The British Army does not usually issue the No 1 dress uniform to all soldiers, most use the No 2 dress uniform for formal occasions. Small stocks are held regimentally, however, for select uses and on occasions soldiers may privately purchase a uniform for a particular event such as their marriage. These uniforms are very expensive to have made up, and so older uniforms are recycled and updated with new insignia to defray the costs and that is what we are looking at an example of today:
This smart No 1 dress tunic is made of dark blue wool, with red piping to the epaulettes on each shoulder:
What makes the tunic particularly interesting however is the design of the staybrite buttons, which is that adopted by the Royal Logistics Corps on its foundation in 1993:
The tunic itself dates from the 1950s however:
No. 1 dress originated in the “undress” uniforms (‘blue Patrols’) worn for semi-formal or ordinary duty occasions in the late 19th century. It was first issued in its current form for the 1937 Coronation, intended as a cheaper alternative to the full dress uniforms that had been generally withdrawn after 1914. It became known as No. 1 Dress in 1947. Army units participating in the 1953 Coronation wore the new uniform as a temporary issue. Since then it is only worn for the most formal of occasions such as when a regiment is providing a guard at Buckingham Palace, as seen here where 3 Regiment RLC can be seen wearing the uniform:
The rank insignia worn on this uniform is gold braid on a red backing:
It is impossible to say if this tunic is one that has been prepared by the regimental tailor for ceremonial duties, or an example purchased second hand by a member of the regiment who has changed the insignia for an event such as his wedding, however I tend towards the former suggestion. Either way, this is an unusual and very smart piece of uniform and one not commonly seen, even within the regiment these days.
Royal Logistic Corps – no s on the end of Logistic


HPV DNA test is a molecular test that detects the presence of cervical cancer-causing HPV genotypes in the cervix of women. Over 95% of cervical cancers are caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Hence, the WHO recommended test for Cervical cancer screening is the HPV-DNA test. Almost all women get infected with HPV at one point in their life and all women between the ages of 21 and 65 are at risk of cervical cancer. The HPV DNA test is recommended for all women between the ages of 21 and 65.
Importance of early testing
Cervical cancer can be prevented when HPV is detected before cancer develops
Chances of Surviving cervical cancer is increased when HPV screening is routinely done.
The test involves using a soft brush to take a small sample of cells from the surface of your cervix. The sample is put into a small plastic container and sent to a laboratory. It is tested for the types of HPV that can cause cervical cancer.
Home Sample Collection
To improve the ease and privacy of sample collection we have introduced an easy self sample collection kit, that enables you to collect your sample yourself at the comfort of your home.
Test cannot be carried out during a woman’s period (reschedule your test when on your period)
Please don’t use any vaginal medications, lubricants or creams in the 2 days before you have your test because they can affect the results.
Frequently Asked Questions
Request a follow up (HPVE6/E7 mRNA) test to determine cervical cancer progression. See a physician.
Yes, because current vaccine does not protect against all high risk HPV genotypes


Americans eat out at fast food or dine-in restaurants four or five times a week. Just one of those meals might contain more than an entire day’s recommended amount of sodium.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has strategies for health departments and restaurants to work together to offer healthier choices for consumers who want to lower their sodium intake. The report, “From Menu to Mouth: Opportunities for Sodium Reduction in Restaurants,” is published in today’s issue of CDC’s journal, Preventing Chronic Disease.
On average, foods from fast food and restaurants contain 1,848 mg of sodium per 1,000 calories and foods from dine-in restaurants contain 2,090 mg of sodium per 1,000 calories.
It is recommended by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend the general population limit sodium to less than 2,300 mg a day. Too much sodium can cause high blood pressure, which is one of the leading causes of heart disease and stroke.
“The bottom line is that it’s both possible and life-saving to reduce sodium, and this can be done by reducing, replacing and reformulating,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “When restaurants rethink how they prepare food and the ingredients they choose to use, healthier options become routine for customers.”
The report also features examples of sodium reduction successes in the food industry.
In Philadelphia, the health department worked with 206 restaurants to create the “Philadelphia Healthy Chinese Take-Out Initiative.” After evaluating menus for sodium content, participating restaurants began choosing lower sodium ingredients and creating lower sodium recipes. After nine months, analysis of two popular dishes offered by 20 of the restaurants showed sodium was reduced by 20 percent.
“The story in Philadelphia shows what can be done,” Dr. Frieden said. “It’s not about giving up the food you love, but providing lower sodium options that taste great.”
Cutting back on your sodium intake is an effective, simple way to improve one’s health, which will also save you money on your health and life insurance premiums.


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Thionville (Diedenhofen) France Sebastian Münster 1544. Thionville (Diedenhofen) France Old, antique fortless plan in hand coloring. Mapmaker: Sebastian Münster (1488 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world. His Cosmographia of 1544 was the earliest German-language description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French, Italian, English, and even Czech. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular works of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the fascinating woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Rudolph Manuel, and David Kandel), in addition to including the first to introduce separate maps for each of the four continents known then America, Africa, Asia and Europe. It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after his death. 16th -17th -18th-19th Century maps & atlases & prints. We sell guaranteed Absolutely Original authentic Maps and Prints. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) will be supplied on request. 9 x 14.25 inches. 23 x 36 cm. Original Woodcut German edition, printed on handmade paper. For the complete Map and Print collection see our online site. MapandMaps Cartography of the World. Always real antique maps – Always original – Never reproductions. The item “Thionville (Diedenhofen) France Sebastian Münster 1544 MAPandMAPS” is in sale since Friday, October 1, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Maps, Atlases & Globes\Europe Maps”. The seller is “mapandmaps” and is located in Europe. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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The discovery of the tomb of St. James in the early IX century and the subsequent lifting of the cathedral, caused these watchtowers arise to defend the Arosa estuary, and Compostela, from attacks by Normans and Vikings. Built on the island formerly known as A Figueira, in time of Bishop of Compostela Sisnando I, in the early Middle Ages and subsequently repaired by Archbishop Gelmírez.
Through bonfires are warned of the arrival of pirates to the estuary. The Tower of A Lanzada warned, the Tower of San Sadurniño referring the signal to the Tower de Cálogo in Vilanova de Arousa which in turn made him reach the West Towers in Catoira, putting on alert and defense at all the region and Santiago de Compostela.
The fort would be destroyed by the rebels Irmandiños, and again rebuilt by Gómez Sotomayor until completely fall into disrepair.
This defense against the attacks of the Vikings and sarracenos peoples earned Cambados to be named “Most Loyal Town” by King Fernando II in the XII century, then started a period of splendor that is reflected in the many stately homes that exist in the municipality.


Bilingual education provides students with the opportunity to learn curriculum content in and through two languages, in a balanced way. Welsh medium education has met with great success across Wales since the first such schools opened in the 1940s. In summary, bilingual education is not a way to take anything away from American students. A law banning bilingual education in California schools may be overturned by a new bill.
They observe that the dropout rate is highest among ethnic groups, and that it has not decreased after many years of implementing bilingual instruction. Other programs aim to teach English to language-minority students by immersing them in English-only classes.
These include: teachers, education advisors, special educational needs coordinators and head teachers at international schools and managers of community and charitable organisations. PhD programs exist as well, though these are focused on bilingual academic research.
Prior to the new law only 29 percent of California ELLs were in bilingual programs, in part because of a shortage of qualified teachers. Meanwhile, seven states – Delaware, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington – have launched major efforts to promote bilingual education in public schools in recent years.
There have been various names, goals and models of mother language teaching programs in US, such as five main performances, transitional and developmental bilingual education, partial, two-way, and total immersion programs (Ovando, 2003). It provided for standards-based educational reform which is based on the theory that the setting of high standards and establishing …


Daily Online School Closure Lessons
Daily Read Write Inc. Phonics Lesson
Read Write Inc. are streaming a daily speed sounds film which will be available for 24 hours via FB and on YouTube. Parents can sign up to either their Facebook page or their YouTube channel. Set 1 and 2 speed sounds are taught in Reception.
Set 1 Speed Sounds - 9.30 am
Set 1 Word Time - 9.45 am
Set 1 Spelling - 10 am
Set 2 Speed Sounds and Word Time - 10.00 am
Set 2 Spelling 10.15 am
- Set 1 Speed Sounds (sounds written with one letter): m a s d t i n p g o c k u b f e l h r j v y w z x and sounds written with two letters (your child will call these ‘special friends’): sh th ch qu ng nk ck
- Set 2 Speed Sounds: ay ee igh ow oo oo ar or air ir ou oy
Oak National Academy
Government backed daily online lessons in English, Maths and Foundation Subjects.
White Rose Maths
Daily maths lessons for Reception (Early Years) children. Each lesson has a useful video clip to watch and a linked activity. 5 new lessons will be uploaded each week.
The BBC Bitesize website is full of great videos, activities, online games and other resources. Although it isn't all aimed at Reception age children, we've rounded up some of the resources that we've found that might be useful for home learning. The PDF is completely linked to the resources, so just choose a topic, click and then off you go. Have fun exploring!
Talk for Writing Home School Booklets
For parents and carers with access to a printer, there are brilliant home school 'talk for writing packs' called "Mavis the Magical Cat" , "The Amazing Adventures of Max" and "Mouse's Adventures". These units are great for developing children's story language, vocabulary and writing skills.


Our ‘Glamorgan’s Blood’ exhibition launched in October 2019 and was on display at Glamorgan Archives until the end of last year.
Caerau Colliery, Accident Inspector pictured walking between two rows of trams, 19 June 1952 (DNCB/14/4/24/5)
The exhibition was due to travel to venues across south Wales during 2020. We were only a few months into the tour when, as a result of the Covid19 pandemic, we had to draw it to a close. The exhibition banners are now packed away until we can resume the tour.
In the meantime, we’ve added the exhibition content to our website so that it can be viewed and enjoyed from home.
The exhibition was funded by Archives and Records Council Wales. It celebrates the completion of our three year ‘Glamorgan’s Blood’ project to catalogue and conserve records of the National Coal Board and those of the colliery companies that existed prior to the nationalisation of the industry. The project itself was funded by the Wellcome Trust, a medical research charity, and as such the exhibition explores several aspects of health and welfare in the coal industry in south Wales.
These include the development of pithead baths and facilities such as hospitals and rehabilitation centres.
We explore the impact of work underground on the health of colliers by looking at industrial disease, such as pneumoconiosis, silicosis and nystagmus.
The danger of the industry is clear in the number of major disasters that affected the south Wales coalfield, including the largest loss of life in the British coal industry at Senghennydd in 1913.
The exhibition explores the positive side of coalfield life as well through the community activities and events which took place, including sport, bands and choirs, boys and girls’ clubs and the Miners’ Institutes.
The exhibition can be found at https://glamarchives.gov.uk/blood/
Take a look and discover more about the coal collections at Glamorgan Archives.


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Painting from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon. Artworks from the The New York Public Library.
The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. Not all of the specimens illustrated in the work were collected by Audubon himself; some were sent to him by John Kirk Townsend, who had collected them on Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's 1834 expedition with Thomas Nuttall.
The work consists of 435 hand-coloured, life-size prints, made from engraved plates, measuring around 39 by 26 inches (99 by 66 cm). It includes images of five, possibly six, now-extinct birds: Carolina parakeet, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, great auk, pinnated grouse, and, possibly, the Eskimo curlew. Art historians describe Audubon's work as being of high quality and printed with "artistic finesse". The plant life backgrounds of some 50 of the bird studies were painted by Audubon's assistant Joseph Mason, but he is not credited for his work in the book. He shot many specimen birds as well as transporting and maintaining supplies for Audubon. Audubon however used the background plants and insects painted by Maria Martin, later wife of John Bachman, with credit. George Lehman was hired to draw some of the perches and background detail. Audubon also authored the companion book Ornithological Biographies.


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This informational article will help students learn more about two French explorers: Cartier and Champlain. These men were early explorers of the St. Lawrence Bay area of the New World (Canada). After students read the text, they will complete two worksheets to assess their understanding and reading comprehension. Answer key provided.
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One page informational text on Spanish explorers: Christopher Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Ferdinand Magellan, De Soto and Coronado. After reading the text, student comprehension will be assess through a short reading comprehension worksheet. To extend the lesson, students will be asked to short opinion based essay questions.
This John Cabot resource is perfect for a quick World History lesson or a Language Arts lesson! Cabot’s was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. Students will enjoy learning more about this explorer and how he too (like Columbus) thought he had sailed to the Far East!


Autism NOW Webinar: Inclusive Education
Learn More About Inclusive Education and IDEA
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Inclusive education continues to remain a controversial topic years after the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which ensures equal access to education for individuals with disabilities. Join us for this webinar, in which our speaker will provide an overview of inclusive education, as well as discussions about IDEA.
Speaker: Michael McSheehan, Project Director, University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
Time: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST
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The Autism NOW Center is a project funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities and a national initiative of The Arc. The Center gathers, organizes, and disseminates readily accessible, high-quality resources and information related to community-based services that support independent living and self-determination, treatment protocols that promote community-based experiences, and evidence-based interventions. As part of this mission, The Autism NOW Center hosts free webinars every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (EST). Designed for self-advocates, families, professionals, and the general public, these webinars encompass a wide variety of topics and practices in the area of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and developmental disabilities.


La Parisienne also known as the Minoan Lady, is part of the Camp Stool Fresco, which was probably painted on one of the walls of the palace of Knossos. The woman depicted is possibly a priestess or even a goddess.
It dates to the Final Palatial Period, ca. 1450-1350/1300 B.C.
The Blue Ladies
The Blue Ladies are a beautiful fresco that adorned the ancient palace of Knossos. The small part of the image that has been saved reveals elaborate jewellery and rich woven dresses.
The women of Thebes are heading towards the same direction. Some hold flowers, others precious objects (ivory compasses or stone vessels). They are luxuriously dressed in their distinctive garment , as well as the Minoan long skirt covered in beads and embroidery.
A fresco of Mycenaean women bearing gifts, 1,400-1,200 BC
The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest. She sits supervising the plucking of flowers, which will be used in the manufacture of what is possibly a therapeutic drug.
In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her.
Apollo and Artemis. Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup by Brygos, potter, and the Briseis Painter, ca. 470 BC.
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The Australian Curriculum sets out an expectation that students learn the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming (OOP) in Years 9 and 10 which is also covered in the draft ATAR Computer Science curriculum.
In this talk, we’ll lay out the OOP principles students should be learning, and provide strategies and examples of how to teach these principles in the classroom.
Those interested in General Primary, Middle / Upper Primary, Middle Secondary (7 – 9), Senior Secondary (10 – 12)
Bring your own device suitable for Python programming
WiFi access will be provided at the venue.
Christ Church Grammar School, Claremont, IT Centre
About the Presenter:
Alex Myer has specialised in STEM education in a diverse range of leadership roles in secondary teaching, workshop facilitation and as a writer of curriculum support materials. Her interests include curriculum design, fostering authentic learning experiences and cultivating innovative practice of STEM in teaching in learning.
Alex has extensive experience in the design of unit plans, assessments and learning tasks to facilitate a stimulating learning environment.
She believes in the power of transformative teaching and learning to guide learners into becoming critical and creative thinkers, reflective learners and compassionate citizens of the world.
Prior to teaching, Alex worked as a multimedia designer.
Join Alex Myer and the team from Grok Academy at the ECAWA 2022 State Conference on Thursday the 6th and Friday the 7th of October, 2022


Anencephaly is a severe form of central nervous system illness characterized by a lack of development of the cranial vault and brain. It is defined by several study professionals as a condition in which a major amount of the brain, skull, and scalp are missing during embryonic development. In many situations, a serious neural tube defect is discovered between the 23rd and the 26th day after conception. This is a form of cephalic disease in which the neural tube’s rostral (head) end fails to shut entirely or partially.
When the phrase “Anencephaly,” a Greek word, is translated, it signifies that the internal section of the head, i.e. the brain, is completely absent. In actuality, these children generally lack the “telencephalon,” which is the brain’s major component. The cerebral lobes and the neocortex make up the main section of the brain, which regulates many cognitive activities. A very thin layer of membrane loosely covers the brain’s remaining structures. The skin, meninges, and bones are typically missing. Infants born with Anencephaly, with the exception of a few rare cases, do not live for more than a few hours or days.


Bee pollen is a natural substance that is collected by honeybees from the flowers and plants in their surrounding environment. It is a rich source of nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. Some people believe that consuming bee pollen may aid in weight loss. In this article, we will explore the potential effects of bee pollen on weight loss.
Bee pollen is known to contain various nutrients that may help in weight loss. For instance, bee pollen contains a high amount of protein, which helps to increase feelings of fullness and reduce appetite. Protein is also essential for building and repairing muscle tissue, which is important for maintaining a healthy metabolism. Additionally, bee pollen contains a range of vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin B12, magnesium, and iron, which are important for maintaining energy levels and supporting the body's metabolic processes.
Another way that bee pollen may help with weight loss is by reducing inflammation in the body. Chronic inflammation has been linked to obesity and weight gain. Bee pollen contains a range of antioxidants, such as flavonoids and phenolic acids, which have anti-inflammatory properties. By reducing inflammation, bee pollen may help to improve insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism, which are important factors in weight management.
Some studies have also suggested that bee pollen may have a positive impact on gut health, which may indirectly support weight loss. The gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem of bacteria that plays a vital role in various aspects of health, including metabolism and immune function. Research has shown that consuming bee pollen may help to improve the diversity and abundance of beneficial bacteria in the gut, which can lead to improved digestion and nutrient absorption.In conclusion, bee pollen is a nutrient-rich substance that offers some benefits for weight loss. It contains a range of nutrients and antioxidants that may help to reduce inflammation, improve gut health, and support healthy metabolism.
If you are considering using bee pollen as a weight loss supplement, it is important to speak to your healthcare provider first and to monitor your body's response to the substance closely.


This bead work was commissioned by the Department of Arts and Culture in 2011 for the 17th Climate Change Conference – COP17. The unrolling of the pangolin from an impenetrable ball of scales, a position of defence, to one of movement and freedom was captured in stop frame video. This animation was achieved by adding panels of beaded artwork, each pixel a glass bead, projected for the duration of the COP17.
Pangolins are amongst the world’s most ancient mammals, with ancestral forms dating back over 60 million years. When curled up in self-defence the body and scales resemble a Fibonacci spiral which it shares with many plants. It is unsurprising that this mammal with scales has become deeply nested within belief systems across Africa and Asia; revered for its temperament, unique and transformative features. But, while the pangolin’s defence mechanism contributed to its success and veneration as a species, today it is the world’s most trafficked animal, sought after for its perceived medicinal value and meat. These trade networks span Africa and Asia.
At COP17, this bead work contributed to a discourse around biomimicry – humans looking to nature to find solutions. The pangolin’s problem solving and innovative skills symbolised a positive way toward addressing issues around climate change.
We have chosen to feature this piece again during COP26 to foreground lack of change,
the unrepentant anthropocentrism and the unyielding consumption, disregard and destruction of natural habitat.


Factory museum in Norrhult-Klavreström
The factory museum Klavreströms Bruksmuseum is located on the site of the former ironworks Klavreström Bruk in Norrhult-Klavreström, about 17 kilometers west of Åseda.
Klavreströms Bruksmuseum was opened in Sweden in 1985 as the second museum of its kind and is housed in the historical warehouse of the former ironworks. The large, brick-built building shows a large collection of exhibits that tell the story of the ironworks and the foundry for more than 200 years.
The exhibition will show old documents and photographs, and especially products from the turn of the century until the ironworks was finally shut down in 1982. These are mainly historical cast iron items for domestic use such as boilers, cookers, stoves, ironers and other household appliances.
In addition to the large warehouse, there are other historical buildings dating back to the time of the ironworks. Some houses guest rooms of the Vandrahem, also located on the grounds.
The ironworks was founded in 1736 and, like many other Småland smelters, initially operated a blast furnace for the smelting of iron ore extracted from the bottom of the inland lakes. The carbon-rich pig iron from the blast furnace was then processed by a special forging process to lower carbon wrought iron.
Since this method of producing wrought iron was no longer profitable due to the appearance of modern methods of steelmaking, the ironworks relied on the production of cast-iron products. The blast furnace in the Klavreström Bruk remained in operation for a long time and supplied the foundry with pig iron. Only in the 1960s, the blast furnace was the last in the county Kronoberg, shut down.


A group of Chinese researchers conducted an experiment called the "Chinese Artificial Sun" using the Tokamak (EAST) advanced experimental superconducting fusion device. The EAST device is conducting a four month experiment to see how hot the electron temperature is in the fuser. Scientists were able to achieve an electron core temperature of more than 100 million degrees.
The experiment has made progress on China's roadmap for tokamak fusion energy. Catching with all fusion energy production experiments right now is that no one has ever produced net energy gains so far. The EAST team used four types of heating energy in their experiment, such as lower hybrid wave heating, electron beam wave heating, ion beam resonance heating and infrared beam beam heating.
The power injection in the experiment exceeded 10MW and the stored plasma energy was amplified to 300 kJ after the team optimized the coupling of the various heating techniques together with the use of an advanced plasma control and predictive theory / simulation. Experiments on plasma balance and instability along with constraint and transport, plasma-wall interaction and energy particle physics have been demonstrated.
The team says that they were able to achieve a fully non-inductive steady-state scenario with increased restriction factor, high density, and increased energy concentration during the tests. A key to this experiment was the team's work on particle solving and exhausting, which says it is critical for high-performance steady-state operation.
The results of these tests have provided scientists with basic data on the validation of heat exhaust, transport and current-flow models. Researchers are focusing on optimizing the third-wave fusion engine with greater 7m radium, 2m minor radium, ring magnet field at 6.5-7 Tesla, and 13MA plasma stream. A US-based team is currently working on new magnets that believe they could help increase power output in the fusion experiment.


Ethics is a branch off of philosophy that commonly refers back to the concepts of right and wrong principles. Ethics is the most commonly used area of knowledge because it relates into our everyday life the most. We learn the principles of ethics as children and carry them with us throughout our whole lives. For example, we commonly hear the phrase “if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?”. If you use ethical thinking you would clearly say no because your own life is not worth risking even for a friend and we sometimes refer to ethical principles as common sense. In my life I use these principles quite a lot. For example, I have never broken the law. Even when there is an opportunity to do so, I always use the ethically correct choice. It can sometimes be difficult to define what is right and what is wrong. generally we have a pretty good understanding of social rights and wrongs. For example, if you cross the road while there is a lot of traffic, you will get hit. We can tell an action is ethically wrong because there will be a negative consequence attached to it, however sometimes we do things that we know are wrong even with the knowledge that there will be negative consequences. For example, as teens and adults we drink alcohol, smoke ad vape even though we know there are severe negative consequences that come with doing so.


Children's Books And Their Creators by: Anita Silvey
Anita Silvey, a leading authority in the field, has gathered information from nearly two hundred outstanding critics, writers, and artists to compile this companion to children's books. Covering genres, history, issues, authors, and illustrators, the volume emphasizes twentieth-century books, particularly those of the last fifty years. Children's Books and Their Creators includes articles on such topics as sports stories, easy readers, Holocaust literature for children, science fiction, and classics. Among the more than eight hundred entries are many that focus on individual writers, such as Judy Blume, Dr. Seuss, and Chris Van Allsburg. Reflecting the flourishing state of multicultural publishing, the book also contains contributions by and articles about Native American, African American, Latino, and Asian American writers, including Michael Dorris, Virginia Hamilton, Gary Soto, and Allen Say. The volume is enhanced by more than 175 illustrations in both black-and-white and color, featuring the work of Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Robert McCloskey, David Macaulay, and others. To express the vitality and sheer fun of children's books, seventy-five of today's most noteworthy writers and illustrators have contributed original essays commenting on their work's meaning to themselves and to children.


Somatic (or physical) symptom disorders involve pronounced physical problems accompanied with a high level of health concern that diminishes work and home life. These disorders include abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors about real or perceived health problems. For example, when a health problem occurs, the extreme concern about them is often greater than the actual physical problem itself.
People with these disorders describe physical pain and discomfort. They see these symptoms as real health problems, not a mental health issue. These concerns can lead to unneeded tests, surgeries, or medication that may in turn cause a great deal of stress and frustration.
A person can have both a medical disorder and a somatic symptom at the same time. Strong health concerns do not constitute a somatic symptom diagnosis only because a medical issue cannot be found. However, for some somatic symptom disorders, the lack of a medical cause for the symptoms is still a key factor in diagnosis. Risk factors include increased sensitivity to pain and early trauma or neglect.
There are four somatic symptom disorders. Somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder, illness anxiety disorder, and factitious disorder. Each of these share a common feature: People who suffer from this will more likely visit a health care clinic or hospital instead of seeking mental health care, each marked by a great concern for physical health.
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There are secret workings going on under the soil. The plant root system is one of them.
There are two main types of roots, both crucial to the health of the plant; a tap root, which is a long sturdy kind of growth to anchor the plant and find nutrients from a long way down, and fibrous roots close to the surface surrounding the plant.
These are equally as important, and also anchor the plant steady in the soil, but they have an important difference.
The fine hair roots provide a way for the plant to access shallow water, such as dew, or light rainfall, especially when the rest of the soil is dry.
In times of drought, the tap roots can seek out moisture from deep in the soil. I've seen alfalfa roots that go down to the water table, sometimes three meters down, perhaps further.
The way plants grow their roots means that the tip of the root of either type has a soft extremely porous section to obtain moisture and nutrients.
The nutrients have to be dissolved in water for the plant to be able to use them.
There is also a symbiotic relationship between roots and micorrhizae, a beneficial fungus. The roots provide the fungus with sugars, and the fungus helps the roots obtain nutrients from the soil.
The rest of the root can get very woody, and does very little in the way of absorbing moisture. The are just there to be a conduit for the water the tip of the root can obtain.
Many succulent plants show this distinct difference in the type of roots, sometimes having a tap root that looks almost carrot like.
This allows it to also store moisture, a handy trait to have in a garden that might not get watered very often. See more about Xeric Plants and Gardens here.


Rhode Island’s poverty rate remained unchanged in 2014 at 14.3 percent, according to data released by the US Census Bureau. Poverty remained high in the Ocean State as the slow rate of economic recovery continued to take a toll on Rhode Island families.
With one in seven Rhode Islanders living beneath the federal poverty level (about $24,000 for a family of four), basic necessities like decent housing, healthy food, and quality child care remain out of reach.
More than 145,000 Rhode Islanders – one in seven – lived in poverty in 2014, according to new Census Bureau data, with Rhode Island’s poverty rate of 14.3% falling slightly lower than the national average of 15.5%. Among the New England states, the Ocean State had the largest share of its residents living in poverty last year, while New Hampshire again was the state with the lowest poverty rate, at 9.2 percent.
Rhode Island’s communities of color faced higher levels of poverty in 2014, with 20.6 percent of Blacks and 31.0 percent of Ocean State Latinos living in poverty last year. White and Asian Rhode Islanders experienced lower rates of poverty, at 10.3 and 13.0 percent respectively.
While Rhode Island’s poverty rate appears to have stabilized (albeit at a level that remains far too high), its median household income continues its downward trend. The state’s median annual income, when adjusted for inflation, was $54,891 a year, remains significantly less than (inflation adjusted) pre-recession median household income of $61,159, and down from its recent peak of $62,870, in 2003.


Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molière, (January 15, 1622 to February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known dramas are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite), L'Avare ou L'École du mensonge (The Miser), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman). Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'Arte elements with the more refined French comedy.
At the right is a portrait of Molière by Nicholas Mignard in the role of Julius Caesar. This painting is now in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
We will read Tartuffe.
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays,
Oxford University Press; Reissue edition (July 15, 2008),


Leo and the Octopus, by Isabelle Marinov/Illustrated by Chris Nixon, (Sept. 2021, Kane Miller), $12.99, ISBN: 9781684642779
“The world was too bright for Leo. And too loud.” Leo is a boy who feels like he’s on the wrong planet. Other kids don’t understand him; he doesn’t understand them. Stressed and lonely, everything changes the day he meets Maya, an octopus who looks like an alien! And Leo feels like an alien, so this should be great! Once he reads up on octopuses, he discovers how interesting they are, and decides that maybe Maya could be his first friend. The octopus and the boy form a friendly bond, which helps him understand a day when Maya is overwhelmed by all the attention she’s getting at her aquarium tank.
Author Isabelle Marinov was inspired to write Leo and the Octopus by her own son and turns in a sensitive and accurate portrayal of a child on the autism spectrum. The storytelling is gentle, respectful to both Leo and Maya and their growing friendship. The two characters develop a very sweet relationship that helps Leo grow: he recognizes when Maya is distressed and takes action to relieve her stress, and he learns to reach out and discover another friend in the course of the story. Soothing colors make this an easy read that all kids will love. Endpapers spotlight Maya and Leo interacting across the spread. A must-read, must-have to teach empathy and understanding to others as well as to provide kids on the spectrum with a child they recognize on the page.
Leo and the Octopus has a starred review from Kirkus.


A circular electric current, perpendicularly bisected by a field plane, was modelled as a continuum of pairs of distinct Cartesian component elemental magnetic vector charges normal and parallel to the field plane. The Cartesian elemental magnetic vector charges normal to the field plane pair up into Cartesian elemental magnetic dipoles with intra-dipolar displacements parallel to the plane. These dipoles generate the overall magnetic vector potential at the field point. The Cartesian elemental magnetic vector charge components parallel to the field plane form Cartesian elemental magnetic dipoles (with intra-dipolar displacements perpendicular to the field plane) which individually and collectively contribute nothing to the overall magnetic vector potential. Each continuum of these two sets of Cartesian elemental magnetic dipoles independently yields the traditionally renowned “magnetic dipolar moment of a circular current”. However, together their two distinct magnetic fields, as well as their two distinct magnetic torques, constitute the circular current’s overall magnetic field and the total magnetic torque respectively. These results reconcile only if the magnetic dipolar moments of both sets are endorsed, that is a circular current of any spatial size is a continuum of pairs of distinct Cartesian elemental magnetic dipoles and that consequently its overall magnetic dipolar moment is numerically twice the traditional value. In addition the customary ad hoc definition of the magnetic dipole moment of a current loop is deceptively erroneous, thus prompting a review of many relations involving it. These include the magnetic torque and magnetic field generated by it, and the classical magneto-mechanical ratio.
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Nutmeg is obtained from the fruit (seeds) of Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree native to the South Pacific islands, and is commonly used as a cooking spice. Nutmeg contains volatile terpenes and aromatic ethers and has been used to treat dyspepsia, musculoskeletal disorders and arthritis. Myristicin (A) and elemicin (B) are two of many pharmacologically-active chemical compounds found in nutmeg and have similar chemical structures to amphetamines and mescaline, respectively. Inebriant effects of nutmeg were reported as early as 1576. Nutmeg was an important trade item in the 15th and 16th centuries, and was used by slaves on the ships bringing nutmeg to Europe to precipitate a pleasant, euphoric feeling that relieved their weariness and pain. Nutmeg also became recognized for its ability to induce abortions. Although not a popular street drug today, nutmeg may be abused by those looking to alter consciousness with a readily available, legal substance. Intoxication requires 5-20 grams (1-4 teaspoons) of ground nutmeg, often administered as a tea. Onset of symptoms occurs within 3-6 hours and last for 12-24 hours, often followed by deep sleep. Toxic symptoms are dose-related and primarily anticholinergic, including dry mouth, GI upset, flushing, palpitations, agitation, blurred vision, miosis, hypotension, hypothermia, hallucinations, as well as coma and death. Detection of nutmeg-related compounds by laboratory testing is not readily available. Activated charcoal may be used to prevent absorption of recent ingestions, but clinical management is otherwise supportive.
- Ellenhorn’s Medical Toxicology, 2nd ed. Williams & Wilkins, 1997.
- http://uuhsc.utah.edu/poison/healthpros/utox/Vol5_No4.pdf (no longer available)


MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH) celebrates and supports the annual National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week (NDAFW), along with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The weeklong observance held March 20-26, inspires dialog about the science of drug use and addiction among youth. It provides an opportunity to bring together students, educators, mental and physical health care providers and community partners to help address youth drug and alcohol use in communities and nationwide.
During the week, youth participate in programs host by community providers to ask questions and speak openly about drugs and alcohol. “National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week offers prevention partners and providers around the state, the space and time to share crucial information with teens who ask questions and can give direct responses,” said ADMH Director of Prevention Beverly Johnson.
ADMH has 23 Certified Prevention Providers that offer prevention activities aligned with the Centers for Substance Abuse and Prevention strategies including Alternative, Community Based Process, Education, Environmental, Information Dissemination and Problem Identification and Referral. Through these strategies, providers implement and participate in prescription drug takeback events, health fairs, media campaigns and various other national observance activities.
Highlighted area for online publication only DELETE THESE SENTENCE BEFORE PUBLISHING, PLEASE. ADMH’s Office of Prevention will host the following activities during NDAW:
Tuesday, March 21
Fact Sheet: Risk Factors and Protective Factors for Substance Use: Marijuana
Wednesday, March 22
Topic: Underage Drinking and Alcohol Use
Facts Sheet Comorbidities: Mental Disorders and Substance Use Disorders: Alcohol
Thursday, March 23
Fact Sheet: Reducing Stigma: Opioids
Friday, March 24
Topic: Promoting Positive Minds: Self-awareness and promote strategies for supporting positive mental and emotional health
Breathing Exercises with Guided Meditation | 5 Minutes |


Fatal Flaw: No one in government is thinking that the citizen emissions need to be offset. Governments are moving to clean up internal emissions, but no one is looking at citizen emissions and unless this is done, we are in a lot of trouble when it comes to reducing emissions.
Municipal governments are being presented with the idea that the air is now a broken infrastructure, and that like road and sewers, needs to be maintained at cost. Cities are already dealing with their internal emissions reduction schemes but need to realize that the public has no direct incentive to offset their own emissions. It costs money to offset emissions and because of accumulated atmospheric GHGs we have to do it. It is unavoidable. My company ran a crowdfunding web site to see if the public would know that it has to clean up its own emissions and did not have one person fund their own offsets. This means that governments will have to step up for two reasons. The honor system for offsetting does not work, and cities need to protect their assets. It would seem that asking people to clean up their own emissions is like asking each person to look after their own water quality or their own roads- we would not want to do it for lack of real standards.
It is time for governments to realize that the air is an infrastructure, that it’s broken, which is an emergency situation, and that public funds and policy to protect it means offsetting greenhouse gases and pollution for the public. Until governments remove this bottleneck int their thinking when it comes to society, we will not be able to reliably reduce our accumulated emissions and those are the ones that are killing people locally and far away for many reasons.


Homeland Security Developing Underwater Drones Shaped Like Fish & Beetles!
Some remarkable drones are being developed and actively tested.British newspapers are reporting the Department of Homeland Security has teamed up with a Boston development company to create Robocod, an underwater drone!
Robocod is actually based upon the shape of a tuna, designed to swim about underwater, and able to access areas where normal submersible craft cannot access. They called it Robocod because Robotuna sounded stupid. We don't know that, but the invention is remarkable.
The science of mimicking animals for robotic purposes is called "biomimetics." If the right paint were applied to Robocod, you probably would not be able to tell it apart from similar fish in the ocean. The craft will be used, according to Homeland Security, for a number of security and surveillance purposes. According to its inventor, numerous non-military applications requiring underwater work are possible.
Besides Robocod, there are numerous other drone craft that have been inspired by live animals including birds, dogs, and even giant beetles. Boston Dynamics has created a four-legged robot that is capable of "following" a foot soldier like a dog, and carry loads of up to 400 pounds!
But probably the best one of all is the Kabutom RX-03 -- a 33-foot, 17-ton robotic beetle made by Japanese researchers this year. It has six legs, is diesel powered, and can even blow smoke from it's nose! The practical purposes of this giant creature are not exactly clear, but as one critic put it, if the people of Japan are ever attacked by Godzilla again they could use this creation against him.
Don't laugh too hard though, the U.S. military is helping fund many of these projects. We're not sure if we lent any cash to the Japanese inventor.


Owing to their sessile life habit, plants are continuously subjected to a broad range of environmental stresses. During periods of (a)biotic stresses, reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels can rise excessively, leading to oxidative stress. Glutathione reductase (GR) plays an important role in scavenging the ROS and maintenance of redox potential of the cell during oxidative stress. To enhance ROS scavenging capacity, and hence stress tolerance, the Arabidopsis thalianaGR2 (AtGR2) gene was expressed from the tobacco plastid (chloroplast) genome, the main source of ROS production in plant photosynthetic tissues, in this study. Leaves of transplastomic tobacco plants had about seven times GR activity and 1.5 times total glutathione levels compared to wild type. These transplastomic tobacco plants showed no discernible phenotype and exhibited more tolerance to methyl viologen-induced oxidative stress than wild-type control plants. The results indicate that introducing AtGR2 in chloroplasts is an efficient approach to increase stress tolerance. This study also provides evidence that increasing antioxidant enzyme via plastid genome engineering is an alternative to enhance plant's tolerance to stressful conditions.
Keywords: chloroplast; glutathione reductase; methyl viologen; reactive oxygen species; tolerance.
Copyright © 2019 Wang, Ding, Chen, Ouyang, Li and Zhang.


During 12 and 18 August 1999, severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds and hail that caused an estimated $50 million in damage to agriculture in west-central Illinois. Landsat-7 imagery was obtained to determine the areal extent of damage and produce a crop damage dollar estimate. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) was calculated for images taken "before" and "after" the severe thunderstorm events in order to examine the changes in NDVI, or vegetation vigor. A differenced image was also produced by subtracting the NDVI of the two images.
Landsat-7 data was found to be useful for identifying the areal extent of severe thunderstorm damage in west-central Illinois. In comparing the detection of damage produced by high winds and hail, it was found that hail damage was considerably easier to identify. This is due to the fact that large hail typically destroys the crops while high winds blow over corn plants that can remain rooted and survive.
Additionally, county estimates of dollar losses in crops were produced and compare favorably with estimates contained in Storm Data. Findings suggest, however, that Storm Data reports are inadequate for attempting to determine the areal extent of damage due to the difficulties in drive-by, ground-based estimation. Storm Data is primarily useful for locating the general area and extent of storm damage when reports and loss estimates were able to be obtained by the local National Weather Service Office.
Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois
Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia


JCSM called nine members of the university community to respond objectively and subjectively to art from JCSM’s growing collection of natural history prints. The resulting exhibition is an orchestrated chorus of diverse voices responding to the art, science, and wonder of representing the natural world.
To expand the conversation, Ralph Brown Draughon Library’s Special Collections Department loaned materials from their collections; JCSM appreciates their kind collaboration. We also thank the Auburn University Museum of Natural History in the College of Science and Mathematics for loaning materials from their ornithology collection.
The Natural Kinds (Reference Failure)
Jessye McDowell’s The Natural Kinds is a landscape built in 3D modeling software, incorporating elements of illustrations by John Audubon and John Gould. McDowell is interested in the historical and continuing role of landscape and conceptions of the natural world in society’s perception and definition of itself.
In this work, the artist investigates relationships between digital and analog processes of image creation. Gould and Audubon represent a romantic ideal of the artist as explorer; they used physical materials and processes, including direct observation of their subjects, to create highly rendered and realistic images. McDowell’s processes are, by contrast, associated with the virtual and non-material. But the boundaries are not so clearly defined: the precision of McDowell’s digital image creates an uncanny sense of physicality, belying the fact that it has no original referent, and re ecting the increasing co-mingling of virtual and physical experience in today’s technology-infused environment. The imaginary landscape depicted is its own kind of frontier, approached through technology, and a catalyst for shifting conceptions the “natural.”
Jessye McDowell is an artist working across digital platforms to examine the interworkings of lived experience and digital life. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Auburn University.


Confessing Theology HelpsPosted: October 18, 2010 Filed under: Reformed Confessions, Systematic Theology Leave a comment
To maintain the purity of doctrine. . .
In the course of time the church has been assaulted by damnable heresies. The church had to clearly express what she stood for. The heretics have often awakened the church and caused her to stand firm on the truth once delivered to her. Without Arius Athanasius would not have performed his life work. Without Donatus and Pelagius Augustine would not have developed to such an outstanding theologian. The church had profit even from the struggles against heretics.
The church against Arius clearly testified of Divine nature of Christ and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity as portrayed by Athanasius was made into a confession. At the council of Carthage in 418 Pelagianism was completely banished and condemned. The heretics forced the church to conduct a deep exegesis. Actually the salvation of souls was at stake. Over against deceit they had to place the truth in clear formulations. These became confessions.
To be tolerant here would have shown a lack of character. When scripture has spoken and Christ has made this message clear to the church then the church may sign no pact of tolerance but must be sharp in portraying and exposing deceit and lying.
The church used thereby the Word of God and could plead and experience and trust the promise of Christ that the Holy Spirit would lead into all truth. In clear words the church could state that she believes and confesses and condemns.
This was again the case during the reformation. Calvin wanted to maintain the purity in doctrine by also letting the children of Geneva study the truth in catechism. This catechism would lead the children to do confession of faith. The confession of the church was seen as a means to maintain the purity of doctrine.


Thursday 4th May 2023
In our bid to increase our biodiversity we wanted to measure just how biodiverse our soil is by making a mini wormery. First, we learnt why they are so important to the planet. Being decomposers, they are at the bottom of the food chain and help oxygenate and fertilize the soil by eating waste matter. This improves the texture and fertility of the soil, as well as reducing carbon. They also attract birds, frogs and hedgehogs who all eat or predate them.
Armed with a plastic water bottle, with the top quarter cut off, the children made layers of compost and sand. They then went on a worm hunt, using a guide and came back with 15. They put them on top and we added some dead leaves for them to feed on, as well as a drop of water. With the plastic top minus the lid they can breathe but not escape. Finally, we put black paper around the edge so that it is dark like their natural habitat. They started to burrow down quite quickly, but we will look at them every day before returning them in a week. We learnt that there are 30 species of worms and that they can live for up to 5 years. We think they may be tiger worms.


From the Publisher...
Do you know where the panda lives? Do you know where the babirusa lives? Do you know what a babirusa is? In the game Fauna, you are not expected to know all the answers, simply gather your wits and make an educated guess. You are right on target? Great! You are close? That's good too, since you score partial points. The more you play the better you get.
Playing Fauna involves some fun betting for points, but don't get cocky, as this may cost you your hide.
1 double-sided game board (metric & imperial units)
180 animal cards with 360 animals
1 card box
42 bet markers, divided in 6 colors
30 black evaluation markers
1 lion marker (for the starting player)
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During Prohibition, Your Doctor Could Write You a Prescription for Booze
Take two shots of whiskey and call me in the morning
Perscription for alcohol used during Prohibition. (Text by Megan Gambino.)
Rub a little whiskey on a baby’s gums. You’ve probably heard that home remedy for teething. But, what about a few teaspoons of bourbon to nip asthma symptoms or some sips of brandy to treat diabetes?
During Prohibition, the U.S. Treasury Department authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal alcohol. Licensed doctors, with pads of government-issued prescription forms, like the one shown here, advised their patients to take regular doses of hooch to stave off a number of ailments—cancer, indigestion and depression among them.
This privilege was one of the few legal exceptions to the 13-year ban on the production, sale and distribution of alcohol, initiated in 1920 by the 18th Amendment. The National Prohibition Act, which enforced the ban, also allowed farmers to produce wine for their own consumption and priests, ministers and rabbis to serve it during religious ceremonies.
“Presumably, doctors were doing examinations and diagnoses, but it was mostly bogus,” says Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Every ten days, patients willing to pay about $3 for a prescription and another $3 or $4 to have it filled could get a pint of booze. “There may have been some people who were being prescribed because there was a perceived medical need, but it was really a way for some physicians and pharmacists to make a few extra bucks,” he says.
Click on the bullseyes within the document to learn more about this short-lived practice.


The cogent explanation of the phrase “go hence without day” has been used by many attorneys throughout their legal careers, but few attorneys know the meaning of this historic phrase.
In Ball v. Genesis Outsourcing Solutions, LLC, the 3rd District Court of Appeal graciously provided the following to resolve the mystery of the historic phrase:
[The] last expression, “go hence without day” is properly used only in a judgment for a defendant; it should not be used in a judgment for a plaintiff. A little history explains why. The phrase refers back to the time when the trial judges in Florida actually rode circuit (which is why they are called “circuit” courts). Before permanent county courthouses were built and staffed, the judge, clerk, and often lawyers traveled together in a cavalcade of horses and mules carrying court records and portable legal libraries from county seat to county seat, where the court would sit to hear actions. The clerk issued summonses to local defendants ordering them to appear from day to day until the case against them was heard. If the defendant prevailed, the judgment would discharge the defendant from the summons by using the traditional language “defendant shall go hence without day” which indicated that there was no further date when the defendant was required to appear. The phrase goes back to medieval English practice when dismissal was indicated by the Latin legal expression “quod eat sine die”---“that he go hence without day.” Even today, by the way, the Legislature ends its daily work with a motion to adjourn and reconvene at a particular date and time until the end of the last day of the session when the motion is made to adjourn “sine die.”


When Was The First Computer Invented?
The first electronic computer made its debut in 1941. It was called "ENIAC," an acronym for "Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer." It was not a mass-market device; the United States government primarily used it for military research. Until the invention of the personal computer, computers were very large and mostly performed academic and government functions. An Italian company called Olivetti introduced the first personal computer, the Programma 101, at the New York World's Fair in 1964. PCs remained expensive throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, so they were not commonplace outside universities and research institutes. The first mass-market computer, the Commodore PET, hit the market in 1977. Throughout the 1980s, computers became more affordable, which helped them spread into the mass market.
Do Old Computers Work?
Vintage computer models can still work if they are in good condition. However, computers in poor condition may not function. Enthusiasts can sometimes replace parts to get the machine working again, but repair options depend on the extent of the damage. Older computers do not often have the capacity to perform modern functions such as email or surf the Internet, but machines in good working order can usually perform the functions they were programmed and designed to do.
Are Vintage Computers Worth Money?
Although many older computer models are not worth anything in terms of money, some models are collector's items. Early computers are rare, which increases their value. Models such as the Apple I, Apple II, Commodore 64, original IBM PC, Apple Lisa, and the Commodore PET 2001 can often fetch prices ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.


Group stretching : Arm and forearm
The arm muscles are divided into two separate boxes: the anterior box, in front of the humerus, and the posterior box, behind the humerus.
The anterior chamber of the arm contains three muscles: the biceps brachial, the coracobrachial and the brachial (or anterior brachial). The biceps brachial muscle, made up of two leaders, is not inserted on the humerus but on the scapula at the top and on the radius at the bottom; it allows the supination of the forearm and the bending of the elbow.
The coracobrachial muscle is inserted on the scapula at the top and on the humerus at the bottom; it plays a role in the anterior flexion of the shoulder. The brachial muscle is inserted on the humerus at the top and on the ulna at the bottom; its function is the bending of the elbow.
The posterior lodge of the arm contains a single muscle, the brachial triceps, composed of three muscle leaders; it is inserted at the top on the scapula and humerus, and at the bottom on the ulna; its function is the extension of the elbow.
The forearm has twenty muscles, divided into three boxes, anterior, posterior and lateral.
The anterior (or anteromedial) lodge consists of eight muscles, divided into a superficial and a deep plane. The superficial plane is composed of the pronator round muscles, radial carpal flexor, long palm, superficial finger flexor and ulnar carpal flexor. The deep plane is composed of the deep flexor muscles of the fingers, long thumb flexor and pronator square muscles.
The posterior lodge also has a superficial plane and a deep plane, with eight muscles. The superficial plane is composed of the extensor muscles of the fingers, extensor of the little finger, ulnar extensor of the carpus and anconeal.
The deep plane is composed of the long abductor muscles of the thumb, long extensor of the thumb, short extensor of the thumb and extensor of the index finger.
The lateral compartment has four muscles: brachioradial, long radial carpal extensor, short radial carpal extensor and supinator.


For many wildlife enthusiasts, spring is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated season of the year, especially for birdwatchers. Migrants arrive from their wintering areas and settle back into their breeding grounds. After the cold of winter there is suddenly a buzz of activity, especially for males hoping to attract a female.
While some bird displays leave something to be desired, other individuals put in great effort. As we move into March, birdsong is elevated both in volume and intensity. Greenfinches have a particularly impressive display that involves large bursts of activity. The male, dressed in his finest vivid green plumage, circles in wide loops with emphasised slow wing beats, looking more like a butterfly or a bat than a bird. During these theatrical acrobatics, the males constantly call out to the females with twittering phrases that finish with a long, nasal “dzweee”. If the female is won over, the new pair often perch high in the trees, with the male always in the open to ward off any other potential new suitors.
The arrival of March also brings in the sand martins, one of the UK’s earliest arriving migrants. The smallest of the European hirundines (swallows and martins), sand martins have arrived from Africa, crossing the Sahara desert to reach their nesting colonies and excavate tunnels in sandy vertical banks. Over the past fifty years, populations of sand martins have crashed twice because of drought in their African wintering grounds, which makes protecting their breeding sites in Britain even more important.
Elsewhere in the arrivals gate are chiffchaffs, and from late March to April these plain-looking birds can be heard calling their name in woodland copses and shrubby undergrowth. A tiny warbler no larger than a blue tit, chiffchaffs have spent the winter in the Mediterranean and western Africa. Breeding begins in April to May, when the female builds a domed nest that lies very close to the ground. Incubating eggs and rearing the chicks are solely the female’s responsibility. Chiffchaffs usually leave the UK in September, heading south towards France and occasionally on to West Africa.
Despite the recent snowfall that has smothered the emerging snowdrops and crocuses, keep an eye and ear out for the arrival of spring migrants who will hopefully find some warmth as they prepare to settle in for the breeding season.


A slot is a narrow opening in a structure or in an object. Its main purpose is to receive something. In addition to receiving things, a slot can also refer to a place in a sequence or series. In other words, it can be a job opening, assignment, or position. For example, an airplane wing has a slot for airflow.
There are many types of slots, each with a different function. A named slot is one that contains an identifying name. This is different from an unnamed slot, which is a common term for an unnamed slot. The name of the slot can be important, because it may refer to a different slot for different purposes.
When using a computer, it is important to know what type of slot is used. There are several different types of slots, including PCI slots and expansion slots. These are important because they enable users to increase the capabilities of their computer. Almost every desktop computer is equipped with a set of expansion slots. This will allow users to add new hardware in the future.
The slot receiver is an important player in a spread offense. This position is often mixed with other receiving positions, such as the wide receiver. A slot receiver is positioned in between the offensive tackle and the widest receiver and is often very fast and in a good position to catch a pass or take a handoff. The slot corner, meanwhile, is a smaller and faster cornerback.


Speaking and getting a point across is one of the most important urban survival skills of the 21st century. Keeping this in mind, we had organized competitions across all classes to give students a chance to prepare and work on oral and verbal presentation.
The 3rd, 4th and 5th standard students had elocution competitions on the 5th of December. There was good participation and the students came in quite well prepared too. They had good content in their speeches and delivered it with good confidence. It was a good experience to overcome the initial nervousness and stand boldly on stage and address an audience. We were happy to see that many students were quite clear and expressive in their thoughts. It’s a very valuable skill to have and will give these children a good edge over others as they fine tune it over the years.
Winners of the elocution competition were selected on the basis of fluency, subject matter and over all impact.
The 1st and 2nd standard students competed in story telling on 12th December. They had to prepare a story and deliver it with expressions and voice modulations. Even these 5 and 6 year old children could overcome their stage fright and narrate their story to an audience, which was mostly full of strangers to them! The stories that the children narrated were quite good. There were good messages in them and the performances were great too. If they are so bold at this age, they can only get better as they grow older.
It was also very nice to see that these children were listening to stories of the other participants, following them and appreciating good efforts from others too.
Understanding and dealing with competition in a healthy way is something that many adults find difficult to do and these children were doing it so naturally!
Winners were chosen based on the content of the story, the narration, voice modulation, fluency and overall impact.
The youngest group, our Kindergarten children, had their own competition as well. Nursery and Jr. KG children had a poem recitation competition. Sr. KG children did a good job at story telling. Even these toddlers were going up on stage and doing their thing. Watch our for the little Nutlets. They are going to be a big deal when they are all grown up!


In 2018 we had the opportunity to collaborate on a significant book project: Civil Rights Then and Now. For Black History Month, we want to share an excerpt of this publication we are so proud to be a part of. Here are 14 Civil Rights Supreme Court cases that every kid should know.
From slavery through the 1960s, this timeline brings to light events that have shaped the United States. This timeline begins December 6, 1865 with the 13th Amendment ratified, officially abolishing slavery. And it ends with the Loving v. Virginia case of 1967.
This is a guide for parents and educators who worry about broaching the topics of racism, discrimination, and prejudice. It is also a valuable resource and helpful launchpad to address the issues of social justice and civil rights. Use these Supreme Court cases in your lesson plans to educate them . Help your students examine the influence of the past and its relation to present day issues. These cases will spark conversations about subjects that we can no longer afford to ignore.
Civil Rights Supreme Court Cases
Interested in more resources on Civil Rights? Take a look at Civil Rights Then and Now: A Timeline of the Fight for Equality in America, written by our very own Kristina Brooke Daniele. The book includes questions for comprehension, essay prompts, and short answer questions to help students engage with the topics discussed in the book. Kristina has written some of our most popular lesson plans on the website, especially 10 Black Women Pioneers To Know For Black History Month.


Re: Two-step Tesla coil???
>>Why are single-step coils used? (I mean, besides the neon transformer). For
>>example: Suppose you start in making your T. coil with a 10Kv Neon
>>transformer. You then make a spark gap, etc. and a coil with a 20:2000
>> (100 X) ratio. Why not, say, make a 20:200 (10 X) coil and then take the
>>secondary voltage off of that to another 20:200 (10 X) coil? You would use
>>far less wire, and still end up with that total of 100 X from your 10Kv
>>transformer. Is this just a stupid idea, or does it have some practical
>Yes, adding a second coil will work in theory. But I've believe that
>the major problem with this is the volts per turn. If you get
>too many volts per turn of wire, your wire is going to arc between the turns,
>thus shorting out your coil!
HMM...... I don't want anyone to think a Tesla coil works on the turns ratio
principal that a normal transformer works on. It doesn't.
A Tesla coil works on the principal of circuit resonance and RF generation
caused by this ( I risk oversimplification here, but I want to keep it short).
A primary tank circuit has a certain amount of capacitance and inductance. This
has a natural resonant frequency, in the RF band. The circuit is excited by a
spark gap and High Voltage pulsing, many times per second. This causes the the
primary to "ring" at its resonant frequency at high energy. A field is
generated which excites the secondary, which happens to resonate at the same
frequency as the primary. The secondary then produces a very high potential in
the RF band. And, viola! Big sparks.
This is a gross over simplification, so don't flame me too bad guys. I just
wanted to point out that a Tesla coil is not a turns ratio transformer. When I
read the message above, I thought a new subscriber reading it might be mislead.
So basically, all the talk about a 100X ratio and using more or less wire is
"out the window".


Researchers with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have described a dolphin-like marine reptile that prowled the Scottish seas during the Jurass
Researchers with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have described a dolphin-like marine reptile that prowled the Scottish seas during the Jurassic period more than 170 million years ago. Found in Scotland’s Isle of Skye, the ichthyosaur was at the top of the food chain and looks like a dinosaur but technically isn’t a dinosaur, according to Stephe Brusatte, who is the lead author of a paper which describes the creature.
Its scientific name is Dearcmhara shawcrossi, and it was around 14 to 15 feet in length. Its dolphin-like body was built to patrol the waters off Scotland’s coast, looking for fish to eat. The marine reptile’s fossils were discovered in Bearreraig Bay in 1959 by amateur fossil hunter Brian Shawcross, who turned the bones over to the University after his discovery.
Contributors to the research team, called PalAlba, includes the University of Edinburgh, National Museums Scotland, the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum, Scottish National Heritage and Staffin Museum, Isle of Skye. Bones of Dearcmhara shawcrossi will be showcased January 18 at Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh.
The full scientific paper can be found on the Scottish Journal of Geology website.


The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
The Female Gaze:A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21st Centuries is an exhibition of photographs made by women from the 19th century to the present day. Since the beginning of the medium’s history, women have played a vital and sustained role in its invention and the making of photographs, which is not the case in any other visual medium.
Constance Talbot, wife of the co-inventor of photography, William Henry Fox Talbot, made her most insightful contribution in the autumn of 1843 when she set to work with the first few lines of her friend Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies. She reported in a letter to her husband on December 1, 1843, “I have composed a little frame with the 4 first lines of the ‘Last Rose of Summer’ & it is now waiting for brighter weather.” Sometime shortly after that, Talbot arranged her cutout letters in front of the camera and produced a negative of the text that is still printable today.
Women have made master works across the medium’s genres including portraits, travel, landscape, documentary and conceptual photography. The creative impact of women photographers as diverse as Julia Margret Cameron in the 19th century, Bernice Abbott in the 20th century and Carrie Mae Weems in the 21st century have defined the very best that the medium is capable of.
Photographs spanning the history of the medium have been selected from the Haverford College Fine Art Photography Collection. Works by Lady Hawarden, Imogene Cunningham, Claude Cahun, Nan Goldin, Vivian Maier and Tacita Dean among others are included in the exhibition forming a parallel history of the medium. These photographs when placed within the larger context of the medium’s history highlight women’s continuing contributions to photography from its beginnings to the present day.
October 24 to December 6, 2014
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Arts Center Campus Map
Friday, October 24


Joint pain and diseases of the joints can be complex. A common causes can be one of several arthritis types, which come in many different forms such as rheumatism, osteoarthritis or gout. In many cases, it’s possible to have a combination of these conditions. SUMMARY This article explains the differences between Arthritis, Rheumatism, Osteoarthritis and Gout. [...]
SUMMARY Vitamin E is an import antioxidant that can decrease the activity of free radicals. This can help to reduce the damaging effects of oxidative stress on joint cartilage. Since vitamin E also has anti-inflammatory properties, it may have an important role to play in the natural treatment of osteoarthritis. What is Vitamin E Vitamin E [...]
How amino acids can help treat osteoarthritis SUMMARY Foods can both help to reduce but also aggravate symptoms of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of joint aliments. Some amino acids such as l-arginine and l- methionine (among others) may help to combat the negative symptoms of these diseases. These amino acids can help to slow the progression of joint [...]
Vitamin D plays an integral role calcium absorption and utilisation, hence it’s vital role in supporting healthy bones and joints. Furthermore, it assists in autoimmune responses that protect against inflammation. A deficiency in the vitamin has therefore been linked to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.


Inflation is the sustained increase in the general price of goods and services and hence it reduces the purchasing power of Rupee. But some mild inflation is good for an economy as it help to grease the wheels of the commerce.
There are various ways to control Inflation:
Fiscal ways: Reduction in taxes. Like cut on excise duties in the case of petrol.
Monetary ways: Taken by RBI and it decrease the money supply through various means available like increase in the repo rate, open market operations by selling securities, Increase in CRR. Also sterilisation through government bonds transactions as in the case of MSB.
Supply side measure: Put ban on export of items to increase its availability in domestic market. Removing ban on import of goods is also one of the way.
Administrative: Implementation of DE hoarding and anti black marketing measures. Wage and price controls can also be used.
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Social Engineering: Web Attacks
Credential Harvester Attack Method
In this article, we will be looking at web based attacked using Kali Linux. Go the SE Toolkit in Kali, and set:webattack> 3
The Credential Harvester Attack Method helps create websites to trick users into giving up their credentials. Next you will be prompted to choose what sort of website sorter you will like to choose and you will pick set:webattack> 1 (Which is Web Templates)
Now enter the IP address for the website to post credentials back to. We can just use the local IP address for the Kali virtual machine, but if you use this attack against a client, you will need an Internet-facing IP address.
IP Address for the POST back in Harvester: 192.168.20.9
Now choose a template. Because we want to trick users into entering their credentials, choose a template with a login field, such as Gmail (option 2), as shown in the prompt. SET shoudl now start a web server with our fake Gmail page, a clone of the actual Gmail page.
Now browse to the cloned Gmail site at the Kali Linux web server and enter some credentials to see how this works. After entering credentials you should be redirected to the real Gmail site. To a user it will just seem like he or her just typed in their password incorrectly. In the meantime, back in SET, you should see field report in your linux.
When the user submits the page, SET highlights the fields that it thinks are interesting. Note that this attack can be even more interestering if you use option 5, Site Cloner, to make a copy of your customer's site. If they do not have a page with a login form of some sort (VPN, webmail, blogging, and so on) you can even create one. Clone their site, and add a simple HTML form like this:
<form name="input" action="index.php" method="post">
Username: <input type="text" name="username">

Password: <input type="password" name="pwd">

<input type="submit" value="Login">

Also note, that you must make MySQL or any database language back-end so you are able to retrieve this information from the user. Enjoy!


Yes. Volleyball players tend to run into each other when going for the ball. With badmitton, that's not possible.
Yes, all forms of football are far more dangerous. [This is purely opinion and speculation, I suggest searching Google for Football accident and injury rates and comparing them with the same for Volleyball for a more objective answer.]
like tennis, in badminton you hit a "ball" over a net with a racket. however for badminton you hit a "shuttlecock" which is the ball with feathers. the racket for badminton is also much lighter than a tennis racket mostly because the "ball" is lighter. badminton net is also higher, but not as high as a volleyball net
its more difficult than an underhand serve because you throw it in the air and try to hit it. its more easier to do an underhand serve because you hold it your hand rather than throwing it in the air. its more dangerous because it goes in a faster speed than an underhand serve.
No, there are definitely more women involved in volleyball than men.
You win at volleyball by scoring more points than the other team.
more than you can count
in mens volleyball, the net is higher than in womens volleyball in mens volleyball, the net is higher than in womens volleyball girl vball is more a bout control, and boys is more about power and hitting it hard.....even if it get hit out of bounce!
A matter of personal opinion
One is not inherently more dangerous than other other. You would have to compare them on a species by species basis. A crocodile is more dangerous than a mouse. A grizzly bear is more dangerous than a gecko.
You can learn more than 31 different volleyball serves at this link.
A volleyball substitution is when a player (or more than one) leaves the game and is replaced by a player from the bench.
A rhinoceros is more dangerous than the crocodile.


Many health officials around the country are predicting an intense flu season. The dire prediction is using this year’s Australian flu outbreak as the measuring stick and prediction mechanism. Because Australia has given us insight into what sorts of strains to expect, officials can also apply success and failure rates to vaccines. Flu vaccine distribution in Australia is heavy.
So what were the results? Officially, the flu shot was 10% effective. Worse more is the fact that Australia’s flu season was an especially harsh one, leading some critics to grow concerned as to whether or not the flu shot was not only poor at preventing flu, but also a contributor to its onset.
Of course, this hasn’t stopped health officials from recommending that people take the failed flu shot.
“Ten percent seems low, but the main thing is you rather have something rather than nothing,” said Dallas County Health and Human Services clinic nurse Tammara Scroggins to Fox4News.
The CDC says that Massachusetts, Georgia, Louisiana, and Oklahoma are already experiencing flu outbreaks.
“The vaccine antibodies usually take about two weeks to develop in your body,” Scroggins said.
Health officials say now is the perfect time for added protection – even if it’s only 10 percent.
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WHERE IS BOTSWANA?
Botswana is located in the center of Southern Africa. It is surrounded on the northeast by Zambia, on the south by South Africa, on the west by Namibia, and the northwest by Angola.
The population of Botswana in 2022 was 2,346,279.
It is the least populated country in the world related to its size.
The average age of its citizens is 24 years.
Botswana is about the size of France and a little smaller than Texas.
The Okavango Delta is the largest inland delta in the world.
The Kalahari Desert, a semi-arid and sandy savanna, covers about 70% of Botswana.
The Kalahari Desert is home to a large variety of animals including the large Kalahari Lion.
The most dense population of elephants in the world is found in Botswana. 70% of all African elephants are in Botswana.
The national animal is the zebra.
The official language of Botswana is English and beginning in second grade, children are taught English in schools.
Setswana is the language most widely spoken.
There are 18 tribal languages.
Most people speak three languages: Setswana, English, and their tribal language.
The literacy rate is now close to 90%.
Botswana was a protectorate of England but never a colony.
It became independent in 1966 and at that time it was one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.
Botswana now has a representative democratic government.
The flag of Botswana is blue, white, and black. The blue represents the sky and water. The black and white stripes stand for racial harmony.
Botswana is known for its amazing safari life and for its diamonds mined in the southern part of the country. Diamonds from Botswana are certified conflict free (no association with rebel or terror groups).


Only releasing antibacterials when needed leave bacteria with no time to adapt
Researchers in China have developed capsules for use in bandages that can store antibacterials and control their activity, aiding in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Bacterial strains resilient towards multiple drugs are an increasingly common and dangerous part of the 21st century. With repercussions global in scale, innovative devices are needed that deliver antibacterial agents precisely and instantly so bacteria cannot adapt.
Xiaolei Wang, and colleagues at NanChang University, have developed antibacterial materials based on silver nanoparticles enclosed in carbon membranes that act as switchable capsules. The supramolecular capsules regulate the activity of the antibacterial silver so that it possesses three distinct and switchable modes – packaged, on and off – with the added bonus that the materials can be 3D printed into a variety of shapes, such as smart caps for culture bottles.
Wang says the discovery was an unexpected phenomenon they observed from transmission electron microscopy images, where the capsules ‘seemed like the daily fresh keeping film for packaged fruits’.
To demonstrate the capsules’ features, Wang’s team incorporated them into plasters. The resulting intelligent bandages have two pieces, a top layer containing sterilised phosphate buffered saline and a bottom layer containing the antibacterial capsules. A simple press of the bandage causes the layers to interact, releasing the active silver particles and changing the colour from white to orange, showing the bandage is on. The particles’ antibacterial action switches off if they aggregate together.
David Mills, an expert in bioactive therapeutics at Louisiana Tech University, US, is impressed, calling the switchable antibacterial devices elegant examples that blend nanotechnology, chemistry and materials science whilst also showcasing the impact of 3D printing on real-world biomedicine. ‘Wang’s team is helping to realise a future where medical treatment has become on-demand, highly personalised, with treatment modalities that are patient specific, not “one size fits all”.’
M Liu et al, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/c6tb00576d
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but how teachers choose to use the additional time they now have in class is what defines each of the variations of the flipped classroom model. a debate-focused flipped classroom works as follows: students take in the initial information at home, then attend the class and engage in a debate, or a series of debates, with their peers.
the micro-flipped classroom is essentially a way of combining the traditional and flipped classroom approaches, affording teachers some time for more conventional lecture-based instruction while still providing students and teachers with some of the benefits of flipping the classroom. this essentially allows the flipped classroom model to be utilized in situations where classroom attendance is not possible and for distance and hybrid learning courses too. the flipped classroom model largely reduces this challenge by allowing students to take in foundational knowledge at their own speed at home, therefore opening class time up to a number of more active ways of learning, such as discussions, debates, and group activities.
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June 21, 2018
PASIG CITY, June 21, 2018 – The Department of Education reiterates its commitment to promote a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment for all learners as it enforces zero tolerance on cases of child abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, bullying, and other forms of abuse.
Its Child Protection Policy, issued through DepEd Order No. 40, s. 2012, mandates all public and private elementary and secondary schools to create their own Child Protection Committee (CPC) which ensures that cases and instances of abuse are closely monitored and expeditiously investigated.
The implementation of the policy through the CPC has led to a more effective and efficient process of tracking and reporting cases of child abuse, hence the surge in number of documented incidences since 2012. But the Department’s unwavering efforts and interventions resulted to a significant decrease in the incidences of bullying – from 29,723 in School Year 2015-2016 to 19,672 in School Year 2016-2017.
These efforts include the strict implementation of the DepEd Anti-Bullying Policy issued through DepEd Order No, 55, s. 2013, and reiterated through DepEd Memorandum No. 5, s. 2017 in response to Republic Act 10627 or the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013. The Department has also been training its designated Child Protection Specialists who will provide technical guidance to schools on complex and serious cases of child abuse.
In addressing bullying in schools, DepEd has time and again called for teachers and officials alike to instill among learners the value of respect for each other’s rights regardless of their opinion, status, gender, ethnicity, religion, as well as moral and physical integrity.
Finally, DepEd continuously intensifies its campaign to mobilize and educate the learners, parents, teachers, community members, local government units, and other stakeholders on child protection.


Various Cloud-Based Software Applications
Electronic and impair services have become increasingly prevalent for businesses as they allow organizations to quickly deploy and support IT infrastructures without the need to acquire hardware, web servers, and other physical resources. In addition they reduce costs and improve overall performance, helping businesses increase versatility, stability, and invention.
The cloud based service primary benefits of cloud computer include scalability, security, and reliability, allowing users to deploy virtual resources because needed for all their workloads. In addition , cloud conditions help improve efficiency and enable AI and machine learning work with cases to boost organization value and enhance competitive advantage.
Cost-effective: As a result of learning resource sharing and pooling, virtualization reduces the advantages of costly storage space upgrades to accommodate fresh workloads. It also reduces system inability risk, since virtual machines can be transferred to other hosts if a person crashes.
Without difficulty Attainable: Virtualized impair infrastructures will be accessible from any position, and can be used through the Internet (depending on permissions). This makes it easy to store info in the cloud for retrieval.
Secure: As a result of non-dependence on a single physical machine, it is easy to ensure that data is safeguarded against reduction or thievery. It is also easy to recover data if it is accidentally lost or misplaced due to program failure.
Additionally , a cloud environment offers an easy approach to manage users and control entry to resources, reducing the need for costly IT support. In turn, it helps organizations lessen power, chilling, and maintenance costs while reducing their influence on the environment.


Alaska Native Languages Go Digital
We’re very proud to launch a further digital book that forms part of a comprehensive program to revitalise language in Alaska – read more here Alaska Native Languages Go Digital.
Arnaq Tunucillek-llu (The Young Lady and the Loon) was created by students and teachers from the village of Chevak in Western Alaska. It is a traditional tale that tells of a mysterious visitor’s supernatural secret and a young lady’s perilous curiosity.
The book is used as part of Kashunamiut School District’s Cup’ik language immersion program, and contains features that promote word recognition to build beginner level Cup’ik language reading skills. It also includes interactive sound touch zones and other audio effects that will immerse readers in this atmospheric story.
To date, a series of fifteen Cup’ik language digital storybooks featuring interactive multimedia elements have been created and are available free in the App Store. Making these books has been a collaborative effort between the school leadership, students, teachers, the Association of Alaska School Boards, and Kiwa Digital.
“To all those who have been involved in making Cup’ik language books a reality, Quyana Cakneq! (Thank You Very Much!), says Olson”.
Accurately transcribing a traditional story that had only been passed on orally requires a dedicated team of fluent speakers. For the production of the Arnaq Tunucillek-llu, translating the oral story to text and audio required participation of a Cup’ik linguist, an elder fluent in Cup’ik, a narrator fluent in Cup’ik, and a focus group of five Cup’ik speakers to review the final text for precision and correctness. It is a process that can take months to complete.
Lillian Olson, a teacher at Chevak school whose voice appears in many of the books as the narrator and other characters, has worked on the digital book project since it began. To all those who have been involved in making Cup’ik language books a reality, “Quyana Cakneq! (Thank You Very Much!),” says Olson.