(Once again) General Statement
Who is your subject. When and where did they live.
“Maurice Ravel” France.
What is their major contribution to music? (Why are they famous?)
Because he is the best of orchestral, and he was also good at playing melodies and orchestral instruments effects ... etc.
info:
He’s whole name is joseph maurice ravel born in march 7,1875 and died in december 28, 1937. he was a french composer of impressionist music known especially for his melodies orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. mushc of his piano chamber vocal or orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.
Stephanie - Maurice Ravel
What is his most famous composition?
he is the best at orchestral and he considered trivial and once described “a peice of orchestral without music”
What is the concept or point of the composition?
To also get included with the personal feelings and story.
How did Ravel personally feel about this work?
He is a hard worker which worked hard on everything. This is what he choose to do.
Is it program or absolute music?
Absolute. because it’s all of instruments and piano and stuff.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Music Project :)))))))) JOJOMA
MUSIC PROJCTTTTT
*Stephanie Huang - George Gershwin
What was his most important contribution to music? Explain.
I think is because he likes the to write music and make music and he likes the bass and guitar , he always write songs and play songs, he likes to play songs and write songs.
What were the most famous musicals he composed music for?
The most famous musicals that he composed is “broadway” and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
Name some of his most famous songs.
Same as top of it , there is “broadway” and the classical concert hall.
d. How influential was he? Who were some of the people he
influenced?
He was really famous, he wins lot’s of price with the music and lot’s of people like him even big famous people and he is a popular jazz player, and the partner of his is Kay swift.
*Stephanie Huang - George Gershwin
What was his most important contribution to music? Explain.
I think is because he likes the to write music and make music and he likes the bass and guitar , he always write songs and play songs, he likes to play songs and write songs.
What were the most famous musicals he composed music for?
The most famous musicals that he composed is “broadway” and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
Name some of his most famous songs.
Same as top of it , there is “broadway” and the classical concert hall.
d. How influential was he? Who were some of the people he
influenced?
He was really famous, he wins lot’s of price with the music and lot’s of people like him even big famous people and he is a popular jazz player, and the partner of his is Kay swift.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Citizenship - Social Boundaries
We talked about lot's of stuff today in citizenship this class
we talked about social boundaries and talked about the society and people respecting each other, getting friends or people around you and stuff like that.
I have been left out before when I go to new school I don't understand what people are talking about and than I feels like Can't fit in with them and mades me feel like loney. And I think that doing things that you don't like or you don't want to do is hard to cross your boundaries and than things happene like this because that people don't respect each other , if they saw that people are different than them so they don't want to play with them or fit together and the people who is different than them will been feel like left out.
When people talk about there stuff and like ignore you make me feels like in this way whih has been lefted out and than I think that people see in different ways because that they don't like people who are diferent than them they don't show much respect and than they don't want to try to know them.
Thi is what we learned but I think that we shoudl be friends with everyone not only with the people who you know.
we talked about social boundaries and talked about the society and people respecting each other, getting friends or people around you and stuff like that.
I have been left out before when I go to new school I don't understand what people are talking about and than I feels like Can't fit in with them and mades me feel like loney. And I think that doing things that you don't like or you don't want to do is hard to cross your boundaries and than things happene like this because that people don't respect each other , if they saw that people are different than them so they don't want to play with them or fit together and the people who is different than them will been feel like left out.
When people talk about there stuff and like ignore you make me feels like in this way whih has been lefted out and than I think that people see in different ways because that they don't like people who are diferent than them they don't show much respect and than they don't want to try to know them.
Thi is what we learned but I think that we shoudl be friends with everyone not only with the people who you know.
Monday, November 9, 2009
The Glass Factory
Today our school of art class and the chinese culture went to the glass factory only about 7 and 8~9 graders few students.
We talked together at after lunch 12.50 and than we went out and walked to the glass factory.
It was pretty cool, that's a factory which show's us how the glass are made of and how does it make into a regular glass or cup or any shapes made by glass.
This is the first time I went to the real glass factory to see how the glass were made, it was pretty cool they put the glass into the big thing with fire and hot thingsnand than melt it and when it went out with a big long stick and they but it into a bowl and than try to make the shape and than to cool it with water and blow it because there is a hole in the top of it so you can make the air in it and make shape's rither cup or anything, and they also use to use the thing to shape it and than but they have to keep turning the glass because it was hot temperture and melted and soft if they don't turn it they will just change th shape and drop it. And we also see the glasses a area of putting the glasses which is no need and they make all the no need glasses and melt it and than make it into a box, AND IT MAKES ME KNOW THAT WE CAN'T WASTE GLASSES IF WE NO NEED WE HAVE TO RECYCLE IT AND THAN IT WILL WENT TO NEW FACTORY AND MAKE NEW GLASSES AGAIN!!!!! and than well, it smells a bit bad, SO WE HAVE TO WASH IT BEFORE WE RECYCLE :)))) and we also see people over there making glass with some machine and than there is some cool people which they use hand to touch the fire :O:O:O so coooool!!! and they showed us how to make it and lots of shape of things that is made by glass, we also went to a room that which all showed the thing that they have made and it's pretty and they talked about the history about how it made and stuff and they talked about also when do they made things or animals ... etc. And we interveiwed some people which work there and the person that I interveiw is the one who is making the shape of glass and than he told me in this factory everyone have worked more than 30 years, IT'S REALLY FUN TODAY but i hope we can make glasses too :( just too dangerous maybe, but it's fun , and the walking was EXTREMLY BAD AND TIRING!!!!!!!
oh and one of the funny thing is when the person says"we don't usually make the animals and show it , only for you guys "
and Ms.shelah tought is "we don't use to work it today but we made it to GIVE IT FOR YOU"
it's really funny:)))
* one of the thing i notice of their factory is everyone work very hard they don't even have time to talk so we don't get much time to interveiw them we just asked the people who bring us there.
and maybe we think is fun to make glasses, but it's actually pretty dangerous that will hurt ourself badly.
I WANNA VISIT NEXT TIME AGAIN IF I HAVE CHANCE:D
We talked together at after lunch 12.50 and than we went out and walked to the glass factory.
It was pretty cool, that's a factory which show's us how the glass are made of and how does it make into a regular glass or cup or any shapes made by glass.
This is the first time I went to the real glass factory to see how the glass were made, it was pretty cool they put the glass into the big thing with fire and hot thingsnand than melt it and when it went out with a big long stick and they but it into a bowl and than try to make the shape and than to cool it with water and blow it because there is a hole in the top of it so you can make the air in it and make shape's rither cup or anything, and they also use to use the thing to shape it and than but they have to keep turning the glass because it was hot temperture and melted and soft if they don't turn it they will just change th shape and drop it. And we also see the glasses a area of putting the glasses which is no need and they make all the no need glasses and melt it and than make it into a box, AND IT MAKES ME KNOW THAT WE CAN'T WASTE GLASSES IF WE NO NEED WE HAVE TO RECYCLE IT AND THAN IT WILL WENT TO NEW FACTORY AND MAKE NEW GLASSES AGAIN!!!!! and than well, it smells a bit bad, SO WE HAVE TO WASH IT BEFORE WE RECYCLE :)))) and we also see people over there making glass with some machine and than there is some cool people which they use hand to touch the fire :O:O:O so coooool!!! and they showed us how to make it and lots of shape of things that is made by glass, we also went to a room that which all showed the thing that they have made and it's pretty and they talked about the history about how it made and stuff and they talked about also when do they made things or animals ... etc. And we interveiwed some people which work there and the person that I interveiw is the one who is making the shape of glass and than he told me in this factory everyone have worked more than 30 years, IT'S REALLY FUN TODAY but i hope we can make glasses too :( just too dangerous maybe, but it's fun , and the walking was EXTREMLY BAD AND TIRING!!!!!!!
oh and one of the funny thing is when the person says"we don't usually make the animals and show it , only for you guys "
and Ms.shelah tought is "we don't use to work it today but we made it to GIVE IT FOR YOU"
it's really funny:)))
* one of the thing i notice of their factory is everyone work very hard they don't even have time to talk so we don't get much time to interveiw them we just asked the people who bring us there.
and maybe we think is fun to make glasses, but it's actually pretty dangerous that will hurt ourself badly.
I WANNA VISIT NEXT TIME AGAIN IF I HAVE CHANCE:D
Citizenship 2
Today is the second day of citizenship
and we learned about lot's of stuff about citizens.
we learned about the government which type of government
and talked a little bit about taiwan government and stuff
and we also talked about Ground Rules and stuff
like kinds of citizen's things.
And out of citizens we talked about the rules and stuff in class
like no talking or showing respectful and no talking when people are talking ,and how to act
like a student which is respect in class and good havior and not being bad atitude and stuff
and which is good and which is bad
we talked about lot's of rules and good stuff and bad stuff
we learned how to bahave in class and also other stuff about citizens like the government's and the naturalized,native communities of citizenship family schools and house and neighborhood city countries and world.
We learned lot's of stuff in citizen ship class :))))
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and we learned about lot's of stuff about citizens.
we learned about the government which type of government
and talked a little bit about taiwan government and stuff
and we also talked about Ground Rules and stuff
like kinds of citizen's things.
And out of citizens we talked about the rules and stuff in class
like no talking or showing respectful and no talking when people are talking ,and how to act
like a student which is respect in class and good havior and not being bad atitude and stuff
and which is good and which is bad
we talked about lot's of rules and good stuff and bad stuff
we learned how to bahave in class and also other stuff about citizens like the government's and the naturalized,native communities of citizenship family schools and house and neighborhood city countries and world.
We learned lot's of stuff in citizen ship class :))))
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Citizenship
What is a Citizen?
person that is part of a community with a government.
Either native or naturalized .
(born) (change citizenship of a different country)
I AM A CITIZEN OF .....
- family
- H.I.S
- Community
- country
- the world
person that is part of a community with a government.
Either native or naturalized .
(born) (change citizenship of a different country)
I AM A CITIZEN OF .....
- family
- H.I.S
- Community
- country
- the world
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Story Summary
During Humanities We read 3 story and we have to write the summary of them.
1) The Three Tests
Therer is a very pretty price called sadaka and he is very handsome but that he is not good at reading and that he don't know how to read map he is ot good at reading maps and so that he made a lot of frinds in island on he's way.
And the friends of them and animals a thanked him and helped him a lot.
And after that they all become good friends and than prince sadaka and animals was very happy at all.
2)Fafi’s Sheep
There is a small kid and he have two ears but he never use it to listen., he never listen for her mom.
And that little boy tell her dad he want one sheep too.. and dad say that you have to stop that behavior and but after that they have one and that her mom said that she is going to buy something and told her to look after the sheep very careful and don't open the gate to let the sheep ran out ad we will lose the sheep.And he tell every his friend that he have a sheep too because all he friend and neighbers all have sheep he want one too and now he have one he is so happy but because he is going to wash the hair finishing so he ask he's friend to help him to take care off it ad he open the gate try to let the sheep come out. And he ride on it and than grabe the sheep's ears but it didn't move.and after that he slap the sheep and than the sheep just cried out and the little boy just felt off the sheep's back and than that the sheep ran away from the gate.And the sheep ran to a farm and the framer are very angry so that she carried a stick and said that I don't even care about your sheep my tomato was smashed and than that the man said that you can't use a stick to punish a child like this and than they started to fight and he farmer said that Is not your busness.And after that the boy was fighting with the shop owner and fightign about which sheep was who's.and that that boy said that we have a sign another too is that there is lentle in the sheep's lip and than that everyone said what a smart boy and they laughed and said that yes it's yours and they said tha you can't go home like that you have tp bring another thing or a rope and that boy was happy because of that he have two big ears and he said that he don't need any rope he can bring it like this and than walk back home with he's sheep.And than that sheep ran away and than there is a man voice snd a women voice shouted fafi and than he come back and than that they huged and her mom and dad asked that what do you learn from this and he said that he learned about that he is happy to have two ears and he said sorry to he's mom that he didn't relized that he have a good different two ears.So that they alll huged and be happy.
3)Tamara of Tamarinda
In that pretty island everyone's name all started with an T,There was a girl named tamari she is so pretty ad run so fast but she is so lazy she never help in the house even making her own bed.She always wake up early and go to her favorite place and enjoy and sing,she's voice was so pretty every bees and some animals all come beside her and she will sing until is lunch time.
Her poor little mother always help tamari to do things and she don't know what do do with her only to love her.
And after that there was an very ugly guy come to here and saw the pretty island and he want to steal all the colur he wanted to make everyone sneez and than he can steal all the colur and but the bees in every night when people is asleep come and talk carried those thingy away so there is no one in this island will sneez.
And that ugly guy put fail sleeping oil to the bees so the bees sleep late and the thingy in the flower make people sneez than it make everyone started to sneez and all the color flew away.
And everything flew away and now tamari see the island was so ugly all the thingy and the color flew away it's become so ugly.
And after the ugly guy still it and so than he put it all out while he is running and than the island become very pretty again.
And tamari feel so hungry and tierd she have to find something and cook something all by herself and so than the bees were very upset cuz all the pretty island the colorful flowers and animals were al gone and the singing was not longer anymore too.
And some of bees went back to tell the queen the good news and some of them stay with tamari and she was very happy and she laugh in the same time and than the queen said she have to help tamari and teach her good magic to make the island go better and pretty again.
1) The Three Tests
Therer is a very pretty price called sadaka and he is very handsome but that he is not good at reading and that he don't know how to read map he is ot good at reading maps and so that he made a lot of frinds in island on he's way.
And the friends of them and animals a thanked him and helped him a lot.
And after that they all become good friends and than prince sadaka and animals was very happy at all.
2)Fafi’s Sheep
There is a small kid and he have two ears but he never use it to listen., he never listen for her mom.
And that little boy tell her dad he want one sheep too.. and dad say that you have to stop that behavior and but after that they have one and that her mom said that she is going to buy something and told her to look after the sheep very careful and don't open the gate to let the sheep ran out ad we will lose the sheep.And he tell every his friend that he have a sheep too because all he friend and neighbers all have sheep he want one too and now he have one he is so happy but because he is going to wash the hair finishing so he ask he's friend to help him to take care off it ad he open the gate try to let the sheep come out. And he ride on it and than grabe the sheep's ears but it didn't move.and after that he slap the sheep and than the sheep just cried out and the little boy just felt off the sheep's back and than that the sheep ran away from the gate.And the sheep ran to a farm and the framer are very angry so that she carried a stick and said that I don't even care about your sheep my tomato was smashed and than that the man said that you can't use a stick to punish a child like this and than they started to fight and he farmer said that Is not your busness.And after that the boy was fighting with the shop owner and fightign about which sheep was who's.and that that boy said that we have a sign another too is that there is lentle in the sheep's lip and than that everyone said what a smart boy and they laughed and said that yes it's yours and they said tha you can't go home like that you have tp bring another thing or a rope and that boy was happy because of that he have two big ears and he said that he don't need any rope he can bring it like this and than walk back home with he's sheep.And than that sheep ran away and than there is a man voice snd a women voice shouted fafi and than he come back and than that they huged and her mom and dad asked that what do you learn from this and he said that he learned about that he is happy to have two ears and he said sorry to he's mom that he didn't relized that he have a good different two ears.So that they alll huged and be happy.
3)Tamara of Tamarinda
In that pretty island everyone's name all started with an T,There was a girl named tamari she is so pretty ad run so fast but she is so lazy she never help in the house even making her own bed.She always wake up early and go to her favorite place and enjoy and sing,she's voice was so pretty every bees and some animals all come beside her and she will sing until is lunch time.
Her poor little mother always help tamari to do things and she don't know what do do with her only to love her.
And after that there was an very ugly guy come to here and saw the pretty island and he want to steal all the colur he wanted to make everyone sneez and than he can steal all the colur and but the bees in every night when people is asleep come and talk carried those thingy away so there is no one in this island will sneez.
And that ugly guy put fail sleeping oil to the bees so the bees sleep late and the thingy in the flower make people sneez than it make everyone started to sneez and all the color flew away.
And everything flew away and now tamari see the island was so ugly all the thingy and the color flew away it's become so ugly.
And after the ugly guy still it and so than he put it all out while he is running and than the island become very pretty again.
And tamari feel so hungry and tierd she have to find something and cook something all by herself and so than the bees were very upset cuz all the pretty island the colorful flowers and animals were al gone and the singing was not longer anymore too.
And some of bees went back to tell the queen the good news and some of them stay with tamari and she was very happy and she laugh in the same time and than the queen said she have to help tamari and teach her good magic to make the island go better and pretty again.
Seizing the moment at Notre Dame
Father John Jenkins, the president of the University of Notre Dame, probably yearns for days past when the only angry messages waiting for him related to rehiring head football coach Charlie Weis for a fifth season after Weis’ dismal 6-6 performance in 2008. Today, Jenkins is being targeted not by bad sports but by conservative Catholics sporting really bad attitudes about Notre Dame’s decision to welcome the president of the United States to campus next month to serve as commencement speaker.
The president recently returned from an extraordinarily successful visit to world capitals in association with the G-20 summit. The massive crowds in cities from London to Prague waiting for hours to catch a glimpse of the 44th president would be baffled by the ND-Obama rancor.
Well-acquainted with abortion politics in America, Notre Dame’s graduating class is less confounded. Indeed, an overwhelming majority are delighted by the opportunity to have their special moment embellished by Barack Obama’s intelligence and eloquence.
Some of the reaction to Obama is still post-election sour grapes. Obama netted 54 percent of the Catholic vote nationwide, including a sizable share in Notre Dame’s home state of Indiana, where he became the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 to win the Hoosier State’s electoral votes. Obama’s victory loosened the grip the GOP had on middle-income families, a result of Ronald Reagan’s likable personality and his stance against an abortion rate in excess of 1 million per year.
Obama’s views supporting abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research are pragmatic. Obama knows this is less than the absolute legal prohibition demanded by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in America. Obama successfully found some common ground during the campaign by advocating abortion reduction with enhanced economic and social support, especially for poor, uninsured and often unemployed women. In addition, the president advocates stronger families and teenage responsibility.
Not enough. Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, who met with the president in the Oval Office on St. Paddy’s Day, can be seen on YouTube stirring up letter-writing and e-mail campaigns. The local bishop in Indiana plans to boycott the graduation altogether.
Many Catholics, including this one, find it hard to reconcile this approach with the image of Christ in Matthew’s Gospel never turning away even “sinners and tax collectors,” though no one could blame Obama Cabinet officials for steering clear of tax collectors. Jesus’ method was one of inclusion, teaching with generosity, forgiveness and truth — not snubbing those in high office.
Of course, the truth of unborn life is disputed inside and outside the church. Catholic teaching insists that the personhood of the unborn child is not just a matter of faith but of objective science and the natural moral law available to all. Science does confirm that the first fertilized cell is unique and different from mother and father. But scientists do not claim to establish when legal personhood begins — that, most say, remains a political judgment. For me, it is faith informed by love — but that’s for another column.
Will Obama talk about these differences at ND? He is courageous enough to do so, and he is overdue for a Catholic moment. Unlike his masterful dominance of the rest of the national conversation, Obama has let the right wing frame his post-election ties to the Catholic constituency. For example, when Obama suspended George W. Bush’s hastily drafted eleventh-hour conscience clause regulations, the word went out that this was the end of Catholic hospitals. Not so, but to make the point, the Obama team needed to highlight well-established federal and state laws that already permit medical personnel with moral and religious objection to refrain from abortion practice.
Of equal importance is reminding America of how his administration has already assumed the mantle of Catholicism in winding down the war in Iraq, establishing a greater social safety net for the poor, setting out a bold plan for eliminating nuclear weapons and jump-starting a serious interfaith conversation with Islam, long sought by the Holy Father himself.
At Notre Dame, Obama might remind all of us not to make the perfect the enemy of the good. On May 17, as he stands at the foot of Our Lady’s Golden Dome, it will be 85 years to the day the Notre Dame Irish beat back the lit torches of Ku Klux Klan hatred that had spilled onto the campus. Three-quarters of a century ago, plus 10 years, the “fighting Irish” defeated the ignorance and prejudice of the KKK with their fists.
Today, they and we are blessed to use our minds — if they are open.
Douglas W. Kmiec is the author of “Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question About Barack Obama” (Overlook/Penguin, 2008). A former dean of the Catholic University Law School, Kmiec taught at Notre Dame for nearly 20 years before joining the faculty of the Pepperdine University School of Law.
Hong Kong students start vote on Tiananmen killings
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong student union is holding a student vote on whether China should apologize for its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananamen Square 20 years ago in which hundreds were killed.
While China has tried to whitewash any commemoration or mention of June 4, formerly British-ruled Hong Kong has remained the only city on Chinese soil where annual June 4 vigils, remembrances and protests are tolerated.
Faced with growing student indifference, the Hong Kong University Student Union kicked off the three-day vote on whether China should "rectify" its verdict that the June 4 protests were counter-revolutionary and that killings were justified.
"After 20 years of denial and injustice, the world has had enough," the union said in explaining the need for a referendum.
"As the heirs to those who have fought and died for the freedoms which we now enjoy, we all share a duty to step forward on their behalf lest all their sacrifices be in vain."
The vote comes amid recent signs of on-campus tensions in Hong Kong between democratic-minded students and conservative elements wanting to tone down the criticism of Beijing, particularly among students from mainland China.
The demonstrations that drew more than a million people on to Beijing's streets are now a fading memory and the killings are still taboo in mainland Chinese media.
A so-called "democracy wall" on the University of Hong Kong's campus used to raise awareness of June 4 through photographs, essays and posters was recently vandalized.Monday, April 13, 2009
Africa [My World] -- Photo Journal
Today During Humanities Class We study about Africa and how there life is and how do they study how do they learn.
We are going to now say about our life and say about how different between us and the Africa student.
And we are also to going to share our goals to them.
We Study in Hsinchu International School.
In School We study with apple computer's, We have to bring our computer everytime to learn and to study.
We use computer to learn to study in class a and to do homework also. Sometimes we use computer to have a quiz or test and sometimes we use hand writing.
We have Spirit week and some Holiday and in our school everyone always smile and happy and were all like a big family :]
And in the morning we have all school gathering, We use to talk and when any teacher or any student have any things we always share it together.And sometimes we do activity and we get into groups.
This is our school life.
And I think the different between taiwan international school and africa school is that:
1. We use apple computer to study and they don't use computer to study they use handwriting.
2.In africa they have a lot of place and small house and they paint art on it and it's very pretty.
3.They have a lot of farm and place that have a lot of animals.
4.They were the clothes that is not same with us and they have different hair kind's too and I think that and they have different life with us and they eat different food too.
5.They speak different language.
6.There skin color is not same with us too.
GOALS:
1. In my goals I think I want I hope that i can learn better my english and I think is same to the africa student too. Because they come from a lot of country and there first language is not english so I think they can speak good english and learn more too.
2. I wish i can have a good grade and i wish that i can know more things and know more study more about life and something different between international school and local school.And I think that africa student have to learn more and know more too because that they come from different place and I think they have to know more about the place that the person people live.
That's It
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We are going to now say about our life and say about how different between us and the Africa student.
And we are also to going to share our goals to them.
We Study in Hsinchu International School.
In School We study with apple computer's, We have to bring our computer everytime to learn and to study.We use computer to learn to study in class a and to do homework also. Sometimes we use computer to have a quiz or test and sometimes we use hand writing.
We have Spirit week and some Holiday and in our school everyone always smile and happy and were all like a big family :]
And in the morning we have all school gathering, We use to talk and when any teacher or any student have any things we always share it together.And sometimes we do activity and we get into groups.This is our school life.
And I think the different between taiwan international school and africa school is that:
1. We use apple computer to study and they don't use computer to study they use handwriting.
2.In africa they have a lot of place and small house and they paint art on it and it's very pretty.
3.They have a lot of farm and place that have a lot of animals.
4.They were the clothes that is not same with us and they have different hair kind's too and I think that and they have different life with us and they eat different food too.
5.They speak different language.
6.There skin color is not same with us too.
GOALS:
1. In my goals I think I want I hope that i can learn better my english and I think is same to the africa student too. Because they come from a lot of country and there first language is not english so I think they can speak good english and learn more too.
2. I wish i can have a good grade and i wish that i can know more things and know more study more about life and something different between international school and local school.And I think that africa student have to learn more and know more too because that they come from different place and I think they have to know more about the place that the person people live.
That's It
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Volcanoes & Earthquake's {Science}
During Science class we have a test and Ms.Smith said that after the test we have to watch a movie and than when I finished I went moodle ans than download the movie called EARTHQUAKE'S & VOLCANOES and than I watched.
It said about that how much earthquakes and volcanoes happened in the world there is in forest about the volcanoes because it had to much tree thingy's and it's also to dry it make's fire all over and it also talked more about earthquakes in shop's people walking around and fall and things went crash all over and than said about that the city all the buildings crash's and all the house's all gone and road and stuff place like that the a lot of place and when someone people are making house and than there is earthquakes it make's house crash when it even haven't finish making and all of the people die and hurt something like that and alo volcanoes are very big and after that it also talked about how there earthquakes happened and have it and why and some thing's learn about earthquakes and volcanoes and where did it happened and how and how much are there eathquakes and volcanoes happened.
SO EVERYONE HAS TO BE CAREFULL AND WATCH MORE MOVIE ABOUT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES =]
It said about that how much earthquakes and volcanoes happened in the world there is in forest about the volcanoes because it had to much tree thingy's and it's also to dry it make's fire all over and it also talked more about earthquakes in shop's people walking around and fall and things went crash all over and than said about that the city all the buildings crash's and all the house's all gone and road and stuff place like that the a lot of place and when someone people are making house and than there is earthquakes it make's house crash when it even haven't finish making and all of the people die and hurt something like that and alo volcanoes are very big and after that it also talked about how there earthquakes happened and have it and why and some thing's learn about earthquakes and volcanoes and where did it happened and how and how much are there eathquakes and volcanoes happened.
SO EVERYONE HAS TO BE CAREFULL AND WATCH MORE MOVIE ABOUT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES =]
SCIENCE IS COOL SCIENCE IS INTRESTING =]
Friday, March 27, 2009
U.S. doctors urge transparency on insurer payments
* Doctors group says transparency means savings
* AMA urges more openness on out-of-network services
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - Requiring health insurers to be more open about how they set reimbursement rates for out-of-network medical services would save everyone money, the top U.S. doctors group told Congress on Thursday.
American Medical Association President Nancy Nielsen said such a move would prevent insurance companies from shortchanging patients and upsetting their relationship with their doctors by underestimating what doctors should be charging for services.
"The AMA believes enormous savings would accrue to patients, physicians, health insurers and other third-party payers if there were complete transparency," she told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
Insurer reimbursement rates for out-of-network services are often set at what are considered "usual" or "customary" charges. The problem for doctors and patients is that insurers have been systematically underestimating those charges, Nielsen said.
Recent lawsuits are changing those practices, Nielsen said. But she urged Congress to make sure health insurance payment transparency is part of a broad healthcare overhaul that President Barack Obama wants enacted by the end of the year.
Neilsen's testimony comes a day after the AMA and others sued WellPoint Inc (WLP.N), accusing it of fixing payments for out-of-network services artificially low.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, followed similar federal claims led by the AMA against Cigna Corp (CI.N) and Aetna Inc (AET.N) in New Jersey, and against UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N) in New York.
WellPoint said on Wednesday in response to the lawsuit that it was "committed to providing appropriate reimbursement for out-of-network services."
In January, UnitedHealth agreed to pay $350 million to resolve class action litigation and $50 million to settle an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into its Ingenix database.
Eating Red and Processed Meats May Increase Risk of Death
The News Said about that Eating Red meat and red things is not good for body it will just make your body going bad and maybe you will die !! MUAHAHAHAHAHA =]
Or maybe if you eat the meat that plus more things or plus more other meat and it will also make your body health go bad and you will also die !! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH =]
Why it's not good it's because red meats aren't as healthy as "lean meats" doesn't mean that you shouldn't eat them. Everything is good in moderation and meat has a lot of protein so limiting yourself to only one variety doesn't open up a lot of doors. So you can still eat them, just eat them in moderation.
And Why is not good to eat the meat that plus more other meat is because that other meat mix with the fresh meat you eat it will be unhealthy.
QUESTION TIME'S =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =] =]
Who?:
The Doctor and people said that it's unhealthy.
What?:
About eating RED MEAT is not good and also eating the meat that PLUS OTHER KIND OF MEAT is not good and unhealthy it will make you DIE !! MUAHAHAHAHAH =]
When?:
Everytime!
Where?:
In the whole world.
Why?
Because it's unhealthy!
There is information WHY on the top of QUESTION TIME'S =]
Bye Bye~~
Why?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
YouTube takes down thousands of fair-use videos
Thousands of user-created videos- or at least their audio tracks - have disappeared from YouTube, and the question is who’s fault is it?
The New York Times reports that many YouTube users have found themselves in the same position as high school sophomore Juliet Weybret, who posted a video of herself playing piano and singing “Winter Wonderland.”
Her video was removed “as a result of a third-party notification by the Warner Music Group,” YouTube informed her.
But Warner says it’s not their fault.
“We and our artists share the user community’s frustration when content is unavailable. YouTube generates revenues from content posted by fans, which typically requires licenses from rights holders. Under the current process, we make YouTube aware of WMG content. Their content ID tool then takes down all unlicensed tracks, regardless of how they are used,” said Will Tanous, a spokesman for Warner Music.
In other words, Warner provides a very long list of copyright materials and Google’s tool goes through and wipes them all out, regardless of how fair the use might be.
It’s yet another example of how broken the DMCA regime is. Google believes it is legally obligated to take down every instance of a reported copyright work. More to the point, the scale is so huge it sends its robots out to do the takedowns.
Under DMCA, users can file an objection to the take-down, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann says:
“People are somewhat intimidated by the possibility of being sued by one of the music companies, even if they have a free lawyer, like us.”
So a very large amount of fair-use works are simply taken down, and the digital speech that is the currency of our modern age simply goes offline.
The New York Times reports that many YouTube users have found themselves in the same position as high school sophomore Juliet Weybret, who posted a video of herself playing piano and singing “Winter Wonderland.”
Her video was removed “as a result of a third-party notification by the Warner Music Group,” YouTube informed her.
But Warner says it’s not their fault.
“We and our artists share the user community’s frustration when content is unavailable. YouTube generates revenues from content posted by fans, which typically requires licenses from rights holders. Under the current process, we make YouTube aware of WMG content. Their content ID tool then takes down all unlicensed tracks, regardless of how they are used,” said Will Tanous, a spokesman for Warner Music.
In other words, Warner provides a very long list of copyright materials and Google’s tool goes through and wipes them all out, regardless of how fair the use might be.
It’s yet another example of how broken the DMCA regime is. Google believes it is legally obligated to take down every instance of a reported copyright work. More to the point, the scale is so huge it sends its robots out to do the takedowns.
Under DMCA, users can file an objection to the take-down, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann says:
“People are somewhat intimidated by the possibility of being sued by one of the music companies, even if they have a free lawyer, like us.”
So a very large amount of fair-use works are simply taken down, and the digital speech that is the currency of our modern age simply goes offline.
Volcano in Alaska blows top again
Mount Redoubt volcano in the US state of Alaska has erupted for the sixth time in 24 hours, spewing ash and steam 15km (9.3 miles) into the air.
The volcano, 166km (103 miles) south-west of the state's biggest city, Anchorage, began erupting late on Sunday after a 20-year lull.
Ash has fallen on towns north of Anchorage, but the city itself has not been affected by the eruption.
Alaskan Airlines has cancelled a number of flights because of the ash.
Officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory were able to monitor the latest eruption live via a webcam.
"We were able to see mudflows, pyroclastic flows and a nice ash column shooting out of the summit," geologist Janet Schaefer told the BBC. "It was quite spectacular."
Karen Timmers picks up her daughter Kaila Kais, who suffers from asthma, and son Johann from Talkeetna Elementary School, in Talkeetna, Alaska on 23 March
People living in the path of ash cloud have taken precautions
Ms Schaefer said the ash, which can cause skin irritation and breathing problems, was so far was not too dangerous for people living in the vicinity but was dangerous for air traffic.
The ash can cause damage to jet engines. People with respiratory problems have been warned to stay indoors until the ash settles or to wear a face mask if they go outside.
Ms Schaefer said the Observatory was working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Weather Service to track ash clouds and ensure flights were diverted or cancelled if necessary.
Dozens of aircraft at the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage were being sheltered as a precaution against the falling ash.
Mount Redoubt, which stands 3,100m (10,200ft) high, last erupted over a four-month period from 1989 to 1990.
Scientists monitoring the area warned in late January that an eruption was likely.
On Sunday, officials raised the alert level after researchers recorded increased seismic activity.
"If it is anything like the 1989 eruption, we could expect activity to continue for three to four months," Ms Schaefer said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7960825.stm
Friday, March 20, 2009
House passes bill to capture most of AIG bonuses
WASHINGTON - Struggling to keep ahead of public outrage over the actions of Wall Street firms, the House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that seeks to recoup the lion's share of the $165 million in bonuses paid to executives of American International Group Inc.
The House measure, hurriedly drawn up on the orders of Democratic leadership, imposes a 90 percent tax on those who were paid bonuses at AIG and other firms as long as their families earned more than $250,000 annually and their companies received more than $5 billion in federal bailout funds. It passed by more than a two-thirds majority, 328 to 93.
All but one of the representatives from Maryland voted in favor of the measure. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Frederick, the state's lone Republican, voted against it.
The Senate is taking a different approach. It is readying a bill that would levy a 35 percent excise tax on executive bonuses. Both the company and the recipient of the bonuses would pay the tax. The Senate could take up the measure next week, or perhaps attempt to reconcile it with the House tax bill.
Even as the House voted, New York's attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, announced that AIG had complied with a request to turn over the names of those in the company who had received the bonuses. Cuomo pledged to be cautious in releasing the names because of concerns over the employees' safety.
The House bill, sponsored by New York Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, garnered significant Republican support. But that did not come without a bitter debate, with conservative Republicans angrily denouncing the measure as a charade intended to deflect blame from Democrats about how the AIG bonuses were permitted to be paid.
They remained focused on an embarrassing disclosure by Senate Democrats Wednesday that they acceded to a Treasury Department request in February to scale back language in the economic stimulus bill that would have limited the payments.
"This bill is nothing more than an attempt for everybody to cover their butt up here on Capitol Hill," said Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader. Opponents advocated a separate plan that would require the Treasury Department to seek repayment of the funds immediately. And some suggested the bill was an unconstitutional attempt to penalize a specific company, though legal experts said yesterday that the bill would probably pass muster by the courts.
Supporters said the bill was the most effective means for the government to seek redress of the bonus money.
"This vote is the difference between solving the problem or continuing the problem," said New York Rep. Steve Israel, a Democrat. "The only way to get their money back is to tax it back."
Some Republicans agreed. "At the end of the day, this insult to taxpayers cannot, should not, and will not stand," said Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan.
Republicans were clearly divided, with nearly half supporting the Rangel measure, perhaps worried about how constituent anger over the AIG payouts might be visited upon them.
Democrats charged that Republicans had opportunistically changed their tune on the compensation issue, noting that many have resisted past attempts to limit executive pay.
The House measure, hurriedly drawn up on the orders of Democratic leadership, imposes a 90 percent tax on those who were paid bonuses at AIG and other firms as long as their families earned more than $250,000 annually and their companies received more than $5 billion in federal bailout funds. It passed by more than a two-thirds majority, 328 to 93.
All but one of the representatives from Maryland voted in favor of the measure. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Frederick, the state's lone Republican, voted against it.
The Senate is taking a different approach. It is readying a bill that would levy a 35 percent excise tax on executive bonuses. Both the company and the recipient of the bonuses would pay the tax. The Senate could take up the measure next week, or perhaps attempt to reconcile it with the House tax bill.
Even as the House voted, New York's attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, announced that AIG had complied with a request to turn over the names of those in the company who had received the bonuses. Cuomo pledged to be cautious in releasing the names because of concerns over the employees' safety.
The House bill, sponsored by New York Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, garnered significant Republican support. But that did not come without a bitter debate, with conservative Republicans angrily denouncing the measure as a charade intended to deflect blame from Democrats about how the AIG bonuses were permitted to be paid.
They remained focused on an embarrassing disclosure by Senate Democrats Wednesday that they acceded to a Treasury Department request in February to scale back language in the economic stimulus bill that would have limited the payments.
"This bill is nothing more than an attempt for everybody to cover their butt up here on Capitol Hill," said Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader. Opponents advocated a separate plan that would require the Treasury Department to seek repayment of the funds immediately. And some suggested the bill was an unconstitutional attempt to penalize a specific company, though legal experts said yesterday that the bill would probably pass muster by the courts.
Supporters said the bill was the most effective means for the government to seek redress of the bonus money.
"This vote is the difference between solving the problem or continuing the problem," said New York Rep. Steve Israel, a Democrat. "The only way to get their money back is to tax it back."
Some Republicans agreed. "At the end of the day, this insult to taxpayers cannot, should not, and will not stand," said Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan.
Republicans were clearly divided, with nearly half supporting the Rangel measure, perhaps worried about how constituent anger over the AIG payouts might be visited upon them.
Democrats charged that Republicans had opportunistically changed their tune on the compensation issue, noting that many have resisted past attempts to limit executive pay.
Nearly a third of U.S. bird species in trouble
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly one-third of all U.S. bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline, with birds in Hawaii facing a "borderline ecological disaster," scientists reported on Thursday.
The State of the Birds report, issued by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar along with conservation groups and university ornithologists, also noted some successes, including the recovery of the bald eagle, the peregrine falcon and other species after the banning of the chemical DDT.
"When we talk about birds and we talk about wildlife, we're also talking about the economics of this country," Salazar told reporters as the report was released.
Wildlife watching and recreation generate $122 billion annually, the report said.
Salazar mentioned revenue from hunting, fishing and bird-watching, but added that President Barack Obama's stimulus package and proposed federal budgets for the remainder of 2009 and 2010 offer more money for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which aims to protect birds and other creatures.
The report, available online at www.stateofthebirds.org, presents data collected by government and academic scientists, as well as information contributed by amateur bird-watchers.
Wetland bird populations have soared since 1968, with an increase of up to 60 from levels 40 years ago. But birds in other habitats -- forests, grasslands and arid areas -- have declined as much as 40 percent.
HAWAIIAN BIRDS MOST VULNERABLE
It is in the perceived paradise of Hawaii that birds have declined the most, the report said.
"More bird species are vulnerable to extinction in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States," according to the report.
Before humans arrived in the Hawaiian islands, possibly as early as the year 300, there were 113 bird species that occurred nowhere else on Earth. Since humans arrived, 71 species have gone extinct and 31 more are listed as threatened or endangered.
The main culprits are new plant and animal species introduced into the Hawaiian ecosystem, said George Wallace of the American Bird Conservancy, who wrote the report's section on Hawaii.
"Most Americans would be surprised that a place that we usually associate with being an idyllic paradise would have so many serious bird conservation problems," Wallace said in a telephone interview.
"These types of isolated island flora and fauna tend to be very, very sensitive to introductions of foreign organisms."
John Fitzpatrick of Cornell University went farther, calling Hawaii a "borderline ecological disaster" and "the epicenter of extinctions and near extinctions."
Overall, the United States is home to more than 800 species of birds; 67 of those are federally listed as endangered or threatened, with an additional 184 species causing concern because of they are narrowly distributed or have declining populations, the report said.
The State of the Birds report, issued by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar along with conservation groups and university ornithologists, also noted some successes, including the recovery of the bald eagle, the peregrine falcon and other species after the banning of the chemical DDT.
"When we talk about birds and we talk about wildlife, we're also talking about the economics of this country," Salazar told reporters as the report was released.
Wildlife watching and recreation generate $122 billion annually, the report said.
Salazar mentioned revenue from hunting, fishing and bird-watching, but added that President Barack Obama's stimulus package and proposed federal budgets for the remainder of 2009 and 2010 offer more money for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which aims to protect birds and other creatures.
The report, available online at www.stateofthebirds.org, presents data collected by government and academic scientists, as well as information contributed by amateur bird-watchers.
Wetland bird populations have soared since 1968, with an increase of up to 60 from levels 40 years ago. But birds in other habitats -- forests, grasslands and arid areas -- have declined as much as 40 percent.
HAWAIIAN BIRDS MOST VULNERABLE
It is in the perceived paradise of Hawaii that birds have declined the most, the report said.
"More bird species are vulnerable to extinction in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States," according to the report.
Before humans arrived in the Hawaiian islands, possibly as early as the year 300, there were 113 bird species that occurred nowhere else on Earth. Since humans arrived, 71 species have gone extinct and 31 more are listed as threatened or endangered.
The main culprits are new plant and animal species introduced into the Hawaiian ecosystem, said George Wallace of the American Bird Conservancy, who wrote the report's section on Hawaii.
"Most Americans would be surprised that a place that we usually associate with being an idyllic paradise would have so many serious bird conservation problems," Wallace said in a telephone interview.
"These types of isolated island flora and fauna tend to be very, very sensitive to introductions of foreign organisms."
John Fitzpatrick of Cornell University went farther, calling Hawaii a "borderline ecological disaster" and "the epicenter of extinctions and near extinctions."
Overall, the United States is home to more than 800 species of birds; 67 of those are federally listed as endangered or threatened, with an additional 184 species causing concern because of they are narrowly distributed or have declining populations, the report said.
(Humanities) -- Two Country Research
Our Groups have Cherine Jasmine and Stephanie.
And I Think I wanna Research South Africa Egypt,
Here is the information of it those country:
South Africa:
The Republic of South Africa, also known by other official names, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa. The South African coast stretches 2,798 kilometres and borders both the Atlantic and Indian oceans.To the north of South Africa lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while the Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent enclave surrounded by South African territory.
History:
South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological sites in the world.Extensive fossil remains at the Sterkfontein, Kromdraai and Makapansgat caves suggest that various australopithecines existed in South Africa from about three million years ago.[13] These were succeeded by various species of Homo, including Homo habilis, Homo erectus and modern humans, Homo sapiens. Settlements of Bantu-speaking peoples, who were iron-using agriculturists and herdsmen, were already present south of the Limpopo River by the fourth or fifth century displacing and absorbing the original KhoiSan speakers. They slowly moved south and the earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal Province are believed to date from around 1050. The southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier KhoiSan people, reaching the Fish River, in today's Eastern Cape Province. These Iron Age populations displaced earlier people, who often had hunter-gatherer societies, as they migrated.
Egypt:
Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers, Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its estimated 76 million live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers, where the only arable agricultural land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with the majority spread across the densely-populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx. The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East.
Geography:
At 1,001,450 square kilometers, Egypt is the world's 38th-largest country. In terms of land area, it is approximately the same size as all of Central America, twice the size of France, four times the size of the United Kingdom, and the combined size of the US states of Texas and California.
Nevertheless, due to the aridity of Egypt's climate, population centres are concentrated along the narrow Nile Valley and Delta, meaning that approximately 99% of the population uses only about 5.5% of the total land area.
Question:
Which country can best use the their funding? Why?
Answer:
Well I think it's all okei and it's all good for doing it and using it because every country have every country's good thing's and bad thing's
In south africa it's pretty and good and a lot of nice people polite people and it' famous in that country even thing's work's a lot of thing's a and there have a lot of good thing's and it's pretty.
And in Egypt I think it's cool too and that that place it's pretty famous too and they have a lot of nice people kind people and polite people even a lot of intresting animal's and a lot of thing's even that there has a lot of kind of aboriginal people and thing's animal it's great.
And I think both country it's cool and that it's good to research too~~
And I Think I wanna Research South Africa Egypt,
Here is the information of it those country:
South Africa:
The Republic of South Africa, also known by other official names, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa. The South African coast stretches 2,798 kilometres and borders both the Atlantic and Indian oceans.To the north of South Africa lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while the Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent enclave surrounded by South African territory.
History:
South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological sites in the world.Extensive fossil remains at the Sterkfontein, Kromdraai and Makapansgat caves suggest that various australopithecines existed in South Africa from about three million years ago.[13] These were succeeded by various species of Homo, including Homo habilis, Homo erectus and modern humans, Homo sapiens. Settlements of Bantu-speaking peoples, who were iron-using agriculturists and herdsmen, were already present south of the Limpopo River by the fourth or fifth century displacing and absorbing the original KhoiSan speakers. They slowly moved south and the earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal Province are believed to date from around 1050. The southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier KhoiSan people, reaching the Fish River, in today's Eastern Cape Province. These Iron Age populations displaced earlier people, who often had hunter-gatherer societies, as they migrated.
Egypt:
Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers, Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its estimated 76 million live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers, where the only arable agricultural land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with the majority spread across the densely-populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx. The southern city of Luxor contains numerous ancient artifacts, such as the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East.
Geography:
At 1,001,450 square kilometers, Egypt is the world's 38th-largest country. In terms of land area, it is approximately the same size as all of Central America, twice the size of France, four times the size of the United Kingdom, and the combined size of the US states of Texas and California.
Nevertheless, due to the aridity of Egypt's climate, population centres are concentrated along the narrow Nile Valley and Delta, meaning that approximately 99% of the population uses only about 5.5% of the total land area.
Question:
Which country can best use the their funding? Why?
Answer:
Well I think it's all okei and it's all good for doing it and using it because every country have every country's good thing's and bad thing's
In south africa it's pretty and good and a lot of nice people polite people and it' famous in that country even thing's work's a lot of thing's a and there have a lot of good thing's and it's pretty.
And in Egypt I think it's cool too and that that place it's pretty famous too and they have a lot of nice people kind people and polite people even a lot of intresting animal's and a lot of thing's even that there has a lot of kind of aboriginal people and thing's animal it's great.
And I think both country it's cool and that it's good to research too~~
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
(Humanities) -- Sociology Science Geograpgy.
How did you use the social sciences of Geography, Economics and Sociology to consider what would make strong countries in Kenbrena?
I think maybe America because I think Geography They have a lot of thing's about learning books and things and Economics The money things and some work thing' there are very good at it and they are very cool and nice about it. And Sociology and that the are good at community and very good at couculate and work together and talk together and study together and they are good at work together like a big family so they always do thing's right and nice and good.So I think maybe America is the most strongest country in Kenbrena. Maybe there is a lot of country but I think America is the nest :)
I think maybe America because I think Geography They have a lot of thing's about learning books and things and Economics The money things and some work thing' there are very good at it and they are very cool and nice about it. And Sociology and that the are good at community and very good at couculate and work together and talk together and study together and they are good at work together like a big family so they always do thing's right and nice and good.So I think maybe America is the most strongest country in Kenbrena. Maybe there is a lot of country but I think America is the nest :)
Friday, March 13, 2009
Kenbrena
* If you lived in part of Kenbrena where you did not have energy resources, what could you do to survive?
If one day I live in Kenbrena Than I don't have any energy left im going to die I will call somebody to help me and I will find people and will try to find a idea to make me have a lot of energy and don't die. and I think that i will have a lot of energy and a lot of people are going to help me because that I think there people are very kind and very nice.
* "To have a strong country, it is best to have only rich people with financial control." Support or refute that statement.
I think that that is wrong because to have a strong country is not the problem of living with who or which kind of people because that I think if people want to have a country and work together like a family than they will have a strong country.
* "People of different levels of wealth may not love one another, but they might need each other." Support or refute that statement.
I think it's still wrong too. Because maybe different kind of people will love each other and maybe some will don't love each other and some people don't love each other but they need each other and some people love each other than they work with each other too.. So I think it's not really wrong and I don't agree it.
If one day I live in Kenbrena Than I don't have any energy left im going to die I will call somebody to help me and I will find people and will try to find a idea to make me have a lot of energy and don't die. and I think that i will have a lot of energy and a lot of people are going to help me because that I think there people are very kind and very nice.
* "To have a strong country, it is best to have only rich people with financial control." Support or refute that statement.
I think that that is wrong because to have a strong country is not the problem of living with who or which kind of people because that I think if people want to have a country and work together like a family than they will have a strong country.
* "People of different levels of wealth may not love one another, but they might need each other." Support or refute that statement.
I think it's still wrong too. Because maybe different kind of people will love each other and maybe some will don't love each other and some people don't love each other but they need each other and some people love each other than they work with each other too.. So I think it's not really wrong and I don't agree it.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Kenbrena -- Question
* What are some possible reasons for some groups in Kenbrena to be friendly to each other while other groups do not get along?
Why Do They Some Group's work friendly with each groups and be nice is because some of them are friendly and they think it's better to work together and it's better to talk together and than work together.
And Why Some Group's didn't work well and nice and friendly is because some people think it's bad to work together and some groups think that every group's are enemy so they don't work together.
* Is there a social group above the makes you think of yourself or your family?
Only Kind people and the friendly people and the people are nice that think that we should work together that's the only way that they will think about me and my family.
Why Do They Some Group's work friendly with each groups and be nice is because some of them are friendly and they think it's better to work together and it's better to talk together and than work together.
And Why Some Group's didn't work well and nice and friendly is because some people think it's bad to work together and some groups think that every group's are enemy so they don't work together.
* Is there a social group above the makes you think of yourself or your family?
Only Kind people and the friendly people and the people are nice that think that we should work together that's the only way that they will think about me and my family.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
'More bad news' on climate change
More bad news on climate change is expected as more than 2,000 climate scientists gather in Copenhagen.
They will be trying to pull together the latest research on global warming ahead of political negotiations later in the year.
The scientists are concerned that the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are already out of date.
Their data suggests greater rises in sea levels this century.
For the scientists gathering in the Danish capital, this meeting is about removing as much wriggle room as possible from the political negotiations on a new global climate treaty taking place in December.
While the IPCC reports of 2007 were praised for their recognition of the causes of global warming, the slow, consensus-based nature of the process, meant more recent data was not included.
Greater clarity
But with this meeting taking place outside the IPCC, it means it will have the very latest estimates, and the scientists will have no need to agree every word with the political masters.
This unfettered atmosphere is likely to produce greater clarity about the scale of some very worrying trends, especially sea level rise.
The IPCC was widely criticised for stating that sea level rise this century would only amount to 59cm (23in).
The most recent data, to be presented here, will suggest a far higher figure with dramatic implications for many island nations and coastal regions.
The meeting is being organised by the University of Copenhagen. Its prorector Lykke Friis said the scientists would be presenting the latest and the clearest information, meaning political leaders would not have the excuse that they needed more research before agreeing on a deal.
As well as hearing from scientists, the meeting will also look at the social and economic impacts of the global rise in temperatures.
They will be trying to pull together the latest research on global warming ahead of political negotiations later in the year.
The scientists are concerned that the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are already out of date.
Their data suggests greater rises in sea levels this century.
For the scientists gathering in the Danish capital, this meeting is about removing as much wriggle room as possible from the political negotiations on a new global climate treaty taking place in December.
While the IPCC reports of 2007 were praised for their recognition of the causes of global warming, the slow, consensus-based nature of the process, meant more recent data was not included.
Greater clarity
But with this meeting taking place outside the IPCC, it means it will have the very latest estimates, and the scientists will have no need to agree every word with the political masters.
This unfettered atmosphere is likely to produce greater clarity about the scale of some very worrying trends, especially sea level rise.
The IPCC was widely criticised for stating that sea level rise this century would only amount to 59cm (23in).
The most recent data, to be presented here, will suggest a far higher figure with dramatic implications for many island nations and coastal regions.
The meeting is being organised by the University of Copenhagen. Its prorector Lykke Friis said the scientists would be presenting the latest and the clearest information, meaning political leaders would not have the excuse that they needed more research before agreeing on a deal.
As well as hearing from scientists, the meeting will also look at the social and economic impacts of the global rise in temperatures.
UPDATE:Apple Plans To Launch Netbook With Touch Screen-Sources
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.
The mini laptop computers will likely have monitor screens that are between 9.7-inches and 10-inches, one person, who declined to be named, said.
Another person said other specifications and functions are still under evaluation.
Apple is working with Taiwan's Wintek Corp. (2384.TW), a contract manufacturer of small and medium displays, to make the touch-screen displays and Quanta Computer Inc. (2382.TW), the world's largest notebook maker by revenue, to assemble the new netbooks, the second person said.
Netbooks are primarily designed for Internet browsing and mobile computing. They cost less than conventional laptop computers, and are lighter and smaller.
A slew of PC makers including Dell Inc. (DELL), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and Acer Inc. (2353.TW) have in recent months entered this market segment. The companies are hoping to tap new computer users in emerging markets.
Apple's entry may come in what is expected to be a very tough year for computer sales. Desktop-computer shipments in particular are expected to fall by nearly one-third globally in 2009 as consumers increasingly shift to laptop computers, according to projections released by research firm Gartner Inc. earlier in March.
While netbook computers have become a major sales driver for computer companies, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs last year dismissed netbooks, even going so far as to suggest Apple's third-generation iPhone - a smartphone device that offer multifunctions - could serve as a netbook. Jobs told analysts in October Apple isn't "tremendously worried" the slump will drive customers to less-expensive PCs and added, "we don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk."
Jill Tan, a spokeswoman for Apple in Asia, declined to comment Tuesday. Wintek spokeswoman Susie Lee and Quanta Computer investor relations officer Carol Hsu declined to comment.
Apple, like many other big personal-computer and consumer-electronics brands, doesn't actually make most of its products. It hires manufacturing specialists - mainly companies from Taiwan that have extensive operations in China - to assemble its gadgets based on Apple's designs.
The arrangement frees Apple and its fellow vendors from running complicated, labor-intensive production lines, while the ability of Taiwanese companies to slash manufacturing costs helps cut product prices over time.
Quanta assembles Apple's MacBook and iMac computers.
Shares of Wintek and Quanta rose on the news. Wintek shares rose 6.9% to NT$ 11.70, while Quanta shares gained 4.4% to NT$37.60. The broader market closed up 0.9%.
But Yuanta Securities analyst Vincent Chen said the share price gains may be limited as orders from Apple may not be large.
"Apple is unlikely to make very cheap products. The netbook would most likely be very niche, meaning volume is going to be small."
The mini laptop computers will likely have monitor screens that are between 9.7-inches and 10-inches, one person, who declined to be named, said.
Another person said other specifications and functions are still under evaluation.
Apple is working with Taiwan's Wintek Corp. (2384.TW), a contract manufacturer of small and medium displays, to make the touch-screen displays and Quanta Computer Inc. (2382.TW), the world's largest notebook maker by revenue, to assemble the new netbooks, the second person said.
Netbooks are primarily designed for Internet browsing and mobile computing. They cost less than conventional laptop computers, and are lighter and smaller.
A slew of PC makers including Dell Inc. (DELL), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and Acer Inc. (2353.TW) have in recent months entered this market segment. The companies are hoping to tap new computer users in emerging markets.
Apple's entry may come in what is expected to be a very tough year for computer sales. Desktop-computer shipments in particular are expected to fall by nearly one-third globally in 2009 as consumers increasingly shift to laptop computers, according to projections released by research firm Gartner Inc. earlier in March.
While netbook computers have become a major sales driver for computer companies, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs last year dismissed netbooks, even going so far as to suggest Apple's third-generation iPhone - a smartphone device that offer multifunctions - could serve as a netbook. Jobs told analysts in October Apple isn't "tremendously worried" the slump will drive customers to less-expensive PCs and added, "we don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk."
Jill Tan, a spokeswoman for Apple in Asia, declined to comment Tuesday. Wintek spokeswoman Susie Lee and Quanta Computer investor relations officer Carol Hsu declined to comment.
Apple, like many other big personal-computer and consumer-electronics brands, doesn't actually make most of its products. It hires manufacturing specialists - mainly companies from Taiwan that have extensive operations in China - to assemble its gadgets based on Apple's designs.
The arrangement frees Apple and its fellow vendors from running complicated, labor-intensive production lines, while the ability of Taiwanese companies to slash manufacturing costs helps cut product prices over time.
Quanta assembles Apple's MacBook and iMac computers.
Shares of Wintek and Quanta rose on the news. Wintek shares rose 6.9% to NT$ 11.70, while Quanta shares gained 4.4% to NT$37.60. The broader market closed up 0.9%.
But Yuanta Securities analyst Vincent Chen said the share price gains may be limited as orders from Apple may not be large.
"Apple is unlikely to make very cheap products. The netbook would most likely be very niche, meaning volume is going to be small."
Monday, March 9, 2009
Were Scientists Fair?
When Alfred Wegener proposed his Continental Drift Hypothesis, he was not believed partially because he was not a trained geologist. He was actually trained in metereology. Do you think the scientists were fair when they pointed this out?
I think it's not really fair because that it can't be that if he is a scientists of weather than he can't do anything els. he still can know some thing's about humanities too if it's wrong it's okei but it can't be always wrong you must trust it.
So I think it's not fair
Ex.
If I'm good at math but I still know about science
I can't don't know anything about it.
So I think it's not really fair to say that Alfred Wegener is lying.
:)
I think it's not really fair because that it can't be that if he is a scientists of weather than he can't do anything els. he still can know some thing's about humanities too if it's wrong it's okei but it can't be always wrong you must trust it.
So I think it's not fair
Ex.
If I'm good at math but I still know about science
I can't don't know anything about it.
So I think it's not really fair to say that Alfred Wegener is lying.
:)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Capital Resources
These is the information that say's what does these words mean :)
Human Capital:
Human capital refers to the stock of skills and knowledge embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
Financial Capital:
Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation.
Natural Resources:
Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy Motown label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who".
Capital:
A Thing A Word
That is Capital Big Words
For Example
a = not Capital
A = Capital.
Human Capital:
Human capital refers to the stock of skills and knowledge embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
Financial Capital:
Financial capital can refer to money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services or to that sector of the economy based on its operation.
Natural Resources:
Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy Motown label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who".
Capital:
A Thing A Word
That is Capital Big Words
For Example
a = not Capital
A = Capital.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Laws to tackle tainted-food cases seem to lack much bite
The salmonella outbreak associated with Peanut Corp. of America’s peanut products is one of the biggest tainted-food cases in recent history.
“In 15 years of litigating most of the major foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S., the PCA case may well be the worst food-safety breach I have ever seen,” said Seattle food-borne illness attorney Bill Marler, who has filed multiple claims against Peanut Corp. in the recent outbreak.
But as federal investigators move forward, they also are aware that few food-related investigations turn into prosecutions and even fewer land anyone in jail.
In the salmonella outbreak that began last fall, nine people are believed to be dead from eating bad peanut products. More than 660 people have been sickened.
A federal criminal investigation of Peanut Corp. of America, the company federal officials have identified as the source of the salmonella, was opened on Jan. 30. The outbreak has been traced to the company’s Blakely plant, though the plant in Plainview, Texas, may have contributed to at least six illnesses in Colorado, officials in that state said.
The probe focuses on the violation of federal food “adulteration” laws, and doesn’t legally address the victims, said former Food and Drug Administration investigators and federal agents familiar with the investigation and prosecution of food-borne illness cases.
“It doesn’t matter if anybody got sick, or if anybody died,” said Benjamin England, a former investigator with the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations and a Washington attorney who runs an FDA consulting firm.
Federal officials won’t comment on the criminal probe springing from the current salmonella outbreak. The FDA is working with the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI on the probe.
In 1998, the FDA levied a $1.5 million fine against Odwalla Inc., a California juice maker, for selling apple juice tainted with E. coli that led to the death of a Colorado teen. The company pleaded guilty to 16 counts of misdemeanor food adulteration.
In 2007, the president of Lantana, Fla.-based Atlantis Foods Inc. got 15 months after pleading guilty to a scheme to sell adulterated chicken salad and lobster dip.
Former investigators said laws governing food adulteration date to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The act defines adulterated product as food that was “prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health.”
The provision offers two types of adulteration charges —- misdemeanor and felony. Intent defines the difference. A felony charge means the food was knowingly contaminated and put on the market. The maximum felony fine is $10,000. The maximum prison term is three years.
States where victims of tainted food were sickened or died can pursue charges such as manslaughter or negligent homicide, said former federal investigators and prosecutors. But states often don’t.
“In a perfect world, a state might be right in the middle of it [the investigation] right now,” said Rande Matteson, a former federal agent and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at Saint Leo University in Florida. “But it’s not a perfect world.”
“In 15 years of litigating most of the major foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S., the PCA case may well be the worst food-safety breach I have ever seen,” said Seattle food-borne illness attorney Bill Marler, who has filed multiple claims against Peanut Corp. in the recent outbreak.
But as federal investigators move forward, they also are aware that few food-related investigations turn into prosecutions and even fewer land anyone in jail.
In the salmonella outbreak that began last fall, nine people are believed to be dead from eating bad peanut products. More than 660 people have been sickened.
A federal criminal investigation of Peanut Corp. of America, the company federal officials have identified as the source of the salmonella, was opened on Jan. 30. The outbreak has been traced to the company’s Blakely plant, though the plant in Plainview, Texas, may have contributed to at least six illnesses in Colorado, officials in that state said.
The probe focuses on the violation of federal food “adulteration” laws, and doesn’t legally address the victims, said former Food and Drug Administration investigators and federal agents familiar with the investigation and prosecution of food-borne illness cases.
“It doesn’t matter if anybody got sick, or if anybody died,” said Benjamin England, a former investigator with the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations and a Washington attorney who runs an FDA consulting firm.
Federal officials won’t comment on the criminal probe springing from the current salmonella outbreak. The FDA is working with the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI on the probe.
In 1998, the FDA levied a $1.5 million fine against Odwalla Inc., a California juice maker, for selling apple juice tainted with E. coli that led to the death of a Colorado teen. The company pleaded guilty to 16 counts of misdemeanor food adulteration.
In 2007, the president of Lantana, Fla.-based Atlantis Foods Inc. got 15 months after pleading guilty to a scheme to sell adulterated chicken salad and lobster dip.
Former investigators said laws governing food adulteration date to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The act defines adulterated product as food that was “prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health.”
The provision offers two types of adulteration charges —- misdemeanor and felony. Intent defines the difference. A felony charge means the food was knowingly contaminated and put on the market. The maximum felony fine is $10,000. The maximum prison term is three years.
States where victims of tainted food were sickened or died can pursue charges such as manslaughter or negligent homicide, said former federal investigators and prosecutors. But states often don’t.
“In a perfect world, a state might be right in the middle of it [the investigation] right now,” said Rande Matteson, a former federal agent and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at Saint Leo University in Florida. “But it’s not a perfect world.”
Laws to tackle tainted-food cases seem to lack much bite
The salmonella outbreak associated with Peanut Corp. of America’s peanut products is one of the biggest tainted-food cases in recent history.
“In 15 years of litigating most of the major foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S., the PCA case may well be the worst food-safety breach I have ever seen,” said Seattle food-borne illness attorney Bill Marler, who has filed multiple claims against Peanut Corp. in the recent outbreak.
But as federal investigators move forward, they also are aware that few food-related investigations turn into prosecutions and even fewer land anyone in jail.
In the salmonella outbreak that began last fall, nine people are believed to be dead from eating bad peanut products. More than 660 people have been sickened.
A federal criminal investigation of Peanut Corp. of America, the company federal officials have identified as the source of the salmonella, was opened on Jan. 30. The outbreak has been traced to the company’s Blakely plant, though the plant in Plainview, Texas, may have contributed to at least six illnesses in Colorado, officials in that state said.
The probe focuses on the violation of federal food “adulteration” laws, and doesn’t legally address the victims, said former Food and Drug Administration investigators and federal agents familiar with the investigation and prosecution of food-borne illness cases.
“It doesn’t matter if anybody got sick, or if anybody died,” said Benjamin England, a former investigator with the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations and a Washington attorney who runs an FDA consulting firm.
Federal officials won’t comment on the criminal probe springing from the current salmonella outbreak. The FDA is working with the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI on the probe.
In 1998, the FDA levied a $1.5 million fine against Odwalla Inc., a California juice maker, for selling apple juice tainted with E. coli that led to the death of a Colorado teen. The company pleaded guilty to 16 counts of misdemeanor food adulteration.
In 2007, the president of Lantana, Fla.-based Atlantis Foods Inc. got 15 months after pleading guilty to a scheme to sell adulterated chicken salad and lobster dip.
Former investigators said laws governing food adulteration date to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The act defines adulterated product as food that was “prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health.”
The provision offers two types of adulteration charges —- misdemeanor and felony. Intent defines the difference. A felony charge means the food was knowingly contaminated and put on the market. The maximum felony fine is $10,000. The maximum prison term is three years.
States where victims of tainted food were sickened or died can pursue charges such as manslaughter or negligent homicide, said former federal investigators and prosecutors. But states often don’t.
“In a perfect world, a state might be right in the middle of it [the investigation] right now,” said Rande Matteson, a former federal agent and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at Saint Leo University in Florida. “But it’s not a perfect world.”
“In 15 years of litigating most of the major foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S., the PCA case may well be the worst food-safety breach I have ever seen,” said Seattle food-borne illness attorney Bill Marler, who has filed multiple claims against Peanut Corp. in the recent outbreak.
But as federal investigators move forward, they also are aware that few food-related investigations turn into prosecutions and even fewer land anyone in jail.
In the salmonella outbreak that began last fall, nine people are believed to be dead from eating bad peanut products. More than 660 people have been sickened.
A federal criminal investigation of Peanut Corp. of America, the company federal officials have identified as the source of the salmonella, was opened on Jan. 30. The outbreak has been traced to the company’s Blakely plant, though the plant in Plainview, Texas, may have contributed to at least six illnesses in Colorado, officials in that state said.
The probe focuses on the violation of federal food “adulteration” laws, and doesn’t legally address the victims, said former Food and Drug Administration investigators and federal agents familiar with the investigation and prosecution of food-borne illness cases.
“It doesn’t matter if anybody got sick, or if anybody died,” said Benjamin England, a former investigator with the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations and a Washington attorney who runs an FDA consulting firm.
Federal officials won’t comment on the criminal probe springing from the current salmonella outbreak. The FDA is working with the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI on the probe.
In 1998, the FDA levied a $1.5 million fine against Odwalla Inc., a California juice maker, for selling apple juice tainted with E. coli that led to the death of a Colorado teen. The company pleaded guilty to 16 counts of misdemeanor food adulteration.
In 2007, the president of Lantana, Fla.-based Atlantis Foods Inc. got 15 months after pleading guilty to a scheme to sell adulterated chicken salad and lobster dip.
Former investigators said laws governing food adulteration date to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The act defines adulterated product as food that was “prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health.”
The provision offers two types of adulteration charges —- misdemeanor and felony. Intent defines the difference. A felony charge means the food was knowingly contaminated and put on the market. The maximum felony fine is $10,000. The maximum prison term is three years.
States where victims of tainted food were sickened or died can pursue charges such as manslaughter or negligent homicide, said former federal investigators and prosecutors. But states often don’t.
“In a perfect world, a state might be right in the middle of it [the investigation] right now,” said Rande Matteson, a former federal agent and chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at Saint Leo University in Florida. “But it’s not a perfect world.”
Amazon releases Kindle for iPhone, iPod Touch
Trying to expand its book sales, Amazon.com Inc. released a free application Wednesday that lets iPhone and iPod Touch users read electronic books purchased at the e-commerce giant's Kindle online bookstore.
The software performs many of the same functions featured on Amazon's $359 Kindle 2 reading device released last month, including bookmarking, noting, highlighting and adjusting the font size, the company said.
But the Amazon Kindle for iPhone application lacks the Kindle's read-aloud feature that garnered controversy. The Seattle online merchant said it would let rights-holders disable the text-to-speech feature after publishers and authors argued that it violates audio-book copyrights.
The Kindle allows owners to download books wirelessly, but iPhone program users can't buy directly through the application. Instead, to shop among the 240,000 electronic book titles, users must access the store via the phone's Web browser or from a computer.
The application could cut into sales of the Kindle device, but it also expands the number of customers who can buy Amazon's e-books. Analysts peg Kindle sales at fewer than half a million. Apple Inc., by comparison, sold more than 13.7 million iPhones in 2008, according to ABI Research. That's not counting the millions of iPod Touch devices also sold.
When it comes to e-books, Amazon will have competition on those Apple devices. Google Inc. offers 1.5 million free e-books in the public domain. Lexcycle's free Stanza application lets iPhone users read digital books bought at online merchants such as eReader and Fictionwise, which has its own application called eReader.
The software performs many of the same functions featured on Amazon's $359 Kindle 2 reading device released last month, including bookmarking, noting, highlighting and adjusting the font size, the company said.
But the Amazon Kindle for iPhone application lacks the Kindle's read-aloud feature that garnered controversy. The Seattle online merchant said it would let rights-holders disable the text-to-speech feature after publishers and authors argued that it violates audio-book copyrights.
The Kindle allows owners to download books wirelessly, but iPhone program users can't buy directly through the application. Instead, to shop among the 240,000 electronic book titles, users must access the store via the phone's Web browser or from a computer.
The application could cut into sales of the Kindle device, but it also expands the number of customers who can buy Amazon's e-books. Analysts peg Kindle sales at fewer than half a million. Apple Inc., by comparison, sold more than 13.7 million iPhones in 2008, according to ABI Research. That's not counting the millions of iPod Touch devices also sold.
When it comes to e-books, Amazon will have competition on those Apple devices. Google Inc. offers 1.5 million free e-books in the public domain. Lexcycle's free Stanza application lets iPhone users read digital books bought at online merchants such as eReader and Fictionwise, which has its own application called eReader.
The Movie
In Science Class We Watched A Movie And I forgot The Name Of That Movie. And That Movie is Talking About Some Body and Some Head And There is a people are talking about Science and Talking about how there design and talking about how they do it and They Make a lot of slide show too and it's talking about how long did it take them make that and also talk about some science.
And I really like that movie I think it's cool ad the people are cool too.
We Don't need to write this post but I wanna write it.
And What I'm Going to say it's hat I think that This movie is so cool.
And I really like that movie I think it's cool ad the people are cool too.
We Don't need to write this post but I wanna write it.
And What I'm Going to say it's hat I think that This movie is so cool.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Isolating the Variable -- [Science]
In Science We did a activity called chocolate attack we are going to do that activity last time but because there is no time so we do it this time
first everyone make up with group of three and me with jasmine chao and annchi wan and we first draw the boat that we wanted to design and make sure that it can help the HIS student because there is a chocolate attack that's why it called chocolate attack.
And after that we had three pice of paper and 3 straws and a meter of tape and we have to make the boat using those given thing to make the boat that we design.
And after we finish we need to go down stairs in school and try them we put little thingy on the boat and also some fat one. the thin one is elementry one and the fat one is high school student and we put one by one and i also record it too who get's the most lot people in the boat who win's and a lot of people get 20... or something more and less and our group got 31. haha:D:D
WE WON!!
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Congratulatoins~
SCIENCE IS FUN
=]
first everyone make up with group of three and me with jasmine chao and annchi wan and we first draw the boat that we wanted to design and make sure that it can help the HIS student because there is a chocolate attack that's why it called chocolate attack.
And after that we had three pice of paper and 3 straws and a meter of tape and we have to make the boat using those given thing to make the boat that we design.
And after we finish we need to go down stairs in school and try them we put little thingy on the boat and also some fat one. the thin one is elementry one and the fat one is high school student and we put one by one and i also record it too who get's the most lot people in the boat who win's and a lot of people get 20... or something more and less and our group got 31. haha:D:D
WE WON!!
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Congratulatoins~
SCIENCE IS FUN
=]
Tokyo
In Humanities there is a task that tell you to write a place that you travel it before and you really like that place and it keep save it in your mind.
I'm talking about A Place in japen called tokyo I think it's a place like perceptual.
It can't really find on he map because it's a place in japan and it's not really big and so that you only can find japan in the map but you can't find tokyo in the map.
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Main Part of Tokyo:
Tokyo officially Tokyo Metropolis is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people. The population of the prefecture exceeds 12 million. The prefecture is the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, the world's most populous metropolitan area with 35 million people and the world's largest metropolitan economy with a GDP of US$1.191 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2005.
Tokyo is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of
the Japanese Imperial Family.
The History:
Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo. In 1457, Ōta Dōkan built Edo Castle. In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu made Edo his base and when he became shogun in 1603, the town became the center of his nationwide military government. During the subsequent Edo period, Edo grew into one of the largest cities in the world with a population topping one million by the 18th century.It became the de facto capital of Japan even while the emperor lived in Kyoto, the imperial capital. After about 263 years, the shogunate was overthrown under the banner of restoring imperial rule. In 1869, the 17-year-old Emperor Meiji moved to Edo. Tokyo was already the nation's political and cultural center,and the emperor's residence made it a de facto imperial capital as well with the former Edo Castle becoming the Imperial Palace. The city of Tokyo was established, and continued to be the capital until it was abolished as a municipality in 1943 and merged with the "Metropolitan Prefecture" of Tokyo.
How Did Tokyo This name come from?:
Tokyo was originally known as Edo, meaning estuary.Its name was changed to Tokyo when it became the imperial capital in 1868.During the early Meiji period, the city was also called "Tōkei", an alternative pronunciation for the same Chinese characters representing "Tokyo". Some surviving official English documents use the spelling "Tokei". This pronunciation is now obsolete.
The Culture of Japan Tokyo:
Tokyo has many museums. In Ueno Park are four national museums: Tokyo National Museum, the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional Japanese art; the National Museum of Western Art; and the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, with its collections of Japanese modern art as well as over 40,000 Japanese and foreign films. Also in Ueno Park are the National Museum of Science and the public zoo. Other museums include the Nezu Art Museum in Aoyama; the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida across the Sumida River from the center of Tokyo; and the National Diet Library, National Archives, and the National Museum of Modern Art, which are located near the Imperial Palace.
Tokyo has many theaters for the performing arts as well. These include national and private theaters for traditional forms of Japanese drama as well as modern dramas. Symphony orchestras and other musical organizations perform Western and traditional music. Tokyo also hosts modern Japanese and Western pop and rock music at venues ranging in size from intimate clubs to internationally known arenas like the Nippon Budokan. Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo. Major events include the Sannō at Hie Shrine, the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine, and the biennial Kanda Festivals. The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. Annually on the last Saturday of July, an enormous fireworks display over the Sumida River attracts over a million viewers. Once cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom in spring, many residents gather in Ueno Park, Inokashira Park, and the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden for picnics under the blossoms.
Harajuku, a neighborhood in Shibuya, is known internationally for its youth style and fashion.
Cuisine in Tokyo is internationally acclaimed. In November 2007, Michelin released their guide for fine dining in Tokyo, garnering 191 stars in total, or about twice as many as its nearest competitor, Paris. Eight establishments were awarded the maximum of three stars, 25 received two stars, and 117 earned one star. Of the eight top-rated restaurants, three offer traditional Japanese fine dining, two are sushi houses, three serve French cuisine.
The Picture Of Japan Tokyo:
This Place is cool and fun and pretty and I really like there I think that Japan is good and fun not even tokyo also a lot of place but I went tokyo the most time so I really remember about there so I think I wanna write there talked about there.
I'm talking about A Place in japen called tokyo I think it's a place like perceptual.
It can't really find on he map because it's a place in japan and it's not really big and so that you only can find japan in the map but you can't find tokyo in the map.
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Main Part of Tokyo:
Tokyo officially Tokyo Metropolis is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people. The population of the prefecture exceeds 12 million. The prefecture is the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, the world's most populous metropolitan area with 35 million people and the world's largest metropolitan economy with a GDP of US$1.191 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2005.
Tokyo is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of
the Japanese Imperial Family.
The History:
Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo. In 1457, Ōta Dōkan built Edo Castle. In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu made Edo his base and when he became shogun in 1603, the town became the center of his nationwide military government. During the subsequent Edo period, Edo grew into one of the largest cities in the world with a population topping one million by the 18th century.It became the de facto capital of Japan even while the emperor lived in Kyoto, the imperial capital. After about 263 years, the shogunate was overthrown under the banner of restoring imperial rule. In 1869, the 17-year-old Emperor Meiji moved to Edo. Tokyo was already the nation's political and cultural center,and the emperor's residence made it a de facto imperial capital as well with the former Edo Castle becoming the Imperial Palace. The city of Tokyo was established, and continued to be the capital until it was abolished as a municipality in 1943 and merged with the "Metropolitan Prefecture" of Tokyo.
How Did Tokyo This name come from?:
Tokyo was originally known as Edo, meaning estuary.Its name was changed to Tokyo when it became the imperial capital in 1868.During the early Meiji period, the city was also called "Tōkei", an alternative pronunciation for the same Chinese characters representing "Tokyo". Some surviving official English documents use the spelling "Tokei". This pronunciation is now obsolete.
The Culture of Japan Tokyo:
Tokyo has many museums. In Ueno Park are four national museums: Tokyo National Museum, the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional Japanese art; the National Museum of Western Art; and the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, with its collections of Japanese modern art as well as over 40,000 Japanese and foreign films. Also in Ueno Park are the National Museum of Science and the public zoo. Other museums include the Nezu Art Museum in Aoyama; the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida across the Sumida River from the center of Tokyo; and the National Diet Library, National Archives, and the National Museum of Modern Art, which are located near the Imperial Palace.
Tokyo has many theaters for the performing arts as well. These include national and private theaters for traditional forms of Japanese drama as well as modern dramas. Symphony orchestras and other musical organizations perform Western and traditional music. Tokyo also hosts modern Japanese and Western pop and rock music at venues ranging in size from intimate clubs to internationally known arenas like the Nippon Budokan. Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo. Major events include the Sannō at Hie Shrine, the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine, and the biennial Kanda Festivals. The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. Annually on the last Saturday of July, an enormous fireworks display over the Sumida River attracts over a million viewers. Once cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom in spring, many residents gather in Ueno Park, Inokashira Park, and the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden for picnics under the blossoms.
Harajuku, a neighborhood in Shibuya, is known internationally for its youth style and fashion.
Cuisine in Tokyo is internationally acclaimed. In November 2007, Michelin released their guide for fine dining in Tokyo, garnering 191 stars in total, or about twice as many as its nearest competitor, Paris. Eight establishments were awarded the maximum of three stars, 25 received two stars, and 117 earned one star. Of the eight top-rated restaurants, three offer traditional Japanese fine dining, two are sushi houses, three serve French cuisine.
The Picture Of Japan Tokyo:
This Place is cool and fun and pretty and I really like there I think that Japan is good and fun not even tokyo also a lot of place but I went tokyo the most time so I really remember about there so I think I wanna write there talked about there.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
My Learning of the 5 Themes of Geography
Definition
What is geography?
Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena.
Theme 1: Location
Where are you right now? Describe your location in as many ways as you can.
Im In School Now. Hsinchu International School Right Now In flour 2 202 Mr. Truchon room. Who Teach Us Math Class.
Theme 2: Place
What are the physical, human and cultural characteristics?
The Physica:
Physical is a health care profession which provides services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout life.
Theme 3: Human-Environment Interactions
How do humans adapt to and/or change the environment? How do we depend upon the environment?
I Think people adapt environment is that they try to know new friends new people and weather and food ad things in the world.
Theme 4: Movement
How does movement affect your daily life? What “items” are being moved that you interact with on a regular basis?
I think people move as what it's brain says and what do they wanna do. And I think People move to see what things move.
Theme 5: Regions
Describe the difference between a formal, functional and perceptual description of a region.
Religion have three type
Christianity:
Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament.
Islam:
Islam is a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure.
Judaism:
Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating from the saga of the ancient Israelites, as embodied and codified in the Hebrew Bible, as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts.
And Also What is religions?
A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth.
And I think it's God.
What is geography?
Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena.
Theme 1: Location
Where are you right now? Describe your location in as many ways as you can.
Im In School Now. Hsinchu International School Right Now In flour 2 202 Mr. Truchon room. Who Teach Us Math Class.
Theme 2: Place
What are the physical, human and cultural characteristics?
The Physica:
Physical is a health care profession which provides services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout life.
Theme 3: Human-Environment Interactions
How do humans adapt to and/or change the environment? How do we depend upon the environment?
I Think people adapt environment is that they try to know new friends new people and weather and food ad things in the world.
Theme 4: Movement
How does movement affect your daily life? What “items” are being moved that you interact with on a regular basis?
I think people move as what it's brain says and what do they wanna do. And I think People move to see what things move.
Theme 5: Regions
Describe the difference between a formal, functional and perceptual description of a region.
Religion have three type
Christianity:
Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament.
Islam:
Islam is a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure.
Judaism:
Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating from the saga of the ancient Israelites, as embodied and codified in the Hebrew Bible, as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts.
And Also What is religions?
A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth.
And I think it's God.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
National Standards Review
In Humanites Homework
We have a homework that we need to watch a movie called National Standards and We need to write what we learned
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There are six things:
1.The World in Spatail Terms
2.Places and Religions.
3.Phycical Systems
4.Environment and Society
5.Human Systems
6.The Uses Of Geography.
And Here is The Grography Skills:
Skill 1. Asking The Geographic Question.
Skill 2. Acquiring Geographic Information.
Skill 3. Organizing Geographic Data.
Skill 4. Geographic Information System.
Skill 5. GIS: Software for Geographic Data.
Skill 6. Analysis and Synthesis.
Skill 7. Finding Answers.
This is what I learned
More Information Please Go:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/index.html
We have a homework that we need to watch a movie called National Standards and We need to write what we learned
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There are six things:
1.The World in Spatail Terms
2.Places and Religions.
3.Phycical Systems
4.Environment and Society
5.Human Systems
6.The Uses Of Geography.
And Here is The Grography Skills:
Skill 1. Asking The Geographic Question.
Skill 2. Acquiring Geographic Information.
Skill 3. Organizing Geographic Data.
Skill 4. Geographic Information System.
Skill 5. GIS: Software for Geographic Data.
Skill 6. Analysis and Synthesis.
Skill 7. Finding Answers.
This is what I learned
More Information Please Go:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/index.html
Puzzle Time Activity
In Science Class we had a game called Puzzle Activity and what had Ms.Smith had gave us is
One Big peace of paper and she cut it in a lot of peace and cut it a lot of strange peace it make it really hard to put it back into write peace of paper.
And we have a lot of group with 3 people and I'm in a group with andrew and peter and at first it's hard we wanna give up but at last we try very hard and we try to find the paper that the side look the same and it make them fit togather and we find one by one and after that we fit all togather to make it in to one big peace paper. Or we did one more ideas is to bring a new big peace of paper that look the same as when you fit the small peace of paper togather and we try to fit every peace in the new big paper looks if it fit and if it fit we will put all together.
And the next class we use news paper And The Same group and same people and we used news paper it's more easy but it look like more messy that there is a lot of words and there is a lot of color in it so it makes it very hard.
And we did a different way to fit it together we first find the side and find the words and the color look that if it make's it in words and we try to fit it togather
And I think this activity is cool And Ms.Smith helped us a lot too~ After that we did a work sheet too write about the shape and how we made it.
And I learned a lot from this activity too!
I learned that we can;t give up anything because you don't even know if you have more chance to do it and if you give up to early than you will never win and if you keep trying you will think it's fun and you will also think that it's intresting and it help you learn more too~!
I Love Science
One Big peace of paper and she cut it in a lot of peace and cut it a lot of strange peace it make it really hard to put it back into write peace of paper.
And we have a lot of group with 3 people and I'm in a group with andrew and peter and at first it's hard we wanna give up but at last we try very hard and we try to find the paper that the side look the same and it make them fit togather and we find one by one and after that we fit all togather to make it in to one big peace paper. Or we did one more ideas is to bring a new big peace of paper that look the same as when you fit the small peace of paper togather and we try to fit every peace in the new big paper looks if it fit and if it fit we will put all together.
And the next class we use news paper And The Same group and same people and we used news paper it's more easy but it look like more messy that there is a lot of words and there is a lot of color in it so it makes it very hard.
And we did a different way to fit it together we first find the side and find the words and the color look that if it make's it in words and we try to fit it togather
And I think this activity is cool And Ms.Smith helped us a lot too~ After that we did a work sheet too write about the shape and how we made it.
And I learned a lot from this activity too!
I learned that we can;t give up anything because you don't even know if you have more chance to do it and if you give up to early than you will never win and if you keep trying you will think it's fun and you will also think that it's intresting and it help you learn more too~!
I Love Science
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Facebook privacy story a beat-up
This is the news due wednesday.
Facebook's chief privacy officer has spoken out defending the company's controversial decision to change its terms of use, saying the entire story was a beat-up and Facebook never intended to use people's personal information outside of the site.
It was the latest in a series of privacy rows for the social networking site as its 175 million users wise up to the dangers of publishing their personal details on the internet through a commercial entity.
In a telephone interview, Chris Kelly said despite Facebook rolling back the changes, which gave the company "irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid worldwide license" to users' information even after they deleted their account, the social network did not believe it had done anything wrong.
Kelly said the license was only intended to cover the site against legal action under copyright law and only allowed the company to use people's photos and other information on the Facebook site and within the privacy settings chosen by each individual.
"License is different to ownership ... So the speculation about people's faces showing up on billboards or Facebook owning the photos that they uploaded was just completely false," Kelly said.
"If you had only agreed to display a photograph for instance to five users, which you can do under your Facebook privacy settings, Facebook's license only extended far enough to allow us to display that photograph to those five users."
The issue flared up after consumer advocate blog Consumerist wrote that Facebook had tweaked its terms of service to give it more control over users' information, even after a user deleted their account.
It led to thousands of news stories all over the world and many Facebook users vowed to delete their account in protest. People who attempt to delete their account today are first shown a message from the site apologising for the terms of use "mistake".
Speaking to The New York Times, Consumerist co-executive editor Ben Popken said that the original blog post had been viewed more than 580,000 times by Wednesday - the site's most popular post ever.
But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Kelly, said the changes were only made to make the site's policies clearer to users. The clause stating that Facebook could use user information even after they deleted their account was meant to ensure messages left on friends' Facebook pages would not disappear.
Kelly said Facebook only rolled back to the former terms of service to make it clear that the site's intention was not to own users' information. People are now being invited to join the Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities group to share their thoughts on Facebook's privacy policies. ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69048030774)
"I think we're at an interesting time in the history of the world when a lot of things that weren't recorded or captured in any form are being captured [and shared] - and people are understandably nervous about that," Kelly said.
"I think that people are by and large very concerned about online privacy and with having more control over their data and their information, and we think that's very important and we've always recognised that by investing a great deal in building an infrastructure that allows them to choose who gets to see their information, as opposed to saying either you put it up on the internet or you don't."
Facebook's chief privacy officer has spoken out defending the company's controversial decision to change its terms of use, saying the entire story was a beat-up and Facebook never intended to use people's personal information outside of the site.
It was the latest in a series of privacy rows for the social networking site as its 175 million users wise up to the dangers of publishing their personal details on the internet through a commercial entity.
In a telephone interview, Chris Kelly said despite Facebook rolling back the changes, which gave the company "irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid worldwide license" to users' information even after they deleted their account, the social network did not believe it had done anything wrong.
Kelly said the license was only intended to cover the site against legal action under copyright law and only allowed the company to use people's photos and other information on the Facebook site and within the privacy settings chosen by each individual.
"License is different to ownership ... So the speculation about people's faces showing up on billboards or Facebook owning the photos that they uploaded was just completely false," Kelly said.
"If you had only agreed to display a photograph for instance to five users, which you can do under your Facebook privacy settings, Facebook's license only extended far enough to allow us to display that photograph to those five users."
The issue flared up after consumer advocate blog Consumerist wrote that Facebook had tweaked its terms of service to give it more control over users' information, even after a user deleted their account.
It led to thousands of news stories all over the world and many Facebook users vowed to delete their account in protest. People who attempt to delete their account today are first shown a message from the site apologising for the terms of use "mistake".
Speaking to The New York Times, Consumerist co-executive editor Ben Popken said that the original blog post had been viewed more than 580,000 times by Wednesday - the site's most popular post ever.
But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Kelly, said the changes were only made to make the site's policies clearer to users. The clause stating that Facebook could use user information even after they deleted their account was meant to ensure messages left on friends' Facebook pages would not disappear.
Kelly said Facebook only rolled back to the former terms of service to make it clear that the site's intention was not to own users' information. People are now being invited to join the Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities group to share their thoughts on Facebook's privacy policies. ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69048030774)
"I think we're at an interesting time in the history of the world when a lot of things that weren't recorded or captured in any form are being captured [and shared] - and people are understandably nervous about that," Kelly said.
"I think that people are by and large very concerned about online privacy and with having more control over their data and their information, and we think that's very important and we've always recognised that by investing a great deal in building an infrastructure that allows them to choose who gets to see their information, as opposed to saying either you put it up on the internet or you don't."
Rihanna's Family Opens Up About Chris Brown Arrest
This is the news that due wednesday.
Rihanna's family is opening up about the relationship between Rihanna and Chris Brown after an alleged altercation before the Grammy Awards that left Rihanna injured and Brown arrested.
One family member told People.com that Brown "flew so far under everyone's radar that we just didn't think he was that [abusive] type." The relative added that the news comes as a surprise because "he was always looking after her needs making sure she was happy."
The relative agreed with Rihanna's dad, Ronald Fenty, who thinks his superstar daughter should "move on" from the relationship. "I don't want her to go back to him," the family member said. "I don't think anyone does."
Earlier this week, Kimora Lee Simmons, who was showing her line Baby Phat during New York Fashion Week, spoke about the incident with The Associated Press, saying she saw the pair earlier in the night before news broke.
"I saw them that night ... and I think it's a very unfortunate situation," she said. "And I wish them both all the best and I send them my love and I'm very personally attached to both of them. And sometimes I think young lovers go through things and I really don't know what happened, so I wish everybody the best."
Ray J, who was at the fashion show supporting Simmons, said he and Brown are good friends and sends prayers out to the pair. "I've got a chance to hang out with them a couple of times, and, you know, they're cool people. Keep your head up," he told the AP. "You know things like this happen in life. And in life, sometimes these are the tests and obstacles that you got to overcome."
Rihanna's family is opening up about the relationship between Rihanna and Chris Brown after an alleged altercation before the Grammy Awards that left Rihanna injured and Brown arrested.
One family member told People.com that Brown "flew so far under everyone's radar that we just didn't think he was that [abusive] type." The relative added that the news comes as a surprise because "he was always looking after her needs making sure she was happy."
The relative agreed with Rihanna's dad, Ronald Fenty, who thinks his superstar daughter should "move on" from the relationship. "I don't want her to go back to him," the family member said. "I don't think anyone does."
Earlier this week, Kimora Lee Simmons, who was showing her line Baby Phat during New York Fashion Week, spoke about the incident with The Associated Press, saying she saw the pair earlier in the night before news broke.
"I saw them that night ... and I think it's a very unfortunate situation," she said. "And I wish them both all the best and I send them my love and I'm very personally attached to both of them. And sometimes I think young lovers go through things and I really don't know what happened, so I wish everybody the best."
Ray J, who was at the fashion show supporting Simmons, said he and Brown are good friends and sends prayers out to the pair. "I've got a chance to hang out with them a couple of times, and, you know, they're cool people. Keep your head up," he told the AP. "You know things like this happen in life. And in life, sometimes these are the tests and obstacles that you got to overcome."
Map Again -- (Humanities)
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Here is the Picture Map About From My house to Some other People’s House.
First I went out from my house and I Lived in 19 flour So I need to get to 1 Flour and I need to walk streat down to the Next building Beside me and I go Up to 15 Flour and Find My Friend. It take’s About 5-8 Minute From My house to My Friend house.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Geography Story -- What Is Geography What Do They do? -- (Humanities)
Where do the people live?
Some People Lived in China And Some people Lived in India. South And North
What did they eat?
In China They Eat Dumplings and In India They Eat Rice.
How Do They Wear?
They Were like japan people and They Sometimes wear white things and bring a hat made of cloth and there hair are curly and big and messy.
How Do they live?
They Work And Find Things to eat and make things to eat and walk..... Just Cheers With people all day.and Work
Here is the movie about geography people and place:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/index.html
Some People Lived in China And Some people Lived in India. South And North
What did they eat?
In China They Eat Dumplings and In India They Eat Rice.
How Do They Wear?
They Were like japan people and They Sometimes wear white things and bring a hat made of cloth and there hair are curly and big and messy.
How Do they live?
They Work And Find Things to eat and make things to eat and walk..... Just Cheers With people all day.and Work
Here is the movie about geography people and place:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/index.html
Monday, February 16, 2009
Geograpgy -- (Map Thingy)
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This is the Mind Map That I draw about What Is Geography?
Geography I think Is a Land or Book Or House Or Something.
Art Room
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This is Our School's Art room
Beside the highschool Office and You can see the Art Room If your In Humanities Class 303 Room And you need to Go from your left when you go out to Room 303 and Go Down Stairs to 1 F And Go Right and Go Throw High School Office and You Ca see the Art Room!!!
All School Gathering -- Comment
In All school gathering We talked about Peter and Jacob and the story is Peter's macbook has broke and he borrow Jacob's macbook and jacob said that If he broke it he need to give the new macbook to jacob and peter said yes but after that peter broke it and peter doesn't want to give his macbook to jacob but jacob want's his new macbook and the new computer and the question is do you think peter need to give the new macbook for jacob or just fix it?
I think Peter need to give the new macbook because he said that he will give the new macbook if peter broke's it and I think Peter should keep the old macbook because thanpeter have no computer and jacob only said that if he broke's it peter need to give the new macbook jacob didn't said that peter need to give the old macbook and I think Peter only nee to give the new macbook because peter said yes before and This is my answer.
I think Peter need to give the new macbook because he said that he will give the new macbook if peter broke's it and I think Peter should keep the old macbook because thanpeter have no computer and jacob only said that if he broke's it peter need to give the new macbook jacob didn't said that peter need to give the old macbook and I think Peter only nee to give the new macbook because peter said yes before and This is my answer.
Friday, February 13, 2009
The 8 country --- (Earth)
Taiwan:
Taiwan (historically 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣) is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the territories governed by the Republic of China (ROC) and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island in the Pacific off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands off the coast of mainland Fujian Province. The Kuomintang (KMT) party lost its control of mainland China to Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil war and moved its government to the island of Taiwan in 1949 which it had acquired control of from Japan in 1945. The island groups of Taiwan and Penghu (except the municipalities of Taipei and Kaohsiung) are officially administered as Taiwan Province of the ROC. However, in practice, almost all government power is exercised at the national and local (city/county) levels.
The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims Taiwan as its province although the PRC has never controlled Taiwan or any of the current ROC territory commonly referred to as "Taiwan". The PRC claims that Taiwan has been a part of China for hundreds of years. In 1895, Japan took over control of Taiwan following its military defeat of China in First Sino-Japanese War. Taiwan again came under Chinese control after Japan surrendered to the ROC subsequent to Japan's military defeat in World War II. ROC was the de facto government of China. The PRC considers itself the successor of the ROC and therefore entitled to all ROC holdings, including Taiwan[2].
The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa (from Portuguese (Ilha) Formosa, meaning "beautiful (island)"), is located in East Asia off the coast of mainland China, southwest of the main islands of Japan but directly west of the end of Japan's Ryukyu Islands, and north-northwest of the Philippines. It is bound to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, to the west by the Taiwan Strait and to the north by the East China Sea. The island is 394 kilometers (245 miles) long and 144 kilometers (89 miles) wide and consists of steep mountains covered by tropical and subtropical vegetation.
This is the picture map of taiwan:
China:
This article is about Chinese civilization. For the modern political state comprising Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, see People's Republic of China. For the modern political state comprising Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu, see Republic of China. For other uses, see China (disambiguation).
China (traditional Chinese: 中國; simplified Chinese: 中国; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguó; Hanyu Pinyin: zh-zhongguo.ogg Zhōngguó (help·info); Wade-Giles (Mandarin): Chung¹kuo²) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia.
China has one of the world's oldest people and continuous civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. It has the world's longest continuously used written language system, and is the source of many major inventions, such as what the British scholar and biochemist Joseph Needham called the "four great inventions of Ancient China": paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave and is one of the first known specimens of Homo Erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived approximately from 300,000 to 550,000 years ago. Noticeably, it is also known that the Peking Man was able to control and use fire.
The last Chinese Civil War (which ended in 1949) has resulted in two political entities using the name China:
* the People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, has control over mainland China and the largely self-governing territories of Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999).
* the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, has control over the islands of Taiwan, Pescadores, Kinmen, and Matsu.
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* 1 Etymology
This is the picture map china:
Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon?, officially 日本国 Ja-nippon_nihonkoku.ogg Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is comprised of over 3,000 islands[5] making it an archipelago. The largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Most of the islands are mountainous, many volcanic; for example, Japan’s highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano. Japan has the world's tenth largest population, with about 128 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan begins with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century A.D. Influence from the outside world followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. Since adopting its constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament, the Diet.
A major economic power,[6] Japan has the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and the third largest in purchasing power parity. It is a member of the United Nations, G8, OECD and APEC, with the world's fifth largest defense budget. It is also the world's fourth largest exporter and sixth largest importer. It is a developed country with high living standards (8th highest HDI), the longest life expectancy in the world (according to UN estimates);[7] and is a world leader in technology, machinery, and robotics.
This is the map of japan picture:
Korea:
Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. It borders China to the north and west, and Russia to the east, with Mongolia situated farther to the northwest, and Japan to the east. The Korean Peninsula is divided into two separate states, North Korea and South Korea.
According to Samguk Yusa, the history of Korea began with the founding of Gojoseon in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun.
Limited linguistic evidence suggests probable Altaic origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian steppe culture absorbed migration and trade with the peoples of Manchuria and China. The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("Hanja" in Korean) in the 2nd century BC, and Buddhism in the 4th century AD, had profound effects on the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Baekje later passed on a modified version of these cultural advances to Japan.[1][2][3][4]
Since the Goryeo Dynasty, Korea was ruled by a single government and maintained political and cultural independence until the nineteenth century, despite the Mongol invasions of the Goryeo Dynasty in the 13th century and Japanese invasions of the Joseon Dynasty in the 16th century. In 1377, Korea produced the Jikji, the world's oldest existing document printed with movable metal type.[5] In the 15th century, the turtle ships were deployed, and King Sejong the Great promulgated the Korean alphabet Hangul to increase literacy among his people who could neither read nor write Hanja (Chinese characters).
During the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty, Korea's isolationist policy earned it the Western nickname the "Hermit Kingdom". By the late 19th century, the country became the object of the colonial designs of Japan and Europe. In 1910, Korea was forcibly annexed by Japan and remained occupied until the end of World War II in August 1945.
In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender and disarming of Japanese troops in Korea; the Soviet Union accepting the surrender of Japanese weaponry north of the 38th parallel and the United States taking the surrender south of it. This minor decision by allied armies soon became the basis for the division of Korea by the two superpowers, exacerbated by their inability to agree on the terms of Korean independence. The two Cold War rivals then established governments sympathetic to their own ideologies, leading to Korea's current division into two political entities: North Korea and South Korea.
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USA
The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with about 305 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries.[7] The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US$14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).[4][8]
The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence.[9] A federal convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.
In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest.[10] The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world.[11]
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French
France (en-us-France.ogg /ˈfræns/ (help·info) or /ˈfrɑːns/; French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various overseas islands and territories located in other continents.[11] Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as L’Hexagone (The “Hexagon”) because of the geometric shape of its territory. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main ideals expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Metropolitan France is bordered (in clockwise direction from the north) by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain. France's overseas departments and collectivities also share land borders with Brazil and Suriname (bordering French Guiana), and the Netherlands Antilles (bordering Saint-Martin). France is linked to the United Kingdom by the Channel Tunnel, which passes underneath the English Channel.
France is the largest country in the European Union and the second largest in Europe, France has been one of the world's foremost powers for many centuries. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonized much of North America; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built one of the largest colonial empires of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Pacific islands. France is a developed country and possesses the fifth largest economy[12] in the world—according to nominal GDP figures. It is the most visited country in the world, receiving 82 million foreign tourists annually.[13] France is one of the founding members of the European Union, and has the largest land area of all members. France is a founding member of the United Nations, and a member of the Francophonie, the G8, NATO, and the Latin Union. It is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and owns the largest number of nuclear weapons with active warheads and nuclear power plants in the European Union.
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Spain
Spain en-us-Spain.ogg /ˈspeɪn/ (help·info) (Spanish: España?·i, Spanish pronunciation: [esˈpaɲa]) or the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.[note 6] Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. With an area of 504,030 km², Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe after France.
Because of its location, the territory of Spain was subject to many external influences, often simultaneously, since prehistoric times and through the dawn of Spain as a country. On the other side, the country itself has been an important source of influence to other regions, chiefly during the Modern Era, when it became a global empire that has left a legacy of over 400 million Spanish speakers today.
Spain is a democracy organised in the form of a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy. It is a developed country with the eighth largest economy in the world based on nominal GDP.[note 7] It is a member of the European Union and NATO.
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Singapore
Singapore (Chinese: 新加坡; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō; Malay: Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர், Cingkappūr), officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. At 707.1 km2 (273.0 sq mi),[4] Singapore is one of four remaining true city-states in the world. It is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia.
Before European settlement, the island now known as Singapore was the site of a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Singapore River. Several hundred indigenous Orang Laut people also lived along the nearby coast, rivers and on smaller islands. In 1819 the British East India Company, led by Sir Stamford Raffles, established a trading post on the island, which was used as a port along the spice route.[5] Singapore would become one of the most important commercial and military centres of the British Empire, and the hub of British power in Southeast Asia. The city was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, which Winston Churchill called "Britain's greatest defeat".[6] Singapore reverted to British rule immediately after the war, in 1945. Eighteen years later (1963) the city, having achieved independence from Britain, merged with Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak to form Malaysia. However, less than two years later it seceded from the federation and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. Singapore joined the United Nations on 21 September that same year. It is also a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Since independence, Singapore's standard of living has risen dramatically. Foreign direct investment and a state-led drive to industrialisation based on plans drawn up by the Dutch economist Albert Winsemius have created a modern economy focused on industry, education and urban planning.[7] Singapore is the 5th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita.[8] This small nation has foreign exchange reserves of more than US$177 billion.[9]
The population of Singapore is approximately 4.84 million.[2] Singapore is highly cosmopolitan and diverse with Chinese people forming an ethnic majority with large populations of Malay, Indian and other people. English, Malay, Tamil, and Chinese are the official languages.[10]
The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore established the nation's political system as a representative democracy, while the country is recognised as a parliamentary republic.[11] The People's Action Party (PAP) dominates the political process and has won control of Parliament in every election since self-government in 1959.[12]
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Taiwan (historically 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣) is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the territories governed by the Republic of China (ROC) and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island in the Pacific off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands off the coast of mainland Fujian Province. The Kuomintang (KMT) party lost its control of mainland China to Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil war and moved its government to the island of Taiwan in 1949 which it had acquired control of from Japan in 1945. The island groups of Taiwan and Penghu (except the municipalities of Taipei and Kaohsiung) are officially administered as Taiwan Province of the ROC. However, in practice, almost all government power is exercised at the national and local (city/county) levels.
The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims Taiwan as its province although the PRC has never controlled Taiwan or any of the current ROC territory commonly referred to as "Taiwan". The PRC claims that Taiwan has been a part of China for hundreds of years. In 1895, Japan took over control of Taiwan following its military defeat of China in First Sino-Japanese War. Taiwan again came under Chinese control after Japan surrendered to the ROC subsequent to Japan's military defeat in World War II. ROC was the de facto government of China. The PRC considers itself the successor of the ROC and therefore entitled to all ROC holdings, including Taiwan[2].
The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa (from Portuguese (Ilha) Formosa, meaning "beautiful (island)"), is located in East Asia off the coast of mainland China, southwest of the main islands of Japan but directly west of the end of Japan's Ryukyu Islands, and north-northwest of the Philippines. It is bound to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, to the west by the Taiwan Strait and to the north by the East China Sea. The island is 394 kilometers (245 miles) long and 144 kilometers (89 miles) wide and consists of steep mountains covered by tropical and subtropical vegetation.
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China:
This article is about Chinese civilization. For the modern political state comprising Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, see People's Republic of China. For the modern political state comprising Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu, see Republic of China. For other uses, see China (disambiguation).
China (traditional Chinese: 中國; simplified Chinese: 中国; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguó; Hanyu Pinyin: zh-zhongguo.ogg Zhōngguó (help·info); Wade-Giles (Mandarin): Chung¹kuo²) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia.
China has one of the world's oldest people and continuous civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. It has the world's longest continuously used written language system, and is the source of many major inventions, such as what the British scholar and biochemist Joseph Needham called the "four great inventions of Ancient China": paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave and is one of the first known specimens of Homo Erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived approximately from 300,000 to 550,000 years ago. Noticeably, it is also known that the Peking Man was able to control and use fire.
The last Chinese Civil War (which ended in 1949) has resulted in two political entities using the name China:
* the People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, has control over mainland China and the largely self-governing territories of Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999).
* the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, has control over the islands of Taiwan, Pescadores, Kinmen, and Matsu.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon?, officially 日本国 Ja-nippon_nihonkoku.ogg Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is comprised of over 3,000 islands[5] making it an archipelago. The largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Most of the islands are mountainous, many volcanic; for example, Japan’s highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano. Japan has the world's tenth largest population, with about 128 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan begins with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century A.D. Influence from the outside world followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. Since adopting its constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament, the Diet.
A major economic power,[6] Japan has the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and the third largest in purchasing power parity. It is a member of the United Nations, G8, OECD and APEC, with the world's fifth largest defense budget. It is also the world's fourth largest exporter and sixth largest importer. It is a developed country with high living standards (8th highest HDI), the longest life expectancy in the world (according to UN estimates);[7] and is a world leader in technology, machinery, and robotics.
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Korea:
Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. It borders China to the north and west, and Russia to the east, with Mongolia situated farther to the northwest, and Japan to the east. The Korean Peninsula is divided into two separate states, North Korea and South Korea.
According to Samguk Yusa, the history of Korea began with the founding of Gojoseon in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun.
Limited linguistic evidence suggests probable Altaic origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian steppe culture absorbed migration and trade with the peoples of Manchuria and China. The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("Hanja" in Korean) in the 2nd century BC, and Buddhism in the 4th century AD, had profound effects on the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Baekje later passed on a modified version of these cultural advances to Japan.[1][2][3][4]
Since the Goryeo Dynasty, Korea was ruled by a single government and maintained political and cultural independence until the nineteenth century, despite the Mongol invasions of the Goryeo Dynasty in the 13th century and Japanese invasions of the Joseon Dynasty in the 16th century. In 1377, Korea produced the Jikji, the world's oldest existing document printed with movable metal type.[5] In the 15th century, the turtle ships were deployed, and King Sejong the Great promulgated the Korean alphabet Hangul to increase literacy among his people who could neither read nor write Hanja (Chinese characters).
During the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty, Korea's isolationist policy earned it the Western nickname the "Hermit Kingdom". By the late 19th century, the country became the object of the colonial designs of Japan and Europe. In 1910, Korea was forcibly annexed by Japan and remained occupied until the end of World War II in August 1945.
In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender and disarming of Japanese troops in Korea; the Soviet Union accepting the surrender of Japanese weaponry north of the 38th parallel and the United States taking the surrender south of it. This minor decision by allied armies soon became the basis for the division of Korea by the two superpowers, exacerbated by their inability to agree on the terms of Korean independence. The two Cold War rivals then established governments sympathetic to their own ideologies, leading to Korea's current division into two political entities: North Korea and South Korea.
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USA
The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with about 305 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries.[7] The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US$14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).[4][8]
The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence.[9] A federal convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.
In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest.[10] The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world.[11]
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French
France (en-us-France.ogg /ˈfræns/ (help·info) or /ˈfrɑːns/; French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various overseas islands and territories located in other continents.[11] Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as L’Hexagone (The “Hexagon”) because of the geometric shape of its territory. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main ideals expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Metropolitan France is bordered (in clockwise direction from the north) by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain. France's overseas departments and collectivities also share land borders with Brazil and Suriname (bordering French Guiana), and the Netherlands Antilles (bordering Saint-Martin). France is linked to the United Kingdom by the Channel Tunnel, which passes underneath the English Channel.
France is the largest country in the European Union and the second largest in Europe, France has been one of the world's foremost powers for many centuries. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonized much of North America; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built one of the largest colonial empires of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Pacific islands. France is a developed country and possesses the fifth largest economy[12] in the world—according to nominal GDP figures. It is the most visited country in the world, receiving 82 million foreign tourists annually.[13] France is one of the founding members of the European Union, and has the largest land area of all members. France is a founding member of the United Nations, and a member of the Francophonie, the G8, NATO, and the Latin Union. It is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and owns the largest number of nuclear weapons with active warheads and nuclear power plants in the European Union.
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Spain
Spain en-us-Spain.ogg /ˈspeɪn/ (help·info) (Spanish: España?·i, Spanish pronunciation: [esˈpaɲa]) or the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.[note 6] Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal. Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. With an area of 504,030 km², Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe after France.
Because of its location, the territory of Spain was subject to many external influences, often simultaneously, since prehistoric times and through the dawn of Spain as a country. On the other side, the country itself has been an important source of influence to other regions, chiefly during the Modern Era, when it became a global empire that has left a legacy of over 400 million Spanish speakers today.
Spain is a democracy organised in the form of a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy. It is a developed country with the eighth largest economy in the world based on nominal GDP.[note 7] It is a member of the European Union and NATO.
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Singapore
Singapore (Chinese: 新加坡; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō; Malay: Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர், Cingkappūr), officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. At 707.1 km2 (273.0 sq mi),[4] Singapore is one of four remaining true city-states in the world. It is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia.
Before European settlement, the island now known as Singapore was the site of a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Singapore River. Several hundred indigenous Orang Laut people also lived along the nearby coast, rivers and on smaller islands. In 1819 the British East India Company, led by Sir Stamford Raffles, established a trading post on the island, which was used as a port along the spice route.[5] Singapore would become one of the most important commercial and military centres of the British Empire, and the hub of British power in Southeast Asia. The city was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, which Winston Churchill called "Britain's greatest defeat".[6] Singapore reverted to British rule immediately after the war, in 1945. Eighteen years later (1963) the city, having achieved independence from Britain, merged with Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak to form Malaysia. However, less than two years later it seceded from the federation and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. Singapore joined the United Nations on 21 September that same year. It is also a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Since independence, Singapore's standard of living has risen dramatically. Foreign direct investment and a state-led drive to industrialisation based on plans drawn up by the Dutch economist Albert Winsemius have created a modern economy focused on industry, education and urban planning.[7] Singapore is the 5th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita.[8] This small nation has foreign exchange reserves of more than US$177 billion.[9]
The population of Singapore is approximately 4.84 million.[2] Singapore is highly cosmopolitan and diverse with Chinese people forming an ethnic majority with large populations of Malay, Indian and other people. English, Malay, Tamil, and Chinese are the official languages.[10]
The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore established the nation's political system as a representative democracy, while the country is recognised as a parliamentary republic.[11] The People's Action Party (PAP) dominates the political process and has won control of Parliament in every election since self-government in 1959.[12]
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