The Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS) is a construct of guidelines used to measure healthcare performance and service. Developed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), HEDIS is used in over 90 percent of U.S. healthcare plans to establish standardized indices.
A HEDIS Nurse is fully trained on the performance measures and domains of HEDIS. By using HEDIS to enforce medical record keeping and coding policies, HEDIS Nurses are invaluable in improving facility care quality. HEDIS Nurses are also essential in reporting to physicians and facility managers on whether these policy standards are being met.
- Evaluate quality improvement outcomes
- Gather and analyze performance data
- Review and assess medical records
- Participate in on-site inspection preparation
- Conduct facility audits regarding compliance
- Present findings to Quality Improvement Committee (QIC)
Qualifications and Skills
- Active RN license
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- 1+ years of data collection and/or data entry experience
In order to serve as knowledge experts, HEDIS Nurses must have a developed understanding of the 81 measures of performance for patient care. They must also possess strong interpersonal skills, convey standards, and ensure that facilities understand how to improve or maintain their practices.


General (layman's) medical guidance on Turner Syndrome
Turner Syndrome research and guidance review
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Turner Syndrome Society of the United States
Charitable organisation promoting awareness and providing support, advocacy and education.
A UK based support society for Turner Syndrome. Includes information and details of the society's work.
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Turner syndrome (TS), also known as 45,X or 45,X0, is a condition in which a female is partly or completely missing an X chromosome.
Signs and symptoms vary among those affected. Often, a short and webbed neck, low-set ears, low hairline at the back of the neck, short stature, and swollen hands and feet are seen at birth
Most people with TS have normal intelligence. Many, however, have troubles with spatial visualization that may be needed for mathematics. Vision and hearing problems occur more often.
Turner syndrome is not usually inherited from a person's parents. No environmental risks are known, and the mother's age does not play a role.
Turner syndrome is due to a chromosomal abnormality in which all or part of one of the X chromosomes is missing or altered. The chromosomal abnormality may be present in just some cells in which case it is known as TS with mosaicism. In these cases, the symptoms are usually fewer and possibly none occur at all. Diagnosis is based on physical signs and genetic testing.
No cure for Turner syndrome is known. Treatment, however, may help with symptoms. Human growth hormone injections during childhood may increase adult height. Medical care is often required to manage other health problems with which TS is associated.
Turner syndrome occurs in between one in 2000 and one in 5000 females at birth. All regions of the world and cultures are affected about equally.
Generally people with TS have a shorter life expectancy, mostly due to heart problems and diabetes.
Henry Turner first described the condition in 1938. In 1964, it was determined to be due to a chromosomal abnormality.


Introducing the Social Expenditure Monitor
The Social Expenditure Monitor (SEM) is a tool to inform government decision-making on smart spending towards achieving macro-fiscal objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It supports budgeting and fiscal policy choices to rebalance priorities in spending, improve transparency and minimize leakages in public finance management. The SEM can also serve as a social countercyclical tool in times of crises.
What is social expenditure?
The notion of social expenditure depends upon a country’s progress in social development priorities. Ideally, social expenditure aims to maximize levels of human well-being through access to quality services and social protection, including areas in which the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims for universal access. Appropriate social expenditures are social investments that promote inclusive and sustainable growth. Any measure of social expenditure must take into consideration two guiding objectives: targeting expenditure to ensure social justice and inclusive development, reduce poverty and inequality, and improve human development; and targeting expenditure to enhance human capital and innovation, promote gender equality and foster sustainable economic growth.
The SEM is aligned with the SDGs and provides a comprehensive measure of social expenditure in areas including:
- Health and nutrition;
- Housing, connectivity and community amenities;
- Labour market interventions and employment generation;
- Social protection, subsidies and support to farms;
- Arts, culture and sports;
- Environmental protection.


BLACK CARPET BEETLES
adult carpet beetles range from 2 mm to 5 mm in length, with very short clubbed antennae and chewing mouth parts. Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in color.
HABITAT & PRODUCTION
Carpet beetle larvae prefer dark and secluded places. Outdoors, female beetles search out spider webs or bee, wasp, or bird nests as places to lay their eggs. The nests contains dead insects, beeswax and pollen or other debris that can serve as larval food.
Indoors, beetles deposit eggs on or near wool carpets and rugs, woolen goods, animal skins, furs, stuffed animals, leather book bindings and dried plant products, and other materials that can serve as larval food. Adults usually appear in spring or early summer; indoors, you often find them near windows.
Centipedes are not typically hazardous to humans. Damage occurs during the larval stage of carpet beetles. Larvae feed in dark, undisturbed locations on a variety of dead animals and animal products such as wool, silk, leather, fur, hair brushes with natural bristles, pet hair, and feathers; occasionally they feed on stored products such as certain spices and grains. They don’t feed on synthetic fibers.
INFESTATION - CENTIPEDES INVADE HOME
As they do not typically leave lasting signs of infestation, damage buildings, or contaminate food, centipede infestations may go unnoticed for some time. The best way to determine if centipedes are present is to look for them at night when they’re most active. Homeowners might also find molted exoskeletons given a present infestation. Dark, secluded areas in basements, under cabinets, and collections of firewood are common places for centipedes to congregate.
NEED HELP IN CENTIPEDE EXTERMINATION
The most effective way of ensuring Beetles do not invade your space is through prevention. Dry clean and place clothes in plastic containers before storing.
Once beetles have established themselves in your space, it is best to call a professional. Well Done Pest Control uses specialized equipment to effectively remove these threats from your space.
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Rotalia Island facts for kids
Location of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands
|Coordinates||62°14′18″S 59°05′24″W / 62.23833°S 59.09000°W|
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|Length||310 m (1,020 ft)|
|Width||250 m (820 ft)|
|Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System|
Rotalia Island (Bulgarian: остров Роталия) is the rocky island off the north coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 310 m in southeast-northwest direction and 250 m in southwest-northeast direction.
The island is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Rotalia of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of South Georgia, Kerguelen, the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”
Rotalia Island is located at 62°14′18″S 59°05′24″W / 62.23833°S 59.09000°W, which is 2.06 km west-southwest of Cariz Point, 530 m north of Meana Point, 1.2 km northeast of Baklan Point and 2.2 km east of Withem Island. British mapping in 1968.


Conservation group wants the Blanding's turtle placed on the Endangered Species List
A conservation group wants the federal government to place the Blanding's turtle and nine other amphibians and reptiles under federal protection.
The Center for Biological Diversity is asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put the Blanding's turtle on the Endangered Species List.
Minnesota and Nebraska are the only states that have sizable populations of Blanding's turtles. The medium- to large-sized turtles, which have striking yellow throats, live long lives but are vulnerable.
"Females don't even start reproducing until they're 14-20 yrs old, so these turtles just need to be left alone before they can even become productive," said Collete Adkins Giese, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. "If they're hit by a car, or taken out as pets, you just never get animals that are reproducing in the wild."
The turtles need wetlands for breeding but also upland habitats for nesting and foraging, Adkins Giese said.
Minnesota has good habitat for Blanding's turtles along the Mississippi River. The state listed the animal as a threatened species in 1984. Scientists are researching land management techniques that can help the Blanding's turtle.
"What's really tough for the Blanding's turtle is that, as it moves from the wetlands to the upland habitat, the forest, the prairie, these areas are often bisected by roads," Adkins Giese said. "Another big threat is road mortality; they just get hit by cars as they travel to their sites."
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No, the sum of two negative integers is not a positive integer. For example, if you add -5 and -6 together the sum would be -11.
It depends, if a number with positive integers is greater than the number with the negative integer therefore the sum will be in positive integer. And if the number with positive integer is less than the number with the number with negative integer then the sum will be in negative integer.
No. Two negative integers added together will never equal a positive integer. It is the product of two negative integers that is positive.
sum of positive integers will be a positive integer
The sum of two positive integers is positive. The sum of two negative integers is negative. The sum of one positive integer and one negative integer has the same sign as the addend with the greater absolute value. If the absolute values of the two addends are equal, the sum is zero.
Only when the integers are the same but otherwise no.
The statement is: "Their sum is always an integer." Whether the sum is negative or positive depends on the two original integers.
Yes, the sum of two negative integers is always negative.
When the absolute value of the negative number is higher than the positive number.
The sum of the first ten positive integers, i.e. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10, is 55. The sum of the first ten negative integers, i.e. -1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9, and -10 is -55. The sum of the first ten positive integers plus the sum of the first ten negative integers is 0.
No. The sum of a positive integer and a negative integer has the same sign as the larger integer.
Rule: The sum of two negative integers is a negative integer.Rule: The sum of two positive integers is a positive integer.Procedure: To add a positive and a negative integer (or a negative and a positive integer), follow these steps:1. Find the absolute value of each integer.2. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number you get in Step 1.3. The result from Step 2 takes the sign of the integer with the greater absolute value.


SANTIAGO (Reuters) - More than 30,000 tremors have rocked Antarctica since the end of August, according to the University of Chile, a spike in seismic activity that has intrigued researchers who study the remote, snowbound continent.
Scientists with the university’s National Seismological Center said the small quakes - including one stronger shake of magnitude 6 - were detected in the Bransfield Strait, a 60-mile wide (96-km) ocean channel between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
Several tectonic plates and microplates meet near the strait, leading to frequent rumbling, but the past three months have been unusual, according to the center.
“Most of the seismicity is concentrated at the beginning of the sequence, mainly during the month of September, with more than a thousand earthquakes a day,” the center said.
The shakes have become so frequent that the strait itself, once increasing in width at a rate of about 7 or 8 mm (0.30 inch) a year is now expanding 15 cm (6 inches) a year, the center said.
“It’s a 20-fold increase ... which suggests that right this minute ... the Shetland Islands are separating more quickly from the Antarctic peninsula,” said Sergio Barrientos, the center’s director.
The peninsula is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth, and scientists closely monitor the changing climate’s impact on its icebergs and glaciers.
But climate scientist Raul Cordero of the University of Santiago said it was not yet clear how the tremors might be affecting the region’s ice.
“There’s no evidence that this kind of seismic activity ... has significant effects on the stability of polar ice caps,” Cordero told Reuters.
Reporting by Fabian Cambero and Reuters TV; Writing by Dave Sherwood; Editing by Peter Cooney
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which relies heavily on the results from clinical trials, is encouraging more patients to participate in trials—particularly people of all ages, races, ethnic groups and genders—as it will give the Administration a more clear picture of a product’s risks and benefits. The FDA notes that there can be significant differences in how diverse populations respond to medical products, and that information can be added to the label to help doctors and patients make treatment decisions. In addition, trial subjects should be representative of the types of patients who are likely to use the product under investigation.
With this in mind, the FDA issued a release that informs consumers of the importance of clinical trials and the regulations in place to protect them. For example, consumers must remember that if they enroll in a trial to get early access to what they believe is a promising therapy, there are no guarantees that the therapy will work or that they will be assigned to the group of patients who receive it—investigating physicians may not even be aware of some risks until the trials are under way.
To encourage diversity where appropriate, the agency is working with a variety of federal partners, medical product manufacturers, medical professionals and health advocates. For instance, the FDA’s Office of Women’s Health and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office for Research on Women’s Health launched an initiative to raise awareness among women and share best practices for clinical trials. The FDA’s Office of Minority Health has a dedicated page to encourage people and their healthcare providers to learn about trials, and the FDA currently offers guidance for researchers, including recent recommendations on how race and ethnicity data should be collected.
Potential participants of clinical trials can visit on the “Inside Clinical Trials: Testing Medical Products in People” and “Clinical Trials: What Patients Need to Know” pages at www.fda.gov to learn more. The NIH also keeps a list of ongoing trials at https://clinicaltrials.gov. All clinical trials specify who is eligible to participate, and participants must be accepted before joining.
The full release appears on the FDA’s Consumer Updates page.
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The Biden Administration reignited its Cancer Moonshot initiative last week, renewing its commitment to cutting the US cancer death rate by 50% over the next 25 years. The plan includes substantial financial investment, too. The initiative pledges $2 billion for biotech supply chains.
The announcement came from the steps of the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, and while investment will be almost inclusively domestic, the order also encourages international joint research and includes some stipulations that research funded by the government be made public and shared with researchers around the globe.
European Commission Also Invested In Cancer Research
A similar program organized by the European Commission is also underway, wither more than 500 million euros committed to cancer research focused on cutting death rates. The parallel efforts may collaborate in the years ahead, but critics say the US program is too focused on keeping technology generated in the US exclusively to the US.
The Cancer Fighting Focus
The US cancer initiative focuses on a few key types of cancer, including:
- Multi-cancer blood tests
- Researching messenger RNA technology for cancer vaccines
- Expanding the National Institutes of Health research database
- Improving supply chain resiliency
Researchers are eager to apply the hard-won knowledge from RNA technology driven in large part by the design and production of COVID-19 vaccines in the past two years. Similar innovations could have an impact on cancer vaccines in the relatively near term if successful. HPV vaccines, for example, save lives and reduce the number of diagnoses.
Cancer Prevention Matters, Too
As the US invests in sweeping cancer research programs, families can invest in cancer prevention efforts daily at home. Learn more about healthy diets, and activities, and advocate for equitable access to healthcare to ensure we all reap the benefits of cancer research initiatives like the Cancer Moonshot.
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Driving or riding in a vehicle is an everyday reality for almost everyone in Michigan, but just because something is routine doesn’t mean the risks shouldn’t be considered. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thousands of people die in motor vehicle accidents per year in the United States. These accidents are caused by a variety of risk factors, including distracted driving, drowsy driving and intoxicated driving.
Fortunately, there are some tips that can be used to mitigate the risks of driving. Drowsy driving is considered a certain type of distracted driving that’s affected by internal factors, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Drivers need to recognize the signs of their own sleepiness and either find a way to stay alert or get off the road. Texting is also seen as a huge problem in terms of distracted driving, which explains why so many jurisdictions have outlawed using a phone while operating a vehicle.
Aggressive behavior while driving is also responsible for a significant number of accidents. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reported that the most common aggressive behaviors include tailgating, yelling and honking at other drivers. People are encouraged to stay calm while on the road to avoid the dangers that come with these behaviors.
When people are injured in a motor vehicle accident caused by the risky behavior of another driver, they may have the right to compensation from the responsible party. A lawyer may carefully evaluate the circumstances of an accident and find out if pursuing a lawsuit is in the client’s best interests. Victims of car accidents might be able to receive compensation for expensive medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.


The Dangers of Asbestos
Asbestos is a word that many people in the UK are familiar with, many of them for the wrong reasons. Widely used as a building material because of its resistance to high temperatures, asbestos is actually a hazardous material that can severely damage health. Sadly, the dangers of exposure to asbestos were not identified for years as asbestos related diseases usually take time to develop, meaning that hundreds of people were exposed to the danger and are still at risk.
Asbestos only becomes dangerous when airborne and ingested into the lungs, where it can cause extreme damage. The two main types of lung diseases caused by exposure to asbestos are asbestosis, a chronic fibrosis of the lungs, and mesothelioma, cancer of the lining of the lungs. In 2007, figures show that 2156 died of the more common of the two, mesothelioma, and not all from direct exposure themselves: it is thought that even washing the clothes of someone who has been exposed to asbestos can be dangerous, as trapped particles stored in the materials can be released and inhaled.
Some people who worked with asbestos years ago could be suffering from related diseases today, or could be in the process of developing them. However, these workers are not the only ones at risk, as many locations still exist where asbestos is present and becomes extremely dangerous if preserved. Luckily, since asbestos related diseases were recognised by the medical profession in 1920, regulation concerning the control of the mineral has developed in leaps and bounds. Thanks to the Control of Asbestos Regulations NI 2007, exposure to any lingering asbestos is carefully monitored and minimised.
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The use of two important business functions, marketing and PR, to generate awareness and positive responses to products, services and businesses. Marketing PR has developed due to increased saturation of markets and the difficulties this creates in reaching customers. Traditional forms of marketing are yielding lower and lower returns, requiring companies to use more innovative methods of reaching potential customers.
Marketing PR is often seen on the internet, a highly saturated market. Crucially the internet is an integrated marketplace, which means there's no clear distinction between commercial content and non-commercial content. Companies increasingly use buzz marketing and innovative campaigns to drive awareness of their products and their companies, at the same time as promoting a particular product or service.
It's also seen commonly on TV – an advert telling consumers that a company has reduced its environmental impact is a public relations message but the company is hoping its ethical credentials will increase positive perceptions of its products, position itself as a moral choice and ultimately drive sales.
Another driver of Marketing PR has been consumers and other businesses increasingly demanding that organisations behave and think in certain ways – a failure to conduct themselves in these ways can have a detrimental effect on the organisation's standing within both the industry and the public sphere.
In this way, the structure, values and actions of the organisation are now marketable commodities that can be used to drive perception of the business itself and its products. This has coincided with a rise in the importance of 'brand, ' which is now a commonly used metric to judge an organisation's worth. This contrasts to 50 years ago, when profit was the main – if not only – metric used.


MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
A research study published in Biomed Central (BMC) Immunology by scientists from George Mason University, George Washington University and the University of California, highlights that vaccines given to prevent the spread of smallpox, also produce a five-fold reduction in HIV replication in the laboratory . The results suggest that the end of smallpox vaccination in the mid-20th century may have contributed to the rapid spread of HIV.
The research team compared HIV-1 susceptibility in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells taken from people recently immunised against the smallpox virus, to those who were not vaccinated. They found significantly lower viral replication in blood cells from vaccinated individuals. The study proposes that vaccination may protect against HIV by producing long-term alterations in the immune system, possibly including the expression of a certain receptor, CCR5, on the surface of a person's white blood cells. Since HIV-1 infections are almost exclusively caused by the CCR5-tropic HIV-1 strains, the prior immunisation may provide some degree of protection to subsequent HIV infection or/and progression.
Though the results are interesting and may lead a new weapon against the HIV pandemic, they are very preliminary and it is too soon to recommend the general use of smallpox vaccines for fighting HIV.
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Disclaimer: I found this text file on my computer and I don't remember when I wrote this, but probably sometime in September.
The classic problem of computer vision is centered around the sub-problem of object recognition?
However, one key observation about vision is that work in this field has produced any stunning results in over 30 years of work. Perhaps people have been attacking this problem from the wrong direction.
When somebody is trying to do good object-recognition they would like to extract the locations of objects in an image. Recently, researchers have begun using machine learning techniques to learn the space of all object appearances; however, maybe the answer to this problem isn't in extracting objects from images.
When a human sees an image they see they can easily decompose the image into its constituent parts, namely the objects present in the scene. But is this statement really true about the nature of the human visual system? Language and society have introduced 'objects' into our understanding of the world, but perhaps we can still do vision without focusing on objects.
If we treat the image as a holistic entity, perhaps once we have seen enough images so that 'object' segmentation naturally happens. If a human was never given a language-based context for describing what they see, would they see objects?
Are objects an artifact of the fact that human experience is in most-part dominated by the language we know. Clearly language is concerned with objects.
We should perhaps focus on image understanding as a memory-based approach. Thus to understand a scene we might not really need to segment it into object categories. Perhaps we only need to associate a given scene with some other scene we have encountered.
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The third Chief Characteristic Of our year is to be found in the in creasing confidence in the scientific validity of applied psychology, and in the labors to perfect the procedures in seeking solution for many problems in other sciences and in the art of living. Sometimes thisapplication means only a common-sense use of psychological insight; at other times a direct treatment of particular problems by the psychologist. At the twentieth meeting (1911) of the American Psychological Association, indication of this interest was notably shown in the presidential address, the symposium on psychology and medical education, and the section on educational psychology. The Fifth Congress for Experimental Psychology (berlin, 1912) was Characterized by a Special manifestation of interest in the method and results of the applications of psychology, about one third of the forty papers presented being concerned with this field. This branch of the science was taken by Miinsterberg as the theme for his Ichabod Spencer lectures early in the year. Meunier's (i6) and Stern's (26) views belong no less to this field.
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The Oconaluftee village was opened in 1952 as a living history museum of Cherokee culture operated by the Cherokee Historical Association. It functions as an authentic replica of a Cherokee village circa 1750. Cherokee crafts people demonstrate traditional Cherokee arts and methods of survival, including: basket weaving, blowgun shooting, arrow making, and even how canoes
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Kituhwa Mound is a sacred and incredibly historic site to the Cherokee. This mound once sat at the center of the first Cherokee village — Kituhwa, which is often referred to as the “mother town of the Cherokee.” Archaeologists date the site back to nearly 10,000 years ago. Originally 15 to 20 feet tall, the
Clingmans Dome towers at 6,643 feet and stands as the highest point in the Smoky Mountains National Park, the highest point along the Appalachian Trail, the highest point in Tennessee, and the second highest point east of the Mississippi river. The Cherokee know the mountain as Kuwahi or Mulberry Place and consider it a sacred
Cherokee, North Carolina
Cherokee, North Carolina is the capital of Qualla Boundary, home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians – a federally-recognized tribe of more than 12,500. Qualla Boundary is nestled in the Great Smoky range of the Appalachian Mountains, the , with land in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Today, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians


Write Great Alternative Text for Images
<img> element has an
alt attribute that should be populated with text describing that image. The content of an image’s
alt attribute is used in various situations:
- Search engines can’t see images the same way people do, so they’re going to look at the content of the
- When people have their browsers configured to not load images (which is more people than you might think; many have restrictive data and/or bandwidth limits).
- Non graphical browsers, including screen readers, will use the text in the
altattribute in place of the image.
- If the image fails to load, or the image format is not supported by the browser, the alternative text will be displayed instead.
If you find yourself wondering what you should put in an
alt attribute ask yourself this question: If you were describing this website to a friend over the phone, and they had no way to view it, how would you describe this image? The answer is what you put for the value of that image’s
Some image elements are not integral to the content of the page, like decorative images. If you wouldn’t mention a particular image to your friend on the phone that
<img> element should still have an
alt attribute, but its value should be an empty string, like this:
<img alt="" src="...">
alt attribute with an empty string indicates that non-visual browsers, like screen readers, can simply ignore the image.
For images that are a key part of the content, but have no appropriate textual description, the
alt attribute should be omitted entirely (but this is almost never the case).


60 addition and subtraction worksheets for 3rd graders: practice with math basics for grade 3!
The Grade 3 Addition and Subtraction Workbook provides practice with:
- adding and subtracting within 1000 with and without regrouping
- adding and subtracting multiples of 10
- adding three numbers
- calculating "how many more"
- determining the missing addend or subtrahend
- addition and subtraction word problems
The workbook progresses from easy to harder problems and contains a mix of fill-in-the-blank, word problems, matching and multiple-choice questions.
Created by a child development specialist and educator with a PhD in education and a passion to help children fall in love with math!
Luminous Learning worksheets are designed with built-in supports to help students master essential concepts. These supports include number lines, images of base-10 blocks or counters, graph paper to align numbers, and clear examples. Our worksheets are not only simple for kids to use, they're also fun! There are 60 unique worksheets + answer keys, along with bonus resource pages. Each workbook aligns with Common Core Standards.
Grade Level: 3
Page Count: 83 pages
Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
Common Core Standards: CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.2
Answer Key: Included
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Study of spiderwebs finds how to stay sticky when a surface is wet
Don’t tell the kids, but they might need fewer band-aids in the near future. As exciting as getting a colorful adhesive bandage for a scrape or cut may be, getting a second bandage after a bath is even better, because you get more trucks or robots without the need for another injury. Because of the way glues interact with water, bath time has generally ensured that no bandage would survive a full day, but that may soon change if scientists can learn to reproduce some key properties of spider silk.
Sticking to water instead of a surface
The root of the problem with glues and paints on wet surfaces is interfacial water. This water gets between the adhesive and it’s intended target, then ruins any bonds that were in effect by essentially taking their place. In the case of a bandage, this means that the adhesive ends up bonding with the water that was next to the skin, instead of the skin itself.
Loose band-aids or peeling paint is one thing, but creatures like spiders really can’t tolerate having their webs come unstuck whenever things get humid. Since plenty of spiders manage to keep webs stuck to moist leaves with enough strength to catch struggling prey, researchers started looking at the exact chemistry to see what their secret was. Their search eventually came to focus on three types of ingredients— two glycoproteins, a batch of low molecular mass organic and inorganic compounds (LMMCs) and interestingly, water itself.
Working with water instead of against it
On their own, each of these ingredients wasn’t anything terribly unique. Glycoproteins are used as a source of stickiness by a variety of organisms, from algae to sea stars to ivy. The trick was how each ingredient complimented the others. Researchers found that the LMMCs worked to make the glycoproteins stick better, mainly by absorbing water and moving it away from the target surface. So rather than become completely hydrophobic and try avoid water at all costs, spider silk stays sticky by absorbing water and just moving it away from points of contact with other surfaces. With further development, researchers hope to apply this lesson to the design of adhesives we depend on, even if it means that a water proof band-aid will actually need to be water-absorbent.
Source: Research on spider glue resolves sticky problem by Lisa Craig, Phys.org


A thoroughly rewarding explanation of earthquakes built around the famous San Andreas fault, which runs the length of California.
Science writer Dvorak emphasizes that it was barely 50 years ago when scientists agreed that earthquakes were not the result of exploding underground gases, volcanism or a wrinkling of the Earth’s surface as it slowly cooled. Much of their enlightenment occurred in California, and the author turns up half a dozen intrepid, eccentric and largely unknown geologists (Grove Gilbert, Andrew Lawson, Charles Richter, Harry Fielding Reid) whose insights began to converge after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In the massive studies that followed, scientists could not fail to notice the long San Andreas fault, a crack in the Earth’s surface soon found to extend the entire length of the state. No one doubted that movement along this fault had occurred during the quake since roads, pipes, rails and fences that crossed the line had shifted as much as 20 feet and always in the same direction. This was considered an effect, not a cause of the quake, and the few perceptive observers who disagreed were dismissed. It’s a rule of science that facts mean little in the absence of a good theory to explain them. This finally arrived in the 1960s with plate tectonics, which asserted that vast, floating segments of the Earth’s crust are creeping horizontally past each other. One segment often sticks fast against its neighbor; pressure builds over decades until it breaks loose, producing one or a series of quakes. “[T]he San Andreas Fault and its many subsidiary faults are slowly tearing California apart,” writes the author, “so that much of what is California today will be transformed into a collection of islands that are destined to be rafted northward across the Pacific.”
Although almost entirely focused on California, this is a fine popular primer on the subject, lucidly written and no more technical than necessary.


Echinacea, also known as coneflower, is known for the many potential health benefits that it can provide. A member of the Asteraceae family, along with lettuce, artichokes, dandelion, and sunflower, echinacea has been used for over 400 years by Native Americans to ease infections, help wounds heal and as a “cure-all” for different illnesses.
•Helps fight off the common cold and flu. Drinking echinacea tea may help shorten the duration of cold and flu symptoms, and to reduce risk of complications, according to a study in Current Therapeutic Research, Clinical and Experimental journal.
In a meta-analysis published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the herb is found to reduce the risk of developing a cold by 58 percent and to shorten its duration by 1.4 days. Researchers noted, however, that these benefits may occur only with a high-quality echinacea supplement.
•May help control blood sugar levels. According to a 2017 study, prediabetics and diabetics can help manage both hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and high blood pressure by taking an echinacea extract. It also provides additional antioxidant properties.
•Promotes healthy cell growth. High-quality echinacea supplements and tea may help promote healthy cell growth in your body and eliminate free radicals that cause premature cell aging and damage.
•May help ease anxiety. The extract from the herb was found to have anti-anxiety properties by helping regulate the excitatory synaptic transmissions in the hippocampus, potentially lessening feelings of anxiety in your brain. Tea preparations may impart this benefit, too.
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“Echinacea Tea’s Immune-Boosting Benefits” by Dr. Mercola


Canada's population increased by 5% between 2011 and 2016, but there was considerable variation between the Provinces and Territories.
Canada's Provinces and Territories Census of Population Change between 2011 and 2016, Map and Chart
Fertility in Canada, Current Trends, October 13, 2017
2016 Census of Population: Will Demographic Shifts Catch Experts By Surprise Again?, May 5, 2017
1996 to 2016 Census Counts Compared to Projection Scenarios for 2016, May 4, 2017
2016 Counts Compared to Projection Scenarios Calculated from the 1996 to 2011 Censuses, May 3, 2017
The Population Projections Project: Analytic Tool versus Predictive Tool, February 14, 2017
Population Projections Project Scenarios Compared To 2016 Census Of Population, February 8, 2017
Total Population Projections, Comparing Census Counts to Estimates, November 4, 2016
Dependency Ratios Projections, Comparing Census Counts to Estimates, November 5, 2016
Canada's Provinces and Territories Population Proportions, November 5, 2013
Fluctuations in Canada's Age Distribution, May 30, 2012
Compare projections for Canada - United Nations, Statistics Canada, Cohort Change Ratios, February 14, 2014
Source: Adapted from Statistics Canada, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011 Census of Population counts, by William Warren Munroe.
Source: Statistics Canada. 2012. Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, 2011 and 2006 censuses (table). Population and Dwelling Count Highlight Tables. 2011 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-310-XWE2011002. Released February 8, 2012. http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/File.cfm?T=101&SR=1&RPP=25&PR=0&CMA=0&S=50&O=A&LANG=Eng&OFT=CSV (accessed February 08, 2012). For further information, refer to: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Notes-eng.cfm.
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Hands on Method
Indian Education System strongly believe on the principle of ‘3H’ i.e., Head, Hand, and Heart, said Gandhi Ji. The Hands on Method also relies on the same principle. This method is a purely kinesthetic form of learning which emphasises on ‘learning by doing’.
Holistic Development of Learners
We in Emmanuel facilitate the students to absorb information best through touch, movement, and motion, and hence students learn more easily by doing, exploring and discovering things by themselves. According to new amendments done in educational practices, the school curricula and pedagogy must aim for the holistic development of learners by equipping them with the key of experiential learning, and we already have taken steps into it.
Three Pillars of Education System
Our educational system has three significant pillars;
Whereas hands on method contain three constitutional pillars; where education is:
- For the students
- By the students
- To the students
Learning by doing is our motive, where teacher and curriculum play subordinate roles. In other words, the Hands on Method is totally child centered, which is the need of the current scenario.
Emmanuel Employ Unique Techniques of Education
We in Emmanuel employ different techniques like ICT, project activities, field work, experiments, science exhibitions, etc. This way a child develops critical thinking and starts discovering new ideas.
Advantages of using Hands on Method:
- It is a more engaging way of learning.
- It increases memory retention.
- It helps children to enhance their practical knowledge, problem solving skills and critical thinking.
- It enables the learner to become more creative and self-dependent.
- It also develops divergent thinking in students.
Our primary aim of teaching the learning process is to motivate children intrinsically. So that Emmanuel Education Goals can be achieved and children may also be able to implicate their knowledge at each and every step of their life.


What’s Python?In technical terms, Python is an item-orientated, excessive-level programming language with incorporated dynamic semantics generally for internet and app development. it is extraordinarily attractive within the area of fast software development as it gives dynamic typing and dynamic binding alternatives. Python is exceedingly simple, so it’s clean to research since it requires a unique syntax that focuses on readability. developers can examine and translate Python code much simpler than other languages. In turn, this reduces the value of software maintenance and improvement as it lets in teams to paintings collaboratively without tremendous language and enjoy obstacles. additionally, Python supports using modules and programs, because of this that programs may be designed in a modular style and code may be reused throughout a ramification of initiatives. once you’ve advanced a module or package you need, it could be scaled for use in different initiatives, and it’s easy to import or export those modules. one of the most promising benefits of Python is that each the usual library and the interpreter are available freed from rate, in both binary and supply shape. there is no exclusivity either, as Python and all of the necessary gear are to be had on all main structures. consequently, it’s far an engaging alternative for builders who don’t want to fear approximately paying excessive improvement fees. Apprendre los angeles syntaxe du langage sur des exemples de code spécifiques. remark obtenir une sous-chaîne ? remark déclarer une méthode généralisée ? Ceux-ci et plus de four hundred d’autres exemples de code pour Python three et square sont disponibles dans l’application.


What is the basic definition of irony?
Full Definition of irony 1a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony. c : an ironic expression or utterance.
How do you identify irony?
See if there is incongruity between action and structure in a drama or film, or a text like a poem or narrative.
- If it is occurring in a dramatic or filmic text, then it is dramatic irony.
- If it is occurring in a novel, poem, or narrative text, then it is structural irony.
What is often mistaken for irony?
Coincidence. Often mistaken for irony, the term coincidence involves a great deal of luck, or chance.
Which is the best definition of the word irony?
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. If this seems like a loose definition, don’t worry—it is. Irony is a broad term that encompasses three different types of irony, each with their own specific definition: verbal irony , dramatic irony, and situational irony.
What is the difference between irony and humour?
It refers to ‘an ability to perceive and express a sense of the clever or amusing’ thing. Humour consists principally in the recognition and expression of incongruities or peculiarities present in a situation or character. Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
How is irony used in Socratic and dramatic irony?
Socratic irony is a tool used in debating; dramatic irony is what happens when the audience realizes that Romeo and Juliet’s plans will go awry. The third, and debated, use of irony regards what’s called situational irony.
Is the word irony synonymous with bad luck?
Irony is not synonymous with sarcasm, coincidence, or bad luck. While these concepts can have ironic characteristics, they’re not interchangeable. More on that later. Irony creates contrast between how things seem and how they really are beneath the surface.


The old copper wires are obsolete and dead, but they’re still hanging overhead tempting a tall truck or storm to tear them down. For the last hundred years or so utilities have been adding more and more wires without removing the old ones. These unsightly overhead wires are an urban blight, a kind of pollution that the utility companies are not required to clean up. In fact, they’ve never even been asked.
Compared to the wire-free suburbs of Los Angeles, where the utilities are underground, New York neighborhoods look scarred. Property values and aesthetics sacrificed for the convenience of big telecom.
People talk about air pollution, water pollution, and even light pollution, but you ever heard anybody raise this important environmental issue of overhead wire pollution?
Landlines are going away permanently. Cable TV is moving to wireless streaming. When will our streets go wireless?
Useless wires are debris. We wouldn’t let contractors leave them lying on the ground so why are they allowed to leave them in the air? Seriously, is industrial waste OK as long as it’s above our heads or attached to a building?
Utilities are given the right of way to use public space and string wires for the public good, and they make money from it. The price of that accomodation should be a responsibility to return the public spaces to their former condition when the wires are no longer needed.


Naming the DeadActive
##The problem Sustained civil and international conflict is complex, difficult to measure, and often highly politicized. Knowledge about violence in conflict is often piecemeal and error ridden.It is not easy for an individual to learn about country’s contemporary and past history of conflict.
This problem is made twofold by modern day warfare which relies on technologies that do not need military personnel to endanger themselves. Despite being hailed as a more deliberate, controllable, and therefore ‘humane’ way of waging conflict, the aggregate effect of this new warfare is just as destructive and devastating as traditional warfare, but due to its non-civilian and dispersed nature it is easier to hide and less demanding of attention. Ultimately for those types of violence whose manifestations are less visible there needs to be a pronounced effort to educate and inform the public.
##The solution Digital technologies provide new ways to access and interact with data about civil and international conflict that is more comprehensive and immediate. Using said data so that it is both more digestible and interactive can encourage us to reflect in ways that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism launched a project, Naming the Dead, which published biographical and circumstantial information of all victims in the US drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. This campaign humanizes otherwise faceless victims, that are not just alleged terrorists, but innocent men, women, and children.
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Generally the origin of the stock exchange is traced back to the stock exchange in Antwerp (1460). Still the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered as the oldest stock Exchange in the World. This was established in 1602 by the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or called VOC) that issued the first shares on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
The company was the first in issuing the stocks and bonds. It was later renamed as the Amsterdam Bourse and was the first to begin trading in secuirities.
Wow, I never knew about that. And did you say 1460? That’s really really really long ago. Maan. Thanks for the information. Appreciate it. Cheers
I’ve recently started a blog, the information you provide on this site has helped me tremendously. Thank you for all of your time & work.
i dont think Amsterdam Stock Exchange can claim to be the first stock exchange
It is BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE THE OLDEST AND FIRST EVER TO START IN WORLD YOU CAN FIND THE TRACES LONG BACK IN THE END OF 15TH CENTURY U CAN CONFIRM AN HISTORIAN TOO FOR THIS FACT


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The chaotic privatization process that tore apart the industry on the regional basis and in many instances within the regions provided the ground for the future competitive landscape. A number of privatized networks of former Soviet industrial enterprises became independent players in this new market. They had their own infrastructure and did not have to rely on the access networks of the former Soviet telecom monopoly. Newborn companies created through the use of positions of senior executives of the RSIs were even able to separate control over core parts of the local telephone networks, and that made such alternative operators independent not only on the issues of infrastructure, but even on the issues of interconnection. The core parts of the local networks in many instances by the end of the 1990s were shared by different companies, and a telecom enterprise seeking interconnection could interconnect its network to PSTN through the alternative operators of the backbone without the necessity to connect the network directly with the former monopoly.
Some available data highlight the scope of pluralization of the industry after the initial stage, which occurred in the 1990s. If we look at the register of telephone numbers distribution of the middle of the 2000s, which to a large extent reflects the historical picture formed in the 1990s, we will find that in some cities such as Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Samara, and Ekaterinburg there were dozens of telephone companies, and their number in Moscow exceeded one hundred. According to available data, at the end of the 1990s, there were 92 incumbents in the local markets of telephone services and about 2700 independent telephone operators.Footnote 19 One of the directives of the national antitrust authority, for example, placed in the register of natural monopolies, in January 2001, 55 alternative telephone operators just of one Samara region (34 from Samara, the city with population less than 1.2 million inhabitants).Footnote 20 Among these companies, there are many industrial enterprises from various spheres and independent business endeavors that were previously telecommunications departments of these enterprises, several comparatively big operators affiliated with former officials of the Soviet telephone monopoly, public transport enterprises and its former departments, agricultural enterprises, companies affiliated with the energy industry, an enterprise belonged to the Ministry of Defense, several research institutions and even a university. Many of these companies provided services in small areas of the city and had only hundreds of subscribers. 2b1af7f3a8


The Avion war memorial at Port Vendres quotes the now legendary tribute from Winston Churchill to the heroic pilots and aircrews who, from June to October 1940 fought the Battle of Britain.
“Never in the field of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many to so few.”
Among the names of sixteen courageous young French pilots remembered on the memorial, all of whom escaped to England on 20th June 1940 to continue the fight against Nazi Germany, two experienced pilots were immediately thrown back into action.
Adjutant Maurice Choron served with 64 Squadron flying Spitfires under Squadron Leader *Peter Townsend, whilst Pilot Officer Emile Fayolle flew Hurricanes with 85 Squadron.
Maurice Choron failed to return from an offensive sweep over occupied France on 10 April 1942.
His body was never found.
Emile Fayolle joined the first Free French fighter Squadron No. 340. On 19 August 1942, while leading the Squadron, he was lost giving air cover during the epic raid on Dieppe.
In 1998 – 56 years later – his wrecked Spitfire was discovered on the seabed. The remains of an hitherto unknown airman were genetically proven to be Fayolle. He is buried in St Aubin cemetery by the Dieppe road.
Today in London, close to Westminster Bridge, a magnificent memorial unveiled in 2005 honours all the participants, from over a dozen countries, of that first great air battle.
Listed in the French panel are Maurice Choron and Emile Fayolle, two of the immortal “Few.”
*Squadron Leader Peter Townsend DSO DFC (Bar), served after World War Two as an Aide de Camp to King George VI. Townsend became the first love of Princess Margaret, but they were unable to marry due to his being divorced. Townsend became an author and moved to France. He died in the 1990’s.


How Museums Are Helping People With Memory Loss
Serving the community means changing museum offerings for guests with Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease affects one of every nine Americans age 65 or older, and some experts estimate that this number will double by 2050. As more and more people develop memory loss, individuals are finding creative ways to help those afflicated. One of these unlikely places? Museums.
As Sharyn Jackson reports for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, museums and other cultural museums throughout Minnesota are developing programming for people with memory loss. These guided museum tours use artwork and other sensory input to help stimulate long-term memory retention among patrons.
Jayna Hintz, curator of education at the Woodson Art Museum, says that she has seen how the programing has helped some participants deal with feelings of isolation and depression caused by the onset of Alzheimer's. "During a recent visit, one participant rose from his wheelchair to dance with me, displaying deft footwork," Hintz writes.
In total, ten museums throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin are incorporating this new programming run through SPARK!, which works in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association to create “meaningful experiences for older adults with dementia and their caregivers.” SPARK! uses grant funds from the Helen Bader Foundation to initiate intimate conversations about pieces of art, as well as form classes in painting and dance. The programs are designed to get people with memory loss into museums, as well as give their caretakers a much-needed cultural break.
Minnesota’s programs are modeled after a renowned initiative at the Museum of Modern Art, which created training resources and cultural programming for people with memory loss between 2007 and 2014. This trend of using museums to help people with memory loss engage with art has since spread to museums all over the United States.
Do museums and health care go together? Absolutely, says the American Alliance of Museums. “As society has changed, so has the work of museums,” they write in a paper about how museums are addressing health issues like Alzheimer’s, autism, mental health and even nutrition. Patrons may have challenges with short-term memory, but that doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy—and benefit from—an afternoon at an art museum.


Use MLA8 for the entire presentation as well as the works cited page. You can construct a PK (Pecha Kucha) slide show. This is presentation that has 20 images that express an idea/part of an idea for 20 sections each. For this project, you would use 20 quotations (from research, primary and/or secondary) to construct a running narrative about an issue. You would use image, picture, and audio to help tell this “story” or make an argument. Final Rubric: Project • There is an overall argument being made via the work as a whole that remains consistent and expressed via the works parts. This is often done both implicitly and explicitly. • If the project has isolated parts, each part tells a consistent narrative unto itself and is tied to the project’s overall argument. • The project makes clear its intended audience(s). This too is often done implicitly and explicitly. • The work conveys an overall purpose. It does not just make an argument but conveys the significance and/or goals the project seeks to accomplish. • The project pulls in at least 5 sources as support for its topic. At least 3 are academic/scholarly in nature. • The project incorporates its sources effectively given the genre: its expectations and conventions. • Risk Taking/Creativity: The project is one that posed a number of challenges, complications, or prompted the student to step outside of his/her comfort zone to complete. The project is one that many would not think of doing or combined information, research, or genre expectations in ways that are untraditional or innovative. The project resulted in you seeking out help and learning from others. (Much of this will be discussed in your reflection or through our planning discussion).


The idea that learning is a journey is not new. Nor is it revolutionary to draw on metaphors of travel to describe a learning process. John Dewey, in his How We Think, describes the “forked road situation” as the seat of critical, reflective thought. Dewey notes that when we come to a forked road, we have a choice to make. And we often inform our choice by attempting to investigate our options. You might stroll down each direction a bit before you choose your path. You might climb a tree and try your best to see what lies ahead in each of your options. In the end though, you can’t know exactly what to expect — and so the journey begins with a choice and a critical awareness that you carry on your journey.
This is all to say that this course is a journey — specifically, a road trip — with lots of roads to choose from. Our course syllabus and schedule are the “maps” that we’ll use as a way of getting up in the trees that Dewey describes — for a better view of what roads/options are out there for us! At the same time, we’ll make the road by walking, completing planned (mapped) activities and creating others together.
Map 1: Syllabus
Map 2: Itinerary/Schedule


Security is a big issue when it comes to the internet of things. This isn’t privacy, which is a different but related topic, but merely securing the devices and data they generate so malicious people can’t steal it, see it or otherwise use it for nefarious purposes. Right now, it’s something many people are talking about, but something few people are trying to solve.
That may be partly because, as this New York Times story notes, software and internet companies are more concerned with getting users and revenue than security, but when it comes to connected devices there’s another layer of challenges. Devices have to connect to the web, but they also are incredibly person, either part of the user’s home or on their person at all times. This gives them a lot of “knowledge” that if shared can lead to an actual loss of personal safety or belongings.
There’s a lot of attention paid to this idea of designing a product for security, but not a lot about what that should mean. A story Monday on MIT’s Technology Review shared a project that Intel is working on, called Reliance Point, that lets companies build a secure lockbox for sharing data. The lockbox concept is a poor one however. It sounds more like a secure Russian nesting doll, starting with a secure chip and then heading up the stack with the software checking for security at the layer underneath each time before authenticating and booting up.


When There’s Skull Attached to Shed Antlers
Filed under: Hunting Blog, White-tailed Deer
Below you will see a photo of an antler intern Nigel Waring found while creating a fire break.
Unfortunately, this antler (shown right) has a large portion of the skull attached to the base. The antler was likely not “shed”, but broken off while sparring, rubbing or during another activity recently. This was most likely caused by an infection that eroded the skull and became a brain abscess. We suspect this buck has expired from the brain abscess due to the amount of bone found on the antler.
Antlers are shed as a response to chemical changes within a buck’s body. These changes are generally stimulated by changes in the amount of time the sun shines daily. However, within this window, several factors such as available nutrition, general health, and dominance ranking can determine when an individual buck sheds his antlers. For example, deer researchers often mention observing two dominate bucks in captivity fighting during this time of year. The loser will shed his antlers soon (sometimes the next day). It seems hard to imagine that antlers will simply fall off one day due to a change in dominance status (along with hormone levels) but these examples seem to indicate that’s the case. Never underestimate the effects of hormones on all critters!
Antlers for most bucks tend to be shed during the late winter months. However, some bucks will shed earlier due to other factors. Generally speaking, the healthier the herd, the longer bucks will hold their antlers! I like seeing some bucks with antler during Missouri’s turkey season! Bucks healthy enough to hold antlers that late into the winter are an excellent indicator of a healthy deer herd. It also indicates that the habitat is likely good for turkeys also!
The antler shown on the left is one that shed clean and is rounded at the base. Based on these characteristics, this buck (left shed) was likely very healthy when he shed the antler. You can learn a lot by studying antlers/sheds!
To learn more about brain abscesses, watch the next episode coming up Monday on GrowingDeer!


There were only two design types used for large size five dollar bills in the 1920s. You are most likely to encounter what are known as series of 1902 $5 blue seal national bank notes. These bills were printed for many years after 1902. In fact, your bill could have a year as late as 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, or 1928 printed on it. All blue seal $5 national currency notes have a portrait of Ben Harrison on them. They are valued based on their serial number, condition, and bank of issue. Some are only worth $40. The top 1% of 1% can be worth $10,000 or more. Most examples are worth a few hundred dollars. These were issued by thousands of different banks and towns.
The other type of five dollar bill from the 1920s is the 1923 $5 silver certificate. These are very popular. Collectors have nicknamed this type of note a port hole. Portholes are not extremely scarce, but they can command strong prices, usually between $400 and $1,500. Uncirculated examples are worth more. Abraham Lincoln is at the center of the bill and all of the printings are in blue ink.
If you are looking to sell your five dollar bill, please contact us. We are aggressive buyers and we will respond quickly with a fair and strong offer. email@example.com


Michael Apollinaro and Daniel Mills
Background: Electrotactile stimulation may be used for sensory substitution. Knowledge of the stimulus parameters which generate varied percepts is a vital step in the development of consistent biomimetic stimulations. Stimulations are to be evaluated across different skin regions under varied patterns and timings to better understand electrotactile perception.
Purpose: Investigate the stimulus properties which lead to various electrotactile percepts using electrotactile stimulation.
Eligibility: Healthy, young adults (18-40yrs) with no known vascular, or neurological disorders. No history of smoking, and exercise and caffeine intake not permitted 24 hours prior to experiment.
What has been found so far?
Previous research has highlighted the brain’s strategic way of discerning skin sensations into tactile perceptions through the use of a Bayesian inference model. This model explains the interpretation of neural activity and highlights that stochastic noise may affect perception. This, therefore, suggests that perception contains a degree of inference. One important article highlighting this model is by Goldreich & Tong, 2013. It can be found here.
Where are we headed?
While the use of the Cutaneous Rabbit Effect has been well documented in the upper limbs, the Bent Neurophysiology lab is looking to investigate this illusion at the foot sole. The palm of the hand will also be used as a comparison model, as cutaneous responses have been shown to be region specific. At both the hand and the foot, the Bent Neurophysiology lab hopes to investigate and develop a Bayesian inference-based velocity coding model.


Causes For Students’ Strikes In Secondary Schools In Tigania, Igembe,meru -north District, In Kenya
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The main purpose of this study will be to assess the causes of strikes in secondary schools in Meru North District. Study will be aimed at investigating the following; First, the history of students strikes in Kenya. Secondly the study will investigate the causes of strikes in the secondary schools. Thirdly, the study will investigate the role of school stake holders in addressing the said problem. And lastly, the researcher will make study recommendation to curb the spread of the strikes across the entire region. The study employed descriptive research methodology to investigate why students in secondary schools engaged in school unrests. The research survey was based on the opinion of the research and the respondent interviewed helped to gather information needed to form the primary data. The researcher gathered information from various sources, books, journals, archives, academic papers to enable the research consider logical framework and tried to avoid and correct faulty methods and instruments used in order to tackle the research problem. The research employed primary data, observation, interview schedule and questionnaire guide. Reliability and validity of these tools is that, they were handled by the teachers themselves and students who were actually the targeted population. Among the target population are school students, teachers and other education stakeholders. Both the primary and secondary data were analyzed to extract relevant report that enabled the researcher make valid and reliable research findings and recommendation. Some of the research findings were poor public relations, poor school nutrition, peer pressure, drugs and abuse of substance, bad leadership in management of the schools and in the community, including external and political interference, prevalent monotonous method of instructions, and examination phobia among the students, The study made the following recommendation; pre-examination preparation, good parenting enhances discipline in the school, improvement of service delivery in various sectors of the school community.
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14 Ways to Practice Mindful Eating
Keeping up with a busy life usually means our health gets pushed aside. Here are a few ways to keep your healthy eating habits in check.
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app.
How to Practice Mindful Eating
- Eat in a settled atmosphere
- Never eat when upset or angry
- Always sit down to eat
- Eat only when hungry
- Eat at a moderate pace
- Chew your food thoroughly
- Don’t talk while chewing your food
- Digest one meal before eating the next
- Systematically undereat
- Leave one-third to one-quarter of your stomach empty
- Don’t eat and drink at the same time
- Sit quietly for a few minutes after your meal
- It is best to eat in silence when possible
- As much as possible, eat higher vibrational foods—vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds
How to Eat according to the 3 Gunas:
Rajasic – overactive state: nervous, restless, impulsive. Foods include: sweet meats, alcohol and drugs.
Tamasic – dull and lethargic. Foods include: leftovers, bread and carbohydrates.
Sattwic – pure mind free from hostility, anger and resentment. Foods include: fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds nuts and grains.
A Simple Way to Relax: Yoga Nidra
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6/7 July: Shabbat Pinhas comes in 9:05 pm, ends 10:22 pm
Toward the end of parshat Pinchas, God instructs Moses to appoint Joshua to replace him as leader. The Torah teaches that when Moses lays his hands on Joshua, passing on the mantle of leadership, he only passes on part of his glory. God says to Moses, “Invest him with some of your authority, so that the whole Israelite community may obey.” (Numbers 27:20)
Why some, and not all of Moses’ glory? The Talmud takes off on this passage with a fascinating insight. “The face of Moses was like that of the sun; the face of Joshua was like that of the moon.” (Talmud Baba Batra 75a). What is the difference between the sun and the moon? The Hasidic Rebbe Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger wrote, “Unlike the sun which dominates the sky, the moon allows other heavenly bodies to shine.” Moses who had seen God face-to-face was an overwhelming presence. Joshua knew that true leadership means not overwhelming others, but allowing others to step forward and share in the glory. The true leader is the one who can share leadership, and in so doing, can help others also become leaders.
Written by Rabbi Paul Arberman


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Water balances and evapotranspiration in water and dry‐seeded rice systems
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Bruce Linquist, Jim Hill, Atef Swelam. (9/8/2015). Water balances and evapotranspiration in water and dry‐seeded rice systems. Irrigation Science, 33, pp. 375-385.
Rice is a crop that is usually grown under flooded conditions and can require large amounts of water. The objective of this 3-year study was to quantify water use in water- (WS) and dry-seeded (DS) systems. In WS systems, the field is continuously flooded, while in DS systems the field is flush irrigated for the first month and then flooded. Research was conducted on commercial rice fields where the residual of the energy balance method using a sonic anemometer and the eddy covariance method were used to determine crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and crop coefficient (Kc) values. In addition, inlet irrigation water and tailwater drainage were determined. Across years, there was no difference in ETc (averaged 862 mm), sea- sonal Kc (averaged 1.07), irrigation water delivery (aver- aged 1839 mm) and calculated percolation and seepage losses (averaged 269 mm) between systems. An analysis of the first month of the season, when the water management between these two practices was different, indicated that Kc and water use were lower in DS systems relative to WS systems when there was only one irrigation flush during this period, while two or three irrigation flushes resulted in similar values between the two systems.


By Paul Homewood
The BBC’s mission is to inform, educate and entertain.
This latest video does none of these things, and is nothing but indoctrination:
It is not clear who the video is aimed at, but given the babyish cartoons it certainly is not adults. And if it is kids, then the BBC is insulting their intelligence be presuming that they are incapable of being given the facts.
So, for the sake of the BBC and the soppy psychotherapist who helped make the video, here is a simple guide for talking to children about climate change:
- Give them the facts
- Explain that there have always been bad weather and disasters, and that many more people used to die from them.
- Tell them that the world is not going to end tomorrow, and no serious scientist says it will.
- Remind them that they are much better off in all sorts of ways than any other generation in human history, all thanks to fossil fuels.
- Show them how our environment is now much cleaner than it has been for centuries
- Point out that this country and the West in general have already made big strides in reducing emissions.
- Also explain that developing countries want more fossil fuels, so that their inhabitants can share some of the things children in this country take for granted.
And, by the way, tell them that there are many more polar bears around than there were before they were born!
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The Graeco Roman Temple at Kom Ombo
The temple at Kom Ombo is about 30 miles (48 km) north of Aswan and was built during the Graeco-Roman period (332 BC AD 395). There was an earlier structure from the 18th dynasty but little remains.
The temple is unique because it is in fact a double temple, dedicated to Sobek the crocodile god, and Horus the falcon-headed god. The layout combines two temples in one with each side having its own gateways and chapels.
SobekSobek is associated with the wicked god Seth, the enemy of Horus. In the Horus myth the allies of Seth made their escape by changing themselves into crocodiles.
Sobek’s chief sanctuary was at Kom Ombo, where there were once huge numbers of crocodiles. Until recent times the Egyptian Nile was infested with these ferocious animals, who would lay on the riverbank and devour animals and humans alike. So it is not surprising that the local inhabitants went in fear.
They believed that as a totem animal, and object of worship, it would not attack them. Captive crocodiles were kept within the temple and many mummified crocodiles have been found in cemeteries, some of which can be seen in the temple sanctuary today.
The mystery of Egyptian cult temples explained, illustrated with videos, photos, drawings and 30 highly detailed computer generated reconstructions.


Allowing and encouraging kids to assist with food preparation can be a great way to expose them to unfamiliar and unpopular (but nutritious) foods. Try enlisting their help with basic work, without the pressure of expected consumption! Many young children may be thrilled to lend a hand with a “grown-up job”, and realize spinach is not so scary in the process.
- Fresh squeezed (by little hands) orange juice: cut oranges in half, and provide children with wooden spoons, manual or hand-held juicer tools, or other safe kitchen implements, and allow them to build up their muscles extracting the juice!
- Let us help with the lettuce: after washing salad greens, allowkids (with clean hands) to tear leaves of leaf lettuce, romaine, spinach and other great greens into pieces right into the salad bowl. Getting up to their elbows in nutrient-dense green leaves cannot be a bad thing!
- Nutritious nutcracking: Purchase in-shell mixed nuts, and allow children to explore the different shapes, textures and sizes of the encased nuts. Have some shelled nuts ready too, and encourage kids to try to identify which nuts come from each different kind of shell before you open them. Show them how to crack the shells, and allow them to attempt the hard work (like a squirrel!) of getting the nutmeats out of their shells! Eat raw, or toast in the oven for use in recipes and snacks.


Agave is mostly comprised of a fructose sugar called inulin, a natural plant sweetener that has been reported to have an extremely low impact on blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
Fructose, like glucose is a single-molecule sugar called a monosaccharide. While glucose and fructose are both derived from fruits, the human body more readily utilizes glucose rather than fructose to stabilize the Central Nervous System.
Unlike glucose, which is often referred to as the sugar of the blood, when fructose is in the blood, it is converted to lactic acid.
Fructose is also more difficult for the body to process and use as an energy source.
…Except brown rice syrup has been suspect lately because of the high levels of arsenic. Maybe try something else.
Is it really necessary to click three times just to read this entire article? Couldn’t all this have fit on one page? I’m about to start boycotting the click-through articles and any comment section that forces me to click after less than 50 comments to read the entire conversation thread.
On topic: I’ve only tried agave once, and was just waiting for more information to come out about it. It always seems like there’s some new miracle food on the market that costs more that the foods we’ve been used to but somehow makes all previous food the new devil.


1. Design for search to enable data discovery
We currently don’t know what exists and can’t easily find things. We need organisations to publish open data descriptions of the data that they hold so that it can be found. This will help people identify what questions might be answerable and where the data gaps are.
2. Pre-enable access to data to unlock action
Much like Creative Commons explicitly gives permission for re-using content in advance, we need to work out how to pre-emptively license data for different use-cases. At the moment even if we can find the data we need it is hard to license for a specific use.
If we are enabling greater data discovery, we need to follow through and enable greater access, without negotiating every use on a case-by-case basis. Some data will be highly confidential or carry security or ethical concerns. Working together we can work this through to reduce the ‘transactional friction’ in getting access. This will need to involve legal, business and technology experts.
3. Understand user’s needs so they can create impact
Finding and accessing data is useless unless the data we get is usable. We need to build on the huge wealth of knowledge, examples, principles and practice that has helped shape the web to truly unlock the web of data for everyone.
Icebreaker One is focussed on helping with these challenges. The areas in red below are in scope and are enabling to the other sections.


What Does Protected Mean?
Protected, in C#, is a keyword used to declare the accessibility of a class member such that access to that member is limited to the containing class in which it is declared or to any class derived from the containing class. Protected accessibility can be used in field, method and property declarations to prevent them from being fully visible outside of their class.
Protected is an access modifier that enables the member of a class to be more visible than private but less than public accessibility. The protected members of a base class can be shared only by their descendants, which can override or use them.
Protected modifier helps to implement the concept of encapsulation in C# object-oriented programming. It is mainly used with members of a base class that are re-used in the derived class, which helps to provide centralization of common logic along with rich class hierarchy.
Techopedia Explains Protected
A protected member can be accessible in the derived class only if the access takes place through the derived class. If it needs to be accessed from outside the program text of the class in which it is declared, it should be through an instance of derived type or a class type constructed from it.
For example, BankAccount class represents the account details of a user and can define a method, CalculateInterest, as protected so that any class derived from BankAccount class (such as SavingsAccount, CheckingAccount, etc.) can override the CalculateInterest method with the code necessary to calculate interest based on the type of account.
A protected member cannot be used with a static modifier because it can be accessed only through an instance. A protected modifier cannot be used with members of a struct because inheritance is not supported by struct.
A protected method can be declared with the "virtual" modifier to extend the logic that is necessary to be executed for specialization in the derived class.


The strawberry disease that has been observed in Florida and Georgia this season has now been observed in Alabama.
Neopestalotiopsis leaf spot and fruit rot has been detected in two Alabama counties. The fungal disease was reported on leaves at strawberry farms in Chilton and Baldwin counties during the first couple of weeks in April. The disease is still new to Alabama after having been first reported in 2022. It was found in four counties.
Neopestalotiopsis causes leaf and fruit spots initially, but eventually infects roots and crowns. This will lead to plant wilt and death. Producers who are scouting for the disease should be aware that leaf spots can be tan-to-dark brown of various sizes and irregularly distributed on infected leaves.
Fruit rot begins as lesions that are dry, light-tan, slightly sunken and irregularly shaped. The lesions can expand may take over the entire fruit.
Neopestalotiopsis causes leaf spots on strawberry plants. It develops quickly and produces spores on the leaves. It can cause severe leaf spotting and fruit rot under favorable weather conditions. The disease has been a concern ever since it was first discovered during the 2018-19 season across five farms in Florida. It was attributed to one nursery source in North Carolina.
More than 20 farms experienced the disease during the 2019-20 season, and the disease was attributed to two nursery sources early in the season in North Carolina and Canada. It was also discovered during the 2020-21 seasons in fields that had it the prior season.
Purchasing disease-free transplants is the best way to avoid disease introduction. Transplants should also be inspected for symptoms of the disease.
Because the disease is similar to other strawberry diseases, Alabama Cooperative Extension System professionals recommend weekly scouting for the disease and, when necessary, submitting samples to the Auburn University Plant Diagnostic Lab for proper identification.


Reasons Why Soccer Is Important For KidsBy Peter C
Soccer has been embraced by all and sundry across the United States, especially among children. Baseball and football (known as American football outside the country) have been sports that dominated the scene for a very long time.
The importance of soccer for the kids cannot be overstated. In terms of physical wellbeing and alertness, soccer plays a crucial role in the growth and development of our children. Here are some of the benefits of soccer for kids:
The sport helps our children to fight obesity right from an early age. Due to an average American’s lifestyle and eating habits, and extensively to their immediate family, it could be challenging for kids to fight obesity. This could be addressed when kids go through intentionally planned out good eating habits.
Meanwhile, soccer also offers valuable options as kids do enough physical activities and exercise that involve jumping and running. These activities also help balance them mentally.
Builds Skills Socially
Life itself is social and involves socializing with fellow humans. This is no different from soccer, where individuals are meant to relate and socialize with their teammates. Soccer enhances the social soils of kids as they promote the spirit of sportsmanship among themselves. Kids tend to mingle and interact among themselves irrespective of cultural backgrounds due to the ‘team’ nature of sports.
Very Entertaining and Fun
Playing soccer is fun and very entertaining. It helps develop the well-being and self-esteem of kids. Soccer helps kids develop a healthy mind and healthy body.


The ArcMap GeoProcessing wizard Merge tool fails when trying to merge layers.
One of the layers being merged may contain a record with no shape, or in other words, a record that has a null geometry.
Solution or Workaround
This issue has been addressed in ArcGIS Version 8.1.2.
In ArcGIS 8.1, determine which layer contains records with null geometry and delete the offending records. If the layer is a shapefile, you can export the layer to a new shapefile. Exporting from a shapefile to a new shapefile will clean the output of any null geometries.
To identify and delete the records with null geometry, do the following for each layer you wish to merge.
- Zoom out to the full extent of your map. You can use the Full Extent button of the Tools toolbar.
Make sure all your features are visible.
- Click Tools > Select Features.
- Click and drag a box around all the features.
- Open the attribute table of the first layer you want to merge.
- Click Options > Switch Selection. Records with null or empty geometry will be highlighted.
- Click the Editor Toolbar button of the main toolbar.
- Select Start Editing from the Editor dropdown menu.
- Press the Delete key.
- Select Stop Editing from the Editor dropdown menu. Save your edits.


Genetically-engineered viruses may power devices of the futureBy Rick Burgess 25 comments
Riding along a fine line between modern day technology and creepy science fiction, Department of Energy researchers unveiled a device which generates energy by harnessing the electro-mechanical properties of genetically-engineered viruses. The nanotechnology-based power generator leverages piezoelectric principles, an old concept used in everything from guitar pickups to automobiles. In short, when pressure is applied to the device, the genetically-altered viruses contained within the device produce an electric charge.
Piezoelectric devices work on the fact that physical stress can be converted into electricity, just like what happens when a person cranks a dynamo-powered emergency radio or when children hop around in their whimsical, LED-adorned shoes. Unfortunately, the substances used to enable this kind of reaction are typically hazardous and difficult to work with. This nudged researchers to investigate alternative ways of generating electro-mechanical current: viruses. What else?
Unlike some more menacing varieties, this genetically engineered virus is a bacteriophage, or "macrophage". That means the virus in question is benign to all but bacteria – that's a good thing for more complex organisms like you and me.
Virus-based piezoelectric energy generator
Lovingly labeled as "M13", scientists had modified the rod-shaped viruses, giving them a coating of roughly 2700 charged proteins. Next, the scientists increased M13's potential voltage by adding a handful of negatively and positively charged amino acids to the ends of each rod. Researchers then began stacking layers of the altered macrophage together until they discovered the ideal number of layers to sandwich together.
So far, researchers have shown a paper thin, 1cm square of the material can generate about 400 millivolts. That may not seem like a lot, but with a paper-thin form factor, such a power-generating invention could fit just about anywhere. Some suggested applications include keyboard membranes and skin-mounted devices.


History of Julius Caesar
An acclaimed children’s classic depicting the odd, but riveting journeys of the curious Alice as she explores the surreal world of Wonderland. Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or better known under his pseudonym Lewis Caroll, this episodic novel is assembled into twelve chapters each containing a prominent adventure. The departure from logic and its embracement of pure imagination is what makes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland a model for fantasy novels and a timeless classic.
The novel begins when the self-aware young Alice, grows bored of sitting by the river with her sister and spots a peculiar-looking rabbit, dressed in a waistcoat. She hears the rabbit, which is seemingly in a hurry, mumbling whilst dangling its pocket watch. Impulsively, Alice inquisitively rushes after it making her way down a rabbit hole that descends to the fantasy realm of Wonderland. Finding herself in an unknown corridor encircled by doors of all shapes and sizes, Alice is subject to her first of many bizarre encounters. In order to fit through a tiny door, which separates her from a beautiful garden, she drinks a shrinking potion.
Unfortunately, she forgets the key to the door on the normal-sized table and faces the beginning of her troubles. In her pursuit of the White Rabbit throughout Wonderland, Alice goes through immense individual changes and revelations as her perception of reality is altered. After a sequence of events, Alice discovers the unsettling features of the strange world as she encounters zany characters including the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Hare, and the intimidating Queen of Hearts.
Caroll’s use of wordplay is another interesting concept in the novel. Not only does he invent new words and expressions, but he also twists the meanings of the already existing ones. Illustrating the purity of childhood innocence, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland serves as a playful fairy tale for its youngest readers and a limitless playground for the imaginative minds of older enthusiasts.


Ended Jun 4, 2022
Full course description
This is a beginner course recommended for any adult interested in learning more about nutrition and food in a more formal setting to help set you up for a healthier lifestyle and give you knowledge that you will use on a daily basis.
Each module should take approximately 45-60 minutes. The course is designed to be within 10-15 hours of learning time, and the LCAP Staff Wellness incentive for completion of this course is $300.00 (LCAP Goal 5, Action 8). This cooking demonstrations will not end until May 3, 2022, and all activities must be completed by June 3, 2022 to receive Staff Wellness incentive. Completion documentation will be sent to MUSD Business Department/Payroll by June 5, 2022 for processing.
- Learn about NUTRITIONAL NEEDS: Nutritional needs of adults ages 19-50 to prevent diet-related health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
- Learn benefits about FOOD CONSUMPTION: specifically adequate amounts of essential vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fiber and protein, while limiting unhealthy fats, processed foods and added sugar in our diet.
- After participation in COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS, experience how to prepare meals about the following dietetic topics:
- Reducing Sodium, Increasing Potassium to address Hypertension
- Plant Based Meals/Planning for All
- Life Cycle Feeding for Pregnancy to Adolescents
- Whole Grains Benefits
- Diabetes the Facts/Myths about Carbohydrates
- Anti Inflammatory Foods


New research on beamline I18 at Diamond Light Source investigates preservation techniques for Old Master paintings.
The surface of many Old Master paintings has been affected by the appearance of whitish lead-rich deposits, which are often difficult to fully characterise, thereby hindering conservation. Painted in 1663, Rembrandt’s Homer is an incredibly valuable and much-loved painting. Like many Old Masters it has a long and eventful past, which has taken its toll on the painting’s chemistry. The test of time and environmental factors, combined with the painting’s history, caused a barely visible, whitish crust to form on the surface of the painting. This crust indicates that chemical reactions are occurring which could potentially pose as risk for Homer and other old paintings if not kept in stable museum conditions.
A paper in ChemComm (Royal Society of Chemistry) has been published by a team of conservation scientists from the Mauritshuis in the Hague and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and scientists from Finden Ltd, UCL and Diamond Light Source, the UK’s National Synchrotron. Called “Unravelling the spatial dependency of the complex solid-state chemistry of Pb in a paint micro-sample from Rembrandt’s Homer using XRD-CT,” this paper is particularly timely given the celebrations occurring in 2019 to mark 350 years since the death of Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age. A paint micro-sample from Rembrandt’s Homer was imaged using X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography (XRD-CT) in order to understand the evolving solid-state Pb chemistry from the painting surface and beneath.
>Read more on the Diamond Light Source website
Image: Stephen Price, Lead author from Diamond Light Source and Finden Ltd.


Remembering Albert Einstein’s Visit to Lincoln University in 1946
History runs deep at Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting HBCU (historically black college/university) and one of Chester County’s seemingly underappreciated treasures.
It’s the alma mater of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, and Langston Hughes, the prolific poet who led the Harlem Renaissance. Both figures are so central to American history that they’ve been honored with commemorative stamps by the U.S. Postal Service.
Less well known, however, is Lincoln University’s connection to the world’s most famous scientist, Dr. Albert Einstein.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the theory of relativity visited the university in 1946, and no, it wasn’t because he confused the Oxford in Pennsylvania with the Oxford in England. He was there to accept an honorary degree and to speak to and take questions from students during a classroom visit.
Einstein was averse to accepting honorary degrees from universities, calling them “ostentatious,” but he accepted Lincoln’s invitation, “clearly intending to send a message to a wider audience.”
Einstein was one of hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Germany during Hitler’s reign. Having been persecuted for his faith, he understood the negative impact of oppression and was there to speak out against racism.
“There is … a somber point in the social outlook of Americans,” Einstein said. “Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. Even among these, there are prejudices of which I, as a Jew, am dearly conscious; but they are unimportant in comparison with the attitude of ‘Whites’ toward their fellow-citizens of darker complexion. … The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.”
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