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karen ponce

Thanksgiving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • hanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is a holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday. The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention. Though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida[1][2], the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends.
  • Most people celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast. Though the holiday's origins can be traced to harvest festivals which have been celebrated in many cultures since ancient times, the American holiday has religious undertones related to the deliverance of the English settlers by Native Americans after the brutal winter at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The period from Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day is often called the holiday season.
nathan jackson

SportsKnowHow.com - History of American Football - Page 1 of 4 - 0 views

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  • nathan jackson on 08 Dec 08
     
    SportsKnowHow.com - American Football History - Page 1
Ann Thomas

Alley Cat Rescue � The National Cat Protection Association - 0 views

www.saveacat.org/communitybenefits.html

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  • Feral cats can minimize rodent problems. While cats cannot hunt rats and mice into extinction, they can keep their populations in check and discourage new rodents from moving into the area. Often feral cats fill in a gap in the current ecosystem. For example bob cats or lynx used to live up and down the East Coast but were hunted ruthlessly and driven away by development. Feral cats are similar in size and behavior to these native feline predators and help to control the same species of small prey animals. Many people enjoy watching feral cats and observing animals has been shown to lower blood pressure in medical studies. People who help to care for feral cats by feeding them and taking them to the vet enjoy many benefits. Often cat caretakers are elderly and live alone, a population at risk for depression, loneliness, and isolation. Cats relieve these conditions and often bring a sense of happiness and purpose to people who help them. Just as companion animals have been shown extend life expectancies, lower blood pressure, and relieve stress, caring for feral cats improves the health of their caretakers. Individuals who cannot take on the full time commitment of adopting a companion animal can participate in programs to help feral cats. This provides a viable alternative to irresponsibly purchasing an animal one is not prepared to care for. An established, stable, vaccinated, and sterilized colony of feral cats will deter other stray and feral cats from moving into the area. This actually decreases the risk that residents will encounter an unvaccinated cat, and will virtually eliminate problem behaviors like fighting and spraying.
  • Ann Thomas on 10 Dec 08
     
    1. Feral cats can minimize rodent problems. While cats cannot hunt rats and mice into extinction, they can keep their populations in check and discourage new rodents from moving into the area. Often feral cats fill in a gap in the current ecosystem. For example bob cats or lynx used to live up and down the East Coast but were hunted ruthlessly and driven away by development. Feral cats are similar in size and behavior to these native feline predators and help to control the same species of small prey animals. 2. Many people enjoy watching feral cats and observing animals has been shown to lower blood pressure in medical studies. 3. People who help to care for feral cats by feeding them and taking them to the vet enjoy many benefits. Often cat caretakers are elderly and live alone, a population at risk for depression, loneliness, and isolation. Cats relieve these conditions and often bring a sense of happiness and purpose to people who help them. Just as companion animals have been shown extend life expectancies, lower blood pressure, and relieve stress, caring for feral cats improves the health of their caretakers. 4. Individuals who cannot take on the full time commitment of adopting a companion animal can participate in programs to help feral cats. This provides a viable alternative to irresponsibly purchasing an animal one is not prepared to care for. 5. An established, stable, vaccinated, and sterilized colony of feral cats will deter other stray and feral cats from moving into the area. This actually decreases the risk that residents will encounter an unvaccinated cat, and will virtually eliminate problem behaviors like fighting and spraying.
Jilliane Velazco

Digital Music Sales Grow, but at Slower Rate - New York Times - 0 views

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grow slower music recorded music shortfall sales compact discs cds cd

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  • worldwide digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion last year, from $2.1 billion a year earlier. That was about 15 percent of overall sales, up from 11 percent a year earlier and less than 1 percent in 2003.
  • yet to make up for the shortfall in sales of compact discs
  • sales of recorded music fell about 10 percent last year, to $17.6 billion
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  • In China, where piracy is rampant, the music industry is considering a lawsuit against Baidu.com, the largest Internet provider
  • Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08
     
    music sales are going down; china is considering a lawsuit against Baidu.com
Jilliane Velazco

Music Industry Decline Accelerates - 0 views

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cd album music decline

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  • Jilliane Velazco on 10 Dec 08
     
    they say this is "the worst decline in the history of the cd"; physical album sales have gone down 27% as of December 1, 2008
Alex Kuzma

Krakatau, Sundra strait - 0 views

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  • Alex Kuzma on 11 Dec 08
     
    in 1960 Anak Krakatau had a diameter of about one mile 1.5 km
Sara Espinosa

World's Largest Cities [rank: 1-1000] - 0 views

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india

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  • 112,778,721BombayMumbaiIndia
  • Sara Espinosa on 03 Dec 08
     
    bombay
Sara Espinosa

Newspapers from World 400 Largest Cities - 0 views

www.newspapers24.com/world-cities

1-400

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  • 1. Tokyo (Japan) 34,200,000
  • 57. Houston (US) 5,400,000
  • 400. Thiruvananthapuram (India) 1,000,000
  • Sara Espinosa on 03 Dec 08
     
    WORLD 400 LARGEST CITIES
Stephania D

Oil Remains - 0 views

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Exxon Valdez Pollution water

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  • largest and most productive estuaries in North America.  
  • However, in 1993 the EVOS Trustee Council funded an additional survey that estimated 7 km of shoreline were still contaminated with subsurface oil.
  • Because a significant survey of Prince William Sound had not been conducted since 1993 and the cumulative extent of the remaining oil was unknown, concerns were generated by the public and scientific communities about the oil’s possible continuing effects on humans and fauna potentially exposed to the oil directly or indirectly.
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  • Without an accurate assessment of the extent of the remaining oil, subsistence food-gatherers, consumers of commercial fish products from the area, and tourists have used mostly anecdotal evidence as the basis for economic decisions regarding resource utilization in the affected area.
  • Consequently, the Auke Bay Laboratory (ABL) with funding from the EVOS Trustee Council, took on the task of assessing the remaining oil along the shorelines of Prince William Sound during the summer of 2001
  • The primary objective of the project was to measure the amount of oil remaining in the intertidal zone of Prince William Sound.  Secondary objectives include determining the rate of decline of oil on these beaches, estimating the persistence of the remaining oil, and correlating the remaining oil with geomorphological features.
  • heavily and moderately oiled
  • The 2001 survey adopted a stratified random/adaptive sampling (SRAS) design. Two random pits were excavated to a depth of 0.5 m (1.6 feet) in every stratified block (0.5-m verticle drop in tide height) within a grid system established at each site. If subsurface oil was discovered in any of the randomly stratified origin pits, then additional adaptive pits were excavated above, below, to the right, and to the left of the origin pit until the extent of the oil patch was determined.
  • Buried or subsurface oil is of greater concern than surface oil.
  • Subsurface oil can remain dormant for many years before being dispersed and is more liquid, still toxic, and may become biologically available.
  • A disturbance event such as burrowing animals or a severe storm reworks the beach and can reintroduce unweathered oil into the water.
  • The toxic components of this type of surface oil are not as readily available to biota, although some softer forms do cause sheens in tide pools.
  • 1) Surface oil was determined to be not a good indicator of subsurface oil. 2) Twenty subsurface pits were classified as heavily oiled.  Oil saturated all of the interstitial spaces and was extremely repugnant. These “worst case” pits exhibited an oil mixture that resembled oil encountered in 1989 a few weeks after the spill - highly odiferous, lightly weathered, and very fluid. 3) Subsurface oil was also found at a lower tide height than expected (between 0 and 6 feet), in contrast to the surface oil, which was found mostly at the highest levels of the beach (Table 3).  This is significant, because the pits with the most oil were found low in the intertidal zone, closest to the zone of biological production, and indicate that our estimates are conservative at best.
  • The possibility of continuing low level chronic effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill seem very real now, although measurable population effects would be very difficult to detect in wild populations.
  •  Sea otters and harlequin ducks fall into this category
  • such as sea otters, harlequin ducks, and their intertidal prey.
  • The last beach assessment was completed in September 2001. Supporting chemical analyses will be completed in fall 2002, and a final report with statistical analyses and conclusions will be completed by April 2002.
  • Stephania D on 03 Dec 08
     
    Exxon Valdez
Krisly Philip

Scientists: Humans 'very likely' cause global warming - CNN.com - 0 views

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humans global warming cause

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  • Fossil fuels like methane and carbon dioxide trap heat near the surface, a process known as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon, but human activities, like the burning of fossil fuels, can pour enormous volumes of these gases into the atmosphere, raising the planet's temperature and destabilizing the climate. (Watch what happens to our planet when manmade emissions get trapped in the atmosphere )
Lindsey McCaleb

Olympic injuries range from basic to bizarre - Beijing Olympics News- msnbc.com - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/25959884

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  • Lindsey McCaleb on 09 Dec 08
     
    injury#1
Tucker Haydon

Emu info. 2 - 0 views

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  • soft-feathered, brownish emu is common throughout most of mainland Australia, although it avoids big cities, dense forests, and deserts.
  • The emu is the second-largest living bird in the world (the ostrich is the largest), with adult female emus being larger and heavier than the males.
  • can sprint at 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour) for quite a distance. Emus are the only birds with calf muscles. Their feet have three toes and fewer bones and muscles than those of flying birds. Their strong legs also allow the bird to jump 7 feet (2.1 meters) straight up. With good eyesight and amazing agility, emus can escape most any trouble!
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  • ominivores
  • pouch in its throat that is part of the bird's windpipe and is used for communication.
  • make deep booming, drumming, and grunting sounds.
  • heard up to 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away!
  • 5 to 15 eggs
Stephania D

Urban runoff - 0 views

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runoff polllution water urban

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  • Stephania D on 05 Dec 08
     
    Water pollution
Minjie Kim

Behaviorism Tutorial - Part 1 - Section 1 - 0 views

psych.athabascau.ca/...sec1.shtml

psychology behaviorism behaviorism tutorial

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  • developed primarily in the United States, although it was certainly influenced by other traditions, such as European forms of empiricism
  • methodological behaviorism and radical behaviorism
  • early 19th century
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  • Subjective/conscious experience was regarded as mental, not physical
  • not publicly observable, and could not be counted, measured, or recorded, at least not in the same way as the subject matter of chemistry or physics
  • tended to pursue their concerns about mental/conscious/subjective experience according to some form of rational inquiry found in philosophy, rather than according to some understanding of the scientific method.
  • regarded those movements as a subject matter of a different science--physiology, rather than psychology
  • scholars in the early 19th century were concerned with the mechanics of the physical movements of the body
Deepankar Sinha

ABC-CLIO: World History: Modern: Analyze Display - 0 views

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abcclio

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  • Deepankar Sinha on 04 Dec 08
     
    World War 1 tech
Lindsey McCaleb

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/685787.jpg&imgrefu... - 0 views

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  • Lindsey McCaleb on 09 Dec 08
     
    some dreams cant happen again
~ * josie * ~

The rankings 1-10 - Time Out New York - 0 views

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musicians music new york rankings

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      ~ * josie * ~ on 03 Dec 08
       
      i watch runs show i cant believe he looks like that i cant even see him in this photo .i htink is is an icon because he is still doing some work i belive
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      ~ * josie * ~ on 03 Dec 08
       
      i heard some things about ells but i think i want to do some more research on her
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      ~ * josie * ~ on 03 Dec 08
       
      i heard some things abou tella bu ti htink i would like to do some more research about her
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  • Straight out of Hollis, Queens, Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl McDaniels (backed by Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell) turned the entire world on its ear with their literate rhymes, hard-edged delivery and social consciousness, paving the way for Public Enemy, N.W.A and everything that followed. The group’s signature sound—booming beats hitched to heavy-metal guitars—ignited hip-hop’s explosive chart domination.
  • At 17 she won an amateur-night competition at the Apollo Theater, and for the next six decades Fitzgerald was the voice of American jazz—first as a swing goddess, then as a bebop scat queen and finally as the smoothest interpreter of gold standards. Her classic albums devoted to such tunesmiths as George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen prove that the Great American Songbook is still required reading: Listening has never been easier.
  • ~ * josie * ~ on 03 Dec 08
     
    i hav eheatrd som things about ells but i think i would like to do some more research abou ther
  • ~ * josie * ~ on 03 Dec 08
     
    this website shows and says that all great musicians come from new york
Parker White

MS-1 - 0 views

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ms 1

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  • Parker White on 01 Dec 08
     
    plp
Sara Espinosa

Biggest Cities | Galleries | Allianz Knowledge - 0 views

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people

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  • 1. Tokyo, Japan Metropolitan area: 34 million people City: 12.5 million people Tokyo is by far the largest urban region in the world. Despite its size and complexity, Tokyo has a very efficient public transportation, which accounts for almost 80 percent of all daily journeys in Tokyo.
  • 1. Tokyo, Japan Metropolitan area: 34 million people City: 12.5 million people Tokyo is by far the largest urban region in the world. Despite its size and complexity, Tokyo has a very efficient public transportation, which accounts for almost 80 percent of all daily journeys in Tokyo. Urban Detail: Tokyo Bay has been gradually filled up to create more space for housing and offices. Odaiba, an island entirely created out of waste material, became one of Tokyo’s most interesting tourist spots with futuristic architecture, shopping, and entertainment centers. (Photo: Miki Yokoyama)
  • Sara Espinosa on 03 Dec 08
     
    tokyo
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