19th December 1961, was the day when Goa finally overthrew its Portuguese colonizers. They were known to have ruled the coastal state for more than 450 years. Since the year 1961, 19 December is recognized as Goa’s Liberation day. It marks the victory of Goa over its oppressors.
The state celebrates with a regional public holiday. The Indian armed forces who were fighting for the state at that time are also remembered on this day.
HISTORY And Why we Celebrate GOA’S LIBERATION DAY ?
The Portuguese conquered India in 1505. Under their territory, they took over around 1619 square miles, of which Goa was a large part. The conquered area, which was called ‘Portuguese India’, held a majority of Goa’s land as well the population dwelling there. This is one reason why Portuguese influence is so widely observed in Goan culture, traditions, lifestyle, and even food.
The famous voyager, Vasco De Gama, is known to have opened up a sea route which allowed the Portuguese to gain a monopoly over the Indian Ocean. According to this route, Goa would be the best harbor site and also an excellent defense base. This further invoked the interest of the Portuguese in the coastal state.
Interestingly, Goa was also the first state to be captured pan-India in 1510. For a large chunk of the subsequent timeline, the state served as a base for the colonialists. However, the plans for this state according to Albuquerque were different.
Albuquerque ordered his men to mingle with the Goan people, marry the local women, and themselves become locals of the region. They would thereby be asked to farm or sell artwork resonating with the culture of Goa. The idea was to form a colony out of the population. Later on, these men became the privileged class.
Finally, in 1961, the Indian Army fought a thirty-six-hour battle to free Goa from the clutches of the Portuguese. They succeeded.
Goa’s liberation day means a lot to the indigenous and local people of the state, whose ancestors had to live through oppression and war. However, since 1961, Goans feel great pride in remembering the day of their freedom, as well as the Jawans who fought for it.
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Charles Lamb, a distinguished English essayist, collaborated with his sister, Mary, to create enthralling prose retellings for young readers of some of Shakespeare's most beloved works. This selection from their 1807 publications features The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; As You Like It; The Merchant of Venice; King Lear; Macbeth; The Taming of the Shrew; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; and Othello.
"What these tales shall have been to the young readers," Charles Lamb wrote, "that and much more it is the writers' wish that the true plays of Shakespeare may prove to them in older years -- enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honorable thoughts and actions. To teach courtesy, benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these virtues, his pages are full."
Simple and compelling, these vibrant retellings of the great playwright's timeless tales will undoubtedly charm readers of all ages.
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Pigs and rodents can breathe through the gut, according to recent research. Thanks to the finding that mammals can have this ability, this method is planned to be used in people with respiratory failure.
It is thought that 'intestinal breathing' can be life-saving, especially for patients who need to stay connected to the respirator during the epidemic.
It turns out that pigs and rodents share an unexpected trait with some aquatic creatures. According to a result of a new study Pigs and rodents could breathe through their entrails, hence it was discovered that they could breathe through their butt. Two mammals with respiratory failure were rescued as a result of the study.
It was known that aquatic creatures such as loaches and sea cucumbers could breathe through their intestines without using gills or lungs. According to a study published on May 14, pigs and rodents also have this ability. According to the results of ongoing studies, this method can be used in humans thanks to various materials and it can save lives in cases of respiratory failure that require immediate intervention.
In the study, where different forms of oxygen were given to the intestines of mammals with respiratory failure, it was revealed that pigs and rodents could benefit from oxygenated water and gaseous oxygen given to their intestines. Animals did not experience any health problems after the procedure. Therefore, the study is thought to provide life-saving findings for respiratory patients in critical condition.
It was found that 75% of rats, mice, and pigs in low oxygen conditions survived 50 minutes longer than normal after receiving oxygen through the intestine. However, it is not possible to use it in human medicine. Because the release of oxygen in gas form from the anus to the intestines may cause erosion in the intestinal mucosa. So the researchers tried the same process with oxygenated perfluoro-chemical fluid, and they got positive results. In this way, it has been proven that these chemicals are biologically compatible with humans and are safe.
The current COVID-19 outbreak greatly increases the clinical need for ventilators and artificial lungs, causing inadequate devices and endangering the lives of patients worldwide.
and stated that the oxygen needs of critically ill patients can be met in this way during the epidemic.


Unlike many people fear that computers will overtake humans, Ray Kurzweil states that robots will merge with humans, robots the size of cells which can do the job way more efficient than our actual cells. An example on this are respirocytes; robots the size and functions of a red blood cell, but way more efficient (movie).
Respirocytes are able to store 1.51 billion oxygen molecules, 100% of which are accessible to the tissues. In contrast, our blood cells store about 1 billion of red blood cells and only 25% is accessible to the tissue. Replacing 10% of your actual red blood cells will enable you to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath or allows you to stay underwater for four hours.
In his TED-talk Kurzweil calls this 2020 technology. Many major steps have been made within the field of nanotechnology and Respirocytes are quite likely to be actually manufactured someday. Hence, we may anticipate some new
doping scandals world records at the Olympics of 2020.
Related: Voyage of the bacteria bots, How biotech will drive our evolution, Craig Venter: catalyst of evolution, Build a better being.
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Ray Kurzweil is a pretty good example of a rational, non-crazy person. I'm glad you cited him as a legitimate expert on something other than crazy things.


Health is an indivisible condition of body, mind and spirit where infirmity and illness are absent. The practice of hygiene is directly linked with the maintenance of good health since no individual can be healthy if he is not free from dirt, wounds, bacteria and germs. Thus, all the members of the society need to practice good hygiene so that they may not get sick and may lead a normal life.
Health varies as per the status of different organ systems. A healthy individual is free from ill health and has strong resistance to diseases, whereas a person with ill health exhibits weak resistance and becomes an easy victim to various kinds of infections and ailments. Hence, hygiene is equated with the mental health status of an individual. In simple words, healthy people are free from mental illnesses and other unfitness while persons of ill health are susceptible to various kinds of mental disorders. Thus, a person of healthy physical health status is far more capable of combating the dangers of various types of disease than the person of ill health status.
Public health aims at the promotion of healthy living conditions. It deals with the eradication of all types of diseases and other health problems that may disrupt the harmony of the society. Some of the diseases that are common in modern society include diabetes, arthritis, various kinds of heart diseases, HIV/AIDS, obesity, and various kinds of cancer.
These diseases are usually incurable and hence treatment is either limited or totally unavailable. Hence, it is very essential to bring down the ratio of affected people to the minimum. Prevention is considered to be one of the most important aspects of health promotion. Hence, the best way of prevention is to avoid any kind of disease. A few tips on this are given below: a. Avoid consumption of food that contains pesticide residues, insecticides, hydrogenated fats, and processed foods.
b. Maintaining a healthy diet is another important aspect of public health. This includes proper food intake and the right proportion of nutrients and minerals that you consume. Some of the definitions of health needs include:
c. Stress management is also included in the definition of health promotion. Stress can affect the body adversely. Thus, it is very essential to reduce the stress levels of your life. Some of the major determinants of stress levels in the United States include, lack of effective coping mechanisms, coping strategies that are inappropriate for your job, problems with personal relationships, high level of work-related anxiety, job performance pressure, time constraints and various other factors.


Adolescents Have Their Own Mental Health Issues
It is roughly estimated that 20 percent of adolescents in the US have some sort of mental health issue. Having a mental health issue certainly does not mean you are crazy; these are issues that impact the way you act, the way you feel and the way you think when faced with a particular situation.
Everybody, adolescents or adults, have times when they think or feel something that they do not like, the same with actions, there are times when people do something that others don’t like. It is not that these situations are abnormal but when these actions are accompanied by unwanted thoughts, feelings or actions that there may be mental health problems involved, an adolescent therapy center in Burnsville can help those with these types of problems and issues.
What lies behind adolescent mental health problems?
Adolescent mental health problems can be caused by a number of things, including:
Violence: If an adolescent sees violence or endures a violent act this can develop into a mental health problem.
Stress: Young people today are under a great deal of stress from peers and society in general. Although it is impossible to escape stress, too much of it can be problematic.
Relationships: Young people tend to develop bonds quickly. In the event a friend moves away or simply no longer wants to associate with you this can lead to sadness and loneliness which can lead to mental health issues.
An adolescent therapy center in Burnsville can offer three types of therapy; one on one, group as well as family. The type of therapy that best suits an individual depends to a great extent on what the problem or problems are.
There is no preset time for therapy; some problems are resolved quickly while other, deeper rooted problems, take longer.
If your youngster is having difficulties perhaps the solution lies with an adolescent therapy center in Burnsville. You are invited to discuss the issues with the therapists at Options Family & Behavior Services.


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- After this display, Alycidon always raced in blinkers, although there appeared to be nothing irresolute about his racing.
- In about 1750 Lord Egmont describer the Claytons as 'strange people and not to be depended upon' but observed that their attendance was infrequent and they were irresolute in opposition.
- He considers Goethe's 'paralysis from over-intellectualization' explanation as well as the idea that Hamlet is a "pathologically irresolute character".
- The inexperienced and irresolute youth speedily became the victim of the most shameful chicanery.
- His irresolute and selfish behavior has symbolically led to Effie's death, Pepita's return to immorality and Marjorie's continuation in a life of debauchery.
- The average quality of the soldiers in the garrison was probably not as high as Lovell and Duncan would have liked; the most militant had been drawn off for other fields, leaving the irresolute and the unfit.
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In this article we will learn how to calculate cumulative frequency(cf) but before that, lets define frequency. Frequency is the number of times something happens within a particular period.
Cumulative means increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions. Therefore, cumulative frequency is the total of a frequency and all frequencies so far in a frequency distribution.
Types of Cumulative Frequency.
There are two types of cumulative frequency i.e lesser than and greater than cumulative frequency.
Lesser Than Cumulative Frequency.
Lesser than cumulative frequency is obtained by adding successively the frequencies of all the previous classes including the class against which it is written. The cumulate starts from the lowest to the highest size.
Greater Than Cumulative Frequency.
Greater than cumulative frequency is obtained by finding the cumulative total of frequencies starting from the highest to the lowest class. It is also called more than type cumulative frequency.
How to Calculate Cumulative Frequency.
The frequency distribution table below records number of plates with their colors.
|Color of plate||Number (Frequency)|
The first cumulative frequency is the same as the first frequency, as you just add a zero to the frequency.
To calculate cf, we add the first frequency to the second frequency, then add the third frequency to the result and the process continues.
|Color of plate||Number (frequency)||Cumulative frequency|
The cumulative frequency in the last row is the same as the total sum of frequencies.


button elements offer attributes to change form behavior
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I read Chris Coyier's complete Guide to Links and Buttons today. Unfortunately,
a elements are often misused, and to help out, Chris gives a good overview of their functionalities and best practices.
One section about button attributes caught my eye. Chris lists the attributes one could use with a
The following attributes were new to me:
It turns out, that you can use these button attributes to overwrite the behavior of an associated form.
Let's have a look at an example.
<form action="/some-endpoint" method="post"> <label> Your name <input name="full-name" type="text" required> </label> <button formaction="/some-other-endpoint" formmethod="get" formnovalidate>Submit</button> </form>
The initial configuration of this form leads to a
POST request made to
/some-endpoint. Also, the form should only be submittable when the
full-name input holds a value.
This configuration is overwritten by the submit button, though. 😲
If you hit the submit button (or press
ENTER inside the input field), there is no input value validation anymore (
formnovalidate). The made request is a
GET request (
formmethod) going to
You might not need these "overwrite-attributes" very often, but when you do, I bet they're life-savers!
You can read more about these attributes on MDN, or look at the form example from above on CodePen.
Edited: Today, I read an article on funwithform.com and learned that buttons also support a
form attribute. This attribute enables you to connect developers to place buttons somewhere in the document but still keep a form connection. Very cool!
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Winegrowers’ decision-making: A pan-European perspective on pesticide use and inter-row management
European viticultural landscapes not only support a significant share of rural livelihoods and cultural traditions, but also conserve biodiversity and sustain various ecosystem services. Winegrowers' practices of inter-row management (including whether to have vegetation in the inter-rows, type of vegetation, duration of vegetation cover, and soil tillage) and pesticide use (including herbicides in the inter-rows, fungicides, insecticides, and pheromone dispensers as an alternative) can affect these services. This study aims to understand winegrowers' decision-making driven by their personal characteristics, attitudes and beliefs towards viticultural practices, physical properties of vineyards, and farm management characteristics in five European winegrowing regions. These include Palatinate in Germany, Leithaberg in Austria, Tarnave in Romania, Bordeaux in France, and Montilla-Moriles in Spain. Based on a questionnaire survey, we constructed decision trees for each behaviour per case study as well as in a generic European model. We found factors that best explain how winegrowers manage their inter-rows and use pesticides. Results showed that not only do behaviours of winegrowers vary drastically across the case studies, but also the factors that explain most behaviours: farmers' attitudes and beliefs and farm management characteristics. This implies the importance of attitudes and beliefs – which are under-researched as compared to other factors – in understanding farmers’ behaviour. With the driving factors found to vary per case study, our results also imply the need for locally-adapted policies. Furthermore, our results suggest that the effects of climate change on European viticultural landscapes concern not only shifting production regions and changes in yields, but also changing pressure of pests and diseases. Any long-term behavioural change requires efforts from many stakeholders.


In response to the tragic murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and the resulting wave of protests around the world, many institutions throughout the nation have voiced strong opposition to racism. They have taken steps to address inequities within their respective organizations. For its part, Georgia State University has created a dedicated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) website (https://dei.gsu.edu) with a series of programs, initiatives, opportunities and resources for faculty and students alike.
The Georgia State University School of Music has likewise recently formed its own School of Music Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee dedicated to addressing issues of inclusion, diversity and equity within the context of the performance and study of music in particular. Made up of a wide cross-section of faculty, staff and alumni, the School of Music DEI Committee is co-chaired by Dr. Marva Carter and Dr. Oliver Greene. During the fall semester, the committee will develop strategies and goals for including current students in conversations about diversity, inclusion and equity, as well as addressing inequities in the presentation of musical works and composers and longstanding biases within the academic curriculum. While the huge issue of racism cannot be solved in a single semester, the School of Music DEI Committee has been charged with creating a firm foundation to build upon. The School of Music plans on making this new committee a permanent standing committee and is dedicated to fostering an environment of inclusion both on the performance stage as well as in the classroom.
Dr. Nickitas Demos
School of Music Director


Are Airships The Answer To Canada’s Interior Woes?
No, this isn’t Jules Verne
By land mass, Canada is the second largest country on Earth. Yet much like Earth’s largest country, Russia, humans populate a very small amount of its land. This leaves large tracts of resources untapped and wilderness unvisited. However, snow and ice make vast swathes of this land inaccessible for all but a few summer months, and large sea ice prevents the same for ships much of the time. And though increasing global temperatures will eventually (if global climate change isn’t halted) reduce sea ice and the potential severity of winter, there’s another alternative if humans want to traverse interior Canada before that happens: actual freakin’ airships.
Barry Prentice is a professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba. He recently submitted a paper to Transport Canada (the Canadian government’s equivalent of America’s Department of Transportation) entitled “Transport Airships for Northern Logistics: Technology for the 21st Century.” It argues that, despite the firey failures of the past, Airships have a lot to offer the world of tomorrow, and even today.
After outlining the hurdles of season-limited maritime traffic, risky land transport, and expensive airplane shipping, Prentice writes:
Highlighting the efforts of a few existing modern airship companies, Prentice outlines one of the first markets where it seems airships truly offer a competitive advantage. Needing only limited space to deliver their goods and capable of carrying heavy cargoes, airships could act much like ocean-going vessels do for much of the world: hauling in bulk items regularly, without the added costs and speed of airplane delivery.
Even better, they’re a tool for the economic development of vast, cold areas that works even if humans manage to halt climate change.


Eager for Glory: The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania
"The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire" (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome's most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his remarkable story, achievements, and legacy. Eager for Glory brings this heroic figure back to life for a modern audience.
Drusus was a stepson of Augustus through his marriage to Livia. As a military commander he led daring campaigns by sea and land that pushed the northern frontiers of Rome's empire to the Elbe River. He oversaw one of the largest developments of military infrastructure of the age. He married Marc Antony's daughter, Antonia, and fathered Germanicus, Rome's most popular general, and the future emperor Claudius. He was grandfather of Caligula. He died when he was only twenty-nine and was revered in death.
Drawing on ancient texts, evidence from inscriptions and coins, the latest findings in archaeology, as well as astronomy and medical science, Lindsay Powell has produced a long overdue and definitive account of this great Roman.
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Florida residents don’t expect to drive and get into a car accident, but these incidents are often unpredictable. When an accident does occur and a person is hurt, there are a variety of injuries they can sustain.
Whiplash is a soft tissue injury that affects the neck and spine. One of the chief causes of this injury is motor vehicle accidents. It develops when a person’s head and neck are rapidly thrust forward while the rest of the body stays still. Often, a person feels fine immediately after an accident when they’ve suffered whiplash, but a few hours or days later, they begin to feel soreness in the neck.
Herniated discs are also common injuries from car accidents. When one vehicle collides with another, the impact can cause a jolt to a person’s spine and cause a disc within the vertebrae to become displaced or even break. This results in significant pain in the neck due to the lack of cushioning in the affected area.
Thoracic spinal cord injury
A thoracic spinal cord injury affects the upper and middle areas of the spine. A person can suffer this injury after a car crash and could be left paralyzed or dealing with a compression fracture. In the case of the latter type of thoracic spinal cord injury, a brace and rehab could help the person heal.
Certain people are more susceptible to spinal stenosis after a car accident. Those who have weakening of the spine due to previous trauma or osteoporosis are more likely to develop it. Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spine that can lead to weakness, numbness and pain.
Neck and spinal injuries can be permanent or temporary, but they always adversely affect your life. Seeking medical attention after a car accident is crucial to your recovery.


Guðfinna Th. Aðalgeirsdóttir, a glaciologist, believes that if things continue as they are, Snæfellsjökull will disappear completely in the next few decades, Vísir reports. According to Guðfinna, all glaciers will disappear in the coming decades, but it is still possible to slow down the process.
An alarming development has taken place on the country’s glaciers in recent decades, but almost three years have passed since a funeral service was held for Ok, the glacier Iceland lost due to climate change. Guðfinna did not want to predict which glacier would be next to disappear but considered it clear that it will only be a few decades before most of the main ones will seize to exist.
Glacier snow coverage is measured twice a year, in winter and in summer. Guðfinna says that since the beginning of measurements being taken in the early nineties, the performance of glaciers was positive—more snow was added to them in the winter than melted in the summer. However, the opposite has been the case since 1994 and the glaciers have been melting steadily since then.
Guðfinna mentioned an unusually cold patch in the sea southwest of Iceland, which has slowed down the melting of glaciers since 2010. She also stated that if global warming slows down, the glaciers will be quick to respond.
According to Guðfinna, it’s anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions that lead to increased global warming, and thus melting glaciers, as the earth’s temperature has already risen by more than one degree.
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In Foundation Stage, children are exposed to and use technology daily. Children are encouraged to use iPads to take photographs and work collectively to access technology for games, researching topics and viewing digital media. They also have access to old technology, such as tills, computers and phones, to use in role-play to build experiences with the digital world. In KS1 we aim to teach the basic skills to support children to access technology and word process themselves, while recognising the use of technology around them including the advantages, disadvantages and importantly how to use it safely. By the end of KS1, we aim for them to have some intent and creativity when word processing. As their language and grammar skills improve, we introduce a greater variety of software and choice in KS2, expecting more detail and intent; supporting them to think about how they can communicate, collaborate and contribute to the wider world through technology. We begin to work more in project form using a shared space to access their work. This allows them to build on their skills across a sequence of lessons. UKS2 has a much greater emphasis on refining their work to be interactive and interesting for an audience across a range of software – confidently combining media, research and hardware and software, evaluating their work more explicitly. Throughout KS2 we explore an element of technology of the online world to understand how it works.
Pupils are taught in Computer Science to think logically to make things happen with technology, breaking down problems and solving them throughout. Initially, it is very practical using hardware such as beebots, which are introduced in Foundation Stage to support their Maths, and built on in KS1. By KS2, children move to the abstract, working with software such as Logo, Scratch and combining hardware and software in Sam’s Lab – writing algorithms, thinking logically about what functions are required and solving bugs.
Throughout the school E-Safety is taught at the start at the start of the year and regularly throughout, with children recognising first how to be safe, then how to interact with others, how to report issues and how to filter information in the online world, both through active research and what they naturally experience. The SMART rules are the starting point across all year groups.


Research in the field of nanotechnologies
Nanotechnologies are a scientific discipline based on application of natural processes by means of which we can develop materials with unique properties.
What are we trying to achieve?
Nanostructuring of textile surfaces enables to change performance characteristics, e.g.:
- optimization of wettability from superhydrophobicity, “self-cleaning effect” up to high hydrophilicity value of the originally hydrophobic materials,
- adhesive properties,
- electrical properties (enhancement and/or reduction of surface electric resistance),
- antimicrobial properties,
- optical properties,
- resistance to mechanical and chemical damage etc.
Inspired by nature
Nanostructure of textile material causes a drop-forming effect, when drops roll on the surface, resulting in so-called self-cleaning surface. The textile material becomes hydrophobic and soil resistant while maintaining its original properties, e.g. vapour permeability.
Lotus leaf effect
Self-cleaning surface showing the “Lotus leaf effect” has been developed using a new method of impregnation based on nanotechnology
(surface structuring) imitating natural self-cleaning lotus leaf effect.
Fabric before soiling
Soiling the fabric
Rinsing with ordinary water
Fabric after rinsing with water
Application of progressive nanotechnologies is at the beginning of development in textile and fibre industry. Our research projects focused mainly on application of so-called nanosols on the surface of textile materials to achieve change in their hydrophobic and/or hydrophilic properties, antimicrobial and electrostatic properties.
By means of nanoparticles with a size of 10-9 m applied to so-called sol solutions, prepared usually from siloxane compounds synthetized using sol-gel technology, it was possible to obtain desirable nanostructured textile surfaces. Low-temperature plasma or UV radiation are used appropriately to enhance permanency of the nanosol finish. Antimicrobial nanoparticles have been for example incorporated into synthetic fibres to achieve their permanent finish.


Cancer development requires genetic changes in several different oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Mutated cells occur with any change in the DNA sequence of a cell. Therefore, mistakes may cause mutations during cell division, or they may be caused by exposure to DNA-damaging agents in the environment. Thus, cancer is a disease of many cellular mutations.
Radiation - Different types of radiation cause different types of genetic changes. Radiation can directly damage DNA or cause chemicals (i.e. reactive oxygen species or ROS) that can damage DNA or other cell components.
Chemical Mutagens - Many different chemicals are known to cause mutations. These chemicals exert their effect by binding to DNA or the building blocks of DNA and interfering with the replication or transcription processes.
Chronic Inflammation - Chronic inflammation can lead to DNA damage due to the production of mutagenic chemicals by the cells of the immune system.
Oxygen Radicals - During the capture of energy from food, which occurs in our mitochondria, chemicals may be generated which are very reactive and are capable of damaging cell membranes and DNA itself.
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Advanced neuro-technologies including wireless EEG and robotized TMS enable first successful transmission.
In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers have demonstrated the viability of direct brain-to-brain communication in humans. Recently published in PLOS ONE the highly novel findings describe the successful transmission of information via the internet between the intact scalps of two human subjects – located 5,000 miles apart.
“We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways,” explains coauthor Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. “One such pathway is, of course, the internet, so our question became, ‘Could we develop an experiment that would bypass the talking or typing part of internet and establish direct brain-to-brain communication between subjects located far away from each other in India and France ?’”


Several of these chants and mantras are ancient Sanskrit chants/Mantras. Sanskrit is an ancient language, is highly mathematical and scientific. It is considered one of the Oldest languages and is a Sacred language. It is considered by some linguist as the most “perfect language.” Sanskrit expands our consciousness – It is not just an academic language. It has 50 distinct sounds that are scientifically arrange to invigorate every nerve channel. Listening to Sanskrit chants energizes our body. Typically when we just listen to some clatter or talk we expel our “Prana” or life force whereas when we chant or listen to chants in Sanskrit, it redirects the “Prana” into our body, thereby leaving us reinvigorated and energized.
When chanting in Sanskrit it is extremely important to pronounce it right. Recent scientific studies have shown that proper pronunciation of Sanskrit words and mantras allows one to activate and trigger neurons in the brain and restructure the neural pathways between the brain’s two hemispheres that can lead us to higher levels of consciousness. There is an entire science of sound known as Nada Yoga in India that explores the sacred link between sound, form, and healing – something that modern scientists and physicists are just beginning to comprehend.


Playing along the number line
Designing and evaluating a number game to improve early numeracy.
Dr Francesco Sella, Professor Tim Jay, and Ella James-Brabham are undertaking a research project funded by the Nuffield Foundation to co-develop a number board game with teachers and children. The findings could have implications for the tools schools use to help support the development of children’s early numerical skills.
Playing with number line games improves a range of numerical skills, including counting, identifying numbers, and comparing the magnitude of numbers (e.g., Ramani & Siegler, 2008). Simple board games show promise for decreasing gaps between low-income and high-income children as they are more beneficial for children with lower number knowledge (Ramani & Siegler, 2011) and are practical and effective within a classroom context (Ramani et al., 2012).
While most of the linear board games involve counting forward, recent research by Dr Francesco Sella, at Loughborough University, has highlighted how the ability to count backwards may reflect a more advanced understanding of counting. Accordingly, children develop a better understanding of number magnitude when they can tell the result of removing one item from a set (i.e., counting backward; Sella & Lucangeli, 2020).
Following these findings, we are developing a board game which entails both counting forward and backwards. After designing the game in collaboration with expert teachers and supported by children’s feedback, we will evaluate whether playing the linear board game number, especially the counting backwards condition, improves early numeracy in young children.


We who live in Lake Forest Park inherit some special blessings. Clear, singing streams criss-cross our city. Wooded bluffs and wetlands teem with songbirds and other creatures who make our lives richer. Some of the creeks are home to salmon and trout. All of them used to be. Time, and our ways of using land, have not been kind to them.
More people are becoming aware – perhaps more than at any time in our City’s history – of the extraordinary beauty and importance of our green and wet landscape, and the fish, birds and wildlife that live here. Hundreds of local citizens are focusing their energy on our shared natural treasures and giving their time and money toward protecting them. Perhaps this little book can give that movement a boost. It’s a brief geography, with some history, of the streams, wetlands, bluffs, public parks and open spaces in your City. There are maps to help you locate these fragile areas. State Fish and Wildlife biologists have contributed suggestions for improving our streams and other common wealth, and ways in which you can become involved.
We hope you’ll find something here you didn’t know, and perhaps be moved to join your community’s effort to stay green and grow greener.
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Photo information: Chinook salmon in McAleer Creek, 2000.


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a long history of NOT protecting the environment or Americans. For example, in 2021, it was exposed that the agency may have been aware for years of a probable link between Roundup’s toxic ingredient, glyphosate, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Now it plans to approve farmers’ use of known toxic chemicals that harm insects.
From The Guardian:
Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects
The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, butterflies and other insects to continue in America for the next 15 years, despite moves by the European Union to ban the use of toxins that have been blamed for widespread insect declines.
The EPA is widely expected to confirm a proposed plan outlined last year that will extend the use of imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, clothianidin and dinotefuran on US farmland for the next 15 years, even though the agency has noted “ecological risks of concern, particularly to pollinators and aquatic invertebrates”.
These four insecticides are all types of neonicotinoids, a class of chemicals that is widely used on crops to treat them for pests but has been found to cause devastation among non-target insects, such as bees. The chemicals assault receptors in an insect’s nerve synapse, causing uncontrollable shaking, paralysis and death.
Neonicotinoids are used across 150m acres of American cropland, an area roughly the size of Texas, and have contributed to the land becoming 48 times more toxic than it was a quarter of a century ago. The chemicals are water soluble and quickly leach out of plants into soils and streams, causing such harmful impacts to wildlife that Canada has restricted their use while the EU has banned the outdoor deployment of clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.
But while states such as Connecticut and New Jersey have enacted some curbs on neonicotinoids, the US federal government is set to bend to pressure from farming groups and pesticide makers to perpetuate their use nationally.
Read more: Despite Being Banned in Europe, EPA to Approve Toxic Pesticides that Paralyze Bees, Butterflies, and Other Insects


This is an easy to make paper helicopter template from NASA.
The PDF of the template is linked below.
Air must move across the surface of a wing to produce lift. To fly, birds and insects use a flapping motion to move the air over and around the wing surface. The wings of airplanes are attached to the fuselage in a fixed position. Lift is generated by moving the entire wing and body through the air. Helicopters are rotary wing aircraft; they rotate the wing surface through the air to produce lift.
Lift is produced by the pressure differences caused by the shape of rotating blades; this is the same way lift is produced by aircraft wings. The rapidly moving air over the top of the blade creates low pressure; the air beneath the blade is moving slower, so it creates higher pressure (see “Paper Bag Mask” pages 26-27, Bernoulli’s principle, for more information). High pressure under the rotor blades creates lift which causes the aircraft to rise.
Since the paper models have no motor, they only have one source of lift. As the paper models fall they will spin, imitating the rotation of the rotor blades of a helicopter. Because there is no thrust to produce upward movement, the helicopter will not fly upward, but the spin will reduce the rate of fall by producing lift, resisting the force of gravity. NASA builds and tests experimental helicopters and tiltrotor airplanes in an effort to achieve lower noise levels and greater fuel efficiency. Models are tested in NASA’s wind tunnels at Langley, Lewis, and Ames Research Centers.
Cut along the solid lines of the template.
Here is PDF of the template:
Paper Helicopter Template NASA
TIP: You can print out different sizes of the helicopter using the “Pages per Sheet” option when Printing.
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Carbon capture and storage
For carbon capture and storage (CCS), three different steps are identified in the TIMER model:
- CO2 capture and compression;
- CO2 transport;
- CO2 storage.
Carbon capture is assumed possible for power generation, half of the industrial sector and hydrogen production. In these sectors CCS technologies are defined that compete over market shares with conventional technologies (without CCS). The CCS technologies involve higher costs and a slightly lower conversion efficiency, and are therefore not chosen under default conditions. However, according to model calculations, the costs of these CCS technologies would increase far less compared to conventional technologies if a carbon price would be introduced. Carbon capture is assumed at a maximum of 95%, the remaining 5% is still influenced by the carbon price. The actual market shares of conventional and CCS-based technologies are determined for each market, using multinomial logit equations. The costs of carbon capture are based on Hendriks et al. (Hendriks et al., 2002; Hendriks et al., 2004a; Hendriks et al., 2004b).
The use of CCS increases power generation costs by about 40% to 50%, for natural-gas-fired and coal-fired power plants. Expressed in terms of costs per unit of CO2, this is roughly equivalent to between USD2005 35 and 45/t CO2. Similar cost levels are assumed for industrial sources. CO2 transport costs were estimated for each region and storage category, based on the distance between the main CO2 sources (industrial centres) and storage sites (Hendriks et al., 2002a). The estimated transport costs vary from USD2005 1 to 30/t CO2 – the majority being below USD2005 10/t CO2.
Finally, for each region, the potential for storage categories has been estimated, including:
- empty onshore oil or gas fields;
- operational onshore oil or gas fields;
- empty offshore oil or gas fields;
- operational offshore oil or gas fields;
- enhanced coal-based methane recovery;
For each category, storage costs were determined, with values typically of USD2005 5 to 10/t CO2 (Hendriks et al., 2004b). This page is referred by Energy conversion/Description


What Is Glaucoma?
Glaucoma is a disease that affects the optic nerve — this is the part of the eye that transmits the images we see to the brain. The optic nerve is made up of many fibers, like an electric cable with numerous wires. When damage to these nerve fibers occurs, blind spots can develop.
These usually go undetected until there is significant damage to the optic nerve. If the entire nerve is destroyed, the result is blindness.
Early detection by your ophthalmologist is an important way to prevent optic nerve damage and blindness. The doctors at Eye Care Institute in Santa Rosa specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the United States, especially for older people. However, loss of sight from this disease can often be prevented with early treatment.
Causes Of Glaucoma
Glaucoma is frequently caused by high eye pressure. A clear liquid called aqueous humor circulates inside the front portion of the eye. To maintain a healthy level of pressure within the eye, a small amount of this fluid is produced constantly while an equal amount flows out of the eye through a microscopic drainage system.
Because the eye is a closed structure, if the drainage area for the aqueous humor—called the drainage angle—is blocked, the excess fluid cannot flow out of the eye. Fluid pressure within the eye increases, pushing against the optic nerve and causing damage.
As a rule, damage caused by glaucoma cannot be reversed. Eye drops, laser surgery, and surgery in the operating room are used to lower eye pressure and help prevent further damage.
Periodic examinations are very important to prevent vision loss. Because the disease can progress without your knowledge, adjustments to your treatment may be necessary from time to time.
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Synthetic turf fields are a common sight nowadays in sports fields, community parks, and playgrounds.
There are several components to these fields: the synthetic fibers meant to replicate blades of grass, the backing material the fibers are connected to, and the base material, or infill, that stabilizes the fibers and ensures they remain upright. A variety of infill materials are available on the market, but the most common is crumb rubber, used by over 98% of all synthetic turf sports fields in the world.
Here’s a closer look at this essential component of a quality artificial turf field: crumb rubber, the small black rubber pellets you find mixed into the synthetic grass.
Crumb rubber is a material made from grinding up used tires. It is a recycling process that repurposes an estimated 30 million used tires each year, providing an environment-friendly use for tires that would otherwise sit in a landfill.
All the steel and fiber components are removed during the recycling process, and the resulting rubber pellets are sorted by size. The recommended sizes for use on synthetic turf range from one-sixteenth to one-quarter of an inch in diameter.
It remains true that crumb rubber is an important component in quality artificial turf. One of the biggest advantages artificial turf has over natural grass is its safety in regards to preventing injuries — the rubber infill helps tremendously in cushioning the impact of players hitting the ground.
Additionally, an artificial turf field is more durable and resilient than grass, allowing hours of heavy play year-round, no matter the weather conditions. The cost of maintenance is also significantly lower than a grass field, and in the event that the fibers wear down or the infill levels run low, an artificial turf maintenance service is merely a click away.
If you are looking to experience the benefits of an artificial turf field, contact Keystone Sports Construction today to experience our excellent services and build the best turf field for your facility.


To supplement my post on the unity of the Bible, I created an infographic that lists each book of the Bible and its author (or possible author in some cases). Each entry contains the name of the author, name of the book, the date of composition, and some details on the author. For the dates of the books, I mainly consulted Andrew E. Hill and John H. Walton, A Survey of the Old Testament, 3rd ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009); D. Edmond Hiebert, An Introduction to the New Testament: Three Volume Collection (Waynesboro: Gabriel Publishing, 2003); and my class notes from my Bible survey classes from seminary. However, any mistakes are entirely my own.
The purpose of this graphic is to add to the argument I made in my post on the unity of the Bible. The names and dates I provided are the traditional (and more conservative) authors and dates of the 66 books of the Bible. The graphic shows that there are around 40 authors of the Bible, and the books of the Bible were written over a period of about 1,500 years. It would seem that a group of people from vastly different backgrounds (including fishermen, shepherds, physicians, kings, prophets, tax collectors, etc.), locations, and times would produce a jumble of literature that would not cohere whatsoever. Yet, in the Bible we find a comprehensive view of reality and the human condition and a complete and coherent story of creation, fall, and redemption.
Traditional Authors of the Bible
Blessings and enjoy!


Ladakh Population 2023
Ladakh is a union territory in the northern region of India. Until 2019, Ladakh was a region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, on 31 October 2019, It became a union territory. It’s the largest and the second least populous union territory of India. As per provisional reports of Census India, the population of Ladakh in 2011 is 290,492 (2.90 Lakhs)
Ladakh has a population growth rate during 2011-2021 of 0.51%. Its estimated population in 2021 is 2.97 Lakhs*.
Population of Ladakh in 2023 – 3 Lakh (Approx)
|Total Population||274,289 (2.74 Lakhs)|
|Total Area||59,146 km2|
|Average Literacy (%)||74.25%|
|Formation||31 Oct 2019|
Source: Census 2011 & Estimates
Top Cities in Ladakh by Population
The largest town in Ladakh is Leh, followed by Kargil, each of which headquarters a district i.e Leh & Kargil.
List of Districts in Ladakh
As of 2021, there are 2 Districts in Ladakh.
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Population of Ladakh 2023 | Districts in Ladakh


Strange Fruit: Alabama Grapes
In a continued exploration of the still-life genre, Dial borrowed the stock image of grape clusters so ubiquitous in the fine-art tradition and recast them to portray a horrific chapter in African American history—the practice of lynching blacks in the South. Calling the series Strange Fruit, in reference to the Billie Holiday song of the same title, he appropriated a major trope from the history of Western painting and recolonized it with the politics of black revolutionary consciousness.
The original version of “Strange Fruit” was written in the late 1930s by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish school teacher and union activist from the Bronx who later set his poem to music. With Holiday’s performance of the song, it soon became enshrined in the popular imagination as a symbol of the racist horrors suffered by African Americans:
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
In the first of Dial’s Strange Fruit paintings, sub-titled Alabama Grapes, Dial presents two gigantic clusters of purple grapes, enlarged to fill the entire canvas and set against a blood-red background. The rounded shapes of the overripe hanging fruit are formed from the artist’s crushed paint cans in a way that symbolically conflates the history of black oppression and lynching with Dial’s own struggle as a Black artist. Ragged carpet and cut tin, painted green, form the oversize leaves of the drooping grapevine. Across the bottom of the canvas are fragments of old wire fence and screening. Bent and twisted into a kind of irregular enclosure, this row of rusty mesh recalls the lines of decrepit fencing in an abandoned grape arbor. Within Dial’s symbolic vocabulary, such fenced enclosures also signify both the slave pens of an earlier era and the ongoing barriers black Americans still face in their struggle to realize their aspirations.


Aerodynamic Model of Birds Formation
We will do general considerations regarding multiplane lifting systems starting from Munk’s theory. For a given pair lifting lines the stagger angle is defined as the angle between the vector of the lifting lines and its projection onto a plane normal to the direction of flight. If this angle is zero, the system is said to be unstaggered, otherwise the system is staggered. A generic lifting surface is reduced to a single vortex line having a known distribution of circulation. The vortex is closed with the tip vortices and a starting vortex at infinity. This model replaces the wakes with tip vortices, and the circulation with a bound vortex.
Under the above linearizing assumptions, the complex aerodynamics arising from the an arbitrary number of lifting surfaces can be solved without requiring prohibitive computer costs.
The drag mutually induced by a pair of lifting lines flying at a generic speed is a function of the circulation of both lifting lines and of a number of quantities describing the geometric arrangement of the system. The induced drag is independent of the stagger angle (Munk’s stagger theorem). If the system is unstaggered then D_ij = D_ji.
which is Munk’s reciprocity theorem. The induced drag of a multiplane system does not change if the elements are translated in a direction parallel to the direction of flight. Once the elements are unstaggered, the drag mutually induced by the pair has equal contribution from each element. The induced drag and lift vanish as the mutual distance of the elements of a given pair increases.
For elliptic loading and unstaggered system, the problem can be solved in closed form. Indeed, a bird can not be considered a fixed wing, since it does adjust its lifting surfaces in order to produce minimum loading. This is generally obtained by assuming arrangements with spanwise camber, that have a well-known drag reduction effect. For given span non planar lifting surfaces have wave drag considerably lower than the elliptic loading (Munk’s cosine theorem)
The equation describing the lift distribution becomes singular when a pair of lifting lines is co-planar with the free stream, and when two lifting lines are too close. Thus, birds lagging behind may not lie on the same plane but must glide to a different altitude.
According to the stagger theorem for the computation of the total induced drag, the system can be unstaggered. However, unstaggering produces a different distribution of loads.


According to Chronic Disease Data on CDC.gov, in 2016 33.7% of Texas adults suffer from obesity. This is larger than your national average. To add on to that shocking statistic, in 2015, 68.2% of Texans enrolled in Medicare, have 2 or more chronic conditions. Even with all the health awareness efforts, and the pushes to eat heather and exercise more, these statistics are shocking and have been rising since 2011. National Public Health Week aims to raise awareness of these problems and all chronic illnesses and diseases that affect our communities.
This year National Public Health Week (NPHW) is April 2nd-6th, and nphw.org has a list of daily themes that you and anyone else can focus on for that day to help raise awareness. Below is the list of themes and how YOU can help promote awareness.
- April 2nd– Behavioral Health
- You can: Advocate for and promote well-being. Provide support, and encourage seeking treatment for friends and loved ones that suffer.
- April 3rd– Communicable Diseases
- You can: Learn about ways to prevent disease transmission. Know your status, keep yourself and your surroundings sanitized. Provide support for those suffering from these diseases.
- April 4th– Environmental Health
- You can: Help to protect and maintain a healthy planet by reducing carbon emission, recycling, carpooling, using public transit or walking and biking if your destination is close enough.
- April 5th– Injury and Violence Prevention
- You can: Learn about the effects of injury and violence on health. Support occupation health and safety standards, and policies that suffer from those struggling with addiction.
- April 6th– Ensuring the Right to Health
- You can: Advocate everyone’s right to a healthy life. Support this where you live, work, and learn.
You can find more information about NPHW at http://www.nphw.org/nphw-2018.
Remember when supporting people with these diseases, leave the treatment and assistance to the professionals.
Supporting NPHW and other programs through social media, calls, e-mails or word of mouth is your best way to help promote awareness!
Show your support by sharing this blog.
Wishing everyone a long, happy and healthy life!


Chicago's launch of a campaign to have its citizens read the same book (Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird") holds great promise to help connect a large population, take people away from TV, and promote a healthy discussion of racism at the same time.
The idea actually has its roots in Seattle, where it's now a yearly event. It's spread to Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., and other cities are planning similar events. Even one state, Kentucky, set out to have its entire population read native Barbara Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees," attracting some 9,000 readers.
Chicago, as part of a myriad of planned activities, will distribute 25,000 lapel pins with mockingbird logos. The idea is to jump-start conversation among "strangers." Partnerships with local businesses, along with numerous planned discussion groups, will provide safe spaces for conversation about the chosen books.
Reaching a decision on a single book for an entire city to read represents a significant achievement in itself (Harper Lee's novel was selected by a committee of city librarians). City officials, and the public, can carry over this consensus sensibility.
A note of caution: Events like these, as they grow in popularity, can risk being co-opted by those with less-than-altruistic motives, losing both their authenticity and appeal. The idea needs to stay within community-minded organizations, and prevented from becoming an easy marketing or public-relations ploy. That's helped when individuals, and each participating corporate or government partner, keep the community-strengthening goal squarely before them.
Binding large, diverse populations with books may not be easy. But working to help individuals find "over the back fence" conversation about difficult topics would probably make Harper Lee proud.


Illinois becomes first U.S. state to require Asian-American history in schools
By Nathan Layne
(Reuters) - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill on Friday requiring public schools to teach Asian-American history, the first such step by a U.S. state amid rising concerns about violence against people of Asian descent.
The bill mandates the teaching of a unit of Asian-American history in public elementary and high schools starting in the 2022-2023 school year.
"We are setting a new standard for what it means to truly reckon with our history," said Pritzker, who signed the legislation into law at a high school in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago.
Educating children about the contributions of Asian Americans in U.S. history would help curb the proliferation of false stereotypes and discrimination, the Democrat governor said.
Led by advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Chicago, supporters had been promoting the bill since early 2020. But it gained traction in the state legislature following the deadly attacks on Asian women in the Atlanta area in March.
Many Asian communities have been on edge amid a wave of violent incidents targeting them following lockdowns to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
The Teaching Equitable Asian American History Act says the curriculum should include teaching of the efforts made by Asian Americans to advance civil rights, as well as their contributions to the arts and sciences and to the economic and cultural development of the country.
Grace Pai, Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Chicago, said the bill would benefit the more than 100,000 Asian American students from kindergarten through high school in Illinois.
"So many students don't get a chance to learn about the contributions of their communities or the migration stories of their families, contributing to feelings of being 'othered'," Pai said in a statement.
(reporting by Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut; Editing by Andrew Heavens)


Oak trees are fairly common on farm properties. Acorns are produced by oak trees in autumn, and both acorns and leaves fall at that time of year. Many animals depend on acorns for their nutritional needs, but some animals, such as horses, cattle, goats, and sheep are sensitive to the toxins in acorns. Acorn toxicity in horses is caused by consuming large amounts of acorns. Regardless, they are harmless when consumed in scant amounts, especially when combined with the normal roughage of hay and grass.
Cattle are much more sensitive to acorn toxins than horses.
What is the cause?
In horses, tannins in acorns and leaves bind to proteins in the lining of the digestive tract and the microflora of the gut, causing damage to cells, while toxic metabolites trigger kidney and liver damage.
What are the Symptoms?
- Blood in the urine
- Kidney damage
- Edema (fluid buildup) in the neck, and abdomen
- Loss of appetite
It is difficult to diagnose acorn poisoning in horses and there is no medicine specifically for Acorn poisoning, which makes things even harder. Nonetheless, activated charcoal has been known to be an effective treatment for acorn poisoning. If given immediately after acorn ingestion, it can absorb toxins in the gut and allow them to be excreted from the system. During this time, the horse should have IV fluid therapy to help with dehydration as well.
The best method for treatment is always to prevent it. The only way to protect your horse from acorn poisoning is by fencing off oak tree areas and keeping your horse out of the wind path of falling acorns and leaves.


November is Native American Heritage Month, and to help bring awareness to Wisconsinites about some of the issues the Native American community have been facing, both past and present, Professor Sasha Suarez spoke with local Milwaukee news station WTMJ-TV. In the segment, Professor Suarez discusses her research in which “multiple city reports acknowledge that bosses were hesitant to hire Indians because they thought they were flighty or unreliable or prone to drunkenness.” She went on to speak on housing discrimination that hinders Native American renter applicants. Professor Suarez presented this research and more at the 2021 UW-Madison Diversity Forum in a panel on “Indigenous Activism: Past & Present.”
Professor Suarez received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, where her dissertation “Gakaabikaang: White Earth Ojibwe Women and the Creation of Indian Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century” examined the gendered practices of place-making, community organizing, and activism among White Earth Ojibwe in an urban environment from the 1920s to the 1970s. As a White Earth Ojibwe descendent herself, Professor Suarez’s research centers Indigenous women, urban Indigenous communities, and the multiple forms of activism Indigenous peoples perform in pursuit of sovereignty, self-determination, and wellbeing.
Watch her interview with WTMJ-TV.


There are a number of things you can do everyday to protect yourself and your family from COVID-19. Take the following precautions:
- GET VACCINATED
The greatest way to minimize the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is to be vaccinated. COVID-19 vaccines work well to keep you from getting sick. These vaccines are extremely effective in reducing serious disease, hospitalisation, and death.
- WEAR A MASK
Regardless of vaccination status, everyone ages 2 and up should wear a well-fitting mask indoors and in public areas. If you or someone in your household is at increased risk for severe disease or has a weakened immune system, or if someone in your household is not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines, wear a mask regardless of the level of community transmission.
- AVOID POOR VENTILATED SPACES
Avoid busy settings and indoor spaces that do not have fresh air from the outdoors. If possible, introduce fresh air into the house by opening windows and doors.
- WASH YOUR HANDS
After being in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing, wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
Use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol if soap and water aren’t readily available. Cover all of your hands and rub them together until they are completely dry. Keep in mind, unwashed hands should not be touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.
- MONITOR YOUR HEALTH DAILY
Keep an eye out for COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath. If symptoms arise, take your temperature and keep a check on it. But, take your temperature at least 30 minutes after exercising or after taking any medications because as it may affect the reading.
So, there you have it: a few simple methods for keeping COVID-19 away.
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The American Cancer Society has recently lowered its guidelines regarding colon cancer screening. It is now recommended that people should start getting screened at age 45 instead of at 50. Research has showed that people are getting colon cancer at younger and younger ages within the U.S. While there is no direct cause associated with this increase, the trend is clear enough to warrant a shift in the age guidelines.
1 Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the U.S. There are an estimated 97,220 new cases of colon cancer in 2018. Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is: about 1 in 22 (4.49%) for men and 1 in 24 (4.15%) for women.
Lower your risk of colon cancer
Unfortunately, you cannot prevent colon cancer. You can, however, take steps to lower your risk.
Here are a few tips to help lower your risk:
Maintain a healthy weight
Have a diet high in vegetables, fruits and wholegrains
Avoid excess alcohol
Most importantly, get tested if you’re age 45+
What are symptoms of colon cancer?
Bleeding from the rectum
Blood in the stool
A change in the shape of the stool, diarrhea, constipation
A change in bowel habits, or the feeling you need to make a bowl movement but there is none
If you notice any symptoms, go to your doctor for a checkup.
If you have any additional questions regarding your medications,
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History always has a way of surprising us with its fascinating and sometimes macabre aspects. One of the more mysterious and macabre items in history is an ancient Latin manuscript found in Kazakhstan, whose cover is made of human skin. What’s even more intriguing is that only a small portion of its pages have been deciphered so far. Therefore, the manuscript has been the subject of much speculation and research over the years, yet it remains shrouded in mystery.
The manuscript, thought to have been written in old Latin in 1532 by notary named Petrus Puardus from northern Italy, has 330 pages, but only 10 of them have been deciphered until today. According to the Daily Sabah report, the manuscript was donated by a private collector to the Rare Publications Museum of the National Academic Library in Astana, where it has been on display since 2014.
According to Möldir Tölepbay, an expert in the Science Department of the National Academic Library, the book was bound using a now-obsolete bookbinding method known as anthropodermic bookbinding. This method used human skin in the binding process.
🌷 Kazakhstan displays mysterious manuscript with human skin coverhttps://t.co/kqoom5XCI9
— Rapa Nui (@Rapa224) April 4, 2023
Necessary scientific research has been conducted on the manuscript’s cover, concluding that human skin was used in its creation. The National Academic Library has sent the manuscript to a special research institute in France for further analysis.
Despite the first pages read indicating the manuscript may contain general information about financial transactions such as credit and mortgages, the book’s content remains a mystery. The National Academic Library hosts nearly 13,000 rare publications, including books made from snakeskin, precious stones, silk fabric, and golden thread.
In conclusion, with only a small portion of the text deciphered, there is much mystery surrounding the contents of the manuscript and the purpose for using human skin as the cover. Such a discovery sheds light on ancient practices and the use of human remains in historical artifacts. It is important that efforts are made to continue deciphering the manuscript, as it holds the potential to reveal valuable insights into the past. The significance of this artifact cannot be understated and it serves as a testament to the richness (oddly) of Kazakhstan’s cultural heritage.


Help children grasp the tricky concept of pluralizing nouns with an interactive Google Slides activity.
Drop Those Plural Noun Worksheets! Go Digital with a Fun Plural Interactive
Everyone says some rules are meant to be broken, which may be true. However, some rules should never be broken, and one of those rules applies to working with plural nouns.
Young writers and English Language Learners experience great difficulty in determining the correct plural form to use in their writing. This interactive activity includes learning opportunities to practice and highlight the rules for pluralizing the following:
- Common Nouns
- Nouns ending in s, x, z, ch, and sh
- Nouns ending in y
- Nouns ending in Vowel + y
- Nouns ending in f or fe
The visuals and examples on these printable Plural Noun Posters will also aid your learners in the following:
- Writing complete sentences
- Increasing vocabulary
- Developing sentence structure
- Grade level spelling
Using Your Plural Noun Interactive Activity
This resource can be used in multiple ways. It can be completed in a whole-group learning session by having your students come up to the board to interact with the elements on each slide, or your students can complete it independently.
Each slide features a singular noun, an image, and multiple interactions for students to complete. On each slide, students must
- Read a singular noun associated with the picture shown.
- Drag and drop the correct ending to form the plural. (-s, -es, -ies and -ves)
- Drag and drop to mark any letters in the word that are removed when the plural is formed.
- Type the completed plural word into the textbox.
Before You Download
This resource downloads as a Google Slides resource file. To use, students/teacher must interact with the slide in Edit mode, not Presentation mode. We also recommend hiding the filmstrip and using the Fullscreen Google Slides add-on to expand your slide to fullscreen while keeping the presentation in edit mode.
This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.
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Книга: Practical Common Lisp
Now, an interesting thing has happened. You removed duplication and made the code more efficient and more general at the same time. That's often the way it goes with a well-chosen macro. This makes sense because a macro is just another mechanism for creating abstractions—abstraction at the syntactic level, and abstractions are by definition more concise ways of expressing underlying generalities. Now the only code in the mini-database that's specific to CDs and the fields in them is in the
add-cd functions. In fact, our new
where macro would work with any plist-based database.
However, this is still far from being a complete database. You can probably think of plenty of features to add, such as supporting multiple tables or more elaborate queries. In Chapter 27 we'll build an MP3 database that incorporates some of those features.
The point of this chapter was to give you a quick introduction to just a handful of Lisp's features and show how they're used to write code that's a bit more interesting than "hello, world." In the next chapter we'll begin a more systematic overview of Lisp.


What is Dutch Elm Disease?
Dutch elm disease is an aggressive fungal disease of elms native to America. The fungus is spread from tree to tree via the European elm bark beetle. As the beetles tunnel in to lay eggs, the fungus enters the plants’ water-conducting system. Once inside the tree, the fungus begins to plug the vascular system. As a result, leaves wilt and the affected tree dies within a few months to a year.
What should I do if my tree if wilting?
If wilting symptoms are evident, cut twigs where wilting is occurring. Twigs should be one to two inches in diameter. Peel back the thin layer of bark to view the wood just underneath. If dark discoloration or streaks run the length of the twig, Dutch elm disease is suspect. Samples should be taken or sent to a diagnostic clinic for laboratory analysis.
What should I do if my tree has Dutch Elm Disease?
An elm diagnosed with Dutch elm disease must be removed and the wood disposed of. This practice helps slow the spread of the fungus to healthy trees.In locations where elms are growing next to each other, it is important to trench roots to prevent the spread of the disease from one tree to another through root grafts. It is possible to manage early infections by pruning out affected branches ten feet beyond visible streaking under the
Can I prevent Dutch Elm Disease?
Valuable trees without symptoms (or with minimal symptoms) can be injected with fungicides as a preventive action. The products usually last 2-3 years but have not been effective in every situation.


Óð-ræðiOld Norse Dictionary - óð-ræði
Meaning of Old Norse word "óð-ræði" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- n. counsel of wisdom or a council (?); hverr mér hugaðr á hlið standi, annarr þegn við óðræði, what other man shall stand by my side, as a friend, in the council? i. e. where am I now to look for friendly help and comfort? Stor. 14; this we believe is the bearing of the passage, and not as explained in Lex. Poët. (= a row, tumult, fight, from óðr, adj.)
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᚦ-ᚱᛅᚦᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
- i. e.
- id est.
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Works & Authors cited:
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Sona-torrek. (A. III.)


TOEFL is a test of knowledge and understanding of academic English. Designed for students whose native language is not English and intend to continue their education in another country. For example, in universities in the USA, Canada, most European countries, Australia, New Zealand and Asian countries. The certificate is valid for two years (24 months).
What are the main formats for conducting TOEFL?
Knowledge and skills are tested in 4 sections: reading, listening, speaking, writing. Formats:
– TOEFL Paper-based Test (PBT) – a paper version of the test. Today it is considered a less popular format, and is saved only in some Asian and African countries;
– TOEFL Internet-based Test (IBT) – Internet test. Considered the preferred format as many universities and organizations request it;
– TOEFL Essentials – an interactive online test. Appeared relatively recently and is only gaining popularity. In addition to checking in 4 sections, at the end of testing, the student records a 5-minute video message. The exam has a multi-stage adaptive methodology.
Why take the TOEFL?
It may be useful to you if you are planning to:
– enter a higher educational institution;
– participate in international exchange programs and internships;
– apply for a work and student visa;
– execute grants, scholarships.
The TOEFL course will help you:
– get an idea of what the test looks like and what it consists of;
– understand the differences between English and British English;
– learn to read and understand specialized books, articles, magazines, scientific papers;
– master the skills of oral and written speech;
– effectively analyze information and clearly convey their thoughts in English.
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Central Meridian: A straight line.
Meridians: Complex curves connecting points equally spaced along each parallel and concave toward the central meridian.
Parallels: Concentric circular arcs spaced at true distances along the central meridian.
Symmetry: About the central meridian.
This is an equal-area projection. The curvature of the standard parallel is identical to that on a cone tangent at that latitude. The central meridian and the central parallel are free of distortion. This projection is not conformal.
This projection has one standard parallel, which is 30ºN by default. It has two interesting limiting forms. If a pole is employed as the standard parallel, a Werner projection results; if the Equator is used, a Sinusoidal projection results.
This projection dates in a rudimentary form back to Claudius Ptolemy (about A.D. 100). It was further developed by Bernardus Sylvanus in 1511. It derives its name from its considerable use by Rigobert Bonne, especially in 1752.
landareas = shaperead('landareas.shp','UseGeoCoords',true); axesm ('bonne', 'Frame', 'on', 'Grid', 'on'); geoshow(landareas,'FaceColor',[1 1 .5],'EdgeColor',[.6 .6 .6]); tissot;
Introduced before R2006a


Newcomers are often surprised that “ounces” and “pounds” have a completely different meaning in the bullion market. The units of weight we learn in school and use for everything from groceries to postage to body mass are based on the avoirdupois system. However, precious metals (and gemstones) are weighed using the troy system – which also uses pounds and ounces as units.
There are 12 troy ounces in every troy pound and 16 ounces in every avoirdupois pound. Troy ounces are heavier than ounces, but troy pounds are lighter than pounds. Comparing the two systems sounds confusing, but it’s easier to understand using the metric system:
Troy Ounces (ozt.) > Avoirdupois Ounces (oz.)
- 1 troy ounce = 31.1035 grams
- 1 avoirdupois ounce = 28.3495 grams
- With a difference of 2.754 grams, a troy ounce is around 10% heavier
Troy Pounds (lb t.) < Avoirdupois Pounds (lb.)
- 1 troy pound = 12 troy ounces = 373.242 grams
- 1 avoirdupois pound = 16 avoirdupois ounces = 453.592 grams
- With a difference of 80.35 grams, a troy pound is lighter by 2.83 avoirdupois ounces.
After ounces, the next smallest unit of measure in the troy system is the pennyweight (dwt). One troy ounces contains 20 pennyweights. At MGS, we want to pay you for every bit of precious metal in your lot, so we pay by the pennyweight. If you need help converting the weight of your precious metals, use our weight conversion calculator, or download our app, to make estimates and sales easier.


Generally the following definitions will apply, but if you have any questions about the classification of your debts, you should seek competent legal advice.
Secured debt - A debt that is backed by real or personal property is a “secured” debt. A creditor whose debt is “secured” has a legal right to take the property as full or partial satisfaction of the debt. For example, most homes are burdened by a “secured debt”. This means that the lender has the right to take the home if the borrower fails to make payments on the loan. Most people who buy new cars give the lender a “security interest” in the car. This means that the debt is a “secured debt” and that the lender can take the car if the borrower fails to make payments on the car loan.
Unsecured Debt - If you simply promise to pay someone a sum of money at a particular time, and you have not pledged any real or personal property to collateralize the debt, the debt is unsecured. For example, most debts for services and some credit card debts are “unsecured”.
Priority Debt - A debt entitled to priority payment ahead of most other debts in a bankruptcy case is a “priority” debt. A listing of priority debts is given, in general terms, in §507 of the Bankruptcy Code. Examples of priority debts are some taxes, wage claims of employees, debts related to goods and services provided to a debtor’s estate during the pendency of a bankruptcy case, and domestic support obligations. If you have questions deciding which of your debts are entitled to priority status, you should consult an attorney.
Administrative Debt - This is also a priority debt and is one created when someone provides goods or services to your bankruptcy estate. The best example of an administrative debt is the fees generated by attorneys and other professionals whose employment has been authorized by the court to represent the bankruptcy estate.


Using Beaumont’s classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how “Beauty and the Beast” takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists, illustrated in picture books, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers.
The Meanings of “Beauty and the Beast” provides expert commentary on the tale and on representative critical approaches and contemporary adaptations. This book also includes a variety of original source materials and twenty-three colour illustrations.
The Meanings of “Beauty and the Beast” is for any reader who wishes to explore this classic, endlessly rich fairy tale.
“‘Beauty and the Beast’ is one of the most popular tales in the world, but very few critics have been able to account for its immense popularity. Now Jerry Griswold has bravely undertaken that task and has written a fascinating book that explores the manifold meanings of this compelling tale. Not only does Griswold trace the origins of the classical erotic story, but he also interprets the numerous adaptations in literature and film throughout the world. Whether he analyzes the classic version of Madame Leprince de Beaumont, Angela Carter’s feminist versions, or the Disney animated films, Griswold is always thought-provoking. This is a book that will certainly interest all readers who are captivated by the mystery of fairy tales.” — Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
“While specifically focused on the tale named in its title, Jerry Griswold’s The Meanings of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ offers a perceptive and entertaining introduction to the subject of fairy tales generally. Interweaving an eclectic collection of variants of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ within and around a knowledgeable discussion of the history and meaning of the tale, Griswold offers both a useful introduction for those new to the study of fairy tales and insightful ideas about and interpretations of versions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ that will greatly interest specialists in the field.” — Perry Nodelman, University of Winnipeg
“A blend of synthesis, anthology, and analysis, this offers a broadly supported expansion of the scholarship on an irrepressible story.” — Betsy Hearne, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
is a non-governmental, science-based conservation organization that
works in over 50 countries around the world. Founded in 1896 as the New
York Zoological Society, its mission is to conserve wildlife and
ecosystems by generating and applying innovative scientific and
field-based solutions to critical problems.
The WCS approach to
conservation is rooted in our belief that good conservation requires a
sound understanding of the ecology and threats to conservation targets.
Our credibility is established through scientific work, which acts as a
basis for the development of conservation plans that will work in the
The WCS Russia Program works
to protect the extensive forest and tundra ecosystems of the Russian
Far East and the myriad species whose survival depends on these intact,
functional ecosystems. We use science as a foundation for designing and
implementing appropriate conservation actions for numerous species of
wildlife, including Amur tigers, Far Eastern leopards, Kamchatka brown
bears, and Blakiston’s fish owls. We focus on key species and critical
landscapes as a means to achieve biodiversity conservation throughout
WCS, initially as the Hornocker Wildlife Institute, has been active in Russia since 1992, the start of the Siberian Tiger Project
, the longest running radio-telemetry-based tiger research and conservation project in the world.
Read about what we have accomplished


Land-based sources account for a massive 80% of marine litter in Europe, and approximately 85% of it is plastic, according to the EEA web report ‘From source to sea — The untold story of marine litter‘. Packaging and small plastic items make up nearly 80% of this plastic waste. The new EEA report is the first Europe-wide study of its kind taking a holistic look at how this litter is created and ends up in our European seas via our rivers.
The report offers ten recommendations to boost knowledge to complement already stepped-up action by the European Union through the EU’s Zero Pollution action plan, the Circular Economy action plan (including the Plastics Strategy), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Single-Use Plastic Directive.
The recommendations focus on better use of existing and emerging data sources to better monitor problem areas, which can help develop targeted measures. Old-fashioned clean-ups and physical monitoring by volunteer citizen scientists are also invaluable. Technology also plays an increasingly important role. Remote sensing via satellites, planes, drones and artificial intelligence can help make sense of the ‘big data’ collected. Waste leakage and river litter estimation models are just as important as fine-grained data collection and monitoring activities. The use of these tools are needed to drive political decision-making in countries and communities facing the biggest waste mismanagement problems.
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Recently some of my friends in the physics department drew my attention to one of the coolest programs I’ve ever seen. The program, World Wind, by NASA, allows you to interactively view the Earth. The program connects to the NASA server, which contains a massive, multi-terabyte database of satellite imagery, which feeds into the program. The result is that you can hold the world in your hand, spin it around, and zoom in all the way down to an incredible 15 metre resolution. I should emphasize that the entire Earth is mapped in the database. In addition to the satellite imagery, the database includes topographical data and can use it to reconstruct elevation profiles. There are also facilities to superimpose city and suburb names, national borders, and even animations of weather patterns. Be warned, however, the program is big (around 250Mb) and you’ll be needing a pretty speedy internet connection to get data from the NASA servers (which have been down a lot of the time due to overload). Unfortunately, the program is only available for Windows.
Below is a snapshot from World Wind, taken looking over Mt. Cook on the south island of New Zealand, where I’ll be climbing in a few weeks time. For this picture I enabled elevation profiling to reconstruct a 3D view. A pretty remarkable program, and completely free!


Our Year 5 and 6 classes work very closely together. Children will be registered and taught most lessons with their own class but we so mix the children into Year groups to teach the Maths curriculum. We are finding our children are thriving with this approach. Children in Year 5 and 6 may be taught and supported by all of our Year 5/6 staff at some point during the school year. Staff work closely together to ensure that the same curriculum coverage and learning opportunities are given to all Year 5/6 classes.
|Miss Lauren Earrye||Leopard Class teacher|
|Miss Kelsey Butcher||Lion Class teacher|
|Mr Nick Wognum||Tiger Class teacher|
|Mrs Sandra Wiseman||Teaching Assistant|
KS2 ELSA Lead
|Mrs Rachael Wallace||Teaching Assistant|
|Mrs Nadine Rose||Teaching Assistant|
|Miss Sarah Drakes||Teaching Assistant|
Year 6 sit the end of Key Stage National SATs tests each May. This shouldn’t be a stressful time for pupils or parents. The Year 6 time have produced the following presentation for parents to explain more about the SATs and answer any questions you may have. Please do feel free to ask staff further questions.
Below are a selection of our ‘Must Read’ books for children in Year 5 and 6. These are high quality texts that we feel will enrich our children’s reading experiences as well as help to take them on a varied reading journey. We recommend these as reading choices at home but we will also use some of these books as part of our learning in school and some we will simply enjoy together as a class story. Re-reading and discussing favourite books is such a valuable part of the reading experience and something that can also be enjoyed as a family. Happy reading!


Last Updated on August 21, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 290
Goodness Is Seldom Rewarded
The titular Zadig is depicted as an unambiguously good character. In his work, his relationships, and his travels, he helps a great number of people, yet he is constantly betrayed. His first wife proves unfaithful, the people he helps turn against him, and for most of his life he faces ill fortune. Through the story of Zadig, Voltaire argues that goodness does not necessarily produce happiness.
Zadig's life has two very happy chapters: when he is first invited to serve in the king's court in Babylon, and when he eventually becomes king himself. The first one seems to be largely a matter of chance; the king happens to think highly of Zadig's actions. Zadig's goodness is a factor, but throughout the book his goodness tends not to benefit him. In this case, however, the king notices it and chooses to reward him. When Zadig becomes king, his ascension is framed as a matter of divine providence. Thus, overall, Voltaire suggests that goodness may be rewarded by an external actor, but there is no reason that goodness will necessarily be rewarded. Throughout his journeys, Zadig struggles to be happy. He spends much of the tale in love with women who do not love him or striving to find happiness by changing his position in life.
Goodness Is Worth Pursuing, Even Without Reward
Voltaire doesn't suggest that Zadig's positive pursuits are meaningless, but he does frame them as difficult and unreliable paths to happiness. All of this foreshadows the conclusion that Voltaire eventually reached in his later, similarly philosophical novel, Candide: happiness is found through learning to be satisfied with the world as it is. Further, being and doing good produces intrinsic benefits, even though good may be seldom rewarded.


BERLIN – Germany’s economy shrank unexpectedly in the first three months of this year, entering a second period of contraction which is one definition of recession.
Data released Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office showed that Germany’s gross domestic product, or GDP, fell by 0.3% from January to March. This follows a 0.5% decline in Europe’s largest economy in the last quarter of 2022.
Two quarters in a row means a recession, although economists at the euro business partners’ committee use more data, including employment figures. Germany is one of the 20 countries that use the euro.
Employment in the country rose in the first quarter and inflation has eased, but high interest rates continue to weigh on investment and income, said Franziska Palmas, European economist at Capital Economics.
“Germany has experienced a technical crisis and has been the best performing eurozone economy in the last two quarters,” Palmas said, predicting further weakness ahead.
The figures are a major blow to the German government, which last month confidently increased its growth forecast for this year after a severe winter storm failed to materialise. It said the economy would grow by 0.4% – up from the 0.2% growth forecast at the end of January – which is expected to be revised downwards.
Economists also said that inflation is hurting consumer spending, and prices in April were 7.2% higher than a year ago.
GDP – a gross measure of economic output – shows the total value of goods and services produced in a country. Some experts question whether the number alone is a useful economic indicator because it does not distinguish between different types of money.
Overall, the eurozone economy grew slightly by 0.1% in the first quarter, according to preliminary estimates, as inflation is weighing on people’s appetite for spending as their wages fail.
The US reported disappointing growth on Thursday, raising fears of a global recession.
The International Monetary Fund predicted this week that the United Kingdom would avoid a recession this year after expecting it to be the worst performer among the Group of Seven.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday that “we could see the UK doing better than Germany, for example.”


The average value of a sample or population data is known as the arithmetic mean of that data. The sample mean is the sum of all the values divided by the number of values a sample contains. When the data are based on a series of observations taken as different samples from population, then the mean evaluated is known as sample mean. The sample mean is denoted by and pronounced as “x bar”.
When the given data are comprised of a small number of values then for finding a mean ungrouped data formula will be used. If the given data hold a lot of observations or when finding mean become a problem, then grouped data formula will be used. For grouped data formula, first data are organized in the form of a frequency table.
Formulas For Sample Mean
1. For ungrouped data
2. For grouped Data
When the arithmetic mean of uncut data is evaluated then it is equal to the population mean. Formulas for the sample and population mean are the same. The sample mean differs from the population mean, when the sizes of the samples are very small. The larger the sample size, the more close it will be to the population mean. Population mean is denoted by μ.
Formulas For The Population Mean
- Formula for ungrouped data
- Formula for grouped data


Today’s teachers are ready to champion the use of virtual reality in education for their digitally savvy students. According to a GfK survey commissioned by Samsung, 85 percent of teachers agree that virtual reality would have a positive effect on their pupils. They believe it would be an asset to help students better understand learning concepts and collaborate in the classroom, and see it as a way to allow students to engage in new experiences related to course content via virtual field trips to faraway places or historical events. Eighty-four percent of teachers believe that virtual reality would increase student motivation.
Science, history and social studies are the top subjects teachers believe will benefit from the use of virtual reality in education. Availability of virtual reality content and applications for education continues to expand, such as the simulated lab experiments available from Labster.
However, few schools and districts have adopted the virtual reality technology as yet, and just over one-third of teachers expect them to do so in less than five years. But there are easy ways for teachers to get started with VR today, including using affordable headsets that are compatible with smartphones.
See the results of the survey and learn more about how you can use virtual reality in the classroom in the infographic below.
Is Virtual Reality Ready for the Classroom? from Samsung Business USA


The Barracks was built between 1848 and 1854 and was one of the largest in the country. Military presences were common in cities and one of the reasons for the massive contingent in Sheffield was the Chartist riots of 1839. These began when troops were called in from the earlier barracks at Hillfoot to break up an illegal, but previously peaceful, gathering on August 12th that year. The Chartists were a national movement, calling for democratic reform, including the vote for all men over 21, payment for MPs, the removal of the property qualification (the requirement that someone own property of a certain value to be eligible to stand for parliament), a secret ballot, equally sized constituencies, and annual parliaments. Following the 1839 riots, in which the government forces were seen by many to have over-reacted, Chartist membership and radicalism grew in Sheffield, with frequent demonstrations and real and imagined plots to stage riots and take over the Town Hall. Hence the perceived need for a strong military presence, not only in Sheffield, but in many other industrial towns too, as working men agitated for their political rights.
The turreted building fronting onto the Langsett Road was the officers' quarters and mess, with a chapel at the far end.
These blocks of black haven't been painted on; they're where there was a sign, which was in place when the stonework was cleaned but subsequntly removed. I don't know when the cleaning was done, but prior to then, the buildings - all the buildings - were that colour all over.
With the addtion of a little bit of wandering about, this walk was a fraction over two miles, on Wednesday August 11th.
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