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Jan 20, 2011
The world’s expected economic growth will have to be supported by an extra $100 trillion (£63 trillion) in credit over the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum.
This doubling of existing credit levels could be achieved without increasing the risk of a major crisis, said the report from the WEF ahead of its high-profile annual meeting in Davos.
But researchers warned that leaders must be wary of new credit “hotspots”, where too much lending takes place, as the world emerges from a financial catastrophe blamed in large part “to the failure of the financial system to detect and constrain” these areas of unsustainable debt.
“Pockets of credit grew rapidly to excess – and brought the entire financial system to the brink of collapse,” said the report, written in conjunction with consulting firm McKinsey. “Yet, credit is the lifeblood of the economy, and much more of it will be needed to sustain the recovery and enable the developing world to achieve its growth potential.”
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There is no "cure" for ADHD, but your doctor will suggest a number of treatment strategies that can help control your symptoms and make it easier to lead a normal, happy, successful life. Common treatment strategies include a combination of medication and behavioral therapy.
Counseling, ADHD coaching or psychotherapy can help adults deal with ADHD, most often in combination with medication. Some forms of counseling, often called coaching or behavioral therapy, teach new methods of organization and dealing with ADHD behaviors like impulse buying and bursts of anger. Counseling can also help those with ADHD deal with the fallout of the condition, and poor self esteem caused by failed jobs and relationships. Couples or family counseling is especially helpful because often adult ADHD has as much impact on spouses and children as it does on the individual with the condition. If a parent with ADHD also has a child or children with the condition, parent training can help with strategies to better structure the home environment and family schedule for both parent and child. | <urn:uuid:1259def8-8a3a-43b9-9218-9c1934322a0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.parenting.com/health-guide/adult-adhd/treatment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823284.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019122155-20171019142155-00751.warc.gz | en | 0.968852 | 199 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Salt Of The Earth
No American film has defied so many obstacles in reaching its audience. Made at the height of the McCarthy era, depicting the events of a bitterly-contested strike in New Mexico, Salt of the Earth was the joint effort of Hollywood professionals and the striking workers themselves. Immediately blacklisted by studios and distributors--even newspapers refused to run ads--the film nonetheless gained an enthusiastic following. In its piercing treatment of working class, women's, and racial issues, it continues to challenge audiences today. Written by Academy Award winner Michael Wilson, directed by Hollywood Ten member Herbert Biberman. USA, 1954, B&W, 94 minutes.
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(1) is kneeling in front of King Alfred (2). He is offering
his sword in surrender.
A priest (3) is
holding a Bible. Alfred made Guthorm promise to be a
The Viking army used to take their families with them
when they went to battle. (4)
After the battle Alfred told Guthorm that he and the
Vikings could take control of most of Bretland ( England ) as
long as Guthorm and the Vikings became Christians and agreed that Alfred be the King of
the whole country.
Guthorm agreed and took his army to settle in Mercia. The part of the country that the Vikings lived in was
called the Danelaw. | <urn:uuid:73f0bfb8-9a1a-47be-ba11-b366c13a0906> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/results.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824675.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021081004-20171021101004-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.963154 | 147 | 2.859375 | 3 |
John Mason founded New Hampshire in hopes of establishing a fishing colony in North America. The land was given to him by the Council for New England in 1622 and was founded in 1629.Continue Reading
He later split the land with Sir Ferdinando Gorges in 1625 and claimed the 60 miles between the Merrimack and Piscataqua Rivers. John Mason was born in 1586 and died before ever actually seeing the land of New Hampshire that he founded. In 1610 he was sent by the King to help settle unrest in Scotland. Expecting to be reimbursed, John Mason funded the voyage himself. However, the noblemen who was expected to pay him for his troubles never did which forced Mason to enter a life of piracy.
He traveled to the New World in order to serve as a governor of one of the plantations in Newfoundland. There he learned of the natural resources that North America provided. When John Mason was given the land which was then known as "North Virginia" he sent a Scotsman and two fishing merchants: David Thomson, and Edward and Thomas Hilton respectively to the newly acquired land in order to develop a fishing industry at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.Learn more about US History | <urn:uuid:cc0b331c-1df2-4fcf-80dd-94ddb442580f> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.reference.com/history/did-john-mason-found-new-hampshire-4a2c6cfb1a903f59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826049.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023130351-20171023150351-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.981153 | 249 | 3.78125 | 4 |
This is for week 5 activity 6 .
"Cat, Cat! I have terrible news!" sqeuked Mouse.
"What is it, then?" replied Cat.
" Saw a animal as big as you! And it was black and white, just like you! And it had a ORANGE collar, just like you! But it tried to eat me!!!" said Mouse scared.
" Mouse I have to tell you something.... I love to eat MICE! "
" How could you... after all the good times we had!" Mouse replied.
" Look I'm afraid we can't see each other anymore." Cat said.
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Skillscast coming soon.
When reasoning based on a set of sentences of the form "if A then usually B", classical logical system will not suffice. The use of ranking functions, that assign a degree of implausibility to every possible world is a popular approach to allow plausible relationships as logical formulas. A well known way of generating such a ranking function based on a set of plausible relationships is System Z.
During this talk, you will discover System Z as an example to show, how language features such as list comprehensions and higher order functions can be used to quickly implement a running prototype of a complex formal system.
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Commonsense Reasoning using Haskell
Steven has a Master of Computer Science at the Trier University of Applied Sciences and is currently a Research assistant at the University of Hagen in the area of knowledge based systems. | <urn:uuid:8c8ec00c-782f-4768-97b3-30846117a0c0> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8763-commonsense-reasoning-using-haskell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187821189.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017125144-20171017145144-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.924489 | 175 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Doctors didn’t understand what caused many psychological problems or mental illnesses, and usually relied on a “best guess” approach to anything without an immediate cause and effect. A doctor at the neurological unit of Boston City Hospital discussed the case of a boy experiencing convulsions. He had shown signs of a cerebral injury at birth, and later developed grand mal seizures. He was also bitten by a dog as a child, and began to have convulsions that usually occurred when he saw a dog. The doctor felt that emotion (in this case, fear of a dog), was the precipitating factor in the patient’s attacks.
The doctor brought up other instances of an emotional cause for convulsions. A 17-year-old girl suffered her first grand mal attack within two hours of being forced to break off an engagement. The doctor also described another physician’s initial treatment for a 12-year-old girl who had had cranial trauma and then seizures earlier in life: a regime of high enemas. Later, when the girl was 18, the doctors tried a “nine months trial of dehydration” which made her condition worse. | <urn:uuid:1da10dc9-86b6-41d4-9727-20e9dfb1c70a> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://cantonasylumforinsaneindians.com/history_blog/tag/high-enemas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823284.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019122155-20171019142155-00750.warc.gz | en | 0.967686 | 238 | 2.875 | 3 |
The history of Château de Galinée
From the 13th century to the present day
The Galinee fortress with its towers and turrets was built in the 13th century by Perceval de Cognetz. The family lived here for over 6 centuries.
In the 18th Century the fortress was replaced by a beautiful Rennaissance chateau comprising a main building and two parallel wings. The chapel, which actually houses the campsite shop, was also built in the 18th century.
After a fire in the 16th century and a second in the 18th, during the Battle of Saint-Cast (1758), the castle was rebuilt and transformed into a manor house during the 19th century. Three original shields have been preserved as testimony to the past.
Remnants of the original and second castle include a 13th century lavoir (wash house) and a polygonal tower, some elements from the 16th century and the 18th century chapel. | <urn:uuid:27c27178-faba-4d11-949c-113a1bfb90cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://chateaudegalinee.fr/en/the-estate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825227.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022113105-20171022133105-00652.warc.gz | en | 0.976858 | 202 | 2.875 | 3 |
As we here in New England batten down the hatches and brace for a hurricane that will affect nearly all of the original colonies, we Crazy Concord Chicks hope all our readers in the path of the storm stay dry and safe.
Storms like this weren't formally tracked until sometime during the 19th century, though our 18th century forefathers did leave us diaries and newspaper accounts of significant storms. Since shipping was a major industry and it frequently involved the Caribbean, ship wrecks due to hurricanes were frequently reported since they affected the flow of trade.
There are accounts of a really big storm kind of similar to the one we are about to encounter this weekend, referred to as the Newfoundland Storm of 1775.
Our friend JL Bell writes in his blog, Boston 1775 about this particular storm -- and do make sure you read his subsequent post, "How some storms really did shape the Revolutionary War" for some interesting reading.
In closing today's post, I've included an article from the Essex Journal from Newburyport, Massachusetts September 29, 1775 with a period account of the 1775 hurricane. | <urn:uuid:f5b514e0-648a-4fa7-a64d-7fdd9814ed8c> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://crazyconcordchicks.blogspot.com/2011/08/stay-dry-stay-safe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824537.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021005202-20171021025202-00751.warc.gz | en | 0.972034 | 229 | 2.59375 | 3 |
How and why did Germany become a global environmental leader? Germany was not always an environmental trend setter. As in other European nations, after World War II both East and West Germany’s main goals were reconstruction and promoting economic development. Very little attention was given to environmental protection in the quest to rebuild. This was particularly true in industrial parts of East Germany where the wide-spread burning of coal and the uncontrolled release of toxic chemicals into waters and soil seriously scarred the land and adversely affected human health. In 1990 Der Spiegel declared the city of Bitterfeld, center of East Germany’s chemical industry, to be the dirtiest place in Europe. As Western Europe’s largest economy and one that had coal as its primary energy source, West Germany too suffered from severe pollution and degradation of natural areas. In a famous speech made in the early 1960s, the future German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, bemoaned the country’s poor air quality and called for a return of blue skies to the Ruhr, West Germany’s most heavily industrialized and a major coal producing region. | <urn:uuid:e9b34853-eb36-4dc3-af58-44595c621253> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/aktuelle-publikationen/schreurs_miranda_environmental_ransformation/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187827853.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20171024014937-20171024034937-00751.warc.gz | en | 0.958452 | 226 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Explain the scientific credibility of cognitive and social cognitive theory through the use of Albert Bandura's four-step social cognitive theory.
One of the most noted theorists is Albert Bandura. Bandura's social-cognitive theory accentuates the social origins of behavior in addition to the cognitive thought process that impact human behavior and functioning. Bandura suggests that cognitive factors are fundamental to human performance and that learning can happen even when there is absence of direct reinforcement. That is, learning can transpire through observing models (1).
The first of Bandura's basic concepts to be discussed is ...
The expert, in the solution, discusses famous social-cognitive theorists Albert Bandura. His four-step conceptual scheme (observer attributes, retention processes, motor reproduction processes, and motivational processes) of the process involved in observational learning is explained step-by-step. Resources for further learning are provided. | <urn:uuid:29648fee-e063-4f7e-82c7-f4ab0b0ef4c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://brainmass.com/psychology/social-psychology/explanation-of-the-scientific-credibility-of-albert-bandura-s-four-step-social-cognitive-theory-582422 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823462.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019194011-20171019214011-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.918057 | 182 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Birch bark from the ground or from a dead tree, scissors, glue.
Find a piece of birch bark and cut into a rectangular shape (ex. 3 by 5 inches). Cut corners slightly and bend in half lengthwise. Bend the bottom right corner (where the bark has bent) over so that one side overlaps the other and glue into place. Repeat on bottom left corner. While holding the ends, push inward slightly to open up the middle more. This should add stability. Trim the top half for a more “canoe” shape.
“You may have to glue a small stick to the bottom to stabilize.” | <urn:uuid:50f3246a-0af7-41c8-8150-a3cfb1c65812> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.whattodowiththekids.com/crafts/birchbarkcanoe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823214.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019012514-20171019032514-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.916004 | 135 | 2.75 | 3 |
When should we use fluoride?
Fluoride is recommended to be taken orally up until the age of nine years old. Up until that age the permanent teeth are still forming but have not necessarily all erupted. Before your dentist determines the amount of fluoride necessary, we recommend you have your water tested to determine the amount of naturally occurring fluoride in your water. A fluoride supplement taken orally will help strengthen the enamel during those crucial years. After the teeth have completely formed and begin to erupt it is more beneficial to do a topical fluoride rinse as part of their daily home care. Children will also be given a prescription strength fluoride rinse at their routine dental visits with the hygienist. At that time your dentist will recommend a prescription fluoride rinse or an over the counter fluoride rinse for daily use at home. | <urn:uuid:b54693b8-959c-483a-8431-82fe9747c174> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.rochesteradvanceddentistry.com/blog/when-is-fluoride-neccessary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824618.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021062002-20171021082002-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.948843 | 162 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Lincoln Beach is an abandoned beach and amusement park located at Lake Pontchartrain near the intersection of Hayne Boulevard and Paris Road.
Lincoln Beach was a racially segregated park that served African-Americans and operated from 1939 to 1964, serving as the segregation era's blacks-only alternative to the larger Pontchartrain Beach amusement park.
With the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the formerly whites-only Pontchartrain Beach became open to all races, and Lincoln Beach closed.
Lincoln Beach is owned by the City of New Orleans, since the Levee District traded it to the city in 1980 for a piece of land at the end of Pontchartrain Boulevard, so the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority of the Orleans Levee District must regain ownership of it in order to redevelop it.
In November 2016, the authority discussed trying to obtain the land so that it could begin work clearing it, and by April 2017, they said they had initiated conversations with the city about that process. | <urn:uuid:b11bc6f4-9a93-4a60-9d8b-2132232a63db> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://nolamessenger.com/index.php?title=Lincoln_Beach | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820927.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017052945-20171017072945-00571.warc.gz | en | 0.961749 | 208 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The history of gingerbread dates back to the 900's A.D. in Europe. It's believed a monk from Armenia went to France to teach priests there how to make the treat. With it's soothing medicinal effects for stomach ailments the treat quickly spread throughout Europe. Gingerbread was so prized in Germany it could only be made in Guilds.
For centuries the gingerbread was cut into shapes. Everything from animals to people were created to the delight of many. Requests for the treat to be cut into favorite pets were granted by the guild. Eventually the cookies were allowed to be made by the citizens and gingerbread cookies of every kind were created.
It wasn't until the 1800's that houses were formed. It is believed they were created based on the Grimm fairy tale Hanzel and Gretel. No matter how you like your gingerbread there is a design for everyone. Happy baking! | <urn:uuid:613c2744-0fee-4777-9285-df57a99056aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://sheabalik.blogspot.com/2014/12/gingerbread-house-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824675.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021081004-20171021101004-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.992122 | 181 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Yards and feet are both linear measurements. They measure the distance from one point to another following a straight line. These measurements may be used to measure objects, room sizes, road distances and heights.
One foot is equal to 12 inches. Feet can be measured using a ruler, which is typically equal to 1 foot. One foot is approximately the length of a piece of paper.
A yard is equal to 3 feet. Yards are usually measured by a yardstick, which equals 1 yard. One yard is the approximate length of a baseball bat.
Square foot measurements are used to determine the size of an area. Multiply the length times the width of the object to determine the square footage. A flat surface, such as a floor tile, that is 1 foot on each side, has an area of 1 square foot.
Square yards are determined by multiplying the length times the width of an area. Room carpeting is often measured in square yards. A room that is 9 feet by 12 feet, would convert to 3 yards by 4 yards. Multiply three times four to determine the area of the room is 12 square yards. | <urn:uuid:e682a586-53ec-405e-b7de-eeb5ae272349> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://sciencing.com/difference-between-yards-feet-8583688.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824104.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020120608-20171020140608-00052.warc.gz | en | 0.972208 | 231 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Julie-Ann and Gerry discuss how to set Psychological boundaries, emotional boundaries, boundaries in relationships, and why it’s important to have those Psychological boundaries in the first place. Boundaries can be defined and experienced within seven categories and can appear subconsciously and spontaneously.
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Personal boundary dysfunction develops in childhood when parents or caretakers do not have clear boundaries and therefore model unhealthy behavior. These unhealthy boundaries can cause poor social skills, including sensitivity and bullying, for children, and continue into adulthood. Poor boundaries can lead to shame and addiction, and lose the sense of self. It’s never too late to establish healthy boundaries. Ways to develop healthy boundaries, such as assertiveness and direct communication, are discussed. Self-knowledge and self-esteem will benefit from setting stronger boundaries.
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Today’s San Francisco Chronicle newspaper had a story on hillside failures in the San Francisco Bay town of Hercules: “Oozing Hillside Imperils Home“. “Oozing hillside” is a poetic way to describe “landslide”. Even more poetic is the explanation given by the reporter (attributed to the “associate city engineer”) for the cause of the ooze:
“Hillsides are more vulnerable to landslides in the spring because the water inside the soaked earth begins to expand when the air temperature rises, forcing large chunks of a hill to move.”
So the hillsides are not so much oozing but ballooning away on warm zephyrs? Actually: blame the ooze on the rising groundwater; and blame that rise on the wet winter. Not that poetry, or more accurate geotechnical engineering explanations, do anything to help the unfortunate homeowners…. | <urn:uuid:e3024c6d-556b-4f50-940d-3f8018acc8a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://edmedley.com/blog/2011/03/30/oozing-hillsides/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826642.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023202120-20171023222120-00451.warc.gz | en | 0.908005 | 199 | 2.625 | 3 |
|Maybe we can 'throw' out this view someday|
- The government can increase regulations on the disposal of chemical waste to ensure that the problems do not occur. It could also limit the amount of waste industries are allowed to produce, or provide incentives to create less waste.
- Industries can break down chemical compounds into less dangerous forms, or store waste in ways that protect the environment from being exposed to the waste.
- The industries also can choose not to buy those products which require the production of chemical waste, attempt to influence policymakers, and produce less chemical waste themselves.
- Chemical waste can be reduced by at least one-third using existing technologies and methods.
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What is Early Spay/Neuter in Cats?
It helps to curb the serious problem of feline overpopulation — and has some important benefits for your cat’s health and behavior, too.
Chances are you already know the benefits of preventing cats from reproducing: helping to curb overpopulation, improving feline health and reducing or preventing unruly behaviors. But is it safe for a young kitten to be spayed or neutered?
Absolutely — in fact, it’s preferred. “The traditional age was historically six months, but there’s really no reason for that,” says Emily McCobb, DVM, MS, DACVAA, a clinical assistant professor at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary… | <urn:uuid:3cf52a23-3a6c-4ab1-8dd6-41134dd847e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.tuftscatnip.com/issues/22_4/feature/What-is-Early-SpayNeuter-in-Cats-175-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824899.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021205648-20171021225648-00852.warc.gz | en | 0.930572 | 155 | 2.625 | 3 |
How whales took to water
Using evolution as their guide and knowing how natural selection works, biologists knew that the transition of early whales from land to water occurred in a series of predictable steps. The evolution of the blowhole, for example, might have happened in the following way.
Random mutations resulted in at least one whale having its nostrils placed farther back on its head. Those animals with this adaptation would have been better suited to a marine lifestyle, since they would not have had to completely surface to breathe. Such animals would have been more successful and had more offspring. In later generations, more mutations occurred, moving the nose farther back on the head.
Other body parts of early whales also changed. Front legs became flippers. Back legs disappeared. Their bodies became more streamlined and they developed tail flukes to better propel themselves through water.
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Definition: A superclass in the subphylum Sarcodina that includes the amebae of humans, having pseudopodia of various forms but without axial filaments.
Synonym(s): Rhizopodasida, Rhizopodea
[rhizo + G. pous (pod-), foot]
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Another lesson creeping out of the 2016 Olympic games, is the importance of workplace safety.
We’ve heard about athletes being robbed and / or mugged near the Olympic Village.
We’ve heard about the concerns of all athletes and spectators related to the Zyka virus, the unusual water coloring issues in a closed environment, the toxic water conditions in an open environment.
We know most of the athletes are subjected to potential injury during their competition. We do see spotters during gymnastic events to minimize risk of injury and we see plenty of first aid and medical personnel and equipment close at hand.
All of this brings us to the importance of workplace safety.
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Gerar - a region; lodging-place, a very ancient town and district in the south border of Palestine, which was ruled over by a king named Abimelech (Gen. 10:19; 20:1, 2). Abraham sojourned here, and perhaps Isaac was born in this place. Both of these patriarchs were guilty of the sin of here denying their wives, and both of them entered into a treaty with the king before they departed to Beersheba (21:23-34; 26). It seems to have been a rich pastoral country (2 Chr. 14:12-18). Isaac here reaped an hundred-fold, and was blessed of God (Gen. 26:12). The "valley of Gerar" (Gen. 26:17) was probably the modern Wady el-Jerdr.
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Dicksonia Antarctica - Australian Tree Fern
approx 50 Seeds / Spores
Dicksonia Antarctica is a tree fern native to eastern Australia, from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria to Tasmania.
The trunk is formed from the remains of old stems from older leaves and a fibrous above ground root system, topped with a canopy of unfurling leaves, each from 1 to 3 meters in length.
In its native habitat, it is found growing in damp woodland, and moist gullies.
Grows to a maximum height of around 15 meters and a canopy spread of 2 to 6 meters.
Half hardy to just under freezing, crowns should be protected during winters in cool areas.
Dicksonia Antarctica - 50 Seeds / Spores - Australian Tree Fern
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The Fission Bomb
The most basic type of nuclear bomb uses uranium. Only uranium 235 consistently gives off neutrons of an energy that will cause other uranium atoms to split. Putting enough uranium together will start a chain reaction starts . This is not enough to create a bomb. The material must be held in a compressed state long enough for the reaction to take place while resisting the initial energy of the explosion that will try and tear it apart. The gun design – the simplest – uses a piece of fissile uranium fired at a fissile uranium target at the end of the weapon, achievied critical mass when combined.
While the gun method is simple, it is subject to a problem known as 'fizzle', where uranium does not come together quickly enough. If this happens the energy released will blow them apart before the main explosion gets underway.
The gun method also requires more uranium than other methods – maybe three times as much. Uranium 235 is rare and expensive to purify, so this is a real problem. Plutonium, though it can give rise to a chain reaction is not suitable because 'fizzle' is much more of a problem. To cure it, the barrel would have to be very long, which is impractical. | <urn:uuid:b7e06191-2793-48cc-9c38-93504da3da3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://astarmathsandphysics.com/ib-physics-notes/atomic-and-nuclear-physics/1228-the-fission-bomb.html?tmpl=component&print=1&page= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825147.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022060353-20171022080353-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.930755 | 252 | 3.984375 | 4 |
One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
A volcano built up of alternate layers of lava and ash.
- ‘Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that grew within the breached crater of Monte Somma volcano.’
- ‘Mount Saint Helens in Washington and Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines are examples of stratovolcanoes.’
- ‘Nevado del Ruiz volcano is an andesite stratovolcano located in the northern Andes of Colombia.’
- ‘Between 30 and 40 million years ago, eruptions from a cluster of stratovolcanoes blanketed the area with ash beds and volcanic mud flows, reaching a maximum thickness of 3,000 feet.’
- ‘The very short period of time between the shield stage truncated by the Garajonay embayment and the beginning of its filling by the Vallehermoso stratovolcano suggests a volcano-tectonic origin.’
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Working scientifically in the primary curriculum - pupil led investigations RC108 / H13
Pupils are enthused and motivated when they are involved in planning their own enquiries and when they can see the relevance of them to their everyday life. You will explore a range of techniques to draw out their ideas and develop strategies to inspire and incorporate these ideas into your science lessons.
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- incorporate children’s ideas into your science lessons
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Math Problems that Take More than 10 Seconds to Solve!
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The University of Cambridge developed a database of "rich" math problems for students from 1-12th grade. Many lend themselves well to group work and discovery and all require some noodling. Nothing fancy in terms of graphics or presentation, but a great way to exercise deeper conceptual math skills in younger or older students. There are a few problems each day that are LIVE. That means they are inviting students and classrooms to submit their solutions and explanations to the exercise.
When you enter the site, you click on your "house" depending on whether you are a teacher or a student and the grade level. Since NRICH is based in England, the grade levels are slightly different, but if you hover over each house you can see the American grade range it is appropriate for. Solutions can be difficult to find, but can be accessed by clicking on SOLUTION in the in the box on the top left corner of each exercise.
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For many soldiers, both Union and Confederate, brawls between fellow soldiers were common. Mr. Elijah Magoffin, a wealthy farmer who resided near Hughesville, Missouri, served as a Confederate soldier until close to the end of the war. His life, however, was cut short when he attempted to break up a bar-room fight between a friend and another man. Magoffin died instantly when a large bowie-knife pierced his heart. His son later chased down the culprit in Texas and hung him.Early in the war in August 1861, Magoffin had been arrested for killing two Union soldiers that he feared were coming to arrest him for his Confederate activities. While imprisoned in Alton military prison, he, two of his sons, and another prisoner escaped to rejoin the Confederates. | <urn:uuid:96bd215e-1194-40ba-a83f-023765a71955> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://civilwarmo.org/gallery/item/CWMO-300?nojs=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823482.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019231858-20171020011858-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.985993 | 189 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Advances in technology show that the human collective can learn and build upon knowledge. But if that’s true, why hasn’t human society advanced in a similar rate to its technological achievements. In other words, why hasn’t humanity worked the bugs out of its social structure. Perhaps technology, such as global communication, is a necessary component.
The differences in human groups are typically magnified by geographic isolation. Different languages or accents, as well as other cultural and physical variances, typically occur when sub-groups separate and live for a period of time in isolated or semi-isolated regions. But with global travel and global communication, humanity would tend to homogenize. Previously, any splinter group could sufficiently isolate itself so as to develop new characteristics, but this will become less likely due to the hegemony of a global society.
So perhaps it’s not that humanity is unable to socially evolve, it’s that geographic isolation made it too easy to develop distinct philosophical, cultural, and physical differences. Perhaps the development of a global network of communication is a necessary component for social evolution. And once that network is pervasive amongst all generations, perhaps a global consciousness will emerge. | <urn:uuid:98e08cae-0fc7-4453-9790-3d7d148ffeaf> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://wellcraftedwords.com/2012/11/24/collective-understanding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822145.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017163022-20171017183022-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.9384 | 245 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Today is National Peanut Day! It's the perfect time to stop and appreciate the strange little food behind your favorite snacks like peanut butter and banana sandwiches, trail mix and, Peanut Butter Chocolate Puffs!
Five Weird Peanut Facts
- Despite the name. peanuts are actually legumes, and belong to the same plant family as beans and peas.
- There are six cities in the U.S. named Peanut: Peanut, California; Lower Peanut, Pennsylvania; Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania; Peanut, Pennsylvania, Peanut, Tennessee; and Peanut West Virginia.
- I Heart Keenwah uses 50 lbs of natural peanut butter and 300 lbs of peanuts to make a batch of Peanut Butter Cacao Quinoa Clusters.
- In the U.S. peanut and peanut butter comprise 67% of all nut consumption.
- Peanuts are often touted as a good source of plant-based protein, but did you know peanuts also rival the antioxidant content of blackberries and strawberries, and are far richer in antioxidants than apples, carrots or beets?
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Last week, scientists released a bevy of images and information about Vesta, including data confirming that Vesta is indeed structured like a planet with an iron core and that it separated into layers (crust, mantle, etc.) as it formed. (For more information about the structure of our own planet, see our module on Earth's Structure.) Vesta's topography is also quite varied, exhibiting landslides, craters, and a mountain twice the height of Mt. Everest. Using data from Dawn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory created this ethereal virtual tour of Vesta's surface.
Video Courtesy: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology
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How the Microscope was made
By zpclark, Updated
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My name is Hans Jannsen I invented the compound microscope using many different lenses in 1590
My name is Robert Hooke I also invented the compound microscope and discovered cells in 1673
My name is Anton van Leeuwenhoek I invented a hand held microscope that can magnify up to 300 times in 1673
My name is Robert Brown I discovered different parts of a cell in 1831
My name is Theodor Schleiden and we have many theory's of organisms like all living organisms are composed of one or more cells in 1839.
My name is Mathlas Schleiden
Created by Zac Clark in 7.2 made in 2014.
My name is Nick Lawson and I helped.
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A 350-year-old notebook which documents the trials of women convicted of witchcraft in England during the 17th century has been published online.
The notebook written by Nehemiah Wallington, an English Puritan, recounts the fate of women accused of having relationships with the devil at a time when England was embroiled in a bitter civil war.
The document reveals the details of a witchcraft trial held in Chelmsford in July 1645, when more than a hundred suspected witches were serving time in Essex and Suffolk according to his account.
"Divers (many) of them voluntarily and without any forcing or compulsion freely declare that they have made a covenant with the Devill," he wrote.
"Som Christians have been killed by their meanes," he added.
Of the 30 women on trial in Chelmsford, 14 were hanged. Read more
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
17th Century Witch Chronicles Put Online
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This resource has been designed to be delivered in Victorian secondary schools in a Health and Physical Education lesson. The learning intentions have been linked to the Victorian Curriculum at level 7 to 8. The ideal time to deliver this resource at school is in year 7, as this is the time that young people are offered free vaccines through the Secondary School Vaccine Program. Delivery of this lesson before school vaccination day will help students to become more informed about vaccination and understand the importance of returning the consent card back to school.
Note for teachers: this e-learning resource contains YouTube videos published by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Cancer Council Australia. Teachers may need to contact their IT department to enable students to view these YouTube videos. | <urn:uuid:51088450-8b5d-4f83-8794-f72d1a5ba138> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://immunehero.health.vic.gov.au/resource/e-learning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823016.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018161655-20171018181655-00651.warc.gz | en | 0.956997 | 147 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Cucumbers are technically considered to be a fruit and they originate from the gourd family of plants, specifically Cucurbitacaea. Because the seed in their plants are enclosed, coupled with the fact that they develop from a flower, their classification falls under that of a fruit.
Cucumbers are usually prepared and eaten as vegetables though, which tends to be confusing for many people. Despite the fact that cucumbers are scientifically classified as a fruit, most people think of them as a vegetable because of how they are prepared. Cucumbers can be referred to as either fruits or vegetables, depending on the definition you want to go with. | <urn:uuid:a2ef4361-7ddf-479b-9a0d-b74592687a75> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.foodanswers.org/are-cucumbers-fruits-or-vegetables/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823309.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019141046-20171019161046-00850.warc.gz | en | 0.979946 | 132 | 3.359375 | 3 |
The European CLOHE educational project is an innovative project that is using mechanical moving toys (Automata) as a learning tool for primary students to build transversal key competences.
Mechanical moving toys (Automata) are a great way to introduce engineering, arts, sculpture, mechanics and science, by combining play and technology.
Mechanical moving toys (Automata) also offer education, ways to explore arts and game based activities around the construction and understanding of Automata.
CLOHE will motivate primary children to use multidimensional, cognitive resources to achieve learning outcomes.
The CLOHE project outcomes will allow teachers and students to build their own Automata. The resources the project will produce will include everything that will allow a teacher to make automata with their students.
You can visit our web site at: http://www.clohe-movingtoys.eu/www/Home_EN/Home.htm
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Date:June 25, 2015
Source:Central Ornithology Publication Office
Summary: In a six-year study at Arrow Lakes Reservoir in British Columbia, researchers found that while some nests failed due to flooding as the reservoir filled up in the spring, the higher water levels actually provided benefits for the nests that survived. Their results show that overall, nesting in the reservoir's riparian areas did not reduce nest success.More than half of the world's major river systems are regulated by dams and reservoirs. Many bird species rely on riparian habitat, building their nests in the vegetation that lines rivers and streams. However, whether they can find success nesting on the shores of reservoirs that are drained and flooded according to the needs of water storage rather than the needs of wildlife has been largely an open question. | <urn:uuid:d1ebef46-ef8c-484b-b564-25a17382a2f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://cfzwatcheroftheskies.blogspot.com/2015/06/bad-news-and-good-news-for-birds.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823462.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019194011-20171019214011-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.968491 | 161 | 4.09375 | 4 |
The Internet of Things consist of both "Brown Field" applications that add wireless to existing devices and "Green Field" applications that describes the proliferation of new innovative devices. Wireless sensor networks will be a driving force in many of these "Green Field" nodes as their underlying technology enables connectivity where energy consumption, installation, and maintenance hurdles were previously too high. A few application examples include smart lighting, locks, fire alarms, parking, pollution, and inventory management.
Reducing power consumption for sensing, actuation, and wireless communications are some of the most important technology advancements. Since extending battery life will be one of the most important features of differentiation, IP that help achieve this will be a critical SoC design decision. | <urn:uuid:f79c5787-2378-4aed-8d7a-d277dac31644> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/ip-market-segments/internet-of-things/safety-and-security.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825141.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022041437-20171022061437-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.942386 | 143 | 2.609375 | 3 |
“Two-Worlds in Old Russian Icon Painting” from Icons: Theology in Color by Eugene Trubetskoi.
In other icons of the Dormition, other colors of the celestial range are used to achieve the effect of separation of the two planes. Christ standing behind the deathbed is separated from the Virgin not only by assist but also by a special coloration of the celestial sphere surrounding him. Sometimes a single sphere forms around him a dark blue oval in which cherubim are seen. All these cherubim seem too drown in the blueness—except one, flaming red at the apex of the oval above the Saviour’s head. Sometimes…the oval contains many celestial spheres, one above the other, distinguished from one another by a multitude of shadings of light blue, including some incredible greenish-turquoise tints. The impression of something literally “out of this world” is overwhelming. For a long time I worried over the question of where the artist could have observed such colors in nature—until I saw them myself, after sundown, in the northern Petrograd sky.
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NASA Innovations in Climate Education (NICE) Teacher Professional Development Workshop Series is seeking teacher participants! Join NICE on April 9th, 11th, 16th, and 18th from 4:00 – 5:20 pm EST. One-way or two-way virtual participation options available.
From greenhouse effect to Earth’s rising temperatures and resulting impacts on plants, bugs and birds, increase your understanding of these timely topics and more at the NICE Teacher Professional Development Workshop. This workshop is a four-part series featuring climate literacy content and classroom resources from NASA and NICE Earth Systems Scientists. It is open to all Science, Technology, Engineering and Math K-12 teachers. The content will be geared toward the 5-9 grade band.
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Reference point was chosen to be at Va. I'm trying to understand the logic behind it. It is clear that Vc = - Vs because if Vc was the reference point at Va the voltage potential between Va and the reference point Vc is Vs. Therefore, Va = Vs, Va - Vc = Vs if Vc is reference. However, when Vc is the reference point, don't we have Vc -Va = -Vs? Va is reference so 0 volts which mean Vc = -Vs. At the Ohm law at IR1. If Va is the reference point which mean it is zero voltage. All the nodes are using it as a reference to ground and to my understand the voltage at the node is based on the higher potential - the lower potential. If that's the case, how can the higher potential be the reference point when it was given a value of zero with respect to all other nodes?? | <urn:uuid:855c5ccb-d016-4faf-8f42-bacd18d82d20> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/higher-potential-with-reference-point.916206/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820556.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017013608-20171017033608-00011.warc.gz | en | 0.9688 | 189 | 2.65625 | 3 |
|Loose composting Worms|
Classification of worms in general is very complicated, simply put, the worms used in vermicomposting are "composting or litter" worms as opposed to soil dwelling worms. They generally live above the soil surface in areas where decaying vegetation or organic materials have collected and it is this lifestyle that makes them so valuable.
At Worms Direct UK we have studied the behaviour and lifestyles of the most commonly sold native composting worm - Dendrobaena, a stripey worm, often but incorrectly,sold as Tiger worms. It is related to the original and genuine Tiger worm also known as the Brandling. Until now the genuine Tiger worm has rarely been found for sale due to the difficulty in growing commercially. At Worms Direct we have sourced a supply of genuine Tiger worms and have now combined them with Dendrobaena in a superior worm composting mix which is proven to give a better overall composting performance than Dendrobaena alone. | <urn:uuid:a02522cc-61f4-44ff-81aa-67d479f1ad7a> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.wormsdirectuk.co.uk/acatalog/info_100.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826114.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023145244-20171023165244-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.965079 | 205 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Step-by-step, easy-to-use instructions for each lesson that help teachers bring the week's Scripture text alive for their students. The Adult Comprehensive Bible Study Teacher's Guide includes devotional preparation for the teacher, extra Bible background material for each lesson, suggested answers to Comprehensive Bible Study questions, and a variety of activities and stories to involve students in relating the biblical text to their own lives. Also includes a reduction of the student book pages so teachers can see what their students are reading and studying and easily answer their questions (see Peloubet's and Tarbell's for additional teacher materials to help build a better Bible lesson).
Teacher's Guide is also available packaged with Adult Creative Teaching Aids.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The call of the Grey Partrige or Grey Francolin as it's now called was one of the first calls I heard when I came to this campus. The birds are one of the commonest in Peninsular India. They have a loud, ringing 'tee--teeu-ka-' repeated about four times. Another call 'is Pee-la-la, Pee-la-la'. The Hindi name is teetar and the birds are also considered a delicacy.
In the wild, they're seen in groups of three or four secretively stepping through the undergrowth. I have not been successful in getting very close to them. Often, when you flush a group of birds they will suddenly fly up from the ground, flapping loudly and scatter deep inside the bushes.
So far, this photograph has been the only chance at capturing a pair. This was taken near the main gate this morning.
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Belgian researchers develop new vaccine against yellow fever and rabies
KU Leuven and the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP) in Brussels have set out to develop a vaccine that protects against both rabies and yellow fever. The vaccine has to be effective, safe, inexpensive, easy to produce and not temperature sensitive.
The vaccine is being developed in collaboration with two foreign research centres, together forming the RABYD-VAX consortium, which received a grant of €4.1 million from the European Union.
Rabies claims 59,000 lives each year, with half of the victims being children. The disease is most common in rural areas in Africa and Asia. Every year 30,000 people succumb to yellow fever, mainly in Africa and Latin America. Last year, for instance, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo were dealing with an epidemic.
Vaccines against these diseases already exist, but they are expensive and not sufficiently effective. One of the major disadvantages of these vaccines is that they have to be refrigerated during transport and storage, which makes their effective distribution difficult.
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Everything seems to make sense to me, but I know the answer is wrong.. "Actually, mass and weight are not the same thing. Mass is how much of something there is - which does not change throughout the universe (mass = density * volume). Weight is a force, which is constantly changing throughout the universe depending on the acceleration of gravity (weight = mass * acceleration of gravity). You can work out a persons mass simple by dividing their weight by 9.806 (Earth's acceleration of gravity). For example, if your weight = 80 kilograms, then your mass would be 8.15 kilograms. Because -- 80 kilograms / 9.806 = 8.15 kilograms" | <urn:uuid:a46238ee-9910-467d-a70f-d6055ba4db2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-is-wrong-with-this-answer.414111/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824775.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021114851-20171021134851-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.954112 | 135 | 2.75 | 3 |
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data In recent years, there have been several significant outbreaks and recalls associated with Salmonella in peanut butter. One company has designed a thermal pasteurization system to reduce pathogen risk in peanut butter, in which the peanut butter is pumped through a heating tube and heated to 85degC (from an initial temperature of 15.6degC). You have been given values for peanut butter density (1,090 kg/m3) and specific heat (1.2 kJ/kgK). If the pasteurizer can deliver 47 kW of heating power, (a) What is the theoretical operating capacity of the pasteurizer (lb/h) of peanut butter? (b) What size storage tank (ft3) is needed to store one shift (8 h) worth of peanut butter for this facility? 2. Relevant equations V=m/ρ V=v.ΔT Q=m.C.ΔT W=J/s 3. The attempt at a solution Ok, I'm lost. I don't understand the first question and I don't know where to start. I would appreciate any help. | <urn:uuid:7745ac9e-f842-428e-aa59-29e2a4b55ccd> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/biosystems-eng-pasteurization-system-for-peanut-butter.886142/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824225.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020135519-20171020155519-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.926024 | 244 | 3.125 | 3 |
Dog parks are a great place to socialize dogs and let them play, but they also have some hidden dangers, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian.
Susan Nelson, clinical associate professor the university’s Veterinary Health Center, has some tips to keep visits to dog parks safe and healthy for dogs and dog owners.
Before visiting a dog park, Nelson said it’s important that your dog is current on its vaccinations. Puppies should be fully vaccinated first before allowing a visit.
Many viruses and parasites that affect dogs and humans can be picked up at dog parks or other outdoor venues, according to Nelson. These diseases can be found in the soil, water and even the air.
“Many of these serious diseases can be fatal, even with treatment,” Nelson said. “But good vaccines are available to prevent them. Owners should talk to their vet to make sure that their dogs are up to date with any other vaccinations that may be needed, especially for canines that will frequent dog parks.”
Among the diseases your dog should be vaccinated against include parvovirus, canine distemper, rabies and various respiratory diseases.
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WHAT Is This Cylinder On Your Charger For? You’ll NEVER Guess!
We might be taking our charge cables for granted. Sure, we love how they charge our much needed and loved devices like our mobiles and tablets but besides that function we don’t know how much work went into the cord.
One component of the charge cable is the small cylinder-like module. Usually this part is near the end of the cable. You will be surprised to find out what this unassuming piece does. Let’s just say this piece plays an important role in protecting your devices from slowly deteriorating.
Have you ever wondered what that is?
Most people have no clue what it is.
This piece serves a very important purpose.
The thick part of the cord is not just there for decoration.
We know where the laptop charger goes.
The cylinder near the end of the cable is actually there for a good reason.
The ferrite bead suppresses high frequency noise from electronic circuits. Therefore, electro magnetic noise and AC-DC noises are suppressed. Ferrite beads are also referred to as EMI filters, chokes, blocks, and rings.
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It’s fresh food vs. frozen food. Fresh food is always better than frozen food, right? Well, fresh food may taste better than frozen food, but does it have an edge in nutrition too? ASAP Science explains why frozen fruits and vegetables can often be superior to their fresh counterparts.
Oftentimes, the food on store shelves was harvested in an under-ripe state, meaning it was not at its peak nutrition. As fresh food decays during transportation or simply sitting in your fridge, it may lose up to 50% of its nutritional value. Frozen foods, in contrast, are picked when they are ripe and frozen immediately, minimizing the loss of nutrition. In terms of nutritional value, frozen broccoli, blueberries and Brussel sprouts beat their fresh counterparts in stores. Of course, eating freshly picked and ripe fruits and vegetables maximizes nutritional intake, but that’s not practical most of the time. | <urn:uuid:d4a3296b-7e14-4e7d-b20a-2f072b4145b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://alyten.com/videos/is-frozen-food-more-nutritional-than-fresh-food/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822822.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018070528-20171018090528-00150.warc.gz | en | 0.960372 | 188 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Many people think of Linux as a computer operating system, running on users' desktops and powering servers. But Linux can also be found inside many consumer electronics devices. Whether they're the brains of a cell phone, cable box, or exercise bike, embedded Linux systems blur the distinction between computer and device.
Many makers love microcontroller platforms such as Arduino, but as the complexity increases in their projects, they need more power for applications, such as computer vision. The BeagleBone Black Rev.C is an embedded Linux board for makers. It's got built-in networking, many inputs and outputs, and a fast processor to handle demanding tasks. This book introduces you to both the original BeagleBone and the new BeagleBone Black and gets you started with projects that take advantage of the board's processing power and its ability to interface with the outside world.
Note: Getting Started with BeagleBone has been updated to work with the New, Debian based BeagleBone Rev C. | <urn:uuid:9b778786-e820-4ed6-b428-43d4a704b010> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://mcielectronics.com/shop/product/getting-started-with-beaglebone-11093 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824675.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021081004-20171021101004-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.943666 | 200 | 2.71875 | 3 |
General information on paediatric HIV
Substantial progress has been made in tackling the HIV epidemic yet there are many challenges which remain especially for mothers, infants and young children. Efforts to scale up HIV treatment and care services for children have intensified in recent years however, coverage in low- and middle-income countries remains well below that for adults. Furthermore, very few infants are accessing treatment despite the fact that these are the most vulnerable of all people with HIV.
The more rapid rate of disease progression in children, (median survival is 2 years compared to 11 years in adults) makes it imperative to increase access to early infant diagnosis (EID) and ensure timely initiation of ART in HIV-positive infants and children. It is also essential to recognize the critical link between paediatric prevention and paediatric treatment. With more than 90% of children infected with HIV through mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), scaling up interventions to prevent MTCT is be central to the goal of eliminating new paediatric infections.
Pediatric advocacy toolkit: For improved pediatric HIV diagnosis, care and treatment in high HIV prevalence countries and regions
Progress report 2011: Global HIV/AIDS response
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Robert Whyte'sThe Ocean Plague: The Diary of a Cabin Passenger. 1847
Robert Whyte's immigrant diary, The Ocean Plague: The Diary of a Cabin Passenger, appeared in print in 1848, one year after the author said he made his journey from famine-stricken Ireland to Canada. Whyte later crossed the boarder into the United States. Nothing is known about Robert Whyte, including whether such a person even existed; the name could very well be a pseudonym. All that is left is this diary, published in 1994 by Mercier Press and edited by James Mangan under the title Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary. Mangan also edited the fictionalization of Gerald Keegan's famine journal. Unlike this earlier work (1991), however, Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary is an authentic reproduction of the original text, rather than a dramatization. One could assume, therefore, that Whyte's diary is a relatively more trustworthy account of the ocean crossing.
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Fun with Physics Crossword Puzzles
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Use this simple crossword puzzle to show off your knowledge of physics! This themed online crossword puzzle will test your science skills.
This crossword consists of a few words Across(A) and a few words Down(D). Review the clues for each word and fill in the corresponding boxes with the letters that spell out the word!
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Language Arts Worksop
The Language Arts Workshop is a writing and reading workshop that is meant to increase students' skills in narrative and evidence based writing responses through the use of short stories, poetry and nonfiction writing. Students will develop the vocabulary and critical thinking skills necessary to discuss and analyze writing and reading in sophisticated ways through dialogue and the written word.
Students will receive more individualized instruction by being placed in a class that reflects their writing ability. Cooperative learning will be emphasized and detailed responses from the instructors and peers will play an essential role in each student's growth as a reader and writer.
This course is aimed at fourth through seventh graders. However, if a current third grader is interested, a pre-assessment of literary terms and a writing sample would be administered to determine if the course is a good fit.
Session 1: June 15 - June 18
Session 2: June 22 - June 25
Session 3: June 29 - July 2
Location: 7th Grades
Hours: 8:30 - 10:30am
1-hour Extension: 8:30 - 11:30am
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Peat Substrates for Palms
The peat substrate is ready to use for commercial and recreational growing of palm trees, yuccas and other large plants in containers that require heavy, permeable, weakly acidic, durable and unconsolidated substrate.
The substrate is made of high-quality peat, deoxidized limestone flour, with the addition of minerals (perlite, river sand). During preparing the substrate, organo-mineral fertilizer of prolonged action with trace elements is added.
It has a high moisture-holding capacity, good moisture permeability and sufficient air capacity.
A balanced content of macro - and trace elements creates an ideal environment for the development of the root system of plants. During watering it keeps its structure.
Fraction: 15-25 mm
N(general): 140-180 mg/l
Р2О5: 160-200 mg/l
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THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN HAWKINS
by F. Edward Butterworth
Here is a fascinating, true story of the experiences of the missionary stalwart of the South Seas, John Hawkins. As a young man, this Englishman migrated to the Polynesian islands and witnessed the arrival of the Timoleon, which brought the first missionaries of the Church.
He saw the changes that took place in the islands and endured many dramatic and dangerous situations that developed when the French occupied the islands and brought the natives under their control.
This book brings to life a very colorful era in the history of the early Church, and combines romance, adventure, and history in a land of enchantment. Most of the incidents are based upon facts drawn from published accounts. Many of the details have been drawn from interviews with other missionaries who were well acquainted with John Hawkins. Elder Aberahama Fauura, great-grandson of John Hawkins, provided much of the personal description of the principal character of the book.
The introduction of the gospel in the lives of South Sea Islanders will take on new meaning as you relive some of the thrilling sequences of these early days. | <urn:uuid:06243436-519f-499b-9a17-48ec1cf576fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://rldsbooks.blogspot.com/2010/08/adventures-of-john-hawkins.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824819.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021133807-20171021153807-00451.warc.gz | en | 0.952851 | 235 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The WHO has released the theme/ topic for World Health Day, 2015: Food Safety.
Approximately 2 million people, mostly children, die each year due to unsafe food.
In view of the increasing globalization of our food supply, it is imperative to strengthen the food safety systems in and between all countries.
The WHO has described five keys to safer food:
- Key 1: Keep it clean
- Key 2: Separate raw and cooked food
- Key 3: Cook food thoroughly
- Key 4: Cook food at safe temperatures
- Key 5: Use safe water and raw materials.
Link to WHO World Health Day 2015 page:
Link to WHO fact sheet on Food Safety:
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Large Clypeaster Sea Urchin
Very well defined
Base of the Sea Urchin
This is a large Clypeaster Sea Urchin, discovered in the Sahara of Egypt.
It dates from the Late Eocene, 35 million years old
The genus Clypeaster derives from the Latin, clypeus (meaning round shield) and aster (meaning star).
Echinoderms were the first animal to develop an internal skeleton, and were solitary marine organisms,
They fed, using their fine tentacles to direct food to their mouths, on micro marine organisms such as plankton.
Their first appearance was in the Cambrian Period, and their descendants still exist in the oceans of today of course.
This is an exceptionally large specimen, and well worth adding to a collection.
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Tuberculosis is an illness that affects the lungs. It is more commonly known as TB and it was a big killer in Victorian times, as the conditions in towns were so bad. Housing was damp and the air was full of smoke from the factories that sprung up everywhere during the Industrial Revolution.
Tuberculosis is contagious and to avoid infection spreading sufferers would cough into a spittoon, such as the one shown here. This is a particularly nice example in blue glass, which would have been quite expensive. It is marked on both sides with the name Dr Dettweiler, who was a German doctor who pioneered the successful treatment of tuberculosis. The spittoon was made by Down Brothers and was used during the late 19th century.
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The image experts are eager to examine more closely.
The image on the small leaden page may be of a bearded young man with flowing curly hair, possibly with a crown of thorns on his brow. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine.
But if genuine, this could be the first-ever portrait of Jesus Christ, possibly even created in the lifetime of those who knew him.
The extraordinary picture of one of the recently discovered hoard of up to 70 lead codices found in a cave in the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee is one reason Bible historians are eager to examine the ancient artifacts. The tiny booklet is a little smaller than a credit card and is sealed on all sides, with a three-dimensional representation of a human head on both the front and the back. One appears to have a beard and the other is without.
Beneath both figures is a line of undeciphered text in an ancient Hebrew script. One of the booklets appears to bear the words ‘Savior of Israel’ ~ one of the few phrases so far translated.
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The existing stone cross on the roof of St Mary's Church has had to be removed due to its delicate and unsafe condition.
The cross, which was carved in Kilkenny limestone and was likely erected in the 18th Century, was located on the east end of the apex of the roof. It was discovered to be in an unsafe condition during the course of site investigation, which is ongoing during the restoration and museum project.
A replacement cross has been hand carved on site and put in place since. The original will be retained and put on display at ground level in the near future.
The main contract on St Mary's is progressing and the north aisle extension structure has been completed. The 'museum interpretative process' and fit-out are also under way. | <urn:uuid:61efb05d-b7a5-4571-b31e-534bb705ef82> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/news/201981/Ancient-cross-removed-at-St-Mary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825473.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022222745-20171023002745-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.991379 | 156 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The dark reactions of photosynthesis produce sugar phosphate molecules with three carbon atoms each. These reactions, known as the Calvin cycle, are called dark reactions because they do not use light energy directly, but they still depend on the energy captured from light and only occur during the day.Continue Reading
Plants use the energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar. The energy from the sun does not go directly into breaking down the carbon dioxide and water and forming sugars, however. Instead, there is an intermediate step where the energy is stored in a different molecule called ATP. This molecule is then transported to a different part of the chloroplast where it is used to power the Calvin cycle.
The first step of the dark reaction involves a molecule with five carbon atoms reacting with a carbon dioxide molecule to form an intermediate molecule with six carbon atoms. This molecule splits immediately, and each half goes through two more reactions before the Calvin cycle is through with them. Each time through the carbon cycle produces six of these molecules, but five of them are consumed afterward to regenerate the molecules used to perform the Calvin cycle again, meaning only one of these three-carbon molecules remains after each completed Calvin cycle.Learn more about Biology | <urn:uuid:83f55516-7946-45c8-ab18-13ad76a1dd9e> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.reference.com/science/products-dark-reactions-45a3ec2598c403ee | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825497.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023001732-20171023021732-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.942396 | 244 | 3.953125 | 4 |
I was there. It was tense. A small plane carried a sign calling Mandela a communist flew over the Convention Center. Miami’s black community was outraged by the reception and later boycotted Cuban businesses in retaliation. In an interview with PBS’s “MacNeil-Lehrer Report,” he said he considered the criticisms unreasonable since Cuba offered help to the ANC while the US government did not. (Mandela was only removed from the US “terrorist list” in 2008, 18 year after he was released from prison.) The Cubans supported the ANC, trained their cadres, provided both schooling and medical care, all as part of their commitment to revolutionary movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America. When South African forces invaded Angola, Cuba sent troops, not once, but twice, as an act of what they called “proletarian internationalism.” The Cuban army supported the Angolan military in a crucial battle defeating the South Africans in the town of Cuito Carnivale. That led to South African troops withdrawing, along with the Cubans, and made possible a negotiated settlement in Namibia.
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The PAG Regiment is one of the oldest volunteer regiments in South Africa. It started as the Port Elizabeth Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1856. The name changed in 1860 when they provided protection for Prince Alfred (Queen Victoria’s son) when he visited Port Elizabeth.
The Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial was opened on 6 November 1907 as a memorial to the fallen Prince Alfred’s Guards. The memorial is built on a water reservoir that was constructed between 1903 and 1907. The memorial and reservoir were restored in 2006-2006. It was declared a National Heritage Site on 10 June 1983.
On the top of the central pedestal is a life-size figure of a sergeant-major in full dress uniform. Below him are four lions holding shields.
On each of the four corners of the base of the memorial is a plague bearing the names of officers and men who fell in the Transkei War (1877); Basutoland War (1880-1881); Bechuanaland War (1897); and the Anglo Boer War (1899 – 1902). | <urn:uuid:65790eb8-a6de-4a20-8853-c8d76e897b9b> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://lugerda.blogspot.com/2012/07/pe-prince-alfreds-guard-memorial.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823997.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020082720-20171020102720-00852.warc.gz | en | 0.961574 | 221 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Social platforms like Facebook may help fight government corruption, especially in countries where press freedom is curbed, say researchers who studied the impact of social media during the 2012 anti-corruption protests in India.
Sudipta Sarangi of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in the US said his cross- country analysis using data from more than 150 countries shows the more Facebook penetrates public usage, the higher the likelihood of government corruption meeting protest.
In short, social media serves as peer of the press, Sarangi said.
“This study underscores the importance of freedom on the internet that is under threat in many countries of the world,” Sarangi said.
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Land Otter Man, aka, The Kushtaka
Kushtaka or Kooshdakhaa is a Tlingit word meaning “land otter man.” The Kushtaka is on one hand the nemeses of the Tlingit people, yet necessary to their Shamans who play a critical role in the survival of the Tlingits. The Tlingit people are as mysterious in their beliefs as the Kushtaka, making for strange bedfellows.
Otter Tales - Stories of the Land Otter Man and Other Spirit Stories Based on the Folklore of the Tlingit of Southeastern Alaska is an excerpt from the book, In Search of the Kushtaka by Dennis Waller. The purpose of these 10 stories is to serve as an introduction into the myths and legends of the Tlingit People.
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O’Reilly AI Conference NYC 2017: Developments in Artificial Intelligence
The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has captured our imagination for thousands of years. In ancient Greece, Aristotle introduced the Syllogism, a method of logical thought, and Heron of Alexandria built some of the first forms of automation, including automatons for theater productions and the first vending machines. Other civilizations advanced similar theories of logical reasoning or automatons that attempted to codify or mimic life.
The foundation of modern AI began in the 1940’s with the invention of the first computers. Alan Turing published his landmark paper, describing his test for determining if a | <urn:uuid:31903b57-dda8-4cdb-9b8f-d73cd0839063> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://iianalytics.com/research/oreilly-ai-conference-nyc-2017-developments-in-artificial-intelligence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823997.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020082720-20171020102720-00851.warc.gz | en | 0.921884 | 133 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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- Amazonian Physiology: The Amazons are a race warrior women that have received gifts and blessings from five Olympian goddesses: Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hestia and Aphrodite. Magna possesses the same potential powers as an average Amazon. These include:
- Enhanced Intellect: A gift from Athena, the Amazons have the wisdom to be guided by peace and justice.
- Superhuman Strength: The Bana-Mighdall, lacking immortality, were forced to procreate with men, which means their powers are not on the same level as a Themysciran Amazon.
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Agility
- Amazonian training: The Amazons honed their skills in many fields, aided by the gifts from Athena and Artemis.
- 4 Appearances of Rena (New Earth)
- 1 Images featuring Rena (New Earth)
- Quotations by or about Rena (New Earth)
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Closer Look: Majestic Mountains and Frozen Plains:
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 230 miles (380 kilometers) across.
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Drinking tea is associated with decreased coronary artery progression and a lower incidence of major cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks..
Researchers studied available information on 6,212 adults to determine how tea drinking might be associated with coronary artery calcium progression, a marker for blood vessel disease, and heart attacks, angina (chest pain), cardiac arrest, stroke and death from other types of heart disease. They divided the participants into those who never drank tea, less than one-cup-a-day drinkers, one cup-a-day drinkers, two to three cups a day and four or more cups a day tea drinkers.
The study followed patients for an average 11.1 years for major cardiovascular events and more than five years to determine changes in coronary artery calcium scores.
The researchers found that adults who drank one and two to three cups of tea daily had more favorable coronary calcium scores than those who never drank tea.
They also noted a graded relationship between the amount of tea a person drank and a progressively lower incidence of major heart-related events starting with the one-cup-a-day tea drinkers, versus never tea drinkers. | <urn:uuid:59aca11c-0182-439c-87ac-c4f955950cd5> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://billionheartsbeating.com/tea-drinking-linked-to-better-heart-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823168.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018233539-20171019013539-00050.warc.gz | en | 0.939888 | 228 | 2.9375 | 3 |
AETHER floats above AER and is illuminated with Heavenly light. He’s a very bright lad, and even on the clearest day we only see the merest trace of his splendor as it filters down to us. At night his mother NYX draws the curtains and the gloom of EREBUS descends upon the world. When morning comes, his sister HEMERA wafts away the murky mists and his radiant glow is seen again.
Attempts to discover traces of the aether on Earth were carried out by Michelson and Morley in a famous experiment of 1887. Did they find any? Nope. This non-result led directly to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, but dashed their hopes of selling bottled aether to the physics community. | <urn:uuid:21c59bed-a00f-4936-acac-3405bfec4f71> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=AETHER | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824537.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021005202-20171021025202-00752.warc.gz | en | 0.971809 | 159 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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patient for cardiopulmonary rescusitation involves placing the patient on
the ground and being on top and comfortable enough to deliver
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is applied to a patient who has just suddenly developed cardiac arrest. That means the patient has lost his/her pulse and subsequently his /her respiration. Modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR involves mainly delivery of punches on the precordium in order to force the arrested heart to pump its blood at a rate of 100 beats per minute for more than 5 minutes. Only after this can artificial respiration begin with a puff in 5 minutes. This is because it is now well recognized that the brain can survive lack of oxygen for longer than 5 minutes if heart is pumping its blood through the systemic circulation since oxygen does not fall to zero immediately after cardiac arrest. This best example to illustrate this is the failure to initialize respiration in the new born which may extend well beyond 30 minutes in some instances. Give another 30 compressions before seeking for help or using machine.
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The best survey of the subject available, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the Handbook is organised by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other handbook on the market, with chapters covering both theories and methods in child language research, and tracing the development of language from pre-linguistic infancy to teenager. Drawing on both established and more recent research, the Handbook surveys statistical learning, the cross-linguistic study of language acquisition, pre-linguistic development, and topics in semantic, pragmatic and narrative development, bilingualism, sign languages, specific language impairment, language and autism, Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. The field of child language research is multi-disciplinary: the book will be an essential reference for students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, speech pathology, education and anthropology. | <urn:uuid:ad499aa5-f922-4b1f-989b-61f4d99f0b1e> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://readrate.com/deu/books/cambridge-handbook-of-child-language | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823478.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019212946-20171019232946-00252.warc.gz | en | 0.878877 | 216 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Introducing sound /i/
Prepare the picture card “igloo” and the alphabet card /i/ and sit with the baby on the mat .Hold up the” alphabet card”, point to the letter and say: “i..i..i..igloo” .Tap the card several times and say “i”. Put the card on the mat and hold the baby’s finger in order to trace the letter with him. He will enjoy sharing this activity with you. Now hold up the picture card”igloo” and pronounce the word emphasizing on the first sound “ i..i..i..igloo”. Put the card on the mat in front of the baby and point to the” igloo” and to the letter /i/at the beginning of the word..Say: “i..i..i..igloo” .” igloo” starts with “i”. Do you know that there are many words that start with “i..i !! “ .Listen to these words :
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The Tongass produces more salmon than all other National Forests combined. These salmon are a keystone species in the temperate rainforest ecosystems and hundreds of species depend on them-- including humans. Salmon have been a food source in Southeast Alaska for thousands of years and continue to be the backbone of the economy. The salmon from the Tongass are a sustainable resource that can continue to sustain communities, livelihoods, and ecosystems well into the future-- if we manage the land and waters correctly. The Forest Service is at a critical cross-roads right now in its "transition" framework as it moves out of Industrial Old Growth Logging and into more diverse andsustainable ways to create benefits from National Forest lands and resources. Because the Tongass is America's Salmon Forest,and because Salmon are so important to all of us, we encourage the Forest Service to shift resources into the Tongass Fisheries and Watershed program and work to protect and restore salmon habitat and our salmon fisheries.
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Definition - What does Guard Cell mean?
A guard cell is an epidermal cell that can open the stomata to take in or release oxygen, carbon dioxide and water, consequently enabling these molecules to travel through the stomata. Guard cells are shaped like kidneys or sausages and the walls normally vary in rigidity.
MaximumYield explains Guard Cell
Guard cells are normally produced in pairs that are divided by the stomata's pore. The pores widen when water flows freely, but the guard cells tend to become weak and flaccid if the plant is lacking water. Sunrise encourages a flow of potassium ions through the guard cells, which stimulates water movement.
Guard cells are often affected by endogenous and environmental factors including drought, temperature, humidity, concentration of carbon dioxide, and light. Guard cells can also process and perceive changes in the plant’s hormonal structure. | <urn:uuid:19949c23-1615-48db-8dc1-2704d23fa158> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.maximumyield.com/definition/1613/guard-cell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187828356.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20171024090757-20171024110757-00150.warc.gz | en | 0.939617 | 182 | 3.53125 | 4 |
As the presidential campaign circus dominates headlines across the US, glaring signs the planet is undergoing abrupt anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) abound.
A major study published in Nature Climate Change shows that the planet is warming a stunning 50 times faster than when it comes out of an ice age. The implications of the rapidity of this warming, for those who care to digest it emotionally, are horrifying.
The study shows that even if carbon reduction targets are achieved and the planet’s temperature is kept below the 2 degree Celsius warming threshold, sea-level rise will still inundate major coastal cities around the world, forcing one-fifth of the total world population of humans to migrate away from the coasts. New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Cairo, Kolkata and Shanghai will all be underwater. | <urn:uuid:8c86821a-9ed5-4a65-9b95-b92875da37f8> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://phoenixrainbow23.blogspot.com/2016/04/climate-disruption-in-overdrive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820930.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017072323-20171017092323-00851.warc.gz | en | 0.885287 | 165 | 2.75 | 3 |
Your attitude can also affect people around you.
The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.
Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.
Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake.
A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.
We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely carry a positive attitude.
You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude. | <urn:uuid:361acb3d-412c-491d-99f1-7a1c9d8db165> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://jlmanning.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/your-attitude-can-affect-people-around-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825473.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022222745-20171023002745-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.966477 | 248 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Definition of Renies
1. reny [v] - See also: reny
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Literary usage of Renies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"But with the events of 1645 (see below), the ¡renies of Calixtus only served to irn- tate the Lutherans and Roman Catholics. Before the Conference of Thorn ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1834)
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Those Who Remain, Part 3 - Santee
Each morning, Oscar Pratt, Chief of the Santee of Holly Hill, drives 30 miles to Walterboro, where he is the supervisor for a steel company. After work, he is usually in his fields until dark, and then in the hog pen until 10:00 p.m. at night. The land, working the land, and making sure that it remains his family's land, is of the utmost importance. Those who have moved away have no land to come back to. It is important to Pratt to have land that his family can return to. The family has lost its land, over the years, through sale and foreclosure. Though the tribe was not recognized, they were required to attend a separate school for Indians. Pratt wishes for jobs, so that everyone could return to their community, and buy back the land that was lost. He also wishes to be looked up to. | <urn:uuid:c3f29410-b002-4107-b135-72c5828a3ae3> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.knowitall.org/video/those-who-remain-part-3-santee | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824357.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020211313-20171020231313-00551.warc.gz | en | 0.990647 | 189 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Parameterizing n-holed Tori Using Hyperbolic Geometry
Many diverse applications in different areas of computer graphics, including geometric modeling, rendering and animation, require dealing with sets which cannot be easily represented with a single function on a simple domain in a Euclidean space: Examples include surfaces of nontrivial topology, environment maps, reflection/transmission functions, light fields, configuration spaces of animation skeletons, and others. In most cases these objects are described as collections of functions defined on multiple simple domains, with the functions satisfying various constraints (e.g., join smoothly). The unified mathematical view of many such structures is provided by the theory of smooth manifolds. While the concept is standard in mathematics, it is not broadly known in the graphics community and is often perceived as an impractical and complex abstraction. The goal of this half-day course is to present the basic concepts and definitions of manifold theory, demonstrate their computational nature and close connection to applications, and survey a variety of computer graphics applications in which manifolds appear, with a focus on modeling of surfaces and functions on surfaces. | <urn:uuid:b60223b5-d71f-493e-bf70-07c6b517b077> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://cs.brown.edu/~jfh/papers/Grimm-PNT-2003/main.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823630.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020025810-20171020045810-00551.warc.gz | en | 0.935031 | 221 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Sports programmes can help counteract psychosocial problems and environmental and health issues as well as stress and loneliness. They contribute to physical fitness, mental well-being and social integration by providing a safe forum in which a child can develop physically, emotionally and mentally.
In situations where formal education is limited or unavailable, sport can act as a vehicle for learning. This is extremely important for refugee girls, who may be deprived other avenues for growth because of cultural beliefs or time-consuming chores. Even children with disabilities, when provided the proper facilities, can excel at sports, raising their self-esteem.
UNHCR recognizes the power and importance of sport, and works with implementing partners and corporate sponsors to ensure sports are integrated into refugee programmes.
- FC Barcelona
- Federation Internationale de Volleyball
- International Olympic Committee
- Nike Foundation
- Nike Inc.
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The present volume is the first complete history of Macedonia from prehistoric times to the present, and fills a major gap in international scholarship. Based on the most up-to-date historical and archaeological research, it is the definitive work on the subject. An international team of distinguished scholars has collaborated in the preparation of this work.
MACEDONIA is the first volume of a new series, "Greek Lands in History", which will include another five volumes, devoted to Epirus, Thrace, Asia Minor, the Aegean and Cyprus. This series is unique in international historiography as it presents in an impressive continuity the history of Hellenism from antiquity to our times. Each of these regions has provided its own contribution to Greek history and culture throughout the ages.
Over 350 colour illustrations, maps and drawings. | <urn:uuid:3fc65c7a-efa3-4e12-a553-2d5d50497445> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://boutique.info-grece.com/de/ekdotiki-macedonia-4000-years-greek-history-and-civilization-p-1801.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824357.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020211313-20171020231313-00551.warc.gz | en | 0.923731 | 166 | 2.515625 | 3 |
They tell the story about Shmuel’s father, that people used to deposit orphans’ money in his place as a trust.
Why there? Because Shmuel’s father used to hide that money in the inner space of a millstone.
One sunny day Shmuel asked his father: “Father, father, where do you hide the orphans’ money?”
And the father answered: “In the inner space of the millstone: the upper and the lower money bundles are ours, and the middle ones belongs to the orphans, so that if the money will be stolen, it will be stolen from us, and if the ground will get wet, our money will get wet, and the orphans’ money will be safe.”
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In Part I, this Article examines legal responses to crimes against humanity during World War I and World War II. Part II considers the various sources of international law that recognized crimes against humanity prior to World War I. In Part III, this Article examines Canada’s assertion of jurisdiction over crimes against humanity. This Article concludes that those who have committed crimes against humanity during World War II must be punished in order to deter the commission of crimes against humanity in the future.
Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity: The Lessons of Wolrd War I,
13 Fordham Int'l L.J. 86
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NASA is deciding between two places on Mars to send its next rover.
The space agency said Wednesday that the project team and outside scientists have narrowed the options to two landing sites.
The nuclear-powered rover nicknamed Curiosity will touch down either in Gale Crater near the Martian equator or Eberswalde crater in the southern hemisphere.
Scientists are intrigued by a mountain inside Gale that contains rich minerals. They're also interested in Eberswalde because it's thought to be the site of a former river delta.
NASA will make a final decision later this month.
Engineers are prepping the rover for launch from Florida in November. It's scheduled to arrive on the red planet next summer and will study whether the site ever had an environment favorable for life to emerge. | <urn:uuid:e83279ba-8dbd-414c-a9cc-47b4f9ddd408> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-nasa-to-choose-between-2-mars-landing-sites-2011jul06-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825154.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022075310-20171022095310-00450.warc.gz | en | 0.957543 | 157 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Turbulent times prompt a cormorant to still waters at Halibut Point.
Immigrants of various races gather in sanctuary. The cormorant stands on immense incongruous feet.
It's adaptation to deep diving comes at the expense of buoyancy and waterproofing. The cormorant comes ashore periodically to dry its wings to stay afloat. Those wings beat laboriously to keep it in the air unlike the soaring gull. Its dense leg musculature excels on the chase but burdens its flight.
Nevertheless it flies. It out-swims fish under water then takes to the air.
It maintains a regal posture at the edge of the quarry as it does along the rocky ocean shoreline.
Its flight may be termed expedient but it does transcend distance and gravity. It strains to work itself up off the water. It launches easily from a promontory.
To look steadily at a cormorant is to see the embodiment of a hunter in its niche.
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Here are some facts from the US Census and the North Central Texas Council of Governments that may interest you:
1.7 million North Texans are Hispanic
969,000 North Texans are African-American
342,000 North Texans are Asian-American
According to the US Census: Between 2000 and 2010, Texas joined California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and New Mexico in having a "majority-minority" population, where more than 50 percent of the population was part of a minority group.
According to the The Asian American Advertising Federation (3AF), between 2000-2010, the Asian-American population in Texas grew by 71 percent.
DFW International, a group that tracks immigrants, reports that 44 percent of North Texans are immigrants or the children of immigrants. | <urn:uuid:228da3d6-d193-4e9c-b3b6-3899d321db35> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.nbcdfw.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Race-In-DFW-The-Facts-156622895.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823478.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019212946-20171019232946-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.945817 | 157 | 2.5625 | 3 |
By harnessing a processor originally built for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3, IBM is building a new supercomputer that is expected to break the petaflop barrier by topping speedz of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
The new computer, code-named Roadrunner, is a joint project between IBM and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where it will be installed. Henry Brandt, a senior technical staff member with IBM, said the supercomputer will be built in two phases. The first phase, which cost Congress $35 million, is comprised of a base cluster that runs on the
Linux operating system and uses IBM System x 3755 servers based on AMD Opteron technology.
That phase is slated to be shipped to the national lab next month.
But the computer's real speed boost will come in late in 2007 or early in 2008 when the second phase, which doesn't yet have a price tag, rolls out. At that point, the cluster will be upgraded with the addition of Cell processors, which were originally designed for video game platforms. The hybrid machine will run both types of clusters, boosting peak performance to an expected 1.6 petaflops. | <urn:uuid:dc706875-b24e-415d-8bda-a919d54a7c5e> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://exinfo88.blogspot.com/2006/09/its-no-game-ibm-uses-playstation-chip.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820700.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017033641-20171017053641-00291.warc.gz | en | 0.945515 | 239 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Wind worked with Stan, our resident scientist, to get some experience with dendrochronology (the science of understanding the history of a place, such as climate and fire history, by comparing the growth rings in trees). In the above photo they are shown taking a core sample of a tree.
Later that day they dissected an owl pellet in our lab classroom to determine what owls eat and tried to reconstruct a skeleton using the tiny bones they found inside.
Team Wind is shown here transplanting some squash and tomato starts into bigger containers with more room to grow. When the weather is a bit warmer, and the plants stronger, they'll be moved into the garden beds.
Later this day, they will continue to study soil and compost by looking at the food chain that exists within soil under a microscope and "dissecting" soil to determine each ingredient that makes up this amazing stuff. | <urn:uuid:0f655a13-ccd4-4855-8a9b-c3da4db0f9d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://voicesislandwood.blogspot.com/2012/06/wind-in-trees-and-more.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823229.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019050401-20171019070401-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.955388 | 183 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Whole-Language High Jinks
If you thought whole-language reading instruction had been relegated to the scrap heap of history, think again. Many such programs (proven to be ineffective) are still around, but they're hiding behind phrases like "balanced literacy" in order to win contracts from school districts and avoid public scrutiny. Louisa Moats calls them out in Fordham's new report, Whole-Language High Jinks.
Moats, a psychologist and widely respected authority on early reading, authored a previous Fordham report in October 2000 called Whole Language Lives On. In it, she revealed that what was going on in many classrooms in the name of "balance" or "consensus" was harming students.
Seven years later, such programs still exist-and still try to pull the wool over educators' eyes. Worse, major school systems, including Denver, Salt Lake City, and New York City, continue to adopt them, misled by materials that "talk the talk," touting the five elements of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel, but which are actually just whole-language programs in disguise. | <urn:uuid:abd95fe6-45da-4e61-82ff-305ac21cc027> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://edexcellence.net/publications/wholelanguage.html?v=publication | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825141.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022041437-20171022061437-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.969546 | 226 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Rapid freezing using vitrification
During vitrification, embryos are exposed in special cryoprotective solutions, then loaded onto special vessels and plunged directly in liquid nitrogen. In this way the formation of glass is induced in the inside of the cells, avoiding the formation of ice crystals that are detrimental for embryo viability.
Vitrification is a more recent method of freezing, and has been successfully applied on all embryonic stages, as well as oocytes. Especially for freezing of oocytes, vitrification is now the method of choice as it is related with higher survival and pregnancy rates compared to slow freezing. Also, vitrification does not require the use of a special machine, and is much faster than slow freezing, which last for 2-3 hours.
However, vitrification requires experienced embryologists as it is a matter of seconds during freezing and thawing if the embryos will retain their viability or not. | <urn:uuid:3c97d7d0-0e47-481a-85f2-aa5a4e7fa853> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.eugonia.com.gr/en/ivf/cryopreservation/embryo-cryopreservation/vitrification/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822747.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018051631-20171018071631-00050.warc.gz | en | 0.950719 | 183 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Can you guess Nepal's largest national park?
Sep 8, 2015-The Answer is B.
Shey Phoksundo National Park is the largest and the only Trans-Himalayan national park in Nepal. The park which covers an area of 3,555km2 is home to the Phoksundo Lake, the country’s deepest lake.
It was established in 1984 AD and borders Tibet in the north. The name Shey Phoksundo is taken from the renowned Monastery `Shey’ and the deepest lake in Nepal `Phoksundo’. It has been proposed as a World Heritage Site (mixed category) by the Government of Nepal for its unique natural, socio-economical, and cultural heritage.
Photo credit: Envrionment Asset Report
Animals found in Shey Phoksundo
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- AVL — Automatic Vehicle Location is a means for determining the geographic location of a vehicle and transmitting this information to a point where it can be used.
- AVTS — Automatic Vehicle Tracking System
- GIS — Geographic Information System is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
- GPS — Global Positioning System. Utilizing Earth orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, the system enables a GPS receiver to determine its location, speed/direction, and date/time.
- GPRS — General Packet Radio Service is a Mobile Data Service available to users of GSM mobile phones. GPRS can be used for services such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access, Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and for Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access.
- GSM — Global System for Mobile communications (originally from Groupe Special Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world.
- VTD — Vehicle Tracking Device
- VTS — Vehicle Tracking System
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Photo: Library of Congress
Monsanto’s genetically modified crops are no longer the only “Roundup Ready” plants growing in farmers’ fields.
A New York Times article reports that at least 10 species of weeds in 22 states have built up resistance to the popular pesticide.
This is a problem because more weeds means either more pesticides or more manual labor to pull the weeds, according to farm experts.
And the super weeds could also lead to lower yields, increased pollution from pesticide runoff and ultimately higher prices at the grocery store.
Experts Not Surprised
Roundup-resistant weeds come as no surprise to some experts, many of whom predicted over a decade ago that the genetic mutations that lead to resistance are common, and could cause problems for genetically modified crops.
Marion Nestle, author of the Food Politics blog, writes that she met with Monsanto executives in the 1990s to discuss the problem of weeds developing resistance. They dismissed the issue as a “hypothetical” situation.
Now that it is a real situation, Nestle and others are once again calling for an increased emphasis on sustainable organic agriculture. | <urn:uuid:8e1ce7bd-fee7-4f0c-9b61-b0d6ffdedb74> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/weeds-roundup-ready/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824225.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020135519-20171020155519-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.939602 | 235 | 2.84375 | 3 |
We have had our hands full these last few weeks! We have been learning about how to make dioramas by creating a design to show what it will look like, what we will need to use and thinking about how we will attach our materials. We think they look pretty good and are beginning to critique our own models.
We have also been learning about 2D shapes, lines and how to measure lengths. We each chose a different unit of measurement to measure and compare 5 different lines and work out the order of longest to shortest.
We have also been sharing some great stuff with our morning talks each week. Some of us share Power Points, some of us bring in items or write notes and some of us practice at home by talking to our family. We are learning all about how to show good eye contact and speak clearly in front of an audience as well as show great listening! | <urn:uuid:27c205ef-12e3-436a-8f1a-a868ac8e922d> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://nativity.edublogs.org/2016/06/28/year-2g-hands-on-learning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823731.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020044747-20171020064747-00651.warc.gz | en | 0.982074 | 179 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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