What are you touching right this moment? How long has it been since you last washed your hands or until you will next wash your hands? Please consider this to be a gentle reminder that germs are EVERYWHERE! By washing hands or hands we play an important role in keeping healthy while also preventing bacteria and germs from spreading on surfaces and from person-to-person. Consider handwashing to be our first line of defense against potentially becoming sick. For many years, I have been an avid advocate for washing hands based upon my own observations of illnesses travelling throughout the classrooms of fellow teacher less vigilant about proper handwashing and sanitizing routines. Keep these expert handwashing tips handy for kids to Splish and SPLATZ clean.
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First Aid Trainings
In case of any accident or life endangerment, the applications that are carried out without medication in order to save the life of the injured person or to prevent the situation from getting worse until the paramedics come to help are called first aid. NO MEDICATION IS USED IN FIRST AID APPLICATION…..!
What is the purpose of first aid?
- To protect and sustain life
- To maintain vital functions
- To prevent the patient’s condition from worsening
- Facilitate your recovery
What should be the characteristics and responsibilities of the first aider?
He should be calm, unhurried, confident, calm the patient, evaluate the environment, determine whether there is a risk due to the ongoing danger, should not endanger his own life safety during the procedure, organize other people to inform the health institutions, fire brigade and security, evaluate the patient’s condition and determine the appropriate should start first aid, ensure that the patient reaches the health institution as soon as possible,
What do first aid basic applications include?
Protection, information, rescue (KBK) are the basic practices of first aid.
Protection: The most important step in protection is to determine the dangers that may occur at the scene and to create a safe environment.
Notification: It is the reporting of the incident or accident to aid organizations as quickly as possible by using communication tools through other persons at the accident site. It is essential to make notifications via the 112 emergency phone number.
Recovery: It should be done quickly, calmly.
First Aid Regulations
As stated in the official gazette dated March 18, 2004 and numbered 25406, the employment of first aid and compulsory first aid is 1 for every 20 personnel employed in all institutions and organizations, and 1 for every 10 personnel for heavy and dangerous works, at least (basic) It is obligatory to have a first aider who has a certificate of first aid training.
Institutions and organizations that do not have a first aider are subject to action in accordance with Article 295 of the General Hygiene Law No. 1593.


Linkin - Blood and Plasma Recipient
Plasma is a vital, nutrient-rich part of blood. Learn more about saving lives through plasma donation.
What’s the plasma donation process? How often can I donate plasma? Find these answers and everything you need to know about volunteering to donate plasma below.
What is plasma?
Plasma is the liquid part of blood that carries proteins, hormones and other nutrients throughout the body.
A healthy supply of plasma in the body ...
- Helps maintain a healthy blood pressure
- Promotes clotting when you get a cut
Nearly 10,000 units of plasma are needed daily in the U.S. - and nearly 4 million a year!
There is no substitute for plasma. It is precious. It is perishable. And the need for it is vital.
Help save lives in your community. Become a volunteer plasma donor today!
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Every day, patients in your community need blood transfusions to survive and thrive. They rely on the generosity of donors like you, who help ensure a safe, healthy blood supply. Make an appointment to donate blood today.
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Blood Donation Locations
Find a Versiti blood donation center and search for a blood drive near you. Make an appointment to donate blood today.
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Blood drive organizations save lives. Learn how to host a blood drive in your community with Versiti.
Importance of Diverse Donors
Diverse blood donations improve blood transfusion outcomes for sickle cell patients and diverse blood recipients. Make an appointment to donate blood.
Whole Blood Donation
Volunteer to donate blood at a blood donation center near you. Find out how often you can donate blood and make an appointment to donate today.
Double Red Cells Donation
Volunteer to donate double red cells at a blood donation center near you. Learn more about donating red blood cells and make an appointment to donate today.
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Publications and Research
How Songbirds Learn to Sing Provides Suggestions for Designing Team Projects for Computing Courses
Understanding how our brain works and how we learn is perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing twenty-first computer science. Songbirds are good candidates for trying to unravel some of this mystery. Over the last decade, a large amount of research has been made to better understand how songbirds learn complex songs. The Canary (Serinus canaria) and the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) have been widely used bird models to study these brain and behavior relationships. Like songbirds, we humans are vocal and social learners. In such learners, the development of communication is initially steered by social interactions with adult tutors. In songbirds, song development is further shaped through interactions with peers and by attending to the consequences of others interacting. In this paper, we review three key areas in a bird’s brain which perform three specific roles (i.e. actor, experimenter and critic). Similarly, there are three roles (i.e. coder, designer and tester) that are being played in software firms for developing products. We can bring the same roles into the computer science classroom by designing a term project which involves students who play these three different roles. We demonstrate our methodology by showing how it works in a senior level computer science course. We then discuss and qualitatively show the benefits of such a role-based project design.
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons
Conference paper presented at ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Fall 2018 Conference, October 26-27th, 2018, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn, New York, New York.
A.Satyanarayana, R.Natarajan, and L.Baron, “How Songbirds Learn to Sing Provides Suggestions for Designing Team Projects for Computing Courses”, ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Fall 2018 Conference, October 26-27th, 2018. https://peer.asee.org/31453


The Forging of a Global OrderEdited by Michael Adas
This volume of essays makes available the essential background information and methods for effective teaching and writing on cross-cultural history. The contributorssome of the most distinguished writers of global and comparative historychart the advances in understanding in their fields of concentration, revealing both specific findings and broad patterns that have emerged.
The cover image, "The Arrival of the Dutch at Patane," from Theodore de Bry, India Orientals, Part VIII (Frankfurt: W. Richteri, 1607) depicts the two key phases of global history that are covered by the essays. Muslim inhabitants of the town of Patane on the Malayan peninsula warily confront a Dutch landing party whose bearing suggests that it is engaged in yet another episode in the saga of European overseas exploration and discovery. The presence of the Muslims in Malaya reflects an earlier process of expansion that saw Islamic civilization spread from Spain and Morocco in the west to the Philippines in the east in the millennium between the 7th and 17th centuries. The Dutch came by sea to an area on the coastal and island fringes of Asia, the one zone where their warships gave them a decisive edge in this era. The citizens of Patane had good reason to distrust the European intruders, since the Portuguese who had preceded the Dutch had used force whenever possible to control the formerly peaceful trade in the region and often to persecute Muslim Peoples.
"This is a very good and useful collection of essays, all of a very high scholarly quality.... (E)xtensive coverage of ethnic and gender issues will enhance its appeal to insturctors." —Craig Lockard, Professor of Social Change and Development, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Critical Perspectives on the Past


Neurophilosophy has just published another wonderfully illustrated article on a key moment in neuroscience: this one focuses on Alois Alzheimer, one of the first to discover the major brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease, and Auguste Deter, the middle aged woman in whom he first detected the pathology now inextricably linked to the disorder.
When in his care, Alzheimer carefully recorded Deter’s clinical symptoms of memory loss, impaired language and confusion, and later, when she died, he looked carefully at her brain during post-mortem.
Using a recently developed staining technique he found abnormal clumps of protein, peppered throughout the brain – which are now known to be amyloid plaques – one of the most recognisable features of the disease.
The article makes the interesting point that Alzheimer did not in fact discover this, but that the name has stuck because the head of the research group, Emil Kraepelin, highlighted the findings under the name ‘Alzheimer’s disease’ to promote the institution.
Although well known in his own right, it is true that Kraepelin gained much reflected glory from promoting the work of Alzheimer.
Unfortunately, Kraeplin’s reputation was to be tarnished by his other all-together less distinguished prot√©g√©, Ernst R√ºdin.
R√ºdin was hired by Kraepelin to study the genetics of mental illness and found evidence of how mental instability could be inherited.
Later, R√ºdin became a key player in drafting the Nazi Law to Prevent Hereditarily Sick Offspring which resulted in the forcible sterilisation of thousands of people with physical disabilities, drug addiction, and mental and neurological disorders.
This was the beginning of what was later to become Action T4 in which thousands upon thousands of people with supposed ‘hereditary defects’ were systematically killed by the Nazis.
Alzheimer’s contribution to neuroscience is thankfully notable for the right reasons, and the Neurophilosophy article is a great tour through his work, notes and original drawings.
Link to Neurophilosophy on ‘Alois Alzheimer’s first case’.


Background: Leeches have gained a fearsome reputation by feeding externally on blood, often from human hosts. Orificial hirudiniasis is a condition in which a leech enters a body orifice, most often the nasopharyngeal region, but there are many cases of leeches infesting the eyes, urethra, vagina, or rectum. Several leech species particularly in Africa and Asia are well known for their propensity to afflict humans. Because there has not previously been any data suggesting a close relationship for such geographically disparate species, this unnerving tendency to be invasive has been regarded only as a loathsome oddity and not a unifying character for a group of related organisms.
Principal Findings: A new genus and species of leech from Peru´ was found feeding from the nasopharynx of humans. Unlike any other leech previously described, this new taxon has but a single jaw with very large teeth. Phylogenetic analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial genes using parsimony and Bayesian inference demonstrate that the new species belongs among a larger, global clade of leeches, all of which feed from the mucosal surfaces of mammals.
Conclusions: This new species, found feeding from the upper respiratory tract of humans in Peru´ , clarifies an expansion of the family Praobdellidae to include the new species Tyrannobdella rex n. gen. n.sp., along with others in the genera Dinobdella, Myxobdella, Praobdella and Pintobdella. Moreover, the results clarify a single evolutionary origin of a group of leeches that specializes on mucous membranes, thus, posing a distinct threat to human health.
This article originally appeared in PLoS ONE, available at DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010057
© 2010 Phillips et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


“Harlem: The Remix” Showcases Student Learning and Creativity
In celebration of Black History Month, students presented a showcase of performances that demonstrated their understanding of the Harlem Renaissance. Students were asked to not only learn about the significant artistic, cultural, and political impact of the era that spanned the 1920s and 1930s, but were also challenged to interpret what the Harlem Renaissance might look like if it took place today. The result was a vibrant presentation that highlighted both history and current-day styles of music, dance, and entertainment.
Throughout the preparations for the show, students discovered the many ways that current trends, aesthetics, and arts are rooted in traditions from the past, and how the arts reflect life at time that they are created in. In addition to sharing readings and songs from notable artists from the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Billie Holiday, students also composed their own original poems, essays, and choreography inspired by the era.
Harlem: The Remix was hosted by 8th grader Angela, who guided the audience through the show by providing additional context and information, introducing the acts, and encouraging the audience to support each act enthusiastically. All students (from both campuses) participated in developing and performing at least one act.
Clips from Harlem: The Remix can be viewed here.


Perhaps you’ve heard the expression, “this is a red letter day?” Where did such a phrase originate and what does it mean? Hi, I’m Tom Ellsworth from Sherwood Oaks Christian Church with a minute message.
Usually a “red letter day” denotes a special event, like a birthday or anniversary. At times it may be a monumental one-time occasion in a person’s life: graduation, wedding, birth of a child or other significant moment. Today, most of us have personal calendars on our computers or smart phones to help us track our schedules. But centuries ago there were not many calendars and the ones that did exist were mostly hand made by scribes in monasteries. These ecclesiastical calendars used a reddish ink to mark the special, holy days on the church calendar. As a result they soon became known as “red letter days.”
Today we still mark our calendars with reminders for those extra special days of the year but let me suggest to you that every day you are alive is special? And while we celebrate certain occasions, one day is not more holy than another because God is present in each one. So live every moment as a gift from God; make every day a red-letter day!


Ehrlichiosis is a blood disorder caused by blood cell parasites called rickettsiae. Of the four different rickettsiae that can cause the disease, Ehrlichia canis is the most common.
Dogs are infected when they are bitten by ticks carrying the rickettsiae or when they receive transfusions of blood contaminated with the rickettsiae. Signs of ehrlichiosis develop within 8 to 20 days.
The acute or early phase of the disease lasts 4 to 6 weeks and is characterized by such signs as weight loss, fever, depression, discharge from the eyes and nose, respiratory problems, and enlarged lymph nodes. Many dogs recover after this stage of the disease. In other dogs, the infection becomes subclinical, lasting months or years. Stress or treatment with various drugs in these dogs may result in severe clinical signs of ehrlichiosis.
Dogs with a mild form of ehrlichiosis may become chronically infected and show depression, weight loss, hemorrhage, fever, and various other organ problems.
Ehrlichiosis is diagnosed by blood tests. The disease is prevented by controlling tick infestation of the dog.
Important Points in Treatment
1. Ehrlichiosis usually can be treated, regardless of the stage of infection. However, the earlier the disease is detected, the more rapid is recovery. Chronically infected dogs may require treatment for several months. Dogs with severe anemia or hemorrhage may require blood transfusions.
2. Repeated blood tests are required during the treatment period.


Root Canal Treatment Procedure
A deep cavity can give bacteria access to the inner nerve bundle. A crack extending into the same region can create stress that will need additional care to relieve. In some cases, a significant infection may develop in your jaw without any symptoms at all. If Dr. Reese and Dr. Harvey determine that the nerve won’t recover or infection is present, then root canal treatment may be suggested.
Modern anesthetics provide powerful numbing for gentle removal of the inflamed nerve inside the tooth. The nerve canal undergoes disinfection and careful shaping, and a sealer fills the internal space. A filling or crown over the tooth helps return the tooth to its original condition.
But Are They Safe?
Internet articles continue to circulate claiming adverse health effects from root canals, despite years of research proving otherwise. Many of these claims rest on unsubstantiated theories put forward decades ago without any scientific basis. They’ve been thoroughly debunked by the most credible sources, supported by unbiased research projects. In fact, one popular Facebook article sounding a false alarm shakily rests on a 100-year-old study tossed aside long ago.
Professional organizations routinely review a broad range of research projects throughout the world. The American Association of Endodontists stays abreast of all the current and past research and can clearly support the safety of this vital service. In fact, new techniques and materials make root canal treatment more successful than ever. However, even older methods still hold a proven track record, allowing millions of damaged teeth to continue functioning.
Dos and Don'ts After Root Canal Treatment
- Brush your teeth and floss twice a day.
- Keep track of the swelling on your tooth post root canal treatment.
- Only eat soft food that’s not harsh on your teeth.
- Take pain relievers as recommended by your attending dentist.
- Don’t chew on the treated tooth until you have a permanent filling or crown.
- Avoid excessively hot or cold beverages until the treatment is completed.
- Don’t eat anything until the numbness in your mouth wears off. You might accidentally bite your tongue or cheek.
- Don’t smoke or drink alcohol while recovering.


DIPLOMA IN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Dynamics in human settlement, demographics, disputes emanating from management of land, social policy dynamics , political and economic power wrangles have created vulnerability to natural as well as man-made conflicts.
It takes a few minutes to bring down developments that have been made over many years. Conflicts if not addressed well can submit an organization, a community or even a country to become dysfunctional and in some cases to total collapse.
Conflicts have either positive or negative consequences and whatever that determines the outcome is the way a particular situation will settled.
Conflicts cannot be eliminated completely, in fact they are likely to reoccur in different ways if not resolved substantively.
This course will benefit learners through changing the common destructive narrative and responses to conflict such as altercation, disagreements, threats, anger and unfair treatment to equipping them with scenarios and explaining how other conflict situations were handled and trying to relate with the same for shorter or long term solutions.
In this course, we would like our learners to see conflict situation as an opportunity of building positive and long term relationships, creating beneficial coalitions, to foster communication and an opportunity to enhance new ideas, as well as laws and institutions for the good of the community involved.
The course also aims at equipping participants with knowledge and skills on how to manage conflict while working cooperatively towards a win/win solution among the conflicting parties.
- Defining conflict.
- Identify assumptions of conflict.
- Styles of conflict resolution
- The role of communication in conflict prevention and management
- Understanding the principles of negotiation
- Understanding mediation, and advocacy
- Effect that power has on conflict resolution.
- Select and apply negotiation, mediation, and advocacy skills in a variety of social work contexts,
- Strategy for continuous conflict management.
This course is offered through distance learning.
Course Period: Six Months ( Course starts 1st of Every Month)
Course Levels: Diploma in Conflict Management
Course Amount USD 800
Course participants will strengthen their skills through practical exercises based on their day to day work experiences.
To register for this course, kindly contact:
The Training Manager


There are a few reasons why words might be stressed in a guided reading book. First, the author may want to emphasize a certain word or concept for the reader. Second, the vocabulary in the book may be challenging, and stressing certain words can help the reader understand and remember them. Finally, the book may be geared towards a certain reading level, and stressing words can help the reader read at a comfortable pace.
Other related questions:
What are the challenges of guided reading?
One challenge of guided reading is making sure that all students are engaged and on task. It can be difficult to keep everyone focused, especially if there are students who are struggling or who are not interested in the material. Another challenge is making sure that the material is at the appropriate level for all students. If the material is too difficult, students will become frustrated and disengaged. If the material is too easy, students will become bored.
What is a disadvantage of guided reading?
Guided reading can be quite time-consuming, and it may not be possible to cover all the material that you would like to.
What are the structures for guided reading?
There is no one answer to this question since there is no one right way to do guided reading. However, some possible structures for guided reading include:
-Whole group: The teacher leads the guided reading lesson with the entire class.
-Small groups: The teacher works with a small group of students while the rest of the class works on independent activities.
-One-on-one: The teacher works with a single student on reading skills.
What makes a good guided reading session?
A guided reading session should be well-organized and provide opportunities for students to practice reading skills and strategies. The session should also be interactive, so that students can ask questions and get feedback from the teacher.
- Guided Reading Indicators – Scholastic
- Stop Trying To Fit Everything Into Your Guided Reading Lesson
- What is Guided Reading? – Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Blog
- 5 Mistakes I’ve Made When Teaching Guided Reading


Oil seed rape brassica napus has become increasingly common in Pembrokeshire. Bees love it and will take themselves to a field 3 miles away in preference to closer forage. But the honey produced can be a problem for the beekeeper who isn’t aware of its properties, the main one being to granulate rapidly in the comb making it impossible to extract. To find out more I spoke to Geoff Bazin, who as a former Essex beekeeper had plenty of experience with OSR and provided the following advice.
“Be prepared to extract the honey from OSR as soon as the nectar flow from it has stopped, when the flowers are dropping. The bees may become more aggressive with the loss to them of this source. Extraction should take place before the cells have been sealed. Test the ripeness of the honey by shaking in a downward movement with the comb face down over the hive. If very little nectar is shaken out the honey should then be extracted as soon as possible. The honey will granulate if the supers are left in a shed for a couple of days for example.”
[Editors note: Once extracted the honey can be stored in honey buckets but will become viscous and will not pour. But the honey can be returned to a runny state state by stirring it using a clean paint mixing paddle run at low speed in a power drill.]
“If OSR honey has granulated in the comb it cannot be extracted. If this happens you have two options:
- To recover the wax and honey – Cut out the comb and melt it down in a container over boiling water – wax being of course flammable. The honey and wax will separate when cooled. The honey is second grade having been heated and is only suitable for cooking (not a bad thing!). The frames can be boiled to clean them.
- To reuse the comb but lose the honey – Score the surface of the cells so the honey is visible. The metal uncapping fork is the best tool for this. Soak the frames in water for a few days. Ideally starting at hand heat. Agitate the frames from time to time until the honey has dissolved. The water with the dissolved honey is then discarded. The frames can be put back in the hive for the bees to clean up and use. Granulation can occur if honey is stored in the frames as a result of residues of the OSR crystals in the cells.”


Students will be able to read, understand, and identify the components of dramas.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
Ask students to think about how actors and actresses know what to say when they are on stage or filming.
Give students time to think independently, and instruct them to turn and talk to a partner about their thoughts. Call on nonvolunteers to share what they discussed with their partners.
Write the word script on the board, and share that a script is the written text of a play, movie, or television show. Point out that the actors and actresses practice their lines beforehand, and they have them memorized. Ask students to raise their hands if they have ever had to memorize lines for a play.
Go over the learning objective for today's lesson, and tell students that they will be reading scripts, but that they will not need to memorize their words.
Give students access to reference materials in their home language (L1) to look up terms, such as actor, actress, script, and play.
Pair students with a supportive peer or an EL with the same home language, if possible.
Define memorize with a student-friendly definition, and provide an example of a time when you would memorize something.


February is not just about Valentine’s Day, but is American Heart Month! Dedicate yourself this year to a healthy happy lifestyle that you can share with your loved ones all the months of the year.
Pregnancy can be exciting, but it also can be stressful for a mother-to-be and her loved ones. WiRED International’s latest health education module introduces key health issues related to pregnancy.
Climate change, yellow fever in Brazil, this year’s severe influenza season, a newly released module on postpartum depression — these are all topics of recent stories posted on WiRED International’s website.
The Medical Journal of Southern California Clinicians (MJSCC) recently published an article titled, “The Importance of a One Health Perspective in a Changing Environment.” The MJSCC article is co-authored by WiRED International Director Gary Selnow, Ph.D.; Western University professor and WiRED board member, Miriam Othman, M.D., M.P.H.; and Western University professor, Malika Kachani, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Yellow fever is a potentially deadly viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes, and endemic in tropical areas of Africa and Central and South America.
Misinformed people in Brazil are shooting and beating howler monkeys out of fear of yellow fever transmission, according to a CNN report. But it is mosquitoes alone that transmit the virus to both monkeys and humans.


This is not exactly a pure Earth Science question but I'm not sure GIS SE is a suitable place either.
"The Google" suggested I watch CBS Sunday Morning's The debate over the geographical center of North America and I complied.
The video explains that Rugby North Dakota (48.37 N, 99.99 W) was determined to be the "geographic center" of North America by balancing a cutout of the continent on a pin.
This method weights each point by its vector to the center; a point twice as far will be weighted twice as much.
The second determination was done in a bar by utilizing the well known standard string, globe and beer methodology. It was found to be inside Hanson's bar itself in Robinson North Dakota (47.14 N 99.78 W).
The third determination was done using a personal computer and google maps> perimeter coordinates2:
Professor Peter Rogerson1 took latitudes and longitudes from all around the edges of North America, and plugged those coordinates into a special algorithm that he designed, to find the center.
”You have to take into account that the Earth’s surface is curved, and you want to find that balance point in a proper way.
This turns out by sheer coincidence to be near Center North Dakota (47.12 N, 101.30 W)!
So back to the balance point with it's vector distance from center weighting.
- When finding the geographic center of a continent is balance point the accepted method?
- Is this mathematically equivalent to finding the centroid?
- "bonus points" how did Rogerson convert a perimeter to a balance point? Has this been published?
1Peter A. Rogerson, Department of Geography, State University of New York Buffalo
2hat tip to @EarlGray for their very helpful comment!


The Child's Changing Consciousness and Waldorf Education
The Foundations of Waldorf Education
THE FIRST FREE WALDORF SCHOOL opened its doors in Stuttgart, Germany, in September, 1919, under the auspices of Emil Molt, the Director of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company and a student of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science and particularly of Steiner's call for social renewal.
It was only the previous year — amid the social chaos following the end of World War I — that Emil Molt, responding to Steiner's prognosis that truly human change would not be possible unless a sufficient number of people received an education that developed the whole human being, decided to create a school for his workers' children. Conversations with the Minister of Education and with Rudolf Steiner, in early 1919, then led rapidly to the forming of the first school.
Since that time, more than six hundred schools have opened around the globe — from Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, Norway, Finland and Sweden to Russia, Georgia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Israel, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Japan, etc. — making the Waldorf School Movement the largest independent school movement in the world. The United States, Canada, and Mexico alone now have more than 120 schools.
Although each Waldorf school is independent, and although there is a healthy oral tradition going back to the first Waldorf teachers and to Steiner himself, as well as a growing body of secondary literature, the true foundations of the Waldorf method and spirit remain the many lectures that Rudolf Steiner gave on the subject. For five years (1919-24), Rudolf Steiner, while simultaneously working on many other fronts, tirelessly dedicated himself to the dissemination of the idea of Waldorf education. He gave manifold lectures to teachers, parents, the general public, and even the children themselves. New schools were founded. The movement grew.
While many of Steiner's foundational lectures have been translated and published in the past, some have never appeared in English, and many have been virtually unobtainable for years. To remedy this situation and to establish a coherent basis for Waldorf education, Anthroposophic Press has decided to publish the complete series of Steiner lectures and writings on education in a uniform series. This series will thus constitute an authoritative foundation for work in educational renewal, for Waldorf teachers, parents, and educators generally.


Project Risk, Uncertainty, and Decision Analysis
This course deals with estimation under uncertainty through probabilistic estimation. We focus on identifying the key manageable parameters; thereby, helping professionals become proficient estimators and communicators of the main drivers of project value for more responsible characterization and valuation.
|Who Should Attend:||engineers, planners, commercial team members and geoscientists who are charged with creating value beyond an exploration discovery or for conventional reservoir development projects|
Focus areas covered:
- Fundamental Concepts of Dealing with Uncertainty, which begins with applying statistics as a language for understanding and communicating uncertainty, followed by instruction in dealing with uncertainty through better estimating practices
- Petroleum EUR and Production Forecasting, which are cornerstones to project economic valuation
- Economic Valuation and Value of Information assessments, which are central to all decisions we make in our projects. Included are fundamental concepts of identifying key drivers of economic uncertainty. Decision tree concepts, incorporating Bayesian techniques are covered with several practical examples.
The course (1) uses realistic games and exercises to illustrate principles and mechanics of good estimating; (2) illustrates analytical procedures used to identify, quantify, and manage the uncertainty and risk associated with modern petroleum field development and production; and (3) identifies the flaws and unintended consequences of many procedures currently used for estimating field production. The outline below illustrates why this is the course to help increase the probability of achieving “stretch” reserve and production targets.
Distributions and Dependency
Dealing with Uncertainty
Decision Trees – Introduction
|Day 2:||Petroleum EUR Uncertainty
Chance of Project and Geological Success
|Day 3:||Economic Valuation and Aggregation
Value of Information -Perfect and Imperfect


There is considerable debate among physicians as well as patient groups regarding the presence or absence of all of this so-called “gluten sensitivity”. Despite the fact that an entire industry has exploded, restaurants itemize “Gluten Free” on their menus, and patients swear that avoiding wheat and forms of gluten makes them feel better, many physicians refused to acknowledge this medical condition in the absence of a specific laboratory test indicating celiac disease. Now the argument has been settled that in fact there is a large fraction of patients with wheat intolerance that has little to do with a specific immune reaction to gluten. Many indigestible carbohydrates – so-called “fructans” — contained in larger quantities in certain foods cause an undue amount of fermentation that causes gas that stretches the bowel and causes pain. The FODMAPS diet pioneered by Dr. Peter Gibson, an Australian, is helpful for many of these people, and now studies seem to indicate that many gluten-intolerant people actually suffer from this type of indigestion. Basically, the gluten-free crowd has been instinctively correct for many years. Imagine that.
Also, there is much more scientific fact now behind the concept of a “leaky gut” in which some components of wheat and certain other food seem to make the intestine more permeable to substances that can induce inflammation systemically. Dr. Armen Alaedini at Columbia University Medical School has effectively proven this now. So, in polite medical company, “leaky gut” should no longer produce eye rolling dismissiveness and should be acknowledged in physician’s medical notes and records.


By: McKenzie Wickham
Many children may have a difficult time identifying feelings and verbalizing their emotions to an adult, such as anger, sadness, or frustration. The Zone Of Regulation can assist children with identifying their emotions and how they are feeling by simply identifying a correlated color.
By: Diana Chase
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Manole COJOCARU – Department of Physiology and Immunology, “Titu Maiorescu” University, Faculty of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania
As known, vaginal microbiota is crucial for women’s health. Host–microbiome interac- tion is critical for numerous essential host functions. The composition of the vaginal mi- crobiota changes throughout a woman’s lifetime from birth, through puberty, reproductive
age and menopause.
The vagina contains a number of immune-related cells and receptors to help sense the microbial environment. Vaginal microbiota differs within individuals and between human populations. More than 50 microbial species have been described in the vaginal tract, do- minated by Lactobacillus species (70% of the total). Daily fluctuations in the composition of the vaginal microbiota have been previously documented by microscopy and cultivation
The vaginal microbiota is unique in that in many women it is most often dominated by Lactobacillus species. Therefore, vaginal bacteria, including species of Lactobacillus, can reduce or increase susceptibility to infectious agents.
The vaginal microbiota in combination with other factors is associated with adverse re- productive and obstetric outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to assess the interactions between the cervicovaginal microbiota, genital immunology.
cervicovaginal microbiome, lactobacillus, mucosal immunology, probiotics
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Action Learning for a more participatory democracy
The use of action learning sets or other forms of group based learning, in a structured way (e.g. 6 sessions of 6-7 people) working collectively to solve challenges in a supportive ongoing way extends the existing mentorship program. It's been used in different contexts (see "Getting to Grips with Power" at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/286043156.pdf and "Developing Citizen Leaders through Action Learning"). Another approach has been the use of social learning leadership communities (see https://wenger-trayner.com/resources/leadership-groups-for-social-learning/). Could be themed, maybe recorded, to instill the culture and share experiences of collective learning. At its most radical could be like Extinction Rebellions affinity groups: (see https://extinctionrebellion.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/XR-Affinity-Group-Pack.pdf). Cost estimate: $10,000 Original idea: https://participate.peoplepowered.org/processes/budget/f/1/proposals/47
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Five is a Magic Number
I am always amazed at how many put downs our kids hear in a day – often followed by “just kidding” (or jk) as if that makes it all better. Negativity – even when constructive and well-intentioned – comes from so many places in a child’s day – coaches, friends, school, media, snaps, texts, comments, and sometimes, even family.
There is a lot of research around the impact of “words.” In fact, research shows it takes five positive affirmations to balance one negative comment. And, while that’s an important finding for all of us, it’s particularly important for our kids’ confidence and self esteem. In other words, five is our magic number.
At YSSC, we call this speaking words of life. “Words of Life” – a term coined by our good friend Tommy Nixon, CEO of Urban Youth Workers Institute – are designed to affirm, to include, to acknowledge, to praise, to challenge, and even to surprise and delight a camper when they think no one else is looking.
At camp, speaking words of life might look something like this:
- I’m so glad you came to camp! We’ve been waiting for you!
- I am proud of your persistence today.
- Thank you for being my new friend.
- I like how you laugh (or share or listen or never gossip)
Remembering The Power of Five
Speaking words of life to your kids at home requires nothing more than a little practice and self discipline. Words are powerful – and while negative words may tear down, think of what the power of five positive ones can do to build up. Use C.A.M.P. as your guide!
- Catch them doing something good
- Affirm their successes
- Make them stronger by speaking your family’s own words of life to them everyday
- Praise persistence and practice daily


A staggering 60 percent of the meat consumed in 2040 will not come from dead animals, according to a new report.
The report, by global consultancy AT Kearney, predicts that 35 percent of meat will be lab-cultured and 25 percent will be vegan alternatives.
Animal welfare and the planet
These predictions were based on interviews with experts, who cited environmental impact and animal welfare concerns as reasons behind the growing interest in alternative protein.
“The large-scale livestock industry is viewed by many as an unnecessary evil,” the report says. “With the advantages of novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat over conventionally produced meat, it is only a matter of time before they capture a substantial market share.”
AT Kearney predicts that cultured meat will become more popular than meat alternatives in the long run, because of its ability to mimic conventional meat more closely – though it does concede there are likely to be regulatory issues in the short term.
Lab cultured meat – best known as clean meat – is not vegan, as it currently uses cells from animals. Some scientists also use a bovine growth serum – though there are companies working on making the tech animal-free. Some vegans support clean meat because of its potential to dramatically reduce the number of animals slaughtered.
Talking about the rise of vegan meat alternatives, the report says: “No animal ingredients are required as these products are completely made of plant-based inputs Nevertheless, their sensory profile gets a lot closer to meat than classic vegan meat replacements.
“The main reason for the improved sensory profile is a sophisticated production process with the use of hemoglobin and binders, extracted via fermentation from plants, which imitates the sensory profile of meat and even blood to complete the meat-like experience.
“Start-ups in this field, such as Impossible Foods, Just, and Beyond Meat, evolved around 2010 and have received substantial financing (totaling around $900 million up to 2018). Their products are already available in restaurants and supermarkets in several countries.”


Streamlining the manufacturing process of an automotive plant or ensuring that workflows in hospitals and surgical facilities stay protected and cost-effective are just a few methods industrial engineers combine systems pondering, practical drawback-solving and advanced technical expertise. A lot of our college students are awarded a Six Sigma Green Belt certification (an trade-acknowledged high quality control program that utilizes process-enchancment methods) by achieving a minimum grade of B in our statistics programs. The Industrial Engineering Technology BS degree program of Kennesaw State College has a mission to offer undergraduate education in industrial engineering technology related fields to serve the manufacturing and repair industries.
The Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering is a 5-year degree program designed to organize students for becoming professional Industrial Engineers. Use this engineering profession recommendation and put the best practices mentioned here into action. Industrial engineers persistently analysis the interior workings of techniques to maximise efficiencies in manufacturing.
Industrial engineers enhance quality and productivity while on the same time reducing waste like time, materials, cash, and vitality. What They Do : Industrial engineers devise environment friendly programs that integrate staff, machines, supplies, data, and energy to make a product or present a service.
Engineers not solely must be good at drawback solving, but additionally they must have effective technical abilities, and effectively developed communication skills. Industrial engineers examine how employees perform their jobs, the purpose is to scale back the time it takes to carry out a sure job and redistribute work in order to require fewer staff for a given process.
An industrial engineer holds a very important position within the transformation of the technologies to be used within the Trade 4.zero period together with in area of Change Management, Services Design and Evaluation, Product Development, Simulation Built-in Manufacturing, Human Machine Interactions, Enterprise Intelligence, Large Information Analytic, Provide Chain Administration and Efficiency Engineering.


The built environment is a foundation of modern society but comes high cost in terms of the emissions associated with its construction and use. Although cement, steel and plastic are integral materials in this space, they have high levels of embodied emissions due to the use of fossil fuels in their production. If the world is to achieve net zero emissions it will be essential to find new ways to produce these materials.
Why this research is valuable
Under this pillar, the NZI brings together experts from Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Nano, and Architecture. Together they are developing pathways to sustainable Net-Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) and construction via the application of circular economy principles. For example, they are exploring strategies that keep resources in use for as long as possible, which could cut associated emissions by up to 70%. This multi-disciplinary approach is helping Australia’s building and construction industry transition to the Net Zero future.
Circular Economy - Research themes
- Exploring people-centric, circular eco-design by looking at principles and standards to support design objectives and transformative solutions for architecture and construction.
- Fast-tracking the use of advanced manufacturing technologies in design and construction of buildings and other built environment elements. This research focuses on incorporation of recycled and waste materials in additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies at scale for buildings and construction.
- Maximising reuse in the construction industry, with a focus on finding the lowest energy processing pathways to resource and circulate materials for beneficial reuse in buildings and construction.


High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is good for you. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is not. Lipitor is a drug used by doctors to lower a patients LDL level, but this does not affect the level of HDL in the body. The first drug intended to increase HDL levels in the body, torcetrapib, has had a successful trial in 19 human subjects, resulting in a 100 percent increase in some patients. Torcetrapib acts just like a genetic defect found in some people with exceptional life longevity. It specifically reduces a protein in the body that converts HDL to LDL.
Let us pause and appreciate this current moment. Scientists continue to explore the relationships between genes, proteins and the various life processes. With this new foundation of knowledge, they are fiddling with our biological mechanisms. Torcetrapib has joined the ranks of possible life extension drugs. Lifeline Nutraceuticals is preparing to market ProtandimT this fall. Technicians are developing better tools for the scientists to use in their research. There has literally never been such a flurry of activity in medical research in human history and the level of activity is likely increasing exponentially.
There are still years to go before we understand even the tip of the iceberg of human biology. While this knowledge base grows, new drugs will be tested and we will see an incremental increase in human life expectancy. Over time new, more efficient drugs will be created, relationships between these drugs used together will be charted, and technological enhancements to the biological body will be introduced. Interestingly enough, such profound change will not take centuries, but just a few decades. At this current moment you live in the most significant period in human history, no hyperbole intended.


Family-centered practice is a way of working with families, both formally and informally, across service systems to enhance their capacity to care for and protect their children. It focuses on children's safety and needs within the context of their families and communities and builds on families' strengths to achieve optimal outcomes. Families are defined broadly to include birth, blended, kinship, and foster and adoptive families.
This section addresses key elements of family-centered practice and provides overarching strategies for family-centered casework practice across child welfare service systems that focus on strengths, engage families and involve them in decision-making, advocate for improving families' conditions, and engage communities to support families. Strategies for creating a family-centered agency culture are also addressed.
Philosophy and key elements of family-centered practice
Presents the underlying values and principles of family-centered practice, as well as key elements of providing family-centered services.
Family-centered practice across the service continuum
Describes how a family-centered approach can be used across the child welfare service continuum—from preventing and responding to child maltreatment and supporting and preserving families to out-of-home care, permanency, and adoption.
Focuses on understanding, engaging, and partnering with families, including children, youth, and fathers and paternal family members, in child welfare services.
Family-centered casework practice
Offers resources and information about a family-centered approach to casework practice that focus on assessment, case planning and management, working with and advocating for families, providing culturally competent services, and training.
Family Centered Treatment
Follows a home-based family therapy model that is evidence based to support traumatized youth and families exposed to child welfare, mental health, and the juvenile justice system.
Family group decision-making
Provides resources and information about a participatory approach to decision-making in which family members are brought together with a facilitator to make decisions about how to best care for their children and develop a plan for services.
Engaging communities to support families
Explores how to engage community members to support children, youth, and families.
Creating a family-centered agency culture
Discusses system reforms and other efforts to create a family-centered agency culture.


Studying unusual processes of how ice accumulates below ice shelves here on Earth could hold lessons for the exploration and habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa.
In a new study, researchers studied two types of underwater snow found on Earth as an analog for understanding how Europa's shell thickens from below. Frazil ice forms in supercooled water columns and floats upward to accrete onto the bottom of ice shelves, while congelation ice grows directly from under the ice shelf. Intriguingly, the researchers determined that ice formed by these processes retains just a fraction of the salt from the water from which it formed. Frazil ice retains just 0.1% of the ocean's salinity and could be common on Europa, according to the study, suggesting that Europa's ice shell could be orders of magnitude purer than previous estimates.
"When we're exploring Europa, we're interested in the salinity and composition of the ocean, because that's one of the things that will govern its potential habitability or even the type of life that might live there," the study's lead author Natalie Wolfenbarger, a graduate student researcher at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, said in a statement.
Related: NASA spacecraft snaps gorgeous new photo of Jupiter's moons Io and Europa
The new information may be of great value in informing upcoming exploration of Europa. NASA's Europa Clipper mission is expected to launch in 2024 and arrive at the icy world in 2030, and the level of salt trapped in the ice can affect what and how deep the radar on the spacecraft will be able to see into the ice shell. Getting a good idea about the crust's composition before arrival will help scientists make sense of the data after the spacecraft gets to work.
Europa is one of Jupiter's four large moons, or Galilean satellites, and is roughly the size of the Earth's moon. While it has a rocky mantle much like Earth's, scientists believe that Europa's mantle is surrounded by a hidden ocean of water and ice between 50 and 105 miles (80 and 170 kilometers) thick.
Previous studies suggest the temperature, pressure and salinity of Europa's ocean nearest to the icy crust is similar to that found beneath an ice shelf in Antarctica.
The paper was published in the August edition of the journal Astrobiology.
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The 21st century ushered in various forms of technological innovation, which has made life easier for people. Some persons believe
advanced gadgets contribute to the widening gap between the rich and the poor while others opined that the reverse is the case.
essay will look at
sides of the argument.
Advent of different types of technologies in various spheres of human lives has gone a long way in the betterment of living conditions for
the affluent and the less privileged.
, Computers do not discriminate between its users and does not classify individuals into social strata. It receives commands from
the wealthy and the poverty stricken as long as you know the right command to key in
showing that the benefits of scientific innovations are available for use by
the rich and the poor.
advanced equipment abound for utilization by the residents of every society, these technological inventions might not be readily accessible to certain members of the populace due to the expenses needed to procure them.
, a man from the lower social class who cannot feed himself three times daily will not invest in a computerized wristwatch even when the advantages of the latter are numerous while a person at the top of the ladder of economic success can afford to have a garage full of sophisticated cars and motorcycles not minding the cost of buying them. A man walking down the street without a means of transportation and another who drove past in a Ferrari are definitely not on the same rung of the economic ladder.
is an aspect in which it can be noted that technology
widens the gap between the poor and the rich.
In conclusion, I believe the pros of technological advancement far outweighs the problems of widened space between the people of lesser and higher means.
, I think its sustenance should be encouraged and the government can provide subsidies on the price of these advanced
it easily accessible for the poor and
can help to close up
invisible gap between different social strata.
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A Monument for Bessie Smith
- Published: Friday, January 31 2020
- Written by Diversity Richmond
Blues-singing empress Bessie Smith was tragically killed in a car crash on September 26, 1937 – leaving behind her soulful voice on over 160 recordings.
Her funeral was attended by thousands of grieving fans, yet her grave remained unmarked until 1970. That year, Juanita Green of Philadelphia and Janis Joplin – a well-known singer herself – secured a marble gravestone to memorialize Bessie.
In Bessie Smith's biography by Jackie Kay, she wrote that Joplin had always been a great admirer of Bessie Smith, which had a profound influence in Joplin's music.
As fate would have it, Joplin herself died less than two months after her benevolent deed, on the 33rd anniversary of Bessie Smith's funeral.
This Rainbow Minute was read by Giz Bowe.
“The Rainbow Minute” is produced by Judd Proctor and Brian Burns and can be heard every weekday at 3:59am, 7:59am, 9:59am, 12:29pm and 2:59pm on WRIR – 97.3fm in Richmond, Virginia, and webcast at wrir.org. It’s also heard internationally on over 200 stations.


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Heroin is an extremely addictive Opioid drug that is synthesized from Morphine. Heroin can be snorted, smoked, or injected and usually comes in a white or brown powder substance. It is estimated that almost 1/4 of all people who use Heroin once become addicted. Teen Heroin Abuse is a growing danger in our youth. The image of a listless young heroin addict collapsed in a filthy, dark alley is obsolete. Today, the young addict could be as young as 12 years old, play video games and enjoy the music of his generation. They can appear smart, stylish and bear none of the common traces of heroin use, such as needle marks on their arms. Because it is available in various forms that are easier to consume and more affordable, heroin today is more tempting than ever. The number of teenagers aged 12 to 17, who used heroin at some point in their lives has increased by 300%. A young person who might think twice about putting a needle in his arm may more readily smoke or sniff the same drug. But this is falsely reassuring and may give one the idea that there is less risk. The truth is, heroin in all its forms is dangerous and addictive. This program helps teens recognize the conflicts and stresses they may face and the ways to deal with stress and tough situations by developing healthy habits, making the right choices, the consequences of making the wrong choice, so they become empowered to make the right decisions. It delivers an unforgettable message that will make teens reconsider their first or next high and how addiction can happen to anyone. It reminds teens, there is no cure for addiction. Student Discussion Includes: Why is Heroin and Opioid use so prevalent with todays youth? Why would a teen choose to take Heroin in the first place? What does Heroin look like? What are some of the street names for Heroin (junk, skag, smack, thunder)? What does Heroin do to your brain? Does alcohol, synthetic drugs or oxycodin lead to Heroin use? Where do teens find Heroin? What is chipping? What are some of the changes in behavior that may indicate a teens dependence on Heroin? What are some of the short term and long term effects of using Heroin? Is Heroin addiction treatable?


Immunology is the study of the human body’s built-in defense mechanisms against invasion by microorganisms, which collectively form the immune system. The immune system is made up of organs, cells, and molecules that protect the body from foreign invaders such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites that cause infection and disease. When the immune system is defective, it can fail to protect against even minor infections, or result in attacking the body’s own healthy tissue, and prove fatal. The immune system can also over-react to harmless environmental compounds leading to hypersensitivity.
Carter Immunology Center (CIC) investigators conduct cutting-edge research to better understand how the immune system functions to protect against infection and cancer, and how dysfunction of the immune system leads to chronic inflammatory diseases including asthma, allergy, autoimmunity, and cardiovascular disease. Our investigators use a variety of animal and human model systems to answer fundamental questions in immunology:
- What processes control the development and function of the innate and adaptive immune response?
- What signals are activated in the immune system by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and tumors? How do these signals determine the quality and function of the immune response?
- Why is the immune system unable to control certain pathogens and tumors? What can we do to augment immune control?
- How does the immune system maintain tolerance to the body’s own tissue to prevent autoimmune disease?
- Why is an immune response triggered to harmless non-self molecules from other humans in transfusion and transplantation?
- How does the immune system over-react to harmless compounds leading to asthma and allergy?
- What are the mechanisms underlying chronic inflammation that are involved in cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis?
- How do commensal microbes influence the immune response to tumors?


Bali’s earliest inhabitants have been traced back as far as 2000 BC but it was Indian and Chinese influences along with Hinduism in the 1st century AD that created the lasting cultural milieu that is so iconic of Bali today. Despite the overwhelming adaption to tourism the Balinese have maintained their age-old culture for the last 1,000 years and their colourful religious displays and processions have become a major tourist attraction.
One of the most popular cultural sites on Bali is the Tanah Lot Temple that sits on a large rock just offshore in the Tabanan regency. Founded in the 16th century by Dang Hyang Nirartha to appease the Sea Gods, this temple is one of Bali’s largest tourist draws. Tide erosion has meant that access is restricted to local deities but both the site and the amazing sunsets produce a remarkable spectacle.
Perched on a cliff top overlooking the Indian Ocean, Pura Luhur Uluwatu is considered an architectural wonder. Built in large part of black coral rock the temple is one of the 8 Kahyangan Jagat holy temples that are spread across the island. From here a magnificent view of the South Western Bali peninsula can be had.
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I. Introduction Computer graphics has been in used inpeople’s lives already for decades. In the present, it is almost impossible toimagine an architect, engineer, or interior designer who could work without agraphics workstation. During the last few years, there has been a rapid and momentousdevelopment of technology that requires faster and better computer equipment. Virtualreality gives possible for every user to move into the artificial world.
Virtual Realitydefinition Virtual reality is an artificialenvironment which is typically related to computer technologies that use software togenerate the realistic images, sounds and other sensations that replicate areal environment. There is possibility for use virtual reality with computer or forexample with smartphone and basically experienced through two of the fivesenses – sight and sound. But if we will use special moving platforms, someadditional windmill, smell and similar, then we can experience virtual realitywith our five senses.
How we can use Virtual Reality in our normal life? Virtual Realitygives us a lot of possibilities. It not only to helps us to explore completelydifferent worlds from which we currently live, as for example in games where wecan feel even more like we are part of this artificial world. Virtual Realityis also use for training new skills and also can helps us enhance and plan foroperations. The good example for using virtual reality is Air Force trainingfor new pilots. It gives possibility to save money and is safer.
There is a lot of things which wecan do with Virtual Reality. In upcoming years, we can expect a significantgrowth in the popularity of Virtual Reality, as well as the rapid developmentof this technology. The prognoses says that Virtual Reality will bring up to2.
300 Million US Dollar with even the doubled sales in the years 2017 (“VirtualReality – Prognose zum Umsatz weltweit bis 2018 | Statistik,” n.d.). OculusRift selled 60.
000 DevKid1s (Vrland, n.d.) and 45.000 DevKids2 until July 1st2014 (cybereality, 2014), which indicates that the market is growing and more peopleare becoming interested in and aware of the technology.


NVIDIA drone taught to navigate in space without the use of GPS
As you know, GPS systems are among the most common and accurate sources of origin. They are used everywhere, including unmanned aerial vehicles. But there are still areas where satellite navigation systems do not work, such as wood, tunnels, caves and so on. Therefore, NVIDIA's researchers decided to develop its own version of the system for navigation of robots, which would not be dependent on GPS.
The development of the world-famous company is based on the work of cells under the control of artificial intelligence to detect incoming data and decision-making. During the test on one of the serial drone models, two additional cameras were installed and the module Jetson TX1, who bore the features of artificial intelligence and machine learning deep.
The new system is designed to ensure that drones were able to orient himself in the hard arranged space, a route and navigate without assistance. It was originally planned that the drones with such a system can be used only in the forest, but, as experience shows, they are also suitable for use in an urban environment, in areas of natural disasters and even (with minor modifications) under water.
A neural network which controls the operation of aircraft, called TrailNet, and her training took place not only "in the field", but also by means of records with GoPro cameras made in a forest of various types, ranging from the forests of North America and ending forests on the slopes of the Alps. The total distance of the path, filmed on camera, amounted to almost 13 000 kilometers. Now drone may already own to overcome the forest belt on distance of 1 km thanks to advanced anti-collision function. As stated by one of the developers of the new system Nikolai Smolyan
"The visual system will work where there is no work, no GPS, no other navigation systems. All it needs the system - it is only in the presence of any recognizable landmark. "


Purba Bardhaman is a district located in West Bengal, a state in India. This district is very famous amongst the Jain religion as it is said that the 24th Jain Tirthankara, Mahavira Vardhamana, came to the district for preaching. As he was the last Jain Tirthankara, tourists include the Purba Bardhaman district in their list of Jain pilgrimage tours. The name of the city Bardhaman, located in the Purba Bardhaman District, and the name of the district was named after Mahavira Vardhamana, the last Jain Tirthankara. Bardhaman refers to a prosperous and growing area in Hindi and Purab refers to East.
Purba Bardhaman District is also known for holding various festivals and fairs over the years, the Bengali proverb baromaseyteroparban means ‘Thirteen festivals in twelve months’, the proverb itself refers to how many festivals are celebrated in the district over throughout a year. Therefore many tourists keep visiting the district to view the festivals, fairs and the historic monuments present in the city. There is a 108 Shiva temple located in the city where one can view 108 shivalingas in the temple complex. Jami Masjid located in Bardhaman city is also one of the most famous tourist destinations in the district. It was built in the 17th century by Azim-us-Shan, subedar of Bengal.
Kalna Shiva Temple, also known as the 108 Shivalinga temple is located near Bardhaman in West Bengal. A devotee will be able to see all 108 Shivalingas from the centre of the temple complex and these Shivalingas are made from White marble & black stones.read more...


The early evolution of feathers: fossil evidence from Cretaceous amber of France. 2008. Vincent Perrichot et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Tuesday, February 19, 2008.
Abstract: The developmental stages of feathers are of major importance in the evolution of body covering and the origin of avian flight. Until now, there were significant gaps in knowledge of early morphologies in theoretical stages of feathers as well as in palaeontological material. Here we report fossil evidence of an intermediate and critical stage in the incremental evolution of feathers which has been predicted by developmental theories but hitherto undocumented by evidence from both the recent and the fossil records.
Seven feathers have been found in an Early Cretaceous (Late Albian, ca 100Myr) amber of western France, which display a flattened shaft composed by the still distinct and incompletely fused bases of the barbs forming two irregular vanes. Considering their remarkably primitive features, and since recent discoveries have yielded feathers of modern type in some derived theropod dinosaurs, the Albian feathers from France might have been derived either from an early bird or from a non-avian dinosaur.
Watch the animated three-dimensional virtual reconstruction of one fossil feather from Early Cretaceous French amber in phase contrast microtomography showing vanes resulting from the opposed but irregular insertion of barbs on the flattened rachis HERE.


Method for Counting TRUE Values in a Logical Vector
Method for Counting TRUE Values in a Logical Vector, The following techniques can be used to determine how many TRUE values are present in a logical vector in R:
Method 1: Use sum()
Method 2: Use summary()
The examples that follow demonstrate each technique in action.
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Example1: Count TRUE Values with sum ()
The number of TRUE values in a logical vector can be counted using sum() as seen in the code below:
We can now construct a logical vector.
x <- c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, NA, NA)
Count the TRUE values in the vector.
sum(x, na.rm=TRUE)  2
We can see from the result that the vector has 2 TRUE values.
The function will return NA if the vector contains NA values and the na.rm=TRUE argument is not used.
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Example 2: Count TRUE Values Using summary()
How to use summary() to count the number of TRUE, FALSE, and NA values in a logical vector is demonstrated in the code below:
We can now develop a logical vector.
x <- c(NA, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, NA, TRUE)
Now we can create a count of TRUE, FALSE, and NA values in the vector
summary(x) Mode FALSE TRUE NA's logical 4 2 2
The output reveals the following:
The vector contains 4 FALSE values.
The vector has two TRUE values.
The vector has two NA values.
If you want to know how often each sort of value appears in a logical vector, the summary() function is quite helpful.
The following syntax can be used to just return the number of TRUE values from the summary() function:
Let’s count TRUE values in the vector
summary(x)['TRUE'] TRUE 2
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In a synthesis reaction, a new product is formed from two or more reactants. For example:
A + B → AB
Decomposition is the opposite of synthesis:
AB → A + B
In a single replacement reaction, one part of the compound is replaced with something else:
AB + C → AC + B
A neutralization reaction occurs when an acid is added to a base to produce a salt and water. In general:
acid + base → salt + water
A specific and common example of neutralization is:
HCl + NaOH → NaCl + H2O
This reaction is actually a double replacement because two compounds are "switching"... the Cl and OH (hydroxide) switch places.
For the second part of the question:
Cl + KI → KCl + I
Both Cl and I are in Group 7, which means that they each have a charge of -1. K is in Group 1 and has a charge of +1. Negative 1 plus positive 1 equals 0, which is what we want.
Cl and I exist as diatomic molecules:
Cl2 and I2
So, in order to balance the equation, we must write it with coefficients so that there are the same number of elements on both sides of the equation:
Cl2 + 2 KI → 2 KCl + I2
NOTE: The numbers after the element symbols must be written as subscripts. Coefficients written before the compound or molecule tells us how many compounds or molecules are in the reaction.


People who ride bicycles a lot are certainly familiar with the phenomenon that different tires, surfaces, air pressure, etc. also require different amounts of power to be able to ride at a certain speed. The crucial factor here is the so-called rolling resistance, i.e., how much energy is lost when the tire rolls.
This rolling resistance is influenced by various parameters. In general, the following statements can be made:
However, the inner tubes used and their interaction with tires are also factors that have to be considered and not to be underestimated when it comes to rolling resistance.
The following applies to tubes: “Thin” tubes, i.e., products with a low wall thickness, have a lower rolling resistance than thicker products made of the same material. Not only the thickness of the wall, but also the flexibility of the material have an impact on rolling resistance.
S-Tubo products, for example, have a wall thickness of 150 µ. This is roughly equivalent to the thickness of a sheet of paper. Plus, the material is very flexible.
These two properties mean that, for example, S-Tubo-Road helps to reduce rolling resistance by 2.5 watts compared to a classic butyl tube with otherwise the same set-up (tire: Continental GP 5000; air pressure: 6.9 bar). See the tests conducted by bicyclerollingresistance.com:Tubolito Inner Tube Tests | Bicycle Rolling Resistance
Saving 2.5 watts is equivalent to a time saving of almost 6 minutes on a 180 km long, flat bike course.
Or in other words: The crucial factor for the qualification for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii can easily be your inner tubes.
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Also known as: Viola Irene Davis
Date of Birth: July 6, 1914 in Halifax Nova Scotia
Date of Death: February 7, 1965 in New York, USA
Viola Irene Desmond was a Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. For this, she was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat that she had paid for and the seat that she used, which was more expensive. Desmond’s case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.
In 2010, Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The Crown-in-Right-of-Nova Scotia also apologized for prosecuting her for tax evasion and acknowledged she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination. In 2016, the Bank of Canada inaccurately announced that Desmond would be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the front of a Canadian banknote, but that honour went to Agnes Macphail, who appeared along with three men on a small print run commemorative note issued in 2017 to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
In late 2018, Desmond became the first Canadian woman to appear alone on a Canadian bank note—a $10 bill which was unveiled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz during a ceremony at the Halifax Central Library on March 8, 2018. Desmond was also named a National Historic Person in 2018.1
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Effective research requires a plan. Efficiency of time and use of resources can make the difference in the degree of success the student will experience in his projects.
Suggested method of research
- Begin with a topic. Once the topic is chosen, you may consult a Bible/theological dictionary or encyclopedia for a general description of your topic (for example, “dispensationalism”).
- Write down a list of key words–names, dates, places, and themes.
- You now have valuable search criteria. By using a key word search on any research tool, you may locate relevant books and journal articles. Throughout your research, you will likely want to narrow your topic. A suggested order for most research papers would be Bible computers (primarily for exegetical work), the library catalog, theological journals online, and federated searching.
- If you find a helpful book in our library, look in that general section (ie. 230.046) for related books; maybe you missed them during your research.
- If you find a helpful book or article, that author may have other helpful materials available. Search the catalog by that author.
- You may want to check the footnotes, endnotes, or bibliographies of helpful books and articles. These may be your most valuable research tool.
- Dialogue with others who have studied or thought about your topic.
- Don’t become so absorbed in extra-Scriptural materials that you forget to search Scripture itself. Good research is grounded in exegesis and aided by reflective books and articles (John 5:39).
- Every Bible student needs a gateway for theological research. The tools below can be used to broaden, narrow, or refine your research by accessing credible books and articles for in-depth study. Each student would do well to become familiar with each tool, first by perusing its description and then by practicing its application.


Augmentation Mastopexy is the term used for an uplift and implant procedure. This is an operation that uses an implant to provide volume to the breast whilst undertaking an uplift to lift and tighten it. An uplift is often required when the breasts have become ptotic or sagged. This can happen after having children, breast feeding or weight loss. The procedure is usually performed under a general anaesthetic and most patients will be able to go home the same day. The operation itself takes about 2 hours to perform.
Do I need a breast uplift?
The most common reason someone would require an uplift is if the breast droops or sags significantly. This usually means that nipple position is below the natural breast fold. The main reasons this may happen include:
- Naturally ptotic or droopy breasts
- After weight loss
- Following pregnancy or postpartum
- After breast feeding
What are the risks of augmentation mastopexy?
Augmentation mastopexy is performed under general anaesthetic. The procedure involves using a breast implant to increase the size of the breasts and an uplift to lift the breast and nipple. Some potential risks with uplift and implants are discussed below although your surgeon will discuss these and more during your consultation.
AUGMENTATION MASTOPEXY BEFORE AND AFTERS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS


Darwin's Origin of Species
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By Janet Browne
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A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, award-winning biographer Janet Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin's theories, from his readings as a university student and his five-year voyage on the Beagle, to his debates with contemporaries and experiments in his garden. She explores the shock to Darwin when he read of competing scientists' similar discoveries and the wide and immediate impact of Darwin's theories on the world. As one of the launch titles in the Atlantic Monthly Press's Books That Changed the World series, Browne's history takes readers inside The Origin of Species and shows why it can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published.


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The Komandorski Islands are located at the extreme west end of the Aleutian chain, just off the Kamchatka Peninsula (167E 55N), and are Russian territory. The island were completely undeveloped in 1941.
National Archives #80-G-73827
On 26 March 1943, a Japanese
two fast merchant ships,
protected by a covering force under Vice
Boshiro, attempted to reinforce Kiska.
intercepted by an American
task force under Rear Admiral Charles McMorris
near the Komandorski Islands.
The Japanese covering force consisted of the heavy
and the destroyers
The American force was
composted of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City,
the light cruiser Richmond,
Though outgunned, the Americans attempted to get around the covering force to attack the transports. The two sides exchanged gunfire for over four hours. Nachi was hit a number of times, but Salt Lake City was disabled by shock damage from her own gunfire and a hit in the after engine room. Poor damage control resulted in a complete loss of power, and McMorris ordered his destroyers to execute a desperate torpedo attack. At this point the Japanese suddenly broke off and fled. Hosogaya later explained that he was low on ammunition and fuel, and a number of near misses from the American ships were mistaken for aircraft bombs, leading him to believe he was under air attack. He was subsequently forced into retirement, while McMorris returned from the battle a hero.
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia © 2006, 2008, 2010 by Kent G. Budge. Index
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In most African families, Christmas plans start in the month of October when the mother or the father starts pointing out which chicken or which goat will be slaughtered on Christmas day. This chicken or goat is coddled to make it nice and fat for Christmas feasting. The news that somebody cannot afford chicken or goat on Christmas is met with great sadness. Even in the cities you will see chickens or goats tethered in yards awaiting the celebration of Christmas. The children are excited; the adults look forward to a day of no work and just going to church and relaxing with friends and lots of food.
The process of getting ready for Christmas and preparing the meal is not a chore, but a joy. Love is the major ingredient. One week before Christmas an African Hut (the traditional Christmas Crib in the form of a small African hut) is prepared in the sanctuary of the church. The tall shepherds with their cows and sheep portray a pastoral scene very close to the rural farming community. Bright red, green, and yellow African clothes hang from the ceiling. Long cords hold up rows of pictures and carols. The carved figures of Mary and Joseph are placed in the open hut, ‘tired” after their long journey from Nazareth. There is no Christmas tree like here in the United States. Instead, there is mango tree or palm oil tree or banana tree. Santa is nowhere to be found in the Congo.
In Africa, Christmas Eve is very important. Churches host big musical evenings. Many churches have at least five to six choirs and a nativity play. These plays last a very long time, starting at the beginning of the evening with the story of king Herod killing the baby boys. People taking part in the play like to show off their best acting skills and tend to go over the top. The birth of Jesus is timed to happen close to midnight and after that come the shepherds, the wise men and the slaughter of the innocents. The play normally finishes about 1:00 a.m. However, in some places there will be further singing until dawn.


The Story of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
On the morning of June 23, 1959, Mayor Raymond Tucker broke ground on Jefferson National Expansion Memorial near the levee of the Mississippi River, commencing the Gateway Arch’s monumental story. Today, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is comprised of the Gateway Arch and Old Courthouse. It will also include the new Gateway Arch museum once renovations are completed in 2017.
In honor of the 56th anniversary of the groundbreaking, here’s a bit of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial history:
- In 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, a prominent St. Louis lawyer, Luther Ely Smith, set out to determine a way to revitalize St. Louis and honor its roots in westward expansion. Thus, the idea for the memorial was conceived.
- After the bond proposal passed in a controversial election, in December 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
- An architectural competition was held in 1947 to determine what form the memorial would take. Ultimately, a catenary curve design by young Finnish architect Eero Saarinen was selected as the winner. Saarinen called his stainless steel arch design “The Gateway to the West,” a phrase that is forever linked with the City of St. Louis.
- Saarinen modified his original design over the course of three years before it was actually engineered. Most notably, he changed the height of the Arch from 590 feet to 630 feet, thus ensuring that it would be our nation’s tallest monument. (To this day, the Arch remains the tallest man-made monument in the United States.)
- Despite the groundbreaking for Jefferson National Expansion Memorial taking place in 1959, it took workers two years to ready the rough site to receive the Arch foundations. Excavations for the foundations began in 1961.
- After much hard work and multiple setbacks, the keystone of the Gateway Arch was put into place on October 28, 1965, 32 years after Luther Ely Smith first conceived the idea for the memorial.


“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
– U.S. Constitution, Amendment IV
A precipitating cause of the American Revolution was the decision of the British to institute random searches using “writs of assistance” or “general warrants.” Rather than specifying “the place to be searched” and the “persons or things to be seized,” these warrants empowered authorities dig for contraband whenever and wherever they suspected it might be present.
The random and intrusive searches engaged in by federal TSA officers comprise, in other words, the sort of behavior the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent. The gist of the amendment is that searches are unconstitutional unless the officer, or the magistrate issuing the warrant, has “probable cause” to believe a specific person has contraband or has committed or is about to commit a crime.
A determination of “probable cause” can be based on a range of factors – including demographic facts about the suspect. In other words, in some cases the Constitution not only permits “profiling,” but may require it.
The current opinion split over these searches is another illustration of some of the eerie parallels between today’s political divisions and the “Tory” vs. “Patriot” lineup among the colonists that prevailed just before the Revolution.


Illegal treasure hunting damaging Hadrian's Wall
More than 50 holes have been dug at the Brunton Turret section of the wall, causing "damage to our shared cultural heritage".
Wednesday 20 June 2018 13:16, UK
Hadrian's Wall is being damaged by metal detectorists illegally searching for buried treasure at night, experts have warned.
Historic England says nighthawks, as illegal metal detectorists are known, have dug more than 50 holes at the Brunton Turret section of the 1,900-year-old World Heritage Site near Chollerford in Northumberland.
As well as damaging the ruins of the turret, they are also breaking the law, as it is illegal to use a metal detector without permission at a scheduled monument.
Similar nighthawking incidents have affected Corbridge, Housesteads and Steel Rigg, other sections of Hadrian's Wall, over the last three years.
Brunton Turret is one of the best-preserved turrets on the wall, with a stretch of wall 64 metres (210ft) long, and was built by the twentieth legion of the Roman army.
Historic England said the activity is "causing loss and damage to our shared cultural heritage".
Mike Collins, the agency's inspector of ancient monuments at Hadrian's Wall, said: "We know that the majority of the metal-detecting community complies with the laws and regulations regarding discovery and recovery of objects from the land.
"But the small number of people who steal artefacts and damage ancient sites are breaking the law and robbing us all of the knowledge and understanding that objects from the past can give us.
"These nighthawks are committing a criminal offence and we'd like everyone's help to ensure they are caught."
Mr Collins said the majority of items taken were sold on, either via online auction sites or to collectors.
Mark Harrison, head of heritage crime and policing advice for Historic England, said: "Illegal metal detecting is not a victimless crime.
"We may never see or fully understand the objects taken or damaged because they have been removed from their original sites with no care or record as to their history or context."
The 73-mile (117km) wall stretches between Wallsend in North Tyneside and Bowness on Solway in Cumbria and has about 160 scheduled monuments, including Roman camps, forts and signal stations.


Students will love these fun & engaging slides to . These Google Slides have problems with division fair shares situations, where the number of groups is known and students are .
, making it easy for you to assign as a no prep math station, for seatwork or homework.
This resource can be easily assigned in Google Classroom or any other platform compatible with Google Slides. Homeschool parents can use this resource by simply opening it in Google Slides. All you need to access Google Slides is a free Gmail account.
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- PDF with a Link to make a copy of the Google Slides in your Google Drive
- Video Instructions (Student devices must be able to access You-Tube)
- 10 student practice slides (10 problems)
- Modeling fair share division situations
- Solving division problems where the number in each group is not known
- Identifying the total, number of groups and number in each group in division equations
- Use it as a whole class teaching tool by projecting the slides and using the movable, interactive pieces to teach your lesson
- Use this resource as a no prep math station
- Use it as an early finisher activity
- Use this resource for small group reteach or tutoring
- Assign this resource as a lesson for student practice as independent work
- Share the digital key for parents and students to check work at home
3.4H Determine the number of objects in each group when a set of objects is partitioned into equal shares or a set of objects is shared equally.
3.OA.A.2 Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 ÷ 8.


Chunky - Journey of an Activist
Posted by NALIP on June 11, 2014
Chunky: Journey of an Activist (WT) tells the story of Ramón "Chunky" Sanchez – a southern California musician, composer, storyteller and community activist. Our one-hour film examines how Sanchez' personal story is interwoven with the broader history of the Chicana/o community and the unique cultural dynamics of the U.S.-Mexican border.
Chunky was influenced by the social unrest he witnessed and lived in his youth as both a child of farm working parents and as a student during the turbulent 1960's. His songs helped to define an era which transformed America. Chunky became an important figure in the early days of the Chicano movement and continues to be active in today's immigrant rights' protests. Much like the role which African American music played in the Civil Rights movement, Chunky's songs capture the spirit of a generation determined to make changes in their lives and their communities as they struggled for identity and social change. Chunky's life work has recently been recognized by a National Heritage Fellowship given annually by the National Endowment for the Arts. The award recognizes folk and traditional artists for their artistic excellence and efforts to conserve America's culture for future generations.


In Kindermusik, there are no tests. No monitoring of a skills checklist for each child. Even in Kindermusik for the Young Child where children are being introduced to musical notation and playing instruments, the focus is on the process, not the “performance”. Yet, learning is taking place every minute of a Kindermusik class and that learning extends well beyond the classroom time through at home materials and interactions with you. Kindermusik provides a gentle guide for your child to explore, to develop skills at his/her own pace.
In our public schools, children are increasingly expected to perform. Perform on tests. Perform on homework to prepare for tests. At a younger and younger age, children have homework. For many parents, this is a shift from the way they experienced elementary school. Researchers are beginning to ask tough questions about the emphasis on homework and test scores. Even if you don’t have school-aged children yet, this is an issue that will greatly impact your family in the coming years.
InJoy Music has learned about an opportunity to begin the conversation around testing and children’s academic lives. Below is information about attending a screening of the documentary “Race to Nowhere”. It’s free but requires advanced registration to attend.
Why should we as parents be concerned about the amount and type of homework our kids are expected to complete in elementary school?
Please view the trailer here.photo credit: darkmatter via photopin cc
I’ve long appreciated Kindermusik’s focus on enjoying the *process* of learning and experiencing music. Interesting documentary opportunity, thanks for sharing.


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Generally, federal and state taxes, and sometimes local taxes, reduce gross pay. Voluntary and involuntary deductions like medical benefits and insurances, or garnishments and levies can affect gross pay as well. The result is called net pay.
There are situations where the total of an employee’s taxes and deductions may be greater than their gross wages, resulting in negative net pay. This can leave employers with the task of figuring out which deductions are allowed to be reduced in order to reach a zero paycheck. Accountants and payroll services are generally an employer’s best bet for being prepared for complications such as this.
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