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Three graphic stories introduce some ways to think critically about the questions and problems we all come across in our lives. Discussing the questions after each story encourages children to consider how decisions involving risk are made, how to develop evidence-based explanations and people's rights and responsibilities. Little Red Riding Hood had the right to be kept safe by her parents. Did they neglect their responsibilities by letting her go into the forest on her own? Can Little Red Riding Hood's right to be listened to, to be allowed to play and to be taken seriously be balanced with keeping her safe? Colour-coded commentaries on rights and responsibilities are made by the animals observing Little Red Riding Hood's day. You could read the story without the commentaries, then go back to see how the story can be framed by the rights and responsibilities of the characters. The Three Billy Goats Gruff consider 'danger' as a calculation of risk. The benefits of crossing a river to reach fresh grass are balanced with potential risks. The goats calculate the risk of coming across 'danger' but not how serious the danger might be. The goats did not have enough facts about the troll, and they overestimated the danger! Young Chicken Licken thinks that the sky is falling down. The other animals look for evidence to back up his theory. Instead, they find evidence suggesting an alternative explanation. Now Chicken Licken can use this explanation to predict what might happen in the future. He'll avoid running under oak trees in the autumn!

A rare, firsthand Civil War chronicle told by two soldiers-one Union, one Confederate-writing in the same diary. When Private Jacob Elsesser of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves carried a small Daily Remembrancer into the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, he had no idea his diary would one day be continued by the enemy. After months of recording the grinding uncertainty of war, Elsesser abandoned the book in the chaos following the battle of Beaver Dam Creek near Richmond. The diary did not remain abandoned for long - fast on the heels of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves was the 14th Georgia Infantry, including Private George Washington Hall, who discovered the small book in the smoldering ruins of the deserted Union camp. Claiming it as his own, he vowed to turn "a Yankee diary into a Rebel one"-and proceeded to fill its remaining pages for nearly three years. Hall's entries trace his spiritual transformation, the brutal realities of combat, the monotony of camp life, and his survival through illness and nine punishing months as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. Edited by Hall's great-granddaughter, history professor Mary Hall, this extraordinary manuscript includes George Washington Hall's additional journal writings from 1862-1863 and a unit history written by Elsesser and preserved by his descendants. Together, these sources create an unparalleled dual portrait of two ordinary men swept into an extraordinary conflict. Through their alternating voices, readers witness: - The ferocity of the Eastern Theater's most decisive battles - The emotional and physical toll of soldiering on both sides - The longing for home that united men divided by allegiance - The faith, sense of duty, and resilience that shaped their post-war lives Elsesser returned to Pennsylvania and served for decades as a respected justice of the peace. Hall, determined to fulfill his wartime promise to spend his life spreading God's word, became a Baptist preacher and missionary in north Florida. Their writings-preserved across generations-offer a rare, deeply human window into America's defining struggle. This is a singular "blue-gray" diary that bridges enemy lines, generations, and the enduring search for meaning in the midst of war.

The equine small intestine has a limited capacity to digest starch. Feeding high amounts of starch exceeds the digestive capacity of the small intestine. This allows non-degraded starch to reach the cecum. Non-degraded starch alters the microflora in the cecum, which often causes a decrease in cecal pH. In the first experiment, the control diet consisted of 2 kg of a pelleted corn concentrate and cracked corn, and the treatment diet consisted of 2 kg of a cracked corn pellet containing a proprietary buffer, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and cracked corn. Total grain was fed at 1% BW in both the treatment and the control groups. Samples were taken at 0 h (prior to the morning meal), 2 h, 4 h, 6 h, 8 h, and 10 h post-feeding. Samples were immediately analyzed for pH. Horses consuming the treatment diet had a higher cecal pH trend than horses fed the control diet. Cecal pH did not differ between treatments in samples taken at 0 h and 2 h (P> 0.05). There was a significant difference among treatments at 4 h (P 0.05). Cecal pH differed between treatments at 6 h and 8 h, however, it was not found to be a statistically significant difference (P 0.05). Mean cecal pH did not differ between treatments at 10 h (P> 0.05). This is consistent with evidence that cecal pH tends to decrease quickly during the first few hours after feeding. Adding a pelleted product containing a proprietary buffer and the yeast S. cerevisiae to the diet appeared to reduce the level of undesirable changes in pH in the cecum of the horse. The purpose of the second experiment was to evaluate the buffering capacity of a pelleted product containing the yeast, S. cerevisiae, in the equine hindgut. The mobile bag technique was used to evaluate the apparent buffering capacity within the cecum, along with total buffering capacity remaining after complete digestion by the horse. The efficiency of the HGM pellet to release the buffering capabilities in the equine hindgut was 92% and the HGM crumble was 91%.

"A woman summons up her childhood with an intensity so visceral it seems to be playing out in front of us. But as her memories draw closer to the present, the space between the personal and the speculative grows ever more blurry. Where do you end, and everything else begins? An elegy for the future we're yet to inherit, World Problems is both comical and terrifying, gripping and cathartic. A solo time capsule catapulting across the ages, it seamlessly merges the most private and intimate reflections with a world-spanning perspective. Theatre maker Emma Mary Hall has cemented a reputation for herself as one of the most astute and insightful observers of the shape of things to come, blending a poetic sensibility with rigorous attention to global and historical matters. World Problems trains a microscope on one soul to chart the future of all humanity."--Back cover.