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Pellet, gas, wood and coal stoves and inserts are all natural sources of heat that burn at various degrees of efficiency. Efficiency is measured by cost as it relates to expense and length of burn time for the product.
With a fireplace insert or a freestanding stove, you can better control the heat in your home. This is especially valuable in homes that do not feature more than one "zone" for heating. With proper stove size selection based on the size of the residence, supplementing a home's main source of heat—be it electric, forced air or hot water—can help save energy and money.
Generally speaking, wood burns slower than oil or propane; therefore you get more for your money. Additionally, coal has a longer burn time than pellets or wood with combustion lasting for up to 24 hours. Natural gas can do more than heat your home, as it is also used for cooking, clothes drying, water heating, barbequing and more.
Wood pellets – 80-85% efficiency
Natural gas – 78-90% efficiency
Coal – 65% average efficiency
Wood – 40-65% efficiency


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School Tour Options
The museum offers many tour options. Select a tour and one of the three lab options or a tour and our Native American Games rotation! Tour content is aligned with state of Alabama curriculum standards.
TOUR OPTIONS - Select One
- General Tour – Alabama Prehistory & History (MOST POPULAR, GRADES 3-6): Visit the museum's diverse collections and life-sized scenic representations of over 12,000 years of Alabama's prehistory and history. Students plunge back in time as they explore the ways of life of ancient Woodland cultures, mound-building Mississippian peoples, early French settlers, and an African-American family after the Civil War. Critical-thinking skills are triggered as students investigate archaeological methods for uncovering the past.
- Art and Archaeology: Joint Tour with Mobile Museum of Art! (ALL GRADES)
For an additional fee, students visit The Archaeology Museum and the Mobile Museum of Art.
- Storytelling Through Time (GRADES K-3): This tour examines the importance of storytelling in all cultures in human history
with specific examples from cultures represented in the Museum: Woodland, Mississippian,
French, and African-American.
- Archaeology 101 (MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL): Archaeologists use many approaches to uncover the past and decipher how people lived.
Throughout the visit, students learn about the archaeological discipline, the many
techniques used to reconstruct the past, and what it takes to become an archaeologist.
Topics include radiocarbon dating, ground-penetrating radar, and experimental archaeology.
- Science & Archaeology (HIGH SCHOOL): Students learn how different branches of science, such as chemistry, physics, geology,
and biology inform archaeological research. The lesson highlights how science is used
to help locate sites, date sites and artifacts, provide information on past landscapes
and climates and much more. This tour is geared towards high school students.
LAB AND ACTIVITY OPTIONS - Select One
- Artifact Analysis Lab (GRADES 2 AND UP): Students learn to think like an archaeologist by analyzing real artifacts.
- Rocks & Minerals Lab (GRADES 3 AND UP): Rocks and minerals are essential to our lives. Through this hands-on lab students
learn the fundamentals of rocks and minerals and do experiments that help identify
- Bone Lab (MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL): NEW OFFERING! Students inspect and analyze skeletal remains and attempt to determine their life story. This lab is geared towards high school students.
- Native American Games (ALL GRADES): NEW OFFERING! Students discover the importance of recreation to native peoples and learn how to throw an atlatl and play traditional games such as chunkey, ring and pin, or firewood!

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Combo Pack 5: Four-Pack Spanish Bundle of Songs, Visual Cue Cards, and Juan Pablo Book
Included in this bundle:
- 10 Simple Songs for Better Behavior in the Classroom
- 10 More Simple Songs for Better Behavior in the Classroom
- How Are You Feelin', Juan Pablo Chameleon? Book
- Simple Lesson Visual Cue Cards
This comprehensive set features all songs, lesson visual cue cards, and Juan Pablo book for supporting behavior management concerns. Alternate teaching a song, then lesson, each week to cover all skills spread out throughout an entire school year.
For orders placed outside the United States, please send an email to _EMAIL_ for information regarding shipping costs.


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Exploring the needs, concerns and knowledge of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes: A qualitative study.
Draffin CR., Alderdice FA., McCance DR., Maresh M., Harper Md Consultant Physician R., McSorley O., Holmes VA.
OBJECTIVE: to explore the concerns, needs and knowledge of women diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). DESIGN: a qualitative study of women with GDM or a history of GDM. METHODS: nineteen women who were both pregnant and recently diagnosed with GDM or postnatal with a recent history of GDM were recruited from outpatient diabetes care clinics. This qualitative study utilised focus groups. Participants were asked a series of open-ended questions to explore (1) current knowledge of GDM; (2) anxiety when diagnosed with GDM, and whether this changed overtime; (3) understanding and managing GDM and (4) the future impact of GDM. The data were analysed using a conventional content analysis approach. FINDINGS: women experienced a steep learning curve when initially diagnosed and eventually became skilled at managing their disease effectively. The use of insulin was associated with fear and guilt. Diet advice was sometimes complex and not culturally appropriate. Women appeared not to be fully aware of the short or long-term consequences of a diagnosis of GDM. CONCLUSIONS: midwives and other Health Care Professionals need to be cognisant of the impact of a diagnosis of GDM and give individual and culturally appropriate advice (especially with regards to diet). High quality, evidence based information resources need to be made available to this group of women. Future health risks and lifestyle changes need to be discussed at diagnosis to ensure women have the opportunity to improve their health.


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My peach trees have peach leaf curl. (Spring came too fast this year, I wasn't prepared, and I didn't get a chance to spray.)
They're still young/small trees (10' tall), but they've got a bit of fruit on them. Will peach leaf curl affect the fruit? Is there anything I can or should do to protect the fruit?
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Do you think you have the fungal version? – Grady Player Jun 9 '12 at 13:48
Yes, the leaves have red/pink galls, which I think indicates the fungus. – bstpierre Jun 9 '12 at 21:31
I have several peppers in a box indoors. They're growing incredibly and are having small fruits; but they have the leaf curl. Is there a homemade way of treating this, or what spray shall I get? – Neeku Nov 12 '14 at 12:28
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The easy answer is yes, (fungal) leaf curl will affect the fruit in the sense that some will drop early and not mature at all and the remainder may be warped or develop tumour-like bulges.[1, 2] On the other hand the fruit might not be affected at all, depending on how many fungal spores manage to get in or near to the flower buds across the tree, or whether they managed to get there at all before the fruit started growing.
There is nothing I'm aware of that you can do to protect this year's crop. Just have to monitor and plan for the autumn and next spring spraying.
 1. "Many infected fruits drop early and go unnoticed; those that remain may become crooked at the stem end like a small yellow squash, while others develop reddish to purple, wart-like deformities on the fruit surface." - Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Education Center
 2. "Fruits may drop early, or turn reddish-purple with warty growths on the outer surface." - Yates (NZ)
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Streamflow predication is an important task in water management studies. It is needed in the operation and optimization of water resources and flood control projects. The accuracy of these predictions has a great influence on the water resources management and decision making processes. Various models and tool packages have been developed for simulation and prediction of streamflow. Among them, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is one of the most widely used models, which was originally developed to predict the impacts of land management on water, sediment and agricultural chemical yield in large watershed simulations. Results of the SWAT streamflow simulations have indicated that this tool has deficiencies in simulating the peaks in streamflow generated by snow melting processes in the cold regions. Since global temperature is projected to be increased and the phenomena will change the snow melting characteristics in the snow dominant areas, such as the time of first melt and rate of melting. This trend along with more precipitation will cause more flooding problems in these regions. To improve daily streamflow prediction in these regions, two methods were developed. Firstly, a method was performed by separation of winter and summer seasons simulated streamflow with subsequent validation conducted in two different seasons using Calibration Uncertainty Procedure (SWAT_CUP). It should be noted that sensitivity analysis was performed on each of the seasons separately. The second method was conducted based on coupling Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs ) with calibrated and validated results of SWAT_CUP without any separation of the seasons. The calibrated streamflow, precipitation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, snow depth, wind speed, and relative humidity were used as inputs to the ANNs model. The results of both methods have indicated significant improvements in the simulated series. In comparison between these two methods, the operation of the second method is considered better than the first method. Although, the first method has shown improvement in the simulated results but there is still a difference between the peak streamflow and the measured streamflow by USGS (United State Geological Survey) stations. However, this difference was found diminished in the simulations using the second method. ANNs method have increased peak streamflow predication in about 70%. With this improvement, the weakness of the SWAT model in simulating sediment accumulation due to improper peak run off simulation was eliminated.
Shoghli, Bahareh, "Modification Methods For Soil And Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Performance In Simulating Runoff And Sediment Of Watersheds In Cold Regions" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 2346.


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The cassock, an item of clerical clothing, is a long, close-fitting, ankle-length robe worn by clerics of the Orthodox Church, as well as many Western Christian denominations. The cassock derives historically from the tunic that was formerly worn underneath the toga in classical antiquity.
The word "cassock" probably comes from the word "casaque" which means cloak; or "cassaca," which means white. In older days, it was known in Latin as vestis talaris.
Although the cassock was formerly the universal everyday clothing of the clergy, many, particularly in the west, have abandoned it as in favor of a clerical suit of more modern design. In current usage, wearing the cassock may be a mark of a traditional cleric, though in the Orthodox Church, even those who generally do not wear cassocks continue to wear them during the services.
In Byzantine and Slavic practice there are two types of cassock: the inner cassock and the outer cassock or rason. Monastics always wear black cassocks. There is no rule about coloration for non-monastic clergy, but black is the most common. Blue or grey are also seen frequently, while white is sometimes worn for Pascha.
- The inner cassock (more often simply cassock) is an ankle-length garment worn by all major and minor clergy, monastics, and often by male seminarians. The Russian version, called a podryasnik or podrjaznik (Russian: подрясник), is double-breasted, closely fitted through the torso and flaring out to the skirt, and with a high collar buttoned off-center. The Greek version, called an anteri or rason, is somewhat fuller, gathered at the waist with a cord, and with a high collar buttoned in the front. The inner cassock is usually worn by all clergy under their liturgical vestments.
- The outer cassock also called a ryasa or riassa (Russian: ряса), or exorason (Greek: εξώρασον or simply ράσον) is a voluminous garment worn over the inner cassock by bishops, priests, deacons, and monastics as their regular outer wear. It is not worn by seminarians, readers or subdeacons in the Russian tradition. In the Greek tradition, however, chanters may wear it in church, usually with no inner cassock beneath but directly over secular clothing. The outer cassock should be worn by a priest celebrating a service such as Vespers where the rubrics call for him to be less than fully vested, but it is not worn by any clergy beneath the sticharion. It may be worn with the bottoms of the sleeves turned back, which are sometimes faced in a contrasting color. The Greek version tends to be somewhat lighter weight and more fully cut than the Russian. It is originally a monastic garment.
- A cassock vest is sometimes worn over the inner cassock in cooler weather. This is a closely fitted collarless vest with patch pockets, usually falling slightly below the waist.
- A cassock coat may be worn on very cold days, with the same cut as the outer cassock but slightly larger and of heavier material. It may or may not have a fur-lined collar. The coat is worn over the outer cassock, although many clerics may wear it in lieu of a coat on colder days.
The cassock "symbolizes the death of a clergyman to this world, and his burial and subsequent dedication to God and his heavenly kingdom."
There are two main kinds of cassocks in Western practice; the single breasted and the double breasted cassock.
Single breasted cassock
The single breasted cassock or soutane is a cassock with buttons down the front. This type of cassock is worn by Roman Catholic priests, and comes in a number of styles or cuts, though no particular symbolism attaches to these. A Roman cassock often has a series of buttons down the front – sometimes thirty-three (symbolic of the years of the life of Jesus). A French cassock also has buttons sewn to the sleeves after the manner of a suit, and a slightly broader skirt. An Ambrosian cassock has a series of only five buttons under the neck, with a sash on the waist.
A band cincture or sash, known also as a fascia, may be worn with the cassock. The two ends that hang down by the side have silk fringes.
Double breasted cassock
The double breasted cassock or Sarum cassock fastens at the shoulders on the opposing side of the breast and at the waist with one concealed button. This type of cassock is also worn by Anglican priests.

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Hands-on training program will target emergency response to anhydrous ammonia incidents
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 28, 2011) – TRANSCAER® has launched a nationwide Anhydrous Ammonia Training Tour, to educate and train officials in 27 states across the country on emergency response to anhydrous ammonia incidents.
TRANSCAER (Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response) is a voluntary, nationwide outreach effort that helps communities prepare for and respond to hazardous material transportation incidents.
Ammonia, along with other potentially hazardous materials, is used in a variety of beneficial applications—anhydrous ammonia is rich in nitrogen and is the primary component of fertilizer. Because anhydrous ammonia is classified as a hazardous substance, and used and stored under high pressure, those who work with anhydrous ammonia must be properly trained on specific handling procedures.
"Effective emergency response begins with planning and preparation," said Rollie Shook, Chair of the National TRANSCAER Task Group and Leader of Emergency Services and Security for Dow Chemical Co. "Since anhydrous ammonia plays a large part in the agricultural, manufacturing, industrial, commercial and transportation industries, emergency responders need the appropriate knowledge and skills to ensure protection of public health and the environment in the case of an accidental release incident."
"The Fertilizer Institute is pleased to play a role in the development of this valuable training program for emergency responders," said Ford West, President of The Fertilizer Institute. "Anhydrous ammonia plays a key role in U.S. food production, and this national initiative provides an excellent venue for amplifying our industry's messages about the principles of safe ammonia handling and transportation."
The Training Tour focuses on a number of safety training topics, including sessions on ammonia properties, what steps need to be taken to ensure ammonia is transported safely, hands-on training on how to use transport equipment properly, and information on emergency response necessary in case of an ammonia release.
The properties training segment covers both the physical and chemical properties of anhydrous ammonia, as well as basic health effects and initial first aid for treating exposures. Understanding how and why anhydrous ammonia is used and relating the properties of the chemical to real-life response issues also is covered.
Another segment of the training program covers types of ammonia releases that could occur. Topics in this training block address indoor and outdoor release scenarios, defensive and offensive approaches to ammonia release incidences, flammability concerns, where and when to use water in dealing with an ammonia release, and control/containment measures.
The target audience for the tour events includes emergency responders, agricultural businesses, ammonia industry personnel, emergency management officials, public safety representatives, law enforcement agencies and others involved in the transportation of anhydrous ammonia.
The tour focuses on regions of the country where use of anhydrous ammonia in agriculture applications is prevalent. A listing of cities and states where the tour is taking place is available at: _URL_ More locations will be added throughout the year.
In addition, Anhydrous Ammonia Tour training documents and videos will be available online this Spring at: _URL_ The training materials consist of Anhydrous Ammonia Tour training videos, PowerPoint presentations and instructor and student guides that address emergency response, chemical properties, transports and nurse tanks, and railcars, as well as promotional Print Materials including posters and brochures.
TRANSCAER is sponsored by the American Chemistry Council, the Association of American Railroads, CHEMTREC®, The Chlorine Institute, Inc., The Fertilizer Institute, the National Tank Truck Carriers, Inc., the Renewable Fuels Association and the National Association of Chemical Distributors.
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Bangladesh Travel: 6 Reasons to Explore this Vibrant Destination
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The smile on a Bangladeshi woman's face right before she finishes bargaining with a merchant is as captivating as the colors of the textiles in the markets. She is generally a savvy bargainer who is willing to walk away from a deal. It is then that the merchant calls after her and accepts her latest offer – and the smart woman smiles quietly to herself before she briskly turns around with a serious face and completes the transaction. The colors of Bangladesh are bright and vibrant, as are the people. Here are six reasons to plan a Bangladesh travel adventure! 1. World Religions At present, Bangladesh is predominantly Muslim. Over the centuries the inhabitants of Bangladesh have followed several different faith traditions. In the capital city of Dhaka, respectful visitors are welcome into mosques, the Hindu Temple (Dhakeshwari Temple), and Roman Catholic churches. These places of worship are historical buildings and provide both historical and religious contexts for Bangladeshi society. Christian churches tend to date from Bangladesh's colonial past, and some of the older mosques from Islamic dynasties. Be sure to look up holidays and customs before visiting any place of worship. 2. Tigers and Elephants! Bangladesh hosts populations of several different species, making it an animal lover's dream. Safaris usually include meals, transportation, time for photographs, and guides. The Khulna region in the country's south is famous as a wildlife area for the Royal Bengal Tiger. Bangladeshis are so proud of their wildlife that they repeat the entire epithet: "Royal Bengal Tiger" each time they speak of their beloved tigers. Elephants in the wild can be seen in the Chittagong Hill tracts or in wildlife sanctuaries like Mainimukh and Pablakhali. There are still working elephants in Bangladesh so don't be surprised if while driving around the countryside you see an elephant carrying logs! Booking a safari for any of the wildlife is easiest from an agent in Dhaka but can also be booked through local organizations. 3. Architecture The "ghost city" of Panam is a 19th century abandoned city once inhabited by Hindu cloth merchants. The houses mimic colonial architecture complete with Corinthian columns. From crumbling buildings to a closed down movie house these houses are just waiting to be explored (at your own risk, naturally). Panam City is growing in its popularity. Visitors will catch a glimpse of the occasional tourist but mostly local Bangladeshis enjoy this beautiful glimpse into the past. Local children play football in and around these forgotten buildings. Grab a fresh coconut juice from a street vendor and watch a game of pick-up football! Lalbagh Fort is a breathtaking archaeological complex located in the heart of Dhaka. It is a park, a romantic place to go on a date, a fun place for children to run around, and a location for school children to enjoy their lunch break. The pink buildings were constructed in the 17th century under Mughal rule. Visit in the early morning for the best light. 4. Spices, Spices, Spices Those who enjoy the flavorful dishes they try in Bangladesh will find Karwan Bazar to be a little piece of heaven. All sorts of spices can be found in this fast-paced marketplace. Aged and fermented spices are the specialty. The most authentic spices are rarely pre-packaged and are sold in folded paper. Pack a few extra plastic bags of various sizes if your destination is the spice market. 5. Shopping Dhaka is host to one of Asia's largest malls, Bashundhara City. It is located on Pantha Path and offers everything from fast food to marriage garments. Don't think H&M or Zara, most stores are privately-owned and display brightly-colored local fashions. Bashundara City is a little pricier than street markets but tourist-friendly and quite clean. For a taste of local life and adventure try your hand at bargaining at Gausia New Market near Dhaka College. Guidebooks always mention Gausia but few tourists actually venture here. Decide on what you want to pay before you start haggling and be willing to walk away. If you are offering a fair price, the seller will take it. This is a perfect location for gifts and souvenirs. 6. Sylhet The source of the milky sweet tea you will be served in Bangladeshi households is likely from a northeastern region called Sylhet. There are several major tea plantations in this region, which borders India. The "tea gardens" as Bangladeshis call them are magical places where tea leaves are tended and visitors enjoy a relaxed atmosphere. This strong tea will help to wake you up for hikes along the hillsides! While out on safari or walking the streets of Dhaka do not be surprised if school-age children want to practice their foreign language skills. They might be curious about the latest iPhone or what type of food you eat in your home country. Sometimes young children will translate for their elders who earnestly want to know how you are enjoying their country. For those who love every aspect of a trip to be an adventure – a Bangladesh travel experience will give you just that. Your smile of satisfaction might not come while bargaining in the marketplace, but later, as you reflect on your experiences in this wonderful country.
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- 1.1 (punish) [player] sancionar, penalizar* candidates will be penalized for … [Education/Educación] se quitarán puntos or se bajará la nota por … heavily penalized offenses delitos que son severamente castigados penalized by law penado por la leyMore example sentences1.2 (affect disadvantageously) [formal] perjudicar*, colocar* en desventaja
More example sentences1.3 (make punishable, illegal) penalizar*, penar
- Basketball is supposed to be a non-contact sport and referees penalise players that bump, barge and shove an opponent.
- Before, the kicking team was penalized if a player came within 2 yards of a returner before he caught the ball.
- They would cheer when a goal was scored, boo when the umpires penalized their favorite player, and jump up and down in glee when they won the game.
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- I believe it is unfair to penalise parents who miss the payment of this allowance due to this.
- Although a child can be thrown out of a school if false information has been used, most councils said they would not consider this as it was unfair to penalise pupils for their parents' wrongdoing.
- All of them have the disadvantage of penalizing the investor for selling the fund, even years after purchase.
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- In addition to luring you with offers of free miles and free money, airlines have also taken the reverse approach and are trying to dissuade travelers from booking offline by penalizing the customers who do so.
- Starting July 1, locals who leave their bicycles about on the city's main streets will be penalized with a fine of five yuan.
- Violatiors will be penalised with fines of 20 000 to 120 000 leva.
- It discharges this function in many cases, but in many others it remains silent, merely enacting a provision which appears to penalize an act or an omission without any reference to fault.
- If there is a reason for treating the two categories of entrant differently it must be in order to penalise the trespasser's wrongdoing.
- The statutory objective is to penalise the unauthorised possession of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs.
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- Turn off aquarium lights.
- Dim the lights in the room where the shipping box will be opened. Never open the box in bright light – severe stress or trauma may result from sudden exposure to bright light.
- Float the sealed bag in the aquarium for 15 minutes (Fig. A). Never open the shipping bag at this time. This step allows the water in the shipping bag to adjust slowly to the temperature in the aquarium, while maintaining a high level of dissolved oxygen.
- After floating the sealed shipping bag for 15 minutes, cut open the bag just under the metal clip (Fig. B) and roll the top edge of the bag down one inch to create an air pocket within the lip of the bag. This will enable the bag to float on the surface of the water (Fig. C). For heavy pieces of live coral that will submerge the shipping bag, place the bag containing the coral in a plastic bowl or specimen container.
- Add 1/2 cup of aquarium water to the shipping bag (Fig. D).
- Repeat step 5 every four minutes until the shipping bag is full.
- Lift the shipping bag from the aquarium and discard half the water from the bag (Fig. E).
- Float the shipping bag in the aquarium again and proceed to add 1/2 cup of aquarium water to the shipping bag every four minutes until the bag is full.
- Net aquatic life from the shipping bag and release into the aquarium (Fig. F).
- Remove the filled shipping bag from the aquarium and discard the water. Never release shipping water directly into the aquarium.
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Vietnam: A Natural History
Vietnam: A Natural History, published by Yale University Press, is the first comprehensive volume on the country's extraordinary flora and fauna and diverse natural areas. Spectacularly illustrated with maps, photographs, and 35 original watercolor illustrations, this engaging 406-page book, co-written by Eleanor J. Sterling, Director of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC), and CBC Biodiversity Scientists Martha M. Hurley and Le Duc Minh, offers a complete tour for scientists, naturalists, and the general reader of Vietnam's plants and animals along with an in-depth discussion of the factors shaping their evolution, distribution, and conservation.
Vietnam: A Natural History grew out of a conservation biology research and training project in Vietnam initiated in 1997 by the CBC. The goal of the project is to assist the country, a biodiversity hotspot, with the protection and sustainable management of its natural resources. Vietnam encompasses a wide variety of unique habitats, including four internationally recognized Endemic Bird Areas (critical regions for bird conservation designated by Bird-Life International). Meanwhile, the human population grows, the country's markets expand, and the international wildlife trade increasesall factors that threaten the preservation of the nation's unique biodiversity. The government has committed to developing protected areas, training conservation biologists, gathering and maintaining basic collections of plants and animals, and collaborating with foreign scientific and conservation organizations. Currently, four percent of Vietnam's total area is protected, and officials are committed to increasing that figure to six percent, which is part of what motivated the Museum to get involved in generating science to guide this growth.
As part of its commitment to providing scientific research and guidance in areas of the world harboring dense concentrations of biodiversity, the CBC has partnered with the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources in Hanoi (IEBR) and several universities in Vietnam, as well as World Wildlife Fund Greater Mekong Programme, to collaborate on research, education, and training; to assess the diversity and distributions of Vietnamese biota; and to identify conservation priorities and potential new protected areas.
One of the most significant results of this partnership so far has been a series of biotic surveys covering the past nine years in six different geographic regions of Vietnam that have been historically understudied. The multi-taxa surveys, for which the CBC trained research staff in Vietnamese institutions, have allowed these institutions to create and curate comprehensive research collections for phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses and conservation management decisions. The surveys have identified a number of species new to science and have yielded extensions of the range of particular species, and, in some cases, the first-reported discoveries of certain species in Vietnam. The results especially point to potentially high levels of hidden biodiversity among amphibians. Mammal survey results from the Huong Son Forest have helped scientists to realize the utility of small mammals in monitoring overall ecosystem health. Analyses of remotely sensed imagery (reaching back to 1950s aerial photography) indicate long-term stability of core forested sections in central Vietnam's Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue Provinces, an area of high biotic diversity and endemism. These forest cover maps are being employed in regional conservation planning and monitoring, for example, the development of the Song Bung hydroelectric dam adjacent to Song Thang Nature Reserve. Results from survey work and Geographic Information System (GIS) analyses of forest loss also contributed to the feasibility study of the proposed Nature Reserve at Ngoc Linh (Quang Nam Province).
Other results of this joint venture include the development of a laboratory at the IEBR and at the American Museum of Natural History for analysis of invertebrate specimens; a searchable, web-based collections database of the biotic survey results; and the design of conservation biology materials for use by educators at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Vietnam and other countries in the region. Over the next three years, CBC scientists will return to Vietnam to continue surveying for new amphibian and mammal species, examine the prevalence of malaria in reptile populations, analyze changes in forest cover, and develop and employ GIS maps and camera trapping as tools to allow local conservation practitioners to monitor targeted protected areas.
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Uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world's biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. Vietnam: A Natural History reports on dozens of newly described species of amphibians, birds, and mammals as well as current efforts to conserve Vietnam's complex, fragile, and widely threatened biodiversity. The book also explores the long history of humans in the country, including the impact of the Vietnam-American War on the region's biodiversity.
Throughout the book, compelling and vivid original watercolors by wildlife biologist and artist Joyce A. Powzyk illustrate select examples of Vietnam's most important plants and animals. More than half the species depicted have rarely been seen. In order to render wildlife as accurately as possible, Dr. Powzyk extensively researched each painting by consulting original species descriptions, historical plates, museum specimens, field guides, expert opinions, and photographs where they existed.
Vietnam's biological diversity remains incompletely documented, in part because research and exploration of the region dropped off during the First Indochinese War, which began soon after World War II and lasted until 1954, and the Vietnam-American War, lasting from 1955 to 1975. In the early 1990s, scientific research on Vietnam's biological diversity resurged following the government's 1986 decision to implement the policy of Doi Moi (economic "renovation"). The natural history presented in this new book reflects the current state of knowledge.
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Tick-borne rickettsioses include mild to life-threatening diseases in humans worldwide. When removing an attached tick from the human body, patients and physicians may have two questions: 1) is the tick a known vector of a human infectious disease, and 2) is the tick infected by a pathogenic agent that could have been transmitted during the attachment period? The morphological identification of Ticks is difficult, and requires expertise and specific documentation. The use of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has recently emerged as an effective, rapid and inexpensive tool to identify arthropods including Ticks. Here, we show the utility of MALDI-TOF MS for the dual identification of tick species and the rapid detection of Rickettsia spp in Ticks. Such results can be used to guide decisions related to specific patient monitoring or the administration of preventive treatment. Additionally, the low consumable costs, the minimum time required for sample preparation and the rapid availability of the results of MALDI-TOF MS could be useful for epidemiological studies and tick-borne disease monitoring via the dual identification of vectors and the pathogens they carry in one step. These results present new opportunities for the management of other vector-borne diseases that are of importance to public health.
Detection of Rickettsia spp in Ticks by MALDI-TOF MS


Once you've selected which event you want to use for your animation, you need to select the Object that contains the Animator Component, then select Animator -> SetTrigger (string) as the function, and type the name of your Trigger Parameter in the text field.
Empty event
Object event
Function event
Full event
Once the event is setup, when it fires it will activate the trigger, which will activate the transition on your Animation Controller. If you want to setup controller events similar to VRChat gestures, you'll want to set a trigger to activate your transition on a press event, and another for the deactivation transition on a release event.
# Events
We've seen how to use events to make animations happen, but there's a lot more that you can do with them. First lets look at what an event looks like. There's 4 parts to an event that you have to worry about. First, what triggers the event. It can be any of the things in the Event Manager component, or the combo components, or even from a third party plugin, like CustomKeyEvents. Second, you need to drag a game object into the field that says None (Object), whatever object you pick will be the one affected by the trigger. Third, you have to select which function from that game object you want to use. Click on the field that says No Function and pick the function you want the event to use. Here you will see all the public methods with at most 1 argument that are available to the object or its components. Finally, under the function you just picked you will be able to set the argument to that function, if any.
We saw how to do this with the animator component on the previous section, but you can use this for many other things besides triggering events. You can make it play audio clips using the PlayOneShot function from an Audio Source component. You can start particle systems, or make them emit a certain number of particles. You can turn objects on and off. You can edit materials. There's endless posibilities, so go drag some objects in and see what you can get out of them.
# CustomKeyEvents
This plugin allows you to set event triggers to controller actions. You will need CustomKeyEvents.dll (Unity Asset) in your Unity project in order to add those to your avatar. The user will also need CustomKeyEvents.dll in their Plugins folder for them to work in game.
# Full Body Tracking: Ra Ra Rasputin~
If you want to create an avatar with Full Body Tracking support you'll have to add 3 more Objects, one for each of the Vive Trackers in your feet and hip. Place those Objects in the same level you placed the ones for the hands, and name them LeftLeg, RightLeg, and Pelvis.
Full body objects
These Objects work exactly the same way as the hand objects, you want to position them on the Avatar like they're positioned physically on your body. Make sure to pay attention to the orientation of the tracker.
Tracker object
Tracker axis
Now that they're in the correct place, you'll want to create the targets by navigating the Armature to the feet and pelvis bones, the ones the IK calls Left Foot, Right Foot, and Pelvis. Right click on those bones and select Create Empty. An Object called GameObject will appear as a child to the bones, you want to rename them into LeftLegTarget, RightLegTarget, and PelvisTarget and drag them into LeftLeg, RightLeg, and Pelvis respectively.
Once complete your hierarchy should look something like this:
Full body hierarchy
Now that all your Objects and Targets are ready, you'll have to add them to the IK Manager Advanced script. You also want to set the values of both leg's and pelvis' Position Weight and Rotation Weight closer to 1, but feel free to experiment with the values.
Full body IK Manager
# Unity 2018
So, you're probably wonder why now I'm telling you to use Unity 2018.1.6f1, when previously we said you shouldn't use any 2018 version. Well, the game has changed, figuratively, and literally. Beat Saber now uses Unity 2018 instead of Unity 2017, and as such the avatars need to be created with Unity 2018 to work correctly. You will need to set the Scripting Runtime Version to.NET 4.x Equivalent if it isn't already. For that you need to go to Edit -> Project Settings -> Player and in the window that appears open the Other Settings tab, and scroll down to the Configuration section.
Script runtime
You're going to need to use the new version of CustomAvatar.dll in your Unity project. Delete the old one if you have it; this project contains the correct one—and replace it with this one. Preferably in the assets folder while Unity isn't running. You might have to re-add your components. If the asset doesn't have the arrow that lets you see all the scripts, right click it and select Reimport.
New asset
# PureDark's avatar plugin?
PureDark's plugin has been integrated into the main plugin. A few things have changed. Make Children Visible is no longer needed, first person view is enabled by default, and is toggleable with the Home key on your keyboard. To add exclusions to the first person view, you can use the First Person Exclusion component. Avatar VRIK Fix is now called IK Manager Advanced, and since it's all in one plugin it's no longer needed to provide cross compatiblity, so only one of either IK Manager or IK Manager Advanced is needed. The controller events components were removed, and will appear on their own plugin.
# I can't find the IK scripts or the Avatar exporter
Make sure you're using Unity 2018.1.6f1, not 5.6.3p1, not 2017, and you've followed these directions. If your CustomAvatar.dll asset doesn't have the arrow that you click to show the scripts, try deleting and re-importing the CustomAvatar.dll Asset to Unity.
# I can export avatars but they're invisible in game. ↵
You can toggle first person view by pressing Home. If they're invisible in your desktop window, make sure that you used the correct Beat Saber shaders, and Unity 2018.1.6f1.
# Only my avatars are T-Posed
Well I'm very sorry, but this means that you did something wrong while creating your avatar. There's no way to know just what you did wrong, because so many things have the same effect. The only advice we can give you is make sure that you followed the guides exactly, and maybe watch a video to follow along.
# Videos
Here is a video of me making an avatar, narrated by Megalon. [5:57]
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I know nothing about making avatars or using either Unity or Blender, I just threw shit at the wall blindly for 3 days and this is what stuck. But until someone who actually knows what they're doing makes a guide, this is all there is.
# ♥ Special Thanks
 - ikeiwa, for creating this fantastic plugin.
 - xyonico, for rewriting this fantastic plugin.
 - PureDark, for making the fantastic plugin that fixes many issues.
 - Emma, for making the first guide that led me to figuring this out, and helping with this one.
 - Megalon, for providing the ASMR for the video.
 - Ella, for making fun of me until I got gud, helping with the website design, parts of this guide, and putting up with all my dumb questions.


Smelly chemicals can be quite a mouthful
Putrescine and cadaverine, the two most frighteningly named of all chemicals, lurk in our mouths all day, every day. This simple fact emerged in 2003 when Professor Michael Cooke, of the centre for chemical sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, and two colleagues published a delectable horror story of a study called Time Profile of Putrescine, Cadaverine, Indole and Skatole in Human Saliva. It appeared in the Archives of Oral Biology. That journal - surprisingly, given its content - is a regular haunt of only a tiny fraction of the world's horror-fiction enthusiasts.
Cooke and his companions imply that other chemists had grown discouraged at the prospect of doing a time profile of putrescine, cadaverine, indole and skatole in human saliva. The odour of saliva is intensely bland, compared to that of its most appallingly stenched components, and in a certain chemical sense, stable. An American group, they say, "reported their inability to increase the odour of saliva". But Cooke and his team gave it a go, and succeeded.
In isolation, putrescine and cadaverine are anything but bland. They smell even worse than their names suggest. The one was so named because it evokes, and is involved in, the putrefaction of flesh. The other's name suggests, deliberately and accurately, the stench of rotting corpses.
Together with their mundane-sounding (yet also pungent) companions indole and skatole, putrescine and cadaverine are formed by "bacterial putrefaction of saliva in the oral cavity", explains the study.
Here's how Cooke and his companions monitored their presence.
Twelve dentally healthy volunteers, three women and nine men, supplied the spit. The scientists took pains to collect and handle it properly. They explain that "the unstimulated saliva was expectorated into a glass vial coated with 5 milligrams of sodium fluoride to inhibit further [chemical reactions]".
The results appear in a simple graph. Its lines and data points tell an engrossing tale: the "mean concentration of cadaverine, putrescine and indole in saliva throughout the day".
Cadaverine, putrescine and indole levels, having built up overnight, are high when we awaken. But "they are rapidly reduced by the combined action of eating breakfast and oral cleaning". Then until around 9am the levels remain steady.
The rest of the day has its ups and downs. Cadaverine, putrescine and indole levels rise until mid-morning, then slowly decline. Lunchtime brings dramatic change - the amounts are "reduced by the mechanical action of chewing involved in the ingestion of lunch". After lunch, the levels rise pretty steadily until it's time to knock off work.
The researchers stopped collecting data every day at 5pm. What happens between then and dawn remains a mystery.
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Chair pose – Utkatasana
How do you do Utkatasana?
Chair yoga pose can be termed a strange asana. Stand upright on the floor and keep your feet about 3/4 feet wide, and stretch both hands straight while sitting in half size. Sit on the floor in case of slight pain in the knees.
While doing this asana take a deep breath in and exhale it slowly. This can be repeated for 3 times. Must do as shown in the picture.
Chair pose - Utkatsana
 Note: This can be done by sitting on the ankle veins. Depends on the physical strength you have.
What does Utkatasana mean?
The name of Utkadasana comes from the Sanskrit word utkata, meaning "fierce, proud, tall, arrogant, exalted, immense, great, tough". This pose is often called "chair pose" in English because you seem to be sitting in an invisible chair.
What are the benefits of chair pose?
 - Many friends asked me "Is chair pose good for knees?", I am answering all of them yes of course. This asana makes sure there is no water accumulation in your knees.
 - By doing this asana all the nerves in the body become flexible.
 - It cures the water accumulation in the toes.
 - It cures diseases found in the chest.
 - It relieves arthritis, elephant leg sickness.
 - Doing this asana will bring you four miles of walkable benefits.
 It is a simple asana practice for men, women, boys and girls.


all possible closed paths is classified as a conservative force". When the wind causes a windmill to rotate, the blades travel a closed path so the wind is a conservative force.
"For non-conservative forces, the mechanical energy that is lost (not conserved) has to go somewhere else, by conservation of energy. Usually the energy is turned into heat, for example the heat generated by friction. In addition to heat, friction also often produces some sound energy. The water drag on a moving boat converts the boat's mechanical energy into not only heat and sound energy, but also wave energy at the edges of its wake. These and other energy losses are irreversible because of the second law of thermodynamics." The windmills provide useful and usable energy - it is not 'lost' - which can grind flour and pump water etc. So wind is not a nonconservative force.
"Conservative Forces are reversible forces, meaning that the work done by a conservative force is recoverable, i.e. you can get out any work you put in or vise versa." Wind is a reversible force. Not only does the wind drive windmills but, for instance, you can electrically drive a windmill and produce wind. The wind is a reversible conservative force. use an electric fan and place a small windmill in the path of the wind. The windmill will begin to turn.
Saying that gravity cannot power a gravitywheel because it is a conservative force is incorrect. However this does not solve the problem of how to make it work for us but it does show that it is not impossible just because it is a conservative force.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Why is the number five so prominent in Johann Bessler's works?
I wasn't sure whether to place this on the Bessler forum or just put it here on my blog, and certainly previous experience has taught me that many people either deride the theories expressed or argue forcefully against them, but I hope to gather some more support to my own view. I know I tend to be in a minority when expressing my belief that Bessler's wheel was gravity-driven, even here, but perhaps it will help me if I give my thoughts an airing. Any way I'll probably post it on both because it seems to me to be too important to ignore.
Most people are aware of the ubiquity of the number 5 encoded in all of Bessler's publications and many don't see any significance other than perhaps a nod to some kind of mystery school teaching designed to hint at the inventor's knowledge of ancient wisdom. I don't believe that theory, I'm convinced that Bessler was passing on information.
I have always thought that there were two hard facts established about the internal workings of Bessler's wheel and one of them was that there were five mechanisms. The other was that the weights worked in pairs. All else is open to conjecture. But one certainty is that Bessler thought that this piece of information was extremely important and even encoded it in his name right from the moment he adopted the pseudonym, Orffyreus.
I believe that five mechanisms were required because for me there is no other sensible interpretation to be taken from the clues - the number five is indicated by both the numeral five in text and code and by the presence of the pentagram in the drawings. I cannot think of any other reason for its presence so here I try to understand why it's a necessity to a working wheel.
Five mechanisms would need the wheel to be divided into five equal parts of 72 degrees each. Although I understand the argument that even one or maybe two mechanisms should be enough to demonstrate the principle, I think more will be required to achieve a useful rate of rotation. Let's suppose that each mechanism only produces a mechanical advantage (or overbalance) once in each rotation; then each one must be able to produce it sufficiently to turn the wheel at least 72 degrees, but less than, say 90, otherwise four mechanisms might suffice. Maybe it can just about reach 90 degrees but perhaps that isn't enough to maintain rotation? There would have to be an overlap of mechanical advantage (or overbalance) for each mechanism in order to maintain rotation and the greater the overlap the faster the acceleration.
Bessler wrote that "one cross bar makes the machine revolve slowly, just as if it can hardly turn at all. But on the contrary when I arrange to have many crossbars, pulleys and weights, the machine revolves much faster". (from Apologia Poetica - published by John Collins). If the mechanical advantage (or overbalancing effect) only amounted to a little over 72 degrees, and this happened only once in a single rotation, and there was only one such mechanism on the wheel, then the rest of the turn would have to take place with the wheel in a condition of balance. One can see how such an arrangement would produce a wheel which could hardly turn. Two, three, or four mechanisms would have little different effect if the overbalance only amounted to just over 72 degrees as there would be no continuity between each mechanism's action. An overlap of overbalancing would be required and if the mechanisms can only achieve an overbalance for, say 80 degrees of any single rotation, then anything less than five mechanisms will result as Bessler has described.
But if five mechanisms were introduced, then with more than a 72 degree portion of the full rotation for each mechanism, you would get the required overlap and an accelerating and continuous rotation.
This argument presupposes that the reader accepts the possibility of a gravity driven wheel - as I do! ;-)
Monday, 24 October 2011
Bessler's defence statement
It has often been suggested that perhaps Bessler was not as innocent as he claimed, otherwise he would have done more to defend himself against the claims of the maid. Well he did, but the records of his defence are unpublished as yet.
On New Year's day in 1728, shortly after the maid's accusations were made, Bessler began writing a 60 page statement concerning the claims of his maid and others and answering all accusations with a strong and righteous defence. I have a copy which, unfortunately, is largely illegible (for me at least) as it is the version Bessler kept for his records. The clean copy is undergoing restoration currently and may not be available for some time to come.
The little I have been given reveals that he complains frequently about the 'evil maid' and also about a large group of conspirators who have acted against him. They include several of his first wife's in-laws, including his former mother-in-law, his sisters-in-law and their husbands and other hangers on. His father-in-law was dead and therefore his wife was left to her own devices and she had little or no money and so she headed for Kassel to ingratiate herself with her daughter, Barbara, who unfortunately died in May 1726. Apparently the mother-in-law, also called Barbara, tried to manipulate Bessler to her financial advantage. His official title of Commercial Councellor gave him access to a number of schemes, some of the funding of which, she tried to divert for her own purposes. It seems that the accusations of the maid may well have been instigated by Barbara senior in an effort to threaten/blackmail Bessler into giving in to her coercions.
If this seems unlikely, remember that the maid had already served two prison sentences - and Barbara senior was the subject of a thirteen year long investigation into an infanticide in which herself, her maid and two of her daughters was involved. The legal investigators had been searching for the maid who was 'lost', and it is suggested that with Barabara senior's husband's death and therfore the withdrawal of his protection as Mayor of their towm she had to flee, and so she headed for the maid's home and her recently deceased daughter. The baby in question might have been Bessler's, conceived on an earlier visit, but there is no evidence yet to prove or disprove that possibility.
I look forward to the day when the cleaned document is available and we can at last get the other side of the story.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Johann Bessler's Hydrostatic balance.
In 1720 Johann Bessler is recorded as having made a hydrostatic balance for Johann Adam Cass. I have included a picture of it, as it still exists in the Landesmuseum in Kassel. I don't know how much of the whole instrument was down to Bessler, but looks well made.
This picture is from a book written by Henri Michel, called "Scientific Instruments in Art and History" Viking 1967. He writes:-
"The balance shown here was made in 1720, by Johann Ernst Elias Bessler (1680- 1745), (known as Orffyreus, and notorious for his "Wheel" or perpetual motion machine) for the military engineer Johann Adam Cass of Kassel".
There is also a picture of the same instrument in "Die Naturwissenschaftlich-Technischesammlung" by Ludolf Von Mackensen (Kassel: George Wenderloth Verlag, 1991).
It will be recalled that Johann Adam Cass was a witness and one of the signatories and chief examiner of the Gera wheel. It seems that he moved to Kassel shortly after Bessler, to be in charge of military engineering there there.
In 1720 Cass published a book called "Neu verbesserter Ingenieur" which means "New Advanced Engineering", In 1722 he published "Nouveau corrige ou par des demostrations guide de l'ingenieur à la veritable mathematique",meaning


Docker debugging
The goal of this document is to give troubleshooting methods for our Docker environment. This applies to when a service managed by Docker is not running properly.
Get the list of running containers
First, one should check if the containers needed for the service are running. To know the name of containers associated with a service, go to the service list and look for the documentation or the source code of the service. For example, if Wekan is not working, the documentation points you to this repository. There you can look for the, or the ansible playbook. The playbook or the README will give the name of the docker containers associated with the service. For example, the playbook for wekan shows here and here that the containers responsible for wekan have the names wekandb and wekan, respectively. Once you know what you're looking for, you should check the list of containers.
You can then get the list of Docker containers in two ways:
From the Docker status page
Please go to You'll find a list of docker containers along with their logs.
Directly on lund
On the lund server, type the following command:
docker ps -a
docker logs
Without the -a flag the stopped containers are excluded from the list.
If the container is running, check the logs of the container for errors.
If the container is stopped, then you will have to figure out why it does not start. Below is a list of methods to troubleshoot why a container is not starting.
Simply start the container
If the container is stopped and you want to start it, use the following command:
docker start
Then you can use the docker ps command to make sure the container has been started. If the service does not work after using the docker start command, there is two possibilities:
1- docker start reports an error, then the error is related to the docker configuration / the container.
2- docker start works, then the error is in the application running in the container, and the application make the container crash (exit code!= 0).
Recreate the new the container
If 1, then docker start will give you indications about the error. The error is probably in the configuration of the container. If the container was deployed on lund, it was probably deployed using an ansible playbook. Fix the playbook (depending on the error you got from the docker start command) and redeploy the playbook. The command to do this is in the README file of the service. It must be something like ansible-playbook -i hosts drone.deploy.yml.
Run the container manually
If 2., the docker start command worked but the container crashes immediately, then you will have to run the container manually to get more information about the error. One way to do that is to find out how what were the parameters used to run the container, and use them in a docker run command so you can know what is going on. All parameters for containers are given by the docker inspect command, but the best way to get them is to use the ansible playbook, and run the corresponding docker run command.
For example, if the docker container art13 does not start, you can find all the parameters required to run it in the playbook:
- name: run the wekan container
 name: wekan
 image: wekanteam/wekan:v0.75
 state: started
 restart: yes
 restart_policy: always
 - name: wekan-net
 ipv4_address: ''
 - wekandb:wekandb
 MONGO_URL: mongodb://wekandb/wekan
 MAIL_URL: smtp://
Then use docker run --help to find the correct arguments:
docker run --name wekan wekanteam/wekan:v0.75 \
 --restart always \
 --network wekan-net \
 --ip \
 --link wekandb:wekandb \
 -e \
 -e LETSENCRYPT_HOST= \
 -e \
 -e MONGO_URL=mongodb://wekandb/wekan \
 -e ROOT_URL= \
 -e MAIL_URL smtp:// \
 -e \
This command will start the docker container manually, so you can see all errors and hopefully understand what is causing the errors.
TechDocs/Docker/Debug (last edited 2018-05-08 17:54:32 by vincent)


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Weyerhaeuser makes one of the largest land purchases in United States history on January 3, 1900.
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On January 3,1900, railroad magnate James J. Hill (_PHONE_) sells 900,000 acres (1,406 square miles) of Washington state timberlands to Frederick Weyerhaeuser (_PHONE_) for $5,400,000. This is "one of the largest single land transfers in American annals." Soon after the purchase, Weyerhaeuser forms the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company (incorporated on January 18, 1900), the largest timber firm in the state.
Neighbors in Business
At the end of the nineteenth century, Frederick Weyerhaeuser headed a Midwestern timber concern that was "the largest lumbering enterprise in the country" (Martin, 465). By this time, most of the old growth forests in the Great Lakes area were logged. Weyerhaeuser needed more trees to harvest and looked to the Southern and Western states. In 1891, while investigating the two regions, he moved to St. Paul and two years later moved to Summit Avenue next door to an oldtime St. Paul resident, James J. Hill.
James J. Hill, President of the Great Northern Railway, was just completing the railroad from St. Paul to Seattle. Weyerhaeuser and Hill became "fast friends" (Hidy, 207) and spent innumerable evenings together at each other's homes. Occasionally they discussed the Pacific Northwest. By 1900 James Hill had gained the controlling interest in the Northern Pacific Railroad, the major competitor of the Great Northern in Washington. With the purchase of the railroad company came the remnants of the 44,000,000 acres (68,750 square miles) of land the Northern Pacific once owned along its railroad route from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. The Northern Pacific had received this land from the federal government in the 1870s and early 1880s for constructing the transcontinental railroad.
One evening the conversation between Hill and Weyerhaeuser turned to timberlands in Washington owned by the Northern Pacific. The conversation became negotiation because Weyerhaeuser needed trees and Hill needed cash. Nothing much is known about the negotiations except that it was claimed that Weyerhaeuser made an offer of $5 an acre for 900,000 acres of land ($4,500,000) and Hill put a price of $7 an acre ($6,300,000). They arrived at an agreed price of $6 an acre ($5,400,000). The agreement was $3,000,000 down and eight semiannual payments of $300,000 plus interest. The down payment strained Weyerhaeuser's finances and stretched his capacity to raise money to the utmost. One contemporary to the events stated, "It took practically all the lumbermen on the upper Mississippi River to raise the money" (Hidy, 213).
"A Great Lot of It"
On January 3, 1900, the papers were signed and the property was transferred to Weyerhaeuser. This was "one of the largest single land transfers in American annals" (Hidy, 212). As part of the agreement, Hill gave Weyerhaeuser eastbound shipping rates for timber "so low that they were unheard of …" (Martin, 465). Commenting on the reason he purchased such an immense amount of timberland, Weyerhaeuser said, "This is not for us, or for our children, but for our grandchildren." On the amount of timber, he remarked, "There is a great lot of it in every conceivable direction" (Hidy, 214). No one knew how much timber there was and many thought the purchase was "exceedingly speculative" (Hidy, 213). The purchase turned out to be exceedingly cheap. Twelve years later, it was determined that Weyerhaeuser had paid only 10 cents per 1000 board feet (one board foot is 2 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches).
More Than A Million Acres
Shortly after the purchase Weyerhaeuser and other investors formed the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Weyerhaeuser continued to purchase timberland in Washington and by 1903 the company's holdings had increased by 67 percent to 1,500,000 acres. Although the company established a sawmill in Everett in 1903, manufacturing lumber was a secondary activity until 1915. From 1900 to 1915 the firm managed its holdings, sold timber to other sawmills, and purchased more timberland.
Ralph W. Hidy, Frank Ernest Hill, Allan Nevins, Timber and Men: The Weyerhaeuser Story (New York, 1963), 207, 212-214, 226, Footnotes 18, 228; Albro Martin, James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1976, 1991), 465; Edwin Coman, Jr. and Helen Gibbs, Time, Tide and Timber: A Century of Pope and Talbot (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949), 226. See Also: Robert Ficken, "Weyerhaeuser and the Pacific Northwest Timber Industry, _PHONE_," Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 70, No. 4 (1979), 146-154; and Robert Ficken, Forested Land: a History of Lumbering in Western Washington (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987).
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 1. this is an interesting video this might help your younger sibling to learn = less than and greater pretty good idea. maybe do a division or something else.
 2. this video is really clever and unique I love the fact that they used an animal to explain greater than, less than or equal to. it reminds me of first grade when my teacher used Pac man to describe the signs. Pac man would always eat the greater number. I really like this videos its sums up it all up into a really catchy kid song.
 3. This video was really cool when I was younger i remember the alligator. I would of never have thought of this idea. It was very creative!!!
 4. First of all this song is so fun and entertaining the lyrics are so cool. When i was little i remember our teacher taught us that way. when I watched this video it reminded me of how i use to do those type of comparing problems. this song is creative and i love it!
 5. I am very impressed with the math art and alligator song. The gears were also interesting. I tried to count the colors the gears have.
 6. This video is very educational and it helps all ages remember which way the signs are supposed face and how you are supposed to solve the problem. I also think that the song is very fun and catchy.
 7. I like how this video makes everything so simple, instead of using a regular technique it uses a much similar way. A way for all ages to understand and making math fun but educated at the same time.
 8. This video was very creative and a good way to remember how to compare numbers I will show this to my younger siblings and it will hopefully help them in school
 9. This is a very cool way to remember what the greater, least and equal sign mean. And to show how to not get confused by them. This is the way I learned as a child, and it has always helped me because, 'the alligator always eat the biggest number'.
 10. Memories rolling in! That gator just likes eating numbers that are greater, it even rhymes! I remember in 2nd grade or maybe in 1st grade when my teacher showed me that gator. I learned very quickly that the part that was open on the symbol was the gator about to eat the greater number. Easy and brilliant! I wonder how it came to be.
 11. this video is great because it a good way to remember your compare numbers I say that I will show it to my cuzins and family.
 12. I think it was a cute way of explaining to kids greater and lower numbers.I also like how it explains in the song how to tell which one is greater or lower
 13. I thought the animation on the "Number Gator" video was really clever. It shows different types of learning/teaching aural, visual, verbal and you could make it physical learning by making a chomping dance! I showed my little brothers the song.
 14. When the less and greater than signs were first introduced to me I always thought of them as animals of some sort with a big mouth and this video helps remind me of when i thought of it that way and i hope it helps younger people too
 15. I think I like this video because you remember you numbers i will think I show other people for they could remember this and this video is so cute
 16. i got the wuzzit game on my iphone and im stuck on a level in the botany lab
 and how do u come up with all these really cool stuff
 17. i loved that video, it was so creative and clever! i remember how my teacher showed us that the alligator wanted the bigger number when i was little. it is a great way to explain it to a younger sibling or a class. i wonder what other animations they have that explain any ways to remember other things in math. i wish there was one for negative and positive equations because it would be nice to remember that during a test 😀
 18. I love how you used an alligator to explain greater than, less than, and equal to, This video was very unique and educational. I loved it!!
 19. Very cool concept! The Gears game is a very cool game! The aligator edit was very neat but I couldn't hear if it had sound. I would assume it was even better. The gears GIF was cool, but how did you get it?
 20. Great video and i learned no matter what the aligator always eats the biggest number and that it cant eat two numbers that are equally the same
 21. this is very cool my brother will love this because one he loves crocodiles plus it will help in school alot more because he needs it great video about the crocodile eats the bigger number and if its the same or equal it cant do anything
 22. I thought that this was a really cool article to be able to read because I thought that it was a computerized picture and as I read I learned that it was an actual invention.
 23. The inequality song was okay. That's a good way to look at inequalities. It would make it easy for kids that can't understand inequalities to understand them. The video was helpful.
 25. The song is such a clever way to remember the greater than/less than signs. I'm sure this is more helpful than just simply drilling it into our minds.
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The HMS Jersey, is she or isn't she?Meredith Wisner 4 years, 2 months ago
It is thought that approximately 11,000 Continental soldiers died in the British prison ships moored in Wallabout Bay. The most notorious of these ships was the HMS Jersey. Known colloquially as "Hell," the Jersey became the subject of a number of first-hand accounts telling of the horrific conditions and punishing treatment wrought by the British. Philip Freneau, a prisoner himself, relayed his experience in a collection of poems published around 1780. An excerpt of one of his more famous poems is transcribed below (and more here).
Conveyed to York we found, at length, too late,
That Death was better than the prisoner's fate
There doomed to famine, shackles, and despair,
Condemned to breathe a foul, infected air,
In sickly hulks, devoted while we lay,--
Successive funerals gloomed each dismal day
The various horrors of these hulks to tell--
These prison ships where Pain and Penance dwell,
Where Death in ten-fold vengeance holds his reign,
And injured ghosts, yet unavenged, complain:
This be my task--ungenerous Britons, you
Conspire to murder whom you can't subdue.
Small pox, yellow fever and dysentery ran rampant aboard these ships, and the shores of Wallabout were littered with bodies. Citizens of Brooklyn, disturbed by the improper treatment of the American Patriots, collected the bones and interred them in a make-shift vault on Hudson Street. Later, in 1905, the Society of Old Brooklynites and the Daughters of the American Revolution commissioned the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White to design a suitable monument to honor the victims.
112 years later I am driving to the Brooklyn Public Library to secure a loan that will return a possible relic of HMS Jersey to the original scene of the crime. Joy Holland, head archivist at BPL, describes some of the mystery surrounding this artifact in an evocative blog post she wrote for Brooklynology. Although she was able to find reference to the unearthing of the Jersey from the silty muck that is the bottom of the bay, and some reported interest from local historical societies to procure the wreck, the provenance of this relic remains uncertain. However, similar artifacts have turned up in other institutional collections, including the Daughters of the American Revolution and our very own New-York Historical Society. The relic Brooklyn Public Library loaned us is shown below. The text reads: His Majesty Prison Ship Jersey sunk off Navy Yard in time of Revolution."
To my mind it's a safe bet that this item is an authentic artifact dredged up from our bay in the early 20th century, but the question does remain, is it the Jersey? Having seen it up close, my visual analysis tells me that the attached label looks old, and the teak appears sufficiently aged to qualify. Scientific analysis to determine the artifact's age or to the origin of the wood itself might offer more conclusive evidence. However, one thing is certain, if the value of an artifact is measured by its ability to convey a larger story, then this object excels. Marred by water and time and saw blades, one can easily imagine the terrifying specter that once inhabited our bay. The artifact will remain on view at BLDG 92 until September.


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The first few weeks of school are all about developing new routines and building relationships with teachers and classmates. During this time, each class works together to create a class agreement (also know as class rules). As part of the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching, the agreements are created collaboratively between students and teachers, focusing on what all members of the classroom community can do to help create a calm, orderly and safe environment for learning.
The agreements are phrased in the positive, offering clear expectations of behavior and how students can live up to those expectations. By including students in the process of creating the agreements, the students are engaged in their learning, feel a sense of belonging and safe in school, and view the rules in a positive light.
View some of this year's class agreements below.


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Definition of pluck :
1. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
2. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
3. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
4. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
5. The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
6. The lyrie.
7. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
8. To pull; to draw.
9. To reject at an examination for degrees.
10. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
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bravery (part of speech: noun)
resolution (part of speech: noun)
grit, resolution, tenacity, steadfastness, toughness, fervency, devotion, perseverance, stubbornness, bullheadedness, tirelessness, heartiness, persistence, headstrongness, decisiveness, stamina, diligence, stoniness, indomitability, faithfulness, indefatigability, trueness, determination, dauntlessness, staunchness
courage (part of speech: noun)
- If I admire Rod, with his constant driving action, his indomitable pluck, his simple but tremendous belief in the importance of what he has undertaken to do, that's my own affair. - "The Front Yard", Constance Fenimore Woolson.
- If pluck will make you win, I am sure you will carry it through, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again; and if you haven't the money, I'll supply the capital. - "Jennie Baxter, Journalist", Robert Barr.
- Though he had been found out, he still felt himself to be master of the situation; and with every minute's grace his pluck returned to him. - "The Red Rat's Daughter", Guy Boothby.


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This pasture mixture slashes costs, expands grazing window
With today's high input costs, beef producer Jeff Schmidt wants to get as much bang as possible from every production buck. That's why he seeds a blend of winter triticale and spring oats in mid-August and gets both fall and early spring grazing.
Schmidt, operator of JR ranch, Othello, WA, says cattle that would normally get baled hay from October through November and then in March and early April now have access to grazing.
"The less hay I have to cut and bale, the more money there is in my pocket," says Schmidt. "It's just basic economics."
He says the oats in the irrigated mix emerge quickly and are available for intensive grazing in October, while the triticale sprouts but remains in the understory until winter sets in. A severe winter kills most of the oats, while the triticale goes dormant but remains viable. When conditions are normal in Schmidt's region, the triticale breaks dormancy at the end of February.
"In milder years, when there is less winterkill in the oats and a shorter or no dormancy period in the triticale, this opens the door to year-round grazing," he says.
Besides the financial advantage of extending his grazing season, Schmidt notes that seeding simultaneously for fall and spring grazing is more efficient than seeding the two grains separately. Based on research by Schmidt's seed supplier, ProGene Plant Research, Othello, it's estimated that 14 acres of the blend can accomplish the same goals as 10 acres of each grain seeded separately.
Planting spring oats in August for fall grazing is a fairly common practice throughout the Northwest and Midwest. Ohio State University Extension researchers report that, in a growing environment where perennial hay averages less than 3 tons/acre/year, spring oats on a summer recrop after winter wheat will equal if not beat that figure.
The use of winter triticale for early spring grazing is also an established practice. Beef producers in the Northwest, who have access to late spring and summer grazing leases, are often in need of forage in late winter and early spring to carry their cows through spring calving. For these cow-calf operators, triticale, with its remarkable early season growth rate of up to 2" of leaf mass per day, is the annual forage of choice.
While Schmidt has used oats and triticale separately, it has only been recently that he has tried them together.
"I am sold on the concept," he says. "It offers me the kind of flexibility I need to run a profitable cattle operation in today's production environment."
Variety selection is a key to making the crop combination work, points out Mike Wood, ProGene research agronomist.
"Deciding which oats and triticales work together isn't as simple as it might look," he says. "You can take two varieties that perform very well individually, but in a mix they clash."
For example, Wood says Schmidt needed a very aggressive oat variety that can be grazed as early as possible in fall, and a slower-to-establish triticale that shows only moderate fall growth but shines in late winter after it breaks dormancy.
For more on growing oats and triticale together, call ProGene at _PHONE_ or email _EMAIL_.


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Participants are asked to do a presentation on a German-speaking city (covered in course materials)
Participants are asked to reflect upon post war events of 20th century Germany
Participants are asked to express their opinions on the German re-unification process, using standard phrases and expressions
Participants describe what they know about the unified Germany in the 21st century
This activity uses the same introductory whiteboard slides as L203Unit1Act1a (to familiarize students with Elluminate) but additionally includes some PowerPoints to trigger conversations about German-speaking countries. It is aimed at groups who have already met face-to-face and don't need another tutorial introducing themselves.
This map can be used for an ice breaker activity, in which students are asked to name and talk briefly about places in German-speaking countries which they know. Describing the landscape of their chosen place leads into Th. 1, Teil 1.


Save Your Crops from Locusts
As we all know the current locusts spread all over country, and how much damage it has made on our crops. In this post you will know how to deal with locusts. Locusts, or grasshoppers, can cause havoc on outdoor crops. Voracious eaters, locusts can also fly, which makes their range of destruction that much more. Locusts and grasshoppers are especially active in the summer season. When you are getting ready to harvest your summer or fall crops, you will want them to be safe from locusts. The first thing you can do when dealing with locusts is to call an experienced pest control company. Our team will have experience with ridding locusts from your crops.
Things To Do To Prevent Locusts
Perhaps the best thing that you can do to forestall beetles is to work the dirt. Females lay their eggs on the ground. By normally plowing it, you are murdering the eggs so they won't have the option to replicate.
Around September, till the ground. This demoralizes them, and they will discover elsewhere to settle. Plowing the dirt additionally has rewards: it turns the grass, and the other ground spread will compost.
All-Purpose Flour
Who knew flour wasn't just for the kitchen? If a locust tries to eat the flour, then it will turn sticky. This can gum up their mouths and they won't be able to eat.
Sprinkle the flour on the leaves of the plant that you wanna save. Locusts won't be able to eat them, and it is a non-toxic alternative.
Chickens hunt & eat locusts. As an added bonus, they will lay eggs for you to eat. See what the local permits say about keeping chickens as pets. Create careful fences for them, and let them roam where your crops are.
Does your home have a pond? Consider adding frogs to it. Frogs snack on insects, including locusts.
Garlic or Hot Pepper Spray
The locust won't like the taste of the garlic or hot pepper spray. You can spray it on the leaves so they don't get eaten.
Barrier Plants
While not a first line of guard, boundary plants might have the option to support you. Calendula and horehound can be valuable to stop insects.
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Fire stories from the national parks highlight events, incidents, and the like, associated with fire and fuels management, as well as fire education, technology, partnerships, and more. Stories highlight work related to Department of the Interior initiatives as well as local and regional initiatives.
Bolinas Ridge Fuelbreak Uses Best Management Practices
Point Reyes National Seashore, California
National Fire Plan, Fuels Reduction*
During the 2009 field season, the hazardous fuels crew for the San Francisco Bay Area National Parks completed the second phase of work on a 5-mile fuelbreak along the Bolinas Ridge fire road. This fire road marks the border between National Park Service and Marin Municipal Water District lands in the western part of Marin County, California. A fire moving east across this fire road could threaten thousands of homes in the San Geronimo Valley and the town of Fairfax, as well as a critical drinking water supply which serves the majority of the county. A fire moving west across the fire road could threaten thousands of homes in Olema, Bolinas and Stinson Beach. The goal of this project was to improve the fire road for emergency access and for use as a fire control line if necessary. The fuel treatment extends from the Randall Trail intersection south to Bolinas-Fairfax Road, 60-80 feet from the edge of the fire road in a mixture of Douglas fir / redwood forest and maritime chaparral. Small trees, 8 inches in diameter or less are being removed, while larger trees are being limbed up to a height of 10 feet. Most shrubs and all large, down woody fuels are being removed within the first 15 feet of the road. Farther out, shrubs are being spaced at a distance of one and a half times their height. Fuel loads in this area have increased in recent years due to the die off of trees associated with Sudden Oak Death.
An important consideration in planning this fuelbreak was the existence of three rare plants in the project area, which include one manzanita and two ceanothus species. These plants are fire stimulated obligate seeders whose populations are very small, and are thought to be declining in the absence of fire. Furthermore, Northern spotted owls, a federally threatened species also nests in the project area. Mitigations to avoid impacts to these species were crucial to the success of the project. Prior to finalizing the prescription for treatment, the National Park Service contracted with biologists to survey populations of the rare Marin manzanita and develop recommendations for management. These efforts included forming an advisory group to ensure the final report establishing best management practices would undergo rigorous peer review. All of the rare plants in the project area are being flagged and are being left intact by the fuels crew, who also receives training in how to recognize these plants. Meanwhile, bird nesting surveys are completed each year before work begins under a cooperative agreement with PRBO Conservation Science, a nationally recognized bird conservation organization.
The thinning treatment on Bolinas Ridge may in fact benefit the rare plants by opening up areas to more sunlight and increasing seed production. In the meantime, fuel has been substantially reduced on approximately 30 acres of the 60-acre project so far. Comments by the public who use the trail for recreation indicate they are enthused by the obvious reduction in fire hazard, and collaboration with the Marin Municipal Water District about fuels management along the fire road has increased as a result of the work accomplished to date.
Contact: Jennifer Chapman, Fire Communication and Education Specialist
Phone: _PHONE_