WIND power is on track to become Spain’s leading energy source this year, overtaking nuclear and gas-powered electricity for the first time.
Wind power has generated 23.1% of Spain’s electricity in 2021 so far, above Nuclear’s 21% contribution and 16.8% from combined-cycle generators which run on natural gas.
Unless there’s a fluke outage of wind farms across the country in late December, this will make 2021 the first year that wind power overtakes all other energy sources in Spain.
It comes after Spain’s government slashed coal production over the last two decades, a dramatic drop from powering 85.6% of the national mix in 2002 to under 5% by 2019.
“Wind power is going to continue to dominate the Spanish electricity grid for a long time,” Francisco Valverde, a consultant at the energy company Menta Energia, told NIUS.
Spain currently boasts 1,267 wind parks with 21,431 wind turbines providing 27GW of wind energy capacity – the second-most capacity in the EU after Germany.
The northern regions dominate wind power production with Castilla y Leon providing 23% of wind power, Aragon providing 15.2% and Castilla La Mancha providing 14.2%.
The region of Navarra in the north was also where Acciona installed Spain’s first windfarm in 1994.
Some 27 years later wind energy has shot to the top of Spain’s energy mix, providing 30,000 jobs, and with political backing to keep on growing.
Spain’s National Integrated Plan of Energy and Climate (PNIEC) hopes the industry will double in size to hit the target of making Spain 74% renewable energy by 2030.
In 2021, renewable energies in total are set to produce 47% of Spain’s national energy mix – another national record.
Scientists are now hoping that 2022 will be the year Spain joins Norway, Iceland and Sweden as the only European countries where more than 50% of energy is produced by renewables.


~ by Barbara J. Fraser, Catholic News Service
Solutions to environmental problems discussed at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon must involve not just Amazonian nations, but countries in Europe and North America, the bishops said.
Many of the environmental issues that synod participants have raised – including destruction of forests, pollution of rivers, rapacious mining and especially climate change – are also common to other tropical regions of the world
Those problems have roots in North America and Europe, although they often are exacerbated by policy loopholes and lack of enforcement in Amazonia countries, synod participants have said.
Synod participants described how mines, dams and other enterprises owned, built or operated by companies in industrialized countries displace local communities, affecting the environment and disrupting people’s lives.
Global trade means that even consumers’ decisions leave a footprint in distant countries. For example, most of the deforestation in Brazil is for cattle ranching to export beef. And the demand for gold keeps prices high, encouraging miners to invade indigenous people’s territories in remote parts of the Amazon. Their unregulated operations leave a scene
that resembles a cratered moonscape where rivers are poisoned with mercury and cyanide.
“No one can say, ‘I’m not responsible, it’s not my fault,’” said Bishop Karel Choennie of Suriname. “We are all responsible.”
The economic and social costs are borne by indigenous villagers and small farmers in the Amazon, said Josianne Gauther, executive secretary of CIDSE, an international consortium of Catholic development agencies and an invited guest at the synod.
“It’s colonialism – you externalize the costs to another population that you consider inferior or of less value,” she said. “It’s a one-directional relationship, where you exploit and live well, while the others suffer the consequences.”
People in places like North America and Europe do not always see that “environmental degradation and human rights violations (in the Amazon) are connected to our behaviors or policies or trade agreements” elsewhere in the world, she said.
People begin to understand the impact of their consumer choices and the policies of their countries when they come face to face with


Here’s when hummingbirds leave South Carolina! (to migrate south)
Unfortunately, hummingbirds don’t live in South Carolina year-round. 🙁
At the end of every summer, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (the only common species in the state) depart South Carolina to migrate south to southern Mexico and Central America. They spend the winter here in the warm weather before coming back next spring!
So when exactly do hummingbirds leave South Carolina?
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds start their southward migration once their breeding season ends. It’s believed that they can sense the changes in the reduced number of daylight hours, flowers, and insects, which triggers their instinct to leave South Carolina.
This means that most hummingbirds have left South Carolina by late September!
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But these are just the birds that choose South Carolina as their breeding grounds. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds can be found from South Carolina all the way into Canada.
And many of the hummingbirds that are migrating south to Central America and southern Mexico must pass through South Carolina. So it’s likely that you will see hummingbirds through much of October and November as these northern birds are making their way south.
I’m guessing that the reason you wanted to know when hummingbirds leave South Carolina is that you were curious when you can put away your feeders for the winter?
Here’s what I always recommend:
Don’t take down your feeders until you haven’t seen a hummingbird for TWO weeks.
Once that happens, you can be very confident that almost all the hummingbirds in South Carolina have left for the year!
Trust me; you definitely don’t want to take away the nectar in your yard too early. Hummingbirds migrate a LONG way and need lots of ENERGY, which you can hopefully provide to them.
When do you normally see the last hummingbirds leave South Carolina?
Let us know in the COMMENTS section below!


Lee A. “Buddy” Archer, Jr. was the only confirmed ace of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black pilots who never lost an allied bomber to enemy air action in 200 escort missions. Archer was the first and only black ace pilot,” credited with shooting down five enemy planes.
After graduating high school, Archer enrolled in New York University to study international relations. In early 1941, Archer felt the war was imminent for the United States, which led him to apply for pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Although he passed the mental and physical examinations, Archer was refused appointment be government policy did not allow black citizens to serve in the Army Air Corps.
Archer was disappointed but not deterred, he was more determined than ever to contribute to the Army. In May 1942, while an instructor at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, Archer became aware the Army Air Force was accepting black candidates for pilot training under the “Tuskegee Experiment” and immediately applied. Graduating first in his class in 1943, Archer earned his wings and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
As one of the “red-tailed angels” flying the North American P-51 Mustang, Archer flew 169 combat missions over more than 11 countries, scoring at least 5 aerial victories. He returned stateside with an assignment to Tuskegee Army Air Field as Chief of the Instrument Instructor School. Later, Archer was selected for a regular commission and sent to UCLA to complete his college education. Archer held several positions after the war.
He earned eighteen Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and Special Citations from Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, as well as the director of the CIA. On January 27, 2010, Archer died from coronary complications.


The raw materials which are obtained are required to produce fuel for households. Shale oil is also a popular fuel used by ships sailing in the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. The company produces more than 250,000 tonnes of shale oil per year. More than two million tonnes of oil shale are processed to produce this quantity of oil. This is a complicated process – resulting in challenges for wear protection.
The plant grinds wet oil shale around the clock and guides the rock via conveyor belts into a flash dryer where it predries. The fine-grained, dried oil shale is then blown at high speed and in air at a temperature of 800 degrees through a riser pipe up into laterally adjacent cyclones. At this level, the moist air escapes while the dry oil shale is discharged downwards in the cyclone.
The issue of wear protection in the flash dryer had hitherto largely been ignored. As a result, the plant components were sensitive and only had short service lives. Already in 2013, the company asked Kalenborn to develop specific wear protection solutions for the plant parts with a wide range of different geometries and operating conditions. These solutions were intended above all to guarantee long service lives for the components. With a wide range of wear protection materials manufactured internally and many years of experience in this field, Kalenborn was able to offer the right solution. Kalenborn installed a lining system comprising KALSICA-N and KALCOR-S offering outstanding resistance to abrasion at high temperatures and high thermal shock resistance in the lower heating section of the flash dryer. In the middle section, ABRESIST and KALMETALL-W were used due to the shape of the riser pipe. In order to improve the impact strength, the engineers from Kalenborn employed a structure comprising KALMETALL-W and 100 mm thick KALSICA-N bars in the upper section of the distributor. The cyclones were also lined with KALMETALL-W100. The plant was able to start operating the same year.
The adapted wear protection solutions from Kalenborn met the customer’s expectations. Two further plants were lined in 2014 and 2015. The longer service life now enables the company to manufacture products efficiently and reliably.


Post-war Romania (LS-RO-07)
Recognizing the tools of propaganda is more important than ever in these increasingly digital times, because we live in a world where we get easily and constantly exposed to fake news. See how this learning scenario teaches students to recognize the tools of propaganda.
Isabela Miron, in her learning scenario about post-war Romania, aims not only to teach about propaganda in history, but also encourages her students to recognize propaganda and identify its tools. Although communism no longer exists in Romania, various forms of propaganda are still present all around the world. Recognizing the tools of propaganda is maybe more important than ever in these increasingly digital times, because we live in a world constantly subject to the consequences of fake news. It is also important to distinguish between ideology and propaganda. To this end, Isabela, Europeana Ambassador for Romania, designed a project where students research into communist times in Romania, a period so recent that texts and videos depicting that period are relatively easy to access. In groups, students analyze historical texts related to daily life in communist Romania, and objects from the Europeana Collections in order to come up with conclusions on how propaganda works according to these sources. Finally, students conduct an interview with an acquaintance about propaganda and daily life in communism. The collected stories, as well as their own analysis will be made into a booklet.
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Tandem cuts are specifically used for balls that are hit in either gap or down the lines, that the defense knows will be doubles and possible triples. It would be easiest to give a scenario before practicing the softball tandem cut drill.
Softball Tandem Cut Drill
The batter hits a gapper to left-center for a sure double. LF and CF are going after the ball. SS is going out to be the cut because the ball is hit on her side of the field. 2B is going to trail the SS by about 15 feet, she is the tandem cut, (both of which are being lined up by the 3B). 1B waits for the batter/runner to round first and then she will trail the runner all the way to second.
The ball is relayed into the SS from the CF, but goes over is head because of a bad throw. However, the 2B is there for just that purpose, and she catches the ball and relays to appropriate bag or runs it in.
Now, this tandem cut is used primarily for a bad throw from the outfield, or a bad hop from the relay to the cut player. This prevents extra bases from being taken if there wasn’t a second person in the play. If there was a runner on first to begin the play, it is possible that a tandem cut could prevent this runner from scoring if the relay went off target.
This play switches the cut and tandem player when the play is on the other side, in the right-center gap. A double down the right field line can be handled by the 2B being the cut, and SS being the tandem. However, on the left-field line, things need to change and can be done differently. Here is another option.
Double down the left field line. 3B has to go out to be the cut man and SS will be the tandem. 2B cannot come all the way over to be the cut man, so she will go to her base and we won’t have the 1B be a trailer. However, she can come to the left field side of the circle and be a filler in case of a bad relay from the cut player to the pitcher, who will be the fielder at 3B. Note: The pitcher, on all other tandems is backup to home plate.
This cut play can only be used at higher levels because of arm strength. In a younger age group, a double cut would have to be used.


what is stem?
STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. STEM education has become important because it occupies every part of our lives. By exposing students to STEM and giving them opportunities to explore STEM-related concepts, they will develop a passion for it and hopefully pursue a job in a STEM field. A curriculum that is STEM-based has real-life situations to help the student learn. Programs like Engineering For Kids integrates multiple classes to provide opportunities to see how concepts relate to life in order to hopefully spark a passion for a future career in a STEM field. STEM activities provide hands-on and minds-on lessons for the student. Making math and science both fun and interesting helps the student to do much more than just learn.
Shepherds has partnered with Bharathidasan University under IECD SUITS Scheme to provide our school students with Certificate Course in Computing Skills. Exams are conducted at School Premises and coordinated by Bharathidasan University. This helps the school students to get very good basic knowledge about computer programming and its working at the school level which will help in the students when they pursue Undergraduate courses in Information Technology or Electronics or any STEM field.
Benefits of IECD
- Proud of becoming a student of Bharathidasan University
- Becoming university rank holders/ school toppers in SUITS
- A strong foundation to become computer programmers and entrepreneurs
- Achieving Advanced certificate in IT Education before completion of their matriculation.


La Palma: Cumbre Vieja volcano remains silent for a second day raising hopes eruption has ended
Involcan, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, said seismic activity had all but stopped late on Monday - while emissions of sulphur dioxide were "extremely low" yesterday.
Wednesday 15 December 2021 12:59, UK
The Cumbre Vieja volcano has remained silent for a second day - raising hopes its three-month eruption on the island of La Palma is coming to an end.
Involcan, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, said seismic activity all but stopped late on Monday.
The island is now experiencing its longest period without tremors since the eruption began on 19 September.
Ruben Lopez, a geologist with the Spanish geographical institute, said: "We can see now that the seismicity is very weak, the deformation is zero, the tremor is zero.
"Now, with these parameters, we can see the volcano had stopped, and maybe we could start to see the end of the La Palma volcanic eruption."
Emissions of sulphur dioxide, which had forced a lockdown of a third of the island's population before the volcano went
silent, were "extremely low" on Tuesday, Involcan said.
Still, experts from the eruption response committee do not rule out a resumption of volcanic activity.
The eruption, which sent rivers of molten lava down the slopes of Cumbre Vieja for weeks and expanded the size of the
island by more than 48 hectares, is the longest on La Palma, according to records dating back to the 16th century.
Thousands of people have been evacuated, at least 2,910 buildings have been destroyed and the island's main source of livelihood, banana plantations, have been devastated.


Most textbooks are dull and boring. I don’t know if they start out that way or if a committee surgically removes all traces of an author’s voice. Suffice it to say, a good textbook is usually the first line of defense against insomnia.
Point in case: my Contemporary Linguistics textbook for English 304. Not only is it filled with strange symbols and phonetic transcriptions, the likes of which I hadn’t seen prior to writing Spanish papers, but the terminology is so far removed from my vernacular that looking at it gives me a headache.
About a week ago, I was slogging through a particularly confusing section on complementary distribution. After three paragraphs into the reading, I had no idea what the term meant. The text seemed upbeat in its description, yet the phonemes in the example appeared to have exclusive properties. If you’re feeling lost, don’t worry―I’m doing this to illustrate a point.
Then, in the following paragraph, the text became crystal clear. “Wow,” I thought, “why didn’t they just say that in the first place?” Reading the final sentence in the fourth paragraph, I did a double-take. “No way! Did I read that correctly?”
I read it again and again. Just to be sure, I read it a third time. Then I burst out laughing. If only every textbook contained these kinds of Easter eggs! Honestly, students would stick to the pages like glue.
Here’s the passage:
Since no voiced [l] ever occurs in the same phonetic environment as a voiceless one (and vice versa), we say that the two variants of l are in complementary distribution. Complementary distribution means that the two sounds never occur in the same place (like Clark Kent and Superman).Contemporary Linguistics


Agricultural science and geotechnical research are two fields that are closely related and have a number of significant overlaps, one of which is the study of soil water characteristic curves or soil water retention curves.
A soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) is a graphical representation of the relationship between soil moisture content and soil suction (the force required to extract water from the soil). The SWCC is a key tool in both agricultural science and geotechnical research, as it provides important information about the water-holding capacity and behavior of soil.
In agricultural science, the SWCC is used to understand how soil moisture affects plant growth and productivity. For example, soil moisture levels that are too high or too low can both negatively impact plant growth. By understanding the SWCC of different soil types, agricultural scientists can better understand how to manage soil moisture in order to optimize crop productivity.
In geotechnical engineering, the SWCC is used to understand how soil moisture affects the stability and behavior of soil under different loading conditions. For example, soil moisture can affect the strength and stiffness of soil, and the SWCC can be used to predict these changes. This is particularly important in the design of foundations and other structures that are supported by or interact with soil.
In addition to its applications in agricultural science and geotechnical engineering, the SWCC is also used in other fields, such as civil engineering, environmental science, and water resource management.
Overall, the study of soil water characteristic curves or soil water retention curves is an important area of overlap between agricultural science and geotechnical research. Both fields rely on this tool to understand the behavior and properties of soil under different moisture conditions, and both fields use this information to make informed decisions about land use and management practices.
At ZALIG, we offer a wide range of quality geotechnical, environmental, material testing, transport, survey and hydro-technical engineering services to clients in both the public and private sectors. Operating from our base in Western Canada, our industry-leading experts set the pace in various geotechnical, environmental, and construction service markets. If you need geotechnical engineering services in Alberta, we've got you covered! Get in touch with us today and let's talk about your project!


What is a City Farm
City Farms come in all shapes and sizes from small scale operations focusing on fruit and vegetable production to larger scale facilities featuring both fruit and vegetable production and a variety of farm animals. The committee has researched many city farms with a view to creating something suited to our proposed site. The video below is a city farm in Kentish Town, London.
Our City Farm
Our city farm will be a community educational and recreational space, creating opportunities for learning and engagement for people of all abilities and backgrounds, focusing on environmental issues, organic food production, native rare breed animal conservation and the promotion of traditional and related crafts. In addition to being a community resource and a visitor centre focusing on education and community engagement, it is intended that the farm will also provide for a farmers market and opportunities for food producers, farmers, small holders etc. to sell directly to consumers via the City Farm.
The value of green infrastructure has been acknowledged by Dublin City Council:
Implementing green infrastructure features in urban areas creates a greater sense of community, strengthens the link with voluntary actions undertaken by civil society, and helps combat social exclusion and isolation. They benefit the individual and the community physically, psychologically, emotionally and socio-economically. Green infrastructure creates opportunities to connect urban areas and provides appealing places in which to live and work. Through urban food production and community gardens, which are efficient tools to educate schoolchildren and engage the interest of young people in particular, it addresses the disconnect between production and consumption of food and helps increase its perceived value. Investments in green infrastructure have significant potential to strengthen regional and urban development, including the creation of jobs.
(Dublin City Development Plan 2016-2022)


Teach Observation Skills this Summer with Three Simple Prompts: I Notice, I Wonder and This Reminds Me
The scientific method begins with observation, yet observation isn’t often taught. Parents and teachers assume that students know how to observe without explaining that observing isn’t simply looking. It’s a way of engaging with the natural world that employs multiple senses, draws on existing knowledge and raises questions for further discussion. Learn more about how to teach your children how to observe.
Join the FWBG | BRIT Reads Book Club for Lively Discussions of Books about the Natural World
If you love nature, love to read, and love to discuss reading about nature with like-minded companions, consider joining the FWBG | BRIT Book Club. You’ll find a community of readers who enjoy in-depth conversations about botany, biology, ecology and the natural world.
Learn How to Stop the Spread of Invasive Plants through Smart Shopping and Native-Friendly Gardening
Readers of this newsletter are savvy and environmentally aware—most know that invasive plants threaten the environment and native plants support a healthy ecosystem. But it’s not always easy. You might go to your local garden center looking for a native plant like lantana, take it home and plant it in your garden. You’ve done a good thing, right? Maybe. Maybe not. How do you know that the variety of lantana you purchased is native lantana?
BRIT Press Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Publishing Botanical Discoveries and References
Publication is an essential step in the scientific process. Discoveries are considered unofficial until they have been reviewed by fellow scientists and published in journals. Through publication, scientists learn about new findings and debate new ideas. This year, BRIT Press celebrates the 60th anniversary of fulfilling this critical role in botany.


User story mapping is a powerful technique used by agile teams to gather requirements and build better products. It helps to visualize the user journey, prioritize features, and identify gaps in the product roadmap. If you’re new to user story mapping or looking to improve your skills, then this course is perfect for you.
In this course, you’ll learn the step-by-step process of creating user story maps, from understanding user needs to organizing user stories and prioritizing features. You’ll also learn how to facilitate user story mapping sessions with stakeholders and team members.
Whether you’re a product owner, business analyst, or developer, this course will help you to gain a deeper understanding of your users and create products that truly meet their needs. So, let’s dive in and learn how to create effective user story maps that drive better product outcomes.
What You’ll Learn
In this course, you’ll learn:
Introduction to User Story Mapping
- What is user story mapping
- Why user story mapping is important
- Key benefits of user story mapping
- How user story mapping fits into agile development
Understanding User Needs
- Identifying user personas
- Defining user goals and objectives
- Conducting user research
- Creating user journey maps
Organizing User Stories
- Creating user story cards
- Mapping user stories to user journeys
- Identifying dependencies and gaps
- Prioritizing features and user stories
Facilitating User Story Mapping Sessions
- Setting up user story mapping sessions
- Collaborating with stakeholders and team members
- Capturing and organizing ideas
- Generating actionable insights
Advanced User Story Mapping Techniques
- Scaling user story mapping for large projects
- Using user story mapping for backlog grooming
- Integrating user story mapping with other agile practices
- Using user story mapping to drive continuous improvement.


What is confirmation bias and how does it affect your decisions?
Confirmation bias is the phenomenon that when making a decision, people tend to look for and consider data that supports their own view or opinion or the decision they “want”. It is a serious problem because it means that the range of options is not considered and the resulting decision tends to be based on a narrow field of options. So what can you do about confirmation bias? One of the best ways to deal with confirmation bias is to assign people, perhaps at random, to research and argue the opposite view or other options. An extremely effective way to minimise the possibility of making a poor decision, is to have every view argued, thereby placing a range of options on the table for consideration. Poor decision making costs businesses millions of dollars every year. Implementing a decision that is not the best decision is often done completely unknowingly, simply because of confirmation bias. It does not just happen at work. Confirmation bias does not only happen in the workplace. It happens even more in people’s personal decisions. People look for evidence to support the view they hold. If contrary evidence appears, they often ignore it or more often, justify why it does not apply to them at that time, or in these circumstances or both. There is a lot more to be said about confirmation bias, but this gives a good overview.


Computer Technology is a discipline that encompasses many disciplines including software engineering, laptop architecture, and machine learning.
Programming is known as a field within just computer science that relates to the publishing of code. It’s a crucial aspect of computer https://www.maartendocter.nl/programming-languages scientific research as a whole, although it’s a subsection, subdivision, subgroup, subcategory, subclass of the greater area that includes programming different languages, data constructions and methods, and programming vocabulary theory.
Some type of computer scientist uses various numerical algorithms and coding techniques to study computing systems, develop new program and applications, and improve existing technologies. Their particular expert knowledge of programming and coding enables them to design computer software and devices that fix complex problems.
They can be present in every field of technology from solutions to scientific disciplines to person factors. That they create systems that enable computers to find out and process information quickly. They’re responsible for ensuring that computers can be protected by cyberattacks, along with making sure they can operate successfully and safely.
There exists a growing concern in the teaching of pc science in schools. This is an excellent thing, but it’s as well one that requires a lot of means, teacher training, and public support.
I possess taught a range of high school and college initial computer scientific research courses, and it’s often sad to discover some pupils who appear have fun in the program but then realize that CS is not actually for them. Often , these are glowing, hardworking students that will go on to get doctors, researchers, and legal professionals.


School Transport Policy
Sections 42 and 51 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 require education authorities to provide free transport to a child's catchment school where the walking distance from home is defined as 3 miles or over for all children over eight and 2 miles for children under eight.
The act places a duty on councils to take safety into account when assessing walking routes under these statutory distances. What constitutes safety is not defined in the act and it is up to each individual council to determine.
West Lothian policy
West Lothian Council has a far better distance qualification for free school transport than the statutory requirement. It is 1.5 miles or over for primary children and 2 miles or over for secondary children attending their catchment school. The distance is determined by the shortest walking route from a family's permanent home address to the school gate. For a walking route to be deemed as being acceptable for a child to walk whilst accompanied by a responsible adult three simple tests are applied:
- The route must be paved and of adequate width, or be a shared roadway.
- The route must have an all weather surface.
- The route must be lit.
All the walking routes are assessed by a qualified transportation engineer. Where suitable walking routes do not exist transport to school is made available below the council's qualifying distances.
The network of school bus services can also be used by pupils not entitled to free school travel. Most buses allow pupils to pay a fare either on the bus or to use pre-paid discount travel tickets.
Schools served by home to school transport will have their own written statements of policy for the supervision of embarkation/disembarkation by staff within the resources available to the school's management team. Policies will take account of the individual circumstances and layout of school grounds and reflect good practice in endeavouring to minimise risks to pupils.


How Do Worms Work?
This book provides expert answers to the questions every gardener wants to ask – and a few they’ve never dreamed of, from ‘Why do flowers close at night?’ to ‘How do you attract butterflies?’ It’s a great, accessible educational resource for young and old – the essential companion for the curious gardener.
Ever wondered how worms breathe? Or why exactly trees are so big? This book covers all aspects of gardens and gardening, and will satisfy all your horticultural curiosity. Packed with photographs, vintage engravings and diagrams, this book will answer everything from the practical to the quirky and whimsical. Feature boxes provide practical guidance, so that you can apply your new-found knowledge to your own garden.
Written by the head of the Royal Horticultural Society Members’ Advisory Service, and updated to suit Australian and New Zealand readers, this book is the ideal gift for fact-loving gardeners with curious minds.
This is a fun fact filled read- suitable for the gardener, the school room, the nature lover or for anyone who has children who have asked:
- Why do flowers close at night?
- Does a severed worm grow into two worms?
- What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?
- Why is compost hot?
- When is a plant a weed?
And so much more knowledge crammed into this easy read book.
I hate to be the first one to mention this (and most likely I am not) but that major gift giving time of the year is fast approaching: Christmas. This is an ideal book to add to your gift buying list, there is something in these pages for everyone.


Developed by child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, Floortime™ is a treatment method and a philosophy for interacting with autistic children. It is based on the premise that the child can increase and build a larger circle of interaction with an adult who meets the child at his current developmental level and who builds on the child's particular strengths.
The goal in Floortime™ is to move the child through the six basic developmental milestones that must be mastered for emotional and intellectual growth. Greenspan describes the six rungs on the developmental ladder as: self-regulation and interest in the world; intimacy or a special love for the world of human relations; two-way communication; complex communication; emotional ideas; and emotional thinking. The autistic child is challenged in moving naturally through these milestones as a result of sensory over- or under-reactions, processing difficulties, and/or poor control of physical responses.
In Floortime™, the parent engages the child at a level the child currently enjoys, enters the child's activities, and follows the child's lead. From a shared engagement, the parent is instructed on how to move the child toward increasingly complex interactions, a process known as opening and closing circles of communication. Floortime™ does not separate and focus on speech, motor, or cognitive skills but rather addresses these areas through a synthesized emphasis on emotional development. The intervention is called Floortime because the parent gets down on the floor with the child to engage him at his level.
(Information from Autism Speaks)


Festooned / feˈsto͞on / noun, verb
Definition: We can use the term festoon as either a noun or a verb. In noun form, the term festoon is used to represent celebratory hanging or chained decorations. Similar to garland used to celebrate Christmas holidays, a festoon is a chain or strip of decorations or adornments that represent celebration.
A festoon can be a tangible chain of decorations and used to represent festive events, gatherings, or holidays. It can also be represented by an “image” of a chain of festive decor. Used as a verb, festoon means to hang, form, or shape into decorations.
Etymology: The first known use of the word festooned as a noun was recorded in 1630. Early use of festoon as a very was recorded around 1765. The French recorded early use of the word festoon as feston. Italians used the word festone and festa. Early Latin related the word festoon to the word “feast.”
In a Sentence
They festooned the houses with Christmas lights for the holidays!
A chain of icicles festooned the rooftop after the ice storm.
The flower garland festooned the wedding chapel on the day of the ceremony.
Adorn, Embellish, Emblaze
Blemish, Disfigure, Mar


Social risk index to hurricanes in coastal regions of Rhode Island
Date of Original Version
A commonly accepted framework of mass disaster evacuation postulates dependency on resilience and on exposure of the risk posed to groups by a threat. Resilience relates to the material and conceptual resources available within reach or through the larger community. Exposure varies with such factors as location relative to the threat agent's pathway, magnitude, and scope over time. Also commonly accepted is the chronic lack of resources and the dependence on public means that afflict disenfranchised segments of a population. Clearly, to mitigate the disparities in evacuation risk across social boundaries, it becomes imperative that the community at large make available tangible and intangible resources to its disenfranchised segments. A risk analysis helps agencies assess who faces the risks, where the risks are faced, which resources are lacking to cause facing of the risks, and what risks are being faced; the analysis thus eases derivation of a future scheme for the allocation of resources. This study ranks and compares the risks posed by hurricanes to the coastal towns of Rhode Island. To this end, it proposes a conceptual framework for assessing risk under hurricane threat. It then assesses a hurricane risk index that uses the social predictors of resilience prevailing within the hurricane evacuation zones in each coastal town. It gleaned the empirical data necessary for this assessment from disaster-related literature, emergency management agencies, and readily available GIS databases. This paper, in essence, exposes the social inequities that result in disparities in resilience among towns within the hurricane evacuation zones of coastal Rhode Island.
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Transportation Research Record
Campbell, Alolade, Natacha Thomas, Christopher Hunter, and Cynthia Levesque. "Social risk index to hurricanes in coastal regions of Rhode Island." Transportation Research Record 2009 (2007): 121-129. doi: 10.3141/2009-16.


Jehn, Anthony (2021). Adult health behaviors: The postsecondary education effect. SSM - Population Health.
, PMCID: PMC8749134
Nearly 80% of American adults between the ages of 33–44 have at least some postsecondary education, which ranges from vocational training to a doctorate or professional degree. However, in education-health studies, postsecondary credentials are often grouped into a limited number of categories. This is an important omission as it obscures differentiations between the various types of postsecondary credentials. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of disparities in health behaviors across the entire postsecondary education gradient. Estimates are produced both in aggregate as well as stratified by gender and race/ethnicity population subgroups. Data comes from Wave 5 of the 2018 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). A standardized weighting technique is used to produce behavioral index scores that identify the full spectrum of behaviors influenced by postsecondary educational attainment. The aggregate results indicate that adults with at least a bachelor's degree have lower engagement with unhealthy behaviors; however, no difference is observed among adults with lower-level postsecondary credentials, compared to high school graduates. Women experience steeper gradients at higher levels of postsecondary education, compared to men. Black and Hispanic Americans experience substantially attenuated gradients at higher levels of education, compared to their non-Hispanic White counterparts. These findings have important implications particularly as adults in their thirties and forties continue to exhibit troubling health and mortality trends.
SSM - Population Health


September Plant of the Month
Cape Honeysuckle might have a misleading name, but this plant won't do you wrong! Not a true honeysuckle, it's actually related to trumpet vine, desert willow and jacaranda. It gets its name from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa where it is a native plant. Yup, South Africa, where it gets nice and hot and dry. It does just as well here as it does there!
The average size of this beauty is about 6-8 tall and wide, though it depends on how you prune it. It can be grown as a shrub or trained as a vine. As a shrub, it will have a loose, open vase shaped growth habit. As a vine, it can grow 15' or more. It's also a fast grower and if left to its own devices, will shoot up runners far from the main plant-just clip 'em if they get outta hand.
Cape honeysuckle can be recognized by its glossy dark green, diamond shaped leaves. This plant will get covered in vibrant red-orange honeysuckle-like blooms year round. This no doubt attracts lots of butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.
Cape honeysuckle is considered a tropical evergreen, but around here it tends to be a semi-evergreen or perennial. Most years it will not freeze back, but if it does, it comes back every spring.
Grow Cape Honeysuckle in containers or in the ground. It grows best in full sun but can also tolerate partial shade. Pair it with perennials like Esperanza and Plumbago for explosive color!


Each of us are impacted by grief and loss. For some, the words “grief” and “loss,” signify the pain one feels after they’ve lost a loved one to death. For others, the words “grief” and “loss” have a different meaning. November 19, 2015 is Children’s Grief Awareness Day. In an effort to help spread the word and bring awareness to this important event, for the next month we will be highlighting five grief experiences of children and teens. Starting today October 19, 2015 we will focus on grief and loss not only as pertained to death, but also divorce, deployment, incarceration, and foster care. November 19th, Children’s Grief Awareness Day will be a culmination of our efforts where we will be hosting a tweet chat to discuss #Grief5. The goal of our social media conversation on November 19th will be to highlight these 5 aspects of grief and provide best practices to educators and others connected to youth.
Look for an upcoming blog post November 2, 2015 with more information regarding this campaign and plan on joining us November 19, 2015 to discuss what educators can do to best support our grieving children and teens. Follow @Ideas4youth and @NotEnoughGood on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and join us in the chat all month long using the hashtag #Grief5.


From Jeremy S Cook on the Tindie blog:
With concerns about the transmission of COVID-19 at the forefront of society’s collective consciousness, UV light—especially the UV-C range—has been put forth as a possible solution. But how does one produce UV light indoors? UV LEDs of course!
For this purpose, prolific Tindarian Bobricius has come up with an LED module with a single 275nm UV-C light onboard. It includes the proper resistor to keep it functioning properly via a 9V power source, making it easy to implement.
While it may be effective, the listing notes that it is untested on viruses and bacteria. You’ll of course want to use it appropriately based on that information, and also note that it can be harmful to skin and eyes.
So why then did Bobricius make this contraption? As in so many works of science fiction, he had been dreaming of a radiation killing module. Now perhaps such a device can be used for good. Notably, there is a significant discount for orders of more than one, so perhaps a “killer array” would be a better option than a single source of radiation in this case!
Of course, makers aren’t just on the germ-offensive these days. As seen here, there’s been a huge push to produce PPE, especially during early shortages of a few months ago.


A commodity market is a market that trades in primary products and materials rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit, gold, oil, and sugar. Commodity markets can include trading in a physical or a virtual space using spot prices, forwards, futures, and options on futures. The origins of these market places can be traced back over 5,000 years, but how do they work now and how might they change in the future?
To discuss the Future of Commodity Markets I am joined on the podcast by Data Scientist Noah Healy who has a particular interest in combining mathematics with technology to produce game-changing solutions. We addressed these questions:
- How do commodity markets work now and what's wrong with them?
- How do we fix the issues?
- What beneficial changes are we would see?
- How might commodity markets have changed in 10 years’ time?
To listen to my podcast with Noah, click below to listen on YouTube or on Spotify’s Anchor platform.
You can learn more about Noah and his work by connecting with him as follows:
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Lipnica Wielka, Poland
A local hay wagon passing in front of St. Lukas
Roman Catholic church in Lipnica Wielka, Poland. The church dates
back to 1769.
Lipnica Wielka, Poland was known as Velka Lipnica,
Slovakia prior the Slovak/Polish border change in 1920. In both
languages the name of the village means "greater Lipnica".
The word "Lipnica" is the name of the brook which runs
the length of the town and derives its name from the "Lipa"
or local species of Linden tree which grows along its banks. Lipnica
Wielka is currently the largest town in the region known locally
as "Orawa". Orawa comes from the Slovak "Orava"
which was once the county name before the border change. The population
of Lipnica Wielka is now around 5,300. Most inhabitants are still
farmers. The village is almost ten miles long and was first settled
by fleeing peasants from Zywiec, Poland in the early 1600's. Lipnica Mala or "lesser"
Lipnica is a village nearby built along the banks of Syhlec creek.
It is smaller, but also settled by Zywiec peasants. Many of the
same family surnames are common to both these villages.
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Loofah belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, an annual vine herb, also known as "vegetable melon." It is a common vegetable in Taiwan with the main growing areas in central and southern Taiwan, from Nantou County to Pingtung County, with growing periods differing a lot as a result of different local climate. In the Gaoping area the loofah can be grown all year-round because of the warm climate.
Li Shizhen's "Herbal Foundation Compendium" described this vegetable as "having a network of flesh," which is to say the old loofah is full of silk and meridians, hence it is also known as the "Silk Melon." The loofah is not only edible, its male flowers can also be tasted carefully after being picked and washed, coated with flour and fried; "loofah dew" has a cooling and annealing function, which can maintain the elasticity of the skin and is the best natural cosmetic; Many new technology products continue to use the term "loofah cloth," which indicates its washing effect is well known. In addition, Penghu loofah is often used locally to describe a person who likes to nag a lot, because it has 10 edges, and rhymes with "Nag" in Hoklo.
How to buy loofah
- Choose a cylindrical shape that is uniform from top to bottom, which is not bigger in the middle or at both ends.
- The surface of the skin should be fresh green. If the color is dark, it means it was harvested a long time ago.
- Even dark green varieties have a glossy skin if they are of good quality.
- Surface protrusions need to remain intact and undamaged.
- The epidermis had no dark scratches or crushing marks.
- The fruit is intact without cracks.


Not another study please. We need real action to fix the problem of sleep deprivation for middle and high school students.
This seems to be the reaction to Sen. Richard Codey’s move for a legislation to direct the state Department of Education to study the potential health benefits of a later start of school timings.
It is a well-researched fact that students in upper grades do not get enough sleep. In August, the American Academy of Pediatrics cited a National Sleep Foundation poll that found 59 percent of middle school and 87 percent of high school students slept less than the recommended 8.5 to 9.5 hours at night. After-school activities, homework, part-time jobs, other distractions and wake-up alarms to accommodate early school hours truncate their sleep hours.
The academy pointed to research that shows adolescents with enough sleep get better grades, have a higher quality of life and run reduced risks of depression, overweight and being involved in automobile accidents. They recommend that the school day begin no earlier than 8:30 a.m. for middle and high school students.
Would flipping high and elementary school starting times resolve the issue? In many school districts, bus schedules are staggered for different grade levels to save money. High school starting times are generally the earliest, followed by middle and elementary schools.
Reversing start times could have attendant issues. It could disrupt after-school athletics, other extracurricular activities and part-time student jobs. It could mean completing homework at later hours impacting the amount of sleep older students get.
The firm view is that it should be left to administrators and school board members in every school district to consider and act on these points. Not the state. Not another study.
Source: Gannett Healthcare Group


The Lola Bee Bop: A Bloomsbury Young Reader: Purple Book Band
Book Band: Purple (Ideal for ages 6+)
An upbeat rhyming story about bees and sustainability, ideal for children practising reading at home or in school.
Lola is a bee who loves to boogie, but the rest of the hive think her dancing is silly. One day, their meadow is mowed and the bees must go in search of new nectar. Luckily, Lola’s bop might just help them find it!
This cheerful story from award-winning author John Dougherty is perfect for Key Stage 1 (KS1) children who are learning to read by themselves. It features funny colour illustrations by Pauline Gregory and is perfect for teaching children about the environment and the importance of bees in our ecosystem. _______________
Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. The series is ideal for both home and school, with gorgeous colour illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity ideas. Online guided reading and teaching notes, written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), are available at bloomsburyreaders.com.'Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young Reader. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous vocabulary and punctuation.' - Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher
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In 2020, alcohol consumption was linked to 741,000 cancer cases worldwide according to a study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, (IAC). Specifically, it is thought to increase the risk of cancer of the head and neck, the oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum, and breast cancer in
The body breaks down alcohol to produce a compound called acetaldehyde, a toxin that may cause cancer although it is also found naturally in yoghurt and many fruits.
The body’s alcohol breakdown can also produce unstable molecules – free radicals – which can damageDNA, producing changes that can result in a cell turning cancerous.
Alcohol can also impair the body’s ability to absorb a variety of nutrients it needs for its cancer prevention. It can also increase blood levels of oestrogen, a sex hormone linked to breast cancer, and make the carcinogens found in tobacco smoke easier for the body to absorb. Indeed, even light drinking of just 10 grams or less per day adds to the risk of
Public awareness in UK of cancer risk from alcohol is overlooked, unknown or disregarded and a recent UK survey found that only one in 10 people were aware that alcohol could cause cancer.
In 2020 alcohol drinking has been causally associated with nearly 17,000 cases of cancer in UK, with the percentage of cancer types linked to alcohol: Breast 24%, Colon 23%, Rectum 13%, Oral cavity 12%, Oesophagus 9%, Liver 8%, Throat 7%, Larynx 4%.
However, all this aside, it is also very well known that residents of the so-called blue zones, such as Okinawa in Japan and the Greek Island of Ikaria, regularly live to over 100 years old and drink up to 3 glasses of wine, or
equivalent, per day. Apparently, the trick is drink moderately with good food – and, of course, good company. Happy Holidays!
Professor Ian Hampson
University of Manchester
National Cancer Institute – NCI and WHO Report on alcohol consumption, global health, and Cancer.
NHS, UK – Alcoholic drinks and calculating units.
Public Health England – Alcohol consumption and Covid.
Keywords: Alcohol, Cancer prevention, oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum, breast cancer in women. tobacco, IAC, WHO, NHS, University of Manchester.


John Michell - The View over Atlantic - Dragon lines [lung-mei]
Type of Spiritual Experience
A description of the experience
The View over Atlantic – John Michell
In several other parts of the world lines linking the holy centres are not only mythological paths down which the gods representing the various heavenly bodies pass at regular seasons, but have some further quality known only to native magicians.
American Indians, particularly the Hopi of the Southwest, appear to use them as cables of mental communication.
In China they are known as lung-mei, the paths of the dragon, and run between astronomical mounds and high mountains. These dragon paths are very mysterious and little is known about them outside China. Until recently, however, their course was studied with great care by the administrators of the provinces through which they passed and charted by some department of the central government.
J. D. Hayes in The Chinese Dragon describes how, at the beginning of this century, a young student who had committed suicide was buried by his friends in a tomb placed on a dragon line, and how the Board of Rites in Peking sent urgent instructions for his disinterment, such burial sites being strictly reserved for members of the Imperial Family.
The source of the experienceTaoism
Concepts, symbols and science items
Science ItemsSacred geography
Sacred geography - ley lines


By Tom Driscoll, Director of NFU Foundation and Conservation Policy
National Farmers Union’s other weekly blog, the Climate Column, has highlighted the value of conservation planning, which assists with the selection and implementation of practices that address specific conservation concerns, such as pest management, biodiversity, or soil health. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is now encouraging producers to undertake a Resource Stewardship Evaluation (RSE) to identify what’s working well and what could be improved with regards to natural resources on their operations.
An RSE looks at the entire farm operation and compares existing management and conservation performance to science-based thresholds established by the agency for five natural resource concerns: soil management, water quality, air quality, and wildlife habitat. After the evaluation, the participating producer is provided with a bar graph demonstrating how the farm stacks up on issues like erosion, nutrient run-off, and soil organic matter. This information can help the producer identify places to save money on inputs or provide purchasers with sustainability metrics.
This opportunity may be particularly valuable to beginning farmers, as they can use the information to assist in conversations with landlords and lenders. While established producers may rely on long-term relationships with other stakeholders in land management decisions, beginning producers often don’t have that advantage. An easy-to-read graph created and validated by an expert third party could be of great value to a beginning producer who wants to discuss conservation practices, like wind breaks or riparian buffers, with their landlords. Producers in the market for land could even ask existing landowners to have an RSE to use the results in land acquisition decisions.
To find out more about RSET, see the NRCS fact sheet.
Do you think an RSE would be helpful to your operation? Why or why not? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
Like what you’ve read? Check out our Beginning Farmer Forum home page, and join the conversation in the Beginning Farmer Forum Facebook group.


UK-Gibraltar current time
|Local Time||07:43:09 AM|
UK-Gibraltar time vs. local time
UK-Gibraltar - Local Time = 6
Time Zone Difference：6hours
Time Zone Difference：360Minutes
Comparison of Gibraltar dates in the UK with local dates
Where is Gibraltar, UK?
Gibraltar is one of the 14 British Overseas Territories and is the smallest of the 14. It is located at the end of the Iberian Peninsula and is the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea. Gibraltar covers an area of about 6 square kilometres and is bordered by the Spanish province of Cádiz in Andalusia to the north, making it the only part of the UK that has land contact with Europe. The Rock of Gibraltar is one of the major landmarks of Gibraltar. The population of Gibraltar is concentrated in the southern part of the region, which hosts over 30,000 Gibraltarians and other ethnic groups.
|Madagascar Morrissey.||Australia - Christmas Island||France - Mayotte|
|India -- Cox||India - Mahe||India -- Chagos|
|Africa -- Comoros||India-Maldives||Madagascar Antananarivo.|
|France - Kerguelen Islands|


It’s hard to believe that there are places in this country with no recycling options available to them. It seems to me that recycling is a basic service. It should exist everywhere, and sometimes it seems like it is everywhere.
Open up the newspaper and you read about plastic bag recycling programs, electronics recycling programs coming to your area, Terracycle programs starting up, and of course new curbside recycling programs. Why then, with all of this publicity, are there so many counties and towns without any recycling options?
Consider this image that many of us have seen before. Roughly 40% of our waste materials are recyclable in typical curbside or drop-off programs. Another 24% is readily compostable, and many of the textiles that make up 8% are reusable, or recyclable. This gives us 72% of our waste that is recyclable or readily compostable.
Without doing too much math, I would think that if all of the people in the 86% of the population with recycling available to them were recycling and composting just 50% of that 72% we could increase our diversion rate tremendously.Let’s start a movement! If you don’t have acceptable recycling options in your area, contact your local officials, get a petition going, and show your local government that residents do care and are committed to using resources responsibly.
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The 2014 mathematics curriculum identifies that the learning of mathematical skills is fundamental to understanding the world around us:
"It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment."2014 National Curriculum
At The Rackham we aim to provide our children with high quality, engaging and enjoyable learning experiences with links to the real world to help foster an enjoyment and enthusiasm for mathematics. We are committed to promoting positive attitudes towards the subject amongst pupils and adults alike.
Teachers deliver the National Curriculum (2014) through White Rose mathematics schemes of learning in order to plan small steps of learning that supports the Mastery approach. White Rose is supplemented by additional high quality reasoning and problem solving activities to provide challenge and breadth of mathematical experience. The Maths Non-Statutory Guidance (2020) has given teachers a thorough insight into the key skills and understanding our children need as they progress through our school and use this document to further inform their planning.
Year groups work together on the same age related curriculum. Effective questioning is used by teachers to engage and stimulate our children to enable them to explain and prove their mathematical understanding and knowledge so deepening application of concepts and fluency.
Teachers share an understanding of the theme for each lesson with the children and explore how discrete subjects areas link with one another. Children work from the concrete to pictorial then abstract as a progression of mathematical thought to develop confidence and competency.
We aim to provide high quality learning experiences to enable pupils to become numerate, creative, independent, inquisitive, enquiring and confident individuals.


Potential for School-based Malaria Treatment to Reduce P. falciparum Transmission
AdvisorLaufer, Miriam K.
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AbstractSchool-age children bear an under-appreciated burden of malaria and are a key reservoir for the spread of P. falciparum. We conducted school-based cohort studies to measure the impact of treating students with positive malaria rapid diagnostic tests on subsequent gametocyte, the parasite stage required for human-to-mosquito transmission, prevalence and density. We concomitantly quantified the proportion of gametocyte burden in school-age children and compared it to that of other age groups in household-based surveys in the school catchment area. Treatment reduced the prevalence and density of gametocytes by 79% and 89%, respectively. Half of all gametocyte-containing infections were detected in school-age children. We estimated that school-based malaria treatment could reduce overall gametocyte prevalence in the community by 26% and 34% in the rainy and dry seasons, respectively. These results suggest that school-based malaria treatment could further decrease the burden of malaria in areas where malaria has remained entrenched despite current control measures.
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
University of Maryland, Baltimore
school age children


Learn how to use windows to keep heat out in summer and let heat in during winter.
Windows are a vital part of any home – they allow natural light into the home and provide views and fresh air. Well-planned and protected windows improve comfort year-round and reduce the need for heating in winter and cooling in summer, saving money and reducing emissions.
Watch our video – Energy Efficiency At Home: Windows – to learn more.
A single pane of bare glass can gain or lose up to 10 times more heat than the same sized area of uninsulated wall. The style of window, the type of glazing, window coverings and external shading are ways that windows can be made to be more energy efficient.
Energy efficient windows and glass are designed to:
Windows consist of glazing and framing, and both contribute to the energy efficiency of the window. The energy efficiency of windows is measured by a rating called a U-value. The U-value measures the amount of heat passing through a window or other glazed unit in watts; the lower the U-value, the more energy efficient your window is.
Windows with low U-values are more effective at keeping out unwanted heat and cold, which improves your comfort levels and reduces your energy costs.
The Window Energy Rating Scheme gives a star rating to a window's glazing and frame energy performance, making it easier to compare different windows and decide which is best for your needs.


by Kristin Jason
1st - 3rd Grade
Free adjective review and adjective center worksheets! Silly, smart, fun, beautiful, spectacular....adjectives make everything better! Use these worksheets to teach, review, or test adjectives. You can use this product as a center activity or a guided activity. No matter how you use them, the result is the same- your students will practice identifying adjectives, using adjectives to describe, and choosing an adjective to fit the context of a sentence.
This product contains three adjective worksheets. Two worksheets have the objective of identifying the adjectives in the sentences and choosing an adjective to complete a sentence. One worksheet has students generate three adjectives that describe the pictures.
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It’s not tough to boost our immune system naturally.
As the winters are here, We all are concerned about our health, especially that of our respiratory system. A robust immune system is our body’s first defense system to fight external disease-causing pathogens. It is always best practice to try and build a robust immune system.
The immune system is an essential working part of the human body. To keep it at its best, we need to maintain an active lifestyle along with clean eating habits.
Take care of your gut health, as 70 percent of organisms live here. A healthy gut is essential to promote a healthy immune system.
Meditate and try to reduce your stress level. Focus on adopting an overall healthy and happy lifestyle.
Fiber is a complex carbohydrate found only in plant-based food. Our body cannot break and digest fiber, yet fiber is an integral part of a healthy and disease-free…
I will divide this iron rich foods list into groups of fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains, and others.
Coffee is not just a beverage; it's a ritual for our busy mornings. There are so many studies and theories about coffee as is bad for health or good? A cup of freshly…
Elevated levels of uric acid within the blood lead to the formation of uric acid crystals in body parts, mainly in joints, large toe, feet, ankle and cause the sudden…
Curcumin is useful in depression, anxiety disorders, and cognitive problems because of its boosting BDNF levels (brain-derived neurotrophic factor).
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In my childhood, to make our immunity strong, my mom used to add some commonly used herbs with medicinal properties in teas, curries, milk.
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We spoke with a video game designer and a neuropsychologist about how motivational elements of video games can be used to support student engagement.
An interview with François Boucher-Genesse, video game designer and co-founder of the Ululab studio in Montreal, and Alexandre Brzozowski, neuropsychologist and head of Serious Game Project for Hainaut Education, in Belgium.
From the outset, François Boucher-Genesse explains to us that his own time in school was a challenge because he felt little motivation. Later in his career, which took him to work on video game blockbusters such as Halo 3, he became interested in what makes a game so addicting to the gamer. He wanted to know if certain motivational elements could be used to support young people in their learning. Back on the school benches, he devoted his university master's degree to this aspect and began to develop video games especially with the aim of making learning more quickly and in a motivating way. This is how the first success of the Ululab studio, the application Slice Fractions (of which we have you already spoken here). Researchers have shown that this fun game allows students of 3e elementary year, after only 3 hours of play, to reach student level 4e year of elementary school in terms of understanding the concept of fraction.
For his part, Alexandre Brzozowski supports schools in Belgium, mainly at the secondary level, in the integration of digital tools within the Serious Game Project. He also takes a keen interest in the mechanics used in video games to keep players so engaged. He is convinced that this universe holds the keys to motivating young people who would otherwise possibly be dropping out of school. “At the behavioral level, we know that if there is something that“ goes through the door ”[in the learner], there is something…”.
If this topic interests you, you will also like our article on the topic in the fall issue of the École branchée magazine!
Produced with the support of Carrefour Éducation


Get ready to liven up your St. Patrick's Day lessons with these literacy and math based activities.
Included in this unit is:
- Cause and Effect Craftivity using a mentor text called Clever Tom and the Leprechaun (book not included in unit (must be purchased independently or borrowed from the library)
- Cause and Effect double-sided flip-flap printable.
- A Clover of Character Traits Craftivity - Focus on character traits using this interactive flip-flap Clover and printable.
- "Dublin" Fun - Shamrock-themed Doubles math game
- Leprechaun Loot game and recording sheet (The object of this partner game is to create the largest number they can using a Pot o' Gold Workmat and Leprechaun Loot (cold coins). Recording sheet included for Greater Than or Less Than and tally marks to keep track of each partner's score.)
- Pot o' Gold Domino Sums (This activity allows the students to practice their double-digit addition skills using dominoes on a Pot of Gold Workmat. Fun and interactive. A recording sheet is included to record their equations.)
Each of the math activities included in this unit are in COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE for those of you who do not have the ability to print in color.
Activities aligned with the following CCSS:
- Grade 1: RL.1.3, 1.OA.5, 1.NBT3, 1.NBT.4
- Grade 2: RL.2.3, 2.NBT.1, 2.NBT.4, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.7


The Urgency of Embodied Carbon and What You Can Do About It
Building materials emit massive amounts of carbon long before the lights go on.
In this course, BuildingGreen takes an analytical look at the greenhouse gases that are emitted in the process of constructing our buildings in the first place—the embodied carbon. The report focuses on how architects and designers, working with other key members of the project team, can find low-cost and no-cost ways to reduce the embodied carbon of new construction projects.
Climate change is a rapidly escalating emergency, and we have a lot of hard work to do in order to mitigate its effects. For building professionals, that has typically meant increasing energy efficiency and pushing for renewable energy production, thus reducing the amount of carbon generated by the fossil fuels we burn to operate our buildings. Embodied carbon matters just as much as energy efficiency and renewables. The emissions we produce between now and 2050 will determine whether we meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord and prevent the worst effects of climate change.
This report covers:
- How to assess embodied carbon (and why whole-building life-cycle assessment is the gold standard)
- How to optimize structural systems, from concrete and cement to structural wood
- Who is currently addressing embodied carbon and how
- How to consider enclosures


This occurred to me while I was reading Dr. Torley’s latest post.
Some Darwinists suggest that at least part of the solution to the mystery of the Cambrian Explosion is expanding the time during which the explosion occurred from ten millions years to 25 million years. Let’s do some math:
Estimated age of the earth: 4.5B years
Beginning of Cambrian explosion: 540M years ago
Estimated Duration 1: 540M to 550M years ago
Estimated Duration 2: 540M to 565M year ago
For perspective let’s put this on a 24 hour clock:
Formation of the earth to beginning of Cambrian explosion: 12:00.01 AM to 9:07 PM
Estimated Duration 1: 9:07 PM to 9:10 PM
Estimated Duration 2: 9:07 PM to 9:15 PM
Suppose two roommates, let’s call them Steve and Larry, leave on a trip just after midnight and they return to their home 24 hours later to find a new car sitting in the garage. They ask two neighbors (Mary and Sue) if they saw anything. Mary says she noticed that the garage door had been open earlier that evening, and she estimates it was probably open between 9:07 PM and 9:10 PM. Sue also saw the garage door open, but she thinks it was between 9:07 PM and 9:15 PM.
The following exchange ensues:
Larry: Wow, someone built a brand new car in our garage earlier this evening.
Steve: Well, the garage door was only open for three minutes. I think a more reasonable explanation is that someone drove it in there and left it.
Larry: Idiot! Your explanation might work if Mary’s three-minute time frame were correct. But Sue is almost certainly correct, and that means the builder had eight whole minutes!
Steve: Uh, OK.


The amount of assets still accessible to shareholders in spite of everything obligations are satisfied is thought as shareholders’ equity, sometimes called shareholders’ or owners’ equity. It are often computed because the sum of a company’s share capital and retained earnings less treasury stock or alternatively because the firm’s total assets less total liabilities. ordinary shares, paid-in capital, retained earnings, and reacquired stock are all samples of stockholders’ equity.
Conceptually, stockholders’ equity is wont to evaluate the funds kept within a corporation. If this number is negative, it are often an indication that the corporate is on the brink of file for bankruptcy, especially if there’s also a large debt obligation. Stockholders’ equity describes the assets that are still held by a corporation finally liabilities are paid. This amount may be determined by adding share capital and retained earnings, less treasury shares. it’s obtained by deducting total liabilities from total assets.
Analysts and investors typically use this indicator to assess a company’s overall financial health. The corporation has enough assets to hide its liabilities if equity is positive. An approaching bankruptcy could also be indicated by a negative stockholders’ equity.
The two main sources of shareholders’ equity, often called the company’s value, are as follows. the primary source of funding is that the cash that was initially and later invested within the business through share offerings. The company’s retained profits (RE), which are a byproduct of its ongoing business operations, frame the second source. Retained earnings are typically the best component, especially when coping with businesses that are operative for a protracted time.
Equity held by shareholders could also be negative or positive. If the solution is yes, the company’s assets exceed its liabilities. If it’s negative, the corporate has more liabilities than assets. this is often thought to be record insolvency if it persists.


John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation by Harlow Giles Unger
From the publisher: “A hero in America’s war against British tyranny, John Marshall with his heroics as Chief Justice turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional tyranny and saved American democracy.
“In this startling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals how Virginia-born John Marshall emerged from the Revolutionary War’s bloodiest battlefields to become one of the nation’s most important Founding Fathers: America’s greatest Chief Justice. Marshall served his country as an officer, Congressman, diplomat, and Secretary of State before President John Adams named him the nation’s fourth Chief Justice, the longest-serving in American history. Marshall transformed the Supreme Court from an irrelevant appeals court into a powerful branch of government — and provoked the ire of thousands of Americans who, like millions today, accused him and the court of issuing decisions that were tantamount to new laws and Constitutional amendments.
“And the Court’s critics were right! Marshall admitted as much.
“With nine decisions that shocked the nation, John Marshall and his court assumed powers to strike down laws it deemed unconstitutional. In doing so, Marshall’s court acted without Constitutional authority, but its decisions saved American liberty by protecting individual rights and the rights of private business against tyranny by federal, state, and local government.”


White Clover (Trifolium repens) is a long-lived perennial legume or winter annual legume. White Clover is a popular choice for systems that are “living mulch” and are planted between rows of irrigated vegetables, fruit bushes, and trees. It is also a forage species for livestock. Originating in Europe, it is now one of the most highly distributed legumes in the world. White Clover usually grows to about 6” – 12” high, but even when mowed or grazed, White Clover can thrive. Also, White Clover can hold up well under heavy field traffic. White Clover reproduces either by seed or vegetatively often forming colonies. Cool, moist conditions and shade help white clover flourish.
White Clover Foliage:
White Clover leaves are on a 1” – 3” stalk and composed of three leaflets which may include a “crescent” or “water mark” on the upper surface of the leaflet. The leaves are alternately attached and develop at the nodes along the stolon. White Clover leaves are about ½” in diameter and broadly oval to nearly round. They are rounded at the tip with a slight taper toward the base.
White Clover Flowers:
The flower heads of the White Clover consist of 40 to 100 florets on each flower head. The florets start out white but may turn a pink hue as they age. The round flower heads are about ½” wide with densely packed pea-shaped flowers that appear on a smooth, slender stalk. The stalks are about 3” long and appear perpendicular to the creeping horizontal stems that are ground level. The calyx tube that holds the flower has toothed lobes that are greenish white and hairless. White clover blooms between May and October.
White Clover Roots:
The White Clover root system has the ability to use its old brown roots to reproduce new roots in the spring. White Clover leaves and roots develop along the stolon at the nodes. This nodal root production helps ensure vegetative success because branch stolon growth will be more successful if roots are developed at the node.
Treatment for White Clover:
It may be more practical to manage white clover to a tolerable level rather than completely destroy the weed. An herbicide treatment is best if applied in the early fall.
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Equitation Science is the measurement and interpretation of interactions between horses and their riders.
— Equitation Science (2010) Andrew McLean and Paul McGreevy
Equitation science is very exciting because it is bringing the advances of the training of most other animals into the horse world. Dog trainers, dolphin trainers, cat trainers almost without exception use Learning Theory.
Horse trainers are stuck in the world of tradition and trial-and-error.
Tradition is not a bad thing. The best horse trainers and riding coaches are already applying the principles of Learning Theory; that is why their training and teaching works. ‘Horse whisperers’, instructors, and the great modern trainers have made huge advances in the availability of horse knowledge.
But this is better.
What we can measure we can track, and what we track we can understand, and when we understand something we can explain it to others.
Equitation science opens up a conversation about how we can ethically use, train, and keep horses without subjecting them to abuse, accidental or not, so the horse industry does not tarnish its reputation.
Coaches can now teach their students how their horse thinks and learns, because when the student understands how the horse thinks about situations, they are much safer and can train the horse to become safer as well.
Trainers can put the tools into their clients’ hands to continue their horses training so the horse’s confusion is reduced and their welfare improved.
Science improves our ability to understand what we do with our horses and how we do it so we can get the best out of ourselves and our horses in the least invasive way possible.


Make an AI computer
that teaches itself to play a game.
- The article is straight forward. Built a simple game using Pygame & applied NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) algorithm to train AI.
- The files were downloaded and then the program was ready to run.
- We had challenges getting the game running but after changing the following code in “RollingBall.py” it worked.
make the ball jump
self.vel = -9.2
self.tick_count = 0
self.height = self.y
Links to article and files.
- AI Teaches itself to play a game
- Git repo – project files
- If you have issues about “neat”/”neat-python” read this.
- How to fix: AttributeError: module ‘neat’ has no attribute ‘config’
AI can learn to play Snake and Tetris
Neural Network Learns to Play Snake
I Made an A.I. to MASTER TETRIS
- For both videos there are links to the source code.
- To run the program you will need Processing. It is free to download and open source.
- If you have some experience working with coding software, you can make it work in less than an hour. Good luck.
AlphaGo is the first computer program to defeat a professional human Go player, a landmark achievement that experts believe was a decade ahead of its time.
Artificial intelligence research has made rapid progress in a wide variety of domains from speech recognition and image classification to genomics and drug discovery. In many cases, these are specialist systems that leverage enormous amounts of human expertise and data.However, for some problems this human knowledge may be too expensive, too unreliable or simply unavailable.


Vendors of face recognition are updating their tech as people don masks to protect against Covid-19. Police are bound to take notice.
What’s new: Companies that provide computer vision systems, including at least one that supplies law enforcement agencies, are training models to recognize obscured faces, according to USA Today. Worldwide protests in support of civil rights for Black people have energized police interest in the technology while reigniting concerns about potential violations of civil liberties.
What’s happening: With people’s noses, mouths, and chins obscured by masks, companies are retraining face recognition models to identify people based only on their upper faces. Some claim to have solved the problem.
- Rank One Computing, which provides face recognition systems to 25 U.S. police forces, recently upgraded its system to identify people by eyes and eyebrows.
- SAFR, which markets to its technology schools, claims its system recognizes masked faces with 93.5 percent accuracy, but only under perfect conditions.
- U.K.-based AI firm Facewatch, which targets retail companies, says its models recognize masked individuals.
- Several municipal and federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have collected face imagery from protests held in recent weeks.
- In March, researchers from Wuhan University released a trio of simulated and real masked-face datasets, including one with 5,000 real-world examples. The following month, U.S.-based startup Workaround published a dataset that contains 1,200 masked selfies scraped from Instagram.
Behind the news: Many face recognition models have trouble identifying individuals even without masks, particularly members of minority groups, according to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The agency announced plans to test the accuracy of masked face detection but suspended the effort amid the pandemic.
Why it matters: Many U.S. law enforcement agencies are using face recognition to identify protesters. The questionable accuracy of these systems — particularly those aimed at masked individuals — could exacerbate the very injustices the current protests aim to highlight.
We’re thinking: Face recognition technology cannot achieve its potential for good until the public can trust these systems are accurate and free of bias, both institutional and algorithmic.


These object represent the objects that are related to each other. Could be people that have relationships to other people, folders that contain sub items, items or groups of items,Collect the newly created objects so they can be accessed by unique identifier.
Using the identifier and a hash collection allows for cheap quick access to these data objects. This should probably be controlled by its own object.Load in a set of data that represents the relationships between objects.
In database design relation tables contain the connections between different data in other tables. Usually they contain a column for a unique id and a column of ids for one set of data and a column of ids for the second set of data.Apply the relationship data to the objects
The objects are then connected with references to each other. No recursive data crawling, and a very fast object creation method; typically spinning though collections.Post object relationship connection. Objects now have all of their connections. These connections can then be called upon for functional requirements. Trees and networks of all sorts can be described easily. Additional objects and relationships can be added easily due to these loopup hashes. Former objects and their relationships can be removed. Updating a single object becomes even simpler. With a simple Ruby on Rails CRUD application or a different application for allowing updates to databases, if the data that creates the objects is all grouped together, updating takes little logic to describe it. In conclusion. Depending on the project or application and data requirements there may be a need for a different abstraction of relational data/ object creation. The more complex projects I work on the more this seems to simplify the project and the data transfer.
Nate is currently a Senior Presentation Layer Architect at Razorfish Chicago. As an SPLA Nate: participates in technology leadership team and resource allocations, manage fulltime and contractor resources, represents technology for groups of brands across multiple clients, furthers development of standards within the office, architects project implementations and fosters community and mentoring.


Photograph by Margaret Smith
Swan Range Maps
Ebird Online Trumpeter Swan Sightings Map
Find out where Trumpeter Swans have been seen and reported to Ebird. This online map zooms in and out across North America. Zoom in to find the dates and locations of Trumpeter Swan sightings near you! Thank you to Wisconsin Ebird for making the link available.
2015 North America Trumpeter Swan Survey
Summer and winter ranges are expanding in many areas, especially the Midwest, as recovering populations increase. Breeding distribution in North America is surveyed in detail every five years. Many states survey their breeding Trumpeters each fall and some conduct winter distribution surveys, however few detailed range maps exist. Check out the 2015 North American Trumpeter Swan Survey for the current range maps and population counts in different Flyways.
Map of 2015 North America Trumpeter Swan Survey Populations
Tundra Swan Range Maps
Tundra Swans in North America are part of a larger species distribution. Check out the "Circumpolar Distribution" to learn more.
North America's Tundra Swans nest in the arctic, and migrate for the winter either east to the Atlantic Flyway to the Chesapeake area, or west to California. Their migrations can overlap areas where Trumpeter Swans have been nesting or winter (especially in the Pacific Northwest).
Image from the USGS Alaska Science Center
Tundra Swan- North American migration routes
Map by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Range data by NatureServe
Tundra Swan distribution by season


The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-1914
Lisa Tickner. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-1914. London: Chatto & Windus, 1987.
Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction, Pageants and Parades, Postcards, Posters
Deemed too artistic for political history, too political for art history, the visual history of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and pathbreaking study, Lisa Tickner discusses and illustrates British suffragists’ use of spectacle—the design of banners, posters, and postcards, the orchestration of mass demonstrations, etc.—in an unprecedented propaganda campaign.
A limited preview of a review of The Spectacle of Women and full-text access options is available through JSTOR.
Google Books offers a limited preview of the book. It is also available for sale through online sellers such as Amazon.com and through academic libraries (both as an e-book and in print). You can check WorldCat to see if there a library with access near you.


Despite recent improvements, air pollution is still having severe impacts on the health of people living in Europe, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
The paper, ‘Air quality in Europe — 2015 report’, published by the EEA yesterday (Monday 30 November, 2015), uses data from official air quality measuring stations across Europe to offer an up-to-date picture of the continent’s air quality situation.
The report showed that most people living in cities are regularly exposed to air pollutants at much higher levels than the limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
It also points out that, in 2012, exposure to particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) – a type of pollutant released from a number of sources including traffic exhaust fumes and the burning of different fuels – was responsible for the premature deaths of 430,000 people in Europe.
The report calls for coordinated action at international, European, national, regional and local levels to tackle the problem and save lives.
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It might seem nearly impossible to successfully plant very tiny seeds, especially when planting the same type in the past without success. They are either washed away by rain, or they blow away with the slightest breeze. Do not avoid planting certain types of seeds because of their size. It is possible to grow hardy plants from very tiny seeds using a few simple methods.
Start them Indoors for Best Results
By far the easiest way to successfully plant very tiny seeds is indoors. Give them a good start by planting them in rich organic starter soil. They will not blow away or end up in a torrential downpour and somewhere down the street. Starting them indoors will allow you to completely control the environment. Once they grow into seedlings, the planter can be placed outdoors for a half hour each day to strengthen the stems. After the stems are strong and the plants are a little larger, they can be transplanted into well-worked organic soil in their final location. The size of the seeds really does not matter when starting them indoors. It is the level of care that counts.
Dampen and Work the Soil Before Getting Started
If you want to plant very small seeds outside and directly in a flowerbed or garden, you can still achieve success. Wait for a relatively windless day, and dampen and work the soil before getting started. Damp soil will help to hold onto very tiny seeds, especially if the dirt has been sufficiently worked. It will offer small nooks and crannies for the seeds to latch onto. Simply sprinkling them on dry hard ground will not work. They will ultimately blow away or become washed away the very first time that it rains.
Use a Salt Shaker to Distribute Very Tiny Seeds
It is important to maintain control over very tiny seeds, and sprinkling them straight from the pack is not the best method of distribution. Use a clean dry salt shaker to disperse very tiny seeds. They will come out slowly and more evenly than they would when attempting to sprinkle them from the pack. Store the shaker especially for planting purposes. You will always be ready to plant mint, baby’s breath, forget-me-not seeds and all of the other little varieties that could otherwise become lost in a sea of rain, wind and soil.


What is a group home?
Group homes are residential places of living that cater to individuals who have specific care and treatment needs. These needs can be physical, such as in the form of requiring consistent medical administration of certain medications, or mental, such as in the form of providing individual or group therapy to individuals who have suffered some form of trauma, though some individuals suffering from trauma may be referred to trauma centers instead.
Group homes are commonly populated by minors and seniors. Staying in a group home can be a short- or long-term commitment, depending on the needs that the group home seeks to fulfill and the severity of the physical or mental problems that the individual is experiencing.
Group homes are often indistinguishable from other residences when viewed from the outside. Along with providing physical and mental health services, group homes may offer a variety of other services to their residents, such as job training, in order to promote the overall well-being and livelihood of residents.
Why are group homes important in healthcare?
Group homes strike a balance between normalized living while still providing everything the residents need, both medically and psychologically, to function in their daily lives.
For example, staying in a hospital allows patients to receive constant care, but at the detriment of their overall quality of life. Staying in a standard residence allows them a normal lifestyle but without the critical care and treatment that they need. Group homes provide an important balance of both and are the ideal fit for certain patients who can’t quite function entirely on their own but also don’t need fully intensive healthcare or psychological treatment.


A bad habit is a randomly learned behavior that threatens a person's physical health, appearance and social well-being. At the same time, with the help of volitional efforts, a person cannot refuse it, although he is aware of the danger of this behavior. Behavioral psychology knows more than fifty forms of behavior called bad habits. The reasons for bad habits are psychological and changing such behavior also requires qualified behavioral assistance. Bad habits threaten a person with future problems in the field of health and social well-being. A person will definitely suffer if he gives himself into the power of bad habits.
How to give up bad habits?
You can get rid of bad habits with the help of behavioral conditioning methods in our psychological center. You will be able to learn new behavior without manic hobbies. After passing behavioral conditioning trainings, a bad habit ceases to matter to a person. This speaks about the freedom of your will. You don't want to do it and you don't do it. It is very important to get rid of bad habits before they turn into a manic form and do not harm you. Learn a healthy lifestyle with us.