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Paloma Gomez

Guillermo Habacuc Vargas - Mahalo - 0 views

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  • In August 2007, as part of his installment at the Bienarte 2007 in Managua, Nicaragua, Costa Rican artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas tied up a stray dog, Natividad, and left it without food or water in the exhibition hall for the duration of the event. Allegedly, the dog later died. Vargas alternatively defended his actions by claiming that the dog would have died anyway, and later that the dog did not die at all. Since the event, several petitions have circulated the Internet, in both English and Spanish, condemning Vargas and urging that the artist be banned from Bienarte 2008.
  • Paloma Gomez on 11 Dec 08
     
    tells how people are mad for his actions and what they have tried to do to stop it
Paloma Gomez

Guillermo Habacuc Vargas - 0 views

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shared by Paloma Gomez on 11 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:"Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog named Nativity. The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought. Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets anyway. "So there is just this to say: We see, that not only the gallery was lying from the beginning, but also, what we have to think about all statements of this "artist".
  • Paloma Gomez on 11 Dec 08
     
    mentions something that guillermo said during an interview
Kate L

Zero Energy House - Front View on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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solar-powered house

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  • Kate L on 08 Dec 08
     
    This is Catawba Valley Habitat for Humanity's Zero Energy House in the Ridgeview Neighborhood of Hickory, North Carolina. It is considered to be the first Zero Energy home in the entire state. Built in cooperation with Appalachian State University in Boone, the ZEH features passive solar heating, photovoltaic panels, solar hot water heater, rainwater collection for garden use, icynene insulation, polar wall insulated siding, and a geothermal heat pump. As in all of their houses, CV Habitat used 2x6 exterior walls for more insulation, compact flourescent bulbs, high power exhaust fans in the bath, and low-e windows. Working with Advanced Energy (based in Raleigh, NC), CV Habitat also had the heating and cooling bills guaranteed at $17/month, which is not too far below the average for the other houses they build. The ZEH was was finished in Sept. 2005, remained open for a year as an office and educational venue, and was finally dedicated and turned over to a homeowner in early Oct. 2006.
Kate L

Wind Energy Institute of Canada, North Cape PEI Canada on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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wind energy

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  • Kate L on 08 Dec 08
     
    Description: The WEICan facility at the North Cape is used to conduct wind energy research and test wind technologies. Various scales and styles of wind turbines can be seen from the trail that runs along the bluffs above the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in addition to the ocean view. The site includes an interpretative visitor center and a historic lighthouse. Photo Taken: July 2005.
Jesse Lavine

Golf ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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golf balls

shared by Jesse Lavine on 09 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Jesse Lavine on 09 Dec 08
     
    feathery golf balls to guttie golf balls to the golf balls we use today
Sylvia A

Chiroptera - 0 views

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chiroptera bat mammals

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  • Small and furry, bats are the only mammals to have achieved powered flight.
  • Their arms are spindly, with membranes stretched between the fingers on each hand.
  • Despite their resemblance to rodents, bats are not closely related to mice at all. Though their exact placement is still uncertain, there is recent evidence that they may be more closely related to the primates.
Sylvia A

Vampire bats recognise their prey's breathing ( Vampire bats the only mammals to feed ...) - 0 views

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bat vampire

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  • Vampire bats, the only mammals to feed exclusively on blood, including human blood, recognize their prey by the sound of its breathing.
  • Vampire bats feed on the same prey over several nights
  • bats use breathing sounds to identify their prey in the same way as humans use voice to recognise each other.
Tucker Haydon

koala info. - 0 views

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shared by Tucker Haydon on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • tree-dwelling marsupial of coastal eastern Australia. The koala is about 60 to 85 cm (24 to 33 inches) long and weighs up to 14 kg (31 pounds) in the southern part of its range (Victoria) but only about half that in subtropical Queensland to the <langlabel name
  • eucalyptus trees
  • 1.3 kg (3 pounds) of leaves daily
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  • only member of the family Phascolarctidae
  • youngster
  • called a joey
Tucker Haydon

Australian Crocodiles info. - 0 views

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shared by Tucker Haydon on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • There are two kinds of crocodile in Australia.
  • They live in the hot north of Australia.
  • Crocodile scales have become thick skin
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  • the Estuarine, a saltwater crocodile
  • Johnsons, a freshwater crocodile
  • Both are found in the hot, tropical northern part of the continent.
  • The Estuarine crocodile, while it can live in salt water, is able to go quite far up river into fresh water. It is one of the most dangerous of all the crocodile family, being the biggest and heaviest. It grows to between 4 and 7 metres long.
  • The Johnsons crocodile lives mostly in freshwater, but can also live in salt water. It grows up to 3 metres long. It is considered to be dangerous even though it is not known for attacking humans.
  • ong narrow snouts
  • 4th tooth of the lower jaw is outside when the mouth is closed
  • 50-80 eggs
  • 90 days until the eggs hatch.
Stephania D

Lake Microbes Thrive on Arsenic : Discovery News - 0 views

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shared by Stephania D on 05 Dec 08 - Cached
  • More than a mere biological oddity, the discovery adds weight to Oremland's theory that the bacteria's ability evolved billions of years ago, when the first life was just getting started on Earth. At the time, the planet's oceans were devoid of oxygen, but hydrothermal vents spewed elements such as sulfur, iron and arsenic into the water column.
  • In this ancient stew, arsenic may have been an important nutrient to life. The life forms would have used whatever they could to survive these noxious waters, and sunlight and arsenic were probably plentiful.
  • Poison or Fuel?
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  • Photosynthesis may be the most important biochemical machine on the planet.
  • "The move to the modern form of breaking up water molecules was the biggest move"
Stephania D

Discovery News : Discovery Channel - 0 views

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  • Even small doses provoked large discharges of coral mucous -- a clear sign of environmental stress -- within 18 to 48 hours. Within 96 hours complete bleaching of corals had occurred.
  • Pesticides, hydrocarbons and other contaminants have also been found to induce algae or coral to release viruses, hastening the bleaching process.
  • An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 tons of sunscreen are released annually in reef areas, with 25 percent of the sunscreen ingredients on skin released into water over the course of a 20-minute submersion.
Ashley Yoder

Jonas Brothers Photos : People.com - 0 views

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  • Taking the stage for a good cause, the Jonas Brothers perform to a sold-out crowd at the Gibson Amphitheater in L.A. during the Concert for Hope, benefiting cancer research and treatment programs at City of Hope, a Duarte, Calif., cancer hospital. In addition to the $1.2 million raised at the event, the Jonas Brothers and their Change for the Children Foundation pledged an additional $250,000.
  • Ashley Yoder on 04 Dec 08
     
    they give to causes,
Jilliane Velazco

Online Music Alters Industry Sales Tempo - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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iTunes cd cd sales music music industry

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  • A year after Apple Computer Inc. launched its iTunes Music&nbsp;Service, the online music industry is selling songs by the millions
  • Customers at three of the leading online services –&nbsp;iTunes, Musicmatch Inc.’s Musicmatch Downloads and RealNetworks&nbsp;Inc.’s Rhapsody – buy about 10 times as many singles as they do&nbsp;albums. Offline, people buy 50 times more CDs than&nbsp;singles.
  • music lovers buying a&nbsp;few 99-cent singles instead of $15&nbsp;CDs.
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  • “There’s no money to be made from singles,”
  • Dozens of&nbsp;free networks emerged to let people copy songs from one&nbsp;another’s computers, drawing an estimated 63 million users in the U.S. alone&nbsp;by&nbsp;mid-2003.
  • Apple said&nbsp;the service sold its 50 millionth song March&nbsp;15.
  • Some online music companies continue to struggle, but the&nbsp;sector is growing fast and steadily.
  • Analysts estimate that the&nbsp;services’ revenue will grow from about $65 million last year to $250 million&nbsp;in 2004, with $120 million or more from downloadable singles
  • CD sales totaled $11.2 billion in the&nbsp;U.S. last year
  • online customers are buying a much broader&nbsp;range of music than is being sold in stores.
  • about 75% of the&nbsp;paid downloads weren’t in Billboard’s Top 200 and about 60%&nbsp;were “catalog,” or older, tracks.
  • more than 63% of the CDs sold in stores last week were new&nbsp;releases.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    more people have been using piracy instead of buying real cd's from stores
Stephania D

Exxon Valdez Habitat - 0 views

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Exxon Valdez Pollution water

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  • The western portion of Prince William Sound was the most heavily oiled in 1989 and oil on some beaches remains a serious concern for residents of the Sound who use these areas.
  • The remaining 1,100 miles of oiled shoreline were considered to have light to very light oiling. Crews visiting beaches in 1993 found hundreds of sites that contained substantial oil deposits.
  • A 1992 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study* estimated that a great majority of the oil evaporated, dispersed into the water column or degraded naturally.
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  • Post-cleanup analyses in 1998 showed that while the cleanup method was largely effective in removing visible surface oil, it had little effect on the large deposits of oil beneath rocks and overburden.
  • Stephania D on 03 Dec 08
     
    The spill. What happened to the habitat
Indigo o

Thompson Gale - Braille - 0 views

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braille blind dots system

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  • Born on January 4, 1809, Coupvray, France, Braille was accidentally blinded in one eye at the age of three. Within two years, a disease in his other eye left him completely blind.
  • Captain Charles Barbier invented sonography, or nightwriting, a system of embossed symbols used by soldiers to communicate silently at night on the battlefield. Inspired by a lecture Barbier gave at the Institute a few years later, the fifteen-year-old Braille adapted Barbier's system to replace Haüy's awkward embossed type, which he and his classmates had been obliged to learn.
  • In his initial study, Braille had experimented with geometric shapes cut from leather as well as with nails and tacks hammered into boards. He finally settled on a fingertip-sized six-dot code, based on the twenty-five letters of the alphabet, which could be recognized with a single contact of one digit. By varying the number and placement of dots, he coded letters, punctuation, numbers, diphthongs, familiar words, scientific symbols, mathematical and musical notation, and capitalization. With the right hand, the reader touched individual dots and, with the left, moved on toward the next line, comprehending as smoothly and rapidly as sighted readers. Using the Braille system, students were also able to take notes and write themes by punching dots into paper with a pointed stylus which was aligned with a metal guide.
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  • In his initial study, Braille had experimented with geometric shapes cut from leather as well as with nails and tacks hammered into boards. He finally settled on a fingertip-sized six-dot code, based on the twenty-five letters of the alphabet, which could be recognized with a single contact of one digit.
Stephania D

Exxon Valdez - 0 views

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Water Polution case

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  • It gained widespread infamy after the March 24, 1989 oil spill in which the tanker, captained by Joseph Hazelwood and bound for Long Beach, California, hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil.
  • This has been recorded as one of the largest spills in U.S. history and one of the largest ecological disasters.
  • At the time of the spill it was employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's pipeline terminal in Valdez, Alaska, to the lower 48 states of the United States.
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  • The vessel was carrying about 1.26 million barrels, or about 53 million US gallons (200 million liters), of oil at the time it ran aground.
  • On August 27, 2008, Exxon Mobil agreed to pay 75% of the $507.5 million damages ruling to settle the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.
  • Stephania D on 03 Dec 08
     
    Exxon Valdez oil spill
Minjie Kim

Unconscious Thought Processes | in Chapter 03: States of Consciousness | from Psycholog... - 0 views

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Unconscious Thought Processes thought process psychology

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  • 1. Mental activity is unconscious if people are unaware of it. For example, you might tap your toe to music without realizing it. 2. Something is unconscious if it happens without effort. For example, in speaking, you retrieve most words in your everyday vocabulary quickly and smoothly, without conscious effort. 3. An unconscious action is one that is unintended. For example, you might accidentally call one person by another person's name. 4. An unconscious mental process is autonomous (runs by itself, without conscious attention). For example, you set your alarm to 7 a.m. and find yourself waking up at 6:59 a.m. 5. A behavior is unconscious if it resists conscious control, for example, a person might not be able to stop saying "um" or "you know" despite trying.
  • the fourth-being autonomous-seems to be the broadest
Christina T

Japanese history: Edo Period - 0 views

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japan history edo

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  • n the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Ieyasu defeated the Hideyori loyalists and other Western rivals
  • Every daimyo was also required to spend every second year in Edo.
  • On the other hand, he enforced the suppression and persecution of Christianity from 1614 on.
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  • Therefore, the warriors (samurai) were educating themselves not only in the martial arts but also in literature, philosophy and the arts, e.g. the tea ceremony.
  • During the Edo period and especially during the Genroku era (1688 - 1703), popular culture flourished. New art forms like kabuki and ukiyo-e became very popular especially among the townspeople.
  • The most important philosophy of Tokugawa Japan was Neo-Confucianism, stressing the importance of morals, education and hierarchical order in the government and society:
  • The social hierarchy began to break down as the merchant class grew increasingly powerful while some samurai became financially dependent of them.
  • n the end of the 18th century, external pressure started to be an increasingly important issue, when the Russians first tried to establish trade contacts with Japan without success
  • All factors combined, the anti-government feelings were growing and caused other movements such as the demand for the restoration of imperial power and anti western feelings, especially among ultra-conservative samurai in increasingly independently acting domains such as Choshu and Satsuma.
Graham Williams

History of 'The Curse of the Bambino' - Baseball- nbcsports.msnbc.com - 0 views

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bambino'

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  • Until the Red Sox swept the Cardinals to win the World Series after beating the Yankees in the greatest postseason collapse in baseball history
  • ts origins, of course, date to the January, 1920 sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees for money that Boston owner Harry Frazee desperately needed to pay the mortgage on Fenway Park
Jilliane Velazco

Despite Drop in CD Sales, Music Industry Is Upbeat - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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cd piracy music industry online apple sales

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      Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
       
      Important info!! -->
  • rising revenue from songs and albums bought on the Internet failed to offset the consumer flight from CDs.
  • CD sales was down 13 percent last year compared with 2005
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  • online sales of singles from services such as Apple's iTunes were up 60 percent last year.
  • Apple reported the sale of its 100 millionth iPod.
  • The music industry has blamed piracy for the dive in CD sales and began suing downloaders and the file-sharing services in retaliation in 2003
  • the RIAA is about to sue students for illegal downloading.
  • CD sales peaked in 2000, with the major labels shipping $13 billion worth of discs to stores.
  • Sales dropped about 8 percent each following year, until a 2 percent uptick from 2003 to 2004.
  • resumed in 2005 and hit its lowest point in more than a decade last year, when music companies shipped $9.2 billion in CDs.
  • Last year, sales of albums bought on the Internet shot up 103 percent compared with 2005
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    cd sales have gone down because of online piracy, etc.
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