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<urn:uuid:fcd3823d-7830-48f8-a392-df9498bf30a4>_en | Insect Inspired LAURON Robot Designed for Planetary Exploration
Posted on August 1, 2017
LAURON is an insect inspired robot developed at the FZI (Research Center for Information Technology) in Karlsruhe, Germany. The robot was initially created for studying six-legged walking robots and as a search and rescue robot. The FZI is now looking at the use of developing robots for planetary exploration.
The robot has legs with 3D force sensors and a spring-damper system. A protective green shell covers its back. It is capable of navigating rocky and uneven terrain. It uses multiple camera systems. The robot also has a mechanical claw on one of its legs that can be used to grasp small objects.
FZI also wants to develop robots that know when to take risks through a project called intelliRisk. The intelligence could be used on autonomous missions in situations where the robot encounters a steep slope or a trench. Should the robot make the attempt or act more cautiously and explore a different area. The researchers say this is particular important in situations where mission success is more important than hardware retention. It might be useful to program the robot to be less risk adverse if scientists think a big discovery could be made. At the same time you don't want the autonomous robot going for it at every obstacle it encounters.
Here's a recent video of the lauron robot grabbing a plush frog. Take a look:
- Hexapod Robots Walk Faster With Flexible Feet
- Giant Hailstone From Argentina Could Set New World Record
- It Rains Liquid Iron on Exoplanet WASP-76b
- Study Reveals 3-D Structure of Ultra-Black Butterfly Wings
- NASA Image Shows Lake Mega Chad Remnants |
<urn:uuid:8cc422d4-05e3-44cd-be55-33ad7a63ec13>_en | We'd like to suggest that you reach beyond the obvious definition of exile as you explore this theme in Dreaming in Cuban. In addition to the political exile suffered by Lourdes and Pilar (and possibly Javier), there is also a sense of wandering or homelessness on the personal and familial levels. Even Celia, the staunchest of Cuban revolutionaries, feels the isolation and loneliness of being cast out or forgotten by the larger collective. Felicia's failure to thrive, despite finding her place in Herminia's religious community, may be due in part to an "internal exile": she doesn't fit into the Revolutionary plan for personal happiness. For those outside Cuba, exile goes one of two ways: the Puente family way or the Lourdes del Pino way. While Lourdes' forceful character allows her to adapt and thrive, that's not the case for Rufino and his family. Pilar is left somewhere in the middle, not really feeling at home in either place, or with either family. Exile, it seems, is an internal condition as well as a national one.
Questions About Exile
How is exile defined over the course of the story? Does the definition change?
In what ways does personal isolation and a sense of abandonment mirror political exile? How does it differ?
Pilar realizes that she can never be fully herself in either Cuba or the U.S. What other characters find themselves caught between one world and another?
Why does Pilar go along with Lourdes' plan to get Ivanito out of Cuba?
Chew on This
Ivanito's journey out of Cuba marks the beginning of a crisis of identity for Celia. She can no longer support the Revolution for the future of her family and she is left with only Luz and Milagro (the "Double Helix" twins) to "grandparent."
In García's Dreaming in Cuban, exiles come in a variety of categories and situations. Although the refugees from Cuba are the obvious focus of the work, there are groups in both the U.S. and Cuba who suffer alienation from the powers in control of individual destinies. |
<urn:uuid:90adaf52-2a1e-487b-9520-0248ab686fa6>_en | Houses! Skyscrapers! Bridges! Tunnels! Shopping malls! Offshore oil rigs! Utilities!
Construction Surveyors are among the first professionals on the job. They provide high accurate reference points to facilitate construction and advice architects, engineers, and contractors throughout the entire project.
Construction Surveyors are very precise. They have to be. Their measurements pinpoint the exact location where an underground tunnel, road or bridge begins and ends. When building a factory, business park or housing development, they also determine the location for utility lines, roads, parking spaces, buildings, etc.
Construction Surveyors also aid in rebuilding after natural or man-made disasters occur. Construction Surveyors provide guidance for reconstruction of damaged roads, buildings, bridges, power lines, etc. |
<urn:uuid:68bab2a5-7e3f-4a9b-aa61-8a7a86ad5874>_en | Not TOO Scary Stories for Halloween ~ Stories for Kids
These NOT TOO scary stories for kids are based on folktales. These "scary" stories are perfect for the classroom at Halloween time since they are not really scary but focus on folklore surrounding Halloween, including "witches, goblins and ogres". These scary stories can be used in the classroom to teach literary elements or can be read at home around the campfire for some not so spooky storytelling. Happy Halloween! |
<urn:uuid:2ab6ca8a-c90b-42e2-a1a2-38f969e25dd5>_en | Using Curiosity for Career DevelopmentApr 08, 2021
Using curiosity for your career development can help propel you when you're feeling stuck. Mitchell, Levin, & Krumboltz (1999) state that it is important to use curiosity to explore new learning experiences and opportunities.
Curiosity helps you look for opportunities in unlikely places. As well as allowing you to explore without the pressure to produce something.
Here are FIVE ways to explore a new learning opportunity or experience:
- Pick up a book - for example, if you're interested in marine biology - pick one up at your local library. Any book may lead you to something you love or hate. Whether you love or hate it, it will put you a step closer.
- Watch a documentary AND then discuss it with at least 1 person- a documentary is an easy way to learn more about any topic. But, don't just watch it, share what you learned with a friend, a stranger, or even on the internet. You might be surprised what happens next!
- Journal - this may not sound like a way to explore your curiosity but it is the perfect way to flesh out all those ideas you have floating around in your head. By seeing your ideas, it will lead to more. The more you create the closer you will be to knowing your calling. Take a 7-day journal challenge and see where it leads you!
- Go outside and do something different - go outside what does that mean??? It means exactly that "go outside." This can be eating in your lunch break room instead of your desk. It might mean walking to the corner and saying hi to a neighbor. Just go outside of your comfort zone and say "Hi" to anyone that you DON'T know, you might find your next friend, boss, or career ally. Just give it a try!
- Try that thing! You know that thing you've ALWAYS wanted to try but haven't ever dared to do it. DO IT. There is nothing stopping you and you never know where it might lead you. "but I don't have the money" If you are at a place where that "thing" cost more money than you have at the moment; then start talking to others about it. For example, if I wanted to try bungee jumping but wasn't sure I had the funds for it today. I could start talking about it to others via text, social media, blogging, etc, and see where it goes. Trying new things doesn't have to cost money and by talking about them you'll attract them into your lives.
If you're ready to work with a career coach 1:1 or in group coaching. Check out my services here.
Have you downloaded your Career Clarity Guide yet? Click here to download.
Listen to the Manifest Your Career Podcast for more career advice & tips. |
<urn:uuid:52cf2e85-aed2-4238-97ce-94e54c869bd0>_en | In this topic, we described about the <em> tag along with detailed example.
Emphasized text is used to display the text as in emphasized text, with added semantic importance. Emphasized text uses <em> tag. <em> is also called as pharse tag.
Any text in between <em>..</em> displays as in Emphasized. <em> element is nested element.
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<urn:uuid:20404786-952b-4d35-b614-119e07fae355>_en | Welcome to this website about railways and public transport. Millions of people worldwide use different forms of public transportation. These include travel by road, air and railway transport. The choice of one type or the other is dictated by various factors such as speed, convenience and the environment. Railway transport is one of the oldest forms of moving people from one point to another faster, safely and in a cost-friendly way. Railway mode is used mostly for intra-city shuttling and cross-country movement of people and goods. This website offers some information on public transportation.
Advantages of Public Transport
Unlike private means, public transport has several advantages. The use of private transport increases the pressure on the infrastructure and leads to clogged urban roads. Public Transport has the following benefits:
- Saves the planet through reduced carbon footprint.
- Reduces traffic jams in urban areas.
- Less costly than fueling a private car.
Public Transport and the Environment
Public transport contributes to a significant level of emissions. Several initiatives have been implemented in a bid to cut these emissions, including airlines cutting down on plastics, achieving better fuel efficiency and efforts towards sustainability. Rail transport is excellent for the environment. Trains emit less emissions and therefore reduce carbon in the atmosphere. For the huge numbers who use public transport, using railway transport is a brilliant way of saving the battered planet. High-speed railways are poised to complement air transport over shorter distances.
Benefits of Railway Transport
Rail transport has some advantages over some other forms of public transportation. Read about them here which include:
- Cheaper than air or private car.
- Great for sightseeing. |
<urn:uuid:dd6996ae-97dd-453c-b9ed-37f4b93a8d92>_en | What do the hand ligaments do?
Ligaments in your wrist and hand joints help to keep the bones joined
together. These fibrous bands make sure that the joint is fully stabilised and
mobile for everyday functions. Hand Ligament Sprains and Tears
Hand ligaments are vulnerable to injury and usually tearing because of
overworking the joints or direct trauma. When an injury occurs to these
ligaments, it is often referred to as a sprain. This is especially common in
people who lift heavy weights or an impactful fall.
Severe ligament tears can occur in vehicular accidents or fall from great
heights. When this happens prolonged treatment or surgery might be the only
choice. How do I know if my hand is sprained?
The first few signs and symptoms of ligament injury are swelling and pain
in the affected joint. This occurs because of the underlying inflammation. If
the tear is not extensive then simple icing or splinting will do the trick
combined with anti-inflammatory medications.
When the injury is extensive, your joint might have dislocated which
could cause abnormal movements. If this happens, you will need to check in with
the doctor as soon as possible because untreated ligament injuries could become
chronic. How will we diagnose hand ligament injuries?
Complete history and physical examination are required to conclude. The
diagnosis can further be confirmed through imaging techniques such as an x-ray
and MRI or CT scan. The latter will provide a complete assessment of the extent
of the injury. Hand Ligament Surgery
If the injury is severe, you will be advised to undergo a
minimally-invasive hand ligament surgery. This is a reconstruction surgery that
repairs the torn ligaments of the hand.
Patients usually recover completely with good post-op care and |
<urn:uuid:d806e180-33fd-4027-9dbb-b74f9a18aa60>_en | Your child has an assignment due tomorrow. He wants you to help. In fact, he wants you to do it.
Homework battles frequently occur at these kind of times. They may even occur more now when school is trying to keep youngsters up on each subject, despite the pandemic.
So how much should you help? It’s a tough question. There are no right or wrong answers, except if you do the work for him. Remember, there are some things you can do to help your child complete his own homework:
Understand how much homework is expected of your child. Many times this information is given out at the beginning of the year. But if it isn’t totally clear to you, call his teacher and find out what is expected. Knowing exactly what is expected helps keep your child on track. When you know what is expected it helps you do a good job of following through with him.
Make sure your child has enough time to do the work. Don’t let other activities prevent him from doing homework. Homework should be a high priority.
Have a specific place for your child to do his work. The dining room table is great. Sometimes it is difficult for a child to complete work in his own room. It also helps to have him close by so you can talk about how he is doing.
Let your child see your interest in how he is doing. Ask questions about what he is accomplishing. Make comments to him when you see him doing a good job. We all need to hear when we are doing well.
Ask about his outcome. We frequently ask our children why they did something that was wrong. Perhaps it would be better to ask the question, how did his homework assignment turn out. Pay attention to his successes and let him know that “I am proud of the work you did. I’ll bet you felt good about what you did.”
Asking about his assignment success helps him build positive feelings about himself and makes him feel more like doing the next assignment.
Just these few ideas will help get things started in a good way. Your child needs you to be involved. When he sees you think homework is important, it becomes more important to him. It is also likely to cause him to put more into the next assignment.
As a parent, one of your tasks is to pay attention to the positive not just the negative. Help your child become excited about the many new things he learns at school and at home. Praise each new skill. Smile at him as he tries new tasks.
Talk about it at dinner. Let him hear and see your delight as he learns the excitement of learning.
Cynthia Martin is the founder of the First Teacher program and former executive director of Parenting Matters Foundation, which publishes newsletters for parents, caregivers and grandparents. For more information, email to [email protected] or call 360-681-2250. |
<urn:uuid:7d115783-6478-4d41-8290-49074b539b30>_en | Throw 2 dice and multiply the scores. Investigate!
[Click on the dice pictures]
What about 3 dice?
What about adding?
Here are some tables that you can type into. They may help with your investigation.
Do you have any comments? It is always useful to receive feedback and helps make this free resource even more useful for those learning Mathematics anywhere in the world. Click here to enter your comments.
A mathematical investigation is quite different to other mathematical activities. The best investigations are open ended and allow students to choose the way they work and how they record their findings. It is one of the few occasions when 'going off on a tangent' is not only acceptable but actively encouraged (within reason).
Students may ask for 'the answers' but this supposes that the activity is
closed. Investigations can always be extended by varying the initial
instructions or asking the question 'what if...?'. Sometimes students point out
that the instructions are ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways.
This is fine and the students are encouraged to explain how they interpreted the
instructions in their report.
Some students may benefit from a writing frame when producing the reports of their investigations. Teachers may suggest sections or headings such as Introduction, Interpretation, Research, Working and Conclusion or something similar. |
<urn:uuid:4d764a51-f7df-4269-9b1c-f32f134b3b19>_en | - (a.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf.
- (a.) Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennae.
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Definition of: ATTENDED
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<urn:uuid:ca95fab4-02a9-4a0d-9c66-062eb7bd1146>_en | When you recycle scrap metal, you give the metal to the people at the yard. Here, they will weigh and categorize it, and then they pay you. But what happens after that? As far as you're concerned, the transaction is done, but the metal you just dropped off truly does go through recycling in a couple of different ways. In fact, depending on what you do, you may want to stay and see what the yard has.
Copper metal is an excellent conductor of electricity. Additionally, copper is highly ductile and malleable, making it highly valued in different industries. That's why recycling copper is essential to avoid wasting this non-ferrous metal. Here are the FAQs about the copper recycling process.
What Are the Pros of Copper Recycling
Copper recycling is beneficial since the process helps protect the environment. The process of mining and processing copper ore is energy-consuming.
With how quickly technology changes and improves, you may have old phones or computers that you are no longer using. Fortunately, many cities across the United States offer free computer recycling, where you can turn in your old electronics instead of throwing them away. This is a responsible way to get rid of things you are no longer using, without letting them sit in a landfill for years to come. However, there are a few things you should know before recycling your computer. |
<urn:uuid:4a7ce571-725c-4a1d-82a7-5c2f46ec0f04>_en | Manage episode 306883888 series 3005633
Today, there are an estimated 10 million stateless people in the world. They either had to flee their country or have been denied citizenship. Without a passport or ID, they don’t have access to healthcare services, cannot vote or participate politically, cannot travel, drive or open a bank account. In sum, they are invisible and excluded from society.
What is the responsibility of states in this regard? What has been done by the international community to address this issue? This first episode offers a discussion with Eva Wuchold, programme director of the Social Rights Programme at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Geneva.
For further readings:
- Atlas of the Stateless - Facts and figures about exclusion and displacement, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Oct. 2020
- I Belong Campaign, UNHCR
"Shaping the future" is a podcast produced by the Think Tank Hub Geneva and recorded by Cornland Studio. |
<urn:uuid:4eaed259-4d72-4bce-84d5-8927d0a1ea4c>_en | “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
Frequent things my students say:
– “She said she had a boyfriend, what do I do?”
– “I couldn’t approach because she saw me.”
– “She’s gone into the shop. It would be weird.”
– “She said another guy just came and said the exact thing.”
One of the first things I teach is “lemons, lemonade!”
It means this – everything is useful, everything is positive and everything is material!
Here are some examples:
Problem? She sees you approaching.
No problem! “Hi, I just saw you noticing me approaching you, it’s because I just wanted to say…”
Problem? She says “someone just came up to me and said the exact same thing!”
No problem! “Oh, and what happened?” Then talk about it!
Problem? She says “I have a boyfriend.”
No problem! “Oh, what’s his name?” Then just carry on!
Problem? She says: “stop negging me!” (this happened to me the other week)
No problem! “Ha! That’s not a neg, this is a neg…” (I’m now sleeping with her)
Problem? “But she went into a shop…”
No problem! “Excuse me, I just saw you coming into this shop and…”
Problem? “But there are two of them!”
No problem! That means one of them can qualify the other for you! Whoop!
Problem? “I’m too hungover to approach.”
No problem! “Hi, I just saw you and despite being hungover, I had to run over and say…”
Problem? She says “I have to meet my friends.”
No problem! “Yeah, me too.” then carry on!
And it goes on and on and on and on. Whatever happens, use it. Call out the elephant in the room, things going “wrong” is just a matter of interpretation! The main thing to realise is that these are all just limiting beliefs and bullshit rationalisations. Just spot them, embrace them, pat them on the head condescendingly and carry on!
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<urn:uuid:469530e6-3c0d-4634-945f-2e890280df06>_en | As our cover video illustrates, plant cells are very dynamic; their structure and molecular composition constantly changes as they progress through the cell cycle, divide, differentiate into specialised cell types, and respond to fluctuating environments. Progress in all of these areas is summarized in this issue. Research to characterize the changing molecular composition of cells has gained tremendous momentum in recent years, capitalizing on a combination of well-established model systems and powerful new experimental approaches. Much of the research to date has been specimen collecting — an essential exercise in accumulating examples of genes and understanding the range and types of gene functions. This work is far from finished; at least a third of plant gene functions remain unknown (MASC report 2010; http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/masc/masc_docs/masc_reports.jsp) and our functional understanding of the remainder is far from complete. This issue includes important new molecular components from many stages of a plant cell's life (mitosis, meiosis, asymmetric cell division, endoreduplication, and differentiation). There are also new insights into many of the cells most important structures (vesicles, the actin cytoskeleton, plasmodesmata, and the cell wall). It seems as if we are getting closer to a more complete molecular description of the main components of plant cells. |
<urn:uuid:d4e7a138-6c2a-4530-8b85-c95e0d225f5d>_en | Is m1 the same as increase 1 in knitting?
To get more stitches in knitting, an increase is needed. A common method of increasing stitches is known as a make-one, abbreviated as M1 or M1L, for make-one-left. The most basic way to increase is knitting in the front and the back of a stitch.
Does M1R leave a hole?
Right-leaning Make 1 (M1R) — Knit Side
Lift the bar between the two stitches with your left needle, coming from the back to the front of the work. … Just knit or purl it as usual when you come to it again. Here there is an M1R every 4 rows—and no holes. |
<urn:uuid:feea0092-3cf3-4d5a-a520-4b9f1f7b5ae1>_en | Finance is the research study of cash and its management. Whether you’re wanting to begin your own organization or invest your money, finance will certainly aid you make a profit. This technique is critical to the economic health and wellness of a nation. However, you require to understand that there are a variety of means to enter money without a college level. These tips will assist you make the right option. Continue reading to find out more concerning the field. The area of finance varies, however there are some basic concepts that you ought to know with.
Financial institutions, credit score, and also danger administration are a few of one of the most fundamental elements of financing. They are the supervisors of cash and financial investment, in addition to the development, management, and also regulation of monetary systems. Common areas of research study are corporate money, investments, banking, as well as risk management. Below are some typical instances of these subjects. Keep in mind, the copying are not Merriam-Webster’s point of view. They are simply examples of financing. You can likewise find economic terms in on the internet information sources.
The 3 main areas of financing are cash as well as credit report markets, investments, as well as cost savings. Organizations, federal governments, as well as consumers all require funds to money their procedures. Savings and loan funds are common kinds of financial possessions and can be purchased a range of methods. Companies can use these funds to fund their operations as well as gain rate of interest. If you wish to become an effective capitalist, money is the area for you. As an example, you can work in corporate money, retail financial, consumer credit, safety and securities broker agent, or government having.
The primary function of money is to help with the trading of cash. Huge organizations, federal governments, and also individuals alike need large amounts of money, so they require to precisely record all purchases and also repayments. The intermediary function of finance is very intricate at the nationwide, worldwide, and community degree. As well as if you’re thinking about going into the finance field, you need to be aware of its history, definition, and work description. In this short article, we’ll explore the origins of the word “finance” and the various ways it’s utilized today.
There are several types of financing. Its interpretation includes financial as well as investing, budgeting, and risk monitoring. Relying on the nature of your job, you might work for federal government companies, work for personal organizations, or even start your very own business. Regardless of what location of finance you pick, you ought to constantly consider your rate of interests and the risks and possibilities in the sector. When you understand the principles of money, you’ll be able to make the most effective choices for your company.
The field of money encompasses all elements of the economic situation, and if you’re interested in the world of business, then a major in finance is for you. You’ll discover just how to make clever financial investment decisions and also utilize financial information to choose concerning the future of your company. With a degree in money, you’ll have the ability to take threats in your occupation and also handle your very own individual finances. The field of money is also extremely important to your individual financial resources.
There are lots of fields of finance. The most usual of these consist of quantitative money, accounting, and business money. Some finance degrees use specializations. You can specialize in a specific location of money. There are many feasible occupation courses within the area of money. Some pupils choose to end up being an economic analyst. Others choose to seek a job in consulting. It is very important to be prepared to strive and also take risks. For instance, if you intend to make clever financial investments, you may intend to concentrate on buying real estate.
As a whole, money describes the research study of money and also the management of the economic climate. It covers both personal and also company finance. Public finance is interested in the management of the country’s incomes and expenses while corporate financing deals with the framework of the firm’s capital. The research study of individual finances includes the administration of financial obligations, as well as saving, investing, and budgeting. The area of financing is substantial, as well as has a lengthy and also varied background.
There are three general locations of financing: banking, tax, and also corporate. There are also specialized financial institutes, standards, and markets in industrialized countries. While accountancy is the science of money, monetary administration is the research study of money. The study of these three topics assists you make wise decisions for your company and personal life. You can even end up being a licensed economic expert. This course can aid you in your task search as well as make smarter economic decisions. For example, you can use your understanding of financial to different aspects of your every day life.
In finance, you can find one of the most crucial points to do to make a service lucrative. For instance, you can research the dangers and also benefits associated with a specific project. You can review the financial risks as well as incentives of a job. Additionally, you can additionally manage risks and properties. If you have expertise regarding the various facets of financing, you can handle your cash in one of the most efficient manner. It is necessary to think about all these variables. There are some advantages and disadvantages to every type of investment.
The financial system is the system utilized to handle cash. This consists of conserving, loaning, as well as investing. You can conserve, borrow, as well as spend. There are numerous facets to finance and also you can find out more about it from the course. Additionally, you can create your skills and also learn more about the area. If you have a flair for mathematics, you can start your own service in this field. This field is the most effective choice for any person trying to find jobs that will certainly help you grow your organization.
There are many advantages to finance. It can help you make better decisions concerning your organization, as well as it can additionally be a possession for your individual life. By discovering the fundamentals of money, you can make the most effective choices concerning your money. When you discover the fundamentals of finance, you will have the ability to make a much better economic choice. Along with this, it can also help you manage your finances. By comprehending the basics of money, you will certainly be a better entrepreneur as well as will certainly be much more effective.
When it comes to finance, it is essential to know the distinctions between money as well as accountancy. In the case of audit, money determines the financial returns of a service by leveraging the capital of the country. There are 2 significant sorts of funds: banking and also loaning. The previous is identified by high rate of interest and also reduced danger. The latter is a financial investment strategy that is made use of to make investments in the securities market. This type of banking is primarily utilized to take care of funding of a business. click over here
Banks, credit unions, and bank card firms are the most typical financial institutions in the world. While both of these are essential, they have their differences in the degree they call for. A bank can provide you money for buying a business’s products. A home mortgage is a sort of money. A financial institution will certainly lend you cash for getting a home, while a lending is a sort of financial investment. While mortgages are more costly than a funding, they have the highest rates of interest. |
<urn:uuid:fbbf9bd6-05e2-4674-988a-c6eb10a4fe11>_en | Divers diving into the coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans often come across amazing fish. If it were not so flat and had scales, it could be mistaken for a snake. In fact, these bright yellow or blue or yellow-blue ribbons are blue tape eels from the moray eel family.
They are peaceful, although they keep their mouths open. The thing is that they do not have enough air entering through the gills. Poor fellows have to filter water and oxygen by constantly opening their mouths.
Throughout their life, these moray eels are able to change not only their body color but also their own sex. They are hermaphrodites.
It takes about 3-4 years for an eel to reach puberty and become a male. At this time, his body reaches a length of 100 cm and turns black or dark blue.
Time passes, the body grows up to 130 cm and the male turns into a bright yellow female.
They also have four nostrils. Two ordinaries, and two with an enhanced sense of smell, thanks to which the fish sniff out prey. |
<urn:uuid:a871c509-c24e-4eb1-ab2f-1f486e85678d>_en | ✅ Related keywords: radical innovation, drastic change, disruption
Innovation that changes the way that an industry or a market operates. This type of innovation can be highly profitable for the company that creates them, and devastating for their competition. An example of a disruptive innovation is the car that made horse carriages obsolete or also the internet, which changed many industries completely. The opposite of disruptive innovation is incremental innovation, which is a process of step-by-step improvement.
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<urn:uuid:71d9df6e-d1fd-45c8-ac56-6891cc1fdda6>_en | Introduces the Constitution of the United States, discussing topics such as its history and formation, the significance of the Bill of Rights and other amendments, and how it has been interpreted in the past and present.
The “living” document that changed the world. One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial government documents in the world, the U.S. Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans every day. But how many know its history and the impact it’s had on American laws and practices throughout history? This guide serves as the most current and accessible handbook to this all-important document. —Covers the document itself, as well as controversial interpretations and decisions Download a sample chapter. |
<urn:uuid:560d0211-a84f-42b7-a52b-0ab9e834a2c3>_en | Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies), Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001), ISBN 0-89434-367-X children's biography How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web , Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the software program known as the World Wide Web in 1989, is a scientist in the true sense of the word—idealistic, interested in the pure pursuit of knowledge, and uncomfortable in the media spotlight. In 1989, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. 1 2 Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998. The World Wide Web and the "Web of Life". ↑ Stephanie Sammartino McPherson. 2009. Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web. Twenty-First Century Books, p. 83: "A Church Like The Web". ↑ Eden, Richard. 22 May 2011. "Internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee casts a web of intrigue with his love life", The Telegraph. Nov 14, 2018 · Tim Berners-Lee: Imagine if all your current apps talked to each other, collaborating and conceiving ways to enrich and streamline your personal life and business objectives? That’s the kind of innovation, intelligence and creativity Solid apps will generate. Tim Berners-Lee’s Life, Education, and Career. It was on June 8, 1955, when Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England, United Kingdom. His parents were Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee who both worked in the first commercially built computer which was the Ferranti Mark 1.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England to Mary Lee Wood and Conway Berners-Lee. Mary Lee and Conway met while they were both working on the first commercially-built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. As a boy, Sir Berners-Lee was an avid train spotter and developed a knowing for train and railway parts by tinkering with
Mar 12, 2017 · Tim Berners-Lee: Here's How You Fix the Web. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee outlines what he and the Web Foundation want to address on the Web: privacy, fake news, and transparency. Tim Berners-Lee on why open data is important 11 4. At the moment, the opening of data might seem like a nice gesture. Tim Berners-Lee explains why it's much more significant than that.
PERSONAL LIFE. Tim's parents were named Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee. The meaning of the name Lee: Field. FUN FACTS. Scientist Tim Berners Lee were born on Wednesday, birthstone is Pearl, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Goat, it is 323 days until Tim Berners Lee next birthday. June 08 Horoscope.
Oct 12, 2018 · Tim Berners Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web and creator of Computer language named HTML born on 8 June 1955, In England. Family Background: He is the son of Conway Berners-Lee and his wife Mary Lee Woods. He has three siblings. His parents worked on the first commercially-built computer. Personal Life: Sir Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England to Mary Lee Wood and Conway Berners-Lee. Mary Lee and Conway met while they were both working on the first commercially-built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. As a boy, Sir Berners-Lee was an avid train spotter and developed a knowing for train and railway parts by tinkering with Mar 11, 2019 · Tim Berners-Lee first envisioned the World Wide Web 30 years ago. In a letter published Monday, Berners-Lee said he understands concerns that the web is no longer a "force for good." Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an intimidating interviewee. It’s not so much the worry about keeping up with the brain that invented the world wide web; it’s that when you Google him (in the Tim Berners-Lee thinks the world can be better after Covid-19. Master this transition in your work and personal life through direct access to our journalists and the rest of our community. |
<urn:uuid:b77f4464-c590-4a76-aa6e-0f2f64c36088>_en | The blockchain technology and its underlying use case cryptocurrency is making waves across the world. The technology aids in tracking and storage of data that will be immutable. It is a secure way of storing data and industries around the world are adopting the technology at the speed of lightning. From insurance and real estate to crowdfunding and data management, the potential applications of blockchain technology are numerous. The technology also allows for many other uses and applications as well. It’s likely that the blockchain technology will be of use to some of the world’s most impoverished nations who will benefit from integrating the blockchain technology to their systems.
The economy of Venezuela has been suffering from hyperinflation which worsen after the US sanctioned the Venezuelan Government. The situation prompted dramatic shortages of basic necessities such as food, health amenities and the rest. However bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies had been used to help ease the strain. With Venezuelans turning to mining and bitcoin trading. Even more, the government of the nation even made their own crypto called Petro. Since the value of Venezuelan fiat had fallen so low that local artist now resort to using the money in making crafts. With crypto, the failing economy is able to sustain itself.
The blockchain technology can be used as a means to help the defenseless such as the children of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The central African country which has mined 54% of the 123,000 tons of cobalt generated around the world has child miners working at informal mining structures. A project is however working to launch a platform to protect children there from forced labor. The project aims to provide global manufacturers of high-tech devices like smartphones with cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries that the colbats was not mined by children. This way protecting children labourers. This project will protect the right of the children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A country that has been ravaged by wars and has a significant amount of problem causing informal mining sites where many of the workers are child workers.
Countries such as Haiti which is still affected by the damages caused from hurricane and earthquake over the last decade. This country has a lot to benefit from the blockchain technology. Also, EatBCH a charity arm of Bitcoin Cash launched a feed South Sudan project. The country had been ravaged by civil war for the past four years and was equally suffering from hyperinflation.
There are many struggling nations that could benefit from the blockchain technology. Governments can apply it in their database, enhance their services and collate information about citizens identity. But regardless the use case, the blockchain technology is definitely the way forward and forward thinking government should employ it.
What do you think about struggling nations employing the blockchain technology? Share your opinion with us in the comment section below.
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<urn:uuid:d381a120-0456-4c24-830e-980ac146a75c>_en | With the spread of the novel coronavirus and the closure of all schools, learning for our students is moving from brick and mortar classrooms to online. It is a shift in the delivery of instruction in a classroom where you can't see the faces and behaviors of your students, which is often one of the means of formative assessment. As a result, you need to increase your other senses in order to be effective. Karen Young, Highpoint Virtual Academy of Michigan Instructional Coach, shares lots of helpful advice for moving your class online.
Remember the experience that most of your students have with online is Tik Tok, Snapchat, YouTube, Bloxburg, etc. Short bursts of information and then they move onto the next thing.
DO think about how you will communicate your curriculum and expectations carefully. Your students will no longer be able to immediately raise a hand to ask a clarifying question. How you will you give directions that are specific enough so students can follow them step by step?
DO think small. You are not moving to teaching online for the entire school year (well at least not for now). Look at the standards you were planning to teach for the next month and work backwards. What is the “big” assessment you were planning to give to make sure that your students had met the standard? Was it a test, book report, project?
DO develop a modified “unit” plan that outlines the knowledge needed to achieve the “big” assessment.
DO limit online resources that can help students obtain new knowledge needed or revisit what you have been teaching in the classroom. We love to provide students access to everything however in the online environment you want to make sure your resources help you tell a very clear and specific story.
DO transfer your instruction into writing. Remember you will now be writing your instruction and expectations rather than standing in front of your class. Your directions for students to visit resources and complete assignments should be very specific just as if you were giving directions in front of your class the shorter and more concise the directions the better for your students to make the transition to online instruction with fewer questions. Don’t overwhelm yourself or your students by trying to do too much.
DO provide your students a schedule. It is hard to focus your time when you have all your toys and the Internet right in front of you. Remember not everything has to be online or part of a project. Students can have silent reading time or go to a math website to practice their math facts. 9:00-9:45 Reading Google Classroom, 9:45-10:05 Read a book, 10:05-10:20 snack break, 10:20-11:05 Math Google Classroom (if you finish any subject area early read a book, write in a journal, or practice your math facts.)
DO think about your students who do not have access to the Internet. Is there a project they could work on such as read books and design book talks to give when they get back to class. Practice math facts by making flash cards. Create a science project at home and write what they learned. There are many fun tic tac toe boards on the Internet that have assignments already developed based on different intelligences that students can complete to show what they know.
DO give yourself grace. You have been given a big task during an unprecedented time with possibly no training. Any access to learning is significant |
<urn:uuid:d9cb2d8d-78b7-432b-ba5a-6947457319d5>_en | Neubraa (Nowa Brda)
Neubraa of Kreis Schlochau is in the forest, just north of Pollnitz. It is important to Remus family history because it was the home village of the Nehrings. Also the Michael Remus and Dorothea Schacht family was milling here between 1798 and 1801 before moving on to Doringsdorf. Click here for that genealogy.
The Nehring family was one of the most successful families in West Prussia in terms of land and power. They were schultz of Tarnowke, schultz of Lanken, schultz of Zakrzewo, and schultz of other villages. One of the daughters of Franz Remus married Jacob Nehring and thus into the family; this Nehring-Remus family lived in Lanken, Kreis Schlochau. The Nehring descendents prepared a fine article in Deutsche Geschelterbuch (vol 140) about their family.
Neubraa was the home of Peter Nehring. His manor house, now destroyed, looked like this:
The modern village is quite small and isolated on the Brda River. Here is the bridge to the village:
And a picture of a village house:
There is also a monument celebrating Pope John Paul's canoe excursions that began in this village. Michael Remus' likely mill site is on the stream back in the trees behind the monument. It is not clear if Michael worked as a grain miller, a saw miller, or at the Nehring paper mill in this village. The paper mill was owned by the Nehring family until 1845 and continued to function till 1925. The cemetery that I didn't see has well-preserved graves.
Click here to go to other West Prussia Villages.
Please send any queries to Bill Remus at
September 18, 2006 |
<urn:uuid:0bcb645f-f98e-4f5f-b1e4-af351006d7c4>_en | HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the programming language used by browsers to render the webpage. It is an essential language that all web developers must know.
The content of a webpage is a collection of HTML elements.
There are many different types of HTML elements. Some elements show text, others show images and videos, and another class of elements are used to control the layout of the webpage.
Becoming an expert in HTML requires you to know the most popular HTML elements and how they function.
Resources for learning more about HTML |
<urn:uuid:3f23e3cc-1a74-4826-98e4-87ce9170912f>_en | If you teach or work with kids, you probably know about STEM. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and we hear about it a lot in terms of preparing students for the jobs of the future. But did you also know that we can use STEM to teach HEPA?
If HEPA makes you think of filters and allergies, think again! It’s a handy way to say Healthy Eating and Physical Activity. HEPA-focused STEM activities give kids the skills they need to make healthy choices. That’s why STEM is on our list of hot topics for 2020.
There are many ways to incorporate HEPA into STEM programs. Here are just a few ideas:
- Use food for hands-on nutrition activities that engage students, like this simple activity from the Children’s Museum of Houston about fat in food: https://www.cmhouston.org/experiment-fat.
- Teach cooking. Learning how to cook healthy food is a skill that will last a lifetime. Check out our Learn to Cook Workbook. Students will learn STEM-related concepts like food safety, cooking methods, and how to follow a recipe. There are even cooking-related math problems!
- Sharpen math skills with nutrition and physical activity lessons. We have the all the materials you need to combine math with HEPA:
- Talk to students about HEPA-related STEM careers. Find information on these jobs at StemJobs.com:
- Professional food forager
- Food scientist
- Health teacher
Be sure to check out our entire collection of STEM-related materials. Use nutrition science and math to teach students of all ages (including adults) to make healthy choices! |
<urn:uuid:745a0956-1761-4ff4-a320-0da546e6df49>_en | C5.2 Shared vision planning
Recent advances in interactive modelling tools now allow parties to create jointly sophisticated yet inexpensive models of, for instance, the river basin and rivers and groundwater. Such models produce a simulation tool which is owned by the parties and is manipulated and used in a visual way. Since the stakeholders themselves create the model, they are more willing to engage in scenario analyses.
Optimisation modelling goes beyond simulation and produces ideas on the best investment or best options given certain assumptions. It should be used carefully in conflict situations.
Valuation is an important tool to support conflict management, and can facilitate the process of sharing benefits (rather than simply sharing water). Even if valuation may not be possible in monetary terms, the exercise of benefit estimation, even if only qualitative, helps to indicate better solutions.
Shared vision modelling is best used in multi stakeholder, multi- issue situations. As parties begin to confront the need to plan for growing scarcity of water under competing demands, it is highly useful to bring sectors together. The process of building a shared vision helps to build a common language about the water resource issues among parties. It is also useful where there is no common database and data sharing is difficult, and where there is little shared knowledge of the resources.
For material on the use of models for information, knowledge and awareness raising see C1.3, C4.2, and C8. See also tools A1 (policy formulation), B1.2 (transboundary organisations), C1 (Water resource assessment and demand assessment), and C2 (plans for IWRM). |
<urn:uuid:bfba9388-ac9e-4674-bd1b-2d4407377038>_en | From Earth's point of view, eclipses can be:
Partial eclipses occur at places where only part of the luminary is covered (solar eclipses), or when only part of a body is eclipsed by the shadow (lunar eclipses). For solar eclipses, the viewer is in the penumbra part of the moon's shadow.
An annular eclipse is a total eclipse of luminary where a thin ring of light is visible around the intervening object. It is sheer coincidence that the Moon and Sun have nearly equal apparent sizes, making annular eclipses possible. Annular eclipses are ideal times for observing solar prominences.
As seen from Earth, an eclipse can only occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in a line. Because the plane of the orbit of the Moon is tilted with respect to the plane of the orbit of the Earth (the ecliptic), eclipses occur only when the three bodies are near the intersection of these planes: these are nodes. The Sun passes either node once a year, and eclipses occur in a period of about 2 draconic months around these times. There can be from 2 to 7 eclipses in a calendar year. They repeat according to eclipse cycles.
Eclipse is also a open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) platform developed by IBM. |
<urn:uuid:82dfdba3-6eae-4004-a2eb-63aee3e5be59>_en | To learn and develop, all children need to feel safe and be safe at school. This is especially true for children who have suffered from the effects of domestic violence.
Restraining orders can provide crucial protection for children and their non-abusive parent at school. They can prohibit an abusive parent from:
- coming on school grounds and
- into school buildings, rooms, and offices.
School officials, administrators, teachers, and other staff can make schools safe for children affected by domestic violence and their non-abusive parent. They can:
- learn about restraining orders,
- work with parents to understand the effect of each restraining order issued to protect a student or the student's parent,
- adopt strategies to insure compliance with restraining orders in schools. |
<urn:uuid:0835d925-f213-4e9b-b2c4-6ea809080337>_en | Sergejs Osipovs, Aleksandrs Pučkins, Sandra Mežaraupe, Artūrs Zariņš, Dainis Lazdāns
Pyrolysis dissolves waste and also produces useful by-products. In this case, gas, liquid and solid phases are formed. Gas mixture containing tar, among other components. Water scrubbing technology is used for pyrolytic gas purification. The disadvantage of this technology is that tar components gradually accumulate in the water. Most exposed to this process the readily soluble light heterocyclic aromatic compounds of tar, as well as heavy polyaromatic compounds of tar. Some light aromatic tar compounds, the content of which is usually very high in the pyrolytic gas, are present in small amounts in the cooling and cleaning water. In the pyrolytic gas purification process, not only does the total amount of tar in the cooling and cleaning water increase, but also the ratio of the individual tar compounds to each other changes, especially the heaviest polyaromatic tar compounds accumulate, which leads to problems. further purification and use of the cooling and rinsing water itself.
gas chromatography, pyrolysis, pyrolytic gas, scrubber, tar
Cite this paper
Sergejs Osipovs, Aleksandrs Pučkins, Sandra Mežaraupe, Artūrs Zariņš, Dainis Lazdāns. (2021) Development of an Analytical Method for the Determination of Pollutants in Industrial Water Used for Cooling of Co-produced Gases in the Waste Pyrolysis Process. International Journal of Environmental Science, 6, 528-532 |
<urn:uuid:19d2d382-3069-439c-a3d4-fba124df110c>_en | What are capital cities and what role do they play in political history? If we take the encyclopedia definition, it is where the seat of government is located. But then we can say its role is negligible, as government buildings can be moved from one city to another. Capital cities are much more than this. They are a symbol of the state, a reflection of its political system. Authored by Igor Okunev, the video is accompanied by a list of additional sources, providing a foundation for those who would like to learn more about the specific topics addressed. |
<urn:uuid:fece3b07-a5ba-40f6-a676-9d02bc619dd0>_en | Going back to school can spark many emotions. Going back to school during a pandemic can make adjusting take some time. It’s tough having to deal with new schedules and ways of learning, even tougher to figure out how to make new friends. Here are some quick tips:
Smile. Smiles make you seem friendly and approachable. They make others feel special.
Make eye contact. When you look people in the eye, they feel like you’re interested in them and what they are saying. People like being respected.
Say hello. Greet classmates you haven’t talked to before – hello is the first step toward making a new friend.
Be involved. Extracurricular activities are opportunities to meet others who like the same things you do.
Ask for advice. If you’re having trouble making friends or keeping friends, turn to people you respect for helpful suggestions to solve your difficulties.
Be a good friend. Treat others the way you want them to treat you.
Trust is key. Keep your friends’ secrets and confidences, no matter how tempting telling others might be.
Be truthful. Lying might feel less scary, easier, or even better but more often than not, the truth eventually comes out and makes the situation much worse than if you initially told the truth.
Speak up. If you hear others talking negatively about a person or group, tell them you feel uncomfortable and stand up for the victim.
Apologize. If you hurt someone or mistakenly do something you shouldn’t have, a sincere “I’m sorry,” without excuses, is the first step to moving forward.
Relax. Nobody does friendship perfectly or knows exactly what to do when it comes to making and keeping friends. Take a deep breath and jump right in! |
<urn:uuid:bdaa8f55-5dd4-4f4d-9c48-30fcdfe06ab6>_en | Guidebook for the Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels
7 Design of Heat Exchangers
Heat exchangers are considered the workhorse in chemical plants and refineries. They come in all shapes, sizes, and configurations and are essential in extracting or adding heat to various process fluids. Figure 7.1 (TEMA, 1999), shows various shapes of commonly used heat exchangers.
Design rules for heat exchanger components are covered in various parts of VIII-1. Details of tube-to-tubesheet welds are given in non mandatory Appendix A. Mandatory rules for tubesheet design are given in part UHX for U-tube and fixed tubesheets. Three types of tubesheets are covered by the design. They are simply supported, integral, and extended as a... |
<urn:uuid:f0f1690f-3906-46e9-9bfa-9b593c43cca5>_en | Saturation Meter (Pulse Oximeter)
A pulse oximeter (saturation meter) uses a sensor to measure the oxygen content of the blood.
The sensor is placed on the hand or foot. It has diodes that emit light at two different wavelengths. On the opposite side is a receiver that captures the light that has passed through the tissue. Subsequently, the oxygen saturation is calculated. It is the pulsating oxygen-enriched arterial blood upon which the calculation is made. If the baby is moving around a lot, the calculation can be temporarily disrupted. |
<urn:uuid:651a6452-aebb-4abf-9a27-47e131474140>_en | First grade teacher Mrs. Lamb was live again yesterday on Facebook, and we’re back to recap her session! This time, she dove into science after receiving requests to explore this fun subject. And, after chatting with a friend, she decided to explore the egg drop. Many of us remember the day when we had to create a structure that would protect an egg from a fall, and Mrs. Lamb introduced her kids to the experiment first and now you’re invited to take part too.
The steps to try this experiment at home are simple!
How to Do an Egg Drop Experiment at Home:
- Explain the concept of dropping an egg to your student. Older kids may have learned about force in their science classes, which is the ultimate lesson. However, there is plenty of creativity to be had for younger students too.
- Ask your student to create a structure they think can withstand a drop from a second or third story window or even from a lower down ladder. Encourage them to get creative and think about what might protect their egg during a fall. The key thing Mrs. Lamb noted was she encouraged her kids to use anything that could be recycled, which is a great idea in general and also in celebration of Earth Day.
- Encourage your student to decorate their egg! Mrs. Lamb’s kids got creative and drew on their eggs, which we thought was such a fun touch. They also named them for even more personalization.
- Prepare the egg for the drop! Place it inside the structure, make sure it’s secure, then head to the spot where you will drop it.
- Mrs. Lamb’s kids waited in the yard outside where they took videos of their eggs dropping in slow motion. The videos are fantastic!
- Open the structures to see if your egg survived the fall. The goal is for it to be intact.
After taking a peek at their eggs post-fall and reviewing why certain structures worked while others didn’t, Mrs. Lamb’s kids asked to try again. One experiment turned into a complete activity for Mrs. Lamb and her family, and we think you and your family will have fun too!
Will you take part in the egg drop experiment? If you do, make sure to share it with us on Facebook. Stay tuned for next week because Mrs. Lamb will be back on Tuesday to share even more ideas live! |
<urn:uuid:7151ccf6-eda9-4401-9bee-0e7632643d3a>_en | This free resource will encourage pupils to recall and record their past learning experiences. This will help teachers gain an understanding of pupils’ individual learning preferences
Worksheets to record learning experiences of pupils
Written by Margaret Sutherland and Colin Sutherland
The aim of the free worksheets is to invigorate pupils’ learning by reinforcing their positive learning experiences. This will also help to recognise influential learning moods. Revisiting and remembering those moods can help motivate pupils to learn more effectively. This concept is at the very heart of this free resource and the mechanism for doing this is timelining.
Understanding past learning achievements, setting goals and getting a sense of how to work towards these learning milestones can be a significant motivational factor in your pupils’ development. Allowing pupils to think and record what they have enjoyed learning can give them a strong sense of responsibility and ownership over their own learning. Without this ownership of learning, pupils can feel disillusioned and despondent.
This resource is an extract from Strategies for Learning.
Click here to order your full copy today or read more about how this publication can help you. |
<urn:uuid:2d3ead5e-7661-4ada-85c9-f558928ec121>_en | In 1939 what is considered the medieval equivalent of King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered under a burial mound in Suffolk, England. Underneath one of the mounds was an 88 foot (27 meter) long Anglo Saxon ship from the 7th century (between 610 and 635 AD). At the center of the ship was a burial chamber packed with an amazing treasure.
This story is about an ordinary person – Camilla Gottlieb – and the extraordinary life she lived. On May 27, 1964 Camilla Gottlieb died. We might never have learned the full details of Camilla’s extraordinary story except for one thing – her purse.
Few of us enjoy a close relationship with history. For most of us, we are a few degrees of separation closer to Kevin Bacon than the country’s founding fathers. But for two APCS members an auction would lead to one of those great chance encounters with history.
As costume and textile historians are found of remarking, fashion does not exist in a vacuum. Clothing and accessories are influenced by all manner of technology, social and economic forces. And so it is with these series of purses. Featured in the links below are four abolitionist purses – two in collections in the United States and two in collections in London.
This purse tale illustrates how having a knowledge of jewelry can help you find and identify purses. Plus, who doesn’t love looking at beautiful jewelry, right?
Our story begins on Ebay.
I’ll let you in on a secret – I’m a sucker for animal purses. Whether it's wicker dogs, beaded cats or celluloid animals, I love them all. So when I... |
<urn:uuid:f7917897-f6fe-475d-8efb-49509944f36c>_en | We all know the stereotype of the crazy cat lady is far from flattering however several of history’s most beautiful and successful women were devoted to their furry friends just like you and me. Read the story of four of history’s greatest cat ladies.
Vivien Leigh, the English actress who starred in the 1939 adaptation of Gone with the Wind, owned multiple cats throughout her life. She was particularly fond of Siamese cats, and she is quoted as saying, “Once you have kept a Siamese cat you would never have any other kind.” Leigh’s first Siamese, called New Boy, was a gift from her husband, actor Laurence Olivier. New Boy (named after London’s New Theatre) wore a custom collar imported from Paris and appears in many photographs with Leigh. Poo Jones, the seal point Siamese she adopted after New Boy’s death, was Leigh’s favorite cat. Poo Jones travelled with her everywhere (with his own luggage) and napped in her dressing room whenever she was working onstage or in front of the camera.
Florence Nightingale, often regarded as the founder of modern nursing, took the term “cat lady” to new levels. Nightingale once said that “cats possess more sympathy and feeling than human beings,” and throughout her lifetime she owned over 60 cats—perhaps as many as 17 at once. Nightingale was a devoted caretaker for her feline friends, who ate specially prepared food off of china plates in her room. Evidence of Nightingale’s affection for her cats can still be seen today, as some of her kitties left ink paw prints on her letters.
Clara Barton, the famous nurse and founder of the Red Cross, was an animal lover with a particular affinity for felines. During the Civil War, Barton earned the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield,” and in appreciation for her selfless work, U.S. Senator Schuyler Colfax sent Barton a kitten. Barton’s most beloved cat was the black and white Tommy, who kept her company for 17 years. A portrait of Tommy painted by Barton’s friend and fellow nurse Antoinette Margot still hangs in the Barton house in Glen Echo, Maryland.
“Tommy” was Clara Barton’s beloved cat , and described him as her faithful friend of 17 years. The artist, Margot had worked with Barton during the Franco-Prussian War. She traveled to America and worked with Barton at the American Red Cross.
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott once jokingly listed an “inordinate love of cats” among her vices, and her fondness of felines shone through her writing. In Little Women, the March sisters have a pet cat, and at one point in the story Beth is seen playing with the cat and her kittens. The book even includes a poem called “A Lament (For S.B. Pat Paw)” eulogizing a beloved pet cat: “We mourn the loss of our little pet, / And sigh o’er her hapless fate, / For never more by the fire she’ll sit, / Nor play by the old green gate.”
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<urn:uuid:8aa05f24-e5f0-42aa-9417-4b4765dccce7>_en | When our Lord says, “judge not,” in Matthew 7:1, He is using the term only in its negative sense—as the Pharisees judged. Certainly, we are to have discerning judgment, as to who is a false prophet and who is a true one, and to judge doctrine. And the state has judges and magistrates that are appointed by God to judge. And the church also is to judge its people in certain matters of discipline.
The kind of judgement our Lord is speaking of when He says “judge not” is a condemning judgement—a judgment we see in the Pharisees. This negative, condemning judgment can be seen in six ways.
- It has an evil spirit attached to it. I would say that, for this reason, it is of the devil and it works to destroy us.
- It condemns and despises others for no good reason. We have seen this toward the Samaritans…
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<urn:uuid:62538012-d65f-4986-b23e-431ba00be5af>_en | Prime objective of this lecture is to present on History of Rockets. The first rockets that were used in modern rocketry was invented by Dr. Robert Goddard. For this he is known as the Father of Modern Rocketry. He created the first successful liquid fuel rocket, adding the nozzle design that is so common today. Pioneers of Modern Rocketry: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). |
<urn:uuid:c0f11094-e558-442a-bb0e-4fabab504082>_en | Facts for Question 1
All the boats in a race, with the exception of boat A, sailed to the finishing line from the last mark and then finished by crossing the line from its course side leaving the committee vessel to starboard and mark F to port. As shown in the diagram, A left mark F to starboard, bore away, sailed completely to the course side of the finishing line, and, shortly after position 3, finished. A then sailed into the harbour. Members of the race committee observed A sail the track shown in the diagram. The rules of Appendix A applied.
What should the race committee do in this situation?
To comply with rule 28.1
a boat must ‘sail the course’, and therefore a string representing her track must, when drawn taut, pass mark F on the required side. A made an error under rule 28.1 at the line because the string representing her track, when drawn taut, passes mark F on the wrong side. A did not correct that error as permitted by rule 28.2
, and therefore she broke rule 28.1. Because A did not ‘sail the course’, rules A
5.1 and A
5.2 require the race committee to score A for the finishing place one more than the number of boats entered in the series. The abbreviation for her score is ‘NSC’ (see rule A
Facts for Question 2
The race committee observes boat B touch the finishing mark as she crosses the finishing line. B does not take a penalty and sails into the harbour.
What should the race committee do?
B finished when her bow crossed the finishing line just before position 2. The race committee is required by rule A4 to score B points for the place in which she finished.
As rule 60.2
(a) states, the race committee may protest B. If it decides to do so, it must inform her that it intends to protest and deliver its written protest within the time limit of rule 61.3
(see rule 61.1(b)). In addition, the protest committee, the technical committee or a boat, if the boat saw B touch the mark, may protest B (see rules 60.1
(a) and 60.4
World Sailing 2013, revised 2021 |
<urn:uuid:030f5409-8db2-4ceb-a4f1-ddca05a320fd>_en | Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
February 24, 1999
Explanation: Most bright stars in our Milky Way Galaxy reside in a disk. Since our Sun also resides in this disk, these stars appear to us as a diffuse band that circles the sky. The above panorama of a southern band of the Milky Way's disk was taken from Australia. A 40-minute exposure was used, and the colours were digitally enhanced. Visible are many bright stars, dark dust lanes, red emission nebulae, blue reflection nebulae, and clusters of stars. In addition to all this matter that we can see, astronomers suspect there exists even more dark matter that we cannot see.
Authors & editors:
NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC
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<urn:uuid:a9436136-b3c0-4908-9632-ec35a1ce1280>_en | St. Hilary’s Chapel was built in the early 14th-century as the garrison chapel for nearby Denbigh Castle. The official parish church was actually St. Marcella’s, but St. Hilary’s was closer to the center of the town and eventually took over many of the functions of a parish church.
The chapel consisted of a five-bay nave, north aisle and chancel, as well as the still surviving west tower. Many of the original windows were replaced by larger openings and the aisle was rebuilt in the 18th-century.
During the English Civil War in 1645, a service was held here attended by many dignitaries including King Charles I, Lord Keeper Williams, and the Archbishop of York. By the middle of the 19th-century however, St Hilary’s was in need of extensive restoration. It was decided to erect a new church in a more convenient location rather than repair the chapel.
After the new church opened, St. Hilary’s became derelict. The roof was removed in 1904 and the church was finally demolished, except for the tower in 1923.
The still standing three-story tower is 49 feet (15 meters) high and has two belfry openings on all four sides. It also has a battlemented parapet with projecting gargoyles. The tower became a Grade I listed building in 1950.
Know Before You Go
St Hilary's Chapel is just down the hill from Denbigh Castle. |
<urn:uuid:ebad2759-5db9-4222-aa9b-aad34bfc2127>_en | To learn if you are currently infected with COVID-19, a viral test is used.
If you test negative, you were probably not infected at the time your sample was collected. It is important to remember that a negative test does not mean you will not get sick. It means you did not have COVID-19 when your sample was collected, or you may have tested negative if the sample was collected early in your infection, and you may test positive later during your illness. You may also be exposed to COVID-19 after the test and get infected at that time. |
<urn:uuid:ffd84171-97fa-45e0-bc7d-641bb8ecdf93>_en | What is the zip line?
The zip line (also known as aerial runway, flying fox or rope slide) is a customized version of a funicular between two ‘solid’ objects at which participants slide down at enormous speed. Using a pulley system the lines are taut from the platform at a height of 100 meters to the field below. The speed is determined by gravity and by the force used by our instructors to slow down the participants.
Zip line Euromast no longer possible
The zip line is no longer possible. Due to construction of houses on the landing area. The last zip line was in August 2021. We are happy that we offered this amazing activity for 25 years. Thousands of people flew into the depths with dizzying speed – over 100 km per hour! Within 15 seconds you stood on the ground after travelling 250 meters. |
<urn:uuid:1e9c6d05-242a-4bd4-a835-ceea96ad6ee3>_en | How to Make a Straw-Bale Garden
Build a veggie bed that requires no digging, no weeding, and no crop rotation
Why build a straw-bale garden? For starters, it’s the perfect solution if you only have a small space to garden. This whole concept was fairly straightforward and comes together easily. Unlike most other types of veggie gardens, there is no digging, no weeding, and nothing but a pile of compost left over at the end of the season.
Supplies you will need:
4 straw bales
4 bags of compost
25-ft. soaker hose
Step 1: Arrange the bales into a square
Clear out a 6½-foot-square area, pulling weeds and leveling the ground. Make a square using four sterile straw bales, leaving a hole in the middle.
Step 2: Put fertilizer and compost on to the top of the bales
Sprinkle the bales with granular organic fertilizer, then top with a 2- to 3-inch-deep layer of compost. Fill the hole in the middle with loose straw, compost, or potting soil. This is where you’ll plant root crops that need loose soil to grow.
Step 3: Add water to help the bales “cook”
Water the bales thoroughly every day for 10 days, using a liquid organic fertilizer, like kelp meal or fish emulsion, every time you water. The fertilizer will help the bales “cook”; in fact, if you have a soil thermometer, you’ll see them heat up considerably during that time. This 10-day composting period allows the bales to break down a bit, getting them ready to accommodate plant roots.
Step 4: Plant the bales
After 10 days, you’ll notice that the bales have cooled and started to decompose. You can now plant directly into the straw bales, using a trowel to pry holes into the bales. Plant a variety of vegetables and herbs directly into the bales. Direct-sow the center hole with root crops, like carrots, beets, potatoes, or onions.
Step 5: Keep the bales moist until harvest
Installing a soaker hose or drip-irrigation system over the top of the straw-bale garden will make watering easier once the garden is planted. Unless you’re getting regular rainfall, water your straw-bale garden every day or two to keep the bales from drying out. At the end of the season, after you’ve harvested bushels of veggies, you’ll have a wonderful pile of rich compost to spread around the garden.
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<urn:uuid:38685b5a-4b39-48f6-a175-073c6bf47e58>_en | Area + simple proportion - practice problems
Number of problems found: 6
- The cost 4
The cost to tile a floor that measures 7 x 6 square feet is $ 2,100. How much will it cost to tile a floor that measures 11 x 13 square feet?
- Hectares of forest
12 workers plant 24 ha of forest in 6 days. In how many days will 15 people and 12 people plant the same area?
- Eight masons
Eight masons will plaster a wall with an area of 1440 m² in 9 days. They work 8 hours a day. How much area will plaster 6 masons in 4 hours?
- Two brothers
The two brothers were to be divided according to the will of land at an area of 1ha 86a 30m² in a ratio of 5:4. How many will everyone get?
- Trapezoid - intersection of diagonals
In the ABCD trapezoid is AB = 8 cm long, trapezium height 6 cm, and distance of diagonals intersection from AB is 4 cm. Calculate the trapezoid area.
At the glass shop we have to cut 8 sheets of glass. Each was shaped a square with sides of 18 cm. We paid 44 CZK. How much is a 1 m² of glass?
Area - practice problems. Simple proportion - practice problems. |
<urn:uuid:397c7873-13e6-4b33-a9aa-e713bc049fb9>_en | Making a Cornet
A cornet is a small piping bag made from parchment paper. It is usually used to make fine decorations.
Tools and Materials
Scissors or sharp knife
1. Cut an 8-by-12-by-14 1/2-inch triangle from a sheet of parchment paper.
2. Hold the middle of the long side of the triangle between two fingers of one hand. With the other hand take the tip of the triangle on the short, wide end, and roll it toward the other tip of that same end, while simultaneously pulling it in an upward motion. The tip of the cone will form where your thumb and finger hold it on the long side.
3. Release your grip from the long side, so that you are now holding the two corners where they meet. The paper will already resemble a partially formed cone.
4. Roll the remaining tail until it is completely rolled into a cone. There will be one point sticking up from the open end. Fold it inside toward the center, and crease the fold. Now you should have a cornet.
5. Fill the cornet with filling. To close the cornet once it has been filled, fold it away from the seam; this will keep the seam from opening. Use a pair of scissors or a sharp knife to cut an opening at the tip of the cornet to the desired size.
You can get parchment paper at most grocery stores. Scissors are available at Fiskars.com. |
<urn:uuid:86177d41-2431-46e0-998d-a8964f54972f>_en | September 8th, 2020
Promoting Reading Comprehension in Secondary Students with LD
Reading comprehension is “the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language” (Snow, 2002, p.11). Extracting meaning from text is to understand what the author has explicitly or implicitly stated. Constructing meaning is to interpret what the author has written based on the reader’s background knowledge, experiences, capabilities, and abilities.
Tell Congress: Pass the RISE Act
We need your help! Ask your member of Congress to support students with learning and attention issues.
Thanks to support from generous partners like you, we are able to create programs and resources to support the 1 in 5 individuals with learning and attention issues nationwide. |
<urn:uuid:861ee93b-b4bd-4ee7-b391-ce70e2612958>_en | Wider Image: World's Largest Electronics Waste Dump
Motor tricycles carrying electronic waste are transported to one of the small workshops for recycling in the township of Guiyu in China's southern Guangdong province June 10, 2015. The town of Guiyu in the economic powerhouse of Guangdong province in China has long been known as one of the world’s largest electronic waste dump sites. At its peak, some 5,000 workshops in the village recycle 15,000 tonnes of waste daily including hard drives, mobile phones, computer screens and computers shipped in from across the world. Many of the workers, however, work in poorly ventilated workshops with little protective gear, prying open discarded electronics with their bare hands. Plastic circuit boards are also melted down to salvage bits of valuable metals such as gold, copper and aluminum. As a result, large amounts of pollutants, heavy metals and chemicals are released into the rivers nearby, severely contaminating local water supplies, devastating farm harvests and damaging the health of residents. The stench of burnt plastic envelops the small town of Guiyu, while some rivers are black with industrial effluent. According to research conducted by Southern China’s Shantou University, Guiyu’s air and water is heavily contaminated by toxic metal particles. As a result, children living there have abnormally high levels of lead in their blood, the study found. While most of the e-waste was once imported into China and processed in Guiyu, much more of the discarded e-waste now comes from within China as the country grows in affluence. China now produces 6.1 million metric tonnes of e-waste a year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, second only to the U.S with 7.2 million tonnes. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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<urn:uuid:e8959cef-9636-4e06-a9da-c87153bb05cc>_en | Inspection & Assessment
The air and surfaces samples are taken by certified technicians. The samples sent to a certified and accredited laboratory for testing. Results are then processed.
Air Particulate Analysis
The goal of this air quality monitoring is to protect humans and the environment from harmful air pollution. TSI Particle Instruments enable real-time air quality measurements of important metrics to help people better understand air quality.
Samples are taken by air, as well as bulk samples. The samples sent to a certified and accredited laboratory for testing. Results are then processed.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can exist as structurally-diverse liquids and solids and vapors, and are thus a significant airborne consideration when biomonitoring human exposure levels, for analyzing odor issues. VOCs are measured by collecting samples and submitting for analysis in the laboratory.
Water testing is a description for various procedures used to analyze water quality. Water quality tests are carried out to fulfill regulatory requirements and to maintain safety.
Moisture Intrusion Inspection
Indoor Air Quality Assessment
This is what happens when air ducts aren't cleaned! |
<urn:uuid:135b89c7-c51e-4f54-972f-c8b259a3b4ef>_en | I wonder if we ever actually stop to appreciate what a perfect creation a seed is. The potential within it is immense.
Every seed is encapsulated such that it contains the promise of life. From a huge yellow cedar to a tiny watercress, all the genetic information of the parent uniquely comes together to create a plant of like characteristics. Seeds are alive, although dormant. Every seed from the dust-like begonia to the hefty coconut is a time capsule of life to come.
The mission from time immemorial is the same: go forth and multiply. It’s when we try to grow things where they do not naturally grow that the trouble begins. Naturally, plants don’t even grow in a straight row… sheesh! Not many common vegetables are indigenous to these islands, so we have to develop ways to cause them to grow, and straight(ish) rows and greenhouses work for us.
The term ‘viable seed’ means ones that will grow rather than rot in the ground. Some seeds remain viable for many years under perfect conditions, most are good for three years. Seeds on ‘sale’ are often older seeds. They will germinate less reliably, but then again, they do cost less!
Seeds have specific needs that cause them to stir within the husk, then burst out into warmth and moisture. They have reactionary instincts based on the surrounding factors, which trigger growth. If it’s too cold, they grow stunted — a pause in their growth pattern (but they do toughen up). If it’s warm but too dark they grow spindly, searching for light. If they are pinched or deer-munched they grow side shoots, giving a bushier plant that is not all bad — unless they are taken to ground level… that’s bad!
As a seed germinates, the sprouting process cannot be stopped. If it continues to receive moisture, warmth, air and light it keeps growing. Allowing it to dry out or be waterlogged will kill it. Try not to blame the ‘poor seeds’ for poor seed husbandry.
When a seed packet says “60 days” on it, that is the time from true leaves to first fruit, under ideal conditions. I always have to add a month or so because our conditions are less than ideal. The West Coast has less heat, more moisture, and more wind than most of Canada, so naturally many heat-seeking plants will not thrive without a lot of bother. If you like the bother… well that’s your privilege, celebrate if it works out, but don’t complain if it doesn‘t!
Left to grow in its natural environment, a plant will continue because the seeds are spread where their needs are met, as did the parent plant. Except coconuts. Coconuts fall in the ocean, bob around for years, touch new volcanic islands and proceed to germinate, thus starting a new island of living plants. Then birds land on the coconut trees and droppings with seeds in them are left behind. Voila, a newly vegetated tropical paradise! Buy a time share NOW… ‘cuz you never know. |
<urn:uuid:745d13fc-02b7-4cfc-8a4f-02844a10992e>_en | Have fun learning new words! This colorful set includes an activity guide and 25 self-checking, 3-piece puzzles designed to be used in two ways-as 3-piece puzzles for early learners needing help identifying words, then as 2-piece puzzles as children becomes more proficient. Two sets in one! The puzzles and activities are designed to help children identify and read 25 basic words by sight. Includes (25) 3-piece puzzles (measures 9" x 3") and 2 page teacher's guide.
Key Features :
Great way for kids to have fun learning new wordsReal-life photos3-piece puzzles can be used as 2-piece puzzles |
<urn:uuid:b42a64ac-7c64-4333-9288-615fc6f82312>_en | The government of Myanmar issued a Cyclone Warning for the western coastal region of the country.
Rainfall totals are expected to exceed 10 inches in many locations near the path of Bijli. Along the immediate coast of western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh, a dangerous storm surge of 3-6 feet is possible the next several hours. There can also be an isolated tornado or two from Bijli.
Myanmar was struck by powerful Cyclone Nargis on May 2, 2008, resulting in the worst natural disaster in Myanmar's recorded history. Nargis struck the Irrawaddy Delta, an area farther south than where Bijli is expected to make landfall.
Bijli is not expected to be as strong as Nargis, and some of the terrain is more hilly in the forecast strike area. However, there is potential for devastating flooding this weekend, lasting into early next week. The storm also has potential to displace thousands of residents, and there is a significant risk for loss of life in western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski
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<urn:uuid:27196de8-1b8c-4b00-a730-d298e390ca88>_en | The number 10 food on the list which you think is healthy is corn flakes. If you will check the nutritional information label at the back of the corn flakes packet, you will find that one serving of corn flakes has about 100 calories which are very less. It has almost zero grams of fat which is great. It has about 27 grams of carbohydrates which is fine because it is actually a carbohydrate source. So what is the problem? The problem is that it has only 1 gram of fiber. Now, a complex carbohydrate source that is a whole grain has just 1 gram of fiber. Isn’t it odd? Well, you will get the answer to this if you will check the ingredient list. Apart from all the artificial flavors, it contains high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is nothing but a synthesised form of sugar. In my opinion, if you find a product that has high fructose corn syrup in it, just stay away from it. So most of the carbohydrates that you find in the corn flakes are coming from this. Because it is a simple form of carb, it will give you energy for a very short duration. It will spike your insulin and ultimately will get stored as fat. It is much better to switch to healthier options like whole-wheat porridge and natural oats.
Food items you think are healthy, but aren’t
Number 9 is brown bread. Now you might be thinking about how brown bread is unhealthy? It is whole wheat bread. Well, it should be but unfortunately, it isn’t. If you ever go through the ingredient list of brown bread you will find that the ingredients are mentioned in this way. Wheat flour, whole wheat flour. Now, what is the need of mentioning it separately? Well, this is because the former is refined flour which is nothing but maida. So, if you will have this so-called whole wheat bread on a daily basis, it will lead to fat storage. So next time when you buy brown bread, make sure you check the ingredients carefully. Unfortunately, in the Indian market, it is very hard to find a 100 percent whole-wheat bread. So you may want to keep this in moderation and stick to whole wheat roti. Number 8 on the list is peanut butter. Now don’t get me wrong. Peanuts are a source of essential fatty acids that are great for the heart, brain, and other body functions. And so is natural peanut butter. However, most of the peanut butter that you get in the market are adulterated with hydrogenated oils, salt, sugar, preservatives, and additives. Hydrogenated oils are the main villain here. Hydrogenated oils are vegetable oils whose chemical structure has been altered by an excessive amount of heating at high temperatures. Doing this will increase the saturated fats and trans fats in the product. Such peanut butter will do more harm to you than good. Actually, why would you want to buy such peanut butter when you can make all-natural peanut butter at home in just 15 minutes. Yes, the recipe to this is on the channel. I will link it down in the description.
Foods you think are healthy but actually aren’t
Next on the list is Act 2 popcorn. Popcorn is an ideally low-calorie great snack option. However, act 2 popcorn which we are generally used to eating is not a great option. Act 2 popcorn packets are loaded with partially hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, and colors. Eating Act 2 popcorn on a daily basis can increase the fat in your body and may also lead to heart diseases in the long run. My suggestion to you to not to go for such shortcuts. You can make popcorn at home with little or no oil whatsoever. It hardly takes any time. Next are energy bars. Energy bars were actually made for long-distance runners and endurance athletes. These were designed to give them quick energy. So they contain a lot of simple sugars. It will not be an exaggeration if I call these energy bars as sugar bars. Because most of the carbohydrates in these energy bars come from simple sugars. In my opinion, these are not made for normal people like us. So our body can not utilize all these sugars and they will spike the insulin and ultimately get stored as fat. So, if at all you want to have something like this on the go I would suggest you have peanut jaggery chikki. It is a much better option.
Next is full cream milk. Full cream milk also known as whole milk or full-fat milk is not a great option when you are looking for fat loss or lean muscle gains. This is because 100 ml of whole milk has about 5 grams of fat. And most of it is saturated fat. Now, the daily recommended intake of saturated fat is not more than 20 grams. So if you are consuming 500 ml of full cream milk, you might be consuming too much-saturated fat. Too much-saturated fat can lead to clogging of arteries and other heart diseases. Moreover, full-fat milk is costlier than low-fat milk. So, why would you want to buy something which is expensive and which may also hinder your fitness goals? Now white rice is a staple food of India. It is eaten almost everyday especially in south India. So, is white rice unhealthy? Well, they are not healthy either. If you finding it hard to reduce your weight, there are chances that you are having white rice on a regular basis. Do you know that white rice is formed from brown rice? When the husk of brown rice is removed and polishing is done, we get white rice. And in the process of this refining, we lose essential vitamins, minerals, omega 3 and fiber. And all we are left is a simple form of carbohydrate. Simple carbohydrates give you energy for a very short duration. Eating white rice on a regular basis will spike your insulin and get stored as fat. It may also become a reason for obesity and diabetes in the long run. So what to do? Well, it’s simple. Switch to brown rice. These days loose whole grain brown rice is very easily available in the supermarkets at about 50 to 60 rupees per kg which are not expensive at all.
Foods You Thought Were Healthy That Really Aren’t
Next on the list are packed soups. Now packed soups are one of the best low-calorie starters which fill your tummy and make you eat less in the actual meal. However, packaged soups are the worst soups that you will ever have. They have so many ingredients that your body doesn’t need. Moreover, they are loaded with a lot of sodium. One small pack has about 2400 mg of sodium which is way above the daily recommended intake. Too much sodium leads to water retention in your body which makes you put on weight. Also, it leads to medical conditions like hypertension and high blood pressure. So it is always recommended to make soups at home with fresh ingredients so that they provide all the benefits that they are meant to provide. Next is masala oats. Now, when people hear oats, they automatically relate it to being healthy. Well, it’s not the case when it comes to masala oats. They also have the same problem as we discussed with the packaged soups. They are also loaded with unwanted additives, preservatives, coloring, and flavor. No doubt, oats are a great source of complex carbohydrates. They are rich in soluble and insoluble fibers which help you lose weight. So, I would suggest you buy natural oats and make them masala at home. You can customize them with your favorite vegetables and spices. Last but not the least, processed meats. Now, these are probably the worst of all foods that we have discussed today. The normal meat is chemically altered to increase the shelf life, enhance the flavors, and make it more stable. Meats undergo a lot of processes like salting, curing, fermentation, and smoking to get the desired results. These are so unhealthy that the world health organization has added them in group 1 list of foods that cause cancer. So make sure you avoid bacon, ham, sausages, and other forms of processed meats at all costs. So, friends, that’s all for this video. My idea of making this video was that you should be aware of what you purchase and what you eat. So next time when you go for grocery shopping, don’t judge a product with what is written on it’s front. Go at the back and check the nutritional information and ingredients and buy it accordingly. |
<urn:uuid:7a6c8b91-c451-4cb8-aa55-e65490e87ccf>_en | Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music is not well known today, it was greatly admired in his time. Beethoven regarded him as the greatest of his contemporaries.
Cherubini was born Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini on 14th September 1760 in Florence. His instruction in music began at the age of six with his father, himself a musician. By the age of thirteen he had composed several religious…
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<urn:uuid:2b8dcb45-cd64-4ff6-a001-c29408364b9d>_en | A.M.W.Y. Voorbij; H.S. Kooistra; P.A.J. Leegwater
Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Yalelaan, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Pituitary dwarfism in German shepherd dogs is due to an autosomal, recessively inherited disorder. Common clinical manifestations are marked growth retardation, retention of secondary hairs (puppy coat) with concurrent lack of primary or guard hairs, and bilateral symmetrical alopecia. Pituitary dwarfism is characterized by underdevelopment of the pituitary gland and combined pituitary hormone deficiency including deficient secretion of growth hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone, prolactin and gonadotropins. In contrast, the secretion of corticotropins is unaffected.
The recessively inherited defect was localised by a genome wide approach, using microsatellite markers, to a region on chromosome 9 with a lod score of 9.8. The region contains LHX3, which encodes for a transcription factor essential for pituitary development. The dwarfism appeared to be associated with an intron deletion of a repetition from a reiterated DNA sequence. We suggest that the deletion is directly responsible for the pituitary dwarfism.
Based on the finding of the mutation, a genetic test was developed that allows identification of carriers of pituitary dwarfism in German shepherd dogs. The use of this genetic test opens the possibility to eradicate pituitary dwarfism in German shepherd dogs. |
<urn:uuid:72fd86aa-e27d-4555-a959-47ac82f24aa6>_en | Last Updated on
A sensitive to sound 12-month-old baby needs your care and comfort. Some toddlers have strong reactions to loud noises like fire alarms, barking dogs, fire crackers, sirens etc. Even prolonged loud noises such as the volume at a typical movie hall can be too much for some toddlers to take.
For many young children, loud noise can be painful and uncomfortable because their ears are still developing. Parents should maintain a list of any specific sounds that irritate their child and share it with caregivers, teachers, grandparents etc. Here are a few things you can do to minimise the discomfort caused by loud sounds to your baby.
Toddler Sensitivity to Sound Developmental Milestone – What You Can Do
1. Block the noise
If your child is sensitive to loud sounds, the first thing you should try and do is to try and block the sound. Use earmuffs or ear plugs; these are quite easily available in the market. You can also buy noise reduction headphones to muffle the sounds. Soundproofing your toddler’s room can enable her to slowly get acclimatized to loud noises.
2. Help your child accommodate not escape it
Unless you want your child to be sitting at home all the time, you can never truly avoid putting your toddler in situations where she is exposed to loud sound. Instead, you can take frequent breaks from the noise with your toddler. You can go out for short walks to take a break from the noise or sit in a separate room for some time. This will also help your toddler get gradually more used to general everyday noises and loud sounds.
3. Preparation is key
Talk to your child in advance about whatever unpleasant sounds she may face before going out for an event. This will help her mentally prepare for sounds such as loud music, firecrackers, or whatever else that can unpleasant for her. Explain to her that you’re there to keep her safe.
4. Be patient
Most importantly, both the parents and the toddler need to be patient. As your child grows older, she will become less sensitive to sounds and will get better at coping with loud sounds and noises. All you need to do is to be patient and help her accommodate sounds on her own.
Don’t force your child to stay in a loud situation that will obviously cause her stress. Move her away from such a situation if possible. Reassure and comfort her, so that she knows you’re there for her and that it’ll be alright soon.
6. Introduce some white noise
For some children with sound sensitivity issues, white noise in the background helps soften the impact of loud and annoying sounds, like car horns and loud music. A fan or a white noise machine in your child’s room may help her sleep and focus better in her play time.
There is no surgical treatment for sound sensitivity in toddlers, but generally, as children grow older their tolerance to increased volume of sound increases too. Don’t overuse earphones or ear plugs as it’ll increase your child’s sensitivity to sound, making her inadept at accommodating to normal sounds. |
<urn:uuid:ec3fc709-aaa5-4ba2-b870-39a490d578bc>_en | Ecotourism is becoming more popular and important than ever as places around the world are beginning to disappear forever due to environmental changes. Ecotourism destinations ensure that travelers explore these places responsibly while allowing them to see some of the most extreme and beautiful natural wonders around the world. Some governments are now using the money pumped into the economy by tourists to preserve and conserve their country’s natural environment. Have a look at the top 9 ecotourism destinations around the world.
9. Gothenburg, Sweden
Considered one of the top sustainable destinations globally in recent years, Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden. Over 90 percent of the hotels are eco-certified, and a majority of the former industrial port town’s public transport today runs on renewable energy. The city of Gothenburg offers vast breathing spaces in the form of meadows, hiking trails, and parks as it is surrounded by thick forests.
8. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
An archipelago of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean and home to a host of unique iguanas and lizards, Galapagos Islands is one of the world’s richest destinations for biodiversity. Here’s an interesting fact: the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin was inspired by a visit to these islands back in 1835. Consisting of thousands of species of unusual and endemic flora and fauna, the islands have a delicate ecosystem. The tourism authorities allow only a limited number of tourists to access the islands on a daily basis.
7. Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia
Famous for its extensive cave networks and rich biodiversity, Gunung Mulu National Park is nestled on the island of Borneo in the State of Sarawak. Home to lofty peaks, deep gorges, serene rivers, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Pinnacles-like unique geological formations, which are a forest of spires made of limestones. There are several adventure activities available to try like adventure caving, hiking, canopy walking, and more.
6. Dingvellir National Park, Iceland
One of the most visited and iconic places on the Icelandic mainland, this national park is pronounced “Thingvellir”. Dingvellir National Park offers breathtaking views of Lake Þingvallavatn at one end, mountains on three sides, and lava fields dotted with lush grass. You truly have to see it to believe in the beauty of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park is managed by the Umhverfisstofnun environmental agency, which focuses on the use of sustainable resources to maintain the region’s ecological purity and balance the tourist footfall as much as possible.
5. Donsol And Peleliu, Philippines
Due to locals who try to preserve their population in the region, the Donsol metropolis facilitates ecotourism by allowing a limited number of visitors to swim with the whale sharks. The best thing about this place is that one can experience scuba diving with manta rays. Similarly, a place called Peleliu is the best for kayaking and to come across stingless jellyfish and spinner dolphins.
4. Kaziranga National Park, India
An honored national park in India, Kaziranga is a dwindling zone of Assam which has no scarcity of discrete plants and animals. It is the best example of ecotourism in India, which generates an ideal atmosphere for the existence of flora and fauna with its marshlands, long elephant grasslands, and thick tropical moist forest. With its grand body and its magnetic horn, the attractiveness of the Greater One Horned Rhinoceros will make you fall in love with this gigantic animal. If you are lucky enough, you can also come through a tiger.
3. Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a haven for conscious travelers with tons of ecotourism activities. Costa Rica has also conserved one-fourth of its area as national parks, reserves, and protected areas. Home to several endemic flora and fauna species, the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a safe haven for over 1200 species of reptiles and amphibians, 100 species of mammals, and 400 species of avifauna.
2. Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is arguably the world’s most famous and largest coral reef ecosystem. It has been under threat for a few years now because of global warming, excess fishing, and pollution. Home to diverse marine life including 1500 species of fish and 4000 species of mollusks, the Great Barrier Reef is now on a slow path of recovery. The islands spread around the reef have started practicing ecotourism in controlled ways that help fund the conservation by boosting the economy.
1. Koh Kong, Cambodia
One of the popular ecotourism destinations in Southeast Asia, Koh Kong is a hidden gem and boasts sandy beaches, tropical islands, dense mangrove forests, crystal-clear rivers, rich biodiversity, and several threatened species. Located near the border with Thailand, Koh Kong offers eco-friendly hotels and restaurants where visitors can enjoy their visit to Cambodia. Also, there are many exciting water activities that tourists can try their hands on such as kayaking, snorkeling, and trekking. |
<urn:uuid:620fb2f9-dd97-4fc9-b612-b315144be09f>_en | Dogs are more likely to develop diabetes as they age. This can be managed with the proper care. Here are the steps to take in order to manage your dog’s diabetes:
Have Regular Vet Care
Regular checkups are important to maintaining your dog’s health. This becomes especially true if your dog is diagnosed with diabetes. Your dog will need insulin injections in order to maintain their blood sugar. Your vet can help you to develop a plan in order to keep your dog healthy. They will be able to show you the correct dosage of insulin. They can even give you pointers on how to inject your dog with a minimal amount of fuss. Your vet is your best resource in coping with your dog’s diabetes.
Maintain a Balanced Diet
A part of managing diabetes is to eat a proper diet. Your dog will need to eat food that is high in fiber and proteins. This will enable them to maintain their blood sugar in between feedings. Avoid giving your dog food that is high in carbohydrates. You will also need to stick to a feeding schedule. Your dog may require smaller more frequent meals in order to stay healthy. Your vet will be able to give you guidance on how to handle these issues. They may even recommend a brand of dog food that will be best.
Establish an Exercise Routine
Moderate amounts of exercise are best in order to maintain your dog’s weight. Initially, your dog may be required to lose some weight. This will help them to better regulate their diabetes. A healthy body weight is crucial to maintaining overall good health. Depending on the age of your dog, some types of exercise may be better than others. Ask your vet for recommendations on the types and the amount of exercise that your dog will need. Make sure to feed your dog before taking them out for a walk. This way their blood sugar can be better maintained.
Watch for Warning Signs
Extreme blood sugar swings can be dangerous for your dog. You will need to monitor your dog every day. Your vet may ask that you check your dog’s blood sugar occasionally. This is to make sure that your dog can stay healthier longer. Some of the signs to watch for in your dog are being extremely hungry, thirsty, or having to relieve themselves frequently. These signs may require that you seek out emergency vet care, like that from the Seattle Emergency Veterinary Hospital. They could be a sign of a more serious condition. Too much insulin can cause seizures, dizziness, extreme tiredness, or even death.
Changing your dog’s lifestyle can help to prevent complications. Use these steps to manage your dog’s diabetes. |
<urn:uuid:c5d43ba6-964d-402f-9d70-3e783cf0db10>_en | Taking Acting as a Hobby Can Help People Study – Here’s Why
Updated on August 31, 2021 by Alina Boskar
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Did you know that various art activities can improve comprehension as well as non-verbal and verbal communication? Even more – taking acting as a hobby can be very beneficial for your cognitive abilities, including learning. Here are five interesting ways to use theater performances as studying motivation.
5 Ways Acting in a Theather Can Help You To Study
1. You can learn to work in the teamwork
Theater performances involve rehearsals and exercises, all of which require cooperation and collaboration among the participants. The members must learn the basics as a team and continue improving their skills over time.
Learning how to perform entails sharing ideas and thoughts, exchanging constructive feedback, and encouraging your colleagues in the journey is key. If one of the actors is facing challenges or is weaker than others, this may affect the whole show.
The idea of teamwork and collaboration also applies to the area of academics. You need to apply logic and reasoning when solving academic problems and support each other when participating in any group activities.
2. You can learn how to manage time
Theater people are required to manage their time effectively right from the time of preparation to the time of performance. As a theater student, you must learn and appreciate the value of deadlines and the importance of meeting deadlines.
There is nothing like delaying or postponing a show on grounds of lack of enough time. The time for rehearsals is set in advance and all the participants must always be there on time. One of the most important lessons to learn is the importance of managing time and the need to respect deadlines for essay submissions.
Theater performances influence the learners’ ability to study because they learn about the importance of time management. Seeking students help in essay writing may help you to be good in art performances and write compelling essays. If you want to write well-structured and quality essays about plays, find help by exploring essay examples about plays on Samplius. You will access many essay examples through which to find inspiration and motivation on how to write essays and excel in performing arts.
3. It can improve your self-awareness
Theater teaches about self-awareness because you need to be conscious of what is happening around you and within yourself. You must be aware of your facial expression, tone, and physicality during the performances. Self-awareness is important for productivity, not only in theater performance but also in your studies.
Theater performances can greatly motivate you to study and write essays or other assignments. If you are looking to be a pro writer in the field of arts, use essay examples on “Macbeth” play on WritingBros for inspiration! The essay examples will offer some insights into essay topics, categories, word usage, and the logical structure of essays. As such, you will be able to write any kind of essay in your area of study and get good grades.
4. It teaches you what it means to be realistic and open
After participating in drama rehearsals and subsequent performances, you gather self-confidence and make peace with yourself. This teaches about being realistic regarding your talent and in real life. Drama can motivate you to learn about how to approach things differently and to avoid being personal when solving problems.
It is difficult to be perfect in performances, meaning that it is important to be prepared to receive constructive criticism. Feedback can make you receptive to comments and taking the comments seriously enhances your listening skills. Being a good listener enhances your ability to study and find solutions to problems.
5. It improves reading comprehension
Theater performances require studying detailed literature, which can play a role in the development of reading comprehension skills. In addition to the ability of drama to aid understanding of the work involved, it also allows learners to understand the expression and work in general.
There is a strong relationship between performing arts and the improvement of verbal and non-verbal skills. Performing relevant texts motivates you to get to the next level and enhances an understanding of other disciplines such as math and science. As compared to group discussions, theater performances can encourage reading and improve understanding of a text.
Learners who participate in theater performances are more encouraged to study and achieve their academic goals better. Being motivated to study is a sure way to academic excellence and achieving your goals! To be motivated, use theater performances by participating in teamwork, managing time effectively, self-awareness, being open, and understanding reading materials. Have time for drama and your studies because you don’t want to overdo one activity at the expense of the other.
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<urn:uuid:4f950d0f-5a4c-44b8-9059-7d27907cf677>_en | Relevant online resources – Fallacy and bias:
- Cochrane methods. Assessing Risk of Bias in Included Studies
- Common Fallacies in Quantitative Research Methodology. Oxford Handbooks Online. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/
- ADEA. Logical fallacies in Critical Thinking skills
Optional papers- references:
- Higgins JPT, Altman DG, Gøtzsche PC Jüni P, Moher D et al. The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. BMJ 2011;343:d5928B
- Faggion CM. Evaluating the Risk of Bias of a Study. J Evid Based Dent Pract. 2015 Dec;15(4):164-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jebdp.2015.09.002.
- Viswanathan M, Ansari MT, Berkman ND, Chang S, Hartling L et.al. Assessing the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies in Systematic Reviews of Health Care Interventions. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. March 2012. AHRQ Publication No.12-EHC047-EF.
- Hollister C. Reading the Dental Literature: Just the Basics. Nashville Area Dental Support Center United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. Page 10 |
<urn:uuid:6a12b84c-c51f-4f65-9edf-1e3e1d742a1b>_en | There are several pairs of synonymous words in the English language that I’ve occasionally found myself pondering, using them as starting points for study and conversation. Among these pairs would be “crucial” and “critical”. What exactly is the difference between these two? In past conversations, I’ve argued that if the two words were compared to each other on a level degree, then crucial would mean important, and critical would mean more important. That is, it’s crucial that I find a Band-Aid for the cut on my finger, but it’s critical that you call an ambulance because my skull is cracked open.
Luke fired up the the Apple Dashboard dictionary this weekend to see what it had to say about these two words. According to it, via Luke:
Crucial implies that an outcome is dependent upon it, e.g., the battle was crucial to their victory. Critical refers more to a crisis, and the outcomes have more of a negative-positive connotation.
So perhaps the two words should not be compared to each other by level of degree, but by context. Luke’s study on the origins of the words:
Crucial: from Latin crux, meaning cross.
Critic: From Latin criticus, which is from Greek kritikos, meaning judge.
Crisis: From Greek krisis, meaning decision, obviously related to kritikos.
Clearly, they share the same roots in the sense of decision. The question, then, why did they both evolve into these two slightly different connotations? To throw it out there: the crucial is a function of the cross, how it can go both ways. But the critical is dependent on the value judgment, the kritikos.
Yeah. I can see that. While the two words are practically interchangeable in everyday conversation, I suppose crucial is most appropriate when talking about something that pivots on a circumstance (visualize the point of intersection on a cross), with the outcome of the circumstance going either way (usually positive or negative). i.e. Speeding up is crucial to whether or not I’ll beat the red light. Critical is probably the better word when directly referring to the observably negative outcome of the crucial situation. i.e. It is critical that I beat that red light, otherwise I won’t get to the airport on time and I’ll miss my flight. |
<urn:uuid:34e86368-9b04-427b-b6e9-edf055187acd>_en | by Linda Veath Cox
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. ~ Luke 2:8-12 KJV
What picture comes to mind when you think about the shepherds on Christmas Eve?
Traditional carols suggest that the sky was clear at midnight, the shepherds were seated on the ground, keeping watch over their flocks. Quiet. Peaceful. Just another night “at the sheep pen.”
And then the angels showed up!
The glory of the Lord split the darkness of the night. An angel appeared with a message for the shepherds. And they were terrified.
Think about the impact the angel’s announcement had on the shepherds. A baby boy had been born. Christ the Lord. The Savior who would save all people from their sins. The Messiah! And they were the first to be told. Ordinary shepherds—often viewed as the outcasts of society.
But were they just ordinary shepherds? Based on the Mishna—a collection of traditional Jewish doctrine from before the 3rd century AD—some scholars believe these were temple shepherds. That the flocks they were tending near Bethlehem belonged to the priests and were destined to be sacrificed in the temple in Jerusalem.
One has to wonder if the shepherds understood the connection—that the child born that night would render the sacrifices of their flocks unnecessary? Or were they simply overcome by the awe of that glory-filled night. We know “they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things” (vss. 16-18).
It’s not inconceivable that some of these shepherds could still have been alive thirty years later when that baby in the manger was crucified on the cross for our sins. Did the fullness of what they had witnessed all those years ago finally sink in? We don’t know, of course. We can only imagine.
But as we celebrate Christmas, we do remember that the destiny of the baby born that night was the cross where He died for you and me—the perfect and final sacrificial Lamb. May we join with the “multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (vss. 13-14)
HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS! |
<urn:uuid:20c689b1-86bf-4087-afe7-6a370d3ca9cb>_en | The other four valence electrons in oxygen are in pairs at the bottom. The Lewis dot structure of water begins with a single O atom in the center.
H2Os Lewis Dot Structure gives it many unique properties mostly due to the two lone pairs on the central oxygen atom.
Lewis dot structure for h2o. On the right and left sides are a singly bonded H atom. There is an atom of oxygen in the center and two atoms of hydrogen around the central atom. To get the valence electrons of oxygenwe need to look at the electronic configuration of oxygen.
70 More Lewis Dot Structures. This increases electron-electron repulsion and therefore creates a bent structure as opposed to CO2s linear structure. Make sure you have two hydrogens and one oxygen in H 2 O.
O 81s²2s²2p⁴ The highest value of principal quantum number here is n2. In order to determine the molecular geometry for H2O observe the Lewis structure of the same. Each pair consists of one electron provided by oxygen and one by hydrogen.
There are also two pairs of electrons around the oxygen which you can see at the Lewis structure. Complete the following for H2O. It is four for one water H2O molecule according to the octet rule.
To draw the lewis dot structure of H2O we have to find out the valence electrons of oxygen and hydrogen firstWe express valence electrons as dots in lewis dot structure. In a water molecule oxygen has two shared pairs of electrons and two unshared pairs of electrons which bond with one valence electron in hydrogen. The H 2 O Lewis dot structure is seen fairly frequently.
This bent molecular structure gives it many unique properties such as being polar. Here we need to understand how the Lewis structure is drawn for the H2O molecule. I quickly take you through how to draw the Lewis Structure of water H2O.
Of course oxygen will be the central atom in the H2O molecule. The structure on the right is the Lewis electron structure or Lewis structure for H 2 O. Look for how many electrons are needed.
The Lewis dot formula for H2O shows that each hydrogen shares a pair of electrons with the oxygen atom. Find the total number of. The Lewis dot structure of water begins with a single O atom in the center.
Be sure that you dont use more than the eight valence electrons available. Look for the total valence electrons. With two bonding pairs and two lone pairs the oxygen atom has now completed its octet.
A common error it to put two oxygen atoms and one hydrogen making HO 2. You have a total of 8 valence electrons available to fill the octets of Oxygen and Hydrogen. With the Lewis Structure for Water H 2 O remember that water only needs two valence electrons to have a full outer shell.
We can illustrate the formation of a water molecule from two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom using Lewis dot symbols. The Lewis dot structure for water shows the electron from hydrogen and an electron from oxygen being shared in a covalent bond. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device.
The exception of course being the hydrogens. Lewis DOT Diagram Lewis DOT Diagram Final Quiz – Atomic Structure And Chemical Bonding Final Quiz – Atomic Structure And Chemical Bonding Chemical Bonding MCQ Trivia. On the right and left sides are a singly bonded H atom.
They follow the duet rule 2 electrons. The arrangement of the valence electrons for oxygen and hydrogen when they bond show that the Lewis dot structure represents. Draw a second structure with bonds drawn.
Draw the Lewis dot structure. I also go over hybridization shape and bond angle. Drawing the Lewis Structure for H 2 O Another straight forward Lewis structure.
Look at the questions before watching the video. Tell the shape using. A step-by-step explanation of how to draw the H2O Lewis Dot Structure WaterFor the H2O structure use the periodic table to find the total number of valenc.
Remember that Hydrogen only needs two electrons to have a full outer shell. O is the central atom in H2O H 2 O molecule which is bonded to two hydrogen atoms via single bonds two shared electrons and there are two lone pair of electrons on the O atom. It is eight to form a single H2O molecule.
The O atom then has one pair of dots on the unbonded sides. Lewis Dot of Water. Since all the atoms are in either period 1 or 2 this molecule will adhere to the octet rule. |
<urn:uuid:edd0e5f7-8c73-4c17-ad08-68257f32a116>_en | |Lamantan Quick Facts
||It is endemic to Indonesia.
||Globose drupe, smooth, 10 cm diameter
||Pale yellow, fibrous
Lamantan scientifically known as Mangifera similis, an evergreen tree growing to the height of 18 meters though specimen’s upto 32 meters have been recorded. The bole is 7 meters and upto 80 cm in diameter which can be free of branches. Sometimes the tree is harvested from wild for the edible fruit which is consumed locally. Species is scattered in Borneo- Sabah (Sandakan, Tawau), Sarawak and Kalimantan
(Kutei, Samarinda, Balikpapan). It is also found in Sumatra (Palembang, Bangka and Bengkalis).
- Ripe or green fruit is used for preparing ulam with sambal belacan and pickles.
- Ripe fruit has pleasant flavor and consumed raw.
- Astringent fruits are pickled. |
<urn:uuid:de48832e-9508-4b8e-baa0-00404210afbc>_en | Dealing with Aggressive Children and Reasons Why Children Act Out
Aggressive behavior in children is always troublesome. Psychologists and experts have worked
for years developing ideas on how to curb this all-too natural instinct. Here are some guidelines.
1. Be careful not to let the child think aggression is acceptable.
2. Do not be aggressive yourself, but rather always maintain your self-control.
3. Do not subtly condone violence by not setting strict enough limits on behavior.
4. Prevent aggressive action before it arises. Then reinforce alternate, positive behavior.
5. Close supervision is paramount. For example, it is far easier to prevent grabbing and to reinforce
sharing than to halt aggressive behavior.
6. Explain to the child in very clear terms that violence WILL NOT be tolerated. Explain to them
that it is painful and wrong.
7. When you see aggressive behavior, intervene immediately. Be consistent.
8. Help a child to understand that there are other outlets other than harmful aggressiveness.
9. It will not be easy, but in the long run, your child and you will reap the results. |
<urn:uuid:dc9bfd05-7781-46fd-935c-fa03d5c80a7d>_en | Solid State Batteries Are Safer
While they are a relatively new technology, solid state batteries are safer and more stable. These batteries do not suffer from the same issues as lithium ion batteries. However, they are less conductive and difusible in their electrolyte. Hence, they are safer and have a longer lifetime. You should always check the manufacturer’s warranty before using a solid state battery, because it may get damaged during a power surge.
In fact, solid state batteries have significantly fewer parts and are safer to use. They do not contain flammable liquid and can be made of materials commonly found in homes and other equipment. Furthermore, a solid state battery will charge and discharge much faster than a traditional battery. Therefore, it is safer and more stable to use than a conventional battery. And, it is easier to replace a lithium-ion battery.
The team led by UC San Diego’s Meng, an assistant professor of electrical and mechanical engineering, and her research team, successfully developed a new anode material using a machine learning model. They then used this new material to construct the anode and tested it to ensure that it could support the electrode’s weight and shape. They hope to manufacture solid state batteries that are more cost-effective in the near future.
Solid State Batteries Are Safer and More Stable Than Lithium Ion Batteries
In addition to lowering the costs, solid state batteries have several other advantages. The main one is safety. As a result, they have a longer life and are safer to handle. In fact, solid state batteries are more stable than liquid li-ion batteries, which means a faster charging time and less bulky safety equipment. So, the next step is to explore other substitutes for halide batteries.
As a result, solid state batteries are more stable. However, there are a few disadvantages to this technology. For instance, they are more expensive than lithium ion batteries. They have many other disadvantages, such as being very light and heavy. But, they are a lot safer and more reliable than lithium ion batteries. This is especially true in applications that require large amounts of energy. While the two technologies have many advantages, they are not without their disadvantages.
As a result of these benefits, solid state batteries are becoming more common in small devices. They are safer and more reliable, which is why they have been used in small devices for a long time. In addition, solid state batteries are more durable, have fewer parts, and have a lower price tag. They are also more efficient, which means that they can last for longer. They are also more efficient, meaning they can save money. |
<urn:uuid:4d6eba47-5cd2-4e62-83da-f1d4f812c4fa>_en | Witnessing the Holocaust
by Henry Greenbaum
Henry Greenbaum was born in Starachowice, Poland, on April 1, 1928, the youngest of nine children. In 1939, he and his family were sent to the Jewish ghetto in their town. Throughout the war, he would be moved to various slave labor and concentration camps, including the infamous death camp of Auschwitz. He was liberated by American soldiers in Germany on April 25, 1945, and moved to the United States the next year.
I am honored to be standing here today with the American veterans of World War II, their families, and friends. No one appreciates the sacrifices you made more than the survivors of the Holocaust; the survivors who lost so many of their friends and family to this evil that you helped to defeat.
I was not quite 12 years old when it all started. I came from a family of nine children, six girls and three boys. Out of the nine, only four survived: myself, my two brothers, and one sister who had come to the United States in 1937.
We had a normal life. I went to public school, played sports, and did all the things that the kids would do here. But that all turned upside down the minute the Germans invaded my town, Starachowice, in Poland, on September 10, 1939. Right away, they started paying extra attention to the Jews, ordering them around, forcing us to wear the yellow Stars of David. When we would walk down the sidewalk, if we passed any German in uniform, whether it be SS or Wehrmacht, we had to take our hats off, step off the sidewalk, and stand at attention. If you did not obey, they would beat the heck out of you—knock you down, kick you with their boots—they could be brutal. We made sure to obey all of their rules, at all times.
It came to the point that we were afraid to go out on the streets. People did not want to come out of their homes. So the Nazis started coming into our homes to look for us. What were they looking for? They wanted some free labor. Any able bodied person over about 12 years old was taken from their home and forced to dig trenches on the outskirts of town, which they claimed were to be used as defenses from tanks. They watched you constantly while you worked—you didn’t stop for a second. If somebody started talking, or decided to take a rest, the German supervisor would call them over and beat them up. Sometimes they would take somebody into a truck and drive them off into the forest. We could hear shots going off, then the truck would come back empty. We all knew what had happened. We also knew that these trenches we were digging were going to be used to bury these people who were being shot.
After awhile, they rounded us all up, to keep us in one area—they didn’t want to have to look for us all over town. They surrounded the area, about 3 or 4 blocks, with barbed wire about four feet high. Families from all over were crowded in there. We had to wait for food to be brought to us by the SS, because no longer was anybody allowed to go out to shop. Every day, the already meager rations would become less and less. We ran out of soap to wash with. In already overcrowded conditions, being unable to keep clean led to an outbreak of typhoid in the ghetto.
One day, a special unit came in, which the Germans called the “Einsatzgruppen,†which was basically the killing unit. They would come into this ghetto every day to check on us. If somebody was too sick to go work in one of the ammunitions factories, they would take you away in one of their trucks. Where did they take you? They took you to the outskirts of town where we had dug the trenches supposedly for the tanks. In reality, we were digging our own graves.
Every day, the trucks would drive in and out, until the typhoid had subsided. In October of 1942, the Germans decided that they were going to get rid of the ghetto. They ordered us all out of the ghetto and into a large marketplace. That is where the selection started. Women with children were sent to one side; very old people to the same side; people who could not walk well, or were on crutches, or enfeebled, all to the same side. The healthier ones who would be able to work in the factory, including myself and three sisters, were kept on the other side. I could see the cattle cars off in the distance, where they were taking the women, children, and old people. The Germans never told any of them that they were going to be killed, which is why they had gone so peacefully. They were constantly lying to us. They would say that we were going to be “relocated,†and that we would have more food to eat or better jobs. So everybody was eager to go, and went willingly on the train. But when they boarded the train, their baggage was left behind. |
<urn:uuid:a77be5da-0b17-4cbc-b2e2-e45b4650dcf9>_en | What Does Accumulator Mean?
An accumulator is a functionally rechargeable device that is used for harnessing electrical energy stored in the form of chemical energy. Accumulators typically consist of one or more separate cells depending on the amount of energy they are required to store and/or dispense.
Corrosionpedia Explains Accumulator
Accumulators are sometimes referred to as a type of battery. Its functional unit contains a cell that is composed of electrodes and electrolytes. The electrolyte is a chemical substance that undergoes ionization when dissolved in water or other polarizing solvents. This generally includes all soluble acids, bases and salts, as well as gases such as hydrogen chloride.
Some examples of accumulators are:
- Steam accumulators
- Flywheel energy storage
- Hydraulic accumulators
- Rechargeable batteries
- Compensated pulsed alternator
- Pumped-storage hydroelectric plants |
<urn:uuid:0b8e9659-0618-484d-bc06-cd8c659559ba>_en | waterbird; migration; wetland; conservation; satellite tracking; integrated catchment management
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Civilization
The linkage created by migratory birds in time and space and between different global ecosystems, local biodiversity and diverse human culture epitomises the concept of “All Life on Earth”. The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, referred to as the Ramsar Convention below, uses bird abundance as a means to identify the relative significance of Wetlands of International Importance, tightly linking the most threatened wetlands on our planet with waterbird conservation. Wetland loss and degradation in Asia has caused a dramatic decrease in waterbird abundance and diversity, underlining the critical need for monitoring and conserving those natural systems that remain. Through close cooperation with 10 other countries, the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has established the largest migratory bird movement ecological database in Asia, with independent intellectual property rights. It contains basic data on the migration strategies and flyways of large-bodied birds in Asia. Analyses of these data have shown that migratory large-bodied birds from over 20 Asian countries have all used wetland habitats in China, and the area of intensive use accounts for less than 1.5% of China's total land area, mainly concentrated in the floodplains of just six river systems. Furthermore, we have identified critical relationships between wetland area, inundation area, hydrological process and bird abundance, diversity and behaviour. Large-scale development of wetland and water resources has caused loss and degradation of waterbird habitat, resulting in dramatic decreases in waterbird numbers. From a global perspective, the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats represents a common challenge for all human beings. In recent years, China has pioneered the successful conservation of its most threatened typical wetlands, which provides valuable practical experience and confidence for global biodiversity conservation. Finally, we make recommendations as to how China can take the lead in organizing global migratory bird monitoring and conservation.
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CAO, Lei; MENG, Fanjuan; and ZHAO, Qingshan
"Understanding Effects of Large-scale Development on Bird Migration and Habitats Through Cutting Edge Avian Monitoring Techniques,"
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 36
, Article 12.
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss4/12 |
<urn:uuid:ccd27b49-cf73-4bc4-807e-0468486bb260>_en | Often Confused Words: OVOCE vs OVCE
One letter can make a big difference. In this series of articles we will introduce the words which confuse our students the most. Do you make the same mistakes? Test yourself!
OVOCE and OVCE
Take a moment to think of what these two words mean. Whichone can you eat with ice-cream? And which might possibly lick your ice-cream?
Yes, you were right if you answered “ovoce” (fruit) to the first question, and “ovce” (sheep) to the second one. And surely without much effort you could even use them both in one sentence. How would you say: “The sheep is eating fruit?”
Well done: “Ovce jí ovoce”. Both words behave slightly differently in both languages. Unlike the English word “fruit”, the Czech “ovoce” appears only in the singular form even if you talk about kinds of fruit (“I like oranges and other citrus fruits” – “Mám rád pomeranče a jiné citrusové ovoce”). And “ovce” has a special set of forms for singular and plural. In English there is no plural form for “sheep”.
And now let’s see if you feel more confident about using our two words. Add “ovce” or “ovoce” to these sentences. You will find the correct answers below the questions.
………………. je chytré zvíře.
Mám ráda tropické ………………. .
V supermarketu často kupuju ………………. .
Na farmě jsou krávy a ………………. .
Did we help you to digest this Czech soup a bit? Send us your experience, tips on how to remember Czech words, and examples of the ones which you sometimes confuse! |
<urn:uuid:9fcb6f95-1c47-4c72-b70b-35a03824fd87>_en | Name : Vedagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple (Narasimha Konda)
Vedagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple was built on a small hill, popularly known as Narasimha Konda, by the banks of river Penna about 15 km from Nellore.
Legend goes that the sage Kasyapa established the temple on the bank of Pinakini. And the vedic scripture 'Brahmapurana' reveals that the seven sages (Saptarishis) performed 'yagnam' (Sacrifice) on the top of Narasimhakonda.
Vedagiri Lakshminarasimha Swamy devasthanam came into being nearly 500 years ago, on the summit of Narasimha konda. According to the rock inscriptions, this temple was built by the Pallava king Narsimha Varma in the ninth century.
There are seven tanks (Koneru) around the temple with a great hill top view of the river Penna and the Nellore city. Jonnawada is just a couple of kilometers from here on the other side of the Penna river.
You can also find two wind mills atop this hill where you can get to see them from close. Good for students and clean energy enthusiasts.
Bramhotsavams gets conducted at this temple very grandly in the month of May of every year. |
<urn:uuid:b65b1203-21df-4be7-9512-fd9ed49841ce>_en | Get Energy Conversion Worksheet Gif. Try to remember, you always have to care for your child with. You can & download or print using the browser document reader options.
Make you have an amazing day. Worksheets are identify the forms of energy shown in the images 1, renewable energy activiti. Students are introduced to the concept of energy conversion, and how energy transfers from one they learn that energy transfers can take the form of force, electricity, light, heat and sound and are.
Make copies of the energy conversion student worksheet.
15 2 energy conversion and conservation. You will use the information on this page and the results from energy calculation worksheet. Grade 1 science worksheets and grade 2 science worksheets. Students learn how energy is converted from one form to another as it travels along a circuit. |
<urn:uuid:8c3919fd-d2da-4c11-87d2-1e868b023b9b>_en | These are the words of Mary McLeod Bethune. She worked her whole life to make the world a better place. As a child, she loved to read. As a woman, she loved to teach. She started a school; she founded a hospital. Everywhere she saw a need, she searched for a solution.
Age Range: 5 - 7 Grade: 3 - 5 Guided Reading: O
Lexile level: 560L4th |
<urn:uuid:5a2c8f23-2027-4e36-92e3-8b5a90a3b48c>_en | Class 2 Autumn term
Find out what we have been doing this half term.
In Class 2 we have had a great half term filled with lots of learning and fun!
In English we have been focusing on narrative. We have read lots of quality texts and unpicked the vocabulary and the ways in which authors engage readers. Then the children planned, wrote and published their own stories, which they enjoyed sharing with the younger children in school.
In Maths, we have been consolidating our place value knowledge with numbers up to 1,000 (Y3) and 10,000 (Y4). The children have tackled some new problems and have really developed their thinking and reasoning skills, especially making their written answers clear and succinct.
In Geography, the children have been learning about the UK and using maps to locate different counties and cities. The children have also started learning about rivers, which we will revisit again next half term.
Our Science work has led us to learn about the digestive system and teeth. The children have mastered some new vocabulary and have learnt to ask scientific questions. We also carried out a science experiment to investigate how different drinks affected our teeth.
I am looking forward to next half term where we will be exploring rocks and soils, looking into non-fiction texts and going on our first class trip! |
<urn:uuid:8beb80cd-79b3-403c-a44f-07f0521332bc>_en | A number of corporations have converted to digital data instead of physical paper files. This means banks, doctors offices, lawyers, and many other industries are storing their info on the computer. This becomes an issue if the pc dies and is replaced with out proper hard drive destruction by a licensed shredding company.
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Why is Hard Drive Shredding Necessary?
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<urn:uuid:2878435f-9b8d-4e33-86cb-635ee0544c99>_en | parseFloat() returns the first valid floating point number from the current position.
parseFloat() is terminated by the first character that is not a floating point number. The function terminates if it times out (see Stream.setTimeout()).
This function is part of the Stream class, and can be called by any class that inherits from it (Wire, Serial, etc). See the Stream class main page for more information.
stream : an instance of a class that inherits from Stream.
lookahead: the mode used to look ahead in the stream for a floating point number. Allowed data types:
SKIP_ALL: all characters other than a minus sign, decimal point, or digits are ignored when scanning the stream for a floating point number. This is the default mode.
SKIP_NONE: Nothing is skipped, and the stream is not touched unless the first waiting character is valid.
SKIP_WHITESPACE: Only tabs, spaces, line feeds, and carriage returns are skipped.
ignore: used to skip the indicated char in the search. Used for example to skip thousands divider. Allowed data types: |
<urn:uuid:cd2d2281-55c1-4bb1-99be-9089927b6f0d>_en | Bore da pawb 😊
Thursday 11th June
Today we are going to write a fact file on a famous Welsh person. You can choose any welsh person that you want. You will need to find out about their life.
This term we are going to be reading 'The Hodgeheg' by Dick King-Smith. The book is available to read on the link below (I have borrowed it from the online library until 11th June plese read it)
We are continuing to look at graphs. We are going to fill in our graph about the foods we like to eat. First of all you need to fill in the numbers….
Roast chicken-0 beans on toast-5 spaghetti Bolognese-13 sausages and mash-1 curry-7 pizza-23
Then plot the results on the graph.
Remember each square is worth 2. So how much is half a square worth?
Then colour in the graph, with each food being a different colour.
Today I would like you to go for a walk or even just around your garden and collect a variety of leaves. Then can you create a picture. It can be of anything you like-your brother or sister, , an animal your house etc. Here are some examples to help you…. Then send me a picture by email or share it on teams 😊 |
<urn:uuid:cf487c4f-d214-4f0c-bcd4-6d77c5ac7390>_en | By Harry Winter, OMI
Feb. 2020 edition of Oblate Missiologists, A Workbook, features the mention of the first Oblate martyr, Brother Alexis Reynard (1828-75).
Our first Oblate martyr died defending a young 14 year old orphan girl, Genevieve Duquette, from their guide, Louis Lafrance, on a journey in the Arctic in 1875. Brother Alexis Reynard (1828-1875) and the girl both were murdered by Louis. Details are given by Ileana Chinnci, COMI (Oblate Missionary Cooperator), in Oblatio Studia 8, “Oblation and Martyrdom,” pp. 161-64. |
<urn:uuid:e9b3d34a-9457-4e05-adfb-cbeddb5b7691>_en | Dema Kohen, author of the 9-week series The Great Money Adventure, includes these 5 tips for parents in his curriculum resource. Here are 5 simple ways to raise generous kids…
VOLUNTEER. Volunteering teaches your kids that giving to others is an act rather than a concept.
TELL STORIES. Explain how the generosity of others has helped you, or how someone’s generous spirit has helped your child. Doing so will instill a desire to pay it forward.
LEAD BY EXAMPLE. Our kids imitate our actions, so let them see you help their teacher in the classroom, ask your grocery checker how their day is going, collect cans for the food bank, visit senior citizens who may be lonely, etc. There are so many ways to be generous with your spirit – and your kids will grow up wanting to do the same.
BROADEN THEIR VIEW OF THE WORLD. We tend to protect our kids in a bubble, and rightly so to an extent. But we can get them beyond their limited perspective by teaching them about people in need and get them involved by donating time or goods to others. Make soup to deliver to an elderly neighbor. Have them select toys and books they no longer use to donate to a shelter. Take a new teddy bear to the local children’s hospital for a suffering child. Make no-sew blankets for the homeless. No act of charity is too small. Full generosity challenge coming Friday!
MAKE THANK YOU CARDS A HABIT. Handwritten thank-you notes have become a lost art, which is unfortunate. When kids take a few minutes to reflect upon and acknowledge the kind deed of someone selecting, buying, wrapping, and giving them a gift, it teaches them the full circle process of being both a giver and a gracious recipient. It’s hard for a ‘gimme’ attitude to co-exist with a child who has learned to be gracious. |
<urn:uuid:360389a9-9fe5-40ba-b25d-3d4e228a8c08>_en | As a result of climate change and overfertilization, excessive amounts of brown algae ‘Sargassum’ reach Caribbean shores every year. A long term research of scientists shows that the amount of Sargassum increased tenfold in the last decade and forecasts indicate that the number will increase in the next years.
Offshore, Sargassum serves as an important natural habitat for sea dwellers. But when it hits the coastline, it has several negative consequences:
1) ‘Dead Zones’. Areas with poor oxygen levels in the ocean establish when bacteria decompose the algae. This has deadly consequences for marine and coastal wildlife.
2) ‘Fishermen suffering’. Local fishermen suffer as dead zones lead to low fish yields and excessive amounts of algae get tangled up in their nets and rotors.
3) ‘Tourism Decline‘. Ashore, the rotting algae emit sulphur dioxide. Non-lethal, but still harmful and unpleasant, the smell and look of algae is causing a sharp decline in toursim numbers. Because most Carribeans are working in the tourism sector, they are facing increasing losses each year.
Our project refers to the following Sustainable Development Goals:
Sargassum seaweed is rich in nutrients (nitrogen, phosphate and potassium) and biostimulants. SeaSoilution wants to fight the Sargassum plague by producing organic fertilizer from the algae. The supply chain is short and environmentally friendly: We collect the algae in local cooperation and process it to organic fertilizer by drying and shredding it. The packaged fertilizer is sold to local farmers.
The effectiveness of our fertilizer in improving soil quality and long-term plant growth has long been proven by scientists (Louime et al., 2016). Our price is competitive and seaweed-based fertilizer fits the demand of organic farmers in the Dominican Republic.
Maria Magdalena Rochkova
Reynaldo Valdez Garcia
Andres Tapia Suasnavas |
<urn:uuid:452a05da-19a7-4851-a9ce-c09a93fbdb90>_en | Harmonica Almanac – November 12
Blues singer, guitar and harmonica player Booker T. “Bukka” White was born on this day in 1906. White began playing music when he was nine years old and was working professionally by 1921.
Folk singer-songwriter, guitar and harmonica player Neil Young often plays the harmonica on a neckbrace to play fills during his songs. Young has been a force in music since the 1960’s and is still very active. Neil Young was born on this day in 1945.
Blues singer and harmonica player Lester Butler was born on this day in 1959. Butler had a short career but managed to work with Billy Boy Arnold, R.L. Burnside, Mick Jagger and others as well as recording his own music.
That’s it for today. Have fun and practice! |
<urn:uuid:92fb2889-3178-4285-89c1-f991883822ab>_en | Gamma-ray bursts (or GRBs) are very short and intense bursts of gamma-ray radiation. If we take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum, we can see that gamma rays are even higher in energy than X-rays. This makes the events which create them, extremely high-energy events.
GRBs were first discovered in 1967 by the Vela satellites. These satellites were not designed to search for high energy events in space. They were designed to detect Soviet nuclear missile tests which breached the nuclear test ban treaty. Their gamma radiation detectors - meant to detect radiation from nuclear missile - instead picked up gamma-ray bursts coming from outside our Solar System!
The most distant GRB discovered so far was detected by the Very Large Telescope. This GRB had a redshift of 8.2. This means the light from this GRB travelled for 13,000 million years before reaching Earth. Astronomers think this single GRB released more than 300 times the amount of energy that the Sun will emit in its entire lifetime. This shows just how high in energy these events can be.
The two types of Gamma-ray Bursts
Not all GRBs are the same. GRBs can last for different amounts of time, ranging from thousandths of a second to minutes. The amount of energy they emit also varies. A key focus of current GRB research is to investigate what creates the different types of GRBs.
Short gamma-ray bursts
GRBs which last for less than 2 seconds are short gamma-ray bursts. The mean average duration of short GRBs is 0.2 seconds. This type of GRB makes up about 30 % of the total number observed. They have been linked to high-energy collision events. For example mergers between black holes or neutron stars. These type of objects have very strong magnetic fields. The fields eject the GRBs as jets from the object's magnetic field poles.
Long gamma-ray bursts
GRBs which last for more than 2 seconds are long gamma-ray bursts. This type of GRB makes up about 70 % of the total number observed. We have been able to investigate this kind of GRB in more detail than short GRBs. This is because they last longer, there are more of them, and they have brighter 'afterglows'. This type of GRBs has been linked to the deaths of massive stars in galaxies where stars form very rapidly. |
<urn:uuid:2099b731-bf9f-4381-89c4-85c53de79613>_en | Shaman--Painting of an African Mask
Tikar-Bekorn People, Master of Bamessi Guild, Cameroon
The ancestors of the Tikar came from the Sudan to the Adamawa Northern Region of present-day Cameroon. They settled in a village they named Ngambe (present-day Bankim District) where they intermarried with selected grassland farmers and animal herders.
During the mixing with selected grassland residents, a powerful chief and eventually king came to power. With the skills brought from the Sudan, the Tikar king was able to rule most of northern and central Cameroon. After the death of the king, his oldest son inherited the throne and his other children expanded Tikar authority.
The Tikar Empire had strong political traditions. At the height of the Tikar Empire, fifteen kingdoms or clans existed; the Ngambe was the largest. Future kings and the ruling class always came from this clan and all clan were headed by a Fon who supervised nobles, large farm producers, military leaders, merchants, and town leaders. The Tikar People developed a higher culture than surrounding peoples. They were gifted in all the arts and excelled in wood work, metal work and ceramics.
Many Tikar people became victims of the slave trade and their power and numbers declined drastically.
One in a series of eleven paintings inspired by tribal African Masks in museum and private collections. This mask was on view in the collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco. They were in use during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Custom Sizes available. Please email desired dimensions for a quote. |
<urn:uuid:0481422b-9a60-4d64-b141-588e77602e37>_en | Written by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrated by Christopher Myers
Through the poetry of blues lyrics, bits and pieces of the African American experience from the end of slavery through the beginning of the civil rights movement is shared in this book. A remarkable tribute is paired with beautifully striking artwork. Also included is a time line of the history of the blues and a glossary explaining some of the words in the blues lyrics found within the text. Read more >>
Originally posted on February 4, 2021. |
<urn:uuid:fd0a9a08-6847-4632-874e-e6ef42d891e3>_en | Poems are not referenced in the same way as book chapters. In-text you need to mention the poem and poet and page number, but in the Bibliography you will need to reference the source (book, etc.) where you found the poem.
FAMILY/SURNAME, Initials. (ed.) or (eds.).-in brackets for editor(s). (Year of publication – in brackets). Book Title – in italics. Series title and volume – if available. Edition – if not the first. Place of Publication: Publisher.
If you refer to a poem in your work from a book, for example a poem from the following book, you will need to reference the source (book) where the poem can be found:
FISH, J. (2004). The Art of Poetry. London: Fish and Sons.
The poem Spring Time by Bloggs (Fish, 2004, p.67) shows…
This was highlighted in Bloggs’ Spring Time (Fish, 2004, p.67).
‘Direct quotations are placed in single quotations marks’ (Author’s Surname, Year of Publication, p. – followed by page number – in brackets). |
<urn:uuid:dd3c9816-5c8a-4cd7-80e7-e146a3d05e26>_en | The Ports table contains all the ports of the design which can be GMIO ports, PLIO ports and input, inout, and output ports on a kernel .
Note: FileIO is displayed as PLIO in the Vitis analyzer.
Figure 1. Ports Table
|Name||The port name of the input, inout, output ports on a kernel, GMIO, or PLIO ports.|
|ID||The unique ID the AI Engine compiler designates the port.|
|Type||Port type. PLIO ports can contain Stream, Packet Switching, GMIO ports contain Global Memory, Function can contain Memory, or Stream.|
|Direction||Port direction. Can be: IN, OUT, INOUT.|
|Data Type||The type definition of the port for kernels. For
|Buffers||The number of buffers instantiated for the connection. For streaming connection, no buffers are used. For a window connection, it is a ping-pong buffer.|
|Connected Ports||The number of ports the specific port is connected to. Ports can multicast to more than one port. For more information see Multicast Support.| |
<urn:uuid:306519e5-fc2f-4757-9c49-e36cb630717f>_en | The Art of Concentration can be a game, and it can a experience in the creation of art. The purpose is to help you focus while creating a masterpiece.
The rules are:
- Draw black lines on a page. Circles, squares, squiggly lines, it does not matter.
- Color every other section. Start anywhere. Use any color.
- If you desire, use multiple colors. Sections of the same color can not touch.
Circles and Swirls is probably one of the easiest, even though it may look complicated. Today, was the first day, I did not turn the tile over and start again on the reverse side.
This is a fun line drawing. For today’s coloring, I decided to use the same line drawing to create two pieces.. One, I did in gray scale. The other was colored in shades of red. Yes, I believe pink to be a shade of red.
The grayscale version appears to me that everything is falling into a funnel. Where the shades of red piece, has a different effect. Both were created in Corel Draw, export as a bitmap, and colored in Microsoft Paint.
My hand drawn piece was done on a Studio Series Artist tile with brush marker and a Micron pen. |
<urn:uuid:4c1f6e3a-dfa1-4855-a27c-57625c29f3aa>_en | Private Moments in the Open Air: Landscapes (1890–1944)
Published by Silvana Editoriale. Edited by Mathias Chivot.
The French painters Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) and Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867–1944) had a singular relationship, sharing similar artistic trajectories and interests in careers that bridged the 19th and 20th centuries. One such shared interest was the landscape genre, which both artists returned to again and again, in paintings and drawings, as a site for stylistic experimentation. In the 1890s, the two artists painted landscapes in order to renew the genre, filtering it through the radical, anti-naturalistic colors of the Nabis group. By the 1920s and 1930s, Vuillard and Roussel were swept up in the “return to order,” painting the landscape in a classicizing, decorative style. This new volume examines the theme of the landscape in the oeuvres of the two painters, offering a new perspective on the evolution of European painting over the course of half a century. |
<urn:uuid:a8e37025-46e1-4251-8b09-a57c52942ab1>_en | The Jewish custom was for the first-born son to receive the largest inheritance, with some notable exceptions: Ephraim was chosen over Manasseh (Genesis 48:14, 20, 26), Isaac over Ishmael (Genesis 17:19-21 [25-28]), Jacob over Esau (Genesis 27:19:41), and Joseph over Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:1-2). [Zarahemla Research Foundation, Study Book of Mormon, p. 7]
“Inasmuch As Thou Shalt Keep My Commandments, Thou Shalt Be Made a Ruler and a Teacher over Thy Brethren”
In the Lord's first recorded speech to Nephi, He explained the conditions surrounding some special promises to him:
1. Nephi would be led to a land of promise and would prosper (1 Nephi 2:20).
2. Nephi would be made a ruler over his brethren (1 Nephi 2:22).
3. Nephi would be made a teacher (minister) over his brethren (1 Nephi 2:22).
4. If Nephi's brethren rebelled against the Lord, they would be cursed with a sore curse (1 Nephi 2:23).
These promises all came to be dramatically fulfilled. Nephi's testament to the fulfillment of these promises might be a reason why the writings of Nephi were divided into two books (First Nephi and Second Nephi). Nephi could have very easily written just a single book, therefore he must have had some purpose behind his decision to write two books. [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes] [For further discussion of this situation, see the commentary on 1 Nephi: Title "His Reign and Ministry"] |
<urn:uuid:253f041d-c5d0-4404-98fa-463ca6fd3e81>_en | The Department’s proposal would establish safety standards requiring all newly manufactured U.S. trucks, buses, and multipurpose passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating more than 26,000 pounds to come equipped with speed limiting devices. The proposal discusses the benefits of setting the maximum speed at 60, 65, and 68 miles per hour, but the Agencies will consider other speeds based on public input.
“This is basic physics,” said NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind. “Even small increases in speed have large effects on the force of impact. Setting the speed limit on heavy vehicles makes sense for safety and the environment.”
“Safe trucking moves our economy and safe bus operations transport our loved ones,” said FMCSA Administrator T.F. Scott Darling III. “This proposal will save lives while ensuring that our nation’s fleet of large commercial vehicles operates efficiently.”
Motor carriers operating commercial vehicles in interstate commerce would be responsible for maintaining the speed limiting devices at or below the designated speed for the service life of the vehicle under the proposal. While the maximum set travel speed will be determined in the final rule, estimates included in the proposal demonstrate that limiting heavy vehicles will save lives. |
<urn:uuid:b12553ec-8987-4ba9-8014-afa8106dbcf7>_en | How to Support Environmentally Safe Farming Practices and Crop Production
Many people have a misconception of investing being bringing solely material benefits. We’re here to fight this stigma. Investing doesn’t need to go against your moral compass. On the opposite, the modern world presents us numerous possibilities for building capital and supporting the environment or society at the same time. Today, we’ll explain what ethical investing is and how you can contribute to this altruistic matter.
What Is Ethical Investing
As the name suggests, ethical investing is an investing method where an individual’s moral values are the primary objective. This doesn’t mean that the investment return is neglected with ethical investment, though. Investors can still choose the most profitable projects while also evaluating them from an ethical side.
Types of Ethical Investing
Ethical investment is a rather vague term, as everyone’s moral is different. However, we can define three main ethical investment types:
1. Environmentally responsible investing (green investing)
Green investing is on the rise, supporting the global concerns regarding climate change and pollution. In this ethical investing type, the focus is placed on the environmental impact a project makes. Investors supporting this cause choose companies that either make a positive impact on nature or at least don’t harm it. For instance, such companies may utilize environmentally friendly production practices, plant trees, participate in recycling or grow crops.
2. Socially responsible investing
Socially responsible investing is based on widely-accepted societal norms, though these norms differ between different societal groups. The core objective of this investing type is bringing value not only to the investor themselves but also to people around.
Just like green investing, socially responsible companies can either actively help society develop or simply not cause any negative impact. An example of the former is organizations supporting children or elderly people or companies building free public spaces. These are companies that impact the quality of life of people not related to the organization. An example of the former is companies that pay fairly to their workers and follow labor protection legislation. Such indirect social responsibility helps by giving jobs and contributing to the local economy.
3. Moral-based investing
Moral-based investing focuses on the investor’s personal views rather than the socially accepted norms, though they often align. For instance, if an investor doesn’t support gambling or firearms, they can choose not to invest in projects associated with these matters. However, not every moral-based investing has a positive impact on the environment or society. If an individual invests in a religious cult following own moral objectives, they may even harm society instead of helping it.
Often, ethical investments incorporate all three objectives. An example of such a case is an investment in local farming and crop production. Unlike enterprise-level companies, local farmers follow environmentally friendly practices when growing and harvesting their products. They don’t cause harm to nature and thus are environmentally responsible. At the same time, investing in local businesses supports the local economy and gives jobs to numerous people. And while everyone must judge on their moral compass by themselves, most investors also support this cause personally.
An important point to note is that avoiding unethical companies doesn’t always undermine their business success. By boycotting an unethical organization, investors reduce the potential shareholder poll. This, in turn, reduces the company’s stock price, making them even more attractive to investors who don’t mind unethical actions.
How Do I Invest Ethically?
Now, let’s look at how you can contribute to ethical investing. It’s easier than it seems when you follow these four rules:
1. Define what’s ethical for you and for the society
Outline your definition of ethics and decide how strict your guidelines are going to be. Will you rule out investments in the oil industry entirely due to environmental harm, or will you support oil companies that treat their workers well? What direct or indirect value can an oil company bring to society? That’s an example of the questions you should ask yourself before moving on t the next step.
2. Conduct your research
Ethical investing requires thorough research. Sometimes, destructive practices are well-hidden by companies, so it’s worth spending some time to find out how exactly they manage the business. Let’s assume you want to invest in a solar panel company. That sounds like a good matter, but first, you must research how the panels are produced and whether the company follows fair labor legislation. If the company pollutes air during manufacturing, all the environmental benefits or their panels get counterbalanced.
3. Choose trusted investing platforms
Trusted platforms supporting ethical investing can help you make the right decisions, eliminating the need for hours of research. Such platforms typically exclude certain activities from their project catalog or focus on a specific investing type, such as green investing.
A trusted investing platform can also help with assessing investment risks. Legitimate crowdfunding platforms such as LendSecured evaluate the borrower’s credit rating, define risks, and calculate returns before posting any project to the catalog. By choosing ethical investing platforms, you can rest assured that your funds support a good matter while bringing you maximum profit.
4. Don’t forget about investing material objectives
Even in the case of ethical investing, an investor’s primary objective is receiving returns. There’s no need to sacrifice your assets for a solely altruistic matter that doesn’t bring value to you personally. You should evaluate the project risks and returns and use a smart, safe strategy just like you would with any other investing project.
Ethical Investing Is a Philosophy
Ethical investing brings pure benefits to the investor, environment, and society. Our mission is to help achieve common prosperity by supporting local farming and crop production practices. Each of our projects supports a great cause and is evaluated to minimize risks and maximize returns. Don’t hesitate to contact us directly for a consultation or with questions regarding the platform. |
<urn:uuid:eee0dc94-9856-4170-bca1-957a7b86b624>_en | Whiteboard games are by definition games you can play on a whiteboard, though you could use a chalkboard or sheet of paper instead. The biggest advantage of such games is that all you need is something to draw on and something to draw with. Here are some interesting whiteboard games for your kids.
Hangman is a quick, classic game. Identify the word or term you want them to guess. Write out the number of blanks and draw the hangman’s noose. Every time they guess the letter incorrectly, the hangman gets closer to death. Depending on the rules you use, the person may be in jeopardy, too, if they guess the whole word incorrectly.
One downside of this game is that it is hard to play if the person in front of the whiteboard doesn’t know how to spell the term correctly. And it isn’t much of an option for kids that can’t read yet. And a few people find the concept of a hanging offensive in and of itself.
Unscramblers are a good way to reinforce spelling. You can make the game accessible by choosing words your kids know how to spell or are learning to spell. You’re actually making it easier for them by providing the correct number of letters, too. For parents, creating the word unscramble without giving it away as they write it out. One solution is to use a word unscrambler tool like the one here to create lists of scrambled words. Then you just write out the letters to be unscrambled in their scrambled order. Just make sure you keep the answer key to reduce the potential fighting over what the answer is supposed to be.
Tic Tac Toe
Tic Tac Toe is fast. It is simple enough to include pre-literate children. You can make things more challenging by adding wildcard spaces, filled spaces or a 4×4 matrix. And the kids can play it without supervision, because the rules are easy enough for everyone to grasp. Given how little space it takes to play, you could run several games simultaneously on the same large whiteboard.
Pictionary / Drawing Charades
Charades is when you try to act out a word or concept and everyone else is supposed to guess what it is. Drawing charades or Pictionary is when you try to get them to guess the concept by drawing it out. The benefit of this approach is that it may be open to people who don’t have strong English skills as long as they can draw. The downside is that it can be hard for those who are bad at drawing, though you don’t have to be a great artist to play. Another problem is that some concepts are hard to illustrate, and it can be even more difficult if you don’t understand the concept. For example, imagine your four-year-old trying to explain the concept of a horseback rider or debt. And what a seven-year-old associates with Ohio or money may be different from what the adults are thinking. |
<urn:uuid:8114aaeb-046b-4b78-8d4f-b664c5104718>_en | Once again, the annual tradition of the “Rapa das Bestas” (Galician for the shearing of the beast) has taken place in the northwest of Spain. The event involves driving wild horses into a village to shear their manes and tails.
The “Rapas das Bestas” is an ancient Galician tradition, and is celebrated in various villages in Spain. Early in the morning, the male inhabitants of a village go into the surrounding mountains, where they look for wild horses. Once they have found these horses, the animals are driven down to the village. In the village, the horses are gathered in a so-called “curro“.
Then the marking of the horses begins. Two “aloitadores” (Galician for fighters) stand at the head of the horse and one at the tail. The men then try to hold the horse with their bare hands in order to shear the mane and tail. In addition, a mark is cut into the animal’s coat. In this way, the respective “aloitadores” mark it as their property. After the procedure, the mares and foals are usually released. Stallions, on the other hand, are often sold for slaughter. In the evening, a big party is held in the village to celebrate the success of the hunt.
Here, you can see some pictures from this years hunt:
Criticism from animal welfare organisations
Animal rights activists mainly criticise the stress that the animals suffer from the hunt. In addition, it is very common for mares and foals to get lost in the chaos of the hunt and no longer find each other. This reduces the foal’s chances of survival after the hunt. Furthermore, the shearing of mane and tail is criticised too. As a result of the shearing, the animals lack considerable protection against insects. |
<urn:uuid:cc27e620-5c74-4e56-8ce1-6e3000e397cc>_en | Subject Verb Agreement Is And Are
Two singular nouns or pronouns, separated by either. Or not. Don`t take a singular verb. A singular subject with attached sentences, introduced by with or like or thus, followed by a singular verb. 1. A sentence or clause between the subject and the verb does not change the number of the subject. Singular nouns go with singular obstruction, while plural nouns go with plural orchards. 7. Nouns such as civics, mathematics, dollars, measles and short stories require singular verbs. This handout gives you several guidelines that will help your subjects and verbs to agree.
Note: The word dollar is a special case. When we talk about a sum of money, we need a singular, but if we refer to the dollars themselves, a plural abrasing is necessary. 4. In the case of compound subjects related by or nor, the verb corresponds to the subject that is closer to it. Breaking expressions like half, part of, a percentage of, a majority of are sometimes singular and sometimes plural, depending on the importance. . . . |
<urn:uuid:8551d281-6da4-4bb7-b29f-ae1be73c1444>_en | This is a speaking activity to practice phrasal verb TURN. Use it after doing some written exercises to help your students use this material while speaking. Can be also used as an icebreaker or warmer.
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<urn:uuid:e9ca51be-24a2-4f17-a46d-e8db57b2ebd0>_en | An ancient herb used widely in Indian Ayurveda Medicine. It is also known as Kalmegh and the King of Bitters because of its extremely bitter taste profile.
It is rich in phytochemical constituent called andrographolides, responsible for the powerful inflammatory modulating actions. Andrographolides in the herb boost the immune function by assisting in the production of white blood cells to support the release of interferon and promote healthy activity of the body system.
The powerful immune response is fast acting and it helps boost immunity for both you and your family. Andrographis is also known to have high anti-inflammatory properties.
- Exploring Ayurvedic Knowledge on Food and Health for Providing Innovative Solutions to Contemporary Healthcare by Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana and Padma Venkatasubramanian. Published March 2016.
- Herbal Encyclopedia, COMMON MEDICINAL HERBS FOR NATURAL HEALTH, https://www.cloverleaffarmherbs.com/ |
<urn:uuid:13750a6c-0e10-4f74-bc29-a2eff37587cf>_en | I’ve heard that on May 19, 1780, in the northeastern part of North America, there was a period of “extraordinary darkness,” which began between 10 A.M. and 11 A.M. and lasted until the middle of the next night. Also, the full moon rose at 9 P.M. that evening but was not visible until midnight, when it had the “appearance of blood.” I’ve checked records of solar and lunar eclipses for that date, and none was close enough to have caused the phenomenon. Do you have any information about such an event? Could you provide an explanation for it?
For a generation of New Englanders, Friday, May 19, 1780, was a date never to be forgotten. The Sun was blotted out by a strange darkness, varying in intensity and length from place to place, but extending from New Jersey and New York across Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and southeastern New Hampshire into Maine. For several days prior to the “Dark Day,” the Sun was obscured by smoky clouds, and the Moon took on an unusual reddish color. Darkness began around 10 in the morning and lasted throughout the day. (When the Connecticut legislature proposed adjournment following the belief that the day of judgment was at hand, a Colonel Davenport declared: “I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty.”) The night that followed was no comfort to the fearful, being unusually black and impervious to any artificial light. The next day, a fine sulfurlike substance was noticed on the edges of water, but the only reports of adverse effects concerned the death of a number of birds. The first theories of a comet or solar eclipse were ruled out, and the earliest guesses regarding smoke from forest fires turned out to be accurate. Out-of-control forest fires, extending from New Hampshire into New York State, burned furiously for a week preceding the dark day, creating great suffocating clouds of smoke. An unusual atmospheric condition trapped the smoke until it reached sufficient density to blot out the Sun. However, for many New Englanders, the Dark Day was an inexplicable mystery, never recalled without a feeling of awe.
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<urn:uuid:60dc827a-6ed5-48ed-8e57-a47e417b87ab>_en | Selecting the Right Speech Generating Device
Stroke, brain injury, cerebral palsy, autism, ALS—these are just some of the conditions that can seriously impair people’s speech and language. Today, a growing number of people with such conditions are turning to speech generating devices (SGDs). These high-tech electronic devices are designed to do the speaking for them. And the devices are getting more sophisticated every day, thanks to advances spurred by booming popularity.
If you’re thinking about getting an SGD, you have more options than ever. This means you also have to spend more time determining which SGD is the best fit for you. And that can be confusing. A speech-language pathologist (SLP) with expertise in this area can help. Here are some key factors to discuss with your SLP.
SGDs are considered one form of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)—an umbrella term for anything that’s used to supplement or replace speech. “The definition of an individual who needs AAC is someone who cannot meet his or her daily communication needs through natural speech,” says David Beukelman, Ph.D., professor of communication disorders at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Do you have a job that involves public speaking? Are you a student? Do you care for young children? These kinds of factors determine your daily communication needs. And those needs, in turn, affect the type of device you require. For example, if you have a job that involves lots of speaking, you might consider a text-to-speech device. These devices can say almost anything you want. You enter the message, and the device figures out how to pronounce it using a complex set of language rules. The device then “speaks” the words using synthesized speech—an artificial simulation of the real thing.
Your SLP will assess not only your speech and language, but also your thinking, movement, hearing, and vision. “We look at what your capabilities are and see how they match up with the capabilities that a particular device demands,” Dr. Beukelman says. For example, most SGDs are operated by typing on a keyboard or touching a screen. But if you have limited hand mobility, this won’t work for you. However, you might do well with a system that’s controlled by a foot switch or by a camera that tracks head movements.
As another example, let’s say that you’ve lost your ability to spell words and string them together into sentences after a stroke. An SGD that requires you to do these things won’t work for you. However, you might do well with a system in which the opening screen shows pictures related to real-life situations. If you select a picture of a couple, for instance, you might then be offered several messages you can use to talk about your spouse.
SGDs cost from $400 for the most basic models to more than $7,000 for the most advanced ones. Medicare and many insurance plans cover SGDs for qualified individuals. “But sometimes it’s not as automatic as benefits for routine medical services,” says Dr. Beukelman. Be sure to check in advance to find out what will be covered and what kind of authorization you’ll need.
A process called SETT—short for Student, Environment, Tasks, and Tools—is used to assess students in a school setting. The four key parts of the assessment are as follows:
Student. The first thing considered is the student’s needs and abilities. The goal is to answer two questions: What are the most important things for this student to be able to do? And what are the barriers keeping the student from doing these things?
Environment. This step involves considering the school itself—not only the classroom, but also the hallway, cafeteria, playground, and other settings. What classes, materials, equipment, and support services are available? And how is the student affected by the attitudes and expectations of others at the school?
Tasks. The purpose of using AAC at school is to allow the student to take part in activities that build knowledge and skills. This step involves identifying such activities.
Tools. The final step involves identifying AAC tools and strategies that are a good match for the student, environment, and tasks. In the case of an SGD, the goal is to find a device with the right set of features. |
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