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University of Adelaide researchers find link between premature birth and phthalates used in plastics
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Pregnant women are being advised to avoid plastics used in cling wrap, shampoo and computer cables, after a new US study found a link between premature birth and chemicals known as phthalates.
The study, published today in the Paediatrics Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests women should avoid certain types of plastics during pregnancy.
Professor Sarah Robertson, from the University of Adelaide, says the study will help explain how environment factors are contributing to the rise in pre-term births.
Premature births are increasingly common in Australia and in other developed countries.
The study analysed the urine of pregnant women for phthalates, which are used to make plastics flexible.
"Lots of cosmetics and body lotions and shampoos and conditioners, in containers and gladwrap, in cables for our computers, they are present in lots and lots of different plastic compounds," Professor Robertson said.
"The chances of pre-term was increased by five times if the woman had high levels of these compounds in her urine. So that actually provides really a very strong linkage or association."
Pregnant women told not to panic
However she is warning pregnant women not to panic.
"What it doesn't show is that the chemicals are causing the pre-term birth and that's where you need extra information," Professor Robertson said.
"That can come from animal studies or studies in the laboratory."
Previous research has also identified a health risk with phthalates.
The Australian Government bans some children's toys which contain higher levels of one phthalate.
Professor Robertson suggests pregnant women make food fresh at home, rather than buying packaged food.
"It's recommended, as we know, that women who are pregnant have a lot of fresh food in their diet and that they avoid a lot of processed food," she said.
"So for example, buying fresh food that isn't wrapped in plastic and doesn't come in packaged or coated in plastic wrapping would be one place to start.
"Another thing to do might be to reduce exposure to cosmetics and body lotions where it's clear that phthalates are part of the preparation of that material."
More research needed to assess impact of study
The research represents a departure from much of the current advice given to pregnant women in Australia.
The research is the largest study of its type. Professor Robertson says further work is needed to consider the evidence and the impact of the work.
"We need to look more closely at this," she said. "We can't tell people to completely remove their exposure to these things. That's impossible.
"But because people need to try and be as healthy as they can when they're pregnant, I think it's sensible to say, 'look, if there's a choice between buying a sandwich that's wrapped in gladwrap and making a fresh sandwich at home in the kitchen, it's better to avoid the packaging and eat the fresh food'."
Professor Michael Permezel, president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians, says there has been a significant amount of research done on phthalates over many years.
This was the first to establish a clear link.
"So one has to be very cautious before any pregnant woman, or any other member of the community, becomes alarmed about phthalates," he said.
"If there's an effect there, it's very small. But happily, it just confirms the advice that most doctors would be giving their patients - that is to eat healthily, avoid excessively fatty foods and try and have some fresh fruit rather than packaged foods."
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With its bright white walls and majestic black domes, the 130-year old grand mosque is a magnificent site. It was here that hundreds of people sought refuge during the 204 tsunami that flattened most of the landscape of the city. The tsunami was so damaging, it demolished any structures, old and new, along the way of the tearing swell. This is a fact that gives significance to the Grand Mosque of Baiturrahman in the city of Banda Aceh. It is more than just a masterpiece of Islamic architecture in the nation, its survival from the tsunami is viewed by many residents as a direct intervention from the divine.
Royal scripture has it that the mosque was firstly built from wood in 1612 under the reign of Sultan Iskandar Muda. Some say that it was built even earlier in 1292 by Sultan Alaidin Mahmudsyah. During the Aceh war in 1873, the mosque was burnt to the ground. Realizing the value and its importance to the people of Aceh, in 1879, Major General Vander acting as current military general, rebuilt the mosque as it was once promised by Governor General Van Lansberge in 1877. Two more domes were added by the Dutch in 1936 and another two by the Indonesian government in 1957.
The Grand Mosque of Baiturrahman is located in the center of the city of Banda Aceh. Characterized by a 35-meter tower, 7 grand domes and 7 minarets, the Baiturrahman is probably the prototype for many mosques in Indonesia and Malaysian peninsula; supersede the layered roofed-style mosque.

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This paper studies the pricing of intensity-based defaultable bonds where the volatility of default intensity is assumed to be random and driven by two different factors varying on fast and slow time scales. Corrections to the constant intensity of default are obtained and then how these corrections influence the term structure of interest rate derivatives is shown. The results indicate that the fast scale correction produces a more significant impact on the bond price than the slow scale correction and the impact tends to increase as time to maturity increases.
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From its crew members to its crockery, enthusiasts have raked over every aspect of the Titanic's tragic tale. But what about the dogs on board?
There were 12 canines on the doomed ocean liner, three of which survived. Those include a baby Pomeranian, Lady, whose owner, Margaret Hays of New York City, wrapped her in a blanket and carried her into a lifeboat.
The other two dogs to survive were also small, pedigreed pooches who travelled in their owners' cabins. (All the dogs on board belonged to first-class passengers.) Sun Yat-sen, a Pekingese belonging to Henry and Myra Harper (of the Harper & Row publishing dynasty) lived to yip another day, as did a Pomeranian belonging to Elizabeth Rothschild of New York.
The nine dogs confined in the onboard kennel — where they were walked and cared for by crewmembers — all died. Two belonged to American coal magnate William Carter, who reassured his worried children that their pets were safe as they clambered into the lifeboats. His daughter Lucy was later compensated $100 by Lloyds of London for her King Charles spaniel, while his son Billy received $200 for his Airedale.
The other dogs that perished included two Airedales owned by John Jacob Astor IV and his wife, a fox terrier named Dog, and a Great Dane who was the object of a failed rescue attempt by his owner, Ann Elizabeth Isham. She climbed out of a lifeboat after being informed that her dog was too big to join her and returned to the ship's kennel. A few days after the sinking, her body was found by a recovery ship, clutching her beloved canine.
The Titanic's four-footed passengers are included in a new exhibition about Philadelphia families aboard the Titanic at the Widener University Art Gallery in Chester, Pennsylvania.


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The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) ― endorsed by the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 ― is a framework to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities. The Plan aims to strengthen routine immunization to meet vaccination coverage targets, accelerate control of vaccine-preventable diseases with polio eradication as the first milestone, introduce new and improved vaccines and spur research and development for the next generation of vaccines and technologies. The plan is expected to reduce global childhood mortality, surpassing the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 target to reduce by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate.
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Pronunciation: æ-lê-gey-dêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An alleger, someone who alleges, who claims something to be true, especially to make a claim without proof.
Notes: The verb, allege, has received considerable comment in the past. Aside from the frequent misuse of its past participle, alleged (the alleged bank-robber), it's action noun is allegation, with an unexpected -atinserted. This noun comes from a synonym of to allege, namely, to allegate. This verb rarely rises to the surface of conversation but it does exist. It has an interesting agent noun, allegator, that indicates the doer of the action. Even if it is rarer than alleger, it is certainly more amusing for its homophone.
In Play: Hey, I'm telling the truth! Now when you are subjected to false allegations, you have a more emotionally charged word for your accusers: "Ben Downe is nothing but a cold-blooded allegator who will swallow whatever the opposition feeds him, then regurgitate it for the press on command." How's that for an image of your accuser? Around the house? Sure: "Mom, I am not picking on Billy; he is just an irresponsible allegator." Now, doesn't this Good Word cast a much more powerful beam than alleger?
Word History: Today's Good Word is a creation from Latin allegat(us), the past participle of the verb allegare "to send off; to relate, recount". The verb is made up of ad-'(up)to" + legare "to appoint, assign". So, the prefix alis really ad- "(up) to", whose consonant assimilates to any other consonant to which it is attached (that is also it in arrest, attest, adduce). The root is that fascinating Proto-Indo-European root *leg-/logwhich gave us Latin lex, legis "law" and Greek logos "speech, word, idea". (The Greek root also gave us lexicon, lexical, and Lexiteria!) The best guess as to how these two meanings crossed paths is that this root goes back to the day when a king's word was the law.


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Your teacher is pointing out that most physical systems obey a time-reversal symmetry. That is, take a process (such as light or sound emission), run the clock backwards, and indeed you'll find that the inverse process happens. So if you set up the system to run in reverse, in this narrow definition the system can act as both an emitter and absorber. Now, there are some situations where time-reversal symmetry is broken, such as with many magnetic systems. Look up optical isolators, which use magnetism to allow light to propagate only one way through them (not backwards). Put an optical isolator in front of your LED, and the total system will emit light, but not absorb it (the light could be reflected instead).
As Samuel Weir mentioned in the comments, there is also a complication when you include thermodynamic processes. These include resistors heating up when you run a current through (perhaps causing an incandescent bulb to emit). While each microscopic interaction therein might technically observe time-reversal symmetry, you would never be able to set up the experiment to "run time in reverse". This is because entropy tends to increase with time. If your emitter device starts with a low-entropy state (e.g. a cold resistor carrying a client) and evolves to a high-entropy state (e.g. a hot resistor with a current), you generally won't be able to undo this with an inverse process. This is why you can't take any old resistor, cool it down, and get a voltage drop.
Another example of entropy getting in the way of perfect reciprocity is the LED. An LED will emit light with a color corresponding to its band gap. However, it can absorb light with colors equal to and bluer (that is higher-energy photons) than the band gap. So a red LED can absorb blue light but it won't emit blue light. That's not to say that it could never emit blue light (the absorption is time-reversal symmetric after all), just that it is exceedingly unlikely to happen because thermodynamically the electrons don't like to stay in the blue states for very long, and they will quickly move down to the red states, losing the excess energy to heat.


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Open Access Policies and Academic Freedom: Understanding and Addressing ConflictsJournal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (2017)
The adoption of open access (OA) policies that require participation rather than request it is often accompanied by concerns about whether such mandates violate researchers' academic freedoms. This issue has not been well explored, particularly in the Canadian context. However the recent adoption of an OA policy from Canada's major funding agencies and the development of the Fair access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) in the United States has made addressing the issue of academic freedom and OA policies an important issue in academic institutions. This paper will investigate the relationship between OA mandates and academic freedom with the context of the recent OA policy at the University of Windsor as a point of reference. While this investigation concludes that adopting OA policies that require faculty participation at the institutional level should not be an issue of academic freedom, it is important to understand the varied factors that contribute to this tension. This includes misunderstandings about journal based (gold) and repository based (green) OA, growing discontent about increased managerialism in universities and commercialization of research, as well as potential vagueness within collective agreements' language regarding academic freedom and publication. Despite these potential roadblocks, a case can be made that OA policies are not in conflict with academic freedom given they do not produce the harms that academic freedom is intended to protect.
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Total Carbonates Detection in Soil
In use from 2008-07-14
Free carbonates are compounds that coat soil particles. They form under certain conditions such as in dry climates where the pH is above 7. They are also found in some soil profiles that have parent materials made of carbonates (such as limestone).
Carbonate can be detected by measuring the CO2 generated by dissolving the carbonates. By dissolving carbonates in a fixed volume, the pressure increase in samples relative to the blanks will indicate the CO2 generated by carbonate dissolution. The Ideal Gas Law can be used to calculate the moles of CO2 in the headspace, from which the approximate quantity of carbonate can be estimated, and results can be expressed as % of total dry weight using the amount of soil that was added. Shortand long-term increases in pressure can be assumed to reflect calcite and dolomite, respectively.
- Absolute Pressure Gauge (MKS Baratron Type 122A)
- Needle adapter
- Stopwatch or clock
- Data book
- Safety glasses
- 12-mL Labco Exetainers with screw caps and septa
- 10-mL Glass syringe with 24G or 22G needle (for acid addition)
- 5 M hydrochloric acid
Soil samples ideally would be dried and finely ground (< 0.5-mm diameter) to facilitate reaction with acid.
- Weigh approximately 1.0 g (+/- 0.2 g) of dry soil into the vial, recording the exact weight. Seal the vial with the cap and septum.
- Inject 2 mL of the 5-M HCl into the vial and mix it with the soil, holding it in the hood and pointing the top away from you just in case the septum blows out. Wear safety glasses from this step onward. Also inject acid into a couple of vials containing 1.0 g of carbonate-free soil to serve as blanks.
- After 10 minutes, mix the solution again and record the pressure using the transducer. The 10-min period is necessary for full dissolution of calcite.
- Remove the vial from the transducer and briefly open the vial to vent excess pressure wearing safety glasses, and then seal the cap again.
- Measure pressure in the system again after 2-4 hours. Record time and pressure to check for additional dissolution of carbonate. Any pressure increase between 10 min and 2 hours is most likely due to dolomite dissolution.
Evangelou et al. (1984), An automated manometric method for quantitative determination of calcite and dolomite. SSAJ 48: _PHONE_.
Loeppert, R.H. and D.L. Suarez. (1996) Carbonate and gypsum. Pp. 437-475 in: Sparks, D.L. [ed.], Methods of soil analysis, Pt. 3 – Chemical methods. SSSA Book Series No. 5.


Report: YouTube passions run deep and wider for parents, millennials, Gen X
Research details how and why three key demographics spend time on the on-demand video platform
YouTube viewers come in many forms and to the platform for many different reasons, according to new Australian audience research that analyses the 'how and why' of user engagement across three key demographics: Parents, millennials and Gen X.
While the majority of parents turn to YouTube for parenting guidance (59 per cent), or to find ways to connect with their kids (49 per cent), the millennials engage with YouTube to connect with the world around them (79 per cent), or for self-development and gain a new skill (73 per cent).
Gen Xers, on the other hand, use YouTube to solve an immediate problem (74 per cent), to follow a passion (64 per cent), or rediscover their memories and relive parts of their childhood (47 per cent).
This is the first time Google has commissioned research of this kind in Australia, and employed surveys and ethnography to understand the role YouTube plays in the lives of Australians. It engaged Flamingo, Ipsos & TNS to conduct the 2500+ surveys and 35 in-depth interviews, of which 16 were in-home ethnographies, across Australia.
"This research reinforced that every Australian has their own journey on YouTube but there are some broad themes. We looked at why audiences come to YouTube and found they primarily use the platform to be entertained, inspired and educated," Google Australian head of brand advertising, Caroline Oates, said.
Google was inspired to go digging for insights by advertisers who wanted to better understand how and why people spend time on YouTube, Oates said.
Specifically, advertisers wanted "more meaning and insight" around how users are engaging with YouTube and also why users are giving it so much attention. What YouTube hopes is that marketers will now be able to tailor their approach to more effectively reach the specific audiences they care about on its on-demand video platform.
Overall, findings revealed all users are coming to YouTube with "strong intent" and looking for very "personalised experiences", Oates said.
"One of the things that was interesting, not so much surprising, is the fact that we know everyone comes for a personalised experience and they define what matters to them, and it's that relevance that's really important," she continued.
Three clear reasons emerged for why people engaged with YouTube: To be entertained, inspired and educated. The research suggests the engagement is quite a social experience.
"When you look at parents, a large reason for why they were coming, was actually as a way for them to facilitate bonding time with their kids," Oates said, explaining arts and crafts and science experiments, such as those with Coke and Mentos, are prime examples.
Millennials, unlike past generations, define success by the experiences they have, rather than their material possessions, Oates said. "It is a bit of a generational shift. They see YouTube as a key facilitator in helping them professionally and in advancing their careers. They are using it as an educational source, and also how they can learn new skills."
Gen Xers, on the other hand, remember a time before the Internet and as a group have evolved to be very adept at technology. "They have really embraced the how-to videos on YouTube and feel empowered by the way it lets them to do things they previously weren't able to do," Oates said.
This group, in particular, is reaching out to YouTube as a key source of nostalgic content, looking for old songs, TV shows, and even old cricket matches, or engaging with YouTube to solve an immediate problem.
Asked what findings were unique to the Australian market, Oates noted a strong local desire to connect to the rest of the world. That finding was particularly strong with millennials who are using YouTube as a news source and to stay informed and engaged with the world.
In addition to being connected globally, Australians are also fascinated with local content. Music is a prime example.
"We have a real deep pride of local successes on a global level given the small size of the nation… Learning more about this and those local angles, as a platform, is incredibly interesting for us, and our advertisers who're looking to reach audiences," Oates said.
A personalised, connected experience resonated loud and clear with all audiences, she added, explaining personalisation could involve either mainstream content or niche and watched on a mobile phone or TV screen.
"The study overall reinforced for us that every Australian has their own journey on YouTube. You are very unlikely to have watched a video the person sitting next to you is laughing at. Everyone is using it in a different way, and it's very interesting to see these broad themes," Oates concluded.
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Thanksgiving is a time for good food, family memories... and lots of water. (TenSafeFrogs/flickr)
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Food production is water intensive and we eat a lot of food on Thanksgiving.
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As you know, the javascript's parseFloat function works only until it meets an invalid character, so for example
parseFloat("10.123") = 10.123
parseFloat("12=zzzz") = 12
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Is there a way or an implementation of parseFloat that would return NaN if the whole string is not a valid float number?
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Use this instead:
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This is a better idea than my answer :) – rfunduk Jul 15 '10 at 15:30
Just be careful about some specific cases, e.g.: isNaN(parseFloat("")); // true and Number("") == 0; // true – CMS Jul 15 '10 at 15:38
_USER_ - You don't need to deal with illegal characters with this solution. Try this and you'll see: var x = Number("#!"); if (isNaN(x)) alert("bad"); – dcp Jul 15 '10 at 16:01
_USER_ - I'm not sure I understand, when I run your example I get NaN for num, which is what I would expect since ")(*(*&()*H3.4" isn't a valid float. Also, you left off an else clause before your second alert call, so perhaps you should test your code ;). Anyway, no need to get hostile here. – dcp Jul 15 '10 at 17:07
_USER_: Number doesn't 'coerce' a number out of a string. It's a function to convert a string into a number, if it is a valid number. The question asked to only yield a number if the whole string is a valid number. – rfunduk Jul 15 '10 at 18:05
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Maybe try:
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Update: Don't do this, use _USER_'s method :)
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+1 for providing an answer that solves the problem and then pointing the OP to use an answer you consider better. – NG. Jul 15 '10 at 15:33
It's indeed a bad way to solve this problem since it won't work with value like "12.5000". – HoLyVieR Jul 15 '10 at 16:43
_USER_: Yea, it really depends on where your data is coming from. Most languages serializing out values wont pad with zeroes unless you explicitly say so. Since Number() solves these sorts of problems (with a few caveats of it's own) there's no need to do this. – rfunduk Jul 15 '10 at 18:01
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The Australian Red Cross was formed as a branch of the British Red Cross at Government House, Melbourne on 13 August 1914. It was established by Lady Helen Munro-Ferguson, wife of the Governor-General, nine days after the outbreak of World War I. Lady Munro-Ferguson had been a member of the British Red Cross in Fyfe, Scotland, and was aware of the important role the organization played in Britain. She asked the wives of each State Governor to form a local committee in each capital, which they agreed to do.
The first Australian Red Cross volunteers focused on supplying care parcels containing soap, toiletries, special food and games for sick and wounded troops. Within weeks of its foundation, the Branch was providing clothing (flannel shirts, cardigans, socks and gloves), medical supplies and equipment. Soon it was shipping items such as mosquito nets, hospital clothing and materials, and food parcels. It initiated the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD), whose members cared for the sick and wounded in hospitals, on trains during transport and in convalescent homes. The Red Cross provided assistance to the survivors of the Battle of Gallipoli, the soldiers who fought in Egypt, the blind and those suffering from the effects of war.
In 1915 it also began its Transport Service, driving soldiers who had returned on the hospital ships to their homes or convalescent facilities. By the end of 1916 the Service included 2,500 cars, with more than half overseas, working on the battlefields of France, Italy and East Africa. Transport duties included daily ambulance rounds to hospitals, weekly outings with patients, and delivering and collecting materials. The Australian Red Cross also developed the Cycle and Motor Cycle Corps, with volunteers delivering special Red Cross messages or small parcels.
After the Great War the Australian Red Cross continued to care for returned servicemen. The thousands of Australian Red Cross volunteers who had been engaged actively during the war effort remained involved through local services and programs which were expanded to include hospital visits, emergency and disaster assistance, transport and first aid training: all the while expanding the strength and professionalism of the volunteers and the capacity of Australian Red Cross. The sick and needy in the wider community were now also assisted.
In 1929 Australian Red Cross set up the Blood Transfusion Service in Victoria, which soon expanded throughout Australia. Today the Australian Red Cross Blood Service is considered to be one of the most effective and safe blood services in the world.
In the same year that the Blood Transfusion Service was established, the Second Geneva Convention stated that Red Cross volunteers could be deployed alongside official medical personnel of the armed forces in the task of searching for and evacuating wounded or killed soldiers, and in the prevention of disease in the armed forces.
In 1938 the Australian Red Cross was formally recognized as an autonomous National Society, and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1941. Its official name became The Australian Red Cross Society.
World War II placed much bigger challenges on Red Cross Society volunteers and services: 347 men and 193 women served in 23 countries, as well as on hospital ships and aircraft carriers. Thousands of Australians spent hundreds of hours in Red Cross offices around the country, packing Red Cross parcels, sewing clothes and processing tracing requests.
Volunteers worked in hospitals throughout Australia, and the Australian Red Cross also supplied all personnel except for doctors and nurses for civil emergency hospitals and first aid posts. They cooked meals, carried out immunization programs and organized blood donor drives. Australian Red Cross staff also provided assistance to captured and wounded enemy soldiers being treated in military hospitals.
Providing weekly food parcels, clothing, medical and other supplies to Australian Prisoners-of-war was one of the main tasks of Australian Red Cross. For hundreds, if not thousands, the Red Cross parcels meant survival. Many POWs in Germany, Italy and other European countries received regular Red Cross deliveries. The Japanese Government refused to permit the dispatch of food parcels, medical supplies and clothing to POWs in the Far East, however.
The scope of relief activities undertaken by Australian Red Cross during World War II was enormous. In 1945 Australian Red Cross chartered the Admiral Chase to ship supplies to Europe.
The Red Cross Tracing and Message Service was one of the busiest services during World War II. Prisoners of War have a right to communicate with their families under the Geneva Conventions, and during 1943 alone some 230,000 letters were distributed to POW camps in Malaya, Java, Shanghai, Hong Kong, China, Burma and Japan.
Australian Red Cross carried out a vast range of other relief operations throughout the war. In Egypt a surgical unit was established, and in Papua New Guinea an army hospital was set up in Torokina.
The busiest time for the Transport Service was in 1945, when volunteer drivers met thousands of wounded servicemen and returning prisoners of war.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the Australian Red Cross became active in providing emergency and development relief assistance to many countries. The need in many parts of the world was enormous. Disasters in Greece, Malaysia, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and Japan were also assisted.
After the 1950s, Australian Red Cross continued to expand its domestic and overseas humanitarian operations. During the Korean War, it provided services to Australian troops with volunteers visiting hospitals, facilitating correspondence with families at home and organizing help for released POWs. Provision of emergency relief assistance in disasters and conflicts, implementation of development programs and deployment of professional delegates all became standard activities of Australian Red Cross.
The National Office of Australian Red Cross Society is today based in Melbourne. State and Territory Offices are located in each capital city and are responsible for membership, fundraising and the provision of local services and programs.
Over 60 community services are provided in Australia, including Disaster and Community Services (such as Meals on Wheels), Tracing and Refugee Services, First Aid, Health and Safety Services and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Overseas, Australian Red Cross provides other development and emergency programs. At any given time, more than 50 medical and relief field staff bring assistance and relief to victims in war zones around the world.
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Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Come and visit the Pry House Field Hospital Museum. This museum is located in the historic Pry House on the Antietam Battlefield, which served both as Union Commander General George B. McClellan's headquarters and as Medical Director Dr. Jonathan Letterman's headquarters during the battle. Exhibits include a re-creation of an operating theater, interpretive panels, objects relating to the care of the wounded, the history of the Pry House and family, and information on the revolutionary system of evacuation of wounded created by Dr. Letterman during the battle, which is still in use today. This is why the Pry House is considered the birthplace of military and emergency medicine.
The grounds around the house also offer many sights. The Pry Barn, which was used as a field hospital, will be open to the public with displays on field hospitals. There is also an overlook at which you can view the battlefield in almost the same spot at General McClellan and his staff did in 1862. And right outside the house is a 19th century style medicinal and kitchen garden. Every plant serves a practical, rather than aesthetic, purpose. This includes medicinal plants, herbs, and vegetables for the kitchen table, just like the Pry family would have had in the 1860′s.
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The Pry House garden is a 19th century-style medicinal and kitchen garden. Every plant serves a practical, rather than an aesthetic, purpose. This blog documents learning the ins and outs of 19th century gardening.
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Authors: Nicolae Botezatu, Simona Caraiman, Dariusz Rzeszotarski, Pawel Strumillo
in: 2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)
Abstract: In this paper we describe the 3D acquisition component integrated in the Sound of Vision (SoV) system. SoV is a computer vision based sensory substitution device (SSD) for the visually impaired. Its main objective is to provide the users with a 3D representation of the environment around them, conveyed by means of the hearing and tactile senses. One of the biggest challenges for the SoV system is to ensure pervasiveness, i.e., to be usable in any indoor or outdoor environments and in any illumination conditions. To this end, the proposed 3D acquisition system was designed based on a fusion of data from different types of sensors. We present the hardware and software solution for developing this acquisition system and provide insight on its exploitation in various computational scenarios of the SoV system. In the first indoor trials with the system, carried out in modeled indoor environments, the visually impaired volunteers were capable of performing simple navigation tasks and avoiding cardboard box obstacles.
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Action figures of famous painters and modern artists
U.S. artist Mike Leavitt made this set of action figures of famous painters, street artists, filmmakers and celebrated musicians. These heavily detailed, interactive sculptures (also known as "action figures" by many in the West) are sculpted with polymer clay and mixed media by Leavitt. 95% of the color is done by mixing pigmented clay. Hidden features are built into some of the figures to make them more interesting.
Some of these action figures are for sale and prices are from $400 up to $1000.
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Banksy, world's most famous street artist from United Kingdom and his identity is still unknown. His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on subjects such as ethics, politics and culture.
Ron English is an American contemporary artist born who explores popular brand imagery and advertising. His signature style employs a mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, including comic superhero mythology and totems of art history, to create a visual language of evolution. He is also widely considered a seminal figure in the advancement of street art away from traditional wild-style lettering.
Dr.D is a British street artist containing a collection of billboard cut and paste modifications and subversive poster paste ups. He is famous for doing a political messages on streets of London.
"Big Daddy" Ed Roth (1932 – 2001) was an artist and cartoonist who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and other extreme characters. As a custom car builder, Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot-rod movement of the 1960s.
david-lynch-action-figure David Keith Lynch, a filmmaker and visual artist, famous for distinctive and unorthodox approach to narrative filmmaking (dubbed Lynchian), which has become instantly recognizable to many audiences and critics worldwide. Lynch's films are known for nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulously crafted sound design.
craola-figure Greg "Craola" Simkins is a artist weaving pop culture, the old masters, nature, carnival kitsch, and (most importantly) his warped imagination, that makes Greg Simkins a sought-after surrealist painter today. Simkins' artwork currently appears in galleries throughout the United States.
chueh-action-figure Luke Chueh is an artist, and is generally considered to be a member of the lowbrow, or pop surrealism, art movement, though he has disdain for the term. He is a painter and graphic designer active in the artist community in Los Angeles.
audrey-kawasaki-action-figu Audrey Kawasaki, is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her distinctive, erotically charged portrayals of young, adolescent women. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga.
andy-warhol-figure Andy Warhol, was a painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.
Amy Sol is an American artist of Korean ancestry, who lives in Las Vegas. She is a member in good standing of a loose knit community of artists practicing Pop Surreal, Lowbrow, or, as Robert Williams defines it, "cartoon-tainted abstract surrealism." She typically paints upon treated wooden panel, incorporating the grain of the wood into the painting. Her style integrates both narrative and figurative styles with the mystic.
David Byrne is a Scottish-born musician and artist arguably most associated with his role as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo projects on record, and worked in a variety of media, including film, photography, opera, and Internet-based projects.
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Purpose: To display and develop the songwriting gifts of Southeastern students as they create songs expressing the mission of Southeastern.
Southeastern Mission Statements:
- Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary seeks to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by equipping students to serve the Church and fulfill the Great Commission.
- The College at Southeastern equips students to give their lives for the cause of Christ, in the Church, among the nations, and in every aspect of society.
- Songs should be original works with lyrics and music written by Southeastern students.
- Any "borrowed" material (music or lyrics) must be in public domain (not under copyright)
- Song lyrics should be in line with the mission and doctrinal commitments of Southeastern Seminary and The College at Southeastern.
- Songs may be written for congregational singing, but can also be more "singer-songwriter" or soloistic.
- Songs may be co-written, but at least one of the writers must be a current Southeastern student.
- Song entries must include:
- Name, contact info, and student enrollment status (college, seminary)
- The complete lyrics of the song (typed), and
- A representation of the music of the song, including one or more of the following:
- Basic chord chart and demo recording (mp3 preferred)
- Full lead sheet with chords and notated melody
- Fully notated musical score
- Up to 2 entries per person (including co-written songs) are allowed
- Contact Professor Tricia Strong or Dr. Joshua Waggener with questions
Submissions may be sent to Dr. Joshua Waggener at _EMAIL_
To submit your song(s), please complete the following Google form: _URL_
If you'd like to submit something without using a Google account, click here: _URL_


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The Microphysics of Accountability
Accountability in research 2011 May; 18(3): 163-80
How is it possible to deploy the law to create and perform accountability? To answer this question, I address the argumentative function of the law in order to legitimize genetic medicine. Using interview data, I will in particular elaborate on how medical experts strive to convince interviewing social scientists that their own professional action is above all ethical reproach. For this purpose, medical experts capitalize on the law in specific ways. It is the aim of this article to expound exactly how this happens during qualitative research interviews. The analysis of the interview data is informed by the works of Sheila Jasanoff and Michel Foucault. The former provides an instructive conceptual background for demonstrating how the law serves as an important element of accountability practices. The latter is known for his plea not to understand the law in repressive terms. Accordingly, the law does not prohibit specific medical practices, but in a specific sense it rather makes medical practice socially robust. Based on qualitative analysis of interview data, I conclude that referring to the law allows experts of genetic medicine to evade engaging with ethical and social aspects of their work. The law was rhetorically utilized to bring a discussion on such issues to a communicative closure. For that purpose, the existence of the law was presented as proof that undesirable practices would not be possible and consequently further discussions of the matter would be unnecessary. The law allows medical experts to transfer ethical problems to other places and actors and also to promote their professional interests.
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Date: August 2007
Creator: Sarasti, Israel A.
Description: Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The procedure is a dialogue between the teacher and the students. During reciprocal teaching instruction, the teacher and students take turns leading the dialogue in order to enhance the students' comprehension-monitoring skills. The research on reciprocal teaching has included meta-analyses, group designs, qualitative designs, and single-subject research designs. These studies have identified gaps in the literature to include the measurement of treatment fidelity and treatment acceptability, as well as the psychometric properties of the instruments used to measure daily reading comprehension growth. These gaps were investigated in this study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring with a group of fifteen 3rd grade students reading at grade level. Specifically, this study investigated the use of curriculum-based measurement maze probes (CBM-maze probes) to formatively assess the reading comprehension growth of the students. Additionally, this study implemented treatment integrity procedures and investigated the acceptability of reciprocal teaching and the CBM-maze probes through a treatment acceptability rating scale. A multiple baseline across groups with three phases (baseline, intervention, follow-up) was employed....
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Complete the following test so you can be sure you understand the material. Your answers are private, and test results are not scored.
When you create a new table in Datasheet view, you must define a primary key field.
You can't use the Lookup Wizard to alter an existing value list.
When you use a template to create a table, you must set data types for the fields in the new table.
Which of the following is the correct syntax for a value list?
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Honey Tangerine Chicken
Honey tangerines, which are also known as Murcott oranges, are only grown in the state of Florida. The actual origin of this fruit is a bit of a mystery, but what we do know about it is that is a hybrid between the tangerine and sweet orange, also known as a tangor. It is thought that a man by the name of Charles Murcott Smith is the developer of the fruit, hence its name. He was a manager of a nursery located in Bayview, Florida. Charles is believed to have created the honey tangerines in the 1920s. Also, supposedly, involved in the development of the honey tangerine are J. Ward Smith and W. T. Swindle. Another name for the honey tangerines is Murcott orange, but it's mostly sold under the name honey tangerine. The fruit comes in various colors, but most of the time it has an orange red color and sometimes it's more of a yellow orange. It all depends on the winter conditions that year; if it was a cold winter, they have a darker orange and during warmer months, they have a lighter, brighter yellow orange.
The reason why the honey tangerines got their name was because of its sweet taste, perhaps the sweetest tangerine there is – usually compared to the sugar levels of the honeybell, also known as the Minneola tangelo. The juice of honey tangerines is mainly used in the kitchen for baking desserts like orange cakes. Some even put it in their salad dressing and croutons. Others put it in during the last minute of their stir fly to give it a citrusy taste. Honey tangerines are only grown in Florida between January and April. The best ones to pick are those that are a bit heavy, shiny and smooth. Those that are light may not be as juicy. Don't buy any that have green spots or wrinkled skin. Honey tangerines are known to spoil quickly, so make sure you plan to eat them fairly quickly before getting them; don't buy too many at a time if you don't think they'll be consumed in a timely manner. The average honey tangerine is small to medium in size. (Source:
I had purchased a few of these tangerines and still had one left. So I decided to just cut it up and make a sauce with it. It was very good. A little on the sweet side but not overly so and it was perfect over some brown rice.
Honey Tangerine Chicken
4-6oz. Boneless Chicken Breasts, cubed
2 tbsp. Flour
1 Honey Tangerine, peeled, segmented and cut in half
1/4 c. Honey
3/4 c. Low Sodium Chicken Broth
3/4 c. Orange Juice
1 tsp. Dill
2 tbsp. Canola Oil
In large pot or Dutch oven, heat oil and saute chicken until it is cooked through. Add flour and mix. Next, add the chicken broth, orange juice, honey, tangerine pieces and dill. Bring to a boil, then let simmer for 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and serve alone or over rice or noodles. Serves 4.
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 1. MMMM sounds wonderful Carrie! I have never had a honey tangerine before, going to see if I can get some from Cali! Nettie
 2. Carrie, this sounds wonderful, and simple enough for me to try! Going to pin this! Hugs!
 3. Thanks for sharing with Weekend PotlucK! Your photo is just GORGEOUS!!!!
 ~Tonya from 4 little Fergusons
 4. Looks amazing!!! :) Thanks for sharing, Carrie!


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In this short video, Professor Elie Bou-Zeid shows how he is using the Princeton campus as a base to study how local environments affect and are affected by the global climate. Seen here, Bou-Zeid stands in front of a meteorological station that is part of the wireless sensor network deployed across campus to monitor the microclimate of Princeton.
Video stills courtesy of Volker Steger
Video feature: Global lessons from Princeton's microclimate
Posted July 28, 2011; 12:00 p.m.
In mapping the microclimate of Princeton's campus, Elie Bou-Zeid, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, hopes to better understand how local environments affect the global climate -- and vice versa.
In this video excerpt of a full-length video produced by the School of Engineering and Applied Science Bou-Zeid describes his research and his method for collecting data. So far he has placed a dozen sensing nodes across campus to gather data on energy, water and carbon that ultimately will lead to a more complete understanding of how different building materials and vegetation interact with the local climate.
Play the video "Princeton's Microclimate: Global lessons from local buildings".
"Global climate models will tell you what's happening at the very large scale," Bou-Zeid said. "What we try to do is downscale these climate predictions to the local level. So we want to see how a small city will respond to a climate change given by these global climate models."
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What Is A P And S Agreement
It is generally recommended that you get advice from a lawyer before signing a P-S contract or an offer to purchase. An experienced real estate lawyer will discover all the problems with the contract before signing it. You may lose your deposit as a potential buyer of the real estate if it discovers a problem with the contract before the closing date. The buyer and seller sign a purchase and sale agreement in Massachusetts ("P-S") that replaces the original sales contract. Most of the stress of selling or buying a home comes from the complicated and confusing nature of the home buying process. To feel more comfortable, the best starting point is to buy and sell Agreement.So what is a P S contract? Third, the purchase and sale contract defines the seller's responsibilities. These include maintaining the insurance and maintenance of the land until closing, obtaining a smoke and carbon monoxide certificate at closing, paying the brokerage commission, obtaining a certificate 6 (d) for a condominium and requiring taxes to be paid by the seller until closing (by adjusting the HUD account statement). The agreement also provides that the seller's representative (either the broker or the lawyer) holds the buyer's down payment on a fiduciary account. Your offer contract should also include important safeguard and evasion clauses that subordinate the entire agreement to its execution or execution.
Consideration should be given to some important "subject" clauses and useful contingencies: the mortgage clause. The sale agreement should provide for the repayment of your deposit if the sale is to be cancelled because you cannot get a mortgage. For example, your sale agreement could allow the purchase to be cancelled if you cannot obtain mortgage financing at an interest rate or at a lower rate than the one you indicate in the agreement. Second, the sale and sale contract deals with title and deed. It defines the framework for a promotion (a real estate transmission) in Massachusetts. The agreement stipulates that the seller entrusts the deed to the buyer for remuneration, then the deed is registered and the buyer becomes the owner of the property. However, in Massachusetts, once the deed is registered in the correct register of deeds, then each title number "run with the country." Therefore, the new owner will be responsible for any unpaid charges or all deposit fees that have not been properly discharged.
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Let's Get Going!
Complete These Four Easy Steps:
Four easy steps to starting a Walking School Bus are described in the CPPW training booklet.
- Build the Bus - Recruit parent volunteers and walkers, form a team, plan the routes, and set the rules.
See our sample "Build the Bus" forms:
Parent Consent Form, Student Pledge Form, Student Roster, Student Attendance Record
- Train the Drivers - Review proper pedestrian safety guidelines and the walking route.
Check out our Walkability Checklist
- Start Walking - Volunteers, students, and parents increase physical activity.
- Keep it Moving - Make the walk fun.
- All children have a designated bus stop.
- Children join the bus and walk with trained adults.
- All walkers follow proper pedestrian safety.
- The Walking School Bus travels on a designated pathway and arrives to school on time.
- Get to know the bus leader.
- Fill out consent forms.
- Get children to and from the bus stop on time.
- Contact the bus leader if a child is sick or has alternate transportation.
- Reinforce walking safety tips.


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Introduction The Dr Foster Global Comparators Network (GC) aims to improve quality in healthcare by promoting inter-hospital collaboration through sharing of outcome data and benchmarking standards.
This study aims to utilise the GC database to establish whether geographical differences in outcomes exist following high-risk emergency general surgery (EGS) admissions, whilst determining if structural differences between healthcare systems can be linked to high-quality care.
Method Discharge data for a cohort of EGS patients were collated using a pre-determined protocol. Hierarchical logistic regression analysis was performed to examine geographical and structural differences between GC hospitals.
Results 69,490 patients, admitted to 23 centres across Australia, England and the USA with high-risk EGS diagnoses from 2007–2012 were identified. Outcomes including: seven/thirty-day mortality, readmission and length of stay were all superior in the USA.
19,082 patients (27%) underwent emergency abdominal surgery. No geographical differences in mortality were seen at seven-days in this subgroup. Thirty-day mortality (OR = 1.47) readmission (OR = 1.42) and length of stay (OR = 1.98) were all worse in the UK.
Across this cohort, patient factors, (age, pathology and co-morbidity) were significantly associated with worse outcome as were structural factors including: low ITU bed ratios, high unit volume and inter-hospital transfers. Having dedicated EGS teams cleared of elective commitments with formalised handover of patients was associated with shorter length of stay.
Conclusion Post-operative outcomes were similar at seven but not at thirty-days. This may be attributable to better infrastructure and resource allocation towards EGS in the US. The costs associated with this healthcare gain were not measured.
Disclosure of interest None Declared.


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The forests of the mountain ranges of northern Greece are home to Europe's largest population of the protected brown bear. But the bears who have been given sanctuary by Arcturos are far from wild. Most are the infamous "dancing bears" abandoned or confiscated from gypsies when the practice was banned in 1969.
They "danced" because they had their front feet burnt on hot coals as youngsters while their masters played the tambourine. Traumatized by the experience, they would instinctively dance whenever the familiar tune was heard.
Even if saved from this fate, however, they could never survive back in the wild. Many had their teeth broken to stop them biting their owners and were psychologically scarred by their experience in captivity.
Having heard about their dilemma by chance from an English contact involved in the LiBEARrty campaign to preserve the brown bear in the Balkans, leading winemaker Yianni Boutari decided to help set up a sanctuary near his ancestral village of Nympheon.
"There was a law which outlawed dancing bears but no system for taking the bears off the gypsies and nowhere for them to go," he recalls. Boutari had been looking for a project to breath life back into the virtually abandoned stone village (he has since been instrumental in its revival as a charming historic town).
In 1992, Arcturos was formed as a non-profit organization and the following year began programs to protect the brown bear, eventually attracting EU and private sector support, as well as funds from WWF. Today, Arcturos has a team of 16 staff, 40 associates and another 40 volunteers whose work entails protecting and managing the area's natural environment and wildlife. They are also leading Balkan initiatives to monitor and protect the region's bear population.
Thirteen bears have found a home in the five-acre sanctuary, including an American black bear from a circus and three refugees from the Belgrade zoo brought in after the Yugoslavia wars.
In the nearby town of Aetos, there is a veterinary station and an innovative visitor center with excellent interactive displays and programs. Arcturos' "sponsor a bear" program and educational programs have helped raise awareness of the problem and of environmental issues throughout Greece. Along with the sanctuary, the center attracts about 30-35,000 visitors per year.
Arcturos also works with farming organizations to offer local farmers and bee-keepers support and compensation for damage to their livelihoods by wild bears. Whereas in the past many of these bears were shot, now farmers contact the center, which helps provide electrified fencing, shepherd dogs or other means of protection.
In 1998, Arcturos began a similar program aimed at protecting the region's wolves and has established a separate wolf sanctuary nearby. VK


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How can one determine the position of a symbol on the typeset page? Possible uses:
 - One page contains a fill-in-the-blanks text, and the opposite page contains only the solution words, each starting at the same position on the page where the blank started. The blanks on the first page should all be of equal length in order to not reveal any information. It can be assumed that the solution expressions don't overlap (and if they do, one can still manually adjust).
 - relative anchoring: One has typeset a complex diagram or equation, and one then creates a series of transformations. For example, diagram 2 is like diagram 1, but with the complex middle portion simplified so that one can focus on other parts; the relative positioning of certain outer elements of diagram 1 should be the same in diagram 2 to help the reader understand which diagram elements correspond. For this one would need to be able to obtain the coordinates of certain outer elements so that one can subtract them.
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The zref package's savepos module uses \pdfsavepos that can save the (x,y) coordinate of a "label" in scaled points (sp). You can then use this to position things on another page, possibly using tikz.
Here's a small example to showcase the savepos module (take from Where is the left-hand margin? and modified slightly):
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\usepackage[user,pagelayout,savepos]{zref}% _URL_
During page shipout, \verb|\oddsidemargin| is
\zref[oddsidemargin]{thepage}sp. (You won't be fooled)
FOO begins at (\zposx{leftanchor}sp, \zposy{leftanchor}sp)
and ends at (\zposx{rightanchor}sp, \zposy{rightanchor}sp).
From the zref documentation:
Horizontal positions by \zposx increase from left to right. Vertical positions by zposy from bottom to top.
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in MakeCode for Minecraft
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a popular 1960s Beatles tune. Before you ask, yes, I am old enough to have been there. The screenshot below is from a little MakeCode chat command using a print block with text "Lucy" and diamonds to do the printing.
lucy code 2There are a few things we can learn from this code about blocks, positions and directions.
Which blocks (e.g., diamonds, grass) can be used to write in the sky?. Change diamonds to sunflowers. What happens? Lava? Water?
The position position means 50 blocks east, 5 blocks high and 0 blocks south relative to the player; that is, from where the player is standing.
The phrase along gives the direction to print. I think of the player as facing east, so printing along South means printing left to right. What happens if the along phrase is changed to each of the following:
 - along north?
 - along west?
 - along east?
Keeping Score in the Sky
field scoreIn Grandma's Chickens, I used a similar function to keep score of how many chickens the player zapped.
The "run" chat command is for testing the function printScore
The first say block signals that the program is actually running. The last say block indicates when it is complete. Why are these needed? Sometimes when "run" is typed into the command line, the program does not start. This may be because start button, the start button, was not pressed. Other times are more mysterious, but I have found that when repeated attempts to start a program fail, restarting Minecraft and MakeCode solves the problem once again proving the old adage "When in doubt, reboot."
In the chat command "run," the original player world position is saved in the variable "center." This allows the player to move while the program is running. This is desirable because the view of the what's happening in Minecraft is often better if the player is allowed to move to a different vantage point rather than being required to stay in one place because all positions are relative to the player and change as the player moves.
The repeat loop in "run" calls the printScore function 5 times to test randomly selected values for score..
printScore Func
The function printScore performs as its name indicates. It first converts the number variable score to text, which is required by the print block. The say block outputs the score to the log window.
In the print block, by joining txtScore with trailing spaces, the digits of any longer number that had been previously printed to the same location are erased.
Pay particular attention to the manner in which position is specified by the at phrase. The position is not specified as relative to the current player world positon but, rather, as relative to the original player world position, which was saved in the variable "center." Notice that printScore coord is a world position, not relative. The print position is center X plus 40, center Y plus 5, center Z minus 5. The value of these coordinates were determined by trying various numbers to find a visually appealing positon.
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The mythical tall cedar in Lebanon (Ezek 31:3-31:5)
"Consider a cedar
Of Lebanon!
It has fair branches.
It has forest shade.
It has great height.
Its top is
Among the clouds.
The waters nourished it.
The deep made it
Grow tall.
Its rivers flow
Around the place
It was planted,
Sending forth
Its streams
To all the trees
of the forest.
So it towered high
Above all the trees
Of the forest.
Its boughs grew large.
Its branches were long
From abundant water
In its shoots."
Yahweh, via Ezekiel, compared Egypt to a tall cedar tree in Lebanon. This majestic tree had fair branches in a forest shade. It was extremely tall so that its top reached into the clouds. Ezekiel seems to be referring to an ancient Babylonian myth about the deep abyss or a dragon from the watery chaos that made trees grow tall. Thus they would enter the heaven of the gods in the clouds. The nourishing water from this deep abyss made this cedar tree grow tall. Streams from this water abyss flowed all around the place where this tree was planted. Even the other trees in the forest were able to grow because of this water. Nevertheless, this high cedar tree towered over all the other trees in the forest, because it had large long branches, due to the abundance of water in its shoots.


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1. What is Hillary's last name?
2. Where is the elf village?
Sara's back yard.
3. What time of day does Hillary first see the elf village?
4. Who shows Hillary the elf village?
5. Why can't Hillary see the elves themselves?
They hide from people.
6. What are elf houses built out of?
All of these.
7. Who/what does Hillary think made the elf village?
8. Why are Sara-Kate's clothes made fun of at school?
They are always wrinkled.
9. What is Sara-Kate's last name?
10. How is Hillary's home described?
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Pelican Beach Resort
There are over ten diverse cultures present in Belize, many of which still place great importance on traditional activities and practices that span generations. These traditions are often rooted in practicality and provide great benefits to those that keep them going.
In southern Belize, two of the most prominent cultural groups are the Garifuna and the Maya. These groups still continue with many daily practices started by their ancestors.
- Schedule a "Garifuna cultural experience", on a cassava baking day near a small farm. Learn how to grate the manioc root, strain, sieve, and bake on an open hearth. Then enjoy the finished cassava biscuit with Serre la Sus - fresh fished sauteed in coconut milk with mashed plantains.
- Pass by a neighborhood wake, "9 night" or "Dugu" and share in the honoring of Garifuna ancestor spirits via drumming and song. A "9 night" is similar to a wake and is held as a memorial usually 9 nights after someone has been buried.
- Garifuna songs and dances are vehicles for teaching newer generations about their history. These dances are filled with meaning, and an evening of entertainment can be arranged with a local dance group.
Visit the village of Maya Center at the entrance to the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary and:
- Shop at the Women's Craft Cooperative, where Mayan women sell souvenirs crafted from materials found in the nearby tropical forest
- Visit the Maya Museum and learn more about the rich history of the Maya in Belize
- Walk the medicinal trails inside the sanctuary itself, and learn the myriad uses for some of the herbs and plants that grow within the Cockscomb Basin.


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Software design involves translating a set of task requirements into a structured description of a computer program that will perform the task. A software designer can use design schema, collaborative design knowledge, or can reuse design artifacts. Very little has been done to include reuse of design artifacts in the software development life cycle, despite tremendous promises of reuse. As a result, this technique has not seen widespread use, possibly due to a lack of cognitive understanding of the reuse process. This research explores the role of a specific cognitive aspect, opportunism, in demand-side software reuse. We propose a cognitive model based on opportunism that describes the software design process with reuse. Protocol analysis verifies that the software design with reuse is indeed opportunistic and reveals that some software designers employ certain tasks of the reuse process frequently. Based on these findings, we propose a reuse support system that incorporates blackboard technology and existing reuse library management system
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Digital Environments for the Learning and Teaching of Algebra
The DELTA project is developing digital professional development materials aligned with two instructional units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics curriculum materials – Trades, Jumps and Stops (grades 2-3) and The California Frog Jumping Contest (grades 4-6). The professional development materials are designed to deepen teachers' knowledge of the targeted algebra ideas within the instructional materials and enhance their facility with pedagogical techniques for addressing those ideas. The digital professional development materials are designed either to be integrated directly into facilitated pre-service or in-service teacher education experiences, or to be used as stand-alone professional development experiences by teacher groups or an individual teacher. The project's research component is studying the impact of these two different types of use of the materials on elementary grade teachers' algebra content knowledge, knowledge and use of instructional pedagogies, and instructional practice.Funding: National Science Foundation, DRK-12
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and their Origin
Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and their Origin, 1st Edition
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and their Origin, 1st Edition,D.C. Watts,ISBN9780444503565
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The dictionary contains about 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants (plus a few American), both wild and cultivated, with their botanical name and a brief account of the names' meaning if known. It was conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore, and ethnobotanical studies.
Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. Why for example is, or was, the common red poppy known as "Blind Man"? An old superstition has it that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Such names were probably the result of some taboo against picking the plant. Similarly, other names were likely to have been applied as a result of a country mother's warning to her children against eating poisonous berries. For the warning carries more weight when the name given to the berry reinforces the warning. Many such plants or fruits may be ascribed to the devil, Devil's Berries for Deadly Nightshade is an example.
Names may also be purely descriptive, and can also serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. Beauty-Berry is an example: it is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa, which is made up of two Greek words that mean beauty and berry.
Literary, or "book" names, have also been included in this dictionary, as being a very important part of the whole. Many of them provide links in the transmission of words through the ages. Thor's Beard, for example, is a book name for "houseleek", and has never been used in the dialect. But it highlights the legend that houseleek is a lightning plant, and by reverse logic is a preserver from fire.
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Geared DC Motor with Magnetic Encoder Outputs - 7 VDC 1:20 Ratio
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 - DescriptionThe first step in a robotics project is to get a motor spinning. Once you've done that you quickly learn that not all motors go the same speed, even if they are the same part number! There are always variations that relate to voltage, environment, and manufacturing changes. So, the second step is to figure out how fast it's going! Turns out that's not so easy, but the best way to get started is to add an encoder wheel and an optical or magnetic counter. As the motor turns, the attached encoder wheel spins, causing the counter to detect each passing spoke and that lets your microcontroller count and determine speed.
 If you want to do one better, add a second counter, and now you can tell direction as well as speed! All this wiring is kind of a pain, so that's why this motor is really nice! It has a magnetic wheel and two hall effect sensors already attached. Using this motor is a breeze, and it's a nice strong motor as well
 Provide 7V DC nominal to the brown and yellow wires - these connect to your motor driver, and can be PWM'd for speed adjustment and direction by using an H-bridge.
 Connect the black wire to your microcontroller ground pin, and the red wire to 3-5VDC (we tried both, works fine). Then you can read the hall effect outputs on the white and green wires. We have an example sketch here for Arduino, it can be adapted to other languages - basically you just want to interrupt on one of the encoder pins, use count the time since the last interrupt, and multiply the count time by 12-counts-per-revolution and the 1:20 gear ratio.
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For the Sylvester pentahedron of a cubic surface, see quaternary cubic.
In geometry, a pentahedron (plural: pentahedra) is a polyhedron with five faces. Since there are no face-transitive polyhedra with five sides and there are two distinct topological types, this term is less frequently used than tetrahedron or octahedron.
With regular polygon faces, the two topological forms are the square pyramid and triangular prism. Geometric variations with irregular faces can also be constructed.
Name Picture Vertices Edges Faces Faces by type
Square pyramid
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Square pyramid.png 5 8 5 4 triangles
1 square
Triangular prism
(Prism family)
Triangular prism.png 6 9 5 2 triangles
3 squares
The square pyramid can be seen as a degenerate triangular prism where one edge of its side edges is collapsed into a point, losing one edge and one vertex, and changing two squares into triangles.
An irregular pentahedron can be a non-convex solid.
There is a third topological polyhedral figure with 5 faces, degenerate as a polyhedron: it exists as a spherical tiling of digon faces, called a pentagonal hosohedron with Schläfli symbol {2,5}. It has 2 (antipodal point) vertices, 5 edges, and 5 digonal faces.
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Make a Notebook Quickly - Jotter Journals | Hilke Kurzke | Skillshare
Make a Notebook Quickly - Jotter Journals
Hilke Kurzke, Book Artist, Printmaker, Writer, Bookbinder
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7 Lessons (30m)
 - 1. Welcome
 - 2. Getting Ready Part I: The pages of your Jotter
 - 3. Getting Ready Part II: Choose the Cover
 - 4. Project I: The 5-Hole Pamphlet Stitch
 - 5. Project II: The 3-Hole Pamphlet Stitch
 - 6. Information about Threads
 - 7. The End
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About This Class
In this class you are going to learn how to make quick jotter journals from materials that you have lying around in the house, maybe you'll recycle your old paper bags in this way and re-use discarted prints, drawings or paitings for covers!
This class is suitable for anyone who can safely use sharp tools like needles, awls and knives, including not too young children.
You are going to finish at least two notebooks on your own, one using a 3-hole and one using a 5-hole pamphlet stitch.
Just get started, and you'll soon be as adicted to jotters as I am, with piles of them lying around everywhere.
1. Welcome: Hello and welcome to my studio and to this bookbinding class. Today I'm going to show you how to make daughter journal small notebooks that can quickly made from materials you have already lying about. I loved order journals. I wouldn't know where I'd be without them. They're not made from precious materials. And so they're perfect to play around with ideas to dot down things without feeling precious about any of it. Technically speaking, what I'm going to show you today is a three hole pamphlet stitch on a fivefold pamphlets itch, and we're going to make this really, really easy. This course is suitable for everyone, including not too young Children. You have to be able to safely use shop tools like needles, alls and a knife. So let's dive right in and make our first daughter 2. Getting Ready Part I: The pages of your Jotter: Now is the time to decide what paper you want on the inside pages off your daughter. So what you're going to write on? I'm going to just a simple office paper, but you confuse anything that's lying around and that you have at hand. Usually, I like to reuse paper, even if there's already something written, honored that can be actually great to let the creative juices flow. When you're using your daughter, for example, reusing an old paperback can be the perfect thing for something like this, maybe surprisingly, so you'll see the minute that the former off your daughter will depend on the paper you're going to use. But apart from this, anything goes. No, that we've decided on what paper to use its time dis term in the paper grain. All paper you'll ever come across, including handmade paper, has a grain or fiber direction. This is the direction in which these plant fibers off, which the paper consists, are predominantly oriented. Um, an industrial produced paper like this office paper has a very pronounced paper grain, and you can already feel it by handling how thes two directions are different. So if you fold the paper or bend the paper without folding it. You'll notice a slight resistance this puts to your hand. And in this direction the resistance is much smaller and in this direction, so the fibers are all oriented like this. And, of course, it's easier to fold kind off if the fold falls between this fibers rather than if it's breaking some. But for other papers, it's sometimes not as easy to tell. And if you want to make sure you can experience this paper grain in a different way, cut a piece from your sheet that's not square so that you still know how it was oriented in the larger sheet and wetted from just one side, and it will immediately curl up. And as you can see, it's not doing this in a chaotic way. But one direction stays pretty much straight. Whereas while the other spending and the direction that stay straight iss the direction in which the fibers are oriented, the gap between the fibers is really what's getting bigger with a paper. So again, we just look how this was sitting in here. We see that this year is the grain direction, so now we've tournament this as the grain direction on this will be the same for all the papers in this deck for bookbinding. We always want that the spine of the book is going to be parallel to the grain. The reason why I'm talking about this is because it's very tempting when you have a fortune of cope your paper to fold it in half like this and try to bind the A five pamphlet from it. But if you have now, if you bind it here and you connect these holes with a thread now, if this is getting wet, it will move here in this direction. And so the both the paper will pull on the binding, and it might actually pull it apart. That being said, we're not doing anything precious year. So if if that's what you need to do than just go ahead. But I'm definitely going to make an A six journal from this For the second book I'm going to make, I'm using this paper, which is a short grain paper, so the fibre directions parallel to this side, and I can make a ruled a Fife daughter from it. I bought this at a bookbinding supplier. So in this paper, it's not so easy to hold like this without flopping down, which is the reason why we want to use it for in a five journal, whereas the scope your paper is really stable like this. And this is, of course, because of the fiber direction. And this is what, a printer, your printing machine once, if want to feed it a paper that where the grain direction is perpendicular to the rollers. With this, you would get a lot of paper times. So if you cut down in a three sheet of paper to get short grained a four paper to make your a five daughter, then you can't put it well, put it through the printer to rule this. If you got your hands on short grain paper and you wanted ruled, of course, you can go ahead and do every line by hand. You can't well put it through the printer. As I just explained. If you want to print lines on this, you have to use more traditional methods. I made myself these boards, for example, where I put down this a string which I glued down on this cardboard and just using printing, and you can roll this up and print ruled paper. So we determined our grain direction, which means for our daughter, and we will have to fold the paper like this. And therefore I'm going to shorten this paper because that makes for a nicer book. To do that, you take a sheet of paper, you line up the top corner, then enforced the fold first on the corner that's on the same side and then slide your finger over to here. And now you can enforce this with a bone folder if you want to. It makes for Anita. Cut you. Then insert your paper knife into the fold. And this should now be on the edge of your table. My table table edge. I insert the knife and I put it really flat here on the table, and I'm pulling the knife toward the edge rather than in this direction like this. And so you cut the paper open without tearing it, really? And you do this as until you have as many pages as you would like. I'm going to go for 16 I think so. I cut here a couple more pages And now that I have all my pages, I like to fold, um, for the signature in one go. And for this I dropped them. Get them as a stack of really need stack, pull them together like this. And now you have again this arrow shaped here, which was called the creep, and you try to get this even hold it down, press down, and then you can use your bone folder to enforce this fold from both sides. And then you put this under a heavy book and let it rest for a while so that the fold contact. 3. Getting Ready Part II: Choose the Cover: the next and last thing we need to decide on ISS what to use for recover for it to feel like a cover. It will need to be at least as thick and sturdy as you're inside pages. And if you're using something that's just like the inside pages made, you want to give it a different color. But you could. Profit depends a bit on what you're doing. If you're reusing this paperback we've been talking about before, then maybe you just take the piece of the paper back for the outside and maybe add some decoration to it, and that's it. And of course, you could also just decide not to give it a cover. If you want to do something really quick, this is what I'm going to use for covers these wallpaper samples, which has just great for covers. I love them because they're a bit sturdier. They even water repellent. Um, you need a piece of paper that about the same size as