Explicit Content on Mobile Phones
Explicit content on mobile phones, or 'Sexting', is when someone shares sexual, naked or semi-naked images or videos of themselves or others, or sends sexually explicit messages. They can be sent using mobiles, tablets, smartphones, laptops - any device that allows you to share media and messages. A young person is breaking the law if they: take an explicit photo or video of themselves or a friend; share an explicit image or video of a child, even if it’s shared between children of the same age; possess, download or store an explicit image or video of a child, even if the child gave their permission for it to be created.
The child will become vulnerable if these photographs are shared publicly and they may become subject to blackmail, bullying or it may cause unwanted attention or emotional distress.
The pupils at Beech Hill Primary School are taught about keeping themselves safe online during Internet Safety Week. Within this time, the children are taught about sending appropriate texts, tweets and other social media messages. They are also taught about the positives of text messaging and the virtual world. As well as the positives, the teachers help the pupils to explore the negatives of using mobile phones and other devices. Additionally, the children in our school learn the risks of sending unwanted or explicit content.
Our children are taught about having a positive self-image and to respect their own bodies throughout school.


What do Lewis dot structures show?
Lewis structure. Lewis structures, also known as Lewis dot diagrams, Lewis dot formulas, Lewis dot structures, electron dot structures, or Lewis electron dot structures (LEDS), are diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule and the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule.
What is the Lewis dot formula?
Writing Lewis Formulas: The Octet Rule Write Lewis dot and dash formulas for the sulfite ion, SO32-. N = 8 (S) + 3 x 8 (O) = 32 (needed) A = 6 (S) + 3 x 6 (O) + 2 (- charge) = 26 (available) S = 6 (shared) A-S = 20 Thus this polyatomic ion has 6 electrons in shared pairs and 20 electrons in lone pairs.
What are molecular geometry shapes?
Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule. It includes the general shape of the molecule as well as bond lengths, bond angles, torsional angles and any other geometrical parameters that determine the position of each atom.
What is the molecular geometry of bent?
Bent Molecular Geometry. The molecule that is made up of 4 equally spaced sp3 hybrid orbitals forming bond angles of approximately 109.5o. The shape of the orbitals is tetrahedral. Two of the orbitals contain lone pairs of electrons.
What is a Lewis dot structure?
Lewis Structures Definition: The Lewis Structure or the Lewis Dot Structure is a method of representing molecules where the individual atoms are represented by their periodic symbol (H for Hydrogen, C for Carbon etc.) around which the number of valence electrons for that atom is drawn.
What is the Lewis dot structure for Cl2?
The Lewis Dot Structure for Cl2: Chlorine gas exists in diatomic form as Cl 2. Cl 2 is a greenish yellow gas, and is a strong oxidizing agent. The Lewis dot structure for Cl 2 shows how a single covalent bond between the Cl atoms provides a stable octet of electrons around each Cl atom.


This is a non fiction picture book that tells a very basic story about Ramadan through Rashad’s young voice, with informative sidebars giving facts and details about Islam, Ramadan, and Eid. Broken into four chapters the book is very concise at just 24 pages, highlighting the key aspects of Ramadan: Where’s the Moon, Thinking About Allah, Thinking About Others, and A Big Celebration.
With an AR level of 2.7 this book is perfect to read along with your child, Muslim or non, letting them read the story, and you adding the information and answering any questions they may have about Ramadan. There is a glossary in the back, as well as a page of “Resource Information” to learn more. It may seem a bit “childish” for some, but it is a great introduction, and/or a good review of the basics for toddlers to third grade.
The pictures are bright and colorful, yet simple enough to not overwhelm the information being conveyed. They definitely make you smile to see the little smiling faces and convey the excitement of the holiday.
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These data were collected within the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme-Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods (KCEP-CRAL) Window. This study was conducted within the action sites of the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme-Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods (KCEP-CRAL) Window, which is a programme supported by the Government of Kenya and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) within the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP). The project assessed key indicators of land and soil health in order to understand drivers of degradation, and monitor changes over time using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology (http://landscapeportal.org/blog/2015/03/25/the-land-degradation-surveillance-framework-ldsf/). The LDSF provides a field protocol for measuring indicators of the "health" of an ecosystem. The LDSF was developed by the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in response to the need for consistent field methods and indicator frameworks to assess land health in landscapes. The framework has been applied in projects across the global tropics, and is currently one of the largest land health databases globally with more than 30,000 observations, shared at http://landscapeportal.org. This project will benefit from existing data in the LDSF database, while at the same time contributing to these critically important global datasets through on-going data collection. Earth Observation (EO) data will be combined with the LDSF framework to develop the outputs for the project, including land degradation and soil health. Specific Activities on the ICRAF Component as Stated in the Agreement 1. Develop survey methodology detailing study design, methodology, tools, work plan and timelines documented 2. Procure LDSF field survey equipment 3. Conduct five LDSF surveys across the KCEP-CRAL action areas 4. Process, analyse and document the soil samples 5. Conduct Earth Observation-based assessment of biophysical indicators over time 6. Conduct capacity development opportunities with members of the PCU M&E staff and Government counterparts on LDSF field methodology This dataset contains LDSF field data from five LDSF sites in Kenya totalling 787 LDSF plots . It also contains the predictions using MIR Spectroscopy for 1500 Topsoil (0-20cm) and Subsoil (20-50cm) samples for six soil variables, including soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and pH.


Learn about the ocean from home
Relaunch of the English-language online lecture series "One Planet - One Ocean: From Science to Solutions" on September 1, 2020
Those who want, in times of retreat, to learn more about the ocean can register at any time for the free English-language online course "One Planet - One Ocean: From Science to Solutions". Marine researchers from Kiel University (CAU), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and partners at the International Ocean Institute Malta (IOI) provide information on the topics "Marine Ecosystems", "Coasts", "Fisheries and Aquaculture", "Ocean and Climate", "Ocean Sustainability" and "Marine Life and Resources". Between September 1, 2020, and August 31, 2021, the six modules, accompanying assignments and a variety of background materials are accessible via the SDG Academy educational platform. Compact information on the topics and participating researchers can be found at www.oceanmooc.org.
The MOOC's goal is to show the impact of humans on the ocean and to raise awareness of the need to use the world's largest interconnected ecosystem and its resources in a more sustainable way. The virtual lecture series is open to everyone. Prior knowledge is not required. In addition, the material is available at all times so that course participants can work on the topics offered independently, at their own pace and in their own chosen order. There are no fees.
The Massive Open Online Course is aimed at all those interested in learning more about this fascinating habitat and offers targeted course content especially for students in Master's programmes as well as advanced Bachelor’s students in oceanography, geography, earth sciences, environmental sciences, environmental law, sustainable development, economics or related fields.
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The project aims at raising awareness about water management among pupils in three Central European countries: Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. It has been developed by Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe (GWP CEE), IREAS and IMRO , and funded by the Visegrad fund.
Although the elementary education curriculum in Central and Eastern European countries includes topics dealing with environmental education, water management is not covered sufficiently in the relevant subjects, especially in the context of current challenges. With the recent changes of climate conditions in Central Europe there is a need to change the behaviour of citizens as well, starting from the youngest generations. This is the reason why project Water Agent V 003 has set its goal to introduce the issue of water governance to elementary school pupils.
The partners in the project will involve experts from Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia to produce a handbook for elementary school teachers in the respective countries. This handbook will help the teachers bring the environmental topics such as water governance into the common educational system. It will explore water management divided into tree basic sections: i) water in the landscape, ii) water consumption in households and iii) water in the city.
The handbook will be based on experience pedagogy using motivational methods like games, quizzes, experiments, worksheets and other materials for interactive education. The final version should be available for teachers in the school year 2019/2020 in 3 national languages: Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.


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But in the past century, modern presidents have amassed extraordinary new powers to carry out the law, mostly because the federal government has grown rapidly, especially since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Bigger government means more regulation, larger agencies and a deeper bureaucracy that the president can use to develop policy.
The Constitution says little on the issue of executive power — and in fact, the phrase “executive action” does not appear anywhere in the document. Article II, however, does say that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” leaving a fair amount of wiggle room as to how laws should be faithfully executed. And as is often said about the law, ambiguity is power.
Because of that loose framing, presidents may have a huge leg up in the balance of powers. Many of the laws governing the modern executive bureaucracy were designed to be vague so that the White House had greater power to fight unforeseen battles down the road.
Yet presidents still have real limitations. They can go only so far in how they interpret a law, and any time they decide to “go it alone” they risk being dragged into lengthy court battles. In addition, executive orders are easy to reverse when the White House changes party banners.
Still, this opens a debate: The president’s powers to carry out an agenda may have increased, but what implications does that have for American democracy? Has the presidency grown too powerful? Are there enough checks and balances in our system to make sure that we can rein in an executive who goes too far?


Animal-free dairy cheese
is obviously awesome and is rightly loved by people all around the world.
But we all face many challenges when it comes to finding sustainable solutions for food production.
How can we make cheese sustainable?
We need to find a groovier way to make the thing we all love.
What if we could create
The wonders of science meets traditional cheese-making.
All of the ingredients for cheese can be found outside of conventional dairy. Except caseins – they’re the proteins that give cheese its unique taste, texture, and aroma.
Caseins are notoriously tricky to make, but through our experience in biotechnology and food science, we calculated how they can be manufactured through fermentation.
Using our new sustainable process, we realised we could make our own milk and otherwise follow the age-old cheese-making process.
Micro Organism Farming
We generate protein-producing microbes and feed them with plant-based sugars in our fermenters. Imagine a brewery, but for cheese.
Micro Organism Milking
We then recover and purify the cheese proteins.
We mix the proteins with plant-based or mineral ingredients (lipids, sugars, but no lactose).
We then follow the traditional processes of cheesemaking; curdling, draining, molding, salting, and ripening.
That’s what we do. And our sustainable, dairy, vegan cheese is amazing.
Standing Ovation. Animal-free dairy cheese.


Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have designed a new drug cocktail that kills some types of brain and soft tissue cancers by tricking the cancer cells to behave as if they were starving for their favorite food—glucose. The researchers’ findings were recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry and may pave the way for targeted cancer treatments with greater efficacy and less harmful side effects.
To design their lethal drug combination, researchers James H. Joly, Alireza Delfarah, Philip S. Phung, Sydney Parrish and Nicholas A. Graham in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science first studied how cell lines from glioblastoma (brain cancer) and sarcoma (soft tissue cancer) respond to glucose starvation. They noticed that cell lines that died following glucose starvation showed a toxic buildup of the amino acid L-cystine. This led the USC team to discover that L-cystine import was causing accumulation of reactive oxygen species, highly toxic molecules that can damage cells. When the team blocked L-cystine import with drugs targeting its transporter, a protein called xCT, the cancer cells survived glucose deprivation.
Theoretically, this indicates that tumors with high xCT levels should die when starved of glucose. However, in a patient, starving cancer cells is not practical because it would mean starving their hosts (human beings). The USC researchers thus sought to kill these glucose- addicted cancer cells by designing a drug combination that mimicked the starvation-induced state. By simultaneously inhibiting a glucose transporter and an enzyme that metabolizes L-cystine, the authors found that they could set into motion metabolic processes imitating glucose deprivation, thereby forcing the cancer cells to die—even when glucose is present.
Current treatments for glioblastoma and sarcoma have limited efficacy due to acquired resistance, in which the cancer relapses by acquiring drug resistance. The use of drug combinations is thought to reduce the incidence of acquired resistance and might result in prolonged remission. In addition, the new combination of drugs might have fewer side effects since the drugs individually should have low toxicity towards non-cancerous cells. This differs from traditional chemotherapies that indiscriminately target rapidly growing cells, which results in death of many non-cancerous cells and causes side effects such as hair loss and nausea.
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Managing money requires discipline, much like managing everything in life. If you find yourself in the red when it comes to money, take a moment and review your attitude to money. You may have developed bad money managing habits along the way and unknowingly, could be causing your financial future a great deal of harm. E R Ashok Kumar, CEO at Scripbox , tells us about bad money habits that are common in people, and how to change them.
Earn less, spend more:This is the worst habit that hurts your financial well-being, when you constantly go beyond your means.
Solution: Start monitoring your spending habit. Separate your expenses into 2 categories - need based and want based. Cut out what you do not absolutely need. Start preparing budgets to get your spending under control. If you have only need-based spending, and you are forced to spend more than you earn (through loans or credit card debt), you need to focus on increasing your income.
Postponing financial decisions: Like diets, the time to start investing is now. "Postponing good financial decisions is worse than making bad ones. With time, since money earns returns, and generates additional income for you, the earlier you start, the more you accumulate,’’ says Ashok Kumar
Solution: ``The best time to invest is when you have the money. The longer you delay investment, the lower your final corpus,’’ says Ashok Kumar.
Debts for no good reason: Taking a loan to keep up with the Joneses is a bad financial habit. Debts are justified when it is need-based, like an education loan or a home loan or some other want. Loans to feed your vanity needs can jeopardise your financial future.
Solution: Loans to buy objects to fit-in or keep up with the Joneses is not a good idea. Loans should be availed only to acquire your most important needs.


Ambio / A Journal of the Human Environment
Analysis of genetic material from one of the wolves shows that its lineage stems back around 800,000 years.
Currently, these Himalayan wolves are regarded as belonging to the species Canis lupus , with other grey wolves.
But scientists think they may be genetically different enough from other groups to comprise a separate species.
Scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), in Dehradun, analysed DNA from one such wolf housed in a nature park in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
By analysing DNA from the cell's "power units" called mitochondria, the scientists were able to put a time to the point at which the wolf lineage originated.
This was possible because mitochondrial DNA changes regularly over time, allowing the emergence of patterns in its sequence to be clocked.
"Until this finding the peninsular wolf [found in the Indian plains] was the oldest in the world at 400,000 years. North American and Eurasian wolves are only 150,000 years old," AK Gulati, Himachal Pradesh wildlife chief told the BBC.
The results of this study highlight the need for conservation of Indian wolf populations.
The research highlights the need for conservation of the animals.
The researchers compared over 700 DNA sequences of wolves and dogs from the world over with Indian wolves and dogs.
Other tests on wolves from surrounding areas show that they all belong to a very ancient and genetically divergent Himalayan lineage.
The mitochondrial clock, which is based on the rate of changes observed in the DNA sequences, dates this lineage to about 800,000 years.
Julie, the female wolf whose DNA was analysed, was found 14 years ago in the high and dry Spiti valley bordering Tibet.
"We are approaching the WII to further study the species and prepare a project to ascertain the status of the Himalayan wolf so that a conservation breeding plan could be started," Mr Gulati said.
Hunting and loss of habitat have sharply reduced the Himalayan wolf population. According to one estimate, they could be barely 350 left in the entire western Himalayan region.
Wildlife authorities have recently spotted 33 Himalayan wolves in the Spiti valley. But Julie is the only one is in captivity.


Fortuna was the Roman goddess of fortune and the personification of luck.
Symbols: Globe, cornucopia, wheel and wreath
Festivals: Fors Fortuna
Greek equivalent: Tyche
Fortuna could bestow good or bad luck onto people. She was sometimes represented veiled and blind. She was a daughter of Jupiter and like him, she could also be bountiful and generous to everybody.
Aspects of Fortuna
- Fortuna Annonaria: brought the luck of the harvest.
- Fortuna Belli: the fortune of war.
- Fortuna Primigenia: directed the fortune of a firstborn child at the moment of birth.
- Fortuna Virilis: a woman’s luck in marriage.
- Fortuna Redux: brought one safely home.
- Fortuna Respiciens: the fortune of the provider.
- Fortuna Muliebris: the luck of a woman.
- Fortuna Victrix: brought victory in battle.
- Fortuna Augusta: the fortune of the emperor.
- Fortuna Balnearis: the fortune of the baths.
- Fortuna Conservatrix: the fortune of the Preserver.
- Fortuna Equestris: fortune of the Knights.
- Fortuna Huiusce Diei: fortune of the present day.
- Fortuna Obsequens: fortune of indulgence.
- Fortuna Privata: fortune of the private individual.
- Fortuna Publica: fortune of the people.
- Fortuna Romana: fortune of Rome.
- Fortuna Virgo: fortune of the virgin.
- Fortuna Faitrix: the fortune of life.
- Fortuna Barbata: the fortune of adolescents becoming adults.


What are three examples of how energy can be converted from one form to another?
This is a quite complicated question but certainly a nice one:
Consider, for example, a bricklayer:
He picks up a brick from the ground and lifts it to a certain height and in doing this he transforms Chemical Energy (stored into his muscles) into Potential Energy ("stored" into the position of the brick relative to the ground).
But now the brick slips and fall down to the ground; Potential Energy is transformed into Kinetic Energy ("stored" into the movement of the object that moves with a certain velocity) and hits the ground.
Hitting the ground, Kinetic Energy is transformed into Sound Energy (stored into the air variations of pressure) and Internal Energy (the surface gets hotter and energy is stored into the movement of the molecules of the material).
A wonderful “Energy Transformator” that you can always take with you is a Pendulum:
This is a little device that when in movement continuously transforms Potential Energy (at a maximum in A) into Kinetic Energy (at a maximum in B) and vice versa when swinging back and forth. Not only this, energy is also transformed into Internal Energy through friction in C leading to (after a certain amount of time) to completely stop your movement (you used the initial energy to “heat” point C).
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Acupuncture is a Chinese medical system that is more than 3,000 year old. Acupuncture is the process of stimulating specific points on the body to correct imbalances of Qi or Chi (vital energy) in channels that flow up and down the body called meridians. It is believed that when these meridians are in a sate of imbalance pain or disease occurs. The most common technique of stimulation of acupuncture points employs penetration of the skin by stainless steel needles, which are manipulated manually or by electrical stimulation or Moxibustion on or over selected points.
Chinese Herbal Medicine
A system of diagnosis and treatment using medicinal herbs, one of the branches of traditional Chinese medicine. Herbs used range from the nontoxic and rejuvenating, such as ginseng, which are used to support the body’s healing system, to highly toxic ones, such as aconite, used in the treatment of disease.
A therapy in which heated glass cups are applied to the skin along the meridians of the body, creating suction as a way of separating adhesion of muscles, stimulating the flow of energy/Qi and encourage the circulation of old stagnant blood to promote healing.
A form of TCM therapy used both as a primary treatment and as an adjunct and synergistic technique to acupuncture. With its ability to penetrate deeply into the skin Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort) has been used as the primary herb for moxa therapy because of the unique ability of its heat to penetrate deeply beneath the skin. In China , moxa therapy is generally taken to mean the therapeutic effect of applying ignited mugwort over affected parts of the body and to acupuncture points.


Candombe National Day, Uruguay
Candombe National Day, Uruguay is held on December 3. Candombe is an Uruguayan music and dance that comes from African slaves. This event in the first decade of the month December is annual. Help us
The National Day of Candombe, Afro-Uruguayan Culture and Racial Equity is celebrated in Uruguay every December 3, since 2006. The date recalls December 3, 1978 when, spontaneously, the candombe drums in "llamada" sounded for the last time in the famous Conventillo Mediomundo in Montevideo, condemned to demolition by the civic-military dictatorship that ruled the country.
According to the exposition of the Law 18059 that instituted this celebration, "what happened that day was a spontaneous act with much of homage of farewell to one of the inspiring cradles of candombe, of commitment with its legacy, and also with much of rejection and resistance to an arbitrariness loaded with the racism of those who maintained that the blacks and their drums impoverished the city, and could not live in the center of Montevideo damaging its particular tourist and real estate attractiveness". It had the decisive support of Afro-Uruguayan legislator Edgardo Ortuño.
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6 Examples of Human Factors Engineering
March 22, 2022
by Cj Pettus
Experience examples of Human Factors Engineering in action with these sample videos.
For more than sixty years, professionals have attended the multidisciplinary Human Factors Engineering training program from the University of Michigan. Attendees from a broad range of industries register for one or both of the two weeks of interactive classroom instruction. Week 1 focuses on human factors concepts, especially those important to designers and researchers, while week 2 centers on human-computer interaction and intelligent system design.
University of Michigan professor Paul Green, PhD, leads a team of thirteen instructors with impressive backgrounds in industry and research. If you’re considering sharpening your skills with this course, peruse these six examples of Human Factors Engineering sessions.
1. ENGINEERING ANTHROPOMETRY
Learn about anthropometry and techniques for measuring body size and stature from Dr. Bruce Bradtmiller.
3. DECISION MAKING AND COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS
Learn about decision making and cognitive task analysis from Deborah Boehm-Davis.
6. GOMS AND THE KEY-STROKE LEVEL MODEL
Learn about GOMs and the Keystroke-Level Model, a useful tool for analyzing cognitive activities in human-computer interaction, from Dr. Paul Green.
Now that you’ve had a taste of the engaging and unique topics in this course from these examples of Human Factors Engineering sessions, learn more about this essential training.


History of the Tankless Water Heater
Though conventional water heating is what you are more familiar with and has been the more popular choice for homeowners across the US, tankless water heaters have actually been in use for 20 years longer. Surprised?
The first tankless water heater was created in 1868 by a man named Benjamin Waddy Maughan. The Maughan system, or “The Geyser” as it was known, had cold water flowing in through wires at the top that were then heated by hot gases from a burner at the bottom. The only problem was it didn’t have an exhaust flue to vent the hot gas so it ended up a little smelly in the room.
Early Drawbacks with Tankless Water Heating
Tankless water heaters weren’t very popular in the United States until after World War II because electricity and fuel gas for storage tank water heaters was still relatively inexpensive. But even after they came to the US, these systems were still not gaining any ground. Here’s why:
- They were originally big, bulky steel cylinders that sat on the floor.
- They were attached to a single sink or tub which meant that if you needed to replace any part you would have to replace the entire unit.
- For the most part, the technology of the tankless systems were unchanged from the Maughan version of 1868 making them undesirable to most homeowners.
But, with some technological innovations over the years, the tankless water heater has developed into a reliable, efficient machine making its way into homes across the nation.
Modern Tankless Water Heating Benefits
The tankless water heaters we have today are not the big, bulky steel appliances they used to be. In fact, they are so small – only about the size of a carry on suitcase – they can be mounted directly on the wall, out of sight and out of mind.
In addition, they are equipped using computer boards and sensors that tell the heater when hot water is needed and what temperature it needs to be.
We are in an age of smart everything and tankless water heating technology is only getting smarter. Best to jump on board now – and start reaping all the benefits!
For more information on tankless water heating, or to schedule an in-home consultation, give Central Plumbing, Heating, & Air Conditioning a call today!


Devastating floods have hit northeast India and parts of Nepal, leaving countless communities distraught and thousands of animals in need of emergency care. While nongovernmental organizations and governments work to provide relief for the people of this region, international animal welfare organization World Animal Protection (WAP) is on the move to save the animals, including pets and livestock, who are fighting for their lives.
WAP Disaster Project Manager Hansen Thambi Prem states, “Animals are in dire need, injured, starving and at high risk of disease. The floods have damaged pastures for months to come, compounding the emergency with starvation.”
Not only have their food sources been destroyed, but post-flood diseases, such as pneumonia and diarrhea, can cause severe trauma and physical pain, and threaten the animals’ lives.
WAP offers aid by sending mobile veterinary response teams into the affected areas to search for and rescue animals. They provide the rescued animals with medical treatment, disease prevention and food. In addition to providing disaster relief, the organizations also partners with governments in disaster-prone areas to educate and create strategies to prepare for the future. This includes training people on how to provide care for animals during and after a disaster, offering solutions for food and water storage and fortifying animal shelters.
When disaster strikes, the lives of animals must be taken into account. All too often, animals are forgotten and abandoned during these events, leaving them to suffer and die frightened and alone.
“It’s critical that disaster response includes animal protection. Farm and companion animals in the affected areas in India and Nepal are vital to the social, economic and food security for communities affected and displaced by these devastating floods,” Melissa Matlow, legislative and public affairs manager at WAP told LFT. “Animals are often the forgotten victims of disasters, and this isn’t just to the detriment of animals – it’s also to the detriment of people. By treating animals affected by these recent floods, we can alleviate their suffering and also help bolster the resilience of the communities that depend on them.”
WAP is doing their part to aid animals and communities by preparing for disaster and responding when it strikes. Governments and other organizations must also understand this crucial step in disaster relief in order to protect people and animals worldwide.


The fate of young people facing criminal charges is a much-discussed topic in criminal justice law and reform. In North Carolina, a new law was passed just over a year ago to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to remain in the juvenile system, rather than being prosecuted as adults. In its first year on the books, this law impacted the sentencing of 4,300 teens across the state.
The law is officially entitled the “Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act,” and was passed on Dec. 1, 2019. The goal of the law was to give older teenagers a chance to utilize juvenile service, in hopes that this system would better prepare them for responsible adult life. Being sentenced as an adult could mean an unshakeable criminal record which would hinder future prospects, something that advocates of the law say hinders rehabilitation efforts.
North Carolina was among the last states to make this change, with several attempts being defeated over the years. It covers 16 and 17-year-olds who have been accused of lower-level, nonviolent felonies and misdemeanors. The legislation applied to new cases only, meaning that teens charged as adult in the past stayed in the adult system. Those charged with more serious crimes can also still be tried as adults.
When it comes to criminal defense, the decision of whether an individual will be tried as an adult or juvenile is one with serious implications. North Carolina has legislation on the books, including the Raise the Age law, to guide the decisions about charges and sentencing. However, regardless of the charges one faces, any accused person at any age has a right to a defense. It is therefore a good idea to reach out to an experienced and knowledgeable North Carolina lawyer as soon as possible when being accused or even investigated for a crime.


Practicing capitalization of opening and closing a letter & titles of poems/songs for teachers
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With the end of the school year that we had and all of the chaos, this might be a great time to teach the kids how to write letters to a teacher or two that had an impact on their lives this past year or sometime in the past as a student.
For those of you with more advanced students, you can practice the capitalization rules of a title of a work such as a song or poem they can write to someone they care about or reflecting on their school year.
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A New Kind Of Family Tree
When going to the doctor, a family health history can provide a lot of information about personal health risks. What kind of information does the doctor need to assess health risks? First, people should understand what to include in a family health history.
Building a health history
If possible, people should know about the health conditions going back 3 generations. The immediate family is most crucial: parents, siblings, and grandparents. But knowing about aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, and nieces is important too. Conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are common items that go on family health histories. Be sure to also gather information about mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and any other factors that affect the person’s overall health. When bringing the family health history to the doctor, ask these 3 questions.
1. How does family health history affect my health risks?
Family health history is important. Still, just because a family member has a certain mental health condition doesn’t mean that the patient will also get that diagnosis. Family health histories help inform care. Ask the doctor to explain what the health history means about present and future health risks. The patient’s current health and personal health history also affect risk factors.
2. What can I do to lower my health risks?
Doctors can give personalized guidance for lowering health risks. For example, if a person has a high risk of heart disease, the doctor may advise specific measures to improve heart health. The patient may eat more whole grains, lower sodium intake, or start an exercise program. The family health history can serve as a roadmap for lowering health risks and preventing chronic disease.
3. When do I need a follow-up appointment?
When a person knows the health risks, following up with the doctor is easier. Know what signs and symptoms of certain health conditions to look for. Being informed and prepared can help give people peace of mind, especially if there are significant or severe health conditions in the family health history.
Gathering your family health history
Chances are anyone who has been in a doctor’s office has filled out at least a partial family health history. Submitting this paperwork on the spot can sometimes lead to incomplete answers. For best results, gather a family health history over time. Talk with family members and update the document regularly. Then, when the doctor’s appointment comes, patients will be armed with more robust, helpful information.


What is cleaning detergent?
A detergent is a chemical substance use to break up and remove grease and grime. Today, detergents are more likely to be a mixture of synthetic chemicals and additives cooked up in a huge chemical plant. The most important ingredients in detergents are chemicals called surfactants.
Fig. How to surfactant work
Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension between two liquids, between a gas and a liquid, or between a liquid and a solid. Surfactants may act as detergents, wetting agents, emulsifiers, foaming agents, and dispersants.
Type of surfactant
- Anionic surfactant (Negative charge)
e.g. sodium laureth sulfate, sodium myreth sulfate, Alkyl-aryl ether phosphates, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate and etc.
- Cationic surfactant (Positive charge)
e.g. cetrimonium bromide, cetylpyridinium chloride, benzalkonium chloride, benzethonium chloride and etc.
- Non-ionic surfactant (No charge)
e.g. Fatty alcohol ethoxylates, Alkylphenol ethoxylates, Alkyl polyglucosides and etc.
- Amphoteric surfactant (contain both a positive and a negative charge)
e.g. cocamidopropyl betaine, phospholipids phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine and etc.
Normally, surfactant was used many cleaning products such as soap, laundry, dishwashing, cosmetic and pharmaceutical. Surfactant have several origins for example, from natural (palm, coconut, corn), petroleum, chemical analysis and etc.
For our product, we use surfactant as cleaning and foaming detergent. We selected surfactant which origin from natural and petroleum because low toxic and low impact to skin(non-irritation). Moreover, they will biodegradable and not destroy natural.


Tall Meadow Rue
Native to the Finger Lakes Region
A 3-7' tall plant with sturdy round stems and blue-green lobed leaves. Produces a panicle of starry white flowers.
Light: Full sun to shade.
Moisture and Soil: moist soil in full sun, drier soils in shade.
Seed Treatment and Storage: Seeds germinate in cool soil after a 30-60 day period of cool, moist stratification.
The Haudenosaunee prepared an infusion of the crushed plant to treat nosebleeds and took a root infusion internally as a gall bladder medicine. The Montagnais used the leaves to flavor salmon.
The statements above were sourced from:
Native American Ethnobotany Database: http://naeb.BRIT Native American Ethnobotany Database.org/
Tall meadow rue is primarily wind pollinated, but beetles visit staminate flowers to feed on pollen.
Mundy Wildflower Garden, Cayuta Lake, McDaniel Meadow, Woods, and Swamp, McLean Bogs, Eames Bog, Salt Road Fen, Purvis Road Wetlands Natural Area, Ringwood Ponds


Have you ever tried to make a convex optical surface?
If so, you know that it’s much more challenging than a concave one, since the rays of light do not come to a focus at all.
Some of us* at the Amateur Telescope Making workshop here in Washington DC have made several attempts at doing this, pretty much without success. I would like to show you some weird images that we got when we tried to ‘figure’ the convex surface by performing a Ronchi test from the back side, looking through what was supposed to be a flat.
What we find is that even though the glass itself is very clear and free of visible strain when seen by the naked eye or when using crossed polarized filters, it looks like we are looking through an extremely murky and totally un-annealed piece of ancient Venetian glass, causing all sorts of weird striations in what should otherwise be nice, smooth Ronchi lines.
These pictures go in order from outside the radius of curvature to inside the ROC.
You might well think that the glass itself has lots of strain left in it, causing the very weird patterns that you see here. I can prove that this is not the case by showing you a short video that we made with crossed polarizing filters of the 5-inch diameter blank itself and two pieces of plastic (the protective covers for one of the filters). Judge for yourself.
This is not the first time that this strange phenomenon has occurred.
Any suggestions from those with actual experience would be extremely welcome.
* Me, Nagesh K, and Oscar O.


Footy flourished as work week cut
AFL probably wouldn’t be Melbourne’s dominant sporting code today had city workers not won Saturday afternoons off in the 1860s.
A new study by the University, published in the journal Sporting Traditions, questions the origins of Aussie rules.
The study found that the 1856 campaign for the eight-hour workday was the most important step in the game becoming Melbourne’s dominant code.
“For a sport to become the dominant code, more than anything it needs to attract large numbers of paying spectators,” says study author Dr Tony Ward, an honorary research fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.
In the 1850s, the city’s population boomed with the gold rushes, but people worked long, six-day weeks. Then, in 1856, stonemasons working at the University won the right to an eight-hour working day. Other trades soon followed.
In the 1860s and ’70s, Melbourne workers became the first in the world to win Saturday afternoons off. “Workers wanted entertainment and to let off steam when they clocked off on Saturday afternoon. A trip to the footy was the ideal outlet,” says Ward.


This study focuses on the Kashmir Insurgency that has strained the economic and political relations between India and Pakistan and terrorizing the civilians of the valley. This dispute has resulted in severe loss of security, an epidemic fear in the local people, emotional torture, several deaths and injuries resulting in chronic mental anxiety, depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other mental ailments. The purpose of this study is to support the claim that architecture can have an impact on the built environment that accelerates healing in its residents, while developing their mental health. An initial review of related literature was completed to arrive at a map of architectural qualities that would create an environment better suited not only to heal, but also provide a dignified lifestyle to the women victims of armed conflict. The literature covered various aspects of design, culture, and model of care as important branches to yield the therapeutic milieu in the shelter design. Previous studies that focus on PTSD in women civilians are rare, but to understand design protocol in developing countries, two precedents were analyzed on facilities that catered to a population with similar issues and symptoms. The final step included studying two shelters were picked that had environmental qualities that previous literature had supported as healing qualities, with the additional community participation from the general public and health professionals on their perception of their immediate surrounding and the common problems associated with typical rehabilitation institutions. All the phases of the study were compared at the end to positively assert that the architecture does have an impact on the wellbeing of human lives. The primary emphasis of the shelter design was to promote empowerment, independence, freedom and control, and the confidence to reintegrate into the society. With the set of goals, and elements for a therapeutic environment, the precedents and the case studies, the results extract cultural design trends and spatial characteristics that are apt for a design of this nature that do not follow the typical American standards. The results can be used as a tool to architects, health professionals, administrators and other professionals to achieve an awareness to work together to birth an environment that can accelerate the healing of mental trauma.


The latest round of primary school height and weight measurements show child obesity levels in Guernsey nearly double between Years 1 and 5.
Primary-age children are measured in the spring and the latest figures show that in Year 1, 8.7% are classed as obese, while by Year 5 that figure stands at 16.1%.
81% of Year 1 children had a healthy weight, while 17.7% had excess weight. By Year 5, those figures were 72% and 26.7% respectively.
1,144 children were measured in 2022 with 252 of those found to be overweight or obese.
Health professionals are keen to point out that excess weight recordings haven't changed much over the past three years and that there isn't strong statistical evidence of any change in excess weight levels, either up or down.
Jenny Cataroche, who's the head of Health Intelligence, is one of a number of health professionals to have assessed the Guernsey Child Measurement Programme figures:
"We are encouraged by the high rate of participation in the 2022 measurement round which confirms that the programme has become an accepted part of the school year.
Levels of excess weight remain a concern and highlight an ongoing need for action, but we must acknowledge that there is a certain achievement to holding the previous position, with no worsening, in what has been a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty for local children and families."
Guernsey's director of Public Health, Dr Nicola Brink, says weight gain can be influenced by the wider family:
"The findings of differences in overweight by school fee status hint that the Bailiwick conforms to the pattern seen in other places, namely that a child’s broad socio-economic environment can lead to measurable differences in health indicators like weight status."
Simon Sebire, who heads up the Health Improvement Commission, says the figures are a concern:
"It is encouraging that, unlike elsewhere, we have not seen childhood overweight and obesity levels increase during the main Covid-19 period.
However the stable overall levels and the health inequality seen in the results show that childhood obesity remains one of the most serious health challenges faced locally."


‘A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing.’ (National Curriculum 2014 – Appendix A)
Learning a language enriches the curriculum helping to create enthusiastic learners and to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life. The skills, knowledge and understanding gained contribute to the development of children’s oracy and literacy and to their understanding of their own culture and those of others.
At Shakespeare Primary School, we feel that the earlier a child is exposed to a foreign language, the faster the language in question is acquired. We believe that the early acquisition of French will facilitate the learning of other foreign languages later in life. We aim to prepare children for the KS3 language curriculum to enable them to transfer confidently and successfully.
A variety of the following techniques to encourage children to have an active engagement with French are employed:
• Games – in order to develop vocabulary through repetition, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
• Role-play – these should relate to the situations the children may find themselves in the future.
• Action songs and rhymes – to develop phonetic skills, memory skills and to further vocabulary.
• Reading and writing quality materials.
• ICT programs and websites; the use of ICT to develop communication skills.
• We build children’s confidence through praise for any contribution they make in the foreign language, however tentative.
Through the high quality first teaching of French taking place we will see the impact of the subject in the following ways:


by Sue Fliess (Author) Mia Powell (Illustrator)
Explore the ocean with marine biologists as they observe a pod of whales.
Maggie is a marine biologist. She and her team study all the living things in the ocean. Today is an exciting day: after months of research, the team is diving into the water with a traveling group of whales to record their songs and learn more about how whales communicate.
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Gr 3-4--A youthful team of marine biologists take a dive in this realistic story. Maggie and her team study ocean life. Each of the team members has an important role to fulfill. Today, after spending months researching, the team is able to dive in the ocean to study a traveling pod of whales. Their main focus is to study the whales to learn more about how they communicate. Fleiss does an acceptable job at educating readers about marine biology through Maggie and her team, although the word choices and poor pacing can slow the plotting. Upper elementary students may have difficulty relating to the seemingly youthful scientists. They may also struggle to care about the story. The problem of a whale wrapped in a fishing net seems tacked on. Powell's illustrations are whimsical and bring a sense of life to the story. However, the facial features of the team lack personality. VERDICT For career-day collections, this is a flawed but cheerful glimpse of marine biology and scientific teamwork.--Brittany McMahonCopyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
The instructive text is educational and entertaining, and young readers will thrill in seeing the diverse group of kids take the reins of scientific discovery.—Booklist


November 8th: FDR Wins Presidential Race
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On November 7, 1775, Lord Dunmore promises freedom to the enslaved who fight American revolutionaries.
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On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall falls.
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Vegetation types of high mountain grasslands
- University of Canterbury
[First paragraphs...]In any study when a considerable body of information has been collected together it becomes essential to define carefully terms which are to be used. That stage has been reached in the ecological nomenclature of high mountain grasslands in New Zealand. Cockayne's (1921, 1928) terms, coined when the study was in its infancy, have often been used uncritically (e.g. by Allan 1926, Barker 1953, Poole 1951, Relph 1957). Some workers (Barker 1953, Druce 1960, Connor 1960, 1961, and Wraight 1960) have made new contributions for the areas in which they worked but it is considered that an overall, unified approach is necessary. The resolution of published taxonomic knowledge on Danthonia spp. (Connor 1960) has done a lot to clarify the situation. In the following discussion the terms used by Cockayne are reassessed.
As a basic criterion for classification of all the mountain vegetation it is proposed here that the vegetation be termed grassland where grasses, by their size, predominance in cover, and general physiognomic importance are the apparent vegetation. There is often no clear boundary, however, between grassland, scrub, herbfield or bog. In these other forms of vegetation, plants other than grasses are physiognomically important. Some of the usages of Cockayne (certain herbfields, transitions to bog, some fellfield and even some vegetation where grassland merges into scrub) fall into the above definition of grassland. Confusion has arisen in New Zealand plant geography and ecology from acceptance of the Cockayne terms which were based on no clear definitions.


21-02-2018 | Original Article
Reciprocal Relations Between Parenting Behaviors and Conduct Disorder Symptoms in Preschool Children
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Reciprocal relations between children’s conduct disorder (CD) symptoms and parenting behaviors were examined across the preschool years. Participants were 199 children (M = 44.26 months, SD = 3.37; 92 girls) and their 199 mothers and 158 fathers. CD symptoms were assessed via structured interviews; parenting was assessed via observational and self-report measures. Fixed effects models were used to assess within-individual changes and traditional cross-lagged models were used to assess between-individual changes; comparisons by sex were also carried out. Increases in maternal overreactivity predicted increases in CD symptoms. During the later preschool years, decreases in maternal warmth predicted increases in CD symptoms and increases in CD symptoms predicted increases in paternal overreactivity. Reciprocal effects were found between girls’ CD symptoms and paternal negative affect. Findings suggest maternal and paternal influence on the development of CD symptoms and suggest that CD symptoms influence fathers’ parenting during the preschool years.


Pronunciation: (v.ôl'tur-nāt", al'-adj., n.ôl'tur-nit, al'-), [key]
— v., adj., n. -nat•ed, -nat•ing,
- to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually fol. by with): Day alternates with night.
- to change back and forth between conditions, states, actions, etc.: He alternates between hope and despair.
- to take turns: My sister and I alternated in doing the dishes.
- to reverse direction or sign periodically.
- to occur as a variant in alternation with another form.
- to perform or do in succession or one after another: to alternate comedy acts; to alternate jogging and walking.
- to interchange successively or regularly: to alternate hot and cold compresses.
- being in a constant state of succession or rotation; interchanged repeatedly one for another: Winter and summer are alternate seasons.
- reciprocal; mutual: alternate acts of kindness.
- every second one of a series: Read only the alternate lines.
- constituting an alternative: The alternate route is more scenic.
- alternative (defs. 4, 6).
- petals alternate with sepals.
- placed singly at different heights on the axis, on each side in succession, or at definite angular distances from one another, as leaves.
- opposite to the intervals between other organs:petals alternate with sepals.
- a person authorized to fill the position, exercise the duties, etc., of another who is temporarily absent; substitute.
- either of two actors who take turns playing the same role.
- an understudy.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.


This week’s Bird of the Week, compliments of the Weminuche Audubon Society and Audubon Rockies, is the Cooper’s hawk.
Feeding songbirds can have unintended consequences which pose a danger to them. Predators like the Cooper’s hawk may also find a meal at bird feeders. Small to midsized songbirds and raptors, chipmunks, squirrels, mice and bats are all potential meals for this hawk.
A woodland hawk, the concentration of birds at feeders has made Cooper’s hawks now fairly common in urban and suburban environments. They hunt with stealth and speed, perching quietly before bursting out in a surprise attack to capture fleeing prey.
This member of the accipiter family breeds across most of the United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico. They are typically year-round residents in their breeding territory. Nest building and providing food is the male’s job, with incubation and care of chicks the female’s. Since small raptors can be prey of the Cooper’s hawk, the male approaches the nest with caution and is submissive to the larger female, to avoid being mistaken for dinner.
Adult Cooper’s hawks are crow-sized birds with bluish-gray upper parts, a black cap, red eyes and light-colored underparts covered by dense reddish barring. The Cooper’s long, rounded tail has three black bands and a broad white tip. Even accomplished birders are challenged in distinguishing a Cooper’s hawk from the nearly identical, but smaller, sharp-shinned hawk.
Observing birds at feeders is a fun way to become familiar with their appearances and habits. We can reduce hazards to the birds in our yards by providing cover, keeping feeders and the areas below them clean, keeping cats inside and treating glass to prevent collisions.
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Earth is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science. Earth is considered to be both cold and dry, and according to Plato is associated with the cube. Earth is, not surprisingly, the element seen as denoting material possessions and the physical world, being the strongest and steadiest of the elements.
- Magical Weapon: Pentacle
- Cardinal direction: North
- Archeangle: Uriel
- Planetary: Earth
- Zodiac: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
- Quality: Cold and Dry
- Tarot Suit: Pentacle, Disks, Coins, Diamonds
- Tattva: Prithvi
- Platonic Solid: Hexahedron
Earth and the other Greek classical elements were incorporated into the Golden Dawn system. Zelator is the elemental grade attributed to earth; this grade is also attributed to the Qabbalistic sphere Malkuth. The elemental weapon of earth is the Pentacle. Each of the elements has several associated spiritual beings. The archangel of earth is Uriel, the angel is Phorlakh, the ruler is Kerub, the king is Ghob, and the earth elementals (following Paracelsus) are called gnomes. Earth is considered to be passive; it is represented by the symbol for Taurus, and it is referred to the lower left point of the pentagram in the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram. Many of these associations have since spread throughout the occult community.
It is sometimes represented by its Tattva or by a downward pointing triangle with a horizontal line through it.


FROM the time of its appearance half a century ago, Jordan and Everyman's "Fishes of North and Middle America"has until to-day remained the only comprehensive descriptive account of the fishes of the western Atlantic Ocean. Much new knowledge has become available during this long period, and the time is now ripe for a new and up-to-date publication covering approximately the same field. The appearance of Volume 1 of "Fishes of the Western North Atlantic" is therefore most welcome and will supply a much-felt need. This volume, the first of a projected series, brings to fruition the. initial part of a plan conceived in New Haven a considerable time ago. With the establishment of the Sears Foundation for Marine Research at Yale University in, 1937, funds became available for publication on auite an ambitious scale, and a group of expert ichthyologists met to discuss the preparation of a work such as is now appearing.
Fishes of the Western North Atlantic
Part 1: Lancelets, by Henry B. Bigelow Isabel Pérez Paufante; Cyclostomes, by Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder; Sharks, by Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder. (Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Memoir No. 1.) Pp. xvii+576. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, 1948.) 10 dollars.
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STEVEN, G. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Nature 164, 766 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164766a0


Principled Innovations are rooted in a sense of purpose—rooted in our sense of justice, in our values, and in the empathy that comes from perspective taking and understanding. As University of the South psychology professor Sherry Hamby writes in this article, many studies have found that this sense of purpose is one of our greatest resources in strengthening our resilience.
Sense of purpose—the most important strength?
By: Psychology Today, Sherry Hamby
Educator-prep | K-12 educators
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
Altruistic babies? Study shows infants are willing to give up food, help others
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10 features of courageous choice
By: Psychology Today, Shahram Heshmat
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Equitable and inclusive teaching
By: Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning


Cirrus and Anvils: European Satellite and Airborne Radiation measurements (CAESAR) Project Data from FAAM (Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements) and Chilbolton Observatory
The CAESAR project aimed to investigate the radiative properties of cirrus cloud over a wide range of wavelengths in combination with airborne in situ measurements of cirrus microphysical properties.
This dataset collection contains atmospheric measurements of vertical and horizontal distribution of ice crystal size, shape and ice water content and meteorology during summer and winter periods.
Data were obtained by Flights using the FAAM BAE-146 to observe frontal and anvil cirrus co-incident with the CloudSat Aqua-train and Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) satellites over the Chilbolton cloud radars and lidars as well as ocean/sea surrounding the UK. The winter FAAM campaign ran from 14 November 2005 17 December 2005 and the summer FAAM campaign ran from 3-17 May 2006.
Dataset supports the following projects:
|Cirrus and Anvils: European Satellite and Airborne Radiation (CAESAR) project|


Prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection
During SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2) infection the viruses use host proteins to infect humans. TMPRSS2 is a cell-surface protease which plays an essential role in the coronavirus infection. The viruses bind to ACE2 on the host cell surface through their spike protein. Efficient cell entry depends on spike protein priming by TMPRSS2, which is a prerequisite for virus coat – cell membrane fusion. TMPRSS2 is heavily expressed in the airway epithelium and lung tissues promoting severe respiratory complications during SARS-CoV-2 infections. Severe lung complications are the leading cause of death among COVID-19 patients. It is of utmost importance to develop novel therapeutic strategies to prevent and control the coronavirus infection.
Inhibiting TMPRSS2 can prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection. TMPRSS2 inhibitors have been shown to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections in cell culture and animal experiments, and there are ongoing clinical trials. However, these are non-selective inhibitors. EvolVeritas developed a unique proprietary technology to produce active TMPRSS2 and developed selective and efficient inhibitors against TMPRSS2 by directed protein evolution. These inhibitors block the activity of TMPRSS2 with high efficiency in in vitro experiments, and also successfully reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection in cell culture.


The text, structure, and history of the Intellectual Property Clause (IP Clause), as well as subsequent governmental activity, Supreme Court doctrine, and policy, show that the IP Clause limits Congress from using any of its other powers "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" through laws that reach beyond the power conferred by the IP Clause to "secur[e] for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." That is, the evidence marshaled by this Article shows that the IP Clause externally limits Congress from seeking, via legislation, to promote the progress of science and useful arts, in any way other than by enacting laws that secure to authors and inventors exclusive rights in their writings and discoveries for limited times. Yet the story of Congress's power in this area has another side: Since the late twentieth century, Congress has increasingly reached beyond the IP Clause's means to promote the Clause’s ends, often asserting its expansive—and less limited—commerce and treaty powers. To some degree, this shift reflects the fact that laws regulating intellectual property often have multiple purposes, including trade and foreign relations interests, which sometimes point in more expansive directions than do those of the more limited IP Clause. This Article synthesizes these competing purposes and provides an analytical framework under which courts, legislators, and others can assess the constitutionality of federal legislation. This framework affords a presumption against the constitutionality of laws that promote the IP Clause's ends but subvert its means, a presumption that may be overcome only by clear and convincing evidence that Congress, pursuant to its other more permissive powers, intentionally chose to supersede the IP Clause's means because of paramount, legitimate interests. This framework suggests that a number of existing federal laws, such as federal trade-secrecy provisions and antibootlegging laws, might be unconstitutional. The framework also suggests how to assess the constitutionality of laws that would protect databases, laws passed pursuant to international agreements with other countries, and laws that establish federal funding for scientific and artistic works.
Jeanne C. Fromer,
The Intellectual Property Clause’s External Limitations,
61 Duke Law Journal
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol61/iss7/1


The Impact of Computers Design on the Traditional Art Design
Available Online December 2014.
- 10.2991/asshm-14.2014.85How to use a DOI?
- Science; Arts; Computer; Art and Design
Due to advances in computer technology, interactive computer graphics applications are evolving, and art computer technology is integrated into the design, making science and art in many fields fused. Art is a computer up to date to explore the area and become industry's hottest hotspot art and design, traditional art and design are a breakthrough and innovation development. The article analyzes the application of computer technology in art design.
- © 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Jing Yonghua PY - 2014/12 DA - 2014/12 TI - The Impact of Computers Design on the Traditional Art Design BT - Proceedings of the 2014 2nd International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities and Management PB - Atlantis Press SP - 305 EP - 307 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/asshm-14.2014.85 DO - 10.2991/asshm-14.2014.85 ID - Yonghua2014/12 ER -


The Impact Technology and Communication
The ability to connect in the digital world changed the way that we work, live, and learn. While technology and communication have many positive aspects, they can also have some negative effects on our personal lives and the business world.
Communication speed is one of the most important benefits of modern technologies. Messages used to take days to get to people are now delivered in their inboxes in seconds.
A second advantage of technology is how it has brought people together. https://technologyform.info/2021/12/29/technology-as-a-form-of-communication With the help of the internet and smart phones, anyone can connect to someone in any part the world.
However, there are also some negative aspects of modern technology that can have an impact on the human mind and our interpersonal skills. In order to maintain an appropriate balance between technology, our interpersonal life and the ability of people to interact with each other in person, we must always remember this.
Our relationship with others is fundamental to how we function, and modern technology has helped to create communities across wide reaches of geography. These communities can range from social media to protest movements and even support networks for marginalized groups.
Communication technology is a growing part of the education industry. Students can use technology to stay informed about important events and topics, as well as access learning resources that would otherwise be hard to find. This is all great for society, however it’s important that students know how to use communication technologies properly and don’t abuse them in their personal lives or among their peers.


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Home-Based Activities and Resources
Introduction to the Five Pre-reading Skills
To help your child become a more proficient reader, learn about the five pre-reading skills, engage your child in games and activities at home that promote these skills, and watch them thrive as readers, writers, and thinkers.
Focus on Print Awareness
Print awareness is understanding that print is organized in a particular way — for example, knowing that print is read from left to right and top to bottom. It is knowing that words consist of letters and that spaces appear between words. You've got this, and we've got you.
Focus on Letter Awareness
Letter Knowledge is one of the early literacy skills that researchers say is important for children to have in order to learn to read. Letter Knowledge is knowing that the same letter can look different, that letters have names and are related to sounds. You've got this, and we've got you.
Focus on Phonological Awareness
That's a complicated-sounding term, but its meaning is simple: the ability to hear, recognize and play with the sounds in spoken language. Phonological awareness is really a group of skills that include a child's ability to: Identify words that rhyme. Count the number of syllables in a name. You've got this, and we've got you.
Focus on Listening Comprehension
Listening comprehension is the precursor to reading comprehension, so it’s an important skill to develop. Listening comprehension isn’t just hearing what is said—it is the ability to understand the words and relate to them in some way.
For example, when you hear a story read aloud, good listening comprehension skills enable you to understand the story, remember it, discuss it, and even retell it in your own words. You use these same comprehension skills when you read.


Commercial and large residential buildings in Toronto, and perhaps Ontario, could become more energy efficient in the near future. On July 7, 2015, the City Council of Toronto approved a mandate for large building owners to publicly report and benchmark the energy consumption of their buildings. The requirement is expected to drive down the City’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which can help bring them closer to their goal to reduce GHG emissions by 80 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050.
It is understood that improving the energy efficiency of large buildings is an effective way of addressing climate change, since the energy used to heat, cool, and run buildings contributes to approximately half of a city’s GHG emissions. By requiring building owners to track and record the energy consumption of their buildings, this mandate has the potential to motivate owners to assess a building’s energy performance and undergo energy efficiency retrofits. Public-wide access to this data can also help in the design of better conservation programs and motivate market transformation.
Based on roughly 3,000 buildings covering 540 million square feet (50 million square metres), the mandate has the potential to save $1.9 billion in utility costs, lower energy use by 21 million eMWh, and reduce CO2e emissions by 3.3 million tonnes by 2035.
Prior to adoption, Toronto had been consulting with the Province of Ontario on a potential Energy Reporting and Benchmarking requirement. Therefore the City will wait until December 31, 2015 to see if it will be adopted province-wide before developing a by-law.


Unicode is an international standard for encoding written languages. It supports a very large, but finite number of characters. Not all writing systems have been incorporated into Unicode yet, and work continues to make a truly universal system for encoding all written language in computers.
Unicode is one of the great legacies of our time. It is built to last as long as human civilization itself. If humans still exist and use computers in ten million years, they'll encode their writing in Unicode.
Some years ago, a bunch of Japanese guys decided that what it really needed was a pictographic representation of poop. Since then, there's been a proliferation of extremely culturally-specific iconography added to (I would say, polluting) the Unicode space. This is unsustainable. We have languages for a reason--we combine words to shade our meaning. The meanings of emojis are both too specific to deserve their own Unicode characters, and too broad for Unicode to support all of the possible things you could want in an pictogram.
Maybe in 1000 years nobody eats hamburgers. Why the f**k do we need a hamburger emoji? Why does it look like a hamburger from Japan instead of the US? Because if you add all the things that you could possibly want, Unicode will run out of space.
So screw emojis.
(Note, I'm not against pictograms in general. If you come on here saying that "yes there are emojis for those things, I downloaded them on my iPhone" that's because you don't know what an emoji is.)
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The results of the ATEC (Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist) showed strong improvement in sensory and cognitive awareness and a ‘dramatic improvement in sociability’.
This study leads the way to the future in autism treatment. We are beginning to see the connection between the body and autism and studies are now showing a correlation between high resting heart rate and symptoms of autism like anxiety and low sociability.
The work of Dr. Stephen Porges and his Polyvagal Theory has contributed significantly to the shift in emphasis to autism and high alert body states.
With this new assumption, the doors have opened up to the potential for people with autism to live a much brighter, much less physically debilitating life.
Like the above study, the ART program designed by Holly Bridges works to redefine (reframe) what it means to have autism. It works to progressively teach the student techniques to calm, self-soothe and reconnect the mind and body.
When this happens the social, emotional, cognitive and sensory awareness capacity of the individual improves significantly and spontaneously. See the many examples here.
Berger M. J. (2007) The efficacy of selected biofeedback techniques in mitigating symptoms associated with autism spectrum disorder. Biofeedback. 35 pp. 62-68.


Guidelines on How to Observe, Engage and Refer Students in Distress
Use this document as a guide to help you know what to look for, say, and do.
Given that mental health and well-‐being of students is a shared responsibility of all campus community members, it is important that you become aware of how to identify warning signs, how to assists students who are in distress, and how to effectively refer them to various University of Toronto services and resources. There are people and services on campus to assist you in dealing with distressed students. Common reasons for consulting include determining the seriousness of a situation and how quickly it needs to be addressed.
Observe: What to Look For
Observing and recognizing when a student is in distress may be relatively straightforward, when the signs are obvious. But when the signs are more subtle, it’s more difficult, and you may feel reluctant to intervene. In such cases, you can look for a number of indicators in a student’s thoughts, feelings, actions and academics
Observe: How to Observe and Recognize that a Student is in Distress
Engage: What to Say
Regardless of our individual roles on campus, any one of us may have the opportunity to help prevent a student from finding themselves in crisis. As a TA, you may be in a unique position to help a student in distress.
Engage: How to Engage a Student in Distress
Refer: What to Do
There may be any number of circumstances in which it would be appropriate for you to refer a student for help. In such cases, help the student to explore sources of possible support.
Refer: How to refer a student in Distress


The Herpich Collection is a collection of Arthurian and Camelot-related materials given to the Rossell Hope Robbins Library by David Herpich in 2018. The collection contains all manner of materials from antiquarian books to comics to historical retellings, children’s books to romance novels, and figurines to board games. When I began to go through the collection, I realized that there were several wider categories that these items fell into, and I wanted to highlight each of these categories with a representative work. The general categories I found were: children’s books, YA novels, general audience novels, other media, historical interpretations, and, of course, copies of Sir Thomas Malory’s 15th-century Morte d’Arthur. These larger groupings can be broken down further, as each category contains a plethora of materials.
The children’s books represent a simplified retelling of the story of the sword in the stone, and showcase how other types of characters can be added into the medieval stories. The Young Adult books create an interpreted backstory for Merlin, a retelling of Arthur’s tale that shows he might not have been what the legends tell, and a way in which the legends have impacted society through to the modern day in a way that treats them as real history. The general audience books show how the legends can be adapted into a murder mystery or a romance, conveying the characters from the legends in a bad light by telling the story from another’s perspective, and reimagining Guinevere as having magical powers. The other media shows how the story can be retold through a tv series and through a comic, and also how comics can throw in other literary characters into the mix. The historical interpretations detail categories from how the legends have impacted the land around it and how there are many different ways the legends can be interpreted through the ages. Furthermore, the historical interpretations give ways the stories can be retold to either make them better understood or to teach moral lessons.
This Collection Highlight was curated and created by Ayiana Crabtree (UR Class of 2022).


Cherry, Black (Prunus serotina)
Cherry, Black is a domestic hardwood
Black cherry (Prunus serotina) is sometimes known as cherry, wild black cherry, and wild cherry. It is the only native species of the genus Prunus of commercial importance for lumber production. Black cherry is found from southeastern Canada throughout the eastern half of the United States. Production is centered chiefly in the Middle Atlantic States.
The heartwood of black cherry varies from light to dark reddish brown and has a distinctive luster. The nearly white sapwood is narrow in old-growth trees and wider in secondgrowth trees. The wood has a fairly uniform texture and very good machining properties. It is moderately heavy, strong, stiff, and moderately hard; it has high shock resistance and moderately high shrinkage. Black cherry is very dimensionally stable after drying.
Black cherry is used principally for furniture, fine veneer panels, and architectural woodwork. Other uses include burial caskets, wooden ware, novelties, patterns, and paneling.
*Much of the base wood information presented here is made available by the USDA FPL FS. If you are interested in a much more technical description of wood properties, I encourage you to visit the source.


Time and Meteorological Forecasts
At least two time dimensions are routinely used to specify our fundamental data - basically the start and end points of a forecast.
Meteorologists naturally think of
as the important start point
as the end-point
hour or day forecast, because of the time-critical scheduled forecasting process.
The natural way of thinking for most _non_-expert users is that the
'end point' is the time of interest, and the 'start point' of
is less important and is only a proxy measure of quality.
There are several other relevant times to qualify a forecast, such as actual time of issue
forecast, or the validity period
for using the forecast (both somewhere between
), or the time of the latest observational data incorporated into the forecast, called the data cut-off time
This aspect of time has been addressed in the Met-Ocean Domain Working Group's WMS 1.3 Best Practice for TIME and ELEVATION
- 09 Apr 2013 (from Chris Little's email, 18 Mar 2013)


DIY Native Seed Balls for Pollinators Workshop
Seed balls are amazing ways to combine a variety of seeds in one nutritious packet and grow in the local ecosystem! Join in on the fun of creating your own native pollinator plant seed balls to take home and watch them germinate.
What is a Seed Ball?
Seed balls are comprised of a “seed ball matrix” made of all sorts of nutrients and substrate for your seeds to grow in. Simply add native seeds to the matrix with a little bit of water, then take home to throw into the garden, into empty soil spaces, or even do some guerrilla seed “bombing” by chucking these little balls of native plants along roadsides and in unmanaged meadows!
During the program, participants will learn how to create their own seed balls, the importance of native plants for pollinators such as birds, bees, and butterflies, then make their own seed ball varieties to take home. Each participant will take home 10 seed balls for the garden. A lucky participant may also find themselves walking away with established native plants for the garden as well!
All seed ball growth medium, seeds, and plant materials provided. Bring your own gloves if you’d like!
Admission is $25/pp.
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The myth of Ondine or Undine has been around for centuries, as far back as the Ancient Greece. Unda is Latin for “wave” or “water”.
The story of Ondine has been adapted and changed throughout the centuries, yet, astonishingly, key elements of the story has remained the same.
The story is of a young water nymph named Ondine who is beautiful and has an enchanting singing voice. Ondine is immortal, but doesn’t have a soul. The only way for Ondine to obtain one, is to marry a human, which would then shorten her life, but she would gain a human soul.
Ondine falls in love with a human, and becomes human to be with him. If Ondine’s husband was to be unfaithful to her, he will die. She soon marries him, and bears him a mixed-breed child. Her child is born with a soul and has many aquatic attributes.
Ondine finds her husband with another woman and he soon dies.
This legendary story, would later inspire French author Baron Friedrich De La Motte Fouque and his novella of Undine that was published in 1811. Years later, his version of the story, would inspire the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen and his story, Den Lille Havfrue or The Little Mermaid and was published in 1837.
It’s truly incredible, that these mermaid myths and legends, never die. They adapt and change with the times. They are immortal and live on forever in our hearts and our minds.


The number of food banks in London has risen from six in 2009 to 40, according to a report on food poverty from the London Assembly.
The report defines food poverty as "the inability to afford or access healthy food", either because of low income, rising prices or living in a food desert (areas where fruit and vegetables are hard to access on cost, transport or disability grounds). It's hard to know exactly how many Londoners are in food poverty but, since low income is an indicator, we'll start there: 2.1m of us live in low income households, and 592,000 of London's children live below the poverty line. We heard last December that 60% of local teachers had fed hungry pupils from their own pockets. Many councils are increasing the price of what we used to call meals on wheels. And as well as the number of food banks rising, the number of people fed by each food bank has increased from 68 in 2009 to 850 in 2013.
Even more depressingly, every organisation the Assembly asked is only expecting food poverty to increase. Rising prices, utilities, rents and the squeeze on wages and benefits means that often, the food bill is one of the few things left to cut. Food banks deliberately don't provide long term help, but expanding school breakfast clubs and getting all children eligible for free school meals to take them up could be part of the solution; schools can also provide education to parents and children for how to make budgets go further.
The Assembly wants the Mayor, his advisor Rosie Boycott and the London Food Board, and the boroughs to make London a Zero Hunger City. It's a major issue not just for the people involved and their health, but the impact on the NHS of treating diseases caused by unhealthy eating and malnutrition (this latter mainly suffered by older people). And that's before we even start on the idea that anyone in this marvellous 21st century metropolis should be going hungry or have the bulk of their diet made up of fried chicken and horseburgers.
Photo by Stephskimo from the Londonist Flickr pool


What is TPACK? Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a framework for best practices teaching that makes the content more accessible to students.
Ahhhh! Another educational acronym? What is this and why should I care? This quick video above clearly shows why all teachers need to have an understanding of this important concept.
Teachers know that the more tools they have in their toolbox, the more students they will be able to reach. The scary part for some of us is the wide range of technological tools that are available today. It can be intimidating and time consuming to know which tools best help our students learn. Not all tech tools are created equally as we know. This is where the SAMR model can be useful.
What is SAMR?
It can be tempting to use a technological tool with students because they think it's fun. Shiny bells and whistles may make learning more engaging and enhance instruction, but ideally they should elevate learning to the next level.
This staircase model is a useful reflection tool to think about where you currently are in your technology use in the classroom. Even making incremental changes will directly benefit your students. For me, making the jump from Augmentation to Modification has been the most challenging. I know I still have plenty of room for improvement, but this model provides me with inspiration of how I can truly transform learning experiences in my classroom.
"It's not the tech, it's how you use it". The video below provides an easy to understand overview of the SAMR Model.


Via Gary DeMar:
The book Physical Education for High School Students was originally published in 1955 with a revised edition in 1960 and a second edition published in 1970.
Here’s the opening paragraph from the chapter on “Riflery”:
“The United States of America was built, it is said, with three implements: the axe, the plow, and the rifle. The axe, in the hands of the stalwart pioneer, felled trees to clear the way for fields of grain. It also provided timber to build the houses, barns, and fences of our farms. The plow cut into the virgin soil of our foothills, plains, and prairies to grow the food for a young and hungry country. The rifle brought down the deer, bear, and other game to give the hardy frontiersman and his family food and clothing. It also stood as the only means of defense against his enemies, both savage and civilized.”
Throughout the chapter on Riflery there are very good instructions on how to use a rifle properly and safely. There’s even a picture of an “assault weapon.”
The chapter ends by declaring “Shooting is probably the safest of all sports. . . . By practicing a few simple rules every shooter can become a safe shooter.” This next sentence will make a liberal’s head explode: “One of the greatest sources of pride for the National Rifle Association is the splendid record in the safe handling of firearms set by their junior members.” The NRA is praised by a public school textbook!


La Campana National Park is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, Quillota Province, in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. La Campana National Park and the Vizcachas Mountains lie northwest of Santiago. This national park covers approximately 80 square kilometres (31 sq mi) and is home to one of the last palm forests of Jubaea chilensis (Chilean Wine Palm), which prehistorically had a much wider distribution than at present. Another attraction is the Cerro La Campana, which lends its name to the park. In 1834 Charles Darwin climbed this mountain, during the second voyage of HMS Beagle.
|La Campana National Park|
|Location||Valparaíso Region, Chile|
|Coordinates||32°55′00″S 71°09′00″W / 32.91667°S 71.15000°W|
|Visitors||52,389 (in 2012)|
|Governing body||Corporación Nacional Forestal|
In 1984, the park, along with Lago Peñuelas National Reserve, was designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve.
The park is in the Chilean matorral ecoregion. Chilean wine palm groves occur in the Ocoa Valley. Other typical vegetation species occurring in the park include the Echinopsis chiloensis, Puya chilensis, roble, boldo, litre, peumo, Patagua, winter's bark, and lingue.
Echinopsis chiloensis & Puya chilensis habitat
- ^ National Forest Corporation: Estadística Visitantes 2012, 11 January 2013
- ^ Mediterranean Region
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, 2008
- ^ a b UNESCO. 2007


About 80 years ago the ‘Night of the broken Glas’ or Kristallnacht (Reichsprogromnacht in German) occurred all over Germany
Guest Author: Brigitte Müller
It was November, 10, 1938, it was night in Germany, thousands upon thousands of Jews were subject to terror and violence by the Nazis. Over 1,000 Jewish synagogues and over 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. About 30,000 Jewish people were arrested and taken to Nazi concentration camps.
Below Stolpersteine in front of homes that were once owned by Jewish people. They were deported and lost their homes in the process. Milton Mayer deported to Buchenwald, was fleeing to the US in 1939. so did wife Hedwig Mayer
Conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse after Kristallnacht. During World War II (1939-45), Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what they referred to as the “Jewish problem,”. The Nazis carried out the systematic murder of some 6 million European Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust.
I recently found out about the project ‘Stolpersteine’ – tripping stones who have been placed in front of buildings all over Europe (70.000 since 1992) in memory of Jews who had lived in these homes and were deported or fled.
The village I live in (Seeheim, Hessen) has already installed a couple. I attended a remembrance walk through town where a historian told us the stories of these Jewish people’s former homes.
They even created an App, so tourists are able to find them all over Europe. And so important – more than ever. Never again 😞
Watch here: The Holocaust & Germany, Project Stolpersteine


Shared custody, also known as joint custody, is a custody arrangement wherein both parents share responsibility for raising and making decisions for their children. Whether shared custody is better for kids than sole custody depends the specific circumstances of each family.
There are situations that warrant sole custody, as the best interests of a child may be better served by this arrangement when extremes in a family dynamic mean that shared custody is ill-advised. However, for the most part, shared custody tends to be preferable as it is usually beneficial for kids.
How shared custody can benefit (most) kids
Shared custody allows children to maintain close and meaningful relationships with both parents. This consistent involvement of both parents can contribute to the child’s emotional well-being, sense of security and stability. It provides opportunities for children to develop strong bonds with both parents and have a sense of belonging.
In shared custody arrangements, children have the opportunity to benefit from the unique strengths, values and perspectives of both parents. Each parent brings their own parenting style and experiences, contributing to a more dynamic upbringing. Children may learn different life skills, values and cultural aspects from each parent, fostering their overall development.
Additionally, when parents actively engage in co-parenting and demonstrate effective communication and cooperation, they provide a positive model for their children. This can help children develop skills in conflict resolution, communication and cooperation.
Shared custody may not be suitable or practical for all families. Factors such as distance, parental ability to cooperate and the child’s specific needs and preferences should be considered when determining the most appropriate custody arrangement. The best interests of the child should always be the guiding principle in making custody decisions, and it may be helpful to seek legal guidance to better ensure that any particular arrangement reflects a child’s best interests.


Jaffna Fort is a prominent attraction in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The majestic fort was built by the Portuguese Philip de Oliviera back in the year 1681. Located near Karaiyur, this regal monument speaks volumes about the grandiosity of the colonial past of the country. You will be able to visit it easily as you travel in the region with Green Holiday Centre.
The Jaffna Fort is also known as Yapanaya Balakotuwa. There is a church located in close proximity to the fort which has a statue of Virgin Mary. This statue has long being connected to numerous miraculous occurrences. Due to this reason the fort is also called Fortress of Our Lady of Miracles of Jafanapatao.
The iconic fort was captured by the Dutch as well as the British when they invaded the island. It was also under the control of the LTTE between 1986 and 1995 when the brutal civil war was waging in the area. Sadly the war caused extensive damage to this incredible monument.
The Governor’s residence, Kruys Church, Queen’s House as well as the Garrison Parade Ground are located inside the fort. The breathtaking vistas of the surrounding region are incredible indeed! Be sure to carry your camera with you when you go to visit this fort as you will find plenty of great photo opportunities waiting for you!