Theophanic Reasoning: Science, Secrets, and the Stars from Spenser to Milton posits that early modern English literary figures use the concept of theophany, the material or transferred presence of God in the terrestrial world, to respond to the vacuum of doubt instigated after Nicolaus Copernicus published his astronomical observations in 1543. From heretical theories of the world-soul expressed through pagan Roman myth in Spenserian epic and Shakespearean drama, to the deeply spiritual and lively negotiation between man and the divine in Francis Bacon’s scientific writings and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Theophanic Reasoning argues that Protestant writers use theophany as a cipher to reason, or rationalize, the anxiety accompanying the scientific method, which threatened to eliminate God the Maker from the universe entirely.
As a literary history of religion and science, Theophanic Reasoning makes a critical intervention between religious studies and the history of science. In doing so, it argues that seventeenth-century literature acts as the gravitational force that pulls these now-disparate fields into cooperating orbits. Whereas current literary scholarship focuses on the history of science or the “religious turn” as separately evolving critical conversations, this dissertation returns to the original historical milieu of the seventeenth century by forging careful analysis of historical materials and Latin philosophical texts with recent research in Christian mystical theology and the esoteric branch of the history of science discipline. Thus, Theophanic Reasoning addresses a crucial gap in scholarship between literature and religion and literature and the long history of science.
At the heart of this project is the early modern brokering between the ontological status of truth and lies, belief and proof. It argues that Protestant believers used verifiable proof of God’s presence—in the cosmos, in the atmosphere, on the human body—to explain and further buoy scientific experiment and reality. It seeks to answer the question of what happens to literature when two giant cultural shifts, the Protestant Reformation and the Cosmological Revolution, threaten to rend the very fabric of religious and intellectual life in England. With particular attention to early modern understandings of facticity and sensory experience, Theophanic Reasoning provides a religio-scientific reading practice to redefine the secularizing impulse of contemporary literary criticism. In turn, this dissertation seeks to restore the divine to its place in early modern conceptions of science, secrets, and the stars.


Today, many Burdock plants (Arctium lappa) are easily identified because their flower heads, or burs (which give the plant it’s common English name) are developing at the top of the plants. I’ve not really noticed them at this stage, before this year. They look very stately at the moment because the stems are growing fast so the large leaves are clearly separated. Burdock is a biennial plant, flowing during its second year. The roots are the part of interest to herbalists and those are only useful when harvested from first year Burdock plants. So although harvesting of Burdock roots should occur in the autumn, now is a great time to identify Burdock which is not flowering, is in its first year and may be of interest. Here’s a link to a Susun Weed article about Dandelion and Burdock.
Here is a little Elder (Sambucus nigra) shrub, growing at the base of a tall park side tree, on the Middenweg. Not a great location for harvesting the flowers. At this height you may also better understand why Ground Elder (shown yesterday in flower) is so named. Fortunately, although both are edible (at least in part), the flowers look quite different, one is a shrub and the other is clearly not.
Next, a lovely White Dead Nettle (Lamium album). This member of the mint family, which looks very like Stinging Nettle but is totoally unrelated, is still in flower and yielding a tiny sip of sweet nectar, if you pluck a flower and suck its base. This can also be done with Honeysuckle. However the Honeysuckle species is seen as poisonous and White Dead Nettle is edible. The whole plant may be enjoyed and benefitted from. This plant is good cooked like spinach.Here’s a nice recipe from a lovely blog about wild food called Eat Weeds.
Lastly today, Cleavers (Galium aparine) with flower buds clearly developing. It may still be used a tonic herb when freshly juiced or made into a tincture.
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“Despite an overall improvement in detection rates as the pandemic has progressed, our estimates showed that the true number of people to have been infected across our sample of 15 countries was 6.2 times greater than the reported number.”
Australian study suggests true COVID-19 rate is far higher than official tallies
If the pool of infected people is indeed that much larger, this would reduce the fatality rate to one death per 263 cases, or 0.38 percent
- Current tally of total Covid infections worldwide: 60.4 million (Worldometers)
- Corrected tally suggested by Australian report: 374.8 million
- Current tally of total Covid deaths worldwide: 1.4 million (Worldometers)
- Survival rate based on Australian case estimate: 99.62 percent
Nov 18, 2020
Medical Xpress – A trio of researchers with Ikigai Research, Australian National University and the University of Melbourne respectively, has found evidence that suggests the true COVID-19 infection rate for 15 selected countries is on average 6.2 times higher than official tallies have listed.
In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, Steven Phipps, Quentin Grafton and Tom Kompas describe analyzing infection data from 15 similar countries and using it to estimate true infection rates.
The current resurgence of the global pandemic has very starkly highlighted the fact that it is far from over.
Millions of people the world over have been infected and over 1 million have died, yet medical scientists are still not in agreement on true infection rates.
Instead, most countries and even local jurisdictions publish “known” numbers of infections and use such figures to determine infection rates.
In this new effort, the researchers suggest that such an approach leaves out many people that become infected but never show up on official tallies.
To gain a better perspective on true rates of infection, the researchers chose to focus on 15 countries that have similar approaches to testing, diagnosing and treatment of the disease … Read more.
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Much planning goes into opening a new habitat for any animal, but it gets a bit more challenging when you need to plan for multiple species to get ready to share the same new habitat. With the construction on the new African Savanna quickly approaching completion, the Hoofstock Animal Care Team is working on plans to introduce the giraffes, zebras and ostriches to their new habitat, as well as to one another.
During construction, these three species have had their own specific behind-the-scenes areas, so it’s important to make sure each species gets time to learn how to navigate the new habitat before we reintroduce them to each other. Our current plan is to have the giraffes spend time in the habitat alone, then the zebras, and lastly the ostriches. Once each species is familiar with the new space, we will begin pairing two species together at a time. Giraffes and zebras, then zebras with ostriches, then giraffes with ostriches. To complete the introductions, we’ll then have all three species in the habitat together. We expect this process to take a few weeks, adjusting the timeline based on each species’ comfort level with each step in the process.
Other introductions we need to consider are the animals’ introductions to you! In our former African Plains habitat, these animals were below the viewing level and a little further away. Once the African Savanna opens later this summer, you will be at the same foot level as the animals. This means we’ll need to take steps to slowly introduce the presence of people to the animals. Lastly, depending on their comfort levels, the giraffes will be re-trained to participate at the new giraffe feeding station. They’ll need to learn where the new location is, when feeding times are, and how to be fed by guests who are on a different level than before.
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The Siberian Tit or Gray-headed Chickadee (Poecile cinctus, formerly Parus cinctus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and northern Asia, and also into North America in Alaska and the far northwest of Canada. It is a conifer specialist. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.
It is a fairly large tit, 13.5"?14 cm long with a weight of 11"?14.3 g. The head is dark brown with white cheeks, the mantle brown, the wing feathers blackish with pale fringes, and the underpartswhitish with pale brown flanks.
Formerly, it was placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al., 2005). The American Ornithologists' Union has been treating Poecile as distinct genus for some time already. The genus name Poecile has often been treated as feminine (giving the species name ending cincta); however, this was not specified by the original genus author Johann Jakob Kaup, and under the ICZN the genus name must therefore be treated by default as masculine, giving the name ending cinctus (del Hoyo et al. 2007).


🔬Scientists have created a microscope armed with quantum entanglement
A new microscope outperforms all existing modern microscopes. The innovation does this by combining high-intensity light and quantum entanglement.
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Microscopes comes with some natural limitations. One of these is that photons shows a bit of randomness, leading to noise in the images produced.
Today's microscopes are using laser beams to fix this, with an enormous intensity to make sure there's enough of photons on the subject of study. But the powerful beam usually destroys the molecule or cell that's being studied after a while, and this is a roadblock in the science of studying tiny things.
But now a breakthrough has been made by scientists at the University of Queensland, and the University of Rostock in Germany. Instead of using a very high intensity beam of light they used quantum entangled photons. This is not the first experiment with entangled photons in a microscope, but the scientists managed to create a microscope that shows 30 percent better results than any other modern microscope.
The entaglement reduces noise
They used the technology behind RSMs (Raman Scattering Microscopes), and improved it by making the light quantum. A RSMs is a microscope that works by shedding light on the studied object that, in turn emits photons of a lower frequency. The difference in frequency between the emitted photons gives information about what molecule it is.
The key behind the success of the new microscope was NOT to use low-intensity light, which is typically used when trying to utilize quantum entanglement because of the delicateness of that state—but instead using what's called squeezed light.
The entanglement itself reduces noise because it gives you exact information about when the other particle is going to arrive at the studied object. Entanglement is a property of particles that means that they somehow send information to eachother when they are being measured and at what dimensions, faster than the speed of light. And they adjust to one another.
“This opens the door for some wide-ranging technological revolutions.” says proffessor Warwick Bowen, one of the scientists behind the discovery in a press release.
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Barriers to fire spread in northern Australian tropical savannas, deriving fire edge metrics from long term high-frequency fire histories
Journal of Environmental Management
The savannas of northern Australia are amongst the most fire-prone landscapes in the world. However, over the last fifteen years, increasing effort has been put into reducing fire extent and severity using prescribed burning strategies early in the dry season. This study seeks to improve the application of strategic fire management by providing a more detailed understanding of the landscape features that impede fire spread in Australia's tropical savannas using long-term satellite-derived fire histories. Spatial analysis of fire edges in Kakadu National Park based on fine-scale (30 m) Landsat imagery found that most fires stopped along linear edges, which were primarily associated with known features (roads, rivers and cliffs). Further analysis found linear features with the highest stopping ability covered only 13% of the park but divided the whole park into smaller containment regions. The stopping power of each feature type was found to vary according to their width and to change during the fire season, results that could help plan strategic fuel reduction burns. Similar results were seen with the lower-resolution continental-scale MODIS satellite-derived edge data. The MODIS dataset provided a means for applying fire edge analysis to support planning in areas of northern Australia that lack fine scale fire history mapping.
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Climate change implies that today’s transport systems need to be adapted to changing conditions. In a new project, researchers from VTI will develop a new prioritisation method for selecting measures to reduce the risk of climate-related damage to roads and railways.
We can already see how heavier precipitation, higher average temperatures, increasing sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events cause significant disruptions to the transport system. If actions are not taken, socioeconomic costs are expected to rise.
In one new project, VTI researchers will develop a method to identify and assess risks and prioritise climate adaptation measures. The Swedish Transport Administration is behind the project and the method to be developed will be used as a basis for climate adaptations within the Administration.
“The study’s results will be used to assess whether action is necessary, which action is the most suitable and when it should be taken,” explains Yvonne Andersson-Sköld, professor of environmental analysis at VTI.
“Since costs are already very high and are expected to increase, a reliable correlation between risks and actions is essential for planning new road and rail facilities and adapting existing ones for socio-economically efficient climate adaptation”.
Text: Maria Elvåker/VTI
Translated by Semantix AB
VTI, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute


By the time Louis XIV passed away in 1715, seven decades of his absurd extravagance had nearly bankrupted France.
His reign was marked by constant warfare and the most excessive spending imaginable, from opulent palaces (including Versailles) to a costly welfare state– public hospitals, parks, monuments, museums.
Louis XIV had turned France into the world’s leading power. But it came at a heavy cost.
The national debt was nearly as large as the entire French economy itself, and the government’s annual budget deficit was appalling.
France was bleeding cash. And so in 1719, the government tried a new idea to shore up its finances.
First, they issued a formal decree granting a full monopoly over nearly all of France’s international commerce and trade to a company called Compagnie du Mississippi, i.e. the Mississippi Company.
The government gave full control of the deal to a Scottish banker named John Law; Law was to sell shares of the Mississippi company to the public, and funnel the proceeds to the government.
The initial share sale was a phenomenal success. Law promised investors that the Mississippi Company would pay an annual dividend equivalent to about 120% of the share price.
It was an extraordinary prospective return. And investors literally lined up outside of Law’s house to apply for shares.
Almost immediately a bustling secondary market for the shares emerged, and countless people of every age, gender, and social status spent their days buying and selling stock in the Mississippi Company.
The investor hysteria was so extreme that the share price of the Mississippi Company would sometimes rise 20% in the course of a few hours.
A quaint plaza near John Law’s home became the unofficial stock exchange for Mississippi Company shares, and there are legendary stories of the investor frenzy there.
In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay wrote about a local cobbler who was able to rent out his stall in the plaza for an extraordinary sum of money, and about a hunchback who earned a great living charging speculators to use his hump as a writing surface to sign contracts.
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When Stephen Hawking was quoted earlier this year as saying that “there are no black holes,” he wasn't really talking about black holes. At least not about black holes as you or I imagine them—astrophysical objects that suck in everything, even light. Those, everyone agrees, are just as black as ever.
Hawking's quip instead concerns black holes in a highly theoretical sense. Like many other theorists, Hawking has been trying to understand a paradox eating at the heart of physics. The issue—often referred to as the black hole firewall paradox—implies that physicists might have to abandon (or deeply modify) quantum mechanics or Einstein's general theory of relativity, or both.
The firewall problem is related to a paradox that Hawking first pointed out in the 1970s. It concerns this question: What happens to information that falls into a black hole? The rules of quantum mechanics require that information can never be lost. Even burning a book doesn't destroy the information inside—it just scrambles it up. But black holes do seem to destroy information, sucking it past the event horizon, a point of no return.
The black hole information paradox stumped physicists for two decades. It appeared to be solved in the late 1990s, when researchers figured out that information could leak out of a black hole in the form of Hawking radiation. Then, in 2012, physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found flaws in the previous solutions. They concluded that an event horizon is not, as previously thought, an ordinary place. Instead it is a wall of fire that prevents Hawking radiation on the outside from remaining intertwined on a quantum level with material inside.
Hawking's latest work is an attempt to offer an alternative solution. He proposes that a black hole has an “apparent” horizon in addition to its event horizon. The two are nearly always identical. Information can rise from inside the black hole to the apparent horizon. At that point, quantum effects can blur the boundary between the “apparent” and “event” horizons, sometimes allowing information to escape. Hence, black holes would not be strictly black, provided you had hundreds of trillions of years to watch them. But ultimately, what Hawking's paper means is that there is something fundamental about black holes we still do not understand.


The Five Flavors of Foods
The five flavors of food include pungent (acrid), sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. Pungent foods include green onion, chive, clove, parsley, and coriander. Sweet foods include sugar, cherry, chestnut, and banana. Sour foods include lemon, pear, plum, and mango. Bitter foods include hops, lettuce, radish leaf, and vinegar (listed as bitter because it has both sour and bitter tastes). It is common for one food to have multiple flavors. Salty foods include salt, kelp, and seaweed. These flavors are important in Chinese diet because each flavor has specific effects on the internal organs. For example, pungent flavors can act on the lungs and large intestine, while sweet flavors act on the stomach and spleen.
In Chinese diet, foods with a sweet flavor are considered capable of improving digestive functions, which is why they are good for people with weak digestive systems. Western dietitians believe that eating sweet foods puts on weight because they contain a large number of calories, whereas Chinese dietitians believe that sweet foods can act on the stomach and spleen, which are in charge of digestive functions.
Determining the flavors of some foods can be difficult, but the Chinese have done it through centuries of experience. The common actions of foods in regard to their flavors are as follows: pungent foods can induce perspiration and promote energy circulation, sweet foods can slow down acute symptoms and neutralize the toxic effects of other foods, sour foods can obstruct movement and are useful in checking diarrhea and excessive perspiration, bitter foods can reduce body heat, dry body fluids, and induce diarrhea, and salty foods can soften hardness.
Some foods have a light flavor and promote urination and may be used as diuretics, such as Job's-tears. Foods are arranged by different flavors, with bitter foods including apricot seed, asparagus, and vinegar, slightly bitter foods including ginseng and pumpkin, and light foods including Jobs-tears and kidney bean. Pungent foods include ginger, green onion, and peppermint, while slightly pungent foods include asparagus and caraway. Salty foods include salt, kelp, and seaweed, while sour foods include apple, apricot, and grape. Extremely sour foods include lemon, pear, and sour plum, and sweet foods include banana, cherry, and chestnut.


A Picture's Worth: Pecs and Other Visual Communication Strategies in Autism (Topics in Autism) (Paperback)
A Picture's Worth, the PECS primer written by the developers of the Picture Exchange Communication System, is now available in a second edition. This user-friendly guide introduces PECS, a simple and empowering communication tool in which partners exchange cards with photos or line drawings representing objects, attributes, and actions. A child or adult who has delayed or no speech can easily express his basic desires (e.g., ''ice cream'') or needs using a PECS card without prompting from another. And as a person's PECS usage progresses, he or she learns to put pictures together in sentences to express desires (e.g., ''I want chocolate ice cream.''), to comment, and to ask questions. A Picture's Worth examines verbal communication development and how autism affects these skills, and shows how a child's poor communication skills can lead to problem behaviors. Providing communication options--PECS and the other augmentative and alternative communication strategies (AAC) described in the book--reduces frustration and enhances learning. This new edition cites research that proves PECS (and other AAC strategies) doesn't interfere with the development of speaking skills, and actually can provide a boost to the acquisition of these skills. There's also expanded information on: -Deciding whether a child needs AAC and could benefit from PECS -Who is an appropriate candidate for PECS -Error correction strategies during the initial stages of PECS -How to choose challenging behaviors to try to eliminate -What to do when a child does not look at pictures Thousands of people with autism and other disabilities have benefited from using PECS. The book's complete set of introductory lessons makes it easy for parents and therapists to get started using this low-tech strategy to help young children through adults develop effective communication skills Also check out Andy Bondy's and Lori Frost's book on including kids with autism in daily family routines.


The importance of folk tales in Niger
In Niger tales have always been important in the culture. The moral code can be taught by tales. You learn from them that you must not oppress the weak,you must not wish harm for others, you must not be greedy; you must not despise your parents or children. You must on the contrary listen to the wise elders, respect your parents, and help people in distress.
Four Tales from Niger
Extracts from our two books of Tales
Our book of tales: a collective enterprise
Cooperation between storytellers, teachers and pupils led to the publication of a book of Nigerien tales. More than two hundred people were involved. A Nigerien artist illustrated the significant scenes, Nigerien and French teachers revised the text, and a print worker did the layout for free, Special thanks to Nils Royet for the layout, to Issoufou M’Barke and Dominique Berlioz for the texts in french and to Saoude Ali Bida for the parts of texts in hausa translated in french.
The sales of this book will pay for improvements of the Dogon Doutchi schools. We hope that the pupils of Dogon Doutchi will be pleased to know that their school work contributed to this achievement.
You can purchase our new book ‘Once Upon a Time in Niger’ from our shop.. The previous publication ‘At School with Nigerien Tales’ is now out of print.


Feedsupplements - dogs and kats
Glucosamine / Chondroitin
As a dog, cat or horse ages, trains a lot or works hard, mobility can deteriorate. This loss of mobility may be associated with a deficiency in essential needs, which are usually met by diet. An example of this is Glucosamine. Glucosamine is an essential building block in the cartilage and synovial fluid and is therefore especially important around the joints. Glucosamine is also responsible for joint lubrication. Older animals may develop a glucosamine deficiency. Older horses, cats and dogs therefore produce less synovial fluid, which causes wear and tear and subsequently increases the risk of joint inflammation. To prevent this or to ensure that these shortcomings are met, it is advisable to provide the animal with additional glucosamine, among other things.
Essential fatty acids (Omge 3 and Omega 6)
Omega 3 and Omega 6 are among the essential fatty acids for dogs and cats. Like vitamins, they cannot produce Omega 3 and Omega 6 themselves and will therefore have to be in the diet. However, many dogs and cats do not or do not receive enough Omega 3 and 6 through their diet. A lack of essential fatty acids such as Omega 3 and 6 can lead to dry, itchy or inflamed skin, hair loss, poor wound healing and reduced resistance. A supplement to the diet of dogs and cats containing Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids is therefore very important.
In addition to Glucosamine / Chondroitin and essential fatty acids, you will also find various other supplements at Zoolac.nl, including products based on carefully selected aromatic substances that prevent irritation and problems with ticks, fleas, mites and lice.


It is too difficult to predict that whether the unusual climate changes would lead to increase or decrease the food production. The usual climate change and excessive global warming trigger the food price up higher.
Effect of global warming:
It becomes very difficult to feed the world, while still so many people are below the poverty line. The reason of diminishing rate production of crops is short rainfall and excessive heat, which is just the consequence of global warming. all these man-made warming factors like factory farms or industry play a key role in this impending disaster.
Livestock alone contributes approximately 18% to the global warming which is quite significant in number. Apart from greenhouse gases, Livestock is the main source of methane emission to the environment directly. These may worsen the future climate condition for crops, if not stopped today.
Green revolution in food industry:
With the green revolution in food industry and improved agricultural techniques, the crop production is growing decade by decade by around 10%. Simultaneously, climate change is reducing the production, but at a lower rate. This means that the production of the crop is still growing, but at a diminishing rate. Not only for crops, even more warm and acidic ocean can affect the situation and make it harder to feed where people rely on fish.
It is advisable to the consumers not to use Industrial food and opt for the more environmentally-friendly alternatives. Of course, carbon dioxide and heat are the factors considered necessary for plants to grow, however the overall consequence of various facets of this man-made warming is putting an adverse repercussion on food production industries.
The prices of food will touch the sky somewhere in an extensive range of 4 percent to 85 percent through the end of 2050 due to the climate change. This under production of food is the main cause of the starvation of billions of people. Even, it is now becoming more and more difficult for the people to feed their families.


Peru – Nature and Life
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean.
Because of its varied geography and climate, Peru has a high biodiversity.
Peru has over 1,800 species of birds (120 endemic), and 500 species of mammals and over 300 species of reptiles. The hundreds of mammals include rare species like the puma, jaguar and spectacled bear. The Birds of Peru produce large amounts of guano, an economically important export. The Pacific holds large quantities of sea bass, flounder, anchovies, tuna, crustaceans, and shellfish, and is home to many sharks, sperm whales, and whales.
Peru also has an equally diverse flora. The coastal deserts produce little more than cacti, apart from hilly fog oases and river valleys that contain unique plant life. The Highlands above the tree-line known as puna is home to bushes, cactus, drought-resistant plants such as ichu, and the largest species of bromeliad – the spectacular Puya raimondii.
The cloud-forest slopes of the Andes sustain moss, orchids, and bromeliads, and the Amazon rainforest is known for its variety of trees and canopy plants.
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Crop Rotation: Improves Soil Health and Yields
Crop rotation was practiced by farmers in ancient Rome, Greece and China. Ancient Middle Eastern Farmers rotated crops as early as 6000 BC. Crop rotations improve soil tilth, reduce pest, weed and disease pressure and increase biodiversity on the farm. By varying the crops planted in the same field season to season, farmers can improve soil tilth (the physical condition of the soil as it relates to plant growth). Different plants have diverse root shapes and sizes that can improve the chemical, physical and biological structure of the soil in a variety of ways.
Crop rotations can also reduce pest and disease pressure because different plants disrupt the lifecycle of certain pests and diseases. A variety of plants provide a wider variety of nutrients to soil life, and different plants take up dissimilar nutrients from the soil. So, rotating crops will help to minimize the depletion of certain nutrients. All of these benefits can help reduce inputs (fertilizers and pesticides) and increase yields. According to SARE (Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education), “Yields of crops grown in rotations are typically 10% higher than those of crops grown in monoculture in normal growing seasons, and as much as 25% higher in droughty growing seasons.” NCAT (The National Center for Appropriate Technology) provides crop rotation tips.


This class consists of a lecture portion via Zoom with homework to do and then an in-person lab or if you can’t do the in-person, there will be virtual labs available. If you have your own curriculum at home and would like to just do the labs in person, that works as well. Projects will be used as mid-term and final grades.
This course will be an introduction to physics. Topics to be discussed include forces, motion, Newton’s Laws, energy and momentum, how energy is transferred throughout the environment as heat, waves, electricity, magnetism, and how physics relates to astronomy.
COURSE PREREQUISITES: Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 (preferred) and a sound understanding of problem-solving to do well in physics. They must understand quadratic equations, complex numbers, polynomial functions, radical exponents and equating, polynomial proficiency functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, rational expressions and equations.
This class is able to earn a-g credit with most charter schools, but please let us know which school you’re with, so we can make sure to fulfill all their requirements.


The Evolution of Wheelchairs
For patients with spinal cord injuries or mobility issues, the wheelchair can be their best friend and can also be their greatest enemy.
Wheelchairs weren’t always advanced like they are today, in fact, the first sketch of a person in a wheelchair was from 1595. King Phillip II of Spain is portrayed in a wheelchair resembling a stationary lawn chair. The first manual propelled wheelchair was first depicted in 1665, it was heavy and appeared to be made from wood. The industrial revolution during the 19th century is when wheelchairs started to advance; bicycle and carriage makers started making wheelchairs across the USA and replacing wooden wheels with metal, and rubber tires.
Wheelchairs have come a long way through history and improvements are continuing every day. Today, wheelchairs are made from advanced materials like titanium, magnesium and carbon fiber and can be specially made to allow people to have an increased quality of life. Engaging in their favorite activities like sports, off-roading, and cycling has become possible with designs and materials always improving. For example, if a person were professional cyclists before their injury, then it could be considered a necessity to have a cycle style wheelchair in their plan.
Patients with spinal cord injuries can vary in their preference for everyday wheelchairs. Someone with good arm function may prefer a lightweight, foldable wheelchair that is easy to maneuver and transport for maximal independence. An individual with a high spinal cord injury such as a quadriplegic, someone with cerebral palsy or other condition/injury that affects arm use and mobility may need a higher support wheelchair with power ability, and specific accessories for ease of use. The kind of wheelchair can also vary greatly among age groups. A child attending school will need different wheelchairs and accessories than an individual nearing the end of life.
When creating a plan for a patient, life care planners look at their individual needs and of course, lifestyle must be considered.
To read more about the evolution of a wheelchair and to see pictures visit the United Spinal Association.


The Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
generally provides that any person has the right to request access to federal agency records or information except to the extent the records are protected from disclosure by any of nine exemptions contained in the law or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions.
The nine exemption categories that authorize government agencies to withhold information are:
- classified information for national defense or foreign policy
- internal personnel rules and practices
- information that is exempt under other laws
- trade secrets and confidential business information
- inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters that are protected by legal privileges
- personnel and medical files
- law enforcement records or information
- information concerning bank supervision
- geological and geophysical information
Congress provided special protection in the FOIA for three narrow categories of law enforcement and national security records. The provisions protecting those records are known as “exclusions”. The first exclusion protects the existence of an ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation when the subject of the investigation is unaware that it is pending and disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. The second exclusion is limited to criminal law enforcement agencies and protects the existence of informant records when the informant’s status has not been officially confirmed. The third exclusion is limited to the FBI and protects the existence of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence, or international terrorism records when the existence of such records is classified. Records falling within exclusion are not subject to the requirements of the FOIA.
The FOIA applies only to federal agencies and does not create a right of access to records held by Congress, the courts, or by state or local government agencies.
The FOIA does not require agencies to do research for you, answer written questions, or in any other way create records (such as lists or statistics) in order to respond to a request.


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What is psychotherapy?
PSYCHOTHERAPY is a confidential therapeutic process that is used to treat anything from basic problem-solving difficulties, various levels of emotional distress, to more pervasive psychological disorders.
Most of us have a support system that helps us maintain a healthy state of functioning even during difficult times. Occasionally, increased stressors in life can trigger increased distress and overtax our usual support systems. When our coping levels decrease our ability to function well and reduce our usual resiliency, the complications that emerge in all aspects of life can be devastating.
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, psychotherapy is:
...the treatment of emotional, behavioral, personality, and psychiatric disorders based primarily on verbal or nonverbal communication and interventions with the patient, in contrast to treatments using chemical and physical measures.
Psychotherapy works to reduce psychological distress through talk therapy, though therapists often work in conjunction with medical professionals to increase efficacy.
The goal of psychotherapy is always to increase a sense of well-being for individuals, family systems, couples, and children. Most therapists use techniques that explore thoughts, feelings and behaviors often on a deeper level of insight. Some professionals adhere to specific treatment models. Others take a more eclectic approach. But statistics have proven that the strongest indicator of client success depends on the strength of the relationship between client and therapist.


Exercising regularly can improve thinking, It preserves learning and decision-making abilities, reduces depression and anxiety, and helps to get sound sleep.
Children between 6 and 13 years old also improve their ability to think and understand.
By burning calories, it prevents obesity and helps maintain weight.
◾ Reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke. It also prevents high blood pressure and reduces the amount of cholesterol in the body.
◾ Makes bones and muscles compact and strong, thus reducing the risk of osteoporosis.
◾ People who do more physical activity have bladder, breast ,large intestine, uterus, Esophagus, kidney ,Lung and stomach cancers are less likely.
◾For people who have recovered from cancer, regular physical activity can provide a lot of support for their recovery.
🔺You should take 150 minutes of physical activity once a week. Even if you can’t do exercise regularly, you should not be sedentary and active as much as possible.
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SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. It is a tool used to evaluate the internal and external factors of an organization or individual, typically used to identify and analyze the strategic position of a business.
SWOT PowerPoint Templates are ready-made presentation templates that are intended to help business owners, entrepreneurs, and managers create a comprehensive SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is used to identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a project, product, or business.
These SWOT PowerPoints can be used in a variety of contexts, such as in business presentations, educational lectures, and corporate training sessions. They can also be used for personal goal setting and development, creating competitive analysis reports, and understanding how a company can leverage its strengths and weaknesses to meet its objectives.
There is a wide range of templates available online that you can use. Make sure that your slides are organized logically. This could mean organizing them chronologically or by topic. Suppose you want to create slides. Visit Tips and tricks for detailed instructions.
SWOT PPT Templates can be used by anyone who needs to create a professional presentation about a business or product's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The templates can be used by students, business owners, marketers, consultants, and other professionals.
These slides are a great way to visualize and present your SWOT analysis. They help to engage the audience in a visual way and can also be used to present and structure the analysis. Additionally, SWOT PowerPoint slides can be used for training, presentations, and decision-making.
There are a number of websites that offer free SWOT PPT templates. You can find a variety of templates on sites such as Slide egg. Our websites have a selection of uniquely designed templates to customize and organize your ideas or facts.


REAL-WORLD NARRATIVES & LEARNING
As a narrative-driven game, a key focus during development was creating the individual and emotive moments that capture the story of each scenario, without trivialising the experience. To give the stories authenticity, the disaster scenarios and game events are presented as narratives written from the perspective of other responders on the ground.
Whether working with communities displaced by climate change in the Middle East, responding to civilians caught in the crossfire of a violent conflict in East Africa, or addressing a rapidly escalating pandemic in Latin America, the game engages and challenges humanitarian workers of all experience levels.
To bring these narratives to life, the art direction for the game was purposefully abstracted to remove detailed contextual information. This abstraction helped to focus the attention on the emotional resonance and human impact of each scene as well as the humanitarian cost of every decision made in the game.
During the development of In 90 Days, we worked with a group of experts ranging from senior humanitarians to learning and development experts to ensure that all content includes real-life examples and that the learning outcomes and behaviours are based on the Core Humanitarian Standard and the Core Humanitarian Competency Framework. Based on the appropriateness, timeliness and relevance of their response in the game, players can also earn HPass humanitarian digital badges for accreditation.
The first version of the game is now available to play in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.


Pull Up a Log and Let's Read ! !
FINDING THE RIGHT READ!
The links below will take you to collections of reading materials. Many of these are general, with some that are appropriate for your grade level, and some that are not. Please review these with a parent or guardian to help you decide on the perfect read(s) for you. If you are unsure, contact your teacher, or ask Mr. Brown (he'd love to hear from you :-) - firstname.lastname@example.org. Good luck! and Happy Reading!
Fiction and Nonfiction Collections:
- Classicly - free classic books for young readers
- Read-Online - Online novels from various genres and for all ages. PLEASE choose your books from here together with a parent or guardian to make sure they are age and reading-level appropriate.
- Open-Library (Internet Archive): These books are free to the public during the closure. You need to create an account (just click "Sign-Up") for this site, but it's free and the books can be borrowed for 2 weeks (and then renewed)
- "Libby" - free books for phone or tablet. Download the app on your phone or tablet and you can check books out from the public library (they will issue you an instant -temporary- library card if you don't have one). If you have one, add it and your good to go! They have both text and audio books to choose from. Choose what you're looking for in "Preferences" and it will sort them accordingly. Contact Mr. Brown if you need help.
- NewsELA: Click: "Sign In With Google", and use your school Google login. This will give you full access.
- Time Kids: Engage. Empower. Inspire. Authentic journalism to motivate curious minds.
- DOGO-News: Empowering youth literacy, reading fluency and global awareness through current events, books and movies.
- Mental Floss (Magazine) An encyclopedia of everything, we answer life’s big questions and uncover stories so interesting our readers absolutely must share them.
Contact Mr. Brown (email@example.com): If you're having trouble finding something and he'll help you find the perfect book for you.


What is a Basic Infographic?
Infographics are visual representations of data and information that combine visuals, data, and text to tell a complex and important story at a glance. They display information visually in a clear, structured and attention grabbing way. Basic infographics are a great way to communicate information quickly and effectively, and can be used to explain complex topics in a simple and easy to understand way.
H2: Key Features of an Infographic
An effective infographic should have:
• A clear subject and story: The subject and story should be clear and concise, and should be able to be understood at a glance.
• Relevant visuals: The visuals should be relevant to the topic and should help to convey the message.
• Accurate data: The data should be accurate and up-to-date.
• Easy to read text: The text should be easy to read and understand.
• Consistent design: The design should be consistent and should flow from one element to the next.
H3: Benefits of an Infographic
• Easy to understand: Infographics are easy to understand and can help to explain complex topics quickly and effectively.
• Engaging: Infographics are visually engaging and can help to grab the attention of the reader.
• Shareable: Infographics are easily shareable and can be shared on social media or other platforms.
• Memorable: Infographics are memorable and can help to make a lasting impression.


It is interesting to note how Holi is celebrated in Manipur. Here, the festivities continue for six days starting on the full moon day of Phalguna. It may also be noted that the traditional and the centuries old Yaosang festival of Manipur amalgamated with Holi with the introduction of Vaishnavism in the eighteenth century.
Besides, there is also a tradition of preparing a thatched hut of hay, twigs and sticks and then set ablaze. The next day boys make groups and play Holi with girls. Girls, in Manipur, are smart and extract money from the boys for playing colous with them.Holi in Temples
Devotees, dress themselves in the traditional white and yellow turbans and sing devotional songs in the Krishna temples. They also play gulal with each other in front of the temple completely submerging themselves in the mirth associated with the festival.The Last Day
On the last day of the festival, devotees take out procession towards the main Krishna temple, 3 km west of the state capital, Imphal. Here too, devotees perform cultural activities and celebrate.Thabal Chongba
A special Manipuri dance, called 'Thabal Chongba' is also associated with this festival. Thabal, means moonlight and Chongba means dance. Though earlier only drum or dholak, was allowed to be used for this special dance, now modern musical instruments are also used. This dance is performed on all six-days in every locality and gives a chance to the young boys and girls to meet.
Holi is considered as one of the most celebrated and revered festivals celebrated by the people of Hindu community in India. People in every part of the country and also those living in foreign country celebrate this festival with a...Know More
Holi is considered as an important festival of India and is celebrated around the country with great zeal and enthusiasm. There are also a great many of Holi related festivals that are celebrated in different states of India.Know More


Father Involvement and Early Childhood Development in African American Families: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy
African American Children in Early Childhood Education
ISBN: 978-1-78714-259-6, eISBN: 978-1-78714-258-9
Publication date: 22 May 2017
Father involvement is a salient predictor of children’s development and recent studies suggest that African American fathers who are highly involved across infancy and toddlerhood have children who enter school better prepared to succeed. Little is known, however, about the specific dimensions of fathering (e.g., language stimulation) that contribute to the positive development of African American children during the early childhood period. Even less is known about psychological and contextual barriers to positive father involvement among African American men with very young children. The first part of this chapter briefly reviews empirical research that has delineated links between multiple dimensions of father involvement and child development in African American families. The second part of the chapter explores emerging evidence on the associations between fathers’ psychological functioning, father involvement and child development, and concludes with suggestions for future research, practice, and policy.
Baker, C.E. (2017), "Father Involvement and Early Childhood Development in African American Families: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy", African American Children in Early Childhood Education (Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, Vol. 5), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 201-219. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-231720170000005009
Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited


Did you ever find it difficult to name the unique insects? There are so many different types of insects that it is almost impossible to remember them all. But there is no need to worry because we have just the game for you! The naming task of naming the insects is a very tough one, especially when you have never come across any particular type before. But don’t worry, we have found a solution for your problem and today we are going to introduce you to Insects Name Game! This fun insect-nameing game takes players through seven levels that ask players to guess the common name for various insects. The first letters of each word in these answers provide hints as to its likely meaning or origin. For example, ‘louse’ or ‘flea’ might be included in answers asking about lice or fleas, respectively. Answers may also include words such as ant, centipede, cricket, spider and fly.
Did you know that the common name of an insect is the scientific name? What about common names of insects, do you know them? In this blog post we will learn about the various names of insects and their meaning. The vast majority of insects have no common name. In English and many other languages, there are some words used for referring to insects. These words may only be used when speaking about specific types of insects. For example, in English, one might say “I found a damselfly” or “I found a crane fly” rather than simply saying “I found an insect”. This is because there are so many different kinds of insects; the language needs to be more specific when talking about certain types of insect.
Insects are everywhere. They are very small in size and they can be seen in forests, on fields, in gardens, and inside houses. There are more than 10,000 different species of insects worldwide. Many people find them creepy and some others find them fascinating. Some people even call them as ‘Insectoids’. Like other bugs or insects, we are also named after our insect counterparts too. Here we provide you with names of various common bugs and their English meanings so that you can get to know the name of an insect with its meaning at the same time learn something new about these little creatures. Good luck!
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Greenhouses serve many purposes. They provide a controlled environment, which allows for the conservation of light, temperature, and humidity. They use the sun to heat the inside of the structure and hold it in. They provide shelter from potentially problematic weather and animals. This amazingly contained environment allows for planting and growing year-round. These facts in particular make them a great option for arid and sometimes frigid Colorado.
There are many diﬀerent types of greenhouses. While there are seemingly endless structural design options, all greenhouses provide a transparent shelter to allow sunlight in and protection from the outside environment. Greenhouses can be constructed in any shape and size, to ﬁt any need. They can be built of glass, polycarbonate, plastic, and even contain heating systems to protect against sub-zero temperatures. They can also be built partially underground, for more insulation and protection. One of the more common types is called a tunnel, also known as a hoop, greenhouse. These are easily recognized by their rounded rooﬂines, and are covered in plastic such as polyethylene. The can be built high or low, depending on needs and topography. Another common type is a gable or pitched greenhouse, constructed of polycarbonate sheets. These typically have pitched roofs, and are structurally sound and rigid. Polycarbonate and polyethylene come in diﬀerent thicknesses, depending on your speciﬁc needs.
Materials are not the only factor to come into play when choosing the right greenhouse for you. Do you want a structure with shelving for planted pots and seedlings? Do you want a permanent structure with adjustable shelving and options for fulltime growing? Consider the temperature at which you will want your greenhouse maintained. Do you want to have a tropical greenhouse? The addition of grow lights and heaters is an option. Do you want vegetables year- round? Then add grow lights during the winter months. The possibilities are endless! Let AGS design and construct your personalized greenhouse!


Friday, November 4, 2022
A Message from Newsletter Editor Linda Waldbaum
Election Day is less than a week away. Do you plan on casting your vote? What if someone told you that you could not vote or tried to stop you from voting? Would you feel compelled to fight for your right to vote? The United States has a long history of its citizens fighting for suffrage. Did you know that the original Constitution said nothing directly about the right to vote? Eligibility to vote was left up to the states and most states restricted voting to those who owned property. Considering more than half of the population at the time was not able to own property, the majority of the country could not vote.
Since the inception of the U.S. Constitution, there have been six amendments that expanded voting rights. The 14th amendment extended citizenship to all natural born or naturalized Americans, regardless of race. The 15th amendment explicitly stated that voting cannot be restricted based on race. The 17th amendment required states to elect senators by popular vote (ensuring your individual vote counts directly toward one of the three major branches of government). The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote, essentially doubling the number of potential voters. The 24th amendment banned poll taxes and expanded voting rights to all income levels. Lastly, the 26th amendment extended the right to vote to all citizens 18 years of age or older.
Voting is the cornerstone to our democracy and should not be given up nor taken lightly. New York State puts such a heavy emphasis on voter’s rights that our State established early voting, as an option to make voting in every election easier. You no longer have to wait until November 8th to cast your vote - simply go to https://voterlookup.elections.
ny.gov/ to find early voting locations. It is a very dangerous slope when citizens of any country take for granted the right to vote. There are still many countries around the globe where citizens are denied the right to vote in a free and fair election.
Don’t wait for your right to vote to be restricted or taken away before you recognize the power you have in shaping our government. Make sure to cast your vote by November 8th!


Here’s a few more details on the cranes at the Marine Terminal Park. According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination form, the cranes were originally 15 ton oil burning, steam powered locomotive gantry cranes built by McMyler Interstate Company of Cleveland, Ohio in 1917. Twenty-eight of them were purchased by the new Hog Island shipyard in 1917. There is an excellent summary of Hog Island by John Lawrence on the also-excellent Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
The steam gantry cranes have a 15 ton capacity at 15 ft. radius, mounted on tracks, with holding and closing lines and clam shell buckets of 3/4 and 1 1/2 yard capacity. Provision is made for magnets at 35 ft. radius with portable electric power. In 1952 they were overhauled and the boilers replaced. They stand on four legs, and are approximately 40 ft. tall.TAMS 1952
When the Hog Island Shipyard was being dismantled in 1930, Trenton purchased two cranes for the bargain price of $5,000 and they went into operation at the city’s new Marine Terminal in 1932. The cranes were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, after the Trenton Marine Terminal had ceased operations and the City was in the process of turning the cranes and the land they sat on into a park. The actual cranes were likely still on top of the gantries at that time, but were removed sometime after that, perhaps for safety reasons.
Kardas, S., and E. Larrabee, 1980. Hog Island Cranes. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form.
Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy Stratton (TAMS), 1952. Report on the Port of Trenton, Made for the City of Trenton and County of Mercer, New Jersey.


Most paintings Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did are about People, Portrait, Sketch and Study, Animal, Nude, and other subjects.
Most of the artist's works that can be seen by the public today are now kept in museums like Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Musée d'Orsay, Art Institute of Chicago, and others.
Famous Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec period artists include John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 -1925), Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 -1944), Eugène-Louis Boudin (French, 1824 -1898), Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 -1903), Marianne North (British, 1830 -1890), Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 -1890), Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867 -1947), Henri Lebasque (French, 1865 -1937), Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868 -1940), Mary Vaux Walcott (American, 1860 -1940), Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817 -1900), Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859 -1935), and others.
Get inspired by the most famous paintings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Pick your favorite, and one of our talented artists will make a copy just like the original, making it a unique gift or piece of art for your home. If you can't find a specific Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, contact us for a price quote.


The snowy owl is the largest owl – by weight- and certainly the most photogenic with its’ regal white feathers and stunning yellow eyes. Birders and travelers from around the world venture north to the Arctic to catch a glimpse, and sometimes more in heavily populated years. Summers are spent deep in the Arctic to take advantage of the 24 hour sunlight that enhances chances to gather more prey such as lemmings and ptarmigan. In bountiful years when the lemming population is prolific, snowy owls can rear twice or three times the number of young. The two species are intertwined.
Snowy owls are prevalent in Churchill during polar bear season in October and November. Last season, high numbers of sightings across the tundra drew the awe of people whom had ventured to the polar bear capital of the world mainly to see the bears. However, the magnificent owl always seems to create a lasting impression on the groups. Though the seasonal fluctuations are sometimes frustrating to travelers and in particular birders that journey to Churchill to see the species, there is a pretty basic explanation for the changes year to year. Why do we have these vastly different numbers in various seasons?
Lemmings in particular are a unique prey species for snowy owls. Lemmings prey upon tundra mosses and will remain in an area until their food supply has been exhausted. Unlike voles that eat grasses which replenish naturally fairly quickly, the mosses that lemmings eat take years to regrow. Therefore they move to another region and the predators such as snowy owls follow. The lemming population crashes after reaching a peak density and the owls emigrate to greener pastures or, at least those with healthy moss populations. There they will usually find lemming populations…and the cycle continues. The theories that lemming populations decrease due to predators such as foxes, owls and other raptors in a region is simply not true. The available vegetation is the key to the cycle.


While cleaning up the semester’s mess, I came across this pamphlet:
I have no idea where it came from, but I looked through it, and found some interesting circuits, such as this one:
It’s a “random number generator”. There are two main components: an oscillator circuit and a decade counter, pretty much split down the middle. About each one…
This involves the two NAND gates on the left. If you’d like, you can replace then with inverters, however, because tying the inputs of a NAND gate together produces the same function as a NOT (check: 1 NAND 1 = 0, 0 NAND 0 = 1).
Putting inverters together in a circuit with feedback creates an oscillator, like so:
And depending on the value of the resistor and capacitor, you can make it oscillate at different rates.
“Decade” means 10, so a decade counter counts to 10. The specific IC used here (4017) has 10 output pins that are driven high depending on the current count, instead of 4 pins that represent 0-9 in binary. Counts are advanced by a clock, so the oscillator output circuit connects to the decade counter at the clock pin, and the circuits are separated by a pushbutton.
To see what pin is being driven high, and hence see the current count, you can put a LED in series with each output pin, and the LED will light according to the count.
When the pushbutton is activated, the decade counter sees the oscillator output and will begin counting. If the oscillator is operating fast enough, seemingly “random” numbers can be produced by letting go of the pushbutton.
Because I’m on break and I just happen to have the components and ICs on hand, I built it.


The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 33rd anniversary with exceptional images of star formation.
NASA is celebrating the 33rd anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch with an exceptionally high-quality photo of the NGC 1333 nebula as stars are born or formed. The nebula lies in Perseus’ molecular cloud, located light-years from Earth.
In fact, this giant molecular cloud is located 960 light-years from Earth in the Perseus constellation. It contains over 10,000 solar masses of gas and dust!
“The colorful view provided by Hubble, enhanced by its unique ability to acquire ultraviolet-to-infrared images, reveals a glowing cauldron of glowing gas and black dust, and is churned up by hundreds of newly formed stars. Blended into the dark cloud,” it explains. Report from NASA A song on the plane.
>> Also Read: Hubble Gives Us Spectacular New Image of Carina Nebula
Beyond the aesthetic aspect of Hubble’s photographs, these fascinating images allow us to visualize what it was like to see the formation of our Sun and our planets within such a dusty molecular cloud 4.6 years ago.
According to a NASA report, our Sun did not form in isolation, but instead was embedded in a “frenzied star birth pool that is more energetic and massive than NGC 1333”.
Hubble: 33 years of exceptional images
As a reminder, Hubble was used by NASA astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990. To date, the famous telescope has made more than 1.6 million observations of nearly 52,000 celestial bodies. This treasure trove of knowledge about the universe is stored in open access archives Mikulsky.
NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd anniversary with an image of the nearby star-forming region NGC 1333. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center


As we abide by CBSE guidelines, we have carefully outlined our yearly plan so that our teaching is aligned with the CBSE guidelines. A two-way approach is adopted where both practical and theoretical aspects of education are given equal importance. With the help of our Judo Gyaan Kit, we make the subject of Mathematics, a practical learning experience. For Environmental science, we take students out in the field to experience and relate with the theoretical explanation. Regular class work and homework are assigned to the students to ensure they have absolute understanding of the topics taught in class.
Our small class strength of not more than 40 pupils and dedicated, innovative teachers, help our girls and boys develop core academic skills and additional life skills, providing a firm foundation for high school.
Interdisciplinary approach dissolves boundaries of subjects and encourages learning across the curriculum. We have developed a plan where the theme encompasses all curricular areas. This way, subjects like Math, English, Social Studies and Science are integrated and taught together focusing on a specific issue. Here, we have eliminated the age-old concept of teaching subjects in isolation. This cultivates higher-order thinking abilities, encouraging our young geniuses to focus on their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
Further, GPS has curated innovative curriculum to address the need of the hour and our students’ learning abilities. The school has exclusively prepared this unique academic resource material for our children, taking into consideration the Board’s objectives, learning needs, abilities, and interest.


Trees and vegetation is not an effective way to reduce road noise. The trees on the ground can sometimes increase the noise, because the sound is like light, reflecting the leaves from all directions.
If there is a berm on road, of course the higher berm, the better for blocking noise. However, adding noise barrier to increase the height of the berm is much more practical than filling it to the berm. Adding a 2m high noise barrier to a berm can produce a huge difference to reduce road noise.
If there is no berm on road, how to reduce road noise in yard? Suppose you already have iron fence or other structure for your yard.
Number of people: 2
Time required: 30 minutes
1. Put hooks on iron fence or other structure.
2. Unroll the first piece of noise barrier and hang it on hooks
3. Unroll the second piece and hang it on hooks, make sure the velcro on two pieces is perfectly matched.
4. Use plastic buckle to tie the noise barrier through side eyelets
Note: In high wind conditions, it is strongly recommended to strengthen noise barriers installation. Depending on your application, there are a variety of solutions. We recommend adding another link fence to the other side of noise barrier.
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When it comes to mowing the lawn, there are a few simple recommendations that typically apply to just about every type of grass. If you want your grass to grow in a healthy way, you have to make sure that it has the right size, it’s being watered at the right intervals, and it gets a consistent amount of sunlight throughout the week.
Mowing the lawn is important, since the more surface area is reached by sunlight, the more energy your lawn will get in order to grow strong and healthy. If it gets the right amount of sun, the grass you planted will continue growing well throughout the summer, and it won’t succumb to pests and disease. It also won’t turn yellow and brown because it was exposed to too much sunlight.
The rule of thumb is to mow the lawn in such a way that it’s taller in the spring and autumn and shorter in the summer. A difference of a single inch might not seem like much, but it can be very significant. For warm weather grasses, you can consider cutting them at a lower height of about 2.5 inches, since they do much better during the summer. Cool season grasses might experience more problems, so it’s best to keep them at a slightly greater height of about 3 to 4 inches. Mow shorter when applying a compost for lawn to enrich the soil in Spring and Fall.


The Startup File
Apache Configuration in Perl
Validating the Configuration Syntax
The Scope of mod_perl Configuration Directives
Apache Restarts Twice
Enabling Remote Server Configuration Reports
Tips and Tricks
Configuration Security Concerns
The next step after building and installing a mod_perl-enabled Apache server is to configure it. This is done in two distinct steps: getting the server running with a standard Apache configuration, and then applying mod_perl-specific configuration directives to get the full benefit out of it.
For readers who haven't previously been exposed to the Apache web server, our discussion begins with standard Apache directives and then continues with mod_perl-specific material.
The startup.pl file can be used in many ways to improve performance. We will talk about all these issues later in the book. In this chapter, we discuss the configuration possibilities that the startup.pl file gives us.
<Perl>sections are a great time saver if you have complex configuration files. We'll talk about <Perl>sections in this chapter.
Another important issue we'll cover in this chapter is how to validate the configuration file. This is especially important on a live production server. If we break something and don't validate it, the server won't restart. This chapter discusses techniques to prevent validation problems.
At the end of this chapter, we discuss various tips and tricks you may find useful for server configuration, talk about a few security concerns related to server configuration, and finally look at a few common pitfalls people encounter when they misconfigure their servers.
Eric Cholet (Logilune) and
Stas Bekman (StasoSphere & Free Books).


Chemotherapy is designed to kill cancer cells and shrink malignant tumors. At the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, part of Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, your child’s neuro-oncology team may include a neuro-oncologist, a neurosurgeon, and a radiation oncologist. Together they choose chemotherapy drugs based on the type of tumor, your child’s age, and how much of the tumor can be removed during surgery. Sometimes, chemotherapy is used to shrink tumors before surgery.
Some chemotherapy drugs used to treat brain and spinal cord tumors can be taken by mouth or injected into a muscle or through a vein with intravenous (IV) infusion.
Sometimes, our doctors use molecular profiling studies, which determine a cancer’s genetic characteristics, and check the blood for tumor markers, which indicate the presence of cancer. These studies help doctors pinpoint the type and subtype of cancer, allowing them to select targeted therapies designed to kill cancer cells.
Chemotherapy drugs work by attacking cells that divide quickly. They affect not only cancer cells but also healthy cells in the bone marrow, which produces blood cells, as well as those in the hair follicles, the intestines, and the mouth. Side effects of chemotherapy can include fatigue, hair loss, mouth sores, nausea, numbness in the hands and feet, stomach pain, and vomiting. These side effects usually disappear after chemotherapy is completed.
Sometimes, children who have had chemotherapy experience stunted growth and have an increased risk of infection because the number of white blood cells drops during treatment. Your child’s doctor may prescribe an injectable medication to boost the number of white blood cells after chemotherapy treatments.
Side effects depend on the type of chemotherapy drugs given and the duration of treatment. Our doctors, nurses, and wellness experts can help your child cope through medical, emotional, and psychological support.
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are divided into two main categories: bitmap and vector.
How to use
Before using or working on an image, it’s necessary to know its destination. You can edit(printer, desktop printer …) or broadcast (internet, videos, PowerPoint …). Vector images should be pixelated to be released.
Image for: broadcast or print?
A bitmap is built on a grid (the frame) where each square (pixel) has a color information. All these pixels form the image. More pixels there are and more the image will be fine and precise. If the image size is increased, it will lose quality.
bitmap: picture frame with pixels
A vector image is constructed with a so-called Iron Wire structure or Bezier Curve. In a vector image, there are no pixels. The quality of a vector image is still up and it is possible to increase its size without any loss.
vector: Bezier Curve
Technical characteristics of an image
- Color Mode: RVB
- Resolution: 72 dpi
- Size: in pixels
- Format: .jpg • .png • .gif
- Color Mode: CMJN
- Resolution: 300 dpi*
- Size: en cm ou mm
- Format: .pdf • .tif • .eps
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NCERT Books for Class 2 2021 PDF Download
NCERT Books: National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) which is also known as the universalization of elementary education. NCERT works under the government of India for the improvement of school education. The main role of NCERT is to prepare and publish model textbooks, supplementary material, newsletters, study material, journals and develops educational kits, multimedia digital materials for the betterment of school education.
All the NCERT Textbooks from class 1 to class 12 are published by the officials of NCERT (National Council Of Educational Research and Training), New Delhi. These NCERT Books are recommended followed by the CBSE and other major state boards in India. Also, most of the competitive exam question papers such as JEE Main, NEET, UPSC, etc., are prepared based on the content present in the NCERT Textbooks.
So the students who are in search of NCERT Textbooks for their education reference can refer to this article. In this article, Vetripadi.com is providing the list of NCERT Books from class 1 to class 12 along with the download link of the books. Read on to know further about Free NCERT Textbooks from class 1 to class 12.
NCERT Books for Class 2 PDF Download
PDF Download official prescribed Class 2 NCERT textbooks for English (Marigold, Raindrops), Maths Magic, Hindi (rimjhim) below. Based on Latest Class 2 NCERT CBSE Syllabus as on official website cbse academic nic . Standard II NCERT Books are in easy to understand language with the basics and fundamentals explanation on all chapters and topics.


Evan Charney, a senior researcher at the Cook Center, recently published a technical report, “Is This The ‘Golden Age’ of Behavioral Genetics?”* The answer, Charney concludes, is an emphatic “no”: Despite ample investment in the belief that “all, or almost all, human behavior is heritable,” the search for genetic variants or risk factors that explain a number of sociological outcomes has been marred by false positives, failures of replication, dodgy statistical practices, and a litany of other problems.
“The search for genetic foundations of complex human behaviors has been a diversion,” Charney writes in the report’s executive summary. “The costs of this research have been immense in terms of time, energy, and financial resources, and the research itself has distracted scholars from more promising routes toward understanding such things as differences in academic performance or income.”
* This paper was published in Perspectives on Psychological Science in February 2022–the linked version has been updated accordingly.
- The two phases of the search for the underlying heritability of human behavior–reliant first on candidate gene association (CGA) studies and then on genome wide association studies (GWASs) and polygenic scores–have both been marred by failures stemming from a variety of causes.
- CGA studies, predominant from 1990-2010 and consisting of a small number of polymorphisms of a handful of genes, suffered from widespread failures of replication.
- The second phase, analyzing millions of numbers of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that each contribute miniscule variations, has required massive sample sizes to detect significant findings. However, these too have not been replicated with consistency.
- Nevertheless, statistically significant or “lead” SNPs have been used to create further metrics known as polygenic scores (or PGS), which are treated as predictors of individual risk. Such scores for educational attainment, intelligence, income have no predictive value whatsoever.
- Moreover, these types of analyses are largely restricted to “whites of European ancestry” (WoEA). Whenever they are applied to non-WoEA populations, their R-squared values plummet; defenses of these results lead to dangerous presumptions about genetic homogeneity within and heterogeneity across racial groups.


Leather and its origin
The leather industry is one of the oldest in the history of mankind. Our most distant ancestors used skins to protect their bodies, hands and feet. Leather is made from the skin of any mammal, reptile, bird or fish through a process called tanning. This process preserves the skin which otherwise would quickly putrefy.
Nowadays, at least half of the leather produced is transformed into shoes and about a quarter into clothing. Only about 15% is used for furniture and the rest is transformed into leather goods and other consumer products.
Because of its durability and comfort, leather has always been used for the upholstery of upholstered furniture or conveyances. The first leathers were made from cowhide, cowhide, hog skin, waterfowl skins or goats. The hides came from animals hunted or raised for food. The current trend is that most of the soft leather comes from cattle skins (ie cowhide) as these are readily available and better suited to the needs of creators, producers and customers. today.
Far from losing its popularity, leather is still the material of choice for many people, not only for furniture whether commercial or private, but also for the automotive industry, aviation and the nautical sector.
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A genomic study conducted by the University of Exeter, UK, and the University of South Australia has found that higher body mass index (BMI) has a strong psychological association with depression, including in the absence of other health problems.
The relationship was particularly strong in women, compared to men.
The study used data from the UK BioBank resource; it compared 48,791 people with diabetes, defined by hospital data and self-reporting, to 291,995 controls.
Obesity was defined as having a BMI of more than 30kg/m2.
Researchers separated the psychological impact of obesity and the effect of obesity-related health problems on depression by selecting and testing genes associated with higher BMI and lower risk of related diseases, such as diabetes.
It was found that these genes were as strongly associated with depression as genes linked with both higher BMI and a high risk of diabetes.
Co-leader of the study, director of the Australian Centre for Precision, University of South Australia professor Elina Hypponen said: “We separated the psychological component of obesity from the impact of obesity-related health problems using genes associated with higher BMI, but with lower risk of diseases like diabetes.
“These genes were just as strongly associated with depression as those genes associated with higher BMI and diabetes. This suggests that being overweight causes depression both with and without related health issues – particularly in women.”
The researchers tested these results in a study of 45,591 depression patients and 97,647 controls from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium dataset and reached the same conclusion.
The final results were published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
University of Exeter Medical School lecturer Dr Jess Tyrrell said: “We’ve long known there’s a link between the obesity and depression, yet it’s unclear whether obesity causes depression or vice-versa, and also whether it’s being overweight in itself or the associated health problems that can cause depression.
“Our robust genetic analysis concludes that the psychological impact of being obese is likely to cause depression. This is important to help target efforts to reduce depression, which makes it much harder for people to adopt healthy lifestyle habits.”


Despite what many may think, glacial environments host thriving communities of plant life and other organisms. Many kinds of plants have adapted to the cooler environment surrounding the glacier (such as the beautiful examples shown below), but life also thrives on top of the glacier, within the glacier, and also amazingly at the bottom of the glacier.
Join us on a tour and learn about this amazing biome.
All the images below are from plants found on the glacier or surrounding the glacier (on the glacier moraine).
The Fireweed blooms are half way up the stem right now which warns us that Summer is half over. In fact, right now the wildflowers are in full bloom at the Matanuska Glacier (all the images of flowers below are taken from around the glacier). Fireweed is one of the most common flowering plants in south-central Alaska and can be seen all around the Matanuska Glacier. Locals harvest the blooms for fireweed jelly and syrup, while local bee keepers harvest honey from bees thriving on pollen from this beautiful plant. Tea can be made from the leaves and the shoots are high in vitamins A and C when consumed as a spring vegetable.
Glacier Moss occurs in stunning patches on the Matanuska Glacier ice. Did you know that moss can survive for more than a thousand years within glacial ice under a state of slowed metabolism until exposed to sunlight when it "revives" again? On tour, we can explore this intriguing glacier moss, as well as discuss all the other different kinds of micro-organisms that live on the ice (as well as inside and under the glacier!).
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Girls Go Circular
The Girls Go Circular Project funded by the European Union aims to equip 50 000 schoolgirls aged 14-18 across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills by 2027 through an online learning programme about the circular economy.
Girls Go Circular supports Action 13 – Encourage women’s participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) of the European Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan and empowers schoolgirls in European countries defined as modest and moderate innovators (according to the European Innovation Scoreboard) to become future leaders and entrepreneurs.
The Circular Learning Space is at the core of the project. It offers students the option of choosing between different learning modules on topics like metals, plastics, sustainable fashion, or electronic devices. Through the platform, students work individually and in groups during online and in-person sessions. The platform includes several modules, which explore the circular economy from different angles. These modules are based on a learning-by-doing approach, transferring knowledge and skills through an interactive, challenge-based structure.While consolidating their knowledge on the green transition, students use digital tools to acquire practical skills. After successfully completing a learning module, students receive a certificate that attests the skills acquired.
The project targets primarily girls but it is open to any learner! Start learning here!


If you were at the Zoo last Saturday, you probably saw lots of animals with pumpkins in their exhibits. While this is adorable in itself, there is a purpose for the pumpkins besides just providing cute photos! Pumpkins were actually given as a form of enrichment, which are activities or challenges we give our animals to encourage behaviors they would naturally exhibit in the wild. Animals all over the Zoo were given pumpkins filled with treats or other Halloween-themed enrichment, all aimed to encourage their natural behaviors and allow keepers to educate guests about the enrichment process.
This year, Britni Plummer (Zoo Keeper, Aquatics) helped to provide enrichment for many of our animals. Every animal receives something different, depending on their individual needs. For instance, the dingoes were given ghosts and pumpkins to encourage their hunting instincts, and our red pandas received bamboo-stuffed pumpkins to encourage foraging. “For penguins, keepers made hanging bats out of cardboard and paper towels. This was to encourage their natural curiosity and chasing behaviors. They were a little skeptical at first, but they love to peck at and chase things that swing and move. With our sea lions, we wanted to encourage a natural foraging behavior so we hid frozen fish inside of small pumpkins. The sea lions had to push the pumpkins around or toss them in the air in order to get the fish out.” While sea lions don’t encounter pumpkins in the wild, this gave them a challenge and forced them to think creatively to get to their fish!
While we offer enrichment throughout the entire year, it’s always fun to do themed enrichment around the holidays for both the animals and the keepers (a little zookeeper enrichment, if you will). After all, who doesn’t love pumpkins?
Check out our animals receiving their pumpkin enrichment this year:


To view lessons, click on LESSONS in the blue banner near the top of the screen.
Next you will be asked to Select a grade. Choose your grade level and click on CONTINUE.
Students in different grades are shown different lessons designed to meet specific curriculum outcomes by subject. All teachers, regardless of the grade they are teaching, are able to see all lessons in all grades.
NOTE - Students do not have the same view as teachers. Students can only see the lessons for their grade.
In the LEARNING MODULES section, you can select a module by clicking on it or filter your search by subject. To do that, click on a subject in the drop down menu below FILTER BY SUBJECT and then click on FILTER. Once you have found the module you’re looking for, click on it.
The title in the next screen shows you the module you have selected and the grade levels it covers. You can also see the lessons relating to the learning module.
Click on a lesson, and away you go!
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Many of our seafood favorites aren’t ocean- or planet-friendly — here are 6 ways to eat better
Maintaining a healthy ocean is critical for a healthy planet, and your seafood choices have a direct impact on the state of our seas. Here are actionable ways that you can lower the impact of the seafood you eat.
Just like humans, fish have social networks too — and these could be key to helping protecting them and the coral reefs where they live, says marine biologist Mike Gil.
How do color-blind cephalopods — octopus, squid and others — achieve such a good color match when they camouflage? (in short: amazing, distributed brains). And what does it take to study these elusive animals in the wild? (a whole lot of patience). Marine scientist Roger Hanlon dives deeper into his research.
You won’t see these amazing animals on a day at the beach, but they’re there — living in the vast, cold, unexplored midwater region of the ocean. Learn about six of its residents and how they’ve adapted to life in the dark.
A flying device combined with some nifty software is serving up invaluable information about the health of whales — and our oceans.
These weird-looking, isolated aquatic creatures probably won’t star in a Pixar film anytime soon, but by studying them, we can learn about our planet’s past and its future, says evolutionary biologist and ichthyologist Prosanta Chakrabarty.
Given climate change, coral bleaching, ocean acidification and overfishing, it can be easy to feel depressed about our oceans. But when you look at the big picture of ocean health, good news emerges.


Diffraction patterns, again. But this time I tack them to an imaginary semi-circular screen.
Screens grow bigger in radius with increasing wavelength – growing more reddish. If every wavelength would be diffracted in the same way, all peaks would lie on a radius of the circle. But as red is diffracted more, maxima move to higher angles.
The diffraction grating would be placed in the center of the circle.
Following my approach, I want to pair it with engineering figures related to diffraction. I found the mother lode of public domain engineering images with artistic appeal – US patents.
I am turning the patterns, and looking at them from different angles, and I cannot unsee the jellyfish.
My images are created with SageMath. Each diffraction pattern is a parametric curve. The curves – relative intensity dependent on wavelength and angle – are the same as in my images of ribbon-like patterns. The ribbon corresponds to a plane screen. This time, the screen is circular, and the distance between curves for different wavelength has significance. If you used concentric screens with hypothetical detectors for different wavelengths, maxima would show up where the peaks are.
These images form a series, documenting the view on the structure when rotating about the center, the position of the diffraction grating. I start from looking into the direction of the central ray, from the grating onto the screen, at about zero degrees. Then I walk around the jellyfish-like pattern (and wobble a bit up and down), until I see look into the opposite direction – from the center of the screen to the grating. Then I fly upwards and look down on the concentric patterns.
For diffraction formulas, see e.g. chapter 30 of Feynman’s Lectures, vol. I. I am using a 4-slit grating.
I weighted the curves with Planck’s blackbody distribution (dependence of intensity on wavelength). Planck’s law is explained in chapter 41.
Source of the conversion of spectral colors to RGB colors is this blog article by a biophysicist.
I was browsing patents semi-consciously, searching for “diffraction”, like doing internet search term poetry. I chose this patent: The invention is about how to extend a spectrometer’s reach to nearly the whole range of visible wavelengths, by using for example different gratings and curved screens.


Here's what happens when you add a file to IPFS — whether you're storing that file on your own local node or one operated by a pinning service or IPFS-enabled app.
When you add a file to IPFS, your file is split into smaller chunks, cryptographically hashed, and given a unique fingerprint called a content identifier (CID). This CID acts as an permanent record of your file as it exists at that point in time.
When other nodes look up your file, they ask their peer nodes who's storing the content referenced by the file's CID. When they view or download your file, they cache a copy — and become another provider of your content until their cache is cleared.
A node can pin content in order to keep (and provide) it forever, or discard content it hasn't used in a while to save space. This means each node in the network stores only content it is interested in, plus some indexing information that helps figure out which node is storing what.
If you add a new version of your file to IPFS, its cryptographic hash is different, and so it gets a new CID. This means files stored on IPFS are resistant to tampering and censorship — any changes to a file don't overwrite the original, and common chunks across files can be reused in order to minimize storage costs.
However, this doesn't mean you need to remember a long string of CIDs — IPFS can find the latest version of your file using the IPNS decentralized naming system, and DNSLink can be used to map CIDs to human-readable DNS names.
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It is not unusual for costly graphing calculators to be a part of back-to-school lists. The arguments go something like this. We need students to have a separate non-computer graphing calculator to know they really know how to use a graphing calculator.Wait, what world are we preparing our kids for? The only business place in the world in the 21st century where you'd see graphing calculators being used to do work is Texas Instruments. The one who sells the graphing calculators.
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In the modern world graphing calculators are available free via apps and software for phones and computers. Even if you ban student devices, for the cost of a graphing calculator, schools can buy a much more powerful smartphone onto which you could do much more than just access a graphing calculator.
In essence a tool has been created for the classroom, that has no use outside the school walls whatsoever. Sadly, as the Atlantic exposed back in 2011, what this all boils down to is that the mega-billion dollar testing industry dictates the technology that can be used. That however should not dictate how a student accesses that technology. If parents and educators are buying into the idea that we must throw children into the past to take assessments, that is unfortunate. However, even if they do, save those antiquated devices for testing day and allow students to use modern technologies they have access to in the world the rest of time.
This simple shift to using free tools would shift millions of dollars from the pockets of Texas Instruments into the hands of our students. Desmos CEO Eli Luberoff put it best when he said this in his interview with business site Quartz: “We think students shouldn’t have to buy this old, underpowered device anymore. It’s a huge source of inequity, and it’s just not the best way to learn.”
Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu) has worked as a public-school educator and administrator since 1997. She is a prolific writer best known for her award-winning blog, The Innovative Educator. Nielsen is the author of several books and her writing has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tech&Learning, and T.H.E. Journal.


This project is part of a larger 5 year project that CHRL is assisting Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance to deliver with funding through WIRES. Through the project three nationally significant Flying-fox camps in the Coffs Harbour and Bellingen LGA’s will have work undertaken to reduce the impacts of invasive plant species on the structure and function of vegetated roosting habitat. Planting of locally occurring native tree species will also facilitate the expansion of available habitat at these sites.
CHRL has been provided with funding to carry out restoration works at the Woolgoolga Flying Fox Camp. Community education will also occur to improve the community’s understanding and tolerance of the Grey Headed Flying Fox.
The Grey Headed Flying-fox is listed as a Vulnerable species under the TSC and EPBC Acts. Flying-foxes are known as keystone species, because they help to define their entire ecosystem. They pollinate many of our native plants including Eucalyptus trees by carrying pollen from plant to plant when feeding and spread seeds through their droppings. They help with the survival of our now highly fragmented Rainforests by eating their fruit and dispersing their seeds across large distances to other forests. A single flying -fox can spread thousands of seeds across 50km of land in one night. Threats to the Grey Headed Flying-Fox include loss of roosting and foraging sites due to land clearing, conflict with humans including illegal shooting, heat stress and electrocution on powerlines and entanglement in netting and barbed wire.