Family history is about people. Or, at least, it should be. But not just any people. These are your forebears. These are your relatives. You share their DNA. They are real flesh and blood people. OK, that last one isn’t completely correct if they’ve died, but they were still people who walked and talked and had their own relationships, just as you do. Some, of course, would say that family history is just like regular history – just a bunch of dry facts and boring dates and places that nobody could possibly remember, or even want to.
I would disagree. But what makes the difference between boring and fascinating? I would suggest that it is the stories and the images. For example, when I think of my gran,
I form a picture of her in my mind which, in turn, brings back all of the pleasant memories associated with her life. She was born 9 Feb 1885 in Cheltenham, she died on 13 Aug 1976, and was widowed in 1942. Those are facts, but they are not who she was, and nor do they define her life. Rather, they are simply reference points for her story.
Think about it. Wouldn’t you rather be remembered for who you are rather than the basic facts of your life referenced by birth, marriage, and death? And if it’s true for you then you have a responsibility to bring your forebears back to remembrance through pictures and the written word. (If you’re really lucky, the spoken word as well.)
What about those ancestors and cousins who you never knew in life? What are you going to do to bring them to life? Try these hints:
- Newspaper archives (such as the British Newspaper Archive).
- Research the history of the area they lived
- Research their occupations as stated in a census? How and why might they have changed over time?
- If they moved around over time, try to work out why.
- Contact cousins who have already researched them. They may have pictures and other information.


How stable are you financially. Here is a self assessment tool that will help you determine your level of financial stability Financial stability is of paramount importance because our emotional and psychological well being is closely linked to our financial stability. So take these 21 questions to test your financial stability and write down the answers honestly in a notebook and study the answers with a view to taking some concrete actions to remedy what can be remedied. You may need to sit with an experienced financial advisor and have the help you review the answers you have written down. Here goes
Exercise: Please answer the following questions — you may want to write them down in a notebook or journal:
- What happens to most people when they reach the age of 65?
- Are you controlled by time and money?
- Do you have to become excited and fanatical about something to succeed?
- Can you use your brain to do something new?
- Are you stuck in a rut?
- What are the effects of taxes and inflation?
- What does the “education system” program you to do?
- Why don’t pigs know that pigs stink?
- Can the truth set you free?
- What do your bank balance and credit card balances tell you about your level of success?
- Do you spend more than you earn?
- Have you been living a life of “quiet desperation?”
- Have you been making excuses, or have you been making things happen?
- What’s the relationship between you and the size of the things that make you angry?
- How many people really know what they’re doing and where they’re going?
- What’s the first decision you need to make to succeed?
- What do winners do with excuses?
- What is a door and how do you get through it?
- What does success begin with?
- Do you have to know how to do something before you decide to do it?
- Until when did most people in America work for themselves?
- What does you need to right NOW in light of what your answers on this test of financial stability show?


Creating Secure Passwords
There are passwords for everything. Logging into a computer requires a password, logging into a billing program requires a password, and logging into practically every website from banking to score checking requires a user to create this supposedly unique layer of protection for their data. While the response to such a call for creative letter grouping is often apathetic simplicity, strong passwords are a convention one should follow.
A password is the most fundamental level of defense against hackers. Even with the most sophisticated antivirus software available, no firewall will restrict the actions of what it sees as the “user” which in essence can give anyone with access to the user’s password the same control over the computer the legitimate owner has.
When creating a secure password, keep in mind the following advice:
- Don’t make passwords under 6 characters. They are too easy to find through a code breaking program!
- Use case sensativity and numbers. The difference between a password in all lowercase and a password with varying cases and numbers is how much longer it would take a hacker to break it. Numbers and case variations are an easy way to keep your information secure.
- Don’t use the same password for everything. It may seem tempting to memorize one password and put it in for every requirement, but if a hacker figures it out at one level, they will likely try to use that same password for every other application.
- Try changing a sentence into a password. The sentence “My dog’s names are Buddy & Spot” which can be easily remembered can be used as the password “MdnaB&S”.
- Try replacing addresses, birthdays, or important places with symbols and numbers. Instead of “oakstreet”, a secure password could be “[email protected]” .
- Try typing a phrase a row up on the keyboard. Instead of “password”, the result would be “0qww294e”.


Both the partial core meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979 and the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986 could be traced to varying combinations of mechanical malfunctions and operator error. The explosions, fires, and released radiation at the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi plant have spotlighted the other end of the hazard spectrum: natural triggers.
In the aftermath of Three Mile Island, nuclear engineers tried to design reactors immune to accidents, including those triggered by earthquakes, says Michael Golay, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. After a decade's effort, engineers concluded that strong earthquakes were the biggest threat and "could overwhelm anything you could do," he says. Referring to a range of threats, he adds, "There are simply too many, and you don't have the resources" to deal with them all.
In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is lengthening plant lifetimes, granting utilities permission to keep plants operating longer than envisioned in the original licenses.
President Obama has tried to facilitate construction of new nuclear plants – as a response to global warming – through a loan-guarantee program run by the Department of Energy. He announced an initial $8.3 billion for the program in February 2010, and requested an additional $39 billion for this fiscal year.
On March 18, Mr. Obama asked the NRC to comprehensively review nuclear-plant safety in the US – a process plants themselves began as the crisis in Japan unfolded, according to Bryant Kinney, an industry spokesman and former official with North Carolina-based Duke Energy.
Although final lessons won't emerge until after a thorough review of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami – and of the utility's response – the event highlights several key issues surrounding nuclear power, specialists say.


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Intimate ion pair
In chemistry the intimate ion pair concept introduced by Saul Winstein  describes the interactions between a cation, anion and surrounding solvent molecules. In an ordinary aqueous solutions of inorganic salts an ion is completely solvatated and shielded from the counterion. In less polar solvents two ions can still be connected to some extent. In a tight or intimate or contact ion pair there are no solvents molecules between the two ions. When solvatation increases, ionic bonding decreases and a loose or solvent-separated ion pair results. The ion pair concept explains stereochemistry in solvolysis.
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The concept of intimate ion pairs is used to explain the slight tendency for inversion of stereochemistry during an SN1 reaction. It is proposed that solvent or other ions in solution may assist in the removal of a leaving group to form the carbocation which reacts in an SN1 fashion; similarly, the leaving group may associate loosely with the cationic intermediate. The association of solvent or an ion with the leaving group effectively blocks one side of the incipient carbocation, while allowing the backside to be attacked by a nucleophile. This leads to a slight excess of the product with inverted stereochemistry, whereas a purely SN1 reaction ought to lead to a racemic product.
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A child endowed by the thunder deity with supernormal strength. One day, the story tells, a man was working his fields when the thunder kami fell to ground. The farmer, who had been leaning on his iron hoe (iron is considered a sovereign defense against snakes and thunder), wanted to strike the fallen (and presumably terrifying) apparition. The thunder kami then promised, in exchange for his life, a wondrous child.
The farmer returned home, and some time later his wife conceived and then gave birth to a boy. He was born with a snake around his head (the thunder deities are strongly associated with snakes; see, for example, the myth of Izanami in the underworld). The boy was troublesome, uprooting trees in his play, or drinking the village well dry. Eventually he became a novice to a temple, where he was a diligent student but also strong enough to save the temple in times of trouble. Many of his descendants, including women, were as strong as he was. It is said that among his descendants was Benkei’s mother.
There are a number of Japanese myths in which a strange boy appears to a man or a couple and grows up with the strength of many men, or sometimes other powers. The Dπjπ-hπshi myth is repeated in numerous variants across Japan. Many of these strong-men are described as giants, or as demigod heroes who formed the hills and rivers of the landscape. Some such heroes include the giants Sakata-no-kintoki and Musashibπ Benkei.
- Ouwehand, Cornelius. 1964. Namazu-e and Their Themes: An Interpretative Approach to Some Aspects of Japanese Religion. Leiden, the Netherlands: E. J. Brill.
Handbook of Japanese Mythology written by Michael Ashkenazi – Copyright © 2003 by Michael Ashkenazi


|Title||The Earliest Footprint of Jesus: What We Have Heard|
|Author||Daniel G. Slawter|
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"Before the Myth: Book 1" introduces readers to the dual figures of Jesus the Nazarene and Paul the Apostle, contrasting their worldviews, attitudes, and values. Jesus was a rural rabbi from the Land of Israel. Paul was raised in one of the leading Hellenic academic communities of his day. The story opens with a famous scene in the Book of Acts: Paul at the Are-op′agus hill in Athens. The world of Jesus is further investigated by research into his likely attitudes towards the divinity and varying socioeconomic conditions on the ground. Palestine's social makeup, archaeology, and the crucial impact of mass illiteracy on the life and times receive special emphasis. The subject of orality is enormously important for gaining a proper understanding of numerous historical themes related to Jesus and his mission. The book closes with multiple chapters focused on this rarely mentioned motif.
That Yeshu-ha-Notzri was a historical figure is beyond any doubt. That he was a devout Judaist familiar with temple and synagogue is hardly news. For that matter, at some point we should face the reality that his message was essentially Jewish in nature and fulfillment. That may perk the e...


Aging diminishes our sense of smell and many older adults may take a slightly heavy hand with their use of fragrance but what many don’t realize is the hidden health risks associated with synthetic fragrance. Unregulated by the FDA , “fragrance” ingredients can include a wide array of chemicals including toxins such as phthalates, benzene derivatives and aldehydes that can result in allergies, nervous-system disorders and some cancers.
It might be tempting for caregivers to help “freshen” the air in a stuffy seniors’ center or private home with a gift of a scented candle or plug-in scent diffuser but many of these products contain artificial fragrance that has been linked with liver and breast cancer, diabetes as well as obesity.
Natural fragrances don’t last as long as artificial scents and as a result manufacturers have turned to more than 3,000 fragrance chemicals to create signature fragrances in everything from perfume and cologne to shampoos, cleaning products, laundry detergent, candles and even baby wipes.
With so much exposure, more people are developing fragrance allergies or scent sensitivities. If you have ever got a headache or felt sick when exposed to heavy fragrance in a store or on a person, if you start sneezing or wheezing around strong scents or if you break out in a rash from particular soaps or detergents, you might be sensitive to synthetic fragrance.
Check ingredient lists carefully for “fragrance” which is a catch-all term for any number of chemical scents, often added to products to mask chemical odors. Look instead for essential oils to add a pleasant scent to household products and personal care items.
Many countries including Canada, EU, South Korea, Japan and China have banned phthalates but the United States is very slow to ban chemicals due to its requirement for a high level of proof of harm.
To learn more about toxic ingredients in artificial fragrance, visit the Environmental Working Group website at: http://www.ewg.org/research/not-so-sexy .
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As over 70% reside in Rural India, the overall economic and social development is directly linked to the growth of the rural sector. Rural India needs sustained access to electricity to make a significant contribution.
UN Sustainable Development Goals states, that everyone should have access to electricity. India With over 300 million (mostly) Rural Indians constitutes the world’s largest number of off-grid people. The International Energy Agency, says that worldwide, “70% of the rural areas that currently lack access will need to be connected using mini-grids.” Despite rapid development, household electrification and electricity supply continues to fall short of the global average.
Micro/Mini grids electrify rural homes through a combination of Wind-Solar Hybrid and Off-Grid Solar PV Power Plant Systems ranging from 1kWp to 10kWp. E-Hands Energy partners with grassroot NGO’s who engage with villagers and secure the support for Micro/Mini grid projects. Capital funds are mobilized through CSR funding from willing corporate organisations. NGO’s mobilize villagers to form a Village Energy Co-operative which would collect payments for the maintenance and management of the project.
Please refer to the illustrative representation of this engagement, for a clearer perspective.


Who was most to blame for the Titanic sinking?
From the beginning, some blamed the Titanic’s skipper, Captain E.J. Smith, for sailing the massive ship at such a high speed (22 knots) through the iceberg-heavy waters of the North Atlantic. Some believed Smith was trying to better the crossing time of Titanic’s White Star sister ship, the Olympic.
How many iceberg warnings did Titanic receive that day?
seven iceberg warnings
On April 14, 1912, the day of the disaster, Titanic received seven iceberg warnings.
How much longer until the Titanic is gone?
Henrietta Mann, the scientist who co-discovered these bacteria in 2010, told Time that based on this new expedition footage, the Titanic has only 30 years left before it disappears.
How much coal did the Titanic use a day?
Even in a state-of-the-art vessel like Titanic, the work was still done by muscle power alone. More than 600 tonnes of coal a day were needed to propel what was then the world’s biggest ship through the ocean.
How many people died in the sinking of the Titanic?
Follow the history of the Titanic, from its beginnings in a shipyard to its end at the bottom of the sea, in this timeline of the building of the ship through its maiden (and only) voyage. In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, all but 705 of its 2,229 passengers and crew lost their lives in the icy Atlantic .
What was the result of the Titanic disaster?
As a result of the Titanic disaster, changes were made in ship design, such as double hulls and taller bulkheads. Also, stricter standards for safety regulations governing ships at sea were implemented, including mandatory use of electronic communication, minimum lifeboat capacities, and the development of the ice patrol.
How much pollution does a cruise ship produce?
Cruise ships create pollution problems as supersized as themselves. Every single day, cruise ships worldwide emit the same particular matter as a million cars. A single large cruise ship will emit over five tonnes of NOX emissions, and 450kg of ultrafine particles a day.


Applying a knowledge to separate tasks
In short: Learning from one task and applying knowledge to separate tasks 🛰🚙
- 🕵♀ Transfer learning is a machine learning technique where a model trained on one task is re-purposed on a second related task.
- 🌟 In addition, it is an optimization method that allows rapid progress or improved performance when modeling the second task.
- 🤸♀ Transfer learning only works in deep learning if the model features learned from the first task are general.
Long story short: Rather than training a neural network from scratch we can instead download an open-source model that someone else has already trained on a huge dataset maybe for weeks and use these parameters as a starting point to train our model just a little bit more with the smaller dataset that we have ✨
Layers in a neural network can sometimes end up having similar weights and possible impact each other leading to over-fitting. With a big complex model it's a risk. So if you can imagine the dense layers can look a little bit like this.
We can drop out some neurons that has similar weights with neighbors, so that overfitting is being removed.
🤸♀ An NN before and after dropout
✨ Accuracy before and after dropout
It is practical when we have a lot of data for problem that we are transferring from and usually relatively less data for the problem we are transferring to 🕵
task B, it is sensible to do transfer learning from A to B when:
- 🚩 Task A and task B have the same output x
- ⭐ We have a lot more data for
- 🔎 Low level features from
task Acould be helpful for learning


Bullying is all about power – making yourself feel bigger and stronger by putting someone else down.
It involves deliberately and repeatedly attempting to hurt, scare or exclude someone. And it can be overt – hitting, pushing, name-calling – or more indirect, such as deliberately leaving someone out of games, spreading rumours about them, or sending them nasty messages.
Whatever form it takes, bullying can be incredibly damaging. It causes distress and can lead to loneliness, anxiety and depression. Bullying can also affect children’s concentration and achievement at school.
When children have been bullied they may:
- not want to go to school
- be unusually quiet or secretive
- be more unhappy or anxious than usual, especially before or after school, sport or wherever the bullying is happening
- not have many friends
- become more isolated – stop hanging around with friends or lose interest in school or social activities
- seem over-sensitive or weepy
- have angry outbursts
- have trouble sleeping
- complain about having headaches, stomach aches or other physical problems.
You may notice that their belongings have been damaged or are missing.
There might be other reasons for some of these signs in your child, so it’s best to talk together about what’s going on and any changes you’ve noticed.
Raising the issue
If you suspect your child is being bullied, it can be hard to know how to raise it with them. Some kids try and hide what’s happening, or feel ashamed, afraid or might not want you to worry or make a big deal. Often children just want the bullying to stop without confronting the issue or drawing attention to it.
They might find it uncomfortable discussing their feelings and emotions openly with you, or get angry and defensive when you ask if they’re ok. Try to stay calm, and realise you may need to raise the conversation in different ways over time to get a response.


The Royal Australian Navy suffered one of its worse losses in WWII on 19 November 1941, when the light cruiser HMAS Sydney II with all 645 men on board went down in action against the German auxiliary cruiser/raider Kormoran off the west coast of Australia. The Komoran was also sunk in the same action.
In August of 2005, the Australian Government approved a $1.3 million grant to fund a search for the sunken cruiser.
Reuters reports the latest strange plot twist in the search.
Australian defense officials said a navy team had this month exhumed the remains of an unknown sailor buried in an unmarked grave on Christmas Island, remains long thought to be those of a Sydney crewman.
Islanders have said the unmarked grave contained the remains of a man dressed in a blue boilersuit which washed up in a navy liferaft in February 1942.
A complete skeleton of what appeared to be a relatively young Caucasian male has been recovered along with other items and been sent for analysis.
“The most interesting find to date has been what appears to be a bullet wound in the skull and a small caliber round that is currently undergoing detailed analysis,” team leader Captain Jim Parsons said in a statement.
“This round appears to be from a low-velocity weapon, possibly a handgun,” he said.
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One of my favorite books was the German Navy in WW2 by Karl Doentiz (could have spelled that wrong), but he was the uboat chief of course.
Anyhow a whole chapter was dedicated to the German raiders, like the Orion, Kormoran, penguin etc. They were fascinating vessels and very effective at their trade, much like the CS Confederate raiders, such as the Alabama, and Shenandoah!!
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also today in history, Cheers!!
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Ethnographers are concerned that they understand the meaningfulness of communication from the vantage point of the participants who produce that communication. Participant ideas about who they are, what they are doing, how they feel about who they are and what they are doing, and how they relate with their natural and social worlds, this and more becomes an essential part of ethnographic inquiry. Being able to argue that you know something about this “participant view” is one essential objective of ethnography.
1.Select some pattern of communication that was active in the speech community you observed. Describe it! Provide examples from your data that show that the pattern exists. Use the Hymes SPEAKING mnemonic to help you create these descriptions.
2.State how there is facework, speech acts, cultural terms for talk, address terms, norms and rules, narrative, or a relational dialectic that gives meaning to the communication practiced by participants. Do not emphasize why this is important to YOU, or what YOU think this means. At this point, you should be giving attention to what the participants think is happening, why it is happening, and/or why it is important and/or meaningful that it is happening that way. Yes, you can use quotes from your interview and fieldwork data. You can also add to this by summarizing participant quotations.
Typed, double spaced, 12-point font; page length will vary based on how lengthy your fieldnotes are. Typically the paper runs 10-15pages.


Kim Il Sung, the communist dictator of North Korea since 1948, dies of a heart attack at the age of 82.
In the 1930s, Kim fought against the Japanese occupation of Korea and was singled out by Soviet authorities, who sent him to the USSR for military and political training. He became a communist and fought in the Soviet Red Army in World War II. In 1945, Korea was divided into Soviet and American spheres, and in 1948 Kim became the first leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). Hoping to reunify Korea by force, Kim launched an invasion of South Korea in June 1950, thereby igniting the Korean War, which ended in a stalemate in 1953.
During the next four decades, Kim led his country into a deep isolation from even its former communist allies, and relations with South Korea remained tense. Repressive rule and a personality cult that celebrated him as the “Great Leader” kept him in power until his death in 1994. He was succeeded as president by his son, Kim Jong Il, whose reign has been equally repressive and isolating. In recent years, Kim Jong Il has earned censure from much of the world for his continuing attempts to manufacture nuclear weapons, even as millions of his country’s people live in poverty.
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- Image processing
Engineering and technology
- Construction materials
- Composites and hybrid materials not elsewhere classified
- Computational materials science
- Destructive and non-destructive testing of materials
- Data visualisation and imaging
High-resolution X-ray Computed tomography (X-ray uCT) is becoming a key imaging technique. It allows for highly detailed and full 3D structural characterization of objects and materials. As such, it is an invaluable tool in present-day material research, product development and quality assessment.
However, the conversion of uCT data to analytical or finite element models that allow for the simulation of dynamic processes is currently limited by two major constraints: the limited spatial resolution that can be achieved, related to the sample size, and the limited capabilities of providing information about dynamic processes that occur inside objects.
In this project, we will develop X-ray imaging tools that will improve the state-of-the-art capabilities for model extraction:
- Grating-based X-ray dark-field imaging using a novel dual-phase grating setup will provide information about features below the resolution attainable with conventional attenuation-based imaging.
- An intensive coupling between digital volume correlation and tomographic reconstruction of dynamic microCT (4D-microuCT) will increase the spatio-temporal resolution of 4D-microuCT, allowing to maximally exploit all available data
We will use these tools to derive and verify structural and dynamic models for three different classes of materials: mineral building materials, composite materials and woodbased panels. Furthermore, these models will be used to improve the accuracy and reliability of the uCT reconstruction.
With these new developments in extraction and experimental validation of material models, materials scientists within and beyond the three aforementioned material classes will be able to develop better and more sustainable materials.


1. Creation began with an unlimited amount of absolute nothingness. It was large and very, very quiet and very, very empty. Nothing moved until one tiny, speck of dust appeared.
2. This tiny, tiny dust particle tumbled into the endless void.It tickled! The massive emptiness sneezed, and space echoed with the shock of the sound.
3. The blast of the sneezes shot off in all directions.
4. Giant corridors formed, and these reached out – sometimes joining up together but always reaching out further and further. A giant lacy cobweb of passages was created and hung suspended in the soundless reaches of space.
5. As the dust years passed by allergens and debris dislodged from the nothingness drifted into awkward nooks and crannies. Gradually these sticky dust particles grew into mountains, planets, suns, moons and stars.
6. Planets were sculpted into cube shapes by the sneeze currents. In due course, the currents shifted, and the celestial bodies lost their corners.
7. One day, when we have invented rockets that fly faster than the speed of a sneeze we will catch up with Earth’s far-flung corners.
8. Finally, the exclamation mark that always follows the end of a sneeze crashed into Earth. Millions of Outsects sparked into existence, born from the electrostatic debris of the great surprise.


Greek Tourism Aims for Sustainability, Reducing Environmental Footprint
Greece is committed to developing a sustainable tourism model that will effectively minimize the sector’s environmental footprint and will place biodiversity at the center of its planning, said Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias in a recent interview to cnn.gr.
The Greek minister said the industry was set to play a leading role in the country’s transition to sustainable practices and underlined the importance of including green issues in marine and coastal tourism planning with particular emphasis on vulnerable communities and smaller, remote islands.
In this direction he cited the GR-eco Islands Initiative which kicked off from the tiny Dodecanese island of Chalki and which follows a similar initiative in Astypalea.
This model, he said, will expand to other destinations. The idea, Kikilias said, is also to identify lesser-known destinations and to promote these via a network that will inform visitors of special characteristics and offerings.
Another key priority, the minister said, was targeting unknown areas in mainland Greece and less so the islands with the ultimate aim to preserve and showcase authenticity and diversify experiences offered.
“Combined with alternative forms of tourism – which, contrary to what many believe, bring high added value to the entire spectrum of the Greek economy – are our main tools,” he said.
Kikilias stressed that over the last two years and during the Covid-19 pandemic the tourism sector’s contribution has a multiplier value, strengthening many important market sectors.
Additionally, he said ministry priorities include attracting investments, upgrading infrastructure and maintaining the quality and authenticity of the tourism product.
Lastly, the ministry is continuing efforts to extend the tourism season by showcasing winter destinations and city breaks and through new agreements with tour operators including Der Touristic Group, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Jet2.


Benefits of a Living Soil
1. Retain nutrientsin soils so they do not leach or volatilise. These nutrients include nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and calcium. The reduction or complete removal of inorganic fertiliser applications is possible and highly desirable when a Healthy Soil Foodweb is present.
2. Cycle nutrients into the right forms at the correct rates for the plant desired. The right ratio of fungi to bacteria is needed for this to happen, as well as the correct volaume and activity of biological predators (eg Protozoa and Nematodes).
3. Build soil structure so that oxygen, water and nutrients can easily move through the soil and into deep, well-structured root systems.
Current concepts of plant root systems as being predominately present in the surface layers of the soil are the result of recent agricultural and urban practices and subsequent compaction levels in soils.
Roots should go down into the soil for at least several to tens and perhaps hundreds of metres, but the soil compaction layers that human activity has created have led to toxic anearobic materials being produced. This compaction and toxicity prevents deep and robust root penetration.
Pictured right: The turf sample to the left has an unhealthy root system prior to compost tea. Images to the right show roots at one and two applications of compost tea. Roots grow denser, deeper, hold soil and build soil structure.
A correct way to deal with compaction problems is to have the biological communities rebuild the structure in the soil again which will then allow oxygen and water to infiltrate through the soil.
When the biology is functioning properly water demand is reduced, the need for fertilisers is reduced and plant production is increased. Significant cost-benefits are found after initial investment in composting or application of brewed liquid biological solutions (for example compost tea).
4. Suppress disease-causing organisms through competition with beneficial nematodes, by setting up the soil and foliar conditions to favour the beneficial nematodes. For example, root-feeding nematodes are controlled by beneficial nematode species as in the attached picture. (photo: courtesy of Soil Foodweb International).
6. Produce plant-growth-promoting hormones and chemicals. This can result in the plant growing larger root systems.


Concerns about materialism have been elevated to a public policy issue, with consumer activists and social scientists calling for restrictions on marketing to children. A recent UNICEF report on the welfare of children suggests that those from low-income families may be particularly vulnerable to marketing efforts. The current research provides a first glimpse into the consumer values of impoverished children. Personal interviews conducted with 177 children and adolescents from impoverished and affluent families reveal differences in materialistic values. Although younger children (ages 8-10 years) from poor families exhibit similar levels of materialism to their more affluent peers, when they reach adolescence (ages 11-13 years) and beyond (ages 16-17 years), impoverished youth are more materialistic than their wealthier counterparts. Further analysis shows that this difference is associated with lower self-esteem among impoverished teens. The authors discuss the implications of these findings, including public policy solutions aimed at reducing low-income children's vulnerability to developing materialistic values that undermine their well-being.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||15|
|Journal||Journal of Public Policy and Marketing|
|State||Published - Jan 1 2014|
- Public policy


H817 Activity 2 – David Wiley and Cormier exploring Open Education.
For this activity I have been asked to review Wiley’s talk on Open Education and also Cormier (2013)
So the first thing Wiley considers is sharing. When collecting and creating open learning material a few years ago the first barrier I had was one that he also referenced and that was the reluctance to share. Every teacher spends endless hours preparing classes and new material and of course people don’t just want to give it away freely. The two be fears teachers have are
1. Other teachers using their material.
2. Students not showing up for class is the material is online.
These are of course very valid reasons but I have found that over time the first fear has somewhat relaxed. Educators are no longer afraid to use YouTube videos or other peoples content in class and with that have become relaxed with their own fears over sharing. The second fear is one that may take some time yet
As Wiley says: ‘If there is no education there is no sharing’
I do agree that you can share your knowledge without giving away. As educators we are constantly sharing, making others more knowledgeable and in turn I am sure we are learning from our students who in turn also learn from eachother.
When I was in college 10 years ago our first assignment in sociology required a mad dash to the college library to pick up a book. If the books were gone then tough you would just have to hope one came back in time for you to complete your project before the deadline or try harder next time. These days sources are more readily available through MOOCS, iBooks, websites, YouTube etc.
Both Cormier and Wiley both look at openness and what it means and both share the same thoughts on the importance of openness
- Cormier (2013), What do you mean… open?
- Wiley (2010), Open education and the future (video).


In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.
The term is first attested in the 16th century referring both to a kind of pie containing meat and pasta (see pastitsio) and to a literary mixture; for music, the earliest attestation is 1795 in Italian and 1742 in English. It derives from the post-classical Latin pasticium (13th century), a pie or pasty.
In the 18th century, opera pasticcios were frequently made by composers such as Handel, for example Oreste (1734), Alessandro Severo (1738) and Giove in Argo (1739), as well as Gluck, and Johann Christian Bach. These composite works would consist mainly of portions of other composers' work, although they could also include original composition. The portions borrowed from other composers would be more or less freely adapted, especially in the case of arias in pasticcio operas by substituting a new text for the original one. In late 18th-century English pasticcios, for instance by Samuel Arnold or William Shield, the "borrowed" music could be Irish or British folksongs.
Instrumental works would also sometimes be assembled from pre-existing compositions, a notable instance of this being the first four piano concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These concertos (K. 37, 39–41) were assembled almost entirely from keyboard sonata movements by contemporary composers, to which the boy Mozart added orchestral parts supporting the keyboard soloist.


A circular saw is a versatile and powerful tool, ideal for a wide range of woodworking and construction projects. However, achieving precise cuts can be challenging without the proper guidance. A precise circular saw guide is an indispensable accessory that can significantly enhance the accuracy and efficiency of your cuts. This article will explore the various applications and benefits of using a precise circular saw guide.
Straight and Accurate Cuts
One of the primary uses of a circular saw guide is to ensure accuracy for various types of cuts, including the following:
Rip Cuts: These are cuts made parallel to the grain of the wood. A circular saw guide helps maintain a consistent distance from the edge of the material, ensuring a straight and precise rip cut.
Crosscuts: Crosscuts are made perpendicular to the grain of the wood. Using a circular saw guide allows you to achieve clean, straight crosscuts with minimal deviation.
Miter Cuts: A miter cut is angled across the width of a workpiece. A precise circular saw guide, especially one with adjustable angles, can help you make accurate miter cuts for seamless joints in molding, trim work, or picture frames.
Bevel Cuts: Bevel cuts are angled cuts made through the thickness of the material. By providing stability and control, a circular saw guide can help you achieve precise bevel cuts for decorative elements or joinery applications.
By ensuring clean and straight cuts across different types, a circular saw guide is essential for professional-looking results, particularly when working with large panels or sheet goods.
Reduced Material Waste
By ensuring precise cuts, a circular saw guide helps minimize material waste caused by inaccurate measurements or uneven cuts. This not only saves you money on materials but also reduces the environmental impact of your projects.
Efficient Work Process
A precise circular saw guide streamlines the cutting process, allowing you to work more efficiently. With the guide in place, you can quickly and easily make multiple cuts without the need to measure and mark each cut individually. This saves time and effort, ultimately increasing your productivity.
A precise circular saw guide can be used for a variety of applications, as evidenced by the many cuts you can make. Some guides are even adjustable, allowing you to make cuts at various angles or widths. This versatility makes the guide an essential accessory for both DIY enthusiasts and professional woodworkers.
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A stand-alone presentation is where the presenter is not there to give the presentation to their audience. Instead, the presentation alone is used to communicate the whole message.
Websites like slideshare are a platform where many users upload presentations. Their presentations are supposed to be viewed in the browser as stand-alone presentations. We can learn a lot about making stand-alone presentations from them as we intend to do in today’s article:
Keep It simple
Keep it simple, concise, and to the point. You won’t be there to present your material. This means that whoever opens it, will want to skim over it. Help them find what they’re looking for, by only including the most important stuff in the slides.
Announce Change In Topics Using Titles
Make it clear to the reader that the topic has changed. In stand-alone presentations, you will really need to make things clear. Include a title slide to make it clear that the title just changed.
Have A Review Portion In The End
Due to the fact that the reader is probably reading your slides pretty fast, help them retain the information by having a quick review portion at the end of the presentation. This should help reinforce their memory in case they missed something.
Use Detail Slides As Well
You might need to use more words when you can’t explain something through visuals and simple words. Make slides like these when you need to use more text to explain something. Try to keep as few of these as possible.
Don’t Worry If You Made A Long Presentation
A stand-alone presentation can be twice or even five times the length of regular presentations. This is because you need to explain each point without speaking. Each slide should have a small amount of information. So, the slides will need to increase in number in order to present all the information.
You should consider sending this presentation along with additional files to your client. You can also send this presentation to your client as a PowerPoint show file. You can read more about Show Files by clicking here.
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The Clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a single swinging reed and a cylindrical bore. It is governed by the acoustic law of closed pipes, and its key, commonly but improperly called the octave key, makes it a "quintuating" instrument... That is to say, in the upper register, it plays a 12th (an octave and a fifth).
It is likely that the French pastoral Chalumeau of the Middle Ages is at its origin.
The Clarinet family is very large (about a dozen, in almost every key). Among the most commonly used are the Bb Clarinet, the Eb Clarinet (known as the Petite Clarinet) and the Bb Bass Clarinet.
It is used in various styles. Its timbre, very rich in odd harmonics, gives it a round, warm and velvety sound.
Discover Sight-O, the first online method from Sight-reading. The 568 original exercises for the Soprano Saxophone are ultra progressive, for all levels. Thanks to Sight-O's animated Cache , you will learn progressively and in a good mood, to improve your score reading.
Saxophone teacher with a Certificate of Proficiency. Conductor and composer, former school director. Member of the Saxophone Quartet of France.
Clarinet teacher with the Certificat d'Aptitude. Solo clarinet of the Paris Air Force Band.


Kind of sport
Already at the Ancient Games wrestling was one of the most popular events. The Greco-Roman style of wrestling has been on the programme of the Modern Games since its beginning and freestyle wrestling was added to the programme in 1904.
It is one of the oldest known duels between unarmed men. The principle is simple: push the opponent down with certain holds in such a way that both shoulders simultaneously touch the floor. Wrestling has the following weight classes in both disciplines:
Light flying weight up to 48 kg.
Flying weight up to 52 kg.
Bantam weight up to 57 kg.
Feather weight up to 62 kg.
Light weight up to 68 kg.
Welter weight up to 74 kg.
Middle weight up to 82 kg.
Half-heavy weight up to 90 kg.
Heavy weight up to 100 kg.
Super heavy weight up to 130 kg.
At the Olympic wrestling matches, there is a referee-team consisting of the mat-judge, the arbiter, three scorers and three judges. While the match is advancing, the participants can earn points for e.g. successful holds, attacks and throws. A match is won when the opponent has been pinned against the floor with both shoulders for more than five seconds or when one of them has gained an advantage of 12 points. When the six minutes are over, without winner or advantage of 12 points, the wrestler with the highest score wins.
During the Games, the participants of each weight class are divided into two pools. As soon as a wrestler looses twice he is eliminated. The winners of both pools compete for the first and the second place. The seconds of each pool compete for third and fourth place.
With Greco-Roman wrestling only those holds from head to hips are allowed. Attacks on legs and feet and leg holds are not allowed. This restriction clearly results in less holding possibilities than freestyle wrestling.
With free style wrestling, contrary to Greco-Roman wrestling, there are no restrictions in attack zones of the body: holds are allowed from the head to the legs.


The AI Robolab is an AI lab created in 2009 at the university of Luxembourg. Following the big 5 terminology explaining the scope of AI, the AI Robolab scope covers Natural interaction (Point 4) and Societal Impact (Point 5). The former is about AI that “strives to create agents that interact naturally with humans” whereas the latter aims to study how AI can “impact society in both positive and negative ways.”
Based on this view, the AI Robolab objectives are threefold:
- Research : The AI RoboLab in general provides a key contribution to shaping a digital, healthy and sustainable future.
- Digital Transformation: the pillar on AI ethics addresses ethical, cultural and legal questions around digitalisation, in collaboration with a newly created Center for Digital Ethics. Moreover, it collaborates with C2DH on digital humanities, and it has an interest in space AI.
- Medicine and Health: the pillar on social robotics contributes to digital health.
- Education. The AI RoboLab contributes to a personalised, innovative and high-quality teaching and learning across the University
- Teaching and Learning across the university. The AI RoboLab embeds project-based learning as its preferred mode of teaching, enabling personalized training. The C21 is one of the main lab’s projects in this direction.
- fostering a dynamic, diverse and international student community: the AI RoboLab hosts yearly many student internships from all over the world (for a list of the ongoing projects, please refer to this page).
- Impact: The AI RoboLab contributes to the social, cultural and economic development of Luxembourg and the world.
- Together with its spin-off company LuxAI, it provide support and guidance to researchers, staff and students in the transfer of ideas and discoveries into the socio-economic sphere through the creation of spin-offs.
- The AI RoboLab promote entrepreneurial thinking and creativity as transversal skills to students and young researchers.
- With its pillar on computational creativity, and the AI&Art pavilion at Esch2022, it is deepening dialogue and engagement with interests groups and the general public.


Practiline products BPA free
Bisphenol – A, also known as BPA , is a chemical used in the manufacture of plastics , it is also a component of epoxy resin ( thermosetting plastic that hardens when mixed with a catalyst agent or ” hardener “) .
BPA has long been used in the lining of almost all food and beverage cans, plastic bottles and medical and dental materials.
In Europe there is legislation prohibiting the use of plastics that have raw material which is found Bisphenol – A, and forces manufacturers to use any other BPA-free resin.
We inform consumers that all Practiline products are free of Bisphenol – A, our main raw material used for the manufacture of its products is polypropylene (PP), completely non-toxic and harmless to health.
To determine the type of plastic used in a product, just check in the plastic container background the number of recycling that is marked inside a triangle. If labeled with numbers 1, 2, 4 or 5 means that the plastic product does not contain BPA. If checked the number 3 or 7 means the product contains presence of BPA.
In ourRegulations and Certifications section you can find the certifications of our suppliers of raw materials in which you can confirm the absence of hazardous substances in our products.


I recently got an email from a middle school teacher asking for help. A parent was complaining, for religious reasons, that The Adventures of Ulysses (a middle grade version of the Odyssey) was inappropriate reading for her child.
This is certainly not a new debate. It is, in fact, the oldest debate in Western Civilization. Since the days of the Apostles, and later St. Augustine, we’ve always had an uneasy relationship between Classical mythology and Judeo-Christian values. As a culture, we tend to believe in one God, but we also grow up steeped in these wonderful old stories about the Olympians. Personally, I don’t see any harm in learning mythology as long as we recognize the myths as stories that are part of our heritage and long-since stopped being any kind of serious religion. If fact, I think you have to know Greek myths to understand where our modern culture came from. It’s part of being an educated member of society.
If censors want to challenge Greek mythology, they’ll have to censor a good portion of the English curriculum in every state. Greek mythology is studied extensively from grades 1-8, not to mention the Iliad and the Odyssey in the upper grades. English literature draws heavily on Greek mythology. It always has — from Chaucer all the way to modern novels.
For those educators interested in defending the use of mythology in the classroom, I would recommend the National Council for Teachers of English website. Their anti-censorship resource center has wonderful articles on writing curriculum rationales and defending your choice of texts:
I would also recommend my own teacher’s guide for The Lightning Thief, which includes a rationale for the use of the novel in the classroom:
Good luck, and keep on teaching!


Gray whales continue to wash up dead and emaciated, but causes remain elusive
A dead southern right whale washed up Monday on the shores of Alaska. (Photo illustration by Michael Laris/Wired)
In 2011, a researcher from the University of South Florida discovered that the vast majority of whale carcasses in Florida sink to the bottom of the water column and the stomach contents of most die with the carcass. The researcher discovered that the remaining carcasses would sink within a day of being discovered, in about half the cases. That same year, a Florida marine biologist found that in the Gulf of Mexico, as many as 40 percent of whale carcasses sank. The Florida researcher also discovered that some whales, particularly whales between 60 and 70 feet long, have been observed to be unable to right themselves during a deep dive.
Now, a new study, conducted by the University of Maine’s Fisheries Center, has discovered reasons why and where dead whales sink. It also found that dead whales also sink at different rates.
The study was conducted by a team from the University of Maine’s Fisheries Center. It was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.
“We’ve been trying to figure out why they sink for the past ten years, and now we can answer the question,” the lead researcher, Joseph A. Conforte, said. “The answer is pretty simple once you understand what’s happening.”
Conforte said the key difference among species or individual whales is the depth at which they sink.
“For the most part, most whales are found dead,” he said. “But some whales are not; for example, humpback whales, which are typically found stranded, do not sink to the bottom of the water column. But we do find them often dead and have not yet been able to determine why. There is much more to learn about the behavior of these animals, especially the deep sea, and that’s what we are trying to do.”
The first question the researchers wanted to answer is, what is so different about the behavior of whales that cause them to sink to the bottom of the water column? The answer was simple: they are smaller than some other whales, which means they are less buoyant and have less ability to travel through the water column with the currents


Bioclimate zonation provides an established method to investigate climate associations with vegetation, soils, ecoregions and land use (Sanderson, 1999). It recognises that the geographic juxtaposition of bioclimate factors, including warmth, moisture, and exposure, acts to influence ecosystem processes and associated human activities (Garcia et al., 2014). For example, soil types vary due to microbial activity, recycling rate of organic matter and nutrients, and horizon formation, each influenced by bioclimate factors (Classen et al., 2015). In combination, bioclimate interactions act to characterise distinctive ecoregions and their human benefits, including productive use for agriculture and forestry, hence bioclimate zonation has become an important tool for land evaluation (Brown et al., 2008).
Hierarchical bioclimate zonation is used in this study as a tool to interpret climate change across scales with application for nature conservation. GIS techniques and spatial analysis have been used to expand upon an established empirical bioclimate classification system. The approach is then used to compare knowledge-based and data-driven interpretations of climate change for adaptation planning.
The hierarchical schema was found to be advantageous for identifying bioclimate relationships at multiple scales and for investigating subtleties of recent climate change, particularly for uplands, between two reference periods (1961–1980 and 1991–2010).
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CFD Analysis of an Automobile Catalytic Converter to Obtain Flow Uniformity and to Minimize Pressure Drop Across the Monolith
Keywords:Catalytic convertor, flow uniformity, recirculation zones, engine back pressure
The catalytic converter is a device which converts harmful exhaust gases from internal combustion engine into harmless gases. Global warming and air pollution are a buzz in today’s scenario. Greenhouse gasses are responsible for global warming. Carbon dioxide, which contributes to being the single most significant greenhouse gasses emission, comes from the exhaust of an automobile. Catalytic converter plays a vital role in the reduction of such greenhouse gasses. The objective of the present study is to examine an automobile catalytic convertor to present a detail and comprehensive report on the key parameters affecting the flow uniformity inside the converter and thus attempting to achieve minimum pressure drop across the converter to reduce the backpressure. The catalytic converter geometry is modified to increase the conversion efficiency of the converter. The results reported in the latter part of this paper gives a good insight about the recirculation zones created in the base and also velocity and pressure plots to find a solution for uniform flow within the monolith and also achieved a reduction in pressure drop of 3.7 Pa.


nonmetal, chemical element possessing certain properties by which it is distinguished from a metal. In general, this distinction is drawn on the basis that a nonmetal tends to accept electrons and form negative ions and that its oxide is acidic. Nonmetals are poor conductors of heat and electricity (see conduction) and do not have the luster of metals. Arsenic, antimony, selenium, and tellurium exhibit both nonmetallic and metallic properties and are called metalloids. Unlike the metals, which are all solids (with the exception of mercury) under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure, the nonmetals appear in all three states. Argon, chlorine, fluorine, helium, hydrogen, krypton, neon, nitrogen, oxygen, and xenon are normally gases. Bromine is a liquid. Boron, carbon, iodine, phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur are solids. Certain of them, e.g., boron, carbon, iodine, silicon, and sulfur, form crystals, as do the metals. In hardness they vary considerably. Carbon in its allotropic form, the diamond, is the hardest element known. With the exception of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and the inert gases—argon, helium, krypton, neon, and xenon—the nonmetals do not occur uncombined in nature, but exist in numerous relatively abundant compounds, among which are the oxides, halides (binary halogen compounds), sulfides, carbonates, nitrates, phosphates, silicates, and sulfates. With a few exceptions, the nonmetallic elements are important chiefly for their compounds. For the properties and uses of specific nonmetals, see the separate articles on these elements.
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Frass-based detection of wood boring pests (QFRASS)
Traces of Hylesinus fraxini (photo INBO)
DetailsWood-boring beetles cause significant economic damage to forests worldwide and are among the most important tree pests. Attacks by many quarantine wood beetles may go unnoticed for some time because the larvae live in the host trees. Only when the trees start showing symptoms or the number of adults is large enough can an outbreak be noticed. In detection surveys and also in outbreak management, it can be useful to combine different types of surveys or diagnostic methods to increase the chances of finding the pest. This project aims to develop a diagnostic identification protocol based on faeces and organic material. We will focus on three quarantine wood-boring beetles: emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis - Buprestidae), redneck longhorned beetle (Aromia bungii - Cerambycidae) and walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis - Scolytinae).
|Actual start/end date||01/06/2023 - 31/05/2025|
INBO Research theme(s)
- Invasive species


The first British-led expedition to gather meteorites in the Antarctic has returned with a haul of 36 space rocks.
Manchester University’s Dr Katherine Joy was dropped in the deep field with British Antarctic Survey guide Julie Baum for four weeks.
The pair spent their days near the Shackleton mountains running across the ice sheet in skidoos looking for out-of-place objects.
The meteorites ranged from tiny flecks to some that were as big as a melon.
Some two-thirds of the meteorites in the world’s collections have been picked up in the Antarctic. It’s the contrast of black on white that makes the continent such a productive hunting ground.
“As soon as you spot a black rock you know. You dart towards it and your heart picks up a beat,” Dr Joy told BBC News.
“They look black because they’re burnt up as they come down through Earth’s atmosphere. They have a very characteristic exterior colour, and they have a kind of cracked surface where that exterior has expanded and contracted during the violent atmospheric entry.”
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Over 43 sovereign states across our world are being reigned by 26 active sovereign countries with monarchies of kings, queens, sultans, emirs, emperor, and pope.
Here are some countries with absolute monarchy
Sweden: At present Sweden’s King is Carl XVI Gustaf. The Monarch makes less contribution as ‘Head of Nation’ because the duties and responsibilities of the monarch are provided by the constitution and it has a hereditary monarchy having a parliamentary system.
The Netherlands: The monarch in the Netherlands doesn’t rule directly because it has a bicameral parliament but the new king William Alexander still plays an important role as president of the council state. This is one of the countries with monarchies.
1. How Many Countries Still Have Royalty?
- A. 43 countries
- B. 50 countries
- C. 41 countries
- D. None of the above
United Kingdom: The British monarchy also has a constitutional monarchy. The current ruler of the United Kingdom is Queen Elizabeth II, who took the throne in 1952. Even though the country has constitutional monarchy the queen continues to play an important part in the growth of her nation.
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia is a country with Kings and queens, King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud who succeeded King Abdullah shows supremacy as the world’s most powerful absolute monarch with complete control over the abundance of oil in his country.
Thailand: Vajiralongkorn the ruler of Thailand took the throne after the death of his father Bhumibol Adulyadej. Under the constitution the king is given very little power, still being a symbol of Thailand is surely a country with the monarchy.
bishop of Rome, chief pastor of the worldwide Catholic Church and head of state of the Vatican City state. ‘The city is ruled by the pope as its head. He is an elected monarch and carries the official title of ‘King of the Ecclesiastical State’.
These are a few countries with royalty and countries with Kings and Queens. Trivia Sharp gives detailed information about the monarchy and modern royalty.


Accepted abstract, IGYS-2022
Author: Chi. Varun, Chi. Samrud V
7th Standard, Vidyanjali Academy for Learning, Bengaluru
Does geography have any role in curing diseases?
My grandma was a very strong woman who lived to the age of 65. I never heard her complain of any aches.
When I was suffering from a cold and cough, my mother didn’t take me to the doctor. Instead, she took me to grandma’s house . Grandma suggested a natural remedy — doddapatrey soppu in Kannada (ದೊಡ್ಡಪತ್ರೆ ಸೊಪ್ಪು also called “Mexican mint”). She prepared “Mint Cough Syrup” using mint leaves, rock sugar, and shallots after which I felt better and relieved.
My neighbor gifted me doddapatrey soppu on my birthday. From then, I wanted to know about it. I found out from my mom that it is the one of the most helpful plants you can ever find. It is a member of the mint family.
It’s not only a barrier to diseases but it is also a key ingredient in making delicious food items. It is mainly used in “Sambar”. Having known about the benefits of this I decided to share it with my neighbors.
How many people in my area know about this plant? How many are growing this plant in their homes? Is doddapatrey soppu a replacement for the intake of some kinds of pills?
Doddapatrey soppu can be grown easily in many climatic conditions. It is used as a home remedy for curing minor health issues free of cost.
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The world is making progress towards Goal 7, with encouraging signs that energy is becoming more sustainable and widely available. Access to electricity in poorer countries has begun to accelerate, energy efficiency continues to improve, and renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector.
Nevertheless, more focused attention is needed to improve access to clean and safe cooking fuels and technologies for 3 billion people, to expand the use of renewable energy beyond the electricity sector, and to increase electrification in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Energy Progress Report provides global dashboard to register progress on energy access, energy efficiency and renewable energy. It assesses the progress made by each country on these three pillars and provides a snapshot of how far we are from achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals targets.
- 7.1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
- 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
- 7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
- 7.A By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology
- 7.B By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support


Joined-up land use strategies tackling climate change and biodiversity loss
DetailsUrgent and concerted action can stop and reverse unsustainable land use and the over-exploitation of land resources. This will
however require rapid, simultaneous and coordinated action by a diversity of land use decision makers. MOSAIC aims therefore to
achieve the following objectives:
1. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and drivers behind land use decisions (e.g. cultural factors, social
identities, cognitive frameworks, market prices, legal frameworks, etc.), including their relative importance and interactions, within
and between relevant governance levels, ranging from individual land managers to supra-national organisations.
2. To gain a thorough understanding of the awareness of key land use decision makers about climate change, biodiversity loss and
renewable energy challenges, and their willingness to address these challenges.
3. To characterise future land use patterns based on spatial, social and economic models that integrate key insights into the
motivations and drivers behind land use related decisions and the result of these decisions in causing displacement effects, i.e.
indirect land use changes in other parts of the world.
4. To support policy design and implementation for climate change, renewable energy and biodiversity, by means of innovative costeffective
instruments and approaches co-created in policy labs contributing to and elaborating on MOSAIC’s research results in a
5. To develop an interactive digital learning environment, embedded within a digital toolbox comprising proven technologies and
approaches consistent with long-term European sustainability goals and strategies to support land use decision processes at
governance levels ranging from local to supra-national scales.
Interdisciplinary SSH research linked to state-of-the-art land use modelling will be core to this project, and will be embedded in a
transdisciplinary research approach based on policy labs.
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|Actual start/end date||01/09/2023 - 29/02/2028|
INBO Research theme(s)
- Nature & society


“Generation Z” or the “iGeneration” is born digitally and using digital social media channels and Apps for communication come naturally to them. Therefore, exploring a way for archives to enter this sphere of digital communication and connection, bears a great opportunity for archives and (younger) citizens to get in touch with and learn about each other.
Complementing the storytelling of the roaming transmedia exhibtions, we will develop an edutainment App which connects the exhibitions to social networks, the self-evident playgrounds and communication platforms of “generation Z”. By integrating the archival world into the natural digital habitat of younger generations, access to archives will be eased and interest in discovering cultural heritage sparked.
Through this technological innovation, especially teenagers will be enabled to discover archives on their own terms and be given the opportunity to co-curate their own digital exhibitions of archival documents. Throughout this pilot activty, the teens will be supported and tutorized by archivists and guidelines for sharing content on social media will established.
In the end, 100 of the most “liked” selected digital documents will be collected in the online exhibition “European Youths Archives”, available here in due time.


An ethnography is a rich qualitative study of a culture that aims to provide "thick description"--that is, a detailed account of everyday life in that culture. The aim of the anthropologist or other author of the ethnography is not only to describe the culture but also to understand it and how its people provide "webs of meaning," or the meanings they make of their experiences.
Fernea and Turnbull, in accounts such as Guests of the Sheik, provide a detailed account of life in an Iraqi village in the 1950s. Elizabeth Fernea lives as the local women do. For example, she learns that although she would like to go to the market and live independently as a western woman does, she is not allowed to do so (page 12). By living this type of life, she comes to understand the way local women feel in their everyday existences and comes to know their intimate details, such as that "A woman's jewelry is her insurance against disaster" (page 33). Only by living among the local people does she come to understand these realities.
Similarly, while Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son is a novel, Johnson also provides these types of ethnographic details about life in North Korea. In describing Jun Do's youth, for example, the author writes, "And then in the year Juche 85, the floods came. Three weeks of rain, yet the loudspeakers said nothing of terraces collapsing, earth dams giving, villages cascading into one another" (page 8). The relationship between Johnson's narrative and a more traditional ethnography is that Johnson provides details about the everyday lives of the people in North Korea, including the famines they face, the political repression they are subject to, and their lack of awareness of what happens outside their country. The similarity between his novel and more traditional ethnography is that they both try to convey the ways in which people construct meaning and understand their realities and they both use cultural relativism, which is when someone tries to understand another culture on its own terms.


The dark pigtoe is a small to medium sized freshwater mussel that has historically been restricted to the Black Warrior River system in northern Alabama.
Location in Taxonomic Tree
The dark pigtoe inhabits sand/gravel/cobble shoals with moderate to strong currents in small to medium sized streams/rivers within the Mobile River Basin.
A natural body of running water.
- The dark pigtoe is a small to medium sized mussel, occasionally reaching up to 60 millimeters in length.
- The shell is oval in outline, and moderately inflated.
- Beaks are located in the anterior portion of the shell.
- The posterior ridge is abruptly rounded and terminates in a broadly rounded, subcentral, posterior point.
- The hinge plate is wide and the teeth are heavy and large, especially in older specimens.
- The periostracum (outermost layer of the shell) is dark, reddish brown with numerous and closely spaced, dark growth lines.
- The nacre (inner shell layer) approaches white in the umbos and is highly iridescent on the posterior margin.
- The species is gravid (carrying young) in June and releases glochidia (larval stage mussels) in peach to pink-colored conglutinates (Haag and Warren 1997).
- The largescale stoneroller (Campostoma oligolepis), Alabama shiner, blacktail shiner, creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus), and blackspotted topminnow have been confirmed as suitable hosts (Haag and Warren 1997). However, in 2015, the Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center conducted a host trial with Alabama shiners, blacktail shiners, and tricolor shiners and only produced a total of nine juveniles indicating that all were poor hosts (Johnson 2018).
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Fractional integrals are easier to define than fractional derivatives. And for sufficiently smooth functions, you can use the former to define the latter.
The Riemann-Liouville fractional integral starts from the observation that for positive integer n,
This motivates a definition of fractional integrals
which is valid for any complex α with positive real part. Derivatives and integrals are inverses for integer degree, and we use this to define fractional derivatives: the derivative of degree n is the integral of degree –n. So if we could define fractional integrals for any degree, we could define a derivative of degree α to be an integral of degree -α.
Unfortunately we can’t do this directly since our definition only converges in the right half-plane. But for (ordinary) differentiable f, we can integrate the Riemann-Liouville definition of fractional integral by parts:
We can use the right side of this equation to define the left side when the real part of α is bigger than -1. And if f has two ordinary derivatives, we can repeat this process to define fractional integrals for α with real part bigger than -2. We can repeat this process to define the fractional integrals (and hence fractional derivatives) for any degree we like, provided the function has enough ordinary derivatives.
See previous posts for two other ways of defining fractional derivatives, via Fourier transforms and via the binomial theorem.


Contractor Confirms Several Low-Level Plutonium Exposures At Hanford
Back in June, there was an emergency at the Hanford nuclear site where workers were ordered to take cover. A sensor was detecting airborne radioactive particles.
Now KING-TV reports several workers have tested positive for those particles inside their bodies.
The workers were demolishing the Plutonium Finishing Plant. The building was used to make plutonium nuggets about the size of hockey pucks for bombs in the Cold War. Hanford contractor CH2M Hill won’t comment on exactly how many positive tests have come back, but several workers have eaten radioactive particles. ?
That means workers likely breathed in dust with small amounts of plutonium, then breathed the dust out. The particles got hung up in their saliva and they swallowed. CH2M Hill is now testing about 300 workers’ feces. The contractor expects to be done with the testing in six weeks. ?
A CH2M Hill spokesman wouldn’t answer any questions about whether these workers who did test positive would have additional testing on their bodies—particularly their lungs.
The federal contractor said all exposed workers have less than a millirem in them detected so far. And experts on the health effects of plutonium say that’s about the amount of radiation you’d get from a cross-country flight. ?
CH2M Hill said it has developed new plans to help limit exposures in the future like keeping more dust down by spraying water and a sticky solution and sucking air into a ventilation system on the building during demo.
?All of the workers who’ve ingested plutonium will have this information recorded as part of their official Hanford work health history.


Want to be a US Navy Officer? First, you must prepare for the OAR (Officer Aptitude Rating) Test. A student can take entire ASTB Test or only the OAR. OAR is for those individuals who only want to become an officer, rather than pursuing the career in aviation. ASVAB Tutoring provides comprehensive and easy to grab study materials to prepare students with confidence.
ASVAB Tutoring has streamlined the process of learning for aspiring students to qualify in a test by its effective training methods. Students will be updated with new concepts and strategies in becoming a prospective Navy Officer. You will get critical information regarding this field from our experienced faculty.
What are the Areas Covered in OAR Test?
There, are three main sections which are covered in OAR Test.
- • Math Skills Test (MST): You have to know basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, angle and perimeter, distance and the word problem.
- • Mechanical Comprehension Test (MCT): Basic knowledge of physics and its relation to velocity, pressure, and volume, as well as mechanics of the simple machine.
- • Reading Comprehension Test (RCT): You have to read a passage of text and find one true sentence from the given option.
What does the OAR test for?
The Test predicts the academic performance in Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS). The score range of OAR Test is from 20 to 80.


WHAT ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES?
A cryptocurrency is a digital currency that can be used for transactions online.
It is the internet’s version of money – unique pieces of digital property that can be transferred from one person to another.
All crytocurrencies use ‘blockchain’ and one can only be made and shared using specific agreed-upon rules. For each cryptocurrency the rules are slightly different.
People can buy bitcoins through exchanges such as Coinbase and Bitfinex.
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, created in 2009.
Other currencies such as Litecoin and Dogecoin do the same thing but have slightly different levels of inflation and rules surrounding transactions.
Currently around 270,000 transactions are taking place every 24 hours.
These currencies don’t exist as physical or digital objects. They are just a collective agreement with other people on the network that your currency was legitimately ‘mined’.
Blockchain is the record of changes in ownership of in a currency which is broadcast through the network and maintained by computers around the world.
The network works by harnessing individuals’ greed for the collective good.
A network of tech-savvy users called miners keep the system honest by pouring their computing power into a blockchain, a global running tally of every bitcoin transaction.
As long as miners keep the blockchain secure, counterfeiting shouldn’t be an issue.
However, because cryptocurrencies allow people to trade money without a third party getting involved, they have become popular with libertarians as well as technophiles, speculators — and criminals.
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The growing instability in Lebanon has been overshadowed by events in Iraq and Syria, but heightened tensions between Lebanese citizens, Syrian refugees, and competing military forces make Lebanon a critical part of the Middle East’s latest security crisis. Lebanon is being put under extreme pressure by the influx of 1.15 million registered Syrian refugees into a country already struggling to meet the basic needs of its citizens. The longstanding political divisions in Lebanon have been compounded by Hizbullah’s intervention in the Syrian civil war. The United States and Saudi Arabia have offered Lebanon emergency military aid, but this neglects the long-term humanitarian nature of the crisis and its effects on inter-communal relationships. What is needed is a long-term strategy to deal with the impact that Syrian refugees have had on Lebanese society and to contain violent outbreaks with sensitivity to the local dynamics from which they have emerged. In order to take an in-depth look at factors that are leading to growing incidents of violence in Lebanon, this Snapshot focuses on the town of Arsal, which has experienced the intense pressures that are threatening stability in Lebanon as a whole.
- Violent conflict in the Lebanese town of Arsal on the border with Syria offers a striking microcosm of the pressure the Syrian conflict is placing on Lebanon.
- Lebanon is struggling to cope with the influx of Syrian refugees, who now make up one fourth of the population.
- The refugee crisis is exacerbating long-standing political and sectarian tensions in Lebanon while the refugees are increasingly resented by the host population.
- The refugees are vulnerable, trapped between competing groups in a deteriorating security and humanitarian environment.
- A military solution to Lebanon’s security crisis is short-sighted; instead, the focus should be on enhanced humanitarian efforts and trust-building between host and refugee populations.
Michelle Obeid is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has done extensive field research in the town of Arsal since 1996 and is currently writing a book about social and political change in this border town.
Photo credit: M. Hofer, UNHCR Photo Unit


1. The Battle of Charleston occurred on June 4, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. British forces attacked the city, resulting in a siege that lasted over a month and ended with the city's surrender to the British.
2. On June 4, 1896, the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson was decided by the United States Supreme Court. The decision upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for segregation of public facilities based on race.
3. In 1963, the South Carolina Legislature passed a resolution declaring June 4 as "Robert E. Lee Day" in honor of the Confederate general. The resolution was eventually repealed in 2017, with lawmakers citing the need to move away from celebrating symbols of the Confederacy.
4. On June 4, 1989, a violent confrontation between civilians and the Chinese government occurred in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. A memorial to those who lost their lives was later created in Columbia, South Carolina.
5. The South Carolina Aquarium, located in Charleston, officially opened its doors to the public on June 4, 2000. The aquarium features over 5,000 animals and is a popular destination for both tourists and locals alike.
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Are you looking for a complete guide to build, manage, and maintain a Hydroponics system?
Then keep reading.
Hydroponics is the art of growing plants without using soil. The equipment generally consists of a reservoir that contains nutrients, and a device which carries this nutrient solution to the plants.
Hydroponics is popular because it has several unique advantages for the gardener.
First and foremost, it saves money by allowing the gardener to recycle any water that is used.
The nutrients are absorbed more effectively and controlled entirely by the gardener; the cost of fertilizer is vastly reduced. Besides, the yields of plants grown in Hydroponics are stable and generally relatively high.
Perhaps the best advantage of Hydroponics is the fact that it can be grown indoors. So, even in the middle of winter, you can grow plants that are healthy and strong.
In hydroponic gardens, plants have a thirty to fifty percent faster growth rate and higher food production than soil gardens. Hydroponics also has minimal issues with disease, pests, and bugs.
This book key points are:
- The Basics of Hydroponics
- Build Your Own Hydroponic System
- How to Maintain a Hydroponic System
- Maintenance of your Garden
- How to choose the Right Hydroponic System
- Types of Hydroponic Systems
- The layout of a Hydroponic Structure
- Planting in Containers
- Hydroponics Nutrient Guide
- Hydroponic Pest and Diseases
- Hacks and Troubleshooting
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How To Draw A Bee Simple for Children
Bees are insects popular for producing honey. They also help in pollination. Beware, they also sting and it doesn’t feel as small as they appear!
Let’s learn how to draw a bee. Below is an easy-peasy and well-detailed step-by-step guide to drawing and painting a bee for kids.
To make it easier, you can print our guide for use during the drawing process.
1. Pencil or black marker
3. Colouring supplies
Let’s draw a bee!
Video Tutorial: How To Draw A Bee
Let’s draw the bee’s wings.
Step 1: First draw the first wing. Draw the second wing beginning your curve from the middle of the top curve of the first wing as shown below.
Let’s draw the bee’s body and sting.
Step 2: Draw an oval to outline the bee’s body attaching it to the wings as shown below. At the back of the body draw the sting like a spike.
Let’s draw the bee’s head.
Step 3: Draw arcs on the bee’s body to separate the head and the sting. The circles on the bee’s body are called spiracles.
Step 4: In the head, draw the eyes like two big circles with small circles inside. Below the eyes, draw the mouth of the bee as a big smile with smile lines on both sides. Also, draw the antennae above the bee’s head as shown below.
Let’s paint the bee
Step 5: The main colors to use are yellow, black, and blue. Use yellow color to paint the head leaving out the eyes.
Step 6: Still using the yellow color, skip one spiracle from the head and paint the next spiracle, skip another and paint the last one.
Step 7: Use black color to paint the rest of the body spiracles, the sting, the antennae circles, and the eyes between the big circle and the small circle.
Step 8: Use the blue color to lightly paint the wings.
Finally, we have drawn a bee! Easy, right?
Remember practice makes perfect, so keep practicing to perfect your drawing. Also, share your drawing with your family and friends.


How Printing Sofa Fabrics Are Produced
Printing sofa fabrics involves applying a design or pattern onto a piece of fabric using ink, dyes, or other printing methods. The process typically involves the following steps:
Preparing a design or pattern to be printed onto the fabric. This can be done using digital printing techniques, screen printing, or other methods.
Pre-treating the fabric to ensure that the ink or dye will adhere properly and resist fading or bleeding over time.
Applying the ink or dye onto the fabric using the chosen printing method. This can be done manually or with automated machinery, depending on the scale of the operation.
Curing or drying the fabric to ensure that the ink or dye has fully adhered and that the design is permanent.
Optionally, adding additional design elements or finishing treatments, such as metallic or reflective coatings or embossing, enhances the final product.
Printing sofa fabrics
offers a wide range of design possibilities, from simple patterns and solid colors to complex designs and photographic images. The specific printing method and materials used may vary depending on the desired final product and the manufacturer's techniques.
Features of Printing Sofa Fabrics
The features of printing sofa fabrics
can vary depending on the specific fabric and printing technique used. However, some common features of printed sofa fabrics include:
Versatility: Printing sofa fabrics can be used to create a wide range of design styles, from classic to contemporary, and can include everything from simple patterns to detailed photographic images.
Durability: High-quality printing methods can result in sofa fabrics that are resistant to fading, staining, and wear over time.
Softness and comfort: Depending on the base fabric used, printed sofa fabrics
can be soft and comfortable to the touch, making them suitable for use in furniture upholstery.
Colorfastness: Modern printing techniques often use fade-resistant inks or dyes to ensure that the colors remain bright and vibrant over time.
Customizability: Printing sofa fabrics offer designers and manufacturers the flexibility to create custom designs and patterns that suit their specific needs and preferences.
Availability: Printed sofa fabrics are widely available from a variety of sources, from high-end textile manufacturers to budget-friendly mass-market retailers.
The features of printing sofa fabrics can make them an attractive and versatile option for designers, manufacturers, and consumers looking for custom, high-quality, and durable sofa upholstery.


The following are definitions associated with mental health care. Information sources include the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
What is a Therapeutic Community
The central philosophy of “therapeutic community” is that each resident (residential client) is empowered to be an active participant in his/her own recovery as well as in the recovery of other residents in the community. The day-to-day activities of the community are shared among staff and residents. This collaborative effort is a special part of their treatment, and for many may be the first time their views have been heard and respected. Residents are encouraged to express their thoughts and feelings about their behaviors in order to further understand themselves and their illnesses.
Sensitivity to cultural issues is an important part of the therapeutic community. The program/services provide an environment that accepts and values everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, class, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. The needs of different cultures and religions are integrated into the therapeutic community program.
Within the therapeutic community model, the community itself is the modality for change for the individuals, through:
- Use of the mutual-help principle
- The therapeutic work program and group structure
- Schedules for residents
- Behavior expectations
- Feedback from staff and – more importantly – from peers
- Learning interventions
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If we fund the fight against AIDS around the world, are we spending money that should fund HIV/AIDS programs in Canada? No.
Let’s take a look at why we can fund both Canadian HIV/AIDS programs and the global fight against the AIDS crisis.
1. The funding comes from two completely different budgets.
Domestic HIV/AIDS funding comes from the budgets of departments like Health Canada and the Public Health Agency (among others).
Canada’s contribution to the global AIDS crisis comes from the budget of Global Affairs Canada, with almost all of the funding being channeled through the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, an international partnership of governments and the private sector. International investment in the HIV responses of these countries peaked in 2013 at nearly US$10 billion; it has since declined to around US$8.3 billion in 2018.
Funding for domestic HIV/AIDS programs comes from Health Canada.
Funding for international HIV/AIDS programs comes from Global Affairs Canada.
2. The two fights against HIV are connected. We have not finished the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The fact of the matter is, we must fund both domestic and international programs to combat HIV/AIDS. The fight against HIV/AIDS is not over!
At the end of 2016, the estimated number of persons living with HIV in Canada was 63 110.
It is estimated that 1 in every 7 Canadians infected with HIV has not been diagnosed and is unaware of their infection. In the same year, an estimated 2,165 new HIV infections occurred in Canada.
Around the world:
Every day, nearly 800 young women are infected with HIV.
Globally, there are 38 million people living with HIV — almost 15 million of whom can’t get life-saving treatment, which puts them at risk of developing AIDS-related symptoms — and another 1.7 million people are infected with HIV every year.
Over 2,100 people die from AIDS-related causes every day.
Fact: AIDS isn’t a disease of the past. It’s a modern-day crisis and it’s impacting people and communities around the world right now. Diseases don’t stop at borders. To defeat AIDS once and for all, we must fight it at home and abroad.


Life expectancy for Americans rose for the first time in four years according to the most recent data released by the Centers for Disease Control. The data, which is as of 2018, shows the first slight increase since 2014.
The life expectancy average at birth for male and females is 78.7 years, with women expecting to live to the age of 81.2 and men to 76.2. The Centers for Disease Controls noted that the slight increase was attributable to lower mortality from cancer, accidents, and unintentional injuries. Drug overdose deaths among younger individuals also declined, falling 4% in 2018, the first such decline in 28 years.
Historically, the current life expectancy of reaching 78.7 years of age was absolutely unheard of 100 years ago. Life expectancy for males and females in 1920 was 54 years of age, 24 years less than today’s life expectancy. Advancement in medical technology and more favorable work conditions has gradually led to higher life expectancy in the United States.
Source: Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics
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A 12-year-old girl participating in the Temple Mount Sifting Project discovered an amulet dating to 1200 BC with the name of Thutmose III. From the press release:
The small amulet is in the shape of a pendant, missing its bottom part, measures 21mm wide, 4 mm thick and its preserved length is 16 mm. A loop on top allowed it to be strung and hung on the neck. The raised decoration displays a cartouche – an oval frame surrounding Egyptian hieroglyphics bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler. Above the oval framing is the symbol of an eye, and to its right are remnants of yet another hieroglyphic symbol depicting a cobra of which parts of the head and tail are preserved.
While Egyptian scarabs bearing the name of Thutmose III have previously been discovered in Jerusalem, this represents the first time his name has been found in Jerusalem adorning an amulet. “Objects bearing the name of Thutmose III continued to be produced in Egypt long after the time of his reign, reflecting the significance and lasting impression of this king,” said Barkay.
The amulet can be reconstructed based upon the discovery of an identical pendant found in Nahal Iron in northern Israel, announced in 1978,” said Zachi Dvira, co-founder and director of the Temple Mount Sifting Project. “Along with that pendant, which also bore the name of Thutmose III was another amulet bearing the name of King Seti I, an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled Egypt during the late 14th – early 13th centuries BCE. This seems to indicate that both pendants date to the same time period, namely the late 14th – early 13th century BCE.”
The press release includes more information. The story is also reported by The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and others. A higher-res image of the photo above may be found here.
HT: Joseph Lauer


All good liars have beards and are ticklish only on their right feet. Does that sound right? No! It's a lie! But what is the science behind lying? Is it ingrained is us as humans to lie, even though we live in a society that so supposedly encourages honesty? Some researchers say that lying is a part of our human nature because at an age of as early as 6 months, babies will begin to lie to get what they want (usually in the form of fake crying for milk or attention). By the time we're adults, we have developed our lying capabilities so well that we are actually able to lie to ourselves, convincing ourselves through self-deception.
So how do we tell when someone is lying? Even the best liars often give away some sort of hint that they are lying, whether through their body language or their word choice. Liars will often start a claim with some sort of phrase such as "Believe me" or "To be totally honest," when in fact you should not believe them and they are not being totally honest at all! Liars also often use more extreme and formal language to deny an action, which includes the exclusion of contractions. For example, someone lying is likely to say, "I absolutely did NOT steal that book," instead of "I didn't steal that book." A liar may also make overextended eye contact (more than is normal), hold their upper body abnormally stiff, or even shake their head while saying yes. To learn more about how to detect liars, and make good lies yourself, watch the video!