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A new field study of two rival ant species has shown that ant queens will willingly mate with males from the opposing group in order to quite literally serve as "sperm parasites," stealing potential female births. The result is an unusual bedroom arms race between these ants, where they develop new strategies to use tricked males or to escape a rival queen's lustful clutches.
Tropical coral, the iconic face of coral life everywhere, fuse together with the help of calcareous algae that grow on the crust of the unusual animals' dead branches. However, not every species of coral colonizes in this manner. A new study on cold-water corals has found that even unrelated species can fuse in a unique process that does not require the help of a third party, making for some beautiful combinations of shape and color.
Salamanders throughout Europe are getting sick from a deadly fungal disease, and it threatens to spread to the United States through the pet trade unless international efforts are taken to stop it in its tracks, scientists reported Thursday in the journal Science.
A remarkably rare and threatened North American songbird appears to have found a new home in an unlikely place: the sprawling "biological deserts" of commercial pine farms. Conservationists had been concerned that the Swainson's warbler would ever boast a stable and unthreatened population. Now, with this new discovery, things are looking positive for the first time in decades.
Grizzly bears are making a comeback in Yellowstone National Park, according to a recent assessment of the threatened beasts. And this recovery has a lot to do with the fact that fewer grizzlies are dying in and around the park. Now officials are even considering lifting protections for the hardy animal.
It's very unlikely that you will hear someone say "that guy is so plump! I bet he's a great swimmer." However, according to researchers from the NOAA, that's exactly what we should be saying for sea turtles.
A new frog species was discovered in New York City from a display of odd chorus calls, reports say.
Raorchestes chalazodes, a rare bush frog found in India, has developed the unique strategy of breeding and laying eggs in bamboo despite their extremely narrow openings, new research describes.
She may have perished some 39,000 years ago, but Yuka the baby woolly mammoth is still teaching us about this behemoth species, and our own ancestors, as the subject of a new public display in Moscow.
A band of hungry hogs has gone wild in a Florida county, wreaking havoc on homes and threatening to ruin Halloween for all those trick-or-treaters out and about on Friday.
The giant tortoise is an ancient and iconic species of reptile that specifically characterizes the Galapagos islands. However, thanks to shrinking habitats and the introduction of new species to the islands, the tortoise has remained a threatened species. Now researchers are saying that the species as a whole is finally on its way to a slow-and-steady recovery.
Even as US companies and agencies continue to turn away from the deadly pesticides that left local bee populations despondently low, a natural factor is still making recovery earned. Now researchers behind a new study say that they discovered a nature-made solution to this natural problem.
Looking for a hefty catch the next time you're out fishing? You might want to get to know the fish of your local lake first. It turns out that the personality of a fish has a lot to do with how likely you are to catch it.
Think you've racked up an impressive number of frequent flier miles? Are you the kind of person to travel at a moment's notice? Sorry, but you've got nothing on the banded stilt. A new study has observed how this remarkable desert-dwelling bird will travel well over a thousand miles at the drop of a hat just to chow down on some incredibly unpredictable prey.
In their first few hours of life, sea turtles must battle hungry predators and dangerous waters before reaching the safe haven of ocean currents. While scientists have had just a general idea of how these vulnerable babies navigate the open water, for the first time a team has used special nano-tags to track the sea turtles' swims in more detail.
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Do you know what 'arpilleras' are? They are pieces of appliquéd textile folk art, common in South America. Doll characters and animals create a three-dimensional effect representing scenes from daily life.
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Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ms Helen Gardner.
While there is a good understanding of the overall behavior of heterogeneous materials concerning properties that are characterized by a variational principle, much remains unknown concerning those properties that are characterized by evolutionary processes. This talk will discuss the simple process of peeling an adhesive tape from a rigid substrate as a case study to demonstrate the complexities that can arise in this situation. Specifically, we show that that one can dramatically enhance the overall adhesive strength by patterning the elastic modulus of the tape, and induce asymmetry where the force needed to peel the membrane depends not only on the direction but also the sense of the peel. Remarkably, these modifications in peeling strength come from variations in the energy associated with bending of the tape near the peeling front which is negligible compared to the overall energy in the system. This illustrates that in evolutionary processes, perturbations with apparently negligible energy can have an anomalously large macroscopic effect. The talk will conclude with broader lessons for other phenomena including fracture, dislocations, phase boundaries and wetting fronts.
This is based on joint work with S. Xia, L. Ponson and G. Ravichandran
This talk is part of the Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars series.
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Healthcare insight is to health literacy as location is to real estate. Health literacy is the degree to which one is capable of obtaining, processing and understanding basic health information in order to make appropriate decisions related to one’s health. Without an understanding of how diseases are treated, evaluated and prevented, and knowledge of the rules and regulations for accessing the resources for those services, however, health literacy is less appealing, especially in the time of healthcare reform.
Medical professionals face a variety of challenges when attempting to administer healthcare services in developing countries. Basic infrastructure problems plague efficient healthcare distribution in these countries. Unpaved or non-existent roads, a lack of administrative personnel, a lack of technology, and dwindling supplies make for an extremely limited amount of options for patients who may be suffering with the same sort of ailments that require a fully stocked hospital. Healthcare administrators must first concentrate on the problems they are able to solve themselves, such as creating a system that eases patient wait times and provides information regarding available healthcare services. These organizational systems help patients avoid potentially long trips to the clinic by allowing healthcare administrators to provide advance notices of services, medicines, and products that are presently available.
Honest and open communication is absolutely essential when you’re visiting your physician. Doctors depend on full disclosure in order to make an accurate diagnosis, or to prescribe the course of treatment best suited to each individual patient. Be sure to make note of any medications or supplements that you may be taking in addition to the size and frequency of the dosages. Write this information down, because it’s very easy to overlook an important detail when you’re trying to remember in front of your physician.
A leading medical device vendor, selling 100 thousand pacemakers a year to dozens of hospitals in the United States, discovers they have over 10% of expired items at 5000 hospitals each year. The approximate loss (to the hospital or the vendor depending on the payment terms) can reach tens of millions of dollars!
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Ancient port found in Egypttags: archaeology, discoveries, ancient Egypt
An ancient Egyptian harbor has emerged on the Red Sea coast, dating back about 4,500 years.
"Evidence unearthed at the site shows that it predates by more than 1,000 years any other port structure known in the world," Pierre Tallet, Egyptologist at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and director of the archaeological mission, told Discovery News....
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Whether or not you an investor or someone who is interesting in starting to invest, the method of investing in mutual funds is an efficient way to begin the process. What is a mutual fund? It is a compilation of money pooled in from other investors or businesses and corporations business or a corporation. That money collected can be used in investing in stocks, money-market instruments, bonds, securities, cash, etc. Not all investment funds are mutual. Mutual funds have specific aspects that categorize them as such. There are also different types of mutual funds out there, so it all depends on your individual needs as to what will work for you. Finding one that is right for you takes a lot of research time on your hands in order to find the proper one for you and the other investors involved. This essay will get you started in getting to know the general idea of using mutual funds to your benefit.
Mutual funds work through many regulations delegated to them by the SEC. They want to make sure that transparency is showcased in these mutual funds, which makes sense since it involves the money invested by many different parties. These regulations also ensure ethical behavior. Mutual fund managers will hire a mutual fund accountant to keep track of this line of behavior. Entire CPA firms (certified public accountant firms) can be hired as well to do other line of work such as bookkeeping, recording financial transactions, preparing mutual fund audits, tax paperwork and more. A mutual fund accountant is usually necessary to ensure that the mutual fund is working for the better of all involved.
So what are the different types of mutual funds? You can invest in index funds, bond funds, money market funds and stock funds. As investors work together to purchase shares within the fund, there is a specific strategy and goal unique to each fund. Each have their own histories and portfolios, so it would make sense that they all need their own accounting services that cater to these specifics. Mutual funds are companies on their own, so they need to pertain to risks such as fees, market volatility and other operational expenses. These expenses will make an impact on your returns on investments, so this is something to consider when you are looking into purchasing some mutual fund shares. If you need help in making these types of decisions, a certified public accountant or anyone working under a CPA firm can help answer your questions and concerns.
Enough of the risks, let’s talk about the benefits. The mutual fund, based on the way it works, can allow to make many investments without having to deal with separate transactions. Let’s set up an example. You are needing $100,000 to built a portfolio that carries many shares and bonds. A mutual fund investor sends $1,000 to a mutual fund, and eventually find themselves owning some stock stakes in other companies. The mutual fund manager can invest millions into purchasing stock in a large company, and other investors involved in that mutual fund will benefit through their own investment as they by extension become invested in that large company as well. This will add to your dream portfolio.
You will need time and research in order to find the proper mutual fund that are in line with your interests and needs. Done by a CPA accounting service, luckily mutual fund audits are public records, as required by the SEC. You can use these to analyze the value and performance ratings of a mutual fund. These records are public to inform anyone hoping to join in on a mutual fund – like transparency of information. You will see in your research that they are becoming popular because they are now so easily accessible, since they are regulated carefully and properly. This opens the stock market up to investors who otherwise were unable to interact with stocks in the past.
Most of the mutual fund industry (more specifically, the vast majority) is focused on stocks. As of now, stocks take up half of the industry’s assets, many of them connected. Large mutual fund companies have 45 or more options for investors that can decide on what they want to invest in. We’re only just talking about the United States, here. You as an investor can choose between investing in any size of stocks, dividend-paying stocks, growth funds and value funds, to name some of the variety, so it’s important to choose wisely.
Remember: research before purchasing shares!
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Dermatitis herpetiformis is an extremely itchy rash consisting of bumps and blisters. The rash is chronic, which means it continues over a long period.
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Dermatitis herpetiformis usually begins in people age 20 and older. Children can sometimes be affected. It is seen in both men and women.
Back to TopSymptoms
Symptoms of dermatitis herpetiformis tend to come and go. Symptoms include:
- Extremely itchy bumps or blisters, most often on the elbows, knees, back, and buttocks
- The rash is usually the same size and shape on both sides
- The rash can look like eczema
- Some patients may have scratch marks instead of blisters
Back to TopTreatment
An antibiotic called dapsone is extremely effective.
A strict gluten-free diet will also be recommended to help control the disease. Sticking to this diet may eliminate the need for medications and prevent later complications.
Immunosuppressive medications may be used, but are less effective.
Back to TopPrevention
There is no known prevention of this disease. People with this condition may be able to prevent complications by avoiding foods that contain gluten.
Back to TopReferences
Hull CM, Zone JJ. Dermatitis herpetiformis and linear IgA bullous dermatosis. In: Bolognia JL, Jorizzo JL, Schaffer JV, eds. Dermatology . 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 31.
Habif TP. Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy . 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2009:chap 16.
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I think a way to answer Bruce Sampsell's question might be to run a simulation with the choice being made after the host has opened the door, and show that that agrees with his prediction. Thus you show why his intuition is correct, and also why his intuition is wrong (depending on whether one's first choice is made before or after the host opens the door). I find it necessary to satisfy my intuition - if I can't show why it is wrong, how do I my "right" answer is right?
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The sound of air rushing past the uvula produces the uvular x (sounding like the ch of German Bach or Scottish loch). Its voiced counterpart, the gh, resembles the standard French r-sound.
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Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's Farewell to Manzanar
Passages from Unbroken and Farewell to Manzanar provide the context for a study of the historical themes of experiencing war, resilience during war, and understanding the lasting trauma of war. Appendices include extension activities, Roosevelt’s December 8, 1941 speech, primary source accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a San Francisco Chronicle article on post-war trauma, and graphic organizers for a culminating essay.
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National Debt and Wars
In this real world example, learners collect information about the National debt, plot the data, and determine whether an exponential curve is a good fit for the data. They compare common traits and differences in changes in the debt during the Civil War, WWI, and WWII.
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The end of WWII brought big changes around the world, not the least of which occur in the increasingly decolonized continent of Africa. This slideshow details the developing countries of Ghana, Kenya, Congo, Nigeria, and South Africa, to name a few.
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Introduction To The European Union
A lot happened to European economics, policy, and social systems after WWII. This 24 page social studies packet provides images, reading passages, comprehension questions, and critical thinking questions regarding all things Europe from 1945-1980.
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Restructuring the Post War World: 1945-Present
You have just entered the Cold War Zone, with 96 slides at your disposal. From changes in government in China, The Marshall Plan, and the Iron Curtain, to the Vietnam War and Ronald Regan, this presentation will help you cover it all. A highly comprehensive, clear, and well-organized resource, a wonderful addition to any unit on world politics after WWII.
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World War Two Causes
Background sheets, crossword puzzles, graphic organizers... oh my! If you're searching for a range of activities and worksheets on the subject of the onset of World War II, then this is the booklet for you. Featured topics include the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler's rise to power, the failure of appeasement, and the first German invasions of the war.
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New Review The End of World War II: Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment Camps, and the Atomic Bomb
The end of World War II saw major events that would forever change the global landscape and international relations. Using a fantastic PowerPoint presentation and several primary source documents, your learners will discuss the bombing of Pearl Harbor, use of atomic weapons by the United States, and effects of the war on Japan and Japanese Americans.
8th - 11th Social Studies & History 25 Views 13 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Imperialism Old and New
If your really want your history class to know everything about old and new imperialism, look no further. This 58-slide presentation depicts, describes, and explains everything from 19th Century expansion and the Congress of Berlin to the Russo-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History 13 Views 38 Downloads
The Home Front: How Did People Prepare for the War at Home?
Wars have a profound effect not only on a country's soldiers, but also on the everyday lives of its citizens. Invite your young historians to discover how Britain prepared for the Second World War by analyzing a series of government posters regarding rationing, evacuation, and anti-German propaganda.
7th - 12th Social Studies & History 28 Views 11 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Writing Exercises: Collapse of European Imperialism, #1
WWII led to a collapse in colonial empires Europe had created prior to the turn of the century. Budding historians examine the fall of Imperialism through expository writing. They compose three responses that discuss the role of the Indian caste system, European imperialism, and its collapse after WWII.
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The Homefront: America and WWII
High schoolers are introduced to the experiences of various groups of Americans at home during WWII, highlighting race, gender, and ethnicity. They improve their ability to analyze and interpret historical documents and images.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History 16 Views 44 Downloads
WWII German Submarine Warfare: U505
Students research how the capture of a German submarine by the Allies affected the outcome of WWII. In this WWII lesson, students complete a KWL chart. Students research primary source documents online and answer discussion questions.
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Immigration Connections: The Squamish Nation and Bainbridge Island Filipino Americans
High schoolers explore ancestry and immigration. In this Canadian immigration lesson, young scholars interview their family members to identify their cultural history. They compose an essay that compares Filipino immigration stories to those of the Squamish Nation, and present their essays in class.
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Lost Names: Scenes From a Korean Boyhood,
What a great resource to share! Based on the book Lost Names by Richard Kim, this valuable lesson focuses on the Japanese occupation of Korea during WWII. Additionally, it employs first-person journaling as a mode of understanding themes in the book.
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Battle of the Bulge: America Responds to a German Surprize
After reading personal accounts and watching the video entitled, European Theater during WWII, learners write a letter. They use what they know about the Battle of the Bulge, WWII warfare, and the time period to compose a letter home in the voice of a soldier on either the American or German side of the war.
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American Foreign Policy: 1920 - 1941
Take your class through the period between World War I and World War II. Covering various treaties and pacts between America and its neighbors - namely, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union- these slides could inspire some political discussions about America's reluctance to enter WWII until absolutely necessary.
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The Collapse of Imperialism in Africa
Who owned what in Africa? How did Africa regain its independence? These are the big questions in this slide-show. It discusses French, British, and Dutch Imperialism, along with the movements that helped Africa shake the Colonial yoke. This presentation is clear, easy to follow, and includes review questions.
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World War II - War Comes to Hawaii
Ninth graders use geographic representations to organize, analyze, and present information on people, places, and environments. They use tools and methods of geographers to construct, interpret, and evaluate qualitative and quantitative data.
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East Timor: The World's Newest Country
This isn't just a hand-out or a reading passage; it's more like a mini book on the history, colonization, independence, and culture of the South East Asian country of Timor. There are extensive readings and discussion questions for learners to address.
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New Review "What Good are the Words?" A Close Reading of an Excerpt from The Book Thief
A close reading of an excerpt from The Book Thief provides high school readers with an opportunity to examine how Markus Zusak uses syntax, repetition, and figurative language to contribute to the power of the novel, and to help develop his themes.
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Radar images from planes, satellites could help predict sinkholes
Researchers suggest that radar images taken from planes or satellites could some day be used to predict where sinkholes might form.
The possibility of an early-warning system stems from new NASA research into a monstrous sinkhole that opened in Louisiana in 2012, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.
Two NASA researchers examined radar images of the sinkhole area near Bayou Corne, News.com.au reported.
Cathleen Jones and Ron Blom discovered that the ground near Bayou Corne began shifting at least a month before the sinkhole formed - as much as 25 centimetres towards where the sinkhole started.
Since its formation, the sinkhole has expanded to 25 acres and is still growing.
The NASA findings raise the possibility that engineers eventually could develop a way to predict the location of sinkholes.
It would require the constant collection and monitoring of the Earth's surface with radar data collected from planes or satellites.
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Autocomplete is a feature provided by many applications. It helps the user with typing by suggesting terms that start with the prefix typed so far. But if the underlying set of terms is large and only the top k matches are suggested, how can we efficiently implement such a feature? One approach is to use a data structure like the Suggest Tree described here. It enables you to quickly look up the highest-weighted terms with a given prefix in a set of weighted terms. And it allows you to insert, reweight, or remove a term at moderate cost. A Suggest Tree in Java can be downloaded here.
The Suggest Tree for a given set of weighted terms and a given value of k is a compressed trie of the terms in which each node holds a weight-ordered list of the k highest-weighted terms in its subtree. The precomputed suggestion lists may seem space-consuming at first, but the average length of a list in the tree tends to be very small, as typically most of the nodes are at the bottom of the tree. Note that a compressed trie with n terms has at most 2n nodes (for each term inserted into the trie, at most one new node is added and at most one existing node is split into two nodes). Note also that the character sequence of a node does not need to be stored explicitly – it can be read from any of the terms in the node's subtree.
When you insert, reweight, or remove a term, the suggestion lists along the path from the term's terminal node to the root of the tree may need to be updated. The worst case occurs when you remove a term that is listed in a list of length k, or when you reduce the weight of a term that is or becomes the last element in a list of length k. In both situations, the term may need to be replaced in that list with the highest-weighted unlisted term of the list. To find the top unlisted term of a list L, we can search in the suggestion list of each child node for the first term that is not listed in L. But caution: if the parent node that holds L is the terminal node of an unlisted term, then that term is a candidate for the top unlisted term of L too.
The trie structure of a Suggest Tree is implemented as a ternary search tree. This implementation, where the children of a trie node are arranged as a binary search tree, usually offers a good trade-off between time and space costs. The only drawback is that the performance of a ternary search tree is affected to some extent by the order in which you insert the terms into the tree. Suppose you have an alphabetically sorted set of n terms: if you insert the terms in alphabetical order, each of the small binary search trees within the tree degenerates into a linked list – if, by contrast, you insert first the middle term and then recursively the middle term of the left and right subsets, you end up with a balanced tree where searching for a string of length m will require at most m + log(n) character comparisons. Fortunately, if you insert the terms in random order, a ternary search tree is usually close to balanced.
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The curse of Tutankhamen? Pure inventiontags: archaeology, Telegraph (UK), mummies, Egypt, Tutankhamen
When George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, died 90 years ago this week he was one of the most famous men on Earth. He occupied the family seat at Highclere Castle, but wintered in Egypt every year. By 1923, Carnarvon had spent an estimated £35,000 on excavation, hunting for glory.
Finally he got it. His man in the field, Howard Carter, had discovered the steps down to the unbroken seals on the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of Kings. Carnarvon dashed from England, and together they broke in a small portion of the door. “Well, can you see anything?” the Earl asked. “Yes,” came the famous reply, as Carter waved his candle and caught the glint of gold, “wonderful things.”
The story was a press sensation in a gloomy post-war world still mourning the dead of that terrible conflict and the influenza pandemic that had followed shortly afterwards. The tomb was formally opened in February 1923, with visiting royalty, dignitaries and the world’s press in attendance....
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Study: Mars had Atmospheric Oxygen Before Earth
June 20, 2013 12:09 PM
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Mars had materials rich in oxygen about 4 billion years ago
A new study suggests that Mars had an oxygen-rich environment long ago -- even before Earth.
Oxford University researchers, led by Professor Bernard Wood of Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences, compared meteorites and surface rocks before coming to this conclusion.
The team studied meteorites from Mars and rocks found by
NASA's Spirit rover
on Mars' surface. They found that the surface rocks were five times richer in nickel than the meteorites.
They believe this is the case because of subduction, where material is recycled into the planet's interior. The study says that Mars' surface was oxidized long ago, and through subduction, materials rich in oxygen went into the planet's interior and were recycled back to the surface about 4000 million years ago. Earth didn't experience a rise in atmospheric oxygen until 2500 million years ago.
The meteorites, though, are younger rocks that came from deep within the red planet. Hence, they are unphased by this subduction.
"What we have shown is that both meteorites and surface volcanic rocks are consistent with similar origins in the deep interior of Mars but that the surface rocks come from a more oxygen-rich environment, probably caused by recycling of oxygen-rich materials into the interior," said Wood. "This result is surprising because while the meteorites are geologically 'young', around 180 million to 1400 million years old, the Spirit rover was analysing a very old part of Mars, more than 3700 million years old."
Spirit, a golf cart-sized, solar-powered robot geologist that was sent to Mars in 2004, spent six long years traveling the Martian surface. But after enduring many harsh winters on Mars, Spirit finally fell silent in 2010, and was
removed from the mission
NASA has been relying on rover Curiosity to dig up new info on the red planet now. It landed on Mars in August 2012, and has found rock samples that
suggest life on Mars
that could determine human travel to Mars.
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RE: Thousand Million?
6/20/2013 2:05:07 PM
Why not just say 4 Billion and 2.5 Billion?
..because they probably didn't want to sound like Carl Sagan...
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Definition: This entry gives the average annual number of deaths during a year per 1,000 population at midyear; also known as crude death rate. The death rate, while only a rough indicator of the mortality situation in a country, accurately indicates the current mortality impact on population growth. This indicator is significantly affected by age distribution, and most countries will eventually show a rise in the overall death rate, in spite of continued decline in mortality at all ages, as declining fertility results in an aging population.
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Because colds and flus are easily spread, everyone should always wash their hands before eating and after going outside. Ordinary soap is sufficient. Waterless hand cleaners that contain an alcohol-based gel are also effective for everyday use and may even kill cold viruses.
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Colds are not caused by insufficiently warm clothes or by going outside with wet hair.
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We continue our Profiles in Effective PD series with a visit to Kearney, Nebraska, where teachers are in the middle of a three-year plan to implement the techniques discussed in Jessica Shumway’s recent book, Number Sense Routines. Stenhouse editor Holly Holland recently talked to instructional learning coach Julie Everett and shares how teachers in kindergarten and first grade are helping their students improve their number sense.
Teachers Get Fit with Number Sense Routines
By Holly Holland
Instructional learning coach Julie Everett analyzed math assessment data over several years in the five elementary schools where she works in Kearney, Nebraska, and kept noticing a persistent problem: number sense was lacking. Many students did not have basic understanding of the relationships among numbers. They did not know how to think or talk about numbers or use number sense reasoning strategies to solve problems. Without those foundational skills, Everett believed students would likely struggle in higher-level math classes.
She discussed her concerns with colleagues, and then in Spring 2013, Everett discovered Jessica Shumway, author of Number Sense Routines: Building Numerical Literacy Every Day in Grades K–3 (Stenhouse, 2011). Everett heard Shumway present at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference and knew she had found a valuable colleague and resource.
“I was highly impressed with her background knowledge and the research base she had done,” Everett said. “I had several conversations with her, and discussed how we might involve her in consulting with the district. Our curriculum and instruction team believed that we needed to be doing something more systemic and systematic with math and literacy and improving instruction with our teachers.’”
Over the next few months, they developed a three-year plan to help all elementary teachers in the school district learn the techniques that Shumway shares in her book and in her new DVD, Go Figure! Number Sense Routines that Build Mathematical Understanding (Stenhouse, 2014). Their plan started with a book study involving the kindergarten and first grade teachers, expanded to include Skype sessions with Shumway, and finally led to on-site visits where Shumway modeled routines and cotaught small- and whole-group lessons with the faculty.
In addition to reading the book, the Kearney teachers also had to write a personal reflection every month, sharing what they had learned from Shumway’s book and what they were doing differently in their classrooms as a result. Everett believes the requirement made teachers more accountable for synthesizing information and focusing on results.
“It’s just been a really cool experience,” Everett said. “At first, I have to say, our K–1 teachers were overwhelmed by the work that was expected: ‘We have to read every month? What is this all about? We don’t have time for that.’ There was grumbling at first.” But after Shumway showed the strategies in application and helped teachers take risks and raise their expectations, Everett said, “I would have to say that 80-90 percent of our K–1 teachers have now said, ‘Wow, this has totally transformed my thinking about math. I had no idea number sense was so critical.’”
The Importance of Number Sense
As Shumway relates in her book, teaching number sense is not only critical, it’s also complex. “There are many layers to it, and it is rooted within all strands of mathematics,” she writes. “Number sense facilitates problem solving, reasoning, and discussing mathematical ideas.” Students with strong number sense can visualize quantities and perform mental math, understand the relative magnitude of amounts, make comparisons among quantities, and determine the reasonableness of an answer, among other skills. “Embedded in these characteristics of number sense are big mathematical ideas; strategies that utilize number sense; skills, models, and tools for using number sense; and language for explaining number sense ideas and strategies.”
Just as athletes stretch their muscles before every game and musicians play scales to keep their technique in tune, mathematical thinkers and problem solvers can benefit from daily warm-up exercises. Shumway has developed a series of routines designed to help young students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers.
Shumway also shows teachers how to move students through what she calls the Early Number Sense Learning Trajectory, starting with subitizing, understanding magnitude, and counting and progressing to hierarchical inclusion, part/whole relationships, compensation, and unitizing. The goal is to develop children’s flexibility and fluency with math. Shumway says these methods involve teaching the meaning of numbers, rather than procedures and memorization, so that students are able to decompose numbers, visualize them and apply them in the future.
“Think about it in terms of reading,” she writes. “It is cumbersome and inefficient to sound out every letter in a word. When children begin to recognize and use chunks of letters within a word or read sight words, they become more fluent readers. This frees up their cognitive energy for more challenging words. It is the same in mathematics. Seeing groups and thinking about amounts in terms of groups leads students to become more fluent and numerically literate. Their cognitive energy can then be spent on more challenging problem solving.”
The Urgency of Understanding Math
For many elementary teachers, Shumway has instant credibility. In addition to having worked as an elementary teacher and math coach, she acknowledges having had weak preparation and understanding of how to teach math. A history major in college and a “social studies guru” when she began teaching, Shumway had to deepen her own knowledge of mathematical thinking along with her students.
“She is clear to say, “I am not a mathematician and I always felt that I was poor in math and that it was because of a lack of number sense. And what’s why I have an urgency to make sure that teachers understand the very important piece of number sense and why that leads to success for kids,’” Everett says. “Teachers could relate: ‘Oh, this is me,’ or ‘that’s how I feel.’”
As part of their book study of Number Sense Routines, Kearney’s kindergarten and first-grade teachers had to choose three students to follow in a case study through the school year. They set goals for all the students, tracked their progress in math, and shared the information and consulted with their colleagues each month. If a student achieved the goals set for him or her before the end of the year, the teachers selected other students to follow.
“It was fun to hear teachers talking about those kids,” Everett says. “They would ask, ‘How is Karl doing?’ It became very personal. We had never had those conversations before. The sharing piece is just so enlightening and refreshing. It becomes a problem-solving event, as well as a celebration of moving kids along their learning continuum.”
Teachers also taught demonstration lessons, with Shumway observing and deconstructing the vocabulary they were using with students and the questions they were asking. They observed and taught with teachers in other schools.
“I feel it’s important to talk to other teachers outside your building. It gives you more perspective,” says Marissa Schleiger-Kruse, who just finished her first year teaching first grade at Buffalo Hills Elementary in Kearney. “I feel that everyone, new or old, has benefited so much from Jessica Shumway and her Number Sense studies.”
Schleiger-Kruse says she incorporated many of the practices in Number Sense Routines, including one called Count Around the Circle, which helps students understand the pattern the teacher is describing, such as counting by twos or fives or counting backwards.
“I’ve done those every day, and it helps students learn their counting routines,” she says. “Eventually some of my higher learners, I know that it will help them with multiplication because it’s really skip counting. If we practice that daily, they get that.”
The consistent practice benefited every student, Schleiger says. By the end of first grade, her school district expects students to be able to count by twos to fifty and count by fives and tens to one-hundred.
“All of my students have mastered that, and all it takes is five or ten minutes a day,” she says. “We may start at 200 and count backward by fives or tens. They love it; it’s never boring to them. They are always trying to figure out what I’m going to start with.”
Central Elementary School first-grade teacher Tara Abdallah says she and her colleagues appreciated the practical strategies and tools Shumway shared that they could immediately use in their classrooms. One of her favorites is Dot Cards, which resemble domino tiles or dice and help students practice skip counting and recognize groupings and multiples that they can later form into equations. The visual aids help students learn to subitize, but they also let teachers continually assess how students are thinking about amounts.
Kearney teachers adapted some of the strategies in Number Sense Routines for other purposes and for subjects other than math. For example, Abdallah tweaked Shumway’s Count Around the Circle strategy to help students learn to count money, and her coteacher adapted it for guided reading. Instead of using numbers, she substituted the alphabet and phonetic sounds so students could become more fluent when reading.
“There’s some amazing stuff in this book that’s so hands-on and freeing,” Abdallah says. “I cannot wait until next school year. I’m going to implement so much from the book!”
During the 2014-15 school year, Kearney’s second- and third-grade teams will begin the training cycle with Number Sense Routines, and the following year teachers in fourth and fifth grades will get involved. Everett says she hopes that teachers will keep the momentum going in future years, coaching their colleagues and planning collaboratively so that they can eliminate instructional gaps from one grade level to the next.
“Teachers are sharing way more than they ever have in our staff development,” she says. “This is powerful. I am super proud of the work our teachers are doing.”
September 22nd, 2014
We recently had a lovely post from Sarah Cooper about the importance of taking things slow in the classroom. Today’s post from Tracy Zager is based on the same idea — giving students the space and time to figure things out on their own. Tracy was reminded of this important lesson by her daughter during a car ride. Read her story and watch the video and then head over to visit Tracy’s new blog!
“You just listened, so then I could figure it out”
My daughters and I climbed in the car to go shoe shopping before their first day of school. I sat in the driver’s seat while they buckled themselves into their car seats and noticed I was keeping track of the loud clicks I heard for each buckle. I took the opportunity to open a math conversation with my kids.
“I didn’t look, but I know you’re all buckled. How could I know that?”
Daphne, age 5, said, “You looked in the mirror!”
“I did not look in the mirror!”
Maya, age 7, said, “You must have counted the clicks! So, you heard 6 clicks and knew we were all buckled.”
I asked, “How would 6 clicks tell me you’re both buckled?”
Maya answered, “Because each car seat has 3 buckles, and 3 times 2 is 6.”
Daphne started to cry. “That’s what I was going to say!”
I turned to Daphne. “Tell me where the 6 comes from, in your own words.”
Daphne said, “Each car seat has 3 buckles, and 3 plus 3 is 6.”
Ah! There was my first opening.
“Maya, you said 3 times 2 is 6. And Daphne, you said 3 plus 3 is 6. Can those both be true? They sound different.”
Maya and I played with this idea for a few minutes, but I could see in the mirror that we were losing Daphne. When Maya and I were done, I asked a question just for Daphne.
“Daphne, what if we had 3 car seats? How many clicks would I hear then?”
There was a long pause while she thought, Maya waited, and I drove.
“How did you figure that out?”
“Well, I remembered the 6, and then I said 7, 8, 9.”
Maya gasped. “Daphne, you’re counting on again!”
Daphne beamed and said, “I know!”
We were all excited because Daphne had counted on for the very first time that morning, when we were baking popovers.
I asked, laughing, “Since when are you counting on? How did you learn that?”
Daphne said, “Well, you gave me a lot of time to think. You didn’t say anything, and you didn’t tell me what to do. You just listened, so then I could figure it out for myself.”
My jaw dropped. For the rest of the car ride, Daphne talked about how school should be filled with lots of time when the teacher “doesn’t say anything and lets the kids think, because that’s how we can learn. The teacher can just listen.” There was so much wisdom in what she was saying that I asked her if we could make a quick video once I parked the car.
Daphne knows what she needs to learn math: time and something tricky to figure out.
“Do you like when a problem is tricky?”
“Because then I get some time to think, and I learn something.”
I am a teacher, and I also coach other teachers. How many times have we all talked about think time, and how important it is? But, here’s the truth: about halfway through the time Daphne was thinking about the fourth car seat, I got a little nervous. I tried to keep my face encouraging on the outside, but on the inside I heard a tiny voice:
“Uh-oh. Maybe this problem is too hard. Should I help her? What would be a good question to help her?”
While I was secretly worrying, Daphne was calmly figuring out how many clicks 4 car seats would make. To a teacher who makes decisions every few seconds, 20 seconds of think time—which is what Daphne took to solve this problem—feels like an eternity. New teachers, in particular, tend to break silences after a second or two with some kind of “help.” With practice, I’ve learned how valuable think time is, and I now sustain those long silences. But internally, I still find it hard to quiet that worried voice.
Later that night, after we watched the video together, I asked Daphne about the reason she gave for why counting on is challenging. She’d said, “You have to remember while talking about something else.”
“What did you mean by that, Daph?”
“Well, you have to remember a whole bunch of things. Like, I had to remember the 6, because that’s where I started. And I had to remember the 3, because I had to stop after 3. And I was counting at the same time. It’s a lot to remember!”
“It sure is. Can I tell you something? While you were doing all that, I was wondering if I should help you.”
She looked shocked. “But I didn’t need help, Mommy! I was just thinking!”
“What would have happened if I had said something while you were remembering where to start and where to stop while you were counting?”
“I would have forgotten what I was doing and had to start all over again! That wouldn’t have helped at all, Mommy! That would have been so frustrating!”
“You know, Daphne, you’re making me a better teacher. You’re teaching me, again, that sometimes when teachers want to ‘help’ a student, we’re actually not helping at all. Sometimes we just need to be quiet. And we need to be comfortable with silence.”
“Yeah. So kids can think!”
We were quiet for a minute together, each thinking.
“Mommy, can you tell other teachers that too? Tell them what I taught you? To not interrupt us when we’re thinking, and just listen while we figure it out?”
“Yes, honey, I think I can.”
Tracy Johnston Zager is the author of the upcoming Stenhouse book Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had: Ideas and Strategies from Vibrant Classrooms. You can find her on twitter at @tracyzager, and at http://tjzager.wordpress.com.
September 17th, 2014
My teenage children hate history. It was always my favorite subject, and that was mostly with teachers who believed in names and dates, and little else. During homework hour at night (or hours these days), I try and explain Faulkner’s famous quote to my kids: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” And I’m greeted with blank stares or a roll of the eyes and always another complaint about history being boring and irrelevant. I don’t expect it to be their favorite subject, but irrelevant? I could go on and on…
One of the ways a book gets published is that an editor has a zeal and passion for the manuscript. This is especially true in the trade world where countless examples exist of a famous book turned down sixty times before some editor read it, loved it, and made sure everyone in the office knew just how wonderful it was. We are not a trade house, but passion still plays a significant role.
I love the three books we currently publish on ways to teach history that are meaningful and engaging. Making History Mine by Sarah Cooper, Eyewitness to the Past by Joan Brodsky Schur, and Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer? by Bruce Lesh. What they give history teachers are the tools to prove to kids that while names and dates are important, history is much more than that. Kids research and interpret history. They learn firsthand what historians actually do. It’s nonfiction that requires full engagement of the imagination. What a wonderful blend!
September 16th, 2014
When students talk about their ideas for writing, they often exhibit spark, personality, and pizzazz, expressing interesting ideas fearlessly and creatively. Yet the writing they submit lacks this same enthusiasm and originality. They have the ideas, but what happens between that talk and the written draft?
Jeff Anderson and Debbie Dean provide a practical framework for smoothing the space between ideas and drafting in their new book, Revision Decisions. Starting at the sentence level, Jeff and Debbie show you how to create learning experiences where students discover and practice the many options available to them as writers.
The heart of the book is a series of ten lesson sets with printable handouts that will give your students a repertoire of revision techniques using elements such as serial commas, interrupters, and sentence branching. A key part of the lessons is talk—collaborating in small groups on revision decisions and developing a writer’s vocabulary in whole-class discussions.
Revision Decisions helps teachers engage their students in the tinkering, playing, and thinking that are essential to clarify and elevate writing. You can now preview Chapter 1, “Revision Decisions Are Possible: Actively Processing to Develop Options for Revision.”
September 15th, 2014
We are celebrating International Literacy Day today and so a few of our lovely Stenhouse employees shared why they love to read. Head over to Twitter to follow us all day long with more reasons to read from our authors. Tweet us why you read and you could win a free Stenhouse book! Just use this form, take a selfie, and tweet to @stenhousebup using the hashtag #whyiread!
Louisa, our newest employee
Chandra, our conference guru
Stenhouse President Dan Tobin
September 8th, 2014
On September 8 we are joining the International Book Bank in celebrating International Literacy Day with the hashtag #whyiread, and we need your help to remind your friends and the world that:
- Currently 775.4 million adults cannot read or write; two thirds are women.
- Illiteracy affects an individual’s access to education, ability to exercise her civil rights, and even impacts her health and development.
- The consequences of illiteracy are devastating for the individual, the community and the world.
In 1965, UNESCO declared September 8 International Literacy Day (ILD) in an effort to focus attention on global literacy issues. You can be a part of the effort by doing the following on September 8:
(1) Write! Using our printable form, tell us why you read.
(2) Take a selfie! Snap a photo of yourself with your sign.
(3) Share! We want to see the many (and varied) reasons people read around the world. Post your photo on Twitter using #whyiread and be sure to tag IBB and @stenhousepub. We’ll be retweeting and sharing #whyiread posts from Stenhouse authors all day long. We’ll also raffle off five free books at the end of the day, so be sure to mention @stenhousepub in your Tweet!
Stenhouse Blog editor Zsofi McMullin
September 3rd, 2014
How can you intentionally help your students find balance and purposeful direction in their reading lives–weaving together reading for relaxation, informational reading, reading for meaning, fluency, and selecting texts–to become their best reading selves?
In their new book, Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris take you beyond reading strategies to give you specific ways to support your students’ enjoyment, perseverance, risk-taking, and connection-making as readers.
Anchored by four key intentions–alignment, balance, sustainability, and joy–Jan and Kim offer field-tested lessons, organizers, book lists, and other practical ways to teach reading skills while instilling the long-term attitudes and habits that your students need to become lifelong readers.
Reading Wellness will inspire you to stay connected to your broader vision of students as readers as you address the external requirements of educational standards. Preview the entire book online now!
August 28th, 2014
Summer is winding down and many of you are back in your classrooms and back to the hectic days of fall. In her new post Sarah Cooper invites you to linger in summer for a bit longer and consider what the slow pace of summer can teach you about, well, teaching. “The more time I take, the more sophisticated the students’ work becomes, and the more I understand how they learn,” she writes. Sarah teaches U.S. History at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California and she is the author of Making History Mine.
Striving for Slow
Summer is the land of slow for teachers.
Slow mornings when we have time to sit and read the paper. Slow afternoons when we drink coffee with a colleague and talk in terms of what-ifs, not what must be done, in the classroom next year.
Even those of us who teach summer school, take care of family or attend professional growth seminars find that the days dance to a different rhythm. Calmer. Not dictated by bells or meetings. Subject to more of our control, our curiosity.
The “slow teaching movement” has gained momentum in the past several years, often encouraging us to let go of technology’s grip a bit.
Right now, I’m not talking as much about technology as about time.
As a friend and I commiserate every August, “Why can’t we bring more of the summer pace into the school year?”
We can’t always fight against a schedule cramped for minutes. But we can give our students time within that schedule to think, reflect, and discover themselves as learners.
From the lazy, mellow perspective of summer’s end, I’ll share a few slow stories, two about our students and one about us as teachers.
Story 1: More Research Time in Class = More Fun
Last year, for an extended research project, my eighth-grade U.S. history students did easily 80 percent of the work in class. I kept reserving more and more days in our library computer lab and ended up with ten 43-minute periods, about seven hours total.
With all of this time to work in class, students could:
- Land on a topic they really cared about, not one they picked because they had to make a quick choice. (“This guy’s last name is the same as my favorite soccer player…”)
- Find rich sources, not just the first ones they stumbled across late at night while they were also texting their friends.
- Ask questions about how to do a works cited list and parenthetical citation.
- Paraphrase quotations thoroughly to ensure they weren’t plagiarizing.
- Find additional sources once they started writing if they realized their argument needed more support.
This ended up being the most library time I had ever spent on an assignment. I expected that the projects would be better as a result, and they were. The students found scholarly sources, discovered insightful quotations within them, and linked the facts more adroitly because of the extra time.
What I didn’t expect were the comments from students that the project was fun only because they had enough time to work on it, inside and outside of class. This statement, repeated again and again in their written feedback, has convinced me of the power of slow projects to increase engagement.
(Not incidentally, giving time to work in class also meant that students were not distracted by electronic devices, making their focus sharper.)
Story 2: More Writing Time in Class = More Creativity
At the end of a unit on civil rights during the Civil War with “Glory” as centerpiece, I wanted students to follow their curiosity. They could explore any question they had about the topic through a mini-research project.
However, we didn’t have much time: two days in class doing research, and Monday class plus Monday night’s homework to do a 250-word creative or interpretive response.
As students wrote their reflections that Monday morning, many of them were just starting to hit their stride when we had ten minutes left.
I envisioned the homework saga that night: Some students would want to spend an hour finishing but would become distracted or pulled away by other homework or extracurriculars. The final products, hurriedly stapled on Tuesday morning, would seem rushed and unfinished. Oh, and all the eighth graders were going on a class trip on Wednesday.
So I nixed the preview of nuclear warfare I had planned and instead gave everyone the day to work, with the absolute stipulation that they needed to finish by the end of class.
The eighth graders were grateful, and I really enjoyed reading their projects, including one by Wylie that combined visual and linguistic literacy, comparing Navy recruiting posters from the Civil War and World War I.
The World War I poster, featuring a man tinkering with a sub’s diesel engine, “seems more like an inspirational drawing,” Wylie said, “while the emblem and big title on the Civil War poster give it a very straightforward look.”
Story 3: Less is More, Period
Every year I try to do less and make that less count more – by addressing multiple standards and skills through a close reading of one primary source document rather than three, for instance.
Every time I forget to do less – which happens regularly when I hope to cram in one last skill or idea – I end up driving myself and my students a little crazy.
Last month I taught a weeklong summer school English class for ninth graders. We worked with five elements of voice, as described by Nancy Dean in her excellent Voice Lessons.
The class lasted two hours each day, with a ten-minute break in the middle. For each 55-minute session, I imagined we would read aloud a piece of literature, annotate it, discuss it as a class, pair up to identify elements of voice, come back together to talk about them, and write individual thesis statements on the passage. And then I thought I’d “fill in” the rest of the time with a ten-minute sponge activity on diction or imagery.
It’s funny, even writing out that entire list makes me tired. And I realized on the first day that, even though a number of kids in the back were restless here and there, we would gain more from staying with a document five extra minutes than we would from a sharp transition to something else.
So we stayed with it.
During pairs work, I took the time to look at passages each group had annotated, asked students to go deeper in many instances, and circled back to check that they had.
During full-class discussion, we looked at several more lines of poetry than I usually would. When arms and legs started twitching, I asked the kids if they wanted a stretch break. No, they said, being polite.
So a minute later, when one student volunteered the word “nonchalant” to describe a poem’s tone, we defined it and then I asked them all to stand “nonchalantly.” After they sat down, full of attitude, we looked at one more fabulous metaphor with new eyes.
Going Slowly Isn’t Easy
It can be easier to assign a rat-a-tat series of activities, as I did for my first years teaching, than it can be to listen to, critique and circle back to students’ ideas. It’s less messy to assign research to be done at home than to supervise it in class, with the inevitable off-task moments and dead ends.
But it’s not less fulfilling. The more time I take, the more sophisticated the students’ work becomes, and the more I understand how they learn.
Now, can someone please remind me about all of this slow summer thinking when the frenzy of October comes along?
August 21st, 2014
When it comes to grammar instruction, we know what doesn’t work: isolated, skill and drill methods. In fact, research offers strong evidence that traditional grammar instruction has a negative effect on student writing. We also know that a solid understanding and usage of grammar is essential to good writing. So how best to teach it?
Lynne Dorfman (Mentor Texts) and Diane Dougherty provide the answers in their new book, Grammar Matters. Within the framework of writing workshop and the three text types identified in the Common Core standards, Lynne and Diane guide teachers with specific strategies for teaching writing and classroom management while providing practical, grammar-focused lessons.
You’ll get a plan for the entire year with eight units of study and examples of whole-class conversations about mentor texts, one-on-one conferences, and ways to assess student growth. The appendixes provide numerous quick-reference lists, practical tips, and a “Treasure Chest” of children’s books, annotated to highlight specific grammar and conventions modeled by each.
By using Grammar Matters, K-6 teachers can move away from isolated grammar instruction and instead embed grammar in their daily teaching of argument, informative/explanatory, and narrative writing. Your students will retain their knowledge of grammar and carry it over into their everyday writing.
Preview the entire book online now!
August 18th, 2014
Using Fiction and Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science, K-2
Melissa Stewart and Nancy Chesley
360 pp•$28.00•Available late August•Preview now
Perfect Pairs, which marries fiction and nonfiction picture books focused on life science, helps educators think about and teach life science in a whole new way.
Lessons, Tips, and Conversations Using Mentor Texts, K-6
Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty
344 pp • $24.00 • Available late August • Preview now
Get your kids excited about learning grammar through conversation, conferences, lessons, and mentor texts. Includes an extensive list of children’s books that fit naturally into grammar instruction.
Lessons in Independence and Proficiency
Jan Miller Burkins and Kim Yaris • Foreword by Christopher Lehman
Grades 1-5 • 232 pp • $21.00 • Available early September
An essential tool for developing a love of reading in your students, this practical book offers a series of classroom-tested lessons that help children read closely and carefully while honoring their interests, passions, and agency as readers.
Talking Through Sentences and Beyond
Jeff Anderson and Deborah Dean
Grades 4-10 • 200 pp • $24.00 • Available late October
Engage your students in the tinkering, playing, and thinking that are essential to clarify and elevate writing. Focusing on sentences and mentor texts, the book’s narratives, setup lessons, and templates show you how to move students toward independence.
Lessons for Responding to Narrative and Informational Text
Grades 3-8 • 208 pp • $21.00 • Available late October
Provides 91 practical lessons for helping students of all ability levels go beyond summarizing and use readers’ notebooks to think critically, on their own, one step at a time, while developing key comprehension skills.
Number Sense Routines That Build Mathematical Understanding
Grades K-5 • 99-min. DVD + viewing guide • $150 • Available now
Building on her book, Number Sense Routines, Jessica Shumway invites you and your staff into three elementary classrooms for an in-depth look at how these short warm-ups help students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers.
August 13th, 2014
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The developed nations are so reliant on computer-mediated communications and computerised control of systems that war can now be waged on them in a new way. By jamming signals or injecting spurious commands an attacker can paralyse its opponent’s military command structures, communications, transport, financial and banking systems, and emergency services; false information could be planted as a form of psychological warfare. Some of these techniques were used in the Gulf War and the Pentagon is now developing its techniques further.
The military is just as conscious that the US could be done by as it does and is uniquely vulnerable (the possibility of an “electronic Pearl Harbor” has been mooted), and is as actively planning electronic countermeasures. It is perhaps an indication of the intensity of interest in the topic that so many near-synonyms have been generated in the past five years: infowar is the current buzzword, an obvious contraction of the fuller term information warfare; but it is also called cyberwar and netwar (this last term was apparently coined by David Ronfeldt of the RAND Corporation in 1993).
The possibility that freedom fighters, insurgents, guerrillas or terrorists could use the same techniques has led to the catch-all term cyberterrorism. Those engaging in such warfare are sometimes called cyberwarriors, net warriors, or infowarriors.
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A plant with long, thin parts suggestive of cats' tails, in particular:
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- Water plants abound, including a cattail, a realistic palm tree, and other vegetation.
- As mentioned earlier, large areas of cattails and other aquatic plants also will encourage muskrat activity.
- The lowland is lush with cattails and willows, and an osprey nest suggests the presence of trout.
Definition of cat's tail in:
- The US English dictionary
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Hacking into cars is not a future concern. It is possible now, and the potential danger will increase as carmakers continue to enhance connectivity features in automobiles.
But even that threat pales against the potential damage cyber attacks could wreak when driverless cars take to the roads for real.
One common perceived threat here and now comes from the ease of access that manufacturers have built in for drivers. If a driver can unlock a car door and start the engine using a cell phone, an unauthorized person can turn off that engine and lock the doors from a cell phone.
Taking a drive into the near future, could someone arrange for all of the cars on a Los Angeles freeway to have their engines turned off at the exact same time?
Even now, the ability to hack into and remotely control a car is a clear and present danger.
Video: Behind the wheel of a car, you may be able to text, watch a movie or even sleep — if it’s a computer-controlled, driverless car. The WSJ’s Michael Kofsky heads to the test track to show how it works and safety questions it raises.
A pair of security engineers — doing their research with an $80,000 grant from the Pentagon — were able to hack into the systems of Toyota and Ford cars, and override a driver’s braking attempts, according to an account of the scenario in Forbes.
The pair was able to “demonstrate a range of nasty surprises: everything from annoyances like uncontrollably blasting the horn to serious hazards like slamming on the Prius’ brakes at high speeds. They sent commands from their laptops that killed power steering, spoofed the GPS and made pathological liars out of speedometers and odometers,” according to Forbes.
Expanding such abilities simultaneously to a fleet of cars is a feat yet to be accomplished.
“It could be possible to hack into one or another vehicle, but there is nothing that can stop the whole fleet at the same time,” said Mark Brooks, senior research engineer at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio. “Current levels of connectivity are not seen as major threats because they are not continuous.”
No One at the Wheel
“Even when a driver is using a navigation system, that is just a single download. The industry is much more concerned about continuous streaming back and forth, as with driverless cars,” he said.
Driverless cars rely on a number of sensors to operate, and are definitely vulnerable to attack, according to one of the hackers at the Def Con Hacking Conference in August.
“I’m a huge fan of unmanned vehicles,” said a hacker who goes by the name of Zoz to Venture Beat, a blog that focuses on technology. “I love robots. I think they’re the future. But, like everything else humans ever made, it’s going to get hacked.”
Google’s driverless car’s primary system is a “laser range finder mounted on the roof of the car,” which generates a 3D map of the area, according to IEEE, a technology professional organization.
“The vehicle also carries other sensors, which include: four radars, mounted on the front and rear bumpers, that allow the car to ‘see’ far enough to be able to deal with fast traffic on freeways; a camera, positioned near the rear-view mirror, that detects traffic lights; and a GPS, inertial measurement unit, and wheel encoder, that determine the vehicle’s location and keep track of its movements.”
Zoz told Venture Beat that it would not require sophistication to attack and derail those sensors, and he pointed out that engineers in Iran were able to hack and capture a U.S. drone by “spoofing” the GPS and feeding it incorrect location information.
Death and destruction are always a worry when hackers can subvert an operating system, but apportioning liability is also a major concern, SwRI’s Brooks said.
“If there were any problems, whose fault would it be? The carmaker? The navigation OEM? The software company? The driver? These are the discussions everyone is starting to have.”
Those initial conversations can be difficult, said Dave Wasson, professional and cyber liability practice leader at brokerage Hays Cos. in Chicago.
“The issues are known. People are aware of the risks. But at the moment there is kind of a paralysis because it is unclear how to quantify these risks, and also because even if we could quantify them, there are very limited options yet in how to deal with them.”
A Flawed System
Wasson added that a reordering of the current liability structure is both necessary and inevitable. “Right now, you have a pull market, with small OEMs seeking coverage because the first-tier OEMs and carmakers demand that they be indemnified. But that is not sustainable. A client might demand a $15 million cover from a small supplier, but that cover could cost the supplier $50,000 when he only grosses $100,000 on the contract.”
It is a situation where bigger companies are offloading their risk management onto smaller ones, and that, Wasson said, is flawed.
“Even when the suppliers comply, often the package does not work the way either the supplier or the OEM client thinks it will,” he said.
“Eventually the large firms will realize that they need to take this as primary,” Wasson said. “They have the assets, the skills, the risk managers, and the brokerage relationships to get it done properly.
“Besides, they are the ones who are going to get sued. They can turn to their indemnification contracts, but if the small supplier with few assets goes bankrupt, then what? It’s the company with the badge on the car that people are going to go after.”
As those issues percolate, commercial vehicle operators have other challenges as well.
“One really big cyber issue for a logistics company or express delivery service would be to have the GPS signals for their vehicles scrambled, or the electronic shipment documents tampered with,” said Steve Surber, area vice president for Arthur J. Gallagher in Irvine, Calif.
A cyber attack could be used to divert a shipment, cover theft, tamper with cargo, or even just to delay a shipment that is time sensitive. And the theft could be of the truck or trailer itself, some of which are worth up to $60,000, he said.
On another level, hacking can be used to disrupt the loss control systems of trucking lines, many of which use GPS and electronic reporting to track their fleet performance, Surber said.
Cyber alterations of such reporting could hide potential liability issues such as speeding, sleeping, unauthorized stops, fuel diversion, or many other misdeeds by shippers, loaders, drivers or consignees.
“Companies already rely heavily on computer systems and networks to help with loss control,” he said.
Among insurers, coverage is still evolving, he added. “There is some coverage from cyber policies, but mostly we are still seeing claims handled through general liability.”
Wasson, at Hays Cos., said that while the cyber risk and liability markets are pull markets at present, with owners seeking to transfer risk, the business is not without push.
“We are energetic about working with our carriers,” he said. “There is coverage and there is capacity.”
Cyber Security Efforts
In April, an automotive consortium started revving up its efforts to enhance cyber security.
The Automobile Consortium for Embedded Security — a part of SwRI — includes automakers, original equipment manufacturers, other suppliers, and cyber security experts.
The program aims to provide “pre-competitive and non-competitive research in automotive embedded systems security to protect the safety, reliability, brand image, trade secrets and privacy of client members’ future products,” according to the organization.
“As soon as they start claiming their vehicles are secure, they would paint a target on themselves. It’s not like safety or fuel economy. With security, there are bad guys and you don’t want to attract their attention.”
The consortium, Brooks said, “is looking at emerging research both in new technologies and new protections for embedded security for the automotive world.”
“There are lots of theoretical threats,” he said, “but we want to be sure we are focusing our efforts on the most relevant ones.”
The unique challenge is that automakers want to enhance the protections in their vehicles, but ironically, it is not something they want to advertise.
“As soon as they start claiming their vehicles are secure, they would paint a target on themselves.
“It’s not like safety or fuel economy. With security, there are bad guys and you don’t want to attract their attention.”
He said that automakers also are hesitant to unilaterally invest in cyber security efforts.
“As we started talking to automakers, we found them eager to be part of developing security, but it’s tough for them to take the lead or commit a lot of money to something that will not help them sell cars,” Brooks said.
“They also don’t want to reinvent the wheel,” he said. “They are very interested in solving common problems with peer-reviewed research and applications.”
Complete coverage on the inevitable cyber threat:
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Risk Technology: Risk Managers Lead from Within
This year marks my twentieth in the risk management field. Now I would never call myself a risk manager. Far from it: I’m a computer geek, and proud of it. Today we refer to the Internet, Cloud, Mobile and Big Data, but I’ve been working with technology my entire life. So much has changed in those twenty years. Networking computers together was rudimentary and extremely limited when I started. Now everything, and everyone, is interconnected, and that has changed everything.
That interconnectivity has allowed organizations to move away from the isolated, siloed processes of the past, and produced dramatic changes in the way we conduct our business and our lives. I’ve watched risk management evolve from a department called upon primarily when things go wrong, to a pervasive philosophy for running a successful business. Fewer and fewer risk managers I speak to work in isolation, reacting to claims as they come in. Rather they are a collaborative lynchpin to manage risk. They don’t wait for bad things to happen. They proactively put safety programs in place, analyze loss data and make their organizations more risk-aware. They know an enormous amount about the inner workings of their organization, its suppliers, distributors, vendors and team members. This is a fundamental transition from a middle management, administrative function, to an executive level function that is key to the organization’s success.
But risk managers are increasingly finding that email and spreadsheets are clumsy, inefficient, and ultimately create obstacles to managing risk throughout their company. With the speed and global reach of business, when even ‘local’ businesses rely on a far-flung supply chain, yesterday’s technology introduces risk, inefficiencies and increased levels of error. Today’s business demands technology that facilitates decisions for tomorrow’s business challenges. Organizations need a platform – a platform that provides secure, efficient and consistent methods of communicating risk-related events and data. Fortunately this need comes at a time when we have a convergence of technologies that can make this vision a reality.
This is a fundamental transition from a middle management, administrative function, to an executive level function that is key to the organization’s success.
Just imagine running your business on technology of twenty years ago. Sending paper memos (when CC referred to a literal ‘carbon copy’), using a phone tethered to your desk, taking delivery of policy documents in hard copy – oh wait, they still do that. Would that put your business at a competitive disadvantage? Of course it would – and risk management would suffer too.
Risk management no longer has to take a back seat to other parts of the organization. Quite the opposite. By leveraging commercial cloud platforms, the pervasiveness of the Internet and the interconnectivity of everyone and everything, the risk management team can be the most modern, forward-looking part of the company. Risk management has become the bellwether of change – actually bearing the standard for technology-enabled collaboration and productivity across the organization. Imagine that.
Six Best Practices For Effective WC Management
It’s no secret that the professionals responsible for managing workers compensation programs need to be constantly vigilant.
Rising health care costs, complex state regulation, opioid-based prescription drug use and other scary trends tend to keep workers comp managers awake at night.
“Risk managers can never be comfortable because it’s the nature of the beast,” said Debbie Michel, president of Helmsman Management Services LLC, a third-party claims administrator (and a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance). “To manage comp requires a laser-like, constant focus on following best practices across the continuum.”
Michel pointed to two notable industry trends — rises in loss severity and overall medical spending — that will combine to drive comp costs higher. For example, loss severity is predicted to increase in 2014-2015, mainly due to those rising medical costs.
Debbie discusses the top workers’ comp challenge facing buyers and brokers.
The nation’s annual medical spending, for its part, is expected to grow 6.1 percent in 2014 and 6.2 percent on average from 2015 through 2022, according to the Federal Government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This increase is expected to be driven partially by increased medical services demand among the nation’s aging population – many of whom are baby boomers who have remained in the workplace longer.
Other emerging trends also can have a potential negative impact on comp costs. For example, the recent classification of obesity as a disease (and the corresponding rise of obesity in the U.S.) may increase both workers comp claim frequency and severity.
“The true goal here is to think about injured employees. Everyone needs to focus on helping them get well, back to work and functioning at their best. At the same time, following a best practices approach can reduce overall comp costs, and help risk managers get a much better night’s sleep.”
– Debbie Michel, President, Helmsman Management Services LLC (a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual)
“These are just some factors affecting the workers compensation loss dollar,” she added. “Risk managers, working with their TPAs and carriers, must focus on constant improvement. The good news is there are proven best practices to make it happen.”
Michel outlined some of those best practices risk managers can take to ensure they get the most value from their workers comp spending and help their employees receive the best possible medical outcomes:
1. Workplace Partnering
Risk managers should look to partner with workplace wellness/health programs. While typically managed by different departments, there is an obvious need for risk management and health and wellness programs to be aligned in understanding workforce demographics, health patterns and other claim red flags. These are the factors that often drive claims or impede recovery.
“A workforce might have a higher percentage of smokers or diabetics than the norm, something you can learn from health and wellness programs. Comp managers can collaborate with health and wellness programs to help mitigate the potential impact,” Michel said, adding that there needs to be a direct line between the workers compensation goals and overall employee health and wellness goals.
Debbie discusses the second biggest challenge facing buyers and brokers.
2. Financing Alternatives
Risk managers must constantly re-evaluate how they finance workers compensation insurance programs. For example, there could be an opportunity to reduce costs by moving to higher retention or deductible levels, or creating a captive. Taking on a larger financial, more direct stake in a workers comp program can drive positive changes in safety and related areas.
“We saw this trend grow in 2012-2013 during comp rate increases,” Michel said. “When you have something to lose, you naturally are more focused on safety and other pre-loss issues.”
3. TPA Training, Tenure and Resources
Businesses need to look for a tailored relationship with their TPA or carrier, where they work together to identify and build positive, strategic workers compensation programs. Also, they must exercise due diligence when choosing a TPA by taking a hard look at its training, experience and tools, which ultimately drive program performance.
For instance, Michel said, does the TPA hold regular monthly or quarterly meetings with clients and brokers to gauge progress or address issues? Or, does the TPA help create specific initiatives in a quest to take the workers compensation program to a higher level?
4. Analytics to Drive Positive Outcomes, Lower Loss Costs
Michel explained that best practices for an effective comp claims management process involve taking advantage of today’s powerful analytics tools, especially sophisticated predictive modeling. When woven into an overall claims management strategy, analytics can pinpoint where to focus resources on a high-cost claim, or they can capture the best data to be used for future safety and accident prevention efforts.
“Big data and advanced analytics drive a better understanding of the claims process to bring down the total cost of risk,” Michel added.
5. Provider Network Reach, Collaboration
Risk managers must pay close attention to provider networks and specifically work with outcome-based networks – in those states that allow employers to direct the care of injured workers. Such providers understand workers compensation and how to achieve optimal outcomes.
Risk managers should also understand if and how the TPA interacts with treating physicians. For example, Helmsman offers a peer-to-peer process with its 10 regional medical directors (one in each claims office). While the medical directors work closely with claims case professionals, they also interact directly, “peer-to-peer,” with treatment providers to create effective care paths or considerations.
“We have seen a lot of value here for our clients,” Michel said. “It’s a true differentiator.”
6. Strategic Outlook
Most of all, Michel said, it’s important for risk managers, brokers and TPAs to think strategically – from pre-loss and prevention to a claims process that delivers the best possible outcome for injured workers.
Debbie explains the value of working with Helmsman Management Services.
Helmsman, which provides claims management, managed care and risk control solutions for businesses with 50 employees or more, offers clients what it calls the Account Management Stewardship Program. The program coordinates the “right” resources within an organization and brings together all critical players – risk manager, safety and claims professionals, broker, account manager, etc. The program also frequently utilizes subject matter experts (pharma, networks, nurses, etc.) to help increase knowledge levels for risk and safety managers.
“The true goal here is to think about injured employees,” Michel said. “Everyone needs to focus on helping them get well, back to work and functioning at their best.
“At the same time, following a best practices approach can reduce overall comp costs, and help risk managers get a much better night’s sleep,” she said.
To learn more about how a third-party administrator like Helmsman Management Services LLC (a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual) can help manage your workers compensation costs, contact your broker.
Debbie discusses how Helmsman drives outcomes for risk managers.
Debbie explains how to manage medical outcomes.
Debbie discusses considerations when selecting a TPA.
This article was produced by the R&I Brand Studio, a unit of the advertising department of Risk & Insurance, in collaboration with Helmsman Management Services. The editorial staff of Risk & Insurance had no role in its preparation.
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The Japanese city of Hiroshima (???, Hiroshima-shi?) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands. Geographical location 34°23'07?N, 132°27'19?E (City Hall). It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
Hiroshima gained municipality status on April 1, 1889 and was designated on April 1, 1980 by government ordinance. The city's current mayor is Tadatoshi Akiba who assumed the office on February 23, 1999.********Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period. The city is located on the broad, flat delta of the Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into six islands which project into Hiroshima Bay. The city is almost entirely flat and only slightly above sea level. Hiroshima was founded by Mori Motonari as his capital. About a half century later, after the Battle of Sekigahara, his grandson and the leader of the West Army Mori Terumoto was on the losing side. The winner Tokugawa Ieyasu deprived Mori Terumoto of most of his fiefs including Hiroshima and gave Aki province to another daimyo who had supported him.
Finally Asano was appointed the daimyo of this area and Hiroshima served as the capital of Hiroshima han during the Edo period. After the han was abolished the city became the capital of Hiroshima prefecture.*************On August 6, 1945 the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people and completely destroying approximately 68% of the city's buildings. In the following months, an estimated 60,000 more people died from injuries or radiation poisoning.Since 1945, several thousand more hibakusha have died of illnesses caused by the bomb. After the nuclear attack, Hiroshima was rebuilt and the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation was designated the Genbaku Dome (?????) or "Atomic Bomb Dome", a part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The city government continues to advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons.*************Hiroshima was rebuilt after the war, with new modern buildings rising all over the city. Several US civic leaders and scholars were consulted about the rebuilding plan. In 1949, Hiroshima was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament, at the initiative of its mayor, Shinzo Hamai (b. 1905–d. 1968). As a result, the city of Hiroshima received more international attention as a desirable location for holding international conferences on peace as well as social issues. As part of that effort, the Hiroshima Interpreters' and Guide's Association (HIGA) was established in 1992 in order to facilitate translation services for conferences, and the Hiroshima Peace Institute was established in 1998 within the Hiroshima University. In 1994, the city of Hiroshima hosted the Asian Games.
While many other Japanese cities had abandoned their streetcar systems by 1980s (during 60s to 70s, Japanese cities—like British ones—were anxious to get rid of their streetcar systems due to damage to the infrastructure), Hiroshima has retained its streetcar systems. This is because the construction of subway was too expensive for the city to build, as it is located on a delta. During 1960s, Hiroshima Electric Railway, or Hiroden, bought extra streetcars from other Japanese cities. Since most of such street cars retain their original appearance, the streetcar system is called "Moving Museum" by some railroad buffs, although they are now being replaced by newer streetcars. Of four streetcars that survived the war, two of them are still in operation as of July 2006 (Hiroden model 650, Number 651 and 652).**********************Hiroshima's rebuilt castle (nicknamed Rijo, meaning Koi Castle) houses a museum of life in the Edo period. Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine is within the walls of the castle.
Hiroshima is known for its version of okonomiyaki, called "Hiroshima-yaki" or "Hiroshima-fu-okonomiyaki", but just called "Okonomiyaki" there. The Hiroshima version of okonomiyaki is unique for its inclusion of soba or udon noodles.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which includes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, brings many visitors from all around the world, especially around the time of the annual commemoration called Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. And there are Children's Peace Monument and Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.
Other attractions include Shukkei-en and Mitaki-dera. Festivals include Hiroshima Flower Festival and Hiroshima International Animation Festival.**********Baseball fans immediately recognize the city as the home of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Six-time champions of Japan's Central League, the team has gone on to win the Japan Series three times. Sanfrecce Hiroshima is the city's J. League football team.************Mazda Motor Company, now controlled by the Ford Motor Company, is by far Hiroshima's dominant company. Mazda makes many models in Hiroshima for worldwide export, including the popular MX-5/Miata and Mazda RX-8. The Mazda CX-7 is scheduled to be built there, starting in early 2006. Other Mazda factories are in Hofu and Flat Rock, Michigan.*****************
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German-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902
Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1833. He studied painting with the members of the D??sseldorf School in D??sseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857. He taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself to painting.
Bierstadt began making paintings in New England and upstate New York. In 1859, he traveled westward in the company of a Land Surveyor for the U.S. government, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. In 1863 he returned west again, in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he would later marry. He continued to visit the American West throughout his career.
Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was thought to be an egotistical indulgence, as his paintings would invariably dwarf those of his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light was felt to be excessive by contemporary critics. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate and complement the feel of his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used are also not always true. He painted what he believed is the way things should be: water is ultramarine, vegetation is lush and green, etc. The shift from foreground to background was very dramatic and there was almost no middle distance
Nonetheless, his paintings remain popular. He was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 (possibly as many as 4000) paintings during his lifetime, most of which have survived. Many are scattered through museums around the United States. Prints are available commercially for many. Original paintings themselves do occasionally come up for sale, at ever increasing prices. Related Paintings of Albert Bierstadt :. | Canadian_Rockies_Asulkan_Glacier | Mountain Lake | Tropical Landscape with Fishing Boats in Bay | Old Faithful | Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley |
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American Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1844-1930
English painter, muralist and printmaker of American birth. She is best known for her Victorian portraits, allegorical and religious paintings, landscapes and floral scenes and was successful in spite of the difficulties that she encountered as a professional woman artist working in Victorian England. After brief artistic tours to Florence, Dresden and Paris, where she studied in L?on Cogniet's atelier, she began intensive instruction in 1870 from Henry Merritt (1822-77), an Englishman who restored works of art from important collections and wrote on art, exhibitions and conservation. Anna Lea and Henry Merritt were married in July 1877; three months later he died. Love Locked out (1889; London, Tate), depicting love at the door of a tomb, was painted as a memorial to her husband. Ernest Lawson
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Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 ?C December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists which included the group's leader Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens.
Lawson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Though Lawson mostly painted landscapes, he also did some realistic urban scenes which were shown at the 1908 exihibition of The Eight. His painting style is heavily influenced by Impressionism, especially the style of John Henry Twachtman, Alfred Sisley, and J. Alden Weir.
Lawson exhibited as a member of the Canadian Art Club from 1911 to 1915. He died in Miami Beach, Florida in 1939.
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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography has launched a new educational package that is developed from the biographies of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain.
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Gilbert Saboya Sunyé, Foreign Minister of the Principality of Andorra and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, and Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly, issued the following statement on the occasion of International Human Rights Day:
"The Council of Europe works on a daily basis to protect human rights throughout Europe. Over the years, the Council has recorded many successes, first and foremost of which is the European Convention on Human Rights and its control mechanism. The European Court of Human Rights offers victims of human rights violations the assurance that they will be heard and that the Council of Europe will do its utmost to remedy and put an end to such violations.
These successes should not, however, let us forget that much still remains to be done and that this is a task which will need to be continued for generation to come.
This Day is therefore an opportunity for us to remember that the protection of human rights is something that is never fully achieved and that we must continue to do all we can to fight against violations of fundamental rights in Europe and elsewhere.
The Council of Europe's human rights protection standards are still too often ignored or violated. Journalists continue to be subject to censorship or threats; political opponents continue to be unjustly dragged before the courts and there are still many people who are victims of discrimination, ill-treatment or even torture. Moreover, there is a danger that the difficult economic situation in many countries will aggravate injustice and inequality if governments do not make every effort to remedy the harmful effects of the crisis which undermines the cohesion of our societies.
Human Rights Day should also prompt us to think of ways of preventing human rights violations. In this connection, we emphasise the importance of informing, training and raising the awareness of all leaders and citizens, and in particular young people, concerning the values of democracy and human rights. The Council of Europe remains committed to pursuing its action in this field."
Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- European Court of Human Rights
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- Council of Europe Human Rights website
- UN Human Rights Day
- European Parliament Sakharov Prize
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“A van loaded with copies of Roget's Thesaurus collided with a taxi. Witnesses were astounded, shocked, taken aback, surprised, startled, dumbfounded, thunder-struck, and caught unawares.” –Anonymous
Because effective reading and writing skills are necessary for college success, students are strongly encouraged—and often required—to take a placement test. This test will assess a student’s reading and writing skills and recommend the appropriate class(es). English Placement Test and Study Guides.
Hybrid Classes: ENGL-101A, 151A, 151B, 162, 163
All English 101A, 151A, 151B, 162, and 163 courses are hybrid, with class meetings on campus and online. Students must have Internet access. Internet access is available for free to students in the computer labs on both the Fremont and Newark campuses.
The English Department offers two levels of developmental reading and writing before transfer-level composition. At the developmental level, the reading and writing classes are separate; at the transfer-level reading and writing are taught together.
|Type||Developmental Level 1||Developmental Level 2||Transfer-level|
|Reading||ENGL-162 Developmental Reading||ENGL-163 Techniques of College Reading|
|Writing||ENGL-151A Fundamentals of Composition||ENGL-151B Fundamentals of Composition|
|Reading and Writing||ENGL-101A Reading and Written Composition|
The English Department offers two levels of transfer composition. English 101A is the first semester transfer-level class and is required to graduate from Ohlone with an AA degree or to transfer to most four-year colleges. English 101B and 101C are second semester composition courses. Whether to take one of these classes or both may depend on where a student wishes to transfer.
|Transfer-level First Semester||Transfer-level Second Semester|
|ENGL-101A Reading and Written Composition||ENGL-101B Reading and Composition (Introduction to Literature)|
|ENGL-101C Critical Thinking and Composition|
The English Departments offers a variety of literature courses. Students may take these courses because they are English majors, because they enjoy reading and writing, because they are looking to fulfill a requirement, or for their own personal interest.
- ENGL-104 The Short Story
- ENGL/JOUR-106 Censorship and Literature
- ENGL-107 Literature and Film
- ENGL-109 The Graphic Novel
- ENGL-111A/B Creative Writing
- ENGL-112 Modern Fiction
- ENGL-113 Poetry
- ENGL-114 World Mythology
- ENGL/WS-115 Women in Literature
- ENGL-117 Science Fiction and Fantasy
- ENGL-118 Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENGL-119 The Gothic Novel
- ENGL-120A Survey of American Literature: Beginning to 1865
- ENGL-120B Survey of American Literature: 1865 to Present
- ENGL-121 The Mystery: Unlocking Its Secrets
- ENGL-122 Environmental Literature
- ENGL-125A English Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Restoration / 18th Century
- ENGL-125B English Literature: From Romanticism to Modernism
- ENGL-127 Autobiography: Writing Journals and Memoirs
- ENGL-129 Psychology and Literature
- ENGL-130 American Stories: Multicultural Autobiography and Memoir
- ENGL-131 Hip Hop/Slam Poetry
- ENGL-141 Advanced Novel and Short Story Writing
Students can enroll in one-unit classes through the English Learning Center to improve their reading skills in specific areas. Classes are individualized—students are assessed and given their own programs to complete, based on ability. Students can work on their own time to complete their programs, whenever the English Learning Center is open.
- ENGL-172 Vocabulary Improvement
- ENGL-173 Improvement of Learning Techniques
- ENGL-174 Spelling Improvement
- ENGL-175 Reading and Comprehension Improvement
- ENGL-176 Rapid Reading
The English Department also offers courses for students interested in improving their job-related writing skills, in improving college-level critical reading skills, and working as a tutor.
- ENGL-156 Introduction to Report and Technical Writing
- ENGL-167 Critical and Analytical Reading
- ENGL-365 Supervised Tutoring
English classes, both reading and writing at the developmental and transfer levels, are often linked with other classes to create a learning community. Students in a learning community experience the same classes and enjoy the support of faculty and their fellow students. Learning Communities at Ohlone College.
Most Ohlone College classes require the purchase of a textbook, and some classes require the purchase of online access codes (also known as keys) or other supplies. Most of these purchases are available at the Ohlone College Bookstore.
Students may go to the Ohlone College Bookstore website to find the textbook(s), access codes (keys), or supplies for their class(es). Students may be required to pay additional fees for access to online resources that are not available through the Ohlone College Bookstore. Please check with your instructor.
More at Textbooks: Information and Purchasing, including Online Orders, Newark Center Textbooks and Supplies, Book Buybacks, and Textbook Costs.
Upon successful completion of the courses in this discipline, the student will have acquired the following knowledge and skills:
- Demonstrate writing skills at the appropriate level.
- Demonstrate critical reading skills at the appropriate level.
- Retain knowledge from course to course.
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Once a consensus has been built as to the purposes and types of test to employ in a program. A strategy must be worked out to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the test. In the best of all possible worlds each program would have a resident testing expert, whose entire job would be to develop tests especially created for and suited to that program. But even in the worst of all possible worlds rational decisions can be made when selecting commercially available tests from scratch or adopting them from commercial sources is the possibility of adapting existing tests so they are made to better fit with the purposes and objectives of the program.
Many language tests are, or should be, situation specific. That is to say, a test can be very effective in one situation with one particular group of students and be virtually useless in another situation or with another group of students. Teachers can not simply go out (or worse yet, illegally photocopy) a test and automatically expect it to work with their student. It may have been developed for completely different types of students (different in background, level of proficiency, gender, and so forth) and for entirely different purposes (that is, base on differing approaches, syllabuses, techniques or exercises).
Though all of these may seem like a great deal of work, remember that in most language programs, any rational approach to testing will be a vast improvement over the existing condition. The purpose in this section of the chapter will be to suggest systematically bases for getting started in adopting, developing, or adapting decent language test for a particular and very specific language program.
Adopting Language Tests
The tests that are used for program decision are very often bought from commercial publishing houses. Tests are also sometimes adopted from other language programs or taken straight from the current textbook. Given the wide diversity and variation in the nationalities and levels involved in the various language programs around the world, it may turn out that any tests that is adopted is being applied to a population quite different from envisioned when the test were originally written. As a result, program decisions that can dramatically affect the lives of the student
May be irresponsibly base on tests consisting of test questions that are quite unrelated to the needs of the particular group of students or to the curriculum being taught in the specific program involved.
Selecting good test that match the specific needs of a program is therefore important. Test reviews are one good place to start. Such reviews can be found in the review sections of some language teaching journals, right alongside the reviews of texts and professional books. Unfortunately, test reviews appear infrequently:
Language Testing - is a journal that focuses on language tests and also provides reviews. For those in ESL/EEL, Alderson, Krahnke and Stanfield 1987 is a useful source of test reviews for most of the major test available at the time it was published. The Mental Measurements Yearbook also includes some reviews of language test.
Alternative ways to approach the task of selecting test for a program might include:
1. Taking a language testing course
2. Reading up on testing.
3. Hiring a person who already knows about testing.
4. Giving one member of the staff release time ti become informed all the topic.
Table 4.3 Test Evaluation Checklist
General Background Information
3. Publisher and Date of Publication
4. Published reviews available
1. Test family (norm-referenced or criterion-referenced)
2. Purpose of decision (proficiency, placement, achievement or diagnosis)
3. Language methodology orientation approach and syllabuses
1. Target population (age, level, nationality, language/dialect, educational background and so forth)
2. Skills test (for instance reading, writing, listening, speaking, structure, vocabulary and pronunciation)
3. Number of subtests and separate scores.
4. Type of items reflect appropriate techniques and exercises (receptive true-false, multiple-choice, matching; productive: fill-in, short response, essay, extended discourse task).
a. Cost of test booklets, cassette tapes, manual, answer sheets, scoring templates, scoring services, any other necessary test components.
b. Quality of items listed immediately above (paper, printing, audio clarity, durability and so forth)
c. Ease of administration (time required, proctor/examinee, ratio, proctor qualifications, equipment necessary, availability and quality of direction for administration and so forth)
d. Ease of scoring (method of scoring, amount of training necessary, time per test, score conversion information and so forth)
e. Ease of interpretation (quality of guidelines for the interpretations of scores in terms of norms or other criteria.)
Developing Language Test
In the best of all possible worlds, sufficient resources and expertise will be available in a program so that proficiency, placement, achievement, and diagnostic tests can be developed and fitted to the specific goals of the program and to the specific population studying in it.
If this is the case, decision must be made about which types of tests must be developed first. That might mean first developing achievement and diagnosis tests, while temporarily adopting previously published proficiency and placement test.
A program specific placement test could be developed so that the reasons for separating students into levels in the program are related to the things that the students can learn while in those levels.
It is rarely necessary or even useful to develop program specific proficiency tests because of their interprogrammatic nature. In other words, for purposes of reference to other programs elsewhere, an adopted test that is used by a wide variety of language programs will be most appropriate. Naturally, all of these decisions are up to the teachers, administrators, and curriculum developers in the program in question.
Adapting Language Test
It may turn out that a pre-existing test that works fairly well, but not perfectly, can be adapted to the specific testing needs of a particular program.
The process of adapting a test to a specific situation will probably involve some variant of the following strategy:
1. Administer the test to the students to the program.
2. Select those items that appear to be doing a good job of spreading.
3. Create a shorter, more efficient, revised version of the test that fits the ability levels of the specific population of students.
4. Create new item that function like those that were working well in order to have a test of sufficient length.
Organizing and Using Test Result
Table 4.4 A Checklist for Successful Testing
(adapted from Brown forthcoming)
Purposes of Test
1. Clearly defined (theoretical and practical orientation)
2. Understood and agreed upon by staff
Physical needs arranged
1. Adequate and quiet space
2. Enough time in that space for some flexibility
3. Clear scheduling
1. Students properly notified
2. Students signed up for level
3. Students given precise information (where and when test will be, as well as what they should do to prepare and what they should bring with them especially identification if required)
1. Adequate materials in hand (test booklets, answer sheets, cassette tapes, pencils, scoring templates, and so forth) plus extras
2. All necessary equipment in hand and tested (cassette players, microphones, public address system, videotape players, blackboard, chalk, and so forth) with backups where appropriate
3. Proctors trained in their duties
4. All necessary information distributed to proctors (test
directions, answers to obvious questions, schedule of who is to be where and when, and so forth)
1. Adequate space for all scoring take place
2. Clear scheduling of scoring and notification of results
3. Sufficient qualified staff for all scoring activities
4. Staff trained in all scoring procedures
1. Clearly defined uses for result
2. Provision for helping teachers interpret scores and explain them to students
3. Provision for eventual systematic termination of records
1. Results used to fall advantage for research
2. Results incorporated into overall program evaluation plan
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Kay Steven Kay has been the Children’s Policy Worker at Scottish Women’s Aid since August 2014. She works to improve the response towards children and young people with experience of domestic abuse in Scotland through influencing the development of relevant policy and legislation. Kay has previously worked in campaigns and public affairs in the children’s […]
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Domestic abuse is persistent and controlling behaviour by a partner or ex-partner which causes physical, sexual and/or emotional harm. It often gets worse over time. It is very common. In most cases, it is experienced by women and children and is perpetrated by men. More about domestic abuse
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"Victimization, Aggression, and Visits to the School Nurse for Somatic Complaints, Illnesses, and Physical Injuries"
A study published in the May issue of Pediatrics shows both bullies and their victims are more likely than other students to show up in the school nurse’s office—not just for bruises, but also for somatic illnesses such as headaches, joint pain, stomach aches, and chronic fatigue.
Researchers led by Eric Vernberg, the director of the Child and Family Services Clinic at the University of Kansas, compared school nurses’ logs with reports from 590 children in grades 3-5 about bullying they faced in school. The researchers found that the more often a child was tagged as an aggressor, the more frequent his or her visits to the nurse’s office.
In a statement, Mr. Vernberg suggested that repeated episodes of bullying can be stressful for both sides, leading over time to chronic stress and a weakened immune system.
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Final Test - Hard
|Name: _________________________||Period: ___________________|
This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Henchard's will request?
2. How does Henchard show that he now thinks of Elizabeth above himself?
3. Who nurses Henchard on his deathbed?
4. What makes Farfrae fall out of favor with the lower class?
5. Newly bankrupt and now a journeyman, what is the only thing Michael looks forward to?
Essay Topic 1
In chapter 11, Hardy describes The Ring and the Roman past in Casterbridge's history. Hardy details the heavy blood and destructive affairs and that it is no place where happy lovers meet. Hardy also describes the head of Apollo and Diana in Henchard's house. Find the relationship between the historical description of Casterbridge and Henchard's life. Where is Henchard in his life? Is he in his glory days as the times of old gladiators are in The Ring, or is he now a piece of history as an empty stadium that stands alone.
Essay Topic 2
Henchard is different than Donald, yet Donald's life seems to follow the same pattern as Henchard. Compare and contrast their lives and how the results may or may not end the same.
Essay Topic 3
Several times throughout the novel, Hardy describes Henchard's dark eyes with a glint of red. Solomon describes Henchard's expression after his wedding as an ambiguous gaze with one moment of satisfaction, another fiery disdain. How do the colors Hardy uses relate to the description of Henchard's gaze? Why does Henchard have such a gaze as he exits the church?
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There are two distinct styles of castles in Wales; native Welsh fortresses, which present some unique architectural features (notable the frequent use of a D-shaped layout), and later English castles built to impose the authority of the English crown on the Welsh. among the latter category are some of the most impressive and significant castles in Britain, including World Heritage sites like Caernarfon and Conwy. We hope you enjoy exploring these wonderful medieval fortresses, but if you'd like to take it one step further, why not actually stay in a Welsh castle? Take a look at our Castle Hotels in Wales page for more.
Llandovery Castle Llandovery, Dyfed, Wales A small ruin tower on the hill of a motte, built sometime around 1100. The castle was created by sculpting a natural hill to create a small bailey and a stone fortification. The first castle at Llandovery was probably the work of Richard fitzPons, beginning in 1116 or a bit earlier. FitzPons, a Norman lord, put a Welsh constable in charge of the castle, which might have been a dangerous choice, but his constable fiercely defended Llandovery from Welsh attack. ... more
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The guiding purposes of National Braille Press are to promote the literacy of blind children through braille and to provide access to information that empowers blind people to actively engage in work, family, and community affairs.
Learn the top ten tips for reading storybooks to blind children so they don't miss out on key information often conveyed in pictures.
Win $20,000 for an innovation that will further braille or tactile literacy! Read more about the Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation.
Nearly $400,000 was raised at NBP's annual A Million Laughs for Literacy Gala. Thank you to all our supporters! View pictures from the event.
In iOS 8 Without the Eye: The Definitive Guide to iOS 8 from a Blind Person's Perspective, author Jonathan Mosen has spent months delving into iOS 8 as it has taken shape, writing up the advertised new features from an accessibility point of view, and uncovering a whole bunch of other goodies Apple didn't talk about.
Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach — songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening — all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.
Our first Great Expectations featured title is New York Times best seller Dragons Love Tacos, by Adam Rubin. Get the book and find out why kids find the combination of dragons, tacos, and spicy salsa so incredibly funny!
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European scientists using the Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) have found that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target comet of ESA’s Rosetta mission, smells like a combination of rotten eggs, alcohol, horse urine, bitter almonds and vinegar. “The perfume of this comet is quite strong, with the odor of rotten eggs, of horse [...] —> Read More Here
Astrologers and other spiritual types are typically the only people to believe in a connection between a person’s birthday and their personality. But according to a recent study, there’s scientific evidence that indeed, the season of your birth may have some impact on who you are.
Researchers from Semmelweis University in Budapest studied a sample of 366 Hungarian university students, finding that people born in the summer were more likely to experience frequent mood swings as adults. People born in the winter, however, were less likely to develop irritable personalities. Spring birthdays were more likely to yield “excessively positive” temperaments, while people born in autumn were less likely to be depressive.
“Biochemical studies have shown that the season in which you are born has an influence on certain monoamine neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin, which is detectable even in adult life,” lead researcher Xenia Gonda, an assistant professor at the university, said in a written statement. “This led us to believe that birth season may have a longer-lasting effect.”
These neurotransmitters play a role in the regulation of cognitive processes like emotion and arousal, contributing to mood, so the researchers believe they might influence the —> Read More Here
Scientists have long-known that our human ancestors got down and dirty with Neanderthals. But when exactly did this interbreeding first occur?
A study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany offers a new answer.
For the study, researchers sequenced the genome of a 45,000-year-old modern human male, using a femur bone that was unearthed in 2008 near the small village of Ust’-Ishim in western Siberia. The genome sets the record for being the oldest of a modern human ever sequenced–and the researchers were thrilled to find that it held fragments of Neanderthal DNA.
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APPLICATION OF VAT DYESAims: 1. To apply a vat dye dispersion to a fabric by padding 2. To apply a vat dye to cotton fabric using a pre-pigmentation method 3. To observe the changes a vat dye undergoes during application to a fabric 4. To determine the effect of soaping on a vat dye 5. To practice pad-bath calculations.Theory:The simplest arrangement for dyeing fabric is to pull the textile material through thedyebath so that the dye can exhaust on to the fabric surface. Low liquor ratios and theaddition of common salt or Glaubers salt both promote such exhaustion. In some cases,the addition of acid also promotes exhaustion. If the dye is only partially soluble in waterand likely to be exhausted unevenly, the addition of soap or sodium carbonate maypromote leveling. A dyeing is considered to be level if all parts of all fibers have beenpenetrated evenly and completely. Machines for this type of dyeing are called batchmachines. • Package and beam machines for yarns. • Jigs for open width fabrics • Winches for woven and knitted fabrics in rope form • Jet dyeing machines for knitted fabrics in rope form. • Paddle machines for sewn products like bedspreads • Smith drums for nylon hosiery or special machines for nylon hosieryIf a dye is not soluble in water, as is the case with vats, it may be applied to the fabric as adispersion by a padder. Once the insoluble vat dye has been uniformly applied to thefabric surface, usually with the aid of special dispersing agents (detergents), it can besolubilized by reaction with a reducing agent, e.g., sodium hydrosulfite ("hydros",Na2S2O4) in dilute NaOH. Once it has been converted to its soluble (LEUCO) form, thevat dye can penetrate into the cotton fibers. After adequate time for penetration to occur,the fabric is withdrawn from the bath and oxidized by air or an oxidizing agent such assodium perborate or hydrogen peroxide. This process is schematically represented below. pad hydrosvat dye (insol) → on fabric surface → LEUCO form (soluble) NaOH air oxidation vat dye (insolublized inside. fibers)Before chemical reducing agents were readily available, vat dyes were converted to theirsoluble leuco form by fermentation of organic matter in wood tubs called vats. Thismethod of reduction and application is the source of the name for this class of dyes. 1
Once the vat dyes have been regenerated inside the fiber, they are very insoluble. Thisaccounts for their excellent wash fastness.Because they can be applied as a dispersion by padding, solubilized by reduction, andfinally reoxidized when inside the fibers, vats are well- suited to continuous dyeingoperations. Such treatments exhibit a number of advantages: a) very efficient use of the dye. All that is made up can be applied. b) the insoluble vat is very evenly distributed over the fabric surface, leading to level dyeings c) continuous processes are normally more economical processes than batch processesEquipment and ChemicalsBleached 100% cotton (8" x 24")C. I. Vat Green 1 (20 g/L) Indanthrene Green FFGDispersing agent (10 g/L)Alginate NVS (sodium alginate, 1 g/L)Soap solution (50 g/L)NaOH solution (100 g/L)Sodium hydrosulfite (hydros) (100 g/L) ..Sodium chloride solution (100 g/L)The diagram below illustrates how your fabric is to be labeled and cut for testing. 20cm 20cm 20cm 20cm Padded &Dried Padded, Reduced, Padded, Reduced, Oxidized & Dried Oxidized, Dried & Soaped PD PROD PRODS 2
CAUTION -WEAR SAFETY GLASSES AT ALL TIMES DURING THIS DYEING!Experimental Procedure: 1. Cut an 8 x 24" piece of cotton fabric from the roll and weigh it to two decimal places in the balance room. 2. Familiarize yourself with the operation of the laboratory padder. You should know (a) how to adjust the pressure on the "nip" rolls (b) how to safely start and stop the rolls (c) how to pass ("dip") a swatch of fabric through the pad bath so that it is saturated and then squeezed between the rolls 3. The following pad bath has been prepared for you and placed in the trough of the padder: • 20 g/l C.I. Vat Green 1 • 10 g/l Dispersing agent. • g/l Alginate NVS (8%solution) • water to a final volume of 500 ml. 4. Obtain one pair of disposable gloves for each person. Be certain that the padder is adjusted to 25lbs. Save your gloves for use later. 5. Start the rollers and turn on the air pressure to close the nip. The nip should never be closed under pressure while the padder is not running, as this will cause a flat spot on the rollers and result in uneven application of chemicals to the fabric. Feed the fabric into the nip of the padding mangle. Allow the fabric to pass through the dye dispersion and collect the fabric from the bottom of nip. BE CAREFUL WHEN PICKING UP THE FABRIC AS IT EXITS THE MANGLE NIP UNDERNEATH THE PADDER. 6. Pass the fabric through the padder twice to ensure even application of the colour. 7. Quickly weigh the padded fabric so that its % Wet Pick Up may be calculated. Be certain that the balance pan is protected from the wet fabric by placing a large watch glass on the balance pan 8. Cut the 8 x 8" PD (padded and dried) swatch from the fabric and dry it in the oven. From it you will cut two 2 x 2" squares for your reports and a 3 x 6" diagonal swatch for Rub fastness testing. 3
9. Multiply the original weight of your fabric by 0.67 (you have just cut 113 of it off) to obtain the amount of fabric that will be placed in the hydros reduction bath. The following is the ratio of chemicals that is necessary for EACH 10.0 g of fabric. Liquor ratio is 30:1. You will need to calculate how much of each ingredient you will need for your bath. • 15 mL of 10% (wt/vol.) caustic soda • 10 mL of 10%sodium hydrosulfite (Na2S2O4.) • 10 mL of 10% sodium chloride • 275 mL of waterBe certain to adjust all chemicals AND water to the weight of your sample.CAUTION!!! DO NOT GET THIS BATH ON YOUR SKIN!!! USE GLOVES!!!10. Place the beaker in the WATER BATH and heat to 70 -80°C (160 - 176°F). Gently stir the bath to be certain that the hydro is mixed well.11. Immerse the padded fabric in the warm hydro reduction bath. Occasionally turn the fabric with a stirring rod to insure uniform reduction of the vat dye. To avoid premature oxidation of the leuco form of the dye, keep the fabric beneath the surface of the bath, if necessary weight the fabric. Note any changes in the appearance or color of the fabric during this "vatting". Leave the fabric in the bath for 20 minutes so that the dye can be reduced and then penetrate into the cotton fibers. .12. Remove the fabric from the bath; squeeze out excess reduction bath, and hang the swatch over your sink till the original green color is regenerated (5-10 minutes).13. Cut this sample in two equal pieces. Dry the Padded, Reduced, Oxidised & Dried PROD sample and cut it as you did the PD sample.14. Prepare a scouring bath by mixing 32 ml of 5% (wt./vol.) stock soap solution with enough water to make 800 ml of solution. Place this soap solution and the PRODS sample in a stainless steel beaker. Heat this solution at or near the boil on a hot plate for 10 minutes. Remove the sample, rinse it well with water, and dry it. This soaping removes loose surface dye particles and causes some aggregation of particles inside the fibres. The latter change improves the wash fastness of the dye.15. Cut PRODS as you did the other two samples. You should now have three strips (3 x 6") for evaluation of crocking fastness.16. Record any differences in the appearance of the three fabric strips.17. Test all three samples for colorfastness to crocking by AATCC Test Method 8. Evaluate the results of the crocking test with the Grey Scales. Information about and directions for this test is attached. 4
Purpose of the test:To determine the degree of color that may be transferred from the surface of a coloredtextile material to other surfaces by rubbing.Principle:A colored test specimen is fastened to the base of the Crockmeter and rubbed with awhite crockfastness test square. The Crockmeter simulates the rubbing action of a humanfinger and forearm. The amount of color transferred by rubbing is assessed with the Greyscales.Procedure: 1. Cut a test specimen at least 3 x 6", preferably with the long dimension diagonal to warp and weft directions. . 2. Place the test specimen on the base of the Crockmeter so that it rests flat on the brasive cloth with the long dimension in the direction of the rubbing action. Fasten the sample with a stain- less steel sample holder or a piece of masking tape, placed so that it wont interfere with the rubbing action. 3. Mount a 2 x 2. square of bleached cotton fabric (crockmeter square), with the weave oblique to the direction of rubbing, over the end of the finger that projects downward form the weighted sliding arm. Use the special wire pinch clamp to hold the square on the finger. 4. Lower the covered finger onto the test specimen and cause it to slide back and forth twenty (20) times by making TEN COMPLETE TURNS of the crank CLOCKWISE at a rate of one turn per second. 5. Remove the white test square and evaluate the amount of color transferred from the specimen to the white square by means of the Grey scales.References 1. Baumgarte, U. and Schluter, H. Continuous Dyeing with Vat Dyes, Textile Chemist and Colorist, 11(1), 27 (1985). 2. Giles, C. H., A Laboratory Course in Dyeing, 2nd Ed., 1971. 1. Trotman, E. R., Dyeing and Chemical Technology of Textile Fibers, fourth edition, 1970. 2. Arthur D. Broadbent, The Basic Principles of Textile Coloration. Society of Dyers & Colourists, 2001 5
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Here’s a very quick and simple review of white blood cells.
- Neutrophils: fight bacteria, participate in inflammatory responses. 10 o’clock and 3 o’clock in the image above.
- Lymphocytes: participate in adaptive immune responses, fight viruses. 8 o’clock in the image above.
- Monocytes: phagocytic (turn into macrophages), participate in immune responses by displaying antigens. 8 o’clock above.
- Eosinophils: participate in allergic responses, fight parasites, increased in drug reactions. 2 o’clock above.
- Basophils: participate in allergic reactions, increased in cases of chronic myeloid leukemia. 4 o’clock above.
For more on normal white blood cells, see Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease (“big Robbins”) 9th edition, page 580 (or 8e, page 590).
A wind turbine, a roaring crowd at a football game, a jet engine running full throttle: Each of these things produces sound waves that are well below the frequencies humans can hear. But just because you can’t hear the low-frequency components of these sounds doesn’t mean they have no effect on your ears. Listening to just 90 seconds of low-frequency sound can change the way your inner ear works for minutes after the noise ends, a new study shows.
“Low-frequency sound exposure has long been thought to be innocuous, and this study suggests that it’s not,” says audiology researcher Jeffery Lichtenhan of the Washington University School of Medicine in in St. Louis, who was not involved in the new work.
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Today’s graphic looks at the 20 common amino acids that are combined to make up the proteins in our bodies. It also gives the three-letter and one-letter codes for each, as well as denoting whether they are ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
Read more information & grab the PDF here: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-tu
08 October 2014
The brain is often called our grey matter but it also contains white matter, a tissue once thought to be passive but now known to help transmit nerve impulses. To understand more about white matter, researchers scanned 24 regions of the brain in people aged 7 to 85. They found that white matter, like most tissues, matures then deteriorates with age – but this rate of change varies, for example occurring much more rapidly in regions of the brain dealing with learning than those dealing with movement. A map of the brain, pictured, was constructed from the study, with different colours representing how quickly white matter changes with age – red is fastest and blue slowest. This type of brain mapping may help doctors diagnose and treat a range of disorders associated with white matter abnormalities including schizophrenia, autism, learning disabilities and multiple sclerosis.
Written by Mick Warwicker
Cells in the mouse retina
- Purple: Cones.
- Orange: Horizontal cells.
- Green: Bipolar cells.
- Magenta: Amacrine + Ganglion cells.
There wasn’t a lot of pure chemistry, no. I did a module of it in first year but after that it was biochemistry or cell signalling pathways which were studied.
The subjects which were mostly there were haematology, blood transfusion, microbiology, virology, anatomy, physiology, cell pathology, biochemistry and statistics. There are probably a few more I’m forgetting, but that’s the general gist.
Congestive Heart Failure
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Entomologists say the lack of rain means less foliage in some places and fewer spots for some insects to hatch their offspring.
"There'll probably be a population crash for a lot of different kinds of insects this year," says Steve Heydon with the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis.
He says one of those insects is a vibrant orange and black butterfly with a colorful name: "The Painted Ladies will get up here expecting to find thistle plants to lay eggs on and there just won't be any plants there."
On the other hand, it seems like we're seeing a population boom for other insects.
"Mosquitoes are definitely active now and we are seeing more of them out due to the higher than normal temperatures," says Luz Maria Rodriguez with the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District.
Other typically dormant pests that are buzzing around right now include adult house flies and stink bugs.
Rodriguez says, even with a drought, mosquito populations could thrive in some spots. For example, in the puddles of stagnant water in dried up creeks.
A winter forecast from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center Thursday shows the California drought may persist or intensify in parts of the state.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday for not responding to a petition to protect 16 amphibian and reptile species in California
The Sacramento Region may get millions of dollars for water projects to help during the drought.
California has received less than 60 percent of the rain and snow this water year that it normally gets. Water managers are warning the new water year may be just as bad.
New motors, screens, and some casing repairs are in the works for eight of Sacramento's water wells. Some of the wells are more than 400-feet deep.
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Under rotting pine logs
peripatus (Velvet Worm)
© Bryce McQuillan 2014
It was difficult to identity the the worm, it was discolored and segmented from being trapped in the pitfall trap.
See through worm approx 10mm long
two species of worms found in the water sample
The velvet worms (Onychophora — literally "claw bearers", also known as Protracheata) are a minor ecdysozoan phylum with ~180 species. These obscurely segmented organisms have tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs and slime glands. They have variously been compared to worms with legs, caterpillars and slugs. Most common in tropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, they prey on smaller animals such as insects, which they catch by squirting an adhesive mucus. In modern zoology, they are
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- 1.1 (serious, formal) [occasion/plea/silence] solemne to make o give a/one's solemn promise/oath/vow hacer* una promesa/un juramento/un voto solemne 1.2 (grave, over-serious) [person] serio; [face] solemneMore example sentences1.3 (somber, dark) [color] oscuro, fúnebre
More example sentences
- The painter's face assumed a serious, almost solemn expression.
- When you go into a courtroom you are doing something very serious and solemn and you are representing more than just the rights of your client.
- His brown eyes were serious and solemn as he watched her.
- It's a solemn, formal occasion witnessed with pride by family and friends.
- The funeral procession was solemn but lofty, as befit the prince.
- We went then from the cold church in solemn procession, singing litanies into the thin air.
Here is a selection of useful words and phrases you will need in real-life situations while you're visiting Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries...
In Spain, a ración is a serving of food eaten in a bar or cafe, generally with a drink. Friends or relatives meet in a bar or cafe, order a number of raciones, and share them.
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Scientists Find Potential Way to Treat Cold-Triggered Asthma
By Reuters Staff
October 02, 2014Genetics of AsthmaRhinovirus Infection
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have identified a sequence of biological events that could trigger life-threatening asthma attacks in people suffering from colds - a finding that holds the potential for developing more effective medicines.
In a study published online October 1 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the researchers found that the cytokine interleukin-25 (IL-25) may play a central role in the effect that viruses causing colds have on people with asthma.
According to the World Health Organization, 235 million people suffer from asthma worldwide and the condition is the most common chronic disease among children.
Viruses that infect the airways are the most common cause of asthma attacks, accounting for 80% to 90% of cases. Most of these are rhinoviruses, which are also the main cause of common colds.
Although illnesses caused by rhinoviruses are usually relatively mild for most people, they can also infect the lungs and, in people with respiratory conditions like asthma, can trigger severe attacks, sometimes leading to hospitalization.
"Our research has shown ... that the cells that line the airways of asthmatics are more prone to producing a small molecule called IL-25, which then appears to trigger a chain of events that causes attacks," said Nathan Bartlett, an expert at the Imperial College London's national heart and lung institute who co-led the study.
He said that by finding a drug to target the molecule at the top of the cascade, "we could potentially discover a much-needed new treatment to control this potentially life-threatening reaction in asthma sufferers."
Bartlett explained that the main features of an asthma attack - including inflamed and obstructed airways and increased mucus - are part of type-2 immune responses, which are more often seen in allergies and parasitic infections.
Until now, he said, it has been unclear how a rhinovirus infection can trigger these responses. But this study showed that IL-25 is induced by rhinovirus infection and is capable of instigating the production of other type-2 cytokines, creating a 'cascade' that drives the type-2 immune response.
The hope is that if scientists can target and block IL-25, this will stop the cascade and its consequences.
Professor Sebastian Johnston, also of Imperial who co-led the work, said existing asthma drugs containing inhaled steroids were highly effective at controlling regular asthma symptoms but that those suffering from a cold during an attack could see a worsening of their symptoms and end up in hospital.
He said the new results pointed to potential ways to address this big unmet medical need.
"The next steps are to test blocking IL-25 in humans and to investigate other possible pathways that could be important in asthma attacks and pool this knowledge to develop effective treatments," he said.
New research shows that young adults with type 2 diabetes experience similar levels of depression and anxiety symptoms as young adults with type 1 diabetes, according to a world-first study published in Diabetic Medicine journal.
When most people think about exposure to metallic lead, they typically focus on lead-based paint and leaded gasoline. Unfortunately, lead lurks in a great many other things right in your household, an (It's not just dust or peeling old paint.
NBCNews.com American youths eat way too much salt, CDC report says Press Herald High-sodium diets can lead to high blood pressure, a major cause of heart disease and stroke. One in six U.S. youngsters ages 8 to 17 already has elevated blood pressure.
iMedicalApps Apple Watch could revolutionize diabetes care iMedicalApps I immediately thought of my patients with diabetes who currently carry up to four separate electronic devices in their pockets to manage all their technology: a smartphone, a...
Kids take longer to recover from concussion than adults KTAR.com PHOENIX - Youthful vitality doesn't always mean kids heal faster from concussions according to new research from Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
5 Kid-Approved Peanut Butter Alternatives POPSUGAR (blog) With peanut allergies on the rise, more schools are banning the item from the cafeteria. But that doesn't mean your little one has to go without his PB&J.
CTV News Exercise before school may reduce ADHD sympton in some kids Michigan Radio They found children at-risk for developing ADHD were more attentive in class after exercising. Alan Smith is the chairperson of MSU's Department of Kinesiology.
Educators are too often in the dark, because young students are not required to share their lead screening results when they enroll in school
Brenda Elliott's insight:
Really really need lead screening @ age 2 & 3, required for admission to preschool and kindergarten- maybe we can prevent... For now- do you understand the current research on the impact of lead? How to test for deficits?
Science 2.0 Changes To Bugs In The Gut Could Prevent Food Allergies Science 2.0 A group of bacteria called Clostridia was then introduced into the gut of the mice and the researchers found it got rid of the peanut sensitivity.
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This book chapter examines the capacity needs and constraints faced by governments in relation to making future climate protection commitments under the UNFCCC.
international climate policy
This paper, published by the IEA and OECD, explores the issue of country-level institutional capacity necessary for future climate-related actions, particularly in developing countries.
Options for Protecting the Climate
Experts from around the world explore options for strengthening the Kyoto Protocol and Climate Convention, including proposals to engage both developed and developing countries in protecting the climate.
Global Climate Politics and Local Communities
Provides a background on the threat posed by and history of international response to climate change while identifying opportunities to maximize local participation in these processes, concluding with a strategy for intervention.
Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Framework on Convention on Climate Change
December 7, 2001. Gives a brief overview of the seventh meeting of the COP of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and its results to the Ford Foundation in relation to its work worldwide in the Environment and Development Field.
Lessons in risk management for an international greenhouse gas emissions market
Identifies risk-management principles pertinent to the international market for greenhouse gas emissions rights and fashions recommendations for each.
Leadership or stalemate?
Explores U.S. position on developing countries in climate protection efforts. Concludes that climate protection requires the initial leadership of a few countries that bear historical responsibility for the problem and have considerable capability to act.
An assessment of the potential interaction between the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the framework of international investment law.
Pinpoints the areas within the CDM's regulations where public access and participation should be introduced. Highlights the importance and the benefits of including such measures in the already complex Kyoto Protocol on climate change....
Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
Draws on experiences of Central and Eastern European countries to examine the Joint Implementation (JI) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) flexibility mechanisms created by the Kyoto Protocol and explores issues regarding their implementation.
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Tag archives for Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation
Follow ASC adventurer Pericles Niarchos on an expedition to Pakistan, and deep into a crevasse to collect samples of glacial ice.
In late-August, we conducted a 17-day, 340km research expedition in dug-out canoes or “mekoro” across the Okavango Delta. It had taken us almost a week to get to “Out There Island” just 30min before this live Google+ Hangout On Air from the remote wilderness of northern Botswana. We were sitting in the middle of one of…
Watch a time lapse showing northern lights, an electric storm, bison and a sunrise, all in 72 hours on the American Prairie Reserve.
On the roof of the world in Tibet, Natalie Kehrwald and her colleagues have made a surprising discovery about climate and glaciers.
Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation was featured in “Higher”, a Teton Gravity Research short film.
Christin Jones joins in on a late-night black-footed ferret tour to ascertain their numbers. In the fight against extinction, every individual counts.
See how wildlife biologists on the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge are bolstering prairie dog populations—and, thereby, an entire ecosystem.
Standing on the shoulders of giants, Dylan Jones climbs mountains to study the tiny pika—its physical size dwarfed by the scale of its climatological importance. With the implications of climate change becoming more drastic, our mountain fortresses are no longer impenetrable.
Over the course of the expedition through the Okavango, Gregg has taken huge amounts of photos. Out of such a countless hoard, he has assembled his top 10!
Ever wonder what it’s like to have an elephant watch you set up your tent at night? Stay calm, and the elephant will carry on.
There’s always something to see in the grasslands at the American Prairie Reserve. However, every once in a while, Landmark adventure science crews see something out of the ordinary.
Most people turn their eyes away from roadkill, but ASC adventurer Charles Scott and his children spent five weeks actively looking for the remains of animals along the road and documenting what they found.
ASC volunteers will manage remote wildlife platforms, monitoring the delta’s fragile ecosystem and collecting data to ensure this area is protected for years to come.
Heading into the seventh month of a year-round citizen science program on American Prairie Reserve, I’m able to witness the hidden treasures of the ecosystem in ways I’d never imagined. Thanks to volunteers from around the world, we’re able to capture, document and share what’s happening at a level of detail that we can’t do…
People have different definitions of paradise, but they always know it when they find it. Aaron Teasdale and his family learn about surfing and conservation in Popoyo, Nicaragua.
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Meaning of REIN in Hindi
Meaning of rein in Hindi
- अधिकार में रखना adhikar men rakhana adhikaar men rakhanaa
- थामना thamana thaamanaa
- लगाम चढ़ाना lagam chadhana lagaam chadhanaa
- रास ras raas
- नियन्त्रण विधि niyantran vidhi niyantran widhi
- बागडोर bagador baagador
- राज्य चलाने की नीति rajy chalane ki niti raajy chalane kee neeti razy chalane ki niti
- लगाम खींचना lagam khinchana lagaam kheenchanaa
- लगाम lagam lagaam
- रोकना rokana rokanaa
- लगाम देना lagam dena lagaam denaa
- अधिकार adhikar adhikaar
- बाग bag baag
- बाग पर साधना bag par sadhana baag par saadhanaa
सपनों का अर्थ
Meaning of REIN in English
- Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint.
- The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.
- To restrain; to control; to check.
- To be guided by reins.
- To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.
Examples and usage
To better understand the meaning of REIN, certain examples of its usage are presented.Examples from famous English prose on the use of the word REIN
"A free rein at last."
- The word/phrase 'rein' was used by 'J. K. Rowling' in 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets'.
"I've given you free rein, always."
- 'J. K. Rowling' has used the rein in the novel Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire.
"They rein in close."
- To understand the meaning of rein, please see the following usage by Toni Morrison in A Mercy.
REIN has been recently used in news headlines. Please see the examples below
Usage of "REIN": Examples from famous English Poetry
"When first he feels the rein,"
- This term rein was used by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay in the Poem Horatius.
"Strain'd at subjection's bursting rein,"
- This term rein was used by Sir Walter Scott in the Poem Patriotism.
"With saddle and spurs and a rein of gold"
- This term rein was used by James Elroy Flecker in the Poem The Ballad of Zacho.
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England tests GM wheat that scares aphids
Researchers in England have initiated field trials to test a genetically engineered wheat variety that frightens aphids away. The GM wheat emits a pheromone that is similar to what aphids release when they are under attack. The pheromone also attracts tiny parasitoid wasps that offer a secondary line of defense against the aphids, according to John Pickett, scientific leader of chemical ecology at Rothamsted Research in eastern England.
“It eats the aphids from the inside out so it takes out the population on the crop,” Pickett told Reuters in London. “We are providing a totally new way of controlling the pests that doesn’t rely on toxic modes of action.”
The wheat was modified using a gene found in peppermint plants, which was bred into the wheat cultivar Cadenza. If the field trials are successful, the technology could be adapted for other crops.
Anti-GMO group GM Freeze spoke out against the use of GM organisms and raised its concerns that there were better alternatives for controlling aphids than resorting to genetic modification.
- Scout for aphids in winter wheat
- El Niño development stalled out, but wet winter still predicted
- Ag markets posted divergent closes Wednesday
- Farm bill program to help farmers affected by severe weather
- Israel panel proposes 25-42% tax hike on mining companies
- Ag markets moved almost unanimously higher Wednesday morning
- How much corn can the ethanol industry use?
- Economist: Taxing P could reduce risk of algal blooms
- Commentary: Government wants farmers to quit farming
- Source shows half of GMO research is independent
- Ag markets made a generally mixed showing Thursday night
- What is the relationship between maturity group, yield?
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Health Encyclopedia - SpecialTopic
The vulva is the external female genitalia. It includes the "lips" or folds of skin (labia), clitoris, and the openings to the urethra and vagina.
Katz VL. Reproductive anatomy: Gross and microscopic, clinical correlations. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL. eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 3.
Reviewed By: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
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Do you ever find yourself wincing with pain when eating ice cream or when drinking a cup of coffee? If so you may be suffering from sensitive teeth. Sensitive teeth are typically the result of worn tooth enamel or exposed tooth roots. This can occur due to improper brushing or even as a result of clenching your teeth. Sometimes, however, tooth discomfort is caused by other factors, such as a cavity, a cracked or chipped tooth, or it can even be a side effect of a dental procedure, such as bleaching.
If teeth sensitivity is something that concerns you, start by visiting your dentist. He or she can identify or rule out any underlying causes of your tooth pain. Depending on the circumstances, your dentist might recommend one of several options. For example, the most common method may be to use a desensitizing tooth paste. Another option may be the topical application of fluoride. Fluoride application can help to strengthen the enamel of the teeth, preventing further breakdown and thereby reducing the sensitivity. However, at times the mere topical application of fluoride or desensitizing tooth paste may not suffice. Here, your doctor may determine that you need a filling or a root canal.
As with all things, prevention is always better than cure. In order to prevent sensitivity you must perfect your oral hygiene habits. Make sure you are brushing your teeth in a circular manner without applying too much pressure. Also, use soft bristle tooth brushes as they will not abrade the surface of your teeth causing you to loose enamel, and make sure to visit your dental care provider on a regular basis to keep your pearly whites in top condition!
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Containing around 3,700 dialect words from both Cornish and English,, this glossary was published in 1882 by Frederick W. P. Jago (1817–92) in an effort to describe and preserve the dialect as it too declined and it is an invaluable record of a disappearing dialect and way of life.
On multiple source constructions in language change
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2013. vi, 219 pp.
Table of Contents
On multiple source constructions in language change Freek Van de Velde, Hendrik De Smet and Lobke Ghesquière 473 – 489
Multiple inheritance and constructional change Graeme Trousdale 491 – 514
An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element of grammaticalization: On the role played by analogy and the synchronic grammar system in processes of language change Olga Fischer 515 – 533
Serving two masters: Form–function friction in syntactic amalgams Hendrik De Smet and Freek Van de Velde 534 – 565
Multiple sources for the German scandal construction Livio Gaeta 566 – 598
Sources of auxiliation in the perfects of Europe Bridget Drinka 599 – 644
Multiple roots of innovations in language contact: Evidence from morphological intermingling in contact between Ingrian Finnish and Estonian Helka Riionheimo 645 – 674
Multiple sources and multiple causes multiply explored Brian D. Joseph 675 – 691
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United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
World Youth Report 2013
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Report on the World Social Situation 2013
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
International Day of Older Persons
Without greater awareness of the human rights values and concerns encompassed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, its implementation would be “difficult, if not impossible”, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today, as it began its general discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples.
The Declaration’s adoption by the General Assembly in 2007 had marked a “historic moment of recognition of the existence of indigenous peoples”, James Anaya, Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said in his introductory remarks. Despite the expression of commitment by States, however, the Declaration’s validity had been debilitated by repeated assertions that it was not legally binding and as such it was “merely aspirational”. Even if that was the case, however, “States should aspire to implement it”, he urged.
Indigenous women, in particular, often faced “triple-discrimination on the basis of their indigenous identity, gender and economic status”, said Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Coordinator of the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In a statement delivered on his behalf by Daniela Bas, Director of the Division for Policy and Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said they could face discrimination both within the indigenous community and the broader one at large.
Echoing that sentiment, the representative of Belize, speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community, noted that indigenous populations constituted about one third of the world’s poorest and most marginalized peoples. Within that grouping, the situation of indigenous women and girls was ever more acute as they faced multiple forms of discrimination, based on their gender and ethnicity. They were usually the segments of the population most subjected to extreme poverty, trafficking, illiteracy, lack of access to land, non-existent or poor health-care, and violence.
Read more at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2013/gashc4074.doc.htm
Video of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October 2014.
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development of astrolobe
...Islam made it the pocket watch of the medievals. In its original form it required a different plate of horizon coordinates for each latitude, but in the 11th century the Spanish Muslim astronomer al-Zarqallu invented a single plate that worked for all latitudes. Slightly earlier, astronomers in the East had experimented with plane projections of the sphere, and al-Bīrūnī...
What made you want to look up az-Zarqallu?
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A partnership led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) has awarded the University of Cambridge £25 million to provide cutting-edge equipment and infrastructure for its clinical research, from imaging single disease cells through to improved targeting of treatments for patients.
An experimental drug currently being trialled for influenza and Ebola viruses could have a new target: norovirus, often known as the winter vomiting virus. A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown that the drug, favipiravir, is effective at reducing – and in some cases eliminating – norovirus infection in mice.
At a seminar tomorrow (22 October 2014) archaeologist Craig Cessford will talk about the challenges of working on ‘clearance deposits’. He will use, as one of his examples, the recent excavation of a site in historic Cambridge that yielded a cache of teapots, and other items, that had lain undisturbed for more than 200 years.
The largest ever Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches on Monday with 250 events celebrating the very best of arts, politics and culture.
Scientists in Cambridge have found hidden signatures in the brains of people in a vegetative state, which point to networks that could support consciousness even when a patient appears to be unconscious and unresponsive. The study could help doctors identify patients who are aware despite being unable to communicate.
New research shows that chimpanzees search for the right tools from a key plant species when preparing to ‘ant dip’ - a crafty technique enabling them to feast on army ants without getting bitten. The study shows that army ants are not a poor substitute for preferred foods, but a staple part of chimpanzee diets.
AstraZeneca, its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, and the University of Cambridge today announce four new collaborations, building on their existing partnership. The latest collaborations reinforce AstraZeneca’s commitment to research in Cambridge following the company’s decision to locate one of its three global R&D centres and its global headquarters in the city that has been home to MedImmune’s biologics research laboratories for 25 years.
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The study was conducted in three savanna habitats, Mopane woodland (Mopane area), Acacia savanna (Satara area) and Terminalia woodland (Pretoriuskop area). Ant sampling was carried out on experimental burn plots that form part of the long-term burning experiment. Although there were four replicates within each vegetation type, because the fourth replicate differed in soil type from the other three it was considered unrepresentative (Venter 1999). Therefore, this study only focused on three replicates, each situated 10–20 km apart. The replicates in the Mopane area were Tsende (23°41′S 31°31′E), Mooiplaas (23°34′S 31°27′E) and Dzombo (23°26′S 31°22′E); in the Satara area N’wanetsi (24°26′S 31°51′E), Marheya (24°32′S 31°46′E) and Satara (24°24′S 31°45′E); and in the Pretoriuskop area Kambeni (25°15′S 31°26′E), Numbi (25°13′S 31°20′E) and Shambeni (25°12′S 31°23′E). Each replicate was divided into 12–14 plots laid out in a strip. Each plot measured approximately 380 × 180 m (7 ha) and represented a different burning regime (season and frequency combination; Trollope et al. 1998a). Fire-break roads separated the plots in each replicate. In the Mopane and Satara areas, sampling was carried out on the following burn plot treatments: August annual, August biennial, August triennial, April biennial, April triennial and, importantly, an unburnt control that had remained unburnt since 1954. The exception to this was one of the three Satara area control plots, which was accidentally burnt in April 2001. August burns represent late winter burns at the end of the dry season, while April burns represent autumn burns at the end of the wet season. In the Pretoriuskop area, because of sampling constraints, ants were sampled on two burn plot treatments only: the unburnt control plot and an August annual plot.
Additional sampling was also carried out adjacent to each replicate in the general landscape to assess the effect of the general burning regime (usually spring fires) that had been applied by Kruger National Park management; these were referred to as ‘variable’ plots but were not considered controls. They were neither prevented from burning nor subjected to a specific experimental burning regime. Fire records for the Mopane and Satara areas (Kruger National Park Scientific Services, unpublished data) indicated that the variable plots were last burnt at least 4 years prior to sampling and had burnt very infrequently (i.e. twice in the last 40 years). Two variable plots (adjacent to the Dzombo and Satara replicates) were older than 20 years. The variable plot for the N’wanetsi replicate burnt in 2001.
The Mopane plots were situated in the Mopane shrubveld, a mopane (Colophospermum mopane J. Kirk ex J. Léonard)-dominated habitat with few other woody species (Low & Rebelo 1996). The altitude of the area ranges from 300 to 340 m a.s.l., and mean annual rainfall from 450 to 500 mm (Gertenbach 1983). The Satara plots were situated in a mixed knobthorn Acacia nigrescens Oliv. and marula Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich. Hochst.) savanna in the sweet lowveld bushveld (Low & Rebelo 1996). Mean annual rainfall here is 550 mm, and altitude ranges from 240 to 320 m a.s.l. (Gertenbach 1983). Satara and Mopane areas share basalt-derived clay soils (Gertenbach 1983). The vegetation of the Pretoriuskop area is sour lowveld bushveld (Low & Rebelo 1996). This is an open tree savanna dominated by silver clusterleaf Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC but also with bushwillow Combretum collinum Fresen. Soils are sandy and granitic-derived. The area has a mean annual rainfall of 700 mm and altitude ranges from 560 to 640 m a.s.l. (Gertenbach 1983).
Epigaeic ants were collected by pitfall trapping during two sampling periods: November–December 2000, and January–February 2002 (hereafter sampling periods 2000 and 2002). In the Pretoriuskop area, sampling was carried out in January and February 2002 only. In the summer rainfall region of South Africa, ants are most active and abundant at this time (Swart, Richardson & Ferguson 1999). Collections could not be made in November and December 2001 because heavy rains prevented sampling. Pitfall trapping was determined to be the optimum sampling method based on a pilot study comparing winkler and pitfall sampling (Parr & Chown 2001).
On each plot, 20 pitfall traps (Ø 62 mm) were laid out in a grid (5 × 4) with 10-m spacing between traps. All grids were situated at least 50 m from the plot edge to reduce the possibility of ants from adjacent areas being collected in the traps, and to reduce edge effects. Pitfall traps contained 50 mL of a 50% solution of propylene glycol, which neither significantly attracts nor repel ants (Adis 1979). The pitfalls were left to settle to reduce the ‘digging-in’ effect (Greenslade 1973) and then all traps were opened for a period of 5 days. A pilot study indicated that this period was sufficient for reasonably complete sampling, without collecting excessive numbers of ants. There was no rain during the periods that the pitfall traps were open, and the weather during both sampling periods was hot and humid. Pitfall samples that had been disturbed by animals were excluded from the analyses.
Samples were washed and sorted in the laboratory. Whenever possible ants were identified to species, otherwise they were assigned to morphospecies. Voucher specimens are held at the Iziko Museum of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
To assess the overall effect of fire regime on vegetation, vegetation foliage height profiles (for the 2002 sampling period) were determined based on the methods discussed by Rotenberry & Wiens (1980) and Bestelmeyer & Wiens (1996). Vegetation height was measured at four points located 90° apart on a 1·5-m radius centred on each pitfall trap. At each point, a 1·5-m long pole was placed vertically, and the number of times vegetation came into contact with the pole in each height class (1 = 0–0·25 m, 2 = 0·26–0·50 m, 3 = 0·51–1·00 m, 4 = 1·00–1·50 m) was recorded. Ground cover was estimated on each plot by placing a 1-m2 quadrat next to each pitfall and estimating the percentage cover of grass, bare ground, litter and dead grass and forbs.
analyses: ant assemblages
Total species richness and abundance were compared between and within habitat types for both sampling periods using analysis of variance (anova), and for each habitat type species richness and abundance were also compared between sampling periods. anovas were used to determine if there were any significant differences in species richness and abundance between replicates and burn plot treatments for each sampling period separately, and combined. This was done for the Mopane and Satara areas separately. Because the use of anova requires that data are normally distributed, data were log transformed where necessary. For data that could not easily be transformed, non-parametric tests, Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis anova, were applied to the data. Sequential Bonferroni corrections were applied to adjust the statistical significance for multiple tests (Rice 1989).
In addition to the richness values obtained from the sampled ants, the non-parametric incidence-based coverage estimator (ICE) provided in EstimateS (Version 5; Colwell 1997) was used to improve the estimate of species richness per plot. ICE is a promising, and reliable, estimator of species richness (Chazdon et al. 1998; Longino, Coddington & Colwell 2002) because it stabilizes fairly well, and provides an estimate independent of sample size. ICE is based on the number of species found in 10 or fewer sampling units (Lee & Chao 1994). While estimators are valuable tools they should not be viewed uncritically, and yield minimum estimates of species richness (Longino, Coddington & Colwell 2002).
Multivariate community analyses were undertaken using primer v.5.0 (Clarke & Gorley 2001) to assess overall changes in ant assemblage composition. Cluster analyses using group averaging and Bray–Curtis similarity measures were used to determine whether ant assemblage structure varied between years, and within- and between- habitats. Data were fourth-root transformed prior to analyses to reduce the weight of common species. Analyses of similarity (anosim) were used to establish if there were significant differences in the ant assemblages on plots that differed in burn season (August, April, control and variable), frequency (annual, biennial, triennial, control and variable) and age (i.e. time since fire). The anosim procedure of primer is a non-parametric permutation procedure applied to rank similarity matrices underlying sample ordinations (Clarke & Warwick 2001). anosim produces a global R-statistic, which is an absolute measure of distance between groups. An R-value approaching one indicates strongly distinct assemblages, whereas an R-value close to zero indicates that the assemblages are barely separable. These R-values were used to compare ant assemblages between habitat types, and burn plot treatments within and between sampling periods. R-values may occasionally be very low, indicating that assemblages are barely separable, but these values may also be significantly different from zero. This reflects a high number of replicates or samples, and the fact that R is inconsequentially small is of greater importance (Clarke & Warwick 1994). The converse may also be found, where R-values may be very high (indicating that assemblages are almost completely different) but these values are not significant. This situation occurs when the sample size is small, and in such instances the R-value is of greater importance (Clarke & Gorley 2001). The relationships between habitat types and burn plot treatments for both sampling periods combined were displayed using non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) ordinations. These were iterated several times from at least 10 different starting values to ensure that a global optimum was achieved (indicated by no decline in the stress value) (Clarke & Gorley 2001). Although the experiment was designed originally to test season and frequency aspects of the fire regime, the effect of individual fires cannot be ignored as different post-fire fuel ages may result in successional effects (York 1994). For age analyses, plots were classified as follows: young = 4–5 months since fire; intermediate = 8–16 months since fire; old = 20–28 months since fire; unburnt = control and variable.
The effects of frequency, season and age were initially assessed using a series of pair-wise anosim tests. First, the age of the plots was varied (young, intermediate and old) while controlling for season and frequency. Ant assemblage composition did not differ with age for these pair-wise tests. Additional pair-wise anosim tests were necessary to determine whether it was possible to combine all frequencies or both seasons when doing subsequent analyses. Thus, frequency of burn was controlled for while season was altered (pair-wise tests: August biennial vs. April biennial and August triennial vs. April triennial), and season of burn was controlled for while frequency of burn was altered (pair-wise tests: August biennial vs. August triennial, August annual vs. August biennial, August annual vs. August triennial and April biennial vs. August triennial). There were no significant differences in ant composition between any of the burn treatment pairs. Therefore, for all further analyses, both seasons were combined when testing for frequency, and frequencies were combined when testing for effects of season.
Finally, ant species characteristic of the three habitat types, and of burnt and unburnt plots in each area, were identified using the Indicator Value method (Dufrêne & Legendre 1997; http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/sibw/outils/indval/home.html). This method assesses the degree to which a species fulfils the criteria of specificity (uniqueness to a particular habitat) and fidelity (frequency of occurrence). A high indicator value (IndVal, expressed as percentage) indicates that a species can be considered characteristic of a particular habitat or site. This method can derive indicators for hierarchical and non-hierarchical site classifications, and is robust to differences in the numbers of sites between site groups (McGeoch & Chown 1998). Indicator values for each species were calculated based on a species abundance matrix, and Dufrêne & Legendre's (1997) random reallocation procedure of sites among site groups was used to test for the significance of IndVal measures for each species. Species with significant IndVals > 70% were considered as species characteristic of the site or habitat in question (subjective benchmark; McGeoch, Van Rensburg & Botes 2002).
Differences in vegetation structure were assessed for each area by comparing the mean number of hits per plot in each foliage height category using anova. Vegetation structure was compared between replicates within an area, and between different burn plot treatments. Percentage cover for each habitat cover component was summed across all quadrats on each burn plot treatment for each replicate. Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to determine whether total habitat cover differed significantly between burn plot treatments. The bioenv procedure in primer was used to examine the relationship between habitat cover on the plots and the ant assemblages (Clarke & Gorley 2001). A single, among-site species similarity matrix was constructed using Bray–Curtis similarity measures, while several similarity matrices were constructed for each of the possible combinations of the specified habitat cover variables also using Bray–Curtis similarity measures because the measurement scale for all variables was percentage cover. Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (ρ) were then calculated for the species matrix and each of the possible habitat matrices. The variable or set of variables that have the highest ρ-value are those that best explain the species data (Clarke & Gorley 2001). Unfortunately this ρ-value does not produce an associated significance value.
In addition, anosim analyses were carried out for the Mopane and Satara areas to determine the effect of plot age (single fire effect) on habitat cover composition. The effect of season and frequency of burn (i.e. for fire regime) on habitat cover could not be investigated because anosim tests revealed that there were significant differences in vegetation cover between burn treatments of different ages. Vegetation analyses did not include Pretoriuskop because data from that area were only available for one sampling period.
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What's a Neanderthal? What's a Cro Magnon?
Basically, these are names assigned to groups of fossils with similar bones. Sufficiently similar, for some nearly arbitrary value of sufficiently.
FWIW, it is my belief that they typical Neanderthal woman had a pelvic girdle to tight to pass a Cro Magnon baby. (The adults definitely had very differently shaped heads, though what that means is subject to doubt.) This explains nicely the lack of Neanderthal mitochondria in our genome. And it means that while Neanderthal males could successfully mate with Cro Magnon women, the converse didn't work out. As a result heads shaped like the Neanderthal disappeared from the gene pool, and any genes for producing them, and any genes that were tightly coupled with them.
OTOH, I haven't heard anything about the shape of the heads of the Denisovians. Some people have some of their genes, too.
It is my belief that Cro Magnon/Neanderthal/Denisovian is all one species, and that splitting them into separate species is an error, one fostered througout palentology, not just in this case, because it is much more important to discover a new species than to discover a new population with some unusual features.
OTOH, please note that species boundaries are nowhere near as absolute as normally thought. Often there will be diverse populations of a single species clustered in a spread out area, with the populations at the extremes of the area either unable or unwilling to interbreed, even though there is a continual flow of genes throughout the cluster, i.e., every adjacent population is willing to breed with its neighbors.
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Scientists have tricked bone marrow into releasing extra adult stem cells into the bloodstream, a technique that they hope could one day be used to repair heart damage or mend a broken bone, in a new study published today in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
When a person has a disease or an injury, the bone marrow mobilises different types of stem cells to help repair and regenerate tissue. The new research, by researchers from Imperial College London, shows that it may be possible to boost the body's ability to repair itself and speed up repair, by using different new drug combinations to put the bone marrow into a state of 'red alert' and send specific kinds of stem cells into action.
In the new study, researchers tricked the bone marrow of healthy mice into releasing two types of adult stem cells mesenchymal stem cells, which can turn into bone and cartilage and that can also suppress the immune system, and endothelial progenitor cells, which can make blood vessels and therefore have the potential to repair damage in the heart.
This study, funded by the British Heart Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, is the first to selectively mobilise mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells from the bone marrow. Previous studies have only been able to mobilise the haematopoietic type of stem cell, which creates new blood cells. This technique is already used in bone marrow transplants in order to boost the numbers of haematopoietic stem cells in a donor's bloodstream.
The researchers were able to choose which groups of stem cells the bone marrow released, by using two different therapies. Ultimately, the researchers hope that their new technique could be used to repair and regenerate tissue, for example when a person has heart disease or a sports injury, by mobilising the necessary stem cells.
The researchers also hope that they could tackle autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, where the body
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After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA's
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and
The comet is in an elliptical 6.5-year orbit that takes it from beyond Jupiter at its furthest point, to between the orbits of Mars and Earth at its closest to the Sun.
Comets are considered to be primitive building blocks of the Solar System and may have helped to 'seed' Earth with water, perhaps even the ingredients for life. But many fundamental questions about these enigmatic objects remain, and through a comprehensive,in situstudy of the comet,
The journey to the comet was not straightforward. Since its launch in 2004,
"After ten years, five months and four days travelling towards our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up 6.4 billion kilometres, we are delighted to announce finally 'we are here'," says
Today saw the last of a series of ten rendezvous manoeuvres that began in May to adjust
"Today's achievement is a result of a huge international endeavour spanning several decades," says
"We have come an extraordinarily long way since the mission concept was first discussed in the late 1970s and approved in 1993, and now we are ready to open a treasure chest of scientific discovery that is destined to rewrite the textbooks on comets for even more decades to come."
The comet began to reveal its personality while
In the same period, first measurements from the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter, MIRO, suggested that the comet was emitting water vapour into space at about 300 millilitres per second.
Meanwhile, the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, VIRTIS, measured the comet's average temperature to be about -70sC, indicating that the surface is predominantly dark and dusty rather than clean and icy.
Then, stunning images taken from a distance of about 12 000 km began to reveal that the nucleus comprises two distinct segments joined by a 'neck', giving it a duck-like appearance. Subsequent images showed more and more detail - the most recent, highest-resolution image was downloaded from the spacecraft earlier today and will be available this afternoon.
"Our first clear views of the comet have given us plenty to think about," says
"Is this double-lobed structure built from two separate comets that came together in the Solar System's history, or is it one comet that has eroded dramatically and asymmetrically over time?
At the same time, more of the suite of instruments will provide a detailed scientific study of the comet, scrutinising the surface for a target site for the Philae lander.
"Arriving at the comet is really only just the beginning of an even bigger adventure, with greater challenges still to come as we learn how to operate in this unchartered environment, start to orbit and, eventually, land," says Sylvain Lodiot, ESA's
As many as five possible landing sites will be identified by late August, before the primary site is identified in mid-September. The final timeline for the sequence of events for deploying Philae - currently expected for 11 November - will be confirmed by the middle of October.
"Over the next few months, in addition to characterising the comet nucleus and setting the bar for the rest of the mission, we will begin final preparations for another space history first: landing on a comet," says Matt.
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Overweight children are not gluttonous or lazy. Many studies have shown that obese children do not eat more calories than their peers. It seems unfair, but obese children often need less food and more activity than their peers. Understanding the causes of childhood obesity and the ways in which it can be treated will help you help your child feel better about themselves and their future health.
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THREE days after the Arkansas House of Representatives passed the Human Heartbeat Protection Act, Jason Rapert, the freshman state senator who sponsored the bill, took to Twitter to boast that the new law “stands to save thousands of lives”. Its chances of doing so, however, depend first on surviving a court challenge. The law, which passed on March 6th, bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy—the age by which an ultrasound can usually detect a fetal heartbeat—except to save the life of the mother and in pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
This directly contravenes the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v Wade, which held that the right to privacy—which it had earlier found in the 14th Amendment and “in the penumbras of the Bill of Rights”—protects a woman’s right to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy. Mike Beebe, the governor of Arkansas, vetoed the bill for just this reason, though the legislature overrode his veto. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), its Arkansas chapter and the Centre for Reproductive Rights, an abortion-rights advocacy group, have vowed to file suit shortly.
Even if that suit kills the law, women in Arkansas will still find obtaining an abortion difficult: the state already bans abortions after 20 weeks, and it has just one abortion clinic. Nor will neighbouring states offer them much hope. Louisiana and Oklahoma also ban abortions after 20 weeks. Mississippi has a single clinic, which is at risk of being shut down by a law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Bills have been introduced in Oklahoma and Mississippi which would extend legal protection to zygotes. Texas is mulling both a 20-week ban and an admitting-privileges bill like Mississippi’s. All Arkansas’s neighbours allow health-care providers to refuse to take part in an abortion. All of them also limit public funding of abortions to cases of rape, incest and danger to the mother’s health.
Further afield in the South, the story is much the same. Late last year Bob McDonnell, Virginia’s governor, approved regulations requiring abortion clinics to meet the same building requirements as hospitals (abortion-rights proponents argue that such measures have less to do with safety than with regulating abortion clinics out of business). Alabama looks set to enact a law that combines Mississippi’s admitting-privileges statute with regulatory requirements similar to Virginia’s. The Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights advocacy group, classifies states as hostile, "middle-ground" or supportive of abortion rights. In 2000 just a handful of southern states qualified as hostile; 11 years later their map shows a solid wall of hostility, from Virginia down to Florida and over to Texas and Oklahoma.
Not all these laws may survive. Mississippi's voters rejected a personhood amendment in 2011. The 20-week bans may prove unconstitutional (Roe v Wade held that states can ban abortions only after the fetus is capable of surviving outside the mother, a point that varies but that the Supreme Court defined as being at “23 to 24 weeks” in 1992). Last week a court in Idaho struck down that state's 20-week ban as unconstitutional and Georgia's is tied up in court. But as more laws go before more courts, the chance of one of them getting a favourable decision rises. “The new paradigm of the pro-life movement”, explained Dan Becker, president of Georgia Right-to-Life, “is all about introducing tension into the law... We have different courts ruling in different ways, which is a surefire way to challenge Roe.”
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Review: could Diclofenac cause Water retention (Fluid Retention)?
We study 14,185 people who have side effects while taking Diclofenac from FDA and social media. Among them, 34 have Water retention. Find out below who they are, when they have Water retention and more.
Get connected: join a mobile support group for people who take Diclofenac sodium and have Water retention >>>
Diclofenac sodium (latest outcomes from 14,954 users) has active ingredients of diclofenac sodium. It is often used in arthritis.
Water retention (an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the blood) (latest reports from 91,080 patients) has been reported by people with high blood pressure, primary pulmonary hypertension, diabetes, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis.
On Oct, 28, 2014: 14,185 people reported to have side effects when taking Diclofenac sodium. Among them, 34 people (0.24%) have Water Retention.
Time on Diclofenac sodium when people have Water retention * :
|< 1 month||1 - 6 months||6 - 12 months||1 - 2 years||2 - 5 years||5 - 10 years||10+ years |
|Water retention||12.50%||37.50%||25.00%||0.00%||25.00%||0.00%||0.00% |
Gender of people who have Water retention when taking Diclofenac sodium * :
|Water retention||69.44%||30.56% |
Age of people who have Water retention when taking Diclofenac sodium * :
|Water retention||0.00%||0.00%||11.54%||0.00%||7.69%||7.69%||23.08%||50.00% |
Severity of Water retention when taking Diclofenac sodium ** :
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|Water retention||0.00%||50.00%||50.00%||0.00% |
How people recovered from Water retention ** :
|while on the drug||after off the drug||not yet |
|Water retention||0.00%||0.00%||100.00% |
Top conditions involved for these people * :
- Tendonitis (5 people, 14.71%)
- Arthralgia (4 people, 11.76%)
- Arthritis (4 people, 11.76%)
- Pain (3 people, 8.82%)
- Heart rate irregular (2 people, 5.88%)
Top co-used drugs for these people * :
- Ranitidine (5 people, 14.71%)
- Atenolol (4 people, 11.76%)
- Benadryl (4 people, 11.76%)
- Hydrocodone (4 people, 11.76%)
- Voltaren (4 people, 11.76%)
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
** Reports from social media are used.
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Green Homes: Is Big Actually Better?
Creating a true energy-efficient tech home requires energy management, home control, lighting control, and other systems usually found in larger homes and that add up quickly.
Last year in the “Green” issue of Electronic House (our 2010 Green issue is out this month) we asked a question: Can a large home, say of 8,000 square feet or so, really be green?
Most homeowners thought it could be—or at least greener than a comparable sized home replete of solar panels, efficient electronics, and green building materials and furnishings. Environmental types, naturally, were more skeptical, a common response being “Are you kidding? A home that size can’t possibly be green!”
The environmentalists have a point, because if you really commit to being energy-efficient and green, your home should have a minimal footprint, both in its energy use and the amount of space it takes up. Green building advocates generally concur. The U.S. Green Building Council, which operates the popular LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Homes program, penalizes homes for their size, making it more difficult for larger homes to attain higher LEED certifications. The penalties make sense, because even if an 8,000-square-foot home produces all of its own energy, the resources that have been used in its construction is much greater than a home half its size, and greater still of homes smaller than that.
I have regularly lamented that here at Electronic House, the green high-tech homes we consider for publication are typically of the large variety. And they’re typically quite expensive. Boy, would I like to see a 3,000-square-foot home with solar panels that produces all of the home’s energy and a really cool energy monitoring and energy management system that’s tied to a home control and lighting control system. Yippee!
But that isn’t likely to happen. Why? Because we’re really just at those first, tentative steps in a high-tech energy-efficient home market. Energy monitors and energy management systems tied to home automation and home control is a new thing. And new technologies typically spend their infancy as expensive add-ons to luxury residences. Remember $15,000 plasma screens?
Home control is just coming out of that only-for-the rich market, thanks to more inexpensive IP (Internet Protocol)-based systems. Good energy monitors no longer need to cost five figures, either. But creating a true energy-efficient tech home requires energy management, home control, lighting control, and other systems that add up quickly. Homeowners on budgets can implement some of this cool stuff, but it is still largely the province of those with deeper pockets.
And that’s OK, because big-### homes can show how being green and energy-efficient doesn’t require sacrificing one’s lifestyle. You can still have the big-screen TV and the home theater and the whole-house audio/video system and all the latest and greatest gizmos and still be energy-efficient and green—or at least greener.
Do I still wish to see smaller, high-tech green homes? Absolutely, for the primary reason of showing owners of smaller homes the possibilities. But I can live with the Big-### Green? At least for a little while longer.
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HIV Drugs Can Prevent Infection
by Bob Roehr
Originally printed 11/25/2010 (Issue 1847 - Between The Lines News)
HIV drugs can do a remarkable job of suppressing high viral loads to undetectable levels, but can they prevent that infection in the first place? Most people thought they could in theory, but there was no proof of that...until now.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Nov. 23, reported the results from the Preexposure Prophylaxis Initiative (iPrEx) Trial, which found that drugs could reduce new infections by 43.8 percent in high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons.
"These results represent a major advance in HIV prevention research. For the first time, we have evidence that a daily pill used to treat HIV is partially effective for preventing HIV among gay and bisexual men at high risk for infection, when combined with other prevention strategies. Given the heavy burden of HIV among gay and bisexual men, a new tool with potential additive benefit is exciting and welcome news," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, M.D., Director, CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD & TB Prevention.
The $43.6 million trial enrolled 2,499 participants at 11 sites on four continents, including San Francisco and Boston. Despite the fact that MSMs are much more likely to be infected with HIV - they are more than half of those infected in the U.S., and in the broader epidemic of sub-Saharan Africa they are at least four times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to be infected with the virus. This is the first large biochemical prevention study conducted in the MSM population.
Participants were randomized to receive a once a day dose of either Truvada, a single pill containing the drugs emtricitabine and tenofovir, or a placebo - essentially a sugar pill with no active ingredients. They also received counseling on HIV prevention at every meeting with the study team. The analysis was based on a median of 1.2 years on the drug.
Of the first 100 people to become infected with HIV, 64 were receiving placebo (an annual infection rate of about 4 percent) and 36 were on Truvada. The 43.8 percent rate of protection was no home run, but within the same ballpark as the protection seen in other recent prevention trials; the vaginal microbicide trial of tenofovir gel in African women (39 percent) and a vaccine trial in Thailand (31 percent).
Digging deeper, the researchers found that adherence was a very important part of the equation. The men who took at least half of their doses had 50.2 percent fewer infections; those who took at least 90 percent of their medication had 72.8 percent fewer infections. Even the best drugs will not work if people don't take them as prescribed.
Robert Grant, MD, a researcher at the Gladstone Institute at the University of California San Francisco is the principle investigator of the study. He said they asked participants to report how often they took their pills, but because people often are "optimistic" in their recall, and sometimes report what they think researchers want to hear, the study also tested for levels of the drug in the blood of those who became infected.
"No drug was detected in 91 percent; the other 9 percent had detectible levels inside blood cells that were very low. The absence of the drug in the blood is probably due to people not taking it, which could explain all of the infections that did occur" in that group, Grant said.
The association between adherence and the level of protection was similar to what was seen in the microbicides trial. People who most closely used the product as intended had the best results. Cutting corners gave HIV an opportunity that it quickly exploited.
"The iPrEx study results are extremely important and provide strong evidence that PrEP [preexposure prophylaxis] can reduce HIV acquisition among a segment of society disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS," said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which provided $27.8 million toward the study.
He emphasized that despite this good news, "correct and consistent use of condoms and a reduction in the number of sex partners still remain the most effective ways to protect yourself from HIV infection."
"It's critically important to determine how this data holds up in the real world." Says Phill Wilson, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute. "We need to see the results of more trials and we need funding for demonstration projects. Also, how do we create environments where we can increase adherence to PrEP? And, during a global recession when many nations, including our own, are cutting back on HIV/AIDS funding, how do we advocate for PrEP funding but maintain our commitment to treatment, especially the expensive but life-saving antiretroviral regimens?"
"This is a very important study." Says Wilson. "But don't break open the champagne yet until we see what happens in the real world."
Gilead Sciences manufactures Truvada and supported the iPrEx study by providing all of the drugs used. The company said it "will be working with the appropriate regulatory agencies to determine if data from this study warrants inclusion in the prescribing information for Truvada."
While doctors can prescribe drugs for "off label" use that the FDA has not approved, and some already prescribe Truvada for prevention, health insurance companies generally only reimburse for the use indicated on the label of the drug.
Adding a prevention indication to the drug label likely will require additional trials in MSM and other populations, particularly with regard to preventing vaginal transmission of HIV. Some of those studies are already underway.
"The big conundrum right now is what does it mean for practice?" Coates said the response was not sufficiently great to signal immediate widespread adoption of this approach as a prevention intervention, particularly given issues of cost.
The retail price of the drug in the U.S. is about $14,000 a year. The NIH pharmacy purchases it for about $5,000 a year Fauci said.
In developing countries, generic versions of Truvada can be purchased for as little as 40 cents a day, according to Grant. However, those are the same places where more than half of the people already infected with HIV - who meet guidelines to begin treatment - cannot do so because of the cost. It is unlikely that public health officials will devote scarce resources to Truvada when a condom will do the same job more cheaply.
Furthermore, an international survey of more than 5,000 participants, to be released next week by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV, found that more than half of MSM worldwide do not have access to basic HIV prevention and treatment services. Adding PrEP to the mix will be a challenge.
The paper "Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men" is freely available from the New England Journal of Medicine at http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1011205
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Quarter of Population Carried Swine Flu during Pandemic
By Hannah Osborne | January 26, 2013 4:06 AM EST
Almost a quarter of people were infected with swine flu in the first year of the outbreak of the pandemic in 2009.
The rate of the H1N1 infection was highest in children and young people, with 47 percent of 5-19-year-olds showing signs of the virus.
It found older people had lower rates of infection, with around 11 percent of over 65s infected.
Scientists believe the lower rates in older people could be a result of previous circulating influenza viruses giving them some protection from the swine flu strain.
Blood samples from this group showed 14 percent already had antibodies that reacted to the infection.
The research, published in the journal Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, found that between 20 to 27 percent of the people living in infected areas had swine flu.
Fatality ratio 0.02 percent
Scientists think this rate was probably similar in countries where there is no data available, meaning a quarter of the population could have been infected.
Senior author Anthony Mounts, from WHO, said: "Knowing the proportion of the population infected in different age groups and the proportion of those infected who died will help public health decision-makers plan for and respond to pandemics.
"This information will be used to quantify severity and develop mathematical models to predict how flu outbreaks spread and what effect different interventions may have."
Another author, Maria Van Kerkhove, from Imperial College London, said: "This study is the result of a combined effort by more than 27 research groups worldwide, who all shared their data and experience with us to help improve our understanding of the impact the pandemic had globally."
The study tested 90,000 blood samples collected during and after the pandemic to test for antibodies produced to fight the infection.
It also estimated that the fatality ratio was less than 0.02 percent - around 200,000 people are thought to have died from the disease. WHO declared the pandemic over in August 2010.
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This is the full extract of the abridged question and answer session Yvonne Baker had with Politics First.
- There is a shortage of scientists and engineers in the UK, but are there really the jobs out there for young people?
All surveys and statistics suggest that there is an increasing need for STEM skills across the economy and society; STEM employers and business organisations across many sectors including aerospace, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and technology highlight difficulties in accessing the right kind of skills and trained staff. All forecasts and predictions indicate the need for good numerical, scientific and technology skills will only increase.
This is a truly international issue. Countries like Germany, France and even Switzerland are facing similar difficulties. Shortages are often as acute – if not more so – in technical and non-graduate roles, so we need to highlight the fantastic career opportunities young people can find via these routes if they are encouraged appropriately. STEM skills such as problem solving, creativity and team working are invaluable whatever a person goes on to do with their life. The pace of technological change is unlikely to slow down so the ability to understand and contribute to debates over ‘the big questions’ as well as everyday life is a duty and a right, not a privilege to be enjoyed by only a few.
- The UK’s ranking in science TIMSS and PISA has been falling – is this a reflection on the quality of teachers in the UK?
TIMSS and PISA are two important and helpful indicators of a country’s performance compared to others in certain aspects of science and maths education, but certainly do not tell the whole story. We cannot ignore them and must think hard about what we need to learn and act on from the trends in our TIMSS and PISA performance.
Lord Winston recently said, “we have many great science teachers; we just need more of them.” I would add that we need to be better at supporting, developing and recognising those we already have.
Ensuring that science teachers have access to the right kind of high impact, subject specific professional development throughout their careers is a crucial part of this, just like it would be for law, engineering or medicine. Not only do they need to keep up to date with developments in science, but just as importantly, this is crucial to helping retain their enthusiasm about their subject; all part of inspiring the young people they work with.
This is exactly what we do through the National Science Learning Centre and the aptly named Project ENTHUSE; working with around 3000 science teachers and technicians each year from early years to post-16 levels. This is continued and built upon through the wider network of Science Learning Partnerships across England, and working with SSERC in Scotland, Techniquest in Wales and NILB in Northern Ireland. We have a significant and growing body of independent evidence that shows teachers who work with us impact positively on young people’s achievement in STEM subjects, inspire those young people to understand better the relevance of STEM subjects and the breadth of careers to which they can lead, and crucially are themselves more likely to remain in the teaching profession and more willing to take on new responsibilities.
- What are the biggest challenges for science teaching over next few years?
I think the biggest challenges are breaking down some of the stereotypes that persist and ensuring that all young people see science as something full of possibilities. Science is a creative discipline full of potential for making a real difference to people’s lives and society in general, as well as offering rewarding careers of many types.
A particular challenge for the UK is to encourage more girls to consider physics or engineering, either as studies post-16, into higher education or as part of a career. Only around 6% of Chartered Engineers are female, with the percentages of Incorporated Engineers or Engineering Technicians lower still. There are signs for optimism; the University Technical College movement could be a significant catalyst for change, social media such as Twitter is enabling young female engineers such as Roma Agrawal to become better known, and ‘Your Life’ campaign is helping spread the word to young people that STEM careers are for everyone.
The quality of careers advice needs to improve particularly round alternatives to university. We’ve relied on what family and friends knew about and it was as much about what you didn’t want to do as anything else. We need to recognise the influence subject teachers can have.
This is why – as part of Project ENTHUSE – we have introduced a Teacher Industrial Partnership Scheme whereby science or other STEM teachers get to spend two weeks with a STEM employer, getting to grips with the breadth of career opportunities so they can use this in their own teaching but also pass this on to colleagues in their own and other schools.
The National STEM Centre provides examples and ideas of where STEM can take young people in terms of careers. The information can be downloaded free of charge by registering at www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary
- How can we ensure teachers, schools and colleges can continue to access the help they need?
As I mentioned previously, the UK is very fortunate in that it benefits from a STEM support infrastructure put in place in the early 21st Century in response to concerns around STEM skills, and sustained by governments along with other funders since. This includes the National Science Learning Centre and the wider National Science Learning Network providing subject-specific professional development for teachers and school technicians (originally nine regional Centres but now working through 48 school-led Science Learning Partnerships), the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics providing support for mathematics, the National STEM Centre through which teachers and others can access quality assured resources and materials, and the STEM Ambassadors programme, whereby over 25,000 people with STEM backgrounds volunteer their time and expertise to inspire young people free of charge.
Statistics show an on-going increase in the number of young people in England choosing STEM A levels or separate sciences at GCSE since these programmes were introduced.
The UK’s infrastructure is almost unique in that it provides a genuinely national framework, supporting those teaching and learning STEM from early years to post-16.
More than 99% of secondary schools and 38% of primary schools have at least one teacher registered with the National STEM Centre eLibrary, and the National Science Learning Network has worked with 99% of secondary schools since it was first formed in 2004.
Without sustained support, the gains that have been made may prove fragile. For example, while recent changes in English secondary school accountability – such as the Progress 8 measure – have much to be commended, there are real risks that some schools may misinterpret this to reduce the offer of separate sciences rather than increase it. Similarly, the newly established Science Learning Partnerships need to be confident of long-term support from government and others, in both funding and policy terms, to achieve its full potential.
The Royal Society highlighted this in their recent ‘Vision for Science and Mathematics Education’ recommending that subject-specific professional development should be made a core requirement for teachers and technicians, linked to career progression, and that, as a nation, we should invest over the long term in the infrastructures which provide high impact support.
As Denis Oliver Headteacher of Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College leading a SLP in Cheshire and Warrington says,
“Our mission and that of our extensive Teaching School Alliance is to prepare learners for a changing world. As part of the National Science Learning Network, we make a significant difference to young people’s experiences of science, not only in our own school but also much more widely across primary, secondary and post-16 levels. This is of national importance, and requires a continued long-term commitment if we are to give all young people the opportunities they deserve in an increasingly technological world.”
We continue to need your support and commitment to convince and reassure policy makers that their continued support is making a difference to our young people’s understanding and epxerience of STEM subjects. Please visit our Support your School page for ideas and ways to help ensure STEM cpd provision in your local area. If you are using social media please use #STEMcpd4schools to highlight your comments.
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The University of Texas at Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences will reach out to children with its new community-focused Center for Children and Families. The center, which opens its doors Sept. 1, aims to promote healthy families and help improve children's ability to learn. Marion Underwood, a UTD professor of psychology, said a number of students enter school lacking critical social skills. Such children are "at high risk for early academic failure," she said, "likely to feel lonely and depressed. ... The good news is that these are skills that can be taught, and new research advances are made almost daily."
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Salvador, Brazil Teacher Resources
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El Salvador: How Can My Breakfast Harm the Birds?
Sixth graders explore how their food choices can have an impact on the rain forests. They examine coffee farming and how their techniques can harm birds in the rain forest. Students design two farms with sustainability of bird habits in mind and present them to the Rainforest Alliance.
6th Science 3 Views 1 Download
Look Before You Think: How To Appreciate a Painting
Young scholars develop an elementary understanding of the history of art. They study the basic elements of a painting including perspective, composition, color, light and symbolism. They look at each selected painting and analyze it, moving from first impressions to a more detailed examination.
9th - 12th Visual & Performing Arts 13 Views 22 Downloads
Mystic Lands: Maya: Messages in Stone
High schoolers explore an ancient Mayan city. For this world history lesson, students watch a video about the ancient Mayan civilization, discussing information prior to and after watching the video. High schoolers then come to understand more about the Mayan culture by conducting both text and Internet-based research.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History 13 Views 30 Downloads
Place Value & Picasso
Place value to the millions is the focus of this math instructional activity. Third and fourth graders investigate multiple ways to represent a number. They examine place value while studying factual information about Pablo Picasso. Resources are provided.
3rd - 5th Math 147 Views 969 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Investigate the various properties of the number six with this elementary math instructional activity. From simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems to the creation of hexagonal tessellations, this instructional activity covers all aspects of this simple number.
3rd - 5th Math 25 Views 12 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
New Review Early Explorers
Here you'll find several worksheets and mini-activities for giving your learners a great overview of early explorers, including the motivations and home countries of famous explorers and development of new technologies.
5th Social Studies & History 45 Views 28 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Bar Charts & Pie Charts
Learn about life in the Arctic while practicing how to graph and interpret data with this interdisciplinary lesson. Starting with a whole group data-gathering exercise, students are then given a worksheet on which they analyze and create bar and pie graphs involving information about Arctic animals.
3rd - 6th Math 15 Views 13 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Investigate the properties of three-dimensional figures with this Arctic-themed math lesson. Beginning with a class discussion about different types of solid figures present in the classroom, young mathematicians are then given a two-sided worksheet asking them to draw 3-D shapes, identify their parts, and create cubes from a series of nets.
3rd - 6th Math 21 Views 12 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
The Age of Confusion
According to the presentation, the age of confusion was marked by a very specific set of art and philosophical movements. Take a visual trip, and explore expressionism, cubism, Dada, Bauhaus, existentialism, and the new modes of understanding that defined early 20th Century art.
9th - 12th Visual & Performing Arts 3 Views 6 Downloads
Central America: Video Boxes
Students view a globe or world map and identify North and South America. They discuss locations of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Students discuss where they think Central America is located. They identify the five countries that make up this area.
1st - 3rd Social Studies & History 6 Views 14 Downloads
The Legal Challenge of Human Rights Protection
Young scholars identify the types and extent of human rights violations that occurred in El Salvador . They will also analyze the various laws and statutes that dictate the processes to protect and punish war crimes and human rights violations.
9th - Higher Ed Social Studies & History 3 Views 8 Downloads
Geothermal Energy in Latin America
Here is a wonderful series of lessons designed to introduce learners to the variety of renewable, clean energy sources used by people all over the world. Geothermal energy is the resource focused on. This particular sources of energy happens to be readily-available in many developing countries.
6th - 8th Science 24 Views 37 Downloads
The Hydrologic (Water) Cycle
Learners construct a model of the hydrologic cycle, and observe that water is an element of a cycle in the natural environment. They explain how the hydrologic cycle works and why it is important, and compare the hydrologic cycle to other cycles found in nature.
9th - 12th Science 123 Views 364 Downloads
Ambassadors of Art
Have your class create their own art exhibit. Learners study the exchange of artwork between the Louvre in Paris and two American art museums, and create an introductory exhibit featuring European and American art from the Renaissance through the 20th century.
6th - 12th Social Studies & History 26 Views 94 Downloads
Tracing Genetic Ancestry Using DNA Microarrays
High school learners read and discuss an article about genetic ancestry and genetic ancestry testing. They complete a paper and pencil activity that mimics the function of a DNA microarray and consider the ethics of genetic testing in medical research.
9th - 12th Science 9 Views 80 Downloads
Lesson: I Am the Wall
The Maya created amazing stone carvings and sculptures, but what were they for? Kids analyze the significance and purpose of a Maya stela and then write a creative piece. They imagine they are the stela, and write a story about what life as a limestone, and then as a carved stela was like.
6th - 12th Visual & Performing Arts 9 Views 21 Downloads
Study this 2008 calendar for the month of September to get a better idea of days of the week and Spanish dates. The first set of questions asks scholars to reference the calendar to answer the questions, and the second set just requires the learner to write the dates of common holidays like Christmas Eve and the Fourth of July.
6th - 9th Languages 6 Views 30 Downloads
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The Enlightenment had a profound effect on western thought. During this period, some sought to reconcile the Christian faith with modern thought, while others tried to cut themselves completely from their Christian moorings. But even those who set out to uproot the Christian influence upon society ended up adopting suspiciously similar ideas. In this message, Dr. Godfrey shows us how the church navigated through the Enlightenment, pointing out the different responses to this new challenge.
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Part 2, A.D. 500-1500 As the Roman Empire gradually crumbled in the fifth century AD, the people of the Mediterranean world turned to the church for leadership and direction in a new era of uncertainty. The next thousand years would prove … Learn More
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Type 2 diabetes, once called non-insulin dependent diabetes or adult-onset diabetes, is the most common form of diabetes, affecting 90% to 95% of the 13 million men with diabetes.
Unlike people with type 1 diabetes, people with type 2 diabetes produce insulin; however, the insulin their pancreas secretes is either not enough or the body is unable to recognize the insulin and use it properly. This is called insulin resistance. When there isn't enough insulin or the insulin is not used as it should be, sugar (glucose) can't get into the body's cells to be used for fuel. When sugar builds up in the blood instead of going into cells, the body's cells are not able to function properly. Other problems associated with the build up of sugar in the blood include:
It's past midnight. You're out of clean clothes, and you haven't finished
that report for work. Though the alarm clock will ring in six hours, you cram
in a load of laundry and spend another bleary-eyed hour at the computer. It's
the only way to stay on top of a busy life, right? While skimping on sleep may
seem like a good idea in the short run, it can have serious long-term
consequences. Scientists warn that too little shut-eye may raise type 2
diabetes risks. And if you already have diabetes,...
Dehydration. The build up of sugar in the blood can cause an increase in urination (to try to clear the sugar from the body). When the kidneys lose the sugar through the urine, a large amount of water is also lost, causing dehydration.
Hyperosmolar nonketotic diabetic coma. When a person with type 2 diabetes becomes severely dehydrated and is not able to drink enough fluids to make up for the fluid losses, they may develop this life-threatening complication.
Damage to the body. Over time, high sugar levels in the blood may damage the nerves and small blood vessels of the eyes, kidneys, and heart and predispose a person to atherosclerosis (hardening) of the large arteries that can cause heart attack and stroke.
Who Gets Type 2 Diabetes?
Anyone can get type 2 diabetes. However, those at highest risk for the disease are those who are obese or overweight, women who have had gestational diabetes, people with family members who have type 2 diabetes and people who have metabolic syndrome (a cluster of problems that include high cholesterol, high triglycerides, low good 'HDL' cholesterol and a high bad 'LDL' cholesterol, and high blood pressure). In addition, older people are more susceptible to developing the disease since aging makes the body less tolerant of sugars.
What Causes Type 2 Diabetes?
Although it is more common than type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes is less well understood. It is likely caused by multiple factors and not a single problem.
Type 2 diabetes can run in families, but the exact nature of how it's inherited or the identity of a single genetic factor is not known.
What Are the Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes?
The symptoms of type 2 diabetes vary from person to person but may include:
Increased hunger (especially after eating)
Nausea and occasionally vomiting
Fatigue (weak, tired feeling)
Numbness or tingling of the hands or feet
Frequent infections of the skin or urinary tract
Rarely, a person may be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after presenting to the hospital in a diabetic coma.
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Black Box Testing
Also known as functional testing. A software testing technique whereby the internal workings of the item being tested are not known by the tester. For example, in a black box test on a software design the tester only knows the inputs and what the expected outcomes should be and not how the program arrives at those outputs. The tester does not ever examine the programming codeand does not need any further knowledge of the program other than its specifications.
The advantages of this type of testing include:
- The test is unbiased because the designer and the tester are independent of each other.
- The tester does not need knowledge of any specific programming languages.
- The test is done from the point of view of the user, not the designer.
- Test cases can be designed as soon as the specifications are complete.
The disadvantages of this type of testing include:
- The test can be redundant if the software designer has already run a test case.
- The test cases are difficult to design.
- Testing every possible input stream is unrealistic because it would take a inordinate amount of time; therefore, many program paths will go untested.
For a complete software examination, both white boxand black box tests are required.
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Douglas Brinkley: Buffering the Grand Canyon
IN 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt didn’t need a guidebook to tell him that the Grand Canyon was the most precious heirloom the United States possessed. Staring out for the first time from the canyon’s rim at the immensity of the chasm, he trembled with sheer joy. This was America’s Westminster Abbey, Louvre and Taj Mahal rolled into one.
Back then, the Arizona Territory was debating whether to preserve the canyon or mine it for zinc, copper, asbestos and other minerals. A similar threat looms today over the canyon vistas just beyond the park’s boundaries, where mining companies, foreign and domestic, have been filing claims to extract uranium from the surrounding national forest.
The idea of letting miners loose on the Grand Canyon struck Roosevelt as criminal. To him, the canyon was an American birthright. “In your own interest and the interest of all the country keep this great wonder of nature as it now is,” he told a crowd of Arizonans assembled for his visit. “You cannot improve upon it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”...
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- 2 conservative groups are leading the fight against the new AP standards
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- Computer Information Technology Plan of Study [Opens in New Window]
- Computer Information Technology Course Syllabi [Opens in New Window]
This program is based on curriculum standards of the Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group Information Technology Education (ACM/ SIGITE) core curriculum that meets the requirements of Purdue University Calumet instructional guidelines.
The curriculum has the student experience each individual topic in their first two years. The SIGITE core is made up of general education courses and specific Information Technology requirements of the accreditation guidelines. The core courses span knowledge areas that include computational thinking / problem solving, algorithm development, database implementation, project management, human computer interaction, information assurance and security, networking technologies, platform technologies, and operating systems implementation.
Through classroom and lab interaction with experienced faculty and the ability to perform applied research and experiential learning, Computer Information Technology graduates are able to begin their professional work activities with the confidence and knowledge to be successful in their chosen field of work.
The following are the Program Educational Objectives (PEO’s) for the Baccalaureate Degree in Computer Information Technology (CIT):
Program Educational Objective 1:
- The program will produce graduates that are information technologists with applied research, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Program Educational Objective 2:
- The program will produce graduates that are professionals, leading industry direction with excellence in providing solutions to business needs.
Program Educational Objective 3:
- The program will produce graduates that are future information technology leaders.
Program Educational Objective 4:
- The program will produce graduates that are life-long learners who have a commitment to service within the community.
Program Educational Objective 5:
- The program will produce graduates that are citizens of the world, sensitive to state, national and global initiatives through technological solutions.
Graduates of the Computer Information Technology program have an:
- ability to apply knowledge of computing and mathematics appropriate to the discipline;
- ability to analyze a problem, and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution;
- ability to design, implement and evaluate a computer-based system, process, component, or program to meet desired needs;
- ability to function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal;
- understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security, and social issues and responsibilities;
- ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
- ability to analyze the local and global impact of computing on individuals, organizations and society;
- recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, continuing professional development;
- ability to use current techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing practices.
- ability to use and apply current technical concepts and practices in the core information technologies;
- ability to identify and analyze user needs and take them into account in the selection, creation, evaluation and administration of computer-based systems;
- ability to effectively integrate IT-based solutions into the user environment;
- understanding of best practices and standards and their application;
- ability to assist in the creation of an effective project plan.
- 108 Baccalaureate Degree Students – Spring
- 122 Baccalaureate Degree Students – Fall
- 16 Baccalaureate Degree Graduates
- 99 Baccalaureate Degree Students – Spring
- 108 Baccalaureate Degree Students – Fall
- 16 Baccalaureate Degree Graduates
- 120 Baccalaureate Degree Students – Spring
- 116 Baccalaureate Degree Students – Fall
- 19 Baccalaureate Degree Graduates
Accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what age is Champville "deflowered"?
2. Herman states that he often calls upon Colonel Sanders because of ______________.
3. According to Tale 19, what age must the virgins be with which "he" wishes to copulate?
4. Who is married at the fifth's week festival in December?
5. According to Ernestine, what will she never be able to do again?
Essay Topic 1
Given that all of the characters in "120 Days of Sodom" were at least 45 years of age, do you believe their "crimes" to be more horrendous than if they were younger men? Sade was 45 years old when "The 120 Days of Sodom" was published. Do you believe that Sade gave them all ages close to his own because the text paralleled his own life? Do you think that you would feel differently about the actions in the text if the men were younger and more "prone" to sexually deviant behaviors?
Essay Topic 2
Why do you believe that the "Passions" moved from "complex" to "criminal" to "murderous"? What was the progression? What changed as the "Passions" progressed? Why do you believe the "Passions" changed?
Essay Topic 3
Based upon the historical acceptance of sexual deviancy, do you believe that the actions of the men in "120 Days of Sodom" were criminal? Why/Why not? (Note: Research the historical acceptance of the sexual actions described in the text before you begin your essay.) When were specific acts considered criminal? Which actions were always considered criminal? Which actions were allowed in certain times in history? Were some actions not necessarily allowed, but looked upon as acceptable as long as no one knew of them?
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The integration of psychiatry into the mainstream of American society following World War II involved rethinking and revision of psychiatric theories. While in the past, theories of personality had been concerned with the single individual, this pioneering volume argues that such theories are of little use. Instead, the individual must be seen in the context of social situations in which rapid advances in communication technology have brought people closer together, changing their behavior and self-expression. Ruesch and Bateson show that following World War II mass communication and culture have become so pervasive that no individual or group can escape their influences for long. Therefore, they argue that processes of psychoanalysis must now consider the individual within the framework of a social situation. Focusing upon the larger societal systems, of which both psychiatrist and patient are an integral part, they develop concepts that encompass large-scale events as well as happenings of an individual nature. They have outlined this relationship in a unified theory of communication, which encompasses events linking individual to individual, individual to the group, and ultimately, to events of worldwide concern. The term "social matrix," then, refers to a larger scientific system, of which both the psychiatrist and the patient are integral parts.
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José de Anchieta (March 19, 1534 – June 9, 1597) was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the 1st century after its discovery on April 22, 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of São Paulo, in 1554, and Rio de Janeiro, in 1565. He was a writer and poet, and is considered the first Brazilian writer. Anchieta was also involved in the catechesis and conversion to the Catholic faith of the Indian population; his efforts at Indian pacification, together with another Jesuit missionary, Manuel da Nóbrega, were crucial to the establishment of stable colonial settlements in the new country.
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A man with an inherited form of blindness, retinitis pigmentosa, has been able to identify a coffee mug and various shades of gray using a retina implant, according to work published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The Retina Implant AG is a sub-retinal chip placed in the central macular area behind the retina. Their chip works by converting light that enters the eye into electrical impulses which get fed into the optic nerve behind the eye. It requires an external battery which was connected to a cable that protruded from the skin behind the ear.
It's not ready for prime-time just yet and they're not the only ones working on a solution. The BBC notes that a rival chip by US-based Second Sight sits on top of the retina and has already been implanted in patients, but the Second Sight version requires the patient to be fitted with a camera fixed to a pair of glasses.
Citation: Eberhart Zrenner, Karl Ulrich Bartz-Schmidt, Heval Benav, Dorothea Besch, Anna Bruckmann, Veit-Peter Gabel, Florian Gekeler, Udo Greppmaier, Alex Harscher, Steffen Kibbel, Johannes Koch, Akos Kusnyerik, Tobias Peters, Katarina Stingl, Helmut Sachs, Alfred Stett, Peter Szurman, Barbara Wilhelm, and Robert Wilke, 'Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words', Proc. R. Soc. B published online before print November 3, 2010, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1747 (free to read)
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The IASB decided on the following measurement bases to be implemented under the Historical Cost Accounting model under IFRSs:
"A2. Measurement bases can be categorised as:
(a) historical cost (paragraphs A3–A11); or
(b) current measurement bases (paragraphs A12–A35).
A3. Measurements based on historical cost provide monetary information about resources, claims and changes in resources and claims using information about past transactions (for example, transaction prices). The initial measurement of assets or liabilities measured at historical cost is not adjusted to reflect changes in prices. However, the carrying amount is adjusted over time to reflect changes such as consumption, impairment and fulfilment.
Current measurement bases
A12. Current measurement bases are updated to reflect conditions at the measurement date. The following paragraphs describe the following current measurement bases:
(a) fair value (see paragraphs A14–A21);
(b) fulfilment value for liabilities and value in use for assets (see paragraphs A22–A31)."
It is generally accepted that IFRSs, with the exception of IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies, deal with financial reports prepared under the Historical Cost basis.
CAPITAL MAINTENANCE IN UNITS OF CONSTANT PURCHASING POWER™
The IASB has recently stated that capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power is implemented under IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies.
Measurement in units of constant purchasing power was defined in IFRS in 1989 in the original Framework, Par. 104 (a) which stated: "Financial capital maintenance can be measured in nominal monetary units or units of constant purchasing power."
Par. 104 (a) appears unaltered as Par. 4.59 (a) in the current Conceptual Framework (2010).
Measurement in units of constant purchasing power as a measurement basis will be dealt with in the future IASB research project Financial Reporting in High Inflationary Economies as well as in the subsequent review of IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies.
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Geothermal brine in the region may contain North America’s largest deposit of the element that’s key to the electronics industry
It is easy to imagine the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, as nothing more than a 350-square-mile puddle. At its deepest point, the silvery inland sea is just 50 feet. By 2030, it will be reduced to a mere 30 feet, and over 100 square miles of lakebed will be exposed and reduced to a noxious dust, swirling in the relentless Sonora Desert wind.
Photos by Ian Umeda
The average annual rainfall here is about three inches, and other than chemical-laden agricultural runoff from Riverside and Imperial County farms, the Sea subsists on “mitigated water” from the Imperial Irrigation District’s (IID) annual Colorado River allotment. But on January 1, 2018, in accordance with a 2003 agriculture-to-urban water transfer agreement between the IID and the San Diego County Water Authority, the mitigation tap will be shut off.
The 2003 deal, known as the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA), requires the Imperial Irrigation District to divert increasing amounts of water to drought-stricken, densely populated San Diego County. Already, thousands of acres of Imperial Valley farmland have been fallowed and miles of lakebed exposed. The Sea’s wetlands — a vital stopover for some 400 migratory bird species — are disappearing. The air is thick with dust. Imperial County, where the majority of the Sea lies, leads California in both childhood asthma and unemployment.
In the community, this environmental and economic crisis has become known as the “Salton Sea problem.” With the 2018 shut-off looming, the rush is on to find a solution.
The California Natural Resources Agency has estimated that restoring the Sea would cost between $3 and $9 billion. But there is little support in Sacramento and among the greater California public for such an expensive stabilization plan for the remote, accidental lake. (The Salton Sink basin was flooded when a Colorado River irrigation channel breached in 1905.)
“The main question has become what do to with what is essentially a sewage dump,” said Columbia University’s Water Center director and professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Dr Upmanu Lall. “A body of water created by mistake has to be looked at differently than one created naturally.”
Lall believes tax …more
The wild Is where you find It, and it is always worth protecting
In a wise move, President Barak Obama today designated about 350,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains, east of Los Angeles, as our country's newest national monument. It's a decision that came as the result of years of collaboration amongst a vibrant and diverse network of community leaders, a reflection of the many important roles the area's mountains and rivers play for local communities. One hundred and fifty years ago, Sierra Club founder John Muir explored the steep and picturesque peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains and marveled at their beauty.
Photo by Raul/Flickr
The new San Gabriel Mountains National Monument affirms that protecting wild lands is still a popular endeavor for many Americans today. The wild is where you find it, whether that be an urban park or the vast wild spaces that make up much of our country's public lands. And no matter where it's found, the wild is worth protecting.
The San Gabriel mountains are a dramatic landmark in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests. These National Forests are within an hour's drive of more than 17 million people in Southern California, making them a popular and accessible outdoor recreation destination.The Angeles National Forest provides more than 70 percent of Los Angeles County's open space. Each year more than three million people visit the Angeles National Forest to be physically active and connect with nature. That's important for everyone, but especially for children in the San Gabriel Valley communities with few or no public parks. Park-poor communities in the San Gabriel Valley have child obesity rates of 30 to 40 percent, nearly twice the national average.
Yet for years this beautiful area has been underfunded and underserviced. A new national monument designation will improve visitor services with new bathrooms and trash cans, trail signs, and culturally-appropriate visitor information and education programs.
The San Gabriel Mountains also provide one-third of Los Angeles County's drinking water. Despite their proximity to Los Angeles, they provide homes for wildlife like Nelson's bighorn sheep, the California spotted owl and the San Gabriel mountain salamander. And they offer the chance for quiet recreation and communion with nature in its most pristine state.
Fifty years after the creation of the Wilderness Act it's clear that …more
The price of gasoline in the US reflects not actual costs but the reflected glare of the margins necessary for oil companies to sustain hefty profits.
ON A BOOKSHELF above my desk, I have a rock that’s about the size of a fist. It’s ridged and bumpy, and covered in oil. I’ve been carrying it with me for about a decade, after collecting it from a remote beach in Galicia on the northwest coast of Spain.
Photo by Stéphane M. Grueso
The beach, about fifty miles north of the border with Portugal, is barely more than a rocky outcropping in the Atlantic, an isolated place with a sharp cold wind even in the spring. Six months before I slipped the rock into my overcoat pocket, on the night of November 22, 2002, a ferocious storm off that coast had tossed the Prestige, an eight-hundred-foot-long single-hull oil tanker, like a toy boat. As she lurched in the violent waters, a wave smashed into the right forward hull and the three-foot-thick steel blew open—“like a sardine can,” a rescue worker later recalled. After the captain’s SOS, the Spanish Coast Guard sent a helicopter to pick up the nineteen crew members. Then the Prestige sank about thirty miles offshore. Out from the hull came viscous cascades of oil: Seventy-nine million gallons of crude washed onto a thousand miles of coast, all the way up to the beaches of southwest France. Satellite photos taken by the French research agency CIDRE show the oil spreading from the Prestige like spindly black veins in the circulatory system of the Atlantic.
The Prestige unleashed one of the worst environmental disasters in history — at least until the Deepwater Horizon, BP’s oil derrick, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. When the oil started gurgling out of BP’s underwater pipes, after the explosion killed eleven people who’d been working on the rig, a sense memory of Galicia returned.
I didn’t go to the Louisiana coast to watch, but I did, like many of us, watch in horror from afar. It rapidly became clear that oil spills are not very different. In fact, they are interchangeable. The Prestige was carrying a refined version of what the Deepwater Horizon was pumping from …more
Environmental watchdogs worried about the criminalization of dissent
Anti-fracking activists protesting a natural-gas conference in Philadelphia last fall were being monitored by a private security company that sent a photo of a demonstrator to the Pennsylvania State Police, according to an email obtained by Earth Island Journal.
A few months earlier, at another industry-led conference, state Trooper Michael Hutson delivered a presentation on environmental extremism and acts of vandalism across Pennsylvania's booming Marcellus Shale natural-gas reserves. He showed photographs of several anti-fracking groups in Pennsylvania, including Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective protesters demonstrating at an active gas well site in Lawrence County in western Pennsylvania.
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That same Pennsylvania state trooper visited the home of anti-fracking activist Wendy Lee, a Bloomsburg University philosophy professor, to question her about photos she took of a natural gas compressor station in Lycoming County. Remarkably, the trooper earlier had crossed state lines and traveled to New York to visit Jeremy Alderson, publisher of the No Frack Almanac, at his home outside Ithaca, to accuse him of trespassing to obtain photos of the same compressor station.
The photo, presentation and house visits are part of a little-known intelligence-sharing network that brings together law enforcement, including the FBI, state Homeland Security agencies, the oil and gas industry and private security firms. Established in late 2011 or early 2012, the Marcellus Shale Operators' Crime Committee (MSOCC) is a group of "professionals with a law-enforcement background who are interested in developing working relationships and networking on intelligence issues," according to an email sent to group members by James Hansel, regional security manager for Anadarko Petroleum.
The MSOCC has taken a keen interest in environmental activists and anti-fracking groups, according to documents obtained through a state Right to Know request. The collaboration raises questions about the increasingly close ties between law enforcement and the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, and whether law enforcement has violated the civil liberties of protesters and environmental groups in its effort to protect the state's most controversial industry.
The production of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, a formation that underlies several states, is a multibillion dollar industry that has grown dramatically over …more
Green PACs amping up spending; more GMO initiatives; soda tax fights
Slogan-stacked yard signs proliferating like swarms of locusts. Leaflets cluttering the mailbox and the front porch. Histrionic ads filling up just about every spare minute of cable TV.
All of this can mean just one thing – election season.
photo by Theron Trowbridge/Flickr
The national media is mostly obsessed with the fate of the US Senate. Thanks to the cynical and baldly partisan congressional redistricting that has occurred during the last four years, many House incumbents will glide to re-election, even though Congress’ favorability rating is polling at an all-time low. The main drama, then, centers on whether the Democrats will be able to maintain control of the Senate.
If you care about the environment – and, especially, maintaining a more-or-less stable climate – then you should care about what happens to the Senate. Here’s how Daniel J. Weiss, the senior vice president for campaigns at the League of Conservation Voters, described the situation to me in a conversation last week: “[Current Minority Leader] Senator Mitch McConnell [a Republican from Kentucky], who would become Senate Majority Leader, has already promised to use the government spending process to block President Obama’s clean power plan, even if it means the government shuts down. So Mitch McConnell has already painted a bull’s-eye on President Obama’s power plan.”
To keep a more climate-action-friendly majority in power in the Senate, environmental political action committees are dramatically boosting their spending compared to previous mid-term election years. The League of Conservation Voters expects to spend $25 million promoting pro-environment candidates – fives times as much as it spent in 2010. Green billionaire Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action Committee has already thrown down even more than that – $30.5 million according to its last filing with the Federal Election Committee – and will undoubtedly exceed that hefty figure. Steyer has said he will spend as much as $100 million this political season to keep climate change deniers out of office.
But the US Senate contests aren’t the only races to watch. With continued Washington gridlock certain even if Democrats manage to hold onto the upper chamber, state and local governments represent …more
Independent research shows that Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide used in Kaua‘i's GMO fields, can cause significant harm to children, but Dow Chemical is intent on convincing the EPA otherwise
The bodies and minds of children living on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i are being threatened by exposure to chlorpyrifos, a synthetic insecticide that is heavily sprayed on fields located near their homes and schools.
For decades, researchers have been publishing reports about children who died or were maimed after exposure to chlorpyrifos, either in the womb or after birth. While chlorpyrifos can no longer legally be used around the house or in the garden, it is still legal to use on the farm. But researchers are finding that children aren't safe when the insecticide is applied to nearby fields.
Photo by Ian Umeda
Like a ghost drifting through a child's bedroom window, the airborne insecticide can settle on children’s skin, clothes, toys, rugs, and furnishings.
In fact, it's likely that the only people who needn't worry about exposure to chlorpyrifos are adults living far from the fields in which it is sprayed. That includes civil servants who work for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which regulates the stuff, and executives with Dow Chemical, the company that manufactures it.
In a regulatory process known as re-registration, the EPA will decide in 2015 whether it still agrees that chlorpyrifos is safe for farming, or whether it will order a complete ban, as Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pesticide Action Network have demanded in lawsuits filed in 2007 and in 2014.
Dow has long insisted that its chlorpyrifos products are safe, despite tens of thousands of reports of acute poisoning and multiple studies linking low-level exposures to children with lower IQ. The company also has a long history — going back decades — of concealing from the public the many health problems it knew were linked to chlorpyrifos.
In 1995, the EPA found that Dow had violated federal law by covering up its knowledge of these health problems for years. In 2004, then-New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer found that Dow had been lying about the known dangers of the pesticide in its advertising for nearly as long. Together, the EPA and the State of New York have levied fines against the …more
The movement to stop climate change needs both mass mobilizations and direct action.
Last Sunday, we joined 400,000 people in the People’s Climate March (PCM) to demand action on climate change. The next day, we joined with 3,000 others to participate in Flood Wall Street (FWS), disrupting business as usual and naming capital as the chief culprit of climate change.
photo by South Bend Voice, on Flickr
In the days leading up to these mobilizations, a few critics on the left framed a stark dichotomy between these two kinds of actions. The PCM was cast as a depoliticized, corporate-friendly sellout, in contrast to more militant direct action, which Flood Wall Street soon emerged to organize. Chris Hedges, for example, called the PCM “the last gasp of climate change liberals,” and argued that the real resistance would come afterward “from those willing to breach police barricades.” Resistance, according to Hedges, can only be effective “when we turn from a liberal agenda of reform to embrace a radical agenda of revolt.” Likewise, Arun Gupta accused PCM of spending too much money on subway advertisements and wondered how much political value a march can have when mainstream politicians and other elites felt comfortable enough to march in it.
Surely there are critiques to be made of last week’s mobilization – there is always room for improvement. But last Sunday’s march was an important step toward building a popular movement for climate justice, which, in turn, is a necessary condition for more radical actions – like the ones FWS organized. The dichotomy between the PCM and FWS is a false one. What the world saw last week in New York was a vibrant movement ecosystem in which a broad mobilization and its radical edges engaged in a critical interplay.
What Hedges overlooks is how easily direct acts of revolt can be dismissed or repressed, if they are carried out by a small number of people who are not visibly tied to a broader social base. This is why Flood Wall Street’s mobilization in relation to the PCM was so vital. To grasp this relationship requires us to shed the dichotomous thinking that pits this vs. that and us vs. them – too often extended to even our closest allies – and that …more
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What Nixon felt about gays revealed!
Newly uncovered With House tapes have revealed that Richard Nixon had a relatively progressive attitude towards the gay community.
The 37th president of US admitted in the audio recordings posted by Vanity Fair, that gays are "born that way" but also called being homosexual "a problem", the New York Post reported.
Nixon said that he was the most tolerant person when it came to gay rights but also feared that being too tolerant could mean the fall of civilizations, just like the Romans and Greeks.
He further added that once a society moves in that direction, the vitality goes out of that society and that's certainly been the case in antiquity because Romans were notorious homosexuals.
The new recordings also revealed that Nixon did not wanted to touch the gay "lifestyle" or voice anything that could be viewed as supportive of homosexuals, who apparently brought down the Greek Empire before laying waste to Rome.
(Posted on 13-07-2014)
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Today, the National Park of American Samoa celebrates 26 years of preserving and protecting our islands majestic coral reefs, lush tropical rain forests, fruit bats as vital pollinators, and the rich Samoan culture.
Come celebrate with us as we continue to bring valued service to our community. Drop us a birthday greeting on our Facebook page. :)
Global sea level will rise between 0.2 m and 1.9 m by 2100 according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Sea level rise is caused by a combination of processes including the melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, thermal expansion of ocean water, mining of groundwater aquifers, and, in places like Hawai‘i Island, subsidence of land masses (the island is slowly sinking). Estimates of sea level rise vary depending on the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, and are based on different scenarios established by the IPCC. The more extreme values of sea level rise (1.9 m) reflect a future emissions scenario in which global population growth is coupled with continued intensive fossil fuel use. In all scenarios, rates of sea level rise are accelerating and will continue to accelerate in the future.
Geospatial predictions of coastal change under sea level rise typically pair current coastal elevation data and future sea level scenarios. These models tend to be conservative because they often do not incorporate future tectonic uplift or subsidence, high wave events, or shoreline erosion which will exacerbate coastal inundation and change, especially during large episodic events (e.g. storms or tsunamis). In some coastal areas, groundwater floating on top of denser, more saline water, may also exacerbate flooding as sea levels rise. In all sea level rise models, predictions should be viewed with the understanding that there is considerable regional and local uncertainty in the future propagation of storms and waves, vertical land movement, and variation in basin wide processes such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
Parks at Risk
Coastal erosion, tsunamis, and coastal inundation due to waves and sea level rise will have serious impacts on the future shorelines of all Pacific island national parks. Cultural and natural resources are already being altered by sea level rise. Incorporating detailed elevation data and sea level rise predictions in the early stages of resource protection planning will aid in long term management of park trails, resources, and infrastructure, and could lessen negative long-term impacts. Furthermore, scenario planning for habitat migration due to rising ocean levels and retreating groundwater is essential so that the predicted future locations of important habitats, like potentially nascent anchialine pools, can be factored in. This is one of the major components of the National Park Service’s Natural Resource Adaptation Strategy.
Predicting changes to anchialine pools
Anchialine pools are brackish coastal ecosystems without a surface connection to the ocean, where groundwater and ocean water (from underground) mix. In Hawai‘i, groundwater flows through these pools and out to wetlands and coral reefs making them valuable indicators of broad-scale groundwater recharge and contamination. The NPS Inventory & Monitoring Program takes regular measurements of the water quality and overall health of park pools, which are found no other place in the United States outside of Hawaii. Hawaiian anchialine pools are tidally influenced, range in size from less than 1 m² to over 3000 m² and support diverse endemic plants and animals, including seven species listed as Candidate Threatened or Endangered Species. Anchialine pool shrimp and mollusk species disperse throughout the ocean as larvae and through groundwater as larvae or adults.
A total of 193 anchialine pools have been mapped at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, 15 at Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park (PUHO), and 16 at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. When the pool locations are overlain on maps depicting inundation scenarios, the extent of inundation can be calculated. At the 0.5 m sea level rise scenario at all three parks, current pools become larger but they are not generally inundated or connected overland to the ocean. In PUHO at a 1 m scenario, 50% of the pools are inundated and become connected to the ocean. For the 1.9 m scenario at the extreme tide, only a few pools continue to be isolated while 71% become inundated at PUHO.
Incorporating detailed elevation data and sea level rise predictions in coastal planning should aid in long-term management of both developed and natural areas. In particular, this project aims to identify key areas to preserve for maintaining environmental and cultural integrity in the future. For example, while some features such as individual anchialine pools will be inundated, anchialine pool, fishpond and wetland habitats will emerge or shift in the landscape, essentially fostering new habitats. Protecting future potential habitat from development will conserve valuable land, and will reduce the need to repair or relocate infrastructure placed in these areas.
The goal of this project is to share sea level rise inundation scenarios with NPS staff as well as public and private partners so that everyone can plan for the future condition of Hawai‘i’s shorelines.
This summary is just the tip of the melting iceberg. For a much more in-depth report, read the source article by Lisa Marrack and Patrick O’Grady from the University of California, Berkley: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/hpicesu/techr/188/v188.pdf
This week — October 26th to November 1st — has been designated as National Bat Week. The National Park of American Samoa shall be focusing on the many contributions of our fruit bats’ role to the various ecosystems in our national park.
In support of National Bat Week, the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate has developed a webpage dedicated to bats. Nearly all national park units contain bats, and the new webpage introduces visitors to bats and their importance throughout the park system. From this page, visitors can access park-specific sites about bats as well as information about White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is devastating certain bat populations and spreading across North America.
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Fruit bats roosting.
Work begins Friday, October 24 on an emergency access route between Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and Kalapana along the historic Chain of Craters Road-Kalapana alignment, from the park side.
The half-mile section of paved road that pedestrians use to access the lava that covered it in 2003 will be closed as of Friday. The popular “Road Closed” sign enrobed in lava will be removed to become part of park history. Other closures include the historic flows and coastal area alongside the construction.
Hōlei Sea Arch, the turnaround, bathrooms, and concession stand near the turnaround will remain open.
Motorists can expect traffic delays early Thursday and Friday mornings as large bulldozers and heavy equipment are transported from the summit of Kīlauea down the 19-mile stretch of Chain of Craters Road to the turnaround.
“We intend to reopen the closed area as soon as it is safe to do so and the bulldozers move closer to Kalapana,” said Park Superintendent Cindy Orlando. “But now is the time to take those last photos of the iconic ‘Road Closed’ sign before it is removed on Friday,” she said.
Last week, bulldozers from the Kalapana side graded the 2.2-mile portion of Highway 130 covered in lava to where it meets the park boundary and becomes Chain of Craters Road. This week, crews start to grade the 5.4 miles through the park to the Kalapana boundary. The work is being done by the County of Hawai‘i, and overseen by the National Park Service and Federal Highways Administration.
Opened in 1965, Chain of Craters Road has been covered and blocked by lava for 37 years of its 49-year existence.
The emergency route is being built to assist residents of lower Puna, whose access to the rest of the island would be cut off if lava from Kīlauea Volcano’s June 27 flow reaches the ocean.
Field work for the Accuracy Assessment stage of Haleakalā National Park’s vegetation mapping project commenced in January 2014. The purpose of Accuracy Assessment is to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the draft vegetation map (see below). This is done by on-the-ground assessment of the vegetation and referencing an established vegetation classification. The field data is then compared to the draft map to determine if the satellite imagery of the park’s vegetation has been properly assigned into vegetation classification types. This process involves field crews navigating to randomly selected points throughout Haleakalā NP and assessing the site’s vegetation within a 40 meter radius circle or designated polygon, and assigning a vegetation type that has been previously described at the park. The project included over 600 target points with over 50 possible vegetation types. These vegetation types occur at designated elevational and climatic zones and are classified by the dominant plant species present. At Haleakalā NP, these types range from the semi-natural lowland dry forest, dominated by the non-native kiawe tree (Prosopis pallida), to the montane wet forest dominated by the native ‘ōhi‘a (Metrosideros polymorpha) and ‘ōlapa trees (Cheirodendron trigynum). This project provided the opportunity for field crews to explore the amazingly diverse and unique landscapes of Haleakalā from mauka to makai, a Hawaiian phrase simply translated as ‘from the mountain to the ocean’.
It is no small feat to map the vegetation of the 34,000+ acres that comprises Haleakalā NP. The process started over three years ago with the initial field classification plots and observations, and will be completed this spring when the final map and report are published. Once complete this comprehensive vegetation map will serve as a dynamic tool for park managers and research scientists. Accuracy Assessment is the final stage of the field work for the project and took no less than 15 Park staff, contractors, and volunteers to accomplish over a seven month period. Haleakalā has some of the most diverse and unique environments in the world. Habitats include the mosaic Subalpine Shrubland, the sparse cindery Crater, the Greensword Bogs of the Northeast Rift, the ephemeral grasslands of Nuʻu, and the Wet Forests of Kīpahulu Valley and ʻOʻheo Gulch.
Six hundred and one points were observed with many requiring camping in remote backcountry areas of the park. Reaching points often involved traversing through dense vegetation, across varied terrain, and in inclement weather.
Manawainui is an area on the south side of Haleakalā positioned between Kaupō Gap on the west and Kīpahulu Valley on the east. It sits at 5,000 feet elevation above a spectacular valley that often displays numerous ribbons of waterfalls streaming down its cliffs, inspiring the name Manawainui which translates as ‘powerful spirit water’. At the end of June, NPS Inventory and Monitoring crewmembers Meagan Selvig (University of Hawai‘i cooperator), Joey Latsha (volunteer), and I had the opportunity to stay at ʻŌhiʻa Camp, a backcountry shelter in Manawainui, to assess the vegetation types and explore this unique area. Misty clouds gusted by us as we navigated to target points through mossy gulches, narrow ridges, and dense thickets of the vining fern uluhe (Dicranopteris linearis). We would call out to each other as we passed by a rarely seen plant or caught a glimpse of a native bird fluttering by. In one gulch we were delighted to see a population of over 20 Lobelia gloria-montis, a rare plant that is truly the glory of the mountain. Later as we proceeded to cross another gulch and head up a steep slope of uluhe, we happened upon a fully blooming Trematolobelia macrostachys with its branching inflorescence of magenta flowers. A rare and wonderful sight we were fortunate to behold as one of the great highlights of our field season at Haleakalā National Park.
–Elizabeth Urbanski, NPS Biological technician
–Meagan Selvig, UH-Hilo Vegetation mapping coordinator
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We've learned about Jesus' teaching stories called the Parable of the Sower,
the Parable of the Weeds
the Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl,
the Parable of the Wandering Sheep,
the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant,
the Parable of the Wedding Banquet,
the Parable of the Bags of Gold,
and the Parable of the Two Sons.
Another Parable Jesus told is called the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Jesus' told his followers that it is very important to love your neighbor.
Some of his followers asked what he meant by neighbor, so Jesus told a story about a man going on a trip.
In the story he told them that a man was traveling along a dangerous road, and robbers came and attacked him and beat him up.
He was laying in the road hurt very badly.
As he was laying there, a priest of the church came by and saw the Samaritan hurt in the road.
He did not help the hurt man, he kept walking.
Next came another person from the church, called a Levite.
He saw the hurt man and walked by too without helping.
Next came a man who was from the town of Samaria, called a Samaritan.
In Jesus' time his followers did not like the Samaritans, and the Samaritans did not like the people that were Jesus' followers.
They fought, argued and did everything they could to stay away from each other.
The Samaritan saw the man lying hurt in the road, a man that he normally would not like and may even have a fight with.
He went over to the hurt man and put bandages and medicine on him to help him heal.
Then he put the man on his donkey for the long journey to the next town and brought him to an inn.
At the inn he gave some of his own money to the person who owned the inn and asked him to please watch over the hurt man until he got better.
He even said that if the innkeeper had to spend money to help the hurt man, he would pay the innkeeper back.
Jesus said that even though the Samaritan was normally an enemy to the hurt man, he was his neighbor.
His people were very surprised that Jesus was telling them they had to be nice to people they didn't like!
His message for people was that we have to treat everyone in the world like our neighbor and love them and take care of them, even if we don't like the person or if they are our enemies.
(from: wikipedia - parable of the good samaritan)
Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Jesus as a Young Boy
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Nationally renowned garden expert Melinda Myers helps everyday gardeners find success and ease in the garden through her Melinda’s Garden Moments radio segments. Melinda shares “must have” tips that hold the key to gardening success, learned through her more than 30 years of horticulture experience. Listeners from across the country find her gardener friendly, practical approach to gardening both refreshing and informative! On this page, Melinda shares some more extensive garden tips, which expand on the information provided in her one-minute radio segments.
New tips are added throughout each month, providing timely step-by-step tips on what you need to do next in your garden! Visit Melinda’s website www.melindamyers.com for more gardening tips, how-to videos, podcasts and answers to your questions.
Tiny plantlets along the edge of the leaves give rise to this plant's common name. Consider adding the Mother of Thousands kalanchoe to your indoor garden.
This succulent has large blue-green leaves that cover the stem from top to bottom. Small plantlets form along the leaves and eventually drop to the ground and form roots. These small plants can be transplanted into a container of their own.
Grow the Mother of Thousands kalanchoe in a brightly lit location in a well-drained potting mix. A terra cotta pot with drainage holes filled with a cacti and succulent potting mix will insure good drainage. Water thoroughly whenever the top few inches of soil starts to dry.
Fertilize as needed when plants are actively growing in spring and early summer. Use a dilute solution of houseplant fertilizer.
Move to a cool location and allow the soil to go a bit drier during the winter months.
A bit more information: You may find Mother-of-Thousands listed as Bryophyllum daigremontianum, or Kalanchoe daigremontiana. It may take a bit of effort to locate a plant or two. Start with a visit to your local garden center or succulent nursery. They may sell the plant or know of a local source. Otherwise look on-line for a reputable source.
Cracks on tree trunks and peeling bark may indicate there are problems with your tree's health.
Start by examining the base of the plant. Trees with straight trunks, like a telephone pole, entering the ground are planted too deep. Trees planted too deep and pruned with flush cuts are more subject to frost crack and sunscald.
Deeply planted trees are also more prone to girdling roots. These circling roots place pressure on the expanding trunk and stop the flow of water and nutrients between the roots and leaves. The offending roots can be at the soil surface or several inches below ground. Look for a flattened side of the trunk, smaller leaves and earlier fall color.
Physical injury to the trunk or improper pruning cuts can also lead to frost cracks.
Contact a certified arborist in your area to make sure your tree is sound and does not create a hazard in your landscape.
A bit more information: Proper care is the best way to care for stressed trees. Make sure they are watered thoroughly as needed. Mulch the soil to suppress weeds, conserve moisture and improve the soil. Consult a certified tree care professional to evaluate the condition, and possible treatment or removal of struggling and potentially hazardous trees. Visit www.treesaregood.com for a list of certified arborist in your area.
Pretty to look at, safe to eat, but not real tasty! This describes the ornamental sweet potato vine. You may know it as Marguerite, Sweet Caroline, Blackie or one of the other popular cultivars of this plant.
Garden varieties of the edible sweet potato have been selected for their flavor while the ornamental varieties were selected for their colorful foliage and trailing nature.
Like the edible varieties the ornamental sweet potato vine will produce tuberous roots. The purple tuberous roots are edible but gardeners who have tried them, say they're not tasty.
Some gardeners try saving the tuberous roots overwinter much like dahlias. They store them in a cool dark location. Most gardeners report having limited success and poor growth on the second year plants.
You may want to start new plants from cuttings. Those in cold climates will need to move these in for winter and grow them as houseplants in a sunny window.
A bit more information: Start new plants from 4 to 6 inch cuttings. Remove the lowest leaf and stick the cut end in a container filled with vermiculite or moist well-drained soil. Keep the rooting medium moist. Or just buy new plants each year.
Our gardens are filled with surprises; a yellow flowering perennial that suddenly produces purple blooms, a variegated branch that suddenly appears on a green leafed shrub or different shaped squash growing in your compost pile. The science behind these transformations has allowed plant breeders to propagate and develop many of the flowers, fruit, and vegetables we grow in our landscapes today.
Man-made or nature's hybrids occur when two plants with distinct characteristics share some of these features through cross pollination. Saving and planting the seed from a hybrid's offspring usually results in plants that look much different than their parent.
Mutations occur when there is a change in the genetic makeup of the plant. This can happen naturally or be induced by breeders.
Viruses can also impact a plant's appearance. Tulip break virus causes streaking in the flower petals that led to Tulip mania.
A bit more information: Tulip mania (Tulipomania) was at its peak in the 1630s. Investors spent as much as ten times a skilled craftman's annual wage for one bulb. Those with streaked petals caused increased activity in the bulb trading market.
When you think of flowers that honor veterans you probably picture the red poppy featured in the poem "In Flanders Fields." But other plants, including the Veteran's Day rose have been introduced to honor our veterans.
This hybrid tea rose has bright red flowers with a light fruity fragrance. It blooms early in the season and sporadically until frost.
Veteran's Honor rose is hardy in zones 5 to 9 and grows 5 feet tall. Grow this hybrid tea like others in full sun with moist well-drained soils. Leave plenty of space for air circulation that encourages vigorous growth and discourages disease problems. Proper siting and care will help minimize insect and disease problems common to hybrid tea roses.
Use this as a specimen plant, informal hedge, in a memorial garden or near your house. Place it in an area where you can enjoy the flowers and the butterflies that come to visit.
Purple needles turning brown and branches dying on spruce may mean the tree is infected with needle cast fungal disease.
This disease is usually not deadly, but it certainly ruins the beauty and the screening value the trees provide. Contact a certified arborist or your local extension service for a definitive diagnosis before treating. Several diseases can cause these same symptoms.
Make sure your trees receive sufficient water during dry periods, mulch the soil and give them plenty of room for light and air to reach all parts of the plant.
Promptly remove and destroy infected branches to help slow the spread of this disease. Disinfect your tools with a one part bleach and nine parts water solution or 70% alcohol between cuts.
Organic fungicides labeled for controlling this disease can be applied when new needles are about half expanded and again 3 weeks later.
A bit more information: Use needlecast resistant evergreens like arborvitae, junipers and pines to replace any diseased spruce you decide to remove. Provide sufficient space for these plants to grow to full size. Temporarily fill in voids with ornamental grasses and perennials. Remove these as the maturing evergreens need more space.
No flowers on your pink or blue hydrangea? The key to consistent flowering is proper selection, pruning and care.
The bigleaf or mop head hydrangeas, those with pink or blue flowers, only produce blooms on the previous season's growth.
Severe pruning at the wrong time and cold winters that kill the stems back to the ground can reduce or eliminate bloom. Only prune dead and damaged stems to the ground in early spring. Wait and prune flowering stems back to a set of healthy buds right after flowering.
Endless Summer and other repeat blooming bigleaf hydrangeas are supposed to bloom on new and old growth. Moisture and proper fertilization are keys to success with these.
Or try one of the Annabelle cultivars, like Invincibelle Spirit or Bella Anna, that are hardier and produce pink flowers on new growth.
A bit more information: Make sure the soil is moist, not wet from spring through summer to encourage flowering on the repeat blooming hydrangeas. Apply an organic fertilizer, like Milorganiteonce in spring. Research found that when the microorganisms work on releasing the nutrients from Milorganite, they also make some of the soil bound phosphorous available to the plants. This helps promote flowering.
Add some airy texture and fall color to the landscape with a bald cypress. The ferny leaves turn a beautiful coppery bronze before dropping to the ground in fall.
Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), larches including tamarack and dawn redwoods are all deciduous conifers. This means they produce cones like pines and spruces, but lose their needles each fall. New needles will appear in spring.
Fall color and needle drop at other times can be caused by transplant shock, extended drought and other environmental stressors.
Proper watering, mulching and care especially in the first few years will improve the health and longevity of all your trees.
Bald cypress grows best in moist sandy loam soil, but I have seen them grown successfully in clay soils and as street trees. The trees may suffer chlorosis, yellowing of needles, in high pH soils.
A bit more information: Don't worry about knees popping up in the lawn. These oxygen fixing knobby root growths that we call knees appear when a tree is grown in water.
Paper silhouettes of bats mounted on the wall, carved into pumpkins or hanging from the ceiling are a common sight around Halloween. But they really should be considered a good friend to gardeners.
Most North American bats only eat insects. As night feeders their diet consists mainly of moths and mosquitoes. But they also eat gnats and larger beetles. A colony of bats can eat as much as 100 tons of insects in a season.
Invite bats into your landscape by supplementing their food source, insects, with water and shelter.
A pond with an opening for the bat’s to swoop down for a drink or an elevated bird bath can provide a good source of water.
Consider buying or building a bat house for your yard. Visit the Bat Conservation International website at www.batcon.org for plans. Fasten the house on the south side of a pole about 12 to 18 feet above the ground.
A bit more information: Some bat species eat fruit and nectar. They help in pollination and seed dispersal of some of our native plants. For more information on creating a healthy yard for bats, bees, birds and butterflies click here.
Add sea lavender to your list of must-have cut flowers. The light airy flowers blend nicely in any garden and the flowers are great for fresh and dried arrangements as well as craft projects.
Sea-lavender, also known as statice and wide-leaf sea-lavender is heat, drought and salt tolerant. It is hardy in zones 3 to 9 and grows best in full sun with well-drained soil. It can flop and need staking when grown in heavier clay soil.
Plant it in the proper growing conditions right from the start, as it does not like to be moved.
The wide green leaves form a low mound. The light blue flowers are held high above the leaves, creating a misty look and feel in the garden.
Harvest a few stems to use in dried flower arrangements and crafts. Cut the flower stems just before the flowers are fully open. Hang upside down in a shaded airy location to dry.
A bit more information: Statice (Limonium sinuatum) has bolder flowers of rose, red, apricot, yellow, lavender and white. It grows best in full sun and is also heat and drought tolerant. Most gardeners grow it as an annual unless gardening in zones 8 to 10.
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"Have Courage... and Be Kind"
Looks like Disney's doing it again, but in reverse.
Everyone recalls the classic Disney animated feature, Cinderella.
In March, Disney releases the live action version - with a few updates and some computer-generated tweaks - that looks pretty darn good.
There is magic in this one...
Check out the trailer, and mark your calendar!
#TBT: The Carlton Dance, & More
This one's an oldie but goodie - I missed it last year, so maybe you did too.
Even if you saw it, it's fun to watch again.
Will Smith and his son Jaden visited the BBC's Graham Norton Show and got a little musical.
Jaden did a little rap while his dad did some beats in the background.
Then Will brought out DJ Jazzy Jeff and the three of them performed the rap theme song from Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
And then, a little frosting on the cake as DJ Jazzy Jeff cranked up Tom Jone's "It's Not Unusual." Alfonso Ribeiro joined them, and everybody did The Carlton.
Check it out. It's a lot of fun.
Seven Feet & Counting
Parts of Buffalo and upstate New York were positively buried in a storm some are calling Snovember early this week.
But that doesn't stop the train that is professional sport from rolling, does it?
On Tuesday, the night of the storm, 6200 fans made it out to see the Buffalo Sabres in action.
And now, the Buffalo Bills and the NFL are looking for some help, digging Ralph Wilson Stadium out from under the snow in time for the Bills to play the New York Jets over the weekend.
Want to work in the NFL? The Bills are hiring snow shovelers http://t.co/qibRAADFm4 pic.twitter.com/NfC1lM56Qe
— For The Win (@ForTheWin) November 19, 2014
If you do well, they could pick up your option for future storms and years. Who knows? You could be a Hall of Fame Shoveler at some point in your future.
Meanwhile, if you want to get a sense of what it's like to be in the middle of something like that, check out this drone's-eye view of the event...
Million Dollar Baby
This could be one of the most insane stories you've ever heard.
A pregnant woman from Saskatchewan, Jennifer Huculak, was vacationing in Hawaii when her water broke, and she delivered her daughter nine weeks early.
Mom and daughter spent about six weeks in the hospital in Hawaii, and then headed home.
Mom had Blue Cross coverage, but the insurance company denied her claim, leaving her with a $950,000 bill to pay.
So now, the family is left with three options: continue to fight Blue Cross; declare bankruptcy; or just sit things out to see what happens next.
They could of course hit the lottery. That could help.
She's Too Young For the Club, and By the Way...
"Hello, Tyga? There's a reality check waiting to be picked up at the front desk."
Here's one straight out of the pages of Yeah, I Know It's a Law But Not For Me, RIght?
Tyga, the 25-year-old musician, was supposed to play at a club called Greystone Manor in West Hollywood. He begged the club management to allow his 17-year-old girlfriend, Kylie Jenner - one of the offspring of Mamadashian - to attend the show.
The management refused, because it's a 21+ establishment.
So Tyga pull a no-show, managing to tick off a sponsor big time.
Maybe it's a math problem. Who needs to figure out that Kylie has to wait another four years to get into the club because of the laws that govern places that sell booze.
And while we're at it, memo to Kris and Bruce Jenner: a 25-year-old rapper is dating your 17-year-old daughter.
Look for those Parents of the Year trophies, mailed to your separate homes in the next six to eight weeks.
Baby, It's Not Frozen Outside
Put Idina Menzel together in a duet with Michael Buble? Good idea.
Have them sing a classic tune like "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Yeah, that works.
When you make the video? Cast a bunch of kids in big person outfits and settings.
And you might just have the cutest darn video ever. Well, of the year, anyway.
The singing's great - the kids are great too.
And don't worry - Idina and Michael make a quick cameo appearance. Don't blink!
These 6 best buds took a fun picture almost 20 years ago in Los Angeles, CA. They were only 10 years old. From left to right: Matt Gruber, Joel Atia, Mykil Bachoian, Kevin Opos, Ben Danon & Aviv Edelstein is in the front.
When they turned 17, before leaving for college, they thought it would be fun to recreate the same pose as a joke.
And, just a few weeks ago, they did it again to celebrate Kevin's 29th birthday. Almost 20 years late. Can't wait to see the next pose boys!
"Best Buddies at 10, 17 and 29 years old," Kevin Opos (second from the right in the back row).
Don't Be Thor, Bro
It’s official. People magazine has announced its Sexiest Man Alive for 2014. The envelope, please?
It’s Chris Hemsworth, perhaps best-known for playing Thor in the movies based on the Marvel comics superheroes. He was also the Huntsman in Snow White & the Huntsman, and should not be confused with his brothers, Liam Hemsworth (center), of Hunger Games fame or Luke (left), although that’s bound to happen.
They’re all big and hunky, and arguably Australia’s best recent exports. But, when it comes to this award, it looks like the brother with the bigger hammer wins.
Sure, This Will Get You Another Kiss
Liam Hemsworth was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon the other night, and fielded some questions from the Twitterverse.
Some of the answers were telling: favorite movie is Titanic; teenage crush was Alyssa Milano; and his high school photo was pretty geeky.
But the best answer: what he really thought about kissing his castmate in The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence.
Watch it for yourself - why should I spoil the fun?
Best/Worst Family Feud Responses
One of the best ways to watch Family Feud these days is to wait for the silliest clips to make their way to YouTube.
Steve Harvey was on Late Night with Seth Myers this week, and Seth got him to talk about some of his favorite worst answers on the show.
Steve confirms something I've always thought - there's a lot more happening on those shows that we don't see.
I'd much rather see an unedited version of the show - are you listening, HBO? Showtime? Maybe Netflix?
Best Butt Joke Yet!
Since Kim Kardashian's attempt to break the internet failed last week with the photo of her giant gleaming butt on the cover of Paper magazine, there's been all sorts of fun poked at her backside.
Memes choked most Facebook feeds. Until today, my favorite was the one that put Kim's body on the backside of a horse - sort of a talentless minotaur.
But that was then.
This is now.
An artist named Olga Andriyenko has created a masterful parody of Kim's photo - drawing Ursula the Sea Witch in a similar pose on the cover of Water magazine, with the caption that reads "Break the Ocean."
Simply hilarious. Check it out here. And while it's a cartoon, I wouldn't call it safe for work - you are warned!
Taylor's Paradise Smoothies?
The internet can be a wonderful thing, or an instrument of evil - depends on how you look at it.
Take, for instance, this video that just surfaced from 2008 featuring a 14-year-old Taylor Swift participating in an ad as part of an 8th grade class project.
Taylor doesn't get to do much but say one line about the fake product - Paco's Paradise Smoothies - and then do her best Vanna White impression.
What do you think? Star is born, or star needing a little more gestation?
These Nuptials Made Possible by Benadryl
Queen Bey's sister got married over the weekend. That's old news.
What is news is that Solange Knowles had an outbreak of the hives on her weddding day.
How did that happen? Follow along on Twitter, why don't you, followed up by a little Instagram... Turns out, Benadryl saved the day!
Got em from turning up x100 during our second line.I was hot,wearing a cape,& happy as hell:)“@ImLovinMe4me: how did you get hives though??”
— solange knowles (@solangeknowles) November 18, 2014
Last but not least....:) Shout out to Benadryl yo, lol. NOTHING was gonna stop me from having my mother and son dance with Julez. My baby killed it and will forever remain my favorite dance parter of all time. My heart will forever smile reliving the feeling our lil happy feet together.
A video posted by S A I N T R E C O R D S (@saintrecords) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:57pm PST
All About That Baste
You knew it was going to happen, right?
"All About the Base" has been the number one song in the land, and next to "Let It Go," probably the year's most parodized song.
And with Thanksgiving knocking on the door, this one seems as natural as a Butterball.
The Holderness Family put this one together from scratch - the perfect recipe for holiday humor.
If you're having trouble on the dating scene, this story is going to make things even worse... You've been warned!
Several sources have confirmed that a marriage license has been issued in Kings County, California for Charles Manson and his 26-year-old fiancee.
You remember Manson. the 80-year-old is a permanent guest of the California Corrections Department, convicted of several gruesome murders in 1969.
His fiancee, who's described as a "frequent visitor" who moved from the Midwest seven years ago to be closer to Manson's prison, says they will tie the knot next month.
Because he's a lifer, conjugal visits are not allowed. And he's certainly not getting out of prison, ever.
They're allowed to bring in an officiant from outside the prison, and to invite ten guests.
Keep an eye on your mailbox, everybody! I wonder where they're registered?
Good Grief on the Way!
Watch out, Peanuts fans.
There's a brand-new movie headed your way, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the entire game.
It's due on about a year from now, directed by the guy who brought us Ice Age: Continental Drift.
From all reports, it's staying true to the Peanuts gang from the comic strip and the TV specials so many of us grew up on.
This trailer's a couple of months old, but it looks and sounds pretty familiar - maybe the graphics are better than we remember.
And there's a new trailer due out in ten days or so - so stay tuned!
It's Busy Up There
On an average day, depending on where you live, you can look into the sky and see the contrail of a jet far overhead.
Sometimes one, sometimes a few, sometimes a bunch.
But have you ever given much thought to what the air traffic patterns look like in lapsed time?
An air traffic management company called NATS recently posted a video to show what air traffic looks like on a regular basis over England.
It's fascinating to watch. Be sure to follow along with the captions too.
UK 24 from NATS on Vimeo.
Thar's Gold in That Thar Landfill!
This is one of the strangest bits of nostalgia news ever.
The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico launched an auction on eBay, selling a bunch of Atari video games that had been buried in the city’s landfill for about 30 years.
Here’s the deal.
There have been rumors that truckloads of Atari games were buried in the landfill. The rumors have been considered urban legend.
So a documentary film crew decided to find out for real. So it spent about $50,000 to dig up the landfill, and sure enough, hit the mother lode.
Because the landfill belongs to the city, so do the video games, and the city earned about $37,000 from the online sales.
One game cartridge for “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” fetched $1537.
Which is ironic, since that’s the poor-selling game that many blame for Atari’s ultimate demise.
You know what they say. One man’s trash is another man’s buried treasure.
Muscle Mustangs Are Back!
Gas prices are getting cheaper, so why not make your next car a muscle car?
That's what the folks at Ford are hoping you'll do.
Check out the brand-new 2015 Shelby GT350 Mustang. Ford is unveiling it on Monday in advance of the LA Auto Show.
But you can check it out even earlier than that, thanks to the folks at Edmunds.com...
What do you think - got some muscle in your future?
"Please Remember This December to Fully Charge Your Phone"
Okay, it's early for Christmas music - we all agree.
But, here's one to hang onto when you're finally caught up by the holiday spirit.
Kristen Bell joined the boys from Straight No Chaser to deliver on "Text Me Merry Christmas."
The song is catchy and funny - and the fact that you can see it all texted in this video makes it that much better.
But Wait, There's More!
The new season of Saturday Night Live is a real hodgepodge - some moments are incredibly hard to watch, but there are moments of brilliance.
I've got to put this one in the brilliant column.
SNL pokes some fun at the new album that pairs Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, with a compilation album featuring more "Young Tarts & Old Farts."
Some of these impressions are dead on - look for Woody Harrelson as James Taylor.
It starts out slow, but ends nice and strong.
Another Elevator Incident in their Future?
Over the weekend, Queen Bey's sister, Solange Knowles, got married in New Orleans.
She and her hubby, music video producer Alan Ferguson, wore matching outfits.
Well, sort of... They both wore white outfits, and his facial hair offset her wild hairdo perfectly.
A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:21pm PST
The entire family was reportedly in attendance - including her brother-in-law Jay Z, who she famously slapped in an elevator several months ago.
No reported elevator incidents. Well, not yet, anyway.
It usually takes a couple of days for the security videos to surface on TMZ. Stay tuned...
Hunger Games = Munchies?
It's been 25 years since Woody Harrelson hosted Saturday Night Live.
Last time he stepped on that stage was 1989, which happens to be the title of Taylor Swift's new album.
So it was natural - stay with this - that Woody would want to do a parody song about 1989.
But wait - he got interrupted.
By his castmates from The Hunger Games. First, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth stepped out, and then Jennifer Lawrence joined them.
The crowd went understandly wild.
There were some interesting flubs that turned into something genuinely funny...
Some of them may have been herb-induced, but you be the judge.
Maybe She Shook It Off
There's a DJ out there named Diplo - he may or may not be the boyfriend of Katy Perry, who may or may not be the mortal enemy of Taylor Swift.
Last week, Diplo tweeted that somebody should start a Kickstarter campaign to "get Taylor Swift a booty."
I guess you could say he considers Taylor the anti-Kim Kardashian.
Later that day, he shared a link to a Fundly campaign to Get Taylor Swift a Booty.
At this writing, 130 supporters had offered up a grand total of $85.
Looks like Taylor's going to have to make do with the butt she's got.
Meanwhile, Taylor's friend Lorde aimed a Tweet at Diplo, suggesting maybe someone should start a fundraiser to help with his small manparts.
This could get interesting...
Amanda Out of Control Again
Amanda Bynes is back in the news - the overwhelming question is why.
But that aside, her latest episodes really make a person scratch his head and wonder why she's not getting the help she obviously needs.
This past week, audio tapes were released that showcased Amanda's threats to harm her family.
About her father: "He literally is the worst person. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than slitting his throat. That is what I would love to do."
About her mother: "So I'm not gonna like ever do such a thing, but I call my mom and I threaten to kill her, and I threaten to slit her wrist, and I threaten to burn down her house..."
The tapes were allegedly released by her family, who hopes that someone will hear them and force her to get help.
Amanda took to Twitter to defend herself... Check it out.
By the way - i was obviously joking about hurting my family - i straight up don't believe in harming a soul
— amanda bynes (@amandabynes) November 16, 2014
Well, as long as she straight up doesn't believe in hurting a soul, clearly no one has anything to worry about, right?
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Recognising the signs of skin cancer
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with about 100,000 cases reported each year (UK Skin Cancer Working Party, 2001). There are three main types of skin cancer, which can be divided into two categories: non-melanoma (basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma) and melanoma skin cancer. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common and accounts for about 80 per cent of all skin cancers. Malignant melanoma is the least common type of skin cancer, accounting for about five ...
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NASA Announces the Suite of Science Instruments on its Next Mars Rover Today
Will search for signs of past life
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2014/07/31 04:13 CDT
Today marks the unveiling of the suite of science instruments that will travel to Mars to look for signs of past life and help determine samples to store for possible return to Earth. The next rover mission will launch in 2020.
NASA's Budget Stalls Out
...as do all budgets for 2015
Congress has all but given up its goal of passing a budget before the end of this fiscal year in September. Instead, we will likely see a temporary extension through the elections in November.
One of the hot topics of the 8th International Conference on Mars was the nature of Mars' ancient past. Abigail Fraeman reports on our updated view of whether Mars was ever warm and wet.
A journey of nearly a decade is almost over. Rosetta is making its final approach to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and the comet's strange shape is beginning to come into focus. As of today, the spacecraft is only 2000 kilometers away from the comet, and 8 days away from arrival.
Posted by Dante Lauretta on 2014/07/28 02:04 CDT
The asteroid community recently gathered in Helsinki, Finland for the 12th Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors Conference. As this meeting showed, one of the hottest topics in asteroid science is the study of asteroid families.
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight By Jay Barbree
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press —A Book Review by Mat Kaplan
Mat Kaplan reviews a wonderful new biography on Neil Armstrong, written with the support of Armstrong and many of the other pioneering astronauts.
For the last four weeks, the name of the game for Curiosity has been driving. But these weeks of driving have been more challenging than they used to be.
Venera 9 and 10 landed on Venus in 1975 and sent back the first images of the planet's surface. Now, Ted Stryk brings new life to these images to show us what it would be like to stand on the Venusian surface.
LightSail-A's blown radio amplifier doesn't affect the 2016 SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission, but it adds an unwelcome obstacle to the 2015 test mission's ever-shortening timetable.
Just after completing the primary mission of 669 sols on Mars, Curiosity's managers planned a special day -- June 26, 2014 -- in which mostly women were assigned to the more than 100 different operational roles.
Despite the fact that it hasn't moved for 6 months, the plucky Yutu rover on the Moon is still alive. Its signal is periodically detected by amateur radio astronomers, most recently on July 19. A story posted today by the Chinese state news agency offers a new hypothesis to explain the failure of the rover's mobility systems.
Several announcements for proposed missions to Mars and on the planning for a NASA return to Europa that highlight the contrasts in planning missions for these two high priority destinations.
Technically, Pluto science observations don't begin for New Horizons until 2015, but the spacecraft will take a series of photos of Pluto and Charon from July 20 to 27 as it begins the first of four optical navigation campaigns.
Capitol Hill Responds to the Lure of Europa
The Planetary Society held a massively successful event to increase awareness of Europa
A standing-room only crowd learned the lure of Europa, the moon of Jupiter with more liquid water than the Earth, at a special Planetary Society event on capitol hill.
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Llano de Chajnantor Observatory Reference Libraries
European Southern Observatory -- ESO, the European Southern Observatory, was created in 1962 to: "establish and operate an astronomical observatory in the southern hemisphere, equipped with powerful instruments, with the aim of furthering and organising collaboration in astronomy". ESO is supported by Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland...
- Having a loud voice; vociferous; clamorous.
- Of grand or imposing sound.
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Ms. Gorsegner’s 2
10/28/13This Week in Second Grade
Math this week will continuewith addition to 1000. We will be working on regrouping in both the tens and hundreds. Iencourage you to log on towww.thinkcentral.com to findhelpful information along withinteractivities.
We will start a new wholegroup story this week: Mrs.Brown Went To Town. Wewill focus on thecomprehension strategy of predicting and inferring. Eachchild will also continueworking on individual needs inour small reading groups.
Personal narratives in a smallmoment story continue to bethe focus of our writing. Wehave talked about the writing process, wrote lists of idea, andrehearsed our ideas. This week we will continue withsketching out the smallmoment and starting the firstdraft.
The second gradewill continue their study ondifferent landforms.Social Studies
is the focus of social studies.Specifically, students discusslocal businesses in Mt.Pleasant that contribute to our community.
Classroom Wish List
Math curriculum explanation and links to math website
Spelling words and links to activities
Pictures of our year
now updated with field trip pictures!
Links for students and parents
Things Found On The Classroom Website
Field Trip to Chippewa Nature Center
Our first field trip of the year was a success. The students traveled back in time and spentthe morning in a one room schoolhouse. They experienced new tools in the classroom,interesting recess activities, and even an outhouse! After lunch, we visited a pioneer homestead. We saw a cow, pigs, chickens, wild turkeys, and sheep. Old tools, the cellar,the home without electricity, and using the water pump were all experiences during thetrip. Information has been sent home if you and your family would like to visit!
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