tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68990045543243083552024-03-19T13:11:48.775-07:00KOFACTSJust about amazing things around usAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-51553546683783461062014-08-22T02:30:00.003-07:002014-08-22T02:31:50.909-07:00FACTS SLIDE<div id="i1t1" style="background-image: url("/imgs/"); color: #67747c; float: left; font-size: 110%; height: 100%; line-height: 95%; text-align: right; width: 52%;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj805NqjH9maQZrQOzK_i20EyVHiJ0GkmblazpO13sqfjmbU1EryyI6674DRvVQQV4Y6f7_I6GpCMdz8lMnq0Lf9FxC5XC1MdBLQrCS_oUTmgh4zWsXGR-h6UrKoGSM9yS4BMTdRA31jpY/s1600/bobby-leach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj805NqjH9maQZrQOzK_i20EyVHiJ0GkmblazpO13sqfjmbU1EryyI6674DRvVQQV4Y6f7_I6GpCMdz8lMnq0Lf9FxC5XC1MdBLQrCS_oUTmgh4zWsXGR-h6UrKoGSM9yS4BMTdRA31jpY/s1600/bobby-leach.jpg" height="320" width="314" /></a><span style="background-color: white;">Bobby Leach, the first man to <span style="color: #182126; line-height: 95%;">survive going over Niagara Falls</span> in a barrel, later <span style="color: #182126; line-height: 95%;">died by slipping on an orange peel</span>.</span></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-66960956736276123502014-07-11T02:05:00.004-07:002014-07-11T02:05:39.518-07:00ABU 2014/2015 Post-UTME Cut-off mark, <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
ABU 2014/2015 Post-UTME Cut-off mark, Screening and Registration Details are out<br />
Ahmadu Bello University has commenced registration for the 2014/2015
post-UTME screening exercise for candidates that sat for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for admission into
undergraduate programmes of the University. Please take time to read the
following guidelines before you register for the screening.<br />
Qualification for Screening:<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Candidates who scored 180 and above in UTME for all Courses.<br /> And must have chosen Ahmadu Bello University as their first choice.<br /> Procedure for Online Registration for UTME Screening<br />
Registration for the screening exercise will commence from Tuesday 9th
July, 2014 and close on Thursday 7th August, 2014. Applicants are
required to pay a sum of N2, 200.00 for the screening exercise. This is
exclusive of bank administrative charges of N200.00.<br /> To make the
payment, candidates are advised to visit the University PUTME
registration portal (putme.abu.edu.ng) and Generate a Transaction
Payment Slip, print the slip and proceed to any of the designated banks
below for payment.<br /> Candidate are to use their Jamb registration
number as their username and their respective state of origin as
password for login in.<br /> After making payment in any of the prescribed
Banks, candidates are to go back to the PUTME portal (putme.abu.edu.ng)
to finish up their registration and schedule for the Screening Test.</span><br />
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Participating Banks<br />
First Bank of Nigeria Plc<br /> Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc<br /> Diamond Bank Plc<br /> Guarantee Trust Bank Plc<br /> Main Street Bank Plc<br /> Key Stone Bank Plc<br /> United Bank for Africa UBA Plc<br /> Fidelity Bank Plc<br /> Zenit Bank Plc</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-61826711421392641122014-07-11T02:03:00.003-07:002014-07-11T02:03:42.468-07:00UNN Post Utme 2014/2015 Updates: All You need To Know Ahead of UNN Post UME Screening<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It’s another admission year and over a
million Jambites who registered for the 2014 JAMB UTME will be competing
for the few available space in our Nigerian universities.</div>
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Here at <a href="http://unn-edu.info/">UNN INFO</a>,
we focus on candidates who chose the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as
their first or second choice institution while applying for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination organized by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board(JAMB). We provide them with as much information as
we have towards actualizing their dream of joining the league of Lions
and Lionesses (proud students of the one and only Nigerian University).
The information we give is a product of our years of experience as
former jambites and present students of the University of Nigeria
Nsukka(UNN).</div>
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With the <a href="http://unn-edu.info/2014/04/jamb-2014-result-jamb-result-checker-2014.html">2014 JAMB result already out</a>, UNN Jambites on our <a href="http://facebook.com/unninfo">facebook page</a>
have started asking questions about the UNN Post Utme 2014. We have
seen questions like “Is UNN Post Ume form out?, When is 2014 Unn Post
Ume date? What is Unn Cut off mark? Where can I get Unn Post Ume past
questions?”. The good news is; We are here to answer your questions…</div>
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<li>At the time of this publication, UNN post Utme form is not yet on sale</li>
<li>Unn screening exam usually holds around June/July yearly. However,
the date for this year’s Unn post utme screening has not been fixed.
Whenever it is announced, you will be the first to know about it here.</li>
<li>The unn cut off mark in question is the minimum JAMB score one is
expected to have before he/she can come for UNN Post UTME. The Jamb cut
off mark for unn Post ume screening last year was 180. But this year’s
cut-off mark has not been fixed.</li>
<li>For the Unn Post Utme past questions, we have a comprehensively
compiled past questions with detailed step by step solution titled the “<a href="http://unn-edu.info/unn-post-utme-past-questions-tvss-unn-post-ume-past-questions-and-answers"><strong>Total Victory Solution Set</strong></a>“. Click on the link below for details of the book and how to get it.</li>
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For possible updates feel free to get it via www.facebook.com/conceptresearchcenter<br />
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This post will not be complete without
outlining the general important information every UNN aspirant should
have before the screening Exam. For that purpose, we already have an
interesting article published a while ago with the title “<strong>TEN (10) THINGS YOU MUST DO AND KNOW BEFORE COMING TO NSUKKA FOR UNN POST UTME</strong>“. Read the article via the link below, you will be grateful you did!<br />
<a href="http://unn-edu.info/10-things-you-must-do-know-before-coming-to-nsukka-for-unn-post-utme">http://unn-edu.info/10-things-you-must-do-know-before-coming-to-nsukka-for-unn-post-utme</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-69392543500199936722014-06-02T06:24:00.000-07:002014-06-02T06:24:08.270-07:00Facts vibe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
D'oh!is a real word in theOxford English Dictionary.in The Simpsons scripts, it<br />
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just says "annoyed grunt".</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-88642326738889514962014-05-31T06:09:00.001-07:002014-05-31T06:09:19.661-07:00FActs vibe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-38150513748897180752014-05-31T06:00:00.003-07:002014-05-31T06:00:51.651-07:00True or false<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/conceptreasearchcenter">True or False</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-28673011419280342772014-05-31T05:14:00.000-07:002014-05-31T05:14:33.399-07:00Amazing facts about music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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-You don't like the original version of a song because it's better. You like it because it's the one you heard first.<br />
True or false???<br />
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-Warner Music collected over US$2 million in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the "Happy Birthday" song.<br />
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-Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/p-NzMM9SsCE">-Your heartbeat changes</a> and mimics the music you listen to.<br />
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-Flowers can grow faster by listening to music.<br />
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-Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.<br />
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-The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-42691278253816746742014-05-31T05:00:00.005-07:002014-05-31T05:00:45.577-07:00Timed perfectly as she is about to fall into the pool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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#was really timed :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-74323585144238506482014-05-31T04:30:00.001-07:002014-05-31T04:30:55.177-07:00Facts vibe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Ayapaneco language was at risk of dying out because its last two speakers wouldn't speak to each other.<br />
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Check it out here::: http://goo.gl/lIoKCP</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-61440325045453170942014-05-29T03:24:00.002-07:002014-05-29T03:24:22.863-07:00Amazing School<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbgV_HP_SAWPFK1cMj6ul3eYiYXcfkA7H7wpC7dBXH-_bZHSxmwGOZtsu6BtqSIjtesZuqYtcb1d7C2h5wdVY0zYSgQfCK_HGD8yL39Etj9Hp1ylPY8R6nFUlp03ueOXJFmi0-7ygH2o/s1600/10325235_403790616429010_7204315552018846134_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbgV_HP_SAWPFK1cMj6ul3eYiYXcfkA7H7wpC7dBXH-_bZHSxmwGOZtsu6BtqSIjtesZuqYtcb1d7C2h5wdVY0zYSgQfCK_HGD8yL39Etj9Hp1ylPY8R6nFUlp03ueOXJFmi0-7ygH2o/s1600/10325235_403790616429010_7204315552018846134_n.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">According to a news report, a certain private school in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Washington recently was faced with a unique problem.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">and would put it on in the bathroom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">That was fine, but after they put</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> on their lipstick they would<br />press their lips to t</span><br />
<a name='more'></a>he mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.<br />Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the<br />next day, the girls would put them back.<br /><br />Finally the principal decided that something had to be done.<br />She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there<br />with the maintenance man.<br />She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major<br />problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every<br />night.<br /><br />To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors,<br />she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much<br />effort was required.<br />He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet,<br />and cleaned the mirror with it.<br />Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror. There<br />are teachers, and then there are educators...</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-91265993638861466392014-05-29T03:15:00.002-07:002014-05-29T03:15:25.388-07:00Taiwan Free wifi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1iuFM8f">The isla</a>nd state already has a widespread network of free Wi-Fi access points available to its citizens.</div>
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Now it has opened up the service to visitors from overseas, the <a href="http://skift.com/2013/06/11/taiwan-offers-free-wifi-to-all-foreign-tourists-2/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #234b7b; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">travel news website Skift reports</a>.</div>
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The government-backed iTaiwan scheme launched two years ago, and now has more than 4,000 hotspots dotted around the island, including the main tourist attractions, transport hubs and government buildings.</div>
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Locals can register for the service by giving their phone number. Now, overseas visitors can do the same by showing their passports to staff at tourist offices in airports, train stations or Metro stations. They will then be given an account number, allowing them to access the free basic WiFi, which has a speed of around 1Mbps bandwidth per second.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-81740911658071535792014-05-29T02:13:00.005-07:002014-05-29T02:13:59.021-07:00What Do You think<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Cars can now drive themselves if Google’s project in building their self driving car is a huge success.</div>
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The company is planning to build about 100 of these two seat autonomous cars, that operate without a driver at the wheel.</div>
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In 2015, Google hopes that 100 of these two-seaters will be on the roads for extensive testing.</div>
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However, these cars are not going to be for sale and would be provided to select operators for further tweaking and have limitations such as a 40-kilometre-per-hour top speed.</div>
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This announcement is presenting a challenge to makers of automobiles who have always dreamt of cars that would drive themselves.</div>
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It should be known that some other companies are working on this project but Google is the biggest of these companies.</div>
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To date, Google has driven hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads and freeways in Lexus SUVs and Toyota Priuses outfitted with special sensors and cameras.</div>
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But with a “safety driver” in the front seat, those vehicles were not truly self-driving.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-59772905846593000872014-05-26T08:24:00.002-07:002014-05-26T08:24:39.465-07:00TITANIC STORY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>RMS <i>Titanic</i></b> was a British <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_(passenger_ship)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Superliner (passenger ship)">passenger liner</a> that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sinking of the RMS Titanic">sank</a> in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Iceberg">iceberg</a> during her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_voyage" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Maiden voyage">maiden voyage</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>, UK to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York City">New York City</a>, US. The sinking of <i>Titanic</i> caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people in one of the deadliest <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters#Peacetime_disasters" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of maritime disasters">peacetime maritime disasters</a> in modern history. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Ship" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Mail Ship">RMS</a><i>Titanic,</i> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_longest_ships" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of world's longest ships">largest ship afloat</a> at the time it entered service, was the second of three <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-class_ocean_liner" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Olympic-class ocean liner"><i>Olympic</i> class ocean liners</a> operated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Star_Line" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="White Star Line">White Star Line</a>, and was built by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_and_Wolff" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Harland and Wolff">Harland and Wolff</a> shipyard in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Belfast">Belfast</a> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_(shipbuilder)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder)">Thomas Andrews</a> as her naval architect. Andrews was among those lost in the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.</div>
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Under the command of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Smith_(sea_captain)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Edward Smith (sea captain)">Edward Smith</a>, the ship's passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">Great Britain and Ireland</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a> and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America. The first class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. A wireless telegraph was provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though <i>Titanic</i> had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, there were not enough <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lifeboat (shipboard)">lifeboats</a> to accommodate all of those aboard due to outdated maritime safety regulations. <i>Titanic</i> only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, and one-third her total capacity.</div>
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After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, <i>Titanic</i> called at <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cherbourg">Cherbourg</a> in France and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cobh">Queenstown</a> (now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cobh">Cobh</a>) in Ireland before heading westwards towards New York.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) so</div>
<a name='more'></a>uth of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. The glancing collision caused <i>Titanic</i><span style="padding-left: 0.2em;">'</span>s hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_children_first" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Women and children first">women and children first</a>" protocol followed by some of the officers loading the lifeboats.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> By 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after <i>Titanic</i> foundered, the Cunard liner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="RMS Carpathia">RMS <i>Carpathia</i></a> arrived on the scene of the sinking, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors.<br />
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The disaster was greeted with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that had led to it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_safety_practices_after_the_sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic">major improvements in maritime safety</a>. One of their most important legacies was the establishment in 1914 of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Convention_for_the_Safety_of_Life_at_Sea" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea">International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea</a> (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety today. Additionally, several new wireless regulations were passed around the world in an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications—which could have saved many more passengers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup></div>
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_RMS_Titanic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wreck of the RMS Titanic">wreck of <i>Titanic</i></a> remains on the seabed, split in two and gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (3,784 m). Since her discovery in 1985, thousands of artefacts have been recovered and put on display at museums around the world. <i>Titanic</i>has become one of the most famous ships in history, her memory kept alive by numerous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic_in_popular_culture" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="RMS Titanic in popular culture">books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-33120508252489454602014-05-26T05:49:00.000-07:002014-05-26T05:54:07.586-07:00 Incredibly Successful People Who Failed At First<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Rejection can feel devastating, but you shouldn't let it crush you. Some of the world's most successful people have failed — <a href="http://www.facebook.com/kofacts" target="_blank">sometimes more than once.</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Winston Churchill was estranged from his political party over ideological disagreements during the "wilderness years" of 1929 to 1939.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br />
<a href="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/531785ab69bedd4930ecf100-1200/winston-churchill-was-estranged-from-his-political-party-over-ideological-disagreements-during-the-wilderness-years-of-1929-to-1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Winston Churchill was estranged from his political party over ideological disagreements during the "wilderness years" of 1929 to 1939." border="0" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/531785ab69bedd4930ecf100-1200/winston-churchill-was-estranged-from-his-political-party-over-ideological-disagreements-during-the-wilderness-years-of-1929-to-1939.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">At the outbreak of World War II on Sep. 3, 1939, </span><a href="http://www.fb.me/conceptresearchcenter" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Churchill was appointed to the B</a><a href="http://www.fb.me/conceptresearchcenter" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">ritish Admiralty</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, thus ending his "exile." The next year, </span><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/winston-churchill-9248164?page=2" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">he was elected prime minister</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> at the age of 62</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Edison went on to hold more than 1,000 patents and </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-edisons-inventions-2014-2?op=1" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">invented some </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-edisons-inventions-2014-2?op=1" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">world-changing devices</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, like the phonograph, practical electrical lamp, and a movie camera.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">But </span><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-18/entertainment/bs-sm-oprahs-baltimore-20110522_1_oprah-winfrey-show-baltimore-history-wjz" sl-processed="1" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Winfrey rebounded</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> and became the undisputed queen of television talk shows before amassing a media empire. Today she is worth an estimated </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/oprah-winfrey/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #00709a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">$2.9 billion</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, according to Forbes</span><br />
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Question: Have you ever seen a black Nazi ... <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wearing a sweater vest?</span> Well you have now. The little boy in the center of the picture above is <a href="http://www.facebook.com/conceptresearchcenter" style="border: 0px; color: #0657af; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hans Massaquoi</a>, one of the few biracial Germans who were born and raised under the Nazi regime. So if you ever feel like you were born in the wrong time and place in history, shut up, because unless you're a black child goose-stepping around with a swastika sewn to your sweater, you have no idea what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.</div>
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<b>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</b> is considered one of the Nigeria’s most prominent young authors, and now commands an international audience. Most recently, she made headlines upon the release of the film adaptation of her novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” as well as for the recent publication of her third novel, “Americanah.” As Adichie’s body of work grows, take a peek at her life: 10 things you didn’t know about author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.</div>
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Adichie’s mother was the University of Nigeria’s first female registrar, serving as the head of the administrative section of the university. Her sister operates a medical practice in Coventry, Connecticut.</div>
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Adichie’s mother was always very concerned about her daughter’s appearance, and instilled the same value in her children. When Adichie first burst onto the writing scene in the U.S., she tried to dress more subdued in an attempt to be taken seriously, but soon realized that her personal style had the right to shine through</div>
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After reading Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” Adichie was inspired by seeing her own life represented in the pages. She once said, “I realized that people who looked like me could live in books.” Using that inspiration, Adichie has been writing about the Nigerian experience throughout her career.</div>
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Adichie and her family lived in a home in Nsukka that was once owned by Chinua Achebe, further strengthening the connection between the two Igbo literary legends. A Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Achebe </a>was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, “Things Fall Apart,” — the most widely read book in modern African literature. He died in 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts</div>
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The novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” is set before and during the Biafran and its title reflects the flag of the short-lived independent nation. The film adaptation, directed by Biyi Bandele, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) and Thandie </div>
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Due to the film’s representation of violence that occurred during the Biafran war, the Nigerian government refused to issue the able Imovie a certificate, essentially banning it and delaying its release. Worries arose about the film’s potential to incite violence, particularly in the country’s largely Christian south that is still home to a sizgbo independence movement.</div>
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The visual album release for Beyoncé’s song, “Flawless,” in 2013, included an excerpt from a talk that Adichie gave at TEDxEuston in December 2012. The talk, entitled “ We Should All be Feminists,” discussed the way women are raised and what it means to be a feminist. “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller,” Adichie said. “We say to girls: ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man…’” Adichie defined a feminist as person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-90489032288067428052014-05-24T08:49:00.002-07:002014-05-24T08:49:42.029-07:00COULD THIS BE TRUE??? A falling baby, saved two times by the same man !!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to Time Magazine (Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1938), the year of the first event was 1937. Joseph Figlock, a local street sweeper in Detroit, Michigan, was walking down the road when a baby fell from a 4<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup> story window. The baby struck him on the head and shoulders. The tackling toddler was thankfully not killed. However, he and Mr. Figlock were both injured.</div>
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The following year, another mother of the year candidate, allowed her 2 year old son David Thomas, to fall from a window. Joseph, doing his job sweeping out an alley, was again struck by the tumbling tyke. Remarkably, once again neither the ankle-bitter nor the newborn nabber were killed.</div>
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Joseph must be some catch, both figuratively and literally. Not only can he ensnare small children like a German Shepard at a Frisbee throwing competition, but women seem to toss their offspring at him like rice at a wedding! One thing is for sure, if you lived in Detroit in the 1930s and you threw your baby out with the bathwater, Mr. Joseph Figlock was going to be there to save the day!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-59216234747247665332014-05-22T10:38:00.000-07:002014-05-22T10:38:34.523-07:00Earthquakes Seismic Destruction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Earthquakes, also called temblors, can be so tremendously destructive, it’s hard to imagine they occur by the thousands every day around the world, usually in the form of small tremors.</div>
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Some 80 percent of all the planet's earthquakes occur along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, called the "Ring of Fire" because of the preponderance of volcanic activity there as well. Most earthquakes occur at fault zones, where tectonic plates—giant rock slabs that make up the Earth's upper layer—collide or slide against each other. These impacts are usually gradual and unnoticeable on the surface; however, immense stress can build up between plates. When this stress is released quickly, it sends massive vibrations, called seismic waves, often hundreds of miles through the rock and up to the surface. Other quakes can occur far from faults zones when plates are stretched or squeezed.</div>
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Scientists assign a magnitude rating to earthquakes based on the strength and duration of their seismic waves. A quake measuring 3 to 5 is considered minor or light; 5 to 7 is moderate to strong; 7 to 8 is major; and 8 or more is great.</div>
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On average, a magnitude 8 quake strikes somewhere every year and some 10,000 people die in earthquakes annually. Collapsing buildings claim by far the majority of lives, but the destruction is often compounded by mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis. Smaller temblors that usually occur in the days following a large earthquake can complicate rescue efforts and cause further death and destruction.</div>
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Loss of life can be avoided through emergency planning, education, and the construction of buildings that sway rather than break under the stress of an earthquake.</div>
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Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes the African heat is too much. Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust.</div>
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An elephant's trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things—especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.)</div>
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es. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.<br />
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Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated, and some African elephant populations remain endangered.</div>
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These hungry animals do not sleep much, and they roam over great distances while foraging for the large quantities of food that they require to sustain their massive bodies.</div>
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Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own.</div>
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Having a baby elephant is a serious commitment. Elephants have a longer pregnancy than any other mammal—almost 22 months. Cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years. At birth, elephants already weigh some 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and stand about 3 feet (1 meter) tall.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-63650915307285889972014-05-21T07:33:00.000-07:002014-05-21T07:33:17.404-07:00Tiger Salamander Ambystoma tigrinum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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They are usually brown in color with brilliant yellow stripes or blotches over the length of their bodies. Their base color, however, can also be greenish or gray and their markings can be yellow dots or brown splotches. Some have no markings at all.</div>
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Thick-bodied amphibians with short snouts, sturdy legs, and long tails, tigers are the largest land-dwelling salamander on Earth. They can grow to 14 inches (35 centimeters) in length, but the average size is more like 6 to 8 inches (15.2 to 20.3 centimeters).</div>
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Highly voracious predators, they emerge from their burrows at night to feed on worms, insects, frogs, and even other salamanders.</div>
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Their population is healthy throughout their range, but deforestation, pollution, and rising acidity levels in their breeding pools is affecting their distribution. Many are even killed by cars as they cross roads in the spring en route to or from their breeding sites.</div>
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Tiger salamanders are long-lived, averaging 10 to 16 years in the wild.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500694535076269047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899004554324308355.post-10001165972943531882014-05-09T09:15:00.002-07:002014-05-09T09:15:46.749-07:00Whale Shark FACTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gentle giants, whale sharks filter-feed, swimming with their wide mouths open, collecting plankton and small fish.</span></div>
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<dt><strong>Size:</strong></dt>
<dd>18 to 32.8 ft (5.5 to 10 m)</dd>
<dt><strong>Weight:</strong></dt>
<dd>Average, 20.6 tons (18.7 tonnes)</dd>
<dt><strong>Group name:</strong></dt>
<dd>School</dd>
<dt><strong>Protection status:</strong></dt>
<dd>Threatened</dd>
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<dd>The largest whale shark ever measured was 40 feet (12.2 meters) long; however, the species is thought to grow even bigger. </dd>
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<a href="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/graphic/size-whaleshark-160-2947-cb1321035703.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Illustration: Whale shark compared with bus" border="0" height="127" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/graphic/size-whaleshark-160-2947-cb1321035703.gif" width="160" /></a>As the largest fish in the sea, reaching lengths of 40 feet (12
meters) or more, whale sharks have an enormous menu from which to
choose. Fortunately for most sea-dwellers—and us!—their favorite meal is
plankton. They scoop these tiny plants and animals up, along with any
small fish that happen to be around, with their colossal gaping mouths
while swimming close to the water's surface.<br />
The whale shark, like
the world's second largest fish, the basking shark, is a filter
feeder. In order to eat, the beast juts out its formidably sized jaws
and passively filters everything in its path. The mechanism is
theorized to be a technique called “cross-flow filtration,” similar to
some bony fish and baleen whales.<br />
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sports a blunt snout above its mouth with short barbels protruding from
its nostrils. Its back and sides are gray to brown with white spots
among pale vertical and horizontal stripes, and its belly is white. Its
two dorsal fins are set rearward on its body, which ends in a large
dual-lobbed caudal fin (or tail).<br />
Preferring warm waters, whale
sharks populate all tropical seas. They are known to migrate every
spring to the continental shelf of the central west coast of Australia.
The coral spawning of the area's Ningaloo Reef provides the whale shark
with an abundant supply of plankton.<br />
Although massive, whale
sharks are docile fish and sometimes allow swimmers to hitch a ride.
They are currently listed as a vulnerable species; however, they
continue to be hunted in parts of Asia, such as the Philippines.<br />
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<strong>As sea ice melts and the oil industry prepares to
exploit the Arctic's vast resources, the United States faces big gaps
in its preparedness for an oil spill in the region, according to <a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18625">a report released Wednesday by the National Research Council</a> (NRC).</strong><br />
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183-page report marks the first time in more than ten years that the
NRC, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has taken a
comprehensive look at the impact of oil and gas exploration in the
Arctic. In the intervening decade, sea ice cover hit a record low,
shipping traffic increased dramatically, and the price of oil rose
sharply, prompting such companies as Shell,* ExxonMobil, and
ConocoPhillips to acquire new leases for oil and gas. (Related: "<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/09/120910-shell-begins-arctic-drilling/">Ice-Breaking: U.S. Oil Drilling Starts as Nations Mull Changed Arctic</a>.")</strong></div>
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Arctic contains an estimated 13 percent of the world's undiscovered
oil, and one-third of that oil lies within U.S. territory. Shell's
attempt to drill into it in 2012 illustrated the challenge of working in
the Arctic: The campaign ended with the drilling rig, the <em>Kulluk</em>, running aground and needing to be rescued. (See: "<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/04/140404-coast-guard-blames-shell-in-kulluk-rig-accident/">Coast Guard Blames Shell Risk-Taking in <em>Kulluk</em> Rig Accident</a>.")</div>
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Shell
and other companies have suspended Arctic drilling plans for 2014, but
there is little doubt the push to develop the region's energy resources
will continue. (<a href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/great-energy-challenge/arctic/">Read more Arctic coverage from the Great Energy Challenge</a>.)</div>
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The NRC report invokes the <em>Kulluk </em>incident, as well as the BP Deepwater Horizon and Exxon <em>Valdez </em>disasters,
as cautionary tales. It was authored by a committee that included
representatives from academia, research and environmental organizations,
and the energy industry. (Related: "<a href="http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/20/summer-arctic-sea-ice-recovers-from-2012-but-trend-decidedly-down/">Summer Arctic Sea Ice Recovers From 2012, But Trend 'Decidedly' Down</a>.")</div>
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Here are five of the gaps that the panel says need to be addressed for the U.S. to be ready for an oil spill in the Arctic:</div>
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<strong>1. We need to spill some oil (on purpose).</strong></div>
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Much
of the existing research on oil properties and spill response has been
done for temperate regions, the report notes. More research is needed to
understand how oil behaves in an Arctic environment—and unfortunately,
the best way to find out is to spill some in a controlled way.</div>
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Research facilities such as the <a href="http://www.ohmsett.com/">Ohmsett test center</a>
in New Jersey have simulated spills in icy conditions. But permits to
deliberately release oil into U.S. waters for research have become
harder to obtain in the United States in the past 15 years. The NRC
advocates a streamlined permit process. (Related: "<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/09/130913-arctic-oil-spill-cleanup-technology/">As Arctic Melts, a Race to Test Oil Spill Cleanup Technology</a>.")</div>
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The
technology available for monitoring and mapping the Arctic has improved
markedly over the last decade, but there are significant holes. "A
decade ago, I think there was hope we might have filled some of these
data gaps," says Mark Myers of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who
contributed to the report. "Fundamental, high-resolution data that we
need sometimes just isn't there."</div>
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Existing nautical
charts for the Arctic shoreline are "mostly obsolete," the NRC says,
with many of them last updated in the 1950s. Less than 10 percent of the
coastline, some 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers), has adequate data on
seafloor topography, Myers says. That increases the chance a vessel
could run aground and spill oil, according to the report, and it could
hamper a cleanup too.</div>
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So could ice and stormy seas, of
course. The report points to a need for better real-time data and
forecasts of sea ice coverage and thickness. Though energy companies
target late summer and early fall for exploration activity, "ice-free
regions can transition to ice-covered conditions in a matter of days at
the start of a fall freeze-up," the report says.</div>
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Sea ice
does offer one advantage, though, according to the report: It could
help contain spilled oil in a way that would make it easier to set fire
to and burn off.</div>
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<strong>3. We need more U.S. Coast Guard presence.</strong></div>
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U.S. Coast Guard has a low level of presence in the Arctic, especially
during the winter," the NRC warns. Its closest station to the Arctic, in
Kodiak, is more than 900 air miles (1,448 kilometers) south of Alaska's
North Slope, limiting its ability to respond to a spill quickly.</div>
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"A
'presence' is bodies, but it is also vessels or platforms, and aerial
capability for airlift in the event of an oil spill response," says
Martha Grabowski, who chaired the NRC report committee. "The
transportation infrastructure that the rest of us would presuppose to be
existing as it is in the lower 48 simply doesn't exist up north."</div>
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But
"the Coast Guard can't do this alone," Grabowski says; it doesn't have
the budget. The NRC report stresses the need for public-private
partnerships and community engagement to address the challenges of
dealing with an Arctic spill.</div>
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<strong>4. We need to work with the Russians.</strong></div>
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Last
year, the Northern Sea Route between Asia and Europe saw many firsts:
the first transit for a container ship, the first voyages for Chinese
and South Korean vessels—and the first tanker accident. Russia has
promoted use of the route, where its state-operated icebreaker fleet
offers mandatory escort in exchange for a fee. Among the ships traveling
the Northern Sea Route last year, the NRC says, were oil tankers
carrying more than 800,000 barrels of oil. (Related: "<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/11/131129-arctic-shipping-soars-led-by-russia/">Arctic Shipping Soars, Led by Russia and Lured by Energy</a>.")</div>
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expansion of the Northern Sea Route has in turn led to increased
traffic through U.S. waters in the Bering Strait. This points to the
need for better traffic management—the U.S. doesn't have a system for
monitoring ships in the Arctic. But "the international demarcation line
[between Russian and U.S. waters] runs right down the middle of the
Bering Strait, so we can't make a unilateral determination with respect
to what to do for vessel traffic monitoring," Grabowski says.</div>
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United States should also conduct joint oil spill response exercises
with Russia, the report says. Such planning has already taken place with
Canada, but even though the U.S. has an oil spill response agreement
with Russia, it has not conducted formal exercises or hammered out any
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Arctic is home to endangered species such as bowhead whales, polar
bears, and ringed seals. Rehabilitating wildlife affected by an oil
spill in the Arctic is complicated by remote locations, adverse
conditions, the use of marine mammals for subsistence by indigenous
people, and safety concerns (dealing with an injured walrus or polar
bear is more hazardous than dealing with, say, an oiled pelican).</div>
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more, there's no plan for keeping animals out of harm's way in the
Arctic. "There is a general lack of scientific study, approved
protocols, and consensus" on how best to deter wildlife from entering a
spill zone, the report says. (Take the quiz: "<a href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/great-energy-challenge/arctic-quiz/">What You Don't Know About Energy in the Changing Arctic</a>.")</div>
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Known as African wild, painted, or Cape
hunting dogs, these endangered canines closely resemble wolves in their
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<dt><strong>Average life span in the wild:</strong></dt>
<dd>Up to 11 years</dd>
<dt><strong>Size:</strong></dt>
<dd>29.5 to 43 in (75 to 110 cm)</dd>
<dt><strong>Weight:</strong></dt>
<dd>39.5 to 79 lbs (18 to 36 kg)</dd>
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The African wild dog, also called Cape hunting dog or painted dog,
typically roams the open plains and sparse woodlands of sub-Saharan
Africa.<br />
<a href="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/graphic/size-africanwilddog-160-2585_-cb1274724021.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Illustration: African wild dog compared with adult man" border="0" height="107" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/graphic/size-africanwilddog-160-2585_-cb1274724021.gif" width="160" /></a>These long-legged canines have only four toes per foot,
unlike other dogs, which have five toes on their forefeet. The dog's
Latin name means "painted wolf," referring to the animal's irregular,
mottled coat, which features patches of red, black, brown, white, and
yellow fur. Each animal has its own unique coat pattern, and all have
big, rounded ears.<br />
African wild dogs live in packs that are
usually dominated by a monogamous breeding pair. The female has a litter
of 2 to 20 pups, which are cared for by the entire pack. These dogs are
very social, and packs have been known to share food and to assist weak
or ill members. Social interactions are common, and the dogs
communicate by touch, actions, and vocalizations.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8D1voGqT5YReKakjngyuHjIoexU3TCTBWwjRol-0c4UB0pIimGH9OvtG5KawQ682Uo96zwlOH54K7oEv9SRw8pu2TNs2400F6uNOy4iYXghZ2TJLwDvyC7ZiCdPe3BwLKjrJXJVMBJE/s1600/african-wild-dogs_441_600x450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8D1voGqT5YReKakjngyuHjIoexU3TCTBWwjRol-0c4UB0pIimGH9OvtG5KawQ682Uo96zwlOH54K7oEv9SRw8pu2TNs2400F6uNOy4iYXghZ2TJLwDvyC7ZiCdPe3BwLKjrJXJVMBJE/s1600/african-wild-dogs_441_600x450.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>African wild
dogs hunt in formidable, cooperative packs of 6 to 20 (or more) animals.
Larger packs were more common before the dogs became endangered. Packs
hunt antelopes and will also tackle much larger prey, such as
wildebeests, particularly if their quarry is ill or injured. The dogs
supplement their diet with rodents and birds. As human settlements
expand, the dogs have sometimes developed a taste for livestock, though
significant damage is rare. Unfortunately, they are often hunted and
killed by farmers who fear for their domestic animals.<br />
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hunting dogs are endangered. They are faced with shrinking room to roam
in their African home. They are also quite susceptible to diseases
spread by domestic animals.<br />
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<b>Last December, passengers on a boat trip down <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/costa-rica-guide/">Costa Rica</a>‘s Puerto Viejo River were treated to a strange sight: a butterfly and a bee drinking the tears from a crocodile’s eyes.</b><br />
The encounter between the insects, a Julia butterfly (<i>Dryas iulia</i>) and a bee (<i>Centris sp.),</i> and the spectacled caiman (<i>Caiman crocodilus) </i>lasted more than 15 minutes, as the <a href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/">reptile</a> placidly permitted the insects to sip from its eyes as it basked on a log. (Also see “<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071010-crocodile-tears.html">Crocodiles Really Shed Tears While Eating, Study Says</a>.”)<br />
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Julia butterfly and a bee drink the tears of a spectacled caiman in
northeastern Costa Rica’s Puerto Viejo River in 2013. Photograph by
Carlos de la Rosa, Organization for Tropical Studies
Carlos de la Rosa, an aquatic ecologist and director of the <a href="http://www.ots.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=348">La Selva Biological Station</a>
in San Pedro, Costa Rica, led the group and photographed the
occurrence. He reported his observations in a peer-reviewed letter in
the May edition of <a href="http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/14.WB.006"><i>Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment</i></a><i>.</i><br />
The chance encounter yielded a remarkable photograph. It also raised
questions about “tear-feeding,” a phenomenon otherwise known as
lachryphagy<i>, </i>which has been well documented but remains poorly understood.<br />
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<b>Why Feed on Tears?</b><br />
A number of insect species including moths, butterflies, and bees are
known to tear-feed, usually on mammals and in some cases even humans.<br />
Tear-feeding on reptiles is less well documented, but in every
case the insect seems to be in pursuit of nutrients and minerals—chiefly
salt. (<a href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-butterflies/">See more butterfly pictures</a>.)<br />
“Sodium and some of those other micronutrients are hard to find in
nature,” said de la Rosa. “Butterflies and bees consume nectar, and
nectar does not have a lot of salt. But they still need salt for egg
production and for their metabolism.”<br />
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To scavenge the vital mineral, insects look for tears, sweat, feces,
urine, and—among hematophagous insects like mosquitos—blood. Those that
drink tears are referred to as “lacryphagous,” from <i>lacrima</i>, the Latin word for “tear.” (See “<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100701-science-animals-mating-mice-mouse-aphrodisiac-tears/">Mouse Tears Are Aphrodisiacs</a>.”)<br />
A similar, and better studied, insect behavior that seems to serve a
similar purpose is called “mud-puddling.” Butterflies and other species
that employ this strategy will congregate around and drink from puddles
containing mineral deposits.<br />
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“You see the butterflies down on the [ground], and they drink water, usually to gain salt,” explained <a href="http://casas-lab.irbi.univ-tours.fr/jerome_casas.html">Jérôme Casas</a>,
an ecology professor at the University of Tours in France. “[The] salt
[is] either used for biological purposes or it’s transmitted through the
sperm as a gift to the female. So it’s really a valuable item.”<br />
<b>Benefits and Amenities</b><br />
Whether tear-feeding behavior can be deemed symbiotic depends on your
definition. Does symbiosis require mutualism, in which both animals
benefit? Or merely a relationship between two organisms in which at
least one benefits?<br />
De la Rosa subscribes to the latter definition. While there’s no
clear benefit to the animals providing the tears, he says, the behavior
doesn’t seem to hurt them either. According to de la Rosa, some species
are less bothered by tear-drinkers than others.<br />
“From my few observations, the caimans don’t seem to be bothered at
all by all this attention. The river turtles, however, are less tolerant
to the bees buzzing close to their eyes. I’ve seen them shaking their
heads at the bees and eventually even jumping back in the water.”<br />
Casas speculates that crocodiles and turtles—along with large mammals
like cows—are likely targeted by salt-seeking insects due to their
placid nature. (See <a href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/alligators-and-crocodiles/">National Geographic’s pictures of alligators and crocodiles</a>.)<br />
“Crocodiles and turtles are very stationary,” he said. “When they sit somewhere, they sit for hours.”<br />
De la Rosa estimates he’s seen the phenomenon at least four or five times in the past two years.<br />
But, he says, it’s hard to quantify how common tear-feeding behavior
really is, because it’s so ephemeral. And it would be harder still to
reproduce such spontaneous interactions in a lab setting. Yet a wealth
of photographic evidence suggests that the phenomenon could be fairly
common.<br />
In 2009, Casas and his colleague <a href="http://dangles.naturexpose.com/">Olivier Dangles</a> observed a bee drinking the tears of a yellow-spotted river turtle in <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/125-yasuni-national-park/wallace-text">Yasuní National Park</a>, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They documented their observations in <i>Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment</i><i> </i>in 2012.<br />
Casas says the phenomenon could help shed light on “the surprising
world of insect-vertebrate interactions. We always think about mosquitos
biting us, but there is way more than [that].”<br />
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<b>A Closer Look</b><br />
How important is such behavior to a given ecosystem?<br />
“That’s one of the bigger questions,” said de la Rosa. “We don’t know
how essential these relationships are to the survival of those species.
It could be that it’s just an occasional, fortuitous, or opportunistic
source of salt. Or it could be absolutely essential.”<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1LNxwseHNTCYNHi3QyfmCHO2AOW6QFcCkWQMTPGnBNAw2LuYV0HgpdIzkPTpvw87f8Kndqig-K9905VqHDHHl1NvJEEVPbnl7MQpt7HIiMbHxej1zxs9u831WnZv3rk215sOB1SesI0/s1600/butterflies-caiman-tears-s2048x1386-p-600x406.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1LNxwseHNTCYNHi3QyfmCHO2AOW6QFcCkWQMTPGnBNAw2LuYV0HgpdIzkPTpvw87f8Kndqig-K9905VqHDHHl1NvJEEVPbnl7MQpt7HIiMbHxej1zxs9u831WnZv3rk215sOB1SesI0/s1600/butterflies-caiman-tears-s2048x1386-p-600x406.jpg" height="216" width="320" /></a>To find the answer, de la Rosa and Casas both stressed the importance
of traditional field research—without which such serendipitous
observations wouldn’t be possible—in a world of increasingly
computerized research methods.<br />
“The scientific community has drifted very strongly toward high-tech types of studies [like] genomics,” said de la Rosa.<br />
“And natural history itself, which is simple observations of events
and phenomena in nature, has [been on the decline]. I’m all for
technology, but it doesn’t replace the observations of phenomena in the
field.”</div>
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