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Work values are global aspects of work that are important to a person’s satisfaction. Select a work value to discover occupations that reinforce the work value.
Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.


A comparative investigation of the types and number of football injuries received by ninth and tenth grade boys and eleventh and twelfth grade boys
Date of Award
Master of Arts (M.A.)
There is now and may always be a difference of opinion on the advisability of contact sports for the younger and usually more immature boys. It is said by some that the many and varied experiences and attitudes gained through early participation in team contact sports greatly over-balances any detrimental effects which might occur. The other point of view expresses the opinion that anything which is gained at this younger age can and will be better accepted. when there is less chance or physical, mental, and social strain or damage.
The age groups considered ln this study are usually exempted from the above discussion. High school boys, with some limitations, are felt to be mature enough to compete in these activities. However, the maturity of many ninth and tenth grade boys can be questioned.
In any case, competitive athletics for all high school boys is a firm part of the school program and continuous effort should be made to improve the conditions which surround it.
It was the purpose of this study to show the physical affects of the contact team sport of football on two classes of boys. The comparison was made between ninth and tenth grade boys and eleventh and twelfth grade boys, all of whose injuries were obtained during practice for or actual participation in interscholastic competition in high school football.
Caton, Daniel Charles. (1956). A comparative investigation of the types and number of football injuries received by ninth and tenth grade boys and eleventh and twelfth grade boys. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1297


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Break & Lunchtime
Break and lunchtime are different at Secondary School.
You will have two breaks on Monday to Thursday and one on Friday.
Break and lunchtime are important times for a range of activities. However, we know for some students, time outside of lessons can be difficult.
Therefore the key is to make a plan!
Break time is spent with your year group. This is normally outside so you can get some fresh air but will be indoors in your Advisory room if it is wet. You should have a snack at break to keep you going through the morning.
Lunchtime is longer than breaktime and is divided into two sessions - one indoors where you can eat your lunch and one outside so you can run, play some games about and get some more fresh air!
Think about attending at least one club. We have many that are available at break and lunchtime, providing some alternative ways to spend your time. We will provide a list of the clubs at the start of term.
Make sure you go the toilet!
Advisors allow their advisory group to use their classroom at break and lunchtime. It is really important these are kept clean and tidy.
Phones can be used at break and lunchtime but need to be used responsibly. Also, do not miss out on talking to friends because you are staring at a screen!
If you are finding break and lunchtime difficult, speak to your Advisor and they will help you to find some ways of making it better.
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at Tate Britain until 24 September
In 1848, at the age of twenty, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, alongside his brother William Michael, predominantly known as an author. In the same year their younger sister Christina had her first poems published, while their elder sister Maria would eventually write a book on Dante.
The Tate exhibition looks at the work of this remarkable family in all of its forms, as well as discussing their lives and loves. Inevitably this includes the woman Dante Gabriel would marry, Elizabeth Siddal.
As 'Mrs Rossetti' Siddall is fully integrated into the family. She has long been known primarily as a model, but is increasingly recognised as an artist in her own right. The exhibition explores the ways in which she and Gabriel worked together and influenced one another.
Inevitably, as the most productive visual artist of the family, Dante Gabriel is by far the best represented of the five, and apart from anything else this exhibition constitutes a superb introduction to his life and career. This is enhanced by 'guest appearances' by members of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and from the world of Arts and Crafts, which helps to fill out our understanding of the family as a whole.
Please remember, I do not record my talks.


Preschool Children are CURIOUS about the world and are able to acquire, organize and use information in increasingly complex ways. Children who experience POSITIVE APPROACHES to learning are more likely to succeed in future schooling and friendships.
PLAY IS IMPORTANT for learning, with benefits including self-regulation, memory development, divergent thinking, problem solving, language development, and academic skills in literacy, math, social studies and science.
The Discovery Center’s LICENSED LEAD TEACHERS support children’s learning by creating POSITIVE and SUPPORTIVE environments. They model strategic engagement and “self-talk” to help children stay engaged and be successful in challenging tasks, as well as encourage children to learn from their mistakes by modeling problem-solving techniques. Songs, finger-plays and storybooks that focus on a variety of subjects and categories are planned and used throughout the lessons.
Materials are routinely rotated to maintain children’s INTEREST. Games are played that support children’s curiosity and teach critical thinking, like MEMORY games, MYSTERY boxes and sorting/matching games. Rich and engaging DRAMATIC PLAY environments are used by teachers to model pretend play in both home-living and learning unit experiences.
Our LEARNING OBJECTIVES in the cognitive area of development include:


Emily Warren Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling (1843-1903) was an engineer and vice-president of the Roebling Company of Trenton, which makes wire rope.
She was also the wife of Col. Washington A. Roebling, and In 1873, while Washington Roebling was building the Brooklyn Bridge, he became ill and was incapacitated. Emily Roebling took over the supervision of the work and saw to completion the building of the bridge, the first span over the East River from New York City to Brooklyn.
Weigold, Marilyn. “Building Brooklyn’s Bridge – The Newport Scenario.” Newport History 56, no. 3 (1983): 86-95.
Weigold, Marilyn E. 2019. Silent builder: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108873948
Questions to Explore
What are some other things Roebling was involved in building?
What were wire ropes used for in building?
How was Roebling received by the other builders and architect when she started helping with the supervision of the Brooklyn Bridge?
Ferri Diane Vogel. 2020. No Life but This : A Novel of Emily Warren Roebling. Cleveland Ohio: ATBOSH Media. https://www.worldcat.org/title/1264297736
Wishinsky Frieda and Natalie Nelson. 2019. How Emily Saved the Bridge : The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Toronto: Groundwood Books House of Anansi Press. https://www.worldcat.org/title/1080211189
Mills William Coleman. 2000. “The Monumental Other : Exhuming the Invisible Construction of Emily Warren Roebling.” Dissertation. Cornell University. . https://www.worldcat.org/title/44708691


The spring making machine is a very common machine, but many people know very little about the spring making machine. They don’t know how to maintain the spring making machine correctly.
1. Maintenance of the operating mechanism: After the equipment is used up, turn off the power of the machine, wipe the dirt on the surface of the mechanism and the motor with cotton fabric and apply anti-rust oil. In order to avoid dust and debris from falling in, do not use an air spray gun to blow it, but keep it Clearance of chute or rotating structure. The moving parts of the sliding block of the spring making machine must be lubricated with lubricating oil, and high-viscosity grease is not allowed, so as not to affect the linear movement of the sliding block. In order to prevent dust and debris from falling in, do not use an air spray gun to blow, and keep the gap between the chute or rotating structure. In addition, the grease nipple should be added 1-2 times a month to increase the bearing grease operation.
2. Lubrication and maintenance of gear transmission: If the new machine has been running for more than 1,000 hours or about half a year, please be sure to replace it with a new circulating oil. In daily life, we must regularly check whether there is enough special gear grease between the gears in the wire feed box to ensure that the gears have sufficient lubrication protection during transmission, so as to effectively avoid the occurrence of tooth grinding or tooth burning.
3. Maintenance of the wire feeding system: The surfaces of the servo motor and encoder of the feeding mechanism should be cleaned regularly to prevent dust from falling into the machine and causing damage to the mechanical parts. Always check and clean the iron filings on the wire feeding box to prevent iron filings from falling into the gear transmission during the operation of the machine body, which may cause tooth grinding or tooth burning, which can effectively maintain the wire feeding accuracy of the equipment.


Buddy up for a stress-free commute.
Share the ride, save money and take the stress out of your commute.
What is it?
A carpool consists of two or more people driving together to work in one vehicle. They could be co-workers, neighbors or family members.
Why join a carpool?
Carpooling means more people in a single car, which means fewer cars on the road. What does that lead to? Less pollution.
It also saves you money on gas, reduces car costs (like maintenance and insurance), lessens traffic congestion and saves you time. With fewer cars on the road, everyone can get where they’re going faster (while having more fun!).
A fresher option:
- Sharing a car is a great stress-buster after work and it’s a safe mode of commuting.
- With one more person in your car, your commute costs can be cut in half. Add a third person, and you’re only paying one-third of your driving dollar.
- It’s flexible: Share the ride one day a week—or more!
Did You Know
The average commute time in Stanislaus County is 30 minutes.
In Stanislaus County, 29% of household income is spent on transportation.
If everyone carpools at least one day a week, traffic on roads will reduce by 20%.
If you carpool at least twice a week, you can help reduce the emission of 1,600 pounds of greenhouse gases by a car each year.


Generate SVG code for ring sections for laser cutting. You can try the code here.
When cutting a ring/wheel/circle using a laser cutter or CNC mill there is a lot of potential for wasting material, depending on how much empty space is inside the ring. This code is an effort to make the waste less by sectioning the ring up into smaller parts, which can be arranged afterwards, to take less space on the plate out of which they are cut.
The program is contained in one single HTML file, and you are welcome to modify it and put it on your own webpage. To use the program open the HTML file in a browser that supports SVG.
Fill in the following fields. The inner and outer diameter specify the radii of the round edges of the ring. The stroke width gives the line with to use. For laser cutting it is common to use some predefined thickness. Note that if the stroke width is set to a very small value, the browser might not render the part.
Copy this text field and save it to a file with a .SVG extension. Note: The SVG seems to work with Chrome and Inkscape. The stroke width seems to be interpreted incorrectly by Adobe Illustrator, so be aware.
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Think of watching a film that cuts out 5 minutes before the end with a subtitle that says ‘ran out of time’. That is exactly what you do to an examiner if you don’t write a conclusion to your essay. You must write a conclusion and it needs to be good. Why? Because it is the last thing an examiner will read and it is your final opportunity to leave a lasting impression on them.
Do’s and Dont’s:
- Do keep it around 5 lines long
- Do leave yourself enough time in the exam to write it
- Do not add new arguments (a new quote however might give it some flavour)
- Do not write ‘I think’ (the examiner wants to read a sophisticated argument not your thoughts) So keep with third person: ‘In conclusion from the arguments presented it is clear that’ or ‘in conclusion one might believe that’
- Do briefly summarise the main arguments mentioned in your essay (just to remind the examiner what amazing arguments you have raised)
- Do ‘get off the fence’!! This is especially important if the question asks you to ‘discuss’. This means that you have to conclude why a side is more convincing/ coherent etc than the other based on the arguments/ evaluation you have presented.
- Do link your conclusion back to the question.
You should be able to tell from this conclusion: 1) what the question was 2) which perspective the writer is arguing from and 3) a summary of some of the key points raised.
An examiner should be able to read just your introduction and your conclusion and know exactly what you are arguing and how you are going to answer the question. All the main part of an essay does is fill the detail into the gaps.
For support with writing an introduction, check out Let me ‘Introduce’ myself: Writing an Introduction
Check out this Tips from a Tired Teacher Preview on How to Write an Effective Conclusion:
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A collection of recent studies shows that exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) — including many longlasting pesticides — can slow growth rates of human embryos and shrink the genitals and weaken bones of polar bears.
The World Health Organization (WHO), meanwhile, is asking health professionals around the world to do more to protect children from the health effects of POPs.In a comprehensive overview of exposure, WHO highlights the long term impacts of in utero and early childhood exposure to persistent chemicals:
Some effects may manifest only after a latency period, during adolescence or adulthood. These later effects may be difficult to attribute to POPs exposure because of the long period of time that has passed.
WHO then calls on public health officials worldwide — and specifically pediatric professionals — to educate families about the risks of exposure to POPs chemicals, with the goal of protecting women of childbearing age, pregnant women and children.
Impacts on birthweight & fertility
Earlier this spring scientists published a study in Reproductive Toxicology linking POPs exposure during pregnancy to intra uterine growth retardation, a serious complication of pregnancy, affecting an estimated 5% to 10% of newborns.
And last week, a Danish wildlife veterinarian and toxicologist warned of "shrinking balls and degrading bones" of polar bears in East Greenland. Fertility and reproductive capacity of the species could be severely affected.
Ovary size and weight of female bears also decrease as POPs exposure levels rise, according to the scientist, who notes that "people, as well as other animals, in the Canadian Arctic may also be at risk of similar effects from these pollutants."


Beer has played an important role in human civilization, history and culture. Learn more about its place in Wisconsin history at a free lecture offered by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
“Wisconsin’s Beer Heritage” will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, presented by Terese Barta, associate professor in the Department of Biology. Held in the Pinery Room of the Portage County Public Library, this is the second talk in the eight-part 2019-2020 Community Lecture Series. The public may attend free of charge.
“This presentation will survey the history of brewing and take a look at the rich brewing tradition in Wisconsin,” said Barta, who has been an avid home brewer for more than 20 years.
As a microbiologist, Barta said she is fascinated by the biology and chemistry of beer, as well as its history. Throughout her teaching career she has found ways to combine her academic training with brewing, beginning when she started as a faculty member at what is now UW-Stevens Point at Wausau. Barta started the first home brewing club in the area and conducts outreach to professional brewers through a Microbiology for Brewers workshop she teaches several times per year through UW-Stevens Point Continuing Education.
For more information on the Community Lecture Series, visit www.uwsp.edu/cols/lectureseries or email firstname.lastname@example.org.


Jupiter’s famous spot is a ‘sunburn,’ new NASA study says
PASADENA, Calif. — Even planets can turn red from exposure to the sun, according to new research from NASA.
Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot, which is as wide as two Earths, is created by sunlight breaking apart simple chemicals in the atmosphere, according to a new data analysis from NASA’s Cassini mission. Previously, researchers theorized that the colored spot came from red chemicals below the clouds.
"Our models suggest most of the Great Red Spot is actually pretty bland in color, beneath the upper cloud layer of reddish material," NASA scientist Kevin Baines said in a statement. "Under the reddish 'sunburn' the clouds are probably whitish or grayish."
Researchers were able to recreate the spot in laboratory experiments, according to NASA. They simulated the sun’s effects by using ultraviolet light on chemicals found on Jupiter, namely ammonia and acetylene gases.
The clouds in the great red spot reach higher altitudes than other areas on Jupiter, according to Baines. The highest layers of Jupiter’s clouds are made of ammonia.
“The team thinks the spot's great heights both enable and enhance the reddening,” the statement from NASA reads. “Its winds transport ammonia ice particles higher into the atmosphere than usual, where they are exposed to much more of the sun's ultraviolet light. In addition, the vortex nature of the spot confines particles, preventing them from escaping. This causes the redness of the spot's cloud tops to increase beyond what might otherwise be expected.”
The findings were presented at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Science Meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
Natalie Crofts, KSL


How I Explain Occupational Therapy.
Most times when I’m out and about,
someone will ask me what I do for a living. I tell them I’m an occupational therapy assistant for kids. Then come the inevitable questions: So you’re like a career counselor? Kids don’t have jobs though… Do you give kids jobs?
Short answer, no.
After years of giving bumbling answers, I’ve found the most concise yet informative way to explain what it is I actually do.
I break down the term “occupation”.
What is an occupation? Well, yes it means a job, but the word “job” can have lots of different meanings to lots of different people.
For example, my job is occupational therapy assistant. But my other jobs, or roles, in life are daughter, sister, wife, etc. When I was in school, my job was also “student”.
So in the context of a child, their job before they enter school-age is to play. Once they enter school, their job is still to play, but also their job is now to be a student. What are the job requirements to be a student? to pay attention, to write, read, cut, socialize with peers, etc. As they get into higher grades, their job requirements change accordingly (completing homework/projects, time management, etc). In different settings, their job and requirements might also change. For example, at home their job requirements might include completing chores, meal prep, getting dressed, hygiene, getting a haircut, community safety, etc.
If they’re having difficulties doing any aspect of their age-related “jobs”, an occupational therapist steps in to support them.
This definition doesn’t just work with kids. Let’s say I used to work in a garden, but couldn’t anymore because of a disability or injury, and really wanted to get back into it, I’d reach out to an occupational therapist to help me find accommodations or other strategies to get back to gardening, because gardening was once a meaningful occupation, or job, to me.
What other ways have you heard occupational therapy described?


"Many children, especially those from low-income families, rely on school meals for up to half their daily energy intake so it is essential that we give students a sufficient amount of time to eat their lunches," said lead author of the study Juliana Cohen, adjunct assistant professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, US. Each day, over 30 million US students receive a free or discounted meal thanks to the National School Lunch Programme.
The researchers wanted to examine the effect of lunch period length on students' food choices and intake. They looked at 1,001 students in six elementary and middle schools, with lunch periods ranging from 20-30 minutes, in a low-income urban school district in Massachusetts. They analysed students' food selection and consumption by monitoring what was left on their plates at the end of the lunch period.(Eat With Your Kids for Their Well-Being)
It was found that students with less than 20 minutes to eat lunch consumed 13 percent less of their entrees, 12 percent less of their vegetables, and 10 percent less of their milk than students who had at least 25 minutes to eat. While there were no notable differences between the groups in terms of entree, milk, or vegetable selections, those with less time to eat were significantly less likely to select a fruit. Also, there was more food waste among groups with less time to eat.
The study appeared in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.


This myth is part of a broader demand that all families be traditional in nature, as in: one dad, one mom and their children.
- LGBTQ+ people cannot be trusted with children.
- Children living with LGBTQ+ people will become LGBTQ+.
- LGBTQ+ people are not good role models for children.
- A parents’ sexual orientation is much less important than having loving and nurturing parents.
- No legitimate research has demonstrated that same-sex couples are any more or any less harmful to children than heterosexual couples.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes the diversity of families. Children who grow up with one or two gay and/or lesbian parents will develop emotionally, cognitively, socially, and sexually as well as children whose parents are heterosexual.
Myth #1 : Being LGBTQ+ is a choice.
Myth #2: Transgender people are confused or tricking others.
Myth #3: Gay people can change.
Myth #4: Gay men molest children.
Myth #5: The bathroom threat is real.
Myth #6: Same sex parents harm children.
Myth #7: Being LGBTQ+ is a mental disorder.
Myth #8: People can be turned gay.


Exploring the Anti-Corrosive Properties of Graphene Oxide
Anti-corrosion coatings have become increasingly more important in the developing world, with industrial equipment requiring protection from corrosive mediums such moisture, industrial chemicals or abrasion. With the global market now valued at $24 billion and expected to reach $36 billion by 2024, new technologies are under research with greater anti-corrosion properties. Considering it’s the strongest material known to man, it’s no surprise that graphene falls within this umbrella of research.
One of the first papers that explored a scalable route to anti-corrosion graphene coatings was produced by researchers at the University of Manchester, who utilised graphene oxide as an inert barrier. The hexagonal array of carbon atoms in graphene oxide act as a very effective barrier in water purification applications, with the oxygen functionalities providing defects and pathways for only the diffusion of water and small ions such as chlorides. In this research, graphene oxide was chemically reduced to restore the pristine graphene lattice. This coating was now impermeable to small ions as well as water, allowing it to be an effective anti-corrosion barrier for moisture and sea salt. The chemical inertness of graphene also gave this coating very high chemical corrosion resistance, proven in this research by exposing the surface to nitric, hydrochloric and even hydrofluoric acids whilst showing zero degradation.
In the same year, the anti-bacterial properties of graphene oxide were demonstrated in a biomedical application as a nanopaint for protection against bacteria to reduce incidences of heathcare-associated infection. Graphene oxide was incorporated into the paint through a simple balling milling technique, which was then coated onto substrates before subjecting to incubation with E.coli, P. aeruginosa and S. aureus. After 48 hours, the graphene oxide paint reduced the populations of these bacteria by 94, 88 and 85%, respectively, demonstrating its effectiveness as an antibacterial coating. These are just two of the many studies understanding the versability of graphene in coating applications, and if you’d like to find out more about this research topic, please do get in touch.
Nature Communications, 2014, 5, 4843, 1-5
Carbon, 2014, 72, 328-337


Asthma affects 300 million people worldwide and that number has been increasing especially in developed countries. The current standard of care for asthma treatment is based on 2 key pathological features of asthma, airway inflammation and airway obstruction. Improving bronchodilation can be accomplished with ultra-long acting beta2 agonists or long-acting muscarinic agonists used in combination with inhaled corticosteroids. These combinations have already been used effectively for the treatment of COPD. An inhaled phosphodiesterase inhibitor has been shown to improve bronchodilation and decrease airway inflammation. Directly altering the airway smooth muscle with bronchial thermoplasty in select patients has demonstrated long-term benefits but must be measured with immediate post procedure complications. The development of monoclonal antibodies to directly target specific cytokines has had mixed results. In eosinophilic asthma blocking IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13 have improved asthma outcomes. The promise of more directed therapy for asthma appears closer than ever with increased options available for the clinician in the near future.
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Perennial growing to about 16 in (40 cm). Has narrow lance-shaped leaves with toothed edges, and spikes of whitish-pink flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation
Seneca snakeroot is native to North America, and found in dry stony open ground and woodland. It is cultivated in western Canada. The root is unearthed in autumn.
Seneca snakeroot contains phenolic acids, methyl salicylate, triterpenoid saponins (including sengins), polygalitol, and plant sterols. The triterpenoid saponins promote the clearing of phlegm from the bronchial tubes.
History & Folklore
This plant’s name refers to the Seneca tribe of North America, who employed the root as a remedy for snake bite. Seneca snakeroot was highly valued as a medicine by both Native Americans and European settlers. In 1768, Dr. Alexander Garden of Charleston wrote that “The Seneka is the most powerful and efficacious antiphlogistic [fever- and inflammation-reducing substance] attenuant among the Galenical medicines.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses
In North American and European herbal medicine, Seneca snakeroot is used as an expectorant to treat bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, and whooping cough. The root has a stimulant action on the bronchial mucous membranes, promoting the coughing up of phlegm from the chest. Seneca snakeroot is also thought to encourage sweating and to stimulate the secretion of saliva.
Yuan zhi (P. tenuifolia), native to China and Japan, has similar constituents. Yuan zhi is taken to treat congestion in the chest and to “calm the spirit and quieten the heart.” See also milkwort (P. vulgaris).
Do not take if pregnant. Causes diarrhea and vomiting in excessive doses.


Residential Education at Dartmouth
Informed students possess a core of knowledge derived from many sources. Self-aware, informed individuals understand the value of multiple perspectives in gaining a complete picture. The residential living experience favors engaging in significant, challenging issues as a way to hone intellectual and practical skills as well as personal learning and growth. Theories help explain phenomena, and the better informed individuals become, the more precise their abilities to link theory with practice.
Mastery of a range of abilities and capacities empowers students as they maneuver in and shape a dynamic, complex residential and academic community. The intellectual and practical skills needed for personal and collective success are extensive and sophisticated.
Empowered and informed students are also responsible. Through discussion, critical analysis, and introspection, they come to understand their roles in their community and in society at large and accept active participation. Open-minded, empathetic, responsible individuals understand how abstract values relate to decisions in their lives. Responsible individuals appreciate others, while also assuming accountability for themselves, their complex identities, and their conduct. By weaving moral reasoning into the social fabric of life and work, they help communities and society shape their ethical values, and then live and work by those values.
The Informed, Empowered, Responsible concept was derived from the 2002 national panel report Greater Expectations by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


In the previous lesson, we learned about the staff and how it provides a visual representation of the pitch and timing of musical notes. In this lesson, we’ll dive deeper into the elements that make up a musical note.
There are several parts to a musical note, including the head, stem, flag, and beam. Understanding each of these parts is essential to reading and writing music.
The head of a note is the oval-shaped part that is drawn on the staff. It can be either filled in or empty. The position of the head on the staff indicates the pitch of the note.
The stem of a note is the thin, vertical line that extends from the head. Its direction depends on the placement of the note on the staff. If the note is below the third line, the stem points upwards; if it is above the third line, the stem points downwards. If the note is on the third line the stem can point up or down.
The flag of a note is a small diagonal line that is attached to the stem. Its purpose is to indicate the duration of the note. The more flags a note has, the shorter its duration. the flags can be added to any note that has a black notehead. the white notes can’t be flagged
When two or more flagged notes appear in succession, they are connected with beams instead. An exception to this rule is vocal music, where each note is typically written with its own flag and is not beamed.
The dot is another element that can be added to a note to indicate its duration. A dot placed after a note adds half its value to the note’s original duration.
Here is a little Quiz:
Find in the example:
- a note with two flags
- a notehead that is located in the third space
- two beamed notes
- a note with a dot
- a stem that points up
By understanding the elements of a musical note, we can communicate precise timing, duration, and rhythmic groupings. This is essential for effective performance and composition.


This film shows four different children in therapy using puppets. The children range in age from approximately 6 years old to about 13 years of age. Through these four different sessions, conducted by three different therapists (two drama therapists, and one child psychiatrist), one can see how the clinician listens to and follows the interactions. The viewer also sees how the therapist adds comments meant to aid the child in whatever he or she needs to work through by using the puppet story as a metaphor for the child’s own experience that has caused a disruption in some developmental milestones.
Each session begins with the therapist introducing the planned activity and what the child’s role will be. The child then picks the puppets he/she wants to work with, makes up a story for the puppets to act out, and introduces each puppet to the therapist. Following this the child has the puppets act out the story. At the conclusion, the child is asked to tell what the “lesson” is in the story. This sequence of events is a template for any creative arts therapist wishing to invite children to use puppets in treatment, providing a structure that helps the child first to tell the story, and then to reflect on it in order to learn from the experience.
Total Running Time: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 9 seconds


The Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics shares with the state’s childcare workers and school leaders a similar goal of keeping children healthy and safeguarding them as they grow and learn.
It is understandable that after years of stress and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, increased cases of other respiratory illness, such as RSV, would bring about a desire for extreme caution. However, current guidance from the national American Academy of Pediatrics (Clinical Practice Guideline: The Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Bronchiolitis, 2014) states that testing for RSV testing is not indicated for the majority of children. Most children with RSV will have runny nose, cough and some may have a fever, similar to many other viral illnesses. In most cases, RSV testing does not predict who may go on to have a severe course. In most outpatient settings for children with bronchiolitis, routine specific respiratory viral testing has little effect on management and is not recommended.
Requiring testing of children or teens, particularly asymptomatic children and teens, for RSV to return to a group setting is not consistent with medical recommendations. RSV tests can stay positive for several weeks post-infection and should not be used to test for cure.
The decision to return to childcare or school should be based on clinical symptoms, including the child being fever free for at least 24 hours, lack of shortness of breath and some improvement of overall symptoms. Masking upon return from any upper respiratory illness also helps prevent transmission and should be encouraged in children older than two years of age upon return to group settings after an acute respiratory illness until symptoms completely resolve. We recommend following these community standard guidelines for returning to school, rather than requiring a letter from a physician.
We ask Minnesota childcare centers and schools to encourage families and caregivers to follow reasonable procedures to help prevent the spread of
respiratory illness in the childcare setting. There are many viruses that cause similar respiratory illnesses and all should be treated with good hand washing hygiene and keeping a sick child home while they are symptomatic.
A note to parents and caregivers: To help keep healthcare facilities that care for children from becoming overwhelmed, please keep all eligible children up-to-date with childhood immunizations, particularly influenza and COVID vaccines, which are both approved for children 6 months of age and older. Vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza decreases the risk of
severe illness and hospitalization.
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Ferst Readers of Carroll County provides parents and caregivers with tools and age-appropriate books for children ages birth to five to encourage early learning development.
The Vision of Ferst Readers of Carroll County is based on the principle that early learning in language nutrition and literacy prepares children for school. Early reading experiences enhance children’s chances of becoming successful students.
Our vision is a county where all children have an abundance of books and quality resources. Parents and caregivers are fully engaged in their children’s learning, encourage education as a way of life, and read to their children from birth. These children develop the learning skills needed to do well in school and in life and to become productive members of society.
Our vision is a community engaged in education, supporting the programs that help develop our children for learning and for life from birth to adulthood and beyond. Ours is a community excited about learning at all age levels and ready to teach others to understand the importance of early childhood learning and development as the key to life-long learning and success. We believe that a child who reads, succeeds!
“Read Ferst” is a subscription program for children who do not live in a participating community. Parents, Grandparents, even friends can register and sign up a child and pay $45 per year or pay in full for the number of years to the child’s fifth birthday. The child will get a book every month just as in our participating communities. If the subscription is set up for one year, a reminder to renew will come by email at the appropriate time. For more information, click here.


This follows from my previous post about schools needing to start teaching digital literacy/online responsibility, but now my thoughts are supported by others in the education community.
In their commentary, “Moving From ‘Acceptable’ to ‘Responsible’ Use in a Web 2.0 World” posted on Education Week, Jim Bosco & Keith Krueger encourage schools to move from the common “Acceptable Use” policies to a “Responsible Use” concept.
This concept would have districts rethinking how they incorporate and utilize these new technologies to “expand and enrich learning for our students.” They concur that there are many concerns, and that yes, students need to be kept safe online. Yet, by refusing to allow students to work online in school, students are not afforded the incredible opportunity to learn to be responsible and critical thinkers of a tool that they use constantly outside of school, and will be using long after their formal learning is over. We owe it to our children to have school — the place we accept as where they learn and grow to become productive adults – also be a place that can help them learn to responsibly navigate the online world.
Banning mobiles etc., certainly is one way to keep kids safe. But truly, is that wise? Kids use them outside of school, and will use them once they are out of school. We are truly missing out on an incredible opportunity — not only to take full advantage of all the great things these digital tools offer, but to teach our kids how to avoid dangerous situations online and how to use critical thinking skills to determine what informaiton is accurate and what is not.
The authors refer districts to CoSN’s guide to Acceptable Use Policies – it is worth reading.
I close with the words of the authors that perfectly summarize this concept:
The great educational philosopher John Dewey gave us important advice: “If we teach today’s students as we did yesterday’s, we are robbing them of tomorrow.” Responsible use of the Internet is a critical aspect in the lives of our students today, as well as a vital ingredient in how they will live their lives after their formal schooling is done. The best we can do for students is to empower them to function responsibly in a world where they will have many choices.


Catching your child “being good” means telling your child that you like his good behavior, such as sharing, telling the truth, saying he’s sorry for doing something wrong, and treating others kindly. The more times you do this every day, the more your child will behave nicely every day!
My husband learned this lesson quickly. When our twins behaved nicely as toddlers, he found himself ignoring them. He had never heard his parents give him attention for behaving nicely. And he didn’t do so with his own children, either.
But he saw that our children behaved better when I pointed out their good behavior and told them how much I liked it, by saying, “Justin, I like that you helped your sister, Amy, pick up her blocks when she dropped them.”
So my husband decided that he didn’t want to discipline our children like his parents had disciplined him—by ignoring them when they did something good. As a parent of toddlers, he learned that his children were better behaved when he was observant, patient, and consistent in catching his children “being good” by praising their good behavior.
Catching your child “being good”:
- teaches your child to be responsible for her actions
- provides a safe and loving environment for your child
- shows your child how to turn mistakes and challenges into teachable moments
- helps your child grow up sharing, telling the truth, apologizing, using good manners, and treating others kindly—all good behaviors to use throughout life.
Make sure you sign up for our weekly emails to learn more about how to be a “catch-your-child-being-good” parent.
Make a list of all of the actions that you want your child to do—say “Please” and “Thank you”, pick up her toys, use a napkin at the table, etc. Then it will be easy for you to catch her “being good” when she does these things.
Learn more here
This blog was written by Barbara Unell


Middle school students explored veterinary science as a possible career in a week-long 4-H Veterinary Science Day Camp conducted by Hawai‘i County 4-H Extension agent Becky Settlage in Hilo in July. CTAHR’s Extension veterinarian Jenee Odani, local and state veterinarians, and a couple of UH student assistants also helped to lead the program. With their love of animals and desire to help them, the thirteen youth had a strong interest in this career, and this program definitely increased their interest!
Participants, ranging from 11 to 13 years, jumped right in, discovering career options in working with animals and finding out what a veterinarian does. They learned skills needed to land an entry-level job in a vet clinic, such as completing resumes and doing mock interviews, and honed good communication skills on the phone and in person with practice situations. Campers engaged with technology through online research and virtual behind-the-scenes tours of veterinary offices, while hands-on activities helped to engage them and cemented the learning they got through lectures.
Jenee and a former student assistant, Blaine Ishizu, taught campers how to give intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, scrub for surgeries and put on surgical gloves, prep slides for fecal exams, and use a microscope. Campers also learned about internal and external parasites. The last day campers learned about disaster preparedness and the job of a state veterinarian, and they got to explore a veterinarian’s truck.
Learning was assessed through Quiz Bowl and Jeopardy!-style games. At the end of the week, the students received certificates of learning. Assessments completed on the first and last days showed how much campers knew about this career choice coming in and what impact the program had. Evaluations were positive, and results showed a significant increase in participants’ familiarity with veterinary science and virtual reality technology. Participants also felt more confident in their ability to communicate with the public and deal with safety situations with animals. And all felt that the information they got during the week was valuable and worth their time!
View photos from the program on the East Hawaii 4-H & Hawaii County 4-H Livestock Facebook page.


Mapping Health Inequalities in East London
Over lunch at a Punjabi restaurant in Tower Hamlets, Arizona State University students pored over charts and maps illustrating nutritional inequality in the area. Students were particularly impacted by a graphic that interpreted a Tube map to show how life expectancy decreased with each passing stop on the Central Line. The materials, prepared by researcher Natalie Savona, set the backdrop for an on-site lecture in the streets of East London. Savona is a nutritionist and Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studying health inequalities and behavior in relation to food choices.
The walk began near the Royal London Hospital and continued past Arnold Circus, one of the area’s first social housing projects that replaced a slum in the 1890s. Students saw a blend of cultures thriving alongside one another and walked through local markets, where unusual fruits and spices are sold and many languages spoken. This vibrancy, according to Savona, often masks significant health inequalities.
The students learned that inequality has always been central to the study of public health, and discussed links to poverty, racial inequality, social exclusion, and gentrification. At one stop, Savona showed a map of the exact area during the Victorian era, which was then similarly marginalized – burdened by malnutrition instead of obesity and diabetes.
The group ended at Spitalfields market. Originally the site of a hospital built in 1197, the market now houses trendy stalls selling vintage clothes and fine foods in one of the most affluent parts of London.
Health inequality is a sensitive topic for such an on-site lecture, but Savona thoughtfully challenged students to consider current data and anecdotes from history to guide observations as they explored East London. Students saw firsthand how some of the social determinants of health and the pressures of urbanization and globalization impact attitudes towards public health.


Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century
A Biographical Dictionary
About the Book
From 1900 through 2000, the Catholic Church has had nine popes. As the 21st century began, John Paul II was in his 22nd year as head of the church. During the century more than 600 cardinals have helped to lead the church. This biographical reference work covers all nine popes and all 641 cardinals.
The first section presents the popes in chronological order and provides date and place of birth and death, education and training for the priesthood, positions held within the church, and roles in church leadership and various conclaves. In the second section the cardinals are listed alphabetically and much the same biographical information is provided for them. (An appendix gives all the cardinals appointed by John Paul II in 2001.)
About the Author(s)
Harris M. Lentz III
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Bibliographic Info: glossary, appendices, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2009
Table of Contents
Appendix I: The First Cardinals of the Twenty-First Century 205
Appendix II: Cardinals by Country 213
Book Reviews & Awards
“recommended”—Booklist; “recommended…the book is well designed…handy appendix…all levels”—Choice; “covers all the popes and cardinals of one century…a detailed index…provides…well-written information that is organized in an easily accessible manner…useful”—ARBA; “useful as a ready reference source”—Public Library Quarterly; “what comes over very clearly in this completely indispensable reference work is the diversity of individuals, and wealth of personal and pastoral experience, that is the present College of Cardinals…a must”—Catholic Life.


Annual abundances of amoebae in the Hudson estuary were recorded from November, 1992 through November, 1993. Data were analyzed for four morphotypes of amoebae. Minimum numbers of total amoebae were found in winter. Maximum abundances (reaching c. 7,000 l(-1)) occurred in summer, preceded by a rapid increase in the spring. A similar increase in total amoebae during the spring, April through May, occurred also in the Clyde estuary, and reached a maximum of 15,600 cells l(-1) during mid summer. As much as 50 to 60% of amoebae at both sampling sites were less than 10 mu m in length. Hence, smaller amoebae deserve more careful attention in protozooplankton analyses. The two most common morphotypes of amoebae varied inversely in the Clyde estuary during spring; amoebae with extended pseudopodia were replaced by those with flattened or fan-shaped morphologies which dominated into the summer months. Laboratory cultures grown from Hudson water taken in early spring produced a ''bloom'' mimicking that in the natural environment of both the Clyde and Hudson estuaries. This research suggests that seasonal patterns of amoeba abundances are similar in widely separated geographical locations and diverse habitats (i.e. Hudson and Clyde estuaries). The large numbers of amoebae found in this research indicate that amoebae may be more significant in aquatic ecosystems than realized previously.
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Guerrilla Meme Campaign!!
One of the learning outcomes from the language unit of study in TOK is understanding and appreciating the power of language to persuade, inform and induce emotion.
Memes are a part of our culture now. They can inform on profound ideas such as the subversive guerrilla meme campaign started by adbusters.org (example above) http://kickitover.org/ designed to “kick over” the neo classical economic paradigms so pervasive in academia and thus macro governmental policy, or–they can describe various “faces” made:
The point is that memes are effective for information transmission due to the fact they’re based on two very important concepts in TOK:
Shared Knowledge used to construct meaning vs. Personal Knowledge
Emotion as a Way of Knowing
The first element above is the key to memes. Due to the minimalist nature of memes, they’re only informative/funny/profound/sad/interesting/effective if the perceiving audience has similar shared experiences and shared knowledge. The perceiver of the meme than constructs meaning from the meme utilizing their shared knowledge that is similar to the creator’s. However the perception of the meme doesn’t stop there! Oh no…the perceiver also brings their own personal knowledge to bear on the meme and thus adds meaning.
The second element above, is the focus of our next unit of study–Emotion. All human interaction and perception is mitigated through emotion. Thus, we’ll examine what role emotion plays in knowledge construction while perceiving memes.
Is to identify an issue worthy of our creative and intellectual efforts! We’re going to engage in our own “subversive guerrilla meme war” on some topic worthy of our attack!
We’ll then create our own MEMES and hang them around the school for other students to construct knowledge and have an emotional experience!
THOUGHT TO POWER!!
**Footnote required by The Man:
This intentionally thought provoking and subversive meme campaign is conducted by Mr. K’s TOK class. This assignment illuminates the profundity of speech, both written and visual, as well as illustrates the phenomenon of shared knowledge and the role both play in knowledge construction.


Are you in a place where snow falls in winter? If so, try catching snowflakes. Then take a close look. Can you find two snowflakes that look alike?
- Students learn how snowflakes form and examine the variety of snowflake shapes.
- Falling snow!
- Warm winter cloths
- Black construction paper
- Magnifying glasses
- Notebooks and colored pencils
- Glass microscope slides (optional)
- Aqua-Net hairspray (optional)
- Ensure students are dressed warmly. Head outside into the falling snow with black construction paper and magnifying glasses.
- Have students hold the black paper flat so that snowflakes fall on it. Keep your hands at the paper's edges so avoid melting or crushing the snowflakes.
- Instruct students to look for similar and different types of snowflakes through their magnifying glasses.
- Have students draw the shapes that they see in their notebooks with the colored pencils.
- Optional: Save your snowflakes for later by catching them on a glass microscope slide instead of paper. Spray the slides lightly with hairspray. The snowflakes will melt but their shaped will be preserved on the glass.
- Discussion: Head back inside and have students share the shapes of the snowflakes they saw. Ask whether all students found the same shapes of snowflakes or if there are a variety. Show student the snowflake shapes on the SnowCrystals website. Have students compare their snowflake drawings with the shapes on the website.
Snowflakes are made from ice crystals which grow in symmetrical shapes in the atmosphere. Some snowflakes are simple, made of only a single crystal and are shaped like a rod. Other snowflakes are made of hundreds of crystals and form elaborate six-sided shapes. The shapes of snowflakes depend on the temperature and amount of water vapor in the air. When there is little water vapor in the air, snowflakes tend to form more simple shaped. When air is humid, more elaborate snowflakes are able to grow.


Intrepidosaurus is a giant carnivorous dinosaur that lived in Africa in the late Cretaceous. It belongs to the spinosaurus in theropods. It is a very strange dinosaur. It can have spines from its back, round teeth and long The long catfish-like mouth can be seen, these features are extremely rare in large carnivorous dinosaurs. The fearless dragon lived in the late Cretaceous, with a body length of about 15 to 17 meters. The fearless dragon has the same level of attack and predation ability as the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Huayang dragon’s size is comparable to that of the Tyrannosaurus, and its body length is 4 At about 8 tons, it is heavier than Tyrannosaurus, but the proportion of the forelimbs of Huayang dragon is not as extreme as that of Tyrannosaurus. Tyrannosaurus’s hind limbs have a much larger proportion than the forelimbs. The forelimbs are only as long as one’s arms. In this way, the body weighing several tons will be supported by the hind limbs. The forelimbs of the Huayang dragon are much longer than the Tyrannosaurus. Can hunt effectively.
Unlike western knife-shaped teeth owned by other theropod dinosaurs, the fearless dragon’s teeth are conical, with several longitudinal parallel lines on the tooth surface. This feature is unique to fish-eating reptiles such as crocodiles. Later, antiquarian discovered fish scales in the stomach of the fearless dragon’s fossils. It seems that the fearless dragon is a fish-based dinosaur. May be caused by fish not sticking to teeth.
The back of the fearless dragon has large spines, its spines are about 1.8 meters, they extend from the back of the head to the front of the tail, covered with epidermis, it looks like a sail on a boat. As early as 1912, German antiquityologists discovered fossils of spinosaurus in Egypt. He said that the carnivorous dinosaur was larger than the tyrannosaurus. The fearless dragon plays a very important role in the animatronic of dinosaurs.


Only one in ten Alpine rivers are able to maintain sufficient water supply for the 14 million people that depend on these sources of fresh water, according to a report by WWF.
In its study Save the Alpine Rivers, WWF found that 89 per cent of the 57,000 kilometres of river studied are already substantially harmed as a result of heavy human pressure. These rivers were found to be redirected, altered or otherwise impacted by hydroelectric dams.
WWF also found that many Alpine riverbanks are being converted to agricultural land and urban areas, which reduces their natural ability to regulate floods. Flooding in Europe – already costly and catastrophic – is predicted to occur more frequently as climate change raises temperatures in the Alps at a rate much higher than in other regions of the world: 2 degrees Celsius in the last 200 years compared to an average global temperature increase of “only” .85 C.
“The environment is changing and we must respond,” warns Christoph Litschauer, Head of WWF’s European Alpine Freshwater Program. WWF wants to see European governments to prepare an action plan to strengthen the resilience of water ecosystems to climate change, and the study defines no-go areas for hydro power plants.
The Alps act as water towers for 14 million people from eight countries and are essential for human livelihood, provide water for households, agricultural, food, fisheries, energy and recreation.
Photo credit: Gabi Weinert, flickr/Creative Commons


MI weekly selection #86
Mineral-rich Sahara Desert dust may feed bacteria in Bahamas
Mineral-rich dust carried by wind from the Sahara Desert to the Bahamas may be providing sustenance to the islands’ bacteria, according to a study. Scientists tracked the iron and manganese in the dust to the Great Bahama Bank over a three-year period. The study suggests that cyanobacteria feeding on the iron in the dust helped build the Great Bahama Bank over the past 100 million years.
Better batteries with pure lithium anodes
Protective carbon nanosphere coating overcomes lithium problems, pointing the way to improve the energy storage per unit mass of batteries.
Milky Way has less dark matter than Andromeda
The mass of the Milky Way is actually around half that of the nearby Andromeda galaxy, which was generally thought to be our galaxy’s twin, according to a computer simulation. The difference is possibly due to the Milky Way having about half the dark matter of Andromeda, which scientists weigh through its gravitational effects.
National Geographic / StarStruck
Rocks containing Earth fossils may be on the moon
Earth rocks containing tiny fossils may be waiting to be discovered on the moon. Physicists simulated what would happen if a fossil-laden Earth rock hit the moon at high speeds, and found that some material could survive, providing a wealth of information not available from fossils found on Earth.
Flaws in evolutionary trees built with microRNAs
New research is calling into question the viability of using microRNAs to build evolutionary trees. Scientists reran tests of evolutionary trees, learning that a large number of microRNAs had been lost over time. “The way microRNAs were being analyzed probably didn’t reflect the way they evolve”.


Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, MathRiders students begin to recognise mathematical models in their everyday lives.
In the classroom, students pursue a variety of activities to stimulate their minds and encourage a natural understanding of the subject. MathRiders students develop a strong grounding in maths through a combination of individualized attention and lively group sessions. MathRiders offers a unique approach to learning that ensures success.
The programme is built on the following concepts:
Appreciation: The beauty, patterns and logic of maths are all around us.Maths isn’t only formulae and equations, but another way to understand the world.
Encouragement: Students are encouraged to develop their ideas and learn to solve problems in new ways.
Partnership: Students work with the support of their teacher and peer group and develop confidence in their own abilities. The youngest learners are given an activity at the end of the lesson and a small task to execute with parents to reinforce learning. This engages parents to join the learning process.
Personalised assessments: Each Helen Doron MathRiders student receives level-appropriate, individual assessments, conducted by a certiﬁed MathRiders teacher. These assessments are intended as a tool to help teachers track student progress, identify strengths and weaknesses, and accordingly tailor specific instructional planning.
“The dynamics of a small group is an outstanding way for a child to learn maths. Add to this a specially trained teacher geared to helping the children interact with each other with fun and games, and they succeed—without pressure and through fun.”
Helen Doron, Founder and CEO


George Washington Carver
Botanist / Inventor
Date Of Birth:
Date Of Death:
5 January 1943
Place Of Birth:
Diamond Grove, Missouri
Best Known As:
America's great peanut innovator
George Washington Carver was a celebrated botanist and inventor at a time when it was rare for Black Americans to reach those heights. Born a slave in Missouri about 1864, near the end of the Civil War, George Washington Carver worked to educate himself in spite of the limited opportunities for freed Blacks in the area. He attended Iowa State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture studies in 1894 and a master's in 1896. He then joined the faculty of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in 1896. Carver began working to find crop alternatives to cotton, which led him to study and experiment with the peanut. He ended up creating more than 325 products from the humble legume, helping to build demand for the plant and establish it as a major American crop. Although George Washington Carver is often credited with inventing peanut butter, it seems others had created that product before Carver began his own work with peanuts. Carver also worked with sweet potatoes, soybeans and pecans, and his work helped change the face of agriculture in the American south.
George Washington Carver’s exact birthdate is unknown; a Missouri census record from 1870 lists George Carver as 10 years old… He was an accomplished artist who displayed paintings at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair… George Washington Carver is no relation to President George Washington. According to the Wikipedia, Carver began to use the name George Washington Carver at Iowa State “to avoid confusion with another George Carver in his classes”… Carver was posthumously awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Iowa State in 1994… Another brilliant botanist of the same era was Luther Burbank.
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
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Read 2 file names from the console. Output to the second file all characters from the first file with an even ordinal number (ordinal numbers start with 1). Example first file: text in file Output in the second file: eti ie Close the IO streams.
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12 October 2021, 16:55
It would be nice if there was a sub-comments section for each task called "Discuss your solution". My solution is nice and clean and doesn't involve creating a list like the official solution does. The whole thing is done in the file.ready while loop in 5 lines of code (not counting brackets). But we're not supposed to post solutions here. I'd like a place where we can share and compare how we did it. I think it would be an invaluable learning tool for a lot of people.
13 April 2020, 01:13
I flailed around with this one way too long because I didn't understand what ordinal meant. I was thinking it meant the first digit of the ASCII value of the number was 1, such as 1, 10-19 and 100-127. I now see that ordinal means the index position of the order in which character is read starting with 1, as in "first". What a waste of time.
26 April 2020, 03:17
Yes, thank you for explaining. You saved me some time.


EV skeptics have long speculated that EVs powered by grid electricity may be no cleaner in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than ICE vehicles. Well, according to studies by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the University of Minnesota, and Carnegie Mellon University, the opposite is true. On average, EVs produce less well-to-wheels emissions than legacy gas burners.
Another Carnegie Mellon study found that a BEV powered with natural gas-based electricity emits 40% less GHGs over its life cycle compared to a gasoline vehicle (it also found that fuel cell and compressed natural gas vehicles have life cycle emissions comparable to gasoline).
Now yet another study, Environmental Assessment of a Full Electric Transportation Portfolio, which was produced by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), has found pretty much the same thing.
Its conclusion is unequivocal: “Today, PEVs [plug-in electric vehicles] are lower-emitting than conventional vehicles, even when accounting for the emissions associated with producing electricity for them.”
The new paper points out that the pollution reductions delivered by PEVs will increase: “Looking ahead, the GHG and air quality benefits of PEVs will increase as the electric sector relies more on cleaner generation. In contrast, a transportation sector fueled primarily by petroleum could result in higher emissions. In contrast to gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicles, a PEV gets cleaner as it ages, as the electricity sector grid gets cleaner.
The authors also note electrification’s role in reducing local air pollution: “Transportation electrification can lead to modest but widespread air quality benefits. The study’s models project that PEVs can help reduce ground-level ozone and particulate matter in both urban and rural areas across the country.”


May 1 marked the 125th anniversary of the Haymarket riot (which occurred on May 4, 1886, in Chicago) and International Workers’ Day. Marches and rallies in solidarity with working-class movements were organized across the United States and around the world to commemorate the day and to voice the current demands of the working class.
In the United States, demonstrations were organized around the country to defend immigrants’ and workers’ rights. Despite increasing attacks on unions, public sector workers, and immigrants in the past year, the turnout for May Day marches was in many places lower this year than in 2010. In part, this reflects a temporary downturn in the immigrant rights movement after the partial injunction against SB 1070, a significant galvanizing factor in 2010.
A significant development this year was the AFL-CIO’s official endorsement of May Day marches around the U.S. Richard Trumpka, the president of the AFL-CIO, spoke at the May 1 rally in Milwaukee, where tens of thousands of people gathered. Other significant marches occurred in Salem (4000), L.A. (3000), San Jose (2000), Chicago (1500), Madison (1500), New York City (1000+), and Hartford (1000+). Demonstrations of 1000 or less also took place in Tucson, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Louisville, Philadelphia, and other cities across the United States.
Huge demonstrations also occurred around the world to commemorate May 1. Massive demonstrations in support of workers’ rights occurred in Buenos Aires (500,000), Germany (400,000+), Istanbul (200,000), Cuba (hundreds of thousands), Paris (125,000), Vienna (100,000), Guatemala City (50,000), and Seoul (50,000). Demonstrations in the thousands also took place in the Philippines, Taiwan, Spain, and Moscow.
For the first time in decades, thousands marched in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and unions in Iraq defied authorities by marching in Baghdad and Basra.
The massive amounts of workers who poured into streets to demand their rights around the world on May 1 demonstrates the growing strength of the working-class movement in the face of the economic and political crisis, and continued solidarity with the ongoing Arab revolutions and workers’ struggles across the globe.
> The article above was written by Lisa Luinenberg and first appeared in the June 2011 print edition of Socialist Action newspaper.


This page you will learn all about RPM Full Form, abbreviation, Long Form, meaning and acronym of the term
RPM stands for - Revenue Per Mille in General
There may be one or more meaning of RPM , so check all meanings of RPM in the RPM data table all one by one.
What is RPM Full Form in Hindi ?
The full form of RPM in Hinid is राजस्व प्रति मिल
All RPM Full Form with category
|RPM||Revenue Per Mille||General|
|RPM||Racing Performance and Motivation||Sports|
|RPM||Raw Power Moves||Sports|
|RPM||Real Power In Motion||Sports|
|RPM||Radial Pressure Management||business|
|RPM||Rails Performance Management||business|
|RPM||Rotations Per Minute||general|
|RPM||Rotations Per Mile||general|
|RPM||Redhat Package Management||Software|
|RPM||Real Player Media||Softwares|
|RPM||Redhat Pakage Manager||Networking|
|RPM||RPM Package Manager||Information Technology|
|RPM||Really Poor Management||business|
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Ham it up is an idiom with roots in a term popular in the 1800s. We will examine the meaning of the idiom ham it up, where it came from, and some examples of its use in sentences.
To ham it up means to overact, to play the buffoon or the entertainer in a social situation, to exaggerate the depiction of emotions. The term ham it up is used most often to describe an unskillful dramatic performance, but may be used to describe someone performing in broad strokes while speaking or telling a story for a social circle of people. Though no authoritative source exists for the etymological origin of the idiom ham it up, we do know it was first recorded in the United States in the 1930s. The term is derived from an expression popular in the 1880s, hamfatter. The word hamfatter is derived from a minstrel song popular at that time, The Ham-fat Man. A hamfatter was an amateur entertainer in American English, named after the ham fat he would use to remove his stage makeup. Inflections of the idiom ham it up are hams it up, hammed it up, hamming it up, which conjugate the verb ham. In addition, an actor who loves the limelight, overacting or over-emoting, is called a ham.
Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal ham it up as they are spotted on the set of Here Today in NYC (The Daily Mail)
The trailer also gives James Corden and Jason Derulo ample time to ham it up as Bustopher Jones and Rum Tum Tugger, respectively (a sentence I, for one, never thought I would write). (Vanity Fair)
You need to bring the passage alive but don’t want to ham it up: the focus must be on the text, not you, and the Book speaks for itself because it’s quite simply one of the greatest achievements in the English language. (The Catholic Herald)
Kathleen Turner makes the case that she should be crowned Queen of the Appalachians, hamming it up as a fortuneteller in an episode inspired by “These Old Bones,” while Julianne Hough manages to rock both the acoustic guitar and Daisy Duke shorts in a sympathetic yarn about Jolene. (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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Build a robot!
by Venable, Colleen A. F.,
|Format:||Print Book 2021|
|Availability:||Available at 16 Libraries 16 of 22 copies|
Inside this volume of Maker Comics, First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions on how to construct six different robots!
The family toaster is preparing to take over the world with an army of evil robots, but he needs your help to build them! Several obstacles lie in his path: your homework, a pesky little sister, and even a dastardly kitty cat. Just follow his instructions to build a series of robots, and world domination is within reach!
With Maker Comics: Build a Robot! written by Colleen AF Venable, featuring illustrations from Kathryn Hudson, you can create a bunch of (non-evil) robots of your very own! All you need are a few everyday items you can find lying around the house and some simple components you can order online. With the easy instructions in this book and you can build a robot that can move on its own, sound an alarm, and even use a sensor to respond to the outside world!
Follow the easy step-by-step instructions inside this book and you can make these robots!
Remote controlled car bot
Published ReviewsPublisher's Weekly Review: "
-- Juvenile literature.
Robotics -- Juvenile literature.
Robots -- Cartoons and comics.
Robotics -- Cartoons and comics.
Cartoons and comics.
Comics (Graphic works)
|Publisher|| New York :First Second,2021
"The ultimate DIY guide with 6 robot projects"--Cover.
120 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.


Dredging is the process of excavating solid slurry or sludge from the beds and bottoms of water elements—such as ponds, lakes, basins, and lagoons—and separating the sediment and debris from the water. Dredging is used to maintain safe and efficient navigability through waterways, cleaning debris and sediment from ponds or lagoons to increase their depth, thus increasing their volume for water storage, and for widening waterways to facilitate safer travel.
Dredging can be used to remove sediment and debris for municipal bridge projects, docks, and piers. Often, materials needed for construction projects, such as sand and gravel, can be quickly collected from the bottom of a lake or pond. The water content can be removed to create solid material for making concrete. Industrial dredging can also be used in particular water elements to obtain precious metals.
Municipal parks projects and residential development projects can benefit from the extra soil dredged from a water element that will be used in the project. Rivers that run through municipal areas can be made deeper to drop their elevation for improved flood mitigation.
Dredging can remove contaminants from chemical and oil spills, removal of sewage accumulation, or the buildup of organic matter from flooding or stormwater runoff. When used for wildlife preserves and ecosystems, environmental dredging can be used to mitigate excessive debris runoff that creates dense algae growth and pond scum, which creates excessive nitrogen content that chokes the water system and can clog water intake valves.
Our adept team at Plains Dredging specializes in cleaning up the slurry and sludge from bodies of water, and containing it with one of several options to dry it out. You can then use the filter cakes (restored solid material) for a land reclamation project, as fertilizer, or you can remove the material from your site. If you prefer, we can remove the unwanted material.
Whatever your project might be, get in touch with our dredging company today to discuss a solution.
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Magnolia is on the Missouri Pacific line at the junction of Farm roads 1774 and 1488, twenty miles southwest of Conroe in southwestern Montgomery County. It was first settled in the late 1840s and named Mink's Prairie for one of the early settlers; its name had been shortened to Mink by 1850. On September 3, 1885, a post office was established at Mink with John F. Dobbs as postmaster. The community's population was twenty-five by 1900. In 1902, when the International-Great Northern Railroad built a line through the area, the town moved to its present location. The railroad named it Melton, in honor of Jim Melton, a large landowner in the county, but the United States Post Office confused it with Milton. Consequently it was renamed Magnolia for the magnolia trees in the bottoms of adjacent Mill Creek and granted a post office in 1903.
Adapted from the official Handbook of Texas, a state encyclopedia developed by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). It is an authoritative source of trusted historical records.
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The oral problems of young children are particularly serious because they are at a critical moment in developing good oral hygiene habits. How to help them maintain oral cleaning through sensors and artificial intelligence technology has become a research point of intelligent Internet of Things. We present an easy accessible monitoring system for evaluating the tooth brushing with smart devices. The system captures the users’ brushing behaviors (e.g., the motion of hands and the acoustic signals during tooth brushing) through the two build-in sensors. Then the collected data is transmitted to the smartphones and evaluated through a designed machine learning-based model. Finally, a DNN model is adopted to significantly improve the accuracy of detecting tooth brush tasks by up to 97.7%.
Narrow-band Photometry of Emission Nebula Using Small-Caliber Optical Telescope
The emission nebula is very common in interstellar matter, and its continuum has several obvious emission lines. In order to study the chemical elements in the emission nebula, this paper uses a small optical telescope with Hα, [SII], [OIII] narrow-band filters to select four emission nebulae for observation. A lot of results can be obtained by analyzing the experimental data. For example, in most of the emission nebulae, the content of Hα is much larger than [SII] and [OIII], and in the supernova remnants, the content of Hα is less. This study proposes a new method of extended source photometry, and estimates the brightness of the selected emission nebula in each band. This method also helps to plan the exposure time for large telescopes, thus can improve observation efficiency.
An Intelligent Directional Following Device Based on Ultrasonic Positioning and Robust PI Controller
The project designs an intelligent directional following device based on ultrasonic positioning and strong robust PI controller. It locates and follows directly under the beacon’s guidance, which brings fast calculation, high positioning accuracy and sensitivity, low energy consumption, and easy control. New algorithm based on four receiving sensors also makes positioning more accurate. Using robust PI controller let it move much steadier and more adaptable to complex environments, with strong anti-interference ability. Its warning system ensures safety and no touching obstacles. Moreover, 3 highly reliable Omni-Wheels, 120° apart, make it move instantaneously in any direction. The device can be widely used indoors and has been granted two patents and won the National Gold Medal.


The economic despair of the Great Recession led to at least 10,000 extra suicides between 2007 and 2010, according to researchers who say that is a conservative estimate—and many of the deaths could have been prevented. The study of 24 EU countries, the US, and Canada found that the suicide rate rose in most European countries where they had been declining before hardship hit, and accelerated in the US, where it had already been climbing, the BBC reports. In New Zealand, one of the few industrialized countries unscathed by the financial crisis, the suicide rate didn't rise after 2007, the researchers note.
But there were some notable exceptions to the trend, which the researchers say show how suicides could be prevented during the next downturn. The suicide rate stayed flat in Austria, Finland, and Sweden, which were hit hard by the recession but have strong social programs in place to help people who have lost their jobs or are struggling financially. "The social welfare aspects of economic downturns like this can't be ignored," a Columbia University professor of epidemiology tells USA Today. "When our economic belts get a little too tight, we shouldn't be cutting things that help the average Joe." The study also found that the increase in the suicide rate was four times higher among men, a trend the researchers say could be because unemployment is a greater "status threat" for men, and could be changed with "greater gender equity in the workplace," the Los Angeles Times reports. (Read more recession stories.)


‘American’; ‘Native American’; ‘Fat Americans’; ‘Stupid Americans’; ‘American funny’; ‘American people’.
Is this what really comes to mind when people think about American identity?
Is this an adequate representation of what it means to be an American?
Is this how we see ourselves or how other people see us?
Click on the image below to enlarge. Interested to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to comment below.
2 thoughts on “What Happens When You Google “American”?”
You ask interesting questions, Craig! I enjoyed taking Sociology courses very much, though I haven’t had any recently. One thing I remember learning in them was to try and analyze biases present in information sources. Which questions are asked in which way will steer poll results, for example.
Google isn’t objective information. Image search results are biased toward bright colors and photographs produced for sales, promotional purposes or by news outlets. A third of Americans do not own or use computers, including most seniors. Most people in general have photos of their own families and lives, but a large portion of those aren’t uploaded, and so would not show up in search results. They would, however, be a more accurate representation of what it means to be an American, or citizen of wherever else. They would illustrate what average people care most about.
Using Google to estimate American identity is like looking at a gallery of snapshots taken only at theme parks.
Thanks a million. Yes, this is a very important subject: I believe it has something to do with historiography (with how history is written and who writes it).


Queen Elizabeth II: A Princess Who Could Tune An Engine
Today, your kids might be asking you about Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for seven decades. Highlights Magazine published this article about the longest reigning monarch in British history in 2013. Titled “A Princess Who Can Tune An Engine,” the story details the period in history when Princess Elizabeth trained as a mechanic.
This fact-filled story can help kids understand why the world is tuned into news from overseas.
Click here to see the whole article from the March 2013 issue of Highlights Magazine.
Fun facts about then-Princess Elizabeth’s time as a mechanic in the British military:
- Before she was Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth wanted to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service (A.T.S.), a female branch of the British military during World War II. Elizabeth was a teenager and first had to convince her parents of her plan.
- Though her father, King George VI thought it was too dangerous, Elizabeth joined the A.T.S and did not receive special treatment.
- Elizabeth learned to take apart an engine and then assemble it. The princess loved the training. “I’m a mechanic at last. I’ve scraped the skin off my knuckles,” she said.
- Princess Elizabeth learned to read maps and drive officer transport cars, ambulances, and military trucks. To complete her training, she had to drive a large truck on her own.
Princess Elizabeth became Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. She drove around London long into her eighties and more often, she could be found driving around her large property at Balmoral Castle.
During her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 70 years of service on the throne.
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Whole Child Development
We empower our students to become creative and engaged citizens. We nurture them in learning to express themselves, understand others, and navigate situations so that they can confidently solve problems. We guide our students’ character and leadership skills development through the unique culture of our daily school life.
We believe that Character Education is the shared responsibility of parents, teachers, and members of the community. Our Character Education reinforces positive thoughts and behaviours that help our students succeed socially, emotionally, and academically.
The Umbrella Project
The idea behind the Umbrella Project is that students need skills such as mindfulness and grit to piece together their imaginary umbrella that will protect them from the rain of life. We use Dr. Forrestal’s program to assist in teaching emotional well-being and positive stress management. Students develop healthy mindset and lifestyle traits such as resilience, kindness, self-compassion, integrity and authenticity.
Additionally, classroom programs such as “Bucket Fillers” (B class – Grade 5), “Second Step” (K – 6), “Tree of Good Gestures” (Gr. 3 to 8), “Above the Line” (Grades 6-8) support our school-wide Character Education.


30 Oct Skillage report 2012-2015
30 Oct, 2015
Skillage.eu is an online assessment tool that helps young people to understand the more sophisticated ICT skills they need for the job market.
Telecentre Europe regularly carries out an analysis of the data provided in Skillage, with the aim of providing an evidence base on young Europeans’ digital skills. The conclusions of the analysis will help mobilise the efforts of telecentres around Europe to tackle youth unemployment in the most underprivileged areas and to raise awareness about digital competences and their importance for the labour market.
The report analyses participation results and the average scores obtained by participants between 2012 and 2015. In addition, for 2015 it provides an in-depth analysis with the socio-demographic variables. Following the analysis, specific calls-to-action and policy recommendations are proposed as well.
Policy recommendations are:
- to raise awareness among female youngsters and employers about the fact that girls and women are well prepared to work in jobs requiring digital competence
- specific digital competence education and training should be already introduced at school age and aligned with labour market needs
- to reinforce digital skills education and training for employability at high school, vocational training, university and non-formal training for youngsters (ICT training centres, telecentres, etc.).
Infographic summarising the report is available HERE.
European Commission has included Skillage as an example of implementation of the Digital Comptence Framework for citizens: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcomp/implementation


Comparative thinking is a very natural form of thought that even a small baby has. The baby distinguishes between his parents and a stranger. People compare and contrast all the time. You compare the quality and price when you buy a kitchen utensil, for example. In order to compare, we first need to sort them. We need to decide the attributes we are sorting them by. For example, to sort our kitchen cabinet, we need to choose the attribute, could be by function, material or by size.
Intuitive behaviour is not a formal process. The ability to compare and contrast using a logical, scientific process requires training and understanding of the process of classification, discrimination, transition and use of the right vocabulary. CLASSIFICATION is the first step where you find attributes (criteria) to compare. DISCRIMINATION is the second step where you distinguish and articulate the differences. From this you draw inferences and conclusions while using TRANSITION or CONTRASTING VOCABULARY like whereas, however, etc.
We use visual thinking tools that enable this kind of thinking. Some of the tools used are the semantic feature analysis chart or matrix diagram, double bubble diagram and Venn diagram. This is an essential tool that can be used across subjects. I have extensively used this in Math, Science, Social Studies and English. Here are a few examples.
Step 1: Classification
Step 2: Discrimination


A Beginner's Reading List
Introduction to Aerial Archaeology
Written in English, this web site covers the basics of aerial survey and ALS ad shows uses of these in landscape archaeology.
Especially chapter ‘Aerial Survey’, pages 80-93; the next edition should be published in 2019.
Photo Reading Examples
Topics of interest may be found in the Capture, Interpret and Case Studies pages.
AARGnews is open access to all issues in PDF form on this website
Using Archival Images
Use of Satellite Imagery
UAVs or Drones
Papers and Abstracts
Compiled by Irwin Scollar, Rog Palmer, Michael Doneus, John Haigh, Kevin MacLeod and Dave Cowley
Compiled by Irwin Scollar
by Martin Fowler, in AARGnews33
by Ulrich Kiesow (archaeoflug) – PDF Size: 800KB
by R. Bewley and Ch. Musson. This project was only made possible with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union
England: a cropmark landscape in three dimensions, by Davy Strachan
An annotated bibliography
Göteborg, Thursday, 24th September, 1998
Irwin Scollar’s solutions to problems caused by different national map projections and their incorporation in Airphoto


Private Rockets Boost Potential for Space Travel
Eight years after NASA hung up its thrusters on the Space Shuttle mission, on March 2, SpaceX launched an unmanned rocket to the International Space Station. This launch means that Americans will soon be able to go to the International Space Station via an American rocket launched from American soil, possibly as early as July. SpaceX, a private company focused on space exploration through reusable rockets, launched an unmanned rocket into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The mission was a test flight to prove that the rocket could be guided successfully from Earth to the International Space Station, dock and then splash down into the ocean. The mission was successful and provided valuable information about how astronauts experience space travel, despite the fact that it was an unmanned mission. The rocket was guided from Earth, but during the flight a robot was recording the experience that an astronaut would physically endure during the launch. The entirety of the mission lasted 5 days until the splash down on Mar. 8.
According to The New York Times SpaceX is scheduled to launch another unmanned rocket in June using the same capsule from the Mar. 2 launch to test if the capsules are safely reusable. Kenneth Chang, writing for the New York Times, also identifies this launch as putting “NASA and the United States on the cusp of a renewed era of human spaceflight.” Since the discontinuation of NASA’s space shuttle program in 2011, American astronauts have had to rent seats on rockets from Russia in order to reach the International Space Station. The seats on Russia’s Suyez rocket sold to NASA sold for as much as $21.8 million when the Space Shuttle was around in 2008 to $81 million per seat in 2018. Given that prior reality, the launch of SpaceX’s rocket is an exciting advancement for America’s space exploration. It enables independence because America was at the forefront of space exploration for many years and now America can rejoin the research into space exploration without the exuberant cost.
By Ell Shelp-Peck, Staff Writer


The pans All activities and items related to the kitchen are of great importance since this point is that come the food you eat every day to go through different processes, such as by heating or cooking when fried. One of the most used utensils in the kitchen and therefore with greater presence, are the pans, with the facilities offered to carry out different foods are shown as a ubiquitous component in a good kitchen. The advantage that presents the pans in the kitchen is the ease of adding different foods to fry at the surface of the butter or oil pans so to eat the best and show no raw parts, which provide both a better flavor and better conditions for consumption by humans. The pans are metal containers that have very low edges and open, which differentiates them from the pans or other metal containers used for further food through the liquid and therefore need a greater storage capacity, qualities that do not have the pans since their tasks are not these. Kenneth Feinberg will not settle for partial explanations. Pans to be somewhat closer to the element that generates heat in stoves, must have a handle or lever plastic cover that allows people the opportunity to take the pan and remove from heat to avoid burning by heat generated for places of the oven. The most common materials in which you can find the pans are aluminum, since it is a very lightweight material and therefore get an excellent way to distribute the heat, but made of aluminum pans are not suitable for kitchens or induction type stoves; half but used for the manufacture of frying pans non-alloy steel is the material that is more applicable to the kitchens and that suits all types of stoves, regardless of the means by which generates heat, so it is useful for induction type, another of the presentations of the pans are made of stainless steel, which despite being very useful and can be resistant equally present problems for induction cookers. One point that takes great importance in terms of the pans is the presence of Teflon component that occurs in the pans by means of different layers, which allows food to be fried, do not stick to the surface of the pans, the will undoubtedly greatly facilitated the work in the kitchen, so a good pan must present a nonstick Teflon. To get the best pans ideally avoided to the greatest extent possible metal spoons to avoid scratching the surface of the pans, filling metal spoons through the wood, another measure is care for pans not clean sponges through metal but with a foam pad or some similar material..


As the saying goes, the disease comes from the mouth. In fact, what we usually eat will affect our body to have some reactions and effects. Some girls like to follow their hobbies. They always eat what they like. Sometimes they eat too much of one thing, or they neglect to eat other things because they only eat one thing. Such a habit is not good, it will affect your body and even lead to cancer.
Now let Xiaobian tell you that you should try to avoid the following two eating habits.
First, you are not happy without meat. You only like meat
In fact, some girls also love meat, not only boys will have no meat. And sometimes girls are more paranoid about meat than boys. Almost to the point where there must be meat, or we can’t eat it. Only eating meat can make you feel happy and have appetite. There are many kinds of meat you choose. You want to try all kinds of meat. Such habits may make you more prone to physical diseases, because many meat is not so good in quality, and many meat that has been roasted, fried or fried is easy to generate toxic substances, which is easy to cause cancer; data shows that people who often eat meat are at least twice as likely to suffer from cancer as people who eat less meat;
Second, you don’t pay attention to vitamins
You often eat what you like, and you don’t pay attention to food matching and balanced nutrition supplement. Such eating habits may lead to a variety of essential vitamin deficiencies in your body. Under such conditions, your body may be more likely to get sick or cancer; for example, vitamin A deficiency is more likely to get stomach cancer, and vitamin C deficiency is more likely to get colon cancer, etc.
Therefore, I hope you can pay more attention to your diet in your daily life after reading this article. Although willful life may make you happier, healthy body is also the guarantee for your happiness.


UK-based startup First Light claims to have achieved a fusion energy “breakthrough” by shooting a projectile at four miles a second into a fuel target to release energy — a new approach to fusion power, which could theoretically generate a practically limitless amount of green electricity.
“We have identified a genuine route to commercial fusion,” First Light Chairman Bart Markus said in a statement. “Fusion must show it is more than an expensive science experiment.”
In other words, the company claims to have demonstrated its approach by fusing atoms using its device — but has yet to achieve the ultimate goal of harvesting more energy from fusion reactors than was needed to start the reaction, something scientists have been wrestling with for decades.
Big Friendly Gun
Most scientists working on the problem have opted to heat plasma to extreme temperatures, around ten times the temperature of the Sun, to bind atoms together in a process that can release copious amounts of energy inside hugely complex, donut-shaped reactors.
Earlier this year, for instance, scientists at the UK-based Joint European Torus (JET) lab smashed its own 25-year-old record, producing 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds, or roughly the equivalent of 30 pounds of TNT.
First Light, however, is trying an entirely different approach, shooting small projectiles at small fuel targets from of a device dubbed the “Big Friendly Gun,” at ten times the speed of your average rifle bullet.
These targets, made up of deuterium isotopes, could be manufactured at just $10 to $20 each, according to First Light.
“It is the ultimate espresso capsule,” CEO Nicholas Hawker told the Financial Times last year.
Pursuit of Fusion
While we have yet to find out how much energy each target can actually release, the company claims it could in theory be enough to power an average UK home for two years.
“This pursuit of practical and affordable fusion will give us the clean and abundant baseload power that we so desperately need in our effort to address — and hopefully reverse — global warming,” First Light co-founder Yiannis Ventikos said in the statement.
But, as with any reports of scientific breakthroughs, the proof is in the pudding — or in this case, tiny packets of deuterium isotopes.
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