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*This was originally posted on The Hill's Congress Blog. Do any swine have the virus that has infected humans? There is no evidence at this time that swine in the United States are infected with this virus strain. Can I get this new strain of virus from eating pork or pork products? According to USDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no. Swine influenza viruses are not transmitted by food so you cannot get swine influenza from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork and pork products is safe. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160°F kills all viruses. The USDA suggests, as it has in the past, cooking pork and pork products to the proper internal temperature and preventing cross-contamination between raw and cooked food is the key to safety. You should: Wash hands with warm water and soap for at least 20 seconds before and after handling raw pork; Prevent cross-contamination by keeping raw pork away from other foods; After cutting raw meat, wash cutting b

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Their dinner had just arrived as the two college professors watched their guests, a group of singers from the Georgia coast, unexpectedly turn saying grace into an outburst of song, rhythm and shouted praises that soon had other diners in the restaurant joining in with the impromptu performance. "Before you know it, they're out of their chairs and the beat is getting played on a table and you had all the children in the restaurant shouting praises with them," said Mary Ellen Junda, a music professor at the University of Connecticut. The dinner at a restaurant in Richmond, Va., last year with the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters of Darien, Ga., turned into another lesson for Junda and fellow music professor Robert Stephens, who have spent years studying the art and traditions of the Gullah, descendants of slaves who live in coastal communities from North Carolina to northern Florida. Scholars say their culture, long isolated from the mainland, has clung to its African roots and traditions mor

Forget "slow and steady wins the race." A new study shows that, at least sometimes, the best way to conserve energy and reach your destination on time is to alternate between walking and running-whether your goal is the bus stop or a marathon finish line. In the January 30, 2013 issue of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, researchers examined how people budget their time as they travel on foot to reach a destination at a particular appointed time. The study found that when people have neither too much time nor too little time to reach their destination, they naturally switch back and forth between walking and running, which turns out to be the best strategy for saving energy. The study is the first of its kind not conducted on treadmills, and it supports the notion that the human body has an innate sense of how to vary speed to optimize energy when we're on the move in our natural environment. "We don't live our lives on a treadmill," said Manoj Srinivasan, co-author of the study and assistant profes

11.] QUALITIES. 111 War;' I could afterwards without effort, say pages of the work by heart." 6. " At school I used to learn in a single evening 100 lines of Virgil, and repeat them correctly in the morning. Good memory for facts and figures. 1. " Next to no verbal memory, but good for facts small or great which will fit into any chain of reasoning." 2. " Of moderate verbal memory, but strongly retentive of facts and figures so far as they are related to any subject on or in which I was engaged. "Father- Memory very retentive, but not systematic. He had a great amount of information, but had not great acquirements ; his familiarity with Scripture was, however, remarkable. Mother-Very retentive for small facts and figures."

The following statistics provide information about Nebraska's Career Education students. All information was collected through the Nebraska Student and Staff Record System (NSSRS) using data reported for the 2010-2011 school year. The objective in analyzing this data is to find out just who the Nebraska Career Education student really is and how he/she differs from the average Nebraska student. In the 2010-2011 Nebraska school year, 63 percent of Nebraska students in grades 7-12 were identified as CTE Participants (taking at least one CTE semester-course during the 2010-2011 academic year). In the same year, 34 percent of Nebraska high school seniors were identified as CTE Concentrators (taking at least three CTE semester-courses throughout their academic career within a particular Career Education program of study). CTE Students by Grade About 58 percent of Nebraska junior high students (7-8th grades) were classified as Career Education Participants. About 65.5 percent of Nebraska high school students (9th-1

OR operator is a kind of a conditional operators, which is represented by | symbol. It returns either true or false value based on the state of the variables i.e. the operations using conditional operators are performed between the two boolean expressions. The OR operator ( is similar to the Conditional-OR operator ( ||) and returns true, if one or another of its operand is true. Read more at: If you are facing any programming issue, such as compilation errors or not able to find the code you are looking for. Ask your questions, our development team will try to give answers to your questions.

In its landmark 1978 decision, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court declared the use of racial quotas in university admissions impermissible, but upheld the use of race as a factor in such admissions (438 U.S. 265). As a basis for his decision, Justice Powell found that attainment of a diverse student body is "clearly a constitutionally permissible goal for an institution of higher education." Now, almost a quarter of a century later, the consideration of race in university admissions has inspired a series of lawsuits brought by nonminority applicants who assert that their race prevented them from gaining admission to the state school of their choice. In addition to prompting a re- examination of Bakke, these cases have also defined a role for empirical research in judicial decision-making. This month, the Sixth Circuit will hear arguments on two cases involving admissions processes at the University of Michigan. In Gratz v. Bollinger, the plaintiffs challenged the university's u

International Healthcare Worker Safety Center Global Initiative for Healthcare Worker Safety A forum for sharing research and best practices worldwide in the prevention of needlesticks and occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens Defining the problem... Healthcare workers are a critical resource in every corner of the globe -- the infrastructure without which healthcare cannot exist. But in caring for us, they place themselves at risk daily of contracting life-threatening infections from bloodborne pathogens, including HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Injuries from needles and other sharp medical devices, along with accidental exposures to blood and body fluids from splashes and sprays, are the most serious occupational hazard faced by healthcare workers. (read more) ...and the solution. Who should use this site? Devices with engineered sharps injury protection are highly effective in reducing the risk of needlesticks and sharps injuries. We know that a combination of safer devices, hepatitis B vaccine

In 2005, Ducks Unlimited (DU) completed over $1 million worth of wetland restoration work in Montana on tracts of land enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). The restoration projects cover a total of 2,330 acres of wetland habitat making it one of the largest engineering programs DU’s Great Plains Regional Office worked on that year. Three of the restoration projects were located in Flathead County, and one project each in Hill County, Gallatin County and Lake County. These projects will provide breeding and migration habitat to waterfowl within the inter-mountain valleys of western Montana. DU delivers the wetland restoration projects under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture –Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). Landowners with restorable wetlands are eligible to enroll in the program. The land is secured by a conservation easement, and NRCS pays for the wetland restorations. DU provides the engineering and construction management to deliver the restorations. NRC

Teachers face enormous challenges in their work: - balancing the needs of äverage" students with those of students who have learning difficulties, and those of gifted students; - motivating uninterested and undisciplined students; - enriching the classroom experience of students who enjoy Teachers need to keep abreast of new approaches to learning, curriculum reforms, and changes in technology. They also need to be able to explain reforms and new methodologies to parents, and to do all this while teaching all the other subjects. The elementary school years are crucial in shaping students' perceptions of, and attitudes towards, mathematics. Their effect can last a lifetime. So the importance of the quality of mathematics teaching in these early years cannot be underestimated. How can we attract good mathematics undergraduates to careers in primary How can we prepare future elementary school teachers to deal with the challenges they will face in teaching mathematics? How can we support hem during their careers?

|NSF Report - Facial Expression Understanding| III-B. Computer Vision and Face Processing Thomas S. Huang, Peter Burt, and Kenji Mase Abstract. Computer vision deals with the problem of scene analysis; more specifically the extraction of 3D information about scenes/objects from 2D (possibly time-varying) images obtained by sensors such as television cameras. Over the years, many algorithms have been developed for determining 3D shape, texture, and motion. In this session, some of the major approaches are reviewed in light of applications to face structure/motion analysis. Emphasis is on methods of estimating 3D rigid and nonrigid motion/structure from 2D image sequences. Presenters: T. S. Huang, P. Burt, K. Mase In this brief tutorial, we review computer vision with special emphasis on face processing. From an engineering viewpoint, the goal of computer vision is to build automated systems capable of analyzing and understanding 3D and possibly time-varying scenes. The input to such systems are typically two-d

Hopping on a bicycle saddle and peddling through the heart of the city is not for the faint of heart. Besides being safeguarded by minimal protection amidst aggressive traffic, their slower pace and low visibility often subject bikers to unfathomable road rage and projectiles hurled from angry motorists. I've been grazed by enough tossed cups, bottle caps, and side-view mirrors to know that biker visibility is paramount to a more peaceful and safe coexistence between cyclists and motorists. Helping bridge this gap is BLAZE, a device invented by Emily Brooke, a final-year Product Design student at the University of Brighton. Her device alerts drivers to the presence of a bikers by projecting a laser image onto the road in front of the bicycle. "Eighty percent of cycle accidents occur when bicycles travel straight ahead and a vehicle maneuvers into them," said Emily Brooke, in a university news release. "The most common contributory factor is 'failed to look properly' on the part of a vehicle driver. The eviden

Although the Enlightenment strove for scientific advancement, there was still many theories and methods that were simply primeval. One of these was maternal impressions, an idea that would last through the Victorian age. Maternal impression was the belief that a pregnant woman's experiences would affect how her child would come out. It was mostly used to explain why a child was born deaf (there was a loud noise that surprised the mother) or blind (the mother looked at a blind person) or ugly (I just made that one up). One of the most famous cases of birth defects credited to maternal impression was Joseph Merrick, aka the Elephant Man, of whom it was said his mother was scared by an elephant. You mean they couldn't narrow it down to neofibromotosis? Hullabaloo of course, but I would still recommend pregnant women shouldn't eat too much garlic and stay away from circus clowns...just in case! 19 minutes ago

Scenes or Acts? Should you divide your play into acts, or just into scenes? It's really a matter of personal taste, as long as you recognize a few basic principles of play construction and why we have these divisions in the first place. Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: - The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. - The second act is the Epitasis, or complication. - The final act is the Catastrophe, or resolution. Just as in screenwriting format, the middle act is the longest. Aristotle (384-322 BCE.), whose Poetics represented his collected observations on dramatic structure and playwriting based on the practice of Greek dramatists, is largely credited for three-act structure and has had long- lasting influence on playwriting. Want to really, really impress your friends? Tell them Aristotle didn't s

December 15th, 2011 Throughout colonial history in the Americas and Oceania, many Portuguese, Spanish, and English colonists and leaders compared Indigenous Peoples to animals. See Robert J. Miller, The International Law of Colonialism: A Comparative Analysis, 15 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 101, 161-69 (forthcoming 2012). (available now at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1920009) George Washington, the father of the United States, was no different. In a letter to the U.S. Congress in 1783, then- General George Washington analogized Indians to animals when he foresaw that “the gradual extension of our Settlements will as certainly cause the Savage as the Wolf to retire; both being beasts of prey tho’ they differ in shape.” Letter to James Duane (Sept. 7, 1783), in 27 The Writings of George Washington, 1745–1799, at 133, 140 (John C. Fitzpatrick ed., 1938). It's easy to see the future that Washington and most American Founding Fathers and political leaders over the years envisioned for American Indi

Capitalization in German Groß- und Kleinschreibung |More of this Feature| Capitalization in German Groß- u. Kleinschreibung Spelling Reform: Double-s Spelling Reform: Newsstand Reform der Reform Top Grammar BOOKS But in all the wrangling over how German should be properly spelled there has been one prominent sacred cow: the capitalization of all nouns. German is the only language in the world that requires the capitalization of ALL nouns. There are only a few fringe groups calling for German capitalization rules similar to those in most other languages. Headquartered in Zurich, the Bund für vereinfachte rechtschreibung (note the spelling of the BVR's name, "Federation for simplified spelling") dates back to 1924. While there are a few rebels who write their German email like e.e. cummings, most German-speakers still cling to their sacred Großschreibung (capitalization). Although Kleinschreibung had its advocates, the framers of the 1996 German spelling reforms felt it was simply not politically feasible to ca

The disciples of communism claim that their ideological system is the cure for colonialism and imperialism. All the proletariats (working-class people) of the world, according to the prescriptions of Marx, are brothers. However, analysts observe that communism scarcely worked that way even in theory. Marx was a German nationalist who called for the extermination of Croats, Pandurs, and “similar scum.” He sneered at Danish culture as purely copied from Germany and rejoiced at the Prussia victory over France in 1871 because it would lead to the triumph of German, rather than French, socialism. He loathed Judaism and Jewish society, as well as Christians. The Bolshevik junta in late 1918, followed four years later by the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), presented itself to the world as anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist. Click here to read the entire article. Photo: Karl Marx

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Decisions The Goal: Interactive Communication Success in life can be directly related to the ability to communicate. Full interpersonal communication substantially enhances an individual's potential for education, employment, and independence. Therefore, it is imperative that the goal of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) use be the most effective interactive communication possible. Anything less represents a compromise of the individual's human potential. The Importance of Language The next step is deciding how to achieve this goal. For most people, the most effective approach is SNUG, spontaneous novel utterance generation. SNUG allows a person to say anything he or she wants at any time. SNUG is based on access to the individual words, word combinations, and commonly used phrases of our language. The alternative to SNUG is the use of pre-stored sentences. While there is some utility in pre-stored sentences, e.g., faster communication, pre-stored sent

write an employee class. the class will have the following fields. - Employee name - Employee number in the format XXX-L, where X is a digit within the range 0-9 and the L is a letter within the range A-M. - Hire date write "set" and "get" method for each field. write no args constructor. Write constructor that has an argument for each field. Next, write a class named ProductionWorker that extends the Employee class. The ProductionWorker class should have fields to hold the following information: - Shift (an integer) - Hourly pay rate (a double) The work day is divided into two shifts: day and night. The shift field will be an integer value representing the shift that the employee works. The day shift is shift 1 and the night shift is shift 2. Write appropriate accessor and mutator methods for the class and no args constructor. write a constructor that has args for the fields. write an employee demo class that will contain a main method. the main method will create the following output -Employee John cena, ID

Congenital Valve Disease Treating Cardiovascular Diseases in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Your heart has four valves that open and close with each heartbeat. Their job is to make sure your blood flows in only one direction as it passes through the four chambers of your heart and on to the rest of your body. The heart’s upper chambers are known as atria; the lower chambers are ventricles. Congenital heart valve disease occurs when your valves do not form correctly before birth. Your valves may an abnormal number of leaflets, or tissue flaps; the leaflets may be the wrong size or shape; or they may lack an opening for blood to flow through. These conditions can interfere with your heart’s pumping ability, causing it to work harder. Types of Congenital Valve Disease One of the most common types of congenital valve disease affects the aortic valve. This one-way valve separates the left ventricle from the aorta, which is the main artery that distributes blood from the heart to the body. Instead of having the no

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An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2013 Where did the Spanish Tolomeo family come from? What is the Spanish Tolomeo family crest and coat of arms? When did the Tolomeo family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Tolomeo family history? Spelling variations of this family name include: Toliba, Toledo, Tolomella, Tolomeo, Toli, Tolido and many more. First found in Castile, in north central Spain. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tolomeo research. Another 434 words(31 lines of text) covering the years 1514, 1515, 1553, 1584, and 1587 are included under the topic Early Tolomeo History in all our PDF Extended History products. Another 32 words(2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Tolomeo Notables in all our PDF Extended History products. Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Diego De Toledo who immigrated to Venezuela in 1534. The Tolomeo Family Crest was acqu

Posted: October 23, 2012 At just 14 years old, Georgia teen Allison Waters Albert has become an ambassador for anti-bullying within her community. Earning respect and admiration from peers for her willingness to share her own story, Allison has inspired several teens across her school district to take a stand against bullying. Through extensive work with 4-H, one of the largest youth development programs in the world, and numerous speaking engagements at area schools, Allison’s efforts have spearheaded the campaign for bullying prevention in her Georgia hometown. Once a victim of bullying herself, Allison says she became involved with anti-bullying efforts through her 4-H membership. 4-H has been very committed to educating youth on all facets of bullying, helping to empower those who have suffered as victims and inspiring... Continue ReadingPosted in Profiles/Voices from the Field Posted: October 12, 2012 There are many warning signs that may indicate that someone is either being bullied or bullying others.

xxi. Turkic and Kurdish clothing of Azerbaijan In Azerbaijan as a whole, including both Persian and Soviet territories, the traditional costume, now worn largely in a tribal context, retains the form of garments much as they were at the end of the 19th century; it is maintained primarily by women, and it is only among Kurdish, rather than Turkic, men that elements have survived the reforms of Reżā Shah (see xi, above) in everyday wear. The Azeris. The Turkic dress of Azerbaijan has much in common with clothing in the Caucasus. That of women is based on a full-sleeved shirt (könyäk) with straight-cut shoulders and a breast opening fastened with a clasp, worn over a full lower garment reaching the ground; this consists either of very wide cotton drawers (tuman, jüt-tuman) of six layers of cloth, cut as a skirt divided by a gusset and gathered with a drawstring, or of much narrower drawers (darbalaq), also cut straight. Undergarments are thus called tuman-köynäk. Over these drawers are worn one or more full skir

In the late seventeenth century, the sonata genre was becoming more and more standardized, but there are always exceptions. One example is this set of violin sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber depicting the Mysteries of the Rosary, a series of biblical narratives used for religious meditation. The sonatas were not published, an indication of their eccentricity, their difficulty, and their distance from the development of mass- marketed music. Fourteen of the sixteen sonatas also use a technique known as scordatura, in which the strings are re-tuned to achieve particular colors and facilitate the playing of unusual chords. Another distinction of these works is that each sonata is accompanied in manuscript by an engraving of its associated mystery. The Sixth sonata depicts Christ’s painful coming-to-grips with his fate, traditionally believed to have taken place in an olive garden.

Douglass & Knox 2012 pre-bunked Posted on 26 February 2012 by Rob Painting The global energy imbalance, the difference between energy entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere, is one of the most important metrics of global warming in that it indicates how much warming is 'in the pipeline'. Given its importance, it is a topic we have frequently blogged about in one form or another, most recently in SkS posts: Breaking News…The Earth Is Warming…Still, and Search For 'Missing Heat' Confirms More Global Warming 'In The Pipeline'. A yet-to-be-published paper, Douglass & Knox (2012) takes a cherry-picking approach to the Earth energy imbalance, and contradicts just about every single paper which has examined this subject in the last few years. Unlike Loeb (2012), however, these authors do not attempt to reconcile their calculations with the top-of-the-atmosphere flux observed by satellites. Douglass & Knox (2012) ascribes warming to mysterious step-changes. But, quite conveniently, it has already been pre-bunked by

Nonlinear Dynamics of Wooden Toys Wooden toys are very interesting systems from a dynamical point of view. We studied a number of wooden toys in our paper The Nonlinear Dynamics of Some Wooden Toys with Impact and Friction Some of the results are shown on this webpage. The Woodpecker Toy The Woodpecker Toy is a toy with interesting dynamic behaviour, showing both impact and friction phenomena. The toy consists of a sleeve, a spring and the woodpecker. The hole in the sleeve is slightly larger than the diameter of the pole, thus allowing a kind of pitching motion interrupted by impacts with friction. Click on the right figure to see an animation of the motion. The Woodpecker Toy is a system which can only operate in the presence of friction as it relies on combined impacts and jamming. Restitution of the beak with the pole is not essential for a periodic motion but enlarges the resemblance with the typical behaviour of a woodpecker. The motion of the toy lies in a plane, which reduces the number of degrees of

Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine- read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole. Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages. Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines. OCR for page 61 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY: PROCEEDINGS OF THE OCTOBER 5-6, 1999, WORKSHOP Contributions of Marine Biotechnology to Marsh Oil Spill Restoration Ralph J. Portier INTRODUCTION There is an estimated 3.2 million tons annual (mta) input of petroleum hydrocarbons into the world's oceans (NRC 1985). The majority is in small amounts from chronic sources, 0.7 mta from tanker operation

Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, circa 1930. (Hal Morey/Getty Images) Grand Central Station This New York City landmark that recently celebrated its centennial was famously slated to be torn down, before a group of public figures, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and others fought to save it. The Beaux-Arts station, including its famous constellation-studded ceiling, was restored in the 1990s. According to NPR, the station is the largest interior public space in New York City and is one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world.

|a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.| |a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.| |cladistics (klə-dĭs'tĭks) Pronunciation Key A system of classification based on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of groups of organisms, rather than purely on shared features. Many modern taxonomists prefer cladistics to the traditional hierarchies of Linnean classification systems. Compare Linnean. A method of taxonomic classification that groups organisms according to their lines of evolutionary descent. All descendants of a given organism are called a clade.

Writers Workshop: Writer Resources Grammar Handbook: Nouns A noun is any word that defines a person, place, or thing in a sentence. Nouns give names to: - Concrete Things: Carlos lost his keys. - Abstract Ideas: Her personal philosophy is odd. - Abstract Qualities: She says I lack sensitivity. - Feelings: I feel great joy when I run. - Actions: Parking can be difficult on campus. - People: Steve Lamos is our instructor. - Animals: What kind of bear is Fozzie Bear? - Places: The University of Illinois is located in Champaign-Urbana.

Ramadan starts next week, and the people here in Morocco are beginning to get prepared. If you aren’t aware of what Ramadan entails, it is a month on the Arabic (lunar) calendar. During this month (about 28 days), Muslims are required to fast from sunup to sundown, going without food or drink all day long. Many people I know use this time to reflect, forgive, and pray. This will be my second Ramadan here in Morocco. I am looking forward to the Iftar treats that are placed on the table during the first meal after fasts are broken and the absolute quiet that occurs when the prayer is called to signal the end of fasting, as everyone heads inside to eat. I am also using this opportunity to talk with my children more about the meanings behind this and other Muslim holidays. Here is a center packet I created for my students last year to discuss the three major Muslim holidays – Ramadan, Eid al F’tr and Eid al Adha. Feel free to download it FREE from my Teacher’s Notebook store.

Scientists report the identification of variants associated with biological aging in humans. The team analyzed more than 500,000 genetic variations across the entire human genome to identify these variants, which are located near a gene called TERC. The study, published in Nature Genetics, was conducted by researchers from the University of Leicester and King's College London, working with University of Groningen in The Netherlands. The paper is titled “Common variants near TERC are associated with mean telomere length.” There are two forms of aging—chronological aging and biological aging, whereby the cells of some individuals are older (or younger) than suggested by their actual age—explains British Heart Foundation professor of cardiology at the University of Leicester Nilesh Samani who co-led the project. “There is accumulating evidence that the risk of age-associated diseases including heart disease and some types of cancers are more closely related to biological rather than chronological age. “What we s

General Technical Report hroughout the New World attention is now being focused on the status of populations of landbirds, which are the many species of smaller birds, sometimes referred to as non-game birds. Landbirds have not usually been the focus of management activities except in a few cases of threatened or endangered species, such as the Kirtlands Warbler. Recent evidence suggests that some landbird species are declining in abundance, fueling much speculation upon the causes of these declines, the species involved, and their habitat preferences. Hypotheses about the causes of these declines are varied, ranging from tropical deforestation to nest parasitism by the cowbird. However, part of the difficulty in determining the status of landbirds results from problems in monitoring these small birds, as compared to larger, more easily-studied species. To determine population changes, and to hypothesize possible causes of these changes, more basic information needs to be gathered. Much of the evidence for th

One of the most frequently asked questions about the Equal Money System is the question of how the system will be implemented. Indeed it can be difficult to see how an entirely new way of existing is and will be possible considering how we currently exist. What is important to realize and understand is that a new way of living will not suddenly come about by itself. So how we will get from where we are today, to an Equal Money System , is through practical changes accumulated step by step, through actions taken by directive groups and individuals advocating the Equal Money System. For an Equal Money System to be implemented, we require a re-education of the group, as all of humanity. This is required because we, as we currently exist, are in no condition to take self-responsibility for the world as a whole. It is also required so that we can realize and understand that a different way of existing is even possible and from there, educate ourselves to be able to implement the changes required practically. Even

January 10, 2013 (The New York Times News Service) -- Boston researchers have for the first time used a drug to regenerate the delicate hair cells that sense sound in the ears of adult mice, in a promising initial step toward a potential treatment for hearing loss. Hair cells damaged by loud noises or lost during aging don't regrow in people, but in the mouse experiments published on Wednesday, the scientists coaxed new cells to develop, enabling the animals to recover modest hearing. The deaf mice were far from cured; the improvement in hearing was much less than could be achieved by an existing technology, called a cochlear implant. But researchers not involved in the work said the results, published in the journal Neuron, were important because they showed such regeneration was possible and suggested a similar nonsurgical approach could one day be tested in people. "What's really novel is that they showed you can use a pharmacological agent, basically a drug, to get some level of hearing recovery in animal

Did Dogs Really Eat Slaves, Like in 'Django'? 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Plus, whether slaves rode horses or had Mandingo death matches. (slaveryimages.org; original source unidentified) Horses and horsemanship played an interesting role during slavery. The most famous black horseman in the Revolutionary period was our old friend, William "Billy" Lee, George Washington's slave and personal attendant, the only slave whom Washington freed upon his death. Billy Lee was, by all accounts, a superb horseman, and rode just behind his master. In the black abolitionist Henry Bibb's famous slave narrative of 1849, horses compose almost a leitmotif: Before finally attaining his freedom, he is captured, handcuffed and tied by his feet to a horse and returned to slavery, but he effects his ultimate escape by stealing another horse ("the best looking of them") from a large plantation, and riding him "not less than forty miles that night, or before sunrise the next morning," to gain his freedom. Bibb, a famous newsp

Diamonds are a scientist's best friend: Research into building better small machines Do diamonds really last forever? That's the hope of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who are trying to solve the problems associated with building extremely small machines and having them withstand the test of time, wear and tear. The problem is that these machines are so small — microscopic or smaller — that their moving parts cannot be assisted by lubricants; instead, they have to function in a dry state, like a car with no oil. A really, really small car with no oil. "They no longer behave in the same way as they do at the macro-scale, where materials may be far stronger, have more power to catalyze chemical reactions, be more optically responsive, and more," says Rob Carpick, associate professor of engineering physics. "That is why it is very interesting to study the fundamental physics of nanoscale materials and also to try to utilize these unique properties for real applications." An example of a real applica

See a lot of people squatting in the open today? Don't be offended. The so-called "big squat" was held worldwide to coincide with the 10th annual World Toilet Day, an initiative to bring awareness to the need for adequate sanitary facilities. Every day, some 1.1 billion people go to the bathroom without any type of toilet, according to the World Health Organization. And even with a toilet, facilities are not necessarily sanitary. WaterAid America estimates that roughly 2.5 billion people – nearly 40 percent of the global population – do their business unsafely, often in public spaces. World Toilet Day is organized by the Singapore-based World Toilet Organization, which has 235 member organizations in 58 countries "working toward eliminating the toilet taboo and delivering sustainable sanitation." Here's a list of the world's worst nations in terms of people lacking access to sanitary facilities. Four in 5 people in Niger go in the open, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That's about 12 million

January, 1918: Neufchateau Training Area In January, 1918 the 26th “Yankee” Division concluded its preliminary training for the Western Front in the area of Neufchateau in the Vosges region of northeastern France. On January 23, word was suddenly received that the 26th Division had been assigned to reinforce the depleted XI Corps of the French 6th Army on the Chemin des Dames front, north of Soissons and the Aisne River. Hasty preparations were then made to complete the insurance forms, write home to loved ones and make ready for the move to the Front. Read about the Neufchateau Training Area here. See original film of the 26th Division at Neufchateau here, including Sam himself standing Color Guard following Evening Parade [far right edge of frame at 06:19]. Also, read Sam’s January correspondence from Liffol-le-Grand as the winter continues, the men look forward to packages from home and Sam suddenly hears word that he and the boys are finally heading for the Front. January, 1919: After the Armistice On Jan

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown at sacred-texts.com jer 43:2THE JEWS CARRY JEREMIAH AND BARUCH INTO EGYPT. JEREMIAH FORETELLS BY A TYPE THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR, AND THE FATE OF THE FUGITIVES. (Jer 43:1-13) Azariah--the author of the project of going into Egypt; a very different man from the Azariah in Babylon (Dan 1:7; Dan 3:12-18). proud--Pride is the parent of disobedience and contempt of God. jer 43:3Baruch--He being the younger spake out the revelations which he received from Jeremiah more vehemently. From this cause, and from their knowing that he was in favor with the Chaldeans, arose their suspicion of him. Their perverse fickleness was astonishing. In the forty-second chapter they acknowledged the trustworthiness of Jeremiah, of which they had for so long so many proofs; yet here they accuse him of a lie. The mind of the unregenerate man is full of deceits. jer 43:5remnant . . . returned

DHEA, a steroid hormone made in the adrenal glands and brain, is one of the most plentiful hormones in the body. Levels of DHEA decline with age; a 70-year-old produces about 10 percent of the DHEA levels produced by a 20-year-old. First identified in 1934, DHEA is produced in greater quantities than other adrenal steroids. Since DHEA can be converted into other hormones, including estrogen and testosterone, scientists assumed DHEA was merely a reservoir the body could draw on to produce other hormones. However, research suggests that DHEA has specific physiologic functions. DHEA, like many of our other hormones, is not immune to the damaging effects of manufactured fats. Symptoms of DHEA deficiency include fatigue, anxiety, depression, low sexual desire, and lack of sexual satisfaction.Adequate levels of DHEA are linked to longevity. To learn how to properly balance DHEA and start your journey towards the healthy life you desire, order your copy of The Perfect 10 Diet today!

In recent years, a handful of projects have used online map programs such as Google Maps to provide access to historic images of San Francisco. These programs allow website creators or users to “geotag” digital versions of historic images – in other words, to situate the digital images on an online map. Some of these projects are examples of Web 2.0, meaning that users are able to make contributions by uploading images of their own, or add tags or comments to others’ photos. By considering some of these projects together, it is possible to compare their features. I’ll discuss five projects here, and then raise three issues related to this kind of work. One project is HistoGrafica. Users can upload images, as well as a free-text description of the image and its source. Users can also contribute to others’ photos by rating the image, adding it to a list of their favorites, recommending it to other users, or suggesting that the location assigned to the image may be incorrect. Images can be searched by location o

The research - published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – shows how UV (ultraviolet)-B light boosts vitamin D, as well as cells in our body that are responsible for regulating or balancing the immune system. Vitamin D is made in our bodies by UV-B light from the sun. Some studies have suggested a link between vitamin D deficiency and autoimmune diseases such as MS. This possible link might also explain the increasing prevalence of autoimmune disease among those living far from the equator, where there are lower levels of winter sun. Autoimmune diseases - like MS and type 1 diabetes - are diseases where the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own tissues or harmless substances that enter the body. University of Aberdeen researchers studied patients in the north of Scotland - which has the highest rate of MS in the UK - who were being treated during winter with artificial UV-B light therapy for skin diseases caused by their immune systems acting inappropriately. Researchers looked at

THE ULTIMATE CLUE, MY DEAR WATSON: DNA FINGERPRINTING Students learn practical applications of DNA profiling in today's forensic science and the future's many possibilities. While viewing the video, students delve into the problems of extracting ancient DNA from fossils. These molecular biologists use DNA profiling to sequence pieces of the dinosaurs' genome. After viewing the video, students will simulate DNA profiling with electrophoresis gel to solve a possible baby mix-up at the hospital. NOVA: The Real Jurassic Park Students will be able to: - Explain the steps of DNA Profiling - Describe the possible usefulness of DNA Profiling to our society - Contrast extracting ancient DNA from fossils to modern DNA from blood and other cells of organisms. Per group of two: - Copies of the lab "Will the Real Baby Smith Please Speak Up!" - Glue or tape To prepare students for the video, explain the steps of extracting and profiling DNA. Explain how DNA is extracted and isolated from cells. Cell membranes are lysed wit

Supporters of a democratic Burma have for decades adhered to a non-violent approach in order to secure some form of democratic processes in a nation ruled by murderous thugs who use violence in order to enforce their will. An organizer of last September’s failed uprising told the British newspaper, the Guardian, “There is a very real debate among us about how to begin a more sustained armed struggle. We are ready for that kind of action, if we can get the supplies and training we need.” Speaking from exile in Thailand, Soe Aung, the chief spokesperson for the National “Council of the Union of Burma(NCUB) which represents several groups, admitted “some are considering violent means… the Burmese people are not that kind of people, there has been a real change.” Soe Aung admitted his group is able to receive assistance from the US State Department funded, National Endowment for Democracy, and the United States is “doing the most for the opposition. There has been real success in training and forming an undergrou

FUTURE REACTOR: The Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory, with a maximum capacity of 250 megawatts, would qualify as a small modular design, although it is primarily used to test nuclear components for larger reactors. Image: Courtesy of Idaho National Laboratory Small may be beautiful for the nuclear power industry So argue a host of would-be builders of novel nuclear reactors. While the U.S. government has not given up on investing in large units that boast conventional designs, the Department of Energy has also announced the availability of $450 million in funds to support engineering and licensing of so-called "small modular reactors." "The Obama Administration and the Energy Department are committed to an all-of-the-above energy strategy that develops every source of American energy, including nuclear power," said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in a statement announcing the funding, which aims to get such modular reactors hooked into the grid by 2022. "The Energy Department and private indu

From last week’s post, you’ll remember we explained that GMO crops (to date) do not fulfill their promise: - They do not decrease hunger and poverty; - Data shows that GMO crops actually increase pesticide and herbicide use; - They do not yield more; in a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Failure to Yield, data shows that despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields. In fact data points to possibly lower yields than would have been achieved by NOT using GMO seed. But I still didn’t understand what the fuss is all about. After all, companies have been making claims for products forever. Shouldn’t the product just die by way of non-purchase? Why should governments get involved and prohibit the use of GMO seeds? Why are the organic trade associations around the world in such an uproar? After all, the promise of genetic engineering is very powerful - to be able to feed the world as populations increase an

KERR SAYS WE CAN NOT REMAIN ALOOF Another World War Inevitable, He Says, if We Do Not Remove Causes--Blames England, France, and U. S. Before an audience that crowded the Living Room of the Union last evening Mr. Philip Kerr spoke on "The Situation in Europe". He was introduced by Professor M. O. Hudson '10 of the Law School. Introducing his speech with the statement that he had come here to learn. Mr. Kerr said that in the course of his learning he had concluded that America was no longer the land of the pioneer. The people of the United States are not seeking land for settlement, nor are they seeking an increase in population through the channel of immigration. America is today approaching the same economic stage which England reached in 1840, when her manufactures surpassed her agricultural interests. Foreign trade will increasingly become the great interest of America. Present Situation Discouraging Everyone must look with disappointment upon Europe, Mr. Kerr continued, for the world has been disillusione

Anomia: [uh-NO-mee-uh] - Noun - 1) A problem with word finding or recall. 2) Chaos. 3) The game where common knowledge becomes uncommonly fun! Anomia plays off the fact that our minds are positively brimming with all sorts of random information; ice cream flavors, pop songs, websites, etc. Sure, under normal circumstances, it’s easy enough to give an example of a frozen food, or a dog breed; but you will find that your brain works a little differently under pressure! The directions are simple. Draw a card from the center pile and flip it over in front of you. Does the symbol on your card match one on another player’s card? If so, you must quickly face-off with the other player by giving an example of the person, place, or thing on their card before they can do the same for yours. If you blurt a correct answer out first, you win their card and drawing continues. Sounds simple, right? Wrong! Wild cards allow unlike symbols to match, increasing the number of things you must pay attention to. Cascading face-offs

- For Teachers Which is the correct idiom 'rates for' or 'rate of'? I have read both of them. e.g The rate of change of speed is very rapid. 'Suicide rates for the soldiers increased' NY Times. Which usage is correct or which one is more appropriate in what situation. Thanks for taking time to reply. I guess my question was little different. I wanted to know what are the situations where 'rate of' is more appropriate than 'rate for'. Why not 'Rate of suicide among the soldiers'?

A monkey controls his robotic arm with a brain-machine interface. If this monkey can eat marshmallows with his robotic arm, mind-controlled prosthetics for humans can’t be far off, right? Well, that’s true if all you ever wanted to do with your prosthetic was sit strapped in a chair reaching for marshmallows. But as Michael Chorost explains in a recent feature for Wired, challenges abound when building an arm that works in everyday life. Over the course of a day, you might use your arm to pick up a chair, unzip your jacket, or scratch your neck—each one of these actions are unique. But statistical algorithms used now can translate the firing of neurons into only a few stereotyped motions. And it’s not just about writing better algorithms; it’s an input problem too. Getting electrodes to pick up signals from the same neurons over time is a continuous battle against the body’s natural defenses:

The Join tool allows you to attach a number of objects together into a single object. The Join tool is almost exactly like PowerCADD's Attach command, with a few important exceptions. The objects that are joined together consist of an ordered, end-to- end group of objects known as a path. Thus, you can combine lines, polygons, arcs, B-splines, Béziers, and splines to form an irregular shape that can have a single fill pattern or color and a single pen pattern, color and dash pattern. (If you join a line to a Bézier, however, the result is a single Bézier.) Paths are important for several reasons. First, you can create a single 'object'-say a maple leaf consisting of lines, arcs, polygons, Béziers, B-splines and splines-that you can ungroup and individually edit the objects within the group. Second, when paths are printed or plotted, they are actually treated as a single object. This means that a single line dash pattern is used for the entire object, thus providing an even pattern of dashes rather than the awk

THE LIVING MUSEUM Vol. 1. No.6 October, 1939. Illinois State Museum Springfield, Illinois Located on Fifth Floor of Centennial Building A monthly guide to a keener understanding of the Illinois State Museum as a living thing--a Museum whose exhibits are planned for popular enjoyment without loss of scientific accuracy. GEESE ON THE WING October--and in the north there has been a growing exodus of flying things. Out of the vast Canadian marshes where, for a brief summer, geese nest and rear their young--out of here, on a night with a pushing north wind, come the geese, heading south. Perhaps they flew over while you slept--the blue geese and snow geese from Baffin Land, or big Canadas from Saskatchewan. Perhaps, in a cold October rain, you heard wild honkings, and, if you looked up, maybe you saw silver-bellied birds circling over the city, picked out by lights below, confused by the lights and reflections on the clouds. There is a strange, nostalgic longing in most of us when the geese go over. It is a longin

|Ferrets as experimental models of influenza in humans| 07 Mar 2012 A number of animal models have been used to study how influenza viruses may work in humans: mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, and both cotton rats (Sigmodon) and ordinary rats (Rattus). However one of the most used is the ferret model. This species is very susceptible to infection with human influenza viruses and unlike some other animal models, such as mice, there is no need for prior host adaptation of the human viruses. Hence ferrets are considered by many to be the most suitable small animal model for influenza research relating to humans. For decades the degree of antigenic match of drifted influenza viruses to existing vaccines has been judged by seeing how reactive they are with ferret anti-sera raised against the current vaccine strains. Many studies on ferrets have modelled the pathogenesis mechanisms of influenza viruses and the potential for these to cause disease in humans through similar pathogenesis patterns including not only human

In this section, you will find many instructional materials we've developed for our Writing Center teaching. However, there are limitations to these materials. Assignments vary, and different instructors want different things from student writers. Therefore, the advice here may or may not apply to your writing situation. Finally, handouts can give only a fraction of the customized guidance that an individual conference with a Writing Center instructor can provide. If you have questions about the information in our handouts, please make an appointment to see a Writing Center instructor. About Documentation Styles - What are documentation styles? - What do I need to document? - How should I gather information for documenting sources? - Which style should I use? A documentation style is a standard approach to the citation of sources that the author of a paper has consulted, abstracted, or quoted from. It prescribes methods for citing references within the text, providing a list of works cited at the end of the p

EDMONTON - It doesn’t get more old school than barley. Eons before Scotch broth joined the British canon of hearty soups, barley was a staple of the ancient world. As the oldest cultivated cereal in Europe (and possibly anywhere) barley was once the most important grain for human consumption. But over millenniums, according to the Oxford Companion to Food, barley- based foods, from porridge to bread, fell from grace, eclipsed by wheat as the grain of choice. Though still popular when turned into malt for beer, barley found itself relegated to animal fodder for much of the last 10,000 years. But a resurgence in interest in ancient grains of all descriptions — from quinoa to spelt to amaranth — has helped raise the profile of barley. An increase in food sensitivities among the population has also worked in barley’s favour; though it does contain gluten, and therefore isn’t suitable for celiacs, barley has less gluten than wheat, making it a possibility for those who have a sensitivity to wheat. Furthermore, base

Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans. In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date. Official, national ceremonies for Veterans Day center around the Tomb of the Unknowns. To honor these men, symbolic of all Americans who gave their lives in all wars, an Army honor guard, the 3d U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard), keeps day and night vigil. At 11 a.m. on November 11, a combined color guard representing all military services executes “Present Arms” at the tomb. The nation’s tribute to its war dead is symbolized by the laying of a presidential wreath and the playing of “Taps.” Congress voted Ar

A golden age of discovery in neuroscience Developments in imaging technology, genetics, brain chemistry and computing are promising fresh insights into the workings of the mind and mental illness. Our science correspondent Tom Feilden asks what neuroscience has to say about what it means to be human. "So this is it. This is our new toy. Not bad for eight million quid." I'm standing in the control room at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences's Brain Imaging Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Looking through a plate glass window with me, and gesticulating enthusiastically, is the centre's director, Professor Irene Tracey. On the other side of the glass is one of the most powerful imaging machines anywhere in the world. Weighing in at 40 tonnes - and generating a magnetic field strength of 7 Tesla - its central component, a huge cylindrical magnet, is so big they had to take the roof off the building to get it in. End Quote Dr John Williams Wellcome Trust We're on the cusp of a series

Saturday, May 18, 2013 The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut's nuclear plant is preparing to ask federal regulators for permission to use water that's even warmer than the temperature that forced it to shut a unit last August. Regulators were cool to at least two other suggestions by Millstone Power Station in Waterford to operate with rising water temperatures, according to emails among Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. One of the plant's two operating units was forced to shut down for nearly two weeks last year because the water in the Long Island Sound was warmer than the limit of 75 degrees that's in place to keep the plant operating safely. The partial shutdown at Millstone was the first in the United States to be caused by rising water temperatures, and the head of the NRC has asked for a review of climate change impacts on nuclear plants nationwide. Nuclear plants require large amounts of water to cool equipment and bu

McLean, VA (written by Doyle Rice/USA Today) -- As if this summer isn't bad enough already, the unusual warmth is turning bugs extra frisky. "We're calling it a breeding bonanza," says Missy Henriksen of the National Pest Control Association. Across the country, as a result of record heat, pests from grasshoppers to crickets and ants to bees are arriving earlier and in greater numbers than usual, entomologists at HomeTeam Pest Defense say. "We're seeing an increase in a lot of different pests right now," company entomologist Russ Horton says. Pest controllers are battling grasshoppers in Texas, ants in Florida, and crickets and bees across the country, he says. "Insects develop more rapidly with higher temperatures," says entomologist David Denlinger of Ohio State University. He adds that insects did well this past winter given the lack of intense cold. Through June, the USA was sweating through its warmest year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Insects such as grasshoppers and cricke

Competitive Enterprise Institute | 1899 L ST NW Floor 12, Washington, DC 20036 | Phone: 202-331-1010 | Fax: 202-331-0640 Co-authored by Drew L. Kershen. The modern techniques for genetic improvement — recombinant DNA, or “genetic modification” (GM) — began to be applied to bacteria and plants 40 years ago. For the first time, molecular biologists could very precisely move genetic material and its traits from one species to another. The resulting new plant varieties have revolutionized agriculture by boosting farmers’ profits and food security in much of the world. But not in Europe. For more than 20 years, bucking a worldwide scientific consensus, the European Union (EU) has maintained literally nonsensical laws and regulations that focus not on the risk-related characteristics of new plant varieties but on the process — recombinant DNA technology — used to create them. The result is a dysfunctional regulatory system in which there is an inverse relationship between the degree of regulatory scrutiny and the p

When did the authors write the Bible? How can we date the Levitical laws in the first five books of the Bible? Were these laws in the Bible written down during the time of Moses? Is there evidence for a later date for the composition of the legal code in the Pentateuch? The time of the writing of the Bible can be determined by comparing history books like Samuel and law books like Leviticus, and this analysis, among others, reveal that the Torah was composed later than the time of the earliest history books in the Bible. If principle characters in the Bible were law breakers, then Moses composed the entire Torah. If these characters did not follow Torah regulations because they were unfamiliar with the rules (the rules being composed later than their time, by Levites) then it becomes obvious that the Torah evolved gradually over time. The evidence of the contradictory nature of history and doctrine on the pages of the Torah indicates that the documents did not come from a single source. The Bible is found to

Mr. Malone’s research focused on identifying factors that regulate the survival of adult neural stem cells. The neural stem cells that exist in the adult brain are capable of turning into all the different types of cells found in the brain. As a result, these stem cells are thought to be one way in which the brain can repair itself when an injury such as a stroke occurs. One of the major problems with adult neural stem cells is that they often die when they reach a site of brain injury. Mr. Malone discovered that a specific protein, known as Mcl-1, is a crucial survival factor for adult neural stem cells. Mcl-1 had previously been shown to enhance the survival of blood and liver stem cells, but it was not known whether it had a role in adult neural stem cells. The graduate student found that when the concentration of Mcl-1 in neural stem cells was decreased, the cells died. Likewise, when the amount of Mcl-1 in the neural stem cells was increased, the numbers that survive was enhanced. “Collectively, my resul

What References Are References in PHP are a means to access the same variable content by different names. They are not like C pointers; for instance, you cannot perform pointer arithmetic using them, they are not actual memory addresses, and so on. See What References Are Not for more information. Instead, they are symbol table aliases. Note that in PHP, variable name and variable content are different, so the same content can have different names. The closest analogy is with Unix filenames and files - variable names are directory entries, while variable content is the file itself. References can be likened to hardlinking in Unix filesystem.

To make the face of the pumpkin, cut assorted shapes from adhesive backed foam, such as circles, triangles and rectangles. Use the photo as your guide. Cut your own designs shapes for the eyes, nose, mouth, teeth and eyebrows of the pumpkin. Remove backing from shapes and place on pumpkin. To make the pumpkin hat, cut a 4-inch circle of foam for the bottom of the hat. Glue this circle to the top of the pumpkin. Cut another piece of foam 2 inches by 8 inches long and join ends together to make a circle (see photo). Glue this piece on top of the hat base. To complete the hat, cut another 4-inch circle of foam to fit on top of the hat. Glue in place. To decorate the pumpkin hat, cut assorted colored foam triangles and add to the hat brim. Glue chenille stem, curling ends to brim of hat as shown. Cut a leaf from the foam. Cut lines from the foam and glue to the leaf to create leaf veins. Glue the leaf to the hat. Option: Use wiggle eyes or almost any other fun craft materials to decorate your own spooktacular pum

John Hunt Morgan |John Hunt Morgan| John Hunt Morgan Engraving by George Edward Perine (1837–85) June 1, 1825| |Died||September 4, 1864 |Place of burial||Lexington Cemetery| |Allegiance|| United States of America Confederate States of America |Service/branch|| United States Army Confederate States Army |Years of service||1846–1847 (USA) 1857–1861 (Kentucky Militia) |Rank|| First Lieutenant(USA) Captain (Kentucky Militia) Brigadier General (CSA) Morgan is best known for Morgan's Raid when, in 1863, he and his men rode over 1,000 miles covering a region from Tennessee, up through Kentucky, into Indiana and on to southern Ohio. This would be the farthest north any uniformed Confederate troops penetrated during the war. Early life and career John Hunt Morgan was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the eldest of ten children of Calvin and Henrietta (Hunt) Morgan. He was an uncle of geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and a maternal grandson of John Wesley Hunt, an early founder of Lexington, Kentucky, and one of the first mil

If Mary resembles Billy Holiday then Zechariah is more like Nat King Cole. The Benedictus (Lk. 1.67-79) at it core is a love song in which old Z sings about how "Unforgettable" his God is. The first word says it all, "Praise." (i.e. to bless, to adore) Zechariah shows us that jazz is not all improvisation but composition too… Because he had been sentenced by the angel Gabriel to over nine months of silence he had plenty of time to work on his song of adoration. As you read it you will notice that it is a list of reasons why he loves God. You might also see a minimum of 16 references to the Old Testament. Finally, it is structured like a chiasmus (a form of poetry that makes use of inverted parallelism). While Mary was improvising, Zechariah had the time to compose. Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus where great composers but no less magnificent jazz musicians. A jazz- shaped faith has room for both. A jazz-shaped faith needs both.

When an infected program is first executed, Riihi becomes memory resident, and infects COM files as they are executed. Riihi does not decrease available DOS memory, and it does not show up in When the virus is resident, it will check every executed program. If the file extension is COM, and the program does not start with the 'M' letter, the virus infects it. The 'M' check is done in order not to infect EXE files that have been renamed to COM. Infected programs grow by 132 bytes. The virus does not do anything except spread, and it does not contain any texts. The exact origin of Riihi is not known, but it is suspected to be written in Finland - it caused several large-scale infections in Finland during December 1993 and January 1994. [Analysis: Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure]

|Science Museum of Virginia sea stars| Strange creatures are our sea stars; they have no blood, no brains, and if we chop them up, as long as there is a fifth left, they will grow everything back. As for the no brains thing, anyone who has seen “SpongeBob SquarePants” can attest that Patrick Star, SpongeBob’s best friend, is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Comedy is not the only reason Patrick is a little slow on the uptake. The creator of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenburg, taught marine biology at Orange County Ocean Institute in California and puts weird facts like that into the story and characters. Sea stars actually have something going on upstairs, but it’s just a nerve ring instead of a brain. Breathing is another thing that our dear sea stars don’t do like most of the creatures we come in contact with. They absorb sea water through a small dot normally located somewhere on the top facing side of the sea star; this is called a madreporite. The water they absorb is used in their circulatory system (ye

By Chris Roberts By Joe Eskenazi By Albert Samaha By Mike Billings By Rachel Swan By Erin Sherbert By Joe Eskenazi By Albert Samaha Does distant healing actually work? If it works, can scientists really study it? The jury is still out on both questions. Critics of distant healing research question whether a clinical trial should study spirituality, and whether it can measure something so ephemeral and unexplainable. But scientists like Targ say it is possible to use accepted methodologies and "rigorous science" to determine the answers. "Rigorous science" means subjecting a hypothesis to the Western "gold standard" of clinical trials -- a randomized, controlled, and double-blinded trial, commonly known as an "RCT." As an example, a simple RCT might be used to test a new medicine. Participants would be split randomly into two groups so external factors wouldn't skew the data. One would be given the medicine and the other "control group" would be given a "placebo" pill (something that looks, smells, and tastes

A particle which always moves faster than the speed of light. Such particles are hypothetically possible, but none has ever been observed, and their actual physical existence is now considered more than a little doubtful. Also see luxon and tardyon. a hypothetical faster-than-light quantum particle, which has not been proven to actually exist a hypothetical particle that travels at superluminal velocities a hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light and has imaginary mass a theoretical particle that always travels faster than light a theoretical particle that can travel faster than the speed of light a type of subatomic particle that exists only at faster-than-light velocities a [theoretical] particle that moves faster than light. A tachyon (from the Greek (takhús), meaning "swift, fast") is any hypothetical particle that travels at superluminal velocity. The first description of tachyons is attributed to German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, but it was George Sudarshan, Olexa-Myron Bila

To ensure a safe and caring environment for children and youth A Toolkit on Positive Discipline with Particular Emphasis on South and Central Asia. Regional Working Group, Save the Children Sweden 206 page s . 2007. English . http://www.crin.org/docs/Too lkit%20on%20Positive%20Discipline%20final.pdf This toolkit outlines an approach that parents can utilize in place of physical and psychological punishment. Though the Toolkit was designed primarily for those working abroad, it is extremely applicable to service providers working with refugee and immigrant families in the United States. Of particular relevance to service providers are the sections on: natural and logical consequences (p. 76), establishing norms and limits in families/schools (p. 77), conflict management (p. 89), and managing aggressive behavior (p. 106). The Toolkit includes case scenarios that can be used for discussion and other activities suitable for parenting classes. Are there Universal Parenting Concepts among Culturally Diverse Families

This year, THE CONCRETE PRODUCER, with our sister publication, CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION, introduced the GreenSite Project of the Year con contest honoring the concrete community's efforts to promote concrete's role in creating eco-friendly structures that will stand the test of time. The name “GreenSite” reflects the innovative processes and materials that create a green building project, many of which are invisible in the final product. For instance, visitors to the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center in Wisconsin breathe air that is pretreated by an underground concrete pipe ventilation system. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, lightweight CarbonCast walls protect residents of the Symphony House condominiums from the elements, while using less energy and fewer materials than traditional concrete panels. TCP's 2008 GreenSite winners each represent a different category: Institutional, Commercial, Multifamily, Residential, and High- rise. For more details and photos of each project, click here. To learn how to participate in nex

From Our 2010 Archives Preschoolers' Skills Get Boost From Confident Teachers Latest Healthy Kids News FRIDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Highly confident teachers and emotional support in the classroom play important roles in helping preschoolers learn language and literacy skills, a new study has found. The researchers focused on 67 preschool teachers and 328 of their students over a 30-week period. The teachers completed a questionnaire designed to measure their level of confidence in their teaching ability, which the study authors deemed "self- efficacy." In addition, the researchers used trained observers to measure the level of classroom emotional support for students. Language and literacy skills tests were given to the children at the beginning and end of the 30 weeks. Students whose teachers had high self-efficacy showed gains in a measure of an early literacy skill called print awareness, such as being able to identify a single letter on a page. However, advances in vocabulary knowledge skills occur

NETWORK WITH US! Stop, even reverse, heart disease The support you need to succeed The tools that make it easy Access to cutting-edge info MORE REASONS TO TRACK YOUR PLAQUE! New Medical Discoveries ... Dr. Davis Comments If the means to turn off heart disease are already within our grasp, why don’t most doctors tell you about it? Surely, if there were some medicine or health practice that could stop heart disease in its tracks, he/she would tell you about it! Think about that for a moment: Coronary heart disease is the number one cause of death in America, and most physicians do not know how to screen a seemingly well person for hidden heart disease. You may, in fact, know of friends or acquaintances who passed their annual physical exam from their family physician, only to die or have a heart attack shortly afterwards. The fact is, the latest research and discoveries regarding the role of factors beyond cholesterol in heart attacks is so new that most practicing physicians and cardiologists have not yet been

History & Culture Kahnawake's Council of Chiefs:1840-1889 By: Gerald F. Reid, Ph.D Sacred Heart University Prior to the establishment of a band council system in the late nineteenth century, Kahnawake was governed locally by a council of chiefs. When the Indian Advancement Act was applied to the reserve in 1889 Kahnawake’s council of chiefs had a structure perhaps only about a half century old, but still rooted in the Iroquois system of clans and the community’s traditional form of government. Part 1 of this report focuses on the organization and composition of the council of chiefs during the second half of the nineteenth century. Part 2 is concerned with divisions within Kahnawake over the issues of the council and the Indian Act. Part 3 focuses on the circumstances under which the chiefs council was replaced by a band council system in 1889. The following discussion is based on a variety of primary and secondary source materials. The most important of these are files of the Indian Department and Department

Register style, a specific format for organizing genealogical data, was first introduced in the January 1870 Register. Editor Albert Harrison Hoyt explained “for the benefit of future contributors to the Register, and perhaps of those about to publish family-genealogies, we have arranged the Sherman Genealogy, a portion of which appears in this number of the Register, on a plan easily understood, and convenient for reference.” In the July 1883 Register, John Ward Dean reported on the ‘Register plan for genealogical records.’ “It has now been in use thirteen years and has given satisfaction. The Publishing Committee will continue to require genealogies intended for the Register to be arranged on this plan.” Modifications have been made to this style over the last 140+ years to account for changing tastes and technologies, but the format remains flexible, effective, and popular. In the Publications Department we regularly receive enquiries from people seeking guidelines for writing their genealogical informatio

6. The Council noted that during the period under review there had been little change in the world food situation. While there were some encouraging factors in the last two years, the situation was still fragile and many unsatisfactory features remained in respect both of longer-term trends and of the actual results obtained in different developing countries. Little progress had been made towards either the goals agreed at the World Food Conference or the target of agricultural growth set forth in the development strategy of the Second Development Decade. There was therefore no cause for complacency or undue optimism. 7. World food production had shown a good production performance in both 1975 and 1976, including the developing countries where, in these two years, the increase in food produc- tion had averaged about 4 percent per year, although this average covered considerable differences between countries and regions. 8. The improvement in world food supplies begun in 1975 had continued. However, the Counc

The beauty enhancing properties of milk have been known and documented for thousands of years. Legend has it that, in ancient Egypt, Queen Cleopatra regularly bathed in goat’s milk to retain her youthful appearance. In the 21st century, milk remains a useful beauty ingredient that delivers nutrients and enzymes to improve the appearance of tired, aging, or irritated skin. Milk is produced by mammals as the primary source of nutrition for their young. As a result, milk is packed with vitamins, minerals, protein, and carbohydrate, which are essential for the growth and development of a young mammal. Customers prone to breakouts, excess oil production and/or who are lactose intolerant may want to avoid using milk-based products. Topical application of milk brings out the natural beauty of skin. Milk contains lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) that exfoliates the skin, removing dead cells from the skin’s surface and promoting the generation of fresh skin cells. Regular application of milk to the skin encour

States are the basic units of the state machines. In UML 2.0 states can have substates. Execution of the diagram begins with the Initial node and finishes with Final or Terminate node or nodes. Please refer to UML 2.0 Specification for more information about these elements. State Machine diagrams describe the logic behavior of the system, a part of the system, or the usage protocol of it. On these diagrams you show the possible states of the objects and the transitions that cause a change in state. State Machine diagrams in UML 2.0 are different in many aspects compared to Statechart diagrams in UML 1.5. Copyright(C) 2008 CodeGear(TM). All Rights Reserved. What do you think about this topic? Send feedback!

In his novel Entangled, Graham Hancock spun a tale suggesting that Neanderthals were way more creative than the violent homo sapiens who wiped them out. New research suggests that Hancock may have been right, reported by James Noble Wilford in the New York Times: Stone Age artists were painting red disks, handprints, clublike symbols and geometric patterns on European cave walls long before previously thought, in some cases more than 40,000 years ago, scientists reported on Thursday, after completing more reliable dating tests that raised a possibility that Neanderthals were the artists. A more likely situation, the researchers said, is that the art — 50 samples from 11 caves in northwestern Spain — was created by anatomically modern humans fairly soon after their arrival in Europe. The findings seem to put an exclamation point to a run of recent discoveries: direct evidence from fossils that Homo sapiens populations were living in England 41,500 to 44,200 years ago and in Italy 43,000 to 45,000 years ago, an

Should Chiapas Farmers Suffer for California’s Carbon? “We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas. “So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?” Abelardo was one of dozens of villagers who had traveled to the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas to protest an international policy meeting on climate change and forest conservation. At a high-end conference center, representatives from the state of California and from states and provinces around the world were working out mechanisms intended to mitigate climate change by protecting tropical forests. The group was called the Governor’s Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), and California’s interest was in using forest preservation in Chiapas as a carbon offset—a means for meeting climate change goals under the state’s 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act. Such an agreement among subnational governments i

Nube De Oro - Leaf Writing Sys Test In order to allow the agave to express his relation to light, and time, the piccolo (piccolo.cc) is used for agave leaf "writing". The simple 'drawing' is based on the data from a hibiscus glass solar cell acting as a light sensor that is transformed via arduino. The power system consists of sixty six natural dye sensitized glass solar cells -shaped after the seeds of teosinte (the mother of maize)- and two supercapacitors. As soon as the growing agave stalk starts flowering, the agave will start writing on its leaves, as long as the cells provide sufficient power.

Alaska Native Wisdom for Modern Times There is a single place in the United States where indigenous peoples still live on ancestral lands, consume over four hundred pounds of wild foods annually per capita, and indigenous elders still remember the arrival of the first Westerners in their regions. That place is Alaska. Despite daunting challenges to cultural integrity and ways of life, Alaska’s Native peoples retain vast storehouses of their traditional knowledge, wisdom, and lifeways. Thus, many traditional Alaska Native lifeways and understandings about how human beings fit into the bigger matrix of creation remain relatively intact. These ways have allowed our cultures to survive and thrive for thousands of years, even in the face of many daunting ecological and economic crises. In today’s challenging times, such ways, having evolved through an intimate and profound relationship to lands, waters, and all life, have much to offer the American people and the entire human family. Alaska’s vast lands are home t

HP OpenVMS Systems Documentation Compaq PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (Advanced In addition to the network card and the network card driver, a network computer must have a protocol driver, also called a transport protocol or a protocol. The protocol driver works between the upper-level network software---such as the workstation and server---and the network adapter card. The protocol packages the data that are sent over the network in a way that the computer on the receiving end will understand. The process of associating a protocol driver with the network adapter card with which it will work and establishing a communication channel between the two is called binding. For two computers to communicate on a network, they must use identical protocols. In the case where computers are configured to use multiple protocols, they need to have only one protocol in common to communicate. For example, a server that uses both NetBEUI and TCP/IP can communicate both with workstations that use only NetBEUI and with workstations that

Eliminating cell receptor prevents infection in animal study New research from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia sheds light on the role of cell receptors in acting as gatekeepers for infectious viruses. By using mice genetically engineered to lack a particular receptor in heart and pancreas cells, the study team prevented infection by a common virus that causes potentially serious diseases in humans. "This finding is a step to understanding how cell receptors operate in infections," said study leader Jeffrey M. Bergelson, M.D., a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Scientists have identified receptors for many viruses that cause disease," said Bergelson, "but it is not always clear whether the receptors found in cell cultures actually play a role in the disease process. In this case, we confirmed that this receptor really is involved in the disease." The current study, publishing July 23 in Cell Host and Microbe, focused on the coxsackievirus and adenov

- What is credit? Credit is a quantified means of expressing equivalence of learning. Credit is awarded to a learner in recognition of the verified achievement of designated learning outcomes at a specified level. It is a way of comparing learning achieved in a variety of different contexts. - How is credit gained? Credit is gained through the achievement of learning outcomes and their assessment. - How is credit quantified? The amount of credit achieved is related to the amount of learning. In the UK, in further and higher education there is widespread agreement that ten hours of learning activity (including assessment) leads to the award of one credit. It is understood that this calculation is an approximation and depends on academic judgement. That judgement is guided by the identification of learning outcomes that are to be achieved during the learning. - Is all credit at the same level? No, credit is awarded at different levels representing different degrees of educational challenge. SEEC has developed C

Microwaves can transform a frozen pizza into hot, melted goodness in four minutes flat, but they can’t rescue your melted ice-cream sundae. To cook food, a microwave oven converts voltage into high-frequency electromagnetic microwaves. The molecules in food—especially water and fat—absorb this energy and wiggle at high speeds, causing them to heat rapidly and warm the surrounding food. Although quickly turning leftovers cold would be handy, this is a one-way operation, explains David Pozar, a professor and microwave expert at the University of Massachusetts. Microwaves can only speed up atoms, not slow them down. Scientists do have a high-tech method for slowing atoms, however: lasers. Shoot a moving atom with a laser, and it will absorb the laser’s photons and re-emit them every which way, causing the atom to hold nearly still. Placing an atom at the junction of multiple beams can slow its momentum in all directions, decreasing its energy and cooling it. This drops an atom’s temperature a couple hundred degr

VOICE (Violence-Prevention Outcomes in Civic Education) VOICE is a year-long elementary social studies program created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago designed to increase academic achievement, foster peaceful resolution of conflict, and spark community service. VOICE combines law education, peer mediation and service learning to educate 4th grade through middle school students about our democratic government and offer ways to resolve conflicts non-violently. Research has shown the VOICE curriculum to be highly effective in helping students retain and use essential information and skills relating to government and to resolve conflict peacefully. Through VOICE, students gain basic civic knowledge about how our government works and about their roles as citizens in our constitutional democracy. They practice creative problem-solving and cooperation, using math, science, and writing skills. They learn and practice peaceful ways to resolve conflict. They develop positive connections to their commun

Fundoplication - children - discharge; Nissen fundoplication - children - discharge; Belsey (Mark IV) fundoplication - children - discharge; Toupet fundoplication - children - discharge; Thal fundoplication - children - discharge; Hiatal hernia repair - children - discharge; Endoluminal fundoplication - children - discharge When Your Child Was in the Hospital Your child had surgery to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). GERD is a condition that causes food or liquid to come up from the stomach into the esophagus. This is the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. During the operation, the surgeon wrapped the upper part of your child’s stomach around the end of the esophagus. The surgery was done in one of these ways: Through a large incision (cut) in your child’s upper belly (open surgery) With a laparoscope (a thin tube with a tiny camera on the end) By endoluminal repair (like a laparoscope, but the surgeon goes in though the mouth) Your child may also have had a plyoroplasty proced

A newly developed route for the synthesis of hollow carbon nanospheres without introducing template under hydrothermal conditions was reported. Hollow carbon nanospheres with the diameter of about 100 nm were synthesized using alginate as reagent only. Many instruments were applied to characterize the morphologies and structures of carbon hollow nanospheres, such as XRD, TEM, and Raman spectroscopy. The possible formation and growth mechanism of carbon hollow spheres were discussed on the basis of the investigation of reaction influence factors, such as temperature, time, and content. The findings would be useful for the synthesis of more materials with hollow structure and for the potential use in many aspects. The loading of SnO2on the surface of carbon hollow spheres was processed, and its PL property was also characterized. Keywords:Synthesis; Nanostructure; Carbon hollow nanospheres Please see Electronic Supplementary File which accompanies this paper Inorganic hollow spheres with tailored structural, op

1 July 2005 What is Disability Arts? What are the issues which have underpinned the development of Disability Arts? Allan Sutherland offers a concise explanation. The generally agreed definition of disability arts, the one that we in the disability arts movement have found most accurately reflects what we are doing, is that it is 'art made by disabled people which reflects the experience of disability.' Disability arts is Art. It is seriously intentioned creative work - poems or painting or music or comedy or theatre or whatever - made with some sort of aesthetic purpose. It is not a hobby to keep the cripples' hands busy. And it is not therapy. Disability arts is made by disabled people. So we're not talking about anything that portrays us according to other people's perceptions: Rain Man or Richard III or 'isn't it tragic' documentaries. In disability arts we are in charge, we tell our own stories, we present our own perceptions of disability and the issues around it. Disability arts reflects the experience

This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non- commercial use only 2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Electricity generation from renewable sources of energy will be a key part in the development of future strategies for many countries globally. This renewable electricity generation will be hugely important for Ireland, due to its lack of fossil fuel resources. The extremely good wind resource available provides Ireland with the opportunity of generating vast amount of electricity from wind energy. Large-scale wind electricity generation reached 1264 MW installed capacity by January 2010 in Ireland. However, micro scale wind electricity generation has not been very popular in Ireland to-date. The unclear economics of micro wind turbines, under Irish conditions, is considered the biggest obstacle for expanding micro wind turbine installation in Ireland. This paper presents a methodology to accurately evaluate the economic viability of a micro wind turbine on a case-by-case basis. The methodology ut

This sermon, first preached in the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia on May 23, 1814, explains why Jesus’ command to “go and preach to every nation” represents a new and important era in the history of the church and the world. A Missionary Sermon reminds the church of its obligation to preach, and explores the extent to which the nineteenth century church in America has followed that command. With the Logos Bible Software edition of A Missionary Sermon, all Scripture references directly link to your original language texts and English Bible translations. You can also employ advanced searching, along with the powerful tools in your digital library. The Logos edition is a must-have for historians of American Christianity and Presbyterianism, as well as biblical scholars and Reformed theologians. - Exploration of the extent to which the nineteenth century church in America has followed the command to preach - Explanation of why Jesus’ command to preach represents a new and important era in the history o

The Chinese version of Twitter is a microblogging service called Weibo which launched in 2010. This allows users to post 140 character messages with @usernames and #hashtags, just like Twitter– although 140 characters in Chinese contain significantly more information content than in English. In just three years, Weibo has picked up some 300 million users who between them send 100 million messages each day at the rate of 70,000 per minute. That makes the inevitable process of censorship a tricky task for the Chinese authorities. So an interesting question is how they do it. Today,Dan Wallach at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a few pals reveal the results of a detailed study of censorship on Weibo. Their method has allowed them to reconstruct the censorship techniques used by the government, to calculate the number of workers who must be involved and even to discover their daily work schedules. The work is possible because at least some of the content on Weibo is not censored prior to publication, only

The first commercial cochlear implants were approved by the FDA in the What is an Otolaryngologist? Otolaryngologists are physicians trained in the medical and surgical management and treatment of patients with diseases and disorders of the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck. They are commonly referred to as ENT physicians. What is a Neurotologist? Neurotologists are subspecialists within the field of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat) who focus on the neurology and neurosurgery of the ear. This includes the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of hearing and balance disorders, the facial nerve, the ear and temporal bone, and related structures such as the skull base and brainstem. The human ears are completely mechanical. Unlike your sense of smell, taste and vision, which all involve chemical reactions; your hearing system is based solely on physical movement. The cochlear implant is the most expensive implant placed in the human

Molecular beacons would be ideal diagnostics for detecting point mutations in disease genes if they weren’t so hard to distinguish. These noose-shaped DNA segments are engineered to light up when they bind to target DNA, such as a mutated cancer gene. However, it has been difficult to detect the difference between complete complementarity and binding that is mismatched by one or two nucleotides, because an imperfect match still has a chance—though a smaller one—of binding and fluorescing. Xudong Fan and Yuze Sun of the University of Michigan bypassed the problem by creating an amplification step based on physics rather than biochemistry. They inserted the molecular beacons and target sequences that differed by one nucleotide into the head of a liquid laser, thereby replacing the laser’s light- generating crystal or usual liquid dye with the sample medium. When mismatched, the probes lit up in the laser chamber, but the fluorescence was not strong enough to create the feedback needed to initiate an emitted lase

Ray Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the nation’s largest award in invention and innovation. He also received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He has also received scores of other national and international awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University’s top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received twelve honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. He has received seven national and international film awards. Ray’s books include The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Four of Ray’s books have been national best sellers and The Age of Spir

by Kenneth Rainis and Bruce Russell Microlife is everywhere–on your food, in your hair, and around the house. Even though we can't see many of them, these tiny critters play an important role in our world. Without them, we would have not food to eat or oxygen to breathe. Students discover the microanimals, microfungi, monerans, and protists that make our lives possible, and learn how to collect, view, and identify types of microlife; how to use a microscope, and how to take photomicrographs. Appendices, index. 288 pp., softcover