Using proteins secreted by stem cells, researchers may have found a new, less risky way to regenerate bone tissue for people who have suffered major trauma to their limbs. According to findings published in Scientific Reports this week, the technique could one day provide a sustainable source of fresh tissue.
Right now, to stimulate the growth of new bone tissue, scientists have to grind up old bones to extract growth factors and various proteins known as “demineralized bone matrix” (DMB). This requires taking bones of varying quality from donated cadavers, and there’s no guarantee that enough of the necessary protein signals can be produced. "These limitations motivate the need for more consistent and reproducible source material for tissue regeneration," Todd McDevitt of Gladstone Institutes says in a news release. "As a renewable resource that is both scalable and consistent in manufacturing, pluripotent stem cells are an ideal solution." These have the potential to give rise to almost all cells and tissue types found in mammals.
But rather than use the stem cells themselves, McDevitt and colleagues harnessed their regenerative power by extracting the bone-producing growth factors that the cells secrete. These are called embryoid body-derived material (EBM). First, the team treated mouse stem cells with a chemical and grew them in a special medium that coaxed them towards differentiating into early bone cells. Then, they isolated the essential factors produced by the cells -- these factors are the ones that send the signal to regenerate new bone tissue. Afterwards, they placed the proteins into mouse muscle tissue and found that the proteins alone were sufficient for facilitating bone growth.
"This proof-of-principle work establishes a novel bone formation therapy that exploits the regenerative potential of stem cells," McDevitt adds. "With this technique, we can produce new tissue that is completely stem cell-derived.” Compared to DMB, their EBM performed similarly well.


Petroleum wells produce a combination of oil, gas, and water in what is called a multiphase flow. This mixture is transported through flowlines to a tank separator that isolates and quantifies the volume of each fluid. However, this mechanical gravity separation process takes a long time, and the tank is often shared between many other wells in a field, making it difficult to allow an individual online measurement of the extracted fluids. Without this information, operators cannot effectively control production or estimate each well’s depletion rate, leading to losses or reduced profits. This paper aims to propose a low-cost, instantaneous model to perform this measure using artificial intelligence, commonly known as a virtual flowmeter (VFM). The idea behind it is to use data from pressure and temperature sensors already available on every well in addition to the state of the opening control valve to train a deep neural network with a convolutional layer to output each fluid’s volume rate. The proposed method is computationally simpler than recurrent neural networks and provides similar results. However, it still requires data to train the neural network. Adequate free databases of well production with telemetry are hard to find, so this paper proposes using the Schlumberger OLGA multiphase flow simulator software to provide the data, adjusting the simulator with fluid and operational information from actual wells. Tests have shown that the approximation with the proposed methods achieves up to 99.6% accuracy, making it possible to replace an expensive multiphase meter or use it as a redundant digital sensor for fault alerts of possible inaccurate readings.


Culture of the 1930's
Life Outside the Depression
Almost everybody knows about the Great Depression of the 1930's, but they often overlook some of the cultural elements that were still going on. Writers were writing, musicians were jazzing along, movies continued to rise in popularity and professional sports were still advancing. In addition, African Americans continued to make notable achievements despite the fact that they were still not accepted as equals.
Mitchell became famous for her Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Gone with the Wind." The book about life in the South during and after the Civil War was also made into one of top selling movies of all time, in 1939. Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia and her book is a piece of literature with which every Georgian should be familiar.
Duke Ellington continued the jazz tradition of Louis Armstrong. He became one of the most popular musicians and composers in America despite continually facing the issue of racism in America. For more about Duke Ellington you can visit his website.
Owens became a hero after winning 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics. In addition to winning he embarrassed Adolf Hitler at the games which were held in Berlin, Germany. Hitler believed that the Aryan (German) race was superior to everybody else. Owens severely disproved this theory by winning gold four times. Despite his incredible success, African Americans still were segregated in American and were not treated as equals.


Author: Marissa Lu Editors: Lucas Oliveira J. e Silva and Hélène Morakis
We are launching The ISAEM EMIGs Toolkit Project. This is meant to provide you with some ideas and resources on how to form and develop your own emergency medicine interest group (EMIG), as well as tips and suggestions passed on other established groups. We are looking for step-by step instructions on how to run workshops (both theoretical and practical activities) for students interested in EM. Find out more about our EMIG Toolkit Project.
To get the project started, we have decided to offer you some basics on setting up an Emergency Medicine Interest Group (EMIG)!
Basics in setting up an EMIG!
- Organize a group of interested students: create a committee, select a lead, and assign tasks
- Find a faculty advisor who is willing to lend support and guidance
- Look for potential sources of funding
- Go through process of getting EMIG officially recognized at the medical school
- Set up regular meetings
- Advertise meeting to interested students
- Start gathering a list of EM residents/physician contacts for observership list
Ideas for programming
Always good to start with lectures different than the classic ones. Here are some examples:
- What is Emergency Medicine?
- Emergency Medicine Mindset
- “Day in the life of an emergency physician”
- Toxicology talk
- ‘Beyond the emergency room’: Different types of practice
- Rural EM
- Disaster Medicine
- Mixer with medical residents
- Skills labs: splinting, wound care, casting, suturing
- ECG workshop
- POCUS ultrasound workshop
- Airway workshop
- Wilderness First Aid course
- In hospital
- ECG ride outs


The Computer Controlled Separating and Throttling Calorimeter, "TCESC", has been designed to determine the steam humidity content and the dryness fraction of steam.
This unit works with steam. The steam is introduced into the line by means of a computer controlled solenoid valve. This line has a safety valve to relieve pressure and a pressure switch.
The steam enters the separating calorimeter, the pressure and temperature variables being measured beforehand, the separation of the incoming wet steam is performed by changing the flow direction through a series of obtuse angles, causing the remaining droplets to fall into the tank and the steam with less humidity to continue, where temperature and pressure are measured again. The separating calorimeter is used for a direct determination of great quantities of water (up to x=0.5).
The temperature of the separated water remaining in the tank is measured and passed to the condenser, where it is cooled by a coiled heat exchanger, the condensed water is collected in a vessel where its weight is measured. The inlet and outlet temperatures of the heat exchanger are measured for both the separate water and the cold water. A flow sensor determines the cold water flowing through the exchanger to study the heat transfer between the condensate of the calorimeter (hot water flowing through a coil) and the cold water flowing through the exchanger.
The remaining steam arrives at a throttle valve where there is a decrease in temperature due to the sudden drop in pressure, the vapor reaches the expansion chamber of the throttle calorimeter, where temperature and pressure are measured. This calorimeter is used for small moisture contents (the quality of the steam is between 0.95 and 1.0) and can be determined using the diagram h, s.
This steam passes to the other condenser, where it is cooled by a coiled heat exchanger, the condensed water is collected in a vessel, where its weight is measured.
The cold water flows can be regulated by means of a valve.
This Computer Controlled Unit is supplied with the EDIBON Computer Control System (SCADA), and includes: The unit itself + a Control Interface Box + a Data Acquisition Board + Computer Control, Data Acquisition and Data Management Software Packages, for controlling the process and all parameters involved in the process.


Invent a Gadget
Think about one task that you perform in the course of your everyday life that you must perform by hand, because there is no existing technological device to do that job.
Imagine that you have all the resources available to you to invent a technological device to do that job for you. In this scenario, you would have funding, a design team, and a means of production. Write about your invention using a standard essay format, with an introduction and additional short paragraphs, and a conclusion to address each of the elements in the directions below.
- Describe the task or service the gadget will perform.
- Give it a name.
- Explain what it looks like — color, size, and shape.
- What materials is it made of?
- How much would it cost to make this technological device?
- Would anyone besides you want to have this gadget to do the task you invented it for? Explain how you know that a market does or does not exist for this invention.
- Is there any other potential use—harmful or beneficial—for this invention?
- Use the textbook or other academic resources to substantiate your ideas about the benefits and potential harm associated with your invention and to give credibility to your thoughts on its marketability.
- Use at least two in-text citations to the course text or other academic reference.
- The essay should be about 2-3 pages in length, plus it must have a title page and a reference page.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: INVENTION
The evolution of technology has brought in new advantages. Life would not be comfortable
without technological advancement. This can be attributed to the fact technology has improved the
quality of life. This discussion is going to focus on a new technology known as utensils cleaner
which will work like a robot.
First and foremost, technology has not only made our lives better but also made our


According to State of Oregon Notary Guide:
In the old Roman Republic, notarii were public secretaries who were shorthand writers. As scribes became more and more common, they developed a service in the public marketplace to draw up legal documents and other written instruments. Wax seals were used as signatures on documents. Later, ribbons tied together multi-page documents, and wax seals on the knots showed that no one had tampered with the knots. Thus, we came to have notary seals.
Eventually, the state came to regulate and commission these scribes. Witnesses to the drafting of their documents came to be required. Notaries, still in the public marketplace, evolved into both drafters and witnesses to these writings. As notarii became essential to commerce and law, royalty found the need to commission and employ them for drawing up and countersigning documents. By the Middle Ages, notaries had to undergo formal training and examinations. Gradually, the government took over the sole appointment of notaries, giving them public officer status.
In Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin American countries, notaries retain many of their attorney-like powers. In the United States, however, notaries are most important for merely witnessing documents drafted by someone else. This disparity in notary authority is the reason Oregon has a law against advertising as a “Notario Publico”, which conveys to Spanish-speaking individuals vastly different powers than notaries have in this state. …[T]he duties and responsibilities of a notary public vary greatly from state to state.
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Ramnagar Forest Division in Nainital district, Uttarakhand, recently built its first eco-bridge for reptiles and smaller mammals.
What are eco-bridges and why are they important?
- Eco-bridges are wildlife corridors designed to connect habitats, allowing animals to pass between areas separated by human infrastructure.
- Eco-ducts or eco-bridges aim to enhance wildlife connectivity that can be disrupted because of highways or logging.
- These include canopy bridges (usually for monkeys, squirrels and other arboreal species); concrete underpasses or overpass tunnels or viaducts (usually for larger animals); and amphibian tunnels or culverts.
- Usually these bridges are overlaid with planting from the area to give it a contiguous look with the landscape.
- The bridge is important to preserve the ecosystem.
- A 2020 study by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and National Tiger Conservation Authority have found that 50,000 km of road projects have been sanctioned for construction in India and three major sites cut across animal corridors including National Highway 37 through the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape in Assam, and State Highway 33 through the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in Karnataka.
Facts About Eco-Bridges
- The two main aspects considered in building the eco bridges are size and location.
- These bridges should be built based on the animal movement patterns.
- Nature Conservation Foundation built canopy bridges for Nilgri Langurs and lion-tailed Macaques.
- The IUCN Red List of threatened species lists Lion Tailed Macaque and Nilgri Langur as “Endangered”.
- Around six bridges were built across three kilo metres of stretch.
First Five Animal Bridges in India
- The bridges have been planned to avoid disturbances in Ranthambore Wildlife Corridor.
- The first five animal bridges are planned on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway
- These animal bridges will help avoid man-animal conflict.
- The Ranthambore National Park is located in Rajasthan.
- It was declared as the Project Tiger Reserve in 1973.


In Washington DC, the father of eight-year-old twin boys is suing the DC Water and Sewer Authority for $200 million. John Parkhurst says that his children have learning and behavioral problems because they were affected by the high levels of lead present in the city’s waters from 2001 through 2004. Parkhurst, who filed his personal injury case in DC Superior Court, hopes that the case will become a class-action lawsuit.
According to the DC injuries to minors lawsuit, when his sons were babies they were fed formula and food that were mixed with tap water. At age 2, the boys had a medical checkup that revealed signs of lead poisoning. Parkhurst’s complaint accuses WASA officials of concealing the fact that the elevated levels of lead in DC waters would eventually prove to be a serious health concern.
Just this year, a new study found that about 42,000 District children were exposed to high levels of lead in the city’s tap water from 2000 to 2003. Many of these children would have been under 3 years of age or in their mothers’ wombs at the time.
Lead exposure can cause different degrees of developmental and behavioral problems in kids. Some of the effects can range from irritability, inattentiveness, and hyperactivity to growth delays, learning and reading problems, permanent brain damage, and death.
Common causes of lead poisoning include lead in paint chips from buildings and the dust in the surrounding soil. Also, in the last couple of years, toy manufacturers have announced massive recalls of some popular products after discovering that a number of toys, many of them made in China, had been manufactured using excessive levels of lead.
If your son or daughter became ill or was injured because of exposure to a hazardous or toxic product, you may have grounds for filing a personal injury lawsuit or products liability claim on their behalf.
Lead in Water Harmed Sons, D.C. Man Claims, The Washington Post, February 18, 2009
Lead Exposure In Children Affects Brain And Behavior, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Related Web Resources:
Childhood Lead Exposure, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
High Lead Levels Found in D.C. Kids, Washington Post, January 27, 2009


A review of tobacco industry documents show research on psychological and behavioural needs in women was used to target cigarette advertising and ingredients, to increase smoking and reduce quitting rates.
The recently released review (PDF), published in the journal Addiction notes that:
A 1976 British-American Tobacco Company (BAT) review of gender differences (drawing on both internal and published studies) concluded that women were more motivated to smoke, smoked more for insecurity reasons and exhibited more neurotic traits.
The author further observed that higher neuroticism among women may intensify responses to smoking-related health pressures, and that female smokers found quitting more difficult and reported fewer successful cessation attempts.
In response, cigarette advertising and ingredients were altered to make them even more difficult to give up, and more attractive for new smokers.
Link to summary from Science Blog
PDF of full-text paper Designing cigarettes for women.
PDF of Addiction editorial Exploitation by design
One thought on “Cigarettes designed to “addict women””
How far have we come, baby?
Back in the 1970’s, British tobacco companies used research on women’s neuroses to get women to start smoking and discourage them from quitting. This research was later discovered and used to great advantage by Nabisco’s Snackwells and Sigma Nu. (Image…


Anatomy of an Attack
Ransomware attacks ranges from simplified “ransomware in a box” to customized malware that can shut down networks, cripple financial systems, and incapacitate government services.
PHASE 1: Develop
Adversaries can easily purchase ransomware from dark-web marketplaces or leverage hosted ransomware services to quickly launch attacks
PHASE 2: Deliver
Adversaries will launch ransomware campaigns, often perpetrating as a trusted colleague or partner to mask the attack.
PHASE 3: Demand
By masking as a trusted confidant, the recipient unsuspectedly opens the attachment where the ransomware is activated where the payment is demanded.
PHASE 4: Collect
As the ransomware is activated, locking up the victim’s system, the victim has no choice but to pay the ransom without ever knowing if they will regain control of their systems.
How Does Ransomware Work?
Former Director Product Marketing, Fareed Bukhari, discusses the role of social engineering and email spoofing in ransomware attacks.
The Agari Advantage
Proactive Ransomware Prevention
Cybercriminals constantly evolve tactics to trick people into downloading ransomware. Even trained professionals can have difficulty spotting identity deception, which is typically used in these attacks.
Agari detects threats and prevents tactics such as display name deception, lookalike domains, domain spoofing, and messages sent from hijacked sender accounts.
Detection of Zero Day Attacks
Zero day ransomware attacks are launched with no advanced warning, do not contain any recognizable “digital signature,” and employ evasive tactics to slip past SEGs and legacy security controls such as attachment sand-boxing or URL-rewriting.
Agari couples behavioral analysis with deep-level URL and attachment inspection to defend against never-seen-before attacks before they exploit unknown vulnerabilities.
Automated Breach Response
Employee reported email attacks can be one of the best sources of breach threat intelligence and help prevent or contain a breach. However, they can also cause Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts more work because of the sheer number of reported incidents.
Agari Phishing Response is the only turnkey email incident response solution that can reduce triage, analysis, and remediation time by as much as 95% to prevent and contain a data breach.
Protect against costly advanced email attacks


ONCOLOGISTS HAVE LONG KNOWN that a survivor of Hodgkin lymphoma treated with radiation therapy is at higher risk of developing second cancers, especially breast and thyroid cancers. Nearly 20 percent of Hodgkin patients treated as children develop a second cancer within 30 years. Now, pediatric oncologist Kenan Onel and his colleagues have uncovered two genetic markers that may help explain why one child is more likely than another to develop a second cancer as an adult.
The researchers studied the genomes of more than 300 Hodgkin survivors who had been treated with radiation (with or without chemotherapy) between the ages of 8 and 20. When the genetic variations at two locations on chromosome 6 were labeled as either “risk variants” or “protective variants,” the results were striking, says Onel, the director of the Pediatric Familial Cancer Clinic at Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. The study showed that patients with risk variants at both locations were many times more likely to develop second cancers within 30 years than patients with the protective variants. The results were published in the August 2011 issue of Nature Medicine.
“What is so great about this study is that not everyone who gets radiation gets a second cancer, so the question is, ‘How can we figure out who is at higher risk?’ ” says Michael Link, a pediatric oncologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., who was not involved in the study. While the findings are preliminary and will need to be replicated with many more patients, he says, “it is exactly what we need; we want to be able to tailor the therapy and even tailor the monitoring following therapy to the patients who are the most likely to develop a second cancer.”
Many concerned parents have contacted Onel about his findings, wondering if they can test to see which genetic variations their children have and if the results would warrant a change in treatment. “I tell them that while this study is very encouraging, it is still too early in the game for us to say that the findings are as meaningful as we think,” he says. “To change treatment based on them would right now be premature.”
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A recent study on electric mobility found that only 30% of total vehicles in India are likely to be electric by 2030. This is lower than the government’s hopes for electric vehicle sales. Minister Nitin Gadkari stated at an event in Oct 2021.
Arthur D Little’s study stated that the EV industry would have sales of 10 million vehicles by 2030 and an overall adoption rate greater than 30% for all vehicle types.
The study found that India could achieve a 50% adoption rate if it were to unlock its full potential. This would be possible if more than 17 million electric vehicles are sold by 2030.
The study concluded that this reflects the “true potential” of India’s EV industry if all parties come together to create a strong ecosystem.
In 2021, the first signs of this ‘full potential” were evident when EVs in India recorded the highest ever sales and a high month-on-month rate despite the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the supply chain.
Electric mobility will not only reduce their carbon footprint but also provide a higher income for logistics and e-commerce players. All participants agreed that subsidies from the government alone are not enough to create an electric mobility ecosystem. Copy-paste solutions from other countries will not help the Indian industry. India requires EV solutions that are specific to India.


Making the Vase
- Cardboard or Card Stock
- Markers (we love Sharpies)
- Markers or Crayons for colouring
Using a black Sharpie draw a vase design. Be sure to include patterns like dots, zig-zags, stars or even flowers. Colour your vase to make it beautiful. Punch holes above the vase where you are going to add your flowers. Using green add stalks and leaves from the flower holes to the top of the vase.
Optional: Using a green marker or crayon to add stalks and leaves under the holes where the flowers will go down to the vase top. We decided not to, because the kids were so excited to go pick their flowers.
TIP: If you don’t have a hole punch or can’t reach the middle of your craft to punch holes, use a pencil to push through and make the holes.
Head Out Into Nature
Now it’s time to take your vase and head out into nature. Ensure your kids know not to take flowers from anyone’s gardens without permission!
Public parks often have lots of dandelions, clover and more, plus public trails will have gorgeous wild grown flowers, a little exploring will reveal a gorgeous array of flowers in your area!
You can also talk to your neighbours who might be avid gardeners. They may be willing to part with a few buds in the name of education. Or maybe you have your own flower garden to explore.
Take a look around and see what you can find and where would be the best place to find your flowers in your area.
Once you have found your flowers, have your child select the specific flowers they want to add to their vase. Using scissors carefully cut the flower ensuring that you leave a few inches of the stalk.
Next, have your child carefully place the flowers through the holes. If you wish, you can secure the flowers with a bit of tape if they are falling out.
I love encouraging my kids to dig a little deeper. So once we were home with our homemade vases we did some research to learn more about the types of flowers we had and to learn a bit about those flowers. We have Dandelions which are very popular with bees, plus some Wild Roses. Then we took some flowers from the garden. A favourite was the Gerber Daisies!
The idea comes from Steampoweredfamily.com


Have you ever wondered how chloride in brewing water affects the taste and quality of your beer? In this blog post, we’ll explore the role of chloride and dive into the world of brewing water chemistry.
Brewing water is more than just H2O; it contains various minerals and ions that significantly impact the beer’s flavor profile. Some important values of brewing water include calcium, magnesium, sulfate, and bicarbonate levels. All these elements contribute to the overall taste, mouthfeel, and brewing process efficiency.
How would a beer with a lot of chloride in the brewing water taste?
A beer brewed with high levels of chloride in the water tends to have a fuller mouthfeel and enhanced sweetness. The chloride ions enhance the perception of malt flavors, creating a rounder and more balanced taste. However, too much chloride can lead to a cloying, overly sweet beer.
Influence on Beer Taste
The chloride-to-sulfate ratio is crucial when it comes to the final taste of the beer. A high chloride-to-sulfate ratio accentuates the maltiness, while a lower ratio emphasizes hop bitterness. Consequently, the right balance between these ions can make or break the flavor profile of your brew.
A few examples of chloride levels in brewing water
Water sources with high chloride levels include well water and some municipal water supplies. For instance, Burton-on-Trent, a town famous for its brewing heritage, has naturally high levels of calcium and sulfate but relatively low chloride levels. In contrast, Dublin’s water supply is known for having higher chloride content, contributing to the unique flavor of Irish stouts.
Some typical brewing water profiles and their chloride levels are:
- Burton-on-Trent: 25 ppm (low)
- Dublin: 120 ppm (high)
- Pilsen: 10 ppm (very low)
- Munich: 40 ppm (moderate)
Chloride in brewing water plays a significant role in shaping the taste and mouthfeel of your beer. Striking the right balance between chloride and other ions, like sulfate, is key to achieving the desired flavor profile. By understanding and adjusting your brewing water chemistry, you can create a wide range of delicious beers tailored to your preferences.
For more information on brewing water chemistry and how to adjust it for your homebrew, check out our related article on the subject: i.e. for sodium. Happy brewing!


From API’s Publications Team
An article on the United Kingdom’s TimesOnline.com, “Tackle Child Obesity: Teach Mums to Eat,” explains how the solution to rising childhood obesity is in teaching parents that their eating behavior is how children themselves learn to eat.
According to a study published in the Paediatrics journal, one in four children ages four to five years old is overweight, despite normal birth weights. The reason, writes a convinced Susie Orbach, is that children are learning from their parents’ troublesome eating habits – their fear of food, preoccupation with body size, frequent dieting, and bingeing.
“You don’t have to be a psychoanalyst to know that childhood is formative and that one’s earliest eating experiences – entwined as they are with our fundamental feelings of security, love, attachment, and caring – form the basis of how we approach food and succour throughout our lives,” Orbach writes.
Continuing, she discusses how children learn to eat unhealthily from parents who eat to fill an emotional void. Children who watch their parents struggle with eating will grow up believing this is normal. These children grow up learning that eating is done not necessarily to meet a physical need but to curb negative feelings of boredom, anxiety, anger and conflict, sadness, and overexcitedness. Instead of dealing with their upset feelings, people with a tendency toward obesity turn to food for soothing, Orbach wrote.
To read the entire article, go to http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5361106.ece.
One thought on “Solution to Childhood Obesity is in the Parents’ Behavior”
So like with parenting there are times when we use a series
of different ideas or techniques, or activities that initially engage our children.
Hence, it is not surprising that they succumb to a lot of


It’s June and in Northern California, that means the start of raspberry season. The local berry farms have opened for picking and the stores are full of ripe, red beauties.
This past weekend I did my first ever raspberry picking from a friend’s raspberry patch. There are few things more sweetly satisfying than fresh berries straight from the vine. And the good news is, it isn’t that hard to grow your own. Check out the stats below to see if raspberries might be a good fit for your garden.
Common name: Raspberry
Scientific name: Rubus idaeus
Exposure: Full sun (may also fruit in light shade in hottest areas)
Growth rate: Fast
Foliage color: Green
Flower color: White
Harvest: Summer-bearing raspberries, throughout the summer; fall-bearing varieties, in fall and summer the following year — consider planting summer and fall-bearing varieties together to extend your season
Propagation: Greenwood cuttings, division
WARNING: Most raspberry bushes have thorns. Try a thornless variety for easier harvest.
A few other quick notes on raspberries:
- Raspberries do require room to spread, so they are probably not the best choice for small space container gardening. (I did manage a thornless boysenberry in a pot once, but got very little fruit.)
- Raspberries do require annual pruning to maintain size and to ensure the most bountiful harvest. The timing and type of pruning varies for summer and fall-bearing varieties (more on that in a separate article).
- To keep bushes neat, minimize disease and make havesting easier, build a berry trellis.
Learn more about raspberries.


What community personnel and resources are you overlooking?
The recent emergence and increased demand for local food provides an opportunity for urban and rural communities to discuss and connect around issues of health, food access and security, local economies, and ways to integrate good food from farm –or urban homestead– to table more effectively and efficiently.
A community’s planning and economic development office is a critical resource for these discussions, but is sometimes overlooked by local food and farm advocates as a valuable partner in planning a community food system and addressing pressing community issues like food access and food insecurity. The American Planning Association (APA) recently outlined why planners need to be involved and what outcomes can be achieved through sound community food system planning.
According to the APA (2011), community food system planning should:
- Preserve existing and support new opportunities for local and regional urban and rural agriculture;
- Promote sustainable agriculture and food production practices;
- Support local and regional food value chains, networks, business clusters and infrastructure involved in the processing, packaging, and distribution of food;
- Facilitate community food security, or equitable physical and economic access to safe, nutritious, culturally appropriate, and sustainably grown food at all times across a community, especially among vulnerable populations;
- Support and promote good nutrition and health, and;
- Facilitate the reduction of solid food-related waste and develop a reuse, recovery, recycling, and disposal system for food waste and related packaging.
Additionally, the APA recently released an extensive report on planning for food access and community-based food systems. Therefore, more community planners are becoming engaged in discussions around food and farming and aware of the critical importance food system planning has for present and future needs. Community planners should not be overlooked, but be enlisted by those working on local food and farm issues as a key partner.


All TCP/IP-enabled systems use various forms of hostname resolution. The primary
methods for TCP/IP hostname resolution involve either a static file (
or the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS is the technology that makes
the Internet usable. DNS-based hostname resolution is supported by nearly all
TCP/IP-enabled systems. Only a few embedded TCP/IP systems do not support DNS.
Windows 200x/XP can register its hostname with a Dynamic DNS server (DDNS). It is possible to force register with a
dynamic DNS server in Windows 200x/XP using
With Active Directory, a correctly functioning DNS server is absolutely essential. In the absence of a working
DNS server that has been correctly configured, MS Windows clients and servers will be unable to locate each
other, so network services consequently will be severely impaired.
Use of raw SMB over TCP/IP (No NetBIOS layer) can be done only with Active Directory domains. Samba is not an
Active Directory domain controller: ergo, it is not possible to run Samba as a domain controller and at the same
use NetBIOS. Where Samba is used as an Active Directory domain member server
(DMS) it is possible to configure Samba to not use NetBIOS over TCP/IP. A Samba DMS can integrate fully into
an Active Directory domain, however, if NetBIOS over TCP/IP is disabled, it is necessary to manually create
appropriate DNS entries for the Samba DMS because they will not be automatically generated either by Samba, or
by the ADS environment.


Design professionals have not often been consulted regarding devastation after natural disasters. Most solutions and techniques of natural disaster-related recovery emphasize infrastructure engineering and food provision. Whereas recovery efforts and basic survival demand that food delivery and movement be facilitated in such areas, issues designers concern themselves with are seldom considered. Designers' focus is on integration of ecological and cultural concerns in planning for disaster recovery. Indeed, after events such as the Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004, societies must start again with few material objects but with an extensive cultural consciousness. This paper addresses the role that designers play in such a situation. It is suggested how designers and other professionals can facilitate a series of best practices in disaster recovery. Overviews of large-scale disasters from three countries show how cultural and ecological considerations are the two elements most needed in disaster planning, both pre and post-event. Suggestions are made about how these elements may be best incorporated into future eco-culturally-based recovery efforts. Evaluation of design precedents used to renovate the natural and built environment is a positive and necessary framework for recovery.
|Number of pages||11|
|Journal||Landscape and Ecological Engineering|
|State||Published - May 2006|
- Natural disaster
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law


Exactly where man’s best friend came from remains a mystery.
Thousands of years of cross-breeding have made it difficult for scientists to trace the ancient genetic roots of today’s dogs.
Still, British researchers gave it a try. They recently compared genetic data from 1,375 modern-day dogs, from 35 different breeds, to global archeological records of dog remains.
Although, other genetic studies suggest dogs descended from the grey wolf, the researchers found modern dog breeds, genetically speaking, have little in common with their ancient ancestors.
Dogs were the first animals domesticated by man about 15,000 years ago. However, we really didn’t start keeping them as pets until about 2,000 years ago. Even so, until fairly recently, most dogs were kept and used to perform specific jobs.
Although some dog breeds – such as the Akita, Afghan Hound and the Chinese Shar-Pei – have been classified as ancient by canine experts, they’re no closer to the first domesticated dogs than any other modern breeds. This, according to the study, is again due to cross-breeding through the years.
Other aspects affecting the dog’s genetic diversity include human movement and migration. Major worldwide events, such as the two world wars, also impacted the dog population, the researchers said.
Lead author Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist in Durham University’s Department of Archaeology, said, “Ironically, the ubiquity of dogs combined with their deep history has obscured their origins and made it difficult for us to know how dogs became man’s best friend. All dogs have undergone significant amounts of cross-breeding to the point that we have not yet been able to trace all the way back to their very first ancestors.”
Previous studies of breeds such Basenjis, Salukis and Dingoes indicated they had different genetic signatures, which provided evidence of an ancient heritage.
But the researchers say their new study shows the unique genetic signatures in these dogs were not necessarily due to being directly descended from ancient dogs, but merely appeared to be genetically different because they were geographically isolated and were not part of the 19th Century kennel clubs which blended various lineages in order to create most of the breeds we’re familiar with today.
As DNA sequencing becomes faster and cheaper, the scientists are hopeful more research will provide further insight into the evolution and domestication of our canine friends.
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Challenges of Warming Colostrum
Yesterday I was on a dairy that feeds colostrum from bottles stored in a refrigerator. They have to warm each bottle before it can be fed.
As I stood at the sink in the milk house I asked the calf care person to show me how she warms colostrum. She sat a plastic container in the sink and filled it with water.
The critical piece of information here is the temperature of water in the container. She put adjusted the hot and cold water faucets to a familiar position and put her hand into the water. After a moment she turned up the hot water volume a bit. Then she said, "There, that is just right."
The water was actually close to 130 F (55C). She was correct - this is a very good temperature for warming colostrum without damaging the antibodies. You may recall that when colostrum is exposed to excessively high temperatures (more than 140F, 60C) the antibodies are damaged and are no longer effective for preventing infections.
I asked her, "How do the guys on the night shift warm colostrum?" The reason I asked this question is that I had just asked her about the source of the hot water in the milk house. She said it came from the same supply as the hot water for washing the milk pipeline in the milking parlor - that water is 170F (77C).
She told me that her instructions to the night workers that warm colostrum feeding newborn calves is to run the water no hotter than they can stand to run over their hand. She was quite confident that these workers were following the warming protocol satisfactorily.
On another farm I saw a short (8 inches or 20cm) piece of milker hose on the end of the mixer faucet in the milk house sink. The dairyman had inserted at a 30 degree angle an inexpensive rapid-read thermometer into the hose. This instrument measured the temperature of the water going through the milker hose - thus, when you wanted 130F water for warming colostrum you simply adjusted the hot and cold water faucets until the thermometer was as this temperature.
Just for review you may want to go over the points on this Colostrum Feeding Checklist. Click HERE for this checklist.
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Filibuster facts for kids
This page is about the legislative procedure. For the military term, see Filibuster (military).
Filibuster, also known as talking out a bill, is a tactic of parliamentary procedure. It is a way for one person to delay or entirely prevent debate or votes on a specific proposal.
The term "filibuster" comes from the French "flibustier" word meaning "pillaging pirate." In terms of parliamentary procedure, the word was not used until the 19th century However, the use of long speeches as a delaying tactic is part of the history of the Roman Senate. For example, Cato the Younger is known for using filibuster tactics to block Julius Caesar's rise to power.
- 1841: The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate starts on February 18 and ends on March 11
- 1853: The term "filibuster" is first recorded in the Congressional Record
- 1874: Joseph Gillis Biggar delay the passage of Irish coercion acts by making long speeches in the British House of Commons to
- 1880: The long speeches of Charles Stewart Parnell in the UK House of Commons blocked debate on anything else; and the tactic forced Parliament to take the issue of Irish self-government
- 1917: The US Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters
- 1919: A filibuster in the US Senate held up a vote on the Treaty of Versailles
- 1957: US Senator Strom Thurmond holds record for the longest filibuster. His 24-hour, 18-minute speech on August 28-29 was against a civil rights bill.
- 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the US Senate
- 1983: British Member of Parliament John Golding talked for over 11 hours to delay the British Telecommunications Bill
- 2011: A filibuster about Canada Post by the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the House of Commons of Canada started on June 23 and ended on June 25, 2011.
- 2013: Chuck Hagel, the president's defense secretary nominee was filibustered after a cloture motion (the vote that ends the filibuster) failed 58-40.
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The UN department of Disaster Risk Reduction boldly states, “there is no such thing as a natural disaster, only natural hazards.”
If you think about it – it makes sense. Take the ever-increasing risk of breast cancer: There are a lot of natural hazards that play a role in its development – genetic predispositions; hormonal dysfunctions; unknown exposure to toxins (natural or man-made). But they’re not inevitable disasters. Not all women with those risks develop breast cancer. And there are a slew of modifiable hazards that can reduce your risk.
One study found that in high-income countries like the U.S. and Canada 27% of cases of breast cancer are attributable to smoking, alcohol use, and most often, overweight and obesity. Women being older when they go through childbirth and spending a shorter time breastfeeding may also up the risk.
So what can every woman do to reduce the risk of breast cancer?
- Quit smoking
- Get 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise, 60 minutes of vigorous activity and 20 minutes of resistance exercise each week
- Eat a high-fiber diet (that’s 5 to 9 servings of fresh produce and 2 servings of 100% whole grains daily)
- Limit or eliminate alcohol
- Maintain a healthy weight and waist circumference.


Understanding how Binary Search Key works?
A binary search key is used to quickly search for a specific value in a sorted array or list. The basic idea behind the binary search algorithm is to repeatedly divide the search interval in half until the value is found or the search interval is empty.
Here is an example of how to use a binary search key to search for a value in a sorted list in Python:
def binary_search(arr, x):
low = 0
high = len(arr) - 1
while low <= high:
mid = (low + high) // 2
if arr[mid] == x:
elif arr[mid] < x:
low = mid + 1
high = mid - 1
arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
x = 6
result = binary_search(arr, x)
if result != -1:
print("The element is present at index", str(result))
print("The element is not present in the array.")
In this example, the function binary_search() takes two parameters: an array arr and a value x to search for. It uses two variables low and high to keep track of the search interval. It then repeatedly divides the search interval in half by updating the low and high variables until the value is found or the search interval is empty. The function returns the index of the element if it is present, and -1 if it is not present in the array.
It’s worth noting that the binary search algorithm can only be applied to a sorted data, the data should be in ascending or descending order. Also, the time complexity of the binary search algorithm is O(log n) which makes it efficient for large data sets.


Scientists at the University of California Riverside have discovered that fermented food waste can boost bacteria that increase crop growth, make plants more resistant to pathogens, and reduce the carbon emissions resulting from farming.
Food waste is a serious problem from multiple perspectives. As much as 50% of food is thrown away in the United States and most of that simply ends up in landfills, taking up more than 20% of America’s landfill volume. Food waste is a huge economic loss as well as a significant waste of freshwater resources used to produce food.
The researchers studied byproducts from two kinds of food waste readily available in Southern California: beer mash – a byproduct of beer production – and mixed food waste discarded by grocery stores.
Both types of waste were fermented and then added to the irrigation system watering citrus plants in a greenhouse. Within 24 hours, the average population of beneficial bacteria was two to three orders of magnitude greater than in plants that did not receive the treatments. This led to improvements in the carbon to nitrogen ratio in crops. When there are enough so-called good bacteria in plants, they produce antimicrobial compounds and metabolites that help plants grow better and faster.
The results of the study suggest that the use of food waste products in agriculture is beneficial and could complement the use of synthetic chemical additives by farmers, perhaps eliminating it entirely. Crops would in turn become less expensive.
Making use of food waste in agriculture is a step towards a more circular economy in which we use something and then find a new purpose for it.
Turning food waste back into food
Photo, posted October 28, 2012, courtesy of Daniel Lobo via Flickr.
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Negative Calorie Foods and Weight LossPosted: Mar 16 in Post-Bariatric Diet by Staff
I’ve heard that eating negative calorie foods might be a good diet strategy. But what exactly are they? Some dieters suggest that eating “negative calorie foods” can help you to lose weight. But what are negative calorie foods, and are they really the answer to long-term weight loss?
Negative calorie foods are foods that, in theory, take more energy to process and digest than they provide in calories. For example, it’s been suggested that you will burn 80 calories digesting a 25-calorie piece of broccoli, for a net loss of 55 calories. Cauliflower, asparagus, celery , berries, cabbage, and grapefruit are other foods that are commonly thought of as “negative calorie” foods.
The truth is that there are no reputable scientific studies to prove that any specific foods require more energy to digest than they contain, or that eating negative calorie foods can lead to weight loss. It is true, however, that about 10% of your total calories burned during the day comes from digestion and storing the nutrients in the food you eat. Foods that contain very few calories, including many fruits and vegetables, may require more energy to digest than the calories they contain, but there’s no proof that they are actually “negative calorie” or that any difference is significant enough to cause weight loss.
Most foods that are said to be negative calories are fruits and vegetables that should be eaten as part of an overall healthy and balanced diet. While it’s good to incorporate these foods into your diet, consuming only one type of food—even healthy ones—won’t provide your body with the wide range of nutrients needed for good health.
I think we all get wrapped in wanting to decrease calories that we often forget that you actually need a certain amount of calories to fuel the body so you can lose weight. A quick formula for knowing how many calories per day you need: take your weight in pounds and divide by 2.2 to get your weight in kilograms. Multiply your weight in kilograms by 15. That is approximately how many calories you need per day. 250lbs/2.2= 113.6 x 15=1704 calories.


Angle of Torsion in the Elastic Range
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This Demonstration shows how the angle of torsion or twist varies with the torque and the modulus of elasticity. It is assumed that all deformations of the circular rod are within the elastic limit of the material.
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From : "If a torque is applied to the free end of a shaft, the shaft will twist, with its free end rotating through an angle called the angle of twist."
 F. P. Beer, E. R. Johnston, and J. T. DeWolf, Mechanics of Materials, 4th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006, p. 136.
"Angle of Torsion in the Elastic Range"
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If we assume that learning is best achieved in a social setting, then a vital aspect of any learning environment is its ability to support the development of trust. Trust takes many forms, from helping to identify the validity or the effectiveness of a learning resource to feelings of safety and reliance on support from fellow learners and teachers. This paper explores how the environment may support or diminish trust in several types of system, situating them within a conceptual model of trust based on their social, cognitive, technical, interface and systemic features. It goes on to describe a learning environment called Dwellings, which uses a design based on Jane Jacobs’s observations of what makes city districts thrive or decay. Dwellings may be thought of as a cross between a wiki, a moo and a learning object repository. It is built to enable trust to develop, through a combination of safety through a ‘succession of eyes’, a fluid locus of control and social navigation approaches to collaborative recommendation. The paper concludes with a discussion of issues that have arisen through the use of Dwellings and some thoughts on general features and future developments of learning environments that encourage the development of trust.
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|Journal||Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR)|
|Publication status||Published - Jan 2007|
- Human Computer Interaction


The triple offset butterfly valve has a slanting circular shape (the third eccentricity of the so-called triple eccentricity) except that the wide rod and the valve plate have two eccentricities.
Compared with other valves, the butterfly valve has a simpler structure. It is smaller in size, lighter in weight, and has fewer components. It relies on several key components to form a butterfly valve, but it has achieved better use.
The butterfly valve is suitable for flow regulation. Since the pressure loss of the butterfly valve in the pipeline is relatively large, it should also be considered that the butterfly plate is subjected to the firmness of the pressure of the pipeline medium when it is closed.
The butterfly valve has a small flow resistance when fully opened. When the opening is between about 15° and 70°, sensitive flow control is possible, so the application of butterfly valves is very common in the field of large-diameter adjustment.
Butterfly valves and gate valves are indispensable components in fluid pipelines, and they have a very wide range of applications. There is a difference in the function of the two, but the butterfly valve and the gate valve are more different. The most difference is appearance.


Healthy Eyes Across the Lifespan
September is celebrated as Healthy Aging month, by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, to highlight vision issues that can affect adults age 65 plus. As we age comes the increased likelihood of eye disease. Yearly dilated eye exams play an important role in detection of these diseases. Adults 65 and older should have a yearly exam with either an optometrist or ophthalmologist.
Some eye diseases don’t have any symptoms! Yearly exams can detect subtle changes in the structures of your eyes before you may even notice a change in vision. A dilated eye exam allows your eye doctor to examine the health of your eye from front to back.
Some common eye diseases your doctor will check for include:
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) – affects the macula, which is the center of the retina and responsible for reading vision.
- Cataracts – are a clouding of the natural lens of the eye. Visit our cataract blog post from June 2019 to learn more about the different types of cataracts and some of the visual symptoms people may experience.
- Diabetic retinopathy – changes affecting the blood vessels in the retina due to complications from diabetes.
- Glaucoma – affects the optic nerve of the eye, commonly referred to as high pressure which is a component of glaucoma.
Early diagnosis and treatment are the best ways to minimize vision loss.
Vision loss does not have to go hand-in-hand with aging. Adults ages 18-64 should have an eye exam at least every 2 years unless they are at risk for developing eye diseases, and then they should have an exam yearly or as recommended by their eye doctor. School age children should have yearly eye exams.
Making an eye exam part of your routine health care is a central component of maintaining vision across the lifespan. A healthy diet, exercise & weight-control, smoking status and protecting your eyes from the harmful UV rays of the sun also aid in maintaining vision.
Call us today at 919-282-1100 or visit us online at www.kellyeyecenter.com to schedule your exam. Life is beautiful, see it clearly!


Text by Holly Hurd-Forsyth and Candace Kanes
Images from Maine Historical Society, Bangor Public Library, Montpelier, The General Henry Knox Museum; Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library, Portland Public Library and Stanley Museum
When the daguerreotype process arrived in Maine in 1840, it provided a relatively inexpensive alternative to painted portraits, which were out of the financial reach of most Maine people. As the 19th century progressed, and photographic processes became faster, cheaper, and increasingly widespread, children remained popular subjects.
Because infant mortality rates were shockingly high in the mid 19th century (22-34 percent of babies born in the U.S. did not survive infancy), post-mortem photography was a common practice. Often the only image of a child was one taken after the child's death.
Photographers capitalized on parents' fears. One daguerreotypist advertised, "Those parents who desire Pictures of their little one . . . when they remember the uncertainly of life, and the suddenness with which the graceful bud is often plucked . . . will do well to call on the original Daguerreotype Gallery." (Robinson, A Certain Slant of Light)
By 1900 the U.S. infant mortality rate fell to 11-17 percent and parents' motivations for photographing children changed. By the 1870s, children, often posed in elaborate costumes and placed in luxurious settings, were portrayed as decorative objects, and reflected their parents' ability to provide and care for their family. These romantic representations of children are indicators of a secure and economically stable domestic sphere.
Studio photography was widely available in both rural and urban Maine in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. Parents often had their sons and daughters professionally photographed throughout the duration of their childhoods. As the children grew, the clothes they wore and the props they posed with were indicators of the child's age and interests, as well as the status of the family.


Global warming turned the harsh deserts of the Arabian Peninsula lush and green during the most recent interglacial warm period, scientists note in the August 29 issue of Science. During the last interglacial warm period, global temperatures were significantly warmer than the present.
The article, “In Search of Green Arabia,” explains how scientists have discovered many more ancient artifacts in Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula than expected. The article explains how the artifacts are evidence of a climate that was much wetter and conducive to human health and welfare than the present.
“The most pronounced period of wet and warm weather in the past few hundred thousand years took place about 125,000 years ago, during the height of the last interglacial,” the article notes.
“During the wet spells, lakes filled up, rivers ran, and a savannalike environment resembling that of today’s East Africa dominated Arabia,” Science explained.
“There could be tens of thousands of former lakes and wetlands” to be discovered from the warmer time period, King’s College of London hydrologist Paul Breeze observed in the article. Breeze has already identified 1,300 lake and wetland sites in just 10 percent of the Arabian Peninsula, the article noted.
Ice core samples from Antarctica indicate temperatures as much as 6 degrees Celsius warmer than the present 125,000 years ago when global warming and a wetter climate turned the deserts green.
The findings are consistent with an overall increase in global precipitation during our present warm period. The increase in precipitation has resulted in fewer and less extreme droughts even as temperatures warm. The Arabian Peninsula evidence indicates the beneficial increase in precipitation is likely to provide still further human health and welfare benefits if temperatures continue their modest warming trend.


Iowa's Asian immigrant population is quickly growing
Immigrants from Asia are one of Iowa's fastest-growing populations, according to U.S. Census data from 2017-'21 and the Iowa Data Center.
Why it matters: Iowa's population growth has been sluggish for decades as more residents leave rural areas, as well as the state altogether.
- Local experts say one of the best ways to help revitalize rural areas and gain enough workers to sustain the local economy is to ease immigration into the state.
By the numbers: Iowa's largest foreign-born population from '17-'21 came from Latin America (64,231), with the largest portion from Mexico (41,503).
- The second largest group came from Asia (62,804).
Zoom in: In Des Moines, the largest foreign-born group was from Asia (11,178), with the majority of those people hailing from southeast Asia (7,385).
- The most common populations represented were from Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.
State of play: Many of the people who migrated to Iowa from Asia were refugees, especially more recently from Burma and Thailand.
- Existing families in the state and support networks have also encouraged more relatives to come here.
- Jobs availability, including work in meatpacking plants like JBS and Tyson, has played a role, too.
The big picture: While the model minority myth falsely shows Asian Americans in Iowa doing well, there are still struggles and disparities — especially for refugees in low-paying factory jobs or kids learning English as a second language.
- The poverty rate for Iowa's Asian American and Pacific Islander community in 2021 was 12.8% in comparison to the state's 11%.
- The AAPI high school graduation rate for those 25 and over was 77% in comparison to the state's 92%.
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SAVE Lions: Evaluation of the camera traps
The “SAVE Lions” project, which SAVE is carrying out together with Pro Wildlife, is making great strides. The goal is that in one of the most conflict-ridden regions near the Okavango Delta in Botswana, no lion should die any more.
In the project regions, NG 32 and NG 35 (NG is the abbreviation for Ngamiland) camera traps were set up along the cattle fence. This fence is strategically important for the project because it is meant to separate livestock and wildlife. This allows the Lion Rangers to monitor the movement of wildlife along and outside the fence.
The camera traps were placed in such a way that they are hardly visible to humans on the one hand and provide high-quality images on the other. Possible game crossings were selected as the position. These, it turned out, were mainly holes in the fence through which wild animals migrate.
Analysis of the camera traps by the Lion Rangers showed that a particularly large number of animals appeared near water holes: from warthogs to hyenas, antelopes and elephants with their young.
The pictures showed that especially the elephants destroyed the fence in some places. The larger the holes, the more wildlife can enter the cattle herds’ area, which must be prevented in the future.
The good news for the cattle herders: lions have not been recorded by the camera traps so far. But this is only a snapshot. Detecting them early in the project area and protecting the cattle is the most important goal of the “SAVE Lions” project.
The Lion Rangers will therefore continuously read out the memory chips of the camera traps.


Philae is an island, now underwater, in the Nile River in southern Egypt. In Arabic it is known as Jazirat Filah (“Philae Island”) or Jazirat al-Birba (“Temple Island”). It also is known as Qasr Anas al-Wujud, after a hero in the Arabian Nights stories. Many religious structures were built on the island in ancient times.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the island was a holy place for the goddess Isis. Beginning in the 600s bce, several pharaohs built temples and shrines there. They built a temple of Isis as well as structures dedicated to other gods and goddesses.
The ancient Romans took over Egypt in 30 bce. The Romans continued to use the temple of Isis. The Roman emperor Hadrian added a gate to the temple complex in the 100s ce. Christianity eventually became the religion of the Roman Empire. In the 500s the Romans made the temple of Isis into a Christian church.
After the first Aswan Dam was built in the early 1900s, the island was often flooded. Water began to damage the temples. Construction on another dam, the Aswan High Dam, began in the 1960s. Once that dam was completed, the island would be entirely underwater. The Egyptian government and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) made a plan to move the temples to higher ground. The structures were taken apart and then rebuilt on the nearby island of Agilkia. The new site is now called Philae as well.


Yellow leaves can also indicate the plant is overwatered. A great way to decipher watering concerns is to cautiously get rid of the plant from its container and look at the roots.
“With some exceptions, balanced vegetation frequently have white roots,” Vogel stated. “If the roots are rusty orange to mild brown, it is underwatered, and if the roots are dim brown to black, it is overwatered.”
Carefully place the plant back in the container and change the watering plan appropriately. If overwatering is the situation, withhold water right until the soil is very dry and little by little commence a new watering program. Just after two weeks, use a drinking water-soluble, houseplant-unique fertilizer. If no advancement is seen in the upcoming two months, repot in contemporary soil.
Yellowing might also manifest if a plant requirements fertilizing. Based on what nutrient is wanted, yellowing could start off on the outer edges of leaves, or from the vein outward, or the leaf may well even curl. Develop into acquainted with the fertilization desires of each individual species. Often, a plant wants fertilization when it results in being root-certain and may well simply will need to be repotted into a much larger container.
• Places, leggedness. Leaf places on foliage can be brought about by as well a great deal solar. When spots show up constantly, move the plant to a location it gets less sun.
“Leggy, or stretching plants take place when they are achieving for more light,” Vogel said. “Move them to a brighter place, or turn them from time to time to retain them developing evenly.”


Over the past two weeks, All Saints' Academy teachers have been working with students and staff from The Catholic School of St. Gregory the Great on a Science teaching project. We jointly planned a lesson to be taught at St. Greg’s about the properties of materials and then hosted the Year 5 students back here at ASA for an interactive lesson about solids, liquids and gases. Students experienced our Science laboratories and were able to use our equipment. We investigated the properties of different solids, liquids and gases by sorting samples into groups. All the Year 5 students were a bit flummoxed by honey and jelly because they show some properties from solids and some from liquids. The lesson finished with students observing the temperature of stearic acid to make a cooling curve. They could see that materials lose energy as they cool and this is why liquids solidify if they get cold enough.
All the Year 5 students and staff from St. Greg’s are invited back to ASA for a Science and Engineering Day on Thursday 11th February. They are going to be building towers to support an egg and also engineering a vessel to carry cargo that could survive a 2 metre drop. The atmosphere in the laboratories was fantastic and the students left with massive smiles on their faces. We look forward to welcoming them back in two weeks time.


Shrinking National Monuments Can Affect Biodiversity
A new study says when the Trump administration shrank Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah late last year, it may have endangered scores of native bee species.
The study reports there are almost as many species of native bees living in Grand Staircase as in the entire eastern United States -- 660 in total. Most native bees don’t live in colonies or make honey, but they are important pollinators.
Joseph Wilson, a biology professor at Utah State University and co-author of the study, said the new boundaries mean a number of those bee species now live on unprotected land, and they’re vulnerable to increased development like mining.
“Mining,” he said, “brings with it other things that we know can have negative impact—like more roads or more disturbance, removing ground cover, removing vegetation or other things like that.”
Wilson said we should care because, as pollinators, bees are one of the most important animals in the world, and they are already vulnerable right now because of climate change.
The big takeaway from the study, Wilson said, “is that there’s a lot we still don’t know about this hot spot of bee diversity. So as changes are being made, land managers need to take into consideration these bee populations because it seems they’ve just mostly been overlooked.”
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUER in Salt Lake City and KRCC and KUNC in Colorado.
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Restoration, in French history, the period from 1814 to 1830. It began with the first abdication of Emperor Napoleon I and the return of the Bourbon king, Louis XVIII, but was interrupted (1815) by Napoleon's return (the Hundred Days). After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Louis XVIII was again restored as king of France. The Bourbon regime was responsible for considerable French economic recovery and expansion and for the restoration of French prestige abroad. These years also saw the growth of the romantic movement in French literature and arts. However, the period marked the failure of the attempt to reconcile the royalist and Revolutionary traditions. Increasing political influence was exerted upon the moderate Louis XVIII by the ultraroyalists, dominated by his brother, the comte d'Artois, who succeeded (1824) Louis as King Charles X. The ultraroyalists sought a return to the ancien régime. They were aware, however, that this could not be achieved and acted instead to ensure their own political and social predominance. Their power was finally broken by the July Revolution of 1830.
See N. Hudson, Ultra-Royalism and the French Restoration (1936); G. de Bertier de Sauvigny, France and the European Alliance (1958), D. P. Resnick, The White Terror and the Political Reaction after Waterloo (1966); J. H. Stewart, The Restoration Era in France (1968).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Low-Speed Zone Guide
This Low-Speed Zone Guide presents strategies for planning, designing, building, and evaluating low-speed zones in cities. The guide intends to equip communities and decision-makers with the tools to implement low-speed zones that will suit their specific context.
Every year approximately 1.35 million people lose their lives due to road traffic crashes. In many road crashes, speed plays a key role. As a result, managing speed has taken on great importance in cities around the world.
An effective method for reducing speed and improving road safety, especially in high-risk areas, has been to establish low-speed zones. This Low-Speed Zone Guide presents strategies for planning, designing, building, and evaluating low-speed zones. The guide intends to equip communities and decision-makers with the tools to implement low-speed zones that will suit their specific context.
- Traffic crashes are a leading cause of death and serious injury worldwide; most notably, they are the leading cause of death and serious injury among young people aged 5–29. Higher motor vehicle speeds increase the likelihood and severity of crashes.
- Low-speed zones have emerged as one of the most promising strategies for speed management. They can be appropriate in many different contexts and at various scales, as exemplified by case studies of successful projects around the world.
- Low-speed zones in cities need to be well-planned, well-designed, and well-built, to maximize safety and other benefits.
- Physical traffic-calming measures and target speeds of 30 kilometers/hour (km/h) or lower have the greatest proven safety benefits.
- Key considerations for implementation include stakeholder engagement, site selection (including risk: pedestrian/vulnerable road user presence), enforcement, evaluation, and the adaptation of basic principles for low-speed zone design to the local context.
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Orange wine is….
A. A red wine that has been exposed to considerable oxygen and heat
B. A white wine made by fermenting the grapes on their skins
C. A wine that is made from a special orange-ish colored clone of a variety
D. A wine made in amphora or qvevri pottery
White wines are generally pressed off of their skins shortly after entering the winery— not the case with an orange wine. An orange/amber color is produced when white grape varieties ferment with their skins. In addition to an orange-ish color, the extended exposure to skins gives this style of white wine more tannin and a slight note of bitterness. Orange wines can be fermented in a variety of different vessels including stainless steel tanks or oak barrels. Often, a traditional method in clay amphora and qvevri is used, but othertypes of wines can also be made in these receptacles, so they are not synonymous with orange wines. The flavors and textures of wines made in a amphora and qvevri are quite distinct. Often there’s a resiny, character or something that’s smokey and peaty not unlike single malt Scotch. Depending on the variety of grapes used, the flavors can be reminiscent of wild herbs, dried orange peel, dried apricots, walnut skins, sea salt, minerals, ginger, and spiced tea.


Celebrating Negro Spirituals
As a part of our year long initiative to celebrate and learn about the art form and liturgical use of the negro spiritual, we will share links to articles and videos of interest:
The Fisk Jubilee Singers
One of the reasons the choral tradition of the spiritual exists today is because the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville’s historically black Fisk University formed in 1871 to share the oral tradition created by enslaved Africans. This was not an easy sell, as many of the singers did not want to be reminded of the music connected to the painful time of their youth, but the new Fisk University was struggling financially after the civil war and the white abolitionist university President knew audiences would be moved by the spirituals. Choir members relented and found it to be true– they moved many to donate, battled great racism during their travels, but also gained a tremendous number of fans and strengthened the financial standing of the University and the group.
As this article (https://www.google.com/amp/s/
“Audiences were spellbound. ‘All of a sudden, there was no talking,’ the musicologist Horace Boyer noted of a performance in 1871, the year the ensemble was formed. ‘They said you could hear the soft weeping.'”
“And the beauty of the “slave songs” themselves made it clear to everyone who heard them that Black Americans had developed their own emotionally rich and creatively diverse culture, despite the unthinkable deprivation, brutality and trauma of slavery.”
Learn more about the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the above article and by watching this one hour PBS special, created in 2021 to honor the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Fisk Jubilee Singers:


MAINZ, Germany — The longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has been saved from the threat of demolition.
The so-called East Side Gallery, a three-quarter of a mile stretch that is famous for its art works, was this week transferred into the care of a public foundation amid fears that it could be lost to property developers.
During the Cold War, it was part of the border separating East and West Germany.
Ten people died while trying to flee the communist country in the section that was later turned into the East Side Gallery.
After the wall fell in 1989, more than 100 international artists painted over its concrete transforming it into the world’s longest outdoor gallery. It has become a symbol for the joy of reunification, but also reminds visitors that Berlin was once a divided city.
While the East Side Gallery has become one of the most visited landmarks in the city, its future was uncertain due to Berlin's construction boom.
In 2013, sections of the wall were removed to make way for an access road to new luxury apartments.
The Berlin Wall Foundation, which already runs other memorials and museums in the city, has now taken control of the East Side Gallery.
It plans to preserve the artwork and run guided tours, while also keeping the area easily accessible.
“We are happy that our foundation is trusted with the preservation and care of this monument,” said Hannah Berger, a spokeswoman for the organization. “It’s also important that we can now explain this place.”
Berger said the foundation aims to preserve the East Side Gallery's character and plans to conduct archaeological research that aims to uncover the foundations of a guard tower that once stood nearby.


Cygnus X-1: Still a "Star"
Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when a combination of X-ray and optical observations led to the conclusion that it was a black hole, the first such identification.
The Cygnus X-1 system consists of a black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the Sun in a close orbit with a blue supergiant star with a mass of about 20 Suns. Gas flowing away from the supergiant in a fast stellar wind is focused by the black hole, and some of this gas forms a disk that spirals into the black hole. The gravitational energy release by this infalling gas powers the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1.
Although more than a thousand scientific articles have been published on Cygnus X-1, its status as a bright and nearby black hole continues to attract the interest of scientists seeking to understand the nature of black holes and how they affect their environment. Observations with Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton are especially valuable for studying the property of the stellar wind that fuels Cygnus X-1, and determining its rate of spin.
This latter research has revealed that Cygnus X-1 is spinning very slowly. This puzzling result could indicate that Cygnus X-1 may have formed in an unusual type of supernova that somehow prevented the newly formed black hole from acquiring as much spin as other stellar black holes.


UN official warns of confusion over key Kyoto Protocol mechanism
The Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows industrialized countries to generate credits through investment in emission reduction projects in developing countries, has been one of the Protocol’s greatest successes but is now threatened by misunderstanding, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) told the annual Carbon Expo in Cologne, Germany.
“Some confusion is to be expected – after all, the mechanism is breaking new ground and catalyzing further action on climate change – but some analysis of the CDM has dangerously missed the mark, especially in not distinguishing between the certified emission reductions produced under the CDM, and the emission offsets being sold by the growing number of unregulated or self-regulated enterprises,” said Mr. de Boer.
He stressed that it was important to draw a clear distinction between the highly-regulated CDM and ventures offering carbon emission offsets over the Internet and elsewhere.
To be registered and then earn Certified Emission Reduction (CER) credits, CDM projects must pass a rigorous process of approval and independent third-party monitoring designed to ensure that emission reductions claimed by a project are real, verifiable and additional to what would have taken place without the project, according to Mr. de Boer.
The CERs earned by project participants can be sold and retired against national emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.
The entire mechanism is overseen by an international Executive Board that meets in Bonn about eight times a year. So far some 645 CDM projects have been registered in 44 countries, covering a wide range of sectors, according to the UNFCCC Secretariat.
Some 1.9 billion CERs, each equivalent to a ton of CO2, are expected to be produced by CDM projects to the end of the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period in 2012, the Secretariat said.
“The Clean Development Mechanism is doing what the countries of the world designed it to do, and it has been very successful. Our task now is to build on that success and tap the considerable potential of the CDM, and other market mechanisms, for stimulating investment and reducing emissions,” Mr. de Boer said.


Summer is here at last! As parents, we have a mix of emotions, because, while some of us parents are at work, our kids are free from school and schedules. As parents, it is up to us to make sure, even when we are not with them, that they are safe!
Teaching summer safety tips to our children will be beneficial to them during those times when they are with friends or other family members who might not be thinking ahead.
Summer is for swimming—it is so hot! Wearing sunscreen is of utmost importance. An SPF of no less than 30 as well as light clothing is helpful to prevent sunburn and unhappy children. Parents, too! With Melanoma so prevalent, sun safety needs to be a top priority! Be sure your children know the importance of sunburn protection so they can either put sunscreen on themselves, or alert another adult to do so for them.
When around or near water, it is important to always have an adult with children, even if they have been taught how to swim. Younger children might panic if they fall in and get caught off-guard. Teaching small children while they are young the importance of not running at a pool will help minimize accidents, too.
The flying and/or creepy crawlies of summer can be quite a nuisance also. There are wasps, bees, mosquitoes, ticks, snakes, chiggers, and the list goes on. If your child or children like to play outdoors, it is best to teach them to be aware of bugs and snakes that can hurt them. Ticks are especially bad this time of year and can carry diseases, while snakes like to hide in trees, bushes, tall grass. Raise your child’s awareness so they are always conscious as to watch where they step, climb, or crawl when playing outdoors.


Visitors to colonial New England hoping to discover the oldest church in the United States discover instead that they are more than 2,000 miles too far east.
Soon after Christopher Columbus landed in what he mistook for India in 1492, the Spanish government began sending missionaries to what are now Mexico and the American Southwest to convert the “Indians” to Christianity. In 1598. a group of Christianized Tlaxcalan Indians settled in what is now Santa Fe, N.M., and built a small church over the remains of a 13th century kiva, an underground room once used for religious rituals. In 1609, Spanish settlers joined the small community of the Tlaxcalans, who enlarged their church under the guidance of Franciscan monks. The church became known as the San Miguel (St. Michael) Mission. When Spanish soldiers arrived to protect the area, they worshipped in San Miguel along with the Tlaxcalans and the other residents.
In 1680, indigenous Pueblo people throughout what is now New Mexico organized and carried out an armed revolt against Spanish control. The Tlaxcalans, loyal to the Spanish, took refuge in San Miguel Mission. Flaming arrows directed at the church set fire to the wooden roof, which soon collapsed, killing the Tlaxcalans. The Pueblo Revolt killed 400 Spaniards and temporarily drove the Spanish from New Mexico. When the Spanish returned in 1692, they restored San Miguel Mission for use as a military chapel. A colorful altar screen was added in 1798. After San Miguel was damaged by an earthquake in 1872, stone buttresses were added to strengthen the exterior walls. A new bell tower was added in 1887 to replace one toppled by the quake. Today, San Miguel is owned by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, who hold Mass every Sunday in the oldest church in the United States.


Climate change: Separating the real science from the political science 3/20/18
Climate change advocates and skeptics alike can agree that humankind has a duty to be a good and faithful steward of the Earth, our island home. It may or may not be unique in the universe, but we know that it is vanishingly rare.
Clarity of thought and careful consideration of the evidence is essential to good stewardship. The term “fighting climate change” is not consistent with either of these criteria. The climate has been changing since the Earth was formed and will always change. The questions we must answer to fulfill our stewardship obligations are empirical:
• What is driving climate change over various time scales?
• in what direction?
• what is the relative contribution of human activities?
Failure to answer these questions correctly will lead to a huge waste of resources that could otherwise have been spent on activities that truly are beneficial for humanity and the Earth.
Global initiatives to “fight climate change” rest on the strongly held mainstream view that
- carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity are the main contributor to a warming planet;
- continuation of the warming trend will have catastrophic consequences in terms of rising sea levels, “killer storms”, droughts, loss of habitat, etc.
I do not think that the hypothesis and inferences are supported by the weight of evidence. An alternative hypothesis that better fits the evidence is that the main driver of climate change by far is change in the intensity of energy from the Sun. There is nothing humans can do about that; the best we can do is adapt. Man’s contribution to climate change has been trivial, well within the band of normal variability. If so, then man-made [anthropogenic] CO2 emissions are not a problem.
Every one of the climate change models based on the theory that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are raising the Earth’s temperature have proven quite inaccurate. Actual average global temperatures have been far short of projections from the models. Media statements notwithstanding, there is no scientific consensus on climate change issues beyond the obvious statement that climate change occurs.
For those of you who want to decide for yourselves whether my challenge to climate change orthodoxy is truth or nonsense, you may want to peruse the paper I have attached to this post. It was written in 2015, but so far has stood the test of time.


The professional practitioners of dentistry are referred to as dentists. General dentists provide services related to the general maintenance of oral hygiene and tooth health. General dentist will work with you to develop a customized dental hygiene plan that incorporates dental examination, tooth cleaning, possible tooth scaling, X-ray and use of other diagnostic equipment to prevent, uncover or treat problems as early as possible. Your dentist will help prevent decay or disease of the teeth, mouth, gums and tongue. General dentists also use restorative dentistry procedures to repair the effects of tooth decay, trauma, defect or disease in these areas of the mouth.
Ideally, dentistry is preventative. The American Dental Association (ADA) recommends that you visit your dentist regularly – at least once every six months – to ensure proper oral hygiene and functionality. Regular checkups and oral health maintenance prevent the development of serious dental problems that can require costly treatment. If you remain vigilant and visit your dentist regularly, you can enjoy exceptional dental health. The American Dental Association (ADA) is the world’s oldest and largest dental association.
To obtain their D.D.S. or D.M.D. degree dentists must complete three or more years of undergraduate education in addition to four years of dental school. To become licensed to practice in their state, they must pass an examination after graduating.
Dentistry Experience and Training
After completing dental school, prospective dentists must pass a two-part written national board examination and a written and practical state or regional board examination. After passing these exams, a dentist is given a license to practice. Dentists are licensed on a state-by-state basis, meaning that a dentist in California is licensed to practice only in that state, although there are occasional exceptions to this rule.
The majority of dental school graduates move immediately into general dentistry practice. Others choose to complete specialized post-graduate training to gain a more advanced education in one or more focused areas of dentistry.


Individuals with severe disabilities should be included in schools, communities, employment, and all aspects of life. Though typically recognized as best practice, inclusion for individuals with severe disabilities often remains a challenge as a result of beliefs and practices that continue to promote exclusion. For example, students with severe disabilities that include severe expressive communication disorders are much more likely to be excluded than not from general education settings. The evidence suggests that this is directly related to their lack of spoken language rather than other factors related to physical, cognitive, or linguistic skills. This does not need to be the case.
Increasingly, there are reports of successful inclusion across environments when interprofessional teams, families, and communities work together to insure authentic engagement. The establishment of mutually beneficial reciprocal relationships throughout one’s life is a right that should be afforded to all. The Communication Bill of Rights [PDF] provides a framework from which everyone can work to promote relationships and inclusive opportunities that will help everyone become valued members of the communities in which they live and learn.
Individuals with severe disabilities have a right to opportunities for authentic engagement in schools, communities, employment, and all aspects of life, and we all have a responsibility to make that right a reality.
Return to the National Joint Committee for the Communication Needs of Persons With Severe Disabilities (NJC) topic areas list.
The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Journal Inclusion.
Erickson, K. A. & Geist, L. (2016). The profiles of students with significant cognitive disabilities and complex communication needs. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 32(3), 187–197. doi:10.1080/07434618.206.1213312
Shogren, K. A., McCart A. B., & Lyon, K. J., & Sailor, W. S. (2015). All means all: building knowledge for inclusive schoolwide transformation. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 40, 173–191.


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BOB HIRSHON (host):
An extinct beaver’s voice? I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.
(SFX: Sound of giant beaver skull)
Could giant beavers in ancient North America have made a sound like this one? It’s produced by blowing air through a chamber in the extinct rodents’ huge skulls, suggesting that the they may have used the structure to communicate. Vertebrate paleontologist Caroline Rinaldi of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine says the creatures were the size of black bears. They lacked the chisel-shaped teeth of modern beavers, so they probably didn’t build dams, but they did live in the water.
CAROLINE RINALDI (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine):
Being able to produce a sound that can be carried above and below the water we think this would be of evolutionary benefit to an animal like a giant beaver.
Nonetheless, the beavers went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Along with other large mammals like mammoths and saber-toothed cats and wild horses that lived in North America.
I’m Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.


Our biggest motivator for our offsetting initiative is the now-acknowledged worldwide issue of climate change, for which we all bear our part of the responsibility.
This project is being carried out through the protection of the rainforest in the Choco Bioregion of Ecuador, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. After much research and study, it has been determined that in order to protect the forest, our conservation effort needs to be rolled out on a number of fronts.
Through the Fundación Futuro, we have formed partnerships to rent land from local farmers and landowners or will be paying them a fee to ensure nature-friendly uses of the land that are kind to people, kind to biodiversity, and kind to the Earth. Additionally, other swaths of forest are to be purchased and tacked on to the current Mashpi-Tayra Reserve (currently nearly 3,000 hectares, or 7,000 acres). This multifaceted effort creates “biological corridors” – continuous strips of restored land that allow for migration of species, adequate mating strategies, and proper foraging — to link up with larger protected areas, as well as financing the development of more sustainable livelihoods in the communities of the Choco.
For us, this project goes beyond carbon footprint offsetting. It is about conservation, biodiversity, and a joint community effort.


Special Collection: Earth Day Every Day
April 22 is Earth Day, a time when over a billion people around the world recognize and appreciate our natural world. Learning about our environment is a great way to celebrate this year—and Storyworks has you covered with these incredible stories from the archives.
Sea Turtle Summer
When Marco’s best friend moves away, an injured turtle
helps him learn an important lesson.
Water Bottles: Handy or Harmful?
Sure, they make life easier. But they’re also hurting the environment.
The Bird Saver
Our thought-provoking play follows scientist and nature writer Rachel Carson in her battle to expose the truth about the pesticide DDT.
Snail at Moonrise
A poem describes the nocturnal life of a snail.
Night of the Grizzlies
On a summer night in 1967, a tragedy in Glacier National
Park would transform the way we care for wild places.
Art Credits: Sea Turtle Summer: CHARLIE REANEY/GETTY IMAGES (TURTLE); LITTLESAM/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM (BACKGROUND); Water Bottles: Handy or Harmful?: Masterfile; The Bird Saver: Fionna Fernandes;The Killer Smog: Gary Hanna; Snail at Moonrise: Vadim Fedotov/Shutterstock.com (Night Sky); Chongsiri Chaitongngam/Shutterstock.com (Snail); This Flamingo Needs Your Help: Jasper Doest Photography; Night of the Grizzlies: MICHAEL S. HEATH


Beyond Skimming: How to Encourage Deeper Reading in a Digital Age
Workshop Description: Discover strategies to help learners critically evaluate digital reading materials, beyond just skimming. Explore free resources that will support students in annotating, evaluating, researching, fact-checking, and questioning the material they read. Utilize these strategies and resources to encourage adolescents and teens to read with a critical eye and support deeper reading.
Students today read daily on their digital devices, but they often skim through material without questioning or fact-checking. Join Shelly Sanchez Terrell for this hands-on, interactive workshop as she shares strategies to help learners critically evaluate digital reading materials, beyond just skimming. Participants will explore a variety of free resources and ideas to help your students annotate, evaluate, research, and question the material they read. You will also walk away with a toolkit of activities that will encourage adolescents and teens to read with a critical eye and support deeper reading.
Special Technology Instructions:
Participants will need access to an internet device and a non-school, personal Google account. SimpleK12ís Google Classroom will be utilized for the interactive and hands-on components of this workshop.
Participants will participate in a collaborative annotation and curation activity and complete an exit ticket to show their understanding of the workshop objectives and reflect on their learning.