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Ionizing & Non-Ionizing Radiation Ionizing & Non-Ionizing
Radiation Radiation having a wide range of energies form the
electromagnetic spectrum, which is illustrated below. The
spectrum has two major divisions: Radiation that has enough
energy to move atoms in a molecule around or cause them to
vibrate, but not enough to remove electrons, is referred to as
"non-ionizing radiation." Examples of this kind of radiation are
sound waves, visible light, and microwaves. Radiation that falls
within the ionizing radiation" range has enough energy to remove
tightly bound electrons from atoms, thus creating ions. This is
the type of radiation that people usually think of as
'radiation.' We take advantage of its properties to generate
electric power, to kill cancer cells, and in many manufacturing
processes. The energy of the radiation shown on the spectrum
below increases from left to right as the frequency rises.
|Types of Radiation in the Electromagnetic Spectrum| |Type of
Radiation| We take advantage of the propertie
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Classroom Management Skills For Young Learners The American
TESOL Institute is a pioneer in world education. It has left a
mark world wide because of its contribution in the field of
education. However, we have come to realize that education does
not only include academics, but classroom management also plays
a major role at all levels, whether Primary or secondary.
Classroom Management goes much beyond the classroom whereby the
teacher is expected to meet the demands of varied students and
also cater to their needs. The trainee teacher during the
Teacher Diploma Course is trained to handle the students very
tactfully, especially in a young Learner class. We believe that
teaching is actually a People's Management Skill whereby in a
very subtle manner the teacher creates a suitable learning
situation. Most Primary teachers may be teaching from different
books and following different techniques and methodology but all
of them are confronted with the same problem, that of classroom
management. So, in the Pre Pri
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Arteriosclerosis refers to a thickening and hardening of
arteries. Arteriosclerosis is a general term describing any
hardening (and loss of elasticity) of medium or large arteries
(from the Greek αρτηρία, meaning artery, and σκληρωτικός,
meaning hardened). It should not be confused with
"atherosclerosis," which is a specific form of arteriosclerosis
caused by the build up of fatty plaques in the artery.
Arteriosclerosis has also been called "myoconditis," but this
term is no longer in general use. - Arteriosclerosis obliterans
is typically seen in medium and large arteries of the lower
extremity. Characterized by fibrosis of the intima and
calcification of the media. The lumen of the vessel may be
obliterated or markedly narrowed. - Medial calcific sclerosis
(Monckeberg’s calcific sclerosis) is seen mostly in the elderly,
commonly in arteries of the extremities. Characterized by
calcification of the Tunica media but without thickening of the
intima or narrowing of the vessel lumen. A similar form of an
intram
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Understanding Mic Specs, Part 2 Last week we launched a video
series to help our blog readers understand how microphones work
and discussed the Operating Principle in Part I. In Part II, we
define Frequency Response—the range of frequencies a microphone
can reproduce—and explain the differences between mics with flat
response vs. shaped response. Watching the video will help you
make better choices when buying microphones and will also ensure
you understand how to get the best results. Check out the other
videos in this series: - Understanding Mic Specs, Part 1
(Operating Principle) - Understanding Mic Specs, Part 3 (Polar
Pattern) - Understanding Mic Specs, Part 4 (Electrical Output)
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|Posted on Jul 27, 2012 09:44:33 AM | John Entwistle | 0
Comments || For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice
cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30
years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of
Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-
mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its
surface, according to measurements from three independent
satellites analyzed by NASA and university scientists.For more
information visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-
at-nasa/2012/24jul_greenland/Credit: Science@NASA Link to the
NES Virtual Campus home page. Tags : NASA Science Update
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America has one of the safest and most abundant food supplies in
the world. But even in this country, too many people get sick
from the food they eat. This year, one in six Americans will get
food poisoning – that’s 48 million people. 128,000 will end up
in the hospital. And 3,000 will die. These aren’t just
statistics. These are real people, real families, impacted by
the food they put on the table. We can do better. Under the
leadership of President Obama, USDA and our federal partners are
more committed and united more than ever before to reduce the
rates of food-related illnesses. We are doing that, first of
all, by making sure the food industry provides the safest
products possible. We are strengthening America’s food safety
system with policies based in prevention, and building on best
practices that decrease potential risks. And we are continually
looking for ways to improve. But our food safety system isn’t
perfect, and given the nature of the products we regulate, the
risk isn’t zero. So in addition
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An Op-Ed entitled “To Fight Cancer, Know the Enemy” was
published in The New York Times on August 6, 2009. The author of
the Op-Ed was James D. Watson, Ph.D. James Watson co-discovered
the DNA double helix structure; a discovery for which he
received the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In the
article, Watson states his belief that beating cancer is now a
realistic ambition, and he makes several suggestions designed to
ensure that victory. On August 6, 2009, an Op-Ed entitled To
Fight Cancer, Know the Enemy was published in The New York Times
(NYT). The author of the article was James D. Watson, Ph.D.
James Watson co-discovered the DNA double helix structure; a
discovery for which he received the 1962 Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Watson is the Chancellor Emeritus of
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and is generally considered the
father of molecular biology. Throughout most of his career,
James Watson’s novel scientific ideas generated great
controversy among, and resistance from, man
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Alternate names: Kazanów [Pol], Kazanov [Rus]. Kazanów village
in Zwoleń County, Masovian Voivodeship at 51°17' N 21°28' E in
east-central Poland is the seat of the administrative district
called Gmina Kazanów, 13 km (8 mi) SW of Zwoleń and 110 km (68
mi) S of Warsaw with a population of 460. Other villages in the
gmina include Borów, Dębniak, Dębnica, Dobiec, Kopiec, Kowalków,
Kowalków-Kolonia, Kroczów Mniejszy, Kroczów Większy, Miechów,
Miechów-Kolonia, Niedarczów Dolny-Kolonia, Niedarczów Dolny-
Wieś, Niedarczów Górny-Kolonia, Niedarczów Górny-Wieś, Ostrówka,
Ostrownica, Ostrownica-Kolonia, Osuchów, Ruda, Wólka Gonciarska,
Zakrzówek, and Zakrzówek-Kolonia. The first mention of the
Jewish population Kazanów dates from the mid-17th century or
1711 according to other sources. Archival records from 1662
mention Kazanowie had sixteen Jewish taxpayers and `673-74 and
1673, thirteen. The minutes of the local Catholic parish showed
that in 1711 in the Kazanowie Jewish community had a wooden
prayer house. Jewish pop
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This Graphing Worksheet will produce a four quadrant coordinate
grid and a set of ordered pairs that when correctly plotted and
connected will produce a picture. You may enter a message or
special instruction that will appear on the bottom left corner
of the Graphing Worksheet. You CAN NOT use the following five
symbols in the memo line: # & ; " \ The first four will suppress
the answer key from being produced, the \ character will cause
the entire worksheet to be blank. Include Graphing Worksheet
Answer Page Now you are ready to create your Graphing Worksheet
by pressing the Create Button.
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6 X 9 inches, 236 pages More about this item: Slavic Research
Group Russian Roots and Canadian Wings Russian Archival
Documents on the Doukhobor Emigration Translated, compiled, and
annotated by John Woodsworth Foreword by Vladimir Tolstoy
Canada-Russia Series, No. 1 General editors of Canada-Russia
Series are J.L Black & Andrew Donskov IT ALL STARTED THREE
HUNDRED YEARS AGO with a desire to worship God in freedom of
conscience without the trappings of centuries-old organised
religion, to live a simple peasant life of honest toil without
undue control by an authoritarian state, and above all to live
one's life without being forced to take or even harm another's.
Just serving in the army and being made to carry a lethal weapon
was, to the Doukhobors, a direct violation of the Christian
teaching of non-violence. To the Russian authorities, on the
other hand, Doukhoborism was a direct violation of the practices
they had relied upon for centuries, especially when its
sectarians began to be influenced by the free-
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about this member, including syntax, usage, and examples, click
a name in the overload list.
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of the object's data as an opening XML element using the
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the complete serialization using the pattern: write start, write
content, and write end. If the implementation writes using XML
elements, attributes can be inserted before writing the contents
of the object. The three methods are also called by the virtual
implementation of the WriteObject method.
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Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., has spent the past 15 years in the
lab developing ways to build new arteries using tissue
engineering techniques, but as an anesthesiologist who works in
the intensive care unit, she always had another idea rolling
around in the back of her head. Niklason, professor of
anesthesiology and biomedical engineering, was troubled that a
large number of her patients suffered damage to the lungs,
organs that simply don’t fix themselves very well after injury
or serious illness. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die from
lung disease each year, and the only effective treatment for
severe cases is transplantation. Unfortunately, this expensive
procedure is associated with high mortality and is also limited
by an extreme shortage of donor organs. An alternative solution
is to create synthetic lungs, but past attempts to do so have
failed because the lungs, with networks of branching airways and
vasculature, are so spatially complex, says Niklason. “She and
her research team took a leap forw
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(Above) 1938 Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Maya with
Dolls. This painting is one of El Moises’ favorite of Picasso.
It is official — El Moises is our Chiano Picasso of the 21st
century. I chose Pablo Picasso as the analogy due to the vibrant
and rich colors he incorporated into his paintings in the early
20th century. While Picasso is known for his cubism, it wouldn’t
surprise me if Moises becomes known for his cross hatching
technique. Moises told me art saved him. I can verify this truth
and see it in his deep dark brown eyes that tell me (Above) El
Moises — photo by Sam Gomez he’s an old soul. He was the
featured artist for the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Phoenix as
they celebrated their 1st birthday bash recently. The timing
could not have been more perfect to this regard, and the meaning
of it all seems to be converging. It was appropriate for the
Renaissance Hotel to choose such an effervescent artist like
Moises because Renaissance by it’s definition is best remembered
as the cultural mov
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Volume 7 Number 9 Sea Rod Coral Colony Perched Below Blue-Water
Canopy This picture shows a healthy colony of Sea Rod Corals
perched atop a coralhead with the blue water of the surface of
the Atlantic Ocean in the background. Sea Rod Corals are common
throughout the Caribbean. Sea Rod Corals colonies are made of a
cluster of branches made of a soft material surrounding a core
of harder material rich in calcium. The individual animals in
the colony, called coral polyps, live in the soft material from
which they extend their tentacles into the water. These short
tentacles are only about 1/8 of an inch long, but are enough to
make the branches of the colony look fuzzy. There are thousands
of coral polyps in this picture. Each branch of this colony was
about 10 inches long, and each branch was split into many
smaller branches. Each little branch was covered by hundreds of
coral polyps. How many big and little branches can you count in
this picture? ReefNews President Jonathan Dowell took this
picture using a Cano
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Saint Bridget of SwedenArticle Free Pass Saint Bridget of
Sweden, Bridget also spelled Birgit or Brigid, Swedish Sankta
Birgitta av Sverige (born c. 1303, Sweden—died July 23, 1373,
Rome [Italy]; canonized Oct. 8, 1391; feast day July 23,
formerly October 8), patron saint of Sweden, founder of the
Brigittines (Order of the Most Holy Savior), and a mystic whose
revelations were influential during the Middle Ages. In 1999
Pope John Paul II named her one of the patron saints of Europe.
The daughter of Birger Persson, governor of Uppland, she had
from an early age remarkable religious visions that influenced
her entire life and outlook. In 1316 she married Ulf Gudmarsson,
later governor of the province of Nericia, and bore eight
children, including St. Catherine of Sweden. On the death of her
husband in 1344, Bridget retired to a life of penance and prayer
near the Cistercian monastery of Alvastra on Lake Vetter. To the
prior, Peter Olafsson, she dictated the revelations that came to
her, and he translated them i
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Phrenology is the long-discredited theory that head-shapes and
“bumps” in the skull determine your personality and abilities.
From the research summarized below, however, it seems that the
phrenologists may have been onto something. Skulls may not be a
reliable guide to much but brain differentiation may be. Most
past studies of genetic influences on personality have found
that the personality traits studied do in fact show substantial
genetic heritability. And Even your political attitudes have
been shown to have a substantial genetic basis. So the findings
below are not inherently surprising. But I think that most of us
have assumed that the brain differences involved are more subtle
that what is reported below. As someone with long research
involvement in the field of personality measurement, the major
reservation I have is that the way personality is “chopped up”
in the study below is rather arbitrary. The five factor model is
certainly widely used but so is Eysenck’s three factor model and
Cattell’s 16 f
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View Medieval Travel Lies As the western Roman empire declined
during the fourth and fifth centuries AD, Europe lost contact
with the rest of the world. Classical knowledge of the outside
world receded, and what emerged in its place was a peculiar
mixture of fact and fiction. European scholars inhabited the
lands to their east with unicorns, cyclops, and other fantastic
creatures. One persistent rumor spoke of the barbarian tribes of
Gog and Magog whom Alexander the Great had supposedly imprisoned
behind giant brass gates somewhere in the East. It was said that
the escape of Gog and Magog would signal the imminent end of the
world. With the gradual revival of commerce during the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Europeans once more began
to venture beyond their borders and returned to tell of what
they had seen. But these travellers, upon their return from
faraway lands, seldom gave what we would consider to be factual
accounts. Instead, they related bizarre stories that confirmed
the existence of the imag
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Sigismund II AugustusArticle Free Pass Sigismund II Augustus,
(born Aug. 1, 1520, Kraków, Pol.—died July 7, 1572, Knyszyn),
last Jagiellon king of Poland, who united Livonia and the duchy
of Lithuania with Poland, creating a greatly expanded and
legally unified kingdom. The only son of Sigismund I the Old and
Bona Sforza, Sigismund II was elected and crowned coruler with
his father in 1530. He ruled the duchy of Lithuania from 1544
and became king of Poland after his father’s death in April
1548. After his first wife died childless (1545), he secretly
married Barbara Radziwiłł, of a Lithuanian magnate family
(1547). When he announced his marriage in 1548, the szlachta
(Polish gentry) tried to force an annulment because it feared
the influence of the Radziwiłłs. He overcame the opposition, but
Barbara died childless in 1551, allegedly poisoned by
Sigismund’s mother. A third marriage (1553), to his first wife’s
sister Catherine, also proved childless, and at his death the
direct Jagiellon line ended. In 1559, w
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In 1975, a Communist group known as the Khmer Rouge came into
power in Cambodia. Under the leadership of Pol Pot, they ordered
the evacuation of Cambodia's towns and cities, forcing more than
2.5 million civilians into provincial labor camps. Approximately
1.7 million Cambodians perished from starvation, exhaustion and
malnutrition. Others were tortured or executed for being
"enemies of the state." When the Khmer regime was overthrown in
1979, Cambodians sought refuge in Thailand and other countries.
Nearly 150,000 Cambodians sought refuge in the United States.
Deeply moved by their efforts to find a new home, Phyllis
Tompkins, a member of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, initiated
efforts to gather local resources for the needs of Cambodian
refugees resettling in Western New York. Other local churches
expressed support. The work of Journey's End had begun, and soon
we began providing a range of services to refugees from all over
the world. In 1998, Journey's End forged a stronger and more
direct relationship w
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Legendary French wines were almost wiped out when the vines that
produced their grapes withered in the nineteenth century. The
problem was one that has become familiar; our capacity to ship
species from one continent to another has meant that we can have
much more variety in our plants and animals, but it also
endangers the homebodies that have to meet the newcomers. In
_The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World_
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill), Christy Campbell writes that
in the 1840s, trade in grape vines proceeded with "no barriers,
no inspectorate, no concept of biological quarantine." The
result was that tiny aphids with an extraordinary life cycle
made their entry from America into France, and found the sap of
the French grape vines exactly to their liking. Campbell has
told the story of this disaster much like a mystery, and indeed,
the vintners who saw their vines rapidly wither had no idea what
was happening. A voracious caterpillar had threatened their
plants two decades befor
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|Peguat — Canopus Canopus (also: Canobus) was an Ancient
Egyptian coastal town, located in the Nile Delta. Its site is in
the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria, around 25
kilometres from the centre of that city. Canopus stood in the
seventh nome (Menelaites, later Canopites after it), on the
western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the River
Nile – known as the Canopic or Heracleotic branch or -mouth. It
was the principal port in Egypt for Greek trade before the
foundation of Alexandria. Pre-hellenistic history Early
Egyptological excavations some 2 or 3 km from the area known
today as Abu Qir have revealed extensive traces of the city with
its quays, and granite monuments with the name of Ramesses II,
but they may have been brought in for the adornment of the place
at a later date. The exact date of the foundation of Canopus is
unknown, but Herodotus refers to it as an ancient port. Homeric
myth claims that it was founded by Menelaus, and named after
Canopus, the pilot of his ship, wh
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins have identified the genetic culprits
that trigger a hereditary form of a fatal lung disease. The
findings, published in the March 29, 2007 issue of the New
England Journal of Medicine, may provide new directions in
diagnosis and treatment for families that inherit genes for the
disease, as well as for those that develop non-inherited forms
of the illness. A progressive scarring of the lungs with no
effective treatment, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) affects
approximately 50,000 Americans annually, and like some cancers
often is fatal within three years. As many as 20 percent of IPF
sufferers are thought to have inherited genetic mistakes that
predispose them to the disease; and until now, these gene flaws
remained unknown. To locate the genetic problem, Hopkins
investigators screened DNA from blood samples of 73 people with
inherited IPF and discovered that six of them (eight percent)
had mutations in two genes that produce an enzyme which helps
lengthen the fragile ends of ch
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Similar in size to the Milky Way, elliptical galaxy NGC 7600 is
about 150 thousand light-years distant. this deep image,
spanning about 1/2 degree on toward the constellation Aquarius,
NGC 7600 sports a remarkable outer halo of nested shells and
broad circumgalactic structures. The tantalizing features can be
explained by the accretion of dark matter and stars on a cosmic
timescale. In fact, a movie generated by simulating galaxy
formation using a cosmological model with dark matter for the
halos of merging galaxies reproduces the appearance of NGC 7600
in amazing detail. The remarkable simulation movie is available
here on Vimeo and here in other It presents compelling evidence
that detailed features of galaxy mergers observed with small,
wide field telescopes on planet Earth, are natural consequences
of galaxy formation and fundamental properties of dark matter.
(Rancho Del Sol Observatory) Andrew Cooper (MPA), Carlos Frenk,
John Helly, Shaun Cole Star Stream Pilot Survey
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In the latest snapshot, they're warning that emissions in 2012
are at an unprecedented high, increasing on average by 3 per
cent per year, with more than three quarters produced by China.
Scientists have described the growth as "shocking" and without
drastic action, they warn governments have no chance of keeping
the planet to the agreed 2 degree temperature rise by the turn
of the century. Presenter: Sarah Clarke Speaker: Pep Canadell,
CSIRO Global Carbon project By the end of this year our analysis
shows global emissions from fossil fuels are set to reach
unprecedented amount of 36 billion tonnes of CO2. Just to put
things in perspective, this is 58 per cent over 1990 which is
the kyoto protocol reference year and growing at about 3 times
faster than they were growing in the 90's Q: How does that
compare to last year? In 2012 we grew at about 2.6 per cent and
last year was about 3 per cent. if you took it back to the last
decade you had up and down of 3 per cent as an average. Q: What
can you pin that down
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This week's book giveaway is in the General Computing forum.
We're giving away four copies of Arduino in Action and have
Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, and Jordan Hochenbaum on-line! See
this thread for details. Two processors, M-5 and M-7, implement
the same instruction set. Processor M-5 uses a 5-stage pipeline
and a clock cycle of 10 nanoseconds. Processor M-7 uses a
7-stage pipeline and a clock cycle of 7.5 nanoseconds. Which of
the following is (are) true? I. M-7�s pipeline has better
maximum throughput than M-5�s pipeline. II. The latency of a
single instruction is shorter on M-7�s pipeline than on M-5�s
pipeline. III. Programs executing on M-7 will always run faster
than programs executing on M-5. (A) I only (B) II only (C) I and
III only (D) II and III only (E) I, II, and III Originally
posted by Pat Farrell: (..snip..)I don't see how to answer the
other two, it depends on how many stalls you get. Yep, it's L-2
misses and so on. Great deal of cut and try here. If this is an
exam question, then I am not w
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Initiated in 2006, the Early English Laws project aims to
produce new editions of all legal codes and treatises produced
in England between the reign of Æthelberht of Kent (ca 580-616)
and Magna Carta (1215). The project addresses four principal
research questions or problems: - What are the early English law
texts? - What do the texts say? - What do the texts mean? - What
exactly was the law? The project address these questions by
providing high quality digital images of the manuscripts,
transliterations, philological notes, translations, and
scholarly commentary, all of which can be compared line by line
in the very nice interface. Eg, here is Æthelberht’s Code, which
the project describes as: This law-code is thought to be the one
Bede attributes (Historia ecclesiastica, 2.5) to King Æthelberht
of Kent (560–616). It has survived in a single manuscript
written at Rochester in the early twelfth century. The code
resembles most early Germanic law-codes, treating issues such as
interpersonal violence, wergeld,
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Same-Language-Subtitling and Karaoke: The Use of Subtitled Music
as a Reading Activity in a High School Special Education
Classroom Save to My Collections McCall, W.G. (2008). Same-
Language-Subtitling and Karaoke: The Use of Subtitled Music as a
Reading Activity in a High School Special Education Classroom.
In K. McFerrin et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for
Information Technology & Teacher Education International
Conference 2008 (pp. 1190-1195). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved
from http://www.editlib.org/p/27350. Society for Information
Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE)
2008 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA March 3, 2008 Karen McFerrin,
Roberta Weber, Roger Carlsen & Dee Anna Willis More Information
on SITE Table of Contents Abstract: This study examined the
potential of incorporating Subtitled Music Video as a repeated
reading activity within Special Education English classrooms.
The goal of this study was to improve student reading engagement
and growth. The basic activity involved
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Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) was a German poet,
critic, and philosopher. Herder's critical writings indicated
his intuitive rather than reasoning trend of thought. He
collected folk songs and poetry of all nations, published as
Summen der Volker in Liedern / Voices of the People in Song
(1778), and in the Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte der
Menschheit / Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man
(1784-1791) he outlined the stages of human cultural
development. He gave considerable impulse to the Romantic Sturm
und Drang / Storm and Stress movement in German literature. Why
is Johann Gottfried Herder famous? Johann Gottfried Herder was a
German philosopher, poet and literary critic.
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Glory to you, O Shiva! Glory to you, O Omkaara! May Brahma,
Vishnu and the assembly of other gods, including the great Lord
Shiva, relieve me of my afflictions! As many know, Hindu God
Shiva comes in many different forms. One such popular form is
that of Shiva as Harihara, an important integration between
Hindu God Shiva and Hindu God Vishnu. The worship of Shiva as
Harihara is an important form as it reiterates to devotees that
worship of Shiva, Vishnu, or any of the prominent Hindu Gods is
but the worship of every prominent Hindu God, one and the same.
When one worships Shiva, one also worships Vishnu, and all the
other important deities collectively in the spirit of divine
oneness. All followers of Hinduism are all looking for one
thing, the divine. When one comes to fully realize this concept,
they understand that we are all worshiping the same inherent
thing, dharma, just from different approaches. Both Vishnavites
and Shaivities worship Harihara as a form of the one supreme
god. There is often much deba
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CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie An assault on a computer
network or a server that floods it with so many superfluous
requests that service is either slowed or interrupted. Common
types of DoS attacks include buffer overflow and smurf attacks.
In a buffer overflow attack, the assailant overwhelms the target
system with oversized data packets or with e-mail messages that
have unusually large file names. In a smurf attack, the
assailant sends an IP ping request to a server with instructions
to broadcast the request to a number of hosts within the
server's network. The return address on the request is falsely
identified (spoofed) as the server targeted to receive the DoS
attack. The result is that a flood of ping replies overwhelm the
targeted server. Can't find your term here? Have a question
about the glossary? E-mail us.
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Although there have been no cases reported in Sampson County,
the potential for the West Nile virus is here and county
residents are urged to take precautions to prevent exposure. The
North Carolina Public Health website describes the West Nile
virus (WNV) as a mosquito-borne virus that can cause serious,
life-altering disease that is potentially fatal. Individuals get
WNV through the bite of an infected mosquito. In a very small
number of cases, WNV also has been spread through blood
transfusions, organ transplants, breastfeeding and, during
pregnancy, from mother to baby. It is not spread person-to-
person by casual contact. The website further explains that most
people infected with WNV will have no symptoms at all. Some
people will have mild symptoms, such as fever, nausea and rash
and some will develop serious disease that can include high
fever, convulsions, paralysis and, in some cases, lasting
neurological effects. People who develop symptoms of severe WNV
illness, such as unusually severe headaches or
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About time someone tried this: Using the "brute force" technique
of recovering passwords, it was possible, though time-consuming,
to recover passwords from popular applications. For example, the
logon password for Windows Vista might be an eight-character
string composed of uppercase and lowercase alphabetic
characters. There would about 55 trillion (52 to the eighth
power) possible passwords. Windows Vista uses NTLM hashing by
default, so using a modern dual-core PC you could test up to
10,000,000 passwords per second, and perform a complete analysis
in about two months. With ElcomSoft's new technology, the
process would take only three to five days, depending upon the
CPU and GPU.
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In the lively words of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: To the extent that
intellectuals have deemed it necessary to argue in favor of the
state at all, their most popular argument, encountered already
at kindergarten age, runs like this: Some activities of the
state are pointed out: the state builds roads, kindergartens,
schools; it delivers the mail and puts the policeman on the
street. Imagine, there would be no state. Then we would not have
these goods. Thus, the state is necessary. At the university
level, a slightly more sophisticated version of the same
argument is presented. It goes like this: True, markets are best
at providing many or even most things; but there are other goods
markets cannot provide or cannot provide in sufficient quantity
or quality. These other, so-called public goods are goods which
bestow benefits onto people beyond those actually having
produced or paid for them. Foremost among such goods rank
typically education and research. Education and research, for
instance, it is argued, are extreme
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Scratch is a GUI programming language designed by MIT. It is an
entry language that allows would be programmers to learn the
basics of programming while getting quick results that are fun.
Creativity and learning, rather than technical savvy, is
emphasized. While working with Scratch a user learns about
programming logic and design as well as many common fundamentals
(such as "if statements," "loops" and conditions for actions) in
an environment that is not intimidating to the beginner. Actions
are programmed and executed using colored blocks rather than
words and syntax. Logic and design is achieved by arrangement of
the blocks. Completed projects can be uploaded to the Scratch
Community to share with other developers. The website contains
several tutorials on how to use Scratch. It is compatible with
Windows, Mac OS and Linux. If you have ever wanted to learn
programming, but found programming concepts and languages too
daunting then this is a great place to start.
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The Nintendo corporation was founded in Japan in 1889. But it
was not until 1985 that the Nintendo Entertainment System — the
now-iconic video game console pictured above — made its way into
North America. But no, the Japanese did not have Super Mario
Bros. a century before Americans — a different-looking Japanese
predecessor to the North American NES debuted in Japan in 1983,
not 1889. What was Nintendo doing beforehand? The company’s
beginnings trace back to playing cards. Not the standard ones
involving an Ace and a King, but rather a style called hanafuda,
or “flower cards,” which Nintendo developed and became popular
in gambling parlors in Japan almost immediately. From 1889 until
1956, this was the company’s only notable product, and may have
remained so until Hiroshi Yamauchi, the company’s chairman (and
grandson of its founder), travelled to the United States to
visit the headquarters of the United States Playing Card
Company, the world’s largest company in that business. Upon
finding their offices to
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A nome (pron.: //; from Greek: Νομός, “district”) was a
subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's
use of the Greek nome rather than the Egyptian term sepat came
about during the Ptolemaic period. Fascinated with Egypt, Greeks
created many historical records about the country. These were
more accessible to later Western historians and influenced their
adoption of Greek terms. Ancient Egypt The division of ancient
Egypt into nomes can be traced back to the Predynastic Period
(before 3100 BC). These nomes originally existed as autonomous
city-states, but later began to unify. According to ancient
tradition, the ruler Menes completed the final unification. Not
only did the division into nomes remain in place for more than
three millennia, the areas of the individual nomes and their
ordering remained remarkably stable. Some, like Xois in the
Delta or Khent in Upper Egypt, were first mentioned on the
Palermo stone, which was inscribed in the Fifth Dynasty. The
names of a few, like the nome of B
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Schools & Districts All of Shmoop Cite This Page Kindle:
Learning Guide Age of Iron Age of Iron Best of the Web Table of
Contents AP English Language AP English Literature SAT Test Prep
ACT Exam Prep Age of Iron Analysis Literary Devices in Age of
Iron Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory Things seem like they'd be bad
enough in Age of Iron even without throwing a terminal disease
into the mix, wouldn't you say? So what's up with the fact that
Mrs. Curren has to be dying from cancer... Age of Iron, like
many of J.M. Coetzee's other novels, takes place in his native
South Africa. For many years (we're talking 50), South Africa
was ruled under a system of racial segregation called...
Narrator Point of View Mrs. Curren, an elderly woman dying of
cancer, tells her story in the first person. What's really cool
about the narrative technique in Age of Iron is that she's not
just yammering the story to an... J.M. Coetzee is known for
writing some pretty highbrow fiction, and Age of Iron stands as
a case in point. While this
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Otaki Castle 大多喜城 |Admin's Rating||★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆| |Location||Otaki,
Chiba Pref.| |Access||Otaki Sta. (Isumi Tetsudo Line); 15 min
walk| |Website||Chiba Prefectural Sonan Museum| |Visited||June
20, 2009| |Notes||The main keep is a typical local museum with
some historical artifacts including a small collection of armor
and swords. The original yakuimon gate is on the school grounds
next to the castle. Unfortunately, there was some festival or
event going on that day so I couldn't get in to see it.|
|History||The original Otaki Castle was built in the early
1500's near the current castle and may have included part of the
current Otaki Castle grounds. In 1590, after Tokugawa Ieyasu
resettled in Edo, he stationed his retainer Honda Tadakatsu in
Otaki to help control the power of the Satomi in this area.
Honda Tadakatsu built the Otaki Castle we see today. Otaki
castle was ruled by three Honda lords, and then the Abe, Aoyama,
and Inagaki before Marsudaira Masahisa became lord in 1703. His
descendents controlled Otaki
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It is a lot more complicated to produce rock art in 2011 than it
was 1,500 years ago, at least that’s what Alutiiq Museum
Executive Director Sven Haakanson found when he set out to try
this spring. The Alutiiq Museum is hosting a year-long exhibit
on Kodiak rock art, a show inspired by Haakanson’s ongoing study
of the Cape Alitak petroglyphs. Petroglyphs are images pecked
into stone, not to be confused with pictographs, which are rock
painting. For the past decade, Haakanson has been spending a few
weeks of each summer investigating the rock carvings at Cape
Alitak, a wind and wave pounded landscape at Kodiak Island’s
southern tip. “The Cape Alitak petroglyphs are the largest known
cluster of stationary rock art in Alaska,” said Haakanson.
“Until recently, they had never been systematically recorded.”
Last summer a crew from the museum took on the maddening task of
documenting the fading artwork and the ancient settlements that
lie behind them. Although pecked into Kodiak’s hard granite
bedrock, the glyphs ar
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Datacenters in Hong Kong can never become greener -- because
Hong Kong's government is lukewarm to the use of renewable
energy." "Despite an 18% growth in local datacenter floor space
from 2010 to 2011, the government has no metrics for assessing
the environmental impact of energy used to power datacenters,"
said Yau Yeung, Greenpeace's Clean Our Cloud campaigner in Hong
Kong. "The problem will get worse because datacenters and cloud
providers have no choice but to use 'dirty' energy produced by
coal, gas, and nuclear power in Hong Kong." The current local
grid-power mix is 54% coal, 23% nuclear energy, and 23% natural
gas, according to a recent Greenpeace report: "How Clean is your
Cloud" -- the report adds that electricity generation accounts
for 67% of local greenhouse gas emissions. The local government
proposes a token increase in the use of renewable energy by
2020: from currently less than 1% to 1-2%, said Yeung. "That
means tech firms like Google -- which receives high marks for
being more transparent
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Why A Labrador May Not Be The Right Dog For YouLabrador
Retrievers are extraordinarily people-oriented. This means that
they have to be in tune with their owners in order to follow
specific instructions. The key to understanding this is to look
deeper at what Labs were bred to do, and that is to hunt and
retrieve. Look at it this way, these dogs must be in perfect
harmony with their hunter/owner in order to follow specific
directions to track and fine birds that have fallen to the
ground and out of sight. This need for the dog to have hand-held
direction carries over to all aspects of a Labrador's life,
especially at home. This is great for people who enjoy and need
constant canine companionship. However, it is bad for dog owners
who have a Labrador Retriever but expect the animal to entertain
itself with little interaction from the owner. There are some
hunting dogs that were bred to be independent hunters with
little interaction and instruction from humans. Examples of
these types of dogs are Terriers and H
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Find the Economic Impact of Franchising Discovering the Impact
Franchising is a method of distributing products and services
that involves a franchisor who lends their trademark and
business system to a franchisee who, in return, pays a royalty
for the right to use the franchisor’s trademark and system in
their business. Franchised businesses operate in all 50 States,
the District of Columbia and in every Congressional District.
The number of jobs in franchised businesses in 2007 was greatest
in California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio. The number of
jobs provided because of franchised businesses was greatest in
California (1,852,200), Texas (1,352,000), Florida (1,111,900),
Illinois (819,400), and New York (784,300). Considered relative
to the size of a state’s economy, franchising had the greatest
impact on jobs in Mississippi. More on the Economic Impact
Report » Economic Impact Report Volume III » Impact on U.S.
Economy The Economic Impact of Franchised Businesses report
found that the direct and in
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AARP The Magazine commissioned this survey to compare the
opinions of young adults 21-26 years of age with boomers
opinions when they were the same age on topics of communication
frequency, comfort with emotional conversations, comfort with
financial conversations, frequency of socializing with parents,
degree of enjoyment socializing with parents, and opinion of
living with parents. Key findings include: - Today’s Young
Adults communicate more, interact more, and are comfortable
sharing more with their parents compared to Boomers when they
were young adults. - Differences exist based on gender. Today’s
Young Adult males communicate more, interact more, and share
more than Male Boomers when they were young adults. The gender
difference that existed when the Boomers were young adults no
longer exist, and in one case has reversed with Young Adult
males doing more with their parents than Young Adult females. -
Racial differences existed when Boomers were young that don’t
exist for Young Adults today. Non-white y
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Syphilis Antibody, IgG, Serum Clinical Information Discusses
physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as
they relate to a laboratory test Syphilis is a disease caused by
infection with the spirochete Treponema pallidum. The infection
is systemic and the disease is characterized by periods of
latency. These features, together with the fact that Treponema
pallidum cannot be isolated in culture, mean that serologic
techniques play a major role in the diagnosis and follow-up of
treatment for syphilis. Historically, the serologic testing
algorithm for syphilis included an initial nontreponemal
screening test, such as the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) or the
venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) tests. Because these
tests measure the host's antibody response to nontreponemal
antigens, they lack specificity. Therefore, a positive result by
RPR or VDRL requires confirmation by a treponemal-specific test,
such as the fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorbed (FTA-ABS)
or microhemagglutination assay
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Photo Date: 1983 Photo Number: 084 081 001 The Portsmouth
Gaseous Diffusion Plant is located in south central Ohio,
approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Portsmouth,
Ohio, and 112 kilometers (70 miles) south of Columbus, Ohio. The
site is situated on a 1,483-hectare (3,708-acre) federal
reservation approximately 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) south of the
Village of Piketon. Construction of the Portsmouth Gaseous
Diffusion Plant began in late 1952 to expand the Federal
Government's gaseous diffusion program already in place at Oak
Ridge, Tennessee and Paducah, Kentucky. The facility was built
to increase the production of enriched uranium at rates
substantially above the other two facilities because highly-
enriched uranium was required for use in nuclear submarine
reactors, and low-enriched uranium was needed for commercial
nuclear power plants. The first process cell went online in
September 1954. A gas centrifuge uranium enrichment program was
initiated in the early 1980s at Portsmouth. However, full op
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In school we were taught Christopher Columbus discovered of
America in 1492. Historically it is as firm a person, event one
can historically get. Like a rock! Columbus discovered America
in 1492. However many evidences have been presented attempting
to dethrone the traveling Italians honor but nothing, no ancient
stone works, mysterious coins with dates before his arrival or
Egyptian like hieroglyphics etched in stone found in the mid
west can have the strength of argument to over turn such a
deeply held prized event until mid 2009. The Vinland map has
been known since 1957. Written on parchment and ink the map
shows the outlines of Europe and parts of Africa. However as you
scan to the west your eye easily recognizes Iceland and a bit
more to the left and there is Greenland traveling across the
ocean we see…New Foundland? What is a section of North America
doing on a map carbon dated at 1440? That’s a half a century
before the Queen gave Chris the green light for his own gig. The
latest analysis completed by
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Contents - Previous - Next This is the old United Nations
University website. Visit the new site at http://unu.edu
Appendix One hundred Pacific Island agroforestry trees (2) ONE
HUNDRED PACIFIC ISLAND AGROFORESTRY SPECIES 1. Acalypha
amentacea Roxb. ssp. wilkesiana (Muell.-Arg.) Fosb. EUPHOR
BIACEAE "copper leaf," "Jacob's coat," "beefsteak plant," "fire
dragon plant" syn. A. wilkesiana Muell.-Arg. f. wilkesiana A.C.
Smith Native to Malaysia or western Melanesia; probably an
aboriginal introduction to Melanesia and western Polynesia, and
a recent introduction to eastern Polynesia and to some atoll
countries. Perennial shrub, up to 2 m or higher, with
attractive, rather curved and coarsely crisped, dark or bright
red, red-green, or green leaves, which are often mottled or
variegated with various shades of red, dark pink, white, or
bronzy green. Common to abundant in home gardens, often as a
hedge or living fence; occasional in rural garden areas and in
urban landscaping. Planted ornamental, boundary, and hedge
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26 Feb 2011 04:48 pm Designing Educational Environment with
Children in Mind When we design educational environments we have
to think of many different elements. On of the first things you
need to figure out is what the age group will be for your
educational facility. One group that has a lot of special
considerations is that of the younger child. Specific types of
spaces and certain elements in the designs have to be
implemented for educational environments for children to be
successful. Some of these things include flexibility in the
space to accommodate a wide range of activities, movable
furniture, multiple forms of learning style implementation and
elements that encourage play. Elementary School Classroom.
source:http://www.ssnsc.org/preschool/Preschool.htm As we see in
the above photo, there are multiple zones throughout the one
major room of this classroom. These zones are separated to
accommodate different types of activities. There are larger
tables where the students can engage in interactive and co
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Alaska Disputing Federal Move to List Polar Bears as Threatened
Download MP3 (Right-click or option-click the link.) This is
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. And
I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about a decision
by the United States federal government to protect polar bears.
We will tell about a possible genetic link between farm birds
and an ancient, meat-eating creature. And, we will have more
first aid suggestions. America's northernmost state is
threatening legal action in an effort to prevent federal
protection of the polar bear. Alaskan officials say there is not
enough evidence that polar bears are threatened. They also say
the federal listing would harm economic activities and
development in the state. Last month, the federal government
identified polar bears as threatened under a wildlife law -- the
Endangered Species Act. The polar bear is the first animal to
gain such protection because of climate change. Polar bears live
along the northern and northwestern
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Putting the Public Back in Public Education What it would take
to ensure that nobody’s child is left behind Image by
istockphoto.com/Luseen This article is one of several on fixing
education. For more, read The People’s Professor, America 101,
and the online exclusive Educational Success: Stories of
Innovation from the Utne Library. The public schools have been
bad and they deserve to be punished. That’s the mantra Americans
have heard for the past eight years as politicians have
scrambled to appease citizens battered by apocalyptic headlines
about the state of the educational system, stories that detail
how public schools are both epic disasters and the country’s
only ticket out of global decline, increasing poverty, and a
coming society of dimwits. And how did an administration hell-
bent on warding off any responsibility for its own actions
(torture, irresponsible war, a gutter-dwelling economy) react?
They’ve assured us that failing schools will be held
accountable. They transformed our society’s greatest
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Understanding, then applying the principles of canine
communication is fundamental to achieving performance,
compatibility, and excellent behaviors in any dog, whether it is
for sport, working, or family companionship. Two basic
principles of successful canine communication can be described
with two fill-in-the-blank statements. Know the answers, then
apply them consistently and results will promptly be realized:
1. "Dogs don't ______." 2. "Dogs _______." First, recognize that
we humans are often guilty of overlaying our human emotions,
values, even motivators onto our canine companions. Individuals
attempt, in misguided, good faith efforts, to communicate with
their dogs as they might with other people and here is where
difficulties can begin. Answer number 1 – "Dogs don't talk."
People communicate primarily by talking. One can wonder if this
is truly as effective a means of communication as we like to
think. Studies show that people only retain about 20% of the
information they hear, even in a structured cl
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High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet What is an Actionset?
More information about high blood pressure can be found in the
topic: Return to topic: DASH is an eating plan that can help
lower your blood pressure. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to
Stop Hypertension. Hypertension is high blood pressure. The DASH
eating plan focuses on foods that are high in calcium,
potassium, and magnesium. These nutrients can lower blood
pressure. The foods that are highest in these nutrients are
fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, nuts, seeds, and
beans. Taking calcium, potassium, and magnesium supplements
instead of eating these foods does not have the same effect. The
DASH eating plan is one of several lifestyle changes your doctor
may recommend. Your doctor may also want you to decrease the
amount of salt you eat. Lowering salt while following the DASH
plan can lower blood pressure even further than just the DASH
plan alone. For more information on nutrition for high blood
pressure, see: Test Your Knowledge T
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Child abuse and neglect often occur in families under stress, in
the middle of a crisis or at the "end of the rope." Child
maltreatment can include the following: Physical Abuse - the
non-accidental injury to a child. Sexual Abuse - any act of a
sexual nature upon or with a child. Neglect- the failure to act
on behalf of a child. More information for Mandated Reporters is
also available. Physical Abuse Indicators: Unexplained, chronic
or repeated bruising Other unexplained or repeated injuries
Behavioral extremes (withdrawal, aggression, regression)
Excessive fear of the parent or caregiver Unusual shyness,
wariness of physical contact Attempt to hide injuries
Depression, excessive crying Antisocial behavior, such as
substance abuse, truancy or running away Sexual Abuse
Indicators: Somatic complaints, including pain and irritation of
genitals Sexually transmitted diseases Bruises or bleeding from
external genitals, vagina or anal region Torn, stained or bloody
underclothes Frequent, unexplained sore throats,
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| Cleveland Township Hall| Cleveland Township was established in
1871 and is located in the southwestern portion of Leelanau
County, Michigan. The Township is comprised of approximately
20,864 acres of land, of which about 8,128 fall within the
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The Northern boundary of
Cleveland Township borders Good Harbor Bay and there are six
inland lakes within the Township: Bass Lake, Hidden Lake, Lime
Lake, Little Traverse Lake, Narada Lake, School Lake and Shell
Lake. Near the Township's eastern boundary lies Sugar Loaf
Mountain, which has one of the highest elevations within
Leelanau County at approximately 1,105 feet. Cleveland Township
was first settled on November 1, 1855 by a group made up of
mostly Bohemian immigrants. A bronze plaque on a boulder at the
corner of M-22 and Bohemian Road (County Road 669) commemorates
the first settlement known as North Unity. The early pioneers
built a schoolhouse, sawmill and a store. A gristmill on Shalda
Creek at the outlet of Little Tra
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What is the MAT, and who must take the exam? Related: MAT
Structure and Format The Miller Analogies Test (MAT) is a
60-minute exam consisting of 120 partial analogies. For each of
the 120 test items your task is the same: complete the analogy
by selecting the best of four options. The MAT was developed for
the purpose of gauging scholastic aptitude at the graduate level
by measuring high-level analytical abilities. Specifically, the
MAT measures the following: Your ability to recognize
relationships between ideas (analogistic relationships) Your
English-language fluency (vocabulary, grammar, usage) Your
general knowledge of the humanities, social sciences, natural
sciences, and mathematics Today the MAT is designed and
administered by Pearson Inc. (a for-profit education company)
under its Psychorp™ brand. Some graduate programs require MAT
scores to support a candidate's application. However, a far
greater number of graduate programs accept either MAT or GRE
General Test score reports. Social-science and hum
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< Browse to Previous Essay | Browse to Next Essay > Rizal Park
(Seattle) HistoryLink.org Essay 3168 : Printer-Friendly Format
Dr. Jose Rizal Park is perched on the northwest crest of
Seattle's Beacon Hill, where it enjoys sweeping views of
downtown Seattle, Puget Sound, the Olympics, and the Cascades.
The park is located on a portion of property on the north slope
of Beacon Hill that the City of Seattle acquired in 1917 to
build retaining walls, terracing, and drains where the regrading
of Dearborn and Jackson streets left the hillside unstable. The
park site itself remained undeveloped until 1971, when the Parks
Department built a parking area and viewpoint along 12th Avenue
S. The park was named for Dr. Rizal, at the request of the
Filipino Alumni Association, in 1974 and formally dedicated in
1979. The name honors the Filipino intellectual and nationalist
who was executed by Spanish authorities in 1896 because of his
advocacy for Phillipine independence from Spain, and also
recognizes the Filipinos who mig
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Listen to the podcast of this information. Native plants provide
beauty as well as food and shelter for wildlife. Native species
are adapted to the Illinois climate. They require little or no
watering and are resistant to drought, insects and most
diseases. Because they are perennials, you can welcome their
presence year after year. spicebush (Lindera benzoin) Photo ©
2013, Joe McFarland, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Spicebush is a shrub that thrives naturally in rich, moist woods
in the southern half of Illinois. It prefers to grow in full sun
or partial shade. The leaves are simple, alternate, up to six
inches long and three inches wide. The yellow flowers open in
spring before the leaves appear. Blooming occurs from March to
May, with the flowers arranged in clusters along the stems. Male
and female flowers are on separate plants. The red fruits are
about three-eighths to one-half inch long and have a slight
indentation at the tip. All parts of this plant, including the
flowers and fruits, have
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» About the Department » Related Links The Fifteenth Annual B.F.
Stone Endowed Lyceum SHARING THE TOMB OF CHRIST: The sites
associated with crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Christ,
are housed in a structure which was built by the Roman Emperor
Constantine in 335 C.E. Destroyed and rebuilt many times over,
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City Jerusalem is a
rare example of a sanctuary in which multiple religious groups
practice their faith. Six different Christian traditions claim
rights and privileges to this place: the Armenian, Coptic,
Ethiopian, Greek, and Syrian Orthodox, and the Roman Catholic.
These groups have very different liturgical traditions,
languages of prayer, and cultural practices. The space of the
church is meticulously divided into sections to which each
denomination lays claim based on tradition. In the absence of
formal law to arbitrate between these groups, conflicts over
daily practices in the church can turn into on-going disputes.
Efforts by various secular powers
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Ash Wednesday Message Ash Wednesday Kid's Message Bible Verse:
Luke 4:1-13; John 3:16 Props: Ashes (fireplace ashes or
newspaper), baby wipes (to wipe hands) Why do people celebrate
Ash Wednesday? What is it all about? Ashes remind us of death
and sin. Lent is a time when we prepare our hearts for Easter.
We prepare our hearts by thinking about what Jesus did for us
when he was crucified on the cross for our sins. He did not
deserve to die, but He loved us so much that He did it in order
that we may go to heaven. God will not allow any sin in heaven.
As we put the ashes on our foreheads, we remember the sorrow
that He went through and the sorrow that we had when we
confessed our sins. It also reminds us that we need to change
our lives if we have sinned. When Jesus was in the wilderness
being tempted by Satan, he fasted for 40 days. During Lent, we
give up something for 40 days to show Jesus how much we thank
Him for what He has done for us. It brings us closer to Him and
prepares our hearts for the true mean
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The main factor is here undoubtedly Christianity. The Ancient
Greeks may have distinguished themselves from the eastern
Persians, but they did not align themselves any more with the
barbarian tribes in most of Europe at the time. In fact, they at
least appreciated the civilisation of the Achaemenid Persians.
Other factors, most notably the Roman Empire and it successors
the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires contributed to uniting
Europeans as a single entity. The partitioning of the world in
this sense started after the growth of Christianity really, and
properly after the rise of Islam. In all fairness the "West" is
really synonymous with the European Christian world, which
happens to lie mainly in the west of the Old World. The "East"
refers to the non-Christian, predominantly Muslim, Hindu, and
Chinese/Oriental regions. Africa usually isn't included in this,
due to the lesser role the continent played in world religion
and politics for the most part, and never really posed a threat
to European religion or c
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Metal Fume Fever has been known by a variety of names over the
years, including: Monday Fever, brass chills, foundry fever,
welder's ague, and smelter chills. It's a result, as many of the
names suggest, of exposure to fumes from heated metal. Zinc
vapors are usually responsible, but Metal Fume Fever can also be
caused by copper, iron, and other metals. What we're talking
about here is an industrial disease, an occupational hazard. The
most commonly affected people are shipbuilders or other people
who weld metals in relatively enclosed spaces. Arc welding of
galvanized steel is Approximately 1500 to 2000 case of metal
fume fever are reported yearly in the United States. There are
probably a lot more cases than that. Some sources estimate that
as many as 40 percent of welders over the age of 30 have
suffered from metal fume fever at some point during their
careers. However, incidences have been decreasing over the last
fifty years, mostly due to awareness of the importance of proper
The symptoms of metal fume
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May 21, 2013 Pharyngitis - Viral News & Features Doctors and
patients don’t always communicate well, with serious
consequences, says Jerome Groopman. A few studies have provided
scientific evidence that a chill won't cause a cold, but perhaps
the answer is not so clear cut. Many experts say that few people
know when a person who has picked up a winter cold actually
becomes contagious, and for how long. This is high season for
sore throats. One of my friends awakens with a scratchy throat
nearly every morning on these cold winter days. Another said the
other day that his throat felt sore and he guessed (correctly)
that he was getting a cold. A third had gone back to bed with a
throat so painful she could hardly talk, let alone swallow. Sore
throat is a symptom, not a disease. In each case, there was a
different cause that dictated a different treatment. The
scratchy throat probably was a mechanical problem caused by dry,
heated winter air and aggravated by my friend's tendency to
breathe through her mouth when
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Notable Building sights in Ireland - Sort by: Facing Trinity
College across College Green, this sweeping Palladian pile was
built to house the Irish parliament and was the first purpose-
built Parliament House in the world. The original building, the
central colonnaded section that distinguishes the present-day
structure, was designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce in the first
half of the 18th century. When the parliament voted itself out
of existence through the 1801 Act of Union, the building was
sold under the condition that the interior would be altered to
prevent it ever again being used as a debating chamber. It was a
spiteful strike at Irish parliamentary aspirations, but while
the central House of Commons was… Officially known as Carlow
College, the main building opened as one of Ireland's first
seminaries in 1793. Today it specialises in humanities and
social studies and has a student body of 800. The wide grounds,
which also front Visual, have a sort of regal, grassy elegance
and are dotted with modern
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A water-loving mammal that lived 50 to 60 million years ago was
probably the "missing link" between whales and hippos, according
to a new analysis. Hippos are the last of a mammal group that
thrived for 40 million years Biologists have argued over the
relationship between hippos and whales for a period of almost
200 years. The findings come from an analysis of features in
different animal groups carried out by a US-French team. Their
report is published in the science journal Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Michel
Brunet and Fabrice Lehoreau found that the semi-aquatic ancestor
of whales and hippos split into two groups: cetaceans and the
anthracotheres. Cetaceans eventually spurned land, lost their
legs and became fully aquatic. The pig-like anthracotheres,
flourished over 40 million years and died out less than 2.5
million years ago. They left only one descendent: the
hippopotamus. The study places whales firmly within the cloven-
hoofed group of mammals known as Artio
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6 Grocery Tips for Avoiding GMOs Though dozens of countries
around the world require genetically modified food to be
labeled, the US is not one of them. In the absence of lables,
here are our best tips for avoiding GMOs when you shop: 1. Look
for the Non-GMO Project label: The Non-GMO Project label
provides consumers with independent, third-party assurance that
a product contains no GMOs. The Project tests high-risk
ingredients in the products that bear its label, to ensure that
they contain less than 0.9 percent GMOs (allowing for low levels
of unintentional contamination). 2. Be wary of unverified non-
GMO claims: A company may legally label its products as being
GMO-free without having to perform testing or otherwise prove to
a third-party that is the case. 3. Buy organic: USDA-certified
organic products cannot intentionally contain GMOs. The USDA
doesn’t require testing for GMOs, so accidental contamination of
organic products may occur. 4. Avoid high-risk ingredients:
These nine ingredients are all consid
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Léon BrunschvicgArticle Free Pass Léon Brunschvicg, (born Nov.
10, 1869, Paris—died Feb. 2, 1944, Aix-les-Bains, Fr.), French
Idealist philosopher who regarded mathematical judgment as the
highest form of human thought. After cofounding the Revue de
Métaphysique et de Morale (1893) and the Société Française de
Philosophie (1901), Brunschvicg became professor of general
philosophy in 1909 at the Sorbonne, where he remained (except
for the war years, 1914–18) until 1940. In 1919 he was elected
to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and served as
its president in 1932. In his widely acclaimed doctoral thesis,
La Modalité du jugement (1897; Sorbonne), Brunschvicg set down
his fundamental assertion that knowledge creates the only world
we know. He maintained that there can be no philosophy beyond
judgment, for judgment is the first activity of the mind and
synthesizes the form and content of concepts. Philosophy,
therefore, must be a critical appraisal of thought itself, for
knowledge can be subjected
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BROWSE ALL ARTICLES BY TOPIC Red, Yellow, Green, Go Color-coding
influences food safety behavior by Gina R. Nicholson, RS
Cultivating behavior change requires a specific communication
strategy. The objectives of this strategy are to ensure that
food employees and managers throughout the facility are familiar
with food safety standards, their role in maintaining these
standards, and the consequences of not maintaining these
standards. Methods of communication come in different formats
and styles. The formats typically follow visual (pictures,
diagrams, charts), auditory (listening), or kinesthetic
(emotional connection, hands-on learning) methods. The visual
communication method, which has been used to influence behavior
internationally for centuries, is one that the food safety
industry has adopted. Color coding, in particular, has been
proven to modify behavior drastically. Stop, Slow Down, Go A
great example of this is the stoplight. The colors of the
stoplight evoke specific unconscious behaviors. We see r
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Excursus on the Public Discipline or Exomologesis of the Early
Church. (Taken chiefly from Morinus, De Disciplina in
Administratione Sacramenti Pœnitentiæ; Bingham, Antiquities; and
Hammond, The Definitions of Faith, etc. Note to Canon XI. of
Nice.) “In the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline,
that at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted
of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this
world that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord;
and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more
afraid to offend.” The foregoing words from the Commination
Service of the Church of England may serve well to introduce
this subject. In the history of the public administration of
discipline in the Church, there are three periods sufficiently
distinctly marked. The first of these ends at the rise of
Novatianism in the middle of the second century; the second
stretches down to about the eighth century; and the third period
shews its gradual decline to its pract
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Plant Science is essential to human life as plants produce all
of the world's food either directly or indirectly. They also
provide raw materials, pharmaceuticals and offer renewable
sources of energy. The genetic manipulation of plants and plant
analysis has been an ongoing science since prehistoric times,
when farmers began carefully selecting and maintaining seed from
their best crops to plant for the next season. Thus, modern
cultured plants are a result of thousands of years of genetic
manipulation. Today, cultured plants are improved through both
biotechnology and selective breeding. Automation of large-scale
plant analysis methods increases boththroughput and reliability.
HAMILTON offers integrated automationsolutions for DNA/RNA
isolation, PCR set-up, sequencing reactionpreparation for
genotyping, and gene expression studies.
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TheDraw is a text editor for MS DOS to create ANSI and
animations as well as ASCII art. The editor is especially useful
to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents,
which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages,
because they are not supported by Microsoft Windows anymore. The
first version of the editor was developed in 1986 by Ian E.
Davis of TheSoft Programming Services. The last public version
of the editor was version 4.63, which was released in October
1993. TheDraw was one of the first ANSI editors that supported
ANSIs longer than 25 rows. The limit in the latest available
version is still 100 rows. Other editors, such as ACiDDraw are
able to support ANSIs larger than 100 lines for a single
ANSI/ASCII (ACiDDraw supports 1,000 lines). The animation mode
is limited to 50 lines (rows). The column width can be extended
from the standard 80 characters to 160, but this also reduces
the row limit down to 50. Compatibility with Microsoft Windows
The program runs stably in a DOS
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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
(OJJDP), Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC)
is pleased to launch the second in a series of on-line distance
learning courses. These courses aim to provide law enforcement
and community organizations with valuable, no-cost training that
focuses on the reduction of underage access to alcohol. This
two-hour online course is designed as a basic-level
familiarization to environmental strategies targeting the
reduction of youth access to alcohol and a foundation for
follow-up on-site training provided by UDETC. The course
provides basic strategies and information on assessing community
needs and applying science-based strategies. Specifically, the
course helps participants: - Understand the difference between
individually focused prevention and environmental prevention -
Understand the importance of taking an environmental approach to
address alcohol and other drug problems. - Use environmental
strategies to reduce youth access to alcohol.
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A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with
a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in
England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century
castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. The
inhabitants of the town of Dieppe are called Dieppois (m) and
Dieppoise (f) in French. First recorded as a small fishing
settlement in 1030, Dieppe was an important prize fought over
during the Hundred Years' War. Dieppe housed the most advanced
French school of cartography in the 16th century. Two of
France's best navigators, Michael le Vasseur and his brother
Thomas le Vasseur, lived in Dieppe when they were recruited to
join the expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière which
departed Le Havre for Florida on April 20, 1564. The expedition
resulted in the construction of Fort Caroline, the first French
colony in the New World. Dieppe was the premier port of the
kingdom in the 17th century. On July 23, 1632, 300 colonists
heading to New France departed from D
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Storage device manufacturer Plasmon has developed read-only
back-up discs that allow companies to selectively destroy data
while leaving the rest of the disc's contents intact. The disc,
designed to support regulatory compliance requirements, is able
to retain a record to confirm that data has been destroyed, so
managers can prove that the company has met its compliance
requirements. Claus Egge, programme director, European storage
research at analyst firm IDC, said the discs were an industry
first and would be suitable for the pharmaceutical, medical and
legal industries, which are required to protect personal data
and destroy it after use. He added that the Data Protection Act
required, for example, certain call centres to destroy client
records after use. The disc is based on Plasmon's UDO (Ultra
Density Optical) format. UDO is a phase-change optical storage
system, which stores data by physically changing the state of
the disc's recording layer between amorphous and crystalline.
With Plasmon's media, data
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"Geneticists know that strength of a species comes from its
diversity from the fact that the population as a whole can
respond in mnay different ways to many different situations" -
Eric S. Lander, MIT more genes two animals have in common, the
closer they are "related" (not by blood, but by evolution) to
one another. Therefore, different levels of classification exist
to illustrate this relationship. There are seven levels of
classification, the highest group being a kingdom, and the
lowest group a species (the others between the two extremes are,
in order, phylum, class, order, family, and genus). Many
thousands of different organisms may belong to a kingdom, but
only one to a species. For example: humans, dogs, porcupines,
rats, eagles, and salmon all belong to the same kingdom (Kingdom
Anamalia), but only humans belong to the species sapiens and
only dogs to Canis domesticus. Two organism are more closely
"related" as they approach the level of species. This also means
they have more genes in common. Taxo
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Previous abstract Next abstract The vigorous turbulence that
results from convective instability within rotating stars serves
to not only transport heat but also redistribute angular
momentum and chemical species, and can yield magnetic dynamo
action. A hallmark of such turbulence constrained by rotation
and stratification is that large-scale coherent structures and
strong mean flows can coexist with the intense smaller-scale
turbulence. Helioseismology is suggesting that the resulting
differential rotation within the convection zone of a star like
the sun yields serious puzzles about the interaction of
convection and rotation. Understanding such nonlinear dynamics
at a fundamental level raises formidable challenges because of
the broad range of scales of motion that must be resolved. High-
performance computing offers the opportunity to make substantial
inroads in studying the properties of such astrophysical
turbulence. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at several
institutions is working jointly on pr
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To provide wireless multimedia applications future generation
wireless local area networks (WLAN) have to support much higher
data rates (200 MBit/s up to 1 GBit/s) at high link reliability.
Furthermore, the gap between ''wired'' and ''wireless'' LANs
should be decreased. Recent research results show that the use
of multiple antennas at the wireless nodes (multiple-input
multiple-output, MIMO) in combination with and space-time signal
processing allows to incerase the data rate and/or to improve
the link reliability without additional costs in bandwidth or
power. Moreover, multiple antennas allow enhancements to the
existing IEEE 802.11 technology which are standard compliant and
improve coverage and link quality. Today existing wireless local
area networks (WLAN) support data rates from 11 MBit/s (IEEE
802.11b) to 54 MBit/s (IEEE 802.11a/g). The focus of this
project is to enhance the IEEE 802.11.a technology especially by
the use of multiple antenna arrays and to develop new concepts
for future high-speed w
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|Office of Community Oriented Policing Services U.S. Department
of Justice A Guide to Developing, Maintaining, and Succeeding
With Your School Resource Officer Program Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS), July 2005. Many SRO programs
have experienced difficulty recruiting, screening, retaining,
training, and supervising SROs. This new COPS report documents
promising methods that selected SRO programs have used to
address these potential problem areas of SRO program operations.
The information in the report is intended to enable other SRO
programs-and jurisdictions that are thinking of starting SRO
programs-to benefit from the experiences of these selected
programs by adopting or adapting some of their approaches to
establishing and maintaining a successful program. Blueprints
for Violence Prevention Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), July 2001. Through the
Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides
information to communities on a broad array of
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|© UNICEF/MLIA2009-00256/Giacomo Pirozzi| |An adolescent boy
behind bars in the detention centre for minors in the town of
Mopti, central Mali. UNICEF support partners to help children in
prison, while advocating that prisons should only be used as a
last resort.| Children encounter the justice system as victims,
witnesses, because they are in conflict with the law or as
parties to a justice process, such as in custody arrangements.
While detention should be used as a last resort and for the
shortest period of time, children suspected or accused of having
committed an offence are often detained. Children are also
detained for various reasons: because they were accompanying a
parent to detention or seeking asylum in another country; for
vagrancy, begging, missing school; for reasons such as after
being removed from an abusive home situation; or for reasons
such as race, religion, nationality, ethnicity or political
views. UNICEF estimates that more than one million children
worldwide are deprived of their libe
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Aggression Do’s and Don’ts Part of the Anger Management For
Dummies Cheat Sheet Aggression differs from anger because
aggressive behavior is intended to inflict harm on others.
Follow these rules to harness your aggression and use your
energy in a more productive manner: Do be competitive. All
successful people are competitive. The trick is to know when and
how. Don’t be confrontational. You won’t accomplish everything
you want in life with a hostile, in-your-face attitude. People
typically avoid confrontation, so they end up avoiding you. Do
be forceful in pursing goals. Passion and drive are what fuel
success. It’s not enough to be achievement-oriented, you have to
be achievement-driven. Don’t be too intense. Don’t overpower
those around you. It’s exhausting — for you and for them. Do be
persistent in getting what you want out of life. When you start
something, stick with it. Don’t allow anger to distract you from
your objective or cause you to give up prematurely. Don’t be
impatient. Give people a chance t
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"Our school district suffers from a high rate of poverty. As a
result, children come to school having not eaten over the
weekend. Our teachers have documented that this lack of food
causes fatigue, absenteeism, and poor health, and is impacting
the children's ability to learn." -Heather Conway, Collaboration
For Kids, Menominee Indian School District During the 2010-2011
school year, the Menominee Indian School District gave their
pre-K and Kindergarten kids a "Smart Sack," or backpack stuffed
with nutritious snacks on Fridays so that they have food to eat
on the weekends. Teachers saw a big difference and came to
Running Strong to help more kids in their school. Together, we
worked out a plan to expand "Smart Sacks" from pre-K through the
3rd grade, feeding 300 kids each week! That's 9,000 total Smart
Snacks for this upcoming school year! Running Strong will send
healthy foods like milk, sunflower seeds, chicken noodle soup,
beef stew, fruit and grain bars, oatmeal and raisins for each
week. School volunteer
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Extra-curricular programs for poor children may help them
succeed in school, but do they get to the root of the problem?
Mike Rose argues that intervention programs actually reinforce
the individualistic paradigm that creates and justifies poverty.
A version of this blog was published as "Character Education Is
Not Enough to Help Poor Kids" in the January 23, 2013 edition of
The Christian Science Monitor . It is republished with
permission from Mike Rose's blog The foster care system failed
Sam miserably. There wasn’t a nurturing household in his long
string of placements. He grew up on his own, got into trouble
with the law, kicked around in odd jobs, and found the community
college where he turned his life around. Sam is 25, a big guy
with a full smile who cares deeply about education and leading a
meaningful life. Though he’s been sleeping in his car for a
semester—we finally got him housing—he’s maintained strong
grades, participates in student government, and works on campus
as a tutor and in a summer pr
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What is dark energy? Exactly what is dark energy?
Astrophysicists would also like to know the answer to this
question – it determines how the Universe will develop.
Cosmologists are fairly sure that it has been expanding since
the Big Bang. (For more on this topic, see the astronomy
question from week 38: How quickly is the Universe expanding?)
What is still uncertain is whether this expansion will continue
forever or whether the Universe will one day begin to collapse
again, and also how much mass is present in the Universe – or
would have to be present – to prevent one or other of these two
scenarios from occurring. When Albert Einstein formulated the
general theory of relativity at the beginning of the 20th
century, he assumed that the Universe is static. He therefore
had to include an additional expression in his equations,
referred to as the cosmological constant. In 1929, Edwin Hubble
discovered that the rate at which distant galaxies move away
from Earth increases the further away they are; this observ
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Garden Dictionary Word: field border plantings field border
plantings Vegetation established on the margins of fields to
conserve soil and to provide food and shelter for wildlife, like
native shrubs. See also: filter strip. A| B | C | D | E | F | G
| H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W
| X | Y | Z
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Assembling this paper clock is a great way of teaching your
child how to tell the time. It also helps to develop your
child's hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills as they cut
out, decorate and stick the sun rays to the edge of the clock
face to create the sun effect. There are a few tricky steps (eg
attaching the paper fasteners to make the hands move) so you'll
need to help your child with some of the make. How to extend the
magic Stretch your arms out and pretend they are the arms of a
clock! See if your child can guess what time you are making with
your arms (eg both arms together above your head for midday).
Then click through to the Boogie Beebies pages on the CBeebies
website and select the 'At Home Songs.' In there, you'll find a
song called 'Tick Tock Clock'. Click on it and have some fun
together dancing along and pretending to be clocks!
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Socially Responsible Distribution The major retail chain stores’
business strategy is to sell huge quantities of food at low
prices, making a profit despite low margins thanks to the high
volumes sold. They undercut smaller competitors by offering
lower prices and invest heavily in advertising to get people
into the store. It is very difficult for local farmers to get
big retailers to buy their products because the stores require a
steady year-round supply of consistent products. The local food
movement is developing many different methods of connecting
producers and consumers through the alternative distribution
systems described in this section.
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Scientific name: Contia tenuis PDF version of this page The
Sharp-tailed Snake is a small snake, reaching a maximum length
of only 20 to 45 cm. On average, they are about as thick as a
pencil. Their small size, nocturnal activity, and secretive
nature make them one of B.C.’s least understood reptiles. The
name “sharp-tailed” comes from the sharply pointed scale at the
tip of the short tail. Adults are grey, yellowish brown, or red
in colour. Usually this colour is interrupted by a wide
yellowish stripe along each side. Some individuals also have a
dusting of fine black dots over the body. The belly is pale with
dark bars along the bottom of each scale. The head is wider than
the neck, the nose rounded or squared off, and they usually
sport a black mask over the eyes. Juveniles tend to be more
vivid in colour, and the entire back may be orange or red (as
seen in this photo). Click here to visit the Sharp-tailed Snake
Photo Gallery. Because of the Sharp-tailed Snake’s secretive
nature, not much is known about i
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What Caused My Corn Ear Tips To Not Completely Fill? Aug 05,
2011 Question: I’ve been checking my corn this week and the ears
are filled out pretty decent except around the top; the tips are
mostly empty. It’s been hot here, so I’m guessing I don’t have
good ear fill because of the heat, but I’m wondering if you can
give me any better idea of the cause? Answer:You’re probably
right about it being the result of the heat, if you’re in an
area that had a lot of high temperatures hit your area during
pollination. Tips of corn ears pollinate last and so are most
susceptible to kernel abortion. If you look at the ears and see
fairly uniform kernel loss around the top, that’s probably what
you’ve experienced. A potassium or nitrogen deficiency is
another possibility. Both of those nutrients are mobile and move
from the oldest to the newest part of the plant but will look
different on the crop’s leaves. Nitrogen deficiency starts at
the tip of the leaf and comes down through the mid-rib, so there
will be a V-pattern
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The Deccan, India's vast central plateau region, has been a
cultural crossroads for millennia. Here, cultural legacies—from
northern and southern India and beyond—have always met and
blended, resulting in a remarkable array of artistic traditions.
India's Middle Ground: Art of the Deccan gathers together works
from the Museum's collection to showcase the region's artistic,
cultural, and religious diversity. From puppets and painted
storyboards used to narrate the great Hindu epics, to
woodcarvings and gold-highlighted iconic paintings of deities
and devotees, to refined manuscripts and metalwork from the
area's Islamic kingdoms, to glass portraits influenced by the
colonial European presence, this installation is a sampling of
the Deccan's unique artistic fare: Indian fusion. The
installation includes twenty-seven works of various media dating
from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.Curators
John Henry Rice • Graduate Research Assistant Darielle Mason •
The Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and
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April is National Minority Health Month, a time to raise
awareness about the well-documented health disparities that
continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities, as well as
highlight how the Affordable Care Act is reducing those
disparities. Despite the progress that we as a nation have made
over the past 50 years, racial and ethnic minorities still lag
behind their non-Hispanic white counterparts on many health
fronts: Minorities are less likely to get the preventive care
they need to stay healthy, more likely to suffer from chronic
diseases such as diabetes, colon cancer, asthma, and heart
disease, and they are less likely to have access to affordable,
quality health care. The Affordable Care Act, along with the
Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities and
the National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity
that HHS released one year ago, are helping fight these
disparities. Lack of insurance is a significant driver of health
care disparities. More than 1.2 million Latinos, B
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|Detailed||Send e-mail reference| The following materials were
used for this purpose: Certificates applying the history of
South and West Russia; Certificates applying the history of West
Russia; materials of the National historical archives of
Belarus; monographs by V.V. Kalnin (which deal with Mir castle)
and by A.N. Narbut (about the history of Belarussian families).
Studies by K. Nesetsky and S. Vysloukhy are also of scientific
interest. Some information was specified and new facts were
found in the course of our work. The previous scheme by J.Y.
Yodkovsky was almost completely preserved and completed.
According to J.Y. Yodkovsky, Ilyinichs were a magnate family
(coat of arms “Korchak”) well known in the Great Lithuanian
Principality in the 15th-16th centuries. Ivan is considered to
be the founder of the family. He and his descendants were called
Ilyinichs by the name of their forefather Ilya who was freed by
Duke Vitovt from providing carts for the government what was
confirmed in a charter issued by kin
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3 July 2012 Using just one everyday eggshell, a team of four
girls at an UNRWA school used their knowledge of chemistry to
purify water that had been polluted by iron. The girls’ idea won
first prize at a chemistry competition in April 2012, which
brought together students from public, private, and other UNRWA
schools across Jordan. “Our experiment can be used for water
coolers in factories”, said Rahmeh Abu-Awwad, a tenth-grade
student on the team. “This method could also purify wastewater
so it can be used on agricultural lands.” Competing with the
whole school’s backing The team from Al-Nathief Prepatory Girls’
School was brought together for the competition by Tamara Al-
Zummur, the school’s chemistry teacher. Al-Zummur had also
coached the school’s team last year, when they placed second
overall. “I knew there were four students in the tenth grade who
were clever enough to win this year”, Al-Zummur said. “They did
their best at this, and I am proud of their achievement.” The
rest of the school was cheerin
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch a bigger worry than tsunami debris
Debris from the Japanese tsunami is starting to wash ashore on
the U.S. West Coast in a big way. Beachcombers from Northern
California to Alaska are finding fishing floats, soccer balls
and ships that have drifted thousands of miles across... Digging
into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Our earth is covered by
more than 75 percent water, yet we know more about the moon than
the depths of the sea. Today on World Oceans Day we celebrate
and honor oceans by recognizing the underwater footprint we all
unknowingly leave behind. When it comes to plastic, what you
throw away doesn't really go [...] The Great Pacific Garbage
Patch The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a swirling mass of
marine debris, a Plastic Soup of discarded bags and bottles, in
the north-east of the Pacific Ocean, whose mass is impossible to
determine accurately. An expedition to explore the patch sets
sail from San Diego, California on May 28. World's oceans are
'plasticized' A marine
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Island Girl left Colombia yesterday and flew across the Pacific
Ocean, traversing the Gulf of Panama and the Pearl Islands as
she has done before. She seems to like this pelagic shortcut.
She reached land somewhere near the airport and Panama City and
then continued nearly all the way across the Panamanian Isthmus,
touching down to sleep on a forested ridge in the interior. She
roosted about 8 miles south of the shores of the Caribbean Sea
and only about six miles east of Lake Gatun. For those of you
who have been to the Canal, she was 13 miles east of the Gatun
Locks. Her flight path generally put her on the required
northwest curve to handle the jump towards Costa Rica, although
she will have to detour to the SW as always and then swing
around towards Boca Del Toros and the next border. She has often
paused in this region in the past. This is one very experienced
adult peregrine. If we can count her first year (for which we
have no data), she has traversed Panama at least nine times in
her life. Perhaps mor
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A team of European experts is working on a mind-controlled
robotic exoskeleton that could enable people currently confined
to wheelchairs to walk again and also help astronauts
rehabilitate to Earth gravity after prolonged periods in the
weightlessness of space. The MindWalker system, which is being
developed as part of a three-year, 2.5 million euro project,
consists of a brain-computer interface (BCI), a virtual reality
training environment and a robotic exoskeleton attached to the
legs. If perfected, MindWalker will enable people with spinal
chord injuries to achieve mobility by sidestepping their spinal
chord as a communications pathway to their lower limbs. And,
instead of having to rely on wheelchairs or walking frames to
get around, they will be supported by an exoskeleton specially
designed for everyday use. Continue reading
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Previous | Contents | Index | Next Public key authentication is
an alternative means of identifying yourself to a login server,
instead of typing a password. It is more secure and more
flexible, but more difficult to set up. In conventional password
authentication, you prove you are who you claim to be by proving
that you know the correct password. The only way to prove you
know the password is to tell the server what you think the
password is. This means that if the server has been hacked, or
spoofed (see section 2.2), an attacker can learn your password.
Public key authentication solves this problem. You generate a
key pair, consisting of a public key (which everybody is allowed
to know) and a private key (which you keep secret and do not
give to anybody). The private key is able to generate
signatures. A signature created using your private key cannot be
forged by anybody who does not have that key; but anybody who
has your public key can verify that a particular signature is
genuine. So you generate a key
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Is it possible to design for normal childhood development? Can
an implemented landscape actually influence a child through the
stages of development, both physically and psychologically? If
this is true, and I believe it is, how do these findings impact
the designs of early childhood care facilities? This project
seeks to answer these questions by creating a sensitive planned
orphanage and thus contribute to the ongoing examination of how
good planning and good design can enhance the overall quality of
early childhood care, education and overall enrichment? project
examines the stages of normal childhood development, the
developmental milestones and tasks of those stages, theories
related to human development, and the dimensions of supportive
environments. It also examines existing orphanage and treatment
facilities that are sensitive in their designed environments to
the developmental needs of children. A series of design
recommendations based upon the knowledge gained from the
research into theory and the e
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Isometric drawings are 3D drawings. They show three sides, all
in dimensional proportion, but none are shown as a true shape
with 90 degree corners. All the vertical lines are drawn
vertically but all horizontal lines are drawn at 30 degrees to
the base line. Isometric is an easy method of drawing 3D images.
Oblique drawings are also used in engineering. The object is
drawn with the most distinguishing features facing directly
towards the observer, showing the true shape of these features.
Circular features like round holes can be drawn on this front
face as true circles. In other 3D forms, circular features must
be drawn as ellipses. To show the 3D effect, parallel lines
(called 'lines of sight') are drawn from the front face at an
angle. The cavalier method is the simplest form of oblique
projection. All features in the oblique projection view are
drawn to the same scale eg 1:1, and the lines of sight are drawn
at 45° to the horizontal as shown in the diagram. The lines of
sight may appear to diverge excess
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Survey of Energy Resources 2007 Geothermal Country Notes The
double-flash plant at La Bouillante in the French Overseas
Department of Guadeloupe is at present the only example of the
island's geothermal energy being utilised for electricity
production. The plant was commissioned in 1985 but was closed
between 1992 and 1996. The French Agency for Environment and
Energy Management (ADEME) contributed to the development of the
Bouillante high-enthalpy field by supporting 20% of the cost of
drilling new wells. Following the rehabilitation of Bouillante
1, a 5 MWe double-flash unit, in 1996, the plant was able to
supply 2% of the island's electricity supply in 1998. Extensive
exploration of the Bouillante field ensued and led to the
drilling of three new production wells and a plan to construct
Bouillante 2, an 11 MWe unit some 400 m from the original plant.
Bouillante 2 was put into service in 2005 and currently some 10%
of electricity generation is supplied by the geothermal
resource. Pre-feasibility studies for
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On a sunny afternoon in the southern U.S. state of North
Carolina, Gwen Pitt is supervising the cotton harvest. As a
large machine mashes the cotton into a solid brick a bit smaller
than a train car, Pitt says her crop is destined for one of the
world's most popular fashion items. "We have found out that most
of our cotton here in eastern North Carolina goes to make
jeans," she says. She says it takes a lot of fuel to grow and
harvest all that cotton. The picking machine alone guzzles down
nearly 400 liters of fuel per day. And while they're harvesting
cotton in this field, they're planting wheat in fields nearby.
"Tractors are always running," she says. "So we're always
burning fuel." Opponents to Copenhagen deal fear higher expenses
As climate negotiators meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, many
scientists say that farmers around the world will have to adjust
to more extreme temperatures, droughts and floods as a result of
global warming. But in the United States, the nation's largest
farmers' organization, the Am
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According to Diane August (2002), a senior research scientist at
the Center for Applied Linguistics, English Language Learners
(ELLs) spend less than two percent of their school day in oral
language development. Worse yet, when ELLs are speaking in
school, it is often not about academic topics or rigorous
content. Instead, according to Gibbons (2002), ELLs are
relegated to shallow forms of speech, such as those which
require only one-word responses. This lack of academic oral
language practice is detrimental to the acquisition of English,
as well as to the access of grade-level content area material,
which are both mandated by Title III of the No Child Left Behind
Act. Similarly, the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth (2006) suggests that oral language
development is the foundation of literacy. In order for ELLs to
become proficient in the basics of English, as well as grade-
level academic English, it is imperative that they be given
repeated and more complex opportunities to spea
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