The University of Colorado, Boulder campus, C.U. Science Discovery is offering a five-class on the “Science of Horses.” Developed by Faith Beveridge and Samantha McBride in 2012, the class is being offered once again this summer to students ranging in ages from 9-13. Participants travel to locations daily and should be prepared with sturdy footwear, long pants, lunch/snacks, and sun protection.
Horses were once the most essential animals in daily life; used for transportation, war, work, and leisure. This class explores the science of this fascinating animal, from anatomy to nutrition, veterinary medicine to evolutionary biology. Participants travel to a local horse facility to learn about conformation and physiology, meet a farrier who will teach participants about horses’ hooves, and visit Littleton Large Animal Hospital where they will experience, first-hand, the cutting edge of equine medicine. This interactive, hands-on class is for anyone passionate about these animals—whether you have never seen a horse before or have been riding all your life.
Last year local veterinarian Diane Wagner, DVM, a holistic equine veterinarian with a practice in Hudson, CO, offered to have students spend a day at her facility. She demonstrated on Nico (owned by Linda Parks) how she treats horses with acupuncture, chiropractic, and other complementary therapies that balance her conventional veterinary medical knowledge. Her clinic also has a real horse skeleton as well as bones and charts for educational purposes. Equine dentist, Sydney D. Burt, EquuSmiles, LLC also donated her services and balanced Nico’s teeth. All dentistry is done with hand tools only, using instruments that are specifically designed to be efficient and minimally invasive. Plus, farrier Rick Binger donated his services and taught the students all about shoeing (on Samantha McBride’s horse. Cosmo).
For more information on this class, visit tC.U. Science Discovery online at: http://sciencediscovery.colorado.edu/class/equine-science-1/


In my inbox this morning, a statement from Schneider Electric titled: Successful case studies in climate action, subtitled How Schneider Electric supports each ambition of the Biden-Harris Climate Plan.
Schneider endorses three ‘green’ initiatives:
- Net-zero and decarbonization goals
- Infrastructure and manufacturing modernization
- EV adoption
Joe Biden says he and his administration ‘follow the science’. I call into question the science Schneider Electric follows: decarbonization.
Question: When burning wood in your fireplace, how much carbon do you create? When driving to some remote destination to see the USA in your Chevrolet, how much carbon does your gasoline-fueled engine create? How much carbon does the burning of 1,000 gallons of 87-octane gasoline produce?
Answer to all three questions: Zero. None. Nada.
There are a few types of atoms that can be a part of a plant one day, an animal the next day, and then travel downstream as a part of a river’s water the following day. These atoms can be a part of both living things like plants and animals, as well as non-living things like water, air, and even rocks. The same atoms are recycled over and over in different parts of the Earth. This type of cycle of atoms between living and non-living things is known as a biogeochemical cycle.UCAR Center For Science Education: The Carbon Cycle
With respect to the ‘net zero’ idea, we already have this in place. Everywhere. I point to the Law of Conservation of Mass: mass in an isolated system is neither created nor destroyed by chemical reactions or physical transformations.
Self-appointed environmentalists demonize carbon. Are they wholly unaware how carbon is the the foundation of all life on Earth?
Political correctness is a contemporary version of fascism. Capisci?


Burned but not destroyed
Three legendary words there will never be forgotten in the town of Grimbergen: Ardet Nec Consumitur.
It is the motto of the Abbey and hold the meaning "Burned, but not destroyed" (can have other local translations).
A true reminder to the dramatic history of the Grimbergen Abbey. A history that origins back to the Middle Ages when Norbert van Xanten took the name of Norbertus and founded the Premonstratensian Order.
Almost 900 years of Grimbergen history
In 1128, the lords of Grimbergen asked him to build an abbey and he granted them their wish.
In 1142, the lords of Grimbergen revolted against the Duke of Brabant. This was the beginning of the War of Grimbergen.
The abbey was for the first time burned to the ground and completely ruined. The ambitious Fathers rebuilt it stone by stone.
After its first reconstruction, the abbey flourished like the fields of hops surrounding the town.
The wars of religion
But in 1566, during the wars of religion, it was destroyed for the second time. The Fathers were forced to abandon their abbey.
They fled to Brussels where they sought shelter, until peace once again was restored in Grimbergen.
In 1629 the Fathers put the last hand to their new abbey and one can only imagine how the celebration went on, when the Master Brewer returned to town.
From that moment on, they adopted the phoenix as a symbol of rebirth in their coat of arms,
alongside the our slogan and motto:
ARDET NEC CONSUMITUR.
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Summer 2- Week 4
Now we are paying for resources, we will download them below. There are the daily worksheets and answers and a page that directs you to the daily videos. Just as before, but the worksheets are found here, not online. The arithmetic is below also.
This week we are completing the work all about money. Look on the section from:
Week 3 (w/c 4th May)
Week 3 Maths -
Lots of great feedback about the new topic of Fractions. Keep those pictures coming. This week we are on the Summer Week 2 WC 27th April. We are a week behind so don't worry. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
**Week 2 Summer Term
*Please note, from now on Maths work will be uploaded on a Monday so you can do a lesson per day.
Please go to the White Rose Home Learning page: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
Complete this week's lessons (Summer Term – Week 1 W/C 20th April). This week we will start by exploring more about fractions. We began a little before we started this lockdown period. This section week is all about equivalent fractions.
Do not move onto week 2! We will complete a week at a time. Any questions or help you need, just email me.
I have also uploaded a weekly arithmetic test as normal.
Summer Week 1
I have popped the answers on for you to check. Enjoy!
I had added the Maths for this week 23/3/20. The arithmetic has the answers as the back....no peeking!!!
I have uploaded two different Maths papers...one has more challenges on. You are welcome to choose or do both. It covers the work from the Autumn term on place value so will be really good revision. I will upload the answers on Friday for you to check.


"Trust fund" became a popular modifier in the 2000s as a way of describing a certain type of undeserving rich person: trust funder, trust fund baby, trustafarian. But a trust is much more than a money spout for entitled brats; it's an instrument that holds and distributes your assets according to your own instructions when you aren't around to dole them out yourself.
A trust is not really an account, but a legal document that holds ownership of assets. Individuals place assets in trusts for a variety of reasons. Some people use trusts to keep property out of probate (the time-consuming and costly process of settling someone's will) before being passed to beneficiaries. And sometimes a trust can shield assets from creditors. Assets held in trust are exempt from the estate tax, which makes trusts handy tools for people with estates worth more than $5.64 million.
A trust can be set up to provide income and instructions for a family member in need, or to support any heir or associate, in a consistent way, over time. The document can be written to include specific terms dictating that beneficiaries receive property only if they meet certain goals or requirements. So-called incentive trusts can be used to attach strings to a child's inheritance, such as body weight restrictions or job choices. About 30 percent of high-net-worth individuals who use trusts have conditions attached [source: Frank].
It might help to think of a trust as an objective, reliable third party that watches your money when you can't. Trusts are managed by a trustee – a person or organization that oversees the assets and property in the trust. The trustee is paid annually for this work, which is just one of the reasons complex trusts in particular can be expensive to set up and maintain. The most common types of trusts are living trusts, which are like wills that don't go through probate. They're often used as a means of transferring a house to beneficiaries. We'll discuss more about living trusts in a minute.
First, let's take a look at how different types of trusts work, how to set one up and why you'd want one.


Scorpions, found in southwestern Canada and throughout the United States, are up to 7.5 cm (3 in.) in length. They have eight legs and a pair of pincers like a crab has. The stinger, which injects venom, is located at the end of a narrow tail that curves around and over the back of the scorpion's body.
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Art 1, 2, and 3
"The main purpose of art education in childhood is to provide an effective outlet for feelings. A child's life is so full of restrictions, regulations, frustrations, and fears that outlets of release become essential. Art is one of the best avenues of release. It gives expression to fury, shape to joy, and relief to tension."
Based on a quote from Haim Ginott
The best way to get better at art is to PRACTICE! Besides regular art projects that we do in class, students are required to complete one (1) sketch in their sketchbook each week. These sketches are due each Monday and account for half of their grade each week. If your child's grade is suffering, chances are they are behind on their sketchbook. These sketches can be made up at any time during the term. On most weeks, students are also given time during class on Fridays to work on their sketchbooks. If students are present on Friday, but do not take advantage of the time to work on their sketchbook, and do not turn it in on Monday, they will receive a "0" for their sketchbook assignment for that week. If you have any questions concerning this or any other assignment, please feel free to contact me.
The following is how your child is graded on each art project. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Each project is worth 100 Points
- No name -5 pts.
- Didn’t follow directions -5 pts.
- Didn’t show real effort -5 pts.
- Didn’t finish assignment -5 pts.
- Didn’t make good use of time -10 pts.
- Didn’t turn in assignment -50 pts.
- Assignment isn't accepted due to serious problem in class. 0 pts.


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Fossilized French: Using the Breton Language as a Window on French Linguistic (Pre-)History
CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Breton – the Celtic language spoken in Brittany in the northwest of France – has been in close contact with Romance (developing into French) ever since the Celtic migration from southern England and Cornwall. This contact has led to massive influence on Breton on all linguistic levels (especially phonology and lexicon). This talk by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Anders Richardt Jørgensen (English, Uppsala University) will highlight how we often find that to this day, due to the relatively slow pace of sound change in Breton and the fast pace in French, Breton preserves the shape of French loan words from the Middle Ages. Accordingly, the loan words appear “frozen” in form in Breton, not having undergone the subsequent rapid phonological developments seen in the donor language. The talk will present new material illuminating the “dark ages” of French linguistic development from a period where little or no written sources exist.
Co-sponsored by the Program in Indo-European Studies.
Advance registration not required. No fee. Limited seating.


When "Keeping it Real" Goes Wrong
Tags: goffman, psychology/social psychology, social construction, theory, face, impression management, interaction order, self, 00 to 05 mins
Access: Comedy Central
Summary: One of the most difficult aspects of Ervin Goffman’s face to understand is the concept’s multifaceted nature. Face is both ‘something we are in’ during social interactions as we conform to social roles, identities and practices; but simultaneously face is also ‘something that can be gained and lost’ through our impression management. To overcome this difficulty, Dave Chappelle’s ‘When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong’ can be used to highlight the multifaceted nature of Goffman’s concept. In this video, Vernon Franklin feels a colleague violated the rules of the interaction order by being insensitive, thus creating a social situation where the two facets of face conflict with each other. Vernon is forced to choose between ignoring an insensitive comment and maintaining face as afforded to him by his colleagues because he abides by the rules of the interaction order; or challenging his offensive colleague and save the face he claims for himself through his personal pride and dignity. Vernon chose the former by leaving face and “keeping it real;” or he abandons the line others expect him to play to maintain a positive self-perception of his own self. Because of his own violation of interaction order, he ends up first losing face as afforded to him by others when he is fired from his high paying job and then the face he is able to claim for himself as he is relegated to the occupational role of a poorly paid car wash employee.
Submitted By: Jason T. Eastman
7/25/2012 01:27:57 am
This also ties in with Goffman’s concept of race remaining a discredited stigma in our workplace and overall in our society. Stigma comes from the human social construction of what is defined as normal verses social constructions that justifying applying stigmatizing labels of the perception of differences.
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Rare Drone video shows critically endangered North Atlantic right whales
May 10, 2021
During a joint research trip on February 28 in Cape Cod Bay, Mass., WHOI whale trauma specialist Michael Moore, National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, and scientists from New England Aquarium, witnessed a remarkable biological event: North Atlantic right whales in a surface active group, also known as a SAG.
SAGs involve close interactions between groups of right whales that may include playful, reproductive, and vocal behavior. The researchers flew drones to measure their body condition and unexpectedly saw what appeared to be whales hugging with their flippers, technically described as “belly to belly”; perhaps showing affection and attempts at mating. The aerial perspective of these behaviors has rarely, if ever, been captured..
Most recent news about right whales has focused on trauma from collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear. North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered, with approximately 360 individuals left on the planet. This footage, however, gave researchers a unique view of the lives of these incredible animals; spending gentle, quiet time together, perhaps making new right whales. The whales were also seen skim feeding on plankton, and nursing calves, possibly conceived in SAGs more than a year ago. There are less than 100 females capable of raising new calves in the entire species.
This remarkable event was full of hope and wonder, and serves as a reminder of the urgent need to reduce and mitigate the trauma that these animals routinely face so they can thrive and recover.
As Michael Moore told National Geographic Magazine, “Having a ringside seat on their private time..had a heartbeat of hope.”
Learn more about WHOI’s work with North Atlantic right whales.


Depression can paralyse you, your life. Asking for help doesn’t mean you are weak, it means you are brave and found courage to face your demons. Have hope and remember, storms don’t last forever.
Understanding and recognizing the symptoms of depression is not always easy. Moreover, if you have depression, you will experience feelings of sadness for a prolonged period of time. What is different between an occasional episode of sad feelings and depression is that the latter affects the way you function on a daily basis, making it hard to enjoy life. In addition, symptoms often include difficulty getting out of bed, and an inability to complete normal daily tasks.
HOW DOES IT FEEL?
If you have depression, you are likely to have at least five of the following symptoms. You may feel:
• extremely negative towards life
• anxious, tearful and worried
• unable to concentrate
• cannot make clear decisions
• irritable and intolerant of others
• not enjoying life enough
• low self worth
• excessive guilt feelings
• changes in sleeping and eating patterns
• lethargy and exhaustion
• regular headaches and/upset stomach
• loss of libido and lack motivation or interest in things you used to enjoy
Speaking to a counsellor can help you understand what you need. Every person is different and may need different kind of support, ranging from therapy or maybe medication through your GP.
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An actionable guide for improving student success by improving school leadership system-wide Effective school leadership can have a transformative impact on the lives of students. In Leadership Development on a Large Scale, educational leaders and policy makers will gain evidence-based guidance for sustaining improved leadership and scaling up existing leadership initiatives across school districts and states. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this book draws lessons from one of the most successful long-term educational leadership studies ever conducted to provide actionable advice and specific strategies. Learn how to: • Understand the evidence base to design effective leadership development programs and initiatives • Support instructional leaders in leading collaborative inquiry approaches to classroom pedagogy to help teachers convey complex ideas to students • Establish Principal Learning Teams to help guide school-wide and districtwide decision-making By drawing on the numerous cases and stories outlined in Leithwood’s book, educators will gain a deep understanding of how to take leadership development to the next level and prepare the next wave of talented school leaders for success.
From the outset, the LSA project has encouraged its members to approach their school improvement efforts using some form of collaborative inquiry. But there has been considerable evolution, over the life of the project, in LSA’s understanding about how such inquiry can best be fostered. This evolving understanding has largely been promoted by results from the project’s annual evaluations. With collaborative inquiry as the focus, this chapter illustrates especially clearly how the LSA project “learned its way forward” with most of the practices it has sponsored and supported.
Before describing LSA’s evolving approaches to collaborative inquiry, however, it is important to appreciate why collaborative inquiry emerged as and remains central to the project’s commitments, whatever their form. The explanation is a largely ...


Printable fun activity pages for kids are freely available to help children practice their key skills. Kids of all ages will love these free, printable activities that include coloring and shapes. At their age, your child’s mind is bursting with creativity and ideas. These printable worksheets are the favorite for kids, especially preschool, and you can get loads of great ideas on how to help your child learn in a fun way on this page!
A step up from your regular worksheets, these free activity pages ideas will have your children all sitting down and immersed in their creative world! With educational worksheets of every kind available, brushing up on different concepts of different subjects is easy. Help your child develop their creativity with our free activity pages for kids, suitable for preschoolers on up. No matter what the grade or the subject may be, there are enough and more free worksheets for kids. Including the ones that we have on this page, all posted below.
Loads of fun activities for kids and families including coloring in sheets and other fun exercises are available for free. These free activity pages are the best classroom or home activity fillers. Consider using these worksheets as a part of a lesson, as something students can do if they finish their work early, or send them home for parents to complete with their child.
See our interesting worksheets and get the kids started on them! Download them to your computer and print them out easily for your kids. Stay awhile and explore our collection to help you keep kids busy! Browse through our collection and get started immediately!


The Ebony Green Scientific Reserve is located in Arroyazo, an area northeast of Constanza on the road that descends from Jarabacoa, this scientific reserve has altitudes that range from 245 to 1,565 meters high. The waters produced in this Scientific Reserve supply the city of La Vega and the Taveras and Rincón dams.
It is home to more than 600 species of flora and fauna, including more than 100 species of birds, giant tree frogs, lizards, and more than 80 species of orchids. These species thrive in one of the most humid areas of the country, and a place where several rivers are born.
The reserve owes its name to an endemic tree found only in this area of broadleaf cloud forest: the green ebony (Magnolia pallenscens), which produces valuable wood. Scientists often come to this protected area to conduct studies, while visitors interested in hiking excursions can do so by prior arrangement.
The Fernando Domínguez Visitor Center, run by Fundación Ébano Verde, has a museum where you can review the different types of wildlife species that live in the reserve, before starting to walk through its grounds.
The Ébano Verde Scientific Reserve is a protected area known for its biological diversity, and the high endemism of its flora and fauna. With a size of 23.1 square kilometers, it is especially important for its water wealth, characterized by the source of the Camú, Jatubey, La Palma, El Arroyazo, Masipedro, La Sal, and Jayaco rivers.
The Baño de Nubes/Caribbean Birding Trail runs 5 kilometers and provides signs with information about the birds in each of the different environments along the route. While the Sendero al Centro La Sal is a demanding stretch along its 10km. The trail passes through the Loma la Golondrina hillside.
The Caribbean Bird Route is a set of places, in more than 15 Caribbean countries, all recognized for their value for birdwatching tourism. In the Dominican Republic the Route is known as La Ruta Barrancolí, and describes 44 places and trails ideal for bird watching in 4 main areas of the country.
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Start debugging a .BAT, CMD, or .BTM batch file
Start Without Debugging
Run a .BAT, CMD, or .BTM batch file (no debugging)
Pause debugging for the batch file
Stop debugging the batch file
Show Next Statement
Show the next statement
Step into the next statement
Run to Breakpoint or End
Run until the debugger reaches a breakpoint. If you are in a CALL'd batch file, and there are no more breakpoints in the current file, you will be returned to the parent batch file at the line following the CALL, and "Run to Breakpoint or End" will be turned off.
Skip This Line
Skip this line and continue execution with the next line
Run to Cursor
If you click on a line in the debugger window and select "Run to Cursor", the debugger will execute the batch file (ignoring any breakpoints) until it reaches the selected line.
Jump to This Line
If you click on a line in the debugger window and select "Jump to This Line", the debugger will continue execution starting with the selected line.
Pause on Error
Pause if the debugger encounters a Windows or internal command error
Set or clear a breakpoint on the current line
Go to the next breakpoint
Go to the previous breakpoint
Clear All Breakpoints
Clear all breakpoints
Enable All Breakpoints
Enable all breakpoints
Disable All Breakpoints
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Opens a small dialog that lets you look up Windows and network error messages based on the integer value.
Display a dialog and execute the command on the current line.
Display a dialog and expand variables and aliases on the line
Expand variables and aliases in the selected text
Add to Watch
Add the selected variable to the Watch window


Sidle up. Be a sidler. When you see engagement or devotion to problem solving or free play or a moment of curiosity:
- wordlessly join,
- stand by,
- observe out of the corner of your eye,
- see the learning, before you name it,
- and allow it to expand.
If you want your child to learn something, try the thing in your child’s presence. Work the math problem or copy the passage or diagram the sentence during breakfast in full view. Don’t announce it. Simply do it. Maybe on the white board. Maybe you talk to yourself out loud as you do it. Be an object of curiosity rather than a teacher.
You want a reader? Create a cozy nook, stack books next to it, aim a lamp just so. Then see what happens. Give it a couple days.
Wish someone would pitch in with chores without complaining? Do it together, listen to a good audiobook, toss some change in the dishwater, rub shoulders, do clean up sprints of five minutes. Make space for growth (don’t expect high standards from novice cleaners). Be kind.
Learning happens because of receptivity, not insistence. Insistence teaches kids to learn other stuff: like how to resist, or how to think of something else while appearing to pay attention, or how to comply. These subtract power from concentration and retention.
To learn? That means there’s an openness stirred by a desire to know that is born inside. Play with it. Tease it out. Exploring learning. Sidle up!
This post is originally from Instagram and @juliebravewriter is my account there so come follow along for more conversations like this one!


Propagated by seed and sown in nursery beds. After germination, seedlings transplanted at 1.2 m x 1.2 m in well-tilled soil (including both volcanic and poor, ferralitic soil). Weed 1 month after transplanting and again at 6 months. No maintenance is needed after one year of establishment and intercropping is possible
Coffee Agroforestry Information
Tree Benefits and Uses
The root, leaves, and fruits are used to treat intestinal, gynecological, and urinary complaints. The bark is used as a tonic and as an antiseptic on skin lesions, ulcers and wounds. The leaves are used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, colic, nausea and convulsions and as a febrifuge (reduces fever), tonic and antiseptic. The fruits are used as a diuretic, laxative, emollient, emmenagogue (stimulate blood flow in pelvic area and uterus), for asthma and other respiratory problems, as a treatment for arthritic and comparable inflammations, and in cases of leucorrhoea, sapraemia, and for maladies of inner organs. Roots, leaves, and fruits may have anthelmintic (antiparasitic) properties. In traditional medicine, the parts used are administered raw or as juices, infusions, or as ointments and poultices. Root bank used as dye for batik.
- Coffee Shade


From a biophysical point of view, a “closed loop” is an impossibility. In this chapter, we begin by discussing what it at all may mean that the economy goes in circles, or indeed that anything goes in circles. The foundational issue at the bottom of the discussion is the relationship between model and reality, and in the case of a “circular” model, which properties of the geometric object known as the circle are included in that model. If “circular” merely means that there is something somewhere that travels in a loop, the economy may well be circular. If that loop is supposed to be a closed loop of biophysical flows, the problems begin.
For bioeconomists, who focus on biophysical flows, it is difficult to make sense of the vision of the circular economy. Here is why: Most basic materials for human consumption, such as food and freshwater, have to be taken from the environment and once used cannot be recycled by processes under human control. The reason is that materials and products for consumption have to be pure or ordered enough to be safe and useful. Economic activities are entropic (disordering) processes that only can run at the expense of gradients provided by nature (resources and environmental services). Indeed, since the industrial revolution, socio-economic systems have been optimised towards increasingly linear models of production and consumption because this has allowed to accelerate the rate of economic activities. This change was possible because of fossil energy. Linear economies grow faster and are more competitive. In fact, within the EU, agriculture, mining and industry are increasingly outsourced to other countries, and the fossil energy used in EU is almost totally imported. Increase in productivity in Europe depends on linear economies outside Europe and on the capacity and opportunity of Europeans to import them.
In conclusion, the ideal of a circular economy is known to be incompatible with a developed, affluent economy in growth. Overall circularisation implies de-growth, or a slowdown of economic growth. As a consequence, the current level of recycling is very low.


Study Identifies African-Specific Genomic Variant Associated with Obesity
An international team of researchers has conducted the first study of its kind to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African Americans. They discovered that approximately 1 percent of West Africans, African Americans and others of African ancestry carry a genomic variant that increases their risk of obesity, a finding that provides insight into why obesity clusters in families. Researchers at NHGRI and their African collaborators published their findings Mar. 13 in the journal Obesity.
People with genomic differences in the semaphorin-4D gene were about 6 pounds heavier than those without the genomic variant, according to the study. Most of the genomic studies conducted on obesity to date have been in people of European ancestry, despite an increased risk of obesity in people of African ancestry.
Obesity is a global health problem, contributing to premature death and morbidity by increasing a person’s risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and some cancers. While obesity mostly results from lifestyle and cultural factors, including excess calorie intake and inadequate levels of physical activity, it has a strong genomic component.
The burden of obesity is, however, not the same across U.S. ethnic groups, with African Americans having the highest age-adjusted rates of obesity, said Dr. Charles Rotimi, chief of NHGRI’s Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch and director of the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health at NIH.
“Eventually, we hope to learn how to better prevent or treat obesity,” Rotimi said.


Top Photo: Misty morning over wetlands.
On a cool morning last week as I walked through the wetlands there was a fog or mist hovering over the water. The fog was already “burning off” as I could imagine it must have been much more dense just an hour earlier.
It was a still and quiet morning, as foggy mornings tend to be. Among other things, fog brings to mind the low bellow of distant foghorns, the clang of buoy bells, a lone unseen gull squealing somewhere beyond sight. No foghorns or buoys here though. Here, it elicits images of perhaps a single bird calling from deep within the shroud of mist, a muskrat, mink or otter splashing about in the water in its quest for food, or a spring peeper calling from a nearby swamp. It’s always one, a lone individual or thing, magnifying the quiet stillness.
This phenomenon, fog or mist, occurs over bodies of water more frequently in autumn as we go from hot humid days to cool dry days and the daily ambient air temperatures begin to fall. Water takes longer to cool than air. On nights with clear skies the air cools much more quickly than the dense water.
A cool layer of air from the surrounding land settles in over the pond and is met by evaporating air from the much warmer water. As the warm, rising, moist air cools, it condenses, forming a cloud over the pond. On windy nights the cool dry air and warm moist air is mixed and stirred, blurring or eliminating the line between the two, and fog fails to appear.
As the morning progresses the differential between the two air masses lessens and the fog or mist “burns off,” or more correctly, the water droplets which make up the fog or mist evaporate.
Remember this the next cool morning you’re hiking our outdoor loop, or your favorite local trail. Stop and ponder that low lying fog bank hanging over the water or wet meadow in front of you.
Or don’t think about it at all. Simply appreciate the still, quiet solitude of the scene.


AN advanced airship fleet meant to save lives and more has been in the works by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and they are almost ready for take-off.
Brin’s lowkey project has been building the next generation of airships that he wants to ensure are bigger and better than ever.
The Google co-founders established a company called Lighter Than Air Research (LTA) back in 2016 to develop the airships and it has been moving in silence since.
Now, Brin is ready to unveil the ‘Pathfinder 1” which is the first of LTA’s creations, per Bloomberg.
The airships may be used to transport cargo or assist during humanitarian relief missions.
Along with delivering supplies to disaster zones in an environmentally friendly way as they are helium-powered and extra-large.
The Pathfinder 1 is 400 feet long and has a 65 ft diameter.
LTA intends for the fleet of airships to be “sky-darkening” due to their enormous size.
The airships are set to be very large with the capability of holding tons of cargo.
“Welcome to LTA: Where we are going to darken the skies,” Alan Weston the chief executive officer of LTA Research & Exploration LLC told Bloomberg Thursday.


More US teens die in car accidents than from any other cause, and many of these deaths are preventable. In fact, teens also typically have higher accident rates than any other age group.
As a parent, your goal is likely to keep your children safe, and this is more complicated when they receive their driver’s licenses. Therefore, these are common causes of teen motor vehicle accidents and ways you can prepare your young adult for the road.
Common Accident Causes
The CDC and other insurance and road safety organizations have identified several factors that contribute to the high rate of teen driving accidents. First, most young people lack the experience necessary to navigate the roads safely, especially at night and on the weekends.
They may have difficulty navigating hazardous areas and situations, especially at first. In addition, they tend to have higher distraction rates. For example, many are on their cell phones or texting while they drive, and passengers in the vehicle can also be a distraction. Teens tend to drive recklessly, e.g., speeding and driving too close to other vehicles.
Many young adults avoid using their seatbelts. In addition, they are often less concerned with driving or riding in vehicles with drivers who are under the influence.
Your best strategies for preparing your teen are education and practice. First, educate your children on the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt, driving under the influence, and distracted driving, e.g., texting while driving. Discuss dangerous roadways and hazards to watch for.
To increase your child’s safety, choose a vehicle that has a high safety rating, and spend time practicing with your teen at all hours and in all weather conditions. Load the vehicle with safety devices, such as a tool to escape entrapment.


Launched on 12 August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is venturing closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft. It is revolutionizing our understanding of the long-standing mysteries of the near-Sun environment. The new science data show new phenomena not seen before in the solar wind. Parker Solar Probe is showing us the path forward for heliophysics research.
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Many individuals in their lifetime get married, have families and in some cases divorce or never get married at all. Attitudes towards marriage have changed dramatically since the 1970s. These attitudes relate to gender roles and social changes in today's society and have contributed to women marrying later than their ancestors. Economic factors, a rise in feminism, attitudes about sex, educational pursuits, and divorce statistics all play important roles in the dramatic drop in marriage. .
As people are becoming less religious, cohabitation, couple living together without being married, is becoming more popular. Cohabiting was first look upon as sin and was very unacceptable for one to do. In the mid-1970s, only five percent of single women lived with a man before getting married. But by the 1990s, almost 70 percent of single women did. The public views cohabitating as the lead up to marriage, although most people in this situation tend to break up, it is seen as an alternative to marriage. This method is what most young couples are favoring. Using this method, less money is spent and is easier to handle break ups because the divorce process is avoided. Studies show that between 1970 and 2000 there was a decrease in marital quality. This can partly be attributed to the regard people are holding marriage to. The idea of permanence has declined and this is causing marriage to lose its sense of security. .
Being married is a lot more expensive than it used to be. When marriage enters the picture, double standards and financial imbalances leave men responsible men to pick up the slack. When first pursuing women to marry, men have to save up just to buy a woman a ring. Women look for a man that can take her out on nice dates and buy her nice things. On top of that most married couples start families adding on the cost of the household. The husband is look upon to keep the family financially stable and the wife is to take care of the family and the household.


Before we talk about power raking and aeration we need to talk about the thatch layer and the process of dethatching. The thatch layer is the layer of decomposed, organic material that lies between the top of the soil and the bottom of the grass blade. It is ok for your lawn to have about ½” of thatch, but if it has more, then it’s a good idea to dethatch your lawn. Thatch build-up is one of the most common lawn problems. It can cause waterlogging, reduce air circulation, and choke out grass plants. In severe cases, it can even lead to fungus diseases. The purpose behind power raking and aerating is to remove some of the thatch layer (this is where the term ‘dethatching’ comes from). Both are lawn dethatching methods but there are some key differences between power raking and aerating. We have them described below:
A small tractor, lawnmower or similar machine will rotate large, powerful metal tines through the ground a few inches deep. This is a very invasive process and can damage the lawn because it’s ripping through the grass at powerful speeds. Thus not only removing the unwanted thatch but removing and/or damaging healthy grass in the process. We do not recommend power raking unless there is at least a 2” or greater layer of thatch in the lawn and your lawn has been established for many years.
By removing soil cores, aeration allows your lawn to breathe and provides a channel for moisture and vital nutrients to get down to the roots of your lawn. It also decreases water runoff. It reduces thatch build-up and allows fertilizer, water and air direct access to the root system to encourage deeper root growth. The plugs then decompose naturally in a couple of weeks, also adding nutrients to the soil.
Your lawn will be stimulated to grow new, more vigorous root systems, which will help prepare it for the inevitable stresses that come with the changing climate. Aerations are performed during the spring and fall when the temperatures are cool or begin to moderate.
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Source: Source: Journal of Dairy Science
As ruminants are able to digest fibre efficiently and assuming that competition for feed v. food use would intensify in the future, cereals and other field crops should primarily be destined to cover the dietary needs of humans and monogastric animals such as poultry and pigs. Farming systems with a reduced or absent concentrate supplementation, as postulated by organic agriculture associations, require adapted dairy cows. The aim of this experiment was to examine the impact of concentrate supplementation on milk production, grazing and rumination behaviour, feed intake, physical activity and blood traits with two Holstein-Friesian cow strains and to conclude the consequences for sustainable and organic farming. The experiment was a cross-over study and took place on an organic farm in Switzerland. In all, 12 Swiss Holstein-Friesian (HCH) cows and 12 New Zealand Holstein-Friesian (HNZ) cows, which were paired according to lactation number, days in milk and age for primiparous cows, were used. All cows grazed full time and were supplemented either with 6 kg/day of a commercial, organic cereal-grain mix or received no supplement. After an adaptation period of 21 days, a measurement period of 7 days followed, where milk yield and composition, pasture dry matter intake estimated with the n-alkane double-indicator technique, physical activity based on pedometer measurements, grazing behaviour recorded by automatic jaw movement recorder and blood samples were investigated. Non-supplemented cows had a lower milk yield and supplemented HCH cows produced more milk than supplemented HNZ cows. Grazing time and physical activity were greater for non-supplemented cows. Supplementation had no effect on rumination behaviour, but HNZ cows spent longer ruminating compared with HCH cows. Pasture dry matter intake decreased with the concentrate supplementation. Results of blood analysis did not indicate a strong negative energy balance for either non-supplemented or supplemented cows. Minor differences between cow strains in this short-term study indicated that both cow strains are equally suited for an organic pasture-based production system with no concentrate supplementation. Many factors such as milk yield potential, animal welfare and health, efficiency, grazing behaviour and social aspects influence the decision to supplement grazing dairy cows with concentrates.
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Solution-What are the expected hardy-weinberg genotype
1. In tomatoes, two alleles of one locus determine the character difference of purple versus green stems (alleles are P and p with P being completely dominant and coding for purple stems) and two alleles of a separate independent locus determine the character difference of “cut” versus “potato” leaves (alleles are C and c with C being completely dominant and coding for cut leaves).
You cross an individual that is PpCc with an individual that is homozygous recessive at both loci.
a. Determine the expected phenotypic and genotypic ratios, assuming independent assortment (genes are unlinked)? Please show your work.
The following progeny genotypes and phenotypes were observed: 25 PpCc (Purple, Cut), 25 ppcc (Green, Potato), 225 Ppcc (Purple, Potato), 225 ppCc (Green, Cut). Does this fit your expectation for phenotypic ratios if the genes are assorting independently? If not, what could explain this result? If the genes are linked, what is the arrangement of the genes on a particular chromosome for the double heterozygote?
2. – You observe the following numbers of individuals of each genotype in a population:
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700 200 100
a. What are the observed eenotvne frequencies in this nonularinn?
b. What are the allele frequencies in this population?
c. What are the expected Hardy-Weinberg genotype frequencies?
d. What is the expected number of individuals of each genotype?
e. Do a chi-square test and provide whether you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. Is this population in H-W equilibrium? If you reject that this population is in H-W, what might be the cause?
3. As discussed in class, Daphnia have inducible defenses in response to chemical cues from a predatory midge including the production of thicker exoskeleton and head teeth. Some lakes with Daphnia have the predatory midge whereas some lakes with Daphnia do not have the predator. Develop an hypothesis about whether inducible defenses would be more likely in predator-free or predator-present populations and design a simple experiment to test this hypothesis.


Mrs. Burkhart's Class
All About All Kinds of Verbs
Action Verb Shoot-Out
Identify the action verb by shooting the incoming spaceships.
Linking Verb Practice
Click on the linking verb in the sentence.
Helping Verb Practice
Identify the helping verb in each sentence.
Combo Verb Games & Practice
Linking, Action, or Not a Verb Magic Carpet
Informational text notes that explain linking verbs.
Identify the Verb as Action or Linking
In each sentence identify the underlined verb as either an action or linking verb.
Past, Present, and Future Tense Jeopardy
See how many points you can earn by correctly identifying the appropriate verb tense.
Turtle Diary Catch the Correct Tense
Click on the correct verb tense.
Re-Write the sentences correctly to have a shot at finding the buried treasure.
Shifts in Verb Tense
IXL Verb Tense
Inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
More practice recognizing inappropriate shifts in verb tenses.
Perfect Verb Tense
IXL Perfect Verb Tense
Recognizing perfect past, present, and future verb tense.


Penn Engineers Devise “Initialization Procedure” that Is a Step Toward Error-Correcting in Quantum Devices
(Phys.org) The quantum mechanical properties of electrons are beginning to open the door to a new class of sensors and computers with abilities far beyond what their counterparts based in classical physics can accomplish. However, quantum states are notoriously difficult to read or write, and to make things worse–uncertainty about those states’ starting conditions can make experiments more laborious or even impossible.
Now, Penn Engineers have devised an “initialization procedure” system to reset those starting conditions, test them to see whether they are correct, and automatically start the experiment if they are, all in a matter of microseconds. The errors associated with poor initialization multiply, and it quickly becomes impossible to perform a complex calculation. The type of real-time measurement and control used by the team in this work is a major step towards implementing more sophisticated error-correcting protocols in these quantum devices.
Lee Bassett, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and director of the Quantum Engineering Laboratory, along with lab members David Hopper and Joseph Lauigan, led a recent study demonstrating this new initialization procedure. Lab member Tzu-Yung Huang also contributed to the study.
The researchers’ initialization procedure may also help hasten progress on new quantum architectures for computation and communication.


Time spent on home food preparation and indicators of healthy eating.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2014 ; 47: 796-802.
Monsivais P, Aggarwal A, Drewnowski A
DOI : 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.07.033
PubMed ID : 25245799
URL : https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0749379714004000
The amount of time spent on food preparation and cooking may have implications for diet quality and health. However, little is known about how food-related time use relates to food consumption and spending, either at restaurants or for food consumed at home.
To quantitatively assess the associations among the amount of time habitually spent on food preparation and patterns of self-reported food consumption, food spending, and frequency of restaurant use.
This was a cross-sectional study of 1,319 adults in a population-based survey conducted in 2008-2009. The sample was stratified into those who spent <1 hour/day, 1-2 hours/day, and >2 hours/day on food preparation and cleanup. Descriptive statistics and multivariable regression models examined differences between time-use groups. Analyses were conducted in 2011-2013.
Individuals who spent the least amount of time on food preparation tended to be working adults who placed a high priority on convenience. Greater amount of time spent on home food preparation was associated with indicators of higher diet quality, including significantly more frequent intake of vegetables, salads, fruits, and fruit juices. Spending <1 hour/day on food preparation was associated with significantly more money spent on food away from home and more frequent use of fast food restaurants compared to those who spent more time on food preparation.
The findings indicate that time might be an essential ingredient in the production of healthier eating habits among adults. Further research should investigate the determinants of spending time on food preparation.


Austria is officially known as the Republic of Austria, Austria is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe.
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy composed of nine federated states, The capital and largest city are Vienna with a population exceeding 1.8 million.
Austria occupies an area of 83,879 km2 and has a population of nearly 9 million people. While Austrian German is the country’s official language, many Austrians communicate informally in a variety of Bavarian dialects.
Austria was a prefecture of Bavaria created in 976. The word “Austria” is a Latinisation of the German name and was first recorded in the 12th century.
Austria’s highest point is Grossglockner Mountain, with a height of 3,798 m.
Austria’s 1955 State Treaty declared the country “permanently neutral” as a condition of Soviet military withdrawal.
Austria Stats and Facts
|Population||8.956 million (2021)|
|Gross domestic product||480.4 billion USD (2021)|
|Median age||43.5 years|
Austria’s Brief Timeline History
|1918||End of the Hapsburg empire.|
|1919||The Treaty of St Germain defines Austria’s boundaries.|
|1938||Germany absorbs Austria|
|1945||A provisional government is established in Austria|
|1955||Austria becomes independent again.|
|1995||Austria joins the EU|
Learn about Austria
Austria is a landlocked country located in central Europe. Austria has a diverse economy, with major industries including tourism, machinery, and food products.
An Austrian passport is issued to citizens of Austria to facilitate international travel. Every Austrian citizen is also a citizen of the European Union.
The Austrian passport currently ranks 5th place according to the Guide Passport Ranking Index. It provides visa-free access to 192 countries


Video: Gendered Realities of Mountains
Gendered Realities of Mountains by Priyanka Minj | Life in the mountains isn’t easy. It becomes even more difficult when villages, which are tucked away in huge mountain ranges are left out of the development ambit of a country.
The lack of development in such areas directly impacts the lives of its inhabitants, especially adolescent girls. Poor education infrastructure, healthcare services, road connectivity, and the absence of other basic facilities reinforce the patriarchal practices against these young girls. In Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district, the everyday life of adolescent girls is marred by such realities. Their usual day involves waking up early, helping their mothers with household chores, getting ready for school, and then walking for long hours to reach school. On their return, they have to contribute a couple of hours in cooking, clean and maintain the house. They are hardly able to find time for themselves. On the other hand, boys in their families have all the time on their hands to meet friends, play sports or online games, and have a comfortable sleep.
They are made to believe that this is their fate as a woman and are considered a liability in these families. From a very young age, they are conditioned to believe that it is their duty to compromise and sacrifice for their families. But today, these adolescent girls have started questioning these practices. By working with a non-profit organization, these girls have started believing in their voices. They come together to discuss issues that matter to them the most. They write articles, poems, and stories. With crayons and watercolors, they paint a world of their dreams and desires. A new hope is born every time these girls break their silence and express their opinions.
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Biopharmazeutika are pharmaceutical chemical substances made from living organisms. They can be used for a variety of medical purposes, which include treatment of serious diseases, cancer tumor, and immunology. There are also many applications for biopharmaceutical drugs in the treatment of substance-related disorders. Although their safety and efficacy usually are not well-established, they are expected to become more accessible in the future.
The substances employed for biopharmazeutika are frequently created from bacteria, animal skin cells, or growth elements. One example of an biopharmaceutical is erythropoetin, that has been created using recombinant https://genotec-frankfurt.de/top-5-simple-virtual-deal-software-for-beginners/ GENETICS technology. This drug is essential for individuals that have renal failure. Additional examples of biopharmaceuticals include growth factors and enzymes.
A second method is the genetically transformed Moose. In this method, a plant’s skin cells can produce biopharmaceuticals that simulate the activity of their living alternative. This approach may be a valuable solution just for patients affected by serious diseases. The process is recognized as ‘plant-based biopharmaceuticals’.
Biopharmaceuticals can be either vaccines or drugs manufactured using living organisms. These medicines are set up by small , medium, and enormous pharmaceutical companies. Some of these businesses are subsidiaries of international medication corporations. The ongoing future of biopharmaceuticals is certainly bright. Approximately by 2030, biopharmaceuticals will make up forty five percent coming from all fresh medicine home loan approvals in Indonesia.
The initially commercially-produced biopharmaceutical was real human insulin, produced in E. coli. The next uncovering was the creation of erythropoetin by using recombinant DNA technology. This was a vital step meant for dialysis clients. Other biopharmaceuticals incorporate recombinant antikorper substances, development factors, immuno-botenstoffs, and enzymes.
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Make student goal setting fun with these engaging, hands-on student goal punch cards!
This set includes 10 ready-to-use student writing goal cards, each with a writing goal and success criteria. You will also get a blank template so students can write their own learning goals.
Give your students clear writing goals, each with five success criteria for them to achieve. Once they achieve/demonstrate each success criteria, students can color the ‘tick’ or use a hole punch to clip a hole in their card. Student goals have never been so simple or fun!
Here’s what you’ll get:
- 10 student writing goal punch cards, with writing goals and success criteria/objectives
- 1 add-your-own goal card
- Four cards on each page
- Blackline, ready to print on bright cardstock.
Writing goals included:
- Add-your-own goal
- I can edit my writing
- I can retell a story
- I can recount an event/I can write a personal narrative
- I can write a story
- I can write a narrative
- I can write an information report
- I can write a procedure
- I can write an opinion
- I can write a letter
Your students will love knowing their learning goal and the exact things that they need to do to achieve it! They’ll be checking off the success criteria, monitoring their own learning and actively working towards their learning goal!
The learning goals include text structure, language features and editing steps. They are written in language suitable for younger learners. Need more specific/personal goals? Use the add-your-own goal card!
Prep is quick and easy… Just print the student goal pages on cardstock (white or bright!), trim and give to your students. You can hole punch in the top corner and add some string if you wish.
Once prepped, students punch off their success criteria as they achieve them.___________________________________
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⭐ Student Goal Mat – Train theme.
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WAEC past questions and answers-Mathematics
Here is a comprehensive guide of the past questions and answers on Mathematics from previous years.Our ScholarsArk team have taken their time to pick out questions that students have difficulty in solving all around West Africa.
1(a).Prove that the sum of the angles of a triangle is two-right angles.(b)In a triangle LMN,the side MN is produced to P and the bisector of <LNP meets ML produced at Q.If <LMN=46° and <MLN=80°,calculate <LQN,stating clearly your reasons.(WASSCE JUNE 1988 THEORY)
Construction:Produce /BC/ to X and draw a line parallel to /AB/ through C.
Proof:With the lettering of the figure
c + a2 + b2=180°(sum of angles on a straight line)
c + a1 + b1=180°(sum of angles in a ◬ABC)
A + B + C=180°
(b)In ◬LMN,L + M + N=180°(sum of angles in a triangle)
80° + 46°+ LNM=180°
LNP=LMN + MLN(exterior angle=sum of two interior opposite angles)=80° + 46°=126°
LNQ=QNP(Given that QN is a bisector)
MNQ=LMN + LNQ=54° + 63°=117°
46° + 117° + LQN=180°
LQN=180° – 163°=17°
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As we approach the 4th of July we have every reason to celebrate. This holiday weekend may present us with a day off and an occasion for barbecues and professional fireworks displays, but it is also the 246th anniversary of a great experiment in self-government.
The independence of the United States was something new in world history. On July 4, 1776 the people of the United States set out to form a nation united not by common ancestry, or by one religion, but by the belief that they were in fact created equal. They further set out to prove that human beings are capable of governing themselves though institutions of their own design, without claiming the authority of tradition or inherited power. They trusted in their own ability to balance conflicting interests and negotiate compromise.
In the last 246 years, the United States has endured many bitter conflicts of opinion and overcome many threats to our unity. Today, we again face challenges to our sense of national unity and purpose, but our country has met greater challenges in the past and we have always prevailed, emerging from our struggles with a more expansive vision of our rights and liberties.
So after the trials of the last several years, let’s use this July 4th as an opportunity to reflect on the good fortune we enjoy as the beneficiaries of that great experiment — what Lincoln called the last best hope of earth. We will face our difficulties, as we always have, and we will be better and stronger for it.


Gratitude and appreciation are simple yet important social skills for kids to learn. Kids need learn not only the feel of gratitude, but also the expression of gratitude. There is no better time to practice gratitude skills than in November. Today we share over 50 ideas on family activities of gratitude activities. The best way to learn is to practice them in daily life. They can be small acts, but it is important to start small and it will become a habit for a life time.
50 Ideas to Help Kids Learn Gratitude – An Important Social Skill
Before doing anything, it is important to help kids maintain a gratitude attitude
Then we can start with these 10 gratitude activities for kids, all are simple activities that are easy for kids to do
These kinds of activities are always more fun to do as a whole family. Check 20+ family gratitude activities for ideas.
To go a little beyond, here are 30 Random acts of kindness ideas for kids
What do you do to help kids learn and practice Gratitude?
Looking for more social skill resource? Check out 10 Apps Helping Kids Develop Social and Emotional Skills.
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Thanks! I like these ideas too, and this is a good time to do it.


There are all sorts of stories, theories, and explanations about the creation story in the first couple chapters of the book of Genesis (Bereshet). This post is not addressing any of those. Rather, it is about the comment God makes about making man “in His image.” Besides, even the context of the creation story reveals that we aren’t going to understand it when we think of it from our viewpoint. Think about it. The story starts off with the first few ‘days’ of creation before, but not until on the fourth day are the things that mark passage of day and night, from our viewpoint, first made. That is just food for thought.
Comments and theories abound about what “made in His image” means. Take a look at the comment from God in context. God is creating. Then He rests. He made man with the ability to choose to do the same. We can choose to work for 6 days, and rest on the seventh, in honor of the God who made all things. Mankind is the only creation on earth that can do this. We can set aside the seventh day and honor the creator.
Read the story. Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 to chapter 2 verse 2. After that comes the story of Adam and Eve, but that is not for this post.


You did it. You gave in at the checkout line of Walgreens and purchased your favorite fashion or celebrity magazine. You take all of the quizzes and read the latest news about Kim and Kanye, but while reading these articles, your eyes are feeling a little funny going through the columns of the pages. This feeling is probably due to the rivers running up and down the bodies of text. Rivers only occur when text is incorrectly justified and it makes the text hard to read. This means that the words become unevenly distributed in a paragraph, creating large gaps of white space between them.
Gaps of uneven negative space between words in a paragraph. If there are many of these gaps in the paragraph, it looks like a “river” of negative space flowing through and it makes text hard to read.
A paragraph in which the lines of text are spaced-out so the first word aligns with the left margin and last word with the right margin of the text box. The illustration shows justified text in comparison to left and right aligned text to illustrate the difference.
How to avoid Rivers
As graphic designers, we can easily avoid these rivers by increasing or decreasing the letter spacing between the words when we design infographics, brochures, research reports or other marketing materials. InDesign helps with some of this work if you go into the paragraph settings and edit your hyphenation and justification settings. Adjusting these settings allows justified text to fit together more efficiently, therefore producing fewer rivers. Using just your eyes as a judge of spacing mixed with keyboard shortcuts (ctrl + alt + backslash/backspace) is another technique, but if you want to be a perfectionist, these Indesign settings work really well.
If you don’t have a layout program like InDesign and you are working in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to create your presentation design, brochure or poster, try avoiding narrow text columns when using justified text. You might also consider avoiding justified text completely and left aligning your text. These software programs don’t have great ways to manipulate spacing, unfortunately.
As designers in a small design studio in Boston, we work with adjusting word spacing and working out rivers all the time. If you are new to working with typography it can take a little while to get used to it, but it is worth the time to learn how to improve your text layout. Your readers will notice the difference.


Effective Ways to Create Energy Efficient Office Buildings
The need to create Energy Efficient Buildings cannot be over emphasized. They help reduce the negative impact of the environment and lifestyle as we work. Recently most companies and offices are opting for a green – energy efficient building design.
A ‘green’ building is a building that, in its design, construction or operation, reduces or eliminates negative impacts, and can create positive impacts, on our climate and natural environment. Green buildings preserve precious natural resources and improve our quality of life
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Features which can make a building ‘green’ includes
1. Efficient use of energy, water and other resources
2. Use of renewable energy, such as solar energy
3. Pollution and waste reduction measures, and the enabling of re-use and recycling
4. Good indoor environmental air quality
5. Use of materials that are non-toxic, ethical and sustainable
6. Consideration of the environment in design, construction and operations
7. Consideration of the quality of life of occupants in design, construction and operation
8. A design that enables adaptation to a changing environment
9. Any building can be a green building, whether it’s a home, an office, a school, or a hospital. Green buildings contribute to the overall health and wellness of its users.
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11.18.2020- Laurie Introduces the French Speaking Countries of the World
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French is the second most spoken language in the world after English. If you count the flags on the picture, you will see that French is spoken in 29 countries. It’s the only official language for 13 of these countries, and is the co-official language of the 16 remaining ones. It’s absolutely fascinating to learn about interesting facts about the cuisine, the traditions, the natural resources, the history, and the overall culture of each country as they are all very unique.
During the last two weeks, I searched through the internet and found some interesting facts about each of these “francophone” (French-speaking) countries to educate myself on the diversity of the French-speaking world. Now, I would like to share these facts with you all. For example, did you know that Equatorial Guinea has had the same president since 1979? Or that France has several overseas departments and regions under its sovereignty outside of Europe? Or that Haiti was the first country in the western hemisphere to gain its independence and abolish slavery, in 1804? If you want to read more about those all the French-speaking countries, check out LCLC Peer Tutoring Instagram (@lclc_peer_tutoring)!


Back to School – Ambrosia Apples for Teacher
An apple for the teacher
Will always do the trick
When you don’t know
Your lesson in arithmetic
Giving a teacher an apple is a long-standing tradition but have you ever wondered where it comes from?
Apples have been symbolic of many things in our long storytelling history (remember Adam and Eve!).
The apple plays prominently in Greek mythology. There are apples in the Garden of Hesperides that symbolize knowledge and immortality. Depictions of Venus, the Greek god of love and fertility, often show her holding an apple. And, the battle over a golden apple was ultimately what led to the Trojan war.
Out of this ancient history, apples maintained the enduring symbolism for knowledge. Perhaps that’s why parents who couldn’t afford to pay the teachers chose apples instead of some other fruit. This practice was first recorded in Scandinavian countries where teachers were paid through a barter system that included getting bushels of apples. It was later adopted as a payment program for teachers in rural parts of America when the local government couldn’t afford a teacher’s salary.
While other produce was sometimes used as payment, teachers preferred the apple. Some say it’s because of its symbolism as the fruit of knowledge. Another theory is that apples back then were quite bitter and usually pressed to make hard cider.
As time went on, and teachers started to get paid in real money (not apples), the gift of an apple remained as a token of appreciation or, some might say, a salary bonus.
If you’re going to carry on this tradition, make sure you give them an apple they’ll love. Ambrosia apples have been named best apple in many competitions and are loved by thousands. They’re sweet, crisp, healthy, and will look beautiful sitting on teacher’s desk. It’s a good bet that if Ambrosia isn’t your teacher’s favourite, it’s probably only because they haven’t tasted one yet! And if that’s the case, you get to be the one to teach them something new.


Calculator encrypts entered text by using Vigenère cipher. Non-alphabetic symbols (digits, whitespaces, etc.) are not transformed.
This calculator uses Hill cipher to encrypt/decrypt a block of text.
A1Z26 is very simple direct substitution cypher, where each alphabet letter is replaced by its number in the alphabet.
|Standard Galactic Alphabet decoder|
This online calculator can decode message written with standard galactic alphabet symbols
|Substitution cipher tool|
A tool to encrypt/decrypt messages with a simple substitution cipher given as the key. It is also useful for manual cryptanalysis of a substitution cipher - when you have a message written in the English alphabet partially decrypted with an automatic tool and want to tweak the key.
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This online calculator provides aid in finding Vigenère cipher key if you can guess part of the encrypted text. It just automates some routine calculations, which you would perform manually otherwise.
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Is money pouring out of your home? No, we don’t mean literally, but in the form higher than average energy bills. Poor insulation, insufficient caulking, and inefficient hot water tanks represent just a few of the reasons why you have less money to spend on yourself.
Here are some time-tested tips to lower your energy bills.
Eliminate Costly Drafts
Warm air finds the smallest cracks to escape your home. The loss of heat places more work on your central heating unit, which drives up the price of your monthly energy bills. Materials that include plastic film require little skill to place over your windows to keep the heat inside. Home improvement stores sell the inexpensive draft fighting materials. You should also consider caulking the edges of windows to prevent heat from escaping your home.
Insulate Wall Cavities
According the government, insulated cavity walls can save the average homeowner nearly 160 pounds per year. The cost of cavity wall insulation runs about 500 pounds, which means it takes roughly three years to enjoy a return on your insulation investment. Cavity wall insulation traps heat in larger rooms that typically feel cold due to a lack of insulation.
Why depend on the national grid, when you reap the financial benefits from installing solar panels. Solar panels work with other eco-friendly technology, such as a smart meter, to save the average homeowner more than 250 pounds per year. Instead of paying for energy delivered through the national grid, you create and store your own energy. Solar technology represents one of the most effective ways to save money on your energy bills.
Dress Up Your Water Tank
Slipping a jacket over your water tank reduces the amount of source heat lost to the surrounding cooler air. Water tank jackets improve the efficiency of water tanks, which means you save money. Shoddy water tank insulation means your boiler has to work much harder to generate the same amount of heat. Water tank jackets especially improve the energy delivering performance of water tanks older than 10 years.
Turn Hard Water into Soft Water
If hard water runs through the pipe coils that heat your water, you should consider installing a water softener. The increase in lime scale caused by hard water reduces the efficiency of the boiler and thus, increases the amount you spend on heating bills. Water softeners significantly reduce lime scale, as well as enhance the energy performance of large appliances.


Did you know that physical activity is highly beneficial for improving symptoms of depression, anxiety, and distress across a wide range of adult populations, including people with diagnosed mental health disorders? Yep, that silly looking activity watch you wear religiously may actually be beneficial when it comes to your overall mental health!
In a recent article published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, physical activity was found to be 1.5 times more effective than counseling or medications in managing depression. Higher-intensity exercise with bursts of short and mid duration are more beneficial than exercise of longer duration (I knew it, whew!). However, all types of physical activity and exercise are beneficial, including aerobic exercise such as walking, resistance training, Pilates, and yoga!
Physical activity should be a part of your day-to-day life. It doesn’t matter if you run a marathon or simply spend 15 minutes pumping iron. It all matters, every time you move your body you are “exercising.” Don’t stress about not having “time” in the day for a structured work out. Just move. Spend more time out on the units with your residents and staff, walk around the outside of your building and pull weeds, assess the area for possible hazards (i.e., sidewalk lifting, etc.) and maybe get a little Vitamin D while you are out there! Stay well and stay informed!


This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of learning assessments on education policy and teaching practice across East Africa. The study focuses principally on Uganda, and then considers the experience in Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda to highlight common issues and suggest examples of best practice. It particularly examines national examinations at primary and secondary levels, national sample assessments, citizen-led assessments, donor-led early grade assessments, and regional secondary assessments.
This think piece notes that, in Uganda, a range of assessments of learning provide a detailed, national picture of the performance of the education system. The results show that many students are not reaching expected levels of learning, and this knowledge has informed the education debate. Assessment managers have been less effective at stimulating improvements in education policy or teaching practices to influence learning outcomes. This is due to a range of reasons, including weak school accountability systems, lack of focus on follow-on interventions to act on findings, and limited political engagement.
While highlighting some successes and innovations from across East Africa, the think piece identifies common themes that could inform future developments: the purpose of each assessment needs to be clear and realistic; the main purpose of the assessment needs to drive the frequency and content; national examinations could be used more systematically for school accountability to improve learning outcomes; there needs to be deeper strategic engagement with governments, donors and implementing organisations to act on the findings of assessments; and targeted, ongoing programmes to support teachers are crucial if assessment data is to be used to influence classroom practice.


Fixed oils are oily substances obtained mainly from plant sources. They are produced in various organs of plants. Chemically, fixed oils arc glyceryl esters of various fatty acids. Different fixed oils differ from each other in the types of the fatty acids that form the oil. Chemically, they are similar to fats but differ in their physical state of occurrence. Fixed oils are usually oily liquids and the fats are generally solid or semi-solid substances. Fixed oils are non-volatile in nature and leave permanent translucent greasy spot on paper. Fixed oils are freely soluble in ether, chloroform and light petroleum. They are insoluble in and immiscible with water. Their specific gravity is less than 1.0, as a result of which they Goat on water. Many fixed oils are in use in pharmacy both as pharmaceutic necessities (excipients) and as solvents or carriers of a number of medicinal substances. Many of them also possess medicinal properties, e.g., Castor oil is used in the treatment of a number of diseases.
A representative example of fixed oils has been described below in the form of Monographs.
Oleum Ricini, Ricinus oil
Castor oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Ricinus communis Linn., a small soft tree of the family Euphorbiaceae.
The plant grows abundantly in all tropical countries including Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, other tropical African countries, South American countries and Italy. The oil is produced m most of these countries.
Macroscopical and microscopical characters:
Castor oil is a nearly colourless or pale yellowish, transparent viscous liquid. It has a mild odour and a bland, slightly acrid and unpleasant taste. Its specific gravity varies from 0.958 to 0 969. The oil is freely soluble in ether and chloroform, but sparingly in alcohol. When cooled at 0°C and maintained at that temperature for three hours castor oil remains clear.
Castor oil consists of glycerides of ricinoleic, iso-ricinoleic, stearic and dihydroxysteraric acids.
Castor oil is used as a mild laxative and also as a lubricant.


Graduate Degree Type
Education-Educational Leadership (M.Ed.)
Education Leadership & Counseling
Catherine L. Meyer-Looze
Education has mostly stayed the same since the 19th century, yet students and teachers have changed. Teachers once defined student engagement as the time students spent working on the task assigned. However, today there are many definitions for student engagement; which is correct? Researchers have defined student engagement as anything from "time on task" to seven different levels of engagement (Merwin, 1969, as cited in Trowler, 2010, p. 34; Schlechty, 2011). There is no one standard definition for student engagement. The concern is how educators increase engagement. This project suggests that educators move out of the 19th-century classroom setting and replace it with modern, flexible seating in order to increase engagement. Early studies have shown increases in student engagement when implementing flexible seating.
Phillips, Jacklyn, "Defining and Increasing Student Engagement Using Flexible Seating in Elementary Classrooms" (2023). Culminating Experience Projects. 240.


World Heart Day is considered to be a tremendous platform to raise awareness among the people about heart ailments and CVD (Cardiovascular Disease). It is one of the significant and broad esplanades in the health sector. World Heart Day 2018 is around the corner, a great day to make the people cognizant about their heart and its related diseases.
The theme of World Heart Day 2018 is “My Heart Your Heart” which implies the gesture of taking care of your own heart as well as the hearts of your near and dear ones. This is a special day to focus on the prime attention of each and everyone to acquire the habit of keeping the heart-healthy. On this day numerous healthcare and cardiology experts initiate collective efforts for the better health and functioning of the heart.
We all are well aware that a healthy heart is a key to a long and active life. This day denotes the significance of a happy and healthy heart. World Heart Day is observed globally and annually on September 29. The World Health Foundation tends to plan and organize World Heart Day on this particular day to make people cognizant about CVD which has been emerged as the major cause of from last several years. This particular day promotes preventive actions that can lead to reducing and cutting down the risk of heart diseases.
There are numerous public and private organizations that promote the relevancy and need to celebrate World Heart Day positively. These organizations tend to offer and organize several activities that focus on both the aspects i.e. health and fun at the same time. These organizations pay attention to organizing many fun-filled activities to enhance the involvement of people in performing those activities. The arrangement of fun runs, seminars and medical camps, etc. can be observed on this particular day. The World Health Federation sets up many alarming and significant health events in more than 100 countries. These events include the following tasks and activities:
World Health Organization (WHO) also supports the World Health Federation in booming these activities and tasks.
The major cause of CVD is lack of physical activity and passive lifestyle. One must keep an eye on these signs and symptoms of CVD, stroke, and heart failure.
Let’s take a pledge on World Heart Day 2018 to be more active and eat healthy to maintain a “healthy heart” Initiate regular medical and heart checkups to avoid any hefty disease.
Read also: 28 JULY – World Hepatitis Day


What is recovery & how important is it?
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Recovery is commonly defined as the process of getting better from an illness or otherwise returning to a state of physical and mental health. In some alcohol and other drug treatment settings, the term ‘in recovery’ describes those participating in, or who’ve completed, an abstinence-based treatment program, or those who attend self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. People working in the alcohol and other drug field have different views about the idea of recovery and there is little agreement about what it means and involves or how to assess it. Some question the concept altogether, asking whether it’s a useful way of understanding the experiences of people with an alcohol or other drug addiction, dependence or habit.
The people interviewed for this website express a range of views about the idea of recovery. While many don’t use the term ‘recovery’ to describe their own experiences, most share the view that it usually refers to giving up alcohol and other drugs altogether (see also Changing patterns of consumption), with several adding that it’s a gradual, sometimes lifelong process that requires persistence.
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Why ecology is permanent economy?
Ecology Is Permanent Economy. Explores the nonviolent philosophy and environmental activism of India’s Sunderlal Bahuguna. … James writes that Bahuguna’s work in the Indian independence movement and his admiration for the nonviolence of Gandhi has inspired a vision and mode of activism that deserves wider attention.
What did the word chipko became famous for?
Chipko movement, also called Chipko andolan, nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging.
Which environmentalist is credited for lending the Chipko Movement its slogan ecology is permanent economy?
Sunderlal Bahuguna, a Gandhian activist and philosopher, whose appeal to Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, resulted in the green- felling ban. Mr. Bahuguna coined the Chipko slogan: ‘ecology is permanent economy’.
Why did næss choose the name Deep Ecology for his ecology movement?
Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher and mountain climber, coined the term deep ecology during a 1972 conference in Bucharest, Hungary, and soon afterward in print. He argued that nature has intrinsic value and criticized “shallow” nature philosophies that only value nature instrumentally.
Where did the started Appiko Andolan?
The famous Chipko Andolan (Hug the Trees Movement) of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas inspired the villagers of the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka Province in southern India to launch a similar movement to save their forests.
What do forest bears?
Dhoom Singh Negi, Bachni Devi and many other village women, were the first to save trees by hugging them. They coined the slogan: ‘What do the forests bear? Soil, water and pure air‘. The success of the Chipko movement in the hills saved thousands of trees from being felled.


Review Vocab Quizzes with Quizlet
In this task we ‘crowd-sourced’ definitions and descriptions for a lot of the (lot of) vocabulary we have learned this year. This is to reinforce that Biology is as much a language course as a science course, and that everything is connected.
- Create a google spreadsheet with tabs numbered by subtopics covered
- Assign groups of topics to groups of students, with the simple task:
- First column, keyword, correctly spelled
- Second column: definition (exactly from subject guide if it exists) or clear description
- After groups finish, peer-edit
- Does it make sense? Are there any errors?
- It the definition clear in the ‘wider sense’ of the course?
- Adapt definitions with clarifications, or starters such as ‘process’, ‘structure’, ‘hormone’ etc
In our spreadsheet, we identified 312 terms (and growing) from this year.
In between sessions:
- Check and edit as much as needed/possible
- Import vocab into quizlet to create the set
- Very easy: select columns and paste into the right-hand field
- Make sure ‘tab’ is set, top-left
- Hit ‘import’ if it looks right
- Create quizzes/activities
- Share quizlet codes and spreadsheet URL with students
- Get reviewing!
- Students can review using the Quizlet activities
- Students might use the vocab list to make sure they are meeting markscheme requirements for target language – are they giving complete and correct answers?
- Students can use the vocab as a foundation for concept-maps, model responses etc.
Example (sadly Quizlet doesn’t embed to WordPress.com)
- MrT’s class, Year 1 vocab (student definitions)
If you have any creative – and effective – review methods, let us know in the comments or on Twitter!
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The Office of Environmental Management (EM) facilitates implementation of safe, cost-effective interim and long-term storage, processing and disposition of DOE’s surplus nuclear materials. Surplus nuclear materials are nuclear materials that are excess to national security and have no DOE programmatic use. “Nuclear Material” means any material that is “special nuclear material,” “byproduct material,” or “source material” as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
Some of the surplus non-pit plutonium currently stored at Savannah River Site is being downblended and packaged for shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, N.M., in accordance with both the April 2016 Record of Decision and the August 2020 Amended Record of Decision. (The term “non-pit plutonium” refers to plutonium that is not in the metal pit form that is the core of a nuclear weapon.)
DOE 3013 containers (a nested package of three containers) are used to store surplus plutonium material. Prior to being packaged at various sites across the EM complex, the plutonium is stabilized in accordance with established standards for 50-year safe storage. In accordance with the 3013 surveillance program, nondestructive and destructive examinations of representative 3013 containers are performed to assure the integrity of the containers and their contents.
For additional information, contact Jomaries Rovira, Director of EM’s Office of Nuclear Materials, at email@example.com


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reblogged from Climate Etc.
Undersea volcanoes may be impacting long-term climate change
by Alan Longhurst
I think this paper on on ocean tides, sea-floor volcanoes and Milankevitch cycles is a game changer.
Mid-ocean ridge eruptions as a climate valve
Abstract. Seafloor eruption rates and mantle melting fueling eruptions may be influenced by sea level and crustal loading cycles at scales from fortnightly to 100 kyr. Recent mid-ocean ridge eruptions occur primarily during neap tides and the first 6 months of the year, suggesting sensitivity to minor changes in tidal forcing and orbital eccentricity. An ~100 kyr periodicity in fast-spreading seafloor bathymetry and relatively low present-day eruption rates at a time of high sea level and decreasing orbital eccentricity suggest a longer-term sensitivity to sea level and orbital variations associated with Milankovitch cycles. Seafloor spreading is considered a small but steady contributor of CO2 to climate cycles on the 100 kyr time scale; however, this assumes a consistent short-term eruption rate. Pulsing of seafloor volcanic activity may feed back into climate cycles, possibly contributing to glacial/interglacial cycles, the abrupt end of ice ages, and dominance of the 100 kyr cycle.
M. Tolstoy, Mid-ocean ridge eruptions as a climate valve, doi:10.1002/2014GL063015, Geophys. Res. Lett. 2015 [abstract] [manuscript]
A post at WUWT includes the press release from Columbia University
The AGU also issued a press release [link]


Protests in Zimbabwe – level 2
Police in Zimbabwe fired tear gas and water cannons at a demonstration against President Robert Mugabe. The protesters fought with the police, threw rocks, and set things on fire.
Due to what was happening, the opposition leader left the rally. He later said that he and his opposition are not responsible for the violence.
The protesters said that there are going to be more demonstrations. They are angry at Mugabe over an economic meltdown in Zimbabwe. They want an electoral reform, too.
Ninety-two-year-old Mugabe said that he wants to run for president again in 2018.
Difficult words: rally (political meeting of people), violence (fighting and breaking things), meltdown (collapse), electoral (about the elections – choosing a leader).
You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.
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- Listen to the news from today without reading the text.
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Bipolar disorder research papers point out that the disease affects nearly one percent of the United States population.Since this is such a prolific psychological disorder, bipolar disorder research papers will want to include elements of the disease and its subcategories. Paper Masters writes on all these elements of bipolar disorder when you order a custom research paper.
It is a mood disorder involving degrees of mania as well as depression. It was previously known as Manic-Depression, but the title was misleading, as many people believed it was a form of depression. The name was changed to its current state to reflect that the moods of people who suffer from it fluctuate between the polar opposites of the mood spectrum.Patients are generally diagnosed with bipolar disorder, rather than depression, when they show telltale signs of mania.Bipolar Disorder research papers have been written by psychology experts. We can produce a custom written project following your guidelines.
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During depressive episodes, bipolar individuals can feel sad, lose interest in enjoyable activities, sleeping problems, loss of appetite, thoughts of suicide or death. The degree to which people display these symptoms, as well as the length of the cycles between the symptoms, determines the sub-category of bipolar disorder.
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Music Therapy is the use of music and musical elements to address non-musical goals. No musical ability is needed to participate in Music Therapy!
Music is intrinsically motivating and rewarding, making therapy fun and engaging.
The Seven Domains of Music Therapy:
Music Therapists work within these seven domains to first assess
and then develop specific goals and objectives that are tailored to
each client’s needs.
Goals for the client might also come from information from the family, other therapists, behavioural
consultant, and/or the school’s IEP. The music therapist takes these goals and develops musical
interventions to address them in a fun and engaging way.
Some typical interventions are:
SINGING to improve articulation and intonation
PLAYING INSTRUMENTS to improve fine and gross motor skills
GIVING CHOICES to improve request making
STOPPING and STARTING to improve impulse control and listening skills
RHYTHM to improve patterning and attention span
For More Information About Music Therapy:
Music Therapy Association of BC: mtabc.com
Canadian Association of Music Therapy: musictherapy.ca
Music Heals: musicheals.ca
Music Therapy Fund: musictherapytrust.ca