AMES, Iowa -- A potential problem for Iowa fruit and vegetable growers has been turned into a liquid asset, thanks to a one-year research project conducted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and funded by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
High tunnels are inexpensive, simple, passive-solar greenhouses in which crops are grown directly in the soil. They allow growers to extend the season and produce high yields of quality produce earlier and later than field-grown crops, thus getting to the market earlier and commanding a higher price.
However, soil around a high tunnel can erode or become saturated after rainfall. Approximately 900 gallons of water will flow from the roof of a 30-ft. by 96-ft. high tunnel during a half-inch rain event. Extension specialists developed a system to catch, store and reuse rainwater for irrigation inside a high tunnel. A prototype was built and tested during the 2011 cropping season at the ISU Armstrong Research and Demonstration Farm near Lewis.
The system is described in a new publication and 10-minute video produced by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, “Rainwater Catchment from a High Tunnel for Irrigation Use.” The resources show growers how to add gutters and storage tanks with a pump to their own high tunnel.
Shawn Shouse, agricultural engineer for ISU Extension and Outreach, estimates the cost to build the rainwater catchment system at about $1,200. It could provide up to half of water needs inside the tunnel, depending on weather and crops, but it should not be a grower’s only source of water.
Linda Naeve, program coordinator for ISU Extension and Outreach’s Value Added Agriculture program, is aware of several growers who are adding gutters, storage tanks and a pump to their high tunnels this season.
The publication (PM 3017) is available to download at the Extension Online Store, https://store.extension.iastate.edu/, or from the Leopold Center website, http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/marketing/resources#tunnels.


Large-scale area-based conservation measures affect millions of people globally. Understanding their social impacts is necessary to improve effectiveness and minimize negative consequences. However, quantifying the impacts of conservation measures that affect large geographic areas and diverse peoples is expensive and methodologically challenging, particularly because such evaluations should capture locally defined conceptions of well-being while permitting policy-relevant comparisons. Here, we measure the impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), a national community-based conservation and poverty reduction initiative. We use a novel, cost-effective impact evaluation method based on participatory wealth ranking and Bayesian multilevel modelling. We find that from 2007 to 2015 the impacts of WMAs on wealth were small and variable, with no clear evidence of widespread poverty reduction. Accompanying qualitative data suggest that apparently positive effects in one WMA cannot be directly attributed to WMA activities. Our results suggest that current WMA policy needs to be revisited if it is to promote positive local development.
Citation & Link to journal full text
Keane, A., Lund, J. F., Bluwstein, J., Burgess, N. D., Nielsen, M. R., & Homewood, K. (2019). Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0458-0


Can Kids Get Gum Disease?
Can kids get gum disease? Good question. The short answer is “yes,” but we’ll dive into a little more detail here. First, we’ll take a quick look at what healthy gums are and what they do, and that will help us get an idea of what your kid’s dentist means when he talks about gum disease or unhealthy gums. Then, we’ll take a look at how gum disease shows up in children and how it’s treated.
Gums help hold teeth in place and protect the sensitive roots and nerves in the teeth. Gums also cover and protect parts of the jawbones. Healthy gums are firm and pink, and they wrap tightly around the base of each tooth. When gums become infected because of prolonged exposure to bacteria (most often caused by poor brushing and oral health habits), they often begin to show symptoms like swelling, redness, bleeding, and sensitivity.
A mild form of gum disease called gingivitis is fairly common in children. It’s usually accompanied by a build-up of plaque and includes some of the symptoms mentioned above. In a more advanced infection, called periodontitis, the gums begin to pull away from the teeth. Space between the gums and the teeth allows pockets of food and bacteria to gather under the gumline, forming plaque and tartar and leading to chronic bad breath, painful chewing problems, loose teeth, tooth decay, gum recession, and if left untreated, tooth loss.
Treatment for gum disease can be surgical or non-surgical depending on your kid’s age and medical history, the progression, and severity of the damage, and other factors. Sometimes even a thorough cleaning can address mild gingivitis, but in a more advanced case, other procedures such as root scaling or regenerative treatments could be necessary. Regardless of the treatment method, the most important step towards healing and maintaining gum health is consistent brushing and flossing. Those little health habits really do make a difference!
(P.S. Interestingly enough, it’s quite possible to have gum disease, but not experience pain or any of the telltale symptoms. That’s one reason why it’s important to keep up with regular cleaning appointments. The dentist helps keep an eye on your child’s gum health as well as their teeth.)


Seasonal affective disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that occurs during the same season each year, most commonly in the fall and winter. Symptoms of SAD include feelings of sadness, hopelessness, low energy, and a lack of interest in activities
Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, can be an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). There are several different types of psychotherapy that can help with SAD, including:
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) – This type of therapy focuses on identifying and changing negative thoughts and behaviors that may be contributing to SAD symptoms.
- Light therapy – This type of therapy involves exposing the individual to a bright light source, which can help regulate the body’s circadian rhythm and improve mood.
- Interpersonal therapy – This type of therapy focuses on the individual’s relationships and social support system, and can help with issues such as isolation and loneliness that may be contributing to SAD symptoms.
- Mindfulness-based therapy – This type of therapy helps individuals to focus on the present moment and observe their thoughts and feelings without judgment. This can help to reduce stress and anxiety and improve overall well-being.
- Antidepressant medication – can be effective in treating SAD as they can help to balance the levels of certain chemicals in the brain that affect mood.
It is important to note that everyone is different and what may work for one person may not work for another, so it’s important to work with a therapist or mental health professional to find the best treatment plan for you. See how one of our psychotherapist can help you. Book your consultation with one of our psychotherapists today.


School Council - What is it?
School Councils are democracy in action. The School Council of Shire Oak Primary consists of two representatives of each class, from Year 1 to Year 6, a Vice Chair from Y5 who then becomes the Chair when they reach Y6. The Council meets frequently, at least once every month, to express views and make decisions.
Staff and Governors are always keen to know the views of our pupils. Please look at our noticeboard in school for recent news and for a copy of our annual report. The School Council even interview people for vacancies in school. (Candidates have remarked about how challenging this aspect of the selection was!)
The election process for school council starts by each pupil in every class getting an opportunity to vote for a class representative. The two people with the most votes in each class will be elected. Year 5 children who wish to run for Vice Chair write a speech and then they present their speeches to the whole school. The person with the most votes is elected to serve as Vice Chair and, subsequently, Chair. Elections happen in September each year.
A message from the Chair and other members of the School Council
"When we became part of the school council, we had no idea what it would be like, as none of us had done it before. We have made lots of decisions in school council meetings such as: scoot the route, organising toy sales, fundraising football match and Christmas presents for children in Romania. We also interviewed some new teachers and now one of them works in year 5.
At the moment we are working on a deforestation project.
We would be delighted to hear your ideas in the school council box"


Estrogen is the primary female hormone. It has been prescribed for over 80 years in women suffering from symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, insomnia, vaginal dryness, bladder problems, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety. With time, many of these symptoms may diminish; unfortunately, the disease processes such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s disease continue to increase in the absence of estrogen.
Women using estrogen have seen favorable changes in muscle tone, wrinkles, hair texture, and sex drive. Multiple studies illustrate that estrogen should not simply be used as a treatment for menopause, but rather as a life-long therapy for the deterrent of age related diseases such as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression.
Estrogen is produced primarily in the ovaries and adrenal glands. Men also produce estrogen through a conversion of testosterone, although this is an extremely small amount. There are three types of estrogen found in a female’s body—estrone, estradiol, and estriol. The levels of all of these hormones fall dramatically at the onset of menopause.
Rapid bone loss after menopause has been attributed to the decline in the production of estrogen, which is essential for bone growth. In addition, the loss of estrogen results in the development of heart disease, which is the number one cause of death for both men and women. Postmenopausal women on bioidentical estrogen replacement have a 70% decrease in mortality from heart disease. Bioidentical estrogen along with a dramatic improvement of both good (HDL) and bad (LDL) cholesterol, protects vessels of the heart and brain, and may protect against Alzheimer’s disease and a number of other medical conditions.
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What does peoples mean? View the definition of peoples and all related slang terms containing peoples below:
Usage of PEOPLES
The term 'PEOPLES' is an abbreviation for the word 'people'. When we say 'PEOPLES' we are referring to a group or community of individuals that share a common identity, culture, history or language. It can also refer to different ethnic groups or nations. The term may be used in different contexts such as in discussions about social issues, politics or in everyday conversations. Using the abbreviation 'PEOPLES' can help to make our texting more efficient as well as adding an informal tone to our messages.
Examples of PEOPLES used in texting:
1) Hey guys, let's meet up at the park this afternoon! I want to introduce you to some of my favorite PEOPLES.
(Example of PEOPLES used in texting for referring to a group of friends)
2) The pandemic has affected different PEOPLES in various ways. We need to show more empathy and support to those who are struggling.
(Example of PEOPLES used in texting for referring to different communities affected by an issue)
3) I love learning about new cultures and meeting different PEOPLES from around the world. It's fascinating how much we can learn from each other.
(Example of PEOPLES used in texting for referring to individuals from different ethnic backgrounds)


Playing team sports is an excellent way to socialize with other people and develop deeper bonds with your teammates. Some of the life skills learned through team sports include collaboration, teamwork, and emotional maturity. These skills are crucial for success in a wide variety of environments. Swimming, for instance, is a great sport for developing these skills. It doesn’t require much equipment and requires you to work together as a team.
One of the most important attributes for team sport athletes is the ability to change direction and speed. Research has developed many metrics to measure this ability, both in competition and in training. Acceleration can be measured in a variety of ways, and it is necessary to understand the overall load a team athlete experiences during a match.
Team sports are played by people of different ages. Young people may join a team sports program for physical activity or to improve their academic performance. They may also be interested in sports as a way to learn life skills, such as patience, persistence, and socialization. They are popular with kids of all ages and can be a great way to build a sense of teamwork and camaraderie.
A team setting is fundamentally social, and participants participate in a wide range of social interactions. This environment fosters healthy development in youth. It is estimated that approximately 47 million youths in the United States and Canada participate in team sports.


K - 6
About this printout
Who are the characters in this story? Students will examine what a character looks like, what a character does, and how other characters react to him or her.
Teaching with this printout
Help students progress from impressions or reactions about a character to a deeper understanding of the character's attributes.
- Choose a character from any book, short story, play, poem, or film and ask students to start describing the character.
- Project an overhead of the character map and ask students to recall some of their descriptions. In which category would they fall (appearance, actions, or reactions of others)?
- Write their responses in the boxes. Are they evenly distributed among each, or are most in one area? Ask students for suggestions to describe the character in all three areas.
- Have students write a paragraph discussing the character and their reactions to the character using the graphic organizer for reference.
Students can then use the printout independently to describe any other character
More ideas to try
- Students write a character sketch of a favorite or assigned character, based on the information gathered for the Character Map.
- Use the Character Map in creative writing. Students answer questions on the map to fully develop characters that they are inventing.
- Use two copies of Character Map to prepare students for a compare/contrast essay on two characters.
- When studying dynamic characters, have students complete the Character Map early in a text. Put their work aside and ask them to complete another Map after finishing. Then compare and contrast the two.


I picked my first blueberries of the season today, which I going to eat for breakfast tomorrow morning on top of my oats...yum!
Blueberries are one of the few fruits native to North America. They’ve been gathered for centuries by Northeast Native American tribes who called them “star berries”. If you look at the blossom end of the berries above you can see that it forms a five point star. The tribe elders would tell of how the “Great Spirit” sent the “star berries” to relieve the children’s hunger during a famine and keep them healthy. I’m guessing this is because blueberries are the first fruit of the season, after a particularly hard winter.
Blueberries were used medicinally as well. A tea made from the leaves and roots was thought to be good for the blood and cure stomach problems. The juice from the berries was used to treat coughs. Dried blueberries were added to stews and soups and were crushed and used as a rub for meats. The juice was also used to dye cloth and baskets.
As one of the highest anti-oxidant fruits, fresh or dried blueberries help to protect us against aging, memory loss, cancer, and heart disease. Blueberries may help prevent urinary tract infections by preventing the bacteria that causes them from attaching to the cell walls. One study showed that fighter pilots given regular doses of blueberries had significantly improved night vision.
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Sedentary behaviour (e.g. TV viewing, seated video game playing, prolonged sitting) has recently emerged as a distinct risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases in children and youth. This narrative review provides an overview of recent evidence in this area and highlights research gaps. Current evidence suggests that North American children and youth spend between 40% and 60% of their waking hours engaging in sedentary pursuits. Although data are lacking concerning temporal trends of objectively measured sedentary time, self-reported sedentary behaviours have increased over the past half century, with a rapid increase since the late 1990s. Excessive sedentary behaviour has been found to have independent and deleterious associations with markers of adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk. These associations are especially consistent for screen-based sedentary behaviours (TV viewing, computer games, etc), with more conflicting findings observed for overall sedentary time. The above associations are possibly mediated by the influence of screen-based sedentary behaviours on energy intake. Although excessive sitting has been reported to have adverse acute and chronic metabolic impacts in adults, research on children is lacking. Research is particularly needed to investigate the impact of characteristics of sedentary behaviour (i.e. type/context, sedentary bout length, breaks in sedentary time, etc), as well as interventions that examine the health and behavioural impacts of sitting per se.
Keywords: cardiometabolic disease; comportement sédentaire; maladie cardiométabolique; pediatrics; pédiatrie; sedentary behaviour.
Copyright © 2014 Canadian Diabetes Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


For years the land was about the cattle, not about the water. Ranchers, wanting to take advantage of vast tracts of unspoiled land, built roads through the marsh to connect islands. The roads blocked the flow of water, the marsh dried up and cattle began wandering from island to island to graze.
But the marsh is returning. Water is now flowing naturally between the Hernando pool of Tsala Apopka Lake and Potts Preserve, thanks to a restoration project the District finished in July.
“We started to see flow between the lake and the marsh as soon as we finished the restoration work,” said Jeff Hagberg, District field operations manager. “It’s beginning to bring back the marsh.”
Flow of water from the Hernando pool in the preserve is vital to the health of the Potts Preserve marsh — and a sign the restoration work has succeeded.
“Getting the historic, natural hydrology of the preserve restored has been the District’s goal since acquiring the property,” said Hagberg.
The District removed more than 15,000 cubic yards of fill material at 15 locations to restore the historic natural flow patterns of water between the preserve’s marsh and the lake system. The $74,000 restoration project, funded by the District’s Withlacoochee River Basin Board, took nine weeks to complete.
District workers removed the fill material associated with two man-made features, the western dike and the middle road, which have impeded the natural flow of water between the open water areas of the Hernando pool and the preserve’s marsh since the early 1950s. Workers graded down 4.5 acres of filled area to historic wetland levels.
The dike and road were built by the previous landowners to connect upland islands to provide access to the more remote parts of the preserve, increasing the amount of usable land for cattle grazing. But these filled-in areas hampered the natural movement of water. The project was designed to restore that movement.
The 8,500-acre Potts Preserve was acquired by the District in the early 1990s for protection of the area’s groundwater recharge as well as its important surface water features and wetland habitats.


Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) and The Song Room have partnered to create an ARTS:LIVE resource focusing on site-specific theatre. Our new Plan a Performance course features the Site-Specific Work activity, rich in contemporary contexts but inspiring students to delve deep into history. Members of ATYP took to Sydney’s docks to demonstrate what makes a site interesting and show you how to turn a place into a performance space.
In Site-Specific Work students develop and apply their playbuilding skills in a new environment. This dramatic form encourages students to consider the context of a performance and the perspective of the audience.
Head to ‘Put on a Performance: Site-Specific Work‘ for more information.
Site-specific theatre occurs in a specific location, often outdoors. It is inextricably linked to the site in which the performance takes place. Much site-specific work provides insight into a culturally or historically significant event. An informative theatrical dramatisation of historical events often results from the development process. It is an interesting way to integrate real-life fact into dramatic fiction. Companies such as Punchdrunk and Theatre-Rites use site-specific processes as the backbone of their creative practice. Much political, event-based and street theatre is site specific. The manifestos of Augusto Boal and Bertolt Brecht are often personified in site-specific work. This type of theatre is often interactive for the audience, as they may be required to move to various locations throughout the show or view the action from unusual vantage points
In this resource, students analyse the site-specific performance Quay to the City (2013) by the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). Students explore how the elements of drama can be used in a site, and how they can integrate their bodies and voices into the location and create a relevant atmosphere and mood. They research the social and historical significance of their chosen site and work collaboratively to create their own performance. Students consider the perspectives of their audience, reflect on their own and others’ work by watching the performances of their peers, critique dramatic process and performance, and discuss their shared experiences as a group.


What is the difference between PRESSURE wash and SOFT wash? what does my house need?
Updated: Aug 6, 2021
One of the main differentiating factors of soft wash and pressure wash is one (Pressure) using high pressure and one (Soft) using a lower pressure. Pressure washing or power washing uses high-pressure water that runs at a very high PSI. Depending on the type and strength of pressure washer, the PSI can range from 1300 to 3100 PSI or Above. Meanwhile, soft washing uses much less power than that — more like a strong powered hose.
Another difference is what comes out of the hose with soft washing vs pressure washing. While a pressure wash relies on the high-pressure water alone to clean properly, soft washing systems use a combination of soaps, bleach, and water to ensure your exterior stays clean for the long-term.
For delicate surfaces like Vinyl, Aluminum, or Stucco, as well as Roofs need a soft wash, low pressure will avoid damages on siding or windows, fascia boars, trimming and other surfaces because the solution does the hard work and low pressure will only rinse off what the solution already removed from the surface.
pressure can only be used on hard surfaces like brick, concrete, stones, etc, that means pressure will do great for patios, driveways, and other none delicate areas, but won't be the best option for your house walls.


A report by the International Organization for Migration has found that at least 33,761 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean between 2000 and 2017.
The International Organization for Migration has released a report in which it concludes that Europe’s Mediterranean border is “by far the world’s deadliest.”
The report by the United Nations' migration agency states that at least 33,761 migrants have died or have gone missing in the Mediterranean between 2000 and 2017.
The study investigates irregular migration across the Mediterranean since the 1970s. It highlights that irregular arrivals to European territory and deaths at sea have increased as migration policies become more restrictive.
“Stopping migration and eradicating deaths at sea may [be] conflicting objectives. Shutting the shorter and less dangerous routes can open longer and more dangerous routes, thus increasing the likelihood of dying at sea,” Professor Philippe Fargues of the European University Institute states in the report.
The study has found that the highest number of fatalities was recorded in 2016, when 5,096 migrants died in the crossing. At the time, the short and relatively less dangerous route from Turkey to Greece was shut following the European Union–Turkey statement.
So far in 2017, approximately 161,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea, while 3,000 have died or disappeared while trying.
Out of those who reached European shores through the Mediterranean this year, 75 percent arrived through Italy with the rest mainly landing in Greece, Cyprus and Spain, according to IOM figures.
The decrease in the number of migrant deaths may be partly attributed to the cooperation between the EU and Turkey, and more recently Libya, to curb the flow of migrants.
Professor Fargues notes that most figures likely under-report the actual scale of the human tragedy, stressing that data on irregular migration is still very limited.


Speech-language pathologists (sometimes called speech therapists) assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in patients. Speech, language, and swallowing disorders result from a variety of causes, such as a stroke, brain injury, hearing loss, developmental delay, Parkinson’s disease, a cleft palate or autism.
Speech-language pathologists held about 135,400 jobs in 2014. About 2 out of 5 speech-language pathologists worked in schools in 2014. Most others worked in healthcare facilities, such as hospitals.
How to Become a Speech-Language Pathologist
Speech-language pathologists typically need at least a master’s degree. They must be licensed in most states; requirements vary by state.
Employment of speech-language pathologists is projected to grow 21 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations. As the large baby-boom population grows older, there will be more instances of health conditions that cause speech or language impairments, such as strokes and hearing loss.
This occupation supported 134,100 jobs in 2012 and 135,400 jobs in 2014, reflecting an increase of 1.0%. In 2012, this occupation was projected to increase by 19.4% in 2022 to 160,100 jobs. As of 2014, to keep pace with prediction, the expected number of jobs was 139,200, compared with an observed value of 135,400, 2.7% lower than expected. This indicates current employment trends are worse than the 2012 trend within this occupation. In 2014, this occupation was projected to increase by 21.6% in 2024 to 164,300 jobs. Linear extrapolation of the 2012 projection for 2022 results in an expected number of 165,200 jobs for 2024, 0.5% higher than the 2014 projection for 2024. This indicates expectations for future employment trends are about on track with the 2012 trend within this occupation.


With articles starting to surface saying that the recent Japanese earthquake could cost the Japanese people over $300 billion in economic damage, I thought it would be pretty interesting to try to put that number into focus. In other words, while $300 billion is a lot of money no matter how you put it, is it really that much damage if a typical hurricane does about $350 billion in damage? Thankfully, the people at The Economist have created this graph that shows the world’s costliest natural disasters so we can put the Japanese earthquake into perspective. What the graph shows is very intriguing.
First off, I should mention that the official cost of the earthquake has not been calculated yet and is likely to be much higher in the next couple weeks, however, even using just the estimated cost it is clear that the current earthquake in Japan is by a large amount the costliest disaster thus far. This current earthquake cost Japan up to 4.1% of its GDP compared to the second costliest disaster which was 1.9% of GDP (ironically, that was in Japan as well so the percent of GDP measure is a fair comparison).
There are a couple of other things the graph shows that are very interesting. One is that disasters in the US tend to have much higher insured losses then other countries. I would theorize that the reason for this is because the US relies on a privatized system of insurance for the most part, while other countries (specifically China and Japan) are welfare-states that rely on the government for most of their risk-management needs. Another thing that is worthy of note is that disasters tend to affect poorer countries especially hard when measured as a percentage of GDP. The most expensive disaster was the Kalimantan forest fires in 1982 Indonesia which cost Indonesia 9.3% of its GDP at the time.
Take a look at the chart and please comment on any thoughts you may have about how costly disasters really are. Regardless, this chart certainly shows the devastation that is currently going on in Japan – and it doesn’t even factor in the radioactive meltdown.


Learning seems like a simple process. The information goes in (encoding), the learner attempts to commit information to memory (storage), and then the learner tries to recall the lesson (access). Even though the ability to recall and apply the knowledge is critical, teachers spend the majority of class time focused on getting the information in. During the edWebinar “Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning,” Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., cognitive scientist and founder of RetrievalPractice.org, and Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S., educational specialist, veteran teacher, and author, discussed their research into the benefits of retrieval practice and emphasizing the third step of the learning equation. When educators help students learn how to access their knowledge in low-stakes environments, the presenters said, they help students improve their long-term educational recall and performance.
Based on years of research, retrieval practice reverses the typical classroom dynamic. Instead of cramming information in, students learn how to access and pull it out. While this is what a traditional assessment does—asks students to retrieve what they are supposed to have learned—retrieval practice is more frequent and lower stakes. It can be as simple as the teacher asking the class to write down three things they learned the day before or to draw one parallel between a previous lesson and the next one. The idea is that by asking students to consistently access information, the odds increase that they will transfer the knowledge to their long-term memory.
3 strategies to enhance retrieval
Although the idea behind retrieval practice isn’t complicated, educators often ask Agarwal and Bain how to begin incorporating the method in their classroom. The presenters recommended three basic strategies.…Read More


Near Walton in Boone County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Skirmish at Snow’s Pond
During 1862 Confederate invasion, rebel forces under General Basil W Duke searched for approaches to Cincinnati. On September 25, 1862, over 500 attacked a federal camp here commanded by Brig. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore. Many USA prisoners were marched to Falmouth and transported to Lexington, then the regional headquarters of CSA.
Erected 1999 by Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Department of Transportation. (Marker Number 2023.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Kentucky Historical Society series list. A significant historical date for this entry is September 25, 1862.
Location. 38° 54.215′ N, 84° 36.901′ W. Marker is near Walton, Kentucky, in Boone County. Marker is on Dixie Highway (U.S. 25) 0.3 miles south of Logistics Boulevard, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Walton KY 41094, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Richwood Presbyterian Church (approx. 2 miles away); Major John P. Gaines Boone County, 1798 (approx. 2.6 miles away); Walton CCC Camp Bean Ridge (approx. 2.8 miles away); County Named, 1840 (approx. 4.7 miles away); Kenton County War Memorial (approx. 4.7 miles away); John Hunt Morgan Escape Route (approx. 5.4 miles away); Clinton Blankenbeker House (approx. 6˝ miles away).
Credits. This page was last revised on June 3, 2021. It was originally submitted on April 30, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York. This page has been viewed 530 times since then and 132 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on April 30, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
Editor’s want-list for this marker. Wide shot of marker and its surroundings. • Can you help?


Adolescence and youth are periods of age with special characteristics that increase the probability of assuming risky behaviors for their health. As a consequence of the evolutionary process, there is a modification in social relationships and forms of closer relationships, characterized by a rapprochement towards the peer group and progressive separation from the family environment. Training on issues related to sexuality and contraceptive methods is a key element in achieving the objective of living a healthy sexuality, free of risks or adverse consequences for their health.
The faculty of the CuidSalud Group of the University of Jaen, within the project Knowledge about sexuality and contraception and attitudes towards the use of contraceptive methods in young university students carried out a descriptive evaluation of the level of knowledge of the students of the Degree in Nursing of the University of Jaen, seeking to detect training gaps for the implementation of future training programs and the analysis of the individual characteristics that may condition the acquisition of the content.
The level of knowledge was moderately high, finding the greatest training gaps in the questions on hormonal contraceptive methods. Women, who wished to use them in future sexual relations, stood out with the highest scores, detecting self-education on the part of this group. When we analyzed the main sources of information used, we found the Internet as the main source, however, they would like to be trained through health personnel or highly reliable pages, highlighting the need to adapt the training pathways in adolescence to the development of technology, seeking to get them to access reliable sources of information.
This research has recently been published in Healthcare, where it can be consulted in full: Sebastián Sanz-Martos, Isabel M. López-Medina, Cristina Álvarez-García, Lucía Ortega-Donaire,María E. Fernández-Martínez & Carmen Álvarez-Nieto: Knowledge of Sexuality and Contraception in Students at a Spanish University: A Descriptive Study. Healthcare. 2022; 10: 1695


Information courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Travelers create a lot of waste, even with the best intentions. Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure, you can do a few simple things that will reduce your waste, conserve resources, and minimize the overall environmental impact of your visit.
Trips and vacations
- When visiting beaches and parks, be sure to take back everything you bring in, so that you can leave places unlettered and undisturbed.
- To pass the time on long drives or rainy vacation days, bring scrap paper for drawing and games.
- Hot summer days make you thirsty. Be sure to recycle your used drink containers. Consider putting a filter on your water tap and refilling bottles with the filtered water. Instead of buying many small drink bottles, buy drink mixes in bulk and fill your reusable bottles.
- Share the ride and the road. Public transportation and carpooling reduce pollution.
- If you change your own motor oil, collect and store used oil in a sturdy plastic container and appropriately recycle. Dumping oil down storm drains or on the ground can contaminate groundwater.
- Purchase extended life anti-freeze for your car. When it’s time to change it out, ensure you appropriate recycle.
- Take used or damaged car batteries to auto stores that stock or repair lead-acid batteries for safe disposal. The batteries contain toxic amounts of lead and acid, and should not be thrown out with your regular trash.
- Return used car tires to retailers or wholesalers that recycle or retread them. Tires are banned from most landfills, and illegally dumped tires become breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other pests.
- Make sure your car has a clean air filter—a dirty air filter can increase your car’s fuel consumption by as much as 10 percent.


Historically, religion was the most important part of society. It gave people a sense of purpose and provided ground for action. It also provided social support.
Today, religion is more complex. Many religions have profound spiritual texts. In addition, cultures influence the way people express their spirituality.
Religion is a complex mashup of moral rules, ethical codes, worldviews, texts, and organizations. It’s important to consider the role religion plays in health. The effectiveness of religion depends on how it is explained.
Religion can provide a clear moral code, an existential meaning to life, and a sense of purpose. Religion can also help reduce stress and improve physical health. While religion may not be a panacea for all health issues, it can be a tool to help individuals and communities organize and improve the quality of life.
Research also finds that religion is not the only way to gain a sense of meaning and purpose. For example, many individuals consider themselves spiritual but are not religious. In fact, only a small percentage of the population considers themselves to be spiritual but not religious.
Religious participation is defined as participation in a religious institution. Participation in religious institutions involves collective prayer, rituals, meditation, and ethical behavior. Participation can also be informal. Participation in religious organizations can be a great way to gain publicity and get a sense of community.
Besides giving individuals and communities a sense of purpose, religion can also provide social support. Religion can make ingredients for health more accessible.


This week I was notified of a change on a shared Google Spreadsheet I “follow” which is collecting “Differentiation with Social Media Tools“. As I write, there are 109 online social media tools listed, with the type, URL, a short assessment or review, and suggestions for content, process and product differentiation. The page was built and is maintained by John McCarthy, an Education Blogger at Edutopia – George Lucas Educational Foundation. You can learn more about him on his web page.
Linked to the sheet, there is (of course!) a hash-tag discussion on Twitter (#DI4all) if you’d like some immediate feedback about an idea or a problem on this subject.
Looking at the variety of tools listed on the spread sheet, you might want to use the text search tool in your web browser to zoom in on a particular need or modality. For example, thinking of a student for whom writing by hand is almost impossible, a search for “audio” helped me find 3 tools:
Although there are hundreds of such lists on the web, this one is particularly well organized, the links are current, and the tools might be used by learners of any age. McCarthy has updated his blog post about this spread sheet at Edutopia . He writes,
“…Differentiating with social media is most effective when we plan learning experiences based on content, process, and product (our lesson structure) and incorporate readiness, interests, and learning profiles (student voice). The following guidelines can help any classroom teacher ensure that the tool used will address students’ needs:
- Be clear about the academic learning outcomes.
- Assess what students know and don’t know.
- Identify related student background connections.
- Utilize social networks that can:
- Address needs for struggling learners
- Ensure that advanced learners are growing.
- Connect content to authentic purposes in the world beyond school.
- Use fog-free assessments that track learner progress…”


CCC students show off skills with water balloon launch
A catapult springs with a loud thunk.
Several yards away, a water balloon hits the ground with a splash, and students scramble to mark the landing spot with a flag.
That scenario played out again and again Monday at Corning Community College as a group of engineering students put their knowledge to a real-world test by seeing how far they could launch water balloons using catapults they designed.
The students are part of CCC's Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Division, taught by professors John Longwell and Debra Dudick.
"We've been doing this since the 1960s. We have eight teams this year, the most we've ever had," Longwell said. "Our engineering program has doubled in the last five years. There are 34 people total, four or five on each team. They learn teamwork, they get to know each other. A lot of colleges have this type of orientation."
Teams were judged on both distance and accuracy.
Some catapult designs worked better than others.
A few balloons burst as soon as they were hurled into the air, while others hit the ground with a splat only a short distance from the launch point.
At the other end of the spectrum, a handful of balloons carved a high arc against the deep blue November sky before crashing back to earth dozens of yards across the courtyard outside the college Commons.
Student Tyler Dunkleberger, of Corning, was a member of the team that designed one of the best-performing catapults.
Creating an efficient machine took a lot of research, teamwork and trial and error, Dunkleberger said.
"We were blowing a lot of balloons up in the sky. We had to change our idea two or three times," said Dunkleberger, 29. "Everybody had some input. We had to debate what we wanted. We did a lot of research on this design. It burned an image in my mind. When we started to do specific dimensions and angles, it all fell into place."
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Image of The Week: sneeze cloud versus droplets
A germ-spreading sneeze unleashes a shower of large liquid droplets and a moist gas cloud of smaller ones.
High-speed video imaging reveals the two main components of a sneeze in colorful detail: a shower of larger droplets whose trajectories, shown in green, can extend up to 2 meters from the person sneezing (yellow), and a cloud made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas (red). This second component is particularly important for estimating how far germs can spread. Direct observations, experiments and mathematical modeling show that, due to the presence and nature of this turbulent cloud, the small droplets can be carried over longer distances than previously thought, allowing them to go further than the larger drops and high enough to be sucked up into a room’s ventilation system. What does this mean? Should you feel a sneeze coming on, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or sneeze into the crook of your elbow to disrupt the formation of the “cloud” and reduce how far your germs will spread.
Technical notes: The trajectories of the larger droplets (green) and the cloud (red) from a sneeze are revealed in a high-speed video recording collected at 1000-2000 frames per second. The cloud image (red) is a single frame from the video at 0.341 seconds after the sneeze. Video images of many sneezes were used to construct mathematical models and conduct laboratory experiments to understand the fluid dynamics of the ejected gas shaping disease transmission.


How much do you know about what’s in the soaps you use day to day?
Skin is the body’s largest organ and is often the first to touch and absorb toxins, chemicals, and other substances in commercial products. Often the ingredients in those products have long and unfamiliar names and are hidden in unreadable fine print on a small label.
Handwashing and cleansing should be soothing. Unfortunately, many commercial soaps have ingredients that can be harsh or have negative impacts on you or the environment.
How is handmade natural soap better for you and the Earth?
1. It made without chemicals and synthetics
Most commercial soaps aren’t true soaps at all. Often manufactured with synthetic ingredients, they’re similar to detergents. These may include parabens, petrochemicals, phthalates, triclosan, and phosphorus, which irritate and dry the skin. Scientists even link some of these ingredients to hormone disruption and cancer.
Botanical PaperWorks soap has natural shea butter, clays, mineral colorants, and oils.
sources: fda.gov, bcpp.org, ewg.org
2. It’s not harmful to waterways
The natural ingredients in most handmade soaps are biodegradable. Meanwhile, the synthetic ingredients in commercial soaps, such as phosphorus, drain into rivers and lakes and harm fish and other living things.
4. It’s palm oil-free or only contains sustainably-harvested palm oil
Many commercial soap companies use palm oil harvested from deforested areas.
5. It’s often vegan and not tested on animals
Many handmade soaps contain no animal fats, milk, or honey products, so they are vegan-friendly. The small businesses that make them usually don’t test on animals, so they are most likely cruelty-free.
6. It comes from small businesses
Purchasing handmade soap from local businesses means supporting community members. Commercial soap companies often make their products in factories with machines, not people.
7. Its packaging is often sustainable
You’ll usually see handmade soap packaged without plastics, whereas many commercial soaps are in single-use plastic bottles or heavily printed, glossy boxes.


Pregnant women in the U.S. are being exposed to chemicals like melamine, cyanuric acid, and aromatic amines that can increase the risk of cancer and harm child development, according to a study from researchers at UC San Francisco and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Melamine and cyanuric acid were found in nearly all study participants’ samples, but the highest levels were found in women of color and those with greater exposure to tobacco. Four aromatic amines that are commonly used in products containing dyes and pigments were also found in nearly all pregnant participants.
People can be exposed to melamine and aromatic amines in a variety of ways: through the air they breathe, by eating contaminated food or ingesting household dust, as well as from drinking water or by using products that contain plastic, dyes, and pigments.
“These chemicals are of serious concern due to their links to cancer and developmental toxicity, yet they are not routinely monitored in the United States,” said Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, a professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine who directs the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, and is the co-senior author of the study published August 30, 2022, in Chemosphere.


May 2, 1963 - Ten “Freedom Walkers” — five whites and five Negroes — engaged in a debate this afternoon with fifteen white teenagers in Rising Fawn, Georgia. The walkers, members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), have vowed to complete the journey begun by William L. Moore, a 35-year-old Baltimore postman who was murdered Apr. 23 in Keener, Ala. “What are you all trying to prove? What do you want?” a teenager asked the walkers. Winston Lockett (lower right), 21, a Negro who is field secretary of SNCC, replied: “I seek a society where people are united because segregation separates people.” Some white youths sneered, but their faces reflected a growing interest as the debate ranged over school desegregation, the desires of Negroes, and the South. “Do you think black and white should mix?” another asked Mr. Lockett. “It’s not whether they’re black or white,” he replied. “I’m in favor of people mixing.” A white who had been referring to the group as “nigras,” the common Southern pronunciation, changed to “Negro” mid-debate. “Why do you Negroes want to go to school with whites?” he asked. Mr. Lockett answered: “So people can get to know one another.” Robert Zellner, 24, a white Alabamian and spokesman for SNCC, handed the white youths a card from an Illinois high school. It showed a white running for president of the student body and a Negro for vice president. “That’s in the North,” a white teenager said. “Let it stay in the North.” “Why? What’s the difference between the North and the South?” “The South works. The North don’t work.” The whites left, apparently unconvinced, but it seemed that a few carried questions in their minds. “I’m certain that they will think of some of the things I said — maybe not today or tomorrow, but sometime,” said Mr. Lockett.
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Pleural Mesothelioma & Seniors
Mesothelioma is an incurable, asbestos-related cancer that typically affects the lining of the lungs. Symptoms can include shortness of breath, dry coughing, and chest pain.
There is a long latency period associated with mesothelioma and asbestos exposure. Due to the long latency period of mesothelioma, approximately 20-50 years, about 80% of those who are diagnosed with this terrible disease are seniors. The average age of mesothelioma patients is 69.
Pleural mesothelioma accounts for 75% of cases. It forms on the soft tissue covering the lungs and sometimes abdomen. The prognosis for this type of cancer is poor because there is no cure, and the cancer is aggressive once it develops. Those who can undergo multimodal therapy, which is a combination of two or more treatments, have an improved prognosis. And some mesothelioma survivors have lived a long time despite the poor prognosis.
Fortunately, for seniors and their families, there are treatment options and advocacy centers, such as The Pleural Mesothelioma Center. The Pleural Mesothelioma Center offers free assistance and resources to anyone coping with pleural mesothelioma, as well as their loved ones. This is done through patient advocacy, medical content from our accredited experts, public outreach, and a veterans department specifically for those who have served.
Many mesothelioma survivors credit the people who supported them along the journey as vital to their survival, and that is exactly what we are here to do!
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Week Fifteen Lessons
This week we will be reviewing, testing , and goal setting! Make the review fun and the memories will stick! Unit Test reviews are just as important throughout the year. The goal is not to memorize for the test, but to refresh their memory and help make those memories permanent.
(A) explore the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels; Readiness Standard (D) identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and the nature of the environments at the time using models. Supporting Standard (B) recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth’s surface by wind, water, and ice; Readiness Standard (C) identify alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biofuels; and Readiness Standard
Science Wall Complete each day with your choice of word wall words.
Earth and Space Interactive Science Notebook
Science and Literacy The Rock Cycle
Science and Literacy Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Science and Literacy Natural Resources and Alternative Energy
(Monday – Tuesday) Review using games and activities for the test
Review activities: quick writes for students to show you what they know, quizzes, games, review the labs they have completed, study their science notebooks with a partner.
(Wednesday) Administer the test
(Thursday – Friday) Go over the test and set goals for future tests.
I grade tests without marking the correct answer. The students use a pen or colored pencil to review the test when we go over it as a class. They write down the explanations we have for each test question.


A minuet is a ballroom dance with short, dainty steps. The minuet is a dignified dance for a group of couples, first popular in seventeenth century France. Music for this dance is also called a minuet, often part of a sonata, symphony or suite. The beat is in 3/4 time. Minuet comes from the French word menuet, meaning fine, delicate, small, narrow.
Minute has two meanings. 1.) When the accent is on the second syllable, miNUTE, it functions as an adjective meaning small, tiny, insignificant. The noun form is minuteness. Minute comes from the Latin minutus, meaning little, small. 2.) When the accent is on the first syllable, MINute, it functions as a noun meaning one sixtieth of an hour, sixty seconds. Minute may also be a sixtieth of a degree of angular measure. The use of minute to mean sixty seconds appears in the late fourteenth century, derived from the Old French word minute, meaning short note.
And just when their routines seemed far removed from Gluck’s world, the dancers would do something that resembled a minuet or other period dance. (Reuters)
A film adaptation, directed by Scott Cooper and also called “Black Mass,” has just been released; it dramatizes the story as a lethal minuet between the wily criminal Bulger (played by Johnny Depp) and the flashy, jocular F.B.I. agent named John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), who handles him. (The New Yorker)
Surprising histories and insights can be recorded in minute shifts of these isotopes. (Ars Technica)
Every minute detail matters. (Vanity Fair)
A night in which the air game ruled, some hot guns scored, and just a single lucky break in the dying minute would have stolen the Bisons the game. (The Winnipeg Free Press)
A New York minute, as defined by Johnny Carson, is the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn. (Forbes)


The Civil Hospital Karachi was founded in 1898 in the wake of a third pandemic of Bubonic Plague on the one hand, and the platinum jubilee of Queen Victoria on the other. The pandemic would kill at least an estimated 10 million people in India alone over a period of 20 years. It is important to mention the status of Karachi at that time. Being the port city, Karachi was the business, military and nerve center of Sindh right from the start. Towards the close of the nineteenth century, Karachi emerged as the cleanest city towards this side of the Suez Canal, with an estimated population of 105,000 which continued to grow in view of its strategic importance. Lord Curzon the Viceroy of India visited Civil Hospital Karachi in 1900 and unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Victoria. The plaque is placed in the same spot, which was initially a nursing school and subsequently transformed into a state-of-the-art Burns Center in what is known till today as the Victoria Block or the Jubilee Block, while the entire building is heritage-protected by the provincial Department of Culture allowing for repairs and renovation but eschewing any structural change in its original design. The Civil Hospital Karachi continued to function efficiently until independence as the principal hospital of Karachi and received tremendous impetus after 1945 when the then Governor of Sindh Sir Hugh Dow transferred the medical school provisionally recognized by the Bombay University from Hyderabad to Karachi and laid the foundation of the Dow Medical College in its present location on 10 December 1945, with the Civil Hospital Karachi attached to it as a teaching hospital. The creation of a new state of Pakistan brought with it the need for a massive relief and rehabilitation efforts for hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring in from India and addressing all their basic needs including health needs through a largely inadequate and unprepared system. A visitor’s book maintained during the late fifties and early sixties indicates that the Civil Hospital Karachi was frequented by several dignitaries such as government ministers, ambassadors and eminent personalities visiting Pakistan. A 1961 entry by Lady Bird Johnson then spouse of the Vice President of the USA is particularly revealing: It reads: “This has been a visit both heart-breaking and rewarding. My hat is off to you women doctors!”  This indicates that health care professionals have been up against tremendous odds over the last few decades.
Antibiogram, CHK-Jan to Dec 2022 PERCENTAGE SENSITIVE


Non-destructive testing, NDT, is a very broad group of structural or material inspections, and as the name implies, these inspections do not destroy the material/structure being examined. NDT plays a critical role in assuring that structural components and systems perform their function in a reliable and cost-effective fashion. Because NDT does not permanently alter the article being inspected, it is a highly valuable technique that can save both money and time in product evaluation, troubleshooting, and research. NDT technicians and engineers define and implement tests that locate and characterize material conditions and flaws that might otherwise cause serious accidents, such as planes crashing, reactors failing, trains derailing, pipelines bursting, and various troubling events.
This concept is extended and known as Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) when combined with assessing the significance of any defects found. However, they are both terms often used interchangeably. Some testing methods must be conducted in a laboratory setting, and others may be adapted for use in the field. Several commonly employed NDT techniques and their characteristics are described below.
Classification of NDT Methods
The variety of techniques available can also be divided into two groups: surface methods, which are used to identify surface and near-surface defects such as cracks and surface porosity, and subsurface methods, which can be used to detect defects that lie under the material’s surface.
- Surface methods
- Subsurface methods


Understanding the meanings of terms used in Transport Canada’s (TC) Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR) and their manner of usage can simplify the overall understanding of the regulations.
Anyone using the TDGR must understand the words or terms used within the TDGR. The TDGR include sections that explain the definitions and terms to help users better understand the regulations.
- Transport Canada TDGR Part 1.4 — Definitions
- Act: The Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992.
- Classification: For dangerous goods, as applicable, is the shipping name, the primary class, the compatibility group, the subsidiary class, the UN number, the packing group, and the infectious substance category.
- Large means of containment: A means of containment with a capacity greater than 450 L.
- Small means of containment: A means of containment with a capacity less than or equal to 450 L.
Summary of requirements
Many times, misunderstanding concerning a particular part of a regulation can be attributed to a specific word that has not been clearly defined or is not clearly understood.
In Transport Canada's TDG Regulations, definitions are alphabetically listed in Part 1. Just as the TDGR differ from the Hazardous Materials Regulations in 49 CFR, many of the key words in the TDG Regulations and their definitions differ from those found in 49 CFR 171.8Definitions and abbreviations.


What causes wing vortices? When the wing produces lift, there is higher air pressure underneath it, and lower air pressure on top of it. At the wing tip the high pressure air flips over to the low pressure air, and this creates the rotational element of the vortex, as described in this article. The more lift is generated at the wing tip, the stronger the vortex will be.
Aerodynamic lift is a product of lift coefficient, air density, air speed, and wing area. For subsonic speeds: L = $C_L$ * ½ * ϼ * $V^2$ * A. Only the factor ½ in this equation is a true constant! We have one equation with five variables, so lets have a look at what varies when.
Contrary to our first instinct, wing area is not a constant. Modern aircraft have Fowler flaps at the trailing edge, which are extended outwards and increase the wing area, as well as changing the curve of the wing which increases lift coefficient at a given AoA. So there is the first part of our answer: with deflected flaps we have more wing area to produce a given amount of lift, therefore lower required air pressures, therefore less air flippings at the wing tip :).
The second part of our answer also has to do with flaps. Elliptical lift distribution is only possible when the wing tip has zero AoA, a situation designed to occur in cruise. A clean wing configuration is designed for the cruise condition, where there is lots of airspeed to generate lift and we want to keep induced drag to a minimum. This same clean wing is very ill suited to produce the same amount of lift at the lowest possible landing speed.
CL is a function of angle of attack and of wing shape. The answer with the graph of CL shows CL at constant alpha as a function of flap deflection. A graph of CL at constant flap deflection as a function of alpha would show relatively more lift generated near the wing tip, and that is where the wing vortices are generated. Flaps are located more inboard, meaning that when deflected, a greater portion of the lifting force is generated away from the wing tip.


From Rosie to Siri: Shifting Robotic Perceptions
For most of us, the idea of what is and isn't a robot is based in science-fiction and cartoons. The humanoid machines from "The Jetsons," "Terminator" and "iRobot" are typical of what many perceive as a robot. A broader definition is beginning to emerge, though: a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer. Experiences like Google Now, Tempo Smart Calendar and Siri combine data from a multitude of sources to automate dull-as-paste activities. This presentation by David Reeves, SVP, Director of Creative Innovation and Development at 22squared, will explore changing perceptions of what it means to be a robot, sensor technologies, computational linguistics and artificial intelligence (AI).
SVP, Creative Innovation & Dev
David builds bridges between man and machine. His background in psychology and biology affords him a unique behavior-centric perspective of the mobile technology landscape. David left Moxie Interactive’s (Atlanta) Technical Strategy group in 2010 and started his own company, Romp Interactive. He has focused exclusively on mobile technology and ideation for many Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless and 20th Century Fox. He provides thought leadership and campaign strategy for digital portions of new and existing business opportunities at 22squared, and works with our senior leadership team to establish agency innovation goals and processes.


Empathy is critically important when trying to maintain a healthy relationship.
Being able to read a partner’s emotions is useful because it allows an individual to adjust his or her behavior and communicate more effectively. For instance, if you recognize that your partner is feeling frustrated, taking a moment to acknowledge his or her feelings can sometimes make all of the difference in the world. A lack of insight into how a partner is feeling, however, is most certainly going to result in more hurt feelings, misunderstandings, and negative outcomes.
We signal our feelings primarily through our nonverbal behavior, especially through our facial expressions. In fact, we often look at our partner’s eyes in order to get a sense of what’s going on behind the curtain.
New research using fMRI technology shows that men had a more difficult time reading the emotional state when shown female eyes. The key finding of the research is best summarized by the following quote:
“We found that men actually had twice as many problems in recognizing emotions from female as compared to male eyes, and that these problems were particularly associated with a lack of activation in limbic regions of the brain.”
It is somewhat ironic that men may be better at reading other men’s emotional states.
What’s the advantage in men being able to read other men, but being less accurate at understanding what a woman is feeling?
Did men’s survival somehow depend on being able to sense what other men were thinking?
Maybe this research helps explain why women sometimes feel that men are less sensitive to their needs: Men are less good at reading feelings when expressed through female eyes.


IIT Mandi's researchers develop novel test to detect early signs of kidney damage
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi's researchers have developed a novel system that can detect early signs of kidney damage by measuring even low levels of a protein marker in urine and blood samples.
The test detects the presence of protein albumin in urine and blood. It can be served as an early indicator of various health disorders like renal dysfunction as well as diseases that result from diabetes.
Currently, dipstick tests are available in the market for detecting albumin in urine.
Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, said, "The urine dipsticks available in the market can correctly estimate albumin concentration in urine up to 30 microgrammes per decilitre (mg/dL), whereas with our technique one can measure levels as low as 3.3 mg/dL."
"The dye, which we developed at IIT Mandi, binds with the albumin molecules in the urine. This composite then absorbs near infra-red (NIR) radiation of 740-nanometre wavelength, and emits radiation at 806-nanometre wavelength," he further added.
The project is jointly funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development and Indian Council of Medical Research. It will help in detecting many health disorders in premature phase.


The Long Wall of Thrace, also called the Anastasian Wall, was a system of fortifications erected west of Constantinople. The remains of walls, which are about 65 km from Constantinople, extended from Selymbria (modern Silivri) to the Black Sea. The Wall is part of the additional defenses for Constantinople constructed during the 5th century AD and probably continued in use until the 7th century. Originally the Wall was around 56 km long, but less than half of the total length now survives above ground. It is best preserved in the rolling woodland of the northern sector where the Wall stands in place up to 4m in height. Associated with the Wall is a well preserved ditch, outerwork, gates and forts. As it survives it is the most monumental linear fortification dating from antiquity in continental Europe, comparable only with Hadrian's Wall in its complexity and preservation. Recent road construction and other developments associated with the expansion of Greater Istanbul are now posing a major threat to the surviving remains.The wall proved ineffective (probably because of its length and the lack of a sufficient garrison to man it) and was many times penetrated by invaders, beginning in 559. According to the preface to novel 26 of Justinian I, there were two vicarii of the Long Walls: one for military affairs, the other for civil administration. In later centuries the commander responsible for the defense of the wall was the Komes ton Teicheon.
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International Mine Action Day: the challenge for Laos
Laos has the unwanted distinction of being the most heavily bombed country per capita in the world. The use of more than 270 million sub-munitions (called ‘bombies’ in Laos) released from cluster bombs during the Vietnam War continue to have a devastating effect today by killing and maiming children and adults, as well as making potentially productive land inaccessible.
In ChildFund’s target villages in Nonghet district, this issue has a very real dimension with the first clearance sweep of a school construction site in Paka village yielding 160 bombies and 17 live bullets. Children are at particular risk from bombies as the munitions may be brightly coloured and are small and easy for children to handle.
More than 50 per cent of recorded injuries and deaths from unexploded ordnance (UXO) have involved children, from a total of 50,000 recorded civilian accidents since 1964 (given limited recording in some areas, this figure is likely to be higher).
ChildFund Laos is working with the support of MAG, an organisation specialised in UXO clearance, to ensure that children and their communities in target villages are no longer exposed to the risk of UXOs in their immediate environment. ChildFund will continue working in partnership with these communities to improve access to quality education and clean water.
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The Virgil Encyclopedia
Richard F. Thomas, Jan M. Ziolkowski
The Virgil Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Publius Vergilius Maro, the classical Roman poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia. Through more than 2,200 carefully researched entries, scholars and students alike are provided with an in-depth treatment of all aspects of Virgil’s poetry and his immeasurable influence that continues to the present day.
Panoussi, V. (2013). Greek & Roman Tragedy. Richard F. Thomas, Jan M. Ziolkowski (Ed.), The Virgil Encyclopedia (pp. 1281-1282). Wiley-Blackwell. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/56


For the study, researchers had 118 men and women (over age 55) who all had slightly high blood pressure to either eat three kiwis a day for eight weeks, or to eat one apple a day for eight weeks.
After the study period, researchers found the people who ate the kiwis had lower systolic blood pressure (by an average of 3.6mm of mercury) than people who ate the apples.
Researchers said kiwis are lutein-rich, which means they have antioxidant properties. In past research, harmful free radicals (which antioxidants help to beat) have been linked with high blood pressure, ScienceDaily reported.
A 2007 study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition also showed that kiwifruits are one of the most antioxidant-rich fruits, along with grapes and wild blueberries, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported.
However, the new study should not spur people to expect kiwis to magically lower their high blood pressure, U.S. News and World Report said:
Cardiologists were quick to caution that there is no single magic food or ingredient that is the key to heart health, but they all agreed that kiwi may have a place in the five daily servings of fruit and vegetables that are currently recommended as part of a heart-healthy diet.
From the November 18, 2011, Prepared Foods' Daily News.


Children’s voices in the Framework for Early Learning – a portraiture study
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is developing a Framework for Early Learning to support adults in working with children from birth to six years. The Framework is premised on an understanding of children as being active in shaping and creating their own lives. This perspective supports the inclusion of children’s voices in decisions which affect them. The NCCA is using a portraiture study to facilitate children as partners in developing the Framework. The portraits will provide a detailed description of individual children’s experiences and reflections on their time in early childhood settings and will provide an important benchmark for the NCCA in developing a national framework for early learning and development which is grounded in an Irish context. This contextualisation will help to ensure that the Framework is relevant and helpful to adults in working with children in Ireland.
Children , Children’s voices , Curriculum development , Early childhood , Early learning , Education , Mosaic approach , Portraiture
Daly, M., Forster, A., Murphy, R., Sweeney, A., Brennan, P., Maxwell, M., O'Connor, E., 2007. Children’s voices in the Framework for Early Learning – a portraiture study. An Leanbh Óg, the OMEP Ireland Journal of Early Childhood Studies, 1, pp.57-71


Aim: Rotaviruses have been associated with biliary atresia. This study investigated whether the rotavirus vaccine, which was introduced to Korea in 2008, had an impact on the incidence of biliary atresia. Methods: We identified all rotavirus infections (n = 436 826) and biliary atresia cases (n = 528) diagnosed from 2006 to 2015 from insurance and health databases. The annual and seasonal incidence of biliary atresia and rotavirus infection rates in neonates and children were calculated. The difference in the risk of biliary atresia between rotavirus-infected and non-infected neonates was analysed. Results: The incidence of rotavirus infections was 20.6 versus 13.4 per 1000 cases before (2006–2008) and after (2009–2015) vaccine implementation. However, neonatal rotavirus infection rates did not decrease, with an incidence of 14.5 versus 14.8 per 1000 cases before and after vaccination. The biliary atresia incidence remained constant at 12.0 per 100 000 cases. Rotavirus infections in neonates were a risk factor for biliary atresia (odds ratio 3.14, 95% confidence interval 1.87–5.26). Conclusion: Rotavirus vaccination had no impact on the incidence of biliary atresia, possibly because the vaccination did not change the neonatal rotavirus infection rate through herd immunity. However, rotavirus infections in neonates were significantly associated with biliary atresia.
|Number of pages||7|
|Journal||Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics|
|Publication status||Published - 2019 Dec 1|
- Biliary atresia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health


نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
استادیار و عضو هیئت علمی پژوهشگاه علوم و فرهنگ اسلامی، قم، ایران
عنوان مقاله [English]
Various classifications are available of the academic life of Mulla Sadra, of which the most important is the classification made by Allama Tabatabaei. According to this classification Mulla Sadra's life can be divided into three periods of learning, mortification and self-purification, writing and teaching. Nearly all those who have come after Allama Tabatabaei have made use of this classification for explaining Mulla Sadra's life. The author is of the view that one can talk of three Mulla Sadras when one evaluates Mulla Sadra's academic life: young Mulla Sadra, middle-aged Mulla Sadra and old Mulla Sadra. Young Mulla Sadra is in pursuit of knowledge. The middle aged one intends to rewrite philosophy on the basis of the principle of priority of existence whereas the old one follows an integrated unity on the basis of Quranic, traditional and mystical discussions. This study offers a new classification of Sadra's works so as to pave the ground for assessing the place of politics in his works.


See pictures of comet Leonard approaching the sun
On January 3, comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) traveled 144 million km from our sun.
Ambient spaceships are running AlmaManaged by NASA s space company The European Union (ESA) delivers beautiful images a kite
Also known as C/2021 A1 Leonard, the fastest piece of rock, dust and ice currently traveling through the solar system.
Comets usually appear from nowhere or, more precisely, from the Oort cloud. This is the case for Leonard, who was discovered by astronomers in early January of this year, the US site Kismoto explains.
Leonard will be making “visits” to Earth’s orbit for a while, but it won’t take long. The comet is rapidly approaching perihelion, the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, which explains why it has a bright, dusty tail of gas. However, it has been eroding for years.
Furthermore, C/2021 A1 is currently faint and can only be seen from Earth through binoculars or telescopes.
Kisotho says Leonard’s closest approach will occur on January 3, when it will be 144 million kilometers from the sun.
If it does not decay, it will embark on a 35,000-year journey to the edge of the solar system.
The flight of Comet Leonard has also been reported by space telescopes, especially the Solar Terrain Relations Observatory A (stereo-a), supported by NASA and Solar Orbiter, a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency.
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Democrats unveil first bill toward goal of net-zero emissions by 2050
Democrats unveiled the first major piece of legislation in their effort to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a bill that would first push government agencies to reach the goal.
Dubbed the 100 Percent Clean Economy Act, the bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to oversee the effort which would be undertaken across the government. It tasks each federal agency with using its authority to reach the net-zero goal, using “a substantial change from business-as-usual policies.”
“The Federal Government can and must play a leading role in global efforts to minimize climate change and to mitigate its worst effects. By achieving a 100 percent clean economy by 2050, the United States can take a critical step toward meeting that obligation,” the bill states.
The bill is the first in what might be several pieces of legislation dedicated to Democrats’ goal of reaching a green economy by 2050 — a vision they outlined in July and promised to deliver by the end of the year.
“We must boldly transition to a 100 percent clean economy. The 100 Percent Clean Economy Act of 2019 will protect public health and our environment; create high-quality green jobs that will strengthen our economy; and mitigate the impacts of climate change for all communities and all generations. Our climate crisis demands immediate action,” said Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.)
Each agency must come up with a plan that’s technology neutral, crafting a policy consistent with their goals and authority.
Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) described the bill as setting “a clear science-based target as our true North and directs federal agencies to pursue it.
The bill has over 150 co-sponsors and the backing of eight national public health and medical organizations.
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Reference of Kalikata
Kalikata was much less important than Sutanuti and Gobindapur, and this, along with the consequent abundance of space, afforded the British room to settle there. While both Sutanati and Gobindapur appear on old maps of 1687 and George Herron’s of 1690, Kalikata situated between the two is not depicted.
Development of Sutanati
Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24th August 1690 with the objective of establishing the Bengal Headquarter of British East India Company. As Kalikata did not have any settled native population, it was easy for the British to occupy the site. In 1696, construction of old Fort William began where now General Post Office established, without legal title to the land. Legal title was eventually secured on 10th November 1698 when Charles Eyre, Job Charnock’s son-in-law and ultimate successor, acquired the zamindari rights from the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family, the zamindars of the area. It is from this date that Kolkata came legally under British control. Sabarna Roy Choudhury family acquired the village of Kalikata, but they acquired a vast acreage by grant allegedly in 1608 from Raja Man Singh, a maternal cousin of the reigning Mughal emperor Jahangir. However, other sources state that a founder only impressed Man Singh in 1612.
Kalikata and Saborna Roy Chowdhury
The tenure of zamindari system of Saborno Roy Chowdhury was Kalikata, Sutanuti, and Gobindapur. Although in 1698, they were certainly the zemindars, or landlords, with their lands acquired by some sort of grant or lease from the Mughal emperors. They were apparently reluctant to transfer their rights as landlords but were forced to do so under pressure from the Mughal court.
From Kalikata to Calcutta
Kalikata was called ‘Calcutta’ by the officers of British East India Company and the development took place with the hands of the officers of British East India Company and later the British Government of India after 1857.
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An idle hobby to some, video games can be lifesaving, grounding, and even therapeutic for those who have served overseas in combat zones. Vets and medical researchers are using video games to treat PTSD, depression, and more. Best of all, it's working.
According to the RAND Organization, 18.5 percent of service members returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan meet the criteria for either depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
42-year-old Noel Nero Gregorio grew up during Nintendo's dominance of the console market.
Originally from the Philippines, he moved to California in 1991, joined the Army in 2003, did a couple tours in Iraq, then signed up for the Marine Corps. His PTSD cemented itself in April 2008, after surviving a suicide bomber attack in Iraq. He had nightmares. His anger began to build. A lot of that crossed over when he got out of the military.
Now he plays Animal Crossing when he needs to relax.
Michelle Colder Carras sees games as a treatment, not just a respite. A researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in treating veterans, her 2018 study on how gaming can help veterans with mental health issues found that vets use games in a variety of ways to better their mental health, whether it's through connecting with others, coping with symptoms of PTSD, suicidality, or substance cravings, or creating meaningful leadership roles or even jobs through games.
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Where the operator is on one side of the world and the robot the other, the delay prevents fine control and the robot has to be semi-autonomous. In addition, looking at a flat 2d image makes it hard to control a robot.
Some systems use stereoscopic video, such as the Airbus Military Aerial Refuelling Boom System (ARBS) fr the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft being acquired by the Royal Australian Air Force. With this system the operator sits in the aircraft cockpit and fly the boom while looking at a stereoscopic image. Previous systems, such as the KC-135, require the operator to be in the tail of the aircraft. It might be interesting to enhance the Airbus system with virtual reality.
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Nano materials can be roughly divided into four categories: nano powder, nano fiber, nano film and nano block. Among them, nano powder has a long development time and mature technology, which is the basis for the production of other three types of products.
1. Nano powder
Also known as ultra-fine powder or ultra-fine powder, it generally refers to powder or particles with a particle size of less than 100 nm. It is a solid particle material in an intermediate state between atoms, molecules and macro objects. Can be used for: high density magnetic recording materials; Absorbing stealth material; Magnetic fluid materials; Radiation protection materials; Polishing materials for monocrystalline silicon and precision optical devices; Microchip thermal conductive substrate and wiring material; Microelectronic packaging materials; Optoelectronic materials; Advanced battery electrode materials; Solar cell materials; High efficiency catalyst; High efficiency combustion supporting agent; Sensitive element; High toughness ceramic materials (unbreakable ceramics, used for ceramic engines, etc.); Human body repair materials; Preparations, etc.
It refers to linear materials with nanometer diameter and large length. It can be used in: micro wire and micro optical fiber (important components of future quantum computer and photonic computer); New laser or light emitting diode materials, etc.
3. Nano film
Nanofilms can be divided into granular films and dense films. Granular film is a film in which nano material particles stick together with a very small gap in the middle. Dense film refers to the film with dense film layer but nano grain size. Can be used in: gas catalysis (such as automobile exhaust treatment) materials; Filter material; High density magnetic recording material; Photosensitive materials; Flat panel display materials; Superconducting materials, etc.
4. Nano block
It is a nano grain material obtained by high-pressure forming of nano powder or controlling metal liquid crystallization. Main uses: ultra high strength materials; Intelligent metal materials, etc.
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Academically focused tutoring programmes for young children have been promoted widely in the US in various forms as promising strategies for improving academic performance, particularly in reading and mathematics. A body of evidence shows the benefits of tutoring provided by certified, paid professionals; however, the evidence is less clear for tutoring programmes staffed by adult volunteers or college students. In this article, we describe a relatively large‐scale university‐based programme that creates tutoring partnerships between college‐aged volunteers and students from surrounding elementary schools. We used a randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of this programme for 196 students from 11 elementary schools over one school year, focusing on academic grades and standardised test scores, confidence in academic ability, motivation and school attendance. We discuss the null findings in order to inform the conditions under which student support programmes can be successful.
Journal of Children’s Services, 3(2), 4–16
Link to study
Year of Study
West Philadelphia Tutoring Project
Tutoring program staffed by college-aged volunteers
Randomized Controlled Trial
Ritter, G., & Maynard, R. (2008). Using the right design to get the ‘wrong’ answer? Results of a random assignment evaluation of a volunteer tutoring programme. Journal of Children’s Services, 3(2), 4–16. https://doi.org/10.1108/17466660200800008


Circa Named a Winner of the Southeast Wisconsin Top Workplace 2023 Award. Read Press Release+
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, an Individual with a Disability (IWD) is defined as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment. Taking this definition into account, it is no surprise IWDs make up the largest minority group in the country.
In the past few years, government agencies, including Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), have set in place regulations to improve job opportunities for IWDs. With hiring enforcement efforts in place, there has been an increase in IWDs in the workforce. With that in mind, diversity etiquette has become more important than ever.
When it comes to interacting with IWDs, people tend to overthink things. There is a fear of not knowing what to do or say—not wanting to offend anyone. Those are normal reactions, and as HR professionals, it is our job to know how to respond to these tentativeness and understand how to promote effective disability etiquette in our organizations.
According to the Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN), one of the biggest hurdles to workplace accessibility is attitudinal. There may be misconceptions about people with disabilities and the work they can perform. EARN shares the following examples of attitudinal barriers:
As HR professionals, it’s our responsibility to change these attitudinal barriers by discussing disability with employees. Some organizations find it beneficial to conduct training to broaden perspectives.
Even without formal training, there are still things you can do now to better interact with IWDs in the workplace. According to Greystone Programs, here are some tips to use when communicating with IWDs:
With new regulations in place encouraging more IWDs in the workplace, it’s important organizations understand how to practice effective disability etiquette. For additional tips for interacting with IWDs in the workplace, check out this list of tips provided by EARN.
For more information on disability etiquette, please contact a Berkshire compliance expert at 800.882.8904 or email [email protected].


Presentation of the West Virginia State Flag during Opening Day Ceremony at the National Youth Science Camp held at Camp Pocahontas in Thornwood, W.Va.
The three-week camp was created as a part of West Virginia’s centennial celebration in 1963 and was originally intended as a one-time celebration of youth and science hosting two high school graduates, free of charge, from each state and Washington, D.C. In 1964, Neil Armstrong presented at the camp, and gave a lecture to the delegates describing NASA’s plans to put a man on the moon. Five years later, just days before he was due to launch on Apollo 11, he sent a telegram to the camp expressing his commendation. From 1963 to 1974, all of the delegates were male, but beginning in 1975, it accepted both male and female delegates. As of 2020, the NYSCamp Program also accepts two delegates to represent Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. A video of the History of the NYSCamp can be viewed on-line at https://www.nysf. com/w/programs/nyscamp/nyscamp-history/ (Photograph by William P. McNeel, Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection; ID: PHS004636)
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AbstractThe semantics of vocal technique can be barriers to its comprehension and practice by singers as well as potential stumbling blocks for teachers of singing. Voice teachers use terms such as support, contract, extend, expand, engage, energize, lift, open, release, relax, resist, etc. Their students may or may not understand and interpret these terms in the same way as the teacher intended them. Appoggio is an Italian term from the golden age of bel canto and it is used in contemporary voice studios with various intended meanings. This presentation will attempt to clarify its meaning and function and suggest a clear method of teaching its use in classical singing. Appoggio in its original sense incorporated strategies of glottal resistance and resonance balancing as well as breath management. As singers, our goal is to find a resonating space that is just right for the pitch, volume and vowel being sung, and to match it with just the right amount of breath energy, not too much, not too little. Core muscles are often invoked as the necessary components for effective breath support. But what exactly is meant by this directive? Even if we can identify and find the core muscles in our bodies, how many of us know exactly what they are assigned to do during singing? This presentation will attempt to solve this and other mysteries pertaining to the practice and teaching of breath support for singing.


According to one source, the Sheng dates back as far as 1200 BC. Many Westerners also call it a “Chinese mouth organ”.
An early Sheng was discovered in Hubei Province in a Zeng royal tomb dating back 2400 years to the Zhou Dynasty (1111-222 BC).
The Sheng has also been found in Han tombs in Hunan province.
The Sheng is a wind instrument with a bundle of between 17 and 37 pipes. Music is made by blowing and/or sucking the air through a tube connected to the base. The tubes are connected to shape like a gourd.
This instrument predates the organ, concertina, harmonica and accordion.
One source says that most modern shengs have 17 pipes that produce crisp, melodious tones using a chromatic scale. Source: Sheng (instrument) – Wiki
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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on What do you understand by the term racism Using examples from one of the areas of policy we have covered, explain the existence of racism in contemporary Brita. It needs to be at least 2500 words.
People in the same race may be very different from each other in terms of appearance and even genes, even more different than someone who is not in the same race. Therefore, dividing people into races makes no sense biologically. (Weston T, 2008)
What exactly is Racism? Many people equate this with mistreatment of minorities while some equate this prejudice and stereotyping.
It is not that easy to be defined because racism is not a thing. It has no mass and it can have subjective opinions. A lot of different definitions of racism have been given by a lot of different people. For the ease of understanding, we will be using the following definition of Racism throughout this paper.
Racism and the theory of evolution have a connection. People justify racism by saying that according to the theory of evolution, the strongest continue to exist. Hence any group that has a advantage over another group has a right to dominate and completely eradicate the weaker faction. Therefore the week cliques get removed from the gene-pool, which makes the species strong and more powerful as a whole. In short, they say that by practising racism, they remove the weak from the society and this in turn benefits the world as a whole. These people either misinterpret the true theory of evolution or use it to justify what their actions. Evolution does not lead to racism – ignorance, fear and bigotry do. (Barnett, A., 1998) What they don’t realise is that racism only creates frustration among the weaker groups and by practising this, the third generation of human rights are breached.
The trend in racism has changed dramatically since the 9/11 attacks on the world trade centre. At first it was more of racial discrimination. Now racism is more about religion. Muslims all over the world are now looked down upon and the world has now experienced something called ‘Islamophobia.’
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