Understanding Juneteenth: a celebration for all Americans
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - June 19, also known as Juneteenth, is a new federal holiday. The day commemorated when the slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free in 1865. Two years before, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves’ freedom. Poor communication, transportation and issues with the war delayed the message of liberty.
On Sunday, Juneteenth celebrations took place across the country. The holiday is widely-celebrated by African-Americans, but it is an additional holiday for all Americans to recognize, educate and understand the definition of freedom.
“It’s a day we should all celebrate,” said Governor Pete Ricketts. “On Juneteenth, we reaffirm the truth that all men are created equal as we celebrate the blessings of liberty.”
Texas was the first to make Juneteenth a state holiday, and the day became a federal holiday last year. Holidays like Juneteenth demonstrate the value of educating and understanding different cultures and backgrounds.
“I live for pushing different cultural perspectives in this community,” said Cultural Advocate Yoko Lawing. “Compared to bigger cities, our diversity is smaller. We need to tell people about our backgrounds because I felt disconnected between long-time residents and people from the outside.”
Celebrating Juneteenth begins with education about the holiday and what it means to Americans of various backgrounds.
“Let’s not forget about what happened and respect the fact that happened in history and celebrate those freedoms,” said Lawing.
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It is often said that the American education system tries to cover so much information that it goes “a mile wide and an inch deep.” In the coming years, you will hear a great deal about an exciting change in education that will allow students to gain a deeper understanding of subject material. Illinois joined 45 other states in adopting Common Core State Standards in English and Math for grades kindergarten through 12. These national standards, which are benchmarked to international standards, are the single largest education reform to happen in decades.
The standards will replace existing state standards and involve more rigor, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking skills. It will no longer be about finding the right answer, but being able to explain how you came to that answer. In a global economy, students must be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in other states, but with students from around the world. These standards will help prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed and compete in the global market.
The standards do not tell teachers how to teach, but they clearly identify the knowledge that students are expected to attain each year. Beginning in 2014, there will be new standardized tests given to measure if students are meeting these expectations. Students in grades third through eighth currently take the ISAT each March to assess student growth. The new assessments will be given multiple times, most likely at the beginning of the year to determine if early intervention is needed, once in the middle of the year to see if student progress is on track, and then at the end of the year to measure growth. The goal is not to have more tests, but to have smarter and better tests that help students, parents, and teachers.
I know we have some of the best educators in District 204 who are highly committed to their students. Many have already begun work to make sure our curriculum is aligned to the new standards. Once their work is complete, student learning will change. Concepts will be introduced earlier and what is already a rigorous curriculum will be even more so. Our teachers already do a wonderful job preparing students for life after high school, but the new standards are exciting because it provides the opportunity to equip students with stronger skills to be life-long competent learners.
Because the new standards are so important, we have created a section on our website to provide you with resources and information as we move forward with implementation. You can learn more at Common Core State Standards.
Indian Prairie Unit School District 204


Symptoms of brain cancer depend on which part of the brain it affects and which functional system it affects (eg, motor, sensory, language, etc.). For example, a tumor near the optic nerve can cause vision problems. Tumors in the front of the brain can affect concentration and thinking. Tumors in areas that control movement can cause weakness, numbness, or difficulty speaking. Any large tumor can cause many symptoms due to pressure from the mass.
Early signs of brain cancer
Symptoms of brain cancer vary depending on the type, size, and location of the tumor, as well as the patient’s age and medical history, and because they can mimic those caused by other diseases, it is important to consult a specialist for an accurate diagnosis.
The first symptoms of brain cancer are:
Headaches that change depending on the time of day and position of the head and get worse over time
Common symptoms of brain cancer may include:
Nausea and vomiting
Changes in mood or personality
Changes in the menstrual cycle
Impotence or infertility
Overproduction or underproduction of breast milk
Cushing’s syndrome (condition marked by weight gain)
High blood pressure
Some patients may have poor cognition, or may have vision, speech, or coordination problems. Symptoms can be subtle or develop gradually.


NASA and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have teamed up and have brought the world an initiative called SERVIR. Using satellite images of the Earth and other technology, SERVIR works with organizations in developing countries to forecast climate risks and land use. People in Africa, Hindu Kush-Himalaya, Lower Mekong, and Mesoamerica have already been benefiting for years from SERVIR’s outreach. But who in the US has heard of this good work we are doing?
Last week at the American Astronomical Society’s 228th Meeting in San Diego, NASA’s Daniel Irwin gave a plenary talk on SERVIR and how he came to help start it. For many of us astronomers, it was the first time we had heard of SERVIR, and we agreed that more people should know about it.
It began with Irwin simply showing the people of Guatemala satellite images of the deforestation that was occurring without their knowledge. SERVIR has developed a lot since then, and is now present in over 30 countries. Hundreds of lives have been saved thanks to the knowledge and action brought about by SERVIR in the face of floods and earthquakes, especially in Central America and Bangladesh.
To learn more, please visit SERVIR’s website, where you can read about each of the 36 (and counting) success stories. Also visit NASA’s pages about SERVIR. SERVIR doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page yet (except one about its Mekong Project), but that will change soon.


Due to the fact that there is currently no national youth mental health strategy, each jurisdiction is faced with managing and preventing mental health issues in their communities. Through school-based mental health interventions public health professionals have the potential to impact a large portion of youth in their community in a setting with which youth are already familiar. Susan Miller, a health promoter with the Great Lakes Public Health Unit, has been tasked with making recommendations about what type of mental health intervention should be implemented in the local elementary and high schools. The main objective of this mental health intervention will be to enhance protective factors among youth as well as to decrease the risk factors that can lead to developing further mental health issues in adulthood.
- Follow Public Health Ontario's steps to program planning for a mental health intervention.
- Identify barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a school-based mental health intervention.
- Apply strategies to involve stakeholders such as parents in a mental health intervention.
- Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders in developing an intervention.
Case Study Questions
- Which option do you feel is best for an elementary school intervention and for a high school and why?
- Which stakeholders should be involved in the different processes of the intervention? Are there any missing from the case? Justify your choice.
- Which implementation theory/theories should Susan be using throughout her project? Justify your answer.
- List the barriers and facilitators that exist for the implementation of a school-based mental health intervention based on the location of the school (i.e., rural vs urban) in Great Lakes County?
- How will the program be evaluated and which organization will head the evaluation process?
school-based mental health, program planning, stakeholder analysis, implementation science
Dent, E., Sibbald, S.L. (2018). “School, Interrupted”. in: McKinley, G. & Sibbald, S.L. [eds] Western Public Health Casebook 2018. London, ON: Public Health Casebook Publishing.


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Each Quart-Sized Pot contains 1 plant
Nepenthes Pitcher Plants look as though they come from an alien planet, with bright colors, and a peculiar scent. These looks aren't the only strange thing about them, because this plant is carnivorous! This plant survives by catching flies and other insects that fall into their Pitcher, and get stuck on the waxy inside. When watering, steer clear of tap, bottled or filtered water, for this can overload the plant with minerals, which is also why you should skip the fertilizer. Instead, use rain or distilled/de-ionized water, and keep the pot flooded with at least 2 cm of water during the growing season. Avoid watering this plant from the top, as that can damage the inside of the pitcher. Pitcher plants need full, direct sunlight during the growing season. During the winter, this particular houseplant needs colder temperatures, so consider sticking it in a garage or shed windowsill, or an unheated greenhouse, and the soil should be kept damp. As the temperature drops, the pitcher will begin to turn brown, and the plant will start to die back. This is normal, and it is safe to trim the dead parts away at this time. Since this plant is carnivorous, it will need to eat. If kept outside, it will catch more than enough food, but if indoors, we recommend feeding it with dried insects or crickets. However strange, this bug-eating plants easily the coolest plant we've ever seen!
Mature Plant Size: 18-inches tall x 18-inches wide
Foliage Color: Green
Light Level: Full to Part Sun (4-6+ hours with afternoon sun)
Overwinter Zones: 10, 11
Soil Moisture: Moist, Well-drained


‘Oh! solitary fort, that standest yonder,
What desolation dost thou not reveal!
How tarnished is the beauty of thine aspect,
Thou mansion of the chaste and gentle melodies!
Demolished lie thy towering battlements –
The dark loam of the earth has risen up
Over the whiteness of thy polished stones;
And solitude and ruin gird thee round.
Thy end is come, fair fortress, thou art fallen –
Thy magical prestige has been stripped off –
Thy well-shaped corner-stones have been displaced
And cast forth to the outside of thy ramparts.’
‘Thy doorways are, alas! filled up,
Thou fortress of the once bright doors!
The limestones of thy top lie at thy base,
On all the sides of thy fair walls.
Over the mouldings of thy shattered windows,
The music that to-day breaks forth
Is the wild music of the birds and winds,
The voices of the stormy elements!
O, many-gated Court of Donegal,
What spell of slumber overcame thee,
Thou mansion of the board of flowing goblets,
To make thee undergo this rueful change?’
‘The reason that he left thee as thou art
Was lest the black ferocious strangers
Should dare to dwell within thy walls,
Thou fair-proportioned, speckled mansion!
Lest we should ever call thee theirs,
Should call thee in good earnest Dun-na-gall,
This was the reason, Fortress of the Gaels,
That thy fair turrets were o’erthrown.
Now that our kings have all been exiled hence
To dwell among the reptiles of strange lands,
It is a woe for us to see thy towers,
O, bright fort of the glossy walls!’
Extracts from George Petrie’s 1840 translation of an Irish-language poem Address to the Ruins of Donegal Castle written in 1601 after the building’s intentional mutilation (to prevent it falling into English hands) by then-owner Red Hugh O’Donnell.


Hormone production and light through the eyes (why I never wear sunglasses). Light into the eyes, or lack thereof, primes certain hormonal pathways. Everything in nature is in balance. The same is true with our hormones.
There is a connection between the light the eye receives and the hormones made by the pituitary gland. Conversely, there is a connection between lack of light entering the eye and hormones made by the pineal gland. They work in balanced opposition, yoked to the cycling of darkness and light.
What happens when we shift away from this balance and use artificial light at night? Similarly, what if we block the sun’s light during the day by wearing sunglasses? Nothing good.
The pituitary gland and the pineal gland work in opposing ways. The pituitary gland is stimulated by bright light, especially the blue wavelengths. When morning light contains nature’s perfect balance of blue and red frequencies, the hypothalamus instructs the pituitary gland to elevate cortisol. This is a “stress” hormone which is beneficial to have elevated in the morning because it transiently increases blood glucose and other chemicals that help us fight or flee, essentially it energizes us to take action at the start of the day.
The communication pathway between the light entering the eye and the brain gets disrupted by artificial blue light at night. The pathway to make cortisol gets elevated again and, because they are opposing, the production of melatonin by the pineal gland gets suppressed. If we consistently do this at night, we begin to think of nighttime as our “productivity time” because we get an artifical “second wind.” This delays sleep and creates a viscous cycle of delaying sleep to get stuff done.
When we get our eyes in touch with the natural light and dark cycles, cortisol and melatonin regain balance. Studies on “night owls” have shown they can completely regain circadian rhythm in 2-10 days of camping. This pathway is built into us. We just need to sync back up with nature’s cycles. This means:
- outdoor light first thing in the morning
- no sunglasses
- dim house at night
- block the artificial light via blue blockers
This is just one example of hormone balance tied to light.


The Bahamas flag is a beautiful depiction of the nation’s aspirations and image. The design reflects the sun, sand and sea as well as the economic development of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The Bahamas flag features an equilateral triangle superimposed onto a field consisting of two aquamarine stripes and a middle gold stripe between them. The colors have rich significance to the people of the Bahamas. Black symbolizes the vigor and force of a united people. The triangular shape pointing toward the body of the flag denotes the enterprise and determination of the Bahamian people to develop the nation’s rich resources. Gold and aquamarine represent the sun and sea.
The Bahamas is an island country made up of more than 700 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean. It is just north of Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Bahamas may refer either to the country or the larger island chain it shares with Turks and Caicos Islands. The Bahamas was the site of Columbus’ first landfall in 1942. It became a British Crown colony in 1718 when Great Britain resettled thousands of American loyalists who brought slaves and established plantations. The Island nation later grew into a haven for freed Africans and escaped slaves from Florida. The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973 yet retained Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch.


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NEW to this edition:
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What precisely is CPU Share? Just how are CPU shares different from common CPUs? Where can you see CPU shares?
All arithmetical and logical operations in a computer/server configuration are tackled by its Central Processing Unit, or CPU. This hardware element is occasionally called the "brains" of the PC too. The pace at which the CPU completes system instructions is generally referred to as its speed which is measured in Hertz. The swifter the processing unit is, the quicker scripts and web applications shall be executed, even though the performance of the latter depends on other things as well - the read/write speed of the hard disk, the amount of physical memory, the network connection, etc. All newer CPUs have numerous cores, that work together. Because of this, the efficiency and the workload a CPU can handle increase, because every single core can process a number of tasks individually and a number of cores can handle 1 task that can't be processed by a single core.
CPU Share in Dedicated Servers
The dedicated server
solutions which we provide you with include different hardware configurations, so you can pick the best suited one for your Internet sites or programs. The processor for each and every package is different as well - the most powerful package comes with a 12-core processor that will offer fantastic script execution rates, even if your scripts are very heavy and a lot of people access and use them at the same time. The CPU is diligently examined as well as all the other parts we use to create each new dedicated server, so as to make sure that the server shall work faultlessly all the time. We shall do this before we give you access to it, due to the fact that we shall never make a compromise with the quality of any of the hardware components we use. The speeds which you see on our website are guaranteed for every single one of the packages.


Right now is the time to check pine trees for European Pine Sawfly larvae. These grayish-green "worms" feed in clusters on the old needles of mugho, Scots and red pine trees and shrubs. Each larva has 2 light stripes and 1 dark stripe on each side of the body. The legs and head are shiny black. Full-grown larvae will be 1 inch long by Memorial Day weekend. Then they will disappear for another year.
Because only old needles are eaten and not the new, emerging growth, defoliated trees are generally not killed. Damage may be aesthetically displeasing, especially in Christmas tree plantations, and growth of the tree may be stunted.
Control can be as simple as pruning off and discarding infested branches. Heavier infestations on larger trees may justify foliar sprays of horticultural oil, Sevin, Orthene or Isotox. Spraying is of greatest benefit when done before the larvae become one-half grown. Late sprays, after larvae are full-grown, are usually not warranted.
This article originally appeared in the May 14, 1999 issue, p. 57.
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Professor Gero Miesenböck has received The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2020 "for the development of optogenetics, a technology that has revolutionized neuroscience."
Optogenetics is a technique that uses light to control the activity of nerve cells. It provides a direct means of probing the organisation of neural circuits and of identifying the brain processes underlying perception, action, emotion, and thought. Professor Miesenböck was the first to demonstrate optogenetic control of neural activity and animal behaviour. His foundational studies led to an explosion in optogenetic applications and technical improvements.The field has ultimately transformed neuroscientific research and opened new possibilities for the treatment of brain disorders.
On receiving the award, Professor Miesenböck said: “I’m delighted that the selection committee looked carefully at the history of optogenetics and recognised the first discoveries that launched the field.”
Head of Department Professor David Paterson said: "This is a major achievement representing international excellence in research and discovery. The Department is delighted that Gero has been duly recognised."
Professor Miesenböck shares the award with Peter Hegemann, Hertie Professor for Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Biophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and Georg Nagel, Professor for Molecular Plant-Physiology, Department for Molecular Plant-Physiology and Biophysics–Botany I at the University of Würzburg.
The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, each bearing a monetary award of $1.2 million. The Prize honours individuals who have achieved significant breakthroughs in academic and scientific research and whose works have resulted in a positive and profound impact on mankind.
Read more on The Shaw Prize Foundation website.
Read more about Professor Miesenböck's development of optogenetics on the Oxford University Medium Blog.


Diabetes mellitus Type 1 (T1D) is the main cause of diabetes in young people.
The prevalence in the US is approximately 1 in 300 persons under the age of 20. The incidence worldwide increases by 2% to 5% per year. The therapy of T1D is a major burden to health care in the US. Currently, the therapy of T1D consists of treatment with insulin. Despite significantly improved options for glucose control (glucose sensors, insulin pumps), mortality and morbidity are significantly increased in patients with T1D. Potential therapeutic options include treatment with alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) and/or mesenchymal stem cells (MSC).
In 4 clinical trials (Park et al Medicina 2001), therapy with AAT was shown to be safe and without side effects. Patients experienced an improvement in beta cell function and a reduction in Il-1ß. Ma et al (J Clin Med 2019) showed in the NOD mouse model that administration of an rAAV vector can prevent the development of T1D. Lu et al (Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2021) performed a study in 27 patients with T1D. Patients received 2 infusions (106 cells per kg/KG 0 and 3 months) of allogeneic MSC. 40.7% of patients treated with MSC reached the primary endpoint with improvement of postprandial C-peptide. 3 patients were still completely without insulin therapy after 12 months. The MSC therapy was well tolerated.
We have a patented genetically modified mesenchymal stem cell expressing AAT (MSC‑AAT). In a preclinical model, we were able to show that MSC-AAT is more effective than naïve MSCs in preventing the development of T1D.
Animals receiving 5x104 MSC-AAT showed no T1D, in contrast to 50% of the animals in the control group and 10% of the animals with the highest dose of naïve MSC.
The MSC-AAT we developed seem to be a promising therapy for patients with new-onset type 1 diabetes.


Robots to overheat and it becomes a serious problem, because the cooling of the machines, things are much worse than humans. Overheated, the robot starts slower, but if it is not cooled down further, it may break.
Robots do not fail, they simply shut down, giving rest. Along the way, engineers are struggling with the overheating problem, trying to implement robots of various cooling systems, including liquid.
Engineers at the University of Tokyo JSK lab, trying to solve the problem of overheating of its latest brainchild — a robot Kengoro, 56-pound humanoid robot, rising to 1.7 metres.
It turned out that this edifice to provide a good cooling system is not so simple, because the robot was already wall to wall printed circuit boards, gears, and yet it has a whopping 108 engines!
Where to put fans and radiators? The problem is not solved and the water flowing through the channels inside the robot body, instead the developers decided to use a porous frame of the robot, made from aluminium. Water flows freely through the pores and evaporates to cool the mechanism. Do not forget to “fill” the robot with new water, because in the process of cooling the water evaporates.


Canadian women have long been trailblazers, creating art, making discoveries and setting records – and often battling incredible odds and discrimination in the process. Here, award-winning children’s writer Elizabeth MacLeod presents biographies of more than one hundred of these remarkable women, from the famous, such as Margaret Atwood, to the lesser known, such as multi-award-winning mathematician Karen Yeats. There are stories of activists and architects, engineers and explorers, poets and politicians and so many more. Each category pairs a historical groundbreaker with a present-day woman making her mark in that same field. Included are stories of Indigenous women, immigrants, women with disabilities and women from the LGBTQ+ community. Together, they tell the story of Canada. And together they offer a vision of what’s possible, to inspire all children to blaze trails of their own.
- ISBN: 9781525300615
- Author: MacLeod, Elizabeth
- Illustrator: Faddoul, Maia
- Published: 2020 , Kids Can Pr
- Themes: Famous Women, girls and women, History
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Canada, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 80


Saving is active at many units in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Central Bank is using diverse energy resources including the sunlight and the geotherm to save electricity of the country as much as possible.
The officials and employees of the bank have set up hundreds of solar panels. And they are making efforts to produce more electricity by increasing their generating efficiency in order to give help to the country.
Official Ri Ung Nam says:
“Saving had to be supported by technical innovations.
We have established the systemic parallel inversion system and the national integrated power management system to control even a watt of electricity without any waste in order to send the surplus electricity to the national network. We have also made by ourselves and introduced devices including overcurrent protection which can save electricity, thus saving a lot of electricity.”
Worker Choe Kang Song says:
“For example, the cooling-and-heating system by energy-saving geothermal heat pump we are using is effective in the environmental protection, needs small building site and can be used for different purposes. It is very effective for cooling and heating of the buildings and for domestic water.
The system saves 20 percent of heat energy more than the heating system by electric boiler, 40 percent of electricity more than the air heat pump and 70 percent more than the electrothermal heating system.”
The Central Bank ensures temperature of its offices in all seasons and hot water for the cultural and welfare facilities with the electricity it produced by itself. After all, it is saving a lot of electricity and heat energy.


Gross domestic product
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groʊs dəˈmɛstɪk ˈprɑdəkt
Definition: The total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
Meaning: Tổng sản phẩm quốc nội
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Courcelette Sugar Factory 1919
The small Somme village of Courcelette was captured by the Germans in September 1914 and would remain in their hands until it was liberated by Canadian troops in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, when Tanks were used for the first time, on 15th September 1916. The Germans turned one of the village chateaux into a field hospital, built a substantial cemetery which eventually had more than 2000 burials and utilised the Sugar Factory close to the main Albert-Bapaume road as a strong point.
This image of the Sugar Factory is one of a small collection taken by a Canadian veteran when he toured some of the sites where he had fought in 1919.
Sugar Factories were commonplace in France at the time of the Great War; sugar beet was a major crop and almost every village processed them as part of the sugar trade. Today such factories are rare and the rebuilt Courcelette Sugar Factory has been a garden centre for many years.
do you have his full collection of pictures? I’d be very interested to see them all.
01/03/2012 at 14:14
The Sugar Factory is mentioned in Kipling’s fine short story about the Great War, The Gardener.
13/09/2013 at 21:45


Europe’s first waste to bio-ethanol plant announced
Europe's first waste to bioethanol plant could be operational by 2012, according to the firm behind the project.
Plans for the plant, to be located in the Tees Valley in north east England, have moved ahead after INEOS Bio won funding for the scheme.
The firm was awarded £7.3M grant from both One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change to build the plant.
The project will create around 40 new permanent jobs and an estimated 350 jobs during the construction.
Once operational the firm has plans to expand the site into an integrated biorefinery, combining advanced bioenergy production with advanced waste treatment by 2015.
The plant is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30M litres) of carbon-neutral road transport fuel and generate more than 3MW of clean electricity for export from over 100,000 tonnes per year of biodegradable household and commercial waste.
This would provide the biofuel requirement of around 250,000 vehicles per year and the electricity needs of 6000 households.
Chief executive of INEOS Bio, Peter Williams, said the firm was building ‘Europe’s first waste to bioethanol plant’.
He said: “Using our technology, the waste that is collected from homes and offices and otherwise thrown away, can be re-cycled into clean biofuel for cars and renewable electricity for homes and industry.”
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More reasons to prefer whole heads of lettuce over pre-cut salad leaves and mixes: the cut and broken leaves in packed salad mixes raise the risk of salmonella contamination by as much as 2400.
A new study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology by researchers at Leicester University, UK, is highlighting an overlooked aspect of food safety in salad mixes. Packed salad offer many advantages to the consumer: they are convenient and easy to use, there is a huge selection to choose from, and they help raise the consumption of healthy leafy greens. But most consumers are unaware of the fact that such pre-cut salads are more sensitive to contamination, and possess a much larger risk for potential microbial outbreaks.
The researchers explained that juices oozing from the damaged leaves promote salmonella growth, and also increase its virulence (its ability to thrive and cause disease in the unlucky consumer). Even tiny amounts of liquids were enough for the salmonella to grow. The growing salmonella could thrive also in refrigeration (at below 4 degrees), whereas until now it was believed that salmonella cannot grow below 5.2 degrees. The researchers found that the salmonella somehow used the juices to attach itself so strongly to the leaves and even to the bag, that no washing could remove it.
So what can we do in order to enjoy the benefits of leafy greens, and keep ourselves safe and healthy?
- Always prefer whole heads of salads over pre-cut leaves. Cutting and preparation should be done as close to meal time as possible.
- Avoid bags with liquids in them – it shows the produce is not fresh.
- When choosing between whole heads of salads, prefer hydroponically grown salads, which are cleaner and safer to consume to begin with.


Novel influenza viruses continue to emerge, posing zoonotic and potentially pandemic threats. Many countries have developed pandemic influenza preparedness plans (PIPPs) aimed at guiding actions and investments to respond to such outbreak events. In our analysis of PIPPs from 21 low to middle-income countries, we found only three that identified strategies for at least one migrant group.
PIPPs that are migrant inclusive enable greater public health protection for all. The majority of human cases of influenza A (H5N1) infection have been associated with direct or indirect contact with infected live or dead poultry. Worldwide, international migrant workers are overrepresented in sectors such as poultry farming and related industries. Migrant workers also represent a possible “bridge population” for viral spread—defined as a population transmitting infection from a high-prevalence group to individuals who would otherwise be at low risk of infection—when they travel to their place of origin. It is thus imperative to understand the linkages between formal and informal migration routes with networks of migrant labor in animal husbandry and related industries for instance in order, to develop evidence-informed policies that anticipate and prevent the emergence of novel zoonosis.
Migration governance rests upon the fulcrum of national sovereignty, whereas pandemics and other novel diseases transcend local, national, and regional boundaries. In reiterating the call of the Sustainable Development Goals to “leave no one behind” and to address global health security in a meaningful way, we contend that irrespective of a person’s migrant status, his or her access to health services and social protection must be included within pandemic preparedness and response efforts.
IOM Contributors: Kolitha Wickramage (Manila), Patrick Duigan (Bangkok), Eliana Barragan (Geneva)
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You can apply this rule to several things in life, less is more. This is especially crucial with e-learning because it’s all about giving the learner what they have in digestible bits.
- A few key points can be far more effective than an entire hour of reading.
- What we do not want to try to do may be a knowledge dump.
- No one can ingest everything if you provide it to all of them directly. A common scenario for this is new hires. New employees get such a lot of information on their first day or first week. It’s hard to recollect anything once you are bombarded with an excessive amount of content.
Let’s explore ways to wash up your slides and reduce the clutter. Organise your content.
- Use a more info button to share additional information without cluttering the slide.
- Put snippets of data, sort of a quote or a fact, in shaded boxes to line it aside from the remainder of the content.
- Use icons to clean up your slides and get your learners engaged
- A simple icon serves as a button to deliver more content.
- You can clear up much on-screen clutter by hiding it with buttons.
- Audio and video are good options for simplifying your content as well
- A YouTube video that demonstrates a concept or skill can save text slides and is far more interesting.
- And audio snippets are another great way of sharing additional content.
- Clearing away the clutter on the slide can simplify things and give a cleaner look
Less clutter means a better online learning environment. And finally, Keeping it simple and uncluttered will make the learning experience far more enjoyable for your learners and give them a chance to ingest the content more easily.


Using white plastic cups for critical thinking skills
From the archives (Sept 2013). A colleague at the time had asked me to share this exercise. So I wrote it into a post.
Last week I had my first cohort of students (a programme that starts slightly off sync with the rest of the university) this academic year; and I was wondering how best to introduce the differences in some of the most common action words. A particular stumbling block seems to differentiate between analysis and evaluation. I recently read an interesting article on teaching with objects in museums and thought why not translate this into teaching in Higher Education?*
1st Step: buy and hand out white plastic cups.
2nd step: Go crazy with the new PowerPoint template.
3rd Step: animate circles to gradually increase the complexity of the action word
I began with asking the students to describe their cups, using Socratic inquiry technique continuing with this technique I went through describe, compare, analyse, evaluate and discuss. Initially the students looked at me with that ‘what the what?’ look but eventually got into the flow of the task. The only explanation they needed was the added dimension for evaluation. Contextualising this task for the students was easy. After initial confusion critical thinking skills emerged naturally with little guidance.
PS: I tried this exercise with lecturers! The students came up with more descriptors and answers for each of the action words.
*This was part of a mini-MOOC I followed recently in silent participation


"Camping at the City's Doors" was the title of an article in the June, 1905, issue of Country Life in America magazine, which described places where "one can feel as far away from civilization as upon an Adirondack lake, but a twenty minutes' row or paddle takes one across the river to catch a train, mail a letter, receive or send telegrams."
One of the places featured was Croton Point, "on the New York side of the river about thirty miles from the city." What’s particularly interesting about this article is the description of the "network of creeks" in the marsh which was tragically filled in by the Westchester County dump. The map detail below gives a good idea what the marsh was like.
"Croton Point [is] separated by a wide and shallow bay from Croton Landing, a station on the New York Central Railroad. This Horseshoe Beach of fine sand is an ideal bathing spot. The river itself and Croton Bay make ideal sailing waters. The breezes coming across Haverstraw Bay are steady, for the Hudson River. There is fairly good fishing off the northwest end of the Point.
Table supplies may be had from Croton Landing, and the camper who desires to run to town every other day can be paddled or rowed across in half an hour to catch his train. A liveryman will call for him morning and evening when the weather is unpleasant.
Camping is restricted to the shores of Croton Bay, but well-behaved visitors may roam over the Point at will.
A network of creeks enters the southern side and one of these cuts the Point almost in two. At half tide, by portaging a couple of hundred feet, one can pass through the Point down to the mouth of the Croton River without going outside into the Hudson."
- Atlas of the Metropolitan District and adjacent country comprising the counties of New York, Kings, Richmond, Westchester . . . Published by Julius Bien & Co. New York. 1891 ↩
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Ah the landfill–and the short-sighted shenanigans that spanned decades…what a shame…thank you for the map and article


Summer is over and a new school year begins. Fortunately, parents can take small steps to get children set up for success in the coming school year.
One crucial change parents can make is to adjust sleep schedules. Many children become accustomed to going to bed and waking up late during the summer. Kids who get enough sleep are more prepared to learn and retain what they learn better than children who are sleep-deprived.
Recommended hours of sleep a child should get per night are as follows:
– For a late pre-schooler, kindergartener, or first-grader, they’ll need 11- 13 hrs of sleep per night.
– An older grade school/middle school-age student should get at least 10-11 hrs per night.
– A teen in high school should get an average of 8-9 hrs per night.
According to the Mayo Clinic, school-aged children should get 10 to 11 hours of sleep per night. A lack of sleep can negatively affect children’s mood and behavior and their physical health. While parents may burn the candle at both ends because of work and family demands, take time to unwind as a family before your children’s bedtime
Returning to a schedule can be difficult for anyone, so kids may need a nudge to get on the right track. Wall calendars and personal planners can help children and parents stay on track with kids’ assignments, tests and extracurricular activities. Allowing children to help choose their own planners can help ensure they use them regularly.
Mealtimes change with the return of the school year as well. Long summer days with less adult supervision often lead to more junk food and less structured eating times. Parents should make sure children get a healthy breakfast each morning. The importance of a healthy breakfast with adequate fiber and protein is hard to overstate: It provides fuel for the body, sets the tone for the day and helps kids stay alert to tackle their day.
Source: St. Louis Post


Edward’s Brain Injury
Edward is a patient at Morningstar Long-Term Care Facility. Most of the residents at the facility are elderly, but Edward is only 48. Edward lives at the facility because he cannot care for himself at home. He has a brain injury as a result of a car accident.
The injury did not affect his intelligence, but it affected his ability to communicate, causing a disorder called aphasia. The injury affected his ability to communicate with others by speaking and writing (expressive aphasia) and his ability to understand others when they are trying to communicate with him (receptive aphasia). Edward feels like he is in a foreign country because he cannot remember the correct words to say in English to express himself. He feels lost and becomes frustrated when he cannot communicate with the people around him. Sometimes he scrambles the words in his sentences. Other times, he uses the wrong words, and people don’t understand what he is trying to say. Edward often asks the same questions over and over. Sometimes he looks through his drawer in search of something he had in the past or for something he lost.
The staff cannot get angry when the patients repeat questions. Staff members label all of the patients’ belongings so that items do not get lost easily. When family members come to visit patients with aphasia, staff members try to help nudge the patients into remembering who is visiting. They say, “Your brother Dirk and his wife Trisha are here to see you, Edward.” This helps Edward remember without making him feel ashamed if he didn’t remember them right away. The staff also uses simple sentences and hand gestures to communicate with Edward, and he can nod or shake his head to answer.
The nursing staff tries to be patient and calm with patients like Edward who have aphasia.


2016 Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science
9-12.CAS.c.5 Analyze the beneficial and harmful effects of computing innovations (e.g., social networking, delivery of news and other public media, intercultural communication)
9-12.CAS.c.7 Identify ways to use technology to support lifelong learning.
9-12.DTC.c.3 Evaluate digital sources needed to solve a given problem (e.g., reliability, point of view, relevancy).
9-12.DTC.c.4 Gather, organize, analyze, and synthesize information using a variety of digital tools.
Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy, March 2011
W. 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
W. 9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
RL 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
RL 8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
American Associan of School Librarians, Standards for the 21st Century Learner
1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context
1.1.7 Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias.
2.4.1 Determine how to act on information (accept, reject, modify).
2.4.2 Reflect on systematic process, and assess for completeness of investigation.
2.4.3 Recognize new knowledge and understanding.
2.4.4 Develop directions for future investigations.
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In the wake of intentional demolition or unexpected disasters, the Mobile Factory system can be shipped inside just two cargo containers and begin to turn rubble from ruins into building blocks for reconstruction.
Developed in The Netherlands, the technology filters concrete from other rubble, which is then cast into interlocking blocks (like LEGO bricks) that require no joinery to form stable walls. These units can be stacked without specialized training or equipment, making it possible for communities to rebuild efficiently and cheaply.
The resulting structures are earthquake-resistant, held together in part by bamboo rods threaded through voids in a certain subset of the wall blocks (which can also be used to thread in utilities, including plumbing and electrical lines).
Since the system fits into a pair of shipping containers, it can easily be transported from site to site, building blocks close to where they will be used and reducing transit time and costs. The reversibility of this construction approach also means that temporary buildings can be erected quickly in the wake of a disaster. In turn, these can be disassembled or adapted easily in the weeks, months and years following an emergency situation.
Consider the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that left hundreds of thousands dead and millions homeless. Over five years later and the country is still littered with 25 million tons of construction debris, which technologies like this can help turn into affordable housing. Indeed, the Mobile Factory organization is looking into expanding their work in Haiti, Peru and other countries in need of this tech.
“In disasters, you have piles and piles of rubble and the rubble is waste. If you are rich, you buy more bricks and rebuild your home,” said one of the organization’s founders. “But what happens if you are poor? In disasters it is the poorest people who live in the weakest houses and they lose their homes first. I thought, what if you recycled the rubble to build back better homes for poor people?”
Beyond wars and tsunamis in nations further afield, there are potential urban applications in densely-built places like the Europe and the United States: cities like Baltimore and Detroit spend vast amounts of money demolishing buildings (and in some cases: entire blocks), then clear the rubble and put it in landfills. This technology suggests an alternative: reusing on or close to the demolition site, reducing material and energy waste as well post-demolition transportation costs.


How would you describe the life cycle of a single-celled animal compared to the life cycle of a bird? Or compared to your life cycle, for that matter?
Birds, like humans, are made up of many, many cells (and about as many microbes as human cells, too!), and take years to grow large enough to find a mate and reproduce. You probably can think of a few ways a single-celled animal differs right away: many do not need a mate, but can just divide in two. It only takes a few hours to a few days for them to grow large enough to divide.
But many single-celled animals differ in another important way. If our environment gets too cold or we cannot find enough food or water, those conditions can kill us. Many single-celled animals, however, can retreat into a hard-walled structure, forming a cyst that can survive a long time without eating, and even survive freezing or drying out. This is one strategy that seeming super-organisms might use to live on Antarctic glaciers or in the Arizona desert, for example.
This ability to survive as cysts might be important for understanding which species are where. Such animals are in some ways more like a plant, with a seed bank in the soil waiting for rain, than like a bird. In fact, this superpower is one that other microscopic but multicellular animals, like rotifers, also possess.
Maybe time for a new superhero in the Marvel universe? One with the power to transform into an impervious little sphere at the first sign of trouble? Cystgirl? Cystman?


In January 1921 the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen took over responsibility for a four-year-old girl from the Siberian Chukchi people. He named her Nita. Three months later he took charge of another girl from Chukotka—11-year-old Camilla Carpendale, daughter of a local trader. At this time Amundsen’s fame as the conqueror of the South Pole spanned the globe.
Nita and Camilla were the closest Roald Amundsen ever came to establishing his own family. For almost three years, they lived together on journeys across the globe and in Amundsen’s home outside of Oslo. Diaries, letters and newspaper reports tell of their strong mutual affection in these years. Nita and Camilla learned Norwegian, went to school and made friends. Then in 1924 Amundsen sent them back alone to an uncertain destiny in Siberia. They never saw Norway again.
In Cape Heartstone, Espen Ytreberg tells the full story of these three intertwined lives, and the forces that shaped, them for the first time. Through an attentive and original use of historical sources—written, filmed and photographed—Ytreberg reveals a unique story and places it in a broader context. Cape Heartstone is a thoughtful, tender and often surprising book about colonialism and globalisation, modernity and migration, family and prejudice, and ultimately about the abiding and fleeting sides of love.


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Date of this Version
Science Scope. Vol. 33. No. 1. Critical Thinking (SEPTEMBER 2009). pp. 57-60
Students are often taught that ecosystems are "delicately balanced," But what. exactly, does this mean? How do we help students relate what they learn in the classroom about ecosystems to the world immediately around them?
As scientists who work closely with middle school students as part of a National Science Foundation-funded Graduate Fellows in K-12 Education program called Project Fulcrum. we have learned that abstract concepts, such as "delicately balanced ecosystem," are often not truly understood. We addressed this concern in a seventh-grade science classroom in Lincoln. Nebraska. by introducing students to locally threatened saline wetlands and the endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle (see Figure 1). To give students a tangible model of an ecosystem and have them experience what could happen if a component of that ecosystem were removed, we developed a hands-on. inquiry-based activity that visually demonstrates the concept of a delicately balanced ecosystem through a modification of the popular game Jenga. This activity can be modified to fit classrooms in other regions by focusing on a locally endangered plant or animal. which can be determined by contacting local governmental agencies (e.g .. Department of Natural Resources).
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30 November 2004
Oil on canvas, 41 by 33 cm.
Provenance: Family of the artist. Recorded in the archives of the Museum "Getto Fighters"; also recorded in the family archive. Adolph Feder was born in Odessa in 1886. He was educated at the Odessa School of Art. As an active member of the Jewish revolutionary movement and a member of the Bund, he was forced to leave Russia in 1906. He settled in Paris in 1908 where he passionately continued his art education in the Julian Academy and in the studio of Henry Matisse. A frequenter of the cafe La Rotonde, he was a close friend of Modigliani, Friez, Mayakovsky and many other artists and poets of his time. Exhibited in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independents etc. He had numerous personal and joint exhibitions with Russian artists in Paris, London and New York such as Whitechapel Exhibition, 1921, etc. In 1928, three of his works were shown in Moscow at the Exhibition of the Contemporary French Art (Russian Department). During his lifetime, major museums bought his paintings including the Luxemburg Museum (Paris), and the museums of Grenoble and Brussels. On 4 June 1942 he was arrested and sent to Cherche-Midi prison, from where he was transferred to Drancy. On 13 February 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was murdered. During his imprisonment in Drancy he drew a series of drawings of other prisoners which were exhibited in the museum "Getto fighters" in Tel Aviv in 2002. The same museum, together with the family of the artist is now preparing an exhibition of the works of this tragic and powerful artist.
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The global breeding population of Eleonora's Falcon (Falco eleonorae) is distributed from the Canary Islands in the west, across the Mediterranean Sea, to Cyprus in the east. The remoteness of nesting colonies, which are predominantly located on sea cliffs and islets, renders breeding success estimation a challenging task, requiring a composite approach to assess each of the breeding stages. Early estimates of the breeding success of Eleonora's Falcon suggested that the Akrotiri colony in Cyprus had the lowest breeding success among all the colonies throughout the species' breeding range, at a level seemingly unsustainable, suggesting the colony might have been in danger of gradual extinction. Here we use a diversity of survey methods including boat, ground, and aerial surveys, with the incorporation of photography and photogrammetry, to reassess the breeding success and the effect of nest characteristics on the Eleonora's Falcon breeding population in Cyprus. During a 6-yr study, we found that Cyprus hosts ∼138 ± 8 breeding pairs and that breeding success equals 1.54 ± 0.85 fledglings per breeding pair, and thus is considerably higher than previous estimates. In addition, by analyzing temporal variation in breeding and nest characteristics, we found that early breeding and reuse of nests positively influence breeding success, but physical nest characteristics have a limited effect on colony productivity. The range of survey methods employed, as well as the array of photography techniques utilized, enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of this study, allowing us to overcome the challenge of inaccessibility of nesting cliffs.
In this study we reassessed the breeding success and population status of Eleonora's Falcon in Cyprus, a species nesting on inaccessible sea cliffs.
Low breeding success estimates from previous surveys suggested that the breeding population was unsustainable.
We used ground, aerial (drone), and boat surveys, combined with photogrammetry for nesting cliff 3-D modeling, to assess breeding success and nest site suitability.
Our results show that breeding success of Eleonora's Falcon is higher than previous estimates and that the population is stable.
The methods employed enhanced the efficiency and accuracy of our surveys, allowing us to overcome the challenge of inaccessibility of nesting cliffs.


Thermal runaway and fire test of large cell battery shows high toxic emissions and dangers to firefighters. Seven tests were carried out on large (300 Ah, 0.54 kg) single cell LiFePO4 cathode lithium ion battery, as used in buses or for energy storage. The battery was externally heated (500 W) to simulate thermal runaway. This did not cause spontaneous ignition. In some tests, fire was manually ignited when safety valves opened (after c. 25 minutes) releasing high-temperature vapours and aerosols. Around ten minutes after ignition, temperatures reached c. 600°C. The ignited batteries released high levels of carbon monoxide, which would be lethally toxic in the case of a bus fire in a garage. The authors conclude that high ventilation rates are needed to ensure safety in case of electric vehicle fires and that emissions under heating mean that extinguished battery fires may reignite. They note that large single-cell LiFePO4 batteries may offer better safety than standard multi-cell lithium-ion configurations.
“Thermal runaway and fire behaviors of a 300 Ah lithium ion battery with LiFePO4 as cathode”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 139 (2021) 110717, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.110717


Scientists Can Finally Study Einsteinium 69 Years After Its Discovery
In the remnants of atomic explosions, scientists found never-before-seen elements like einsteinium. Now, almost 70 years after its discovery, scientists have collected enough einsteinium to conduct some basic analysis.
Data stored at the atomic level with super-high density
Scientists figure out how to reliable store data with atoms by looking for where they aren't rather than where they are.
Newly discovered element 117 is a step toward useful super-heavy elements
The newest, heaviest element has been confirmed under laboratory conditions, and its synthesis could help produce even heavier cousins with all-new useful properties.
Graphene nanoribbons could be the savior of Moore's Law
Graphene might finally have a shot at making electronics faster in a slimmed-down nanoribbon format. The trick is to make it with enough precision.
CERN creates and studies antihydrogen - antimatter - in the lab for the first time
New techniques developed at CERN could make it possible to stud whole atoms of antimatter and learn why there is something in the universe instead of nothing.
New super-accurate atomic clock could be ultra-portable thanks to chilly atoms
The smallest atomic clocks are lacking in long-term accuracy, and larger clocks are incredibly expensive. The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes to make a small atomic clock that never needs calibration using cooled rubidium atoms.
New plastic becomes stronger when stressed, drop-proof smartphones incoming
Many smartphone owners know the sorrow of dropping a phone and finding the fall cracked or chipped the casing. A new type of plastic developed at Duke University could change all that. This material actually gets stronger when it is stressed.
How researchers captured the first images of atoms making and breaking molecular bonds
This week researchers published images of structures we've known about for decades but had yet to actually visualize.
Corning witnesses Gorilla Glass shrinking, perhaps proving glass is actually a liquid
It's a common urban legend that, technically speaking, glass flows like a liquid. You might've even learned this "fact" in school. Unfortunately for romantic chemists, technically speaking, the myth isn't true. However, Corning, makers of the Gorilla Glass that protects our smartphones and tablets, have witnessed a sheet of the famed strong glass shrinking, which means the glass is actually flowing in some respect.
By James Plafke


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Sacramento is handing out free trees to residents in an effort to battle global climate change and reduce residents’ electricity bills, The Washington Post reports.
Turns out, that kind of project is rather rare.
Sacramento has doled out 375,000 trees to residents and has plans to give 4 million more, the Post’s Blaine Harden reported Monday.
Most American cities have shrinking tree canopies in relation to their growth. That’s because of inadequate budgets to maintain older trees and a failure to plant shade trees in new residential and commercial developments, according to federal experts, tree-planting organizations and scholars of urban ecology.
A number of major cities have launched sizable tree-planting programs – including Washington, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. Still, the decline in tree cover has been accelerating since the 1970s, especially on private property and new development, according to American Forests, an environmental group in Washington that uses satellite imagery to document tree cover across the country.
“This is like a creeping cancer,” said Deborah Gangloff, the group’s executive director. “In the two dozen cities we have studied, we have noticed about a 25 percent decline in tree canopy cover over the past 30 years. This is a dramatic trend that is costing cities billions of dollars.”
And no, this doesn’t have a San Diego angle (though my editor wishes it did.) I just thought it was interesting.


Nine Ways to Get Your Kids Exploring Nature — Anywhere!
Parks are not only some of the very best playgrounds, but also amazing classrooms. By observing, touching, smelling and hearing the natural world, kids (and adults!) are learning, sometimes without even knowing it.
Our educators love taking the parks to communities, showing kids and their adults that nature is wherever they are. Through the Elsie and Henry Hillman Summer Program, Buzzword events, and events at the Frick Environmental Center, we're working with partners and getting kids active, learning, and jazzed about the outdoors.
Want your kids to stay curious? Read on for some of our favorite family friendly activities that you can do on a walk through your neighborhood, a hike through the park -- anywhere!
1. Keep Your Head in the Clouds
Is that a bird? A plane? What about a big fluffy marshmallow? Find a nice comfy spot on the grass, look up, and let your imagination do its thing.
2. I Spy with My Little Eye...
Nature! Keep your eyes peeled in your backyard or sitting on a park bench when you play "I Spy," and you'll be surprised at all that you see.
3. Match Swatches
With just a few color swatches from a hardware or paint store, you're ready for a color scavenger hunt. Let the kids match colors from the swatches with those they find in a garden or even in a business district. The greater the variety of colors, the bigger the challenge.
4. Make Words Jump off the Page
Kids and parents had a blast bringing books to life on Raising Readers and Nature in Your Neighborhood hikes. After reading aloud books with outdoor themes, they took a walk to spot (and reinforce) what they read. Some fan favorites are Something Beautiful, Tree Pittsburgh's If We Were to Plant a Tree, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.


How to design an intuitive, easy to use system? Start with the architecture, add a clean, well-crafted interface, and just the right touch of graphic design.
An elegant design appears simple. It leads the person to do whatever was intended and provides options to do more. How to achieve that clear, simple elegance is not so simple and often not very clear.
Information architecture should be designed for function. It supports all the information that may exist and should allow for more to be added – easily, without rework, and without having to spend hours figuring out where to put it.
Interface design should compliment the information architecture. Colors, design elements, and presentation should enhance and contribute to the form.
Before the internet, before search engines, before keywords, there were indices and catalogs and libraries. Libraries with thoughtful collections and indices compiled by people who knew something about the subjects and could identify how this was related to that.
Library science is not simply an archaic system for cataloging of dusty old books or scrolls; it’s a well-designed system, a framework based on comprehensive methods — an information architecture.
Artistic Rendering of The Great Library of Alexandria. by O. Von Corven from Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, Alfred Hessel and Reuben Peiss. The Memory of Mankind. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. (public domain)
The architect should strive continually to simplify;
the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
– Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)


Legend Behind Bada Shringar Besha Of The Holy Trinity
Puri: In Odia and Sanskrit, Besha means dress or adornment. Lord Jagannath and his siblings are adorned with different beshas throughout the year.
Out of all beshas of Lord Jagannath and his siblings, the most important decoration of the day is the Bada Singhara Besha. It is done every night before the Ratri Pahuda (last ritual).
The deities wear silken clothes called ‘Khandua’. An extract from the famous Sanskrit verses of ‘Gita Govinda’ composed by the renowned poet Jayadeva is woven in the ‘Khandua’ clothes. The head is covered with a cloth called Srikapada (cloth for the head).
They are adorned with Karapallava (hands). Padaka (circular lotus-like decoration with flowers). This is a very attractive Besha and till the following morning, Mangala Alati is offered to the deities they remain attired in this besha. Seeing the deities in this beautiful decoration is believed to be very auspicious.
Since ‘Bada Singhara-costume’ is associated with bedtime and relates to sleep& slumber the deities are served with all cool ingredients. Sleep does not come easily without the coolness of the body. That is why sandalwood paste is smeared on the holy bodies of the three deities.
Singhara Besha is usually made up of different types of floral ornaments & Gita Govinda Khandua Pata (silken clothes set). Deities are decorated with floral ornaments like Adhara, Jhumpa, Chandrika, Tilaka, Hruda Padaka, Kara Pallav, Guna, Gava and a number of garlands; some of these are inter-mixed with Tulsi.
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14 Forms Of Tropical Flowers
The plant grows straight with no branches and the girth of the plant grows to its most circumference before it grows in height. Commonly often known as a weeping fig, it is native to regions from India to Northern Australia. A member of the Strelitziacea family, Bird of Paradise vegetation grow properly indoors or out.
The leaves are shiny, tough, and have even edges. There are sometimes splotches and even stripping in the colour patterns. Crotons develop nicely outside throughout warm months and require medium care. The complete plant is toxic to pets and people. In the tropics, Dumb Cane thrives in keen on full shade, grows to heights of 10 toes and blooms seasonally. Palms have the ability to resist floods and robust winds.
They are relations of the banana plant and are illiberal of freezing temperatures. Bird of Paradise vegetation, originating in South Africa, are called crane flowers or orange strelitzia. The plant gets his name as a result of the flowers seem similar to a “bird in flight”. Anthurium is a member of nearly a thousand species of Aracea family.
Following the flowers are bunches of purple berries. The leaves of the Aglaonema commutatum are spear-formed and dark green with splashes of grey.
Ornamental house plant varieties usually do not bloom. Flowers of outside varieties develop an ivory-white blossom on a spadix that’s coated with a light-weight green spathe. Outdoors the umbrella plant develops tiny purple flowers during the summer season months. Gleaming leaves about 6 inches … Read More


DNA secondary structure may prove to be a significant obstacle both for enzymes that process DNA through an orifice and for the passage of DNA through nanopores proposed for some novel sequencing schemes. A nanomechanical molecular "tape reader" is assembled by threading a nanopore over DNA and pulling it using an atomic force microscope. Its formation is confirmed by studying the force required to open hairpins under that geometry. Unfolding induced by this 0.7-nm-diameter aperture requires 40 times more force than that reported for pulling on the ends of the DNA. Kinetic analysis shows that much less strain is required to destabilize the double helix in this geometry. Consequently, much more force is required to provide the free energy needed for opening.
|Original language||English (US)|
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|State||Published - Sep 2008|
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- Materials Science(all)


13 km2 lake, coniferous and deciduous forests and fields available for research projects
Lammi Biological Station (LBS) is situated on the shore of Lake Pääjärvi which is an oligotrphic, humic lake located within the Boreal zone of southern Finland. The lake is 10 km long and 4 km wide and has a maximum depth of approximately 87 m, making it one of the deepest lakes in Finland. The lake has a volume of 205.7 million m3 and has 33 km of shoreline.
The earliest research on the lake was performed in 1913 as part of a project to map phytoplankton communities and water properties of lakes in Finland. In 1970 the Pääjärvi project began which investigated the ecology of the lake. Since this time, long-term data has been gathered on water temperature, pH, colour, nutrients stream flow etc. until present day.
For a list of variables currently measured on Lake Pääjärvi see this document:
For a basic scientific description of the lake please see this paper:
The Finnish language video below introduces the lake and LBS staff:
There is approximately 39 ha of forested land on LBS property. Half of this is protected forest containing large broad leaved and spruce dominated stands, and a small oak forest planted in the 1950's. The remaining forest consists of large spruce stands and smaller areas of young birch dominated forest. LBS has the right to perform experimental research in the forest (includes protected areas).
Please see this document (below) for maps and a more detailed description of the forest (in Finnish).
Lammi Biological Station has a number of fields available that are often used for plant experiments where large homogeneous areas are required.
The campus area of the station features a park like area with many different species of trees capable of growing in this northern climate.


Practicing names has never been so much fun! Apple Editable Name Activity is perfect for helping your little learners learn all about their name. Engage students with this hands-on editable name game. This Apple-themed printable is perfect for Preschool and Kindergarten classrooms.
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Microsoft Excel launch | Techday, September 30th
On this TECHDAY in history, on September 30th 1985, Microsoft Excel’s first launch was marked! Excel, the first serious competitor to Lotus 1-2-3, was introduced in a 512k Macintosh version. Microsoft’s spreadsheet application would not pose a serious challenge until the proliferation of Windows a few years later, when it would not only displace Lotus 1-2-3, but would dominate to this day, becoming an equally, if not more, successful app.
Excel allows users to create and edit spreadsheets with a variety of data types, including numbers, text, and dates. It also includes a wide range of functions and formulas for performing calculations and analyzing data. Users can also create charts and graphs to visualize data, and perform advanced data analysis using tools such as pivot tables and macros.
Overall, Excel has become an essential tool for many businesses and organizations, and continues to evolve with new features and capabilities. With the launch of Excel, Microsoft has set the standard for spreadsheet software and has become a household name in the world of productivity tools.
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Study on use of Indigenous herbal product by diabetic patient visiting diabetic centre in Nepal
Keywords:Herbal Products, Indigenous product, Diabetes Mellitus
Background and Objectives: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease worldwide. With increasing trends towards sedentary lifestyle, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is increasing in urban region of Nepal too.
Material and Methods: A quantitative descriptive study was conducted for a period of two months. One-to-one structured interviews were taken to fill the structured questionnaire prepared after proper literature review from the patients attending a diabetic clinic in Lalitpur. The questionnaire includes the socio-demographic details, lifestyle and questionnaires related to patients’ perception and use of herbal remedies/product. Relevant information was also obtained from the patient medical files. Statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS version 20.
Results: Out of total population about 30 % of people were using the indigenous product for their treatment along with allopathic medication. Among them, 17 were male and 14 were female. Various indigenous herbal products were used by the patients. Among them fenugreek, aloe Vera, bitter guard, bottle guard, black berry are the common one. The frequencies of using these products are in fig 4.4. The total percentage of patient using fen ugreek is 42%, Aleo-Vera 35%, Bittergaurd 29% and very few participants were using Bottle guard, Neem, and Hibiscus and Guava leaf too.
Conclusion: Participants have good faith on use of indigenous herbal products and are using it. Fenugreeks, Aloe-Vera, Bittergourd, Neem, Bottle gourd, Hibiscus and Guava leaf are commonly used. But no consistent data regarding fixed dose or method of preparation of such product was found. So, further researches are needed to confirm the effectiveness of those indigenous products.
Janaki Medical College Journal of Medical Sciences (2015) Vol. 3 (2):13-20
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Capitalism and Government
A capitalism and government research paper attempts to discuss the relationship between an economic system, capitalism, and government. You will want to look at how selected exponents of capitalism have viewed the proper role of governments at all levels-federal, state, and local-in regulating the lives of citizens and the practices of the business community.
We must begin by stating that capitalism, taken as an ideological position that exalts private initiative operating in an unfettered free market, a position that is deeply suspicious of government interference in both individual lives and in markets, is not monolithic in nature. The capitalist critique of government constitutes a continuum in which various positions can be, and have been, taken with respect to the proper role of government.
This continuum, taken as a whole, has slid from the political right to the political left over time. The shape and structure of economic activity and the relationship of government to it has changed vastly since Adam Smith's time. A capitalism and government research paper notes the following:
- While the laws of the market, e.g. supply and demand, are still operative, they operate in a vastly different environment than existed at Smith's time.
- There have been, as many of the present day exponents of capitalism freely admit, periods in human history since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of the Nations when "unfettered capitalism" has not worked well.
- Few of the most radical contemporary proponents of capitalism would call for a return to the bad old days of the "Robber Baron" era.
- Most contemporary advocates of capitalism do concede some legitimate role to the government.
This is pretty far from the pure laissez-faire, Smithian economics of the 18th century. It is also remote from the kind of "no-government-handouts-to-anyone-for-any-reason" position that business leaders preached during the opening phase of the Great Depression of the 1930s.


Our natural mineral water springs out from three underground water sources, reliably insulated by Cretaceous era limestone layers, at different depths in Lithuania. Water accumulated there over hundreds if not thousands of years, way before human industrial activity started contaminating anything. It is cleaned by nature, untouched by humans.
All 3 aquifers formed because of a unique underground feature: a huge ancient meteorite crater 5 km across, some 515 m deep. The crater formed barriers of bedrock that stopped the flow of ancient water hundreds of meters below the surface. This feature allowed formation of aquifers of very unique and clean water, well protected by old Cretaceous limestones from above. Each water body is unique in its own way and has certain highly-valuable properties. Demanding tests performed in EU laboratories have confirmed the impeccable purity and quality of our water. Our water is the ideal source: it can be consumed daily, thus ensuring the necessary level of iodine in the body.
This water also contains lithium. Numerous worldwide studies, including one conducted by the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, have shown that there are fewer psychological disorders and suicides in areas where drinking water is saturated with lithium. Also, water from this source contains selenium, a powerful antioxidant that strengthens the immune system. Because of its anti-aging and anti-inflammatory properties, selenium can protect against inflammation of the blood vessels and reduce the risk of stroke. Women appreciate it as a beauty elixir.
Due to its low mineralization level, it is recommended for daily consumption. The quality of this water is certified by an EU Natural Mineral Water Certificate.


The Villa of Tiberius was built on a preexisting Republican-Age Villa. Tiberius lived here until 26 AD, when he decided to move to Capri after a landslide.
Let’s figure out how the historical complex is structured.
In addition to the house, there are thermal baths, water supplies and a dock, that let ships stop in the area. Among the main attractions of the Villa there is also the well-known natural grotto.
The Emperor used to spend a lot of time here, among fine marble objects and huge sculptures narrating Odysseus heroic deeds. Just in front of the grotto there’s a large rectangular tub used as a dining room during summer. Waterfalls and jets make the grotto even more spectacular.
The Museum within the archaeological area was built in 1983 – today, it is considered as one of the most interesting museums of the Pontine area, where you can enjoy a magnificent group of marble statues about Odysseus’ adventures.
Several well-preserved finds show the Villa was actually used after the Emperor moved to Capri, in the Late Antiquity. Unfortunately, many artifacts got destroyed as some monks occupied the Villa and adjusted its structure according to their needs.
The Villa of Tiberius is a majestic example of coastal Imperial Roman architecture and undoubtedly one of the must-sees of Sperlonga.


Alien in one definition is: “Too different from something to be acceptable or suitable,” and Illegal in one definition is “Not allowed by the law.” (Mirriam-Webster Dictionary) The words ‘Alien’ and ‘Illegal’ have inherent negative connotations. A person does not need to know the intimate or factual circumstances associated with those words to understand their symbolism. When those words are used to label the social group of undocumented Latino day laborers the inherent reaction is to see them in a negative way. The individuals become a stigmatized group. The people against undocumented immigrants in Farmingville saw the Latinos through the lens of the stigmatized group “illegal aliens.” They thus became seen as invaders, unwanted and dangerous. The people of Farmingville did not understand the Latino day laborers and were unable to properly interact with them.
Through conflict theory it may be seen that Farmingville residents were proactively willing to strike out (create conflict) to maintain assurance of their power and rights as American citizens. Both on a smaller communal level and for American society as a whole. The illegal immigrants were perceived as a threat to losing their power. The threat created a justification and necessity in their minds for conflict and thus stigmatized the group.
After defining the problem and creating a hypothesis I would use a standardized survey. After a pilot study I would perhaps use a sample of 2 to 3 thousand people to survey. I would choose to do random sampling.
The surveys are limited to willingness of people to participate. If people aren’t willing, the survey can’t happen. Surveys can’t really go into much depth in their subject. One way to overcome the limitation of participant willingness is to pay participants. Utilizing the internet, which is quick and easier for most people, and widely accessible, can help.
There was a huge increase in births after world war


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January 15, 2023
A Time to Remember, Reflect, and Resolve to Realize His Dream
Known generally as the “March on Washington”, the rally was actually promoted as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a call-to-action as critical today as it was, sadly, 60 years ago on August 28, 1963.
In front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic I Have a Dream speech, regarded as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory, to a crowd estimated at 200,000 strong.
An excerpt from Dr. King’s 17-minute speech includes, “I say to you today, my friends, and even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream, deeply rooted in the American dream, that one day…
- …this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
- …on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
- …even the state of Mississippi…sweltering with the heat of injustice [and] oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
- …my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
- …in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
The March—and Dr. King’s speech—put civil rights at the top of a U.S. Reform Agenda, contributing to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Also, in 1964, Dr. King was the recipient of the coveted Nobel Peace Prize.
Read about Dr. King’s awe-inspiring legacy and life, and the lessons he fought—and died for at the age of 39—to instill in all of us.


This is a great article, made me remember the reason we need to remember think about our audience when communicating ANYTHING! People always tend to see doing this as a hindrance because of the additional thought it entails but if people cannot understand what you’re telling them you may as well not have bothered in the first place!
Studies show we like things that are easy to think about and dislike things that are hard to think about.
You see it all the time.
Complex sentences filled with obscure words and phrases which we have no idea of their meaning.
Topics glorified with the aim of dazzling those communicated to.
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir took place in 1950 during the Korean War.
North Korea, with the support of China and the Soviet Union, fought against South Korea with the support of the British and US.
These US troops were stationed at the Chosin Reservoir.
But they weren’t alone.
15,000 US troops were surrounded by 120,000 South Korean and Chinese troops, advancing on their position.
Stranded, they were in trouble.
Temperatures fell to -25 degrees at night as the winter conditions became apparent.
And to make matters worse, the mortar sections of the US Marine Corps…
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Stumbling on History
Through text and graphics, this Junior Library Guild selection chronicles the author and her mother’s return to Germany for the installation of a memorial for their family.
About the Book
Stumbling on History. An Art Project Compels A Small German Town To Face Its Past Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonders if stumbling_coverthe memory of the Nazis murdering her parents, along with millions if other victims, will outlive the survivors. Now – 76 years after Edith’s parents saved their daughter’s life by sending her, alone and terrified, to America – she returns to the small German town where her family had lived for hundreds of years. Invited to witness the installation of a memorial to her family – part of an effort throughout Europe to confront the genocide of World War II – she experiences how art is helping today’s generation face and atone for crimes of the past.
Teacher’s Guides are available at this link: https://fernschumerchapman.com/school-visits/teachers-guides/
The Junior Library Guild has selected Stumbling on History as an August 2017 title.


World airline traffic patterns
This amazing representation shows aircraft flow of traffic departing the North American continent airports like JFK, Newark International and travelling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning Then you will see the flow changing, departing the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight. This 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world has been condensed down to about 2 minutes.
Like a view from a satellite, from space it looks like a bee hive of activity. You can tell it is summer time in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet. You can see that it doesn't quite set in the extreme north and it doesn't quite rise in the extreme south. I have never seen this before. We are taught about the earth's tilt and how it causes summer and winter in the opposite hemisphere, but to see just what is going on - WOW. With this 24-hour observation of aircraft travel on the earth's surface we get to see the daylight pattern change as our timer 'moves' across the planet (and by noting where the 'sun is shining' in the northern hemisphere, across the top of the 'movie', you can estimate the time of day).
Each yellow dot is a plane in the air. Watch the concentration of the dots change as daylight comes and goes. Want to be an air traffic controller?


When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these kinds of questions, <b>Youth and Media</b> explains why young people are central to understanding critical issues in media studies and media education.
- Chapter 1: Why Youth Media?
- Chapter 2: Understanding Media Content Social and Cultural Approaches to Media Effects
- Chapter 3: Understanding the Influence of Media Technologies Youth, Dissent, Social Media and Social History
- Chapter 4: Understanding Global Media Industries China, Reality Television and Media Governance
- Chapter 5: Understanding Media Users Girls, Mobile Phones and Identities
- Chapter 6: Understanding Media Violence School Shootings, Media Stories and the Framing of Social Reality
- Chapter 7: Understanding Advertising and Marketing Students and Alcohol
- Chapter 8: Understanding Political Communication Barack Obama, Media Convergence and Mediated Intimacy
- Chapter 9: Understanding Celebrity Bam Margera and the Role of Sport in Media Convergence
- Chapter 10: Understanding Critical Media Studies Child Soldiers, Media Business and Media Education
- Epilogue: Doing Youth and Media


More objective and consistent methods are needed to assess water quality for large areas. A spatial model, one that capitalizes on the topologic relationships among spatial entities, to aggregate pollution sources from upstream drainage areas is described that can be implemented on land surfaces having heterogeneous water-pollution effects. An infrastructure of stream networks and drainage basins, derived from 1:250,000-scale digital-elevation models, define the hydrologic system in this spatial model. The spatial relationships between point- and nonpoint pollution sources and measurement locations are referenced to the hydrologic infrastructure with the aid of a geographic information system. A maximum-branching algorithm has been developed to simulate the effects of distance from a pollutant source to an arbitrary downstream location, a function traditionally employed in deterministic water quality models. ?? 1992.
|Title||A spatial model to aggregate point-source and nonpoint-source water-quality data for large areas|
|Authors||D.A. White, R.A. Smith, C. V. Price, R.B. Alexander, K. W. Robinson|
|Publication Subtype||Journal Article|
|Series Title||Computers & Geosciences|
|Record Source||USGS Publications Warehouse|


This unit is written for children in the elementary classroom. I plan to use as a model to write the lessons the one adopted by Library Power for the City of New Haven which is based on the work by Mike Hibard from District 15, in Southbury, Connecticut: a performance base learning assessment task model. I follow the universal planning tool that uses content standards as the core of the performance task to be performed and where the assessments are built throughout the completion of the task and as part of the learning process. The list of all the content standards in the areas of language and visual arts, mathematics, social studies, and library media and technology targeted are refered by number in Appendix A.
This unit is being written with the content standards for the visual and language arts, social studies and social development which are content specific to the elementary grades (Kindergarten to grade 4). For example, some of the tasks the child should be able to perform are: create an artwork using diverse mediums and techniques; design a physical structure; identify mountains, lakes and rivers; retell personal stories through the use of the writing process. The students will make special projects requiring a hands-on art project and an oral presentation. Because the main topic is art, the social development standards will be worked in through the use of how to provide feedback, expressing feelings through the arts, etc.
The work habits that the unit will focus on will be attending to details and accuracy. This will be accomplished through questioning techniques, retellings, oral and written reports, as well as through the use of games. The thinking skills that will be focused on the area of initial understanding will be to sequence, and list different passages of their personal stories which will end being depicted through the use of the arts.


What is ERCP?
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatopgraphy, or ERCP, is a specialized technique used to study the bile ducts, pancreatic duct and gallbladder. Ducts are drainage routes; the drainage channels from the liver are called bile or biliary ducts. The pancreatic duct is the drainage channel from the pancreas.
What happens during an ERCP?
You will be given a sedative by the anesthesiologist and you will lie on an xray table. During the ERCP, our physician will pass an endoscope through your mouth, esophagus and stomach in the duodenum (first part of the small intestine). An endoscope is a thin, flexible tube that lets our physicians see inside your bowels. Upon locating the common opening to the ducts from the liver and pancreas, called the major duidenal papilla, a catheter (narrow plastic tube) will be passed through the scope and into the ducts. A contract material (dye) will be injected into the pancreatic or biliary ducts and xrays will be taken.
What happens after an ERCP?
You will be monitored until most of the effects from the sedative have worn off before being sent home. You might experience bloating or pass gas because of the air introduced during the examination. You can resume your usual diet unless you are instructed otherwise. Someone must accompany you home from the procedure because of the sedatives used during the examination. Even if you feel alert after the procedure, the sedatives can affect your judgement and reflexes for the rest of the day.


D is a normal-goal programming language with static typing, systems-stage access, and C-like syntax. The pure language translates human directions-bad grammar, slang, and all-into code the pc understands. The C++ language is used to create pc programs and packaged software program, equivalent to video games, workplace purposes, graphics and video editors and working programs.
Unreadable code usually leads to bugs, inefficiencies, and duplicated code A study 8 found that a couple of easy readability transformations made code shorter and drastically lowered the time to know it. Before studying C Programming, you need to have the basic data of Laptop Basic.
They improve productivity as a result of programs are simple to write and change. Purchase new expertise quick in programs that combine quick expert videos with quick arms-on-keyboard workouts. Wealthy Hickey (Clojure): I’m not a Clojure programmer, however I like reasoning about and building programming languages.