...azing upward, I see daylight glinting through the clears out. The trees of Oirase stand like respected, insightful persons. Looking upward from the streambed where I stand, I see dark green leaves of August, loaded with life, stretching out from treetops and branches toward little fixes of blue sky. Nothing is more meriting commendation than a tree that has persevered. Excellence drawing closer godlikeness. Not a thing is absent. Flawlessness. Its trunk, gigantic. Its bark, thick. In Japanese it is called mizunara- - water oak. Its name gets from the expansive measure of water it stores. These trees develop to 100 feet in tallness; I am informed that their normal age is around 300 years. As I look upward, the consistent mumble of the mountain stream purifies my ears, punctuated every now and then with the peeping of fowls. Could there be a winged animal that does not sing? Could there be a tree that does not reach toward the sky? The tree stakes its exceptionally presence on only one thing. It needs just to completely show the force it has covered up inside. "I will carry on with my life! I will completely develop and idealize my life!" Without perplexity or faltering, glad, superb, the tree lives as it may be, consistent with itself. What's more, in the place where there is Oirase, such respectable trees line the streambeds in "green forests." And the name Aomori, the prefecture in which Oirase is found, signifies "green forests." It was...
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...broad-leaved tree European larch (Larix decidua), a coniferous tree Lepidodendron, an extinct lycophyte tree In botany, a tree is a plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting leaves or branches. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants, only plants that are usable as lumber, only plants above a specified height or only perennial species. At its broadest, trees include the taller palms, the tree ferns, bananas and bamboo. A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees it is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier. Below the ground, the roots branch and spread out widely; they serve to anchor the tree and extract moisture and nutrients from the soil. Above ground, the branches divide into smaller branches and shoots. The shoots typically bear leaves, which capture light energy and convert it into chemical energy by photosynthesis, providing the food needed by the tree for its growth and development. Flowers and fruit may also be present, but some trees such as conifers instead have pollen cones and seed cones, and others such as tree ferns produce spores instead. Trees tend to be long-lived,[1] some reaching several thousand years old. The tallest known specimen on Earth is 115.6 m (379 ft) and they have a theoretical...
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...Corked It’s a gas. Not exactly but close to eighty nine point seven percent of the cork is compressed from the same gas that makes air. This is one of the many reasons that makes wine the aesthetical treat to enjoy with just about any cuisine. Historically the name cork was given to the bark of the cork oak tree grown throughout Western Mediterranean Basin plantations known to the Spanish as, “Montados.” Generally the oak trees won’t be ripe until they have reached a there third harvest. Due to deforestation only one percent of the trees in this region will be used. Thanks to the abundance of the oak cork tree in this region that one percent produces seventy percent of the worlds manufactured cork. By the time the third harvest comes around for the cork oak tree it would have reached its fortieth birthday. Averaging out the cork oak tree’s life span, it’s been known to reach ages of one hundred and seventy five too two hundred years of age. That’s a long life of nurture and growth. All for what? So we can enjoy a bottle of wine for one, maybe two hours at most? For what we find to be complete and utter bliss, but then it hits you once you fined that special bottle of chateau , sharing it with the one’s you love that completely catches you into the wines true beauty and the process that it goes through to be what it’s become today. The cork was originated in the year three thousand B.C. where it was used as a fishing apparatus. Through the ages it became a tool...
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...Organic Chemistry Research Assignment (Pg. 77 #53) The Structure of Aspirin and its Relation to Willow Bark Question: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), better known as Aspirin, is a common pain reliver. Research the following topics: - Explore the chemical reactions associated with the synthesis of ASA, Determine the type of reaction that occurs, and the class of organic compounds involved. - Research the historical connection between willow bark and ASA. What advantages does ASA have over the compound extracted from willow bark? How were these advantages achieved? Introduction: Aspirin, otherwise known as acetylsalicylic acid is a common over the counter medication which is used to reduce fever and relieve moderate pains. In lower doses it may also...
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...“Bark, Bark.” I heard as I walked through the pound. I saw dogs and cats all different in their own way. I saw a brown and white nervous boxer puppy that did not bark at me. He looked at me with sadness. “We’ll take him,” my mom said. “Tara he is your responsibility if we are going to keep him.” “Yes ma’am” I said. This was going to be hard. I’ve never taken care of an animal before. It looked really easy but in reality it's probably not. I have the biggest responsibility I've ever had in my life. Or do I? When we got home I gave him a name, Mardy. I also had to give him a bath. He tried to escape, and when he did, he splashed water all over me! The hardest part was drying him off. Mardy was like a squirming worm that was about to get eaten by a hungry bird. “Mardy don't be stubborn.” I said. But Mardy kept on squirming until I gave him a disappointed look. “Thank you.” I said. He looked at me and...
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...Two of the most prominent disturbances to trees are wildfire and bark beetles in the Northwest United states. Over the years, millions of acres of timberland and forest have been damaged or destroyed due to wildfires and bark beetles. Both of these disturbances are brought about by climate and stand conditions. The future forecast for climate changes suggest that there will be an increase in wildfires and also the bark beetle outbreaks. These disturbances affect the water quantity, wildlife, and timber production but with the combination of bark beetle cause tree mortality and wildfires there will be more combustible fuels for fires to feed off of. Effects of the combination could mean larger and hotter crown fires in forests infected by bark...
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...Bark Beetle Management Over 41.7 millions of acres of conifer forests have been affected by the bark beetle, since 1997. Since, bark beetles are native insects not subject to eradication and need to be managed as integral parts of the ecosystem. The U.S. Forest Service strategy is a direct control approach, focused on three primary goals: human safety, forest recovery, and long-term forest resiliency, according to the “Western Bark Beetle Strategy,” published on July 11, 2011. The Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service is undertaking an effort to battle the bark beetle problem as a joint task force. Coordination will occur with State and federal agencies alongside with civilian partners to determine the risk to human safety, communicate the risks to the public, and leverage available partner capacity and funds to increase the scope of projects. With the integration and support from specific programs like Recreation, Road Management, Trail Management, Forest Health Protection, Hazardous Fuels, Facilities Maintenance, Forest Management, Vegetation Management and Salvage Sale, approximately $138 million in agency and supplemental appropriations is expected to fund the overwhelming toll the beetles have inflected on the forests. Hazard Rating System: Because outbreaks usually develop in mature to over mature forests, especially in lodgepole pine, large reserves of these forests pose a constant hazard in areas climatically favorable to the different...
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...“Get up, Undersee!” Gale barks, not giving her a moment to recover from her fall. “Those bombs could fall any fucking second!” Her collision with the ground has cleared her head some, and she realizes that she still doesn’t know why Gale risked his life to come into town to save her of all people. But she barely has enough breath to run, let alone speak, so she swallows down her questions like they’re bile, her vision growing spotty from her depleting oxygen levels. “I can’t,” Madge wheezes painfully, trying to gulp in as much air as she can. “I can’t run anymore.” Before Gale has the chance to respond, the ripping noise hovercrafts make when they fly at high speeds tear through the sky, followed by the lonesome crescendo of a singular warhead falling. For one moment, all Gale and...
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...Many years ago, settlers began making their journey to Michigan’s frontier. One of those settlers happened to be Willian Nowlin and he recorded his experiences for historians to look back upon in his autobiography, The Bark Covered House. Nowlin’s first-hand account gives historians great insight into how settlers began their life on Michigan’s unsettled frontier; however, his account also has some biases and disadvantages that combat the advantages of his personal experience. To begin, Nowlin’s story allows historians to glance at the reality of settlement onto Michigan’s frontier. Nowlin was the eldest of five children at ten years old to a farmer from New York City when he made the journey to Michigan. Nowlin’s family was forced to move...
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...Good Afternoon everyone The Book that I have chosen is “Waiting for your Cat to Bark” by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg Purpose to choose this book I have chosen this book because of its title. The title is somewhat strange but very appealing. It completely summarizes the situation of many Marketers today. That is they are waiting for their customers to respond to marketing and advertising in the same way as they used to years before. Introduction The book “Waiting for your Cat to Bark” is broadly about Marketing and Persuasion. Customer’s way of behaving in the past, is compared to dogs, while modern customers’ behavior is compared to cats. But why Dogs and cats? Well, it is much easier to catch the attention of a Dog, which was the case of consumer’s in the past while on the other hand, Cats act in ways that will benefit themselves first, which is more reflective of the modern consumer behavior. The book explains why marketers are today faced with a “CAT” consumer behavior. The main reason identified is Emerging Social Media. It has contributed to the loss of the effectiveness of Mass Marketing and thus led to the increased use and need for Segmented Marketing. As such, Marketers challenge today is to persuade customers when they ignore marketing. In the book, the authors have also developed a process called 'Persuasion Architecture' in order to support marketers in their challenge. For the purpose of this presentation, my reading has been based on Chapter...
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...Cacao (Gliricidia sepium) bark extract as an alternative ink. Specifically, it will seek to answer the question: 1. Is there will be a significant difference between the experimental ink with different formulations and the commercial ink in terms of: 1.1 color; 1.2 clarity; 1.3 odor; and 1.4 water resistance? b. Null Hypotheses The researcher will hypothesize that: 1. There will be no significant difference between the experimental ink with different formulations and the commercial ink in terms of: 1.1 color; 1.2 clarity; 1.3 odor; and 1.4 water resistance. c. Procedure Making the Product The materials that will be needed are 400 grams of Narra and Madre de Cacao barks each, tray, recycled ballpen containers, 500ml and 100ml beaker, stiring rod, double beam balance, laboratory gloves, glycerin/glycerol, ferrous sulfate, gum Arabic, rubbing alcohol. First, four-hundred grams each of Narra and Madre de Cacao barks will be gathered to Poblacion Bansud, Oriental Mindoro. After gathering the barks, it will be washed using tap water in order to remove the unnecessary dirt on it that may affect the product. The washed barks will be placed on the tray and will be sundried for three days. When the barks are totally dried, it will be cutted into smaller pieces. Then extraction will be done by boiling four-hundred grams each of Narra and Madre de Cacao barks with 700 ml of water for 60...
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...It all started when our protagonist, Doggie, woke up in a bush. It was the tenth time it had happened. Feeling overwhelmingly frustrated, Doggie attacked a butterknife, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Without warning, he realized that his beloved diary was missing! Immediately he called his best friend, Catman. Doggie had known Catman for (plus or minus) 200,000 years, the majority of which were sassy ones. Catman was unique. He was ingenious though sometimes a little... dimwitted. Doggie called him anyway, for the situation was urgent. Catman picked up to a very glad Doggie. Catman calmly assured him that most beavers cringe before mating, yet otters usually indiscriminately yawn *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Doggie. Why was Catman trying to distract Doggie? Because he had snuck out from Doggie's with the diary only nine days prior. It was a exotic little diary... how could he resist? It didn't take long before Doggie got back to the subject at hand: his diary. Catman sighed. Relunctantly, Catman invited him over, assuring him they'd find the diary. Doggie grabbed his grandfather clock and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, Catman realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the diary and he had to do it aimlessly. He figured that if Doggie took the truck, he had take at least eight minutes before Doggie would get there. But if he...
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...Pergamon PII: S0031-9422(96)00532-8 Phytochemistry, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 179-181, 1997 Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0031-9422/97 $17.00 + 0.00 TWO COUMARINS FROM THE ROOT BARK OF CLAUSENA EXCAVATA SHIOW-CHYNHUANG,*PEI-LIN Wul" and TIAN-SHUNGWo't$ *Department of Pharmacy, Chia Nan College of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan Hsien, Taiwan, R.O.C. tDepartment of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University,Talnan, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Received in revised form 1 July 1996) Key Word I n d e x - - C l a u s e n a claucavatin-B. excavata; Rutaceae; coumarin; flavonoid; claucavatin-A; Abstract--Two new pyrano-coumarins, claucavatin-A and -B, together with eight known coumarins and two known flavonoids were isolated and identified from the acetone extract of the root bark of Clausena excavata. Their structures were elucidated by the spectroscopic analyses. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd INTRODUCTION Clausena excavata has been used as a folk medicine in at 6 2.73 and a gem-dimethyl singlet at 6 1.62 indicated a 2'-2'-dimethyl-4-pyranone ring linearly attached to the coumarin ring. Unlike the two cis-vinyl protons found in 4, in 1 only one downfield singlet proton was seen (6 7.89). This suggests that there is a substituent attached to C-3. The remaining peaks disclosed pairs of 1,1-dimethylallyl groups at 8 1.46 and 1.47 (each 6H, s, each 2×CH3), 4.88 and 5.09 (each 1H, rid, each J = 10.4, 0.8 Hz), 4.92 and 5.10 (each 1H, dd,...
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...OFFICIAL ABSTRACT and CERTIFICATION Kakawate Leaves and Bignay Bark as Organic Mosquito Larvicide Ira Asjha Annika C. Ceralvo, Wesley Kim D. Soguilon, Brylle Isidore B. Rapio Kalibo Pilot Elementary School, Kalibo, Aklan This study was conducted to determine the difference in the effectiveness of the Kakawate (Gliricidia sepium) leaves and Bignay bark (Antidesma bunius) extracts as organic mosquito larvicide.The insecticidal and antimicrobial properties of Kakawate and Bignay as well as their abundance in Aklan have motivated the researches to conduct this investigatory project, to control if not eradicate the mosquitoes and protect the people from the risk of mosquito - transmitted diseases. The three treatments were 100 grams pounded Kakawate leaves, 50 grams pounded kakawate leaves extract and 50 grams bignay bark extract and 100 grams bignay bark extract. Treatment A, with 100% kakawate leaves is somewhat effective with 22.2% level. A level of 22.2% or moderately not effective is demonstrated by the treatment B, with mixture of 50% kakawate leaves and 50% bignay extract. Treatment C with the 100% bignay extract shows 11.1% level or somewhat not effective, mildly not effective and moderately not effective.It was demonstrated that Treatment A with 100% pounded kakawate leaves with mean of 5.33 and SD of 0.5774 is slightly acceptable. Treatment B with a Mixture of 50% kakawate and 50% bignay has mean of 8.33 and SD of 0.5574 shows unacceptable. Moreover, Treatment C with...
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...Life Cycle of Stars The Birth of a Star In space, there exists huge clouds of gas and dust. These clouds consist of hydrogen and helium, and are the birthplaces of new stars. Gravity causes these clouds to shrink and become warmer. The body starts to collapse under its own gravity, and the temperature inside rises. After the temperature reaches several thousand degrees, the hydrogen molecules are ionized (electrons are stripped from them), and they become single protons. The contraction of the gas and the rise in temperature continue until the temperature of the star reaches about 10,000,000 degrees Celsius (18,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit). At this point, nuclear fusion occurs in a process called proton-proton reaction. Briefly, proton-proton reaction is when four protons join together and two are converted into neutrons; an 4He nucleus is formed. During this process, some matter is lost and converted to energy as dictated by Einstein's equation. At this point, the star stops collapsing because the outward force of heat balances the gravity. The Hydrogen Burning Stage The proton-proton reaction occurs during a period called the hydrogen-burning state, and its length depends on the star's weight. In heavy stars, the great amount of weight puts a large amount of pressure on the core, raising the temperature and speeding up the fusion process. These heavy stars are very bright, but only live for a short amount of time. After the energy from this deuteron-hydrogen fusion process...
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