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- Jesse is a 30 year old guy in a relationship from Coastal, Maine, USA.
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Apr 28, 8:19pm
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cats
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Apr 28, 7:34pm
1 review
animals
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Vestergaard Frandsen : LifeStraw&
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Apr 21, 10:43pm
74 reviews
environment
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Week of Truth - The First Major Nationally Coordinated 9/11 Truth Effort to BREA…
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Apr 18, 3:15pm
3 reviews
activism
•http://www.weekoftruth.org/
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Apr 15, 5:59pm
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& De Witte - amazing creative work | The Funny Web
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Apr 15, 1:10pm
61 reviews
photography
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A Walk Through Durham Township -- A Photoblog by Kathleen Connally
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Apr 15, 10:46am
2 reviews
photography
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At Least 36 U.S. States Face Water Shortage | Water | AlterNet
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Apr 15, 10:44am
1 review
health, water, population, demand
•http://www.alternet.org/water/82378/
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At least 36 states are expected to face water shortages within the next five years, according to U.S. government estimates. Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to rising temperatures and droughts, while increasing sprawl, population and inefficient resource usage are leading to rising demand.
"Is it a crisis? If we don't do some decent water planning, it could be," said Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of the American Water Works Association. Rising temperatures due to global warming have increased evaporation rates across the country and reduced the availability of important water sources. One of these is the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies a significant portion of California's water. Across the West, similar trends are expected to reduce flows of the Colorado River, which supplies water for seven states.
Meanwhile, rising sea levels are expected to cause saltwater to infiltrate freshwater aquifers in coastal states, rendering that water unusable.
California uses about 23 trillion gallons of fresh water per year. The United States as a whole uses more than 148 trillion gallons for all purposes, including agriculture, manufacturing and other uses.
Other threatened regions include the Midwest, where the Great Lakes are shrinking, and upstate New York, where reservoir levels have fallen to record lows. Georgia's crisis has already arrived, and Florida's is expected to hit soon.
While Florida has no shortage of rainfall, widespread draining and paving of the region's natural wetlands has left the water unable to drain back into the soil. As a consequence, the state is forced to flush millions of gallons of water into the ocean per year to avert floods. The state's environmental chief, Michael Sole, has asked the Florida legislature to increase the use of reclaimed wastewater. Other states are encouraging measures such as desalinization, but it is widely accepted that conservation is the cheapest alternative.
Even with such measures, the forecast is not expected to improve. "Unfortunately, there's just not going to be any more cheap water," said Randy Brown, utilities director for Pompano Beach, Fla.
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Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
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Apr 15, 10:41am
1 review
journalism, children, child-soldiers, un, conflict
•http://www.watchlist.org/
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Watchlist launches new report on children and armed conflict in Sri Lankglobal reporta
April 14, 2008
The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict is pleased to present its latest report, No Safety No Escape: Children and the Escalating Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka (April 2008).
Launched today at the UN headquarters in New York, No Safety No Escape is being released against the backdrop of an escalating military build up and fear of deepening warfare in Sri Lanka. Many children in Sri Lanka live in a state of constant fear and insecurity. Every day the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), the Government armed forces, and paramilitary groups, such as the military wing of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), commit heinous crimes against children. Thousands of children are missing out on school, denied basic health care and facing daily threats to their lives, such as suicide bombings, landmine explosions, abductions, arbitrary arrests, recruitment and use as soldiers and forced displacement.
Both the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE obstruct humanitarian access to thousands of children in war-torn areas, denying them urgently needed assistance and concealing the grave crisis they face. Additionally, restrictions on the movement of civilians exacerbate this crisis by preventing civilians from seeking assistance or escaping to safety.
The report illustrates the precarious situation of children in Sri Lanka and provides practical recommendations for urgent actions that are needed to protect them. Recommendations are targeted for the Government of Sri Lanka, the LTTE, the TMVP, the UN Security Council, the humanitarian community, donors, and others.
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::Gothic Church Architecture::
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Apr 15, 10:34am
1 review
architecture, gothic, england
•http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/...
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Gothic church architecture in Medieval England developed from Norman architecture. 'Gothic architecture' is the term used to describe building styles between 1200 to 1500. Such a large time span meant that a number of styles developed within Gothic architecture and it is common to divide these styles into three sections. The building between 1200 to 1300 is usually referred to as Early English; between 1300 to 1400, the style of building is referred to as Decorated and from 1400 to 1500, it is known as Perpendicular. It is common for major church buildings to show examples from all three of these periods.
Gothic cathedrals are characterised by large towers and spires. Whereas Norman architecture can be seen as being 'dumpy' due to their more limited knowledge of building, the Gothic era coincided with a greater knowledge of engineering and this is reflected in the church buildings completed during this era.
Gothic churches and cathedrals were fundamentally different to Norman buildings. The increase in knowledge and skills acquired over the years, meant that stone was specifically cut so that it fitted next to other stone blocks with precision. Therefore, the large blocks of stone favoured by the Normans, were replaced by shaped stone. Another major change was that the hollow walls used by the Normans were not used by later architects. Walls and pillars were solid and this allowed them to cope with much greater weights. This simple fact allowed churches and especially cathedrals to be much larger than Norman ones. This, along with the money gathering ability of the Church, explains why the cathedrals and churches of the Gothic era were so much larger than previous ones.
Another development that strengthened church buildings, was the use of pointed arches. This shape allowed a much greater weight to be carried when compared to a Norman rounded arch. Cathedral roofs were now much larger than Norman roofs. Therefore, they were a lot heavier. To ensure that the walls and pillars could take such a weight, the architects in this era developed what were known as buttresses. These were additions to the main part of the cathedral that allowed the extra weight to be transferred to additional parts of a cathedral than ran alongside the nave and then down into the foundations. The architects simply spread the weight to other points in the building. 'Flying buttresses' allowed the outward pressure of the massive roofs to be resisted.
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