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Stress Takes Toll on Troops in Iraq – Video May 5, 2007Posted by Dan in Middle East, News, Video, War.
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According to a new study, large numbers of troops are reporting symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The study even goes as far as to suggest that longer deployments are to blame. This report explains….
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Real Jessica Lynch Rescue Video April 28, 2007Posted by Dan in Main, Middle East, Must Read, News, Politics, Video, War.
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New video of PFC Jessica Lynch's rescue from Iraqi hands over 4 years ago has risen to light. It is now clear just how different the reality of her extraction is from the White House reports at the time. I remember very clearly how the focus of American media shifted dramatically from the progress of the invasion, the failed hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the non-existant Weapons of Mass Destruction, and an ever elusive Saddam Hussein to this one missing Private. At the time, I was confounded… why was the media not reporting on the important things!? Why were we constantly forced to listen to an, as we now know, fabricated report of her capture, detainment, and rescue? It seemed ludicrous with all that was happening, to focus entirely on this one soldier.
Of course, I know now from my own conversations with reporters in Iraq at the time that the US Government simply was not providing information on anything other than Lynch. The reporters had to talk about her and her rescue because thats all the Government would talk about. Clearly, the White House wanted to distract the American public from the realities of a bungled war. If there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we would've found some kind of evidence within the first few days of occupying Baghdad. When we didn't, it became immediately apparent to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and anyone else "in the know" that the war was a massive mistake. By redirecting media focus to a "human story," the capture and subsequent rescue of a cute, 19 year old girl seemed like just the thing to pull the wool over our eyes once again.
Now, we can see her rescue, as it really happened….
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Bush Using Troops in Iraq as Hostages Against Congress April 23, 2007Posted by Dan in Main, Middle East, News, Politics, War.
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From The New York Times:
By Paul Krugman
There are two ways to describe the confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that it's a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders — the troops — if his demands aren't met.
If this were a normal political dispute, Democrats in Congress would clearly hold the upper hand: by a huge margin, Americans say they want a timetable for withdrawal, and by a large margin they also say they trust Congress, not Mr. Bush, to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq.
But this isn't a normal political dispute. Mr. Bush isn't really trying to win the argument on the merits. He's just betting that the people outside the barricade care more than he does about the fate of those innocent bystanders.
What's at stake right now is the latest Iraq "supplemental." Since the beginning, the administration has refused to put funding for the war in its regular budgets. Instead, it keeps saying, in effect: "Whoops! Whaddya know, we're running out of money. Give us another $87 billion."
At one level, this is like the behavior of an irresponsible adolescent who repeatedly runs through his allowance, each time calling his parents to tell them he's broke and needs extra cash.
What I haven't seen sufficiently emphasized, however, is the disdain this practice shows for the welfare of the troops, whom the administration puts in harm's way without first ensuring that they'll have the necessary resources.
As long as a G.O.P.-controlled Congress could be counted on to rubber-stamp the administration's requests, you could say that this wasn't a real problem, that the administration's refusal to put Iraq funding in the regular budget was just part of its usual reliance on fiscal smoke and mirrors. But this time Mr. Bush decided to surge additional troops into Iraq after an election in which the public overwhelmingly rejected his war — and then dared Congress to deny him the necessary funds. As I said, it's an act of hostage-taking.
Actually, it's even worse than that. According to reports, the final version of the funding bill Congress will send won't even set a hard deadline for withdrawal. It will include only an "advisory," nonbinding date. Yet Mr. Bush plans to veto the bill all the same — and will then accuse Congress of failing to support the troops.
The whole situation brings to mind what Abraham Lincoln said, in his great Cooper Union speech in 1860, about secessionists who blamed the critics of slavery for the looming civil war: "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' "
So how should Congress respond to Mr. Bush's threats?
Everyone talks about the political risks of confrontation, recalling the backlash when Newt Gingrich shut down the federal government in 1995. But there's a big difference between trying to force a fairly popular president to accept deep cuts in Medicare — which is what the 1995 confrontation was about — and trying to get a deeply unpopular, distrusted president to set some limits on an immensely unpopular war.
Meanwhile, there are big political risks on the other side. If Congress responds to a presidential veto by offering an even weaker bill, voters may well react with disgust, concluding that the whole debate over the war was nothing but political theater.
Anyway, never mind the political calculations. Confronting Mr. Bush on Iraq has become a patriotic duty.
The fact is that Mr. Bush's refusal to face up to the failure of his Iraq adventure, his apparent determination to spend the rest of his term in denial, has become a clear and present danger to national security. Thanks to the demands of the Iraq war, we're already a superpower without a strategic reserve, unable to respond to crises that might erupt elsewhere in the world. And more and more military experts warn that repeated deployments in Iraq — now extended to 15 months — are breaking the back of our volunteer military.
If nothing is done to wind down this war during the 21 months — 21 months! — Mr. Bush has left, the damage may be irreparable.
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Hundreds Killed in War for Somalia – UN Humanitarian Disaster April 21, 2007Posted by Dan in Must Read, News, War.
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At least 52 people have been killed in a fourth day of heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist militia in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu.
Doctors said there had been overrun with casualties and there were reports of bodies strewn across streets.
More than 130 people were killed and 200 injured in the first three days of fighting, a local rights group said.
Ethiopian forces have been in Mogadishu since December after helping Somalia's transitional government oust Islamists.
The UN says more than 320,000 people have fled fighting in the capital since February.
'Humanitarian disaster'
One confirmed attack on Saturday was on the al-Barakah market.
A number of people were killed when mortar rounds landed. Local reports spoke of bodies mutilated beyond recognition.
AFP news agency reported a mortar round also struck a bus in the southern Hodan district, killing four people.
Somalia's Elman Human Rights Organisation said at least 52 people were killed in Saturday's violence, which it described as the worst in recent years.
"I call on the both sides to stop the fighting and shelling without any condition," chairman Sudan Ali Ahmed said to Associated Press news agency.
One resident, Ali Haji, said: "Ethiopians are trying to kill me because I am Somali, and insurgents are not happy because I am not picking up a gun and fighting with them. I have lost all hope."
The UN is warning of a humanitarian disaster. Most of those who have fled lack food and water and hundreds have already died from cholera and diarrhoea, UN humanitarian co-ordinator Eric Laroche said.
Somalia has not had a functional government since 1991. A transitional government was formed in 2004, but has so far failed to take full control of the country.
'Opportunistic violence'
Ethiopian forces backing the transitional government swept into Mogadishu in December displacing the Islamic Courts Union (UIC).
Violence has intensified since then, after the relative calm when the UIC ran the city.
The insurgents are believed to be a mixture of Islamist fighters and militiamen from the Hawiye clan – the largest in Mogadishu.
US Ambassador to Kenya and Somalia Michael Ranneberger said the ongoing violence was part of an attempt by these groups to create an insurgency, but that it was not yet a structured movement.
"At this point it's opportunistic violence," Mr Ranneberger told AP news agency. "They're not organised like an insurgency."
Ethiopian troops have started to withdraw, to be replaced by an African Union peacekeeping force, but only 1,200 of the 8,000 troops the AU says it needs have been deployed.
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U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,314 April 19, 2007Posted by Dan in Middle East, Must Read, News, War.
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As of Thursday, April 19, 2007, at least 3,314 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,691 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is three higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.
The British military has reported 142 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 19; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, six; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Romania, one death each.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 24,764 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.
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Iraqi Suicide Bomb Explodes in Parliament – No More Green Zone April 12, 2007Posted by Dan in Middle East, Must Read, News, War.
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The so-called "Green Zone," an area in Iraq supposedly under fierce coalition control, has been breached by a suicide bomber with the audacity to explode inside the Iraqi Parliament building, killing at least 2 Iraqi lawmakers. 8 Iraqis were killed in the blast and another 20 were wounded. No doubt, Senator John McCain is eating his words about Iraq's expanding security.
This mp3 podcast from the New York Times explains what happened:
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Iraqis Showing Signs of Unity at Anti-US Rally in Najaf – Video April 9, 2007Posted by Dan in Middle East, Must Read, News, Politics, War.
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Thousands of Iraqis have taken to the street to protest the American occupation. At least they're doing something as a group! Perhaps thats the secret to unifying a foreign population. We've always known that an attack from an outside aggressor will coalesce even the oldest of enemies. It happened in World War 2 when Germany turned on Russia, forcing them to ally with us. Now, maybe it's happening in Iraq… Sunnis and Shiites have a common enemy once again (it used to be Saddam, but now, unfortunately, we've begun to fill that role). Perhaps this is not a bad thing… Perhaps it is what the Iraqis need to form a true, unified government. The thirteen colonies would never have formed a federal union were it not for the threat of British aggression and the need to repel it. So maybe there is a silver lining to the seething hatred aimed at the United States… a lining of unification.
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Iran is Playing With Nuclear Fire March 23, 2007Posted by Dan in Middle East, Must Read, News, Politics, War.
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Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British marines and sailors of the coast of Iraq, earlier today. Refusing to make a statement until recently, Iranian television is reporting that British personnel were arrested after crossing illegally into Iran's territorial waters. The report did not say how many were taken, where they were being held, or what would happen next. The sailors were captured after a routine examination of a vessel believed to be in Iraqi waters. British military patrols have been given authority to board vessels in Iraqi waters under United Nations mandate and with the permission of the government in Baghdad.
Hopefully, Iran will do what it did when it 2004, when they stopped three British boats, seizing eight sailors and six marines. The men appeared on state television blindfolded, but were released without incident.
The difference is that tomorrow, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to speak before the U.N. Security Council regarding their increased sanctions in light of Iran's potentially military nuclear development program. The Council has already voted to sanction Iran, and is scheduled to vote again on further sanctions after a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reported that they could no longer say for certain that Iran's program is non-military in nature.
British naval vessels conduct these operations in Iraqi waters all the time. Why would Iran pick now to capture some of their soldiers? Whether they know it or not, Iran is playing with fire, and they're going to get burned. What would appear to be a sign of strength for Iranian citizens (the capture of British forces) is more like a sign of war for the West.
The boiling pot is about to spill over…..
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Iraqis Killed by Chlorine Bombs – Six US Soldiers Wounded March 17, 2007Posted by Dan in Middle East, Must Read, News, War.
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Well…. the insurgents have finally realized that chemical weapons are far too easy to come by, and have launched the largest Chlorine gas attack of the civil war that has no engulfed Iraq.
We are once again planning to take Baghdad, or rather, retake it. This article illuminates the subject.
From the BBC:
Three chlorine gas attacks in Iraq are reported to have killed eight people and left hundreds injured, including six US troops.
Two of the attacks were near the city of Falluja, the third near Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Both areas are hotbeds of al-Qaeda militants.
Chlorine gas can cause severe burns to the throat and lungs and can kill after only a few breaths.
There were at least three such attacks in Iraq in February.
The BBC's Hugh Sykes, in Baghdad, describes the use of the gas as an unsettling and possibly ominous development that could greatly increase fear and anxiety.
The heaviest casualties were in a suicide attack on Friday evening at the entrance to a housing estate south of Falluja in which six people were reported to have been killed. The injured included at least 27 children.
Shortly before that another attack in the same area killed two Iraqi policemen.
Officials say that in both attacks the assailants drove dumper trucks containing the bombs at their targets. One of the trucks is reported to have contained a 200 gallon (900 litre) tank of chlorine and explosives.
The third attack was at a checkpoint near Ramadi.
"Approximately 350 Iraqi civilians and six coalition force members were treated for chlorine gas exposure," Lt Roger Hollenbeck of the US-led forces based near Ramadi said, AFP news agency reported.
He said that victims were treated locally "for symptoms ranging from minor skin and lung irritation to vomiting".
Our correspondent says that two of the bombers are thought to have been targeting tribal leaders who have spoken out against al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Easily obtained
Our correspondent says that chlorine is easy to obtain as it is widely used as a cleaner and a water purifier.
After an explosion outside a restaurant near Baghdad last month, as well as the six people killed, dozens of others were left coughing and choking and needing medical treatment.
In February the United States military reported finding a bomb factory near Falluja, where chlorine car bombs were being constructed.
In another attack near Falluja last month, not involving chlorine, more than 35 people were killed when a conventional truck bomb exploded near a mosque where the imam had criticised al-Qaeda inIraq.
Some tribal leaders in the area have openly complained about al-Qaeda's activities.
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The Oval Office – Parody Cartoon March 16, 2007Posted by Dan in Funny, Middle East, Video, War.
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If you're a fan of the tv show "The Office" then you'll find this video hilarious!
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XV just dropped his newest music video. This time it is for "Wichita" off his most recent and widely successful Zero Heroes mixtape. I enjoyed this video. It's simple, but the camera work is solid and the song is always great. Enjoy!
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We left Monument Valley behind, and headed to Chinle, AZ to spend the night. We chose to stay in Chinle because the Holiday Inn Canyon de Chelly had landed on the IHG PointsBreak list. At 5,000 IHG points per night, it was an easy decision to make. However, without launching into an extensive review of the property, I can confidently say that it was overpriced at 5,000 IHG points. It was an uncomfortable stay, to say the least.
If The Curtains Look Like This, Take a Guess What the Rest of the Room Looked Like
Since we got into Chinle a little earlier than expected, we took a quick trip to the Canyon de Chelly National Monument that was less than a mile from the hotel. The area is one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, with early indigenous tribes, including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples and Navajo having resided in the area.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
There is no fee to visit Canyon de Chelly National Monument, and the drive to the overlooks was paved and an easy one. Take the time to hike the White House Trail – your reward will be worth the effort.
The next morning, we started early and headed off to a place that was tricky for me to plan for. In preparing for this trip, I had read separately about both the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert. Assuming that they were separate national parks, I was confused when I learned that they were a part of the same area! Both the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert are part of the same terrific drive through the Petrified Forest National Park.
Petrified Forest National Park
As described by the National Parks Service, the Petrified Forest National Park system is like traveling to 2 separate parks in the span of an hour's drive.
Petrified Forest is a surprising place, offering far more than the world renowned petrified logs. You can see so much just from your car and a few stops at overlooks. There are fossils, badlands, buttes and mesas, ancient petroglyphs, wildlife and wildflowers depending on the time of year; vast vistas for more than a hundred miles! If you are craving some quiet solitude, the Painted Desert is perfect for hiking and contemplation.
As we were coming in from the north, we entered the park at the Painted Desert Visitor Center. Park hours vary by season, so make sure to check before heading out. Park fees were $20 per vehicle, and as part of the National Parks Service, you could enter for free on fee free days or if you have a 4th grader, as well as with your National Parks Pass.
Painted Desert
The 28 mile drive through the park was magnificent. I strongly encourage all travelers to the park to make use of restroom facilities before your transit through the park. There aren't many public bathrooms once you have left the entry of the park.
Petrified Forest
We took our time in the park. Even though we hiked only 1 full trail, we were in the park for over 3 hours. This certainly is a park where far more time could be spent.
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A nice, unplanned surprise in the Petrified Forest National Park was learning that it is the only national park unit to protect a section of Route 66! For those unfamiliar, U.S. Route 66, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America, and the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System. Route 66 ran 2,448 miles from Santa Monica, CA in the west, all the way to Chicago, IL in the east. The highway existed from November 26, 1926 – June 27, 1985.
This was the last stop on our visit to Arizona, before heading back to Phoenix. Having covered some significant ground, from the Grand Canyon, to Horseshoe Bend, to Antelope Canyon, to the Four Corners Monument, and Monument Valley, we were unbelievably pleased with the trip.
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Carson Wentz went to North Dakota State University (Bison) which is in the powerful Missouri Valley Conference. The University of ND (Fighting Hawks fka The Sioux is in the Big Sky Conference. UND is leaving the Big Sky and will be joining the Missouri Valley Conference full time in 2019.
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Train usage has doubled in the last 20 years and we simply do not have the capacity to cope on existing lines. Yes that is right - we as a nation take twice as many train journeys as we did when the service was nationalised British Rail. But, on any interpretation, our rail network is bursting at the seams, and our train operators are struggling to provide the service and capacity that we now expect from our train service. That is the context which HS2 needs to be judged within.
To those who say that we could improve our rail network simply by upgrading existing lines I would say two things: if you accept that you need new rail capacity you might as well build a good train line. Secondly, upgrading existing lines is very expensive, very slow, and does not produce the long term benefits of a second line. Look at the cost and problems of West Coast Mainline upgrading.
Every large infrastructure project from the M25, HS1 or whatever has its doubters and heavyweight opponents. Only the famous Humber Bridge has failed to reap the benefits. Indeed the original builders of the railways faced opponents of the construction of the West Coast Mainline and East Coast Mainline in the 19th century.
In 1832 Parliament rejected the initial bill [for the West Coast Mainline] because some people objected. They argued that canals and rivers were all you'd ever need for long-distance travel, anyway. Indeed, our case for change is even more stark today; we are a country in a global race for jobs, investment and infrastructure. At the start of 2007, China didn't have a single high speed rail line. Today it has over 6,000 miles in service. By 2015 that will be 11,000 miles, while we have just 67 miles, from London to Kent and the Channel Tunnel. All the Northern Local Authorities and the NECC back the project, and whilst Ed Balls and some North East MPs are against, we cannot rail [forgive the pun] against this country's lack of infrastructure and then get upset when it costs money and takes time.
We in the North have still got to ensure that the details of the Northern extensions to Newcastle and beyond are worked through properly. But on the fundamental principle of the need for HS2 I am satisfied and I will vote for it in the division lobbies this week. Certainly our grandchildren will look back in wonder at those who opposed the M25, HS1 + HS2 and ask what planet were you on? The world is changing. We need to change with it.


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This week's United Airlines incident – a seated, paying passenger, bloodied and dragged off a plane for saying no to removal from an overbooked flight – AND the airline's spin on the incident illustrates the company's disdain for customer experience. Why did they think they could get away with it?
Customer experience (CX) is the set and sum of perceptions formed through interactions with a brand, product, or service. CX starts with awareness created though advertising, word-of-mouth, and social buzz. It is confirmed in the course of online, in-store, and point-of-sale and point-of-service "touchpoint" interactions. Central of course are perceptions of packaging, quality, and value, factoring in cost and relative to the competition. CX affects customer loyalty and advocacy.
United Airlines's behavior treats customer experience as irrelevant, irrelevant because United appears to believe:
- Employee experience trumps customer experience. Witness newspaper headlines such as "United CEO defends employees as uproar continues." This Boston Globe article quotes United CEO Oscar Munoz, as follows: "While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."
- Good enough is good enough. Flyers already have low experience expectations. We expect to be crammed in, unless we pay price multiples for business or first class, just as we expect car-rental companies to scam us for fees and add-ons and just as we expect to have to wipe down a table ourselves, occasionally, at a fast-food place. United gets away with poor CX because good enough is good enough.
- Supply is limited, so CX won't affect consumer choice. Competition in oligopoly markets is on availability and price rather than experience. American and Southwest also fly nonstop Chicago-to-Louisville, the incident route. How many customers will switch if the competitors' ticket costs $25 more or the flight times are undesirable? (A side point: Artificial perception of limited supply, via deadlines, small production runs, etc., is of course a common market tactic.)
- Loyalty doesn't depend on satisfaction, or rather, it can bought or forced. You don't have to earn it. From a practical point of view, loyalty is a behavior rather than an attitude. It's repeat patronage. United's higher-value customers put a lot of effort into achieving and maintaining "status," or they have few route alternatives, so they're loyal.
- Customers are self-centered. Most will perceive the drag-off incident as a fluke, and highly-profitable status customers will think, "they wouldn't do this to me. His experience isn't going to be mine."
- There are no consequences. Executives and PR flacks blame the victim: the removed passenger was "disruptive and belligerent." They evade responsibility, for instance pinning it on third-party aviation security. They hide behind legalisms such as "established procedures" and the "contract of carriage" and offer non-apologies – "for having to re-accommodate these customers" (rather than for physical brutality) – and pretend to care. The storm of evasions and half-steps overwhelms us and we move on.
My conclusion: You may be tempted to think customer experience is irrelevant if your business doesn't depend on satisfaction and you just don't care. Don't.
Many companies aim for and achieve great customer experience, even while supporting employees, maintaining profitability, and accepting responsibility for missteps. United is not one of them. Excellence should be an end in itself. United Airlines disagrees, and now, given the backlash from the dragging incident, they may learn that there are, in fact consequences.
Customer experience measurement and optimisation are central topics at the 2017 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, two days of NLP, text, sentiment, and emotion analytics coverage – including at a half-day Customer Journey Transformation workshop – June 27-28 in New York. See you there?
About Seth Grimes
Seth Grimes is the leading industry analyst covering natural language processing (NLP), text analytics, and sentiment analysis technologies and their business applications. He founded Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation, an information technology strategy consultancy, in 1997. Seth created and organizes the Sentiment Analysis Symposium. He consults, writes, and speaks on business intelligence, data management and analysis systems, text mining, visualization, and related topics.


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Preparing to move can be a taxing process for anyone, but if you start the planning long before your actual move, the transition can be quite easy. Trying to do everything on moving day is the worst thing you can do, even if you've hired professional movers to do the heavy lifting. Use these tips to ensure your move to your new apartment is as smooth as possible.
1. If you're providing your own appliances, like a refrigerator or washer and dryer, make sure they're in good shape before you bring them to your new place. Clean out your fridge and freezer no later than the day before moving day. Plus, you'll want it completely defrosted and dry before it's transported. Consider utilizing an ice chest to transport any foods or beverages that need to be kept cool.
2. Ensure the moving boxes are sturdy and sealed well if you're doing your own packing. Label each box with its contents clearly as well as where it will go in the apartment (e.g. kitchen, family room, coat closet, etc.). As a packing tip, assign each room a specific color duct tape, and seal your boxes with the coordinating color. This way you can explain to your movers which color goes with which room, and you won't have to deal with any tipping of boxes or scrounging around for labels.
3. Toiletries and other essential items should be left for last when it comes to packing, because you'll need your toothbrush, shampoo, contact solution, etc. on moving day. Store these products in a marked container in your car, so you don't have to hunt for them later.
4. There will be other important items you'll want to keep close by, so they don't get lost in the back of the truck or moving van. Consider keeping items such as school or medical records, insurance documents, and new apartment paperwork inside a folder that you can store in a purse or backpack. This way, they'll be on you and safe – not boxed up where you can't find them for days.
5. Moving with a child can cause added stress. Instead, make arrangements with a family member or friend to babysit the child so you can focus on the move.
6. Before you and the movers leave your current home, inspect the premises to ensure that nothing's left behind. You may also want to do a final walk-through with your landlord or property manager prior to turning in your keys.
Preparing to move is the first step in starting over in a new apartment. You're bound to run into some hiccups along the way, but hopefully, these tips can help make the moving process a bit easier. Once moving day comes around, your survival instincts will kick in, so don't worry – you'll get it done!


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Related: Photos: Why Cressida Bonas Is Not the Anti–Kate Middleton
The athletic photo op has become as much a royal tradition as attending charity galas and performing investiture duties. A week after husband Prince William ventured out of the house to play some soccer in Buckingham Palace, Kate Middleton got her volleyball on this morning (making her third formal public appearance since giving birth) at an East London event for the charity SportsAid, of which she is a patron.
Kate—wearing one of her beloved Breton-style tops, skinny jeans and five inch wedges—jumped and spiked and executed other sport-ly maneuvers, at one point baring her midriff as she leapt for the ball, which undoubtedly caused half of London's tabloid editors to faint on the spot. The tummy in question was stunningly flat, with nary a muffin-top nor post-baby dimple in sight.
Kate's inadvertent stomach reveal comes a few days after Kim Kardashian's Selfie Seen 'Round The World, as both the new moms have made it clear their bodies have returned to their pre-baby iterations, and then some. Of course, while Kim conveniently has an Instagram account to employ for such campaigns ("#nofilter" is how she captioned the shot), for Kate, perhaps the Jackie to Kim's Marilyn here, the supporting photographic evidence just happens, in the daintiest way possible, while she does charity stuff.


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The release of this issue of JCES coincides with the 2012 National Outreach and Scholarship Conference being held at the University of Alabama, October 1-3, 2012. The manuscripts in this issue continue to add to the ongoing and increasingly complex body of engagement scholarship knowledge. The topics presented in this issue are as varied as engagement scholarship itself. This particular selection of manuscripts seeks to contribute to strengthening methodological, theoretical, and practical applications relevant for engagement scholarship and our understanding of it. One manuscript demonstrates the successful application of concept mapping and influence diagramming through a community and university partnership. A community sidebar accompanies this piece and represents JCES' first publication of such a piece. As a scholarly peer-reviewed journal, we recognize and appreciate the role of communities' voices in engagement scholarship and look for different ways to have it acknowledged and included as part of the scholarly process.
Other manuscripts evaluate the effectiveness of a civic youth engagement program and assess the culture of engagement. Whether it is through articulation of how learning with as opposed to learning from survivors of trauma changes participants, processes, and outcomes or power dynamics and their influence on different constituent groups in engagement projects, this issue is sure to have something of relevance to engagement scholars of all varieties. We hope you will find something interesting and exciting…something that will inspire you to partner with others to effect change.
Partner! Inspire! Change! This is the theme of the 2012 NOSC conference and it is in that spirit that we present an essay submitted by Cheryl Keen, Ph.D. The essay is not your typical scholarly piece; nor is it a manuscript that JCES would have normally reviewed. We, the local JCES production team, did decide, however, that it had a certain kind of scholarly merit, especially with the NOSC conference upcoming and publication of this issue of JCES for release at the conference. Our publishing this piece represents our willingness to do what engagement scholarship dares to do, and that is to fulfill our commitment to you to be a high quality peer-reviewed journal, unafraid to try something new, and not restricted to what already is. We hope you enjoy the essay, as well as the rest of this issue.


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Quality Assurance Framework: Specification Guidelines (QA SpecGL) Good Practice 3: "Provide the wording for conformance claims" [1] may be a resource for the discussion excerpted following. In addition, both QASpecGL Good Practice 4 - "Provide an Implementation Conformance Statement pro forma" [2], and QASpecGL Good Practice 5 - "Require an Implementation Conformance Statement as part of conformance claims" [3] may be helpful in the discussion excerpted following (as well as in future discussions?). Christophe, thanks for the pointer to this discussion! Thanks and best wishes Tim Boland NIST [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#conformance-claim-gp [2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#ics-gp [3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#ics-claim-gp At 11:17 AM 5/15/2006 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, > >Last week, there was a discussion about the scope of conformance claims on >the ERT list. Below is an excerpt from the discussion. >For the whole discussion, see the part of the thread that starts at >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-ert/2006May/0024.html. > > > >On 9 May 2006, Carlos Velasco asked >
 >what happens when a delivery unit (...) has a CSS like >http://example.com/css/example.css? It is in scope or not? >
 > > >Christophe Strobbe responded: >
 >A stylesheet is not a Web unit but an "authored unit", and when it is >"intended to be used as a part of another authored unit", it is an >"authored component" >(http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/appendixA.html#authored-componentdef). >Conformance claims apply to Web units, not to authored units. So if a Web >unit within the scope of your conformance claim uses a CSS that is outside >the scope of your conformance claim, my understanding is that the >conformance claim applies to the Web unit *with* the CSS (but not to the >CSS in isolation). >
 > > >Then Johannes Koch wrote back: >
 >Let's make it a little more complicated :-) As Carlos Iglesias quoted, a >Web Unit is > > "A collection of information, consisting of one or more resources, > intended to be rendered together, and identified by a single Uniform > Resource Identifier (such as URLs)". > >Let's consider an HTML document with various linked stylesheets, one for >screen, one for print, one for projection, ... They are not intended to be >rendered (all) together. So which CSS file belongs to the Web Unit >identified by the HTML document's URL? Or are there different Web Units >for each CSS file together with the HTML document. But how do I identify >them? The HTML document has only one URL. >
 > > >Christophe Strobbe: >
 >You can't make assumptions about how the type of user agent that will be >used to render the HTML document: on a screen, through projection, on a >refreshable braille display, with speech synthesis, ... So if the HTML >document, say 'home.htm', has stylesheets for each of these media types, >the following would all count as Web units: >- home.htm with the CSS for 'screen', >- home.htm with the CSS for 'projection', >- home.htm with the CSS for 'braille', >- home.htm with the CSS for 'aural', >- ... > >So the question becomes: if you have a conformance claim that has the >above 'home.htm' in its scope, does the conformance claim cover each of >the above examples? Since you can't make assumptions about the user agent, >I think the answer is yes. >(How you represent this in EARL is another matter.) I don't think it makes >sense to define the Web unit as home.htm + screen.css + projection.css + >braille.css, ... > > >Come to think of it: if you use an object element with one or more >fallbacks nested inside it (see the example slightly below >http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/objects.html#idx-object-5), >I think the Web unit you claim conformance for is the HTML document with >the outermost object element (with the TheEarth.py applet). Now let us >look at a few scenarios. > >1. Let us assume that Python applets are not in the baseline and that >there is a fallback for each Python applet using a technology within the >baseline, then the conformance claim applies to the fallback (and the >Python applets must not interfere with the content). I don't know if EARL >can take baselines into account (I'm too tired to check now). Maybe a >"Baseline Description Language" would be useful? > >2. Alternatively, let us assume that Python applets are in the baseline >and there is a fallback for each Python applet using another technology >within the baseline. What happens if the Python applet cannot be retrieved >from the server, so that the fallback is used instead. How does this >affect the conformance claim? Can EARL make statements about the HTML >document + fallback object? > >3. Let us assume that Python applets are in the baseline and there is a >fallback for each Python applet using another technology outside the >baseline. (I think this is not very logical, but it is possible.) What >happens if the Python applet cannot be retrieved from the server, so that >the fallback is used instead. How does this affect the conformance claim? >
 > > >Johannes Koch, about the HTML file with different stylesheets per media type: >
 >(...) how do you identify the different web units? The URL for the HTML >document is not enough, because the HTML document is the same in all the >web units. >
 > > >Regards, > >Christophe > >-- >Christophe Strobbe >K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on >Document Architectures >Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM >tel: +32 16 32 85 51 >http://www.docarch.be/ > > >Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > >Received on Monday, 15 May 2006 13:19:04 UTC
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Russia calls for talks as battles in Syria rage
Feb. 8 - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calls on countries with influence over the Syrian opposition to press them to enter a dialogue with embattled President Bashar al-Assad. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calls on countries with influence over the Syrian opposition to press them to enter dialogue with Assad Under assault in Homs. Amateur video out of Syria appears to show a city under siege as Syrian forces continue military action in the rebellious city. Activists say as many as 100 civilians have been killed in the assault on Wednesday. Now Russia, which vetoed a UN security council resolution on Syria, is calling for dialogue. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "We support any initiative aimed at creating conditions for the Syrians themselves to enter dialogue and begin the road to national reconciliation. All responsible members of the international community must begin to do this, whether in the Arab world, in Europe, in the United States or in other regions. To attempt in advance to decide the outcome of the national dialogue is not the international community's business, the government and all the opposition forces must sit down at the negotiating table." On Tuesday, Lavrov met face to face with the embattled President Bashar al-Assad. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "Yesterday we put the question directly to President Assad who said that it is the task of Vice-President Farouq al-Shara to make contact with all opposition groups and to organize national dialogue, which will be inclusive and which will involve all political forces in Syria. We see this readiness as an exemplary factor and we hope that all those who have influence on any Syrian opposition groups will press them to start such a dialogue." Turkey now appears to be preparing a new diplomatic push against the Syrian regime. Istanbul described the Russian and Chinese veto of the U.N. resolution as a "fiasco" and is likely to face a hard sell with Moscow. Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters


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Carlo's Bakery Coming to Mohegan Sun
December 18, 2014
UNCASVILLE, CT (December 18, 2014) – Things are getting sweeter as Buddy Valastro, the star of the hit TLC series Cake Boss and Next Great Baker, announces his ninth location, opening at Mohegan Sun's flagship property in Connecticut in late winter 2015.
The new bakery will be the first New England location for Carlo's Bakery, which currently has seven other active locations including its flagship bakery in Hoboken, NJ; locations in Ridgewood, NJ; Westfield, NJ; Red Bank, NJ; Morristown, NJ; Las Vegas, NV and Marlton, NJ.
"I'm thrilled to bring Carlo's Bakery to Mohegan Sun," said Buddy Valastro, owner of Carlo's Bakery. "This is a destination for fun and food and we can't wait to be a part of the famiglia!"
"We are excited to welcome Buddy and the whole Carlo's Bakery team to our Mohegan Sun family," said Bobby Soper, President and CEO for Mohegan Sun. "We have worked with Buddy a number of times at our various properties and cannot wait to have this up and running."
The bakery will be located in the Winter section of the Casino of the Earth, be roughly 3,200 square feet and will offer all the same famous Italian pastries and specialty cakes that originated in Hoboken.


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The large grip is of carved rosewood and has been riveted into the thick blade tang. It is surmounted by a bolster of steel. It has a pre-drilled hole for a lanyard.
The scabbard is of carved pinewood and crafted with the traditional Nepalese ''Laha'' tree gum glue. It is fitted with a layer of tight black leather. It has an integrated belt loop and decorative, colored leather stitching on its front. It has two internal retainers for the ''karda'' utility knife and the ''chakmak'' sharpening tool - the traditional companion survival tools of the Khukuri knife. These are likewise crafted from high carbon steel and are fitted to handles of rosewood.
In WW1 some regiments of British Gurkhas opted to make their own Kukris for the war; this beefy, no-nonsense Khukuri is what they settled on. It is heavily constructed with a thick tang, large grip and a wide blade - clearly a Khukuri like this in the hand of a Gurkha would have made for a daunting prospect for a foe in a trench raid. The design would be revived for action in WW2 where it would be used in North Africa and Burma.
Over 200,000 Gurkhas would serve the British military in WW1 and they would be fighting not only in France, but as far afield as modern day Iran. Their most notable victory was at Gallipolli, when Gurkhas would storm a heavily fortified Turkish position whilst suffering few casualties. Their successful assault would go down in the history books as the action at Gurkha Bluff
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Anatomia ogólna > Kości; układ szkieletowy > Kośćiec kończyn > Kości kończyny dolnej > Część wolna kończyny dolnej > Kość piszczelowa
Anatomia dzieci
The tibia is situated at the medial side of the leg, and, excepting the femur, is the longest bone of the skeleton.
It is prismoid in form, expanded above, where it enters into the knee-joint, contracted in the lower third, and again enlarged but to a lesser extent below. In the male, its direction is vertical, and parallel with the bone of the opposite side; but in the female it has a slightly oblique direction downward and lateralward, to compensate for the greater obliquity of the femur. It has a body and two extremities.


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Back in 1968, when Rev. Joseph Ratzinger was a theology professor in the Bavarian town of Tubingen, a neighbor's cat visited him daily.
'It even accompanied him to his lectures and to Mass. It was a black cat, a very intelligent pussycat,' the older brother writes.That's a very nice story about the cat. Dubious, but nice nonetheless. It's very difficult to check the facts on such things.
It's not difficult at all, on the other hand, to check facts about where a city is located. The very simplest fact in this newspaper story is where Tübingen is. Most newsrooms are connected to the internet. If the USA Today's offices aren't, perhaps they could invest in a world atlas.
Supposedly newspapers care about these things, details and accuracy, since it's a matter of credibility. If you can't be trusted with an easily verifiable detail, why should a reader trust any other detail in your story? Saying that Tübingen is a Bavarian town is sloppy.
It's not in the state of Bavaria, nor in the region. Nor is it even particularly close. This is akin to saying New York is a plains state, or that Louisiana is in the Southwest. Pope Benedict is a Bavarian. Maybe the cat was Bavarian. The town where Ratzinger supposedly had a cat listening to his lectures is not Bavarian.
That means there were three ways that Tübingen was an alien place for Ratzinger (at least three, not even counting what was going on in German universities in '68 or his fraught relationship with Hans Küng). In the standard narrative of his life, his time in Tübingen is pivotal.
He probably could have really used a friendly cat, if the one in the story didn't actually exist.
It's easy to say that it doesn't matter. What's a detail like geography? But if it doesn't matter, then context doesn't matter, and facts don't matter, and understanding stuff doesn't matter. And then why have journalism at all? This is almost certainly an overreaction on my part, but there's a fine line between overreacting and just giving a damn.
The cat thing is cute, though.


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Yin Yang and the five elements of air, water, earth, fire and metal are basic to what is the art and science of Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway). Developed in China over 3,000 years ago, Feng (wind) Shui (water) is an intricate system of divination believed to bring prosperity, health and harmony to the lives of those who practice it.
Chi flows through everything, our body, our words and thoughts, and our emotions. Our state of mind and whether we feel and speak positively or negatively can affect our environment… the 'atmosphere'. If we were to live and work in a harmonious environment, we would feel less stress and as a result would be healthier physically and emotionally. Feng Shui involves understanding the relationship between ourselves and our environment.
Arranging things in your home, office or garden and so on, in a balanced and harmonious way allows for a greater flow of chi creating a healthier environment. This may mean arranging furniture in a particular way, bringing in living plants, using mirrors or certain colors. Two of the principle tools used in Feng Shui are the Compass and the Ba-Gua, which is an eight sided grid containing the symbols of the ancient oracle, the I Ching.
Each of the different directions have their own energy. One of the systems used in Feng Shui is called 'Eight Points' and involves eight areas of life including Marriage, Children, Reputation, Friends, Career, Knowledge, Family and Money. For example, if you wanted to bring harmony to your marriage, it would be determined which direction your marriage bed should face. The foot of your bed facing the door has a negative connotation to it. Another example is placing a mirror under a cash register to increase the potential for wealth.
Feng Shui is a fascinating method of energy healing but also a very intricate one. There is far more involved in it's theory and application than I can include on this one page. A great deal of time and effort would be involved in order to fully grasp it's expansiveness.


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Jim Henson's 75 birthday. Who's Your Favorite Muppet? [VIDEOS, POLL]
Jim Henson would have been 75 today. Everyone knows who he is. A great puppeteer creator of The Muppets and performed on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. Henson also created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal and Labrinth. I can probably say that all of you had at least one favorite puppet. Jim Henson unfortunately was taken from us. He died of Steptococcus pyogenes on May 16, 1990. Who is your favorite Muppet? In remembrance of Jim Henson I am going to share with you my favorite Muppet and a few videos of my fav Muppet performing some of my favorite songs.


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Oneness of Things each life form expresses in so many ways. It is a biological imperative in one sense.
Every species follows a core idea: thus species of a bird living in a secure environment with no known predator around consider wings are an unnecessary appendage. It is an idea. Dodo was such a bird found in the forests of Mauritius east of Madagascar. Raphus culcullatus was a pigeon-like bird known to weigh some 17 kilograms and the last bird became extinct in late 1600. First sighted by Dutch sailors the species in a matter of 174 years died out. Unfortunately the Portuguese seamen who made their landfall upon this remote island found the meat a delicacy. It is often said they were responsible for their untimely demise. Really? These ponderous and wingless birds were in the habit of laying eggs on the surface: and it had much to do with their undoing. Yes, the Portuguese sailors hunted them for their meat. But rats, monkeys and pigs brought by sailors and left behind did the rest. Extinction was a foregone conclusion with so many accidents adding up.
To sum: in islands where no threat of predators exists life forms thrive and tend to be bigger. Dodo needed no wings. Nature plays a role in giving species certain directions in their evolution; also would nature of man in either destroying them or preserving them. Did Oneness of Things have a role to play in their extinction? I do not think so. Evenso fall of sparrow and of man do make an entry in the collective consciouness of life.


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The reality is the Republican Party leadership is the problem. His supporters -- already one in four Republican voters -- already are alienated by the Republican Party.
Their grievances are many and they go unheard.
In 2008, they went along with a RINO named John McCain as teh presidential nominee, who not only lost but stood by idly while his campaign manager destroyed Sarah Palin with the help of a willing press.
In 2010, they elected a Republican House to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In 2012, they went along with a moderate named Mitt Romney, who lost.
In 2014, they elected a Republican Senate, which still didn't repeal Obamacare, has done nothing to protect the border, allows veterans to die waiting in line at the VA, and is about to let Iran have nukes.
The Animas River in Colorado is orange. Where are the anti-EPA Republicans to force this to be national news?
The president had a great summer. And instead of working with Trump voters, Republicans are trying to silence them. Trump is fighting back.
From Breitbart:
Sunday night Donald Trump's Campaign Manager, Corey Lewandowski, lambasted the GOP establishment consultant class, when he joined Breitbart's senior political investigative reporter Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot radio, channel 125.
Lewandowski explained that what most infuriates the establishment consultants is they don't have any say in Trump's campaign or platform. "It drives them crazy. They want to say 'I've run a campaign in the past. Pay me for my knowledge. I've been involved with previously failed presidential campaigns,'" he said.
With Trump "That's not how his campaign works," added Lewandowski. "We don't want these consultants who talk about the glory old days of races they were involved with that weren't successful. Anything that they can do to try and control Mr. Trump does not work."
The Massachusetts native, who earned a Masters in Political Sciences from American University, told Breitbart Sunday listeners that 'Time and time again they have said, 'Trump won't run. He won't file the paperwork. He won't fill out his personal financial disclosure statement. He won't be a factor in the race. And every time, everyone of these pundits have been wrong. And they continue to be wrong."Washington has become the City of Socialists. Republicans need to get their act together or die as a party.
Their choice, not mine.


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PU Lahore Examination Form and Fee Schedule for Various Programs
Sixth Semester Examination, 2014 of B.S. 4-Years Programme
B.Ed (Special Needs) 2nd Annual Examination, 2013 and Annual Examination, 2014
PU Lahore Examination Form and Fee Schedule for Various Programs
Sixth Semester Examination, 2014 of B.S. 4-Years Programme
B.Ed (Special Needs) 2nd Annual Examination, 2013 and Annual Examination, 2014
King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia Scholarship 2014
Age not more than (35) years old doctoral student, and (30) years for master's students.
The applicant holds a qualified recognized in his own country, this is no less qualified for a very good rate if the class gives an estimate.
Access to one of the following grades in English language tests:
Be of good conduct and medically fit.
DFA to submit Tzakitin of professors have already taught.
Not be separated from one of the educational institutions in Kingdom.
Documents required to be certified from the embassies of the Kingdom in the developed country.
Documents required
CV of the applicant.
Research proposal (Statement of Purpose) to be allocated to join.
A copy of the document graduation (certified by the Saudi Embassy).
A copy of the transcript (certified from Saudi Embassy).
Recommendations of the government scientific professors have already taught.
A copy of a valid passport (at least for a year).
Geography Notes , Modern Geography and its Types.
Geography is the science that studies the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (276-194 BC). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of the natural and the human phenomena (geography as the study of distribution), the area studies (places and regions), the study of the man-land relationship, and the research in the earth sciences.
Types Of Geography
Physical Geography
Human Geography
Physical Geography
Physical geography is one of the two major subfields of geography. Physical geography is that branch of natural science which deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment.
The lithosphere is the solid, rocky crust covering entire planet. This crust is inorganic and is composed of minerals. It covers the entire surface of the earth from the top of Mount Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
The hydrosphere is composed of all of the water on or near the earth. This includes the oceans, rivers, lakes, and even the moisture in the air. Ninety-seven percent of the earth's water is in the oceans. The remaining three percent is fresh water; three-quarters of the fresh water is solid and exists in ice sheets.
The biosphere is composed of all living organisms. Plants, animals, and one-celled organisms are all part of the biosphere. Most of the planet's life is found from three meters below the ground to thirty meters above it and in the top 200 meters of the oceans and seas.
The atmosphere is the body of air which surrounds our planet. Most of our atmosphere is located close to the earth's surface where it is most dense. The air of our planet is 79% nitrogen and just under 21% oxygen; the small amount remaining is composed of carbon dioxide and other gasses.
Field Of Physical Geography
Physical Geography can be divided into several sub-fields, as follows:
Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do, to understand landform history and dynamics, and to predict future changes through a combination of field observations, physical experiments, and numerical modeling.
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species (biology), organisms, and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities vary in a highly regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area.Modern biogeographic research combines information and ideas from many fields, from the physiological and ecological constraints on organismal dispersal to geological and climatological phenomena operating at global spatial scales and evolutionary time frames.
Hydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries. After the development of the computer in the latter half of the 20th century, breakthroughs in weather forecasting were achieved.
Meteorological phenomena are observable weather events which illuminate, and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables that exist in Earth's atmosphere; temperature, air pressure, water vapor, and the gradients and interactions of each variable, and how they change in time.
Glaciology glace is the study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.The impact of glaciers on people includes the fields of human geography and anthropology. The discoveries of water ice on the Moon, Mars and Europa add an extraterrestrial component to the field, as in "astroglaciology".
Climatology is the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences. Basic knowledge of climate can be used within shorter term weather forecasting. Climate models are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate.
Pedology is the study of soils in their natural environment. It is one of two main branches of soil science, the other being edaphology. Pedology deals with pedogenesis, soil morphology, and soil classification, while edaphology studies the way soils influence plants, fungi, and other living things.
Oceanography, also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean. It covers a wide range of topics, including marine organisms and ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries.
Geomatics is a branch of geography that has emerged since the quantitative revolution in geography in the mid 1950s. Geomatics involves the use of traditional spatial techniques used in cartography and topography and their application to computers. Geomatics has become a widespread field with many other disciplines, using techniques such as GIS and remote sensing. Geomatics has also led to a revitalization of some geography departments, especially in Northern America where the subject had a declining status during the 1950s.Geomatics encompasses a large area of fields involved with spatial analysis, such as Cartography, Geographic information systems (GIS), Remote sensing, and Global positioning systems (GPS).
Human Geography
Human geography is one of the two major sub-fields of the discipline of geography. Human geography is a branch of the social sciences that studies the world, its people, communities, and cultures with an emphasis on relations of and across space and place. Human geography differs from physical geography mainly in that it has a greater focus on studying human activities and is more receptive to qualitative research methodologies. As a discipline, Human geography is particularly diverse with respect to its methods and theoretical approaches to study.
Fields of human geography
The main fields of study in human geography focus around the core fields of:
Cultural geography is the study of cultural products and norms and their variation across and relations to spaces and places. It focuses on describing and analysing the ways language, religion, economy, government, and other cultural phenomena vary or remain constant from one place to another and on explaining how humans function spatially.
Historical Geography is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past. Historical geography studies a wide variety of issues and topics. A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time. Many historical geographers study geographical patterns through time, including how people have interacted with their environment, and created the cultural landscape.
Development Geography is the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the Standard of living and the Quality of life of its human inhabitants, study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities, across the Earth. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological approach.
Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.
Population geography is the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to the nature of places.
Economic geography examines relationships between human economic systems, states, and other factors, and the biophysical environment.
Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care