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![]() ![]() More gruesome examples of erstwhile vegetarians abound. Credit: Mills Baker/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY In a mixed-species zoo exhibit, the chicken and mice offered to captive birds of prey were actually consumed by domestic rabbits sharing the enclosure.Ī bonnethead shark contemplating its next meal. This behaviour is not isolated to a single observation and scientists believe it may even help diseases such as anthrax to spread more widely throughout hippo populations.Īs for the cute and fluffy bunnies, even these will choose meat over veg in some circumstances. ![]() However, the rotund vegetarians have been seen consuming animal carcasses, including other hippos. These iconic African animals are described in most textbooks as strict herbivores, who only use their large tusks and teeth for display and territorial fights. If the plant-eating shark was a shock, what about supposedly strict vegetarians turning to meat? Although carcass-eating bunnies and cannibal hippopotamuses may sound like something out of a horror movie, they aren't restricted to the imaginations of screenwriters. ![]() In the field of feeding ecology alone, there are multiple examples of animals breaking the "rules" we've set for them. Or perhaps it's just that we forget that animals don't read the books we write about them. Equally, nature seems to have a habit of surprising us. The natural world is far from fully understood, and while new scientific discoveries continue to be made, these revelations aren't keeping pace with the rate of environmental destruction. Who's to say there aren't other examples of species interacting with their habitats in unexpected ways? This finding isn't just an interesting new fact about sharks, it's an important acknowledgement that environments need to be protected for reasons we may not have even considered. Yet this new research has revealed that the bonnethead shark actually digests and draws nutrition from the seagrass – the first known omnivorous shark. We've known for some time that bonnethead sharks consume large quantities of seagrass, but this was thought to be accidental –- pesky vegetation finding its way into their mouths while they were hunting crabs. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() The new ride at the Valencia amusement park is different from the air-powered drop towers that have become common fare at theme parks over the past few decades. There’s a brief respite as the Superman trains reach the top of the tower, so close you can almost touch the coaster riders.Īnd then gravity takes over. It feels like an earthquake in a skyscraper - only you’re strapped to the outside of the building. The gondola seats rumble violently as the coaster climbs the track, causing the tower sways up to four feet. If you’re lucky and the timing is just right, the twin Superman trains will rocket out of the coaster station below at 100 mph just as the dual Lex Luthor gondolas reach the top of the tower.Īnd that’s when the shaking starts. What separates this drop tower from almost any other ride is the potential clash of good and evil - with you sitting ringside 40 stories above the earth. The Lex Luthor ride is remarkably simple: After a 30-second ascent at about 10 mph and a five second pause at the top, riders drop at 85 mph in a freefall descent lasting six seconds before an abrupt deceleration. > Photos: New rides debuting at Six Flags parks this summer You see, the Lex Luthor drop tower is attached to both sides of the 415-foot-tall Superman L-shaped track, adding to the excitement of both rides. My apprehension stemmed not from the thrill ride’s record-setting 400-foot height or 85 mph speed, but rather from the drop tower’s relative proximity to the Superman: Escape from Krypton shuttle coaster. ![]() ![]() > Photos: Lex Luthor drop tower at Six Flags Magic Mountain My palms have been sweating for weeks in anticipation of Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom, the new drop tower debuting Saturday at Six Flags Magic Mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teach your kids how to use the armor of God with this study. Hyfi engages kids and preschoolers with a fun, high-energy, camp-like experience. ![]() And our answer was the “8 Roots of the Gospel.” These are 8 core truths of the Gospel that are essential to the Christian faith. Designed for 6-12 year olds, the REVISED Childrens Curriculum presently has 175 Bible studies which include worksheets, activity pages, and coloring pictures. Free Bible Studies And Activities for Kids. Each week, the children will also learn practical lessons of personal application to assist them. We wrestled with this question when we created our Deep Discipleship Youth Ministry System. Bible lessons your kids will love Claim 3 Months Free. So, what Bible lessons should we teach students who want to become disciples of Jesus? How can we teach and reinforce the whole Gospel message rather than an incomplete picture? Teaching students the whole Gospel message is a crucial step in making discipleship the core of your youth ministry. Like seeds planted in rocky soil, students look healthy as they sprout up, but many will soon wither away and fall to the wayside because they weren’t rooted deep in the soil. Gaps can take on a number of shapes and sizes. Or maybe your students would prefer to create and define their own identities rather than accepting what God says about who they are.It could be that your students love God, but they know nothing about his true character as described in his Word.For this week’s free PDF Bible curriculum. Teach how God is the best Father we can have and is the example for all human fathers to emulate. Maybe your students are avid rule-followers, but they’ve forgotten they’re “saved by grace.” Related Bible Lessons: Father’s Day Sunday School Lesson and Activities for Kids Download free Father’s Day Sunday School lessons and activities to use in your children’s ministry or kids church.with the childrens Bible lesson plan that we lay out for our daughters, feel free by. Perhaps your students know the story of Jonah, but they’ve missed the person of Jesus. Bible Time Fun are easy-to-use kids Bible lesson plans perfect for.In return, He expects His followers to obey His commands without grumbling. As a result, students graduate from our ministries with critical gaps in their knowledge of the faith. In this free six-week Sunday school lesson series on Moses, children learn that God intercedes on the behalf of His people, sometimes in miraculous ways. Childrens Bible Lessons written for children (ages 7-11 years) and designed for students to learn more about God and His Word, the Bible Free printable Sunday School lessons for kids in 2nd-5th grades that will help them learn about Gods love for us, through Jesus Christ, our Lord NOTE: These are PDF files. When we lose sight of the core truths of the Gospel, we aren’t sure what Bible lessons to teach students about Scripture. Their teaching is based in Scripture, but many youth ministries give students an incomplete picture of the Gospel at best. You might be surprised to hear that many Bible-believing ministries are not teaching students the Gospel. Shameless: God’s Original Plan for Sexuality.Diversity, Not Division: What Binds the Body of Christ Together. ![]() ![]() IU: Unremoved Incomplete-Unsatisfactory for a zero credit course in which a student. Student Groups affected include RVGO, RV30, RV31, RV35, RV36, RV3C, RV3S, RV3Y and RV3V. The same as an IF grade except that it does not affect GPA computations. Percentage of majors: the percentage of students in the section whose major school matches the school or department offering the course. The advisor is then asked to add a note to the advising system (AdRx) certifying that there was discussion with OVMP about this decision. Average class GPA: the total of credit points for all GPA grades awarded, divided by the total number of GPA grades awarded. Credit hours for repeated USF coursework will be awarded only once per course unless the course is a university-approved repeatable course. The OVMP will verify with the advisor if the grade change is best for the student in question. Important: According to IU High School Program policy, your exam grades must average at least a D for you to pass the course. Credit hours for courses with grades of I, IU, M, MU, N, S, U, W, Z, and grades that are preceded by an E are subtracted from the total hours attempted before the GPA is calculated. It takes just a few seconds, so go ahead. ![]() Simply enter in your current Indiana University grade, your desired final grade and what percentage of your grade that the final exam is worth. 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![]() ![]() The kids were thrilled, especially to meet “their” knight! *The knights and royalty come into the main area following the show and are very willing to take pictures (for free). Children are more than welcome to wear costumes (princess dresses, bring a sword and shield, etc).ĩ. If you have food allergies or vegetarian needs, make sure you address it with your waitress and when you buy your tickets.Ĩ. Your food and drinks come while you watch the live show. Then you can technically leave and look around the shopping mall until they seat about 15 min before the show.Ħ. * You can check in 75min beforehand and get your seats assigned. You are also given colored crowns that represents the knight you’ll be cheering for. You’ll be given a colored pass that will let you in when the king calls your color area. *You’ll also want to bring cash for gratuity for the server (it is not included and there is no bill to pay at your seat).ĥ. No one cares and you’re eating in semi darkness. If you really don’t want to eat with your hands, bring your own plastic utensils. ![]() They’ll give you one at the end of the meal, but there are no utensils for the food! You slurp the soup, gnaw on of a half a chicken, eat the baked potato with your fingers, etc. Decide ahead of time if you’ll be adding any of the extras on when you arrive(knighting ceremony for $30, staged photos, lighted swords, gift shop paraphernalia, etc.) It feels a little like the circus or amusement park where there are always extra ways to spend money.Ĥ. I think there’s always a catch (birthday kid is free, but parents are full price).ģ. As always, know your total before you commit to the fee they want to charge you. I felt that there were a lot of add-on fees. Order tickets ahead of time over the phone. What we realized is that you the majority takes in the dark. Since this was our first time going, we weren’t sure about the general seating and extras (cake, waving banners, front row seats). It adds a considerable amount to the ticket price. Kings in costume, guards at the door, horses, a falcon and more!ġ. It was perfect and thrilled our kids.īe prepared for a full experience. You can see the outside of the castle from far away. We went to the one outside of Baltimore at Arundel Mills Mall. There are Medieval Times locations all over the US. He loved the acting and thought it was real! Not only was the birthday boy thrilled, but my 9 year old was over the moon. Medieval Times with Kids – We’ve been busy celebrating my son’s birthday! His big gift / party this year was to go to the Medieval Times. ![]() ![]() Other than Tamahagane, pig iron (Sentetsu) which contains a lot of carbon, and pure iron called Hocho tetsu also undergo Tsumi wakashi and Shita-gitae processing mentioned below.įorging Method (Shita-gitae, founding forging) This is the process known as 'Tsumi wakashi' (stacked and heated). If there are not enough iron pieces, more are stacked, heated, hammered with a Kozuchi, and formed into an ingot weighing 1.8kg to 2.0kg. It is then hammered with a Kozuchi (light hammer) to form 6x9cm block. The straw ash and clay prevents scaling loss of the steel during heating and oxidizing. Straw ash is applied, and then coated with clay slurry, then it goes into the furnace (Hodo) to heat until the clay surface melts. These metal pieces are stacked on the tip of a forging tool called 'Teko', and wrapped in Japanese paper. This case-hardened piece is called Heshi gane (removed metal), which is broken into small metal pieces using a Tsuchi (hammer). These are raw metal making processes called Heshi (removal process). This is called 'Mizuheshi' (removal of carbon using water). When qenched in water and rapidly cooled, the excess carbon flakes off. Heated Tamahagane is hammered with a Tsuchi (hammer) to make a thin flat plate. Mizuheshi (removal of carbon using water) Not depending upon iron ore imported from other countries, using black iron sand found on beaches in Japan, achieves fast reduction at low temperature, and creates high-quality steel with few impurities, compared to the modern steelmaking processes (See reference). Tamahagane is made using the 'Tatara-buki method,' an original Japanese steel making process. Tatara-buki method the type of steel used to make a Japanese sword is called Japanese steel or Tamahagane. The manufacturing method of Japanese swords, a highly advanced technique at the time, strove to achieve three highly sought after qualities, 'Not to break, not to bend, and a razor sharp cutting edge.' The term Japanese sword has been seen connected to nationalism mainly since the Showa period, and such swords were considered just relics of the previous period where in the Meiji period, saber style swords were adopted for the military until the Manchurian Incident. Before then, the name 'Uchigatana' was popular. This is because paintings from Japan increased their reputation being exported to Western countries after the end of Edo period, started to be called 'Japanese paintings' to distinguish them from the traditional Western paintings, and likewise, the term Japanese sword in contrast to Western swords became established. Japanese sword' became widespread as a general term after the late Edo era. Although the main point of 'A poem About the Japanese Sword' is to lament that books already lost in China still exist in Japan, and not about Japanese swords, it shows that the beauty of Japanese swords was already recognized by overseas curiosos from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period as one of Japan's exports. This poem describes a merchant of Yueh (South China) who goes to Japan to buy Japanese swords already being called treasure swords given their artistic qualities found in the fittings and appearance. The term is found in a poem titled 'A Poem About the Japanese Sword' by Ou-yang Hsui in Baisong. In ancient Japan, it was called 'Katana' or 'Sword', and the name 'Japanese sword' was not used. The Nakago has holes (Mekugi holes) to fix the body of blade to the Tsuka (handle) with pin fasteners.ĭifferent from swords of other countries, the biggest feature of Japanese swords is that the body of blade itself has artistic value, aside from the fittings (Koshirae).Ī 'Japanese sword' is a term originally used by other countries. They feature 'a process of folding and forging' two types of metal, hard brittle steel and soft iron, so the Toshin (body of blade) and Nakago (core) are combined together. ![]() They also functioned as a support pillar of spiritual culture, 'the very soul of the samurai' against the backdrop of the military government. Old and unbroken lines, including the Imperial family and shrines, value treasure swords (such as Amenomurakumono tsurugi) as a proof of power. ![]() Its beautiful shape has symbolic meaning as well as its use as a weapon since ancient times, and many are highly appraised as art objects. In a broad sense, Nagamaki, Naginata, Ken and Yari are also included.Ĭraftsmen who make Katana are called 'Toko (sword craftsman),' 'Tosho (sword master)' or 'Katana kaji (swordsmith).' They are classified as Katana (Tachi, Uchigatana), Wakizashi and Tanto depending on size. Japanese swords (日本刀) are a generic term for swords forged in the originally developed way in Japan. ![]() ![]() These under the hood improvements makes the process a lot smoother and faster for the end-user. The new Stellar Data recovery tool has some other minor updates that help recover your Mac data much more seamlessly. The final significant improvement that you can find in the new Stellar Mac Data Recovery tool is the “Create Recovery Drive” option that can help you create a recovery drive that can be used on other macOS devices to help recover data. ![]() Create Recovery Drive Support is added (For Mac OS Big Sur 11.0) However, this is only available for premium users. Have you lost a complete drive and can’t use Time Machine to help recover the files? Well, Stellar Data Recovery can now look for lost partitions and drives and scan the data through them to help recover all your files. APFS Time Machine Support (For Big Sur 11.0) Simply launch the software and plug-in your APFS encrypted hard drive to the Mac you will be prompted to key in the decryption password for the drive and once you’re through, recovering lost data from it will be as easy as 1.2.3. Stellar Data Recovery now supports recovering data from APFS Encrypted drives, makings it easy for users to get through the defenses of password-protected hard drives and recover files from the primary storage space for macOS. Stellar Data Recovery: what’s new Recovery of data from APFS Encrypted Drive Note: Stellar Data Recovery has five different versions, but we’ll be using the “Free” version, which is limited to 1GB of data recovery. So, let’s take a look at the app and see how you, too, can recover your data. It was fast in the recovery process and has a smooth experience all around the UI. Though you can recover old deleted data, you can still get some recently deleted files back quickly. Overall the app seemed easy to work with and provided great results in our tests. However, we’ll be looking at the Mac version today and will check out all the new features and data recovery functionality it has to offer. ![]() Stellar Data Recovery is, as the name implies, a data recovery software available both for Windows and Macs. Use Stellar Data Recovery and get your files back. ![]() Have you ever lost any precious photos? Ever accidentally deleted a file and instantly regretted your decision? Well, if that’s, you then don’t worry. ![]() |
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