What caused the sonic boom heard across Florida?
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida residents from Sarasota County to the Space Coast may have heard a loud boom early Saturday morning, but don’t worry, the world isn’t falling apart.
The loud noise heard around 5:20 a.m. was likely caused by an unmanned reusable Space Force spaceplane coming back down to Earth.
According to the Space Force, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6 landed at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle at 5:22 a.m.
The spaceplane was used for several in-space experiments, including the Naval Research Laboratory’s Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module. The module was used to use solar rays to transmit power to the ground through radio microwave energy.
Other experiments dealt with thermal control coatings, printed electronic materials, candidate radiation shielding materials, and the effects of space exposure on seeds. The seed experiment will help scientists learn more about potential space crop production for permanently inhabited bases.
“The X-37B continues to push the boundaries of experimentation, enabled by an elite government and industry team behind the scenes,” said Lt. Col. Joseph Fritschen, DAF Rapid Capabilities Office’s X-37B Program Director. “The ability to conduct on-orbit experiments and bring them home safely for in-depth analysis on the ground has proven valuable for the Department of the Air Force and scientific community.
The Space Force said the spacecraft was able to do an expanded number of experiments thanks to a service module-a ring attached to the rear of the test vehicle. The OTV-6 mission was the first to have such a ring when it was launched.
Both the spaceplane and the module separated as planned before landing. The Space Force will now dispose of the module.
“The deliberate manner in which we conduct on-orbit operations — to include the service module disposal — speaks to the United States’ commitment to safe and responsible space practices, particularly as the issue of growing orbital debris threatens to impact global space operations,” Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said.
The OTV-6 mission conducted its experiments for 908 days in space before finally returning to the Sunshine State.


Are you suffering from chronic headaches, earaches, or jaw pain? You may have temporomandibular joint dysfunction, also known as TMD disorder.
What is TMD?
Your temporomandibular joint is a hinge that connects your jaw to the temporal bones of your skull, which are in front of each ear. This joint allows you to move your jaw up and down and side to side, so you can talk, chew, and yawn.
TMJ disorders cause a misalignment of these jaw joints, which can cause muscles to become stressed, irritating nerves, and lead to symptoms that range from mild to severe.
If you suffer from the symptoms associated with TMJ, schedule an appointment with one of our sleep specialists today to help get relief.
Symptoms of TMJ Disorder
TMJ can cause severe pain and discomfort. Pain can be temporary or last many years. The discomfort might affect one or both sides of your face.
More women than men have it, and it’s most common among people between the ages of 20 and 40. Common symptoms include:
- Pain or tenderness in your face, jaw joint, neck, shoulders, around your ears, and when you open your mouth wide
- Popping, clicking, or locking jaw joints
- Chronic earaches, headaches, or migraines
- Low back pain or tingling fingers
- Inability to fully open or close the mouth
- Teeth grinding (bruxism)
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
What causes TMJ Disorder?
It is difficult to determine the exact cause of a person’s TMJ disorder. Pain can be due to a combination of factors, such as:
- Misalignment of the teeth
- Rheumatoid or osteoarthritis
- Jaw or teeth injury or trauma
- Bruxism (clenching or grinding your teeth)
- Poor posture
- Gum chewing
- Some connective tissue disorders
Treatment for TMJ Disorder
For conservative, effective treatment, your dentist can create a custom oral appliance to correct jaw alignment and relieve nagging symptoms. Other options are orthodontics and sometimes surgery. Your dentist will determine whether an oral appliance might relieve your pain if you suffer from TMJ symptoms.
Schedule an appointment with us today to determine if you have TMJ or to discuss oral appliance therapy as a treatment option.


In 356, in Egypt, St. Antony, who is well known from the Life which St. Athanasius wrote about him and from his own letters and sayings. He was born of Christian parents, orphaned young, and then felt called to leave everything to follow Christ. He retired to an old burial ground around 273, and in 286 to an abandoned hilltop fort where he stayed for twenty years. After visiting Alexandria in 311 to support those persecuted under Maximinus, he founded a monastery at Pispir and then retired to a more secluded place, called the "inner mountain". In art he is often shown with a t-shaped stick, a pig, or a cloak.
In 1329, in Provence, France, St. Roseline Villeneuve. She grew up in a castle, then became a Carthusian nun and prioress. Her tomb at Celle-Roubaud was a popular pilgrimage. It was destroyed along with her monastery during the French Revolution, but there is now a chapel there, decorated with a mosaic by Marc Chagall.
Our daily martyrology was written by Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB. Copyright © 2008 by the Monastery of the Ascension, Jerome, ID 83338.


POTENTIALLY HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS REPORTED ACROSS NC
HOW WE ARE HELPING
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has developed an Algal Bloom Portal Map showing reported blooms across the state of North Carolina. The Cape Fear River Partnership is aiding in the development of identification, reporting and sampling of potentially Harmful Algal Blooms (pHABS).
HOW YOU CAN HELP
While most species of algae are not harmful, pHABS have the capacity to produce toxins that affect both animal and human health, as well as reduce the oxygen available to fish and other aquatic animals (resulting in fish kills). If you see what looks like a pHAB or a fish kill, please report it here.
Microcystis in Coastal North Carolina Rivers
Microcystis is a type of freshwater bacteria commonly found in specific types of harmful algae blooms, and is known to release toxins into the water which can be dangerous to aquatic ecosystems, animals and humans. This bacteria tends to float near the surface of nutrient-rich and low-salinity waters.
HOW WE’RE HELPING
The Cape Fear River Partnership, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, UNCW, and Cape Fear River Watch have teamed up to provide a risk assessment for Microcystis blooms on five NC rivers, and are currently in progress.
Find more information on Microcystis here.


As shown in table II, the poorer the track the higher the
resistance factor that must be used in determining how much weight
you can attach behind a locomotive and expect it to pull. For
example, the value of RR is 7 pounds per ton of train for fair to
poor track. This means that for each ton of a train, 7 pounds of
force must be used to overcome rolling resistance.
2.7. GRADE RESISTANCE
The resistance to the progress of a train offered by a grade is
called grade resistance (GR); caused by gravity, it tends to pull the
train downhill. In the formula that follows, grade resistance is
shown as being equal to 20 pounds per ton of train for each percent
of grade. This means that 20 pounds of force must be exerted to move
1 short ton of train up each 1 percent of grade. In railroading, the
percent of grade is an expression of the number of feet of vertical
rise per 100 feet of horizontal distance. For example, if a 100foot
section of track rises 2 feet, the percent of grade for that section
is 2. In planning for the operation of trains, the military planner
is primarily interested in the maximum or ruling gradethe grade
that limits the tonnage a locomotive can pull. Therefore, the
percent of grade given in the formula is an expression of the amount
of rise per 100 feet of the ruling grade for a given rail line.
Grade resistance, then, is found by multiplying 20 pounds per ton of
train by the percent of the ruling grade.


The life of ""Good Queen Bess"" is realistically retold in this finely crafted, illustrated biography from Thomas (Celebration!, 1997, etc.). This compelling account begins, necessarily, before Elizabeth's birth, and covers the stormy reign of her father, Henry VIII (he had four wives within her first six years); her religious persecution and imprisonment during the reign of her half-sister Mary I; and the birth of the Elizabethan Age during her own reign. Readers who assume princesses know no pain will be amazed by the personal losses Elizabeth suffered--her mother (Anne Boleyn) was beheaded when the child was not yet three, and she was subsequently disinherited. Indeed, the path to her throne in 1559 seems to have been forged by circumstance as well as her own cunning. Once coronated, this proto-feminist declared that she would never marry, despite her love for courtier Robert Dudley, knowing that any spouse would become her ruler as well as the country's. Always aware of public opinion, Elizabeth stayed in her people's good graces, casting herself as the Virgin Queen, joining her soldiers on the front lines when the Spanish threatened invasion, and financing wars with her own funds. Thomas composes a complicated, wholly human picture of Elizabeth, but also makes clear how she remains one of Britain's most beloved figures. An inset of full-color reproductions of portraits completes this rewarding volume.


HR4349 is a giant star in the constellation of Carina.
HR4349 visual magnitude is 6.35. Because of its reltive faintness, HR4349 should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.
The table below summarizes the key facts about HR4349:
Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR4349
HR4349 is situated south of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR4349 are provided in the following table:
The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR4349 in the sky:
Visibility of HR4349 from your location
Location: Greenwich, United Kingdom
Latitude: 51° 28’ 47” N
Longitude: 0° 00’ 00” E
HR4349 is currently not visible from Greenwich, United Kingdom
Digitized Sky Survey image of HR4349
The image below is a photograph of HR4349 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of HR4349 is -0.02 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and 0.003 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.
Distance of HR4349 from the Sun and relative movement
HR4349 is distant 583.18 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 26 kilometers per second.
Spectral properties of HR4349
HR4349 belongs to spectral class K2 and has a luminosity class of III corresponding to a giant star.
The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR4349 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.


Buy Nigeria Flags
Flag of Nigeria
The history of the Nigerian flag is unusually long and complicated. The modern nation began as part of the British Empire, but Nigeria used far more flags during the colonial period that many other nations. The current Nigerian national flag does not show any significant influence from those colonial flags, which makes it a strong symbol of Nigerian independence and the nation's determination to move away from its colonial past and into a brighter future.
- Capital of Nigeria: Abuja
- Area of Nigeria: 910,768 sq. km
- Languages used in Nigeria: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
- Religions in Nigeria: Muslim, Christian, indigenous beliefs
Colors and Symbolism of the Nigerian Flag
The flag of Nigeria is made up of three vertical stripes that alternate between green and white. The green stripes were included in the flag's design in order to represent the nation's wealth and natural resources, while the white stripe serves as a symbol of peace.
History of the Nigerian National Flag
The first Nigerian flag was that of the Royal Niger Company, which came into use in 1887. It had a white field with the Union Jack in the canton and the colony's seal in the fly. That seal consisted of a Y-shaped emblem with the company's motto written on it that was surrounded by the outline of a red circle. This flag stands out from every other flag of Nigeria from the colonial period because it has a white field. The majority of other colonial flags in the British Empire, including the other eight flags of Nigeria, featured a dark blue field instead of the white.
Eight other colonial flags predate the modern Nigerian national flag. All of them follow the standard pattern for British colonial flags, with a blue field that was decorated with the Union Jack and the colonial seal. Very few of those flags were intended to replace an existing flag when they were adopted. One of them was the second flag of the Royal Niger Company which was updated to follow the common pattern in 1888, but the others were used to represent smaller colonies that would eventually merge to form modern Nigeria. The most important of those mergers resulted in the formation of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914. It used a red circle with a green, six-pointed star that surrounded a crown as its emblem. The modern flag of Nigeria was designed in 1959 and replaced that flag when the nation gained its independence in 1960.


When the Panic of 1837 caused widespread economic dislocation, charitable organizations in America’s growing cities experienced sharply increased demand for their services. Many Christian philanthropists became concerned that the mushrooming charities sometimes did not distinguish between the “worthy poor” and the merely idle. In response, a group of New York donors decided to emulate the personalized anti-poverty program of Glasgow clergyman Thomas Chalmers.
Their organization, called the Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, launched in 1843. The group disdained “gratuitous charity” that lumped the poor together without considering their individual needs, strengths, and weaknesses. They believed that person-to-person spiritual and moral aid would be, in the long run, more important than material assistance in turning around the fortunes of many households.
The donors first divided their city into manageable districts, to enable the one-on-one relationships between assisters and assisted that keep charity humane, differentiated, and efficient. They put an emphasis on willingness to work, and were willing to withdraw assistance if it seemed to be enervating the recipient. They relied heavily on the judgments and due diligence of volunteers, church members, and donor merchants. Recipients of aid were counseled, helped to plan ways of rebuilding their lives and their relationships, and urged to end destructive habits.
The society also worked to improve the physical surroundings in which the poor lived. It got landlords to repair plumbing, sanitation, and heating. It created inexpensive public baths for women and children.
Robert Hartley, the AICP’s secretary for more than 30 years, described the causes of poverty as “chiefly moral,” and thus “whatever subsidiary appliances may be used—they admit only moral remedies.” The AICP’s approach was influential across our young republic. AICP-inspired organizations popped up in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and other major cities. The Baltimore Association, for instance, had 2,000 volunteers making 8,227 visits to 4,025 families as of 1891. “It worked,” concluded scholar Marvin Olasky after studying the organization. “The crucial understanding was simple but profound: people got by when other people took a personal interest in them.”
- Marvin Olasky, The Tragedy of American Compassion (Regnery, 1992)


2009 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 10
A flagpole is originally meters tall. A hurricane snaps the flagpole at a point meters above the ground so that the upper part, still attached to the stump, touches the ground meter away from the base. What is ?
The broken flagpole forms a right triangle with legs and , and hypotenuse . The Pythagorean theorem now states that , hence , and .
(Note that the resulting triangle is the well-known right triangle, scaled by .)
A right triangle is formed with the bottom of the flagpole, the snapped part, and the ground. One leg is of length and the other is length . By the Pythagorean theorem, we know that must be the length of the snapped part of the flagpole. Observe that all the answer choices are rational. If is rational, , which is the snapped part, must also be rational. Therefore, must form a scaled Pythagorean triple. We know that is a Pythagorean triple, so the corresponding answer must be . Adding together the and the snapped part, this does indeed equal , so our solution is done.
Let represent the flagpole in the diagram above. After the flagpole breaks at point , its tip lies at point . Since none of the flagpole is destroyed, we know that . Therefore, triangle is isosceles.
Draw the altitude . Since is isosceles, we know that . Also note that . Therefore,
Since and , we have that , and thus .
There is currently no video solution on Youtube. A wrong link was posted here.
(I sent a request to BeautyofMath so there may be one on his channel soon)
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The following is the Department of Defense Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, released on Monday. Read More
Tag Archives: WMD
Clearing Syrian WMDs Means 75K Troops and Massive Air Strikes
In July, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Mullalem declared that Syria’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons would go unused in its civil war – unless a foreign power chose to intervene. The threat constituted a rare confirmation of the regime’s unconventional arsenal. The declaration raised serious concerns about U.S. policies in the event the regime did use its chemical or biological weapons. President Obama stated this would constitute a “red line” with “enormous consequences” that would alter calculations for military actions.
Given the various risks concerned with the proliferation or use of unconventional weapons, particularly chemical weapons, understanding the scope and requirements of potential military missions is essential. The first major consideration is whether U.S. and potential allied military strikes would focus on destroying, deterring, or securing Syrian weapons stocks. While a deterrent threat can be made without any military deployment, destroying Syrian weapons of mass destruction (WMD) would require airstrikes and special operations teams. A mission to secure Syria’s WMDs would likely be the most costly and dangerous of all, as it would likely involve tens of thousands of foreign ground troops, perhaps as many as 75,000, according to at least one press report.
A mission to destroy Syrian chemical weapons stocks could perform a preventive, preemptive or mitigating measure. Effectively degrading the entire arsenal would likely require an extremely wide target set. Syria has roughly 50 sites involved in manufacturing or storing chemical weapons. Its arsenal consists of G and V-series nerve agents, which block neurotransmitters, causing convulsions and death through loss of respiratory control, as well as blistering agents, whose chemical burns restrict respiration and form large, painful blisters on the skin. Both are absorbable through the lungs or skin, requiring a full body suit for adequate protection. Between Syria’s VX, Sarin, and Tabun nerve agents, and its mustard gas blistering agents, this totals to several hundred tons of chemical agents stockpiled for combat use.


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The Dungeness Drift Cooperative is a monument, outpost and economic hub that stands as marker to the headland position in 2022, of Europe’s largest cuspate foreland comprising large exposed shingle deposits. Superficial geology, once known to the British Geological Survey as ‘drift’, is the sedimentary deposits laid during the most recent period of geological time. These hold a mixture of fine material (silt, sand and clay) and larger gravels, all used as key ingredients in the construction industry as aggregates and ceramics.
Motive Forces + Resource Collection
The co-op is a hub for the sustainable extraction of building industry materials from Dungeness and the wider region in the English channel, erected as a pier that will slowly disconnect from the wider shoreline and that stands as marker of the ever shifting coastline of the promontory. The linear core of the hub transects through the beach section, jutting into the open channel to harvest the wave power of the natural forces that are moving the shingle mass to provide energy for the building and its infrastructure. As the land of Romney Marsh and lower lying parts of Dungeness evanesce, the institute serves as a monument and museum to the lost landform, itself a product of historical hydrologic engineering. Within this museum, a series of plates are displayed from the Radial Seismograph Network, which maps in analogue and over a mesh network the movement and susceptibility of the remaining outcrops of shingle foreland.
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Entropy: Example Problems
Try to solve these problems before watching the solutions in the screencasts.
Example Problem 1
An ideal gas undergoes an irreversible process from 200°C and 1 bar to 110°C and 10 bar. What is the entropy change for one mole of gas?
CP = 30 J/mol K
Example Problem 2
An inventor has proposed to build a device that she calls a Hilsch tube to continuously create cold and hot air from a high pressure air stream at room temperature. She claims that she can feed air at 25°C and 10 bar into this device, and obtain cold air (0°C, 1 bar) and hot air (40°C, 1 bar). The device has no energy input, no moving parts, and loses no heat to the surroundings. Is this possible? If so, what fraction of the fed air can be converted to the cold air at 0°C?
Try to explain why the statements below are true.
- A molecule has a higher entropy in the gas phase than in the liquid phase.
- A molecule has a higher entropy in the liquid phase than in the solid phase.
- When two components are mixed, the entropy increases.
- When a gas phase occupies more volume at the same temperature, it has a higher entropy.
- When temperature increases for a gas, liquid or solid at constant pressure, its entropy increases.
- When heat transfers from a hot body to a cold body, the total entropy increases.


SEATTLE — The Interior Department’s decision to restart the process to restore grizzly bears to the Northern Cascades would herald an incredible conservation success story and is crucial to recovering grizzly bear populations nationwide.
“The grizzly bear is deeply important to Indigenous and Pacific Northwest communities, with the Northern Cascades a historic home to these iconic bears. Yet, the North Cascades currently have no known population of grizzlies, to the detriment of local ecosystems,” said Les Welsh, director of conservation partnerships for the Pacific Region at the National Wildlife Federation. “We wholeheartedly support the Interior Department’s decision to restart this process and look forward to working with Tribal governments, local partners, and the federal government to restore a healthy population of grizzly bears to the Pacific Northwest.
“Bears and people can coexist, and the administration’s announcement ushers in an exciting chapter for grizzly bear restoration in the North Cascades. After 30 years of analyses, process and discussions we have a clear way forward,” said Joe Scott, international program director for Conservation Northwest. “It will take decades to do so and we’re confident that grizzly bears will thrive here just as they do in other wild places and parks, which have served as a model for the rest of the world.”
The Northern Cascades are one of six Grizzly Bear Recovery Zones designated by the federal government as crucial to recovering grizzly bear populations nationwide to a healthy level.
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What is C. diff?
C. diff (also known as Clostridioides difficile or C. difficile) is a germ (bacterium) that causes diarrhea and colitis (an inflammation of the colon).
It’s estimated to cause almost half a million infections in the United States each year.
About 1 in 6 patients who get C. diff will get it again in the subsequent 2-8 weeks.
One in 11 people over age 65 diagnosed with a healthcare-associated C. diff infection die within one month.
C. diff can affect anyone. Most cases of C. diff occur when you’ve been taking antibiotics or not long after you’ve finished taking antibiotics.
There are other risk factors:
- Being 65 or older
- Recent stay at a hospital or nursing home
- A weakened immune system, such as people with HIV/AIDS, cancer, or organ transplant patients taking immunosuppressive drugs
- Previous infection with C. diff or known exposure to the germs
If you have been taking antibiotics recently and have symptoms of C. diff, you should see a healthcare professional.
- Developing diarrhea is fairly common while on, or after taking, antibiotics, but in only a few cases will that diarrhea be caused by C. diff. If your diarrhea is severe, do not delay getting medical care.
- Your healthcare professional will review your symptoms and order a lab test of a stool (poop) sample.
- If the test is positive, you’ll take a specific antibiotic (e.g. vancomycin or fidaxomicin) for at least 10 days. If you were already taking an antibiotic for another infection, your healthcare professional might ask you to stop taking it if they think it’s safe to do so.
- Your healthcare team might decide to admit you to the hospital, in which case they will use certain precautions, such as wearing gowns and gloves, to prevent the spread of C. diff to themselves and to other patients.
Some people get C. diff over and over again.
- One in 6 people who’ve had C. diff will get it again in the subsequent 2-8 weeks.
- If you start having symptoms again, seek medical care.
- For those with repeat infections, innovative treatments, including fecal microbiota transplants, have shown promising results (see the “Life After C. diff“ page).


Long-term assets (fixed assets)
Long-term assets (also called fixed or capital assets) are those a business can expect to use, replace and/or convert to cash beyond the normal operating cycle of at least 12 months. Often they are used for years. This distinguishes them from current assets, which companies typically expend within 12 months. Because they are harder to convert to cash than current assets, they are often referred to as illiquid assets.
Long-term assets appear on the balance sheet along with current assets. Together they represent everything a company owns. The portion of long-term assets consumed each year appears on the income statement for that period, either as amortization expenses for tangible and intangible assets, or as depletion expenses for natural resources.
Companies periodically refurbish or replace long-term assets by taking on debt and/or raising equity capital. Matching long-term debt to sustain assets is a common business practice.
More about long-term assets
The balance sheet below shows that ABC Co. owned $180,000 in long-term assets as of March 31, 2012. With $130,000 in long-term liabilities, the company had $1.40 in long-term assets for every $1 in long-term debt; this is a healthy balance.


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Hardened fracture surfaces in quartzose sandstone and their role in origin of rock cities
AbstractRock cities in the Czech Republic are composed of numerous fracture-guided spaces (clefts) and narrow gorges. It is generally considered by geologists and geomorphologists that fractures are zones of weakness, where erosion is most efficient. Rock cities are believed to be created by downward erosion along densely fractured zones, possibly weakened by deep weathering. Interestingly the vertical fracture surfaces in Hrubá Skála sandstone in Střelec quarry is significantly firmer and has lower erodibility than the sandstone in fracture subsurface, based on tensile strength, relative erodibility and drilling resistance measurements and field observations. Based on erodibility measurements inside subsurface conduits in the quarry the hardened fracture surfaces occurred before the sandstone was exposed at ground surface. Hardening is probably of tectonic origin (deformation bands or similar feature). Hardened fracture surfaces should be considered as geomorphologicaly important type of surface hardening beside well-known rock crusts (case hardening). Based on field observations, fracture surfaces in rock cities were less erodible than underlying sandstone in time when landscape was most intensively evolving (probably during or at the end of Last Glacial). Model of evolution of rock cities is proposed based on great morphological similarity between presently evolving fracture-guided conduits in Střelec quarry and clefts in Adršpach-Teplice area. Clefts were probably developed in two steps: 1. undercutting of weak sandstone layers (undercutting horizons) by piping and frost weathering; 2. undercut vertical slabs of sandstone were mass wasted and underground spaces propagated upward forming vertically elongated cleft caves or open clefts. While first process was critical to initiate the mass wasting it is the second process, which mobilized more than 90 % of material even from cemented portions of sandstone.


World UFO Day is marked yearly on July 2 to unfold consciousness concerning the existence of mysterious Unidentified Flying Objects. These unusual objects have been sparking controversy and curiosity within the minds of many for many years. Nonetheless, the existence of UFOs has all the time remained in query. The World UFO Day goals to encourage folks to share their beliefs about UFOs and are available collectively to acknowledge varied theories round these extra-terrestrial objects.
The existence of UFOs has not been accepted formally by the area companies world wide. Though there was many doubts across the existence of UFOs, a number of incidents have prompted folks to discover the likelihood, together with the US Pentagon.
What are UFOs
UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects are unusual spaceships that do not belong to our planet and can’t be recognized or defined. There have been a number of situations reporting UFO sightings within the sky, nonetheless, none has been formally confirmed but.
It’s mentioned that the Roswell incident of July 1947, which occurred in Mexico, first triggered conversations round UFOs. A United States Military Forces balloon crashed close to Roswell, New Mexico, and shortly turned the centre of conspiracy theories on UFOS. The US navy had fuelled the hypothesis by initially stating that they’d recovered some particles from a flying disk. Later, they clarified that it was only a climate balloon. Nonetheless, the incident had already sparked a string of theories weaved round UFOs by curious folks.
Sightings up to now
Within the newest growth on UFOS, two senior United States defence intelligence officers testified earlier than the Home Intelligence subcommittee sharing the data the federal government has on UFOs or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). The officers had mentioned that there have been 400 reported instances of UAPs acknowledged by the Pentagon. In one other development, NASA was additionally planning to assemble a UFO for investigating “unidentified aerial phenomena” — generally termed UFOs.
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Vectors are living organisms that can transmit infectious pathogens between humans, or from animals to humans.
Many of these vectors are bloodsucking insects, which ingest disease-producing microorganisms during a blood meal from an infected host (human or animal) and later transmit it into a new host after the pathogen has replicated.
Often, once a vector becomes infectious, they are capable of transmitting the pathogen for the rest of its life during each subsequent bite/blood meal.
Vector-borne diseases are infections transmitted by the bite of infected arthropod species, such as mosquitoes, ticks, triatomine bugs, sandflies, and blackflies.
Arthropod vectors are cold-blooded (ectothermic) and thus especially sensitive to climatic factors. Weather influences survival and reproduction rates of vectors, in turn influencing habitat suitability, distribution and abundance; intensity and temporal pattern of vector activity (particularly biting rates) throughout the year; and rates of development, survival and reproduction of pathogens within vectors.
However, climate is only one of many factors influencing vector distribution, such as habitat destruction, land use, pesticide application, and host density.


Friday, January 25, 2013
A Watery Danger, David McLouth's D6L1
Flipping through the archive looking for a map for an academic project I came across this particular example, DM186DungeonSixL1_A, and I felt like I saw it for the first time. The river is pretty amazing in that the curly-Q of river in the upper right actually circles back underneath itself, I think, which makes for a pretty exciting piece of dungeon dressing. Whoever gets in that little red boat just to the left of the curve is in for an exciting ride.
Unfortunately the river doesn't show up in the lower levels of the dungeon, the back of this page had an incomplete map and Level 2 on a separate sheet of paper doesn't pick up the swooping, dropping river. It's possible that the arrow in the curly-Q is actually the start of the river, that it drops down from above and then exits the paper left. This is support by the passageway leading into the triangular 77 room being shown as under the water.
Whether the river goes up or down it's certainly going to be a rushing torrent, and this immediately made me fear for the long term life of this dungeon. The usual conceit of a dungeon setting is that it's many centuries old, and when you start talking about long periods of time and rushing water we have to think about erosion and flooding. There's no reason to think that there isn't sufficient drainage to avoid a flood where passageways open into the river (though Dwarf Fortress might indicate that such is always a possibility), but given enough time the river will bite its way through the rock and flood whatever in the complex is below water level - this is especially unfortunate news for everything below level one.
What a fantastic way to clear a dungeon, flooding it with water. It might take weeks, but most everything that needed air would be done away with or severely inconvenienced and all the durable goods like gold and magical items that adventurers crave should be fine.
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Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia (GT) is a very rare platelet disorder. It affects about one in every million people. Like the other disorders in The Handbook, people are born with it and it affects both men and women.
Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia (GT) is named for the doctor who first identified it. In 1918, Dr. Eduard Glanzmann found it in children living in a village in the Swiss Alps. The children had normal platelet counts but large bruises on their bodies.
In normal blood clotting, platelets go through a process of aggregation. Aggregation is when platelets stick to each other to form the platelet plug. One of the clotting factor proteins binds the platelets together. It is factor I, called fibrinogen. Fibrinogen needs a certain spot to stick to on the surface of the platelet. This spot, or receptor, is called glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GPIIb/IIIa).
People with GT either don’t have enough GPIIb/IIIa on their platelets or what is there does not work right. The fibrinogen can’t stick to the platelets and make them clump together. The platelets can stick to the walls of the injured blood vessel but can’t stick to each other.
Subtypes of Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia
There are three subtypes of Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia:
- In Type I, the amount of GPIIb/IIIa is less than 5% of normal.
- In Type II, the amount of GPIIb/IIIa is between 5% and 20% of normal.
- In Type III, there is a normal amount of GPIIb/IIIa but it does not work correctly.
People with GT have the usual symptoms of a platelet disorder. Their symptoms can range from mild to severe, regardless of the subtype they have.


In 2013 Kankali Secondary School faced a decline in its number of students as growing competition has drawn students away to more commercially oriented private schools. A such, QRi was commissioned to carry out research to better understand how to support public secondary schools and KSS in particular. The research highlighted the high potential of female students and that girls toilets were often very primitive, often deterring them from coming into school during their monthly cycle.
A three-stage methodology was applied. 1) Desk research, which consisted of using secondary data from UNESCO, The World Bank, the UN development program, USAID and education conference papers. This was shared with the district of education office (DEO) who commented on, and validated the findings. 2) A qualitative field trip to Kathmandu, inspired by cultural anthropology, was carried out in order for researchers to get first-hand experience and to collect video, photographic and audio documentation. The directors and headmasters of five schools were interviewed for qualitative data. 3) The final analysis and report demonstrated the integrated findings from the field trip and the DEO\'s inputs.
Each stage of the research provided different insight and understanding to the topic, specifically stage one, which gave headmasters and schools a clear feeling of their place on the Nepalese education map. The research confirmed and assured the value of what the schools were doing and enabled them insight into their problems and possible ways of improving. Significantly, it led to safer school access and most importantly, the building of \'Girl Friendly Toilets\'.
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This article is 4 years old. It was published on September 11, 2018.
Today, the Sierra Club released a new report showcasing ten U.S. cities that have made ambitious commitments to be powered with 100 percent clean, renewable energy like wind and solar. St. Louis was featured for being the largest city in the Midwest to adopt a 100% clean energy goal.
“The 100% Clean Energy Advisory Board has been working diligently to create a plan to address these issues and meet our goals. I could not be more proud and excited to be a part of these efforts,” said Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed.
In September 2017, the City of St. Louis Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a resolution agreeing to commit to the transition of 100 percent clean energy in the form of wind and solar and energy efficiency measures within the electricity sector by 2035.
“St. Louis is leading the Midwest in clean energy policy, which is critical to reducing our dependence on dirty, expensive, fossil fuels,” said Andy Knott, Senior Campaign Representative with the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Missouri and 100% Clean Energy Advisory Board member.
More than 75 U.S. cities have now committed to transition to 100 percent clean energy.
“Now more than ever, cities need to step up and make a strong statement to the current administration. Climate change is not ‘fake news’ and the City of St. Louis is ready to make a serious change,” said Reed.
Learn more about the 100% Clean Energy Advisory Board here.
Board of Aldermen


Jeremejevite was named for a Russian mineralogist in 1883, but there are rarely any specimens found in Russia today. Recently Namibia has started to produce some mentionable crystals, but in such small amounts the stone is still very rare. Jeremejevite is typically found in pale blue-green, cornflower-blue to yellowish brown hues.
- Optical Properties
- Characteristic Physical Properties
- Chemistry & Crystallography
Strength: Moderate Fire
1.637-1.653 Tolerance: (+0.002/-0.001)
Uniaxial and Biaxial
Doubly Refractive (DR)
Dichroic, strong blue and near colorless
Jeremejevite often shows banding or growth related color zoning and occasionally step-like growth zoning that looks like lightning bolts. Stones can have natural inclusions, fingerprints and healing feathers.
aluminum borate fluoride hydroxide
Countries of Origin
Myanmar; Russian Federation; Unknown; Namibia; Madagascar; Germany; Tajikistan


Investigating Natural Plant Resistance as a Management Tool against Browsing Herbivores
Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra - 2004
Browsing of seedlings and trees by pest species in forestry plantations is an economic problem in eucalypt and pine plantation establishment and management throughout Australia.
An exciting area of research in Australian forestry is the use of natural plant resistance as a means of reducing the amount of damage herbivores cause in plantations.
Research into natural plant resistance to herbivores is being conducted at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, by Dr. Glenn Iason and his colleagues. The plant herbivore group at the Macaulay Institute is the largest group of researchers in Europe studying the interactions and consequences of herbivores in heterogeneous landscapes.
In April 2004 I traveled to the Macaulay Institute to conduct a research project in collaboration with Dr Iason titled ‘Investigating natural plant resistance as a management tool against browsing herbivores”. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) is a native species to Scotland that is browsed significantly by vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores including the large black slug (Arion ater). Needles from Scots pine are rich in terpenes, a plant secondary metabolite, which act as an anti-herbivore defence mechanism. The concentration of terpenes between individual trees varies significantly and is maternally inherited.
The specific aims of my research project were to investigate the relationship between Scots pine genotype, herbivory by the slug, and plant terpene concentration.
My project provided insight into plant resistance in another forestry system and how this is utilised by researchers to better their understanding of the ecological processes between a tree species of interest and the animal pests that feed on it.
This knowledge is used directly by researchers in Scotland in implementing management strategies when establishing Scots pine plantations and when conserving remnant Scots pine native forests.
The knowledge, skills and collaborative links that I established during my stay at the Macaulay Institute will benefit future research in the management of browsing pest species in Australian forestry.


Risk factors of Bacterial Meningitis can increase due to different ages, community setting, medical conditions, pathogens, and travel. Infants are more risk of having meningitis compare to other ages. Bacteria can be spreader easily in the crowds, which there are a lot of people are gathering. Traveling to counties that are undeveloped, uncleaned, and not supported in sanitation.
Bacterial Meningitis side effects varied in short or long term. However, some cases lead permanent disabilities. Patients experience brain damage …show more content…
The signs and symptoms of infection are important that a doctor checks the head, ears, throat, the spine, and the skin. Additional diagnostic tests are blood cultures, imaging of the brains and spinal cord, spinal tap (lumber puncture). In blood cultures show that it is able to identify specific bacteria. Imaging includes CT scan, MR, X-rays shows infection areas that associates with meningitis. In addition, for some patients who are determined with bacterial meningitis, Spinal tap, which is lumber puncture is applied. It requires patient’s cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to search glucose level which relates white blood cell count and


What Does Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer Mean?
An ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC) is a Microsoft term that refers to a handheld device capable of running Microsoft’s Tablet PC operating system (OS). Original design specifications for UMPC were created by Microsoft and Intel. The UMPC’s specifications were quietly launched in February 2006 and code named the Origami Project. The device is larger than a personal digital assistant (PDA) and smaller than a laptop and uses a touch screen or stylus.
Techopedia Explains Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer
The first UMPCs to hit the market were the Amtek T700 and the Samsung Q1, which were sold under a variety of names in the U.S. and Europe in 2006. Microsoft determined the following baseline specifications for a UMPC, although exact specifications will vary between manufacturers:
- Screen size: 5-7 inches
- Screen resolution: minimum of 800×480 resolution
- Weight: Less than 1 kilogram
- Display orientation: Landscape or portrait
- Input methods: Touch screen or stylus
- Optional: Add-on Bluetooth or USB-based keyboard
- Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate
- Network connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, 3G and evolution data optimized
- Battery life: 2.5 hours or more
- Processor: Intel Celeron M, Intel Pentium M or VIA C7-M
- Storage: 30 gigabyte hard disk drive or larger
Overlapping handheld computing device design specifications resulted in UMPCs within a variety of categories, including subnotebook, ultraportable, mini-laptop, mobile Internet device or mini-notebook.


What exactly is disk space? What is its place in the Internet hosting world?
The term "disk space" may also be identified as "disk quota" or "data storage", yet all these words refer to the very same thing - the volume of information that you are able to upload to a hosting account. The overall size of the things you have is estimated by accumulating the storage space consumed by the overall content within your account, the most apparent being the data files that you upload. Two more things are sometimes overlooked by a lot of people, though - e-mail messages along with databases. Larger attachments and databases of large script-driven internet sites can often take a lot of storage space too. To employ a more familiar analogy, the hard disk space of your computer system is used not only by files that you download, but also by docs you create and programs you add. In a similar way, numerous things are counted towards the disk space your info uses on a web hosting server, not just the uploads.
Disk Space in Hosting
In order to match the processing performance behind all our cloud website hosting plans, we've thought over and integrated the most effective alternative for the disk space - your account is not created on a single server, but on a cluster platform. Due to this fact, what we've developed is a whole group of servers which is focused on the file storing only, so you should never be worried about running out of space and having to move to an additional server since your existing one can't accommodate more content. Whenever extra space is needed, we simply add extra machines to our cluster, so the hard drive space is virtually inexhaustible. Needless to say, all our Linux hosting
are intended to be employed for web sites, not for a repository of large files. We also have different machines for all of the databases as well as the e-mail messages.


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Bowes, P.C. and Kingman, F.E.T., 1952. FIRE IN RIVER BANK AT BRENT CRESCENT, WEMBLEY, 19TH AND 21ST APRIL, 1952. Fire Research Notes 15
A small fire occurred in factory waste on the banks of the river Brent at the rear of factories built on madeup ground bordering the river. Over a period of years the bank, which was about 20 ft. high, had become extended beyond its original line by the dumping of waste which, at the site of the fire, consisted mainly of steel swarf and contained coal and coke. The danger to the factories lay in the possibility of the original made-up ground containing combustible material and of the fire extending to this. It was recommended that the progress of the fire should be watched carefully, any digging-out should be done cautiously and the holes sealed with lime or cement slurry; any tendency for the fire to spread towards the factories should be checked by injecting slurry between the fire and the factories. The tipping and burning of combustible waste in situations of this kind should be avoided.
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” ~ Buddha
There are times in our lives when we say something or do something that incurs the consequence of a punishment. How many children back when I was growing up had mouths washed out with soap? That was just the consequence of a potty mouth. The punishments that we received were generally justified and we knew that they would be coming. They were external consequences that we brought upon ourselves.
Anger is one of the things that bring about a whole host of internal consequences. The wisdom of the Buddha tells us that we will not be punished for our anger, we will be punished by our anger. I have seen that take place over and over again.
Anger is one of the emotions that, if left unchecked, will quickly take hold of a person. Once anger is allowed to take root, it begins to fester. A person that may have been angry a few days before could easily fly into a rage after letting the anger grow. Sometimes that rage is targeted outward. Sometimes the rage is turned within. They say that depression is often anger turned inward.
Holding on to anger makes a person different. Anger can never heal. Anger can only foster other negative emotions and/or actions. Anger is often at the root of hate crimes, jealousy, violence, and other social ills. Anger is at the root of a host of health issues such as depression, ulcers, and high blood pressure, to name a few. Anger is something that no one should want to keep within.
Why then do so many people remain angry? Maybe it is because anger “feels” justified. Maybe it is because anger motivates. Maybe it is because anger causes others to get noticed. Whatever the reason or perception, holding on to anger is never good. It will always bring negative consequences on a person if it is allowed to build inside that person.
We are targets by the world already. We are targets because we proclaim faith and trust in the Lord. We face enough violence from the world. Why visit more violence upon ourselves by holding in anger and nursing grudges?
FAITH ACTION: If you are holding onto anger toward another — or even toward yourself — ask God for the grace and the courage to let it go so that you can move on with your life.


We support sustainable Agriculture by
Boosting food chain productivity
Improving farmers' economic growth
Fostering agriculture resilience
Addressing Salinization in Coastal Soil Ecosystems Affected by Saline Intrusion/Irrigation
Rising global temperatures, coupled with the melting of ice stocks and snow covers, are leading to an increase in sea level. This rise is having severe consequences on groundwater, making it more saline. In coastal areas, seawater intrusion during irrigation can threaten biodiversity and reduce crop yields. This process also leads to increased salinity in nearby water bodies due to leaching of salts. Soils in coastal areas are particularly susceptible to salinization, with affected regions being arid and semi-arid parts of Australia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. It is estimated that global soil salinization will continue to spread at a rate of up to 2 Mha per year.
United Nations Foundation- Sustainable development Goals (SDG)
Salicrop values the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs) in shaping our own sustainability strategy. Our innovative seed enhancement techniques increase crop yield and resilience, while preserving soil health and biodiversity. We collaborate with independent partners to ensure our sustainability efforts align with the SDGs and global standards. Sustainability is a core value that guides all of our actions.
Mitigating the effects of climate change on agriculture, which have resulted in lower crop yields and nutritional quality due to heat waves
Increasing yield for farmers under stress conditions can have a significant impact on their livelihoods and well-being. Stress conditions, such as drought, extreme temperatures, soil salinity, and other environmental factors, can severely limit crop production and lead to economic losses for farmers.
By increasing yield, farmers can improve their income and food security. Higher yields mean more crops to sell or consume, which can generate more income and reduce the risk of food shortages. This can also help farmers to improve their quality of life, such as having better access to healthcare and education for themselves and their families.
Additionally, increasing yield can help farmers to cope with the effects of climate change. As the climate continues to change, stress conditions are likely to become more frequent and severe. By increasing yield, farmers can become more resilient to these conditions, and better able to adapt to changing environmental conditions.


Speeding innovation for industry
Encapsulation is a key step in the photovoltaic module manufacturing process. Cells are connected in parallel or series, and then placed between two layers of a transparent polymer to ensure the integrity of the module and protect it from exposure to the elements. "The polymer starts out soft. It then undergoes a process called reticulation, which hardens it," said a researcher. "After the process, the reticulation rate must be checked to ensure the quality of the assembly."
Liten and Arkema worked together to develop an idea that originated at Arkema. The resulting method leverages DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) observation of the encapsulant's crystallization peak. "The technique takes just a few minutes and, unlike the traditional solvent-extraction method, does not require any toxic substances." The process, called Melt Freeze, was proven effective on several types of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) and is currently being tested on other materials.
The method also earned international recognition when it was included in the brand new standard for measuring materials used in photovoltaic modules, IEC 62788-1-6: 2017. An additional method using Raman spectrometry is also being developed at the lab as part of a PhD research project.
CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.


When you think of essential oils you may not automatically think about chemistry. But chemistry and science are important with essential oils.
Dr. Nicole Stevens, Director of Clinical Research at doTERRA, joined us to explain chemistry in a way that won't sound scary or make your eyes glaze over!
Dr. Stevens has taught chemistry at the university level for a number of years and says at its heart, chemistry is the study of matter. She says, "Atoms and molecules make up us and everything around us! Chemistry looks at how these atoms and molecules behave and interact and change. I think it is one of the most fundamental of all sciences."
So, chemistry is an important topic to understand before using an essential oil. Dr. Stevens explained that essential oils are made up of molecules, so chemistry helps them understand how these molecules behave.
She says, "This is especially interesting when we start to study how the molecules of an essential oil interact with the molecules of other living things, like humans! Chemistry is helping us understand how natural essential oils can be used safely to enhance health and promote wellness."
And, of course, chemistry is key to understanding of an essential oil's purity. Using an essential oil that is not pure means you run the risk of germs, plastics, heavy metals or contaminants entering your body. These can cause irritation and other adverse effects.
To make sure an essential oil is pure, doTERRA does testing. Purity and testing go hand in hand because testing validates purity and potency. Dr. Stevens says that's why she loves her job at doTERRA. "I get to play around with the science that I love and ensure that we are providing the purest essential oils to our users. The quality testing that our scientists provide ensures that every bottle of essential oil contains nothing but 100% pure compounds for maximum efficiency and safety. And our clinical research is doing groundbreaking studies on how these oils interact with the human body. doTERRA takes the science behind the oils very seriously," Dr. Stevens said.
If you'd like to learn more, doTERRA has some great resources on their main website, doTERRA.com. There are more articles about the science behind essential oils, as well as information about how the oils themselves are sourced.
For more information about essential oil testing and purity, a great place to start is SourcetoYou.com.


The Nanilavut Initiative was created to help Nunavik Inuit and Inuit from across Canada locate lost loved ones who did not return home after being sent to southern hospitals during the Tuberculosis Epidemic (1940s to 1960s). In many cases, information about patients being treated for Tuberculosis (TB) in the south was never communicated to family members back home.
Nanilavut means “Let’s find them” in Inuktut.
The Nanilavut Initiative was designed to help you find your lost loved one. This includes:
- To assist the family members with research and logistical support in locating lost loved one’s burial site
- To allow Nunavik beneficiaries who were impacted, a form of closure and healing by supplying funding assistance in reasonable amounts for travel, accommodations, and any other related expenses, to the location of the burial site.
- To provide burial markers, plaques, monuments, or commemorations of gravesites, as well as mental health or emotional support to Nunavik beneficiaries that may need it.
If you are searching for a lost loved one from Nunavik who was sent away to receive treatment for Tuberculosis you can contact us at Makivvik for support in finding them.
Note: All information collected is kept strictly confidential
For more information on how to access support services, you can contact
Nanilavut Project Manager
819-964-2925 x 307
P.O. Box 179


Recorded as MacCormac, MacCormack, McCormack, McCormick and Cormack, this is a surname of Scottish origins, and one well recorded in Ireland, and particularly in Ulster. It derives from the pre 10th century Gaelic personal name "Cormac", for which there are two possible meanings. The first is "The raven", from the word "corb", raven and the fused "mac", meaning son of, and the second "The charioteer", from an even the earlier celtic word also spelt "corb" and again with the fused mac. Gaelic and Celtic surbnames were almost invariably patronymic and have developed over the many centuries from an original nickname for the first chief of the clan.Not surprisingly most of these "founder members" were reowned for some warrior like deeds, although as to what these were, has almost always been lost in the mists of time. In this cases early recordings include Gilbert McCormoc in the "Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes" for Scotland in 1478 - 1495", Gilbert M'Cormac of Barley in 1696, whilst Elizabeth McCormack married Wiliam Ritchie at Cupar, Fife on the 12th April 1849. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gillecrist MacCormaic. This was dated 1132, in the Book of Deer, during the reign of King David I of Scotland, 1124 - 1153. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation, and hroughout the centuries, have continued to "develop," often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Enjoy this name printed onto our colourful scroll, printed in Olde English script. An ideal gift.


Trovants are spherical and slightly irregular-shaped rocks. They can be as small as less than an inch, or a couple of millimeters, in diameter and weigh only a few grams, or they can soar up to 15 feet (4.5 meters) high and weigh several tons. These odd, gravity-defying boulders have baffled observers since the 18th century with many a curious soul suspecting they were dinosaur eggs, plant fossils or even alien pods.
Scientists believed trovants to be a type of concretion — a mound of mineral matter (specifically gritstone and conglomerates) embedded within rock layers of limestone, sandstone or shale. They often form from minerals precipitating, or settling, out of water collected around a nucleus of pebble, leaf, shell, bone or fossil.
However, in 2008, the International Geological Congress in Oslo claimed trovants were incorrectly classified as concretions because there was no mineral difference between the stones and the sandstone beds on which they sat. There was also no distinct nucleus inside them.
Whatever they are, scientists believe that based on their makeup and locale atop the sands, these weird stones are older than man — shaped by earthquakes around 5.3 million years ago, during the Middle Miocene sub-epoch. The surrounding sands also suggest the area was an ancient marine environment, which may explain why bivalve and gastropod fossils can sometimes be found in them.


By Hugues Goosse
We hope that the previous post has convinced you of the interest of studying Antarctica. However, going there is expensive, time consuming and poses huge logistics problems. Does it really worth the money and the efforts while we have now a large amount of satellite data and numerical models that provide us with a more a more detailed picture of the whole continent?
Unfortunately, satellites cannot observe all the variables. They are able to detect some signals from the surface but cannot estimate subsurface changes or the composition of the snow. Furthermore, satellite sensors can be influenced by many factors. It is thus necessary to compare their observations with the ground truth to calibrate the measurements.
Before being able to model a process, you need to understand it and this requires precise observations. The field measurements are also essential to validate the models, identify their biases and finally propose improvements.
Many scientists working on Antarctica go there rarely. Analyzing the observations obtained in a campaign can take years to a team. Some of us having a more theoretical approach and modelers can base their analyses on existing data bases, without an urgent need to go on the field even though that is clearly the best way to apprehend the situation.
Nevertheless, all the science performed on Antarctica ultimately have its ground in field campaigns. Observations are the only way to confirm a hypothesis and to grasp the complexity of the processes. They also open new doors for future investigations.
Good luck to everyone going to this campaign. Have fun and make good science!


Career Mentoring is a Career Exploration activity in which a student is matched one-on-one or in small groups with an adult professional to explore potential careers and related educational issues. Different than programs such as Big Brother, Big Sister, the career mentor serves as a career resource by sharing insights and providing guidance about the workplace, careers and postsecondary education/training. This is accomplished through formal and informal meetings organized at the school, in the workplace or online, but never in an unsupervised environment or the home. (Sometimes a mentor may work with and support a small group of students.)
The development of a trusting relationship between the student and the mentor is the key to a successful experience. Designed to meet specific learning outcomes, career mentoring is educationally rich, is tied to the curriculum, and helps students connect what they’re learning in school with the workplace.
Virtual Note: Students who are currently paired with a Career Mentor may continue to receive support via telephone or some other technology if the necessary permissions, protections and guidance are in place to promote student safety.
Career mentoring is one activity in the continuum of authentic work-based experiences provided to all students engaged in career-related programs or course of study in New York City schools.
Career Mentoring Activities are recognized as an “accepted and valid WBL activity” by NYSED and the NYC DOE CTE for specific credit purposes.
Students who are currently paired with a Career Mentor may continue to receive support via telephone or some other technology if the necessary permissions, protections and guidance are in place to promote student safety.
*In New York State, this includes certified work-based learning coordinators and others who facilitate, arrange and support work-based learning activities for students.


The creators of influential measures of greenhouse gas emissions plan to announce two new tools for corporations on Tuesday.
One is a way to calculate the amount of climate-warming gases released through a company’s supply chain, as well as in the use and disposal of its products. A standardized way of calculating such emissions had eluded energy experts and statisticians for several years. The tool is known as Scope 3.
The second tool is for calculating the emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and four other gases linked to climate change across a consumer product’s entire life cycle. With a toaster, for example, a company would seek to count greenhouse gases released in the mining of elements for its metal shell and the coal burned to make the electricity to power it — and even the fuel burned when the toaster is carted away.
Now that there is a method for tallying those emissions, experts hope to refine it in years to come, perhaps eventually enabling consumers to compare the greenhouse gas footprints of, say, two frozen dinners or two sofas.
via NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions. I would be skeptical of any tool able to reasonably estimate this in a meaningful way, just too many differences across the whole ecosystem of every product from the original ore being mined to manufacturing to shipping to use by the end user. Plus the difficulties in presenting this information in a way that actually means something to the business. That being said more tools to enable customers to estimate what effect that new laptop has, is a good idea.


What is a CPSR?
CPSR is an abbreviation for Cosmetic Product Safety Report
When we assess your products, you receive a Cosmetic Product Safety Report. (often referred to as an assessment or as a certificate)
It is this document that is required under the UK and EU cosmetic regulations to enable you to legally sell your Cosmetic products* and it is written using your exact recipes.
Here is the technical explanation of a CPSR;
The Cosmetic Product Safety Report takes the form of two distinct sections, Parts A & B as specified by Regulation EU 1223/2009 which came into effect in July 2013 across the whole of the EU. Post Brexit, this EU legislation was adopted into UK legislation.
PART A – Cosmetic product safety information
1. Quantitative and qualitative composition of the product
2. Physical/chemical characteristics and stability of the cosmetic product
3. Microbiological quality
4. Impurities, traces, information about the packaging material
5. Normal and reasonably foreseeable use
6. Exposure to the cosmetic product
7. Exposure to the substances
8. Toxicological profile of the substances
9. Undesirable effects and serious undesirable effects
10. Information on the cosmetic product
PART B – Cosmetic product safety assessment
1. Assessment conclusion
2. Labelled warnings and instructions of use
4. Assessor’s credentials and approval of part B
* You also have other obligations under the legislation. We can guide you through those, but suffice it to say the CPSR is central to those other things. Our free comprehensive guides to compliant Labelling, Good Manufacturing Practice, Product Information Files and more will enable you to work your way through everything you need to do to sell your products confidently and legally.


What Is Financial Administration?
Financial management is the means of directing, monitoring, organising and controlling money to accomplish business targets. It involves identifying resources, devising economical plans and establishing steps for collecting info and producing financial decisions.
Identifying where to allocate http://money-raising.com capital money (money invested in raw materials and equipment to generate goods/services) can be described as key element of financial supervision. Financial managers determine where these funds should be spent based on factors like projected expansion and long-term financial desired goals.
Planning the business spending plan is another major component of monetary management. It involves identifying how much cash will probably be needed to run daily operations and meet potential needs, such as paying wages, electricity bills, rents, raw materials, and so forth
A company will likely decide to use financial debt as a means of financing experditions or progress, or consider selling possessions such as real estate. These decisions may have an effect on interest rates and debt-equity proportions.
Financial control is a critical part of organization strategy. It identifies what needs to happen financially designed for the company to achieve their short- and long-term goals, and helps leaders ensure that departments are working within funds and in position with the company vision. Effective financial management allows business management to set desired goals and keep track of progress with up-to-date fiscal reports. This helps them retain employees in charge, and it allows those to see the place that the company can be headed.


get/set YP domain name of current
char *name, size_t
function returns the YP domain name for the current processor, as previously
setdomainname(). The parameter
namelen specifies the size of the
name array. If insufficient space is provided, the
returned name is truncated. The returned name is always NUL terminated.
sets the domain name of the host machine to be name,
which has length namelen. This call is restricted to
the superuser and is normally used only when the system is bootstrapped.
If the call succeeds a value of 0 is returned. If the call fails, a value of -1 is returned and an error code is placed in the global variable errno.
The following errors may be returned by these calls:
- The name parameter gave an invalid address.
- The caller tried to set the domain name and was not the superuser.
domainname(1), gethostid(3), gethostname(3), sysctl(2), sysctl(8), yp(8)
getdomainname function call appeared
in SunOS 3.x.
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characters, currently 256. This includes the terminating NUL character.
If the buffer passed to
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I was reading an article in Information Week entitled 5 Security Lessons From Real-World Data Breaches that talks about data security and how companies can harden their external and internal defenses. There was a lot of good information about security infrastructure, including firewalls, network intrusion systems, data loss prevention tools and numerous others. Most of these tools address data at rest or data in transit. They tend to exclude data in use.
What is data in use? It’s what it sounds like. If a hacker steals a document by exploiting inadequate defenses, they now can use the data they stole. Most people focus on making sure the data doesn’t get out in the wild, but what do you do when it does. Encryption techniques help ensure that if a sensitive document gets out, it is unusable by the hacker.
Some start with simple PGP to ensure their email isn’t compromised. This doesn’t help if the documents are not in email. Using a policy based encryption system tends to work best. This helps you control who can access the information and when.
It is important to use many security tools to ensure your company does not lose critical information. The last step is to ensure you can control information once it’s in the wild.
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Protect Your Heart with a Little Dark Chocolate
When you’re trying to limit the amount of sodium you consume to no more than 2,300 mg a day, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s a proven way to prevent high blood pressure and protect your heart.
How do you control sodium levels in your diet? By following a diet of mainly fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean meats and fish, legumes, and plenty of water. Consume less sodium, and you’ll be less likely to develop hypertension and heart-related problems.
Does that mean you have to settle for eating “clean” all the time and avoid a sweet treat? No. But that doesn’t mean you can go on an ice cream and junk food binge. You’ll have to be a little more selective about the sweets you do have.
Got a craving for chocolate? Go ahead and enjoy a few pieces of dark chocolate. In a recent study published in the journal Heart, researchers followed 55,502 people for 14 years. They tracked 192 nutrition habits, including the amount of dark chocolate people ate. And researchers compared the nutrition data to reported cases of atrial fibrillation. It’s a condition that appears as an irregular heartbeat that can trigger a stroke, heart attack, or other serious health problems.
If you eat too much dark chocolate, there’s an obvious downside...weight gain. It’s high in calories and does contain higher amount of fat and sugar. But in just the right amount, researchers found that eating dark chocolate can be beneficial, especially for heart health.
People who ate 1 to 3 one-ounce servings of dark chocolate a month were 10 percent less likely to experience an irregular heartbeat than non-dark chocolate eaters. Have a bigger sweet tooth than that? No problem. Those who ate one serving of dark chocolate a week cut their risk by 17 percent. And those who ate 2 to 6 servings of dark chocolate a week were 20 percent less likely to experience and irregular heartbeat.
Obviously, you can’t overindulge in dark chocolate and expect healthy results. But a bite of dark chocolate after a meal a few times a week or so, can provide protective benefits. So what should you eat before your dark chocolate dessert? Try one of our Low-Sodium meals that each include a main course and one or two side dishes.


Green Update: Computer Recycling Collaboration Nets Over Seven Tons of Materials
By Ashleigh Nix ’10
In mid-October, Converse and Technical Knockout collaborated for a recycling event to collect used computer parts that may have otherwise been bound for the landfill. The result: over seven tons of materials were collected and prevented from being haphazardly disposed.
“The amount of equipment collected varies from city to city, but this was definitely above average,” said Elise Warren, a Converse alumna and an employee for Technical Knock Out.
Converse collected 138 computers; 142 monitors; and 161 printers, copiers, scanners and fax machines. In addition, four pallets of phones, cell phones, wiring, mice and keyboards were accumulated.
After electronic equipment is recycled, everything except the monitors are taken apart. Some components are recycled into their particular group (plastic, etc.) and other components are shredded and made into other useful objects. The metal, for example, is molded into pipe and re-used in various citywide projects.
Discarding used electronic parts into the landfill can cause much danger. Over two million tons of electronics are throw away annually. Over 65 million cell phones are stored in U.S. households creating 30,000 tons of potentially hazardous waste. Cell phones contain toxic substances including: arsenic, antimony, beryllium, cadmium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc which filter into soil and groundwater from landfills and form highly toxic dioxins during burning. These toxins have been linked with cancer, in addition to many reproductive, neurological and developmental disorders.
Recycling not only is a health-conscience decision, but it also provides for others. The cell phones that were collected will be given to underprivileged women and children that may need to call 911 in case of an emergency.


Impressionist Berthe Morisot, Rediscovered
Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet -- these were the leaders of the artistic movement that became known as Impressionism. Berthe Morisot is a less familiar name, yet she was one of the painters whose works were included in that first, revolutionary burst of Impressionist art in 1870s Paris.
Now new attention is being focused on Marisot's work and life, and her works are currently on exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Also, a fictional account of Morisot's life is a highlight of Life Studies, a new book of stories by Susan Vreeland that draws literary inspiration from works of art.
Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle is on exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., until May 8. The exhibit will travel to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., in the summer and to Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in the fall.
NPR's Lynn Neary recently visited the exhibit and also spoke with Vreeland about the intersection of art and fiction.
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In order to stall the climate changes, more CO2 emitting industries must install technology for carbon capture and storage. To make this type of technology more available, I work on a way to make CO2 capture technology less energy demandig.
Since the start of the industrial revolution, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has dramatically increased due to human activity. As CO2 is largely the reason for global warming, it is causing global temperatures and sea level to raise and it is changing weather patterns and climate. Fortunately, there are several measures we can do to prevent damaging consequences of climate change as they are in fact caused by human activity. One solution is carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Chemical absorption of the CO2
In my PhD I will focus on CO2 capture by means of chemical absorption. It is the most mature technology to capture CO2 and has already reached commercial stage at Boundary Dam in Canada. A chemical absorption process capture CO2 from CO2 emitting industries such as combustion of coal and cement production.
How the absorption process works
The flue gas containing CO2 enters an absorption column and reacts counter current with a solvent. After the solvent has captured CO2 it is led to a desorption column where the CO2 is released and the solvent is returned to the absorption column. Unfortunately, the energy demand related to solvent regeneration is high and more research is needed.
My goal is therefore to identify and characterize a solvent system that enable low energy requirement.
Systematic experimental work
A solvent system that has already shown potential to reduce the energy demand is blended amine systems, which consist of a primary or a secondary amine and a tertiary amine. Through targeted experimental work and systematically vary molecular properties of the amines, we hope to find a solvent that will lead to a real break-through in solvent technology. It can then be more economically feasible to implement a CO2 capture technology.


Baby it’s cold outside…
For most animals, the winter is all about survival. It’s a time when days are short and food is at a premium. But this isn’t true for every species. Two of the Park’s signature predators have other things on their mind at this time of year. Both our largest owl species, the barred owl and the great horned owl, are actually beginning preparations for breeding during the depths of winter.
The barred owl is the most common owl species in the Park. Its ‘who cooks for you’ call is one of the most distinctive sounds of the forest in spring and summer. Barred owls pair for life and normally nest in a tree cavity or an old nest of another bird. They begin courtship and nest preparations in the depths of winter and the female normally lays eggs in February or early March, although in the southern United States, barred owls often begin breeding even earlier.
The great horned owl is even larger and one of the Park’s top predators. They are remarkably adaptable and range right across the Americas from Argentina to Alaska. Living in such a wide range of habitats means changing nesting behaviour. Their nest is normally in a mature tree, but they will also choose cliff sides, buildings and in certain areas even nest on the ground. Like the barred owl they begin breeding during winter and incubate eggs during February and March, even in the colder parts of their range like Eastern Canada. Only in extreme north does laying take place in late March and April, although this is still much earlier than other breeding birds.
So why do owls choose to nest early in the year? Like most decisions in biology it’s about getting a leg up on the competition. As a large species, their chicks take longer to develop than small songbirds. A horned owl chick spends more than forty days in the nest after hatching, compared to 16-18 days for a young kinglet. So, by starting nesting early, owls are able to fledge their young in spring which enables the growing chicks to learn the hunting skills during a period in the year when food is abundant. Timing is everything!
By Ben Hill, Communications Volunteer


Vaccines are among our safest and most reliable medicines. Every year, they prevent countless serious illnesses and thousands of deaths from measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw), mumps, rubella (German measles), pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza B, hepatitis A, and varicella (chicken pox). About 100 million doses are given annually in the United States, most of them to infants and children as part of their routine immunizations.
With some immunizations, a single dose gives nearly complete protection. With others, a series of doses spread over months, or years, is needed for the best result.
Vaccines, like many other medicines, can cause side effects. These are usually mild and brief. Very rarely are they serious. It is important for anyone getting a vaccine, or for the parents of children receiving a vaccine, to know what the vaccine is, what its benefits are, and what risks, if any, it has. You will receive an information sheet provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identifying the risks associated with the vaccine and steps in the event of a severe reaction to the vaccine. If you have any questions regarding the vaccine, please feel free to ask the nurse providing the vaccine.
Please contact the health department at (580) 625-3693 for more information or to schedule an appointment.
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During the winter we prepare for harsh weather by piling on layers of clothing and wearing heavy coats, gloves, hats and scarves; unfortunately, not many people think about how the living things in their yards and gardens react to the cold. Trees and shrubs are vulnerable to cold weather just like we are. If new growth in the early Fall doesn’t have enough time to harden off, experts say the sudden drop in temperatures can create ice crystals that can rupture cell walls, resulting in dead branch tips and branches.
Officials at a state cooperative extension service say one of the biggest problems for trees and shrubs is the sharp temperature change from day into night during the winter. They say that dramatic change can actually freeze the water in the trunks of trees, causing them to explode or split open. That reaction is called frost cracking. Sometimes these cracks can close when warm weather returns, if the damage isn’t that severe. Many shrubs can suffer from something similar, called bark split. Extension service officials say those particularly susceptible are many cultivars of evergreen azaleas. In most cases plants close over the cracks with no treatment necessary.
During this winter there are some things you can do to protect your trees and shrubs. You can wrap the trunks with burlap strips or commercial tree wrap. Experts also recommend painting the trunks white or shading them with a board to prevent bark splitting. These methods reflect sunlight and reduce temperature fluctuations, like the buildup of heat during the day, that cause splitting. All wraps should be removed after one season to stop insect or moisture damage.


The Mathematics Guides Explained
We often hear educators ask, “What does standards-aligned mathematics instruction look like?” The UnboundEd Mathematics Guides answer this question by providing an in-depth look at one or a few clusters of math standards at a time. Each grade-level guide, from Kindergarten to Algebra II, explains what new, high standards for mathematics say students should learn in each grade. The Mathematics Guides are designed for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders.
Part 1 explains the skills and knowledge described by the group of standards covered by the guide. This section illustrates the standards using multiple student tasks from freely available Open Educational Resources (OER). Educators can download or adapt these tasks for their students.
Part 2 explains how the group of standards is connected to other standards in the same grade. Highlighting these connections helps educators understand the implications for planning and teaching, as well as how this within-grade coherence increases access for students. Part 2 also includes multiple student tasks.
Part 3 traces selected progressions of learning leading to grade-level content. Part 3 also provides concrete, practical suggestions for leveraging the progressions to teach students who may not be prepared for grade-level mathematics. This part also traces the progression to content in higher grades so teachers can see how students will apply this year’s lessons in the future.
Ready to give it a try? Search through our library of Mathematics Content Guides, from Kindergarten to Algebra II.


What does termite damage look like? (Video)
By Chris Williams on September 10, 2014.
Unlike carpenter ants which tunnel through wood, termites actually eat the wood so the damage they leave behind in the wood is not neat and clean as it is with carpenter ants. The damaged wood will be plastered with a muddy mixture of yellowish‑brown digested wood and soil. When it dries, it looks a bit like oatmeal.
You may find narrow mud tubes leading from the infested wood to the soil where the termites live or tubes packed into cracks or seams in the paneling. The surface of the termite‑damaged wood can have a blistered appearance. The wood inside has a honeycombed or layered look, where the termites have preferentially eaten the softer spring wood layers, leaving the harder layers of summer wood in between.
In between this layered wood, you’ll see the mud we mentioned. Since termites eat and digest the wood, there will be no sawdust present. Whether it’s termites or carpenter ants, it could be old damage or it could be from an active infestation. That’s something you really need a professional to determine.
Both pests usually infest wood that is damp or water damaged. That’s another issue you may need to deal with. Whether it’s carpenter ants or termites, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed to protect your home.
Our trained technicians can inspect your home and supply all the answers. Give Colonial Pest a call today.


Recorded in the five known forms of Gilderoy, Guilderoy, Gildroy, Gelderey, and Gilldarey, this is a rare and unusual surname. It is probably of French and Huguenot origins, although it must be said, that this is not proven. What is fairly certain is that the name is first recorded in England in the year 1703 when a Sarah Guilderoy married John Taylor at the church of St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, in the city of London. The significance of this recording is that the church of St Dunstans was famous for being the church of the "foreigner".This was not necessarily some one from another land although that would seem to be the case here, the next county in England was often just as "foreign", but St Dunstans does seem to have attracted more than its fair share of people from other places including Europe. Also the begining of the 18th century was the time when the flood of Huguenot refugees escaping from catholic France was at its height. The English have never been very good at spelling foreign names, and even more so in those far off days. It is our opinion that this surname is a corruption of another such as the popular "de Roy" or "Deroy", to which has been "fused" first name of Gille. We have not been able to prove this theory, but we can say that there does not appear to be any similar spelling to Guilderoy or Gilderoy anywhere in Europe or the British Isles.
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Dr. Karl SCHUCH was born in Tepliz (Teplice) — in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, but which became Czechoslovakia in 1918 and is now the Czech Republic) — on January 2, 1880.
He was an unmarried Catholic veterinarian and was a veterinary inspector in Vorarlberg and Tirol before he took a similar post in Salzburg in 1915. At first he lived with his older brother Johann SCHUCH, who was a railway inspector in Salzburg, and finally at 16 Ignaz-Harrer-Straße in the Lehen neighborhood.
Dr. Karl SCHUCH retired as a veterinary inspector and became a patient in the Salzburg State Asylum in October 1939. He was one of the 82 patients who were deported from there to the Castle Hartheim killing center near Linz on April 17, 1941 – where they were all murdered.
As with all the other victims of the Nazis’ secret »T4«1 program, the death of this 60 year old man was never recorded in the Salzburg police registration files.
His brother, who was also retired, left Salzburg during the war years.
1 It was called »T4« because its Berlin headquarters were located at Tiergartenstraße 4
- Salzburg city archives
- Schloss Hartheim Learning and Remembrance Center
Translation: Stan Nadel
Laid 14.07.2015 at Salzburg, Ignaz-Harrer-Straße 16


In 2004, HDI raised $250,000 for mine action in Mozambique. The landmine problem stemmed from almost thirty years of anti-colonial and civil wars. The country's first landmine impact survey, published in August 2001, identified 1,374 suspected mine-impacted areas affecting approximately 1.5 million people. The government's limited military budget, however, prevented the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) from adequately training deminers and increasing operational efficiency to address this problem. The amount raised included a $100,000 donation from SkyLink, a Canadian aviation firm, as well as matching funds from the U.S. State Department. The funds were donated to the Government of Mozambique and used for a six-week program that provided advanced mine clearance training to 60 deminers and 16 supervisors from the FADM. FADM deminers were trained in accordance with International Mine Action Standards and received the appropriate medical and field training. HDI's donation also allowed the FADM to purchase essential demining equipment and medical supplies. Fifteen months after completing the HDI funded training program, the FADM demining unit cleared a total of 119,634 square meters, and found and destroyed 60 AP mines and 17 UXOs without incident and in accordance with international standards.


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Water Damage Categorization & Contamination
Water damages originate from many different sources. Each damage falls in one of three basic categories of water damage. According to the IICRC, these categories “refer to the range of contamination in water, considering both its originating source and its quality after it contacts materials present on the job site”.
Category 1 water damages originate from clean and sanitary water sources. These include faucets, toilet tanks, appliances, melting snow or water pipes. These types of water damages are generally harmless to humans and pets. However, they can cause significant risks to your home if left untreated as the moisture may cause toxic mold growth in as little as 24 hours.
A category 2 water damage involves what is known as “gray water” or sullage. This type of water has not come into contact with fecal matter but may contain harmful contaminants that induce illness when ingested. This water originates from dishwashers, washing machines, showers, bathtubs and sinks. If left unattended, Category 2 water can turn into Category 3 in as little as 48 hours.
Category 3 is the most dangerous classification of water damage. Known as "black water", it refers to wastewater that originates from raw sewage or even natural disasters such as floods. This type of contaminated water is a haven for bacteria, pathogens, harmful chemicals and disease-causing organisms. Due to the unsanitary conditions of the water, porous materials like drywall, upholstery and carpets are completely unsalvageable. Extremely careful measures are required to mitigate category 3 water damages.
At SERVPRO of Burlington & Mt. Holly, we have the training and experience to mitigate your water damage, no matter which category it falls under.