It’s graduation time and our thoughts turn to children leaving home. While moving out used to be an almost automatic thing, changes in the economy and culture have resulted in many kids hanging around the house into their mid 20’s and beyond. Today we’re talking about how knowing the psychology of moving out can help parents successfully launch their children into independent adulthood. Here are some frequently asked questions and some helpful tips:
1. Why is leaving home so difficult for some folks?
2. What is the best way to prepare for leaving home?
3. How do you know when it’s time for the launch ?
4. How do you deal with the emotional resistance ? ,
Tips for Parents and Young Adults
1. Remember, leaving home is difficult because: it involves change, uncertainty, and loss. These elements create anxiety, test self-esteem and confidence as well as result in some level of a grieving reaction. All of these reactions are unpleasant and we try to avoid them. And by the way both moms and dads, as well as the kids can have these feelings.
2. Prepare children for leaving home by: –Framing leaving home positively as a major life step toward becoming and independent adult. — Understand that becoming and adult is a gradual process that is made up of steps. Moving out is one of those steps. — Prepare your children for launch by developing their autonomy skills and confidence over time. Gradually allowing your child to make more and more decisions and assuming more responsibility for more parts of their life will help the process .
3. You know your child is ready for launch when:
— S/he has demonstrated that s/he is emotionally ready to assume self-care and basic life responsibilities. –There a is reasonable structure and plan for the what will happen after leaving home , e.g. school, job or military service. — There is an adequate economic and social support network.
4. Deal with emotional resistance by parents and children: — Remind your child of the advantages of becoming independent. — Normalizing and talking about fears and anxieties feelings. ( Don’t have any elephants in the room.) This is for mom and dad as well as the kids.– Address worries specifically. Reality test and problem solve. — Reassure that moving out doesn’t mean cutting off or ending. Talk about how contact and support will be maintained.


When we talk about a new word in class my students often ask me if it is frequently used or not. This helps them to decide if the word is worth learning. The advice I give them is based on my intuition, which might be wrong! In order to provide better advice and to help my students to become independent learners I show them how they can find this information for themselves.
The resource I recommend is Skell search engine. It is a corpus-based resource which gives example sentences revealing how words are used in real life. It is both simple to use and free.
The search results on Skell show word frequency (how often words are used) and the example sentences will give you a good idea about connotation (whether a word tends to be used in positive or negative situations). The 'word sketch' page also shows extra information including words that are commonly used with the target word.
You can search for single words such as 'overwhelm' or longer expressions such as 'six months' or 'half a year'.
It really is a great resource for all language students and particularly good for students practicing Part 1 of the Reading and Use of English paper in the Cambridge exams such as First, CAE or Proficiency.
Have you started using it yet? If not, now might be a good time.
Click on the Skell website to answer the following questions.
Is the word 'overwhelm' typically used to describe positive or negative situations? Can it be used to describe both?
Which expression is used more frequently in English, 'half a year' or 'six months'?
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A cock and a hen wanted to go visit a Mr. Korbes. So the cock built a little carriage pulled by four mice. Along the way they met a cat who asked to go with them. They agreed and the cat got in the carriage.
Later, they came across in turn, a mill stone, an egg, a duck, a pin, and a needle, who all got in the carriage to go to Mr. Korbes. But Mr. Korbes was not at home.
So the mice took the carriage into his barn, the cock and hen perched on a beam, the cat sat by the fire, the duck settle in some water in the sink (apparently), the egg wrapped up in a towel, the pin stuck itself in a chair cushion, the needle got in bed with the pillows, and the mill stone laid by the door.
When Mr. Korbes returned, he went to build up the fire but the cat – for some reason – threw ashes in his eyes. He went into the kitchen and the duck splashed water on his face. When he tried to dry his face with the towel, the egg broke. He tried to sit down, and the pin stuck him. He jumped into bed, and hit the needle. And when he finally tried to run out of the house, the mill stone killed him.
The last line in the story is “What a bad man Mr. Korbes must have been!”
I have some questions about this “story.” I could almost see this as almost a bunch of little pranks they pulled on him, right up until they killed him. Did all of these things have some reason to wish Mr. Korbes ill, or is this a “bad things happen to bad people” type of story, and since so many bad things happened to Mr. Korbes, there must have been a reason.
Or am I missing something? Would the people from hundreds of years ago have recognized the cat as referring to … the French, or something?
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To practice a white water activity like rafting on the Verdon is also to discover its flora. In fact, more than 2,000 plant species have been identified in the territory of the PNRV. This represents a third of the number of species that can be found in France. The territory of the Verdon Natural Park represents only a third of a department. That is to say the rich flora which conceals the Verdon! We won’t talk about everything in this modest article. We will focus more specifically on rafting and the flora of the Verdon. In other words, to the flora that we meet while practicing our activities in the Verdon.
The flora in the Grand Canyon, a particular stage
The peculiarities of the microclimate and the reliefs play a huge role in the diversification of environments and species. Upstream of the canyon, there is a classic tiering of flora. First, there is the green oak grove on the edge of the cliffs. Above, there is the white oak, then the beech. Finally, at the top of the slope, there is the beech forest with yew trees.
Once in the canyon, everything reverses! In fact, going down towards the river, the light decreases just like the temperature while the humidity increases. This particular phenomenon leads to an inversion of the vegetation stages. Below the green oak grove encountered on the edge of the canyon, we will therefore find the white oak grove then a beech grove or a maple slope. At the bottom of the canyon, freed from Mediterranean constraints, the yew finds an almost mountain atmosphere.
Protection of the flora that can be found in the Verdon
Knowing how to preserve this flora is a major asset for its protection. This is why we present here some rules of common sense which allow nature to suffer less on our contact.
-A good photo will cross time better than a bouquet that dries in the sun and that sooner or later will end up in the trash.
– Harvest only those plants that can be identified and that can be ensured that they are not protected.
– cut the plants as cleanly as possible using a knife or scissors.


One must have lexicon to poem.
Language to arrange words right.
Poet’s lingo contains abundant terms
shared with the world of writing
like style, voice, or tone. Words,
as Mary Oliver said, “If words were only words…”
We need to learn vernacular and forms; The Rules of the Dance, poetry handbooks to
comprehend values of meter: monometer,
pentameter, and octameter.
Toeless feet with iamb, trochee, and dactyl.
How often does one see a spondee running free?
Books by Packard, Turco, Oliver,
and more for poetics.
Look both ways as you dip you pen into the poet’s ink.
Mind the gaps as there is so much to learn about the plethora of poetry terms.
Old tractors can’t retire with much dignity.
Ours rests over yonder, near the barn.
With winter’s cold, snow, and ice,
or dry poundings of hot summers,
she tries to show well, just a little rust,
peeling paint, heavy worn tires.
Made to plough and cumber a heavy beam,
an ox of steel and rubber, she carried men to work,
sowed seeds, and tilled the soil.
A mammoth farm and ranch hand, she
pushed and pulled cultivators and harrows,
drug fertilizer wagons,
pulled mowers, rakes, and bailers
with tires heavy with water and mud.
I still remember the day I first grabbed ahold
of her wheel learning to drive and work hard.
Thank you, my friend, for teaching me
so much about life, work, sweat, tears,
and the weather. But mostly about how
to age gracefully and with dignity.
Look both ways but history teaches more.
Mind the gaps, find the truth, keep your pride and dignity until a tractor retires.


Diasporas are complex social formations shaped by political imaginaries and defined by the materialities of national borders and economies. Scholars across disciplines have grappled with the concept of diaspora and its paradigmatic constructions of forced dispersal, nostalgia and imagined homelands. The geographical diversity of the Indian diaspora has been shaped against the backdrop of the historical forces of colonialism, nationalism and neoliberal globalization. Diasporas and nations have historically come together around states of being such as the quality of Indianness. Trade and religious propagation were the main reasons for early emigration from India. Diasporas and nations are bound together through the articulation of difference and citizenship. Diasporas represent communicative sites of intense heterogeneity which render legible the political disposition of nations. Maintaining a strong community base has been central to diasporas for both survival and sociality.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Title of host publication||Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora|
|Publisher||Taylor and Francis|
|Number of pages||13|
|State||Published - Jan 1 2017|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)


More Quake-Forecasting Devices Needed on Sea Floor
The 11 March Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami in Japan was a shock for citizens and researchers alike. The disaster is just the latest confirmation of why more ground-deformation monitors are desperately needed at sea, says Andrew Newman in a comment piece in Nature this week.
Newman says the past 20 years have seen great strides in understanding earthquake faults, mainly through improved and expanded tracking of ground deformation. Most devices monitoring ground deformation are land-based because offshore monitoring is more complex — and costly.
This is a problem, says Newman, as “the real action happens” offshore. Most big quakes are generated underwater, and tsunami potential can’t be assessed from land measurements. “Progress has been only partial,” he says.
Ground-deformation monitors use Global Positioning System (GPS) signals to track deformations in the Earth’s surface. The deformations occur over ‘locked’ patches, where tectonic plates get stuck along faultlines. When strain energy is suddenly released from a patch, an earthquake is generated. By keeping an eye on locked patches, researchers can predict the size and timing of quakes.
But the monitors can’t ‘see’ the GPS satellites through water, so when placed offshore they must be used in tandem with ships and sonar transponders. The cost of one survey can be as much as US$500,000.
Newman notes, however, that this must be set against the clean-up costs of giant quakes and tsunamis — a projected $300 billion for the Tohoku-Oki event alone. Offshore monitoring needs to ramp up, he says. “It is vital that all subduction boundaries – particularly those with the capacity for causing massive damage to nearby cities — be densely measured routinely enough to capture the extent of locking,” he writes in Nature. Newman calls on scientists to develop cheaper tools, and on agencies such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Bank to get involved.
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- Created By: David Terraso
- Created: 06/23/2011
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016


Oceans Act, Canada, Ocean Policy, Aboriginal Rights, Ocean Management
The Oceans Act of Canada sets out a broad framework for the uniﬁed management of Canada’s oceans based on an ecosystem approach. In particular, the Oceans Act calls on the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to lead and facilitate the development of a national strategy to guide the management of Canada’s estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystems. The Oceans Act also reﬂects awareness that aboriginal rights may affect the development or implementation of policy surrounding oceans management. For example, s. 2(1) of the Act states that “. . . nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.” The Oceans Act also provides for collaboration with aboriginal organizations in the development and implementation of a national strategy and plans for integrated management of all activities affecting estuarine, coastal and marine waters, and provides for the possibility of aboriginal participation on certain advisory or management bodies, thus creating an opportunity for aboriginal input into Canada’s ocean policy in the future.
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Diana Ginn, "Aboriginal Title and Oceans Policy in Canada" in Donald R Rothwell & David L VanderZwaag, eds, Towards Principled Oceans Governance (London, UK: Routledge, 2006) 283.
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File Allocation Table (FAT). A data structure employed in the FILESYSTEMS of Microsoft’s MS-DOS and Windows operating systems to locate individual files stored on hard and floppy disks. When a disk is FORMATTED it is divided up into many physical SECTORS of equal size grouped together into CLUSTERS. Whenever a new file is created, the file system allocates a number of these clusters to hold that file’s data – the FAT is a table that contains the name of each file and the addresses of the clusters that it occupies. When a file is deleted, only its FAT entry, rather than the data itself, is erased, which is why UNDELETE utilities can usually recover the file.
The FAT is stored on the first track of each disk and is read into memory whenever the disk is in use, to be updated and written back whenever the computer is switched off (or one removable disk is swapped for another). Should the FAT become corrupted during this process, then all the files on that disk may be lost.
MS-DOS and versions of Windows prior to WINDOWS98 used 16-bit pointers in their FAT (hence called FAT16) which restricted the size of the largest disk PARTITION they could address to 2 Gigabytes. Windows 98 introduced the FAT32 system, with 32-bit pointers so it can support partitions larger than 2 Gigabytes, which also makes more economical use of disk space by storing the data in more, but smaller, clusters. However FAT16 and FAT32 are incompatible, and may not be deployed on the same hard disk partition.


At Kinderhaus we want to recognize the importance of early learning of foreign languages and we are very happy to take the initiative to introduce, in addition to Greek and two foreign languages in our curriculum, German and English. According to research by linguists, the best time frame for learning languages is between the ages of three and five. At this age the brain develops its structure and the network of neurons.
The multifaceted promotion at this young age enhances the creation of synapses and strengthens the complete activation of the intellectual potential. Thus, children who were raised with more languages are proven to be more flexible and capable of better performance in comprehension.
They can also learn many languages much more easily than children who were raised with a single language. It is a fact that in order to achieve significant results, foreign language teaching in early childhood must be as intense as possible. At Kinderhaus we apply the Immersionsansatz system, which has proven to be effective in nursery schools and kindergarten, selecting different teachers for each language who will co-exist in the space, so that children can effectively gather in a trilingual environment, language experiences throughout the day.
Children learn intuitively and experientially through play, songs and stories, German and English from German and English teachers.


Ottmarsheim Abbey-Ottmarsheim, France - C. XI
Scale: 1/130 Approx. Nº of pieces: 4.200 Difficulty degree: 7/10 Sizes (Mm.): 345 x 230 x 235
The Romanesque church of St. Pierre et Paul is in Ottmarsheim, in eastern France. A few kilometres from Mulhouse, it is situated on the border area between Germany and France that the River Rhine maps out. With its octagonal ground plan it imitates the Chapelle Palatine d'Aix la Chapelle, where Charlemagne established his residence. The Chapelle Palatine, which was inspired by the temples and sanctuaries of the Roman emperors of Constantinople and northern Italy, became the architectural referent for the Ottonian emperors of the 10th and early 11th centuries. Its ground plan and architecture have been reproduced many times with more or less precision. L'Abbatiale d'Ottmarsheim is a necessary monument in order to discover 11th century Romanesque art. The builder was Rodolphe d'Altenburg in 1030. The church was consecrated in 1049 by Pope Leo IX, who came from Alsace. L'Abbatiale d'Ottmarsheim is the oldest building in the whole of the Alsace region that is still in a good state of conservation, since the majority of castles and old constructions in the area date from the 12th and 13th centuries. The original ground plan of the Abbatiale d'Ottmarsheim was simple: two concentric octagons extended by a tower in the west and a square choir to the east. Later on, in the 15th and 16th centuries, two Gothic chapels were added, one on each side of the choir. All these elements converge towards the central octagon. Just like the outside, the interior decoration is very sober. Today only a few fresco paintings survive. It is more than likely that the entire surface of the walls and vaulting were covered with these paintings. The closeness of the altar and the smallness of the central octagon create an intimate and welcoming atmosphere that, once inside the church, is inducive to meditation.


Statutory Audit: Certain organisations are established under specific legal enactments and their working is also governed by the provisions of the enactments. It is legally mandatory for such organisations established under various enactments to get their accounts audited. Hence, an audit of an organisation which is legally mandatory under any enactment is known as statutory audit.
In such an audit, the scope of the audit, the qualifications and disqualifications of the auditor, the rights and duties of the auditor, the remuneration of the auditor and other audit-related matters are usually specified in the enactments under which the organisations are established.
In relation to a statutory audit, the related enactment cannot be altered by an agreement, nor can the rights and duties of the auditor be reduced in any manner even though the same may be enhanced by mutual agreement. Hence, such an audit is often also referred to as compulsory audit. It is mandatory for the following organisations to get their accounts audited:
Statutory Audit Mandatory for the following organisations
- Joint Stock Companies registered under the Companies Act, 2013 or any previous Act.
- Banking companies covered under the Banking Companies Act, 1949.
- Insurance companies governed by the Insurance Companies Act, 1938.
- Co-operative societies registered under the co-operative societies acts of various states.
- Public and Charitable trusts registered under various enactments related to religion.
- Local governments and local authorities.
- Public Trusts registered under the Public Trusts Act.


February 15, 2013 will be remembered as the day the sky exploded over Russia. The day the Chelyabinsk meteorites arrived. A small asteroid entered the atmosphere traveling at tremendous speed. It was squeezed until it could not stand the pressure and exploded. The force of the blast was equivalent to about 500 kilotons of TNT. More than 1500 persons were injured and thousands of windows were blown out over a wide area of Russia near the event. Since then thousands of meteorites have been recovered. The largest piece of Chelyabinsk was pulled from the bottom of a lake and weighed hundreds of kilograms. Like all new fallen ordinary chondrites the meteorites were covered with a black fusion crust. Some of the pieces showed remarkable shock features. Some had veins of melted material which had been injected into cracks, other pieces showed large areas of dark glassy melted material. Chelyabinsk may be the meteorite fall of a lifetime. It is certainly an event thousands of Russian will tell their children and grandchildren about.
- Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Chelyabinsk
- The Search For Remains Of The Chelyabinsk Superbolide
- Wikipedia: Chelyabinsk


Hearing loss will cause a lot of inconvenience to our daily life. When we are unfortunate enough to suffer from hearing loss, we will definitely try our best to solve it and restore our hearing loss.
Although there are many ways to treat deafness, can hearing loss be restored?
For hearing loss, whether you can recover or not depends on the nature of your hearing loss.
In general, we divide hearing loss into three types: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed.
If you have a conductive hearing loss, after finding out the cause, such as otitis media, or hearing loss caused by embolism, then as long as you are treated in time, and then the treatment is successful, you can recover your hearing.
But if you are suffering from sensorineural or mixed, this is more troublesome. Both types of hearing loss are caused by hair cells and auditory centers. Basically, the hearing loss caused by them is irreversible. There is almost no possibility of treatment to restore hearing, and there is a tendency for hearing to decrease with age. The method of solving such deafness is currently to relieve hearing loss by wearing a hearing aid.
Link：Can hearing loss recover?REF: Hearing Aids, Bluetooth Hearing Aids, Digital Hearing Aids
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Situated inland between China and India, Nepal is home to eight of the world’s highest mountains, including Mount Everest, known as Sagarmatha to the locals. The Himalayan views, charming hillside villages, golden temples, and jungle wildlife combine to make a popular tourist attraction, and the many visitors boost this lovely country’s economy. “Bagmati River is the source of the civilization of Kathmandu Valley. Since ancient times, Lord Pashupatinath Temple is situated near Mrigasthali Forest, on the bank of Bagmati River.” “The importance of Lord Pashupatinath is immense, covering many centuries, and the prayers of the Lord Pashupatinath can be found in the Rigveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda, and Samaveda.” “There is a mention of the mantra, ‘Pashupati is the protector of all beings (in Sanskrit).’ People consider Lord Pashupatinath as the Savior, someone who uplifts and blesses all the beings. That is why the word ‘Pashupati’ has a greater significance. Because if there is someone who has the Supreme Power to remove darkness and ignorance from human beings, then that is Lord Pashupatinath.” “When Indra caught Lord Shiva (the deer) by his horn, it broke into three pieces. Out of those three pieces, one piece went to Heaven, another went to underworld, and the last piece remained in the mortal world, and this piece of Shiva which remained in the mortal world is Pashupatinath.” In 1979, Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal was registered as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).


The 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion was raised in Adelaide in June 1940. Each of the four companies came from a different state, and the entire battalion would not come together until they were sailing to the Middle East in April 1941.
The 2/3rd served in the Middle East until Japan entered the war. In 1942, three of its four companies began to return to Australia before being swept up in the Japanese push through South East Asia. The 2/3rd landed on Java in late February 1942 with the intention of defending the island. They joined other Australian, American and Dutch units to form Blackforce, and waited for the Japanese to land.
Blackforce went into action on 4 March, but were ordered to surrender only five days later. Those who survived spent the next three years as prisoners of war. 139 men from the 2/3rd would die in prison camps or working on the Thai-Burma railway.
The remaining B Company returned to Australia in March 1942 and became the core of a new 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion. They spent 1942 and most of 1943 stationed in Australia, including at Cowra's prisoner of war camp. They went on to support the 6th Division in the Aitape-Wewak campaign, fighting as individual infantry companies rather than a machine gun battalion.
This service is held close to the date when A, C and D Companies surrendered to the Japanese, and remembers the service and sacrifice of the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion. The Association is supported by students and staff of St. Bernard's College at the service.
- Shrine Governor Colonel Jason Cooke
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China’s economy continues to drive ahead powered by coal. They consume 50% of the world production. The use the cheap electricity produced by burning coal to manufacture inexpensive goods and then sell them all over the world.
Germany, on the other hand, has chosen to use cheap electricity to subsidize wind turbines and solar panels.
“At the center of Europe’s coal renaissance is the region around the German-Polish border, already home to five of Europe’s most polluting coal plants, says the report, which was compiled by CAN Europe, WWF, the European Environmental Bureau, the Health and Environment Alliance and Climate Alliance Germany. Swedish power firm Vattenfall GmbH is now planning to expand the number of open-cast mines in the Lausitz area to exploit its deposits of lignite, a particularly polluting type of coal.
Vattenfall says the Lausitz mines, with their vast deposits, are there to take up the slack when renewable energy sources fail to meet Germany’s needs. “Without flexible and reliable brown coal, we wouldn’t be able to provide stable electricity supplies at stable prices,” the company says on its website.”


Everything You Need to Know About World Cleanup Day
MoreApp cares about the environment, that is why we support "World Cleanup Day". This day is organised by movements from around the world, all on September 21. Discover everything you need to know about this global civic action to protect the planet from waste.
More and more action days are organised to tackle environmental issues. "World Cleanup Day" is one of them. With this blog we want to raise awareness about the worldwide clean up action and contribute to a cleaner globe. Keep reading to discover everything you need to know about this movement.
What is "World Cleanup Day"?
The "World Cleanup Day" movement started in Estonia, in 2008. Year after year, it has gathered more and more people from all parts of the world, who joined to get rid of the planet of trash. Last year, 18 million people gathered across 157 countries to collect waste on the planet. The main objective is to collaborate and cooperate towards the same goal: cleaning the planet. No matter what country you live in, no matter what your job is, and no matter what age you are, we all live on the same planet, everyone can participate. Every kind of barrier vanishes and that's also what makes "World Cleanup Day" beautiful.
Good Reasons to Take Part in "World Cleanup Day"?
- Living on the same planet, we call Home.
- Keeping the most beautiful places such as beaches, forests, rivers and cities, waste free.
- Giving the next generation the ability to preserve our environment.
- Having fun while cleaning!
- Finding solutions instead of focusing on the causes.
- Being part of a worldwide collective action.
How Can you Join the Movement?
We already signed up for the biggest waste collection day, what about you?
Register on the World Cleanup Day website to get ready for the September 21, 2019.
Meanwhile, discover the tips and tricks from the MoreApp team to reduce plastic waste.
Source: World Cleanup Day website


The use of gases
The EU has ambitious long-term climate targets. But solar and wind energy is intermittent and production potential is typically located far from traditional demand centres. To keep the costs of the energy transition low, large scale energy storage and transport will be required. Continued use of gas infrastructure can provide both – but gas consumption will need to transition away from natural (i.e. fossil fuel) gas and towards low-carbon gases such as biomethane and clean hydrogen. Frontier led a study for the European Commission looking into the policies required to facilitate the development of such gases.
Applying insights from past experience
Using our understanding of economics and of the energy sector, we developed a ‘benchmark’ policy framework that would result in the cost-effective deployment of low-carbon gases. In comparing existing EU and Member State policies to the benchmark, we were able to identify a number of additional potential reforms that had till that point not been identified by stakeholders.
Guiding the Commission’s work plan
Our findings improved the Commission’s evidence base for making new legislative proposals in the area. It has also prompted the Commission to examine certain topics, such as the regulation of hydrogen infrastructure and the role of gas distribution systems operators, in more detail.


False negatives are when you have SARS-CoV-2 but the test shows negative.
Negative results are presumptive, do not rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or patient management decisions, including infection control decisions.
False negatives may occur with improper use of the test kit.
Improper uses include:
- Performing the test with insufficient testing solution
- Improper/insufficient swabbing of the nostrils
- Not stirring the swab in the solution
- Not squeezing the swab within the tube to express liquid
- Adding too few drops to the test card
- Reading the test card before 15 minutes or after 30 minutes
Individuals who test negative and continue to experience COVID-19 like symptoms of fever, cough and/or shortness of breath may still have SARS-CoV-2 infection and should seek follow up care with their physician or healthcare provider.
Please self isolate per CDC recommendations if you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19
The iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test was compared to an FDA authorized molecular SARS-CoV-2 test using fresh self-collected or parent/guardian collected anterior nasal swab specimens and healthcare provider collected NP swab specimens. Subjects 2 years or older with or without symptoms participated in this study. The iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test correctly identified 33 out of 35 (94.3%) of symptomatic positive samples and correctly identified 102 out of 104 (98.1%) of symptomatic negative samples in this study.
Reporting a false negative
If you believe that you are positive for COVID-19 but still tested negative using an iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test, please email email@example.com with the following information
1. Photos of the outer box (the carton) and the front and back of the individual test kit packaging box. (UPC and lot number)
2. The date and time of your suspected false positive.
3. Any follow up test results? The types of tests those were, the dates and times those tests were taken and results received.
4. Where you purchased the test from, and if you have an order number and contact information for that purchase.


Healthy Attendance is a way of clarifying we want everyone to attend when they are healthy and able to be with us safely.
Key Strategies - Healthy Attendance
Reiterate that ill students and staff members should stay home.
Disseminate and provide support for the implementation of strategies outlined in Identifying and Responding to Student Engagement tiered-response protocol.
Utilize the PAUSD Attendance Flow Chart to systematically address attendance concerns.
Implement attendance interventions consistent with Identifying and Responding to Student Engagement and the PAUSD Attendance Flow Chart.
Conduct outreach to identified students and families to determine barriers to attendance.
Provide parent education on the importance of attendance.
Assign Student Success Coaches to students with significant attendance concerns (Tier 3).
Develop individualized attendance improvement plans for students who are chronically absent.
How will we measure progress? (Key Performance Indicators)
School sites properly coding students’ absences for consistency and compliance.
School sites servicing students and their families based on chronic absenteeism or habitual truancy needs.
Weekly attendance reports and follow-through with students and parents regarding absenteeism patterns will help to increase attendance.
Recognizing students for improved attendance.
Monthly meetings with school site attendance personnel to calibrate the tiered system for improving attendance.


This text examines the goals of data analysis with respect to enhancing knowledge, and identifies data summarization and correlation analysis as the core issues. Data summarization, both quantitative and categorical, is treated within the encoder-decoder paradigm bringing forward a number of mathematically supported insights into the methods and relations between them. Two Chapters describe methods for categorical summarization: partitioning, divisive clustering and separate cluster finding and another explain the methods for quantitative summarization, Principal Component Analysis and PageRank.
· An in-depth presentation of K-means partitioning including a corresponding Pythagorean decomposition of the data scatter.
· Advice regarding such issues as clustering of categorical and mixed scale data, similarity and network data, interpretation aids, anomalous clusters, the number of clusters, etc.
· Thorough attention to data-driven modelling including a number of mathematically stated relations between statistical and geometrical concepts including those between goodness-of-fit criteria for decision trees and data standardization, similarity and consensus clustering, modularity clustering and uniform partitioning.
New edition highlights:
· Inclusion of ranking issues such as Google PageRank, linear stratification and tied rankings median, consensus clustering, semi-average clustering, one-cluster clustering
· Restructured to make the logics more straightforward and sections self-contained
Core Data Analysis: Summarization, Correlation and Visualization is aimed at those who are eager to participate in developing the field as well as appealing to novices and practitioners.


Here is a simple and practical way to honor the Holy Spirit and bring His sevenfold gifts upon you.
The Chaplet of the Holy Spirit was composed in 1892 by a Franciscan Capuchin missionary and was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1902.
This rosary consists of five groups of seven beads each. Before and after each group there are two large beads, that is twelve large beads in all. In addition, there are three small beads at the beginning. On these three beads one makes the sign of the Cross, recites an Act of Contrition and the hymn Come, Holy Ghost.
In each group, the Glory be to the Father is said on the seven small beads, an Our Father and a Hail Mary on the two large beads. On the remaining two large beads are said the Apostles' Creed and an Our Father and Hail Mary for the intention of the Holy Father.
There is a mystery for each of the five groups; the number five commemorating the Five Wounds of Jesus which are the foundations of grace which the Holy Spirit imparts to all people.
This faceted red bead chaplet has a depiction of the Holy Spirit as a dove on the one side of the pewter medal, the Holy Family on the other. Includes prayer instruction.


In R. Cohen Kadosh & A. Dowker (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of numerical cognition (pp. 1020-1038). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
This chapter is an overview of central research-based perspectives that support teaching-learning for understanding and for fluency. We summarize the Class Learning Path Model that integrates two theoretical foci – a Piagetian focus on learning and a Vygotskiian focus on teaching – and specifies phases in learning that reflect Vygotsky’s assertion about the move from spontaneous to scientific concepts. Major aspects of the model were drawn from national research-based reports. This model connects understanding and fluency with a focus on mathematically important but also accessible methods in the middle and on maths drawings and other supports for understanding these methods. Such methods can be generated by students and can bridge from less-advanced student methods to formal methods that are unnecessarily complex. For three maths domains in Grades Kindergarten through Grade 6, we illustrate and discuss methods in the middle and drawings (diagrams) that support these methods: problem solving and especially the full range of word problem situations with each quantity the unknown; multidigit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; and ratio and proportion. Central features of the Common Core State Standards Mathematical Practices (CCSSO/NGA 2010) in these domains are identified, and how these can support understanding and fluency are briefly discussed. Further aspects of how the pedagogical supports help students move through the Class Learning Path in their own individual ways, and implications for research and for designing maths programmes are then discussed.


Manufacturers operating under the aegis of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos in February submitted applications for obtaining registration of a ventilator for newly-born babies and a medical gas mixer.
“The pneumatically driven and manually controlled machine is meant for providing respiratory support for newly-born babies in apnea or condition of grave respiratory deficiency in the first minutes after birth,” Roscosmos said.
The medical gas mixer is used to form an oxygen and air mixture with a variable percentage of oxygen. The ventilator and gas mixer will be used in maternity homes, departments providing treatment to newly-born babies with pathologies and in intensive care wards.
The corporation said space rocket industry enterprises manufacture a wide range of medical items for intensive care, surgery, neonatology, cardiography, roentgenography, and oncology.
In late December 2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus – named COVID-19 by the WHO – have been reported in every corner of the globe, including Russia.
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. To date, more than 900,000 people have been infected worldwide and over 45,000 deaths have been reported.
So far, a total of 2,777 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 190 patients having recovered from the illness. The country’s latest data indicates 30 fatalities nationwide. Earlier, the Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public informed about the coronavirus situation.
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NOTE: All these utility things only work on dev tools console. They will not work in scripts.
The page used is https://example.com
You can use
$_ to get the last evaluated value.
You can use these to reference recently accessed elements in the console. You can access elements using the "Elements" tab.
$0 returns the most recently accessed element,
$1 returns the second most recently accessed variable, the rest of these works in the same way.
- Accessing an element
- Referencing the element in the console
You can use these utility functions to find an element in the document.
$() is basically an alias for
$$() is for
For both of these function, the first parameter is the selector you want to find, i.e. -
$('.sel') basically means
There is also an optional second parameter, this should be a
Element in which the selector should be searched. Like before,
$('.sel', element) basically means
$$('.sels', element) means
You can use this utility function to copy the string representation of any object to the clipboard.
keys() is just an alias for the
Object.keys method and
values() is alias for the
Saving a logged object in the console
Multiline text with
Enter key combination
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Three emerging forces are shaping the landscape of STEM education: growing student diversity, increasing academic rigor of content standards, and advancing technological innovations. The convergence of broadening participation in STEM subjects through technological innovations represents the lives of students and teachers in classrooms and informal educational settings. As disciplinary practices in STEM subjects (e.g., develop models, argue from evidence, construct explanations) are language intensive, engagement in these practices presents both learning opportunities and demands to all students, especially English learners. The presentation will address contemporary perspectives on how to integrate three-dimensional science learning, language learning, and computational thinking with all students, including English learners. First, the presentation will briefly describe science (NGSS) and language instructional shifts. Then, it will describe how we integrate computational thinking and modeling into NGSS-aligned instruction. Participants will engage in a short computational thinking and modeling activity, and hear about preliminary results from field testing. Using classroom examples, this presentation will highlight the mutually supportive nature of instructional shifts in STEM learning and second language learning.
Presenters: Okhee Lee and Alison Haas (New York University)
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INTRODUCTION: The conceptualization of skilled hand movements (praxis) may be grounded in hemispherically specialized functions. However, a left-hemispherical advantage of (tool-use) pantomime gestures and a right-hemispherical advantage of spatial gestures may be more prominent in right-handed than left-handed individuals. We therefore investigated the hypothesis that right-handed but not left-handed individuals show a superiority of the left hemisphere (/right-hand preference) for the execution of pantomime (rotation of an object) gestures as well as a right-hemispherical superiority (/left-hand preference) for gestures that depict spatial information (/positioning of an object).
METHODS: 20 right- and 20 left-handed participants were asked in two experiments to demonstrate with their two hands how to move tachistoscopically (in the left (LVF) or right visual hemifields (RVF)) presented geometric objects of different rotations into an identical final position. Two independent blind raters evaluated the videotaped hand gestures employing the Neuropsychological Gesture (NEUROGES) Coding System.
RESULTS: In contrast to left-handed individuals, right-handed individuals present increased pantomime - rotation gestures with the right hand and pantomime - position gestures with the left hand during stimuli presentation in either visual field. Left-handers showed significantly increased left-hand pantomime - rotation gestures during stimulus presentation within the LVF (only).
DISCUSSION: Right-handed individuals increase their pantomime - rotation gestures with the right hand to depict motion but use their left hand for pantomime - position gestures to describe spatial relations of the objects. Left-handers do not show a clear lateralization of the right and left hand with regards to either handedness or hemispherically lateralized motor functions. The hemispherical lateralization of praxis functions is therefore more pronounced in right-handed than left-handed individuals.
|Publication status||Published - 05.11.2022|
Research areas and keywords
- Functional Laterality
- Concept Formation
- Visual Fields


Music for life
Promoting social engagement and wellbeing in older people through community supported participation in musical activities.
This research explored the role of music in older people’s lives and how participation in making music, particularly in community settings can enhance their social, emotional and cognitive well-being.
It focussed on the reciprocal processes by which personal attributes of participants in music making interact with contextual factors to impact upon the benefits that older people derive from music-making.
The research comprised of three case studies, which each offered a variety of musical activities to older people:
the Sage, Gateshead
the Connect Programme of the Guildhall School of Music
Westminster Adult Education Service,
In each case study, a large sample of older people (up to 500) some of whom have recently begun musical activities (novices), others who are more experienced were recruited to complete questionnaires and psychological needs scales related to autonomy, competence and relatedness before and after a substantial period of active engagement with music.
Data collection was also included in depth interviews with a representative sample of participants, observations of musical activities and focus group interviews following the observations, and interviews with the musicians facilitating or teaching the activities.
Measures of well being were consistently higher amongst the music participants (n=398) than amongst the comparison group (n=102).
There was some positive change over time on quality of life measures, for those involved in musical activities.
Participants reported social, cognitive, emotional and health benefits of participation in music.
Some barriers to participation were identified, relating to access to information, structural, dispositional and social issues.
Facilitators of musical activities with older people had specific training needs but few opportunities for CPD.
Facilitators played a key role in fostering positive outcomes.
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For more information, read the full project details.


Psychology Mental Illness and Psychopathy
Mental Illness and PsychopathyConsider mental illness and psychopathy on different spectrums each with their own specific set of characteristics. Is it possible to have mental disorders and not be mentally ill? Is it possible to have some of the characteristics of a psychopath without being a true psychopath? The terminology used to describe offenders has significant influence on their sentencing, treatment, and potential community reintegration. As professional practitioners you must learn to avoid stereotypes and focus on the facts of each case, the offenders, and their victim-offender relationships. What is critical for you in this week is to be able to differentiate between mental illness and psychopathy. It is very easy to focus solely on the behavior of an individual, especially in cases of extreme violent behavior, and deem them to be “crazy.” Indeed, the behavior is often “crazy,” but the individual does not meet the legal standard to be considered “insane.”In this Discussion you will evaluate case studies to determine the Hare scale level of psychopathy of the offender.To prepareReview the factors on the Hare’s scale.Review the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.Review the Cleckley article “Behind the Mask of Sanity” located in the Learning Resources. Select two cases from the article to use in for this Discussion.Compare two case studies from “The Mask of Sanity.”Based on the Hare’s scale, which subject has the higher level of psychopathy?What is your basis for rating the subjects?Cite evidence for your opinion.


Almost every country has certain stereotypes people ascribe to them. These stereotypes, which are often picked up from movies or just mere hearsays, may have an iota of truth while others are just mere generalisations.
Cuba has a long history with the rest of the world and the media usually presents the Spanish Caribbean nation through the lens of the U.S. foreign policy against the country.
For about half a century, Western governments and free-market think tanks have had Cuba on their list of countries not worthy of emulating. The sanctimony of the Western classical liberal thought is now under severe test as the communist island continues to make international headlines for offering up its doctors in international service.
Yet, Cuba is not a rich country nor is it a country embracing classical European liberalism. Indeed, Europeans and Americans, at least, those who are not interested in vacationing in Havana, think the least of Cuba.
For decades, U.S. embargoes have sealed opportunities for the Cuban people. The feat Cuba has reached as one of the countries with the highest literacy rates and production of doctors is shocking in view of what the U.S. has sought to prevent.
There are certain stereotypes people associate with Cubans and Face2Face Africa is here to debunk them.


Per recent academics question and answer asked over students to claim what they ponder is the most crucial important challenge for a student to do to be able to achieve success. One that response stood out from the rest was practice. People who surely are successful do not become successful by being born. They work hard and perseverance their lives to succeeding. This is how you can obtain your goals. in this article, are one of the answer and question example that you can utilize to practice and expand your information and also give you insights that will guide you to preserve your study in school.
Which type of rhetoric is used in this sentence? While I’m certain some will disagree with what I’m about to say, I respectfully ask them to listen to the evidence I will provide to support my claim
Ethos is the form of rhetoric device that is used in the sentence given above.
What is ethos?
Ethos is a rhetorical device, which is used to express the emotions of the speaker in the poem by the poet in such a way that the intention of persuading the audience is maintained.
Ethos is generally used with pathos and logos as the other types of rhetorical device in the sentence to bring more gravitas in the structure of the sentence.
Hence, the significance of ethos is given above.
Learn more about ethos here:
From the answer and question examples above, hopefully, they can definitely assist the student resolve the question they had been looking for and keep in mind of each thing declared in the answer above. You would certainly then have a discussion with your classmate and continue the school learning by studying the problem collectively.


Those who have elevated levels of anti -Mullerian hormone (AMH are 60 per cent more likely to develop breast cancer.
A new study now suggests that women with high levels of a hormone that can be detected using a simple blood test may have higher risk of breast cancer.
According to the study, those who have elevated levels of anti -Mullerian hormone (AMH) – which indicates the size of a woman's ovarian reserve – are 60 per cent more likely to develop breast cancer compared to women with low levels of the hormone.
Researchers from New York University (NYU) School of Medicine examined blood samples from almost 6,000 premenopausal women across the US and Europe.
Post ananlysis, they found that those with the highest levels of the hormone were more likely to develop breast cancer.
Publishing their finding in the International Journal of Cancer, the authors said the hormone is a 'possible biomarker' for breast cancer.
Speaking about the study, lead author Professor Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, from NYU School of Medicine, said that the link they found between anti-Mullerian hormone and breast cancer risk is interesting because few markers of risk in the blood have been identified for premenopausal women.
He added, “Our study found a moderate risk increase and we hope additional markers can now be found to help substantially improve individual risk prediction.”
Co-author Anthony Swerdlow, professor of epidemiology at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, who leads the Breast Cancer Now Generations Study, added that in the future, anti-Mullerian hormone could be factored into new ways of predicting individual women's risk of developing the disease.


In 1936, Ford introduced their new tail light design. The new design was a major improvement over the previous year’s model and quickly became popular with consumers. The new tail lights were much brighter and more visible than the old ones, making them safer to use at night.
When it comes to classic cars, there are few that can rival the 1936 Ford. This vehicle is truly a timeless piece of automotive history, and its tail lights are one of its most iconic features. The 1936 Ford tail lights were some of the first ever designed with a “teardrop” shape, and they remain one of the most distinctive and recognizable designs to this day.
If you’re lucky enough to own a classic Ford from this era, then you know just how special these tail lights truly are.
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What are the Dimensions of the 1936 Ford Tail Lights
The 1936 Ford tail lights were rectangular, measuring approximately 4 inches by 7 inches. They had a glass lens with a metal reflector, and were mounted on the rear fenders of the car. The bulbs used in the tail lights were 6-volt incandescent, and they burned out relatively frequently.
This was a common problem with early taillights, and many companies began offering replacement bulbs that were more durable.
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In the 1930s, Ford Motor Company released a new line of cars that included the first ever mass-produced tail lights. These new taillights were a big improvement over the previous model and quickly became popular with consumers. The 1936 Ford was the first car to feature these new tail lights, and they quickly became a signature feature of Ford’s vehicles.
Today, original 1936 Ford tail lights are highly sought after by collectors and can fetch a high price at auction.


The Mirror of Erised is a magical object that has been a part of the Harry Potter universe since the first book in the series. In “Order of the Phoenix,” Harry Potter receives a shard of the mirror from Sirius Black, his godfather.
Sirius Black, also known as Padfoot, was a member of the Order of the Phoenix and a close friend of Harry’s parents. He was framed for the murder of Harry’s parents and sent to Azkaban prison, where he spent twelve years. After escaping, Sirius joined the Order of the Phoenix and became a mentor to Harry.
The Mirror of Erised is a powerful magical object that allows people to see their deepest desires. When Harry looks into the mirror, he sees his parents alive and well. Sirius gives Harry the shard of the mirror as a gift, telling him that it will help him find what he seeks.
Harry puts the shard in his school trunk and forgets about it until he is older. When he finally retrieves it, he discovers that it is part of a larger set of mirrors that allow people to communicate with each other. Harry uses the mirror to communicate with Sirius after his death.
The Mirror of Erised is a powerful symbol of the bond between Harry and Sirius. Sirius gave Harry the shard as a reminder that he was always there for him, even after his death. It is a reminder of the power of friendship and love, and a reminder that even in death, Sirius will always be with Harry.


Nirvana or Paranirvana Day, dedicated to contemplation and spirituality in places set aside for spiritual retreat, is celebrated on 8 February. This celebration coincides with the day on which the Buddha attained the Final Nirvana, attaining bliss beyond the physical body.
Nirvana is a Sanskrit word meaning "extinguished". It is a fundamental concept in the religions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, referring to the supreme state of bliss attained by the soul, freed from suffering (dukkha), individual consciousness and pain through various spiritual techniques and practices.
The true meaning of the word Nirvana means "extinction of breath or restlessness". It is the state of mind of one who is definitely free from his own body and the suffering of human life.
The celebration of the day of Nirvana, which first took root in East Asia, has spread throughout the world. This day is, moreover, celebrated today by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, because even though Nirvana originally belonged to a particular cult, the values it evokes are indeed universal.
It is precisely because of this universal dimension that Nirvana Day is celebrated throughout Europe and America with great admiration and openness to Eastern cultures.
The celebration of Nirvana Day usually includes the reading of some passages from the Nirvana Sutra, thus revisiting the very last days of Buddha's life. Meditation and visits to Buddhist temples are particularly encouraged on this day.
For non-Buddhists, it is essentially a time for serenity with oneself. You will be asked to meditate and think about your own death and that of your loved ones.
Every opportunity is good to start a deep reflection on human nature, life and death. The day of Nirvana is undoubtedly one of them, and not the least.
Stages of Nirvana
According to Buddhist philosophy, there are four stages to reach Nirvana:
Reaching the level of Nirvana through the purification of the mind is a personal process that is no easy task. It requires a lot of preparation, perseverance and dedication to achieve this state of mind and inner balance through the execution of spiritual activities, practices and techniques.


A Nice story to convey how hatred affects you.
A kindergarten teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bagcontaining a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates.So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.
So when the day came, each child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go for 1 week.
Days after days passed by, and the children started to complaining of smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended. The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?”. The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.
Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. She said: “This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime ?”
Moral of the story: Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take!
Love Everyone & Be Loved!


By Scott Bolthouse | The Huron Hub
Published April 21, 2020
Facebook announced measures last week that it’s taking to prevent and limit the spread of misinformation posted to the social media platform during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Stopping the spread of misinformation and harmful content about COVID-19 on our apps is also critically important. That’s why we work with over 60 fact-checking organizations that review and rate content in more than 50 languages around the world. In the past month, we’ve continued to grow our program to add more partners and languages,” the social media company said in a statement.
“Once a piece of content is rated false by fact-checkers, we reduce its distribution and show warning labels with more context. Based on one fact-check, we’re able to kick off similarity detection methods that identify duplicates of debunked stories,” Facebook said.
Facebook said during the month of March, they displayed warnings on about 40 million posts related to COVID-19 on Facebook, based on about 4,000 articles by their independent fact-checking partners.
“When people saw those warning labels, 95% of the time they did not go on to view the original content,” Facebook said.
To date, Facebook says it has removed hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation that could lead to imminent physical harm.
“Examples of misinformation we’ve removed include harmful claims like drinking bleach cures the virus and theories like physical distancing is ineffective in preventing the disease from spreading.”
Additionally, Facebook is informing users who interacted with fraudulent COVID-19 claims, and added a new section to their COVID-19 Information Center called “Get the Facts” that includes fact-checked articles from our partners that debunk misinformation about the coronavirus.


Note: This caption refers to the image versions labeled "NASA's Earth Observatory web site".
The Lazio region of central Italy has many landforms of volcanic origin, including several large lakes that mark the locations of ancient volcanoes. This astronaut photograph from the International Space Station highlights two such lakes, Lago di Vico and Lago Bracciano, located to the northwest of the capital city of Rome. Both lakes are located within calderas, large depressions that form after violent explosive eruptions empty a volcano's underlying magma chamber. Any remnants of the volcanic edifice can then collapse into the newly-formed void space, leading to the creation of large depressions. These depressions can then fill partially or completely with water, forming permanent lakes.
Lago Bracciano (image right) is the larger of the two lakes highlighted in the image; it is approximately 8 km wide at its widest point, and is located 32 km northwest of Rome. The volcanic activity that led to the formation of Lago Bracciano began approximately 600,000 years ago and continued to approximately 40,000 years ago as part of the formation of the Sabatini volcanic complex. While part of the lake formation was due to caldera collapse of part of a large magma chamber, the current depression was also formed by movement along numerous faults in the area- a process known as volcano-tectonic collapse.
Located approximately 24 km to the north-northwest of Lago Bracciano, Lago di Vico (image left) occupies part of a caldera associated with eruptive activity that began approximately 800,000 years ago and continued until approximately 90,000 years ago. The caldera formed largely by the catastrophic eruption of the ancestral Vico volcano approximately 200,000-150,000 years ago. The final phase of volcanic activity in the caldera led to the formation of a small lava cone in the NE quadrant known as Mount Venus.
The extent of the lakes of Bracciano and Vico are readily apparent in this image due to sunglint - light reflecting back towards the observer from the water surfaces. This reflection gives a mirror-like sheen to the water surfaces in the image. Dark green forested areas associated with parks are visible near both lakes, while light gray to white regions indicate built areas - such as the city of Viterbo at image left - and tilled fields (image top center).


Artificial intelligence (AI) is all about getting a machine to mimic a human in every way: thought, speech, movement. That's why one of the tests for AI is the Turing test: whether a robot can fool a human into thinking it is conversing with another of its own species.
An integral part of accomplishing this is making the AI recognize human emotions. So one research lab is working on the next iteration of virtual assistants, those that can recognize and react to emotional cues. SRI International, the birthplace of Siri, is working on better chatbots and phone assistants that can detect agitation, confusion, and other emotional states, and respond accordingly.
The technology, called SenSay Analytics, is envisioned to analyze human behaviour that can indicate emotion, like typing patterns, speech tone, facial expressions, and body movements. This would then be used to tailor the machine's reaction. For example, a virtual assistant, via phone or face-to-face, would slow down when the customer is confused, or try to explain what it is doing. Current tech can actually detect emotion already, but it is the reaction side that SRI is trying to polish.
Being like Her
Ever watch Her? The movie actually depicts the logical endgame of this technology, where a natural language assistant can interact and predict the needs of the user, without a humanoid body.
Although the film also showed the imperfection of human-like AI, the movie illustrates the need for adequate language and emotional understanding in the technology. In the future, our chatbots would have to be able to break down the nuances of language and human emotion, in order to actually understand what humans are saying.
These developments from SRI could be a piece of that puzzle, interpreting verbal and non-verbal cues in order to gauge and react to emotion.


Understanding science can actually promote faith in spirituality and God. While science and religion are considered to be conflicting subjects by most Americans, a new study from Arizona State University (ASU) suggests that an understanding of science can actually promote faith and religion. The researchers found that scientific facts can create a feeling of awe, which leads to belief in more abstract views of God.
“There are many ways of thinking about God. Some see God in DNA, some think of God as the universe, and others think of God in Biblical, personified terms,” said study lead author Professor Kathryn Johnson. “We wanted to know if scientific engagement influenced beliefs about the existence or nature of God.”
Study co-author and graduate student Jordan Moon explained that, even though science is often thought of in terms of data and experiments, it may mean more to some people.
The research team examined two types of scientific engagement – logical thinking or experiencing the feeling of awe – to get a better understanding of how they may affect an individual’s religious beliefs.
The study participants were asked to report on how interested they were in science and how committed they were to logical thinking. The individuals were also asked how often they felt awe, or an overwhelming feeling of wonder that often leads to open-mindedness.
The participants who reported both a strong commitment to logic and having experienced awe were found to be the most likely to have faith in God. These individuals commonly described God in an abstract and unconventional way, as being mystical or limitless.
“When people are awed by the complexity of life or the vastness of the universe, they were more inclined to think in more spiritual ways,” said Professor Johnson. “The feeling of awe might make people more open to other ways of conceptualizing God.”
“A lot of people think science and religion do not go together, but they are thinking about science in too simplistic a way and religion in too simplistic a way,” said study senior author Professor Adam Cohen. “Science is big enough to accommodate religion, and religion is big enough to accommodate science.”
The study is published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
By Chrissy Sexton, Earth.com Staff Writer
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The lottery is a form of gambling that involves randomly drawing numbers. While some governments outlaw this activity, others endorse it and even organize national and state lotteries. If you’re thinking of playing the Lottery, make sure you’re aware of the hidden costs associated with it. The lottery can be a big money-sucker.
Lottery is a form of gambling
Lottery is a type of gambling, which randomly selects winners from those who buy tickets. These winners may receive a cash prize or goods, such as vacations or sports team drafts. Although a form of gambling, lotteries are generally legal and raise money for good causes.
It is run by state governments
The lottery is a game of chance operated by state governments to provide a large cash prize for those who buy tickets. Typically, players can buy one ticket for a dollar or less, and in exchange, they can have a chance to win millions of dollars. The number of people playing the lottery far exceeds the number of prizes awarded, ensuring a profit for the sponsoring state.
It is a game of luck
There’s no denying that winning a lottery prize is a matter of luck. Like blindfolded tennis, the outcome depends largely on chance. But the more people play a lottery game, the lower the odds are. The odds of winning MegaMillions and Powerball are one in one hundred and seventy-five million.
It is a form of hidden tax
Many people feel that the lottery is a form of hidden tax because the government collects more money from lottery players than they spend. Others disagree, arguing that it is not a tax. They say that a balanced taxation system is more effective and that taxing one good more than another would distort the market and deprive consumers of that good.
It offers a cash jackpot option
If you’ve ever won a lottery jackpot and have chosen to receive it in a lump sum, you might be wondering if you should go for the annuity option or the cash payout. Obviously, the annuity option will give you a bigger portion of the jackpot, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all decision. For instance, if you need the money now, you may want to go for the cash payout, while if you’re more experienced with investing, you may want to consider the annuity option.


The Green Party of Ontario’s first legislation, the Paris Galt Moraine Conservation Act, was introduced on February 20, 2019. If passed, this legislation would protect the drinking water of nearly 200,000 people in the Guelph region.
“It’s time we started taking seriously our sacred responsibility to leave a liveable planet for our children and grandchildren,” said Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party. “Let’s begin in Guelph by putting public drinking water ahead of private interests.”
Guelph is one of the largest cities in Canada that relies solely on groundwater. The region surrounding the Paris Galt Moraine, which includes Brant County, Waterloo, Dufferin, and Simcoe, is expected to grow to one million people by 2041. If passed, the legislation would ensure that only land use consistent with preserving the ecological integrity of the Paris Galt Moraine would be permitted.
“For decades the people of Guelph have shown the province how to responsibly use water and what it means to defend water against private interests,” said Schreiner. “Now climate change and sprawl are putting even more strain on our water supply, so we must take action to protect what’s left.”
Schreiner intentionally modelled the bill after the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, which was brought in by a PC government in 2001, hoping to find common ground on the economic case for protecting the moraines.
“I hope the government sees the financial value of this legislation,” said Schreiner. “The moraine provides water at no cost to citizens. But if the resource is degraded, government will be on the hook for millions in water infrastructure to replace what nature can do for free.”


Converting Coin Values
Converting Coins: Learn
Converting between coins involves finding a coin or group of coins that have the same value in cents.
- A dime is worth 10 cents and is equal to 2 nickels or 10 pennies.
- A nickel is worth 5 cents and is equal to 5 pennies. Two nickels have the same value as 1 dime.
- A penny is worth 1 cent. Five pennies have the same value as 1 nickel. Ten pennies have the same value as 1 dime.
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What is Vector Graphics? Vector Graphics or Bitmap Graphics?
Vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics)
is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons,
which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer
Vector graphics is an alternative to raster graphics, which is the representation
of images as an array of pixels, as it is typically used for the representation
of photographic images.
Advantages to this style of drawing over raster graphics:
This minimal amount of information translates to a much smaller file size
compared to large raster images (the size of representation doesn't depend
on the dimensions of the object), though a vector graphic with a small file
size is often said to lack detail compared with a real world photo.
Correspondingly, one can indefinitely zoom in on e.g. a circle arc, and
it remains smooth. On the other hand, a polygon representing a curve will
reveal being not really curved.
On zooming in, lines and curves need not get wider proportionally. Often
the width is either not increased or less than proportional. On the other
hand, irregular curves represented by simple geometric shapes may be made
proportionally wider when zooming in, to keep them looking smooth and not
like these geometric shapes.
The parameters of objects are stored and can be later modified. This means
that moving, scaling, rotating, filling etc. doesn't degrade the quality
of a drawing. Moreover, it is usual to specify the dimensions in device-independent
units, which results in the best possible rasterization on raster devices.
From a 3-D perspective, rendering shadows is also much more realistic
with vector graphics, as shadows can be abstracted into the rays of light which
form them. This allows for photorealistic images and renderings.
Source - Wikipedia.org


Groundbreaking books have peered into the psychology of bullying and the cultural climate that -- seemingly now more than ever -- gives rise to such cruelty and aggression. But few have been able to synthesize what we know into 8 simple, targeted "keys" that equip educators, professionals, and parents with practical strategies to tackle the issue head-on. This book answers that call.
Social media bullying -- and the recent tragedies stemming from it -- has given the widespread problem a new dimension. While no magic cure-all exists, adults can learn and implement all sorts of quick and easy techniques that can make a huge difference in the lives of kids. In 8 core strategies, this book lays them out, from establishing meaningful connections with kids to creating a positive school climate, addressing cyberbullying, building social emotional competence, reaching out to bullies, empowering bystanders, and much more.
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|Publisher||W. W. Norton & Company|
|Series Name||8 Keys to Mental Health|
|Category||Bullying, Parent / Child Relationships, Physical / Emotional Development|
|Parenting Books Age||Child / School Age, Pre-Teen, Teen|


Did you register for the 115th Christmas Bird Count?
The Christmas Bird Count is the longest running Citizen Science survey in the world. This year it runs from Dec. 14, 2014 through January 5, 2015.
What is the Christmas Bird Count?
It is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually by volunteer birdwatchers and administered by the National Audubon Society.
Each count is performed on one day during the specified date range in a count circle with a diameter of 15 miles. Each count circle has at least ten volunteers. These volunteers break into small parties and follow assigned route, counting every bird they see and hear. Some volunteers may count from feeders at their homes.
The results are then submitted to Audubon. The data collected by observers allows researchers to study the health and status of bird populations across North America. It also allows biologists to see how bird populations have changed over the years.
The bird count data can serve as an indication of environmental health. A decline in bird populations may indicate habitat fragmentation, groundwater contamination, or negative effects of pesticides.
The research from this count can also be used to manage bird populations. In the 1980s the data documented the decline of wintering populations of the American Black Duck. Therefore, hunting pressures on this species were reduced in an effort to conserve the species.
How to Participate
Search the Audubon map for a Christmas Bird Count circle near you and contact the local compiler in advance of the count day to arrange to participate. Birders of all experience levels are welcome to participate. Inexperienced birders will be paired with seasoned bird counters. There is no fee to join the Christmas Bird Count..
If you haven’t already registered, you may be too late to register for this season. As an alternative, you may be interested in the Great Backyard Bird Count which takes place President’s Day weekend each February. During this count you may count the birds in your backyard and enter the results online.
You can learn more about the Christmas Bird Count in this video.
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I understand how helpful samples are when experimenting with using new technologies for learning. Even after you have a clear picture of how you want to use a new tool in your class, you will soon ask, “Hmmm…and how am I going to grade the activity?”
Rubrics can be very helpful to instructors and students. When you develop a rubric for an assignment, it forces you to make important decisions about the criteria you will use to assign credit. It’s helpful to make a brief list of the criteria categories (keep them simple and few for quick grading — if there is such a thing) and then distribute a maximum number of points to each criteria category. Then ask yourself to identify what qualifies for “partial” and “full” points in each criteria category.
Share each rubric with your students before the activity begins so they have an opportunity to review what your expectations are. Include a note on the rubric to your students that clearly states you will be using the rubric to grade their activities/assignments. You’ll find that this will dramatically reduce the “grade negotiation” sessions in your life and students will appreciate understanding exactly what you expect of them.
In an effort to help, I’m sharing a simple VoiceThread rubric that may be a resource for you or someone you know. I’ve shared it under a CC0 public domain mark which releases it into the public domain (i.e. you don’t need to attribute me if you use it in your own class).
Click here to download the VoiceThread Rubric.


A staircase is a set of steps that is used to access different levels within a building. Staircases can be constructed using a variety of materials, including wood, concrete, steel, and stone, and are typically designed to be functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing.
There are several different types of staircases, including straight stairs, which have a single flight of steps, and winding or circular stairs, which have a curved or spiral configuration. Staircases may include decorative elements such as balustrades, handrails, and newel posts, which enhance their visual appeal and provide additional support.
In modern and contemporary architecture, staircases are often designed to be more than just functional elements. They can be used to make a statement or to create a visual impact within a space. For example, a staircase might be designed with a unique shape or materials, such as glass or steel, to add visual interest and create a sense of drama within the space. Staircases can also be used to connect different areas of a building in a way that is visually striking and dynamic.
The design of a staircase is governed by a set of building codes and standards, which specify requirements for things such as the width and height of the steps, the slope of the stairs, and the spacing of handrails. These codes are in place to ensure the safety and accessibility of the staircase for all users.


I spent the last hour transfixed by deep sea footage at the YouTube channel of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ship Okeanos Explorer. It is worth a leisurely visit. The first video presented below is from an expedition exploring Puerto Rico’s seamounts, trenches, and troughs, shot at a depth of 2100 meters, or 6,890 feet. The second is a short but extraordinary video of a sea cucumber “in flight.” For best viewing, use the full-screen option.
From NOAA’s Ocean Facts webpage:
Found only in salt water, more than a thousand species of sea cucumbers exist around the world. These squishy invertebrates are echinoderms, making them distant relatives to starfish and urchins. Unlike starfish or sea urchins, the bodies of sea cucumbers are covered with soft, leathery skin instead of hard spines.
If you ever encounter a sea cuke and he feels threatened, you could be in for a surprise. Some sea cucumbers shoot sticky threads at their enemies, entangling and confusing predators. Others can violently contract their muscles and shoot some of their internal organs out of their rear ends. The missing body parts are quickly regenerated.
Most sea cucumbers are scavengers, moving along the seafloor and feeding on tiny particles of algae or microscopic marine animals collected with tube feet that surround their mouths. The particles they grind down to smaller pieces are further broken down by bacteria and become part of the ocean’s nutrient cycle. This is a similar role to that which earthworms perform on land.
Sea cucumbers are enjoyed as meals for other critters such as fish and crabs. In some places, especially Asia, sea cucumbers are considered a delicacy and are enjoyed by humans.
Sea cukes are certainly a little odd, and definitely not something you’d ever find in your garden.
More NOAA links:
NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer webpage
NOAA’s Ocean Explorer YouTube channel


Want Peace at Home, in School, on the Beach, in the Office and around the world? :: Participate in world peace day crafts
OK. Here are lots of creative tips and craft ideas to create a personal World Peace Day. The official World Peace day is September 21, but feel free to celebrate peace any other day as well.
Peace Symbols, Pictures of Peace and More
These free craft patterns and designs include Peace Symbols and Pictures of Peace, and offer ideas to make your own versions.
World Peace Day Crafts & Activities for Adults
image credit: Peace Tree InternationalPeace Symbol Tree. Feel the urge to apply a Peace Symbol to your crafty project, but not use the traditional circle with the special cross inside? There are many alternative Peace symbols around the world.
Creating peaceful group statements in public places. Organize it through your church community, your local council, your public school or sports club.
For a fundsraising drive, bake lots of peace cakes.
Make a Peaceful Statement in the Office. Busy but still want to do ‘something’ to help raise awareness that it is US WHO MUST CREATE PEACE in our world? Rather than to design your own, simply print any of these interesting copyright-free world peace posters designs. Print one or print all! ~ They are beautiful and have inspirational peace symbols and slogans.
World Peace Slogans, Symbols and Craft for Kids
- Say it! Collage your own world peace poster design by cutting phrases out of newsprint and magazines, and gluing them together on your own personalized peace poster. Of course, you can add your own peace symbol drawings as well. Click on the image on the left to get a larger version of the poster for inspiration and ideas for peace slogans and/or pictures.
- Drawing & Coloring World Peace Symbols. A circle of friends around the globe is a children craft activity that depicts a connection between people of all races and all countries. By Crayola, complete with teachers instructions. Also consider world peace coloring pages for kids by TheColor.com.
- Peace Lantern, a fun & simple craft to make in school or at home on world peace day.
Hopefully this list of ideas will get your creative juices going and your plans in action to make this upcoming World Peace day in September a really special day.
For a personally peaceful day, consider making this really cute peace symbol necklace.


Gateway Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gateway Nunatak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Nunatak (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Prominent nunatak near the head of Mackay Glacier, standing 9 mi W of Mount Gran, in Victoria Land. Surveyed in 1957 by the N.Z. Northern Survey Party of the CTAE (1956-58), and so named by them because it marks the most obvious gateway through the upper icefalls for parties traveling W up the Mackay Glacier.
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By Alice Beyer Schuch – January 2020
Cirkla Modo was invited for a guest lecture on Sustainable Design Concepts for the Master’s Sustainability in Fashion and Creative Industries at AMD Akademie für Mode & Design, in Berlin, Germany.
The topic was developed as a 2 days workshop where we started discussing the statement “80% of environmental impact of products is determined during the design phase!”. The “whys” sustainability should be applied right now were presented. And, despite the source of the aforementioned statement and whether the % is accurate or not, we all could agree that the impact during the design phase is relevant and not to be overlooked!
From that, different design perspectives were explored, in concepts such as:
Biomimicry : an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by mimicking nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.
Cradle to Cradle : a concept for the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature’s processes viewing materials as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms.
Circular Economy : an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources, keeping products, equipment and infrastructure in use for longer, thus improving the productivity of these resources.
The group analysed the levels of interference in sustainability of each concept, going from getting design inspiration from natural elements, further considering natural systems and finally evaluating its application in economical systems. And discussions on the impacts of material, design, business models and necessary structures were also evolved.
In the end, the students designed a product based on one or more of the 10 different design strategies shown (and around 90 #hashtags diverted from that) which support designing sustainability in many different ways!
I hope you all enjoyed and learned as I did!
Looking much forward to the next classes!
Interested in knowing more?
If you are a student, you can BOOK A TALK and get direct insights from a #circularfashion specialist! Keep up with LinkedIn and Instagram updates! There are also some free slots! Stay tuned!
For fashion companies, educational institutions, or programs it is possible to increase designer skills with Cirkla Modo’s special training and mentoring in the topic of Sustainable Fashion & Circular Design Strategies. Get in contact or check some projects here.


Green pit vipers, fomprise a large group of venomous snakes found across the humid areas of tropical and sub-tropical Asia, including in the northern and north-eastern hilly region of India.They are medically important snakes. Researchers from India and UK , including network members Surajit Giri and Vishal Santra used crude venom of representative species of green pit vipers present in the north and north-eastern hilly region of India (Trimeresurus erythrurus, T. septentrionalis, Viridovipera medoensis, and Popiea popieorum) to characterise and elucidate venom composition and venom variation.The resarchers also studied the immunoreactivity of Indian polyvalent antivenom and Thai green pit viper antivenom on crude venoms by western blotting and inhibition of biochemical activities. They found that poor efficacy of Indian polyvalent antivenom in neutralizing the venom toxins of crude venoms; however, Thai green pit viper antivenin (raised against the venom of Trimeresurus allbolabris, not present in India) showed higher immunoreactivity towards congeneric venoms tested. Analysis of data of green pit viper bite from a community health centre in Assam, India, further revealed that the Indian polyvalent antivenom failed to reverse the extended coagulopathy in green pit viper bites.
The study was published recently in Toxicon and is available online here


A team from the School of Education has been recognized for their work using technology to help schools convert data into actionable information on a per-child basis. Michael Taylor, Molly Stewart and Rosh Dhanawade make up the Indiana Student Information to Empower (INSITE), an initiative designed to provide a system for converting data into actionable information to empower the teaching-learning process.
Via a set of technologies from Ed-Fi, school districts’ data are connected, allowing the various educational databases, such as student information systems, transportation, food service, and assessments to speak to each other. Unlike a data warehouse or archive, the information about each student is continually updated so critical issues with students can be identified immediately.
“Currently, there are three primary variables that have a significant impact: attendance, discipline and grades,” Taylor explained. “If you have a significant change in any one, it’s meaningful. If you have a change in all three, you’re heading towards an educational crisis. Currently there is no mechanism to see all three because different people in the school see each of those. Our data is live, so once all three of those happen, the teacher sees it live.”
Rather than grouping students together based on demographics and measuring improvement within those groups, INSITE allows teachers and administrators to focus on each child individually.
“Education should be about every child, not just about this group or demographic,” Taylor said. “It has to be about every single child. Ed-Fi gives us the ability to enable educators to do that. [Through this system] we elevate the burden of trying to dig through the data so the principal and others can take action.”
In seven months, the team has implemented the Ed-Fi suite in nine Indiana districts, affecting about 90,000 students. That was just one of the reasons the team won the Rookie of the Year award for at the 2018 Ed-Fi Data Summit.
The goals of INSITE are to shorten the feedback loop for data to become actionable information so that teachers have measurable criteria to confirm student progress, to enable each district to establish meaningful thresholds for students so that interventions can occur prior to an education crisis, and to empower school decision makers with data presented in a way that they can visualize, so as to promote data-driven decision making.


A front is a part of furniture that forms its decorative appearance, in other words, all things that are at the furniture face, for example, the swing, drop, sliding doors or the foreparts of drawers.
Application of the fronts
Furniture fronts are widely used — as kitchen cabinet and cupboards doors, tabletops, office furniture doors, face parts of sliding-door wardrobes and also for nursery rooms furniture manufacturing.
The fronts types
There are several types of furniture fronts.
The frame fronts
The first type is the frame fronts. They have two main components — MDF or aluminum frame and a panel that is filled with the decorative materials. Such fronts is traditionally used in furniture manufacturing, but this tradition have been turned into the stylish and fashionable trend by Creamondi due to the using of such modern materials as rattan, bamboo, modern lacomat, lacobel glass, plastic, and leather panels instead of ordinary and trite decorative elements for MDF or aluminum frames filling.
The solid fronts
However a frame is not an obligatory front part. A front can be built by an independent panel manufactured from a single material, for example, HPL Formicа laminate. The decorative elements of this brand can be shining and glossy as well as wood-alike ones. Such a solidness of a front design helps to emphasize the texture of its surface.
Every type described above has its own advantages, but all they form a style of whole furniture composition:


6th May 2022
It may have been a short week but we have been very busy in Ash class!
This week we have focused on the text 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson in literacy, exploring how messages are passed through whispers, spotting the different animals in the story, and creating Acrostic poems to describe the animals.
In maths we have started to use - (subtraction) in our number sentences within 10, using the Numicon and have a go at writing the number sentences independently.
We have learnt a new skill in art this week, using the circular end of a glue stick to create dot paintings. It took a lot of focus for us to dot enough paint on the glue stick to make a dot and not spread the paint all over the page. Ash class were Persevering Pete's and completed some beautiful pictures, well done everyone.
We also have a special visitor coming every Friday this half term to share music and songs with us.
I wonder if any of you recognise her from our picture?
Ash class had an amazing time joining in with the singing this week, our favourite song is all about a journey on a boat. We have been putting in a lot of effort to learn the song already, and I hope the children will be able to teach you the song very soon
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Im pretty sure it means you are jumping and being happy with laughter and active
It's peals of laughter - meaning loud or ringing.
Leaping Tournament Over Elephants - 1903 was released on: USA: January 1903
A leap in music is when the interval between one note and the next is larger than a step (or 2nd). An example is C to E.
Can You Hear the Laughter The Story of Freddie Prinze - 1979 TV was released on: USA: 11 September 1979
a peal of laughter hello answer me plz
what is laughter by miriam waddington about
" bahaaa " is like laughter well actrually bahaaa is laughter!!;D
crying with laughter
laughter and happiness
I'm doubtful that laughter is healthy by definition; there is 'gallows laughter', and laughter that is derisive and mean-spirited. But the physiological activity of laughter is beneficial to our bodies, and in the right context it is emotionally beneficial as well.
'Tz'chok' means laughter in Hebrew.
If you mean risa, it's laughter.
A small amount of laughter.
with (crying with laughter)