![]() Insert both bare ends of the toothpicks into another marshmallow to complete the triangle. Insert another toothpick in each marshmallow at a 45-degree angle to form a triangle. Insert one end of a toothpick into the centre of each marshmallow to create a barbell shape. Questions about upcoming classes, events or the Claremont MakerSpace in general? Let us know at. Place two marshmallows with the bases flat on your work surface. The popsicle stick bridge is a classic science demonstration and competition. We’ve got even more classes/events on the calendar, so check out the full line up HERE. (For illustration purposes links have been added to some of the materials.) You may sign up for each session individually. This series is designed for ages 8-12 for maximum fun and success participants are encouraged to come with a friend or family member to brainstorm and collaborate with! Please note materials needed for each session. The winning bridge weighs less than 100 grams and was able. Start with uniform building blocks I decided to make easier building blocks by first gluing toothpick head to toe, as it were, and by putting the fat end and the skinny end together, we get a uniform width, flat, and stronger, building block. While there’s a progression of challenge across the 3 workshops each session stands alone, so you can register for 1 or all 3. The goal of the contest is to design the strongest bridge using only wooden toothpicks and glue. The Toothpick Bridge-Construction Construction technique is of great importance to success. Each session will begin with a warm-up activity, and will revolve around a different principal – balance, strength, and motion – through fun, hands-on design activities. In this 3-part series participants will experiment with designing towers, bridges, and launchers using simple materials, most of which can be found in your home. IOAOAI Toothpicks 10Pcs/Box Clean Teeth High Toughness Great Safe Compact Dental Floss Sticks with. The next strongest bridge was able to support 3 cans of olives. He was able to get a whopping 6 cans of olives on his bridge before it started to collapse. Step 7: Placing the Side Pieces Place them on the side of the bridge. ![]() Let the bridge dry for at least 12 hours. We’ll experiment with different bridge designs to see how much weight they can hold. All of my junior civil engineers built some pretty impressive bridges, but the strongest toothpick bridge was built by my son Spencer. Place all the toothpicks on the Final structure except for the long piece on the sides. Join us tomorrow for Design Technology for Kids – Toothpick Bridges. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Xinjiang was a peripheral part of the Qing empire and briefly regained independence during the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877). The region came under Chinese rule as a result of the westward expansion of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty during the 1700s, which also saw the conquests of Tibet and Mongolia. Historically, certain Chinese dynasties exerted control over parts of modern-day Xinjiang. įurther information: Xinjiang under Qing rule Other parliaments, such as those in New Zealand, Belgium, and the Czech Republic condemned the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs as "severe human rights abuses" or crimes against humanity. Legislatures in several countries have since passed non-binding motions describing China's actions as genocide, including the House of Commons of Canada, the Dutch parliament, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the Seimas of Lithuania, and the French National Assembly. The United States has declared the human rights abuses a genocide, announcing its finding on January 19, 2021, though the United States Department of State found that there is insufficient evidence to support that characterization. ![]() In December 2020, a case brought to the International Criminal Court was dismissed because the crimes alleged appeared to have been "committed solely by nationals of China within the territory of China, a State which is not a party to the Statute", meaning the ICC could not investigate them. In 2020, 39 UN member states issued statements to the United Nations Human Rights Council criticizing China's policies, while 45 countries expressed support China's policies and opposing "the politicization of human rights issues and double standards". In an assessment by the UN Human Rights Office, the United Nations (UN) stated that China's policies and actions in the Xinjiang region may be crimes against humanity, although it did not use the term genocide. The Chinese government denies having committed human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Those accusing China of genocide point to intentional acts committed by the Chinese government that they say run afoul of Article II of the Genocide Convention, which prohibits "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part," a "racial or religious group" including "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" and "measures intended to prevent births within the group". These actions have been described as the forced assimilation of Xinjiang, or as an ethnocide or cultural genocide, or as genocide. Birth rates in Xinjiang fell a further 24% in 2019, compared to a nationwide decrease of 4.2%. Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide. In the same period, the birth rate of the whole country decreased by 9.69%. Chinese government statistics reported that from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%. Government policies have included the arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in state-sponsored internment camps, forced labor, suppression of Uyghur religious practices, political indoctrination, severe ill-treatment, forced sterilization, forced contraception, and forced abortion. Experts estimate that, since 2017, some sixteen thousand mosques have been razed or damaged, and hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools. It is the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II. Operations from 2016 to 2021 were led by Xinjiang CCP Secretary Chen Quanguo, who dramatically increased the scale and scope of the camps. Beginning in 2014, the Chinese government, under the administration of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, incarcerated more than an estimated one million Turkic Muslims without any legal process in internment camps. The Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang that is often characterized as genocide. Genocide of Croats and Muslims by the Chetniks.Herero and Namaqua genocide (1904–1907).Sinicization, Islamophobia, and suppression of political dissentġ8th / 19th / early 20th century genocides Government of the People's Republic of China Internment, forced abortion, forced sterilization, forced birth control, forced labor, torture, brainwashing, alleged rape (including gang rape) ![]() ![]() ![]() A previous study on university students shows that daily coloring is associated with lower anxiety and depressive symptoms. Structured coloring with predesigned, repetitive patterns (typically mandalas) is linked to mindfulness as the complexity and repetitiveness of structured coloring may facilitate focused attention and awareness of immediate experiences, inducing a meditative state. Coloring is an activity that may be easily accomplished by most people while promoting a sense of self-accomplishment on the completion of an art piece. Most mindfulness practices studied involve focused breathing, but findings from a meta-analysis indicate that other mindfulness exercises, such as mindfulness applied to a task, might be more effective. Brief MBIs that were adapted to increase accessibility were introduced to overcome this barrier, and studies demonstrate effectiveness of these MBIs in improving psychological outcomes for healthcare providers. However, time commitment is a barrier for traditional MBIs, such as the MBSR, to be implemented broadly in the nursing setting due to nurses’ irregular and long working hours. The mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program is an established 8-week MBI that has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing stress, burnout, anxiety, and depression, as well as enhancing well-being and quality of life across various populations including nurses. Those with higher trait mindfulness have superior stress-coping ability as they appraise daily experiences as less stressful, exercise more self-acceptance and less self-blame, and more readily accept events that are beyond their control. MBIs integrate mindfulness training and practices into daily living to help participants develop a more mindful trait. Trait mindfulness is the general tendency to be mindful in daily living, and increasing state mindfulness over repeated practices may increase trait mindfulness. A mindfulness state can be attained by purposefully focusing all attention on the ongoing flow of external and internal events as they arise, without suppressing, evaluating or fixating on any of them. When occupying a mindfulness state, an individual has a heightened awareness of the present-moment experiences including their outer surroundings and inner thoughts, feelings, and sensations while accepting these experiences in a non-judgmental way. Mindfulness can refer to either a momentary state or a dispositional trait. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been recommended as an effective strategy to manage occupational stress and burnout among nurses. Leisure activities and effective interventions to promote well-being at work are therefore required to help reduce the prevalence and consequences of stress and burnout. In the healthcare system, nurses’ stress and burnout predict lower job performance, poor patient safety and quality of patient care, as well as increased turnover intentions and medical errors. Stress and burnout predict physiological, behavioral and psychological problems including cardiovascular diseases, prolonged fatigue, headaches, early mortality, alcohol abuse, absenteeism, insomnia, and depressive symptoms. Among critical care physician and non-physician practitioners, the prevalence of burnout is also high (56% and 50% respectively). A systematic review of 40 studies, involving 27,034 nurses, estimates the summary prevalence of stress to be 43% (95% CI 37–49%). Frontline nursing during this pandemic is more stressful than ever. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to challenge the provision of sufficient critical care resources and healthcare providers worldwide. The primary outcome was the perceived stress level. Participants in both groups completed the Perceived Stress Scale (total score 0–40), short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (total score 7–35), Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel (3 subscales), Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire-Short Form (total score 24–120) and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-State version (total score 0–30) instruments. The mindful coloring intervention included participants viewing a 3-minutes instructional video and coloring mandalas for at least 5 working days or 100 minutes in total during a 10-day period. Twenty-seven nurses in the mindful coloring group and 32 in the control group were included in the full compliance per protocol analysis. Seventy-seven participants were randomly allocated (by computer-generated sequence) to either mindful coloring (n = 39) or waitlist control groups (n = 38). 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Niagara College – Niagara College – Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontarioħ. Black Tooth Brewing – Sheridan, WyomingĦ. Boston Beer Company – Boston, Massachusettsĥ. The top 10 breweries based on the number of beers placing first (3 points), second (2 points) or third (1 point) are:Ģ. This year’s judges were from England, Canada and the United States.Īlong with the medals awarded, a Grand National Champion is awarded based on a point system for beers (5 minimum POINTS) entered in the competition. Open in 2012, including breweries from Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Germany, Mexico, and England medaled.”Ĭompeting beers were judged in 65 different beer style categories. ![]() “More than international breweries entered the U.S. Niagara College Teaching Brewery from Ontario, which sells and distributes its ales and lagers to local retail stores and restaurants, finished 6th with two golds and two silvers. Open also had its first college in the Top 10. “This competition is significant because it accepts entries from breweries around the world and allows national winning homebrews to compete,” said Dow Scoggins, director of the U.S. Open included silver medalist Kent Shultz for his alt sytle beer and bronze medalist David Motter for his ESB. Other homebrewers who took home medals at the U.S. This group consisted of Michael Habrat, Chris Bartik, Brett Goldstock, and Suzy Pessutti of San Diego, CA. won third.įor the first time in three years, a group of homebrewers won a gold medal in the barley wine style. Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams, won second and last year’s overall winner, Deschutes Brewery of Bend, Ore. Sweetwater Brewing of Atlanta, Georgia was awarded Grand National Champion, winning three gold, three silver and a bronze medal. More than 1650 beers were submitted in 65 different categories. Open Beer Championship Medal Winners & Grand National ChampionĪtlanta, GA(July, 2012) - Winners in the 2012 United States Open Beer Championships – the only brewery competition to include professional breweries and award-winning home brewers – were announced this week. ![]() ![]() Thanks for checking out my guide if you want to install similar mods for Estival or Shinovi Versus I also have guide for that as well. This will redownload the unmodded game files and give a clean install of the game. lets play Senran Kagura Burst ReNewal part 16. ![]() It's the Verify Integrity of Game Cache option shown in the picture below. The mod is still in development, it is a better version of the wiiu mod but Im very lazy to finish it. Senran Kagura Estival Versus Undressing Yumi Nude Mod Upload, share, download and embed your videos. Replaced the music in the main menu with the instrumental of the DC opening (plays very quiet). Share Permissions and credits Changelogs This mod replaces BURST music with music from DEEP CRIMSON in two variations. ![]() If you can't install the mods and say you're afraid of messing it up you know who you are then that's on you don't bother saying sh*t to me about it.Īlso if you messed up in the process at all there's a quick fix. This mod replaces BURST music with music from DEEP CRIMSON in two variations. If you can't download the files its probably not the page that's the problem. If you can't open a link its very likely ( 100% actually) not the link that's broken. the game is senran kagura shinovi versus and you can purchase it for your personal computer via money. There are a ton of things I simply can't do anything about fixing and as such I may not be able to help with all issues you may have. 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If you can't install the mods and say you're afraid of messing it up you know who you are then that's on you don't bother saying sh*t to me about it.Īlso if you messed up in the process at all there's a quick fix. ![]() ![]() If you can't open a link its very likely ( 100% actually) not the link that's broken. Due to the nature of the mod in this guide obviously the content is mature. Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal Mods Miscellaneous Ikaruga's Master Sword Ikaruga's Master Sword Endorsements 0 Unique DLs - Total DLs - Total views - Version 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simply plug it in, connect your device needing power, press the desired time, and RELAX. Simple Touch works great in your home, kitchen, dorm, hair salon, and or workshop. E Books including, Kindle, Nook, Fires, and wearable technology such as smart and Apple watches. ![]() Apple iPad’s, tablets and Android tablets, and touchscreens.
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Since I have comcast as my internet provider should I set my SMTP relayer remote host name and set the port to 587? And if so do I need to add a TCP/IP port for 0.0.0.0 / 587 / SMTP in the Advanced tab. Sorry it is so long I just want to provide as much infor as possible. Am I making a mistake with anything or should I install Outlook on my desktop web server as well? Thanks to anyone that can help. My aol works because I get email to it all the time. I am trying to be as thorough and detailed as possible so whomever is able to help.Īm I suppose to setup anything in DynDNS, or something in particular somewhere else. What am I doing wrong, or are there settings that I am missing. Whenever I test out my site, nothing happens, and my laptop recieves no new mail. ![]() I checked the enabled box and have it forwarded to " I use my laptop that has Outlook 2007 to receive all my email, so I do not have to be home to get any new mail. Should I do anything with any of this section, this is all confusing?įor each of the accounts I want to forward them to one email which I changed in the "forwarding" section. There are two boxes: Delivery of e-mail/Local host name and SMTP Relayer / Remote host name that is set on TCP/IP port 25 and there is a are under it that asks to check the box for Server requires authentication and Use SSL. But I did try to mess with the SMTP/Delivery of e-mail The original settings for protocols (SMTP/POP3/IMAP) are all checked, I have not messed with that. On the Hmail program these are my settings:Īccounts: & (Administration levels are set as "User") When I tried to send information through my php request page that I have created, and I know that works, I just want a complete fuctionable web server. Here in lies my issue, I realized I need a mail server, so I installed HMail server, and tried to configure it based on the manuals on this site. (with mysite being the actual name of my registered site, but I am using "mysite" as an example) The following is the example of what my page is: My websites work great with the exception of sending or receiving request forms that I have or contact forms. I installed WAMP, and used DynDNS as my host. I converted my old desktop to be a webserver. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This also allows you to easily copy or duplicate a past event, which is very helpful with events that happen monthly or yearly. Easy to use and adapt to each unique event. Flexible scheduling variables allow for a broad range of events - from volunteers at a single event, to on-going events. Multiple design options allow us to customize sign-ups for a wide variety of events - from Parent- Teacher conferences, to coordinating parent volunteers, to planning community events. SignUp Genius is a must-have for schools. We've been very pleased that this has been a time saver for our school. Some examples have included scheduling regular volunteers for single events, coordinating larger events (ex: Oktoberfest) which require a large number of volunteers serving in different capacities at different times, and allowing parents to sign up for parent teacher conference time slots. We use it both for school events and for our parent organization, and it has been a great resource for coordinating volunteers and planning events. SignUp Genius has been a tremendous asset for our school. But that is to be expected and is not a huge disadvantage at all! There is not much I did not like about this software, except for all the ads with the free version. If people want to swap slots, there is the ability to allow them to do so.You can create bulk slots with the amount of items required (for example, if you are doing a pot-luck and require 5 desserts, it will show the amount of desserts left after people have chosen.There are so many options available! 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I have used this software as both a participant and creator. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chapman brothers recreated Goya’s horrifying etchings with remodelled toys, and scattered Nazis through other vitrine collections in 1995 the Polish artist Zbigniew Libera used Lego to recreate a concentration camp. So does pure escape, though some of the examples Garfield offers deliberately complicate both instincts. The illusion of mastery is especially significant – the idea that, in Lévi-Strauss’s phrase, the “intelligible dimensions” of a miniature can help us to feel in control in a world that rarely gives us that option. Garfield, whose range of critical reference is equally wide (taking in WG Sebald, Walter Benjamin and Simon Armitage), is fascinating and often funny about why miniatures exert such a hold. We consider how a model of a fully loaded slave ship on the Middle Passage was handed around parliament in the 1780s, instantly doing the job no amount of words had yet been able to achieve. They are “but boxes of play, but they work an unfeasible trick: they cloud us with doubt, and doubt foreshadows inquiry”. We move from the bathetic Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, both “stupefyingly impressive” and “stupefyingly deranged” to the mysterious and moving, such as the Nutshell Studies of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee – doll’s house-style dioramas of murder scenes, where attention to every detail was the educational point. Wells wrote two books about his enthusiasm, Floor Games and Little Wars, and has a decent claim to being the grandfather of video games. We also meet HG Wells, sitting on a nursery floor with his son, building cities and conducting battles sometimes Jerome K Jerome helped, “knocking down 2-inch Zulus with his spring-breech loader”. We see Zaha Hadid attempting to reduce her vaulting ambition to 1:12 (it wasn’t very successful), and hold our breath as a micro-miniaturist describes replicating the Mona Lisa in less than a square millimetre (he used an eyelash for a paintbrush).Īrthur Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton and Siegfried Sassoon provided original work for the tiny books in Lutyens' dollhouse It was so beautiful that actually playing with it was out of the question. Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton and Siegfried Sassoon were among those who provided original work for the tiny, readable books Gustav Holst wrote a score. He takes the reader from Ancient Egyptian shabtis, miniaturised retainers who accompanied their employers into the realms of death, to the doll’s house Edwin Lutyens made for Queen Mary, in which every aspect, from the books to the telephone to the toilet, was made by the leading practitioner in the field: clocks by Cartier, cricket bat by John Wisden & Co, wine from Berry Bros, the art by Paul Nash and Arthur Rackham. ![]() (He is robustly dismissive of the soulless greatest-hits parade of, for instance, Mini-Europe in Belgium.) The hint of cattiness on the faces of the pub regulars in Bekonscot, the hopeful cricketer on the village green: there is a sense of unease, and of a clear point of view.įrom the first person who climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower and was amazed to see Paris receding and Parisians becoming ants from the moment, in fact, 40,000 years ago, when Venus figurines, a few centimetres tall, were first carved, we have been in thrall, Garfield argues, to the clarifying effects of scale. According to Garfield, what makes Bekonscot attractive is not only its size – a scale of 1:12 and 1:32, across an area of 40,000 sq ft – but its idiosyncrasy. People were so keen that by the end of last year more than 15.4 million people had visited it. He built a village around his railway, and people to live in it impressed friends suggested the public might pay. So the husband, accountant Roland Robert Callingham, took over the garden. “N o one is quite sure how Bekonscot, a model village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, came to be,” Simon Garfield writes, but “the most satisfying story” begins in 1927 “with a housebound miniature railway that grew so big that a wife reached for the rolling pin: either it went or she did”. ![]() |
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