The finishing process provides the desired final concrete surface. There are many ways to finish concrete
surfaces, depending on the effect required. Sometimes you only need to correct surface defects, fill bolt holes, or
clean the surface. Unformed surfaces may require only screeding to make the proper contour and elevation or a
broomed, floated, or troweled finish may be specified.
The top surface of a floor slab, sidewalk, or pavement is rarely placed at the exact specified elevation. Screeding
brings the surface to the correct elevation by striking of the excess concrete. Use a tool called a screed, which is a
template having a straight lower edge to process a flat surface or a curved lower edge to produce a curved surface.
Move it back and forth across the concrete using a sawing motion as shown in Figure 4-9 on page 4-18. With each
sawing motion, move the screed forward a short distance along the forms. (The screed rides on either wood or
metal strips established as guides.) This forces the excess concrete built up against the screed face into the low
spots. If the screed tends to tear the surface, as it may on air-entrained concrete due to its sticky nature, either
reduce the rate of forward movement or cover the lower edge of the screed with metal, which will stop the tearing
action in most cases. You can hand screed surfaces up to 30 feet wide, but the efficiency of this method diminishes


Assessing the Geographic Representativity of Farm Accountancy Data
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AbstractThe environment affects agriculture, via soils, weather, etc. and agriculture affects the environment locally at farm level and via its impact on climate change. Locating agriculture within its spatial environment is thus important for farmers and policy makers. Within the EU countries collect detailed farm data to understand the technical and financial performance of farms; the Farm Accountancy Data Network. However, knowledge of the spatial-environmental context of these farms is reported at gross scale. In this paper, Irish farm accounting data is geo-referenced using address matching to a national address database. An analysis of the geographic distribution of the survey farms, illustrated through a novel 2D ranked pair plot of the coordinates, compared to the national distribution of farms shows a trend in the location of survey farms that leads to a statistical difference in the climatic variables associated with the farm. The farms in the survey have significantly higher accumulated solar radiation values than the national average. As a result, the survey may not be representative spatially of the pattern of environment x farm system. This could have important considerations when using FADN data in modelling climate change impacts on agri-economic performance.


Excelsior Springs MO Fun Facts
Excelsior Springs came into existence due to the natural spring water that gushed forth from the depths of the earth. It was discovered by accident in 1880 by a farmer, Travis Mellion, when his daughter Opal fell ill with a form of tuberculosis. He asked for advice from nearby campers, and they suggested the spring that oozed from the bank of the Fishing River. Water was collected and brought to his daughter to drink. Over the course of a few weeks, there was noticeable improvement to her health, and she was eventually cured. A log-cabin farmer, Frederick Kugler, also begin to treat his rheumatic knees and a recurring sore from a Civil War wound, and he was cured of his ailments shortly after.
The city’s first hotel, the Excelsior, was built with a foundation of 30 ft (9.1 m) by 70 feet (21 m), and locals wondered if a hotel that size would ever be filled to capacity. The Excelsior opened its doors for business on March 1, 1881, and quickly proved that it could be filled, with many visitors coming to the small town seeking out the medicinal value to the waters held, many from as far away as St. Louis, St. Joseph, Kansas City, and Leavenworth. The hotel remained the leading place to stay until the first Elms Hotel was built and opened in 1888.
On Election Day 1948, Harry S. Truman spent the night at the Elms Hotel when it appeared that he was losing his re-election bid to Republican Thomas E. Dewey. However, in the wee hours of the morning, he was awakened by his aides informing him that he had, in fact, won the election. He was whisked away to Kansas City. He later was photographed at Union Station in St. Louis holding a copy of the Chicago Tribune that famously proclaimed “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
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Traquair has been lived in for over 900 years, making it the oldest inhabited house in Scotland. The 12th-century mansion was originally owned by the kings of Scotland. It later became the home of the Earls of Traquair and is now lived in by the descendants of the Maxwell Stuart family.
The house itself spread over three floors with two wings, furnished with 18th-century decor. On the ground floor is the Servants’ Bells and a garden parlour overlooking ornate grounds. The grounds are made up of an old woodland, a walled garden, and a 16th-century hedged maze. On the first floor there is the largest room of the house, the High Drawing Room, as well as the Dressing Room and the King’s Room. Go upstairs to find Traquair’s museum which displays several objects from needlework and glass to the pièce de résistance: a hunting mural from the 1530s. On the top floor you’ll find the libraries as well as the Gallery with the dolls collection. In the additional tower you can see the bed where Mary Queen of Scots slept and the staircase that became part of the hidden escape route for Catholic priests. The wings were added later, at the end of the 17th-century, by Edinburgh architect, James Smith.
An 18th-century brewery has been restored to its original working order in one of the wings of the house, meaning that Traquair produces its own beer which you can buy. Above the brewery is the Victorian-style chapel, built in 1829 when Roman Catholics were allowed to worship in public. If you go for mass or just for a visit, you will see 12 carved oak panels on the walls displaying scenes from the Life of Jesus, juxtaposed with contemporary embroidered kneelers.


No parent ever imagines hearing the words, "your child has cancer."
What is Childhood Cancer?
Cancer is a disease in which cells grow and divide with little or no control. There are 13 different types of childhood cancer, each with multiple sub types. Cancers are typically named for the organ or the cell where the cancer begins. Some cancers can spread from the original site and move to other places in the body. While survival rates have steadily increased, scientists still do not know much about what causes cancer in children. Most children’s cancers are caused by random genetic mutations.
Is Childhood Cancer Rare?
It is important to remember that cancer is uncommon in children. Most cancers (99%) develop in adults, and it is most common in older adults. About one out of every six adults will develop cancer during his or her lifetime, while one in 300 boys and one in 333 girls will develop cancer before the age of 20.
Each year, more than 15,500 children are diagnosed with cancer and the average age of diagnosis is 6. Cancer affects all ethnic, gender, and socio-economic groups and more than 40,000 children undergo treatment for cancer each year. In Connecticut there are 175-200 children diagnosed each year and over 525 children currently in treatment. Today, nearly 80% of these children will survive.
Where Can We Go For Treatment?
Connecticut has two premiere pediatric cancer treatment centers: Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford and Yale New Haven Children's Hospital in New Haven.


Questions for When Cupid’s arrow strikes
1. Describe how you feel when seeing someone (or something) you really enjoy.
2. When greeting family or friends, do you ever exchange hugs, kisses, handshakes or other gestures? Why or why not?
1. List some of the physical sensations that accompany falling in love.
2. How do our brains respond when we view photographs of our loved ones?
3. To what does Arthur Aron liken love?
4. What is an fMRI?
5. Do our brains respond in the same way when viewing photographs of buddies and beaus?
6. What is the ventral tegmental area and what role does it play?
7. What is dopamine?
8. In what physical ways does adrenaline affect the body?
9. Explain some of the ways oxytocin is important in bonding.
1. Would you be more or less likely to trust someone whom you have just hugged? Explain your answer.
2. Some experts believe heavy use of the Internet promotes social isolation. How does some of the research presented in this article suggest the opposite may be true, at least among users of Twitter, Facebook or other social media?
1. Some hospitals allow patients to be visited by specially trained or certified dogs. Based on your reading of this article, how might these visits help patients? Can you think of other settings or environments where such visits could be welcome or beneficial?


Mentally handicapped children still enjoy art activities and crafts just like any other child. However, these children may need to help with certain aspects of the craft due to their impairment. Choose simple crafts that you think the children might enjoy. Art activities that are too challenging may only frustrated the child. The goal is to help them enjoy creative expression through art. Many handicapped children can still participate in craft projects that preschoolers enjoy. Every child is an individual and some kids can do more than others.
A sticker collage is a simple craft for an adult, but a mentally handicapped child might find this craft exciting. Buy large colorful card stock paper and sticker packs. Help the children make their own sticker collages by placing stickers on the paper. You can help them make shapes using stickers or just place the stickers in random places. This craft encourages them to create something and use their hands which is beneficial for their hand-eye coordination.
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Painting is another craft that mentally handicapped children can usually do on their own. Buy non-toxic paint and white paper. Lay newspaper or other paper down on a table to protect the surface because some children might make quite a mess. You can control the mess by only giving them a small amount of a paint at a time. This craft may not work well for all handicapped children. Help the children make shapes, landscapes and other designs. Teach them about different colors and stimulate their brains by showing them pictures of landscapes or other objects that they can paint.
Pressed Flower Leaf and Nature Collage
Go the craft store and buy pressed flowers and colorful card stock paper. Help the children collect fall leaves, small sticks and rocks. Show the children how to glue each item on their paper to create shapes or designs. The kids can also glue these objects randomly on the page. The idea is to encourage them to create something from nature. Handicapped children will enjoy feeling the various textures of rocks, sticks and dry leaves from outdoors. The pressed flowers add a bit of color to their work as well.


A decimal multiplier prefix in SI, meaning 1,000,000. It has also been attached to many non-SI units, where in a few cases it does not mean 1,000,000 — for example, megabyte.
Use of the mega- (and micro-) prefixes was recommended by the British Assn. Committee for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical Units in its influential Report of 1873, the one that established the cgs system as the preferred system for scientific work.
See also byte for the special meanings of mega- when prefixed to that unit.
British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards appointed by the British Association....
London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1873.
In order to express multiples and sub-multiples the prefixes mega or micro are used, which are respectively a million times as great or as small. Thus a megohm is 10⁶ ohms, that is, 10¹⁵ absolute units of resistance. In like manner a microhm is 10⁻⁶ ohm, that is, 10³ = 1000 such units.
Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the use of colleges and schools. Translated and edited from Ganot's Éléments de Physique. Twelfth edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886.
Copyright © 2000 Sizes, Inc. All rights reserved.
Last revised: 10 November 2010.


Create TUI apps with C++ and TermOx
To create graphical programs in Terminal more easily.
This project was formerly called CPPurses, but the name has been changed to TermOx.
It is a framework based on NCURSES to create applications that run on terminal .
Make sure you have the following software and libraries installed on your system:
Then clone the project and build:
Before installing also build the demos.
If your system is in a language other than US English, run this command first:
Now build the demos:
Try the demos
A menu with the examples will open, navigate using the up and down arrow keys and select by pressing Enter. To return to the menu press ESC and to close the demos press Ctrl + c .
And finally install on your system:
Creating a Hello, World
Create a project directory in it, example:
mkdir myapp && cd myapp.
Now also create an example file
main.cpp and insert the content below:
And to build use CMake and create a
nvim CMakeLists.txt and insert the content below:
Now copy TermOx to your project:
Create a build directory and build:
And test your Hello, World:
It’s like a mini text editor, feel free to use it:
Press Ctrl +c to exit.
For more documentation visit the repository .


By its very nature, our mood is highly volatile. And yet, brief
moments of negativity often end up going on for days, because of how we
deal with them. In fact, contrary to what we might think, as soon as we
feel a bit sad, anxious or irritable, trying to break free from this bad
mood or pushing ourselves to find out why it is happening, only makes
things worse; it is like being stuck in quicksand: the more you struggle
to climb out, the deeper you get pulled in. This happens to us because
our minds sift through our memories to find one that reflects our
current mood: for example when we are threatened, our brains will remind
us of other times we have been in danger, so that we can look for
similarities to find a solution. This is a survival mechanism, but
sometimes, a little sadness can trigger a cascade of unpleasant
memories, negative emotions and harsh judgements they provoke in us.
Mindfulness meditation, however, allows you to recognise harmful
thoughts as they arise, and to remember that they are not real and that
they do not define us. Observing negative thoughts the moment they
emerge, letting them sit for a while and simply watching them while they
evaporate before our eyes, can bring extraordinary results: the empty
space that they leave behind will be filled with happiness and peace.
Meditation helps to unlock a different way of relating to the world; it
removes the need for language, and therefore for analysis, because it
allows the heart, rather than the mind, to get to know – or to become
aware of - birdsong, the scent of flowers, and a loved one’s smile.


February 4, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born. She was an activist in the civil rights movement known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was commuting home from her job at a local department store. She was seated in the front row of the “colored section.” When the white seats filled, the driver, asked Parks and three others to vacate their seats. The other Black riders complied, but Parks refused, She was then arrested and fined $10, plus $4 in court fees.
Rosa Parks and her husband were, active in the local chapter of the NAACP, were she served as its secretary. Upon her arrest, Local African American leaders determined she would be an upstanding and sympathetic plaintiff in a legal challenge of the segregation ordinance. Approximately 40,000 Black bus riders boycotted the busing system on December 5.
African American leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The group then elected Martin Luther King Jr., the pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as its president, and decided to continue the boycott until the city met its demand. Initially, their demands didn't even include changing the laws; the group simply demanded some courtesy, hiring some Black bus drivers, and a first-come, first-seated policy for the busing system. But however, the NAACP would decided to sue the city in U.S. District Court seeking to have the busing segregation laws totally invalidated.
the city resisted complying with the protester’s demands but African Americans represented at least 75 percent of Montgomery’s bus ridership. On June 5, 1956, a Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment guarantees all citizens regardless of race equal rights and equal protection under the law.
The city of Montgomery would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court’s decision on December 20, 1956 and Montgomery’s buses were integrated on December 21, 1956.


Virtualisation technologies are an ideal foundation for your IT infrastructure. They are the most effective way of reducing IT running costs and getting more done.
It can enable you to reduce the number of servers that your organisation requires. Fewer physical servers should reduce running costs.
If a physical server fails, the virtual machines (VMs) are automatically restarted on another physical machine in that cluster. No data loss or downtime.
Backing up servers is much easier process to perform in a virtualised server environment. You’ll be better prepared if disaster strikes.
Instead of directly installing an operating system onto physical servers another application is installed instead, called a ‘hypervisor’. In simple terms this thin layer of software creates a virtual pool of resources from the group (or cluster) physical servers that are virtualised. These resources; CPU, hard drives, USB ports etc., are used to create the virtual machines (VM), which could be new servers. A standard operating system is then installed on the VM.
Once the operating system is running applications can be installed onto the VMs as if they were physical servers. Most applications are will run effectively in a virtualised environment, however there are exceptions. It’s worth checking with the software manufacturer to check if it is supported that environment.
One of the benefits of virtualisation is that one physical server can run many VMs. These VMs could be running completely different operating systems.
Find out what other organisations have done
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Dynamic Compressor, Self Powered Circuit Design
This dynamic compressor will give about 20dB compression, at very wide input signal range 100 mV to 10 V. Another advantage of this circuit is that this circuit doesn’t need any power supply, we call it self powered, or more accurately, signal-powered compressor. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit:
A part of the signal is rectified by D1 and D2 and is used to charge C1 and C2 Capacitors. This current control the attenuator diodes D3 and D4, together with R3, R5, and R6. The attenuator diodes work at the nonlinear region of the forward current curve. At low level, the input signal is not attenuated since the rectified voltage is under voltage bias of D3 and D4, since that D3 and D4 become non-conductive. If the level of input signal increase, at some point, the D3 and D4 begin to conduct and attenuate the signal.
The attack time of this compressor circuit is fixed and is determined by time constant of C1, C2, R2, and the output impedance of the input source that feed this compressor input. The decay time can be slightly adjusted by R7 variable resistor. You can see that the signal path of this compressor circuit use a 470k resistor as the attenuator, means that you should only connect the output of this circuit to a high impedance stage.
This circuit works best with germanium diodes, since it has lower forward bias voltage and also smoother curve than silicon diodes. Using silicon diodes will works but the performance would be degraded. [Source: Elektor]


Portraits of God
Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.
- Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
- Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
- List out all that you are grateful for.
- Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.
Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals:
Bible Passage: Micah 6:6-8
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Questions to help us go deeper
Reflect on the portrait of God depicted in these passages.
- What is He like?
- Reflect on the ways you have experienced this aspect of God.
- Are there ways that your current view of God needs to be corrected or refined through today’s passage?
- Praise God for who He is.


A watering eye is an uncommon condition characterized by continuous tearing of the eye. Sometimes…
Conjunctivitis (also called pinkeye) is inflammation of the conjunctiva, the transparent membrane that covers the white of the eye and lines the eyelids. Conjunctivitis is a common condition that can result from a bacterial or viral infection or from an allergy.
Both bacterial and viral conjunctivitis are extremely contagious and can be transmitted from eye to eye or to another person through contact with a contaminated finger, handkerchief, washcloth, or towel. Viral conjunctivitis is very common among young children and can occur with a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract such as a cold. Bacterial conjunctivitis occurs less often but can be more serious. Allergic conjunctivitis is caused by exposure to an allergen (such as pollen or cosmetics) that causes an allergic reaction in which the immune system produces antibodies (infection-fighting proteins) to attack the allergen.
If a pregnant woman is infected with the sexually transmitted disease genital herpes, chlamydia, or gonorrhea, her newborn (up to about 3 days old) may develop a form of conjunctivitis called neonatal ophthalmia from coming into contact with the lining of the cervix during delivery. Neonatal ophthalmia is a potentially serious condition that can result in blindness if not treated.
To treat bacterial conjunctivitis, the doctor will recommend gently washing away any discharge with warm water and applying prescription antibiotic eyedrops or ointment to the eyes. The condition should clear up after 1 week. Viral conjunctivitis usually goes away on its own within 7 to 10 days. To treat allergic conjunctivitis, a doctor may recommend using nonprescription or prescription eyedrops to reduce the allergy symptoms. You will also need to identify and avoid exposure to the allergen to prevent future episodes of allergic conjunctivitis. To treat neonatal ophthalmia, a doctor may cleanse the baby’s eyes and eyelids of any discharge, apply antibiotic eyedrops to the eyes, and give antibiotics intravenously (through a vein).
To help prevent conjunctivitis from spreading, wash your hands frequently, and keep them away from your eyes. Use your own towels and washcloths and change them daily, and wash your towels, washcloths, sheets, and pillowcases in hot water.


There has been a lot of talk about low-carb diets recently. Individuals are trying to find out if they are attractive losing weight or not. New research has shown which the usage of low-carb diets can actually increase your odds of getting diabetes, cancer, and also other serious health issues. When looking at this kind of food study, there are some items that we require into consideration. For starters, you should know there is a difference between weight loss and increased dangers of disease.
The study was conducted by the USDA (Food and Medication Administration). The co-principal investigator was Dr . Miguel Felipe Fuentes. He do the study in Barcelona, France, and this individual used a form of mice that already have diabetes. The rodents were carefully bred with a deficit in insulin and were put on a low calorie diet plan. From there, the researchers found the fact that the mice could maintain their body weight as well as gain weight when given the necessary nutrition, nonetheless without getting any body fat.
This is important information. Mice will not easily adapt to our diets and it makes sense that if these diets avoid work, all of us wouldn’t have the ability to maintain fat loss after we all go back to each of our normal eating plans. This is the most accurate review to date that shows that these kinds of diets do not work, https://scottish-clp.com/ but that there might be a chance that we can make moderate changes to how much calories plus the timing of when we eat to get a slight metabolic enhance. However , Fuentes cautions that it is only a theory and further studies have to be done, but it really looks very promising.


Great Gidding C of E (VC) School
Growing Great Learners
Activity: Imagine you have just been on an adventure in your own aeroplane. Write a diary entry all about your journey, remember to include things like: Where you went, How long it took you to get there, Who else went with you, What you saw, did anything happen whilst you were there?
Remember to also write about how you were feeling.
Include lots of information so when I read it I can get a clear picture of your journey in my head.
You could also draw some pictures of what you saw or did.
These rhyming activities follow on from last week. The rhyming words home learning is a matching activity. An extension from this would be to use the matching rhyming words in silly sentences. CHALLENGE - Can you write these sentences down?
The picture cards are pictures of rhyming things - e.g. a dog on a log. first practice saying these sentences, then have a go at writing the sentence for each. CHALLENGE - Can you draw your own picture of 2 or more rhyming words?
These activities are designed to be completed this week and over half term. ;-)
These maths mats cover all areas of the maths curriculum. You could complete them in any way that works for you - playdough, paint, chalk etc.
These should last for this week and over half term :-)


i think there is only one focus of ellipse and we can draw a ellipse with a single focus. please correct my thinking.
Your thinking makes no sense. You may be thinking of a parabola. If you are really thinking of an ellipse, then you just need to study them more.i think there is only one focus of ellipse and we can draw a ellipse with a single focus. please correct my thinking.
If you spend any time studying the math of the ellipse it is very obvious why it has to focii. It's all there in the math and it's not hard. I'm puzzled by your confusion. Have you used the equation of an ellipse to draw one?so please explain me why ellipse has two focus
Ah, I see your confusion now. Just keep in mind that it is sometimes true that you can use different forms to describe the same thing but if they are indeed describing the same thing, then they have to be equivalent.there are two definitions of ellipse one is the sum of the distance of a point from two foci is constant and another one is related to eccentricity. i was confused with the proof of the equation of ellipse using second definition because they have used only one foci and one directrix, which made me confused that why there are two foci, but now i got it. thank you my friends. this is the reason why i love physics forum
The requirement of two foci comes from the definition. The set of points in a plane whose sum of distance from two fixed points are equal. Said better in the first paragraph of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation_of_the_Cartesian_form_for_an_ellipse [Broken]i think there is only one focus of ellipse and we can draw a ellipse with a single focus. please correct my thinking.
Now that this topic has be discussed rather well, we can state that the name mfb refers to is "circle".How would such an ellipse look like? Did you draw one, and if yes, how?
There are ellipses where both focal points are at the same place, but this special case has a different name which is usually preferred.


The pottery technique is very elaborated, and it is basically the same we use today: after demineralizing the clay it is melted with water and left for a while before mixing and kneading to eliminate the air bubbles, and then filtered and placed on the lathe to be modeled. Once the piece is modeled, it is introduced into the oven to be baked at 800ºC. This first cooking produced the oxidation of the clay, which turned red color. Then the painter covered with varnish the areas that wanted to turn black color. Then the piece suffered a second cooking where the oven was fed with green wood and leaves that produced smoke in quantity. This, together with the high temperatures around 950ºC turned the varnish’ ferric oxide into black color, while the rest of the clay that wasn’t covered with varnish remained red at the return to normal temperatures.
The small pieces were crafted with only one body, adding only the handlers and the foot, but the bigger pieces were made welding several parts with diluted clay. The resulting pot, strong like the glass, allowed the storage and transport of foods.
The spread of the ceramics started with the Mediterranean colonization by the Greeks around the VII century b.C., when Corinth became the main exporter of potteries. On the VI century, Corinth was overcome by Athens, which will have the monopoly on ceramics production.
During such an extensive period of time, the Greek pottery has got different periods clearly differentiated, but the pieces we have for sale belong to some of the most relevant: the Geometric Style, the Style of the Black Figures, and the better known and that which we have in mind when we think about the Ancient Greek ceramics: the Style of the Red Figures.
The pieces we introduced have been made by hand by Sophia, an excellent artisan (that you can see hands on in the pictures) that makes accurate reproductions of the originals which are exhibited in different museums around the globe.
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This Insect Has Plant DNA in Its Genome
by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com
A small, aphid-like insect called a whitefly has plant DNA lurking in its genome—and it’s among the first known instances of gene transfer from plant to insect, reports Heidi Ledford for Nature.
The gene in question is no slouch either, as it appears to enable the insects to feed on plants loaded with natural toxins, according to the new study published last week in the journal Cell. This fateful transference of genetic material occurred at least 35 million years ago and looks to be part of the genetic toolkit that make whiteflies such a formidable agricultural pest, reports Jonathan Lambert for Science News.
“Ten or 20 years ago no one thought that this kind of gene transfer was possible,” Roy Kirsch, a chemical ecologist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology who wasn’t involved in the study, tells Science News. “There are so many barriers a gene must overcome to move from a plant to an insect, but this study clearly shows that it happened, and that the gene provides a benefit to whiteflies.”
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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From biologic discovery to translational science, Bristol Myers Squibb’s I-O experts are engaged in a relentless pursuit to discover, develop, and design the next generation of immunotherapies.
Hunting Promising Targets
The hunt starts by learning as much as possible about the biology of cancer and the human immune system. Nils Lonberg, senior vice president of Oncology Biology Discovery, says three biological mechanisms affect cancer’s ability to evade detection and grow out of control:
- Cancer cells have mutations that may or may not be expressed. Cancer cells are fickle. They might make neoantigens, proteins on their cell surfaces, that enable immune cells to detect their presence and target them for destruction, or they might not. Not to mention, the total number of mutations varies among cancer types. Childhood leukemias, for example, are driven by a limited set of mutations that can be well controlled with targeted therapies. Most cancers, though, have many mutations that make them hard to target, thus allowing them to grow out of control.
- The balance of the body’s inflammatory response is disrupted. In a healthy inflammatory response, immune cells respond to signals by rushing in to deal with a problem, causing inflammation and swelling—like when you cut your finger and it becomes red and swollen. When the threat is over, other signals tell the inflammatory response to end so that the wound can heal. A healthy body maintains a proper balance in both directions of the inflammatory pathways. Tumors, however, are stuck at a particular point in this cycle where inflammatory attenuation signals have shut down a productive T-cell response before the cancer cells have been cleared.
- Cancer cells are always mutating. Like bacteria, cancer cells are under tremendous molecular pressure, rapidly dividing and mutating all the time. New mutations can equip cancer cells with other ways to escape attack from immune cells, such as blocking infiltration, masking themselves from detection, or developing resistance to earlier therapies by expressing different surface proteins.
As a means of identifying the most promising targets to pursue, scientists look for the specific protein receptors on the surfaces of immune cells that are involved with those biological mechanisms. Bristol Myers Squibb is researching dozens of targets at various stages of investigation.


Genetic mechanisms controlling cardiovascular development.
Bentham J., Bhattacharya S.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of childhood morbidity and death in the West; the incidence is approximately 1 in 145 live births. Mendelian and chromosomal syndromes account for approximately 20% of CHD. The genetic mechanisms underlying non-chromosomal or non-Mendelian "sporadic" CHD, which account for the remaining 80%, are poorly understood. The genetic architecture of sporadic CHD likely includes accumulation of rare nonsynonymous variants in cardiac developmental genes leading to mutational loading of cardiac developmental networks, copy number variation in cardiac developmental genes, and common variants that may not be obviously linked to cardiac development but may alter genetic buffering pathways (e.g., folate metabolism). The rare mutations typically associated with sporadic CHD likely arise from the severe decrease in reproductive fitness selecting against any CHD-causing gene variant. The resulting allelic heterogeneity reduces the power of genome-wide association studies for CHD. A complementary approach to the genetic analysis of CHD is to resequence candidate genes that have been shown to be necessary for mouse heart development. The number of such genes likely exceeds 1700. To identify these genes, we have developed an enabling technology (high-throughput magnetic resonance imaging of mouse embryos), which is used in combination with N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea/transposon mutagenesis and knockout techniques. Key future challenges now involve translating discoveries made in mouse models to human CHD genetics and understanding the mechanisms that create and disrupt genetic buffering. A long-term goal in CHD is to manipulate these pathways to enhance buffering and prevent disease in a manner analogous to the use of folate in preventing neural tube defects.


According to research, Minnesota employees may be more likely to stay healthier and safer on the job when their workplace environments improve. This research has driven a shift in the focus of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health away from looking at illness and injury at work and toward looking at ways to prevent those illnesses in the first place.
Examples of the relationship between work conditions and health can be seen in studies that show a link between cardiovascular disease and long work hours or little support from supervisors. Shift workers might be more prone to obesity, injury and sleep disorders. NIOSH supports several organizations that do research in this area and that work with companies to improve worker health and safety.
For example, the Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which received a five-year grant from NIOSH, works with the construction industry on developing health and safety programs. It also works with area hospitals such as Brigham and Women’s Hospital where it helped implement an initiative to increase the usage of devices to help with patient handling. This reduced the injury rate.
Health care workers and construction workers are among the employees most likely to get injured on the job, but workplace injuries can happen in any sector. A person might trip on a box of files left in a hallway in an office, or an industrial worker might be injured by machinery. Some employees may be unaware of their eligibility for workers’ compensation, and their employers might not inform them or might discourage them from applying for benefits. Injured workers might want to consult an attorney to learn about their rights, how to recognize retaliation on the job, or how to appeal a claim denial.


What does Pan-Africanism mean today?
It is as difficult for people today to provide a clear definition of what Pan-Africanism is as it was in 1968 when Immanuel Geiss published the Pan-African Movement. In the first comprehensive study of the concept, Geiss settled on three major themes that characterized historical strands of the movement: 1) ideas of cultural solidarity based on perceptions of a homogenous racial identity and a common homeland, 2) political and economic collaboration for a common goal, and 3) modernization on the basis of equal rights. (3)
A lack of historical context and cultural awareness has largely contributed to the decline of the movement and the prominence of its detractors. Attempts to re-define Pan-Africanism in the 21st century would do well to consider the historicity of the movement that stems from opposition to the transatlantic slave trade and providing modern counterexamples to dysfunctional attempts at modernization in the realms of the colonized and enslaved. Consider that Pan-Africanist projects began with Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano, long before Edward Blyden, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois, to factor the very pragmatic and physical matters of reconnection into contemporary Western discourse about Africa.
Today few projects have engaged Pan-Africanism as a paradigm worthy of consideration despite its continued relevance. The history of Pan-Africanism should serve as a guide to determine how technology and disconnected people can develop new physical and intellectual platforms for cooperation. Pan-Africanism today should not veer
into racial essentialism, neither need proto-nationalism be the primary goal, but primarily the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes of reconnection, reintegration, and development.
This is what Pan-Africanism looks like in the 21st century.
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In Robert Polidori’s “Parcours Muséologique Revisité”, he approaches the restoration and revision of Versailles in a similar method as his past photographic projects. He continues the idea of presenting the interior of a room as a means of insight into the soul of those who inhabited them. Polidori believes that a room’s interior communicates the values and ideas of its inhabitants and its details on the walls present the way that the person intended themselves to be viewed. Unlike the earlier projects of Hurricane Katrina and Chernobyl where these interior spaces were captured after a disastrous event, Versailles is presented over 26 years of restoration. Each room in presented in rich detail, conveying layers of its history of the many occupants throughout time. With its constant revisions by Louis XIV and his predecessors as well as the restorations, Polidori is able to reveal a rich layering of personalities and ideas.
With this body of work Polidori challenges the idea of restoring the palace to its original state. For Polidori, Versailles is not so much genuinely old as a constant re-fabrication of the old in order to keep the past alive. Polidori states “With Versailles, I had the opportunity to witness museum restoration but I realized what was really going on was historical revisionism. What does it mean to restore something? It means to make something old new again… When you choose to restore a certain room as it was in a certain period, the period you chose is based on your contemporary worldview.”


The opioid epidemic has hit Kentucky and several neighboring states hard, and between civil lawsuits and criminal arrests of executives, both the citizenry and the government are taking steps to hold pharmaceutical manufacturers responsible for the role they have played in the crisis.
Even with the increased awareness, however, a senior scientist with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices says that when it comes to monitoring deaths related to therapeutic drugs, the United States does a poor job. The law does not require drug manufacturers to actively check for adverse effects related to medications, although it does require them to report any adverse effects that they do become aware of to the Food and Drug Administration.
Prior to 2017, Endo Pharmaceuticals, which produces an opioid known by the brand name Opana, reported only 250 deaths possibly related to the drug over a 10-year span. However, in response to government investigations into opioid marketing, as well as an increase in lawsuits, Endo took steps beginning in 2017 to report to the FDA approximately 20,000 deaths related to opioid use that took place over a span of roughly two decades.
The company provided the reports over an approximately nine-month period from November 2017 to August 2018. They include deaths connected with Opana as well as opioid products from other manufacturers. A spokesperson for the company says that it released the reports out of an abundance of caution despite the difficulty in determining which product caused the harm, as well as the fact that a report alone is not enough to establish a link between the product and the adverse outcome.
Concerns about abuse of Opana ER prompted the FDA to request that Endo pull it from the market, which the company did voluntarily. Two months later, it began submitting the thousands of reports about opioid deaths to the FDA.
In light of the ongoing crisis, Endo has also taken additional steps to halt research and development on opioids and dismiss its sales force for pain products in the U.S. Those who believe they have suffered harm due to dangerous pharmaceuticals, either directly or due to the death of a loved one, may find it helpful to consult an attorney.


Boost speaking, listening and reading skills
Clicker 8 offers so much more than writing activities: make curriculum content accessible for every child with a talking Clicker Book, support emergent readers and EAL pupils with a Matching Set, or use a Talk Set to develop speaking and listening skills. If you want to do something out of the ordinary, build your own Custom Set with a mixture of grids and pages.
Clicker Books provides you with an easy way to create speech-supported on-screen books for your learners. Tailor the subject matter and comprehension level to your pupils’ particular learning needs and objectives.
What’s more, children of all ages and abilities can create their very own talking books! Word prediction, speech and Word Banks provide writing support, and accessible tools enable the addition and manipulation of pictures and sounds.
Matching activities are a great way of developing basic problem-solving, pattern recognition and language acquisition skills. They are particularly useful for supporting emergent readers and children learning English as an additional language.
A range of matching activities can be created, incorporating pictures, words and sounds to progress pupils’ key skills at a manageable pace.
Create Talk Sets to develop speaking and listening skills. Just add pictures to create Listen & Say, Talk About or Tell the Story activities.
Talk Sets are particularly effective for those who struggle to express themselves in written form, and for English language learners.
Custom Clicker Sets
Want to do something out of the ordinary? Build a Custom Set from scratch, or from any other Clicker Set. Custom Sets give you free rein – mix grids and pages, design your own layouts and create accessible multimedia activities using pictures, text and sounds.


Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in the environment, with one of the major sources being the petroleum industry. PAHs are often concentrated in urban environments because of increased urbanization and automobile use. They move through the environment via stormwater runoff, atmospheric transport, municipal and industrial wastewater, and combustion of organic material (Meador 2008). PAHs are divided into low and high molecular weight compounds based on the number of benzene rings in the molecule. There is also a distinction between parent compounds with a basic ring structure, and alkylated homologs, which can be as toxic or more toxic than the parent compound (Meador 2008).
Trends were calculated for the Sum of PAHs, as well as the individual compounds fluoranthene, naphthalene and phenanthrene at both a statewide scale and at individual sites. Trends were calculated from 2010 to 2021 because there are significantly lower sample sizes for 2008 and 2009 for current urban sites. The sum calculation was made up of the following compounds: acenapthene, acenapthylene, anthracene, benz(a)anthracene, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(g,h,i)perylene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, dibenz(a,h)anthracene, chrysene, fluoranthene, fluorene, indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene, naphthalene, phenanthrene, pyrene. Data from 2018 to 2020 were omitted because of an anomalous number of non-detects (45.3% of samples without a single detected PAH compound), likely caused by errors in chemical analyses.
Statewide trends for three individual PAH compounds and the Sum PAH were stable or did not show significant increases or decreases. A similar number of individual sites showed significant increases and decreases with no clear trend based on individual compounds or the Sum PAH.
Meador JP. 2008. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. In: Jørgensen SE, Fath BD, editors. Encycolpedia of Ecology. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Science. p. 3120.


Hers or *Her’s | Meaning, Spelling & Use
Hers is a third-person singular feminine possessive pronoun.
“Her’s,” written with an apostrophe, is sometimes mistakenly used instead of hers, but this is never correct. While possession is usually indicated by adding ‘s to the end of a word, possessive pronouns don’t take an apostrophe.
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Hers is a feminine possessive pronoun used to indicate ownership of something by someone else. It’s closely related to the possessive determiner “her.” However, while “her” is always used along with a noun to indicate possession, hers is used in place of a noun.
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When the printing press was invented more than 500 years ago, it was certainly done so with good intentions. However, one of the unintended side effects of that innovation, we know from retrospect, was its use to incite people. Wars, mainly religious wars, were the result.
In our times, the story of the Internet may sound similar. Invented to further participation and democratic discourse, and that is not a new discovery, the internet, and in particular social media, has become the main theatre of manipulation and incitement. That has given rise to all kinds of negative, not to say dystopic, reviews and comments, predicting conflict and even (civil) wars. But what if these negative features of manipulation and incitement aren’t going away and are going to stay as part of our life in the digital world?
500 years ago, there was no civil society in the sense we know it today. You don’t need to be a historian to see the advantage: Civil society and Civil Society Organisations can act as voices of reason and moderation. But how? Welll grounded experts in both, new media and civil society, look at the options and develop their vision on how misinformation and manipulated can be countered and the internet as a public good for the public good can succeed.
Ms. Barb Iverson, Digital Education Consultant, Berlin, Moderator
- Valerie Khan, Digital Equity Association
- Yin Yadanar Thein, Free Expression Myanmar
- Simone Toussi, CIPESA
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There is no shortage of breath-taking bridges around the globe: London Tower Bridge, Pont du Gard, Millau Viaduct, the Golden Gate Bridge to name but a few. But these bridges and almost every other bridge on the planet were built for one reason and one reason only.
To get people or vehicles across land or water. This is the function of a bridge, and up until now they have been designed and built to fulfil this function only. However, looking forward to the future, it seems that bridges look set to get a serious rethink as to how they function and revolve around our daily lives.
Have you ever seen a bridge with cafes, gardens, waterfalls and public spaces? What about amphitheatres and art galleries and installations? Well in the not too distant future this could be the reality we face and not just a fantasy.
The 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington DC, expected to open this year aims to integrate the neighbourhood and join together communities in the area. It will not have any car crossing or vehicular transport at all. As the name suggests, it will be a community park, aiming to generate inspiration and connect people together.
This has been called no easy task, as building a bridge is already an incredible feat of engineering and planning. A bridge takes vast structural knowledge and applied knowledge of physics and stress calculations that have absolutely no room for error. To then add a lot more elements onto this already complicated design makes building these multi-purpose bridges extremely challenging.
It is recognised that by integrating community and other ideas that bring people together, these bridges will hopefully pave the way for a new way of thinking when it comes to other aspects of our cities and infrastructure.


Parsons Park Food Forest - Canada
This 1-acre public food forest is a collaboration between the City of Brantford and a local citizen’s group. A general layout for the full 1-acre site within Parsons Park was created, with a more detailed site plan for Phase I of the project. Breaking up the food forest into three phases ensures that each phase is well-established and relatively self-sufficient before the next phase is begun. For the success of public projects, it is absolutely crucial that there is sufficient community engagement and support for the long-term care and maintenance of the site. The Parsons Park Food Forest will provide perennial fruits, nuts, berries, vegetables and herbs for community members to enjoy. The goals of the project are to increase food security for the City of Brantford, increase tree canopy coverage, and provide barrier-free access.
The 1-acre project is divided into three phases that can be implemented over time. Each phase can stand alone so that the project will still seem complete if subsequent phases do not come to fruition. Phase I is focused on gleaning foods, while subsequent phases will include foods that are well suited to food preservation so that as the community skill level increases they are able
to utilize the harvest in multiple ways. Signage for the public to easily identify and harvest plants will be installed. Native plants are used heavily as supporting guild vegetation for fruit and nut trees and are all edible and or medicinal as well.
The food forest layout takes advantage of solar gain and passive water harvesting from the
slight topography of the land. Support for cultivar selection, plant acquisition, and community planting days has been provided for Phase I.
Climate: Dfb - Humid continental climate
Annual Precipitation: 867 mm
Function: Public Park
Size: 5000 m2


Generation of Bio-Hydrogen by Chemical Looping Water Splitting and Pyrolysis: Role of Catalyst and Recent Advancements
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The increased population & amp; advanced human lifestyle development led to new inventions. The consumption of fuels is increasing & amp; the availability of fuels is decreasing daily. So far, the world is affected by severe global warming, loss of species, and more health risks. At this time, producing fuels from fossil is more toxic and non-ecofriendly. The best solution for this problem is Hydrogen, the alternative fuel from biomass and water. Hydrogen is a zero-emission fuel produced by pyrolysis, dark anaerobic fermentation, and water-splitting processes. Hydrogen can be played an essential role in future energy mixtures. Using the chemical looping water splitting and pyrolysis technique, we will determine the strength and productivity of Hydrogen. We use zeolite as the catalyst for efficient
heating. Water splitting is also a recently developed method to produce Hydrogen from water. Several methods like electrolysis, photo electrolysis, photoelectrochemical (PCE), Etc., by using TiO2 photocatalyst can produce Hydrogen. Our objective is to increase the yield of biohydrogen using the chemical looping water-splitting photoelectrochemical process and pyrolysis. It is economically feasible, with optimized process parameters, so this could be the better viable process for biohydrogen production.


New Study Finds Majority of Bitcoin Mining Now Powered by Renewable Energy
Did you know that more than half of all Bitcoin mining now uses renewable energy sources? That’s according to research conducted by ESG analyst and investor Daniel Batten, who found that the majority of power used in Bitcoin mining comes from clean, sustainable sources.
In fact, Batten projects a 6.2% annual growth in sustainability for power used in Bitcoin mining, which will help reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
So what kinds of renewable energy are being used to power Bitcoin mining operations? Well, almost a quarter of all miners use water, making hydropower the largest source of renewable energy at 23.12%. Meanwhile, wind and nuclear power come in second and third, generating 13.98% and 7.94% of energy used in mining, respectively. Solar power accounts for 4.98% of energy, with other renewable sources making up 2.40%.
Of course, not all energy sources used in Bitcoin mining are sustainable. While over 52% of mining now uses renewables, roughly 43% is still generated by fossil fuels like gas and coal. However, Batten notes that this is actually exceptional progress, particularly compared to the 60% of energy generated from fossil fuels that powers the global gridmix for the electric vehicle industry.
It’s important to note that the research doesn’t encompass 100% of Bitcoin mining setups, but the trend towards renewable energy is still encouraging. With traditional energy sources becoming more expensive, we can expect to see more and more miners turning to sustainable options in the future.


The Place of Concord in the center of which stands the obelisk of Luxor is located not far from the Champs Elysees and Tuileries Garden among others. It has a very particular history and is part of the French heritage.
Here is a return on its appearance and how it has evolved over the centuries.
The origin of the Place : 1763-1772
The Place of Concord was built by the architect Anges-Jacques Gabriel and was completed in 1772. Initially the statue of King Louis XV was located in the center and was called Place Louis XV. The place will evolve according to the events of History.
The Place of Concorde under the Revolution
At this time, the Place of Concord goes from a festive atmosphere to a gloomy atmosphere with the disappearance of the statue of the king replaced by a scaffold surmounted by a guillotine used for executions of the city characters Robespierre and Danton for example.
The Place of Concord under the restoration in 1846
It was during the reign of Louis Philippe that the place was transformed and embellished. The new architect at the origin is Jaque Hittorf. It is in 1795 that it is called Place of Concord to emphasize the reconciliation of the French after the Revolution. It was also in 1836 that the Obelisk was installed. The one comes from Luxor and dates from the 13th century.
Did you know that 6 years had passed between the donation of this item and its installation in the square ?
The Place of Concorde today
Nowadays the Place is classified as a historical monument since 1937. It is located not far from the most famous places in Paris: the National Assembly, the Tuileries Garden, the Champs Elysées, the Orangerie Museum …
The Ferris Wheel, located a few steps away, was installed in 2000.
Today the obelisk is covered with a gold leaf headdress dating back to 1998 and funded by the Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation.
During your stay at our hostel, take a detour to this beautiful historic square during your visit.


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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Fodder plants, Nutritive value, Murchison region (W.A.), Western Australia
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THE Murchison pastoral country is usually thought of as either having a perennial grass cover, as in the Wandarrie, or as Mulga country with trees and short grass.
It is easy to overlook the small shrubs which occur all over the Murchison in every type of situation, and can provide high quality feed for sheep.
The rest of this article is attached to next article 'Farm flora sancturies' Robert Dunlop Royce Vol 3 No 4 p 314
Wilcox, D G.
"Fodder shrubs in the Murchison,"
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 3:
4, Article 12.
Available at: https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4/vol3/iss4/12


The most of it
He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff’s talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush—and that was all.
Robert Frost (1874 -1963)
This is a twenty iambic line poem with rhyming scheme ‘ab ab’
talus – sloping fragments of rock
Lines 1-8 … wanting more from the universe
Having the universe to himself was not enough. He wanted more and what he wanted was the universe to talk back and not give the echo copy of his own words. He wanted more than what the universe could offer. He was obviously lonely and needed human companionship. He wanted something personal to counter his love for the universe and asks for an original response.
Lines 9 – 20 … the universe gives a response
This is all that nature could offer and this was not enough but it is an original response. A very poetic statement that man cannot live alone. Making the most of it is insufficient without human company.
More WordPress commentary on this poem … https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/robert-frost-the-most-of-it/
Robert Frost on Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost


Early History of the CSL
“Among the most interesting institutions at the seat of government is the State Library, located in the 2nd story of the Hasting’s Block on the south-west corner of J and 3rd Streets.” – State Tribune, 1855
With “An Act defining the duties of the State Librarian and prescribing the rules for the government of the State Library,” the California State Library was created in 1850. Its first five years of existence was chaotic. The Library followed the Legislature as it traveled from one temporary capital to another. This state of transience reflected the fluid, rootless anarchy of Gold Rush society.
The “Capitol on Wheels” finally came to a halt when Sacramento was established as the permanent seat of government in 1854. However, it would not be until 1869 that the State Library found a permanent home in the newly opened State Capitol building. Up until 1861, the Secretary of State acted as the ex-offico librarian, along with his many other duties.
California State Capitol Museum – Out of the Vault
This is a website specifically for the “Out of the Vault: Treasures from Your California State Library” Exhibit which runs May 30, 2016 – April 23, 2017 at the California State Capitol Museum.
For Museum-related information such as contacts, hours and location: Visit capitolmuseum.ca.gov.


Read more: “The God issue: New science of religion“
BY THE time he was 5 years old, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart could play the clavier and had begun to compose his own music. Mozart was a “born musician”; he had strong natural talents and required only minimal exposure to music to become fluent.
Few of us are quite so lucky. Music usually has to be drummed into us by teaching, repetition and practice. And yet in other domains, such as language or walking, virtually everyone is a natural; we are all “born speakers” and “born walkers”.
So what about religion? Is it more like music or language?
Drawing upon research in developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology and particularly the cognitive science of religion, I argue that religion comes nearly as naturally to us as language. The vast majority of humans are “born believers”, naturally inclined to find religious claims and explanations attractive and easily acquired, and to attain fluency in using them. This attraction to religion is an evolutionary by-product of our ordinary cognitive equipment, and while it tells us nothing about the truth or otherwise of religious claims it does help us see religion in an interesting new light.
As soon as they are born, babies start to try to make sense of the world around them. As they do so, their minds show regular tendencies. From birth children show certain predilections in what they pay attention to and what they are inclined to think.
One of the most important of …


Of all the things we throw in landfills or incinerators, the single largest component is food — as much as two of every five pounds of waste (40%!). The average household in St. Paul throws away almost $100 in food every month, according to the MPCA.
Food waste is a potential gold mine for reducing what goes into landfills and in saving us money. What are we doing to do just that? What policies should governments consider to help address the problem? And how well do current efforts, including composting, work?
On June 5, 2019, the Citizens League kicked off its new event series, Policy On Tap, to discuss these issues, what the problems are, and what can be done. Scroll down to listen to the discussion.
Event host Tom Weber was joined by a panel to discuss food waste in our region:
- Nancy Lo, Waste Reductions and Recycling Specialist, Hennepin County
- JoAnne Berkenkamp, Senior Advocate, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Listen to the conversation below:
Listen to more Policy On Tap!
From food waste to science, recycling to secondhand goods, host Tom Weber was joined by experts, engineers, and journalists to discuss the things we throw away. In case you missed the conversations, you’re in luck: all our events were recorded in full.


Welcome to the Calontir Sign Herald page!
In the SCA there are several types of heralds. Some use their heads, such as book heralds; some use their voices, such as cry heralds; some use their hands, such as sign/silent heralds. The term Sign Herald and Silent Herald are used interchangeably and mean the same thing. The various heraldic positions allow a variety of people to serve in a variety of ways, picking one or more of the heraldic disciplines in which to work.
Sign heralds are closest in nature to vocal heralds, although their duties sometimes can take them into venues other than court or field. Sign heralds in the society are heralds who express auditory information into visual and/or tactile information. Sign heralds use sign language, lip movements, facial expression, gestures, and body language to convey what they hear, this is the visual part. As well, there are some members of the populace who require the sign herald to make signs into the person’s hands, this is the tactile part.
If you are interested in becoming part of this growing group in the SCA, please send us an email at email@example.com and let us know!
Silent Heraldry Resources
So You Want To Become A Silent Herald? – Tips and advice for those interested in volunteering for silent heraldry.
Six Things to Know About Silent Heraldry(PDF) – This is the letter that the Good-hand Herald gives to the Heirs after Crown Tournament.
SCA College of Arms Silent Heraldry Articles – This is the Society’s Web page dedicated to information regarding Silent Heraldry and Sign Language.
SCA Sign Herald Mailing List
SCA Silent Heraldry Facebook Group
Nesscia’s Silent Heraldry YouTube channel
ASLPro – Excellent resource for learning and practicing ASL and fingerspelling.
https://www.lifeprint.com/ – American Sign Language lessons


October: Working Toward Peace in Community
In this month when the national events focus on building peace and awareness of the abilities and contributions of diverse people, we immerse youth in building understanding of themselves and their community needs and assets that serve the good of all.
- Islamic Heritage Month - Through literature and discussion, we build awareness of the practices and contributions of people from Islamic cultures. Link to Islamic resources on Learning to Give
- International Day of Non-Violence (October 2) - The International Day of Nonviolence is set on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi to spread the message of nonviolence through education and awareness. Individuals, organizations, and nations create practical acts of peace on a shared date. This is a great time to explore themes of anti-bullying and community building.
- Indigenous Peoples' Day (Oct. 11) - A day to honor Native American history and culture. "We recognize Indigenous peoples’ resilience and strength as well as the immeasurable positive impact that they have made on every aspect of American society.” - President Biden
- World Food Day (October 16) - This day was established as an international effort to increase sustainable food production, distribution, and health. What can we do to make progress toward the SDG of zero hunger? This video introduces the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.
- National Disabilities Awareness Month - Lesson plans and literature build empthaty and understanding of the strengths and abilities of people with mental and physical differences.
- Bullying Prevention Month - Teach strategies to understand patterns of bullying behavior and help reduce negative behaviors. Link to Anti-Bullying Lessons on LTG.
In this video, a teacher talks about the transformation of her students when they took action in their community to address the needs that concerned them most. They were empowered by their own ability to make a difference and through support of their community.


CO2 savings by customers thanks to sustainable ICT services
The ICT sector has a key role to play in reducing CO2 emissions. A study conducted by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative found that the ICT sector has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide by some 16%. This potential reduction corresponds to around seven times the amount of CO2 emissions produced by the sector itself.
A study commissioned by the WWF and conducted by the University of Zurich in 2017 proves that, by 2025 in Switzerland, ICT has the potential to eliminate up to 3.37 times more greenhouse gas emissions than will be generated in total by ICT devices and infrastructures through their production, operation and disposal combined. Conversely, emissions from the use of ICT mainly come from the manufacture of devices. Heavy devices in particular, such as desktop PCs, increase emissions from the ICT sector. But even with smaller devices, such as smartphones and laptops, the manufacturing energy determines the carbon footprint. For this reason, increasing importance is being attached to extending the life cycle of ICT equipment.
Swisscom invests a lot of effort in structuring its offerings in a more energy-efficient and resource-friendly manner, and offers products and services that support customers in reducing their CO2 emissions, in saving energy and in improving the work-life balance of their employees.
ICT solutions contribute to reducing CO2 emissions in day-to-day work. For example, virtual conferences allow companies to cut down on business travel, and communications solutions allow employees to work from their home office. Furthermore, the optimisation of vehicle fleets, the use of energy-efficient services from data centres and the intelligent control of office buildings, equipment and power networks can all make a valuable contribution towards reducing CO2 emissions.
Private households reduce CO2 emissions when they replace physical media such as CDs, DVDs and magazines with digital products. E-shopping eliminates the need to make trips to brick-and-mortar stores and reduces the energy required to maintain the sales outlets.See www.swisscom.ch/greenict


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Baum, Frank L. The Wizard of Oz. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1994.
Boyd, Michelle. “Alto on a Broomstick: Voicing the Witch in the Musical Wicked.” American Music, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 97–118. Project Muse.
Durand, Kevin. “Wicked? It’s Not Easy Being Green.” The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West. Edited by Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng, Open Court, 2008, pp. 315–330.
Littlefield, Henry M. “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism.” American Quarterly vol. 16, no.1, Spring 1964, pp. 47–58. JSTOR.
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Wicked. Written by Winnie Holzman, Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, 2003.
Taylor, Quentin P. “Money and Politics in the Land of Oz: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Extraordinary Story of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’” The Independent Review vol. 9, no. 3, Winter 2005, http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=40&articleID=504
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Math Tessellations in Year 8
Can tessellations be made from any shape? Ask a Year 8 student!
Year 8 students combined art and mathematics through the creation of tessellations inspired by M C Escher, the famous Dutch graphic artist. Last week, Year 8 started exploring the basic tessellations using regular polygons and learned that whenever two or more shapes (polygons) meet at a point, the internal angles must add up to 360 degrees. This creates an interlocking, repeating pattern in which the shapes never overlap, nor leave any gaps.
Year 8 students then explored the work of M C Escher who is known for his playful combinations of regular and irregular polygons to create tessellations that transform throughout the space in which they are drawn. He created elaborate artworks that utilised distorted versions of more basic tessellation patterns, but that still held to three-, four-, or six-fold symmetry patterns.
In their Mathematics lessons, Year 8 students became very familiar with regular and irregular polygons, drawing their shapes and then cutting them out of cardboard to use as a stencil. They then traced the outline of the shape in inter-locking patterns in order to create their own tessellation. Although some shapes could not successfully create a tessellation, the students still enjoyed the process of trial and error, developing their understanding of geometry through an interdisciplinary approach.


What is an IB education?
The International Baccalaureate (IB) aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programs of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
An IB education:
- centers on learners
- develops effective approaches to teaching and learning
- works within global contexts, helping students understand different languages and cultures
- explores significant content, developing disciplinary and interdisciplinary understanding that meets rigorous international standards.
IB Primary Years Program (PYP)
Designed for all students in grades K-5. It focuses on the development of the whole child as an inquirer, both in the classroom and in the world outside. Click here to learn more about the PYP at Estrella Mountain Elementary School.
IB Middle Years Program (MYP)
Serves all students in grades 6-8. It focuses on providing a framework for academic challenge and life skills. Click here to learn more about the MYP at Estrella Mountain Elementary School.


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Know your swimming limits and stay within them. Don’t try to keep up with a stronger skilled swimmer or encourage others to keep up with you. Keep an eye on weaker swimmers—if they appear tired, encourage them to get out of the water and rest.
Watch out for the “dangerous too’s”—too tired, too cold, too much sun, too much strenuous activity. Get out of the water immediately if any of these situations occur. Stay off the main drain. The suction from the pump could trap you underwater.
Use common sense regarding food and beverages while swimming.
Do not chew gum or eat while you swim; you could easily choke.
Never drink alcohol and swim.
Use common sense about swimming after eating. If you have had a large meal, it is wise to let digestion get started before doing strenuous activity such as swimming.
Use plastic instead of glassware in the pool area.
Obey “No Diving” signs. A general rule is to enter feet first into water rather than head-first.
Never dive into an above-ground pool, they are too shallow.
Make sure the pool cover is completely lifted off the pool. Never walk on the pool cover.
Watch the weather: know local weather conditions and prepare for electrical storms. Because water conducts electricity, stop swimming as soon as you see or hear a storm.
Keep rescue equipment (pole, rope and personal floatation devices) by the pool.
Keep a phone poolside. Program the phone with emergency phone numbers and/or post emergency phone numbers in your pool area.
Learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and basic first aid. Post CPR instructions in your pool area.


Character encoding is the process of representing characters (such as “a” or “3”) in a particular way, such as text on a computer screen.
Morse code was an early character encoding system used to send telegraphs and communicate with boats and airplanes. In Morse code, each letter maps onto a unique series of dots and dashes (or short and long sounds), which people on the other end convert back into letters to understand the message.
Computers need character encoding systems because they process information as bits and bytes (a binary system). That means each letter, number, character, emoji, and piece of punctuation needs to be mapped onto a unique binary representation. When characters appear as “�” or strings like “Ãƒ"šÃ‚Â£,” it signals a problem with character encoding.
While there are many different character encoding schemes — including the ASCII, Mac OS Roman, ISO 8859, and MS Windows character sets — Unicode (Unicode Transmission Format – 8-bit, or UTF-8) is the scheme with the widest range of character representations. That means it’s the best choice to allow people to access your site in different languages.
Webflow websites are automatically encoded using UTF-8, which appears in the site’s <meta> tag as follows: <meta charset=”UTF-8”>. To change the character set, add a new custom attribute to your site.
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Whether Latinos in the United States are learning English quickly or not seems to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder.
The Pew Hispanic Center reported last week that 88 percent of second-generation Latinos surveyed report they speak English very well. In their executive summary of the report, “English Usage Among Hispanics in the United States,”the authors translated the 88 percent statistic into the following statement: “Nearly all Hispanic adults born in the United States of immigrant parents report they are fluent in English.”
But Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which aims to reduce immigration, didn’t have a “nearly all” angle to his remarks about the finding when he was quoted in a Nov. 30 article in the Washington Post.
“The fact that 88 percent of American-born children speak English very well is not something to brag about,” Mr. Krikorian said. “What that really means,” he continues in the article, “is that 1 out of 8 American-born children of Hispanic immigrants does not speak English very well.”
The report also stated that a “small minority” of first-generation immigrants who are Latinos describe themselves as skilled English speakers. One in four Latino immigrants says he or she is able to speak English very well.
I think educators agree that something is really wrong if the child of an immigrant, who is U.S.- born and attends U.S. schools his or her whole life, isn’t fluent in English upon graduation from high school. But they differ in their thinking about what is a reasonable amount of time for it to take for a child to learn English.
Educators often say, too, that how fast someone learns English varies greatly from person to person. The Pew study notes that research shows that the age of arrival and education level of immigrants are some of the predictors of how quickly they acquire good English skills.
A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.


12.5.2 Formal Scalar Types
A formal scalar type
is one defined by any of the formal_type_definition
in this subclause. [The category class
determined for a formal scalar type is the category
discrete, signed integer, modular, floating point, ordinary
fixed point, or decimal types
The second rule follows from the rule in 12.5
that says that the category is determined by the one given in the name
of the syntax production. The effect of the rule is repeated here to
give a capsule summary of what this subclause is about.
The “category of a type” includes any
classes that the type belongs to.
formal_signed_integer_type_definition ::= range
formal_modular_type_definition ::= mod
formal_floating_point_definition ::= digits
formal_ordinary_fixed_point_definition ::= delta
formal_decimal_fixed_point_definition ::= delta
The actual type for a formal scalar type shall not
be a nonstandard numeric type.
Reason: This restriction is necessary
because nonstandard numeric types have some number of restrictions on
their use, which could cause contract model problems in a generic body.
Note that nonstandard numeric types can be passed to formal derived and
formal private subtypes, assuming they obey all the other rules, and
assuming the implementation allows it (being nonstandard means the implementation
might disallow anything).
Wording Changes from Ada 95
We change to “determines a category”
as that is the new terminology (it avoids confusion, since not all interesting
properties form a class).
Ada 2005 and 2012 Editions sponsored in part by Ada-Europe


IMF fiscal projections shows that budget cuts are expected in 154 countries this year, and as many as 159 countries in 2022.
This means that 6.6 billion people or 85% of the global population will be living under austerity conditions by next year, a trend likely to continue at least until 2025.
The high levels of expenditures needed to cope with the pandemic have left governments with growing fiscal deficit and debt. However, rather than exploring financing options to provide direly-needed support for socio-economic recovery, governments—advised by the IMF, the G20 and others—are opting for austerity.
More than 40 governments are forecasted to spend less than the (already low) pre-pandemic levels, with budgets 12% smaller on average in 2021-22 than those in 2018-19 before COVID-19, including countries with high developmental needs like Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Liberia, Libya, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Austerity proves to be a deadly policy.
From 2010 to 2019, billions of people were affected by reduced pensions and social security benefits; by lower subsidies, including for food, agricultural inputs and fuel; by wage bill cuts and caps, which hampered the delivery of public services like education, health, social work, water and public transport; by the rationalization and narrow-targeting of social protection programs so that only the poorest populations received smaller and smaller benefits, while most people were excluded; and by less employment security for workers, as labor regulations were dismantled. Many governments also introduced regressive taxes, like consumption taxes, which further lowered disposable household income. In many countries, public services were downsized or privatized, including health.
The weak state of public health systems—overburdened, underfunded and understaffed from a decade of austerity—aggravated health inequalities and made populations more vulnerable to COVID-19. After COVID-19’s devastating impacts, austerity will only cause more unnecessary suffering and hardship.
Opinion | As Nations Slash Budgets, Global Study Warns of Looming Austerity Shocks (commondreams.org)
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describe the progression of a reaction using the graph below. start with reactants and proceed through products. make sure you talk about the following terms: reactants, activation energy, transition state, and products. is this reaction exothermic or endothermic?
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each chemical family is represented as a group or column on the periodic table. based on chemical properties, there are 6 types of chemical families. group 1 represents alkali metals, group 2 represents alkaline earth metals, groups 3 to 12 represent transition metals, groups 13 to 16 represent non-metals and other metals, group 17 represents halogens and group 18 represents noble gases.
[tex]Which of these is not a commonly mined metallic substance?[/tex]
A reaction, such as this one, starts with a reactant. It needs to have activation energy in order to change to the product, as shown by the hump in the graph. At the top of the hump is the transition state. This is the point where, after enough energy, the reactant will turn into the product. This reaction is exothermic. Since the product has less energy than the reactant, it had to have released energy somehow, and that energy was released in the form of heat, which makes it exothermic. (Exothermic reactions release heat, vs. endothermic reactions which absorb heat).
Bonus: a catalyst can be used to lower the activation energy by giving the reaction a “kick start,” requiring less energy in the reaction for the reactant to turn into the product.
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Personal Ornaments from the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure
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The debate on the relationship between Neanderthals and early modern humans (Cro-magnons) has often centered on human cognition and ability for symbolic thought. We feel fairly certain that early modern humans had such abilities, based on their sophisticated artwork, and on projections backward from ourselves; could their lack in Neanderthals have given us the adaptive “edge” that lead to our own continued survival over other early human populations? In an attempt to challenge this theory, researchers have looked for evidence which may indicate that Neanderthals, too, engaged in symbolic activities
Neanderthals, Modern Humans, Cro-Magnons, Grotte Du Renne, Arcy-Sur-Cure
Personal Ornaments from the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure, Vol. 2, no. 4 (2001).
White, Randall, "Personal Ornaments from the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure" (2001). KIP Articles. 4018.


Rouens are big ducks, with flavorful meat. They are colored like Mallards but are much larger. There are two types of Rouen Ducks: the Exhibition Rouen, which is primarily raised for decorative purposes or meat, and the Production Rouen, which is smaller and lays more eggs but still is a good-sized duck for meat.
Production Rouens are slightly smaller but lay more eggs, 140-180 per year. We sell Production Rouens. Production Rouens can be processed as early as 4 months and will weigh around 5 1/2 pounds. Many choose to wait until the Rouen is a year old when they are more flavorful and have a heavier weight of 8-9 pounds.
Rouens were first bred in France. They most likely come from the region around the French town of Rouen. Much has changed since this breed first appeared in England in the 19th century.
Historians note that British farmers used selective breeding to double the size of the Standard Rouen, and also to increase the size of the keel, making the bird look like a boat. The first Rouens in the United States arrived in 1850 and were used as general farm ducks until gaining popularity as an exhibition breed. They were first included in the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection in 1874.
Some modern breeders have reported that keels have gotten so large some drakes have difficulty mating. It is recommended that breeders use males with smaller keels to prevent problems.
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Many times we see a term in newspapers ‘IPO’. What is the full form of the Same?
A room 5m 55cm long and 3m 74cm broad is to be paved with square tiles.Find the least number of square tiles required to cover the floor?
The First Five Year Plan was based on ___________.
A certain sum of money is invested for one year at a certain rate of simple interest. If the rate of interest is 3% higher, then the invest earned will be 25% more than the interest earned earlier. What is the earlier rate of interest ?
Supreme Court has banned the sale of BS-III vehicles from _____.
All day – to – day function of the Panchayat in which of the following states are being operated on electronic system and web-based?(this is being done for the first time in india for a Panchayat)
The greater is the marginal propensity to consume, the
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary. i. Optimistic ii. Opposition iii. Organization iv. Ordinary
If in an A.P series 18th term is 29 and 29th term is 18. Then find the 49th term ?
International Day of Happiness is celebrated throughout the world on ?


'When the Guillotine Fell': A grisly history
"When the Guillotine Fell" (St. Martin's Press. 256 pages. $24.95), by Jeremy Mercer: It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port town of Marseilles.
Jeremy Mercer's "When the Guillotine Fell," a history of the device and capital punishment in general, uses Djandoubi's crime — the brutal torture and murder of a 22-year-old woman — to trace the debate and methods of capital punishment.
Invented in the late 1700s, the guillotine was actually conceived as a modern, humane way to execute criminals. It replaced far more gruesome methods of torture and death such as drawing and quartering, the wheel and the highly inefficient beheading by sword, each described in the book in excruciating detail.
Mercer, a Canadian expatriate, wrote his last book, "Time Was Soft There," as a pean to the legendary Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare & Co.
His current book, told in alternating chapters, is half devoted to Djandoubi's story. A Tunisian who emigrated to Marseilles in search of a better life, he became increasingly depressed and violent after his leg was severed in an accident. Handsome and exotic, he seduced and then controlled several young women, before torturing one of them to death.
The other half of the book traces capital punishment, from cave paintings depicting prehistoric execution to modern-day ethical debates. Mercer peppers this part of the book with fascinating anecdotes, such as the Marquis de Sade's view of the guillotine from his prison cell (he himself apparently escaped his own beheading due to a clerical error) and Dr. Guillotin's eventual disavowal of the mechanism he created.
Djandoubi's half of the book never feels much more fleshed out than an extended newspaper clipping (Mercer is a former crime reporter). But as the debate over capital punishment extends indefinitely in courts across the country, "When the Guillotine Fell" effectively illustrates just how long and in how many forms society has contemplated reasons for and against capital punishment.


October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We think it is an appropriate time to talk about cancer in aging adults.
It’s easy to say, “Yeah, I know what cancer is.” And most of us do—but we’d rather not think about it. That’s why we often ignore the signs or don’t take preventative measures. But, knowledge is power; so let’s talk about it.
What is Cancer?
In simple terms, cancer begins with cells in the body that become abnormal and make more cells, which in turn, become a growth or tumor that can hurt nearby tissue or organs as it becomes bigger. Cancer cells can also break away and spread to other parts of the body. That’s why finding it early is key to increasing the chances that a cancer treatment will work.
Cancer affects people of every age, but it is more likely in older adults. Luckily, our chances of surviving cancer are better than ever and that’s in part, due to growing awareness and positive lifestyle changes.
Start with Prevention
The best way to really avoid cancer is by taking good care of you. It comes down to three key things:
Even if you think you have these three aspects of your life dialed in, it doesn’t hurt to check in with the experts on a regular basis. Which leads to another important measure of prevention: screening. Regular screenings for cancer give you the chance to talk more about prevention and can also help catch it early—which means you have more tools to fight it.
Know the Signs
In elderly people, cancer can cause many different symptoms. Often, these symptoms may not be an indication of cancer, but it’s important to err on the side of caution and get them checked if they do occur.
Okay, after going through that list, you probably feel pretty ill at ease and maybe a little blue. That’s why it’s important to remind you that having one or more of these symptoms does NOT mean you have cancer. It just means you should go get checked out, because it’s better to be safe than sorry. Don’t wait until you feel pain because in the early stages, cancer usually isn’t painful. If you wait for it to become that way, you are not giving yourself the chance you deserve. And you deserve to be healthy.


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Women for the Nations
She Shall Be Called Woman
Review of Part Two
Before we move into Part Three here is a brief review of some major things we have established through our Session Two studies
1. Culture is society’s institutionalized values, beliefs, norms, knowledge and practices that are learned though human interaction.
2. Culture is so much a part of our daily lives that we are seldom aware of it or its influence on our thoughts and actions.
3. Knowledge of the cultures of the people addressed in the New Testament can help us to a clear understanding of the teaching of scripture.
r. Since Scripture reveals God’s way, Christians must learn to recognize and reject culture and traditions that are not scriptural.
5. The Torah is the first five books of the Old Testament containing the law given to Moses.
6. The Talmud (also called the Babylonian Talmud because of its origin) is a written record of spoken rabbinic discussion.
7. A double standard means an ethical or moral code (rules of behavior) that applies more strictly to one group than to another .
8. God does not view women as the property of men.
9. The basis of Jesus’ teaching on gender (male/female) relationship as well as God’s plan for marriage is found in Genesis 1 and 2
10. Great harm has been done by the mistranslation of shalach as divorce when it means putting out or putting away.
11. What God says He hates is not divorce but the “putting out” or “putting away” of a woman which at the time of Jesus meant that she lost her children, her means of support, and was not eligible to marry again because she was still married.
12. Jesus calls those who are His disciples both male and female, family.
13. God does not limit women to cultural “roles.”
14. Jesus calls women into ministry.