We are adopting three new family members: a Jaguar, a sea Otter and a Meerkat. When you adopt at WWF website, you receive a plush likeness your adopted animal, a photo and an adoption certificate.
So... That's it... while we can't have real pets here we are supporting those living on the wild.
Yes, that's what a 23-year-old design student, Daniel Sheridan, did.
He created a see-saw that works by transferring the power, created by a child moving up and down on it, to an electricity storage unit via an underground cable.
Pangea Day aims to 'tap into the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future'.
Twenty films will be selected to be shown on 10th May 2008 all around the world. Each film selected will receive $3,000 and the opportunity to pitch to Participant Productions (Jeff Skoll's company). The winner will receive $20,000 to develop their treatment. This would be great for Camfed! (Yes, where I work ! )
If you haven't already joined up to www.youtube.com, then please do so and view and vote for our film - 'Two Friends: The Promise of Africa's Future' - which can be found here: 'Two Friends'
The more votes and the more hits, the greater possibility our film will be noticed! And please get your friends to vote too!
Quarta feira, e a gente aqui, enfiado dentro de casa.
Nao, nao fui trabalhar, nem o Re. O Andre nao vai para a escola desde segunda-feira passada e hoje o Filipe tambem nao foi para a nursery.
O primogenito esta com catapora ha quase 10 dias, e agora as bolinhas chegaram no rostinho... Imaginem, o mocinho mais lindo do mundo cheio de pintinhas no rostinho?
O cacula ainda esta bem, aguentando firme e forte, mas hoje apareceu uma pintinha na bocheca. Por via das duvidas, nao mandamos para a nursery.
Eu estou com esta dor de garganta terrivel, febre alta, e dor no corpo. O Re pegou tambem, fica tremendo pela casa. E como todo homem, gemendo e se lamentando. Ontem ele colocou no messenger dele: "Estou entre a vida e a morte..." Homens, uns dramaticos... imaginem se tivessem que dar a luz...
Aniversario de casamento... sim, foi este fim de semana, 7 anos... parece incrivel como o tempo passa tao rapido. E no meio desta crise de cataporas e febres, nao tivemos tempo de comemorar direito. Saimos para almocar, fomos ao Chez Gerard, um restaurante frances muito gostoso... uma pena que nao pude comer o Petit Camembert Chaud... o Renato acha que fede...
Mas, no fim do dia ganhei meu melhor presente de casamento... Estavamos conversando sobre a vida, estes 7 anos, filhos, etc, quando o Re me disse que me acha ainda mais "atraente" agora do que quando a gente casou.
Algo fantastico de se ouvir, principalmente apos 7 anos, 2 filhos e varios kilos a mais.
Esse meu marido nao e o maximo? Lindo, carinhoso, cozinha, cuida das criancas, limpa a casa e ainda me acha atraente!!!
Hostess comment: There's always a plausible explanation...
GrrlScientist presents Ebony, Meet Irony posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, "This is one of the funnier things I've read recently. It turns out that 1962 Nobel laureate, James Watson, who recently made some disparaging comments about the intelligence of Africans, probably is of African descent himself."
GrrlScientist presents The Snoring Bird posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, "a book by Bernd Heinrich, a noted biologist, is a memoir that documents his father's life and their relationship, and how his father influenced the scientist and the man that the author became. [book review]"
Magnus Tangen presents Tagging bluefin tuna in Norway - Kystbloggen posted at Kystbloggen, saying, "Tagging bluefin tunas is not a new thing. Back in the 1950's a Norwegian scientist tagged tuna off the coast of Norway."
Mitch McDonald presents Chemotherapy vs. Natural Alternatives posted at FYI About.com, saying, "Are you suffering from cancer? Maybe you know that chemotherapy is one of the most common cancer treatments. Also, do you know that you won't come out healthier after you've had chemotherapy treatments? In most respects, you will come out of it worse than before you started the chemo."
James Chambers presents Combat Hyperhidrosis with Botox posted at Hyperhidrosis, saying, "Most of those who suffer from the problem of excessive underarm sweating would swear that conventional remedies have no long-term impact on their condition. A big advantage of Botox is that it provides relief from excessive underarm sweating for six to 10 months in some cases."
GrrlScientist presents Lovebird Behavior: Nature or Nurture? posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, "when a hybrid animal has two different and competing innate behaviors to accomplish a specific task, which do they choose, and why? Includes images."
TheLittlestGuy presents carbon offsetting posted at TheLittlestGuy, saying, "Great new site on global warming, climate change, and what you can do to help stop it."
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of natural sciences carnival using our carnival submission form.Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Welcome to the October 14, 2007 edition of natural sciences carnival. A bit late... but not too late...We had thousands of sumissions and we had to decline some of them. If yours was not selected, don't be sad, send it again for the next edition.
GrrlScientist presents several posts about exercises and depression, new species of bird, the social behaviour of the Psittacosaurus and if the men are dominating the science blogs:
Kevin deLaplante presents Is Western society going to collapse? posted at Logic Fu: Critical Thinking for the 21st Century, saying, "Why do complex societies collapse? Will contemporary Western society face the same fate as Rome? This article surveys recent work on the causes of social collapse. I note that many of the authors either have training in ecology or are influenced by ecologists, and highlight the different traditions of ecological science that are reflected in these writings. Written for a general audience by a philosopher of science."
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of natural sciences carnival using our carnival submission form.Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
That’s just a quick note to let you know that I have a new job. Now I'm CAMFED's IT Manager.
Camfed is a non-governmental organisation with a noble mission: to multiply rural African girls’ access to education and accelerate the benefits to individuals, their families and communities. I’m really glad I’m working to provide education for those that in other way would never have a chance.
By the way, we are featured today on the front page of the Financial Times and also on page 10.
Ann Cotton, executive director of Camfed, announced the partnership on Wednesday in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative, the annual charity convention led by the former US president.
If you want more information, visit our website: www.camfed.org and watch Morgan Freeman's video: Morgan Freeman
And of course, if you want to contribute, please feel free!
"Point of sale or point of service (POS or PoS) can mean a retail shop, a checkout counter in a shop, or the location where a transaction occurs. More specifically, point of sale often refers to the hardware and software used for checkouts -- the equivalent of an electronic cash register. Point of sale systems are used in restaurants, hotels, stadiums, and casinos, as well as almost any type of retail establishment." - Wikipedia
If you a have a business you already know how important a Point of Sale is for you.
Welcome to the September 16, 2007 edition of natural sciences carnival. We have articles about the cats and physics, tuna becoming under extintion's risk, the sex life of bettles and much more. Enjoy!
GrrlScientist presents Pretty Boys Have All the Chicks posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, "Everyone is familiar with sexual dichromatism in birds; you know, the gorgeous, colorful male who is paired with the drab female or two. It has been observed in birds that, when males and females differ dramatically in appearance, the females are preferentially mating with a few "pretty boys"; those that have elaborate plumage colors or ornamentation. As a direct result of female breeding preferences, these "pretty boys" sire more offspring than those males with less colorful plumage, thus driving the evolution of sexual dichromatism in the population. This behavior concurrently drives evolution of a polygynous breeding system in the population. But what about those birds that are monogamous yet still show strong sexual dichromatism? How did they get to be that way?"
Greg Laden presents ICU watching me ? so back off, snake! posted at Greg Laden, saying, "Discussion of a fascinating recent discovery concerning signaling by ground squirrels to their serpintine predators."
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of natural sciences carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. Thanks everybody for you submissions and keep doing your great job.
They have great options for you to do your best buy, but they also have cool things: You can download high quality Peugeot wallpapers and screen-savers to personalize your computer.
To download the Peugeot screensaver, you can choose format you want your Screen saver in: PC, OSx and Linux.For the Linux option you also have a detailed installation instructions. They even will help you with KDE installation:
Part 1:
Install KDEOpen Terminal.
In Gnome, go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal
Then, in the terminal, type sudo aptitude update.
Install KDE with the command sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktopWhen KDE is done installing, type exit to get out of the terminal.
Then go to System and Log Out username.
Click Log Out in the next dialogue box.
Once you get to the login screen, click on Options and then Select Session.
In the Sessions dialogue, select KDE and then Change Session.
For Windows installation, you just have to downloaded the file for the desired version, run the exe file in your Windows to install the screen saver on your computer.
VCars: great tips for your best buy and cool stuff for your deskop.
In my opinion he was one the most beautiful voices ever. Pavarotti died this night, with 71 years old.
He was already famous when he started the project "Three Tenors" with Placido Domingo e Jose Carreras, making concerts around the world and for some World Cup events.
At 90's, he started another project, "Pavarotti and friends": beneficent shows with famous pop musicians, such as Bono and Sting.
This Thoof project is really interesting. It's a new site for Personalized News. It has the same idea than Digg, where anyone can propose links for interesting news on the web, with a short description.
Nothing new for you?
Well, with Thoof every link can be "enhanced" for others visitors. It's possible to change the title, the description, the link address and add tags, if you want. It's a feature that I always missed on Digg, after all, what to do with a great link, but with a bad description?
After suggesting enhancements, all visitors can vote on the best version. But, you won't lost your favorite versions, every link you click will be registered, that way is easy to find all the articles you visited.
The system can learn what you like and start to suggest an exclusive page with your favourite subjects. It's like a mix of Wiki and Digg, allowing more visitors interaction.
Some great features:
when you scroll to end of the page, new content is automatically added to it.
after one minute or more, the page expires and a new one is loaded, with fresh links.
it was designed with Apache Wicket
it's a Ian Clarke's project, the guy behind The Freenet project.
It's a great tool for bloggers willing to attract visitors.
You are facing a hurricane, or a flood or some kind of disaster. Who would you call for help? 
How to buy a used car and how to make a good deal.
This Thoof project is really interesting. It's a new site for Personalized News. It has the same idea than Digg, where anyone can propose links for interesting news on the web, with a short description.
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