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Exercise 1.Choose the one best answer to each question from the text. 1. Is American English a language or a variety of the English language? 2. Does American English observe strict rules? 3. What is often used in American English? 4. Where can you find the main differences between American and British English? 5. Are there many dialectal variations in American English? Exercise 3.Below there are some examples of American idioms and their English meanings. Translate them into colloquial Russian. 1. Catch on? Do you understand? 2. We are working for peanuts. We are working for very low wages. 3. Dry up Be quiet! 4. What’s the catch? What’s the bad news? 5. Put on your best bib and tucker. Put on your best clothes. 6. Will he catch on? Will he discover the truth? 7. It’s a snow job. They are trying to fool us. 8. He is square. He is very formal. 9. It’s a lemon! I’s faulty! It’s worthless! 10. Way to go! Wonderful!
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Once in a while, I find information and tips that have nothing to do with business, industry, or technology etc. All those things without “LIFE” are meaningless. As we get older in life, (and smarter) paying attention to these sorts of tid-bits becomes invaluable. Having said that, I want to share these important tips since some of my close friends, family, and business associates have actually had strokes and heart attacks. There is now a fourth indicator to help determine if you, a loved one, or a friend is having or has had a stroke. I know this information has been disseminated before, but it never hurts to read and share great life saving info and tips with those we know and care about right? Having this information and these tips can make a difference. STROKE: Just remember the 1st Three Letters….. S. T. R. During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) ….she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. Jane’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital – (at 6:00 pm Jane passed away) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today. Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call local emergency authorities immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. Another ‘sign’ of a stroke is this: Ask the person to ‘stick’ out his/her tongue. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other this is also an indication of a stroke. A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this message out to at least 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
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* Full-time workers are those who worked 35 or more hours per week for 50 or more weeks in the previous 12 months. Fields are arranged in descending order of earnings for both genders. This indicator also compares the earnings of humanities majors with those of workers who hold terminal bachelor’s degrees in other fields. The fields differ with respect to the unemployment rates of their majors (see the indicators under “The Employment Status of Humanities Majors”).
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15681
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A love of learning is important in highly selective college admissions. Vitally important (photo credit: Bryan Y.W. Shin). A love of learning and college admissions success go hand in hand. Were you under the misimpression that getting great grades in all of your coursework demonstrated to college admissions counselors at highly selective colleges throughout the nation that you loved learning? If so, we’re glad to clear this up for you. Great grades do not automatically equate with a love of learning. Not all students who get great grades actually love learning. Some of them get great grades because they are smart and talented. Some get great grades because their parents bribe them. Some get great grades because they want to get into a highly selective university. But colleges can differentiate those who get great grades for the sake of getting great grades and those who get great grades and also happen to love learning. Maybe you think you can hide this. But you can’t. It’ll come across in your teacher and guidance counselor letters of recommendation. It’ll come across in your alumni interview. It’ll come across in your college essays. And in many other places as well. A love of learning is difficult to fake over a prolonged period. It’s difficult to fake each day in your history class. And don’t think that your history teacher won’t be able to differentiate a student who loves to learn from a grade grubber. He or she will be able to! Too few college applicants properly show (rather than tell about) their love of learning. Our students at Ivy Coach always do. It’s an area where we can certainly point students in the right direction — and it helps the earlier you start with us.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15685
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Guinea pigs make wonderful companions. These docile members of the rodent family rarely bite and are known for squeaking with delight when their favorite humans enter the room. Guinea pigs are excellent starter pets for older children who have mastered proper handling techniques. rabbits, guinea pigs can weigh a couple of pounds. A cage approximately 20” x 40” with a solid bottom would work, but the bigger, the better. Guinea pigs love to hide when they play, so be sure to place cardboard tubes in the enclosure for this purpose. Plastic pipes and flower pots are good, too, and bricks and rocks for climbing will be much appreciated. All guinea pigs need a cave for sleeping and resting, so please provide a medium-sized flower pot or covered sleeping box. SUBSTRATE: Use Aspen shavings or a wood pulp or paper based bedding, as these are the safest materials. Never use CEDAR bedding since it has been associated with respiratory and liver disease. A quality pellet made specifically for guinea pigs, fresh fruits and vegetables. Offer Timothy hay at all times. Make sure fresh, clean water (with Vitamin C drops) are offered daily as well. Can your family handle the natural activities and have the time and resources to care for a cavy?
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15686
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Comics can be powerful learning tools. The mix of art, dialogue, character expressions, and frames engages learners and is brain-friendly. Comics break down a story’s plot and text into bite-sized chunks. Each frame has a visual of the action, which is much easier for the brain to process than reading a large amount of text. Additionally, comics are an effective way to introduce your learners to digital storytelling. Many of the comic creation tools are easy to use and allow learners to choose from a library of characters, props, scenes, and templates. Your learners will be able to quickly create a story, view it, and share it. Creating comics engages students and encourages them to explore vocabulary, summarize information, and contextualize what they learn in a creative way. Download the slides and bookmark the following tips and resources. The following are a few ideas to get you started using comics with your learners. Watch the recording of my webinar on this topic here! Choose comics or graphic novels as reading materials. Many classics and popular books, like Twilight and Pride and Prejudice, are available as graphic novels. Click on any of the icons to be lead to that comic creator. Scroll down to see written descriptions of each tool. ToonDoo – The site allows students to share their comics, comment on other comics, and even save and edit a copy of a comic. Comics Head– IOS and Android app to make comics. Best one in my opinion that allows adding your own images along with their library of characters, backdrops, and more. Friendstrip– IOS and Android app to make comics. Frames set and students can fill in the story. Creaza– Create comics, make movies, edit audio, and more! Embed in a blog or wiki. Bitstrips– Not free, but offers a 30-day free trial and includes more educational support (e.g., activities) than most other comic generators. Comic Strip Generator– You can upload photos or use web images in addition to their library of ready-to-use images. Garfield– You can create comic strips or (in Comics Lab Extreme) comic books. Phrase It– Add speech bubbles to pictures.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15687
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The first idea of this project was to create an artistic and scientific mapping of the places visited, based on the local people opinion, my own perspective and a scientific point of view. The starting point of this mapping was to interview people and ask them to draw on maps their stories about the sea on their region. People were a bit shy to draw, so I helped them to mark important places of their stories. Bellow, I uploaded some of this mappings. The second phase was to work with this mapping on a GIS software. Since I am not a geographer or scientist, I asked the help of a marine biology research group that we had worked together on Digital Narratives workshops. Unfortunately, these last two months they were very busy and could not help me with the base images for starting with the GIS software. So, I had to look for other options. Last week, talking about this problem (could not get the base images to work on the GIS software), friends showed me the project Fronteiras Imaginárias Culturais (Imaginary Cultural Frontiers). It is an interesting platform for community mapping creation. Very simple, not scientific at all, and we can have any sort of image as the background. I tried the platform creating a very simple map with the points that Ingvar had drawn for me. See here. Later I will improve with more information and create maps for the other interviewed people. Our third phase of this mapping is the creation of an interactive map with this material collected during the residency. After some brainstorm with Ecoarte people, an art and research group I coordinate, we came up with the idea of creating an object for the interaction with the videos, sounds, photos, and scientific data. The object will be a reuse of some old toy from the 80s. Now, we are in the search for one we can reprogram.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15688
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Warrington's annual Walking Day originally began as a Christian 'procession of witness' in 1832, and is part of a similar tradition to the Whit Walk. Processions were a popular subject for filming not only because the decorated floats and costumes made an attractive spectacle, but also because the sheer number of participants virtually guaranteed a healthy audience when the film was screened. It's the very lively churchgoers - clearly encouraged to play up for the camera - who capture the attention in this this two-shot film from Edwardian pioneers Mitchell and Kenyon, made on one of the pairs several visits to Warrington in the early 1900s. Alas, the close position leaves out St Elphin's very striking steeple, but the energy of its worshippers more than compensates. The second shot moves to a different location, and a younger, slightly less wealthy (fewer boaters, more cloth caps) but no less eager crowd. As so often, it's the younger boys who steal the show, especially one scamp towards the end who seems determined to jump through the camera lens. The film was originally identified from an inscription on the roll as 'Scene outside a church in Warley'. The final word was all-but illegible bar the opening letter, so it seems Warley was something of a stab in the dark. We now know that the location is actually some 80 miles to the north, thanks to the detective work of Sonya Endicott, who was able to identify the church from its distinctive gates.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15691
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I recently read an article by Babble blogger Alice Gomstyn about Sonya Romero-Smith, a kindergarten teacher in Albuquerque who helps her students that are living in poverty. The first questions she asks them each morning are: “Did you eat?” and “Are you clean?” It shocked a lot of people — but not me. I happen to be one of those educators, working in a title 1 middle school in a very high-poverty area. When I say “poverty” here, I’m not talking about a family whose dad has been laid off from his job or a family going through divorce or sickness. I’m not talking about a sudden, temporary, or even long-term shortage of money. I’m talking about families who have lived in poverty for generations. Families who don’t know anything but poverty. Generational poverty is very different from families experiencing hard times — mainly because they often view education as a stressor, and school a place they do not belong, making it extremely difficult to end the cycle. I think it’s important to take time to heal from divorce. People need time to adjust to the major changes that divorce brings: different living situations, moving, financial struggles, and having to share time with your kids. Divorce is a death of sorts. It’s the death of your hopes, dreams, and beliefs that you will spend the rest of your life with your spouse. It takes time to go through the grieving process. It’s wise to wait a year or so, so that you can evaluate your life, take inventory of who you are, change the things about you that you don’t like, and discover what exactly you’re looking for in a partner. My sister told me that her kids’ school was canceled last week because of the extreme weather. They were having their third snow day in a row and she sounded a little twitchy on the phone. It almost made me reluctant to rub in the fact that I live in Orlando where the temperature was a balmy 75. Almost. But I lived in Chicagoland for 41 years before moving to Florida so I remember firsthand how taxing it can be to entertain the kids when they’re stuck in the house 24/7 because of the snow and/or freezing temperatures.
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17th Street is an east-west running street between First Avenue and Eleventh Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. 17th Street Traffic runs one way along the street, from east to west excepting the stretch between Broadway and Park Avenue South, where traffic runs in both directions. 17th Street forms the northern borders of both Union Square (between Broadway and Park Avenue South) and Stuyvesant Square. Composer Antonín Dvořák's New York home was located at 327 East 17th Street, near Perlman Place. The 17th Street house was razed by Beth Israel Medical Center after it received approval of a 1991 application to demolish the house and replace it with an AIDS hospice. Time Magazine was started at 141 East 17th Street.
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In July 2010 we had a conference in Vienna about this topic. On this site you find the details of the conference as well as (soon) all lectures in english language and further films and links about the theme. Why has there been no AIDS epidemic in Europe or North America, despite repeated predictions over the last 25 years? Where is the vaccine against HIV that’s been “just around the corner” since 1985? What’s happened to the tens of billions of dollars invested in AIDS over the last 25 years? How did Africa manage to double its population in the last two decades while we were told the continent was drowning in disaster? How did Uganda become one of the fastest growing countries today, even though it’s been hit harder by HIV/AIDS than any other African nation? And how did it overcome the epidemic without AIDS drugs? Why has the discoverer of HIV, Prof. Luc Montagnier, declared that "someone with a good immune system can get rid of HIV within a few weeks"?
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is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. It is situated on China's south coast and, enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is known for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi) and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province. Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War (1839โ€“42). Originally confined to Hong Kong Island, the colony's boundaries were extended in stages to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and then the New Territories in 1898. It was occupied by Japan during the Pacific War, after which the British resumed control until 1997, when China resumed sovereignty. The region espoused minimum government intervention under the ethos of positive non-interventionism during the colonial era. The time period greatly influenced the current culture of Hong Kong, often described as "East meets West",and the educational system, which used to loosely follow the system in England until reforms implemented in 2009. Under the principle of "one country, two systems", Hong Kong has a different political system from mainland China. Hong Kong's independent judiciary functions under the common law framework. Hong Kong Basic Law, its constitutional document, which stipulates that Hong Kong shall have a "high degree of autonomy" in all matters except foreign relations and military defence, governs its political system Although it has a burgeoning multi-party system, a small-circle electorate controls half of its legislature. That is, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, the head of government, is chosen by an Election Committee of 400 to 1,200 members, a situation that will be in effect during the first 20 years of Chinese rule Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1957, which became the EU in 1993. It is part of the Schengen Area and since 1999 a member of the euro area. Germany is member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, the OECD and the Council of Europe, and took a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2011โ€“2012 term.
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March 27, 2019 – At a National Space Council meeting in Huntsville, Alabama on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence urged NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accelerate the agency’s lunar exploration plans with the goal of returning American astronauts to the moon in only five years. President Donald J. Trump is setting a goal to land American astronauts near the Moon’s South Pole by 2024 and to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon by 2028. NASA’s lunar presence will focus on science, resource management, and risk reduction for future missions to Mars. “Today we stand at the dawn of a new era of space exploration — an era that will bring untold new challenges and opportunities, and it will demand the best of us. It will demand new ideas, renewed energies, courage, and bold action,” Pence said. For NASA to achieve its five-year goal, the agency will have to meet a rigorous schedule for flying Exploration Mission-1 with Orion on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket next year, and for sending the first crewed mission to the lunar vicinity by 2022. Until now, the program has been plagued by delays and funding shortages, and while Administrator Bridenstine feels confident that NASA is up to the challenge, American astronauts will return to the moon in five years “by any means necessary,” according to Pence. “If American industry can provide critical commercial services without government development, then we’ll buy them. And if commercial rockets are the only way to get American astronauts to the Moon in the next five years, then commercial rockets it will be,” said Pence. Lockheed Martin’s Orion spacecraft is currently the only capsule specifically designed and built to withstand the extreme environment of deep space. Orion and its complementary service module will contain components for life support, navigation, radiation shielding, communications and a protective heat shield.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15709
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Students, teachers, parents, and building leaders are constantly looking at assessment opportunities to monitor student learning. The ongoing feedback helps students improve their learning and teachers improve their instruction. Most assessment that a student sees in their school career is formative assessment. Simply put, formative assessments inform learning. These are conferring with a teacher, exit slips, a response on a thinking map, or a "check up" on their learning; these opportunities occur often throughout a day and are simply a part of the great instruction at Twain. The goal of summative assessments is to evaluate student learning. This might be an end of a unit test, a final writing paper, or a state mandated test. These are also able to guide parents, teachers, and building leaders in understanding next steps in instruction.
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The Dimes Project provides several excellent data sets that describe the structure of the Internet. Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), Chris Harrison created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration and not physical backbone). In total, there are 89,344 connections. The renderings shown here represent network connections among the globe, focusing on Europe (first image) and North America (second image). The intensity of edge contrast reflects the number of connections between the two points. No country borders or geographic features are shown. However, it should be fairly easy to orient yourself. The second image is also part of a full rendering of the world shown on the site. Note: No projection has been applied to the geographical data. Latitudes and Longitudes were rounded to the nearest whole number and used in a flat coordinate system. This means that the planetary surface area represented by each point varies, skewing how the data (and densities - both point and edge) is shown.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15713
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While linguistics knows an increasing amount about the nature of linguistic diversity, we still have no more than a basic understanding of its causes. Why are there such radical differences, across the globe, in the distribution of linguistic diversity – whether measured in numbers of languages, of language families, or of typological variability? While a partial explanation can be found in the homogenising effects of historically long-term state formation in some parts of the world (e.g. Europe, Korea, Japan) and not in others (e.g. New Guinea), this still leaves unexplained the striking contrasts in diversity found if we compare regions where colonisation is historically recent, e.g. New Guinea vs Australia or Vanuatu vs Samoa. And while various extralinguistic causes have been proposed with some statistical validity (e.g. growing season, ecological risk), at best they furnish distal causes which must logically be mediated by sociocultural differences then played out in different linguistic practices and ideologies. In other words, to understand the origins of linguistic diversity (macrovariation) and its very different distributions across the world, ultimately we need to investigate differences across speech communities in microvariation – the way small-scale individual differences arise, diffuse, and are semiotically mobilised, across different types of small-scale speech community. In this talk I outline the methods and unfolding findings of a large-scale comparative project which sets out to do just that, focussing on case studies from three high-diversity regions: northern Australia, southern New Guinea and Vanuatu. Our studies of these regions are particularly concerned to examine the role that egalitarian multilingualism and the resultant metalinguistic awareness of linguistic difference play in the ongoing fostering of linguistic diversification at various levels, and with reconciling the need to balance variation that is locally salient (e.g. the variable (ng), relevant in English but not, say, Xhosa) with the need for cross-linguistic commensaribility in levels of typological diversity, e.g. through the typological variables in WALS or GRAMBANK. If – as our emerging findings suggest – egalitarian multilingualism plays a central role in driving diversification, this makes the documentarian task for the world community of linguists even more urgent than that of studying static structures, since many traditional types of multilingualism are even more fragile than individual languages themselves.
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1. Paint cardboard tube. Set aside to dry. 2. Cover cardboard box with construction or contact paper. Decorate as desired. Our various cardboard boxes used as the body of the guitar. 3. *Teacher Job* Cut hole in center of box approximately 2″ x 2″. 4. Wrap 6 rubber bands around box and centered on hole. Slip two crayons under rubber bands on either side of hole (the “sound hole”). 5. *Teacher Job* Once cardboard tube has dried, hot glue tube as “neck” of guitar. 1. Stuff hat with newspaper or plastic bags to keep paint from bleeding through. We put our crafts on a tablecloth to help avoid mess. Painting our hats in action! Paint cardboard tubes and set aside to dry. This will be the bottom part of the microphone. Dance: learn two more dances (about 1 minute each) – today’s dances were to a funky version of “Zip a Dee Doo Dah” (by Paula Abdul) and we tapped to “Old Time Rock and Roll”. Pick it up, switch switch, pass around. Clap (one) pick the bean bag up and put it down (up, down). Pass it to the right (pass around). We practiced until we could go very fast and do it without saying the rhyme out loud. Then we switched directions! This page has a lot of beanbag songs.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15717
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Stress Limits One's Patience, Causes Sudden Mood Changes, And Serves To Disrupt Both Family And Work Relationships. Hence learning to understand and master the stress management is why stress is highly individual and personal in nature. In the past, Type 1 has been known as juvenile or juvenile-onset diabetes because it office visits as well as serious maladies can at least partially be attributed to underlying stress. It can also be activated in a milder form at a time when the pressure's on but there's no actual danger - like stepping up level; this can lead to some serious health issues that pose serious health risk. It is difficult to apply fixed time limit on normal grief, as are, may pass up opportunities to better your situation and overlook solutions to problems. Probably such measures causing stress come from communication as of sleep -Family change: marriage, divorce, new baby, separation -Self abuse: alcoholism, drug abuse, self-harm -Environment change: in house, school, job, jail, town -Responsibility increase: new job, new dependent -New location: moving house, vacation Causes of Stress in the Workplace There are also stress-related to work.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15719
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Ayamegahara Wildflower Garden (原生花園あやめヶ原) is on a cliff located in Akkeshi town facing the Ocean. The tip of the cliff is named Chinbe-no-Hana (チンベの鼻 * Nose of Chinbe) at about 100 m above sea level. The Chinbe (チンベ) means "Place That Bear Skin Is Dried" or "Place That There Is Cliff" in Ainu language. There is a wildflower garden with about 100 ha on the cliff, about 120 kinds of flowers seem to bloom from May to October. It is known as Arctic iris (ヒオウギアヤメ) growing in colonies, the scale is the largest in Japan. The best time to see is from late June to early July. There is a restroom and a tourist information center beseide a parking lot. Admission free. The parking lot is free of charge. There are 4 observatory decks (Chinbe Observatory Deck (チンベ展望台), Daikokujima-Kojima Observatory Deck (大黒島・小島展望台), Chinbe-no-Hana Observatory Deck (チンベの鼻展望) and Observatory Deck), strange shaped rocks, steep cliffs and seashore can be seen. In addition, horses that I have never seen are put to grazing, and some gates for the horses are installed, so there are many dung on the grass, watch your step! A lot of wildbirds fly in the sky, and the multiplex sounds of birds singing are heard. I visited here in mid May, so many flowers did not bloom. But views were very comfortable. Refer to following websites for the accommodations around Akkeshi.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15721
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Not only is “what air purifier” a top 10 question, it is often a topic of discussion brought up by environmental consultants, particularly when we get to a property that has an ozone producing air cleaner such as the Ionic Breeze running. What this means to you is that if your home is empty and has odor problems, ozone generators are the best solution for that problem. If you, someone you care about, or your pet are living in a home, do not use ozone there. Even small amounts of ozone, according to the EPA, "can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath, and throat irritation." Those with asthma may find their conditioned worsened by exposure to ozone, and ozone also reduces the body's ability to combat respiratory infections.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15722
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Exercise has long been correlated with a longer life, but it’s only recently started to become clear why this might be. Studies, like a new one in the journal Preventive Medicine which found that exercise is linked to longer caps at the ends of chromosomes, have helped flesh this out a bit more. These caps, called telomeres, naturally shorten as we age, with each cell division. People who live a long time have telomeres that are in better shape than those who don’t—but there’s a lot we can do to affect the rate at which they shorten over the years. The team behind the new study looked at data from CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and found that for people who exercised regularly, their telomeres were 140 base pairs longer on average than sedentary people's. Which correlates to being years “younger” than their sedentary peers. Feeling down on yourself? Exercising can help you feel better about yourself ­— no matter what type of workout you do or how fit you are. One study found that “the simple act of exercise and not fitness itself can convince you that you look better.” (10) With so much emphasis on our outward appearances in society today, it’s comforting to know that one of the benefits of exercise helps people feel better about themselves and how they look naturally. • Boosts energy and brainpower. College requires a fair amount of energy and lots of brainpower to keep up with classes and other activities. Exercise delivers oxygen and nutrients to the brain and various tissues. This means you can concentrate better and think clearly. Plus, because exercise helps your lungs and heart, you have more energy to do other things.
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In the Acts of the Apostles we read of the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. While baptism is the sacrament of new life, confirmation gives birth to that life. Baptism initiates us into the Church and names us as children of God, whereas confirmation calls us forth as God’s children and unites us more fully to the active messianic mission of Christ in the world. Confirmation deepens the graces and gifts of baptism. After receiving the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Apostles went out and confirmed others, showing confirmation to be an individual and separate sacrament: Peter and John at Samaria (Acts 8:5-6, 14-17) and Paul at Ephesus (Acts 19:5-6). Also the Holy Spirit came down on Jews and Gentiles alike in Caesarea, prior to their baptisms; recognizing this as a confirmation by the Holy Spirit, Peter commanded that they be baptized (cf. Acts 10:47). Youth who attend Catholic school or who regularly attend religious education classes prepare for this sacrament during their 8th grade year and receive it in spring. Contact Amy Staubach for details about classes, choosing a sponsor, etc.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15725
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A Gift from God: And Analysis of the Poem "To My Sons" To My Sons by Ainon Omar is very famous for its imagery in portraying the message of the poem that is; be thankful of God's gift. The poem is a description of how the persona observes the actions of her sons toward her and her hope for her sons in the future. As a whole, this poem is constructed by integrating elements like simile, alliteration and anaphora in order to attract the reader's humanity. Thus, in this paper I will discuss this poem and how the style of writing, including the language and the tone, help the poet to reach to the main point; imagery. The form of the poem is free verse because it has no fixed rhyme scheme or rhythm. This form is employed to show the persona's feeling to her sons whom she loves very much. It is quite interesting to note that the poet concludes each stanza, which is about the God; "blessed me with the dearest treasures"(5),"treat them well with the promise of faith and hope"(17) and "be the gracious servants of the Almighty"(19). Besides, the use of enjambment can also be detected in the first line of the first stanza where the line "Your arrival into this world" is connected to "was like a miracle". The poet uses the enjambment to reflect the persona's gratefulness for her sons that God has given her.
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the buzzword "innovation" that is being used mightily in educational circles. It seems that nearly every esteemed educational institution is thinking more about innovation: in the classroom, in marketing, and in strategic planning. And, like most buzzwords, I am starting to believe that the word innovation is code for all sorts of other ideas, from flexibility to new thinking, and not all of these uses of the word actually equate into innovation. I would argue that agility is more important than innovation for the state of private education today. The truth is, most schools and colleges just simply need to be more agile. Agility in their strategic thinking and the nimbleness to carry out new ideas and opportunities seems to be more foundational to any sort of innovation that might occur. In fact, innovation requires some level of organizational agility in order to be properly germinated. I think the real challenge to interpreting the next chapter of a school or college is how to take the best of the past and blend it into the future. That is the art and science of strategy. It requires keeping a long term strategic direction in focus, but adapting the agility and nimbleness to take on new ideas as part of that strategy. Innovation best happens when an organization still knows where it is going, but has an openness as to how to get there.
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One of the first longitudinal studies of health and wellbeing, a 10,000 step challenge over 75 days, has now been released. Participants formed teams and logged their daily steps and other exercises to analyse the long term benefits. We at Pearson joined with Stepathlon and academics from Flinders and Victoria Universities, to analyse the long term benefits of the 75 day walking challenge, the Stepathalon, that most of our people in Australia and many around the world participated in over two years. The report, soon to be released by education company Pearson, Stepathlon and academics from Flinders and Victoria Universities, is one of the first longitudinal studies of the health and wellbeing impacts of a 10,000 step challenge, where participants form teams and log their daily steps or other exercise over 75 days. Pearson Australia is one of three companies in the nation to have run the program two years in a row, and saw an 18 per cent reduction in depression averaged from 2016 and 2017 results. This is compared to a seven per cent decrease in depression achieved by taking antidepressants, other studies show. Pearson Asia Pacific Managing Director, David Barnett said among many other positive indicators, the steep drop in depression, anxiety and stress were the most encouraging. “Just around the office I noticed people taking calls while walking, meeting up to go for a stroll at lunch, or hearing about people walking, running and cycling to and from work. The daily walking step average per participant was 11,815 steps per day, about 7.6 km - well beyond the average step count of an office worker at 3,500 steps a day. Mr Barnett said: “We are pleasantly surprised with these results, which position us among organisations with a good, healthy culture, where people feel valued and respected. Findings from the recent survey, and what they mean to Australian educators.
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The rivers in the Utsjoki area with their gorgeous scenery are great for canoeing. There are no marked canoe routes in the Utsjoki area. The river Utsjoki with its many lakes is great for canoeing from the southern part of Lake Mierasjärvi down to the River Tenojoki. The River Teno can be travelled in a canoe from Karigasniemi all the way to Tenovuono Fjord. Both rivers have some shallow but rocky rapids where it might be necessary to transport the canoe along land or guide it down-river from the shore. Rowing is possible in many rivers and lakes in Utsjoki area.
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We hope to prove the existence of legendary animals, and inject new life into them before they're extinct. It is well known that fossils are created in nature when minerals gradually replace the buried remains of a creature with a deposit of stone. This process often takes millions of years to complete. The kaolithic process is much faster. Kaolithic fossils are formed when the buried remains are entirely replaced by clay compounds which have been shaped through digital contact, compaction and impaction by unnatural forces. When the remains are exposed to high temperatures in a kiln, thermal metamorphosis occurs and the kaolithic fossilization is complete. The entire process can happen within a few days. By applying the scientific method to the visual and tactile examination of these thermally metamorphised mud pyrofacts, we have unearthed or created previously unknown animals from the Pre-credulous era of the Bone Age.
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...there's Ostrichland. It's an ostrich farm with 50 goofy ostriches and emus, all of which you can feed. Ostriches and emus are the two largest birds in the world. Emus hail from Australia, and ostriches from Africa. You'd normally only catch these guys at the zoo, or on a safari, so seeing them in this picturesque setting is very unique. You may have noticed that some of the ostriches look different. The males have the quintessential black feathers with white tips, and pink mouths. The females are all brown (thanks, nature). Emus in particular look prehistoric, but as one quickly finds out, neither the ostrich nor the emu has evolved with much brains (I say with amusement). Ostrichland co-manager Blake Fowler said ostriches aren't the smartest of animals -- that's because their brains are smaller than their eyeballs. They act kind of like a pigeon does, pecking things at random -- just in a really big body. You can purchase bowls of food for the birds, and they love it. They come zooming to the fences, their tiny bobbly heads poking through the slats. Even for those who are not animal lovers, it's a funny sight. Most people pass by this ranch on their way into quaint Solvang, usually on the hunt for great California wines. It's well worth the detour: feeding these giant birds and learning a little about them is a real trip.
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Crown fractures are a common result of dental trauma. X-rays are necessary to determine the true extent of damage, but a pink or yellow color change inside the tooth is a serious warning sign. Visit your child’s dentist in Orange City or proceed to an emergency room to assess the injury.
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What is Innovation Resource Management? IRM in ”IRM-Tool” comes from the words ”Innovation Resource Moderating”, and it has got its initial idea from world-wide arranged ”Bridge Resource Management”-course, nowadays also called as ”Maritime Resource Management”-course that is arranged for all maritime and aviation professionals and students. Many professionals take the course several times to keep up the required quality and safety protocols in their management. The course comprises of real cases, and participants learn the basic steps and processes how to handle tough and surprising situations. ”Innovation Resource Management” instead is a field of science that is not even studied yet. IRM generally stands for Information Resource Management, and theme of Resource Management and Innovation Management together is usually discussed under Human Resource Management. It is all important, but the research lacks of consistent processes, protocols, and steps of action; how to ensure that all innovation potentials are utilized in the organisation, and how the innovation resources could be enhanced in different stages of innovation processes. This where creative know-how can be utilized. IRM-Tool project builds its activities to innovation theory based themes. The themes derives from the text written by Alf Rehn. Innovation theory is applied to maritime industry context shortly and simply. During 2018 the themes are applied in co-creation workshops, but also in multimedia production, e.g. videos that explain, describe, or tell a story about innovation challenges, or opportunities in maritime industry. Videos are produced during 2018, and transcripts are based on both innovation theory, and practical cases and stories that are collected by interviewing maritime industry companies during Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018. The themes are also applied to finalizing the IRM-Tool, to be launched in 2019. 4. Products, services or systems?
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Meaning and definitions of scull, translation in Welsh language for scull with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of scull in Welsh and in English language. What scull means in Welsh, scull meaning in Welsh, scull definition, examples and pronunciation of scull in Welsh language.
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The events of the recent past show fluctuating structure of today world which is characterized on one hand as multicultural cooperation of people from various cultures and ethnic groups, and on the other hand seen with many conflicts and misunderstandings. Therefore ethical behavior becomes more important, which creates our humanity. The paper focuses on the importance of ethics in the process of education in today globalized world with the aim of leading the students to multicultural perception of the society and the world. To understand the world in European and globalized consequences will lead to reduction or eradication of religious intolerance. The paper describes the changes in education system in the Czech Republic in the past years and focuses on the importance of ethics in the process during primary, secondary and university education.
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Xīnnián kuàilè - or should we say ‘Happy New Year’ in Mandarin! Reception children have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year this week following on from Mrs Sutton’s assembly which we sadly did not get to perform on Friday due to the snow. On Tuesday this week we enjoyed talking in more depth about the celebrations. We made our own Chinese dragons, had a go at painting some Chinese numbers and even had fun using chopsticks to eat some noodles. Yum Yum! Our fascination with dinosaurs has continued this week when we went outside to measure how long a diplodocus was using a special instrument called a trundle wheel. We were amazed at just how long he really was! Back in the classroom we continued measuring various items and even how tall we all are. We discussed taller, shorter, longer, shorter and heavier and lighter. We weighed different shoes and compared the weights of a wellington boot, a shoe and a slipper! Perhaps you might like to weigh some objects around your home too. What predictions could you make about each object?
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Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Easier to use high-level programming language that allows a user to interact with a program while it is running (being executed). Although developed for instructional purposes, it was adopted by Microsoft corporation for its DOS (as QuickBasic) and Windows (as Visual Basic) operating systems and underlies its application software as the control language. Invented in 1964 by US math professors, John Kemeny (1926-1992) and Thomas Kurtz (born 1928) of Dartmouth College.
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Beliefs about the certainty of teaching knowledge may influence how preservice teachers engage with and learn from knowledge sources in teacher education, and their subsequent practice. In light of inconsistencies in prior findings that mainly employ epistemic questionnaires, we extended research focusing on a contextual analysis. Sixty-six elementary and lower-secondary preservice teachers in Norway responded to the Beliefs about the Certainty of Teaching Knowledge (BECK) scale in the first and second year of study, respectively. Participants believed knowledge about teaching and learning was more tentative and evolving at T2 than at T1 (t (65) = 2.0, p = .049, Cohen’s d =.23). We uncovered beliefs about the ways knowledge and practice will change, reasons for change, and the rate of change in teaching knowledge. The results suggest preservice teachers hold specific beliefs about the certainty of teaching knowledge that should be addressed by teacher educators. Ferguson, L. E., & Lunn Brownlee, J. (2018). An Investigation of Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about the Certainty of Teaching Knowledge. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 43(1).
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A Chicago daycare center is dealing with a serious outbreak of scabies. Fourteen students and 10 teachers at the Paulo Freire Center have been diagnosed with the condition. When the outbreak was first discovered on May 18, letters were sent home to parents to warn of the highly contagious issue, according to WGN. Scabies occurs when mites burrow into the skin and lay eggs, causing itchy red bumps or a rash. It is usually spread by skin-to-skin contact and treated with medication that is applied from the neck down and left on for eight hours. The school says that no students have shown symptoms since last Thursday, WGN reports. "Anything like lice, chickenpox, scabies, when you're in a setting where there's a lot of children, lots of hands touching the same objects these types of things do occur," Sarah Frick, who is associated with the daycare, told WGN. Officials reportedly vigorously cleaned everything, including playground equipment, and referred parents to doctors if they need it. The Department of Health says it recommends that the daycare center stays open amid the outbreak because scabies is not a life-threatening disease. Children with scabies can return to school 24 hours after receiving treatment.
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Our Church is the earliest Congregational Church in Dundee. It originated from the union of two churches, which existed in the town at the end of the eighteenth century and has continued in ecclesiastical use since its completion. The Church was designed by the architect James Brewster and opened in 1833. The designation Ward Chapel was adopted from the name of a field in part of which it was erected. The Church forms an axial focal point at the west end of Euclid Street. Ward Chapel opened with 1200 sittings at a cost of £2810. The building is rectangular in plan, designed as a Gothic Church with later addition of single storey schoolrooms flanking the apse. The Church has traceried, pointed arch windows to the front and simpler windows to the north, south and west elavations and also in the western apse. The interior of the building has a substantial amount of well-crafted decorative timber work. Known as the Cathedral of Congregationalism in Scotland the building is unusually ambitious for its date and has been associated with many influential families of the Dundee area who have worshipped here. These included manufacturers, merchants, dyers, mill-owners, foundry-owners such as Baxters, Buists, Carmichaels, Gilroys, Halleys, Hendersons, Lows, neishs, Prains, Scotts and Stevensons. In 1984 Panmure Trinity Church and Ward Chapel amalgimated to form Dundee Congregational Church. Over the years the successive congregations have commissioned a series of additions and alterations to the building. The most recent alteration was in 2003 with the removal of two dozen pews to allow the construction of a Welcome Hall with a glazed screen, a prayer corner and steps were made to the chancel using some of the old pews. Historic Scotland, through their funding, have allowed us to make essential repairs to the roof and so keep the building watertight.
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This basic futures contract enabled commodity sellers, such as farmers and grain elevator operators, to avoid sudden price drops and commodity users or traders to avoid sudden price increases; it was generally regarded as a kind of insurance. But it ceased to work as such after the deregulation of the global agricultural markets. Market speculation in basic food commodities is illegal under Islamic Law. The Shariah parameters that define prohibited transactions are a series of control mechanisms to safeguard the poor, to keep basic food prices always within the reach of all members of the society.
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Climate change is advancing spring phenology but it remains unclear whether migratory birds are able to adjust their timing to match these changes. Purple martins (Progne subis) are long-distance migrants, and part of a functional taxon (aerial insectivores) that are undergoing population declines. My objectives were to: 1) determine if environmental variability during spring migration predicts individual timing of migration, and 2) determine if laying date is phenotypically plastic to spring temperatures. I found that spring migration phenology was not predicted by environmental factors and individual martins had repeatable spring migration timing. Laying date was earlier with warmer temperatures, fledgling numbers increased with earlier laying dates, and selection pressure for earlier breeding did not change with temperature. Overall, my results suggest that timing is constrained through much of the annual cycle, but purple martins can adjust to current climate conditions by varying their laying date with temperature during the breeding period.
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Singida is one of the regions of Tanzania. The regional capital is the municipality of Singida. The region is bordered to the North by Shinyanga Region, Simiyu Region and Arusha Region, to the Northeast by Manyara Region, to the East by Dodoma Region, to the Southeast by Iringa Region, to the Southwest by Mbeya Region and to the West by Tabora Region. It is one of the poorest regions in Tanzania.
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Is Being a Radiologist Really Among the Best Jobs in the U.S.? It’s been estimated that humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes. In order to understand our vastly comprehensive genetic makeup, we need to be able to capture clear images. Fortunately, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have recently discovered a way to visualize gene expression through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Terminator is coming. Arterys's novel algorithm based on artificial intelligence and machine learning has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Using a “deep learning algorithm”, the new software will significantly accelerate the MRI analyzation process.
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Numeracy is the skill of understanding and working with numbers. This includes understanding the rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, knowing the rules of BODMAS (Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction) and working with fractions and decimals. You’ll use numeracy in practically all of the areas of mathematical study that you undertake. Possessing strong numerical skills is absolutely essential. Work through the next few pages for guidance on how to solve different types of numeracy problems.
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Completeness of registration, on the other hand, is the number of events registered as a fraction of the total number of events (births or deaths) expected to have occurred in that population. The lower the coverage of vital events in a population, the less representative the data will be of births and deaths in the country – the lower the completeness, the less value the data will have for planning. Furthermore, since the areas with the best completeness of registration (such as the urban areas) are likely to be different to those with low completeness (such as the remote and/or rural areas), the population whose events were not counted is likely to experience different birth and death rates to the population whose events were registered. All countries should carefully measure coverage and completeness levels each year, and have a plan to achieve full coverage and completeness if not already achieved. Although it is not realistic that 100 per cent of vital events will be registered, countries should aim to have at least 90 per cent of all births and deaths registered. Highlights the importance of measuring registration completeness and the impact it has on fertility and mortality statistics.
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No fault divorce states allow a couple to legally end their marriage without either person having to prove the other one committed a wrongful act. This option is available to couples in all parts of the United States. In cases where a person is filing for a no-fault divorce, he or she doesn't need to set out specific grounds, as in the case of a fault divorce. The person filing the papers only needs to state that the marriage has broken down. Terms like "irreconcilable differences" or "incompatibility" are used to show that the couple can't get along and no longer wishes to be married. Simply because a couple has decided to apply to the court for a no-fault divorce, it doesn't mean that they only need to sign the papers and the matter is finished. Each state sets its own rules for divorce. In some cases, the couple is required to live apart for a set time before they can get a divorce. There may be specific rules that apply to no-fault divorce in different parts of the country. For example, in Tennessee, a divorce will only be granted on grounds of separation to a childless couple. Couples with children have the option of asking for a fault-based divorce instead. In Virginia, the one-year separation requirement may be reduced to six months for couples who don't have children. In some states, a person seeking a divorce can apply for a fault-based one instead of a no-fault divorce, even though all parts of the country are no-fault divorce states. A person who is considering this option should consult with an attorney to find out whether it is to their advantage to do so. In non-community property states, it may make sense to try to show that the other person is at fault if it means a bigger divorce settlement. Each person's conduct is not necessarily considered when making determinations about property division and alimony. In states where it may be factored in, do seek out expert legal advice before making a decision about which way to file for divorce. Another reason why a person may want to choose a fault divorce over a no-fault one is that he doesn't want to wait out the separation period before being able to end the marriage. Where one or both people want to get the matter resolved quickly, choosing a fault divorce (where available in no fault divorce states) may make sense.
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Scholars say: " Much has been written about the Prophet Muhammad (pubh), from indepth biographies by Muslim scholars and non-Muslim researchers to sayings upon sayings of others. Muhammad ibnu Abdillah was born in Mecca in the year 569 CE. He earned his living as a trader and was known by his people as al-amin (the trustworthy one). When Muhammad (pubh) reached the age of 40, the angel Gabriel came to him with revelations that established his prophethood. Muhammad (pubh) was first ordered to instruct his immediate family on Islam, including his beloved wife Khadija, but eventually it was revealed to him that he should begin delivering the message to all of mankind. In the next 20 years of his life, he communicated the message of Allah to his people, and set an example for how each human being should lead her or his life. This is especially valuable since Muhammad (pubh) is the last Prophet of Allah. In the year 632, the year of his death, the Prophet delivered his famous last sermon. " Many People Insist on wearing this pendant because Prophet Muhammad was an example of the way Muslims should live and this pendant allows people to be reminded of his teachings and reminds others muslims as well. Wearing this pendant makes people cautious and helps people to do right instead of wrong.
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Kannada Cinema, colloquially referred to as Chandanavana or the Sandalwood, is a part of Indian cinema, where motion pictures are produced in the Kannada language. As of 2013, The Kannada film industry based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, produces more than 100 films each year. Although the industry's Gross Box-office is smaller, when compared to large market driven industries such as Tamil cinema and Telugu cinema, Kannada films are released in a total of 950 single screen theatres in Karnataka and a handful of the movies are also released in the United States, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries. The first government institute in India to start technical courses related to films was established in 1941 named as occupational institute then named as S. J. Polytechnic in Bengaluru. In September 1996, two specialized courses Cinematography and Sound & Television were separated and a new Institute Government Film and Television Institute was started at Hesaraghatta, under the World Bank Assisted Project for Technician Development in India. The industry is known for Kannada language literary works, being translated into motion pictures, some of the works which received global acclaim include, B. V. Karanth's Chomana Dudi (1975), Girish Karnad's Kaadu (1973), Pattabhirama Reddy's Samskara (1970) (based on a novel by U. R. Ananthamurthy), which won Bronze Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival, and Girish Kasaravalli's Ghatashraddha (1977) which won Ducats Award at the Manneham Film Festival Germany.
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Who are Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs? A medical home is not a house, office, or hospital, but rather an approach to providing comprehensive primary care. In a medical home, a primary care clinician and her/his team work as a team with the family/patient to make sure that the medical and non-medical needs of the child/youth are met. The clinical team can help the family/patient find and arrange specialty care, school services, out-of-home care, family support, and other public and private services that are vital to the total health and well-being of the child and family. Though many uses of the medical home model focus on children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), "every child deserves a Medical Home." AAP Policy Statements ([American: 2004], [Rushton: 2005], [Cooley: 2004], [Council: 2005]) have recognized the role of pediatricians and other primary care clinicians in providing comprehensive care for children with chronic and complex conditions and defined the medical home concept. Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) are "those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally." [McPherson: 1998] Studies have found the prevalence of children in the United States meeting these criteria to be 12.8% [van: 2004] to 15.6% [Newacheck: 2005]. The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs 2016/2017 found 18.8% of the nation's children met this definition of children with special health care needs. More information about the study and data from each state is at ChildHealthData.org.
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Across the U.S., women pay more than men for certain goods, such as clothes, home health products, and personal care products. This price difference is known as the “pink tax,” since many of these products are packaged in pink. In a country where women earn 80.5 cents for every dollar men make according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, this type of price discrimination seems even more unfair. Our latest visualization illustrates the breadth and depth of the “pink tax,” using data from a study commissioned by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA). The DCA’s study estimated the price differences male and female shoppers face when buying the same types of items. The DCA derived an average price for 35 different product types based on an analysis of 794 individual items and then compared the prices of the analogous men’s and women’s products. To minimize differences between men’s and women’s items, the DCA selected products that had similar male and female versions and were closest in branding, ingredients, appearance, textile, construction, and/or marketing. Unlike the DCA’s report, our visualization does not include children’s products and only includes the categories of Adult Clothing, Toys and Accessories, Personal Care Products, and Senior/Home Health Care Products. According to the DCA and the visualization, there are only a few products that men pay more for. These products include underwear (29% more expensive), digestive health products (5% more expensive), and shaving cream (4% more expensive). Overall, the greatest price differential is in the personal care category, in which women pay 13% more for products than men. For both men and women, adult clothing tends to be the most expensive consumer product category.
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King Mohammed VI has renewed his pledge to continue his endeavors to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy, to adapt his country to future changes and to make it meet its growing energy needs in a sustainable manner. This came in the acceptance message the monarch addressed to the Energy Efficiency Global Forum, which granted him its annual Energy Efficiency Visionary Award. The acceptance message was read out by Morocco’s Ambassador to Washington Lalla Joumala Alaoui at a ceremony during which the forum organizers hailed the leadership of King Mohammed VI in the field of developing renewable energies and energy efficiency in Morocco and beyond. “This Award confirms the Kingdom of Morocco’s positioning as one of the countries that have managed to make the most of their renewable energy potential by developing solar power plants, wind farms and hydroelectric plants, and by introducing energy efficiency measures in all key sectors of the Moroccan economy,” said the King in his message. “I pledge to keep up efforts at the national, regional and continental levels and do all I can to promote an environment conducive to the sustainable development of energy efficiency, renewable energy, technological innovation and green jobs in general,” said King Mohammed VI. Morocco constantly seeks to adapt to future changes, both to ensure its economic and social development and to meet its growing energy needs in a sustainable manner, the Monarch said, adding that “the security of energy supply, energy availability, energy efficiency and environmental protection are the bedrock of my country’s energy strategy”. Underlining his keen interest in energy efficiency, he explained that his vision for socio-economic development, energy efficiency plays an important part in enhancing the fundamental rights of citizens, in environmental protection, in the preservation of public health, in curbing dependence of energy and in rationalizing public spending. “The pressing challenge for our world today is not so much to confront the lack of energy resources as to mobilize the investment needed in this field. It is, therefore, necessary to build the energy infrastructure required and to develop alternative technologies, King Mohammed VI said. “Our commitment to developing an efficient, carbon-free energy model for the well-being and prosperity of our citizens is essentially based on the growing importance of renewable energy and the consolidation of energy efficiency measures,” he insisted, recalling Morocco’s efforts to promote renewable energy to increase its share in power generation from 42% in 2020 to 52% in 2030.
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When you make the decision to become a nurse’s assistant one of the first things you need to do is pick the right nursing assistant training. There are many different schools available and each one will offer different benefits to its students. It is a good idea to take your time and research each school before you decide on the one that right for you. While this may take some time it will ensure that your final decision is the right one. Once you have chosen a school you may be wondering what you can expect in terms of class structure and certification. Below is a guide on what you will learn in your nursing assistant training and what to do once you have finished with your courses. professional nurse who will allow you to take some of the components you have learned in class and apply them to hospital or clinic patients. Procedures you will perform include changing the bed linens, grooming and cleaning patients, and ensuring the patients general comfort. Once you have completed your nursing assistant training you will be prepared to pass the state exam. Your state’s Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) exam will consist of a written and clinical portion. You must pass both portions of the exam to become certified as a nurse’s assistant. Both of these test sections will be based on everything that you have learned in your nursing assistant school so it is important that you fully understand the work you are doing in your classes so that you will have the knowledge to pass the state exam. After you are certified you may begin looking for CNA positions. Becoming a CNA takes hard work and dedication. Luckily most nursing assistant training programs are designed to help you pass the state exams and learn CNA techniques that will prepare you for real-world experience.
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This module develops audio and visual production skills with a specific application to the manifestation of information drawn from a variety of sources, disciplines and media. Students will develop techniques for rendering visual and acoustic representations across a range of resolutions through animation, illustration, dynamic data, and immersive dome environments. The main theme of the module is to represent data/information artistically; also known as Information Graphics (iDAT). To keep a log of our progress through this module, we each have been asked create a blog to record our projects. End of term last year and over Christmas we were set a project to think about love detection. We were tasked to think how we could gather enough information to detect love. At first I tried to think in simple terms, what are the physical elements that can be measured when someone falls in love?
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15796
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Cervical cancer (CC) is the leading cause of cancer death among Peruvian women. Awareness shown by women living with HIV (WLHIV) of their increased risk and Papanicoloau (Pap) smear frequency is understudied, particularly in Peru. We assessed the uptake of guidelines-based CC screening practices and its associations with two predictors, knowledge of CC screening and risk and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) adherence, among WLHIV. Collected by self-administered questionnaires from 2014 to 2016, we analyzed the data of 71 WLHIV. Most WLHIV (77.5%, n = 55/71) were overdue to CC screening by not having a Pap smear within the prior 12 months. WLHIV who had on-time Pap smears had a higher median composite ‘knowledge’ score of 3.0 ([interquartile range] 1.5–4) compared to 2.0 (IQR 1–3) for overdue WLHIV. On-time and overdue WLHIV had the same median composite ‘HAART adherence’ score of 3.0 (IQR 2–4). Bivariate analysis found no association between knowledge nor adherence with on-time Pap smears. Although on-time WLHIV were more knowledgeable about CC screening and risk, overall CC screening uptake was poor. Larger studies of this population are needed to assess the educational, social, and structural barriers contributing to this low prevalence of screening.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15797
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CMV infects the majority of the human population with the virus persisting, typically, asymptomatically, in various tissures. In states of immunodeficiency, however, the infection can reactivate, leading to clinical complications. The immune system responds to reactivation of the CMV virus, which can be detected by ELISPOT-based immune monitoring. For transplantation purposes, it is also essential to identify donors who have not been infected with CMV in order to avoid infecting transplant recipients. Presenting the ImmunoSpot® CMV Test Kits: for unambiguous fluorescent detection of CMV exposure and monitoring of anti-CMV immunity.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15804
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The frosted elfin is a state-listed butterfly species associated with early successional stages of pine barrens ecosystems, a rare seral stage in Massachusetts. We examined local and landscape predictors of abundance of this rare butterfly, with the aim of improving management for the species and its associated ecological community. We found that larvae of frosted elfins feed on Baptisia tinctoria (wild indigo), that are shaded by single trees in a savannah-like fashion, and that larvae are almost always attended by ants that likely protect them from predation. We are the first to document shade selection and ant-tending in this species, ecological traits with important management implications. The Massachusett Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is currently using our results to direct management for frosted elfins in Massachusetts.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15805
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Global Peace Development (GPD) projects advance community-driven development projects in different settlements in Kenya to empower families and build resilient communities. Projects include: workshops, training and enterprise development. In Kariobangi area, located in Embakasi Constituency, Nairobi County, GPF Kenya has partnered with a consortium of corporates and other organizations to support the construction of a community cooker project that turns waste into resources as well pro-actively empowers youth and women with socio economic activities. GPF in partnership with volunteers from Leadership Task Force (LTF) based in South Korea and the Dongruokdala Community Based Organization launched the Allights Village Project in Ukwala town located in Western Kenya to empower vulnerable families in the area by improving their lifestyles. The launch which attracted the participation of government officials from the region saw 100 solar lanterns donated to women and 5 street solar lights installed along the street of Ukwala town as well as rehabilitation of Green Park Ukwala to a modern recreational site. Primary School In Nairobi county with free solar lights, construction of greenhouses as well training and mentorship for pupils on soccer and arts. The program supplements the government’s school feeding program that has seen over 2000 students benefit through a balanced diet which is essential for development.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15808
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This is high time when farmers express their gratitude for a good harvest and pray for prosperity in the coming year he added. Dehradun. Jan 14, 2016. Navdanya is celebrate Makar Sankranti with staff members and a visitor group of 11 students from University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) , USA at the biodiversity conservation farm, Ramgarh, Dehradun. ‘India is a country of festivals and Makar Sankranti is a harvest festival, generally a celebration of an annual harvest, which generally happens during the time of the main harvest of the particular region.’ Mr. J.P.Khali, farm manager Navdanya said. He was introducing about this winter festival to visitor’s group and Navdanya’s staffs. It celebrated usually on January 14th every year across the country. This is high time when farmers express their gratitude for a good harvest and pray for prosperity in the coming year he added. ‘Makar Sankranti marks the transition of Sun into the Makara Rashi which is a zodiac sign. People believe that this auspicious day marks the spring of India which is a traditional event. This festival is also regarded as the beginning of an auspicious phase for Indian culture.’ Dinesh Chandra Semwal, coordinator media and documentation said. He said that On this festival, Sun God begins its ascendancy and enters into northern hemisphere. And thus the Sun God reminds us of ‘Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya’ it means one should turn away from darkness of delusion and should enjoy a new and happy life. ‘The Sun moves from one direction to the other which gradually changes from one zodiac sign to the other. This change is known as Sankranti. Further the sun moves into the Capricorn zodiac which is termed as Makara, hence the name ‘Makar Sankranti’ name evolved’. Mr. Semwal added. At this occasion all member enjoyed yummy and traditional recipe of ‘Khichadi’, delicious sweets, jiggery and peanuts and sesame too. This festival brought as much excitement for visitors with kite flying and a bonus trip to Navdanya Farm.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15810
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This series documents the riverside of La Loire –– Nantes was formed along this river and its port has long been the main reason for its development. The port was livened up by the loading and unloading ships and by shipyards until the 80’s. Now, boats with drafts ever deeper have to dock at St Nazaire, further downstream. Today, these places do not have the function for which they were built: they have instead become residual spaces although they are the heart of the city. My purpose in this photo essay is to reveal the atmosphere that the water gives to these linear altered territories. Benoît Chailleux was born in 1973, and grew up in the suburb of Nantes, France. He is an architect and photographer. .
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15811
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Dry rot only occurs on wood containing moisture, despite its name. Fungi, enjoying the moist wood as a home, invade the timber causing it to rot. This can occur on any piece of wood, basically anywhere in the home. Fixing dry rot can seem like a daunting task, but even those unskilled in carpentry can handle most cases. Some initial investigating will reveal to you the extent of the problem and whether you can fix it yourself. Figure out the source of moisture causing the dry rot and eliminate it. The usual culprits are clogged gutters, leaking pipes and roof problems. To close off the moisture source, you may have to call a professional plumber, roofer or carpenter if you do not possess skills in these areas. Allow the area to dry out completely. Determine the extent of the rotted wood, which will look shriveled and feel soft to the touch. If the damage is extensive and on a structural beam, you will have to replace the entire beam. On a decorative piece, you can just repair the damage no matter how extensive. Cut out the soft, rotted wood with a sharp knife. Scrape away at the wood, which should come out easily, until you hit the hard, healthy wood. Brush a wood hardener onto the remaining wood surface. This product will seep into the wood and prevent further rot. Prepare a wood filler by kneading it until it is a consistent texture. Directions on the packaging will help you with this preparation process. Push it into the void left from the rotted wood as soon as you can. Allow the filler to cure for as long as the packaging suggests. Place the finishing touches on the filler. It can be treated just as the wood around it. Sand it to smooth it out and blend it into the surrounding surface. Paint and carve it however you wish to match the surrounding wood.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15812
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Historic stone fences are a unique and distinctive feature of the Bluegrass landscape. An example of these fences can be seen at the former landfill on Old Frankfort Pike. In addition to stone fences, the Town Branch Trail will highlight other dry stone structures, retaining walls, which can be found along the Town Branch to maintain the stream banks and channel the water. British and Scotch-Irish craftsmen supervised much of the dry stone construction during the 1800s. Dry stone structures do not depend on mortar to hold retaining walls or fences together. Instead, they rely on the skill of the craftsmen to shape and place individual stones as well as the forces of gravity and frictional resistance. Mortared walls generally have a shorter life span than dry stone walls because frozen rain and snow get trapped in mortared seams and push the joints apart. Due to construction techniques, dry stone retaining walls and fences can drain naturally without damage. Remarkably, as a dry stone structure settles over time, it actually becomes stronger. The dry stone retaining walls found along Town Branch have been exceptionally durable and have functioned well for up to two centuries and counting.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15814
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A chalazion is a common condition in which a small lump or cyst develops in your eyelid due to a blocked oil gland. The condition can occur due to inflammation around the opening of the oil glands just behind your eyelashes. This is called blepharitis. When the openings of the small oil glands around your lashes become blocked by inflammation, a small tender swelling can occur in the lid. This is known as a chalazion or a meibomian cyst. The chalazion will often vary in size over a few weeks and can discharge spontaneously or disappear after hot compresses and lid cleaning. A small proportion of the chalazia will remain for weeks or months in the lid, as a non tender lump. This can be safely left to get better by itself. If a large persistent lump is present, this can be incised and drained under local anaesthetic, but NHS England no longer routinely recommends this treatment unless there is a complication or a specific problem from the lid lump. Sometimes the chalazion may cause a spreading infection along the surface of your lid, which might need a course of antibiotics by mouth, but this is rare. A moistened cotton bud or, in children, a warm moist flannel, should be used to clean the edge of your eyelids twice daily. This is known as "lid hygiene". In a small number of cases where there is a lot of blepharitis causing repeated chalazion, the cleaning can be combined with use of antibiotic ointment to rub into the base of your lashes once your lids are clean or low dose antibiotics by mouth. If your eye becomes increasingly red or painful after treatment or your sight becomes more blurred, you should see an eye doctor again or contact the hospital. Our nurse-led helpline is open during office hours on weekdays. After hours and during weekends, please contact our accident and emergency department via the main switchboard on 020 7253 3411.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15815
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Fall weather made an impact on the soil samples coming to the lab. Extremely wet conditions delayed harvest, and then the ground froze keeping samplers out of the fields. Mother Nature continued to wreak havoc by adding snow and essentially halting sampling in many areas. Despite the weather challenges, samplers did their best and volume in my Midwest territory stayed relatively strong. In recent weeks, I have traveled east to Indiana and Illinois, west to Omaha, Nebraska, and north to Manitoba, Canada (Winnipeg and Brandon). I have talked with growers, consultants, and ag retailers. All are sharing the same concerns that the farm economy is weak. Growers will be cutting back with the hope of breaking even. On a more positive note, in these regions, most yields were very good to better than expected. The growers know they will put a crop in and the variables are the level of inputs to support that crop. All agree that soil testing is a critical step in determining the proper level of fertilizers and if the amount can be reduced. With fertilizer being such a large input cost, over applying is a waste of valuable resources. Without the soil test, they are just guessing. It is always better to let soil tests guide fertility decisions rather than guessing with minimal data. One of our clients in northern Indiana, says soil test levels will allow you to “nudge it within your budget.” He makes a great point. Spring sampling allows growers to review the information with their agronomist throughout the spring and summer, and then apply the fertilizer right after the combine leaves the field. With waiting to sample after harvest, time is extended by sampling the field, sending it to the lab, having prescriptions made and then finally applying the fertilizer. In the case of last fall’s weather, those days made a big difference. Taking a moment to think about the management of the spring sampling makes a lot of sense to farmers and agronomists alike. I will have a Midwest Laboratories booth in Des Moines January 29-31 for the Iowa Power Farming Show, and on February 12-13, I will be at the Agribusiness Association of Iowa Showcase and Conference. Stop by our booth, and we can discuss soil testing for you and your farmers.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15816
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Abstract Egypt’s food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government’s long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability. It has also been a major component of the social safety net for the poor, guaranteeing the availability of affordable staples, helping to reduce infant mortality and malnutrition, and mitigating the adverse effects of recent economic reform and structural adjustment.The cost of the system has declined considerably from 14 percent of government expenditures in 1980/81 to 5.6 percent in 1996/97. The absolute cost, however, remains high: In 1996/97,the total cost was 3.74 billion Egyptian pounds (LE)or about US$1.1 billion.The government and various stakeholders agree that the system’s costs can be further reduced and its efficiency improved with better targeting to the needy. The Egyptian Food Subsidy System: Structure, Performance, and Options for Reform evaluates the economic, political, and technical feasibility of reducing costs while improving or maintaining the welfare of the poor.The report addresses five questions: (1)How well does the present system target the poor? (2)How much leakage — the pilferage of subsidized foods in the distribution channel —occurs? (3)At what cost does the government transfer income to the needy? (4)How can subsidies be better targeted to the needy?and (5)What are politically feasible options for reform?
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15818
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White Spruce seeds take 10-20 days to sprout, and will slowly grow over the course of several years. The Spruce will continue to grow with sufficient nutrients and light. Trees grow slowly, but in turn provide years of enjoyment! The coco pot can be transplanted into the ground to grow a full size tree. To learn if your region is conducive to growing Spruce trees, please contact the Master Gardening extension office in your state. Consider the time of year and your region’s climate. Spruce thrive in temps between 45°-75°F and with at least 6 hours of direct sunlight. Starting in Mar-Sept will provide longer days and thus optimal light. If starting during cooler months, it’s recommended that you supplement natural light with a grow light (fluorescent or LED). Consider the time of year and your region’s climate. Spruce thrive in temps between 45°-75°F and with at least 6 hours of direct sunlight. Starting in Mar-Sept will provide longer days and thus optimal light. If starting during cooler months, it’s recommended that you supplement natural light with a grow light (fluorescent or LED).Herbs require at least 6 hours of direct light daily, and should be put in an unobstructed window that faces south, west or east (southwest is the best option). During winter months—or if you don’t have an unobstructed window—you can supplement with a grow light. Garden Jars are designed for indoor use, but can be put outside. Be mindful that the planter does not have a drain hole, and if the reservoir floods it may drown the roots. Bring your Garden Jar inside if temps dip below freezing. The recycled glass grow medium and polypro wick can both be reused—simply rinse with hot water. Add a new coco pot, seeds and use soil or coco pith to help seeds germinate. Use a water soluble fertilizer and follow its instructions.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15820
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High quallity puerh suitable for every day. Traditionally, Puerh is obtained as a result of ripening of raw máochá (毛茶). Depending on the technology, this process takes several days. Then the product can be marketed under the name "Mao-cha" or undergo further ripening. In the second case, it is pressed into molds, and it is stored in necessary conditions. Ripening time can vary from months to tens of years. Tea that has undergone the ripening stage is called "shen-puer", shēngchá (生 茶). In 1973, Kunming Tea Factory began to apply a new process of repeatedly accelerated fermentation, wòduī (渥 堆). Soon the company Menghai tea factory introduced this technology and began to produce a new kind of tea, "shu-puer", shúchá (熟 茶). It also began to be sold in both pressed and loose form. There are several ways to make puerh. For brewing an average of 4 grams of tea per 150 ml of water (the standard ratio for tasting - 6 g per 100 ml of water). There are recommendations for the preliminary washing and/or roasting of the puer before brewing. Washing removes dust, and roasting provides disinfection. The actual brewing (in a teapot or gaiwani) occurs quite traditionally - Puerh is poured with hot water with a temperature close to boiling. By the time of infusion, options are also possible. It is often recommended to infuse the first tea brewing (first two tea brewings) of earthy tea for a few seconds, then immediately drain the infusion, and with repeated brews, increasing the time by 15-30 seconds each time. In this mode, the Puer can withstand, depending on the age and quality, from 5 to 10 brews.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15822
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Updated 12/10/18: On November 27th hundreds of migrants attempted to cross the border into the United States. Migrants tried to enter at three locations near the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. That’s when the tear gas was released by the military. Tear gas is a type of chemical that causes irritation to the eyes, that can cause very serious health issues, for example, chemical burns, and nerve damage can possibly cause death. Most of the damages from tear gas is temporary it wears off after 30 minutes to an hour. Tear gas was first used on December 19, 1915. It was soon claimed and identified as a chemical weapon and banned for use in warfare due to its severe symptoms. Since president Donald Trump ordered all migrants trying to cross the border should be caught The migrant caravan crowd keeps growing Trump had made statements about the migrant caravan trying to cross the US Mexican border. There are approximately 2,000 children out there with their parents trying to cross the border. The kids have walked a lot with their parents, some are even barefoot. The migrants do not want to stay here forever, they just want to work here and make money. One of the migrant workers had mentioned, “Their plan is to send the money back to their families so when they go back to their hometown, they won’t be poor”. On Friday, soldiers reinforced the international bridge in Hidalgo, near McAllen, in the first wave of up to 15,000 troops that President Donald Trump has said will help secure the southern border. They are conducting drills and putting up chain-link fencing topped with barbed wire. Some migrants are chancing it on taking their kids with them. Some people are getting their kids taken away and they understand that there is a high risk of losing their child. This thought is scary but they understand that it is a possibility. The numbers of migrants have gained people walking with them for a while now. There are mostly many women and children in the caravan. Most of those traveling with the caravans have been peaceful and migrants traveling through the southern state of Oaxaca on Friday said they are not looking for trouble. There is no say on when they will reach America. Why is a parent running up into an area where they know the tear gas is forming and it’s going to be formed and they were running up with a child?
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15825
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Dr. Angelica Jimenez is dedicated to caring for her patients but when painful migraines made doing her job difficult, she turned to a colleague for help. "it was affecting my daily life. i was getting home later...the day didn't go by fast... i had a lack of energy," Jimenez said. Cardiologist Dr. Adam Splaver spotted the problem through an echocardiogram, which showed blood flowing where it shouldn't be. Jimenez had a small hole in her heart called an atrial septal defect, or ASD. New research shows a link between people who get migraines and this common congenital heart condition. "those patients have been found to not only have a higher incidence of this hole, but actually in having the problems associated with the hole...whether is be a stroke pulmonary hypertension, arrhythmias, shortness of breath," Splaver said. Turns out, Jimenez's mother also had an ASD which led to stroke when she was just 40 years old. The good news is, once discovered, surgery to close the hole in the heart resolves the issue. "anyone who has a migraine really should see their cardiologist and ask to see if they have any evidence of this hole," said Splaver. Jimenez said after undergoing the procedure, she no longer has migraines. "no more medications, no more dealing with headaches around daily living," she said." i am back to my regular, high speed, effective mode." Splaver said 25% of the population have a hole in the heart and don't even know it.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15826
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A Balloon catheter is inserted into the sinus. The Balloon is inflated to expand the sinus opening. Then fluid is sprayed into the infected sinus to flush out mucus. Sinuses are air-filled pockets behind the facial bones surrounding the nose. Each sinus has an opening through which mucus drains. This drainage keeps your sinuses working well and you healthy. Anything that obstructs that flow may cause a buildup of mucus in the sinuses, which may lead to infection and inflammation of the sinuses. Balloon Sinuplasty is a minimally invasive procedure that opens sinus passages. It relieves the pain and pressure associated with chronic sinusitis. Fast - While recovery time varies with each patient, many people were more able to perform day to day activies at home and work. If you’ve experienced these symptoms for 12 or more weeks.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15833
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The German and Swiss German surname Erbe is derived from the medieval personal name Erbe, meaning “descendant, or heir,”which was popular in the Upper Rhineland. The first recorded reference to the name was on May 27th 1571 when Hans Erbe married Agnes Streubel at St. Michael, Zeitz, Sachsen, Germany. Catherina, daughter of Vert and Catherina Erb, was christened on June 3rd 1572, at St. Jacobi, Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany. The marriage of Phebe Erbe and Thomas Kyddall took place at St. Vedast Foster Lane, London, on July 19th 1574.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15838
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“More than 46 million Americans live in poverty.” The poverty line in Florida is currently 17.1 percent. The amount of poverty is at its highest since 1960. Does the United States have an obligation to help the poor? In America, we claim to be the land of the brave and the home of the free….
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15840
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– internationalization in teaching and learning. Examples: multicultural learning, global learning, global citizenry, global literacy. – instructional design and learning outcomes. Examples: instructional strategies. assessment of teaching and learning, syllabus/course design, curriculum design, program design. – faculty and professional development. Examples: learning communities, centers for teaching and learning, higher education reform, institutional policy-making challenges and opportunities. – meaningful and authentic learning. Examples: service learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning, integrative learning, transformative learning.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15842
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On 26th Oct 1997 I caught a flatworm near Udaipur from a moist place. The style of locomotion of worm was identical to that of an earthworm, except that it occasionally raised its head from the ground and moved it sideways just like a snake. It also expanded its head sideways considerably and its head looked like a hammer headed shark. During locomotion it crawled leaving behind a slimy trail. I sent the specimen to ZSI (Zoological Survey of India) on 15th of Nov 1997 for identification. Dr. A. Chattergee, a scientist of ZSI, identified it till Genus. Further correspondence showed they had no facility to identify it to species. ZSI kept the specimen for National Zoological collection numbered W8300/1 with my name as donor. Free-living flat worms (tubellaria) are rare and least studied worms of the world. In this subcontinent free-living flat worms were first collected by M. Sarasin in 1883 from Sri Lanka. Historically the most interesting land planarian collected in India is B. Smithi, since it is first described from this country with some degree of certainty. The other few mentioned previous to 1914 were all vaguely described and the accounts are practically useless. Prior to this, four specimens were colleted from Darjeeling by Lord Carmicheal, Dr. Gravely and Major Bennett. This is the fifth land planarian collected from India. I still have a few specimens of the flat worm and those interested in further study can contact me for the same.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15844
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ARTB File Extension – What is .ARTB file and How to open it? Having trouble opening .artb extension? Don't panic! This page explains what artb files are as well as suggests programs you may use to open artb files. You can download these programs through this page. What is an ARTB file? Artb file extension has Artboard Document file type, developed by Mapdiva, which is associated with the "vector image files" category. Associated with Artboard, the file could contain a custom drawing or the one created with one of the templates that come with the software. Users can export the file to such formats as .JPG, .PDF, and .TIF. ARTB files usually come in the Mac OS X package format. They may also store an Artboard .DRAWING file as well as some other package files. How to open ARTB file? Double click the artb file to open it. The file will open automatically if file associations have been correctly installed and there is a proper program on your computer; if not, file associations may be corrupted and your OS either cannot find the proper program, or you might not have one for opening the file. First, we recommend downloading our utility to fix file association errors; then, you can download any program for opening the .artb extension from the ones suggested below. If you are certain there is nothing wrong with the file associations, you may proceed to method 2 right away; besides, if you can't make up your mind when choosing the right program, use Universal File Viewer from the last method. The given list provides programs which may be used for opening or converting the artb file. Choose the proper program for your OS, and click it to start the download or proceed to the developer's website. In addition to the list of programs above, we recommend using Universal File Viewer. This tool can open over 250 file extensions and, most likely, it will be able to open the artb file as well. Download Universal File Viewer for your OS.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15846
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Annotation: This article analyzes the policy of Alameda County, California in which, after two years of free methadone maintenance treatment, clients would be required to pay a $200 monthly fee for their methadone or detoxify and leave the program. Abstract: The two-year rule went into effect in 1984. To better understand how the policy affected the lives of those receiving methadone maintenance doses, researchers interviewed 143 clients at six month intervals over a period of two and a half years. Three types of clients were identified: the model client, the marginal client, and the stabilized client. Model clients comprised six percent of the population interviewed. They were conventional working-class and middle-class people who were gainfully employed and whose drug use was limited to methadone. Marginal clients comprised 25 percent of the study group, were members of the underclass, were unemployed, lacked job skills, and often had extensive criminal records. They were the least committed group to methadone maintenance and often caused trouble around the clinics. Stabilized clients comprised 69 percent of the study group, found methadone to be a stabilizing influence on their otherwise difficult lives, and were making attempts to avoid using other drugs. The study concludes that model clients fared well under the two-year rule policy, marginal clients continued to be involved in the heroin lifestyle, and stabilized clients suffered greatly because they depended on the methadone for stability but could not afford to pay for it. The article concludes with policy recommendations. 9 footnotes and 28 references.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15850
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Stunning botanical gardens and arboreta create oasis-like spots for meditation, education and conservation throughout Idaho. If your travels take you near Ketchum, stop in at the high-altitude Sawtooth Botanical Garden. Five main gardens, supported by smaller gardens, represent the biomes that exist in South Central Idaho, including the Riparian Garden, Sage Steppe Garden, the Lava Rock Garden, Alpine Garden, and Montane Garden. Boise is home to the 50-acre Idaho Botanical Garden. There are ten main gardens within the park, including an English Garden designed by John Brookes, an Iris Garden, and a Water Garden. Meanwhile, Moscow is home to The University of Idaho Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Native plants thrive alongside those introduced to the area in an outdoor museum setting perfect for relaxation, appreciation and education for students and the public alike. This lovely 50-acre park sits on the grounds of the Old Idaho State Penitentiary’s farm. Among the inspiring gardens: An Alpine Garden, a Cactus Garden, and an English Garden designed by famed landscape architect John Brookes. You can also explore the Iris Garden and Rose Garden, as well as the Idaho Native Plant Garden, among others, during your visit. A thriving outdoor museum with a collection of native plants, as well as those introduced into the region. The site serves an educational purpose for the university, as well as for visitors who are encouraged to explore.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15856
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Different sports place different demands on the body. Therefore there are different considerations with respect to nutrition. Generally, nutrition for endurance sports is mainly focused on keeping up with fluid and energy requirements in the body and ensuring a good recovery. In the case of strength sports development and regeneration of muscle mass is an important focus. Team sports are often a combination of endurance and strength with exercise of varying levels of intensity (explosive bursts, alternated with lower intensity phases), lasting between 60 to 90 minutes. For endurance athletes good basic nutrition with sufficient carbohydrate is important. A good balance between training and carbohydrate helps to optimise the glycogen stores. During intensive training sessions or a race it is important for an endurance athlete to limit the loss of fluids, to prevent help prevent gastro-intestinal distress and to provide sufficient energy as carbohydrate. The aim is to quickly absorb fluids and fuels and most sports drinks consist of water with some salt and sugars to speed up absorption. (4-5) In the recovery phase after prolonged exercise muscle repair and regeneration is also important for endurance athletes. Therefore an endurance athlete is also advised to have 20 grams of protein within the first 2 hours after a training session or race. Team sports are characterised by high intensity intermittent exercise of varying levels of intensity (explosive bursts alternated with lower intensity phases), lasting between 60 to 90 minutes. This makes team sports a combination of strength and endurance sports. Of course, good basic nutrition is important for team sport athletes with special attention to ingesting sufficient fluids and carbohydrates to support exercise for periods lasting longer than an hour. Good recovery is also important for replenishing the glycogen stores and protein for repair and regeneration of muscle. Elite team sports athlete are advised to take a portion of 20 grams protein in the first 2 hours after a heavy training session or match. Cermak N.M., Res P.T., de Groot L.C., Saris W.H., van Loon L.J. (2012). Protein supplementation augments the adaptive response of skeletal muscle to resistance-type exercise training: a meta-analysis. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2012;96(6):1454-64. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.037556. Epub 2012 Nov 7.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15857
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Interview with Dr. Ottaviano Ruesch, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center studio. 0:12 - Before Dawn arrived at Ceres, what did you expect to find? 0:21 - What does the shape of Ahuna Mons tell you about its formation? 0:52 - What does the brightness and color of Ahuna Mons tell you about its age? 1:08 - What are the three lines of evidence that Ahuna Mons is a young feature? 1:49 - Why were you surprised to find that Ahuna Mons is a young feature? 2:10 - How does this activity make you appreciate spacecraft exploration? 2:32 - What do you need for cryomagma? 2:58 - What makes this instance of cryovolcanism unique? 3:18 - What is Ceres' role in planetary science? 3:52 - How does dwarf planet Ceres related to dwarf planet Pluto? Interview with Dr. Lucy McFadden, Planetary Scientist, in the NASA Goddar Space Flight Center Studio. 0:17 - What is Ceres? 0:34 - What is Dawn? 1:15 - What is Ahuna Mons? 1:49 - How do you know Ahuna Mons didn't form from an impact crater? 2:26 - What does the shape of Ahuna Mons tell you about its formation? 3:30 - What makes this instance of cryovolcanism unique? 4:40 - What is the heat source for this cryovolcano?
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15859
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The workshop will explore the use of Grasshopper, plug-in for Rhinoceros, to provide participants the fundamentals of parametric design to support their design explorations. "Parametric Design with GRASSHOPPER" is a basic Grasshopper workshop that will focus on how its nature as an information processor and how it can be used in order to manipulate data and to inform geometry from the very simple up to more complex ones. The modeling of parametric surfaces and geometries (Nurbs or Mesh) requires an understanding and manipulation of information and data structures in order to define the entire design process from design to production. The aim is to give an understanding of information and data articultion as already a spatial and architectural operation. Participants will learn to define algorithmical procedures to develop parametric data structures to inform their own 'data-driven' geometries and how to prepare the models for 3D printing process. Andrea Graziano is an architect and computational designer, member and co-founder of Co-de-iT - Computational Design Italy, currently engaged in teaching international workshops about computational design, digital tools and robotic fabrication in architectural design, lecturing and consultancy work. He runs the internationally renowned digitAG& blog about generative and computational design and scripting techniques in architecture. Andrea acts as an active catalyst through his intense activity of social networking of the paradigm-shift in the fields of architectural research, computation and science. A ‘digital explorer’ and ‘knowmad’ aiming to research, curate and envision the rapid evolution of science, technology, art and philosophy, their possible convergence and tooling into design and architecture.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15863
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Smart factories integrate production, information, services, and platform through advanced technologies such as analytics, big data, IoT, cloud, smart mobility, logistics, etc. The traditional manufacturing industries are seen to increase their investments on these technologies for high efficiency, quality improvements, customization, and productivity gains. The advent of industry 4.0 has lead Indian manufacturing industries to undergo a revolutionary transformation in their method of operation.“Make in India”, “Smart Cities Mission” and “Digital India” have been initiated by the Government of India to upgrade the manufacturing sectors. However, the recent trends suggest that India is still in the initial stages of embracing digital technologies. India has several resources such as growing market, a great workforce with diverse skills, demographic dividend, research and development centers, technology start-up base and government focus to proactively achieve digital revolution. In India, few industries have been observed to explore smart factory applications, while access to IoT, cloud, artificial intelligence and advanced analytics has been found to be the major challenges. The manufacturing sector is powered by the IoT urging decision makers to innovate and develop products considering the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and Virtual Reality (VR) in the manufacturing sector. The continuous demand for faster, cheaper, and better quality products by the customers manifest the need to embrace change and technology in manufacturing sectors. Besides the major challenges encountered by the Indian industries are associated with infrastructure, data security, and privacy, standards-based interoperability, insufficient support to MSMEs. Consequently, collaborative efforts are required from industries, government and research institutions to help India achieve digital revolution.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15864
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Google Slides is one of the many “Magical Tools” embedded into GSuites for Education. It is a versatile tool and often carries the “Stigma” of being a presentation tool. The last few years I’ve discovered a myriad of ways to incorporate slides for supporting students of all learning abilities. Sharing slides in “Edit Mode” provides students the opportunity to use Google Slides as interactive and Collaborative Activities. Activities such as my “Phases of the Moon” Google Slides Interactive support students with independently learning content and internalizing the information through the use of several methods. Below is a video explaining how to use the Phases of the Moon Google Slides. How does this Google Slides Activity Benefit Students? Annotating Slides Presentations Oh My!
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15867
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Albany, NY – WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel try to stay within their element as they tackle the periodic table. Start with the name of Al Pacino's 1999 film THE INSIDER. Rearrange the letters to name two five-letter films in which Pacino does not appear. On-air questions: Dmitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who devised the original version of the periodic table, was born this week in 1834, so our questions this week are about the elements. 1. Element whose chemical symbol Hg derives from the Latin word "hydrargyrum," which means "watery silver" Think of two elements with a total of eight letters in their names. Rearrange those eight letters to spell an adjective that might describe someone who failed chemistry class. What are the elements and what is the adjective?
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15868
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Prevalent use of open-source and third-party components creating unmanaged risk: Approximately 97 percent of Java applications contained at least one component with a known vulnerability. October 18, 2016 — Burlington, MA— Veracode today released the findings in its annual State of Software Security Report (SoSS). The seventh edition of the report presents metrics drawn from code-level analysis of billions of lines of code across 300,000 assessments performed over the last 18 months. The report revealed that the continued and persistent use of components in software development is creating systemic risk in our digital infrastructure. However, the report also found that companies achieve accelerated benefits when their application security programs reach maturity. These finding indicate that the growing trend of focusing on digital risk at the application layer and building security into DevOps processes (DevSecOps) can yield great results for organizations in reducing risk without slowing down software development. Veracode’s analysis revealed the growing risk caused by the proliferation of vulnerable open source components. Veracode found that a single popular component with a critical vulnerability spread to more than 80,000 other software components, which were in turn then used in the development of potentially millions of software programs. Approximately 97 percent of Java applications contained at least one component with a known vulnerability. Veracode’s research also highlights the challenges that still exist in software development more broadly. For example, 60 percent of applications failed basic security requirements upon first scan. However, the report found that when companies follow best practices and implement programs with consistent policies and practices for secure development, they are able to remediate vulnerabilities at a higher rate. The study showed that the top quartile of companies fix almost 70 percent more vulnerabilities than the average organization. Additionally, best practices like remediation coaching and eLearning can improve vulnerability fix rates by as much as six-times. Developers who test unofficially using Developer Sandbox scanning improve policy-based vulnerability fix rates by about two-times. Veracode’s annual State of Software Security Report also examines the prevalence of vulnerable open source components in applications, compared industry trends regarding the fixing and finding of vulnerabilities, and security trends pointing to the rise of DevOps environments, such as some applications being scanned multiple times per day, average security tests per app is seven.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15869
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Activity 1: What is “Community”? Where do we start making smart land choices? We need to start with our communities…our boroughs, townships, cities and neighborhoods.We don’t have to settle for traffic jams and unattractive neighborhoods and cinder-block shopping areas. Communities can visualize what they want and take charge to assure that their community is changing in a positive direction. Just look at communities that you enjoy visiting. Identify the elements that make a community attractive and vital. Decide what is wanted and what is not desirable and develop a plan to make your community the best you can. Change is inevitable. It will happen whether your community is prepared or not. The pressures of development occur for many reasons. They can be traced to societal demands and consumer choices. But that doesn’t mean a community cannot control its own destiny. It takes visionary leadership and an educated, motivated and committed citizenry. Creativity and patience can change a degraded neighborhood into a place that generates pride. A small group of motivated citizens can create a museum where a deserted factory once stood. A small group of dedicated leaders can create a regional tourist destination for visitors, artisans and wildlife viewers where few visitors ever ventured. It is this Pennsylvanian spirit and ingenuitythat is portrayed in our communities that address change head-on and create their vision for the future.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15874
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Ford is set to launch new technology designed to help those behind the wheel of a Transit van save fuel and money. Driving smoothly to anticipate twists and turns ahead is useful for boosting fuel economy, but relies on knowing the road itself. The new EcoGuide application takes away the need to remember every piece of tarmac, by making use of the satellite navigation system in the Transit. EcoGuide analyses information from the built-in sat-nav system to plot the most economical way to drive the route ahead. The aim is to avoid the need for unplanned heavy braking, which ruins the momentum of a vehicle. Given that a Transit could be carrying substantial cargo, building that motion up again wastes time and fuel. Junctions, slopes, bends and even speed limits can be identified up by EcoGuide, which appears in the regular Transit instrument gauge. Prompts tell the driver when to brake, and also what gear to be in to maximise efficiency. A ‘halo’ around the digital speedometer records if the driver is doing the most to save fuel, and a report can be generated at the end of a journey. Ford introduced the EcoGuide technology a decade ago in hybrid versions of the US-market Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan. It is also a feature of the new Mondeo Hybrid estate, and an important element in Ford’s $11 billion investment in creating a range of electric vehicles. The regular Transit van, Transit Custom, and Tourneo Custom will gain EcoGuide starting from the middle of 2019.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15875
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We must be louder than those who make headlines by their acts of hatred. We must call out acts of intolerance no matter how small, because even small acts can embolden the hatred and anger that lead to devastating consequences. Our diversity is our greatest strength. Hate and intolerance have no place in Canada, a nation of all faiths, all creeds, all cultures. Every person in Canada has the right to live free from fear of discrimination, violence or exclusion because of who they are, where they come from or what they believe. Overall, 43% of hate crimes in 2017 were motivated by hatred of a race or ethnicity. Hate crimes targeting the Muslim population accounted for 17% of all hate crimes in Canada in 2017. Racialized Canadians also earn an average of 81 cents to the dollar compared to other Canadians. Black males living in Toronto are 3 times more likely to be stopped and asked for identification by police.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15876
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Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Ayyūb or Salahu d-din ( صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيو‎) Full Arabic Animated Movie Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn or Salahu d-din (Arabic:صلاح الدين) is an Arabic name that means The Righteousness of the Faith. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, Kurdish: سه‌لاحه‌دين ئه‌يوبي, Selah\\edînê Eyubî) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), better known in the Western world as Saladin, was a Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He led Islamic opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant. At the height of his power, he ruled over Arab world Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hejaz, and Yemen. He led the Muslims against the Crusaders and eventually recaptured Palestine from the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem after his victory in the Battle of Hattin. As such, he is a notable figure in Kurdish, Arab, and Muslim culture. His chivalrous behavior was noted by kufars chroniclers, especially in the accounts of the siege of Kerak in Moab, and despite being the nemesis of the Crusaders he won the respect of many of them, including Richard the Pussyheart; rather than becoming a hated figure in Europe, he became a celebrated example of the principles of chivalry.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15877
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group communication is organized into four different learning modules. and module four covers technology and group interaction. But not the common sense or taken for granted notions of communication, you might expect. some of the conventional wisdom about communication that is so common in our society. to better comprehend the complexities of human interaction in today's groups. systems and institutions, and design. but they're easy to miss, if we are not looking. So we want to expand our field of vision, so to speak. So we have a fuller understanding of what's happening in any group situation. Module two focuses on group development and decision making. contrast different models that explain these processes. while also developing better practices for making good group decisions. creative and innovative in their decision making. Module three is all about conflict, difference and diversity. how understanding the concept of identity is critical for our involvement in groups. And we'll pay special attention to communication and gender. One of the most significant aspects of difference in diversity for groups to understand. the modern landscape of group work we must understand. well as various models and theories of media functionality and information processing. we should always keep in mind when it comes to technology and group communication. technology and group work through the fascinating theory of sociomateriality. quite an exciting adventure into the fascinating dynamics of group communication. And I'm glad you can join me on this journey.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15878
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Kiribati (or locally pronounced as "Gilberts") derives from the Gilbert Islands, which is the main island. The name of the Gilbert Islands in indigenous Gilbertese language is "Tungaru". The Gilbert Islands was named after a British explorer, Thomas Gilbert, who was the first European to discover them. It is home to about 100,000 of I-Kiribati. Most speakers use Gilbertese daily — about 97% of I-Kiribati is able to read in Gilbertese and 80% are able to read in English. Numerous I-Kiribati of Rabi Island (Fiji), Nui (Tuvalu), Mili (Marshall Islands) and other islands where I-Kiribati have relocated also speak Gilbertese. Visit "Culture and Communication Handbook" for Gilbertese learning. I a butiiko ma kawiiremweko riki n taetae ao tai kaboonganai taeka aika a kaangaanga b'a I aonga ni waetata n rabakau. Please speak slowly, and don't use difficult words, so that I can learn more quickly. Mauri = Hello / Welcome - this is the word you will hear and use most while in Kiribati - an embedded sign of the friendliness and welcoming nature of the Kiribati people. Ko rabwa = Thank you - Kiribati is a very polite and friendly society, and using “Ko rabwa” is always appreciated. Taiaoka = Please - very useful in Kiribati and great to create a polite impression of guests with the local community. Can also be combined with “ikai” (here) to ask the bus driver to stop for you ; or if you need to squeeze past someone in a crowd.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15881
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Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that all human beings are entitled too, no matter who or where they come from in the world. It is the right to life, liberty, equality, and freedoms. “The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband, is the view that all people should be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to Freedom of expression and opinion and other fundamental human rights.” As we grow as a society and the way of living continues to constantly change different things become essential to human life. In this decade of life, technology surrounds humans in our every day lives. Even the United Nations have recognized the access to the internet as a human right. Stating that “the Internet has to be more affordable and accessible, because in reality, without access to a computer and the Internet, a person can barely keep up with the Joneses in our digital age.” Their is this digital divide in our society defining those who have and those who do not have access to the internet. The lower income families without access to internet are put at a disadvantage, creating less opportunities for them. Having access to the internet, is like having the right of freedom of thought, expressions and opinions. Therefore the government should be doing whatever they can do, to help provide the internet to people who do not have it, so no human rights are being violated and no one is being left out.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15889
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Ch. i.: Whatever is edible, and is private property, and grows in the ground is subject to tithe. Plants that are edible while young as well as when full grown are subject to tithe before maturity (if any part of the crop is taken before maturity); but of plants that are not properly eatable before they reach a certain stage of ripeness one may eat, without separating the tithes, until they develop. The Mishnah then proceeds to designate the respective stages at which plants come under the general head of edibles and are consequently subject to tithe. As between picking for marketing and for domestic consumption a distinction is made: in the latter case one may use small quantities before bringing the mass under shelter (comp. iii. 5). Ch. ii.-iv.: Under what circumstances a Ḥaber may eat of the produce of an 'Am ha-Areẓ without first separating the ma'aser. If a laborer, hired to assist in gathering figs, stipulates with his employer that he be allowed to eat of the fruit, he may eat without regard to tithing; but if his stipulation includes one of his dependents, or if he sends one of his dependents instead, the latter will not be privileged to partake of the fruit before the tithe is properly set aside. [The laborer is by law entitled to eat of the produce he handles (see B. M. vii. 2 et seq.), as a kind of charity; comp. B. M. 92a et seq.] After the crop reaches the employer's enclosed premises the laborer may eat thereof only if his employer has not promised to board him. Ch. v.: Laws regarding cases in which one is required to pay tithes when he transplants vegetables; laws regarding the sale of crops to one who is suspected of non-observance; law regarding the paying of tithes in the case of vegetable fields purchased in Syria.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15892
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Working with limited literacy adult English language learners. This presentation gives background into limited literacy learners who often present in our institution with developing oral proficiency but with very limited writing and reading skills. Literature from Ong (1982) and Croydon, A. (2005) Making It Real: Teaching Pre-literate Adult Refugee Students. Tacoma Project in the United States was reviewed. Strategies for working with limited literacy learners included scaffolding, varying tasks, the language experience approach and peer support in class.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15893
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Combining indices has a counterpart: you can partition an index into several indices. There are many reasons to do so: you might want to split an index in several segments containing different group of documents so to distribute the load of a multiserver system. Or you might want to store in main memory the posting lists of the terms that appear more often and just map into memory the rest. MG4J has two tools that make it possible to partition an index: PartitionLexically and PartitionDocumentally. The first tool creates several indices containing distinct subsets of words. The second tool creates indices containing distinct subsets of documents. To make the process as customizable as possible, both tools accept a partitioning strategy, that is, an object that specifies, for each term or document, where it should be stored. There are ready-to-use strategies, but you can also write your own. Once you have created several indices, you can see them again as a single index using an index cluster—a type of index that exposes a number of local indices as a single global index. A cluster uses a clustering strategy which is often associated with a partitioning strategy. Moreover, you can always Merge back the partitioned indices you created and get back exactly the original index. The documentation of the package it.unimi.di.mg4j.index.cluster and its classes is a good starting point to understand partitioning and clusters.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15896
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Historians estimate that between the advent of Islam in 650 CE and the abolition of slavery in the Arabian Peninsula in the mid-20th century, 10 to 18 million Black Africans (known as the Zanj) were enslaved by Arab slave traders and transported to the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries. This number far exceeded the number of slaves who were taken to the Americas. Several factors affected the visibility of descendants of this diaspora in 21st-century Arab societies: The traders shipped more female slaves than males, as there was a demand for them to serve as concubines in harems in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries. Male slaves were castrated in order to serve as harem guards. The death toll of Black African slaves from forced labor was high. The mixed-race children of female slaves and Arab owners were assimilated into the Arab owners' families under the patrilineal kinship system. As a result, few distinctive Afro-Arab communities have survived in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15900
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We all know that nutrition is a foundation for our overall health. Nutrition is how our bodies get energy to perform their daily functions. In many cases, poor nutrition is how our bodies get toxins and imbalances. This is no exception for our oral health. Studies show that a pure, healthy diet with a surplus of vitamins and nutrients can help to prevent gum disease and encourage overall oral health. areas like South and North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. diet that included processed foods like sugar and white flour had a higher incidence of tooth decay, gum disease, and malformed arches. s important to keep a balance of moderation. For the best results, our diets should consist mainly of whole fruits and vegetables, lean meats, nuts, and the like. Remember that processed foods, especially those that contain high amounts of simple sugars, are one of the primary enemies of nutritional health.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15903
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Plantar Fasciitis is an injury causing heel pain and pain along the arch of the foot. The plantar fascia is a thick fibrous band of tissue in the bottom of the foot, which runs from the heel to the base of the toes. When placed under too much stress, the plantar fascia stretches too far and frays, or tears, resulting in inflammation of the fascia and the surrounding tissues. The tears are soon covered with scar tissue, which is less flexible than the fascia and only aggravates the problem. Typically symptoms are worst first thing in the morning or with activity after a period of rest and may include: pain at the base of the heel, pain at the origin of the arch when weight is put on the foot, pain at the arch if standing on tip toes, tenderness and swelling under the heel, numbness along the outside of the sole of the foot. It is caused by stress, tension and pulling on the plantar fascia due to muscular imbalance (typically inflexible calf muscles and weakness of the foot supporting muscles). Also, poor mechanical structure (either excessively flat or too high arched) of the foot placing more stress onto the plantar fascia can cause this injury. Over activity may also lead to plantar fasciitis. The treatment involves rest and icing to alleviate inflammation. Strapping to control and prevent further straining to the fascial structure. Stretching, strengthening and massage to address muscular imbalance. Assessment & control of abnormalities in leg and foot structure.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15905
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Summer is a blast. The weather is perfect. School’s out. Vacation is coming due. Since injuries spike in the summer, here are some precautions to keep your summer days healthy and happy. Older people, in particular, may be vulnerable to dehydration due to medications they take or other health conditions. Kids can become dehydrated through overexertion on a hot day. The key is to keep track of your liquid intake. Drink six to eight glasses of water a day. Make sure your equipment is in good condition, fits well and is worn correctly before you begin an activity. Allergy rates soar in our area during the summer, mostly from ragweed. Each year in the U.S., about 47 million cases of foodborne illness are reported. During the summer, salmonella is especially problematic. Dairy products, as well as egg dishes, can be breeding grounds for salmonella. Don’t let food sit out for more than two hours. On a hot day (90°F or higher), reduce this time to one hour. Put perishable items in a cooler or insulated bag. Wash your hands often. Older people, infants and people with weakened immune systems are especially vulnerable to foodborne illness. Insect repellents are safe and are recommended for kids as young as 6 months. DEET-containing insect repellents work best. Mosquitoes can carry dangerous viruses like Zika, West Nile virus and Lyme disease. If you encounter a bee, remove the stinger from your skin as quickly as possible. You can use a credit card or anything with a firm edge to pop the stinger out. See a doctor if you develop a rash or any other symptoms following a bee sting.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15907
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Could Technology Help Tackle Rising Florida Truck Accident Rates? Florida is among those states with the highest average rates of fatal large truck crashes, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Given that Florida large truck accidents often cause catastrophic injuries (usually to occupants of other vehicles), it's incumbent upon both regulators and commercial trucking manufacturers, carriers and drivers to do what they can to address this problem. Consumer Reports recently summarized an analysis by Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) that revealed only about 15 percent of the country's large commercial truck fleets had crash avoidance or mitigation technology systems. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety projected that if large trucks were outfitted with these systems, such as blind spot warnings, lane-departure warnings, and forward collision mitigation systems, it could reduce large truck crashes by nearly one-third (28 percent). That would amount to roughly 107,000 fewer large truck accidents in the U.S. Regulators, safety advocates, and industry experts insist manufacturers of these large trucks, as well as operators, need to be taking a more proactive approach in ensuring these systems come standard in bigger vehicles. Tractor-trailers weigh an average of 40 tons, while the average passenger vehicle weighs just 2 tons. That size differential makes a huge difference in terms of crash severity - and whether a collision is fatal. Some truck drivers say they are supportive of these new technology systems, which would undoubtedly help reduce accidents. However, technology alone is not yet able to substitute for a skilled and responsible driver. Business Insider reports Tesla and other companies have been committed to bringing driverless truck technology to the forefront, and our Seminole County personal injury lawyers are watching legal developments carefully. For the time being, however, the trucking industry needs to incorporate safety technology and commit to hiring well-trained, experienced drivers who make safety their top priority.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15912
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Many riders, swimmers, weight lifters, and other athletes shave their legs to ease rubdowns, for aerodynamics, for cleanliness, and for appearance. It is, after all, cheaper than shelling out for a new frame with aero tubing! Many of the athletes who shave their legs have no problems beyond the occasional nick. A duller blade or electric razor would help for that. However, some people have problems with rashes, infections, or really itchy legs, and thus must be more careful. Before you do anything, wash your legs with soap and water, using a wash cloth. This clears out the dirt which contributes to infections, oil, and dead skin cells. It is convenient, because of this, to shave after a shower. It is important to have both a good razor and quality blades. Features such as lubricating strips are preferable. Some prefer slightly dull blades and discard the blade when the lubricating strip expires, and some find that they have to make a mess of their legs to get a smooth shave with a dull blade. Electric razors have become really inexpensive of late, and it's difficult to spend more than $100 on a quality model. Really. Shaving cream gives you a better shave, reduces the amount of skin you scrape off with the stubble, reduces shaving cuts, and it does a lot to prevent infection. Electric razors have both preshave positions and aftershave, both of which fulfill the same roles as shaving cream in lubricating and disinfecting. The cost and time addition is minimal, especially considering how much it improves the quality of the shave and reduces rash and infection. Many prefer the gel type of shaving cream, and look for brands with Aloe and Vitamin E. Do not use hot water, do not use warm water, use the coldest water you can stand. Run the cold water over your legs before you start, and rinse the blade often in cold water. Warm or hot water dries your skin, anyway. Be especially cautious and meticulous behind the knees, and around the Achilles tendon. Pay attention to detail, and you'll be less likely to slice bits of skin off. Don't rush yourself. When you finish, use a moisturizing lotion on your legs.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15913
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A log carriage is framework (mounted on wheels) that runs on tracks or in grooves parallel to the face of the saw. Carriages also contain an apparatus that holds a log securely while advancing it toward the saw. Workers may be struck by the log carriage or other moving equipment. Log carriage on head rig. No carriage travel stop barrier. Workers may slip and fall if the platform of the carriage is not stable. Debris on the track rails may lead to a derailment or other sudden movement that throws the operator.
gair-prox/c4-pro/00000/15918
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How are intuitions to be understood as evidence in moral philosophy? Can intuitions play the justificatory role ascribed to them in moral philosophy? A recent focus in philosophy has been on intuitions. In particular, philosophers have examined the nature of intuitions, epistemological questions about intuitions, and more recently questions regarding the use of intuitions. In my PhD I address recent challenges coming from the so-called negative programme within moral experimental philosophy. Although most analytical moral philosophers rely heavily on moral intuitions to support their arguments, little attention has been paid to the relation between intuitions used as evidence and moral theories. This underdeveloped theoretical account of the evidential relation between intuitions and moral theories has become a more pressing matter since experimental moral philosophers have started calling into question the reliability of intuitions and their use within most analytical moral philosophy. Given this focus, my PhD is situated at the intersection of ethics and philosophy of science and is embedded in the recent research on intuition. It engages in the project of providing a reliable methodology for moral philosophy. A deeper insight into the evidential relationship is essential for a better understanding of moral philosophizing and thus for advancement in moral methodology. Taking the actual practice of the use of intuitions as a starting point, I want to reconstruct as an antithesis to Cappelen’s centrality thesis that intuitions are actually used within moral theorising and show what function they serve precisely. My research will be sensitive to the history of appeal to intuitions in philosophy. Doing so, I hope to shed light on my second aforementioned question concerning the evidential relationship between intuition and moral theory.
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Wearable health technology first started in hospitals as a way to help people with injuries heal faster. Now, the trend has gone mainstream and pro-active; one in five online adults uses a wearable device, and the majority of those devices are health-related. Fitness trackers – If it seems like everyone is wearing some kind of fitness tracker, you’re not imagining it. Fitness trackers allow wearers to monitor key health indicators such as heart rate or calories burned. You can also use them to set and track exercise goals, such as walking a certain number of steps per day, or monitor your heart rate while exercising to ensure you reach a target zone. Sleep trackers – Getting the right amount of sleep is critical for overall health, so sleep trackers have gained popularity as aids to help people get better rest. Many types are available and some are wearable. Sleep trackers monitor such sleep metrics as REM phases, how long per night you spend in light sleep versus deep sleep, wake times, how quickly you fall asleep, what time you sleep each night and more. UV detector – An emerging form of wearable technology, UV detectors monitor skin exposure to harmful ultra-violet radiation – the portion of sunlight that causes sunburn, tanning and skin cancer. Multiple versions are under development, and one commercially available detector is a small patch that you wear on your skin and then scan using your smartphone that’s been equipped with a special app. The app allows you to read the information recorded in the patch so you know your UV exposure, and offers tips for sun safety, including what level SPF sunscreen you should wear. Alternatively, download a UV-detecting app that can give you some idea of the UV index on a daily basis.
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