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More evidence that fried food raises heart attack risk - 0 views

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food safety

shared by goskygo_posts on 12 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • goskygo_posts on 12 Aug 15
     
    Miami (AFP) - People who eat lots of fried food and sugary drinks have a 56 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to those who eat healthier, according to US researchers.
jbdrury

The History Place - Irish Potato Famine - 0 views

www.historyplace.com/...coffin.htm

history irish history potato blight potato famine irish emigration

shared by jbdrury on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      As this is a privately-owned website, I thought it important to provide a little info on its managers. This is taken from the Home Page information: " The History Place contains many examples of man's inhumanity to man as well as notable examples of humans rising to the occasion to fight tyranny and preserve freedom, and overall, reaffirms, in the words of the American Declaration of Independence, that all human beings have "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      Although I don't doubt the veracity of much of the information on this site, I think it is important to keep in mind who is providing the information. Also from the home page: " The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy....The site was founded and is owned and published by Philip Gavin"
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      This account of the Potato Famine has multiple pages to flip through; I have started here as this is the page detailing the Irish flight to America.
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  • Coffin Ships
  • The first coffin ships headed for Quebec, Canad
  • Up to half of the men that survived the journey to Canada walked across the border to begin their new lives in America. They had no desire to live under the Union Jack flag in sparsely populated British North America
  • They viewed the United States with its anti-British tradition and its bustling young cities as the true land of opportunity
  • American ships were held to higher standards than British ships by the U.S. Passenger Acts, a set of laws passed by Congress regulating the number of passengers ships coming to America could carry as well as their minimal accommodations. Congress reacted to the surge of Irish immigration by tightening the laws, reducing the number of passengers allowed per ship, thereby increasing fares. America, congressmen had complained, was becoming Europe's "poor house."
  • During the trans-Atlantic voyage, British ships were only required to supply 7 lbs. of food per week per passenger
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      Each page has a few of these contemporary images that could be used in the classroom.
  • Before boarding, they had been given the once-over by doctors on shore who usually rejected no one for the trip, even those seemingly on the verge of death
  • The poorest of the poor never made it to North Americ
  • Despite the dangers, the Irish knew that once they landed on Britain's shores they would not starve to death. Unlike Ireland, food handouts were freely available throughout the country
  • The cheap lodging houses were also used by scores of Irish waiting to embark on ships heading for North America. Three out of four Irish sailing for North America departed from the seaport at Liverpool. Normally they had to sleep over for a night or two until their ship was ready to sail. Many of these emigrants contracted typhus in the rundown, lice-infested lodging houses, then boarded ships, only to spend weeks suffering from burning fever out at sea.
  • jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
     
    The History Place is a privately-run website that provides content to educators on a wide variety of historical subject. I have included this section on the Irish Potato Famine, as it was one of the more compelling narratives I found on the internet.
Erin Power

CNN.com - Millennium: A Perspectives Series - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...millennium

World History Milennium

shared by Erin Power on 11 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 11 Sep 09
       
      This website relies on CNN's news and history sources. Although a bias to the left in general reporting must be considered when viewing most CNN articles, the information presented here is historical, and mostly evenly presented.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 11 Sep 09
       
      If I was teaching World history, I would provide this site to my students to give them a general overview of subject matter - basically giving them a big picture before divulging into the specifics. I would probably create an assignment requiring the students to use and explore this website very early on in the year.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 11 Sep 09
       
      I think this site is valuable to Social Studies teachers because it includes a great deal of information in a condensed, thematic, easily to follow manner.
  • Erin Power on 11 Sep 09
     
    This website, made at the turn of the millennium, goes through the major themes of the past millennium, and organizes them based on timeline, location, major players, popular food, and basic overview.
commercial cleaning

A Cleaning Service That Shines - 2 views

My customers are highly impressed on how clean and sanitised my restaurant is. They said the reasons why they keep coming back to dine at my restaurant are because of the delicious foods we have an...

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Nate Merrill

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pubs/ib/ib11.pdf - 0 views

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green revolution farming food technology agriculture

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  • Nate Merrill on 14 Sep 14
     
    Green Revolution, curse or blessing?
Laura Wood

Millennium Development Goals - 0 views

www.un.org/...index.asp

United Nations millenium goals social justice World global UN hunger HIV AIDS education girls pregnant schooling food action projects 2015 gender environment

shared by Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      Each button at the top stands for one of the development goals. Each page contains video clips, a short web game (very simple) and information about what that goal is, what students around the world are doing to make a difference and suggestions for actions more students can take.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      The "Add your voice" portion has a place where students can send in videos that they have made about the Millenium development goals. There's also a Youth Action Guide that you can download and print for your classes!
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      For each goal there is: * Information about the goal * Information on how much progress has been made towards that goal * Projects that other students have done * What still needs to be done * Links to more information This information is not particularly engaging but it is condensed in an easy to find location. It's certainly not a game or anything and kids won't be tricked into learning by any cool effects or anything.
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      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      From the Millenium Campaign website: "*End poverty by 2015.* This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).":/goals The MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the MDGs by 2015."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
       
      This short (3.34) youtube video is much more enticing than the webpage. http://www.youtube.com/mcampaign Perhaps a teacher could show the video and then ask students to research one of the goals using this site. The culmination could be designing an action to participate in on the date of action. This year that is Oct 16th-18th. May be a good introductory activity to get kids to see the importance of global issues before launching into global history (or concurrently :-) Website for the event: http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/
  • Laura Wood on 18 Sep 09
     
    The UN's Millennium Goals as they have constructed them for kids. It's still a ton of information and not in the easiest or most engaging format but it might be a great place for students to get started examining world issues like Hunger, HIV/AIDS or Infant Mortality and what they can do.
Maria Mahon

King Ranch - 1 views

www.king-ranch.com/kinenos.html

Mexican land grants ranches

shared by Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The townspeople were in such dire straits that they sold all of their cattle to him in an attempt to survive the drought. A short distance out of town, slowly driving the cattle north toward Texas, Captain King realized that, in solving an immediate problem for the people of Cruillas, he had simultaneously removed their long-term means of livelihood. He turned his horse back toward the town and made its people a proposition. He would provide them with food, shelter and income if they would move and come to work on his ranch.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09
       
      This tells the story of how the "King's Men" came to the King Ranch. Captain King purchased an entire town's cattle during a drought and then realizing that he had taken their livelihood, he asked them to all move and work on the ranch. While this page does celebrate the skills the Kinenos brought to the ranch, I cannot help but feel that there is a hint of paternalism in the situation, too.
  • Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09
     
    Chapter 7 of Takaki briefly mentioned the fabled King Ranch in Texas which led me to check out their website. It provides a history of the ranch and its various industries. This page is about the Kinenos....and provides an interesting look at their history on the ranch.
Maria Mahon

How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine - 2 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...The-Battle-of-Arlington.html

Arlington National Cemetery Civil War

shared by Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • In correspondence, her husband referred to the place as "our dear home," the spot "where my attachments are more strongly placed than at any other place in the world."
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09
       
      Finding some direct quotes from figures like Robert E. Lee that shows his link to Arlington could be an interesting way to express the struggle between loyalties to nation, state, land, etc.
  • Orton Williams was not only Mary Lee's cousin and a suitor of her daughter Agnes but also private secretary to General in Chief Winfield Scott of the Union Army.
  • Orton Williams was not only Mary Lee's cousin and a suitor of her daughter Agnes but also private secretary to General in Chief Winfield Scott of the Union Army.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09
       
      Mary Lee received a warning from her cousin/a suitor of her daughter... who was also a private secretary to a general in the Union Army.... this underscores how complex relationships were at this time and how families were torn apart.
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  • A sprawling Freedmen's Village of 1,500 sprang to life on the estate, complete with new frame houses, schools, churches and farmlands on which former slaves grew food for the Union's war effort.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09
       
      The Freedmen's Village is also an important part of Arlington's history.... a rich cultural community sprung up here.
  • Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09
     
    This article provides a great hisory of something in our own backyard here in DC - Arlington National Cemetery and its history in the Washington family and as the home of Robert E. Lee. Studying this could be a way to link the Civil War to the area.
Alan Edwards

Combat Stress and the Fort Hood Gunman - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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blog debate current event

shared by Alan Edwards on 07 Nov 09 - Cached
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      Alan Edwards on 07 Nov 09
       
      Room for Debate seems like a great format for learning about different positions on an issue from current events. Today's essential question: Is post-traumatic stress among caregivers a significant problem? These wars in the Middle East have reminded our nation that soldiers must often fight for their survival on two fronts: overseas as well as at home.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 07 Nov 09
       
      In today's Room for Debate, the Times as assembled a trauma specialist, a psychologist, a prof. of psychology, and a couple of authors. Each contributer is introduced a sort of credibility check, listing their relevant experience and stake in the discussion.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 07 Nov 09
       
      The Times hosts these conversations on any current event. Recent discussions have been on Palestine, Last Week's Elections in the US, Afghanistan, Warren Buffett, Biofoods, etc.
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