...California has been widely known across the globe for its great agriculture. As its main source for economic growth, California prides itself on its ability to produce mass amounts of crops in order to serve our nation. The backbone of everything that goes on in California is built around the Californian farmers’ ability to produce crops. As of late, the task of producing crops has become more difficult than ever for farmers to accomplish. Farming, and producing crops, has become increasingly difficult for farmers in California due to the scarcity of water. With little access to fresh water for their crops, farmers in California are having a hard time maintaining their fruits, vegetables, livestock, and nuts. Water has been hard to come by...
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...Paul Newman, from the movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Put in theaters in 1969, this western film became a hit amongst audiences across the country. Directed by George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid qualifies as a western because the film provides moviegoers with large and dry landscapes, old-fashioned crime, and a partner who plays the role as a sidekick. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the setting is a large and dry desert-like landscape. A western is typically known for its’ characters to be in a setting with a hot climate, lots of dirt/sand, and tall dry mountains; this film contains all of that. There...
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...Mars: The Continuing Frontier in Science Fiction Just as, early American settlers viewed land West of the Mississippi as, ‘free land as far as the eye can see’, early science fiction writers created a Mars that was ‘ripe for the taking’ in their many stories of colonization. The Frontier Myth is from the idea that early settlers viewed uninhabited land as free to whoever wants it, a first come, first served mentality attached with unlimited opportunity. Well, as my dear father told me long ago, nothing in life is free. Of course the Frontier Myth doesn’t account for who or what was there before the ones doing the taking. Therein lies the problem. Or for many early science fiction writers- a great story idea. Fuelled by real scientific observation, starting with Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli and his 1877 “discovery” of canals on the planet Mars (which later was rejected as part of the natural landscape by better technology) to the 1960’s and 1970’s NASA programs Mariner and Viking. Specifically because of the real science behind Mars exploration, authors like; Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip, Greg Bear, Moving Mars, and Kim Stanley Robinson with Red Mars, all explored very scientific, but humanistic stories with themes of the political, economical and social effects of colonization on Mars. One interesting aspect of Mars literature is the use of environmental similarities of globalization here on Earth as a reflection in the colonization of Mars stories....
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...(Hammons,2010) Joshua Tree National Park Park INT1 Task 2 By Kelly Jones Geography Joshua Tree National Park is located in southern California. It is positioned just east of Palm Springs and west of the Colorado River. You will find both the Mojave Desert and the Colorado Desert located here. (National Park Service, n.d., a) Biotic Components Animals Bighorn Sheep Kit Fox Red-spotted Toad Elf Owl (National Park Service, n.d., B) Plants Joshua Tree Silver cholla Hedgehog Cactus Grizzlybear PricklyPear (National Park Service, n.d., C) Abiotic Components At Joshua Tree National Park the land has been characterized by extreme climatic changes. There are torrential rains, cool nights and dry days. Rainfall is seldom and unpredictable. Streambeds are usually dry and there are only a few waterholes. The area has two distinct seasons, summer and winter. Temperatures can get as high as 130 degrees fahrenheit in the summer, and below 0 degrees fahrenheit in the winter time. The low desert called the Colorado goes up to 3,000 feet. The higher desert called the Mojave goes up to nearly 6,000 feet. (National Park Service, n.d., D) Current Human Impact " ● ● ● The spread of non-native plants that have been made possible by visitors to the park have caused habitat destruction. This not only displaces native plants, but also increases the risk of fire. Recreational use of off-road vehicles like motorcycles and ...
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...JoTT CommuniCation 3(7): 1899–1908 Some aspects of the ecology of the Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777) in the tropical forests of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India and their conservation implications Nagarajan Baskaran 1, S. Venkatesan 2, J. Mani 3, Sanjay K. Srivastava 4 & Ajay A. Desai 5 Bombay Natural History Society, Bear Bungalow, Kargudi, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu 643211, India Present Address: Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, Innovation Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India 4 Tamil Nadu Forest Department, Panagal Building, No. 1 Geenis Road, Saidapet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600015, India 5 Present Address: BC 84 Camp, Belgaum, Karnataka 590001, India Email: 1 baskar@ces.iisc.ernet.in (corresponding author), 4 sks2700@yahoo.co.in, 5 ajayadesai.1@gmail.com 1,2,3,5 1 Date of publication (online): 26 July 2011 Date of publication (print): 26 July 2011 ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) Editor: Renee Borges Manuscript details: Ms # o2593 Received 01 October 2010 Final received 29 January 2011 Finally accepted 09 July 2011 Citation: Baskaran, N., S. Venkatesan, J. Mani, S.K. Srivastava & A.A. Desai (2011). Some aspects of the ecology of the Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777) in the tropical forests of Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India and their conservation implications. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(7): 1899–1908. Copyright: © Nagarajan Baskaran, S. Venkatesan,...
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...Introduction We all have wondered why dogs get eye boogers and what the cause is behind these really weird and gross things our dogs eyes produce on a daily. Well I will tell you research was not the easy but I think I have the basics of what goes on with these eye boogers. WHY DOGS GET EYE BOOGERS In most breeds it is a very common thing to have eye boogers or runny eyes, such as dogs with a lot more fluff on them. Also cocker spaniels, bulldogs, west highland white terriers, and shih tzus . The dogs could also have allergies. Wait!! Allergies? Yes, allergies. Dogs can have allergies, the allergies also make your dog's skin itchy. Some dogs have more discharge than others because some have allergies just like some humans have allergies but not all do,allergies also cause...
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...following table. There you can see when we use the definite article and when we don't. without the definite article | with the definite article | general words (indefinite) | general words (definite) | Life is too short. I like flowers. | I've read a book on the life of Bill Clinton. I like the flowers in your garden. | names of persons on the singular, relatives | family names in the plural | Peter and John live in London. Aunt Mary lives in Los Angeles. | The Smiths live in Chicago. | public buildings, institutions, means of transport (indefinite) | public buildings, institutions, means of transport (definite) | Mandy doesn't like school. We go to school by bus. Some people go to church on Sundays. | The school that Mandy goes to is old. The bus to Dresden leaves at 7.40. The round church in Klingenthal is famous. | names of countries in the singular; summits of mountains; continents; towns | names of countries in the plural; mountain ranges; regions | Germany, France; Mount Whitney, Mount McKinley; Africa, Europe; Cairo, New York | the United States of America, the Netherlands; the Highlands, the Rocky...
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...Playing our part in the North West: Our business plan for 2015-2020 What our plans mean for your water bill right up to 2020 Over the five year period, 2015-2020, we’re going to keep average bill rises below inflation. We’ve been able to do this by cutting our costs and being smarter in the way we work. While average bills will still go up in future, due to inflation, it should mean there will be no big jumps in the amount you pay - helping you budget right through to 2020. Business customers will see a rise slightly above inflation and we will work hard to help them reduce their overall spend. We’re making this commitment in our proposed business plan, after speaking to thousands of customers over the past three years, and listening to their priorities. We have also worked closely with the independent Customer Challenge Group - a mix of organisations looking out for customers’ interests, who have scrutinised us every step of the way. Our plan is now with Ofwat, the water regulator, with a decision expected in 2014. Even though affordability and value for money are our priorities for the years ahead, we’ve still got some ambitious plans to improve your water and wastewater services. You can find out more details about these plans in the rest of this leaflet. Have a read – you’d be amazed what goes on beyond the U-bend! Thanks for your time. What’s this? Bring these stories to life by viewing the films on your smart phone. Download it on your phone for free at www...
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...It has been about a year and I would like to say that I am trying to get a stable home for all of you. I am currently in Miami and I am having trouble. I am having trouble because I, among 114,462 others, have been trying to find a stable home and I only have 1,000 cuban pesos. There are not many homeless shelters or jobs available. I was brought to Key West to enter into America. It is currently tres quince and I still need to find shelter, food and water. The climate I heard is less dry and less wet than Cuba depending on the season. It is currently the wet season and I don't even know what to expect. Everyone doesn't have a care in the world here, I wish I could bring all of you here with me to see this. There is minimal garbage and disease,...
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...to address specific criteria in order to grant access to law abiding illegals. This by itself is rather ironic given illegal immigrants broke the law to enter the United States. Determining who is granted such status is not an easy choice given all of America has an opinion. Some say no amnesty should be granted and the illegals should be deported, requiring them to follow the same guidelines legal immigrants had to abide by. Giving a free pass to some opens the doors to debate why laws are even identified. The other side of this is the funding of such legislation. The question is raised as to who should fund the broad brush of the amnesty. Interestingly, Allen West has pointed out this funding is going to come from the fees that are assessed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (West, 2015). The fees...
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...prevalent in some areas. The general improvement in the standard of living over the last decades has increased households’ access to affordable traditional varied and energy-dense local foods as well as to a “westernized” type of diet, including fat and salt-rich processed foods. According to some studies among adults, the high intake of fruit and vegetables, a unique feature of the Lebanese diet, goes together with an increase in fat intake which is currently at the higher limit of recommendations. These trends in dietary intake associated with a sedentary lifestyle are the major causes of the emergence of an obesity epidemic. The nutritional status of the Lebanese population is characterized by a nutrition transition with the persistence of micronutrient deficiencies and chronic malnutrition in young children (stunting), especially in the rural areas, and the emergence of a high prevalence of overweight in all age groups, both in rural and urban areas. 80 km from east to West. It is bounded by Syria on both the North and East, by Israel on the South and by the Mediterranean Sea on the West. From 1975 until the early 1990s, Lebanon was locked in a bitter civil war (WFP, 2005; WB, 2005). The main agricultural region is a narrow plain running along the seacoast. The inland hosts...
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...my mother told me this night when the moon was shining. My mom said to me: come on here because I will tell you about “hapai kan”. Near of old Uxmal’s wall, it had a cave with dirty waters. There was a snake with wings, its name is “hapai kan”. Before it lived near of Izamal town, but it went out of its ancient place because this place where it was living was too dry and because the children ran out (it ate them). In a year, it swallowed 41 children over. Every year, it flies with the mouth upwards in the sky. It has a watchman who cares for it and its name is: h-waya´as. An H-waya´as is a Baalba´al, it is dirty, revolting with long hair around for all its body. It was inside the cave and caring for “hapai kan”. Its work is to search children to take them at the cave so hapai kan swallowed them. Hapai kan can bring a child towards itself with its hot mouth, even though child being so far like a distance of 4 walache´es. There are impenetrable labyrinths inside it cave. There anybody could get lost. People don’t allow their children go there. Once a year, it goes out by 4 directions: north, south, east, and west. After 5 days it will come back. When it go out, Baalba'al H-Waya'as turn it face upward; and when it come back at its cave it is face downward. While it flies on the world, it spreads a scabies or malignant fluff similar to the corn. This way everything spreads on the 4 cardinal points. As consequence would have putrefied and harmful waters for humans and sown fields...
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...Case Challenge Bingo! Mad Angles July 2012 Instructions: Registered Teams will submit a case analysis document comprising no more than 5 pages of single spaced, 12-point font (including illustrations and excluding TOC, Cover page). Along with the word document each team must submit a 10-slide presentation of the case analysis/solution suggested. There is no pre-determined structure to analyse the case. Participants are free to use any format which best illustrates and provides convincing arguments for their idea. Wherever necessary, the participants must make references to the sources of information and data. Case presentations will be judged based on identified criteria – the originality, creativity and uniqueness of the idea will receive the highest weightage; the implementability, sustainability and scalability of the idea; its fit with ITC’s vision and the manner in which it can leverage ITC’s strengths; the thoroughness of research, analytics and economic logic used to defend viability and execution of the idea. Last date for submission of case solutions is 7th August 2012. Teams must send their entries to the email ID provided for the campus. For full details please refer to the Interrobang Season 2 Case Challenge Brochure available with your Campus Point of Contact or contact interrobang@itc.in ITC Interrobang Season 2 Case Challenge : Bingo! Mad Angles Bingo! Mad Angles ITC Interrobang Case Challenge 20121 The early 2000’s at ITC Limited Headquarters,...
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...Managua. Three other cities that are important in Nicaragua consist of León, Granada, and Ometepe. Leon is the 2nd largest city in Nicaragua and it is located along the Rio Chiquito river on the west side of Nicaragua. Granada is in western nicaragua and is Nicaragua's 6th most populated city. And lastly, Ometepe which is in the center of Lake Nicaragua. Nicaraguan food includes a mixture of indigenous, Spanish cuisine and Creole cuisine. Since its origin, the basis of Nicaraguan food was based on corn. In addition, one of the most popular foods is Gallo Pinto, also known as beans and rice. This is usually served as a breakfast dish. When the Spaniards arrived in Nicaragua they found that the Creole people incorporated foods available in that area into their cuisine. The cuisine here differs on the Pacific and the Caribbean coast. The Pacific coast's food revolves around fruits and corn but the Caribbean coast makes use of seafood and coconut. In Nicaragua many fruits are made into drink. Fruits such as melon, papaya, guayaba, guanábana and many more. Pinolillo is very popular in Nicaragua, some people refer to them as pinoleros. Some drinks are also made from grains, seeds, mixed with milk, water, sugar and ice....
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...pass north of us, just because of how air currents in this part of the world flow. Warm air holds onto its moisture very well. Thus... we're very dry down here. Northern California has a number of rows of pretty good mountains, the moist air flows directly into the area, and as it hits he mountains, it rises and cools, dropping most of its water as both rain and snow. This is the western part of the "rain shadow effect." So in the north, water is not only dropped by being north and cold, but it's collected and funnelled by the mountains. The Central Valley / San Joachim Valley is in between the extremes, which is what makes it the "Bread Basket of the United States," and almost the entire world. More than half of the entire US food supply (agriculture, dairy, and livestock) comes out of our Central Valley. Where do they get it from? Southern California, home to half of the state's population, depends on the State Water Project, the Colorado River Aqueduct and the Los Angeles Aqueduct supply for about half of its supply. California's vast agricultural industry is also dependent on water projects, both large and small. The California State Water Project is the largest multipurpose, state-built water project in the United States. The SWP transports water from the Feather River watershed to agriculture, and some of the water goes to industrial and urban users. More than two-thirds of Californians receive some water from the SWP. The system was designed and contracted to...
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