Wyoming Rock Springs mule deer collared
Scientists involved with a multi-year study to understand why there is a steady decline in the Rock Springs mule deer are embracing the cold weather in southern Wyoming, using the brisk conditions to find the animals. So far, researchers have collared 18 deer, but want to collar at least 50 deer.
“You know, with no winds like this, and fresh snow, that's really good for helping locate animals,” Wyoming Game and Fish (WGF) biologist Patrick Burke told Wyoming Public Radio (WPR). Burke is among several scientists using helicopters to capture deer in order to put GPS collars on the animals.
By collaring the deer, researchers hope to understand what is happening to fawn survival and overall mortality of the deer within the Rock Springs herd. According to Keith Monteith, a professor at the University of Wyoming, there have been countless projects over the years aimed at boosting the herd without any success, which is why the current study is essential.
“Really, over the past couple decades we've pumped over $4 million into habitat treatments and other sorts of efforts to help bolster that mule deer population,” says Monteith, “but with seemingly no benefit.”
Figuring out where these deer migrate to during the winter is one of the questions researchers hope to solve through the tracking collars. Yet, the addition of manmade obstacles like highways, fences and residential sprawl within migration routes may also be part of the answer to the deer decline.
“When a migrating animal runs into a development or human activity,” says Matt Kauffman, director of the Wyoming Migration Initiative. “What we're finding is that they speed up, they stop over less to feed and in some cases, they detour around developed portions of their route.” Kauffman adds that less habitat for food and foraging usually means smaller herds.
WGF is taking action to help protect these migration routes, creating stricter protections, particularly aimed at oil and gas well pads as well as residential and commercial development. But it will take time for these changes to sync with nature and economic development is a necessity for state revenue. It will be interesting to see what the results of the multi-year study will discover and how the longevity of the Rock Springs herd will play out.


void (ness), empty (emptiness).
As a doctrinal term it refers, in Theravāda, exclusively to the anattā doctrine, i.e. the unsubstantiality of all phenomena: "Void is the world ... because it is void of a self and anything belonging to a self" (suññam attena vā attaniyena vā; S. XXXV, 85); also stated of the 5 groups of existence (khandha, q.v.) in the same text.
See also M. 43, M. 106. - In CNidd. (quoted in Vis.M. XXI, 55), it is said: "Eye ... mind, visual objects ... mind-objects, visual consciousness ... mind-consciousness, corporeality ... consciousness, etc., are void of self and anything belonging to a self; void of permanency and of anything lasting, eternal or immutable.. They are coreless: without a core of permanency, or core of happiness or core of self." -
In M. 121, the voiding of the mind of the cankers, in the attainment of Arahatship, is regarded as the "fully purified and incomparably highest (concept of) voidness. -
See Sn.v.1119; M.121; M.122 (WHEEL 87); Pts.M. II: Suñña-kathā; Vis.M. XXI, 53ff.


Srila Prabhupada in a lecture described Maharaj Pariksit as the emperor of the whole world and Hastinapura as its capital. Are there any historical records on those details?
Maha-bharata basically deals with South Asia, extending into modern Myanmar and Thailand on the east, and Pakistan and Afghanistan in the West.
There are references to China, but no direct interactions, other than people coming from there to give tribute to Yudhisthira etc.
Of course, we can’t be sure that the names of countries are the same today as they were then, so a reference, for example, to the kingdom of Kekaya may actually indicate a great area than we think today.
There are no descriptions of anyone crossing the ocean or a great sea, although there are analogies to sea travel. But no one actually does it. We know that thousands of years ago, West India actively traded with the Persian Gulf, and that involved sea travel, but the sailors may have been from the Persian side.
Rome traded with India, but again that may have been Romans coming to India, more than Indians going to Rome.
Even in India, at times the kings of other places were supreme rulers. Thus the Maha-bharata states that several generations before Krishna, King Vasu of Cedi (the area where Uttar Pradesh meets Madhya Pradesh) was the emperor of the world.


Climate change and development are closely intertwined: economic growth has caused increasing greenhouse gas emissions which impact climate change, and climate change, in turn, has a significant negative impact on economic development. Lower-income countries are especially vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, the World Bank Group has recently published several Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) that reflect on climate commitments, identify major climate change-related vulnerabilities, and suggest concrete short- and medium-term actions for a transition towards a resilient low-carbon economy. PBL evaluated four of these CCDRs in the context of other relevant studies and scientific standards.
CCDRs identify crucial measures to reduce emissions and improve adaptation
For each CCDR, diverse and complementary models tuned to the context of the respective country were employed to explore future developments and impacts of climate change under various scenarios. The CCDRs demonstrate the vulnerability of especially low-income countries and those with high poverty levels to the impacts of climate change. The CCDRs also demonstrate that such major threats can be reduced through adaptation measures and that climate goals can be achieved without compromising development.
More transparent methodology and uncertainty analysis would increase legitimacy and credibility
While the evaluated CCDRs were found to identify important policy actions for mitigation and adaptation, there is room for improvement by enhancing the transparency of the applied models and addressing uncertainty. Transparency could be improved by adding more information about the process of scenario development, the models employed, and other parts of the methodology. The uncertainty analysis could also be improved, especially with regard to the expected damage from climate change and the magnifying effects of delaying actions on climate change. There are also country-specific shortcomings, such as the fact that China’s CCDR hardly discusses adaptation support for smallholders in China, that climate migration is barely being addressed in the Sahel, that the vulnerability of youth in South Africa is neglected and that geographical challenges are not being addressed in Vietnam.


Air pollution is caused by harmful gases such as carbon oxide, sulfur dioxide,nitrogen dioxide carbon monoxide and very small particles of carbon. Most of the pollution is caused by factories, vehicles and livestock. Today air pollution has become dangerous to humans. Heavy air pollution may asseverating problems such as asthma or other health problems. Lancer’s in human activities has also polluted air. Water pollution is the presence Of harmful materials in water, such sewage, dissolved metals, waste forearms and factories and crude oil spilled from hyperlinked tankers.
The three main substances that pollute water reinstates from fertilizers, sewage undergarments. [l] Pollution hey causes harm to organisms living in water and can also harm people’s health, and can cause problems such as cancer.  Noise pollutions The harmful noises in the environment, such as the sound of vehicles, loud speakers, etc. In a city is called noise pollution. Noise pollution can cause ear problems or even permanent deafness, especially to older people.
Noise elution can be defined as the unwanted sound present in the atmosphere. Soil pollutions Soil pollution pertains to the contamination of the soil due to man-made chemicals such as hydrocarbons, heavy metals, solvents, and the like. These chemicals come mainly from industrial activities, and also from improper waste disposal.


Sustainable Land Use
Wind Power Development
Conservation Planning Book
Bridger Canyon LIDAR
Land-Use Planning in the High Divide of Montana and Idaho
The Craighead Institute has developed a powerful conservation planning framework, combining hard scientific information with thoughtful land-use planning and policy. Using GIS-based tools to provide a solid scientific foundation, we are maintaining wildlife connections across both public and private lands to critical habitat in the High Divide region of Montana and Idaho.
We are drawn to the Rocky Mountain West by its rare natural beauty and abundant wildlife. Yet, as increasing numbers of us settle here, we threaten those very qualities. On some level, we all understand this dilemma. And on some level, we all want to address it by being the best stewards we can be. The Madison Valley of Montana is such a place. Nestled within a mosaic of public lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the valley remains rich with wildlife and natural beauty even as it struggles with the increasing pressures of development. The Craighead Institute has been working for decades to help local communities balance human needs and dreams with the needs of wildlife in places like the Madison, and to enhance the quality of human development so that these wild places can remain wild for generations to come.
The High Divide region straddles Montana and Idaho and is home to numerous mountain ranges, valleys, and rivers including the Madison and Jefferson; the Tobacco Root Mountains; and the Madison, Bighole, and Centennial Valleys. Adjacent to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), experts consider it one of the most intact biological areas in the lower 48 states, with abundant wildlife populations of elk, antelope, and deer. The region is also critically important for wolverine and grizzly bear recovery. It is not surprising that this scenic landscape and abundant wildlife have attracted many new residents to the area. This ongoing development, however, has led to an increase in road density, habitat fragmentation, and human-wildlife interaction.


Creating the Qur’an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur’an’s origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the Islamic tradition relates not a single attested account of the holy text’s formation, Stephen J. Shoemaker shows how the Qur’an preserves a surprisingly diverse array of memories regarding the text’s early history and its canonization. To this he adds perspectives from radiocarbon dating of manuscripts, the linguistic history of Arabic, the social and cultural history of late ancient Arabia, and the limitations of human memory and oral transmission, as well as various peculiarities of the Qur’anic text itself. Considering all the relevant data to present the most comprehensive and convincing examination of the origin and evolution of the Qur’an available, Shoemaker concludes that the canonical text of the Qur’an was most likely produced only around the turn of the eighth century.
“Stephen Shoemaker leaves no significant aspect of the debate over the Qur’an’s origin and evolution unexamined. His book is a milestone in Qur’anic studies. Everyone in the field will have to read it.” FRED M. DONNER, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, University of Chicago
STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER is Professor of Religious Studies and Ira E. Gaston Fellow in Christian Studies at the University of Oregon. He is author of The Death of a Prophet, The Apocalypse of Empire, and A Prophet Has Appeared, among many other publications.
Shoemaker, S. 2022. Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.128
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What is a DDoS attack?
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is an attempt to make a website, application or online service unavailable by flooding it with requests from multiple sources. When a website is targeted by this type of attack, the resources of the hosting company’s server are overwhelmed, resulting in a slow or no response from the site.
Because DDoS attacks come from multiple sources, they can be difficult to mitigate. Hosting providers are able to detect the attack and take steps to mitigate its effects, but not all hosting providers are equipped to handle such threats. To protect your website or service from a DDoS attack, it’s important to choose a reliable hosting provider with strong security measures in place like Koddos.
Look for hosting providers that offer protection against DDoS attacks as well as other web security features, such as malware scanning and intrusion prevention. In addition, be sure to choose a hosting provider that offers regular backups of your website so that in the event of an attack, you can quickly restore your website and minimize downtime.
By taking the time to find a reliable hosting provider that implements the right security measures, you can ensure that your website stays safe and secure from potential DDoS attacks.
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In one out of four cases, the memories of our early childhood are pure imagination. According to a new research conducted by the City University of London, the University of Bradford and the University of Nottingham Trent, published in the magazine Psychological Science, what you think you remember before the age of 3 is not based on real memories but on the processing of feelings and images mixed together. We talk about this topic with Dr. Lara Fratticci, neurologist at Humanitas.
When the mind “reconstructs”
Some people see themselves as children while they are taking their first steps on the beach and others are convinced that they remember perfectly different moments of their very early childhood. According to a new research all these images, at least in one case out of four, could be completely fake, that is, the result of the reconstruction of our minds. The bricks of these images would be the memories of previous experiences, the photographs reviewed at a later age as well as the stories of the family about what happened. According to the study published in Psychological Science, the first memories generally date back to the age of three to three and a half years. The research, conducted with 6,641 people, found that 38.6% of respondents said they had memories of when they were two years old or even younger. As many as 893 people were confident that they had one-year memories, especially middle-aged adults and the elderly.
Mental representations instead of memories
The researchers asked the volunteers to detail their first memory along with their age at the time. The researchers then examined the content, language, nature and descriptive details of the memories, assessing the likely reasons why people claim to have memories of an age when research indicates that they cannot be trained. Since many memories date back to before the age of two, the authors suggest that what you have in mind when you recall these early memories is a mental representation consisting of remembered fragments of previous experiences and some facts or knowledge about your childhood, rather than real memories.


A peculiar meteorite that was discovered in Antarctica back in 2012, designated Asuka 12236, may help scientists shed light on the "stubbornly asymmetrical" nature of life on Earth, space.com reports citing a recent statement made by NASA.
As the media outlet points out, while amino acids, the "building blocks of proteins", come in "two mirror-image forms", dubbed left-handed and right-handed by scientists, all known life uses only the former variety - "right-handed versions of these molecules exist but don't make it into proteins".
And it turns out that not only is the meteorite in question rich in amino-acids, but said amino-acids are "left-handed" too, which may suggest that this tendency is not exclusive to our planet – unless, of course, the space rock was subjected to terrestrial contamination.
"The meteorites are telling us that there was an inherent bias toward left-handed amino acids before life even started," said Daniel Glavin, astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and lead of the new study. "The big mystery is why?"
The meteorite itself, which is about the size of a golf ball, is reportedly believed to have crashed into our planet millions of years ago and might even contain "material even older than our solar system".
According to the media outlet, Glavin and his team now intend to “keep looking at meteorites” in order to discern how "amino acids manifest in space rocks".


Trans and Feminist Solidarities
The first parts of this module introduced you to some key concepts in Trans Studies; to transmisogyny in feminist communities and scholarship; to transfeminism; and to Critical Trans Theory. Finally, in the last part of this module we considered some trans experiences of sexuality, including sexual pathologization, sexual objectification, and sexual violence. In concluding the module it is important to stress that feminists have engaged extensively with these same issues of pathologization, objectification, and violence in ways that resonate strongly with trans critiques. Although much of this module has been about trans-hating on the part of self-described feminists, these resonances should underscore the natural alliances between feminist and trans movements.
CHALLENGE ONE: Watch the two ContraPoints videos that were mentioned but not assigned for this module, “Gender Critical” and “J.K. Rowling,” and write a short report on Natalie Wynn’s responses to the arguments of so-called “gender critical” feminists. Share your report in the Challenge Sharing Forum. Make sure to consult the guidelines on eClass for your Challenge regarding length and the deadline.
CHALLENGE TWO: Choose Your Own Adventure! Is there a topic that relates to transgender and sexuality that you would like to explore in more detail in the form of a research report, a response to a media representation or other work, a personal reflection, or a creative project? If so, run your idea by the professor and, if it is approved, make this your Challenge for the course and share it in the Challenge Sharing Forum. Make sure to consult the guidelines on eClass for your Challenge regarding length and the deadline.


Hoosier Energy landfill methane gas (LMG) units generate 18 megawatts of energy. It is part of the “all of the above” energy strategy that includes coal, natural gas and other renewable sources.
LMG systems capture gases released from decaying organic material in solid waste landfills to power gas turbines like the one shown.
Landfill generation projects contribute to reduction of greenhouse gases by destroying methane.
For more information about Hoosier Energy’s generation sources, log onto hoosierenergy.com/about/energy-strategy.
Your energy producer is a co-op, too!
Hoosier Energy is a generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative providing wholesale electric power and services to your electric cooperative. Founded in 1949 and based in Bloomington, the power producer generates power from coal, natural gas and renewable energy resources. The G&T delivers power through nearly 1,700 miles of transmission lines across central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.
How energy is transmitted to your home
Power generation: Generating energy from a diverse set of fuel sources is an important part of the power supply portfolio, including natural gas facilities.
Switching substation: After leaving a power plant, electricity feeds into a substation that raises or “steps up” the voltage – similar to increasing water pressure.
Transmission: Electricity generated by Hoosier Energy and other utilities is placed on a regional grid and transmitted at high-voltage over long distances throughout central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.
Distribution substation: These stations lower the voltage before being sent along to your local electric cooperative.
Energy to your cooperative: At this phase, your electric cooperative distributes and meters the energy you use at your home or business.


Ways To Bring Sustainability Into Your Life
Everyone is looking for ways to save the planet and keep the Earth alive a little bit longer. If you’re trying to do your part and find ways to bring sustainability into your life, you should start with a few simple practices that can make a big impact. Here are some of the best ways to be sustainable.
Make Mindful Purchases
The more you buy, the more manufacturers produce. Production requires many resources that ultimately end up in landfills when products break. Sometimes, things can wear out or become useless quite quickly. From home décor to clothing, be mindful of what you buy and try not to purchase fast fashion and fast skincare items.
Make Energy-Efficient Home Upgrades
An energy-efficient home isn’t just good for the environment—it can benefit your wallet too! The sooner you invest in home improvement projects that increase energy efficiency, the sooner you can see savings on your energy bill. Some of the best energy-efficient upgrades to make to your home include:
- Installing energy-efficient appliances
- Sealing your windows and doors
- Using a programmable thermostat
- Replacing lightbulbs with LEDs
Grow Your Own Food
One of the best sustainability practices is growing your own food. The process of raising most of the produce you buy in the grocery store includes the use of pesticides and other chemicals that may harm the earth. You can create your own organic garden using a compost pile.
Consider how much you use your car and if you can cut back on this. If you live near a coworker, talk about carpooling to work. Maybe you can take turns carpooling your kids to daycare. If you live near a bus or train, talk to your boss about a public transportation card to offset fare fees.
Start small and bring sustainability into your life gradually. You don’t have to do all these things at once. Think about finding ways to bring sustainability into your life as a lifelong journey. As time progresses, you’ll continue to learn new practices and adapt.


Women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic response, particularly with regard to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and access to gender-based violence (GBV) services. From 2020 to 2022, there was an increase in maternal mortality; an increase in unmet need for family planning and contraception; a reduction in access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention methods, testing and treatment; and decreased access to GBV response services. The pandemic response compounded existing barriers to accessing SRHR and GBV services in the context of restrictions on freedom of movement and as health systems became overwhelmed. The effect was particularly profound for marginalized women and girls with multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that interacted to exacerbate structural inequalities.
This research was commissioned to document state obligations regarding SRHR and GBV during the pandemic as part of our efforts to strengthen humanitarian preparedness and response going forward. The analysis focused on international normative guidance regarding the classification of essential services, challenges in accessing services and the continuity of service provision during the pandemic, and the strategies employed to adapt to the COVID-19 context. Human rights constitute a universal, normative and legally binding foundation to prevent, protect against and control public health threats, and a basis for equitable, accountable and effective public health and socioeconomic responses to COVID-19.5
This research has found that the failure to classify appropriate SRHR and GBV services as essential, in line with international human rights law, has compounded challenges to accessing such services during the pandemic.
It is hoped that the lessons learned from this pandemic will foster improved preparedness and response going forward.
Source: United Nations Population Fund


Blood sugar regulation is crucial for numerous American adults as approximately eight percent of the population has some sort of diabetes. This figure may be cultivating each year as the pandemic of obesity increases. More Americans are facing a situation of pre diabetes, making blood glucose management essential to stop conditions like kidney disease, blindness and amputation. Moreover, fluctuating blood sugar levels are known to increase the chance of the development of atherosclerosis which plays a role in stroke and heart attack. The truth is, an individual with good uncontrolled blood sugar levels may be up to 4 times more likely to develop heart attack or stroke than those who do not have diabetes. Retaining control of the blood sugar levels could be possible with the usage of natural dietary supplements including Glucose Regulation Complex.
Chromium has been shown playing an important role of glucose intolerance. When Chromium is put into the diet, improvement might be found in blood glucose levels, insulin utilization, gluconite charge HbA1C quantities as well as cholesterol. Decreasing the blood glucose levels might decrease the risk for the enhancement of cardiovascular disease.
Vanadium is a trace component which may actually mimic insulin to reduce blood glucose levels. Vanadium might reduce the demand for additional insulin and could help to lower levels of cholesterol. Lowering both the blood sugar and cholesterol levels may be essential in minimizing the improvement of atherosclerosis, particularly in diabetics or perhaps others having difficulty maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.
Banaba Leaf Extract
The Banaba plant continues to be utilized in parts of Asia for treating diabetes. It is high in a phytochemical known as colosolic acid or maybe corosolic acid that will be thought to help stabilize blood sugar and is likely to promote weight loss. Banaba Leaf extract might also help promote healthy kidney function and greatly improve kidney health and that is extremely critical in those who have problems maintaining stable blood sugar ranges.
Alpha Lipoic Acid
* Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology
* Zeta Delta Epsilon, Honors Service Society by invitation, Southern Connecticut State University
* Tau Kappa, Excelsior College Nursing Honors Society


Structure and pattern in temperate seasonal forests
Demography, spatial pattern, and diversity of canopy and subcanopy trees, shrubs, and lianas were compared in two cool and two warm temperate North American forests, paired at 30Â¬âˆž and 40Â¬âˆž north latitudes. All woody stems ge1 cm dbh in 16 randomly located, non-contiguous plots totalling 1 ha at each of the four sites were measured, mapped, and identified. Basal area and overall density did not differ between latitudes. Demographic and spatial analyses revealed remarkable similarity in spatial dispersion, irrespective of density or species composition. At all sites, dispersion of canopy trees was random but all understory stems were uniformly distributed relative to all canopy trees. Species diversity and vertical structure differed between the warm and cool temperate sites, especially in species composition of individual strata. Associations of understory species relative to canopy species were more random at 30Â¬âˆž than at 40Â¬âˆž north, where a higher degree of association between canopy and understory species' patterns, coupled with their size class distributions, suggested more lengthy regeneration cycles and an alternation of species assemblages. The forests at 30Â¬âˆž, those subject to periodic canopy disturbance by hurricanes, had more vertical mixing of species (i.e., canopy species represented in all size classes), more tree saplings, and significantly more shrub and liana species.


Assistant professor of biological sciences Alison Pischedda has spent years studying the formation and expression of animal behavior, conducting research with students in her Pischedda Lab on how evolutionary processes and sexual selection impacts a species’ behavior over time.
In her biology class, Animal Behavior, Pischedda brings this understanding of the animal kingdom to student researchers outside her lab. Even as students have spent an increased amount of time indoors throughout the pandemic, Pischedda’s goal has been to help them think deeper about nature. “This course gives students the chance to connect with the natural world,” Pischedda said, “and to appreciate the mind-boggling diversity and beauty of the animal kingdom.”
Observing creatures that live everywhere, from on a blade of grass to in the depths of the ocean, Pischedda’s course is designed to help students discover the adaptive processes that influence animal behavior. Students study a wide variety of animal behaviors shaped by natural selection, such as examining how and why a cuckoo bird lays its eggs in a neighboring nest or why a male seahorse takes on the role of pregnancy and child-rearing.
As the world witnessed wild animals freely taking to city streets and parks last spring, Pischedda has adapted her course materials to address the unique circumstances and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the animal kingdom. “We will discuss the way that the first COVID lockdown affected animal behavior, impacting the way that animals mate, move around, and communicate with one another when humans stayed home,” said Pischedda. Outside the classroom, the pandemic has presented singular opportunities to students as well: The Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference went virtual this year, allowing more students to attend, view presentations, and interact with professional animal behaviorists on an international scale.
Pischedda wants students to walk away with a new understanding of themselves and of the animal kingdom. “One of the things that I hope students take from my class is a deeper appreciation of the natural world and a feeling that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves,” Pischedda said.
To learn more about Pischedda’s course Animal Behavior, watch the watch the video above.
—ISABELLA PECHATY ’23


Heaven and Earth
Once upon a time there was a little rock who yearned to be a hummingbird so it could fly high up into the air to be with Father Sky. It did not like always resting on Mother Earth.
One day Little Rock saw a giant dung beetle walking by. When the beetle stopped to rest in the sun, Little Rock asked how it could become a hummingbird. In a deep low voice the beetle hissed, “Patience first. Then, Little Rock, you must find your way to the fast flowing river and rest quietly in the water.” The beetle got up and moved on.
Soon a thunderstorm blew in with torrential rains and gale force winds. Little Rock was washed away from its home and ended up in the rushing river. The water ran over Little Rock day after day, year after year. Eventually Little Rock became gravel, and then very fine sand.
Sun of Heaven shone on the river and soon it dried up, leaving the riverbed exposed to the weather. A great wind blew across the riverbed blowing what was left of Little Rock— fine dust— high up into the sky beyond the clouds.
Oh, how happy the rock specks of dust were to finally fly and be with Father Sky. But when the wind stopped, the dust drifted down into the clouds. It began to rain and the dust came back down to earth. The rain landed as droplets of water on the big red flowers of a trumpet vine where the water mixed with nectar from the flowers. A hummingbird landed on the vine and sipped up all the nectar.
Little Rock was ecstatic, and could now both fly as a hummingbird to visit Father Sky and land on the ground to be with Mother Earth.


There are many things you can do to make your course materials and teaching more accessible to all students, including those who identify as having a disability. Inaccessible materials can create barriers to learning for students with disabilities. By ensuring course materials are as accessible as possible, faculty can create an environment in which all students can learn at their best.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, was designed to make electronic and informational technologies accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Should you need any assistance making your digital content more accessible, please contact Accessibility Services!
Documents and Presentations
Documents, handouts, and other digital print materials should be made accessible to people using screen reading software or other enlargement or read aloud tools.
Videos and Audio
It is best practice to caption and/or transcribe all video and audio files such as recorded lectures, YouTube videos, and podcasts. The use of captioned media provides many more benefits to diverse populations:
- Persons who are Deaf or hard of hearing must have captioned media in order to access the auditory and visual media from one location.
- Persons with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other cognitive impairments also benefit from the open captions supplementing the audio.
- Persons for whom English is a second or third language.
- Persons without disabilities often note that captioning helps in taking notes and improves understanding and recall.
- Anyone in the audience when variations of sound quality or surrounding noise distractions.
Many features in Brightspace can be adjusted to improve access for individuals with disabilities.


Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
Summary: An investigation into the conditions that lead to successful individuals and why traditional assumptions about intelligence, personality, and effort are only a part of the picture.
Intended Audience: Widely accessible book for those curious about why some are successful and some are not
Why You Should Read It: This book provides ten solid stories to describe how opportunity and legacy can greatly enhance the chance of someone becoming very successful. Traditional views of working hard, networking well, and using your natural intelligence can only get you part way on the path to significant achievements. Other environmental and situational circumstances can play an even large role in separating the merely good from the insanely great, including:
- when you are born in the year relative to category cutoffs
- the amount of time you have to practice, coupled with an emerging opportunity in your area
- cultural advantages that can open significant avenues to explore and develop at a young age
- being fortunate enough to discover, be exposed to, participate, and grow meaningful work
- your position in and the structure of the social organizations that you interact with
- the structure of your language and how it influences or enhances your brain’s capabilities
As someone with the responsibility of raising two small kids, it is very interesting to see how some of these lessons can be applied in what I teach and how I lead to provide them with opportunities and circumstances that I wouldn’t have normally considered.
- The payoff of hard work and persistence may not be realized in the current generation. Often the rewards only accrue to your children and your children’s children, and those rewards can be significant.
- Never read a chapter about the cultural causes of plane crashes as the pilot attempts a tricky landing in a brisk crosswind in a small commuter plane.
- To become truly elite at something takes upwards of 10,000 hours of practice, so get started early. The very best spend much more time practicing than actually doing, so take time from your workday to find ways to sharpen and expand your skills in a error-tolerant environment.
Recommended?: Solid book with lots of great anecdotes; an enjoyable read


For a decade, tourists have been traveling to the high Alps of southern Switzerland with a wish to walk inside a glacier. In 1870, a regional family got the idea of digging a 100-metered shallow tunnel inside the Rhone glacier. Paying visitors could walk through a frozen alcove straight out of a fairy tale. However, in recent times, global warming has posed a grave threat to the glacier. With the slightest glacier movement, ice melts, so at the beginning of every summer season, the tourist cave has to be carved anew.
According to the experts, the glacier has changed in the last few years and is expected to entirely disappear in the coming years. To slow down the ice melting, the cave carving family suggested a solution of covering a portion of the glacier with protective fleece blankets to reflect the sunlight.
As a preventive measure, huge blankets or a polyester fleece might appear like a quick-fix or gimmick, but they could diminish seasonal melting by up to 70% each year during the summer months. It radiates the sun’s energy back into the atmosphere, avoiding melt and also preserving the ice that fell on the glacier during the winter. A handful of workers would then be needed to remove the blankets and utilize the fresh covering of snow to fill in the cracks on the glacier’s surface.
The primary goal of the government is to insulate the exposed glacier’s ice by reflecting most of the sun’s energy by using white fleece protectors. According to the Swiss government, 90% of its glaciers will be eliminated by the end of the century if no solution is found to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the glacier experts, the size of the fleece blankets needs to be big enough to have any sort of effect. For this purpose, many workers are diligently sewing blankets together to cover the glaciers, whilst other countries, including Italy and Germany look set to be implementing this unique solution too.


The project is based on the idea of reconstructing the signals of the audio communication of marine mammals using recurrent neural networks that are actively used for the analysis and synthesis of human speech, music, sounds.
Opportunities for observing species and their behavior and communication features make it possible to identify patterns and learn how to copy them, predicting the behavior of species (movement, behavior in groups, behavior in isolation).
Spectrogram of the audio from dataset
Spectrogram of the audio generated by SampleRNN
100 minutes of underwater recordings of southern Arctic killer whales, made using sonar technology, divided into samples for 8 seconds.
A PyTorch implementation of SampleRNN:
An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model (Google Colab)
The logic of the installation
The project is proposed for exposure in the form of an audio-visual installation, representing an endless dialogue of several signal sources in a closed environment. The final logic of the system functioning is chaotic and determined by the behavior of the neural network and machine learning algorithms.
As input data, video materials of killer whale behavior in captivity are used, as well as recordings of killer whale behavior in different behavioral cycles.
Input data are analyzed at the stage of training the algorithms, after which the installation works without them, endlessly generating new patterns of behavior and sound signals.
WORK IN PROGRESS


NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported last Thursday that the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was the highest since records began in 1880. January's record warmth was primarily responsible for putting the combined winter temperature over the top.
Sources at NOAA confirm that the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1995. After this winter, the next-warmest was in 2004, and the third was in 1998.
The combined temperature for the December-February period was more than 1 degree Fahrenheit above the mean 20th century temperature.
Such warming trends are heating up the debate around mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cuts and increasing the anxiety among investors, as we've reported in The Green Skeptic before. Some don't want their investments to be blind-sided by regulations that may be on the horizon, while other investors see opportunities developing in clean-tech and alternative energy.
Today, dozens of institutional investors, including Merrill Lynch, The Capital Group, and the largest US pension fund, the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) are calling on Congress to adopt strong legislation with tangible greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to Ceres, the coalition of investors and environmentalists.
The coalition asserts that setting mandatory emissions cuts will give investors confidence to invest more in low-carbon technologies, and other so called "clean tech" alternatives.
Cuts could also stimulate a cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gases, which investors see as an opportunity just waiting to be developed.
Last January, 10 companies that would find themselves regulated under such legislation, including Duke Energy Corp. and General Electric Co., called on Congress and President Bush to set a national limit on emissions that could potentially lead to as much as a 30 percent reductions over the next 15 years.
Investments in the clean tech category are showing signs of strength. In February, the Cleantech Venture Network reported that North American and European venture capital investment in totaled a record US$3.6 billion for 2006. This was a 45 percent increase over 2005 (US$2.5 billion) and double the 2004 investment of US$1.7 billion.
Companies asking to be regulated, hungry investors smelling opportunity, and venture capitalists willing to sink serious money into the arena. Clearly it's time to adopt mandatory cuts and stimulate this investment climate.
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Energy harvesting or the process of acquiring energy from the surrounding environment has been a persistent human endeavor throughout history, e.g. the use of watermills in ancient Greece, and sailboats by Phoenicians and Egyptians, circa 4000 B.C. These days there is an increasing interest in harvesting energy at much smaller scales for use in embedded systems. For these applications the power requirements are of a very small scale, e.g. less than 100 mW.
The project deals with the production and storing of electrical energy from the wheels of the vehicles.The project idea is working whether the vehicle is in the rest state or at the running state.The harvesting of the electrical energy from this technique is carried out by the cantiliver technology which is the placing of the piezoelectric materials between the wheel and the rim of the vehicle and the followed storing of the electrical energy on a rechargable battery. These days there is an increasing interest to harvest energy at a much smaller scale, i.e. energy scavenging. For applications such as the ones found in many embedded systems the power requirements are often small (less than 100 mW). Piezoelectric materials are great candidates for energy scavenging using vibrations from the surrounding environment, e.g. vibrations generated by the traffic through bridges, or the motions of people as they walk. Piezoelectric materials become electrically polarized when subjected to mechanical strain and the degree of polarization is proportional to the applied strain.


SOURCE: Washington Post
DATE: October 11, 2017
SNIP: A new scientific study published Tuesday has found that warm ocean water is carving an enormous channel into the underside of one of the key floating ice shelves of West Antarctica, the most vulnerable sector of the enormous ice continent.
The Dotson ice shelf, which holds back two separate large glaciers, is about 1,350 square miles in area and between 1,000 and 1,600 feet thick. But on its western side, it is now only about half that thickness, said Noel Gourmelen, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the lead author of the research, which was just published in Geophysical Research Letters.
The reason is the same one that is believed to be shrinking glaciers and pouring ice into the ocean across West Antarctica — warm ocean water located offshore is now reaching the ice from below.
“We think that this channel is actually being carved for the last 25 years,” said Gourmelen, whose research team detected the channel using satellite observations. “It’s been thinning and melting at the base for at least 25 years, and that’s where we are now.”
Dotson ice shelf as a whole has been thinning at an average rate of more than eight feet per year since 1994, even as the speed of ice flowing outward through the shelf has increased by 180 percent. But the thinning in the channel has been far greater. The research calculates that 45 feet of ice thickness is being subtracted annually from the channel.
The new study calculates that as a result of this highly uneven melting, the Dotson ice shelf could be melted all the way through in 40 years, rather than 170 years, which would be the time it would take if the melt were occurring evenly.


Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use.
In temperate mesic climates, natural regeneration of forest stands often will not occur in the absence of disturbance, whether natural or anthropogenic. Furthermore, biodiversity after regeneration harvest often mimics that found after natural disturbance, including biodiversity loss after naturally occurring rainforest destruction.
Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal) or timber, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities and settlements. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse impacts on biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Deforestation has also been used in war to deprive the enemy of cover for its forces and also vital resources. Modern examples of this were the use of Agent Orange by the British military in Malaya during the Malayan Emergencyand the United States military in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. As of 2005, net deforestation rates have ceased to increased in countries with a per capita GDP of at least US$4,600. Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland.
Disregard of ascribed value, lax forest management and deficient environmental laws are some of the factors that allow deforestation to occur on a large scale. In many countries, deforestation, both naturally occurring and human induced, is an ongoing issue. Deforestation causes extinction, changes to climatic conditions, desertification, and displacement of populations as observed by current conditions and in the past through the fossil record. More than half of all plant and land animal species in the world live in tropical forests.
(From Wikipedia, June 2015)


How to Meme What You Say
In a socially distant world, online life for many people has become normal life. How we express ourselves on the internet has become more important as we lose the social signals of body language and facial expressions. Without handshakes, hugs, and in-person social rituals, such as public gatherings and assemblies, how do we socialize and bond with each other? How can we convey emotionally what our lives have become in this pandemic era without having to explain it all through painstakingly literal language?
For many internet users, one way to actively engage in a wider community is to play with words—through seizing the memes of production, as it were. If bonding through figurative language sounds similar to the work of idioms, it’s because good old idioms and memes are somewhat related, in the way we cognitively process their words to get from their literal meaning to their figurative one. Idioms are purportedly well-worn clichés that usually can’t be altered without losing their meaning, but the remarkable thing about internet memes is that without constant mutation through wordplay, they become, ahem, meme-ingless—less successful linguistic fads. Stagnant, unfashionable memes eventually go extinct.
The chaotic creativity of remixed internet memes and the new linguistic structures that rapidly evolve from them allow us to express certain states of mind and have others immediately get it and respond in kind. This has been called an “asynchronous, massively multi-person conversation.” Meme makers and sharers participate in this conversation to bond and maintain social cohesion through humor and wordplay—even shared with countless millions of complete strangers.


What is it?
Hemorrhoids are enlarged blood vessels or veins in the anal or rectal area. They can occur on the outside of the anus where they are felt as small bumps when wiping; or they may be located on the inside where they are usually painless.
Although troublesome, hemorrhoids are rarely serious and often clear up by themselves or with minimal treatment.
What causes hemorrhoids?
Standing for long periods of time is a common cause of hemorrhoids, as blood above the rectum exerts pressure on the rectal and anal areas.
Constipation, diarrhea, pregnancy, obesity and frequent straining when having a bowel movement can also be causes; however, some patients will have none of these conditions and still develop hemorrhoids.
What are the symptoms?
External hemorrhoids can be itchy, especially if the area is moist and irritated.
Bleeding — Hemorrhoids can ooze fresh red blood, whether located externally or internally. External hemorrhoids often cause dripping of blood from the anus while sitting on the toilet. The blood might also be seen in your underwear. Internal hemorrhoids that bleed may produce fresh blood in the stool.
Thrombosis and pain — Severe pain may indicate a blood clot in the hemorrhoid and usually demands immediate medical attention.
How is it diagnosed?
Hemorrhoids are most commonly diagnosed by a thorough history and physical exam.
How is it treated?
Treatment typically is simple and effective and may include pain-free ligation or “banding” which can be done in an office setting.
More serious cases may still require surgery. People with hemorrhoids who work closely with their physician are usually assured a good outcome and relief from this common disorder.
How can hemorrhoids be prevented?
Eating plenty of fiber, bran, and roughage, or using a bulking agent to maintain regular, soft bowel movements
Not delaying or trying to prevent a bowel movement when the urge is present
Exercising, especially aerobically, to help produce more regular bowel movements
Drinking plenty of liquids and eating regularly scheduled meals


Climate extremes, such as heat waves and heavy precipitation events, have large impacts on ecosystems and societies. Climate models provide useful tools for studying underlying processes and amplifying effects associated with extremes. The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) has recently been coupled to the Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) model. We examine how this model represents climate extremes derived by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) and compare them to observational data sets using the AMIP framework. We find that the patterns of extreme indices are generally well represented. Indices based on percentiles are particularly well represented and capture the trends over the last 60 years shown by the observations remarkably well. The diurnal temperature range is underestimated, minimum temperatures (T-MIN) during nights are generally too warm and daily maximum temperatures (T-MAX) too low in the model. The number of consecutive wet days is overestimated, while consecutive dry days are underestimated. The maximum consecutive 1-day precipitation amount is underestimated on the global scale. Biases in T-MIN correlate well with biases in incoming longwave radiation, suggesting a relationship with biases in cloud cover. Biases in T-MAX depend on biases in net shortwave radiation as well as evapotranspiration. The regions and season where the bias in evapotranspiration plays a role for the T-MAX bias correspond to regions and seasons where soil moisture availability is limited. Our analysis provides the foundation for future experiments that will examine how land-surface processes contribute to these systematic biases in the ACCESS modelling system.


Are you OK? Cellphone app detects opioid overdose
Second Chance created by researchers in computer science and engineering and anesthesiology and pain medicine.
Many of the medications UW Medicine anesthesiologist Jacob Sunshine administers to patients have profound effects on breathing, similar to the effect of taking illicit opioids outside of a hospital environment. Fentanyl, in fact, is a commonly used anesthetic in operating rooms.
This led to an idea and collaboration with researchers at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to create a cellphone app to detect an opioid overdose.
The app, called Second Chance, detects overdose-related symptoms about 90 percent of the time and can track someone's breathing from up to 3 feet away (but not from a purse or pocket). The results were published in Science Translational Medicine.
The app sends inaudible sound waves from the phone to people's chests and then monitors the way the sound waves return to the phone to look for specific breathing patterns.
In addition to watching breathing, Second Chance also monitors how people move.
"People aren't always perfectly still while they're injecting drugs, so we want to still be able to track their breathing as they're moving around," said lead author Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, a doctoral student in the Allen School. "We can also look for characteristic motions during opioid overdose, like if someone's head slumps or nods off."
The app was tested within a supervised injection facility in Vancouver, BC, and the team worked with Sunshine’s colleagues to test a simulated overdose.
The researchers are applying for FDA approval.
"We're experiencing an unprecedented epidemic of deaths from opioid use, and it's unfortunate because these overdoses are completely reversible if they're detected in time," said Sunshine, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
At least 115 people die every day in the United States after overdosing on opioids, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Shyam Gollakota, a UW associate professor of engineering, said the ultimate goal in developing the app is not only to monitor a person’s condition, but eventually to connect users immediately with a friend or emergency services to provide life-saving treatment.
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Did you know more than 30 million plastic water bottles fill up our landfills every year? Unfortunately, they’re not really biodegradable either – it can take at least 450 years for a single bottle to completely decompose. However, what if we were able to take those bottles and create something more, say, an Ecogear Backpack perhaps?
What is REPREVE?
REPREVE is a brand of fiber that is made from recycled materials including used plastic bottles. Because they don’t need to create new resources, this cuts harmful elements such as petroleum and greenhouse gases out of the manufacturing process.
How do they do it?
Most plastic water bottles are made of polyester called PET or polyethylene terephthalate. The bottles are broken down into plastic flakes which are then converted into usable fiber for many different products.
Making a difference
REPREVE has since reclaimed more than 15 billion plastic water bottles. This has helped save many resources that are essential to life:
- 385M gallons of gasoline
- One year of drinking water for 1.7M people
- 133K acres of forest
Creating better products for all
Many companies use REPREVE materials to make more sustainable products that are environmentally friendly. From clothes to backpacks, REPREVE has transformed plastic water bottles into different products for all:
- 7 bottles for a pair of khakis
- 5 bottles for a t-shirt
- 42 bottles for car seats
At EcoGear, we are always looking to find ways to make our backpacks more eco-friendly, which is why our bags are made from REPREVE material.


The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was the world’s first animal welfare charity. Founded in 1824 as the SPCA, it gained its ‘R’ courtesy of Queen Victoria in 1840. At the time of its formation the main concern was with so-called working animals, such as pit ponies and cart-horses. Other issues were the welfare of food animals and the curtailment of bear-baiting, cock-fighting and dog-fighting.
In the twentieth century their sphere of influence expanded to fox-hunting, circus animals and the use of animals in research laboratories. The RSPCA’s mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, re-home, campaign for compassion, give veterinary care and investigate reports of cruelty. However, although their Inspectors wear uniforms, they have no legal powers and as this video shows, any legal action is taken by accompanying police officers:-
Perhaps the saddest event in their history was at the beginning of WW2 when a government pamphlet panicked the public into requesting the euthanisation of 750,000 pets over fears of food shortages. Fortunately, the RSPCA’s dedication to animals is rarely stretched to this extreme. We have gained a reputation for being a ‘nation of animal-lovers’ and the RSPCA is there to ensure this is maintained.
(Top image: RSPCA WOAW at Flickr.com / CC BY-NC 2.0)


Our Spanish immersion program
Our program's language skills goals
This program was designed to help your child be a proficient Spanish speaker and reader. It will lay a strong foundation for your child to be able to transition to a Spanish immersion kindergarten or Elementary school.
All the activities are done in Spanish, including yoga and music lessons. As a result, children pick up Spanish naturally as they would in any 100% Spanish speaking household.
Taking in account that the US is a monolingual - English- speaking environment, families who do not speak English at home need to consider that your child will need further stimulation during the weekends in English for them to be proficient readers and speakers in the community language.
Why would you want your child to be multilingual?
I can think of a lot of reasons you would want your child to be multilingual, but let me share one less obvious reason why you would opt in for a program like this.
Bilingual and multilingual children learn “early in life to successfully resolve language conflicts and to achieve this, they better develop brain structures related to the executive control” (Videsott et al. 885) This means bilingual and multilingual’s brains are better equipped than monolingual’s to perform different tasks simultaneously. The exercise of switching from language to language and everything this entails allows their brains to develop skills and thought processes that facilitate attainment of their goals. For example, knowing what word order works in each language is already priming their brains for multitasking.
Videsott et al. “How does linguistic competence enhance cognitive functions in children? A study in multilingual children with different linguistic competences”. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition/ Volume 15/ Issue 04/ October 2012, pp 884- 895.


In a previous post, we discussed how the Varieties of Democracy “V-Dem” project measures “political equality.” V-Dem is an expert survey. They guide the expert-respondents’ attention to particular groups’ political equality. These groups are: (a) socioeconomic position, (b) social groups, (c) gender, and (d) sexual orientation.
In this post, we discuss how they measure “Power distributed by gender.”
Political Inequality in V-Dem: “Power distributed by socioeconomic position”
Political Equality in V-Dem: “Power distributed by social groups”
Political Equality in V-Dem: “Power distributed by sexual orientation”
V-Dem: “Power distributed by gender”
V-Dem asks, “Is political power distributed according to gender?”
The two groups are men and women.
As with the others thus far, the scale ranges from zero to four, upwardly toward equality. The two groups are compared only with respect to “political power.”
The difference between (0) and (1) is slight. At (0), men have a “near-monopoly.” At step (1), men have a “dominant hold” and women have “marginal influence” (note the conflation of the terms, power and influence). The difference between (1) and (2) is also slight. At Step (2) men have much more than women, which I guess is somewhat less than a “dominant hold.”
Only at Step (3) do we see a clearer difference, where men have “somewhat more.”
Finally, at Step (4), we do not have complete equality, but “roughly equal” amounts.
Apparently, according to V-Dem, that is the highest level of gender equality society can aspire to.
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Summing up of Month 2.
By the end of the second month, you would have achieved the following..
- Neuter words in English need not be neuter in Sanskrit.
- Masculine words in English need not be masculine in Sanskrit.
- And so on and so forth....
- Certain avyayas can be used with only certain vibhaktis..
- There are no अकारान्त स्त्री ॰ words in Sanskrit.
- The first three vibhaktis of all three genders are at your fingertips.
- Be accurate in the use of the first three vibhaktis.
- Total vocabulary would have increased to
Nouns/Pronouns = 84
Verbs = 35
Avyayas = 27
Grand total = 146
Pretty impressive, huh?!
Let's now proceed to month 3, Lesson 14, to know more about Vibhaktis, new words and so on
Prev Lesson 13 B --- Answers to Lessons 13 A (Answers to Lessons 13 A )
Next Lesson 14 ----- About Him and Her and not forgetting It. (तद् and एतद्


Yes, this is possible. BGP uses TCP as its transport protocol on TCP port 179. On connection initiation, BGP peers exchange complete copies of their routing tables between each other, which can be quite large. However, after the complete routing table exchange, only changes (deltas) are then exchanged between the BGP routers. This makes long BGP sessions more efficient than short ones.
In this example suppose we have one BGP server on Ethernet interface If1 and another on interface If2.
In order to allow traffic flow:
- Create a custom Service object for TCP traffic on port 179. We might give this the name BGP.
- Create IP policies in the IP rule set for the respective BGP routers that allow traffic flow using the custom service. For this example we have two rule set entries:
A. The source interface and network and destination interface and network needs to correspond to the IP and interface that respective BGP router resides in.
B. Two rules are needed in order to allow traffic to be initiated both from the inside and outside.
By following this example, BGP routers will be able to exchange their routing tables when the routers are located on different interfaces.
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Mindfulness is generally understood as a state of mental focus and awareness that is used in meditation practices. More recently, it has become a popular aspect of cognitive behavioral therapy and has been used to help with addiction recovery.
What Exactly is Mindfulness?
When you are practicing mindfulness, you become aware of your inner self and your external surroundings. While engaged in mindfulness, you are focused on your responses to things that are going on around you in that present moment. The main goal of mindfulness is for you to become aware of your surroundings and feelings without getting attached to what you are experiencing in the moment.
Mindfulness itself is not difficult; however, it does require some self-discipline. When practicing mindfulness, it is important to bring your focus only to what is presently happening around you.
How Can Mindfulness Help with Addiction Recovery?
While mindfulness seems like a simple concept, it does require focus. It can help people who are working on recovery from addiction because it forces them to slow down and achieve a sense of tranquility and calmness. As you practice mindfulness during your recovery, you will be able to appreciate things that you did not notice before while engaging in substance abuse. When you allow yourself to slow down and take in the wonderful experiences that life has to offer to all of your senses, it can help you want to stop seeking out pleasure through your past addictive behaviors.
Mindfulness can also help you with recovery in that it can make you more aware of your reactions to what is happening around you. When you become more aware of this, you can start to better understand your own feelings and your own mind. This can help you stay in control of your mind moving forward and be less likely to return to substance abuse.
Another way you can work through the recovery process is to live in a sober living home. At Tharros House, we offer our residents many benefits as they work through recovery. Contact us today to learn more.


Web development, also known as website development, is the process of creating, creating, and maintaining websites and web applications that run online in a browser. It can include web design, web programming, and database administration.
Web developmentis used to create websites and applications for the Internet or for a private network known as an intranet. A quick search for web development jobs in the United States revealed more than 60,000 vacancies at the time of writing.The first step is to decide which aspect of web development interests you and then start with a programming language.
If both Frontend and Backend development appeal to you, you might consider becoming a Full-Stack developer. Among these, web development in Java and web development in PHP are the most popular. Comprehensive developers usually have many years of experience in a variety of different functions, giving them a solid foundation across the entire web development spectrum.This web page creation platform is based on templates with which you can develop attractive, eye-catching and responsive web pages with little or no programming skills and knowledge. If you decide that web development is for you, the next step is to start learning those essential skills, which you can do in this short free programming course designed for beginners.


My child eats only one kind of food, is it healthy?
Q: This is to inform you that our son is around 6 years old and is active and in good health. The main problem is that he is very fond of rice items and we insist that he has ragi / chapati at night. He refuses to take food but eats beyond limits at functions. Kindly give us some solution to solve this problem.
A:Everyone likes some foods more than others. This is true of children also. As parents, you should be sure that your son has enough of the food that is cooked at home and it should be healthy and suitable for the child. The kind of cereal (rice, wheat or ragi) you use is not always so important. But Ragi is good for health and is a source of iron, which makes the blood redder; and the child can be encouraged to eat it. However, when you force a child to eat something, he may be strong willed and refuse to eat it. You should also make sure that the child is the right weight for his height and age. Many families tend to let the children eat too much and think that being fat is being healthy. That is not true. However, if your son is active and healthy, there is no worry. You can introduce new foods gradually. He should also eat vegetables with every meal and one fruit at least a day, if it can be afforded. At meal times, do not spend the time only telling your son to eat. If you can talk to him or tell him something interesting, the food will go down quickly. But everything takes time and patience. Since you have made the effort to write to us, I hope you will also take some of this advice.


At present one of the hidden worksheets in EvalC3 is a cases x attributes matrix. It is used to calculate the similarity measures in the View Cases worksheet. The same matrix, if imported into a Social Network Analysis (SNA) software package (like Ucinet&Netdraw) can be treated as a “two-mode” network. It is possible to construct two types of network visualisations with this data, showing:
- How cases are connected to cases, where link strength between any two cases reflects the number of the same attributes they share
- How attributes are connected to attributes, where link strength between any two attributes reflects the number of the same cases they connect.
After calculating the average link strength, for either type of network, it is then possible to filter out the below average links, thus highlighting the clusters of cases (or attributes) that are co-occurring at above the average levels.
In the cases x cases network example below there are two distinct clusters. One is the densely connected group on the left, the other is the much less densely connected group on the right. All the members on the right were evaluated as “less successful” than those in the left, on a measure that included self-assessments by the NGOs themselves. It appears that the “less successful” group was more diverse in its attributes than the more successful group.
[Network diagram to come]


Problems related to land, trees and forests, as well as growing inequality cannot be solved if we do not understand and address unequal power relations and other governance challenges. Such research is essential to bring about (just) transformational change (what change, for whom) in policies, institutions and behaviours.
CIFOR-ICRAF conducts applied research to reveal and propose solutions to patterns of inequality (e.g. gender, ethnicity, age); to improve understanding of the roles of forests, trees and agroforests for smallholder and Indigenous livelihoods, health and food security; and to explore and innovate with sustainable landscape approaches and multi-stakeholder processes.
About this theme
We study how decision-making processes at global, national and subnational levels can support or undermine sustainability and justice. In many countries, for example, insecure tenure, overlapping rights and land grabbing prevent the poor, ethnic minorities and women from exercising their fundamental right to food.
CIFOR-ICRAF’s work on governance, equity and well-being is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 10: Reduced inequalities, and Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions.
Gender research and analysis
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The importance of regular servicing.
Updated: Jan 23
Regular servicing of petrol and diesel powered tools, small plant, machinery, and equipment is important for several reasons.
Firstly, regular servicing ensures that the equipment is running at its optimal performance level. This means that it will use less fuel, produce less emissions, and be more efficient overall. This not only saves money on fuel costs but also helps to reduce the environmental impact of the equipment.
Secondly, regular servicing helps to identify and fix any potential issues before they become major problems. This can help to prevent costly breakdowns and prolong the lifespan of the equipment.
Thirdly, regular servicing is often required by manufacturers in order to maintain the equipment's warranty. Failure to service the equipment according to the manufacturer's recommendations can void the warranty, leaving the owner responsible for any repairs or replacements that may be needed.
Lastly, Regular servicing also helps to ensure the equipment is safe to use, by checking the safety features and by making sure that any issues with the equipment do not put the operator or others at risk.
In summary, regular servicing of petrol and diesel powered tools, small plant, machinery, and equipment is important for maintaining optimal performance, preventing breakdowns, maintaining warranties, and ensuring safety. It also helps to prolong the life of the equipment and save money in the long run.


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and the Learning Coach
Formation Learning ....caring, nurturing, challenging
Your learning coach: Home, school, student partnership.
Formation Learning involves times where small groups of students are guided by a teacher as their learning coach. This key person forms strong relationships with and works in partnership with the teacher students and their families, spending extended periods of the week working together. The coach maintains regular contact with families.
The coach provides a caring environment for academic and pastoral mentoring and guidance, and ensures each student is following a robust, challenging programme. The learning Hub is a time for learners to be exposed to a wide range of ideas, interests, skills and experiences which support their learning. During learning Hub sessions students develop skills around learning to learn, wellbeing and the habits to be successful inquirers and self-directed learners. There is an emphasis on holistic development.
PERSONALISED LEARNING SUCCESS PATHWAY - THE LEARNING COACH works with students to identify interests, needs and preferences and develop self-management skills. Learners negotiate their SuccessPath (personalised learning programme) with their coach to ensure that what they are learning is relevant to them and their needs. the coach supports and guides students to set and meet challenging learning goals.
SUPPORTING ACADEMIC & PERSONAL EXCELLENCE THE LEARNING COACH supports learners to reach academic and personal excellence by:
- Tracking progress, negotiating and reviewing short and long term goals.
- Working with students to maintain a learning portfolio.
- Discussing learning issues and finding solutions.
- Providing pastoral care.
- Linking learning to passions, interests and needs.
- Providing guidance for life beyond school including career pathways.
- Building on learners’ capacities to take responsibility for their learning.
- Learner meetings conferencing with family - an individual education


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The correct answer is (A), please let me know if you are unable to see the correct answer. The passage tells us that the bill places the burden of proof on the plaintiff and imposes a statute of limitations, making it generally more difficult to reclaim stolen art. The author also tells us that reclamation suits have not yet been a problem (lines 25-26) but according to one of the supporter's of the bill in the absence of the statute of limitation, widespread reclamation litigation could pose a serious threat to the museums (lines 19-24). We can thus conclude that litigation has been less common than Burke fears it will become as (A) correctly states.
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7 Isolation, loneliness and ill health
Isolation and loneliness have been identified as particularly acute for people with learning disabilities. Reports, such as those undertaken by Mencap (no date), have consistently said that many people with learning disabilities have few friends or close relationships, and often rely on family or paid staff for companionship. This can affect people’s health and wellbeing.
Ironically, some of the changes made to support independence and choice have made loneliness more acute. Closing the sorts of day centres which Bernie Lee attended for much of her adult life in favour of people joining in mainstream social activities can mean that people do not have regular companionship. Living on your own, with support, is great, but the trade-off can be loneliness. This is what one tenant said to a researcher:
I do get lonely. I don’t want anyone else in the house because it would be another resident and then I’d have to have the staff for them and it wouldn’t be a home and I don’t want that.
Now listen to Cian, who you first met earlier in the course, talk about the impact loneliness, and having nothing to do, had on his health when he was younger.
Transcript: Video 2
Did you notice what Cian said about his mental health? That people thought it was just part of his autism. This is known as ‘diagnostic overshadowing’, an assumption that a health problem is caused by the learning disability – when in fact it is nothing to do with it.


Electron Microscopy - Cell Culture and Tissue Samples
Ultra-thin section electron microscopy analysis is a specialized method whereby investigators can, with high resolution, directly observe the ultrastructure and morphology of cells, viruses, and tissues. This service allows investigators an opportunity to directly observe the minute, morphological details of particulate specimens, with unmatched clarity, resolution, and detail. It is unparalleled by any other technical method available today.
The ultrastructural details and morphology of specimens can be visualized and recorded by high-magnification photography, including intracellular and extracellular areas. Specimens are examined in the transmission electron microscope for ultrastructural characteristics, specifically to elicit the information required by the investigator, including;
- Ultrastructural characteristics of virus particles
- Viability and structural data on cells and tissues
- Condition and morphology of intracellular organelles
- Analysis of cell membranes, cell walls, and viral envelopes
- Examination for possible contaminants
- Morphological changes on cells over time
- Analysis on the effectiveness on virus-related vaccine and drugs
Numerous types of cells and tissues can be examined using this technique, including:
- Virus-infected cells
- Production cell lines
- Bacterial cells
- Fungi cells
- Yeast cells
- Biopsy or tissue samples
Service includes: Sample preparation using client-supplied cell supernatants. Each sample will be prepared multiple times, using various stains and sample dilutions. At least two grids per sample will be thoroughly examined in the electron microscope, to gain pertinent information based on our client’s requirements.
Final results include six to ten representative electron micrographs, and a final report documenting sample observations, analysis of the results, and materials and methods. Included is a CD containing the digital images of the samples, as well as the original negatives.
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Toby J. Karten, director of Tamka Educational Products, LLC, has spent her professional career creating innovative techniques to introduce Inclusion Strategies to the educational classroom. Her Inclusion Workshops inform and inspire scores of participants and her published books and resources compliment her teachings, offering valuable information on how to promote inclusion strategies in the classroom.
Inclusion in Education is about peers with and without disabilities learning together side-by-side in a grade-level classroom to achieve academic, social, communication, and functional skills. It occurs when communities of learners of the same age are educated together within natural school settings.
Inclusion in Education is not a policy, place, or service, but a way for students with disabilities to have access to the general education curriculum with the appropriate planning, preparation, and participation. Inclusion education values the strengths of all learners to be accepted in classes, schools, communities, and as adults in inclusive societies.
Inclusion Workshops by Toby Karten are offered on-site and off-site at conferences, colleges, and invited public and private venues across the United States and to international communities.
Inclusion workshop topics include:
W-1. Planning for Inclusion Successes: Connecting the Standards to the Students
W-2. Embracing disABILITIES in Inclusion Classrooms
W-3. Inclusion Lesson Plan Designs
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Each country has its secret places, and Chenini in Tunisia is one of these places. A beautiful Berber village located on a hilltop, in the south of the country.
More than just an old village, Chenini is an important part of Tunisia’s history. This Berber village appeared during the 12thcentury, and was called Kenini according to the roman philosopher Saint Augustin. Chenini was built on a hilltop by North African Berber communities in order to protect it from raiding parties at that time. The village was also a storage place for food and valuable goods.
Chenini is unique because of its atypical architecture. The houses of this ruined Berber village are dug in rocks on the mountainside, a prehistoric technique that were widely used in the past. The beauty of this place is breathtaking, and the view from the top of the hill will leave you speechless!
In the past, Chenini was very animated with its inhabitants and visitors that used to come from all over the world to see this original place and discover its history. But today, almost all the inhabitants have moved from the old city to the new one and the Berber village is slowly disappearing.
Once animated, all inhabitants moved from the old city of Chenini to the new one with the same name and therefore, the Berber village is slowly disappearing. Thereby, if you’re planning to go to Tunisia during spring, Chenini should be your first destination; you’ll fall in love with this magic place.


The modern world/kosmos we live in today is quite different from the classical Greek, politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Unlike the ancient Greek world of city-states (poleis), the modern world is one of nation-states, what we would call ethnopoleis, and in some areas, e.g., the European Union, the modern world is organized in the form of “international” or “supranational” political cum economic formations, what we could call cosmopoleis.
Politically also, modern liberal democracies are in many respects different from the Athenian democracy. In modern democracies, government or “rule” is carried out by representatives, who in some cases, e.g., the United States, are elected by less than 50% of the citizens. In contrast, government or “rule” in the ancient democratic polis of Athens was carried out by virtually all the Athenian citizens.
In contrast to the premodern agricultural Athenian society, today’s modern societies have been described as industrial, even postindustrial knowledge societies, or knowledge-based economies, and the world we live in as “a ‘knowledge-based’ technological world constructed on a new informational epistemological paradigm” (Castells 2000: 66–67). From another epistemological viewpoint, the modern kosmos has been characterized as an “internationalized commodity culture promoted by an increasingly networked global telecommunications system” and as “a masculinized world of high technology and finances”
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Theatre essay | English homework help
Please write in the space provided and on the backs of these pages. Choose two of the four essay questions, one for each play, supporting your argument with specific information from the play.
1. Moliere’s Tartuffe is a comedy, but was condemned and criticized by Seventeenth Century leaders of the Catholic Church. Please discuss specific examples of elements in the play you believe some audience members might consider unfunny, offensive and worthy of condemnation.
2. The complete title of Moliere’s most famous play is Tartuffe, ou l’Imposteur, or in English, Tartuffe, or the Imposter. But in the play, and in academic criticism, the title character is referred to as a hypocrite. Explain the difference between a hypocrite and an imposter, relating these ideas to Tartuffe, the character.
3. Discuss at least three symbols in A Doll’s House that Ibsen uses to illuminate the situation and/or the characters.
4. Please discuss the social message you believe Henrik Ibsen is investigating and that he would likely personally support in A Doll’s House, and why. Please cite specific examples from the play to support your argument.


CRAFT project's giant robot will help prevent landslides Collaborators in an EU funded CRAFT project are about to build one of the world's largest robots, designed to prevent landslides without risking human lives. ROBOCLIMBER has been developed by nine consortium partners in four European countries, and employs cutting edge satell... Collaborators in an EU funded CRAFT project are about to build one of the world's largest robots, designed to prevent landslides without risking human lives. ROBOCLIMBER has been developed by nine consortium partners in four European countries, and employs cutting edge satellite technology developed for European Space Agency (ESA) missions. Current methods of landslide prevention often involve the construction of scaffolds in unstable areas, a labour intensive and dangerous affair. As Giorgio Pezzuto, from Italian project partner D'Appolonia, explains: 'In 2001 we initiated a project to evaluate how innovative technologies could simplify this work and reduce human risks. The objective was to develop a robotic system to do the job.' Resembling a 3,000 kilogram spider with four legs, ROBOCLIMBER is designed to work on both horizontal and vertical surfaces. It can be positioned using remote control, and is able to drill holes and insert 20 metre long stabilising rods into a potentially risky slope, 'a conventional and well recognised method of slope consolidation' according to Mr Pezzuto. Furthermore, with the use of stability analysis software, the robot is able to monitor slope conditions, and provide warnings and corrective suggestions to operators in real time. It is hoped that accidents related to performing such complex work in dangerous environments will be avoided, as the automated intervention of ROBOCLIMBER will allow people to work at a safe distance. There are other advantages too, according to Mr Pezzuto: 'The cost of slope consolidation can be reduced by up to 30 per cent for large interventions, and in situations where only monitoring and small interventions are needed, cost savings could be as high as 80 per cent.' The various components that make up ROBOCLIMBER are currently in production, and field testing of the finished robot is scheduled to take place in Italy next spring. If all goes well, ROBOCLIMBER could be helping to save lives on unstable slopes before the end of 2004.


Parsnips (Pastinaca sativa) are super root crops with a full, complex taste and versatility in the kitchen. You aren’t alone if you’ve ever wondered how
Amazing Parsnip Growing Tips and Tricks
Parsnips are a root vegetable that is a member of the Apiaceae family and closely related to carrots and parsley. We refer to it as the forgotten veggie since we don't often see it as a part of a side dish or salad. However, like the carrot, there are many benefits to eating and growing parsnips in the garden. These complex and earthy vegetables are like potatoes, carrots, and turnips wrapped in one, and they are a nutritious addition to your diet, whether you enjoy them roasted, sauteed, or boiled. Discover how to grow your own at home from seeds and give them the care they need for a good crop.
While growing parsnips is just as easy as any other root veggies, we have some useful information, so you get the most out of your gardening experience. These plants are biennial grown as an annual, and they enjoy growing in rich soil. They have a slow start but a strong finish in the garden, and there is more than one cultivar. Learn the different types of parsnips and the conditions they require to germinate, how much water and sun they need to flourish, and problems to watch for as they grow.
How to Grow Parsnips
Parsnips are unassuming root vegetables that many forget about when preparing meals and growing veggies at home. However, this biennial veggie is closely related to
Parsnip vs Turnip
Have you ever wondered, “Are parsnips and turnips the same?” Although they’re both nutritious and delicious root veggies, that’s about where the similarities end. Don’t


Introduction to composite materials
Composite materials are a combination of materials, made from two or more constituent materials – the matrix and the reinforcement. These constituents, with significantly different physical and chemical properties, when combined, produce a composites with superior qualities. The individual components remain separate and distinct within the finished structure.
The new material has beneficial properties such as strength, chemical resistance weight and cost, compared to other materials.
Composite materials can be constructed with a wide range of reinforcing materials such as carbon fibers, Aramid fibers, glass fibers, boron fibers, basalt fibers, ceramic fibers and others.
Many commercially produced composites use a polymer matrix material typically called the resin solution. There are many different polymers available depending upon the starting raw ingredients. There are several broad categories, each with numerous variations. The most common are known as Polyester, Vinyl-ester, Epoxy, Phenolic, Polyamide, and others.
Unlike most other materials of construction, the composite material for each application is created, from its resin and fiber components, in the course of fabrication of the end-product. Special skills are required in order to achieve both perfect material and perfect end-product.
FRP is a wide range of advanced materials and widely used today in the industry due to their preferable properties. These versatile material systems have become a part of every field of application, such as:
Corrosion resistance applications, marine, sports, automotive, transportation, mining, aerospace, military applications, electrical, water and sewage treatment, off-shore applications, construction, civil infrastructure and others.
Specialized expertise is an essential key for successful projects employing composites, supporting the design, fabrication, inspection, testing and installation. Such professional support assures technical and commercial project success.


United Kingdom: A drug used to treat parasite infections in humans and livestock will be investigated as a possible treatment for Covid-19 in a large U.K. study at the University of Oxford.
The medicine, known as ivermectin, has antiviral properties and initial preliminary studies have shown it can reduce viral load, the amount of virus in the respiratory tract, and the length of symptoms in those with a mild infection, according to a statement from the university.
Ivermectin has been in use for decades to treat livestock infested with parasitic worms, while in humans it’s used as a topical ointment for diseases including skin infections. It’s already been approved for use on compassionate grounds in a controlled-access program in South Africa, and health authorities have reported widespread use of the drug on the black market. The World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency recommend that it only be used in clinical trials, as more data is needed to support its use.
The drug will be analyzed as part of the Platform Randomized Trial of Treatments in the Community for Epidemic and Pandemic Illnesses, or Principle, the world’s largest clinical trial of potential treatments for the virus in non-hospital settings. Eligible U.K. participants with Covid-19 symptoms can join the ivermectin trial, which is being evaluated alongside the influenza antiviral favipiravir.
“By including ivermectin in a large-scale trial like Principle, we hope to generate robust evidence to determine how effective the treatment is against Covid-19, and whether there are benefits or harms associated with its use,” said Chris Butler, a professor of medicine at the University of Oxford and one of the study’s lead authors. -Bloomberg
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In the high Andes, environmental and socio-economic drivers are transforming agriculture and presumably affecting the in situ conservation of potato (Solanum spp.). To monitor the use and conservation of intraspecific diversity, systematic and comparative studies across agricultural land-use systems are needed. We investigated the spatial-temporal dynamics of potato in two landscapes of Peru’s central Andes: A highland plateau (Huancavelica) compared to an eastern slope (Pasco). We examined household-level areal allocations, altitudinal distribution, sectoral fallowing practices, and the conservation status for three main cultivar groups: (i) Bred varieties, (ii) floury landraces, and (iii) bitter landraces. Mixed methods were used to survey 323 households and the 1101 potato fields they managed in 2012–2013. We compared the contemporary altitudinal distribution of landraces with 1975–1985 altimeter data from the International Potato Center. Intensification is occurring in each landscape while maintaining high intraspecific diversity. Access to land and production for sale compared to consumption significantly affected smallholder management and differentiated landscapes. Most landraces were scarce across households: 45.4% in Huancavelica and 61.7% in Pasco. Potato cultivation has moved upward by an average of 306 m since 1975. Landrace diversity is versatile but unevenly distributed across landscapes. This requires adaptive ways to incentivize in situ conservation.
The spatial-temporal dynamics of potato agrobiodiversity in the highlands of central Peru: a case study of smallholder management across farming landscapes.
Citation: Arce, A.; de Haan, S.; Juarez, H.; Burra, D.D.; Plasencia, F.; Ccanto, R.; Polreich, S.; Scurrah, M. 2019. The spatial-temporal dynamics of potato agrobiodiversity in the highlands of central Peru: a case study of smallholder management across farming landscapes. Land. ISSN 2073-445X. 8:11. 30p.
BIODIVERSITY FOR THE FUTURE, CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE, GENETICS, GENOMICS AND CROP IMPROVEMENT SCIENCES GGCI, POTATO AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMS, POTATOES