1) Ancient advances in mapping seen in Babylonia, Mesopotamia, about 2,300 BCE (Before the Common Era). Use of geometry in mapping.
2) Egyptians use geometry in mapping for land ownership.
3) Greece: Strabo wrote the book Geographia about 63 BCE.
* Pythagoras was the first to offer proof that the earth is spherical.
* Greeks develop map projections and the grid system.
Cradles of Civilization, acc to A History of the World:
* Mesopotamia
* Nile Valley
* China's Huang valley
* Indus Valley of Pakistan / India.
ethnocentrism:
belief that your culture is superior to others.
Historic map / Roots of Geography:
a) Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
b) Babylonia: cities of Babylon and Ur.
c) Persian Gulf
d) Red Sea
e) Mediterranean
f) Black Sea
g) Turkey / Asia Minor
h) Greece
i) Arabia
Thursday's quiz, Sept. 22: Historic Middle East Map,
as above.
Monday, September 19, 2005
Air conditioning and geography
Sept 19
"Without air conditioning the city of Houston, our 4th largest city, would not exist." That's a famous, if apocryphal, quote.
About the background of air conditioning:
The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used wet mats to cool indoor air. They hung the mats over the doors to their tents and other dwellings. When wind blew through the mats, evaporation of the water cooled the air. The people of India later used this method to cool the royal palaces. About 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian artist and scientist, built the first mechanical fan to provide ventilation. Water power turned the fan. In 1553, the English developed a rotary fan to ventilate mines.
- World Book 05
Modern A/C history begins with Cornell U. engineer Willis Carrier. About 1902 he developed the electrical A/C that we now take for granted. For more on Carrier, please see inventors.about.com.
Charles Panati also points out in his best-selling Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things that the Egyptians used the arid climate of their nation in cooling. They placed a clay tray of water on a bed of straw at nightfall. In the morning the water was icy from the cooling effect of evaporation, says Panati.
"Without air conditioning the city of Houston, our 4th largest city, would not exist." That's a famous, if apocryphal, quote.
About the background of air conditioning:
The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used wet mats to cool indoor air. They hung the mats over the doors to their tents and other dwellings. When wind blew through the mats, evaporation of the water cooled the air. The people of India later used this method to cool the royal palaces. About 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian artist and scientist, built the first mechanical fan to provide ventilation. Water power turned the fan. In 1553, the English developed a rotary fan to ventilate mines.
- World Book 05
Modern A/C history begins with Cornell U. engineer Willis Carrier. About 1902 he developed the electrical A/C that we now take for granted. For more on Carrier, please see inventors.about.com.
Charles Panati also points out in his best-selling Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things that the Egyptians used the arid climate of their nation in cooling. They placed a clay tray of water on a bed of straw at nightfall. In the morning the water was icy from the cooling effect of evaporation, says Panati.
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Mapping: the Mercator projection and other formats
Week of Sept 19: the types of maps we can use to render the earth and our neighborhoods.
Cartography is what we call this business. Here's Wikipedia's overview: Wikipedia.com/cartography.
Also, here's a sample of the history of cartography: Mapping.
When we meet our objectives in map types, we will apply what we've learned to a study of Manhattan and Brooklyn, or N Y C. The purpose of the New York unit is to get you ready to visit the Big Apple and to understand the forces that have made it the world's business and culture capital.
Cartography is what we call this business. Here's Wikipedia's overview: Wikipedia.com/cartography.
Also, here's a sample of the history of cartography: Mapping.
When we meet our objectives in map types, we will apply what we've learned to a study of Manhattan and Brooklyn, or N Y C. The purpose of the New York unit is to get you ready to visit the Big Apple and to understand the forces that have made it the world's business and culture capital.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Absences on Thursdays to be Avoided
Thursday is test day and assignments-due-day in this geography class.
Attendance is a classic indicator of success in school. High attendance and awareness of test days is a sign that indicates thoughtful approach and effective response. Being lax in attendance is simply Not in your best interest, especially in your first year in a demanding high school.
Ask your parents about their evaluation of attendance as a lifetime habit.
If your progress reports do not yield the same results you experienced in middle school, should you panic? No. The average student at CMHS has quite an adjustment to make to mee the demands of CMHS. THis is a college prep curriculum. Your classes should be more demanding across the board.
In geography class your modus operandi should be
a) build your points by writing extra credit essays and
b) look at the tests on this site with your parents so you can develop your reading and response skill. I'll be happy to help, too. Email me with questions.
Soon I'll have a once a week after-school Writer's Workshop, 3:40 to 4:10, to give more aid.
Attendance is a classic indicator of success in school. High attendance and awareness of test days is a sign that indicates thoughtful approach and effective response. Being lax in attendance is simply Not in your best interest, especially in your first year in a demanding high school.
Ask your parents about their evaluation of attendance as a lifetime habit.
If your progress reports do not yield the same results you experienced in middle school, should you panic? No. The average student at CMHS has quite an adjustment to make to mee the demands of CMHS. THis is a college prep curriculum. Your classes should be more demanding across the board.
In geography class your modus operandi should be
a) build your points by writing extra credit essays and
b) look at the tests on this site with your parents so you can develop your reading and response skill. I'll be happy to help, too. Email me with questions.
Soon I'll have a once a week after-school Writer's Workshop, 3:40 to 4:10, to give more aid.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Memphis, TN, Pyramid on the Mississippi
Sept 14
Rivers and civilizations
Sketch an informal map of the Miss. Valley.
* 10 bordering states
* 5 big tributaries
* the alternative outlet: Atchafalaya R.
See also Sabine R and Pearl R.
Please see wikipedia.org.
Why study this great basin? Is it at all connected to our study of the Katrina disaster? How so?
superfluous: unnecessary material
Rivers and civilizations
Sketch an informal map of the Miss. Valley.
* 10 bordering states
* 5 big tributaries
* the alternative outlet: Atchafalaya R.
See also Sabine R and Pearl R.
Please see wikipedia.org.
Why study this great basin? Is it at all connected to our study of the Katrina disaster? How so?
superfluous: unnecessary material
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Nat Geo photo by Robert Caputo, Oct 04, explaining the Katrina scenario
Sept 12 - 16
Parents: Thursday, Sept 15, 6 pm, is Back to School Night. Parking will be at a premium; I recommend you arrive at 5:30 pm. Report to the PAC or to my room, C-4.
* Meet the teachers and wave at your fellow parents.
* Sign up and pay dues for Friends of Magnet (PTSA) and other helpful organizations.
* Purchase a CMHS T-shirt or sign.
* Volunteer for committees so you can enjoy and employ the CMHS network.
* Enjoy the ambience at one of Louisiana’s most productive schools. It will wrap at 7:45.
The Big Uneasy
Mon. through Thursday geo classes will read the National Geographic story from October, 04, that literate people are currently discussing. It is called “Gone with the Water” and fluently presents the storm scenario played out with Katrina. But it is not simply an “I told you so” story. It explains the forces that created the catastrophe and explores solutions.
See the story at NatGeoOct04
Activities
a) Read the story for summary notes on the factual material.
b) Derive material that will allow a student to predict the future of South Louisiana’s physical geography.
c) Collect material that assesses the importance of South Louisiana to the nation.
d) Present the story in graphical form, including both graphs and maps.
e) Read about the 1927 Mississippi River flood as described in wikipedia.com’s article at Wikipedia.orgMissFlood1927.
f) Make a list of geographical terms from the article.
g) Create a multiple-choice vocabulary quiz.
h) Use the atlas in mapping the story’s chief geographical points.
NatGeo vocabulary:
Big Easy - NO nickname based on Big Apple
homage - honor
Ash Wed. - day after Mardi Gras; first day of Lent
maelstrom - whirling storm
infirm - ill or incapable
berm - built-up land
Apocalypse - end of world through violent destruction.
dehydration - lack of water
putrid - rotten
sediment - dirt issolved in water.
chinks - gap
global warming - recent climate trend
barrier islands - narrow island close to coast
subsidence - sinking land
deluge - flood
levees - land raised as a barrier to water flow.
brackish - mixed salt water and fresh water.
1/3 US oil production or transportation: Louisiana
1/4 US natural gas: Louisiana
2nd in US fish: Louisiana
La Coastal Area project - attempt to restore lost land.
geomorphologist - studies changing geography
breaching - breaking
spillways - gate in a levee for relieving flood pressure.
diversions - to change, or divert, the course of the water.
culvert - man-made waterway under a road
prototype - initial model
lush - rich
restoration - to rebuild
US Corps of Engineers
$300 million seafood - Louisiana
1st oil well: 1901 - Louisiana
ubiquitous - found everywhere.
deep offshore wells - important source of US oil.
1/3 US domestic oil production - flows through La.
ANWR Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge
Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) - supertankers 18 miles in the Gulf offloading or onloading oil via pipelines.
supertankers - modern international oil carriers.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve - oil reserves set aside for national emergency.
saline formation - salt dome; associated with oil deposits.
induced subsidence - forced sinking of land.
Bayou LaFourche / Bayou Terrebonne - rural land below Baton Rouge.
Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary - bay southwest of New Orleans.
beignet - fried treat.
Cafe du Monde - Cafe of the World (all the people)
torpid - very hot and humid.
licentious - enjoying pleasures of the flesh.
“short-term advantages can be gained by exploiting the environment”
1. Pre-test: Write a 3-sentence summary of the physical elements of Katrina's destruction.
2. Sketch the principal items of New Orleans from a Rand McNally map:
* Vieux Carre, or French Quarter
* Miss. R.
* Lake Pontchartrain
* Pontchartrain Causeway
* Metairie, the biggest suburb
* UNO, SUNO
* Tulane, Loyola, Xavier
* St. Bernard parish
* Plaquemines parish
3. Read "Gone with the water," Nat Geo., Oct 04
4. Take notes on vocabulary and the italicized sections.
5. Create 2 graphs (or a timeline) from the article info to add to your sketch map of NO.
6. Design a New Orleans Problems and Solutions page. Find a way to explain the relationship of the city to the river and gulf both in writing and graphics.
Ex:
Annual floods spread alluvial soil in ancient times, making rich crops.
Growing population of the city calls for flood protection: levees are built.
River unable to flood past levees. Silt flows to the Gulf. City grows.
Silt being borne by the river extends the land of the river delta.
Oil & gas and shipping issues lead to creation of network of canals along coast and river.
Oil & gas drilling causes subsidence. Canal network increases the erosion of the coastline.
Global warming results in higher seas, difficult storms.
Coastal marshes and barrier islands are eroded.
Storms have greater impact on the coast and city.
7. Predict the future of the Louisiana coastline, using the material in the NatGeo article.
8. Summarize the ways in which New Orleans is important to the US. Use colorful graphics as well as statistics.
9. Research and sketch a brief map of the Mississippi Valley and its 5 great tributaries.
Here's my test on decoding the National Geographic story:
National Geographic: “Gone with the Water,” Oct, 04 / Trudeau / Geo test 2
Choose the best answer possible.
1. Louisiana’s coast can expect greater damage from the sea, says a climatologist. One reason: a) barrier islands b) global warming c) marsh sediment d) spring floods.
2. Before the Mississippi levees were built, what factor prevented coastal erosion?
a) floods b) canals c) marshes d) FEMA.
3. Before 1927 the Mississippi Valley sediment frequently flowed into the fields surrounding the river. After 1927 the sediment flowed to the a) wetlands b) brackish marshes c) gulf d) canals.
4. Petroleum exploration and ship traffic have caused salt water to a) penetrate
b) retreat from c) stabilize Louisiana’s brackish marshes (“brackish” means mixed salt water and fresh water).
5. The oil being transported through Louisiana’s wetlands amounts to some a) 30% b) 50% c) 90% of America’s supplies.
6. Commercial fisheries in America are ranked, acc. to NatGeo: a) Florida-Alaska-Louisiana b) Florida-Louisiana-Alaska c) Louisiana-Florida-Alaska d) Alaska-Louisiana.
7. The US Corps of Engineers seems to have made a costly coastal error in constructing a) a channel to serve as a shortcut for freighters b) the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) project c) the Atchafalaya Delta.
8. Breaching the levees with a set of gated spillways, says a coastal geomorphologist, will have this effect on the coastal marsh: a) build up b) increase in erosion c) subsidence.
9. The success story on the Louisiana coastline is a) the Caernavon Diversion
b) Atchafalaya River c) La. Coastal Area (LCA) project.
10. The US Corps of Engineers allows only a third of the Mississippi’s water to flow out via the Atchafalaya channel. The reason? a) dissolving coastal marsh b) build-up of the Atchafalaya Delta c) loss of water supply for Lower Mississippi towns d) stabilization of the shoreline.
11. This article implies that Louisiana’s commercial shrimp fishing industry has almost collapsed. T / F
12. The La Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) enables supertankers to deliver some 15% of America’s oil. This petroleum is categorized as a) domestic b) foreign c) natural gas d) Louisiana muck.
13. Low taxes and high-paying jobs have come to Louisiana via the __ industry.
a) shipping b) fisheries c) tourism d) petroleum.
14. According to NatGeo, regional depressurization, or subsidence, will likely continue due to the high price of a) coastal restoration b) natural gas c) seafood d) flood relief.
15. In one or two sentences . . .
a) explain the engineer’s observation that “short term advantages can be gained by exploiting the environment. But in the long term you’re going to pay for it.” (“exploiting means “taking advantage of”).
Also, b) give an example of the short term vs. long term as presented in this article.
Priorities: grammar, spelling and legibility. (3 pts.)
Parents: Thursday, Sept 15, 6 pm, is Back to School Night. Parking will be at a premium; I recommend you arrive at 5:30 pm. Report to the PAC or to my room, C-4.
* Meet the teachers and wave at your fellow parents.
* Sign up and pay dues for Friends of Magnet (PTSA) and other helpful organizations.
* Purchase a CMHS T-shirt or sign.
* Volunteer for committees so you can enjoy and employ the CMHS network.
* Enjoy the ambience at one of Louisiana’s most productive schools. It will wrap at 7:45.
The Big Uneasy
Mon. through Thursday geo classes will read the National Geographic story from October, 04, that literate people are currently discussing. It is called “Gone with the Water” and fluently presents the storm scenario played out with Katrina. But it is not simply an “I told you so” story. It explains the forces that created the catastrophe and explores solutions.
See the story at NatGeoOct04
Activities
a) Read the story for summary notes on the factual material.
b) Derive material that will allow a student to predict the future of South Louisiana’s physical geography.
c) Collect material that assesses the importance of South Louisiana to the nation.
d) Present the story in graphical form, including both graphs and maps.
e) Read about the 1927 Mississippi River flood as described in wikipedia.com’s article at Wikipedia.orgMissFlood1927.
f) Make a list of geographical terms from the article.
g) Create a multiple-choice vocabulary quiz.
h) Use the atlas in mapping the story’s chief geographical points.
NatGeo vocabulary:
Big Easy - NO nickname based on Big Apple
homage - honor
Ash Wed. - day after Mardi Gras; first day of Lent
maelstrom - whirling storm
infirm - ill or incapable
berm - built-up land
Apocalypse - end of world through violent destruction.
dehydration - lack of water
putrid - rotten
sediment - dirt issolved in water.
chinks - gap
global warming - recent climate trend
barrier islands - narrow island close to coast
subsidence - sinking land
deluge - flood
levees - land raised as a barrier to water flow.
brackish - mixed salt water and fresh water.
1/3 US oil production or transportation: Louisiana
1/4 US natural gas: Louisiana
2nd in US fish: Louisiana
La Coastal Area project - attempt to restore lost land.
geomorphologist - studies changing geography
breaching - breaking
spillways - gate in a levee for relieving flood pressure.
diversions - to change, or divert, the course of the water.
culvert - man-made waterway under a road
prototype - initial model
lush - rich
restoration - to rebuild
US Corps of Engineers
$300 million seafood - Louisiana
1st oil well: 1901 - Louisiana
ubiquitous - found everywhere.
deep offshore wells - important source of US oil.
1/3 US domestic oil production - flows through La.
ANWR Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge
Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) - supertankers 18 miles in the Gulf offloading or onloading oil via pipelines.
supertankers - modern international oil carriers.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve - oil reserves set aside for national emergency.
saline formation - salt dome; associated with oil deposits.
induced subsidence - forced sinking of land.
Bayou LaFourche / Bayou Terrebonne - rural land below Baton Rouge.
Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary - bay southwest of New Orleans.
beignet - fried treat.
Cafe du Monde - Cafe of the World (all the people)
torpid - very hot and humid.
licentious - enjoying pleasures of the flesh.
“short-term advantages can be gained by exploiting the environment”
1. Pre-test: Write a 3-sentence summary of the physical elements of Katrina's destruction.
2. Sketch the principal items of New Orleans from a Rand McNally map:
* Vieux Carre, or French Quarter
* Miss. R.
* Lake Pontchartrain
* Pontchartrain Causeway
* Metairie, the biggest suburb
* UNO, SUNO
* Tulane, Loyola, Xavier
* St. Bernard parish
* Plaquemines parish
3. Read "Gone with the water," Nat Geo., Oct 04
4. Take notes on vocabulary and the italicized sections.
5. Create 2 graphs (or a timeline) from the article info to add to your sketch map of NO.
6. Design a New Orleans Problems and Solutions page. Find a way to explain the relationship of the city to the river and gulf both in writing and graphics.
Ex:
Annual floods spread alluvial soil in ancient times, making rich crops.
Growing population of the city calls for flood protection: levees are built.
River unable to flood past levees. Silt flows to the Gulf. City grows.
Silt being borne by the river extends the land of the river delta.
Oil & gas and shipping issues lead to creation of network of canals along coast and river.
Oil & gas drilling causes subsidence. Canal network increases the erosion of the coastline.
Global warming results in higher seas, difficult storms.
Coastal marshes and barrier islands are eroded.
Storms have greater impact on the coast and city.
7. Predict the future of the Louisiana coastline, using the material in the NatGeo article.
8. Summarize the ways in which New Orleans is important to the US. Use colorful graphics as well as statistics.
9. Research and sketch a brief map of the Mississippi Valley and its 5 great tributaries.
Here's my test on decoding the National Geographic story:
National Geographic: “Gone with the Water,” Oct, 04 / Trudeau / Geo test 2
Choose the best answer possible.
1. Louisiana’s coast can expect greater damage from the sea, says a climatologist. One reason: a) barrier islands b) global warming c) marsh sediment d) spring floods.
2. Before the Mississippi levees were built, what factor prevented coastal erosion?
a) floods b) canals c) marshes d) FEMA.
3. Before 1927 the Mississippi Valley sediment frequently flowed into the fields surrounding the river. After 1927 the sediment flowed to the a) wetlands b) brackish marshes c) gulf d) canals.
4. Petroleum exploration and ship traffic have caused salt water to a) penetrate
b) retreat from c) stabilize Louisiana’s brackish marshes (“brackish” means mixed salt water and fresh water).
5. The oil being transported through Louisiana’s wetlands amounts to some a) 30% b) 50% c) 90% of America’s supplies.
6. Commercial fisheries in America are ranked, acc. to NatGeo: a) Florida-Alaska-Louisiana b) Florida-Louisiana-Alaska c) Louisiana-Florida-Alaska d) Alaska-Louisiana.
7. The US Corps of Engineers seems to have made a costly coastal error in constructing a) a channel to serve as a shortcut for freighters b) the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) project c) the Atchafalaya Delta.
8. Breaching the levees with a set of gated spillways, says a coastal geomorphologist, will have this effect on the coastal marsh: a) build up b) increase in erosion c) subsidence.
9. The success story on the Louisiana coastline is a) the Caernavon Diversion
b) Atchafalaya River c) La. Coastal Area (LCA) project.
10. The US Corps of Engineers allows only a third of the Mississippi’s water to flow out via the Atchafalaya channel. The reason? a) dissolving coastal marsh b) build-up of the Atchafalaya Delta c) loss of water supply for Lower Mississippi towns d) stabilization of the shoreline.
11. This article implies that Louisiana’s commercial shrimp fishing industry has almost collapsed. T / F
12. The La Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) enables supertankers to deliver some 15% of America’s oil. This petroleum is categorized as a) domestic b) foreign c) natural gas d) Louisiana muck.
13. Low taxes and high-paying jobs have come to Louisiana via the __ industry.
a) shipping b) fisheries c) tourism d) petroleum.
14. According to NatGeo, regional depressurization, or subsidence, will likely continue due to the high price of a) coastal restoration b) natural gas c) seafood d) flood relief.
15. In one or two sentences . . .
a) explain the engineer’s observation that “short term advantages can be gained by exploiting the environment. But in the long term you’re going to pay for it.” (“exploiting means “taking advantage of”).
Also, b) give an example of the short term vs. long term as presented in this article.
Priorities: grammar, spelling and legibility. (3 pts.)
Friday, September 09, 2005
Mother and son: Haiti / comparison essays and bonus work
Bonus credit comparison essays:
* Research and compare the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
* Research and compare the lives of Sudanese refugees with the Katrina evacuees.
* Research and compare the profiles of Haiti and Puerto Rico.
* Powerpoint research and comparison of the above topics. Please see me for additional guidelines.
Your score will depend on your adherence to the blue sheet on Essay Guidelines. Up to 10 pts.
Russian leaders: Putin, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Stalin and Lenin
The terms Communism and socialism are frequently confused, says World Book. Communists usually refer to their beliefs and goals as "socialist." But socialists do not consider themselves Communists. Communists and socialists both seek public ownership or regulation of the principal means of production. But most socialists favor peaceful and legal methods to achieve their goals, while Communists have often used force without regard to law. Socialism may or may not be based on the teachings of Marx. Communism is based on the teachings of both Marx and Lenin.
* Lenin and Stalin were the seminal communist leaders.
* Gorbachev and Yeltsin restructured Russia and ended some 70 years of communism.
* Putin is today's dictatorial leader of the new capitalist state of Russia.
* This matrioshka - a nesting doll - is a traditional craft item of Russia.
* Lenin and Stalin were the seminal communist leaders.
* Gorbachev and Yeltsin restructured Russia and ended some 70 years of communism.
* Putin is today's dictatorial leader of the new capitalist state of Russia.
* This matrioshka - a nesting doll - is a traditional craft item of Russia.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Hand-drawn Caribbean quiz Thursday
Students must be able to take a blank sheet of paper and - with no notes - sketch and label the land masses, seas, nations and municipalities we've studied.
* 4 bodies of water, including the Gulf Stream
* 6 island nations
* 2 peninsulas
* remainder of the total 15 items can be cities or islands
Notes:
* Caribbean tourism capitals - Kingston, San Juan, Nassau.
* New Orleans' economy, like the economies of Caribbean nations, has come to be dominated by tourism, acc. to Gannett News. The port also contributes to the city's revenue, via shipments of grain and petroleum.
* FEMA: acronym, Fed Emergency Management Agency.
* Who gives FEMA its budget and guidelines? Congress.
* Two states not directly affected by Katrina that are now "emergency areas"? TX, AR
* International aid agency w/ a branch at cmhs? Red Cross.
* Nations in similar need of aid in recent history: East Af. nations of Ethiopia and Somalia. East European nation, Bosnia. Central Asian nation, Afghanistan.
Cuba and 4 additional nations are the remaining communist entities. * Quick, simple definition of communist nation:
1. Totalitarian govt.
2. Govt also controls the economy, which includes all business, land, products and employment.
Communist nations? 1. Cuba 2. China 3. Vietnam 4. North Korea 5. Laos (a neighbor of Vietnam).
Whic h communist nation has recently dropped the part about government control of business? China.
Vocabulary:
ethical
ethnic
philanthropist (Bill & Melinda GGates, Rockefellers, Virginia Sheehee).
Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current
palmetto
Gannett Corp. / Canada / Washington, DC. / USA Today
Caribs and Arawaks
indigenous
decimated
Bonus credit comparison essays:
* Research and compare the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
* Research and compare the lives of Sudanese refugees with the Katrina evacuees.
Your score will depend on your adherence to the blue sheet on Essay Guidelines. Up to 10 pts.
* 4 bodies of water, including the Gulf Stream
* 6 island nations
* 2 peninsulas
* remainder of the total 15 items can be cities or islands
Notes:
* Caribbean tourism capitals - Kingston, San Juan, Nassau.
* New Orleans' economy, like the economies of Caribbean nations, has come to be dominated by tourism, acc. to Gannett News. The port also contributes to the city's revenue, via shipments of grain and petroleum.
* FEMA: acronym, Fed Emergency Management Agency.
* Who gives FEMA its budget and guidelines? Congress.
* Two states not directly affected by Katrina that are now "emergency areas"? TX, AR
* International aid agency w/ a branch at cmhs? Red Cross.
* Nations in similar need of aid in recent history: East Af. nations of Ethiopia and Somalia. East European nation, Bosnia. Central Asian nation, Afghanistan.
Cuba and 4 additional nations are the remaining communist entities. * Quick, simple definition of communist nation:
1. Totalitarian govt.
2. Govt also controls the economy, which includes all business, land, products and employment.
Communist nations? 1. Cuba 2. China 3. Vietnam 4. North Korea 5. Laos (a neighbor of Vietnam).
Whic h communist nation has recently dropped the part about government control of business? China.
Vocabulary:
ethical
ethnic
philanthropist (Bill & Melinda GGates, Rockefellers, Virginia Sheehee).
Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current
palmetto
Gannett Corp. / Canada / Washington, DC. / USA Today
Caribs and Arawaks
indigenous
decimated
Bonus credit comparison essays:
* Research and compare the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
* Research and compare the lives of Sudanese refugees with the Katrina evacuees.
Your score will depend on your adherence to the blue sheet on Essay Guidelines. Up to 10 pts.
Cuba: communism, poverty, embargo, Spanish-Creole culture
Cuba has been a communist nation for the past 45 years. Dictator Fidel Castro has tenaciously withstood the US trade and travel embargo against his country.
* Cuba is only 90 miles from Key West.
* pop: 11 M
* Havana, pop. 2.6 M
* Spanish-speaking
* Per Capita income (PCI): $3000
* exports: sugar, tobacco, nickel, citrus
Infoplease.com
* Cuba is only 90 miles from Key West.
* pop: 11 M
* Havana, pop. 2.6 M
* Spanish-speaking
* Per Capita income (PCI): $3000
* exports: sugar, tobacco, nickel, citrus
Infoplease.com
Monday, September 05, 2005
Rooftop Rescue
Below: an article for my students to read Tuesday. We will write a comparison of the Sudanese immigrants' and the storm evacuees' problems in class Wednesday.
Evacuee crisis could take years to solve
Editors:@ UPDATES with FEMA saying it wants to keep evacuees in the South.
By CHUCK RAASCH, GNS Political Writer
WASHINGTON – The government and aid groups are trying to come to grips with a domestic challenge they usually meet in poorer countries: hundreds of thousands of people who need food, clothing and shelter for an undetermined period of time.
Sports stadiums, civic centers, churches and private homes have become shelters for the evacuees.
— The population of Baton Rouge, 70 miles west of New Orleans, doubled within a week as the Louisiana state capital was inundated with Katrina victims and relief workers. All apartments have been rented and all available buildings filled with refugees.
— Houston had to divert buses of New Orleans evacuees to its convention center after the Astrodome filled up.
— Tennessee, which already had 12,700 evacuees Friday, is preparing for as many as 18,000 more. Gov. Phil Bredesen wants them housed at National Guard armories, vacant schools, churches and other smaller shelters instead of sports stadiums. “I think it’s a more sensible way of trying to handle large numbers of people,’’ he said.
— A private airline that delivered food from an Indiana supermarket chain to New Orleans returned to Indianapolis with 60 evacuees Friday night. “I'm going to tell them that this city will embrace them," Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson told reporters before the Republic Airways plane landed.
— Iowa’s governor offered to have his state take in as many as 5,000 hurricane evacuees, putting them up in apartments or college dorms.
Images of desperate Gulf Coast residents languishing without food or water for days prompted offers of shelter from states as far away as Pennsylvania and Minnesota. But Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say the government will focus on relocating hurricane evacuees within the South.
Federal officials Saturday said many families may not return to their home areas if they are evacuated to far-flung states. A permanent mass exodus of residents could deal an even harsher economic blow to the South, FEMA said.
The human flood out of the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast is so massive that President Bush on Friday declared neighboring Arkansas and Texas federal emergency areas.
By week’s end, the American Red Cross had already set up 275 emergency shelters in 16 states to deal with the human stream from Hurricane Katrina. Another 100-plus shelters were on standby.
But the long-term housing prognosis of these refugees, and thousands of others, remains unknown. Government and charity group officials are still struggling to get their arms around what could be the largest displacement of Americans since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when years of drought caused the southern Plains states to become unlivable.
"Ultimately, we’re talking about dislocations of hundreds of thousands of people,” Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff warned. “That will be a challenge for this country on par with challenges we've seen overseas."
In recent history, Americans have been on the giving end of refugee response, meeting challenges in places like Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bosnia with private and government relief funds. American organizations like World Vision, Mercy Corps and Church World Service specialize in crisis response, parlaying government and individual donations into tent cities and health care for people displaced by war, drought and famine.
But now, the need is at home. Many of these organizations have sent in reconnaissance teams to assess where they can most help. Foreign governments and the United Nations have even offered help.
James Bishop, director of Humanitarian Response for InterAction, a consortium of private relief agencies, estimated there will be tens of thousands of people who are going to require long-term assistance, and the number may be larger than that.
“These are people without assets or support systems because what was keeping them going in New Orleans is not there any more,” he said.
Bishop talked Friday with officials at the United Nation’s disaster response office who are ready to offer technical relocation assistance as soon as the U.S. government asks for it.
“What they would probably have to offer is not food or medicine, but expertise,” he said.
The first wave of refugees out of New Orleans and other flood-ravaged areas has been met with a much-criticized government effort, as well as a spontaneous effort from churches, private groups and individuals. A Web site set up by Moveon.org’s nonpartisan arm, www.hurricanehousing.org, produced offers for nearly 50,000 beds from private individuals in its first 24 hours online. Offers came as far away as tiny Rosholt, S.D.
There are countless stories of family members landing on the doorsteps of relatives hundreds of miles away.
Indianapolis Police Detective Arleatha Marble got a call Wednesday from a cousin saying she and other New Orleans relatives, ages 1 to 65, were on their way.
"You said how many?" Marble recalled saying. "Twenty-five," was the response.
Bishop said this crisis could eventually be rivaled in American history only by the numbers who fled the Plains’ Dust Bowl or Gen. Sherman’s blazing march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War.
“When you go to Gulfport, Biloxi and Hattiesburg and all along the coastal line, and you see the evacuation of one of the major cities in the United States, you can see this is going to be years,” said Major Gen. George Hood, the Salvation Army’s national community relations secretary. “The economy of this area is in a state of chaos.”
Hood pointed out that 30,000 people were still living in temporary housing a year after Florida was hit with two hurricanes in 2004 that were less devastating than Katrina.
All along the Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana coast, “there are concrete slabs where houses used to be,” said Hood, who is working in the devastated areas. “There is nothing there, neighborhood after neighborhood. And those were all homes.”
Nat Geo “Gone with the Water” Geo test 2 answers
1. b global warming
2. a floods
3. c gulf
4. a penetrate
5. a 30%
6. d Alaska-Louisiana
7. a freighter channel
8. a build up
9. b Atachafalaya
10. c keeping South La water supplies free of salt water
11. F
12. b foreign
13. d petroleum
14. b natural gas
15. After some 80 years (since 1927) of using levees, the city area has grown to about 1.2 million people and is a success as a tourist destination. But the payback has arrived. The city has become a bowl-shaped site that is terribly vulnerable to the effects of severe storms. Hurricane Katrina has wiped out many of the businesses and people whose safety and jobs depended on the levee system.
Alternative: Louisiana has gained many high-paying jobs and much state revenue by allowing the oil companies limitless ability to explore and drill for oil. But the canals dug and the oil extracted from the ground have contributed to erosion and subsidence and an alarming loss of coastal wetlands. The loss of coastal land to salt water looks like a long-term trend that is almost unstoppable. It seems Louisiana is paying the price of coastal land loss for the oil monies gained during the past century.
Evacuee crisis could take years to solve
Editors:@ UPDATES with FEMA saying it wants to keep evacuees in the South.
By CHUCK RAASCH, GNS Political Writer
WASHINGTON – The government and aid groups are trying to come to grips with a domestic challenge they usually meet in poorer countries: hundreds of thousands of people who need food, clothing and shelter for an undetermined period of time.
Sports stadiums, civic centers, churches and private homes have become shelters for the evacuees.
— The population of Baton Rouge, 70 miles west of New Orleans, doubled within a week as the Louisiana state capital was inundated with Katrina victims and relief workers. All apartments have been rented and all available buildings filled with refugees.
— Houston had to divert buses of New Orleans evacuees to its convention center after the Astrodome filled up.
— Tennessee, which already had 12,700 evacuees Friday, is preparing for as many as 18,000 more. Gov. Phil Bredesen wants them housed at National Guard armories, vacant schools, churches and other smaller shelters instead of sports stadiums. “I think it’s a more sensible way of trying to handle large numbers of people,’’ he said.
— A private airline that delivered food from an Indiana supermarket chain to New Orleans returned to Indianapolis with 60 evacuees Friday night. “I'm going to tell them that this city will embrace them," Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson told reporters before the Republic Airways plane landed.
— Iowa’s governor offered to have his state take in as many as 5,000 hurricane evacuees, putting them up in apartments or college dorms.
Images of desperate Gulf Coast residents languishing without food or water for days prompted offers of shelter from states as far away as Pennsylvania and Minnesota. But Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say the government will focus on relocating hurricane evacuees within the South.
Federal officials Saturday said many families may not return to their home areas if they are evacuated to far-flung states. A permanent mass exodus of residents could deal an even harsher economic blow to the South, FEMA said.
The human flood out of the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast is so massive that President Bush on Friday declared neighboring Arkansas and Texas federal emergency areas.
By week’s end, the American Red Cross had already set up 275 emergency shelters in 16 states to deal with the human stream from Hurricane Katrina. Another 100-plus shelters were on standby.
But the long-term housing prognosis of these refugees, and thousands of others, remains unknown. Government and charity group officials are still struggling to get their arms around what could be the largest displacement of Americans since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when years of drought caused the southern Plains states to become unlivable.
"Ultimately, we’re talking about dislocations of hundreds of thousands of people,” Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff warned. “That will be a challenge for this country on par with challenges we've seen overseas."
In recent history, Americans have been on the giving end of refugee response, meeting challenges in places like Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bosnia with private and government relief funds. American organizations like World Vision, Mercy Corps and Church World Service specialize in crisis response, parlaying government and individual donations into tent cities and health care for people displaced by war, drought and famine.
But now, the need is at home. Many of these organizations have sent in reconnaissance teams to assess where they can most help. Foreign governments and the United Nations have even offered help.
James Bishop, director of Humanitarian Response for InterAction, a consortium of private relief agencies, estimated there will be tens of thousands of people who are going to require long-term assistance, and the number may be larger than that.
“These are people without assets or support systems because what was keeping them going in New Orleans is not there any more,” he said.
Bishop talked Friday with officials at the United Nation’s disaster response office who are ready to offer technical relocation assistance as soon as the U.S. government asks for it.
“What they would probably have to offer is not food or medicine, but expertise,” he said.
The first wave of refugees out of New Orleans and other flood-ravaged areas has been met with a much-criticized government effort, as well as a spontaneous effort from churches, private groups and individuals. A Web site set up by Moveon.org’s nonpartisan arm, www.hurricanehousing.org, produced offers for nearly 50,000 beds from private individuals in its first 24 hours online. Offers came as far away as tiny Rosholt, S.D.
There are countless stories of family members landing on the doorsteps of relatives hundreds of miles away.
Indianapolis Police Detective Arleatha Marble got a call Wednesday from a cousin saying she and other New Orleans relatives, ages 1 to 65, were on their way.
"You said how many?" Marble recalled saying. "Twenty-five," was the response.
Bishop said this crisis could eventually be rivaled in American history only by the numbers who fled the Plains’ Dust Bowl or Gen. Sherman’s blazing march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War.
“When you go to Gulfport, Biloxi and Hattiesburg and all along the coastal line, and you see the evacuation of one of the major cities in the United States, you can see this is going to be years,” said Major Gen. George Hood, the Salvation Army’s national community relations secretary. “The economy of this area is in a state of chaos.”
Hood pointed out that 30,000 people were still living in temporary housing a year after Florida was hit with two hurricanes in 2004 that were less devastating than Katrina.
All along the Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana coast, “there are concrete slabs where houses used to be,” said Hood, who is working in the devastated areas. “There is nothing there, neighborhood after neighborhood. And those were all homes.”
Nat Geo “Gone with the Water” Geo test 2 answers
1. b global warming
2. a floods
3. c gulf
4. a penetrate
5. a 30%
6. d Alaska-Louisiana
7. a freighter channel
8. a build up
9. b Atachafalaya
10. c keeping South La water supplies free of salt water
11. F
12. b foreign
13. d petroleum
14. b natural gas
15. After some 80 years (since 1927) of using levees, the city area has grown to about 1.2 million people and is a success as a tourist destination. But the payback has arrived. The city has become a bowl-shaped site that is terribly vulnerable to the effects of severe storms. Hurricane Katrina has wiped out many of the businesses and people whose safety and jobs depended on the levee system.
Alternative: Louisiana has gained many high-paying jobs and much state revenue by allowing the oil companies limitless ability to explore and drill for oil. But the canals dug and the oil extracted from the ground have contributed to erosion and subsidence and an alarming loss of coastal wetlands. The loss of coastal land to salt water looks like a long-term trend that is almost unstoppable. It seems Louisiana is paying the price of coastal land loss for the oil monies gained during the past century.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Crank-powered $100 laptops for the impoverished: MIT design
In a rural Cambodian village where the homes lack electricity, the nighttime darkness is pierced by the glow from laptops that children bring from school. The students were equipped with notebook computers by a foundation run by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte and his wife Elaine.
"When the kids bring them home and open them up, it's the brightest light source in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents love it."
Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are hard at work on a project they hope will brighten the lives and prospects of hundreds of millions of developing world kids. It's a grand idea and a daunting challenge: to create rugged, Internet- and multimedia-capable laptop computers at a cost of $100 apiece.
Please see more at MSNBC.com.
"When the kids bring them home and open them up, it's the brightest light source in the home," said Negroponte. "Parents love it."
Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are hard at work on a project they hope will brighten the lives and prospects of hundreds of millions of developing world kids. It's a grand idea and a daunting challenge: to create rugged, Internet- and multimedia-capable laptop computers at a cost of $100 apiece.
Please see more at MSNBC.com.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
kakuma refugee camp kenya / Geo test 1
Here's a copy of our first test. It's designed to stimulate effective note-taking and capable test-taking skills and is called an OpenNotes, OpenAtlas,
MultipleChoice, QuickResponse test.
1. Lost Boys of Sudan presents political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner. Thus we call it a a) drama b) documentary c) reality TV d) direct TV.
2. Bienvenue: a) good luck! b) get well! c) good eating! d) welcome!
3. Demographics is the study of a) populations b) nations c) cities d) ethnic groups.
4. A large organization marked by many layers of authority (such as a government or a school system): a) bureaucracy b) documentary c) benign d) effluvia.
5. An acacia is an African a) plain b) tree c) village d) hut.
6. Name the connection between Ethiopia and Sudan as well as between Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean: a) Islam
b) poverty c) the Nile d) ancient caravan routes.
7. The Upper Nile is in a) southern Egypt b) southern Egypt c) western Egypt.
8. A memory aid: a) acronym b) mnemonic c) ululation.
9. Swahili is the language of a) East Africa b) Mediterranean Africa c) Madagascar
d) Sudan.
10. Population of metropolitan Houston: a) 2.5 M b) 4.5 M
c) 8.5 M d) 40.5 M.
11. The Red River flows through North Louisiana thusly: a) NW to SE b) E to W c) W to E d) SE to NW.
12. In ancient history, which came first to Sudan? a) Christianity
b) Islam c) Buddhism.
13. Just as Sudan's civil war seemed to be coming to an end, another genocidal massacre intensified in the northwestern region of __ .
a) Darfur b) Khartoum c) Libya d) Dinka territory.
14. That the British were colonial masters of Sudan for 150 years is implied by the profile of the nation. You will find a hint in the people’s a) racial characteristics b) languages c) occupations d) educational system.
15. Things that are native to a region are said to be a) indigent
b) indigenous c) inveterate d) individual.
16. Silicon valley is near a) Seattle b) San Francisco c) Los Angeles d) San Diego.
17. Bill Gates’ home and Microsoft world headquarters is in the state of a) Oregon b) California c) Washington d) Texas.
18. Haiti and Dominican Republic are two poor nations on one island: a) Puerto Rico b) Hispaniola c) Cayman Is. d) Port-au-Prince.
19. A chain of islands is referred to as an a) archipelago b) strait
c) alluvial chain d) asylum.
20. Equal day and night: a) equinox b) solstice c) synonymous.
21. Which would produce the longest day of the year? a) summer solstice b) winter solstice c) fall equinox d) spring equinox.
22. Name the ocean current with the greatest impact on Louisiana: a) Gulf of Mexico b) Caribbean c) Gulf Stream d) Labrador Current.
MultipleChoice, QuickResponse test.
1. Lost Boys of Sudan presents political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner. Thus we call it a a) drama b) documentary c) reality TV d) direct TV.
2. Bienvenue: a) good luck! b) get well! c) good eating! d) welcome!
3. Demographics is the study of a) populations b) nations c) cities d) ethnic groups.
4. A large organization marked by many layers of authority (such as a government or a school system): a) bureaucracy b) documentary c) benign d) effluvia.
5. An acacia is an African a) plain b) tree c) village d) hut.
6. Name the connection between Ethiopia and Sudan as well as between Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean: a) Islam
b) poverty c) the Nile d) ancient caravan routes.
7. The Upper Nile is in a) southern Egypt b) southern Egypt c) western Egypt.
8. A memory aid: a) acronym b) mnemonic c) ululation.
9. Swahili is the language of a) East Africa b) Mediterranean Africa c) Madagascar
d) Sudan.
10. Population of metropolitan Houston: a) 2.5 M b) 4.5 M
c) 8.5 M d) 40.5 M.
11. The Red River flows through North Louisiana thusly: a) NW to SE b) E to W c) W to E d) SE to NW.
12. In ancient history, which came first to Sudan? a) Christianity
b) Islam c) Buddhism.
13. Just as Sudan's civil war seemed to be coming to an end, another genocidal massacre intensified in the northwestern region of __ .
a) Darfur b) Khartoum c) Libya d) Dinka territory.
14. That the British were colonial masters of Sudan for 150 years is implied by the profile of the nation. You will find a hint in the people’s a) racial characteristics b) languages c) occupations d) educational system.
15. Things that are native to a region are said to be a) indigent
b) indigenous c) inveterate d) individual.
16. Silicon valley is near a) Seattle b) San Francisco c) Los Angeles d) San Diego.
17. Bill Gates’ home and Microsoft world headquarters is in the state of a) Oregon b) California c) Washington d) Texas.
18. Haiti and Dominican Republic are two poor nations on one island: a) Puerto Rico b) Hispaniola c) Cayman Is. d) Port-au-Prince.
19. A chain of islands is referred to as an a) archipelago b) strait
c) alluvial chain d) asylum.
20. Equal day and night: a) equinox b) solstice c) synonymous.
21. Which would produce the longest day of the year? a) summer solstice b) winter solstice c) fall equinox d) spring equinox.
22. Name the ocean current with the greatest impact on Louisiana: a) Gulf of Mexico b) Caribbean c) Gulf Stream d) Labrador Current.
CMHS enrolls initial refugees from South Louisiana
In my classes today I added a young lady - soon to be 14 - from New Orleans, a fellow from Slidell and a young lady from Metairie. CMHS may enroll scores of refugees in the next few days, we are told.
I am sure some of them have arrived with little in the way of clothes, books and cash. Therefore, please begin looking through your closets and boxes for clean and neat jeans and shirts and school supplies to bring to CMHS. Mrs. Deborah Moorehead is our Red Cross club coordinator and that group can be counted upon for efficient and smart collection and distribution. Her email is dbmorehead@shreve.net.
The photo above was taken in a Baton Rouge shelter by a friend who posts on flickr.com.
I am sure some of them have arrived with little in the way of clothes, books and cash. Therefore, please begin looking through your closets and boxes for clean and neat jeans and shirts and school supplies to bring to CMHS. Mrs. Deborah Moorehead is our Red Cross club coordinator and that group can be counted upon for efficient and smart collection and distribution. Her email is dbmorehead@shreve.net.
The photo above was taken in a Baton Rouge shelter by a friend who posts on flickr.com.
The Gregorian Calendar: 1582, Pope Gregory XIII
September means "seventh" but is the ninth month. That's because, according to infoplease.com, the Julian calendar (Julius Caesar, 45 BC) was updated about 1582 AD under Pope Gregory XIII. The calendar had to be lengthened. The seventh month was bumped to ninth position.
What other months are anomalies? Octo means "eighth" but is the 10th month. Deca, as in December, might be the tenth but is the 12th month.
new words:
septuagenarian
anomaly
What other months are anomalies? Octo means "eighth" but is the 10th month. Deca, as in December, might be the tenth but is the 12th month.
new words:
septuagenarian
anomaly
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
kat
Tipitna's Music Office Co-Op/Shreveport and 516 soundstage present the "Hurricane Party!"
A week full of events to benefit the hurricane victims. Each day features a separate event with proceeds and donations, etc. to assist the displaced hurricane victims.
Wednesday, August 31 9AM- Thursday, September 8 12AM (Midnight)
516 soundstage opens its doors as an air conditioned shelter for displaced musicians and their families. A secure storage facility for music equipment is provided, as well as a drop off point for canned goods, clothing, toys, and toiletries to be distributed through the Red Cross and Christian Service.
Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
OTHER EVENTS INCLUDE:
Wednesday, August 31 7PM-until: ACOUSTIC JAM
Open acoustic jam with Kurt Copeland and the Congregation. Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
Thursday, September 1 7PM-until: SONGWRITER'S NIGHT
Hosted by Heather Romero. Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
Friday and Saturday, September 2nd & 3rd: SCHEDULED SHOWS
The shows must go on. Featuring American Tragedy.
SUNDAY, September 4th, 11AM-MIDNIGHT: HURRICANE JAM!
Bring canned goods, clothing & toiletry donations, etc. as admission. Line up includes: Dirtfoot, Mars Vegas, Infinite Division, Redshift, DJ Jalapeno, Artscool, DJ Quickie Mart, Amelia Blake, Heather Romero, and many others.
Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
All times are subject to change.
For more information contact:
Dan Garner at Tipitina's Music Office Co-Op/Shreveport (318) 934-0000
or Tom E. Gun (318) 226-0901.
A week full of events to benefit the hurricane victims. Each day features a separate event with proceeds and donations, etc. to assist the displaced hurricane victims.
Wednesday, August 31 9AM- Thursday, September 8 12AM (Midnight)
516 soundstage opens its doors as an air conditioned shelter for displaced musicians and their families. A secure storage facility for music equipment is provided, as well as a drop off point for canned goods, clothing, toys, and toiletries to be distributed through the Red Cross and Christian Service.
Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
OTHER EVENTS INCLUDE:
Wednesday, August 31 7PM-until: ACOUSTIC JAM
Open acoustic jam with Kurt Copeland and the Congregation. Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
Thursday, September 1 7PM-until: SONGWRITER'S NIGHT
Hosted by Heather Romero. Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
Friday and Saturday, September 2nd & 3rd: SCHEDULED SHOWS
The shows must go on. Featuring American Tragedy.
SUNDAY, September 4th, 11AM-MIDNIGHT: HURRICANE JAM!
Bring canned goods, clothing & toiletry donations, etc. as admission. Line up includes: Dirtfoot, Mars Vegas, Infinite Division, Redshift, DJ Jalapeno, Artscool, DJ Quickie Mart, Amelia Blake, Heather Romero, and many others.
Displaced Musicians may play for tips.
All times are subject to change.
For more information contact:
Dan Garner at Tipitina's Music Office Co-Op/Shreveport (318) 934-0000
or Tom E. Gun (318) 226-0901.
Mobile Bay, some 50 miles from the blue Gulf Stream
Open notes quiz Thursday, Sept 1.
Added to the Caribbean map:
New Orleans
Cancaun
Cozumel
Miami
Gulf Stream
today's terms -
prime meridian
equator
coral
Typical terms on the quiz:
demographics
bureaucracy
documentary
Silicon valley
mnemonic
lemur
INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service)
Swahili
290 million people
Acacia
rubric
Dinka
indigenous
4.5 million people
flash drive
Hispaniola
equinox
Added to the Caribbean map:
New Orleans
Cancaun
Cozumel
Miami
Gulf Stream
today's terms -
prime meridian
equator
coral
Typical terms on the quiz:
demographics
bureaucracy
documentary
Silicon valley
mnemonic
lemur
INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service)
Swahili
290 million people
Acacia
rubric
Dinka
indigenous
4.5 million people
flash drive
Hispaniola
equinox
Monday, August 29, 2005
Caribbean storm tracking in geo class
The week of Aug 29 - Sept 2.
Monday
* Intro Caribbean map:
Galveston to Florida Keys
Yucatan peninsula
Cuba, Jamaica,
Haiti/Dominican Republic
(Hispaniola)
Puerto Rico
Bahamas
Atlantic, Caribbean and
Gulf of Mexico
archipelago
* Library research on LBOS presentation.
Tuesday
* Submit Learning Styles Essay - typed, w parent signature. (15)
* The Gulf Stream: plotting the currents of the Gulf and Caribbean.
Wed.
Lost Boys of Sudan presentation (10); first half of alpha roll (current class seating).
Th.
Open Notes Quiz (20): multiple-choice questions on class notes and the atlas.
Ex:
1. Microsoft world headquarters is not in NYC. Bill Gates established his empire on the West coast near a) San Francisco b) Stanford Univ. c) Silicon Valley d) Seattle.
2. Cancun and Cozumel lie on the Caribbean coast of a region found in our storm tracking map. a) Key West b) Yucatan Peninsula c) Cuba d) Jamaica.
Fri.
Special presentations on the Five Themes of geography.
Monday
* Intro Caribbean map:
Galveston to Florida Keys
Yucatan peninsula
Cuba, Jamaica,
Haiti/Dominican Republic
(Hispaniola)
Puerto Rico
Bahamas
Atlantic, Caribbean and
Gulf of Mexico
archipelago
* Library research on LBOS presentation.
Tuesday
* Submit Learning Styles Essay - typed, w parent signature. (15)
* The Gulf Stream: plotting the currents of the Gulf and Caribbean.
Wed.
Lost Boys of Sudan presentation (10); first half of alpha roll (current class seating).
Th.
Open Notes Quiz (20): multiple-choice questions on class notes and the atlas.
Ex:
1. Microsoft world headquarters is not in NYC. Bill Gates established his empire on the West coast near a) San Francisco b) Stanford Univ. c) Silicon Valley d) Seattle.
2. Cancun and Cozumel lie on the Caribbean coast of a region found in our storm tracking map. a) Key West b) Yucatan Peninsula c) Cuba d) Jamaica.
Fri.
Special presentations on the Five Themes of geography.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Watching Katrina05
"Katrina churned directly over an oceanic feature that is the nemesis of gulf state disaster planners: the "loop current," a great, deep whorl of tropics-hot seawater that pulses in between the Yucatán and Cuba each year and then stays south of Louisiana into late summer," said the New York Times. "This "is like adding high-octane fuel to the fire," a Friday night public discussion said.
Forecasters then watched in wonder as a series of conditions, many of them poorly understood, caused the storm to do what no one wanted: intensify, expand and maintain a terrifying trajectory.
The energy, the near-record low pressure in the storm's core, and its huge dimensions added up to an inevitable disaster, Mr. Read said.
"That's why they're basically forecasting Armageddon when it goes inland," he said."
See more at NYTimes.com
Forecasters then watched in wonder as a series of conditions, many of them poorly understood, caused the storm to do what no one wanted: intensify, expand and maintain a terrifying trajectory.
The energy, the near-record low pressure in the storm's core, and its huge dimensions added up to an inevitable disaster, Mr. Read said.
"That's why they're basically forecasting Armageddon when it goes inland," he said."
See more at NYTimes.com
Student tools: an info transfer tool called a flash drive
Whether called a flash drive, jump drive or USB drive, this tiny device is replacing the diskette. Why?
1) More stable.
2) Few limitations on storage space.
3) Hardy; they last year after year.
4) Economical in the long run.
5) Also may be used to store photos and mp3's.
More alternative names: pen drives, thumb drives and USB keys.
The Dane-Elec 64 mb model in the photo is avail. from Target.com at $15.
See more on the guts of a jump drive at Wikipedia.org.
The original was developed by IBM. I'm guessing that it came out of the IBM Almaden Research Center near San Jose, CA. What region? Silicon Valley, of course.
1) More stable.
2) Few limitations on storage space.
3) Hardy; they last year after year.
4) Economical in the long run.
5) Also may be used to store photos and mp3's.
More alternative names: pen drives, thumb drives and USB keys.
The Dane-Elec 64 mb model in the photo is avail. from Target.com at $15.
See more on the guts of a jump drive at Wikipedia.org.
The original was developed by IBM. I'm guessing that it came out of the IBM Almaden Research Center near San Jose, CA. What region? Silicon Valley, of course.
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