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7.544006 | 4.626545 | 105 | Councils across Victoria will receive extra encouragement to
introduce smoke-free outdoor policies this week, with toolkits
being sent to local governments detailing how they can implement
smoke-free zones in areas like parks, playgrounds and outdoor
dining areas. The information packs, devised by the Heart
Foundation (Victoria) and Quit, outline why outdoor smoke-free
areas are important and provide practical advice on how to
develop, implement, and communicate smoke-free policies within
local government areas. Smoking is taking a heavy toll on
Victorians, especially on those from local government areas with
higher smoking rates; such as Greater Shepparton, Hume and Knox,
to name a few. (To see a full listing of individual local
government area smoking rates and the number of deaths caused by
smoking go to Page 70 of this report http://www.health.vic.gov.a
u/healthstatus/downloads/2008_ch02_01.pdf and
http://www.quit.org.au/thebigkill/) Heart Foundation (Victoria)
CEO Kathy Bell said momentum was growing for |
2.380957 | 6.14782 | -1 | While in college you will need to research information for your
papers and other assignments. Once you graduate, you will most
likely continue to do research to make informed decisions in
your job and your community. The skills you have and continue to
develop will make the process of finding information for your
assignments, your work, and your life much easier. The combined
resources of your library and the Internet create an almost
endless amount of information available to you. With all of
these choices, where do you find the answers? In addition to an
overview of the sources and services at our campus library, this
section will focus on the different sources of information,
where to find these sources, and how to choose the best ones for
your research. After completing this section you should be able
to: Mission and Goals The B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library
supports the LIU Post Campus of Long Island University in its
goal to educate students to be productive, socially responsible,
and broadly educate |
1.113175 | -1.235972 | -1 | Science subject and location tags Articles, documents and
multimedia from ABC Science Wednesday, 25 July 2012 7 Ask an
Expert Can some people hear sound frequencies that most people
can't? Wednesday, 11 July 2012 11 Ask an Expert I've heard I
need to regularly run down the batteries in my electronic
devices to maintain the battery life, is this true? Monday, 25
June 2012 10 Ask an Expert Does the wiring in an electric
circuit get eroded by the current or electrons? Tuesday, 12 June
2012 3 Ask an Expert Do plants have an immune system, and if
not, how do they protect themselves from infection? Friday, 25
May 2012 8 Ask an Expert Why do transits of Venus happen twice
in eight years, then not again for over 100 years? Monday, 14
May 2012 29 Ask an Expert Why do some people eat lots and not
put on weight? Shouldn't 'skinny genes' have been out-competed
long ago? Tuesday, 1 May 2012 5 Ask an Expert How can
earthquakes happen in places like Australia that are far from
the edges of tectonic plates? Wednesday, 18 Apr |
-2.502114 | 3.125759 | -1 | ShīʿiteArticle Free Pass Shīʿite, Arabic Shīʿī, collective
Shīʿah, member of the smaller of the two major branches of
Islam, distinguished from the majority Sunnis. Early in the
history of Islam, the Shīʿites were a political faction (Arabic
shīʿat ʿAlī, “party of ʿAlī”) that supported the power of ʿAlī
ibn Abī Ṭālib (the fourth caliph [khalīfah, successor of
Muhammad]) and, later, of his descendants. Starting as a
political faction, this group gradually developed into a
religious movement, Shīʿism, which not only influenced Sunni
Islam but also produced a number of important sects to which the
term Shīʿah is applied. The Prophet Muhammad died in ad 632
without an heir, none of his sons having survived to adulthood,
and a broad consensus of those present at Medina nominated his
longtime companion Abū Bakr as his successor. Abū Bakr died two
years later and was succeeded in the caliphate by his assistant
and adviser ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭab. When ʿUmar was assassinated by
a disgruntled Persian slave in 644, ʿUthmā |
5.559933 | 2.809354 | -1 | Though severe effects of microgravity on cells (e.g.
lymphocytes) have been stated, the development of complex
organisms occurs more or less undisturbed under this condition.
However, a systematic approach and multi-generation experiments
with animals and plants in microgravity are necessary as they
are the key players in life support systems which are necessary
for long-term manned space missions. In addition to rather
exclusive experiments under real microgravity conditions,
different ground-based methods have been developed to achieve
either the status of simulated microgravity (this term has been
adopted by international convention) or hypergravity (artificial
gravity) conditions. The DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine has
a long-term experience in developing and using space simulation
facilities: so-called clinostats enable the rotation of a sample
perpendicular to the gravitational field assuming that a
continuously reoriented biological system does not perceive the
gravitational stimulus. The results |
6.290952 | -0.6955 | -1 | "...if all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were
swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable...we
would find its mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, and
oceans represented by a film of nematodes" N.A. Cobb, 1914
Bekal, S. and Becker, J.O. 2000. Population dynamics of the
sting nematode in California turf grass. Plant Disease
84:1081-1084 Turf damage caused by sting nematodes, Belonolaimus
longicaudatus to golf course turf and sting nematode as inset.
Turf damage photo courtesy of Megan Kenelly, B. longicaudatus
image courtesy Tim Todd, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS. Nematodes are the most numerous
multicellular worms found on earth. While most nematodes are not
parasitic, some are parasites of insects, plants or animals and
so can cause disease and important crop losses. Plant pathogenic
nematodes cause mechanical damage by penetrating and moving
through the plant tissues, cellular changes, cell necrosis,
changes in cell growth, and physiolog |
4.105233 | 7.816624 | -1 | What is a T1 or E1? T1 and E1 refer to telephone trunks that
carry digitized voice in Time Domain Multiplexed (TDM) channels.
T1 based interfaces are pre-dominantly used in USA. Each T1 has
24 voice ports. E1 based interfaces are pre-dominantly used in
Europe, Asia and Latin America. Each E1 has 30 voice ports. One
voice port equates to one phone call. What is an ISDN PRI? T1
ISDN PRI refers to a T1 based trunk that uses 23 bearer time
slots and 1 signaling time slot. It is also popularly referred
to as 23B + D. E1 ISDN PRI refers to an E1 based trunk that uses
30 bearer time slots and 1 signaling time slot. It is also
popularly referred to as 30B + D. What is a VoIP/SIP trunk?
Voice over IP refers to carriage of voice calls over the
Internet. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling
protocol that is used for setting up VoIP connections. The
VoIP/SIP trunk operates over a standard Ethernet interface. What
interfaces does USN support? USN supports the following TDM
interfaces: - T1 ISDN PRI - T1 E&M Wi |
9.347785 | 2.401703 | 128 | Talc (Intrapleural Route)Drug Information provided by:
Micromedex US Brand Names Talc is sprayed through a tube into
the area around the lungs. It is given to people who have
breathing problems caused by a buildup of fluid in this area.
Talc is used after the fluid has been drained out, to prevent
the problem from returning. You may be familiar with talc used
as an ingredient in dusting powders (talcum powder). The talc
used for preventing fluid buildup in the lungs is a special
grade of talc that has been sterilized (made germ-free). This
medicine is to be given only by your doctor. This product is
available in the following dosage forms: |
8.969289 | 5.562768 | 103 | A spinal disc herniation (prolapsus disci intervertebralis),
informally and misleadingly called a "slipped disc", is a
medical condition affecting the spine, in which a tear in the
outer, fibrous ring (annulus fibrosus) of an intervertebral disc
(discus intervertebralis) allows the soft, central portion
(nucleus pulposus) to bulge out. Tears are almost always
posterior-ipsilateral in nature owing to the presence of the
posterior longitudinal ligament in the spinal canal. This tear
in the disc ring may result in the release of inflammatory
chemical mediators which may directly cause severe pain, even in
the absence of nerve root compression (see "chemical
radiculitis" below). This is the rationale for the use of anti-
inflammatory treatments for pain associated with disc
herniation, protrusion, bulge, or disc tear. It is normally a
further development of a previously existing disc protrusion, a
condition in which the outermost layers of the annulus fibrosus
are still intact, but can bulge when the disc is under |
1.988118 | 7.441855 | -1 | I have a normalized 3D vector giving a direction and an angle
that forms a cone around it, something like this: I'd like to
generate a random, uniformly distributed normalized vector for a
direction within that cone. I would also like to support angles
greater than pi (but lower or equal to 2*pi), at which point the
shape becomes more like a sphere from which a cone was removed.
How can I proceed? I thought about the following steps, but my
implementation did not seem to work: - Find a vector normal to
the cone axis vector (by crossing the cone axis vector with the
cardinal axis that corresponds with the cone axis vector
component nearest to zero, ex: [1 0 0] for [-1 5 -10]) - Find a
second normal vector using a cross product - Generate a random
angle between [-pi, pi[ - Rotate use the two normal vectors as a
2D coordinate system to create a new vector at the angle
previously generated - Generate a random displacement value
between [0, tan(theta)] and square root it (to normalize
distribution like for points |
-1.57175 | 3.222056 | -1 | Opposite to the coast of Lavreotiki at the southern part of
Euboekos Bay it is situated the wild and arid island of
Makronissos (“the long island” in Greek), or Nissos Elenis (the
island of Helen) as it was known in antiquity. During the period
of the civil war in Greece and the years after, until 1974, this
island served as a place of exile and tortures of the political
opponents of the government. The eastern coast of the island has
several small sandy beaches, accessible only by boat or yacht,
provided the captain of the boat knows very well the sea, as
several reefs scattered around may prove dangerous. A small
cove, well protected from the winds is found at the southern
coast; be cautious when reaching this cove, as there is an
invisible reef some 200 meters far from the coast. The island is
found at a distance of some 2-4 nautical miles far from the boat
slide of Lavrio, depending on the coast you choose to visit. |
5.526068 | 0.031405 | 127 | Diversifying Cropping Systems |Alternative grains and oilseeds -
like buckwheat - add diversity to cropping systems and open
profitable niche markets while contributing to environmentally
sound operations. | - Photo by Rob Myers Karl Kupers, an eastern
Washington grain grower, was a typical dryland wheat farmer who
idled his land in fallow to conserve moisture. After years of
watching his soil blow away and his market price slip, he made
drastic changes to his 5,600-acre operation. In place of fallow,
he planted more profitable hard red and hard white wheats along
with seed crops like condiment mustard, sunflower, grass and
safflower. All of those were drilled using a no-till system
Kupers calls direct-seeding. “I look at this more diverse system
as a tremendous opportunity to decrease chemical use and make
more net profit per acre,” said Kupers, who received a grant
from USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
(SARE) program to offset the risk. Now, he puts his exuberant
personality to work as |
-0.868474 | 5.713295 | 36 | Salamone Rossi & Synagogue Choral Music A Renaissance composer
who applied the conventions of choral music to Jewish liturgy
Excerpted with permission from Discovering Jewish Music (Jewish
Publication Society). The Jews of Renaissance Italy enjoyed
intermittent tolerance by various rulers of the autonomous city-
states that dotted the northern province. Many achieved
prominence as court instrumentalists, singers, dancers, and
actors. Salamone Rossi (ca.157O-ca.1628) was the last and most
distinguished example. In 1587, he began his long association
with the Gonzagan Court, initially as a singer and violist. He
soon became the leader of Duke Vicenzo I's court musicians and
directed an instrumental ensemble probably composed of Jewish
musicians. He also became a leading composer, pioneering the
musical form known as the trio sonata. Rossi's great claim to
Jewish musical fame came with his publication in 1623 of Ha-
Shirim Asher li-Shelomo, a collection of 33 Psalms, hymns, and
other liturgical poems set for combi |
4.58825 | 7.179328 | -1 | - SPECIAL REPORTS - THE MAGAZINE Problem: The Global Positioning
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satellites that must be available for a differential solution of
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0.566182 | 2.609653 | 42 | This report, posted in pdf format by INHP, was converted to html
by ushistory.org. To read the report in pdf format on the INHP
website, click here In April, 2004, Independence National
Historical Park [INDE] partnered with the Ad Hoc Historians and
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania to apply for partial
support of a public forum on the President's House. Mary M.
Bomar, Superintendent of Independence National Historical Park,
encouraged this collaborative project in furtherance of the
park's civic engagement program. The President's House site,
located at Sixth and Market Streets served as the residence of
George Washington and John Adams as well as the location of the
Executive Branch of government during most of their respective
presidencies. The structure and its outbuildings were demolished
in 1832, and over time, public memory forgot its existence. It
recently became the focus of popular and scholarly attention
because some of the Washingtons' slaves lived in his
presidential household. With Superint |
-1.073211 | 2.181074 | 59 | The Holocaust Chronicle (Hardcover) During the Second World War,
six million Jews--as well as other targeted groups such as
Gypsies, Poles, the handicapped, and homosexuals--were
systematically murdered by Adolf Hitlers Nazis and their
collaborators. The Holocaust Chronicle, written and fact-checked
by top scholars, recounts the long, complex, anguishing story of
the most terrible crime of the 20th century. A massive,
oversized hardcover of more than 750 pages, The Holocaust
Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures is an excitingly
unique, not for-profit endeavor that is a personal project of
the publisher, Louis Weber, C.E.O. of Chicago-based Publications
International, Ltd. As a book publisher, I am in a unique
position to create this ambitious project, Weber says. The son
of Polish Jews who settled in America in the 1920s, Weber
conceived The Holocaust Chronicle in order to give something
back to the Jewish community, and to bring the truth of the
Holocaust to as many people as possible. The mission of T |
4.208133 | 2.719177 | -1 | When it comes to etching metals, a number of options are
available. Options include the specific process used, and what
type of metal will be used. Each metal has its own unique and
individual properties. For example, stainless steel is an
incredibly hygienic metal. Often etching uses stainless steel,
aluminum, copper and brass amongst others. Brass is often chosen
because of its softness, and easily malleable qualities. Its
softness makes it valuable in instances where sparks should not
be struck or for tools and fittings where explosive gases might
be present. It has a yellowish color, similar to gold, and is
fairly tarnish resistant. Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper,
giving it many of the same properties those metals possess.
Since brass is so soft, it is able to be etched in shorter times
and with less mechanical force compared to other metals. It is
easily formed into strips, rods, tubes, sheets or plates that
can be engraved or etched. This metal is also one of the best
and most cost effective condu |
2.379159 | 3.357238 | 56 | 360 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., 7 tables, appends., notes,
bibl., index In a provocative assessment of American poverty and
policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era
that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and
unemployment. Analyzing the War on Poverty, theories of the
culture of poverty and the underclass, the effects of
Reaganomics, and the 1996 welfare reform, Stricker demonstrates
that most antipoverty approaches are futile without the presence
(or creation) of good jobs. Stricker notes that since the 1970s,
U.S. poverty levels have remained at or above 11%, despite
training programs and periods of economic growth. The creation
of jobs has continued to lag behind the need for them. Stricker
argues that a serious public debate is needed about the job
situation; social programs must be redesigned, a national health
care program must be developed, and economic inequality must be
addressed. He urges all sides to be honest--if we don't want to
eliminate poverty, the |
-0.994647 | 1.489054 | -1 | |US policy towards China can be described as 'a hesitant trust'
[GALLO/GETTY] This month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry
Kissinger's secret trip to Beijing, which launched the process
of mending a 20-year breach in diplomatic relations between the
United States and China. That trip, and President Richard
Nixon's subsequent visit, represented a major Cold War
realignment. The US and China put aside their intense hostility
in a joint and successful effort to contain an expansionist
Soviet Union. Today, the Soviet Union has vanished, and Chinese
power is growing. Some in the US argue that China's rise cannot
be peaceful, and that the US, therefore, should now adopt a
policy of containing the People's Republic. Indeed, many Chinese
officials perceive that to be the current American strategy.
They are wrong. After all, Cold War containment of the USSR
meant virtually no trade and little social contact. Today, by
contrast, the US not only has massive trade with China, but also
extensive social contact, includin |
0.963972 | 1.723168 | 12 | The Texas State Railroad is owned and operated by the American
Heritage Railways, and operates a variety of vintage steam and
diesel locomotives over 24 miles of track between its depots at
Palestine and Rusk in East Texas. The railroad's history was
patchy to say the least, and with hindsight it probably should
not have been built. However it was, and miraculously it
survived long enough into the 1960s to become a viable option
for preservation. The line re-opened as a preserved/tourist line
under State Park ownership in 1976. As the first steam tourist
steam line in Texas, it was a great success. Although visitor
numbers have dropped after other lines have opened, the Texas
State Railroad continues to be a success. More recently, the
poor financial condition of Texas State Parks & Wildlife
threatened to close the Texas State Railroad. Luckily American
Heritage Railways were able to purchase the operation and keep
it open. The Texas State Railroad started life in 1881 with the
completion of a large new priso |
-0.777829 | -2.213423 | 10 | OSS (Outer Solar System): A fundamental and planetary physics
mission to Neptune, Triton and the Kuiper Belt Abstract: The
present OSS mission continues a long and bright tradition by
associating the communities of fundamental physics and planetary
sciences in a single mission with ambitious goals in both
domains. OSS is an M-class mission to explore the Neptune system
almost half a century after flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Several discoveries were made by Voyager 2, including the Great
Dark Spot (which has now disappeared) and Triton's geysers.
Voyager 2 revealed the dynamics of Neptune's atmosphere and
found four rings and evidence of ring arcs above Neptune.
Benefiting from a greatly improved instrumentation, it will
result in a striking advance in the study of the farthest planet
of the Solar System. Furthermore, OSS will provide a unique
opportunity to visit a selected Kuiper Belt object subsequent to
the passage of the Neptunian system. It will consolidate the
hypothesis of the origin of Triton a |
2.057082 | 5.149598 | -1 | Click the Study Aids tab at the bottom of the book to access
your Study Aids (usually practice quizzes and flash cards).
Study Pass is our latest digital product that lets you take
notes, highlight important sections of the text using different
colors, create "tags" or labels to filter your notes and
highlights, and print so you can study offline. Study Pass also
includes interactive study aids, such as flash cards and
quizzes. Highlighting and Taking Notes: If you've purchased the
All Access Pass or Study Pass, in the online reader, click and
drag your mouse to highlight text. When you do a small button
appears – simply click on it! From there, you can select a
highlight color, add notes, add tags, or any combination. If
you've purchased the All Access Pass, you can print each chapter
by clicking on the Downloads tab. If you have Study Pass, click
on the print icon within Study View to print out your notes and
highlighted sections. To search, use the text box at the bottom
of the book. Click a search result |
7.544924 | 0.722334 | -1 | Fifteen images of Digitalis lanata, Grecian Foxglove, Woolly
Foxglove, formerly a member of the figwort family,
Scrophulariaceae, now placed in the plantain family,
Plantaginaceae, is naturalized in the Northeastern United
States, but hails from South and Central Europe, Greece, and the
Danube region. Uses as a commercial sources of cardioactive
digoxins, and lanatoside. This species along with Digitalis
purpurea have been used since the late 1700s as a cardiac
stimulant for cardiac insufficency and rythym abnormalities.
Dropsy or edema from a weak heart, characterized by leg swelling
and accumulation of fluids is a symptom. The purified digoxins
are used in highly controlled dosages, either orally or as
injections in coventional medicinal. The herb itself is no
longer used as a crude drug as the therapetuic and toxic dosages
are very close quantitatively and can lead to life-threatening
symptoms. Considered a poisonous plant. Please contact Steven
Foster for pricing and terms at [email protected] |
1.974043 | 3.947616 | -1 | ||This article may contain original research. (January 2013)|
|Part of the common law series| |Defenses against formation|
|Excuses for non-performance| |Rights of third parties| |Breach
of contract| |Related areas of law| |Other common law areas| An
arbitration clause is a commonly used clause in a contract that
requires the parties to resolve their disputes through an
arbitration process. Although such a clause may or may not
specify that arbitration occur within a specific jurisdiction,
it always binds the parties to a type of resolution outside of
the courts, and is therefore considered a kind of forum
selection clause. In the United States, the federal government
has expressed a policy of support of arbitration clauses,
because they reduce the burden on court systems to resolve
disputes. This support is found in the Federal Arbitration Act,
which permits compulsory and binding arbitration, under which
parties give up the right to appeal an arbitrator's decision to
a court. In Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & |
-0.225054 | 1.617828 | -1 | Today in History 1419 John the Fearless is murdered at
Montereau, France, by supporters of the dauphine. 1547 The Duke
of Somerset leads the English to a resounding victory over the
Scots at Pinkie Cleugh. 1588 Thomas Cavendish returns to
England, becoming the third man to circumnavigate the globe.
1623 Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth
in North America for England. 1813 The nine-ship American
flotilla under Oliver Hazard Perry wrests naval supremacy from
the British on Lake Erie by capturing or destroying a force of
six English vessels. 1846 Elias Howe patents the first practical
sewing machine in the United States. 1855 Sevastopol, under
siege for nearly a year, capitulates to the Allies during the
Crimean War. 1861 Confederates at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fall
back after being attacked by Union troops. The action is
instrumental in helping preserve western Virginia for the Union.
1912 J. Vedrines becomes the first pilot to break the 100 m.p.h.
barrier. 1914 The six-day Battle of th |
3.617316 | -1.374649 | -1 | Celtic Sea could be blueprint for sustainable oceans Marie
Hounslow, PISCES Communications Officer, Tel: +44 7986 313 970 -
PISCES (Partnerships Involving Stakeholders in the Celtic Sea
Ecosystem) has brought together stakeholders from the Celtic Sea
to develop a practical guide on implementing the ecosystem
approach in the context of the European Union (EU) Marine
Strategy Framework Directive. - Funding: PISCES is a €2 million
project which has been funded with the contribution of over €1
million from the LIFE+ financial instrument of the European
Community. LIFE is the EU’s funding instrument for the
environment. Most of the remaining funding was provided by WWF-
UK and The Environment Council. - The Celtic Sea, in the north-
east Atlantic Ocean, has a long maritime heritage and supports
many economically significant industries and activities. It is
an extraordinarily productive sea, hosting varied habitats and a
wealth of biodiversity (including many commercially important
species). The project area forms pa |
-1.945053 | 3.503805 | -1 | Tyrannus Prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose "school" at
Ephesus Paul disputed daily for the space of two years with
those who came to him (Act 19:9). Some have supposed that he was
a Jew, and that his "school" was a private synagogue. Tyre A
rock, now es-Sur; an ancient Phoenician city, about 23 miles, in
a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon. Sidon was
the oldest Phoenician city, but Tyre had a longer and more
illustrious history. The commerce of the whole world was
gathered into the warehouses of Tyre. "Tyrian merchants were the
first who ventured to navigate the Mediterranean waters; and
they founded their colonies on the coasts and neighbouring
islands of the Aegean Sea, in Greece, on the northern coast of
Africa, at Carthage and other places, in Sicily and Corsica, in
Spain at Tartessus, and even beyond the pillars of Hercules at
Gadeira (Cadiz)" (Driver's Isaiah). In the time of David a
friendly alliance was entered into between the Hebrews and the
Tyrians, who were long ruled over by t |
2.889831 | 0.656085 | -1 | Rockets, Flight and Dinosaurs Option S 1: Rocket Ships and
Dinosaurs (Ages 4-5) This is an exciting camp with all of the
hands-on and adventure you and your child can ask for. As you
can imagine, this is one of our most popular camps. - Our young
astronauts will have a blast as they: - Go through Astronaut
Boot Camp - Create Glow in the Dark Galaxies - Use balloon
rockets, Stomp Rockets and Water rockets and Straw Rockets. -
They will also experience teacher launched rockets. - They will
have fun as they learn about planets and galaxies. - Our excited
time travelers get to Travel back in time to the land of the
Dinosaurs in our "Imagine That!" Time machine! While there they
will: This camp fills up VERY fast! So sign up soon so YOUR
child can have this adventure of a lifetime! - Make Fossils -
Create and blast off a volcano that they can take home! - Pan
for Gold - Study dinosaurs - Create beautiful crystals Option S
2: Time and Space Adventures (Ages 6-8) - Please see our You
Tube Videos:Time and Space-Rocke |
0.202639 | -1.344159 | 48 | NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a new satellite dedicated to
mapping Earth's carbon dioxide levels, crashed into the ocean
near Antarctica just after launch Tuesday when a shroud designed
to protect the spacecraft accidentally doomed its mission. "Our
whole team at a very personal level is disappointed in the
events of this morning," John Brunschwyler, the Taurus project
manager for the Dulles, Va.-based rocket manufacturer Orbital
Sciences, said in a somber post-launch briefing. "It's very
hard." The 972-pound (441-kilogram) OCO spacecraft was NASA's
first satellite built exclusively to map carbon dioxide levels
on Earth and understand how humanity's contribution of the
greenhouse gas is affecting global climate change. The satellite
carried a single three-channel spectrometer to make its detailed
measurements and was slated to launch into a near-polar, sun-
synchronous orbit that would fly about 438 miles (705
kilometers) above Earth. Brunschwyler said the first sign of
trouble came about three minutes a |
1.38689 | 6.198386 | -1 | Cardboard - Corrugated - double What is it Corrugated cardboard
is made of two layers of fluted paper, covered with two outer
layers of flat paper. Corrugated finish is visible on the
surface. Because of the empty spaces between the flutes,
corrugated card is not suitable for small or detailed cuts, as
the material layers will split. Raster engraving is not
recommended. Packaging, various kinds of prototypes, eco-
friendly products. Adhesives, joints & fastenings Can be easily
glued with common adhesives and tapes such as paper glue or
double-sided tape. |
7.023224 | 4.83178 | -1 | Community Effort Can Decrease Teen Drinking and Smoking, Study
Finds A new study finds a program designed to assist communities
in preventing unhealthy behaviors in teens is effective in
reducing adolescent smoking and drinking. The study found tenth
graders in towns that used the program, called “Communities That
Care,” were less likely to try drinking or smoking, compared
with teens in communities not using the program. The program was
also effective in reducing delinquent behavior including
stealing, fights and vandalism, HealthDay reports. Communities
participating in the program had 4,400 fifth graders in seven
states complete surveys designed to identify factors that put
them at risk for health and behavior problems. A group of
community leaders, including parents, teachers and health
workers, looked at ways to address the problems. They chose from
a list of preventive interventions that have been shown to work,
such as tutoring, educational sessions for parents of at-risk
kids, and middle-school curric |
6.154234 | -1.805801 | 13 | Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. In entomology, a genus of
tropical longicorn beetles of large size, and usually of a
reddish-yellow color variegated with metallic green. About 30
species are known, nearly all from African and Australasian
faunas. Sorry, no example sentences found. ‘xystrocera’ hasn't
been added to any lists yet. Looking for tweets for xystrocera. |
1.74962 | 7.657982 | 31 | Discussion about math, puzzles, games and fun. Useful symbols: ÷
× ½ √ ∞ ≠ ≤ ≥ ≈ ⇒ ± ∈ Δ θ ∴ ∑ ∫ • π ƒ -¹ ² ³ ° You are not
logged in. Post a reply Topic review (newest first) no no no no
WCY.. not correct i have to say i'm proud that even i can help
out someone: x/(x-1) +3 = 1/(x-1) OK, let me have a go at Prob
3: x/(x-1) +3 = 1/(x-1) Yes, sorry I forgot to add the
parentheses. For x^2 you can also use x² - there are a few
useful little symbols at the top under "Math Is Fun Forum", and
I just drag my mouse across one then copy and paste it in.
Thanks Kyle. Here's the work I have so far on the others x
squared = x^2 Hey I'm a college algebra student who really
struggles with this subject. Any help I can get here will be
greatly appreciated. |
2.782496 | -0.936714 | 63 | Volume 8, Number 49: 7 December 2005 Climate alarmists have long
contended that the historical and still-ongoing rise in the
air's CO2 content - aided and abetted by the historical increase
in atmospheric methane concentration - will lead to dangerous
global warming that could rival temperature increases
experienced during prior glacial-to-interglacial transitions.
Now, new light has been shed on the subject by two reports that
provide CO2, methane and temperature data stretching a full
650,000 years back in time (Siegenthaler et al., 2005; Spahni et
al., 2005), based on measurements made on East Antarctica's Dome
Concordia ice core, which was originally extracted and cursorily
analyzed by Augustin et al. (2004). What are politically-correct
scientists saying about the new findings? Los Angeles Times
staff writer Usha McFarling (25 Nov 2005) reports they claim
"the work provides more evidence that human activity since the
Industrial Revolution has significantly altered the planet's
climate system." As an exam |
3.873236 | 8.731154 | -1 | Sign in to or out of Windows When you sign out of Windows, all
of the apps you were using are closed, but the PC isn't turned
off. Another person can sign in without needing to restart the
PC—but even if someone else turns off the PC, your info won't be
lost. You also don't necessarily have to sign out of Windows.
You can lock the PC instead, and other people can still sign in
to their accounts from the sign-in screen. Watch a video about
signing in and out. (To view captions in your language, tap or
click the Closed captioning "Sign in to" and "sign out of" mean
the same as "log on to" and "log out from," respectively. To
sign out of Windows Open Start by swiping in from the right edge
of the screen (or if you're using a mouse, pointing to the
upper-right corner of the screen and moving the mouse pointer
down), and then tapping or clicking Start. Tap or click your
account picture in the upper-right corner, and then choose Sign
out. To sign in to Windows Swipe up from the bottom edge of the
screen (or press a |
5.946345 | -1.94259 | -1 | January 30, 2012 No Battery Cages: Our Campaign Imagine living
the rest of your life in an elevator with six other people—being
prevented from even the most basic activities! This is the kind
of existence that a battery hen endures. Chickens raised for egg
production are referred to as laying hens. Currently, most of
the 26 million egg-laying hens in Canada will spend their lives
inside small wire cages known as 'battery cages'. These barren
enclosures are about the size of a filing cabinet drawer.
Multiple hens—each with a wingspan of approximately 80cm—are
crammed into a cage approximately 50 cm across. The lack of
space prevents the animals from performing many of the most
basic instinctive behaviors, like walking, laying their eggs in
nests, perching or scratching and stretching their wings—actions
that are necessary to their welfare. Stress and overcrowding
Battery barns in Canada hold thousands of cages, each confining
multiple birds, in tiers of two to eight cages high, with farms
averaging more than 1 |
9.740836 | 3.469351 | -1 | Hemorrhoids (Piles) FAQs Reviewed by Jay W. Marks, MD Take the
Hemorrhoids (Piles) Quiz First! Before reading this FAQ,
challenge yourself and Test your Knowledge! Q:Everyone has
hemorrhoids. True or False? A:True. Although most people think
hemorrhoids are abnormal, they are present in everyone. It is
only when the hemorrhoidal cushions (also known as hemorrhoids)
enlarge that hemorrhoids can cause problems and be considered
abnormal or a disease. Hemorrhoids are also referred to as
piles. Q:Men and women suffer from hemorrhoids at about the same
rate. True or False? A:True. Although hemorrhoids occur in
everyone, they become large and cause problems in only 4% of the
general population. Hemorrhoids that cause problems are found
equally in men and women, and their prevalence peaks between 45
and 65 years of age. Q:What are the symptoms of hemorrhoids?
A:Bright red blood in stool, toilet tissue, or in the toilet
bowl. Symptoms of hemorrhoids can include: - Anal itching - Anal
ache or pain, especially while si |
4.146012 | 1.817537 | 19 | Electricity is all around us. It lifts elevators, pumps gas,
lights rooms, cooks food, and even powers a growing fleet of
cars. We generally take the vast electric grid for granted until
it turns off. Only then do we realize how important it is.
Blackouts owing to technical foul-ups are bad enough, but new
hazards, some malicious and some from nature, threaten to create
electrical disturbances on an unprecedented scale. New
legislation, passed June 9 by the U.S. House of Representatives
and referred to the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources
committee, hopes to strengthen the grid’s robustness against
attacks of many kinds. The immediate aim of the Grid Reliability
and Infrastructure Defense Act is to direct the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, the main federal agency responsible for
electricity matters, to establish security rules for utilities
and other energy companies. The GRID Act amends the old power
law by recognizing several threats to the grid. One of these is
an attack that tampers with grid |
0.444523 | 2.828581 | 42 | The Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia’s largest art
museum, opened November 9, 1952, as the Huntington Galleries. By
1987, when the name was changed to the Huntington Museum of Art,
the museum’s art collection had grown to more than 15,000
objects. The museum is located on more than 50 acres on McCoy
Road in the Park Hills section of Huntington, with two nature
trails and a subtropical plant conservatory. With close to
70,000 square feet of space, it hosts traveling exhibitions and
has permanent galleries of British silver and portraits, antique
firearms, Near East objects, and an Ohio Valley glass collection
of more than 3,000 pieces. The museum’s Daywood Collection
features such artists as Childe Hassam and Andrew Wyeth and
contains fine examples of late 19th-century and early 20th-
century American and European artwork. The museum’s James D.
Francis Art Research Library houses more than 11,000 volumes,
and its Grace Rardin Doherty Auditorium seats close to 300. Five
art studios are housed in two separ |
2.645488 | 4.602873 | -1 | 1, the teaching objectives of this project: By recording the
day-to-day spending a week at home, drawing charts, on the one
hand, the students began to experience the collection, collation
and analysis of process data; on the other hand, try to allow
students to learn financial management, reasonable arrangements
for day-to-day expenses, the feelings of the practical
application of mathematics. 2, major activities include: First-
hand investigation, collation of comparison, the network of
discussion, the actual experience. 3, the main stage activities
include: (1) students in person a week to investigate the day-
to-day family expenses, and analyzed the situation of household
income and expenditure. (2) organize students to access the
information through the network to express their views, analysis
and comparison to enhance the awareness of students, encouraging
them with the local standard of living comparison. (3) in the
global financial crisis, how to carry out financial management
of family experience on th |
2.831459 | 8.070237 | 17 | XML and the Second-Generation Web; May 1999; Scientific American
Magazine; by Bosak, Bray; 5 Page(s) Give people a few hints, and
they can figure out the rest. They can look at this page, see
some large type followed by blocks of small type and know that
they are looking at the start of a magazine article. They can
look at a list of groceries and see shopping instructions. They
can look at some rows of numbers and understand the state of
their bank account. Computers, of course, are not that smart;
they need to be told exactly what things are, how they are
related and how to deal with them. Extensible Markup Language
(XML for short) is a new language designed to do just that, to
make information self-describing. This simple-sounding change in
how computers communicate has the potential to extend the
Internet beyond information delivery to many other kinds of
human activity. Indeed, since XML was completed in early 1998 by
the World Wide Web Consortium (usually called the W3C), the
standard has spread like wil |
0.484052 | 2.557108 | 42 | The Old Colony Building was designed and constructed between
1893 and 1894 by the architectural firm of Holabird and Roche.
As Chicago School architects, they sought to reveal the
character of the steel skeletal structure while cladding their
buildings with an appropriate surface. The 17-story steel frame
building is sheathed in Bedford limestone on the first three
floors and by gray brick and terra cotta above that. A two-story
colonnade runs along the 15th and 16th floors with a cornice
crowning the 17th floor. Oriel windows project from every corner
of the building from the third story to the cornice. The
design's unity derives from the repetition of Chicago windows
along the second floor and in the center bay of the north
facade. Variety is found in the contrast between the horizontal
stress of the narrow north facade and the distinct vertical
thrust of the long east and west facades. The facade of the Old
Colony Building has remained intact, although major alterations
to the interior have occurred on the |
5.471133 | -1.793206 | 3 | Facts about this animal The Arctic fox is a small fox (ca. 3–5
kg) native to cold Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It
has reduced limb size, a short snout, short and rounded ears,
and a dense winter coat. The soles of its feet are covered
entirely with dense hair. The tail is bushy and accounts for
one-third of the total head and body length (53-55 cm, tail
length: 30-31 cm). Females are only slightly smaller than males.
The Arctic fox is the only fox occupying Arctic habitats and the
only Canid to change colour during winter. Two colour morphs are
known: the white and the blue colour morph. During the winter
the white morph is white with black at the tip of its tail; it's
a grayish brown in the summer. The blue morph is a dark blue
during the winter; in the summer it is brown. Arctic foxes are
opportunistic feeders, eating nearly everything they can find or
catch. They eat lemmings, rodents, birds, fish, marine mammals
and carrion. Sometimes Arctic foxes will follow polar bears and
feed on the left |
0.864524 | 1.790776 | 12 | - Historic Sites Cities Of The Middle Border Some became great,
others stayed as they were-- and their story tells of the rise
of the Midwest December 1956 | Volume 8, Issue 1 The decline of
river traffic, which hurt Galena badly, affected Dubuque not at
all. Railroads, fanning out beyond the Mississippi, needed ties
and telegraph poles. Huge rafts of logs floated down from
Wisconsin and Minnesota, and Dubuque’s sawmills did the rest.
Thus the Iowa city found new industries to sustain its growth
while Galena wilted for the lack of anything to replace its lead
mines. But Dubuque differed from Galena only in degree. As other
cities grew along the Mississippi and in the interior of
Iowa—Davenport, Burlington, Waterloo, Des Moines—Dubuque’s
importance as a trading center declined. And finally the lumber
trade played out. A residue of furniture factories and a still
sizeable commercial area kept the city from losing population.
It has, in fact, grown, but far less rapidly than the United
States as a whole, and les |
5.923691 | 5.710098 | 110 | Anxiety - You want to live a healthy and happy? Get rid of
feelings of anxiety. Continually haunted by anxiety can cause
mental disorders effect emotional equivalent of post-traumatic
stress disorder. Posttraumatic stress disorder (post-traumatic
stress disorder / PTSD) is a mental disorder that appears after
a person experiences a traumatic experience in life. PTSD is
characterized by fear and anxiety continues. PTSD symptoms
usually appear shortly after a traumatic event. People with PTSD
are always overshadowed by the possibility of a repeat of events
that threaten their safety so they often have nightmares, feel
abandoned, angry, embarrassed too. Researchers from Michigan
State University found in people who have high levels of
neurotic, personality type which is characterized by excessive
anxiety and fear, has the risk of PTSD in the future. The study
was conducted on 1000 people who monitored his health for a
decade. The participants were asked to answer questions about a
neurotic level at the beginning |
2.473987 | 5.167021 | 43 | Teaching math in the morning, when students are more attentive
and energetic, instead of in the afternoon, when they can become
tired, could improve learning. That’s only one of the
interesting findings in an interesting study by Ontario’s
Education Quality and Accountability Office. EQAO, which
administers the province’s standardized tests for elementary and
high school students, divided test results from 2008-2009 and
2009-2010 into two groups, high-achieving schools and low-
achieving schools. Schools where 75 per cent or more of students
achieved the provincial standard were defined as high-achieving.
Those where fewer than half of students achieved the standard
were defined as low-achieving. Then researchers studied
differences in attitude, behaviour and practices among
principals, teachers and students to try to explain, at least in
part, the gap between the two groups. It’s part of a larger,
more comprehensive study to better understand what contributes
to higher achievement. What’s interesting is that |
2.732609 | 3.802096 | 68 | Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two
years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of
the distress of industrial corporations. Altman Z-Score is
calculated with this formula: Z = 1.2X1 + 1.4X2 + 3.3X3 + 0.6X4
+ 1.0X5 X1 = working capital/total assets, X2 = retained
earnings/total assets, X3 = earnings before interest and
taxes/total assets, X4 = market value equity/book value of total
liabilities, X5 = sales/total assets. The zones of
discrimination were as such: Distress Zones - 1.81< Grey Zones<
2.99 - Safe Zones Study by Altman found that companies that are
in Distress Zone have more than 80% of chances of bankruptcy in
two years. X1: The working capital/Total Assets ratio is a
measure of the net liquid assets of the firm relative to the
total capitalization. Working capital is defined as the
difference between current assets and current liabilities. X2:
Retained Earnings : the RE/TA ratio measures the leverage of a
firm. Those firms with high RE, relative to TA, have |
5.065566 | -2.968646 | 189 | First Aid Treatment for a Respiratory Infection If you suspect
that your snake has a respiratory infection, the first thing to
do is to raise the temperature of the environment slightly. This
will induce an immediate immune response in the snake and will
help start to fight the infection. If the snake usually is
housed in a busy part of the house, move it to somewhere quieter
and if it usually lives with others, isolate it in its own
environment. Give it plenty of warm, dry bedding and monitor it
carefully. A good rule of thumb is to treat a snake with a
respiratory infection as you would treat yourself; make it warm,
quiet and comfortable. When to call in the Vet to a Respiratory
Infection in a Snake Given the treatment outlined, most snakes
will start to show an improvement quite quickly. If it doesn’t,
then a specialist vet should be consulted and the snake will
need antibiotics. The vet will probably take swabs to make sure
what bacteria are causing the infection. While these grow in the
laboratory, the v |
2.035066 | 5.346128 | -1 | The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and
Teaching By Stephen D. Brookfield Department of Language,
Literacy and Culture College of Education California State
University, San Bernardino How we think is…a matter of life and
death. Historian, Playwright, and Social Activist The quotation
above aptly captures the essence of The Power of Critical
Theory: Librating Adult Learning and Teaching by distinguished
professor Stephen Brookfield. Thinking and acting critically
within the context of adult or higher education is the major
premise of this book. As stated in the preface, a major
motivation for his book is to make explicit the connection
between theory and practice, while putting “critical back into
critical thinking.” To Brookfield, thinking critically extends
beyond cognitive or intellectual exercises, examining
assumptions or considering different perspectives. Criticality
involves seeing the world with a political lens, developing or
enhancing one’s social awareness, sense of morality and |
0.133939 | 0.548568 | -1 | September 27, 2011 After the first successful powered flight by
the Wright Brothers in 1903, it seemed like only a matter of
time before everyone would be zipping around in their own
personal aircraft. But if commuting to work via personal
aeroplane was the future, how might the design of cities have to
change to accommodate them? The most pressing issue was, of
course, runways. But everyone knows that the metropolis of
tomorrow has its eyes fixed skyward. So, where in a cramped and
ever more vertical city like New York or Chicago might commuters
be able to take off and land? On the tops of buildings, of
course. The June 1919 issue of Popular Science Monthly magazine
envisioned the city of the future with circular tracks for
taking off and landing. An article by Carl Dienstbach laid out
the possible pitfalls of trying to move aircraft through
American cities. “Clearly, city streets, flanked by high cliffs
of architecture, lend themselves about as well for airplane
landing and starting as they do for ice-boati |
-0.417781 | 2.330369 | -1 | Saxon "offa" means "open", while "uffern" is oven, inferno,
volcano. (The village is referred to in the Domesday Book as
Uffintone. [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names,"
Oxford University Press, 1991]). Dragon Hill and the horned
beast seem to be linked with such expressions. The WH Hill
itself is shaped like a vent with the animals seeming to leap
upwards on the summit. Is it possible that the Otherworld lay at
the foot of the hill and there were funerals held in the top
enclosure? There are no objects found there to indicate a
military use of the site, but it lies on the border of 2 Celtic
lands, perhaps suggesting the remote location of the Otherworld
and passage there at death. Maybe the chalk beast is the
daughter of the volcano-living Echidna dragon, the goat-horned
lion known as Beaufort Yale, who was the Chimera connected with
a volcanic vent south of Celtic Galatia in Asia Minor...that's a
long story.... |
0.366307 | 4.836196 | -1 | Personal life has prevented me from chiming in on Pearson’s
pineapple passage debacle, otherwise known as Pineapplegate, up
until now. As I read the questions associated with the passage,
I was horrified that the likes of Andrew Rotherham actually
defended this pile of garbage. Horrified but not surprised, of
course. Diane Ravitch is right: the questions on this passage
are tantamount to child abuse. The passage itself is not bad. It
is a play on Aesop’s The Tortoise and the Hare fable, a cute
variation that ventures into the nonsensical. The passage’s
author, Daniel Pinkwater, has said as much and has let it be
known that he was not happy with multiple choice questions that
tried to make sense out of nonsense. The students had to answer
6 questions about the passage. Only the first one made any
sense. Questions 7 through 11, however, were just cruel and
unusual punishment for eighth graders. All of them, every single
one, were subjective. They are a great snapshot of the
underlying problems with testing in g |
6.245894 | -1.623574 | -1 | Undoubtedly the most familiar carnivorous plant is the Venus
flytrap, Dionaea muscipula . Although the majority of its prey
in the wilds of the south east USA are flies, it will consume
anything that is alive and fits in the trap. Drosera whittakeri
is a sundew from Australia that over-summers in an tuber
underground. It can get quite slimy. Drosera madagascariensis is
a sundew found in Africa. Like most sundews it is a small plant
and not one you can grow in your garden unless your garden is a
sphagnum bog or fen. Flowers or leaves? Good question. These are
the traps of Sarracenia leucophylla. Many a moth thought these
were flowers too and ended up as dinner. All carnivorous plant
traps are constructed from leaves. Aldrovanda vesiculosa is an
aquatic carnivore very closely related to the Venus flytrap. The
traps of this plant are full of planktonic crustaceans. The
Mexican Pinguicula gigantea makes a great window sill plant. It
is slimy to the touch but won't hurt you. Gnats might think
otherwise. Cephalotus |
7.267628 | 4.04032 | 132 | Did you know that the more muscle mass you have the higher your
metabolic rate is at rest? With strength training it is possible
to increase your metabolic rate by 15%. That means you will burn
more calories while sleeping! According to the CDC and Tufts
University, exercises have been shown to increase the strength
of your muscles, maintain the integrity of your bones, and
improve your balance, coordination, and mobility. In addition,
strength training can help reduce the signs and symptoms of many
chronic diseases, including arthritis. Here are some interesting
facts to get you motivated today: - Did you know that with
reduction in muscle from lack of use, bone reduces too? Strength
training can and will help maintain or improve your bone
density. - Did you know that muscle is more dense than fat? 5
pounds of fat is more than 3 times the size of 5 pounds of
muscle. You may weigh the same, but you will definitely lose
inches, fitting into your skinny jeans! -Did you know that
exercise can help improve your m |
0.67853 | -1.526077 | -1 | This stereo image illustrates the topography of the Tvashtar
Catena region on Jupiter's moon Io. It was created by combining
two different views of Tvashtar taken by NASA's Galileo
spacecraft on November 25,1999 (shown in red) and February 22,
2000 (shown in blue). A raised plateau surrounds the volcanic
depression, or caldera, in the center of the image. To the
northeast of the main caldera, the plateau's inner and outer
margins are scalloped, which may indicate that a process called
sapping is eroding them. Sapping occurs when fluid escapes from
the base of a cliff, causing the material above it to collapse.
Smaller calderas have formed in the floor of the main caldera.
This nesting of calderas is also observed on Earth, at Kilauea
in Hawaii. (The two bright red regions toward the upper left of
this image, which are roughly triangular in shape, are the areas
where the earlier image was overexposed by the brightness of hot
lava fountains). Galileo scientists are in the process of
generating topographic maps |
5.591467 | 1.643173 | -1 | Chances are your home has at least a small amount of radioactive
gas seeping in through the cracks in the foundation, the
plumbing or even the drains. The radioactive gas is called
radon, one of the byproducts of uranium. In small amounts, it's
not harmful, but in larger amounts, it can lead to a number of
health problems. According to the Surgeon General, radon is the
second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. Radon
is a radioactive gas produced when uranium in soil decays; it
can be found all over the United States, but it's much more
common in the southeast. Radon gas moves up through the ground
into your home through cracks and holes in the foundation,
becoming trapped inside your enclosed home. The winter months
can be a good time to test for radon because the homes are
tightly sealed for the colder winter weather. George Fardell
with Radon Safe in Roanoke, Virginia says it's something every
homeowner should take seriously. "Everybody knows someone that
died of lung cancer and didn't smoke |
-1.456716 | 2.738194 | -1 | Photo Credit: The Steinfeldt Photography Collection of the
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. From “Jews in
Minnesota,” by Hyman Berman and Linda Mack Schlof: “The wedding
of Clarice Sherman and Mel Zuckman at Tifereth B’nai Jacob in
North Minneapolis, 1951. “At a Jewish wedding, the bride and
groom stand under a chupah or wedding canopy symbolizing their
future home. “As long as Jews remained in the compact
geographical areas where they were a dominant majority, they
continued to attend Orthodox synagogues while moving away from
the strict requirements as individuals. American secular life
increasingly challenged the rigid traditionalism of Orthodox
Judaism.” About the Author: You might also be interested in: You
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0.514256 | 4.780861 | -1 | The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories By Christopher Booker
From The Epic of Gilgemesh to Jaws and Schindler's List,
Christopher Booker examines in detail the stories that underlie
literature and the plots that are basic to story telling through
the ages. He examines the plots of films, opera libretti, folk
tales, myths and the contemporary novel and short story.
Underlying the stories he examines are Seven Basic Plots: rags
to riches; the quest; voyage and return; the hero as monster;
rebirth and so on. Booker shows that the images and stories
serve a far deeper and more significant purpose in our lives
than we have realised. In the definition of these basic plots,
Booker shows us we are entering a realm in which the recognition
of the plots proves only to be the gateway. We are in fact
uncovering a kind of hidden universal language: a nucleus of
situations and figures which are the very stuff from which
stories are made. |
8.863136 | 6.366914 | 145 | People who suffer from frequent migraines are stigmatised in
much the same way as people with epilepsy are, new research
suggests. "This study is providing evidence for what we all sort
of knew was the case," said Dr. Noah Rosen, director of the
Headache Center at the Cushing Neuroscience Institute at North
Shore-LIJ Health System, in Manhasset, NY. He was not involved
in the research. Condition stigmatised too Not only are migraine
patients stigmatised, but so is the condition itself in terms of
getting research money, Rosen noted. "It's not getting the
recognition it really should, given the prevalence and
disability associated with it," he said. Migraine pain and
symptoms affect 29.5 million Americans, according to the US
Department of Health and Human Services. Rosen believes that
because migraine - which causes a combination of severe
headache, nausea, light sensitivity and other factors - affects
patients' work and social lives, the people around them
stigmatise them as unreliable. "Migraine is a diseas |
2.880512 | 8.463872 | 17 | Access to our client Portal. Access to our Customer Portal. What
is Microsoft LINQ all about?LINQ is the short form for Language
Integrated Query. In other words, LINQ is an integral part of
the Visual Basic programming language that allows the programmer
to perform queries and do other operations on the data sources.
One of the many types of these data sources is the XML code. The
user defined tags of the XML code are used as fields of
database. For example, if a user enters a movie title, then a
query is performed and it is formatted into LINQ. This formatted
query then seeks the movie by matching the given title and
returns the name of the actors from the matching movie
title.LINQ is an important component of the Microsoft .NET
framework. This adds querying capacities to the various .NET
programming languages. Microsoft LINQ has a set of method
definitions and names. These are known as the Standard Sequence
Operators or Standard Query Operators. Besides, LINQ also
maintains a set of translation rules which |
4.790731 | 4.141174 | -1 | Related topics: Shapes, Patterns criss‧cross1 , criss-cross 1CF
[intransitive and transitive] to make a pattern of straight
lines that cross each other: Railway lines crisscross the
countryside. to travel many times from one side of an area to
another: They spent the next two years crisscrossing the country
by bus. |
-1.234802 | 4.052779 | 106 | A Piping Odysseus in Ptolemy the Quail Timothy Power, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick A strange bird indeed Even in the odd
company of Imperial mythographers, paradoxographers,
antiquarians, and literary revisionists, Ptolemy the Quail
(Ptolemaios Chennos), an Alexandrian writing around the turn of
the first into the second century CE, qualifies as a fringe
figure. While the Quail was certainly not the only author of his
time (or earlier) to walk the weirder byways of myth,
literature, and history, no one else makes such incredible
claims about what he discovers there. The contents of Ptolemy’s
New History ) are summarized in the Bibliotheca of the ninth-
century CE patriarch Photius. This summary, though greatly
condensed, indicates that the work was a collection of
curiosities akin to others of its age, only more consistently
bizarre: astonishing tales of birth, death, and love alongside
fragments of secret histories and forgotten poems, eccentric
onomastic lore, biographical trivia about the most minor |
4.149485 | -0.61333 | -1 | I would like to commend writer Laura Brown on her article “Trout
in the Classroom.” It is important to introduce our young
children/adults to the importance of ecology. Clean rivers
(Yuba, etc.) are necessary for the health of our streams,
ourselves, and our fish. The local schools, with their teacher
volunteers, nurture the growth of fish eggs to ‘live fish’ in
aquariums. The teachers explain to their interested and absorbed
students the fish life cycle and “their” part in the survival of
fish and stream health. Starting at an early age, learning to
play a part in our ecosystem’s survival are important components
of life! I know this article raised awareness of how fragile our
system is and we need to be proactive to insure that we can be
an active part of its revival. |
2.994676 | 8.525331 | 17 | CGI Programming on the World Wide WebBy Shishir Gundavaram 1st
Edition March 1996 This book is out of print, but it has been
made available online through the O'Reilly Open Books Project.
It really depends on what you are trying to do. The CGI modules
should generally be used for heavy-duty CGI scripts. For simple
scripts, it is far easier and quicker to roll your own or use
CGI Lite (current version is v1.62 http://bytor.engr.wisc.edu/pu
b/perl/cpan/authors/id/SHGUN/CGI_Lite-1.62.pm.gz). If you really
want, you can even use the Perl 4 cgi-lib.pl library
(http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/web/form.html). Most modules have
manpages embedded within the module itself. If that is the case,
you can use the pod2man script to view the manpage: % pod2man
module.pm | nroff -man | more The most widely used CGI library
for Perl 4 is cgi-lib.pl written by Steven Benner
(http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/web/form.html). It is very, very
simple to use! - CGI::* Modules These modules allow you to
create and decode forms as well as maintain st |
3.123461 | 6.438345 | -1 | Code Literacy: A 21st-Century RequirementNovember 13, 2012 |
Douglas Rushkoff Ask kids what Facebook is for, and they'll tell
you it's there to help them make friends. And, on the surface
anyway, that's what it looks like. Of course, anyone who has
poked a bit deeper or thought a bit longer about it understands
that people programming Facebook aren't sitting around wondering
how to foster more enduring relationships for little Johnny,
Janey and their friends, but rather how to monetize their social
graphs -- the trail of data the site is busy accumulating about
Johnny and Janey every second of the day and night. After all,
our kids aren't Facebook's customers; they're the product. The
real customers are the advertisers and market researchers paying
for their attention and user data. But it's difficult for them
or us to see any of this and respond appropriately if we don’t
know anything about the digital environment in which all this is
taking place. That’s why -- as an educator, media theorist and
parent -- I |
6.619757 | 5.50869 | -1 | "When does research into a preventive treatment become
unethical? In many areas of medicine this is a familiar
question; the ethics around immunizations is solidly grounded in
such thought. However, in psychiatry, wholly preventive
psychopharmacologic treatments have been unusual.Unfortunately,
such research is fraught with ethical dangers. In a recent study
by McGlashan et al., “Randomized, Double-Blind Trial of
Olanzapine Versus Placebo in Patients Prodromally Symptomatic
for Psychosis,” it seems psychiatry may have crossed into
ethically questionable territory..." "In McGlashan's study, the
14 authors cooperated under a Merck and NIMH grant and conducted
their research in four clinical sites in the United States and
Canada. The study examined whether olanzapine (Zyprexa) could be
used in patients that appeared to be “prodromal” for
schizophrenia to prevent or delay the onset of the disease. Just
as some people feel tired or irritable a day or two before
getting a cold, the psychosis that is the hallmark of |
6.0746 | 5.358085 | -1 | CARING FOR YOUNG MINDS IN IRELAND Sinead McGilloway, Michael
Donnelly Ireland Psychology Medical Journal, 2000, pages 114-116
"Society...has a choice whether or not to acknowledge the
importance of the mental health of its children [and young
people] and invest in it appropriately or not...if we are to
change things, action is needed now." Recent years have seen an
upsurge of interest among policymakers, researchers and
practitioners -throughout the UK and elsewhere - in the growing
number of young people aged under 25 who are developing mental
health problems. The research evidence indicates that
approximately one in five children and adolescents have mental
ill health, a figure all the more disturbing in view of further
evidence suggesting that the majority rarely reach special
services. Recently, the Mental Health Foundation reported that
approximately two million young people under 20 in the UK have a
mental health problem, the range and severity of which tends to
increase dramatically with age. The kinds |
5.624665 | -2.250057 | 3 | When I first saw Forgotten Songs by Michael Thomas Hill, I was
struck by the beauty of the image. Watching all those empty
bird-cages hanging over the street I automatically start hearing
the sound of birds in my head, even though it isn’t there. The
image is so strong, the installation doesn’t need sound. I was
slightly disappointed when I found out the artist doesn’t leave
it up to our imagination - it actually does make sound. There is
a message though: the fifty birds that can be heard in this
installation in Sidney, used to live there. But habitat loss is
credited as the biggest threat to bird survival. The birds that
can be heard in Forgotten Songs were forced out of the city by
European settlers. At night, the sounds change to those of
nocturnal birds. Via My Modern Met |
4.431542 | 8.262097 | -1 | Giving donations to charities is a great thing to do. There are
many charitable organizations that make our world a better
place. Unfortunately, wherever people are willing to give, there
are unethical people willing to take advantage of them. Some of
these charities are just inefficient and spend the majority of
their money on overhead, fund-raising, and salaries, and other
charities are just plain scams designed to steal your identity.
How to Avoid Charity Scams: Investigate the charity if you are
unfamiliar with it. If you have never heard of the charity, ask
for some literature. A legitimate charity will be more than
happy to share information about their cause with you. If the
charity’s representatives do everything they can to avoid giving
you literature, change the subject, or give you an
unsatisfactory response, consider donating elsewhere. Be wary of
phone calls soliciting donations. A common method for scamming
people is phone call solicitations. While many phone calls may
originate from legitimate |
8.014236 | 1.991712 | -1 | Spinach, kale, collard greens, and other deep-colored vegetables
contain lutein and zeaxanthin, two carotenoids that “have been
associated with reducing the risk of developing cataracts and
macular degeneration,” says Emily Bedrick Graubart, an assistant
professor of ophthalmology at the Emory Eye Center and the Emory
University School of Medicine, in Atlanta. Try to eat two
servings a day―for example, a handful of spinach in your salad
at lunch and a side of broccoli at dinner. |
2.426591 | -1.115105 | 63 | February 12, 2003 The word California invokes many images: miles
of sunny beaches, streets lined with swaying palm trees,
mountains that touch the great blue sky and cold nights filled
with thick, dense fog. What was that? Cold? Fog? Since the
"beachgoer's dream" summers that preceded 1998, California has
experienced consistently cooler and foggier summers than usual -
not exactly grade-A performance for the coast that's supposed to
have the most. The question many sun worshipers may be asking
is, "Why?" "History seems to be repeating itself every 50
years," said Dr. William Patzert, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The weather switches
from warmer temperatures, wetter winters and less fog to cooler
temperatures, drier winters and more fog, and back and forth."
Patzert and colleagues Dr. Steve LaDochy and Jeff Brown from
California State University, Los Angeles, studied the factors
responsible for variable coastal temperatures and fog
frequencies along the southern Cal |
1.132135 | 3.195417 | -1 | In the city of Philadelphia, 223 years ago in 1787, the
Constitutional Convention adopted the Constitution of the United
States of America, the supreme law of the land. Wikipedia
describes it as “the framework for the organization of the
United States government and for the relationship of the federal
government with the states, citizens, and all people within the
United States.” The Preamble to the Constitution set out the
goals and purposes of the fledgling government: We the People of
the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America. After signing, the Constitution was ratified by each
U.S. state in the name of “The People”, and the government began
operations on March 4, 1791, as set forth in the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights (i.e., the first |
7.137699 | 6.489509 | 8 | Nowadays, Americans average less than the recommended 8 hours of
sleep per night. A nightcap, or drink taken before bed, is
thought by many to help with sleep. However, alcohol actually
interferes negatively with sleep as your body processes it.
Throw an energy drink mixer in and it is chemically worse news
for your rest. "Just as with caffeine, your brain proves
remarkably adept at adapting itself and responding to the
ethanol molecules jamming up its receptors and interfering with
neuron firings. It takes a bit for the brain to catch up,
though." (Braun's Buzz via Lifehacker) The brain's receptors and
pathways try to reclaim equilibrium, which can wreak havoc on
general resting and on crucial REM sleep. REM stands for rapid
eye movement - it is the stage of sleep during which the brain
gets its most critical rest and rejuvenation. If you've had
caffeine, too, this adds to the situation. Caffeine is a drug
that can take up to 5 hours to break down half a dose. Throw
caffeine into the mix (as many fans of vod |
1.49358 | 0.508912 | -1 | a trip to Middle Earth no, not Tolkien's land of hobbits and
elves, although the sites may not look too different from that
fantasy world. Middle Earth is one area of the California Cavern
in Calaveras County, Calif. And yes, that is the Calaveras
County made famous by Mark Twain's jumping frogs. The cavern has
also hosted such notable visitors as Bret Harte and John Muir.
California Cavern is imbedded in limestone beds beneath the
Sierra Nevada foothills. Ten million years ago, hot brine pools
formed, dissolving much of the limestone and leaving giant
caverns, says Steve Fairchild, president and founder of
Underground Adventures, which maintains the cavern and offers
tours there. The limestone was then metamorphosed into marble
with the emplacement of the immense Sierra Nevada batholith
nearby. Speleothems began growing shortly after the caverns were
formed, according to dating from stalactite and stalagmite
growth rings. Moaning Cavern's spectacular speleothems are
other-worldly. Photo courtesy of Undergrou |
7.072594 | 3.26999 | -1 | Resources for living well 1-10 of 10 results - View All These
programs aim to assist parents in helping children manage their
weight and live healthy lifestyles with specific activities and
milestones. En español The Behavioral Diabetes Institute is an
organization dedicated to helping people with diabetes live
long, healthy, and happy lives. This website provides an array
of evidence-based clinical programs, all designed to help people
overcome the emotional and behavioral obstacles to living well
with diabetes. Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI) This program
is designed to help parents and caregivers of adolescents ages 9
to 13 improve family eating and activity habits. The program
toolkit focuses on parents as role models and provides them with
hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to
prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. En español
Office on Women's Health (OWH) This toolkit includes articles,
videos, and other materials to help you attain greater emotional
health and bala |
2.125171 | 1.933519 | -1 | Free Trade Agreement Ignores Colombian History of Violence
Against Trade Unions On May 15, the United States and its
traditionally close ally Colombia took further measures to
promote free trade in the region. The negotiations that took
place in 2006 under the Bush Administration are finally being
implemented, after more than five years of being held up in
congress. The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is designed to
lower tariffs, increase competition, and bolster trade mobility
in both regions. BBC reports that “the pact means a wide variety
of goods, including machinery, raw materials and agricultural
products, can be traded without import tariffs needing to be
paid.” The United States International Trade Commission in its
report, U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement: Potential
Economy-wide and Selected Sectoral Effects, touts the benefits
of the new agreement, announcing “U.S. exports to Colombia may
be higher by approximately $1.1 billion, U.S. imports from
Colombia may be higher by $487 million, a |
8.378258 | 2.363494 | 71 | studies raised hopes that vitamin E supplements could help
prevent various forms of as well as However, observational
studies are notoriously unreliable for determining the
effectiveness of treatments. Only trials can do that (for
information why, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind
Studies? ), and such studies have, on balance, found vitamin E
ineffective for preventing heart disease or any common form of
cancer other than, possibly, prostate cancer. . In fact, use of
high-dose vitamin E for a long period might slightly Other
potential uses of vitamin E have limited supporting evidence.
Intriguing but far from definitive studies suggest that vitamin
E might control symptoms of restless legs syndrome deep venous
thrombosis (DVTs) reduce symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
and decrease symptoms of Vitamin E, combined with , has also
been studied as a way to alleviate premenstrual But, more
research needs to be done in this area. While there is weak
evidence that vitamin E supplements can reduce |
4.890008 | -1.379994 | -1 | Nature Kenya—the East Africa Natural History Society (EANHS)—is
Africa’s oldest environmental Society. It was established in
1909 to promote the study and conservation of nature in eastern
Africa. Nature Kenya implements these aims through the mission
“connecting nature and people to take action for biodiversity
conservation. Nature Kenya strives to: The first members of the
East Africa Natural History Society collected and identified
specimens. They founded a museum to house the collections and
educate the public. This museum was later transferred to the
government of Kenya, eventually becoming the famous National
Museums of Kenya. In 1910, the members of the East Africa
Natural History Society also founded a scientific journal. This
journal is still published today, in collaboration with the
National Museums of Kenya, as the Journal of East African
Natural History. It is available both in print and online.
Nature Kenya members today continue their active interest in
natural history by joining working groups |
3.123644 | 1.20919 | -1 | CSD-16/17 ThemesAfrica is one of the themes of the third
implementation cycle of the Commission on Sustainable
Development; CSD-17 and CSD-16; which also examines agriculture,
rural development, land, drought and desertification. These
other themes are of particular relevance to Africa, where most
economies continue to heavily rural-based and agriculture-
dependent, and where poverty eradication will depend on boosting
the productivity of the agricultural and rural economy.
Background InformationSince the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development in Rio (1992), sustainable
development has remained elusive for many African countries.
Poverty is still a major challenge, as 41% of the Sub-Sahara
African population (or roughly 300 million people) were living
on one dollar a day or less in 2004. Most countries on the
continent have not managed to reap fully the benefits of
globalization. Besides, multiple armed conflicts, insufficient
access to education and widespread pandemics, such as HIV and
mala |
3.839215 | -0.091664 | -1 | Protecting Public Health and the Environment. Ground water is a
key resource supporting many aspects of Idaho's way of life. It
replenishes our streams and rivers and provides fresh water for
irrigation, industry, and communities. In addition, ground water
supplies 95% of the state's drinking water. As Idaho's
population grows, so does the need for clean, usable ground
water. DEQ is responsible for protecting the quality of ground
water in Idaho and relies on a combination of programs to
protect ground water from pollution, clean up degraded ground
water, and monitor and assess ground water quality. DEQ's ground
water policy is to maintain and protect the existing high
quality of Idaho's ground water and restore degraded ground
water where feasible to support ground water beneficial uses.
DEQ partners with the Idaho State Department of Agriculture
(ISDA), Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR), and many
other state, local, and private agencies, organizations,
businesses, and individuals to achieve this go |
3.912725 | 1.760526 | 19 | Cars are significantly more fuel efficient than they were 30
years ago, and they’re far less dangerous. In 1980, average fuel
efficiency of new cars was 24.3 miles per gallon. In 2011,
efficiency was up to 33.8 mpg – exceeding government standards.
By 2025, standards will require cars to run at 54.5 mpg. As for
safety, fatality figures are way down. 51,091 people were killed
in motor vehicle crashes back in 1980. That number was down to
32,885 in 2010 – despite the fact that drivers logged many more
miles on the road that year. |
5.782202 | -2.195038 | 174 | DOVER, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire's turkey population could be
near its highest levels, thanks in part to last year's mild
winter. Fish and Game biologist Ted Walski told Foster's Daily
Democrat Thursday that wildlife surveys suggest 40,000 turkeys
are roaming the state. Large numbers are concentrated in
southeastern New Hampshire. A mild winter and early spring
helped to boost turkey breeding and nesting. Once native to the
state, turkeys had been absent for more than a century when
Walski helped reintroduce the birds to the area. The last wild
turkey sighting was in 1854 in Weare. New Hampshire traded
fisher cats to West Virginia for 31 turkeys more than 40 years
ago, but the experiment flopped. A second group of 25 turkeys
from New York released a few years later flourished. Copyright
2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. PO
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(September 2009)| |Type of site||National government portal|
|Available language(s)||English, Hindi| |Launched||November 10,
2005| India.gov.in is the Indian government’s web portal for
citizens. It presents information resources and online services
from government sources, accessible from a single point. It is
also known as the National Portal of India. This is the official
portal of the Indian Government, designed, developed and hosted
by National Informatics Centre (NIC), an S&T Organisation of the
government of India under the aegis of the Department of
Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of
Communications & Information Technology. The portal has been
developed as a Mission Mode Project under the National
E-Governance Plan of the government. The objective is to provide
a single window access to the information and services such as
passport, driving licenses, company registration etc. being
provided by the Indian government for the ci |
-0.749142 | 1.899188 | -1 | |How is the anarchy of the international system considered seen
in a positive light by Realists?||Realism seems pessimistic,
however, in a positive light, realists consider that states can
prevent wars by reducing the danger they pose to each other.
"Clear-sighted states can mitigate the causes of war by finding
ways to reduce the danger they pose to each other"| |What does
Realism get right about the post 9/11 world?||Realism was able
to explain correctly the situation of the post-9/11 world.
Indeed, according to realists the military response of the U.S.
to terrorist attacks is understandable. "When a state grows
vastly more powerful than any opponent, realists expect that it
will eventually use that power to expand its sphere of
domination, whether for security, wealth, or other motives."|
|What challenges does the post 9-11 world present to Realism?
How does Realism attempt to address these challenges?||Challenge
1: The importance of non-state actors| Difficulties to explain
why the U.S. declared a war ag |
-0.203942 | 6.621194 | 24 | A-Minor Chord Variation for Guitar Working with some of my
guitar students in Concord and Walnut Creek CA recently, I took
the time to show them some A-minor chord variations for guitar.
One of the first chords you typically learn when taking guitar
lessons is the open A-minor chord. To add some enhancement and
color to songs using the A-minor chord, try the following: On
your first down strum (Beat 1 of 4 beats per measure) remove
your left hand 3rd finger. Now string 3 has no finger. This
changes chord name to A-minor 7th. Cool sound but now brace
yourself. For second down strum on your guitar slide your left
hand Am7 (A minor 7th) formation up two frets known as a whole
step. This creates a lush and very rich but dissonant sound
known as a Bm7/A. When you see a slash after chord name, the
letter name to the right of slash indicates the bass note thus
the open 5th string is known as the “A”. Then on final strums on
beats 3 and 4 of this simple one measure pattern you must do
following: Put your left hand 2n |
3.982794 | -1.082597 | -1 | Belmont Creek, a second-order stream, originates on the Lolo
National Forest with base flows of approximately 13 cfs. Belmont
Creek flows 11 miles southeast through a checkerboard ownership
pattern of public and private lands before entering the
Blackfoot River at river mile 21.9. Two undersize culverts were
placed in Belmont Creek in the 1960's that blocked fish
migrations in most stream flow conditions. Concentrations of
bull trout were documented at the culverts for over 20 years
indicating a passage problem. In order to prioritize restoration
resources, we developed a fisheries-based restoration priority
scorecard, based on biological, social and financial
considerations, for 83 impaired tributaries of the Blackfoot
River. Belmont Creek ranked 7 of 83 streams surveyed. The large
amount of fill placed over the culverts and the difficulty with
the site for bridging prolonged a solution to the problem. In
1994, a site about 1/4 mile above the culvert crossing was used
to construct a bridge and facilitate rem |
1.997183 | 7.555067 | -1 | In Algebra, we often use the rectangular coordinate system to
graph lines, parabolas and other formulas. Important terms to be
familiar with include the y-axis, the x-axis, y-coordinates,
x-coordinates and points.The rectangular coordinate system can
also be called the coordinate system or the x-y axis. The
rectangular coordinate system is a general way that we graph a
lot of information. You hear it call called the rectangular
coordinate system; you'll hear it called the coordinate system
sometimes you call the xy axis. There's different ways of
phrasing it all of which are always going to be referring to
this sort standard grid that you probably seen before, so the
few things that we need to talk about this are there's an x axis
and a y axis. The x axis is the one on a horizontal the y axis
is the one that goes up and down. Okay how we refer to specific
points is, is an x coordinate and a y coordinate okay? So if I
say the point 3, -2 what that means is we go down the x axis 3
so positive is in the right di |
4.412322 | -2.516607 | 120 | Keep Lights Out for Loggerheads The support of South Carolina
coastal residents is needed more than ever to raise awareness
and educate our visitors to Keep Lights Out for Loggerheads. The
loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtle nesting season is May
through October. See video of loggerhead hatchlings. Nesting
occurs on the beaches of South Carolina’s barrier islands. From
May to mid-August, loggerheads come ashore to deposit
approximately 120 eggs in a nest cavity in the dry sand dune
system. Sixty days later, loggerhead hatchlings emerge from the
nest at night and head to the ocean. Nests hatch from July
through the end of October. During the nesting season,
loggerheads may be disoriented by artificial lights. A
disorientation event occurs when artificial light from man-made
sources leads turtles away from the ocean. To date in South
Carolina, 34 disorientation events of loggerhead hatchlings have
been reported to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Marine Turtle Conservation Program. This is com |
3.884141 | 3.509353 | -1 | Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation in
Sweden, for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or
medicine, literature, peace and economic sciences. The work of
LMB scientists has been awarded 9 Nobel prizes, shared amongst
13 individuals, in the fields of chemistry and physiology or
medicine. These prizes celebrate key advances in primary
scientific research and for developing pioneering techniques for
molecular biology. The award of 2 Nobel prizes in the same year,
1962, established the Laboratory’s reputation as a leading
international research centre. You can also download a PDF of
the printed brochure – this is recommended if you want to print
the information yourself. 2009 Chemistry Prize “for studies of
the structure and function of the ribosome” 2002 Physiology or
Medicine Prize Sydney Brenner, Bob Horvitz & John Sulston “for
their discoveries concerning the ‘genetic regulation of organ
development and programmed cell death’ in C. elegans” 1997
Chemistry Prize “for their eluci |
-1.745355 | 3.084929 | -1 | "There is neither Greek nor Jew," words of Archbishop
Damaskenos, in a letter of protest to the Germans after the
deportation of Jews There have been organized Jewish communities
in Greece for more than two thousand years. The oldest and the
most characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are
the Romaniotes, also called "Greek Jews" by many. However, the
term "Greek Jew" is predominantly used for any person of Jewish
faith that lives in or originates from Greece. The majority of
the Jews in Greece are Sephardim whose ancestors had left Spain
after the 1492 expulsion. Most of them installed in
Thessaloniki, the city which was to be named "Mother of Israel"
in the years to come. Besides the Sephardim and the Romaniotes,
small Ashkenazim communities had existed as well, in
Thessaloniki and elsewhere. Retrieved from
"http://en.wikipedia.org " |
-1.370859 | 3.394773 | 1 | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |Centuries:||11th century
– 12th century – 13th century| |Decades:||1150s 1160s 1170s –
1180s – 1190s 1200s 1210s| |Years:||1181 1182 1183 – 1184 – 1185
1186 1187| - Abbeville receives its commercial charter. - The
Battle of Fimreite takes place. - Archbishop Absalon of Lund
wins a naval victory over Bogislav, duke of Pomerania. - Streets
of Paris paved by order of Philip Augustus. - Second Battle of
Uji - Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur — third Almohad Caliph - Papal
bull ad aboldendam issued against several European heretical
groups: the Cathars, the Waldensians, the Patarines and the
Humiliati. It was created after a landmark meeting between the
Holy Roman Empire under Frederick Barbarossa and the Roman
Church under Pope Lucius III. - April 11 — William of
Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (d. 1213) - Eleanor, Fair Maid of
Brittany (approximate date; d. 1241) - Saadi, Iranian poet (d.
1291) - February 16 — Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury
- March 27 — Giorgi III, king |
0.115889 | -2.267689 | 11 | Out There stories relating to "meteor" Wednesday, February 27,
2013 Within two weeks, substantial meteors have now been
reported from Russia, the US and New Zealand. This one came down
Sunday in Queenstown, and was large enough to be seen during the
day. Clearly, it was not as large as the Russian meteor, but
nevertheless, it's unusual for so many significant meteors to
appear over such a short time. There is no known large meteor
shower due until April, when the Lyrids are expected to appear.
Do these meteors pose a danger? So far, one of them has caused
significant damage and injuries from its shock wave, but there
is no way to determine if any others as large or larger are
heading toward Earth. Sunday, November 25, 2012 The descriptions
of this event suggest that it was a large meteor breaking up
over the region on the night of November 24. The Leonid Meteor
Shower took place between November 17 and 20, but the shower was
exceptionally weak this year. Most of the Leonids are no larger
than a grain of sand, |
6.974143 | 2.069725 | 86 | Boost Your Family’s Interest in Healthy Foods It Worked for Me!
A trip to the berry farm. Gardening. Saturday visits to the
local farmers market. Cooking with your kids. All sorts of
activities can help kids learn a valuable lesson -- that healthy
food is a lifestyle, not just a diet. It's a great way to jump-
start healthy weight loss in your family. Take a cue from famed
chef Alice Waters, who started the "Edible Schoolyard" program
for kids in the Berkeley, Calif., school system. The concept:
"Kids get to learn gardening, help vegetables grow from seeds,
nurture and water them," says Kathleen Zelman, WebMD's director
of nutrition. "It's fascinating for them, watching that
metamorphosis -- and they buy into eating things simply because
they grew them." We asked WebMD readers: What activities do you
use to spark enthusiasm for healthy foods? What's worked best
for you -- for your family? Here are their ideas: - Since DS was
very small, we've gone to the local orchard almost weekly. Both
kids pick their own fr |
9.032362 | 0.805916 | 129 | Fleas are the most common parasites found on cats and dogs.
Because cats are so meticulous when it comes to grooming, you
may never actually see a flea but you may see the debris left
behind or you might see the skin problems that result if your
cat has flea bite hypersensitivity. Cats with hypersensitivity
have an allergic reaction to the antigens in flea saliva. The
result is usually red, irritated skin, scabs and even patches of
baldness. If a cat has flea bite hypersensitivity it only takes
one flea bite to cause a reaction. Severe flea infestation can
also cause anemia. Checking for Fleas Adult fleas spend most of
their lives on the host animals. The eggs, larvae and pupae can
be found anywhere though – on your carpet, in the pet’s bedding,
in the grass, etc. Seeing a flea on your pet is just the tip of
the iceberg. It’s never just about one flea. Since you may never
see an actual flea on your cat the best way to check is to use a
flea comb. The flea comb will capture all the flea debris
(excrement consi |
3.189172 | 4.654557 | -1 | October 19, 2010 It can be difficult to grab time for reading
when you’re a grandparent caring for a young child. However, we
recommend making time while your grandchild is at school or
childcare to check out these resources. All are written within
the last 20 yearsthe research and support on kincare
grandparents is a relatively new field.The Essential
Grandparent: A Guide to Making a Difference by Dr. Lillian
Carson (Health Communications, Inc., 1997) is a valuable
resource for any grandparent that has or desires a close
relationship with their grandchildren. However, it’s especially
useful for grandparents caring for their grandchildren while
trying to navigate their relationship with their adult child. If
the parent is not able to care for the child himself or herself,
it can create strains in the familial dynamic.Relatives Raising
Children: An Overview of Kinship Care edited by Joseph Crumbley
and Robert L. Little (Child Welfare League of America, 1997) is
geared toward child welfare professionals, but it |
-2.681035 | 3.469788 | 150 | Bismillah Ir-Rehman Ir-Raheem May Allah enable us to use the
best of words, have the best of character, and conduct ourselves
in the best of manners. I write herein that which is first and
foremost a reminder to my own heart as any others. Sometimes, we
forget that which we should do, instead settling for doing what
we can do and simply do because we can. However, we must not
forget that Time retains our words (even should we forget our
own utterances) and we must strive to ensure that we are not of
those who feel loss in akhirah over how carelessly we used our
words. Therefore, I wanted to ask that we please try to observe
the ethics and etiquettes of disagreement as much as possible
and uphold Islam with best of adab, knowing that Allah is All-
Aware and would wish for ourselves to engage in what is best.
The following is not a discourse on Islamic ethics and
etiquettes disagreement but only common sense engagement of our
own values concerning what Prophet Muhammad (may the blessings
of peace and peace of be |
0.782196 | 1.758559 | 12 | The “Garden of Manitoba” is the term that has often been used to
describe the region between the Souris River and the Turtle
Mountains in which Boissevain and Morton municipality are
located. Eons ago, as the Lake Souris glacier retreated
northward it left behind a sand loam which is well suited to dry
land type farming. Sometime in the late 1500s, long after the
glacier had receded, the first inhabitants of the area were the
Assiniboine First Nation tribe. Their habitation has been
documented by the many artifacts discovered in this area in
recent years. The first white explorers arrived in 1738 and
Alexander Henry (1806). The arrival of these explorers
ultimately led to the further exploration and investigation of
this region. Between 1873 and 1875 the Boundary Commission
marked the international boundary. The trail they made was
followed by a trickle of settlers coming west from Ontario who
were looking for good land, good water and wood. In 1881 the
first of several parties from Britain arrived in the are |
8.29027 | 4.582837 | 140 | Labor Induction and Augmentation - Topic Overview As the end of
pregnancy nears, the cervix normally becomes soft (ripe) and
begins to open (dilate) and thin (efface), preparing for labor
and delivery. When labor does not naturally start on its own and
vaginal delivery needs to happen soon, labor may be started
artificially (induced). Even though inducing labor is a fairly
common practice, childbirth educators encourage women to learn
about it and about the medicine for stimulating a stalled labor
(augmentation) so that the women can help decide what is right
for them. When labor is induced for medical reasons, it is
usually because it?s safer for you to have the baby now rather
than risk further problems from staying pregnant. Your labor may
be induced for one of the - Your pregnancy has gone 1 to 2 weeks
past the estimated due date. - You have a condition (such as
high blood pressure, placenta abruptio, infection, lung disease,
diabetes) that may threaten your health or the health of your
baby if the pregna |
3.862097 | 0.506494 | -1 | January 3, 2008 Let kids rule the land The friends decided to
write the guide two years ago, when Gordon, a former advertising
copywriter, was writing fiction books for children, and David,
producer of the Oscar-winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth," was
writing about global warming, but for adult readers. "We knew
there was something needed for younger kids," Gordon said. "The
nonfiction format was inspired by an old book I had seen called,
'EarthSearch.' It was like a children's museum in a book, with
all sorts of tactile parts, like a spinner to show which way the
Earth rotates and a real bag of rice to show world hunger." In
the end, Gordon said, the publisher opted for a more
traditional, less expensive format -- printed on recycled paper,
of course. The illustrated, easy-to-read book is divided into
four sections: the science of global warming, the effects of
global warming on weather, how plants and animals are affected
and, finally, ways and resources to help reverse the problem --
all in a way kids c |
3.95209 | 4.028018 | -1 | On this episode of ID the Future , David Boze and Casey Luskin
discuss the recent findings of the ENCODE Project , which has
declared so-called “junk” DNA to be anything but. Much of the
DNA that was previously supposed to be useless genetic material,
left over from random mutations that have been acted upon by
natural selection, has now been found to perform several vital
functions—just as intelligent design proponents have been
predicting for years . What does this mean for intelligent
design, and for Darwinian evolution? To learn more, pick up a
copy of Jonathan Wells’ Myth of Junk DNA |
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