AFC North. AFC South. AFC West. NFC East. NFC North. NFC South. NFC West. AL East. AL Central. AL West. Sorry, there was a problem. More from Sport. Football As a gay woman I'd never want to go to Qatar — footballers should speak out over human rights. Then there's the other winners. Against Everton on Dec. Adding on to the importance his goals have played this season, Robin van Persie has presented himself as one of the foremost captains currently playing in England.

Arsenal, which were mired in 15th place in the Premier League standings in mid-September following a gruesome defeat to Blackburn at Ewood Park, have since surged into third thanks in large part to their talismanic captain's prowess. Manchester City might be ahead of them in the standings, but it should be said that Arsenal's rise up the proverbial ladder has been nothing short of awesome. As Wenger said in his appraisal of his charge's chances, this marks the first season that Robin van Persie has knocks on wood managed to remain injury free.

His season has not been blighted by knocks, and his side have been all the more strengthened for it. He's played enough games to deserve the award. Statistics offer but a brief insight into the overall impact of a player—take, for example, David Silva's five league goals and 12 assists.

The signing of Dias at the start of October has been City's most significant in terms of transforming the whole team. City have the best defensive record in the league this season with only 32 league goals conceded - and six of those came in September, before Dias arrived.

His impact has been felt on Stones too - he has rediscovered his potential playing alongside Dias, who truly organises the City back line.

They didn't have Dias, whose influence has taken them that step further. He has an incredible future ahead of him - he's only 23 and and he is proof of the old adage that attacks win you games but defences win you titles. Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes got my vote when I was asked about this in February, but he doesn't get it now. Dias does the simple aspects of defending extremely well and has been so consistent. He's been hugely important in the stability of City's defence, which has won them the Premier League and taken them to the Champions League final too.

If the players were voting in March like they usually do, Fernandes would have got a lot of votes. Harry Kane has had another excellent season and his Tottenham team-mate Son Heung-min would also have been right in the race. But, looking at it now, like the players have been, there are only two contenders - De Bruyne and Dias. Personally I will always go for the creator in a choice like that because of the kind of player I was myself - it is a lot harder to create than defend.

He's just a fabulous all-round midfielder. Bruno Fernandes comes close. His numbers have been that good, and he kept United afloat until the likes of Paul Pogba joined the party later in the season. But it has to be a City player because of the campaign they are having, and Dias stands out. Ultimately he has reminded everyone that defending comes first. My third choice would be Stuart Dallas because of how well Leeds have done this season and how pivotal he is to what they have done.

They have been the surprise package, and he epitomises what they are all about. My number two is Tomas Soucek at West Ham because he is a result of some fantastic recruitment. He and Vladimir Coufal have both improved the team but Soucek shows exactly what a top-class box-to-box midfielder can do.

His form, his goals and his defensive work have helped West Ham to get where they are. I was torn between Soucek and Dias for number one but I've gone for Dias simply because City have won the league and are in the Champions League final, and what makes him all the more special is his age. When you are a young player, you often just concentrate on your own game but he is that comfortable with himself, he has the capacity to affect others.

Dias gets my vote, and not only because I'm fully paid-up member of the defenders' union. He's a natural leader who has transformed Manchester City and ended the defensive frailty they'd had since Kompany left. He has exceptional leadership qualities for a young player and he leaves everything on the pitch, which is infectious to those around him.

This is his first season in the Premier League but it looks like he has been here for years. We always talk about players needing time to bed in when they come over here. If so, how good is he going to be next season? The impact he has had for City is similar to the one Virgil van Dijk made at Liverpool in He's the reason they are where they are, and it was a brilliant piece of recruitment to sign him.

City have had great teams before under Guardiola but they have probably always been a bit of a soft touch at the back. Not any more.

Shaw , U. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, presented his credentials on September 1, The Sandinista Government decried U. Carlos Tunnerman , and seven other Nicaraguan Embassy members for abusing their privileges of residence.

Harry W. Shlaudeman presented his credentials as U. Ambassador to Nicaragua on June 21, Menu Menu. Nicaragua - Countries. Modern Flag of Nicaragua. United States Recognition of Nicaragua, Consular Presence.

Establishment of Diplomatic Relations with Nicaragua, The battle started at dawn and the patriots took some hits but maintained their positions. Their arms were old and they frequently failed to function.

An ingenious action, however, brought them a surprising victory. When the battle became more violent and the Nicaraguans lost their positions, the horses that were located at an enclosure on a hill within the farm were set free.

Upon hearing this sound, the mercenaries thought cavalry reinforcements of the enemy had arrived and aghast the troops fled the scene. He experienced difficulties maintaining his position and his arms were jammed. When he saw a mercenary soldier cross a trench, he took a rock and threw it so violently at the head of the enemy that the soldier was killed by the blow.

The battle took place on September 14, coincidentally one day before the independence celebrations. Currently, September is celebrated as a patrimonial month, and throughout whole Nicaragua people hang out the blue and white flags at their houses.

The commemorative activities start at schools and institutions the first of the month. Below follows a chronological overview of the activities. September 1 — start of the Central American Patrimonial Festivities, initiated by an act of inauguration. Place and exact date vary every year generally September 1, though.

Besides officials from the Nicaraguan government, ambassadors from the Central American sister republics also participate, as well as hundreds of students from the capital. Schools participate with their marching bands. September 11 — every year, during the patrimonial month, a burning torch travels through Central America, from Guatemala to Costa Rica, transported by feet and going from hand to hand in every one of the countries. The torch then starts to travel the country over the Pan American Highway, and it goes from hand to hand by the best students from the schools of each municipality and other outstanding individuals who will each run with the torch for no more than meters.

The total run is kilometers and it involves more than 8 thousand students. Short Summary of Nicaragua's Struggle for Independence.

United States and Nicaragua. The Somoza Regime and the Sandinista Government. Euraque, Dario A. World Book,

Moore said he picked the Black Swan star up around on Friday and the two spent approximately four hours together and even danced to "The Time of My Life" from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, though they didn't do any lifts thank you very much his uniform's a little too stiff for that! I've seen a couple of her movies and she's obviously a pretty girl so…I thought she'd be fun so I picked her," commented Moore, calling her "just a normal girl. During an appearance on Today, the clearly thrilled Marine added that he and Kunis, whom he also called "very cool" and "down-to-earth," spent most of the night hanging with his friends.

He also enjoyed "introducing her to the families [so] she could really see the sacrifice a lot of my guys made. The sergeant also explained to her "that this year was extremely important to us and memorable to us because of the seven Marines and sailors we lost during our deployment.

Speaking to Good Morning America today Sgt Moore told how the year-old actress made the night extremely memorable for him and his friends. Scroll down for video Speaking about the ball, which was held last Firday night, he gushed: 'It was a blast it was a great time it exceeded my expectations. The marine also revealed how Mila was easy to get along with and how he was surprised by how down to earth she was.

He explained: 'She was she is just a normal girl who is very interested to learn about our history and our traditions and what the ball is all about and she was interested in meeting all my friends. While Mila wasn't mingling with his starstruck colleagues including injured serviceman from Moore's team she did save time for a dance with her date. And while there was no romance at the end of the evening, with Moore telling the ABC morning show that there was no kiss at the end of the evening he is hoping to see Miss Kunis again.

Hand on my heart: Mila looked stunning in a black dress and with her hair pulled into a neat chignon. Speaking of his invite to the Friends With Benefits star which he filmed while on tour in Afghanistan Moore explained he picked Mila because 'she is obviously a pretty girl and I thought she would be fun. The YouTube clip was seen by millions before it was brought to Mila's attention and he had hoped she would accept.

He revealed: 'Not right away but I thought I had a chance that is why I put it on there and it worked out for me. Mila was the lastest in a growing list of famous faces to attend a Marine Corps ball following in the footsteps of Justin Timberlake and Kristin Cavallari. The Black Swan star arrived at the gala wearing a fitted black gown, with her hair styled in an updo and smoky eye make-up.

Mila's date, Sgt Moore, just recently returned to the U. Moore, but you can call me Scotty. Dressed in combat gear he added: 'I just want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the Marine Corps Ball with yours truly. Take a second to think about it and get back to me. All right, bye now. The gathering was bittersweet after Moore's unit, lost seven of their own overseas. While the media was not allowed inside the Ball, Mila posted pictures from the gathering on her website.

Moore's unusual invitation sparked a wave of service members to invite celebrities to attend Marine Corps Balls around the country. Justin Timberlake, who pressured his Friends with Benefits co-star to accept the invitation during an interview about their then-upcoming movie received his own YouTube invitation shortly after Kunis.

Famous faces: Kristin Cavallari attended a ball with Lance Cpl. Jonathan Burkett while Justin Timberlake was the date of Cpl. Kelsey de Santis recently.

The Grammy award-winning singer and actor accompanied Cpl. Cavallari attended per the request of Lance Cpl. Jonathan Burkett, who invited her around the same time Kunis received an invitation. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. You can't make shots that you don't take, so I took the best shot I could. Instead, Moore, a data systems technician with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, currently stationed in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, set up a YouTube page called Go With Me Mila and posted a video asking the year-old starlet to accompany him to the ball on Nov.

Moore, but you can call me Scotty," the sergeant said in uniform and dark sunglasses outside his bunker in Afghanistan. So take a second to think about it and get back to me. All right, bye now. Over the weekend, Kunis said yes while doing press for her upcoming film, "Friends with Benefits," with co-star Justin Timberlake. The second video touched Timberlake, who vowed to make it happen when Fox asked Kunis about the invite.

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Islamic New Year falls on a different day each year, as the Gregorian and Islamic calendars are not properly synchronised. The lack of synchronisation between the Islamic and Gregorian calendars means that each year, Muharram is pushed back roughly 10 or 11 days. The two calendars act this way as the Islamic calendar relies primarily on lunar days, while Gregorian days are based on the rise and setting of the Sun.

Muslims have a different name for their newest year, while we are in the year AD, when Muharram comes around AH Anno Hegirae will comence. Karbala is located roughly km south of Baghdad, and sees dramatic commemoration from Shia Muslims. Shia Muslims will commonly practice chest beating and self-flagellating self-harm in the name of God as well as cutting their foreheads. Sunni Muslims take the time to show their gratitude towards the prophet Moses, who was saved along with the Israelites during the parting of the Red Sea.

Muharram When is Islamic New Year? Eid How many times a year is Eid? Why are there two Eids? Muslims around the world are marking the entry into an Islamic New Year as September 11, was officially declared the first day 1st Muharram of the year Hijri. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar.

According to the calendar used across most of the Arab world, Muslims have entered the year Hijri. It is referred to as the Hijri Calendar because it began with the Hijra, or hegira, i. Muhammad and a number of Muslims at the time migrated to Medina due to persecution by the disbelievers. The first Muslim state was established in Medina till he returned to Makkah after a conquest years later.

The occasion comes with very little celebration as compared to January 1st in the case of the Gregorian calendar. Except for Muslim dominant nations, it is a normal day across most secular countries.

In parts of northern Nigeria for instance, state governments have declared the day a holiday to allow residents observe the day as such. As per Islamic traditions, Muslims have two main celebrations annually in the mould of Eid-ul-Fitr Post Ramadan feast and Eid-ul-Adha feast of sacrifice. May Allah make the new year, the year of unity and harmony and keep us on the right path. Friends and followers, Happy Islamic New Year ! The first month of the year also marks the anniversary of the historic Battle of Karbala on 10 October AD where the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, Imam Hussein ibn Ali, was killed during the siege of the Iraqi city km south of Baghdad, an event widely commemorated by Shia Muslims.

The New Year also honours the emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, which was known as the Hijrah and gives the first day of the year its name. In some Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia - astronomical calculations are used to determine the dates of the Islamic calendar instead - and, for this reason, there are sometimes differences of up to two days as to precisely when the date falls depending on where you are.

For many Muslims, the New Year represents a period for self-reflection and historical awareness. Prayers and fasting build up towards the tenth day of Muharram, known as Ashura, when the massacre at Karbala is remembered. Mourning congregations gather to express grief, with Shia Muslim sects commonly practising chest beating, known as the Latyma, and sometimes self-flagellation and the cutting of their foreheads.

The third law states that every action i. This takes on greater importance in advanced physics, but it's important to emphasize that when physicists declare that something is "in motion," they mean with respect to a coordinate system or other reference frame that is fixed with respect to the variables in the problem.

Albert Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity, and his special relativity idea was one of the most groundbreaking in the history of modern thought. Kevin Beck holds a bachelor's degree in physics with minors in math and chemistry from the University of Vermont. Formerly with ScienceBlogs. More about Kevin and links to his professional work can be found at www.

A car drives three blocks north and four blocks east. The displacement vector points from initial position to final position. A person walks north from their house meters to the park, and then returns home before continuing 20 meters south to check the mail. An athlete runs 10 km on a standard meter track before breakfast 25 laps.

A passenger moves from his seat to the back of the plane. His location relative to the airplane is given by x.

Notice that the arrow representing his displacement is twice as long as the arrow representing the displacement of the professor she moves twice as far in Figure 3. Note that displacement has a direction as well as a magnitude. In one-dimensional motion, direction can be specified with a plus or minus sign.

When you begin a problem, you should select which direction is positive usually that will be to the right or up, but you are free to select positive as being any direction.

Thus her displacement is. In this coordinate system, motion to the right is positive, whereas motion to the left is negative. His displacement is negative because his motion is toward the rear of the plane, or in the negative x direction in our coordinate system. Although displacement is described in terms of direction, distance is not. Distance is defined to be the magnitude or size of displacement between two positions. Note that the distance between two positions is not the same as the distance traveled between them.

Distance traveled is the total length of the path traveled between two positions. Distance has no direction and, thus, no sign. For example, the distance the professor walks is 2. The distance the airplane passenger walks is 4. It is important to note that the distance traveled , however, can be greater than the magnitude of the displacement by magnitude, we mean just the size of the displacement without regard to its direction; that is, just a number with a unit.

For example, the professor could pace back and forth many times, perhaps walking a distance of m during a lecture, yet still end up only 2. In kinematics we nearly always deal with displacement and magnitude of displacement, and almost never with distance traveled. One way to think about this is to assume you marked the start of the motion and the end of the motion. The displacement is simply the difference in the position of the two marks and is independent of the path taken in traveling between the two marks.

The distance traveled, however, is the total length of the path taken between the two marks. A cyclist rides 3 km west and then turns around and rides 2 km east. Give your students this sense-making activity from The Curriculum Corner. Distance and displacement are two quantities that may seem to mean the same thing yet have distinctly different definitions and meanings.

To test your understanding of this distinction, consider the motion depicted in the diagram below. A physics teacher walks 4 meters East, 2 meters South, 4 meters West, and finally 2 meters North. Even though the physics teacher has walked a total distance of 12 meters, her displacement is 0 meters. Yet when she is finished walking, she is not "out of place" - i.

Displacement, being a vector quantity, must give attention to direction. The 4 meters east cancels the 4 meters west; and the 2 meters south cancels the 2 meters north. Vector quantities such as displacement are direction aware. Scalar quantities such as distance are ignorant of direction.

In determining the overall distance traveled by the physics teachers, the various directions of motion can be ignored. Now consider another example. The diagram below shows the position of a cross-country skier at various times. At each of the indicated times, the skier turns around and reverses the direction of travel.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has resisted pressure that he take his company out of the gun business altogether, saying last year that its remaining assortment of firearms will focus on hunting and sport shooting. Consumer demand for firearms has jumped this year. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry trade group, estimates there were a record Forty percent of firearms sales involves purchasers who'd never owned a gun, according to a NSSF survey of firearm retailers.

It concludes that almost 5 million Americans bought a gun for the first time in Gun dealers reported a surge in firearm sales this spring as the coronavirus was spreading. Before COVID, firearm sales had tumbled in recent years in part because of fewer concerns among gun buyers about stricter regulation under President Donald Trump. Did they just say "fuckit" shotgun ammo only from now on?

For the ammo plants to be 'cranking out' ammo it sure seems like theres a whole lotta fuckin notta out there. Quote History. They pay their employees utter shit and said employee s can make hundreds of dollars flipping ammo online, of course the ammo is going to be bought and gone the moment it's off the truck.

I am getting 22lr every other week. Quoted: Other than shotgun ammo? I was buying some at my local WM and then some jack walks up and tells the clerk I'll buy everything left in the case and all your shotgun shells except for that one box of 16 ga.. Since I do not comply with face diaper mandates, he could tell by the look on my face that he was an asswipe so I said to him, you don't have all those calibers so must be reselling.

He said yep, idiots will pay good money for this stuff. I go in and ask the gal at the counter "got any Hold on I'll go check. Yep here's three 50ct CCI. Got 3 boxes of the Win. I got two winchester CT. Neckbearded them less than two hours later to a guy that drove 30 minutes to pick them up. Got two CT mini mags a couple weeks ago but my AA glock conversion kit likes those so kept them. So yes, just not much or very often. I think a few around me went woke. Fuck Walmart. I just happened to be walking by as they put them out.

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DSPs provide contracted delivery services to Amazon. Here at Driver Express, we connect self Driver Express. Dunstable, Buckinghamshire. However, whilst working there I quickly realised that these were just things that made Amazon look good on the surface, but in reality they did not care about workers and were just using us for a short time before getting rid of us no matter how hard we worked.

That sounded great, but the big catch was that we would only get paid that bonus if both we and the people we referred stayed until Christmas.

Of course, most people were fired well before that and strangely enough I never met anyone who had ever received a reference bonus. Another way they tried to attract people to join them for the peak season was giving temps contracts that were supposed to last 9 or 11 months. Unfortunately, a lot of temps believed that if they got a 9 month contract they would work 9 months.

Imagine their shock when they, like most others, were fired after 1 or 2 months. Some of my colleagues had come to the UK for the job under the expectation of working for Amazon at least the length of the 9-month contract.

When they were then fired after a few months they suddenly found themselves without income, unaffordable bills, and few job prospects so most of them were forced to leave the country again without any of the savings they had hoped to earn at Amazon.

This, of course, upset a lot of people because we were all doing the same job and Amazon could clearly afford to pay us more. The properly biggest group of workers seems to be from Romania. Amongst non-Romanian workers there is sometimes the perception that Romanians get preferential treatment both in terms of the tasks they get to do and whether they can stay on for a long time.

My own impression was that how you were treated by management mainly depended on how much you sucked up to them rather than your nationality. Age-wise, most are probably in their 20s but there are all kinds of ages ranging up to people in their early 60s. The English level was generally quite good. I never met anyone though that did not speak English good enough to complain about working at Amazon! For a lot of people Amazon is seen as a short gap job either to earn money before they go to another country or whilst they are looking for another job.

People had worked in, or were looking to work in a range of different jobs. So some were looking for graduate types of jobs, others were looking for technical jobs like electro mechanics, there were people who had worked office jobs their whole life, there were people who had been in retail as assistant managers before.

There were people who were looking to continue their studies here or somewhere else. It seemed to be quite a diverse mix of backgrounds. In my department the relationship between permanents and temps was friendly although in general I feel like people tended to talk more with fellow temps or permanents.

Who people talked with also depended on when they started, and to some extent ethnicity. The permanents did not seem to blame the temps themselves for raising the targets, instead they were pretty clear that it was management who were to blame.

Colleagues talk to each other. To my surprise people were pretty openly complaining whilst working. I would often find groups of people of ICQA Inventory Control Quality Assurance department people, stowers, cleaners, and others standing and discussing the work. For pickers it might have been different.

After shifts people seemed to rush as quickly as possible to get out. Sometimes before the shift people would arrive early, but talk less because it was early in the morning etc. Amazon knows this, and they encourage the temps to work themselves half-dead for a few months even though only a fraction will ever get a blue badge.

They then use the performance of the temps to increase the targets for the permanent staff for the rest of the year. This has been happening year after year meaning that the targets keep on slowly increasing without end. This is taking place during peak time where we are already working longer and harder than normal. I was told by some permanent staff that once the power hour period has finished, management will use the higher performance during power hour to increase daily targets for workers who stay behind after the peak period.

In practice that means that we are mainly spending the day counting how many items are in the different bins called Simple Bin Count or SBC. Like with other processes we use the scanner and it will tell us what bin to count. We then count how many items are in the bin and if it corresponds with the amount of items that the system thinks is in the bin than we immediately go on to the next bin. If there is a discrepancy than we have to recount the bin to make sure we got the right number.

To check we got the second count of the items correct there will then be someone else from ICQA who will come to that bin and do a so-called cycle count CC which is where every item in the bin is taken out and scanned. In the pick tower, the work of the stowers, ICQA, and pickers impact on each other indirectly either through how well organised the bins are or whether we make any errors.

However, I never experienced any instances of cooperating directly with people from other departments. However after a while you start to see how there are a lot of things that are not working as good as they could. The most annoying thing is that it is a very hierarchical organisation where how the jobs are done seems to be largely controlled by some kind of algorithm. This actually makes things harder than it has to be. So we have to stand up and sit down all the times which besides being a killer for your back and knees also takes longer.

Also the pressure of targets ends up having a disorganising effect. Another thing they do is to try to hinder human interaction. It used to be the case that you could count bins in the same aisle so you could chat and socialise with your colleagues, but now they changed the algorithm so people mostly end up counting bins standing alone in an aisle for hours.

In terms of productivity I think that is actually counter productive because it is so depressing to only count bins for hours without any human interaction, so you work slower and at some point most people end up giving up and wander up and down the aisles to find colleagues to chat with. If there then is a difference between what we counted and how many items are there when the CC happens we will get an error.

Besides that we are also supposed to pull andons an Amazon word I think, basically just means that something is wrong with the product. So if an item is broken we pull andons or if it is stolen we put a note on it and put it in the amnesty bin. In terms of how we can get errors, besides miscounting the bin, which you could say is our fault, there are a number of other ways we can get an error.

If, for example, after we have counted the bin someone misplaces an item in the wrong bin we could get an error.

Or if someone open a chocolate package in the bin we counted we will get an error. Or if a picker picks up the wrong quantity of items we can get an error. Therefore, the longer it takes between when we count the bin and it is doubled checked with CC, the more likely it is that we will get an error.

So at the end of my time at Amazon there were some rumours that the reason a lot of us suddenly got more errors and therefore more feedback was because they had increased the time between us counting the bins and it being checked with CC. Someone saw that it could take up to a week to check it and in a weeks time a lot of stuff can happen that will result in an error. I heard that there used to be a rule that there could be a maximum of three different kinds of items so no quantity, but types of things in the bins which made it a lot easier for both the pickers and the ICQA people.

There also used to be a rule that you could not have similar looking items in the same bin e. Also it was not allowed to have similar items directly above and below a bin.

All of these things they got rid of not sure exactly when and it has made the job a lot harder and of course on top of that the targets have increased. From the beginning Amazon seems to know that they will get rid of most of the temps, no matter how hard they work.

To get rid of all the people without making themselves look bad they use many different methods. Every week we got feedback from our agency. Normally feedback is also for what you do well, but at Amazon feedback is always about what you did wrong. Time off task includes everything from going to the toilet, changing a broken scanner, going to talk with your agency or manager, looking for a trolley when there are none, and going on one of the breaks we are entitled to.

So it is easy to suddenly have a lot of time off task even though you are still working hard. On top of that we would also get feedback from the Amazon managers and in the beginning most of the times the feedback from the agency was not too bad but from the Amazon managers it was always very negative. This changed when they built up to fire us and we started to get more negative feedback from the agency.

We got training from the other people in the department. Suddenly most of the temps get final warnings for even minor slip-ups. Like one of my workmates got a final warning for only picking I also got a final warning for having too many errors even though the number of errors I had was less than I had the previous weeks.

Scores of them were fired several weeks before Christmas. By the time of the first and second week of January a large number of temps had already been fired. A lot of the temps, including me, relied on the buses to get to work. So with no buses to take me to work, I had to quit. A few days before that some Adecco staff went around with a list asking people if they would stop because of the buses. Another issue is that if you try to call in sick too much you will get in trouble.

The job you do is often repetitive and after a few weeks it starts to wear you down. At one point my back started to hurt so I called in sick for a few days in a row. When I came back I was called back by the agency, who asked me how I was feeling and why my back hurt. I told them it was because of the repetitive job and I asked if I could be transferred to another position.

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Develop 'Adopt-a-Spotsylvania Public School teacher project'. Did you know there is a 9. I will continue to advocate for Spotsylvania County Public Schools with ongoing communication throughout the year to the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors who have the governance to reduce or increase the amount of money that is allocated to Spotsylvania County Public Schools, for the opportunity to provide the requested funds to hire and retain quality teachers.

The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of data and stats and away from common sense and programs rooted in simple values. As a member of the Spotsylvania County Public school board governance team I will advocate, lead and work with the superintendent and professional administration team that accomplishes the everyday tasks of the implementation of programs in our public schools. Fewer yet more meaningful testing that serves the students, that encourages creativity and flexibility, as we move towards an effective and efficient solutions based public school district.

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He later said he would accept Twiggs suggestion "for the sake of them [the books] being out the schools. Darnela Sims, director of teaching and learning for the district, said officials have already been looking into the situation and asked the board for time for staff to review existing processes for vetting library books. He also criticized Superintendent Scott Baker for not being proactive on the issue. Baker, you saw this coming from Northern Virginia — did it not occur to you to check what is on our libraries?

However, board member Baron Braswell expressed skepticism about the matter, saying he wanted to consider both sides of the issue. Hi Parents!! Click Here for the Supply List. Monday October 25th through Friday October 29th is Red Ribbon Week; a week where LCES faculty, staff, and students celebrate our students becoming successful, hardworking contributors to our community by living a healthy lifestyle.

The week-long event includes dress up days with a positive, future minded approach to academics, college, career, and a drug free life. Tuesday, October 26 4pm — 7pm Third through fifth grade families and families with mixed grade levels shop the full book fair outside on the LCES bus loop.

Library Encore Days 1 — 6 for all students Students can purchase books from select popular titles of picture books and chapter books during library encore time.

Please email Erin Fisher with any questions: efisher ccps. Due to the increased interest in a virtual option for kindergarten through second grade and allowing for more social distancing in our KG-2 classrooms, CCPS is gathering interest data from parents of kindergarten through second graders. It will be via a Google Meeting. Be on the lookout for more information to come from the school soon. Are you ready for Kindergarten Orientation?

July July 30, How? Ladysmith Village July 28 2. Lake Caroline pavilion by tennis courts July 28 3. The Spring Book Fair is upon us! There are two ways to shop this season! Plus, online shopping starts a week early! Watch this tutorial on navigating the virtual book fair:. Shop the online bookstore here:. Our in-person book fair will feature multiple days outside to find new books for your students. We will be dividing the families up into grade level nights. We will even offer a quick shop afternoon sale right after school just for picture books and a quick shop afternoon sale right after school just for chapter books.

Spreading out the book fair like this will allow for less in-person traffic and quicker checkout times. Sanitizer will be available and masks will be required.

Book cases will be spread out, prices will be clearly marked, and six foot distance markers will be placed on the ground. Here is the schedule for our in-person book fair located in the Bus Loop Parking Lot:.

Tuesday , April 20th pm — pm: Picture Books Onl y. Please refer to this presentation for additional information and a sneak peek of new titles! DO NOT send money to school with your student. Thank you, as always, for all of your support for the Lewis and Clark Elementary school library. Your purchase helps add valuable resources to our collection. Thank you for your support!! The first is Boon Supply.

This year, all second grade students in Caroline County participated in the Young Explorers program to enhance creative thinking and problem-solving. During the week of March , all second grade students will be offered the opportunity to participate in a universal screening to identify verbal, non-verbal and quantitative skills.

If the initial C activity was Therefore, the Dead Sea Scrolls are approximately years old Figure 8. Check Your Learning More accurate dates of the reigns of ancient Egyptian pharaohs have been determined recently using plants that were preserved in their tombs. Fortunately, however, we can use other data, such as tree dating via examination of annual growth rings, to calculate correction factors. With these correction factors, accurate dates can be determined.

In general, radioactive dating only works for about 10 half-lives; therefore, the limit for carbon dating is about 57, years. Radioactive dating can also use other radioactive nuclides with longer half-lives to date older events.

For example, uranium which decays in a series of steps into lead can be used for establishing the age of rocks and the approximate age of the oldest rocks on earth. Since U has a half-life of 4. In a sample of rock that does not contain appreciable amounts of Pb, the most abundant isotope of lead, we can assume that lead was not present when the rock was formed.

Therefore, by measuring and analyzing the ratio of UPb, we can determine the age of the rock. This assumes that all of the lead present came from the decay of uranium If there is additional lead present, which is indicated by the presence of other lead isotopes in the sample, it is necessary to make an adjustment. Potassium-argon dating uses a similar method. K decays by positron emission and electron capture to form Ar with a half-life of 1. If a rock sample is crushed and the amount of Ar gas that escapes is measured, determination of the ArK ratio yields the age of the rock.

Other methods, such as rubidium-strontium dating Rb decays into Sr with a half-life of As of , the oldest known rocks on earth are the Jack Hills zircons from Australia, found by uranium-lead dating to be almost 4. Radioactive Dating of Rocks An igneous rock contains 9. Determine the approximate time at which the rock formed.

Solution The sample of rock contains very little Pb, the most common isotope of lead, so we can safely assume that all the Pb in the rock was produced by the radioactive decay of U When the rock formed, it contained all of the U currently in it, plus some U that has since undergone radioactive decay. Because when one mole of U decays, it produces one mole of Pb, the amount of U that has undergone radioactive decay since the rock was formed is:. The amount of time that has passed since the formation of the rock is given by:.

U decays into Pb with a half-life of 4. Check Your Learning A sample of rock contains 6. Calculate the age of the rock. Nuclei that have unstable n:p ratios undergo spontaneous radioactive decay.

Each of these modes of decay leads to the formation of a new nucleus with a more stable n:p ratio. Some substances undergo radioactive decay series, proceeding through multiple decays before ending in a stable isotope. All nuclear decay processes follow first-order kinetics, and each radioisotope has its own characteristic half-life, the time that is required for half of its atoms to decay.

Because of the large differences in stability among nuclides, there is a very wide range of half-lives of radioactive substances. Many of these substances have found useful applications in medical diagnosis and treatment, determining the age of archaeological and geological objects, and more.

Explain your answer. Write the equations for these two nuclear transformations. How old was the earth when The electron pulled into the nucleus was most likely found in the 1 s orbital. As an electron falls from a higher energy level to replace it, the difference in the energy of the replacement electron in its two energy levels is given off as an X-ray.

Manganese is most likely to decay by positron emission. Positron decay occurs when the n:p ratio is low. Mn has the lowest n:p ratio and therefore is most likely to decay by positron emission. Half-life is the time required for half the atoms in a sample to decay.

Example answers may vary : For C, the half-life is years. A g sample of C would contain 5 g of C after years; a 0. If Sr was originally in the rock, the amount produced by radioactive decay would equal the present amount minus the initial amount.

As this amount would be smaller than the amount used to calculate the age of the rock and the age is proportional to the amount of Sr, the rock would be younger. Consequently, the plutonium now present could not have been formed with the uranium.

Skip to content Chapter Nuclear Chemistry. Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to:. These "proton deficient" nuclides can sometimes be identified simply by noticing that their mass number A the sum of neutrons and protons in the nucleus is significantly more than twice that of the atomic number Z number of protons in nucleus.

The mass of the antineutrino is almost zero and can therefore be neglected. The equation above can be reached easily from any beta decay reaction, however, it is not useful because mass spectrometers measure the mass of atoms rather than just their nuclei. The extra electron on the left cancels the mass of the beta particle on the right, leaving the inequality. The energy released in this reaction is carried away as kinetic energy by the beta particle and antineutrino, with an insignificant of energy causing recoil in the daughter nucleus.

Nuclides that are imbalanced in their ratio of protons to neutrons undergo decay to correct the imbalance. Positrons are the antiparticles of electrons, therefore a positron has the same mass as an electron but with the opposite positive charge. In positron emission, the atomic number Z decreases by 1 while the mass number A remains the same.

Positron emission is only one of the two types of decay that tends to happen in "neutron deficient" nuclides, therefore it is very important to establish the correct mass change criterion. Positron emission occurs spontaneously when.

In order to rewrite this inequality in terms of the masses of neutral atoms, we add the mass of Z electrons to both sides of the equation, giving the mass of a neutral [ A Z] atom on the left and the mass of a neutral [ A Z-1 ] atom, plus an extra electron, since only Z-1 electrons are needed to make the neutral atom , and a positron on the right.

Because positrons and electrons have equal mass, the inequality can be written as. An outside electron is pulled inside the nucleus and combined with a proton to make a neutron, emitting only a neutrino. Electron capture happens most often in the heavier neutron-deficient elements where the mass change is smallest and positron emission isn't always possible. When the loss of mass in a nuclear reaction is greater than zero, but less than 2 m [ 0 -1 e - ], the process cannot occur by positron emission and is spontaneous for electron capture.

The other three processes of nuclear decay involve the formation of a neutron or a proton inside the nucleus to correct an existing imbalance. Since the number of total protons on each side of the reaction does not change, equal numbers of electrons are added to each side to make neutral atoms. Therefore, the mass of the parent atom must simply be greater than the sum of the masses of its daughter atom and the helium atom.

The energy released in an alpha decay reaction is mostly carried away by the lighter helium, with a small amount of energy manifesting itself in the recoil of the much heavier daughter nucleus. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. JavaScript appears to be disabled on this computer.

Please click here to see any active alerts. Radioactive decay is the emission of energy in the form of ionizing radiation ionizing radiation Radiation with so much energy it can knock electrons out of atoms.

Ionizing radiation can affect the atoms in living things, so it poses a health risk by damaging tissue and DNA in genes. The ionizing radiation that is emitted can include alpha particles alpha particles A form of particulate ionizing radiation made up of two neutrons and two protons.

Alpha particles pose no direct or external radiation threat; however, they can pose a serious health threat if ingested or inhaled. Some beta particles are capable of penetrating the skin and causing damage such as skin burns. Beta-emitters are most hazardous when they are inhaled or swallowed. Gamma rays can pass completely through the human body; as they pass through, they can cause damage to tissue and DNA.

Radioactive decay occurs in unbalanced atoms called radionuclides. Elements in the periodic table can take on several forms. Some of these forms are stable; other forms are unstable.

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