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Jonathan Allen

Electric cars may not be so green after all, says British study | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg8y6-1226073103576

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  • An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes.
  • The British study, which is the first analysis of the full lifetime emissions of electric cars covering manufacturing, driving and disposal, undermines the case for tackling climate change by the rapid introduction of electric cars.
  • Britain's roads to increase from a few hundred now to 1.7 million by 2020.
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  • $66 million over the next year giving up to 8,600 buyers of electric cars a grant of $7700 towards the purchase price. Ministers are considering extending the scheme.
  • The study was commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, which is jointly funded by the British government and the car industry. It found that a mid-size electric car would produce 23.1 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime, compared with 24 tonnes for a similar petrol car.
  • Emissions from manufacturing electric cars are at least 50 per cent higher because batteries are made from materials such as lithium, copper and refined silicon, which require much energy to be processed.
  • CO2 from producing an electric car rises to 12.6 tonnes, compared with 5.6 tonnes for a petrol car
  • Jonathan Allen on 02 Jul 12
     
    An article outlining the negative environmental impact of electric vehicles. The biggest point of interest is being an Australian new site, but using information from the UK.
  • Jonathan Allen on 02 Jul 12
     
    Australia news using information provided by U.K.'s C.C.C. to refute negative impact of electric vehicles.
Robert Harrison

What Runners Can Learn From Cheetahs - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Robert Harrison on 02 Jul 12
     
    It explains the difference from cheetahs and greyhounds running styles. And apply it to humans to see what can help us run faster.
Jonathan Allen

Green Cars - Environmentally Friendly Cars- Eco Cars - 0 views

www.environment-green.com/Green_Cars.html

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  • A board certified cardiologist has provided assurances that a person with a pacemaker can safely drive a hybrid.  
  • You should avoid coming within inches of the engine to avoid harmful complications
  •  Another concern of the hybrid car is the stealth nature and danger it may pose to the seeing impaired.
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  • Electric cars are not new; they have been around since the 1800’s and were among the first vehicles ever built.
  • Studies suggest that the risk is real; just as real as the other EMF given off from other electrical devices we use every day including computers and cell phones.
  • One concern that has not been fully resolved is the electromagnetic field created and the possibility of certain cancers due to them.
  •  One such fear is the harm to people with pacemakers.
  • Jonathan Allen on 02 Jul 12
     
    Interesting listing of possible health concerns from electric vehicles. As well good information on alternative fueled vehicles and hybrids.
  • Jonathan Allen on 02 Jul 12
     
    A good listing of possible health concerns that (could) result from electric vehicles. And information on alternative fuel vehicles and hybrids.
Daniel Opie

FAQs [Stem Cell Information] - 0 views

stemcells.nih.gov/faqs.asp

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  • Daniel Opie on 09 Jul 12
     
    This resource may help me to know the main stream questions and might be able to answer many of my own. If i plan on being a surgeon some day will i be doing surgeries that require transplants from organs grown from stem cells?
Robert Harrison

Austin Texas Schools: Football is more important than education | Cassandra's Tears - 0 views

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ENG 102 HW1 Austin Texas football schools

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  • Laying off 1153 people.  On the other hand the athletics department is cutting almost $500,000… from it’s 11.3 MILLION dollar budget.
  • What really sad, is by eliminating athletics, they could immediately save 220 jobs (assuming each of those jobs cost the district $50,000 a year (which it probably does not)).
  • Based on the stipends in the article, they could keep up to 1.3 teachers per coach fired.  That’s probably 10 teachers per high school and 3-5 per middle school.
  • Robert Harrison on 09 Jul 12
     
    This helps state my argument that today for some reason football (Not just football), is more important that education. The examples used in this article is  how Austin Texas schools laid off 1,153 people on the academic side while on the athletic side only $500,000 from it's 11.3 million dollar budget.
Daniel Opie

extracting stem cells from other organism "such as animals" - Google Search - 0 views

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  • Daniel Opie on 11 Jul 12
     
    It has human-animal stem cell research that i want to review.
Billy Gerchick

Free PowerPoint Templates and Backgrounds - 3 views

www.templateswise.com

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  • Billy Gerchick on 05 Jul 12
     
    A variety of looks and designs for PowerPoint projects. If you have trouble creating PowerPoints from scratch, this may be a valuable tool.
Billy Gerchick

ebrary: Library Info - 0 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 05 Jul 12
     
    Need Authoritative Information? Your library offers e-books from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools with Academic Complete™! New: Download e-books onto multiple devices. And try ebrary's app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch!
Jonathan Allen

Carbon confusion: Just how green are electric vehicles? | Electric vision | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...lectricity-supply-fossil-fuels

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  • "Of the energy you're putting into an electric car when you plug it in, you probably get 80% to 90% translated into useful power at the wheels," say Professor Roger Kemp, author of a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) report on electric cars. "And that's really very good, because in a conventional car it's more like 20% to 30%, with the rest coming out as heat through the radiator and the exhaust pipe."
  • Jonathan Allen on 02 Jul 12
     
    Environmental study done by UK's CCC. Energy efficiency report from Royal Academy of Engineering.
  • Jonathan Allen on 02 Jul 12
     
    U.K.'s information regarding environmental impact of electric vehicles.
Daniel Opie

Stem Cell Research - 0 views

www.tech-faq.com/stem-cell-research.html

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  • Daniel Opie on 09 Jul 12
     
    This is showing me the different types of stem cells and how each one can be used for a different purpose. Can we grow stem cells from previous existing stem cells?
Daniel Opie

Stem Cells Poised To Grow Organs For Transplant - 1 views

www.medicalnewstoday.com/...134025.php

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  • Grekos showed the successful engraftment of stem cells into damaged organs and subsequent regeneration of tissue.
  • Dr. Grekos also highlighted several case studies to illustrate his team's success with Adult Stem Cells. According to their findings, cardiac disease patients experience an average increase of 21% in ejection rates as well as measurable improvements in congestive heart failure class status, some in as little as one month post-treatment
  • Regenocyte Therapeutic is currently using Adult Stem Cells Therapy to treat Congestive Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Peripheral Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Kidney Disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, Pulmonary diseases (COPD, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Pulmonary Hypertension) and Early Senile Dementia. Patients can call 866-216-5710 or visit http://www.regenocyte.com for information or consultation.
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      Daniel Opie on 09 Jul 12
       
      I may want to contact this number for my research. 
  • Therapeutic, addressed physicians from around the world with a presentation on patients treated with pre-engineered Adult Stem Cells. In the presentation,
  • "This is the logical next step in harnessing the regenerative power of stem cells. This will be the next phase in turning science into medicine
  • PET scans confirm that Adult Stem Cells have the ability to engraft themselves into areas damaged by myocardial infarction (heart attacks) and turn into viable new heart muscle.
  • "Three months after treatment, cardiac nuclear scans of the areas treated reveal reversal of damage. We have been able to take patients off the transplant list, and we have been doing it consistently."
  • physicians at the Dominican Republic division of Regenocyte announced clinical results of a 46-year-old patient with pulmonary hypertension who was treated with Adult Stem Cells. His pulmonary artery mean pressure went from 41mmHg (severe pulmonary hypertension) to 24 mmHg (normal) in six months.
  • The patient's saturations are now consistently high and he no longer needs to be supplemented with oxygen continuously or considered for a lung transplant. Another patient was successfully treated for cardiac sequelae of Fabry's Disease, and is also no longer considered for heart transplant.
  • Daniel Opie on 09 Jul 12
     
    A clinical essay on the use of stem cells on regrowing certain organs and its cit-effects. Is it more dangerous to use stem cells research? Does the benefits out weigh the risks of the procedures? 
Michael Flake

WHY I OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE - BY A GAY MAN - 0 views

www.musedmagonline.com/...gay-marriage-anyone

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  • Michael Flake on 09 Jul 12
     
    My fascination for this article is in the title itself. It talks about gay rights from a gay man's viewpoint. Plus, it highly reinforces the benefits of gays being in a relationship.
Robert Harrison

Are Sports More Important than School? | Extreme Biology Blog - 0 views

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  • 75% of parents let their child skip an exam for an important game, and only 47% of musicians’ parents would let them skip an exam for a concert or performance.
  • Also, the all-star players said the schools help give them extended deadlines for essays, homework, reports, etc., while the musicians only had 44% and the sport leagues 33%. In addition, 63% of all-stars said the schools helped them with tutoring sessions, while those in sport leagues had 11% and only 8% musicians.
  • After those facts, it is no surprise that the principals interviewed said,” Sports is one of the most popular interests in the school. This can be seen by the fact that the athletes’ needs are met through designing special programs, consideration of their needs, consideration of their teachers, competitions and placing the school athletics program high on our list of priorities
  • Robert Harrison on 09 Jul 12
     
    From a studies shown in this article that special rewards were given to those who played sports compared to those who played instrument's just to show the difference. Placing school athletics high on their list of priorities.   
Oluronke Salako

Internet Dating Scammers - 1 views

what are the things to watch for? bogus websites for their fake companies. Look at the spelling. The speech is broken and doesn't fit their profile or picture, for example. i see you...

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Daniel Opie

Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...in-stem-cell-breakthrough.html

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  • The researchers injected stem cells from rats into the embryos of mice that had been genetically altered so they could not produce their own organs, creating mice that had rat organs.
    • Daniel Opie
      Daniel Opie on 11 Jul 12
       
      If they are able to do this with animals what about humans? Is this ethical and effective.
  • The scientists claim the rat stem cells grew in the niche left by the absent mouse pancreas and so almost any organ could be produced in this way.
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  • If replicated using human stem cells, the technique could produce a way of treating diabetic patients by providing a way of replacing their pancreas
  • In reality researchers are not allowed to create human embryos that lack the ability to grow organs and so they hope to do the same using pigs.
  • They have, however, already managed to produce pigs that were able to generate human blood by injecting blood stem cells from humans into pig foetuses. He said: "For ethical reasons we cannot make an organ deficient human embryo and use it for blastocyst complementation. "So to make use of this system to generate human organs, we must use this technique using blastocysts of livestock animals such as pigs instead
  • Blastocyst complementation across species had never been tested before, but we have now shown that it can work."
  • Daniel Opie on 11 Jul 12
     
    This is discussing about using other animals to grow organs inside of those other animals.
Billy Gerchick

Purdue OWL: "MLA Formatting Quotations" - 3 views

owl.english.purdue.edu/...03

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  • Billy Gerchick on 16 Jul 12
     
    A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.
Billy Gerchick

100 social media statistics for 2012 | The Social Skinny - 0 views

thesocialskinny.com/cial-media-statistics-for-2012

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  • Billy Gerchick on 25 Jul 12
     
    From author Cara Pring: "We all love statistics, specially when they are about social media. I've made life so much easier by compiling all the statistics I could find over the past month or so in one handy bulleted article..."
Billy Gerchick

EditMinion - 0 views

editminion.com

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  • Billy Gerchick on 23 Jul 12
     
    Writing a paragraph from your paper to see areas where your writing mechanics can improve.
Billy Gerchick

The History of Visual Communication - 0 views

www.citrinitas.com/...index.html

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  • Billy Gerchick on 25 Jul 12
     
    This website, from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, provides an overview of the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication. Fascinating history on visuals' roles in language arts.
Billy Gerchick

Google Sites Tutorials - Page Layout, Pictures, Animations - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 26 Jul 12
     
    From YouTube, a helpful video on layout, pictures, and animations
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