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Children love animals. And animal books for children are a great way to draw younger children's interest in reading. Have you noticed how younger children are so fascinated by animals?
✓Knowledge of animals
✓Respect of nature
From an early age, they adore these furry little faces. They play with stuffed animals or watch Disney cartoons with animal characters. Children also love going to the zoo. And books featuring stories about animals are always among the children's favorite books and children usually find them very enjoyable.
When they are very young and still can't read, they just love looking at the images of various animals. These books can also help toddlers develop their motor skills as they imitate the various animals that they see. Children will probably love any animal book that you offer them.
Another advantage of animal books for children is that they can have an educational value. They can introduce children to the letters of the alphabet and teach them how to read. They can help children gain knowledge in different subjects. For example, they can learn about where animals live and increase their general knowledge. Animal books for children can also help kids gain wisdom and values as they read about different animal stories. Children also learn to care about animals and to respect nature and the environment. In a world where many animals are under extinction, respect of nature is a good value to have.
Classic picture books
For babies and preschool children, we recommend the Big Red Barn
. Definitely the best farm book around. Children get to see farm animals, how they play together and eat in the meadow. It contains beautiful illustrations of the big red barn and the landscapes surrounding it and the story takes place both during the day and at night.
Good Dog Carl
(ages 4-8) is one of the classic picture books and is a captivating story of a dog called Carl and a baby. The story begins with the mother leaving the house and asking Carl to look after the baby. Carl looks out the window to make sure she is gone. Then the baby climbs on Carl's back and they both are having a blast. Good Dog Carl is one of the classic picture books and has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide.
Another of the classic picture books containing animals is Marguerite Henry Treasury of Horses
. It is for older children (ages 9-12). The book is about the relationship between a horse and a person and how a horsed can change a person's life. Marguerite Henry's stories are considered to be among the greatest horse tales ever told. That is why we highly recommend this book.
We also recommend Babe: The Gallant Pig
. One of the classic picture books that also won many awards including Boston Globe - Horn Book honor book. It is the story of pig who is trying to save his neck. The book contains a lot of wisdom and speaks about how we should treat fellow beings. Another reason why it ranks among the top works of children's literature.
Animal books for children can also introduce children to the letters of the alphabet. An alphabet book to treasure is The Dinosaur Alphabet Book
. Designed for children ages 4-8, it helps children review their alphabet. Children usually are fascinated by dinosaurs, so this book can entice their to learn letters. The pictures are beautiful and the book contains lots of interesting information about dinosaurs.
Another classic alphabet book is Furry Animal Alphabet Book
(ages 4-8). The illustrated animals are sure to draw kids attention and children can learn a great deal about animals. Another great aspect of the book is that it contains animals that children don't usually hear of. Usually children are even more interested in animals that they've never heard of since they already know about basic animals. That's one extra reason why we recommend this book.


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 3. Page through student names by clicking the arrows at the bottom of the list.
 4. Click the checkbox next to the students that you want to assign products to, then click Assign Product Access.
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The first stage performance of a child means a lot to the parents as well as to the child. There are many moments of anxiety. Preparing your child for his First stage Performance requires more of a methodical approach rather than a disciplined approach. Follow the tips and watch out for a smashing performance of your child.
The first stage performance is known to give butterflies in the stomach for even a veteran actor. But surprisingly most the kids appear to be some genius that they simply go out there have fun and leave the audience spellbound. Most of the times it the confidence that matters and therefore it is important to ensure that the confidence levels are high and this can be ensured through a good audition. Audition involves a set or rules regarding decorum and they simply need to be adhered to.
Here are a few tips on how you can prepare your child for a splendid stage performance:
Give Due Importance to Auditions
As said earlier, give due importance to auditions. They are quite akin to job interviews where the real worth of the interviewee is accessed. So the first lesson here – teach the child on how he should behave. A disciplined behavior will not only help the child to understand what he is expected to do but follow cues and instructions properly too.
Child should know his Part Well
Make sure that the child is well versed with the play or story that he is going to be a part of. Or if he is giving a solo performance, be it a skit, a recitation, song or a dance, it is important the kid is aware of what exactly he is here for. He should know his part well.
Focus on Building Confidence
It is all about confidence. This confidence comes from repeated practicing. Use the time between the moment you have decided to make your child participate and the scheduled performance date. Get the kid well acquainted with his part.
Make Rehearsals Fun
Your rehearsals will result what the child feels during the final auditions. The rehearsals should be fun and exciting. Help the child understand his part and give him time to adapt himself with the action or the part he is playing.
Be supportive and encouraging while he practices. Every time he falters do not make him feel that he has committed some mistake that he is not allowed to. Your persistent encouragement will only boost his performance and help him to perform better.
Practice with Props and Music
When the kid reaches his final stages of rehearsals, make him practice with props, music and makeup. Bring in all the additions carefully and slowly. Make sure that the child does not get overwhelmed.
This is to make the child accustomed to what he will be doing onstage. The idea is to create an atmosphere that is similar to the one that he would be finding on stage. Once he gets acquainted with these, in his final audition and performance he will be casual with every thing that is happening around him.
Maintain a cool attitude all the way through. Help the child feel that this is just another activity which requires some special preparation stages and it is fun all the same.
Teach Child to Maintain Eye Contact
Teach the child the importance of maintaining eye contact. For a successful stage performance, the actor or the performer needs to connect with the audience. And this can be easily done by maintaining a direct eye contact. Be a silent partner to your child and appreciate his attempt. Avoid being overtly critical or vocal every time.
Finally, to ensure a smashing and knockout performance ensure that the kid's energy levels are high. This can be maintained not by making gulp down bottles of energy drinks but by allowing him to remain stress free. Do not buoy him down by behaving as if a major event is coming up. Just be casual and assure the child that he is here to have fun and be assuring with your support. A smiling and relaxed child will enjoy the stage and might even bowl you out with some incredible improvisations as well!

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Proposal 2 assumes that the benefit of an index (improved
 seeking performance) outweighs the disadvantages (incomplete demuxer
 implementations that cannot seek when the index is absent).
 The disadvantages of Proposal 2 are:
 1) Redundant, non-structural information. Having a non-authoritative
 index increases the opportunity for mux and demux implementation
 bugs. There will certainly be cases in the wild where the index
 does not agree with the stream. This disagreement isn't possible
 if there's no non-structural or redundant seeking information.
 2) A front-positioned index breaks the Ogg 'everything is always a
 stream' model, as a front-positioned index necessarily requires a
 second pass.
 3) Experience in multiple containers show that implementors will
 tend to implement index-only seeking [and even tell users their
 files are 'broken' if the files don't contain an index].
 The advantages of Proposal 2 are:
 1) Latency. Indexes can be generated for consumption models like the
 web where seeks can be very high latency, and reducing the seek
 number to 'always only 1' is a boon.
 2) A tail-positioned index would preserve the streaming model and
 keep time-to-first-frame low by avoiding a large index in the
 header at stream startup. The index can be grabbed from the
 stream tail asynchronously.
 3) Coarse-grained indexes can be used as a mechanism to inform
 bisection search, still resulting in fewer seeks while also
 reducing the index overhead in situations where this overhead is
Proposal 3: Bisection search with threaded backreference
 Proposal 3 makes use of bisection seeking as above, but rather than
 using an index, adds an auxiliary backreference structure threaded
 through the stream in order to eliminate the second stage of the
 bisection seek. The bisection sarch algorithm always short-circuits
 at step 5:
 seekpoint based on known stream duration and simple linear
 2) Seek and capture a page
 location based on DTS of captured page
 first with a time stamp immediately preceeding the desired point
 the desired point.
 we're finished.
 5.b) If we need to seek to a backreference, the auxiliary
 backreference structure gives us a hard byte offset to seek back
 The proposed threaded backreference mechanism would append a single,
 variable-length-encoded byte offset to the end of each page after
 the packet data. This addiiton would modify the capture criteria
 such that capture must account for the optional, unsignaled field.
 After reading packet data, demux framing would have to check for
 either a capture pattern, or a backreference followed by a capture
 Variations of this proposal could also include bisection hints to
 further reduce the order of complexity of the bisection search.
 As I see it, this middle of the road approach is a compromise
 without real advantages. In its favor:
 1) Streams that make use of backreferences (most AV streams) would
 avoid the second bisection search, always reducing the average
 number of seeks by a little more than one.
 However, there are significant disadvantages.
 1) Like Proposal 2, the threaded backreference mechanism means
 seeking makes use of two ~ unrelated mechanisms instead of one.
 The threaded backreference increases mux and demux complexity.
 2) The average seek number drops from ~ 4.5 physcal seeks to ~ 3.5.
 This is not a significant improvement given the additional
 compexity. Proposal 2 is simpler, similar overhead, and drops
 best case seeks to 1.
 3) Like proposal 2, the additional backreference offset is
 redundant, non-authoritative, and non-structural.
In short, this mechanism has the disadvantages of Proposal 2 (in addition to being weird) but does not deliver as much advantage as Proposal 2.


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How RFID Has Aided Rental Companies During the Pandemic
There is always pressure, from customers, owners and competitors, to streamline operations, reduce labor costs and improve data accuracy. The coronavirus pandemic has added more pressure to get personnel out of processes that may now endanger their health. Here are three ways the industry is using RFID to adapt.
For several years, the industry has been shifting towards more cost-effective processes. But this has accelerated in the last year as businesses work to reduce on-site staff to comply with health and safety guidance. This is made particularly important as research by the Federal Reserve has shown that automatable jobs pose a high risk of COVID-19 transmission.
Reducing Transmission Risk
The process of assembling rental kits and getting them out the door can be very labor-intensive. Locating the assets with barcodes or serial numbers is a time-consuming process that requires a number of employees to manipulate items so that these identifying marks can be read.
To meet this challenge, rental companies are turning to RFID. RFID enables the rapid identification of assets without touching them. This drastically reduces the labor needed to identify the correct items, get them into the staging area, and then verifying the contents of the rental kit. This reduces the number of people in facilities, making employees safer and reducing the risk to your business.
Lower Labor Costs
Having fewer employees involved in the process has the additional benefit of reducing labor costs. With RFID the time spent finding and identifying assets is dramatically reduced.
In addition, quality processes are expedited, and these workflows can be monitored without the time intensive step of recording asset ID's as the items move through these processes. Finally, cycle counts and inventory audits can be done quickly using very few people equipped with RFID readers.
Improved Asset Utilization
RFID improves the quality of data you have on your assets. With timely, accurate data, you can get a better understanding of asset usage levels.
Inventory visibility is an essential tool for asset rental companies. Only by having accurate inventory data can a rental company determine what assets are available to supply to a customer.
With timely, high quality data, analysis of utilization levels, seasonal usage patterns and rental time frames becomes more accurate and reliable. This enables data-driven decisions about how to invest in additional assets to provide the most revenue and the highest return.
Rental companies that had implemented RFID systems prior to the pandemic reaped a significant return, as their operations were not nearly as severely impacted by the personnel issues related to the pandemic. Firms that did not have RFID in place accelerated their adoption of the technology, as they observed the benefits, both COVID related and the more general business benefits, of RFID. RFID provides a significant competitive advantage in the rental equipment industry, both in times of COVID and beyond.
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Migration Flights Test Bird Stamina
It has long been known that migrating birds embark on particularly long and grueling journeys when they cross the oceans. What hasn't been known for sure is whether or not they somehow stop along the way – until now that is. A Bar-tailed Godwit has been bestowed with the title 'endurance champion of the animal kingdom' after completing his epic 7,200 mile flight across the Pacific Ocean nonstop.
It's no secret that Bar-tailed Godwits undertake an annual migration from Alaska to Australia and various islands in the southern hemisphere each year to breed. What scientists really wanted to know was if they made pit-stops along the way. That was the goal behind a recent study wherein nine Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri) were fitted with electronic tags before setting off into the sunset on their mammoth migration flights. The birds flew between 4,355 miles and 7,258 miles, depending on which route they chose to take, with their journeys lasting 6-9 days correspondingly. What makes the research particularly interesting is that the flight paths reveal the birds were unlikely to sleep during the time and even more significantly – that they did not feed along the way. That means that their wings did not stop flapping from their point of departure to their point of arrival! This makes their journey even more remarkable, since it sets new precedents for endurance in animals. According to scientists, the energy required to complete this sort of migratory journey is the greatest in the animal kingdom.
The international scientific team, under the leadership of Bob Gill of the US Geological Survey, has said: "These extraordinary nonstop flights establish new extremes for avian flight performance and have profound implications for understanding the physiological capabilities of vertebrates." According to Theunis Piersma of the University of Groningen (Netherlands) who worked on the study, the energy requirements of the birds was the greatest known energy requirement in the animal kingdom. During their week-long, non-stop journey, the birds would have been consuming energy at around eight times their resting basic metabolic rate (BMR). This is in sharp contrast with other measurements, such as a professional cyclist who may manage to function at around five times BMR for just a few hours. Piersma appropriately summed up the results with this remark: "There is something special going on here. For a vertebrate this kind of endurance is just extraordinary."


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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRIDE LENGTH AND INJURY IN TRAINED COLLEGIATE RUNNERS.
METHODS: Seven collegiate runners (three male, four female, age 19.71 +/- 1.11, wt. 141.86 +/-20.99) ran at a self-selected pace and were videotaped for two full strides, with a Canon ZR850 Mini-DV video camera capturing the stride from the side. Runners completed surveys to document current and past leg injuries. Data on years running, miles per week, age, height, and weight was also collected. Videotape was digitized using Kinematics Analysis Video software (Schleihauf, 2004).
RESULTS: A negative high correlation between stride length and injury was found in the runners. A Pearson correlation test resulted in a -.607 coefficient, signifying that a shorter stride length was associated with increased injury rate.
CONCLUSIONS: There are many other factors to consider when a runner sustains a running injury, including anatomical structure, training, and other biomechanical factors. Runners using their own self-selected stride length may have other issues contributing to their injury rate. Most runners should be encouraged to run with a form that feels the most natural to them.


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I'm not even certain that ないでいます is used, but if it is, what is it's difference from ていません? They are both negation, but one is saying they are negating, and the other one is saying they aren't doing. Any help?
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Suppose that "I have been not eating" were correct English. Then it would suggest that I were in the prolonged state of "not eating", e.g. trying not to eat.
"I haven't been eating" suggests that I happened not to be in the state of "eating" for some period of time. This may be coincidental.
Although it takes some work to see the difference in English, the above example translates readily into Japanese as
I have been not eating
I haven't been eating
For example
During fasting, when it's cold, then it is particularly difficult to not be eating.
Coming to think of it, I think that the difference in English can be related to the "no split infinitives" rule (which, if I remember correctly, was introduced in the 19th century as an act of arbitrariness to define "proper speech" through grammars, which would distinguish the well-read upper class from simple folk).
The "no split infinitives" rule corrects the above to
... it's particularly difficult not to be eating.
Another rule says that negation should be done on the auxiliary verb (any inflection, in fact). So "to be not eating" negates "eating" directly, but that should be done on the auxiliary verb "to be", whence "to not be eating". But then, the "no split infinitives" pulls the negation out to the front: "not to be eating".
Out of the following, I think only the first is formally correct
○ not to be eating
× to not be eating
× to be not eating
Japanese has no analogous rules; you can negate either part of the ～ている construction.
The nuances that can be conveyed with this construction are described in Kohsuke Kawaguchi's answer.
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you are suggesting ""I have been not eating" expresses volition, but I don't accept this as a certainty. Does the Japanese 食べないでいる necessarily express volition? – yadokari Jun 29 '13 at 2:50
_USER_ I didn't mean to imply that it expresses volition. I said that, for example, such a prolonged state of "not eating" could occur when somebody is actually trying not to eat. I didn't rule out that such a state cannot be brought about in a different way. (Compare the other answer, where someone procrastinates visiting his home town.) In any case, I don't think I can say much more about this. I have tried to be as clear as possible. – Earthliŋ Jun 29 '13 at 3:57
ないでいます conveys that not only one is not doing something, but also one has been in that state for a while (as in, one hasn't been doing it.) In comparison, ていません just says one is not doing something right now.
Therefore ないでいます carries a bit of feeling that one is procrastinating, as in 近いうちに田舎に帰ろうと決めたのですが、できないでいます。(I decided to visit my home town but I haven't managed.)
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There is definitely a conceptual difference between the two, but I think English fails to pick up on it: "I haven't been doing X" vs. "I have been not doing X". The second just sounds like bad English. – Earthliŋ Jun 28 '13 at 17:08
_USER_, perhaps this is not easily translatable into english, but I do not understand your examples. Could you elaborate? – yadokari Jun 28 '13 at 19:06
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Notes in the Margins: Marxism, faculty pay and Advanced Placement failures
Stanford scholars find varying quality of science and tech education in Brazil, Russia, India and China In an effort to create world-class university systems, Brazil, Russia, India and China are funneling resources to higher education institutions. Stanford scholars look at the effects of such an expansion and whether these grads can compete in the global knowledge economy. (Stanford)
The 10 Colleges That Pay Professors The Most Five universities pay the average full professor $200,000 or more, a new survey reveals. (The Huffington Post)
Advanced Placement classes failing students The number of kids who bomb the AP exams is growing even more rapidly. (Politico)
Obama to Offer Plans to Ease Burden of Paying for College President Obama said he would work to reshape the way Americans pay for higher education, though it was unclear precisely what he planned to propose. (The New York Times)
Vietnam Seeks to Lure Students to Study Marxism With Free Tuition The government is aiming to draw students to study the ideology of Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh, but the students are avoiding those programs because they say potential employers are not interested. (The New York Times)


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Hidden History Part 8 Amber and Ancient Egypt
Amber and Our Viking Ancestors
The Egyptian preists, according to the the Atlantis narrative, Timea, said that Orichac (Amber) was mined on Basileia in great quantities.
Basileia was the capital of Atlantis and lay just off the Danish Coast.
The Egyptians said it gleamed lie fire and that the Atlanteans covered the walls of their temple with it.
The area between Heligoland and Eiderstedt was the Amber country of the Ancient world.
The Eider River was used to ship the Amber all over the world. It is on the west coast of the Cimbrian Peninsula, that is the present day Jutland..
The Amber Routes of Pre-Columbian Times led to the North Sea Coast.
To this day, Amber is often washed up on the west coast of Jutland. Pieces of Amber, pendants, animal figures, were fashioned by the work of primitive implements thousands of
years ago. The "Gold of the North," is being gathered by the ton on the North Coast of the Eiderstedt Peninsula, on the banks of the River Hever. The 1968, dyke construction has caused a "Gold Rush" of Amber.
Many of the locals are finding big pieces. A boy from the village of Odenswort, found a large piece weighing 2KG and sold it for well over 2000 DM.
Fisherman who sink their nets in, pull up Amber in this area.
In the Greek states and in Rome, Amber was worth it's weight in gold.
In Egypt, Amber was worked together with gold into costly necklaces.
The breast ornament of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, died 1352 BC, was solid gold. And it contained large Amber drops. Why didn't the Smithsonian tell the thousands of visitors who came to the exhibit, that the Amber was brought to Ancient Egypt by our Ancestors, the North Sea Peoples?
In a tomb inscription at the time of Thutmose III (about 1500 BC), an inscription tells us: An embassy from the Haunebu (North Sea People), from the Northern lands at the end of the world, brought with them 8943 pounds of Amber!
It was used to decorate temples and Obelisks.
The Egyptians said 'Amber is the fruit of the eye of Ra (The Sun God.) The Gods live in it's sweet scent; and it's color is like Gold.
The Greeks believed that Amber was 'the many tears that Apollo shed for his Son Aesculapius when he visited the Sacred people of the North.
Homer said that the Hall of Menelaus gleams with Copper, Gold, Amber, silver and ivory.
Amber has been found in Cretan graves, in Tholo's Tomb in western Greece, and in the inner-Avatolian Chieftains tomb.
The Assyrians too knew that Amber came from the North Sea.
The health-giving and protective power ascribed to Amber derives from it's magnetic property, and gives it it's name, Electron, for Aleco = I Protect.
Amber was held in high esteem by the ancients and they gave our Viking ancestors Gold in exchange for it. The North Sea Amber is called the "Gold of the North."
Amber trade vanished suddenly and totally after 1200 BC, along with the sinking of Atlantis.
The original Atlantis narrative was written in a non-Egyptian language. Our Atlantean (North Sea peoples) told the Egyptians the story and they in turn translated it into Egyptian.
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To get started with RTXI for your experiments, there are some hardware requirements you need to satisfy. They're pretty easy to meet, and they'll get you set up with a properly performing RTXI installation.
If you are not familiar with RTXI or what it can do, we recommend looking through the manual first.
You will need:
 1. Computer
 2. Data acquisition card (DAQ)
 3. Graphics card (may come with computer)
Most computers built in the last few years will run Linux, but some will perform better for real-time applications. Here are some points to consider when buying new hardware:
 1. What is the CPU type? We recommend using Intel processors, though AMD ones work, too.
 2. How many PCI/PCIe slots are there? You will need one PCI or PCIe slot for a graphics card and another PCI slot for a DAQ.
Also, you should have a machine with at least 4 GB of RAM. While Linux can run with less, you will see degraded performance. Over the past few years, operating systems have been built under the assumption of increasingly capable hardware, and Linux has been no exception.
Note: The current generation of Intel processors (Skylake) requires firmware that is bundled into new Linux kernels, starting around kernel 4.1. The kernel in RTXI 2.2 is based on kernel 3.8.13 and will not run on new machines. When purchasing a computer, make sure it has an older processor. (Haswell/Broadwell will work.)
We are testing a newer real-time kernel. Source code is available on the rttweak branch of our GitHub repository.
RTXI is tested and developed on systems using National Instruments (NI) cards. While the Xenomai project creates drivers for cards made by other vendors, we do not test them and cannot give you a recommendation to use them.
If buying a new NI DAQ, get an M-series card. Do not get an X-series card. Open-source drivers do not currently exist for them, so they cannot be used for data acquisition. For a complete list of what drivers are available for what hardware, look here:
Graphics Card
You should get a discrete graphics card. Using integrated graphics will cause UI computation to be offloaded to the CPU, which at the same time has to handle real-time processes. Based on the systems we've benchmarked so far, you're better off using an AMD card than an Nvidia one. You are also recommended to use open-source drivers instead of their proprietary counterparts.
What this means for you is that when buying/acquiring a computer, you need to check the type of graphics card it has. You also need to check whether it is supported by open-source drivers. (Often, newer hardware needs some time for the people who code the drivers to extend support for them.)
Here is a list of graphics card supported by the Nvidia open-source driver (nouveau) and the AMD one (radeon):
Installing RTXI
Look through our installation instructions to see how to install RTXI 2.2. You can install RTXI with our live CD, or you can install a generic version of Linux and then manually compile and install RTXI and its real-time dependencies. It's up to you.
If you run into issues, look through our available documentation, and if it doesn't help, email us or submit an issue on GitHub. We recommend you do the latter.
Let us know if any links are broken. They are all supposed to point directly to lists of hardware compatible with drivers. If they don't, something went terribly wrong, and we need to fix the links.


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In the fifth grade, students are learning how to conduct their own science experiments and report their findings to learn more about the natural world, including physical and chemical changes. Fifth-graders don't need expensive microscopes, glassware sets or intricate models to put together an interesting and educational science project. They can use many of the items they have around their houses to make scientific discoveries. Apples can be more than just a sweet and delicious snack for after school; they can take center stage in a science project to help fifth-graders learn about chemical reactions, anatomy and natural sciences.
According to Education.com, our sense of taste and smell are so closely linked that 70 percent to 75 percent of what we taste is influenced by what we smell. To experiment with tastes, students should cut up one or two apples into slices and then put out a few other flavorings and foods, such as vanilla extract, cinnamon, an onion or some cooked broccoli. Students should close their eyes, then smell one of the items while eating a slice of the apple. Students are likely to be surprised to find that the apple tastes like the item they are smelling. Students should experiment with different types of scents and different types of apples to see how the results may vary. The experiment can help students understand how the senses are linked and lead them to investigate how other processes in the body are similarly linked.
Understanding pH and Taste
Apples come in both sweet and sour varieties, and there is a scientific reason why some are sweeter than others. Fifth-graders can conduct a simple science project to learn more about the chemical composition of apples and how it influences their taste. Students should gather several types of apples, including red, yellow and green varieties, and cut them in half. After laying the apples with the cut side up, students should lay a pH testing strip on the meat of the apple. These strips can often be purchased at home supply stores. Apples with a higher acid content taste sweeter, and sour apples are more alkaline. Students should experiment with a variety of shades to see how these variables change the pH. The experiment can help students understand the pH scale and how concepts like acid and alkaline can affect them in their everyday lives, such as their diets and their taste preferences.
Keeping Apples Fresh
When you cut open an apple, it doesn't take long for it to start turning brown. Students can experiment with how different substances slow that browning process. To conduct the experiment, students should cut a couple of apples into several slices. Students should then place milk, orange juice, water and lemon juice each in a small, shallow dish. Students should put a couple of slices of apples in each bowl and then leave a couple of slices on a paper towel exposed to the air. For each dish, students should note how long it takes for the apples to brown. This can teach students about the process of oxidation and what substances slow it.
Refrigerator vs. Cabinet
Most people don't keep their apples in a bowl of lemon juice to keep them fresh. However, other storage methods can work to keep apples fresh longer. In this science project, students place one or two apples in the refrigerator, one or two apples in the cabinet, and one or two apples in a brown bag on the counter. Students watch the apples over a period of several weeks to see how long it takes for each to deteriorate. Apples placed in the refrigerator are likely to stay fresh longer since the cold air slows the ripening process. This science project helps students learn about the chemical processes that take place in apples, which can lead to exploration of such processes in other fruits and produce.
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The Practice will:
- Provide large font Practice leaflets.
- Promote the Induction Loop System and provide staff training. Loop signs will be clearly displayed in Reception and patients will be asked to indicate if they wish to use this.
- Ensure signage is clear and non-obstructive.
- Provide a clearly marked and wider disabled parking bay(s).
- Allow guide or other assistance dogs into the premises.
- Provide a range of high-backed winged-chairs with a high seat base to assist elderly or disabled patients in standing or sitting.
- Offer private room facilities for patients who may have communication, reading, or writing difficulties.
- Allow disabled patients to make appointments by unusual methods, e.g. online booking or letter. The Practice will respond to these requests using the method most appropriate to the needs of the patient.


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Self-produced booklets by migrant parents about their own educational background
To make a folder that compares the migrant parents' educational background with the Danish school system and its pedagogical background. The aim is to create dialog and understanding.
How to do:
1. Meeting – parents and teachers
a. The parents in each class talk together two and two about their own educational background. They talk about their experiences with: education, homework, discipline, teachers, school yard, and how their parents worked together with the teachers.
Each pair of parents agrees on a history they want to tell, and the stories will be recorded on tape.
b. The parents talk together about their children's education, and choose one ore two stories, and the stories will also be recorded on tape.
An interpreter helps the teacher to translate and write the stories. These stories are collected in a small booklet.
The small booklet will be sent home to all the parents.
2. Meeting – parents and teachers
In this meeting the parents tell their story. The teachers and the other parents ask questions and compare with their own education and school. Then they compare with their children's education and school and their way of learning.
3. Meeting – Parents, teachers and children
In this meeting the children create plays about their parent's stories. (There will be taken a lot of photos of every subject)
The subject of the sketches and the histories are:
- Parents and teachers work together
After each subject there will be discussions, comparisons and questions about the subject and to the teaching which is going on (right) now for the children. Subjects, discussions, arguments and questions are written and collected together with the photos in a (small) booklet.
The booklets are sent to the parents.
Through dialogue, debate, arguments and questions, the two booklets the parents have made themselves are going to be used as a key to understanding. In addition it creates knowledge and the possibility to ask questions.
The booklet can be adapted to different age levels.


Lawsuit Claims Architect of the Capitol Retaliated Against Congressional Tunnel Workers
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Ten workers who service the utility tunnels beneath the U.S. Capitol complex will file a
whistleblower complaint tomorrow against their employer, the Architect of the Capitol.
The lawsuit alleges that the workers were subjected to repeated retaliation and a hostile work environment after they wrote about their working conditions and environmental hazards to several members of Congress and the media earlier this year.
The ten workers maintain the plumbing systems that provide steam and chilled water to Congress, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and other federal buildings.
Frustrated by the lack of response after years of raising their concerns up the chain of command, the workers wrote a letter to three U.S. senators and one representative appealing for help.
Not long thereafter, several of the workers began attending Senate Appropriations Committee hearings and speaking to the press.
The workers say that the Architect of the Capitol then began a campaign of retaliation against the crew.
The workers allege that hazardous working conditions have existed in the tunnels for decades.
In 2000, the Architect of the Capitol was cited for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
These violations included the creation of an unsafe working environment due to falling slabs of concrete, the lack of a communications system to broadcast emergency information, and the lack of emergency exits in time of evacuation.
The workers are most concerned about their exposure to asbestos.
"One client, who was 33 at the time of the medical examination, was told by a doctor that he had the lungs of someone over 100 years old," said Joanne Royce a lawyer for the workers. "These workers were ignored, suppressed, and clearly retaliated against in violation of the Congressional Accountability Act. Someone must be held responsible."
Royce works at the Government Accountability Project in Washington, D.C.
Royce said that OSHA sent a memo to the Architect of the Capitol in 2000 urging the architect to "take action to prevent tunnel workers from breathing airborne asbestos."
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Why Mini Holland is good for our schools
The school run accounts for at least one in every five cars on London's roads, and is a major cause of congestion, pollution & frustration for road users. And its a major contributor to road danger – many parents say they drive their kids to school because its too dangerous to walk! Fear of road traffic injury is the key reason people give for not cycling and that parents give for limiting their children's independence.
In Waltham Forest 14% of children age 11 are overweight and over 23% are obese or overweight. Every hour you spend in a car makes you 6 percent more likely to be obese. Every kilometer you walk (about.6 of a mile) reduces it by almost 5 percent. So making active travel safer and easier means better physical health, fewer car journeys and less congestion, pollution & road danger.
Within living memory, children & young people have lost the independence previous generations have enjoyed. Now we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to change this. Communities need streets free from non-essential motor traffic in order to thrive. We need safe streets where children can make friends, invent new games and learn to compromise with each other. By creating convivial streets we can help young people can develop independence, confidence and social awareness. 'Mini Holland' principles can contribute to creating a borough where young people can feel they have a stake in their own communities.
Through the Mini Holland programme our local authority is moving to create an environment where parents once again feel able to allow children their freedom. Empowering parents & young people to take ownership of their neighbourhoods can help to halt the decline in physical activity and informal social interaction. The current situation is severe, for example in Walthamstow's High Street Ward, one quarter of 10 & 11 year olds are clinically obese (with 40% considered overweight by Public Health England )and more broadly there is evidence that mental health problems have doubled in young people over the past 30 years.
As children grow many yearn to walk to school with friends instead of with fussing parents or carers, however far fewer are allowed that freedom today than just twenty years ago. Many parents & carers fear the consequences of allowing a child to cross even side roads alone and in some cases this leads to not being allowed out of the house at all. Such is the decline in informal street play on the pavements of the borough, that any child lucky enough to be allowed out in front of their home may well find their street deserted, there's no one to play with any more.
In particular the Mini Holland 'Village' schemes are taking significant steps towards reversing the decline in childhood freedom. With bold measures like those seen in Walthamstow Village, our streets can once again be places where children, young people and the vulnerable come first.


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the random variables X may now be written as expected: so, for discrete-valued X, one writes
The above notation is strictly correct for a finite number of discrete random variables, but should be seen to be somewhat 'informal' for continuous variables; properly, the summations above should be replaced with the notations of the underlying sigma algebra used to define a probability space. That said, the identities continue to hold, when properly formulated on a measure space.
Thus, for example, the entropy is given by
The Gibbs measure is the unique statistical distribution that maximizes the entropy for a fixed expectation value of the energy; this underlies its use in maximum entropy methods.
Multiple derivatives with regard to the Lagrange multipliers gives rise to a positive semi-definite covariance matrix
This matrix is positive semi-definite, and may be interpreted as a metric tensor, specifically, a Riemannian metric. Equipping the space of lagrange multipliers with a metric in this way turns it into a Riemannian manifold. The study of such manifolds is referred to as information geometry; the metric above is the Fisher information metric. Here, serves as a coordinate on the manifold. It is interesting to compare the above definition to the simpler Fisher information, from which it is inspired.
That the above defines the Fisher information metric can be readily seen by explicitly substituting for the expectation value:
where we've written for and the summation is understood to be over all values of all random variables. For continuous-valued random variables, the summations are replaced by integrals, of course.
Curiously, the Fisher information metric can also be understood as the flat-space Euclidean metric, after appropriate change of variables, as described in the main article on it. When the are complex-valued, the resulting metric is the Fubini–Study metric. When written in terms of mixed states, instead of pure states, it is known as the Bures metric.
By introducing artificial auxiliary functions into the partition function, it can then be used to obtain the expectation value of the random variables. Thus, for example, by writing
one then has
Multiple differentiations lead to the connected correlation functions of the random variables. Thus the correlation function between variables and is given by:
then the correlation function can be understood to be the Green's function for the differential operator (and generally giving rise to Fredholm theory). In the quantum field theory setting, such functions are referred to as propagators; higher order correlators are called n-point functions; working with them defines the effective action of a theory.
- Gavin E. Crooks, "Measuring thermodynamic length" (2007), ArXiv 0706.0559


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Children's Growth Chart
A growth chart is a graph used to track a child's growth and development over time. At each of your child's well-child visits, the doctor will measure:
These measurements are plotted on a graph according to your child's age and sex.
Growth charts show the consistency of your child's pattern of growth over time. It is important to remember that your child is likely to have growth spurts as well as periods of slow growth, even as a baby. Talk to your doctor if you have any concerns. For more information about growth charts, go to the website _URL_
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After the foundation of the cell theory by Schleiden and Schwann, the embryologists of the 19th century focused on the phenomenon of programmed cell death. More than 100 reports were published in that century.1
Nevertheless, as we all know, the term apoptosis was not introduced until 1972, when John Kerr, who was studying ischaemically induced hepatic cell death, moved to Aberdeen to continue his investigations with the team of Alastair Currie.2
That same year, their findings were published, with help from Currie's PhD student, Andrew Wylie, in a report for the British Journal of Cancer
. In it, they coined the term apoptosis, from the Greek (apo plus ptosis), meaning falling off, in the same way that fruit falls from a tree when it becomes ripe.3
We were, therefore, astonished to see, when revising a Spanish dictionary of medicine, surgery, and auxiliary sciences from the 19th century, the term apoptosis.4
The book was written in 1878 by J Cuesta y Ckerner who, at that time, was the founder, director, and owner of the newspaper La Correspondencia Medica.
The word apoptosis appeared nearly 100 years before it was coined by Kerr, Wylie, and Currie, but more surprising is its meaning. According to the author, apoptosis is nothing more than the act of easing or loosening a bandage.
How would we have explained to Ckerner that a century later, so many hours of molecular study and laboratory practice and years of multidisciplinary investigation, would be necessary to learn correctly the mysteries and secrets related to what he considered the art of slackening a bandage? He simply would not have believed it.


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Symbaroum is one of the most interesting RolePlaying Games recently published, from the Swedish Jarnringen.
GGstudio is proudly the publisher of the Italian edition.
If you dare to explore the Davokar, that's what you are going to find:
- A fast-paced and flexible rule-set for creating player characters and acting in the game world
- 5 playable races and 3 archetypes, divided into 15 occupations, as a basis for character creation
- 35 abilities, 25 mystical powers, 33 rituals and a large number of weapons and armors to make each character unique
- Detailed guidelines for how to create adventures; 38 monsters and adversaries, and 19 monstrous traits to arm the characters' enemies with
- More than 50 pages describing the game world's history, geography and cultures, focusing on four particular settings: the Forest of Davokar, the fortune hunter's town of Thistle Hold, the Ambrian capital Yndaros and the cliff of Karvosti where the barbarian clans convene.
- Symbaroum is a complete roleplaying game; all you need to play is paper, pen and a dice set.
- The roleplaying game Symbaroum is suitable for all adventurous humans, goblins and trolls from the age of 12.


How Old Should Kittens Be When They Are Weaned
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How old should kittens be when they are weaned. Between eight and ten weeks of age, a kitten should be fully weaned and preparing to leave its mother if you plan to find the kitten a new home. The first vaccinations are typically administered at about eight weeks of age, so when the kittens have a vet visit, you can be sure they have been growing appropriately. By six to seven weeks old, they should be able to chew dry food and you'll no longer need to moisten it. Kittens are typically fully weaned by around eight weeks of age. Kittens need large amounts of energy–about two to three times that of an adult cat. Food for your kitten should contain at least 30% protein. Rushed Weaning: Kittens shouldn't be weaned suddenly. Rather, weaning should be a gradual process in which they alternate between nursing and eating cat food, slowly increasing the amount of cat food consumed and decreasing the nursing time until nursing ceases altogether. At 6-8 weeks of age, kittens are not ready to stop nursing.
Kittens should be able to relieve themselves after three weeks of age. If they are growing, gaining weight and seem healthy, things are probably good. Most kitten vaccine protocols start at 6 weeks of age. Let your vet examine them to make sure they are doing well when they get their first vaccine. Usually kittens can be weaned at 4 weeks old and the process is done when they are 8 weeks old. Or, if the kittens can already stand firmly without wobbly, introduction to solid foods can be started. However, based on the newest research which is led by Professor Hannes Lohi from Helsinki University, the weaning process is recommended to be. People often assume that once a kitten is able to eat solid food at around six weeks of age, they are able to be weaned and go to their new homes. However, this is to be discouraged, as the kitten will only just have started to get used to the new status quo, and should not be removed from the dam until they have reached the juvenile, rather.
The kittens are almost fully weaned and continue to play and learn. Being introduced to new people, places in the home, and other pets is an important part of socialization. They are pretty self-sufficient at this point, though Darling, Denby, Corduroy, Tweed, and Wembley still get comfort from mom. Kittens should eat kitten food from the time they are weaned up until they are one year old. Kittens are okay with eating either canned or dry food. The kittens should also have a constant supply of fresh drinking water. If you have gathered all the aforementioned supplies, you can start the process. The weaning process usually continues for about another month until the kittens are fully weaned between eight and 10 weeks of age. During this time, the kittens will still occasionally nurse on their mother but they will also start to eat liquid kitten food. The liquid kitten food should gradually get thicker until it is a watered-down canned kitten food or a moistened kitten kibble.
Kittens must be at least 8 weeks old and fully weaned before they can leave their mothers. If you believe this advertiser is letting their kittens go before 8 weeks of age, please report them to us. Read further information on the minimum age kittens should be before leaving their mothers While this may be true, adopting a kitten before he's old enough to leave his mother and litter mates could result in health issues and behavior problems. Most breeders and legitimate pet stores will only offer kittens for sale as young at 8 weeks, with some waiting until 12 weeks of age. When should kittens be weaned? The weaning process has to start when kittens are approximately four weeks of age, but sometimes it depends on the animal. Some kittens can be weaned when they're 1-month-old, but others have to be weaned at six weeks of age.
Weeks 5-6: The weaning kittens should start to nibble on the kibble, slightly moistened with water. Weeks 6-7: By now, the kitten weaning process is complete, and they should be eating all solid food by week seven. The kittens should be neutered when they're around four months old. If neutering is not carried out by then, you should separate males from females and the queen to prevent in-breeding. Ask your vet if you need help sexing the kittens. Rehoming – Ask your vet when is the right time to rehome the kittens. This will depend on their behavioural. Generally speaking, an 8-week old kitten should weigh between 1.4 and 2.6 pounds. Anything outside that range is a sign that your kitten is either too thin or too obese. Maine Coon kittens, 8 weeks old 8-Week Old Kitten Interaction and Socialization. You can interact with your kitten more freely once they are 8 weeks old.
Weaning refers to the process by which a kitten goes from mother's milk to solid food. The process generally begins when a kitten is around four weeks old and should be complete by eight to ten weeks. Weaning can begin earlier in the case of orphaned or hand-fed kittens. Pet owners should make the transition as easy as possible for kittens. At What Age Should Kittens Be Weaned? The weaning process normally begins when kittens are around four weeks old, and is usually completed when they reach eight to ten weeks. If you are in charge of weaning an orphaned kitten, please remember that weaning should not be attempted at too early of an age. When Can Kittens be Weaned? Experts suggest that you start to wean a kitten at about a month to six weeks old. At that age, they usually will have developed incisors and an appetite for meat. When you offer a kitten meat and she gobbles it up eagerly, that's a clear sign that she is ready to be weaned and start eating regular, solid food, at.
Normally, kittens will need to be weaned once they reach four weeks. Experts suggest that you slowly introduce solid foods into their diets by mixing soft meat with hot water so that it is easily chewed at four weeks. Don't make the mistake of mixing the food with cow's milk—cow's milk is not the same as cat's milk and should not be.
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F5-peptide induces aspermatogenesis by disrupting organization of actinand microtubule-based cytoskeletons in the testis
During the release of sperm at spermiation, a biologically active F5-peptide, which can disrupt the Sertoli cell tight junction (TJ) permeability barrier, is produced at the site of the degenerating apical ES (ectoplasmic specialization). This peptide coordinates the events of spermiation and blood-testis barrier (BTB) remodeling at stage VIII of the epithelial cycle, creating a local apical ES-BTB axis to coordinate cellular events across the epithelium. The mechanism(s) by which F5-peptide perturbs BTB restructuring, and its involvement in apical ES dynamics remain unknown. F5-peptide, besides perturbing BTB integrity, was shown to induce germ cell release from the epithelium following its efficient in vivo overexpression in the testis. Overexpression of F5-peptide caused disorganization of actinand microtubule (MT)-based cytoskeletons, mediated by altering the spatiotemporal expression of actin binding/regulatory proteins in the seminiferous epithelium. F5-peptide perturbed the ability of actin microfilaments and/or MTs from converting between their bundled and unbundled/defragmented configuration, thereby perturbing adhesion between spermatids and Sertoli cells. Since apical ES and basal ES/BTB are interconnected through the underlying cytoskeletal networks, this thus provides an efficient and novel mechanism to coordinate different cellular events across the epithelium during spermatogenesis through changes in the organization of actin microfilaments and MTs. These findings also illustrate the potential of F5-peptide being a male contraceptive peptide for men.


text: Engineering problem solving requires both domain knowledge and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge. While much of the recent work in qualitative physics has focused on building reusable domain theories, there has been little attention paid to representing the control knowledge necessary for applying these models. This paper shows how qualitative representations and compositional modeling can be used to create control knowledge for solving engineering problems. This control knowledge includes modeling assumptions, plans and preferences. We describe an implemented system, called TPS (Thermodynamics Problem Solver) that illustrates the utility of these ideas in the domain of engineering thermodynamics. TPS to date has solved over 30 problems, and its solutions are similar to those of experts. We argue that our control vocabulary can be extended to most engineering problem solving domains, and employed in a wide variety of problem solving architectures.


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Botox for the Brain
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Here's an innovative way to lower health care costs: Set everyone's biological clock back 20 years. Senior citizens of 75 will enjoy the strength and stamina they had at 55, meaning they will need far less medical attention. The energetic elderly will remain productive members of their community later into life, which could also ease the strain on Social Security.
Granted, this sounds like an unusually wonky episode of The Twilight Zone. But three decades ago, Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer conducted a landmark experiment that suggested reverse aging needn't be relegated to the realm of science fiction. Her revealing study, the many follow-ups it spawned and the implications of their findings are the subject of her fascinating new book Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility.
In a sense, this is a book about the limits of empirical knowledge. But as Langer sees it, the ambiguity that inevitably accompanies medical research can be profoundly liberating. If we can't be sure that a diagnosis — or a widely accepted truism such as "memory loss is inevitable with age" — truly applies in our case, we're less likely to stick ourselves with a self-limiting label. "While many of our experienced disabilities may be a natural part of aging," she writes, "many are instead a function of our mindsets about old age."
A fluke, perhaps? Well, Langer offers plenty of other data suggesting a strong link between self-perception and health. My favorite involves a group of hotel maids who reported their long hours and family responsibilities didn't give them time to exercise. They were then told that their work, with all its bending and scrubbing, in fact involves quite a bit of exercise. So informed, they lost an average of 2 pounds over the next four weeks. Langer, who has spent several decades studying the effects of mindfulness, notes the women were paying renewed attention to activities that long ago became routine and mechanical. That, she suggests, is the key: If you're noticing the precise condition of the carpet rather than daydreaming as you vacuum, chances are you'll push the machine a little bit harder.
Langer defines mindfulness not in the sense of meditation and detachment popularly associated with Buddhism, but rather as being aware enough to notice subtle changes in ourselves and in our environment. The health implications of such alertness are obvious: If we notice small shifts in how we feel, we can address problems before they become acute. She argues we will also begin to realize that the distinction we make between being "sick" and "well" is often arbitrary and usually unhelpful, in that it prompts us to bounce back and forth between willful ignorance of our body's workings and helpless dependence on a medical professional.
Langer wrote a best-selling book on mindfulness in 1990, and this latest volume may also climb the charts: A Hollywood movie focusing on the counterclockwise experiment, starring Jennifer Aniston as the research psychologist, is scheduled for release next year. No doubt the renewed interest in Langer's research reflects a widespread fear of aging among baby boomers, many of whom will resonate to her ideas. How many have the discipline to follow through on her recommendations is another question. Living a fully engaged life in which we constantly question not only society's assumptions about aging but also our own ingrained beliefs is a bit more involved than getting a Botox injection.
Nevertheless, policymakers and health educators need to be exposed to these concepts. (Her chapter about the consequences of language used by doctors should be taught in medical schools. Does anyone really feel better when told their cancer is "in remission"?) Langer persuasively suggests it is no coincidence that a society that worships youth and considers the elderly somewhat embarrassing is bankrupting itself with health care costs. If pop culture and the mass media equate being old with being weak, helpless and irrelevant, why wouldn't the elderly feel feeble?
So the fountain of youth may in fact be the flood of chemicals in our brain that processes both internal and external messages about old age and dutifully passes them on to our joints, blood vessels and vital organs. Perhaps it's time to start noticing these cerebral downloads and disregard the disempowering ones. Personally, I'm planning to pop in a tape of When Harry Met Sally into the VCR and celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. It turns out 1989 was quite a year.
Just Say No to Aging?
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Imagine that you could rewind the clock 20 years. It's 1989. Madonna is topping the pop charts, and TV sets are tuned to "Cheers" and "Murphy Brown." Widespread Internet use is just a pipe dream, and Sugar Ray Leonard and Joe Montana are on recent covers of Sports Illustrated.
But most important, you're 20 years younger. How do you feel? Well, if you're at all like the subjects in a provocative experiment by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, you actually feel as if your body clock has been turned back two decades. Langer did a study like this with a group of elderly men some years ago, retrofitting an isolated old New England hotel so that every visible sign said it was 20 years earlier. The men—in their late 70s and early 80s—were told not to reminisce about the past, but to actually act as if they had traveled back in time. The idea was to see if changing the men's mindset about their own age might lead to actual changes in health and fitness.
That means that some people may be able to change prescriptions if they change the way they think about seeing. But other health consequences might be more important than that. Here's another study, this one using clothing as a trigger for aging stereotypes. Most people try to dress appropriately for their age, so clothing in effect becomes a cue for ingrained attitudes about age. But what if this cue disappeared? Langer decided to study people who routinely wear uniforms as part of their work life, and compare them with people who dress in street clothes. She found that people who wear uniforms missed fewer days owing to illness or injury, had fewer doctors' visits and hospitalizations, and had fewer chronic diseases—even though they all had the same socioeconomic status. That's because they were not constantly reminded of their own aging by their fashion choices. The health differences were even more exaggerated when Langer looked at affluent people: presumably the means to buy even more clothes provides a steady stream of new aging cues, which wealthy people internalize as unhealthy attitudes and expectations.
Langer is not advocating that we all don uniforms. Her point is that we are surrounded every day by subtle signals that aging is an undesirable period of decline. These signals make it difficult to age gracefully. Similar signals also lock all of us—regardless of age—into pigeonholes for disease. We are too quick to accept diagnostic categories like cancer and depression, and let them define us. Doing so preempts the possibility of a healthful future.
That's not to say that we won't encounter illness, bad moods or a stiff back—or that dressing like a teenager will eliminate those things. But with a little mindfulness, we can try to embrace uncertainty and understand that the way we feel today may or may not connect to the way we will feel tomorrow. Who knows, if we're open to the idea that things can improve, we just might wake up feeling 20 years younger


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W QTL-NILs with ranges of 21.25–26.25 g (7.05–32.16% greater than the recurrent parent) and 95.97% of RRGB, were selected.
The distribution of genetic diversity between Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica and O. sativa L. ssp. japonica covering different ecological zones in Yunnan was studied, and specific markers of indica/japonica subspecies, paddy/upland rice and different ecological zones were screened, using 36 microsatellite primers and 113 accessions in the Yunnan landrace rice core collection. The genetic diversity of japonica was higher than that of indica, and the ecological zone with the highest and smallest genetic diversity lay in south-east and north-east Yunnan, respectively. This distribution was consistent at morphological and isozyme levels with studies on the entire Yunnan rice resources and core collection. In addition, the results showed that, among 416 markers, there were six indica/japonica-specific markers, 15 specific markers for paddy/upland rice and three specific markers in different ecological zones. The main conclusions are that the landrace rice core collection in Yunnan genetically represents the entire landrace rice resources in Yunnan, the centre of genetic diversity at DNA level lies in south-east Yunnan, and the DNA differentiation between indica and japonica is small. Furthermore, microsatellite markers were useful for studying the genetic diversity, classification and ecotype of germplasm resources and their core collection.
In our series of 400 Chinese children with foreign body aspiration (FBA),343 cases were evaluated by fluoroscopy and/or plain chest X-rays before endoscopic removal of the foreign bodies. The majority of the foreign bodies (FBs) were organic (378/400, 94.5 per cent). The results showed that mainstem bronchial foreign bodies were diagnosed correctly in 68 per centof cases compared with 65 per cent correct diagnoses with segmental bronchial foreign bodies, but only 22 per cent correct diagnoses with tracheal, and 0 per cent correct diagnosis in those with laryngeal foreign bodies. Eighty per cent (32/40) of the children with laryngotracheal FBs had normal X-ray findings, whereas 67.7 per cent (205/303) of the children with bronchial FBs had abnormal chest X-ray findings. The most common positive radiological signs in the children with tracheobronchial FBs were obstructive emphysema (131/213, 62 per cent) and mediastinal shift (117/213, 55 percent). The incidence of major complications was related not only to the size of the foreign body and its location but also the duration since aspiration. The most common types of bronchial obstructions by airway FBs are discussed.
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading vendor of secure content management solutions, is now conducting open beta-testing of Kaspersky Security for PDA 5.5. The new product incorporates a range of upgrades and improvements, significantly extending the product's functionality.
Kaspersky Security for PDA protects data on handheld computers and smartphones. Kaspersky Anti-Virus technology optimized for pocket devices offers comprehensive protection for handheld computers running PocketPC and Palm OS, and smartphones running Microsoft Smartphone 2002 and Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone.
The latest version of the solution has a new, user-friendly interface. Virus detection and disinfection functions have been upgraded. The new antivirus monitor complements the existing functions by tracking application activity in real time, ensuring that malicious code cannot be executed. Updates to the antivirus databases can be downloaded automatically, meaning the device is protected against even the very newest viruses.
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The Introverted Parent's Guide to Playdates
by Word of Mom Blogger on May 14, 2014
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Mom's Guide to Surviving Playdates
Introverted moms, I get it: Talking to people sucks. The fact that you and some other person both have children does not automatically mean you will connect on any level. But because your kids are friends, or because you want your kid to have friends, we introverted parents must navigate the painfully awkward waters of socializing with fellow parents. (And maybe grown ups need to make friends too. Maybe.)
READ: How to Help Your Toddler Make Friends
If, like me, you're a shy mom trying to develop a positive attitude toward socializing despite a near-clinical level of nervous sweat, here are a few real-life strategies that can minimize potential awkwardness. Remember, you're just trying to facilitate a fun playdate for the kids, which might also include—shocking as it may seem at first—some actual grown up fun.
1. Never have a play date at the playground. It is the equivalent of going to a party with someone you just met. You'll spend the whole time you're there searching for each other, or, worse, awkwardly wondering, "Should I follow them around or hang back? Should I join them at the swings or let my kid play alone in the sand box where she's going to insist on taking off her shoes and tights?" Often, your kids will run in opposite directions and refuse to play together at all, which means all that stress cortisol production was for nothing. Even if you both have crawlers, you could end up spending the entirety of the play date fishing acorns our of your kid's mouth. The name of the game here is containment. That means indoors, preferable on your home turf, in the afternoon, with wine.
2. Make sure the children are as independently occupied as possible. That means staging. Before the play date and parent arrive, set out kid-friendly snacks. (This is where my chest starts to get tight and the walls close in, and what should be simple starts to feel like "Entertaining," which is basically hell with canapés. Deep breath.) Remember that the beauty of the play date is that you don't have to make it look good for the parent, just for the kid. So a couple of bowls of pretzels and goldfish and you're done—maybe apple slices if you really want to be fancy.
READ: Planning Your Child's First Playdate
Next, set out three or four toy stations (read: piles). I have my toys organized by type in old shoe boxes, so out come the trains in one corner, the plastic animals in a different area and the Duplo in another. The station system limits the "dump and spread" method of toy selection, but more importantly it invites the guest to immediately jump in and play. For precrawlers, set out your activitiy mat or pile some pillows on the floor so you can prop them up and let them do a little side-by-side drooling. Having toys and snacks out will give the kids more independence from you, meaning fewer interruptions. Why, you may ask, would I want more uninterrupted time? Because constant interruptions mean you will never get the conversation rolling with the parent—you'll just be replaying the first few awkward minutes with subject changes, since neither of you will remember where you left off.
3. Remember you're not actually an alien from another planet. While the playdate parent may be completely different from you—a former cult member, a proponent of Elimination Communication, Canadian—you do have things in common. You have your kids. When my daughter was first born I avoided mommy groups because it felt false, like forcing a bond that wouldn't naturally arise. I realize now that was my fear talking, and really most people are kind, smart, and eager to be liked (sound familiar?). The shared experience of parenting will always give you something to talk about. You can start by asking your guest to tell their child's birth story. Everyone wants to tell their story, and now that I have a kid, I find those stories endlessly fascinating. From there you've got developmental stages, food issues, schools, discipline. You could get through a whole play date just talking about sleep. And you may find that you actually like this fellow parent, you may one day hang out with them without your children. You may, one day, prefer that.
READ: 9 Fab Playdate Ideas
4. Have an escape strategy. And it needs to be two-fold. First, always set an end time to the play date. You don't want to be hosting an impromptu pizza dinner against your will. Second, not to freak you out, but there is always the teeny tiny possibility that things might go wrong, deeply wrong, like if the kid is a hitter and the parent is a monosyllabic, wine-abstaining, talking-to-their-kid-in-baby-talk nightmare. In that event, take out a four-person game like Candyland or blocks or Jenga, get down on the floor, and start playing with those kids. The parent joins in. Crisis averted.
But, who knows, maybe your first play date with one particular mom will be amazing, jokes, laughter, bonding. You'll touch on every subject, the kids will get along, and you'll think, "What was I so worried about?" And you'll realize (oh, crap) this means you have to have a second play date.
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The Pinoleville Pomo Nation Environmental Department works toward the promotion of healthy communities with work in food and agriculture including the promotion of native plants, organic, non-GMO fruits and vegetables and
community outreach. The PPN horticultural program is designed to meet an array of critical needs for its members and the broader community including:
- Improving the diet. Native Americans suffer from a high rate of diabetes, heart disease, lupus and other lifestyle-related diseases. Fresh, organic vegetables, fruits, nuts and other produce will improve diets and health among PPN citizens.
- Improving the self-concept of Native youth. Many PPN children struggle in the school system to assert a positive cultural identity. Growing foods, fiber plants, and other resources to support themselves and to supply their neighbors will build pride and a sense of purpose. Learning specific horticultural skills will create job and recreation opportunities that can sustain that positive self-concept. As an after-school activity, horticulture also nurtures positive social relations and builds resumes for college applications.
- Restoring the local environment. For many years, PPN lands have been dumping grounds of one sort or another – for solid waste, storm water, hazardous materials, LULUs. A horticultural program that can produce plants native to local ecosystems can help restore basic ecological functions.
- Developing a sustainable economy. A horticultural program can supply food to the PPN Head Start, Big Time, and other programs and events, reducing Tribal expenses and allowing money to be invested elsewhere. We can also establish contracts to supply local restaurants, farmers' markets, and the Ukiah Natural Food Coop.
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The EUR 27 million project required LCW Consult (LCW) to design a pre-stressed, concrete cantilever bridge between Lisboa and Coimbra, with a 250-meter main span at 140 meters above the riverbed, to ensure transparency of the Ceira Valley. To accommodate the large main bridge span, optimize aerodynamics, and ensure geometry control using balanced cantilever construction, LCW needed integrated bridge design and analysis software.
LCW used Bentley PowerCivil and RM Bridge to study seven different structural options to determine the most efficient design and construction solution. Bentley software helped to facilitate communication among the teams and enabled LCW to model and evaluate aerodynamic conditions and geometrical shape to reduce unforeseen adjustments during construction and to ensure optimal structural performance of the bridge.
The modeling and analysis capabilities of RM Bridge allowed LCW to study different structural scenarios and determine the most efficient solution in terms of cost, risk, and safety of the project. Using RM Bridge resulted in a 25 percent reduction in design time compared to conventional spreadsheet analysis. Integrating Bentley software improved team collaboration and reduced engineering hours, yielding a cost savings of approximately EUR 52,000. In addition, the RM Bridge code library enabled the team to easily comply with Eurocodes.
LCW used Bentley engineering software for design, analytical, and construction modeling to optimize aerodynamics and ensure geometry control for the large main span bridge to be built by the cantilever method. Integrating PowerCivil and RM Bridge facilitated collaboration between the engineering office and the field, increasing the precision of geometry modeled to reduce unforeseen adjustments during construction. The flexibility and interoperability of Bentley software ensured optimal structural design and performance for the EUR 27 million bridge project.


man jay (Commandes) - an LALR(1) parser generator for Java and C#
jay - an LALR(1) parser generator for Java and C#
jay [ -tv ] [ -c ] [ -p ] [ -b file_prefix ] [ -V yyValue ] filename < skeleton
Jay reads the grammar specification in the file filename and generates an LR(1) parser for it. The parsers consist of a set of LALR(1) parsing tables and a driver routine from the file skeleton written in the Java programming language. Jay writes the parse tables and the driver routine to standard output.
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The -b option changes the prefix prepended to the output file names to the string denoted by file_prefix. The default prefix is the character y.
The -c option makes jay generate C# code instead of the default Java.
The -t option arranges for debugging information to be incorporated in the compiled code.
The -v option causes a human-readable description of the generated parser to be written to the file y.output.
The -p option causes jay to print the directory in which its sample skeleton files are installed. If a project wants to use the default skeleton file included with jay, it can use this option in a makefile to find the path to the skeleton or skeleton.cs file included with the jay distribution.
If the environment variable TMPDIR is set, the string denoted by TMPDIR will be used as the name of the directory where the temporary files are created.
If there are rules that are never reduced, the number of such rules is reported on standard error. If there are any LALR(1) conflicts, the number of conflicts is reported on standard error.
Jay is derived from Berkeley yacc. Input conventions closely follow those of yacc ; for details, consult the parser skeleton file and the commented example included with the sources.


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Human First Impulse Is Generosity
When people have to make a choice instantly of being more or less generous, their first impulse is toward cooperation. Sophie Bushwick reports
Are human beings inherently generous or selfish? A new study finds that when people have to make the choice instantly, their first impulse is cooperation—which indicates that generosity is innate. Only when they have more time to consider their choice do they behave more selfishly. The research is in the journal Nature. [David G. Rand, Joshua D. Greene and Martin A. Nowak, Spontaneous giving and calculated greed]
In the study, researchers ran several tests in which each participant in a small group received money and then had to decide how much to invest in a shared group fund. The more time people had to choose how much to donate, the less they gave. Subjects told they had to make a decision within 10 seconds even gave more than others who were told they had to wait the same 10 seconds before deciding.
Because snap decisions are based on intuition, the researchers concluded that generosity is the intuitive human response. But given time, we can reason our way to a more selfish decision.
This intuitive cooperation might be either genetically hardwired, or a cultural construct. Either way, next time I run a fundraiser, I'm bringing a stopwatch.
—Sophie Bushwick
[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]
[Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.]
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What's used to steer Jefferson Lab's electron beam?
Although it may not look like it at first, the Jefferson Lab accelerator really works much like your TV set. Electrons are accelerated to higher energies by precision-tuned ever-changing electrical fields (the "RF fields"). To steer them, one uses electromagnets to push them to the side (or vertically). The basic type is the "dipole" with a "north" and "south" pole. They act much like a prism does with light. A prism will bend white light and separate it into its different colors. The dipole magnet will "bend" the electron beam and separate the electrons of differing energy. As in life, nothing is that simple, so one also has to use "quadrupole" (two sets of north and south poles) and "sextupole" (six poles) magnets to keep the beam focused just as lenses are used to focus light.
The electron beam begins its first orbit at the injector and proceeds through the underground race track-shaped accelerator tunnel at nearly the speed of light. The accelerator uses superconducting radio-frequency technology to drive electrons to higher and higher energies. A refrigeration plant, called the Central Helium Liquefier or CHL, provides liquid helium for ultra-low-temperature (-456°F) superconducting operation. After the electrons are accelerated around Jefferson Lab's accelerator, they are steered by the electromagnets in the "beam switchyard" into the three Halls. The electron beam can be split for use by three simultaneous experiments in the end stations, which are circular, domed chambers with diameters ranging from 98 to 172 feet. Special equipment in each hall records the interactions between incoming electrons and the target materials. A continuous electron beam is necessary to accumulate data at an efficient rate yet ensure that each interaction is separate enough to be fully observed.
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How is information defined from a thermodynamics point of view? I came across some definitions using the concept of free energy of a system. If I have information stored in a finite volume of space what does it mean for the free energy and entropy of the space?
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Information doesn't really make sense in the thermodynamic point of view. It only has a meaning in the statistical physics point of view. If you have perhaps Shannon entropy in mind, that too is not a thermodynamic concept (rather, thermodynamic entropy is a special case of the Shannon entropy when subjected to equilibrium conditions). Also, what kind of system are you considering? The amount of entropy (or information) varies widely among different systems (e.g., there are systems with non-zero entropy at zero temperature, breaking the third law of thermodynamics). – Marek Jul 9 '11 at 17:42
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Information is the negative of the entropy. The information you have stored in the system is the degree to which its entropy is not maximal.
For example, if you have N particles in a box, and you can tell each of them apart from one another, and there is a partition in the center of the box, you can store N bits of information by putting each of the particles on one side or the other of the partition. The entropy gain by lifting the barrier is N\log2, and this is N nats of information lost.
If you have a computer memory with N bits of data stored, the fact that you can read and amplify the data implies that the entropy of the computer is N nats below the entropy it would have in thermal equilibrium. If the computer has capacitors charged up to store a bit, then this capacitors must have at least log2 less entropy than it should at the ambient temperature.
These bounds are ridiculous underestimates for real computers. The actual storage devices are so far away from thermal equilibrium that they have many many nats per bit, even in the most efficient computer imaginable. But the principle is that the thermal equilibrium state is, by definition, the state where you have no information about the system beyond the conserved quantities or their conjugate variables. You know the energy/temperature, the volume/pressure, the number-density of species/chemical potential, but you know nothing else, so the system is in a Maxwell Boltzmann maximum-entropy/minimum-information distribution.
The relationship between the definitions of entropy and information was noted and understood by Shannon, and led to a reevaluation of the foundations of thermodynamics in the 1960s-1980s. The physical nature of information has been emphasized many times by Landauer.
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I am looking at applying for masters in landscape architecture. From what I have seen online, most of the universities suggested are generally from the Western hemisphere. While the prospects are great, the move is not very pocketfriendly.
I was wondering if anyone has done their masters/ applied for masters in the East? If so, what is your experience?
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The Western Hemisphere is a geographical term[1][2] for the half of Earth which lies west of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the antimeridian. The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. In geopolitical terms, the context in which the term is most often used, the Encyclopedia Britannica defines it as "North and South America and the surrounding waters. Longitudes 20°W and 160°E are often considered its boundaries."[3] It may be used in a cultural or geopolitical sense as a synonym for the "New World". From Wikipedia.
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Planning in all its (dis)guises: spheres of government, functional areas and authority
The Constitution determines that the legislative and executive powers regarding'regional planning and development', 'urban and rural development', 'provincial planning' and'municipal planning' are divided among the three spheres of government. Yet the boundaries between these items listed in Schedules 4 and 5 of the Constitution are opaque and their precise content is not always apparent. Overlaps, conflicts and uncertainty may occur. In a number of landmark decisions the courts have provided content to these different functional areas. Clarity on what'municipal planning' comprises leads to more certainty on the content of the other planning areas. Draft legislation such as the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Bill (B14-2012) can also assist in adding substance to a demarcation of these different functional areas. Yet uncertainties still remain, occasioned by constitutional provisions such as sections 100, 139(1) and 155(6)-(7), that permit intervention by national and provincial government in provinces and municipalities respectively, as well as the support and monitoring by provincial government in respect of municipalities. Few clear solutions are immediately apparent. The role of the constitutional principles of co-operative government where uncertainty and conflict exist is examined, especially where no veto of one sphere over another is possible. Principles of interpretation can also assist in delineating the boundaries of the different functional areas. It seems, however, that the courts will find themselves having to address the remaining inconsistencies.