abusive text, and
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Here are 5 common photography questions and answers for
beginners. How to Avoid Blurry Images? Photo Credit : Arjun
Purkayastha Here are a few tricks to avoid taking blurry photos.
Use the correct shutter speed. A simple rule of thumb suggests
that the longest possible shutter speed you can allow—and still
avoid blur while taking a free-hand photograph—depends on the
focal length of your lens. If you’re using a 50 mm lens, the
maximum shutter speed is approximately Image 1/50 s; if you’re
using a 100 mm lens, it’s about Image 1/100 s; and so on. (This
rule of thumb applies to focal lengths that have been converted
to a 35 mm film format.) Bring a tripod with you. This sounds
logical, but many people leave their tripods at home. While they
may be heavy and cumbersome, sometimes their weight is exactly
what you need. There’s nothing like a heavy, stable tripod to
guarantee razor-sharp images. Use a remote shutter release or
the automatic timer functions of your camera in combination with
a tripod. These measure
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Via MapHist comes word of the publication of the second, revised
edition of Marcel van den Broecke’s Ortelius Atlas Maps: An
Illustrated Guide. “This very practical and informative manual
gives an extensive overview and a description of all the maps
that appeared in the famous first atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570 and all later editions.” With
his 1893 Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, Orlando
Ferguson made visual his emphatic claim that the earth was flat.
One hundred and eighteen years later, one of the last remaining
copies is being donated to the Library of Congress, which
inexplicably does not already own a copy of this dotty gem. Only
one other copy is known to exist. More (including a high-
resolution scan) at The History Blog. Via io9 and MapHist. The
Boston Globe points to Donna Seger’s blog entry in which she has
collected caricature maps from the early modern period. “The
shift from conceptual to more realistic cartography in the early
modern era is a very eviden
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Checkup on Health Who should consider taking a daily aspirin?
Aspirin, once mostly used on an occasional basis for fever,
aches and pains, is now, for many, taken daily like a vitamin
pill. If you’re taking an aspirin daily, is that a wise
practice? Alternatively, if you’re not, should you be? How
aspirin works Aspirin has many effects because it reduces the
body’s production of prostaglandins, a hormone-like substance
that acts in numerous ways. Reducing prostaglandins diminishes
pain and fever and weakens platelets’ ability to stick together
and form clots. This characteristic is especially important in
lessening the risk of strokes and heart attack, which are caused
by clots lodging in coronary arteries or blood vessels in the
brain. Reducing prostaglandins can have harmful effects as well.
It can make the stomach lining more vulnerable to ulcer
formation and bleeding. And for some people who are prone to
asthma, it can trigger an attack. Who should take aspirin?
Aspirin’s ability to reduce the risk of a s
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| ||A Parent's Life || | Taking a Bite Out of Baby-Tooth Decay
Last reviewed on February 3, 2011 By Henry H. Bernstein, D.O.
Harvard Medical School Tooth decay takes place when sweetened
liquids are left on infants' teeth for long periods of time.
Infants' cavities are also known as "baby bottle tooth decay,"
which is named after the most common way that infants develop
tooth decay being put to bed with a bottle that contains sugar.
Milk, formula and juice are common culprits in bedtime bottles.
Everyone should know that it's not just the type of liquid that
makes a difference, but also how often and how long the liquids
are in contact with the surfaces of the teeth. Baby bottle tooth
decay can lead to damage of your child's baby teeth and may even
affect permanent teeth. Tooth decay in infants is so worrisome
that some people believe it could be the next epidemic we face.
Yet, amazingly, neither parents nor providers seem to be taking
the dental health of infants seriously enough. A Common Problem
Dental cav
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This is the last in a series of posts discussing the work of a
handful of scholars exploring the historical relationship
between Christianity and technology. First, second, third,
fourth, and fifth post. In his 2005 book, Nature, Technology,
and the Sacred, Bronislaw Szerszynski traces the evolving
understandings of nature and the sacred in order to provide an
alternative account of secularization and disenchantment, two
processes in which technology has traditionally been assigned a
critical role. To begin with, he argues that the best way to
understand the evolution of ideas about nature from pre-modern
to modern societies is, in fact, not as a process of
secularization or disenchantment, but rather as a process of
depersonalization. The advent of Christianity did not, as Lynn
White (among others) suggested, simply empty nature of its
metaphysical content leaving it vulnerable to exploitation.
Rather, Christianity removed personal agencies that inhabited
nature and replaced them with a semiotic layer of mea
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1947: The Spruce Goose, with Hollywood producer-aviator-tycoon
Howard Hughes at the controls, makes its first — and only —
flight, skimming the waters of Long Beach Harbor in California
for roughly one minute. That short hop, made mostly for the
benefit of the press and newsreel cameras, was the climax of a
story that began more than five years earlier, at the height of
World War II. Appalled at the heavy toll being taken on Allied
shipping by the German U-boats, Henry J. Kaiser, builder of the
Liberty ships, proposed a fleet of gigantic flying transports to
move men and material across the Atlantic. After Kaiser enlisted
Hughes’ support, the two men sold their idea to the government
and walked away with an $18 million contract (about $250 million
in today’s money) to build three flying boats. Hughes, who had
attracted Kaiser’s interest because of his reputation as an
aircraft designer, set to work with his engineers. They came up
with the Hughes H-4 “Hercules,” an eight-engined behemoth with a
wingspan of 32
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|Coopers 12-min run| Coopers 12-min run test is a maximal test
performed on a flat measured running surface. The 12 min run
test is also called the Cooper test. It was developed in the
sixties as an easy tool to estimate VO2max in soldiers. The
validity of this test is quite good if you are accustomed to
running. For people not used to running it can be difficult to
administer the speed from start to end and also peripheral
discomfort in the legs can limit performance rather than
circualatory capacity. Besides the original validation of the
12-min test on soldiers, there has been other validations on
other populations. In at least one of them (couldn't find the
ref right now), the analysis showed that a specific performance
indicated a 5 % higher VO2max for woman. This could be explained
differences in running economy between sexes and this has
actually been shown in some studies. I beleive the yo-yo test is
more relevant to soccer fitness as compared to the cooper test.I
believe it is more accurate for the e
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SOURCE.—O'strea virginia'na and O. edulis, which excrete a
calcareous bivalved covering or shell, and inhabit the shallow
coast water of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
DESCRIPTION.—External surface rough, inner surface smooth and
white, the two toothless, hinged valves made up of imbricate,
foliaceous layers, presenting, when closed, an irregularly
rounded, oblong, or ovate form. CONSTITUENTS.—Largely calcium
carbonate, there being only 4 per cent. or less of animal matter
present and a small percentage of silica, alumina, magnesia, and
calcium phosphate and sulphate. USES.—Antacid. The shell, to be
used, should first be thoroughly purified and washed in boiling
water. Dose: 5 to 15 gr. (0.3 to 1 Gm.). A Manual of Organic
Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E.
Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.
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Bite the bullet Accept the inevitable impending hardship and
endure the resulting pain with fortitude. I've always believed
that, before the days of effective anaesthetics, soldiers were
given bullets to bite on to help them endure pain. 'I've always
believed' has to be as poor an opening gambit as 'it is widely
accepted' or 'a man in a pub told me' on a piece discussing the
origins of a phrase. Is it true or is it just 'believed'? The
theory goes that patients undergoing surgery would be given a
stick of wood or a pad of leather to bite on in order to
concentrate their attention away from the pain and also to
protect against biting their own tongues. A bullet, being
somewhat malleable and not likely to break the patient's teeth,
is said to have been an impromptu battlefield alternative. Lead
poisoning would probably have been a secondary concern in those
circumstances. An ingenious correspondent has suggested that, as
wooden sticks are known as billets, the stick-biting practice
might have first been called
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The record of Schwatka's expedition is written in these pages.
Much of it has already been published in detached letters by the
'New York Herald', which engaged the author to act as its
correspondent during the journey. Other hands than his have
reduced it to its present shape, for his restless energy has
again driven him toward the North, and has enlisted him among
the crew of the 'Rodgers', which is seeking the lost
'Jeannette'. with the bark 'A. Houghton' before Marble Island,
another set of Esquimaux visited him, and while looking at his
logbook said that the great white man who had been among them
many years before had kept a similar book, and having told him
this one of them gave him a spoon engraved with the word
"Franklin." This was enough to arrest the attention and stir the
adventurous spirit of Lieutenant Schwatka. He became eager to
organize a search party and find the cairn where the papers were
supposed to be still buried. He obtained leave of absence, went
to New York, and proposed to Judge Dal
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CORVALLIS - Try to imagine using garden tools out in the garden
and yard if you couldn't see well. If you know someone whose
sight is impaired, there are several easy ways to make using
garden tools easier and more pleasurable for them, explained Jan
McNeilan, consumer horticulturist for the Oregon State
University Extension Service. Long handled tools, such as rakes,
forks and spades are best for preparing the garden before
planting with limited eyesight, explained McNeilan. Tools with
short handles (8 to 30 inches) are better for planting and
weeding because they allow the gardener to touch and cultivate
at the same time. McNeilan recommended the following hints for
tool use for the visually impaired gardener: - Use one-handed
shears for pruning. They leave one hand free to feel the plant.
Make sure you keep fingers out of the way. - Paint tool handles
a light color to contrast with the soil. Color contrast can also
be used for containers, pathways fences, gate latches, table
edges in the greenhouse, steps
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Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in
British North America, consisting mostly of the Hudson Bay
drainage basin that was nominally owned by the Hudson's Bay
Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870, although numerous
aboriginal groups lived in the same territory and disputed the
sovereignty of the area. The area once known as Rupert's Land is
now mainly a part of Canada, but a small portion is now in the
United States of America. It was named after Prince Rupert of
the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I and the first Governor of the
Hudson's Bay Company. In December 1821 the HBC monopoly was
extended from Rupert's Land to the Pacific coast. Areas once
belonging to Rupert's Land include all of Manitoba, most of
Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, and northern
parts of Ontario and Quebec, as well as parts of Minnesota and
North Dakota and very small parts of Montana and South Dakota.
Fur trade In 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) was granted a
charter by King Charles II, giving i
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Text by Mike Samworth, images by Mike Morgan. Dec. '95. Updated
by the Micscape Editor Sept. '99. Note to readers: since this
article was posted in 1995, the Microscopy UK parent website has
uploaded an enormous range of resources on the microscopic
world. These include video clips, 3D images, high quality images
of protozoa, articles on pond life and many other topics. Click
on the resources offered on the site's main index to see them.
Or search for a particular topic in the on-line library. Links
at base. Paramecium is a small unicellular organism that is
plentiful in freshwater ponds. It swims, rotating slowly, and
often changing its direction. Under suitable conditions it may
reproduce by dividing two or three times a day and so large
numbers may build up. It belongs to the group of organisms
called Protozoa. Most of these are microscopic with over 80,000
different species identified. The cells of fossil protozoa are
often found in enormous numbers. They can help in tracing oil-
bearing rocks and sediment
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become an editor the entire directory only in
Nevada/Science_and_Environment Science and Environment Open
Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Nevada:
Science and Environment Lake Tahoe Region Conservation and
Endangered Species Fossils and Paleontology Regional: North
America: United States: Regions: Southwest: Science and
Environment Regional: North America: United States: Science and
Environment Science: Technology: Energy: Nuclear: Nuclear Waste:
Yucca Mountain, Nevada Carson Water Subconservancy District -
Serves as the coordinating body for an Integrated Watershed
Planning Process (IWPP) for the Carson River watershed. Climate
of Nevada - Narrative written by the State Climatologists and
published by the National Climatic Data Center. DOE Nevada Photo
Library - A collection of historic still photos of nuclear tests
at the Nevada Test Site and in the Pacific Ocean. Also includes
photos of test preparations at the Test Site, waste management
facilities, other infrastructure at the site, and
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Saturday, January 12, 2013 Today in History - Saturday, Jan. 12,
2013 Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2013. There are
353 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan.
12, 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents
of University of Oklahoma, ruled that state law schools could
not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race. On
this date: In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died. In
1773, the first public museum in America was organized in
Charleston, S.C. In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a
Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries
to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between
the U.S. and Spain. In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill
in Lawrence, Mass., (most of them immigrant women) walked off
the job to protest wage cuts. In 1915, the House of
Representatives rejected, 204-174, a constitutional amendment
giving women the right to vote. In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway
became the first woman elected
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Teachers and administrators working with English-language
learners in some of the nation's largest school systems believe
that much of the instructional material published for ELLs is of
poor quality and needs a major upgrade if these students are to
succeed in the common standards era. In a new survey published
by the Council of the Great City Schools, the majority of
respondents reported that the materials they use to teach
English-learners fall short of what's needed to raise the
performance of ELLs. When asked if the current materials
available for ELLs reflect the rigor in the Common Core State
Standards, 82 percent of respondents answered either "somewhat"
or "not at all." (The report was released at the Council's
annual legislative conference in Washington.) The types of
instructional materials respondents were asked about include
basal readers, supplemental materials for ELLs that are bundled
with basals, literacy intervention programs targeting ELLs,
basal ESL programs, novels, dictionaries, and mate
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The Management degree enables students to acquire a broad
understanding of all functional areas of a typical business,
including accounting, finance, human resources, production,
information systems, and marketing. This program emphasizes the
management topics of leadership, motivation, communication, and
team building. Students will also be taught techniques for
effective decision-making and methods for setting strategic and
tactical goals, planning and organizing activities, leading
employees, and controlling operations in organizations. Courses
offered include: management courses in ethics, leadership,
finance, and business administration. The skills learned can
lead to employment in several fields including accounting,
technology, hospitality, tribal leadership, food management,
healthcare and even government work. This program is built on
the foundations of a general Administrative Office
Assistant/Administration. Courses are designed to provide a
broad range of general business knowledge and specific sp
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EPHRAEM SYRUS, SAINT (c. 306-373), one of the most productive
spiritual writers of the fourth century. Lives of Saint Ephraem
(Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis 269) are late and provide
us with no objective information about him. His portrait can
best be traced through the considerable quantity of his works.
He was born at Nisibis around 306 and must still have known and
been subject to the influence of James of Nisibis (303-338). The
portrait he gives of the latter is that of a pastor and a saint,
an ascetic and a churchman, whose relics protected the town
against the Persians. Bishop Vologesus (346-361) is also the
subject of the most lively eulogies. Through innumerable hymns
it is possible to compile a table of the numerous doctrinal
deviations on the periphery of Christianity in the fourth
century in Mesopotamia. In 363 the town of Nisibis was handed
over to the Persians following the defeat of JULIAN THE
APOSTATE. Ephraem then went to Edessa, where he certainly taught
at its famous school. He appear
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Dog blog promoting adoption, with breed profiles and stories.
Discussing dog breeds, dog-adoption, and the human-canine
connection. Monday, September 3, 2012 Lycaon pictus : African
Wild Dog There are dogs and then there are animals that are
members of the larger family "canidae" to which wolves, dogs,
jackals, foxes, and coyotes belong. The African Wild Dog,
sometimes called the Painted Dog, while a canidae is not a true
dog like the domesticated dogs we live with. In other words,
they do not make good potential pets any more than a wolf or
jackal does. But they are very handsome pack animals that live
in family groups. Unlike some members of the canidae family, it
is the female of the African Wild Dog pack that leaves the pack
they are born into, while the males stay in the pack they are
born into. The young females search for packs which do not have
actively breeding females currently in them. I've also read that
at times a pack of males will travel separately and encounter a
pack of females...there has be
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Conception of the Theotokos The Conception of the Theotokos by
Saint Anna is commemorated by the Orthodox Church on December 9.
St Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary, was the youngest
daughter of the priest Nathan from Bethlehem, descended from the
tribe of Levi. She married St Joachim, who was a native of
Galilee. For a long time St Anna was childless, but after twenty
years, through the fervent prayer of both spouses, an angel of
the Lord announced to them that they would be the parents of a
daughter, who would bring blessings to the whole human race. The
Orthodox Church does not accept the teaching of the Immaculate
Conception, but has also always believed that the Virgin Mary
was, from her conception, filled with every Grace of the Holy
Spirit in view of her calling as the Mother of Christ our God.
Troparion (Tone 4) - Today the bonds of barrenness are broken, -
God has heard the prayers of Joachim and Anna. - He has promised
them beyond all their hopes, - To bear the Maiden of God - By
whom the Uncircum
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Breaking the Diffraction Barrier Scientists used to view the
diffraction barrier as a hefty obstacle to seeing further inside
cells. However, in the past few years, a flurry of technical
advancements have improved the resolving power of fluorescence
microscopy by quantum leaps. Collectively known as “super-
resolution” imaging, these methods are poised to provide
biologists with unprecedented images of fine cellular structures
and their dynamics inside the cell. Two general strategies for
breaking the diffraction barrier have developed independently.
The first, called STED microscopy, works by the modulation of
fluorophores - chemicals that can re-emit light upon excitation
- by patterns of light inside a diffraction-limited region. In
the second technique, applied in both PALM (short for Photo-
Activated Localisation Microscopy) and STORM (3D Stochastic
Optical Reconstruction Microscopy) microscopy, single-molecule
imaging techniques are used to measure the position of
individual molecules within a diffraction
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DOD leads the way in face transplant research James Maki doesn’t
remember exactly how he lost his face. The 60-year-old fell onto
an electrified subway rail in Boston in June 2005, leaving him
without his nose, upper lip and cheeks and destroying the roof
of his mouth. For four years, Maki ate through a tube and
endured the whispers and stares of people who fixated on the
gaping hole where his nose once was. All the while, progress was
being made on a historic medical procedure that would change his
life — one that could hold the key to making some of the most
severely damaged U.S. veterans feel whole again. Maki received a
face transplant, only the second in the United States, in April
2009 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. By the end of
the year, his surgeon would be leading a $3.4 million Defense
Department-funded initiative for Iraq and Afghanistan war
veterans. “We really want to help them,” Dr. Bohdan Pomahac,
head of the Brigham face transplant team, said at the time.
“They have given up their
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- Historic Sites Constructed between 1732 and 1756 as the State
House of the Province of Pennsylvania, it is considered a fine
example of Georgian architecture. From 1775 to 1783 (except for
the winter of 1777 - 1778 when Philadelphia was occupied by the
British Army) this was the meeting place for the Second
Continental Congress. It was in the Assembly Room of this
building that George Washington was appointed commander in chief
of the Continental Army in 1775 and the Declaration of
Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. In the same room the
design of the American flag was agreed upon in 1777, the
Articles of Confederation were adopted in 1781, and the U. S.
Constitution was drafted in 1787. The building, inside and out,
has been restored whenever possible to its original late-18th
century appearance. Most of the furnishing are period pieces.
The "rising sun" chair used by George Washington as he presided
over the Constitutional Convention is original.
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